The catalog
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
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Webster, NY
My husband and I were on our deck watching fireworks. A bright object no where near the fireworks display caught my eye. I told him to turn to his left and look up. It was a bright red/orange fireball. It moved vertically, very slow. My husband thought maybe it was a meteor, but it was too big to be that. After traveling in a fairly straight line, it just disappeared. Others must have seen this strange object also, as many people would have their eyes to the sky tonight!
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Kansas, KS
My friend and I were watching fireworks on the 4th. I was looking south and spotted 2 red/orange dots in the sky. I was excited to share with my friend what I was looking at. I asked him if he would look south at the red/orange dots, and he stated to me the dots are close together and moving towards the North, amount of time watching 1-2 minutes. We were trying to take picture/video and then suddenly dots disappeared. I was very excited to share with friends and family, our July 4, 2015, evening.
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
West Chester, OH
My wife and I were standing outside, watching neigborhood fireworks displays, and during that time, we witnessed several orange balls of light traveling from West to East in seemingly low altitude. They traveled in a single file line one right after the other. I took two videos about 3 minutes long on each. You can contact me for these videos.
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Cape Coral, FL
Around 10pm, I was outside on phone talking with my neighbor on the phone.. I was watching the fireworks on my street.. I then noticed a bright orange burning spear moving slowly down my street coming towards my condo, moving slowly coming from delprado towards county club.. I freaked out and told my neighbor to come outside asap..as I turned around twards my condo, there was another one behind my building..my neighbor was able to see it before it just disappeared..then we were in parking lot chatting about it, and then it came back with a white orb following it..then they just disappeared..what ever it was not not normal..im so glad that my neighbor saw it..otherwise I think people would think I was crazy..I tried to film it and take picture but it wouldn't show up?? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Uniontown, PA
Fireball object in the sky. Seen a total of 3. Recorded them, and when I played it back, the lights were blinking multicolored from purple, green etc..
July 4, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Levittown, NY
Two red/orange lights, appearing as lights/flame tracking a course se to nw slowly. Altitude approx. 5k feet. Another similar light appeared to the west. no sound or aircraft lights visible. Not moving, then fade out. Minutes later another similar light due north, moving slowly and it then faded out.
July 4, 2015 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Port Charlotte, FL
Sometimes the light/color would become a brighter red or orange. The first object winked out towards the south while the second one stayed around for another minute before it to winked out towards the east. My daughter who was about 4 miles away also video taped one of the objects in her neighborhood around 9:25 about 15 minutes prior to our video. She has about two minutes of video but she said it was there hovering for around 4 minutes. I have video from two different phones which one is better than the other. But my daughters iphone video is really good.
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Whittier, CA
They seemed to just watch and then they suddenly went up into the sky. I have a picture. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hence, we are not able to request that he/she send the photo. Hoaxed report?? PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Syracuse, NY
My family and I went out tonight to see the fireworks here in Syracuse, NY... I think it was around [b]9:15-9:30[/b] PM EST. We weren't there 3 minutes when my wife pointed something out to me and then I saw them over and over and over again. Orange orbs. As everyone else was fixated on the massive fireworks display that seemed to engulf the entire city, I was looking out for these mysterious orange lights. I kept seeing them and pointing them out to my daughter. They were moving southeast but they seemed to be moving up as well, as they would disappear from sight. But they kept coming... It was getting a little creepy. One of the orange orbs we were watching sped across the sky at a much faster rate than the others! As the fireworks died down, we were trying to determine if we would go home or try to seek out more of these strange lights. Well we didn't have to think too long about that as we kept seeing them all around and so we drove throughout the city trying to get close to them. We saw two that looked like they would pass right over us and so we pulled over and that's where I got this one picture with my daughters phone as my battery was about to run out. We kept driving around the city and kept seeing them... one off in the distance here... one there... two over here... And then we all saw a beautiful cluster of four! I jumped out of the car to try and get a picture of the grouping but the phone wouldn't focus on them and I didn't get that picture. :( I have no idea what these were or if I'll see them again. For a moment, as I was trying to come to some rational explanation, I thought of space debris burning up in the atmosphere as it crossed. These never 'fizzled' out though and they seemed to have a distinct pulsation to them. In all... on this 4th of July, I believe we counted at least 30 of these things. It was weird but very cool!
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Duncannon, PA
At approximately 21:30 on July 4, 2015, my fiance, stepson, and I witnessed a large object that appeared to be a fireball. The object appeared to rise in the eastern sky heading westerly. We observed the object for approximately 1 minute before it completely disappeared. I was unable to capture it with any recording devices. I attempted to record it but failed. The object appeared to be traveling in our direction prior to its complete disappearance. We have no idea what we witnessed. However, we are absolutely positive it was not an airplane, nor can we identify the object as anything we have ever witnessed.
July 4, 2015 · 9:22 PM · FIREBALL
Sharon, PA
On July fourth, 2015, at 9:22 pm, I witnessed four red/orange fireballs facing south southeast in Sharon, PA. They appeared climbing high in the sky as the were on fire, they flickered like a flame. They were the size of a large star, maybe a bit bigger. Some would appear as they were flying fast, and some would just materialize in the sky. In my opinion they were not fire works because the fireballs would hover for several minutes and also move left to right and up and down. The fireball UFOs would also fly away super fast and some just disappear. https://youtu.be/ako2KbxeI74
July 4, 2015 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Hollywood, FL
My Father and I were in the backyard watching Fireworks when we noticed a double orange fireball flickering in the sky. It flew from East to West! A little later we saw the same object flying South to North. Right know at 21:39 we the saw the orange fireball flying from south east to northwest. Right know at 21:40 we saw another double fireball flying from northeast to southwest! These orange fires do not look like helicopters or planes. The most recent one just disappeared. The do not look like a blimp. Each sighting lasted no more than 5-7 seconds.
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Sykesville, MD
Slowing elevating orange/red glowing bright lights in the sky. Not an airplane or helicopter that I have ever seen. They just slowly rose up until they couldn't be seen. Witness provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Maspeth, NY
Orange-red fireball heading west toward NYC, and climbing until we couldn't see it any more. We recorded it the best we could. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have no way to contact the individual to request the footage. Hoax? PD
July 4, 2015 · 8:55 PM · FIREBALL
Chicago, IL
Me and my friends were popping fireworks. We do often joke that we are contacting UFO's with the lights. My friend was recording, when a fiery reddish-orange light went floating by. we tried to dismiss it as a flare, but it was in the air way to long, and it moved a large distance. We then said maybe it was a plane. But a plane flew exactly next to it. It could have been a plane, especially by comparison. My friends dismissed it still, but, i was still bothered by it. I think i have proof, but i haven't reviewed the video yet. So i would prefer to get back to you. We spoke via telephone with the witness, who corrected the time. The sighting occurred during the evening. PD
July 4, 2015 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Tacoma, WA
5 red objects stationary, not resembling lights, planes, or fireworks. One move downward and over. Then two went toward horizon and over mountains. Then the remaining two stayed a bit longer and finally disappeared.
July 4, 2015 · 12:25 AM · FIREBALL
Toledo, OH
I was turning into my shop parking lot when I noticed 2 extremely bright lights/fireballs in the sky, they were both slowly heading east, to my amazement one of them disappeared for a few seconds the reappeared then turned red in color, it sped up going east then vanished. The 2nd fireball did exactly the same thing except it headed north then disappeared. I am a ((fifty-ish year old male, work ((deleted)) emergency and ((deleted)) at ((college)), I have been employed by for ((several decades)).
July 4, 2015 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Ocean Springs, MS
Sittin on the front porch around 11pm-midnight when me and my two roommates notice this red fireball like orb appear in the sky towards South East from ocean springs, it decended down approximately 300 feet before it started strafing side to side.
July 4, 2015 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Albuquerque, NM
Is it a sign from god or what is it? I don't feel scared; I'm fascinated by these. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2015 · 10:18 PM · FIREBALL
Lakeside, OR
I was outside looking at the night sky to the west, deciding to go inside. I then turned east and spotted a large orange orb in the sky. It was very bright with points, as a star appears, but appeared to be an orange fireball. Initially, I thought it was a fire work, then realized the size and direction and speed of travel ruled out the possibility of fireworks. It was perhaps 100 ft. up, just above the trees, coming from Ten Mile Lake. As it moved closer, the fire dimmed some and it appeared as an orange orb. It was moving at a fair speed WSW flying adjacent to Hilltop Drive. It then began to turn south and continued, moving out of sight beyond the treeline. My daughter had come outside and witnessed the final moments, as it moved beyond our line of sight. It was amazing. Within 2-3 minutes, you could hear helicopters coming toward us heading in the same general direction that the orb went in.
July 3, 2015 · 10:03 PM · FIREBALL
Altoona, PA
My brother and I just step of out of our cars and happen to look up and saw a RED and ORANGE ball of flame passing by from the North side and heading down to South side of Altoona, Pa. Looks like it came traveling by Tyrone ,Pinecroft and end in Altoona, PA and then shooting up to Space. Strange things is that made it as ufo sighting is: it was moving slowly in straight path then it stop for a 15 seconds then to start to move again in same straight path. then stop again for 5 second before shooting up with no sound or explosion. Never in my seem something like that. I know its not a firework or craft in fire. We have amended the time above, and reposted on July 10, 2015. PD
July 3, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Elberta, AL
I was sitting on my back patio, just like I do almost every evening, when i seen two fireballs come flying over top of my house. one of the fire balls was in front of the other one, they were both very bright orange and moving at a high rate of speed. they appeared to have a halo kind of glow around them, they were traveling from the south to the north. i just read the other report and they said they saw it about 1:30 am near Huntsville, Alabama? that is really weird because the 2 fireballs i seen were headed toward north alabama, but it wouldnt have taken the fireballs 4 and a half hous to get there at the rate of speed they were moving?i seen the two objects between 8:30 and 9:00 pm. the two fireballs i seen just kind of faded into the sky or simply disapeared.when i first seen the ufos i yelled over to my next door neighbor who happened to be sitting on his back patio,he ran over to my back yard and i told him to look up as i pointed towards the fireballs,he stood t! here with his mouth wide open as him and i were gazing apon the two object. WHAT ((deleted)) WAS THAT? IT WAS BEAUTIFULL I MUST SAY. i did manage to take a photo but the quality of the picture is very poor.
July 2, 2015 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Oswego, IL
I had just gotten home from seeing fireworks, pulled into my driveway and looked up into the sky to see a orangish yellowish glowing ball floating in the sky. At first I had brushed it off as a plane, but then I quickly realized it was not. It was not moving like plane as it was moving carefree and up/down swiftly across the sky. Very low too about 1000 ft or so. But when had passed me, I looked always for one second and another had appeared, same direction as the first one had came from. It was also moving around the same and looked the same. When I went to take a picture of it, it wouldn't show on my camera, then disappeared.
July 2, 2015 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
Midland, NC
Witnessed an unusually bright meteor that may have actually made it to the ground. It was coming straight down 90 degrees from my location. I saw from about a 50 degree inclination all the way down to the horizon. It maintained a dark green glow all the way down. It was still dusk the sky has been very smokey here for the last couple of days and a nearly full moon had just risen just a few degrees from where I saw it. These factors that would made visibility difficult are the reason I felt this would be worth making a note of and at any other time of night this fireball would have been bright enough to cast shadows on the ground.