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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
June 25, 2023 · 4:28 PM · CIRCLE
Portland, OR
My husband and I saw a small white object flying overhead traveling south/SE to north/NW. it was small, circular and white and was going pretty fast. It did not make any noise like all the planes we hear overhead.
June 25, 2023 · 1:30 PM · OTHER
Newport Beach, CA
Very visible at first, then went higher and higher until it disappeared. It stayed in a formation of 8 bubble-like objects with a short "tail". It was very clear at first (on the beach between 18th and 19th street). When I first saw it it appeared over the ocean and was very clear. It moved higher and higher and then disappeared. I watched it for about 10 minutes or so. I kept looking around to see if anyone else noticed it because it was really clear at first. But it seemed like people were just enjoying the beach and playing ball, etc. Unfortunately, it was a day that I didn't have my phone with me. I wanted to relax and "unplug" so I left my phone at home.
June 25, 2023 · 4:43 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBismarck, AR
String of lights ad no cell signal. Phone was scrambled wouldn't work at all. When the lights disappeared my phone worked fine. I called the wife to see if she saw anything too but she couldn't see the lights. It was right over me while I was fishing on the lake a little after 4 am. I was also alone, normally I am not but was this morning. The object was a string of bright lights but the string was the length of a football field. It really scared me. The sky was very dark bc expecting rain today. They were white lights. I also attempted to take a photo but my cellphone wouldn't do anything at all. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
June 25, 2023 · 4:30 AM · DISK
Manteca, CA
It was a disk, bright with blueish light surroundings, dissapearing as soon as I was able to identify it, quickly gone, no track.
June 25, 2023 · 12:38 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalGautier, MS
On Jun 25th at approx. 12:38am I observed an extremely bright light in the sky traveling extremely fast. It was heading Northeast. I caught a glimpse of it for a couple of seconds and knew immediately it was not a familiar object. It seemed to be flying rather low in the sky and was brighter and faster than anything I had ever seen. It resembled a shooting start with a tail following behind it which could have been from the sheer speed of which it was moving. It was clearly not a plane, nor was it the reflections of headlights in my windshield. It was a UFO. [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Probable]
June 25, 2023 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Poole Town Centre, -
I was observing the sky and I noticed two stars were really close to each other. Roughly two inches apart. One of the stars then disappered and was replaced by a bowl shaped object that was flying in all directions at such high speeds I couldn't see it move.
June 25, 2023 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING
Austin, TX
We went for a night swim in our pool around midnight. We were looking at the stars when I saw a really bright star in the middle of a triangle of more dimly lit stars. Then the bright “star” slowly started getting bigger, fast enough that I didn't have time to point it out. Suddenly it was about half the size of a full moon, but it still looked like a fuzzy star, just bigger. Then a beam of white light shot straight up out of it. The beam of light was very thin, crisp looking, not hazy. It just shot straight up out of the big fuzzy star like orb, then the whole thing immediately vanished.
June 24, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Longview, WA
Blue Light was flying straight from northerly to easterly direction nearly colliding with another object that was a blinking white light traveling in the opposite direction then the blue light object turned into a white light and continued on toward Columbia river. NO SOUND
June 24, 2023 · 10:35 PM · CIRCLE
Dennison, OH
I saw three small very fast moving white balls of lights changing around in their flying formation in ways that’s not possible for planes. There were no blinking lights. They came immediately after fireworks almost as if checking it out. They moved around different parts of the sky coming in and out by seeming to disappear and then emerging somewhere else. These orbs are something we occasionally see here behaving very strangely like this.
June 24, 2023 · 10:22 PM · CHANGING
Morrison, TN
While working night security . I was looking in the southwest nighttime sky I noticed an orange and white light pulsating and moving left to right for about 3 to 5 seconds. After about another 4 minutes I looked out in the same southwest direction the orange and white light was no longer in sight.
June 24, 2023 · 9:31 PM · LIGHT
Salem, VA
Sitting on our back porch we can see NW across the Blue Ridge mountains. It was sunset and there were dark clouds. We usually can see planes or even rarely comets, but there was a red light flying eastward, but then stopped. Turned white then red several times, and jets do not stop, change directions and hover. It also went higher and then circled back and forth about two times, then it just disappeared. I could no longer see it. I told my wife it was a drone, but she thought it was too far away, since it seemed to go in and out of that dark cloud ( the light would come and go as if it was going through the cloud).
June 24, 2023 · 9:16 PM · OVAL
Loganville, GA
I saw a fairly bright orange oval shape object traveling west to east in Loganville Ga. For me the object was only visible for about 20 secs until it went behind a tree line, there was no change of direction. My city was hosting an early fireworks display which started a 9:30pm I saw this object approximately at 9:16pm. It did not resemble a firework and there was no sound, also I thought maybe it might have been a meteor, but it did'nt resesemble a meteor that I have seen. There was no trail, and I have never seen a bright orange one. I have seen starlink and even the space shuttle on a clear night but neither were similar this. I would welcome in plausible explantion.
June 24, 2023 · 9:15 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalPrescott Valley, AZ
The objects were a line of approximately 7 to 10 pulsating lights arranged in a straight line. The spacing between the lights was not uniform. They would pulse of and on, then disappear completely for several seconds before reappearing. They reappeared approximately 6 times before completely disappearing. They were almost due north about 20 degrees up from the horizon from my position in my hot tub. They were moving very slowly from west to east and were never all illuminate at once, although I did observe more than one light illuminated at time, perhaps 3 to 4 simultaneously. The string length was maybe 5 degrees and the lights appeared white to the naked eye. The sighting lasted for approximately one and a half minutes before disappearing completely. They appeared to be quite high in the atmosphere. You should be able to confirm the date, time and location to determine if this was a indeed a starlink satellite. There did not appear to be any rocket activity. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
June 24, 2023 · 9:14 PM · CYLINDER
Rural Kirkwood, IL
A cylinder shaped object flashed across the sky on my phone video I took. The object made a slight curve change in direction and the colors changed when I enlarge the video and slow it down. Moving at a very high rate of speed!
June 24, 2023 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
El Centro, CA
Approximately 45 minutes after sunset I was sitting in my front yard enjoying a cup of coffee and a pleasantly cool June evening. I was sitting under a large Indian Laurel tree that gave a clear view of a sizeable amount of sky between branches. It was a cloudless and clear night. The crescent moon and Venus were brightly lit to the west (my right). I was facing south looking up at the sky about 80 degrees above the horizon. I live approximately 12 miles from the Mexican border and this object was most likely operating in Mexican airspace. I often do this looking for satellites or space debris and occasionally the Space Station (I have an iPhone app I frequently use that identifies the debris being observed but I did not have my phone with me this time). While looking at the sky (there were two small stars visible) I observed what appeared to be a fast moving satellite moving west to east. It was just a point of light, about the same size as the star that was visible. It was at a very high altitude and moving very, very fast. I observed it for a few seconds with the intent to watch it until it went out of sight when it suddenly made an incredible u turn, reversing course in literally a second and returning in the direction it came from. I lost sight of it about 5 seconds later as it went behind tree foliage. No aircraft I know of could make a u turn at that speed and survive! My Background: I am a 68 year old retired Supervisory Special Agent with the Dept of Homeland Security. I am also a former Police Officer and a 9 year veteran of the US Coast Guard where I served as a Search & Rescue Aircrewman in both Fixed and Rotary Wing aircraft. For 7 years while serving as a Special Agent I conducted investigations of drug smuggling involving private aircraft. I am very familiar with various types of aircraft and their performance. This isn't a very exciting report but one never knows if reporting it supports other sightings. I do have a fairly strong, but skeptical, interest in UFO related information. The recent 'disclosures' by the government leave me wondering what the 'end game' is what such disclosure is benefitting. I do know what I saw, according to modern physics, should not have been possible.
June 24, 2023 · 6:45 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalCoupeville, WA
I was in the car, my friends and I were driving back from paddle boarding in penn cove, towards Boon Road. I was looking out the window and saw what I thought was a plane. It was white/greyish and it was flying the same direction we were going. It was a cylinder-like shape and it was tilted slightly up, I genuinely thought it was a plane. After four seconds of looking at it, it disappeared extremely fast. It was there and then it was gone. It was blue clear skies, there was clouds up ahead but not close enough for the craft to disappear into. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
June 24, 2023 · 6:45 PM · OVAL
Seattle, WA
I observed suspicious aircraft ~6:45 PM 6/24/2023 northeast of Seattle. I was located on my patio in the viscosity of the ferry terminal in downtown Seattle. Objects observed as being northeast of my location, eventually traveling south of my location. My initial concern was that they were weather balloons floating towards SEATAC / Boeing in the path of aircraft. I took a 3x telescopic zoom video (iPhone 14s) of the objects wherein they maintain similar positions and relative distance to each other, but observed them off camera to drift, and then nearly contact each other. They appeared to have an aura/halo that persisted as they moved south in the general direction of Olympia, and eventually disappeared. One object remained visible for ~20 minutes after the other was no longer in field of vision. I did not see either object disappear from sight - but lost contact while adjusting my recreational telescope. I was able to use my telescope to observe the object in greater detail, and successfully sighted both objects with a clear view. I observed what appeared to be two undulating, elliptical shapes (iridescent, mainly orange and purple) with distinct attached tendrils / trails. My first thought was that they appeared organic, resembling jellyfish, but appeared to be visibly and uniformly energized / glowing. I did not count at the time, but recall 3-5 trails, roughly 1/5th in size relative to the elliptical shapes. Trails/tendrils were not a wake, and appeared attached to the overall shape. Given their height relative to commercial aircraft flying overhead, they appeared to be very far away (safely above commercial airlines flying past Seattle at cruising altitude, not ascending/descending). Objects remained relatively stationary overhead for 10-15 minutes, before traveling in the direction of Olympia. Objects did not appear to lose altitude, or maintain any particular course/velocity. Objects were moving quickly enough that 10x telescope view could only keep objects in field of view for ~10 seconds before requiring readjustment. They appeared to be moving in a coordinated manner, but appeared to separate / end coordination as they began moving in the direction of Olympia. Second observer was also able to view the objects through the telescope, and can provide separate corroborating account. Both observers are early 30s, gainfully employed, established professionals. Both have masters degrees in their field, and professional credentials/certification. Oddly, I lost complete cell phone service for roughly 5 minutes, and called the non-emergency police using WiFi. I was located in my home at this time, and have never in 2 years had my phone enter SOS mode within my home.
June 24, 2023 · 3:23 PM · SPHERE
Parker, CO
I saw a shiny, metallic orb flying in a straight line several thousand feet above a neighborhood. It was clearly a spherical object and not an airplane or helicopter. I tried to better position myself but when I looked back up 2 seconds later, the orb was gone. In the video I made, I noticed there was another, similar object flying in the opposite direction. There were no flares, lights, emissions or sounds, at least from what I could tell. It looked like a shiny, metallic ball flying in a straight line at relatively high speed. I have a video of the incident as well.
June 24, 2023 · 4:09 AM · SPHERE
Joshua tree, CA
At around 4 am my partner and I were sitting by our fire looking at the constellations and saw a white orb floating with the wind that was low. It was bright and a yellowish white. It was floating south west to north east. We live in north Joshua tree. Near the military base. It was going direct south west to north east. It was going with the wind but also like it was heading to the coordinates. Directly towards the base. We are close ish to the base
June 24, 2023 · 4:00 AM · CYLINDER
phoenix, AZ
first seen inside - thought it might be a reflection of something in glass. Got outside in 10-15 seconds and it had moved from 70 degrees high to 50-ish high. Disappeared behind mountains (at 15 degrees high) about 15 seconds later
June 23, 2023 · 11:23 PM · DISK
Chelmsford, MA
There was large fluorescent green sphere/disk shape, hallow in the center, falling from the sky into the treeline. At first I thought it was a shooting star until I realized how big and how bright green it was and I started yelling for my son to turn around to see it before it disappeared. It lasted about 15 seconds before disappearing into the tree line in the distance.
June 23, 2023 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Wheat Ridge, CO
At 10:45pm looking directly west down 49th avenue I saw a very bright light about the size of a golf ball. It looked to be about 40 degrees high and maybe a few miles away. It was so bright it had an aura of light around the outer rim. it shined in the center like crystal or glitter in spots the bottom was rounded and had 5 very small diamond shapped lights around the bottom. I turned to get my mail from the mail box and when I turned around there was the very large white light in the west and also a very large craft in the sky at approximately 49th avenue and kipling st., wheat ridgo, co. The base was a half circle with a verticle bar from the center (almost like an anchor) and looked to be about 50 to 60 feet tall and tilted 15 degrees to the north for the 1st minute and 30 degrees to the north afterward. On the verticle stem it had horizontal white lights approx 10 feet across. There were approx 15 rows of white lights from top to the base. The base was a half circle with the top 2/3 a red light and the bottom 1/3 rounded edge navy blue light. The rows of white lights would flash on all at once, the go off. Then the white lights, red and blue would all light up at once. Then the lights would go off all together. This object went from approximately 49th and kipling north to approximately 68th and ward road in arvada, colorado. I was not able to see it after that. When I looked back for the large white light in the west, it was gone. No sound heard
June 23, 2023 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Lamy, NM
It was a clear night sky. There was a line of maybe 10-15 lights that looked like stars (not Starlink I looked it up) but I’ve looked at the night sky long enough to know they weren’t. They were stationary but tilted at an angle. We kept trying to figure out what it was then all the lights slowly started moving East (still tilted up at and angle) It was like they were lights on an object and it did have a distinct saucer shape vibe. It moved for a few seconds then the lights just disappeared.
June 23, 2023 · 10:20 PM · DISK
IdentifiedClines corner, NM
We were out camping. It was really bright at first and had multiple colors then it just disappeared it was huge in the sky it was one but it was giant. We noticed a round thing attached to the lights. Our dog acted really strange after it left. Didn't want to eat or drink anything. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]