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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
August 12, 2023 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Grand Chain, IL
On this night there was a haze in the sky with some moon. There were mostly orbs and one after the other for an hour before moving away. I have seen these for months now with other objects mixed in. This was a small portion of video of that night and went on continuously for an hour. They would come into view coming from the north and split off, some moving southeast and some going south. I think the haze in the air made them glow when they made there turn. They always seemed to making very big circles miles even. I have had trouble sending in reports. I think I have been trying to send to much video so I have kept it short this time. I have many hours of video. I do not live near a airport and they are not people flying drones and I know what a satellite looks like. If you need more call.
August 11, 2023 · 11:18 PM · UNKNOWN
Olney, IL
Was walking out back and as I was closing the door behind me, I noticed large oval shaped lights about 20 feet above the tree line, pretty low, shooting off south into the distance, extreme speeds, once it beamed it had a slight trail that disappeared in less than a second. It all happened extremely fast but it did accelerate for a millisecond and then just beamed away. Very bright haze covering the object, however this was all completely silent, after it was gone I heard a number of owl and coyote in the woods, I'm not sure if there's a correlation with the animal life but the timing was pretty strange.
August 11, 2023 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Covington, WA
The first night I just saw stars or what look like stars flying around and playing with each other all around the sky the second night they did the same thing only they would actually join with each other become brighter than separate and go their own ways they also joined to make a triangle in fluid all around the sky as a triangle with three points of light you can see them with the naked eye even though they have some type of cloaking device each one of them has a tiny faint Little Star looking like light inside of it with the right lighting conditions you can see them very good whether it's clear sky cloudy sky day or night they a cube shaped object the second night as they're flying around over my house they must have knew I was aware of them because they sent the black small cube down from the sky it flew about 20 ft in the air from the ground in about 25 ft in front of me it crossed over my backyard my neighbor's backyard up through the trees and back up into the sky to where I couldn't see it any longer because of its size each day I see more and more in the skies and the last two days I've noticed much bigger ones have showed up I've also video tape the sky's day and night and I have screenshot of what I have captured I have a very good screenshot of one of the crafts during the day which looks absolutely like nothing I've ever seen and I also have a lot of footage at night that shows the anomalies as well this has gone on day and night for 17 days now if you're able to come to my house I can show you easily if not I understand but at least go out and look up at the sky you will notice that if it's a clear blue sky and it's night time they will look like black little bubbles in the sky with a tiny faint star in the middle of it there's much more to say but not enough room here in this space for text
August 11, 2023 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
The Dalles, OR
It was moving from west to east. We were watching the meteor shower and this faint, light colored object just slid across the sky making no sound. It was about one inch across at arms length and traveled an arc of about 90 degrees in 10 seconds. It was really hard to see. My wife also saw it. I saw it as an oval with axis west to east. She saw it as two triangular wings going north and south. Not a bird. Absolutley no sound.
August 11, 2023 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Oshkosh, WI
The 3 bright white circles were positioned dead center in west sky when I first saw through west facing kitchen window around 1015PM CDT on Aug 11, 2023. Constantly solid bright white. 3 circles moved super slowly right toward the north but still remained in western sky. Circles slowly drifting north stopped for a few moments as very stunning bright white swash, wider at top and tapering down at bottom looking almost like a tadpole, flew between top white circle and white circle on the left or north. The 3 circles, seemed interesting but unremarkable, but this swash felt to my eye and sensibility extremely energized. I am 81 years old. I neither believe in nor have I ever seen ghosts or UFOs. I am not attracted to sci fi and have never watched the series Star Wars because it would bore me. I report this only because of the swash which was quite spectacular and gave off an unmistakable energy when I saw it. I would have kept looking at it if had stayed in the field of the three circles but it appeared and left in about three blinks of my eyes. It was very beautiful. Wish I could see it again. If I do I'll let you know.
August 11, 2023 · 10:15 PM · FORMATION
Ellettsville, IN
We were driving home from Switchyard park in Bloomington on hwy 46 westbound through ellettsville. My wife, from the passenger seat said "what's that?".. I looked up and seen a short pattern of lights. Maybe 3 inches across if I was to hold out my hand and open my fingers to each side of the formation. The lights were moving East/South East at a steady rate of speed. The line was somewhat slanted in the sky, as far as their trailing pattern goes. They were not all in the same plane as each other, although travelling at the same heading. Somewhat straight line though. My first thought was Starlink, but it wasn't like any of the starlink formations that I've seen. I also checked a starlink tracking page (the same one this site provides), and it showed they were still way off the West coast. I began to attempt to pull over to take pictures or video. Once I got in the turning lane, to turn left into a parking lot, they appeared to fade behind some clouds. My best guess from my flying experience, was anywhere between 5000 to 10000 feet up maybe(?). 10-20 minutes later my brother was messaging me to tell me what he just seen.. Ends up getting seen it as well, although he described the lights as being green, and possibly lower elevation. He was located in Judah Indiana area, which would be the direction they were heading.
August 11, 2023 · 9:45 PM · OVAL
Deadwood, SD
9:45 pm as we were sitting in the driveway, from the west came a string of oval shaped objects numbering 12-15 illuminating the sky and tree top’s approximately 1500’ above the trees, passed in front of us moving towards the east. We observed them for 12-15 seconds then they just dimmed and all vanished and was gone. Not Starlink satellites. Starlink is 340 miles up. Too low to be and Starlink! We would have been able to observe them traveling eastward out of sight. They just disappeared in front of us
August 11, 2023 · 9:45 PM · OVAL
Probable conventionalDeadwood, SD
We witnessed a string of low flying bright white lights 15-18 of them at low altitudes for 10-12 seconds moving from the west to east direction at 9:45 pm on a clear flawless night. Once they were in front of us just above tree top angle approximately 12-15000’ they all vanished on after another. These were not Starlink satellites. They were to low and they vanished like some type of cloaking device was activated. If they were satellites we could have watched them travel to the eastern sky. We took pictures and a video of them but they did not record to the cell phone. No images appeared on the phone’s camera. No sound was heard. No other aircraft in the area. Crafts we’re heading in the direction of Ellsworth Airforce Base outside do Rapid City SD. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
August 11, 2023 · 9:15 PM · CIRCLE
IdentifiedWhite Pigeon, MI
Could it have been drones…don’t know as it appeared to be fairly high altitude. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
August 11, 2023 · 9:06 PM · FIREBALL
Fayette, NY
We saw a red fireball moving slowly across the sky while driving north on 414. It was low and initially it thought it may have been a drone with a red light but after I pulled over to look closer it looked like it was on fire. I took one picture with my phone camera and another one with an actual camera (I'm on vacation here) before it was out of view/range to see or photograph. It lasted about 1 minute total.
August 11, 2023 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Morrison, IL
Saw flashing light in sky. Did not move and then shot upward. 2 dark planes with red flashing light flew on either side of this thing and then flew away. The flashing light then started traveling into the distance laterally not further into space. THEN looking back in the original direction my boyfriend and i see a line of Green lights hovering just above our tree line in our backyard. We are awestruck and just stare at it until it starts to move in the same direction the flashing light went until it disappeared from sight.
August 11, 2023 · 8:43 PM · LIGHT
Schaumburg, IL
My husband and I were sitting outside on the patio and I was noticing that there were a lot of clouds and not sure if we’d be able to see any of the proceeds meteor shower tonight. When something caught my eye and I looked up and there was a very bright light and I told my husband look and he turned to look and it grew very bright as it was slowly moving and then it faded away and it was gone 10/22 tops. I do not think it was a meteor because it was moving very slowly.
August 11, 2023 · 8:40 PM · CIRCLE
Powder Springs, GA
Silver cylindrical object with sequential orange lights. It was moving very slowly. It was reminiscent of a plane in its trajectory but was much more elongated and had a series of horizontal orange/red lights alternating with white lights. What really stood out is that it disappeared instantly.
August 11, 2023 · 8:38 PM · SPHERE
Tacoma, WA
This is now our fourth time seeing these orbs hovering, fading, multiplying and disappearing with no sound and so damn quickly northeast over the puget sound. They come around the time frame of 8:30-10pm at the same location. Have multiple videos.
August 11, 2023 · 7:25 PM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
Very brief sighting, object was hovering in the air stationary. Shining like a star, but in the daylight, clear skies. From the moment we saw it, it was only there for 10 secs or less. We were driving in a semi truck, on I-294 headed south, it was toward Harvey or Lansing, Illinois. Another truck blocked our view briefly and when we looked in the same direction again it was gone. Definitely wasn’t a plane and definitely wasn’t a star, but the whole object was shining bright like a star, and before we could see again it was gone.
August 11, 2023 · 6:40 PM · CYLINDER
NW Austin, TX
I boarded American Airlines flight# 4244 from Austin to Albuquerque. Flight left late. We took off around 5:16pm. I was seated on the outside seat looking out the next seat window in front of me admiring and studying the interplay of light and dark on the cloud formations below us. I am a amateur painter and was studying the clouds and how to paint them. When suddenly within my field of view, I was seated on the starboard side of the my plane, Seat 21D. I saw this large white cylindrical object at our same level. It was flying in the opposite direction traveling extremely fast. I saw NO markings, windows, cockpit windows. I saw no tail fin, wings nor engines. No propulsion trail nor engine on rear like a rocket. Yet it was shaped like a rocket but flying perfectly horizontal and in the same plane as my flight. Hard to guess how far away it was. But it was close. Perhaps a ½ mile or less. (?) As it past from one window then to my seat window, I immediately popped the slide shade up to see the object speedily passing before my eyes. The sighting was no more than 3-5 sec. But, I saw the object. It was as if a plane was flying with out its wings and tail fin and no markings or windows were seen. The shape was cylindrical. Is the best I can describe. I’ve uploaded a pic of the clouds. The Object was going too fast for me to react by taking a photo. It looked at my watch it was 6:41pm when I saw the object. I turned around to see if other passengers were looking out their respective windows and sadly no one in my vicinity witnessed what I saw. When we landed in Albuquerque. I asked the pilot if he witnessed seeing a cylindrical object flying in the opposite direction on our starboard side. He said No, he saw nothing.
August 11, 2023 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Santa Monica, CA
I was driving, headed from the I-405 towards Ocean Ave on Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica, CA around 4:00pm. It was a bright sunny afternoon with no clouds in the sky, and suddenly in front of my car maybe 50 ft above the tree line I saw a perfectly spherical orb hovering. It was almost black against the sky, but had a slight metallic sheen to the surface. It was hard to tell whether or not it was moving, but it appeared to be hovering at a fixed altitude as I was driving. It quickly passed out of my view as I was realizing what I was looking at, and when I looked behind me expecting to see it in my rear view as I kept going, it was gone. I didn't see it again.
August 11, 2023 · 2:45 PM · CYLINDER
Glastonbury, CT
Moving west to east high altitude no noise looked reflective and as if spinning possibly still in orbit or slowly falling out of orbit
August 11, 2023 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
Union Grove, NC
They also would dim out regularly, and reappear like a dimmable bulb, but they would be in a different pattern, sometime close together, sometime a few degrees apart. First on Tuesday and then tonight. Same stretch of road, 2 or 3 am. I had to exit off I 77 and take my semi to the shop around the Jonesville/Boonville area. And on my way home I stopped at a couple places that face north on highway 67 east, to see if I could get a video, but no luck. I will report again when I run this route again.
August 11, 2023 · 11:00 AM · CIRCLE
Austin, TX
1963. (Can I report?) I'm only 10 y.o., daytime, probably summer. Austin, Texas. Playing chasing running tumbling outside with cousins & neighborhood kids, caught sight of an object coming toward me, stopped, watched it sail toward me slowly & just over my head, noiselessly (maybe just the slightest of a hum), & flew on down the neighborhood street until I could no longer see it, straight line. It was small, dark grey, oval, metallic, thicker more squarish sides, with a dome on top. No lights, no windows, no noise, no wind or electrical effects felt underneath as it passed just above my head, I just stood gaping, following it with my eyes, just a foot or so, above my head! The underside was very maze-like. It sailed on down the neighborhood street until I could no longer see it, although I strained to follow it with my eyes. No thought of yelling to other kids, Hey! Look! Or of running after it, to follow it, just kind of stunned, I guess. Took about 45, 60 seconds the whole incident. None of the other kids seemed to notice it! Thank you for your work. And for considering my old sighting. I've never forgotten it. Life went on, maybe other "things" paranormal. Finally started researching heavily upon hearing Karla Turner on the radio, 1990s. It all came flooding back! Someone actually talking publicly about UFOs! Eventually, I wrote Jacques Vallee a long letter including other paranormal experiences; he sent me an autographed card. Then, I began helping Cheyenne Turner of the Eclectic Viewpoint (friend of Lucius Ferris, RIP), typesetting her mail-out announcements for speakers in Plano north of Dallas, big lectures; I met Timothy Good & others (RIP Cheyenne, 1997/8), & we attended Ozarks conf 2x. Got busy teaching, but I'm now retired some years, and I am once again curious & researching a project, having to do with Betty& Barney Hill's case, I have a theory & this case, my best evidence. So, I'm rereading old & new books. (Desousa's recent book has wrong date for their event! P. 47! Inexcusable, my degree is in history & English & studies in history of science, lol). But I know . . . I feel . . .that my experience was for something I am to do. A theory I have... has led me to believe Betty Hill's "map" was not a zeta reticulum star system. It is something totally different, totally different. And if I'm right . . . . Even your sightings, Mr. Davenport, the dates are very interesting. Details like dates, times, colors, are important in my analyses of these things. The work you do, important. Wish me luck getting my idea written & published. Data & your work, is important for researchers, so thank you! And I swear to God, my sighting in 1963, the account I've given you, is true and as clear in my memory as the day it happened. Sincerely, (name deleted) (no relation to James E. McDonald, a great & courageous man, RIP).
August 11, 2023 · 10:30 AM · LIGHT
Marshall, VA
7 people in two different cars, arriving at slightly different times to a home, saw 6-7 yellow lights in a line, perfectly spaced in the sky, static and unmoving. They remained in the sky for approximately 30 seconds or so and then disappeared without a trace. We were unable to capture any images of the object/lights. Immediately afterward, we began to see what appeared to be jets coming from the east, one after the other, heading in the direction of whatever we saw. We counted 15 jets total and we are not in a flight path for planes. We also checked to see if it was possible that the object was the starlink satellite but it was located elsewhere at the time.
August 11, 2023 · 8:50 AM · CYLINDER
Newburgh, IN
My family and I saw 6 fire glowing objects traveling NE about 50 mph, about 600 feet in the air all traveling the same path. It’s hard to say the shape because of how bright they were, but I would say cylinder. There was no noise and they traveled at the same speed. It was around 8:50 pm and the sky was mostly clear with some clouds.
August 11, 2023 · 5:44 AM · SPHERE
Calhoun, LA
So I was going to work one morning and I always look in the sky. I saw some orbs of light traveling through the sky they looked like stats just moving from one side of sky to the other. I only saw one at a time not multiple at once but 5 or 6 each morning each night. I’ve never seen anything like it before. The first time I saw this was when I was looking for the comet. I only saw one that night and so did all my kids. The morning after I saw the last one I saw a orb of light in the sky it was stationary then started moving and faded out. It was not high in the sky like the others. I’ve been looking in the sky all my life and have never seen anything like this. I did not get it on video. The lights where to high in the sky and the orb I saw while driving to work at sunrise.
August 11, 2023 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Cedar City, UT
When first spotted after work from my driveway, lights resembling fireflies in the sky, were moving up, down, back and forth, only visible on the horizon around the planet that's 1/4 from northern horizon from Cedar city. Once I reached my back porch, I grabbed my binoculars, and witnessed a steady stream of staggered formation glowing gold objects. The were only visible as they past above and below that area around the star. They had stopped their eradic movement, as 4 or five passed in formation, high and low, in a near continuous trajectory. This went on for an hour. There was a small brake between the next group, but they kept their staggered formations high and low. One broke formation, and went high to low in a dropping maneuver, but quickly turned and joined the next passing formation. I witnessed this through my binoculars, while on the phone with a friend who had just arrived home. He could not see them from the north side of cedar city. This was the meteor shower they have been talking about. I seen them with tails, moving double the speed of these craft. Satellites, don't act like them, and as I watched them in the first, they are absolutely agile enough to mimic the movement of fireflies. This is my second such incident in a month, I work night in the field fueling equipment alone. This time I had just arrived home with no issues until then. If they are gold flying soccer's, they are not coming as one gold craft, they are here in the hundreds. Nobody cares anymore, maybe you guys do, maybe you don't, but what is happening is an invasion. Biden shouldn't have shot a few of them down, maybe things would be as they were.