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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
March 4, 2017 · 6:42 PM · FIREBALL
Lynchburg, VA
I saw a red ball like object that appeared to have a flame of sorts around it. It moved upward and proceeded slowly in a horizonal motion then increased slightly in speed. As i was driving, I was unable to keep a constant visual of the object, and it disappeared. I have never witnessed anything like this. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 3, 2017 · 8:10 PM · FIREBALL
Mayaguez (Puerto Rico), PR
My wife and I saw a blueish green fireball, streaming with a lighted tail from west to east, It was going very fast sighting was just of a few seconds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 3, 2017 · 7:25 PM · FIREBALL
Wilmington, DE
I lived here a very long time and never anything like that. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 3, 2017 · 8:15 AM · FIREBALL
Anchorage, AK
Object was reported observed over or beyond the Mountains to the East of the city. Cool morning, approximately 11° F at ground level, clear morning sky, light breeze. Object appeared vertical at first, the horizontal and proceeded to travel to the south at a rather fast pace. No reports of sounds or booms, and unable to determine distance, other than sight of the object was lost as the mountains blocked the view briefly behind the peeks. The object was bright as it was back lit by the sun, and the western face of the mountains was still shadowed. There was a trailing plume that was visible and changed slightly in form the trailing edge did not linger and closer to the tip remained constant; however, the leading edge appeared sharp and constant.
February 28, 2017 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
Well, on 2-28-17, at around 7:45, in the North Phoenix sky 2 orange objects appeared. Looked almost like a fire in the sky. The first object appeared then traveled SE in direction. Folliwed by a secind that just appeared from nowhere. At one point they stopped and just stayed there illuminating the sky. However these objects had no blinking lights like aircraft do. Also just to ket you know there was plenty of planes that were in the area. Around the Deer Valley Airport to be specific. Now I know other aircraft spotted these objects and I know for certain the tower had recieved radio contact from many of the planes. In regards to what was in the sky they were seeing? Clear as the night sky these objects vanished. But not because they had gotton further away. Vanished like looking at them very clear in the sky. To dimming out and disappearing completely.
February 28, 2017 · 12:00 PM · FIREBALL
Jamestown, CA
The witness may be alluding to the Sun. PD
February 26, 2017 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Easton, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 26, 2017 · 8:06 PM · FIREBALL
Cody, WY
I was driving my car to Walmart and as I went around the bend I spotted a green Fireball falling from the sky it appeared to be very close
February 24, 2017 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Santa Fe, NM
It was at this time that I brought the object to my passengers attention. She observed the object for the next couple of minutes, stating in agreeance that the object was not a plane and that is was descending toward the earth at a steady rate. As I reached the Cochiti Exit I noticed that the object was now at about ¼ of the original height, and we agreed it was flying somewhere between the Cochiti Pueblo and Interstate-25. My passenger was attempting to take a picture as we were approaching the Budaghers exit but was having difficulties focusing on the objects as we were traveling at highway speeds. Around a mile before the Budaghers exit, the object appeared to begin moving west and away from the highway. I decided that I would exit at the Budaghers off-ramp and attempt to get a few pictures or videos. As I was exiting the off-ramp the object was visible until I had my vehicle almost pointing in its direction of travel. The object “blinked out” and was no l! onger visible. I stopped and continued to observe the sky in this area for another five minutes and never observed the object again. The event occurred over a period of twenty minutes, and a distance of at least twenty-five miles. As I returned to Interstate 25 and drove south toward Albuquerque I noticed two military helicopters to the far southeast, near the backside of the Sandia Mountains. I live in an area of Albuquerque where Blackhawk helicopters often fly near my home when they are performing training exercises so identifying the helicopters was not difficult. I also want to note that the object appeared to begin moving in a westward direction at the time my passenger took her first picture with the flash turned on, on her camera phone. I also thought I would mention that there are radio towers everywhere in the area and the light of the object was much larger that the lights on the towers. This all may be coincidence but interesting none the less.
February 23, 2017 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Fort Lauderdale, FL
fireball from west to east, bright orange directly over house seemed to climb as moving east Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 21, 2017 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
Marietta, OH
On the night of Tuesday, Feb. 21st, 2017, about 10:45 P.M. Returning home from work, I saw a defined sphere/globe, bright glowing red orange ball appear apparently out of the cloud cover above (no stars were visible) and then traveling, almost downward, about as fast as a speedy jet liner disappearing over tree covered horizon toward east southeast as I was traveling down Acme Street in Marietta, Ohio. At first, I thought that it might simply be a reflection of a sodium street lamp on Acme Street appearing on my wind screen or one of the large area lights on one of several tall masts near the Interstate 77 interchange with Ohio SR 7/Pike St., only a hundred yards from the opening of Acme Street. (No way one of these disappeared below the horizon, since you drive under them going through the interchange.) However, continuing to observe the light as I traveled toward Pike Street the light continued in a fashion matching the speed of a fast jet plane, low, and eventually disappearing over the horizon. It did not seem to get much smaller than when I first saw it appear. This object did not appear like 'fire' nor did it have a tail of any sort. The object was close enough that my palm on an outstretched arm would have covered it up neatly. The light appeared as a well defined sphere or globe and never changed direction, indeed, almost as if it were coming down instead of going further. This sighting lasted less than two minutes. There is an airport due south of Marietta, OH, across the river in Wood County (Gill-Robb Wilson Air Field/Wood Cty. Airport), where a West Virginia ANG Unit operates. However, this light appeared to go past that direction, and did not appear to have any features matching a plane or helicopter. There were no flashing lights or landing gear lights. I am a casual observer of the sky and have a decent knowledge of what planes look like in the day and night. My son is an amateur astronomer and so some of that knowledge has come in handy knowing the difference of planets, stars, and other common aerial phenomena. This was nothing like I'd ever seen before, as it was cloudy and the ball of light was under the cloud ceiling (which in my sons opinion rules out Jupiter, for instance, which was shining in the east—or a comet or meteor) and to my knowledge, any air craft (or phenomena) I've ever laid eyes upon.
February 21, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Nederland, CO
Strange orange orbs seen floating above boulder. Several orbs of light lighting up the forest like a giant flashlight. There were at least 10 of them. All scattered around the mountainsides and valleys. They behaved like giant search lights scoping the forests. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 17, 2017 · 11:27 PM · FIREBALL
Millvale, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 17, 2017 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Moon Township/clinton, PA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 17, 2017 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Indianapolis, IN
It was a bright bleeding orange aurora surrounding this object hovering 50 ft over my cousins vehicle. It act like if it wanted to land in front of us on a busy intersection , but the crazy part about that night is there were no cars nowhere to be found at the time which I find crazy. But shortly after hovering the object disappeared only to break into 3 other objects and start zipping the the sky doing out of this world maneuvering that I’ve never seen before ,at one point it completely stopped mid air for about 20 seconds then took off at an amazing speed i only see on movies I’m actually shaking writing this from the vivid memory of this I just want answers it’s really eating me alive because I feel as people will think I’m a crazed person when I in fact have actual footage I just don’t want to share it with anyone and risk my life being in danger is I have the video on my YouTube channel (HoosierdaddyTtv) fox59 news couldn’t explain what the craft was I just need answers I feel like I’m going insane … PLZ HELP
February 17, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Panama City beach, east, FL
Driving east side of the beach.saw four fire ball orbes the size of a pinky finger nail. The event started when the first ball floated towards me two miles away three K high. Each one came across an the count of 10 and straight up into the atmosphere.
February 16, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Mt. Orab, OH
Multi day event. Monday February 13, 2017 about 8:00PM,we were walking out from our barn to get our horses to bring them in the for the night. I looked over at a small softball park that behind our property, it is closed for the winter. I saw close to the ground a red glowing orb. I thought at first it was someone with a dim flashlight, but then it appeared to flicker out like a flame. Then reappeared, and then disappeared again. I can't pinpoint exactly where it was, since I was looking across several acres, and trees. No one else saw this. Wednesday February 14, 2017, we were again walking out to retrieve our horses. this was around 7:30 PM. My husband said something and stopped.. I stopped and backed up to see, a cluster of these glowing red almost rectangular in shape lights, that were up in the air, through the trees. There were at least 7 lights, that randomly came on and off, and would reappear in other locations. These lights appeared to be dripping something. It appeared as if there were burning embers dropping from these lights. Also amongst these, were white sparkly lights, that would come on and go off randomly. We had a helper who ran out of the barn, to see what we were seeing, and he too witnessed the lights. I then thought to take out my phone and record, and I did get a small white dot, that came on and off, but it is hard to see much from it. A 4th person came out of the barn and also witnessed some of the lights. By this time they were drifting north and getting further way, and all we saw at this point was the white sparkly ones. We watched until they disappeared. Thursday February 15th, 2017, this night we did not have to bring the horses in, as they stayed in most the day, but we did decide to go out and see if we could see the lights again. This was at 7:00 PM. We saw them immediately in the same area. Same red glowing lights, that soon went out. We ran toward the back of our property to get beyond the trees, and were treated to many white sparkly lights, and clusters of pulsating white lights, that we thought at first were airplanes. However, I mentioned that there were too many, too close together to be airplanes, and they were not traveling, they were staying stationary. Then we saw for just an instant, a row of red round lights, that lit up one at a time, till a row was visible, and then they went out just as they lit up. 3 of us witnessed this. By this time the white strobes slowly drifted north again, leaving one loan red orb, hovering over the trees. This was very far off, but we could see it. It would move left the! n right, go up a ways.. over, and then back down. This stayed for at least 10 minutes. My husband saw one that was a small solid light (silver/white), that he thought at first was a satellite, till it came to a complete stop. It sat stationary for about 10 seconds, then it moved straight down, stopped again, was shining for a minute or two then went out. We watched all this take place over about 15 to 20 minutes. By this time we were cold, and decided to go in. We have called a friend with good cameras, to come tonight to see if we can see them again.
February 14, 2017 · 7:35 PM · FIREBALL
Bethlehem, PA
Behind grocery store saw white light high in sky. The light was west of back of store bright then faded when it went higher. It looks oblong shape in pic. Saw that light for about 5 minutes.15 minutes later saw reddish fire ball north of store. That lasted 2 minutes. The fire ball faded out. Was lower to ground above the store lights in pic.
February 13, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Concord - Penecook, NH
After those first two steps she turned around and ran back in the hall I tried to get her out the hall but she wasn't having it. I stood in the door way for a moment waiting to see if she changed her mind. Suddenly, a green fire ball shot downwards toward the ground then faded behind the tree line.
February 13, 2017 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
Wall, NJ
I was driving northbound on the parkway, when I saw a bright ball of white light drop quickly from the sky just beyond the southbound side of the parkway. It was unlike anything I have ever seen!
February 12, 2017 · 2:45 AM · FIREBALL
Lithia, FL
At 2:45 I was outside having a smoke when I saw a very large green and red fireball in the direction of Cape Kennedy on the east coast fall toward the southeast. Very large leaving a fiery trail.
February 10, 2017 · 10:15 AM · FIREBALL
Howell, MI
What we saw was weird we saw some sort of lantern thing that was moving side ways, but it was going super fast. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 9, 2017 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Youngstown, OH
Sighting of Venus in the western sky?? PD
February 9, 2017 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Columbia, CT
I was awake watching television and there were flashing red and blue lights in the sky they remained for a hour till a red orb about 15 feet in diameter appeared in the forest. Nothing has changed yet.