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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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September 1, 2016 · 2:30 AM · FIREBALL
Innisfree (Canada), AB · Canada
At approximately 2:30 am, in Alberta, Canada, on the highway 16 corridor, between Vegreville and Vermilion, I witnessed what appeared to be an orange flame-looking object, traveling westbound and the object made no noise (appeared to be the size of if you look at a full moon at its highest point in the sky, you take that size and reduce it by a third) It appeared to be a little north of my position the distance traveled was at approximately 30-45 degree inclination it took about a minute to travel that distance.
August 30, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Tempe, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 27, 2016 · 11:15 PM · FIREBALL
White House, TN
My girlfriend and I were returning home from the store and as I was backing into my spot I could see two red orbs low on the horizon about a foot apart from my perspective through the rear glass. We both got out and watched the two for about 1 min then the one to the left faded out then the next right after. As the seconded one faded there came a third from the east and slowed stopped turned and continued south in the same manner as the first two. Then a fourth and finally the fifth all in the same flight path. There may have been more before we seen the 5. They made no sound at least none we could here. I thought at first Chinese lanterns but then the stopped and turned. I did get video of the last three but it's really hard to see any detail. I also grabbed my binoculars, no detail, they just looked like bright red balls. No flashing lights just solid bright then dimming. We watched for maybe 5 minutes.
August 27, 2016 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Jefferson, SD
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 26, 2016 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Surf City, NJ
Fireball across sky, faster then a place, lowering and disappeared within a minute. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 25, 2016 · 8:58 PM · FIREBALL
Canton, OH
Senior couple in route home from restaurant, on Whipple Rd. in Canton, Ohio. Flaming orb overhead in night sky. We turned into parking lot to observe further. Object hovered, grew dimmer, and then moved SE and disappeared. Have never seen anything like this!!!!
August 25, 2016 · 2:20 AM · FIREBALL
Lakewood, WA
Third time I've seen this. This time strange because they were red at first than turned white toward fort Lewis then we're gone. Third time I saw them what's stranger. Its like they know when I'm going to be looking and in a short while there here over my home.
August 24, 2016 · 1:10 AM · FIREBALL
Mt. Airy, MD
Round large orange and black shaped ball that was in the same spot for two to three minutes. Ran inside and got my camera and took a picture from the deck. Went to the ground to take a second picture and it disappeared into thin air. It was almost see through but bright and vibrant with a black haze covering it. Too big to be a blood moon or planet. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 23, 2016 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Holland, MI
8/23/2016 10:20 pm Holland, MI. I would like to report 2 rather bright orange "balls" that I just saw travelling in a straight line SSE to NNW direction. I observed these objects from the deck and driveway of my home in Holland, MI. The objects had no strobes, and were much brighter and quicker than e.g. Chinese lanterns. (Note that it is quite still out ... not even a breeze.) Each object traversed at a steady pace across the sky in approximately 10 seconds. No sounds. The first one disappeared to the NNW into light cloud cover. That may help you understand the altitude. About 15 seconds after the first disappeared from sight, a second followed the same track from SSE to NNW ... same apparent speed and altitude. The second seemed more red than orange on the travelling "front" edge of the ball. Hard to say the true size, since an actual distance couldn't really be determined. From my view, they both appeared to be about the size of a pea in the night sky (fairly clear out this! evening, with a nice view of the stars). I wouldn't exactly call them "fireballs," but they did have something of that look to them color/texture wise.
August 22, 2016 · 2:49 AM · FIREBALL
Perris, CA
It started 2 nights ago, on 08/20/16, my brother was driving home at about 10:15 PM when he saw the object flying in the air. It was a single glowing red-orange light floating about 150 feet in the air, irregularly pulsating. He immediately could tell it wasn’t a plane or helicopter, as he came closer to the neighborhood he said that the light grew in intensity and brightness before flashing and exploding in what he described as looking like “sparks and drops of liquid metal”. I was at home at the time, I was organizing some papers when I heard a loud explosion, I couldn’t tell if it was a gunshot or fireworks but didn’t think too much of it. When my brother arrived home he told me to come outside and check out the strange light. It definitely wasn’t a plane or helicopter, my first thought was a quadcopter drone. But those are often loud and usually have red and green lights, if any. This was a single orange light that was floating silently from southwest to northeast. I was only able to see it for about 5 minutes before it just suddenly vanished. Frustratingly, it disappeared before I could get any pictures. It happened a second time tonight (08/22/16). It was about 2:40 AM, I was staying up late doing some reading and I heard an extremely loud and percussive boom from outside, it sounded like a grenade went off across the street. It was echoing off of nearby hills it was so loud. I ran outside to see what was happening, dogs were barking all around the neighborhood because of the sound. I thought about the light from 2 nights ago and started looking up to see if it was there, sure enough, the same glowing orange light was silently floating above my neighborhood, this time it was much higher in altitude, maybe 500-1000 feet. Again, it was floating from southwest to northeast, irregularly pulsing in a red-orange hue. A bit redder than a campfire usually is. This time though, it kept moving until it suddenly stopped moving and was stationary in the sky. I was able to get an old telescope out to get a better look, but I couldn’t see any definite features. Even in the telescope it ! was just an orange light. To the naked eye it looked completely stationary, but in the telescope you see it slowing moving around, hovering in place. It slowly faded away until it disappeared about 20 minutes after I started watching it. This time I was able to capture a few pictures of it on my cellphone, which doesn’t show much other than a dot in the sky, but it does show up. Very weird experiences. I’m going to try and be watchful and study it more, if it happens again.
August 22, 2016 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Hibbing, MN
It was going slow. It seemed then disappeared across the sky in about thirty seconds. No noise or sound from object, because a minute later or so a jet flew by and we could hear that and it took much longer for the jet to disappear out of view! 12:30p.m 8/21/16 Hibbing, MN. Witness confirmed that the correct time was 00:30 on August 22nd. We have amended the time and date above. PD
August 20, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Jamestown, PA
My husband and I were leaving, walking along the shoreline of Pymatuning Lake in Jamestown, PA, when we saw three large reddish-orange glowing orbs in a triangle formation. He saw them first. They moved slowly over the lake, and at first, I thought they were newspaper lanterns. When my husband said that they were much larger than that, I began to watch them and realized they were not lanterns, nor were they anything we'd ever seen before. We estimate that they were probably around the Andover, Ohio, area, but appeared large to us, even though we were about seven miles away. As we watched, we saw fourth light, a smaller light trailing behind. They glowed, but the three larger orbs held formation while the smaller--more distant--seemed to try to catch up. They disappeared suddenly as they approached a tree line.
August 20, 2016 · 8:22 PM · FIREBALL
Hazel Crest, IL
10-12 yellow/orange fireballs, slowly moving across the sky in formations. Traveling west to east in the sky. No sound present. One fireball slowed down to wait for others to catch up and moved in a lateral direction. As the fireballs moved east, they began to disappear. Caught on cellphone video.
August 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Fort Pierce, FL
Was a yellow bright yellow fire polish tape crafts with no strobe lights or no no red flashing lights or anything. Going moderately kind of slow just at a slow pace passing right in front of the Moon very low
August 19, 2016 · 6:30 AM · FIREBALL
Pompano Beach, FL
I was opening the garage door at work & spotted a light in the sky that grew in intensity. I've seen shooting stars many times before, so I thought that it would be one. However, it took off really quick & the orb was glowing green, while the tail & the sky around it flashed through different colors rapidly. Not to mention that it was MUCH bigger than a shooting star. It was almost similar to a flare being shot off, but it was green (not red), flew in a fast & straight line, and it had a bunch of colors streaming from it. There is a video online of a Green Fireball flying over Poland. That is very similar to what I saw in almost every detail (even how the head detached from the tail) except for the one I saw had the tail that kept changing colors. I wasn't going to report this, but I saw that there were other reports of a (the?) fireball flying around that same day. I want to include that in 1999, me & my girlfriend witnessed a triangle UFO hovering very close to where we were standing in a parking lot. DAYS after that spotting, I noticed a strange triangle pattern tattooed into my hand that matched right up to other triangle tattoos that I've seen on other UFO witnesses. I'm saying all this because I HAVE NOT YET looked over my body this time, but I will in order to see if there is anything abnormal.
August 19, 2016 · 12:55 AM · FIREBALL
Vero Beach, FL
My boyfriend and I honestly felt crazy,, and were not going to post anything, until we saw a startlingly similar sighting in our town, same area *the beach,* at nearly identical time, August 19th, around 12:50 am and on. We walked down to the beach and sat by the water, we are sitting now and see to our right (about 150 yards away) a white blinking light close to the ground, running uncomfortably fast towards us. We had our dog, a Doberman, and assumed maybe it was a puppy with a blinking collar for night time. Regardless, it freaked me out a bit an we ran back to our beach access (approximately 0.3 of a mile). When we felt we were at the safety of our access and close to our home, we turned around and saw not just one blinking light, but now two. Sprinting from the shore all the way to the top of the beach, back and forth at insane speed. The blinking lights are going into the water-about 5 yards, and seem to have no trouble sprinting back and forth without stopping. At this point, we realized their speed and how the second light came out of nowhere, it could not be dogs. At this point, I was very uneasy and told my boyfriend I would like to go home. He insisted on watching and figuring it out. When I told him again I was leaving, the two blinking lights shut off. After 3-5 seconds of darkness, the lights come back on but now there are more, maybe 5 separate sources of these blinking lights, running quickly from the shore to the top of the beach. We turn around to go home and DIRECTLY in front of us, 100 yards AT MOST, and 3 stories high there is a bright orange/yellow LARGE light (looked like it could have been a plane) until it began rushing towards us and would change speed-when we turned around it was racing towards us but when we saw it, immediately slowed. It was directly over us at a point and there was a white light in the middle of it reflecting down over us. We looked where it originally seemed to be speeding from, and there WAS a small smoke trail. We started screaming and ran back to the street. We tried understanding what it was, but couldn't. There was no start or end to the object-it was glowing, it had a glowing aura about it.It made no noise whatsoever. It was right above us and we hard nothing. Neither of us were intoxicated and we consistently walk the beach at night as we live so close. We have never seen anything like this. When we were on the street, we looked back at the apartment building and could see the object hovering over the beach access where we left. Literally just hovering. As we were running home, it would go behind the building so we couldn't see it, but peek back out the same side. It did this 2-3 times and disappeared, not coming back out from the apartment building again. I'm not sure if these are unrelated experiences, but at the time it felt the blinking lights were distraction to turn around and have this terrifying, unidentified object so close to us.... IF anyone has any input, please let us know. Neither of us can sleep at night.
August 19, 2016 · 12:54 AM · FIREBALL
Boca Raton, FL
I was out walking my dogs and saw what I first thought was a shooting star. But, I quickly noticed it wasn’t, because it was moving too slow. For a moment I saw a slight streak of light behind it (similar to a streak of light like a shooting star ). It at first looked like it was coming directly towards me. It was, at first, traveling in a southern direction. Then seemed to take an eastern direction. The moon was behind me. It was much, much smaller than the moon. IT WAS COMPLETELY SILENT. It probably was going about the speed a small airplane cruising (not very fast). It was a small ball, a firey looking light. I watched it cruise by in the sky for about 1 ½ minutes when it suddenly took off in a eastern direction. Now I could best describe it a shooting star leaving our atmosphere… not entering it. It left rising in altitude and streaked off to the east. I was gone in less than a second. Never making a noise. ****I HAVE ALREADY REPORTED THIS SIGHTING ***** THIS IS MORE DETAILED** I CAPTURED FOOTAGE ON MY IPHONE.
August 18, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Mesa, AZ
Driving and saw a soccer size green light, with light in back, fall from sky and disappeared. Was really fast. We assume a nighttime sighting, and have amended the time above, to reflect that fact. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time. PD
August 18, 2016 · 8:20 PM · FIREBALL
Los Angeles, CA
Green neon fell downward toward horizon. From Fairfax Blvd at Pico Blvd., traveling for 10 seconds east. Moon was large on the hoizon and rising, just past sunset. Before it hit the horizon it broke into bits of yellow light.
August 17, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Wesley Chapel, FL
We were watching the International Space Station pass by. Then, after it flew out of sight, we turned toward the north and saw what looked like a red ball of fire rising straight up from the horizon. It stopped rising about halfway in the sky and began to hover. Then a second red ball of fire rose from the horizon just to the right of the first light. It stopped and hovered at the exact same height as the first. They both remained hovering...moving slightly every once in awhile. Then, the first ball appeared to begin moving away from us and disappeared. The second red ball then did the same. No sound was heard. (We could see aircraft approaching from the northeast on a normal pattern for our area.).
August 16, 2016 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Gaylord, MI
i was driving my bike over the I-75 exit ramp, heading south, and to the left of old 27, i seen what i thought was fire works. So i pulled over to look at them and it looked like around 20 or 30 fire balls still in the sky in a line type formation for about one min from when i seen them. then they disappeared all at once.
August 15, 2016 · 9:36 PM · FIREBALL
San Diego, CA
Flashing fireball slowly moving over Mission Valley around 9:36 pm on Monday night 8/15/2016. Looked like the flash of fire wold repeat slowly moving each time the engines fired. Probably 6-10 times a second leaving a visible separate fire ball trail. Then it would go black for a few seconds and fire off 6-10 more times. It lasted for 30-60 seconds. I was speaking on my cell phone on my apartment balcony with my girlfriend looking out over Mission Valley when I noticed it. At first I thought it was fireworks but it was moving slowly in a Northeastern direction. I told my girlfriend who laughed at me and then I told her I needed to hang up the phone to video it. By the time I hit record the ufo had been gone for maybe 5-0 seconds. I just missed it.
August 15, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Laguna Beach, CA
I was with my friend at a restaurant, overlooking the ocean, sitting outside on a deck. The near full moon was out, and very bright. (Therefore, the UFOs I saw had to be very bright). I suddenly noticed 2 UFO's on the horizon. They were the color of fire, and looked like comets with very oddly shimmery tales. They were very close inside the atmosphere, like a plane over the horizon. They were flying near to one another, side by side like two fighter jets might be, on slightly higher. They were in the sky for maybe 30 seconds then the lights completely went out. Not more than a couple minutes, and they reappeared in full intensity, and then soon disappeared once more. Another table was watching dumbfounded. The waiter came by 10 minutes later and as I was relaying the story to him, the two lights appeared again, this time higher up and closer in towards the coast, and again, with the same intensity and appearance. We all stood there, strangers united by mystery, and had that "end of the world movie" type feeling. Funny side note: I asked the girl I was with to swear that if it was indeed the end of the world, we would agree to go out with a bang. But seriously this was weird. I have never seen anything quite as strange as this in the sky; how can one explain this? Not meteors, nor falling satellites, nor falling earthly space crafts, because they appeared and reappeared and were side by side in uniform. Not planes because they had this comet like tail. I wonder if anyone else saw this??? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 14, 2016 · 10:40 PM · FIREBALL
Wassaic, NY
Saw a light from overhead, travelled north north east in a 120 degree arc, terminating above Rattlesnake Mountain. Fire was approximately the size of a dime, and was visible through heavy cloud cover.