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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
September 16, 2022 · 9:01 PM · CIRCLE
Schenectady, NY
I took videos. Glowing fireballs moving across the sky. Approximately one minute behind the next. They were orangeish/red in color and resembled round balls of fire. They made no noise at all. The lights did not blink and moved in a straight line.
September 16, 2022 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
St Louis, MO
I have video showing the incident Most likely, a nighttime parachute jump with flares. PD
September 16, 2022 · 8:30 PM · CHANGING
Wrightsville Beach, NC
*UPDATED REPORT* I live in Wilmington, NC. I'm a Music Producer and my wife works as a teacher. Friday night, my wife and I drove out to Wrightsville Beach for some romantic stargazing. But, at 8:30 PM, we were surprised to spot 2 UFOs. The first craft emitted a bright white light, was too wide to be a star, and was like a mechanical wagon wheel in appearance. In the video it appears to have a forcefield around it. It flew left, then right, but mainly hovered in place about a mile in the air over the Atlantic Ocean. The second craft was a red sphere about 300 feet in the air, which morphed shape, and changed flashing colors between red, white, yellow, and green. After a few minutes, the second craft zoomed past us to our left, heading westward down the coast at about 3,000 mph. We ascertained this speed and measurements based off of the position of the crafts, in relation to the stationary stars, per the number of seconds it took for it to vanish over the horizon. We called the US FAA, that Friday night and left a message. Monday afternoon 9/19/22, James at the airtraffic control tower called us back. When we asked him if there were any commercial or government aircraft flying over Wrightsville Beach that night around 8:30 PM, he said there were not any commercial or government flights scheduled for that Beach area. When we asked him what he thought it was, he replied he didn't know, because drones cannot reach speeds of 3,000 mph. We zoom edited the original photos & videos together into an attached YouTube video.
September 16, 2022 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Wrightsville Beach, NC
I work as a music producer, and my wife works as a teacher. My wife and I drove down to Wrightsville Beach tonight, to do some romantic stargazing. We were at the 43rd access of Wrightsville Beach tonight, on Friday, September 16th, 2022. We rolled out a beach blanket, laid back looking up at the stars, and we both saw some unusual lights that were moving above us. At 8:30pm, we saw two very silent unidentified crafts, neither of which made any engine sounds at all. The first UFO was round like a mechanical wagon wheel, shining a white light, and hovering about a mile above the Atlantic Ocean. It would travel left, or weave right, and sometimes just hover in place. The second UFO looked like a round red ball of light, that would intermittently flash a white light. So that the appearance was a red and white flashing craft, flying about 300 feet above the beach. In a matter of a few seconds, the second UFO was seen traveling due West along the coastline, exceeding speeds beyond 3,000 mph, and in a flash disappeared beyond the horizon. My wife and I were shocked, because we haven't seen anything quite like this, so we took pictures and video clips of the unidentified objects. What are these?
September 16, 2022 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Silver Bay, NY
Upon heading to break, after witnessing the previous UFO around 4:30p, and now dark with no light pollution, I looked up. I immediately noticed a light moving at a good clip, and then immediately two other moving lights directly ahead but a good distance apart also moving. I called over my coworker, and we watched for about 3 minutes before it left our view. The front two lights were closer together and the last light was further behind but they were all moving at the same speed. They were not gaining on one another and not falling behind either. I have seen starlink pictures before and this was not it, and they were much much higher and not as bright.
September 16, 2022 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Lamoille Canyon, NV
At first I thought it was a star. Then it moved down and stopped. So I grabbed my cell and started to record. It moved over and down then disappeared. I tried to upload. The video is on my phone. Don't know how to upload it.
September 16, 2022 · 8:07 PM · CHANGING
Probable conventionalAnderson, SC
Whatever it was seemed to glow and expand/contract. It stayed in the general area for maybe 25 minutes. When I went back out around 9:00pm it was gone. I’ve had this for awhile because there’s always an explanation to something. I’m just not sure what that something is. Besides family your site is the only one I’ve shared this with. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
September 16, 2022 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Springfield, NH
Looking due west at approximately 60 degrees up, there was a triangle shaped area that was completely black with an occasional tiny white light which showed on the west edge of it. It was a crystal clear night and we had seen numerous satellites and shooting stars. We observed a satellite approach the triangle and actually disappear as it passed ( presumably ) above the triangle. It then appeared on the other side. Something was there blocking out light. We then saw three smaller lights fly in different directions around the object and eventually disappear at the object. It remained in the area approximately an hour and was just suddenly gone. Never saw it move, it just was suddenly not there. Stars which had been covered were then visible. None of us had seen anything like this.
September 16, 2022 · 4:30 PM · CIGAR
Silver Bay, NY
This was a silver cigar shaped object. At first I thought it was a plane, but at the altitude it was flying, but there were no wings or any other objects sticking out. It kept at a consistent but fast pace. I watched it until it disappeared. I’m not sure if it just became to difficult to see or if it just vanished, but it was so shiny and bright that even far off I could still see it until I couldn’t. Cigar shaped, silver, no flying appendages.
September 16, 2022 · 7:00 AM · CIRCLE
Asheville, NC
A large circle of lights non blinking. About the size of the moon but not close to the moon. Stationary. After awhile it began to fade. Very bright.
September 16, 2022 · 6:10 AM · CIRCLE
Coweta, OK
I was leaving the house for work and looked up to the sky, over the top of our house while in the driveway. There was a bright light moving out of the west, going east, and my first impression was a helicopter because of the single white light. It's speed was so incredibly fast, and I noted there were no red or blue navigation lights, and the closer overhead it got, there was absolutely no sound. My husband came out to see what I was standing there looking up at just as it flew over and I pointed it out. Just as he said "I see it" the object began to fade from as bright as a star to a dimmer and dimmer white, moving so fast toward the east, then vanished. It moved so quickly, that it covered such a distance, with no sound, no flashing lights, I was dumbfounded. My husband said it was probably the ISS, but once I got to work and googled its schedule, it is not due to pass over our area until this evening - visible for 7 minutes the NASA schedule says. This object was visible for less than half of that time. I am still baffled by this.
September 16, 2022 · 12:05 AM · CIRCLE
Irvington/Newark border, NJ
Huge circular shaped aircraft seen with flashing blue, green and red lights around its edge emitting noise. It was moving diagonally before hovering above a residential street. Low in the sky enough like a helicopter before moving diagonally over houses and disappearing.
September 15, 2022 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
China, ME
About 10:45pm, not sure the exactly as I was pacing holding a 2 year old who wouldn't sleep. Viewing out north facing over sized windows I saw two lights roughly 4 degrees apart moving in unison from northwest to southeast at a slow rate roughly 5 degrees every 8 to 10 seconds. The lights were solid and did not blink or flicker. The lights were aligned north to south and the south light gained intensity for about 5 seconds at a time twice during my observation going from about the luminosity of Saturn to something more like Jupiter or even Venus then fading back out. The north light remained a consistent Saturn type luminosity. The south light did seem more amber when it was at its brightest. I could be wrong due to my color blindness, but it was definitely not white though this was harder to tell once it dimmed. It was harder to tell the color of the north light due to its brightness. I called my wife over to see it, and though she didn't witness the fluctuations of luminosity of the south light she did see the lights before they went out of view.
September 15, 2022 · 10:39 PM · LIGHT
De Pere, WI
I was standing in my parents' driveway pulling my keys out of my purse and I glanced up at the sky for a few seconds. A tiny bit to the east, and around plane-height in the sky, a bright bluish-white light, about the size of a small star, appeared and rapidly grew brighter and bigger until it was around ten to fifteen times the size of a large star (such as the ones in the Orion's Belt). It then broke off into 3 smaller blue lights that "fell" a tiny bit in the sky before completely vanishing. The large light grew for about 4 seconds and did not have a tail nor did it seem to be moving. However, the 3 smaller lights "fell" a tiny amount for about 1 second each before vanishing and they each had tails. None of the lights had defined edges, they were round however they were very glowy which made them seem a bit blurred. It was completely silent outside, there were no people outside, no cars running, and no dogs barking. I watched for about 2 more minutes and nothing else happened. The whole experience happened too fast for me to pull my phone out and take a video or picture.
September 15, 2022 · 10:37 PM · CHEVRON
Arlington Heights, IL
We saw a bright neon green figure in the sky in a rectangular shape with a pointed end traveling toward the southwest.
September 15, 2022 · 9:49 PM · LIGHT
Marysville, OH
On the night of Thursday September 15th, while visiting family, at exactly 8:46 pm in Marysville, OH. My wife, father and mother in-law, and myself went outside to observe the Iternational Space Station flyover because the night was clear and moonless and its not something we can see every day. (Path of ISS S.W. to N.E. at 28°), just as the I.S.S was overhead us, all of the sudden, we noticed off in a North Westerly direction about 12 to 20 bright white/blue lights "flash" into existence and then "out" and then another set flashed in and out in different positions a few more times. Lasted approximately 16 seconds and seemed to have a higher altitude than the I.S.S. Also there was a large shadowy oval directly overhead that appeared to silently hover moments after the "sparking lights" stopped. I looked back to the I.S.S just as it disappeared behind the roofline of the house and the oval was gone!
September 15, 2022 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
North Las Vegas, NV
I was standing on my balcony facing east. I saw three bright white lights in a northeast direction, to my left, low to the horizon. At first I thought they were stationary, so I assumed they were stars, maybe Orion’s Belt. But after staring at them for a minute, I realized they were moving, almost imperceptibly at first. Then they got brighter, brighter than any star, and they were going lower in the horizon moving to the right and moving faster (losing altitude going south I think). They never broke a linear left to right formation. It was dark so I could not see any structure and the lights were so bright. It could have been three different structures, or three points of light on a single structure. They moved low enough to become blocked by nearby housing. After that, I could not see them again.
September 15, 2022 · 9:10 PM · CIRCLE
Woonsocket, RI
I was sitting out on the steps on the deck of backyard. Through the trees, I saw a bright light and thought it was odd. I got up and saw a semi circle of lights on a hovering circle object. The lights were dull to bright, very slowly hovering left to right. I ran in to get my family, to show them out of disbelief. They too see the object and we alerted the neighbor who also came out to see the strange hovering object. It stayed in the area for a good 30 minutes before going higher in the sky and out of sight. I also received clearer image from another person via fb that captures a clearer image. My phone doesn't catch night vision
September 15, 2022 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mount Pleasant, TX
While sitting against the car in my driveway my girlfriend and I were observing the night sky. We saw shooting stars, planes, etc.. However, upon further inspection much higher then any plane (There were planes in other locations in the sky at the same time) We observed a grey, dot like UFO/UAP performing a triangular pattern then nonchalantly vanished. It proceeded to reappear not 2-3 seconds later a bit further from the location heading west. About two minutes after two more grey, dot like, objects criss crossed in the sky then also dissipated. Another minute wen’t by and the last grey, dot like object appeared going west in a straight line then proceeded to dissipate also. Its been about 14-15 minutes now after observation, however this is not my first sighting here in the area, specifically my neighborhood. I had an encounter last year a few months after my neighbor had mentioned two lights in the sky. One greenish, one red/orange in which I actually have photos. Unfortunately, I don’t have a camera good enough to capture these this evening. They’re simply too far away for my phone to pick up.
September 15, 2022 · 8:58 PM · OTHER
Mayville, WI
Came outside and saw a faint red lit dark object move very fast in a non linear manner and disappear rapidly all within 3 seconds or so. my buddy didn't look fast enough to witness it. I couldn't tell what shape it was but I have never seen anything so fast a regular plane past shortly win a couple minutes across the same part of the sky.
September 15, 2022 · 8:04 PM · LIGHT
Amherst, MA
These balls of light were so bright that it left a halo around the light they went NE at approximately 300-400 mph I'm guessing they were about smile high. At that hight they were by eye the size of my pinky so I'm guessing they were large craft. They went a distance as bright as the sun but white light and then the light went out and I could see the matalic surface of the craft then suddenly it disappeared instantly. They all did the same. I've seen many smaller ones of the type but never till now seen them so big .
September 15, 2022 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Kiawah Island, SC
My husband and I were walking the beach and we saw a reddish orange sphere in the sky that seemed to be moving and then began to hover in one place. We both took photos and video of the object. When we returned to our vacation rental house, I searched the Internet for any strange sightings of unidentified flying objects on Kiawah Island, SC. Internet search returned news articles and video footage of an object that appeared identical to the one we saw tonight (9/15/22). The previous unidentified flying object had been witnessed on 12/31/18 and there is video footage available online of this object. It seemed the object we saw vaguely changed colors (red to orange to yellow to white), the object seemed to change shapes from three small close connected spheres to one large sphere, it changed from a sphere to a more diamond looking shape then changed back to three small close spheres and then back again into one large sphere multiple times while we observed it. My husband and I both felt a “need” to observe the object. We felt transfixed by the object, it was difficult to stop staring at the object. We also noticed what appeared to be three planes and a helicopter forming a triangular shape and flying toward the object. I have heard two helicopters flying over our vacation rental since returning from the beach. The object seemed to pulsate at times. became brighter and dimmer
September 15, 2022 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
McNeal/Douglas, AZ
As it got just before border, it took a 90 degree turn, and the jets blew right past it, traveling really fast, no way they could make the turn, the object traveling WSW, crossing border, jets returning the direction they came from. Dates and time are only approximate. I'll try and find you a date and time, because I sent a message to my friend in Almira Washington. There was a lot going on then, so sorry I didn't get you a report after it happened.
September 15, 2022 · 5:15 PM · CIRCLE
Morris Plains, NJ
I saw a singular unidentified flying object hovering far up in the sky. It’s suddenly faded away as if it disappeared. I kept trying to look around to find it, and when I looked up and saw an airplane with a vapor trail I noticed that the object had reappeared and was following the airplane. There is a second object in the lower left area of the screen that can be seen fading away near the end of the clip. The short eight second video shows me filming the plane again briefly after and the object completely disappeared by then.