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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 13, 2023 · 5:13 AM · SPHERE

West Hills, CA

I looked up and saw a large rotating orb of light that I have never seen before

July 13, 2023 · 4:59 AM · LIGHT

Probable conventional

Plainfield, IN

7 White lights in the night sky. I couldn’t tell the shape of them since they were moving so fast and left a trail. I was looking to east. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Probable]

July 13, 2023 · 2:15 AM · OVAL

A oval shaped object with light surrounded it ((almost circulating)) appeared in the sky with no clear point of origin. It traveled in a straight line, unlike a comet, satellite or shooting star. After a few seconds it vanished without leaving a trace. No planes or satellites were visible at the time.

July 13, 2023 · 12:15 AM · TRIANGLE

Lincoln City, OR

I was stargazing at camp watching the meteor shower when a bright white light appeared in the sky above me. The light expanded and got brighter rapidly til it looked like it exploded with a flash of light that illuminated the entire sky. Shortly after a triangular shaped craft with 5 white lights, 1 centered on the front with 2 on each side equally spaced appeared and I observed it flying across the sky for approximately 5 minutes from East to west towards the coast. There was no sound from either the flash of light nor the craft.

July 12, 2023 · 11:36 PM · CYLINDER

Fairview Park, OH

Tic tac object. Color and as bright as moon. Was width of a dime at arms length. Moved north to south at 40 degrees above horizon as viewed from skylight window in 4 seconds but had definitive edges with a slight hazy aura around it. No noise or aircraft sounds. Unmistakable tic tac shape. Followed ten minutes later by another object having a red light centered in a hazy white round blob. This moved first north and suddenly reversed direction to south-south east. Size of blob similar to first object and observed for about 6 seconds. Hopkins airport is near but these objects had NO running lights, wing surfaces or other shapes indicating convential aircraft. We are professionals in journalism and military history in our early seventies and have written many articles and op Ed's for large area newspapers. One of us has won 2 awards in journalism.

July 12, 2023 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT

Prosser, WA

The light didn't have a long tail like most falling stars or meteors I've seen before. It seemed like the light was a ball that just fell a bit and then disappeared quickly. The whole thing was like two seconds total that I saw. I noticed right after though, that a large airplane was flying over above where I saw the light. It just seemed strange, I wasn't aware airplanes dropped objects while in flight, but I'm also not really educated on that topic either. Not trying to waste anyone's time, just seemed strange.

July 12, 2023 · 10:20 PM · SPHERE

South Onondaga/ Onondaga Nation Reservation, NY

We were driving home from a concert at around 1015 and we saw three bright lights in the sky in a perfect diagonal line around the Onondaga Nation Reservation. We continued to watch as the first orb disappeared, and then the next, and the remaining orb got bigger and brighter, and started to come down lower. We parked the car and we couldn’t take our eyes off of it. One of the passengers in the car got a little bit of film when they were two orbs. Passengers got a little bit nervous and told me to drive away because it seemed to be descending.

July 12, 2023 · 9:23 PM · UNKNOWN

Epping, NH

While driving west on 101 this evening, I watched a solid orange light descend, and steadily head north. Lost sighting after 5-7 min. No flights on the tracking site, too bright to be a drone.

July 12, 2023 · 9:13 PM · CHANGING

Virginia Beach, VA

Just before 9 pm a large bright light appeared in the sky above the beach. We first thought it was a planet until it started flashing and changing shape. I began taking photos and video with an iPhone 13. On the monitor, I could see an intense spinning circle of energy framed by a pitch black square. It hovered over the beach for over 20 minutes. Reviewing the video clips, two smaller dark triangular can be seen about the large object in the 11 o’clock position. Another object appears below it in the 5 o’clock position. The object then drifted back towards the North Virginia Beach neighborhood until it could no longer be seen. On the video clip, you can see it flashing, changing colors, seemingly growing larger and smaller. It’s quite active.

July 12, 2023 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE

Newport News, VA

I was out on a walk with my dog and 3 boys. I decided to let them play at the playground for a few minutes at our apartment complex. My five year old son was asking me if he was seeing a rocket or a star was falling from the sky. We had just arrived (he just step in the sand box) so they could play for a few mins. As I took a look I couldn’t identify what the object was. The sky was very clear (blue) not a cloud in the sky. It’s was like a sliver or white; I can’t really describe the shaped it was like long like the plan it crossed paths with but no wings or tail. When the plane finishing cross paths with this object we knew for sure it wasn’t a plane but just as big if not bigger. And the object wasn’t making any noise. I tried filming it but it wouldn’t translate on camera. So we followed it with our eyes and a little on foot a couple of feet until it disappeared. When we looked over back to the original location and we saw two orange orbs silently, moving in a similar direction as the first object we saw. They were moving as if they were gliding or floating. Also silent. Until the one I had my eyes on disappeared or turn invisible in front of my eyes like the first one. As I was looking for the third one that was like a orange orb with the shape of the first object we saw underneath it already had disappeared as well.

July 12, 2023 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT

Three Rivers, MI

I noticed a really weird moving light off in the sky. It was acting fast and erratic and all over the place. So i went inside and made my daughter go for a walk with me to check it out. She seen it too. After we walked around the block and got back home, she was scared and went inside. The whole time the lights were getting closer and closer. But after she went in, they disappeared for a second. So i layed back on my car to watch for more shooting stars. And that is when I seen it above me. But this time it was 3 lights right above me. And in a triangle formation. But inside the lights it was darker than dark. Then they changed shape and then I ran inside.

July 12, 2023 · 8:00 PM · OTHER

Willow street, PA

I looked across the sky and pointed out what I thought was the brightest version of Venus I ever saw. It wasn’t quite dusk, so it was a very easily seen object, but it was so shiny I believe and visible that it appears to be lit up like a planet however, it proved me wrong when it took a sharp right corner and went a different direction, and it started moving south west until it was in clouds and out of site. within 5 minutes it was back to the original sighting spot then slowly moved SW once more, hovered in the same spot for about 15 minutes and then it was gone by a weird pattern and planes started flying by my house very close to the object it was seen and they were flying information to three, but they looked like commercial airlines they did not let military leader that evening one plane that looked in military because it was extremely large like a cargo carrier flew over my house and that was the last we saw a bit about the set of three planes that were flying over. They were running every every minute and they did that for about two hours constant.

July 12, 2023 · 9:18 AM · CHANGING

Probable conventional

Osage Beach, MO

I was at my family lake home that morning and hear a loud jet flying low over the lake. It isn’t uncommon to hear jets flying in formation as Whiteman Airforce Base is located nearby and regularly fly patterns over our lake However, this was a single large jet flying at a very high rate of speed and making very quick maneuvers that I thought were irregular. I was thinking I should have videoed it. About 15 minutes later I heard the same loud jet sound and grabbed my iPhone and began to video the jet. I took 2 separate videos, one after the other, but only saw, what I thought was the military jet, flying very fast and low in the clips. Two days later I watched the videos and noticed things in the videos. A fuzzy halo type object that seemed to follow the jet and I had no explanation for but was in both videos. And extremely fast moving objects that I never saw while filming. Upon slowing down, frame by frame, I felt this couldn’t be explained. I didn’t feel it was an insect as the scale didn’t suggest such. And the rate of speed and the different ones were perplexing. I’m not sure as to what it is I saw or caught on my phone. But I couldn’t explain it. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]

July 12, 2023 · 7:51 AM · CIRCLE

Irvine, CA

I took a picture of the morning clouds and sun when I saw the object. The Orange County airport is about a mile away so I didn't pay much attention to it until I looked at the picture once I got inside my office. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]

July 12, 2023 · 5:05 AM · CIRCLE

Mesquite, NM

Saw a bright round light object with several other round objects inside woke up the wife to see it. Went back inside to find my camera and wife said object had lowered below tree line no longer visible

July 12, 2023 · 12:28 AM · SPHERE

Skiatook, OK

I witnessed a flying orb twice tonight. The first one was at 11:57pm it was heading west bound. At first it flew in a straight line but after a few seconds it made a left turn followed by a right turn (still heading west). The second orb was seen at around 12:30am and it too flew west bound but just in a straight line. Both objects flew faster than a plane. P.S. I just filed a report for a sighting on July 10th.

July 11, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT

The Plains, OH

First 2 were still like if they were bright planets, then suddenly started moving opposite directions. Called another person to witness and he missed the QST 2, but was there for a 3rd light moving fast, slightly changing direction, later a 4th appeared, same motion, but opposite side of sky.

July 11, 2023 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT

Ashland city, TN

Me my friends ((names deleted)) chasity her husband ((Onames deleeted)) and ((name deleted)) grandmother a ((names deleted)) said look that’s that thing we saw at moms the other night and it was going from left to right in a 20 foot distance flashing and individually flashed us one by one multiple times so bright it almost blinded us and nobody saw the flash except you when it did it to us. Then ((name deleted)) said look at this ((word deleted)) behind us a bigger light was going in a circle not super slow not super fast unnormal tho and a smaller light was going around it it a square in the opposite direction about 30 minutes pass then they changed directions 30 minutes later the bigger light started to make a square and the smaller one around it started making a circle and then 30 minutes later it switched directions again the flashing light never stopped flashing and moving behind us they started to record I wished I would have unfortunately I had to leave I had made plans and was considerably late because of this and I haven’t ever seen anything like this before ((three names said the flashing light was at their moms house in pleasant view a considerable distance from where we were a few nights before this. I want to note it seemed to be watching us and trying to amuse us it’s like it was putting on a show for us and we were it’s audience that’s all I want to say.

July 11, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT

Minneapolis, MN

Two green lights close together just hovering over downtown Minneapolis. Then they free fell down until they stopped again and just stayed stationary over the city. Then it tilted sideways as it sped across to a different building and then came to a silent halt. It then turned around and we could faintly see the green lights blinking like they were traveling away and then they disappeared again. Then they came back over a different building and came closer to ours and hovered above the building right across from where our window is and they just hovered for a while before taking off across to the other side of the city where we saw it hover for a min then just disappear. Last we saw an hour ago was the two green lights then coming on and tilting again as it took off out of the city and headed south of Minneapolis!

July 11, 2023 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE

Lancaster CA, CA

I was laying on the hood of my car, and was looking up at the sky and was thinking about how there could be more out there and in a sense asked myself I need a sign to believe it. I saw an orb in the sky very high up moving very slowly with no trajectory it seemed. Would slowly change direction and it disappeared. After that I saw that same orb or ball fly across the sky westbound at blitzing speed with absolutely no sound. I knew it wasn't a shooting star because I saw one earlier that night and it had a trail of light behind it. This in fact did not. It happened the moment I thought about life being outside of us. I know it sounds crazy but I think it's tied in to what I was thinking. The moment it happened I instantly knew like something or someone told me exactly what that was. This was in Lancaster where Lockheed Martin Northrop Grumman and other facilities are in that town in other military installations within a 30 mi radius. It's no coincidence.

July 11, 2023 · 10:15 PM · OTHER

Vallecito, NM

Tuesday evening, July 11, three of us sitting around a campfire listening to music on a portable radio. All of a sudden the radio started acting up with sound going in and out. One of us happened to look up into the sky and yelled, “What is that?” It looked like a train with large square cars attached evenly spaced, about 1/2 dozen squares. Each square or cube was quite large, bigger than an airplane, and there were no red or green running lights pulling it…Just a bunch of squares evenly spaced and attached like train cars moving slowly across the sky. Each square mostly white with blue haze against dark sky and no sound. We had limited view of sky through tall pine trees, but it was directly overhead. The “square train” was traveling west to east at 10:15 PM. Now each night for the rest of the week we all keep looking up at the sky. The following Sunday, we witnessed what looked like your pictures of space x star link passing through our viewing area which was different in shape and size. The first sighting on July 11, was lower, wider, and much larger in the sky, but moving at about the same speed with no sound. We would like to know what we saw. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]

July 11, 2023 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE

Lakewood, WA

A few minutes prior (~9:55pm) there was a power outage in Lakewood, Wa, that eventually lasted over a hour. Within the first 10 minutes is when I saw it. I was sitting in my upstairs room sort of facing my window when I noticed a light moving from south to north past the window. When I turned and looking it was a pinkish purple orb that was rapidly moving at a slightly downward angle (~ 5 - 10 degrees) past my window. I didn’t see where it went after that.

July 11, 2023 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE

Hubbardston, MI

While we were visiting friends in a very rural area in Michigan, we went outside after dark to see the stars, when to the north we heard the unmistakable sound of a Blackhawk helicopter flying north to south about a half mile east of our location. As it a got closer to our location we noticed a small (10' diameter) faintly glowing orb about 1/4 mile ahead of the helicopter at the same altitude (less than 2k feet). The helicopter and the orb were traveling at least 100 mph. The skies were completely clear and crisp. We observed them for over 1 minute until they traveled over the horizon to our south-southeast. My friend has lived in this area all of his life and has rarely seen any military aircraft, particularly one flying so low. The object in question made absolutely no sound. I worked for the DoD for 12 years and lived near military bases all my life and I'm very familiar with Blackhawk helicopters as well as the many other aircraft in the inventory - the orb was something I've never observed. For what it's worth, the many cicadas and crickets that are normally chirping, went completely silent during this incident and did not resume for at least 30 minutes after.

July 11, 2023 · 9:45 PM · CHANGING

McMinnville, OR

I was looking out my bathroom window at approximately 9:45pm and spotted something in the sky. I was looking west and I pulled up my Sky Tonight app to see if any stars or anything lined up with this object and nothing did. I still am new to the Sky Tonight app though. This object seemed mostly stationary but at the end of the video it did seem to move a little. It also appears to change shape a little and also seems to have a haze around it. This is not my first or only sighting of something odd. Here is the short video link I uploaded to YouTube. I also have two photographs as well. There was just the one and just me that saw it. When I looked through the window an hour later and for anything like it I didn't see anything and I live in the country where everything is easily visible. https://youtube.com/shorts/HJB7boUn0Eo?feature=share4