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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 · 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 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSheffield, MA
A line of tiny blinking lights appeared in the sky moving slowly. I took two pictures [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · OTHER
IdentifiedMilford, ME
I stepped outside of my home,I looked up and in the south eastern part of the sky I saw a long line of lights. I asked my wife to come out to see it. She too agreed it was an unusual line. 15-20 lights,following each other. It lasted about 30 seconds. I tried to capture a picture with my cell phone,but it didn't work. Although we live close to the airport,this was not an air craft. The line seemed to be moving in a north eastern direction. If you look at a map of Maine,it appeared the line was going from Bangor Maine towards Bar Harbor Maine. Best way I can describe it. The best thing I can compare the lights to are the flares that leave the back of a fighter jet trying to avoid a missle. This lasted for about 20-30 seconds and disappeared with no noise,no flash nothing at all [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedIrvine, CA
At 5:42 pm on december 3rd at pavilion park in irvine, me and my 2 little siblings and 2 kids playing at the basketball court next to us saw a strange long craft that looked hundreds of feet long. It was skinny and had lights going all the way down it. It was moving quite slow, and it took about 5 to 10 minutes to fully pass the area of view. I have video footage. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · UNKNOWN
IdentifiedWhitney, TX
My husband saw a line of lights in the sky and ran in to get me. I ran out and also saw it. There were maybe 10-16 yellow/white lights with a gap in the middle in a diagonal line to the northeast of us. They looked close, and it looked BIG. It slowly moved across the sky and back away from us and then slowly up and back until it faded into the atmosphere. There was also an airplane to the north and it was way smaller than the thing we saw. We got a photo and short video of it on my husband’s phone, but the quality is not great as it was nighttime and his phone is just an XR. Still got some proof though! You have to turn the light all the way up on your phone or computer to see it in the video. My husband is a lineman for a powerline company and I am a stay at home mother. He was out just starting his motorcycle when he saw this and ran in to get me to look. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM
IdentifiedGreenwich, CT
I saw a line in the sky of lights; could almost be described as a horizontal line of Christmas lights high up in the sky, moving very slowly through the sky. The lights were not blinking [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · CIRCLE
Roanoke, VA
It was around 5:30 pm. It was dusk but still light outside. As my son and I were pulling out of the Walmart and turning left onto Franklin rd, I noticed an oddly bright, low, and large “star” in the sky almost directly in front of us. I asked my son what he thought it was he said it could be a big star or planet. We both said it was still so bright outside to see a star and it was definitely too large for a star. I thought it was also very low in the sky. Our light changed and I said well it’s probably a planet or something and we made a right hand turn onto Franklin rd and ran another errand. About 40-45 minutes later we were finished. It was now completely dark and we were heading home driving down Bent mountain rd when we spotted it again. It was in the exact same spot but we were seeing it from the back side now. A different perspective from the first time we saw it. It was now a little more discernible. It was very bright in the sky and lower than any other “star”. I now noticed it was oddly shaped. It was circular but with possibly an appendage coming from the top left area. My son even said he thought something was coming out of it. It was now emitting a bluish green light from only the top left of the “craft” over the area where, what I thought was some kind of appendage. My son thought the appendage was just light glare. The bottom of the “craft” was emitting white light. I could now tell it had a shape, meaning I could discern it was a 3 dimensional circular object. Not just a light in the sky. It appeared to be a craft of some type. I cannot say how high in the sky it was, other than to say it was about 4x the size of a large bright star. My son thought it maybe moved a little but I thought it was stationary. It was difficult to tell because we were driving about 45 mph on a fairly winding rd. I’m certain it never moved. We viewed it almost the entire drive down bent mountain rd. I was driving so I only was able to look at it for a few seconds then turn my eyes back to the road. It was in view in the neighborhood of about 4 minutes. We lost sight of it once we got closer to 12 O’clock Knob rd. We made our right hand turn on that rd and then a left onto Lost Mountain rd. I was hoping we would be able to see it again once we arrived at our house but we couldn’t from our elevation. We live in a Mountain area surrounded by trees. Anyway, there were a lot of people on the road and I can’t imagine we were the only people to notice it. One other thing that may be helpful. We live about 30 min from Roanoke airport and we saw an airplane in the vicinity of the object.
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSouth Hadley, MA
A line of 30-100 lights appeared in the sky traveling in line. The lights were a bit dimmer of a commercial airplane. They were the samE color as the stars. They were moving North/Northeast. We watched them in the sky for a minute then they all disappeared. The line was not quite perfect some were a but higher or lower but pretty close to perfect. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedLaurel, DE
Large object with a string of lights moving south to north over Laurel, De towards DAFB. 13 second video [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · UNKNOWN
IdentifiedWoodland Hills, CA
Out front of our house and it caught our eye in the sky. A long snake like craft with bright lights in front and dim lights in the back. Had to have been at least a mile long if not more. It was heading 36 degrees NE from Woodland Hills, CA. Not moving real fast but steady until it was out of our view. I have seen many many craft and have a ton of experience with UAP’s but this one was new and I’ve never seen before. I tried to get a video but phone was acting up. Got a bad photo at last moment unfortunately. But it’s something at least. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedCathedral City, CA
I stepped out onto my driveway at 5:40 PM and looked up in the night sky and saw towards the south what I first thought was a shooting star or a plane/ satellite breaking up. I continued to watch and realized the string of lights were not dissipating as you would expect with a meteor breaking up. Instead the string of lights continued to move in a northerly direction, eventually traveling nearly directly above me. The lights all appeared to be the same size but were spaced at irregular intervals and all were traveling at the same speed as if they were either flying in unison or were part of a single craft. They emitted no sound and were moving much slower than a regular aircraft. It was hard to gage the size or distance as I was looking up into darkness and had no other visual reference points. All the lights were the same color, a whitish glow. I tried filming with my iPhone but nothing shows up on the recordings. I did snap two photos. The lights passed over me, again moving at a constant speed in a northerly direction. They eventually faded from view, faster than I would have expected as they were so bright, almost like they disappeared in a fog. I would estimate the whole sighting lasted three minutes and the distance the lights traveled from the time I saw them to when they disappeared to be approximately 5-10 miles as the crow flies. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedHubbardton, VT
I looked up to the East and saw dots of light traveling in a straight line moving slowly across the sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Valencia, CA
My husband called me to come downstairs and look at this thing outside. It was dusk so there was still a lot of light out, but the sun had just set. It looked like a cigar shape but tilted like a forward slash with 1000's of lights all over it (like you put on a Christmas tree not in a straight line just all over it). The lights were moving in perfect sync in the shape of a tilted cigar from right to left, not up, as if attached to something we could not see. It was heading northeast. It looked like it was really really far away but, it took up a lot of the view as if it were humongous, as big as a city block but 100's of miles away. I ran upstairs to look at it from the balcony and get a picture, but the iPhone wouldn't focus on the lights. It was heading northeast and I watched it for a few seconds and then it was gone. I still should have been able to see it, but it disappeared. We watched it for a total of about 2-4 minutes. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 3, 2021 · 5:00 PM · OTHER
Seabrook, NH
I came out of the house & saw what i thought was a meteor shower. When i realized it was not a meteor shower i called to my friend inside the house. We watched the lights hover across the sky for 3-5 mins. There was about 10 orange lights evenly spaced moving very slowly horizontally across the sky until they faded almost into what seemed like another dimension. Just before it disappeared i seen a white light shoot down from it toward the ground [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 3, 2021 · 4:30 PM · OTHER
Southbridge, MA
At approximately 4:30 in the evening, I went to my car to do some errands. I immediately noticed a very bright white point of light in the sky. It was much bigger and brighter than a star or a planet, but was not identifiable as an aircraft because it appeared to be completely stationary. I noticed it at dusk when there was still light in the sky (roughly in the same area of sky as I had, two months previously, seen a strange collection of lights moving in unison). There was a second, smaller, less bright object as well that I noticed at the same time. I am still not sure whether this particular object was a planet or a phenomenon similar to the brighter one. It definitely was not a star, as it was too large and it did not twinkle. At the time when I saw both of these objects, no other stars or planets were visible in the sky, as there was still some daylight. I was mostly interested in the brighter object, which I could not assign to any familiar category. I kept looking for it as I drove around completing my errands (admittedly, I was alert to strange phenomenon in the sky because of the unexplained objects I had witnessed two months prior). It was clearly visible from several places in town, but it was low enough in the sky that it couldn’t be seen from every location. It remained a very, very bright point of light, but when I saw it from certain angles it almost seemed to have a metallic gleam and I couldn't tell if it was completely spherical. It didn't twinkle (in the sense of periodically dimming) like a star, but at some moments its light seemed almost to pulsate with extra beams. It remained stationary the entire time I was out and appeared to still be in the same place when I arrived home in my usual parking space, but I noticed that it seemed actually to be slowly descending, as it was now partly obscured by the branches of the tree in my neighbor’s yard. At that point, I got out of my car to take a video and pictures of the light to show my boyfriend (because he was very skeptical two months ago when I told him I saw a whole collection of UFOs outside!) The video wouldn't send, so I called him to tell him about it, beginning the conversation with the sentence, "I think I'm looking at a UFO." He spontaneously asked, "Are you talking about that really, really bright star?" It turns out he was on the Massachusetts Turnpike, heading toward Sturbridge, and he was also staring at it. He said the traffic had slowed and he suspected other drivers were slowing down just to look at it. He wasn't yet sold on it being too out-of-the-ordinary, suggesting maybe a planet had reached the closest point to earth in its orbit. But after he arrived home, as we stood outside staring up at it, he noted out loud that it was definitely not perfectly round, and he thought he saw two extra pieces coming out of it. (His eye are sharper than mine, so I’ll take his word for it, though I did agree it did not look perfectly spherical at certain angles. It is difficult to find words to describe or remember exactly the miniscule features of what was really just a large point of light, but it did at times seem as though light was reflecting off of it, and at times I think the shape could better be described as a knot than a dot.) The two of us decided to drive around to see where we could get a better view. It had been an hour and a half since I first saw the very bright light, and it was still in roughly the same place in the sky, so there is no way it was any ordinary aircraft. As we drove around town, trying to see it better, we eventually turned down Mashapaug Road, which is very woodsy. (As we drove, straining to see it between the trees, I kept my eyes on the other light, the planet-or-UFO. It helped me estimate where in the sky I could find the abnormally bright light, which by now had descended much closer to the horizon.) Finally, we came to a spot where we had a clear view. I think the clearing in the trees was due to a body of water but by now it was completely dark and hard to see landscape. But the light appeared closer now, as it was larger, and it now appeared bright yellow rather than white. As we followed the curve in the road I think we encircled the object, coming so close that we could see it almost right above us. From this angle, it appeared to be an actual saucer-shape with three rectangular lights. We both swearing and exclaiming; it was so surreal-looking! I said, "It's shaped like a stereotypical flying saucer in a movie!" My boyfriend said, “That is definitely not an airplane!” We both noted the three rectangular lights and the lack of any blinking lights such as you would see on most aircraft. There was a row of cars behind us, maybe also trying to get a glimpse. We couldn't safely stop. We came to the gas station at the highway and turned around, but we couldn't see the bright levitating object in the woods anymore. We turned around again and onto the highway, and from there we could see the object in the sky behind us. We drove until we were able to reverse-course and keep driving towards the bizarre yellow light but it was so low on the horizon we kept losing it in the trees. At several points I noted the second, maybe-planet-maybe-UFO in the sky appeared to have the same knotty, not-quite spherical quality, and I said, “That has to be another one.” At one point, I saw a bright streak, like a very fast shooting star, and when next we saw the light it had moved and was behind us. We turned again, still trying to follow it. At one point as were staring at it we noticed a car pulled over on an access road with a better view, watching it also. There were also a lot of normal airplanes in the air at this time, at least some of which we speculated were trying to keep an eye on it. We could easily distinguish our UFO from these craft because it was much brighter. We lost sight of it again and when we saw it, far down the highway, low on the horizon, in the direction of New York, we decided it was too far away to keep chasing and went home - still searching the sky in case it came back or in case we saw another. It was gone from the sky when we parked. The brightest point in the sky now was what seemed to be an ordinary planet, and I couldn’t tell if this was the same maybe-planet-maybe-UFO that had accompanied the unnaturally-bright UFO. It was difficult to judge by memory how bright the second one had been compared to the normal heavenly bodies because I had only been approximating its brightness in comparison to the bright UFO. I had difficulty remembering its location for the same reason; I had been approximating its location based on its distance from the bright UFO, and now the bright UFO was gone. By this time it was approximately 8:30PM. For background on the observers - I'm a historian who spends most of my time these days researching a book I'm writing on U.S. history and working online part-time. I'm also neurodivergent and used to being dismissed as weird. My boyfriend works in biotech and is usually not considered weird by anyone. He is pretty open-minded but definitely a scientist and needs to see proof before he'll believe in something as far-fetched as a mystery hovercraft outshining the stars. Now he's seen it for himself!
December 3, 2021 · 4:15 PM · CYLINDER
Las Vegas, NV
4:15 pm 12/03/2021 while stand in the back yard with my neighbor, he points up in the sky and asks what is that? We live under the approach and departure area of the McCarran airport, I thought he was referring to another type of aircraft. But this was no aircraft it was a long cylinder or cigar object bright white and silvery looking. The orientation of the Cylinder like object was vertical, the ends up and down and it appeared to be hovering southeast of the airport. There had been air traffic departing in that area. I thought we would wait to see another aircraft pass by the area where the object was situated and gauge the size and altitude of it. But it seems at that moment all the aircraft that were departing had been diverted from that general area. There were two aircraft that had changed course and headed north east away from that area. then all air traffic for 8 to 10 minutes seem to have been stopped. About 10 minutes later an aircraft that looked like a C-20 in dark green paint was seen coming from the direction of the McCarran airport heading toward the object in the sky. The aircraft seem to have gotten about 1 mile from the object when it just winked out of sight. The aircraft passed through the area where the object was seen and continued on out of sight about 3 minutes later. I snapped a picture of it. Didn’t think it would come out because of the distance about 5 miles out. But when I enlarged the image I was surprised to see an image of a tic tac shaped UFO like the ones seen in the news recently. Image 1 is the actual photo taken , image 2 is an enlargement of 1, image 3 is an enlargement just after the the object vanished. Image 4 is map of area and approximate location of sightings.
December 3, 2021 · 4:14 PM
Las Vegas, NV
4:15 pm 12/03/2021 while stand in the back yard with my neighbor, he points up in the sky and asks what is that? We live under the approach and departure area of the McCarran airport, I thought he was referring to another type of aircraft. But this was no aircraft it was a long cylinder or cigar object bright white and silvery looking. The orientation of the Cigar like object was vertical, the ends up and down and it appeared to be hovering southeast of the airport. There had been air traffic departing in that area. I thought we would wait to see another aircraft pass by the area where the object was situated and gauge the size and altitude of it. But it seems at that moment all the aircraft that were departing had been diverted from that general area. There were two aircraft that had changed course and headed north east away from that area. then all air traffic for 8 to 10 minutes seem to have been stopped. Then it just winked out of sight. I snapped a picture of it. Didn’t think it would come out because of the distance about 5 miles out. But when I enlarged the image I was surprised to see an image of a tic tac shaped UFO like the ones seen in the news recently. Image 1 is the actual photo taken , image 2 is an enlargement of 1 notice how the area around the object appears distorted, image 3 is an enlargement just after the the object vanished.
December 3, 2021 · 4:14 PM · CYLINDER
Las Vegas, NV
I made a report on this sighting already. But I found a similar report from Downers Grove Illinois that occurred on the same date. Is it possible to contact this individual and show him my photos? He did make a request to compare information.. His report. Occurred : 12/3/2021 18:01 (Entered as : 12/03/2021 6:01 PM) Reported: 1/30/2022 10:11:10 AM 10:11 Posted: 3/4/2022 Location: Downers Grove, IL Shape: Cylinder Duration: minute or slightly more Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object Metallic cylinder in sky, hovering still no sound or movement. 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..... My report 4:15 pm 12/03/2021 while stand in the back yard with my neighbor, he points up in the sky and asks what is that? We live under the approach and departure area of the McCarran airport, I thought he was referring to another type of aircraft. But this was no aircraft it was a long cylinder or cigar object bright white and silvery looking. The orientation of the Cigar like object was vertical, the ends up and down and it appeared to be hovering southeast of the airport. There had been air traffic departing in that area. I thought we would wait to see another aircraft pass by the area where the object was situated and gauge the size and altitude of it. But it seems at that moment all the aircraft that were departing had been diverted from that general area. There were two aircraft that had changed course and headed north east away from that area. then all air traffic for 8 to 10 minutes seem to have been stopped. Then it just winked out of sight. I snapped a picture of it. Didn’t think it would come out because of the distance about 5 miles out. But when I enlarged the image I was surprised to see an image of a tic tac shaped UFO like the ones seen in the news recently. Image 1 is the actual photo taken , image 2 is an enlargement of 1 notice how the area around the object appears distorted, image 3 is an enlargement just after the the object vanished. After seeing this object I have been searching for other witnesses that may have seen what I had seen.
December 3, 2021 · 7:00 AM · CYLINDER
boynton beach, FL
while fishing offshore I saw unusual rectangle shaped silver/gray cloud, then 2 teardrop shaped clouds dropped down from each bottom corner of rectangle. then vortex shaped cloud shot up from center top of rectangle cloud with star like object on top of vortex. vortex was spinning in clockwise motion. vortex remained, but object at top disappeared. then large cloud of vapor or mist erupted from the face of the rectangle for about 1 minuet. vapor stopped coming out of rectangle, but vapor remained in place. perceived movement in vortex from top to bottom. lasted several minuets. craft rode up thru vortex and about 150 to 200 feet above vortex. craft turned north, then west and then south southwest. portal disappeared, but vapor and the two teardrop shaped clouds remained. craft had arrowhead type appearance on nose, back part of craft cylinder shaped. about three fourths the length of 747. nose of craft morphed into same shape as rear so all was cylinder shape. bottom of portal never touched the ocean, and was about 50 to 75 feet above surface. after event ended I had a feeling of peace and calmness like nothing I ever felt. that night my teeth were very sensitive to hot (not spicy) food-first time that happened.
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Richmond, VA
First there was a brilliant starburst shaped white light. I had no idea what I was looking at, couldn’t come up with any logical explanation. It appeared stationary but from my perspective it could have been moving toward me and I wouldn’t have been able to tell. Then all the light went out and was replaced by green blinking on the corners as it quickly zipped diagonally to the forward left (moving toward me) and then out of my eyeline. Which I know sounds like a plane but for how quickly it changed direction and moved across the sky in relation to how close it was to me and to the ground, I just don’t think it was. Too big to be a drone, it was silent so not a helicopter. Saw it out of my 3rd floor window at 6:06 AM EST, unobstructed view. It was higher than trees but not significantly. When it moved to the forward left it was probably within a mile radius of me, but I’m not an expert at gauging distance.
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 AM · FORMATION
IdentifiedMarion, IA
Line of lights, 50+ crafts, moving west to east. Seen directly south when we came outside, then as it was to our southeast, the line started to disappear from the front most craft to the rear. Can't upload photo from my phone to the drop box below, but I do have 2 photos [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 2, 2021 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Depere, WI
As I was driving I saw 3 lights in the sky just above the clouds not really thinking much of it until each one individually started to shut off. As I kept driving just over the bridge where the fox river runs at the corner of my eye I see a large object with 3 lights triangular shaped speed through sky in one direction from one end the river above the clouds to the other end heading towards Green Bay. Seconds after 3 more object each large in size with 3 triangular lights speed bolt following the first one in tight formation in the exact same direction as if it where following it one after another. It almost looked like you where sitting in your car driving at the same time and slowed down watching these object on a highway trail in the sky. Its like nothing I have ever seen in my entire life. I literally got chills when I saw these object go super fast in the sky because now I believe and not sure what the Fuc$ it was. This has forever changed my life and now I am not scared to say what I saw.
December 2, 2021 · 8:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Portland, OR
I took a photo of the moon and saw this ufo that looks like a black ufo with ten green lights where the dots go [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]
December 2, 2021 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Oxford, MS
Tonight at approximately 8:30 while looking up at the stars, I noticed a dark object moving through the sky. It was difficult to estimate distance and altitude. Though, I would say it was maybe at the altitude a helicopter flies. There were no lights or sound. It was moving at a speed consistent with a helicopter. My sighting lasted only about 10 seconds. My best estimate of the shape was something like a boomerang. It moved through the sky very smoothly unlike the flapping of a bird’s wings. Though I imagine if I misestimated the altitude, it’s feasible that it was a large bird gliding. After discussing it with a third party with pilot training, it was also mentioned that it may have been a B2 bomber.