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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.
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July 2, 2015 · 12:30 AM · FIREBALL
Bay of Campeche (Mexico) · Mexico
See 4 orange lines from a research vessel. We heard others talking about it on the marine radio so we looked out and there was 4 long orange lines off to the south east of Campeche, Mexico.
June 30, 2015 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Lake Mary, FL
Two days before this incident occurred, my daughter told me that she had taken pictures of something strange she saw in the sky across the street from our home. Two nights later when I went outside to grab my comb out of the car, I noticed an unnaturally bright star with a tiny little star at about 1 o'clock over & rather close to it on the right. (Like if U have a piece of card board '7 you stick a regular sized hand held flash light through the middle & poke a pencil size whole at the 1 o'clock position about three inches above & to the right of it). There was just something strange about the "stars" so I stood there for a minute or two longer. Before I knew it, the very bright star dims down to the exact same size as the tiny star. So I grab my phone out of my back pocket & begin record anything else that might occur. Oddly enough though, I suddenly realize that I do not see what I expect 2 see through my camera but a whole different scene... Two large glowing amber-white lights which become three, accompanied but some smaller colorful light changing colors & going on & off. The little light just keep appearing in different colors & flashing in like timed flashes. Larger one pop up & appear & go off. The most interesting thing they did was kid of like diagonal bright light of three or four at a time carousel in motion (for lack of a better way to say it) in two or three of the different videos. As I could not believe what I was witnessing, I turn in the direction that my daughter had taken her picture & noticed first two brightly lit light with three smaller white bluish lights underneath. Before long I realized that there was a much larger light over the both of... None of which I could see without the use of my cell phone. This was all invisible to my natural eye... I kid you not... I felt totally hypnotized & overwhelmed by what I had just witnessed. Knowing there was no logical way that I could explain what I had watched go on for the last 45 min.. I have at least seven decent videos & only one of the pictures my daughter took days before… ((ADDENDUM FROM SOURCE OF REPORT)) Im sorry... It was June 30 in the night @ about 11:30 or so til some time into 12am… ((END ADDENDUM)) Possible sighting of Venus and Jupiter? PD
June 30, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Conway, AR
It was a ball like fire in the sky moving from east to west we thought it was going to explode at any moment but it didn't it never moved up or down we watched it in the sky till we couldn't see it anymore
June 29, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Mineral Ridge, OH
Saw a yellowish light moving mid way across the horizon. Light rapidly moved upward in the sky and then sporadically went up and down high and low in respect to horizon and quickly disappeared.
June 29, 2015 · 1:30 AM · FIREBALL
Gainesville, GA
Re-entering satellite. PD
June 29, 2015 · 1:15 AM · FIREBALL
Chester, SC
At approximately 1:15-1:30 AM today (June 29, 2015) my wife, 12 year old daughter, and I were returning from vacation on a late night flight from the Charlotte, NC, Airport, going South on Highway 121 headed home to Saluda, SC. We had just passed thru the town of Chester, SC and were about 6 miles south of Chester on Hwy 121. Suddenly, all 3 of us noticed a fireball in the sky with a magnificent long tail for at least 20-30 seconds in duration (until it was out of sight) that was traveling at what seemed to be the speed of an aircraft. The object was traveling parallel to the ground with possibly a very slight descending projection although it did not appear to be in an emergency situation. No erratic movements or speed changes like portrayed on UFO sightings were seen. The object was heading in a northwestward direction. The altitude although hard to estimate, seemed to be what one would expect from a helicopter flying at its maximum height capability, but again distances can fool you and I cannot verify. I can state however, that the object was blocked for a few seconds from the tree line. I was able to get out of the car to observe this phenomenon, but did not hear any noise whatsoever. The speed was consistent, the path relatively straight. My daughter did mention that at times she tho! ught she observed pieces following each other, she described much like a train. My wife and I did not share this description, but she has far better eyes than either of us. Although I am not a meteorologist, this did not resemble a typical meteor burning up in the atmosphere, and it lacked the excessive speed and downward projection of a “falling star”. It had a consistent path and offered little change in its course or speed. I told my boss about this incident and he related a website from TV Channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia with reportings of it being seen there at the same time as we witnessed this occurrence. Augusta is about a 2 hour drive from where we saw the event. Lastly, my wife just reported that witnesses in Charlotte saw the occurrence at 1:30-1:45 (a little later than us) and it is being reported as a Russian satellite.
June 29, 2015 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Senoia, GA
Satellite re-entry. PD
June 28, 2015 · 11:44 PM · FIREBALL
Alexandria, VA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 28, 2015 · 12:22 AM · FIREBALL
Milwaukee, WI
As I was getting ready for bed this past Sat night/Sun morning, I looked out my bedroom window at the city and the moon in the SW. I saw a moving light from the west, past the Potawatomi Hotel, maybe as far as Miller Park, and thought it might be a plane coming in. Then there were more lights that came bobbing in, maybe a few hundred feet up and around ¼ mile away. At one point, there were up to 12 of them, each one of them had one light. My thought was that they were drones, but with lights? Or maybe gyrocopters. No sound. I finally thought to grab my cellphone and took a photo in which 7 lights can be seen. They seemed to gather above the 100 East Wisconsin building. Then they turned south, ascended and disappeared without a sound. High-quality photo shows a cluster of at least seven small objects in the nighttime sky. PD
June 27, 2015 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Rialto, CA
I was in my backyard around 8:30-9pm and I look up to the slight NE of my location and see what I think is an airplane going from East to West. It was moving slowly but the weird part was that it looked like it was on fire. I see planes all the time and know what flashing lights they have but this was way different. I was wondering if a plane had an engine fire and was about to come down. It was flickering like a fire would as it headed West. Then it got really strange. It just stopped in its tracks and didn't move except for the fire like flickering. It stayed in this spot for maybe twenty seconds as I went into the house to get three others to come look at this. But by the time I went back outside with everyone (5 seconds or so) it was gone and it never reappeared. Just to add one more thing. When it stopped I immediately thought it might be a helicopter but I quickly dismissed that because it was way too high up. But even if it was low enough for a helicopter I would still swear it wasn't one.
June 27, 2015 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Las Vegas, NV
Saw a craft that appeared to be on fire and plummeting toward earth, but it never fell from the sky.
June 24, 2015 · 11:10 PM · FIREBALL
Chandigarh (India) · India
It was like a fireball, literally flames were coming out of that object. First my dad saw it, he called me out. I saw it burning. The possibilities were - a crashed plane, a meteorite, an asteroid. But thing was that none of then goes up after showing up for few minutes. So it started going up then into the clouds, (the day was cloudy, I think the UFO manipulated the climate for that sighting) it was slow but it was not following a straight path. It was hovering unstably. Then it disappeared in the clouds (though its light was still visible through the clouds). Then it disappeared from my field of vision, but I was still expecting it to come. Then after 30 seconds, a semi-bright light lighted up the sky for a second. I was not able to see the source of the light. I thought it could be an explosion. But it also could be a light that the UFO produces while before disappearing in the space?
June 24, 2015 · 2:00 AM · FIREBALL
Boise, ID
I didn’t actually see the UFO, it was my son. He doesn’t want to report it. It kind of freaked him out. But I thought it should be reported. He doesn’t know I’m doing this. My son couldn’t sleep on the night of 6/24/15, so he stepped outside and sat on the porch for a while. It was a warm night. After a while he saw an orange fireball in the sky. He thought it was a meteor at first. But it was coming down towards the house and slowing down. It made no noise at all. He watched as it got lower and lower and he lost sight of it when it was very, very close to the ground. There were big bushes between him and the craft. He believes it landed because it was so low. There’s an empty field behind his house and he thinks that’s where it landed. He was too scared to stay out and watch. I asked him why he didn’t peek through the bushes and see, and he said he was too afraid. I asked him if he could see people or anything inside the craft. He said the light was too bright. The house I located in Boise on Cole Street. The nearest cross street is Ustick.
June 23, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Appleton, WI
As I was driving home at 22:30 on 6/23/15, Northbound on Northland Avenue/OO in Appleton, WI, I looked up, as I was nearing the Ballard intersection, and saw 3 fireball type objects flying in formation. They appeared to be flying quite low, about the height of a radio tower. I snapped 2 pictures with my phone right after I spotted them. They continued to cross over the highway and once they were behind me I did a U-turn so I could continue to watch. I rolled down my window and turned off my radio to see if I could hear any sound from them but I could not. Right after I turned my car around, the 2 at the edges blinked out at almost the same time and the middle one faded and blinked out within 15-20 seconds afterward. I pulled over on a side street near where they blinked out and got out of my car to see if I could see or hear anything, but I could not, and they did not reappear within the 5 minutes I stayed there. I am a social worker and I had another sighting which I reported on August 8, 2014, in which I saw 6-7 similar unexplained objects with one other witness, and was able to collect a video that time.
June 23, 2015 · 11:30 AM · FIREBALL
Rochester, NH
It was a huge fireball that flew across the sky at the same speed as a twin engine plane but it kept getting higher and then it disappeared kind of orange yellow. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hoax?? PD
June 23, 2015 · 1:30 AM · FIREBALL
Trout Creek, MT
On the above stated date and time, my wife and I were in a clearing in a valley in the woods near Trout Creek, MT. My wife was standing in the middle of a raised footbridge facing South and I was at the end of the foot bridge facing North. It was pitch black, so much so that we could not see each other in the dark. We were talking quietly when my wife exclaimed, "What is that!?" I instinctively looked up as there was nothing that could be seen other than the starlit sky. I observed a very large neon green orb (fireball) with a comet like tail streaking NW over the valley at a very high rate of speed. The object was stunningly beautiful and totally silent. After it passed from view, I asked my wife to tell me what she had seen and her observation was identical to mine. My wife is a retired Mental Health Professional and I am a retired Fire Chief and former Police Officer. Approximately one year ago, while out on patrol during the night, I observed the same or a similar object traveling the exact same trajectory, only SE over Billings, MT. I checked a map of MT and both trajectories are the same, but in the opposite direction. Oddly enough when we phoned our son in Billings, he said he'd had a strange encounter with a glowing green beam of light from the sky at 03:30 on June 24, 2015, in down town BIllings on 24th St W. We will encourage him to file a report when we return home.
June 22, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
York, PA
I saw an orange fireball descending northeast. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) The object appeared to be the size of a what I can only describe as a huge ball of orange and red in the sky in proportion to much larger than a star but not as big as a planet from the distance it was to my back porch. The time was approximately 9:30 pm. I hope this helps. Thanks! ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
June 22, 2015 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
East Meadow, NY
It was two objects that looked like flames at first very very bright coming towards each other... then they diverged in opposite directions and the one going towards my right frame of visions disappeared, the left one remained for a while longer then went straight up and then out in to the distance
June 22, 2015 · 3:00 AM · FIREBALL
Halifax, VA
Observed on three clear nights this week in eastern sky and in northern sky bright yellow balls pulsating downward glowing which then glowed in the trees for about three seconds but then instantly appeared in sky again to repeat the same pattern. When charting the positions, it appears that one yellow ball flashes light three times as it descends and when it reaches the trees, it darts to another tree about 20' away as it flashes one time, then to another and another, then appears high in sky again to repeat the pattern every thirty seconds. Since my property lot is 200’ depth, the trees where this is sighted are probably 100’ from the east window in the house where observations occur. When the yellow light balls reached the trees, the lights were larger about the size of a golf ball, but one glowed brighter about size of a tennis ball which appeared in the tree about 20' from the ground. One of these flashing yellow lights was observed darting about 10' over the house across the street in the westward direction and then remained motionless for a few seconds in the pecan tree in that yard near the carport. This is probably 60’ from the west window where observation occurred.
June 21, 2015 · 8:38 PM · FIREBALL
La Mirada, CA
I was visiting family in La Mirada, California. I was about 2 blocks south of the La Mirada Regional Park. I had just finished talking on the cell phone and looked up in the sky. It was 8:38 pm on Father's Day. There were several planes in line to the north and northeast of me heading towards the Los Angeles airport. And they was a police helicopter west of me; but what I saw south of me was not a plane nor helicopter. It was not a Chinese lantern. It was low, about the height of a police helicopter and was silent as far as I could tell. It was traveling about the speed of a helicopter, but no noice coming from it. For the first 10 seconds I could hear the police helicopter west of me and further away, but when the police helicopter flew further away, I could not hear it and could tell the object I was seeing was silent. The object was closer than the police helicopter had ever been. What I saw was first heading about north, towards me. It was a very odd color. No one looking at it could confuse it for the landing lights of a plane. It wasn't solid yellow nor was it solid orange; but almost seemed light swirling parts of yellow and orange; mostly orange. For just a few seconds, I thought a plane was on fire. It then was moving eastward towards La Habra. I am not sure if it turned, or if it was always moving in an arc. Anyway, now that it was not heading directly at me, I could see a small reddish light near what looked like the top of the swirling yellow/orange light. The red light was not directly on top, but near the top. It was not blinking, but a solid light. The red light was much smaller compared to the yellow/orange light. The last 10 seconds of the sighting, as it was heading about east, I could see a very black tube-like craft. This blackness, at least from my angle, did not reflect the city lights. In this part of Los Angeles county, the sky is not pitch black due to so many city lights. So the craft was darker than the sky. I could not make out a shape for the black craft. But I could tell that the craft was about twice the size of the yellow/orange light parallel to the ground and about the width of the light. And then then it just turned off. First I thought, maybe it disappeared behind some haze, but no, I could see a few stars where it disappeared.
June 20, 2015 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Columbia, SC
On the night of June 20, around 9:40pm, I was walking home with my son when I believe I witnessed a UFO. As we were walking, I saw what appeared to be an oval fireball to the east. It appeared to be very close but I did not hear any sound. It also did not appear to be moving. After 5-10 seconds of looking at it, I pulled out my phone to make a video. After a few seconds of video with my son and I walking toward the object, it appeared to move away at a rapid speed. The video ends when the object disappears under the tree line. I will be emailing that video to the address given. Subject "june 20 Columbia South Carolina".
June 19, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Lisle, IL
I was in the passenger seat of my dad's truck, at around 10:30 pm, 06/19/15. I was talking to my dad, and I saw 2 red orange lights above the tree horizon when I turned to look at him. The lights where near his head from my point of view. I was able to watch them for about a minute because I told him to stop a bit to see something. They stayed there for a bit but while I reached for my cellphone they disappeared.
June 17, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Bakersfield, CA
At the above listed date and time, I was walking into my kitchen to go out in the back yard, and could see an orange ball of light, with just a small tail behind it (like flames coming out of the back). It was coming from the north going south, and I tried taking a picture of it, but couldn't focus my iPhone. I want to say it slowed when it was right overhead but I can't be certain. It seemed like maybe it wasn't going at a high rate of speed at all. It was completely silent and there were no flashing lights at all. I watched it until I couldn't see it anymore, and if it continued in the way it was going, it would be going over the Grapevine into LA, with Edwards Air Force Base off to the east.
June 17, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Bakersfield, CA
At the above listed date and time, I was walking into my kitchen to go out in the back yard, and could see an orange ball of light, with just a small tail behind it (like flames coming out of the back). It was coming from the north, going south, and I tried taking a picture of it, but couldn't focus my iPhone. I want to say it slowed when it was right overhead, but I can't be certain. It seemed like maybe it wasn't going at a high rate of speed at all. It was completely silent and there were no flashing lights at all. I watched it until I couldn't see it anymore, and if it continued in the way it was going, it would be going over the Grapevine into LA with Edwards Air Force Base off to the east.