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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.
5,673 entries
September 26, 2023 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE
Milton Keynes, BUCKINGH · United Kingdom
Sighting in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. Whilst walking home just after midnight I observed some lights in the sky to the West. Due to the number of street lights where I was I walked towards a retail park where it was a little darker to get a better view. I observed a bright light in the sky which illuminated the surround clouds. Its altitude did not change it was not a comet or meteorite in the atmosphere. There was 3 objects which circled around each other, at times their altitude went a little higher and they made a C shape at one point, was very bright. I managed to film but as this totally caught me by surprise and I am not use to recoding much on my phone especially at night I did not make full use of the zoom feature. I recorded a 5 minute video 2x zoom but too large to upload its nearly 700MB and took some photos which have attached. I did not observe any noise from the distance I was from them which I estimate to be 4-5kms. I am trying to keep anonymous if you want the video email me.
September 25, 2023 · 9:45 PM · EGG
Eaglesham, EAST REN · United Kingdom
I was out for my usual walk and noticed bright light behind the trees. I thought to myself I didn't realise it was a full moon. I thought i might not need my torch afterall. As i was listening to an podcast i carried on walking behind the trees then i wondered where did the moon go. I thought perhaps it was the street light i saw. I wondered now where the moon was. I now keep seeing the moon like object ( very big and bright) one minute in my left, next minute on my right and i thought to myself moon can't change the position so fast. I started following the object until i got to an open farmland, then object started coming towards me . It was huge, bright and round . I started running as fast as i could. I turned around twice to see if it was behind me and it was keeping up with me. I ran into a lane leading to houses to catch my breath and went home. This was something i never saw before. Moon like huge moving object.
September 25, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Lowestoft, SUFFOLK · United Kingdom
I was in my back garden and could see 2 dark orange or orange red moving behind the tree close to my garden from right to left. The lights were silent and slow moving. The atmosphere felt unusual. I went indoors to get my phone to take a photo. The lights both faded. The front light descended and faded. The back light disappeared.
September 22, 2023 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE
Cardiff, WALES · United Kingdom
I looked up to the sky to notice these round shaped white lights bouncing around each other following in fast movement behind the clounds but bright enough to see they would go back n forth the edging of the clouds then disappear rapidly coming back in like a repeating pattern then there was a 45 min gap which i shone a lazer for litrally a split second then out of no where they were back as the clouds broke apart what looked like a shooting star in flame orange colour flew across the sky so fast i dont do this as a hobbie it caught my attention what was this
September 22, 2023 · 8:10 PM · CIRCLE
London · United Kingdom
Three orb shaped balls that pulsate and move around in the sky must of been for 20 minutes or so I’ve got a few video recordings
September 21, 2023 · 10:07 AM · SPHERE
Staines on Thames, SURREY · United Kingdom
My Mum and Sister saw a plane during travelling to Staines on Thames Surrey UK when my mum noticed a plane seemed to be frozen in time in the sky. Was upset by the sighting and felt uneasy. Once the visit ended 2 hours later she saw what seems to be the same plane still frozen in place in the sky at the same location. This freaked her out and she took a photo which showed a series of lights that trailed nearby all linked by direction changing contrails which seemed to link to a light sitting in the nearby tree. Photo is most clear on her phone when zoomed in. On transferring to other devices become less clear and pixelated. This was a really distressing scenario to my mum as she felt no one would believe her, though she told us and we could see from the picture something weird is going on. Perhaps all the lights are the same craft travelling close to speed of light that froze the image of the passing plane behind? Very strange and creepy, a real hair raiser.
September 19, 2023 · 8:05 PM · CHANGING
Longdon, Rugeley, STAFFORD · United Kingdom
After a typical day at work, I arrived home to a tranquil evening in the countryside. Opting to hang my laundry under the clear, partially cloudy night sky, I was granted an uninterrupted view of the celestial expanse. My rural location meant only occasional aircraft, mainly air ambulances, traversed the heavens, making this sighting all the more remarkable. While attending to the laundry, my gaze inadvertently shifted upward. The night sky greeted me with an astonishing abundance of stars, creating a captivating backdrop. Amid this celestial panorama, an unexpected and peculiar phenomenon caught my attention—an erratic, zigzagging light, reminiscent of a star. At first, my instinctive thought considered it might be the lights of a high-altitude aircraft. However, its distance contradicted this explanation. An alternative notion of a shooting star crossed my mind, but the light's capricious movements, weaving in and out of the clouds, left me in perplexity. Suddenly, this enigmatic luminary ceased all motion, hovering motionless against the night's canvas. Intrigued, I became wholly engrossed in observing this unusual light. To my astonishment, it initiated a swift descent, seemingly transitioning from the distant stars to Earth's orbit within a matter of seconds. Its proximity unveiled a luminous, spherical form, roughly resembling the size of a common ball bearing. Just as swiftly as it had descended, the enigmatic light ascended vertically, returning to its original position amidst the star-studded tapestry. This curious display left me with a flurry of questions, pondering whether I had borne witness to a drone or some other enigmatic celestial occurrence. Regardless of the nature of this celestial entity, it remained elusive. Driven by curiosity, I reached out to it, calling into the night. To my astonishment, the light responded, embarking on a second descent. Its descent mirrored the grace of a feather, hovering a mere 20-30 feet above the ground before swiftly returning to its celestial realm. I continued to observe this mesmerizing spectacle for approximately 15 minutes before retiring indoors for an hour. Upon my return to the night's embrace, the enigmatic light reappeared. This time, it introduced a new layer of complexity—a convergence of two additional brilliantly shining, star-shaped lights, forming a perfect triangle. Curiously, the arrangement of these lights gave the impression of an invisible cloak, flawlessly blending with the night sky. Any effort to focus on the stars at the triangle's periphery prompted the central light to promptly return to its original position. In another astonishing moment, the celestial entity descended once more, hovering approximately 10-15 feet above the ground. Its ethereal presence persisted, resembling a delicate wisp of starlight, encompassing a central, lens-like dark sphere. During this phase, it exhibited a novel behavior—an intermittent flickering. Briefly vanishing into obscurity, it reappeared moments later in its customary starlight form. This enchanting interplay of light and shadow transpired for less than a minute before the entity gracefully ascended, merging once again with the celestial tapestry. As I contemplated these extraordinary events, one undeniable truth remained—this enigmatic spectacle persisted, leaving me with a profound sense of wonder and countless unanswered questions amidst the eternal mystery of the stars.
September 18, 2023 · 4:28 PM · SPHERE
Blandford Forum, ENGLAND · United Kingdom
We spotted a silver shiny orb like object at or above cloud cover height in an otherwise clear sky. It was heading on an easterly course in the opposite direction to the wind direction so appeared to be acting on its own propulsion. I checked on my aircraft app and there was no aircraft in that area at that time. I have video footage from my IPhone of this which is 3 minutes long. The object was round orb type and appeared to be silver with sunlight shining off it. There was one object. I am a semi retired ex Supermarket manager and my wife is a part time primary teacher.
September 14, 2023 · 8:07 PM · SPHERE
Falkirk, FALKIRK · United Kingdom
The white light was hovering, looked like a planet at first but extremely bright. I tried to guess then planet, pulled out my phone to check the star map to confirm before realising it was total cloud cover overhead. As I went to take a picture instead, the light started flashing and moving. The white light continued to flash and other lights began flashing around it in many colours. It began to move quite quickly towards us, then changed direction unbelievably quickly and sped off in the opposite direction. It disappeared after a couple of minutes, but not because it travelled too far away. It just vanished. There was absolutely no sound whatsoever. I never managed to get a photo as it was moving too quickly and changed direction too quickly.
September 11, 2023 · 5:20 AM · RECTANGLE
Glasgow, GLASGOW · United Kingdom
Large flat rectangle with red, green and white flashing lights and slight haze, approximate in proportion to a smartphone. Created a very loud thunderous drone which was heard first prompting me to look out the window, very loud and drowned out music that was being listened to. Was flying very close overhead then dipped forward in a steep curve towards the building opposite, at which point it was no longer visible. It seemed only one side (the base) of the object was visible. A different quieter mid-frequency drone lasted approximately 15 minutes afterwards. Sound of close proximity helicopters was also audible for a considerable time afterwards but not visible. Location is very close proximity to an arms and aerospace factory.
September 10, 2023 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Leominster, HEREFORD · United Kingdom
Star moving unnaturally, rotated then vanished. Reappeared ten mins later to almost same spot almost hanging on the edge of the electrical storm. Have a long exposure picture of the storm showing the craft both times it came by
September 9, 2023 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Hull, EAST RID · United Kingdom
My friend and I was walking into the town centre, I felt the urge to look up, as there was an electrical storm with no thunder, I saw the white light stationary, held my head still to confirm it wasn't a plane, after several minutes of it being amongst the lightning, it then turned red... A minute after the craft started flashing red... Then zoomed off into the night sky like ion drive had kicked in
September 5, 2023 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Stonesfield, OXFORDSH · United Kingdom
Looking toward the north west at an elevation of about 60 degrees. A bright orb that was stationary and I thought was a planet, but then realised it was in the wrong place. It then moved at a fast rate in a downward direction for about 10 degrees and disappeared.
September 4, 2023 · 9:46 PM · FIREBALL
Benfleet, ESSEX · United Kingdom
The crafts looked different from one another. They had lights moving fast in different directions and going up and down. The lights were red, white and green. One of the crafts was shaped like a diamond. They moved away in different directions. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
September 4, 2023 · 9:28 AM · OVAL
Ashington, NORTHUMB · United Kingdom
While sitting looking out of van window I seen this craft which didn't look like a boat. Also it didn't move like a boat and was moving fast and smooth. There was no sound detected but not sure how far this was away. Maybe 1 mile.
September 2, 2023 · 8:49 PM · UNKNOWN
Liverpool, LIVERPOO · United Kingdom
Me and my girlfriend saw 3 bright white lights flash past so fast it looked like the light stretched. It flew past in a split second east of City Road in Walton at around 300ft heading southbound towards Liverpool. Sighting only lasted a split second but it looked as if I may have been triangular with the position of the lights, two at the back and one central slightly in front of the others which seemed brighter. No sound was heard.
August 30, 2023 · 3:28 PM · CIGAR
I am in the forest, the nearest is newark, NOTTINGH · United Kingdom
I was sitting down and then I looked at the sky and I saw two cigar shaped ufos flying past each other, completely white, no wings, nothing to show that it was an airplane. I didn’t hear any noise from the engine and it was clear something extraterrestrial was happening.
August 29, 2023 · 9:50 PM · OTHER
Leeds · United Kingdom
First object seen was with 2 red lights and 1 blinking white light, then it moved far away. Seen it close to Kirkstall Leisure Centre. It is one I usually see around that area. It moves slowly, and it doesn't go straight, sort of zigzagging, it has a triangular shape. I went to the bus stop, about 5 minutes walk from the first sighting point. After a few minutes, another object, much bigger than the first one, a Pentagon of hexagon shaped , with many lights, at least 8, maybe 9, and they were steady, red and white lights , and honestly it looked like a spacecraft or anything I have never seen and for sure wasn't a plane. It was moving slowly , I would say it wasn't flying straight, but not even zigzagging. A few moments after I saw a blinking light just close to this object, it appeared once, then disappeared for 1-2 seconds, appeared again closer to the hexagon shaped object, and disappeared. It happened between 9:50 -10pm
August 28, 2023 · 4:19 PM · CIRCLE
Amble, NORTHUMB · United Kingdom
Place of observation was near Amble in Northumberland and lasted for approx 15 minutes. I saw a dark solid object on the horizon. Due to the distance it appeared spherical. The object changed altitude constantly, sometimes at sea level sometimes above. This was north east from the beach between Amble and High Hauxley. It was very dark in colour and had no distinguishing features. It slowly moved south until eventually out of site. I took 4 videos ( over 1 min in total) and 15 photographs on my camera phone. 2 videos and 2 images are attached to this report. I am happy to be contacted by email.
August 25, 2023 · 10:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Enfield · United Kingdom
Near Enfield lights in sky
August 23, 2023 · 11:30 PM · CIGAR
Bigbury-on-sea, DEVON · United Kingdom
I was van camping with one other friend in the top carpark at Bigbury-On-Sea (what3words exact location… ///reporting.stored.deduced). I was on my laptop in the back of the van with my friend, it was around 11 or 12 at night when my friend opened the side door to go to the toilet. He immediately shouted to me “Quick shooting star!” I hastily climbed to the door to see, when I noticed immediately that it was not a shooting star it was moving far too slow for that. I shouted to him “that’s not a shooting star I think that is a UFO” I quickly jumped back in the van to grab my phone to take a picture or video but by the time I had grabbed my phone it had gone and there was nothing to be seen. (I’m not sure my camera is good enough quality to pic it up anyway as it was very dark outside). We looked around and listened for a good 5 minutes to see if it reappeared or see where it went but it had vanished with no trace. My friend had a much better look at it and for longer than me. I estimate that I only viewed it for no longer that 5 or 6 seconds. It was a very clear night with very little cloud cover, no wind or rain but there was some very light wispy clouds dotted around the sky. The object had just entered some low clouds it appeared like a cigar shaped off white light with a green glow, moving completely silently slowly forward. It was completely symmetrical and appeared about an inch to inch and a half long moving forward in one direction. My first thought was UFO but being slightly sceptical about these things I tried to rationalise it. I ruled out Starlink as it was far to short and stubby and it was to big to be satellites. My next thought was an aircraft’s headlight being projected through the clouds leaving a glow similar to a cars headlights in fog. But the light was very defined and there was no aircraft sound, silhouette or an aircraft at the back also there was no anti-collision bacon or port and starboard lights flashing at all. The cloud was to thin this would have been visible and at the altitude that it was we would have heard some engine noise. I am an Aviation, Firefighter and I work around aircraft. I’ve never seen a UFO before and I know what aircraft in the air look like. I didn’t have any phone signal at the time as I wanted to check on flight tracked to see if an aircraft had just passed to rule that out. I checked the next day and aircraft do come close to that spot on rout from Europe to Manchester Airport. But in my opinion this was very unusual and not an aircraft. I can only give the facts to what I saw and I would not report it if I thought there was a chance it was just a plane. My friend got a much better look at it for longer than me and he said that it looked like it was ribbed. He explained it as almost Caterpillar like. I cannot comment on that as I can only say what I saw. I’ve tried to do my best to illustrate it but my art skills are not very good.
August 23, 2023 · 12:00 PM · CIGAR
Nelson, CAERPHIL · United Kingdom
Lying on the grass in a field with a friend watching the clouds. Saw a long silver cigar shaped object just hovering above us. We just lay there and stared at it for about five minutes then it suddenly accelerated and shot off to the left of us and disappeared from view. It was very, very fast and disappeared in a matter of seconds. This happened back in the 1960s probably around 1962. during the school holidays. There were no lights and no sound
August 22, 2023 · 11:10 PM · RECTANGLE
Derby, CITY OF · United Kingdom
Only explanation could be a projection as it moved faster than anything else possible. However, we can't stop light by our scientific understanding to date..
August 22, 2023 · 8:15 PM · CIGAR
Abergavenny, MONMOUTH · United Kingdom
It was just there stationary for a few minutes then moved right and disappeared into what I can only discribe as a port hole . There were no lights or sound . It seemed to be possibly as long as a football pitch.