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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 27, 2023 · 8:45 AM · OTHER
cashtown/ortanna, PA
On 09/27/2023 between 830 am and 9 am myself and a friend were headed to work as usual and a tiny funnel looked like it was forming out of a cloud. I screamed at my friend thinking it was a tornado funnel. The next thing we witnessed was a giant shadow taking 5 steps and then disappearing. The shadow man in the sky looked like a giant human form. Both of us see the same thing.
September 27, 2023 · 6:55 AM · UNKNOWN
oklahoma city, OK
There are two very bright objects in the sky. Due to the large size of the light they seem rather near, however, one cannot tell how near or far they are. They do not move. When the sun rises they are no longer visible. These are not stars. The object is a light so i did not check any characteristics below. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
September 27, 2023 · 2:30 AM · CROSS
Corsicana, TX
The light is beginning to dim more as I’m writing this at 2:45, but got the last 15 minuets I have been watching the light as the other 4 has been fading and coming back, only now is it becoming difficult to see. The lights are in an orientation that would be easily described as a cross, or almost the shape of a bull skull. There is one light that seems to move around the other lights as the others stay in position and fade in and out, aside from the one in the center of all the lights. In total, there is 6 lights with the tip that is closest to the strongest light being the dimmest, the arms of the cross are equal in orientation to the bright light, and along with the bottom of the cross, fade in and out. The lights continue to fade more and more as I write this, now I can only see 2-3 faint strobes along side the now much smaller center light. I have seen a UFO once before in Granbury, one that was at least 50 miles long and in the shape of a bus, but this has been the longest lasting and doesn’t align with any consultation or star pattern I have ever witnessed. With the moon basically looking like a strobe light at the moment with how bright it is and it is making the sky, I am surprised that I am able to see it. Still, in comparison to the other star consultations in the sky not a single one is showing the same signs as the lights. These lights are a bright white from where I am, and seeing as I can see the other planes coming in and out, moving through the sky while the strobes of their lights happen, I can confidently and with 100% certainty say that this is not a plane nor a set of stars. The object appears to be very very high in the atmosphere, but not in orbit or as low as a plane would be.
September 26, 2023 · 10:50 PM · SPHERE
North Bellmore, NY
I was leaving to walk my dog when I saw what looked like a meteor by its brightness. It did not move like one but did maneuver in the sky with some speed. It was going north to south then stood stationary. It would change from bright white to orange the fade out. Then repeat. As it was faded out, it maneuvered further away when dark then reappear in another spot illuminated again. Looked like it could have been a very large drone, but it's range of travel seemed unlikely to be a personal drone. It eventually remained lit and returned to the north off into the horizon and left my sight heading towards North Shore of LI / Connecticut. I recorded 2 30 second video clips. Also this was 100% not a plane or helicopter. I had full visual of all the plane traffic in the area and they all were at the correct altitudes for arrival into JFK. This light was intense. You can see airplanes and a star in the background of the videos I took.
September 26, 2023 · 8:35 PM · CIRCLE
Salt Lake City, UT
A white orb sting from the my backyard and it was still pretty close that I knew it was not an airplane. It didn’t have any flashing lights or really loud noise. It’s pretty quiet. I like to hear was crickets in the backyard and as it was flying by I was saying that I could see you and it slowly turned off like I could not see any more like his lights went dim, but you can still kind of family see it
September 26, 2023 · 7:26 PM · SPHERE
Atchison, KS
I noticed the object because of the rate of climb and pause. It would ascend around 2 or 3 hundred feet diagonally southward and pause for a half second. It did this a few times and then flew directly westward with no pause after it's last climb at a ridiculous speed. There was ample daylight still as it headed west, but no telltale sign of any type of aircraft body. It remained a dull orange colored orb as it flew out of sight.
September 25, 2023 · 10:51 PM · SPHERE
Edgerton, MO
This is the second time I have video recorded this ball of light in the sky over my farm. It is about the height of a helicopter but makes no sound. It hovers and makes swift changes in direction but stays in the same area. I was trying to find out what this object may be. I do live close to an airport and know what the airplanes look like it does not seem as high as the airplanes and stays in the same spot appearing to be a spinning ball of light.
September 25, 2023 · 9:11 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalRollinsville, CO
I was elk hunting in the mountains near Rollinsville, CO on Monday the 25th of September. At around 2110 hours, I stepped outside of the cabin to brush my teeth. It was a clear dark night with all the stars visible. I was looking at the big dipper when I saw 6 or so rectangular lights appear in a linear formation equidistant apart. They were moving west to east at commercial airliner cruising altitude but faster. I watched them for about 5 seconds or so then they started to disappear one by one. Unfortunately, it happened too fast for me to retrieve my cell phone and take a picture or video. An investigator can contact me if they wish. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 25, 2023 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Sitting on patio facing wester sky. At approx. 7:30PM, at about a 45 degree angle at 280 degrees west, three objects began moving from the same spot in three different directions. Size approximated a bright star. Speed was faster than any satellite we've seen. And they disappeared when approx. overhead. Within a minute or two, from the same originating spot, one took off at the same speed towards the SE. We lost count but around six to eight repeated with about 30 second intervals. The last event was two pair on the same track as the others. They made no sound. My wife and I both clearly saw the objects. She thinks they were meteors - after some research on Utube, I saw nothing similar via video or by verbal description. I'm not sure what they were. Contact me if you wish.
September 25, 2023 · 6:55 PM · LIGHT
mason city clear lake area, IA
One night I returned home to watch the evening news and they were announcing a ufo had been seen traveling over the town from south to north and going down in a quarry. Around the same time-and I have the news clipping, a slow moving light was being watched as it receded over the airport by several witnesses when they got of their cars to look. I have the news clipping. One was a cop, another was a friend of mine. More recently I decided to get out my telescope-not a cheap one. I pointed it straight up and there were 6 or so large orbs moving south to north single file. I must say at satellite speed. This was before Starlink. Just looked very odd to me.
September 25, 2023 · 3:30 PM · DISK
Probable conventionalEstes Park, CO
Took a photo of the church at Camp Malo, Colorado. Later, while looking at my photos, I noticed something strange and unusual in the sky above the church cross that I can't identify. I spent 30 years in the Navy and saw a lot of very interesting things flying into and out of the ocean and across the sky. I also worked a lot with helicopters and jets and this doesn't appear to be either. I didn't see this object when I was taking the photo, and it doesn't appear in any of the other photos of the church that I took. When I zoomed in to get a closer look, it almost looks disk shaped with a rectangular light on top. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]
September 25, 2023 · 9:54 AM · LIGHT
Delta Township, MI
Stationary save for recording. Appeared again the next evening. Fast moving cloud also appeared with a light flash in middle
September 25, 2023 · 9:30 AM · CHANGING
Los Angeles, CA
Thought I saw a plane in the sky, but then it turned into different shapes and three or four lights and then it was in a straight line nose and a blob. It was very weird and it was [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
September 25, 2023 · 1:50 AM · FIREBALL
IdentifiedTehachapi, CA
I was sitting on my 2nd story back porch facing south at 1:50AM when a large fireball erupted up and over the hill and silently billowed out colorful flames. They were blue, orange, and pink- very vibrant with a smoky trail. It then changed to a horizontal trajectory and faded into an orange orb in a vertical column if light with a faint orange trail. It then slowly and silently floated from southwest to southeast of my location, taking a curved path across the valley Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
September 24, 2023 · 9:05 PM · DISK
Centralia, IL
Driving into Centralia on US-51 from Irvington, I looked to my left (west) and saw lights in a slight diagonal curved row. We pulled over on the side of the road (near Country Bobs) and watched as the seemingly stagnant object floated, then rotated slightly, and started to shut lights off shut off before it disappeared in a blink of an eye. While watching it, you could see a faint outline of a craft in the dark sky. This all happened within seconds. We did not hear any unusual sounds. The area that this happened in is mostly farmland with scattered houses.
September 24, 2023 · 6:15 PM · DISK
Naperville, IL
We were looking up at the sky when we noticed a black disc-like object slowly moving through the sky, but was moving in a straight line at first. Then, it quickly shot to the side, then shot to the other side. Not sure if this is a drone capability, but it wasn't like anything we've ever seen.
September 24, 2023 · 7:03 AM · CIRCLE
Monroe, GA
Could it be a star? Cloudy. Couldn't see other stars. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
September 23, 2023 · 10:05 PM · CHANGING
Loveland, CO
A stationary white distant object that changed shape and size was observed in the sky by two witnesses. Initially it was slightly brighter and larger than Venus, which made the two witnesses (husband and wife) take notice because it seemed unusual and out of place. Multiple times the object changed shapes, expanded in size, and shrunk back down to its original size. The camera was a Samsung A11 smartphone which was zoomed to its maximum during the whole time images were taken. The other witness was watching the object unaided, and also with binoculars, and independently verified what he saw confirmed the behavior of the object as shown by the images. After about a ten minute period, they stopped watching and walked back into their home perplexed by what they both saw. This report being made on behalf of the witnesses.
September 23, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalCrittenden, KY
On the night of september twenty third, at about nine thirty p m I was taking my dog out and seen brigth white moving from the northwest to the southeast. At first there was 2and I hollered for my Wife. When she got to the back porch the 2 had disappeared in the southeast. That's when we saw 8 more appear in the northwest. We watched them move across the sky the same has the others and disappear then 4 more appeared and moved across the sky and to same spot as the others and just vanish. They moved at a very fast pace but they were all in a somewhat straight line and somewhat evenly spaced in the 3 separate groups we saw. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 23, 2023 · 10:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Seattle, WA
What appeared to be a decently low flying commercial airplane did not move *at all* for several minutes, and then suddenly vanished from that spot in the sky. It was a completely clear sky. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
September 23, 2023 · 5:30 AM · FLASH
Huntersville, NC
I am an Airline Pilot flying a Boeing 767 from Memphis, TN to Charlotte, NC. All month the same other Pilot and I have been witnessing strange lights in the sky. On this particular early morning, we had two more strange occurrences. The first happened at cruising altitude. I can’t recall if we were at 34000 or 36000 feet. We were scanning the skies because we have seen numerous strange light occurrences all week. They have always been small lights appearing and disappearing that seem to be in outer space. This one was different. Within 5-10 seconds, right as we were looking outside the left window of the aircraft cockpit, we both saw 3 separate very bright flashes of light in the same vicinity of each other that were bluish green in color. They flashed in sequential order then never reappeared. About 20 minutes later, on our descent into Charlotte, NC I saw a small white light from deep outer space that quickly flew towards my side of the cockpit on the right side until it appeared as a large white orb then vanished. It started as a small light like a shooting star, then within 3-5 seconds it was a large orb that felt like was within 5-10 miles from us. The orb was about the size of a basketball before it vanished. I was truly in awe of what I had just witnessed. The other Pilot did not see this orb as it happened so fast. What was really disturbing to me, is that I felt the orb could read my thoughts. Just prior to this happening, I was still trying to digest the previous 3 flashes of light on the left side of the airplane. I distinctly remember thinking to myself without speaking, asking whatever light phenomenon to show me sometimes definitive so I could rule out satellites, etc. Within a minute of me thinking this, the orb appeared. The other Pilot also told me he almost felt like these light phenomenon were reading our minds or telepathically communicating with us. I know this sounds absolutely insane, but it is what we experienced.
September 22, 2023 · 8:12 PM · CIRCLE
Whitewater, CO
Last night there was a line slightly curved in the sky with what appeared to be a haze only in the line. One broke ranks and zoomed to the right in the haze then the whole thing vanished. The rest of the sky was clear and without aircraft until they disappeared. Then suddenly there were at least 6 aircraft. Tonight the sky was clear, a line of about 20 craft evenly spaced in a straight line. I tried to get a picture of it and my phone went blank. It’s never happened before. When my phone came on they had remained in formation and moved to the far right then vanished. This took all of a couple minutes. Immediately after there were aircraft in the sky. I am a flight nurse and have never seen anything remotely like this before.
September 22, 2023 · 5:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Mukilteo, WA
I was inside the Mukilteo ferry terminal when I saw a dark object moving North over South Whidbey Island. That is about 3.5 miles from where I was. It was probably 500 to 800 ft above the Island. After watching it for a few seconds I could see that it was not an airplane. There were no wings or tail and it appeared to be tumbling as it moved forward. I alerted a young lady that was there and she snapped these shots. At that point it had made an arcing turn to NE and was about over Hat Island when took them. Unfortunately when you zoom in they get blurry. It then continued in the direction of the Tulalip reservation and disappeared. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
September 22, 2023 · 1:34 PM · CHANGING
North las vegas, NV
The craft was changing shapes between a dark/black sphere, cube and pyramid or diamond shape. It had a distorted field around it that you could see because of the spectrum of light around it bent by the sun. It would move in wave motion not truly straight. No noise and all air traffic seemed to stop before and during the event. After the event you could hear jets from Nellis Airforce base. Recorded video of the event. I have a longer video but your system says the file is too big. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]