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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.
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July 3, 2022 · 8:41 PM · CYLINDER
Saranac Lake, NY
Object spotted traveling from S to N. The video was taken from Eagle Island Campsite on Saranac lake, facing SE. The object passed us at 8:42 PM 04/03/2022 and appeared to be passing over the town of Saranac Lake at 8:43 PM, 04/03/2022 The object looked like a cylinder with rounded ends and no wings. Primarily white, with a dark spot on the side. At first I thought the dark part of the side of the object that can be seen in the video was a wing but as it moved away you could see that there was no wings protruding from the side of the object, or the top of the object. This object did not make any noise, it did not have any flashing lights that would be seen on any legal aircraft or civilian drone, nor did the object have any visible exhaust. We were able to both hear and see planes that were flying farther and higher than the object was that evening, but this object went by without a sound.
July 3, 2022 · 8:35 PM · CYLINDER
Grand Rapids, MI
Playing catch with my daughter - saw a soundless white tic tac. My wife caught the last minute or so too. There other details I’d like to share via a conversation. I have videos and pictures.
July 3, 2022 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Big lake, AZ
A green portal from clouds to ground,bouncing along,A white orb shoots out at a 45 degree angle.
July 3, 2022 · 6:00 PM
Big lake az, AZ
Green orb under water zooms away
July 3, 2022 · 5:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Norwood, MA
Date: July 3, 2022 Time: 5:15 PM Location: Seen from our backyard (42.1689984 , -71.215252) while laying in a hammock. Direction: Easterly, around 54 degrees N-E. The second sighting of this object was around 60 degrees N-E (about 45 minutes later). Sun Location: Behind us Weather: Clear blue skies Witnesses: 2 (Me and my wife) We witnessed this while laying in the hammock in our backyard watching birds and planes fly by. Shape Difficult to define an exact shape, perhaps a right-angle isosceles triangle. It almost looked like a large bird at first, hovering in place as they can do in a heat vortex, but this object was larger and we couldn't reconcile its exact shape, size, and color with any bird or vehicle, especially as airplanes and jets flew across the sky at the time of this sighting. When I first noticed it, I said to my wife, "Look at that hawk way up there hovering!" but immediately second-guessed my idea that it was a hawk or large bird because it remained motionless. Color Edges appeared a bit fuzzy at first but then became sharp/more defined. Blackish, dark red while it was hovering. When moving, silver and white in color, streaking across the sky at an incredible speed. Additional notes Almost the entire time I was wearing polarized sunglasses. When I took them off, I could still see the object. With the glasses on, it lost its dark red hue and looked more charcoal than black. This object was hovering for a few minutes, staying almost motionless as a jet flew over its vicinity. When the jet moved further away, the object, in a very fast sequence, appeared to tilt or turn, then appeared cylindrical in shape, losing its black/dark red color, and like liquid-silver & white streaked across the sky with incredible velocity. The steak was only visible for a second and the object was gone. About 15 Minutes Later: A white orb, extremely high up, traveled across the sky from west to east. I could not see it without my sunglasses on. About 10 Minutes Later: Another white orb, perhaps even higher (or smaller in size), traveled across the sky in the exact same way (west to east). Both of these orbs couldn't be seen without my sunglasses on and they shared the same characteristics (constant speed, no wavering or anything, appeared solid and spherical, soft-white in color, and perhaps illuminated only by ambient light, traveling west to east). 45 Minutes later: The original object appeared again but not in the same position. Black in color this time. Hovered for a minute, then moved slowly out of sight to be obscured by our treeline. The total time was about a minute, maybe less. I'll note that both times we didn't see where this object came from.
July 3, 2022 · 4:00 PM · LIGHT
Philadelphia, PA
My husband and I were in our back yard relaxing on on a float in our pool. We saw a few planes pass by and then this white almost transparent craft flew pass I never seen anything move that fast .we both saw it and said wtf was that .and no sound at all just fast . The time was between 4 & 5 pm
July 3, 2022 · 1:45 PM · CHEVRON
Rock Island, IL
While watching a little league game at location, my eyes caught glint of sun or flash from an object in sky at 1:45pm. As I watched it move in place, looked like a white or silver bar/cylinder and was near due south. There was not much movement, but the object did change its aspect to my eye (glint/flash, then I could see some movement). After it disappeared, I remained in same spot watching game. Object reappeared at 1:50pm, I called wife and others to look but they couldn't pick it out. Each sighting was 5 seconds duration, object did not reappear the rest of the day. Sky angle was approx 45 degrees midway between horizon and zenith. Reference point was ball diamond backstop, and neither it or myself moved. Estimate the object was miles away and could have been a few thousand feet up (no clouds for reference). Conditions: 85 degrees with a cloudless sky, object was far enough from sun that I did not need to shield eyes to observe. Wind approx 12-15 mph from S or SE. Someone suggested pelican or raptor riding thermals. Intensity of flash/glint was more intense than what would be possible with a pelican's white wing tips. Escaped birthday balloon? How could it have stayed in same location given wind speed. Quad Cities airport was near, but flights observed during the day used east - west approaches. No jet landed within minutes after the sighting, esp from that direction. I am 62, an amateur astronomer, trained SkyWarn spotter, and eBird regular contributor. I see small flocks of pelicans all the time around my home.
July 3, 2022 · 10:46 AM · DISK
Eden, NC
It was amazing. A standard disk-shaped UFO was just hovering in the night sky at a very low altitude. At first, I thought it was the moon. From my top floor apartment, I could see a giant light, similar to a flashlight, emanating from it. This light illuminated the clouds as if it was scanning the surroundings. Suddenly, four ball-like objects were expelled from it. They darted around the sky before hurtling towards the ground, engulfed in flames. The UFO moved into the clouds and held its position, emitting small lights. Then, it zoomed away at a speed I didn't think was possible, soaring up in the sky until it vanished. What I saw was clear. I wish I could have reported this encounter, as it was 100% accurate. I quickly brought my friend downstairs to witness this, but it had flown away by the time we arrived.
July 3, 2022 · 10:20 AM · CHANGING
Denver, CO
Was sitting on 9th floor balcony facing to the E/SE and looked up because a plane from DIA (which is about 25 miles to the NE) was heading south shortly after take off and I heard the engines and was just trying to see the plane, but as I looked I also noticed two objects which at first I thought looked like large pop-up tents because of the odd shape and just figured that they might have been swept up in the wind (wind was not very strong, otherwise I wouldn’t have been out there). Then I thought maybe they were pieces of large trash or tarps that might have been swept up, again the wind was not strong. They continued to float, changing shape, like it was tumbling over and as it tumbled it began changing from black to a bright shining silver that was reflecting the sun. There was no sound. They continued to float from the NE/E to the W/SW towards the Rocky Mountains. When I first noticed them I was worried the plane that I had originally looked up to see might run into them, but the plane began to bank to the SE and the objects continued W/SW. As they continued to they began going more to the SW and they gained thousands of feet in altitude. I was able to keep eyes on them for at least 5 minutes as they continued to change from black to reflective silver. I estimate they were about 40+ miles away and 20,000+ ft in the air when I noticed a third shining object with them. They didn’t seem to be in formation and the was a good amount of distance (miles at the very least) between them. I did eventually lose sight of all 3 of them. A few minutes passed and one more came directly over my building and was undulating and was not a solid shape, had the same floating appearance, again no sound, and moved S/SW from the north in the same direction as the previous objects. It did begin changing from black to shining silver and back again, they all did this but didn’t seem to be an exact timing to the color changing. It gained altitude and mileage until I lost sight of it at least 5 mins after it flew over my building). Too slow to be a plane or helicopter and was not a balloon just based on the size (I’m guessing maybe a large van to maybe even a school bus). Doubt it was a drone either because of the lack of sound and the size and distances traveled vs speed and time. I’d estimate it was at least 40-50+ miles to the SW by the time I lost sight of it over the Rampart Range. My balcony faces south and I can see Pikes Peak from my balcony and I know it is roughly 60 to 70 miles to my south and the Rampart Range is to the north of Pikes Peak. The sun was rising from the east and was not over head yet that time in the morning. Skies were blue with a few high scattered white clouds, temperatures where probably in the mid to high 80s, slight breeze from the N/NE. I have an American flag flying from my balcony railing so that is how I know how the wind was acting, it was sort of my wind sock for the event.
July 3, 2022 · 10:00 AM · FIREBALL
Kutztown, PA
My dad and I ran up our hill (we couldn't see it when we were running because of trees) and when we got to the top we saw the first orb and it disappeared before we got a picture but then we saw the next two going quickly south south East and then after 2 minutes they disappeared. They were bright red orangeish and look really close and large.
July 3, 2022 · 5:00 AM · CIRCLE
Osceola, IN
Sitting in hot tub thinking I saw a twinkling star. Took a pic and enlarged it. It was not a star. It comes back and at times more than one. I have multiple videos and pics. Could it be a satellite? It sits in the same spot without moving. Some pics won’t upload to your site. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
July 3, 2022 · 3:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Port Richey, FL
Before getting ready for work I always walk my dog. That Sunday morning when walking back home a very bright light towards the northwest called my attention, it almost seemed to be moving in an even zigzag at first. Then I saw it come to a sudden stop. It stay motionless for close to a minute(it may have been longer as well). Even my dog seemed to be looking at it and I swear I heard him growl very low and his tail was like a broomstick. Like he too acknowleged the bright spakling light. That's when I started to feel uncomfortably nervous. I knew it could not be Venus or a shooting star in the night sky because of it's triangle shape and altitude. I never heard any sound and I estimate it was maybe a mile or so from my position. I honestly feel as if I was being observed. Suddenly I started to feel a sense of panic which is very uncommon for me honestly. At that point my dog seemed to be on guard mode and stood in front of me.The object looked like a big triangle with a fluctuating bright LED beam. It moved again as if it was landing or coming close to the surface and towards our direction. I was completely perplexed and wanted to run back home but I just couldn't react. I was glued to the object in awe. Then suddenly it moved up high in the sky really really fast, and just like that it disappeared like a shooting star. I'm extremely distraught by that event. Only my wife knows about it because of how I looked when I returned home from the walk. She tried to minimize it, but I know what I saw could not possibly be an airplane or any air balloon or something. That is really all I have, and I truly hope I'm mistaking it for something harmless. I have to say that I have had a sort of tension headache that although bearable it just doesn't go away since Monday, (maybe stress I'm assuming) I'm absolutely frightened. I want to forget what I saw. Really upset I did not have my cell phone with me. I'm being honest. I swear on that. Best Regards.
July 2, 2022 · 11:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Boundary Waters. Canadian border, MN
New moon, pitch black out. Stargazing and 1st night saw 2 objects the same. One object was on the horizon and both shaped like a triangle of an upright Christmas tree. Super bright and shimmering. On each point of object was a bright color. Red,blue, green and like a white or orange light. It was hovering but moving back and forth. It slowly moved across horizon but stayed hovering mostly. Got 1:30 of video of it. Watched it for over 20 min. Other object of same shape was way farther away and almost straight up in sky. There was nothing in the sky that was nearly as bright by a long shot. Next night July 3 checked sky again and there was around 30 of same object all over the sky. Never seen anything even remotely like we did those 2 nights.Where we seen these objects,no town for 17 miles and no others people around for miles. Dense wilderness.
July 2, 2022 · 11:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Hendersonville, NC
I was driving and saw lights in the air where they normally shouldn’t be. I thought maybe it was the high school or moon but when I saw it moving in air I started recording. It hovered over the road in front of me while I was driving then when I got next to it I think it went up a little then went away. I tried to follow it even so I could just get a better glimpse but it kept going. You could hear the sound of the engines of whatever it was.
July 2, 2022 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Shelby, MI
My wife and I were sitting outside..I seen a white light flash behind me and then 5 lights with 50 feet between lights blazed by so fast..I stood up and there was nothing..so I observed the sky and seen a suspicious light
July 2, 2022 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
ANTIOCH, CA
My boyfriend and I took our dogs to the park across the street after swimming. I always look at the sky and stars and was admiring when I notice a huge sideways lime green oval light up in the sky. Moving much quicker than any plane, helicopter or even jet I've ever seen. No light trails or any other light source like blinking lights. It was only the glowing, kind of hazy lime green light. And I started asking my boyfriend if he saw what I did and we discussed and ruled out several things such as a falling star or aircraft. I would say it looked about 3x the size of a plane and seemed up very high although it's hard to judge. We watched it go from one side of the sky to the other until we couldn't see it anymore past the tree tops. We searched for any information online and found nothing. I wish I had gotten a photo but originally I hadn't even wanted to get out of the car, but did so reluctantly and left my phone in it as we walked into the park.
July 2, 2022 · 10:29 PM · LIGHT
Sandy, OR
We were driving home from Sandy Oregon heading west on Hwy 26 when my wife noticed these 3 bright strobing white lights in the sky to the south of us. As we drove by them they seemed to have had no beam as event or search lights and they didn't seem to be attatched to anything but they strobed and stayed the exact position apart. We stopped to the side of the hwy and I got out to video tape them. There was no sound. I didn't stay recording long enough to see if they ever came out from behind the clouds. In the video you can see an airplane go by underneath or in the distance. I posted this on WTF in Gresham on Facebook and others commented about seeing them too and couldn't figure what they were.
July 2, 2022 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Uncasville, CT
This bright red spherical object was pretty large and we were standing by the edge of the tribal government property watching fireworks going off out towards New London and Groton and then all of a sudden we had seen this bright red large ball shape off in the distance just racing towards us and it was moving really fast towards us. Where we were standing and facing looking out towards the Thames River heading towards New London and Groton and its general direction that it was following was the Thames River and it was literally going super fast and then it slowed right down as if it knew that we were standing there watching. It then hovered and cut to the right towards Ledyard and Norwich direction and slowly kept going and then all of a sudden the red color just disappeared and it was nowhere to be seen. There was absolutely no sound coming from this object at all and with how quickly it closed the gap between us and it was as if it were almost going supersonic. There were no blinking or flashing lights on this thing it was just a bright steady glowing red and it was almost as if it were a fireball just racing across our sky towards us. It wasn't an asteroid or a shooting star or a plane or a drone. With how this thing was moving it moved to quickly to be anything man made let alone a toy drone. It was literally right above the Groton Sub base. And when it turned by us it turned to the right and up at an angle and then it's red color just went black and we couldn't see anything anymore and it was gone. The moment it was gone our dog that was down the hill at our house had stopped barking. The entire time that it had been coming towards us our dog was barking up until it disappeared and our dog just stopped barking.
July 2, 2022 · 9:36 PM · CIRCLE
West Deptford, NJ
We observed two large blinking lights. Then an extremely large circle of lights appeared. Another large light appeared and then darted off. Two sets of four lights appeared and disappeared. It has continued every few minutes for almost an hour. Searchlights?
July 2, 2022 · 5:07 PM · CIRCLE
Ramona, CA
Looked like a white object floating around the Cresent moon for awhile then started drifting away. Real bright. It could of been a balloon but it seemed to big and Bright to be a balloon.
July 2, 2022 · 5:05 PM · DIAMOND
North Kingstown, RI
If you look at the image, below the object you can see air that looks oddly affected by the object, like a desert heat movie effect. The object did not move in the small time we viewed it, as we could not just stop our vehicle on the bridge. There was absolutely nothing else around it or attached to it so it makes no sense as to how it could just be hovering thousands of feet in the air. Far too large to be a drone.
July 2, 2022 · 1:50 PM · DISK
Honolulu, HI
The object was a disk like shape and almost completely flat on both sides. There was a glowing blue ring in the middle but it was kinda hard to see. There were Two unidentified flying objects in the sky right about 1:50 pm here in hawaii. There were 3 whiteness’s. Two of my friends and myself. We were all outside for a early 4th of july celebration because we had guests. Whilst everyone was inside we were playing hide and seek. When i found both of my friends which were in the same spot they said they saw something weird in the sky so we went to get a closer look as this was just about a few seconds before i caught my friends and we all see 2 disk shaped ufos in the sky. they were decently distant at this point but you could still make out crucial details to identify the unknown object. The object left a trail that was almost like one of a airplanes trail but it was kind of a greenish color but not very pigmented green more like a really really light green. There was a very light blue color around both of the ufos. Almost like a force field that was visible to the naked eye.In the drawing i have provided, that was the only detail we were able to see other that the unidentified flying object being almost flat on both parallel sides to the ground and sky. The drawing provided is the closest i was able to draw out the detail.
July 2, 2022 · 10:00 AM · CHANGING
Frisco, TX
There was no trail. I think the source of light is sun reflection but it could not be an aircraft because it was pulsating, like it was slowly spinning, changing its form which created a different degree of sun reflection, approximately every 10 seconds. It could be ISS obased on its orbit, or big satellite, but I guess it’s still too big and too bright to be seen in Texas at 10 am in July, with clear sky. It disappeared when it crossed the zenith point half way through the sky towards east (which I guess also points to the fact that the source of light is sun reflection).
July 2, 2022 · 9:00 AM
Sutherlin, OR
I was sitting in my chair staring out the front window. I have 2 large bird cages in the window but I was sort of daydreaming watching the morning come to life. All of a sudden I noticed movement in the lower part of the window which was very strange. What I saw, and this is very hard to describe, was an individual about 4 ft in height but what was strange I couldn't make out the individual at all. What I saw was geometric in shape that made the alien invisible but you could make out the shape of the alien as it moved across in front of the window. The geometric shapes moved as the alien moved and you could see the trees, bushes through it. The suit was made of many panels of these geometric shapes that moved and changed shapes as they moved. It was not made on this planet. It was like watching something holographic. I was trying in my brain to make sense of what I was seeing. It moved off my porch but I decided I did not want to follow it. It was unlike anything I have ever seen in my lifetime. I am very interested if someone has seen anything like I am describing. I am 70 and have no mental problems. I do believe in UFOs but have never witnessed any myself. I can only imagine what I saw had to be from outer space/