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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 5, 2014 · 9:58 AM · SPHERE
Lafayette, IN
I was riding my bicycle when a light in the sky caught my eye. I looked up and saw a very bright circular object flying through the sky. I don't believe that it was your average aircraft because it was going way to fast, and it was manuevering in a way I've never witnessed. And it took a very sharp turn and disappeared.
June 5, 2014 · 9:45 AM · SPHERE
Morrison, CO
An illuminated orb went over my house flying relatively low. It was moving slow from west to east and was completely silent.
June 4, 2014 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Mercer, WI
Essentially, the same type of event reported by Tigerton, WI, a day or two ago, and around the same time. Partly cloudy sky. White sphere about 3 times size of Venus, white solid light, NO bliking or colored lights. Moving about NNE ascending into the clouds and disappeared. Speed of object was similar to aircraft.
June 3, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Dublin, OH
Possible hoax, we suspect. Date is flawed. PD
June 3, 2014 · 5:00 AM · SPHERE
Boise/Idaho Falls (between; Hwy 22), ID
We were driving between Boise, Idaho, and Montana, in an area that they use to use as a military range for guns and bombs. The sun was just starting to come up and I seen in the distance this floating circle thing in the sky but was to low to be a star or airplane, and I thought well I am heading towards it and see what it is. I came around a curve and it seemed to stay close then go around another curve, and then it was far away, then close again, and as I got closer to town, it got higher and higher, but I do have picture of it from my cell phone. Now, where I first saw this hovering above ground, there was bright lights on the ground, and when I came back thru the same area the next day, there was nothing there except lots of lava rock. I do have the exact hwy number as well written down and can show on map where it happened. Hwy 20 in the Idaho Nate Engineering Lab, U. S. Dept. of Energy.
June 3, 2014 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Kannapolis, NC
After the fire got going, I sat down to relax. After about ten minutes, I had the strangest sensation that someone was looking at me. I looked to my right and I saw this orb which was white in color, the same color as a star. I would say their size was about the size of a softball, maybe as big as a basketball. Hard to tell. However, this orb wasn't a celestial body as it was maybe only 100 feet above my trees running down the property line. The object was static for approx. 30 seconds as I initially observed it. While looking at it, I was trying to figure out what it could have been. Then after half a minute, the object started pulsing (bright, gone, bright, gone) and began moving erratically over my property, changing altitude, direction, and velocity. It emitted no sound at all that was perceivable to me. At this point, I ran in the house and got my friends to come outside and observe. We could not identify the phenomenon, however, one friend offered up that they could be fireflies. This was the closest explanation, however it failed to explain the color (object(s) were bright white, not greenish-yellow), nor the speed at which they were able to traverse the sky (very quickly as to meandering around). We then began seeing other orbs spontaneously appearing in the night sky, and they began to fly in formation. The maneuvers would then break off in different directions and start kind of behaving randomly again. An orb would appear in a place in the sky, disappear, then pop up in another location. The pulsing of the light was not static either. Sometimes they would strobe faster, other times they would appear to flicker. We tried to photograph them, but they did not appear in the digital photographs, which was odd because they were much more luminous than the regular celestial objects appearing in the night sky. In total there were four of us obs! erving. I was also using binoculars to see them upclose, however, I was unable to make out any shape or physical form as the light they emitted was intense and not translucent. At one point, I believe I heard a helicopter nearby, and wondered if they were seeing this. There was also a jet aircraft moving quite fast and flying low which came out of nowhere and was traveling in the direction that the orbs were present. Several of them shot up vertically to the flight's altitude and got very close to the aircraft. Immediately proceeding this event, the sky seemed to be brimming with these objects flying in formation in groups of two's or three's, disappearing, and then emerging way across the sky in the same flight path in another location. It seemed to me that they were "jumping" almost. Very weird. When the phenomena had stopped for about an hour, I was outside and had this thought to myself that was something like, "Wow, I wish I could see them one more time, it was so cool" and immediately, as if on cue, one was literally at the tree tops in my back yard right above my head. The object seemed to persist until I finally called it a night and went back inside. No further sightings since. My friend said that the color at times appeared slightly orangish, but I can say that I definitely did not see any orange, or any other color, except pure white.
June 2, 2014 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Pittsburg, KS
I came inside to check tracking of the ISS which showed it already moving into Quebec. I came inside to check the location of the ISS after only a minute or two or watching the moving white light. Besides, the ISS online tracking showed its path over Nebraska, and not over SE Kansas on this specific orbit. Could have been a satellite, but it looked too bright to be a satellite. That's why I initially thought it was likely the ISS.
June 2, 2014 · 10:23 PM · SPHERE
Canton, OH
While visiting my mother at a nursing home we were sitting outside before dusk around 9 P.m. I noticed 2 lights in the sky off to my left and it caught my attention because they We're sitting still just above the tree line. We were sitting outside on the nursing home patio. I pointed it out to my mother and we watched the two lights as they became progressively smaller and disappeared into the clouds. The 2 lights were white in colour and only small dots visually speaking from what appeared to be a good distance. I didn't really give it much thought because the dots of light were not large or distinguishable. However, when I left the nursing home at about 10:23pm I saw another orb of light coming from the opposite direction. This light was very large and was a pinkish gold ball of light that was very intense. There was sparks dripping falling off of the bottom of it. I surprisingly watched it as it went from right to left...slowing down and even coming to a full stop a few times at least. The light was rich and brilliant deep pink/gold. It looked like pure energy. I wasn't as afraid as I was curious. Visually it was the size of a baseball and it looked very close stopping in front of me even. Never would have believed it...it had sparks falling straight down from the bottom as if liquid...so odd. I have not stopped thinking about it since I saw it... I wasn't afraid although I probably should have been... I should have marked the date on the calendar but part of me just kinda kept shrugging it off as if since it made no sense I may as well not think of it...odd thought process I know. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
June 2, 2014 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Havertown, PA
I looked up at the big dipper and noticed a double star in Beta Majoris. It was unusual then it moved and I thougt it was a high flying aircraft, but it make a slightly arced trajectory around the star from the east and then headed due south. After looking at it for another ten seconds, it grew fainter and smaller and redder and then vanished. I can only think it red shifted and went into outer space. But it did so in the course of a second or two which would mean that it was traveling faster than anything know on earth. I'm a skeptic and a pragmatist, but I don't have an explanation for this one. What did I see? I am an amateur astronomer and long-time stargazer. I know my night sky and mathematics as well. I didn't know who else to contact. I know it might not seem that fantastic compared to some of the things you hear, but it's real and strange all the same.
June 1, 2014 · 11:59 PM · SPHERE
Nanaimo, BC · Canada
A friend and I were talking and listening to music close to midnight, down a road called "Nanaimo River Road" quite far away from the city. My friend saw something out of her window and got out of the car– I followed, curious. The moon was on our left side and on our right hovered these two white orbs, both emitting white light but not appearing to "glow" or "flicker" in any way. They were absolutely silent. We started gawking at them and immediately the orb on the left went from being completely still to what I can only describe as "warp speed." It took off faster than I have seen anything travel in my entire life. It took off horizontally then bent upwards until it was just a pinprick of light in the night sky and then it was gone completely. From it being stationary to being a pinprick of light, no more than a half a second elapsed. It seemed to travel faster than our eyes could follow it but if I recall correctly we were able to make out the direction it headed (away from us) due to the presence of a very quick light trail that followed it and was also gone in an instant. To make matters weirder, as we were still in awe of what just happened, we noticed that the second orb (the one on the right of the orb that shot off) started to slowly creep away from us, traveling horizontally until it too disappeared. No more than a minute elapsed for this entire sighting and at no time did these two entities create any sound. Please note: this sighting took place about a decade ago. I told (and continue to tell) everyone about what my friend and I saw that night. I've also posted about it in multiple places, such as Reddit and in YouTube comments. I never really thought to report it to the police or to any official website, perhaps I was a little bit scared that the Men in Black would try neuralize me… I'm still paranoid about this but I figure that if 'they' wanted to silence me they probably would have done it by now. I imagine that 'they' have bigger fish to fry, like trying to silence Travis Walton, etc. The people I've told about this encounter/sighting are able to easily shrug it off as being a drone or a Chinese lantern or a flare or naturally-occurring phenomena, etc. etc. The only theory I'm willing to entertain is the possibility of it being some naturally-occurring phenomena that hasn't been well studied… but, intuitively, it just didn't feel like some phenomena as both orbs appeared to have unique motions that could be better explained by the presence of "beings" controlling these crafts. I say this because these two "unique motions" we witnessed could easily be interpreted as being indicative of two separate "behaviours," in which case their unique "behaviours" could also be interpreted as being akin to two separate personalities. One was eager to leave at all costs, and the other seemed almost curious but, having been seen by us, almost reluctantly agreed to follow the first orb and leave the area… It was the strangest thing I've ever seen in my life and it's likely that I will never see anything quite like what I saw that night ever again. Lastly, in response to people theorizing that perhaps our government has some top-secret advanced technology, which would allow them to seemingly leave Earth's atmosphere in under a second, I say (1) they're not being very secretive about it and (2) if our military has technology as advanced as this would appear to be then they are, in my opinion, more extraterrestrial than terrestrial at that point. Would our military risk people laying eyes on such technology if they had it? And for what, to eavesdrop on two friends listening to Lana Del Rey? To me, it's just as preposterous as the Chinese lantern theory… I only hope that all the naysayers have an opportunity to witness such insanely magical, incredibly surreal UAPs/UFOs for themselves. If they ever do get such a chance to witness paranormal activities such as these, I can only imagine how fast they'll discredit the "Chinese lantern" theory! P.S. sorry for the lack of evidence, it all happened so fast that it wasn't until days after this event when I actually started kicking myself that I forgot to begin filming. In all honesty, I'm glad that I didn't go grab my phone because the second I turned my back I would have missed one of the strangest/otherworldly things I've ever seen. Besides, my iPhone likely would have captured nothing anyways considering my phone back then could barely capture the full moon at its largest.
June 1, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Newcastle (Canada), ON · Canada
Report of UFO Sighting in Newcastle Ontario Canada on July 2014 at 9:30 P.M. I was driving southbound in the Port of Newcastle approximately ½ km from the shoreline of Lake Ontario. Southwest of my position and over the water of Lake Ontario, I witnessed a group of seven slow moving aircraft. I guessed their speed to be comparable to that of ultralight aircraft. I judged them to be at a distance of less than five miles and approximately two thousand feet in the air. Their shape was not immediately discernable. Six of them were spaced evenly at approximately two hundred feet apart horizontally, with uneven variances in elevation of possibly 100 feet. The seventh was flying alone at a similar altitude but following the formation at a distance of roughly 1 km. They were distinguishable at this time only by a crisp, bright circular orange light representing each craft. As they moved slowly through the sky, I judged them to be flying in a South to Northwest direction. As they traversed an angle of approximately 70 degrees from my position, I saw the orange light flicker and disappear from each craft beginning with the lead vehicle. At this time I speculated that this was because the light was projecting forward from each vehicle, and as the vehicles passed by, the source of light was not visible from my angle of observation. Because the western sky was still relatively bright at this time of night, I was able to discern the shape of each vehicle in silhouette. All of them appeared to be perfectly round in shape. No sound was discernable from any of the craft at any time. Local trees began to obscure my view. Total observation time was less than two minutes.
June 1, 2014 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Spokane Valley, WA
8pm Sunday evening I noticed what appeared to be a large star in our western sky, I quickly realized that it was far to early for stars to be visible, there were none others visible. My friend who had joined me asked how long it had been there and I replied about ten minutes, she said go get your telescope which I did. The object was spherical with lights around its middle very clearly visible. It changed many times it's attitude, meaning it seemed to tip and the lights were at one point close to vertical, then it would right itself and the lights that were around it were again horizontal. This was witnessed by myself and five other adults that were nearby, all agreed that what we were witnessing matched the description given above. It was visible for nearly 30-40 minutes. It moved in northwesterly direction until it was no longer visible. No drugs or alcohol had been used by any of the witnesses...well except one!
June 1, 2014 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Edmonton (Canada), AB · Canada
Stepping outside my front door, I glanced to the south and saw a large luminous circle which quickly after I looked at it seemed to move in an eastward direction. As it moved it seemed to go behind something, as it gave the appearance that the circle and light were disapperaing behind something. There did not appear to be anything else there. It was a clear night with some clouds, but none where I saw the circle.
May 31, 2014 · 11:40 PM · SPHERE
Springfield, MO
About 10 observed. Started as bright orange sphere. Moved towards us once they got to the other side of the sky they turned into almost transparent spheres but still slightly visible. Then disappeared. Not all went in the same direction. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
May 31, 2014 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Traverse City, MI
At about 23:30 on May 31, 2014, I was sitting on a couch in a dark room watching a fire in the fireplace; I happened to glance through a window (located on the north side of the condominium) up into the dark night sky (there was little moonlight outside, I believe we had a waxing crescent moon) at about a 45° angle. I noticed three dark orange spheres out in the distance come into view; they were descending, traveling southward in a fairly straight-line formation toward me from a northwardly direction. The three spheres were spaced about the same distance apart as they descended toward me. As they descended they appeared to begin a slow sweeping arch toward a southwest direction. After about 15 seconds the second (center) sphere appeared to release three small (pin-size) spheres from directly beneath it; all three spheres fell equal distance apart for 3–5 seconds prior to totally, instantly, disappearing. The three dark orange spheres—each appearing to be slightly larger than a pencil eraser—continued their slow, sweeping southwestward descent. As the three spheres were beginning to level off while continuing to turn (and while they were just barely north of my position) I stepped out onto the deck to get a better view. The distance between the three spheres appeared to expand. As the sphere in front started to move in a more westward direction and began to gain altitude the middle sphere released three additional small (pin-size) spheres from directly beneath it; all three of these spheres also fell equal distance apart for 3–5 seconds prior to totally, instantly disappearing. The lead sphere began to pull away from the other two as it gained altitude as it traveled in a westward direction; the second (middle) sphere also began to gain attitude as it traveled in a westward direction. The third (and last) sphere appeared to slow as it gained altitude while also traveling in a westward direction away from Traverse City. I watched the three spheres until they were completely out of sight…gaining altitude as they continued traveling in a westward direction. The three spheres appeared to be fairly far away from my location; I would estimate they never got closer than Grand Traverse Bay and remained beyond the Peninsula while making their sweep from the northwardly to the westward direction. The spheres appeared to glow. They did not have discrete/separate lights or lights that pulsated; I did not hear any type of noise come from the spheres. I observed the three main spheres for approximately two minutes. The two sets of spheres that fell from beneath the second (center) sphere instantly disappeared after 3–5 seconds.
May 31, 2014 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Barberton, OH
On May 31st 2014 at approx 20:30, coordinates: N 41° 02.462' W 081° 35.223' I witnessed an orange sphere shaped object that appeared to have sparks coming off of the bottom of it. It went from the Eastern Horizon to the Western Horizon before disappearing from view. I only had time to capture a short recording of the object on my cellphone camera before it disappeared. It took approximately 10 minutes to cross from horizon to horizon.
May 31, 2014 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Cane Beds, AZ
The article you have "Stationary Object over California and Nevada" is the EXACT object that I saw from my deck. Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD
May 30, 2014 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Spokane, WA
I witnessed unexplainable bright light movement in sky tonight. I live out in the country in South Spokane, and I went out past my yard and house to edge of woods to hear the owls. I looked up at what I thought may be very bright plane or maybe satellite but the movement was like NOTHING I have ever seen before. This light was almost falling slowly in the north eastern part of the sky. Almost a 60-70• angle above horizon. It would "fall" or orbit downward in a feather like trajectory, swaying from left to right slowly and then stopping perfectly still with no blinking lights or sound of any kind. Then it would start up again never really following a pattern but seemingly heading downward toward the horizon. Then it just disappeared. I have been a lifelong satellite watcher and can say it was a bit bigger or at least brighter but not much. It had absolutely no flashing lights and when planes or helicopters are that close there is sound. Not sure what to think. Does ISS behave this way?
May 28, 2014 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Reno, NE
This is the second time I have seen it. 2 months ago I noticed it when I observed 4 or 5 people on an outdoor basketball court, all looking up at the object.
May 27, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
House Springs, MO
My 10 year old son observed lights from our living room window (around 11:30 pm) in the sky south of our home. He called out to me and said “Dad, something is flying around outside and I don’t think it’s an airplane, it’s kind of freaking me out”. My wife and I made it outside in time to watch about 30-45 seconds of two (think welding arc) intensely bright white lights flashing and flickering then turning solid and back again before disappearing behind the ridge line. They were at slightly different altitudes and to far apart to be two lights of the same craft, but moving in unison. They had no distinguishable shape, and no sound. Altitude was 500–1000 feet. Speed fluctuated from something faster than a typical light aircraft to perhaps slower than stall speed for a light fixed wing aircraft. Direction was roughly west to east and a mile +/- from our location. After losing sight of the objects we hopped in the car and drove to see if we could follow but ultimately found nothing. This is the third UFO sighting we have had in 9 years of living in this area and the first we have reported.
May 27, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Pawleys Island, SC
This event occurred as a series of orange spheres in the night sky over the ocean that lit up for a second or two, and then dimmed. The first bright red/orange light that got our attention looked almost like a super-sighting of Mars at first, but then we realized that it was way too close, too large, and too bright. Then it went out. Over the next 45 minutes, bright orange spheres high in the sky lit up in the same area - then went out, sometimes in a row of three, sometimes forming an angle. On two occasions, six in a tight row lit up in quick sequence, then went out. These were the last we spotted. There were perhaps 25 light-ups in all. These were NOT fireworks--way too high in the sky and out over the ocean. They did not rise or fall or leave any sort of trail; they just appeared and then vanished. I've never had any experience with anything like this before, nor do I have any possible explanation.
May 26, 2014 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Oshkosh, WI
The sightings were on Saturday night of Memorial Day weekend. I was with immediate family members at my parents house. (My parents and my wife saw this activity) They've lived in the same Cul-de-Sac for just over twenty years, and have never seen anything like it. The easiest way to describe what we saw with these sightings, is that they were orange and continuous. Orange Orbs is the definitive term. It was so surreal, and it was kind of like a cannon shooting off lighted orange cannonballs silently in the dark of the night. It was one after the other. I've been an avid researcher of UFO's and the paranormal for about five years and have heard of this activity, this was of the biggest surprises but I've seen them before where I currently live. After a while, my dad proceeded to the front of the house, and watched them go on for about 30-40 minutes. I actually have a 25 second video of the incident where I caught two on my iPhone.
May 26, 2014 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Fremont, CA
Craft was silver, orb-shaped and clearly visible towards the southern sky. Craft was visible, at least as soon as I was aware of it, for about 10 secs, before traveling towards space and rapidly disappearing.
May 26, 2014 · 4:08 AM · SPHERE
Wellington, KS
An orange sphere the size of a softball but brightly lit moved rapidly and erratically from side to side zigzag while traveling north to southerly direction leaving a small trail of light behind itself. I woke up to let dog out and always look up at stars and sky when the orange sphere appeared above and between two trees that are across the street and about only a couple hundred feet up above in the sky and shown only for about two seconds before being out of sight into the treetop.