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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
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Corona/Lake Mathews, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Frazier Park, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Los Angeles, CA
While feeding the dogs in my backyard in the El Sereno district of Los Angeles I looked to the southern sky at approximately 9:35pm and saw a fireball which was yellow-orange in color. It left a luminous trail as it crossed the sky. It traveled level about 30 degrees above the southern horizon for approximately 30 seconds from the time I first began observing it. It then began to fall in altitude and break up into fragments as it reached the southeast horizon until it disappeared behind the trees and rooftops of the neighborhood. This was most likely a meteor entering the atmosphere, but I decided to leave this report nonetheless.
July 27, 2016 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Incline Village, NV
I was driving down Mt Rose Hwy, and saw what I thought to be a helicopter with a search light through the pine trees. I rolled down the window to the vehicle, and didn't hear the typical helicopter noise. The US Coast Guard has a station here, and I've seen and heard their helicopters many times, and quickly dismissed this as a one. I came to a clearing in the trees, and got a closer look at the object. It was coming from the west over Crystal Bay on the north shore of Lake Tahoe. It was round in shape, yellow/orange in color, with a long orange and purple fiery looking tail. It made no noise. For a moment it almost looked like two separate objects. It was moving slower than any aircraft that I've seen, and was heading southeast in what appeared to be a downward motion. It then disappeared into the forest. Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Boonville, CA
I'm a country boy. Often I sit out at night and enjoy the warm summer nights. Tonight I saw what looked like a white ball soaring through the sky trailed by flames. As soon as this happened I drove to the nearest town market (about 30 minutes away) to get something to drink only to have the other three people in the store including the clerk talking about what had just happened and if anyone wanted to investigate because it looked like it crash landed on a local road 50 or 60 miles out.
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
San Mateo, CA
Chinese rocket re-entry. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Rohnert Park, CA
Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Pahrump, NV
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Fresno, CA
Witness corrected the date. PD
July 27, 2016 · 12:40 AM · FIREBALL
Pueblo, CO
At 12:40 AM (MDT), I looked outside of my window because of an extremely bright light that appeared. Three very bright and large fireball objects were hovering in a triangular formation. They faded and disappeared three times before rapidly moving away after two minutes of being observed.
July 24, 2016 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Eden, ID
A bright green and yellow ball fell out past the clay caves in Eden like nothing I've ever seen before didn't hear anything crash, tho the front of it was a bright yellow with green tail
July 24, 2016 · 10:24 PM · FIREBALL
Hollister, CA
AT AROUND 10:30PM, I WAS LEAVING MY FRIEND'S HOUSE IN HOLLISTER. IT WAS A CLEAR NIGHT, EXCEPT FOR SOME SMOKE WHICH CAME FROM A FIRE LOCATED 30+ MILES TO THE WEST, NEAR CARMEL. THERE WAS NO MOON, YOU COULD SEE ALL THE STARS AND EVERYTHING. AS I WAS GETTING INTO MY CAR, I SAW TWO PASSENGER JETS THAT STOOD OUT BECAUSE THEY WERE FLYING ON A PATH THAT WASN'T ORDINARY. THE NORMAL AIR TRAFFIC TRAVELS FROM NORTH AND SOUTH TO THE BAY AREA, BUT THESE PLANES LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE FLYING LOW AND ONE TURNED AROUND, AND I THOUGHT MAYBE BECAUSE THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A LANDING DELAY OR SOMETHING. MY FRIEND STOPPED ME FROM GETTING INTO MY CAR BECAUSE HE NOTICED A RED LIGHT IN THE SKY. THE PLANES DIDN'T SHOW UP ON HIS FLIGHT RADAR APP ON HIS PHONE, WHICH IS WEIRD. IT WAS DIRECTLY SOUTH; IT SHOWED ON MY FRIEND'S COMPASS. THE LIGHT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS ASCENDING SLOWLY. WE WATCHED IT FOR ABOUT 1 MINUTE. MY FIREND WENT AND GRABBED HIS CAMERA AND BINOCULARS AND HOOKED UP A 65-MILLION CANDLE-POWER SPOTLIGHT, AND THEN THE RED LIGHT FADED OUT SLOWLY, JUST BEFORE MY FRIEND TURNED ON HIS SPOTLIGHT. BELOW AND TO THE RIGHT OF THE BIG DIPPER, AT ARM'S LENGTH, IT WAS SMALLER THAN A PENCIL ERASER, AND IT WAS STOP LIGHT RED COLOR. NO STANDARD FAA LIGHTS AND NOT THE USUAL NAVIGATION LIGHTS LIKE A USUAL JET DOES.
July 23, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Massillon, OH
No noise and traveling pretty quick. Disappeared above clouds. Wind was blowing west to east.
July 23, 2016 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Rocklin, CA
It could have been a meteor passing through the atmosphere, but I've never seen one that bright and blue and slow before.
July 22, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Farmington Hills, MI
Watched an orange red fireball go from West to East. Very high in the sky with no noise. Husband and I watched until it was out of site.
July 21, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Ocean City, MD
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 20, 2016 · 11:20 PM · FIREBALL
Culver City, CA
I was sitting on the sidewalk, looking down the middle of the street, which is when I saw a bright fireball looking object gliding down, then vanishing after 4 seconds. It appeared to be very low in the sky too as if it were going straight into the trees. It was only one bright orange/yellow ball that sped through the sky, leaving no trail behind.
July 20, 2016 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Springfield, MO
I am a retired teacher living in Springfield, Missouri. I was watering my garden about 10:15 this evening. I was not wearing a watch, but the weather news (Channel 3 KYTV broadcasts 10:35 PM - 11:37 PM) had just started when I went inside to tell my husband what I had seen. While I have been writing this report, midnight has come and gone so this is Thursday, July 21, 2016, and it covers an event which occurred on Wednesday, July 20. The sky was clear and I could see some stars. I was facing east when I caught a glimpse of a very large object over my left shoulder. It appeared to be moving through the sky in a straight line from SW to NE and disappeared from view behind tree tops in my neighbor’s yard. It took about five seconds to cover less than a 90 degree portion of the sky. There is a full moon, tonight. I know that the moon seems larger near the horizon than it does at the zenith, so it is difficult to compare the size of what I saw to the size of the moon – but the object was gigantic, more like the moon than anything else in the sky – exactly the size of a nearby street light, and as bright. I do not mean that it illuminated the ground, but that it appeared as bright as the street light I could see at the same time. The object was yellow with a tinge of red, and looked like a flame without any sparks or smoke. It was nearly round, tapering just a little toward the back end, but it had no tail, left no trail. It did not blink or change its intensity. It was silent. Our local meteorologist says that, at that time, the wind was from the south at 8 miles per hour.
July 19, 2016 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Vergennes, VT
I was driving home from work at approximately 21:15 hrs on 7/19/16, when I saw a bright reddish orange fireball. I thought immediately that it was a burning Chinese lantern. I saw it quickly for a few seconds, but had to keep my attention to the road and traffic. I was almost home at that point and quickly parked so I could relocate it in the sky. I was amazed as I looked over towards town and saw 2 of them in close proximity of each other. One started traveling southerly towards me and the other one travelled east ward, separating from each other. The one that came towards me was like a fireball, kind of shimmering as if it was on fire. Its speed slowed to almost a stop as it turned 45 degrees and headed due east. Airplanes in my area come out of the south and travel north or come from the southeast and travel northwest. I have never seen an airplane or jet fly north to south or fly towards the east. A very unusual flight path. From the time I first saw them! until they were gone was about 7-10 mins.
July 18, 2016 · 12:25 AM · FIREBALL
Fredricksburg, VA
Me, my brother, my sister, & her husband were outside swimming at around 12:20AM in the morning. We watched what looked like 5 fireballs fly from one side of the sky to the other. "Float" is a more apt term. The objects appeared to have a center made of fire, which looked like a candle flame, surrounded by an orange halo. (Like a candle flame in a dark room would make.) The fire in the center was orange as well. These objects made no sound what-so-ever. They all moved with the exact same speed, in the exact same direction, along the exact same trajectory. Each vanished over the horizon behind our house. None of us have ever seen anything remotely like this before. They looked like fireballs, but moved like aircraft, made no noise, and seemed to 'float', rather than 'fly'.
July 17, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Anaheim (NE of), CA
It was flying as fast as a plane or helicopter. I kept my eye on it as it traveled north, until it was out of my eyesight.
July 16, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Gray, TN
As we came to a four way stop it was way more clear as to what we were seeing. It was a round softball size fire ball. Almost as if whatever it was may have operated the same way a hot air balloon does. It was over the car and hoovered keeping up to speed with us. As we stopped at the stop sign it stopped as well. It was maybe 5 ft higher than the power lines.it was still as we watched it for maybe 30 seconds over the car before flying straight up...very high. I watched it until it was so far up, it was umseeable.
July 16, 2016 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Eugene, OR
A fireball soared across the sky followed by a very fast and colorful aircraft. I am a skeptic and don't believe in Ufos. Last night changed my mind. Wondering if any one else saw this.
July 13, 2016 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
Kennewick, WA
9:50 PM After coming home from a walk, the two of us noticed an object in the sky. There were 3 large, fireball-like orbs smoothly traveling their own curved routes, one after the other. They were a bright, rich orange, colored and glowing like fire. The first moved towards us, then turned in path and continued to the left of us (North), dimming increasingly but maintaining its size, pulsating, and controlled demeanor. About 3 minutes after we first spotted it, right as we were struggling to keep track of it in the distance, the second appeared from the same place the first had in the sky. It seemed to move slightly closer towards us, turned at the same point as the first, and followed in the same direction but in a tighter arc. When what seemed to be the exact same amount of time in between the first and second sightings had passed, and it was just getting out of sight, the third appeared. After turning, this one made the widest arc and came closest to us by doing so. Despite standing in the middle of a parking lot, staring up at the sky, commenting, and recording the encounter, it was as if all pedestrian traffic resumed minutes after the third had passed, and the one person who did walk right by us in the middle of the event didn’t seem to notice either us or the sky. There were no clouds and stars were out.