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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
11,675 entries
May 30, 2020 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Casper, WY
Along the North Platte River, off of Trappers Route,on a clear night, a very bright glowing lime-green orb appeared in the sky, moving quickly above the river a short distance from where we were. It was followed by 2 smaller bright white lights. The orb briefly stopped, hovered over the river, causing a "glow" reflection off of the water. After we both were able to focus on the green orb and lights, it quickly sped out of sight. We did not hear any sound coming from it and it was approximately 100 yards away, at the most. We were surrounded by sagebrush and river's edge. There were no trees or nearby light sources. No roads or vehicle access near or where the orb appeared.
May 30, 2020 · 9:14 PM · SPHERE
Fort Myers, FL
My husband’s mother called us to go out side. She had witnessed it first. We went out front looking North West we saw about 8 light spheres all lined up in a row. We live right by southwest Florida international airport. These were not planes. They did not blink and weren’t traveling where planes usually do. As they moved the first one disappeared. Then as everyone got to the same spot they also disappeared. They were moving fairly slow south east.
May 30, 2020 · 8:55 PM · SPHERE
Longwood, FL
My apartment faces East. I was standing out on my 4th story balcony taking videos of the lightening (we had a severe thunderstorm warning). After a few minutes of recording, I saw from my North East point of view what looked like a huge deep orange fireball moving way faster than an aircraft. It was not blinking. It was flying super fast in a Western direction. I estimate around 800 mph high in the atmosphere--as it was moving much faster than the (normal red, white, and blue) blinking airplanes headed towards the Orlando International Airport. I at first thought it was a meteor in the atmosphere that came too close, or maybe the international space station, or even a lantern someone let off, but realized it wasn't any of those things. This fireball orb also had a faint white glow around the orange on the exterior. It's brightness fluctuated. It kept its path but seemed to slow down and speed up as it went...It then got smaller, darted, and completely disappeared into thin air. About 1-2 minutes later another identical looking fireball darted from the exact same direction and headed in the same direction at the same speed, also before completely vanishing around the same area. Before the 2nd fireball orb vanished, it remained in the same place in the sky. I actually took a video of these first 2 that I will email. The 3rd glowing fireball was much further to my north peaking in and out of the trees (you could tell it was much further away), getting brighter and fainter repetitively until it too, vanished. (this 3rd one was too distant to get on camera but I witnessed it). I have footage of the first 2 glowing orb fireballs on my iPhone. The closer I zoomed in on my iPhone I realized it seemed to be changing shaped and others seemed to be flashing in an out of the sky. I will edit my footage so that you can see those parts in slow-motion. The space launch sight (Cape Canaveral) is more to my South-East and I see the launches. I saw the historical launch today. While the rockets look orange in the dark, they have a super specific trajectory and are far more distant. There were also no other launches today. These fireballs were pretty sizable, much closer, and flying then disappearing. I know what I saw and it was nothing like the rocket launches, didn't look like any of the airplanes, and these glowing orb fireballs looked like nothing I had ever seen before. They only came around as the severe thunderstorm moved away South-West towards downtown Orlando and it had stopped raining at my place. (Tons of lightning)
May 30, 2020 · 8:20 PM · SPHERE
Glasgow (UK/Scotland) · United Kingdom
Was looking out for space x falcon flying past. 15 minutes after launch,but what I saw was an sphere shape object travelling from East to west at high speed across the sky before it vanished behind high clouds. I know this was not the space x as this would be travelling West to East, this was no aircraft due to its speed.
May 29, 2020 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Dexter, OR
Yellow/Orange sphere flew in a wave pattern from west to east and landed near the Willamette National Forest. Where it was flying was accompanied by bright flashes of light that lit up the whole sky like a strobe or lightning, yet the sky was clear of clouds. After it landed, we could see the strobe effect, without regularity in timing. We drove towards it but never found it. We watched the continuous strong flashes for the next few hours, and eventually saw a really bright shooting star going very slow in the sky above it. The flashes continued for hours. We eventually went inside. It resembled a lightning ball or plasma storm.
May 27, 2020 · 10:20 PM · SPHERE
Idaho Falls, ID
NATIONAL UFO REPORTING CENTER (NUFOR) www.ufocenter.com UFO REPORT- Bonneville County, Idaho Falls, ID 83404 MAY 27, 2020 Approximately 2100-2130 Last night, May 27,2020, my wife and I observed a total of 4 colored ORBs traveling slowly WNW then changing direction and traveled S to N. As they moved relatively slow, very low, and bright across the night sky, their propulsion appeared to pulsate slightly and then fade out for a 1 second duration then return and continue to travel S to N brightly for 7 seconds then fade out again for 1 second and continue that pattern until finally fading out for good right before the next orange orb came into view at place of origin, of the first orb, then repeated the trajectory and characteristics of the previous orbs. The last orb was identical in every way but was bright red. Their size could be compared to about twice the size of Venus on its brightest nights (a few hours before and after sunset). We observed these objects from S 5th W (old Park Road) looking East toward Taylor Mountain and Wolverine Canyon area, with the orb moving below the mountain’s horizon. I’ve waited a couple days to send this so I could recall the most accurate and detailed account of what we saw. I want to stress the fact that we have no idea what these objects were nor could we think of any manmade flying, projected, fired ,flown or guided pieces of equipment. I spent 6 years as a Navy Fire Controlman and In essence, we operate the weapons sensors and tracking devices, from first detection through firing the weapons, to defend the ship against tactical threats or to make offensive strikes against hostile targets, so I have very dependable knowledge of and can identify many airborne objects, whether it be civilian, military or hostiles.
May 27, 2020 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Berlin (Germany) · Germany
We witnessed a very bright reflective white/silver orb, flying very high, following alongside a big 4 engine 737 type plane. It was directly overhead and it was a very clear sunny day. It appeared to be about 1/4 of the plane's size. The plane had very strong contrails and the weather was warm, so it was at least flying at probably 20,000 feet. My attention was first drawn to the jet because of the thick contrails. It was directly overhead as I laid down on the grass in the park to relax a cramp in my back that I have been suffering after poor home office ergonomics (Covid 19 lock down). The UFO was following southbound about 5 plane lengths, dashing through the contrails, in and out for about 15 seconds (from the point I laid down and noticed it). Then it went out along side the plane and followed it for about another 15-20 seconds, and then it just completely stopped (now about 20-30° away from the zenith). It up stayed in place for about a minute before a small dense cumulus cloud passed between view. (Confirming it is at least 10,000 feet and likely higher, since it was in the contrails before). 2-3 minutes later when it passed, it was still there. It stayed there for about 10 minutes, not moving. The plane now was long gone. I pointed it out to another man in the park and we watched it together. Suddenly, it accelerated towards the north-east extremely fast, at least 3-4 times the speed the plane was going earlier, instantaneously! In maybe 5 seconds it was out of sight. I had chills and tears, and still do writing this now. It was clearly an object at a high altitude, performing very unusual and quite impossible flight maneuvers. Afterwards, I scoured social media and newspapers for any other sightings but didn't find any to my surprise because it was so obvious to me. But then again, not too many people are staring straight up, sky watching in the middle of the day. I thank my back problems for my experience. I am 32, married with two children. I am a social scientist by day, weather and astronomy enthusiast by night. I have never seen any UFOs before, although I have spent far more time watching the sky than most people, for other reasons. Therefore, I am quite confident that this was a very special once in a lifetime experience.
May 26, 2020 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Revere, MA
I was on the beach walking my dog. The night sky was as clear as I have ever seen it. It was so clear that I do not remember the last time I have seen this many stars in the sky. As I was staring up at the sky, I witnessed a small spherical object, the same brightness and distance as the stars, glide slowly across the sky until it disappeared. I thought I was seeing things, so I continued to stare up at the sky. Roughly 5 minutes later I witnessed the same thing happened again. I thought it could have been aircraft, but there were no flashing lights and these objects appeared to be deep into space and roughly the same size as the smaller stars. The second of the two objects that I saw had a periodic glare of bright light emitting from it, almost like the reflection of something off a rotating object. I have witnessed meteor showers before, but this was nothing like it. These appeared to move slowly across the sky, but were moving very fast in relation to the position of the stars.
May 26, 2020 · 9:29 PM · SPHERE
Albquerque, NM
Very star like, white glowing sphere object travelling very fast but also swift. Looked exactly like a star except just a little less bright. Travelled from above KAFB north bound.
May 26, 2020 · 12:20 PM · SPHERE
New Haven, CT
i was standing on the corner of Whalley Avenue and Hobart Street waiting for a bus at approximately 12:20 PM and I witnessed a shiny silver metallic craft that appeared to be spherical in shape. it was traveling slowly toward me when I first saw it at an altitude of under 1000 feet. i lost sight of it as it disappeared behind a tree that was across the street from my location. I reached for my phone as it disappeared behind the tree thinking that it would come out from behind the tree but it never emerged.
May 25, 2020 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Windsor, CT
I was star gazing with my boyfriend in his front yard and out of no where there was this giant orb of light in the sky. At first we though it was a shooting star or a satellite but then it started to move in a zigzag across the sky really fast. After a few seconds it was gone.
May 24, 2020 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Waco, TX
On 05/25/2020 at approximately 23:15 I witnessed a softball sized orb flashing in the backyard of my residence. At a distance I assumed the flashing was a lightning bug. As the orb approached the window I was observing it stopped moving and started glowing with a blueish white light. At this point it stayed stationary for a few seconds right in front of me. At this time there was a thunderstorm approximately twenty miles from my location so I assumed this was just ball lightning. Then a bright beam of white fast flickering light appeared and scanned from my feet to my head. Once it reached the top of the window frame the flickering light stopped and the glowing object shot up and exited my field of vision.
May 24, 2020 · 7:15 AM · SPHERE
Bridgeville, PA
Looked out my window and noticed something in the sky. My immediate thought was a balloon slowly rising or just stuck in the wind. Looking closer it was very spherical and would have to be a huge balloon. It started drifting to my left (looking up from Bridgeville PA) and slowly away, generally heading NW towards Pittsburgh Airport. It moved very slowly and faded into the distance. I'm certain it wasn't a helicopter or plane. Only possibilities in my mind are UFO or a drone. As it went into the distance it "lit up" a few times. I really believe it was just reflecting early morning sun rays as it moved. Still, that happened as it drifted further away, so it *had* to be pretty sizable to make that kind of reflection. The reflection itself was very bright. Not as in lighting up the sky, just the object itself lit up, like metal reflecting sunlight. If this was a drone, it had to have been very large. I tried taking video with my phone through my window and screen, which didn't work. The object was too far at that point to pick up on my phone camera. I've been watching the sky now for about 30 minutes and see nothing. Perhaps you will receive other reports from the Pittsburgh area today.
May 23, 2020 · 11:10 PM · SPHERE
Bridgewater Corners, VT
Slowly moving from north to south. All at once, rapid speed increase and erratic, jerky pattern assumed, still continuing southward.
May 23, 2020 · 10:15 AM · SPHERE
St. Michael, MN
We saw two objects flying at the same speed and diagonal to one another. At first, we thought perhaps they were airplanes, but as they continued to fly they didn't deter from they speed or relation to one another. They were both round, as far as we could tell, and bright pink/orange in color. The lower left one blinked a few times, then the other one did and then, they both just disappeared. They were a good distance apart, perhaps a mile? There were no clouds for the light to be hidden behind. They did not have trails behind them like a flare or fireworks. There was no sound either. They where above houses but below the average airplane flying height typical in our area. We are wondering if there were any satellites in the area? We are of sound mind. I do have a video, but it's very shaky and hard to see. I did a still image and it looks like an orb of light or oval of light. If you are interested in seeing it, please let me know. Thank you.
May 22, 2020 · 9:00 AM · SPHERE
Colorado Springs, CO
I was in our home’s second floor room overlooking Templeton Gap. I was lying on my back exercising looking out the window. All at once on the morning of May 22, 2020 I saw distinctly two white orbs/spheres that were exactly alike and flying in complete unison but not touching. They appeared to be about 2-1/2 feet away from my window. They looked to be about 2” to 3” apart from each other. They were white and you could not see through them. The day was clear blue skies from my angle on the floor. I heard nothing, my windows were closed. They seemed to be traveling in a straight line at about 35 miles per hour. They looked to be the size of the old street lights – 9” to 14” diameter.
May 22, 2020 · 3:11 AM · SPHERE
Spokane Valley, WA
My husband woke me at 3:11am told me come outside. He and our daughter were having a snack in the kitchen and noticed a bright orange light to the southwest. We went outside and at first it was disk shaped but it turned out to be obscured by clouds. It was actually a GIANT ORANGE GLOBE. I MEAN GIANT. It was bright bright orange but, the color was swirling and changing. There was a light that light was spinning horizontally. There was no physical craft, just light. The clouds were moving around it but it was stationary from our angle. It eventually looked like it was moving away from us a disappeared to the west. This took 10 seconds. We watched for a total of 10 min. It was huge. I bet you can find a security camera that caught it.
May 20, 2020 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalCharteves, Picardie · France
Le 20 mai 2020, à CHARTEVES (02), vers 23h, T1 sort dans le jardin. Il observe durant plus d’une demie heure un PAN1 « vers l’ouest » et un PAN2 « vers l’est », composés chacun de cinq boules blanches en mouvement dans des directions diverses, desquelles partent des points rouges en déplacement rapides. Sa femme (T2) et son fils sont appelés pour voir le phénomène. Le ciel est dégagé, aucun bruit n’est entendu. Le témoin part ensuite se coucher. L’étrangeté initiale et principale est surtout due à l’observation en deux endroits différents du ciel, de cinq boules avec des mouvements erratiques (voir le compte-rendu d'enquête). La consistance du cas est moyenne (deux témoins) même si les azimuts d’apparitions des PAN restent imprécis. L’explication la plus probable semble être une confusion avec deux étoiles Arcturus et Véga situées dans les directions approximatives indiquées par T1. Cette hypothèse est renforcée par la longue durée d’observation et l’effet autocinétique provoquant une illusion d’optique bien connue des astronomes. En effet, la description de T1 est typique d’une perception visuelle erronée. Cette illusion consiste à avoir l'impression qu'un point lumineux fixé dans l’obscurité est animé de déplacements erratiques. Cependant, cette hypothèse de méprise astronomique avec une illusion visuelle (effet autocinétique) ne rend pas compte de l’étrangeté des points lumineux rouges indiqués par le T1, mais que T2 n'a pas vu. Le GEIPAN classe en B : une méprise probable avec des astres. [GEIPAN classification B — Astronomique]
May 19, 2020 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Kyrenia (Northern Cyprus), Northern Cyprus
I was at my brother's house outside on the terrace. Something in my mind said to me to look at 1 particular star. Many stars that night but I just seemed to be shown that 1 star. Was watching Dr Steven Greer ce5 contact film when suddenly I noticed a slight light on the right side of the star . Brother missed it. Continued watching ce5 film and again 5 mins later glitter if light on the other side if the star . Brother missed it again . Random star don't forget! Then film ended and I just looked at THAT STAR again and there it was...a red bright red orb. We both saw it. Took out phone light and flashed it once ...the red orb turned from red to light blue and back to red again. Did this twice with same response. 5 minutes standing still in sky.. star high. Then it move northeast and then east . Followed the light still full red not fading for another 1 minute untill it disappears. Coincidence?? I don't think so.
May 18, 2020 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Everson, WA
saw one bright light traveling west in orbit at highspeed, then 2 others appeared from other directions. meeting in the same area and then all vanished.
May 17, 2020 · 9:53 PM · SPHERE
Kennewick, WA
On Sunday May 17, 2020 at 9:53 pm, I saw a red sphere in the sky. It was silent, and the red sphere light seemed to pulse. It moved westerly and my visual ended when it went below the roofline of the shop in my neighbors’ backyard. Initially I thought it was the planet Mars, just particularly brilliant. But when I realized it was not stationary, I snapped a quick photo and then returned to the house to get my husband. We both returned to the backyard and it was moving and seemed closer to us and moved westerly. It appeared to have a whitish haze around the sphere that emanated about two times as wide (also circular habit seemed dimmer on the upper left side) as the red pulsing sphere and the aura lasted only a few seconds, then it returned to a solid pulsing red color (my husband saw it pulsing red and blue). I’m not even sure if I would call it solid. It soon was starting to go behind the large silver maple tree in my neighbors’ backyard so I walked! about 40 feet south so I could continue to keep a visual on it. I was able to capture several short videos on my iPhone and then it appeared to turn southerly and seemed to be moving away from us moving in a southwest direction and downward rather quickly. This whole experience lasted from 9:53-9:54 (21:53-21:54) before it moved out of my sight because a structure was blocking my view. I believe it was about 50° off the ground when I initially saw it and when I lost sight of it, it was about 25° off the ground. It appeared to be a bit larger than Mars is to the naked eye and I approximate it did appear to get a bit larger as it moved across the sky. There were few clouds in the sky mostly toward the north (none in the area that the object traveled) and there was no wind.
May 17, 2020 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Yuma, AZ
I was a passenger in a Ford Tacoma 4 x 4. I looked over my right shoulder towards the north over a tall mountain range. I saw a white ball motionless as if it were hovering. I watched the ball for about five minutes thinking after driving I would lose visual. As we kept driving for approximately 20 minutes I maintained visual on the craft. It did not seem to move but maybe it was going the same Same speed as the car. It looks like a perfect sphere ball sometimes almost silver. It was several miles away from me and hovering approximately 8 to 15,000 feet in the air. Are used a Phone app called binoculars and attempted to get a closer view from my moving car. As I did so I for a brief short moment was able to look at the craft. It seemed a perfect circle. It was white and silver and seems almost motionless. As I focused my binocular apps on the possible craft it would seem to blur as if it had changed so the light from the sun was causing it to be silver or gy! rate almost. It made it hard to get a good picture. I watched this fear for at least 15 minutes probably more before I lost sight of it and it was nowhere to be found. There were no lights no wings. It was seems to be just hovering at times but seem to be able to stay in my view. There were no other planes around there were no lights it was over a mountain range and pure desert. It seemed very out of place and almost ominous in a fact to where I could not keep my eyes off of it. It was just a white bar possibly silver hovering above the mountain range and some white going with the speed of my car allowing me to keep ice on it for a short amount of time.
May 17, 2020 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
East Amana, IA
Sunday May 17, 2020, 10:00 AM, A lime green object noted on top of a slight hill in a clearing, with shrubbery to the East and a larger stand of trees to the west, in front of a pond and wooded and 500 feet north of the Iowa River in Monroe Township, 3 miles East of East Amana, 1 mile south of Amana RD NW. With the aid of field binoculars the object appeared to be the object appeared to be pulsating, shimmering and appeared square in shape with white markings, there were also what appeared to be 2 light brown figures moving around the green shape. As I traveled across the valley moving toward the object the 2 small brown objects then appeared to be moving on each side of the green object. There is a slight incline from the floor of the valley to the crest where the green and white object was spotted. Within 300 to 500 feet from the crest of the hill, suddenly two round shapes rose from the ground. One of the spheres was approximately 50 feet from the other sphere traveling in a diagonal northerly direction, keeping equidistant from each other. What I had probably first observed was the top of one of the objects and the other object was down the south slope of the incline. The shapes appeared to change color from white/fluorescent green in color to metallic dark green and almost black in color. The objects were each at least 10 feet across and spherical in shape. They did not emit any noticeable noise; the objects rose slowly up into the air approximately 50 feet from the ground, where they then traveled along the several ponds in the area moving in a north easterly direction. The objects continued to rise in altitude to accommodate clearance of the large stand of trees by the forest. They continued to travel diagonally, side by side over the next half of minute until they disappeared climbing briskly into a bank of clouds overhead. After they had disappeared I searched the hillside but was not able to identify any impressions on the ground or any other individuals. There were ducks swimming in the pond and they did not fly off until I breached the water. There were also frogs which then jumped into the water as i searched along the pond bank for tracks.
May 17, 2020 · 8:45 AM · SPHERE
Plantation, FL
4 red glowing spheres were seen in the vicinity of I - 595 near Hiatus Rd. in Davie / Plantation. The first pair were at an altitude of 1,000 ft. heading East. The next pair appeared roughly around 8:50 p.m., at a much higher altitude proceeding to travel in the direction of Sawgrass Mills Mall.