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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.
11,675 entries
April 30, 2022 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Binghamton, NY
About 9:00pm, while watching TV from my recliner, I glanced out the sliding glass doors and noticed a fairly bright orange/reddish light to the southeast. My first thought was it's probably a jet with its landing lights still on after departing from an airport in the NYC area. But the color seemed wrong and there was no strobe light flashing as would normally be expected. So, I grabbed my binoculars for a closer look and saw that it was not a typical aircraft. Initially it appeared to be moving in my general direction but then began moving to my right, heading south without a change in brightness, thus ruling out landing lights which are very directional. It quickly sped up and began to fade rather rapidly. I scrambled to get my DSLR camera with a 200mm telephoto lens but by the time I was ready to shoot the object was very faint, and finally vanished. But then, it either reappeared or a new one appeared to the southeast and was quite bright, perhaps a bit brighter than a typical sodium vapor street light seen from about a half mile (0.75km). The object again started moving upward and southward and over the course of about 1-2 minutes faded into the thin clouds (at about 10,000 ft) until it disappeared, ... only to again reappear brightly near the last one's starting point. This third pass was the last one. I did manage to get some shaky video and sorted through the video to find a few good representative frames that I then merged into a single image. Taking hand held video with a telephoto lens is no easy task. After the object passed for the third time I figured I'd get a tripod, but the object did not return during the next few hours and I finally gave up looking. The camera's focus and details in the image are a bit suspect but the image is a good representation of what I saw. Again, without much prep and mediocre camera skills, not an easy video to take. Saw a similar object back in Aug 2018 and was told, rather dismissively, "drone". Haven't heard of any amateur drones that glow bright orange, can fly for several miles from the controller and can go to 10K feet altitude. Military Drone? Flying over boring Southern NY, glowing brightly for everyone to see? Okay then, tax dollars well spent? For what it's worth I've always been an enthusiastic sky-watcher, weather watcher, avid amateur astronomer my whole life, a private pilot, and have a mechanical engineering degree to go along with my love of all things science. For 10-yrs of my engineering career I worked for a government contractor on, ... well, "stuff". i.e. "Deep Stuff", so I have that background as well. I know where planets/stars appear in the sky and what they look like, and what the ISS, satellites, meteors, fireballs and comets look like as well. I love aviation, owned a small plane for several years, been to many airshows and know how planes can appear in the sky both day and night. This object did not fit my observational experience, hence, UFO. Don't know what it was but I know a lot of what it wasn't.
April 30, 2022 · 5:13 AM · SPHERE
Campbell’s Bay, QC · Canada
I waited 10 minutes to see if they would move but they didn’t, and there were no other stars in sky that morning. The first map picture I included was roughly where I saw them. The second picture was where I was standing looking North-west
April 30, 2022 · 4:34 AM · SPHERE
Montgomery, PA
Large artificial glowing orbs one small one large
April 30, 2022 · 12:08 AM · SPHERE
Magherafelt, ULSTER · Ireland
Strange single bright object no more remarkable than surrounding stars but glowing halo/ aura and travelling through the entire sky scape that my very good vision allows in literally 3-4 minutes
April 30, 2022 · 12:07 AM · SPHERE
Stockport, CHESHIRE · United Kingdom
To have witnessed this object here struck me as odd. I'm located on the approach path of Manchester Airport however, any aircraft land or taking off do so from a north to south south to north direction. I live in a very quiet suburb of Stockport and can normally hear aircraft even at cruising altitude. What I witnessed was deadly silent. The craft moved from an East to West direction, arcing slightly at the beginning of the video. You can get a bit of a prospective from a star near the object. It levelled out, still moving very slowly. As the video nears the end, you can get a little more of a prospective from the rooftop of my house. I can only describe that The light that was emitted was like that of a disco ball many many different colours. I noticed this as I zoomed in. What really got my heart pounding the most wasn't so much the sighting, but the feeling I got a few seconds before I noticed the object. As I was sat facing the opposite direction looking towards my garden I had a feeling of something like an Aura around where I was sitting. Not so much an Aura around my immediate body, but a shield or a ball. A little like the inflatable balls you can climb inside. The moment I felt this "Aura/Shield" I turned in the exact direction of where the object/craft was located. It was almost like I was meant to turn at that precise moment. I'm 100% certain this was NOT an aeroplane. Also Around the time of this sighting, I heard nor saw any aircraft landing or taking off. I am quite sure that Manchester Airport is normally busy around around this time of year. I'm not entirely sure the video evidence has uploaded properly! so If you have any trouble receiving the video, please email me.
April 26, 2022 · 9:38 PM · SPHERE
Lewisburg, OH
The spheres were moving very irregularity and fast to be a helicopter, and the spheres were turning all sorts of colors then a small white flash and they were all gone
April 26, 2022 · 4:47 AM · SPHERE
San Dimas, CA
I have a video
April 25, 2022 · 4:23 AM · SPHERE
Duluth MN, MN
First photo is a round bright object on my camera then the next photo is some weird shaped dome with haze below it. Its to the left of my spotlight. Only contact me if you think it is suspicious.
April 23, 2022 · 8:50 PM · SPHERE
Green isle, MN
Just outside of green isle there was an orb floating in the sky for 2 minutes stationary and then it warped away
April 21, 2022 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Dillsborro, IN
When i looked up after stepping outside this light object was stopped and in a fraction of a second at a high speed it flew and then stopped on a dime. Then several lights showed up right behind it as it was sitting still. It was only a couple thousand feet above me. I ran into the house to get my phone and when i went back outside quickly it was gone. So i started searching the sky to video or find it again. Then i saw it in a far distance off, probably a mile and it was flashing jumping all over at high speeds. It was a light that made movements i could not believe. The light was flashing just as i seen today from the navy at the congressional hearings. They are identical. I have 8 videos and 5 still shots of it. In the still shots the object is so fast that it leaves a tail.
April 18, 2022 · 6:40 PM · SPHERE
Dateland, CA
At around 6:40 pm I noticed a huge glowing orange orb, but I didn’t think anything of it. Then a few minutes later the orb got bigger and bigger until it looked as if it exploded into a bunch of mini orange orbs, I thought it was some sort of meteor. Then, the orbs went back to form one huge orb. For an hour they would disappear and reappear randomly and quickly while also changing sizes. At about 8:00 pm I was still seeing these objects so I decided to pull over and get out of my car to get a better video of them. They were moving in ways I have never seen an object move before. The location was along the 8 freeway in the middle of nowhere.
April 17, 2022 · 10:35 PM · SPHERE
Damascus, OR
On Easter evening at 10:35pm I was watching the night sky with my infrared scope and noted 3 white orbs hovering to the west of my vantage point. All were hovering in place at different heights (all below cloud deck) then one by one they slowly started to move northwards. Just then I note another "just appear", then another; until there were 7 solid white orbs, all at different heights moving very slowly, at times hovering in place again. It took 20min for the objects to go from warning tower area to mountain range that the Persimmon Golf Course sits on. Orbs continued on at low elevations over mountain and on northwards. I noted neighborhood dogs going crazy, but all frogs, crickets and owls shut right up.
April 16, 2022 · 8:21 PM · SPHERE
Stillwater, MN
Group of 3 relatively bright reddish orange orbs flying from West to East maintaining relative distance from each other. Then individual red orbs following same trajectory every 45 seconds. Estimated 1/4 to 1/2 mile altitude. Solid reddish orange, no flashing lights. No noise. I took some video. I believe I counted 12 in total.
April 15, 2022 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
7 Pines Ca, CA
This blue orb seemed to be checking us out. This took about two minutes. As we felt a great positive energy we watched it fly up the road and disappeared. A few nights after that we saw a blue rectangle in a rocky area behind the other cabins. This appeared to be a portal of some kind. This type of thing happens to only a few people who visit the 7 Pine area. I am an Indigenous person from the Piute tribe. I feel nothing but positive energy for these experience.
April 15, 2022 · 9:21 PM · SPHERE
Boise, ID
Went out to observe the sky tonight for my college astronomy class and saw a bright orange orb west of my house pulsating. It is a cloudy day, and was the only thing I observed for the night. After watching it for about 20 seconds it slowly stated to move up into the night sky until it was gone.
April 15, 2022 · 2:20 PM · SPHERE
Aurora, IN
I noticed a ring around the sun so I took some pictures with my phone. While reviewing the pictures I noticed a blue orb in them and the location of the orb moved from each photo. I went back outside to take more pictures and it was still noticeable in the photos and videos. I then got my son’s phone to take more pictures to make sure it wasn’t just my phone capturing a glare/reflection of some sort. His phone captured the same thing.
April 14, 2022 · 7:50 AM · SPHERE
Payette & New Plymouth, ID
Traveling south East highway 52 from Payette, ID to New Plymouth, ID. Black, almost completely round object traveling at unknown high speed from northwest toward the east. Object on 1st seconds of sighting was assumed to be life-flight Helicopter. Within seconds I verified it was not. Object then seeming slowed and a starlight bright light came on at what was thought to be the front of the object. This flash was several seconds in duration and after coming on, while in my plain view the object and light just vanished. It was just gone or even became invisible. The short duration of my viewing the whole object had some sort of pattern on the outside of the vehicle that reminded me of the dimples of a golf ball except these dimple like sides were not as many as a golf ball looks. But it had some weird pattern of shaping around what I could see. The overall view of the objects roundness reminded me of a Lemon because it has slight protuberances like a Lemon. It was not perfectly round and these points were rounded, small, and were not in any form like a wing. I am a skeptic on UFO’s. Very much so. But I had to say something or talk to someone because I just do not know what to do and have emotions in my mind I have never had to do. I just do not know what to do. I can’t stop thinking about it. I was caught completely unprepared and with zero control of what I watched. This is one of the most incredible things I have ever experienced and I do not know how to process what I saw, how I feel and being afraid to admit it. I just don’t know what to do. This was one of a few life changing experiences I have had and I do not know what to do or how I can process the event to make me feel sane and in charge of my faculties. But I saw this thing. I know I did. And I am now lost.
April 11, 2022 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
SeaBrook Island, SC
There were two round objects out over the water. They were both a red color. They were positioned side by side, with the one on the right stationary until suddenly it disappeared, the moment it disappeared, the orb on the left began moving haphazardly until it also disappeared.
April 10, 2022 · 10:43 PM · SPHERE
Egg harbor twp, NJ
I noted that a light hovering in the western sky I got my phone out it moved off the screen to the left I thought it was a plane didn't notice the video until 2 months later. When I saw the orb swoop through the scene. I didn't see that the night of this sighting.what is it birds don't hover or fly that high.
April 8, 2022 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Cuba, NM
Bright Spirit south of Cuba stay glowing hovering in the air for 20 minutes then disappeared no sound no nothing
April 7, 2022 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Stockton, CA
My friend suggested a drone, I mentioned a lantern? Maybe I moved too quick that it made the object disappear in the video but Whatever it was it actually, definitely, disappeared.
April 7, 2022 · 2:12 PM · SPHERE
dallas, GA
2:12 pm , Thur. April 07,2022 . After periods of heavy showers the previous days the sky was very clear with large patches of blue sky with some broken clouds in between. In my open backyard I had been looking up at the sky for the usually common sight of incoming passenger planes approaching the Atlanta airport from a northerly direction starting their descent towards the west side of the airport. Surface winds from the west gusting 15-20 mph in my area and must have been strong enough for planes to use an eastern approach, so I didn't see or hear any passenger planes. While looking up straight over head I noticed at What I first perceived as a translucent balloon moving almost straight north. I then realized it was way above the clouds moving north fast enough that within 90 seconds it had moved halfway across the sky disappeared behind some clouds above. I still thought it could be a large almost clear weather balloon with a spherical shape. I went into my house around 2:25 pm and looked up the current jet stream maps for my part of west Georgia. Information from the current maps indicated the jet stream was moving in a northeasterly direction during or about 2:12 pm and at the approx. time of my sighting . Due to the fact it was definitely moving north instead of northeast , It seems unlikely to be a weather balloon caught in the jet stream. Possibility exist that it just a very high military plane of some uncommon design. So after nearly 75 years, was this my first ufo?
April 7, 2022 · 7:45 AM · SPHERE
Mat-Su Valley Area, AK
A white ball fell across the sky over Lazy Mountain around 7:45am. The trail it left lasted for a while. Photos started popping up on social media pretty quickly. In the photos you can clearly see a ball shaped object, BUT the police stated that it was some sort of commercial aircraft. The police public safety report stated: "There have been no reports of overdue aircraft or ELT activations indicating an aircraft crash. A rescue team on a helicopter flew a mission around the Lazy Mountain area this morning and located nothing suspicious and there were no signs of crashed aircraft. Further investigation revealed that a large commercial jet was flying in that area around the time that the photos and video were taken. The aircraft was contacted and reported normal flight operations on its way to JFK airport in New York. Troopers believe that the photos and videos showed a contrail from the commercial jet combined with the rising sun which together caused the unique atmospheric sight." https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/mat-su/2022/04/07/a-unique-atmospheric-sight-that-streaked-across-the-sky-over-palmer-draws-speculation-and-a-simple-explanation https://dailydispatch.dps.alaska.gov/Home/DisplayAdvisory?id=53838 https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/video/2022/04/08/unique-sights-light-up-alaska-sky/ NOTE: I'm reporting this because it's big news up here. I did not see it in person. I currently run a big Alaska UFO group on facebook and this is the big thing right now. I just wanted to make sure you guys got a report with pictures and links. Looking at the photos (as the former MUFON State Director), it doesn't appear to be a commercial aircraft. It looks like a meteor or possibly space junk falling to Earth. I also want to note that earlier the same morning Poker Flat Research Range & NASA launched two rockets in an effort to study the aurora borealis. I did talk to them that day and they initially thought it might be something from their second rocket. Contact me if you need to.
April 4, 2022 · 6:29 AM · SPHERE
The Villages, FL
Pix #1. [iPhone #8, Wide Camera 28mm / 12 MP 4032 3024 193 KB / ISO 2000, 141mm 2ev ff1.8 1/4s] First noticed on April 4, 2022, at 6:29 AM. Looking SE, above the house [located at 1706 Renwick Way, The Villages, FL 32162]. The brightest star, I believe, was Venus (?), with two (2) additional small parallel lights slightly right and above that bright light I think was Venus (?). Further to the right and higher of the first parallel lights, was a blurry lighted area which appeared to have two (2) more parallel and blurry lights. Pix #2. A magnified view of the 2 small parallel lights which clearly appear to have a black dot in the center of both lights The light on the left appears white with the dot in the center while the light on the right appears to have more of a pink shade with the dot in the center. NOTE: No pictures the next few days because it was either cloudy or raining. Pix #6. [iPhone #8, Wide Camera 28mm / 12 MP 4032 3024 189 KB / ISO 2000, 112mm 2ev ff1.8 1/4s] Observed again on April 8, 2022, at 6:10 AM. The two (2) small parallel lights had changed position with one light in the original location and the other light further apart and further above and to the right. The originally viewed two blurry lights, were no longer in view. About April 12-13, all lights were gone and not seen since. As of today 07/18/2023 I have not seen these lights again. Diagram.JPG is a handwritten diagram written by me on April 6, 2022, two days after the original sighting.