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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 17, 2023 · 1:30 AM · CYLINDER
Hueytown, AL
The first night I only noticed one oblong shape hovering. The second night I was more aware and the sky was full of movement along with many in different shapes ( triangular, oblong, circle, sphere) hovering. I even seen beams of light scan around the said UFO's. I noticed something falling from the sky on several accounts As I was sitting out watching the sky I heard tin crashing in a neighbors yard. When I looked in that direction I seen something that seemed to be crawling and the eyes were like lights. Then I heard dogs barking in another neighbors direction when I seen the same lighted eyes except this time it was walking with a slump. I will be watching tonight but I have no camera to take pictures or video. I do apologize, I wish I did.
September 16, 2023 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Lake Worth, FL
I was outside viewing about 7 or so before I ran inside to grab my cell phone, it was in my room so grabbed my mothers. I filmed for 6 minutes or so, ran back inside to get my mom to witness and handed her her phone. I ran to my room and grabbed my phone because its newer so I figured it was a better camera. I sent the video to my cousin who is a sergeant in the marines and asked if these looked like drones, flares or something else military oriented. He said: "I have no clue what that could’ve been. No way it was a drone or flare with the way those were moving that’s really cool though." While sky lanterns are illegal in FL I know people will break the law so entertained these objects could be that, but in one video an orb disappears then reappears in the 6:04 video (within the first 17 seconds or so), and the lot of them move backwards. It was not breezy at all out, you can see there is no movement in the treetops. I suppose a pocket of air up high could have caused the backwards movement. Here's a Youtube link with all of the footage stitched together unedited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRtWfXbF2c
September 16, 2023 · 10:05 PM · DISK
Kirksville, MO
I'm seeing a mixture of lights that seem to follow a circular pattern around like red and green beaconing lights with white lights and it just moved probably a good few feet or so from previous location.
September 16, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
Bedding down for the night (currently homeless) and got laid down on my back looking up at the stars from my not comfortable sleeping position and bogey!, from the W - N.W. did fly one single BIGGER, brighter, fuzzy (kinda) spark. It trucked along as they typically do. It was such an obvious UAP (to me) that I did emote (mental telepathy) out loud!, to any/all parking lot users within mindshot to, "look up! There's one!" It continued on to the E - S.E. until out of my viewable sight. -end
September 16, 2023 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Around Ashland or Thornton, NH
We saw the object hovering and then disappear. My significant other is ex Air Force and didn’t recognize the object as having any light pattern he was aware of. It was high above the highway in the mountains and it suddenly was gone. The aura was visible when I enlarged the image I took with my phone. I am not necessarily requesting to speak with an investigator but would be happy to if the investigators have questions.
September 16, 2023 · 8:35 PM · OTHER
Plainview, NY
Spotted around 8:35 pm by my friend when moving the car into the driveway of the house. After approximately two to three minutes, all lights on the craft dimmed in sync and were no longer visible. No clouds in the sky. He called me to come outside to see what he saw. I came out and saw the craft. I went back inside the house to get a camera and when returning to the driveway, the craft was no longer visible. My friend is a huge UFO skeptic and saw the same thing and swears by it as well.
September 16, 2023 · 8:16 PM · LIGHT
Indian Lake, NY
8:16 pm Saturday night, September 16, 2023 - UFO spotting in Indian Lake, NY - an extra bright light moving vertical relatively fast (at first thought it was a satellite), but then started going back and forth horizontal and then began to fade and disappeared.
September 16, 2023 · 8:15 PM · CHANGING
Southbury, CT
At 8:15, I noticed two bright lights in the sky circling each other in a tight circle, then into a larger circle. Then the two lights went off in opposite directions of each other (one SW and one NE). I was able to take a pic of them close together, then the second video shows them going away from each other. The third 44 sec video is of one of the crafts/lights leaving. When you zoom in, the object is flashing multiple colors and seems to be rotating/tumbling. No sounds came from either of the crafts and no vapor trail or any obvious way of propulsion.
September 16, 2023 · 8:13 PM · SPHERE
North Tonawanda, NY
While observing the ISS passing overhead, I saw a star-like object travelling parallel to, and just north of the ISS. It was perhaps 5 degrees north of the ISS, and "pacing" it in the sky. It was pulsating in light intensity, about 6 times in the 40 seconds of observation. It's speed was about double that of the ISS. It went out of view in the northeast, as did the ISS.
September 16, 2023 · 8:12 PM · LIGHT
Conneaut, OH
My wife and I were watching the ISS fly over our house. Suddenly we saw another light rapidly coming up behind the ISS, on what appeared to be the same path as the ISS. The light then caught up to and rapidly passed the ISS, at which point we could tell it was quite a bit higher than the ISS and much, much faster. The light passed above and just slightly to the left of the space station, and quickly disappeared behind the clouds. We watched the ISS for probably another 45 seconds to a minute until it also went behind the clouds.
September 16, 2023 · 8:05 PM · SPHERE
Levittown, NY
I am including additional photos, to a previous post. On September 16, 2023 around 8 PM, I witnessed a short downward flash in the night sky, which turned into a pulsing sphere, that traveled across the sky in a southeast direction. The video is a bit shaky because I was going down my driveway to get a better view with my video phone, and I was able to later review in detail. I’ve enclosed the original video, and some enlarged photos from frames, which are pretty INCREDIBLE.. Aside from the changing colors, there appears to be possible rims, split shapes and something inside another photo but very faint. I hope this can be reviewed.
September 16, 2023 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Levittown, NY
I was ready to leave my driveway around 8pm on Saturday September 16, 2023 and was startled to observe a short flash, very defined light burst where I looked up to the left in the dark sky, which appeared similar to a falling star but much shorter and wider, and probably a mile high. It then stopped and turned into a round bright light. I grabbed my phone, and started to video. It was spherical, like an orb, and moved steadily across the sky going south and east. It was also very high in the sky and I was able to film about two minutes on my phone camera but the video was a little shaky because I was walking down my driveway to keep filming it because it was going behind the trees, from my view. After I could no longer see it to film, I reviewed the video. The zoomed in shots are of a sphere, that changed colors, including golden yellow, light blues and light red, and one photo (if clear, looks like something sitting inside?) Definitely not a plane, lantern, or drone. I will include the video and the zoomed photos I have from screenshots of frames. I don’t know if anyone else in the area saw this, but I did call the 8th Police Precinct. The area was initially approximately 40.729 Latitude, -73.504 Longitude. Please let me know any information that may be shared. Thank you.
September 16, 2023 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Clearfield, UT
7 year old and his friend noticed a fireball in the sky while jumping on the trampoline. It was just before sunset. They took pictures and ran in to tell us but when we went to look it was gone.
September 16, 2023 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
New Haven, CT
A nice night, my husband (former Air Force) and I were on our deck enjoying the night. He looked up and said "Look! A shooting star!" I caught it flying diagonally downwards from the east (about a 30 degree trajectory) and it just stopped. The "tail" of what we first thought was a shooting star dissipated very quickly before it stopped in mid-air. Just a small dot of light. Then three steady, round red lights poof! went on. It just hung out there, perfectly still, in mid air for about a minute. Then the lights turned green for a few seconds. The lights went white and it sped off west. We lost sight of it behind the trees. There was no sound, no chem trails, no light trail. No craft in the sky. We unfortunately did not get a picture. We weren't quick enough. But I can draw a diagram to figure the distance and size.
September 16, 2023 · 4:50 PM · CROSS
Chicago, IL
Item, larger than an eagle, traveling eastward (and potentially a little north or south), not moving upwards or downwards in the sky. It appeared to be flying lower than planes that were landing Midway Airport. It was further south of the planes landing. [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
September 16, 2023 · 4:30 AM · CYLINDER
Versailles, IN
near my window that were beyond anything I've seen. Lights varied from green, blue, red and white. It flashed away quickly and dissappeared after several hours of staying in the same place.
September 16, 2023 · 4:26 AM · UNKNOWN
Kinston, NC
I don’t know how to explain it I just know I was scared and thought of calling the police then I realized the police takes over 45 minutes to get to my home cause I’m on the border line of two counties and they might’ve thought I was crazy if I didn’t have proof so I recorded and took pictures as I always do. I saw these orbs look like it was in a triangle form and a being above it that looked like some sort of insect or praying mantis with two glowing lights on the face but it didn’t have a face and it looked like it was holding something.
September 16, 2023 · 2:06 AM · FLASH
Sagola, MI
I have been witnessing strange lights or orbs (I’m honestly not sure) for over a year now. They are sometimes white, sometimes flashing different colors. They seem to stay in a generalized area for the most part but will bounce around. There are times that they move significantly. I’ve caught on film throughout this past year many things I cannot explain. I’ve shown people that don’t understand it either. In one picture you see a white ball looking object on the ground in front of the shed. I was outside on the porch smoking a cigarette when I looked and noticed something seeming to glow. I then took a video and showed the people whose house it was and they had no explanation of what it could be. We were on a dirt road with no neighbors anywhere near us so it wasn’t some ball from a neighbors yard or balloon or whatever. The videos are anywhere from last July- yesterday. I would love for someone to come witness this that can give me some sort of peace of mind about what I’m dealing with. There are many videos some hour or longer, in which case a couple times I have lost spurts of time. I have no recollection of those minutes that pass. I should note that I have never felt threatened or scared in their presence, just curious and almost hypnotized.
September 16, 2023 · 12:20 AM · SPHERE
Aurora, CO
I was leaving Aurora, Colorado, heading south on E470 towards I-25. It was around 12:20 am on September 16th, 2023, that I noticed something flying in the sky maybe less than 1000ft in the air. I’ve worked in both military and private aviation and noticed immediately how strange the lights were for the craft. It had very bright white lights that were doing a wave-strobe effect to it, looked like the white lights were rotating around the craft while strobing. It also had two bright reddish/orange lights on the top and bottom that were pulsating with intensity. When I first noticed it, it seemed to be passing my field of view quickly as I was driving, but then it stopped moving and stayed still. It then started moving slowly towards Buckley Air Force Base on the other side of E470. I tried to watch it longer, but I was also driving on the highway and nearly got into a crash because it was hard to not look at this thing. As I moved closer to I-25, it went closer to Buckley and then it left my field of vision. Because of the time of night and highway lights it was difficult to discern any real shape to it, but it did have a pale blue glow at the bottom of it.
September 15, 2023 · 11:48 PM · CHANGING
Avon Park, FL
Orange glow bright then it turned itnto orange glow with tail and the tail had hint of green and then yellow. Looked like it blew up and then fell.
September 15, 2023 · 11:35 PM · OTHER
Bradenton, FL
As the UAP rose it seemed to alter direction which caused it to straighten out in my line of sight and thus condense to a departing rear view only or it could have begun to cloak itself. Either way, it moved quickly toward the E/SE until disappearing.
September 15, 2023 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Fife, WA
was out smoking and witnessed a line of object rising into the sky looked like an ir flare however it was not falling it was rising
September 15, 2023 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Canandaigua, NY
I was at a concert with my friend rj and we were sitting at a picnic table looking at the stats during the break. I noticed a satellite moving diagonally up to the right through the cup of the Big Dipper, then noticed one behind it at a fixed distance moving at the same speed. I assumed it was the Starlink satellite train and told rj “I think I see starlink” and pointed it out to him. He had an experience once when his friend Cody and him saw Starlink, Cody freaked out and said it was a ufo, but RJ looked up a video of Starlink and showed Cody, so RJ has seen and knows what Starlink looks like. We then watched and noticed there were three four or five dim lights following each other in a straight diagonal light. The light in the front would quickly fade our when reaching around the middle point of the cup of the Big Dipper. We noticed they were fading in in the start of the line, below the bottom left Star forming the bottom of the cup of the dipper, moving steady at a steady brightness and suddenly fading out near the center of the cup of the dipper. This went on long enough for us to have a whole conversation about what we were seeing. I would guess 90 seconds to two and a half minutes or so. I did not even get a full count of lights because you sort of needed to strain to see them, if I took my eyes off the one in the front I feared losing them. The lights were dimmer than the stars making up the Big Dipper. Near normal satellite brightness and speed. But they would seemingly disappear and reappear where they started, sort of like marquee lights. I joked with RJ “maybe it’s one big craft an those are the lights on the side” I looked in the sky along the same line that would wave been their path had they not faded out near the middle of the dipper and I saw absolutely nothing. Eventually while watching it all they lights dimmed and all faded out. We sat there looking nothing for 20 more minutes or so. We say various planes and satellites and grabbed the other’s attention for it but after 10 or 15 seconds of viewing each of those we quickly decided that it was a plane or satellite. Probably around 9:20 While looking at the big dipper a noticed what I assumed to be a bright star quickly fade away. RJ did not notice this as the light was completely stationary until disappearing. Later around 9:30-9:45 the music was back on and while dancing I caught a glimpse of a bright light wiz across the sky headed north and disappear. It is possible this could have been a shooting star, but I have seen plenty of shooting starts and this streak was much longer than any I have seen. Later after the show RJ and I sat on the back porch and continued our UFO hunt, again we say a few satellites and quickly decided they were such. I saw a few shooting stars, all in the same area of the sky all in the same direction, short dim streaks heading south. As far as a mundane explanation for the first set of lights I saw I suppose it’s possible it could be some satellite train but the more I look into that the less likely it seems. The venue had lights on the stage but they were off during set break and there was a building in between us and the stage at that point. Attached is a sketch at the lights in the Big Dipper [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 15, 2023 · 8:34 PM · CIRCLE
Belle Fourche, SD
Starting around 8:30pm on 9/15 and 9/16 multiple uap sightings that were sporadic in a 1-1.5 hour period. They start as orbs through the sky sometimes multiple moving together non blinking lights and we are in a rural area with not much air traffic. They are traveling at a high rate of speed but will fade out. What really baffles me on 9/15 there was a string of blue lights around 10+ that were traveling through the sky in an upward motion but sideways (completely different look than starlink) they were spaced far apart but consecutively following one another in a straight pattern. I went out the evening of 9/16 and witnessed the same thing with multiple orbs traveling through the sky around 5 individual ones and again saw a string of crafts traveling straight up in the sky coming from what looked like bottom traveling up one after another that lasted 5minutes. I don’t know what’s going on in our area lately but it’s incredibly exciting and if it continues happening I think this is worth investigating.