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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 11, 2023 · 11:03 PM · SPHERE
Alexandria, VA
On the evening of September 11, 2023, at approximately 11:03pm, two adults (ages 28 and 26), witnessed a circular orb (the size of a quarter, if you were to point the quarter to the sky), as bright as the moon quickly slingshotted into space faster than any aircraft, meteor or shooting star both participants have ever seen. The two participants were on the patio of their 4th floor apartment, stargazing, when they noticed the orb shoot through the sky. Since the orb shot through very fast there was no way to document the incident through phones, however, minutes after, we decided to jot down notes and draw out what we saw. We are more than happy to send over a copy of those drawings and information. The orb was seen from the corner of one of the participants eyes and its light, speed and direction commanded the night sky and was highly visible. It's trajectory was that of a slingshot. The orb appeared as if it had entered a dimension (it slingshotted through space and disappeared in less than a second). One participant said the orb had moved so fast that it looked as though it was going through stages. The participant said they saw the orb and then morphed versions of the orb as if it was moving through space at speeds far faster than any aircraft. It is important to note the area in which we saw this orb is heavily accessible by military helicopters and military aircrafts that routinely fly over the area, however, where the orb appeared was further, brighter and faster than any military aircraft that has ever flown past. There is 100% no way this was a military aircraft - there were no blinking lights. It was first seen peering through the clouds and shot through them, moving outside of the Earth's atmosphere. It did not move like a meteor across the sky, but instead moved upward toward space. The two adults are regular stargazers and are incredibly familiar with normal sightings in the sky (planets, stars, airplanes, missile launches, and meteors); this was completely abnormal.
September 11, 2023 · 10:57 PM · TRIANGLE
Hineston, LA
Saw a ton of movement in the sky on the clear night of September 11th, 2023. Had my airplane app open so I knew it wasn’t registered aircrafts or military planes. We mistaked it for Mars at first… then realized Mars does not zoom around in sporadic directions. Had bluetooth music playing through my vehicle speakers and as the object got closer, my radio began having issues and it began cutting out. Needless to say we got the heck out of there. Still don’t know what we saw but it was NOT an airplane. They do not move that sporadically. It would disappear in the distance and come back and sit. Had 3 other crafts around it doing the same.
September 11, 2023 · 10:35 PM · FLASH
Spokane, WA
Wow! At approx. 22:35hrs looking mostly N/NE in the nite-time sky as I sat in the outdoor seating area just outside the Spokane Convention Center did appear a black flash, off in the distance. Altitude of these events? Difficult to even guesstimate IMO at this point in time. And as best as I can describe these first time observable 'things' above. It reminded me almost instantly of footage of the Black Knight satellite. Being as it was THAT dark. Darker than dark. And the shape, dimensions of that (BK)/a craft/satellite. Peculiar thing about this area in the sky tonight off in the distance over N. Idaho is that prior, around 21:44hrs or so did appear in a very very quick evolving and decaying (mostly subdued in colour) a blue -flash!- and a fuzzy dark red dot. The dot remained static and stayed visible the longest. Approximately in the same area of the visible dark sky. This 'play' conjured up imagery I revisited on a recent train ride up the coast (West Coast). A truly bizarre scenario that played out (real-time, physical. Contact of the 4th Kind?) in one of the back alleys near the Steam Plant here (yr.2012-13) where in an area in the clear blue daytime sky 'slid open' like a door on rollers one afternoon just above a loading dock area. *on this revisit had to remind myself that Fairchild AFB is merely up the road from where this took place. Like that. Unmistakable 'fracture' of the very air, space around you. And then tonight, for whatever reason. That ever so dark shape. -flash!- or -pop!- into observable view, no visible 'light' flashing. Yet, how to describe objects and events not observed by me personally prior, and processed in THAT grouping is/was unknown territory to me. Visually acquainted now, going forward...
September 11, 2023 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Carlsbad, CA
Flashing horizontal lights 3 abreast. Saw for 3 minutes.
September 11, 2023 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
St. George, SC
This is just one of many sightings. This orb or light crossed in front of a plane, the plane was going South but the orb was going east. I would like to know if the pilots saw anything strange. Plane number is FFT2521
September 11, 2023 · 7:56 PM · FIREBALL
Norristown, PA
Was on my deck. Saw two orbs like fireballs moving slowly. As they went over a hole, I lost view and then noticed a third. I then sent the two reappear and noticed a black balloon or parachute type of object descending.
September 11, 2023 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE
Chesterfield, NJ
Driving in car with daughter from soccer practice single large bright white orb with white glow shoots up in sky. After about a minute object just disappears. First thought was a plane since close to Phili, trenton, and newark but light was too bright and too large to be known aircraft. I checked for any rocket launches reports or military activity known to public since I am very close to Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst. We are used to seeing military aircraft from our farm field and definitely was not one I have ever seen. I am reporting since population is obviously dense in tri-state area and we could not be the only ones that saw this object, just curious to what it was. Object was also seen 9/12 at around 8pm give or take... Will have cell phone in hand now to try and capture if seen again. Object attributes that piqued my curiosity in relation to my current aviation knowledge: 1. starting position - from our horizon line it looked to start from our perspective 1500 ft 2. trajectory - vertical ~ 80 degrees 3. velocity - increasing at high rate. 4. visibility - object rises and just disappears from sight with no visual fading effect not due to acceleration away from observers 5. size - object from visual perspective high in sky looked to be size between softball and basketball. 6. color attribute - white, blueshift appearance between 4000K and 5700K 7. propulsion - no visible contrail, just a giant orb. If more information is needed, I can be contacted. Unfortunately, no hard evidence available but would love to know that we are not crazy :)
September 11, 2023 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
South Bend, IN
My son and I were waiting on the bus and we saw three stars in the sky all in a line, like Orion’s belt but it was too far northeast to be Orion. We suddenly watch the left-most star begin to slowly yet steadily drift away from the other stars as it eventually disappeared, seemingly fading into the dark of the early morning sky.
September 11, 2023 · 4:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Swan Lake, NY
Observed on Ring Device. rectangular light in 3 parts hovering and moving horizontally over 3 to four feet at side of house for 32 seconds. Observed a streaking light shooting out from it into the sky. After it disappeared we spotted several lights in the sky on the video.
September 11, 2023 · 1:31 AM · UNKNOWN
Jonesboro, AR
Object move very fast. Super fast. Then. Move enough to make a flash then leave sky. I have to talk to someone explain more.
September 10, 2023 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
Beginning last nite say approx. 23:45hrs or so as I sat in the River Park Square park, taking in yet another clear, highly visible sky and as it and they go someway, somehow on or in a frequency! that has repeatedly (over the years) pinged me, "Hey Ry?" and always (varied, typically) directing my gauze to the area or direction that very specific, lowww frequency they utilize, and again last nite I mostly whipped my head to the right and upwards and 'flashy flash flashy floo' red, flash! a very distant appearing 'star' ...huh. and out loud in moi mind, "did ANYONE observing or on this freq. see that?" Whoa... And then not more than two more times a red flash! on two other 'star' appearing points in the nighttime sky. And two very very obvious, distinct blue, not so much a flash! and certainly not any prior observed transition in the darkness above ever observed by me prior. 'NEW!' Like an all of a sudden blue dot over that bright 'appearing star'. And then about at that point in time my mind went to one specific caveat about UAP's in their observable, operational wherewithal that they do, can, have and will position themselves in front of the viewable (from Terra Firma) star at whatever distance and essentially utilize that celestial object ( observable star- twinkle twinkle!) as in-flux camouflage (morphing) using the position in the sky and appearance to post up and observe. IMO. - Fin
September 10, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Cedar city, UT
I'm on a different job site so they are not doing anything at the distance I'm at. This has been going on for weeks. At another job site, a few weeks ago, they were brighter and more numerous. You can see in the video they are moving in a circle. They are not as steady as the video shows. They move like fireflies, and I almost got video of them going high to low. They changed course once I started recording.
September 10, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Cedar City, UT
Every night thy show up. Circling around. They move directly depending on the night. There was less of them last night. You best send someone out to get good videos before they are gone. I have full video if you wanted me to send them. The files are to large. I do not dare edit them. The last time I did that, the video was erased!
September 10, 2023 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Methuen, MA
Green round light was spotted traveling at high speeds towards a wooded area. Other cars were also on the same highway at the time of spotting.
September 10, 2023 · 8:05 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalFairfield, CA
The above linear formation of orbs floated above me in the evening consisting of 10 orbs in a line equidistant from each other. Also seemed to have colorful tints to them. After watching them for no more than a minute: they looked disappeared as if the dissolved into the night sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 10, 2023 · 6:49 PM · RECTANGLE
Bass Lake, IN
My wife and I were flying in our Cirrus SR22T from KAGC to KDPA. We were at 10,000 feet altitude and traveling at ~200 MPH on an Instrument flight plan. The weather was VMC, outside air temperature was 5 C. We were in contact with South Bend ATC. The object was approaching us rapidly about 200 yards north of our position. We were just south of Bass Lake, Indiana and north of Wheeler Airport (IG05) at 6:49PM EDT. We both were shocked to see an object at our exact altitude and so close to the airplane. We contacted ATC to ask if they had seen anything on their radar. They indicated they did not have anything showing up in our location but had indicated there was a commercial aircraft 30,000 feet above us. They asked us to describe the object. It was of metal material and color. It had a sphere on the top with what appeared to be a black visor across the facing position. Under the attached sphere were three attached rectangular cubes stacked vertically. The entire object appeared to be about 2-3 meters in vertical length. No obvious form of propulsion on the object. It was moving horizontally at a high rate of speed or at least it appeared to be, however we were also moving fast so we aren’t sure if the object was move or if it was just us moving. This was not a drone, bird, or aircraft. It almost appeared as a automated jet-pack like structure with a monitoring head but without extremities of arms or legs. I have been a pilot for 25 years and have flown over 800 hours of flight time. My wife has flown many missions with me and is a keen observer of other aircraft while flying.
September 9, 2023 · 11:18 PM · CYLINDER
Old town, FL
An object travels in a straight line at a very high speed, not like an animal flying. I can only relate my impression to a bullet but I didn’t hear anyone shooting. The object came out of the woods of my backyard and traveled straight towards the front yard passing between the house and the shed at a height of 6-8 ft. I took the image on my iPhone from my tv screen and recorded it in real time and slow play. The object appears to be opaque and leaves a trace image of its trail. I’m guessing it traveled 50 feet in one second? I don’t know why the camera triggered and then happened to catch the image. The next camera in the direction it headed was not triggered to record but did capture the image of that area about 10 seconds before the moment that was recorded. The night before there was a light in the area that the object came from. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
September 9, 2023 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalTaunton, MA
During a night out at a car meet a drone captured a light shoot across the sky. It comes from beyond the building in the distance a looks like a tiny glowing dot. As it approaches it get bigger and cross over in just a few frames. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Probable]
September 9, 2023 · 9:35 PM · CIRCLE
Yelm, WA
While walking my dog at approximately 9:35 PM, I noticed a bright orange light above the tree line. My dog and I both watched the light grow larger as if it was coming toward us for approximately 1 to 2 minutes before it shrunk into a white light and disappeared. There were no sounds.
September 9, 2023 · 8:34 PM · CIRCLE
CA
There was one going across the sky shiny round. It looked to be. It was pretty far up in the sky going across the sky at a pretty fast speed I'm assuming and then following that another one same direction and then another one went crossways very fast speed as well
September 9, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
South Scottsdale AZ, AZ
We was just sitting outside and looked up and seen that and it happened 3 times different days but only cought it once on video
September 9, 2023 · 6:50 PM · SPHERE
Miami, FL
I was walking towards my home. I looked into the sky while watching a plane ascend. In the nearby clouds was a black sphere that looked like a black star in the clouds. I had to go in the house. Came back out and it couldn’t be seen.
September 9, 2023 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Edenton, NC
I had just climbed out of my hunting stand and noticed a bright white light traveling in the sky. It reminded me of a landing light on an airplane. I really didn't think much of it because there are a few runways around. As I watched it, it took a instant 90 degree shift (not like a turn) to the west. I went behind the tops of trees out of my sight. So, I pulled up my binoculars and started searching the sky at the end of the tree line. Never saw the bright white light come out the other side, but what I did see were to small lights (one red, one white) heading back in a southerly at an unreal rate of speed. They were not blinking like navigation lights. The movement of the white light was smooth and instantly shifted to the west unlike anything I have ever seen move in the sky.
September 9, 2023 · 5:00 PM · EGG
Byron, CA
On Sep 9, 2023 around 500-530pm, I was recording a video of beautiful cumulus clouds in the sky. My camera is a Canon 5D Mark IV and the lens is a Canon EF 70-200mm 1:2.8 L IS USM Lens. I recorded for 20-30 minutes. The next day, I watched the video and saw a glowing white egg-shaped object fly across the video at extremely high speed on a linear path. The glowing white egg-shaped object had no fire-trail, no wings, and at the point of entry into the camera frame, it appeared "ghost-like" then transformed into a bright glowing white object. The light appeared to emit from the object versus reflection of sunlight. This object was flying below the cumulus clouds. The camera was mounted on a tripod pointing straight up to the sky on top of my patio roof. The entire time, I was standing inside the house about 5-10 feet away while the camera was capturing video. I placed the camera on top of my patio roof via a window from my house. The sky was filled with clouds with patches of blue sky during day light. The video quality is very good and allows for zoom-in and video speed reduction to clearly see the object. In the video, it appears to be at two places at once as it travels on a linear path but this might be an artifact from the video encoding since it was traveling extremely fast. I need to double check the video metadata to confirm if this occurred Sep 9 (either it was Sep 9 or Sep10)