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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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July 7, 2014 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Conway, SC
I was heading toward the beach on business 501 in downtown Conway just before the bridge over the waccama river around 8:40 pm when I saw about 7-9 glowing orange balls of light move from directly in front of my vehicle and covered a space of ninety degrees as heading to Loris direction so as to end up on my left side before they disappeared. They were in a weird formation that did not change as they flew by, and kept same spacing the whole time. This is not my first time seing these orange balls of light, I had seen them about a half a year ago as well, so this would interest if we can figure out what they are.
July 6, 2014 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Goodland, KS
Just west of town saw what was a first a small bright ball and in seconds the ball just became bigger and biggerror and all of the sudden disappeared.
July 6, 2014 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Johnston, RI
One appeared from behind the tree's, three seconds later the second one appeared, five seconds had past and the third one appeared then the first one turns slightly to the North East not traveling very fast at this point they were moving away from me. They followed each other until I lost sight of then.
July 6, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Shaler, PA
I was driving home from my job and had just entered Shaler Township driving due east on Vilsack Rd. I looked up and noticed 2 small bright orange orbs which were near each other and kind of floating around. I estimated their altitude to be maybe around 3000 feet. They were kind of hovering near each other and the distance between them increased and decreased and back again intermittently. I decided I had to have a better look at these things, so I stopped at the St. Bonaventure Church on Mt. Royal Boulevard. I noticed the orange orbs again almost directly overhead but slightly south. After a few seconds one orb started moving steadily but not too quickly to the northeast at a bearing of perhaps 60 degrees. The second orb started following that orb in that direction, and both orbs moved at identical speeds. The second orb passed behind the clouds a few times before disappearing totally, and it was then that I realized how high it was. The clouds were actually somewhat low to begin, but I still estimate the altitude of the orbs to be at several thousand feet. Then suddenly I noticed a third orb identical to the first approaching from the opposite direction to join the first two, and it was slowly cathing up. All three orbs quickly disappeared as they flew northeast, probably because of the low clouds. As the orbs glowed, the glow they emitted had an almost "flaming" quality. The orbs didn't display any of the normal "running lights" that ordinary aircraft do, such as red or green strobes. The orbs simply glowed orange and that was it. I drove around for about 20 minutes trying to see them again but the didn't appear again. It's worth noting that several miles to the south, there was a summer fireworks show taking place, and in fact the orbs did seem to approach from that direction although still quite removed from it. My first thought was that the orbs were embers from pyrotechnic display. After I saw their deliberate straight-line movements I knew this was not the case. I occurred to me that maybe the pyrotechnic display was deliberately being used as a cover for whoever was controlling the orbs. Obviously if someone said they saw a UFO, someone else could say "Oh, there were Fireworks in the next town over that night." I concede, that much is true. But what I saw was not Fireworks nor burning embers blowing in the breeze. I estimate their speed to have been maybe 200 - 300 mph once they started moving east. Not extreme for many aircraft, but still definately not Fireworks. I'm curious if any other reports will be made. I made a video with my Android phone of the objects, but the quality is really bad and doesn't prove anything as far I'm concerned. I will still share upon request, however. I may have heard a very low rumble while witnessing the orbs, but it was not very loud.
July 6, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Alexandria, VA
Saw 3 reddish orange flickering lights in triangular formation. Not sure if it was part of some new kind of firework or not but it was heading from south to north. One by one they flickered off and disappeared. It's similar to this video except there were 3 orbs and I couldn't capture them on video but it was bright enough to do so. There was a plane nearby but it didn't seem to be following it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcg7DGtC9dE Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2014 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Oviedo, FL
July 6th around 4pm, I was in the backyard manning the bbq. During this time of day in Central Florida, the cumulus clouds build and bloom up into the sky. So as I flipped burgers I also kept an eye to the sky to watch the building cloud activity. I noticed a group of black crows flying about as high as I have ever seen them fly, so I was just watching the black crows riding the updrafts I caught sight of what I thought was a dark jet aircraft flying horizontally above the cloud tops. However, the jet was not what I expected. Once I started to get a good look at it I became confused. It was a perfect sphere shape. A metallic sheen like polished LEAD. I could not see any wings, just a round sphere object moving like a jet aircraft, straight on a path, then it slowed to nearly a full stop and took an unexpected turn downward tracing the outline of the cloud as it descended thousands of feet. I was wearing my polarized prescription sun glasses, and again I could not see any indications of wings. There was no noise at all, not a whisper and I was well within distance to hear a prop engine or jet. When this craft took the downward turn it was diving at a faster speed, then it actually slowed down at the bottom of its dive and took a reverse angle turn into the cloud. A human pilot would have blacked out from that maneuver. Approximate time of viewing the flight path was about 10 to 15 sec. I kept staring at the cloud for the eventual exit with the assumed normal flightpath of a normal aircraft, but it never made an exit from the cloud. I gave up seeing it again and I took the hotdogs off the grill and promptly went into the house to tell the family what I saw and after lunch drew up a photo illustration. I used a photo taken from the same spot of a cloud very similar to the one with this craft. It was a good reference because it had a jet airliner in the scene and I could relate all drawing elements to that. Lately, I used my skills as an animator to re-enact the scene as an animation. The animation is very, very accurate to what I saw that day. The animation plays several times allowing you to see it again and again. Note: I was a Security Police in the USAF and I am very familiar with all types of military aircraft. This craft was not anything familiar. Also Cape Canaveral is perhaps 35 miles away from this object's position.
July 6, 2014 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Macon, GA
I was sitting on my front porch talking on my cellphone with my best friend. I told him to go on his front porch as well to look at the moon and the clouds. The sky clouded the stars at first because of the brightness of the moon. Then, I noticed a bright light with colorful lights. Sphere shaped at a distance in the sky But I could see plainly the color of the lights. The sphere shaped object was hovering to the right side of the moon, another object was to the left side as if it was overseeing the larger sphere shaped object. The colors blinking were red, white & a faint orange. This lasted about 45 minutes. I got a pic of the moon but the sphere shaped objects I took but want to zoom in for a closer look Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2014 · 11:45 PM · SPHERE
White House, TN
Four stationary red/orange spheres in the sky. Three people including myself saw them while driving and they didn't move for at least a minute. They were spaced at a fairly uniform distance almost directly above the road, but were too high and at the wrong angle to be on telephone wires. In comparison to the moon they seemed to be about a quarter of the size of it. We thought maybe they were helicopters but there was no sound accompanying them.
July 5, 2014 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Harrington, WA
On Saturday evening, July 5th, 2014, at 22:05 hrs. (measured; + or – 60 seconds) (Pacific Daylight Time), I was seated in a lawn chair on a neighbor’s front yard patio in Harrington, Washington, (Lincoln County), facing generally to the southeast. Also present on the patio, at the time, were three other adults. As I gazed at the mostly cloud-covered sky (estimated 70-90 percent coverage), I suddenly became aware of a single white light, approximately the size and luminosity of Jupiter or Venus, moving across the sky from my right to left, i.e. to the northeast. No red navigation light was evident, which would have been the case, had the object been a conventional aircraft flying legally at night. Within a few seconds of first sighting the object, I opened my cell phone, and noted the time to be 22:05 hrs. (Pacific Daylight Time). I called out the time to the other three witnesses present. The light immediately caught my attention because of its quite noticeable luminosity, and because of its relatively high (angular) velocity, an estimated 2-4 degrees per second. I am quite familiar with the appearance of the International Space Station, as it orbits overhead, having witnessed it hundreds of times. The angular velocity of the light I witnessed was noticeably greater than that of the ISS. The light was moving from my right to left, moving generally to the north and east. Because of parallax, I am unable to estimate the object’s ground-track more accurately than to say it appeared to be coursing generally northeast. It was at approximately 20-30 degrees above the horizontal plane, and it appeared to be moving across the sky approximately parallel to an imaginary horizontal line. The light passed in and out of the clouds two or three times during the sighting. My distinct impression was that the light was “embedded” in the clouds, rather than beyond them (from my view), and that was the same impression that the three other witnesses had. However, my recollection is that the object did not seem to illuminate to a noticeable degree the clouds when it flew either near, or in, them, although my recollection on this point may be flawed. All four of the witnesses watched the object for approximately 8-10 seconds, commenting the whole while on how unusual and incongruous the light appeared to be. The light entered a cloud, and the four witnesses continued watching that area of the sky, expecting to see it again. However, it did not re-appear. At the time of the sighting, the witnesses were located approximately 30-40 miles to the west of both Spokane International Airport and Fairchild AFB, so they all frequently witness both commercial and military aircraft of many types, in the course of a typical day. The witnesses agreed that the object they had just witnessed was inconsistent with any type of aircraft that they are familiar with. I plan to contact the local National Weather Service office, or FAA Flight Service Station, hoping to be able to obtain the altitude of bases and tops of clouds in the area, for the time and date of the sighting. That information may allow triangulation, to establish maximum altitude, distance, and velocity of the object, as well as an estimate of its size. I will append those data to this report, as soon as they are obtained. I have held a commercial pilot’s license for almost forty years, and have held an instructor’s rating for ten of those years. I was raised in an airline family, and I lived with a U. S. Air Force family for one year. Consequently, I am quite skilled, I believe, in being able to identify most private, commercial, and military types of aircraft. My vision, recently tested by an optometrist, is correctable to 20/20, or better, and I have no color perception deficit. I had a somewhat similar sighting from approximately the same location on October 17, 2011. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS, PETER DAVENPORT, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL UFO REPORTING CENTER)) Data for the altitude of the bases of the clouds was obtained, courtesy of the National Weather Service in Airway Heights, Washington. They reported that the bases were at between 14,000 and 16,000 feet (above ground level). Using trigonomentry, assuming the object was at approximately 30 degrees angle of elevation above the horizontal plane, it was approximately 5.7 statute miles in distance from the witnesses. If it traversed an estimated 30 degrees, then it covered approximately 2.8 statute miles in 8-10 seconds… These are very approximate numbers, which depend on the accuracy of the measurements taken by the witnesses. ((END ADDENDUM))
July 5, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Detroit, MI
Saw something moving across the sky it was like a red glow but yellow at the same time my girl friend thought maybe it was a small plane but it had no sound.
July 5, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Suwanee, GA
Sitting on back porch with friends, I saw a red circular light coming toward us overhead and crossed over us. There were several trees and I noticed it thought the branches. It caught my eye b/c it was very unusual, in color (bright red center w/lighter red ring around; not blinking; no white or green like a plane/chopper), distance (close enought to make some noise), speed, with absolutely no sound. In all my years I have never seen anything like it. It came across a small clearing before going over the house. There should have been some sound, but none. About 30 seconds later a second one came over almost the same path, but higher up (light was smaller), still no sound. The second one my wife noticed as it went over the house and she doesn't "believe" at all :( and she even thought it was unusual and did a double take.
July 5, 2014 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Philadelphia, PA
At 9:40 PM, on 7/5/14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a bright orange orb appeared from the left side of the sky, dropped what looked to be a pod of yellow light, and turned and disappeared. This occurred in 1 ½ minutes.
July 5, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Philadelphia, PA
Small orange illuminated ufo took flew vertically from the ground at a distance of about 200 yards. Once it reached a height of about 164 meters, it stopped rising and began flying horizantally. The ufo took a flight path almost directly over top of us. It proceeded until it left our line of sight.
July 5, 2014 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Greenville, IL
There was an amber/reddish spherical craft spotted moving at a high rate of speed going north and then making a hard left turn and headed west and then vanished. It sped up considerably after turning towards the west. Seven people were here and all spotted it at the same time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2014 · 9:05 PM · SPHERE
Holbrook, NY
3 orange globes traveled across the Holbrook sky in a triangle shaped formation. Direction was from west to east, One of the three seemed to disappear, while the other 2 remained in sight for several minutes, no sound.
July 5, 2014 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Bovey, MN
My sister and I had seen a suspicious orange pulsating light over the horizon of our lake home the night preceding this report as well. It was directly above the tree tops at about 10 pm on July 4. I am certain that this was not any type of firework, as I've never seen a firework behave in that manner. The nearest firework display had been cancelled because of flooding to confirm that it was not a remnant of a firework show. It flew horizontally across the sky, at a steady, but fast pace. It was too fast to be a plane, and did not dissipate like a firework would. The next day, July 5, my family and I went out on a sunset boat cruise around the lake. The sunset was spectacular, reflecting against the clouds and as anyone would, we were in awe at the sight. I was first to notice a strange, almost black sphere floating between some clouds. I pointed it out to my family, and they began to stare with confusion too. It behaved in the exact same manner as the object the night before, but did not appear to have any visible lights against the intense sunset. Again, this object was far too fast to be a plane, didn't fade or create smoke like a firework, and was far too close to be a satellite. The object flew out of sight, and seemingly into the setting sun and surrounding clouds.
July 5, 2014 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Maumee, OH
When we were done fishing, we began to try to find our way back to the area that we came onto the Island. We begin to walk around the point of the island, I heard a plane, so I looked up and seen the plane. Then I seen a small sphere type object. It was flying slower than the plane that I seen. It made a U-turn toward my direction, then it made a 90 degree turn to the North. After that it vanished from my sight and I didn't see it again.
July 5, 2014 · 11:30 AM · SPHERE
Lafayette, IN
Large "ball of fire" looking object flying in sky horizontal, flew very fast started flying in circles and up and down. Then tured to small white likte fir about 20 seconds then dissaoeared. Very weird! Witness elects to provide no contact information. PD
July 5, 2014 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Massapequa Park, NY
My wife and I were coming back home after a night out, before entering our homes we noticed a round sphere in the sky it was traveling in a trajectory South West heading East. If I were to take a guess I would say the object was traveling at around 30 miles per hour. After viewing the object for about 30 seconds, another object of the same shape and size was viewed, it followed the same trajectory as the first object. Inside the sphere looked what seemed to be like a glowing torch. This was not a balloon, it had a constant speed and was traveling at a constant straight line trajectory maintaining constant height. There was no sound coming from the objects. Both objects disappeared out of sight after about 2 minutes.
July 5, 2014 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Millington/Clio, MI
Red/Orange shaped orbs began flying northward, coming from the south. Objects made no noise while flying over, gradually began to pick up speed and altitude. I was outside smoking while i looked up to see the first orb flying about 500ft overhead when I looked farther south and saw another one coming to me, headed north. I hurry inside to get my father to witness the event. By the time we got back outside, 4 more of the strange circular orbs were nearing us. The circular balls of light were picking up speed very fast and also gradually moved higher in altitude.
July 5, 2014 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Waterford, MI
During the fireworks display over Lake Oakland, My sister niece and nephew witnessed Numerous balls of red lights in the sky. All coming from east to west, but within a 10 to 15 mile radius of my house. Consistently red glowing not blinking. No sound moving in straight trajectories, in different directions. Craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. I have never been so excited before. Absolutely not stars planes helicopters or balloons. No sound whatsoever...absolutely amazing. There has to be other people who saw these things. counted over 20 plus. I recorded some with my cell phone but obviously those aren't great... with binoculars the lights were extremely intense with no variation. I know what we saw was not from here. One of the best nights of my life!
July 4, 2014 · 11:36 PM · SPHERE
Albany, NY
We have amended the date above, to reflect a sighting on July 4th, 2014. PD
July 4, 2014 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Rowlett, Sachse/Garland, TX
The first encounter happened at 23:30 driving down I-90/George Bush Toll Road heading North Bound. We were in the Rowlett portion of I-90. The first craft glowed a bright orange/red color and was heading South Bound towards Mesquite, Texas. The craft was moving slowly directly above us and lasted for about 30 seconds. The second encounter happened at 23:35 driving down the same stretch of road driving in the same direction. We were in the Sachse\Garland portion of I-90. This might have been the first craft that decided to change course or a second craft, I am not sure. The craft was moving slowly and came from directly above us heading North Bound towards Sachse, Texas. The craft moved slowly until it reached the edge of the horizon, when it disappeared from sight. The second sighting lasted for about a minute.
July 4, 2014 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Lockport, NY
We saw a bright orange glowing orb, similar to fire, fly overhead and out of site in about 90 seconds. A similar occurrence happened last year, 7/29/13, involving two identical objects which were exact matches to this evening's sighting. Last year I thought they may have been Hot Air Balloons. They seemed to travel too fast o be Hot Air Balloons.