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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
June 4, 2016 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Cliffdell, WA
We were camping at Sawmill Flats, a campground near Cliffdell WA. We were in our motorhome about 8:30pm at dusk. About 100 meters across the Naches River, a red fireball appeared. My wife went to bed thinking it was probably a campfire. I was laying down in the center bed watching out of the window. Then I noticed the glowing reddish orange ball hovering along the road across the river moving slowly. I thought it was an emergency vehicle. Then, it went to the upper tree line in seconds. Moved left, then right, then East maybe a mile (I could still see it). It then returned across from our camp and split into 2 flaming red balls. Then a white ball appeared. It was a little smaller than the reddish ones. It emitted a blue beam and was moving all over the place. I watched it for approximately 1 hour. Then it went up into the sky to where I couldn't see it anymore - it was making a whirring sound. The original ball was approximately 24 inches in diameter, when it split into two, they were both approximately 24 inches in diameter too. The smaller orb was a little smaller.
June 3, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Myrtle Beach, SC
Burning object with comet like tail failing from sky it then disappeared, then Reappeared looked as if if remained stationary for about a min. Then traveled horizontal pattern. Before going completely out.
June 2, 2016 · 4:00 AM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
Object reported by the news as a probable meteor. We agree. See photos of smoky trail left high in the sky above Arizona. PD
June 2, 2016 · 3:55 AM · FIREBALL
Las Vegas, NV
Did anyone else see a huge fireball with a long tail s.e. of vegas? Object reported by the news as a probable meteor. We agree. See photos of smoky trail left high in the sky above Arizona. PD
June 2, 2016 · 3:45 AM · FIREBALL
Tempe, AZ
My girlfriend and I were about to walk into our house, after smoking a cigarette, when suddenly, and without any prior sounds or notions of aircraft, suddenly a bright flash light up the sky north east of our back yard and in a trail of bright yellowish white flames with blue to yellow flame at the point of whatever the object was came souring down at a rapid rate towards the direction of mill ave I'd say at about rio saldo possibly tempe town lake no explosion was heard no sounds at all in fact except a car alarm in the distance at about the moment i thought it would have landed and dogs barking all the way up to my neighbors dogs about 5 to ten minutes later i heard the sound of low pitch booms 3 of them i do not know if that is relevant.even now the strange trail that the object left can barely be seen in the sky. Honestly if it werent for the fact that my tags expired 5/31/16 i would have driven to site Object reported by the news as a probable meteor. We agree. See photos of smoky trail left high in the sky above Arizona. PD
May 30, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Auburn, WA
Looked as if it was Mars in the night sky. Then object went form stationary to a high speed towards the west, then suddenly stopped. Once nearly completely stop the object changed directions and headed south. It started out orange and turned more red. Witness has not responded to an e-mail query from NUFORC, as of the posting date of the report. PD
May 28, 2016 · 9:02 PM · FIREBALL
Brigantine, NJ
1 orange/yellow fireball flying north. Circular with observable flames. Silent, moving at a steady speed. I watched it for about 30 seconds until it went over a building and out of site. Much lower than an airplane as the flames were clearly visible. Hazy night, very few visible stars. Made no sound, had no trail.
May 27, 2016 · 11:52 PM · FIREBALL
Milliken, CO
At 2352 hrs. on Friday 28 May, 2016, my friend and myself were traveling southbound on Highway 257 towards the town of Milliken. The terrain drops in elevation as you approach the town, which affords a wide view of the horizon. As we turned the slight bend during the elevation drop, we both immediately noticed a bright light orange/white burst of light approximately 60 degrees above the horizon. I initially thought the object was a commercial aircraft making a maneuver towards Denver International Airport, as this location is in the flight path of the airport. After the initial burst of light, the ‘fireball’ appeared to dim slightly while changing to a yellow color. At this point the object began to descend and hover lower above the horizon. It then moved in the sky irregularly up and down before regaining a higher altitude. During the entire sighting the light pattern flickered at an irregular rate with varying intensity. After approximately sixty seconds, the object was out of our line of sight and appeared to disappear from its original sighting location. This sighting seems to be similar to the other ‘fireball’ sightings occurring over the last four years as regularly reported by NUFORC.
May 26, 2016 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Franklinton, NC
It was a circular looking ball of fire falling towards the west. There was just one in the sky. It was burning as it was falling. At first, I thought it was a shooting star but it was too large and too close. I noticed that it looked like it was on fire and realized it was engulfed in flames. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 25, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Edgewood, WA
from my window I saw what looked like a plane on aproach to seatac airport. I went out side and saw 2 red/yellow,orange lights or fire balls flickering and pulsing travel from what looked like puyallup/sumner area north up hwy 167 to abought the 8th st. exit and went east over lakeland hills and continued east toward Buckly and Enumclaw. The third fire ball appeared in the same place 5 min. after the first two, and roughly followed same path.
May 24, 2016 · 3:48 AM · FIREBALL
Orlando, FL
About a minute later another one showed up and followed the same path. No trail on any of the objects.
May 23, 2016 · 9:50 PM · FIREBALL
St. Petersburg, FL
Saw big red orb Bigger brighter then Mars tonight moving quickly down seemed to touch base with barely visible tiny white orb Big red then continued earthbound behind sight line (houses) Returned focus to small white orb that seemed then to disappear
May 22, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Pataskala, OH
The light flickered slightly to appear more like a flare, rather than a light. There was no sound and no way of telling altitude. At first we thought they could be flares attached to skydivers, but unlikely considering they traveled more laterally than would be expected for a skydiver. Eventually, it appeared some fizzled out as they began to approach the departing horizon to leave our line of sight. Too slow to be a flare shot across the sky, but wasn't sold on it being debris entering the atmosphere either.
May 20, 2016 · 9:21 PM · FIREBALL
Mentor, OH
Video recorded from my balcony, approximately 20 feet high. Estimations of height, size and speed are rough. I'm not an engineer, however I am high school educated, some college (still going). Quick backckground info, my wife (college grad) and I are both white Americans,"millennials", and of sound mind. We have seen them before, myself around 10 times. I will review my pictures and videos too ensure that they were time stamped correctly, and write reports on those as well.
May 17, 2016 · 4:00 AM · FIREBALL
Canton, MI
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 17, 2016 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Leicester, MA
Don't think it was a UFO. I work nights and was opening up my building walked back outside to grab my lunch from my truck. Then I saw it the sky turned a reddish color and bright ball of light fell straight down, sky then turned light blue color and when the ball fell out of site. Sky turned back to black like it should look at night. I was expecting a explosion I thought it was a plane falling from the sky. I've never seen anything like that it was so unreal. We have received several other reports from the east coast of the event. We suspect that the most likely explanation is a dramatic meteor. PD
May 17, 2016 · 12:50 AM · FIREBALL
Massena, NY
i was just going to bed when i glanced out my window from where i sleep and saw this smaal ball of colorful lights kinda like a sparkler lit up and as it decended below tree level a sort of white lite followed kinda like a flash of lightening you would see in a distance, this object was decending very fast before i had any chance of trying to identify what i was seeing i know it was not any type of fire works as it was quite different to know the difference and also the news reported that morning that the emergency 911 phone lines experience an un known outage at that same hour in another erea weather its got anything to do with it or not just felt i needed to report what i experienced.
May 16, 2016 · 12:45 AM · FIREBALL
Riverhead, NY
My work crew of three and I had just pulled into our hotel, when we saw what looked to be a round green object racing towards earth. At about 20' from the horizon at my vantage point it had a green fireball around it, I would estimate it to be within five miles of my location easy. From my vantage point it looked to be as big as a house and at about 5' from the horizon it lit the whole sky lit up with light. Then a kind of trace of lightning looking light coming into it "not away from it". If it had been a meteor or something else, there isn't a doubt in my mind we would have heard it impact earth. It seemed to have just stopped. It was like it had an intelligence about it not just some dumb rock entering our atmosphere. The night tonight is clear and the background is solid black. It was just one very large object. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 14, 2016 · 9:55 PM · FIREBALL
St. Augustine Beach, FL
We have been avid followers of the ufo that people have seen and never dreamed of ever seeing one much less 4. We never expected to see such a thing and it will be burned into our memory forever. I tried to get a picture but my phone was charging and by the time i was able to turn it on they were gone.
May 14, 2016 · 8:10 PM · FIREBALL
Maricopa, AZ
Saw one and then two, shortly after the first one had passed. Bright orange orbs with no noise and both disappeared about 4 seconds after sighting. Again no noise. First thought it was fireworks, but no noise. They were roughly 700 ft in altitude.
May 13, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Winston-Salem/Lexington, NC
There were six orb-like objects. At first I thought they were airplanes but upon closer look they were something entirely different. They flew in a cluster and didn't seem to be going with the wind current, but they weren't flying like normal planes either. They were a little shaky, and they didn't flicker like planes.
May 13, 2016 · 10:03 AM · FIREBALL
Bellingham, WA
My husband was out the back door having a cigarette, he came quickly through the house to the front door and said there were 2 UFOs moving north, we both were on the front deck looking south watching 2 bright orange UFOs. We over look Bellingham Bay, we face the City of Bellingham. One was slightly ahead of the 2nd one, moving in sync slowly north, we couldn't hear them. They were over Portage Island, & south Lummi Island, I grabbed my sons camera off the table, checked to see if the flash was off, and took 2 pictures while on the front deck. I moved while taking both pictures cause the aperture was slow taking a night picture & trying to focus. After the 2nd picture they both quickly disappeared heading southward. The pictures do show how bright they were in the sky.
May 12, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Gresham, OR
Bright orange fire ball, looked like a burning plane, but slow and inconsistent movement, moving southwest to northeast. Stopped, wobbled and then dropped and disappeared. Time reported is estimate. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 9, 2016 · 11:15 PM · FIREBALL
Commerce, MI
There were two very bright orange fireballs that started off very close together and then slowly came apart. They both decreased and increased in brightness every thirty seconds or so. I believed them to be bright planes at first until they just stopped moving for a while, then one took off to the south and the other slowly moved east before circling back around to travel back south after the other one. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD