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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
October 30, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalColorado Springs, CO
Myself, my husband, and a friend saw a hazy light moving through the sky at high speed. It started mid sky moving toward the horizon. The light at its core appeared to turn occasionally but the haziness around it never faded. At about 25 degrees in the sky, it released a puff smoke but in front of it, not behind it. The puff of smoke turned into a massive smoke ring which it then proceeded to move through. Near the horizon, maybe 10 degrees it completely disappeared. It didn't fade out, was just gone. It was one light, white, with a bright light at the center. The stars were perfectly clear which is why the hazy light stood out. Planes and satellites were also viewable and perfectly clear. I've attached a video and you can even see the stars and the difference. My husband unfortunately stopped recording right before it released the smoke. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
October 30, 2023 · 7:04 PM · LIGHT
South Fork, CO
My wife and I saw a very bright light south of highway. Light was moving SSE. Light appeared to be behind mist as if in fog, but no clouds were in sky. Witnessed a plane fly in close proximity to bright light but did not have the same hazed effect. Object appeared to increase in speed after plane went by. Object suddenly grew in intensity of brightness then appeared to pulse out sphere of light that could be seen growing out from center like a ripple in a pond. Got binoculars on object as it was going over horizon at a very far distance. Could see two distinct lights. Called parents later to discuss. They live south of Pagosa Springs, CO approx 8 miles. They said they and my brother saw a very similar object about 30 min before we did. Said they viewed with binoculars and the object had what appeared to be a tower on top with multiple squares of light. Had a large rectangular or possibly cylindrical light source on bottom that was source of most of the light. They described the object pushing out light more as if it was pushing out mist that was lit up by the object. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
October 30, 2023 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Cheyenne, WY
Just one object moving southeast. It’s like it had a cloud around it.
October 30, 2023 · 6:55 PM · SPHERE
Tijeres, NM
Aura was around the object, no clouds were in sight so it is unexplained why it looked like that, Moved at a low-high rate of speed southeast
October 30, 2023 · 6:55 PM · SPHERE
Santa Fe, NM
The object was a very prominent pure white orb with a contiguous white halo and a brighter circular center about one tenth its overall diameter. It was seen for about five minutes traveling through a clear dark sky prior to the moon rising. The object, including its halo, was about the diameter of the mid-day sun. It was traveling at a constant pace from West to East approximately 70 degrees up from the southwest horizon. The object appeared to be within the atmosphere. An approximation of its size would depend on its altitude but it was far larger than a commercial aircraft, satellite, surveillance balloon or meteorite. An approximation of its speed would also depend on its altitude. If it was flying at 30,000 feet I would approximate its speed as twice to three times that of a commercial jet or military transport. If it was in orbit it would be traveling about the speed of a satellite. The speed, altitude and trajectory did not change during our observation of its path. Additionally, there was a narrow diagonal, linear white light, separate but in close proximity to the orb, emerging upward at about 1:00 to 2:00 and about equal in length to the diameter of the orb including its halo. No sound was heard during its passage. The vertical linear "tail" appeared to move to a position of about 11:00 and separate from the orb slightly as the orb traveled toward the mountain horizon to the East. Remarkably, as the orb approached the mountain horizon in the East-Southeast a three dimensional conical vaporous light field emerged from the orb with its small base located at about the orb's 8:00 position. The conical field rapidly grew spreading downward and to the left lasting five to ten seconds before it rapidly dissipated. I would approximate that the maximum length of the cone was about 30 times the diameter of the orb and its diameter at the large end of the cone about twenty times the diameter of the orb. I am a retired Ph.D. having spent 40 years in Silicon Valley advising corporate leaders on strategy, running a multidisciplinary behavioral medicine clinic and serving for a time on the clinical faculty and medical staff at Stanford. My wife, who also observed the UAP, is a retired manager of quality and performance systems for three hospitals at Kaiser Permanente Medical System. She has three master degrees. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
October 30, 2023 · 6:52 PM · CIRCLE
Durango, CO
I left my daughter’s house and saw a glowing, round object in the sky. It didn’t have a defined shape. It was moving from SW to SE in a slightly erratic flight pattern. I knew it wasn’t a plane because it didn’t have any of the blinking lights that planes have and it didn’t have a contrail. I took a photo and then a video, both with my iPhone. I phoned my husband, we live next door, and asked him to come out quickly to look at this object. He agreed that it didn’t appear to be a plane. The object went out of view after a couple minutes due to tree and building obstructions. If you look carefully at the video, you can see that sometimes it moves slightly up and down and then straight. I didn’t look carefully at the still photo until the following day, October 31st. When I enlarged it as much as I could, I was a bit shocked by what I saw. The photo is why I am contacting you. The object has an irregular shape and seems to be emitting its own light causing a glow. There are three “lines “coming down from the shape. It’s just really strange. I showed this to several people and we all agree that it’s certainly not a plane. I would love to know what you think it could be. It appears you would like latitude and longitude. I looked it up for Durango Colorado. Latitude is 37.270500 and longitude is -107.878700 [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
October 30, 2023 · 6:52 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalWindsor, CO
I was on my outside deck setting up my telescope. I do astrophotography. Facing S, I looked up and noticed this Fuzzy Soft White light moving E then SE for about 30 seconds to 1 minute. Not one cloud in the sky. This is the second time I have seen the same object in the same or close location. The second time I had my wife as a witness. The first time I saw it, about 2 weeks prior, it only lasted about 5 seconds and disappeared. I couldn’t believe what I had just seen. The sky’s were totally clear except for the far E. The object appeared as though it was behind a cloud bank, maybe trying to cloak itself to keep from being identified. We have dozens of planes flying each night close to our house and this was no plane, not even close. It was about about the size of a dime or penny held at arms length. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
October 30, 2023 · 6:51 PM · LIGHT
Bosque Farms, NM
On October 30, 2023 at 6:51 PM, I arrived home and as I got out of my car I noticed a strange light in the sky above my house towards the west. It was rapidly getting dark and this steady glowing light that was slowly moving to the southeast was obscured by a kind of fog even though it was a completely clear night. There was no sound at all emanating from this object, there were no other lights and no blinking lights like a plane. I got my wife from the house, I took 1 picture and thought I started a video but actually didn’t. Ugg. We watched it drift over us and towards the southeast and it was hard to tell how high it was with this weird fog around it, 2000 to 5000 ft high maybe. At one point a jet flew between us and this object and the contrast of a completely in focus commercial jet and this weird silent foggy light. Right at the end as it was about to go out of sight we both witnessed a 360 degree, what I would call a pressure wave, emanate outward from this object and a fast pace and dissolve. That pressure wave was the absolute most unreal thing I have ever seen. It then continued out of site to the southeast over the Manzano mountains. This was no balloon, it's not the moon I can prove that, it's no air vehicle that I have ever seen. I'm 68. And I did not really believe. That has absolutely changed. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
October 30, 2023 · 6:45 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalAlbuquerque, NM
Was watering plants in back yard saw light above/south in the sky moving east from the west. Did not look like any plane or military aircraft. Had no noise. Called a friend outside to take a look at it with me. He did not know what it was. I went inside and grabbed my bird watching binoculars and looked at it some more. It had no shape just a round light but on the back of it there was a stick like protrusion at a 45 degree angel. It looked like a folded up umbrella or a parachute that failed to inflate. The protrusion seemed very rigid and did not change shape. It was headed SE over KAFB or four hills and I saw it emit a spray in a round shape like a smoke ring. In a slightly down ward angle. The spray/emission was much bigger then the light that produced it. I then proceeded to access my roof (took one min)to get a better view and it was gone. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
October 30, 2023 · 2:45 PM · CIRCLE
Riverton, WY
White circle with green light flying downward then horizontal and quickly beamed out of site.
October 30, 2023 · 2:43 PM · SPHERE
Veneta, OR
I was standing in front of my house looking up through the oak trees that line the street. I was looking up through the branches on a sunny day with the sun being blocked out by the branches. I was watching pollen, bugs, spider webs, and other Earthly objects moving through the trees. I noticed a white orb moving in a llinear line going from south to north but changing path from flying straith to erratic to stoping and changing directions and moving in ways that none of the other objects I had been watching for ten minutes by the trees was. This ggot my attention so I began to watch just this object (it was near the sun so it was hard to observe without the the tree obscuring the sun. The object stopped as if it new I could see it and I was trying to ascertain the distance to the object (former military with the Cav scouts so I am good at ffiguring out how far away something is) the object imploded on itself and disappeared right before my eyes. The object never mad a sound or left any sort of contrail. The object was moving behind everything else that I was watching.
October 30, 2023 · 1:57 PM · CHANGING
Whittier, CA
It was like looking at the night sky but in the day time. From about 30 to 40 objects as if they were forming patterns in the sky. Then I took out my phone and filmed for about a minute and 15 seconds. Incredible.....
October 30, 2023 · 7:55 AM · CHANGING
Burlington, NC
This morning at 7:55 AM I was walking my dog and looked up into the sky and saw the moon. I was standing on Spring Street at the corner of Fourth Street at that time. To the lower right of the moon there was an odd shaped flying object in the sky that was clearly visible and not a plane. It was whitish-silver in color, it had the appearance of a solid object that resembled a rounded edged double decker bus. At one point it briefly changed shape into a flatter version within a gray cloud of dust then returned to the rounded double decker bus shape and the gray cloud of dust disappeared as quickly as it appeared. The object flew in a northern direction for approximately 5 minutes as I walked along the street with my dog and then it disappeared from view when the bright sunlight struck the object as I reached the corner of Spring and E. Morehead Streets. When it was visible it was extremely high in the sky and there was no exhaust trail.
October 29, 2023 · 8:12 PM · CHANGING
Egan, LA
This is not a hoax!! I would never report something fake!!!! I was sitting in my SUV at 8:12 pm on Oct 29, 2023. I noticed this light in the sky and it was moving. It was circular and moving around. I thought oh its probably a satellite. So, I used my iphone 14 pro max and zoomed in 15x and took some rather unusual photo’s. Some were taken with flash off and some with it on. I noticed when the flash was on and I was snapping pics the object got closer to me. It looks like an Alien being born. Not sure about the mans face but, that was taken at one point aiming right at the object. I put a few pics on a UFO facebook group and people were making fun of them. I took them down. I did not alter these photos at all. I would take a lie detector test to prove it. I am baffled as to what this is and what this means. Any thoughts??? I actually got scared and ran inside the house. I watched and took pics from 8:12pm to 10:55pm.
October 29, 2023 · 8:09 PM · FORMATION
Holden, UT
I do not know how many objects it was. There appeared to be about six lights in a row that were connected to each other by lighted straight lines. It disappeared instantly after about five seconds of noticing it. I wondered if it was a reflection, but it was dark, the moon had not risen above the horizon, and there were few vehicles around me. I was traveling at about 8:00 p.m. northbound on Interstate 15 just north of Holden, Utah, Millard County. I can submit a drawing if desired. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
October 29, 2023 · 5:13 PM · SPHERE
Elk Grove, CA
We saw one orb appear at what seems a very high altitude followed by another orb appear in the blue of the sky. There were no flashing lights however the color changed from white to pinkish red then slowly moved until out of sight.
October 29, 2023 · 11:45 AM · SPHERE
Bayport, NY
My son witnessed a black sphere or orb flying in a solid path over trees over our yard. It is a windy day and it was not a balloon swaying in breeze. It kept a direct path and speed without deviation. Seems to have a faint white sphere around object and put out a pulse shockwave around it twice in sequence as it traveled . Object flashed a sort of shockwave sphere around it not into the entire sky.
October 29, 2023 · 4:17 AM · CIRCLE
Waldorf, MD
At 4:16AM in the morning of October 29th, 2023, I decided to take photos of the full moon + clouds. I took the photos and noticed, what appeared to be a star to me, a singular, bright light, maintaining one spot for over 5 minutes. I went inside to show the photos to my family, talked for about 5-7 minutes then brought my nephew outside to see the moon/clouds. I pointed out the “star” to my nephew, and not soon after, we both notice it quickly drop down from the sky, at least 200 feet, then go straight back up, above the clouds. I looked at my photos and noticed the object was hanging directly below cloud cover, right on the edge of the cloud. I know it wasn’t a plane, it maintained the same space for an extended period of time and the speed it accelerated to as it dropped would be unmaintainable for an aircraft (possible a missile could maneuver like this, but it couldn’t sit stationary). The object was in the western sky, situated to the bottom left of the moon.
October 29, 2023 · 1:22 AM · SPHERE
Marshville, NC
Object moved slowly to the north east direction. Object made no sound had no trail and promptly disappeared before my eyes. Extremely bright, the size was slightly smaller than a basket ball appeared to be perhaps a mile overhead. I am prior army and have never seen anything like it. Was not a typical meteor or fireball as some might try to say it was.
October 28, 2023 · 9:23 PM · UNKNOWN
Brooklyn, NY
I have video and pictures but what I saw with the naked eye is something I never saw before.
October 28, 2023 · 6:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Long Beach, CA
5 objects total, 3 went into a triangle and all faded. Not helicopter, drone or plane as this was above LGB flight path.
October 28, 2023 · 6:40 PM · CIRCLE
manchester, NJ
Left my house and noticed Venus or whatever in the sky and stopped to admire what I thought was also Mars and got in my car. Realized that the orange thing was too big to be mars and kept staring as I was leaving neighborhood, which is when it started blinking briefly. I stopped my car at the exit of the neighborhood and noticed it was dark in the middle, as opposed to a solid orange circle. The orange ring did a loop and slowly moved southeast before disappearing. Forgive me if this is too hard to believe but even the deer were fixated on the orange ring.
October 28, 2023 · 6:24 AM · SPHERE
Santa Clarita, CA
I was on my Tablet watching YouTube, when I went to open my window for som fresh air. I stopped to watch an airliner passing by since my home is under the traffic lane of an airport, so I like to plane watch frequently. I noticed what I originally thought to be another airliner, so I turned my attention to it. That was when I realized it did not have any navigational lights. I am familiar with what satellites look like and it did not match up. To add to that, there was a second orb which orbited around it as it moved across the sky. They made no noise, whereas I could clearly hear the airliner. Both of them were moving across the horizon at what I believe must have been supersonic speed. The entire sighting lasted approximately 2 minutes. During that time, crickets which were making noise outside had stopped entirely. Everything was dead quiet, I could hear my circulation.
October 28, 2023 · 5:10 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalSandpoint, ID
From 1978 to this day, I believe I saw 3 UFOs (Unknown Flying Objects). One when I was an ATC (Air Traffic controller) in the Air Force, another one when I was a Flight Attendant and another one as a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI ) pilot. Those UFOs had different shapes such as diamond shape and croissant shape. Last night, I woke up at 5am. I saw a bright light in the sky from my bed. I leave by the Lake Pend’Oreille in Sandpoint, Idaho. I walked to the balcony. First I thought it was the position on the planet Venus at that time (5:10am). Considering the rotation of the Earth, that “thing” was not moving. Then I began to take pictures with my cell phone. And this is what is appearing (see pictures)! I leave the analysis and conclusion to the experts. But please let me know the verdict! [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]