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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 8, 2023 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL
Greenwich, NY
We were looking out the window when my girlfriend pointed out these strange balls of lights that were chasing each other around, they flew around randomly then 1 of them split into 2 and then there was 3 of them chasing around until they went over the mountain
October 8, 2023 · 5:00 PM · CHANGING
CA
I was looking at a clear blue sky. A light appeared in the sky, fairly high up. It looked like a red light or a star. I could just see the light. I thought it might be an airplane. I definitely looked like a UFO, so I started taking pictures. I have a Canon Digital Rebel T7 with a separate zoom lens. I took as many pictures as I could. The object disappeared, reappeared, and then finally disappeared. This lasted about thirty seconds. The object was moving slowly towards my right. There are about 40 photographs. The original images are here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nM01oe9vw-AI3ANO0W29aHgGT9ga9xsU/view [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
October 8, 2023 · 12:31 PM · OVAL
Littleton, CO
I was on an exercise bike when I saw this object going south. That lasted about 3 minutes at a consistent altitude. Very slow speed for an aircraft. I lost sight when it went behind a tree. About 5 minutes later I saw it heading north now at about the same altitude and speed. I took a photo but it's blurred from trying to autofocus through the glass. Three photo is looking east, and the trees at bottom were about a mile from my position. The object was slightly further than that.
October 8, 2023 · 10:31 AM · CHANGING
KANSAS CITY, MO
I first observed the object in the Western sky above my house, appearing more distant than a passing plane which was moving North to South and initially believed it was a Bald Eagle changing courses in the air due to a seemingly black body and a white "head." As I continued to watch the object, I could tell it was lower than the plane had been, was dropping altitude and appeared to be a tumbling black triangle or other polygonal shape before settling into one altitude which did not appear to change in any meaningful way. The object was moving West to East at a slow pace, without jerky movements and produced no sound. After it passed above my home and some power lines, it appeared to be rotating clockwise and was now a diamond shape like that found on an engagement ring. It passed above a nearby cell phone tower (~200ft high) as it continued East. As it reached a nearby highway (from what I could tell distance-wise), the object began tracking South. Still rotating and no marked change in speed. Direction change wasn't abrupt or concerning in any way. Throughout the viewing, the object would reflect the sun but seemingly only on one side as it rotated. Sketches of the object include one shape which is the "tumbler" and the second which is the "diamond." The video I have cannot be uploaded through the form because the file size is too large, do not want to add compression to the video to keep it its highest quality.
October 8, 2023 · 10:07 AM · FORMATION
El Cajon, CA
While having my trees trimmed on Sunday, October 8th at 10:07 AM my wife noticed a bunch of shiny flying objects. I immediately started filming. I captured 1.5 minutes and iPhone quality video. I wish I gave it my full attention until they completely disappeared. There were no sharp movements that I could tell. My wife thought they were drones. They were very high altitude and seemed to flash a little. After the video I checked back a few minutes later. The large group seemed to be disbursed. The few remaining visual objects i could see were further west than previously spotted.
October 7, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Metro Atlanta, GA
The light was obviously visible to me and my passenger and was immediately abnormal looking. The object was a solid blue ish green light not flashing or pulsing. The object moved so fast towards the horizon it almost appeared to fly into the ground. Flow flying air planes and helicopters are very common in this areas and I see them on a nearly daily basis but this was very clearly different to me and my passenger. The object moved so fast it was hard to get a clear image of what it was but it appeared to be a gumdrop shape. No noise was heard and the light was not bright enough to illuminate the ground but was a stark contrast to the black starless night sky of Atlanta. The object seemed very large. I was traveling west approximately 70mph and the object flew past at a speed seemingly hundreds of miles per hour. Neither of us have ever seen something like this but this was so completely odd I must report. There would have been hundreds of other people on 285 with us that could have seen it.
October 7, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Waterloo, IL
My Husband and I were camping with our Son near Waterloo, IL on the evening of October 7th, 2023. It was maybe 10 or 11 pm, our Son was asleep, my Husband and I were by the campfire and all of a sudden there was a very bright light shining through the trees. There was no sound and it wasn't moving. In my opinion it was way too bright to be a star or planet and just as suddenly as it appeared it disappeared. My Husband was in the Navy for many years and he had no idea what it could be.
October 7, 2023 · 9:10 PM · CHEVRON
Springfield, OR
I was observing the night sky for only a few moments, when I noticed motion in my peripheral, to the north and about 80 degrees up from my location in my back yard. It was 12 or more very faint points of light forming a perfect chevron or boomerang. I watched the shape move in a linear constant speed from East to West with no sound. At first I thought it could be birds migrating, given its apparent size and silence from my perspective. But its shape was perfect and its path was perfectly straight. I could detect a shape that was greater than just the points of light as it passed over the stars, again like that of a boomerang or plane wings with no fuselage. From my perspective, if the form were a known aircraft, it would be most similar to a B2 Bomber. However, if it were a conventional aircraft, it would have been no more than 1000 ft above the ground. Which would have produced immense sound. Lastly, the appearance of the shape was mildly streaking or fluid in its motion. Almost like it was passing just below the surface of water. I observed it for 10-15 seconds, starting at approximately due north of my location, until I lost sight of it over the West horizon.
October 7, 2023 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Waldorf, MD
We were driving down Pinefield Rd going towards Christ Church Rd. We saw what we thought was a bright star or planet. We have seen it before. Tonight it appeared to be moving. The closer we got to the end of the road, it appeared to have "stem" like things coming from the center.
October 7, 2023 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Peoria, IL
On October 7th, 2023 my daughters, best friend and I were making smores in the backyard and I looked up and noticed a light and said “what is that”. We all looked in the sky and see behind the clouds was a light. It looked like a flashlight was being shined in the sky, then more started to appear in various speeds and patterns. We eventually went inside after taking videos and pictures because we were scared. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Possible]
October 7, 2023 · 5:12 PM · SPHERE
Denver, CO
My husband and I saw a white orb float across the sky at a steady pace and pretty fast for how far away I the sky it was. The orb disappeared in the southern sky, but about 5 minutes later we noticed multiple orbs floating in irregular patterns while lighting up and then disappearing. We observed this for about 10 minutes before we lost sight of them. I attempted to catch these on my iPhone camera and after darkening the shadow and increasing highlights, I realized I caught a couple of these on video. At around 1:13-1:22 in the video you can see two objects light up.
October 7, 2023 · 4:06 AM · CIRCLE
ellijay ga, GA
Darting side to side up and down and occasionally in a circular motion after about 20 minutes the object dimmed and rapidly moved further away directly east remaining visible
October 7, 2023 · 4:00 AM · CHANGING
Enid, OK
We work early morning hours and me and my 2 coworkers were outside smoking a cigarette before shift started at 4 am. As we were talking I saw what I thought was a bright star dim and fall slowly out of the sky and didn't think anything of it. Continued with conversations until 1-2 minutes later I saw the same "star" pop back up where I saw it fall from so at this point, I tell my co workers what I saw and as I did and we were looking at it, it did it again and we all seen it at that point. It continued the same cycle, falling down and dimming and then 5 seconds later it popped back up where it came from out of no where, at one point one of the lights split into 2 separate lights , we saw a triangle formation, there were 3 lights in a straight line at one point, we also have on video, very bad quality, of what looks like a light moving very fast around something circular.
October 6, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Luray, VA
On 10/6/23 looking west 2 large white lights were stationary behind a cloud. Lights were not consistently on. It would light up and pulsate then other lights would shoot out very fast in different directions. About 20 mins later those shooting lights came back from the direction they left and went into the large white lights. There wasn't any sound and the speed was many many times faster than a jet. Then on 10/8/23 the same 2 large lights were seen in appx the same area, but this time there were small lights that came out and went back. There wasn't a beam of light like it would be if it were coming from the ground. This was cloudy or foggy underneath, like it was emitting through the clouds, similar to how a jet would look. I wasn't able to record on the first night. The second night I caught part of the large lights (which look blue in the video) and the small lights. *Videos are cut to the time frame with objects*
October 6, 2023 · 11:03 PM · TRIANGLE
Brighton, MO
While I was walking my dog late on Friday night I happened to notice three very bright white lights in the shape of a triangle, its position was at 89 degrees of the compass and about 30 degrees above the horizon. I watched this object for about 30 minutes, it never moved from its position, and then it just disappeared from view. There were no sounds or movement coming from it. I'm a veteran, I've seen all sorts of flares and bright lights, but the light that was coming from the object was the most brilliant light that I have ever seen in my life. My MOS in the military was Air Traffic Controller, I have many years of experience when it comes to aircraft and what should and should Not be in the sky. This was not any conventional aircraft that I know of. Friday night was a clear night with no cloud cover at all.
October 6, 2023 · 12:05 PM · CYLINDER
Grand rapids, MI
I happened to be looking up to the South and in between the clouds I could see a white cylinder standing on its edge floating West above the clouds about the speed of a jet plane. The wind is about 15 to 25 miles an hour and it was going against the wind. I watched it for approximately 20 seconds before a cloud passed underneath it and it and obscured my view.
October 6, 2023 · 8:45 AM · CHANGING
Chino Valley, AZ
While working out on my bench I looked up and saw a small object very high in altitude. I grabbed my binoculars and could see it better. Seemed to be changing shape as it reflected light in different ways. Rotating object looked round, then triangle, then square. Sometimes it looked like two. After a while it moved away at a slow speed, then disappeared. Then showed back up at original location. Its probably still sitting there as I couldn’t be out there all day. I had also seen the same thing a couple of days earlier but it blinked twice then disappeared before I could get my binoculars. This was no balloon or aircraft. Will be updating if seen again
October 6, 2023 · 2:34 AM · UNKNOWN
Hollywood, CA
Formation of light that is hovering and moving slowly twinkling a bright lights of colors of lights other forms of light splitting off
October 6, 2023 · 2:00 AM · FLASH
Madras, OR
Stepped outside pitch dark and I look to my North and I see these bright flashing lights blue red white yellow just blinking for a second I thought it was a plane so I looked up flights around the nearest plane was flying towards pdx plus it was flying by Salem at the moment around 2:15 not headed towards RDM I flashed a bright laser and it moved slowly up and stayed in that position. I checked to see if it was getting closer but it stayed In the same spot blinking brightly no sign of movement stayed looking till 3:00 and no change the same position
October 6, 2023 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Sutton, WV
I was at my friend’s house out in the middle of the woods, away from main roads. I went outside to pee because they’re in the process of building their house, and through the trees I noticed this bright light in the distance moving around and getting smaller then bigger. I watched it for a minute and got scared and tried to get everyone’s attention. Nobody cared. So I went back outside and started watching the sky again, and my friend was with me. I started seeing two to six lights like stars with a glow around them, (from the clouds, coming through our atmosphere and back out, no other stars had a glow like that) moving around in one direction and then it would change and go another direction, there was some that would morph into each other, circle each other and then become one, they would go away completely and then come back in different spots. There was one that would get extremely bright, and would move around and then I could see a cloud of light then it would disappear again, then come back in a different spot and move around. I watched these in the sky for about two hours. I watch the night sky every night and have for about 3 years now. I’ve never seen anything like this. I know what Venus and Jupiter look like and where they’re at, I know what starlink looks like, I know what planes, satellites and drones look like, these were none of these things. To me, from my perspective on the ground, all I could see were lights but they maneuvered around and looked like some sort of vehicle in the sky with a bright light on them to see. They could turn these lights off and on also. There was intelligent thought in the way they maneuvered. I could tell these things were going in and out of our atmosphere extremely fast for as high up it was, and they were looking at our ground here. I know this sounds insane but I’m a fairly intelligent person and I’ve been watching the stars for a long time and I’ve never seen anything like this.
October 5, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
On the evening of October 5th, 2023 at approximately 0400Z while flying a Citation Latitude business Jet from KTEB to KMDW, I noticed strange lights above our aircraft at approximately the 2 o'clock high position over the Lake Michigan area. We were cruising at FL430 and approximately Mach .76 when I noticed the lights; they appeared as stars but they were maneuvering rapidly, changing direction and speed in multiple planes of movement. There were approximately five lights and they would maneuver, change brightness (may have been directional lights pointing toward and away from us; unsure), and fly in what looked to be a repeated formation. This activity appeared to be cyclical in nature. This was very odd to me, as Starlink satellites and similar objects in an orbit do not change speed and direction in that manner. I observed it for several seconds before commenting to my Captain that he should take a look. He quickly gained sight of them and concurred that he had never seen anything like it. We estimated the objects altitude to be FL600 or above; it was difficult to tell as they appeared to be 50-100 miles away from us but they were definitely well above our altitude. Our position at the time of initial visual observation of the objects was east of the GSH navaid on the V451. The weather was completely clear at our altitude and above us with a layer of overcast clouds below at around FL300. The moon had not yet risen so the only lights in the sky were stars and other aircraft which were easily discernable and generally co-altitude or below us. While we could not explain the lights, I queried ATC as to whether there was any military activity in that area. They replied in the negative, so I asked more specifically if the R-6903 restricted area over Lake Michigan was active. They said that it was not. Neither my Captain nor myself could explain these lights, and we witnessed the activity for approximately 30 minutes before we began our descent into KMDW and had to focus on the arrival and approach. We discussed it as a crew and continued with our tour. Approximately three days later, on the morning of October 9th at approximately 0730Z we saw the lights again while flying east from KSJC to KLUK. We were again at FL410 and in the proximity of Peoria, IL at the time of the sighting. My captain noticed the lights first (the same captain from the previous flight) and brought them to my attention. They were in the same general region, over the Great Lakes area. Multiple pilots had commented on the light coming from Venus on guard frequency (121.5) but it was quickly explained to them that it was a planet. I made a transmission on guard asking if anyone could see the strange lights we were witnessing and got several replies. Initially they were dismissed as Starlink, but once multiple pilots admitted to seeing them there was a consensus that it was not Starlink and no explanation was offered. Pilots discussing this phenomena switched to 123.45 frequency to avoid cluttering the guard frequency. At that point, one crew admitted to seeing these lights multiple times generally in the same area. One crew could see them from the Tennesee area and another crew was in a Gulfstream at FL450 closer to the lights and said they were well above their altitude. All in all, the lights were viewed by multiple professional pilots and none could offer any explanation for them. Again, we witnessed the lights for approximately 30 minutes until we began our arrival into Cincinnati. The weather was clear that night with a rising moon later in the flight. I still have no explanation for what we saw. I have approximately 3000 hours of flight time in various aircraft, mostly military as I was an MV-22 pilot in the Marine Corps and was an instructor for Night Vision Device flying. I am aware of most atmospheric phenomena and have seen multiple Space X launches and satellites from both the ground and in flight. My Captain has over 20 years of flying experience. Neither of us had any explanation for the lights. I am confident what we saw would be classified as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
October 5, 2023 · 10:31 PM · CYLINDER
Parker, CO
I was sitting on my patio when I saw a plane fly by then I heard a very loud sound that sounded electronic. Then I saw a massive far away orange thing that looked similar to an airplane, but it had a giant sphere in the middle and I think it looked like it had the head of a bird but near the end I almost remember it not having that. That part is something I barely remember which is weird, this happened yesterday. It was way too big to be an airplane and it was going in tight circles somewhat fast. Too fast and tight for an airplane for sure. Then it vanished right before my eyes. I looked for it for a little bit longer and found it again lower to the ground but still high up. It was like the wind did not affect it at all. This is when my vision got a little fuzzier. Like on a 1980's camera but it was my eyes. So it was getting harder to see it. I pulled out my phone to record it. I couldn't find it I turned off my phone to .look again and it was gone. This time I didn't see it again
October 5, 2023 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Chattanooga, TN
I was leaving JJ's Bohemia (at 10:20pm) after a live music show. I was parked on the street in front of the music venue and as I pulled out of my parking space and was sitting at the red light on MLK Blvd & Houston sts I noticed a triangle shaped object glowing green around the edges. it moved slowly behind the building at the corner of MLK Blvd & Houston st and I lost visibility of the object. I tried to view the object but it was out of my view and was not seen again. There was no noise out of the ordinary and the person with me was not able to see the object. The size could not be exactly determined but my estimation is 60'x60'x60'. There were light on the bottom of the metallic object that were glowing green and outlined the object from the underside with a green/white haze around the craft. I did not see any propulsion gasses emanating from the craft. The craft was only visible for approximately 15seconds as it disappeared behind a building structure.
October 5, 2023 · 9:58 PM · CIRCLE
Biddeford Maine, ME
I was outside with my mom in Biddeford Maine located in York county looking at the sky and stars when at 9:58PM I saw a circular object that was still then I saw it move and zip across the sky which didn’t have any sound or leave a chem trail and I saw it get close to another circular object and it had completely disappeared after it got close to the other circular object which I’m sure was another ufo