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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.
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June 26, 2016 · 10:01 PM · FIREBALL
Pell Lake, WI
My fiance and I were looking outside up at the stars and he pointed out an object that looked like an orange fireball moving at a pretty quick speed then seemed to slow down. I took out my phone to record it and then it was out of sight because of the trees in our back yard. My fiance said it looked triangular in shape. It definitely had a little bit of what looked like a light smoke trail behind it.
June 25, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Newton Falls, OH
1 large red orb going from north to south at approximately 9:45 p.m. on June 25th in Trumbull County, Newton Falls, Ohio. No navigational lights, no noise
June 24, 2016 · 9:59 PM · FIREBALL
Arlington, WA
Slow moving orange colored. It looked like a fireball, but was moving too slowly, (according to the website where fireballs can be reported). The object moved in an arc shape from north toward south.
June 20, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Aberdeen, MD
On Monday June 20th, 2016, at approximately 2100 hours (9pm) EDT, myself and 2 friends were looking for the moon due to there supposed to be a "strawberry" moon on this night. While looking into the sky, a friend Lisa noticed a orange ball in the sky. The rest of use went to look. It looked like a huge fireball traveling from right to left (assuming west to east). As it traveled further east, it decreased in size (assuming due to distance)and than the light would go out. You could still see a dark object in the sky, but not able to tell what it was. This happened 5 more times each time, traveling the same path. Our line of sight allowed us to see this object for approximately 2 minutes each time. I did manage to record a video, but the video does not do it justice. There was no sound with it either. We did call police to see if anyone else had reported the sighting, and they had not received any calls. We do live near a military base that does testing. But the direction of travel was opposite of the way they normally fire test items, and also the no sound with it. I have no idea what I seen. I am a adult of good reputation, do not do drugs, drink, nor am I crazy. I could see planes in the sky, I know what they look like, I know what a satellite looks like, I have seen shooting starts, this was nothing like any of them.
June 18, 2016 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Cumming, GA
Approx 11:30 PM noticed and "orange fireball" that seemed to rise up from ground then begin moving east to west in my direction. At first thought it may have been a japanese lantern. The object was quite low in the sky, probably no higher than a "traffic copter" would normally fly, however, was probably no more than 1500 to 2000 feet altitude. Watched as it passed over and moved off towards the west. Whatever this was it moved quite slow, had none of the usual flashing red/green lights ones sees on the usual aircraft. It was a clear night, no wind, no clouds yet most notably this "craft" made zero noise. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 18, 2016 · 11:13 PM · FIREBALL
Lake Vermilion (near tower), MN
The object was round and looked like a fiery very large atom.
June 18, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Bradford, PA
We were sitting on our boat in the middle of the bay relaxing. I was looking at the sky and noticed an orange light. At first I thought it was Mars as I frequently look for it when I take my dog for his evening walk. I noticed it was much larger than usual so I told the other two individuals I was with and they started looking at it. We noticed it was 1 orange/red circle that flickered slightly. It was extremely high in the sky and was in the located east relative to a compass. We were watching it for about 60 seconds until it faded and disappeared. 10 seconds later, we noticed it came back into view but the color was not as strong and then faded away again. The object was not moving laterally and was close to 10 times larger than Mars would be on a usual night. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 17, 2016 · 10:47 PM · FIREBALL
Spencerville, OH
I was walking south in town. I seen a "falling star" bright blue that broke up. The direction was North to south. I then headed one block west one block south and 20 feet west then south. I decided to sit out and watch for more. That is when I seen the FIREBALL in the sky low altitude with a cruising speed faster than a patrol plane. There was no noise. The Flame effect was close to a hot air balloon at night but the flame was large,constant and the speed somewhat intense in comparison. There were approximately 15 FIREBALLS that appeared to "launch from the east" that seemed to have a trajectory. They turned south southwest at approximately the same area in the sky. I have 4 video's from my Smartphone couldn't keep up with all of the FIREBALLS as they were systematically appearing over the eastern tree line and fading into the south western direction. According to video time on a pair that I caught, visual time lasted 5 minutes. All appears to be the same diameter, speed, elevation. I gave up trying to record all of them do to the night sky. The moon and neighbors porch lights were the only viable background. My Droid Turbo did not pick up the orange flame color or the actual visual distance,diameter and speed. I am a 40 something person with a 12 year background in automotive. If hot air balloons travel this fast, I've never seen any like these during the day.
June 16, 2016 · 10:10 PM · FIREBALL
Hopkinsville, KY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 15, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Willisburg, KY
I don't have a word processor. I used to be an avid coon hunter. I have spent more time outside at night than most people I would assume. In all that time I never saw anything that was unexplainable. We watched planes very regularly as they get in line from all over above Washington county in order to land in Louisville. I got good enough to where I could use stars to navigate back to my truck as we would often end up several miles away from our starting point. My ex wife and I had 5 kids between us. One evening it was clear outside we had enjoyed a rare kid free day, but used it cleaning and organizing our house. We lived way out in the country and realized around 11 pm we was going to run out of cigarettes. There were no local stores open this late so we decided to take a nice evening drive to Harrodsburg to a store we knew stayed open til midnight it was about a 25-30 min drive from our house. We went and on our way back I was driving we had the radio on n! ot real loud though. We was quiet listening to music. We was on the stretch of road about 6 miles long that connects macville to willisburg. All of a sudden it was pretty far in the distance but this fireball shoots across the sky and it was good size but traveling at a very high rate of speed. Immediately, it was so odd that it ran cold chills and goosebumps all over my body. I was in shock this object appeared to look like the tip of a sparkler on 4th of July. I wasn't going to say anything to my wife, but she said oh my God did you see that? And I said yes I wasn't going to say anything because I wasn't sure if you seen it. She said no I seen it. Then she said oh my God look and I looked out of the passenger window and it had reappeared above a field this time much closer and this time it was hovering. I was looking back and forth to keep from having a wreck. She was freaking out and very afraid. Then she turned around and said oh my god, it's right behind us I couldn't see it at this point I was too afraid to turn and look out of fear of having a wreck this is a very dangerous road as animals are always a problem. I had this overwhelming feeling we was being followed and watched. We made it home and ran in the house we both couldn't believe it and was both afraid. Nothing else happened but I will swear this to be the truth and I will never forget this. This was not a shooting star plane comet although I thought it was until I seen it hovering. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
June 14, 2016 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
Pittsburgh, PA
Noticed a bright orange light moving slowly west. I would guess low altitude, a few thousand feet at most. Absolutely no sound. It appeared to radiate light "strings" (like the center of those plasma ball lamps) I ran outside to film it with my phone, but as you'd expect the quality is terrible as I couldn't get focus as close as I'd like to with an iphone. The object turned north fairly sharply, traveled a quarter mile or so and then accelerated northwest and out of sight. This object did not seem to be reflecting sunset, it seemed to be creating its own source of light. This object was too quiet for a known (to me) engine powered craft at that altitude. This object also was fairly nimble at maneuvering. I would not consider its motion to be high speed (when viewed).
June 12, 2016 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Palo Alto, CA
FRIEND TOLD ME THAT THEY WERE WORKING NEAR A GOLF COURSE IN EAST PALO ALTO CALIFORNIA. AT AROUND 9:15PM, HIM AND ANOTHER PERSON WERE WORKING LATE, PULLING OUT OLD FENCE POSTS, FACING SOUTH, AND OBSERVED ABOUT SEVEN ORANGE BALLS OF LIGHT ABOUT QUARTER OF A MILE AWAY RISE UP WITH EVEN DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM. HE SAID THAT THEY WERE MOVING UP AND DOWN SLIGHTLY LIKE ~~~ AS THEY TRAVELED RISING UP SLOWLY TO AN AN ALTITUDE ABOUT 500' NOT HIGHER THAN ALTITUDE OF A FLYING CESSNA. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THEY CAME INTO VIEW, THE OBJECTS MADE A SHARP 90 DEGREE TURN, INCREASED SPEED, AND TOOK OFF IN A NORTH EAST DIRECTION. THE WHOLE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE IN ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES. ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER SEEING THESE THINGS, FOUR POLICE CAME RUNNING AT US WITH FLASH LIGHTS EVEN THOUGH WE WERE WORKING THERE ALL DAY.
June 11, 2016 · 11:15 PM · FIREBALL
West Bangor, PA
Within 4 or 5 seconds it was completely out of sight heading East. Air passenger vehicle above passed by exiting ABE air trail and the fireball did not move during that time.
June 11, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Bloomsburg, PA
What I saw was a classic orange orb sighting. There was one of them, alone. It was bright orange, luminescent, sort of plasma like. Very bright. I saw it just above the tree lines, Northwest but it was really close -- hovering over the apt complex just above the trees. It came closer to me, and I thought it might approach me but then it took of to the East, up into the sky past the clouds. The object made no sound but I heard an aircraft behind it. I thought at fist it might be a balloon or lantern, but it had a distinct pattern to its flight. Balloons and lanterns don't move in such an organized, determined direction. It clearly had intelligence. Behind me was fairly clear. We live in a fairly rural area and when its dark it gets pretty dark. The odd thing is though that I seem to be missing some sense of time. I don't usually do that nor do I ever feel COMPELLED to go outside. I took photos but it was on one of those cheap cvs cameras so it will take a week to develop. ty ((name deleted))
June 11, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Laguna Niguel, CA
I stepped outside to have a cigarette with my girlfriend and she said what is that light in the sky? It appeared to be an orange fire orb, circle in shape with no flashing lights and completely silent unlike a plane. Best way I can describe was almost like a low pulsing circle flame. The cloud layer was super thick and a break in the cloud allowed for this low flying fire orb to come through the cloud from the direction of the ocean and head northeast. The fireball flew what appeared to be extremely low, lower then any plane and then appeared to speed up and continue below the clouds for apprx one min and them disappeared off in the distance. I only say disappeared because the flame went out making the orb no longer visible. Approximately 30 seconds later another fire orb appeared at same altitude but much faster across the sky, them 2 more fire orbs back to back with the same altitude equally spaced apart came across the sky. All four came from the same direction and had the same exact formation as the previous fire orb, I have never seen anything like that. Complete silence with a bright light in the sky visible and then just disappeared as if the fire flame was turned off. At first I chalked it up to a flare from a military plane but the more i thought about I realized that flares don't follow each other back to back across the sky in the same formation and exact same direction. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 10, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Occoquan, VA
Am sending photo, not sure it would be of any assistance due to distance, but will try.
June 10, 2016 · 10:05 PM · FIREBALL
Indian Trail, NC
I was driving and saw the object, pointed it out to my sister next to me. She also saw it. Unsure of the shape, as we saw from a distance. It was glowing green, my sister said it was red, but I saw green. It was in our sights for about 10 seconds, before disappear behind the landscape trees. Not sure if it landed.
June 10, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Greensboro, NC
A green unknown shaped aircraft came crashing down from the sky. It appeared to be blowing up as it was coming down.
June 9, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Chandler, AZ
I ran inside to take the dog in the house and then came back out to finish looking. The red orb had disappeared. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 7, 2016 · 9:39 PM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
As seen from Long Beach, Ca 90804 looking NE on 6/7/16 between 21:38-21:41. Moving from the N.E. in the South direction, stalled out then moved directly East. These 2 objects both had nose profiles (aka wings) as a result of subsonic pressure coefficients. From our vantage point, there was clearly fire engulfing these objects in our fist visible time frame. Once stalled, there was a direct turn to the East, fire subsided then object faded after an average of 15 seconds of flight time but was still visible with what could been taken as a very high altitude aircraft. Someone had to of seen these objects, and has photos, or an explanation of what they saw. I am looking for anyone that was on American Airlines 1116 flight out of LAX on 6/7/2016 as they had to of seen this from their flight..... There was an “U.F.O.” of sorts just off of your port side wing tip and above the aircraft. AA1116 was passing thru 8000' at the time of the spotting.
June 6, 2016 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Columbus, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 6, 2016 · 8:38 AM · FIREBALL
Godfrey, IL
Possible meteor, we would guess. PD
June 4, 2016 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Orlando, FL
Glowing Orange light that flickered like fire moved fro SE to NW roughly along the same orientation as SR 50 near the drag strip in east Orange County. I saw one, and as I was commenting about it, another man stated he had seen one about 5 minutes prior that looked the same, but was trailing what appeared to be flaming debris, which he interpreted as an aircraft on an emergency situation. There was no sound. Track crossing rate was approximately that of a helicopter at cruise speed, and I was expecting to hear a helicopter sound but never did. This event is similar, if not the same objects, that were reported on 5/24/16 on this same site.
June 4, 2016 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Cliffdell, WA
. We were camping at Sawmill Flats campground on Hwy 410 on Sat. June 4th. At dusk, I noticed an reddish orange ball of light across the Naches River, approximately 100 meters away. I first thought it was a light from other campers, but then it changed into what looked like a camp fire. A little while later, my husband started watching it as well. It split into 2 red moving fireballs, then had a white one in the middle. I quit watching it for a while, but my husband continued to watch. When I returned, it moved and I saw a light blue orb or light come from the side from the West with a beam of light and joined into the orange fireball. My husband is submitting a separate report. We spoke via telephone with the husband, and he seemed to be a quite eloquent, and a very serious-minded, witness. We strongly suspect that both witnesses are highly credible. PD