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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 16, 2023 · 1:00 PM · SPHERE
Gilbert, AZ
I recall seeing a tiny black dot in the distance appear and move very fast from left to right in a straight line. A second later a black metal sphere with a red flashing light appeared in front of my bathroom window where I was showering. It hovered and was wobbling a lot from right to left and left to right, but stationary in the same position just wobbling. It looked like a bomb was my first thought. I ran out of the shower screaming for my boyfriend to come look. He saw it for about 5 seconds then it was gone in the blink of an eye. He ran outside to look for it but it was gone
July 16, 2023 · 8:40 AM · CIGAR
Winnemucca, NV
I was standing outside of holiday inn express looking towards the mountain to the northwest of town when I saw a reflection in the sky, I pulled out my phone and zoomed in on it to see that it was a very large, metallic cigar shaped object that was moving from left to right with no visible signs of propulsion.
July 16, 2023 · 12:44 AM · CIRCLE
IdentifiedDallas, TX
My friend and I noticed a light brighter than anything in the sky stagnating over Winfrey Park at White Rock Lake. We were too far to see anything with the naked eye, but the light was insane. After about 30 seconds, it slowly flew to directly across from us, over a neighborhood, before it began a 5 minute flight directly into the air. It was at a gradual pace, still much brighter than anything in the sky. We never saw it on the ground. I have a video of it flying. After the 5 minutes, it flew towards us over the lake at a speed that I couldn’t even imagine. Spacex launch form Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 15, 2023 · 11:52 PM · FIREBALL
IdentifiedFort Lauderdale, FL
I was going on a midnight walk when i looked at the sky and saw what initially looked like an asteroid burning up while entering atmosphere but then realized it couldn't be because after i saw streak of fire behind the ufo it briefly disappears then re appears and continues moving then when moving a haze or aura appeared trailing behind the moving object SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 15, 2023 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Port Angeles, WA
Not only did we see things flying through the sky for hours above the Sol Duc river, we also had strange phenomena happen at 11:30, 12:30 and 2:12 am involving a bright flood light type light shine on our tent ( remote camping ) without a sound. Every time my husband got the tent window unzipped it went off. I was truly and still am petrified about what happened that night.
July 15, 2023 · 10:40 PM · FORMATION
Fullerton, PA
Both me and my girlfriend were in the car driving home from a baseball game when we mutually observed 3 red/orange craft in the air hovering at about 500 feet in a stationary triangle-like formation. The 3 craft then began to drift slowly to the east, when 1 by 1 they began to fade into the night sky. My girlfriend was able to take a pretty good video as well as a photo of the event and has left us very convinced of what we saw.
July 15, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Watkins, MN
My wife and I live south of Watkins, Mn on a farm slightly higher in elevation than much of the surrounding area. We have seen strange lights when looking to the East, generally towards the Buffalo area. We have seen these on multiple locations all times of the year. Typically they are white to red in color and varying in intensity. Sometimes they hang out for several minutes other times it for a brief moment. Almost always they will just vanish without moving much. They will show up just above the horizon, maybe a finger or two width from our vantage point. We have seen as many as 3 of these strange lights at one time. We have had multiple friends and family that have been with us that have also witnessed these strange phenomenon. Most leave unsure of what they just saw. We moved into this place in the fall of 2019 and have seen them the whole time, the latest sighting was just a couple weeks ago on July 15th 2023. We were hanging out with a friend of ours at our grain bin bar that has a view of the eastern and south east sky. We saw these lights on and off for a couple hours. Our friend had not seen these lights before and was surprised to hear how common of an occurrence this was for us. He was so bothered by those lights that he reached out to me yesterday July 27th 2023 about it and this is what has pushed me to post this. These lights are not planes, radio towers, drones, or anything that you could reasonably use to explain it. I have seen them just after dark as well as 2:00 am, middle of summer or a cold winter night. I'm not saying I know what they are but it sure is strange.
July 15, 2023 · 9:47 PM · CIRCLE
Probable conventionalEugene, OR
We were out just before the international space station was to fly over at 9:50 PM Pacific time. At 9:46 I noticed what I thought was the ISS near the star Arcturus (too early) and it was flying straight east the only thing different this object covered the sky from Arcturus to the horizon in about one minute, it takes the international space station 11 minutes to cross the sky. I checked all my online star maps- looking at recent launches and I don’t have an answer, Its description, About mag 0 maybe -1. No sound No course correction. looked like a satellite. (Just so it’s not from North Korea) [NUFORC annotation: Satellite - Probable]
July 15, 2023 · 9:41 PM · LIGHT
Asbury Lake, FL
I with other witnesses were having a conversation while looking up at the sky when we saw an object that seemed odd. It was just a bright light moving from west to east across the sky at what appeared to be an extremely high altitude. However it moved faster and was brighter than what I have normally seen from satellites. As it gained more attention from the group the objective instantly made a 90° turn to what looked like straight through the atmosphere with an acceleration that I have never seen in my life. I was transfixed and shocked and confirmed others saw what I had just seen. Fortunately I also had my girlfriend on speaker and she could hear the others confirm what I saw. Now I'm not sure if what happened next was right before or right after the object accelerated away an orange stationary orb appeared in the sky. It was just stationary and silent before just disappearing.
July 15, 2023 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Doyline, LA
I was standing outside my home on the west side smoking a cigarette being directly between my house, and a strip of trees that separates the adjacent home. As I was smoking my cigarette, I noticed what I then believed to be a neighborhood drone, or the direct neighbors drone, meandering in the wood-line approx. 10 yd. high and 12 yds. away. The craft as essentially invisible with a prominent, yet soft, green light at its center. I had guessed the craft was helicoptering to stay aloft, but it made no sound, and no mechanical movement was observed. As I watched it, it became aware of me and began to watch me through the darkness. I felt no danger whatsoever. Soon the light, as it swayed and bobbed almost imperceptibly, hid itself from my direct line of sight by placing a very skinny tree between itself and myself. I honestly found this humorous, as if it were a game, but then I was still thinking it was a drone from a kid. I would walk forward somewhat and again have line-of-sight on the green light, and it again would softly and slowly position itself with another skinny tree between the two of us, perfectly breaking line of sight each time, with no accidental deviance to reveal itself if i stayed stationary. Soon I noticed another green light, higher by 2-3 yds., and closer by 1-2 yds., not trying to hide at all as it entered the area amongst the trees. It was at this moment I began to feel unease. I continued to try and maintain line-of-sight on the first light, but soon it was positioned behind a large tree and I could no longer advance to change my vantage as the bramble of the woods blocked my advance. I wasn't completely done with my cigarette, but I snuffed it anyway as I left with haste to go inside, almost fleeing. Never once did i feel danger, but I was at once put at unease by the appearance of a second light. I also felt as though there were many lights that were unseen, positioned array-like among the trees, yet this is likely to be nothing but paranoia induced by the appearance of the second light. Until Yesterday morning I had forgotten the incident, thinking it nothing more than a childs toy, until I watched the UAP open conference and have come to understand the intensity of our situation as people on a planet among many. I will and can freely admit to any and all experiences related to this matter as truthfully as possible. And, to know, no one in this neighborhood has any drones, and especially not the family and kid nextdoor, as I had assumed at the time, makes me believe it was an UAP. My friend may have been with me, I don’t recall if he was or wasn't.
July 15, 2023 · 6:20 PM · OTHER
Seattle, WA
We noticed a strange metallic object reflecting light in the sky and spinning around and drifting. It looked to be the same distance away as the jet planes we also saw flying that day, but further away than the planes taking off from the nearby SeaTac Airport. Based on this distance it was around the same size as a small jet plane. It was S shaped (letter Z, number 2 or 5, etc). It spun around but did not follow the same direction of the wind that the clouds were being blown in. It changed direction, descended a little bit once, changed direction again, and then ascended out of view. It is unclear if the lights that we were seeing were from the aircraft or if it was reflecting sunlight, but it did seem to be propelled by its own power source. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
July 15, 2023 · 12:06 PM · CIRCLE
Bentonville, AR
I saw the object and began watching it taking photos and videos. It did not appear to be an airplane and it did not appear on the FlightAware app. It was moving in a straight line and was circular, shiny in color, reflective and there was only one. I’m not sure what it is but thought it was worth reporting. In the video an aircraft flew somewhat close by perhaps someone on board is a witness. I did call earlier and I spoke to Peter Davenport about this.
July 15, 2023 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Springtown, TX
The only way I can describe this. I went outside at 5 o'clock in the morning Saturday morning. I sit down as drinking some coffee. I look up and I see 2 objects in the sky. And I'm thinking it's a plane or it's a drum. The more I got to look at it more it was not a drone one of them wouldn't Come down close to me , but the other one did and I seen it I because it was like it was playing a game. It would look at me and go back up then it would come back down . It look like A fairy. It was flapping his wings so fast, This did this for over an hour. Then I got tired and I turned around and was going into the house. I seen another one This one was bigger, it had multiple colors and it was just sitting there. I got some footage of this one actually moving and the other 2 going over to it. I cannot explain it by writing this. That 1 did look like UFO..
July 15, 2023 · 12:01 AM · LIGHT
Shasta City, CA
My fiance, his dad, and I were visiting my fiance's cousin and her boyfriend in Shasta. After we returned from dinner, we sat out on their porch to look at the stars for about an hour and a half, from about 11 pm to about 1230 am. We were facing Mt Shasta, looking in a Northeasterly direction. We saw the milky way really clearly, a couple of satellites, a plane, and a few small shooting stars. Then a few minutes after midnight, a single, very bright white light (brighter than any star, satellite, or plane we saw that night), entered into our view coming from the N/NW direction (to our left). It was oscillating (going up and down). It moved like you might expect a drone to move (kind of jerky, constantly adjusting its altitude) but it was SO much bigger. So bright we could see it clearly from almost 10 miles away. It was gradually descending, all the time bobbing up and down. From our perspective, it was going slowly. If we were watching a car for example, I would have estimated it as going about 5 mph? It was slow. We didn't know what it would do as it lowered to the mountain, but when it reached the silhouette of the mountain, the light went out. It looked as if it either landed on the mountain or went behind it. It did not ascend again. We waited outside for another half an hour but didn't see anything else. None of us could understand what it was. All of us were completely sober (we don't drink, and none of us were intoxicated in any way at all, and only had mint tea and cookies after dinner). Three of us were not from Shasta. It was our first time visiting. My fiance and I are about 40, my fiance's dad is 70, and my fiance's cousin and her partner are 65. The latter two believe in UFOs; they live in the area. My fiance and I had never seen a UFO and weren't looking for one while we sat outside that night. And my fiance's Dad is a chemist and is totally skeptical, but even he couldn't think of anything to explain it.
July 14, 2023 · 11:45 PM · SPHERE
Cusseta, AL
Driving south along US 280 from Columbus, GA near Fort Moore and Cusseta, to US 27 driving south. Witnessed orb of light, greenish in color, moving across sky from left to right, or toward the west. Sighting lasted maybe a few seconds, as light object moved past line of sight, or vision, over the treeline to the right side of the highway.
July 14, 2023 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Villas, NJ
Sitting on beach at night and saw a bright round light across the bay towards state of Delaware. It was moving sporadically up and down from (towards Delaware). Then other lights appearing (10-12) moving sporadically.
July 14, 2023 · 11:02 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBristol, PA
Observed bright object in sky. Not moving for approx 20 min. Remained in same location [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
July 14, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Simpsonville, SC
I have seen dozens and dozens of bright stars moving in unbelievable ways since Dec 2022. High up Above the clouds, probably above 30,000ft. With so much activity that anyone in Simpsonville would be able to look up and see them nearly every a single night like me. I stay up late and watch them while I lay in the bed of my truck, I have seen over 10 UFO in a single night from 11pm-3am They move in many different ways, steady flight, stationary to quick erratic movements, up/down/left/right in seemingly random ways back and forth. I made my wife watch them too to confirm I’m not crazy, even though she hates the idea of UFO and wants nothing to do with it, even she can confirm the things I saw, we even watched a moving “star” disappear in the blink of an eye (clear sky, no clouds, it just vanished) I’ve also seen them move in weird rhythmic bursts, like a water bug floating still on the water then a quick jut forward, and then again a second or two later. They are hard to see but I have watched faint orbs move around the bright stars, like moths around a porch light, back and forth. I have also seen more “shooting stars” than I ever have in my life, but these are faster with shorter trails than a normal comet, I can’t confirm these are UFO, but I have to report it. Again, I have seen so many different sightings in Simpsonville nearly every single night, I can’t be the only one who has seen them. It’s so frequent I believe anyone could simply look up and see unexplainable things, I can’t believe it isn’t on the news.
July 14, 2023 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Seabeck, WA
UFO, large as house, flew directly over me. MAYBE 200 yards up. The bottom was red from the speed of the craft. Super fast, no wind, no sound , no flashing lights, it did glow red and orange.just before I saw it, coyotes was howling like crazy.
July 14, 2023 · 10:54 PM · LIGHT
Spanaway, WA
I'm twenty nine years old and I've never seen anything like this. I stepped outside to hit my vape and get some nicotine in my system, and when I do so at night (in this case about 10:50pm) I like to look up at the sky, we're near JBLM so theres always planes, I frequently see satellites, even got to see Mr. Elon Musk's string of satellites flying through the air. But tonight was something different I was looking at what I thought was a star, until it started moving then my mind jumped to satellite. But it was anything but, it started to move fast and sporratically. Taking sharp turns, up and down, left and right, I took my phone out and started recording as quickly as I could. It was also strange to me that my phone camera wasn't picking up any of the other stars and yet somehow had no issue seeing the one light in the sky I was trying to record (thankfully) I ran back into my house to get my cousin to come out to be extraordinarily sure I wasn't going crazy. But by the time we made it back out of the house to look, it was gone, so much for an extra witness. Now I regret taking my eyes off of it.
July 14, 2023 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Riverside, CA
First spotted near intersection of Van Buren & Mockinbird approx 80-85 degress from horizon - above SSE 140-150 degrees heading. It hovered for nearly a minute while pulsating irregularly. The pure white light would pulsate very bright (Venus bright) to dim. It would be max brightness for 2-3 seconds then slowly fade to dim for a few seconds. After a few pulsating cycles, it would go dim and stay dim for 10 seconds or more. The whole cycle seemed to vary in timing, but the dim state period always returned to the pulsating cycle. After 2-3 minutes, two neighbors I'm unfamiliar with drove up to me and stopped. She said "Oh you see it too?" I replied "Yes I thought I was imagining things." She told me they had seen it before, a couple months ago. It appeared to be high altitude 30,000ft or more. The strangest thing was the way it moved. It went from hovering to slowly moving toward SSE. It traveled 5-10 degees and then hovered for several seconds. Then it began moving back toward it's original position hovered a while and started moving SW. When it would go from hovering to moving, it seemed as if the light would go bright and stay bright before a somewhat rapid acceleration to it's maximum speed, never appearing faster than 1/3 to 1/4 the transit speed of the ISS. The speed never appeared to be fast, just rapid acceleration. I watched it off and on for at least an hour, the whole time it followed the irregular pulse/dim and hover/move behaviors. The area was quiet, so if the object was low enough to be a rotary aircraft I'm fairly sure I would have heard it. The object continued to move SW just not in a straight line. I stopped watching it at approx 30 degrees above SW 235. I don't know of any tech we have that can hover at that altitude other than a maneuverable High Altitude Balloon. It moved like I would expect a maneuverable HAB to move, but the bright pulsations don't make sense for an HAB unless it's low enough to be a danger to other aircraft. I have been flying R/C planes for 43 years and quad-copters for 8. I've been staring at the sky my entire life watching satellites, meteor showers, eclipses, comets, planets, airplanes and helicopters. Over the years I have seen a few unusual things that I could not identify, but this one was strange enough that I thought I should report it. I don't own a smart-phone (and I pray I never have to) so sorry no video.
July 14, 2023 · 10:11 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalHernando, FL
Fishing on open lake with two friends. Boat oriented West. From North to South line appears out of thin air of perfectly symmetrical round orbs with lights on each one in rings from center to outermost part of orbs. 12 orbs or more The orbs were perfectly in line and perfectly spaced. Distance looked really far of the orbs and the ring of lights on them were amber color and seem faded. The Massive orbs, then crossed behind a single cloud West of boat and as each one flew above it they disappeared and then the cloud faded away quickly. All other clouds in sky remained all around. I screen shot the google maps of where we were and where the orbs came from and disappeared at. Also shows live location of where on lake we were and what way we were facing. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
July 14, 2023 · 10:06 PM · LIGHT
Wellton, AZ
July 14, 10:06pm, Wellton, AZ. My fiance and I witnessed multiple bright UAPs with amazing directional changes, both quickly descending and ascending, hovering, and blinking in and out, over the course of about 3-4 minutes. Afterwards, there was a large bright starlike object that changed colors for almost 10 minutes before slowly moving and descending out of sight. I have numerous videos to show ALL of this!
July 14, 2023 · 9:13 PM · LIGHT
destin, AR
my family and I were hunting for crabs when we looked up and saw the starlink satellites moving southeast above the ocean. once they disappeared in the clouds, 2 lights moving in the opposite direction appeared then disappeared, and right after a third light appeared and slowly moved across the sky slightly zig-zagging. soon enough the light disappeared behind another cloud above the city of destin.