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July 31, 2020 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Palm Desert, CA
I have pictures and videos. We live in the Coachella Valley, a friend first spotted in Desert Hot Springs, then another friend spotted it in La Quinta and we see it now in Palm Desert. We are a small valley. It just hoovered in one spot only moving up down, to the right and left in small spurts. It’s been two hours now and it’s still hoovering. We’re trying to drive closer to it because we think it is hoovering over our Palm Springs airport. When we looked at it thru binoculars it looked like a white glowing orb, I mean perfectly round , the best thing I could describe it to is as if it were a tiny little moon. Clear blue skies out only a couple clouds at a high of 120 degrees
July 31, 2020 · 3:00 AM · CYLINDER
Alexandria, VA
I don't know if this is a craft or a star I don't know what it is it's stationary it's due South from my location I used a compass it's dead South at about 10:30 to 11 o'clock position in the night sky it's so strange there appears to be a bright light in the middle and then kind of like a straight cylinder directly underneath it and another straight cylinder above it.
July 31, 2020 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Willseyville, NY
Many nights for the past year there’s “star” like lights in the sky but they move and will follow me. When looking at them threw binoculars they appear as a ball of energy. Some nights there’s 3. Some nights there’s 50 or more. They will dim and/or brighten there lights to appear to be stars. Also there are groups all together with no lights. These ones can only be seen threw binoculars or some magnification. Most times where I can notice one there’s 2 more with it. Use binoculars, or scope and the difference between a star and these is obvious.
July 30, 2020 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Holden Beach, NC
I sat and faced South, enjoying the night. The Moon had things lit up to my right and it grew darker to my left. I noticed a light on the horizon, SSE. (Well left of center if I looked straight out at the ocean). I thought Oh, a boat or a ship. And started looking at it. Then it disappeared. Then is was back. I sat looking at it and a red light streaked out at a 45-degree angle to my right. No more light. I couldn’t figure out what I was seeing. Military? Whatever it was happened way out on the horizon . I strained my eyes to see. Then I saw a light kind of corkscrew out of the same spot. Then a light with a short, wavy path. Same spot. Not travelling far, but enough to see. I started wondering if it was a cruise ship shooting fireworks, but there were no bursts, just lights. Then a light started at the same place and went straight up to about 20 degrees above the horizon, hesitated and then streaked off to the right at roughly 45-degrees. I’m entering the realm of disbelief.! Standing now… To this point everything had been emanating from the same spot on the horizon. At one point I stared at a light and lowered my glasses to make sure it wasn’t a reflection, then I looked away and looked back to make sure it wasn’t an issue with my eyes. I’m 62. There were streaks emanating from that point upward. Hundreds of them, like someone was shooting at something. Not like tracers, more like faint trails from shooting stars, but going up. Just a bunch of faint lines, making a vase shape. White lights streaked downward toward that spot from different directions occasionally. It was becoming surreal. I thought about waking my wife but I was afraid I would miss something. Looking behind me and getting creeped out. Then a white light streaked across the sky parallel to the horizon. It came from right to left and traversed most of the sky. It winked out above the spot with all of the activity. One light appeared a little to my right on the horizon and shot up and right disappearing in a short red line. Next one started directly in front of me. Maybe 20-25 degrees above the horizon and shot down and to the left in the general direction of the original spot on the horizon. Same thing, short red streak and then nothing. Saw what appeared to be a couple of dark objects moving together over the water and not on the horizon, but my eyes could have been playing tricks on me. Now more to my right and entering the brightness of the Moon another light appeared. It was low, but not on the horizon and appeared to be on the end of a cigar shaped object, black and tumbling. Bizarre. Not a lot of logical movement out there. I began wondering if there was some kind on war going on that I don’t know about. A bright light shot up from the location with all of the activity. It was bigger and brighter than anything I had yet seen. Had the color of an old street light before they started making the amber ones. Kind of an electric green. It moved from the horizon to the cloud in an instant. The clouds were long and made up of small puffy clouds all lined up. The light flew up close to the end of the cloud formation, stopped and made a right angle turn in between the small ‘cloudlets’, lighting them up. Then turned back out from between the clouds and stopped. Not turned, instantly changed direction. It then split into 2 lights. They moved exactly the same, one dropping to the left and one dropping to the right. If you kept the original location it would have probably been an equilateral triangle. I guess I freaked out a little when it lit the clouds and split, because I can’t remember after that. I may have looked away and then back and they were gone. Hair raised on my arms. I got scared. I watched for a few more minutes. Nothing more happened so I went inside. I woke at 0500 and went back out to see if my eyes were playing tricks on me. The Moon had set and it was pitch black. No lights created by my eyes due to low light. The next morning, I sat down, made notes and drew it out, then went outside and took a picture from where I was observing. I went out the next night at the same time. The Moon was in a slightly different place and there were no clouds. Nothing.
July 30, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Waterford, NY
Appearing to be a star A bright light started moving among the nearby stars. moving at speeds and angles not from this earth. It would move across the sky then disappear and reappear on the opposite side of the sky. I have this on video and would like to share. i was watching for over an hour on my back deck. was a great show for sure.
July 30, 2020 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
Around 9:30pm our neighbors a few houses down set off hundreds of fireworks in the span of 4-5 minutes. The fireworks were too small to see over the tree-line and sounded like gunshots so we went outside to check it out. Walking back inside and see a small white light appear in the sky. Over the span of 5 seconds it covers 5+ miles and comes within 2 miles and is now a large white/yellow/orange orb hovering in the sky. The UFO watches the commotion for 15 seconds, turns right, accelerates and vanishes into nothing. Multiple witnesses and certainly not an effect from the fireworks. The airport is 5.5 miles from my house and we can see planes fly in and know what they look like. This was not a plane, helicopter, or drone.
July 30, 2020 · 8:00 PM · DIAMOND
Prescott Valley, AZ
My four-year-old son and I were walking along a dirt path near our home in Prescott Valley AZ. The sun was set but there was still some light in the sky. Only one visible star at this point. I heard a helicopter flying low, so I pointed it out and we watched it fly just above us. Then I noticed above its flight path this large object in the sky. It was brightly shining, silvery, white and could be mistaken for a star but was way too large and had a slight diamond shape with rounded edges. A bright light surrounded the object making it difficult to make out the exact shape. At arms-length I could cover the object with a nickel. It was just sitting there. No movement. For about five minutes, it just hovered in one spot. No sound was ever heard. A woman walked by with her dog. I said to her, "Do you see that thing? What do you think it is?" She said, "I don't know, but I see it!" It hovered for about five more minutes then began to rise and kept rising until it had to of been way out of our atmosphere. As it rose the sky became darker and both my son and I could see three lights flashing along the center of the object. They were yellowish. My son and I watched it for close to an hour until it was a tiny speck and I could no longer point it out from the stars. From my point of view, I could not tell how large this object was, how high in the sky it was, or how fast it was going. I have never seen a UFO before nor thought I ever would. I waited a few days to try to find information online on what it could have been (possibly a high-altitude weather balloon) or if anyone else saw it. I cannot find information on this object.
July 30, 2020 · 7:45 PM · FIREBALL
Prescott Valley, AZ
My wife & I take our dog out at sunset in our yard to enjoy the cool evening air almost every sunset in Prescott Valley, Az. They are so beautiful here. I am an amateur astronomer who has been trying get my wife involved in my hobby with me, I have a 10” reflector telescope a 10x50 binoculars and 15x70 binoculars that I bought for her. We make a game of who see’s the first star or planet and name it. This particular evening just after sunset from our GPS position of N 34° 40’ 19.56”, W 112° 17’ 24.00”, we were expecting to see Antares, Arcturus, Spica, moon, Jupiter & Saturn. I looked up and at approximately 50-55° azimuth and approximately 200° on the compass and saw a very unique, stationary, bright object that was not normal, it should not have been there. To me it appeared stationary, very bright whitish and seemed to have a orange reflection of the sun in it too, this is with my naked eye. I quickly pointed it out to my wife who immediately went into the house to get her binoculars and she was able to see the object with them. She said to her it looked like a glowing fireball orange in the center and yellowish on the outer edges and seemed to be spinning, pretty much what I saw only magnified. We watched for a few minutes, she with her 15x70 binoculars and me with just my eyes, it seemed to rise straight up growing fainter as it did so and eventually disappeared. I did not look at my watch but know the approximate time due to always going out at this timeline. We were dumb founded, neither one of us has ever seen anything like it before. My wife was convinced it was a UFO and talked about reporting it, I was not so eager, although I think it very possible we are not alone and UFO’s are a real possibility. I did not want to come forward. I did not know it but my wife kept looking at the news online to see if anyone else had reported it, when she found someone else did report it to this website we decided to also report what we saw.
July 30, 2020 · 7:10 PM · OVAL
Kenmore, WA
My wife and I were enjoying the view from the hot tub on our back deck. It was a clear evening and blue skies with no clouds or wind. Looking SE, I noticed a large shimmering white oval shape silently hovering in a vertical position approximately 400 yards from us at an altitude of around 300 feet. Its size was about 50 feet tall and 30 feet wide. I asked my wife to look and see if she saw what I was looking at she said yes. At first we thought it might be a balloon, but it was too big and the wrong shape. As we observed this stationary object, it began to slowly rotate. The rotating object appeared to have panels that changed to a darker shade. I then jumped out of the tub and grabbed a pair of binoculars that were close by and focused on the unit. Just then the object quickly dropped about 50 feet, and then shot back up to its original height. This made me put the binoculars down. Just as I did this, I saw 3 or 4 small white lights flash approximately 50 y! ards to the left of the object and it just vanished. No wind or any sounds were heard during this event. 3 minutes after the UFO left, a low flying military jet flew right over us which seemed odd and out of place with the usual aircraft we see.
July 30, 2020 · 4:30 PM · CIRCLE
Filer, ID
There was a big thunderstorm passing over us. My daughter said what is that. We looked up and saw a white light circle shaped with just our eyes. Kinda looking like a big balloon. I ran to house and got my small binoculars and I could see a lot better picture. It had something structured in the middle of circle almost looking like a clock. I knew my gun scope was way more powerful so I removed it from rifle and now I can see the actual shape clearly. Almost clear in the middle with a circle of lights all Around the perimeter. I could see the spacing of the lights. I have the scope to My wife. She confirmed what I was seeing. Same as my two daughters. There was some kind of structure in the middle. Like a arm going across. We watched it go from the south to north with a eastern tilt. As it got darker the lights changed color to amber. Then it was apparently gone none of us saw it but it disappeared so we thought. My wife used the scope and found it again. It was just a lot smaller. But still visible. Then she said it was flashing lights. I took the scope and confirmed a quarter of the circle was flashing in a pattern like a police officer car motioning traffic. White light. We had a large thunderstorm to our north that creeped in and we were not able to see anything but one flashing light that wasn’t moving. 1045pm.
July 30, 2020 · 3:00 PM · CIRCLE
Rochester, NY
Two of us were sitting in a backyard. The sky had large white/gray clouds that were passing by close to the sun, but there were large patches of blue sky, too. We saw a circular black object that was extremely high up in the air- too high to be a drone or a bird, and seemed to be above the level of where planes fly, too. It glided across the sky towards the east, but then started gliding towards the west, where the large clouds were. It did not go into the clouds. It glided slowly, and then as it was getting to a gray area of a large cloud that covered the sun, it flashed bright white light three times, and then went into the cloud. When the cloud passed over the sun, the black circular object was nowhere to be seen. We watched this object for approximately 30 minutes.
July 30, 2020 · 12:27 PM · TRIANGLE
Granby, CO
Aircraft came in from the south began to fly in a dance like pattern rotating around each other. Danced around and then proceeded to go under the cloud and after several minutes of Dance moved towards the Northwest at a constant speed and in a straight course. In the middle of the video an object can be seen traveling at an extremely high speed Crossing directly past the three described ships.
July 30, 2020 · 12:25 PM · OTHER
Santa Barbara, CA
I pulled over while driving because I saw this, it was not moving at all, just hovering absolutely stationary @ about 500'. I got a picture, then I had to move on due to traffic. I would estimate the space it took up to be about the size of a typical UPS box truck. It was a deep black color with a white aura around it and there was a faint white object positioned about 11 o'clock from it. No lights seen. Absolutely no movement at all. I send this now because I realized the object I saw looks just like the "gimbal" object sighting the military released, (both images attached)... and, I just learned of the existence your site and wanted to contribute.
July 30, 2020 · 7:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Albuquerque, NM
I first noticed a light than it looked as if it was getting brighter before disappearing and reappearing. This happened many times. When I zoomed in on the camera you could clearly see it was not a plain or ballon. It seemed stationary but did move drastically after it disappeared and reappeared. Before disappearing it would get brighter than a ring of smoke would be left before nothing was visible again. The skies were clear blue. I didn’t notice it before but in a few of the photos you can see other small lights as well. The light on the object was white.
July 30, 2020 · 5:12 AM · CYLINDER
Elgin, OK
Ok, I saw something yesterday morning on July 30th at approximately 5:12 A.M. that I can't explain. I'm a veteran of the U.S. Army and I believe I saw a UFO. I'm 100% convinced. This happened at 5:12AM about 5 miles northeast of Elgin, Oklahoma which happens to be near Ft. Sill and nearby BAE Systems which contracts through the D.O.D. So there I was driving to work and off to my right was a house and some trees. All of a sudden a bright light appeared over this house and began flickering randomly as if someone bottled up a lightning storm. I can't explain it. At first I thought it was from lightning because there was a lightning storm on the northern border of Oklahoma well over 150 miles away. Anyways the light then turned solid and it immediately moved over by a large tree, circled around the tree. Then it moved up into the air about 20 feet and then move away from the tree about another 20 feet and came to a complete stop. Then it immediately shot straight up into the air. It was small, about the size of a Chevrolet Spark to give an idea of the size. It was circular like the shape of a pill and it was metallic. Feel free to contact me for any questions about my encounter.
July 30, 2020 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
braintree, MA
They were tall and white, they put a hand on my forehead so i can see a vision, visions i have seen before. There is a war that has been for thousands of year, they are gray and they smell bad, the tall one brought me close to it, their eyes were black i mean blackest material you could think of couldn't explain the color it was like i could see a galaxy in its eyes i could feel it hatred, it wanted to kill me like i was there in front of it like it could see me. There is a device on the move that destroys plants the whites can no longer protect us from this any longer we are running out of time i could see the destruction of one of their allied planet its like something from of movie one beam of light and all i saw was a flash and this planet was just in pieces i could hear there cries but it wasn't a cry it like a sad sound like they were sad what they were showing me. They showed me this because they can feel courage in me eventually ill have to make a decision on whats right and whats easy its not the first time this has happened they call me friend for many years now sometimes just showing me they are watching, waiting for us to stop fighting and if we do they showed me a future of us humans becoming planet conquers i could see lights on the moon and spacecraft and makeshift trading points of gold and other materials, but that future is slowly fading. After the tall one let go i was in my room felt like puking and i was cold like i was sitting in a freezer for 100 years.
July 30, 2020 · 2:00 AM · DISK
Waupaca, WI
It was saucer shaped with light on top and a spinning light under the craft it moved once in a while then went back to it's originating spot. I say it for at least a hour then went back to bed so I am not sure how long it reminded there
July 30, 2020 · 1:00 AM · FLASH
Farmingdale, NJ
My sister and I were looking at the night sky for those two hours by lying on our backs on chaise lounges on the outdoor patio (completely unenclosed) and looking up into an almost completely clear sky. There was an extremely bright half moon behind us, that eventually moved away from us to the West behind the house so that it was no longer shining behind us. We were looking in the direction of the constellation Lyra, in order to see if we could see any meteors from the Delta Aquariid meteor shower. We were both concentrating hard, and not moving around. We had very good unimpeded visibility of the night sky from our left at the back of the house from the constellation Big Dipper in the West (our view when turning our heads to the left while lying supine almost completely flat), and to the East turning our heads to the right almost to the horizon, which is impeded by a tree line about 9 feet tall and about 9 yards to our right. We had unimpeded views of the sky to the North at about the same height tree line but much farther away from us at a distance of approximately 30 yards, so that we had very good visibility of Lyra and a relative view to the ground from the bottom of the last visible stars Earthward under Lyra that would have appeared to us as approximately 5 feet above the horizon. We weren’t looking at the Southern sk! y, but would not have had visibility behind us for 10 feet above the horizon due to houses and a distant tree line impeding our view below that height. We were not observing that part of the sky (South) in any case. At approximately 1:00 AM on July 30, 2020, we both saw a bright flashing white light moving from our West (latitude above the Big Dipper, but below Lyra) to the East in a straight line to the East until it disappeared (or stopped flashing) as far to the East as I could see. I believe the total travel time from West to East was approximately 30 seconds. Our surroundings were silent. The light made no sound. It did not curve or bend, except to follow the natural curve of the Earth. It flashed a variably changing white light from very bright to extremely bright about every 5 seconds as it moved across the sky. Nothing was in its way. There were no airplanes near it or around it. The white flash was so bright, and so big at one point when it was almost to the furthest East on its path, that it looked like a giant white star-like shaped photo flash bulb firing down from 30,000 feet up in the sky. If I were standing up and holding a brand new pencil straight up and down by the pointed end in front of me with my right arm extended all the way out and the eraser up where the light was at its brightest, the light would have looked approximately the same size as that new, unused eraser looked with my arm extended and angled up. At that point, the light, which otherwise appeared mostly round, appeared starfish shaped when it flashed its brightest flash, which occurred only once. Otherwise, it was various sizes, but always larger than the visible stars/planets (per the Internet, 5 planets were visible that night) and always round. The only thing that was larger in the sky that night was the moon. The light was very high the whole time, and I believe it was traveling at the very highest height that an airplane could travel, around 30,000 feet. It did not look at all like an airplane. Neither did it look at all like a natural phenomenon. It looked like an extremely white artificially created light. The pulsing of the light seemed intentionally regular, not sporadic, but not at all like any airplane light that I’ve ever seen. It was much too bright, and much too big. It was also solo. There were no other lights emanating from whatever was moving the light along the sky. There was no vapor trail at all, like the kind that follows an airplane. I could not see any kind of structure attached to the light. The flashing white light was the only thing I saw. There was nothing carrying or holding it that I could see. I have never seen anything else like it. It truly looked as if something was taking pictures of our community from way up there. We exclaimed to each other such things as “Did you see that? Are you seeing this? Wow! I see it, yes, I’m seeing it too! It’s so bright! What is that?”. We talked about it for quite awhile afterward. About 3/4 of an hour later, we finally saw one very bright, long meteor flashing from East to West, lower in the sky than the flashing light, and lasting about five seconds, traveling at the same latitude in the sky as the bottom most two stars in the constellation Big Dipper. Its ending point was directly under the constellation Lyra (but much lower, almost eye level), just where instructions on the internet indicated one should look. It was definitely a meteor. We both saw it at exactly the same time, and remarked similarly to “Oh! Finally! A meteor!”. We talked about how it was the largest, longest, and brightest meteor that either of us had ever seen. It was not anywhere nearly as bright or as large as the earlier flashing light had been, and it had the natural quality of every “shooting star” I have ever seen, not an artificial quality like the earlier flashing light. Later, each of us independently saw a very quick, small, barely visible meteor at separate times. I missed seeing my sister’s because I was looking through binoculars at Lyra. Then I saw one a short time later through the binoculars, but my sister didn’t see it because it was small, even through the binoculars, and very fast, and not very bright. We didn’t see anything else that night, and went inside at 2:00 AM on July 30, 2020.
July 30, 2020 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Mount Vernon, KY
Watching for meteor shower high on a hill away from everything when a orange orb appeared on the south east horizon. We watched it for close to an hour float higher in the sky and move like wind currents were carrying it. Then it would dart back. No clouds at that time at first thought I was seeing things but my girlfriend also saw it. Some of the eradic movements were not wind currents or natural.
July 29, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Downingtown, PA
Once again, for the third time this week I have seen the exact same phenomena in the night sky above my apartment’s parking lot. Each of the previous two sightings occurred in relatively the same way and I have filed a report each separate instance, however I would like to once again describe what I witnessed for consistency’s sake. Around 10:50 PM I (as I often do) decided to take a walk around my apartment complex to look at sky/stars . It probably goes without saying, but with the frequency with which I had witnessed strange phenomena from earlier in the week (7/26 and then 7/27) I was really eager to be able to see and document this phenomena so I have been going out for walks daily. Thankfully the sky was much clearer this particular evening and as I turned around to face the area of the sky which I had witnessed the phenomena before, at 11:00 PM on the dot exactly I had seen it again. Essentially the experience had occurred in the same way as it had the previous two times this week. I was facing North/North West and adjacent (left) to the Big Dipper, I had seen a white light which had a similar size/shape and brightness as many of the stars in the area. However, after focusing on this specific light I noticed that this light was slowly moving towards the South. Though it appeared to be moving slowly from my vantage point, it must have been moving pretty quickly due to how small it looked. I once again tried to look for any sort of flashing navigation lights and saw none, nor did it have any discernible features of a man-made craft - it did not make any sounds whatsoever. Each of my other experiences with this phenomena only lasted 10-15 seconds and normally ended in the light just disappearing as it was traveling from N/NW to East. This time however, the light was going from N/NW towards the south and instead of simply disappearing into the sky, I felt like I was able to see it actually traveling diagonally upwards and then I lost sight of it. Unfortunately every other time that I have witnessed this light, I was profoundly startled and was unable to capture any really discernible photo/video evidence. However, I was relatively prepared this time and was thankfully able to obtain a whole minute video of this phenomena (which I will be sending along with my report). Due to this being the third time that I am reporting this, I can understand a certain skepticism that some might read this with and felt that it would be important to do some de-bunking of my own before just making the report - I do not believe this was the International Space Station, as it does not fly over my area at that time of night, and I do not believe that it was a satellite. I do not believe that this was related to comet Neowise, as I was able to witness that earlier in the month and it was an entirely different type of event because I was able to see the comet’s tail and it was traveling in the exact opposite direction of this light. I appreciate the ability to document my experiences through NUFORC and am hopeful that this might provide some insight to the general UFO phenomena.
July 29, 2020 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Portland, OR
i was walking my dog. Its a bright night, huge yellow moon in the sky, when i saw this thing hovering very smoothly overhead. I looked closer thinking its just a plane as i see 3 lights in a triangle shape. Thats when i notice the shadow of a triangle. Wings were too thick to be a plane and not very long and what seems to be the front, looked round just like the front of a Nasa spaceship. Body of this thing looke just like a blacked out triangle or like a shadow. A s it flew over, i heard a weird noise kinda like hummin sound but like a buzz (zzzee) like a transformer and then i started hearing a whistle like the air was rushing but no winds at all around me, air just kept whistling overhears after it passed. Very weird!
July 29, 2020 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Austin, TX
I first thought it was a satellite, and then I thought, “Satellites don’t flash red, blue and green and neither do airplanes or helicopters.” Then my brother and I looked closer, and we saw it was a circle shape. It flew across the sky for approximately a minute. It was around 10:30.
July 29, 2020 · 10:11 PM · LIGHT
Maple Shade, NJ
Also saw the same thing on 8-1-20, approx 915pm in the appear and disappear in the same location. I ran inside to get my wife to look and by the time I got back outside it was gone.
July 29, 2020 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Fall River, MA
Was in a dark area sitting in my in vehicle. Heard a low pitched noise from the sky. When I looked up, I initially saw nothing, but a few seconds later a very large triangular object appeared. The body of the object was difficult to see, however there was a bright red light at the point that illuminated the triangular shape. It almost looked like the body was invisible, but I could see the outline of the object. In amazement I watched it hover slowly over the area and it just disappeared. I looked around to see where it may have gone, but it never reappeared. The sky was clear and the moon was very bright. It traveled in a northerly direction. I've never observed anything like it before.