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July 26, 2023 · 2:15 AM · CHANGING
New Sharon, Iowa, IA
Strange orange glow sw sky abt 15 miles. Kept moving to ne. Gaged movement against stable tree. Approx speed 35-40 mph. Moved steadily. No wind no other clouds. Continued in my direction. When I realized how close it was i ran for house. Looked out window. Mass was coming across drive way touching ground looked like like a fog touching ground. Moved on over to the NE. Cant see that direction from my house. Don't know what it was, but there was no wind and very few smaller cloud and the mass glowed from within.
July 26, 2023 · 12:04 AM · LIGHT
Fort Worth, TX
Going down 287 past Ft. worth towards Amarillo. I suddenly see a blue light in the sky and it’s coming straight down in the distance. It was moving unexplainably fast. It was too fast to get a photo but I’m hoping someone did. It was terrifying.
July 25, 2023 · 11:15 PM · CHANGING
Speedwell, TN
I was in my driveway at 37724 zip code, Cumberland Gap TN at 11:15pm EST noticed light white color blinking and solid light. UAP believed to be at Very high altitude above all nearby aircraft that came into view then flew out of view within minutes (commercial or military) were lower than the UAP to help gauge altitude. While the UAP continued to be visible for over half an hour Claiborne Co. 911 was called and 2 deputies showed up and confirmed my observation of something high in the sky moving south. DHS tip line also reported to. One deputy had military experience and tried to determine if flights were nearby and 11 were seen in the area but agreed with me that it's unexplained UAP due to the up, down, left, right movement in fluid motions.
July 25, 2023 · 11:08 PM · DISK
Probable conventionalMarysville, CA
POSS UFO observed near Marysville, CA. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
July 25, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CHEVRON
Powell Junction, ID
At approximately 11pm, on a partly moonlit night, I saw a silhouette of a “V” shaped craft with six orange lights along the outside and one larger red light in the middle of the crux. It was not making any sound to where some campers close by didn’t even know it was there. It was moving just above the tree tops along the Lochsa river west to east about 50 mph. I estimate the width from tip to top to be 250’ - 300’.
July 25, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Losangeles, CA
At around eleven pm at night I noticed a light and the only way I can explain how it looked like was it came down and up like a Nike logo. It was super bright and lasted a couple seconds. I waited to see if it appeared again or where it went. It just disappeared very quickly.
July 25, 2023 · 10:25 PM · LIGHT
CHULA VISTA, CA
While talking to my neighbor, I witnessed a green streak of light heading North / North East. I was facing East, my neighbor was facing West and did not see it!
July 25, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Mount Vernon, WA
The star like light was brighter than the brightest light from a satellite or star and it was a white light with no blinking or color, just white. It took about one minute to cross from Western sky to Eastern sky. I could see some stars through the clouds but this light Appeared to be below the clouds. Checked the time and it was 10:00pm.
July 25, 2023 · 9:18 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalSarasota (North Lido Beach), FL
MY ORIGINAL STATEMENT: please bear with me as I write this and try to explain, both witnesses mentioned in the story are present and a part of writing this statement (witness who used flightradar24 and witness who saw) Two incidents- one person who was a witness (with two other witnesses), on the same night another person was tracking aircrafts using flightradar24, not only saw unusual flight batterns (square, boxy, tracking one (blocked) aircraft flying over feather sound and near the Saint Petersburg airports in Saint Petersberg, aircraft was being followed by sherrif helicopter of said county) but also witnessed Sarasota county Sherrif's office tracking an aircraft that could not be identified on flight radar at all. Simply "AIR1". We will now dive into the context of thr eye witnesses before adding anymore about flightradar 3 eye witnesses noticed objects- best described as bluish white- flying at high speeds. VERY FAR AWAY. Straight line. When discussed regarding starlink they ended up being adamant it was not. Objects followed each other in a straight line. Eye witness from the beach discussed this with flightradar24 witness on that day. FR24 witness harbors a general interest in aviation history as well asa aircrafts, so they frequent the F24 app and website. Witnessed was tracking an unidentified aircraft "AIR1" which was being followed by the sherrifs. They were tracking it for about an hour or so. Ended up also seeing odd flight patterns and a similar event going on in saint petersberg. Witness wanted to go out and see it; however they were quite frightened. Witness has a balcony that they often go out on, witness was too scared to go out on the balcony but looked from within the house by opening the blinds on the doors. Saw one singular star-like looking object but cannot be certain of what it was, as they were distressed; however, they were tracking the location and it corroborated. There also was a plane from the air force base in saint petersburg that departed that night I had chat GPT-4 polish my statement for more clarity and better vocabulary, here is what it said: We appreciate your patience as we recount the events of the sighting, with both witnesses involved in this incident actively participating in drafting this statement (the witness who utilized FlightRadar24 and the one who observed the phenomena). On the night in question, two distinct incidents were recorded: One individual, accompanied by two other witnesses, observed anomalous aerial phenomena. Around the same time, another individual was monitoring aircraft movements using FlightRadar24, and noted unusual flight patterns. Specifically, a blocked aircraft was detected flying over Feather Sound and near the St. Petersburg airports in St. Petersburg. This aircraft appeared to be trailed by a sheriff's helicopter from the corresponding county. Moreover, an aircraft labeled "AIR1", unidentifiable on FlightRadar24, was observed being tracked by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office. Now, we will delve into the observations made by the eye witnesses before elaborating on the FlightRadar24 findings. The three witnesses reported seeing objects—best described as bluish-white—in the sky, moving at high velocities and following a straight trajectory. Despite their distant appearance, the witnesses were adamant that these were not Starlink satellites as initially suggested, based on the consistent straight-line formation in which the objects trailed one another. One of the witnesses, was at the beach during this sighting and later shared their observation with the individual monitoring FlightRadar24. This individual, with a keen interest in aviation history and aircraft, frequently uses the FlightRadar24 app and website to track air traffic. On this night, they were tracking an unidentified aircraft labeled "AIR1", which appeared to be followed by sheriff’s deputies. Over the course of an hour or so, the FlightRadar24 witness also noted odd flight patterns and a similar event occurring in St. Petersburg. Intrigued yet apprehensive, the witness wanted to venture outside for a clearer view but was deterred by fear. Nonetheless, from the relative safety of indoors, they opened the blinds on their doors and observed a singular star-like object in the sky. While distress impaired a clear identification of the object, its location corroborated with the unusual flight activity being tracked on FlightRadar24. Additionally, it was noted that an aircraft from the air force base in St. Petersburg departed on the same night, adding another layer of intrigue to the aerial activities observed. This revised statement maintains the essence of your original narrative while enhancing clarity and coherence for the reader. Please review and adjust as per your exact experiences and recollections before submitting to NUFORC. Thank you very much for your time, consideration, and patience [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
July 25, 2023 · 7:00 PM · EGG
Atascadero, CA
I saw a white, egg-shaped craft in the sky. The bottom half of the craft had yellow lights that came on and off. The craft was moving downward in the sky, zig-zagging back and forth.
July 25, 2023 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Yardley, PA
There are alien bird noises played by an alien speaker in our backyard. When we go outside to check if there are birds, there are none. It is also 90 degrees outside and the noises are heard at 5:00pm. I repeat there are no birds outside and these noises are coming from a kind alien who planted a speaker in our backyard. If you send some troops over I can show them the noises. The noises are electronic in sound and definitely not real birds. The speaker appears to be micro as I cannot find it, I need specialized equipment and a ladder to find it (it seems to be planted on our roof). The noises are included in the zip folder attached, and I repeat they are repetitive and electronic. [NUFORC annotation: Hoax - Possible]
July 25, 2023 · 2:30 PM · OTHER
GA
Near Atlanta, GA. I was sitting at my pool when an object about the size of a human being with a dark grey/dark green tint flew overhead. My first thought was that it was a bird or something...however the object's velocity was very quick and there were no flapping wings. It was partly cloudy outside. The altitude of this object was slightly higher than the average bird. It spanned across my view in approximately 5 seconds... so short of time that when I tried to tell the person next to me about the object, it was already too far away.
July 25, 2023 · 12:11 PM · LIGHT
Knoxville, TN
Heading westbound on I-40 two orange sources of light were ascending up through the cloud line. They were vaguely orb shaped, but had a lot of light reflecting off clouds distorting their shape. Once they broke through the clouds they disappeared.
July 25, 2023 · 4:40 AM · SPHERE
Louisville, KY
I saw a very distant blinking light, it was white, and i thought it was a plane because planes pass all the time but it was moving really weird. it was dancing around and zipping too fast to be a plane so i asked my roommate if she saw it too, and we watched it for a while. we saw other flashing lights but this one kept coming back, it zipped around for a while before passing directly over our building and out of sight. as it got closer the color got orangey, but white at the same time almost. it was close enough to where we could see the lights clearly but they just looked like lights, no craft.
July 25, 2023 · 2:05 AM · TRIANGLE
sacramento, CA
I was at back side of Walgreens at the corner of Franklin blvd and Mack Rd on Sacramento, Ca. on the 25th of July around 2:05am. I looked up to see Jupiter in the sky but then noticed an object not far from where Jupiter would be but a little further down and above the tree and lights. At first looked like maybe a very high street light since that is what it looked like at first till it started moving very slowly, actually surprised it was coming towards me. It was moving so slow that I was waiting to hear a jet engine of some kind but only heard what sounded like a gush of wind/fans or maybe a very slight engine sound-hard to describe since had never heard in the sky a flying object like this. It was triangular shaped I think maybe the size of a Southwest airline jet with a solid white light near each tip/blacker than the sky so it showed up very well and more lights to the center of the object of different colors and looked like it bulged out a little in the center where the other maybe white/red/yellow-can't remember exactly the colors but went over me heading to the slight southwest towards Davis-(a town sorta southwest of Sacramento). By the time I got through with what I was doing-(maybe 2min) I tried to see if I could catch up or sight it since at the time seemed slow enough to do that. I went down Franklin Blvd maybe a mile-right to Consumes River Blvd toward the direction the object was going but it seem to have disappear out of sight. It was one of many times I wish I had my video camera to video what I was looking at-(this tho being my 1st encounter of an overhead object in the night sky). I do have video of a small object appearing in my back yard garage door at night flying from the ground through the sky past my outdoor house camera. I have shown friends but surprisingly they are my uninterested intellectuals who seemed to be only interested if I had video of me talking to the aliens. The object looked like a pure white round disk shape but maybe only 5-8" in diameter-(as I said small). It looked like my camera which will record on movement caught something that turned on to record-then suddenly the an object lights up on the ground-flew up past my camera-(which is sitting maybe 12-16' from the ground). I have experienced this type recording before but deleted it thinking it was a bug????? But a round bug?? Anyway this time I kept the recording. I didn't have a way to record off my house camera's dvd type recorder so I had to play it using my Sony digital Handycam-I had to do a stop tape/then forward/stop tape/the forward cause the object moved very fast and can only capture the object in flight doing this. Through the whole flight of the object if it was a flying insect the shape would have appeared to show such but the object kept its same exact shape through the whole flight past my outside camera. I will give you my email addr but not my address-(but not to far from the sight), or my t#. We'll see what happens with this info. In your Contact info that I filled out does state that all the info is confidential unless I check the "permission to release your name" box which I did not check!! So please do not release any of this info in Contact Info. Thanks for your time.
July 24, 2023 · 10:45 PM · TEARDROP
Satellite Bch., FL
Saw weird-looking light on a relatively clear night while walking back from the gym in late evening … took a photo … went back to see and it was gone.
July 24, 2023 · 10:38 PM · LIGHT
Olympia, near the nisqually basin., WA
It was an orange orb , in seconds it grew to be super bright and pouring out white hot light streams, almost looking like a diamond with bright bright orange and white, some small rays that were rainbow esque, a diamond. Hovered then kept going. Got smaller. Gone
July 24, 2023 · 10:30 PM · CHANGING
Probable conventionalStaten Island, NY
As my wife and I were crossing the street walking dog I see you when I appear to be an airplane light. It looks brighter than usual when you look in the sky. As I was watching this fly across sky I noticed right away it looked alot different then a airplane. As I ran back across the street to get a better open view, the light completely disappeared, but there was still a something flying same speed only no light just a pure silhouette. I also do not have vidoe. But after I lifted the phone to take a video and went home, I stayed outside, and saw two planes close to each orher. I could be wrong but u thought maybe it was military planes afterwards. God only knows Likely an aircraft moving towards the witness then turning away [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
July 24, 2023 · 9:53 PM · CIGAR
Stone harbor, NJ
Viewed through my telescope with 60x magnification very close to the star Antares
July 24, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Witness observed a light that at first looked to be a normal satellite transiting the sky, about 45 degrees above the horizon while looking out to sea. It appeared to be moving in a south / southeast direction. After observing this dim star-like light for about 15 seconds, it executed an immediate ~ 120-degree turn to the left (from the witness’ perspective) and instantly accelerated to a velocity that was about 10x its original speed. The light sped away and disappeared within about a second after making the turn.
July 24, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Hubert, NC
I saw a very strange thing on the night of 24 Jul 2023 at 2130. I was laying in bed and just happened to open my eyes and saw a red "star" in the sky that was very bright. I instantly thought it was Mars and just looked at it for a second or two before I realized that it was moving towards the South. As I watched it move, it grew in size to about the size of the Moon and I decided to wake up my wife. I asked her what it was and she immediately said, "that is the Moon." I pointed out that the Moon was higher up and while I showing her the Moon, the object split into a bunch of red "stars" and grew to about the size of the Sun when it is on the horizon. There were probably 15 or 20 stars all arranged in a circle. They then expanded outward slightly and intensified their illumination and then vanished. The lights seemed to be at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. The whole event lasted about 30 seconds, so I didn't have time to get a camera or go outside. It was the craziest thing that my wife and I have ever seen. Somebody said it could have been StarLink, but these were red lights and not in a straight line. They made a semetrical circle with all of the lights evenly spaced. A coworker told me that there was a Facebook post asking if anyone saw the red lights the night before, but he didn't read it and couldn't give me the details. I don't have Facebook, but I know a lot of people do. Any insight would be awesome. Thank you.
July 24, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
My wife and I went for a later than usual walk with our dog. Right before we were got home, my wife points out a light in the sky and asks me, “Is that a plane?” I look up and see the bright light, and I start my process of elimination. I’ve many times looked up hoping to see something that wasn’t a satellite or airplane, but often to my own disappointment, I can quickly figure out when that’s the case. Then, the light begins to dim, so I think space debris, and then it lights up again, changing direction by around 45°. At this point I’m still thinking shooting star or something. Until it started to light and dim over and over and we see it flying in an S shaped path. My wife and I both noticed between its bright cycle would almost be a dim red/orange light. Eventually it went past the horizon of the mountain and we lost sight of it.
July 24, 2023 · 8:02 PM · FORMATION
Enfield, CT
At 8:02 PM on Monday July 24th 2023 while at my son's Little League baseball game, I noticed, initially 2 oddly shaped objects flying overhead from the south, the objects appeared over the tree line (for a moment I thought the objects were powered parachute type ultra-light aircraft however, I quickly realized they were moving too fast and maneuvering oddly), they were dark gray or black, they had definitive lines of structure to them. One appeared to be an inverted pyramid, or upside-down top, this object looked as though it were tumbling forward, then would rotate / spin, the next object (in trail) appeared cube/diamond like, with curved edges so that when rotated at times would appear to be almost spherical, exhibiting similar flight characteristics. At this point in time another parent and I made eye contact, she said "tell me I'm not the only one seeing this", (2 other parents also witnessed this event and all were perplexed). At this time the third object came into view, further to the west, appearing to be higher in altitude and moving faster. This object appeared to be similar to object #2, it gained on the first 2 objects and then held in a loose formation, the formation was somewhat similar to an isosceles triangle. I was able to get the attached pictures. Weather at the time at nearby Bradley International Airport is included in the attached screenshot of the ATIS information that was current at the time of the sighting. The fields this sighting occurred at are quite large, the area is flat with a good field of view, these objects transited the visible sky from roughly south to north within 45-60 seconds. There was no noise, no contrails, no lights of any kind. According to the attached screenshot of flightradar24 there were no aircraft correlating to the location of these objects or in their direction they were traveling (at least none utilizing a transponder). Initial report to NUFORC was made via phone shortly after sighting occurred.
July 24, 2023 · 9:45 AM · OVAL
Ouray, CO
I was back in Ouray Sunday evening July 23rd. Monday morning, my husband & I were closing the 3rd Floor balcony door s facing toward Telluride to the West & the upper windows facing South to seal in the cooler air against the heat without AC. I saw the whitish, squashed-football craft, the same type as I saw in Texas, June 6th, silently making its way from the West to the East until it disappeared over the Eastern Ridgeline towards Cascade Falls. I pointed it out to my husband , then went to the next Southern Window to watch it pass out of view over the East Ridgeline about 60-80 degrees above ground. It surprised me that it was similar to the silent Oval craft I saw in Texas June 6. The skin of the craft was whitish, almost translucent & refracted or reflected the light. It would have blended in with clouds but we have 300 days of sunshine in Ouray & the summer monsoons happen normally between 2-4 pm, so they're were no clouds to hide behind. It took about 38 seconds to travel 40 degrees across the sky at a silent, steady pace. I have seen the jet fighters shoot the Narrow Ouray Canyon on 4th of July from South to North & every sound echoes & reverberates through the Ouray canyon. The commercial flights from south to north to the Montrose airport similarly intensify any engine noise but this was completely silent as it passed over. There were no lights there were no means of propulsion visible just a whitish oval craft traveling from west to east & then out of sight over the peak where the Perimeter Trail passes by Cascade Falls toward the South. I made this report because this was the 2nd time in 6 weeks, 937 miles apart I saw this same, silent, whitish, squashed-football craft: in June in Texas & in July in Colorado. I would very much like to know if others are seeing this craft in the daytime, where else it is sighted, how large it is & how fast it travels. I can draw some images of the two sightings but only in Texas are there water towers & other landmarks to try& garage distance/ size. Maybe it's like when you get a certain make and color of car then you seem to see those everywhere. I have only ever seen craft at night that I thought were planes in Houston until it made 90 degree at speed. I saw a 2-3, silent, low-flying orangish lights in the winter sky in Prescott Arizona in 2022 near Granite Mountain heading South to Downtown Prescott. These 2 sightings of daytime craft were likely because I paid more attention to the daytime sky since the Chinese Spy Balloon was in the news. In Arizona, my former HotShot Wildland FireFighter Friends spoke of unusual lights From the Superstition Mtns to the Coconino Forest from Snowflake to Flagstaff & how the Natives believe in Star People. People with ranches in that area have seen weird lights & knew+believed Travis Walton. My stephenville ranching relatives reported seeing odd behaving lights decades before Former President Bush had a no-fly zone around the Crawford Ranch. My father saw an odd craft in rural Blanco Texas while hunting in the late 1960s. My husband agrees what we saw was not a known aircraft but refuses to speculate on what it exactly was either time we witnessed it in Texas or Colorado. Has the crow flies Prescott Arizona is not very far from Sedona & just a short drive to Prescott valley where the Phoenix lights of 1977 were first spotted in Arizona as they headed south to PHX. In Ouray we have spent many hours at night , winter & summer sitting in the City Hot Springs seeing the bright Milky Way & many shooting stars. In Prescott & Texas, we watch for the Elon's satellite launches & space station flyovers. We know many of the night paths of satellites & commercial flyers. We watch the Orionids & Leonid Meteor Showers each summer but neither of us or our contractor had seen daylight craft flying silently until June in Texas or July in Colorado. I did not post on Nextdoor like I did in Prescott for the nighttime orangish lights. Others saw an orange-lit çraft fly low over their homes including an outdoor party. I like this anonymous forum. I hope to get answers about these craft.