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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
December 3, 2021 · 7:00 PM · RECTANGLE
IdentifiedDobson, NC
Observer 1 saw one large white lighted object first while driving home at night. Called second observer at home to have them go outside and look as well. Observer 2 while at home turned all lights off, went outside saw a plane in the sky. They continued to look for another object and then saw a very large long white lighted rectangular object in the sky while on the phone with observer 1 who was also seeing the same thing. Note both observers were about 3 mi apart from each other. The object was North, slightly NW. The lights appeared to be very tall and parallel to each other and they seemed to run the entire length of the object. While continuing to look at the object in the sky, observer 2 at home proceeded to take a picture with their cell phone and then a zoomed in picture with their cell phone. Observer 2 then moved the phone settings to video and the object disappeared. Observer 1 approximately 3 miles away also noted the object could no longer be seen in the sky at that time. Observer 1 saw the object for approximately a few minutes. The object did not appear to be moving. There were two commercial airplanes in the sky within sight during this time of the unidentified object sighting. Observer 1 is a mechanic and was in the army for ten years. Observer 2 is in management at a pharmaceutical development company. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:41 PM · RECTANGLE
Phoenix, AZ
Wife was driving home on interstate when we noticed the lights above our car approximately 1200 feet , I snapped a photo from my phone, when you zoom in the shape really stands out
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Mission, KS
I was driving south-west at night. There was an apartment building to my left and storage facility to my right. Above the storage facility were two green lights. They were east-bound, heading towards me. As they got closer, I could make out shape of a triangular craft, with the green lights situated on the two front corners. There was a triangular bevel under the body of the craft , which was nearly as dark as the sky. As it passed overhead, I made a U-turn in the driveway of the apartment complex to view the craft from behind. I could only see one red light, presumably the back corner of the triangular craft, heading east (towards downtown Kansas City). The craft moved at a steady pace. I’m not sure of scale, but it seemed lower to the ground than an airplane or helicopter. It made no noise and left no trail. There was no one else on the road at the time. There was one car leaving the apartment complex as the craft exited my field of view. I parked in the apartment complex and immediately tried to call my brother. The call dropped several times (at least 5). I could not reach him until I got home. I usually wouldn't have thought much of it, but decided to report that detail as technological disruptions sometimes accompany UAP sightings. An illustration is attached.
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Sullivan, MO
Observed what seemed to be a meteor shower coming from south to north. The 25 light “shower” ended up laying horizontally cruising as fast as a commercial aircraft and about as high, I believe. It cruised for nearly 30 seconds northward and simply disappeared. Holding my arms up, my hands would be 3 feet apart. That was the size, at least 20 commercial airplanes. The ufo was silent. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM
Probable conventionalAlbany, KY
Leaving parents on the Tennessee and Kentucky border at around 6:18 PM on 12-3-2021. My son was first one off porch and looked up and asked if it was Santa and his reindeer. When my mom looked up saying what the, so me and my father went to take a look, witnessing a straight line of multiple light moving at a slow rate of speed northeast in a horizontal position and as it was slowly moving a aircraft was moving towards it in a high rate of speed. The closer the aircraft got to the object the slower it went but moving into a vertical position, in which the light started going away from both end until completely gone in 2 sec. The whole experience lasted around 3 - 4 minutes. With the sky so clear there was nothing that the object could have got behind or any laser hitting clouds to reflect back the multiple light in a straight line. I tried recording with phone but it doesn't show up. There was also a aircraft moving towards subject in a high rate of speed. The closer the aircraft got, the more it was in horizontal position. Then once the aircraft looked like it was at the bottom of the light it completely vanished. The animals was going crazy and I felt like I had just ran a 5k run in three minutes and filling somewhat confused and drained. I would like to know if anyone else has reported of this phenomenon. I know it couldn't have been any kind of government communication system. Because unless cloud or something was in sky to reflect the lights back to me they would just be visible from the sky. Feel free to give me information on this or any other reports on this. Thank you [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
IdentifiedGreeley, CO
Looking to the SW there was a very long straight string of bright white lights moving towards the N very quickly. They moved in a straight line as if following each other but the distance between them was uniform throughout, indicating it was one solid craft likely in the cigar shape. It was at least a foot ball field and a half to two foot ball fields in length and moved much faster than the earth is visually spinning. At first I thought it had to be a string of satellites sliding across the sky as the earth was spinning but then I realized they were moving diagonally and much faster than the planes in the immediate area. I recorded the lights until the began to dim at the front end one by one as if it was traveling behind something else in the sky obscuring my view of it. However, there wasn't even a single cloud that it could have hid behind after it disappeared. My footage isn't the best due to me being so baffled and watching it with my eyes rather than the camera. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CYLINDER
IdentifiedConcord, NH
Was out walking my dog in my apartment complex at approximately 6:30 pm on December 3, 2021 when I noticed a unbelievable long cylindrical craft with a long single row of lights or windows decently bright enough to light the body of the craft enough up to see it was a long continuous grey cylinder of unbelievable length. This is what really blew my mind. My best guess in length would be 3 to 4 miles in total length. 30 to 40 semi bright lights or windows in a single row. Lights/ windows did not go to end of either end. Ends were lightless or windowless about 5 window/ lights in length on each end. Each end was rounded like a medication capsule/pill. Direction was coming from the west going east towards the ocean that is about 50 miles away. Besides guess at altitude would be 10 to 15 thousand feet. Sighting started near my unit which has a pool and pool house adjacent to my unit. Object first appeared in the area of pool. I watched for 15 to 20 seconds as it was moving east. There was light from from apartment windows and light poles making it hard to focus in object. After 15 or 20 seconds I ran with dog in tow to a field by the complex that has power lines running the length of the field. There were no lights to here to pollute my vision. Once in the field i watch the craft for another 20 seconds, but in great clarity this time. I got my best look at craft in this location. This is when I could clearly see it was a solid craft. I watch it till out of view over some tall pines. Once out of view I tried running to another area to see I could see it some more but the object was gone. No sound was heard during the entire duration of sighting. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM
Probable conventionalSedona, AZ
My neighbor Jessie may have captured it on his phone. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalRepublic, MO
There were multiple lights that moved together like a school of fish but looked like a worm in the sky. It was much higher than planes. While we watched it moving across the sky it disappeared. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedHighlands Ranch, CO
I was walking the dog in our community around 6:42 pm and as usual, was looking at the sky to see what constellations were visible. I saw a rigid formation of lights moving quickly at an angle before disappearing instantly. The sighting lasted about 20-30 seconds. No discernible sound was emitted. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Mobile, AL
In early evening of Friday, Dec 3, 2021, around 6:25pm I was walking around the block on my usual two-mile walk. I reside in the Ashmoor subdivision located in the western portion in the city of Mobile, Al. The neighborhood I was in when I spotted the object in the sky is Westchester, which is adjacent to my neighborhood. It was already fully dark outside. I had just left Ashmoor subdivision and entered the Westchester subdivision. My route takes me to Westchester Ln S in the direction of Grelot Rd. When I turned left onto Westchester Ln S off of Westchester Run, I immediately noticed a long glowing object to my West not far above the tree line that made me first think of a comet. As I continued to walk and focus on the object, I realized it was not as far away as I had first thought and was slowly moving to the northeast. My thoughts then shifted to this being a blimp. I then noticed that this object was flying in a very peculiar way. I could see what were small individual lights in perfect formation forming what would be a long straight row of lights in a possible rectangle or disk shape with no apparent wings or tail. The strange thing was the way the object was maintaining its altitude, however, in the direction it was flying, the front of the row of lights were much lower than lights in what would be the rear of the object. I then ruled this out as a blimp because there were no lights on top, front or rear of the object. It also appeared much too narrow to be a blimp. The object was also too long to be a helicopter. My last thought was ok, this has to be an airplane, however, there were no lights where there would normally be if the object had wings or a tail; there was only one long straight row of lights. I quickly called home and had my wife and son go outside and look to their north. I stayed on the phone and asked them if they saw the object. They were only about 1 to 2 blocks away from my location. They both said they saw the object and I asked my son to also take a photo and a video if he had time. My son snapped the picture that you will see attached to the form. The photo I took did not come out clearly. After I snapped my photo and my son confirmed he had taken one, I was going to take a video and I also asked him to video the object but in the few seconds we had been occupied snapping our photos, the object was gone. At the rate of speed it had been moving in the total time I had viewed it, over about 30 seconds I’m guessing, it still should have been visible before it flew over the tree line. It must have accelerated in the few seconds we were looking down to swipe from photo to video on our phones and when I looked up it was no longer anywhere to be seen. The object can be found on the attached photo to the lower right of the bright planet or star in the center of the sky. The object is also almost straight above the bright streetlight you can see in front of the house straight ahead. The object was moving to the right as you look at the photo. As you can see the front of the object was pitched way down in comparison to the rear. The object remained pitched forward like this the whole time I viewed it, about 30 seconds, and it did not appear to be decreasing its altitude. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Probable conventionalPhoenix, AZ
Siting of UFO on 3 December at approximately 6:40 pm. Location, North Phoenix, at 12th street and Forest Hills. I was walking my dog, then she barked at something in the air. To the southwest, I sighted what I first thought was a smoke trail of a fireball. It was “dusty” and long. I stared at it. As it got nearer it came into focus. It was very long, 100 yards or more, in a narrow rectangular shape. The entire thing flew almost directly over me. It had lights all along the body but not evenly spaced either horizontally or vertically. The front end had two lights. All the lights were white. The body was black and could not be seen. It then proceeded to the northeast and disappeared somewhat looking like the first observation. The entire incident lasted about 3-4 minutes. I was dumbfounded. I did not have my phone, or I would have taken a picture. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedWestminster, CO
I was biking home when I stopped to fix my jacket. I looked up and saw an unusual trail of lights in the sky. I assumed it was the iss, but it was long. A straight line of white dots. I looked more and saw an outline of an oval, looking like the side of a discus. I pulled out my phone to video it after I saw that it seemed to be rotating, the lights moving up like they were on the side of a rotating disc. As I videoed the scene, I saw the thing move higher in the sky. Then the lights started to fade and the outline disappeared as the whatever it was faded away into the night. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedPhoenix, AZ
On 12/3/2021 at 6:40pm. It was already dark outside, I was walking my dog in my community. I love looking at stars while walking my dog in the evening. At that time, I was on the phone with my sister in China. Suddenly I saw a long shining bright chain-like object showed up in the middle of the sky and moving from west to east, and it flew away out of sight after 4 minutes. I took a picture with my phone, but the quality of the picture isn’t the best due to the capacity of my phone camera. My son said later he also saw the same flying object while he was out. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Wheat Ridge, CO
I was jokingly flashing my flash light at a very bright star in the southwest sky at 6:35 pm. I was out looking for a rock to prop my apt building door. Approx 2 minutes after I flashed the star, I heard a loud jet noise above my head. (as loud as a jet taking off on the runway) I looked up and a round red light was above my head. I remember thinking I could fit through that hole and wondering if I was going to get beamed or a ray come out. I was scared. Out of the corner of my eye I saw several flashes of light going on and off to the south. Then the lights were gone and they reappeared approx 1-2 seconds later to the west. They were all red in color and flashed on and off one at at a time rapidly from north to south taking up the whole half of the sky to the south. The line of lights disappeared and reappeared 1-2 seconds later farther west. this repeated 10 times in total, until I could not see the lights flash across the sky. Also, not all of the 8-10 lights flashed on, some were only partially visible and the jet noise gradually decreased in loudness until I could not hear it at all toward the last 2 rows of flashing lights. The lights flashed to rapidly to count in a row and seemed to follow I-70 /CO 58 West to the mountains. I waited 2 seconds after the lights were gone and then saw a small white object in the west sky just above and to the right of where the lights disappeared. The small white object moved 45 degrees descending toward where I last saw the lights. I never saw a craft, a plane or a jet trail
December 3, 2021 · 6:01 PM · CYLINDER
Downers Grove, IL
Was with my son in back yard, I looked up and noticed a very clear cylinder shaped object with looked like 5 white lights. I kept eyes on it and called my son to me, he was in a tree in yard shooting targets with bb gun. He came to me and asked "what" he could tell by tone of my voice it was something serious. I said "what's that" and pointed to object, he looked and his eyes got big, jaw dropped and said "wtf is that" I said something like I just wanted to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. I asked him to tell me what he saw, to confirm to me what I was seeing. He said to hurry and take a picture, but didn't have phone on me and didn't want to miss at least seeing it for longer. After watching it for a minute, the object and a cloud next to it seemed to fade before our eyes not take off flying in any direction, which was also very weird. It was still light out and sky was perfectly clear and blue in area once object "faded" away, my son asked "how did it do that" like I would know. I been searching for a report of same thing before I said anything, when seen report from person in Elgin describing same thing but no lights I used that date, I know it was 1st week of Dec., was wanting to just confirm someone else's report. Being in a Chicago suburb and being very obvious in sky, I thought there would be many reports of this object. It had to be pretty big, there were a handful of planes that could be seen in both easterly and western sky and from my observation this cylinder was much bigger. Hopefully this helps someone else seeing same thing.....
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedQuincy, IL
We were grilling food in the backyard at approximately 6:15PM when we noticed a string of lights moving across the sky. It was silent but stayed in the same form of a line. After a minute it disappeared completely!! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedCedar Creek, TX
Three adults and a few children we’re looking straight up 20 miles east of the Austin airport when they noticed from the west to the east that this very tall sand connection of 20 TicTac shaped building structure like a skyscraper or a long row of lights. It appeared that these objects were flying in synchronicity together or possibly connected in an extremely and abnormal quick way. There were no sounds, and no propulsion smoke. The adults had to look straight up to see it. An airplane was much lower in the background leaving Austin in a south-southeast direction. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · CYLINDER
Probable conventionalWentworth, MO
Two observers witnessed the sighting on 03 Dec 2021 at 6:09pm. Observer #1 (Female 64) has a master’s degree in Orthodontics. Observer #2 (Male 59) has an engineering degree with aerospace, automotive and medical device experience. Both observers witnessed the same sighting: one large, long, cylindrical craft with multiple (approximately 15) large white lights evenly spaced along the length of the craft. The sighting lasted approximately 20 seconds as the craft quietly (no sound whatsoever) moved from the west to the east. The outline of the craft could not be seen in the dark sky but the lights seemed to have a radial shape and were symmetrical. It is possible the lights were windows of a craft that was very brightly lit on the inside. It is difficult to assess the size, height and speed due to the darkness. A best educated guess is the craft is approximately 200 feet long, 12 feet diameter, a height of 500 feet to 1,000 feet and moving at 80 to 100 mph. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Bogia on Escambia River, FL
Driving home from a hunting trip on escambia river to pensacola i saw a series of perfectly level lights hanging maybe a thousand feet above the ground. At first I thought they were stars, but then noticed they were moving spatially with the car and they were much too close to be stars. I remained looking at them for about 4 or 5 minutes until they were no longer visible behind the curvature of the road. The elderly gentleman with me was looking at the road as he was towing a boat and refused to look over. I tried to get a picture but they were too far away; I was able to catch a brief glimpse on video nothing is really visible.
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Venice, FL
2 golden orbs flying side by side across the sky from west to east.
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedAfter Asheville headed towards springville, AL
I looked out the window and saw a line of light in the sky. As we got closer it was several hundred feet or more in the air. The line was not one solid light but about 20 shaped lights in a straight line. Appeared to be letters but I couldn’t make out what they were. The lights did not blink or flicker or change. There was no movement. Once we passed the lights and I was looking back at them but still in close range, they disappeared from the right side to the left. I tried to video and photograph but the light wouldn’t pick up on my phones camera. My husband (driver) also saw the lights. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedSparta, CO
During helicopter flight at approximately 1000’ AGL, the pilot saw a strange object that had symmetrical lines while under night vision goggles. The object was very far from the aircraft and moved quickly and flew over top of the helicopter while in flight. One of the crew members were able to take a picture of the object and were later informed by a friend on the ground in another location that they saw the same object and were able to get a video of it. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedHuntley, IL
We were getting out of the car and gathering our groceries. I look up and there is a giant straight line of lights moving super slow. After a minute or so they faded out and disappeared. The lights were above farm lands and could not have been from any other objects. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]