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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.
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August 12, 2023 · 11:10 PM · FORMATION
Oconomowoc, WI
While watching for meteors, we witnessed approximately 10-20 white lights flying tightly northwest to northeast- they began separating and flying different directions- we saw 3 sets of them one directly after the others
August 12, 2023 · 10:50 PM · LIGHT
Jamestown, ND
Myself (male, 50s), my son (male, 30s), and two grandsons (15 and 11) were in the back yard, looking up at the sky for the Perseid meteor shower (which wasn't very active). My 15 year old grandson noticed the "star" moving erratically, first. After a minute or so, we all saw what he had seen. I was laying in my zero gravity chair, facing the east, but looking straight up. The "star" was directly above us... maybe just a little east of zenith. The "star" was definitely not a satellite, as I have seen many of those before, and understand their movements. What we were seeing was what looked like a star, but it was moving (not at a steady speed) toward the west. It appeared to stop quite often, but not for long. It would also move from side to side (north and south), while still moving in a westerly direction. Sometimes slowly, and other times a little faster. After watching for about 45 minutes, I had to move my head backwards to the point where it became uncomfortable. All of the other stars in the sky were still in their same general position, but the one we were watching had moved considerably. I also have a tree in my back yard that I could use as a landmark. After about an hour, the "star" had moved about 10 degrees toward the west. We did not watch it until it was no longer able to be seen, since it was late. It could have been lit up by itself or it could have been reflecting sunlight. There was no change in the intensity of the brightness, though.
August 12, 2023 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Big Island, VA
Object was seen in the night sky at approximately 10:30 on August 12th or 13th. We were looking at the Perseid meteor shower. Our home is located on a mountain and we have a 180* view of the sky. My husband and I observed a giant craft, larger than any aircraft or satellite I have ever seen. It appeared very large and very close. It was traveling toward us at a slow rate of speed. As is came closer, it slowly turned right and disappeared. It was green and holographic in appearance. The shape is hard to describe. It looked like three or four objects that may have been square or spherical. They were linked closely together. We tried to tell ourselves that it was Starlink, but after seeing the Starlink satellites recently and reviewing online images of Starlink, we have ruled out that possibility. We have no explanation for what we saw. It is the second unexplainable phenomenon we have observed in the last 6 years of living on the mountain.
August 12, 2023 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
Franklin County (northeast), WA
V rural location. Monday 8/7/23 weird light to west, maybe 930 pm +/-, party 1 thinks it’s a rig coming but then a few minutes later realizes nothing went by. V bright, single light, kind of slowly pulses, goes away for awhile, comes back, sometimes orange-ish. We watch through back window for maybe 10, then one party goes to see what it is, thinking maybe people spotlighting coyotes. Fades out when starts pickup. No weird tracks/vehicles/anything when he goes down there, drives a ways and doesn’t see anything. Friday 8/12 to west out bedroom window maybe around 1030, looks like it’s above neighbor shop but to north. Too big to be a star, bright, orangish. Kind of hovers and slightly moves around but stays generally in the same place. Almost seems like it has a crescent shape, oriented w/concave upward, at beginning but could have been glare from window. Stays for about 20-30 min, no real change so eventually go to bed. One party steps outside but doesn’t hear anything. One party doesn’t think this one is as weird. Need to ask Jeff neighbors if they have a drone. 8/15 same thing but started out smaller/further away? Not crescent shape at beginning. Around 1140. Eventually go to bed again, didn’t wake up second party. Still haven’t caught up w Neighbors 8/16 Neighbors don’t have drone 8/18 around 1050pm, light starts off “lower” and kind of off se corner of shed (but I think it’s further away). Watch it for about an hour and a half before going to bed. Hovers around, kind of zips back and forth up and down, but overall makes its way higher and further to south. By time I go to bed looks like it’s up “above” power line and over south of lot. Went outside, no noise. Looked at it through binoculars outside, orangish color seems to be coming from a bunch of orange lights around outside of shape. Inside is more muted color and looks wavy. Hard to get binos to focus really great on it, or it was too far away for them to focus well. Movements back/forth and up/down easy to see through binos. Dogs unbothered. May have been a second one higher up/further away off to north but honestly didn’t notice it til maybe 1230 and was too tired to watch it for too long. Pictures are extremely underwhelming, but I guess upside is that they are obviously not a star.
August 12, 2023 · 10:22 PM · LIGHT
Manzanita, OR
It was a beautiful, clear, fairly still night in Manzanita so 4 friends and I decided to turn off all the lights on my beach house deck and watch the Perseid meteor shower. We’d been sitting for an hour or so gazing at meteors, satellites and an occasional plane pass over when I gazed to the East/slightly SE about 1/3-1/2 above the horizon at a group of stars (I don’t know much about astronomy so I don’t know what stars they were) and saw a small white/silver pinpoint of light, not much bigger or brighter than a star, suddenly appear moving in that area. At first I thought it was a star but it started moving erratically, although rather slowly, up, down, sideways, back and forth. The nearby stars it was moving around stayed stationary so it was obviously not a star. I have no idea how far away it was or how fast it was moving. 2 of my friends also saw this light and while this was happening we talked and agreed this was not looking like an airplane or helicopter and was definitely not a satellite or a meteor. And then it just disappeared. I stayed out and watched for another hour, and though the meteor shower increased, I didn’t see anymore strangely moving lights.
August 12, 2023 · 10:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Los Banos, CA
We were driving at approximately 10pm on Highway 152 near Los Banos and saw a large triangular object with 4 bright lights and something attached to it that looked like a tail with lights. It was hovering in the sky along the side of highway 152 (not too high and we heard no sound) then we saw it go to the ground for several seconds then go back up to the sky very quickly and hovered not real high in the sky. The 4 lights were very bright and formed a triangular shape. Then the object began moving towards the highway and crossed right above us slowly and we heard absolutely no sound. It crossed over us (and other cars) and then quickly speed off in the distance—no sound, and moved very quickly. Myself, my Husband and two teenagers were driving home from a soccer event—it was something we’ve never seen before and we all said “is that a ufo?” I believe it was!!! It was scary and also fascinating we couldn’t take our eyes off it.
August 12, 2023 · 10:05 PM · CIRCLE
Assateague Island, PA
I saw it first, and I didn’t say anything. Semi straight line, but not perfect. Yellow haze around the objects. There was 4 circular objects, flying from one star to another. It came from one star, past at least 8 stars, then disappeared behind another star. It lasted for about 5 minutes, but when my family saw it, it disappeared less than 30 seconds after. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
August 12, 2023 · 9:55 PM · SPHERE
Rehoboth Beach, DE
I saw two different types of objects. The smaller, farther ones looked like stars but they changed direction and moved at impossible speeds. They could not have been meteors because they didn't burn out, they just hovered and moved again in a different direction. They aligned themselves and shifted all at once, maintaining the shape. There seemed to be some lights "leading" and the others would shift around it. They made shapes that looked like a rhombus and like a backwards number 4- all forming completely straight lines. At first I just noticed one light moving, but then I noticed all of the others around it were moving too. There were too many to count and they kept shifting. They all started moving north, to the point where we had to turn our bodies to see where they were going. When we looked south, the sky where we first saw them was black. They all seemed to be clustered/ heading towards an area offshore, around north Rehoboth or Lewes. They were mostly coming from above the sea but some seemed to be coming from land or across the bay. The other objects were lower and looked more like drones, but they moved very fast so it was hard to tell. I observed 4 lights on the bottom of these crafts, 2 white above and 2 red below. They flashed in quick succession counterclockwise- white, white, red. The fourth red (bottom right corner of the "drone") occasionally flashed but not consistently. These crafts were also moving erratically like the smaller objects and seemed to be heading in the same direction. We watched for about half an hour, walked back to the car and drove home, and when we got home about 20 minutes later we could still see them above the house moving towards the ocean.
August 12, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Elgin, IL
These objects seem like floating stars, only larger & brighter. Prior to last night, I saw only one (in the east and southeast sky). It was there as long as I stood looking at it, each time I observed it. At first, it seemed like it could be a drone with a large bright light. However, numerous times it made quick movements up and down or side to side. It is unlike any aircraft, i.e. helicopter, jet, etc. going from point A to B. It just hovers in the same spot, like a balloon, but is unlike a balloon in that it makes those quick movements. Last night, I saw one in the southeast sky and, for the first time, one in the western sky. Prior to that, I saw the one in the east or southeast sky almost every night when the sky is clear before going to bed (around 10 pm) and on Wednesdays when going and returning from an obligation at 1:50 to 3:10 am. Live photos are attached.
August 12, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Bakersfield, CA
Green orb appeared suddenly mid sky and fell so fast, different than falling star and then disappeared
August 12, 2023 · 9:27 PM · CIRCLE
Saint Cloud, MN
I was filming and noticed a bright object not blinking flying towards a stationary object of the same form. The object leaves the screen a bit because I lost sight of it and comes back quickly into the video and is flying back by the object it had originally flown by. No explanation or reason and I’ve never seen anything like it before. The second video is of the same object that night. As I was filming it around 230am as the object was stationary and if you look closely- you can see an object zoom by very quickly past the screen. Again- no explanations and when I was originally filming I didn’t even see the object pass by.
August 12, 2023 · 9:23 PM · SPHERE
Hunstville, MO
Me and my husband were looking at the stars and we noticed 4 dots that looked like stars, they started close together then started moving away from each other. They spread out in different directions. one stopped moving for a minute then continued its course. One changed direction completly. The other two continued on their original course. All 4 dissapeared after about 1-2 minutes. We saw more orb dots that looked like stars moving slowly for the rest of the time we were outside. The other ones we saw never changed direction or stopped so its possible the other ones were airplanes however they did not look like the airplanes we did see. The ones that im sure were airplanes have blinking lights the unidentified objects have no blinking lights and looked like silver orbs
August 12, 2023 · 9:15 PM · FORMATION
Rochester, IL
Was watching the perseid meteor shower looking West when my girlfriend and I noticed 1 orb of light moving across the sky going South East. As we watched 2 more orbs appeared also going the same direction. All 3 were in a triangle formation. They would stop and hover for a few seconds before moving across the sky. They disappeared one at a time around the same point in the sky. These lights didn't appear to be satellites or aircraft and they didn't have the usual blinking green or red lights most aircraft have.
August 12, 2023 · 8:33 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalDelaware, OH
Two objects seen, one was orb like light above another that was moving with a visible tail, the orb had disappeared, and left the other object that had a visible tail. Then the object that was traveling with a visible tail, disappeared, and the orb like light, was left by itself. After a while, all these objects just blinked out of view. Caught video of both just not together. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
August 12, 2023 · 3:57 PM · CIRCLE
Billings, MT
This object is moving so fast it could not be seen by the eye in real time. I happened to catch this when filming the Blue Angels in 30fps and did not notice until the following day. The object is moving from South to North across the sky at very high speeds. For reference at this moment the Blue Angles are moving at 200+ MPH in this video. The object appears at the 10sec mark of this video, between the Blue Angles grouping and the person in frame, at the top of the screen. I have confirmed with my camera that objects entering the frame after the record starts will also be slowed to 30fps. I know that it is requested to only submit objects seen, but this is object is moving so fast it would likely not been detected.
August 12, 2023 · 3:00 PM · OVAL
Milford, ME
in trying to compare high flying jets with visible wings 40,000 feet?more?no wings or tail or jetstream,exhaust
August 12, 2023 · 1:07 PM · SPHERE
Goodyear, AZ
Blue Sky and observed a shiny whitish oblong sphere below the sun, hovered for several minutes and then started to move right to left and then upwards and downwards. I started to video and in the video it looked like there were multiple objects. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]
August 12, 2023 · 12:45 PM · CHANGING
Heber, UT
Looking to the North from my back yard, I saw one high-altitude reflective object that caught my attention while talking on the phone. It stayed in a fixed position and seemed to be rotating or I could see what looked like a shimmer, or flash the color was silverish gray. I live close to the Heber Valley Airport and could see and hear smaller planes at the same time, lower altitude and closer to my house - I do not believe this object was a Jet or Plane. I should have stopped talking and tried to take better photos, but my friend was joking and making fun of me seeing a UFO. I would say it lasted about 8 to 15 minutes. I walked in the house ended my phone call and then went back outside, there was cloud cover by then and I could not find the object sadly I did not see it leave or get any other photos. It's hard to see the object in the attached photos, you have to zoom in and look to top of the frame. I added a snip also hope that helps. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
August 12, 2023 · 10:30 AM · CIGAR
Virginia Beach/cheasapeake, VA
A tic tack object moving slowly in and out of clouds, it stopped at edge of clouds than moved quickly out from behind them and stopped . I said to my son what is that and as I stared at it it just disappeared.
August 12, 2023 · 8:08 AM · OTHER
Lucerne Valley, CA
These things are all around that island traveling in massive groups. I'll gather the coordinates, you can decide for yourself. Hatched egg? 51°54'19"N 177°14'29"E Right across from it are these things that are all around the island. They are elongated in shape, they have a bright blue shining aura to them(giving them a type of blue light, highlighted in color) some of them are black. They travel in swarms. Some are bigger than others. An email or text message would be the ideal way of contacting me. I have also witnessed UFO sightings. And also my first memory (when I was 3) involved something that related to a UFO abduction/lights. I don't remember being abducted, I remember being implanted/placed into a home. ²I have witnesses that can testify to this (they had there own experience of it, but I don't believe I was abducted, since I was with the light from the beginning and was placed into a home that the light brought me too). The story is rather unusual and very interesting like no other.
August 12, 2023 · 2:30 AM · SPHERE
Enigma, GA
At approximately 2:30 - 3:00 a.m. I noticed a faint light in the night sky in the north east. The light goes from being faint to about as bright as the bightest star in the sky in about 3 seconds. (Similar to if you turned a dimmer switch to the right). When it reaches ful brightness, it then slowly moves to the right (to the east) as if it's floating. It does this for about 4-5 seconds then dims until it's no longer visible. Roughly 3-5 minutes later, the light reappears the same way and in the same location it previously did. It will perform the same movement and disappear the same way as previously. Sometimes 2 lights appear instead of one. Sometimes the will move in the same direction in the same way. Sometimes they will appear and then go in opposite directions. I've been seeing this activity almost nightly for the past month when I originally noticed this.
August 12, 2023 · 2:23 AM · SPHERE
Enterprise, UT
See pictures. These are 20 second exposures. These were resized to attach I do have large jpeg files and Nikon RAW files as well
August 12, 2023 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Pavo, FL
Myself and six friends went out to a favorite stargazing spot at the top of the hill right up the road from where I grew up to watch the Perseid meteors. We arrived right before midnight and planned to stay through the peak of the shower at 3am, then go out to eat at Waffle House afterwards. Two of my friends brought up ufos and were telling stories they had read about, and one of them suddenly went, “Woah, there’s an orb right there!” And of course I thought he was just messing around, but we all looked where he pointed anyway and there was a luminous orange orb. This was at approximately 2am, possibly a few minutes after. It appeared to be hovering over the field across the road from us. In the middle of that field is a strip of trees, it appeared to be right above the trees. If it was as close as it looked, it would have to have been about the size of a small suv. We turned just in time to see it, see it turn white, and see it disappear. Just a few minutes later it reappeared, moved slowly and laterally back and forth, then quickly arced up and disappeared. About 20 minutes later it reappeared on the other side of the road (the side we were parked on) over the wood line farther away and at a higher altitude. It moved back and forth laterally, almost like it was scanning. It disappeared and reappeared several times continuing the scanning motion when it would reappear. At least once we all observed it rotate; it was as if on side was illuminated and one was not, but it didn’t produce a beam of light. We saw the object multiple times for approximately an hour. I packed up our belongings when it reappeared on our side of the road so that we could leave quickly if needed. By 3am we were thoroughly freaked out and decided to get out of there, so we don’t know how long the object actually stayed in the area. When I told my partner and a couple of other friends about the encounter, they asked if we had pictures or a video, and I realized none of us had even tried to take a picture. I had even had my big camera set up on a tripod to take long exposures of the meteors. I realized I hadn’t /wanted/ to take a picture of it. I texted the group of friends I had been with and asked how they felt about that. It is highly unusual behavior that we wouldn’t have at least tried. We had been taking photos all night. We’re a friend group that is always taking pictures of our get togethers. All but one of the others in our group said the thought hadn’t even crossed their minds, and that was extremely strange. One person responded that he hadn’t wanted to share it with us, but he had taken a picture, and as soon as he took it he felt a huge spike of anxiety and nausea, followed by extreme fatigue. As mentioned previously, we were supposed to have an early breakfast at Waffle House after the meteor shower, but the friend that took the picture was so fatigued on the drive back to town that it frightened his passengers and they decided to just go home. The picture isn’t very remarkable, but it is attached to this report.
August 12, 2023 · 1:10 AM · CHANGING
Groton, CT
Checked on flightaware and no registered craft nearby. There was a single object and it is an extremely bright golden light color. It seems to be moving but only slightly in a circular or side to side pattern. Cameras when zoomed in do not show the light only a dark circular or oblong shape. When the camera is at 1x zoom the picture shows the brightness but zooming in makes it hard to define shape. There were no sounds able to be heard and the object didn't seem to be very high up compared to a commercial plane. I was able to take a few pictures and each picture was maybe a few seconds or a minute apart yet the shape and aura look different in each one. I initially saw this object at 1:10am and it is now 1:41am and it is still there. I had my 2 sons come outside to verify what I was seeing and they are older so I respected of they would tell me I was seeming unstable but they saw exactly what I did and agreed that it was extremely out of the ordinary.