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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

May 13, 2023 · 10:17 PM · UNKNOWN

Lake katrine, NY

Bright circle moving in the sky very slowly with no flashing lights or anything and it didn’t change at all I watched it until I couldn’t see it anymore. Front, back, and sides all white

May 13, 2023 · 10:17 PM · DIAMOND

I was walking outside to my car and looked up and saw this abnormally, large, shining, bright fluorescent, orange light, it shined, as if it were an active fire. It was higher than the airplanes, and the only movement it had was the activity of its lights. I could not tell whether or not it was stationary, but if it was not, it barely moved. The activity of the lights did not stop, but during the two minute duration, it started to get dimmer. Soon enough, the light dimmed all the way off, as if you just turned off a lightbulb, the light took a second to completely go away, and it was just slightly bigger than planes, and I could tell it was not a plane because the center of it was brighter than the rest, as if the it was on fire or something, but it was not a star because this object was a very fluorescent orange, a very Crayola crayon orange, and much larger than a star.

May 13, 2023 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE

Lebanon, PA

Two lights were flying in tandem as I was driving. I thought it was the Phila to Harrisburg regular evening flight but the lights’ arrangement was odd. As I turned into grocery store parking lot, the movement stopped. The lights remained in place as it looked to be over a military area north west of lebanon called Gap. I watched for 5 minutes from dark area of parking lot and took a photo which showed a single circular light, not the two that I saw with naked eye. I returned to route 322 to drive a mile east to a 2nd store and the lights moved parallel to my driving, very fast, but then returned to prior area within a few minutes. When I exited the store I returned to the original parking area to find that they were in a similar location but not exact as I had seen them half hour earlier. I then returned home and stopped watching. Lights were white and object itself couldn’t be seen. When it was the closest initially I didn’t look since I thought it was a plane.

May 13, 2023 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE

Identified

VA

Gradual moving cluster of four (4) orbs of light visible to moving in constant pattern over course of 2 (two) hours. Confirmed with local law enforcement no local training exercises in progress. No sounds heard. No visible beam of light from ground visible. Bystander confirmed orbs could be seen with naked eye. Light caught on recording with two separate cameras. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]

May 13, 2023 · 9:53 PM · LIGHT

Probable conventional

BOWIE, MD

Me, my neighbor and two adult kids saw and I recorded strobing, white colored spotlight patterns in the sky that would spread apart and then come back together. I was able to capture this event on video. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Probable]

May 13, 2023 · 9:52 PM · SPHERE

Desoto, TX

Driving by myself from beechwood drive in the same neighborhood made a right driving down longleaf drive as I saw the lights thinking it could be from the cell tower close in the video as I got closer I realized it was not from it . Then assumed it was from a airplane but also airplanes are In the distant behind flying so could not be. Weather was very calm that night no rain no clouds . The objects moved upwards and then I followed to get closer to longleaf and was quiet . As I got closer to record more the objects aligned itself as some disappeared and 4 of them aligned evenly side by side at the same time a house with a dog in the back I was around was barking crazy . I then decided to drive to the road I believe it was on to see if there where houses or apartments it could of been humans I assumed . Then once I drove to the sight I realized there was nothing but a grass field above where the sighting was in the distant.

May 13, 2023 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE

Louisville, KY

3 orbs bright in color orangish red in color flying in triangle position. 1 dropped down as if dancing across the sky. They then disappeared to reappear 10 mins later going in the opposite direction

May 13, 2023 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE

Vonore, TN

My brother and I witnessed two circular orange colored bright objects initially, one above the other. They moved somewhat slowly from the west to the east and appeared to fade away. After that we saw another singular object move across the same area, and then two more similar to the first sighting. I retrieved my Nikon DSLR camera and drove up to the top of a nearby hill. A singular object appeared and I shot some pictures, though I wasn’t able to adjust my camera properly. One note of interest: we heard a low roaring sound during the initial sighting, but not afterwards.

May 13, 2023 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE

Pike Road, AL

I have video of this object. It is very near much than all stars, very shiny. It was moving. In telescope we saw it has 5-6 flash round dots on the bottom

May 13, 2023 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT

Klamath falls, OR

Light seen in the distance traveling outside and in a different direction then know flight patterns. Also not appearing the be in a satellite path. Long time observer, first time filing and many more to follow, I believe.

May 13, 2023 · 3:45 PM · EGG

Boston, MA

Was definitely not a balloon and not a drone. Was about the same size as a beach balloon but not completely round…..more like Rugby Ball shaped. Shiny silver appearance.

May 13, 2023 · 2:21 PM · SPHERE

Los Angeles, CA

I’m a retired Los Angeles police officer… on May 13th, 2023 something very unusual happened while I was employed by a commercial film production Co. (Filming a new car commercial when something that I can not fully explain that was happening above me in the sky. For the past twenty-eight years (after retiring from the LAPD) I’ve been fortunate enough to have been allowed to work in full LAPD uniform (with the police Department approval of course) on hundreds of production shoots in the streets of L.A., and for the most part all have been mostly uneventful… until this below happened. Yesterday while filming a Chevrolet car shoot in the streets of Los Angeles something caught my eye above me in the sky… it appeared to be a silver colored round sphere that was flashing a bright white high intensity light on an off in the sky above me I’d estimate around fifteen-hundred up. Upon initially seeing it I thought it was a drone… then to my amazement it instantly shape shifted from a round metallic sphere into a flat lateral object, that would occasionally start spinning at high speed on it’s axis, after which it moved laterally from left to right at high speed, then reforming back into it’s previous metallic sphere form, and then repeating the whole sequence again and again as it randomly moved about the sky high above Los Angeles. I was so dumbfounded and taken back as to what I was seeing that I had forgotten to use my Apple Iphone to video it. Now to my dismay this object then vanished—-I desperately began to search the sky for the next fifteen-minutes in order to a picture of it—I was ready this time—then just before giving up I noticed a very bright pinpoint of light extremely high in the crystal clear sky. Now with IPhone in hand I snapped a picture of the entire skyscrape in front of me. After studying the picture for a few minutes I became disappointed when I didn’t see anything out of the unusual at first, that is. As an afterthought I started magnifying the field of view of the photograph with two of my fingers and then it happened—to my astonishment I saw in my picture… I had indeed captured a photograph of this amazing unknown metallic (Orb). My picture clearly shows an inanimate object high in the sky! It also shows the structure of the sphere and under high magnification. The structural definition especially along the bottom of this object IE: two darken ports on either sides of the bottom with a horizontal darken indentation running vertically between the two darken ports on either side. Then—it hit me—a solid structural sphere (Ball) cannot just sit still high in the sky… everyone knows that, the law of physics tells us that, it’s impossible for a round solid object to just sit stationary in the sky with out rotors or propulsion of some kind. I wanted to quickly get my iPhone out of my pocket to video what I was seeing, but I was unable to do this because at the time I was standing moving traffic at the time directing traffic (unsafe to do that). I was very lucky though just to get a still picture of it though as you can see.

May 13, 2023 · 1:00 AM · OTHER

Probable conventional

Houston, TX

It is getting lower and going in circles, left, right, it left on or around about 1:16am and started on or around 12:51am, Saturday, May 13 of 2023. It comes to this location very often. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]

May 12, 2023 · 11:11 PM · FIREBALL

Oviedo, FL

I was driving north on a local road when I saw what looked to be an orange flame from a rocket. Common here in central Florida. But this “rocket” wasn’t going up, instead it crossed above me, looked to be quite close, and I saw what looked like flames, almost like a floating lantern. I took a picture as it passed overhead (attached) I then started recording. The orange balls just floated off towards the west and disappeared into the sky.

May 12, 2023 · 11:10 PM · TRIANGLE

Owasso, OK

We were awaiting a big thunderstorm to roll in and sky watching from our balcony. Just a a few hundred feet or less above us, Came diagonally overhead our apartment headed almost directly East & quickly just above the clouds (clouds gave a foggy look to craft). The tip of the triangle was the front of the craft and on each tip of the triangle was a ring-like light, spinning and changing directions at odd and random intervals. Almost like it was completely a full revolution on each ring tight tip. Each ring light spun at different direction, at different times, and changed directions at different times. It had a white/blush hue through the clouds. The triangle itself also spun and rotated at weird intervals. Almost like aerial pit maneuvers? Like you would see fired jets do. It was maybe the size of large four door suv but wider, but also a few hundred feet in the air, so hard to tell for sure, but smaller in size relative to a hot air balloon, but way larger than a drone or kite. It was so fast that I couldn’t grab my phone and hit the camera icon quick enough. I’ve never seen ANYTHING like it. Oddly enough, Owasso has had extreme weather randomly disapate before reaching us, or create “donuts” around us with us in the center. I wonder if this could be related?

May 12, 2023 · 11:01 PM · SPHERE

Buffalo, NY

Large red orb light UAP, moving very fast for its size with NO sound… seemed to emit a light “ shroud” around it as seen In video. Covered the distance of two houses only 40 yards away from my position within seconds. Disappeared after breaching other side of tree. Cannot upload video bc it exceeds the maximum size allowed on website

May 12, 2023 · 10:41 PM · SPHERE

Sharpsville, IN

Bright light in the sky moving in circulation mode. Sometimes appear to move in and out. Was here tonite for an hour then moved out of site further, but more at distant. Disappeared for two nights then back again on Monday.

May 12, 2023 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE

Chapmanville, WV

At around 10 at night, I stepped out of my backdoor, facing the Guyandotte River. I looked up and saw the UFO(s). Three large red/orange orbs or "fireballs" in triangular formation, with what looked like fire dancing between the three well defined orbs. The UFO was at the level of the treetops on the mountain facing my home, far below the clouds. I could not see any surface (ex such as the surface of a craft or crafts) connecting the lights. It flew slowly overhead, making no noise. I thought to myself that it was very strange, and then the UFO made a perfect 90 degree left turn and faded away. There was no sound or trail of object. There is zero possibility this was a conventional aircraft such as a plane or a helicopter. Again it made no noise, and I was close enough that I would have seen and heard the shape of the hypothetical plane or helicopter. I remember seeing the stars in the night sky, this object was certainly not a star. It could not have been a meteor as there was no trail and the object made a perfect L shaped turn. I was not under the influence of any substances, nor do I suffer from hallucinations. I was wide awake, this was not a dream. I included a digital drawing of the object, as well as the exact direction I was facing when I saw it. I hope this can be of some help. I would have reported sooner, but I tried to rationalize all the possibilities and nothing makes sense. I apologize that I can't provide the exact date and time, but I know it was the week of May 8th 2023. Thank you

May 12, 2023 · 9:53 PM · TRIANGLE

Inola, OK

Triangular light formation hovered over my sons friends house for about 10 minutes before heading north where another individual spotted the same formation. The lights seemed to move up and down into and out of the cloud cover. After hovering for a bit it moved off slowly in a northward direction.

May 12, 2023 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT

Lincoln, NE

I was looking at clouds around 9:15pm following some severe weather storms and noticed high above the clouds a light like that of a plane. So I started watching it and noticed several other lights in the same area. I thought that was strange because you don’t normally see that many planes flying in the same area at the same time and going different directions. I witnesses about 6-7 different lights all separate from each other but in the same area of the sky behaving strangely. 3 of them I witnessed fall straight down like a falling star at a high speed. 2 I saw increase speed and change direction quickly. And a couple of them just moved across the area slowly like a plane would. On 1 of them I saw red and green lights so I thought that might have been plane lights on the wings. But what’s weird is what explains the activity of the other lights in the area? The lights were small like that of a plane in the night sky. They were moving in and out of clouds so i can’t be sure if some of the lights were the same ones that I was seeing again or different ones. Again I thought it was strange that so many aircraft were in the same area at the same time doing different things. Maybe you can tell me if there was militant activity in the area this night or a plane being escorted by other aircraft or something that can’t be explained. The whole incident lasted about 5-7 minutes maybe and then the clouds were covering a lot of the night sky and I lost them.

May 12, 2023 · 9:04 PM · TRIANGLE

Bucksport, ME

Three lights triangular positions. One flashing light, all lights were white. Soft engine noise. Slow moving. Tilted some as it turned more northerly. Low flying slow moving. Could be a drone but it was quite large maybe 20 feet across. Craft not visible in the dark but lights were fixed in triangular shape as it passed almost silently over Main street as I was looking toward the bay it was in front of me then it was to my left as it disappeared over the trees [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]

May 12, 2023 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE

Boerne, TX

Four apparent passenger aircraft possibly landing pattern to San Antonio Airport, following the fourth air craft a large circular object appearing following the last air craft. it has the appearance of lighted windows with light circling bottom of the craft. Appeared to have have large antenna like rods, with knobs on the end of the rods. Went behind a cloud and did not appear again.

May 12, 2023 · 7:57 PM · SPHERE

Kearny, AZ

Took my granddaughter to the local park to let her play on the equipment and push her on the swings. While there, notice this bright light in the sky and thought it was strange because there was no noise emitted from it. As it came closer to us I took a video. The photos I have attached are enlarged from the video. I'm very curious as to what this object is. Respectfully, Senator ((name deleted)) (retired)

May 12, 2023 · 5:24 PM · SPHERE