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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 3, 2023 · 8:20 PM · CIRCLE
Studio City (Looking South), CA
I'm a 58 year old widow, walking my dog with my 89 year old mother who was walking her dog. I saw very bright white lights that travelled toward the setting sun. Bright as a welder's arch. They were silent, moved too fast for a plane or helicopter. East to West with a slight arch. Not very high in the sky. My view was intermittently blocked with a row of Italian Cypress. I'm not sure if the lights were a reflection of the sun or if they emitted light. Not sure if it had a tail or if there were more than 1 traveling in sequence. Lots of air traffic in the sky.
August 3, 2023 · 8:17 PM · FORMATION
Los Angeles, CA
While watering in my backyard in Elysian Heights I looked absentmindedly up to the sky and suddenly saw a formation of 2-3 bright lights streaking across the sky in the direction of Hollywood. I would say they were traveling northwest. Although the formation entered from outside my field of vision, I was able to view them for some time crossing my field of vision. There was a bright blue one, what seemed like a light green, and then a red one, that looked rather like a plane light. All three of these lights were stacked very nearby one another, and moving together. I assumed it was a plane and then a firework, but I noticed no sound emitted whatsoever, during or at the end. I only realized it could not have been a plane nor a firework once it was gone. Firstly, the formation was moving horizontally across the sky at a low altitude. Secondly, the lights moved together in a line and then seemed to separate and then “fizzle out” before leaving my field of vision. Due to this I thought it could be a firework… But a firework lit on the ground would not have the chance to travel so far horizontally, and at such great altitude. It would also have made some noise —this was silent. I was on a hill near the highest point, and the lights were far above the crest of the mountains. You couldn’t shoot a firework off from that height. A drone, too, would not have been able to travel that fast, perhaps unless it was a stealth military unmanned drone…but the multiple lights and the splitting up of the formation looked to me like it was multiple objects OR that one object was breaking up, the way something would in the atmosphere. However it was not moving down, but sideways. This made me think of a shooting star as well. But a shooting star appears to happen much higher up in the atmosphere, and fizzle out as it approaches the Earth. These were definitely moving HORIZONTALLY across the sky, not vertically up or down. From my perspective, the phenomenon occurred right above Sunset Blvd on the way from Echo Park to Silverlake, so I assume that other people will have noticed it too. This is a densely populated area and the sighting occurred in a fairly visible place. They left no trail, other than maybe a light trail on my retinas. The whole thing must have lasted only a few seconds, the way a firework does as you watch it burn and fizzle out. I only caught the end of this event. It was clear to me that the objects had already been moving for a considerable amount of distance/time by the time I saw them. This i judge by the speed at which they moved once I noticed them. Overall a very curious event that I will be wondering about for a long time.
August 3, 2023 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Taylor, MI
these photos were taken within a span of 15 seconds. the first one was not what i thought i saw...it was a backwards hook the 2nd photo shows the moon, both are clear...and i'm not really sure what i saw. about 4 years ago i did report to the taylor police about a possible ufo sighting,..turns out another was reported in southfield mi same night.
August 3, 2023 · 7:30 PM · CHANGING
Marenisco, MI
We were fishing (trolling and heading south along the west shoreline when I spotted what I figured was a plane, but it was stationary and did not move. I watched for a bit, then asked my husband if that was a plane. He looked up, said, not sure, there are binoculars in the compartment, take them out and see. I retrieved the binoculars and looked up and saw a blurry shape with multiple edges, like distinct extended shapes from the top, bottom, right and left. But because it was blurry, I looked down at the binoculars to adjust the focus, looked up again, and it was gone. We both noticed it gone, and came across a man with his son or grandson on the dock fishing as we were passing by. We asked them if they saw the UFO, jokingly. The man said yes, but nothing else. The child did not say anything. We continued on our way, with me glancing toward the sky the rest of the evening, but no more sightings of anything. Later, my husband said he thought it was cannister shaped with his naked eye. It was a clear evening, no clouds.
August 3, 2023 · 6:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Mill Creek (Newport), NC
I was in Mill Creek, NC, not far from the fire station and I stopped in the road because I was about to take a left turn onto a long driveway. As I turned my head to look towards the driveway I was shocked to see a very large and thick rectangular object hovering directly over the driveway in-between the trees on either side of the path. The object was a solid black color but had pairs of small round lights on its top both red and blue. The lights had a very soft appearance that grabbed my attention, especially the light blue light. They appeared grouped together side by side on each side of the top of the craft. The back bottom area had larger white lights. The top of the object had a sharp angular structure that lended itself to one end of a parallelogram. It just hovered there for what felt like a few minutes. What kills me is that I had forgotten to charge my phone at work that day and it had 1% AND had flown into the floorboard as I was driving before I arrived in Mill Creek. I was shocked, in disbelief and I just kept saying, "What the #@$# is that!?" to myself audibly. I stayed stopped in the middle of the road and stared at it. Then it very effortlessly just began to glide through the air down the driveway, through the side yard, back yard and over the trees of the woods in the back, until it disappeared just above the treeline. There was no sound. No motion such as propellers. And it was like a giant brick just hovering in the air, black and with slanted upper walls. It fascinated me that a shape like that could even fly at all. Sitting there watching it, I was quite anxious as to what might happen next, but it just went away. If it were to have arrived in that location from the direction it was headed, it would have come from over Newport River. I have never been one to believe in aliens but this experience has completely changed what I believe is possible. I recently had another experience in the same area and my daughter saw it too. It was a different experience and I will report it here.
August 3, 2023 · 4:17 PM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalThompson’s Station, TN
I was pressure washing my sidewalk, and I stopped to take a video of what I thought was a jet producing chemtrails to send to my cousin in Knoxville, TN. I have been seeing this a lot recently in Nashville. It was approximately at 30 degrees north. I took a compass out tonight to check the location. However, as I was about to send the video to my cousin this evening, I realized I took photographs rather than video. I had 2 photos in my camera roll. The first taken at 4:17pm, the second picture also states it was taken at 4:17pm. When viewing the first photo, I noticed a spec on my screen and thought it was dirt on the screen of my phone, but, it was not. As I zoomed in, I noticed a dark, oddly shaped object that was almost directly in line with the tip of the plane. I have no idea how far away this was, however I assume thousands of feet. There was also no helicopter activity at that time. I thought it could be a bird? However, would a bird be that high in the air? Would it have flown out of the frame in under a minute? I would definitely appreciate any clarity as to what this could be, as it could be something easily explainable. But, wanted to share this nonetheless. Additionally, as I was filling the information out below, it asked about electrical effects. Interestingly, while pressure washing the sidewalk, the motor kept dying as I was spraying. It did this approx 6 -7 times, and I wasn’t able to finish. The motor kept dying and I kept having to pull start, which also took several minutes and several pulls. But, the motor continued to shut down after about 4 - 5 minutes. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]
August 3, 2023 · 9:35 AM · CYLINDER
New Braunfels, TX
My wife and I saw 2 white cylinder/cigar shaped objects flying at an unknown distance, height, and speed flying in a straight line away from New Braunfels, TX (general Northern direction). We only looked up due to a small plane flying a bit low to the reginal airport. Saw the 2 objects and they were not flying "fast" but were moving under their own power. I was able to get a picture of one (before they were obstructed by the building). [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
August 3, 2023 · 3:40 AM · UNKNOWN
burlington city, NJ
A cylindrical shape with blue and green light strobing at a high rate moved southbound following delaware river. A train delivering material to a plant next door was disconnecting from the delivery training so it made a big boom. Once the boom Was Heard the object accelerated a high rate of speed South.
August 3, 2023 · 12:55 AM · CIRCLE
Orlando, FL
I was standing outside waiting for the Falcon launch, when a red orb appeared above a neighbors house and it began to travel West towards me very slowly for about a minute. When it slowly turned South and traveled a short time before it was “enveloped” into a dark mass. I had my phone in my hand waiting for the launch, and I’m absolutely sure that it wasn’t the Falcon 9..
August 2, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Ogden, UT
It was dark so all we could see was the lights around the outer edge and dark body within that circle or ring shape. It slowly came from the north not much higher then the mountain top then hovered just above I'm guessing about where the freeway is at 12 th street then then it went straight up and hid behind a cloud for a second then once the cloud moved my girlfriend and I watched it continue straight up then remained by these 2 stars to form a triangle and remained there til it got light. We tried to get pictures but only had cell phones and could not get clear images
August 2, 2023 · 10:38 PM · RECTANGLE
Probable conventionalPottstown, PA
As soon as the light from the moon brighten the clouds around the object, the object disappeared. Sorry I did not see this with the naked eye but I really felt this was so weird that I wanted to report it. It almost seem like one of our space rockets but moving in a quiet motion and facing sideways. If you can zoom in this video you can probably see like the thrust of the rocket at one end. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
August 2, 2023 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Near Wausau, WI
While working nights, i randomly stargaze, and an orange-red orb appeared over the Wisconsin River about 200 yards to the west of me. It was approximately 500 feet up, but descended appearing to check out the power plant I work in. After it came down and passed our main building, it started ascending and a rapid rate of speed. After the first passed, a second one seemingly materialized over the river in the same spot, and took the same route as the first. Was way too fast to be a Chinese lantern, and it almost appeared burning. I was inspired to post this after I saw a Milwaukee couple post a similar video a few weeks before I saw mine
August 2, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Enumclaw, WA
Looking north towards Seattle wa. From Enumclaw, to the east slightly, up high in the sky above mountain side. Craft stayed in one spot for three night in a row. I have a video to share. Air craft has passed underneath several times. you will need to zoom in to see.
August 2, 2023 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
concan, TX
Perfect dark sky saw 21 to 28 objects: heading ssw to sse perfect formation each craft had a white
August 2, 2023 · 9:18 PM · OTHER
Hammonton, NJ
Driving down AC expressway saw from really far away but it was just kind of hovering in the same spot. As we got closer to it could see that it had two long rectangular (maybe hexagon) wings with a pod like center. Had crazy red and white flashing lights. Out of no where it just disappeared.
August 2, 2023 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Katy, TX
3 lights in line floating, not moving but by the time I grabbed phone, one light turned off,
August 2, 2023 · 8:05 PM · RECTANGLE
Escondido, CA
I was alone and had just parked my car. Something caught my eye and I looked up. The object was pretty bright and visible for 30 to 40 seconds before it just "winked out" and went black or disappeared. This was in Escondido at a little after 8pm
August 2, 2023 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Venice, CA
On the evening on 8-2-23 as I took a typical fresh air break whenever, at approx. 20:20hrs & as I sat on a long bench facing N.E. in direction did the clairvoyant familiar 'ping!' of "hey?" presents itself to me yet again. I whip my head around to the left, which would be looking N.W. and instinctively upwards and there is a single odder than usual glowing spark. Odd why? It was effectively IMO 'zooming' into or 'looming' into view, latitude/longitude at that precise moment of looking up. It had trajectory it clearly was coming in from somewhere to somewhere. And wow! I did just see that, huh? I lingered my gaze upon it as it oh, so, very slooooooowly crept to stand still. Executing incredibly subtle movements and boy howdy. Have they got a speed control device on it or what? Wow...At an altitude, mostly overhead now. Made no sound. Huh... It remained static for the remainder of that fresh air break and I headed back inside the communal living area. Not so much stunned yet, perplexed. As that was an entirely new experience with UAPs for me... whatever it was?, odd best describes it. *Took a three hour nap and went outside upon waking to look at that point in the sky. Gone. Not a planet. Loomed large in presence that high in the nighttime sky. When it presented itself... Literally felt mass or 'vast oddness' from whatever it was/is/isn't - end
August 2, 2023 · 6:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Concord (near), CA
Was relatively low to the ground. No clouds were in sky. I stayed and watched it for a few minutes before it suddenly disappeared and it didn’t move at all. Though it was the shape of a large commercial airplane, it had no markings or windows.
August 2, 2023 · 4:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Long Beach, CA
Moved fast, not in a straight line. Was over my backyard for about 20 minutes before it started moving forward. Very very strange. I’m not sure if these pictures or videos uploaded correctly
August 2, 2023 · 3:20 PM · LIGHT
Gig Harbor, WA
Three people on bikes were stopped on trail pointing up in sky. My friend and I walked toward them and asked what they were looking at. They pointed to a single stationary light in sky—larger than a satellite, round and visible in clear daylight sky. The light pulsed slightly, disappeared for about a second, then reappeared in same area but relatively far away in a short second. The movement within the same quadrant continued, shifting randomly down and left, up and right, with no flight path. It was just holding position within and area and quickly moving, disappearing and reappearing. We watched for about 3-5 minutes, then continued on our walk
August 2, 2023 · 10:30 AM · CIRCLE
Hot Springs, AR
I was driving on the bypass from Central to Higdin Ferry and a White plastic bag looking object moved from the left to the right and then staying in one place past Arvest Bank a few minutes and then disappeared. Tried to photo with IPhone 13 but didn’t show up in photos.
August 2, 2023 · 9:39 AM · CIRCLE
Wildlife, CA
I walked out my back door per usual however I felt the need to look up and straight ahead. That’s when I noticed several really white what appeared to be circular objects slowly moving together then apart .then I noticed them continue to go together then apart and then I realized there were four I thought. But as they slowly moved slowly in and around then slowly down ward they broke up into 6 and slowly proceeded downward until I could no longer see them
August 2, 2023 · 5:30 AM · EGG
Palm Springs, FL
I was running around 5:30am. Mostly clear skies, and low light pollution (street lamps etc). The moon was behind me entirely. I looked up and to my left when a movement caught my eye. I saw a bright white object, somewhat egg shaped. It was anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand feet in the air. It looked to be roughly the size of a car. It was gliding very quickly through the air in a slight arc, faster than any plane or other aeronautical craft known to me, spanning at what an arm’s length would be one to two feet, but in the sky was a large distance. It only lasted about 1.5-2 seconds. It looked like it was lit from within, and although the white light was pure and bright, and seemed to be moving in a circular motion, the object did not give off brightness around it, only a faint glow. The object was not falling, like a meteor crashing through the atmosphere; there was no tail, debris, or sound. It was moving smoothly and independently. It was being guided. It suddenly stopped, flashed a bright blue light on one side, and taking a sharp right, it basically jumped into hyperspace. It blipped and was gone. But I could see the direction it had moved in, after making that perfect angle and change in direction. It happened very fast, but I have never seen anything so clearly in my entire life. I was looking directly at it; it was not from my peripheral vision, I saw it from the moment it appeared in the sky, to the moment it jumped.