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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.
114,092 entries
November 11, 2023 · 6:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Windham, ME
Last night, I had a wtf moment, still not sure what to make of it. I have never seen anything I could not identify before. I've been outside day and night my whole life, never seen anything strange. On my way home from Portland around 630pm or so, I was about halfway home and south of Windham a few miles, on a dark two lane road through rolling small hills, no shoulder, forest on each side with sometimes trees hanging over the road. In a break of the trees, out my front windshield at about my 1 o'clock and above the tree tops, I saw a vertical object just floating in the sky (it was not moving) about 1k ft in the air, maybe a little lower. It was hard to tell how far away it was from me but probably less than 1/4 mile. Because it was hard to tell how far away it was it’s hard to tell how big it was but im guessing it was between the size of a Chevy Suburban and a city bus, maybe bigger if it was standing on its end. It was backlit at the top like there was a light behind it and then facing me were 3 lights in a vertical row and I believe they dimmed and brightened in sequence. Because of the light behind it I could see the outline of it so i could tell it was an elongated rectangle. It happened fast, I couldn’t stop and take a photo, by the time it registered in my mind I was under the tree canopy again and a hundred feet or so down the road and I also thought I may see it again but there were too many trees. There are no radio towers out here and it def wasn’t a balloon, a plane, a helicopter or a drone.
November 11, 2023 · 5:58 PM · TRIANGLE
Polk, PA
I had been texting my friend after putting away the dogs in the garage and I walked outside and heard what sounded like a plane. I looked up and saw a triangle of three green and white dots steadily moving across the sky. I tried to take pictures but they wouldn’t turn out and the UFO looked like a blob on camera. Soon it was out of sight Begins trees and I no longer heard it.
November 10, 2023 · 11:02 PM · SPHERE
Mill Valley, CA
At first sight I thought it was a helicopter low in the sky, traveling south east. Then the UFO quickly descended to the height of a 40 story building. At lower elevation the sphere looked like the size of a bicycle. The object swiftly fly east towards an apartment building. Then the object descended down towards the building, as I watched it disappeared in front of my eyes.
November 10, 2023 · 8:46 PM · CIRCLE
St. Louis, MO
The was no noise as I am used to seeing jets go over. These had no noise and did not change their path. Each seemed to originate from same area of the skyline and disappeared in the same area of skyline. They were about 20 seconds apart from each other. I have seen many things but not like these.
November 10, 2023 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Bridgewater, VA
I was getting out of my car and looked up and saw a bright round ball that speed away south extremely fast and disappeared. It did have a light trail when it accelerated.
November 10, 2023 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Iowa City, IA
Bright light overhead, clear night. Fast moving, disappeared quickly while still well above horizon. I don't think it was a meteor or aircraft even though this is the flight path for our municipal airport. Had headphones on couldn't hear if it made sound.
November 10, 2023 · 6:44 PM · OTHER
Dixon, CA
Firstly, this is fresh. This literally just happened 1 hour ago. 4 adults and one 7 year old child saw the following. My wife, daughter and I were dropping off her friend at her house in the country by Dixon, CA. We arrived at approximately 6:45PM on 11/10/2023. It was dark and the sky was mostly clear with some scattered clouds. They live in the country and there is very little light pollution. My daughters friend ran in the house as soon as we arrived. However, we stay on the porch talking we her parents for 10 minutes or so like we always do. Suddenly, we heard the oscillating rumble of an aircraft coming from the northeast (more east than north). I immediately noticed the rumble was deep but I assumed it was just a low flying life flight helicopter coming to land at its home at the Nut Tree Airport which was just a few miles away. However, as it got closer the house literally began to shake (Windows, glasses on their laundry room table tops, etc.) Still thinking that it was a helicopter I instinctively looked up as it began to fly over. At first I couldn't make out what I was seeing. It happened all at once and it was a wave of visual mathematics that my mind was working to solve. The is the exact sequence of events as I observed it. It may seem haphazard and arrhythmic but this is the exact sequence in which I saw the aircraft. So imagine you are looking through your own eyes when you read this. 1) Whatever it was was flying slow. 75 MPH or less. 2) I saw a really dim pair of lights. At first, I thought they were they were part of a helicopter, then my brain quickly realized they were on the rear of some sort of aircraft. 3) I saw a laser dot about 200 yards immediately to the left of the pair of lights referenced in part "2". The laser dot was red or orange, extremely dim and literally looked like someone from the ground was shinning a laser pointer at something in the sky. At this point I literally thought that is exactly what someone was doing. 4) Suddenly, as my eyes were focused on the faint laser dot, a cloud immerged in the background of the dot way off in the distance. It picked up just enough light pollution from the nearby city of Vacaville that it momentarily revealed that the laser point I was staring at was on the front end of the nose of an air craft. The cloud was illuminated just enough to backlight the nose of the air craft. The air craft moved forward and as quickly as the outline appeared on the cloud it was gone. 5) Immediately my thought was that "Oh, there IS as a second aircraft leading the one following to the right. 6) When the nose cone moved past the cloud and back into darkness my peripheral vision suddenly became heightened and out of the corner of my eye I saw a laser beam that was as feint as the dot on the nose. However, the laser beam stretched from the point where I saw it all the way back to the pair of dim lights 200 yards to the right. It looked like someone was shining a cheap laser pointer from a helicopter, straight forward in its path. 7) A patch of scattered clouds back light approximately 60-70% of the body of the aircraft and I suddenly realized the entire thing was connected. The outline was only visible for a few seconds. It looked like a commination of surf board and He-Man's sword and at least 150-200 yards long. That's literally the best way I can describe it. We all started freaking out when the outline revealed itself. My wife and I immediately said "Don't discuss it! We need to draw what we see independently and then show each other. It's the only way we will know we aren't lying to ourselves. If we are wrong and all see different things then we know it was nothing". Attached are the pics we each made of the object.
November 10, 2023 · 6:13 AM · SPHERE
Denver, CO
Driving east bound Friday November 10 at 6:13am on highway 285 near the intersection of S Sheridan Blvd and Highway 285, I looked to my left (north north east), and there was a large ball of light. The ball of light was approximately the size of a basketball with a dark core, the majority of the light coming from the outer edges. It was moving too slow/low to be an airplane in this area. It was significantly brighter than anything I have ever seen in the sky (while flying or on the ground). If holding an object at arm’s length away to cover the object, it would be the size of a basketball. It looked like there were multiple lights on the outer edges of the sphere when looking at it. The color was a bright white with the middle of the orb a darker color. There looked like there was an aura around the object, I'm not quite sure how to describe it. It looked like when you can see the heat around a hot oven after opening it. The middle was not black but there was significantly less light coming from the middle. When I grabbed my phone to take a picture of it, it became significantly smaller and dimmer before it disappeared. It was light outside when this happened and I could not see an object in the sky when it disappeared. This happened within 1-2 minutes. I make this drive everyday Monday-Friday to go to work at this same time each day and I have never seen this or anything similar before.
November 10, 2023 · 12:15 AM · CHANGING
Fairport, NY
There was a reptilian looking alien thing standing on my front porch. Head shape changed smaller to large, neck was vibrating, had a gold orb thing floating around. Boyfriend couldn’t see him at all when looking directly at it.
November 9, 2023 · 8:36 PM · CHANGING
Tifton, GA
It appeared to be flying toward us with a single bright light then appeared to roll a few times with 2-3 dots of lights that streamed down from it, then began flying north with a tail that seemed to drag behind it
November 9, 2023 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
KY
Passenger aircraft cruising at FL34,000. I was a crew member that entered flightdeck mid-flight. Two other crew members pointed out the 4 lights they had been watching for 45 minutes. Lights flying in circles vertically, horizontally as well as tight zig zag patterns, then flying straight upward. The circular motions were like a dance. No regular patterns, but incredibly fast maneuvers. The lights would disappear and reappear occasionally. The altitude of the objects was unknown, but they were so high that they never left our view during that time. I watched them for 15 minutes before allowing another crew member to observe as well. As our pilot said, "no aircraft exists that can perform those maneuvers." Four crew members witnessed.
November 9, 2023 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Anacortes, WA
I spotted five round, glowing red craft hovering over the Skagit Valley, when looking eastbound from Fidalgo Island. They did not move. All stayed in formation and kept an even distance from one another. There were two, noticeably larger ones of similar size to each other and three smaller ones around the same size. An aircraft passed by during this time, but they did not react to the aircraft.
November 9, 2023 · 7:24 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedEden Prairie, MN
I was walking my dog with my father on the loop around my neighborhood, hidden oaks and basswood streets, when we saw a ring of 11 white orbs. We live in Eden Prairie, MN. I was watching from in front of the entrance of my neighborhood and the sidewalk/path near it. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
November 9, 2023 · 6:45 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalBatavia, IL
Standing in the Wendy's parking lot looking westbound over the Chase Bank parking lot at approximately 6:45 p.m. on November 9th, I witnessed 19 lights in a straight line appear out of the dark sky slowly float eastbound. The line of lights slowly changed brightness like the dimming of a dining room light in different sequences and then in gradation from one end to the other in a repeated pattern. As the single line of lights traveled eastbound overhead and higher into the sky the 19 lights starting at the most northern point started to dim out of existence until the last light went dark. This display of lights occurred for approximately 5 to 10 minutes. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
November 9, 2023 · 6:28 PM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalJoliet, IL
We were on the way home my wife and two children, the lights appeared in the sky, we talked about it, took a photo and kept going home to look up what it was we might have seen. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
November 9, 2023 · 6:25 PM · CIRCLE
Gulf Shores, AL
While traveling South on the Foley Beach Express, we observed at first one orange circular light in the southern sky. This orange light would appear for about 10 seconds before slowly fading. A short time later we observed two orange lights in the same position. These lights appeared then faded in about 7 second intervals. After their third appearance, these lights faded and did not reappear. These lights did not seem to change position at any time. We estimate their location to be somewhere over the eastern side of Gulf Shores, Alabama.
November 9, 2023 · 6:15 PM · FORMATION
Little Rock, IL
It appeared fixed in the black sky for 15 seconds. I was driving and couldn’t pull j er due to traffic. I rounded a bend and it appeared in a different area of the sky at the same elevation. It’s possible it was in the same location and just appeared to move due to orientation of the road but I don’t think so. Then it simply disappeared
November 9, 2023 · 5:58 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalWestminster, MD
A straight line of lights were moving slowly across the evening sky. Never saw anything like it. They all moved in a line following one another, some were solid and others were blinking. Only lasted maybe a few minutes if that. Their were many and not a small amount again moving in a straight line, slow! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
November 9, 2023 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
Orange Park, FL
My mother and I saw several objects in the sky at approx 430pm this afternoon November 9, 2023. It was about 80° with mostly clear skies and some stratus clouds way up. They were heading about 30°N and flew across half the sky for about 30 seconds while we watched from the dock. Waaay high up - they went into super high stratus clouds towards the end but we could still see them through the clouds for a bit. I saw 2 aircraft with no wings - but there was something folded over on the sides. And they were big enough that we could see that detail from that high. I saw the 2 aircraft flying in perfect formation, but one of them kindof twisted and looked like there could be two craft on top of each other, then they merged again. They gleamed white in the sunlight. There was no trail behind them and absolutely no sound. Mom agrees that we have absolutely no idea what they were. My father was an engineer for the Air Force and designed several planes, including working on the B2 stealth bomber, so my mother and I are both familiar with different aircraft. We currently live near NAS JAX and are used to seeing all sorts of aircraft, but these were like nothing we have ever seen.
November 9, 2023 · 9:45 AM · DISK
Topeka, KS
Sighting was viewed from my back yard. Visible just above the tree line looking to be but only a few city blocks away was one reflective black UAP. It zig-zagged about left to right and up and down for several minutes I'd say about 4 or 5 minutes. Then it just disappeared NOT zipping off but just diapering, poof gone!
November 9, 2023 · 6:45 AM · DISK
Elkin, NC
On my way to work I saw off to my right a silver metallic disk like craft rising vertically from the ground. It seemed to be half a mile away rising from an open field. I watched it until the nearby woods obscured it. Once I got clear of the trees I stopped to look for it but it was gone. The disc was flat with a slight bulge in the center top. I could see the sunlight reflecting off the outside. I drove back and forth the same way the same time over several days trying to see if it was caused by the rising sun but I never saw anything like it again.
November 9, 2023 · 5:45 AM · SPHERE
Phoenix, AZ
I randomly just wanted to look at the stars and watch the sunrise.. it looked like a star at first, but it was moving, and no sound came from it, and I was confused because it moved from one point of the sky, to another point of the sky really rapidly in the blink of an eye. It got slightly brighter as it moves towards the south. There were no other lights on this orb and not a visible craft. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
November 8, 2023 · 9:32 PM · CHEVRON
Longview, WA
Another party and I were outside discussing the stars. We simultaneously noticed the craft above. The craft made no noise and was traveling at a low speed in the sky. It was almost the color of the the night sky, although a few shades lighter. Said craft then traveled southwest towards downtown and blended in with the lighter pitch of the city lights. The event was approximately 45 seconds in duration at approximately 2132 hours.
November 8, 2023 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Fredericksburg, VA
Around 9 PM yesterday evening I saw a somewhat low-flying aircraft that was a rectangle shape and had green lights on the underside in the shape of a half oval at each end of the rectangle speed across the sky above me. It was loud and I could hear it coming towards me. It sounded almost like a tornado and I heard it in both the sky and the trees. I went inside and around 9:20 I heard a loud aircraft and felt my house shake, so there may be another one flying around, or the same one.