On a Monday evening in early July 2026, apparently July 6, several glowing orbs appeared over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan and floated there for more than 20 minutes. Two people in separate communities filmed them, according to Coast to Coast AM’s weekly weird-news roundup.

Two vantage points matter. A single video of lights at sea leaves almost everything open. Two from different places could, in principle, let someone triangulate how far away and how high the objects were, which would help separate something nearby, like drones or lanterns, from something far out, like flares or aircraft lights. No one has published that analysis, and the witnesses and towns weren’t named.

Orbs that hover over the sea for long periods are often traced to parachute flares, which drift slowly and can burn for many minutes, or to drone light shows and fishing-fleet lights. Japan’s coastal waters are also busy with naval and coast guard activity. None of those explanations has been tested here.

Later the same week, a family in Mexico posted video of a glowing, saucer-shaped craft gliding over a mountain. It went viral. Some viewers saw an alien ship; others pointed to a drone, or to AI-generated video, a suspicion that now follows almost every striking UFO clip.