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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
September 12, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Brooks, ME
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 11, 2016 · 7:43 PM · FIREBALL
Austin, TX
An enormous fireball zipped overhead, leaving a trail behind it, and apparently landed on the ground. Several citywide blackouts and electronic disturbances took place in the hours prior to this happening. I was driving along I-35 around 7:43PM, when I saw a massive spherical ball of yellow light moving along the sky leavng behind a blue-white trail behind. Sparks were emanating from it similar to those a large Tesla coil produces. The light then disappeared and a smaller metallic object appeared where the light was. The object was a lustrous disc or saucer-shaped object and appeared to land west of I-35. Hundreds of people saw this. There were massive and alternating blackouts in Austin 12-24 hours before this took place. Several radio towers were also malfunctioning that day, leading to certain television programs such as CBS not airing. Please investigate this incident. I am shocked and frightened by what I saw. A well written report, but we wonder whether it is a serious-minded, and sincere, report. If anyone knows anything about the alleged blackouts, or about the event itself, we would welcome additional reports. PD
September 10, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lima, OH
My husband and I and two of our children were waiting in line at drive thru restaurant. My 9 yr old said "what are those brights lights?" We looked to the east, and on the distance were 8 fireballs which at first glance appeared could be Chinese lanterns.... However immediately my husband and I said "moving way too fast for that" they were in a formation moving like Chinese lanterns but much faster.....my husband got his smart phone out and we kept watching and soon they went off course and shifted directions.....I never took my eyes off them and somehow they merged into 3 red balls....and faded away within about 15 seconds....it was very weird! My husband's phone picked nothing up.....and there was no sound. My husband said only possibility other than ufo was jet fighters training in formation? But even he doubted that...we looked online and there was no mention of night training that night.....also I researched to see if anyone else had seen because I can't imagine nobody else seeing this? Maybe if I post my Story others will Speak up.
September 10, 2016 · 2:45 AM · FIREBALL
Pharr, TX
Got home from traveling out of state, went outside to smoke a cigarette, and saw an object coming down to earth, more like a comet or debris, really bright we all saw it, myself, and 2 nephews. I was speaking to them about solar warden, looking up, we clearly saw it the through its descent and we heard a hissling sound like when fireworks and going up. Huge ball of fire, tip was blue/white with a blue tail that followed.
September 10, 2016 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Jasper (Canada), AB · Canada
hello, I was with my girlfriend that night and we decided to go watch the stars by the river about 6 km south of town looking north, so i parked with the back of my car facing the river. We stayed in the car laying in a bed we made watching. All of a sudden I was watching the stars and a star appeared right in front of me, a very bright star that had the brightness of a planet. So i kept looking and I told my girlfriend to look at it to swearing that I had just seen it appear. We both started looking at the star for about 3 or 4 minutes when the star just disappeared. We kept looking at the spot where the star was until it re appeared again. it appeared and disappeared every 3 or 4 minutes for about 15 minutes staying in the same spot the entire time. Then, as I was looking at it bright again for a few minutes. I was looking at it and all of a sudden it flashed brightly three times, to then dim away to more of a dim orange light and immediately started moving south, hovering all over jasper slowly and appeared to be loosing altitude but was traveling a straight line, getting so close and so low that I could almost make a shape. it disappeared almost directly over our car. For about five minutes, I kept looking to see if it would re appear right where in was, almost directly over our car on the East side of town. All of sudden a loud bang came from out of the trunk area on our car like something landing or hitting. And then we turned to each other asking if had both heard the noise, we thought maybe it was an animal but our trunk was facing the water and the noise was far to loud for it to be a small animal. then we heard more noises coming from out trunk, so I jumped in the drivers seat to leave. When I turned on lights and started driving my girlfriend looked in the mirror and said that there was nothing she could see. Also, our dog was in the car and did not react to any of this, even the noises coming from the trunk.
September 9, 2016 · 8:43 PM · FIREBALL
Battle Ground, WA
I am in the backyard, looking up in the sky, and this fireball like object shoots down. There was a sound. But it was huge!
September 8, 2016 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Erwin, NC
Bright white light falling extremely fast from atmosphere to the ground approximately in the area of Four Iaks to Smithfield, NC. No sound, spear of burning light with a tail, estimate object size 50 ft across with 80 ft tail
September 8, 2016 · 5:55 PM · FIREBALL
Wake Forest, NC
Pulling in my driveway, my daughter pointed it out, super fast, crossed sky in a few seconds heading East. Appeared to be crashing to Earth.
September 7, 2016 · 9:23 AM · FIREBALL
Portsmouth, RI
A strange bright red light much bigger than a plane or satellite lit up hugely and bright then just disappeared into the night. It looked like something caught fire almost. This lasted 45 secs. About 15 seconds later a second bright light appears, circles around in the same spot and then disapers into the night once again. It was one of the strangest things ive seen in the night sky. I'm stumped at what it could be.
September 6, 2016 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Dundalk, MD
Myself and my 3 children were driving on peninsula highway in Dundalk, Maryland, 21222, when we saw 3 circular glowin white objects that had glowing tales behind them. Initially I thought they were meteors. But, they appeared to be under intelligent control. The trajectory of the objects were flying at a very low degree, I think about 10 degrees. I kept an eye on these objects for about 20 minutes until I could no longer see them due to building structures. This was the first time I've seen what I think we're ufos.
September 6, 2016 · 1:30 PM · FIREBALL
Lake Crystal, MN
Red glow on the horizon. Thought a house/barn was on fire. Called husband (in law enforcement, working at the time). No fire reported. Called 911 to report in case it hadn't been. Looked as bright/vibrant as the sun setting except at 1:30am and more contained like a raging house fire.
September 4, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
National Park, NJ
3 large round red objects moving from east to west as they passed over our house, going towards phila pa, they just diminished m they were moving at a slow pace, 1 behind the other. Then after that, looking south there was a large white light moving north towards us then it diminisehed I have unbelievable photos
September 4, 2016 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
Lawrenceburg, KY
At 10:45 I saw two red flying objects. Slow moving from South to North. They both were red with a bright light in the center along with bright red light running through the center. I ran into the house to get phone and took pictures. A few minutes later, I saw two more exactly the same and appeared to be traveling the same distance apart as the previous two.
September 4, 2016 · 10:29 PM · FIREBALL
Varnell, GA
We were driving down a country road on a clear night when we noticed 7 bright orange lights flying in the same direction (slightly northwest) at the same speed (moving quickly). The one in the front suddenly disappeared and then the next in line would disappear when it reached the location of the first to disappear. We pulled over in a church parking lot to watch with another vehicle that did the same. We continued to drive and saw 8 more heading in the same direction before the trees obstructed our view.
September 4, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Elgin, IL
Just after 9:00pm Central time last night (Sept 4), my husband and I saw 3 glowing orange fireball-like objects moving swiftly across the night sky from the south/southeast to the north/northwest. They were about 30 seconds apart, about 40 degrees above the horizon, followed the same path and did not make a sound. We are absolutely certain they were not commercial airliners, as there were no blinking wingtip or tail lights or jet engine noise. Furthermore, a short time after seeing the three fireball objects, two commercial airliners were seen and heard passing overhead .... going from north to south (the opposite direction of the fireball objects). A short time later, two move fireball-like objects were seen, again with no blinking lights or jet engine sound. Again, they were about 30 seconds apart and traveling in a southern to northern path.
September 4, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Pflugerville, TX
BBQing and watching the UT Football game. While outside observed multiple fireballs traveling from South to North. Continued to watch and observed many of the same. Would have assumed a meteor shower, but a few of them broke trajectory and travelled East / West from initial path. Rough video on IPhone, not nearly as clear as watching live, but this certainly did not seem like a natural event. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 3, 2016 · 11:55 PM · FIREBALL
Portland, OR
At approx 11:55 pm, I observed in the western sky a large green fireball, with a strange oblong shape to it, traveling northward, at a fast declination. I am only a couple miles from i5 corridor, and I imagine anyone traveling southward would have had a perfect oncoming view. It flared across the sky, very large and bright. I did not hear a bang, or any sirens minutes later. Reporting for clarity.
September 3, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Chicago (Wood Dale), IL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 3, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Manalapan, NJ
I was driving a big transit passenger bus southbound on Route 9 in a rural farm area with low lying corn fields and no bright street lights ...off in the southern sky moving towards me was a bright orange flaming object ..it was moving south to north, which meant it would pass directly over me ...as it got closer, I could see that it was low flying on an even flight path of around maybe 2 thousand feet ..the flames surrounding the object were similar to a candle flame dancing and moving which concealed the object inside the flames ...inside the flames it appeared to be a wedge shape object that was very bright whitish in color ...this passed directly over me as I drove under it, while having a perfect view out of the big front windshield ...it was slow moving and remained on a steady path of flight ..the flames seemed to be a characteristic of the craft, not a fire caused by accident or entering atmosphere ..these fireball craft seem to have fire enveloping ! them even when flying low and slow.
September 2, 2016 · 11:59 PM · FIREBALL
Salem, OR
Anonymous source; no contact information. We have changed the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting, but we have no way to confirm. PD
September 2, 2016 · 9:44 PM · FIREBALL
Seekonk, MA
Walking back into my work office I noticed a bright red, fireball type object hovering in the sky. It was dark out so it was clearly visible. It was the brightest red I've ever seen then began to turn orange. All the while it was just hovering In the same spot. I ran to my office door to open it and upon return to the spot I had been standing, it had vanished. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 2, 2016 · 8:18 PM · FIREBALL
St. Albans, WV
Driving on Hampshire Dr and spotted what at first I thought was an airborne firework. Upon closer observation object was not descending or fading but appeared to "roll" across the sky. Object remained brightly lit and continued in a southeast trajectory until leaving field of view over the horizon. Sky was clear, near sunset, and object had intense red glow. Object made no noise and left no trail in the sky.
September 2, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Greenfield, WI
We have amended the time above, to reflect a sighting at midnight, not noon. PD
September 1, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lehighton, PA
The first fireball was seen traveling from north to south. It looked like a semi-transparent red sphere with something yellow in the center. After it had passed by, a second followed the same path. It was identical in appearance to the first. At that time, I alerted the second witness. He only saw the second one and it was some distance away looking more like a strange star at that point.