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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
January 9, 2019 · 6:35 AM · FIREBALL
Virginia Beach, VA
The tail was quite long, as well, and I could actually see fire trailing the object. Again, it appeared to be very close to earth, flames were visible, and in the 5-7 seconds that the object was visible, I thought to myself, “This one is going to hit”. The fire trail turned into more of a black smoke trail as it descended behind some trees and a building and out of sight. I waited a second or two for a sound or vibration indicative of a crash landing, but thankfully, none came.
January 9, 2019 · 6:35 AM · FIREBALL
Springfield, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 9, 2019 · 6:30 AM · FIREBALL
Annapolis, MD
It was that close, at least it appeared to be. I saw a fiery tail, traveling from east to west. It had a very gradual arc, as soon as it looked like it was going to hit and blow up, it fizzled out. I have never seen one this low in the sky!!!!! The tail wasn't that long either like you normally see on a meteor. Who knows, maybe it was something else.
January 9, 2019 · 6:30 AM · FIREBALL
Crumpton, MD
Maybe 20 miles away? Fell rather slowly, not like a meteor. I'm certain it hit the ground. It was huge. It was fully engulfed in flames.
January 4, 2019 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Quitman, AR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 1, 2019 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Texas (southern), TX
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 1, 2019 · 3:00 AM · FIREBALL
Santa Marta (Colombia) · Colombia
I also have had some alien experiences on Ayahuasca medicine ceremony.
January 1, 2019 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Lothian, MD
An explosion that shook houses strongly enough to have things fall from shelves was accompanied by a huge fireball near the sight lines possibly north east of the zip location. Residents of approximately 25 homes experienced this and all homeowners have looked for news report explanations but cannot find any mention of it. Some in the community are fire and police, and their sources do not report anything in their agencies. The entire community was deeply shaken by the explosion and fireball, most certainly by the resolute denial of our collective experience of 25 or so entire families. Posting here just in case.
December 31, 2018 · 9:41 PM · FIREBALL
Ormond Beach, FL
After leaving a local restaurant my wife and I saw a orange glowing object that speed across the sky. No noise and it was probable 1,000 feet up in the air. I operate a drone and I know what a drone would look like in the sky. At first we though it was a Chinese lantern, but it was much larger than that.
December 30, 2018 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Spokane, WA
About 15 flying objects flew one after another from northwest to southeast. They flew at different heights. A couple turned midflight, a couple heading west and one heading east.
December 25, 2018 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Miamisburg, OH
As I walked outside to get something from my truck, I saw a bright red fireball looking craft traveling SW, it looked like a craft, but on fire. It had no trail, it didn’t burn up or dissipate. It continued to travel away from me, getting smaller. Definitely not an asteroid, comet or like object entering the atmosphere. Rather large considering its distance. It had a red glow with what looked like fire above it.
December 24, 2018 · 11:58 PM · FIREBALL
Harrisville, RI
Glowing Red fire in sky that at first i thought was a paper bag on fire untill i was able to focus on it and realized that its about the size of a helicopter flying at a steady speed almost following my car on the side of me, as i pulled up to my house and went to record on my phone it accelerated a little bit and stopped about a mile off into the woods and hovered for a minute and then a green fire ball shot out to the ground and the red fire accelerated so fast it seemed to just vanish. Over the last few years since then i have seen dozens of unexplainable air craft going to and from that area of the woods near my house.
December 24, 2018 · 11:24 PM · FIREBALL
Seymour/Woodbridge line (route 67 coming from off of route 8, CT
Entire family, including cars behind us (some pulled over to watch), observed 4 extremely bright red/orange spheres very high above traveling from north-west to east - some object would hang in one spot while others would continue traveling (as if surveying/looking for something), then catching up to the rest at immense speed, then at one point, each object would begin fading and just vanish up.
December 24, 2018 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Braselton, GA
15 plus red fireballs, similar to single afterburners?, all in a row ... no noise.
December 15, 2018 · 6:06 PM · FIREBALL
Denver, CO
Several massive fireballs disappearing and reappearing in different #s, 2 to 4 to 3. No apparent formation or shape, would reappear in a different spots sometimes, but still close to each other. My GF and I were walking to meet friends and we both saw them.
December 14, 2018 · 5:05 AM · FIREBALL
McPherson, KS
Later in the evening around 1900, my very intelligent 10 year old came in from walking the dogs and asked if I believed in UFO!!! I said why, she said there were spinning yellow/green lights heading straight and fast south (I found out after she pointed ) of town!
December 6, 2018 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Anacortes, WA
Date: 12-06-18 Time: 11:00pm pac. (+/- a couple minutes) Location: The north entrance of Deception Pass Bridge, HWY 20, between Anacortes and Oak Harbor WA, USA. The event started in the south south-east sky and went further east as it descended. I was traveling in a southerly direction at the time. Witness: Myself, traveling in my car alone on my usual commute home from work. I was traveling at 40 mph with cruise control on. As soon as I got home, I posted a brief of my sighting on Facebook. When I got to work on the 7th, I told many co-workers about it. One, who saw my FB posting and was off work at the time said he saw it too. Another, who was at work and traveling home about the same time, said he saw it as well. Event: I saw a very bright flash of white light (similar to a lightening flash on a clear dark night) to my left. It lit up the entire half of the sky. I turned to it immediately and looked through the forward half of my driver's side window. I saw what I can best describe as a classical comet. It was a large white ball, followed by a very long and tapering white tail. If I was able to freeze it in position, and trace its outline with a marker on my window, the ball was the size of a nickel and the tail was between 8-10”. It was descending toward the ground at an extremely steep angle, about 10-15 degrees shy of 90 (straight down). In terms of overall length, it took up roughly 30 degrees of sky. The entire event, from beginning to end lasted no more than about 2 seconds. It is possible that it might have been slightly longer, because there is a large rock wall just to the left of the road at that position, so it could have blocked the view of it until I rounded the corner approaching the bridge. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and found him to be sincere and sober-minded. We suspect he is an excellent, and highly reliable, witness. PD
December 6, 2018 · 6:15 PM · FIREBALL
Omer/Standish, MI
December 6, 2018 “Orbs” Sighting Northern Michigan Arenac County - On the day of December 6, 2018, at approximately 6:15pm - I was headed northbound on State Rd. having left pinconning. I had stopped at the Worth rd intersection taking notice of the recent additions to the local casino to my right... the new building stood out. Headed north again I went about a mile or so before catching a glimpse of a amber/orange colored light. - now before I go on, I’ll note that I’ve been hyper aware of the existence of these orbs since my sighting in 2016, so I’ll admit that I stop the car and examine the sky and rule out many anomalies before jumping to the UFO conclusion... that being said, I’ll continue - mind you, I’m trying to split my attention between driving and watching this amber/orange light. I keep catching the the activity of this light and realize that it’s more than one light. At one point there was at least for to five, and the movements between them varied... one would be somewhat still, the others kind a random, but different almost swirling to swarming... they would dim and un-dim and randomly “dance like fireflies” - they remind me of fireflies! - Like how a firefly can be right there in front of you and go out in a moment, just disappearing into the black of night. This is very much like a sighting two years ago on December 13, which was also during the full moon of that month and year - we had four strange moon events in ‘16 - this was I believe on the fourth of those. On that event, my mother and I witnessed “orbs” above Hale, MI. - as soon as I realized I was seeing a similar event I called my mom who had been with me during the previous sighting to let her know I was seeing them again. (This was at 6:18pm according to my phone log) I was letting her know I was hoping to get to a spot where I could get out and get some video. On our previous sighting, the orbs were hard to catch on the iPhone but did get two brief vids before the battery died from the cold air - this time, as I was taking to my mom about trying to get a video and looking for a spot to pull of the road... all the activity slowed. I got off the phone and kept a close eye on the spot where they had been. Unfortunately I did not get an opportunity to get photos or videos. The thought had crossed my mind that other cars/drivers were seeing something similar as we all seemed to be slowing, even the cars heading opposite my direction. I had hoped that I’d get a closer look as I was headed toward the city of Omer, where these objects seemed to be located above. This sighting marks the second definitive “orb” sighting for me, and the third object sighting here in northern Michigan that I’d label without question a UFO
December 4, 2018 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Alma, AR
We were traveling south on 540 and saw 6 bright orange fire balls that appeared to be floating in a southern bound direction. We saw them for about 10-15 minutes before they disappeared. They were visible from the highway from Westfork to south of Alma. Not sure if they burned out or we just lost sight of them in the horizon. A trail of smoke was visible behind each light and they were not lined up perfectly or in any kind of pattern. They were grouped together and traveling at mostly similar speeds.
December 4, 2018 · 4:45 AM · FIREBALL
Casa Grande, AZ
This is the second time I've seen something of this nature on this stretch of road, but this time it was unmistakable. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 1, 2018 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Salem, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 1, 2018 · 1:15 PM · FIREBALL
Bakersfield, CA
Several photographs forwarded to our Center. Objects in photos are orange, but are small, and out of focus. PD
November 27, 2018 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Madison, MS
Green fireball brightly lit in sky. It was so bright, we thought it was fireworks, but it was a Tuesday night and not holiday.
November 22, 2018 · 8:51 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
On or about 20:51 of November 22, 2018, my girlfriend and I witnessed several fireball looking objects crossing the sky south of Phoenix, then again on November 24th at about the same time and finally a third siting on 12/15/18, around 21:30. Looking towards the south on the first siting, they were moving north north-east, second siting moving from the south moving north north-west and the final siting from the south moving north north-east again. They appeared to be bright orange-red glowing objects, fireballs. They didn't appear to be bright red in the videos I will be submitting, but they were with the naked eye, bright red-orange fireball looking objects usually following the same trajectory each night. Sometimes just one visible, at other times, several at one time at an unknown distance apart in the sky. I live in Arcadia, a suburb in east phoenix, with a view of southern sky. They were moving at a speed consistant with airliners that I see departing Phoenix international airport. They crossed the entire view of the southern sky to the east and west of my house to where I had to look north to see them disappear.