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August 13, 2016 · 11:00 AM · FIREBALL
Near Hinton, WV
Hello my I am ((male's name deleted)) at the time of my Unidentified flying ball of fire experience and sighting. I was driving south on HC 20 towards pipestem wv, as I started to cross the bridge I noticed the ball of fire as it could only be described.The object was traveling at high speed of deceant at what I could judge was a 40degree angle based off the line of travel compared to the top of the bridge . Now as I reached the other side with disbelief I turned my vehicle around and proceeded slower back over the bridge as the fireball crossed over the bridge in plain view and continued its course down into the bluestone scenic river below. My view of the object was lost due my vehicle sitting below eye level of the bridge so I am unsure if it made contact with the water below or if it hit the ground. With the most accurate I could be about it’s size was the ball of fire was the size of a small house which I know could be caused by a multitude of things. With that said I would suggest it’s center mass to be around the size of small single prop plane or a little larger. As I approached the northern side of the bridge and attempted to find a place to park it was out of sight by that time. I have not been able to find any notice of a plane going down in that area nor anyone else reporting the siting of a ball of fire. As I know this is years later that I am making this report and my family thought I was crazy then but As my family and I were renting a cabin in the Blustone national park for that week visiting my daughter. I figured that if it had been a plane or such there would have been some notification. I will stand by this statement and plan to search the area in the near future when I travel back to WV in the coming months. The date range was around August 9-13 of 2016. I had even attempted to take a photo with my phone at that time but can only find one picture for the entire month of August 2016 left in my google photos. If anyone has any explanation that doesn’t involve a conspiracy theory or government cover up. I would be interested to know on a scientific and educational level. As I do believe we are not the creatures of intelligence in a universe full of universes. Thank you greatly for you time
August 12, 2016 · 7:40 PM · FIREBALL
Kalawana (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka
The craft appeared suddenly from Eastern sky and moved to west. Light was bluish green.. duration was only 4 seconds. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
August 11, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
South Gate, CA
We have changed the data above, to reflect a sighting on August 11th. Witness elects to remain anonymous; shares no contact information, so we are unable to verify the date. PD
August 10, 2016 · 3:30 AM · FIREBALL
Avon, MA
I pulled into the Walmart where it looked like it may have hit the ground just behind it. Nobody was around. I'm so surprised the car in front of me didn't pull over. I hope I'm not the only one who saw it. I've never seen anything like it before in my life.
August 9, 2016 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Pawleys Island, SC
Red flare-like object appeared 15-30 degrees above horizon. The object proceeded towards the horizon line at an extremely high speed. As it became closer to the horizon it turned from red to green. It disappeared about 5 degrees above the horizon.
August 8, 2016 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Emerald Isle, NC
At approximately 11:45pm, while sitting on the deck of a beach front property on Emerald Isle, NC, I observed a yellow orangish sphere/fireball in the SSE sky that was pulsing different diameters/brightness as it descended through slighly cloudy conditions at an 80ish degree angle down into the ocean. Event lasted 5-8 seconds, and was estimated to be several miles out to sea. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 8, 2016 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Sheridan, WY
Bright as the moon, took a full minute to cross from north to south. Even illumination entire time, no sound, no shape just a bright light with slight golden hue appeared to be very slow moving but once overhead disappeared within 25 seconds solely on distance, clear night.Not a shooting star, no flashing lights, no noise. Estimated moving around 5k feet. (( Overflight of ISS at 2215 hrs. http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544⪫=44.7972&lng=-106.9562&loc=Sheridan&alt=1142&tz=MST ISS was approximately 403 kilometers above witness. PD))
August 7, 2016 · 11:24 PM · FIREBALL
Cement City, MI
I was walking home and on my way home I saw a shooting star which drew my attention to the sky. As I walked and watched I saw this big streak of light crashing down from the sky. The color of the light is the same as a bulb in the pitch black. It appeared to be crashing due to the fact streaks of fire dashed through the trail of light behind it, which I realized was smoke. After crashing at alarming speeds the object abruptly stopped and faded its colors to match that of a star with a red/blue ring around it.
August 6, 2016 · 8:50 PM · FIREBALL
New Lenox, IL
I was outside watering flowers after returning from dinner and a show and observed 3 fireball objects passing in a southwesterly direction. I called my husband to witness and he took pictures of several more passing overhead. We are retired professionals in good mental health. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 5, 2016 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Coweta, OK
My husband and I spend most of our evenings on our apartment porch. We are on the corner of the 3rd story and face an open field next to our apartment complex. We're the only ones with this amount of an amazingly open field view at this complex. Though it's an open field, it is outlined with trees, some of which are close to our porch. From the porch of my 3rd story apt about 20-30 ft out from me, just above a tree top, I looked up and out just in time to randomly see a dull orange/red orb come over and around a tree top right in front of me. I didn't sense it, it made no sound at all, and even though it glowed orange and reddish orange it didn't cast enough light to shine on to anything. So with that being said if I hadn't just looked out at the view in front of me at that exact moment, I would have never seen it, I would have never known it was there at all. It moved fast and direct. Staying just inches above the tree tops, moving decidedly around the tree! tops. Too fast, too silent and too weird of a light to be a drone, too close and too small to be mistaken for a plane or helicopter. A big storm was brewing in the next town over (Broken Arrow/Tulsa) that we could easily see amazing lightening take place from, but the weather was very calm and pleasant where we were. Almost no wind or noise, just a calm night. By the time I registered what I was seeing and started to say, "Wow look at…," to my husband, it was gone without a trace. The whole thing took place in under 10 seconds, my husband was lighting his cigarette while this was taken place and there for didn't see anything. The weirdest thing of all, it didn't fly away, shoot off or land. As soon as I made a sound to form the words Wow, it was that exact moment, mid-flight past our porch it just vanished! Gone. Not up, not down, not hiding... light off in the blink of an eye, no traces left, gone. Poof. Next day I had a strange, realistic dream (occurrence?) during a midday nap. I felt the need to wake and check on my kids but when I tried to sit up and roll over I felt drugged, no strength, couldn't hardly move or open my eyes. I managed a weird flop and roll over, tried to say my daughters name but it sounded sluggish to my own ears. I managed to open my eyes just enough to be blinded by a very direct bright pin point of a light. I asked my husband later that day if he had come home from work on lunch and for some weird reason shined his phones flashlight in my face or something haha, but he said no definitely not. All I know is I must have immediately gone into a deep sleep and woke what felt like only 5 to 10 minutes later but I can not be sure. Everything seemed fine in the house when I did get up, my daughter was asleep on the couch and my son was in his room on the xbox. I went outside to my porch to just take a minute and reflect, thats when I noticed a wicked bad bruise on my left calf muscle with no explanation as to when or how I acquired it. A day or two later a solid white perfect circle appeared in the bruise, next day another perfect circle appeared right next to the first one; Both in the middle of the bruise. That's also when I noticed there were solid pea sized hard lumps. One under each white circle in the middle of this purple, blue, green, yellow bruise. A few days later the circles became outlined in perfect red lines that almost resemble spider veins but much softer, smaller and lighter and in an almost honeycomb shape. The bruises and red lines are gone now, but the hard mass is still very much there. Also it stopped feeling like two individual pea sized knots and started feeling more like the size and shape of just one Tylenol pill. To sum it up: Softball/basketball sized orb, dull reddish orange glowing orb, flew around a tree top and past me on my 3rd story apartment porch. When my presence was made known by me attempting to alert my husband of the orb, it blinked out of sight. Next day I had a very strange nap that I felt I couldn't wake up from and when I tried I can barley recall a bright pinpointed light shine in my eyes while I was in bed in my room and I fell back to sleep. Later same day, I found a big bruise on my inner left calf muscle that was shaped like a dogs paw print. One big bruise with 3 medium to small bruises just above the big bruise. Bruise was wicked, dark purple, blue, green, yellows and next day a small white perfect circle appeared, than another of the same size right next to it, then I felt the hard object under the bruise. Bruise is now completely gone but the hard mass is still there.
August 5, 2016 · 9:46 PM · FIREBALL
Mason, WV
I was just finishing yard work late in the evening when I noticed a brightly lit red colored object in the southern sky. Object was moving in easterly direction. Object was bright, then oscillated to a lower brightness intensity, then went dark. One minute later another object with exact same characteristics followed the same path as the first object. Sky was very clear, and it was easy to discern how these objects were much different than other planes, which were also in the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2016 · 2:30 AM · FIREBALL
Mackinaw City, MI
seen what i thought was a chinese candle and kept doing what i was doing it was moving east with the wind 5 mins later i glanced up and coming from the east was that orange fire ball i ran in the house grabed my binoculars and ran back outside telling my wife come here she got on the porch and it started to dim as it got closer eventually going completely out my wife went back inside and i stayed on the porch terrified about 10 mins later it reappeared again going directly over me i felt an erie feeling that what ever it was was watching me, and in my minds eye i was told to look to the east and there it was again, ever since then i have seen many lights moving stopping changing direction some orange and some bright in any case i have been told subliminally to go outside and look up ,i really think im loosing my mind i didnt want to report it but it keeps happening and i hope someone will report what i saw to put my mind at ease please?am i going crazy and seei! ng things ,no drugs or drinking at all on my part.
August 1, 2016 · 11:04 PM · FIREBALL
Florissant, MO
As I pulled up to my house, I seen a bright red-orange ball of light flying in the sky going Northwest over my house. I ran inside my house and yelled "UFO! UFO!" My mom jumped up from the couch and stood next to me as we watched the luminous object move pretty swiftly across the sky. I ran in my parents bedroom and retrieved my dad and my brother and by the time we got outside to get a better look the craft was almost out of sight and flew behind our tree and finally over the cloud cover. It covered a vast distance in about 20 seconds of time and was high enough in the air to go above the clouds. The creepy party about it was that once it flew behind the clouds we could still see location of the object as the red glow could be seen through the clouds for a few more seconds. The object almost seemed to be rotating as it moved across the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 30, 2016 · 10:50 PM · FIREBALL
Roseburg, OR
i went outside for a smoke and when i looked up to the east i saw what appeared to be either a meteor breaking thru the atmosphere but had a blue light atop it light a rocket would have.
July 30, 2016 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
College Station, TX
We were stopped at a light on an intersection, when both of us saw a green fireball shoot across the sky. At first we thought it was a meteor. However, when compared to visuals of meteors, the object was vastly different. Don't exactly know what it was, but that's what makes this a UFO. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 30, 2016 · 9:39 PM · FIREBALL
Lawrence, MA
My husband and I were driving back into Boston, MA, on route 93s, when he pointed out a fireball heading towards us. I looked up and it looked like a lit t-shape fork with the wings slightly tilted up at the ends, but completely covered with fire. I could not believe it. I almost stopped right there and then and almost caused an accident. I pulled over by passing two lanes and parked on the emergency lane. The object kept flying at the same level and headed left over us into what could have been Lowell/Lawrence area. I was completely shocked. This is the second time I see something in the sky that is completely rare to me and the people with me. I tried to take a video/pic, but by the time I pulled over I only observed it for a few more seconds before it disappeared into the sky, meaning kept flying away from me. I wonder if anyone else saw this? :/
July 30, 2016 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Norwalk, CA
Thought maybe it was a helicopter or airplane that seemed to be coming in my direction, but then it just kind of stopped and faded away.
July 28, 2016 · 2:50 AM · FIREBALL
Clackamas, OR
I was driving home early in the morning from a job on Oregon City. Heading north on I-205. A low flying green fireball lit up the sky for at least 4 seconds. It was like no other shooting star or meteor I have ever seen. Low and huge. It seemed as close as a passenger jet. Possible meteor?? PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
West Valley City, UT
My husband noticed me looking up and I pointed at it and we both watched it as it glided and either burned out or landed out of out view. It looked like fiery rain as it disappeared. Shortly before this occured, the street light on out street burned out for a few minutes leaving the entire street dark and then eventually re-lit.
July 27, 2016 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
Salt Lake City, UT
My wife and I were driving from west valley eastward and saw a number (10-15) of what appears to be a cluster of burning fireballs in a trailing like pattern in the sky. What was also strange was the velocity at which they were traveling. They were moving fairly slow, especially when compared to shooting stars. They travelled for about 2 minutes from the time we discovered them until the faded or burned out into darkness. Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:41 PM · FIREBALL
Sherman Oaks, CA
Like a large plane on fire the object went across the night sky, West to East. It covered 90 degrees of my sight line. It traveled about the same speed as an airplane one normally watches at night. It went directly over the San Fernando Valley, heading due East towards Arizona. The object was the length of the full moon, the height maybe half or quarter the full moon. About the size of a plane in the sky if it were ablaze The tail, orange and red, like a candle flame burns, but on its side. The tail was 10-20 full moons long. A spectacular sight. I took a photo, which kinda looks like it, ith a 135mm nikkor f22 on bulb, so it is not a great shot, although my wife looked at it and said "cool." Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:40 PM · FIREBALL
St. George, UT
Driving home from work and I see an object moving at airplane speeds, then an elongated fireball streaking across the sky and the flying object disappeared. I had 3 friends hiking across town who also saw the same events unfold. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:37 PM · FIREBALL
Layton, UT
We observed two bright round shapes with fiery trails as if a craft was burning upon re-entry or an object was burning before fading out. Objects where very close together as if separated before disintegrating. Objects were coming from west to east near Hill AFB. Velocity was close to that of a plane and not that of a meteorite. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 10:35 PM · FIREBALL
West Valley City, UT
Would love to have it any lied to know what this was. But can't share on this site due to the rules. I will potentially post this on youtube as a UFO / ASTEROID /COMET in sky of Utah, 7/27/16. Chinese rocket re-entry. PD