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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.
9,368 entries
December 25, 2019 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Waukegan, IL
I was walking our dog at approximately 9:45 PM due North on the sidewalk in front of our neighbors house. It was mostly dark and clear, but I could see clouds covering part of the sky. While looking up at the sky for stars I saw a green dot pass over from my right shoulder which caught my attention and I focused on it. The pinpoint emerald bright dot moved from over the neighbors garage over our open park heading North Northwest in a perfectly straight path. It moved much faster than any airplane and dissipated before the extent of my view. It looked like a green meteor burning up in the atmosphere, but was below the clouds and was bright emerald green. I could not tell if it was just over the trees, or just below the clouds. No sound could be heard on a very quiet night. No other object were seen in the vicinity. Lasted 3 seconds and no time to take a photo. Our dog did not react.
December 24, 2019 · 10:38 PM · FIREBALL
North Providence, RI
We saw 3 fireballs come up over neighbors' house and crescent over our home only to disappear one by one in the distance same separation exact same speed!!!!!! Kids as well as parents were Crying and screaming me and my family were in shock!!!
December 24, 2019 · 5:15 PM · FIREBALL
Reading, PA
Observed on Nevesink Mountain. Bright area of glowing red. Thought it was a fire. I was approx 1 mile away from mountain with a clear view of it. Then light slowly started to rise and continued straight up until it disappeared. Odd shape like 2 concentric circles.
December 24, 2019 · 3:45 PM · FIREBALL
Smithers (Canada), BC · Canada
My husband and I were walking our dog on Christmas eve. We look up and see a glowing reddish yellow ball in the sky, we joke and say it's Santa, but then realize it's not a helicopter or a plane. It was kind of pulsating and changing colour from yellow to red. It moved slowly for a minute or two, and then just stopped for another minute, and then it moved a little bit and disappear into the sky as we watched it. I did take a bad video, but you can still see it.
December 23, 2019 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Prineville, OR
Observed what at first looked like 15+ stars lined up in a line, Southern Sky looking from Prineville, Oregon. line or formation was North South orientation from viewpoint, formation moved North in an orderly measured fashion and disappeared one by one as velosity increased, could not tell if direction of travel was ascending or decending in relation to night sky or horizon. Definitly not stars, definitely not aircraft, very large and bright and at a great distance, by the movement viewed speeds were astronomical! A bunch of people must have seen this it was spectacular!
December 23, 2019 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Sarajevo (Bosnia), Bosnia and Herzegovina
I work at ATC in Sarajevo. Two controllers were working when they heard pilots using the emergency frequency to talk to each other about fireballs flying in formation. The sighting was confirmed by many pilots talking on the frequency, from fix ETOBI in Bosnia until entering Slovenian airspace. The sighting ended when pilots said that the fireballs shot up to space one by one. One ATC thinks the pilots were joking, the other one thinks they were serious. They did not write a report.
December 21, 2019 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Carthage, NC
Saw a Fireball UFO glowing Red/Orange. It moved around in all directions. Very cool! The last time I saw a Fireball UFO was in Great Falls, Montana, on the 4th of July 2012.
December 21, 2019 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Glassboro, NJ
While driving in our car on Delsea Dr. in Glassboro, my daughter and I saw a greenish/bluish burst of light horizontally traveled in the sky. It almost resembled an asteroid. It happened very quickly; within two blinks of an eye it had completely vanished into thin air. I called the police department, but they couldn’t explain what it may have been.
December 20, 2019 · 6:40 AM · FIREBALL
Bethlehem, GA
Very long tailing object streaking across the sky. Object jetisoned another smaller object and it went off out of site. See images for details.
December 20, 2019 · 6:30 AM · FIREBALL
Dunnellon, FL
At first I thought it was a meteor but then changed color then disappeared. Flew straight across left a trail of different colors then vanished.i took video and pictures.
December 19, 2019 · 6:45 AM · FIREBALL
Cranston, RI
I was driving to work and i saw a ball of fire falling from the sky in the far distance. At first i thought "WOW" a shooting star but as I continued to look it didn't appear to be that at all. I'm no expert but I've seen falling stars before and this did not look like what I have seen before. whatever it was it was definitely on fire and it there were flashes of light as pieces were breaking of the object. Im sure that i couldnt have been the only one to see this.. believe me it was hard to miss. Maybe it'll make the news.. ??????
December 18, 2019 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Waynesboro, MS
Large fire ball hovered over a field near my house. It darted and moved faster than anything I have ever seen. It kept exploding and coming right back together. I have two videos and four pictures I took with my phone.
December 16, 2019 · 7:16 PM · FIREBALL
West Palm Beach, FL
Looked like a fireball traveling fast had a reddish orange tail behind it. Only seen for about a minute. It dissolved into nothing. Also was heading towards space.
December 16, 2019 · 7:13 PM · FIREBALL
Gainesville, FL
My girlfriend and I had just stepped out of my apartment to go out shopping. My apartment faces East and as soon as I stepped out, I noticed a point of light in the distance, with an illuminated tail behind it, moving very slowly. At first I thought it might be a flying lantern or a fire kite, but that did not explain the trail, which looked somewhat like a bolide except that it was taking so long to dissipate, and so long to move. It appeared to change color after the trail disappeared, going from orange for the first couple minutes, to whitish with no tail, to dimming until we lost sight. I could not get a picture because of the security light in my complex, which would easily bleach out the image. I could very easily indicate the precise area of sky we were observing, since we were only a few feet from my front door. Neither of us was drinking or under any other influence. I'm sure there is a simple explanation for what we saw, but we do not know what that could be.
December 15, 2019 · 1:45 AM · FIREBALL
Joppatowne, MD
We were walking our dog when we saw a fireball come down towards the southeast. It was about half the size of the moon and had a greenish tint to it, but the middle of the fireball was white. It was in the sky for less than a second before disappearing below the tree line. Our dog seemed too scared to continue our walk, but we might’ve just been projecting our own nervousness. We headed back inside after about five minutes after we’d seen the fireball and didn’t spot anything else.
December 14, 2019 · 6:13 PM · FIREBALL
Waxahachie, TX
A huge orange ball of light/fire just appeared out of the sky. It moved towards us, then did a u-turn and flew off into the sky until we could no longer see it. The ufo never went down towards the ground. The entire encounter lasted 1 minute. The ufo did not emit any sound. I have a video on my phone that captured the entire circumstance.
December 13, 2019 · 5:45 PM · FIREBALL
Wapato, WA
Looked like a shooting star travelling sideways then it was just gone.
December 11, 2019 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Louisville, KY
I’m a sixteen year old female.
December 11, 2019 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Santa Barbara, CA
Looked up into the sky just above the Santa Barbara foothills and watched a green glowing object descend at a high rate of speed, not sure of the degree angle but it would have moved from the 10 o’clock position to the 4 o’clock position and was lost behind the foothills. It was only in view for a second. This is the second time I have seen this type of activity in the same area. Not sure if it was a ufo, a meteor or one of Vandenburg’s rockets coming down.
December 9, 2019 · 8:44 PM · FIREBALL
Litchfield Beach, SC
I have seen the Myrtle Beach UFO "orbs" a few times the last five or so years. This time I was at Belin Church in Murrells Inlet and noticed the orbs off in the distance over the Garden City Beach ocean. I decided to drive south to N. Litchfield Beach access thinking I could get closer. as soon as I arrived I noticed the orbs now much closer over the ocean. The orbs appeared several times over the next 20 min or so but the duration was only a few seconds of lights (under 10 seconds each time) I was unable to get any video because of the short time frame. I noticed no aircraft or lights in the area except one aircraft in the distance that looked to be perhaps landing at Myrtle Beach but was many miles from my location and the orbs. This is about the 5th or 6th time I have seen these and I am now always looking up so I hope to get some video in the future.
December 7, 2019 · 8:18 PM · FIREBALL
Medellin, COLOMBIA · Colombia
This is the second time I have seen something strange in the Skies of Medellin. Tonight is the night of candles and people have shot off fireworks the past three days. My husband things they my be the floating lanterns...I have done those for parties in the past and never seen them move so fast and so high then drop down and move back up.
December 5, 2019 · 5:15 AM · FIREBALL
Baytown, TX
A Flash of light caught my attention as i looked up in the sky there was a Blue Fireball or Streak. Vivd blue flash trail with Orb. prob Meteor IDK...
November 30, 2019 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Columbia, PA
I have 4 different videos of the event. Total, 4 minutes of video. My wife, and I, spotted 6 fire balls in the sky. Three of the fire balls were in a triangle formation. The other three were scattered in front of the three that were shapped as in triangle formation. Absolutely no noise from any of the fire balls. They kept flying towards us in the sky then they just disappeared. Fifteen seconds later two more appeared. Then disappeared. Ten seconds later two more appeared. Then disappeared. Seconds later, above the clouds there was a series of white flashes in the sky. Almost would remind you of a lighting storm in the distance, but it was not a lighting storm happening no where in this area. I have video.
November 30, 2019 · 4:45 AM · FIREBALL
Woodstock, AL
Bright Green Flash in sky, then it shot out of sight like a rocket, I pulled off the road along with another person that was driving in the North bound lane, he asked me WTH was that. I told him IDK. But it’s not anything normal, it happened right over the Green Pond Fire Dept building, that’s we’re we pulled off road at. Maybe they have cameras, it happened to quick for me to do anything.