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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
June 23, 2017 · 9:53 PM · CIRCLE
Seneca Falls, NY
Round object was hovering in the west skies for ten minutes, then in two seconds it flew above towards the east and sat not moving. The color was a reddish orange. I also took a picture.
June 23, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CHEVRON
Olney, IL
An adult male telephoned the NUFORC UFO Hotline at 0907 hrs. (PDT) on Saturday, June 24, 2017, to report an alleged sighting that he and his wife had experienced the prior night, while returning to their home from a restaurant. The witness recounted that his wife, who was a passenger, suddenly became alarmed, and pointed to an object in the night sky. The husband looked up and allegedly witnessed a "boomerang" shaped object, which appeared to be hovering motionless in the nighttime sky. The witness reported that the object appeared to him to be giving off either steam, or perhaps smoke. The husband described himself as a former law enforcement officer, with several decades of experience.
June 23, 2017 · 9:13 PM · SPHERE
Virginia Beach, VA
It was between 10-12 glowing objects traveling in the sky. They were not in a specific formation. The objects were within our atmosphere.
June 23, 2017 · 8:35 PM · CIRCLE
Pomona, CA
I was sitting at a park near Pomona California at approximately 8:35pm with a friend and my dog watching a music video on my phone, when my friend frantically kept telling me to look at this object flying to the west of us. He asked me if it was a drone. When I did look I saw a circular object with multiple red, blue and green flashing lights moving NW just above the flight path of jets taking off from Ontario Airport in the San Bernardino County. I told my friend it can’t be a drone because it’s too close to the airport and that’s when the object stopped and went back heading SE for about 5 seconds, and then started making very tight circles at a fast rate of speed. As the object was doing these maneuvers in the sky there were jets taking off from the Ontario airport and knowing that when the jets do take off they hold at 5,000 ft until cleared to make their turn away from the airport. This object was above the jets at about an altitude of 15,000 ft. There is also a flightpath going west to LAX and those jets fly at 30,000 ft. These jets were definitely very high above this object. The object continued moving NW to East and South in tight maneuvers including going up and down about 5,000ft. Judging by the flashing lights of the object compared to the jets that were taking off and other jets that were very high up the object had flashing lights that did not resemble the lights on the jets plus the lights were very bright. We watched this object for about a good 5 minutes, until it started going SW at a very steep angle up, and it was out of sight in about 6 seconds.
June 23, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Pasadena, MD
Saw three star-like objects moving together. Got binoculars out. Each object was circular like a hoop with evenly spaced nodules on it. Watched for about hour. Very strange!
June 23, 2017 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Paulding, OH
My husband and I were sitting around a campfire in our backyard. I looked up towards the north and saw a dark object way up in the sky. It did not appear to be an airplane. I could see no apparent wings, no flashing lights and there was no sound. It was extremely high for how small it appeared to be. I tried to point it out to my husband, but he didn’t see it. Just a minute later, in the same general area, there was a huge – what appeared to be Chinook helicopter – way up high. It was white with a red tail. My husband ran in and grabbed the binoculars. It was so high up and the setting sun was hitting it just right - we both agreed it was some kind of hugemungus helicopter. I thought then that perhaps the first dark object I saw might have been a military escort for this huge transport. The helicopter was just fading from view towards the northeast, we looked up and in the same area, at the same high altitude, was a cigar shaped object that was silver in color traveling along the same course. My husband looked through the binoculars and could not figure it out. It had no wings – it was not an airplane and was not a helicopter. He just kept saying “what IS that?” By the time he gave me the binoculars it was fading from view and I didn’t get a very good look at it. With my naked eye, I could tell the color was shiny silver, and it had a strange shape… it was shaped like a cigar. There was no sound. We sat and discussed what we had just witnessed and the only thing we are sure of is the gigantic Chinook-type helicopter, white with red tail. The dark object I saw was too small for a “regular” plane to be that high up, and there were no apparent wings, no noise and no lights flashing. Military? Possibly. The cigar shaped craft has left us in a state on confusion. We have never seen anything like it.
June 23, 2017 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Jacksonville, FL
I was sitting on my back porch looking east and a chrome orb appeared wobbled a little then disappeared. We have lived here over thirty years and I have never seen anything like that!!!
June 23, 2017 · 10:30 AM · FIREBALL
Plymouth, MN
I went to let the dogs out and noticed a glowing orange light flying over the trees. I called my husband and we watched it until it went to the other side of the horizon. We've never seen anything like it. Not a plane, helicopter or drone. Saw videos on You Tube that looked exactly like it. It fly effortlessly with sound.
June 23, 2017 · 9:23 AM · CIGAR
Tampa, FL
Below that trailing edge, we noticed a bright silver, cigar-shaped UFO flying along the edge of the storm. The UFO had no lights, no noise, no wings, and no apparent signs of propulsion. It appeared to be approximately 2,500 to 3,000 feet above ground level, and although we could not determine its width because we could only see its port (left) side, the craft appeared to be about the length of two aircraft carriers. The craft kept flying into and out of the storm clouds for about three minutes, then it came out of the clouds once more and flew off at a high rate of speed in a southwesterly direction, toward the Gulf of Mexico. Due to the apparent distance and little time we could not get photos.
June 23, 2017 · 3:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Pasco, WA
Out of the two videos I shot, you can see this satellite looking object zig zag through the sky turning a bright blue color over and over. I was not able to tell the shape of the object by sight or in my god awful video I took of it. I saw a bright white star looking object, looked like a satellite in the sky but much brighter. This object appears, moves horizontally at about the speed of a small aircraft, then went vertical at a rapid speed. This object then continued to move horizontally back and forth occasionally moving higher in the sky and seeming to turn a blue color as it changed it's direction instantly. I tried to drive in the direction I saw it after I lost sight of it, but I couldn't find an answer to what it was. I talked to a couple different police officers on duty near the airport, I called air traffic control and I am waiting for a call back. Today was my second sighting of this object flying through the early morning sky, same location and about the same time. The first time I saw this object was 06/19/17 in the North Eastern sky while observing Venus between 3am and 4am PST. I tried to wake my wife up that night to show her, and of course it was gone by the time she came out. I went out and bought a Nikon p900 to get some close up shots of the moon, Jupiter and Saturn this week. Early this morning I went around the same time as I did on the 19th in search of this object, and there it was. I ran inside grabbed my camera that I don't have a clue how to operate and shot this footage. I did a terrible job shooting the footage, but hopefully it's enough to show what I was looking at.
June 22, 2017 · 9:06 PM · LIGHT
Omaha, NE
Sighted at plane height over Omaha, Nebraska. We watched from a hill and initially spotted it as a small, stationary, red ball of light. It would occasionally switch to a blinking green light and then back to red. After looking at it for some time, it rapidly moved to the left, stopped, and it changed to a blinking green light. It then ascended in the blink of an eye (literally). As soon as you blinked, the light was an immense distance higher than it had been a second previously. We could see it ascending through the clouds so quickly that it could've climbed out of our sight in probably two seconds. It then turned back to a static red light (stopped flashing) and darted to the right across the entire sky. It was moving so quickly that we had to sprint to keep up with it. It covered the whole horizon. It then paused on a dime, shifted slightly to the left, and began a fast descent until it disappeared from sight into storm clouds. Only one light was observed. It was so high in the sky, and so erratically moving, that we could not place it as any normal object. We have never seen a normal object move so quickly and at such a high height. It was also quite far away, so for it to look as though it was moving so quickly, it must have been going at an unfathomably rapid speed.
June 22, 2017 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Omaha, NE
Rapidly moving object seen over Omaha. Changed between green and red lights when moving. Object could stop and remain stationary in the sky. Object was able to accelerate very rapidly and could ascend/descend very quickly. Estimated top speed: ~700mph
June 22, 2017 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Desert Hills, AZ
Objects were in V-shaped, about 2 miles long, with military jets chasing it. Went southwest to northeast east towards cave Creek. Also got video of it.
June 22, 2017 · 8:03 PM · CIGAR
South Milwaukee, WI
Illuminated cigar ship traveled across sky silently, quicker/higher than a plane. Traveled in a straight line. Still light out, just before dusk.
June 22, 2017 · 5:40 PM · OTHER
Seattle, WA
I was looking south from a friend's condominium deck in the Seattle community of Ballard. We could clearly see Mt. Rainier, approximately 75 miles to the south. A small, white cloud appeared close to the west flank of the mountain, approximately 2/3 of the way to the summit. Over a period of two minutes, the white cloud began to behave in an odd manner as it drifted, and then moved very rapidly to the west, straight away from Rainier, maintaining a constant elevation. As we were watching, the cloud abruptly stopped, and then dissolved before our eyes. Airplanes could be seen it the same general area, before, during and after the cloud was seen moving. They were also to the west of Rainier, and presumably taking off to the north from Sea-Tac airport. These airplanes were clearly darker than the object, and their direction and motion was entirely different.
June 22, 2017 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Tujunga, CA
Morning hike, spotted a round pullsating metallic looking sphere gliding along & slightly above the local foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. First thought it may be a party balloon, but it eventually stopped moving and remained aloft and stationary for at least 10 minutes, then slowly receded out of sight. Fascinating. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
June 21, 2017 · 10:15 PM · DISK
San Diego, CA
When I went out tonight to collect my mail, I witnessed a disk/flat shaped craft surrounded with bright/deep blue lights, and also red lights. They appeared to be 1/2 and 1/2. The object/craft was below the very high cloud cover and was in the West sky. As I watched it, it darted at a rapid speed, shooting back/forth, up/down. A neighbor came outdoors to take her trash out, and I pointed to the craft, telling her what I had observed. She looked up at it, stating she knew, as she had been watching it from her apartment balcony but didn't know what it was. As we both stood watching it do racing/darting acrobatics, it suddenly shot straight up...then raced at a very high rate of speed to the North, out of sight. The speed and ability to maneuver as it did made it impossible for it to have been any typical aircraft. We heard no noise.
June 21, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mystic Island, NJ
This has become a regular occurrence over the Mystic Island section of Little Egg Harbor Township. Almost every night there are either small circular objects extremely far away moving across the sky or there will be multiple circular objects anywhere between 3-8 objects standing still. There are also on occasion such as last night a bright red object that moves in short bursts sort of like a zig zag motion and is almost always in the same location. Although we are close to Atlantic City Airport and do have military air traffic, these are not ANYTHING of the sort. It would be extremely interesting to have this filmed with a good camera. These objects are so far away and move so quickly I can't catch them with my cell phone. Also, these are not shooting stars as they do not burn out and move in ways planes can't move.
June 21, 2017 · 9:43 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
Sphere over Olympic Mountains in West.
June 21, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Tampa, FL
Me and my friend where sitting in the front yard and I noticed an object floating like what seemed like was a a balloon or some sort of odd thing floating through the sky. we watched it going down behind a house, but then it started to rise again and when it did it came right above us , and the shape was sort of oval, then it sped away and broke up into many pieces and then all of the sudden as fast as it sped off it came back in the shape of many Circles moving like a slinky toy (It reminded me of the movie the Matrix during the fight Scenes and the way their hands where moving) and it came right toward us. Since me and my friend was in my front yard, my friend started to run in the house, me I walked toward it, and it came toward me, then the UFO. Stopped right above me. It was like a circle with a red light in the middle we stared at each other for about I would say for about 5 minutes because I walked right up to it (it was about 5to10 feet above my he! ad, and then it turned and left the same way it came.
June 21, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Lansdale, PA
Lens flare, caused by pointing the camera at the Sun. PD
June 21, 2017 · 5:00 PM · CHANGING
New York City (Manhattan), NY
video URLs: https://youtu.be/KS5gREkNpzg https://youtu.be/dwYCANyaWF4 My sister and I were driving in very slow traffic over the Manhattan Bridge, around 4 or 5pm on June 21st. She spotted this very slow moving object drifting over Manhattan. No idea what it was. We thought maybe a flock of birds or balloons but it seemed a bit big for both of them. When we saw planes flying they were small in comparison, reflective and moving much faster. Any ideas?
June 21, 2017 · 4:05 AM · CIGAR
San Dimas, CA
Massive cigar shaped object. Very slow moving with lots of bright lights The color of the lights were the color and brightness of white LED's. Was up in the north eastern sky. Very slow moving.
June 21, 2017 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Lenoir City, TN
Awoke at 4 am. Went outside to smoke cigarette. Also looked to see what weather was like. I noticed the clouds were thick and dense. There were no stars visible and no aircraft apparent at this time. I live 15 miles from an airport and do notice aircraft daily. There are no trees in my yard and I have large open neighborhood as well. As I stared out, looking toward South, I noticed light above me. When I looked up I saw two lights traveling from the North, coming directly over me. They appeared to be no more than 150ft in the air. I watched as the traveled. I could clearly see them below the clouds and were not a part of any aircraft nor attached to object/drone. I watched for about 7 seconds as they then turned off. I felt fear come over me for I was aware there was no other explanation I could fathom for these lights being there.. This was very close and highly visible… This was no mistake for aircraft (NO noise and not consistent in speeds of typical airplane/copter) or stars as clouds were so thick and covering entire sky. I went back into home to retrieve phone and had came back out. As I stepped out I could see that one of those orbs or lights was turned back around and headed back In direct North path it had originally came in from. The other light was not visible. The light visible then also turned off or burned out just as the porch door closed. I could still see a sort of ember or outline of the light r but I am not sure it wasn't just my eyes adjusting to what they had just seen. Morning bird chirping was the only sound.