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November 12, 2016 · 3:41 PM · FIREBALL
Bethesda, MD
This could be entered either as fireballs or formation. My girlfriend and I observed three comet-like objects very high in the sky. Bright white, no noise. Not a normal jet contrail (was short and didn't dissipate or leave a trail), but looked like a bright white comet with a short tail. There were three flying together--not close together, like military jets, but at a distance from each other. This is the third sighting I've had of these things over the Washington, DC, area since October 2016. My previous report is November 5, 2016. This perhaps could be the same thing as the "UFO" that flew over DC on election day November 9 - see Youtube.
November 12, 2016 · 1:15 AM · FIREBALL
Louisville, KY
They were bright orange-blue color and were formed in an perfect triangle tilted to a thirty degree angle. There were three, as if they were three vertices. They were like fireballs, circular in nature. One of the ufos split to the left, moving slower than a plane. The two remaining ones moved closer together but stayed stationary until after we left the gas station and they were gone.
November 11, 2016 · 10:54 PM · FIREBALL
Owatonna, MN
A meteor entered the atmosphere and exploded. Very bright flash, with a small remaining fire ball falling.
November 9, 2016 · 5:15 AM · FIREBALL
Mountain View, MO
We watched for about 5 mins but the object never moved then we finally lost sight of it. We could see the Chen trails from two planes in the same proximity and this was nothing at all like that, and MUCH larger. We did take a picture as we drove.
November 8, 2016 · 10:57 PM · FIREBALL
Wilmington, NC
My boyfriend and I were sitting on our back porch smoking a cigarette. We live fairly close to the airport in our town and as we were talking we looked and saw what looked to be like two fireballs going through the sky. After they got over and us the “flame” flickered out on one of the fireballs. Then the second one dimmed and went out as well. We caught all this on recording. The weirdest thing was about ten minutes later we saw one in the sky again. It came from the direction of the airport and did the same thing as the last two. It came over us and then the light went out again. It continued to happen one more time before finally stopping. The craziest part about all of it is these “crafts” never made a sound. In one of the videos we were able to actually see a plane landing in the back ground and you can hear the plane but after it disappeared there was once again no sound.
November 5, 2016 · 10:35 PM · FIREBALL
Scottsdale, AZ
Upon stepping out to the back yard this evening, I noticed 3 large, orange fireball type objects low in the north sky. These objects were stacked in a vertical fashion in no measured formation with a vector towards the vertical. These objects appeared to move rather slowly. The size of each object to be roughly a third the size of a full moon. No sound included in this sighting. These objects moved to the vertical to about 60 degrees vertical before the light appeared to suddenly dim, then continued to vertical over head. A large very dim/muted object three times the size of each individual "fireball" appeared to travel west, southwest orbitally.
November 5, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Rochester, NY
HELLO at approximately 21:30, my fiance and I were sitting on our deck. We had looked up at the sky and seen this bright amber colored fire type light. It had to be about 25-35 feet above tree level. We really got us is that after the first had gone by a second one had past about 2 minutes later and then a third about 2 minutes after that. All headed in the same direction to. NOW I know it was not a Chinese lantern because of its speed and it's pretty windy for a flame to stay lit!! Can't stress this part enough. On top of that there was absolutely no sound. We don't know what it could of been, but got our attention enough for me to look up what it could of been and ask questions. This is my first stop to post this. ANY suggestions? It was only one color to that amber fire color, so this has me baffled!
November 5, 2016 · 6:10 PM · FIREBALL
Bethesda, MD
Observed one, then two, then four white fireball shaped objects in formation. The first appeared to hover very high in the sky, then three others appeared (from the right sky - perhaps were obscured by trees in my view). I saw three similar objects in the Washington, DC, area on October 15, 2016. They did not look like ordinary jets. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 5, 2016 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Hampstead, MD
Outside our townhome, me and my brother-in-law noticed what appeared to be 4 aircraft flying west closely together. However, the craft were bright red/orange with a red/orange streak. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 5, 2016 · 5:53 PM · FIREBALL
West Orange, NJ
At approximately 5:45pm my girlfriend stepped outside and noticed a "UFO" in the sky and called me outside. I figured it was probably a plane since Newark airport isn't far away and we frequently have airplanes overhead. At 5:53pm we noticed a single bright ball of light in the distant sky. We both felt this was NOT an airplane so she got her camera out. Then slowly more objects appeared. The largest/original object grew smaller as it appeared to move away from us. Simultaneously, one by one, up to 6 objects appeared in the same area of sky. Then they seemed to move into a single file formation for a duration. Then this single file formation was broken and the objects spread out and slowly got smaller and disappeared from our visibility. They appeared to be flying south - southeast (away from us). A mother and daughter came up to the front porch to drop off local political campaign flyers and they saw them as well and were dumbfounded. My girlfriend's 8yr old son saw them too. He quickly went inside because things like this can scare him. At first we thought they were planes reflecting the setting sunlight. However, there were several airplanes in the area and it was obvious by the naked eye and in the photographs that these looked much different and weren't planes. When you zoom into the photos you will see airplanes for comparison. The second theory was that they were meteorites/space debris but they don't change flight paths the way these did. My girlfriend, a professional photographer, got her Canon 5D camera out with Canon 70-300mm zoom lens and took pictures. The picture names have numbers in them so you can see the order of occurrence and track the flight paths accordingly. I still thought they could be planes but when we viewed her pictures on her computer it became evident that they weren't. I have uploaded a zip file containing 34 pictures for your review. Because the photos are 10-13mb each, I used WeTransfer to send you the zip file of the photos. The download link is: https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/10f70daefb251620d0877737437ca39520161106043404/c229a931e50b43db8c4f312c1cac993b20161106043404/06d300 Thank You
November 4, 2016 · 7:38 PM · FIREBALL
Sarles, ND
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 3, 2016 · 7:30 PM · FIREBALL
Hailey, ID
While visiting with my neighbor on the road next to our homes last night, we looked up into the evening sky (still light out and clear sky), and an orb of light appeared and traveled about 100 yards directly above our heads from south west to north east at a very slow and steady rate. It eventually burned out and disappeared with no trace. Like a very large, up close shooting star traveling slowly through the sky. Too low to be a satellite or airplane. Literally just above our heads. Took our breath away. There is known to be ufo activity in our canyon and perhaps we have now witnessed them up close and personal.
November 1, 2016 · 8:25 PM · FIREBALL
Tarentum, PA
Just pulled up to my girlfriends house. Got out of the car and I witnessed a bright green fireball just above the clouds traveling from West to East by the compass on my phone witch is rt 28 exit 13 north from pittsburgh.
October 31, 2016 · 1:16 AM · FIREBALL
Tempe, AZ
(My Wife and I are homeless. She is a long time house wife and I amTonight my wife and I were setting outside of Arizona State University climatology lab Lab we were looking to the east-northeast when we saw two fireballs appear over the mountains to the east of the ASU complex they were floating flying to wards West Northwest in a erratic pattern they weren't going for a straight line A to B they were more like insects they hovered a couple of times in places and finally one of them went backwards and vanished. another one appeared over the mountain Southeast and almost the same path. Evant nay the last two Vanished and the night Was empty again. One thing I forgot to mention is Not more than 20 Min Before the appearance Of these UFO's a local Pack of Coyotes started Yipping, Howlwg and Baying like it was a Full Moon. I also have a video of this its about 5 min.
October 31, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Greensboro, NC
As my fiance and friend face me, a huge ball orb, lit up like I have never seen before. I have seen A lot this was no comet just like sighting I had before in forest oaks. But this was downtown Greensboro. Could barely see stars maybe few fingers full. No one saw it at all. I've seen and studied ufology, etc., since I was 16 years old. I know what I saw. Brightest light blue orb or ship idk. But I bet I could have drive 115 miles and found that ufo. Chose to stay drink. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 30, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Oxnard, CA
7 fireballs from west and 2 from east. No sound. 2 from east converged and then moved apart. Below clouds. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 30, 2016 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
Athens, GA
9:00 - Commenced on walk down Baxter St. with my dog (name: ((dog's name deleted)) (because he is black and white)) 9:05 - ((dog's name deleted)) starts barking, acting weird 9:10 - Unidentified flaming streak shoots through sky. Only lasts a few seconds. I am nervous. 9:15 - Call wife who is taking care of sons at the house
October 29, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Alpharetta, GA
Was driving on states bridge road when a plane type craft caught my eye while driving. It looked like an airplane circling around until a huge comet fireball object came out of it. My first thought was that the plane was going down but in a matter of moment the fireball split in two and seemed to stabilize in the air. All 3 objests disappeared in minutes.
October 28, 2016 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Burnet, TX
My son noticed an orange ball in the southern sky and watched it until it faded away in the northern sky on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2016, in Burnet, Texas. He told me about it and when I looked up, I saw the orange ball of light in the east moving north and then fading away. My son got the binoculars and my phone to record it if it came back again, it did... We watched this thing do this 4 times. As he watched it through the binoculars he described it to me as being a saucer with lights rotating, I didn't see that with my eye and the video is not very good as it doesn't depict anything but a fireball, but I did look through the binoculars and can verify what he saw. The video I am sending is the third lap this thing took that we watched from start to finish. Please disregard the audio and I apologize for the poor, poor quality of the video. I was on the phone describing it to my cousin, who was a few blocks north and saw it as well, when it took the fourth lap, and this time it's trajectory was slightly different as it came right over my head. I got off the phone but wasn't able to capture what I saw with my naked eye, which was a saucer with lights and it had a bluish purple aura to it. It went right over my head in the middle of the street! I mean not right above, but way lower than any helicopter or plane would ever be. After it flew overhead, it again faded into the darkness, but not because it flew out of sight. It did not reappear that night that we know of, as we went inside. It was very interesting to finally see something I have always known to be out there. It is crazy how it would disappear in the North only to reappear in the South and it didn't look like it was further than the edges of our small town when it did this. It was not very high up either. Thank you for your consideration of this report, I hope to hear from someone. Blessings!
October 27, 2016 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Aurora, CO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 23, 2016 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Baltimore City, MD
While at the lightrail, near M&T Bank Stadium, my wife and I noticed a kind of bright red light that would flash to white, then repeat in different patterns. After I observed it for a few I got her attention because it wasn't moving in any one direction. As we looked at it, even moving where we stood, we noticed a much dimmer white light flashing a small ways above it, within 3 minutes the dimmer light moved down, now horizontal to the red light. It seemed to just fade off though. The red light stayed in the same spot in clear view even after we began to move on the train, 16 minutes later.
October 22, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
North Topsail Beach, NC
5 large yellow/orange fireballs moving south to north parallel to shoreline. 150-200 ft above ocean. passed by 1 to 1.5 minutes apart at 80-100 mph. 3/4- 1 mile offshore. turned slightly offshore at my location and slightly elevated. out of sight in 15- 20 seconds. made no noise at all.
October 22, 2016 · 8:10 PM · FIREBALL
Winder, GA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 22, 2016 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
San Dimas, CA
Two lights that looked like sparklers, appeared over San Dimas, CA. Then fizzled/faded out of sight.