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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
November 8, 2017 · 2:45 AM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
Saw what it looked like a shooting star, but it was red.
November 6, 2017 · 7:35 PM · FIREBALL
Coral Gables, FL
I was standing on the University Metrorail stop, waiting for my train home. Upon staring in the distance I noticed three orbs of orange light hovering above the suburbian houses. They were defeinitly too high up to be drones and too stationary to be airplanes. I noticed one of them moving at a slow rate, it had white lights on the sides that seemed to be flashing. After seeing numerous videos of these orbs, I can confirm that they were the same as the ones on YouTube and other video sharing platforms. I am not sure but in the distance I could see small sparks flying off of one of them.
November 3, 2017 · 6:49 AM · FIREBALL
Saylorsburg, PA
a fireball object that was bright green green color almost looked like a flame...appeared over the trees next to the house at about 15 feet above the ground....it traveled about 200 feet at about 15 foot level from ground stopped, hovered and disappeared.
October 28, 2017 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Council Bluffs, IA
Bright red fireball moving very slow resembled a flare used by military to light up the at night looked to be over downtown Omaha.
October 28, 2017 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Cody and Wapiti (between), WY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 28, 2017 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Seattle, WA
Was driving south on I-5 something told me to look up and when I did I seen a big fireball light come into view like a comet going in one direction then all of a sudden it zig zagged to the left like a z shape then took off at hyper speed was super cool to witness
October 25, 2017 · 8:07 PM · FIREBALL
St. Albert (Canada), AB · Canada
Between 20:07-20:08 I looked into the sky in a north northwesternly direction I saw i bright fireball light in the sky moving upwards in the southwardsouthward direction. It traveled that way for a couple seconds then got really bright and went upwards disappearing milliseconds later
October 24, 2017 · 12:15 PM · FIREBALL
Columbus, OH
I just got off work and was driving on Stelzer rd and it was raining, I saw a blue flash and then about 2 to 4 seconds later another Bright Blue Flash it lit up the sky, I thought maybe a plane crashed, but it was like a neon Blue so bright you could see the clouds and it was pitch dark. I have a coworker who saw the same two blue flashes. It was south over the horizon, I think it was two meteors that hit.
October 23, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
La Manche (Canada), NL · Canada
7pm on the evening of Monday, October 23, I was driving along Route 10 south of the capital St. John’s and all of a sudden the sky lit up with a greenish hue which I mistook for lightning. When I arrived home I saw on social media that people all the way far west as Bonavista Bay, a radius of approximately 300km (175 miles), saw the sky light up green as well. Many others saw a fireball streaking throughout the sky. The local Canadian Broadcasting Corporation affiliate covered it as well and showed CCCT footage of a fireball flying over the city. Of course one’s first thought is a meteor however there have been reports on social media that people in the surrounding rural area have seen glowing fluorescent cylinders quietly flying thru the sky in recent nights and around the time of the green flash and the fireball. It might only be natural phenomena but it is worth noting for sure.
October 22, 2017 · 8:42 PM · FIREBALL
Artesia, NM
Stepped outside for a chore, looked up and saw a rather huge, fiery ball of something moving at a high rate of speed. At first I thought it was a comet, but it never seemed to get smaller and picked up in size and color as well. if i were to accurately describe it, i'd say it was as if a plane was on fire, still in flight, headed towards Roswell, NM...
October 22, 2017 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Anniston, AL
Coming out of church last night, myself and two other ladies were in the parking lot talking and about to leave. A red fireball object, kind of dancing, maybe a drone, slowly came toward us at about 75 feet above our heads, hovered over us for about a minute and then slowly went out site behind trees. We then saw a large plane flying much higher seconds later. As we left the church separately, I drove alone to try and find it for 5 minutes. I pulled into a parking lot on Old Birminhame Hwy of an abandoned store, 6 blocks from the church. I spotted it up on the mountain above trees just up behind the area of the church, but the light was white, and no red. It hovered moving slowly. No houses there. I saw it head West toward the direction of Lincoln. I drove West on the Old Birmingham Hwy. It was beside me on the left in the sky, keeping pace with my car at about 30mph. I was on the phone talking to another church member about it. I lost sight of it when I came around a curve. Coming out of the curve, I spotted it again, on the right side of me, but it was way ahead, a couple miles down the road at the Lincoln area already in seconds, then it disappeared. I wondered if it was a Homeland Defense drone or something. No other reports had been made about it to the Sheriff. Very strange. Most bizarre thing I've seen in my 60 years. #ScratchingMyHead
October 19, 2017 · 8:10 PM · FIREBALL
Riviera Mya (Mexico) · Mexico
From right to left. Imagine a large aircraft actually breaking up with green lights breaking off like a fire work. Seconds more than minutes. No sound.
October 18, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Columbia, SC
I'm not sure if this was actually a UFO sighting, when we all first saw it we assumed it was a shooting star. After a couple minutes went by I was thinking about other shooting stars I have seen and thought this looked a bit different. The closest I can describe it as is being a very bright white, like an LED light, with a slight tint of blue. It was almost shooting out sparks along the outside of the circle kind of like a giant sparkler. Behind the light were bits of a dull red, similar to a bit of smoldering ash. I felt like it was diving down instead of going straight across the sky like you would see with a shooting star. About 10 minutes later me and my wife left. I was talking to her a little bit about it and she had similar thoughts about what we saw. While we were discussing this we heard a helicopter in the sky that sounded like it was heading in the direction that this light was traveling. We were unable to see it. We were out in the suburbs and far from any kind of airport. The fact that we heard a helicopter, in the same area, seemed weird and; made me think that we saw something other that just a shooting star.
October 18, 2017 · 7:20 PM · FIREBALL
Little Rock, AR
I was traveling southbound on Interstate 530, near Exit 3 when I saw three unknown objects traveling from East to West. They looked like giant sparklers and they had an orange color. They were really close to each other. I thought they were meteors falling, but they were at a slight incline. Two of the three disappeared. Just a few seconds later I lost sight, due to a tree line.
October 18, 2017 · 7:10 PM · FIREBALL
Foresthill, CA
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) It is night time here so PM, and i estimate it half the size of the moon. Also it was all white and it looked to be some kind of fire behind it glowing like. I also need to correct the direction. It was traveling east to west. I apologize. I was somewhat rattled. It had just happened, when I reported it to you. Thank you. ((END ADDENDUM)) Time may be flawed. We have attempted to contact the source to confirm whether the sighting occurred in the morning, or evening. PD
October 18, 2017 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Lake Oswego, OR
Me and my ex girlfriend were sitting up at a lookout spot near Iron Mountain Road, up on top of Iron Mountain trail. It overlooks a large area of forest and some private neighborhoods. We were smoking a cigarette, when I suddenly spotted what I thought was the glow of a car headlight, but then realized it was slowly sailing over the very top of the treeline in the forest. We were higher in elevation than the craft so we were looking down upon it, which was approx a quarter mile away from us. It was very clearly seen upon focusing and it was just an orange ball of light. It was really slow and hovered over the treeline in a somewhat straight line that headed kind of towards us. We could eventually see that it may of had a "searchlight" or something like that and it was shining it down into the forest like it was looking for something. It was really strange and we have both never seen something like this. It was so obviously clear and absolutely couldn't have been anything else, we were certain of what we saw. It sort of vanished from view after moving behind taller trees but it seemed that it should've still been visible, although it never re-appeared. We both felt like we had lost ourselves in the sighting and had to collect our senses afterwards.
October 17, 2017 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Hopewell Cape (Canada), NB · Canada
Neon yellow fireball with neon yellow dripping off of it. Very unnatural color for a falling star or meteorite.
October 16, 2017 · 3:00 AM · FIREBALL
Port St. Lucie, FL
I have waited to post this simply because I didn't believe what I saw and after looking this up and seeing similar sitings I believe this was something to report. I was outside on my porch at 3am with 3 others when we noticed a large orange ball coming towards earth very quickly. You could tell it hit the earth's atmosphere because it gained a cone or "tail". It proceeded to come closer for about 8 seconds and then shot back up into the sky. It came down from the west and went back up in the east.
October 13, 2017 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Knightdale, NC
I was driving down the road in the evening and I saw four stationary fireball yellowish white lights high up in the sky. I also saw a plane driving by. Suddenly, 2 of the balls of light swooped down and the other two began to zigzag. When the fire ball lights moved they produced a tail behind them. It looked sort of like a metiroid. However, unlike a metiroid, the balls of light that swooped down changed direction and then skirted horizontally across the sky. When they were on the other side of the road still high in the sky the lights stopped moving. The tree line covered up the stationary light as I was driving and I did not see anything else. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 12, 2017 · 1:24 PM · FIREBALL
Moses Lake, WA
Light green meteor in Moses Lake Wa, 13:24 April 30, 2020. Direction facing was Northwest on Airway Drive NE, and Hillcrest Drive NE. Direction of object was North by North East. Suggested angle was 35 degrees downward. There was no curve downward, it was a linear angle. Object had a bright metallic, light green hue. The best I can describe the color is in RGB : 212r 255b, 216g. The only chemicals I could think of that would burn green are copper sulfate, or boron with methanol compound. Concerned it went the direction of Grant County International Airport, would suggest contacting tower (509) 762 -5363. Also concerned that if it had a bright green hue, that it may contain the isotope Boron.
October 10, 2017 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Unionville, PA
The object was traveling from the west northwest about 30 degrees above the horizon and appeared as an oval of fire. My initial thought was it was a hot air balloon because of the orange fire like appearance. That was quickly ruled out because the orange fire was constant, balloons don't fly in the dark, and it was too high and there was no sound. It was moving too fast as well. Its speed was comparable to the many airplanes that circle our location waiting to land in Philadelphia. It's altitude was comparable to the air traffic as well which is approximately 10,000 - 12,000 feet. This object had an aura or haze around it. It made a slow turn to the South and eventually faded from sight. Its speed was constant and its altitude remained constant the entire 3 minutes I observed it. I took 3 pictures with my phone. They confirm an orange color but they show more white light than I remember seeing and being in an oval shape. I am somewhat of an amateur astronomer and somewhat familiar with stars, comets, meteors, the space station and other satellites. I can't find an explanation for this object. After it disappeared, another object, exactly the same, appeared from the same west northwest location and followed the same path as the first one. Same constant speed and altitude, no noise, and aura around it, and faded from view after about 3 minutes of observing it.
October 9, 2017 · 5:45 AM · FIREBALL
Porter Ranch, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 9, 2017 · 5:30 AM · FIREBALL
Anaheim, CA
Then the light disappeared off the sky and came back on, but this time it was normal white lights and it seemed like a round shape object with three round lights on the bottom. The object then expanded/threw sort of like throwing nets in the sky and were lid up and then it retracted them. After that, the lights went off and disappeared of the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 9, 2017 · 2:58 AM · FIREBALL
Troutdale, OR
This was a fireball falling to the northeast towards Mt Adams, looked like a meteor falling from sky. Very vivid in the sky the most pronounced meteor I have ever seen.