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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 2, 2023 · 8:43 PM · TRIANGLE
Elyria (possibly), OH
Ring video from two cameras pointing north east and east show a light in the north east sky rising from what appears to be coming from behind the trees. Attached are screen recordings of the Ring videos. Once off camera it did seem to shine a light toward the north east ground for another 37 minutes video. Original video would not download since the cameras detected no motion they viewed and didn't record. Reporting mainly due to the surveillance balloons found in areas of the country. Its very hard to tell at night what you are looking at. I do not give permission to release my name. Thank you!
October 2, 2023 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT
Albany, NY
Driving north bound on I87 between exits 5-6 in Albany NY on 10/02/23 around 8:25 PM. Large light crossed the sky starting from behind my back right shoulder and flew directly forward of me. The light was lower than planes that were actively in the sky. There was no audible sounds that were heard during the sighting. The light travelled across faster than one could say one Mississippi. The light was white, with light trails coming off the sides of the object. The object appeared triangular in shape with no light trailing directly behind, only the sides. The light vanished directly infront of me at the edge of the horizon.
October 2, 2023 · 8:02 PM · LIGHT
MS
Looking at the western night sky about an hour after sunset, I noticed an apparent meteorite or shooting star, very bright and leaving a long trail, traveling due west towards the horizon. Immediately after disappearing, from the exact point the object burnt out, a light appeared, very slowly flashing from extremely bright to completely invisible (I’d say a period of every four seconds or so, it was hard to follow across the sky because it wasn’t flashing rapidly) and after tracking it for a minute, I realized it was more or less going back in the same direction it had entered from (i.e. traveling due east). I watched it until it disappeared behind the trees in the east. It kind of looked like a satellite, but I’ve never seen a satellite that brightened and dimmed periodically, and I checked all satellite and flight trackers and nothing showed up in the area.
October 2, 2023 · 7:58 PM · CHANGING
Oshkosh, WI
Looking at the eastern sky, I spotted 2 flashing anomaly's. One much brighter than the other. The bright one was staying pretty stationary, while the dimmer one was kind of like flying erratically. The dimmer one then shot off and disappeared The brighter one stayed stationary for a little bit longer started to change colors the flat it flashed in the next time it flashed it was easily miles away from her originally saw it jarded around a little bit and disappeared itself I did get a 30 second video I was too awestruck trying to figure out what I was seeing to record the first part
October 2, 2023 · 7:56 PM · SPHERE
Santa Fe, NM
This evening, shortly before 8pm MDT(local) I stepped outside my backdoor to look at the evening sky. Looking to the north I noticed a flying object traveling from right to left(South Easterly to North Westerly.) The original object was unlike any typical aircraft in the sense that the flashing light signature was only white-ish in color, no red, no green signatures, but distinctly flashing. Because the object seemed to be very high in altitude, it appeared to be moving very quickly, at least faster than a commercial airliner. This is what originally caught my attention. However, the trajectory of the object led me to notice a very bright "star" slightly to the left of my view. Unfortunately I did not continue to follow the blinking object as I noticed that the bright "Orb" was now in motion, and heading in the very opposite direction of the original blinking object. At this point I ran inside to grab my phone(Samsung A71) and immediately began to record. As I stepped back outside just seconds later, maybe between 5-10 seconds, I began to record the "Orb." This is when I noticed that the Orb was now heading due north, a 90 degree angle change of direction. It soon thereafter faded and disappeared. In the next few minutes I noticed what appeared to be typical satellites, maybe 4 total. What was odd was that the first two satellites were on the exact same trajectory, as were the second two, in a different trajectory. Also, what was strange was that a cloud formed shortly thereafter. There were no clouds in the general vicinity, and it felt like the cloud was formed as a result of my experience, but certainly that is speculation. It had been raining off and on for the past couple days, but at the time it was very calm, although in the periphery there was lightning flashes, but the sky in my direct location was crystal clear, except for the cloud that formed just after my sighting. I captured 27 seconds of video, but it was handheld from my phone, and I tried zooming in, but was too shaky by the time the "Orb" vanished. The first six seconds of video are the best of what I have, and after reviewing the clip I could analyze the video and notice the vibrant hues that this orb was emitting. Also, if you scrutinize the video, you can notice the center of the Orb having a dark spot. There were no sounds associated with any of these sightings. Because of the stationary nature originally, of the Orb, and then the movement and a 90 degree of change in direction, this is why I felt compelled to file this report! What is most rewarding for me and quite inexplicable is that I was also, for the first time listening to your interview with Art Bell, from 2015! This is how I found your website, and being a big fan of Art Bell, I decided to give you the report. The data reveals the clip was recorded at 7:56pm, October 2, 2023. Thank you for your attention!
October 2, 2023 · 6:45 PM · DISK
Bowling Green, KY
There were more than 3 witnesses to this sighting. 3 were in my car. My 2 children and I were on I65S going home. We passed the Smiths Grove exit and saw something coming down from the atmosphere falling it seemed and we saw another in tow falling down as well. We continued down the interstate. I told my kids that they were probably a satellite that the government claims falls sometimes. When we got a good view I could see that they had just stopped in the air. Just hanging out. We got to an open area and we could see them very well. They were the classic metallic color, round with a dome top and in the air at an angle so I could see them very well. Then we saw a jet flying toward them quickly and idk what happened after that. We continued on our way home. I tried to take pictures but they were not the best. The objects look white in the pictures
October 2, 2023 · 6:20 PM · RECTANGLE
Elyria, OH
Driving east to west on Taylor St I saw a rectangle object.in the sky. At first, I thought it was an advertising banner being pulled by a plane, but there was no plane in either direction, and the object seemed to be standing still. I kept my eye on the object for about 1 minute before it started to dissipate. I quickly pulled into an empty lot to get out and take a picture, but the object was gone. I was reading about the new Bluewalker 3 satellite, but this object wasn't that high in the sky.
October 2, 2023 · 4:04 PM · UNKNOWN
Fair Oaks, CA
Laying down on lounge by the pool and looking at the mostly clear blue sky, I saw a white dot (could not identify shape) doing circles high above (it seemed to be at high altitude where planes navigate or higher). While trying to identify it (at first I assumed it was a bird, although the height was unusual), I saw two more dots appear from the blue sky (as if altitude was reduced, therefore making them visible to my eyes), also going in circular motion and then in undulated paths, then back to circles. As I was watching the 3 dots, more began appearing, as if materializing in the blue sky. The amount kept increasing rapidly, and I began counting them. When the count got to 20, I noticed more dots were already appearing high in the sky, in in what I estimate twice the amount I had counted or more. I estimate between 60 and 80 dots flying in circles, and then I assumed they were drones. Most of the dots were visible for about a minute, leaving about 7 that kept doing circles and undulated paths for about 4 minutes. As I tried to identify what they were, they began fading in the blue sky as if their altitude was increasing and my eyes slowly lost them in the blue. At the end of the sighting, I saw an airplane passing and it seemed to go underneath the altitude of the dots, I also saw some birds at much lower altitude, which is when I decided they could not be either planes or birds. They did not take off from the ground nor did they land: They appeared from the blue sky and vanished in the blue sky, which led me to think they were not commercial drones. I look at the sky daily t clear my mind, and it's the only time I have seen a phenomena like this. If they were drones, I would certainly like to know which kind flies so high, to the point of giving the illusion that they come from high in the atmosphere and go back to it, as if leaving away towards the space. When they began disappearing, I followed just one (the total amount was overwhelming to my eyes and very hard to follow) to see where they were headed, but it simply became smaller and smaller in the blue sky. Sometimes they circled at slow speed, which made me think initially of birds. But they would accelerate suddenly to which seem like faster than an airplane. One more person was with me and saw them as well, without being able to identify their nature. I took video, however my phone captured mostly blue sky, and two blurry dots, so something is visible in the images yet very blurry (I assume because of the altitude at which they flew) and the images don't give an idea of what are the blurry white dots in the sky.
October 2, 2023 · 2:02 PM · FORMATION
Taylorville, IL
20 white craft with forward swept wings flying in formation with no sound at all at a fairly high altitude, probably 15,000 to 20,000 ft.
October 2, 2023 · 1:03 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalSilver Spring, MD
On Monday October 2nd, I saw multiple streaks of light/star/cloud trails enter the atmosphere. This was around 1p.m. At first I thought it was airplanes or satellites but the streaks would come straight down or come in diagonally, and go straight into a cloud. Sometimes coming out sometimes not. Or hover and get smaller and disappear. Around 6:15 the same evening, two streaks came down, one behind the other, stopped in mid air, and joined together. There was no trail; they now looked like stars. Just hovering. (The one streak came down and joined with the other that had stooped mid-air). Another streak hovered then very slowly turned around and went back up into the sky into a cloud directly above it. These seem to have consciousness. There was a round metallic sphere that went into a cloud nearby (and did not come back out while I watched) in the same vicinity around the time all these streaks were coming into the atmosphere. I only saw that once. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
October 2, 2023 · 3:13 AM · LIGHT
Chatsworth, GA
At around 3:00 AM, I went out on the porch to let my German Shepherd out to do her thing. It was unusually clear and very bright. While I was waiting for her return, I was facing due East. There was a bright Half-Moon at around bearing 045º, and I thought it was extra bright and orange, probably at perigee...beautiful. The moon made it possible to see very well. I thought I could almost read by the light. There were also many stars visible, constellations I specifically admired because of their brightness, Pegasus, Cassiopeia, and Andromeda at bearing 075º through 085º, approximately. Clouds were thin and very sparse. I saw Alice (my dog) returning across the field in the moonlight...few things are more beautiful than a German Shepherd at a gallop. Sorry, I digress... As I turned to face due North to reach behind me for the doorknob, I noticed in my peripheral vision some movement in the sky coming from the NNW. I turned my head and looked up to see a perfectly straight (appearance-wise) line of small blueish-white lights traveling at what I thought would have been the speed of an L-1 towing a sign (I used to work for a sign-towing company), but there was no engine noise. Just the normal night sounds. It traveled in a straight line from NNW to NNE at an azimuth of 45º and I did not lose sight of it. I think when it went in front of stars, it really went in front of them, but I could be wrong. I reached for the doorknob, opened the door, and shouted for my wife to come look at this and bring one of the cell phones so I could take a picture. but she was unable to respond in time. I turned back to watch the lights, by now almost due North, still the same azimuth. No course change, no apparent altitude change, no noise, and no sign of a tow plane. No running lights, nothing. They all appeared to be of the same size, about like the medium stars, and the same brightness. Not faint, but not bright. They appeared to be evenly spaced. I didn't know what size they really were, so I was unable to estimate the actual size, speed, or altitude. They appeared to be a towed sign with no words, just dots, by something similar to a Cessna or Stearman that tows at around 65mph, at 500 ft. But there was absolutely no engine noise or anything to indicate there was an aircraft towing it. Alice did not react, but she seldom does to anything in the sky, like planes, birds, etc... I followed them to about bearing 025º, Azmuth approximately 70º, when Alice, almost to the porch, barked at something and took off after it. I followed her for a bit (visually) then looked for the lights once again. They were gone, or out of sight. Alice returned in a few minutes, we went inside and that was about it. My opinion, for what it is worth is that it was something being towed, and for some reason used no running lights (red, green, white), and the sound could not be heard, for some reason, maybe atmospheric. I don't know why anyone would be doing that, but that's what it seemed like to me. But that's probably above my pay-grade. If not that, then some sort of unusual atmospheric phenomena, maybe because of the super-bright moon and other factors. I do not know if it was reported by anyone else, picked up on radar, or anything else. I did not see it listed in the local newspaper, nor on the local Facebook page (if it's not on Facebook, how far from the pack have you strayed?). Earlier today (Oct 5), my wife told me about a similar incident in Alaska recently, so I thought if I reported this, it might help to find the actual identification. My money is still on something towed by an unseen something. I'd like to say in closing that I do not think it was any sort of manned (for lack of a better word), extraterrestrial spacecraft, or any other nonsense. I am a Skeptic. There is a normal explanation for it that doesn't involve little, green men from Mars. I used to write for a website called Hiding the Truth, and we debunked all kinds of nonsense, pseudo-science, and the like. I don't want anyone to think I am a UFO nut, because I am not. Just an aging, reasonably-well educated Hobby-Scientist. I hope this helps. Feel free to publish all or part of this, or use it any way you see fit. Thanks [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
October 2, 2023 · 12:48 AM · LIGHT
Luray, VA
As I was sitting in my living room on my couch, I looked out of my front window which faces Northeast, and viewed two faint balls of white light that were steadily moving North up the Shenandoah Valley. When I first noticed these two lights, they were above the horizon to the immediate right of the mountaintop “Kennedy’s Peak” of the George Washington National Forest. After bringing the lights to the attention of my younger brother, we both ran over to the window and opened it it gain a better view of the lights. These lights appeared to be maintaining a constant altitude of approximately 30,000 feet AGL and traveling faster than a regular passenger aircraft- if they were at the range they appeared to be they could have been traveling at more than 800 knots. These lights were rather faint, and they maintained perfect separation of about a thumbnail on an extended arm throughout the entire duration of the sighting which lasted about ten seconds total. By the time I found a pair of binoculars to get a better view of them, the right-hand light began to fade and was quickly joined by the left-hand light before totally fading into the darkness. We watched the sky for about five minutes afterward and saw nothing out of the ordinary. FlightAware.com and FlightRadar24.com had no aircraft in the area at the time. No satellite trackers had anything in the area either. I do not believe these were Starlink satellites- I have seen them several times before, however, I have never seen just a pair traveling perfectly along the horizon. Perhaps military jets on a training exercise? Both me and my brother are lifelong aviation enthusiasts with a father who is a private pilot. I've never seen anything quite like this before.
October 1, 2023 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalDallas, TX
Object looks like a light from a distance, when observed through binoculars object is moving eracticly, very fast. Object hovers. Planes don't hover, stars don't hover and satellites don't move eracticly. Many people have witnessed this, have viewed it through binoculars and can't tell what it is. I see this object every night, it follows me wherever I go. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
October 1, 2023 · 9:19 PM · CIRCLE
Shelburne Falls, MA
We saw two round, blinking red white blue green objects in the sky. They were stationary for the most part therefore at least 10 minutes or so, and then disappeared. You can see in the video that at one point a plane flew underneath one or past or through one. The next night we noticed one object stationary for approximately 10 to 20 minutes. The week before we saw two objects, same size shape, colors, moving extremely slowly, and then disappearing into the clouds.
October 1, 2023 · 9:07 PM · LIGHT
Fort Worth, TX
Appeared as a small star but traveled very slowly, moving in an irregular pattern from west to east, lingered, then south.
October 1, 2023 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedSherman, TX
After pic was taken, they all disappeared in formation toward the south. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
October 1, 2023 · 8:47 PM · LIGHT
Hollister, MO
I arrived at home from the grocery store in Hollister, MO at 8:47PM and noticed how big the Moon appeared to be and how it was almost an orange color. I stopped to take a couple of pictures to send to my mother, who was staying about 10 minutes from me in Branson, MO at Stone Castle Inn. I continued to look at the Moon and opened my Satellite Tracker app to see what planet was close to it and saw that it was Jupiter. As I was about to walk indoors, I saw a VERY bright white, long and thin rectangle appear inbetween Jupiter and the Moon. It was moving at the pace of a pretty fast jet directly towards the Moon. It began to get even more bright white (I've never seen something this "shade" of white), it began to go faster, angling up towards the Moon and as soon as it was directly in front of it from where I was standing, it completely disappeared. It literally was there one moment and gone the next. I have never seen anything move quite like it before and the speed it reached, made no sense to me. There was no noise and for something THAT large, I do not understand why I did not hear anything. Anyways, whatever it was, was absolutely captivating and beautiful. After this event, I received a text message from my mother and she asked me if I had seen something weird by the Moon (as she went outside after I had initially sent her the two photos of the Moon). She described a very similar experience, with the only difference being that she thought she saw a smaller round shaped "something" further below this object that was moving in sync with it. I attached a photo that I sent my mother, with a circle where this object first appeared and the direction that it moved. I would love to be contacted if anyone else has reported this event.
October 1, 2023 · 8:31 PM · SPHERE
Columbia, MD
Went out on the deck just looking around. White orb moving very fast 182° South in the sky. No blinking lights. Went in to get my binoculars in the kitchen (I like looking at the moon, also have 2 telescopes) and it was no where to be found in the sky. Checked the location of the ISS @ that time it was over Australia. I checked that because I thought perhaps that's what I was seeing. That's it.
October 1, 2023 · 8:18 PM · EGG
SHELBYVILLE, TN
I have actually seen a few of these before. I see them all over no matter what state I am in I eventually find one, or they find me. They appear to be small drones that, when noticed or finished with the gathering of info, activate an active camouflage. I say active mask due to the fact that when they disappear from sight the light can be observed bending around them rather than just vanishing. They fly relatively low to the ground and can be seen at night or day. I assume most people dont see them because they dont pay attention. Other times I feel as if they are watching me in particular, keeping tabs on me for some unknown reason.
October 1, 2023 · 7:38 PM · CHEVRON
ENFIELD, CT
But I got this one on video. Honestly I don't what shape it was [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
October 1, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Vancouver, WA
On October 1st, 2023, my partner and I arrived home at approximately 7:30pm. Upon exiting the car, I looked south from our street in the Lincoln neighborhood of West Vancouver, Washington which provides a view of downtown Portland, specifically the I-405 (aka Fremont) bridge and the Bancorp tower area. I noticed two orbs of light oddly lined up and stationary. They seemed to be somewhat flickering between white/warm white and red. I thought it was odd and pointed it out to my partner. We unloaded the car then looked closer since they were still there. I took a short video and a photo then proceeded inside to make dinner. I had all but forgotten about the orbs of light while in the kitchen for an hour, I then went into the living room which has a window that faces south. I look and am surprised to see a third light orb has appeared, lined up with the original two, this is at 8:30pm. They were all still stationery and flashing between white and red, out of sync with one another. We observe them for about 10 minutes while trying to explain what they could be, we were observing domestic flights flying lower than the orbs. We started watching a movie, occasionally pausing, and getting up to look out the window, they were still there for another 30 minutes, then began seeming to disappear and reappear suddenly. It was a clear night and often only one of the three would disappear. Eventually around 10:30pm they all disappeared and did not reappear from our perspective. I posted photos to the neighborhood app Nextdoor and someone replied with a video much clearer than the ones I got of the same three orbs in the sky, the male and female heard in the video were also confused as to what they could be. Background on us: My partner (29yo M) has a bachelor’s degree in software engineering, and I (29yo F) have a bachelor’s degree and am currently in medical school. I do not know the background of the male and female who replied with a video of the 3 light orbs to my Nextdoor post.
October 1, 2023 · 6:58 PM · CIGAR
Salt Lake City, UT
There was a very bright cigar shaped object in the sky above the houses. I was facing north. There was a storm coming in. It did not move. I watched for about 4 minutes and it was motionless. Took 3 pics, went to get binocs when I came back it was gone.
October 1, 2023 · 2:08 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalNew Hartford, NY
While returning from a hike on McKeever Road, I took a photo of the trailhead sign on Route 28. It was only after we returned home later that I looked at my photos and noticed two strange clusters of lights and nearby what looks like a cloud shaped like a triangle. When I took the photo I didn't hear or see any planes or helicopters in the sky. In fact, no sounds were heard. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
October 1, 2023 · 1:55 PM · EGG
Mount Vernon, OH
Me and my wife was on the Harley. Heading to Mount Vernon Ohio. We just happen to look up and see a silver TicTac object I said, do you see that she said yeah we seen it very clear came around the tree and it was gone just like that, it was above Walmart, hovering there and then just vanished. I’m absolutely positive it was a ufo