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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.
6,009 entries
July 4, 2015 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Merced, CA
While shooting fireworks, I noticed my daughter not looking toward the show, but up toward the sky. I asked if she was okay and she pointed her phone. Curious I asked what she was doing and she kept asking me if I saw "it". She said it was an orangish/coppery rust color and it just faded away. The area below where she sighted the object is a fallow field, with dry brush, so there was no fireworks being shot over the area for fear of fires. The next morning she showed me her picture she took. She originally thought she didn't get it but in the morning light found it on her phone as you can see by the picture, it is difficult to see. We did not hear anything and there was no smoke trail. The object seemed to show up and vanish quietly with not lights.
July 4, 2015 · 7:15 PM · OVAL
Syracuse, NY
My husband, daughter and I were on our way home from a cook out driving down Wolf St. When we noticed the fireworks show and decided to pull on the side curb to view the display. Upon seeing the display my attention kept focusing on the orb in the sky. It was just hovering so I thought it couldn't be a plane. May-be a helicopter? Can a helicopter fly that high? Wait a minute this thing is a oval shape glowing. Now I'm still in the car with my 2 year old grandson but at this time my husband and daughter were already out enjoying the festivities so I thought. My daughter (21 yrs) knocked on the window and said mom" Do u see what I see?" I rolled down my window and said (I thought I was the only one. Record it and see what happens.) So she recorded this thing hovering,flying left to right, changing bright colors and eventually dropping out of site behind the trees. Then we left after that not caring about the firework display. Still questioning what we saw. Then I look up above our car their were 2 acorn fireballs in the sky. They were flying at a perfect distance apart from each other bright orange. I tried to get my husband to pull over but he refuse. When we pulled up in front of our house the fireballs remained across in the distance. We stood out side no longer having doubts what we were witnessing. The fireball on the left flew to the left and disappeared within seconds. The one on the right remained about 30 seconds and appeared to follow the other fireball repeating the same path. We came in the house in a amazement. My daughter went to lay her son down for bed and I heard her say "MOM". By the time I got to the window they disappeared again.She saw 3 more fireballs in a triangle shape formation. Seriously!!! I may of had doubts in the past but as crazy and maybe even insane as this may sound I am now a believer.
July 1, 2015 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
Crown City, OH
Driving home from work, notice bright light in sky with colors large in size. Pulled over, took pictures and video. Honestly, I don't know what it was. It wasn't raining or foggy. It would stayed stationary not move then move rapid in irregular motion. Just curious what it could be.
July 1, 2015 · 1:38 PM · OVAL
Trimley St. Mary (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Went back into the clouds and was shadowed again. No noise.
July 1, 2015 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Long Beach, CA
While watching an article on news.yahoo.com about some unusual lighting strikes/weather in California, there are several lights in a grid formation in the clouds from time index 0:29 to 0:41 in the KTLA news video. Refer to.... http://news.yahoo.com/video/unseasonable-thunderstorms-rain-expected-hit-124239590.html We cannot rule out the possibility that the video may have been taken through a plate glass window, and that the lights in the video may be a reflection of ceiling lights behind the camera. PD
June 29, 2015 · 4:00 PM · OVAL
Bethel, CT
I was driving home and noticed a silver object in the sky. At first I thought it was a blimp but I have been on blimps and this shape was round. I turned up the hill and kept thinking about how it was not a blimp. I turned around to get a picture but had to go down the hill and pull into a parking lot. I saw an employee come out and said " look up there and tell me what you see". It had disappeared. The next day I told a coworker and he said the blimp went by but that was at 10am not 4pm. I asked if it had Snoopy on it and he said "Yes". No Snoopy here I saw all silver.
June 28, 2015 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Colchester, VT
I opened the door and I heard nothing. No noise. I watched it fly right over and just in shock a little. I walked back in and another one started to come from the same direction. I ran and woke up my wife who went to sleep with the kids. She ran down only to see it get out of sight over the tree line. ((expletive deleted..)) to my surprise, another started to come over again. This time she ran and grabbed my phone and watched it with me. My phone wouldn't focus so I gave up and watched it with my own eyes. My wife also couldn't believe it. I have two very short videos of the lights. It looks fake to me, or just a light in the sky. Another one started to come over and I ran and got my keys, this time I followed it to the lake so I could see what happened next. The light went towards Plattsburg, New your ((sic. New York)). I could see it going towards where they are shooting fire works off. It was brighter than the fireworks, I cant understand why its not on the news or all over the internet. The light was incredible. My wife said she would have called me crazy if she didn't see it her self. One last note. I live in the landing, and take off path for Burlington Vermont airport. I noticed that no planes landed or took off for hours. Its never been so quite in the sky. Later that night, planes started coming over and the normal noise begin, nothing out of the norm. Not flares, not skydivers. If it was an electric engine, it was amazingly quite, and the light was bright. I woke up and went to the news channel watching to see and nothing. This had to be seen by hundreds of people, especially the people looking in the sky at the fireworks.
June 25, 2015 · 4:30 PM · OVAL
Philadelphia, PA
Looks to us to be the Goodyear blimp. PD
June 24, 2015 · 9:45 PM · OVAL
Probable conventionalBrunstatt, Alsace · France
Le 24 juin 2015 vers 21h45 (date du 25 juin est mentionnée par erreur sur le questionnaire par le témoin) une personne, regardant la TV, a son regard attiré à l'extérieur par le déplacement d'une dizaine de lueurs vives de couleurs planant au-dessus de la colline et de la cime des arbres. Aucun bruit n'est entendu durant l'observation d'une quinzaine de minutes. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. L'observation de lumières volantes traversant le ciel en quelques minutes, une nuit de week-end, fait nettement penser à des ballons lumineux (ballons à LED ou lanternes thaï), probablement lâchées à proximité à l'issue d'une fête privée (Fête de la Saint-Jean ?). Le témoin indique dans son récit un déplacement vers l'Ouest, mais le dessin indique un déplacement du NNe vers SSO (voir la reconstitution cartographique). Le déplacement est observé globalement du Nord vers le Sud, ce qui est compatible avec le vent de Nord Ouest à Nord relevé à Mulhouse-Bâle (à 21h : léger vent de Nord de 7 à 11 km/h s'orientant à l'Ouest à 23h :Météociel. Le GEIPAN classe ce cas "B" observation probable de ballons lumineux à LED ou de lanternes thaï. Les couleurs multiples et la longue durée du phénomène oriente plutôt vers des ballons à LED, car les lanternes thaï ont le plus souvent une dominante jaune orangée du fait de la flamme qui est source de lumière. [GEIPAN classification B — Ballon]
June 24, 2015 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Punta Gorda, FL
Fixed oval light in sky with 4 or 5 rings on it. Crisscross-cross beam of light emitting from it.
June 23, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Coshocron, OH
This craft appeared out of the south and appeared as a cloud. Then directly overhead I saw the center light; like a flood light. It continued on to the north then out of sight. Sighting was Monday night, not Monday morning. We have amended the date above to reflect that fact. PD
June 22, 2015 · 11:45 PM · OVAL
Sutton, WV
Went outside to check garden. It was clear. I noticed a weird object in the sky. It was shaped like long football, and was moving northwest. It was noticeably lower than the stars. It emitted a dull, white light all around it. My mother came out and watched it, and at one point it stopped for about 1 minute then dropped below the tree line.
June 22, 2015 · 11:40 PM · OVAL
Mount Sterling, KY
There was a little wind that evening but the Illuminated Orb did not waver in its path. I call my daughter who had just enough time to see it before it flew out of sight. It appeared to be 200 to 300 feet above my house when I first saw it. I could see nothing in the orb. It was half the size of a full moon and illuminated as bright as it first passed overhead and, of course, appeared smaller as it zoomed away in the night sky.
June 22, 2015 · 10:42 PM · OVAL
Kaukauna, WI
We could clearly see stars, and all of a sudden a large, fuzzy,oval shaped white light appeared at 10:42 pm CST and started moving from the Southeast to the Northwest. It moved soundlessly and slowly and traveled in a straight line. There were no blinking lights and no definitive outlines. It was just sort of a large solid glow. It was WAY too big to be an airplane, satellite or meteor. We could clearly see the Big Dipper to the left of this light, and if you divided the cup of the Big Dipper into equal parts, this light would have been about 1/16th of that size. Then it faded away. There were clouds out that night, but this light traveled where the clouds were not, so we got a good look at it. Kind of freaked us both out. We have never seen anything like this. ((NOTE FROM MR. TED MOLCZAN)) Hello Peter, Your hunch probably is correct. The Sentinel 2A satellite was launched on a Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center, last night at 9:52 PM EDT (Jun 23 01:52 UTC). Coverage of the launch was here: http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/06/22/vv05-mission-status-center/ SeeSat-L received several reports of sightings near 23:49 EDT (3:49 UTC), of what appears to have been exhaust from the final burn of the Vega rocket's AVUM liquid fueled upper stage. That burn lowered the perigee to ensure that the object decays from orbit within a reasonable time, in order to curb the growth of space debris. http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0193.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0194.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0195.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0198.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0199.html Marco Langbroek blogged his analysis: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2015/06/aurora-hunter-images-last-moments-of.html Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Best regards, Ted ((END NOTE)) Out-gassing event of spent rocket. PD
June 22, 2015 · 8:15 PM · OVAL
Boise, ID
I ran in my house and grabbed my binoculars and went back outside - the lead UFO had now turned south and was accenting and becoming smaller and smaller then then vanished - it was a clear nite - the 2nd UfO followed the first and the vanished a few seconds later.
June 21, 2015 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Appleton, WI
It was originally about 200 ft. off the ground, then leveled off just above treeline.
June 20, 2015 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Greenwood, IN
My husband and I were sitting on the patio at 11:00 pm. I saw a huge ball of fire coming from the southeast, across the sky, getting bigger as it came towards us. It looked like a balloon with a giant fire inside it. It was very high in the sky. This fire ball was not a plane, it zig-zagged a little as it came forward. It flew just under the clouds and we had a clear view. It then veered to the left and disappeared for a few minutes, then the huge oval shape turned black when the fire disappeared. At that point it looked like a dark rectangular parachute against the slightly lit night sky. It went down to the northeast, the "parachute" seeming to land behind the trees to the northeast of us. We were stunned when we looked back where it had come from and saw another ball of fire coming from the same direction. This one followed a straighter path from southeast to northwest. This fireball also disappeared, changing into a black spot in the sky, and seemed to go down behind the trees in the distance to the northwest. These both started as oval balls of fire and changed to black rectangular "parachute" shapes after they lost their light. We did take pictures and videos.
June 20, 2015 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
Tampa, FL
In the early evening (sunset over the Hillsborough Bay, of June 2015, I took this picture with my Android as I was driving over the Gandy Bridge, Tampa Florida. The sky caught my attention because of the way the clouds looked and the sunset. Did not notice the craft (UFO) in the sky at the time. I was driving 55 mph and just snapped it quickly. I just noticed the (UFO) craft in the sky today, January 18, 2016, when I was looking through photo’s in my Florida library media. I can’t believe what I zoomed in on when I noticed the dark oval craft in the picture in the upper right corner of my Photo. This craft and looks like 2 other very small black images near it of an odd shape, but my camera did not depict their design. Hope this photo can be analyzed well with the photo I have sent and someone has some idea what this craft is. Definitely not a jet. I am still amazed and curious about this craft (UFO) and look forward to reading about my photo on your site in the near future and what on earth it is. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 20, 2015 · 3:15 PM · OVAL
Mississauga (Canada), ON · Canada
Mississauga is just west of the City of Ontario, and therefore, in the Province of Ontario. PD
June 19, 2015 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Wilton, NY
Followed it for about 30 seconds, then it disappeared.
June 19, 2015 · 4:45 PM · OVAL
Clearwater, FL
On 6/19/2015 at approximately 4:45pm I was driving northbound on US 19 in Clearwater. Event occurred during the duration of time it took to drive between approximately Drew Street up to SR. 580. I noticed a single light grey-almost white craft flying very fast from east to west, very high in the sky. Gauging by its position in the sky, it appeared it could have been over Palm Harbor/Oldsmar area. Initially mistook as a high altitude aircraft heading to Tampa Airport, when it started glowing extremely and unnaturally bright for approx. 5 seconds, as the bright light dissipated, it resumed a more normal greyish looking oval craft. During the brightest part, it looked more circular in shape. Even in daylight, it was extremely bright. A few seconds later I noticed a translucent dark haze appeared to materialize and grow around the craft. It was perfectly oval around the craft, and much larger than the craft. The growing dark haze around the craft started losing transparency, and the craft became more obscured and very dim to see. The dark haze around the craft moved with it at the same rate of speed. There was no contrail from the craft, nor did the surrounding haze have a contrail, say as smoke would if an engine blew on an airplane. The craft became very difficult to see due to the thickening dark haze surrounding it, and when it flew into a nearby cloud, it did not come out. Less than a minute later, an actual high altitude airplane (appearing to be) heading for Tampa airport flew on what appeared a very similar flight path. It had a contrail, when it banked, I could clearly make out airplane wings, unlike the craft preceding it. It also appeared to be flying at a much slower rate of speed than the first object. The airplane appeared to enter the same cloud as the first craft, but it came out the other side, whereas the first craft did not exit the cloud on the other side. I am unsure if anyone else saw this. I was driving on US 19 in the construction areas, and when I was able to pull over, it was gone.
June 19, 2015 · 11:00 AM · OVAL
Henderson, NV
Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
June 14, 2015 · 1:33 PM · OVAL
Kingston (Canada), ON · Canada
I was going through some photos I had taken on June 14, 2015, and in one photo, I noticed something in the sky. I don't remember taking a specific photo of this object as I was just snapping photos while out with my girlfriend and her dog. I never saw the object in the sky, until I looked at the photo and noticed it. I zoomed the photo and used an edge detection filter on the image and realized it wasn't a bird or anything else I could ascertain. I came to the conclusion that it was indeed an unidentified flying object. It is definitely a solid object in the sky above the lake. I also snapped another picture of the same scene about 17 seconds later and the object doesn't appear in the second photo. I am submitting these two photos and I haven't changed them in any way. These are directly from the camera to my hard drive.
June 13, 2015 · 11:15 PM · OVAL
Mechanicsburg, PA
Driving from Mechanicsburg toward Boiling Springs on Rt. 174. As we approached Locust Point Rd., I notice a light, pinkish in color, in the sky to my right. It was diamond shape and was not flashing. It appeared to be hovering. As we passed Locust Point Rd., we pulled over so I could get video with my phone. I got video from the car but when I exited the car the light was gone. We turned around and went back. As we were turing around I saw an oval object, dark but outlined going over Rt. 74. We headed back to Locust Point Rd. and turned right, the way the object was heading. We drove a couple 100 yards and stopped. I could not see anything or hear anything. One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.