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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 6, 2023 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Lawler, IA
I stepped outside with a colleague to have a cigarette and noticed a couple of lights off to the distance that seemed out of place. I watched them fade in and out and move up and down at a high rate of speed. After seeing this I cut my co worker off mid conversation and asked if he was seeing what I was seeing. He looked and saw the same thing. A moment later the two lights turned into four and seemed to be flying in some sort of formation but were fading in and out then got really bright before fading out once again. This went on for roughly 45 minutes. There were eight people who witnessed this event. Was really fascinating. The lights seemed to pulse then slowly fade out of existence. They would loop around one another and then seemed to be stationary before fading out of sight. Then moments later be miles away and do the same pattern again.
December 6, 2023 · 1:36 AM · SPHERE
Latexo, TX
I stepped outside to enjoy the night before going to bed. While standing on my porch stairs, with our dog, I noticed a very bright orb object to the west just above our storage container. I continued to watch it as it morphed into a 5 point star form and split into two seperate orb/star forms while moving from west to east, and then becoming stationary. The dog then hit the door full tilt trying to get into the house, and i noticed thst the only other thing i heard was "whooshing" in my ears and feeling my heart beat. I reached behind and opened the door to let the dog in and called for my bf to come out and see what i was seeing. When i looked back the orbs had become one again, but closer. my boyfriend then grabbed our binoculars to tske a lpok and saw that they were still TWO orbs but very close together to look as one. When i looked through them, i saw the same thing. They never moved again, staying stationary so we went inside. The dog refused to go back outside.
December 6, 2023 · 12:48 AM · CHEVRON
Austin, TX
Standing outside of my 12th-floor patio in my apartment building, I witnessed something approaching from North Austin with no visible lights (it was past midnight). Knowing this did not match commercial flight routes I had seen previously, I watched it fly almost directly overhead me in a south or nearly southeast direction. The first thing that came to mind was a stealth bomber like the B2, but I wouldn't understand why it was flying so low with no lights. I could clearly see the Chevron shape in a light grey tone, but couldn't discern whether it had a full triangle that was black or a darker color. I watched it fly above me for about 30 seconds, where once it got above I removed my headphones and heard no audible noise. At one point, I almost believed the front of the object changed shape from being a straight-angled Chevron, but I couldn't say this for certainty.
December 5, 2023 · 5:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Payson, AZ
I was driving on AZ-260 near the RX wildfire, heading towards Holbrook. I looked to my left and saw a triangular shaped craft hovering in the smoke with lights visible (before the 260 Trailhead turn off). There was no noise such as propellers, jet engines, or helicopter blades. The craft didn't move but remained stationary. I later drove back in an attempt to get a picture but by then it was gone. I later heard a propeller driven plane at 6:10 PM but am not sure if this is related to my sighting.
December 5, 2023 · 5:25 PM · SPHERE
Saint Paul, KS
So idk what's happening in my small town, since the end up September. I've seen anything like this before. So ever single night orbs every I mean left going all different directions all different sizes and heights. They only come out very early like 545 to about 7 PM. After that they hardly show themselves. I go outside look up in just seconds I see them. They legit post as Stars. Your see a Star as you look for more then the a star you just looked at, starts flying threw the night sky. Damn military planes.ars flying over every day and night. How do I know cuz flew next each other and right at each other. I thought they were gonna crash at times no joke. Now theses a huge UFO thats.flown right over my house 3 times seen it 4 times. This is no orb. It's huge the speed of it I can only compare it moving a Lazer it's that fast. No sound either nothing. This thing was low too. Triangle/dimoamd shape..you could only see the outline of the shape of the craft it's self. 6 to 9 very dim Green lights made the outline. Last night the lights were circling the Craft it's self as it flew over us.. we've seen Star Link fly over our town 5 times in last 2 months. I think that's very weird giving that I've only seen that once before 2 years ago. So yea I need a documentary crew out here lol I can't get any of this on my phone camera [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
December 5, 2023 · 5:36 AM · OVAL
Santa Monica, CA
There were five lights high above the Pacific not moving. One had rotating lights. Seemed too high in the air to be drones.
December 4, 2023 · 10:45 PM · FLASH
Corinth, NY
Looked up saw blink flash appear then it was gone
December 4, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Dunkirk, IN
I'm an old guy. Was watching TV and noticed a stationary round white light to the N-NE out of my east facing family room window. Didn't really think much about it, thought it was an airplane or helicopter. It disappeared. Seconds later it reappeared and was closer-about 100 yards in the same direction, however it was larger. That's when the white beams of light came on. It was obviously night-time and the lights were so bright they illuminated the entire woods. They weren't normal search type lights-they moved to fast. At this time I went outside for a better look, it was gone, it was dead quiet. No helicopter and airplane sounds. This happened in about a 20 seconds. I guess it might have been an aircraft, but I've never seen anything like this in the past. I believe it was a UFO because there was NO sound at all. I prefer my name not used. You can contact me if this is a legitimate UFO sighting.
December 4, 2023 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Lorain, OH
Shortly after walking outside to smoke a cigarette, I felt like I was being watched, so walked to the rear of my driveway, looked up and noticed a small, slightly illuminated, approximately 5ft wide, spherical cloud floating around 23 to 25ft in the air above the front portion of my backyard. The object appeared to be stationary until observed and briefly spoken to (when I initially spotted the object I said aloud "What are you doing?") At this point, the object slowly (about walking pace) circled above my house, then continued circling around the front of my house, circled above the driveway which I was standing on, circled above the home of the closest neighbor to my left, then back around to the rear my the driveway, then proceeded toward the front of the drive, before vanishing directly above my head. While circling over both house, the lower portion of the object was obscured briefly at the peak of each respective house, which verified my approximate observation of it's height. I walked from center to back, then back to front, then front to back, and then directly under the object as it changed direction east, in order to maintain unbroken observation. To be clear, I have no indication that the object left the area at this point, it simply became invisible to me. It was entirely inaudible, and when stared at directly, no hard lines, shapes, edges or color variations could be observed. I passed my hand through my field of vision while observing the object without any change in it appearance, in order to rule out the possibility of hallucination or optical illusion. This occurred at night, and the weather conditions were cloudy, but my side door has a soft light. No neighbors were present, and no vehicles passed by during the observation. No possibility of abduction, as no time was missing, the object appeared too small to take a person, and no bodily effects were observed during or afterwards. I am an Air Force Veteran, who served on an active flightline for an overseas long tour at Ramstein Air Base during the height of OEF/OIF as an aerospace ground equipment mechanic. Honorably Discharged. During the observation I was under no impairment, was of calm mind and entirely awake. I made no attempt to photograph or record the object, since it was acting subtly, potentially covertly above my home and those seemed like actions that might be interpreted as hostile.
December 3, 2023 · 11:59 PM · LIGHT
Memphis, IN
At midnight a witness saw a very bright white light approximately 50 yards from his house. It was so bright he couldn’t look at it long at a time. He took pictures. It lasted about 3 minutes. It was in a rural area in between 2 houses in a wooded area.
December 3, 2023 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Davenport, FL
Me, my children, and family, were swimming when I noticed it first after looking up. I thought maybe I was seeing things until I looked at my sister in law and said- Did you see that or am I crazy? There were two orbs that were going in circles chasing each other kind of, I’m not sure but they were moving so fast in the sky it looked unreal. It looked nothing like a normal plane or aircraft going by it moved WAY too fast. By then it went away for a few minutes and I told everyone by this time- even the neighbors came out and saw what ever was moving at the speed of light. After about half an hour there was no more sight of the orbs.
December 3, 2023 · 5:40 PM · CIRCLE
Sisseton, SD
There were four objects in total. Three of which appeared to be dim circles of white, and one singular circle that was bright. They were grouped together for a split second. The three dim objects split further, going all directions: NW, NE and S. The brighter circle individually went South. After the objects went in different directions, they were not longer to be seen. It appeared that the dim lights moved at a slower pace than the bright light did. The sky was thirty minutes past sunset. Although not completely dark, it was dark enough to notice. No sounds were heard.
December 2, 2023 · 6:54 PM · SPHERE
New York, NY
Ok so I’m leaving RiteAid and I looked up over the elevated train towards the clouds. Don’t know why. I see a perfectly round orb shape hovering - it looked like it was hovering - then it was up, then down. Went into clouds and came out either up or back to the left etc. it seemed to be hiding in clouds. At one point the shape changed and it looked black w a light in the center. I was watching this - looking for a second light - nothing. Then it just disappeared like poof!!! At one point I saw an airplane heading towards it. That caught my eye because I’m close to Manhattan and no planes are allowed over it now. So this plane looked like it came over the city - which you can see from here, and the orb disappears but after the plane veered away from it, the orb reappeared. It went east, west, up and down
December 2, 2023 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Haverhill, MA
While outdoors around 5pm, four people (2 adults 2 children) saw multiple (approximately a dozen) points/ orbs of light in the sky over the course of about an hour. The setting had some urban neighborhood lighting but the sky was clear and dark. The lights were of similar size and intensity. They appeared small, though distance was difficult to determine. The observers saw a mix white, red and green lights. The lights did not appear to blink though some twinkling through atmosphere was noticed. Some lights appeared to travel across sky laterally, unlike a meteor. Possibly like a drone. Some lights appeared to hang in the same spot which was hidden in the sky behind a large tree. Observers have previously seen Starlink, ISS, meteor showers and single drones flying and this seemed different. A large solar flare was recently publicized.
December 2, 2023 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Great Falls, MT
5+ white lights circling/maneuvering from our perspective over or beyond Malmstrom Airforce Base. Lights changed in intensity as they turned like a landing light would on an aircraft.
December 1, 2023 · 10:25 AM · UNKNOWN
Albion, ME
Some sort of craft came close to where I was in Albion, Maine today. It came down just 150 to 200 meters above some nearby trees and it was using some sort of cloaking tech because it was using all of the surrounding colors to shield its appearance and I could taste a metalic taste and I could feel a tingling in my stomach and the craft did not seem to make any sound that I could hear but the birds and animals all around were not making any sound at all for the minute or so before and after this thing came through here. I kept waiting in expectation of a logical explanation. None came. I believe there's something besides us now.
November 30, 2023 · 8:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Denton, NE
I observed an aircraft to be hovering approximately 100' above the ground in my pasture. It did not make a sound. It was noticed by the two bright headlights and I also noted it was not moving. The aircraft quickly dropped to hover 20' above the ground. As I approached in my vehicle, to obtain a better view, the aircraft shot straight up into the air and sped off towards the east of the location
November 30, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Buckhead, GA
Around 7 in the evening my mother called my father and I out to the front porch to show us a moving light in the sky toward the south. At first it appeared to be a star, maybe only slightly brighter than the average star. It took only a few moments to realize that it was moving; it would wobble side to side, move slightly to the left, and move upward (either literally up, or north). It would repeat these movements in a cycle over a period of perhaps 30 seconds, maybe upwards of a minute. None of these movements were fast, nor extreme; a thumb held at arm's length would cover the area in which it was doing the movements. It would also dim and brighten slightly, but there seem to be less of a pattern when it came to this. We watched it for maybe ten or fifteen minutes, pretty dumbfounded by it. I thought to grab my father's binoculars to see if I could see any it better, but once I found it using them it was still just a pinpoint of light; I couldn't see any kind of structure to the object which made me think it was really far away. At this point it was still doing it's little dance, and we got cold so we went inside. Every ten minutes or so I would go back out see if it was still there, and it was. After checking up on it a few more times with no changes, I started looking up possible astronomical objects that it could be, but I was pretty sure that wasn't the explanation; it had to be in atmosphere. Ruling out stars, planets, and satellites, I thought it could've been a drone, but supposedly drones don't have the endurance to stay up as long as this object was. Plus, would have to have been REALLY high up, and I feel that a person-controlled drone would have had more sporadic movements than what we witnessed. After doing this research, I went back outside, some two hours or so after first seeing it, and it was still in the sky, but at a different angle of elevation, perhaps 70 degrees, and slightly further west. That was the last time I saw it. In hindsight I should have at least attempted to film it with my phone, but it was small and the movements were also relatively small. It would've been a classic "crappy" UFO video. I've never seen anything else I haven't been able to explain, so this experience has really stuck with me.
November 30, 2023 · 4:59 PM · SPHERE
Gouverneur, NY
wife and daughter called saying I think we just seen a ufo . I went out back with my phone and watched the sky in the area they said and one orb showed up turned to 4 orbs from left to right two more times about 15 mins apart, I videoed with my phone both times. Returned inside and set up a small camera.
November 30, 2023 · 12:00 PM · CIGAR
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Have to assume these were drones, but could not find similar shapes in search. They were flying slowly, whatever they were. Silent. In the first pass, one was slightly in front of the other, flying along and to the ocean side and just above the Carlyle, a condo building of 3 or 4 stories. Looked like they could have been as large as a small car, but shaped for all the world like a giant tictac. Route was south to north between that building ( Carlyle) and The Lodge and Club at Ponte Vedra Beach. Closer to the Carlyle, and slightly west of Ocean Blvd. watched them go and went back to swimming. Then a 3rd one followed shortly after. Might have been 1 minute, might have been 2. might have been a drone coming back for another pass without its friend. Whatever. 3rd one flew on the other side of the Carlyle, west side of that building, just above roof height. Again the path was south to north. Nothing else happened. No military planes showed up from NAS Jax or Mayport. Assumed if it was dangerous, they would have. Continued my swim. You see all kinds of stuff swimming backstroke, but this was a first. If I had not been swimming backstroke, I would never have seen them -- unless maybe sitting poolside looking north, which no one does because the sun is not coming from that direction. If I'd had a camera or phone, I would have taken a picture. There wasn't anybody else in the pool to do it. I looked around. Employees inside were, you know, inside. Lifeguard either gone for the day or not present at that time. If I had gotten out of the pool to got inside, they would have been gone. I'm not sure on the day, honestly. It was last week ( last week of November, first couple days of December), and I swam in reverse order, Sunday 12/3, sat 12/2, thurs 11/30, tues 11/28 -- sat 11/25 before that. Mostly I swim between 11am and 1 pm. [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
November 30, 2023 · 11:26 AM · FORMATION
Woodstock, IL
Thursday Nov.30th, 2023 11:26 am cst Woodstock, IL. I'm looking North out my front window at an airliner high above me (75degrees up) traveling east in clear blue-sky and then another airliner going west came into view seconds later. That's when directly across my street facing North/3degrees East... I'll say 40degrees above horizon about 5 feet above the streetlight (it was not on) in my clear sight were 2 groups of silver bright lights/orbs (at least 20 in each group) with one circular group above the other in view for only about 10 seconds max when the lower group faded quickly into blue-sky then the group above faded immediately after into clear blue-sky too. There was no motion or movement just a fadeout. I stared for a few minutes and grabbed my binoculars to scan the sky but nothing there. I checked the time on my phone, and I decided to draw in pencil what was in my memory and write a description on the back of an envelope. Each circular group was about the size of my index fingernail held out arm's length. I waited a week to make a report, but I felt that I should still write this…. I told my 2 neighbors and showed them my drawing.
November 30, 2023 · 6:20 AM · SPHERE
Sterling, KS
It was very foggy when my husband went outside to let our cat out. He saw the lights shaped like a triangle at a 60° angle. Three larger lights seemed to form the triangle with 4 or 5 smaller lights in between the two larger bottom lights.They were not moving. The moon could also be seen at a higher angle north of the triangle lights. We live on a small lake and there were approximately 20 or more Canadian geese right in front of our house just floating in the water and making no noise. At 6:35 A.M. my husband came and woke me up to see the lights. I went outside with him and also saw the lights. I thought they looked like Christmas lights on the peak of someone's roof. My husband pointed out that they were way too high in the sky for that. We kept going out to check them and could no longer see them by 6:50 A.M. I was able to see them better using night vision on my phone camara.
November 30, 2023 · 3:10 AM · SPHERE
Franksville, WI
Objects were at the 30-40 degrees position off the horizon. They would move at the speed of a small plane it seemed but sometimes move in circles - not a straight line. Event went on for 15 minutes. There was 1 bright white object that appeared in the sky like when you slowly turn on a dimmer switch for a light. This object would brighten up in the sky, move around a bit and then dim back out and disappear. Then maybe 15 seconds – 30 seconds later, the same object and as many as 3 objects would brighten up at the same time and dance around each other and move to the north slowly but steadily. After 15-30 seconds all objects would dim back down and disappear. After another 15-30 seconds the main object would appear again but further from where it was originally. Then seconds after it appeared another 2 objects would brighten up and start moving around the main object in a circular and back and forth pattern. Objects dimmed out again. Then after another 15-30 seconds, the main object brightened up and 4 smaller objects brightened up after and buzzed the main object like bees being stirred up. Quite spectacular. Event occurred for 15 minutes between 3:00am - 3:30am. The same event happened two days earlier on 11-28-23 at the same time too and in the same location in the sky. Objects are not drones. They appear to be very high above cloud level. At least as high as small propeller planes fly. Objects appeared in major flight path of jetliners. They drop down over Racine County and bank north and land at Milwaukee airport. On 11-28-23 event, a jetliner was approaching from the south going north. As it got closer to the objects they disappeared and did not return. Weather: clear skies/ 30 degrees. Planets: The planet Venus was rising on the horizon to the east. Event occurred north/left of Venus location in sky. Location: Seen objects while driving east on 5 mile road from Raynor avenue all the way to I-94. I stopped in parking lot of Extreme Fireworks on 5 Mile Road/ I-94 to watch for a while.
November 30, 2023 · 2:08 AM · CHANGING
Dry Prong, LA
It was really late I was sitting in my sitting room I started to see this light or something outside and I know I turned off every light before this it was a bright light in the sky up above the wood line shining making werid moments and it looks at times it shining on my ole man's it the head rake off the dislel truck he has that not from it but that's what it look like it's doing but it left a couple of times to the next yard then came back to mine they were there after day break but there was two different time I guess it got really close to me I felt the wind off from it and it sound like a huge train about to coming throw my home it moved slow and I did see a second one behind it lower left corner well thanks for y'all's time hope to hear back from y'all I'm so confused