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January 16, 2023 · 6:42 PM · SPHERE
Jefferson City, MO
This was an evening that both Venus and Jupiter could be easily seen. My son and I were outside observing this when we noticed a luminous round object. This object was moving, it disappear and reappear it would also hover and then move erratically. We watched this for several minutes before my son started to record this on his phone.
January 16, 2023 · 5:16 PM · OTHER
Charleston, SC
We had left port in Charleston, SC. I was taking pics of the beautiful sunset, actually 3 of them. After taking the first two, I bent over to pick up something from the floor of the balcony when I noticed a green laser light shining on the balcony. Didn't really think anything about it and immediately took the third photo. When I looked at the photo, I saw this green light above the sunset and was puzzled about it. I showed my wife and aunt the photo immediately. We zoomed in on it and it looked like windows on the object. I am 65 years old and never seen anything like this so I'm not sure what it is.
January 16, 2023 · 2:30 PM · DISK
Charlotte- Huntersville, NC
The craft was viewed on an a bright sunny day with a few scattered clouds while in my backyard with my dog. At which time I began hearing and visually tracking (approx. alt. 3000ft) an unknown object directly above my head, that I had no way of explaining to myself. After viewing for 30 seconds, I grabbed my phone and attempted to lock in on the object (approx. alt. 4000-6000 ft.) and .5 miles to the North. However, due to the fact that it was extremely bright I could not see what I was recording (the mirror image was engaged and I was therefore recording my own face) HOWEVER, soon after realizing this, I flipped the image and began recording the sky once again. In that short period (maybe 20 seconds) the object appeared to elevate to a height which was considerably higher than before (it was unknown to me at the time whether or not I captured the object at all, because I could not see what my phone screen was recording). Upon viewing later I luckily captured 11 magical seconds. Other than my own fear, wonder and amazement there are a few additional things you may find interesting. First, during those 11 seconds it is EXTREMELY LIKELY the object would have been located almost directly over McGuire Nuclear Station on Lake Norman. Secondly, on the video you can see the green disc shape, and the beam of light (which begins to track back and forth about 75°). NOTE:This was the only time the beam of light "scanned", while flying over me the beam was pointed due north and stationary. This beam was present for the duration of the objects, "visible flight", meaning it was never "off". In closing, I'd like to add that initially I could not process what I was seeing, and previous to the afternoon of January 16th, I had never witnessed anything in the sky that I could not explain, or explain away. I now join a group of people that say, I KNOW WHAT I SAW. The reality however is that I don't know what I saw, I only know that it appeared, "Not of this Earth". What has been particularly perplexing; and the pieces I have obsessed over everyday since the 16th of January 2023, are both the speed of the craft, and the abrupt beam of light (both visible and very bright) that seems to abruptly stop (meaning the light does not fan out like a cone, nor does it lose any brightness as the distance increases). Its as if the beam of light is contained with in a long tube or glass like cylinder). Again, this is something I can not explain. In closing, I want to apologize for waiting so long to report the sighting (4 weeks today), but due to recent objects in the sky I felt the duty to report it. However, I want to be very clear, confident and unwavering when I say; this was NOT a weather balloon, a drone, or a craft i have seen before. My eyes do not lie. NOTE BELOW: Video begins to capture craft after about 20 seconds. It is located just under the haze of the top cloud under the right "arm" (our right). So viewed with naked eye for 20-30 seconds, turned mirror view at approx 20 seconds, and capturing 11 seconds. Including, the total time I witnessed the object it accelerated and ascended north from a probably 2000ft to a best guess of 15,000 ft. in about 50 seconds.
January 16, 2023 · 6:50 AM · LIGHT
Shiloh, PA
This morning saw two bright lights in the sky about half a mile to a mile apart from one another. They also didn’t look too high up. The first one I saw was in front of me on Derry Road facing North West, in the same location from my last report. At first, I thought it was a plane until I noticed it wasn’t moving. I didn’t think much of it until I turned onto church road, now facing North, and noticed another one in the sky about a mile down the road, and it wasn’t moving. Fortunately, I was able to get a couple pictures of the second one while sitting at a light. When I turned my focus back to the road, a minute or two later I looked back in the same spot the light was at and it was no longer in the sky. A couple minutes later I got to work, pulled out my radar app, and there wasn’t any commercial planes in the sky in the area. The only ones were one I saw in the sky that was thousands of feet high and one facing south that was going west. While I was at work, I get a message from my friend who he claimed to have seen a bright metallic object in the sky hours after my encounter.
January 15, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Middle River, MD
I was outside walking my dog when I was admiring how bright all the stars were in the sky. I looked up, I could identify Orion's belt, the Big Dipper and that's when I realized it looked like another smaller Big Dipper and I noticed some of the stars were so very bright and usually when that's the case those are indicative that it's a planet. so I started staring at what I believe was Orion's belt cuz it was so far away from where I was and that's when I noticed around there these lights moving so quickly or what I thought was Stars they were solid yellowish orange lights but they were moving. so I steadied myself and focused with just my eyes and I could see they were moving, like you could snap a finger and they shot over to the Big Dipper and then they shot back. at one point three of the lights came together where it was only the Big Dipper and now it's a perfectly huge triangle of lights I take the dog in I come back out I'm again finding where the position was and as I'm looking up at these stars and what I believe I is lights moving quickly the triangle is there again and as I guess the clouds cuz it's so dark the clouds start to move and I can see what looks like a grayish blackish like Mass with the lights attached just hovering there I later see a good amount maybe five of later red blinking lights which I'm believing that maybe it was helicopters or planes coming to investigate these lights moving around. in the past I've been at the same location and I have physically seen what I believe is a spaceship coming from the cloud so huge almost like a kite looking Mass with lights on the end just kind of hovering and floating there but is never looked like any type of aircraft that's been in this area. I am near an airport so I know that's normal but typically at night time helicopters and planes are going to blink red and these were just solid typical light color like yellowish Orange hovering there but the amount and fastness that they were able to jump from one set of stars to the next was like nothing I've ever seen and that's how I knew it was not a regular helicopter or plane in the area. I know this sounds crazy. I also should say that I'm a state parole and probation agent, I don't drink or do drugs but because I've seen this in the past where I had my brother come out and witness the spaceship or whatever it is that I saw. I know what I saw again and it's just crazy to keep seeing it in this area we're also near Lockheed Martin so I don't know if that has any play in it or not, it was just, I felt like it had to be reported but at the same time I know I sound crazy.
January 15, 2023 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Iuka, MS
Jan 15th at 6:30 pm in the northeast corner of MS. Walking back out to my vehicle to unload groceries, my attention was pulled upward by what looked like a star that quickly became the brightest thing in the sky. This intense light suddenly split into two lights that were traveling in opposite directions. Not exactly but almost dead east to west. The light traveling east sped up more than the west traveling light. After a few moments the west traveling light slowed then moved in many different directions then stopped. The east traveling light never changed directions but dimmed until it’s light went out for maybe a second after going dark you could see the objects outline. It then disappeared leaving the west moving light to seem to move for a bit then stop then move a bit then stop after 15 seconds of random movement it stopped in the sky to appear as another star. I have taken many night photos of the stars from my iPhone. I have never had an issue before but on this occasion my iPhone would not focus at all. The whole screen went blurry and when I tapped on the object to focus on it acted like it couldn’t find an object to focus on.
January 15, 2023 · 6:00 PM · CONE
Boynton Beach, FL
As described above. I will attach photo of contrail that still existed in sky 4-5 minutes after object disappeared from view. NUFORC: Appears to be Spacex falcon Heavy launch
January 15, 2023 · 5:59 PM · SPHERE
Wilmington, NC
The kids thought it was a rocket ship but it was going sideways and came from nowhere like the air or water and then quickly disappeared. Right afterwards there was a drone and the police helicopter patrolling the area… We have videos and pictures but I could not upload them…
January 15, 2023 · 5:59 PM · LIGHT
Miami Shores, FL
I was driving north to my home. I look up and see something that looks like a jet leaving behind a strong jet stream. Something about this however, was very attractive. I noticed it moving super fast and so I started recording. Honestly my first thoughts were that I’m exaggerating to myself and shouldn’t record a plane/jet looking normal with a jet stream. The truth was, after looking for a while, it was clearly not a jet or anything that looked to be man made. It looked like a dot of light. Then, after recording for 20 or so seconds, in the stream of smoke of this entity, i see another light emerge. I couldn’t believe it. As I’m recording, I notice the second light, in the stream of the first entity, begins to create its own plume of smoke. At this point, I know I need to pull over ASAP. The first video cuts off, because I’m recording on Snapchat, which only allows 1 minute recordings at a time. I start a second video as fast as I can. At this point the first jet stream is far to the right of the second light. My attention(and the camera) begins to drift to the second light which has remained it seems where it originally appeared. Until it started creating its own more full and expanded smoke trail, in an upwards direction! The angle of directional change was surely over 90 degrees. I begin to stop my car and get a clear zoom shot of the second light going in this new upwards direction. As I look at it with my eyes then at the camera, It’s clear that this second light has turned into 2 new lights creating their own smoke trails. Both entities were headed in a visibly parallel direction to one another. The light of these entities appeared to be pulsing in a non uniform pattern. However when they lit up, they lit up together. After only close to 7-10 seconds of getting a look at these lights, they disappeared, as did the smoke trails fade into their disappearance. However, the smoke trails of the entire travel and distance covered were to last for about one to five minutes. With the smoke trail of the 2 objects being the smoke that lasted the longest in the sky. After the disappearance of the 2 objects, I quickly try to find the first light, which still had an apparent smoke trail. There were lots of houses and trees around me, and I couldn’t see where it led to at one moment. But after driving to where I could see where this object would’ve been, I saw nothing. The smoke trails of the original first light had faded significantly, and there was nothing left but a several lines of smoke in the aftermath. I’ve never seen anything move faster than this in the sky other than satellites and shooting stars. I still don’t know if this a rocket entering in the atmosphere or exiting it, asteroid, or meteor. That’s why I’m reaching out here. Please reach back to me so I know this is being seen, otherwise I will try reporting it to another organization. Apologies for my foul language, and shaky camera. Thankfully the most significant moments were captured with clarity. Please keep me posted as to what this could be, I’m not necessarily hoping it’s a UFO, I just want to learn what this extreme event could’ve been. It surely must be something of interest to the scientific community. I’m waiting on a response, thank you! 3 videos I took are attached. The picture of a pinned location shows where I first spotted the entity and started recording.
January 15, 2023 · 5:09 PM · CIGAR
Kingsville, MD
While my family was driving, they saw six lights suddenly appear in the sky. The lights were very bright. They appeared, had a small, bright light tail, and then suddenly disappeared. We have 12 photos.
January 15, 2023 · 3:30 PM · FIREBALL
Media, PA
I was standing on Meetinghouse Lane right before you get to Providence Rd, facing Providence road. NUFORC: Appears to be jets with contrails
January 15, 2023 · 3:23 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
This is the 7th sighting of these orbs in the past 7 months. All sightings have been in the same 1 mile radius of our home. This orb hovered pretty low, about 2,000 ft. It made no sound, and disappeared right before my eyes.photo is attached.
January 15, 2023 · 11:57 AM · DISK
Saint Petersburg, FL
While heading towards the skyway bridge I noticed a glimmer of light in the sky in the east. Definitely a solid object that reflected sunlight, like a metallic reflection. I only noticed it for a second, when I looked harder in it’s direction, it disappeared. A few seconds later it reappeared straight ahead of us. I was able to get a very clear look at it. It had a metallic surface. The sunlight hit the top side. From my perspective, it was longer than it was tall, with curved top… or domed top. The bottom was not being lit up with sunlight, so it was dark. The bottom seemed to look flat. When it appeared, it held its location for 5 seconds, then disappeared again. I must note that when it disappeared, it faded away… as if it slowly disappeared, instead of disappearing suddenly. It reappeared two more times the same way, each time heading further west. My wife was in the car with me and witnessed the last two times it appeared.
January 15, 2023 · 5:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Mercer Island, WA
Around 5:30 am as I was laying in bed I felt something like a presence. Upon looking directly in front of me I noticed something hovering like a cloud once I looked forward there was a large shadow that came from overhead very silent in front of my window and patio. It moved on stealth creating a strange silence and timing all lighting in the area. When I tried to see even closer it taken my my window blind completely black as where I peeked it taken off. I am a bit confused on why it choose to stop or hover near my home so low We live in a top floor unit with children. Is this something we should be concerned about
January 15, 2023 · 2:10 AM · SPHERE
Dallas, TX
At approximately 2:10AM CST +/- 5 minutes, 3 of us individuals were standing outside a venue at 3520 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX were making casual conversation as we all have mutual friends and acquaintances, just finished watching a live music event (ended 30 minutes prior), one of us was the event manager, another was friends with the manager of the band, and I, friends with the singer of the band. The technical details behind the sighting: 0 degrees being the horizon, and directly above us being 90 degrees, a ball orb about 1.5 miles up, we all caught the orb in each of the corner of our eyes when the object was about 85 degrees above us from true north traveling from east to west, moving directly in the direction towards Dallas Love Field Airport. We looked up by the time the object was 70 degrees above the horizon, and saw the object continue moving until it reached approximately 50 degrees above the horizon, maintaining the same trajectory, before we lost visual sight of the orb as it literally vanished, it was there one millisecond, the next millisecond it was gone. From the point of where the object was 85 degrees above us relative to our positioning. Witness 1 female was facing true north, witness 2 male, was facing true north, myself (witness 3 male) was facing directly west. From the point at which we all generally caught the object in the corner of our eyes to the point at which we all turned our heads, eyes locked onto the object, The first witness, female, immediately said "Oh my god, did we just see a shooting star?!" The second witness, male, the event manager, said "That was an orb! Guys, was that a UAP?!" Me, third witness, male, said "Shooting stars that low in our atmosphere would have had a trail of some sort" My personal supporting background information pertaining to the following data afterwords: I was 1 page away from becoming an eagle scout in 2011, which is recognized by the military as a monumental achievement, I provided UHF LOS and SATCOM, HF BLOS (beyond line of sight), VHF LOS, SHF SATCOM, and EHF SATCOM communications for the CG-60 USS Normandy for 4 years as we fulfilled the role of "Air Defense Commander" (2015 USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group 12, I was part of the TR strike group work up group sail in August 2014, group sail deployment in January/February 2015, to the full March-December 2015 deployment), where I provided direct communications support for FA-18's for missions in the middle east. I am familiar with FA-18 and F-16 sound, viewing angle adjacent to relative distance, body shape at specific distances, and appearance at night. I lived at CID unit Corry Station where I watched NAS Pensacola "Blue Angels" practice almost every day for 8 months, and I lived directly behind Naval Station Norfolk's airfield on Granby Street where I watched various military aircraft fly over me for an entire year when I was not on the ship. I have only seen objects travel at that speed or greater when witnessing UAP in the Santa Rosa, CA area, when UAP are doing the same action, shooting across the sky in the atmosphere, no military aircraft or asset i.e. tomahawk missile has been witnessed by me that can travel at speeds even close to this orbs speed. At this time, I am a full time employee of a software company doing IT related work as well as full time student registered at Lone Star College System pursuing a B.S. in Physics. Math and science facts about the observation: - The color of the visible light that radiated from the orb was an off white, and was an almost identical color compared to the most common and standard off-white, Christmas tree light toned color. - The orb was objectively a perfect sphere to all 3 of us. - The visible light radiating from the orb did not diffract or reflect around gas at any point within the atmosphere while in our sight, NOT creating any sort of artifact (such as lunar halos etc) NOR did the light diffract or reflect against clouds at any point within the atmosphere. - Referencing time, from the point at which the object was first seen in the corner of my eye when the object was above me 85 degrees above the horizon, to the point at which it disappeared from my viewing 50 degrees above the horizon when it disappeared, the duration was about ~1.8 seconds (would have disappeared at "mississi" when counting "One Mississippi, Two Mississippi" etc. - NO sonic boom - The object was traveling faster than a Block II/III/V tomahawk missile by several orders of magnitude, no manned aircraft could have traveled at that speed, the speed equivalency is an FA18 conducting a fly at a distance of 200 feet from the viewer. - There was NO haze or aura or effect left in the atmosphere from the object, there was no trail left by the object, there were no FAA regulated lights (or any other lights) - The object SHOULD have been detected by FAA radar from the Dallas Love Air Field as it practically flew literally over the airfield, the point at which the UAP disappeared at the blink of an eye would have been as it approached the airspace that is directly above the air field.
January 15, 2023 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Goshen, CT
Driving home from work. Phone service cuts out. Static noises even though I’m on Bluetooth. To my left a large farm, in the distance what looked like a large sized comet or shooting star but coming straight down. Before it hit the ground it disappeared. It had a blue and red tail while it was shooting downward towards land. Exactly what is shown in the most recent UFO video recorded in Mexico!
January 14, 2023 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Ranch S/W of Tilden, TX, TX
I am a retired Army LTC and was a military aviator with 23 years of flying experience. On January 14, 2023 at approximately 7:30 PM, I observed either 2 or 3 erratically moving green lights approximately 75 degrees above the horizon in a South Easterly direction from the given coordinates. The small green lights were circling and darting about each other with the lights turning off and then on in different locations. These lights were near a very bright star in that SE location. I quit observing after about 15 minutes as I had to leave the sight. Two acquaintances were with me and they both observed the same thing. One is a practicing attorney and the other is a retired school teacher. Both are well respected in their community.
January 14, 2023 · 7:25 PM · CIGAR
Rock island and cookeville, TN
It was passing over head like a satellite, it's like it heard my dog barking, then it came back towards us and centered itself with us and our home, started descending towards us then stopped and seemed to just observe. Over an hour later we went to cookeville where it followed us and was there when we went to leave my sisters house located right behind sams club off 40. I finally got two pictures there. I also got a video the next night. I see this now any night it is clear. It has us all concerned and freaked out.
January 14, 2023 · 6:47 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
Are usually only see orange spears that move really fast and appear disappear and multiply from one another but this time I thought it was a planet and it wasn’t. I zoomed in and it was like a GyroSphere that was turning many different colors (vibrant fuchsia, green, and blue) it looked as if you could see rings like a GyroSphere going around it, and it would create an ax across the sphere. I took several recordings and pictures on Saturday night and when I went back out on Sunday as soon as it turned dark, the same one was there just in a different spot moving around and I drove to a darker neighborhood. That’s where I saw the other two along with that one, and took more photos and videos where I zoomed in and you can tell it pulsates and gets bigger and smaller. I felt like it was playing hide and go seek with me at one point on Friday night
January 14, 2023 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I saw an orange reddish light just above the West hills in Portland. I grabbed a pair of binoculars and I looked at it. I looked away for a second and it was gone. About 15 minutes later The light came back. I grabbed the binoculars again and looked at it for about 2 minutes and it turned to a blue color and disappeared. Almost like the light collapsed in on itself. I know planes and helicopters look like at night. I know what stars look like. This was nothing that was explainable.
January 14, 2023 · 3:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Bellingham, WA
I took 3 photos. I left after taking photos for a min and returned to find it gone
January 14, 2023 · 6:31 AM · LIGHT
Greer, SC
I was driving down Wade Hampton Boulevard on my way to work and saw a bright, vivid green light appear in the sky, traveling quickly southwest for a few seconds before disappearing. It appeared to be within typical airplane-flying height, though I have no way to be sure if it was. There were no aircraft in the area, and no other lights in the sky in that area. It did not reappear at any point. I suppose it could have been comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), though I doubt a comet would be visible to the naked eye in that area due to all the street lights and I'm also not sure it is currently at a point where it would be visible to the naked eye in even a clear area. I'm fully certain that what I saw was an explainable object or phenomenon, but I recalled reading another report on this website about a green light that I believe was also from South Carolina, so I decided to report this anyway.
January 14, 2023 · 3:53 AM · FIREBALL
Camden, SC
It looked like a fireball
January 13, 2023 · 9:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Hahira, GA
My son was driving home on a rural hwy in Lowndes County and witnessed a lone object hovering ahead. He pulled his vehicle safely on the side of the road and began filming the object. As he was filming, the object darted off like a bolt of lightening.