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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.
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July 3, 2023 · 8:42 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Around 8:40 pm, on the evening of July 3, 2023, I was in the backyard with our dog, Luna, and saw something strange in the eastern sky. The last bit of twilight slowly faded away. There were a few bursts of pre-fourth fireworks lighting up the sky. I looked toward the east and saw what looked like a star that seemed out of place because of the intensity and the location. I grab my phone and was about to use the Star Guide app to identify it, when it darted to the left, then right. I was thinking it could be a drone, I own two drones myself and I recently ordered lights for them. I know that you can purchase lights that allow a pilot to control the intensity from the ground, I continued recording when the object suddenly dipped down toward a lower altitude and dropped an amber teardrop-like object that I watched slowly descend towards the rooftops of distant homes, seemingly morphing into a single point of light, which disappeared behind the roofs. Check out the video. I have more footage showing the main object fading in and out. If it were a drone, it violated the FAA flight ceiling, because it was well above 400 feet when I first noticed it. It was also so close to the Deer Valley Airport approach and departure traffic. Very interesting video.
July 3, 2023 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Toledo, OH
I was watching some objects in the sky, that I believed to be drones but the did not have the usual red and green lights, they looked like flames. I thought they might be remnants of fireworks but they seemed to be flying controlled. Two flew side by side. I didn't even think of them as UAPs. While looking at these, my Granddaughter said "look at that!", I saw it as soon as she said it. Above us, was a circular vehicle, no lights, no exhaust, no control surfaces, no markings, no panel lines. I couldn't hear it maybe due to fireworks. It was just flying in the bottom of the clouds, it's color matched the cloud's color (grey) almost a perfect match. There was maybe a greenish haze around the vehicle. I didn't think to take a pic or video, because I know my phone's camera wouldn't be hi res. And partly due to my disbelief and awe of what I was seeing. It flew from south to north and disappeared behind trees at the horizon. It flew in a straight line just like an airplane would.
July 3, 2023 · 12:20 PM · SPHERE
Lava Hot Springs, ID
My girlfriend, my seven year old daughter, and myself were staying at my friends cabin in Lava Hot Springs Idaho. During the afternoon after my daughter and I got back from a four wheeler ride to go fishing and we went inside because a lightning storm had come over us. My daughter and I went to the balcony to observe the storm and when the clouds had passed over us to the East my daughter pointed out a very strange looking group of flying objects that were very close to the edge of the storm. At first I thought it might be a flock of birds but after seeing how far away these objects were given that they were hovering just above the next mountain range over it became clear to me that these objects would have to be extremely large to be viewed from such a distance. When I looked at the cluster of objects with a pair of binoculars they looked metallic when the sunlight would hit them just right. There were no wings, no navigation lights, and no propulsion equipment. These were indeed metallic orbs I was looking at. The group of objects hovered and fluttered in a very random pattern. I called my girlfriend over, she was inside working on her laptop at the time. I didn't say anything to her about what I thought I was looking at, I handed her the binoculars and told her to look at the objects. She seemed pretty stunned when she observed them, she saw very clearly that these objects could not be explained by any conventional explanation. They stayed there for quite some time, maybe 15-20 minutes give or take. The objects eventually started heading North East until they were beyond my vision from the view point I was standing at. In the video I noticed that there were also multiple rogue UAPs flying around. The first one can be seen starting at the 0.29 mark, when it comes out of the clouds and moves quite fast in a Z pattern descending towards the ground. This object eventually went bellow the tree line and out of site, it's possible it could have made a landing somewhere in the valley. At the 0.46 mark you can see another rogue UAP come in from the right side of the camera and it ascends for a little while until it starts to level out and fly straight heading towards the cluster of UAPs that can be seen off and on throughout the entire 59 second video. I stopped filming the video because I did not know how well my camera was picking up the objects and wanted to get a good look at them before they disappeared. Now after watching this video on a widescreen monitor and a stretched out 1x1 aspect ratio or a full screen stretch (this video was filmed in portrait mode so proper adjustments need to be made to see everything) I noticed that there was way more happening than I had initially observed. I truly do feel like me and my family witnessed something very incredible and out of this world. I put a dropbox link below to ensure the full resolution of the video can be seen. This will be my second encounter with UAP's and this is the first time I have observed them in broad daylight. I do hope that someone will look at this video very thoroughly, thank you for your time. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tm3d0gfuc93gsmm39wtkw/Screen-Recording-2023-07-26-at-3.11.46-PM.mov?rlkey=ig95vbmlhb5v9rdc6hp7pins3&dl=0 Objects are visible at end of video.
July 3, 2023 · 10:26 AM · SPHERE
Timnath, CO
Please note, the image is only to convey the location. I was unable to capture the actual objects, and I think the marks in this photo are a reflection. Someone else must have seen this since it was broad daylight, close and right above the road. My friend who was driving was as surprised as I was when I pointed them out. They were like three circle or spherical shapes flying in kind of a triangle shape. She says she saw something that looked like it could have been connecting them, so it could have been one object. They did not look ordinary, whatever they were. It was too hard to see if they could be drones, or birds. I tried to get a video but sadly must have hit the stop button when trying to zoom in. I did snap a picture of the location. Strangely—while I thought I was recording the video—I could not see them on the iphone screen, though I could see them in the air still. I may have just zoomed in too far. I did get a picture of the road so the exact location can be determined and I'm hoping maybe someone else saw it / recorded it, or can check if there was drone clearance or something in the area.
July 3, 2023 · 5:04 AM · DISK
NYC, NY
Video taping Central Park and played back the video to discover one bright fast moving orb and another faint one a half a second later. This was at 5:04 am Difficult to see in video, very faint.
July 3, 2023 · 3:45 AM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
I’m a licensed attorney and actively practicing law This wasn’t a plane, satellite or shooting star. I was awake, my wife was told immediately. She was also awake beforehand.
July 3, 2023 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Monroe, WA
I was walking for exercise on long deck outside, facing a full moon to the south, behind trees. Above my right shoulder I suddenly saw a very bright "star" -- a little larger than Venus and much brighter -- shoot across the sky (north to south) and disappear behind the trees. During the few seconds it was visible, it stayed exactly the same size, shape and brightness (no flickering out, no trailing or streaking) with uniform speed and a perfectly straight path parallel to earth. Normally I would assume it was a "shooting star" but its brightness was more like intense LED white. I have never seen a meteor display that type of white light. Also that it didn't vary, flicker, or burn out, or leave a trail. It just disappeared behind the trees. Although it was very fast, it seemed slower than a meteor. It seemed to last too long. [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Possible]
July 2, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Elizabethtown, PA
My wife and I were sitting on our back patio on the evening of July 2, 2023. As we were sitting and talking casually amongst ourselves, at around 9:45 the “motion” light on our backyard shed turned on. It immediately caught my attention as it’s roughly 30-35 feet from where we were sitting. My wife’s car is parked a couple of feet in front of the shed where the light shines off the front left side. At first I didn’t really think too much of it but I continued watching for just a moment. Then very quickly, I saw a very short “being” run from behind the shed out past a gap and behind the car from our perspective. Its skin color was a very tan looking color. It was barely taller than the hood of the car, which is a small sedan. So roughly 3-3 1/2 feet in height. Its body was small and slender and its head was bigger and more rounded. Its eyes were huge and took up most of its facial space. The eyes were black and very shiny. I could see two eyes looking towards me as it ran by like it knew we were sitting there. I felt as if we made eye contact as it ran by and I was genuinely left speechless for a moment. Immediately after it ran behind the car there was a flash of green light what seemed barely 15-20 feet in the air and that was it, it vanished into thin air. We never saw anything else and were honestly so freaked out we came back inside. After initially seeing the being’s eyes and the feeling that I saw them so clearly I felt like I had made eye contact with it. I had an overwhelming feeling of emotions and my eyes didn’t stop watering for a while. We couldn’t talk about anything else the rest of the night. Every time I even thought about the instance I got instant chills and still felt like I could see them so clearly in my memory. This is a first time encounter for my wife and I and really felt like it needed to be reported somewhere. Thank you for taking the time to read.
July 2, 2023 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Rapid City, SD
About 9:30-9:40 pm, as I was looking south at the rising full moon in a clear night sky from my back porch, I saw a bright white light cross the sky, coming toward me from south to north; it passed over my home and continued north to slightly north-east. It was moving fast, steady, level, bright and silent, and was not as high as airplanes usually are. It was of the brightness of a car headlight, but not as large. I called my husband to come, but it was gone before he could see it. We went into the street to look for it. As we were, we both saw two more lights appear just under the star Arcturus, which was fairly high in the sky to the south-west. The first light was heading east and a second was following behind it from a short distance. Again, both lights were round, bright, steady without flashing, moving fast and silent. They were more like the surrounding stars in brightness, and further away and less bright than the first light that passed over our house, and they were travelling faster than the airplanes that I commonly see overhead. We are in the flightpath of airplanes from the Rapid City Regional Airport, and planes are common sights and sounds. We are also two blocks from our city's hospital and under the Life Flight helicopter's path. These were not airplanes or helicopters. The second light was appearing to catch up to the first when it suddenly took a fast 90 degree turn to the south. The turn was smooth and tight and the light did not slow down. As it was turning, the first light came to a stop and hung there for almost half a minute. It looked remarkably like one of the background stars as it did. Had it not been moving, I would have taken it for a star. The night, at that time, was crystal clear. We soon lost the light that turned south into the distance, and the first light resumed its eastward course. We were able to keep eyes on it for almost half a minute before we lost it in the glare of the full moon. However, as it resumed its course, it seemed to slow and speed up a couple of times, as well as to swerve once, as though something were in its way. We saw nothing, but there was a definite change and then correction to its course. We went inside and my husband checked the flight path of the ISS. It was reported as being in Florida at this time. I have seen these same kind of lights several times in this same part of the sky over the last few years, but this is the first time that someone has been with me as a witness. I am a night person and I love the night sky. I look at it often and am interested in the stars. I am not a UFO person, but a curious person as to what it is that I so often see. My husband mostly humors me, he would rather be inside watching tv, but last night he was disturbed by the two lights that he saw. These lights have always been the same round, white, bright lights that don't change shape or size, that move quickly without sound and that don't flash. They resemble stars and when they are not moving, they are difficult to notice. During the last full lunar eclipse visible in my area, which I observed in it's entirety from my driveway, I also observed two of these lights. They were stationary on the southern horizon, and I was puzzling because I didn't recognize what stars they were, when they both began to accelerate straight up into the night sky. I watched them for a full minute as they crossed paths and disappeared. It is my opinion that they can remain unnoticed when they are stationary, and once they move, they are visible for such a short time that there is nothing to do but watch and be amazed. I personally look up, I keep an eye to the sky because I love the ever changing aspect of the sky both day and night. I always have, and so I see things most people don't simply because they don't pay attention. I think there is more to see that we are aware simply because we don't look. I am also an artist, and I look to everything with an artist's eye and because I want to see. Because I look, almost 20 years ago, I had an opportunity to observe a round, front-lighted, metallic object about the size of a basketball cross low over the roof of my neighbor's house and continue west until I lost it. It could not have been more than 20-30 feet from me. It too moved steadily, on a level course, silent and unflashing. I don't talk to people about it because I am tired of being made fun of, but I think it was significant. It was not a drone. It had no visible propulsion or wings or tail. No intake or exhaust. It left no wake or trail. It was dead silent. I don't know what it was or why it would have been in a small neighborhood in Rapid City, South Dakota, but it was. I would talk about it to someone who didn't make fun of me, though I don't know what that would prove. It came and it went, there was no time to grab a camera, no time to draw attention to it, it passed with a sense of purpose and was gone. It did have to navigate it's way around several trees as I watched. I have no idea what such a thing could be. But had I not paused for a moment to look up, I would never have known it was there. Our backgrounds. My husband is an honorably retired member of the USAF. He's not particularly imaginative and couldn't care less about things like UFOs. I am college educated, had my own graphic design studio, am an active artist of realism, not a sci fi fan, am interested in almost everything, and I am a Jehovah's Witness. My faith places a very high priority on honesty and most in it are very conservative. Few would even consider the possibility of such a thing as an UFO. For myself, I am simply a curious person interested in the beauty and complexity of this world who keeps her eyes constantly open. If anyone believes me enough to want to talk to me, that's fine. What we saw was not ground shaking, but real. The straight-traveling lights could be passed off as anything, but few things can stop and hang in the sky, or execute such a perfect 90 degree turn as they did last night. I do think, given the odds of seeing what we have seen, that there must be a lot more up there than we notice.
July 2, 2023 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
Vandergrift, PA
I thought it was odd so I took a video of it from inside my apartment. I tried to run outside to continue but when I went out there it disappeared behind the storm clouds.
July 2, 2023 · 9:30 PM · DISK
St. George, UT
Flashing lights that changed colors. We watched it for about 40 min. It only moved slightly while we were watching. We looked at it through binoculars and it did not appear to be anything we had ever seen before. Interesting video.
July 2, 2023 · 9:25 PM · DISK
North cape may, NJ
I recorded this UFO. I was watching a storm with my family at the bay when a craft zoomed across the sky and then over top of us. It looked florescent yellow to the human eye and on tape it looks like regular white color. It came out from over the water and then as I flew above my head I fell to the ground a few moments later. (Not sure from the craft or from shock)
July 2, 2023 · 7:05 PM · SPHERE
Montgomeryville, PA
There was an urgent tornado warning happening, so my adult son and I went out in the backyard to take a look at the sky. There was darkness to the west where the storm was approaching, but as is typical with this kind of storm, relative calm on the other side of its front. There was an obvious object off to the southwest, very distant with a vapor trail, descending from the sky, quite far away. I immediately pointed it out to my son because it seemed odd, and we watched. The object was bright -- at some points, extremely bright. It did not have the appearance of a plane, but rather, a tiny ball of light at the tip of the vapor trail. It's hard to tell if it was falling or not; for a time I thought it was a meteor. I wondered if it was the sun reflecting off something metal (like a plan) but the flare was so bright, it exceeded any expectation of sun reflection, even though that in itself can be quite bright. While watching, I noticed a different object, much closer but high in the sky, and a bit to the right (closer to the storm off to the west). This object was NOT moving -- it was more stationary; it gave the appearance of floating. It seemed metallic and round; that's about all I could make of it. My son also acknowledged seeing the object when I pointed it out. Then it went away -- I couldn't see it, but he could. He continued saying he could see it, but I couldn't find it anymore. But I could still see the original trailing one. Then we both remarked that our eyes seemed to be seeing all sorts of strange things; we figured it was from staring into the brightness for too long. But, it must be said that this 2nd floating object was very distinct and not a remnant of brightness or anything like that. In the checkboxes below, I'll say that the object emitted other objects, in this respect. (i.e., the bright one with the trail, and the separate floating object). Eventually the trailing thing also just sort of dissipated, and it was over. I think it was about 2 minutes or so of observation.
July 2, 2023 · 1:34 PM · CIRCLE
Abo ruins near Belen, NM
Silent. Brief. Could not recognize
July 2, 2023 · 1:19 AM · OTHER
Probable conventionalCoalinga, CA
My son and I were driving on I5 south. We were currently on Coalinga that time. We came from Arizona and was driving to Tacoma WA. While I was driving I saw lights that suddenly appeared on my left. It looked like strobe lights but very faint. I thought they were fireworks at first. I then saw a very faint outline of what I could only assume was a craft. It looked like something invisible but you can still see the shimmer and the outline so you know something is there. Then all of a sudden it materialized and 3 very bright lights came on. The lights were so bright they looked like spotlights you can see from afar. Then as suddenly as it appeared, the light turned off and the craft flew directly in front of my windshield then went to the passenger side. Please note that I was driving at 90mph during that time. I woke my son up and he started recording it when it was on his side. When it flew past my windshield I saw that it was a grayish brown in color and from what I saw did not look like metal. It was some kind of textured material. I would say it looked like some kind of "skin". I might sound crazy but it looked like the skin of a dragon. Also for some reason, it looked like it was flying at a 45 degree angle. Like a plane with the nose up. I may be seeing things but that's how it looked to me. For background, I am a nurse and I work for the health department. I do believe we are not alone but I am also very skeptical when someone says they saw a ufo. My son works as a service advisor and has the same outlook as me. So when I tried telling my friends and family about it, it felt like I was making it up. It was a very frustrating feeling. And made me wonder to myself if I was seeing things. So when my son finally started recording, the craft was on our left side. It was flying very low and had so sound or any exhaust that I can see. It turned a bit towards us and the three bright lights came on again. To me it looked like the lights were at the end of long tubes if that makes sense. After the lights turned on, it slightly turned and just disappeared. My son told me that he saw the underside and it looked invisible. Like when something is being cloaked but you can still a distortion or a shimmer around it. There was no sound and the way it was moving looks like it had no trouble going in any direction at all. There were other cars on the highway but they far from us. But other cars must have seen the very bright lights that came on twice. From the video it looks like an aircraft of some sort. But from our perspective, it looked very different. I am reporting this in case someone else saw it so I wouldn't think I was seeing things. As for my feelings during that time, it did not feel threatening or dangerous. It felt curious to me. Both my son and I just wanted to get home quickly and were not even thinking anything remotely about ufo's. So it wasn't that we wanted to see something that wasn't there. If it was a ufo then it was really cool we saw it. If it was an aircraft or drone of some sort, it was still cool to see the advanced technology of drones today. There is a Naval air base in the vicinity. Likely training exercise. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
July 1, 2023 · 11:23 PM · RECTANGLE
Avenal, CA, CA
While driving southbound on I-5, I observed three bright, round lights moving in an intriguing manner from east to west. These lights exhibited a unique pattern of ascending, descending, and turning horizontally towards the right side of my Tesla. This event occurred between 11:22 PM and 11:25 PM, during the dark night. Among the lights, one was positioned ahead of the other two, which appeared closely aligned. Suddenly, all three lights disappeared and then reappeared and started moving northbound. The object was flat, long, and gradually became transparent as it merged with the night sky as it was descending. Throughout the sighting, the flying object exhibited various directional movements and vanished abruptly. However, it reappeared in mid-air, descending smoothly into a field west of my location. Eventually, the lights disappeared into the trees. Notably, no sound was emitted by this rectangular aircraft. The entire event lasted approximately two minutes, during which I managed to capture some video footage on my phone, while my Tesla's dashboard camera also recorded the incident. Feel free to contact me for my Dashboard camera recording as the file won’t upload onto this report
July 1, 2023 · 10:42 PM · CIRCLE
Quincy, IL
I saw it land my family owns a decent size property in landed and this thing came out tall it was walking with a limp but the limp would switch between legs as it walk it’s mouth was huge almost as if it was unhinged from its jaw teeth small but so many of them it started walking blankly in a direction slowly then stopped slow turned it’s head and stared directly at me it then made a crackling sound almost like a firework that sparkles it started to walk towards me but stopped walking towards me it look as if it had no eyes but it did as it opened them it had 3 eye orange with what I saw and orbs as it’s pupils it then I don’t know how but I understood it it had me feeling a way that I was in distress but at the same time in a harm hopeful place a place where I was calm but it was almost talking to me and it keep repeating you are not alone I veiw you and another it said bugs live under your skin peel the open open your self to my fate it soon walked back to its ship and flew away so fast I couldn’t keep up I ran back to my house but didn’t say anything to my parents I have adhd and I was scared they’d think I was going crazy but I know what I saw it was real life I cried the rest of that night and I know what I saw was real it was no dream or be going crazy I was scared and this thing is out there weather it be no longer on earth it’s out there
July 1, 2023 · 9:57 PM · CIGAR
Eden Prairie, MN
I was walking my dog down the driveway and a UAP appeared in the Northern part of the sky heading South directly at my house and camera. It turned abruptly west and flew past my camera and directly behind me. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
July 1, 2023 · 9:33 PM · CIGAR
Shenandoah, VA
I was recording my neighbors fireworks and a green light cut across the sky, I checked the recording and the object appeared out of thin air glowing green then shot though the clouds into the sky moving some clouds in the process. It appears and is gone in one 10th of a second when I watched it frame by frame on the recording. [NUFORC annotation: Fireworks - Possible]
July 1, 2023 · 9:13 PM · FORMATION
West Orange, NJ
We saw glowing white lights overhead in a V formation floating by silently. The V shape seemed opaque in color, like you could see through it. The shapes stayed together in that formation as it floated by us overhead. There was no sound. I thought it may have been satellites, but they were not in a straight line. I took a photo that catches some of those light’s going by.
July 1, 2023 · 9:12 PM · SPHERE
Woodridge, IL
My husband and I were sitting on our patio and suddenly we start seeing these pulsating, red and orange orbs flying over our heads. It looked like fire in the sky. At first we thought they were drones. But they kept coming we knew they couldn't be. As they flew over us, we saw they were all flying to a specific location. Our experience was amazing.
July 1, 2023 · 8:57 PM · CIRCLE
Probable conventionalMilford, IA
Staring a bit north at dusk, in a clear part of the sky. Object seems unmoving, though it could be very slow. Shape unchanging, appears mostly circular. Silver, white, reflecting light from the sunset? [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
July 1, 2023 · 8:50 PM · SPHERE
Marion, IL
While doing runway inspections spotted crafts to the west toward the town of carterville/ Carbondale moving horizontally to the north then upward into clouds. There were 7 total objects but my camera only could pick up 2 of them the rest could only be seen with the naked eye. No air traffic on local freq or on ADSB Weather METAR at the time reported METAR KMWA 020155Z AUTO 17005KT 10SM SCT050 OVC060 24/24 A2985 RMK A02 T02370235
July 1, 2023 · 7:08 PM · SPHERE
Denver, CO
This was a metallic orange orb moving steadily and silently as low as 500 feet to over 2,000 feet above ground level from west to east, with gradual ascending and descending movements. It also appeared to either emit light or reflect sunlight irregularly, even though there was steady sunlight coming from the west. It was visible for many miles, and as it moved eastward it ascended to an altitude and location consistent with the routes flown by commercial and military aircraft in the Denver International Airport vicinity.