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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
June 17, 2017 · 10:40 PM · FIREBALL
Wednesbury (UK/England) · United Kingdom
It was approximately 10:40pm, 17th Saturday, June 2017. I was in the garden with my mother and she pointed out a strange object in the sky. I didn’t notice it at first, because I was facing my back towards it. When I looked up I saw what looked like a fireball flying in the sky. It looked like it was quite far away, I don’t know how far up or how big it was. It looked like an orange-ish and red circle with flames coming from the top of it. It flew quite quickly, at first but then it slowed down, the flame also seemed to slowly be dying down, and after it slowly got smaller, it just disappeared, the last bit of flame went out really quick compared to before, it also seemed way too quick for something that was burning to be put out, but I don’t know much about fire so I might be wrong. It was silent and didn't leave any trace. It was only there for a short period of time before it disappeared. I have recorded a few seconds of it, you can’t see a lot and I didn’t record it going out or it changing speed. It also looks like the fireball kind of glows up or gets bigger at one point in the video but that’s just my camera adjusting to the light/me zooming it, it didn’t do that in reality. Video: https://youtu.be/Xhq0rLYWs9g
June 17, 2017 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Bucyrus, OH
9:45 pm I was standing in my driveway talking to my neighbor. I looked to my left and saw an amazingly bright orb, or small disc shaped object approx. less than 100 ft. away from me. object was flying at a very low rate of speed directly over top of my garage on a N by NE course. The object was pulsating deep orange/yellow light. Object was completely silent. The light was like nothing I have ever seen before. I targeted the object with a 5 mile visibility green laser, which had no effect. Object continued on N by NE path until it faded out. It also seemed to be ascending slowly. Another witness snapped 2 photos and took a short video with a cellphone.
June 14, 2017 · 12:15 AM · FIREBALL
Los Angeles, CA
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 13, 2017 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Emerald Isle, NC
People on beach figure it's military? Unable to photograph. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 12, 2017 · 10:10 PM · FIREBALL
Ukiah, CA
It was fast and reminded me of a malfunctioning firework object, but 10x bigger. It was 10:10 pm on Monday, June 12, 2017. Two weeks ago I saw a red fireball fall at around the same time of night but it was a Sunday. I reported that one to the meteor reporting sight. Neither tonights or the one 2 weeks ago looked like a meteor or falling star. I also have authentic photos of other activity, but I'm not reporting that.
June 11, 2017 · 2:30 PM · FIREBALL
Wilmington, DE
We saw many fireballs in a somewhat triangular formation, falling from the sky. Looked like shooting stars in slow motion, blinking off and on. After a somewhat free fall, they then began to slow down and even hover, before disappearing beyond tree line.
June 10, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Yakima, WA
We have amended the time and date above. We also have sent an e-mail to the source of the report, asking whether the original time and date were accurate, or not. We have not heard back, at this writing. We also have attempted to telephone the source, but, to date, the calls have not be answered. PD
June 10, 2017 · 9:23 PM · FIREBALL
Novi, MI
The object looked like an orange and yellow fireball appearing to travel downward and towards the north, towards the earth from my perspective. The object was in the western part of the sky. It had a tail pointing toward the sky at an angle of about 70 degrees from the horizon. The object did not look like a plane, but more resembled a comet.
June 10, 2017 · 3:50 PM · FIREBALL
Boston, MA
At first I looked from my window, then outside and when I came back inside and looked out the window again it had disappeared. Source of the report elects provides little contact information. PD
June 10, 2017 · 4:20 AM · FIREBALL
Half Moon Bay, CA
I NEVER wake up at 4:15 in the morning, but this morning I did. Sitting at my kitchen table, I looked out the window and saw this phenomenal bright, (what at first I thought was a plane coming into SFO, but they don’t land from the East.) It was intensely bright and had several other ‘stars’ around it that kept moving around the area of the large ‘star’. In going through the pictures I took on my cell phone, (through my kitchen window with screen,) The first pictures, after brighten them, came out looking like an alien. Of the 3 videos I took, only one shows anything - but nothing like I saw. After the ‘alien looking pictures came the other pictures I took through my kitchen and then front room which has no screen. It seems as though once I was filming or taking pictures, a dark cloud would cover them… Really friggen weird, and I have seen UFO’s before - but not in a long time. This all was about 4:30 a.m. June 10, 2017
June 9, 2017 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Eau Claire, WI
We were sitting out over a campfire at an RV resort, just hanging out. My dad, on my left, saw the object over our RV, it was about north-northwest of us, heading west. It was orange, and at first we believed it was a plane on fire-we've been training to get our private pilots certificates, so we knew there was an airport nearby. It headed west, looking like a ball of fire, though moving slowly, and almost flickering. It appeared to drop slightly once or twice, before reaching a west-northwest point and diminishing in apparent size and distance. About 5-10 minutes later, another appeared, and this time we recognized they weren't planes, this one maintained a sturdier altitude, but flickered a bit more. It got a bit past the west-northwest point the first one reached before hovering at a brighter intensity than the other for a much longer time (the other one did not hover at all, just reached point and began diminishing in brightness). It stayed there for a minute or so before it to began to diminish and vanished.
June 3, 2017 · 11:20 PM · FIREBALL
Elk River, MN
June 3rd, 2017 @ 11:20PM. The 2 Witnesses (Father & Daughter) were traveling westbound on County Road 30, on the west edge of Elk River, Minnesota, just over 1-2 miles before the city border line between Elk River & Big Lake. Upon crossing the 4-way stop intersection of Joplin Street & County Road 30, the unidentified object suddenly appeared in our view (where the speed limit picks up from the 30mph zone before the intersection, to a 45mph zone after the intersection). The object appeared suddenly in the wide open clear sky, at a 1 o'clock position from our westbound direction of travel. The object would be best described as a VERY BRIGHT ORANGE "fireball" without a discernible shape, surrounded in a wavering BRIGHT orange "aura." The object was very low in the sky, as the few trees we passed along the north (right) hand side of County Road 30 initially obscured our view somewhat. I would estimate the altitude of the object to have been no more than 200-300 feet off the ground at the *very* most. County Road 30 runs east/west parallel, next to and along the Mississippi river along that stretch, on the north hand side of the Mississippi river. Distance from the intersection of Joplin&30, to the Pinewood Golf Course on Waco Street NW, is between 1-2 miles. When the "fireball" suddenly appeared it was only that distance ahead of us, just a bit north of the golf course, almost directly over top of Highway 10. Highway 10 also runs the same parallel east/west as County Road 30 and the Mississippi river, just a few blocks north of County Road 30. A little more than half way from the Joplin/30 intersection to the Waco/30 intersection, is the Sherburne County Government Center to our right (north), located along the south side of Highway 10. By the time we had traveled (1 mile) westbound on County Road 30, and were directly south of the Sherburne County Government Center (which was directly to our right, north) the object had already slowly and erratically moved a little southward and was now right over the golf course on Waco Street NW. We could clearly see the "fireball" had been moving southward, and was continuing to move southward. However, the object did NOT move at a steady speed. Instead, it was moving only a little south at a time at random intervals, stopping periodically in the sky. Also, with each southward movement, it randomly would travel to a somewhat higher and sometimes lower altitude in the sky. (Note: County Road 30 along that stretch is perfectly straight for a few miles, and perfectly flat. NO rises or falls in the road.) When we reached Waco Street, we turned onto Waco, and I immediately stopped the car to view the object which was nearly above us at that point. We clearly observed from the roadside stopped as the object continued its random erratic traveling southward in short movements changing altitude up & down also with each movement, for just shy of 2 more minutes. Also, throughout the duration of the sighting the "fireball" somewhat randomly increased and decreased in brightness. Each time it moved mostly the brightness increased. Each time it paused in the sky mostly the brightness decreased. All the while it maintained being the absolutely brightest object by *far* in the entire sky, other than the moon of course which was to the south (left) of us. Then the object, after being viewed from our stopped position at Waco & 30 for nearly 2 minutes, suddenly vanished, as instantly as it had appeared in the first place. At the time it finally disappeared in the clear open sky, it had traveled southward enough to had crossed over the Mississippi river to the south side of the river. From beginning to end, from Joplin/30 intersection to the time it disappeared south of the river, the entire sighting had lasted between 4-5 minutes.
June 2, 2017 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Myrtle Beach, SC
Appeared to be very large round fireball that began spinning and falling from sky over the Atlantic.
June 1, 2017 · 9:25 PM · FIREBALL
Rowley, MA
Following working on the outside of my house, I sat down out side with my laser pointer looking into the south east sky. I targeted some stars in the sky and started doing random patterns of bursts of the laser into the sky. After only a couple of minutes, a fiery orb travelling from left to right appeared at the tree top level (@50 ft) and disappeared a short number of seconds later. It was amazing, and scary, all at the same time.
May 31, 2017 · 1:14 AM · FIREBALL
Wahpeton, ND
Appeared circular or possibly triangular.
May 29, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Buffalo, NY
I went outside and looked up at the sky. All of a sudden an extremely large bright elongated teardrop shape fluorescent to dark jade green light flew across the sky horizontally. It was moving so fast, it was a matter of seconds and I couldn't see it anymore as it made its way from the western sky to the eastern sky. It seemed like it was flying low. It was far below the stars or the path of a plane. There was a very bright white flash of light behind it. There wasn't any noise. No other visible objects or colors were seen.
May 28, 2017 · 9:00 AM · FIREBALL
Delano, CA
i seen them before for almost 3 year's now off and on i seen them in Mc Farland ca and Delano ca today i seen four orange lights today on 5/28/17 around 9:00 pm south of Delano ca but i seen on other day's the been three in triangle form less only 2-3 min's i open my door because my neighbor's where having a party being loud having a party i want it to see where these music was coming from, and as soon as i open the door, i saw the light's in the sky right in front of me right over me in the distance i call my wife and son to see them and they where gone 2-3 min's later in the same place south in the sky. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 28, 2017 · 12:53 AM · FIREBALL
Carlsbad, CA
I saw a red fireball that was fairly big it looked to have been coming towards in an east-southeast direction. I then told my fiancé to look at it as I thought that it was strange, she did look, then I looked back and blinked my eyes once and it de-laminated! Amazing! About five minutes later there was another small one same color.Fireball
May 25, 2017 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Floresville, TX
2 fire balls , at 22:30 going east ward, approx 10 min Later, another went westward. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 23, 2017 · 8:50 PM · FIREBALL
Webster, NY
8 lights appeared in the sky one at a time starting at ~8:50 ET and disappeared one by one starting at ~9:00 ET leaving contrails in a descending and uniform pattern. We have amended the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting. Possible hoax?? PD
May 20, 2017 · 11:58 PM · FIREBALL
County Durham (UK/England) · United Kingdom
In my kitchen. I turned to get a drink and saw a green tubular light like a travelling orb about the width of a grapefruit, shoot from the bottom end of my garden towards window, then arced upwards and shot toward sky. My garden was in darkness. The light was not at floor level I would estimate it at 4-5 feet from ground and I saw it travel approximately 14 feet towards kitchen window just before it reached window, it arced upwards.
May 20, 2017 · 9:02 PM · FIREBALL
Mechanicsville, VA
We have amended the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. The source of the report remains anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time. PD
May 19, 2017 · 9:17 PM · FIREBALL
Wilkes-Barre, PA
Just wanted to document the sighting.
May 15, 2017 · 1:20 AM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
I was sleeping, but my mom went out to get her phone in our car and she woke me and my sister up. It looked kinda like a fireball in the sky or a light, My mom and sister said it was bigger before I came out. After I came out it sorta just looked like a small ball in the sky. An orange and reddish color. It started to blink, and then it just turned off completely. It was still visible afterwards but then it got lost in the clouds. I'm not sure if it's a UFO or a plane. But I looked up orange and yellow lights and the pictures that came up looked similar to what I saw.