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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
November 21, 2021 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Claycomo, MO
Standing on the front porch facing a northeasterly direction with my husband observing a cluster of stars that seemed to be moving in a northern direction. The cluster seemed to disappear or move to a higher elevation. I turned and looked in a different direction when suddenly I saw something directly overhead moving in a Northeasterly direction. The object was round in shape with lights in a circular pattern. The lights were not very bright, giving almost a shadowy look. I can only describe it as how the tenecle of an octopus looks on the underside except in a circular pattern. It moved silently and very quickly and was gone before I could direct my husband's attention to see it. The night sky was clear and the moon was full. There seemed to be more than the usual amount of movement in the sky tonight by way of airplanes, helicopters and distant satellites.
November 21, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Abingdon, VA
White lights that looked almost LED, there were in a triangle shape and did not look like they were moving. We watched as we got off the interstate ramp to stop and get a picture and loss sight for less than 1 minute. Once we were able to see the location where they were, they were gone.
November 21, 2021 · 6:00 PM · CHANGING
Sioux Falls, SD
This was posted to reddit.com/r/UFOs for community consideration: My observations: 1. This was near perfect ”black” almost matching the night sky. No mounted/visible lights other than moonlight reflection. 2. It looked boomerang shaped at first, but I had my back deck light on full blast, definitely interfering with my perception :/ 3. It appeared to move silently. Though I had heard a typical plane/drone noise and helicopter noises from afar only seconds prior. 4. This didn’t trigger any internal reaction from me nor seemed to bother my dogs (they are playing in the video). Definite adrenaline rush though..! 5. The actual sighting lasted only about 30 seconds from when I first saw this to when I was only able to see from my phone’s screen/viewfinder. 6. NEW: Misc. lights (blinking AND solid lights) were seen before and after this sighting in the general Southeastern location. May prove irrelevant but felt necessary to include. Lights did not immediately appear to be official government vehicle, more likely drones or very distant vehicle. Being mostly uneducated my first thought (besides ”UFO”) was something like a B52 Bomber? I will try to keep my eyes to the sky. I've included the original MOV as well as edited AND negative footage for reference.
November 21, 2021 · 6:00 PM · DISK
Vacaville, CA
Oval ring/disk like shape spinning and moving. Was NOT a airplane, or a helicopter whatsoever.
November 21, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedLittle Rock, AR
4 white lights moving around, witnessed from North Little Rock to Little Rock heading towards Little Rock Arkansas capitol building, it was still moving through the sky after watching on the 15 minute ride home. Thought it was lights beaming up from a building until we saw them move over the river. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
November 21, 2021 · 3:30 PM · RECTANGLE
VA
I took the pictures of the phenomena at 3:36 pm, 21 November 2021. I was on United airlines flight UA 2082, from Orlando, FL (dept- 1:45pm) to Washington Dulles International Airport (arrival 3:50pm). Pictures were over Northern Virginia (not sure exact location) as the aircraft was 15 minutes from landing. I was on a window seat on the rear and right side of the aircraft. I saw an almost rectangular, dark shaped object that seemed to be stationary in the sky being that it did not seem to be moving. What surprised me was the size of the object, and the fact that it was stationary/did not seem to be moving. I am in the military and have flown many times over many different countries and have never seen this type of object. I have also seen aerostat air ships, balloons, and even drones from aircraft while in flight, and this object did not look like anything I had ever seen before. While creating the PDF that I have attached, I saw in one of the pictures that there could have been up to two additional objects (so up to three) instead of the one that I saw. The PDF has pictures and further details related to the phenomena I saw that day. I am happy to answer further questions.
November 21, 2021 · 12:30 PM · OTHER
Hatboro, PA
While filming two Fighter Jets, an object appeared. The object traveled toward one of the Fighter Jets. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
November 21, 2021 · 7:00 AM · DISK
Eureka, CA
Driving northbound on Broadway, HWY 101, in the vicinity of 4th street, south of the marina, I noticed an object that resembled a sand dollar, a circular shaped dome, that glided from the west, off the Pacific, toward the east, near the northern city limits. Most striking were several colored rays of light, blue, red, green, and yellow, which appeared to emanate in a circular fashion from the dome. As best I could tell, the object was about 20 feet in diameter, and looked to be traveling between 700 and a 1,000 feet. It was 7:15 AM, just as the sun was coming up, and skies were clear. The object was visible for approximately 3 to 4 minutes as it skirted the city limits.
November 20, 2021 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Lordsburg and Silver City (between), NM
Weather - clear night. Traffic - non-existent. Speed - 60 mph approximately Direction - NE on US route 90 toward Silver City, NM from the intersection with US route 70 outside Lordsburg, NM. Situation - I had traveled south from the Phoenix area for 4 hours and was heading by myself back home to Silver City. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a bright flash of light and turned my head to look out the passenger’s side window. I immediately saw a huge fluorescent green ball (the most beautiful color green I had ever seen) fall from the sky and drop behind a mountain range to the East. I believe the mountain range was perhaps the Pyramid Mountains or the Cedar Mountains and close to the Continental Divide. The “ball” almost entirely filled up the passenger’s side window from my sight point. That was it. There were no other flashes. It just disappeared when it completely descended. I was stunned by what I had seen and especially because the color was so intense and radiant and the sphere was so large. Let me add that the “ball” was not falling either rapidly or slowly, but descending at a rate where it was easily observable. Finally, the size is difficult to approximate not knowing exactly how far away the object was at the time. But, knowing that it fell behind a mountain range, leads me to say it was about three times the size of a full moon in the sky or the same size as a full moon when observed on the horizon.
November 20, 2021 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Dubois, PA
I was driving home from a buddies house in penfield pa, and noticed 3 circles in the sky; moving in almost like a pattern. Thought nothing of it, figured it was spotlights from hunters spotting for deer. I just figured they were messing around and moving the lights in a certain pattern. Fast forward 10 minutes, about 10 miles down the road, I see the same circles and going in the exact same pattern, almost like each circle was chasing the one in front of it, while still remaining in a circular pattern. Then they all switched directions and started to go in a counter clockwise pattern. Then just disappeared. They did not disappear like a light does in a dark room, they did not immediately go away, they slowly faded away while moving in an upward direction. Almost as if they went completely vertical and shot into the upper atmosphere. The circles themselves were a perfect circle, no immediate haze or anything around them but they had almost a glowing ring around the outside, not connected to the circle itself
November 20, 2021 · 8:59 PM · LIGHT
TACOMA, WA
I was sleeping in my car while my fiancée was driving doing DoorDash deliveries when he suddenly woke me up and asked me to look in the sky and tell him what was the 7 glowing lights Flying and Hovering in the sky as soon as I seen how the lights where changing colors and moving in a weird formation and Shooting off Fast in the sky we immediately started recording and following the lights I never seen anything like this in my life and I know for sure it was not a plane I trued to call my local news but they didn’t believe us so this is my last resort I just want the world to know there is other intelligence of some sort that is not like us whatever those were flying in the sky is not from earth.
November 20, 2021 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Tacoma, WA
Was outside looking at an owl that had just flew over and landed on the powerline. I turned around because I heard something in the bushes and I saw a bunch of unusual lights in the sky. I counted 13 at first as they were moving up from the horizon and then stalled for a moment, twinkled a bit, moved some more and then eventually went higher and would disappear. As they were disappearing, new lights were slowing appearing from the same spot on the horizon. Eventually, they all disappeared one at a time. They were also twinkling from dim to bright as they hovered. They appeared as bright orange, I could not make out a specific shape. The owl let out a screech and a hoot and flew low just above my head just after I noticed the lights.
November 20, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Lincoln City, OR
I was looking out to see what planets I could see when I saw this red and green light moving very fast across the sky, then stop and go back the other way, then it stopped again and went up and down, darting around, not like a helicopter as it moved so quickly and oddly, then it stopped and just went straight down and I couldn't see it as it went behind a house and it didn't come back up?? Then a blinking red light came flying across the sky, which could have been a plane. Just went straight across, so not suspicious
November 20, 2021 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Sacramento, CA
unknown object viewed in the eastern sky from our location in south Sacramento near hwy 99 approximately 30 degrees altitude, the red light had a odd tint, translucent and panned from west to south and disappeared, no sound to the object. This is not the first time for this object in this area.
November 20, 2021 · 5:30 PM · CIRCLE
Nampa, ID
Flying object emitting black smoke cloud
November 20, 2021 · 5:30 PM · CIGAR
Dry Ridge, KY
My son was with myself and my husband. He was in the backseat admiring the storm clouds and noticed something in the clouds. So he rolled the window down and took a picture with his cell phone.
November 20, 2021 · 5:30 PM · CIGAR
Dry Ridge, KY
Saw something in the sky while sitting in the drive thru and took a picture
November 20, 2021 · 5:19 PM · CHANGING
Nampa, ID
While we were driving on the freeway around dusk, we saw several very dark dots and what appeared to be a smoke trail from a very small craft. We obtained approximately one minute of video. The craft maneuvered erratically, at one point going straight vertical, while leaving small trails of dark smoke. There appeared to be a large craft above the smaller craft, or it was a large plume of stationary smoke. Towards the end of the sighting, we saw what appeared to be military planes with flashing strobes enter in from the West behind the craft.
November 20, 2021 · 5:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Rapid City, SD
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I witnessed something tonight that I never would have believed before. I live on the edge of the City, so it is very dark around my apartment complex. I went outside with my 2 dogs and was standing still looking at the sky because the stars were particularly beautiful tonight. As I stood there watching, at first, I thought I had just witnessed 2 planes flying way to close to each other. I don’t live far from The Ellsworth Airforce Base, so I did consider that they may be practicing maneuvers as they often do. If I tell anyone else about this, I will just be told that it was planes from the base and to forget about it. As I continued watching, one of the objects left the other very quickly and then turned it’s lights off. Because of the way the moon lit the sky tonight, I could still see its shadow (?), not sure how to describe it, but I could still see it. I then continued to walk my dogs and counted at least 7 more of the exact same objects in a circular formation, all standing still with the (main?) craft continuing to leave it’s lights on while also remaining stationary. After walking my dogs, I went back inside of my apartment and immediately Googled “UFO’s Rapid City” hoping there were more reports of what I saw. As far as I know, they are still out there right now. I am really hoping someone else reported seeing the same thing so I don't sound like a crazy woman.
November 20, 2021 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Willow, AK
My son and I were sitting at the bottom of my driveway around 1:00 1:15 1:30 a.m. and as we were talking it was a clear night so you can see the sky real good we noticed there was this big bright light brighter than the North Star in the sky and he said Mama is that moving I looked up and I said so I believe it is I said looks like it's coming towards us he said well I hope it don't well we're sitting there watching this thing and it looked like a star in the sky you know and it comes out of the sky down below the trees on the road in front of us just just flying along like a little butterfly no bebopping up and down the road around the trees and as it's coming towards us my son grabs the gun and I'm like no no no he's like I'm going to kill him I'm going to kill it I got to shoot at mama I got to shoot it I said son we don't know what that is it was a big bright ball of light like white light like an orb or something and they say I know it come down in front of the car and then it goes to the neighbor's house and we don't see it no more. But the thing is is that we see it almost every night sometimes there's two or three right now it's sitting right there in the sky you can see it come down I got it on recording too I got it I got a recording of it it just I mean it's it's amazing I mean what is it but it's there right now and it stays stays there until it comes down and then I'll go back up like like it never came down happens all the time we're used to it now but I would like to know what it is.
November 19, 2021 · 11:30 PM · CHANGING
Oakdale, CA
I was recording these weird lights that did not seem to be stars, planes nor dromes. When All of a sudden I saw this super bright light come out like from another UFO. It stood up for like a split second then it took off over me transforming and changing it's figure. Here is a video clip of what I saw.
November 19, 2021 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Near Mt. Vernon, ME
On the evening of November 19, 2021, around 5 pm, I was on my way home from work, when I noticed a very bright spherical object in the sky to the southwest. The sky was overcast, and the sun was setting, so it was pretty dark out. At first, I thought I was looking at Venus, but then I remembered the cloud cover. I slowed down to get a better look at the object. The object had moved from east to west for a short period of time, and then remained stationary. It seemed to be about a half of a mile away, and about 1500 ft in elevation. It was a golden white sphere, a little smaller than a pea at that distance. As I was watching, it ejected 5 smaller spheres, which remained for a couple seconds, and then disintegrated into a glittery looking substance that disappeared. Shortly after, the sphere ejected 5 more smaller spheres, which also disintegrated. The sphere remained for about 20 to 30 seconds following that, and then it disappeared, but it didn’t disintegrate. I would say that the total time I observed the object was about 10 minutes from when I first spotted it. I was on Old Belgrade Rd, about 3 miles from Mt. Vernon, ME, and I was traveling west.
November 19, 2021 · 12:30 PM · UNKNOWN
IdentifiedWard, AR
I was taking a picture of the moon because of the lunar eclipse. I didn't notice the object until I looked at my photo later. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
November 19, 2021 · 3:15 AM · CHEVRON
Lakeville, MN
November 19th Minnesota during the lunar eclipse at 3:15 am. I went out about 3 am and took several pictures of the moon. It was a perfect clear night and you could clearly see the red moon with the naked eye but I could not get a good picture with my iPhone. I had gone inside and was going to head to bed but decided to try one more time to get a photo. I went out in the back deck and looked up. I was trying to make my mind understand what it was seeing. There was a large odd shape silently moving across the sky. It looked like it was actually made up of many smaller objects that formed the overall shape. I called for my daughter who is 20 and my son who is 22 to come see. They had been up with me to watch the eclipse. For me I thought It looked like a flock of 100 medium glowing white birds silently flying in formation across the black sky. It was dead silence out. The whole thing lasted 20 seconds ish. I snapped a picture . But because it was pitch black out my iPhone did a extended exposure. So instead of seeing each individual “light” it came out in lines. But the overall shape is the same as it looked. My daughter could see the individual glowing objects that formed the overall shape. My son could not wrap his mind around what he was seeing. It went across the sky and then out of sight. Slow moving. It was a clear cloudless night and the overall shape was very clearly defined. It was above the trees but not as high up as a plane. The light to the right is a star. I wish I could have gotten a better picture but I’m glad a got the picture at all. Do you have a logical explanation for what we saw?