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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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July 30, 2023 · 6:33 PM · DISK
Glencoe, MO
Last evening I was mountain biking to the top of Bluff View Trail in Glencoe/Eureka, Missouri. I got to the top and took 5-10 pictures of the view over the Meramec River. I didn't notice the UFOs in the images until I got home. The object only appeared in the 2 attached images within 5 seconds of each other. It is clearly moving south to north towards me at a high rate of speed. I checked my other images and there are no birds or objects in the sky. Based on the map it moved over 3+ miles in about 5 seconds., I'm estimating it was moving at over 2000 MPH. I didn't even see it in person, only after the fact on my photos.
July 30, 2023 · 4:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Niantic, CT
Two black rectangular objects flying adjacent made their way from floating over the Long Island sound to disappearing below the tree line behind the Milstone Power Plant. It was noted that the craft were silent, had no lights, had no visible emissions, and there was no planes around these objects. They moved at a consistent rate.
July 30, 2023 · 2:50 PM · SPHERE
Elk Grove, CA
I have seen and documented things flying around above elk grove for 20+ years. More in the past 2 years as I have started paying attention more. Today was different, almost nightly you will see white balls moving. Some fast some slow. Not planes and not any satellite I've ever seen. I've shown them to multiple people. I am also not actively hunting or looking. I see this when I'm walking to my house after parking or out front smoking a cigarette. I have never seen in broad daylight though. Few hrs ago. Blue sky day, no clouds, I went out to have a smoke. I look up and see a plane moving east. I'm facing east. We'll off to the left of the plane I see a little white ball. First thought it was a party balloon. But then it 90 degree turned left and it startled me. Then I got out my phone. I have the galaxy 23 ultra. Best camera on a phone. My zoom takes high res moon pics ok. I zoomed in at 200x just to see what it was and it was a sphere and was moving strange hard to keep track. That's where I snapped a few pics then switched to video. You can tell how zoomed in I am due to the size of my neighbors roof shingles and it helps see its movement since I'm surrounded by 2 story homes. Object was not a party balloon. It was massive. Much higher up than I thought originally too. At least commulercial jet height. It darted off behind the roof and I lost it. Then it reappeared to the right again and went back again behind the roof and I lost it. Tried running upstairs to a window but it was gone. It had incredibly speed and was able to change direction instantly. Absolutely amazing sight to see.
July 30, 2023 · 2:45 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalLongview, WA
The 2 men who first witnessed the object, said they had been watching it for about 10 minutes. When they first saw it, it was 2 blocks away, near St. John Hospital. It was floating about 50 feet in the air. It "appeared" to be a black umbrella, 4 feet wide, with a white handle. There was no wind. When it was first pointed out to me, it looked like it was 300 feet in the air, and slowly ascending. After the 3 of us watched it for 10 minutes, one suggested I film it, which is when I started taking pictures and filming. From the moment it was first spotted, it was upside down the whole time. As it "floated", it maintained a swinging motion. When I first started filming, it was maybe 1500 feet high. It probably climbed another 500 feet, and after about 25 or 30 minutes, it went into a cloud, and never came out. Friends have told me there are many pictures/videos posted of this object on face book, taken from the Walmart parking lot, about a half mile from where I was. That was the general direction the object was headed. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
July 30, 2023 · 2:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Spokane valley, WA
It was a saucer shaped thing in the sky with lights and it was flying super fast
July 30, 2023 · 2:30 PM · SPHERE
Millen, GA
Two friends and I were flying from Hilton head SC to Monroe GA in a Cessna 172 at about 6,300 feet. At approximately 1430 hours on July 30th 2023 over Millen Ga, I was looking out of the right side of our plane at some pastures below. I see a black sphere that looks metallic and reflecting sunlight, flying opposite of our heading roughly 1,000-1,500 feet below us. It seemed to be traveling around 80-90 knots while slightly turning right. It seemed to be no bigger than our Cessna.
July 30, 2023 · 2:14 PM · CYLINDER
Bloomington, IN
Shiny silent cylindrical appearing object flew over my home. I recorded it and zoomed in and it was not a jet or aircraft we would see. My husband saw the same thing a day prior but I’m this day we both saw it
July 30, 2023 · 1:39 PM · OTHER
Bedford, NH
No clouds, clear crisp blue skies. Breezy. In back yard doing yoga, laying on my back facing NW/W sky, heard & watched a helicopter pass thru my line of sight. Not common but not unusual for helicopters to fly in the area.... did noticed it looked gov't/official. I can't remember if my music turned off before or after the helicopter... either way I had to restart my playlist on my phone. I'm only mentioning this because you ask below.... otherwise no other issues and it started right back up. Not sure how soon after the helicopter, I noticed a distinct black dot above the tree lines (NW 320°). Suspended, not moving and completely still. The lack of movement against the vibrant blue skies are probably the only reason I noticed it... as we have a hawk nest near by and lots of bird/wildlife activity in our neighborhood. Don't know how long it was there or how long I watched it... maybe 30 seconds give or take the time it took me to comprehend this wasn't a hawk or sun spots. Then it moved. A fast smooth burst, stopped and moved again (W 270°). At this point, I'm thinking drone or UAP. I grabbed my phone, stood up and took 2 short videos capturing the object while it was hovering & flying in area. Note that while taking the videos I made the mistake of looking thru my phone and lost sight of the object on the screen. In video 1, I only saw a bird flying on my screen and actually dismissed the whole thing and stopped recording. However when I looked to the skies with my naked eyes I saw both the bird and object. I immediately started recording again and was able to zoom in a bit and pick it up. The object then vanished. It didn't return. A description of the object is difficult as I couldn't distinguish it's true shape as it seemed to look different depending on the angle it was flying. Black in color. I'm guessing that though it appeared to be the same size as a hawk/eagle or drone to the eye, it was a lot bigger and father away then appeared. Birds and drones also don't disappear into thin air. Object briefly visible in videos.
July 30, 2023 · 11:35 AM · LIGHT
Gladwin, MI
Yeah, just lay down to start watching shooting stars my mom and my two kids. Within five minutes my mom said look at that shooting star which it was not. It was very low, very bright round, light coming from the south west from the direction of town. It was lower than a plane, but still high in the sky. It was headed in the north east direction, and when it started shifting directions, it got brighter like the source was angle at us. And then started heading north or more of a north west direction and rising. There was no sound. It was much faster than a plane, much slower than a shooting star. It was no tail. It was like something I’ve never seen we kept her eyes onto it and continued actually into the direction of the big dipper. And actually disappeared ( continued out of our sight) into the center of the big dipper. That night, we also seen planes and seen a jet even heard the jet, but nothing to do with that light, just wanted it to be known we know the difference we like stargazing..
July 30, 2023 · 9:30 AM · SPHERE
Ann Arbor (Pittsfield), MI
Walking my dog I looked up and saw a metallic sphere I initially assumed must be a drone, but wondered why it was flying so close to the Ann Arbor airport. As it approached where I stood and flying at perhaps 150-200 feet of altitude, I realized that it had no visible propellers or other means of propulsion and there was no sound. It maintained a steady speed of perhaps 35-40 miles per hour and steady course heading southeast. The entire sighting lasted a minute or less. There were few dogwalkers at the park and no one else seemed to notice.
July 30, 2023 · 3:58 AM · TRIANGLE
North Richland Hills, TX
I woke up around 3:50am to get something to drink as I checked out our patio windows due to recent breakins of cars in our apartment complex. I checked the sky and saw blinking lights of red, thought it was a plane at first but it was hovering, looked closer and it was flashing colors of green, red & white, almost like a pulsating flash. I had tried to capture with my phone but it just looks like a blob with how far it is. I continued to watch and noticed it was a triangular shape, very sharp & precise and was rotating, not even 15 minutes later another one popped up, directly to the right of it, maybe a few miles from where I looked but hundreds of miles from how far it was. This one was flashing more rapidly but couldn’t make out the shape. At one point the one on the left (the first one I saw) dissipated and reappeared seconds later. There were NO clouds in sight and I compared the sighting to stars around and I confirmed it wasn’t a star either. When I would capture on video there was a black haze around the lights but that was in a circle shape. I was on FaceTime with my aunt and my phone cut out as soon as I walked outside to get a better view. As soon as I started talking about what I was seeing we lost connection. My dog was whining the whole time I was in the living room and normally she’s very quiet.
July 30, 2023 · 3:50 AM · OVAL
Grand Rapids, MI
Saw a single object moving at what seemed normal high elevation plane speed, but it had no normal plane sound, contrail, and seemed lower than normal planes. After about a minute, another one appeared flying closer than I've ever seen a plane fly to another plane. It didn't come up to it, rather it just seemed to materialize right next to it. The new one matched speed exactly, both going Easterly direction. They appeared white and oval, but they were far off so cannot confirm their shape. They did match though. It was a bright sunny day.
July 30, 2023 · 3:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Spring Hill, FL
I've seen orbs of light triangle light trails behind orbs and things shooting across sky's moving extremely fast and also doing loops crazy manouvers
July 30, 2023 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Plano, TX
I was star gazing and as I went to turn around to go back inside, I noticed a very bright object stationary above the tree line over my left shoulder. It looked like a bright white light/orb. It was brighter than any star in the sky. It then rapidly began to descend diagonally, and flashed with a green light once turned and faced towards it, fully noticing it. It shifted direction and broke eye sight below the treeline and nearby buildings for a few seconds before I spotted it again, very quickly moving suddenly horizontally and then it was gone from my eye sight. After about 15-20 minutes, an airplane showed up. No clue if military or not.
July 30, 2023 · 2:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Abilene, TX
Since July 16th I have been seeing lights appear in the sky always around 2am and lasting till 3am. They move at incredible speeds. 11 of the 14 days it's been 1 light but a few of those days it's been 2 lights. It's not satellite, shooting star, plane, or drone, military planes or anything logical. These things move super fast and they don't stay lit up that long. They do maneuvers that don't make sense sometimes. Please have someone contact me, these are out there every night. I want someone to come see them and verify what I am seeing. This is in Abilene Texas.
July 30, 2023 · 12:22 AM · SPHERE
Ypsilanti, MI
Driving on expressway home from work saw 3 extremely bright white/tint of yellow or golden lights about 100/200 feet above. After the 3 lights it moved to the side where I noticed at least 5 to 6 lights & there was a narrow sphere almost like opening mouth or opening of craft with red lights, Definitely not airplane. They were going fairly slow were initially on my left side then went over me to the right. It all occurred within Maybe three mins
July 30, 2023 · 12:20 AM · LIGHT
Davis, CA
At approximately 12:15 AM, I was standing on the roof of the Social Sciences and Humanities building on Davis campus and looking out in a north/northeastern direction. I noticed some bright lights in the sky, which struck me as being a few miles out; they were more luminous than any plane, star, or planet. At first I assumed they were planes coming directly at me, but I quickly realized that they were moving parallel to me rather than perpendicular. I took out my phone and began filming at 12:20. The two objects, moving in opposite directions, completed two long ellipse like maneuvers where one would pass over the other when they met in the middle. I also noticed at one point that the object to the right (east) appeared to stand still for about 20 seconds (at the point in the video where I point this out it appears to have just started moving again), although it is possible that it was just moving very slowly. About 9 minutes into filming, both objects dipped below the tree line in front of me (as I said they seemed some miles out, so I didn’t think they were as low as the trees, it just appeared so) and disappeared from sight. At 12:42 I saw one briefly reemerge above the trees. At 12:49 both reappeared and I began filming again. I still thought they might be planes executing some kind of long bank maneuver, because at one point the object on the left (west) appeared to glow the brightest at approximately the time that it changed direction and began moving the other way. They performed one more ellipse, and at this point I noticed that the light on top was red and the one on the bottom was blue or white. Shortly after this final maneuver, first the blue and then the red light disappeared below the tree line one more time, not to reappear for me. I noticed another bright light, but it was directly over Sacramento and heading my way, so I assumed it was a plane. I’m a history major at UC Davis, but I’ve always loved the cosmos—my favorite Christmas present ever was a telescope. I’ve become interested in UAPs specifically over the course of the last few years. I'll post a screenshot of exactly where I was in the images section. Here are the videos I took: https://youtu.be/VQUbBljYdWk https://youtu.be/8C0Sv6PjoXA
July 30, 2023 · 12:08 AM · CHANGING
Vancouver, WA
Lights irradically appearing&varying intensity from not there@all-BIGGER&BRIGHTER than even CLOSE jumbo jets,Saw them go from 2 BRIIGHTTT WHITE LIGHTS, (BIGGER AND BRIGHTER THAN ANY/ALL-STARS/THINGS in the sky, about 2 fingers extended at arms length apart and slightly uneven most of the time. But have seen up to 4 lights total, ALL ALWAYS appearing RIGHT AT THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE RIDGELINE of Gifford Pincho forest LOOKING DIRECTLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 500. Its LITERALLY GOING ON RIGHT NOW! Last night they started around 11pm, and stayed clearly visible til 1am, then it would be active for about 20min intervals. It is NOT* A FLEETING RARE GLIMPSE OF AN EVENT! I'm 100% sure if u just sat outside for a half hour, THIS WILL BLATANTLY DEMAND UR ATTENTION!! I've had to get both my folks up around midnight, who NEITHER BELIEVE or even CARE about these kinds of things.. UNTIL they walked outside! And they couldn't even register what they were CLEARLY SEEING. Then the following morning/afternoon I felt like I HAD to tell my neighbors, if nothing else, ATLEAST to explain why they kept seeing me standing on top of my car with BINOCULARS the past few nights til the wee hours of the morning, staring in directions of nothing but dense forest farther than you can see. I live just this side of the last main street at the edge of the Suburbs-Rural farmland. Just across the street is nothing but un/under developed farm land. There are multiple stores, gas stations, restaurants ect. up&down the (N-S) street, 162nd. But NOTHING on the east side of it. So theres as little of light pollution as possible. I'm also just a few miles away from the PDX, where I've lived by the last 30yrs. So I've submitted all the flight paths and what all the aircrafts look like to memory. I'm 35ish, disabled night owl with no kids, no wife/gf, noone to distract me or requiring my attention except a doggo. I'm also a STRONG BELIEVER and ACTIVE SEEKER* of proof.. Point is, theres NOONE ELSE* more tailored to be more consistent, persistent, AVAILABLE and Active and therefore likely to see anomalies in the sky than me! I swear on EVERYTHING every word I've written here are 1000% TRUTHFUL ACCURATE AND HONEST! I read probably 75 sighting reports, n I'd say maybe half of them kinda seemed like bogus. Either because they sounded absolutely outlandish and didn't exude believability/honesty. Or because they say something INCREDIBLE! But have no details or specific details. Thats why I've LITERALLY BEEN WRITING THIS for an HOUR AND A HALF because thou III may know I'm telling the truth, I feel kinda obligated to portray the sincerity so hopefully people will go out and WITNESS this stuff for themselves so we can start to uncover the explanation of these things. I DO have my own personal hypothesis about what may be going on, but after scrolling up and seeing that this is ALREADYY the LONGEST, ABUNDANTLY DETAILED report this site has ever had, I'll spare you the rest of the novel.. THIS REPORT IS SOO LONG because its ABSOLUTELY TRUE! And I KNOW that if you live anywhere from probably Oregon City, OR-ish, to about probably Olympia, WA. Virtually any where in the valley of the i-5/i-205 corridor where you can see the tallest Gifford Pincho Forest Ridgeline. And I haven't traveled to Idaho, but theres nothing to impede you line of sight as far as I know from the i-5 corridor, and even all the way to the coast, to across the forest, (from coastline to about the Washington/Idaho border.) So theres *ALOTTT OF PEOPLE* that could potentially witness this if they just WALKED OUTSIDE and WEREN'T staring EXCLUSIVELY DOWN at their phone! What I can say FORRR SUREEE!! Is that this has been SOO-THE BIGGEST AFFIRMATION and REASSURING LIFE EVENT that its ABUNDANTLY RENEWED and CONFIRMED my drive/desire to get up when I may no necessarily WAAANT TO go outside and stare outside for hours. But this is so FANTASTICALLY UNEXPLAINABLE and IRRADICALLY INCONSISTENT and ANOMALOUS, It just COULDN'T be a man made device/formation ect. No matter how FAR AND LOOSE I streeetch my imagination, theres STILL-ZERO PLAUSIBLE logical explanations! So if you're ANYWHERE over here in the i_5 corridor area from Canada to California, look east towards paralleling highway 500 and give it just 15-30min(if its not ALREADY active) and I'll bet you'll be in for a MAAAJORRR STUMPER! I started writing this report at midnight, and its now 3am exactly, and of the 5x's I checked, every half hour, 3 of them it was ACTIVELY going on when I walked outside. I didn't have to wait. So PLEASE SOMEONE AT THE VERY LEAST TAKE A PEAK OUT THERE WHEN 7 CAN between 11pm-3am and PLEASE give me your opinion on WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON! Happened the nights of 8-2, 8-4, and 8-5-23. Saw something similar, but only lasted 10 or 15sec on 5-20-2023 at exactly 11:45pm, and PROBABLY a bunch times since then but I've been having intermittent medical issues that've kept my majorly bedridden the last 2-3mo. So itss VERYYY LIKELY been occurring the past cple mo. based on the consistency of the last week of which I first saw it. I can't explain whats going on exactly, but what I CAN SAY as previously mentioned, its SO AMAZINGLY UNEXPLAINABLE that tho I have no explanation for it, I KNOW I'D OF BEEN INCREDIBLY REMISSED if I hadn't witnessed it at all. And BTW I'm SURE anyone reading this is screaming at me thru the screen, "IF IT WAS SOO CLEARLY OBVIOUS AND LASTED FOR HOURS, WHERE ARE THE PICS!?!" But I only currently own an older-free govt. Cell phone which I haven't used for 2yrs., "Since cellphones are obviously *NOT* GOOD for CANCER, Of which I have stage 4 hogdkins lymphoma for 1, and for 2, Like i said its a CRAPPY, Probably 8yr. Old model anyway and the camera is virtually USELESS. Besides that I have a shotty tablet with an EQUALLY as useless camera. So I TRIED! But I need to go get some type of camera ASAP while this CRAZY PHENOMENON is actively present. But I've written SO MUCH ALREADY, I HIGHLY DOUBT ANYONE is still reading. But ALL THE INFO & EVERY DETAIL I KNOW are ALL RIGHT THERE for you to go and see this for yourself! PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHATS GOING ON HERE!! You can contact me directly at my secondary email, (since my primary one has my full name I'm using my OLD ONE here for this), at "Luckymistake69@yahoo.com" BE SAFE, LOOM UP, AND SORRY FOR THE NOVEL! But it DOES SAY to include AS MANY DETAILS I can! "Huge apology to the person/analyst/case worker responsible for reviewing my report.. HOPE YOU LIKE TO READ!"
July 29, 2023 · 11:20 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalDubuque, IA
Went outside on my work break. Went to take a picture of the lights of the city and saw this thing on the upper left. It was gone after I took the picture. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
July 29, 2023 · 10:59 PM · FIREBALL
Waterford, CT
When viewing a mostly clear sky and bright moon, a fireball craft darted from left to right above the tree line but far below the clouds. This phenomenon was to the right of the moon. The fireball was orange. Moments after the sighting a man in his underwear was disoriented and approached the observers from behind. The man said he was a navy seal.
July 29, 2023 · 10:53 PM · CHANGING
Etna, OH
Two orbs of light followed me and my Fiancé on our drive home, at the first opportunity I had to get a clear visual recording of them I turned on my camera. I'll stick to just the details that can be seen on video. The two orbs hung stationary in the air, and to the naked eye didn't appear to be changing in size or changing colors, but on my phone screen as I was recording, I noticed that they appeared to be "popping" in and out, they resembled a flat circle that was getting larger and smaller with no rhythm to the change in size. There did initially appear to be synchronicity between the two objects but upon placing the raw video into a postFX software known as Sony Vegas, I overlaid a chroma key to isolate the two objects from the sky around them and went through the video frame by frame, upon further inspection I realized that not only were they getting larger and smaller, they were in fact merging for milliseconds at a time, changing colors through the entire "visible" spectrum, and changing shape. At one point they both appear to split into three objects each, with each having its own unique shape and color. The lighting appears to be synchronized throughout most of the frames, and the shapes they took all appeared to be geometric in nature. We both felt a sort of empathetic connection to these objects, we felt fascination and curiosity, and the overwhelming knowledge that they were presenting themselves to us specifically. These objects followed us to Eisenhower highway before disappearing, but as we drove further I realized they were actually overlaying the trees and houses as we drove past them, by this I mean that I could see the two objects overlaid on top of material that should have hidden them from view.
July 29, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Adel, IA
Observed a bright light to the south/ southeast of my location, traveling towards the north. Object appeared to then turn directly east. Captured video. I first assumed it was a satellite until it turned and was quickly at a great distance from my location.
July 29, 2023 · 9:51 PM · LIGHT
Albany, IN
Grandson and I were looking at the stars in between races at the dragstrip. He noticed a bright white perfectly round one moving from the northwest. I looked on Flight Aware and Planes live but it wasn’t on there. We were at a dragstrip and it was too noisy to hear if it had any sound. Appeared to be over 5000 feet traveling southeast at maybe 250-300 mph and we watched it travel across the sky. It was very bright and 30 seconds before it faded away it became brighter, dimmed to normal before it faded out. I thought it might be some type of military aircraft but I took a couple of pictures anyway. The pics were taken with my iPhone 13 and they raised my curiosity. Maybe it’s just the way the camera works taking pics of light when it’s dark out but it seems odd to me. A few minutes later i saw an airplane fly close to the same path but appeared to be at a higher altitude but it didn’t appear on either flight app i have on my phone. The apps did show aircraft but not real close to where we were. My grandson is 6 and I’m a 57 year old area sales manager.
July 29, 2023 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Placerville, CA
I went out to my front yard to water plants at about 9pm. Something caught my eye and I looked up. What I observed was light. It was pulsing on and off, nearly directly overhead, and moving to the SW. It was not a single light but more like a cluster of many different lights and colors. The brightness varies as it pulsed on. Pulsing off it disappears completely. And when it pulsed on there was a very distinct triangle. All 3 edges were very clear as if it must be a solid object. However nothing of the object itself is observed except for the edge. The on and off occurs many times as the lights keep moving at a leisurely pace. The triangle appears several times, but at least one time the triangle was replaced by a rectangle with again only the edges visible. So it seemed the hidden object was capable of changing shape. Just as I thought it was about to move beyond my field of view the lights made a hard left turn moving back to where I had a clear look. There are many large trees where I live so I can only clearly see a limited part of the sky. The lights made a single loop to my east and.then returned to the orginal heading. And was gone from view. I could cover the triangle completely by holding my thumb above my head at arms length. So unless it's a tiny object it's probably pretty high up. No noise at all. And the movement was odd. Hard to describe but it seemed almost that it was sliding not flying. And then to my amazement it returned again. I had originally observed the lights from my front yard. For the 2nd sighting I was on my back deck. As I'm looking basically south it emerges from behind trees to my right. I've grabbed some binoculars and I'm trying to get a better look at it, when it's just gone. But in an instant I realized it's now all the way off to my left. To achieve that new position in a fraction of a second it has to have been nearly instantaneous travel. Trees to my left made viewing difficult. But I don't think it was at that spot for more than a few seconds. The trees made it hard to see exactly when and in what direction it went. Throughout the event the lights kept pulsing, and the intensity varied. And every time it pulsed off it was completely invisible. So at each off pulse I'm wondering where it will reappear having kept moving while invisible.