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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
February 14, 2018 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
Saw 2 orange fireballs in tandem streaming across the sky going NE across the sky. Only in sight a short time and both flickered out one after another. Space junk?
February 13, 2018 · 11:42 PM · FIREBALL
Lehigh Acres, FL
was traveling `NW on FL state highway 82 when a green streak of a flash appeared from the sky and moved like an arch towards the north. After a couple of seconds it split into two or three directions then instantly vanished.
February 12, 2018 · 6:45 PM · FIREBALL
Eugene, OR
February 12, 2018 We are a retired couple who live in Eugene, Oregon. Today at approximately 18:45 hrs., we witnessed what appeared to be a fireball type object traveling from West to East in the Northern sky. The wind was 16 mph from North, visibility was 10 miles, humidity 46%, clear skies with many stars visible. We observed this object for about 3 to 5 seconds. The object had the appearance of a clump of fire traveling horizontally across the sky. The color was white with yellow orange and it left a short lived trail in its wake. The object appeared to be about the size of Venus in the morning sky. It moved quickly, but seemingly slower than a meteor.
February 9, 2018 · 7:25 PM · FIREBALL
Tucson, AZ
Three orange fireballs appeared out of thin air coming straight at us, out of the south, one after another they turned and headed due east! Was able to observe these with Celestron 15x70 Skymaster binoculars. Objects were observed at a 45 degree angle and what I would estimate a thousand feet. These objects then turned, following each other, heading due east over towards the Rincon mountains. Once they had gone from sight, a fourth orange fireball appeared going what seemed to be twice as fast to catch up with the other ones. These all appeared brilliant orange, with the binoculars it was amazing! After talking to all involved with the incident, we agreed that they were the size of a basketball. They were so close and with the binoculars you could see the center was a brighter orange than the outer ring which flowed backward behind the objects as they moved.
February 6, 2018 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Boise, ID
Looked like a comet but it was white. Looked as though it was coming through some clouds but we did not have any clouds this evening. I saw it while driving on my way home. When I got home, my husband was outside looking at it. It was over the sky in south east Boise. It was high and then went low and disappeared. No, it was not a plane. It reminded us of a comet. Very beautiful. I tried to take a video with my cell phone but it was too dark to do so. Possible result of launch of Space X rocket from Cape Kennedy? PD
February 6, 2018 · 4:31 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
Possible result of launch of Space X rocket from Cape Kennedy? PD
February 1, 2018 · 6:40 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
My wife daughter and I saw 2 lights in the sky that appeared to have tails. They were light orange in color, very bright and at first they were stationary then they moved in a slow downward zig zag motion. I have a bad picture of it and a five second video, that is very poor. Be advised that the lights were observed from my house as I was looking East. We live approximately 5-10 miles from Brown Field Airport in San Diego and I did leave a message with them hoping they have an answer. The Airport is small. Please let me know if anyone else saw this and if there's an explanation. Thank you. ((e-address deleted))
January 28, 2018 · 11:10 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
The object was heading south towards central Phoenix. It was glowing bright red. And only four stories high in the air. When the object came closer to me, it was engulfed in flames. Glowing white in the middle of it. No sound was coming from the object.
January 24, 2018 · 7:05 PM · FIREBALL
Keswick (Canada), ON · Canada
I sensed to look up in sky behind the church facing the lake. Out of nowhere a green circular floating light appeared above the tree. It moved to the right slowly at first then floated in joilt like movements up and down.. ..tge it dropped a bit....then disappeared in a vanished like manner. Like out of nowhere...poof, it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 24, 2018 · 6:15 PM · FIREBALL
Georgetown, SC
I was driving through Pleasant Hill community, and noticed them in the sky towards Georgetowns direction. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 24, 2018 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Dana Point, CA
At 0100 today, 01/24/18, a bright orb appeared in the sky and immediately disappeared. Roughly 30 seconds later, it reappeared in the same spot and maintained its position before fading away again. Another 30 seconds went by and it was down the coast towards Laguna Beach and moving at an accelerated speed and arcing upwards. Immediately after it disappeared for the final time, helicopters and jets were seen in the night sky where it originally appeared.
January 17, 2018 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Salton Sea, CA
A friend and I drove from Los Angeles area out to the Salton Sea area on 01/17/18. We were going out that way to shoot astro photography, so we had all our camera gear. On the way out when we were on highway 111 I believe, when we saw a group of fireballs in the sky. They illuminated one after another going in a line what seemed like 2 or 300 feet in the air. I think there were about five or six in the first cluster we saw. One would light up really bright just like a ball of fire, then as it was going out after 1 second or so the next would light up, so on and so forth. We were pretty astounded at the sight of them and couldn't figure out what it was. I was thinking some sort of oil pipe we couldn't see burning off fumes or something. We really had no idea. We kept driving another 30 minutes or so and arrived at the Salton sea area. We were in the Bombay beach ruins section. Soon after we arrived we saw another group of fireballs shoot through the sky. I set up my tripod and camera and started shooting continuously trying to capture the fireballs. I have included the one picture I got in unedited format, edited, zoomed and highly contrasted. I hate it when I see ufo images that look fake or terrible. I wanted to include all the high res pics and zooms and what not. Our night was already feeling pretty special from the fireballs when we heard a very low and loud sonic boom. We both looked at each other like "did you just hear that?" We kept shooting and over the night saw a couple more groups of fireballs and heard about 7 to 10 more sonic booms. All of this was seeming very strange. We decided to walk up to another part of the beach area. While we were in this area we saw two lights coming over the Salton sea towards us. It was very dark, the craft was silent. It was cigar shaped and had a green light on the front and a white light on the back. It was a couple hundred feet in the air and moved completely silently. Since it was so dark and it was moving I wasn't able to get an image other than the green and white lights. It looked and moved like a blimp, but we could not see it and the fact that it came after fireballs and sonic booms made it feel even stranger. I don't know if there is a military base out there or what was going on. I'd love to hear if you've had more sightings out there of if any of this can be explained.
January 15, 2018 · 7:40 PM · FIREBALL
Gulfport, MS
Approx. 7:35 (p.m.), my wife, granddaughter, and myself was headed home we turn down 20th Ave.and abt three blocks down and three hundred yards up in single file these round orange, reddish, and yellow balls was going west we cut through to 22nd Ave.. Jumped out of the car and they went in three separate ways abt half went north the others wen west we watched them fading when two more came across the sky and I had my phone and got video of them not very good, but you can see them.
January 10, 2018 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Long beach, CA
We were in the vehicle on the 710 exiting willow when we saw a fireball in the sky. It was the size of an economic automobile that hovered intuitively in the night sky above us. Time seem to slow down and we managed to take 3 pictures of the craft. The unidentified flying object would hover in the same spot for seconds at a time and navigated away from us. It was sparkling object and it was ejecting sparks and the center omitted bright luminous gold's and red. When looking at the photos that we have capture of this event the object appears to be white light projection.
January 8, 2018 · 3:00 PM · FIREBALL
Robertsdale, PA
i was walking home from school with my brother and i through a snowball at i was throwing a snowball at him and looked up and there was around 3 red dots just sitting in the sky around 30 to 40 seconds later the crafts seemed to just disappear i don't know if this will help but i figured i would report it any way
January 6, 2018 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Logan, UT
We spotted a strange firey light low in the sky that almost looked like an airplane that was on fire. My husband thought it was a meteor but it was traveling to slow. It was coming directly at as, it was about a half mile or less from us. There was no sound coming from the object what so ever. It suddenly stopped and hovered in the same spot for about 45 seconds then went straight up and completely disappeared with seconds.
January 1, 2018 · 2:46 PM · FIREBALL
Moss Beach, CA
While at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, at approximately 4:46 PM, the sun was setting so the perfect moment to capture the moment came upon me. Although, while looking back the pictures after I got home, between the several photos that I had captured, there is an apparent green object, almost in a full circle, but not quite. I took several photos of the sunset, focusing the sun in different corners of the shot, and the circle appears in the same spot. I have done my own research, seeing if any others that occupied the beach that evening had possibly captured that same thing, but have yet to find anything. In addition, I have taken into consideration that it could be a possible meteor or iridium flare. I’m not fully convinced though.
January 1, 2018 · 6:45 AM · FIREBALL
Fraser, MI
Object flew from west to east,it came out of the clouds into the open, it was round,looked like it was on fire and leaving a trail. it emitted no sound at all then it disappeared over the trees.
January 1, 2018 · 12:15 AM · FIREBALL
Meriden, CT
Witness provides no information about the sighting. PD
January 1, 2018 · 12:10 AM · FIREBALL
Stanwood, WA
Shortly after midnight new years eve at about 00:10 I noticed an orange orb moving Out of the north north east at low altitude. It was traveling slowly with no typical aircraft navigation lights. Within very few seconds another appeared behind it in the same flight path and then another until there were five. Then it was as if they turned away one at a time and faded away. Within seconds 3 more appeared from the original location. They followed a simular path and then faded away as well. My wife and 15 year old daughter saw them as well. This continued for around fifteen to twenty minutes. Through binoculars they looked like just orange fire balls reflected off what looked like a white sheet. We have seen this before several years ago in Mount Vernon Washington. I believe it is a group of people with slow aircraft of some sort just giving a show but it is very strange.
January 1, 2018 · 12:02 AM · FIREBALL
Spokane Valley, WA
I saw one floating orb while facing north. Thought nothing of it its new years thought it might be helicopter but no noise was heard and its 16° f outside. Walked to the other side of apartment and saw 3 floating orange red orb in cloud fog for at least 40 seconds before they dissipated into not being there even when sky clears. Also have seen many zig zag craft in this area over the last 3 years. Have not reported any activity before but would like to know if other locals saw. Boyfriend was present and a witness to this as well. Second orange orb sighting in spokane valley . first was October 10th 2015.
December 31, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Jupiter, FL
I witnessed the first light and as I was watching it became brighter and then a second one appeared to the right. Ran inside to get my husband, when I came back out the second orange ball of light was quickly fading and the first one slowly faded away as well. It happened on new years eve, and there were fireworks, but these were not fireworks, they resembled more of a star. Possibly a flare, but the was no trail of light or smoke or anything.
December 29, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Broken Arrow, OK
December 29, 2017 at approximately 11 PM I had just returned from my office in Tulsa to my home in broken arrow While unloading my SUV I looked up in the air and I saw what at first I thought was a low cruising airplane - then I realized it was on fire so it couldn't be an airplane it was making no noise it was just cruising across the night sky. I wouldn't say it was floating, I would call it cruising… But it did seem to pause for a while over my driveway area… Was a bit intimidating and I got behind my SUV to observe it. I pulled out my camera and took a couple of pictures as it headed south and finally disappeared. I turned back to the north horizon and there was another object identical to the first- coming up over the house tops across the street. It acted in very much the same manner… A fireball making no noise -- it's seem to have a propulsion to it… Really like it was cruising. It also headed south and finally disappeared.
December 29, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Stroudsburg, PA
I was driving and saw 3 bright yellow lights that had a tail which lit up the sky and was shooting down right in front of me. First reaction was that these were jets, then they turned bright red and looked to be on fire and I thought they were meteors. They stopped and made a hard left and shot across the sky at a high rate of speed looking like they were going back up and disappeared. I took a photo while driving of the yellow lights and I pulled over took a video of the last fireball in the sky, which was moving at extreme speeds. A guy behind me also pulled over and got out of his car and was like I never saw anything like that in my life.