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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
April 17, 2023 · 12:33 AM · LIGHT
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An aircraft reported two bright lights at flight level 350 that were turning on and off. Radar scopes showed two primary targets in the vicinity that were appeared and disappearing from radar. The report was on Washington Center frequency 118.92.
April 16, 2023 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Pryor, OK
My fiance was fishing and I was facing away from locust grove. I catch something in the sky and I alerted my friend and my fiance. We watched the unidentified object go behind trees in a camo clear sky then disappear. It was like an arrow shape <. Birds and planes birds don’t glow and blend and bend around stars
April 16, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Castle Rock, WA
I was driving from Silverlake, WA towards Castle Rock, WA on Sunday night when to the right of me I saw what looked like a fleet of orange colored lights. At first I was like, what is that… thinking that they might have put up cell towers or something to warn planes of a hillside, but then I realize that they were actually something that was up in the air. Definitely NOT planes, or helicopters. Possible drones of some kind, but they all seemed to move kinda like burning embers that would be floating in the sky or fireflies, but they were at least the size of planes. As soon as I got into Castle Rock I immediately pulled over and watched them cross over me. It looked like they were coming from the Southwest of me over towards the Columbia River heading Northeast. I had been listening to a podcast and had my phone hooked to Bluetooth, and when I opened my camera to try and catch some footage of them I couldn’t find the video button (I swear it was like the icon wasn’t even on my phone.) I then disconnected from Bluetooth thinking that might be why the video wasn’t working, I was fumbling and full of adrenaline so I rang my mother who was in Silverlake and told her to run outside to see if she could see them too. She couldn’t see anything from there yard where she was at because the property to the north of them is a big hill. I then returned to my camera to try and get footage, and the video button was ironically there that time, but the majority of the fleet had already disappeared into the clouds and there were only a few stragglers left in the sky. The footage I have doesn’t even come close to showing what I actually saw. I have seen many UFO sightings in my life, but never crafts of this kind. I don’t remember hearing them, but on the videos there are some weird sounds that the mic picked up. I didn’t feel at all threatened by their presence, but definitely was in awe and super charged up.
April 16, 2023 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalLumberton, MS
Really bright light almost every night the last couple of months. This light will move from what appears to be left to right, and every 3-5 minutes appears to fall a bit. Then will stop and dance again from left to right untill it finally disappears behind the tree line. It looks as if it may be changing colors, and so much bigger and brighter than all other stars. Looks nothing like satellites mentioned. Moves to erratically. In the past, you would see 2 of them. But it is now only 1. Does anyone know what this is that I am seeing? [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
April 16, 2023 · 6:42 PM · CYLINDER
Tybee Island, GA
Object was seen north of Tybee Island and was stationary for a duration of around 45 minutes then vanished out of sight. I used my IPhone 13 Pro Max zoomed out as far as its limits to take photograph.
April 16, 2023 · 12:00 PM · CIGAR
Nashville, TN
On Sunday, April 16, 2023, around 12 p.m., I was outside my house in Old Hickory TN when I noticed a bright stationary light in the sky. It was very high and did not move. It was not a plane, a star, or a satellite. It was reflecting light or beaming light at odd intervals. Its shape seemed to be oval or like a figure eight. My wife also saw it with me. I tried to take a picture of it with my phone, but I couldn't zoom in far enough to get a clear image. It stayed in the sky for about 15 minutes and then disappeared.
April 16, 2023 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Mendota, IL
As I was heading North on I-39 on my way home from picking up my daughter from Nashville TN. This is a trip i have made numerous times and was very familiar with. I had set up check points along the way to determine how much more time I had left but something was strange that night, just ahead of us in the path of travel was a very bright light. At first, I thought I was just making better time than I thought because it would have been the next overpass in which all the exits have Street lighting, but as I go closer and closer, I noticed where I was and it's no way that its overpass lighting. At that time, I looked to my daughter and asked her if she sees the same light and her response was "yea Dad, I see it. What is it?" My response was I have no clue. So, I kept moving towards it. As we got directly under the light, which was still bright, I tried to look up out the windshield to see what it was. I couldn't see nothing but the light but as soon as I passed thru and looked in the review the light was gone. Not knowing what it was or what had happened I just told Arial something that wouldn't scare her so I brushed it off like must have been a helicopter or something searching for something. I also couldn't believe what I witnessed. So, the next day I pulled out my laptop and began to look into if anyone else had reported anything around that area. Nothing came up but I noticed a dad and his daughters had experienced something similar in WI. I looked at the video the dad had posted and noticed it was something very close to what we and experience. I kind of freaked me out so I decided to keep it to myself because I don't want to come off as crazy or have people thinking such about me, but even before that experience I have seen strange things but nothing to that extreme. Even up to today it seems like I know or can predict things that has not happened yet. My dreams are more vivid with some predicting something that will happen the next day. It's like if I remember something about a dream I had, as I move around the next day something will relate to the dream. I'm at the point that I feel I want to talk to someone about it but really don't know who or how to explain without someone being Judgmental so, this is me reaching out and letting my experience out.
April 16, 2023 · 1:20 AM · LIGHT
duncan, CO
While photographing the milky way on top of the dunes in great sand dunes national park, starting at 1:20 am to approximately 2:00 am or later. Witnessed 6-10 luminous craft flying in very bizarre patterns north of the park. We did photograph the lights. I have 5 raw photos I have exported as jpeg for this report of the lights from a sony a7riv 61 mp camera with a 14mm focal length. The lights changed luminosity constantly, sometimes disappearing completely and reappearing extremely brightly. The flight patterns were very fluid but bizarre and erratic, akin to fireflies. When zoomed into the photos, the streaks of the craft of the 30 second exposure photos exhibits what can be described as a pulsation of light or maybe a twisting of the craft. The crafts stayed up too long to be drones and were too bright and inconsistent to be anything ordinary. Report alludes to he bright streaks to the left of the much more faint formation of Starlink satellites seen just abov the tops of the distant mountain top. Photos are 30-second exposures. To the eye, in real time, the "streaks" appeared to the witnesses to be "orbs."
April 15, 2023 · 10:45 PM · DISK
Tuba city, AZ
The Video Speaks for itself. I have sensitive video material that I’m afraid to get out there and show people and tell them what exactly was seen
April 15, 2023 · 9:08 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedBaltimore, MD
above the clouds "four orbs" were moving in a circular motion, then they would come back to the middle to meet each other, then spread back out in a circular motion. at one point you could see a fifth smaller order jetting around as if it was chasing the other four orbs. They were visible to the naked eye. My daughter and I took video. I sent the video to my sister, and she said two weeks ago, the same phenomenon. was near her home and she set on her deck and observed it for two hours. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
April 15, 2023 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Newberg, OR
It was a clear dark moonless night with a full complement of stars. We live on an 8-acre rectangular property with an old abandoned house about ¼ of the way up the property, a new house we built about 1/2-way up the property, and another 4 acres of woods at the top of the property, which slopes upward most of the way. I went to check the mail and was walking up the driveway and was in front of the old abandoned house when I realized that something was blocking out the stars above me. It was a rectangular-shaped craft about three times as long as it was wide, and it was just hovering there with what I perceived to be its “nose” pointing due east. There was a red light and a blue light visible on the bottom of the craft; not prominent but large enough to be easily seen. It also had what looked like two “headlights” on the nose of the craft. They reminded me of headlights because they emitted a clear white light such as headlights emit. I recall that I wasn't at all afraid, just intensely curious about what it could be. I was standing directly under it and it seemed immense, yet there was absolutely no sound coming from it. It just hovered there. We have tall fir trees around our property, which the craft was about 50' above, so I guesstimate that it was probably about 300' in the air. I stood there taking in the sight for what seemed like a very long time, but in reality it was probably only about five minutes. Then, suddenly, it started moving slowly eastward and only seconds later it accelerated so fast that there was a “whoosh” and...it was gone. It just disappeared from view. I am a white male who was 75 years old at the time of the sighting. I have a double degree in economics and business management, and worked in management at not-for-profit organizations and the United Way for most of my business career. I officially retired about five years ago, but still help friends and family with accounting and business-related issues. My wife is an OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner who is five years younger than me. She had her own practice for many years and also worked under contract with medical clinics as an Independent Practitioner. We have lived in the Newberg, OR are since 1996 and on this property since 2004.
April 15, 2023 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Avon park, FL
From where I was sitting it it appeared out of the West side of the sky heading towards the east bright fireball looking thing moving slowly but what got my attention is when it stopped in mid air and started going backwards again then stopped started moving forwards again and that's when I ran in and told my dad there's something in the sky he came out and watched it with me. Then it turned right heading south and just disappeared.
April 15, 2023 · 2:53 PM · DISK
Manassas Park, VA
Looked up and saw this. In the picture look for the Godzilla shape and then zoom into the “mouth” area and in the clear area you will see the disk shaped object. Clouds moved and didn’t see it again.
April 15, 2023 · 2:50 PM · CIRCLE
Salem, NH
Upon arriving at my wife’s salon, while walking in, I happened to look up in sky and observed something going across the sky. I initially thought it was a balloon. Something then didn’t feel right which led me to believe it was something else. Perhaps a drone. I tried to continue filming on my iPhone 13 max, however I wanted to see with my own eyes so at that point I stopped filming. As soon as I stopped filming I saw two flashes. Then a few seconds later two more flashes. At this point I lost it and began recording again looking for it. I couldn’t find it. In the 14 second video after going inside and showing my wife and oldest daughter, my daughter asked did you see that? What she referred to was the very first second on the 14 second video. It appears what ever I saw seems to Zoom down and away at high acceleration beyond anything I have ever seen. I would never have thought much about it until I saw that portion of video and felt the need to report this. I am a police officer in Massachusetts and would like to stay anonymous to the public. Thank you for your time.
April 15, 2023 · 2:30 PM · SPHERE
Tulare, CA
This sighting is in the same area as the previous sighting I reported the day before. Orbs were moving in the same direction high altitude to low altitude from dull to bright to dull. Some were moving at high speeds. Some would spiral together as they were moving to lower altitude. Both sightings were around the same time of night 2:30 am.
April 15, 2023 · 12:45 PM · CHANGING
Livermore/Sky over East Bay Area, CA
Started as two "boot" or "L" shaped crafts flying abnormally close together in the same path- no sound or exhaust trail. After following for about 20 seconds, the two crafts merged as one (scared me as I thought they were going to crash) and continued to fly it's original course. Went out of sight seemingly a bit faster than if I were following an airplane with my eyes. Heading west toward the Ocean, and continued as one object until out of viewing range.
April 15, 2023 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Newport News, VA
I am submitting this report to document my observation of an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) in the vicinity of Langley Air Force Base. I was sitting in the front yard of my residence, accompanied by my dog, when the sighting occurred. My dog growled and barked at something in the sky, and her unusual reaction to the UAP prompted me to investigate and document the occurrence. Description of the UAP After I discovered what my dog was reacting to, I observed the UAP at an estimated altitude of 3-4 miles, and it exhibited a grayish, spherical appearance. Its flight patterns are characterized as sporadic, rapid zig-zag movements without any signs of gradual acceleration. Instead, the object displayed instantaneous changes in motion. Between movements, the UAP paused momentarily, distinctly stopping in mid-air before altering its trajectory, an action inconsistent with the known capabilities of conventional aircraft. Analysis of Possible Explanations In an attempt to rationalize the observed phenomenon, I considered various explanations, such as insects or birds. However, the object's considerable altitude and atypical behavior quickly ruled out such possibilities. I also considered the possibility of the UAP being a weather balloon. However, upon observing the object meeting with a second, seemingly identical sphere and traveling together in unison, I determined that this explanation was unlikely. Moreover, the coordinated and intelligent behavior exhibited by the two objects further led me to rule out the weather balloon possibility. Interaction with a Second UAP Approximately 45 seconds to a minute after the initial sighting, the UAP traveled very fast to my left field of view, where it encountered a second, seemingly identical grayish sphere at a similar altitude. The two objects paused briefly in unison before rapidly traveling together and disappearing instantaneously from sight, heading southwest from my location in the direction of Suffolk, Virginia. Significance of My Dog's Reaction My dog, typically unresponsive to common aerial occurrences such as birds, planes, and insects, displayed a heightened awareness and reaction to the UAP by growling and barking. This behavior suggests the presence of an unusual or unfamiliar stimulus, adding an intriguing dimension to the experience. Relevance to National Security and Aerospace Research Given the proximity of the sighting to Langley Air Force Base, I felt compelled to report the incident due to its potential implications for national security and aerospace research. I am a PhD student for Psychology and a Navy submarine veteran, and my background and training lend credibility to this account, underscoring the importance of documenting and analyzing this UAP sighting.
April 15, 2023 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Tukwila, WA
Small green light that was below the cloud line and moved at a medium speed that went down in front of me and was gone in about 2 seconds.
April 15, 2023 · 2:23 AM · FORMATION
Cottage grove, OR
I am a pilot and know what to expect to see in the night sky. I do not drink or use drugs. At 2:30 in the morning there should be almost nothing. But tonight I looked out my south facing balcony window to see two very orange lights in the south west sky. These lights were too orange or bright to be landing lights. My estimate would put them around 20,000 feet up and spaced roughly 3 miles apart. What really caught my eye was how they were in almost perfect formation as if intentionally. I opened foreflight, my app for tracking aircraft locations and there was nothing shown to be flying nearby. Then one would move more eccentrically. Until eventually the second more tame one disappeared. Possibly just turning off their light. I recorded a video of the transition to one. Then as the remaining one got to a distance that appeared to be within 5 miles I tried to run downstairs to see it from outside. However when I got outside I couldn’t find it again. I heard no sound of aircraft the entire time. Within 15 minutes the sky went from completely clear to a cloud front rolling in from the west. Concealing anything at high altitude.
April 15, 2023 · 12:14 AM · SPHERE
Ventura, CA
At approximately 12:15 am I saw what looked like a bright orange comet entering our atmosphere in the night sky . It quickly exploded causing the air around it to move in erratic circular patterns . It turned into a white orb that floated out over the ocean . I filmed it until I couldn’t see it anymore .
April 14, 2023 · 11:50 PM · CIRCLE
Stockton, CA
Initially Witnessed the object while travelling South on Hwy 5 passing by the Port of Stockton and Hwy 4 Interchange. It appeared to be somewhere between Stockton and Tracy (looking South, South/West from Hwy 5 S). Seemingly just one bright orange object about the size of a star as that's all it appeared to be at first. The object then disappeared then reappeared slightly larger. It moved, leaving a short trail of light behind it and seemed to stop, disappear/reappear, and then break apart into tiny fragments before reforming back into one circular shape. The object then disappeared for about a minute or two and reappeared only for a moment as we approached French Camp in an even more Southernly direction. This time much larger and brighter before disappearing finally.
April 14, 2023 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedLos Angeles, CA
This image suddenly disappeared then reappeared and burst like a firework of bright stars and I followed one of those smaller bright lights until it became too faint to see. No tail behind but a half dome shape of light appeared before it as it continued to move across the sky. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB Transporter-7 [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
April 14, 2023 · 11:50 PM · FIREBALL
Probable conventionalventura, CA
An object seemed to have broken apart and can be seen in the 47 second video breaking the sound barrier. Then about 2 minutes later some distance from the original sighting a red glow appeared and dissapeared, as seen in the shorter 7 second video. Which happened after the 47 second video. I saw a post about an increase in sighting in the time I saw this so I'm submitting it. Transporter-7 Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
April 14, 2023 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Interlochen, MI
I was laying down in a hammock with my boyfriend when all of a sudden we start to see this light green haze of a light. At first we thought they were birds due to spring rolling around, but upon further looking these were completely silent and moving perfectly in a straight line. As well as seeming to be overlapping. The ships themselves weren't very big, and the only way you could see this was by the light coming off of them. They were around 3 FT wide and 1 1/2 FT long.