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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.
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October 12, 2023 · 2:29 AM · SPHERE
Finger, TN
I was driving home and saw bright flashing light in the sky to the west.It moved very fast in erratic ways.I videoed it for 19 minutes.At one point there was another object that approached it stopped directly beside it then moved away.It had red lights and wasn’t picked up by my camera.If you know what this was I would love to know.
October 11, 2023 · 9:21 PM · CIRCLE
Bellingham, WA
The object may have been emitting a low humming motor noise, but it was hard to tell between the noise of freeway traffic. The object seemed to change shape into a disc then back into a fireball. It disappeared behind me as I turned and I couldn't see it any longer.
October 11, 2023 · 9:14 PM · CIRCLE
Ridgefield, WA
I pulled into the driveway after dropping my Grandson off at home. Exiting the car, I noticed an unusual purple light through a hole in the clouds. My first thought was to get my wife and have her look, but then I decided a picture first might be a better idea. After I took the picture, I went in to get her; it was gone before she could look. The color seems to be lit from the inside or from behind. By the time I could get my phone out, the clouds had covered a substantial area that was previously exposed through the hole in the clouds. I don't think it was a light from the ground because the clouds would reflect it. the lighted object seemed to be in the cloud. I thought it was interesting and unusual enough to submit it.
October 11, 2023 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Locust Grove, GA
My husband and I both witnessed an object in the sky with 2 bright lights and smaller ones beneath. It stood still for minutes and then shifted swiftly to its left. I then came inside and waited for hours and I looked out and it had moved farther to its left. It stood still and I saw the smaller lights beneath it blink. I have seen it for several nights and again Sunday night in the same area and when daylight comes it is gone. Witness is looking with binoculars in one of the photos. The moons of Jupiter appear as smaller lights beneth the planet when viewed at magnification. The only contraindication to this is the statement that it suddenly moved. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
October 11, 2023 · 8:29 PM · FIREBALL
Oak Ridge, TN
My son and I just saw a ufo that was a red dot the size of mars when its close. It then went straight up 75ft and as we watched it slowed… so I said "we don’t wanna talk or have nothing to do with you" and it instantly went out. It reminds me of the night I first mailed you. It was more of a wiil of wisp then a ufo. Just happened five minutes ago
October 11, 2023 · 8:07 PM · OVAL
Gastonia, NC
Spotted as I was coming down Dixon, it was ahead of and above me on that road, traveling or rather tumbling and was emitting a dark red light from within. It looked transparent and seemed to have small points of red light within it. The inside area of the outer shape seemed to be illuminated, which is what made me think its light was internal And coming out of a transparent object. I’ll try to draw something and attach it, but I’m no artist at all. There was no discernible sound, but there was some general noise from traffic around me. The craft was oval or oblong, an odd roundish shape that was either changing or tumbling as it moved smoothly in a straight line. Its edges weren’t static, but also not undulating - this is very hard to describe. If you could imagine a sentient blob from a Hollywood movie, more round than any other shape, and it’s exterior was bulging or being pushed out from within slightly but constantly in various directions, it’s like that. But it also appeared translucent and not solid. I just now remembered a cartoon from a couple decades ago called Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which has a character called Meatwad. It kind of moved like Meatwad does in that show. Not undulating, but tumbling, if a YouTube clip of that character may better explain the type of similar motion I saw on this object. I turned North onto Burtonwood to whip into a church parking lot so I could jump out of the car away from most of the trees. Jumping out, I now noticed the single-engine prop plane which appeared initially to be following it as i was turning into the parking lot was now farther from it. I considered my initially seeing the two together may have been a forced perspective and that the plane perhaps wasn’t following it, and they were at two different altitudes and going in two different trajectories. If it’s possible to research small aircraft air traffic in that area at exactly 8:07p on Oct 11, 2023, then it’s also possible that pilot or any passengers may have also seen it. In the 20 seconds or so of me trying to get into the parking lot and out of the car to record it, it had already moved a considerable distance and now appeared much smaller, and had turned from the deep red to an almost white color. Looking at my included map, I first saw it above Dixon, just 50’ or so to the west of Burtonwood, traveling NNW over First Presbyterian Church. It was heading towards, and then across, E Garrison Blvd, and the Middle School. As it was crossing over E Garrison, I could still see the ‘tumbling’ but now instead of it looking like it had originally, with dark red lights within that were initially visible and with the craft appearing translucent, now the craft itself seemed to be a solid not-bright white color and was still on its same path it had been from when I’d first seen it. It disappeared behind the trees as it crossed over the William P Grier Middle School and there was no way I could’ve tailed it with the amount of traffic and red lights and stop signs all around that area compared to its speed. And, as per what is apparently necessary to occur in practically all of these events, my iPhone 13 Pro’s camera, which was designed especially for videography and creating movies, was stumbling all over itself trying to decide what to focus on with so many things in its view. Zooming in didn’t help much. The larger white blob in the video is the object, the Cessna is now appearing above and much farther from it than it had just moments before. If their respective altitudes in the vid are correct, then the object would have possibly been too far below them for any occupants to see it but, again, initially it looked to me like the Cessna was right behind it when the object was red. If an investigator would like to contact me, you may do so with my included information. ATTACHED MEDIA: In the attached map pic, the yellow egg is me traveling W, then cutting N on Burtonwood for a clear shot away from trees. The red egg is the craft when I’d first seen it, the blue line it’s trajectory. The white egg is where I next saw it after jumping out of my car to record, before it disappeared behind trees at the middle school. My attempt at drawing a rough shape of the initially-transparent craft is attached. Imagine a smooth yet ‘moving’ slate gray outer surface, with dark red light reflecting on the inside of that outer ring, and points of light inside. How it can be transparent so it appears as a hollow-yet-3D ring to me, with depth and lights inside it and moving around - it defies anything I’ve ever seen before and is confounding And frustrating to attempt to describe. In the attached vid, you can see the Cessna now some distance away from the object, where just moments before it appeared to be tailing the object which was perhaps my mistake from a forced perspective of the aircraft and the object. Then again, it’s also possible the Cessna was tailing it then suddenly became concerned and veered away from it. I hope this information is helpful, as it’s the first object in the air that I could not identify since the last one I’d seen back in 1997, so I’ve had a very very long dry spell. Thanks!
October 11, 2023 · 7:59 PM · LIGHT
Plymouth, MA
As getting out of car looking to north in night starlit sky noticed in north area 20 lights consecutively star shape white going fast up into sky tandem perfectly, then one went across sky horizontal then down 90 degree angle fast then had a blinking red light with the white color and a haze/cloud it was behind then just stayed there.Observers are a couple that never saw this before.We both have jobs and no mental issues and are not drug takers.The lights looked like star shape.
October 11, 2023 · 7:22 PM · CHANGING
The Woodlands, TX
7:20 p.m. 71 degrees east Blinking red, green and white moving in a drop method I have good video on my I phone
October 11, 2023 · 6:34 PM · DISK
Canastota, NY
Looking out of my back window I saw one silvery disc like object floating above my back field, I then went outside to get a better look I saw that it seemed to be floating forward in a straight line eastward with absolutely no sound, the ambient noise even seemed to be gone. I then tried to take a video and took a picture instead, when I switched to video and got the object back in frame it then disappeared entirely. I am a 42 year old Marine Corps veteran. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Possible]
October 11, 2023 · 3:27 PM · DISK
San Jose, CA
Video 1 10/11/23 03:27pm: The video here is a sighting of 1 ship, the other left 2 minutes before (have video too). If you watch this video, at the 10/11 second frame, you will see it cloaking into a bubble. Because it is a sunny day and cold, the destoration shows up in the camera. Throughout the video, you will capture a clear ball, moving erratically. At 21/22 seconds the craft reforms and then recloaks and moves around the video. its best to do a frame per frame view. I make the mention of a plane at the end, but that sound is behind me. Its not a plane. Video captures everything. Video 2 10/11/23 03:25pm: This is the ship that left before video 1 taken. It was 2 minutes earlier, so this one shows a craft at high speed shooting off. Video 3 12/1/23 03/33/pm: The best video, shows detail of one craft, cloaking, moving back and forth erratically, and doing things not capable by us. *** Everything filmed is in the 3pm timeline. Not sure it means anything. Alos best to do a frame by frame analysis is you have the time. It moves so fast, you will miss it. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
October 11, 2023 · 2:15 PM · OTHER
Moore, OK
So myself and the two other witnesses were outside our place of work moving some stuff around with a forklift. I turned around and was walking back to open our gate to go back inside and I noticed a bright blue orb in the sky which I thought was a star and was confused because it was the middle of the day. Once I noticed the light it brightened then went out, but I could see what looked to be a stick standing on its end up and down in front of the cloud. I pointed it out to my coworker who was standing by me and asked if he saw what I was seeing and as I pointed it out to him it brightened itself back to the bright blue light then went out. Around that time as it’s drifting with the clouds to the north I assume trying to hide itself another coworker on the forklift drove up and asked what we were looking at and I pointed it out again and it did the same thing again and then disappeared into the distance with the cloud. 20 to 30 minutes later an Air Force aircraft showed up and was circling the area we saw the craft for like 20 minutes before just flying off.
October 11, 2023 · 2:15 PM · SPHERE
Baltimore, MD
I was at work, up on a extension ladder, assisting a co-worker, who was up on a steep roof painting a dormer. My job was just serve as a “weight” so he would not fall. At some point, I saw an object flying at high velocity, flying toward the northeast part of town. I told my co-worker about it, but he could not turn around on time, plus he thought I was messing with him. Then, I stopped seeing the object, mainly because my sight started seeing “dots” in sky! The one thing I am sure I saw, was an object flying very fast. It wasn’t a plane (it was too fast), I wasn’t a paper. It did look like that TicTac ufo that was reported by the Navy video that I saw on TV. Everything lasted less than 20 seconds.
October 11, 2023 · 4:36 AM · DISK
Sacramento, CA
I saw that it was hanging in the sky for a second, while I was on the freeway, it was like disk shape with the body having light and it was moving away from me faster and faster disappearing in the clouds.
October 11, 2023 · 1:19 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedAurora, CO
Spider thread drifting. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Certain]
October 10, 2023 · 11:48 PM · SPHERE
Fredericksburg, VA
I was able to take a video for 11 minutes. It seemed to stop after reaching a high altitude.
October 10, 2023 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
South Dennis, MA
This glowing, flashing, slow moving red orb looked to be close to the beach area. It moved slowly, from east to west. Very slowly. It took a full 3 min for it to go across my line of vision until it disappeared behind the trees heading west. No sound.
October 10, 2023 · 11:12 PM · RECTANGLE
Buffalo Valley, OK
Driving 65 mph dry weather clear no clouds light wind over the top of buffalo mt I was looking at the cell towers and saw craft above the towers and to the east of them maybe few hundred yards appeared to be couple hundred few higher than towers. I watched it as I was driving and every time I looked at it I could not make out wings or anything except it was whiteish rectangular with gray squares at each end ! And each time I looked at it appeared to be hoovering distance from towers never changed. I did not see wings craft appeared to be still I pulled over and tried to take but trees in way so I drove about 200 yds and pulled over again but craft was gone. So pics.
October 10, 2023 · 10:52 PM · DISK
Los Angeles, CA
Weather Conditions: Clear skies with good visibility, no cloud cover, and a new moon. Description of the Object: The object was disc-shaped with a diameter of roughly 30 feet. It had a metallic surface with a silver hue and emitted a pulsating blue light from its underside. It made no sound, and it didn't have any visible propellers, wings, or engines. Trajectory and Speed: The object was first noticed hovering about 300 feet above the ground. It then moved in a nonlinear pattern, making sharp turns and changing speeds abruptly. It accelerated rapidly and disappeared from view within approximately 30 seconds. Duration of the Sighting: Approximately 1 minute. Witnesses: The event was observed by four of my friends, who were camping in a rural area. Physical Effects: No immediate physical effects were reported. However, both witnesses experienced a feeling of unease and mild headaches following the sighting.
October 10, 2023 · 10:32 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalBrandywine, MD
I first took a pic, but then noticed that it was moving around. Please, someone let us know what is going on! This is the 3rd time we’ve seen these entities. Please ignore the lights in the lower right corner(they’re neighbor’s lights). The pic was taken near our pool (the fence is shown). [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
October 10, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
South Lake Tahoe, CA
They come in about 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. when it's dark they were over heavenly Ski Resort and above ski run Boulevard down to the lake but I spotted them as far as Emerald Bay Cave Rock and Incline Village so they're everywhere over 50 I saw it was a cloudy night a little bit of rain they use the clouds as cover and they blend well with stars they look like stars and tell you really pay attention and then you can see them kind of going up down circular motions zipping quickly some steady they even appear to be sitting just above the water on the lake and I seem to be searching for something not sure what but it was a very large Gathering it seemed like they brought the whole colony I see if she thought it was going to be an invasion based on how many there were never seen anything like that in my life I have lots more videos and pictures summer too big to upload but I I have pictures and photos
October 10, 2023 · 7:55 PM · LIGHT
Plymouth, MA
Crystal clear sky. My sons and I were on our deck and witness about 20 individual non pulsing lights in sequential order and some speeding up. Occasionally some stopped in groups of three and made erratic maneuvers, then appeared to “exit” our atmosphere. All 3 of us have seen Starlink satellites: these were 100% not that. These did not cross our clear view of the horizon. These were leaving into space.
October 10, 2023 · 6:55 PM · CIGAR
Marietta, OH
Around 6:55 PM October 10th 2023. My wife and I were leaving a Mexican Restaurant restaurant in Marietta, Ohio I saw a amazingly bright flash that continued over my left shoulder towards the Southwest. The bright object in the sky was the color of the sun. The object was a shiny metallic and cigar or tictac shaped there was one bright orange orb as well. The light I saw was the color of the sun setting so I believe it was a reflection of the Sun shining off the craft. My wife and I could tell for a fact that was not an airplane or drone. Would've been too high for a drone and to eradick for an airplane. In faded in and out and moved super fast to different parts of the sky for the next 2 to 3 minutes. It was way faster than an airplane could fly, it was so beautiful. My wife didn't see the first flash but saw everything after that. She saw it a few times before it faded out as the sun set. It was much larger than an airplane and would stay stationary for 10 to 30 seconds before shooting across the sky without contrails or noise.There was actually an airplane overhead at the same time with contrails and it looked completely different.
October 10, 2023 · 6:20 PM · SPHERE
South Amherst, OH
Pretty much just what was stated above. The object was seen while walking the dog and a small bright light was stationary in the sky visible at the top of our treeline and appeared to be a distance away. The object stayed stationary for 3-5 mins and suddenly darted away very fast similarly to an object being yanked by a string. Was very odd and different from any aircraft that has been seen above our property. We get lots of planes and drones and such but never seen anything like this
October 10, 2023 · 6:15 PM · OTHER
Homeworth (south of CX), OH
Heading east on rt 172 just passed 183. Came downhill into valley and saw a very large object in the sky directly north approximately 1-1.5 miles. Object was dk grey but appeared to have white in it. Sky was light grey overcast. Object kinda looked like a 3/4 front view of a military destroyer. Hard line separation on bottom like the waterline on a vessel. The object rose up roughly 1/3 of its length then tapered back down for 2/3. It appeared for closest frame of reference to be about as long 2-2.5 Goodyear blimps ( which is fairly common to see in the canton/Akron area. This was not the blimp. Saw object for approximately 10secs as I slowed way down. No spot to pull off. Went out of view for 5-7 seconds as I pulled onto side road and came over a small hill(40’ rise). Object was completely gone. Noticed no movement from object while in sight nor any noticeable sound. Rough location would be 3/4 mile east of 183 , north of 172 1-1.5 miles and approximately 3.5 miles due south of homeworth Ohio. This is a route I drove every day for 4yrs straight and again for the last 5 months.