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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 3, 2014 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
El Cajon, CA
On July 3, 2014, my girlfriend and I went to pick up some friends from the local Apple bees, And we and 2 others stopped at the 7-11 on Broadway And Mollison,In El Cajon. We let out my friend to get a drink, and sat in the car waiting for him, A van pulled up next to us, as we waited with a family the husband went in, my Girlfriend stepped outside of the car and said, ”Look what the hell is that?” and to our Right in the south west Sky Was a reddish orb, At first in inspection it appeared to be still, but It was moving! It moved in a north direction in the sky, disappeared and then appeared in another spot and then moved south and then it was gone, this is not the first time we have seen these I have seen this 5 times in the last year.
July 3, 2014 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Niles, IL
Here's my report to MUFON: I am a Sergeant with a state police agency; while on patrol on a side street near the 8700 block of north Milwaukee Avenue in Niles, Illinois, on the evening of Thursday, 07/03/2014, at approximately 2315 hours, my eye was caught by two (2) pulsing round red lights in the SW sky, one on top of the other, which appeared to be a cell or water tower in the vicinity of Maryhill Cemetery. This caused me to do a complete double-take, because I know there are no such structures in that area. When one of the objects began moving slowly from west to east, and the other followed in a "wing-man"-type formation (slightly behind and further south than the object to the forefront), I thought, because of their basketball-like appearance and large size, that they were helicopters of the "bubble-cockpit" variety, flying low on the southern horizon. I parked my squad car and shut off my engine and all lights, and exited my squad car to observe the aircraft. As soon as I got out of my car, I realized that these were not helicopters, and were much farther away and larger than I originally thought. There was no helicopter sound whatsoever in the relatively quiet night air, and the presence of many airplanes in the sky (Niles and Park Ridge are under major flight paths in and out of O'Hare) provided me with an excellent contrasting point of reference to what the UFOs at least "were not." The objects glided eastbound, slowly and deliberately. They were basketball-sized spheres, approximately 5-times the size of the strobe lights on an airplane, with a shimmery white halo completely circling the sphere. The red light was unlike anything I have ever seen, having a pulsating, almost "liquid" or "living" appearance, and glowing, rather than piercing the night sky. The white light appeared like an aura (similar to the heat you see emanating from a rocket or jet engine). I was awestruck! When the first craft was almost directly in front of my line of sight, the spheres both suddenly "receded" quickly up and into the western sky (back where I first saw them, but much higher). The UFO that was offset to the rear disappeared so quickly that I barely had time to register that it was gone. The craft that was more "in the lead" receded up and back to the point that it looked like a red star, and then blinked out of sight. I saw that there were two adult male citizens, one African-American and one Caucasian, looking up at the sky from a residential driveway across the street and south of my location. I approached them and we all verbally confirmed that what we had seen had not been fireworks or flares of any kind, but were definitely very large, unidentifiable aircraft. We were all very excited. I remember that my emotions were in a "condition red" or "high alert" status - I remained in this psychological state for many hours after the sighting. The African-American citizen kept repeating "warp speed! they took off into space at warp speed!" Two things I would like to point out are that, 1) for the 20 minutes or so prior to this sighting, I was unable to connect to the internet on both my Blackberry cell phone or my in-car Panasonic Tough Book Laptop with Verizon air card. Five minutes after the spheres ascended out of sight, both my telephone and in-car computer came back online. 2. I did not think to take photos of the craft because the camera on my Blackberry produces very poor quality photos. I've tried to take pictures of the full moon in the past, and they come out as a blurry white pin-dot of light. I am working on getting a record of any 911 calls for suspicious lights in the sky during this time period.
July 3, 2014 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Otsego, MN
Orange spheres that changed shape. They appeared all at once in the southwestern sky, still and unmoving for quite several minutes, then a couple moved straight up, but two went over head and then others just disappeared
July 3, 2014 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Rockford, MN
Witness A noticed red hovering flashing orb that caught her eye at around 10:30 pm. Witness A then called over witness B who approached the window assuming it was a radio tower we both had not notice previously. On closer inspection we both notice the orb was hovering to the left and then to the right slowly. It stayed in sight while blinking for around 4 minutes before suddenly disappearing. Witness A remained at the window, while witness B started googleing what this could possibly be. After a while, Witness A then called over Witness B yet again upon spotting 1 more lights that was flashing red and then white in the same area. This then split into two separate flashing objects. The red and white lights were moving very slowly to the left and then very slowly moving back to a neutral position. This lasted for around 2 minutes before moving to left once more and disappearing behind the trees out of view. Witness A and B stayed at the window for around 10 more minutes. Then we both notice what we believe to be a plane flying by that similar area heading to the right until it disappeared from view (over the house).
July 3, 2014 · 10:10 PM · SPHERE
Vandalia, OH
During fireworks display west of us I noticed from n.west a fast moving ball veey quietly moving ball red yellowish seemed to change a bit in color shape maybe flame from rear moved to the south east took maybe 1 min. then faded out of sight then very much the smaething happened 5 min.later
July 3, 2014 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Auburn, GA
We saw 2 lights traveling together south to southeast & then moved west. As the two moved west a third one came in continued with the first two going west until we could not see them any more. They looked like white balls of light & did not blink like an aircraft. They were very high in the sky & did not travel in straight flight paths. They slightly wobbled & were moving faster then any typical airplane flying through the sky. Both witnesses are ex-military that work directly with aircraft.
July 3, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Laclede, ID
2 orange orbs moving in trail formation from SW to NE. Observed them moving in one direction for a few minutes and then they vanished. Didn't appear to be satellites.
July 3, 2014 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Maryville, MO
At approximately 9: 15 P.M. (sunset 8:53 pm) I stepped out on to my deck,as is common for me in the evening. As I looked to the south and saw the Moon (waxing crescent) and a few of the brighter early evening starts. I noticed a bright white "star" that was moving from southwest to the south east. At first I thought it was the I.S.S. as it was a at least as bright if not brighter than that object,but it was moving notably faster in my estimation. Then I remembered according to NASA "Spot the Station " the station was not visible from my location on July the 3rd. I went back inside to get my Binoculars (less than half a minute), but it was gone by the time I returned. NOTE: The I.S.S. will not be visible till about the middle of this month. If this was not the I.S.S., I have no idea. Satellites do not move that fast, and meteors look different and move faster. I would like to know if anyone else saw this and might have an idea of what it was. As for me it was a note worthy event. While this is my first report, I have experience in Astronomy as a regular star gazer (as a hobby) and was an Astronomy Field Lab Assistant in college. I regularly sight the I.S.S. and note the movement of orbiting satellites etc. Thank you for your time and consideration. My location is Maryville, Missouri 64468 (northwest Missouri located about 50 miles north of St. Joseph Missouri on U.S. Highway 71) Longitude: 40 20.6' N, 94 52.2' W Time zone: -6:00 (Central) DST observance: Thank again for all the work you do. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2014 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Manteno, IL
Seen amber orbs light up in the Eastern sky. Moving fast they would get bright and then disappear. This happened several times for about half hour. One made a sharp turn to the South. Was watching fireworks at the time. Orbs appeared to the North of the display. Neighbors seen them also. Called my grandson in Normal, Il. and he seen two around the same time.
July 3, 2014 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Ringgold, GA
While sitting on back deck a light appeared in distant area on horizon that looked like a large planet/star. Object was stationary then began to move horizontally and vertically. Went and got camera and continued to observe object for a couple of minutes. Took video on phone camera and a zoomed in picture on camera. Object was circular with separation of inner and outer areas. Object then split into two circles then back into one then disappeared into the horizon. Will send in picture. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 2, 2014 · 6:00 AM · SPHERE
Miamisburg, OH
Fiery Orange Spherical Orb within clouds of a sunrise photo. Lens flare, caused by pointing a camera at the sun. PD
July 2, 2014 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Oregon, IL
Sitting watching stars. A shooting star was seen earlier in the evening. Then came something that at first glance appeared to be another shooting star, but it streaked across the entire night sky. Normally the shooting stars burn out rather quickly. This proceeded to run across the entire sky until out of view. It was white and spherical moving at a very high rate of speed. Size was not able to be determined due to high rate of speed and nothing against which to judge it. It had a vapor cloud or dusting or something similar both behind and around it as it traveled. This trail was much shorter than a typical shooting star. I know it was not a shooting star because I had just seen one. It was definitely not an airplane, as it was moving way too fast.
July 1, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Leduc (Canada), AB · Canada
I took my children to see the Canada day fireworks display and a few minutes in we noticed a green ball/orb floating off in the distance, behind and around the fireworks. A number of other people soon started talking around us about the same thing. The initial occurrence of seeing the object lasted several minutes. I quickly dismissed the possibility of it being an aircraft as the flight pattern was not something I know or had a seen a plane being capable of doing. It appeared to be traveling quite slowly, but then it would alter its path very quickly and even zipped up from a straight line into a 90 degree turn upwards. After several minutes, we lost sight of it. The object appeared a short time later on the west side of the fireworks display. It maintained a straight path towards the display going eastward and then it actually stopped in midair for a minute or so and then continued going east where we lost track of it again. As I said, several people arou! nd us and my children all saw the orb.,
July 1, 2014 · 7:39 PM · SPHERE
Middletown, OH
I captured this object and hurried to used my iPhone and zoomed as best I could. I estimate it was at least 1000 feet up and moving in a perfectly straight line, due North. I thought it might be a bird until I saw it was a spherical shape that was collapsing then reshaping to a sphere again, over and over. Solid black. I also thought it might have been a tumbling trash can lid, but it kept constant altitude and a perfectly straight path. I watched it all the way to at least Trenton until I could see it no more. I have a link to the video in a DropBox folder. The video is unedited and straight from my iPhone 5c.
July 1, 2014 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Barnum, MN
Was traveling home from a prison Bible study on a clear night. I saw 9 amber spheres in the northern sky that were in formation of 3 across and three above them and three more above those ones. One on the right side was pulsing. My vision of them became obscured by some trees so I thought I would catch them on the other side of a stand of trees. When I reached the other side the spheres were nowhere to be seen. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 1, 2014 · 2:30 AM · SPHERE
Wyoming, PA
I'm an architect that works very late in the evening. Around 2:30 AM I went outside for a cigarette and noticed a round shape orb that was quickly moving in different directions in the sky, way too fast to be an aircraft; so I ran in the house and grab my binoculars ... it sometimes hovered like a bee and then moved in an extremely fast motion.... After watching it for approximately 15 minutes I woke my girlfriend and asked her to see it as well. So off the second floor balcony we watched it for approximately 45 minutes more. While I watched it with the binoculars (looking northwest), I saw at times it moved vertically, horizontally and even in a circular motion at times, but for the most part it would stay in a fixed position for approximately 5 minutes and then move sporadically in all different directions until it fixed itself onto its next spot. The object had a red & green lights and at times appeared to have white electrical bolts of circular lightning on the surface of the orb. The red light seemed to rotate in a circular position sometimes skipping one of the circular quadrants. We watch the orbs in the sky and then I noticed a few more of the same types of objects that had the same characteristics but were higher in altitude. The sky became darker as the time progressed but the initial orb was always in the clear area of the sky. I then went on my computer to see a satellite image of what was located northwest from my vantage point and found a huge number windmills off a network of roads, kind of like grapes on a vine... covering multiple ridge-tops. What spooks me out is that the orb distance and angle of movement leads me to believe they were sucking the power out of the windmills. With or without the binoculars one could see the orbs move and defy any normal kind of aircraft movement. In the binoculars it was obvious how fast they changed direction vertically, horizontally and also in circular movement. We took turns looking at the orb and when I was waiting my tu! rn to get the binoculars back I noticed several more orbs of light... I counted a total of four similar red & green lit orbs.... WOW what a night, I would have never believed it until I experienced for myself! Like I said I'm an architect and have a great deal of precision in drawing lines and angles...my conclusion is that they were hovering over a field of windmills like bees hovering over flowers. Also, I saw on several occasions, both white haze beams and also a sharp bolts of lightning come from the orb. One more thing we also even experienced a shooting star about midway through the sighting! There you go I got to get back to work.....
June 30, 2014 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Liberty Township, OH
My fiancé took the dog out to potty at 9:45pm when he came running back into the house to get me to come outside and looks at these strange lights flying slowly over the next door neighbors back yard. We both exited our house through the back door and onto our deck to see 2 orange pulsating lights, unidentified flying objects, UFO. They were slowly traveling from a southern direction heading north to north east. As we were watching them, a moment later a 3rd orange pulsating light appeared from what seem to come from same direction following the first two. They were traveling in a straight line. At first, I thought it was a remote control toy, but there was no sound whatsoever. It was very quiet out in the yard. My fiancé had his phone and was working on getting a recording of the sighting when a 4th UFO appeared from the same southern direction as the previous craft, heading northern in a straight line. The whole sighting lasted about 4-5 minutes. The craft were lower to the ground as flying below the clouds. They were NOT any kind of plane, fireworks, floating Japanese lanterns, meteor remnants, fireball, nothing like these things as we educate ourselves as to what flies in the skies and what they look like. These craft were pulsating orange and a white-ish light. They seemed to appear out of nowhere and disappear after traveling about 3/4 a mile, then vanish. A very interesting night and with a partial recording of the sighting. We question as to whether they are new military aircraft, drones, or ET's??? Prior to this event, my son and I witnessed another sighting with 7 orange lights traveling in formation, heading in a northern direction, in October 2013. Looked like the same type of air craft to me. Obviously, something is going on in our skies and we are not the only people who are seeing these orange lights. They appear to be showing up all over the world.
June 30, 2014 · 12:30 PM · SPHERE
Oshawa (Canada), ON · Canada
We were driving eastbound on the 401 and then all of a sudden, a bright orange ball appeared in the sky and just floated there for about 10 seconds and then it got bright and smokey in the sky and disappeared.
June 30, 2014 · 12:07 AM · SPHERE
Wilmington, DE
Four bright orange orbs were spotted flying horizontally in a zig zag pattern then disappeared one by one, we have it on film!
June 29, 2014 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Olathe, KS
3 orange/red pulsating orbs seen in night sky before storm I was just getting off work, heading home when I was on my routine way home I started to notice lights in the sky. They were odd, I didn’t realize at first what I was seeing, but in the back of my mind something was telling me to keep checking them out. I am an aviation buff, love all things that fly, and also know my town pretty well and it didn’t add up that there were lights where they were, and that they didn’t fit anything I had seen before. This is my second sighting, the first being a single green orb UFO I reported back in 06’ and was with about 10 people who could verify what we saw.. These lights were a pulsating/light flickering type that change from orange to red, or were red and had an orange hazy light that would come on and overpower the red...hard to explain. I noticed 1, then I saw 2, then the third as I came into an area that they were in a clearing and could see them.. at that point my jaw dropped and I fumbled to get my cell out and get it in camera mode.. of course it had to pop up with a ton of different warnings about wifi being on so no flash.. blah blah blah.. all those crummy photo messing up blurbs that in this case REALLY cost me some good footage. I was trying to get to video mode and actually accidentally took a shaky picture of them. they can be seen in it. Okay they were in a triangular formation in the sky, and before or during my trying to take the picture, one I thought had vanished, in the picture it shows the two lower lights coming together more closely.. so that explains that.. A car came up behind me and I HAD to deal with that, I didn’t want to as I was going to miss the event.. errr.. bad dang luck.. so I drove toward them and quickly pulled into a post office parking lot. There I get the truck stopped and jump out...by that time they were a dim flicker in the sky, they had turned a more metallic shimmer and all together vanished :( I will be keeping my eyes peeled to the sky even more than before. I think those of us who are star/sky/nature gazers probably see things that others are too busy in their tech filled lives to notice. Sad really. I want to see more! Thanks for reading. I plan on sending in the picture i have to this site along with this report. One last thing, they were not "close" but there was also no sound, I had my windows open and no music playing.
June 29, 2014 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Medford, NY
Several brightly lit pale orange sphere objects (totally noiseless),steadily lit (no blinking or additional lights), appearing to "float" across the sky at small airplane speed from the south to a northerly direction at approximately 9:40pm-9:45pm on 6/29/2014.
June 29, 2014 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Maricopa, AZ
We were driving down the 347 and these two really bright orbs about 20 miles away from each other were just hovering one over maricopa mountain and another over wild horse pass casino me and my girlfriend kept looking back because they were just hovering in the same spot far away from each other and we were like wow and we kept driving an looked back about 2 minutes later and one was on top of the other. The location that they traveled to was very far in a very short time and for them to be right on top of each seems odd plus it's near South Mountain a hotspot for UFO sighting and it's actually still in the sky as I'm typing.
June 29, 2014 · 3:42 PM · SPHERE
Laguna Niguel, CA
I was sky watching on June 29 in the morning with binoculars & calibrated the zoom when an airplane passed by. I then saw an orb pass the plane & followed it until it was gone. I thought since I saw this one, maybe there's a decent chance I'll see another if I hike up the hill near where I live & bring the video recorder. I was up there for a few hours & saw one other orb that was larger, slower & I believe closer for a short time. I took some videos of planes passing & there really wasn't anything very exciting. Then again, I could hardly see the screen in daylight, even with something I brought to cover my head with the screen. I wrapped it up & went home. Then dropped the footage in a video editor. I viewed a short clip of a plane in the distance that was a bit shaky & short, I was about to hit the delete button, then thought first I'd zoom in on the plane first. I'm glad I did wow. I saw an object facing the pilots in flight, but then thought it might be a speck on the lens or screen. So I continued looking frame by frame & the object was still there. When I toggled through the frames, the object appeared to be blinking. I was still not convinced because it was faint. But then, on ONE particular frame, the object got very bright & much larger with some detail. My jaw literally dropped, I gasped & covered my mouth. I submitted it on a popular video site. I show it in the editor including placing some textures to show it & some frame by frames. It's quite amazing. I thought this could be quite a big deal since the Malaysia flight 370 disappearance. Also, while I was editing the video, I was listening to KFI radio & they announced that there was an "accidental chute deployment" which was causing the plane to have to be diverted from going to John Wayne Airport, which is where this plane & UFO were headed. When you view the footage, clearly there is no way the pilots didn't see what was right in f! ront of them. So maybe we got this on radar? At least at the ! very minimum, the pilots MUST have told the control tower what they were seeing. Maybe that flight diversion was on purpose to avoid a danger like what happened to the Malaysia plane?
June 28, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Antioch, CA
So I'm driving home at around 11 pm Saturday night and I see two glowing orange spheres in my 11 o'clock position which appeared to be hovering I couldn't really tell how far away they were but out of nowhere I was watching them and they just disappear out of nowhere it sent chills through my whole body my girlfriend seen the same thing in January but I really didn't believe her in the same area but she said there were six of them I don't know what these things are but I would like to know I know a few different people who don't know eachother that have described seeing the same objects