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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
April 13, 2017 · 3:15 PM · FIREBALL
Marysville, WA
I was on my bus, heading to my bus stop, when I got to the intersection on Cedar Avenue and 4th Street. The sky was super cloudy and there was a slight wind. I had been looking at the clouds when our bus took a right turn onto 4th Street from Cedar Avenue. I looked out of the left side of the bus, (even though I was on the right.) That’s when I saw a circle in the sky. You might be thinking I am thinking of the sun, but this was a CLEARLY FLAT CIRCLE. It was red on the outside with slight curls, then a thick layer of green, then a layer of yellow, and finally a mix of orange. The layers were not neat lines either they were kind of mixed at the edges. It was just above the clouds, I could tell it was that close. I could see it through a slight gap in the clouds. I was the only witness since our bus was moving but a few people saw me as I pointed out the weird thing in the sky. The time was 3:15 PM it was 4/13/17 and there was MASSIVE clouds over our area.
April 10, 2017 · 9:06 PM · FIREBALL
Mission Viejo, CA
Was driving down Melinda Rd. A bright light illuminated the road, so I looked up, thinking it was the moon, and wondering how it could be so bright, but the moon was way off, rather it was a giant fireball of the whitest light shooting straight down and flashing on its descent.
April 10, 2017 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Whittier, CA
Possible meteor, we wonder?? PD
April 10, 2017 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Pacific Beach, CA
Driving south on I-5 through San Diego; Pale green light flash in the sky, reminiscent of lighting, looked above the dashboard to see a greenish light shape about 200 yards diagonally above us in the sky. The shape immediately broke apart in an elongated path and you could literally see flames shooting downwards, where is disappeared towards the hills to our right.
April 8, 2017 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Sacramento, CA
We were on our back porch and in the sky were three red orbs, with no streaks or tails, traveling slowly from East to West. They did not blink, nor was there any sound. They each slowly faded out and once they were gone there was what appeared to be a parachute that drifted in the westerly direction, until it was out of sight. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 6, 2017 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
La Mirada, CA
At about 1am (PST), I saw a slow moving orb moving over Orange County, California. I thought it was strange how slow and high it was. I went to get my camera, and saw two big bright white lights drop from the sky. I took pictures of it, and saw it drop 2 more "red orbs" 1 orb then the 2nd orb, in formation. It flew a little further and dropped 2 more orbs in formation flew a little more and dropped two more. I got a video of it but my hands were shaking and you can't just see the big orb flying I tried to zoom in when it dropped two more. After that it just kind of turned off and disappeared. There was no noise and it was flying towards LAX from Orange County, CA.
April 5, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
MT
Since the start of june of 2016 I have been witnessing several sightings of UFOs. During this year (2017), the first sighting was in February. The UFO first took off from the Boulder Valley, about 11:30pm. Then the UFO split into three small circles. In that time, each UFO flew in its own direction, northwest, one north and one north eastward. During that time all of them suddenly disappeared. Following the next hour, the UFOs reappeared by flying above boulder at about 40mph. after the ufos flew around they re-assembled into one large blob of yellow, then it disappeared. Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD
April 2, 2017 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Highland, CA
I seen a big bright orange ball flying over Southern Calif., just after sunset. My nephew came an got me him his wife and my sisters boyfriend seen it. No flashing lights a short tail an it flared up every now an then an it was huge.. I watched it till it vanished over the San Bernardino Mountains.. It definitely was not an plane, jet or satellite.
March 30, 2017 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Orleans, MA
It went around the corner of my home. I do not know where it went? I did not want to follow it!!
March 26, 2017 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Took a couple of pictures and got a squiggly orange line as it flew from view. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 23, 2017 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Corrales, NM
30 seconds to a minute later an airplane passed heading southeast towards the airport. Source of the report provides no contact information. PD
March 23, 2017 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Albuquerque, NM
During its travel, it momentarily was behind a cloud and once past the cloud, it was vivid again, until it disappeared. It traveled like a falling star would, but seemed much closer to the earth, as if eventually it would impact ground somewhere. It was quite beautiful.
March 22, 2017 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Sheboygan, WI
We continued watching it as it moved upward in the sky and suddenly and completely vanished in the atmosphere.
March 21, 2017 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
St. Louis, MO
My partner and I were out driving at around 8:15pm last night (March 22nd, 2017) when we both witnessed and unexplainable object fall through the sky. It started off with my partner seeing what they claim to be a bright flash in the sky. Less than two minutes later, we both watched what appeared to be an orb of some kind falling through the sky above us, heading south at a fast pace. It was glowing bright green and the emitted light increased in intensity until it seemed to just burn up and fade away, leaving no real trail behind it, or any evidence that it was ever there to begin with. This all happened within a matter of five to ten seconds, leaving us searching for similar objects for the rest of the night. There was no sign of anything ever hitting the ground, and no reports of anything have come up throughout today. Neither of us have ever seen anything remotely similar to this, though I have seen other unexplainable objects they never fell this quickly. Unfortunately, because of the randomness of this event, we did not capture any photos.
March 21, 2017 · 7:50 PM · FIREBALL
Southaven, MS
At 19;50/7:50 pm I observed a fire ball Moving thru the air very fast, from almost Due south to Due north.. I was standing in the parking lot of the Southaven, Mississippi Library as this happened, my observation was 1-1/2 to 2 seconds as the object disappeared This to me may have been a meteor or a burning left over part of satellite. No other object or unusual thing was seen after this by me. This concludes my report. Thanks B C
March 20, 2017 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Colorado Springs, CO
Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD
March 20, 2017 · 10:19 PM · FIREBALL
Colorado Springs, CO
The light objects varied from 2-6 (i.e. some would disappear/reappear, maybe like a flare). The color was orange/yellow. There was movement, which included upward movement. The location was East of I25 possibly between North Gate Rd & Interquest (re: just outside the USAFA). I reported to the USAFA. and stated I would guess it was amateur drones and told them I have video footage. However, they have not requested the video footage from me. It appeared there was a triangular pattern, but the lights disappearing/reappearing could be movement on an axis.
March 20, 2017 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Chandler, AZ
I was sitting on my balcony last night around 8pm-9pm. I looked up in the southeast sky and started seeing orange reddish balls of light. Some in formation others on their own. They were going from west to east and what looked like up as opposed to down but gradually not fast. I ran inside to get my mother and her phone to take pictures. It lasted about 15 minutes to half an hour. My mother saw the same objects. No reports on the news or internet. Others must have seen them they were very apparent.
March 19, 2017 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Kullamaa (Estonia), Estonia
We saw a big orange fireball going up to the sky slowly. No sound at all, was moving straight to sky. The fireball was about ~5-10 km away.
March 16, 2017 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Las Cruces, NM
No reports in Sun News or Kfox, has been happening randomly for some time now. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
March 11, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lewis center, OH
Around seven orangish red fireballs stretched from the horizon of the sky upwards to the left. At around the fourth fireball the angle of the pattern changed to horizontal for remaining 3 fireballs. They were visible for a few min then vanished. We attempted to take a picture from the car but wasn't as visible with the phone camera. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 11, 2017 · 9:41 PM · FIREBALL
Virginia Beach, VA
The object was flying over heading NW around 9:41pm in Virginia Beach. It was very clear out and the moon was bright. The object was red/orange in color and silent. It was moving at the speed of a plane. We often have planes fly over our house because we are close to a naval base. This was definitely not a plane. I watched it pass over my house, moving higher and higher into the sky until it disappeared. I turned the direction it came from and there was another object that looked the same. It flew in the same path and disappeared in the same spot the other did. I took a picture of it and I did record it for 6 seconds but stopped because on my iPhone screen it looked like a reddish blob. After zooming in on the video and picture, I realized it looked nothing like a blob.
March 7, 2017 · 12:00 PM · FIREBALL
Jamestown, CA
Witness appears to be describing the Sun. We suspect a hoax. PD
March 6, 2017 · 12:15 PM · FIREBALL
Lisbon, ME
Talking with friend on outside kitchen steps and was discussing how many planes fly over at this time of day, from roughly East to West. (I have an App on my IPad showing their departure and arrival times and speed and altitude, called "Plane Finder".) I was telling him most of these were flying anywhere from 30 to 40 thousand feet and often times they were starting their decent over us, depending on their destination. Anyways; I looked up at one of these planes that was just beyond overhead and flying West and saw a very bright light that was in back of it, yet at a much lower altitude, so I could perceive. This light was not moving. The sun was overhead also, although positioned slightly southwest and more westerly than the plane. The light looked like a light from a very bright flashlight. I asked my friend. "what's that light?" He had to turn, He was facing North. He looked and as we both saw it, it split into 2 lights (splitting from East to West) not too far apart and then gradually faded away. We could not determine the distance to this light, although I would guesstimate from 1/2 to a mile, although I am guessing more than I actually know. When it started to split, I rubbed my eyes, not knowing what I was seeing, thinking that I was seeing something that was not there. It was there. The time I saw this light until it started to split was about 8 to 10 seconds, how long it was there, I have no idea. The time it took from when it started splitting was about 10 seconds, before it faded away. The distance between the 2 lights, after they split was about 5 to 7 times the width of the original one bright light. For example if the original light was say five feet wide (it appeared round), the split lights were roughly 25 to 40 feet apart. This measurement seems to be an interpretation of possibly the height of this light, in my mind, not sure?? It was very bright, so much so, that even with the sun shining on us from a more southeasterly direction, it was as bright, if not brighter but much smaller. I only wish that I could have had a better perception of its altitude or distance from us. What did we see?