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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

July 29, 2023 · 9:07 PM · LIGHT

Honolulu, HI

Coordinates of observation position is 21.26614° N, 157.81542° W A white, star-like object moved across the bright night sky in a NNW direction about 45 degrees. Altitude was at least 30K feet. It moved like a jet until it disappeared right before my eyes. The Northern sky was bright and clear. The Big Dipper was in the field of view and situated to the left of the moving object. The duration of this sighting was 5-10 seconds.

July 29, 2023 · 8:48 PM · LIGHT

Madison, WI

Object falling to the left of the moon, no stars in the sky fell for about 15 seconds and made in abrupt. Turn towards the south then went behind. The clouds. Only lasted 45 seconds or so. Looks similar to a shooting star until it made a sharp turn!

July 29, 2023 · 6:33 PM · CIRCLE

Lakeland, FL

driving on Lunn rd, I was approaching the intersection of Lunn and W Pipkin rd. I noticed a black spherical object above me in the distance. Came to a stop at the light and observed the object moving my right to left moving behind the tree line. The light turned green and i made a left turn on W Pipkin, driving a few hundred yards I pulled into the parking lot of a Geico agency but could not locate the sphere any longer.

July 29, 2023 · 6:13 PM · SPHERE

Williamsburg, VA

Was in the sky south of my location in the general area of James River Surry Nuclear power plant. I looked at my neighbor to let him know to look up and it was gone. Shortly prior to incliment weather and approaching thunderstorms.

July 29, 2023 · 5:39 PM · CIGAR

Probable conventional

Monroe Township, NJ

I was cooking in the yard by my deck. We’re in a flight pattern for Newark international so I’m always looking up. This bright cigar cylinder shaped object caught my eye. Quickly grabbed my phone that on my belt and recorded this video. I can’t explain what it was. No noise from object but I did have music on. You can zoom in and see the object move from a 1 o’clock position to a 7 as it disappears into a cloud. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]

July 29, 2023 · 11:20 AM · UNKNOWN

Riverview, FL

Walking my dog, an Panther Trace Park I looked up as I noticed a small black object in the clouds far away. Initially I began videoing, and when I came home, zoomed into the video not only did I see multiple, but I got a beautiful linear one second video of an object flying right underneath from the left side the screen all the way to the right side of the screen. I have the one second video as well as the nine screenshots I took, and you can see beautiful formation of it flying across. (Uploaded 1second video and was only able to upload an additional (3) or the (9) second clips of the image- see for yourself ! :)

July 29, 2023 · 2:45 AM · OTHER

Hurricane, WV

My boyfriend and I were sitting in my car in my driveway talking after we came home late one night, around 1:30am. We noticed a light that was bobbing and weaving all around as it came up over the eastern tree line back past my pond, about 200 yards from where we were parked. It proceeded to fly over to where we were parked at and hover in the air almost directly above us, I would have to guess and say it was maybe 100 feet in the air but close enough for us to use binoculars to see the triangle shaped bright white light with 2 red lights, one on each side of the top point. It's probably 4 or 5 feet at its widest point. We could hear a loud buzzing sound the entire time it was present. A few times it shined a beam of light down like it was looking for something. We watched this strange light for hours. I downloaded a sky map and it wasnt showing up on it. We also noticed lots of birds were chirping loudly the whole time it was there too. We continued to watch it until daylight when it started to get higher in the sky until it disappeared. It has came back every night since and we watch it every night. It comes up over the back treeline by my pond and will come so close to us and hover there moving back and forth in the air all night until daybreak then it leaves. We have pictures and videos but not very good quality because they were taken on a phone sitting inside my car.

July 29, 2023 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT

Cedar City, UT

Driving on a dirt road to one of my job sites, I seen two lights like headlights shining at me on the other side of my equipment I fuel at night. Once I got to my equipment, I got my phone out to record, the object turned red, and stated to move north west. I videoed the object until a helicopter passed over me in my fuel truck. I felt safe to get out then, so I started my truck up, engaged my PTO fuel pump, reved my truck to 1200 RPMS and got out. My truck has an idle shut off, so when the PTO is engaged, the truck will not shut down. As I was out, Taking numbers from the equipment, my truck shut down. I was in shock, this has only happened one time before in deep snow. The electrical plug, was pulled off due to ice, this time, I hadn't drove over anything that could have ripped that plug off! The hair on my head stood up, I was not alone, and now, my work lights were off. I walked around my truck, looked under it to see the wire hanging as if something pulled it off to get me in the dark alone. I plugged it in, started my truck up, only to see three helicopters flying around where the craft was hovering. They are not here for peace and love, they tried to possibly contact me, attack, or abduct me. I had a armed encounter with a flying saucer when I was 14, 1989, hunting elk above deer creek. These whistle blowers, have not been on the ground in the daylight, having their saucer in their cross hairs, I have. They are not going to stop now. I can not fuel at night armed, it is against company policy. My truck has strobe lights, and bright halogen work lights, they know my location nightly. The feds may need to watch me fir a few weeks from a distance at night. PS they are on the ground now, I feel they are not just watching us, they are here for more this time.

July 28, 2023 · 11:43 PM · CIRCLE

Probable conventional

FL

See video SpaceX launch form Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]

July 28, 2023 · 11:07 PM · FORMATION

Identified

St. Petersburg, FL

Was walking back to our apartment from Walmart. I looked to my left and high above the power lines were 2 separate objects. One was a cluster of lights and the other was a very large ball of an even brighter light. Both close together. Told my bf and he saw them, quickly grabbed my phone to take video and while I was trying to get my phone to fix the clarity of the focus, the cluster of lights faded into a slow fade. The bright ball of light was still there but then it faded away slowly too. So much clearer in person. See video SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]

July 28, 2023 · 11:05 PM · SPHERE

Leesburg, FL

Walked outside to got to my car at approximately 11:05 pm and something told me to look up and when I did I seen a big bright red orange ball or orb THIS WAS NOT A DRONE I DONT WANNA HEAR THAT I SEEN PLENTY OF THEM THIS WAS A UFO OR AN ALIEN THIS IS NOT A JOKE PEOPLE ITS REAL!! It was hovering in the sky and it was silent but soon as I pulled my phone out to record it picked up the signal of the orb for about 45 seconds until it started to go away in the sky and once it went away the orb started to get small and turn white like a star and then disappeared in the sky of the night I swear my phone has never made this sound before EVER until I caught this sighting it picked up a signal from it on my phone and a lot might think this is a joke who is reading this but I got it all on video as well I seen with my own two naked sober eyes

July 28, 2023 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT

Gainesville, FL

I was enamored by a visual in the sky at 11:00pm, in an Easterly direction. It looked like a meteor casting a "dust trail" in the atmosphere in the shape of a star. This slowly moved North, from my right to left. To the right of that, was a "firework" style light show behind it, in a single spot not moving. I presume this to be the Falcon 9 Heavy far away from me. I'm in Gainesville FL, and the Space X launch is at Kennedy Space Center, over 100 miles away. (I didn't know this at the time of viewing) Anyway, 5 minutes after the sky clears up from that Space launch event, I drove a golf cart away. I glance in the general direction again (East) and now, much closer to my location, appears a pair of orange orb/spherical lights in the sky. Slightly south from my perspective of the Space event, these entities are moving slowly Southward. They formed a diagonal line going up and back. Not more than a moment after viewing, the front light disappears, followed by the second light, mere seconds later. Possibly the launch stage descending for recovery.

July 28, 2023 · 11:05 PM · RECTANGLE

Identified

Jacksonville, FL

It was high up in the sky in the clouds and was at first obscured by the clouds making it seem like the moon almost with how you could see the aura of the light from behind the cloud, when the cloud moved it was a long rectangular flying object with a bright red beam that looked like a red star that was super bright and then after a while it dimmed down and appeared to the side of the skyline with the same glowing red aura but soon after it was obscured by trees SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]

July 28, 2023 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT

Gainesville, FL

July 28, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT

Ben Lomand, CA

At approximately 11pm with dark, clear skies atop the Santa Cruz mountains near Loma Prieta multiple witnesses observed red round lights that shifted position from a diamond shape with 4 lights to a single red light, flashing, then steady, slowly floating up and down, then flashing red to bright white,and bright purple to red, streaking and darting rapidly, then fading and reappearing in a different spot. .A halo / haze was noticed around the activity that blurred out the stars within it, yet stars were visible everywhere else. These lights had a high bright scintillation that was different from typical aircraft nav lights also visible in distance at the same time.

July 28, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE

Identified

Cape Coral, FL

As I am walking my dog at 11 pm I see a red color in the clouds. There was first a singular orange object that seemed to be falling from the sky imitating a red color. It’s stop falling mid way though now catching speed and headed upward it’s trajectory took east. The bubbled object seems to grow In size and intensity. From that point multiple smaller lights were ejected from the bubble and seemed to surround the craft in some sort of skirt. From there 3 orange object break from the bubble and shoot off in opposite detections 2 headed north as the third was headed south. The one head south seemed to make some kind of trail making it seem as if a boomerang was just thrown across the sky. The ones that head north hovered for a few moment traveling back and forth while temporally disappearing and coming. after the three objects had taken there positions and the skirted objects disappeared. SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]

July 28, 2023 · 10:35 PM · FIREBALL

Gulf Breeze, FL

On Friday, 07/28/2023 at approximately 10:35 pm, my wife, a family friend, and I were in our backyard and had just gotten out of the pool. From our home’s backyard observed, we observed a large red/orange circular fire/plasma ball in the sky at about the cloud level in the night sky. That evening was warm, mostly clear with a few clouds and the moon was very bright. No rain, lightning, or thunderstorms in the area at all that day. I first noticed the large (size of a small airplane or helicopter) object located southeast (towards Navarre, FL) of our home because of its brilliant bright red color and because it was not moving. The object was larger than any other object (other than the moon) in the night sky. The red and orange color appear to look like a fire ball /plasma without any defined edges and a haze around the edges. The object made no sound. It hovered in place at this height for about 10 seconds. Then the object slowly began moving south towards the Gulf of Mexico, at the same height, for about 5 seconds then it just slowly faded away. I confirmed with the other witnesses that it did not go behind a cloud, but in fact the object had just disappeared. It appeared to leave a momentary trail of light as it moved but that may have been my eyes adjusting to the brightness of the object against a dark sky, I am not sure. The object appeared not to produce any smoke or vaper trail. Moments later, I observed another similar object or the same object approximately 2 – 5 miles directly south of my location. This object was slowly moving south towards the Gulf of Mexico. However, this object was now much, much lower (approximately 500 - 1000 feet above the tree line). If it was the same object, it would have had to had moved at an incredible speed to go from the original position and height from where it disappeared and then moments later reappear at the lower height and new position in the sky. We continued to observe the object for about 5 – 10 seconds as it continued south and then just faded away. Our home is located in Gulf Breeze, FL (near the Midway area) off of Soundside Drive. We see a lot of military aircraft, private, commercial aircraft and satellites in our skies. This object was unlike anything I have seen before. We did not observe any solid object or aircraft producing this fire ball. It appeared at all times to be a large fire /plasma ball with no definable edges, with no navigational lights on it and it never made a sound. No photos or video recordings were made of this sighting. My wife is a teacher at a daycare and I spend 30 years in the military/reserves and 23 years in law enforcement. These facts are true to best of my recollection.

July 28, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT

Cedarburg, WI

There was a thunderstorm or heat lightening over the lake east of me. No sound so it must have been heat lightening and it became more rapid so I filmed it. I saw a blip in the corner so I stopped and reviewed it and saw this. And it was fast. Slowing it down there's a tail to it. I star watch all the time and the closest thing I can compare it to was a comet or something same color in Madison, WI I saw the night before my brother's graduation but to my knowledge comets or meteors don't go up....

July 28, 2023 · 9:40 PM · CHANGING

Northvale, NJ

Light (white in color) appeared steady at times and appeared to move short distances in irregular pattern. At 1 point shape seemed to change from circular to a hexagon type shape. There was a distant aircraft in the long video that came into view briefly. I tried to keep camera steady, but did move it to accommodate the aircraft (blinking light) that came into the lower right of the frame. Unknown if aircraft was in position to observe unknown craft. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]

July 28, 2023 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN

Olathe, KS

Contrail looking object was moving west to east in north sky it never dissipated and was about 1/8 mile long. It was pacing the speed of the satellite and moved east out of sight in about 20 seconds it was white or light gray. I've never seen a contrail actually stay formed and also move. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Possible]

July 28, 2023 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE

Santa Barbara, CA

An extremely large triangular ship flew directly overhead. Size was comparable to a large military cargo carrier aircraft. There were three bright lights at each corner, but no structure was discernable between the lights due to the darkness. After watching it fly away, grabbed phone and managed to catch some video before it disappeared toward the mountains. Made no sound at all, even though if it was any kind of conventional aircraft, being so close it would have been heard.

July 28, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT

Centennial, CO

I saw a orange object moving across the sky approximately 500-1000 ft high out of my kitchen window. Looked odd so I walked out on back porch and called my son out to verify what I was watching was not anything normal. We watched it move about the speed of a helicopter then start traveling east and upwards until its light either went out or got far away really fast.

July 28, 2023 · 7:53 PM · OVAL

Bristol to Middletown, CT

White tick tack shaped object. 2 in close proximity moving quicker than airplane. Have video and photos. One seems to disappear into thin air. Attached are Live Photos and video on iPhone. Be aware they are hard to spot, you have to zoom in and then u can see them clear as day. The Live Photo will show it disappear into thin air. I have more photos, but only 4 can be uploaded here.

July 28, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE

Atlanta, GA

I was flying my drone and it kept losing connection which I’ve never had that issue before. It kept “loading” connection and my phone screen would go dark. I was flying a dji mini 1. I kept getting a message saying aircraft interference. There were no aircraft in the area. I put my drone away and I can’t remember how long after my friend said, “shit what the hell are those lights”. I looked up. And saw 5 lights in a row and then a second later only 2. I walked to make sure I can see them longer with line of sight and trees and houses around us. The two bright lights were now black spheres that were burly to see. I know this because I see aircraft fly over all the time to the way to Fulton industrial airport. I couldn’t focus my eyes on the two objects but could focus my eyes on the commercial airline that was probably 30,000 feet up. These objects were close enough to be able to see the detail if they were not blurry. There was no wings no rotor no exhaust just two black objects flying next to one another. I walked down the road to make sure I could see them in more of clearing and they were gone.