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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 18, 2023 · 9:15 PM · OTHER
Farmington, NM
My name is PJ. I live in Farmington, New Mexico with my dog. On July 18, 2023, we experienced a "visit" from something completely unfamiliar to me; something we had never seen before, something apparently not of this world. The day of July 18 passed like any other day until around 9:15 pm. It was late dusk, and my dog was outside sleeping by the front door. I was inside piddling around. Suddenly, the dog (who hardly ever barks) began furiously barking and snarling. My first thought was he was being attacked by a rabid animal, or something similar. I opened the door to see what was happening. The dog was looking skyward, snarling, barking, and snapping at the air. Then I saw it. There in the sky in front of me, just a few hundred feet away, was some kind of metallic craft or vessel with bright lights on it, silently floating by. It was moving approximately 15 mph heading east, about 200 feet off the ground. It had no motor nor propeller; no visible means of propulsion. Its design was simply ladder-like in appearance; not like an A-frame type ladder but like a ladder with parallel legs. I could see the surface of the craft was made of what looked like brushed stainless steel. There were square and/or rectangular lights mounted along the sides and in the corners of each opening between the "rungs", and there seemed to be approximately thirty of these rungs. At the front or leading end of the object, the two parallel sides/legs came together and formed a point, but not a centered point, it was offset to one side. Mounted in the offset point was a round or oval-shaped light which was considerably larger and brighter than the other lights. The object was approximately 100 to 120 feet long and perhaps 12 to 15 feet wide. I grabbed my cell phone and began preparing the camera to get a video. When I looked up again, it was gone. It just vanished; disappeared. Something worth mentioning: my dog was not looking at the airborne object but rather in another direction, as though something else had been there, and had obviously entered his personal space. Though I was unable to get a photo of the thing, fortunately, I am an artist and can provide an illustration that shows exactly what it looked like; exactly what I saw that night. (See illustration) Note: I am a 61-year-old college graduate and veteran; a man who doesn't make up stories. This report is true and based on actual events as they happened, so help me God. I feel compelled to make this report as a civic duty; to inform the public in case there is danger or peril in store for us in the near future. I don't want anybody saying I "should have said something". Well, I saw something, so I'm saying something. I just hope people are listening. PJ Farmington, NM
July 18, 2023 · 8:24 PM · DISK
Probable conventionalMerrick, NY
We noticed the craft immediately because it was something neither of us have seen (we live near several airports) The irregular object was heading upwards to the sky and appeared as if it was spinning. The strangest part was that there were two lines of either smoke or fire coming out of the craft. We lost it when it went behind a cloud. Almost immediately after a giant aircraft looking plane passed the ufos line of motion. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
July 18, 2023 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Boston, MA
I was sitting on my porch watching the sunset and I saw a bright ball of fire come down and then quickly go back up. It disappeared with no trace. I kept looking to see it reappear or to be recognized as a plane. The shape it made was like the letter U. Reminded me of a shooting star in color and brightness.
July 18, 2023 · 7:44 PM · UNKNOWN
Sterling Heights, MI
Myself my son and wife were siting on a bench and my son noticed the object. Will try to attach video. More videos available
July 17, 2023 · 11:35 PM · SPHERE
Lancaster, PA
Was walking dog around 11:35 pm. Bright red light caught my eye I would estimate at 2 to 3 thousand feet high. Watched it slowly move across sky glowing red and sometimes orange. As I'm watching, wondering what the heck I'm seeing, it suddenly disappeared, as if it slipped into another dimension, like flipping off a light switch it just turned off. I stared at the spot hoping it would reappear. It didn't go into a cloud because where it disappeared there were no clouds, just starry sky. Very exciting and interesting. Don't know what it was,,,but I saw something and it vanished as I was looking right at it! No sound at all, completely silent.
July 17, 2023 · 10:10 PM · SPHERE
New Brighton, MN
I was smoking a cigarette and watching the sky, a very bright orb appeared at what I would guess was between 5000-10000 ft and shot toward the ground almost at 90 degrees and disappeared before it would've passed behind a short building in front of me. It was extremely fast, no tail like a meteor, no change in brightness or sound. The best way to describe the orb was just like the intensity of a headlight on a car straight ahead of someone, but it shines in all directions. Lasted about .5-1 second. I am a nerd who plane watches, sky watches, and am very mechanically inclined and have good reasoning abilities. This was very straightforward in terms of what I saw, but I can't explain what it was, it was like nothing I have ever seen. About 30 minutes there was a LADD FAA plane on adsb exchange doing a low circle in the area I observed the orb.
July 17, 2023 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
I was driving west bound on Lawrence and saw two red objects in the sky. They were slowly moving, rectangular/diamond shape, and lit from within. It almost looked like two car break lights because of the shapes and light. I hit a red light at Clark and the objects moved behind a tall building. When the light turned green and I passed the building, the objects were gone.
July 17, 2023 · 9:17 PM · CYLINDER
Brooklyn, NY
I was sitting on my roof with my neighbor and we saw a bright light. As it got closer, we realized it was not a plane, helicopter or jet. Just fast moving bright object. Hard to get a decent picture.
July 17, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Casa Grande, AZ
Watching the evening sky and notice a white light hovering. It slowly went behind the house. Then reappeared as a flashing white and red light across the sky. It was low flying and flew from east to south. I actually thought it was a plane until it came to a stop almost in the center of my vision and turn a sharp right turn. Then it disappeared.
July 17, 2023 · 10:27 AM · CIGAR
Sullivan, MO
My kids and I were carpooling home in 2 cars from St.Louis, MO to Springfield, MO headed west on I-44 when we saw a long white tic tac type cylinder with rounded edges hovering above the tree line. I instantly turned my phone towards it that was on a mount and I thought started recording. I first spotted an enormous long cylinder shape right above the tree line probably less than a few miles away. I noticed skydivers parachuting near by and thought this might be the plane that dropped them but then noticed the object was too far away from the skydivers to have dropped them and the more I looked I noticed the cylinder object was about the length of several large airplanes, and obviously not a small plane to drop skydivers. I would say the object was half a mile to a mile long. It was enormous in length. Solid white, with rounded ends, like a giant half mile long propane tank hovering in the sky. I was blown away. I went over a hill and the object disappeared behind the tree line, when I got over the hill the object was gone. The skydivers were still there. My teenage son who was driving behind me, called me on my cell phone right after it disappeared and said Dad did you see that! I was so happy that he had seen it too. I said yes and I got it on video but then I looked down and I noticed in my excitement I had forgot to hit record on the phone. I was so sad. I then asked my son what he had seen? He said that he was driving and noticed a white circle light in the sky and asked his sister who was also in the car with him if she saw it. At first she did not, but then after scanning the sky she saw it too. They both said then the object started moving left in the sky as a circle of light and then instantly became a giant line in the sky they said. They also noticed the parachuters but also noticed this object was miles away from the parachuters. I felt like the object was almost watching the skydivers, and if the skydivers were wearing cameras or if anyone was filming them coming down from the ground below they had to have caught this giant object on camera somewhere. Anyways my son said he saw it turn from a bright circle to a long line and then he said he looked again as he was driving and it was gone but my daughter said she watched the line move left in the sky and the rapidly take off like it had propulsion and disappear. I called the skydiving place to ask if they had any witnesses but they said they would get back to me and that was a few days ago and I haven’t heard back. 3 of us saw this but I think the reason I could make out it’s cylinder shape and rounded edges was because I was a few car lengths ahead of my kids and had the advantage of being closer to make out more detail. I can’t think of anything more except to say I know that highway was pretty busy and I am quite sure that other motorists had to have seen it as well. If I held my finger up to the window and tree line a normal plane would take up about a quarter inch of my finger, this object was easily a full inch of my finger long. Extremely long and that was from miles away, I can’t imagine how big it really was.
July 17, 2023 · 10:13 AM · UNKNOWN
La Mirada, CA
Looking out my office window, at approximately 10:13am (Pacific), I noticed something curious in the sky. At first it seemed as if it was blinking or flashing. After watching it for a minute or two, and as I began filming it with my phone, it looked more like a metallic object catching sunlight. Also, as I zoomed in with my camera, there was a distinct appearance that the object was spinning. The object looked to be very high up – at, or most likely much higher than the commercial planes we often see. A few minutes after I stopped recording, the object seemed to elevate quickly upwards, then hover in place for a bit, then lowered again, and at one point seemed to move north/away from us. Eventually, after around 10-12 minutes, it seemed to move in a westerly direction, disappearing from site and into the clouds. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
July 17, 2023 · 7:50 AM · SPHERE
Kissimmee, FL
I was driving to work in the morning and I saw a dark object which shape was unusual. The object was far so I was in a red light so I grab my phone and zoom in in a clear space between the trees to record. I thought I had video mode, but I took some pictures instead [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
July 16, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Blanco, TX
It was a late evening / Early morning Summer July 2023, We were at a rented farm house for a party. As everything was coming to an end a few of us decided to step out in to the field and look at the stars. The area we were in had little to moderate light pollution so being from the city we were very happy to see more stars than we normally do. As we were looking out we saw shooting stars, satellites and planes (tons). As we looked to the north (basically the Lat and Long given) between two hills we saw what we thought were a formation of satellites. However as we would watch them we started realize that they behaved way differently and changed. The shape and color was unknown however they projected very bright lights from each craft. they were at least 100 + miles away or more, approx 20 to 40 thousand feet off the ground. Based off the curve the earth and distance. At first the lights stated in a single file line, one by one they would travel across sky from our left to right (west to east), the same speed and same brightness and would appear and disappear at the same time. I am a bit of an aviation nerd and I have a flight radar app. I used this app to see if there was any civilian aircraft lining up to approach Austin or even aircraft taking off or landing from DFW area (just based off distance and direction). however as I was looking my friends noticed that the lights began to travel more erratically and changed speeds. Example: 1 light would move across the area (same as before) quickly accelerated "up" from horizontal to vertical very quickly and disappeared. Next it seemed the "lights" followed each other in the same manner. Then as one light would move from west to east, we began seeing sets of 2-3 lights in formation, changing speeds, brightness, appear and disappear. (When i say they would appear and disappear, unlike a satellite or plane ((where you can see it move across the sky fully)) it would rapidly appear in the sky and leave without travel across the WHOLE sky). Looking at my flight radar app there were no planes in the general direction of the lights traveling and to my knowledge there was no miliary or Air Force base in the direction. Now as the night when on the formations of the lights would begin in sets of 3-5 in a single file light, then sets of 2 (one above the other). Other single lights were be moving, "stall" / "stop" then rapidly move up and away. Last before i went to bed, I saw at least 2 - 5 single lights move from Northeast to southwest direction, Up to down The lights made no sound, left no trails. They moved in a way that no man made aircraft (that i'm aware of) could do. See attached (really bad made) paint picture, and areas we were in.
July 16, 2023 · 11:20 PM · OVAL
Corbett, OR
I spotted a bald eagle during a walk. The sun was very bright and I was trying to take photos of the eagle on my cell phone. I didn’t realize I took picture of object until I got home and saw the photos.
July 16, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalGraniteville, SC
There was no lights in my town due to a power outage fairly large town. I tried to record what I saw, but it was a string of 20 to 30 lights in the sky much brighter than stars, and they were just going like a train for 25 to 30 seconds then they just totally disappeared. I tried to record my phone would not pick it up. It’s something I’ve never seen. Looked liked a plane, pulling a banner but it was so bright, and then just disappeared one by one in sequential order no clouds at all in the sky I could see every star. I don’t know what that was but it was nothing I’ve ever seen, but it was big or a lot of them. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
July 16, 2023 · 10:02 PM · LIGHT
Beachwood, NJ
So me and my buddy were swimming in a pool when all of a sudden, we look up and we see a spotlight. This spotlight looks like a cone coming down from the sky, and then there's a bunch of orange haze around this one black cloud with, like flickering lights on it, and we are like, huh? So we keep staring at it for about minute and a 1/2.
July 16, 2023 · 10:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Folsom, NM
Driving west on US 64 from Folsom Capulin NM where it’s a Bortle 1 and at the time around the new moon and I noticed a fuzzy finger like object that wasn’t supposed to be there in the sky, Northwest of us. I pointed it out to my mother who was driving and as it got closer at first I thought it to be starlink and even said so to my mother, but then it kept getting closer and closer until almost right in front of us in the sky. A huge rectangular object standing straight up like a building. It had red lights that ran down the middle, the body a type of green with rectangles on either side of the red lights which were also a similar shade of green. Along the sides between the rectangular areas and at the base and tip of the object were little yellow type lights. I was in such shock and had a small flicker of fear that I couldn’t take my eyes and mind from it long enough to take more pics and video it with my phone but it happened so fast and had thought it starlink. As it passed over top our car I looked out the sunroof and to my surprise it was now laying flat, parallel to the ground and was rapidly vanishing from front to back as if cloaking. It made no sound, had no signs of anything pushing or pulling it along. I’ve also including a screen shot from a report on this site of an incident that happened the same night, within minutes of when I first saw it, and this 11 year old girl drew a picture that I swear is the same thing in her drawing. Almost seamed like something from Transformers movies and cartoons, but different. In her drawing you can see the red lights in the middle, the green body with the rectangles and even the ends where the yellow lights were and they said it vanished and the drawing shows it in the same position it was in when i saw it vanish. Included is also my pic from when I first saw it and also a zoomed in pic that you can zoom in on more and start to make out the red lights in middle. I’ve thought I’ve seen UFO/UAP before in my life, but this was on an entirely different level that I can’t explain.
July 16, 2023 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Lake Mcconaughy (Cedar View Beach), CO
We first thought it was a shooting star, as we paid attention it got closer and we saw a shadow right behind and our 11 year old was able to see a little more detail. We have researched starlink satellites and it’s not what we saw. It’s disappearance vanished in a blink of an eye.
July 16, 2023 · 9:56 PM · OVAL
Pine Bluff, AR
UFO came from the West traveling extremely fast. It was erratic and changed direction from ascending to descending in a matter of seconds. Looks like it disappeared then came back before disappearing to the NE.
July 16, 2023 · 9:04 PM · OVAL
Tremonton, CA
In the span of about seven minutes, I witnessed a light appearing in the shape of tic-tac, hovering for several minutes. It suddenly took a sharp turn and descended quickly at a 45 degree. After nearly losing sight of it behind the mountain, it split in three sections and quickly ascended back along the same angle. The tic-tac went back where had been, hovered a couple minutes, then quickly disappeared. A minute later, another section suddenly disappeared. The third section then disappeared behind the mountain. These pics and videos are in chronological order. (Unfortunately, when it first descended, I forgot to push therecord button.)
July 16, 2023 · 9:03 PM · FIREBALL
Milwaukee, WI
Standing outside- saw 2 balls of light with a 3rd ball 30 seconds later. All went in same direction
July 16, 2023 · 7:38 PM · CIRCLE
HAMBURG, NY
Bright red circle did not show on my cell phone images only visually. On my cell camera images appeared as a white very small circle as if the moon had shrunk to a smaller size. When I looked at the cell camera images I could see a bright red ring around white circle. ALSO a red line appeared through the white circle. As it got to a deeper brighter red IT just VANISHED.
July 16, 2023 · 3:15 PM · SPHERE
STUART, FL
The last 2 pictures that were takes, the sky was definitely red that's when the image that I was photographing, disappeared. Naked eye was was a cluster of white lights.
July 16, 2023 · 2:06 PM · DISK
Redmond, OR
Metallic looking disk high up in the sky amongst clouds. Dome top is reflective in nature with bottom spherical shape dark/shaded. Upon closer look at photo, there appears to be a turret like bubble on the bottom of the craft.