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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
February 20, 2023 · 10:52 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalGonzales, CA
At first the object looked like a red balloon in the sky but it did not move at all as would a balloon being pushed in the air. I took out my phone to record it and as I zoomed in on the object, it appears as if lights were being emitted in a sequence. I then tilted my camera from side to side to see if anything else was around but the object was the only thing in the sky. Then it vanished from sight. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
February 20, 2023 · 4:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Avon Lake, OH
I had got up to go to the bathroom in my bedroom and laid back down. Like I usually do, I scrolled through Twitter. My bed sits in front of my large bedroom window. The curtains typically stay up open for natural light. We live near train tracks so I’m used to strange loud noises. All of a sudden I heard and felt this strange vibrational whooshing. I cannot explain it. It sounded close yet far at the same time and had a distorted talking within it. I couldn’t make out what it said. It lasted between 35-34 seconds and became so loud that it woke up my daughter who was sleeping next to me. The only thing I can say with certainty is that it sounded not of this world. In all my years I’ve never heard anything to resemble this noise. I immediately got goosebumps. It sent shivers down my spine I woke up husband up who is a very sound sleeper. The only thing I noticed when looking at the sky is that one star seemed brighter than normal. Maybe I just haven’t noticed it or there is a reasonable explanation for that component, but the sound is terrifying and unexplainable. I know it sounds crazy, but it really happened. I have to believe it was alien. I have never believed in aliens, but this is insane. My dog made a noise after this experience ended and my daughter never wakes up like this either. This is scary and if I didn’t experience it I wouldn’t even believe it myself.
February 20, 2023 · 3:51 AM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
I set my camera phone up and pointed it out my apartment window, using a timelapse app to allow videos long as 12 hours or more if I want. On video playback on this particular night I saw 25 passenger jets with their blinking lights and 1 helicopter also woth blinking lights. And then there was this craft, gliding almost directly overhead of the apartments I live in, at about normal passenger jet speed, except, no blinking lights, no discernable wings or shape at all. I spoke with a pilot today about it and he said two large down facing lights on a plane sounds unusual and then didn’t offer anything else to say about what it could have been. He seemed sort of surprised at my description.
February 20, 2023 · 12:24 AM · LIGHT
Divide, CO
Weird light in the sky that is blinking and moving erratically. It is moving side to side, up and down, and roughly hovering in one place the entire time. It is also moving in a circular type movement. It looks like a really bright star but it is moving all over the place and moving very fast.
February 19, 2023 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Cuyahoga falls, OH
A local news agency reported on facebook that something made a flash and boom. A person responded to the post with a picture of an object they saw outside of their kitchen window. They said it hung around for 20 minutes then faded away. The person who reported no other details. I gave them your web address, but am making sure it gets reported. I am uploading a photo of the original post by the news agency and the photo the person posted. I am also uploading a close up of the photo.
February 19, 2023 · 8:58 PM · SPHERE
Waterford, MI
I am a Pilot at PTK airport, been there for years and know what normal airport activity looks like. At approximately 21:00 I was on the ground and saw west of the airport white and green lights spinning and plummeting out of the sky incredibly fast. At First thinking it was a plane crashing I pointed out to the lineman next to me. After seeing it for slightly longer it was far too brightly lit, large, and moving much too fast to be any standard plane. It appeared to be plummeting to the ground and disappeared over the horizon line. ATC at the airport tower did not see it with there only being a skeleton crew left at the time. Only one plane was in the air near the airport and traveling in the opposite direction as the lights. I have been flying out of that airport for years and seen thousands of different planes and helicopters come in and out. I fly myself and have a comprehensive knowledge of aviation. That thing looked like nothing I have ever seen and I’m so baffled as to what it could be.
February 19, 2023 · 8:50 PM · OTHER
Fowlerville, MI
The UFO was flying low and fast between nimbus clouds. It was a bluish semicircle about as big as the top of my little finger nail in my field of vision, about 70 degrees above the horizon in the North-West portion of the sky. The edges of the object were difuse and it made absolutely no sound. I saw it while standing in my backyard. There was no storm activity. I am 64 years-old and this is the first time I have ever seen anything like it. I was in the USAF and am acquianted with aircraft, balloons, Starlink, but have never seen anything like this. We have no active swamps (It's now winter and dry). We're at 42 degrees, 36 minutes North and 84 degrees 7 minutes West.
February 19, 2023 · 7:35 PM · LIGHT
Canton, OH
From the west it looked like a missle was fired and the exhaust stayed for a short while then disappeared.
February 19, 2023 · 7:25 PM · FORMATION
Bonita Springs, FL
3 weird lights in a row and then another 3 weird lights above those. Not moving. Just sitting. Looks like big windows in the sky.
February 19, 2023 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
TN
Looked out of blinds in a N-NW direction. about 7:15 local time. saw what I thought was full moon behind diffuse cloud cover. It had been cloudy and overcast earlier. I was closing blinds across the Western side of living room. After I thought about it--- that seemed to be a place the moon couldn't be. So- I went outside and saw nothing there. Also -- once my eyes adapted to the dark I saw that the sky was completely clear of clouds. The object was a bright round disk as big or slightly larger than a full moon--- and has the appearance of the moon behind thin clouds---- like a light with a white or grey shade over it. Brightness was similar to the full moon behind clouds as well. It was about 20 degrees above the horizon and in a N-NW direction. I suppose it could be described as an "orb"………. I stood outside for about 10 minutes but saw nothing else.
February 19, 2023 · 6:35 PM · LIGHT
Linden, VA
Driving on Rt 66 heading East from Front Royal my husband was driving and stuttered my name, I looked up and saw a very very bright light. It was brighter than any LED and it was very unusual for the distance, luminosity, and appearance. The distance was above the tree line, like what you imagine a blimp would be as high as. Twilight was just beginning, so stars were barely out and the sky was just starting to get very dark. This was in between the mountains on the highway. The light was shaped like a circle with a sharp ring around the back or base of it with a very short tail of light behind it. It suddenly disappeared, no trail, no trace. We searched for comet or asteroid happenings, but nothing came up. We both felt the hair on the back of our necks stand up.
February 19, 2023 · 6:31 PM · CHANGING
Bridgeville, PA
Driving on rt. 79 on clear day. This appeared in the sky and light got more intense. Two objects. Enlarge pic for more detail Other person in car witnessed and photographed.
February 19, 2023 · 1:30 PM · OTHER
Metairie, LA
I was driving westbound on W Napoleon Ave in Metairie, LA to Lafriener Park around 1:30 in the afternoon today (sun Feb 19th). It just hovered for about a full minute on my left side view and caught me off guard since I live near the airport and this object was very low compared to the normal flights lifting off or about to land. It was dark gray with no windows and no markings. It was not a helicopter since it has no propellers. No sound. The last time I looked back it went up further in the air a bit and then a slight tilt to its left side and then it was gone so quick.
February 19, 2023 · 7:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Punta Gorda, FL
I have been seeing objects in the sky for a while now. I never seen something in the daytime until Yesterday. I was outside in my car when I looked up and saw something flying weightlessly in the sky. I tried to convince myself it was a plane but curiosity got the best of me and when I zoomed in with my phone camera it definitely was not a plane. The pictures I submitted below are 1 I changed the color to get a better view. I also submitted the original picture. I have sighted more than just the one I am submitting. This one was interesting to me since it was daytime. I usually see objects only at night
February 18, 2023 · 9:30 PM · CHEVRON
Gainesville, FL
Clear night with perfect visibility and little to no wind. I was letting my dogs outside one last time for the night. As I was waiting I looked up, and from the corner of my eye I saw movement in the sky. I focused my attention to the object and noticed it was flying but I could not make out any details such as shape or size until it started to pass in front of stars. This object emitted no lights or sounds. The color perfectly matched the sky and so would have been invisible had it not been moving in front of stars. This is when I could see the silouhette of a boomerang or chevron shape. The object coasted steadily in a straight line until it left my field of view. I am an avid bird watcher, skygazer and am familiar with all aircraft types including drones. I am 32 years old and have never witnessed an aerial object I couldn't identity until this incident.
February 18, 2023 · 8:20 PM · CHANGING
Zebulon, NC
Noticed many soft blinking and swirling lights above us we thought it looked like a constellation. We pulled over got out of car then it seemed to change into a craft like object and flew over us very slowly. Looked huge. No noise noted. We got some video of it
February 18, 2023 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Greenback, TN
I was turning right onto Bailey road and saw three red dots . The dots if connected would make a triangle. I said to my husband you see that? He said what. I said the three red dots. He kept driving. So I googled it to explain what I saw. It confirmed it was an UFO
February 18, 2023 · 7:58 PM · TRIANGLE
Lodi, CA
A triangular craft of unknown size or height travelled across the sky above Lodi, CA just before 8pm on February 18, 2023. I could just see three dim points of light in a triangle formation, assumed to be one craft. They were either dim lights or metallic points reflecting light from the town. I couldn’t gauge size or elevation, and it moved very quickly across my view of the sky for a few seconds before fading from view. No sound that I could hear, no other lights or shapes that I could see. I did not get any photos or video.
February 18, 2023 · 7:54 PM · OTHER
Capulin, NM
Was a perfectly clear night, no moon, elevation of 7877’ above sea level, there was nothing visible in the sky as in aircraft or anything visible to the naked eye the object just appeared in only one photo and none others taken during the same minute before or after.
February 18, 2023 · 7:43 PM · FIREBALL
Concord, CA
We saw a bright, reddish light in the sky. It moved around a little but not in a straight line. It seemed to change colors from red to pink to yellow. After a little while there was some kind of a burst - and then it faded out as if flying away. I do have video although it is a bit blurry.
February 18, 2023 · 7:31 PM · CIRCLE
mooreland, OK
I was going back home from work and I looked over to the right and saw a bright light but it started moving so I pulled over and it started moving fast then just stopped mid air I do have pictures of it.
February 18, 2023 · 7:27 PM
Hagerstown, MD
In an attempt to photograph it, it cannot be seen with any camera lens or telescope or binocular.
February 18, 2023 · 7:12 PM · CIRCLE
Spring, TX
when i was outside i saw a thing flying then made a sudden stop like it knew i was looking at it . it looked red it look like a circle then when i tried to take a video it went away .didnt seem like it was a plane or drone maybe im wrong
February 18, 2023 · 5:00 PM · OVAL
Frederick, MD
Sunny and cloudy, fair weather background. As mentioned, there was an object gaining speed on a low flying medium sized plane which was probably a mile away from us. Once we got a good look at the plane, we noticed the oval object catching up to it. The UFO seemed to have a very resolute and direct flight path compared to the plane, meaning it was not another plane, it was not a glider and it was not a large bird. After the object caught up and flew a few hundred feet under the plane, it changed directions and shot off southeast and completely disappeared. My friend and I talked through what it could have been, but we quickly agreed it had to be a UFO. We wish we took a video or were closer, but we were just mesmerized by what we were witnessing.