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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.
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May 29, 2021 · 8:20 PM · SPHERE
Forest Hill, MELBOURN · Australia
At about 8:20, driving to [LOCATION], my dad and i look up into the sky, seeing a supposed star, shining unusably bright. As we are able to see the object more clearly, it makes a sharp and unpredicted dash downwards then at extremely fast speeds, goes in a straight line North-East. Later that night, I went onto a navigation app. The trajectory of the UFO was directly lined up with a military/army base in New South Wales, neighbouring state to Victoria. Other people that night had also seen these UFOs. They were not too sure what the objects were but most said they were possibly meteorites.
May 28, 2021 · 6:54 PM · SPHERE
Fork, SC
Object appeared in the South Sky at 1:00 position. Round metallic white sphere. Object darted to the NE. Stopped held position 1-2 minutes then blinked out/ disappeared to the NE. Pics available on request. Approx 5 min after sighting 2 military jets appeared in the area
May 28, 2021 · 4:40 PM · SPHERE
Riverdale, NJ
Yesterday at approximately 4:40 pm I was traveling northwards on Interstate 287 in Morris County, New Jersey. Low-hanging storm clouds covered the entire expanse of the sky, but no rain or lightning was evident. I must have been approaching mile marker 50, when a bright light appeared in the storm clouds directly ahead of me, brightening––for a moment––the clouds immediately surrounding its source. The source of the light soon emerged from the cloud covering: it was a glowing orb which I saw descending to earth in a straight path. Within seconds, it had disappeared from view behind a hill. By my estimate, it must have made impact no more than a mile from my vehicle. Numerous others must have witnessed the event as well, as the highway was heavily trafficked. I am inclined to believe that I witnessed a rare instance of ball lightning. Nevertheless, I am still reporting the event in the hope that others may also share their stories and that a more detailed picture may emerge.
May 27, 2021 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Salem, OR
I live in NE Salem OR near the 45th parallel and for the last few weeks have observed orbs in the sky mostly after 9-9:30 pm and even in daylight if there are clouds present. I witness tem in every direction of the sky someimes flashing a light here and there and zig zagging in and out of the clouds individually and in groups. It is currently 12:30 am PST and to the West I see a larger orb lighted steadily releasing many tiny orbs that fly off in various directions and others flying with or around the larger orb which is mostly stationary or moving slowly. Mostly I see the smaller orbs each night. As mentioned I witness them in every direction and all hours of the night. I have attempted to video these sightings and not as successful as I would like. I have only reported these experiences on your website but thinking I should perhaps report to a news agency or law enforcement. I don’t want to be thought of as goofy and absolutely 100% certain what I am seeing is abnormal, unidentified aerial phenomenon and uncertain if these spherical beings/objects are friendly or threatening. I believe they are intelligent. They can appear and vanish suddenly. They often camouflage in the clouds and act as if they are harvesting energy from them as I witness them more ofyen when it is somewhat stormy. This larger orb releasing multiples is out in the open sky at this time. I have witnessed them moving about quite slowly and also with remarkable speed. I am amazed by these experiences and also somewhat frightened. I live alone and so I witness these events by myself. Every time I ask a neighbor to share the experience they behave as if I am losing my mind. I indeed am not. I will continue to report my sightings and this is my third report. I would like an investigator to contact me and in the mean time I will continue to obtain other witnesses and/or proof. Thank you.
May 27, 2021 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Pittsfield, MA
came out of the South West 3 white solid spheres. complete synchronicity from speed to separation.(gave me the feeling it was one object,reason I'm not sure how many I saw)no sound.to low low to b a satellite.30 seconds to cover the entire sky south west to the north east. 3 to five seconds later another solid white sphere on the same trajectory followed behind. I've never seen something make it across the sky that fast. it was very exciting.
May 26, 2021 · 3:19 AM · SPHERE
Salem, OR
I continue to see ORBS OVER SALEM OR for the last week at night and sometimes if we have cloud cover during the day. I have attempted to catch them on video but not as successful as I would like. I am farsighted and can see these orbs flashing at times throughout the night in the clouds and definitely under cloud cover at lower altitude. I tried to call the hotline and my call dropped. Some of the spheres/orbs are brighter than others and I would estimate hundreds of them if not thousands flying about the entire sky.
May 25, 2021 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Dallas, TX
I was standing outside while I let my dog outside around 9 pm on Tuesday may 25, 2021. I use an app on my phone to identify stars and planets in the night sky, and I saw a cluster of three stars I wanted to identify, so I opened my app. Two out of the three stars appeared on the app’s radar. Then I realized the “third star” was not a star at all. It began to move, and quickly. The white orb moved directly north until it was too small to see anymore. It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen, and it was not flashing red or any color like a plane or satellite. I have seen 2 ufos before this in my entire life. The first was a blue circular glowing orb in Galveston Texas in June of 2020. It appeared and disappeared on a night drive by the ship harbor. It was almost inexplainable. The second ufo I saw was a white orb in broad daylight in March 2021 in Texas while driving to Houston. It hovered above my car and disappeared.
May 25, 2021 · 6:15 PM · SPHERE
Melbourne (Australia) · Australia
This happened a few months ago, and I've been trying to get my head around it since. Definitely not like anything I've even heard of before. I'd seen weird shit in the sky before but man, was this different. It was about 6.15pm and I had just left my house to drive to the swimming pools. Daylight savings had recently ended so it was already very dark. I got to the end of my street, about 400m from my house when I saw it. To give you an idea of what was around me, I was at a small cross shaped intersection. There is a small street about 80m in length, directly across from the road I was on, right next to an apartment building. Next thing I know, before I turned left, I see what looked like a shooting star (meteorite) flying rapidly across the sky towards the horizon. Now, one of my worst fears has always been seeing a meteor hit earth and kill us all. So my immediate reaction was, "Holy fuck. That's way too bright and going for way too long to just be a meteorite. This might be the end." It travelled across the sky for a good 3 or 4 seconds, almost reaching the horizon (my guess was that it was about a few kilometres high in the sky, and miles away from me.) This is where it blew my mind. Instead of disappearing over the horizon or hitting the earth, it floated down smoothly and gently, in a sort of arc shape and landed on the footpath, right on the little street in front of me. I felt chills run up my spine and my instincts told me to fucking get out of there. I turned left and drove away, terrified at the idea of what the hell I just saw. I mean, nothing about it appeared sinister at all. But the sheer nonsensical and unexpected nature of it was enough to make me think it could have been anything (angel/alien/demon). It looked just like a point of light with a glowing ring around it, no bigger than a basketball. Once it touched the footpath it was obscured by the street lights, and perhaps other objects on the footpath, and somewhat regrettably, I didn't hang around to get a better look. The rationalist in me kept trying to think, OK maybe it was a drone, maybe it was a fucking firefly. At this point nothing seemed too ridiculous to consider. But none of them made any more sense than the other. Has anybody else had a similar sighting? Am I missing something here? P. S if the admin of this site wants to know the location of this event, I'm happy to disclose. I know for a fact that there is a security camera right where the object landed. I contacted the owner of the building but he seemed uninterested and was not willing to check the footage for me. I think if someone official/credible contacted him, he might be pursuaded to check the cameras. The sooner the better because I don't how long they keep the footage.
May 24, 2021 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
It was 9 pm and my my whole family was sitting on the balcony at the resort. The sky was beautiful it was almost a full moon. I looked up and noticed two orange ( color of a fire) orb lights, I said to my husband "look! what is that?" When I told my husband to look a third orb appeared. The first two lights would have made a horizontal line if you were to draw a line connecting them. The third light was below the first two and off to the right slightly. As soon as my husband looked and saw them the third light disappeared then the other two disappeared as well. I said to the whole family that was a ufo! I can be very open minded to things like that and like to watch shows about ufos and Bigfoot sometimes when they are on. Im someone who likes to know a little bit about everything and can find a common interest with anyone. My husband is the total opposite! He thinks things like that are kind of crazy. He can come up with a logical explanation for anything. We both have college educations and make a good living. The point of saying that is to let anyone know who reads this is . . . my husband even thought it was strange and was not trying to explain it away!
May 23, 2021 · 3:45 PM · SPHERE
Sherman Oaks, CA
I was driving east on Burbank Blvd. just west of Van Nuys Blvd. The sky was very clear and it was 3:45 in the afternoon. I looked up in the sky and saw a white, perhaps metallic white(?) object hovering in the sky, perhaps about 10 to 15 thousand feet up. It was not moving and just floating there. Something caught my attention far to the left and I realized there was another identical object hovering as well, not moving, seemingly not being buffeted by the wind. As I drove and kept staring at the first object I noticed, while occasionally looking at the other one to see if it moved (neither of them seemed to be moving) more objects appeared behind the first one. When I say behind what I mean is that they seemed to be higher up in the atmosphere, perhaps 40 thousand feet? Again they appeared white or metallic white, perfectly round and while some of them were remaining still a couple did seem to be moving. One seemed to be going up and the other down, then left and right. Going to state right now I may be wrong on this one as I was craning my neck around and also for whatever reason having a hard time recalling exactly what happened because it felt pretty extraordinary and I am a bit dumbfounded as to why no one seemed to notice these things other me...though I suppose a case could be made that most people when driving keep their eyes on the road, which is the safer choice. I pulled over into the parking lot of a small strip mall and hopped out of my car to take some photos. Because of the glare on my phone and the fact that my phones camera isn't great I wasn't quite sure if I was getting photos of anything. I did end up snapping a few photos of both the original object and the one to its right (my left) and while I could see the other objects behind the original one none seem to have been captured on camera. The photos aren't very good. I hopped back into my car and it couldn't have been more than 30 to 45 seconds before I was back on Burbank moving east and in that 45 seconds (maximum) all of the objects seem to have vanished except the original one which was still hovering in place and had not moved the entire time. So honestly I don't think they were drones, because the altitude would mean these were the biggest drones in the world and that they were spherical, definitely not planes. Perhaps weather balloons or some sort of lantern but again the original one never moved just hovered still and I think even if by some miracle there was absolutely no wind up that high the thing would still bob around or something if it was balloon. One thing that happened that I just don't understand was as I hopped out of my car to take photos I noticed to older men in front of a cafe having coffee and talking. As I took the photos I turned to them and asked them to look and tell me what they think. They smiled, said nothing and then just went back to talking about golf. I don't understand why someone would simply be curious enough to even look. So that's it, very odd, no one else seemed to notice it and I'm stumped.
May 23, 2021 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Goodhue, MN
There was a saucer shape aircraft with light going in a spinning motion, then a another aircraft with bright lights moving to the right ahead of it. The saucer it self also had flashing then disappeared only to return 30 mins after initial appearance.
May 22, 2021 · 10:35 PM · SPHERE
Shreveport, LA
Incident: Star-like orbs NW Shreveport sky Time: May 22nd @10:35 C.S.T. Witness: DLT My location: Southeast Shreveport City: Shreveport The following is my best account of what I saw in the NW of a partially cloudy Shreveport sky as I was walking to my vehicle before leaving to Kroger grocery. At approximately 10:35 c.s.t. when walking to my vehicle in the parking lot of my apartment complex I observed what at first thought was just another bright star in the Northwestern sky of Shreveport, La. Then I looked back up to give it full attention, but the white star-like orb disappeared, i.e., dimmed out and then another round orb less bright (same shape and color) appeared behind it and appeared to follow the first brighter one and then it disappeared until 1 or 2 other star-like orbs appeared to be following the one prior to each and I could tell all the objects/orbs were circling like a vortex in a sort of holding pattern; again, each light was perfectly round and solid white, whereby, at that time of day I'm having to rule out solar reflection because of the time of day. These objects just emitted their own light. Further, the entire bunch of orbs/star-like orbs moved slowly in tandem across the Northwest night sky from west southwest to a generally east northeast direction. The orbs seemed to be "orbiting" or circling in a slightly non-tangential angle in reference to the ground; meaning if you were to lay an imaginary flat board or planar monolith, so to speak on top of the orbs then the plane resting on the orbiting objects would be tilted 5-10 degrees in reference away from the earth. Enough so, that I could see that these things were spinning in succession in a counter clockwise fashion from my point because of the tilted axis of the vortex. However, I could not see the back 60 -70% of the circle as they would move away, but i could see them reappear fairly quickly when they would return towards me on their little orbit enough so that you could deduce that they were actually spinning on some sort of controlled spin. I could not make out any solid structure where pos! sibly these lights could have been attached to because it was just too dark. I was battling light across from the Tinsel Town Theatre which glared into my smart phone as i did record these lights, but its very diminished in quality because of the phone itself and bright theatre lights. The lights were there for about 45 seconds to 1 minute of my time since I happened to catch this heading out to the store for a few things. If I had not gone back into my apartment to retrieve my grocery list, then I would have probably missed this incident and, therefore, departed before the occurrence. I have seen many things in the sky and how they move and/or behave and I have to say that this has me befuddled. I work at an airport so I have a solid foundation of what airplanes/helicopters look like and how they look in the night sky. There were no navigation lights (red or green) or tail section white lights. I have heard of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites, but these objects didn't move like a standard satellite in reference to the earth. I have personally seen the International Space Station (ISS) and you see a fairly big bright round light (because of solar reflection) break the west horizon if its a high cloud base or clear skies; but it steadily moves overhead in a straight line until you see the ISS disappear over the opposite direction. The ISS sighting is a straight path, horizon to horizon, west to east, southwest to northeast, in reference to where you are. Also, police drones would have to be ruled out because these were at least a couple thousand feet an! d even night searching choppers are closer to the ground when using their searchlights. I'm going to have to call this my first UFO sighting at age 49. I will report this to MUFON or the National UFO reporting agency to have this on record. Maybe, someone can come forward later and shed some light, no pun intended, on my experience. Maybe someone else saw this, but just didn't think more of it. My jury is still out on what this could have been. I did a screen capture of the google mapped area with a vector line drawn for direction of the approximate sighting. Also, a small private plane crashed into Cross Lake the next day which is in the general NW direction of my prior night's sighting which may have nothing to do with my sighting at all, but is a little peculiar with the timing and general location of my sky sighting and since the crash is an aviation event; just thought I would mention this for people who have lots more time than I have for further investigation. Sincerely, DLT
May 21, 2021 · 4:40 PM · SPHERE
Not sure (was in airplane), Unspecified
My flight 5/21/2021: American Airlines PHX- DCA, seat 23A (window seat left side of plane). About 20 min out from landing at DCA I saw a silverish sphere pass under our aircraft at a high rate of speed. Looked like it came at us from the opposite direction from right front of aircraft and passed under us and my wing at a diagonal. The sphere was spinning as it traveled and seemed metallic as sun glinted off it. Perhaps the size of a bowling ball (or like the Quiddich ball on Harry Potter, but not gold). I don’t know if anyone else saw, my companion was sleeping. I reported to the flight attendants when we landed a few min later. I think they pegged me as crazy. It looked a lot like the sphere in video footage released on the news today (4/21/23) over a Mid East war zone, maybe Mosul (think footage was a few years old).
May 20, 2021 · 12:26 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalLaon, Picardie · France
Dans la nuit du 19 au 20 mai 2021, un habitant de LAON (02) observe le ciel. Il voit une lueur clignoter pendant quelques minutes. Il tente de filmer avec son portable ce qu'il perçoit mieux à l’œil nu. Il commence à filmer mais quelques secondes plus tard, il voit apparaître quelque chose de brillant sous une petite lueur. Ce qui apparaît, est arrivé de façon non linéaire, changeant de direction de manière saccadée et très rapide, puis a marqué une légère pause pour finalement partir sur la gauche à une telle rapidité, que le témoin n’a pu le suivre avec son téléphone portable. Le témoin adresse au GEIPAN sa vidéo. Un seul témoignage sera recueilli sur ce phénomène. D’étrangeté moyenne et de bonne consistance (témoin unique, vidéo du PAN), ce cas s’avère être une observation probable d'un oiseau ou d'un insecte nocturne (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). Le fait que le PAN apparaisse flou alors que l’arrière-plan est relativement net indique que le PAN devait être très proche du témoin. Ses caractéristiques dont les variations de trajectoire sont cohérentes avec le vol d’un oiseau ou d’un insecte nocturne, éclairé pendant quelques secondes par un lampadaire. Le cas est classé B : observation probable d’un oiseau ou d’un insecte [GEIPAN classification B — Oiseau]
May 19, 2021 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Salem, OR
I have lived in Salem Oregon for the last five years almost exactly on the 45th parallel near Portland Rd & Lancaster Dr NE. On several occasions I witnessed various types of Unidentified Areal Phenomenon but never had a camera with me to document such sights. Often, I see these things after 9pm and later. On December 4, 2017 I saw a white sphere moving silently & slowly a couple hundred feet above me in a Southern Direction and as it moved higher into the atmosphere disappeared. I was awestruck because it was so close. On Wednesday evening, April 14, 2021, I stepped out onto my back porch so the dog could go out and was looking up at the stars in a Southern Direction from my home and saw some type of craft drop 3-4 orange spheres (one at a time) and as each one dropped it flew off & disappeared. I had never seen anything like that before and did not believe them to be flares as they vanished almost immediately. On Tuesday & Wednesday night, May 18 & 19, 2021, I was outside at various times both nights witnessing small white orbs dancing about in a playful manner, swirling around & racing each other back and forth through the clouds. Just when you would look at one, a slight flash of light would occur in another location flying about in the same manner. It did not matter which direction I looked toward East, West, South or North - there were I estimate hundreds (not clustered) of orbs at various heights and distances all over the sky. That Wednesday night (05/19/2021) around 9:30 I was standing in front of my house and saw a plane flying from North to South along the normal flight path over my home and saw another “craft” with just one solid light under it. It almost looked like a helicopter with a search beacon of some sort. The plane was much higher above this other craft with the very bright light headed just over my head and as they passed I couldn’t quite make out the type of a! irplane but thought it appears similar to the Stealth Bomber a triangular dark color but it went so fast I wasn’t clear what I was seeing. I saw my neighbor sitting in his car and rushed over to bang on his window to see what I was viewing. The airplane continued on its normal route and the craft with the light appeared to be speeding faster in an effort to catch up or pace the other plane when suddenly it veered on at an abnormal angle and disappeared. My neighbor thought both were airplanes, but I have never seen a plane fly at an angle such as this one did. To my amazement during the day on Thursday May 20, 2021 I saw the same orbs darting in & out of the clouds. It was shocking and somewhat difficult to see them with daylight present, but they were there. We had brief blue sky, some thunder/hail clouds, and some rain. I was able to document (as best I could) these orbs at various heights and directions around my home location. I did contact the National UFO Hotline and ! spoke briefly to Director Peter Davenport about what I thought! could b e ball lightning or some highly strange unidentified flying orbs. At his suggestion I make this report and have emailed him the videos I took. I am somewhat frightened now that the Men in Black might come visit me, lol. I believe these strange events witnessed are happening more and more frequently and an advocate of FULL Disclosure. CONFIDENTIAL NAME-SalemOR
May 19, 2021 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Atlanta, GA
May 19, 2021, roughly around 8:15 PM I was out with my children and was gazing up at the moon than I saw a black object moving slowly across the sky towards the west, coming up quickly behind the object was a jet airline taking off from Hartsfield airport they came so close they could’ve collided. I thought I was recording the whole incident but when I look down at my phone it wasn’t filming I missed everything. I happen to look back up I saw another black object heading west and this time I got the footage.
May 18, 2021 · 11:30 AM · SPHERE
Paso Robles, CA
I heard a low flying small airplane flying overhead which caused me to look up. When I looked up I saw a white, round, ball traveling at very high speed from the northwest to the southeast. I observed it for about 10 seconds. Weather was clear blue sky, sunny day. Absolutely positive, object was round with no wings or other appendages.
May 18, 2021 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Carlsbad, CA
Orange dim light orb floating in and out of the ocean there was only one orb but me and another couple had stopped to see, it just kept going in and out of the water and wouldn’t move for minutes . It was very dark so we couldn’t really focus clearly on it
May 18, 2021 · 1:37 AM · SPHERE
las vegas, NV
On May 18, 2021 after midnight my children, wife and I were at my mothers house in the back yard stargazing when my son pointed out a moving star. quickly realizing it was definitely not a star, I grabbed my phone and started recording. To our surprise there were more than 1 blueish/white colored orb. There were about 6 orbs, possibly more. Occasionally they would do what I call a "ploom" which is when they expand themselves and disappear for a few seconds. Their movement would be subtle but noticeable and then it would have a rotating movement as if it was surrounded by, or was energy like a plasma ball. A few orbs would zip quickly and then come to a dead stop (I didn't catch that on camera). After 1 hour observing them, the air force came in from the west and when they were near the orbs, the orbs would move higher every time a jet came by and drop back to their original height once they left. I also took pictures of the orbs, but when I zoomed in on the orbs I realized that they weren't the only things in the sky. There were a few things I can't explain but I'm sure they weren't satellites. A few were amazing and large. I am clueless to what we witnessed that night and hope you find this to be as interesting as we did. I have many more pictures of the objects so let me know if you would like me to send them. Location: 36.1896006,-115.0208834 (36°11'22.6"N 115°01'15.2"W) we were facing Southeast directly above us.
May 16, 2021 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Jacksonville, NC
Observed for an hour, three round bright objects that appeared to float above passenger aircraft contrails. They aligned east to west with the moon.
May 16, 2021 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Glendale, CA
Black spherical object was flying slowly from south to north at same highs. No noise very quietly object had white glow around it
May 16, 2021 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Newberg, OR
there was a spherical light emitting a green laser, pointing diagonally towards the surface of the ground. from the lazer were smaller orbs of white light traveling along the green laser towards the ground in tandem. The green "laser" then began to dissappear in quartered segments starting at the ground and ending at the "sphere" the sphere then began ascending and completely disappeared as if it passed through a barrier of some sort. I then glanced at the area through my nvgs to attempt to see of there was anything not visible to the eye alone, and in the background there were several orbs of light that appeared much farther up traveling in a straight diagonal line all appearing to be equally spaced, they also appeared to pass through some sort of "barrier" becoming no longer visible at the exact same spot. Very strange I have never been interested in this type of extraterrestrial stuff or any of the sort, but I have to admit! I have been consumed by curiosity. I've googled everything and have not come across anything similar to what my wife and I witnessed. P.s in the time box I put aprox 2 minutes however we did not see the event begin as it was currently happening in the sky as we walked to the car, on my way to work .
May 15, 2021 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Rochester, MI
This morning around 11:30 I seen a silver, spherical shaped UFO. As I was walking out of my house, I noticed a dot in the sky with clouds behind it. At first, I thought it was a bird extremely high up in the air, but as it continued to move straight forward at high speeds, the sunlight caught its reflection and it shined a bright flash of light, which further drew my attention to it. This is when I realized it was spherical and silver, although it also seemed to be reflecting the light surrounding it. It had to be at least 15-20,000 ft high. I continued to observe it while walking to my car, which was facing the direction it was coming from. It continued to move straight forward at a high speed. As I got into my car, it made a sudden vertical shot upwards, with a blurry kind of hue surrounding it. It was no longer visible because of how high up it was. There was no noise during this sighting.
May 15, 2021 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Ocean Shores, WA
It was late in the evening but still light out. From my front deck I looked up at the sky and saw 10 to 15 lights or maybe orbs. The sky was mostly clear with a light blue background. I live on the beach and was shocked to see all of those lights together but each was one was slowly moving on its own and all were coming over my house heading SW in like a group. I watched them slowly move SW maybe towards Portland. I am 78 years old and and they sure got my attention!