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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 10, 2023 · 2:30 PM · CIRCLE

Cuyler, FL

Was working in the forest (surveyor) when partner & I saw a silver orb about a kilometer away, just above the tree tops (mature loblolly pines, maybe 80-90’ tall). It flew in a rectangular pattern over a swampy area in the forest.

April 10, 2023 · 8:40 AM · RECTANGLE

Azusa, CA

The ‘UFO’ WAS HUGE. It was not a plane nor a jet of any sort. It took up a good portion of my peripheral vision and had lights in the front and back of its structure.

April 9, 2023 · 11:34 PM · UNKNOWN

Brooklyn, NY

I was at a park with my boyfriend and snapped 4 photos within 1 minute. Later when I was in the car comparing which was the least blurry to post, I discovered an image of a flying object over the empire state building. There weren't any planes in the area at this time, and no possible way for one to show up within seconds between these pictures.

April 9, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING

Chesapeake, OH

We watched the objects moving up and down, I shined a high powered laser at them in short and long burst, they tried to hide from the green laser and eventually left the area.

April 9, 2023 · 11:00 PM · OTHER

Wooster, OH

Night sky, green red and blue flashing light on a spinning cone shaped disc , it hovered in the sky for minutes, it looked like a spinning disc with robotic arms and the ball in the middle

April 9, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE

Roseville, MI

Sitting in bed and noticed a very bright glowing orb very high in the sky. It has sparks occasionally flying off randomly at any side; one minute there would be several sparks the next few minutes there would be only a few. It moved in all different directions - up, down, left, and right - and often hovered in one stationary place. Over the 45 minutes that I watched it, it moved slowly in the west direction until it was out of view. Got a small video of it but couldn’t see any of the sparks with my camera quality. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]

April 9, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT

Morrisville, PA

My background I am in customer support, and a musician. I want to start this off by saying I’ve been trying to actively make contact for a while now using meditation and CE-5-like cognitive thought sequencing techniques. I tried something similar at 8:00 - 8:45 pm tonight while on a night walk and sitting in my backyard looking for any anomalies. I did see two very high, distant white lights that traveled off, one of them flaring, but it was impossible to know if they were anything significant or just space trash or something. At 10:30 pm I was standing in my dark bathroom brushing my teeth and I happened to look out the window. In the trees past my neighbor’s house an orange light suddenly appeared and flared. It blinked at me. I called my partner in saying “I think it’s a UFO.” He took one look at it and had the usual instinctual fear reaction he has when he sees something unusual and he left the room. It continued to blink at me, then disappeared. For a moment nothing happened, and I opened the window so I could listen for any sounds or anything unusual. Then it returned again and disappeared again after about a minute of being there. Out loud, I very quietly said, “Do you mind if I film you, is that okay?” And I pulled out my cellphone camera and aimed at the spot in question. The included video was the third time it appeared and flared. The video quality is not the best but I kept steady and just filmed it quietly until it disappeared from sight. After putting away my phone, I then witnessed something that looked like a long shape or a cigar shape or perhaps the rounded edge of something larger with a row of orange lights like tiny glowing windows move off into the trees, from the same distance as the initial orange ball of light but closer towards my property. I felt instinctively if I tried to film it, it would disappear, so I did not pull back out my camera this time. I think I can try and recreate the events in future, and maybe then I can film something more obvious than just a ball of light. Right after the orange window object vanished beyond the tree line, my neighbors lights started to flicker like their power was effected. Only their house seemed to be effected as far as I could tell; no other streetlights or my house or anything was effected. But it was right in front of me so I could see it happen. In the past few weeks as well when I go out for night walks I’ve noticed the neighborhood dogs tend to bark a lot at nothing - not near me as I’m walking by but in the distance I hear them almost systematically start barking from one house to another down the block beginning in the next street over to mine. I don’t know what’s setting them all off. As far as neighborhood reports have it, there have been no strange people spotted or any break ins or anything. There were weird “drones” in the area here and in Buckingham very recently though, a swarm of strange drones. I’d like to add I am a lifelong Experiencer and have seen more things in the sky recently than in my first thirty years of life. I don’t know what it means, but it’s certainly intriguing. Orange balls of light seem to be the most common one that I keep experiencing. If an investigator wants to contact me about this experience or any of my others, they can. The included map includes the approximate direction where I saw the ball of light (I could not tell how close it actually was, as it appeared in the trees) and the dotted line is the approximate path the windowed object took, which was at helicopter height but not like any helicopter I’ve observed - nor was anything active on my flight radar at the time.

April 9, 2023 · 9:50 PM · TRIANGLE

Probable conventional

Tampa, FL

I stared long enough to see it change.from.looking like a star to the bottom of a ufo ship it was smaller circles in the bottom that had light then it transformed again and appeared like a bright star. On the west side north west area. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]

April 9, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT

Altamont, UT

Easter night 2023. Witnessed what I originally thought was a meteor. It streaked in from the south and was slightly dimmer than the surrounding stars. It was predominantly white, but had a slight green tint. It then very rapidly moved northward, abruptly stopped, then moved in a large arc and then northward again until leaving my field of view. Also it was a clear night and there was no sound.

April 9, 2023 · 8:00 PM · FLASH

Alma, AR

Step outside while still being in verbal contact asked for them to show them selves and 2 flashes appeared in the sky

April 9, 2023 · 5:50 PM · CIRCLE

San Mateo, CA

Object appeared to be white in color and could be seen with the naked eye at very high altitude (relative to nearby aircraft). Once the object passed near high clouds it was obscured and could no longer be seen. Approximate time in sight: 10 minutes

April 9, 2023 · 5:05 PM · CUBE

Clarendon Hills, IL

I saw an object floating low in the sky facing North off the end of the I-83 off ramp on 55th St in Clarendon Hills, Illinois. It had 3 or 4 square or rectangular mirror sides and looked like it might have been rotating slowly. I was driving and saw it for about 2 minutes and took my eyes off to drive. When I looked again, I didn’t find it.

April 9, 2023 · 4:18 PM · TRIANGLE

NM

Had just come home from day out at the movies. I asked my dog to get his favorite toy. A stuff Scooby-Doo. We went outside to play a little. I heard an airplane approaching. It was a sound of a propeller airplane. The sound a single engine prop airplane. I was looking at the northwestern when I saw it flying west and close enough but still out of sight to see if its an airplane. The airplane looked white or that was what my brain was thinking. I lost it in the sky here and there. I took out my cellphone and took some pictures of it and aimed the phone in the direction it was flying. I plugged my ears and unplugged them and the sound of the airplane was gone but I could still see the object going west. I kept my sights on it and it disappeared. I went back in the house and I examined the pictures. I took two good pictures of the object. The object in the first picture has a whitish triangle with three lights that make up a triangle and a dome in middle. The second picture has just the three lights with faint triangle. Both of the pictures have the object with black tips at the pointy ends of the triangle. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]

April 9, 2023 · 4:31 AM · TRIANGLE

Phoenix, AZ

I got on the 101 at Cave Creek RD, and as I was driving west I saw a green glowing triangle darting across the sky to the north west, it was traveling at a high rate of speed. I observed it for around 10 or 15 seconds before it vanished. I checked ADSB maps and weather radar but saw nothing in the area.

April 9, 2023 · 1:25 AM · TRIANGLE

Las Vegas, NV

Flying object look like triangle shape looked like something with attached to it Video submitted but objects are indiscernable.

April 8, 2023 · 10:52 PM · LIGHT

Excelsior springs, MO

Two lights bright as a star moving nw at a very high speed then as it passed overhead it turned a 90 degree angle never slowing and headed due East and was no longer visible within 7-8 seconds

April 8, 2023 · 9:25 PM · FIREBALL

Ballwin, MO

Sighting was around 9:30 PM CST. My friend and I both saw a large fireball shoot across the sky. I was facing Northeast and the object traveled from my right to my left, then disappeared. It was an incredible bright white and left a solid white tail behind the initial light source that faded rather quickly. At first we thought it was a Roman candle type firework but then realized it was too large and intense as well as too high in the atmosphere to be a firework. The closest thing that I’ve personally witnessed that I could compare it to would be the Hale-Bopp Comet, but I haven’t been able to find any reports of meteor activity in my area.

April 8, 2023 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE

Colchester, VT

It was spotted from the bedroom window of a lake house on Lake Champlain. I had just settled in for the night and was innocently gazing out my window, as one does, when I saw it. The object appeared to be spinning as it changed from green to fuchsia to deep purplish blue to teal and back again. It remained stationary in the sky while this took place. It's still in the sky an hour later, though it doesn't feel like an hour has elapsed. My father went outside to see for himself and captured footage of his own.

April 8, 2023 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT

Holt, MI

It started at about 8-8:30 PM. We were on the back porch and noticed a light very far away (about star sized) that seemed to be getting closer. The view was obstructed by trees so we went inside and moved to the front yard. At this point it seemed to be moving closer at a high rate of speed. I thought it may have been a meteor entering the atmosphere. Then it became more visible. It was one craft with what seemed like 3 lights, lined horizontally, all touching. The lights are fixed in a row but seemed to spin around admitting beams, almost like a light house. You could tell when the lights were "pointed" in our direction. There was also a yellowish/greenish aura around the craft. The craft seemed to get closer and closer, with the lights getting larger, but still seemed far away. It was hard to tell, I felt it was far away but could reach us very quickly it it wanted to. We watched it hover in the sky for a while. Hovering up and down, it almost seemed like it's distance was moving closer to us very slowly. But hovering at the same time. We watched this for probably about 10-15 minutes. We went back inside for maybe another 20-30 minutes and decided to venture to the front yard again. The craft was still there in the same spot doing the same as previously described. I took the best quality picture I could as well as a video. You can't see much in the video besides it's light movement. I got spooked at this point and we went back inside for a while. Maybe 30 minutes again. When we finally went out to the back porch again, the light appeared to be very far away (like it was in the beginning, almost looked like it was a moving bright planet). Didn't see anything on the local pages or in the news when checking.

April 8, 2023 · 7:30 PM · TEARDROP

Brighton/ Fairfield, IA

3 travelers saw multiple sightings on these black snake like objects moving in the sky. They would appear to be falling down and then zoom to the left or right before heading back up in the sky. Shortly after we saw a plane of some kind chase it. A Lazer like light came out and an explosion ensued (fireball maybe?). A third party in Washington Iowa witnessed this as well. When we made it to fairfield it seemed like we were all missing time. It should have been light out Still. The time on the car went from 7:30 to 9:26. We were missing almost 2 hours of time. There were glowing orbs in the sky around 1030 and one seemed to have crashed at Water Works. We went to investigate but it felt off. We came home and still felt off. We heard something moving in the alley and I decides to snap a photo without flash (my camera did something weird that I've never seen before.). In the photo there appears to be a humanoid shape. We went to investigate and there was nobody there, or animal.

April 8, 2023 · 7:30 PM · TEARDROP

Brighton/Fairfield, IA

April 8, 2023 · 9:30 AM · RECTANGLE

Cayo Costa state park/ gulf of mexico, FL

We were anchored in our boat and set up for the evening. I was idly watching airliners now and then come and go, not many but easily known by landing lights and strobes. I am an ex pilot and familiar with this. I kept noticing this row of lights coming slowly towards us at a lower altitude than commercial craft, in fact it's slowness is what got my attention. Finally I noticed it had become stationary. The night was dark with mild humidly which allowed me to then notice a light emitting out of what you may describe as wings, 90 degree to the craft. Primarily aiming towards us was a light or lights, one in the middle and others further out. Looking at it with binocs they seemed to be rainbow colors other then primary white.The craft now just set there near our boat and I judged it to be quite large. After 20 minutes or so, due to the lights shining out into the atmosphere which glowed somewhat like a flashlight in the humidity, I could see a wobble as though it were balanced with whatever kept it afloat was aimed downward like a gravity cancellation device, certainly not blades or jets for lit was completely silent .This wobble is reported by other observers in other circumstances from what I have read. A few times it was very pronounced. Nothing further happened for almost an hour. I did take a couple shots with my iPhone, not telephoto because I expected it not to take a good picture, but did it at the urging of my daughter whom was in Michigan, We became bored and finally decided to turn in for the night when I took another look around and found another airline rapidly coming into our area, in fact way too fast for an airliner which prompted me to take a closer look. As it got closer, It took a tight right turn, almost 90 degrees and stopped to my right of craft number 1. Immedietly we noticed this was a copy of number one. Tailing close to number 2 was yet another which duplicated the flight pattern of of 2 and stopped. Both were lower than 1 and separated by a few miles. Number two then disappeared completely as though it went away or turned off its lights. Now we had in sight number 1 and 3 well separated. Number 3 then began ascending straight up at a fast speed, but easily followed. It disappeared above us in less than 45 seconds. A few clouds which were misty obscured some of the view, but we could still watch it. As soon as it was gone another came into the picture replacing its position and immediately ascended the same at number 3, this making it the last. After it went out of sight either number two re-appeared or we had number 5. Looking to the left at this point we noticed number one was gone, not sure if it turned off its lights or it ascended. Then the last one did as the others, ascended into space or the upper atmosphere. I am 83 years old, retired teacher and first responder. Having taught science and fine arts. I was fire and rescue for 28 years as well and built and flew my own airplanes along the way, not a nut case. Also over the many year starting in 1954 having seen a disc fly over then which I kept my mouth shut. Later I spent 6 years in the federal reserves, army. We also were very close to a very large craft which went nearly over us at key largo around 2000 when anchored there. Then were witnesses to a hugh light with a second showing after a short time in mid Florida when crossing fl. On the okechobee. This was to big we heard a captain commenting of seeing it from the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, which impressed us. But then a few day later we saw a video of it from fort Meyers on Hard Copy, a tv show back then and I assume this is in some archives.

April 8, 2023 · 5:39 AM · LIGHT

Southampton, MA

The first light was stationary for maybe two or three minutes and blinked every second or so at regular intervals. It was in the East. Not as high as star and higher than an cell tower. I know the area well and it was neither of those. Slowly, the light moved West and then the white light blinked alternatively with a red light. It was lower and slower than a typical airplane or helicopter. It continued West and was joined by another object of the same nature, also blinking white and red moving from the South to North. They appeared to move West together, nearly side by side. Lost sight due to trees blocking my view.

April 7, 2023 · 9:55 PM · CUBE

Bedford, VA

As I was driving home from Lynchburg Va around 9:55 pm I observed low flying spheres or orbs that were moving erratically at a high rate of speed and changing colors from red to blue to green. These objects appeared about a mile from Lowes and disappeared after I went through the traffic lights in front of Walmart. I looked up and behind me to ensure there were no aircraft with lights or emergency vehicles behind me. There was a car in front of me that the objects got in front of. That person/persons had to notice these objects as well. They vanished.