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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
January 19, 2023 · 8:45 AM · SPHERE
Tucson, AZ
I work at an elementary school. My main job is teacher, but twice a week I am given other duties like watching the play ground in the morning. I first saw a sphere shaped object sitting in the sky completely still in October. The sun is bright in Arizona, and unlike all the students on the playground I have some hiking sunglasses. I would catch a flash like sunlight reflecting off a metallic surface. Then I would observe the sphere which seemed to vanish as soon as I noticed it. I want to add something about myself. I have always been able to detect when I am being watched. No matter the distance or situation. My fiancée says it’s my Native American DNA at work, but while on the playground I always would have the overwhelming feeling of being watched. Perhaps this is the reason only I seem to notice the sphere. I never mentioned this to any co-workers. It seems the sphere would always appear at the same time in the same location. I had playground duty Tuesday and Thursday. Sometimes I saw it on Tuesday and sometimes on Thursday. Never on both days in one week. Taking a photo or video was extremely problematic. The sphere seemed to almost react to me raising cell phone at it by vanishing. The new school year is starting and I will be on the playground again on Tuesday. Perhaps I will get a better image of the thing.
January 17, 2023 · 7:31 PM · SPHERE
SHENANDOAH, IA, IA
The first of the anomalies appeared above town a week ago, First one then two and were quite low and bright, resembling Christmas lights but the brightest and lowest were about 200 to 300 feet in altitude. As I continued to monitor them I could see more high in the sky coming in faintly then getting closer to where they just hovered a little higher than the first ones. Their patterns seem to be relatively consistent from night to night, sometimes as many as 7 or so visible and sometimes as little as 4. They do not move much or noticeably but just hover in the same area. But this last Saturday night the 14th as I was watching the usual lights that have been visiting, I noticed a new and different light pattern over in the west part of town not far away. It was much larger than the usual ones, with white lights constantly changing shape. Around 9 pm I decided to get in the car and see if I could get a picture of it. I drove out of town away from the lights of town and by the time I'd gotten one mile out the light pattern had moved so fast it was miles ahead of me. Doing 60 mph west I stopped again and got out of the car. It was so far away in the west by then I knew I'd never catch it so I went home.
January 16, 2023 · 6:42 PM · SPHERE
Jefferson City, MO
This was an evening that both Venus and Jupiter could be easily seen. My son and I were outside observing this when we noticed a luminous round object. This object was moving, it disappear and reappear it would also hover and then move erratically. We watched this for several minutes before my son started to record this on his phone.
January 15, 2023 · 10:34 PM · SPHERE
Wellington, Barbados
I have the video
January 15, 2023 · 5:59 PM · SPHERE
Wilmington, NC
The kids thought it was a rocket ship but it was going sideways and came from nowhere like the air or water and then quickly disappeared. Right afterwards there was a drone and the police helicopter patrolling the area… We have videos and pictures but I could not upload them…
January 15, 2023 · 3:23 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
This is the 7th sighting of these orbs in the past 7 months. All sightings have been in the same 1 mile radius of our home. This orb hovered pretty low, about 2,000 ft. It made no sound, and disappeared right before my eyes.photo is attached.
January 15, 2023 · 2:10 AM · SPHERE
Dallas, TX
At approximately 2:10AM CST +/- 5 minutes, 3 of us individuals were standing outside a venue at 3520 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX were making casual conversation as we all have mutual friends and acquaintances, just finished watching a live music event (ended 30 minutes prior), one of us was the event manager, another was friends with the manager of the band, and I, friends with the singer of the band. The technical details behind the sighting: 0 degrees being the horizon, and directly above us being 90 degrees, a ball orb about 1.5 miles up, we all caught the orb in each of the corner of our eyes when the object was about 85 degrees above us from true north traveling from east to west, moving directly in the direction towards Dallas Love Field Airport. We looked up by the time the object was 70 degrees above the horizon, and saw the object continue moving until it reached approximately 50 degrees above the horizon, maintaining the same trajectory, before we lost visual sight of the orb as it literally vanished, it was there one millisecond, the next millisecond it was gone. From the point of where the object was 85 degrees above us relative to our positioning. Witness 1 female was facing true north, witness 2 male, was facing true north, myself (witness 3 male) was facing directly west. From the point at which we all generally caught the object in the corner of our eyes to the point at which we all turned our heads, eyes locked onto the object, The first witness, female, immediately said "Oh my god, did we just see a shooting star?!" The second witness, male, the event manager, said "That was an orb! Guys, was that a UAP?!" Me, third witness, male, said "Shooting stars that low in our atmosphere would have had a trail of some sort" My personal supporting background information pertaining to the following data afterwords: I was 1 page away from becoming an eagle scout in 2011, which is recognized by the military as a monumental achievement, I provided UHF LOS and SATCOM, HF BLOS (beyond line of sight), VHF LOS, SHF SATCOM, and EHF SATCOM communications for the CG-60 USS Normandy for 4 years as we fulfilled the role of "Air Defense Commander" (2015 USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group 12, I was part of the TR strike group work up group sail in August 2014, group sail deployment in January/February 2015, to the full March-December 2015 deployment), where I provided direct communications support for FA-18's for missions in the middle east. I am familiar with FA-18 and F-16 sound, viewing angle adjacent to relative distance, body shape at specific distances, and appearance at night. I lived at CID unit Corry Station where I watched NAS Pensacola "Blue Angels" practice almost every day for 8 months, and I lived directly behind Naval Station Norfolk's airfield on Granby Street where I watched various military aircraft fly over me for an entire year when I was not on the ship. I have only seen objects travel at that speed or greater when witnessing UAP in the Santa Rosa, CA area, when UAP are doing the same action, shooting across the sky in the atmosphere, no military aircraft or asset i.e. tomahawk missile has been witnessed by me that can travel at speeds even close to this orbs speed. At this time, I am a full time employee of a software company doing IT related work as well as full time student registered at Lone Star College System pursuing a B.S. in Physics. Math and science facts about the observation: - The color of the visible light that radiated from the orb was an off white, and was an almost identical color compared to the most common and standard off-white, Christmas tree light toned color. - The orb was objectively a perfect sphere to all 3 of us. - The visible light radiating from the orb did not diffract or reflect around gas at any point within the atmosphere while in our sight, NOT creating any sort of artifact (such as lunar halos etc) NOR did the light diffract or reflect against clouds at any point within the atmosphere. - Referencing time, from the point at which the object was first seen in the corner of my eye when the object was above me 85 degrees above the horizon, to the point at which it disappeared from my viewing 50 degrees above the horizon when it disappeared, the duration was about ~1.8 seconds (would have disappeared at "mississi" when counting "One Mississippi, Two Mississippi" etc. - NO sonic boom - The object was traveling faster than a Block II/III/V tomahawk missile by several orders of magnitude, no manned aircraft could have traveled at that speed, the speed equivalency is an FA18 conducting a fly at a distance of 200 feet from the viewer. - There was NO haze or aura or effect left in the atmosphere from the object, there was no trail left by the object, there were no FAA regulated lights (or any other lights) - The object SHOULD have been detected by FAA radar from the Dallas Love Air Field as it practically flew literally over the airfield, the point at which the UAP disappeared at the blink of an eye would have been as it approached the airspace that is directly above the air field.
January 14, 2023 · 6:47 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
Are usually only see orange spears that move really fast and appear disappear and multiply from one another but this time I thought it was a planet and it wasn’t. I zoomed in and it was like a GyroSphere that was turning many different colors (vibrant fuchsia, green, and blue) it looked as if you could see rings like a GyroSphere going around it, and it would create an ax across the sphere. I took several recordings and pictures on Saturday night and when I went back out on Sunday as soon as it turned dark, the same one was there just in a different spot moving around and I drove to a darker neighborhood. That’s where I saw the other two along with that one, and took more photos and videos where I zoomed in and you can tell it pulsates and gets bigger and smaller. I felt like it was playing hide and go seek with me at one point on Friday night
January 12, 2023 · 6:20 PM · SPHERE
San Francisco, CA
We were on my boss’s roof and noticed the lights in the sky. It was weird because it was a new job and I had just met him and didn’t want to get into ufo stuff. But we witnessed these 6 spheres just sitting in the sky. There were planes and helicopters in the background but the spheres were 100% NOT normal. They just sat there. We witnessed it for about 10-15 minutes before we went inside (they were still in the sky when we left). The orbs did move horizontally at times slightly and a couple times one would wink out, and then reappear somewhere else. I took two pictures. It’s at night, but the orbs are extremely visible on the picture. I’ve seen an orange orb once before (I was by myself that time and it was a lot closer and scary). These orbs were just hovering. It was weird. I reported this to Mufon but never heard anything or know if anyone else reported seeing them.
January 12, 2023 · 6:30 AM · SPHERE
Depoe Bay, OR
I was parked in a clearcut area of a mountain forest at Cape Foulweather, OR. This was on back logging roads. It was very stormy and dark and I’d stopped to smoke and watch the sunrise. After a few minutes I got a very strange feeling that something was unique was happening. I can’t explain why but I was compelled to film the sky with my phone. Nothing was happening but I just kept recording. The video was shot through the windshield of my car. It was rainy and very windy with a low cloud ceiling. Light reflecting off my windshield from my accessory lights definitely hinders the quality but it was still an impressive display. After a couple of minutes, a purple/white orb appeared. It was intensely bright and flashing. It would burst, the disappear and then burst again. It began moving and jumping locations rapidly before finally disappearing completely. At points the orb seems to be in multiple positions at once, or moving so quickly it appears that way. But the whole event lasted about 30 seconds and then was over.
January 11, 2023 · 9:31 PM · SPHERE
Big cypress national preserve, FL
While driving down this very long route in the middle of no where florida I spotted these very bright flying objects. At first I thought they may be planes. There were four of them. But the circular eerily bright objects kept flying closer and closer appearing to touch, which obviously any plane or helicopter would not do. They kept making different movements coming in close then again far sometimes in circles. This persisted for about 7 minutes then I was unable to find them again. I star gaze very often and am even able to distinguish planets by looking with my bare eyes. I am almost certain this was a UFO sighting especially because of the strange patterns and closeness in flying.
January 11, 2023 · 7:10 PM · SPHERE
HONOLULU, HI
The object traveled steadily in the above direction, slowing down a few times; it turned red when flying out of view. This was unlike any of us (my wife and I) had ever seen a plane look like or behave.
January 10, 2023 · 12:20 AM · SPHERE
Sunrise, FL
Walking my dog and noticed a bright orange orb in sky and then turned cylinder shaped with a blue trail moving slowly. Then I saw it become orb shaped again and looked like a smoke ring around the entire orange orb. It disappeared for four seconds and when it reappeared, two other orange orbs shot out from that original orb. The one was stationary and the other two were moving from north to south very fast. Planes flew above and below the orbs and they definitely were not planes. No flashing lights, just solid bright orange balls. The original one was still stationary and going in and out of sight. It is a clear night as moon is shining bright.
January 9, 2023 · 3:55 AM · SPHERE
Tohatchi, NM
Big bright spherical orbs moving left to right, side to side and diagonal making maneuver like flying, but also would shine bright then fade away like it wasn’t their, incredible speed like flying and no sound. Having a few videos capturing the orbs.
January 5, 2023 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Crofton/ Gambrills, MD
I am a retire firefighter. I was sitting in my vehicle at a parking lot looking up at the sky, as I do on nights when it is clear, and I noticed an object in the sky that seemed to be changing colors. With the naked eye, the object was about a quarter inch in diameter. It wasn’t the typical lights of an aircraft. It was stationary, so I got my small camera and tried to zoom in on the object. It appeared, through the viewfinder, to be a sphere, but it was shaggy looking on the edges and it seemed to have divots in it. While snapping pictures, I saw blue, and then blue and orange, and after that, purple (see photos). The object wasn’t high enough in the sky to be a star but too high to be an attachment to a tower. There were airplanes coming toward me to eventually land in a Baltimore airport, but this was much higher than they were. I am curious to find out if this is manmade or otherwise. *We are sending you the original photos. Please enlarge for details. When we enlarged them, we were able to see details, color, shape, and edging.
January 2, 2023 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
Looking out my window to the west overhead I look up and see what looks to be an aircraft flying towards the Pacific Ocean, I live right next to the seatac airport and as such know the flight patterns of the planes. To expand the last time a plane flied to the west was when the gentleman stole the aircraft 5 years ago from SeaTac. So I'm viewing this aircraft saying to myself what is he doing, when I get a good look at the aircraft and realize it is not a plane, or anything that I've ever seen for that matter. The aircraft was a golden orb, ovalish and smooth, and was pulsating a deep gold color. It was about 60 to 80 ft in length and had a spike or rudder-like Fin or metal about 20 or 30 ft in length hanging down. The aircraft maintained the speed of a civilian aircraft until it was making its way towards the horizon, upon hitting the horizon The aircraft seem to stop in the distance. This is when it got really weird and I feel very small beholding this. The aircraft started glowing red and burst into red light, like a laser show on the horizon. It's hard to describe what I saw, but it looked like a small star but bright red, Vermillion in color, like a Megatron or pulsar. I've always believed in UFOs but had never seen anything to confirm my beliefs until last night. I am reporting to find out if anybody else saw what I saw last night. I shouted to the other household residence to come see what I was seeing, but they were too short to see over the house next door so we ran to the back porch and by the time that we were out there the lights and all signs were gone.
January 1, 2023 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Middlebourne, WV
I live in Tyler county, west Virginia, and this was back on January 1st, 2023. My fiance,and I along with a friend ,was driving home on January 1st, 2023, when around 6:30 pm , I first noticed what looked to me as a stars showering down straight to the ground. or what we thought were stars was in fact something the three of us have never witnessed on this earth ever. while driving I confirmed with the other 2 people in the car if they were seeing what I was seeing, they also confirmed it.it looked like a bunch of stars shooting downward to the tree tops. When we got close enough to be able to see what it was, they were not stars . I stopped the vehicle all 3 of us jumped out on the road amazed by what was really happening,trying to grasp the reality of the situation. My fiance had recorded a few videos i knew that we had got some good evidence. After going over them when I made it home we were truly amazed by what was captured on video.
December 31, 2022 · 7:40 PM · SPHERE
Cass Lake, MN
It was early evening just before 8pm this New Year’s Eve when my cousin shouted excitedly about seeing something glowing orange and moving just above the trees. We quickly went outside and I immediately saw them. 4 orange pulsating orb like objects moving silently above the trees. I recorded a video and have some photos. It was cloudy out as we could not see stars so these objects had to be flying very low. They were moving east to west. As i was trying to record the sighting my brother also comes out with a spot light and tries to shine towards them. They then started moving away more quickly and gone within seconds.
December 29, 2022 · 12:05 AM · SPHERE
Chadds Ford, PA
Low in the sky, an orb of light appeared and shot downwards quickly for less than a second and disappeared.
December 26, 2022 · 7:54 PM · SPHERE
Layton, UT
hoovering craft with five lights straight accross.
December 24, 2022 · 8:41 PM · SPHERE
Fort Worth, TX
1 of 2 siting details below This was 8:40 ish pm on Christmas Eve 2022. I’m always looking up to the sky so I went outside to look at stars and noticed an orb / sphere thing in sky over the neighbors house. Way to low to be stars. I took coupe of pictures than recorded 2 videos. The object looked like it was a spinning top. It was clearly spinning with my naked eye. When I looked at the videos and zoomed in on the object. I was completely speechless and shocked. Not only was it definitely spinning but it look like it kind of was changing shapes and just rotating but there was no sides top bottom or anything that I could make out it was just like plasma that was colored and translucent. Has several several different colors just spinning and rotating. so when I looked at it without a camera or anything I can clearly see it spinning and it was blue and white lights that I could see, then when you zoomed in you can definitely see what I mean it just turns to a whole bunch of colors and it’s just moving in and out of the object . 2 of 2 sighting details This was Christmas day approximately at 6:37 PM We were on our way home from Daughters house on highway 121 around Plano Texas and I saw something a bit elevated from my direct sight coming towards us. The object passed from the left side of the highway to the right It was unbelievable. I noticed it had blue and white lights just like the object I saw the night before on Christmas Eve. This object definitely was bigger than 2 helicopters. The lights went in a circle motion on each side and reminded me of ginormous wagon wheels. With the object having blue lights outlining one side of the craft & white lights outlining the other I’m pretty sure to say the lights outlined the entire object. I can’t even describe how big this object was. Pardon me if I already said so but I did get a picture when we were on the highway and the object was to the right of me where there’s buildings grocery stores parking garages etc. I I don’t know for sure but I’m guessing it’s a no fly zone for any objects to do what this object was doing. I was pretty much in shock. Can I please ask what do you think it is? I tried to look online and research to my best ability to find out if anyone else reported this on Christmas Day. I don’t see how anybody could’ve missed it. Also of course can you please tell me what you think about my Christmas Eve reported event? Is there a good explanation for this ? To me looked spinning plasma . I’d be happy to answer any other questions, hope you can help me figure this out. I have Hesitated to report these events. I don’t know why because I’ve been wanting to see something in the sky that was a real UFO. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
December 24, 2022 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
Yardley, PA
I was leaving my family Christmas Eve gathering and as I turned to drive away, a large orange orb rose up from the horizon line above a house across the street. It was probably much further than it looked. It did not blink nor were there any landing lights or any other light other than orange except it glowed with a ferocity almost like a fire. It moved at a quick pace but not super fast. It came towards me over the top of the house at helicopter height, completely silently, then continued to arc upward and away. I lost sight of it behind a tree line in my parent’s neighborhood. I simply turned and drove away. I don’t know why I didn’t take any photos or video. My phone was right near my hand and I easily could have. I just didn’t even think of it until it was gone. Other things of note: 1) I was completely sober 2) I am currently menstruating (John Keel has noted a correlation between menstruating women and sightings) 3) no one else on the block seemed to even notice anything even when I slowed down and lowered my window to stare at it for a minute. There were other people and cars. 4) there were stars and other aircraft in the sky at the time.
December 21, 2022 · 7:04 AM · SPHERE
Waynsboro, PA
The first day we could hear it we thought it was tractors working n the fields. Thought it was strange it was during night too.The 3rd day it was above the brick condo. I did get a recording.I thought it could be the wind or something. But a mile a way. Missionarys heard same sound during night also and thought was neighbors. A lot of the city heard . But most shrugged it off. It was minus degrees out so was not good to go out side .At 4th of july of the year 2022 I did also point out to my husband 2 red orbs flying back and forth. Took pictures and then it turned red and became one . I'm old and don't know how to up load photos and recordings. Here. U can contact me if u want.
December 20, 2022 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
Lone Pine, ID
The sighting was insane, After noticing these amber/red orbs, things get blurry. We talked to each other at length because both of our memories seem to differ. He said he pulled over to watch but I thought we kept on driving. Regardless, at 3 pm, we were still in Lone Pine, at a local camping area just walking around when my memory is clear again. We totally forgot about the appointment for approximately 6 hours somehow and seemed to forget hours of time.