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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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June 21, 2014 · 12:15 AM · SPHERE
Denton, TX
Late last night while I was researching a paper I heard my dogs barking. I had gone outside several times in the last 2 hours beforehand, but this time I chose to get a flash light and check it out. I went to the rear left side of my home where I could see my dog was acting very strange, because he was obsessed with a frog that he could not reach. I began noticing a mechanical sound, I have a pool and was standing next to the filtration system so at first I did not realize it was anything irregular. It was at that time when I noticed the sound was different so I looked up and I could see an object in the sky appeared to be hovering above my neighbors home that lives across the street from the front of my home. It was not fuzzy at all, it was as clear as it can get it was; a bright sphere or saucer shaped object that had two distinct lights that were red and green. It was hovering for what I would say was 2 minutes when I realized that I needed to run insid! e and get my phone to try and capture an image. I then ran inside and grabbed my I phone and placed it on camera mode and I tried to take a photo several times, but the phone stinks and it just was not looking good, so I took my flashlight and tried shining it toward the UFO so I could get a better picture, but it didn't work. It was like I drew the objects attention when I flashed the light it finally moved toward the back of my yard directly over me, but 2 homes over the right from my front yard. I switched my phone to video, because it began to fly around doing very fast change of direction movements, which I was able to take several videos showing the object moving. I felt as if it wanted me to see the object, then it shot back to the front. I have a wife and a 11 month old girl and they were in bed sleeping. I ran upstairs, because I knew someone else had to see the object or I would regret it. I woke my wife and she was startled so it woke up our baby (that was not gr! eat), but I had to do it. My wife was not happy, but I told he! re what I had seen and to run outside to see it. She went to try and see it from the windows, because she was indisposed, but could not see it, so I reiterated you have to see this, go outside. The baby began crying so I grabbed her and we went outside to the front porch to try and find it, but we did not have to search, it was hovering very low in front of our home this time and we stared at the object while I held the baby, they went back inside to go back to sleep and I ran back up to the bedroom to get the phone so I could get a shot of the object from my daughters room, since it was now so low and being upstairs I could get closer. I still had the phone on video so I began to film instead and I am glad I did, because as soon as I started again, a few seconds later it just vanished before my eyes. It felt as if it knew we were observing it and helped us see it and then it vanished so I had no way of doubting what it was. For the record, I am a Navy veteran and a Minister in a Church, I have never believed in anything like aliens or UFOs, so this experience is definitely, not being written lightly. I am hoping that someone else saw what we experienced last night and that I could have someone analyze the phone footage to verify the proof. I am so glad I woke up my wife and anyone who has a 11 month old baby that does not sleep or has been there knows, that waking them up was not done lightly, My wife told me she was very glad I did this morning, because she would have believed me, but seeing it as clearly as she did, that was clearly unexplainable and obviously not easily mistakable for anything that we know exists. I am hoping it comes back and I will be keeping my eye out for it tonight and whenever I can. I will also note that around 2 AM I heard helicopters flying around my home later, this made me wonder if it had been reported.
June 20, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Oak Island, NC
This sighting may not technically be classified as "UFO", since the objects were not actually flying, but it came on the heels of (1) a sighting of the typical orange orbs and flashing white lights frequently seen over the ocean, and (2) a sighting of a strange aircraft which I believe was a military drone. I am reporting those sightings separately. On the night of June 20, my husband and I were vacationing with his family at an ocean-front home on Oak Island about 1/2 mile east of Ocean Crest Pier. At about 10:30 a thunderstorm began to roll in, and by about 11:00 the storm was in full force. My husband, his brother, my daughter and I were out on the porch facing the ocean, watching the lightning. My daughter, who is 22 years old, suddenly said "what is THAT?" and pointed to the right (west) toward the beach. We saw a glowing, blue ball. At first we assumed someone was walking on the beach with a light, although it was a torrential downpour and there was lighting flashing every 10 seconds or so. However, when the lightning would flash we could clearly see that the ball was floating in the surf, probably in about 4 feet of water, and it was moving in a straight, steady line up the shore toward the east. Based on its location, it appeared to be at least 2 feet in diameter. We then noticed a glowing red ball following the blue ball by about 200 feet, and following that was a second red ball which also appeared to be about 200 feet behind the first red ball. We stood and watched the balls moving through the surf. They were not being blown or pushed by the waves, and they were not bobbing. The blue ball appeared to the larger than the red balls. They moved in a steady, straight line past our house. My daughter tried to get a video on her phone, but her camera wouldn't focus because of the heavy rainfall. About that time a young woman in the house next door came out onto her porch and saw the balls as well. She asked if we knew what they were, but we could only shake our heads in bewilderment. As we watched, the first red ball suddenly seemed to roll or be blown out of the water and went up into the dune. As soon as that occurred, the other balls seemed to just disappear. The following morning, I walked along the dunes to see if there was any sign of the red ball, but found nothing. I am completely baffled.
June 20, 2014 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
San Diego, CA
At 2 am, I went out to my second floor balcony to smoke. Coming from the east 2 orange balls what I thought were probably airplanes moving slowly to the west. I couldn't see any of the typical red light on one side green on the other. I thought perhaps they were headed to the airport a few miles away. Their distance apart remained about the same. The one behind appeared to stop for a few moments but they were traveling slowly so I wasn't sure. While this was going on a helicopter began circling the downtown area with its strobe light on. It made about three passes. Not unusual, there are helicopters out every night. I thought the helicopter would report anything unusual and I would read about it in the morning. The forward one then turned south. As it almost went out of sight, I swear a small ball of light was ejected from the bottom. The one behind that seemed to hover for moments turned south and very slowly disappeared in the distance. I went ! back in my room to watch Highway patrol and noted it was around 02:10 and I hadn't missed too much of the tv show.
June 20, 2014 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
West Milton, PA
The object was first observed sometime between 1am and 2am on Friday June 20th, 2014, (I know this was the time because we were waiting on the moonrise which I knew should be shortly) from campsite #4 in Bald Eagle State Forest by both myself and my girlfriend. The object was a constantly illuminated white-colored orb (spherical), which was about the brightness and size of the planet Jupiter when viewed in the night sky with the naked eye, and which traversed the sky from southwest to northeast at about the same pace as a commercial airliner would be moving, possibly faster. It was initially moving in a straight line, but then began to disappear beneath the visible horizon while making a zigzagging motion, much like a falling leaf. The object made no sound. The object then reappeared in the north about ten minutes after the initial sighting in the exact same or approximate location as the North Star. We did not realize at the time that this object was sighted in that particular location until the following days when a stationary star was spotted in the same locale, which was obviously the North Star. Our best guess is that either we did not see the North Star during phenomenon, or the phenomenon itself made the North Star appear to be moving. When spotted the second time, in the north, the object moved in circles, then right for a small distance, then it stopped, moved left and up and down, and so on in the same approximate vicinity for at least twenty minutes as it was observed by both myself and my girlfriend who was standing directly behind my shoulder. It would move quickly and then stop or pause before moving again. The object changed colors from white to red to blue and then back to white during the entire second sighting. The object made no sound and eventually ceased moving sometime after we could no longer watch it because our necks were getting rather stiff. NOTE: Movements of the object reminded me of a sighting of lights on Little Mountain seen by both Dad and myself on the exact same night 4 years ago, which was reported to Stan Gordon.
June 20, 2014 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Charleroi, PA
3 Orangish-red orbs in a triangle with a 4th orb of the same color "behind" and to the right of the triangle formation. Moving slowly, if at all, more like hovering still. Then vanished. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 19, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Rochester, NY
Five reddish orange lights over Rochester NY .Two at the top one centrally below and two more below. They were moving south west together at great speed before fading out of sight. Noticed when bringing out the trash.
June 19, 2014 · 10:35 PM · SPHERE
San Antonio, TX
On Thursday evening my wife and I turned on our local news station in San Antonio. Prior to the weather announcements they always show a live screenshot of the city in the background. What we saw looked like 2 orbs fly into the picture. The anomaly on top comes into the screen in a downwards motion and then begins to zig zag and then flies off and disappears. The anomaly that is on the lower area of the screen continues in almost a straightforward pattern and then disappears. I've shown this video to several family and friends and they've all been astonished. I am submitting the video to you in hopes that you can shed some expertise on what you think I have on video. The recording you are viewing is from my Samsung S4 phone and it is a short clip but you can easily see these anomalies come into the picture. Please contact me if you have any further questions. Thanks
June 19, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Carolina Beach, NC
My family and myself are vacationing in a four story condo overlooking the ocean at north Carolina beach. On our third night we were out on the balcony relaxing watching the waves crash on the beach when a strange red orb appeared in the sky over the ocean what appeared to be several miles out when my step son said did you see that I at first replied did you see lighting. He said I dont think so then it appeared again it lingered for several minutes this time and then faded away to reappear again in the same location some times as three light close together. At times there would be up to three groupings of these lights in spread out locations at the same time they would linger for a minute then fade away to reappear in up to five mins latter. We called for the rest of the family to watch. This went on for over an hour with the time in between each appearance getting longer. It was too high in the sky to be from a boat and didn't behave like any aircraft I have ever saw. On the fourth night 06/20/14 around 22:30 we were on the private board walk for the condo we were staying in when we saw the light again this time I pointed it out to a man that was staying next door to us and asked him if he has ever saw that before he said he didn't this time it only appeared around five times in less than thirty minutes. Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD
June 19, 2014 · 6:17 PM · SPHERE
Wilsonville, OR
Sighting 6-19-2014 from 6:17 to 6:22 PM PST pm Wilsonville, Oregon, small-appearing, spherical white, pearl-like object WITHIN OUR ATMOSPHERE, very high up, I am gut-guessing that it was at over 2o,ooo feet but difficult to say without anything to compare it to. It was at most 5% to 10% the size of a full moon when the moon is at it highest point in the sky. Fixed, not moving at all, appeared to be NAILED TO THE SKY, impervious to any wind whatsoever. Had it moved at all during the observation we would have assumed that it was a child's balloon. Difficult to spot in the first place, my wife only saw it because we were on our backs sky-gazing, even when she pointed to it, it took me a good ten seconds to lock onto it myself. Binoculars failed to reveal any detail. No camera that we have access to would have been worthy of capturing it. While I was fumbling for a better pair of binocs, object virtually winked out of existence while my wife had her eyes locked onto it. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be a very capable, and sober-minded, individual. We suspect that he is a very good witness. PD
June 17, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
North Mankato, MN
On June 17 at about 11:00 or 12:00 in North Mankato, Minnesota, I witnessed a red glowing orb hovering in a tree about 100 or 150 feet from my house. I was looking eastward and it was on the west side of the tree. I witnessed it for about 15 seconds, it was standing still and pulsed brighter two times, then it quickly flew from the tree southward leaving a red trail of light about 10 or 20 feet long and disappeared all together. It was hard to tell the size of the object as it was illuminated, but i would guess it could have been the size of a golf ball at the smallest and no larger than a basketball. These are the google maps coordinates exactly where it was 44.17xxxx, -94.03xxxx We spoke with the source of the report, and he sounded eloquent and sober-minded, in our opinion. We suspect his is a good, and reliable, witness.
June 17, 2014 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Mechanicsville, VA
Neither of the lights had tails. (Not shooting stars) Immediately after the sighting my dog became very skittish and seemed to be very alert (rigid and still, tail between legs, etc.)
June 17, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Surf City (Topsail Island), NC
On June 17 or 18, my family witnessed at least 5 red orbs/lights appear way above the horizon at different levels and times. Some were brighter than others. No trails, just a bright red orb appearing and disappearing for almost an hour. It drew a crowd on the beach. I walked down to join them as they watched. The orbs didn't appear to move. There were no helicopter sounds or other lights. I'm fairly sure there were at least 5 lights. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 17, 2014 · 9:38 PM · SPHERE
Butler/Unionville, PA
This evening June7th 2014, at 9:38 pm (21:38pm) I spotted a Low Flying Fast moving Color Changing ORB UFO Fly over my house and stopping over the woods to the East of me. I ran and got my Camera and started getting some Video. The Light was in the sky for over a hour and a half only slightly moving a few times. at 10:01 (22:01) Several Jets flew by the orb There was & Jets total that I counted that flew in from different directions flew by and around it then they all left. While viewing this orb with my eyes Fixated on the Sky, I observed what I call Star Orb UFO’S. I seen 9 Total at different elevations in the sky flying around also from 22:00 to 23:48pm on the 17th of june 2014. The sky above my house and round it where all clear despite 4 miles to the north there where clouds with lightning.and the Air was very charged. I posted video's on YouTube. http://youtu.be/VbTvFdR_w1Q
June 17, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Oak Island, NC
My family vacations at Oak Island every year, and we have seen the orbs on several occasions, and have taken to sitting outside and watching for them. On this night, an orange orb appeared over the ocean. It remained stationary and bright for nearly two minutes, then disappeared. We waited several minutes for more but nothing happened so we went inside. About an hour later, my husband went outside and saw rapidly-blinking white lights moving erratically in the same area of the sky (about 30 degrees above the horizon). We watched the lights for several minutes until they stopped.
June 17, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Carolina Beach, NC
My daughter and I got to Carolina Beach at 9:00 pm. At 9:30pm we witnessed what I thought a star exploding would look like. I bright orange,red orb glowing brighter and brighter and then just dimmed away. About a minute later three more lights in sequence from left to right repeated the first orbs action of glowing extremely bright and the dimming away. We did not see any craft but these lights were larger than any airplane. And was too far above the water to be a boat. The lights were about 300 yards apart from each other. We returned again tonight 6/18/14 and at 9:30pm on the dot my daughter and I witnessed them again. This time we only saw them one time. Much further off in the distance this time but I could make out a v formation of the orbs.keep in mind again we have not witnessed any craft. But I think these lights are enough. I'll be back again tomorrow night same time.
June 17, 2014 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Topsail, NC
Over the period of 10 minutes, ten orange spheres of light appeared and disappeared in 10 second intervals. They were miles over the ocean high in the cloud layer. Some appeared to be paired with a twin with each group spread out miles from each other in the line of sight but at the same approximate level of altitude. Each ball appeared to fade in and out over the 10 seconds they were visible.
June 16, 2014 · 10:36 PM · SPHERE
Big Pine, CA
Our group of five were camped near Big Pine, California. At 22:36 Hours on June 16, 2014, my brother and I were looking north east towards the White Mountains. We saw what at first appeared to be a satellite on a north to south orbit. We realized this white light was brighter than any satellite we had ever seen and appeared to be within the atmosphere. It followed the crest of the mountains. During the approximate 20 seconds the light was visible it travelled from White Mountain in our north east to a position due east before blinking out. We heard no noise signature coming from this light. It had no aircraft navigation lights or strobes. Witness elects to provide little contact information. PD
June 16, 2014 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE
West Babylon, NY
Two light objects appearred side by side. Reddish/orange orbs floating in the air. When we jumped out of the car to get better look, one disappeared, and the the other disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 15, 2014 · 11:37 PM · SPHERE
Butler/Unionville, PA
I was happy to find this site, I see UFO’s by my home and above it in Butler, PA, regularly. Ones with multicolored to plain orb ufo’s. At 11:37pm on June 15th 2014. There was a large saucer shaped object with white strobe lights going around it and a red flashing strobe type light on the bottom. This is the second time in a week, I have seen this object fly over my house. It seems to be going west to east or north west to south east. The first time it was on a different time and day it was moving at a high rate of speed. Yesterday on the 15th it was coming across my house in the sky. I was standing on my deck watching it fly over, over by the tree line is a field. I watched it moving across at a high speed the stop and just setting in the sky it sat there for a good 3 to 4 minutes, I quickly decided to grab my Canon T2i DSLR with 650-1300mm HD Lense Just inside my french door. I opened the door grabbed the camera turned around, it was gone, no trace in sight anywhere not a ! out of ordinary light anywhere in the sky to be seen other then stars.. I am on the look out for this object again. For the distance it was in the sky to the scale of a normal airplane at the same distance in the sky, I would say this object was at least 6 times the same of a normal 747. On a nightly basis, I see ufo’s very high up the look like stairs move across the sky, sometimes they make a complete stop then start again and some make complete angle turns impossible for our known aircraft. I photograph the moon a lot, I have not that I know of caught anything in my photos, but I keep attempting to photograph a UFO, it is my goal as a photographer to get one on film before i die.
June 14, 2014 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
West Branch, IA
while walking my dogs at approx.10:30 pm north of town a bright red sphere came from the east heading west.......as it got closer the bright red turned bright orange and back to bright red......as it went past me heading east it turned due northwest and seemed to increase speed and disappear........this event took about 1 to 1 1/2 minutes........after it disappered i saw another bright red object come from the same direction coing from the east heading west at the same altitude and speed as the first one......this one really freaked me out !......as the same as the first not noise was evident...it was quiet.......this one also heade north and increase speed but seemed to fly higher when heading north......what was this????
June 14, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Hatfield, PA
While walking into the store, my boyfriend and I noticed 4 lights moving across the sky. At first we thought they may be planes or helicopters until we realized they were too low. Then one of the lights stopped suddenly and dropped quickly towards the ground and out of sight. We watched the other lights for a few minutes. They appeared to be red-orange and almost looked as if they were glowing or on fire. They were all traveling in the same direction, slowly, and moving upwards. Before entering the store we saw 1 more light appear. We went into the store and when we left about 5 minutes later the lights were still there, just slightly further away. We got in the car and planned to drive to the other side of the parking lot to get closer. When we got across the parking lot the lights had already vanished. We looked over to where we had seen them at first and we saw 1 more light appear and follow the same path. I tried to take a video of the object on my phone but it did not show up well. The event was very strange, I could not come up with an explanation for what these lights were. Even my boyfriend who is skeptical was baffled.
June 14, 2014 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Cuidad Colon (Costa Rica) · Costa Rica
I stepped outside to check the night sky for possible rain. The time was approximately 20:45 pm central time in Cuidad Colon, Costa Rica. The sky was very dark but some clouds could be seen. My location is near the top of a ridge approximately 3000’ elevation overlooking a deep river valley below, and the other side of the valley about 5 miles as a crow flies is a higher mountain about 4500’. There are no lights at night or anywhere in the whole area to be seen at night. I was standing there for about three minutes and directly across from my location at 3000’, I saw a bright blue sphere shaped semi-transparent object that illuminated the space of a 10 foot diameter sphere with no sound what so ever very rapidly (faster than a jet aircraft) travel on a flat trajectory for approximately 3 sec. or one mile and then just like that completely disappeared without any effects, sound or anything.
June 14, 2014 · 7:10 PM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
June 14th, 2014, 7:10 PM PST Odd sighting of unknown airborne objects. My family with, my kids and their kids were out on our deck in East Hills, San Jose, CA (just below Mt. Hamilton). My daughter was pointing out a large jet airliner traveling South from the North to our grandson, and she noticed way above the jet two objects traveling West from East that were moving very slowly together much that appeared to be much higher than the jetliner. We all then looked from her pointing them out. My first thought was balloons, but because they were moving so perfectly together (in sync) slowly and going against the wind and clouds. The clouds were coming in from the North West going east. Not sure if it was light reflecting off of them, but they appeared to have small arced wings, again most likely spheres? We watched for about 15 minutes and then it just disappeared in some clouds. My whole family saw them, and we can only say there were like nothing we've seen before in our area. We do have a lot of jetliner activity over our area going from SF to LA (North to South). Spheres, commercial sub-orbitals, balloons, or small drones? I do know that NORAD had two Russian jets that flew 50 miles outside CA coast, not long ago. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3166571/posts
June 13, 2014 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Battle Ground, WA
Night sky, partly cloudy, observed a globe shaped object, like a snow globe. Looked like there was a flame in the middle of it. It progressed from the northwest headed south east. It moved slowly, then turned directly east, increased elevation rapidly and disappeared into the sky. Strangest thing I have ever seen