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April 29, 2023 · 8:20 PM · SPHERE
Augusta, GA
I was fascinated with the formation of the approaching storm cell and thought it would make for a cool picture. I notice the light while taking the second picture and as I attempt to take another It ascended up into the clouds. I'm curious to know if it's speed might can be calculated. Both pictures were taken within one minute. I paused to change filters which might have taken 20 seconds or so. The object in question is to the lower left of the very bright street light in the first picture, and above the street light in the second picture. Side note: not Venus or Jupiter
April 29, 2023 · 8:06 PM · CIRCLE
El Mirage, AZ
On Saturday evening around 8 pm on April 29, 2023, my son and I were working in his yard on landscape lights when I happened to look up at a distant mass of what looked like a galaxy glowing slowly moving towards us from about 30 degrees above the horizon. My first reaction was to point and say to him "What the F*&^ is that?" He then replied "Holy shit. What is that?" I then said grab you phone and start taking pictures. I then ran inside the home to grab mine. It was difficult getting focus. I considered calling 911. At one point I asked him to get a cell phone tripod out of my car (actually asking him to get the tripod out of the trunk of my "camera" which was of course a mistake with the excitement) and when he returned I was trying to get my phone set up on it but could not. So I laid down on my back trying to keep the camera steady while filming. We had plenty of time. As they were directly overhead, most seemed to be in a steady movement but others were moving around. Some rapidly. And from that distance it had to be incredible fast. We stopped taking any video or photos and just observed. Until they faded at about 30 degrees from the horizon like traveling in a straight line. Not following the curvature of the earth like Starlink for example. I contacted the local news and sent them photos but never heard back and could not find anything online of other people reporting anything. This was nothing like Starlink. I witnessed Starlink with my son and his wife on the evening of May 4th. And have video and photos. This was completely different. These objects were moving around independently and spreading out in various ways. Maybe as far as 20 miles at one point. I am a 61 year old US Marine Corp Vet and my son is 30. We have zero interest in personal attention. But I know what I witnessed was unlike anything I have ever seen.
April 29, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Charlotte, NC
My daughter and I were present for a baseball game. Weather was VFR and clear. No clouds. Aircraft departing Charlotte airport which was running a southern flow were passing overhead in a NE direction shortly after departure, presumable on a standard departure procedure. My daughter spotted a small dark spherical object. I was not able to initially locate the object and so joked that she was seeing things. After a few moments of scanning the area, I too located the object. The object appeared above aircraft paths in the area moving slowly in a NNE direction. Was observed for approx 5 minutes. The we were unable to locate further.
April 29, 2023 · 3:00 AM · CHANGING
Tonawanda, NY
Spotted 2 objects outside of my place of employment around 3 am. Both UAP/UFO were below the cloud overcast as it was a raining off and on. The one closest to the building changed shapes and colors (flickering effect). No sound was emitting as they stayed stationary in the sky.
April 29, 2023 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedPRESCOTT VALLEY, AZ
I have been watching these lights every night for over a week now from my backyard in Prescott Valley, AZ. The lights are in the northern sky and start out slightly west of north and drift as a group east of north over the course of one to two hours. Anywhere from midnight to 2 AM. I can't hear them, probably because they are too far away. I can't tell how far away they are but I'm thinking they are very very far away. They move slowly, gradually in arcs as if they are circling like debris in a slow motion tornado. They are at different elevations and sometimes seem to follow each other one after another in that arc pattern. It's like each one has a powerful light that points in one direction and I can only see it as they are turning when the light points in my direction. This is a guess based on observations. They can disappear for minutes at a time, then start their swirling arc pattern of flight again. Mostly I see one or two at a time, but have seen 3 lights quite often and 4 or 5 lights once, all doing the same arcing pattern. They stay together like a flock of birds. They remind me of pelicans flocking and swirling. Sometimes the lights are very bright and other times they are dim. The seem to flicker a bit as the lights are becoming visible at the start of the arc, then become very bright, then die out flickering at the end of the arc. One after another they do this as a group and sometimes the group as a whole changes elevation, or drifts to the right or to the left, but the overall drift is west to east. They are anywhere from 10 degrees above the horizon to perhaps 30 degrees. I never see them illuminated when they move up or down. I only see the lights move horizontally. Nearly always left to right. Sometime they seem to disappear and then as a group appear in a slightly different area of the sky. They re-appear one by one again in the arc pattern. I have checked two different flight tracker/radar websites multiple times and these lights (aircraft?) don't show up at all on them. I have numerous videos of them on my trail camera that I have set up in my backyard to record the wildlife. I first saw the lights in one of the trail cam videos at around 1:20 AM 4/22/23. I have been seeing them every night since then. Today is 5/1. Last night I stood out in my backyard and watched them for an hour, 12:30 AM to 1:30 AM. I also noticed that there are occasional flashes of light, like a pin-prick star-like flash of light in the vicinity of the group of lights. At first I thought I was seeing fighter jets practicing/training, but I no longer believe that to be the case. This is just too strange. I am a scientist. I have a degree in biology. I am a logical and analytical thinker. I do not know what these lights are, and it is a little scary. ___________________________ I would like to add an update to my post that is listed at 4/29/23 in PRESCOTT VALLEY, AZ. I have 100% debunked the lights as being flaring Starlink satellites. They are not UFOs. They are satellites flaring in a specific area of the sky at the same time each night for a couple of hours until the rotation of the Earth takes me out of the viewing window because the sunlight is no longer hitting the satellites in the area where I can see them. I first noticed them in the spring and it is now summer and I am still seeing them every night but the viewing area has shifted higher in the sky and the satellites are dimmer and harder to see. I expect next spring I will be able to see them brightly again. I always see them in the north between the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia constellations. This video explains it better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8BCl2yVU0 From what I have read the satellites that I am seeing from my backyard in central AZ are over northern Canada, 2000 miles away. Amazing. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
April 28, 2023 · 8:56 PM · DISK
Saugerties (Malden), NY
My friend Ian and I were taking my daughter Karlie for a ride so she can nap. I was driving and I saw something in the sky with many lights on it. It was too big to be a plane and it wasn't making any sound. It was completely quiet! I decided to park the car and use my iPhone 12 to try to get a picture of it. We were almost at someone's house on the corner when I took the picture you are seeing now. In that past I've seen things but never really got any solid evidence. I took 3 pics in total but I got only one good one. The first one is the one I'm sending you now. The second one idk what it took a pic of and the third photo it was hidden behind the trees. The strange thing is after taking the photo, it was different than what we saw with our naked eyes. As we got closer to the craft or it got closer to us, I decided it was time to leave. There was a light coming off it like a searchlight or a beam to take us captive. I think there was a lapse in time of 30 mins that went by that we can't explain. This craft was HUGE maybe big enough to be an aircraft carrier! It had red and white lights. It definitely changed shape or appeared different in the photo than the craft we saw with our eyes. Ian and I both agree that we couldn't see what it really looked like with our naked eyes, but the phone captured it the way it is, saucer or disk-shaped!
April 28, 2023 · 8:55 PM · CIRCLE
Milwaukee, WI
In the southern sky, the objected was ten degrees of arc from the horizon, appeared four times the size of Venus and was twice as luminous. At 175 degrees, It was nowhere near the appropriate declination of venus, in a different segment of the sky. Moon was out and 1/4 Waxing to the West (260 degrees). The color was blue-white with no changes, and no difference in intensity. I know the area well, it was not obscured at any time.
April 28, 2023 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Woodland, WA
I arrived just before 5:00 am to fish in the morning at the Merwin fish hatchery boat ramp in Woodland, WA. Looking towards the west above the tree line I saw a bright light and after a few seconds I noticed it moving at a steady pace heading towards me in the west. I started recording the object on my phone about 10 seconds from the time I noticed it. It continued to fly west above my head until it disappeared behind the horizon directly on the other side of the dam at Merwin reservoir. While watching the object the bright light stayed illuminated at the same brightness ever after passing overhead as if the entire outside of the object was illuminated. The object appeared to be close enough and bright enough that I would be able to see the red and green navigation lights found on planes. It also seemed close enough that I would be able to hear the sound of an engine. The area was completely silent and I was the only one there for the first 75% of the encounter. My friend John arrived as it was in the west where I ended the video and showed him the object. Both of us were unable to explain the encounter.
April 28, 2023 · 2:15 AM · EGG
Cheyenne, WY
My friends just looking at the online depot camera as usual and we saw the objects hoving. They went to see if anything was really there, it just sat there. I looked at the web cam the next evening and there are now 3 objects hoving, one is blinking now at 11:05 pm April 29th.
April 27, 2023 · 10:59 PM · TRIANGLE
Losantville, IN
The object flew past at a slow pace, and it was low to the ground. I could make out ridges on the object, but it obtained multiple circular lights around it. It was flashing but there was no location as to where the light was coming from. None of the circular lights were flashing. The craft was a dark black triangular shape. There was no sound coming from the object. This was not my first encounter.
April 27, 2023 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Covington, LA
I experienced something extremely strange! I was driving on the interstate going 80 mph and there was something flying above me in front of me going faster about 90-100 mph it was much larger than a regular drone probably a few feet at least in size. It was in the distance at first I thought it was a plane but planes don’t shine one giant light, also as it got closer I saw more details. There was this very large bright light in the middle and two tiny lights on each side of the middle light red and green. I thought at first it was a drone filming the traffic. But then there were HUNDREDS of them all spread across the sky very close to me! They were getting lower and closer to me making it very distracting for me to drive! I was quite shocked and worried I called my husband panicking. A few minutes later I find a safe place to pull over and film it but they were moving so fast most had left and they went higher into the sky looking like stars. Also some of them took the lights off when I watched. But I did get some on video footage. All along I-12 were these things, it was very dangerous to have them so close to drivers. I don’t know what was going on but whatever experiment they are doing needs to happen off the interstate and stop hovering over us driving! Also as I got closer to my destination they started traveling much faster and going up high into the sky. Some went black and some were so high they looked like stars. When I walked out of the car to where I was going I showed my friends and they said it looked like they were in the shape of the Big Dipper but you could see them all the same size and they were slightly blinking. On my way home I saw them again 2 hours later. This time they had more of a reddish and green glow and there was spray coming off of it. On and off.. What the heck..
April 27, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Coeburn, VA
My husband was the first person to notice the bright light moving around in the sky about our front yard tree line, he hollered at me and told me to come outside and look at this bright light in the sky. When I get outside on her front porch I could see two lights moving around extremely fast but had no sound could not see any wings rotors or any kind of a exhaust streaks been made in the sky from this unknown flying lights. However we could see the airplanes exhaust streaks behind it in the sky as it passing over in the sky to our far right side and the unknown light was to immediately lift. One unknown light fly up in to the clouds and he was just gone you think you want to stay around for a little bit and did the same surely after when I'm safe blue I mean it shot straight up and with gone. I tried to get pictures but all I had was my phone and they don't look like it did to us in person. I also took a picture of the airplane in the sky and also the moon. I wanted to be able to show someone that whatever we was looking at in the sky could not I'm anyway be one of these items. I will also attached the picture I made of the unknown lights, airplane and moon to this so you can see the difference in these three optics. I have also marked the unknown lighs with a blue circle number to my picture and also attached the unmarked pictures of all three items. The craziest thing happened later that night with the video I had recorded of the unknown lighs in the sky. So after the unknown lighs fly up into a cloud I stopped recording and we looked a little bit longer and then when in the house, I was looking at the picture and then when to watch the video and this is where it gets a little bit more stranger and crazy. When I started to watch the video it wasn't anything there but the rocks from my driveway. No unknown lights no noise of any kind of just straight like I was recording the rocks in my driveway, but I'm not sure how that could have happened when I was looking at the lights through my phone as I was recording them because it made it a little easier to see how they where where moving around. Unfortunately Im not sure what happened to cause my phons video camera not working correctly. I don't know if you heard of anything like this happening to other people or not.
April 27, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
Just 4 lights above the city of Portland. 4 lights Standing still in the sky. 1 disappeared. Last 15-20 mins. Reminded me of the pheonix lights. You could see the planes flying in from east to west to land. Definitely wasn’t planes as I’m a former navy ATC and know how planes are directed to the airport to land.
April 27, 2023 · 3:34 PM · SPHERE
Chino Valley, AZ
I arrived home from the Walgreens at approximately 3:34pm according to the app I use to record my driving and upon exiting my vehicle, I turned towards my house and immediately noticed the bright half moon in the sky. For some reason it caught my attention and stood in my driveway for a brief moment until I noticed the bright liver object to the left of the moon high in the atmosphere. I thought at first it may have been a star or a satellite but ran into the house to get my Sig Sauer 10x42 binoculars and went out to my patio to get a closer look. I orientated at the moon and zoomed in to get a clear picture and from that point I traversed left to where I had last seen the object. I was able to find it and get a clear view. It was located at 75 degrees NE from my location to the left of the moon. It was at this very moment that all the neighborhood dogs started barking and birds began to chirp which I had never experienced since I've lived here. another odd observation is that it was a clear and sunny day but during this event a light haze filled the sky and cleared shortly after it disappeared. When I knew I was looking at a UAP described as a spherical chrome like object hovering at high altitude I wanted to get a tripod and my cell phone to capture video but just as I was about to as if it knew what I was about to do, it literally shot out of sight in what could have been a reveresd direction with no chem trails, sounds or lights. I don't know if this is related but I noticed an unusual amount of high altitude aircraft flying in all direction shortly after the sighting to the right of the moon. I have seen UAP's before in my childhood in Whittier (Major event 80's), California, on I-15 en-route to Vegas, Victorville, CA and in Iraq. I see high altitude flying aircraft in the Arizona night sky that defies explanation often. This is the first time since I was a kid that I have witnessed a UAP during the day.
April 27, 2023 · 11:50 AM · CIRCLE
Lacey, WA
I was on the free way and seen something out side my side window and it was a circle shape flying and than disappeared
April 27, 2023 · 9:30 AM · CHANGING
Probable conventionalLansing, MI
I was going to bank,saw Chem trails in sky,a big x,took alot of photos,and then zoomed in on x saw 4 UFO'S changing shape,and disappeared and reappeared,1 in middle blinked,other 2 was stationary!!,military won't answer me,airport said could be drones,I don't think so!!!!!yes I posted on you tube,Instagram and Facebook,couldn't resist! [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
April 27, 2023 · 3:09 AM · SPHERE
Crawford, CO
At around 3:00 a.m. saw flash through my window thought it was somebody pointing a spotlight then hey like went across my window like a jet with a giant spotlight hardly any trail at all went from the southwest sky all the way to the Northeast there was airplanes flying commercial but this was not no airplane went over towards the Northeast sky and exploded with red flash about 15 or 20 pieces came off of whatever it was we are in the peak of a meteor shower and I've seen lots of the meteor show in my life and if this was a meteor it was the slowest one I've ever seen I don't know if it was space junk or what it was it was weird I even woke somebody up that was sleeping in the next room and they thought go across the sky also haven't heard or seen anything on the news or on the radio all day long about anything going across the sky last night at about 3:00 a.m. to about 3:15 a.m. it was was a big spotlight but I've never seen one that bright with the light and if it wasn't for my dog waking me up I would have never seen it
April 27, 2023 · 2:51 AM · FIREBALL
Albuquerque, NM
I started recording what I thought was a falling star but it seemed low and not up in the atmosphere and the shape and intensity changed as it seemed to get smaller moving SSW to NE. It was also losing altitude slowly so it looked to be maybe 5-10 miles to my south. It went behind a foothill but below the Sandia Crest where it disappeared and no noises either.
April 27, 2023 · 2:50 AM · FIREBALL
Fruita, CO
Fireball flew above Mesa County CO, and exploded before hitting earth above grand junction co [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Possible]
April 27, 2023 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Woodstock, IL
Hovering no sound
April 26, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Reidsville, NC
I went out into the backyard to let the dogs out, and noticed an extremely bright light in the sky. I stared at it for a moment and it did not appear to be moving, and then I realized it was hovering very slowly in an inconsistent pattern (as opposed to drifting or flying upward on a path). The light was so bright and large that it almost appeared burning, as if it were a large meteor, but the movement of the light made it impossible to be a meteor, because it was not falling down towards the Earth. Another result of the size and pure brightness of the light is that it was very disorienting as far as depth perception; it was very hard to tell how far away it was because of the bright, burning nature of the light. When I say "burning", I mean similar to a pulsating light, but closer to the way light appears to move through a fire. I watched it move for no more than two minutes, then went inside to grab my phone and came back outside (no more than 30 seconds later), and it was gone, which is very strange considering how slowly it was moving.
April 26, 2023 · 9:15 PM · CIRCLE
Syracuse, UT
I saw what my son and I believe to be an extra terrestrial aircraft.
April 26, 2023 · 5:36 PM · CHANGING
Probable conventionalMemphis, TN
Sitting in my backyard, I heard a plane go over and looked up to see it. I saw the plane heading west in the north but below it was a black trapezoidal shape wavy object that seemed to be rising up to it. It looked like a giant black manta ray swimming upwards and I assumed it had to be a balloon or vinyl sign that had ripped free from a business and caught in the wind. But it started moving west and looked like it was changing shape. I stopped filming when it went below the tree line, thinking it was gone, but then I saw it a few seconds later in the distance farther west. I filmed it because I didn’t and don’t know what it was. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
April 26, 2023 · 12:00 PM · CYLINDER
Echo canyon, UT
Driving thru Echo Canyon in Wyoming about noon and out of nowhere is a tick tack shaped very shiny, metallic object in the sky. It went into a very small thin cloud and never came out of it.