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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
June 15, 2015 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Coates, MN
It was around 21:40 pm. My mother and I were heading north on highway 52 toward St. Paul, Minnesota. We were on the edge of Coates, Minnesota. I had been watching planes fly from the east when I saw two large fireball shaped objects. They were a gold color and they were side by side. I knew they were not planes because they were not moving and you could not see the outline of a airplane as you could will the other planes flying by. I watched them until we went down hill and they were covered by the tree line. About 1 minute later, I could see back over the trees. Both objects had disappeared from the place I had just seen them. Thinking it was nothing, I returend looking out my window to the east. At this time, I saw a large gold light that I thought was a planet. I then pointed it out to my mother. She said it was the biggest planet she had ever seen. It looked like I giant star, bigger than any star or planet I have ever seen In the night sky. My mother looked out the front windshield and saw a second large star like object. That was when we knew it was not a planet or star because it was so large and it kept getting bigger. This is the point where I started to cry because I relized what I was looking at. About 30 seconds after the second shape was seen my mother watched the shape to the east get smaller and smaller and I wached the north shape get smaller and smaller until they were both gone. After they were gone a plane flew across the sky. While recalling the event my mother and I both saw the objects shrink in similar sort of jagged way. Just to note this experience was very terrifiying for me. I cried the whole way back to my house.
June 15, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Little Current (Canada), ON · Canada
Low white clouds, that were about 200ft from the ground. Then these three orange orbs emerged from the clouds and flew in circles. They seem to fly in the same area criss-crossing each other's path. They kept flying in and out of the clouds, and then they went back into the clouds. They were low and fast moving clouds. Seems as though they were using it for camouflage.
June 15, 2015 · 9:25 PM · FIREBALL
Ghanzi (Botswana), Botswana
I went out to switch off the generator and saw the light in the horizon. I then went to a better spot to make sure that it wasn't a star or planet. It was moving slowly left and right and gradually went lower, I went inside house to get camera. When I got back it was too low in the horizon to see anymore. This happened in 5 minutes time. THIS wasn't the first time I saw this, in December 2013 my father in law, my wife and her sister saw the same occurence, it was dancing for about 8 mins and dropped down behind the tree line in the distance.
June 15, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Toone, TN
As we were sitting outside of my home a circular unidentified flying object appeared on the right side of my house. We live in the country and are surrounded by trees. We have clear skies with minimal (to none) aircraft activity. The object was silent, bright, did not leave a trail, was not moving at a constant speed, (the speed fluctuated from fast to slow etc.) did not have any flashing lights (just a constant reddish light and almost looked like a ball of light but we both could tell that it was some sort of flying object we'd never seen before. It's hard for me to describe the physical nature of the object. It didn't have a halo around it, but seemed to have a reddish outline; like a glow. As it hovered over the trees across from my house it suddenly lifted up and flew over the road slowly moving to the right above a second set of trees. The object suddenly disappeared in mid air. Prior to the disappearance I noticed two helicopters following close behind. Approximately 20 minutes later another unidentified object appeared (possibly the same one) with the same appearance and characteristics of the first. It appeared suddenly on the left side of my home. We were watching the sky and there was no noise or activity when it appeared. The same helicopters were circling the area the entire time. When the second object appeared they began following it. The helicopters seemed to get near the object and then it disappeared again in mid-air. The helicopters stayed for quite some time and continued to search the area for the object.
June 14, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Raleigh, NY
Bright orange globe flying in straight line. Wife and I both saw it. No sound. No lights. Silent. Traveling from a North to South without changing course. Moving at an un-known speed or altitude. Hard to judge, since it was a bright fireball. I'm a private pilot, and have never seen anything like this. Traveled over the Raleigh Airspace, that isn't normal pattern for this area.
June 12, 2015 · 2:30 AM · FIREBALL
Perkinstown (south of), WI
Just south of Perkinstown at 2:30am on Sawyer, I witnessed big green fireball through the clouds, or in the clouds, traveling NW, I guess. Lasted about 4-5 seconds.
June 11, 2015 · 9:05 PM · FIREBALL
Austin, TX
Austin, Texas. Approximately 21:05, June 11, 2015. In the southwestern skies, toward Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, below the level that an airplane would pass, I witnessed a 5 to 15 second flaming object descending in the sky. The sky was twilight but not yet totally night. The object had a long glowing white tail like a falling star, but it had an red/orange (like it was flaming) area just before the tail in what I'll call the mid-section of the object. Just in front of the red/orange are was a black portion which was the front of the object. It looked rounded at the front. It definitely looked like it was flaming-out (burning up as it descended) but it was not descending quickly but rather was moving in a leveled elevation. I saw the white tail first, then the red/orange area appeared, grew more prominent then the entire object seemed to flame-out while moving very quickly in a rather straight line only descending slightly (not like a falling star but traveling leveled). The object then disappeared. I did not see it descend any farther, it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 10, 2015 · 12:40 AM · FIREBALL
Westfield, WI
We ran across the field by our house, following it only for a couple of minutes, and as it got further away, we watched it slowly disappear into the night sky. As we were running across the field, we tried to get it on film on a cellphone camera (iPhone), but the orange light did not appear. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello, Peter, Yes, it would have been Wednesday morning, June 10th. And to be completely honest it may not have been a fireball. I accidentally clicked that when it just looked like a glowing orange light. ((END ADDENDUM))
June 9, 2015 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
North Las Vegas, NV
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 8, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Richmond, VA
2 lights popped up over the horizon, one a plane, and one that looked like a petri dish that was full of a flammable liquid set on fire... it was more like fire and flickering coming up out of it than a fireball. Only a few hundred feet from the ground, it moved silently parallel to the plane and went from one side of the sky to the other in a straight line. Two pizza delivery personnel and my fiance saw this and we're unable to explain it.
June 6, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Toronto (Canada), ON · Canada
After seeing pictures of sky lanterns, I think that must have been what we saw.
June 5, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Cornelius, NC
Neither of us could come up with a rational explanation of what we had saw.
June 5, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Surf City, NC
Fireball shape, red in color. Floating above the surf condos. Very low. Rose up and faded out of sight. Video proof. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hence, we are unable to correspond with him/her about the video. PD
June 3, 2015 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Spanish Fork, UT
I saw 3 objects 1 of the i knew for shure was a jet but the other 2 were unidentified the unidentified objects were also heading tord the ground. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
June 2, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Avon, NC
At approximately 9:30pm on 6/2/15 I was with a group of people fishing and having a small fire on the beach in Avon. The night was warm, the weather clear except for some small patches of clouds and a little haze but the moon was out and visibility was good. I was looking over the water when I noticed a bright orange object had just appeared a good distance down the coast and over the water. At first I thought it was a low flying plane that had broken out of the hazy clouds, but then the object did a short, quick dip down and suddenly one object “blinked” or “split” into six to eight other similar orange objects and into a V-formation. This formation moved across the sky for a few moments and then almost in perfect unison “blinked out” and disappeared. Of the 12 or so people on the beach, only myself and one other witness witnessed this particular part of the event. Five minutes later, at about 9:35pm, two orange fireballs appeared in the sky closer down the beach to my location. These two craft came out of the clouds flying nearly parallel and almost mimicking each other’s movements. They looked very much like planes at first, but then they would pulse bright fireball orange on and off. They sped across the sky inland, at one point coming to a complete stop and hovering for about a 20 second time period. The two craft then reversed and started heading back over the sea where they shone bright orange and then blinked out and disappeared. The odd thing about this second part of the sighting, which all members of my party now witnessed, was there was an actual sound for a brief time. Whether or not the sound came from the craft or not, I cannot say, but it was deep and sounded like a jet engine at first, but then it kind of mimicked the sound of the surf and waves of the beach, but noticeably louder. It was at the time of this sound that the craft disappeared. One more of these orange balls were spotted well inland at approximately 10:15pm moving over Avon and its beach houses. It too moved well across the sky only at one point coming to a near complete stop and hovering. It stayed like that for a few seconds before moving on then blinking out and disappearing. Three people witnessed this. Fireworks, military flares, light effects off the clouds—this was none of that. These things seemingly moved with purpose and intelligence. I have never seen anything like it. Oddly enough, it was noticed that hardly any commercial aircraft or aircraft of any kind were in the skies on this night. After some quick research and checking online to see if anyone else saw what I did, I found on Youtube some footage taken in 2012 at Myrtle Beach which shows exactly what I saw, but I saw a more intricate V-formation of sorts. If interested and if it can be included in this report, the video can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD2cHAOsbTM&spfreload=1
June 1, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Avon, NC
Sighting was around 10 pm 6-1-15. Saw first fireball appear 2 witnessed this. The fireball was bright yellow orange and lasted 15 seconds. It just appeared burning bright and the gone. As we where wondering what we just saw 2 more people came out to join us. Then we all 4 saw this fireball several more times. It looked the same every time and in the same location. After looking in the same spot we noticed 2 red lights that move around in the sky. These lights didn't make a sound. The stayed in the same area of the sky appearing not to move for a time. then started moving came across island turned south. Witness provides no contact information. PD
May 30, 2015 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Galt, CA
Strange orange ball shaped lights appearing and reappearing in sky not anything that looked like a plane or anything seen before. Witness provides no contact information. PD
May 30, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Aurora, CO
On May 30, 2015, two of my daughters, myself, and their dad saw 6 orange crafts fly directly over our house. One at a time. They were so bright they looked like fireballs. We took photos using our cell phones and I had a camera in the car out front, too, so I got some shaky shots with that as well. They came from south to north approximately 2-4 minutes apart..making no sound at all. They also appeared to be flying lower than a plane would.
May 30, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Buford, GA
We were sitting on the deck, enjoying the evening, when we looked up and noticed a object with a fireball glowing orange and yellow. It was moving slow and steady across the sky. As we watched it top the tree line across the street the fireball flame seem to go out. A dark object could still be seen moving as it disappeared above the trees. A minute or so later we saw the same thing appear again coming from the same direction as the first one. Again with a orange yellow fireball. There was no sound to be heard. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 28, 2015 · 9:13 PM · FIREBALL
Nashville, TN
5 objects, 3 evenly spaced followed by 2 all following the same ingress and egress trajectory. East of Nashville. Ceiling 10,300 ft at time of event, objects approximately 10,000 ft. All craft in controlled decent, leveled off and then executed coordinated climb in trail formation.
May 28, 2015 · 2:45 AM · FIREBALL
Searsport, ME
Bright yellow light that looked like a star, and then disappeared
May 24, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Aumsville, OR
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 24, 2015 · 10:25 PM · FIREBALL
Chatham, VA
My husband and I were driving 29 North through Tightsqueeze/Chatham, VA, and saw to our left, 3 red-orange low-flying glowing objects in a horizontal line (looked like radio towers). Then they started to move around, and one crossed paths with another one, glided over to the opposite side of Highway 29, then changed directions and went back to the other side. The objects appeared to speed up and slow down and moved in ways that normal aircraft does not operate. We were about to crash the car trying to hurry up and do a u-turn to pull over and look at it! Another car had pulled over to look too! When we stopped to look at them, there was then only 1 object and it quickly headed away into the distance and the glow dimmed out. The glow appeared to be pulsating slightly. It had no blinking/flashing lights on it like a plane or helicopter would have. There's no way it could've been drones. We have a drone. This isn't a drone. We are both 37 year old college graduates. My husband is a former combat engineer in the army and currently a Lieutenant in a police department. He has been a police officer for 15 years and has seen many things in the military and in police work but had never seen anything like these objects and he is even throwing around the word “UFO” to describe it.
May 24, 2015 · 9:55 PM · FIREBALL
Ancaster (Canada), ON · Canada
I was sitting on my back yard having a coffee when I noticed an orange fireball going from the south west to the north east. The sky was clear with no overcast. There was absolutely no sound. I called my wife to come outside to have a look at it. She thought it had a white halo around the orange flame. By the time I got binoculars (7x35) it had gained in altitude and accelerated in speed. I only got a quick look and through the binoculars there seemed to be a white haze around the object.