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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.
11,675 entries
January 17, 2021 · 3:00 PM · SPHERE
Los Angeles, CA
My wife and I were playing outside with our 5 year old when I noticed 3 spheres passing in front of the moon. There was one sphere leading the 3 others. We lost sight of them but then noticed they had just stopped. Then the spheres looked like they were going straight up till they disappeared. I tried to record it but could not see the objects through the camera lens.
January 17, 2021 · 9:45 AM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
Blue/ Green orb. Hovered for a moment then flew away to towards the west.
January 16, 2021 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Orange, VA
At 20:30 I stepped out onto my deck, which is on the back of my house, and looked to the south-southwest, where I spotted what looked like the full moon behind a thin layer of clouds, bright but somewhat diffused. It was fairly low in the sky, about 7 to 10 degrees above the horizon. I recall cheerfully greeting the moon with a ‘hello, moon’, a habit I have when it is particularly bright, which is why I took note of it later, when it disappeared. It was there for at least the next 5 minutes, then I went inside. On that night, the actual moon was in waxing crescent, with only 20% illumination, which I saw when I stepped back outside an hour later. No trace of the ‘full moon’ was visible, only the proper crescent phase. The position of the large, white glowing disk was far lower in the sky than the orbit of the moon is currently following, as well. It made no sound, had no color except for the pale glow the moon sheds, and did not flicker or move while I obser! ved it.
January 16, 2021 · 7:49 PM · SPHERE
Westminster, MD
Noticed a white light expanding and contracting approximately 300 yards from my window. It approached my direction at around 500 feet above the ground. There was no sound. It made it's way directly over my apartment complex and I lost sight of it. I caught the first few seconds on my security camera.
January 13, 2021 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Dundalk, MD
Observed a single light hovering in the eastern hemisphere. It lingered for about 2 minutes before finally moving northeast until it disappeared from sight.
January 12, 2021 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
I was driving at this location (33°26'54.0"N 111°54'33.7"W) heading southbound on the road when i was facing the southeast looking across the field in the sky to observe the plane as it descended for a landing at sky harbor airport located nearby to the west of my location.As soon as i looked up at the plane two verticals rows of lights each row containing around 4-6 orbs,Each orb seemed around 1/3 the size of the airliner and also very bright with a white light that had almost like a blue aura no outline to a shell of a aircraft, just lights appeared on either side of the plane.I was shocked so i looked around to see if i could see any more of them in the sky when i look back and they were gone without a trace,just gone.I waited to see if anyone saw what i saw and would pullover so i could confirm it with them but not one person even slowed down,but if you know the area you know the field and you know people had to have seen it if they were on the! 202 or at Tempe Market Place if you check the coordinates the lights seemed above The Phoenix rising stadium maybe closer to the road Also to note that when they appeared they were motionless for the whole event and the only thing i could hear was the airplane engine.
January 12, 2021 · 5:12 PM · SPHERE
Tularosa, NM
I was turning on to Bookout Rd south of Tularosa and notice a bright star in the east over the Sacramento mountains. It was blinking and very large, so I thought it was a planet. As I approached the 45-degree turn to head north. I saw an orb slightly smaller than the bright star emerge from the star. It was bright orange. It went perfectly horizontally north of the bright blinking star. It paused, then a duplicate range light appeared from it and went in alignment with the star and the orange light. The final orange light emerged from the second orange light/orb, and they held a straight line for several minutes. Then I tried to get a picture but couldn’t because there was a car driving towards me on the road. the orange orbs separated an equal distance from each other and the bright star(?). They moved in sequence further apart from each other and started to go bright and dim. All the orange lights but the bright star-like light began breaking formation and! I had moved up trying to get a clear picture.
January 11, 2021 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Bordentown, NJ
I have 3 videos. I was walking my dog and I watched as 5 separate golden spheres traveled along in an almost perfect line. Then came together in groups of 3 in geometric formation and one by one vanished out of sight to higher altitude. I have had 2 other daytime sightings but this was my first evening. I asked them for a a "show" and I wasn't disappointed.
January 11, 2021 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Lincoln, NE
Multicolor object that seemed to change colors green red blue i have video of it a metal ball that changed colors
January 8, 2021 · 1:43 AM · SPHERE
Toronto, ON · Canada
Sharing this strange sighting I came across in the early morning of Thursday January 8th, 2021 @ 1:40am eastern time, just north east of Toronto/Scarborough Canada. Was using an iPhone 11 Pro - 4k/60fps to record this. To set the scene; The first 1minute and 40seconds is the original video shot from my iPhone 11 Pro, while standing out on my balcony earlier this morning. The "star" focal point if you will, is what drew my attention to begin with. I noticed it was flickering more prominent to my naked eye than usual, so I stepped out onto my balcony and decided to start filming out of curiosity. Within 25-28 seconds in I notice a second light source, orb like shape, that had appeared. However this second light source seems to be demonstrating some movement. It begins to dart around erratically. 1 minute 42seconds begins the recording of my laptop screen where I had uploaded the original iPhone video for better viewing/ a more zoomed in view. This is where I point out the second light source with my finger and try to follow it around on my laptop screen a bit. The temperature was around -9 degrees celsius (negative 9 degrees celsius) which makes me think it was too cold to be a bug. I was recording while out on my balcony, therefore I don't think is was any lens flare either (was not recording between glass). The sky was pretty clear for the most part as you can clearly depict the focal star in view, therefore I do not believe it was a laser either? Maybe a drone? Satellite? The movements are quite peculiar.
January 7, 2021 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Northampton, MA
I emailed this report to your organization's director on Jan. 7 soon after the sighting. This is a video of a possible UFO I spotted from near the dike off Pomeroy Terrace in Northampton, MA, USA at around 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 7, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKFMNoTvKe0 It appeared in the southeast sky. I shot this video with an iPhone and zoomed in further with editing software. The first 50 seconds or so is the zoomed-in version. After that, it's the regular shot. I have no idea what the object is. I'm not a UFO expert so I'm not making any claims as to what it may be. But I am very curious to find out more from reputable sources. I reported it to the National UFO Reporting Center and the Massachusetts National Guard just for good measure. I did not immediately hear back from either organization.
January 7, 2021 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Wells, ME
On January 7th at around 5:00pm I was driving on Rte 9 from Wells, to North Berwick, As I crossed over the bridge, just before Pratt and Whitney I noticed a greenish white light just appear about 3 times the height of the tree line and drop straight to the ground until it was out of my sight. At that point I drove in the direction I saw the light fall, But I didn't see any more at that time. The light was about the size of a basketball and fell with immense speed.
January 6, 2021 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Stillwater, NY
At approximately 9:15 pm on 1.6.2021 as I exited my car and walked up the driveway towards my mother’s home, I noticed a very bright object in the sky that appeared to be similar to the “Bethlehem Star” which I believed to no longer be visible. I went in the house and asked my mother for binoculars so that I could take a look at this object. When focused on the object in the SE skyline I could see very brilliant white, blue, yellow, reddish lights that glistened and pulsated. The object appeared to be spherical but not a perfect circle. I observed it in its location for approximately 7 to 8 minutes. My mother also took a look through the binoculars and saw exactly what I did. My step father also came out to take a look through the binoculars and he saw the same thing my mother and I had. I took approximately 3 pictures with my Samsung Galaxy S8 and went on to visit with my mother. When I went to leave for the night at approximately 10:15 pm, my mother went outside to see if the object was still there. She said it was no longer there and I took a look to see that it had moved to the south (?) in the sky (right of its original position). I then borrowed my mother’s Galaxy phone as it is newer than mine, and snapped two more pictures. When I took the last picture I noticed that the object appeared to move slowly. After snapping the picture I noticed there to be two additional objects very similar to the bright sphere I first noticed in the sky and a total of 3 objects appear in the picture. Pictures will be emailed to director@ufocenter.com
January 3, 2021 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Lakeland, TN
On the night of 1/3/21, I saw 4 orange orbs in the western sky in Lakeland, TN. Between 7:30 and 7:40 PM, sky was dark. First saw two, flying due north, one after the other, kind of in formation, at a rate like an airplane might fly. The night was quiet, and there was no sound of motors or jet engines. A third one came into view before the second one was out of sight. After the third one flew out of view (obscured by tree line), a fourth one came and went. All 4 flying the same direction, first 3 similar altitude, last one was lower in the sky. Witnessed by 2 people. Would have thought that they were planes, but no noise and they were bright orange. ◦
January 3, 2021 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Salida, CO
It was a cold and windy night, around 10:00, me and my friends were watching TV. Out of the corner of my eye I see out of the window a giant blob in the sky that looked the size of a planet, but had the blinking properties of a star. The more that I looked at that, the more it became a mystery to my mind. Since it was very windy, we thought that maybe it was a few tree branches making it blink that much, so my friend went outside to see if it was the branches. He comes back and reports that it was not the branches and that it was just like that. He starts speculating that it was something different, such as a drone or a satellite. We already ruled out the option of a plane since it was stagnant in the dark moonless sky. Soon after we ruled out a satellite since satellites are orbiting the Earth, and just like the plane’s reason, it wasn’t moving at all. Even more curiously, it just moved faster than my eyes could see to the right. One minute it was in perfec! t view out of the window, then the next you had to be outside to see it. It was still blinking, and had the same properties as it did before. I don’t know why aliens like cows so much, but I have seen stuff on the cow mutilations that take place around where I live, and to make things scarier, cows were/are on the property. I had never put in much thought to aliens, but after that night I have been a firm believer.
January 2, 2021 · 2:04 PM · SPHERE
Gulfport, MS
Sat, Jan 2, 2020 2:04 pm Central Standard Time We were driving Interstate 10 Westbound at Lorraine Cowan exit 38 in Mississippi. Gray or silver sphere, perfectly rounded, was headed west just below the clouds. Daughter said look at ufo and before she could point to it, the thing had already disappeared. Temperature approx 63 degrees. Sky partly sunny.
January 1, 2021 · 4:38 AM · SPHERE
Near Philadelphia, MS
My friend and I were en route to Philadelphia, Miss. I think the road is 116(?). I noticed 2 suns. Then hundreds and hundreds of pink orbs surrounded our car. It was an amazing phenomenon! We took pictures but the orbs are seen as transparent. But, they were pink as pink can be. I would like to know what we encountered. thank you
January 1, 2021 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
International Waters
There was 3 of us on the top deck of our cruise ship when we noticed an orb flying pretty close to our ship. It definitely was not a reflection of the cruise ship and it never touched the water for the 20-30 minutes we watched it. We asked crew members cleaning the deck if they had any idea but they were dumbfounded. It looked like it was patrolling or scanning the surface.
January 1, 2021 · 12:40 AM · SPHERE
Fort Myers, FL
5 round (4 flame orange, 1 red) orb fast moving objects traveling from SE to N/NW in the sky from around 12:30 - 12:45 am 1/1/2021. One (red) sat just above the tree line in the N sky until they all passed & then it went away. Each one followed the exact same direct straight path. Bright orbs moving very fast & high in a N to NW direction. It was during all the fireworks of the New Years celebrations.
January 1, 2021 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
At midnight new years eve 2020, a friend and I observed six silent dark orange/red spherical glowing flying objects over an 18 minute time period. They appeared one by one, about every three minutes, from midnight to 12:18 AM. Five of the objects moved from my east to my west, and one moved from my northwest to my southeast. The first two objects were a little north of me, the second two almost directly overhead, and the last two a little south of my location. The objects first appeared at about a 40 degree angle to ground position, and appeared about 1/5 the size of an average moon when passing over our position. They looked like large military helicopter size, but as they steadily moved forward, away and upward, they appeared smaller and smaller, until they disappeared into space on the distant horizon. It took about three minutes from initial sighting, at what appeared as lower altitude, to disappearance, at what appeared to we extremely high altitude. It was difficult to estimate altitude, but I first thought the first object was a sheriff's helicopter, at low altitude, coming because of new years gunshots. Upon two of the objects, one by one, disappearance in the eastern sky, I saw four separate blue/white flashes/sparks in the dark sky, near where the objects were last seen. They looked like photo flash bulbs or sparks going off in the sky, roughly the diameter of an average moon. I have never seen anything like that, and the sparks occurred at a very high altitude. Before the last object traveled from the NW to the SE, I ran in an grabbed my 15X x 70mm Celestron astronomical binoculars. I was able to focus and view the last object clearly for over 10 seconds, as it was moving away. It appeared to be reddish orange glowing perfectly spherical plasma (there was a flaming character to it), with a round white halo around it. The halo was six times the size of the ball. The halo reflected white light against some slight feathery clouds that were present. There was no trail, contrail, or exhaust coming from the object. I have worked in aerospace and defense procurement and manufacturing, for over 40 years. I know what satellites look like in the night sky. I know what helicopters and jet aircraft look like in the night sky. These objects were UAP, and exibited high strangeness. I know Sky Harbor tower had to have seen the objects, but, I no longer have any FAA contacts to refer to. I waited for an hour after 12:18 AM to see if there would be further activity, and there was none. It is worthy of note that my internet search that night found videos of orange/red orbs captured at midnight new years eve 2020 in over 10 US states, and in Autrailia, The Netherlands, The UK, Mexico, and others. These videos match what we saw, only our sightings seemed much closer at first viewing, when the objects were at low altitude. Oddly, all the internet videos seem to have been taken at midnight their time zone, right when people were watching fireworks displays. All the objects and descriptions of the objects seem to be very similar. Very strange phenomenon, indeed.
December 31, 2020 · 10:38 PM · SPHERE
Caldwell, ID
Out back on my patio, my wife and i saw a very large orange orb floating through the sky. Got video and picture if it. It came up slowly, and continued into the atmosphere until the light was too dim to see. I watch the stars nightly, see planes, helicopters, shooting stars. Im able to recognize planets, stars, and constellations in our night sky. This was most definitely not a man made light. It was quite visibly something we have ever seen before. This is the 3rd time ive witnessed unusual activity in our area of the sky.
December 31, 2020 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Ashland, NH
At approximately 10:30pm, my parents whom reside next door, were walking down their driveway toward ours. They observed in the sky, a large intensely glowing orange ball. The elevation was difficult to perceive, but at minimum it was larger than our car (2020 Ford Explorer XLT); if higher, it could’ve been as large as a house. The object hovered, moved forward quickly, hovered again, moved forward, and repeated this pattern for several minutes. My mom came inside our house, terrified, and mentioned she felt tingly and fearful, as my dad was outside still watching it. My husband (a local police officer) went outside and watched the first orange-glowing object move beyond the trees. The observed a second large orange glowing sphere and my husband asked me to come outside, quickly. I saw the object; the orange glow was quite intense. The large object moved, hovered and continued to move. It suddenly seemed to “burn out”, losing its glow comple! tely. My father took several photos; in the photos a “tail” is visible but it was not visible to us/the naked eye. In one photo, of the first glowing sphere I believe, you can distinctly see three orbs of orange light, with a dark/black perimeter. We initially thought a meteor, but the objects hovered, moved, hovered - which seems atypical of a meteor. They seemed too large to be drones, and the second “burnt out”/faded completely, which also seems unlike a drone. Im happy to include photos upon request!
December 31, 2020 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Roseville, CA
Count: 2 Shape: round orbs Colors: both reddish/orangeish/ yellowish Sounds from Orbs: silent Light: the light glowed and emitted light rays from the center, and the center of the orb was the brightest part. The light did not twinkle, change color, or blink. The light faded and disappeared in plain sight after 5 minutes of viewing. The light did not reappear in any other direction even after watching for another 5 minutes. The fading was simple, as it was see through after it faded away into as the night sky. Movement: The orbs did not make any quick movement from right, left, up or down. They simply traveled towards us in one direction. Travel direction: they were traveling from the northwest direction coming towards us. They were separated by thumbs distance. When i extend my arm and raise my hand, use my thumb,and close 1 eye, the distance in between the two objects were a thumbs distance aka the distance between my wrist to my thumb nail. Altitude:The 2 orbs were at different altitudes, one orb was about 45 degrees lower in altitude when compared to the higher altitude orb, and the lower altitude orb appeared to be furthest linear distance from us. Linear distance from viewer: estimated to be between quarter mile to a mile. Any obstructions: No. But there are 20' tall building and they did not obstruct the orbs. No trees were taller then the buildings. Viewed: standing on the ground at around 100' elevation Weather: clear night no sky cover no clouds. I could see other stars in the sky. Fireworks: In CA people celebrate the east coast new year at 9:00pm so i could hear fireworks but i could not see them. There was no smog in the air from any of the fireworks i was hearing. i couldn't smell any smoke from fireworks either.
December 31, 2020 · 7:31 PM · SPHERE
Florence, AZ
Driving on our way home in the early evening on Hunt Highway southbound nearing the Florence Hospital. About 1.5 miles away after passing the butte formations, my wife and I immediately noticed a glowing orange-red “jelly bean” shaped sphere hovering over the southern end of Merrill Ranch Sun City residential development near the Police and Fire Station. We have a lot of air traffic in the area for PHX and nearby AZA. The AZA air traffic is mainly student pilots flying light aircraft at about 5,000 feet (night and day) right over Merrill Ranch and are easily heard from their engine noise and located with their lighting. So when we saw an aerial object not making any noise and stationary it has a high strangeness to us that cannot be ignored. The glowing sphere was so out of place due to its very low altitude, color and lack of noise such as a medical helicopter would make from the Hospital or an Army Helicopter from the nearby military reservation. Normally the Army Helicopters would fly much higher, i.e., 3-5,000 feet AGL. As I made a left turn eastbound off Hunt Highway to a side street. My wife reacted with mounting concern because the object was not moving and it seemed to get a little larger as we were closing distance to it. So I slowed down to about 10 MPH and she rolled down her window and stared at it for about 30-40 seconds looking south and it was silently stationary at 75-100 feet above the roof tops. We noticed that there were a lot of dogs barking in the neighborhood. At the time we thought it was due to coyotes running through the neighborhood, but in hindsight it may be related to the observed object. At this point she had the only view of it and told me it decreased its color temperature to a dull rusty red color and then just disappeared. We were 800 feet down range from its position and It seemed to notice that people were observing it. I have had a prior close encounter in November 2020 and this object may be the same one from November. I will report that separate. The weather at Merrill Ranch was clear skies, some low level dust/haze, cool temperatures in the upper 40’s with light and variable winds from the northwest at about 5-15 knots. I am a former U.S. Military Service Member with combat experience and my wife is a career management professional. The event left both of us with an uneasy feeing, that something so quiet could silently creep through a populated residential area virtually undetected.