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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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November 3, 2022 · 7:22 PM · FIREBALL

Madera, CHIHUAHU · Mexico

This video was filmed by Ivan Escarcega on 10/27/28 at 7:22 pm. At first, object appears to be a comet, but the people in the video keep thinking it might be a plane. That is until the object drops its tail and appears to travel up and away. Here is the Facebook link where he live broadcast: https://www.facebook.com/100003185094709/videos/673115187571841/ The footage is incredible! Thank you, Kim Guerrero

November 2, 2022 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL

North east, MD

Was walking to my car when I saw a streak of light fly through the air. It was really fast and only one. Saw it for about 5 seconds. It disappeared.

October 31, 2022 · 2:13 AM · FIREBALL

Colchester, ESSEX · United Kingdom

Me and 2 other friends were roaming around our campus at the University of Essex Campus when me and another friend spotted a blue light just race across atop of Wivenhoe House( which is a small hotel on our campus). It is a pretty isolated place at night and this area is surrounded by trees and an open field. It was a dark blue type light a bit like a fireball and it just raced across almost very quickly like it was in a blink right atop of wivenhoe house it seemed as if it would just touch the building but it was very very close to it and just quickly raced past towards the southeast direction.It came and went. This is not a joke none of us do drugs we’re all first year students who have just moved into university and this was an experience to witness since I’m interested in the universe out there. This is not a hoax kindly investigate this thank you.

October 27, 2022 · 6:19 PM · FIREBALL

Kingman, AZ

Seen from the parking lot of Cerbat Elementary school, Jagerson Rd. in Kingman Arizona between 6:17 and 6:26 P.M During Cerbat Elementary School's "Trunk or Treat" Halloween event, a comet-like object came very slowly from the NW (roughly the direction of Las Vegas,) changing directions and in one instance doing a loop, leaving a jet-like "vapor trail" in it's wake that lasted until the light faded and it was dark and no longer visible. I'd have thought it was something from the Air base in Vegas, but I can't think of anything that would move this slow, this low, cause the large comet-tail, yet move like it did and change directions! It was late dusk, and it moved within a finger's width of the thin crescent moon from my vantage point (Tuesday was new moon.) To the naked eye it appeared to be a comet with a *large* flaring tail like you'd see on TV of comets in outer space. Holding up my finger did not obscure the end of the tail it was so big. It appeared to be significantly lower than the average altitude (jet stream) of a jet liner (by perhaps half) and moved VERY slowly across the sky into the SE. At first there was enough twilight that the tail appeared almost like frosted glass. Hundreds of people standing in line saw this. It was a pretty good size, and I'm in my 50's and have sky watched my whole life, and I've NEVER seen anything like this. It moved WAY too slowly to be a shooting star, and those don't do loops and change directions. The "vapor trail" appeared to almost zig-zag in it's trajectory, do the loop, then turn more southernly. From what I *personally* observed after my grandson ran to the car and pointed it out, it actually looked at first like it was coming closer into the near atmosphere, then slowly regained altitude. During the 5-6 minutes I watched it, the size of the main body did not change size as might be expected from a large asteroid burning in the atmosphere, and the tail was consistent in length for the duration. About 30 seconds before when I estimated it would leave visual range to the SE, I lost sight of the tail, and I thought it's direction changed again and the tail was now directed at me. Within another 1-2 seconds I lost sight of anything at all except the vapor trail-like marking in the sky back to the NW illuminated by moonlight and the only analogy I can give is almost like low hanging autumn clouds, but only where it had traveled. There was no other jet activity in the sky I could see (and again, they would have been significantly higher) and the object appeared from as much as I could see to be round-ish, but any actual shape was obstructed by the air-disruption around it that caused the comet-like tail. It was absolutely astounding looking, and when I caught sight of it I thought it would just streak across the sky, but it moved SO slowly I told my husband "I don't think that's a meteor, look how slow it's moving" and he agreed. Then we pondered if it was some sort of rocket, but again, it moved too slow for what I would expect even those to move. I'd have taken out my camera if I hadn't been absolutely amazed by it trying to figure it out. I had my phone right next to me, and in hindsight I thought I should have taken a picture, but with the 100's of people there, I'm sure someone got pics and maybe a video or two. If it was a large close meteor, it had to have been of a big enough size that if it had made contact with the earth it would have taken out all of Kingman. But again, Meteors and Comets don't zig-zag and do loops..........

October 25, 2022 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL

Yucca Valley, CA

Married couple on vacation from Vermont staying in Airbnb in Yucca Valley. Outside in the dark admiring the stars, I see glowing orange lights, hovering above a mountain range. They were quite stationary and then started to drop a little bit and then they disappeared in a flash. there were two orbs. They reappeared a second time. Hovered over the mountain top again not really moving and then instantly disappeared again into thin air. This was across a period of time of about 10 minutes. They hovered in the sky for up to a minute or two. I did capture some photographs and video on my iPhone, in one image, and with the naked eye, I could see a zigzag, straight line contrail in the shape of a Z. I also have video where you can see the Z shape zigzag contrail. Unfortunately they were not able to upload. I’m happy to send them another way.

October 24, 2022 · 11:50 PM · FIREBALL

Leamington Spa · United Kingdom

Whilst watching the dog in the back garden, I noticed a round bright orange fireball object coming towards me from the south, it went straight over head travelling in a northerly direction. The fireball looked high in the sky and was travelling at speed in a straight line, there was no sound. It was travelling considerably faster than any commercial aircraft that regularly fly over. The fireball was visible for approx a minute (maybe less) and stayed visible way into the distance until it eventually went out of sight. I initially though it could be a high altitude aircraft with its afterburners on, however the fireball shape and size stayed consistent when viewed coming towards me, going over head and when travelling away from me. I'm a 60 year old professional guy with good vision, who would not normally be spooked...

October 20, 2022 · 8:40 PM · FIREBALL

San Jose, CA

I was driving on the highway out of the blue on the sky appear a small fireball it get bigger. We were very impressed by the size. The object was very shining like the Sun. It change size gets bigger and get loose in the sky. The color was yellow then turn to orange. It was in one spot no trace. The movement was circular and it was very bright like a star or the Sun. The Object get back to be small in the same place and disappear. The size was very impressive bigger than a planet smaller than the moon.

October 20, 2022 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL

Marion, NC

I was outside around 1945 hours Thursday night 10/20/2022 I saw something that I thought at first was a plane on fire. I stepped to door asked my daughter to step out when I looked back there was a 2nd one. The first had turned a little more north east and was going up getting smaller in size. it went straight up out of sight and the 2nd one followed same path. There was a regular airplane pass through the middle of their path at one point. They had an orange color light that looked like a fire ball. We did not attempt to get a camera to take pictures I was afraid I would not see where they went. I couldn't say for sure but the light might have been on the under side of some type of aircraft. There was no sound at all.

October 17, 2022 · 7:10 PM · FIREBALL

Tarzana (Los Angeles), CA

I only caught the tail end of the anomaly, as it flew down below the tree line about a quarter of a mile from me. The thing that brings me here today to report this is I’ve never seen anything like it, and I’m a big astronomy and space nerd. It was a massive blue/green meteorite type fireball that I would have to roughly judge to be five to ten feet in diameter. The tail of the fireball was very small. It was all very bright. I heard no light or sound when/if it landed or made impact. Nothing remarkable happened after for several minutes. It was too brief to capture a photo.

October 16, 2022 · 10:55 PM · FIREBALL

Torrance, CA

Hovering for few seconds and then dashed very fast to heavens in a matter of seconds.

October 15, 2022 · 1:25 AM · FIREBALL

Wellington, FL

As I was driving home from work I noticed a bright light in the sky that didn’t look like a typical airplane. The light was orange and looked like it coming closer to me as it was growing larger. It disappeared for a second and when I saw it again it was flying across the night sky and a large tail was coming from the object. The tail was a bluish white color and it was moving horizontally and up slightly. After a few minutes I lost sight of the object as it entered some clouds.

October 14, 2022 · 9:11 AM · FIREBALL

South Brisbane, QUEENSLA · Australia

So I was on my way to my first period class walking with my friends until I was shocked to look up in the sky and see a fireball, it quickly zoomed across the sky and behind one of the buildings before I was able to take a photo, however all my friends saw it and were as shocked as I.

October 11, 2022 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL

Portsmouth, HAMPSHIR · United Kingdom

Upon leaving the school at approximately 1900 hours we observed first a "fireball" traveling at a constant speed (ie, neither accelerating nor decelerating). It appeared to stop when two more fireballs appeared in a straight line and equidistant, behind the first. The first then "turned around" and receded into the distance appearing as a small pin-prick of white light. I cannot say what happened to the other two as we had to drive on. I estimate that we observed them for about 10 minutes. They looked nothing like I have ever seen before in the sky and I am confident that they were not meteor showers, meteorites, drones, helicopters, planes, fireworks, Chinese lanterns, or any tricks of light. It was dusk and the sky was clear.

October 11, 2022 · 2:47 AM · FIREBALL

Banning, CA

Orange red fiery ord moving fast disappearing and reappearing

October 10, 2022 · 10:03 PM · FIREBALL

Port St John, FL

Was taking out the trash, I looked up at exactly the moment a yellowish white teardrop-shaped ball encased in blue light fell from the sky. It was in the North to Northwest part of the sky. Looked as if it were over the street perpendicular to mine. There was no noise. It came and went so fast that I can't remember if it had a tail on it or not. I half believe it might have because at first, I thought someone was setting off one of those fireworks that fall. Only there was no noise and there was only one very large ball not lots of them like fireworks. It only lasted about a minute before there was no longer a sign of it. It was falling so fast. I don't think it was a tail as much as it was a trail behind it. The object was very bright and luminous. From the ground, it appeared to be larger than a basketball in the sky and large enough to catch my attention as it was falling or descending. Tonight, there were a lot of clouds in the sky. The firey ball did not seem to come from really high in the sky and it did not seem to fall to the ground. It was so pretty. No picture was taken.

October 10, 2022 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL

Brooksville, FL

I saw a bright green fireball streaking across the sky. From high, right to left. And it disappeared. I did not hear anything. There were over 100 reports filed with the American meteor society in Florida. Report 6887-2022. Not sure , what it was?

October 7, 2022 · 7:50 PM · FIREBALL

Bealeton, VA

I saw a fireball swirling around and around for 20 seconds and then it dove straight down almost like a shooting star falling out of the sky. But then it disappeared once it shot down. 2 seconds later it re appeared and started swirling again. It shot over to the right near the woods and then disappeared behind the tree line. I saw it in the tree line one more time before it completely disappeared. It had a very long tail and it looked almost glittery. Definitely like a fireball. It looked unreal. I have never seen anything like this before in my life. My partner saw it near the end of it being in the sky because he has bad eye sight. But he saw it swirl around for like 10 seconds and disappear behind the tree line

October 7, 2022 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL

Vidisha, MADHYA P · India

Mountain at teelhedi colony , vidisha m.p.behind my house .

October 5, 2022 · 7:48 PM · FIREBALL

Lynwood, CA

We saw 5 close fireballs together and one was a little more distant, for a total of six. Thr more distant one started moving rapidly and changed color from an orange to green light. If showed a cylinder like shape. Kept moving super fast while the others separated. It lasted for a good 5 minutes.

October 1, 2022 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL

Granger, IN

My son and I were gazing the sky while suddenly plain sight a large circle that is glowing like a sunset sun just appeared in front of us and was heading north then it started climbing up and up, it was huge at 1st then it got smaller and smaller as it kept climbing in a steady speed. I wish I had my phone at 1st but when I grabbed it it was smaller and further up in the sky. Beautiful sighting overall.

September 26, 2022 · 10:58 PM · FIREBALL

Clyde, NC

I was on the phone with my sister while standing outside and suddenly saw a bright green glowing object which fell slowly through the clear dark sky before disappearing behind a ridge line. I did not see it come back up, so I believe it landed. I could not tell exactly how far away it was but I would say less than a mile. I was shocked by the sighting and noted how oddly slow it fell and what a bright glowing green color it was. Nearby outdoor dogs began barking after I lost sight of the object.

September 25, 2022 · 7:20 PM · FIREBALL