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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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April 20, 2018 · 3:18 AM · FIREBALL
Carson, WA
Early Friday, April 20th, 2018, at around 3:15 am, I woke up and few minutes later realized I had left my phone/alarm clock in my car. I stepped out my door and a couple seconds later noticed something traveling to the East of my home, at first I thought it was a shooting star traveling from N to S, but it turned blue and grew into large blue mass with huge bright blue flames trailing it. I stood there watching as it descended and slowed waiting to hear the “boom” from it landing in the Cascade Mountains..but nothing. Not sure what it was, and have not seen any other reports of it. It was amazing to see.
April 12, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Fall Creek, WI
I was driving home from work at 10:00 PM. As I approached the main highway coming from a county road, I noticed at least 6, possibly 7 bright golden/reddish lights in the sky. They appeared to be quite low, and the sky was cloudy and overcast. Four of the lights were in perfect diamond formation, and two were below the formation. They slowly stretched out, as if to form a line, and they appeared to be slowly moving west. I turned on the highway and was driving into town, and lost sight of them. When I got into town, I drove to the edge of town, hoping to see them again but they were gone.
April 6, 2018 · 12:20 AM · FIREBALL
Florence, AZ
We were out at Country Thunder (and very sober!). Saw an orange ball of light in the sky, slowly making its way across the desert south to northeast. Too high to be a floating lantern.
April 2, 2018 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Kittitas, WA
I was outside smoking, when I noticed flashing in the distance. Grabbed my cell phone to zoom in on object. I started recording the object. It would move in a circular motion. Flash red,blue, white,green. Resembled a fireball of energy bursting repeatedly. Move across the sky in a unpredictable manner. I was terrified.
March 29, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Finland, MN
We are unconvinced that this is a serious-minded report. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD
March 28, 2018 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Merritt, NC
While standing on porch, in southwest sky, my wife saw a fireball and said look. She and I saw a blue circular large fireball surrounded by red and orange falling from mid sky to the horizon. The object had about 4 separated tail like objects trailing off from the main body.
March 28, 2018 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Oak Island, NC
Bright light, sparkler-like comet tail. Seemed to burn out then burned bright again before burning out completely.
March 25, 2018 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Visalia, CA
My wife and I observed an orange colored illuminated "object" moving from southwest to the east in the night sky. The object did not produce any audible sound, like rotors, engines, drone hum, or jet roar. The object moved relatively slowly, not unlike a high flying aircraft. However, no red or green blinking lines or tail lights could be observed. Most oddly, the object would flare brightly and then seem to snuff out, like a dying ember, only to flair bright orange again. There was no pattern or rhythm to the flaring or diminishing of the light and no color change was observed. It remained a steady orange color. My wife described it as "on fire" and I would not disagree. I have studied astronomy all my life in Scouts, college courses, and as an astronomy enthusiast volunteering in our National Park. I have spent a great deal of time in the wilderness backpacking and such, watching the night sky from remote places. I have seen Iridium flares and regularly watch the ISS and other objects in the night sky, thanks to smartphone apps. I have seen drones, shooting stars (including big ones) and watched meteor showers. I have watched rocket launches from Vandenburg AFB in the night sky. This was something new to me and something outside of anything easily explanable based on my experience. The object was observed from my side patio where we were eating dinner, then we moved to the backyard to watch it further until it faded somewhere over the Sierra Nevada mountains.
March 19, 2018 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Hillsboro, OR
Each one slowly dimmed until they were no longer visible. There was one plane in the vicinity which seemed to be moving in the same direction. We got at least two videos, but they don't do them justice. They look like plain, small dots in the videos. In real life, they weren't so abruptly shaped. You might say there was an aura or haze.. There was no trail. I've seen youtube videos showing three dots in this very same formation (closest is lowest, second is highest, third is in between). Running car may have started revving a little harder/rougher.
March 16, 2018 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Cle Elum, WA
Was on cellphone at the time, looked up to the sky (facing South-West) and saw a orange/red, VERY BRIGHT, completely silent, flaming ball of light shoot from the sky straight down (perpendicular) to earth. I was in Cle Elum Wa, 98922. My best guess is it dropped from the sky to roughly Blowout Mountain in Washington State, 98022. It was out of view after dropping past the mountain range. No one else saw it from what I know. Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous PD
March 6, 2018 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Tulsa, OK
I lost sight of it as it seemed to fly lower and lower and disappeared into the treetops.
March 6, 2018 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Jupiter, FL
I saw a single round orange red light in the sky, approaching me like an airplane, from the north to the south. I loooked away for a moment and when I looked up again, the object had change direction, propelling west to east up in to the sky. I could now see the side angle, which was a long red streak, with flames sparking behind it. I started to videotape, and then it just disappeared about 2 second into filming.
March 5, 2018 · 7:48 PM · FIREBALL
Cape Coral, FL
On March 5, 2018 at approximately 7:48 p.m. five or more bright reddish-orange lit moving objects (looked like fireballs), were quickly heading East through the sky visible from my front yard in Cape Coral, Florida. As I face my house, they were fairly high in the sky and behind my home. I ran next door and knocked on my neighbor’s door (no answer), then went into my house, unleashed my dog and grabbed my cell phone to take a photo. By 7:51, they were almost entirely out of sight to the East. My photo was nothing more than a tiny white speck by then. At that point, a helicopter was in the spot where the UFOs had been.
February 28, 2018 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Arpin, WI
Driving south down a country road with no traffic, street, or houses emitting light. Approximately 45 degrees up from the road i saw one orange ball of light. Instantly there were two as if it divided. The one on the right seemed to dim or disintigrate while simultaneously the one on the left shot off to the east and disappeared.
February 27, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Jackson, SC
Saw three round looking objects (the color of fire) first one than the second to the right of the first one and the third below (if you connected them it would form a triangle) they all three went out at the same time. After about thirty minutes saw what looked like a shooting star and about twenty minutes saw another shooting star. This happened over the back pasture. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 27, 2018 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Norfolk, VA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 27, 2018 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Yakima, WA
The first page of this report was submitted on 02/12/18 but I have been observing the lights for an additional two weeks now so I kept notes with the original statement and am now submitting notes on the entire 14 nights of observation. Please, if possible, do respond to me as offered in the Center's voice message, these appearances are growing disturbingly unsettling and no one else can offer any advice or explanation. Last night, Feb. 12, 2018, I was watching television in the back room at about 7 p.m. When through the window I noticed an unusually bright star in an unfamiliar area of the sky. As I watched, the star seemed to move back and forth quickly and repeatedly. My curiosity was aroused, so I went out to the front porch and turning off the porch light, stood looking at the unusual star. In the full darkness (we live in a rural area) I could also see that the star was giving off faint alternating red, yellow and green glows. It would remain steady for a time and then suddenly, with no warning, shoot rapidly off to one side then without visibly stopping, shoot rapidly back in the direction from which it came. It did not turn around, it simply reversed direction midflight. And it was very fast, like a ball hit by a bat! My curiosity grew and I got a pair of binoculars to get a better look as the star was, of course, distant. Although it was very dark, with the binoculars I could see that the glow I was glimpsing was comprised of a double row of lights which appeared to encircle what I was beginning to suspect was an aircraft of some type. I went in and called the Sheriff's Dept. and reported the sighting and asked if anyone else had reported seeing the object. The dispatcher said they had received no other calls but suggested I contact the Military Training Center located near my home. I called them and was told that they weren't doing any aerial maneuvers that night and no one had mentioned seeing the unusual light in the sky. It was shift change and I was not able to get anyone to go out and look into the sky to see if they could see it. (I called again later and the person I spoke with just advised me to call local authorities as the light wasn't appearing over the base, so was outside their jurisdiction.) I continued watching the light until 11:00 p.m. During this time it became much more active, shooting rapidly from a motionless position sometimes straight up, sometimes horizontally, then, without pausing at all, reversing direction and returning to its original position. It never appeared to turn, it simply reversed itself on its existing plane without slowing, one moment it was going east and then suddenly it was going west! Eventually the light began traveling in a wide arc around my house, passing over the town of Selah and disappearing behind the leafless branches of the trees in my back yard. As it made these passes it seemed to come much closer, with the binoculars I could make out a faint gray shape, somewhat like a clamshell form with lights circling the middle. It didn't come close enough to see clearly even with the binoculars because it was very dark and I could only see the vague shape due to the illumination from encircling lights it carried. Over the four hours that I observed it, I didn't watch it constantly, just kept checking every few minutes to see where it was and what it was doing as it had begun to make me nervous, it performed many odd maneuvers. A few times it would dart back and forth in an “invisible” perimeter, similar to a “superball” slamming wildly about in every direction inside a translucent globe. Other times it would unexpectedly shoot straight up until it disappeared and then suddenly reappear in the distance exactly retracing its upward path on its return. Sometimes it would suddenly disappear, like turning off a light bulb, then reappear somewhere else in the sky, usually at a distance but unmistakable because of its shape and colors. Once or twice two other smaller lights appeared and darted around the original for a few minutes and then disappeared. The smaller lights moved just as quickly and deftly as the larger but didn't give off any colors apart from their “starlight” glow. As the h! ours passed the original light seemed to grow larger and more vivid. By the time I went to bed at 11:00 p.m., It was much easier to make out without binoculars, looking like a tiny burst of fireworks high in the distant sky. When I first spotted the light I called my sister-in-law and her husband outside to view it as well, they saw it and commented on how odd it was, how quickly it moved and we all wondered what it was. I also called a neighbor to see if she had a phone which could snap pictures or take video of this light. I walked over to her house and pointed it out to her, she commented that she had seen odd lights once or twice before in the area. She tried to film it but her phone wasn't capable of capturing a viable image, in the distance it just looked like a star and she didn't have video capability. 02/13/18 –-The light is again in the night sky in relatively the same spot it was “based” last night. It moves around but always seems to return to the same spot. At first it appears to just be a very bright star, one among many in the sky just brighter and slightly larger than the others. But after a few seconds observation it begins to move, always returning to its original position in the sky. It is very high, far above the flight path of passing airplanes and MUCH faster than the planes. With binoculars you can see that it gives off an alternating red and green glow, sometimes the glow is barely visible without binoculars. It is cloudy tonight but the light and some stars are still visible although at times they are partially obscured by the clouds but the bright moving light is visible as a glow even when obscured by clouds. The light blinks off and on at times as well as occasionally giving off the alternating red and green glow. 02/14/18 – Light again in the sky tonight, neither as bright nor as active as the past two nights but still moves around, then returns to “base” and remains immobile for 5-20 seconds then begins to move again. At 7:14 p.m. it suddenly erupted into a miniature “fireworks” display for about 30 seconds – a burst of cascading colors which in the distance appears to be about the size of a pencil eraser. Again tonight I checked on it sporadically for hours and it is always there. 02/15/18 – Very overcast tonight, can’t even see the moon much less stars or the strange light. 02/16/18 – The object is again in the sky in its usual spot, as each time before it is motionless until I watch it for a few seconds, then it begins to move. Honestly this is beginning to disturb me, it is almost as if it remains motionless until it becomes aware of me either inside at the unlit window or on the back porch. Does it remain motionless when not being observed? If so, how does it detect observation from such a distance? I wish I could film it to see if it only moves when being observed. I have wondered if it is an illusion, but I asked Mark and Karen to come to look as well again tonight and both of them remarked on how quickly and obviously it moved and how agile it appears to be. They are not small movements, it goes both short and long distances but always eventually returns to its “base”. It is very obviously not a plane. We are near an airport and planes pass by fairly regularly, the light is far above them, moves much faster, can stop completely an! d remain still and performs maneuvers that a plane could never do and I suspect neither could a helicopter. What is this thing?? 02/17/18 – The light is not as active tonight as usual, also it has moved its “base” slightly to the west. I have tried looking for it during the day but it only seems to be visible after dark. I have gotten up at odd hours, midnight, 3:00 a.m. and 5 a.m. and since it is still da
February 25, 2018 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Clermont, FL
Two very bright, reddish-orange balls with no glare and no sound were travelling together going east then a third came from the north at super speed and stopped on a dime beside them and then the three formed a triangle, spun around a few times and disappeared into the clouds!!
February 17, 2018 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Jacksonville, FL
As I started video recording, the 3 separate craft moved very fast and completely silently at a low altitude approximately 500 to 1000 feet in heigth and joined with the main triangle formation, at that point all the lights began to move north and faded out.
February 17, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Thatcher, AZ
Went to my friends house and just as i pulled up in the yard i noticed a fireball just above the trees coming out of the north heading south. It hovered there a few minutes, My friend came out and i said what the hell is that, about that time it took of to the east at a high rate of speed only taking about 10 seconds to reach the gilas. A few minutes later a second one did the same thing then a third. I left and went home. I heard no sound.
February 17, 2018 · 7:55 PM · FIREBALL
Lacombe, LA
On my nightly dog walk, with a very clear sky, I sighted what i thought was a plane flying northeast from New Orleans International Airport. As it approached and headed by me, i noticed there were NO blinking red & green lights...It was ONLY bright red/orange and not blinking at all and much brighter than any regular plane. It really seemed like it was on fire but the fire was all around it.. it was not flaming off the rear as a real fire in a wind would do. It flew by just about the same speed as the nightly flights and seemed to be turning more east towards Biloxi, MS. It also had no noise that i could hear unlike when normal planes fly by. I called the police to report it and asked if anyone else had reported anything but they said no one had. The Officer asked me if it could if it could have been a flare but i said i didn't think so because it seemed to be going just as fast as any plane. Just as the flaming object disappeared in the trees a real plane went by going in the same direction with the proper blinking red & green lights AND the sound of a jet engine so i KNOW the flaming object was not a normal plane.
February 16, 2018 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Romeo, MI
Then I looked up to the East and saw 5 jets making more trails covering the sky and obscuring the night sky. Then right above the concentration of jets a huge fireball came across the sky at high speed covered in flames and sparks traveling from North to South. The Fireball then disappeared from view. Note: This occurred in the same exact area that had a meteor strike last month that shook the Earth causing a small earthquake. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 15, 2018 · 7:20 PM · FIREBALL
Susanville, CA
I observed what appeared as an 'airborne-flame', very similar in appearance to a typical fireplace, or barbeque flame, of amber-orange color. It was roughly due-east of Susanville, CA; appearing to be approx. in the area of the CA/NV, state-line, at an approx. altitude, of 10K-20K ft. I initially thought that it could have been an aircraft, which suddenly burst into flames- but so far, I have heard no such reports.
February 14, 2018 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Port Angeles, WA
Sighting info: Observation location: 48 Deg. 6 Min. 44.02 Sec. North 123 Deg. 24 Min. 38.33 Sec. West As per Google Earth 1st seen at 168 Degrees Relative. Degrees above horizon 20 degrees +/- 5 degrees last seen at 113 Degrees Relative. Degrees above horizon 12 degrees +/- 5 degrees Information: I had just finished talking to my friend/neighbor on his front porch and was walking out the sidewalk to go back to my house across the street, when I looked up over my house and saw two objects enter my view from behind a tree in my yard and appeared to be entering the atmosphere traveling from West to East in the Southern sky. At first they appeared to be bright white in color and leaving a trail behind them, but as they progressed eastward they changed color from yellowish to orangish (could have been atmospheric conditions causing this). The lead object was larger in size (if I had to place a size reference, about the glow size when you see the International Space Station fly over) and was leaving a trail and the appearance of sparks like it was disintegrating in the atmosphere. The object trailing behind the first object a short distance was smaller (more like a common star size) was doing the same thing as the lead object, except that it would disappear from sight for a second, at those times you could see nothing indicating it was there, no trail or sparks... nothing. Then it would reappear and create a trail in the trail of the lead object with sparks and all, it would be visible for a second and disappear again for a second then reappear again. This continued through the entire time I was able to see them, before they could no longer could be seen, due to more trees.