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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 6, 2023 · 5:51 PM · CHANGING
Franklin, IN
Was mowing yard ,looked up a seen it called my daughter out side we watched it change shapes
May 6, 2023 · 11:45 AM · CYLINDER
Worcester, MA
While driving back home from a haircut on May 6, 2023, I noticed an object in a fairly cloudless sky. The object was shaped like a Tic Tac - and from my vantage point was unmoving. I pulled over to take video for roughly 13 seconds before moving along as where I was pulled over wasn't fully "off" the road. I didn't want to obstruct traffic. After pulling away, I lost sight of the object. From my vantage point, I couldn't see any fins, tails or markings like you usually can from an aircraft. The object did not seem to gain in size or decrease in size - which from my vantage point - looked as if it was hanging in midair. The Worcester Airport is just to the left of where this object is seen. When filming the object, I tired to stay as zoomed out as possible to decrease shakiness.
May 6, 2023 · 10:27 AM · TRIANGLE
Presque Isle, ME
I was watching the airplanes and decided to video record them as there were very long, expanding contrails or chemtrails behind them. I can't recall if I reviewed the video before I got home or after, but I think it was before. I had thought I had seen a small flash or two of something near a contrail so I enlarged it and slowed down the video. I have a Samsung S22 Ultra. That's when I saw a white triangular craft of some kind in the image. I have NO idea what it is, but I DO know its not a plane or star or cloud, etc.
May 6, 2023 · 8:46 AM · CIGAR
Fairfax, VA
I was walking my dog and the encounter happened too quickly, so I was unfortunately unable to film this brief encounter. I heard a few airplanes in the sky. I love to watch them fly, so I took a look and saw 2 airplanes SE and SW of my position. Between them, nearly dead-on South, I saw a dark, almost black orb hanging suspended in the sky, quite high up. It didn't even take a second before the object turned (I assume that is what happened), revealing that the object was in fact a dull gray color and shaped like a fat cigar. After turning, the object headed quickly in a SE direction and disappeared from sight due to a combination of trees and buildings. The entire encounter couldn't have lasted more than 4 seconds, if even that long. The skies were almost perfectly clear, with most clouds being light, fluffy, and to the East and North. The object was between 40-50 degrees above the horizon.
May 6, 2023 · 1:32 AM · LIGHT
Reedsville, OH
As I rounded a curve in the road the object was low In the night sky about 3/4 of a mile ahead and off my 1 o'clock position and I would estimate a altitude of 400-600 ft. I pulled over and shut my motorcycle off and removed my helmet to listen for any familiar sounds of propulsion but heard nothing then literally as soon as I pulled my phone out and opened the camera app the object silently and slowly tracked towards my position in a slow hovering but not directly at me, it ended up coming up on my right side at approximately 300 ft now and as it neared closer to me I became overwhelmed with the fight or flight feeling of danger that was like nothing I've experienced before. Every fiber in my body started screaming for me to put distance between myself and the craft which I should mention was seemingly quite large (maybe twice the size of a Blackhawk).
May 5, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Pacifica, CA
First person saw Glowing light under ocean and then came to surface of water and one light became a green/blue lazer looking light and then she said "Look" As she looked at me there was only one lazer greenish/blue light. But then as she said no look out the window and I looked and then saw the one light had become 5 orb type lights and they were hovering on the water or slightly above the water. It was app 1 mile off the beach.
May 5, 2023 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Reedley, CA
I was watering in the garden when I noticed a pulsating light. Observed it for a few minutes and it disappeared and reappeared in the same location. Used phone to zoom in and captured the video that I have uploaded to my YouTube channel. Sky was clear. Stars could be see,planes passed over. File is too big to all me to attach. Please contact for video or look at my YouTube https://youtu.be/Nx9wBKSUY34
May 5, 2023 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Aurora, CO
We were sitting on our balcony, saw an object at a slightly lower altitude inspecting the flight path last night where lt least 4 planes were approaching DIA. It was moving at what we both felt was a supersonic speed, a green light on its front, with forward propulsion, moving from SW to NW in a matter of possibly 2 seconds. IT MOVED SO FAST, yet it was silence. No sonicbomb, not exhaust, just extremely straight plane of motion. I saw it, as well as my husband.
May 5, 2023 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Arvada, CO
Friday night at 9:25 I was driving south on CO-93, just west of Leyden Rock and south of Coal Creek Canyon Rd, when I saw one bright flying object, orb-ish and seemingly tapered at both ends, flying east to west at a low altitude, easily in commercial airspace below the clouds. I pulled up FlightAware immediately and saw no commercial aircraft in the vicinity. The object was very bright and relatively large, easily distinguishable from stars or satellites. I had it in my sight for less than 30 seconds as I lost sight after it flew over the nearby foothills.
May 5, 2023 · 9:23 PM · CIRCLE
Littleton, CO
We were heading west on C470 in Littleton, CO at 9:23 PM on 5/5/23 and getting off onto the ramp to Wadsworth when a super fast low flying object flew from the south to the north. It was on a straight line. It was a white light going extremely fast, almost missle-like. There was not a tail, just a really fast flying object. We watched it zip by for two seconds and then our view was obstructed by trees. After we passed the trees, we could not see it any more. It was in the air about skyline. The Foothills were in the background and it was hard to tell if the object was in front or behind because it was about that height. There was no sound at all.
May 5, 2023 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Payson, AZ
Sitting on the patio about 8pm. An extremely bright white light traveling at an incredible speed crossed the sky parallel to the horizon. Sighting lasted approximately 5 seconds. During that 5 seconds the object covered approximately 30 miles based on known mountain peaks. Object appeared to be 5 to 10000’ above the mountains which are approx 6 miles from sighting location. No sound, no trail, no sonic boom. I am a pilot familiar with the area, and know the distance between peaks and landmarks.
May 5, 2023 · 8:00 PM · CYLINDER
Gladstone, VA
Two orbs were witnessed just after sunset hovering above the James River. One had white light and was donut shaped within a circle spinning counterclockwise then clockwise and moving back and forth in place. The other object was further away with colored lights and was moving in a tumbling motion. We witnessed these objects for 30 minutes to an hour. Sky was somewhat lit just after sunset. They were visible to the eye and pictures and video show detail.
May 5, 2023 · 7:25 PM · CYLINDER
Buffalo, NY
My 17-year old spotted a large, very bright object in the sky that ascended with a glimmering pale bluish-white light illumination propulsion. When he began to film the object is stopped ascending and remained idle in the sky for a couple minutes until it vanished. Two brand new iPhones phones were filming the object, one overheated and the other lost complete charge. Digitally documented through the night. The object reappeared briefly the next couple hours behind a nearby star. There was no noise generated. There was little movement by object once we identified it in the sky. The object was identified in protected FAA commercial airspace but did not see anything on the FAA data tracker. Oddly, we were the only two people to see object in our immediate area as it was still very light outside. This is the sending sighting in the same area in two years.
May 5, 2023 · 4:45 PM · RECTANGLE
San Bernardino, CA
I was traveling west on Highland Ave to pick up our dog’s arthritis medication and saw coming out of the cloudy sky a dark gray aircraft that resembled a large bus due to its rectangular shape and it was traveling north to south. I thought is this a blimp ? Realizing that I have never seen a rectangular blimp in my life. This flying object was no aircraft I was familiar with. It seemed to be flying faster than a blimp yet slower than a plane. I can’t say how far the objects distance was from me but it wasn’t very high in the sky. I pulled into the veterinarians office parking lot in hopes of capturing a video or picture but the object was now hidden behind large Perris Hill Park Trees. I have been searching google to see if any one else witnessed this UFO here in San Bernardino California but there is no reports so far. I know I wasn’t the only person to see this UFO. I anticipate some sort of reports to confirm that there was definitely a strange flying object in our skies!!
May 5, 2023 · 9:27 AM · DISK
Scottsdale, AZ
My partner, my mother in law and I were headed south on the 101 Freeway to go to a family wedding in Gilbert. My partner, who was driving, noticed two disc shaped metallic crafts moving back and forth quickly and disappearing and then reappearing. My Mother in law and I spotted them too. I then took my phone out to record them. They eventually disappeared and we lost track of them so aren’t sure if they reappeared. These were not aircraft, as they would quickly move right and then to the left and back and forth. The sky seemed a bit hazy, though it was sunny. We have no explanation but wanted to share the sighting.
May 5, 2023 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Green Cove Springs, FL
We were sailing from the Bahamas to the Port St Lucie, Fla inlet overnight 5/4/23-5/5/23 and around midnight I noticed two objects in the sky over Florida moving randomly. I quickly got my husband to watch them with me. One object seemed to have just a white light and moved very randomly, like a firefly. At first we thought maybe a drone but it was too random and seemed to darted around in all directions. This light stayed in the same general area. The other object had a red light which seemed to be blinking and while it moved randomly it seemed more intentional. This object moved back and forth in the sky, seemingly still along the Fla coast, with occasional random up and down movement. Neither object appeared to have the movement I would associate with a drone. When I first saw the lights they were close together, then the red one went up the coast a bit. It later came back near the other light for a bit, then left and went down the coast and then back by the other light again. Both myself and my husband watched both for at least an hour. Then some light cloud cover and the full moon made them harder to see so we stopped looking for them.
May 4, 2023 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Loveland, CO
First time posting here. I’ve been seeing these lights in the sky at least three times in the past year but this was so strange I had to report. It was dark and I was driving from Loveland to Fort Collins when my sister and I saw a bright star. Together, we think we’ve seen this before, coming home from DIA. This time, the star was so bright, and changing in intensity that we stopped. We had to squint to catch the outline of the strange light but when we did, it was pyramid shape with what looked like a rope of light hanging from one corner. We stared for maybe an hour when out of nowhere 6 smaller, less bright, blinking red and green grafts appeared over the mountains. Two of them circled each other and the lights eventually went separate directions. I think three of them are still over the mountains. I had to take my sister (21 yrs old) because she was freaked out and was getting anxiety. When I went back to the same exact spot, pulled over on the side of the road, the bright triangle was no longer there and the blinking red and green lights were gone except for three. They’re spread out but still high above the mountains, relatively close. I left because they weren’t moving but I finally felt the need to report something on here. That was really strange. Also, what looked like a line of smoke, appeared briefly when the blinking lights showed up and then it move in a straight direction at slow speed before I lost track of it when I was counting the blinking lights.
May 4, 2023 · 9:45 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalHickory, NC
Coming from west to east no sound a string of lights looked to be 50 yards long maybe 2000 feet AGL. Im a pilot! Traveling horizontal maybe 80 to 100 knots absolutely no sound 9:45 @ night Hickory airport control tower closes at 9 PM. Or they would have seen it! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 4, 2023 · 9:25 PM · CIRCLE
Hoschton, GA
These weren’t satellites and they varied in size and color. They moved silently across the sky well over 30000 feet with about 99% clear visibility from the ground traveling towards northwest part of Georgia towards Tennessee.
May 4, 2023 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalNewark, OH
We walked outside and my boyfriend looked up and said babe what is that? I seen the same thing back in 1999, so I ran inside for a phone to record. It was a line of at least 20 orbs of light, connected by strands of the same color light. It stayed very still and just passed on by. Lasted about 1-2 mins. This color was a light blue/white. I know it’s not Starlink because I seen this same thing over 20 years ago but a different color and there were two lines of them with less amount of orbs. Same speed, same design. I later on found the same picture in a UFO book at school 2 years later and it said they can be different colors. Then a different aircraft passed by 10 minutes later, lights like a drone, but it was loud in the sky, too low for a plane. And it stayed around the neighborhood for some time. My boyfriend recorded the video. After it was all done with we went to check the video, it never recorded. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 4, 2023 · 9:15 PM · OTHER
Easton, MD
I witnessed up to 8 bright lights in a single row that simultaneously moved across the sky for approximately 6 to 8 seconds and Headed North then look to appear to jet off into the net night sky
May 4, 2023 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Ann Arbor, MI
The currently unidentified object appeared to be changing in the video when zoomed in, sometimes appearing then getting hazy before changing shapes again. Sky around object looks hazy and distorted.
May 4, 2023 · 8:12 PM · OTHER
Panama, NE
Astronomy is a hobby of mine. At 8:12pm my wife texted and said my son wanted to know what planet was northeast. I knew there shouldn’t be one at that time so I came out and saw a light that was comparable to the size and luminosity of Venus, but nowhere near the location of Venus and much too early to be seeing any other astronomical body. I opened my astronomy app and nothing should have been there. I laid down with it right on the corner of a building for 30-60 sec and I did not see movement. I got out my telescope and saw that it was a very bright ring with 10-12 impossibly bright lights around the outside. It appeared to be hollow. I called my brother in Lincoln and he could see it from where he was as well but in a much different direction. We shot some azimuths and using trig we estimated it was roughly above Palmyra and about 11.5 miles up. I started to notice that it was in fact moving imperceptibly slowly south and maybe slightly west. I followed it for at least 30 min. As the sun went down the stars got brighter and it slowly faded. As it got darker I could see a distinct blinking light in the center that pulses at roughly 1bps, but all of the other individual lights I had seen had disappeared. I wish I had some better pictures but none of my astrophography stuff was charged or accessible. These are both from my iPhone 14. One is at peak brightness prior to using my telescope, and the other was towards the end through my eyepiece as it was getting dark and fading. It looks like a star out of focus in a telescope, but I assure you it was focused. The ghosting was due to a long exposure in low light. Despite the appearance of a ring with lights around the outer bottom, we believe that the way it just drifted and definitely had a blinking light and based on its rough altitude that it was probably a spy balloon or something.
May 4, 2023 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
WA
Object was stationary when spotted and chased off by what appeared to be a plane.