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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.
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July 7, 2023 · 12:36 PM · FLASH
Proctor, VT
At approximately 0330 in the morning, I saw an orange light through the blinds in the kitchen looking out into the driveway (at the north corner of the house), at first only a single point of focused light resembling a glowing eye. As soon as I focused on it, the lights in the house flickered and it expanded and faded to an orange glow similar to candlelight, remaining steady for the next 30 seconds or so before disappearing all at once. Immediately before it disappeared, I spoke aloud, saying, "Leave us alone, you're not welcome here." This incident occurred while I was attempting to find information relating to several previous unsettling experiences I have had with entities; I will note that I have never seen something I would consider a UFO before this, only entities (which I have not reported because I worried I might be labelled as a schizophrenic), but I have felt as though I was being watched for almost my entire life, often by an invisible observer which I was absolutely certain was above me despite having no evidence. This morning, I found a single footprint on the hill which was indistinct but clearly left by something with claws; I would think it was left by a bear if not for the complete absence of any other tracks and the orange glow I saw in the night. My dog was very interested in the footprint and followed a scent trail up the hill that abruptly ended out in the open. I would not have reported this except for a second sighting of either the same (or a similar) object a few minutes ago, which I saw out of the corner of my eye in the upper left of my peripheral vision, superimposed in the west corner of the living room (which is in the south corner of the first floor of the house). This object appeared to be an orange circle/orb surrounded by a clearly delineated black ring which was itself surrounded by a ring of orange light. When the flash occurred, my computer screen and the television screen both briefly froze. My dog also saw the object and has been staring nervously at the area where it appeared since; she has also cautiously approached that corner, where there is a door to the front porch, looking up at the ceiling, barking and growling. My mother walked into the room a moment after the flash and doesn't believe me despite the dog's behaviour. This coincides with numerous strange occurrences throughout the area, which began about two weeks ago and have been increasing in frequency and strangeness. The incidents started with people feeling watched and seeing large black dogs, then progressed through tapping on windows and scratching at doors, to a lingering smell of sulphur, urine and honey. There have also been several black bear attacks in the area recently, which is highly abnormal, and some people have told me they had seen an abnormally large black bear, about 4 feet tall at the shoulder, who appeared to be stalking them. Most people are acting like nothing is out of the ordinary, but it seems to me that everyone is a little bit more nervous than usual. As an additional detail, I should note than I am colorblind, having blue cone monochromacy, so although I describe the object's colour as "orange," that is merely how it appeared to me (any wavelength greater than about 500 nm looks either orange or grey to me).
July 7, 2023 · 7:50 AM · CUBE
Oakwood, IL
7:50 AM, saw a wingless craft heading south from east side of yard. Looked like two white cubes with space between, silent. Airplane speed and altitude. Saw again one week later from west side of house, heading south like the first.
July 6, 2023 · 10:12 PM · SPHERE
Forest City, NC
In the backyard, saw one orange orb cross the night sky in seconds. Then saw multiple aircrafts, at least 5, appear behind the orb and seem to be following said orb before disappearing. It seemed to happen within 45 seconds total.
July 6, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Blaine, MN
I’m the passenger in the car, and I see a bright light in the sky to my northeast (going southbound) which I thought was Jupiter or a bright star. I ignore it, a few seconds pass and we end up driving underneath it. No flashing lights like a plane, just a bright ball in the sky. I followed it with my eye the whole time until I couldn’t see it anymore. I usually like to look at the planes near where I live and I can tell the difference. I couldn’t believe we drove under it.
July 6, 2023 · 9:40 PM · FORMATION
Dekalb, IL
Northern sky shifted drastically many times
July 6, 2023 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Spokane Valley, WA
Suddenly appeared and disappeared but saw 4 large jet like engines propelling an extremely large craft that appeared and disappeared within 3 seconds. Seemed like a dimensional thing as it was very large, silent, and very low altitude.
July 6, 2023 · 7:50 AM · CIRCLE
Pottstown, PA
JBU555 was flying southwest bound on the arrival into DCA airport and reported a small object flying opposite direction 4-5000 feet above it. They said they've seen multiple drones in their careers but nothing like what they just saw. No other aircraft were operating in this area at the time of the report.
July 5, 2023 · 11:38 PM · LIGHT
Reno, OH
At approximately 11:38 PM ET, we, my mother and I, both saw the same light due West of our location in Reno, Ohio. We are located out a county road in a semi-rural location. We are very familiar with aircraft seen regularly in the area as we are due Northeast of the Mid-Ohio Valley Airport (KPKB) as well as being avid skywatchers of satellites including the International Space Station (ISS) and meteor showers/"shooting stars". This was none of the above. In the course of seeing this object or light appear in the sky due West of our location, it seemed abnormally bright - brighter than Jupiter or Venus or even the ISS. We figured that it might be landing lights on an aircraft, but no marker or strobe lights were visible - not red, green or blue. This was a bright 'white' light. What was most unusual about this light is how we could make out against the twilight or airglow that the light was curving rapidly in an 80 to 90 degree turn that would have made its position going from a Northerly route to a Westerly route from our perspective. It made this trajectory move quickly in what appeared to be an area much smaller than the curve of the turn radius of most aircraft large and small we regularly see here. However, shortly after (1-2 seconds) the light faded at an accelerated pace into nothingness - no more bright white light and still no markers/strobes and nothing visible against the twilight/airglow. It is noted that a Piper Cherokee P28A (N780U) was airborne near this location at the appearance of this light, however, that flight traversed in a nearly straight line from Morgantown, West Virginia (MGW) to Athens, Ohio (UNI) South to Southeast of our location with little to no course correction resembling the path of the light we saw. The absence of marker strobes and the rapid curving and fading of this light was what made it quite unusual - granted this is not the first instance of strange lights seen in this area and we have on occasion seen blocked military or government craft flying through or to/from KPKB. In a separate unreported incident approximately eight (8) years ago, either in the month of July or September (based on the fact we celebrate several birthdays in both of those months where we often have family get-togethers), an ultra-slow pulsating light appeared to myself and 5 or 6 other observers during a campfire one night near the same location herein stated that could be seen for over an hour - definitely not a plane or satellite as satellites do not hover and slowly move over the course of an hour and planes should have marker beacons, which this did not. Needless to say, a couple of people that were present that night who you'd label as skeptical were dumbfounded at the appearance of this light "event" and still recall how weird it was these years later. Another instance that we're not sure about and was reported by my mom in 2017, my mother experienced a bright orange moving light on her way home from work around 10:45 PM in the late Winter (February) that traveled downward and disappeared from view at the horizon. That report was listed here: https://nuforc.org/webreports/reports/132/S132919.html All said, we're unsure at what either of these instances were, but the one this evening was unusual enough to report. Thank you.
July 5, 2023 · 11:20 PM · FORMATION
Boise, ID
V shaped formation moving south to north, low altitude, silver/whitish look to the craft. When passing over head everything went silent. Have a water pump that is running near by and then as they passed over it was like a cone of silence passed over us as well. Witnessed clearly by myself and my wife. This is the second time we have seen a similar formation and the same “silent” effect as it passed overhead.
July 5, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CYLINDER
Milton, VT
At just about 11pm I saw a UFO. It was the most brilliant thing I've EVER seen. That thing zipped around the Milton area, towards where the fire works were and the dog park is. It cut across the sky with a brilliant white rooster tail, then it would hop across the sky without a tail. It would very quickly appear, then disappear in the blink of an eye. It looked kind of tube like, with no rhyme or reason about which end the tail came out of. This all happened in about 15 seconds, then the craft zipped across the sky heading towards the lights I believe were coming from Essex Junction or even Burlington with a very long tail. I now can rest easy, I KNOW that UFO'S exist. I'm shaking like a leaf as I type this, I'm still in shock. SERIOUSLY, WHO do I call to report this? VTANG? The Burlington Airport? The media? And there is no possibility it was a drone, or even a group of drones. Or fireworks, satellites, or even Starrlink. It was a UFO. HELP!
July 5, 2023 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Concord, CA
I just saw 3 UFO’s/ UAP’s from my backyard at first I thought the first one was a satellite or the space station but it slowed down and another one went directly for the first one and the first one made an impossible move and then they both phased out then the third one kept jumping back and forth then phased out. The second most incredible sighting I have ever witnessed!!!
July 5, 2023 · 9:40 PM · OVAL
Pine Bluff, AR
The UFO was spotted in the N on 5 July 2023. The UFO acted oddly. At one point it descended, then curved upward, before descending again. It also appeared to hover.
July 5, 2023 · 8:59 PM · SPHERE
Emerald Isle, NC
The orb was seen coming from the direction of the ocean and was headed towards the sound (land). The object was illuminated in an orange glow until right before it started to go across the sound. The object could still be seen when the light around it went out and it appeared to be round in shape (sphere). It made no sound at all. After the sighting we heard a lot of military aircraft in the area flying low. This could have possibly been a coincidence since there is a marine base nearby, but there was more activity on this night than others.
July 5, 2023 · 8:25 PM · CIRCLE
Boston, MA
I'm not sure if this is an actual UFO, and I anyone who knows what this is to let me know in the comments. At first I thought it was a helicopter carrying cargo, which would be a rare sight around here. I then realized that was no helicopter, and it was definitely not an airplane of any kind. By the end I completely lost sight of it, but I kept recording with zoom trying to see if I could find it again as it was almost impossible to do so with the naked eye at this point, but I could not find it and gave up. Later that same day I was checking the last video I took (the one where I couldn't find it, and I realized that for a fraction of a second you can see it very quickly go left, and then right in a spiral motion right before disappearing. Thank God I have the building wall to the right in the shot to prove it was not due to a camera shake. The most logical explanation would have been a balloon, and I genuinely thought it was until I realized how it takes off at the end. I cut that last part and added various versions of it by the end, zoomed in, slow motion, black and white, and color corrected. Any other logical theories are much appreciated. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
July 5, 2023 · 1:16 PM · LIGHT
San Jacinto, CA
Watched as a bright silver round light moved back and forth in the day sky, changing directions from left to right then up and down before descending rapidly disappeared in the direction of the back of my house when I walked to the back I could no longer see or find it. There was no visible lights since it was itself silvery and bright, no sound was heard.
July 5, 2023 · 10:45 AM · CHANGING
Canal Winchester, OH
My boss and I both saw what appeared to be a large black ball floating rant high in the sky the nothing of Jimmy 5th. We called our other two co workers to come over to witness what we were seeing. We all watched it change shape multiple times and go from right to left covering 30 or 40 miles in just a few minutes. Witnessed a military refueling plane fly past the object and seemed like they didn't notice it, but it was good for size comparison. The object was at least as big as a large car, if not bigger. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
July 5, 2023 · 10:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Bad axe, MI
I work at a local radio station here in the Thumb of Michigan. I was coming back from gathering details about a news story, and as I was pulling in I heard the same air traffic noise that I heard during the last UFO sighting in Bad Axe. Needing a witness, I went and grabbed our intern here at Thumb Broadcasting and he recorded this.
July 5, 2023 · 9:15 AM · CYLINDER
Ocean springs, MS
Observed a silver reflective cylinder moving slowly south about 1500 ft. Was driving so not able to hear it if it was making a sound.
July 5, 2023 · 7:38 AM · SPHERE
Grand Prarie, TX
Traveling east by car. I was admiring the beautiful shape clouds to the right because mostly the sky was clear & blue. It was then that the object caught my eye in the clear area of the sky, high above beyond airplane space away from the white puffy clouds. The object appeared shinny like a metal reflection then it disappeared. Seconds later it seem to come out again around the same area of sky without movement.
July 4, 2023 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Cheektowaga, NY
About 11:40 pm 7/4/23 saw first object flying south to north, bright yellow orange flickering light climbing slowly in sky. Another object followed behind along same trajectory and same appearance. Continued climbing and started turning east while climbing. First one then the second disappeared into clouds presumably. Seemed to have bright central light and 2 or 3 smaller lights flickering or blinking close to central light. Was not fireworks. Looked at Flightradar24 app at 11:44 pm, no planes appeared anywhere close to that trajectory or in a pair. I would guess altitude at 5,000 feet but difficult to tell. My impression was they were low. They were seen in the direction of the airport from my vantage but were not following typical flight paths. The lights were larger and brighter than airplanes. No sound of engines could be heard.
July 4, 2023 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Tacoma, WA
We were watching neighbors shoot fire works when we looked over our fence and say a round object hovering. It had a white light with a green blinking light. It would then be solid red, then the red light would turn off and it would become green and disappear and reappear in a different spot it would move erratically and sometimes it would stay solid and not move. About 5-7 min later it turned red and disappeared.
July 4, 2023 · 11:00 PM · DISK
cheshire, CT
I saw a charcoal gray saucer shape in front of me over the trees...it was football field size...there were 3 large lights/windows ( a light bright green in color) and under each large light there were 4 small lights/windows so 12 small lights in color...the large lights stayed permanently lit but the small lights would blink left to right...1-1 would blink in unison with 2-1 and 3-1....then next would be 1-2 2-2 & 3-2...so on and so forth....the whole sighting didn't last for more than 6 seconds...the craft moved faster than I've ever seen anything move
July 4, 2023 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Cheshire, CT
At Cheshire Hillside Village I saw a UFO on July 4th at about 11 pm…3 large lights underneath each 3 were 4 small lights that blinked simultaneously 1-1 & 2-1 &3-1…then1-2 & 2:-2 then 3-2…so on and so forth ….it was above a tree for 3 sec…..then went faster than anything I've ever seen above another tree for a count of two Mississippi then gone into the night sky
July 4, 2023 · 10:33 PM · CHANGING
Westland, MI
I was in the field behind Adams school in Westland MI watching the fireworks people were setting off all around me. I bring a swivel chair so I can turn and see them 360. Facing to the south west I noticed a blue UFO not moving. It was pulsing down to a smaller darker shape and back to blue. After about 5 or 10 minutes I saw a smaller red dot at the 5 oclick position light on and off of this thing. I don't know how long it was there because I was watching the fireworks. After about ten minutes watching this thing I ran over to my nearest neighbors who where outside and told them. They said they would be there in a minute so I went back and watched it. About 5 minutes later it quickly descended straight down below the tree line and was gone. Then I saw what looked like a typical sky lantern moving past me and said to myself “that's moving way to fast to be a sky lantern and it also had a white/light area around it like an aura much bigger than the sky lantern in the middle with darker spots within the white aura. I did not see where it started but moved past me and on the other side of the tree about 100 feet away. I estimate the speed at 40 to 60 miles per hour and about 80 feet off the ground and as it came past the tree the white area around it dissipated and it then looked like a sky lantern. It quickly gained altitude and within a few minutes dissapeared. Shortly after than my neighbors came up to me and said it was all over Facebook. They showed me a video which looked like it. The whole encounter lasted 15-20 minutes, maybe a bit more.