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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 22, 2023 · 8:15 AM · DISK
Lynchburg, VA
The craft were stationary as I watched a small plane pass them headed to the airport - they hung in the air in a non- equilateral formation of a triangle- I pulled over to take a picture but by the time I got the car pulled over and turned back to look they were gone. I am a professional who was headed to work a little after 8 am. I have never had an experience like this before - so startling as it was in bright morning light- and I felt I saw them clearly
September 22, 2023 · 5:20 AM · TRIANGLE
Bullhead City, AZ
We go out in the front yard early in the morning, so the dog can do his thing. I like looking up at the stars, just looking around, and it was slightly cloudy that morning, but then I saw a v shape just above me, about 6 lights that were dim, no sound and it by fast. My husband was out with me, but by the time I could say anything it was gone.
September 21, 2023 · 11:41 PM · SPHERE
Albuquerque, NM
Facing South-Fast Moving Light ball (golf ball) appeared out of nowhere and shot straight up and disappeared. It was between 11:30 and 11:45pm.
September 21, 2023 · 11:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Terre Haute, IN
My dog was walking through the yard. Then stopped and looked around. Not a usual thing he would do. After a couple of seconds of looking around, he looked up when a beam of a lighter blue light struck him. The light was visible for a second or two. Then he ran inside once the light flashed on him. I did not hear a noise or anything from the sky. Once my dog came back in, I tried to get him to go back out but he wouldn’t go into the yard.
September 21, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Ocean City, MD
Nineteen independent red lights appeared over the ocean in sky well above horizon. They appeared in random spots and had no tail like a flare or fireball. They they disappeared after 20-30 seconds. The lights were not in a line and not all at the same height but well above the horizon.
September 21, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Freedom, ME
myself and my fiancée were out watching the stars .... it was a clear evening with multiple satellites and aircraft going over. Being from the UK im used to light pollution so this was very special - no light pollution at all! my attention was drawn to what at first appeared to be a satellite - it was about 30 degrees above the horizon and was brighter than previous satellites. It was traveling from the NW towards the North at a 'normal' satellite speed. However - it was bouncing / jumping up and down. I would describe it as having a similar appearance to a trace from an ECG monitor. I asked my fiancée if she was seeing the same as me and she confirmed that she was. i know what a satellite looks like - i know what starlink looks like. I work at an airport and am familiar with all known aircraft. I have no idea what this was......
September 21, 2023 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Hammonton, NJ
I’m from Florida, and familiar with starlink. Naturally, I assumed it was starlink at first. But this line of lights was not as many, and disappeared one by one. It only lasted 1or 2 min max. By the time we drove out from under trees it was gone. I tried to take pictures, but couldn’t get them without the flash hitting the windshield. I took two. They are terrible photos. But the last remaining light, clearly has a small light shining down under it. Not the blur from the street lights, a light coming out from under it. I looked up starlink in this area of south NJ and it says there isn’t any to be seen within the next 5 days. I would not report a starlink, as I’m familiar with them.
September 21, 2023 · 8:35 PM · CIRCLE
Onalaska, WI, WI
It is on my nest camera and is in my camera's view for an hour on and off, and moves across the sky in view of my nest camera. It was very large when it was right over me.
September 21, 2023 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
Hot Springs, SD
I went outside for a cigarette around 2005 and looked up at sky like I always do. I saw 2 lines of green lights moving fast across the sky from west to east. At first I thought it might have been a meteor with a tale but I saw it was dozens of individual lights, green & constant. Staggered in random groups from 1 to 3 in a row, then space, then another group. Both lines different in groupings and spacing, reminding me of piano player tape. The line of lights moved very fast & w/o sound. As the got farther east they began disappearing from the beginning of lines to end but all at one spot in sky. Seemed like they were entering a tunnel or turning off lights when reaching a certain spot. Sky was clear & lights were much brighter than stars in sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 21, 2023 · 7:14 PM · DISK
hampton, NH
Im a retired police detective who served in Afghanistan as a military contractor. I'm seventy years old. In good health non drinker or drug person. At 7:17, I was sitting on my front porch smoking a cigar. The moon was to my right. To the left of the moon was clear, and I could see no clouds. As I looked up to the sky to the left of the moon. Three saucer-like or balls looking orange then appeared in my vision. There was a shimmer hard to detect the shape, plus I'm seventy. They had what appeared to be rotating white-red-orange lights. To the right of me, looking up from the stairs left of the moon coming into the moonlight, I checked my phone. They were going due north. I would estimate ten thousand feet. The first three craft were in delta formation Since Pease Air force base is several miles from my house, I thought they may be planes in formation I have seen that before. I didn't think much of it. Seconds later, the original three were followed by at least 20. following loosely put with purpose. Not floating in a straight line same path North. At least thirty or forty more after that. Now I said WTF? Then more were coming. I have been in hot zones in the past I didn't want my imagination to run away, But I said to myself this is an armada there going to take over Pease. They were not moving at a high rate of speed. I sound like a nut, but I actually thought it was an invasion. I feel like a fool thinking of it. This wasn't a drone, flares, Elon's toys or Jupitor. Im not that stupid I was trained extensively to be an observer. I also knew this may be significant. I told myself to pay attention. They had a purpose going north. I ran to my neighbor's house across the street. To help me verify I was on his ring photo thing. He wasn't home. I went back in the street, praying someone was seeing this and not just me. Then, out of nowhere, Im not going to say wormhole from nothing came something like a white maggot it was a length of light it popped out of nowhere, gyrating, squiggling, it went through the lights that were moving north. It dipped behind my vision was blocked by a tree. Then this made me say Woah! In the moonlight, I could see clearly. Rising from below the tree was a delta shape, something in had to be turned sideways like I was watching a black triangle, much lower than the lights, I saw the outline distinctly. I have no proof, but I think that white squiggly thing that went behind the top of the tree was the Delta Craft I'm calling it. It was black I could only see the silhouette as it flew in front of the moon. No light whatsoever. With the coming and going of the airport I thought for a minute it could be dangerous. It traveled on the same path. I could only estimate, but it was the size of a trailer truck. Much lower in altitude. Then nothing.I ran into the house thinking it would be all over the news, but nothing. My wife and I checked everything, even the local papers and such, but nothing. I know what I saw I have the pictures of the Armada and the white thing, for lack of a better word. Nothing of the delta craft sorry my phone died. Well, that's it.I told no one, but my neighbor saw the photo. I do find it strange not another person saw it. All you had to be doing was looking at the moon.
September 21, 2023 · 3:06 AM · FLASH
Loveland, CO
Roused at 3:05 am. Had feeling to look out my bedroom window and so I did. When I look around in the sky I noticed a flashing white light. I watched to see if it was a plane. Noticed it was going much faster than a plane. It started about half way in my window facing East then within 15 seconds it was in the Southeast part of the sky. I reached for my phone to get video and when i got back, moments later, i look out to find it was nearing the South part of the sky. It flashed two more times and it was gone. There was still open sky to see more flashing, but nothing.
September 21, 2023 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
We were airborne heading East at 39000 feet, NE
My copilot and I started seeing the objects while at 39,000 feet around Omaha, Nebraska. We were flying east to Detroit, MI from Las Vegas, Nevada. We seen as many as 4 objects at a time, traveling in multiple directions outside the earths atmosphere. They kept to an area just in front of the bowl of Ursa Major. It was almost as if they were playing with each other like a pod of dolphins. The objects looked like stars but moving at high speeds and changing directions. At times they would get brighter than any of the stars in the sky. They appeared to be way outside the atmosphere of earth. Total duration of the sighting was at least 2 hours. The magnetic bearing of the objects stayed at about a 035. Hence the reason along with other factors I believe the objects to be way outside earths atmosphere. This is my second time seeing these objects while I was flying through this same area.
September 20, 2023 · 11:46 PM · CHANGING
Cowen, WV
There were over a hundred flashing lights everywhere in the night sky.
September 20, 2023 · 11:05 PM · TRIANGLE
Madison, WI
My boyfriend and I went to check on the apartment elevator that was malfunctioning (he does maintenance there). He asked if I wanted to check out the rooftop of the building. It has views of both lake Mendota and lake Monona (being on the isthmus) and state Capitol building. We took pictures of the capitol and one video admiring the night time skyline. There was complete cloud cover. Then we both witnessed three individual lights came together to form a triangle which moved congruently before disappearing up into the cloud cover. It happened quickly but we both saw it and were left speechless. The lights appeared high over Lake Monona (so, to the south of the Constellation building).
September 20, 2023 · 2:28 PM · CHANGING
Probable conventionalColumbus, OH
One White object that appeared to change shape as it moved through space. Was up as high as a plane, flying over the 270/315 area. My husband and I both witnessed it. A lot of birds were flying around the area which caused us to step outside, I looked over to the south side of our house and saw it in the air. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
September 20, 2023 · 12:57 PM · DISK
Nashville, TN
I was looking at clouds when I noticed a stationary object in the Western sky. It was dull metallic in color and made no sound. It was disk shaped with the exception of a half sphere attached to the bottom of the object. I'm guessing that it was 500 to 800ft in altitude. I took a picture using my cellphone camera. After I took the picture I checked it and when I looked at the sky again the object was gone. The entire sighting lasted about 25 seconds.
September 20, 2023 · 6:35 AM · RECTANGLE
Probable conventionalArizona City, AZ
Glowing green with white lights on it [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
September 20, 2023 · 5:00 AM · CIRCLE
Milwaukee, 0
I was walking out to my car at 5am on sep 20th 2023 I walked half way down the sidewalk and turned around to talk to my fiancé as she locked the door I saw a very bright light like Jupiter but in the wrong spot while I was trying to figure out what star or planet it could be it moved it In almost an instant it zig zaged across the sky while blinking in and out not like a plane like it would move fast then stop disappear and reappear somewhere else as I watched this happen I called Mr fiancé over to see it I struggled to pull my phone out as fast as I could and hit record it seemed as soon as I hit record it backed off and was harder to see but I did manage to record the light move at high speed and blink in and out and I hope the video can be enhanced to possibly see more I suspect there may of been more then one UAP on video
September 20, 2023 · 4:01 AM · CIRCLE
Oakland, ME
We have seen an object around 15 times, which hovers in a figure 8 and move closer and further for months. On the 20th of September at around 4 am, I took a video of it. And there was also to the right of it miles away I saw one blinking red and green. Of course you think plane but i took a video of this on a clear clear day, over a field. The first one moves alot and the second one disappears and moves. It's a need to watch.
September 20, 2023 · 3:07 AM · UNKNOWN
Shasta lake, CA
I am a security guard at a dam with 8 years of time served in the U.S. Army. I’m an E-6 in the Army Reserve who holds a secret clearance. Witness 2 is a lieutenant at the dam. At precisely 307 AM, I was traveling by vehicle across the dam. I observed a light to the north which was of equal brightness to the North Star. I exited the vehicle at the center of the dam and noticed that two more lights had appeared above and below the original “star”. None of the lights were moving. The lights then faded and reappeared at different times, not synchronized with each other. I then finished crossing to the East side of the dam where I contacted my lieutenant and we looked together. During this time, with our bare eyes we witnessed some lights get bright then fade and some began to move, some in groups some as individuals. Some would disappear while moving, some would stop and remain lit before fading. This is when we decided they were not satellites seeing as how their movements did not match that of a satellite. At this point there were approximately 6 lights we could actively see. My lieutenant brought night vision lenses and through these we were able to observe many more lights that were not visible to our bare eyes. It’s important to note that throughout the duration or this, we thought some were simply just stars until they began moving and we realized how many there actually were. It seemed the longer we observed, the more we noticed. The lights seemed to like groups of triangles that were more obtuse and not perfect triangles. There were about 6 or 7 groups of triangles. They also sat in groups of 4 but not in perfect squares. I only observed 2 groups of 4. I viewed two that appeared to drop something at a great speed. The dropped “objects” would have looked like “shooting stars” had they not come directly from the moving lights. While moving the dropped “objects” would rapidly light up and disappear at a much greater speed than the other lights. Both my lieutenant and I both viewed one light that was bright like the others and slow moving but seemed to have an orb or beginning of some tail around it as if it were entering the atmosphere and meeting with extreme heat. This seemed like just a light to the naked eye but using night vision you could see the orb around it. My lieutenant left me the night vision and returned to his duties at this point and I then used my phone to record through night vision. I have approximately 16 total minutes of footage through the night vision. I am aware that some moving lights observed may be satellites, but many were not. Having irregular movements. These lights were observed north but stretched from East to West. Most appeared in the East but that is mostly where I was observing since that was the original area I had seen the lights. I have video of multiple going from still to moving, gaining brightness and fading and one that appeared to drop something. This anomaly continued until the Sun appeared and there was nothing visible in the sky once this happened.
September 19, 2023 · 10:37 PM · CIRCLE
Mercersburg, PA
Over the last nearly year, I have been seeing this orange orb popping out of thin air, always around the 10:30 to 10:37 pm Eastern Time Zone, approximately Northeast with a heading of approximately 064. It will vary in brightness, sometimes glowing very brightly, and remain stationary in the air. A few weeks ago, one of my coworkers decided to start flashing it with his phone flashlight, and after he did that it would start moving approximately Southeast at a slow pace like an airplane would. This has remained a constant trigger for the UAP among all times it has appeared. I have found no correlation as to what days or what triggers it’s appearance. But all coworkers on break that are outside and facing it’s direction have all seen it. 4 coworkers plus myself. Attached is a short video, zoomed in, looking at the orb as it remains stationary. The loud buzzer in the video is simply our bell signifying that our break has ended. IMG_0956 is an non zoomed picture. IMG_0959 is a screenshot of my Plane Finder app, showing that there are no known aircraft flying around the Greencastle, Waynesboro or edge of Gettysburg area. My estimation would be near Greencastle to Waynesboro area judging by the distance myself, but could be wrong.
September 19, 2023 · 10:00 PM · FLASH
Revere, MA
Something was spotted looking through the window I went outside to my backyard and recorded a flash of light that captured a unknown entity in the video.
September 19, 2023 · 9:14 PM · RECTANGLE
IdentifiedStrong City, KS
Very distinct bright white solid lights which appeared slightly vertical, rectangular to horizon (4 pin heads; larger than planets, stars, aircraft) coming up individually in a very straight diagonal line from ground level approximately 3/4" apart travelling northwest to southeast. Approximately 8 in number. Within the course of 3 minutes they each disappeared sequentially at the same point roughly 1/3 high in the sky to dead center above me. I was observing stars in the Flint Hills when this occurred (i.e., no one else present). I took pictures with an iphone7 (i.e., obviously an old model) as they sequentially came up but unfortunately flash was on (i.e., can't see black sky/white objects; may be able to photoshop though I tried a couple of techniques with no success). Hadn't intended to take pictures on outing. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
September 19, 2023 · 1:40 PM · CIRCLE
Grants, NM
As is usually the case, I did not notice any objects in the sky until I got home and looked at the photos. I have photographs of many objects, mainly orbs, but this is the first that I have seen a solid ring shaped object. The rectangular object is very similar to several that I have photographed across the western U.S. . I did use a photo editor to clean up the image, but I have the raw photo as well. I included a zoom of the area of the pic with the craft.