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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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March 1, 2023 · 3:30 AM · SPHERE
Morgantown, WV
I awoke randomly @ 3:30am to use the restroom across the hall. On the way back to the bedroom I noticed out my second story foyer window an orange light. I thought I might be seeing a reflection from brake lights on the window or perhaps an airplane or helicopter, but there were no cars or aircraft in sight, and it was dead quiet outside. I stepped forward to get a closer look and I observed a reddish/orange sphere that had a bit of texture to it, similar to TV static, that appeared to be moving slowly, while the sphere remained still. The object was roughly 150 feet off the ground above my neighbor's home, which is at a slightly lower elevation than my home. The area immediately surrounding the sphere was illuminated with the orange color, yet there were no clouds around it at that elevation to explain how this was possible. Nothing to reflect off of, in other words. I watched for another ten seconds or so and then the object started to slowly travel to the Northwest and then rapidly accelerate towards the mountains off in the distance, which are about 4 miles away. I have a clear view of the mountains from this window. The object covered this distance in a matter of only two to three seconds, getting smaller and smaller, eventually disappearing over the mountains. I was not outside to confirm of course but did not hear a sound at all while it moved away from me. The entire encounter lasted about 30 seconds. I have no explanation for what I witnessed.
February 28, 2023 · 9:12 PM · SPHERE
Tacoma, WA
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February 28, 2023 · 7:59 PM · SPHERE
At sea on a cruise ship NW of Cuba enroute to Cozumel, Cuba
Initially I thought it might be the moon peaking through clouds. However, the moon was directly above me. I recognized Saturn and Jupiter to my right. (I'm an amateur astronomer.) The orb appeared to be surrounded by an aura, with a cloud that had wisps pointing in both directions. It did not have a tail. As the orb moved this aura - or cloud - moved with it. Oddly, the wisps of this cloud or aura did not change shape. Even as it was moving forward, the wisps remained pointing forward and did not appear to alter position. There was no sound. There was no blinking lights. It moved steadily, not erratically. It seemed to me to be at altitude - meaning it was above 20000 feet, but I have no way to confirm that. I have seen many things as an amateur astronomer, and I've never seen anything like this. If it was a comet, it was the brightest and fastest moving one I've ever seen. We lost sight of the object when it moved behind part of the superstructure of the ship. About a minute later we walked around it to see if we could continue following it. I thought I caught a glimpse of a pinpoint of light, but then it was gone.
February 28, 2023 · 7:58 PM · SPHERE
Zephyrhills, FL
February 28th 6ish Leebos UAP. Location: Zephyrhills Florida, 33541 Just West of 301 and just north of State Rd54. Looking to Tampa UAP sighting. The video appears to show two orbs however upon further inspection it looks as if one orb was reflecting off of the object that was invisible to the naked eye. The spherical White balls of light seem to rotate at a controlled rate. You cannot physically see the object rotating but as the light changes shape you can tell that it is circling around the light creating some sort of rotating glow. If you inspect the video closely, the rotating ball of light seems to be mirrored on an object hovering above. Almost as if the guiding ball of light was assisting another vehicle in the reflection was being cast off of this invisible mirror-like vehicle. According to other Witnesses in other parts of the state, they could only see one ball of light which leads us to believe that from the location where this video was taken, the visual viewer was looking at the side of this object from the south of the object you would see one ball of light no glare from the east side of the object you would see two balls of light the bright one on the bottom and it's glaring up above 50 to 100 ft based off of video observation which obviously is hard to tell whether 50 ft is 1 mi or 500 yds. Whatever it was it was not a star it was not a planet it was not man-made. It wasn't an anomaly a ball of energy. It was in fact a UAP. The media claims it was a rocket launched from the night before or it was a Jet and Tanker refueling, however… It was not a Jet/Tanker refueling and the rocket was launched 24hrs the night before almost exactly. The stage one booster was recovered 21mins after launch.
February 28, 2023 · 7:34 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalCanton, OH
On the evening of Feb. 28, 2023 I was outside feeding my animals when I noticed 2 spinning lights in the western portion of my field. The field has some open areas and other areas that are overgrown with brambles and saplings. The weather was in the 40s(f) and the sky was partly cloudy. The objects were not extremely high in the sky, nor were they close to the ground. They were between the two points. The visible stars were much higher than the objects. To give you a better idea of the location of the objects in the sky, I took 5 videos and there were moments when the objects faded for a moment because they were moving behind the young trees. I was standing on the ground and recording the objects on an iPhone. The objects caught my attention because they were bright and located lower in the sky. I enjoy observing the moon and stars over the field, but would not consider myself an amateur astronomer. I just enjoy looking at the sky and am familiar enough with the sky above my field to know that the bright objects were something I hadn’t seen before. If visualizing a clock, the top object would have been at approximately 11 o’clock and the bottom object at approximately 4 o’clock. The top object seemed to be smaller and not as bright as the bottom object. I didn’t even realize there was a top object until I changed my position in the field. I was facing west in the center of the portion of my field where a mowed area meets a more overgrown area. When I turned to the left and started to walk, that is when I saw the second object. Both circular objects had a second, internal circle that was spinning and reminded me of spinning gears, similar to the gears in a watch. The gears were spinning clockwise. I wasn’t able to clearly see the internal gear-like circle until I used the zoom feature on my iPhone. The objects were stationary at some points (internal circle continued to spin at all times), slowly moving toward the right and left at other moments, and moved slightly up and down at other times. During this period, I heard groups of dogs that started to bark and also heard coyotes yipping. The group of 10 cats that have appeared at my house at various times that I care for stayed away from the field. This is highly unusual because they will always follow me when I walk in the field. I additionally heard either police or ambulance sirens, but I doubt that had anything to do with the objects (but who knows?). The objects were still in the sky when I decided to walk back to the house. I’m not sure if this is related, but to my right I suddenly saw a bright light for a second or two. The location of the road that runs along my house would make it impossible for the light to be headlights. I was worried that someone was shining a flashlight at me which would mean someone had to be on my property in the dark. This has never happened before and I live in a very safe area. However, it IS within the realm of possibility. Seeing the light was so unusual and it scared me. I quickly walked back to my house, which is 4 acres from where I was standing in the field. I stood by my house to see if I could see the light again, or a trespasser. I didn’t see anything besides for the two objects. When I went inside the objects were still present. When I was outside on the evening of March 1, 2023, the objects were not in the sky. A few days ago I decided to watch the videos I took and do some research. I discovered several articles from London outlets, that were written a few years ago, about several boys from Glasgow who recorded mysterious objects in the sky. The pictures in the article looked exactly like the objects that I witnessed. In conclusion, I have no idea what I observed. I do know that it was unusual and something I hadn’t seen before. It appeared that something was bothering the animals in the area at that time and I’m not aware of anything else unusual that was happening. However, it is possible that the coyotes were bothered by something other than objects and their yipping triggered the dogs and the cats. I am interested in an opinion regarding the possible identification of objects by someone who is educated in such objects. PS: I just read the authorization portion and at this time, although I might change my mind later, I am going to send a screenshot of the objects instead of releasing all of the videos. I just captured the screenshots and edited them in the following way: 1)I enlarged the images to make viewing easier, 2) I used the “sharpness” tool of my IPad to make the images clearer. The internal portion of the objects that was spinning appears to be blurry in the screenshot (but not the video) which is most likely due to the motion. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
February 28, 2023 · 5:55 PM · SPHERE
Houston, TX
This was 1 of 4 I saw within an hour. This was the 3rd. Moving at what I believe was an altitude of 5 to 10k ft. from west to east. Steady speed, no lights, looked like a brown orb the size of a small van. I have a video posted to Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpL6_1pJzEk/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
February 27, 2023 · 7:54 PM · SPHERE
San Miguel de Cozumel, QUINTANA · Mexico
At 7:54pm EST a group of 6 of us were having dinner at Hemingways in Cozumel Mexico. An extremely bright light appeared in the sky over Playa Del Carmen and began approaching Cozumel very quickly. A cloud formation was hovering in front of the UFO the entire time. As the object approached directly overhead, it became clear it had an orbital/spherical field. The object hovered overhead for roughly 5 seconds before speeding off and vanished within seconds. Prior to departure the objects' energy shifted from a horizontal pattern to vertical energy field. There was zero sound and zero flash of light as the object vanished. My video is very quality and ~ 1:50 in length. I am having trouble uploading to the site.
February 27, 2023 · 7:53 AM · SPHERE
Ellenton, FL
At approximately 7:52 pm i noticed what looked like the trail space x leaves when launching so i begin to actually look and it was clear as day like 4k. It was a round orb or fluid disk. It had what i can best describ as plasma around it. It was traveling at a fast enough speed i knew it was not an ordinary plane. As it was flying the trail that you normally see behind space x was in front of the craft. I then took a picture. If you zoom in you can see precisely what i see. Now the kicker. I post to fox13 news tampa bay. They tell me it was spacex. Spacex didnt launch until like 815pm that day. And they launch on the east coast. I have a time stamped picture at 7:53pm
February 27, 2023 · 7:30 AM · SPHERE
Hitchin, HERTFORD · United Kingdom
Watched orb sphere type object flashing a warm yellow white light in a fairly slow pulsating manner. Hovering for long periods then traveling, witnessed at varying distances firstly very bright near my bedroom window and then it went over the top of the building and I ran to living room where it was much further away and less bright but still behaving similarly
February 26, 2023 · 7:10 PM · SPHERE
Moscow, WA
We were driving home to Pullman, WA when we spotted orbs in the sky. They frequently got brighter then dimmer, moved across the sky very quick, turned white then green, and then dimmed into darkness.
February 26, 2023 · 1:10 PM · SPHERE
san juan capistrano, CA
My daughters and I were taking a break on our bike ride and looking at two red tail hawks circling high above. The object was traveling toward us in our eye line with the birds. At first I thought it was another bird, but soon realized it was going very very fast. It is difficult to determine our distance to the object, but I could clearly see it getting closer, passing us, then continuing on toward the ocean. It seemed rather small. It made no noise and it left no contrails. It was flying well below low hanging clouds. The object was completely black or colorless. My daughter said it looked like a flying bowling ball.
February 26, 2023 · 4:10 AM · SPHERE
Troy, MO
on 02/26/2023 sometime between 4:10 AM and 4:16 AM I was outside my house smoking a cigarette and i saw 2 white orbs of light connected by a beam of white light spinning around each other. They flew perpendicular along the street i live on at an incredibly high speed, less than 100 feet above the ground and made no sound at all. These orbs rotated much slower around each other than they did move forward. Gave my heart quite a good thump I'll tell you that. I didn't even have time to take a picture.
February 25, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Faringdon, OXFORDSH · United Kingdom
There were 5 objects moving mostly in a line the 2 at the front remained heading forward there were 2 behind those which one (the lowest) was going up and down very fast whilst going forward and the one at the back was doing a wave like motion when the reached the same spot tin the sky they faded to red dim light and disappeared
February 24, 2023 · 11:35 PM · SPHERE
Mill Bay, BC · Canada
2 large round spheres hovering low in sky. Both seen at same time and in opposite directions. Spheres were identical in size and had numerous lights all around. The lights were spaced evenly over each sphere and were steady, did not flash etc. I went to get my cell phone in order to take pictures. When I returned to the windows, both were gone. My husband also saw one of the two spheres. I
February 23, 2023 · 10:38 PM · SPHERE
Delmar, DE
I observed three bright orbs over the ocean. They were in a triangle pattern. I believed them to be Milatary Helicopters training because they were stationary in mid air. Then the one on the North side of the triangle went to the North at a speed greater than an standard aircraft it dispeared in a matter of seconds. The remaining two made erratic movements and then shot straight up and suddenly disapeared. They were round and bright white like a star. I am not sure what they were but they are not anything I have ever seen.
February 23, 2023 · 7:10 PM · SPHERE
Genoa, WV
It looked like a normal star, albeit very bright. I believe Venus was visible just above it, both were equally luminous and the same apparent size. What I believe to be Venus (according to TheSkyLive.com) stayed still the entire time while this object swayed. We were looking through the tree line, though no leaves are present on the trees and low to moderate winds. As we watched, the object would sway back and forth (side to side) repeatedly— far enough to be a noticeable sway. Clouds would pass over this object and it would become much dimmer, but as the cloud moved past it would reappear (at least we believe it’s clouds, it is night so it’s kind of hard to tell). After 4-5 minutes, it had moved to a lower angle, possibly 23 degrees above the horizon or so. We went back inside, but about 20 minutes later I went back out to see it again and it was still there. The possible aura or haze that I am checking may be due to astigmatism (which both mom and I have). Also, I am saying that animals were effected. I don’t believe this to be a “close encounter”, but while we watched the object, a bird came out of the bush and started flying into the night light on our houses exterior repeatedly, very similarly to how a moth would. The bird looked like a raven, but again we are not experts and it was night.
February 20, 2023 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalDillsburg, PA
First spotted in night sky at 8:50pm est. Object is slowly hovering, but is small and a distance away. With binoculars, you can see the separate red, green and white lights that appear to surround the top round portion. Over the next hour, it appeared to slowly lower itself before raising yet again. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
February 20, 2023 · 10:52 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalGonzales, CA
At first the object looked like a red balloon in the sky but it did not move at all as would a balloon being pushed in the air. I took out my phone to record it and as I zoomed in on the object, it appears as if lights were being emitted in a sequence. I then tilted my camera from side to side to see if anything else was around but the object was the only thing in the sky. Then it vanished from sight. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
February 19, 2023 · 8:58 PM · SPHERE
Waterford, MI
I am a Pilot at PTK airport, been there for years and know what normal airport activity looks like. At approximately 21:00 I was on the ground and saw west of the airport white and green lights spinning and plummeting out of the sky incredibly fast. At First thinking it was a plane crashing I pointed out to the lineman next to me. After seeing it for slightly longer it was far too brightly lit, large, and moving much too fast to be any standard plane. It appeared to be plummeting to the ground and disappeared over the horizon line. ATC at the airport tower did not see it with there only being a skeleton crew left at the time. Only one plane was in the air near the airport and traveling in the opposite direction as the lights. I have been flying out of that airport for years and seen thousands of different planes and helicopters come in and out. I fly myself and have a comprehensive knowledge of aviation. That thing looked like nothing I have ever seen and I’m so baffled as to what it could be.
February 19, 2023 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
TN
Looked out of blinds in a N-NW direction. about 7:15 local time. saw what I thought was full moon behind diffuse cloud cover. It had been cloudy and overcast earlier. I was closing blinds across the Western side of living room. After I thought about it--- that seemed to be a place the moon couldn't be. So- I went outside and saw nothing there. Also -- once my eyes adapted to the dark I saw that the sky was completely clear of clouds. The object was a bright round disk as big or slightly larger than a full moon--- and has the appearance of the moon behind thin clouds---- like a light with a white or grey shade over it. Brightness was similar to the full moon behind clouds as well. It was about 20 degrees above the horizon and in a N-NW direction. I suppose it could be described as an "orb"………. I stood outside for about 10 minutes but saw nothing else.
February 18, 2023 · 1:39 AM · SPHERE
St. Louis, MO
I was on a 30 min break outside, it was 30 degrees with a light breeze, approximately 0137AM-0141AM. As I was sitting outside of my building (Anthem STL) steps (facing toward the Union Station Hotel above the left side of the building in sky @ 130-150 degrees SE), I caught a very quick glance of a bright white flash it was a perfectly orb/spherical like figure that had appeared to be zipping downwards at what appeared to be curve and right as it was doing that it disappeared in the sky it was clear a night/morning no clouds were visible. Observer is a security supervisor who is 21 at the time of the sighting who works overnights (2200PM-0600AM).
February 17, 2023 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
Valdese, NC
A large green sphere that would flash off and on. It was larger than the setting. Extremely clear. Noticed very odd clouds that were ribbed going in several directions.
February 16, 2023 · 8:44 PM · SPHERE
Statesville, NC
I was on my back porch and I looked up at the sky and at first glanced it looked like a fire in the sky but as I focused it was a an orange/ reddish orb. The light wasn’t blinking. It looked as if the light was “falling” but then it stopped hovered and then flew away. It was very strange and very brief. The most amazing part is I actually got it on camera! I was really surprised my phone camera picked up that light. Also, one of the boxes below says to check if it has lights but it appeared to be one big light like an orb. There was no sound but it could have been too far away for me to hear? It was night time so I’m not sure how far away it was. I see that I can attach my video as well, please excuse my language I was excited and a little concerned at the same time.
February 16, 2023 · 10:43 AM · SPHERE
Lakewood, CO
Sphere hovered in place at an altitude of maybe 500-1000ft before it rose swiftly and also moved east in direction. A single engine plane flew by somewhat at the same altitude and I lost track of it briefly to find it in the sky again at a much higher altitude and very far away to our south east. The object was spherical and through binoculars I could see a seam that wrapped around it. It also seemed to change colors from grey to white but not like a shadow.