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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
July 7, 2017 · 9:53 PM · FIREBALL
Chula Vista, CA
We were at a concert and prior to this UFO, 2 white owls came flying above the crowd. It was very unusual for these birds to be there. Shortly after, this UFO is to everybody's left. Soaring down very slowly and then changing direction very quickly. Everyone started freaking out but no ones phone would take a clear video. I took a picture though. It then disappeared behind a mountain very quickly.
July 6, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Marshalltown, IA
It was 10:00 p.m, on the west side of town near Casey's gas station on Lincoln Way. As I was driving, I noticed a large orange/red ball of light in the sky heading south at a fast speed, there was visible stars & no obstructions near, the light was very intense and it didn't seem to be too high up in the sky, I kept my eye on the light and it eventually got dimmer & completely disappeared within about 10 seconds.
July 6, 2017 · 8:58 PM · FIREBALL
Anaheim, CA
While at Disneyland a fireball came into view. The object changed color before disappearing. It could not be a shooting star because it was very bright and unlike any other shooting stars I've seen. We have taken annual trips to see shooting stars in August where there is no light pollution, and the magnitude of the objects brightness was unlike anything I've seen. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 6, 2017 · 4:30 AM · FIREBALL
Kingman, AZ
While taking my pre-dawn morning walk I witnessed this incident at 04:30 hr PST. Foothills of the Hualapai Mountains east of Kingman, AZ. Very dark and clear. In the same location as my reported sighting on the morning of 07/04/17, I spotted the same bright white randomly flashing object at approx. 65 degrees up from the western horizon, just above, and in between, the stars, Altair and Vega. This object again just like 48 hours before flashed bright white quickly every 10-20 seconds. This object seemed to be moving slightly between flashes. I then spotted a faint object like a dim star chasing after the flash. As soon as the flashing object appeared the other faint object would change its course to pursue it. The pursuing object was visible throughout the sighting. The flashing object seemed to be toying with the chasing pursuer, changing locations slightly as the pursuing object abruptly changed it course to catch up to it. This continued on for approx. 10 minutes in the space of approx. a 5 inch circumference at arm's length until they both faded/stopped as the sun was rising. There was no sound from either object.
July 5, 2017 · 12:35 AM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
I observed a very strange flying object on July 5th at 1235am (I was so awe struck by the encounter, I immediately noted the time) over Portland, Oregon. The object appeared to be heading in a general North to South direction and it followed, as far as I can tell, a linear path. I originally took note of it because it was very bright. The light was orange in color, looking like a planet might in the early evening sky, though it was even brighter and was about twice the size of what a planet would look like. The light flickered. I first spotted it at about 30 degrees above the Northern horizon. I thought it was odd because it was so bright. At first I wondered why a plane or helicopter would have such a bright orange light on at that altitude. I live close to a level 1 trauma center so at first I thought that it might be a life flight helicopter flying to the hospital. I’ve seen them with their landing/illumination lights on and they can be quite bright. I couldn't hear a sound and I never did. I continued to watch it, trying to figure out what it was. As it got closer, I thought I could see a red navigation light. However, as the object moved overhead and to the west of me, the red light that I thought was a navigation light appeared to actually be a red shaft of light extending downwards from the bottom of the glowing object. I thought this was really odd. I’ve never seen anything like it. It was strange enough to get the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. After the object had passed over my head (maximum height was about 75 degrees), at which point the object was very bright, the object rapidly began to get fainter and fainter until it looked similar to what a satellite would look like flying across the night sky. Then it faded out and disappeared 35-40 degrees above the Southern horizon. Total time of the viewing was between 60-90 seconds. It was by far the most bizarre thing I have ever seen and I can't for the life of me figure out what it was or even surmise what it may have been. Although I was positive what I had seen was not the ISS, just to check I looked up if the space station was going to make a pass over Portland that night, and I discovered it would be visible over Portland at 4:38am—almost 4 hours after my sighting. I have seen the ISS a number of times and this was much brighter. I can't for the life of me figure out what it was.
July 4, 2017 · 11:25 PM · FIREBALL
Dearborn, MI
July 4th, I took my dogs out at about 11:25. There were a lot of fireworks being shot off, so I expected to see some things but this was different. While I was waiting for my dogs I noticed a bright orange light that looked like a fireball or a firework being shot off. But it was moving very slowly up and over at the same time. It slowly moved up and over my house until it disappeared into the clouds above my house. I then noticed another light exactly like the first moving exactly in the same direction and at the same rate of speed. The second one disappeared somewhere up above my house. I thought it was very strange, so I came inside to google it, to figure out what it might be. That's when I found the many other reports of the same type of sighting. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Nampa, ID
Looked like a glowing fireball in the sky during fireworks.
July 4, 2017 · 10:48 PM · FIREBALL
Los Angeles, CA
It was moving across the shy. Then disappeared.
July 4, 2017 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Reston, VA
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 10:18 PM · FIREBALL
Candler, NC
On back deck watching neighbors' fireworks, overlooking Newfound Mountain, saw the highest mountain peak was on fire (whole top) then the whole fire lifted up above the mountain and hovered for 2-3 minute before flying up fast and disappearing. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Collinsville, OK
Ran inside and got my phone started taking pictures. Contiued watching and another single red ball then three more in triangle form followed. I saw a total of eight red balls. They came from the northwest. I got scared and came back inside.
July 4, 2017 · 9:37 PM · FIREBALL
Plymouth, MA
Bright orange ball, flying south east to north northeast, brightens then fades while accelerating.
July 4, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Levittown, NY
Three orange lights appeared in a slightly curved line moving at an extremely slow pace. A forth light shone a number of feet behind them. They were not airplanes. They barely moved in the sky. Then the 3 lights vanished and the 4th one lingered for another minute or so. I saw this same thing approx. 4 years ago while again watching fireworks on July 4. At that time there were numerous reports of that sighting.
July 4, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Corona, CA
Fire ball in sky, not fireworks.
July 4, 2017 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Pueblo, CO
3 bright Yellow/Red balls in a circle shape. Flying slowing across south side of Town. They stopped for a few seconds and then flew off to the south. Only to come back to the North about 3 minutes later.. Then flew off to the West and the lights faded away.
July 3, 2017 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Sioux City, IA
After being stationary for a few minutes it I lost view after it descended.
July 2, 2017 · 10:10 PM · FIREBALL
O'Fallon, MO
Bright orange fireball spinning in straight line. No sound. Lowered itself flying over me while I watched. No drone. No helicopter.
July 1, 2017 · 11:14 PM · FIREBALL
Crown Point, IN
I had stepped out on my porch to smoke a cigarette and I always look up to the stars then from my right side view I see a fireball coming across the sky below the cloud line going in a straight path to the left I called my wife to come look grabbed my phone and took 2 pictures
June 30, 2017 · 11:14 PM · FIREBALL
Nampa, ID
"What's that?!" my wife cried. I stood and beheld a loping orange fireball. Attempting to focus on its shape one couldn't quite make it out. It moved to the west then disappeared to the south up.
June 28, 2017 · 9:37 PM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
The evening of June 28th I was staying a hotel directly across from the Portland Convention Center. My room window faced out towards the south east of town with great views from the large room windows in the hotel. Around 2137, lasting for nearly 7-10 mins in total before they slowly floated up into the sky and disappeared. I looked out into the nights sky and over the foothills south of town, I noticed several objects in the sky that were much brighter than the stars and far too close to be a satellite or aircraft. These objects simply sat there looking like they were floating in a way. They could be described as looking like large fireball like items in the sky. There were 6 of them all aligned evenly across the nights sky. Then, 1 of them slowly started moving away by going up Into The Nights Sky Slowly, To All Of A sudden it would just disappear out of nowhere. This happened until there were only two left. The strange thing was a Blackhawk police helicopter all a sudden took off from downtown and flew right near the objects where it stayed for a min then turned around and came right back downtown. Shortly after the helicopter arrived back downtown there was all of a sudden out of nowhere a 3rd light that appeared next to the other two lights still hovering there and it literally appeared out of nowhere in the nights sky. I was able to get these objects on film, and to this day, I still have no clue what those objects were, but I do know one thing after seeing the way they moved and could disappear and reappear out of nowhere they were not of human origin. These objects look very similar to some other ufo sighting I researched online which seems to be a pattern of this from of sighting.
June 24, 2017 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Ephrata, PA
Pretty weird.
June 23, 2017 · 10:30 AM · FIREBALL
Plymouth, MN
I went to let the dogs out and noticed a glowing orange light flying over the trees. I called my husband and we watched it until it went to the other side of the horizon. We've never seen anything like it. Not a plane, helicopter or drone. Saw videos on You Tube that looked exactly like it. It fly effortlessly with sound.
June 22, 2017 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Desert Hills, AZ
Objects were in V-shaped, about 2 miles long, with military jets chasing it. Went southwest to northeast east towards cave Creek. Also got video of it.
June 19, 2017 · 10:18 PM · FIREBALL
Vancouver, WA
Standing out side just looking up, a reddish glow kind of pulsating went by way to fast and no sound it disappeared from site then came back and stopped in mid air, for about good 30 seconds then went into clouds putting off that red glow. It moved way to fast for anything manmade and then suddenly stop, all took place in a minute