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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.
11,675 entries
May 25, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
San Clemente, CA
Driving 5 fwy south, through San Clemente, just before Avinida Pico, I saw 3 spheres that were bright orange, like on fire, holding pattern in the shape of a sideways triangle, they were not moving in a pattern of a plane, they were moving down south, they went behind some hills, by the time I made it to san Onofre, saw them again and there were 10 to 14 spheres holing the same fight pattern, as I came to san onofre power plant, they were to the East and disappeared over the hill where the power plant lines go, across. They looked like bright orange spheres, like fire, with billowing white smoke coming off each one. It was hard to see a shape behind lights, not sure, what it was.
May 25, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Hackleburg, AL
Contact information is flawed. We suspect that the report may be a hoax. PD
May 25, 2014 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Wheelersburg, OH
3 reddish orange spheres flew east to west across the sky over my house. They appeared to be at the height of a small aircraft. They flew over one at a time and disappeared one at a time. They disappeared by going vertical and becoming a brilliant white light. They were silent and not moving very fast. I have pictures on my cell phone. Fascinating! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 25, 2014 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Algonquin, IL
Southeast to Northwest trajectory. First pro arrived on its own. Approximately twenty minutes later three addition pros appeared flying in a singular pattern again heading northwest. Altitude was lower than high flying airliners. No discernable engine noise was witnessed. Color of orbs were orange and did not fluxuate. No navigational lights. Color was constant. Speed was steady but fastand eventually traveling out of sight. After the three about. Fifteen minutes a fifth sphere appeared demonstrating the same characteristics as the those before and then twenty minutes later a sixth and final orb/sphere.
May 25, 2014 · 6:50 PM · SPHERE
Pleasant Hill, OH
I got home from church and was talking with my parents about my day. Looking around in the sky an object, like a perfect white sphere was heading west against the wind. I couldn't hear anything and it was pretty high in the sky. I've never seen anything like it in my life, I don't understand how a ballon or something round like that was heading west against the wind as fast and straight as this was. After seeing it travel west for 15-20 seconds, it was too far to see. It was awesome!
May 25, 2014 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
San Francisco, CA
My wife and I were on a ferry heading from Larkspur, CA, to San Francisco, CA, on the way to the SF Giants game. We were nearing the Bay Bridge, in the water between Treasure Island and the Ferry Building. I noticed a commercial aircraft flying high overhead, heading south. Near that plane I saw what at first appeared to be a smaller plane in the distance, but near the same trajectory of the commercial airline. I thought it seemed a little close. The smaller object appeared to be white in color with a non-descript shape. The commercial plane continued on it's path, and the small object was observed to be higher up and not moving in a direction. I pointed the object out to my wife and she also observed it. At that point, I began to question what it was I was seeing. The object then seemed to be moving very slowly, across the bay (west to east), all the while the ferry was moving south under the bridge and so the precise motion of the object was difficult to dete! rmine. However, as we continued to watch the object, it seemed to be extremely high up and more overhead (I had to crane my neck in order to continue observing it). The object appeared to be shinny, round; a sphere. It was small in size, being so high up. It was not moving position that I could tell, not on a trajectory across the sky. It seemed to be staying directly over the bay. I continued to observe the object for about 15-20 minutes. I tried to take photos of it but it was too far away for our 200MM lens to capture it. The sky was completely clear, bright blue, no clouds, sunshine. The object eventually just seemed to disappear, and I could not find it in the sky.
May 25, 2014 · 7:00 AM · SPHERE
Salinas, CA
they stayed floating in one spot for 10 min and disappeared.
May 24, 2014 · 10:20 PM · SPHERE
Wellsville, OH
My husband and I were just coming home from walmart, when I got out of the car and said to him: Oh my God look up in the sky, what I saw was unbelievable, there was 12 orange-red spheres, absolutely no sound, they were in a semi-circle pattern and at his time I ran to get my neighbor so she could look at these. At this time they broke apart in triangles in groups of three and then as quickly as I was watching these, they started disappearing ,one by one. Truly unbelievable and very scary. For some reason we don't understand, source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD
May 24, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
St. Charles, MO
We saw a line of 8-10 bright orange spheres moving northwest, altitude was undisistinguishable. We pulled over and got out ov the car to watch them and noticed they were silent but very bright.
May 24, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
May 24th, around 9:30pm, I was sitting outside on my front patio. The sun was just begining to set. My Neighbor's daughter was playing two doors down and something in my head had told me to look up towards the horizon. I'm in a partially vegitated area with large trees, so if I were to just lok in that direction, trying to look for a specific object, chances are that I would not have been able to spot what I saw. I was smoking a cigarette at that time, and as I said, "Something in my brain had told me to focus in that specific direction as if I was being told so." As I looked up, my neighbor's child said, at the same time I saw it and said, "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy, come here quick! Look at pretty green light in the sky! What is it?" She came out and immediately started to panic and thats when I said, "Am I really Seeing this? Am I crazy or are you seeing this too!" There was a very bright, pulsating chartruess spherical object, moving at a high speed, and very low altitude. It was a very bright neon like color sphere and it made not one sound. I cannot tell you how big it was but, it was literally pulsating with light. At first I thought it was an airplane since I live just down the road about 10 miles from a small airport. The name of the airportis, Hillsboro Aviation. (So if you need to call them to see if they picked up anything on radar, you have te name.) When it went over us, there was absolutely zero sound. I even tuned into background noise to make sure there was a jet exhaust sound. Absolutely zero noise! And the strange thing was, being so close to an airport, theres constant air traffic. When this approached, there was not one aircraft in the sky. So we would have heard it. I ran out to the to a clearing and watched it continue from it going northbound. I contined observe to se if I could make out any form of object. It immediately came to a hault in mid air. By that time, it was very close to the airport and then it began to flash and get brighter. It sat there for a good two minutes. At that time, I decided to make a run for my phone to snap a shot. As I came back out and was fumbling with my camera, I looked up, and it made slight turn and began to move, then it took off at a blink of an eye. This is the second time I've seen these spheres. I've seen blue ones in the Tillamook National Forest coming home from Salmon fishing. And they were in the forest, then bolted out into a meadow. They moved so fast that the trees swayed as they exited the forest and were spinning around the sky, then disapeared into orbit.
May 24, 2014 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Joliet, IL
I was on my way home tonight at about 9:15 Central time. I saw what appeared to be a round ball of fire hovering in the sky above the Louis Joliet Mall here in Joliet, IL. It was red or red-orange in color with some yellow streaks in it. It literally looked like someone picked up a flame and somehow enclosed it in a globe. It looked like it was at about the height that a helicopter would fly at but did not appear to be moving. The mall parking lot has large lights on tall poles and this was much larger than the lights and seemed to be almost perfectly round. I pulled off into my subdivision which has a lot of trees and drove slowly down the street and could see it on and off between the trees and I stopped once to look at it. It didn't move and I rolled down the windows to listen for sounds of a airplane or helicopter. I heard nothing. I drove further up the street and lost it momentarily because of a large group of trees and then stopped at a large clearing and had an open view of the sky to the north. Nothing was in sight. I drove a block back to the south to a school parking lot so I could see in all directions and nothing was in sight. The thing had completely disappeared in a matter of about 5 minutes. I've never seen anything like this and never heard of any UFO sightings that fit this description, but I'm convinced that this was not any kind of an airplane or helicopter. I'm a retired educator and I think I'm pretty observant. This is the second time I've seen a possible UFO, but the first time was nothing as spectacular as this, and it was in Minnesota. I don't know how frequently such sightings occur in this area.
May 24, 2014 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Crescent Mills, CA
UFO = Balloon On Saturday May 24, 2014, between 1600 and 1800 hrs. I saw a UFO. I was in the driveway in front of my house in Plumas County, California. I noticed a hang-glider overhead with a large whitish wing. It was refracting the sunlight and almost glowed. I got my little 10 x 21 binoculars for a closer look. Perhaps it was a new type of fabric, polyethylene? It looked cool. Then I noticed a small white dot in the sky off to the North, at a bearing of about 10 degrees and an elevation of about 40 degrees. Was it another hang-glider way off in the distance? No, this thing was above the commercial jets that frequently fly over here. So it must be a Balloon! It looked spherical in the binoculars, maybe a little doughnut shaped. It must be at least 50,000 ft. altitude and slowly moving West. I called my brother who lives ¼ mile N of me so he could confirm the sighting. He got his binoculars and saw the same thing. He suggested I get out my old 4.5 inch reflector telescope with a 28mm eyepiece. It needs the mirror recoated, so it doesn’t get out much, but despite the dust it worked pretty well. Oh My God! I wish I had a picture of what I saw. It was a balloon alright, a very large, maybe 500 ft. diameter balloon with lots of pleats and a payload. Was it Google? I called Chico Municipal Airport (50 miles SW of here) to see if Google was in town. He did not know of any balloons in the area, but did go out to take a look, without success. Google had used Chico for test flights of balloons for the Loon project. Loon balloons are about 50 ft. diameter. T his was no Loon this was a Condor! The balloon was pumpkin shaped with lots of gores and load tapes, perhaps 80 or 100? It looks like a super [pressure type, probably flying at around 100,000 ft. Brilliant white where it got direct sun, and some greyish areas, shadows. The payload was dark (photovoltaic panels), suspended by lots of load tapes, and quite small compared to the massive envelope. The underside of the balloon looked different, greyer and wavy, perhaps the gathered fabric of the payload recovery parachute. The gores were quite curved on the top, billowed out, maybe semi-circular. It also appeared to be rotating counter clockwise, but I am not sure about that. At about 1800 hours, it went behind the large pine/fir trees to the NW at a bearing of 279 deg. and an elevation of 38 deg. I cannot take pictures through the telescope properly, but I do have a photo of the small white dot and an attempt to use macro focus through the eyepiece. There may be an opportunity to scale the object using digital technology. I am 60 and not too computer savvy but I will try to email the photos to you. I have looked at hundreds of balloon photos on line but I have not seen anything quite like what I saw. I called your UFO Hotline on the 24th and left a message. Then I called Google and talked to a man riding his bike in Florida he claimed the big balloon was theirs and as far as he knew I was the only one who has seen it, interesting. He then said let’s call the UFO Reporting Center and we did. He left a message, that I am on also, stating that we need an investigator to come out to interview me. Wow I didn’t expect that, so they want people to know about this thing? We talked for over an hour, like the game 20 questions. Some of what he said I do not necessarily believe; like the “Mother Ship” may be 2 miles in diameter, that it uses solar powered thrusters, that it comes down to pick up water to ionize, that it works with HARP, that they are looking for coltan (among other things) which occurs in my area, do I want to sell my property? I had given him my address. Really? So we know it was a balloon, but is it really Googles? How big is it? What are its capabilities? I look forward to figuring this out and very much appreciate having your organization to work with. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite eloquent, and serious-minded. We suspect he is a very good witness. We still do not know what the object was, despite the multiple witness reports from people who observed it. It does not make sense to us that a high-altitude balloon would stay in one part of the sky for many hours. The winds aloft are usually constant, and would have caused a balloon to drift with the wind. PD
May 24, 2014 · 3:45 AM · SPHERE
Bellaire, MI
At 0330-0340, I got up to observe the meteor shower. I observed a bright light (brighter than any other object in the sky) at zenith and proceeding north. I had time to step inside my house and retrieve a pair of binoculars. The object had moved 25-30 degrees off vertical in the 15 seconds it took to return with the binoculars. Closer observation revealed the bright light to be three bright white lights flying in close triangle formation. No navigation lights were visible. Lights did not blink or waver. No sound was noted. Lights were moving 2 x 3 times faster than the occasional jet traffic that passes over our very small town. No meteors were observed during this period. No other satellites were visible. Again, this observation was noteworthy as the object traveled south to north. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 23, 2014 · 11:10 PM · SPHERE
Greeneville, TN
Three orange fireballs proceeded across the sky in 2 min intervals. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 23, 2014 · 10:03 PM · SPHERE
Willowick, OH
While sitting by a fire in our backyard, my fiance noticed an incredibly bright red light moving really slowly West to East. It stopped for a second, slowly headed south, and the made a 45° turn and continued East. The light then dimmed out. It was unclear if the object was above or below the clouds since it was partly cloudy. It was silent and slow but a very bright red. We captured it on our phones but not when it was at its brightest.
May 22, 2014 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Dardanelle, AR
I was on the Arkansas River catfishing, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a very bright blueish object going seriously fast. When i first saw it it was doing a wierd zigzag thing that went on for about 35 seconds. Then it was gone.just like that it was gone. I imeadeatley started trying to explain it to myself but i couldn't because. It couldn't.be a plane, No blinking lights. not a shooting star, no trail.
May 21, 2014 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Springfield Township, OH
My wife and I were driving home from work, when we noticed what appeared to be a large electrical storm a short distace away. We decided to get a better look from the parking lot of a nearby Walmart as we needed a few things from the store. I shot the entire experience on my cell phone camera that includes the storm activity and the orb that sailed away from the area towards the storm. I have sat on this footage for almost two years and have shown only a few family members and close friends. Unfortunately the brillance of blue and white hues that illuminated around the sphere were not fully captured on the 720p android camera at night. The object was faintly visible before illuminating, but it's as if someone flipped on a light and then it immediately traveled at what could only be described as miles within two seconds. I did create a video that I uploaded to Youtube but kept Unlisted, and thus has remained so. Originally I was going to show it to a friend who had mentioned the storm which is why I am speaking as if to describe what I was seeing. If you would like to speak to me further please feel free to call as i would like to share the footage with you.
May 21, 2014 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Burhaniye (Turkey) · Turkey
Spherical bright white light emitting object with haze. Speed mach 6 or more (similar to a patriot missle). Altitude 5000 to 10000 meters. Relative size 1 cm across. Sky clear blue with few scattered clouds day light still available, sun down. Movement straight. Went behind a very small cloud did not reappear from the other side.
May 21, 2014 · 1:40 PM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
I was at home and outside having a cigarette when I looked up to the eastern sky and a bright sphere shaped object was stationary in the sky. At first I thought, hum it’s too bright during the afternoon for a star to be visible. The object just appeared and didn’t seem to originate from any direction. It was a white yellowish in color and was brighter in appearance. I went inside and got my Sony A330 DLSR with Sony 75-300mm lens. As I got outside it was gone and I couldn’t spot it but figured on keeping my camera if something else came around for a picture. As a lawn care technician came to work on the yard sprinklers I looked to the northern sky and the bright object was there. I mentioned it to him and in broken English said yeah I see it, and laughed a little bit. I was able to get a few pictures of it but being a very small bright object in the sky that looked like a bright star. I figured just a couple would do and I don’t have video. After wa! tching it for about 15 minutes, and It accelerated at amazing high rate of speed to the North and the object vanished. Faster than any known aircraft I know of and rivals shooting stars and satellites. The lawn care guy didn’t hang around to watch but he got a look but I guess he had to get back to work. Also not sure if the bright objects at different times are the same or different because I didn’t see it move from the eastern sky to the northern sky. I am in the United States Air Force and living on Nellis AFB and I can watch aircraft from Nellis AFB coming and going, as well as the air traffic lanes for takeoff and landing from North Las Vegas Airport and McCarran International Airport are great reference. All there is a commercial air traffic route over Las Vegas as well so I get to see a lot of different aircraft at different altitudes and speeds.
May 20, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Orange Park, FL
In short, I was driving home from school at night (no drugs or anything of that sort, nor was I extremely tired), and as I was approaching the intersection of Kingsley Ave and 17 (Orange Park, FL), at about 10:00 P.M.. I saw what looked like a green orb running parallel to my car (I think I was going about 35-40 MPH), maybe at about 60 degrees to my left, on the opposite (East) side of the road (I was traveling South). I think, even though it would move in a straight line, it would appear in front of certain objects, and behind other objects. This went on for maybe a few seconds a most, and then it suddenly flew off really fast, and I think it left a very soft, green, light trail behind it, which faded away quickly. That is the last detail I recall. I am 22 years old at the time of this report; not on any medications besides allergy relief.
May 20, 2014 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Tampa Vay viewing from west, FL
I was walking towards my home east direction and talking on the phone when a bright green orb appeared out of nowhere. It was moving straight down but due to line of site may have been moving down and directly away from me. It appeared in size aboiut I/3 size of a full moon. It had no trail it left no debris and made no sound. It did not vary in brightness. it could not have been space debris or shooting star as no trail no dbris as stated.. I am not into this at all but after what I just saw I firmly believe this thing was not a natural object. that's it anyone else see this? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 20, 2014 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Custer, WI
I often watch satellites as we are out in the country. Tonight, I saw what I thought was a satellite travelling north to south directly overhead. From right above me, it reached the top of the trees (maybe 5 degrees above horizon) in about 5 seconds. To summarize, it looked like a satellite would appear but I never saw anything move that fast. It was NOT a meteor.
May 20, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Cameron, MO
I was on my patio smoking a cigarette looking northeast and observed a orange light that was going. southwestern direction pretty high in the sky while i was observing this light i called for my wife to come and see what i was seeing . while we were outside the light was flying in a weird manner not like a plain or jet my says she swore there was a shape of somekind with the light i couldn't tell.while watching the light it went towards a tree line and we lost site of it but the direction it was going it should of reappear past the tree line and it didnt.shortly after the light there was two jets flying in the area we observed the light.on 5/23/14 the very next night around 12am as she tells me she observed another orange light that had a blue light circling the orange light and there wad some kind of shap with the lights .i haven't ever seen the things i have seen until i came to Missouri. The first time in july of 2012 with the three orange orbs that were. Really. close and now this most recent and something else all the dogs in the area were barking like crazy while we were watching the light and after it left
May 19, 2014 · 10:34 AM · SPHERE
Salida, CO
There were 4 circular metal objects in the sky they look like aluminum color and looked like if they were playing in the sky like chasing each other and making a formation but after being close and playing around they disappeared in the atmosphere. Have a video.