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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
December 12, 2017 · 6:14 AM · FIREBALL
Santa Rosa, CA
6:00 am: sitting in hottub 6:13 am: looking at neighbors fence 6:14 am: orange sphere rises over 7 foot tall fence two feet over, stops accompanied by low humming 6:14'12 am: object is roof hight (10 feet) 6:14'17 am: fireball slowly makes its way in my direction 6:14'20 am: ran back inside 6:14'27 am: looking outside, where object was sighted, object has disappeared
December 11, 2017 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Victor, ID
I am a 34 year old male. Healthy. We live in a valley located in between two mountain ranges, the tetons and the palisades. It was a cold, very clear night. I was laying in bed watching tv when I noticed what looked like a chinese lantern on fire floating quickly through the sky. Being able to see this at the angle, I could see out my window, led me to believe that it was fairly close and of low altitude. In the day time, the object was lower on the horizon than the mountains. Once I saw it go by the mountains, I immediately jumped up, ran through the living room, and out the back door. All the while screaming at my girlfriend and live in mother to come look. As we all got out to the back deck it had moved further north. It seemed as it was kinda bobbing around and then suddenly took a sharp linear move to the west. At that point we all knew that it wasn't a flaming lantern, but something that was actual ly piloted. At that point it stopped and hovered in the same spot for around 2 min. While it was hovering, we could see that it was actually spinning and looked to be emitting what wasn't fire, but energy? It was really eerie, as we all got a feeling that it saw us. It stayed in this spot until, I physically watched it leave our atmosphere quicker than I could ever imagine. We first thought it was a balloon or something that someone had set on fire. However, we all quickly realized that it wasn't just floating, but moving in a determined path. It was completely silent, and at times looked as if it could be disc shaped.
December 8, 2017 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
East Stroudsburg, PA
Another then appeared on the horizon, identical to the first. Soon after followed a triangle of three lights. Finally another single. All were below the clouds, @ perhaps 10,000 - 15,000 ft. They traveled in the same direction, stayed on the same course, did not lose altitude. Eventually they appeared to dim and almost burn out. But stayed on course. The entire "event" took more than five minutes but less than ten. It is a cold, dark night, approximately 8:30 pm EST. I'm not sure of direction, but I believe they were moving south to north. As the last object was disappearing, an actual aircraft flew overhead- easily identifiable by the "normal lights" and sound. It did not appear to be chasing the objects, but it did reinforce how foreign the previous objects in the sky seemed. I took a few pictures with my I-phone. They of course didn't capture what we saw very clearly, but they are all I have to share.
December 5, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Redgranite, WI
While driving approximately 5 east of Redgranite, WI, I witnessed a stationary orange light near the north star. It was same height in sky as North Star, but it appeared what seemed about 50 feet to the right. While observing the object for the brief time it was visible, it increased in size and brightness, then disappeared. I was in a rural section, unsure of township. I am a professional driver and drive overnight shift. This isn’t the first thing I have seen, however it is the first report I have made.
December 3, 2017 · 3:20 AM · FIREBALL
Farmingville, NY
I was driving home when out of the sky I saw a bright green circular object streaking down towards the ground. As fast as I saw it that's how quick it disappeared. In my estimation, it was fairly close to the the surface, so much so I expected some type of impact noise, but I didn't hear anything. It just descended at a rapid pace and disappeared. The size of the bright green light was about a size of a medium size balloon ball, very bright.
November 30, 2017 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
National City, CA
Moving left to right and lining up in a straight line then moving again then separated at the end and one by one disappeared.
November 27, 2017 · 10:39 PM · FIREBALL
Slidell, LA
Last night, on November 27, 2017, I noticed a bright flashing object in the sky. It appeared to be a star that was pulsating rapidly. I was standing outside of my garage working on my motorcycle. This was around 1030 in the evening. So, I went in the house and grabbed my father, ((father's name deleted)). I said you have to come out and see this. We both walked out and said that’s really odd. It looks like a star, but I’ve never seen a star flash so early Brightly. So I used my Star Walk app on my iPhone to see if I can figure out what it was. It didn’t show anything in particular. At least it didn’t show in that area of the sky. It was located south east at about 120°. So I went in and grabbed my telescope in my Canon T3 I. I hooked up my camera to my telescope pinpointed it and took rapid succession of photos. When I zoomed in on it and used the LCD screen of my camera, you could see the flashing of colored lights. They were like flames all around it. They were streaking out from around it. I tried to take video through my camera, but for some reason, when I went to take the photos and video of the card, the video was not there. It could’ve possibly been operator error, but I am a videographer,
November 26, 2017 · 5:35 PM · FIREBALL
Madison, AL
Bright white sphere (dot) slowly moving due east. Too bright to be a satellite. If on same path its still in Bama. was 5 min ago. Not a meteor. ISS was visible from this location at 17:22-17-24 hrs.. PD
November 25, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA
Camping at Lake Anna State Park. A large orb of orange light caught my attention as it entered my field of vision. Its speed, size, and color were all unlike any other sky object I've seen. The more I watched it travel across the sky, the more uneasy I felt about it. It moved across the sky horizontally, not far above the treeline, with very visible up and down jerks--almost like course overcorrections. There were no flashing lights and it remained the same steady rusty orange color the whole time. It was moving quickly and maintained a constant speed. It moved upwards a little (seemingly intentionally, not the small jerks like earlier) toward the end of its path, and then disappeared behind the treeline. Spent about 5 minutes watching it cross the sky. Not the ISS, at the hour indicated. PD
November 24, 2017 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
Medicine Hat (Canada), AB · Canada
A ball of light, like a snow plow in the winter throwing snow out both sides. In the trail were three other yellow balls of light way behind and spaced apart. At the end was another ball of yellow light. No pieces falling, very slow moving, 8 seconds of travel time across the full sky.
November 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lanham, MD
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
Seen while facing north: a big yellow fireball light fell at an angle towards the west horizon like a shooting star, but then, as it disappeared a tiny light from the ground shot straight up from where the fireball disappeared and faded away.
November 21, 2017 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Marietta, GA
At approximately 8:29pm We were coming out of apartments facing North and a bright fireball appeared and Then went in a downward motion and disappeared
November 20, 2017 · 2:15 AM · FIREBALL
Dixon, CA
On the morning of Nov. 20, 2017, I woke up at about 2:15 am to let my cat out. I looked up and through the neighbor’s trees I saw what I thought was the moon only orange-ish...like it was smoked covered. I was facing east. I then noticed this was not the moon but an orange light. It looked like an orange ball of fire. This ‘light’ started to move slowly, like at small plane speed, going north. It stayed on a fairly horizontal course, just quite slow. I kept listening for the sound of an airplane engine but it was dead silent. I followed the light (still at my back door) until it went out of my range of sight and behind more trees on our street, so I ran to the front of my house and looked out the front window – now facing north. The light appeared to be going even slower now – I could see it through the tree tops for about a minute, then it came into plain sight. It appeared to just hover, then move slowly, then hover...I couldn’t tell if it was the ! atmosphere that made it look like it was moving oddly, or if it actually was moving oddly. A few times it looked like it was getting larger, like an object on fire gets larger. I was expecting it to fall to the ground and crash, but it just slowly moved, hovering oddly. The light then seemed to move upward in elevation, like it was moving north, and slowed a few times in its ascent. It became smaller and a few times disappeared, showed again, and then finally faded out. The oddest thing was there was absolutely no sound. This all lasted about 7 minutes. I went back to bed and a few minutes later I did hear a small plane fly overhead – this made the absence of sound with this ‘light’ all the more obvious. I was going to ask a friend who was in the Air Force if he knew of drones or something that would explain this, but I haven’t had the chance yet.
November 19, 2017 · 8:33 PM · FIREBALL
Salem, OR
What first appeared as two orange/amber street lights, two objects started to increase in height up to about 50 ft pulsating in brightness and changing in shape from what appeared to be similar to softball size all the way up to 6 foot in diameter. They we're dancing around a tree like neurons or protons do so around a nucleus of an atom. Movements didn't appear to follow wind patterns, there was no sound and appeared to move with intelligence changing direction and speed gracefully and swiftly. They increased speed very rapidly heading North towards Portland at the same time as they dimmed down and disappeared as fast as they showed.
November 19, 2017 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Jennings, FL
While traveling south on i75 near fl/ga line we saw a fireball falling from se to sw. It flared and a piece broke off and fleww away from main portion which flared again and went out.
November 18, 2017 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Kissimmee, FL
Around 6pm, me and my cousin saw something weird “falling from the sky”. We couldn’t realize what was, and then, he called my brother. It looked like a big fireball falling. We joked by saying that looked like a comet, but then, it started to turn completely. And the smoke that was following the fireball just stopped and the impression of “a fireball falling” changed into a “light Flying “. I recorded and photographed.
November 18, 2017 · 5:22 PM · FIREBALL
Kissimme/Champions Gate, FL
I was driving Westbound on I-4 at about exit 62, when I looked at the sky and saw what at first glance looked like a comet or shooting star. I began staring at the object as it didn’t appear to be moving very fast all and almost looked as though it was descending from the Earth’s atmosphere. It looked like a fireball and left a type of fiery trail. After watching the object slowly descend for about 10 minutes I then decided to grab my phone and begin recording. I appeared to be the only one who noticed it as the other people in the cars around me appeared to be focused on other things (mostly their cell phones). I continued to watch the object while filming and saw it what I can only explain as course correct as it stop descending and slowly turned righ and then continued to again descending downward at what looked like a 90 degree angle. After the object had descended for what I cie we was about 15 minutes or so the fireball and trail disappeared and it just! looked like a glowing metallic oblong object. I filmed for about 10 minutes before completely losing sight of the object due to an apartment building blocking my view.
November 17, 2017 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Edenton, NC
11/17/17, at 5:00 pm, while driving to work from edenton nc to Windsor, nc I spotted a large streaming object in the southwestern sky. There was a sunset with lots of color in the pink range, the object looked like a comet with a long tail which was split, parallel, I thought I was seeing a meteor and thought it was breaking up as 3 small objects appeared below and falling with it. I pulled over 3 times to take pictures with my phone, I began to change my thinking this was a meteor when the 3 little objects stopped falling and from my vantage point hovered above trendline as the large object kept falling and then curved to the right, at the same time another object streaming the same colors, appeared above and seemed to be falling in the same trajectory. I was hoping to make it to the bridge over the chowan river, hiway 17, to get a clearer view but it had disappeared, all I saw were some jet contrails which were white as the sunset colors were leaving the sky. I have never seen anything similar to this, i was raised at china lake naval base where there was a lot of experimenting going on, aircraft and such. We were a short distance from Edwards air force base and I have witnessed rockets breaking up in the sky from Vandenberg air force base, seen a boiloid as it was decentragating in the mt sky, and have watched a space shuttle land, so I have some experience with weird sky stuff. Not to mention having seen the stealth bomber before it was official. The photos on my phone aren't very good but support what I saw, haven't seen anything reported on this yet, wanted to document before I forget. best wishes.
November 15, 2017 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Crown Point, NY
red fire ball like light hovering around the south end of town in the direction of the local campground locates along Lake Champlain, the object in question appeared in the matter of seconds gliding along the sky then hovered for at least 6 minutes before darting down ward and back upward again before shooting to the Vermont side of the lake and disappearing. Its color was a brilliant red and was a perfect sphere. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
November 14, 2017 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Tucson, AZ
At the Thornydale and Orange Grove intersection, a friend and I had met up for dinner plans and were saying our goodbyes, when all of a sudden, we both saw a massive blue light streaking down and blinking. It appeared to be about the size of an average helicopter, and was blinking fairly rapidly as it fell to the East. After about 10 seconds of watching it “fall,” the object disappeared in a flash of blue light that remained for a second or two more to illuminate the sky above. My friend and I both sat in stunned silence for a few moments before regaling each other on what we saw, and both of our accounts matched perfectly. There was no other activity going on at the time.
November 12, 2017 · 7:03 PM · FIREBALL
Panama City, FL
Tonight, traveling North to South was a slow moving fireball moving in a slow straight line. I happened to look up while standing outside with friends and family to see what appeared to be a fireball directly above us. It was a cloudy night and the apparent fireball was very visible below the cloud deck. There was no sound heard at all during this event. I was able to capture a cell phone video approximately 30 seconds long before it flickered slightly and then completely faded out. It did not travel out of viewing distance, it simply stopped and vanished. What we witnessed tonight was completely unexplainable and unlike anything any of us had ever seen before.
November 8, 2017 · 5:15 PM · FIREBALL
Manchester, CT
Saw a large light in the sky moving extremely slowly. Last a minute and then it disappears into thin air.
November 8, 2017 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Strongsville, OH
During rush hour right before sunset, in the sky, I think to the west I saw about eight different ones, all about the same shape what looked to be streaming the sky, heading down, not up..looked to be round at the tip and light streaming behind it. all connected. It looked like in a movie when it shows an astoid (very small) hitting earth, that is what it resembled. There is a NASA center over in that direction, so i thought they were doing some kind of experiment? There were some above my head in the sky and to the west?