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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
December 22, 2015 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Menifee, CA
Thought it was a falling star or Comet, but it kept going. Had a long sparkling tail . Very white-bright, very fast traveling from Northwest to Southeast. Continued in same direction seemingly level across the sky until it was out of sight. When I saw it I asked the nearest stranger what it was, then everybody in the store parking lot looked up to watch it. Someone said it looked like a rocket. Re-entering space debris. PD
December 22, 2015 · 6:15 PM · FIREBALL
Bakersfield, CA
Fast moving burning object. Looked like a burning aircraft quickly descending in an arc as if it was going to crash. Disappeared before i could take a picture. Re-entering space debris. PD
December 22, 2015 · 6:15 PM · FIREBALL
Palm Springs, CA
I was in the car and I saw what looked like a meteor burning up and breaking up over the Palm Springs Airport. It burned for at least 3 minutes, then broke up into a few pieces. Those pieces disappeared for about 1 minute, then reappeared further away. About 1 minute after that, the entire thing disappeared. The trail changed colors, as if it was burning different gases or something. Re-entering space debris. PD
December 22, 2015 · 6:10 PM · FIREBALL
Huntington Beach, CA
Re-entering space debris. PD
December 22, 2015 · 6:10 PM · FIREBALL
Las Vegas, NV
A large fireball flying across the Las Vegas Nevada sky from the northwest sky toward the southwest. It appeared to be breaking up. Reminded me of the space shuttle when it broke up. Re-entering space debris. PD
December 22, 2015 · 6:05 PM · FIREBALL
Boulder City, NV
I don't think it was a craft it was a meteor, but with a red tail, it was splitting apart, and it looked like to me was electronic material because it was flashing like if it was a plane. So I'm thinking it might be a satellite, or maybe it's light reflecting, because it could of came from warm wood releasing the iron if anyone knows what I'm talking about it's an object bigger than Jupiter. I don't know if I can call it a planet. Anyway that's my observation. Re-entering space debris. PD
December 22, 2015 · 6:05 PM · FIREBALL
Napa, CA
orange/white ball with very long bluish white tail traveled across the entire sky, then out of my vision. Re-entering space debris. PD
December 22, 2015 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Bullhead City, AZ
I believe my girlfriend and I witnessed a meteor fragment enter the atmosphere between 5:55 and 6:15 p.m. on the night of December the 22nd 2015. I was speaking to her while she sat facing the east in a SUV and kept seeing flashes of light which she claimed she did not notice. Believing it must be someone fooling with us, we ignored my curiosity. However within a few minutes after seeing the flashes of light, I noticed a bright object which came from the West, from California in a star burst pattern. If you can imagine looking directly at a firework bursting before you, that is what it looked like. The color was golden to white. It was so large it was startling. Being as we are so nervous about terrorists, I almost thought it was a missile, but as it neared and I shouted at her to get out of the SUV and look up at the sky it began to resemble some type of long comet or meteor soaring very close to earth on a bit of a east southeastern direction. Or as the ! crow flies, towards Phoenix. It remained visible until it left our horizon line or about two minutes or less. Once she left and went home about four minutes later I heard a loud boom from the direction which it flew. Since we both sighted flying orange red orbs over Bullhead City, Arizona, just a few months ago. It is interesting that so many things abound in the skies around here. I am certain it was a meteor or some space debris but it is interesting that no one is local is saying anything about it. Re-entering space debris. PD
December 19, 2015 · 5:00 PM · FIREBALL
Elizabeth City, NC
Traveling from Elizabeth City to Hertford, NC, we saw 7 bright orange flying objects just above the horizon. Not sure what they were but were flying to low and to close together to be planes.
December 17, 2015 · 6:20 AM · FIREBALL
Cumming, GA
I was driving south on GA 400 the skies were still dark. I saw a blue fireball, it looked to me like a shooting star only this one was very close to me.
December 15, 2015 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Ewing, NJ
Fireball shooting up into the sky than about 12 lights hovering over in the sky. I have pictures
December 15, 2015 · 5:32 AM · FIREBALL
Robbinsville, NJ
Putting bags in my car. Went to walk back in house and saw a very large bluish white ball moving flash in the sky for a few seconds.
December 14, 2015 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Dothan (general area), AL
i live in daleville,al looking in the general direction of florida i saw a bright star shooting to the ground perhaps over the ocean
December 14, 2015 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Elk City, OK
Object seen traveling east to west, low on the horizon. Greenish blue ball with tail, breaking up as it neared the horizon. Definitely a meteor breaking up.
December 14, 2015 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Jasper, GA
On the evening of 12.14.2015, between the hours of 1830 and 1930 in Jasper GA, Pickens County, I saw a large, glowing, orange object appear; round in shape. It was very bright, got even brighter, then dimmed and disappeared. It was constantly moving, and presented no sound. What seemed peculiar about the object was that it lasted four seconds. I have seen many meteors and have never seen anything like this, or last for this duration. Near Highway 108, approximately 2.0 Miles West of Highway 515. I was outside on the phone facing directly West. The object moved from the North to the Northwest.
December 14, 2015 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Antioch, CA
Tonight was a cloudy night but from our view we had a clear look.
December 14, 2015 · 4:45 AM · FIREBALL
Hillsboro, OR
No cell phone I was driving....flew behind the only dark cloud in the sky and did not reappear.
December 13, 2015 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
I was never a believer of ufo phenomenon until i saw a huge circle of fire going a round like a ferris wheel over the downtown skies of phoenix Arizona watched from camelback mountain in complete terror over something science can't explain i wish took video of this but when i went to grab a video camera, it was gone.
December 13, 2015 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Deer Park, WA
Watched 2 orange fireballs approaching Deer Park from south westerly direction not moving in a straight line, seemed to hover at times. Showed my sister, then a minute later watched at least 7 more of these orange globes approaching from same direction spaced apart, some hovered in same spot in sky for awhile then seemed to move off in different directions and fade.
December 13, 2015 · 5:20 PM · FIREBALL
Centennial, CO
While sitting on the couch I looked outside the family room window and see three pulsating spheres/orbs that were reddish orange. The objects were loosely formed (spacing between orbs were equal to 4-5 times width of sphere) moving somewhat irregularly, low on the horizon, west to east. When I went out onto the deck to get a better view, I looked east over the trees and roof tops and see five more spheres/orbs still moving irregularly west to east. These eight orb devices did not move in a standard formation. They were never traveling in a straight line. They’d gradually descend a bit and other times ascend as they traveled west to east. They did not change altitudes simultaneously. The trailing, pulsating orb appeared to be moving closer to us but moving more vertical; stopping about 2-3 times higher than the other orbs that were still moving away from us, but the pulsating never ended. A small plane flew by with its position and strobe lights on. I have worked on or around aircraft for nearly 20 years and these spheres/orbs looked and moved NOTHING like any plane, helicopter or Chinese lantern I have ever seen. Over a period of maybe 5 minutes, all the orbs eventually traveled beyond a point where house roofs obstructed my vision. My wife after a couple minutes of me being outside came out and witnessed the same objects… whatever they were. I found a video posted five years ago that shows the same type of objects that my wife and I saw tonight. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc2ppoJIexY
December 11, 2015 · 6:10 PM · FIREBALL
Sacramento, CA
We saw a very rapidly moving fireball with long tail streaking across the sky above Sacramento at very high altitude moving west-northwest to east-southeast. Event lasted perhaps 90 seconds. We had three witnesses. Reported as probable space debris? PD
December 10, 2015 · 6:00 AM · FIREBALL
Lucerne Valley, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 9, 2015 · 10:59 PM · FIREBALL
Frenchtown (Monroe), MI
At Brest Bay Marina area, Frenchtown, MI. Two witnesses Observed 2 fireballs, orange/yellow in color, traveling together with a third following close behind. Travel was from the South to the North over shoreline and land adjacent to Lake Erie. A few minutes later a 4th fireball was observed traveling the same route.
December 8, 2015 · 8:51 PM · FIREBALL
Tampa, FL
I had just got done eating at Boston Market because I did not feel like cooking. As I was walking out towards my car. I saw two orange fireballs flying in V-shaped formation, then disappearing. I could been less then 1-2 miles away if that. So I decided to keep driving, then I saw only one just hovering and pulsating at a distance as I was driving out of Tampa going north. So I decided to turn around and it was gone when I tried to pull over. This particular area is directly in the middle approach path of Tampa International Airport runways 16L and 16R. There had to be more then just one person who had to have seen this. At first I thought they might of been helicopters or fighter jets. But I ruled that out because I've seen many aircraft land and neither of them were bright orange as the two objects I saw