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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
February 8, 2017 · 6:00 AM · FIREBALL
Lloydminster (Canada), AB · Canada
I was leaving to go to work (it was foggy) I drove out to main road and turned right , I seen a very bright ball to my left. I instantly thought it was the moon. but I stopped and backed up as the object i was seeing was in the northwest and the moon on clear mornings is always to the south when I leave the house. . It was very bright like a ball of fire sitting above the trees. I have a picture I have filled out a report only days after event but not sure if it went through.
February 6, 2017 · 1:15 AM · FIREBALL
Oak Lawn, IL
Oak Lawn, Illinois, Bright greenish/white floating ball of light came from the sky like a projectile leaving behind a red trail.
February 2, 2017 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Mobile, AL
For the past 3 days I have watched the same thing happen in the south west skies about 500 feet off the grond. It seems to be some type of orange fire ball that sometimes is only 1 ball and then others up to 6. The object would only light up for a min then fade away without any noise at all. At first I thought it could have been a flare until it reappeared with 2 , 4 or 6 of the same shape and color objects and the objects have showed up like clock work every afternoon just as the sun is going down and always in the same general area but were obviously not planes or anything I've ever seen and where I live is near two airports one is only a few miles away so I know what an aircraft looks like and where they were wasn't in the direction as the airport. Now the first day it caught my eye because there were 4 of them and they all had long tails moving out to the side of it before disappearing. Tonight After the craft had flickered out the last time a helicopte! r showed up and circled the area for about 30 minutes before it took off over the gulf and never returned. I have seen other craft almost as amazing as this one in the same general area of the sky within the last 6 months also but they were red and blue flickering lights and then shot up into the sky like a bullet. Before I go I don't know if it means anything although I think its strange but each time I have seen these objects I just seem to find myself going outside for no reason it almost feels as though I am being called outside and the second night I saw these things I went to bed and none of my dogs would come to bed (we all sleep in the same room) about two hours after I saw it I woke up with this strange beeping noise in my room and I sat up to see this strange green and red light in a human like shape floating off the ground and about 4 foot tall and then it vanished. I laid back down feeling strange and then I felt my bed sink in rite in the middle of the bed and ! I got a strange and terrified feeling then I felt like I passe! d out , but I don't know if I did or not. Then I saw these flashes in my head of these weird looking kids with big eyes and blond almost white hair that looked like it was falling out or something. This is really bothering me I have never had anything like this happen before so I would really like to find out what in the Hell was I looking at! I tried to take video its really crappy but I am sure I got at least 1 still shot
January 30, 2017 · 6:45 PM · FIREBALL
Katy, TX
Witnessed a bright flash of light that looked like a plane burning or meteor descending at 30 den north to south. Looked to be landing or crashing to the ground.
January 29, 2017 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
At first glance I believed them to be planes, since the airport is in that same vicinity, however these lights hovered for over 30 minutes and never moved. They looked like flares that would not turn off. What are those?
January 28, 2017 · 6:50 PM · FIREBALL
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 27, 2017 · 2:45 AM · FIREBALL
Selma, TX
As I was watching it and thinking about the size, it shot south with a blue tail. As I told my boss, "look at that" it seemed to disappear behind what looked like a cloud. Don't know what it was. It might be nothing, but I can't explain it.
January 27, 2017 · 1:30 AM · FIREBALL
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
This morning, around 1:30AM, I was laying my bed and playing on my phone. Every night I hear an airplane like turbulence noise. Usually I think nothing of it, but this morning the noise sounded so close that it caused my bed and walls to move and my ears feel like they would pop. The sound zooms over my house, so I get up to look out the window. I see a red light (shown in the video I Emailed). It moves slowly toward East and stays there for a good 30 min. Then moves back North and stays. It starts to flash a light towards the ground. It does that twice, almost like in a circle. Then the third time it flashes at my window. I freak out and decide to go back to bed (my cat in my bed also was scared. She started to meow weirdly, like she does when begging for water, but she didn’t move to drink). I’m not sure when the light stopped shining because I fell asleep. I didn't want to tell anyone, because I thought maybe it was a helicopter possibly looking for someo! ne. Then in the morning my four year old sister, getting ready for school, tells my mom that someone was knocking on the window last night and she was scared to leave her bed to wake my mom. My mom thinks nothing of it. I show my mom the video and she tells me what my little sister told her. At first I thought maybe it was me she heard because I was by the window to film. When my sister leaves school, I ask her a few questions (I Obviously didnt tell her that it may be aliens because she would never sleep again). We ask if it was a bang or a knock. She said it was a Continuous knock that caused her to wake up. We asked what window and she said the one by her bed, NOT the one I was recording out of. My mom then asked if she saw anything, and she said she saw a person with no hair. I asked if it was fat and she said no, that he was very skinny. I don’t know how reliable a four year olds word is, but I got chills.
January 26, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Encinitas, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 26, 2017 · 6:50 PM · FIREBALL
Leesburg, VA
There were several planes in the general vicinity, (the closet was slightly further west and traveling northbound), due to proximity to two airports within a 12 mile radius of driver and passenger in vehicle (The Leesburg executive airport and Dulles International airport.) Within ten minutes several helicopters had been heard by three adults, and confirmed by several social med! ia comments of people in the area.
January 26, 2017 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Witness provides nice photo, that shows several lights in a line, and against the night sky. We plan to investigate whether they might be landing lights on airliners, descending into JFK Airport. PD
January 20, 2017 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Dominion (Canada), NS · Canada
At 2100hrs on Jan 20/2017 noticed white light flashing in the sky, almost similar to airport lights when a plane is landing.. I do live close to an airport, however these were in a different direction..within seconds of seeing these lights, I heard an explosion and noticed a fireball falling down and hitting the ground.
January 20, 2017 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
DeLand, FL
My wife and I were exiting I-4 at the State Road 44 exit heading into Deland for dinner. As we were on the on ramp directly ahead of us above Volusia County Fair Grounds we observed a fireball. As I was driving I was being careful to watch the road while we observed it. The object was orange like a camp fires flame. It appeared round in shape. I mentioned to my wife it may have been a Chinese lantern, but it moved too quick to be a lantern, yet too slow to be a meteor. As we continued to watch it, it appeared to extinguish itself for a moment, but not completely. A few seconds after it 'extinguished' itself it reappeared as bright as it was when we initially spotted it. We lost sight of it as we merged with traffic on State Road 44- it was now behind us. We pulled over as soon as it was safe to see if we could get a better view but we could not find it again. There was a light aircraft flying in the area, but no where near and at a different heading that of our mystery object. Sighting of 2nd stage ignition of missile launch at 1942 hrs. (Eastern). PD
January 19, 2017 · 6:05 PM · FIREBALL
Lincoln, NM
Around 18:00, I and another were sitting inside, and started to hear the sound of possible two jet plans. As the noise grew louder so did our suspision and we proceeded outside. As we looked up we were unable to see any jets in the sky as they sounded directly above us. Looking towards the south-east a glow of several orbs appeard very faint roughly 12. Over the next few minutes the orbs grew in intensity as more appeared. Roughly 500-1000 appeared and disappeared as we watched. There seemed to be no more then 50 at a time. Movement was slow and looked at first to fall but then recover and fly higher as the light would fade then repeate. The lights continued but our view was interrupted by the mountain. My feeling was that the lights were very high in the atmosphere compared to the low flying jet or jets. We have not spoken yet with the source of this report, but we hope to do so. Also, we plan to contact the local press in the vicinity of Lincon, NM, to attempt to verify the claims above. PD
January 19, 2017 · 6:10 AM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
It looked like a shooting star going down really fast, but with a frontal metallic circle, and it disappeared completely mid air. I was driving on the 710 South freeway heading home towards PCH. Didn't have time to capture but open my eyes and observe. Then 2 drones appeared and hovered over the area the UFO disappeared to, either to investigate/confuse whoever had viewed it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 18, 2017 · 6:53 PM · FIREBALL
River Falls, WI
I have footage and photographs. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 18, 2017 · 1:32 AM · FIREBALL
Sterling Heights, MI
It appeared out of know-where and just moved back and forth and was really high above and in a flash it went straight and slightly vertical and dissapeared in a flash and left a fiery orange trail behind it for a 2 second duration. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 17, 2017 · 7:48 PM · FIREBALL
Omaha, NE
It was a little after 7:30pm, I was warming up my car & noticed something in the sky that I first thought was maybe a super bright star-so I took a few pics & started recording. Then when the "star" started moving erratically, I knew it wasn't a star!!
January 15, 2017 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
At first I thought the fireball might be a meteor or an aircraft on fire. It moved slowly south to north across the western sky. When I first saw the fireball several small fireballs dropped and burned out as they fell. This led me to believe it may be an aircraft that was burning, it dropped one last small fireball that burned-out, then it continued north across the sky moving at a pace similar to a plane in the distance, until it faded from sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 14, 2017 · 5:51 PM · FIREBALL
Daytona Beach, FL
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Definitely too low to be a jet, it was close enough that me and my 23 yr old son could see the flame flickering and to be exact, it literally passed right under the brightest night star (Venus) before it went to a constant red light then it almost seemed as if it went so far up and out that it disappeared. Thank you for writing back so quickly, i appreciate it. ((END ADDENDUM))
January 12, 2017 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Albuquerque, NM
It was about 9:35pm on 1/12/17. I looked up and there were 3 red-orange circles floating-following each other. No noise, no flashing, I say not of this world. I ran back inside to get my tablet, mind you, just seconds passed. I went back out and could only see the tail end of the fireballs-they were gone. So I went back inside, a few seconds later I went back outside and saw another fireball, but it was gone so fast, it headed in the same direction as the others. It was a clear night the moon was out. Location was SE area of Albuquerque.
January 11, 2017 · 8:05 PM · FIREBALL
Shelton, WA
We were walking near the WA Correction Center, facing about 70* E, with a full moon at mid-sky just to our right. At the same level as the moon, from left to right a large fireball with a flaming tail went across the sky. The flaming tail kept breaking apart. The fireball and tail were bright orange with a bright yellow ring around the fireball. We thought it might be a satellite breaking apart in the atmosphere.
January 7, 2017 · 11:20 PM · FIREBALL
Sutherlin, OR
I walked outside by 11:20 p.m. I looked up in the sky North. I was smoking a cigarette I saw orange lights big craft ran inside got my film and I got my camera and recorded it and then it hovered for a while moved around in like a circle and then headed north.
January 7, 2017 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
Conception Bay South (Canada), NL · Canada
When I first walked outside I poked my head around the corner to see the stars on January 7 I noticed this wild grouping of really bright lights like stars. They were all twinkling. I thought to myself....what group of stars it that!!! So bright and so many!! The cluster sparkled and moved away into the distance. Right after, a number of "fireballs" "orange orbs" began to move through the sky. There was probably 8 or 9 in total. They also moved through the sky and into the distance. A strange and beautiful sight.