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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
August 8, 2018 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
St. Peters, MO
Started going down right over the tree line and was no longer visable. We called 911 and St. Charles County police in Mo. Came out after we reported it. We told them what we saw and they said the would look into it. We had no camera to take pictures all cell phones were inside. Did not have time to go grab a cell to snap pictures/videos. It was around 10:00 p.m..
August 7, 2018 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Sparks, NV
(( Probably a sighting of the ISS. https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544⪫=39.5349&lng=-119.7527&loc=Sparks&alt=1344&tz=PST PD))
August 7, 2018 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Poinciana, FL
No information provided by witness, who elects to remain anonymous, and who provides no contact information. PD
August 4, 2018 · 9:56 PM · FIREBALL
East Tawas, MI
In East Tawas, there is a State Pier, and in order to get my steps in I decided to go for a walk on it. When I first started my walk I noticed a orange colored star way out by the point of the bay and thought it was just that, a planet or a star. As I reached the end of the dock I realized it was the only star I had seen the whole time and decided to see which star it was with an app on my phone called “SkyView” but there was no name or object in it’s place. I thought this was odd and realized it was even more odd because there was a cloud cover which didn’t let me see a single light in the sky except that one. I stayed longer and took as good of a picture of it as I could with my phone and decided to walk back home. The way the dock is made is it has corners offering different view points of the bay and I noticed as I was walking back this object stayed in exactly the same spot and I get I was viewing a different angle of it because it was not moving with me, like a normal obeject in space. I watched it until I got off the dock when at this point I glanced down to mess with my phone, and upon viewing back to where I saw the object, it was gone. The object appeared to be a perfect sphere and was a fiery orange color. I was viewing this against a black sky that was filled with clouds making it the only light in the sky.
August 4, 2018 · 8:50 PM · FIREBALL
Keedysville, MD
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2018 · 9:14 PM · FIREBALL
Bay Head, NJ
I have a 54 second video of a fireball out over the ocean in Bay Head, NJ, which continued to change shape and looked like a spinning fireball. After 54 seconds of video, it disappeared up into the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 2, 2018 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Marysville, CA
At approx.22:20 I witnessed either an extremely large or close, unidentified fireball "falling"to earth south-southeast of East Marysville CA, 95901. At or near,the location of Beale AFB. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 1, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Fredericksburg, VA
I was driving from Culpeper, heading towards Fredericksburg, when a red lightning appeared. I thought that it might have been Mars since it was supposed to be really close to Earth the previous day, but the light slowly dimmed out completely. Then 3 minutes later, its appears again, but this time a second one appears & after a minute of watching in disbelieve, both from brighter then dim out until they both disappear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 29, 2018 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Pittsburgh, PA
Approximately 11pm, my wife and i saw saw a strange colored orange light in the sky. We live 5 min from point state park at the mouth of the three rivers. The object flew at a height of maybe 10k feet silently. As it came more directly overhead it appeared to be a fireball....next the object began to ascend rapidly, at what appeared to be a direct line staright up like a rocket until it faded from view.
July 27, 2018 · 8:35 PM · FIREBALL
Milton, FL
Observed two fireball appearing objects coming from the south and headed north. There was one following the other, less than 1/4 mile apart. They both turned towards the East, gaining altitude and disappeared. They made no sound, and there were no port or starboard running lights or strobes. There was no visible airframe. Just two pulsating orange lights of equal intensity. There was no hovering or bobbling. They did not match any descriptions of anything I have ever seen in the sky before. The altitude was less than the helicopters that fly around from the close by Navy flight school, but higher than I have seen drones. They did not look like Chinese lanterns or flares. I saw exactly the same thing two years ago when I was living in another state. I did not have my phone on me at the time. I tried to get my son to come outside, but he did not hear me calling him and ringing the doorbell.
July 22, 2018 · 2:00 AM · FIREBALL
Ocala, FL
My husband and I were driving on the Florida turnpike heading to Orlando for vacation and saw a bright orange ball of light that seemed to be hovering. We just passed the Ocala exit. My husband thought it was a tower lgbt, but it looked to high to be that. All of a sudden, it seemed to elongate and then turned bright white and disappeared, as if it was headed up into space at the speed of light. Then, it seemed to reappear in the distance as a dot similar to what a star looks like. It was the strangest thing we’ve ever seen.
July 21, 2018 · 9:03 PM · FIREBALL
Springfield, IL
Reddish flaming light ball moved steadily across sky as wife and friends sitting on back deck. Moved from west to south in the night sky. No green light nor any kind of flashing lights. About 4 minutes later, a second one going about the same speed goes by using similar path. Interesting ... the ISS went by exacting hour later. What we saw earlier was very much different. I originally thought it was a meteor, but ruled it out when the second one went by. In my 40 years watching the sky since I was a kid, I never saw anything like it.
July 20, 2018 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Oates, MO
I was out burning trash an started in to the house for more coffee an noticed out of the corner my eye a bright light like the moon behind the trees an turned to look an noticed a fireball like the sun moving around doing non plane moves toward the southern sky then just darted off towards the west gave me goosebumps An stood the hair up on my neck then a few minutes later still out there thinking what the hell did I just see when I noticed another ship creep n that was two toned black/ an grey long an like a boat or navy ship carrier length above the yard an darted off like a little light beem flash like the quickness of a shooting star in the same direction of where the fireball sun one darted off out towards the west. An the ship one came in from the north. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
July 20, 2018 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Buzzards Bay/Bourne, MA
Orange fireball, looked like it had a very tiny darker colored flame at one end. It moved slow & silent in the sky from east to west. It had just become dark out. Only one object seen. Myself & my partner of 20 years are seasonal campers at Bourne Scenic Park where object was observed, (he had never seen an object like that before, I have reported in the past seeing a similar object at the same place) we were the only ones at that section of the park (maybe 18 campsites) to have an outdoor fire going. I am a nurse & he is a retired ((title deleted)) @ Mass ((name of office deleted)). As we were watching it, we didn't even think of taking a cell phone picture of it, sorry (& stupid)!!! Note: the park is minutes from Otis Air orce Base.
July 20, 2018 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Shelton, WA
The witnesses were both young adults. We were walking to a nearby park at around 1:00 a.m. when we saw a bright green fireball fly across the sky maybe 30 feet above the trees. When it flew across the sky it shot red triangle shaped things backwards at about 45 degrees of the direction it was fly. The triangles went about 5 feet from the flying object before vanishing. The triangles were shot off both sides of the flying object. It took the flying object about 5 seconds to fly out of sight. Both witnesses looked at each other in confusion and believed no one would take us seriously if we talked about it.
July 19, 2018 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Johnstown, PA
I saw a fireball shaped craft hovering and making zig zag patterns in the sky. It had a smaller orb circling it like it was orbiting around the craft. It turned completely black like it was cloaking itself. Another black craft met with it and they sped off into the mountains.
July 18, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Tuscaloosa, AL
After a few minutes the light would seem to come closer again and glow bright orange. This happened several times. There was no sound coming from this object. The movement from this object was smooth, not jerky. It did move across the tree line slowly, but the moving in and out, far away, and then close was strange.
July 16, 2018 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Hopewell, VA
Witness provides a minimum of information. PD
July 15, 2018 · 4:30 AM · FIREBALL
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 14, 2018 · 1:30 AM · FIREBALL
Cresent Lake - Middle of the Mission Mountain Wilderness - F, MT
Woke up around 1 am on Saturday morning. My tent has a ceiling that is simply made of mesh, so you can clearly see the night's sky. Looking up while laying in my sleeping bag, I saw a bright orange colored light move across the sky. I can describe it this way: at first it moved as fast and was as bright as a shooting star (and that's what I originally thought it was). But it didn't have a long tail or trail like a shooting star. And then it shifted gears dramatically (while still headed in the same trajectory) and went from being super bright to not so bright (by like the power of ten) and at the same instant of losing its brightness, it slowed to the speed at which satellites orbit through the sky. I watched it until it went behind the tops of trees that were in my view of sight. The direction that it traveled was Northeast toward Southwest.
July 13, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Barre, VT
There appeared to be fireball type objects moving across the sky in groups from the east. First there appeared 4 in a diamond formation that came overhead and tailed off to the left and faded out. Then about 8 orange fireballs came overhead and again tailed off to the left and some appeared to fade out and others kept moving out of sight. Finally a couple more came overhead, appeared to slow down, and then proceeded to the west. The objects were silent and appeared to glide. Witness describes himself as having a very strong academic background, and he works in the medical field. PD
July 8, 2018 · 8:50 PM · FIREBALL
Mt. Prospect, IL
We were driving to Melas Park for the Festival and looking towards the sky I see this fireball or Shooting star, very big and bright passing in the sky from North to South. Sky wasn't fully dark, just little after dusk. Was me and my friend that was driving that witnessed it. Don't know if it was a UFO , but I can surely say was closer to a meteor ball or shooting star, but was very big. no noise heard because in the car.
July 7, 2018 · 8:40 AM · FIREBALL
Concho, AZ
Sitting outside and noticed a bright light in the sky above my husband's head. It was rapidly moving downward and became brighter as it appeared to fall. It looked almost as if it was on fire. There was a military her in flight just above it. The light quickly went out after increase in the brightness. We soon saw at least 6-8 aircraft in the area as if they were looking for something. We noticed 3 additional bright lights in the sky very high in the atmosphere one was orange and the other two were blue. They were all traveling different directions. One was heading southeast to northwest. Another was heading south to north, and the third was heading southwest to east. The fireball lasted approximately 3 minutes, and the others were seen within a 30 minute time span after we saw the fireball looking light. Myself and my husband both lost cell phone service and it did not come back on until 9:20pm.
July 5, 2018 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Grovetown, GA
On the Night of July 5th, 2018 at approx 10:30 PM, I was returning Home and getting out of my Vehicle when I noticed 2 large, fire red pulsating Orb-like objects moving in the sky approx 300 ft above me. They were moving relatively slowly and very bright. I have never seen anything like it before. I've seen Drones before and this was NOTHING like that in comparison. I watched them for about 3 minutes, one disappeared, and the other remained climbing to higher altitudes until it was no longer visable.