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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
October 19, 2023 · 10:15 PM · CHANGING
Two Harbors, MN
At the end of our street I noticed an oval shape surrounded by a faint wavering light. It was directly above us, moving like a floating feather, or like a snake. We watched it come down and circle around, becoming a very large black V with no lights. I honestly don’t know how I was able to see it with no lights on or around it, I can’t explain anything about it.
October 19, 2023 · 8:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
My girlfriend picked me up to go to the store. As soon as we started heading south we noticed 3 very bright lights in the sky, flashing colors not typical of aircraft, satellites, planets or stars. I immediately had a gut feeling I knew what it was. Upon driving to the store to get a better view, I noticed they changed positions slightly. Once at the door I was able to locate them again and finally snap a picture with my phone that has 100x zoom. As you can see, the light pattern is not typical of anything usual. I proceeded to try and take video, but my camera can't take video at that zoom level. We went into the store and came out. They were all gone.
October 19, 2023 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Wittmann, AZ
Went out as usual to look for satellites and shooting stars. looked to the NW direction and saw a skinny horizontal rectangle flash at me twice with a very bright white light. The light was perfectly contained within this rectangle. There was no glow around it or leakage of the light. I thought it might have been a blimp about to light up a sign but there was nothing more. No planes in the sky, no noise.
October 19, 2023 · 7:44 PM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
At approx 19:44hrs I had stepped outside the storage facility I have storage at for some fresh air and not doing anything specific and flash! stutter...stutter...stutter...flash! fade to black, yet there's like this dark very dark blue-ish/brown coloured cloud barely barely visible IMO that its hiding and dancing around in, the flash deformed or morphed? into a spark! now & I can barely see the spark! now, flash! (like seeing fluffy broken cloud cover and this object is 'presenting' itself as, for whatever reason) is done and that spark! is now fading, fading fading as it 'flits!' here, 'flits!' there. Like a peek-a-boo! game, from up high. *Points upwards. Not too high an altitude, not typical high altitude trucking along craft(s) or objects IMO. Maybe 10,000 to 15,000ft. in altitude. Until not viewable from my line of sight looking to the S-SW at the storage facility... outta nowhere blamo! that odd cloud like formation (mostly coloured dark brown, dark blue against mostly black/dark sky) dwindled and faded away as well. Something was either up there and BIG maybe supporting those craft/spark! objects? In closing, for whatever its worth. The immediate (1st) and only impressions I took in on the cloudlike formation *see artistic representation here . The 'light' or craft direction of travel depicted in drawing would go clockwise. Meaning. At top of drawing follow 'light' object clockwise until it is barely visible on far, upper left of artistic representation... make sense?
October 19, 2023 · 7:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Alexandria, VA
October 19, 2023, 7pm. While driving home in the evening I saw an orange glowing object flying low. I initially thought it was a drone on fire. I parked in my driveway to get out and get a better look. I saw multiple silent orange objects flying northwards in a staggered line, possibly about a dozen. A neighbor walking his dog stopped to watch and my wife came out to look. I went back indoors and didn’t have a good count of the total number of objects. Videos attached from iPhone 15 Pro. Living near DC, I can only assume the objects might be military?
October 19, 2023 · 5:15 PM · DISK
Mesquite, NV
Looking out the back window of the house a white circular object rose into view. 1st-second, I thought someone released a balloon that was reflecting the late day sun. That thought was immediately dismissed, it was not drifting or wavering in the air. 2nd-second, I thought it must be a drone. That was also immediately dismissed, it was rising straight up very fast and I thought; “can a drone rise that fast”? I said to my wife; “what is that”? I got up and quickly went to the back window…it was already getting to the height of my 10ft tall patio awning. I had to bend over to keep it in view as it rose so fast. At that point I thought; “what the heck, this is fast” and it was above the awning out of sight. I felt it sped up as it rose. I immediately opened the sliding door and went out and scanned the skies. It was gone. Being aware of drone battery life, I stood for a long time scanning the area to be sure nothing was returning to the town area. Nothing came into view. Here is some reference information. I am very familiar with aircraft in the sky, have built WWII model airplanes growing up, built and fired model rockets (kits and home-made designs) growing up, worked for Northrop Grumman, sky watch and own a telescope spotting scope and binoculars. I grew up in Torrance California and saw many Vandenberg Missiles diffuse in the evening sky growing up. I dismiss everything I normally see. This “item” was baffling. The speed in rising didn’t look normal for anything citizen owned. It went very straight…straight up. The “item” looked round but like a dime turned maybe to a 45 degree angle although the size was smaller. It was not solid white (like a blinding bulb) but more like setting sun reflecting on something but not yellow or orange…so maybe it’s own light. It did not leave a trail (smoke). The base of the Virgin Mountains is about 10 miles away to the south (in the background) but I couldn’t pick up on any depth/distance for the “items” size, sorry. I do believe, looking at the area now, it came from the desert out toward the base of the mountains or Virgin River basin area. As far as altitude, southbound airliners over those mountains (again dismissed) must be at 25-30k feet (guessing). The partial moon visible above my awning was higher in the sky than that. The “item went out of view above all of that before I could get past the awning. It was all over in 10 seconds and is the first thing that’s left me baffled over the years.
October 19, 2023 · 2:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalGermantown, MD
I was taking pictures of chemtrails when I noticed an object in one of my pictures. The object has black in the middle, triangle and circle shaped. Zoomed in looks like a panda. Pictures were taken back to back. A plane can be seen with object. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]
October 19, 2023 · 2:10 PM · OTHER
Seguin, TX
Metallic object with two metallic round ends with a thin metallic body was observed. The object in question was metallic in my opinion since I feel that it's reflection camouflaged with the sky. There was no clouds at the time and the figure moved slowly from right to left as I drove towards it, and disappeared almost immediately after approximately 4 seconds.
October 19, 2023 · 5:51 AM · LIGHT
Clarksburg, MO
October 19,2023 05:51 Clear sky, many stars visible. Stepped off my front porch and looked upwards, facing south-by-southwest, when I saw an object, star-like in appearance, flying in a tight circle around the star Aldebaran of the Taurus constellation. I only witnessed this strange behavior for a second or two before the object suddenly stopped and took off in a straight line to the left, passing through the center of the Orion constellation and continuing on until it was out of sight. It took 45-60 seconds to cross the sky, moving at what seemed a slower pace than when it was circling the star.
October 19, 2023 · 4:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Monterey, CA
Since around 10:00PM 20231018 I have been hearing a type of craft outside of my home in seaside California consistently. I first looked at the weather because when the craft gets loud it sounds like thunder but some times with my high pitched frequencies. It’s has been sunny all week and continues to be sunny last night and today. Then I attempted to record the sound although difficult to fully pickup from the inside of my home. I explored the possibility that it could be a military craft, but the sound which can sound anything like passing cars on a highway, to an airplane flying over head, to full blown thunder has lasted over 7 hours so far staying in the same location. I am not entirely sure what it is but I could not help but to feel anxious as I’ve never experienced sounds like this coming from what seems to be nowhere. I have not been able to sleep more than 3-4 hours tonight because of these sounds and I think an investigation is definitely worth while.
October 19, 2023 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Las Vegas (in flight), NV
While operating a B777 from HNL-DEN at 37,000’ both the Captain and I witnessed what appeared to be stars moving at a very high altitude and distance. We were approximately 50 miles SW of Las Vegas at about 0300 local time. The lights appeared to be SE of our position. All three lights were observed to be moving independently in some type of pattern. The lights were the approximate size and brightness of the stars in the background and were steady with no flashing that we typically observe on aircraft. They would each move relatively quickly in one direction for about one minute and then reverse course and move in another direction. We observed this phenomenon for about one hour. We questioned Los Angeles Center about high altitude military activity but they were not aware of any. After about one hour two of the lights continued northbound until they were out of sight. The third light remained for about 20 more minutes before heading southwest bound and disappearing. Over the course of the hour we travelled approximately 500 nautical miles but the lights never appeared to get any closer to us.
October 18, 2023 · 10:44 PM · LIGHT
Indian Harbour Beach, FL
Looking East, South East, from a half mile in from the ocean, I saw two blinking lights, varying in intensity and with an irregular, non rhythm/mechanical blinking pattern. Each one alternated when it was blinking. This lasted a few minutes then it was gone, but there was no directional change.
October 18, 2023 · 10:35 PM · CHANGING
Portland, OR
In sky above me in SE portland oregon. I first noticed bright light in sky hovering at 10:35pm and when I zoomed in saw it changing shape and size. A streak went across sky from one end of horizon to another. From north to south. A friend an hour away in newburg about same time saw bright light across sky too. I have video and pictures of everything but the streak
October 18, 2023 · 8:32 PM · OTHER
Sand lake, MI
It was so quick, I looked up and pointed with my right hand with my daughter in my left arm and said “what the ((deleted)) is that”. It’s cloudy out, enough to not see any stars. It was below the cloud line and huge! It was 4-6 lights on each side of the V with one light dead center of the V. One side was a little bit longer than the other and the all of the lights were off center just a little bit in a zipper pattern. I’m the time it took me to say “what the fuck is that” it appeared and disappeared. Seemed to have been moving very very fast and so smooth. I’m in awe. Agin multiple lights on each side shaped as a V with one light in the center and the rest staggered just a little bit. Very low, very fast, and extremely quiet. I’m so sure of what I seen when it disappeared my wife and I looked at each other with a daughter in both of our arms and she said “I want to go inside now!”. I googled “v shaped lights in the sky” and the phoenix lights popped up on Google and I swear to you that’s exactly what it looked like almost so perfect only difference is that it was right above our heads. Not off the the east or west or north directly above my head at least when it disappeared.
October 18, 2023 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Cleveland, OH
Noticed a very bright light in the sky. Called my husband to look at it. He thought it was a star. It was not flashing. It stayed still for about 2 hours. When I looked worn binoculars it appeared there was a red light on top of it. So that rules out a star. I searched google and it stated nasa has a satellite that would be in view for about 10 mins. Then continued to observe and around 11/00 or had moved a bit east. I did not want to look any longer because it was absolutely terrified. I then planted myself in the basement with no lights on just the tv. As I viewed the cameras set up outside I saw quite a bit of activity. Around 6:00 am I went upstairs and looked out through the blinds and saw 2 bright lights moving very quickly coming towards my house from the north. I saw a few houses down across the street, on a ranch home roof beings jumping and waiving at light coming towards them. I also showed my husband on the ring camera a large shadow on door on my living room. When I went back to view the footage that I observed on fhe love views it was not there.
October 18, 2023 · 7:33 PM · FIREBALL
Forestville, MD
On October 20th 2023, I examined my doorbell camera footage from October the 16th through the 19th and discovered a bright light the size of an aspirin over to the south/southwest direction from my home. As it ascended, the roundish white light seem to have shifted direction away from me because the size immediately shrunk, but still ascending. As the object got to the top of the video, I noticed another smaller bluish/white orb following behind it.
October 18, 2023 · 7:25 PM · OTHER
Spokane, WA
Sitting, settling in for the evening at familiar spot (homeless status) and again, for whatever reason I whip my gaze upwards, high to observe a single 'spark!' coming from the N dir. on a trajectory heading mostly S-S.E. -dir- just rolling along up very high in the nitetime sky and as it continues on its path it disintegrates (crumbles apart) before my eyes. Craft #2 showed up approx 2-3mins later coming from the N -dir- again a single bright spark, high altitude trucking along and it veers to starboard (RT)) and does start to dissolve and then -blips!- itself into blackness. *I have witnessed this same maneuver prior and it is astonishing each time. Craft #3 showed up approx 2-3mins later coming from the N -dir- again a single bright spark! on the same trajectory to the S - S.E. and again vanished after a time flying above. *there IS a bit of confusion, on my part here as I had no battery on my mobile, in the field, yadayada -excuses- and the objects kept appearing and moving and and and... meaning? All 4 craft of this design (single bright spark!) disappeared in a different mode all four times on 10-18-2023 and I might not have #2 & #3 modus operandi exactly correct, RMK **in between craft #3 and now #4 flying above did appear and come from out of nowhere from the W/N.W. (my RT) to the E (my left) a white ish, silver w/red center and hints of red accents a streak! or a stretched out -flash!- lower in altitude and appearing just above eye level and gone. Craft #4 appeared, approx 2-3mins following as well as #3 was on its trajectory and the flash/streak was decaying, all in a very very rapid succession IMO. This single, bright spark! continued on very nearly the same trajectory as the 3 other sparks!, craft prior did yet, this craft did not budge, did not wiggle nor shimmer or did not present as preparing to blip! out or go cloaked, or portal or or or. It merely kept on E - S.E. until I could not see any sign of a spark up very high, traveling a great distance, to somewhere. **To close. Then maybe 5-10mins later as I sat in the dark rapidly assessing what just unfolded before moi did one single, softer, whiteish -a familiar- flash! of a spot of light did bloom and decay in front of my eyes. This would now be the 5th such kind of -flash!- event that I am privy to within the past 12mos or so. - fin
October 18, 2023 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Belchertown, MA
Driving down the hill from the center of town, on the way to pick up my wife from work at Christopher heights, me and my children saw three solid orange lights in the shape of a big triangle hovering silently in the sky for about 5 seconds then we could not see it any longer. After waiting about 15 minutes for my wife we headed home the same direction we came, again seeing the same lights hovering over the old state school grounds where there are two new rotaries. I pulled into one of the rotaries to stop and look at the craft it was very big was not a helicopter or a plane and had like I said three orange solid lights shaped like a triangle we watched it for about 2 minutes before the lights just went out and disappeared.
October 18, 2023 · 12:30 PM · FLASH
Corona, CA
I was driving my daughter home at approx 12:15 pm and saw what I thought were pigeons moving erratically in the sky. Upon focusing closer, I could see they were way too far up to be birds. I pulled over to observe- they were flashing and moving in the sky, about 15-20 of them. They did not look like drones. I called my husband who was at our home about three minutes away- he went outside and saw them as well and was confused as to what they might be. I first contacted a local news station who replied to my submission but that was all I heard from them. Then I posted to instagram to see if anyone could suggest what they were- people seemed just as confused as me. I posted to the Next Door app to see if anyone else saw it, not one person. I then called the Riverside Sheriff to see if they had info or anyone had reported it and they had no information. I have no explanation for what these are at this point and would be so grateful if you find out they are not UFO’s that you let me know as I am creeped out!!
October 18, 2023 · 7:55 AM · LIGHT
Chico, CA
Same as above: object appeared as l turned my head to the SE. Bright light at approx 15 degrees shot towards the SE horizon and disappeared in less than a second
October 18, 2023 · 4:36 AM · CIRCLE
Rockledge, FL
Exiting home front door - Walking towards my Car - Home faces South - Absolutely clear sky with lots of stars - Suddenly overhead I saw a brilliant Round White Glowing Object that traveled instantly from the North towards the South until I could no longer see it. I saw No Aircraft within my viewing areas. Per my perspective it was not flying within our air space , It was way way out there. The object size was about the size of the head of a pencil eraser. The outer edges of the object seemed to be rough, Not a smooth edge. FYI - I have lived in this area since 1957 (Space Coast) Worked @ space center years ago - I have witnessed many many launches.
October 18, 2023 · 2:30 AM · CHANGING
Baltimore, MD
I returned home around 2:30 am & in my window saw 1 aircraft that I assumed was a plane. I watched it for several minutes & when it continued blinking colors I grabbed my binoculars & saw that it was not a plane. It had stopped moving when another craft appeared near it. I woke my partner up & we ended counting 3 crafts near, but not next, to each other. They were amongst/hidden by clouds for a couple minutes, however, you would still see the lights. After watching for 30 minutes we witnessed a bright light shoot vertically from in between 2 of the aircraft’s down toward the ground. The light disappeared & we had not heard a sound or any news reports. We watched them for a total of 3-4 hours before fall asleep. We assumed they remained in the sky.
October 18, 2023 · 1:41 AM · EGG
Columbia - Fort Meade Area, MD
I was driving North on 95 around 1:40 am, heading to a job in Owings Mills. Suddenly an object caught my eyesight as it went across the sky. It was an egg/ orb shaped object, glowing and went through my whole eyesight of the sky within 3-5 seconds
October 17, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Big Bend, TX
Many other people in the campground witnessed it as we could hear people hollering from all around. The sighting seemed more like a light and less like a craft.