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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 15, 2023 · 3:30 PM · DISK
Tucson, AZ
While driving up a hill and approaching our driveway, I noticed an object flying low over the neighborhood houses. As it came closer, I noticed that it was not a plane nor a helicopter and it was not flying south towards the Tucson airport - which is the usual flight route for planes. Instead it was flying over the back of our house and going east towards Mount Lemmon. Immediately, I knew that it was unusual and I asked my husband to look at it and tell me what it was. He told me that it was a UFO. When I parked the car in the garage - the silvery looking disc/object disappeared from view. We were both in shock. This happened on Friday afternoon at about 3:30 P.M. September 15, 2023 in Tucson, Arizona.
September 15, 2023 · 5:30 AM · DISK
Ferrisburgh, VT
At 530 in the morning, my wife and I went for a walk before sunrise. On our way home, we noticed a light in the sky that was moving in a weird direction. Stopping and observing for a moment, noticing it may be a drone we continued on our way asking who would be flying and why since we live on a farm away from people. After using my military training and using flight apps available nothing was in the air above our location and the light was moving in a non aircraft way. After arriving home I watched for a good 10 mins before grabbing my phone and started taking pics. I then zoomed in and noticed something not of this worlds. After recording it and taking pics, the craft hung around until about 705 in the morning when I left to bring my kids to school. I showed other members of my family and asked others what they think of the pictures I saw. Most agree it is something they haven’t seen. The object in the picture is possibly a Death Star looking item. Lights seemed to be the color of the bottom with possible rotating light. The light was constant on the bottom and was still bright after the stars were no longer available. The craft did maneuver in a zig zag quick circle pattern.
September 15, 2023 · 5:17 AM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
It was approximately 5:17 a.m. on 9/15/2023 when I was outside my house taking my morning stretch. As I leaned back and looked into the sky, I saw a distant light/orb moving across the sky (it was still quite dark out). At first I dismissed it as the ISS drifting along its orbit, but then the orb started to make turns and moves. I dashed inside and grabbed my phone and was able to take one video of the orb (I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max). The uncut video is about 40 seconds long, but the orb can only be seen in the first 15 or so seconds. As you can see from the video, the orb really starts to make some moves at around the :03 second mark, and then it does several turns before zooming off and vanishing. I have attached the uncut original iPhone clip. I also retained a professional video editor to enhance and cleaned up. I attach two of those clips provided by the video editor. The enhanced version really shows the details of the moves the orb makes. This is not a hoax and I provide the raw, untouched video.
September 15, 2023 · 4:40 AM · UNKNOWN
Lubbock, TX
I noticed a light in the sky. I didn’t think anything seemed out of the ordinary because I was near the Lubbock airport. However, then I noticed the light was not moving, where as a plane would. So I started to pay closer attention. I then noticed the flash pattern and colors weren’t the typical pattern and colors of the planes I’m used to seeing. It also dawned on me that it’s 4 in the morning and the Lubbock airport doesn’t have commercial flights arriving or departing from about 1 am till almost 6 am. At this point I’m really curious, and I also notice, what seems to be two more lights flashing in the sky. So I started recording. My best guess is weather balloons or drones. However, I would like to report and if possible find out the logical explanation for these lights. In total there seemed to be three objects and they were flashing red and yellow/orange. I could not make out a distinguishable shape because it was night time. https://youtu.be/LYPZbkmeJd4?si=bBoOnin8ZW7SSTK1 [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
September 14, 2023 · 11:55 PM · FIREBALL
Wheaton, IL
On Thursday, September 14 at approximately 11:55 pm while I was headed home, I was driving west on Butterfield Road right before crossing Naperville Road in Wheaton when I witnessed a giant, neon green fireball/sphere-like object with irregular/jagged edges leaving a long trail of green behind it flying angled downward from the sky traveling south to north - right behind/above a stripmall where TJ Maxx and other stores are. I had my windows rolled up, but didn’t hear any sound. It disappeared behind the buildings and I couldn’t tell how close it was, but it seemed like it was right in the sky in front of me up ahead. I heard no sound of impact. The whole event was only a few seconds as it traveled extremely fast. It was the most surreal and bizarre thing I’ve ever seen. Only 1 other car was driving next to me at the time with no others on the road.
September 14, 2023 · 11:30 PM · CHEVRON
Santa Rosa Beach, FL
I was star gazing with a friend late in the evening on September 14. The weather was clear, but with some clouds and an occasional thin haze that is common in coastal Florida drifting by. Overall the viewing conditions were good, the stars were clear and there was no moon to be seen. The area I was star gazing from has a mostly unobstructed view of the sky except for some trees to the west. There was a lot of aircraft activity that night, with a military drone doing lazy circles overhead but slightly to our west (this is not uncommon in our area as we are close to several Air Force bases and the drones are often overhead at night). The drone was easily visible by it's flashing navigation lights, and the humming sound it produces. Additional military jets were flying around, often visible but more often you can just hear the sound of the afterburners in the distance. I assume they were running some exercises that evening. We also spotted at least one commercial aircraft (assumed) flying high and along the standard east-west path they fly. Around 11:30, my friend pointed to the north and asked 'what is that?'. I focused my eye towards the area he was pointing and saw what looked initially like a thin object, sort of hazy, cloud-like in the sky heading south directly towards us. It wasn't much brighter than the few clouds drifting around but the speed it was moving immediately got my attention. The 'object' flew directly over us and I will do my best to describe what I saw: A chevron (or V shaped) object, approximately 60 degree angle between the wings/arms. The wings/arms were pretty well defined, as was the overall shape but oddly the surface looked 'cloud-like' and not solid. The 'cloud-like' surface had a slight amber tone to it, and it was lighter than the night sky- and it was either glowing slightly or reflecting light from the ground. I didn't observe any distinct lights on it. There is really no way to determine size or distance above us but it was pretty large in our field of view- if you stretch your arm out and make a V with your hand, it was bigger than that from our perspective. My best guess is it was relatively close to the ground due to the speed and detail we saw. I asked my friend to contribute his recollection and he said to him; it looked almost like individual little faint lights that made up the structure- but not uniform, random. Approximately 30 seconds later, a second identical object followed the first so we got to take a second look at what we were seeing. Neither object made any noise, although for clarity there was a degree of ambient hum from the drone flying overhead so I wanted to include that detail. We discussed whether it could have been flocks of migrating birds...but quickly ruled that out- moving way to fast and the shape was very clearly defined. Military aircraft or drone? Possible. They were flying that night. However it was the 'glowing cloud' aspect along with the apparent silence of that made us question that. The chevron shape didn't have any extra body at the juncture, like a B-2 Bomber, it was just a chevron. If it was a military aircraft they also appeared to be flying a lot lower than they would normally do.
September 14, 2023 · 10:40 PM · CIRCLE
Trumbull, CT
I looked out of my glass deck door and saw a glowing light which looked odd and not like an airplane. It looked orange and white. I ran to my room to grab my phone and caught it on video for a few and then it disappeared. I also saw aircraft activity near it but this did not resemble an airplane or helicopter. The encounter laster about a minute or so after I saw it but it could've been there longer. I also have been noticing other glowing strange lights lately plus extra airplane activity and saw another white round glowing light last week but it was moving slowly. My and my girlfriend both saw the one last week but the one tonight I saw alone. This one looked lower to the ground and closer. I also noticed my outside flood light which hasn't worked in 2 years flicker for about 2 hours a week ago which I found strange.
September 14, 2023 · 10:35 PM · RECTANGLE
East Bridgewater, MA
Was driving home, stopped at a red light when I saw four rather large rectangle shaped bright white lights hovering over a tree line in the distance across a field. I rolled my window down, heard no sound and the objects didn't appear to move, just hover. They were evenly spaced, rectangle shaped and extremely bright with a fuzzy haze around them. I drove home and immediately told my friend what I had seen. Someone I told suggested it was starlink so I looked that up and not only was it not visible in my area at that time but it looked nothing like it.
September 14, 2023 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Oakland, MD
It was late between 9:30 and 12:00, I went outside to smoke before going to bed, and I looked up into the night sky and it was completely pitch black, and suddenly the sky wasn't pitch black anymore there was a bright star hanging in the sky that wasn't there a moment ago. The light at first was a pale orange, like orange cream that turned into a brilliant white light, it hung there for a few moments and then started to strafe across the sky until it disappeared into the horizon, and it kept the same speed and it kept the same direction and it kept the same luminosity the entire time that it traveled across the sky, it didn't flicker it didn't blink it didn't do anything, it just moved across the sky in a straight line.
September 14, 2023 · 10:04 PM · CHANGING
Mountains, AZ
To much to write. It was very traumatic.
September 14, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
The lights would move up and down sideways, diagonally and in circles
September 14, 2023 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Las Cruces, IN
Golden circles suddenly appeared and then suddenly disappeared.
September 14, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Eastampton, NJ
I was on the phone with a friend, just passively watching the night sky (as I always do when outside at night), and noticed a light in the sky I first took for a star. The object was hovering. Then it moved left and right in a lazy, swaying kind of motion, before pausing, and then dropping straight down at a very, very fast pace toward the ground. The closest analogy I can muster is that it was like watching a duck falling out of the sky after being shot, it just dropped plumb down from its original position. It disappeared from my view behind a building, but the object had to be quite far away. It was along a line between Mt. Holly, NJ and Rehoboth Beach, DE based on comparisons between my Night Sky App, my phone’s compass app, and Google maps. I tried to find reports on the news, or videos on social media, but found nothing. It would be extremely hard to believe that no one else had seen the same phenomenon.
September 14, 2023 · 7:40 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedTucson, AZ
Saw a distant light coming slowly across the sky with large aura/tail of light Alpha Firefly SLC-2W, Vandenberg SFB California, United States Responsive space mission for the USSF's Space Systems Command, Firefly has 24 hours to launch upon notice. https://fireflyspace.com/missions/victus-nox/ [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
September 14, 2023 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedArcadia, CA
I looked up and saw what looked like a a smoke trail with a colorful orb that broke away from the trail and disappeared into the night sky [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
September 14, 2023 · 5:30 PM · CIGAR
Patterson, NY
At 5:30 pm I saw a white cigar shaped object flying over head. It appeared to be around same height as other planes fly frequently over our house. It was white had a black band around middle. It made no audible sound and could not see wings or a tail. It was not far enough away that we wouldn’t be able to see these things. It moved along at around the same speed as other aircraft till it went behind trees and we lost sight. I’m sure this was not an airplane. If relative to a star or the moon it would be the moon. Could see no lights. It was in the east sky and headed north east as best I could tell.
September 14, 2023 · 12:14 PM · CIRCLE
Menasha, WI
I was outside walking my dog at 9 pm. All of a sudden I saw this bright light, so I looked up and saw this circular aircraft fly across the sky. It was crazy, I work in the plane industry and I have never seen anything like it. All of a sudden it appeared and then it was gone, it was grey and circular but pretty small. I could see something in the window and it got really close then it flew really fast away and disappeared.
September 14, 2023 · 9:45 AM · SPHERE
Fresno, CA
I was standing outside and looked up into the sky and seen this lights moving around like almost spinning I took out my phone and recorded what I seen but the problem is you have to slow it down to see them they where the same color as the sky and make it difficult to see unless you know what to look for there has been 5 times more after this that I have seen and recorded UFO/UAP in the sky when I look back and slow them done you can see things that are black shooting off of and object that pass the screen
September 14, 2023 · 5:00 AM · CHANGING
Mt. Lebanon, PA
The craft was literally lighting up consistently until reaching very bright whitish color and then fading to black or dark (no longer visible) but following where it’s trajectory was heading would reappear consistently lighting up more and more again to a very bright white, as if it were “powering up”. The craft repeated this four times and then completely disappeared. The speed that’s this thing was traveling had to be at least 5-10 times faster than any commercial aircraft I’ve seen in the night skies. If I wasn’t looking up at that exact time I never would have seen it. The whole experience was only 6-8 seconds and I’ve never seen anything like it before.
September 14, 2023 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Ocean City, NJ
While out on the beach at OCNJ 8th street at after 4am but before 5am on 9/14/2023, I was looking out at the ocean and sky with PVS7B military surplus night vision googles. Observed plenty of planes, satellites, shooting stars, birds etc. (normal stuff). I was on vacation and was sober. I use these goggles all the time… it was not an artifact in the tube. Witnessed / noticed large light (large dot - larger than plane or satellite) coming from direction of ocean and passing directly over head at probably high altitude and very high speed. I have no idea if it was visible to the baked eye. I tracked using goggles from my first spotting to crossing over my head and over land in just a 2-3 seconds. (Estimated hundreds and hundreds of miles) This object was moving very fast and that is why it caught my attention. This blew past any satellite etc by at least 10 times speed. After passing over at a high altitude it stopped dead in the sky for a second. I was shocked! It just stopped. There were then a series of 3 maneuvers lasting about 2-3 seconds total from point of stoping. First it arced to the right, then down left, then up right ( each in a small arc), stopping dead each time for a brief faction of a second, then it when it accellerated up and right for a split second it was gone. Possibly a slight trail when it left (maybe). These maneuvers could not have been performed by any man made or natural phenomenon I am aware of. It was very shocking to witness this, made my hair stand up on the back of my neck . I ran in to tell my wife what I witnessed. I had searched for it in the sky by it was gone. If I would not have been looking at the sky over the ocean when it appeared, Im pretty certain I would have missed it. No sound, no trails, no flashing, extremely fast, only one solid dot (green in NV IR). Not a drone! Unknown if it had lights. Was just one large dot.
September 13, 2023 · 11:17 PM · CIRCLE
Stoughton, WI
Silver reflective donut shaped object moving at roughly the same altitude moving southwest. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
September 13, 2023 · 11:10 PM · LIGHT
Mount Vernon, IL
First, I thought it was a star, then it disappeared so I figured maybe it had wenrt behind the cloud, then I thought that was quick for a cloud! So I thought plane, then I realized there were no clouds in the sky so I went for my camera when I was fairly certain it was nothing normal what so ever! I was afraid I would get it but as though it was putting on a show it didn’t disappoint! I didn’t realize second craft until my wife brought it to my attention then I discovered that it popped up at least 3 more times then I realized! So amazing! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 13, 2023 · 9:28 PM · FLASH
Shakopee, GA
We are not sure if this is even a ufo but it did not seem right in the sky. Everything went silent except the hot tub jets and we were just looking at the stars until it happened. Short flashes in the clouds that seemed to dance around then disappeared all together
September 13, 2023 · 9:22 PM · TRIANGLE
Somerset, -
Husband and brother in law went to corner store. Was right above neighborhood. Completely silent. Store employee seen it as well. Called friend asking if she looked outside as I went out and seen it to. She sent me a link from a man she knows that seen it yesterday morning on the road behind us. Smooth hoovering and there is a helicopter watching but not engaging it as well. Can hear helicopter only not the other