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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
May 9, 2016 · 11:50 AM · FIREBALL
Winter Springs, FL
Was walking the dog - skies are crystal clear blue, looked south toward MCO and saw a flying object glowing and sputtering - red, brilliant orange, then out. No pattern other than the color. No form, no shape. Headed west. Checked the flight tracker, the only thing I saw on the same course was a Cessna, about 2k feet up. This was either way higher or way smaller. Jet engine fire? Satellite falling back to earth slowly - uncontrolled? I've never seen anything like it in my whole life. I've seen aircraft reflect the strong Florida sun before, but this was not only much more brilliant, but stayed brilliant as it moved east to west of me. If it was a reflection, I'd have passed out of it's beam. It reminded me of the flame that the Space Shuttle SRB's emit - brilliant orange, only this wasn't as bright or as constant. Very bright, but sputtering.
May 7, 2016 · 10:40 PM · FIREBALL
Arvada, CO
I was driving west on I-70 and I saw an orange fire in the sky. It was the shape of a candle's fire, round at the bottom and tear shaped at the top. I only saw it a few moments.
May 7, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 7, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Philadelphia, MS
As we both have always been able to debunk anything UFO related this encounter baffled us and even frightened my wife to the point that we are now firm believers in UFO's.
May 5, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Davenport, FL
At approximately 21:30 on 05-MAY-16, a red 'fireball' object was spotted travelling across the sky bearing approximately 130°. The size, altitude, speed, and distance from the observation point are unknown. The siting spanned a duration of approximately 30 seconds and was witnessed by two persons from the same perspective. There was no noise noticed from the object. The object flew out of perspective view being blocked by nearby structures and trees. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 5, 2016 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Ocala, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 5, 2016 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Orlando, FL
We were driving west turning into our neighborhood when i had noticed a bright orangeish red light. It hovered for a minute before it began to slowly rise up. It looked as if it were on fire, hovering and it soon began to fade to a dull orange color and got smaller. It then looked as if it shot off into the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 4, 2016 · 5:30 AM · FIREBALL
Mesa, AZ
I train my eyes on the freeway and when I looked back I appeared as if the atmosphere had changed this illuminous cloud, the bottom had fallen down and it was now elongated top to bottom. I look back a third time and it was even longer but a round circle was there ad I'd an explosion took place below the original cloud/light. As the newly formed bottom parts disappeared the original cloud remained but a small star was under it where the other mass had been. Then the star slowly descended behind the Superstition Mountains while the Sun in view thru my same wins hill (sic. windshield??) kept rising up. Shouldn't the star and the sun both have risen upwards? Yes, if it was a star.
May 3, 2016 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Owensboro, KY
I was driving home from a late movie. It was me and my 7 year old daughter. She wasn't looking in the same direction as me, so she didn't see it. If I would have blinked, I wouldn't have seen it either. It lasted only a split second. I saw a large fire ball with a long flaming tail trailing off the end, zooming toward the earth at about a 60 degree angle. It was silent, and I lost sight of it when it went down behind some trees in the distance. I've never seen anything like it before.
April 30, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
El Paso, TX
I was going back inside when I noticed a bright object floating slowly across the sky, my first thought was that its a nice big bright falling asteroid but when I completely focused on it I saw that it continued to glide slowly across the sky moving like a feather horizontal to the left I called my 2 friends from inside to come out and look for themselves I then moved closer to my front yard to follow the object with my eyes my 2 friends and my self witnessed the object. I have 20/20 vision so to me this object looked perfectly round and I saw bright orange and red flames surrounding this perfect circle I kept talking out loud narrating to my friends how this was definitely no ordinary ufo sighting so this is why I say it took at least 4 min. Unfortunately I didn't want to go inside and get my camera I was enjoying the ufo hands on very selfish like. So now that time had past the object began to dim out and started to come down it reminded me of a hot air balloon the flames we're extinguishing and the perfect circle kept coming down vertically now at a slow pace after it was almost invisible and still falling down a second fireball appeared in the sky from where the same direction in the sky as when I saw the first one, this second object also reminded me of a hot air ballon motion only this one floated across the sky horizontally to the left but with great speed very quickly it flew to the same location the stopped above when it reached the same location as the fist object as if it was trying to catch up to it but instead of extinguishing it flew itself straight up into the sky perfectly straight up and up and up until puff just like that we couldn't see it or anything else after that. So what happened to the first one? Did it land??
April 30, 2016 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Westport, WI
An orange glowing stationary light over lake Mendota, started out very bright and got less and less bright until it suddenly disappeared. It twinkled like a star. Sky was rainy and overcast. No stars visible. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 30, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Philadelphia, PA
April 30, 2016, at about 9:30 pm Philadelphia, PA. I saw about five groups of orange yellow orbs flying over my street. They flew almost in line, one or two blinking as it went.
April 30, 2016 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
Newport Beach, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 29, 2016 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Pomona, NY
At approximately 11:45pm while traveling north on the palisades parkway near exit 11, I witnessed a green fireball light up the sky which disappeared as soon as it came… Then at approximately midnight, while traveling North on 45 between Spring Valley and Pomona my wife and i witnessed flashing in the sky which seemed to be cloud covered or had a haze around it. We drove along following this which happened to be the same direction as our way home. The flashing was inconsistent, and varied in color. There was nothing obstructing us from seeing this. No trees or buildings around. There was nothing below the haze and flashing or above. I pulled into our complex (Buckingham Court in Pomona NY) and i stopped to take about a 30 second video of this. At which point i pulled into my parking spot. It seemed to be almost directly over our house… We heard a humming noise for about 30 seconds. At the exact moment i shut my car off the entire power in the complex wen! t out. There was complete darkness and the flashing and haze in the sky was gone. Power went back on at 1:35am... Will email video along with this explanation.
April 29, 2016 · 9:25 AM · FIREBALL
Fort Walton Beach, FL
I was sitting on the back porch playing a game on my phone and the battery died. I threw my hands up and slung my head back like crap my phones dead. as I looked up I noticed these silent round fireballs in a line following each other. some piggy backing some by themselves but all going the same direction and the same flight path. As they passed by they seemed to just vanish into thin air and disappear. In dismay, I ran inside and woke my friend who was asleep on the sofa and made him come outside and check it out. About 8 more came through and neither of us could believe what we were seeing. I ran back inside and grabbed his phone and started filming. I have about a 2-3 minute video of the last one as it passes by and disappears. we also took several photos but a smart phone camera is only so good. They were completely silent and If my phone hadn't died I would have never even have know they were there. THIS WAS A REAL SIGHTING!
April 26, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Reseda, CA
WE WHERE SITTING IN THE CAR IN THE LIBRARY PARKING LOT BEHIND THE POLICE STATION FACING SOUTH TOWARD VENTURA WHEN WE SAW WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS A BRIGHT SHOOTING STAR THAT TURNED INTO A LARGE BLUE FIRE BALL WITH AN ORANGE TRAIL OF FIRE COMING FROM THE EAST HEADING WEST, DOWN TO EARTH AND LASTED ABOUT 5 TO 8 SECONDS. FROM OUR VIEW IT LOOK LIKE THE SIZE OF A VOLLEYBALL.
April 26, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Costa Mesa, CA
Video of object, shown by a local television station, suggest to us that the object was a fairly dramatic meteor. PD
April 26, 2016 · 3:30 AM · FIREBALL
Sterling, CO
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 25, 2016 · 3:00 PM · FIREBALL
Macon, GA
About 3:15pm over Macon, Georgia, I was playing outside with my dog and looked up and seen 3 balls of lite that looked like what missles look like. These lights went in 3 different directions going really fast, leaving 3 vapor trails behind them. It was something I never seen before. There was no noise at all.
April 24, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Lake Villa, IL
Red lights, looked like a fire ball. Thought it was a chopper, but had no sound. Went from southeast to the northwest. It was gaining altitude as it passed. When it passed by it still looked the same. Was moving very fast. Had my camera, with a zoom handy, so I took a picture. When I zoomed in it looked like it was on fire, but had a silhouette in the front of the fire. Witness provides no contact information. PD
April 24, 2016 · 2:30 AM · FIREBALL
Ft. Collins, CO
While on duty As a Security Officer at 0230 Noticed an orange what looked like a Fireball traveling from East to West parallel to the ground. First noticed what I felt was a low level high speed Military Air craft in the distance, then as it got closer it appeared as an orange fireball with a white vapor trail that just vanished. Again this was always traveling parallel to the ground surface. I wasn't going to report this but this is the strange part: For some unknown reason our Security duty phone which is on the Verizon Network started acting up with Verizon not understanding what the cause was. This is a phone we use every night, hourly for security reporting. Other security offices reported when it was called it went straight to voice mail. The Network never noticed the calls, and the phone never showed, "missed calls". It was tested with at times six to eight calls going straight to voicemail but the actual device never noticed the calls. The phone is the latest and greatest, this has never occurred prior to this event sighting. At the same time our Company CYCOP computer which is a mobile GPS reporting device RESET. It did function the rest of the shift. However, at 0600 our phone was still having unknown issues with Verizon reporting, NTF, "no trouble found". I would like to close by saying as for my background, I was raised on Air Force bases, I know Military Air Craft, and was a high ranking consultant for both the DOD, and civilian communication issues. I also know Stan Gorden since I was involved with a 1965 UFO incident (on site) in Pa.
April 23, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Tallahassee, FL
These objects were spotted by three different people at the same time outside of our work place.
April 23, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Milwaukee, WI
Walked outside looking northwest, noticed 4 orange lights almost in a row hovering for a few seconds and slowly moving west and dissappearing at the same point. Each time one disappeared another appeared vertically next to the other red balls. At one point 8 red balls not flashing were in a lined formation in the sky. Camera wouldn't pick up the lights. Was much larger,slower and further compared to other aircraft flying past.
April 22, 2016 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Whittier, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD