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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
November 13, 2023 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Cumberland, VA
11/13/23 around 11:40pm, walking dog on farm hilltop, looking south east, a “meteorite” falls directly perpendicular, straight down from above, then makes 90* turn to the east, traveling horizontally ,just above the horizon. The trajectory was the shape of a backwards capital “ L”. The speed stayed consistent, did not change before or after the 90 degree turn. Like a pinball ricochets off of a wall. This thing moved very very fast in both directions. I was observing a twinkling star in the SE, and the object fell from directly above this particular star, traveling straight down, right into my direct view, making its turn below the star, zipping off to the east above the tree line, horizontally. Very very fast. So fast that by the time it turned and moved east, my eyes were still looking towards the twinkling star, and it moved east, out of my peripheral vision. I then asked Google if meteorites made right angle turns. I was surprised to see that they don’t in fact make those type of drastic turns. About an hour ago, 24 hours after this event, I just saw a news report of a “meteor’ seen last night in Minnesota traveling horizontally across the sky. The object moving across the sky in Minnesota was at a very similar distance above the horizon as the object I observed. It also had a similar speed. The news report didn’t mention which direction that object was moving. And the Minnesota event happens 4 hours prior to the one I saw here in central Virginia. There was no mention of the object falling first then making a right angle turn. But it was strikingly similar to what I observed in the way that it moved horizontally and fast. After seeing that news out of MN, I thought it would be a good idea to submit these details now, in the event that there were other similar events last night, or similar details yet to be reported from MN or VA. Based on what I saw, I would not be surprised if others saw the object in MN first fall towards earth and making a turn before streaking horizontally. The fact remains that 2 different strange and similar events occurred, 4 hours apart, and the one here in VA entered the atmosphere first traveling downward, then turning to the east. I didn’t hear a sonic boom. Im not sure if I would have been close enough to hear it had there been one. The news report from MN also mentioned that NASA doesn’t think it was a meteor in MN, which begs the question, what was it in MN? And what was it that I saw 4 hours later?
November 13, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Ione, WA
I was standing near a south facing window in my house in Northern Pend Oreille County WA. On 13 November around 11pm I saw three very bright Lights that looked like very bright “out of focus” stars in a horizontal line each was about 6 degrees spacing along the ecliptic in the direction of SWW. I thought for a moment that I should take a photo but realized the lights would not make a good photo. They did not seem to be moving. I debated on waking my husband up and instead went to bed. I told my husband about this the next morning and he mentioned that after looking on stelerium that Orion’s belt was in that area but it was not in a horizontal line. Jupiter was visible farther to the west. On the 14th and 15th I noticed military aircraft circling the area south of our house.
November 13, 2023 · 8:23 PM · SPHERE
Delta Charter Township, MI
Ufo night sky: camera footage
November 13, 2023 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Cheyenne, WY
At 10:20pm MT, I was the Captain operating SWA FLT 4900 MSP-DEN, we could see a light move up in the sky at a rapid speed and go from dim to a very bright light. At one time, we could see 4 lights come and go sometimes moving in a counterclockwise position.
November 13, 2023 · 8:02 PM · CIRCLE
Greensboro, GA
As the lights got closer the aircraft came into view it was large the lights were so bright I had to squint to see the aircraft it was large and very close to the ground as if it was landing. It was not spinning it was hovering the circle of lights was stationary under the aircraft. It did not fly away I was afraid to stop on the dark road.
November 13, 2023 · 6:51 PM · LIGHT
Nichols Hills, OK
I was driving in my car and looked up with a traveling/moving light caught my eye that was moving really fast. I looked up as I saw it traveling extremely fast in a Western direction. It was glowing blue in the dark sky. Just like that it looked like it just suddenly vanished.
November 13, 2023 · 6:05 PM · FORMATION
Longmont, CO
Initially spotted an an altitude of roughly 1000ft queue of 5 or 6 red lights following one another along a descending helical path (100 ft radius).
November 13, 2023 · 3:34 PM · TRIANGLE
Milan, IN
I was at work on a break when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked in that direction but only got a split second to see it because it flew behind a tree line. I knew then it was something unusual. I assumed it was a farmer's plane and kept looking to see it come out from the other end of the tree line. Instead, the object came out at a 90-degree angle. When I got my closest look at it, it was about 50 yards away from me. This is what I saw: it was flat, maybe 20 feet in width, possibly smaller, and about 10 feet in height, maybe shorter. It started to rotate in an unnatural way, and when it did, I saw that it was in the shape of a triangle, but in the middle of the triangle, there was another triangle inside that was see-through. The color of it, the best I could describe, is black as black marble and shinier than marble. It looked like all the material was one piece, like no rivets, no seams, just like the craft was made by one piece of whatever material it was. The sun reflected off of it. It made no noise, there were no propellers, no propulsion; it was just floating and rotating perfectly with no disturbance, almost gracefully perfect in its rotation. Then it continued to do that as it slowly flew away until I could not see it anymore, rotating gracefully the whole time. There were two other employees with me; they only witnessed the end part of it but could still see it rotating because I called them out to come look at this. I wanted to take a picture of it but I didn't want to take my eyes off of it and miss something. It started off to the right of me then took of slowly into the air directly in front of me then flew away
November 13, 2023 · 6:35 AM · UNKNOWN
South Brunswick Township, NJ
My mother and I woke up at 6:30 AM and stepped outside. I looked up at the sky to get an idea of the weather. It was perfectly clear and the sun was just barely risen. To the north travelling westward I noticed a small point of light moving too slowly to be a plane and also either too high or too small. I pointed it out to my mother and she noted that also there was no sound. I checked air traffic maps, satellite trackers, and even the position of the International Space Station. None were nearby at the time of sighting.
November 13, 2023 · 4:40 AM · OTHER
Patagonia, AZ
It lasted a few seconds and very quickly exited at what seemed like crazy speed out of my vision to the left. A vertical green rectangular shape. I thought a reflection of something and dismissed. 2 days later I heard 2 of our employees discussing “did you see that green thing monday morning”. Which stopped me dead in my tracks.
November 12, 2023 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Ann Arbor, MI
Bright large object with colored lights (blue white red) spotted on sky, lights shining with bright beams. At first , it was hovering in one spot and then started to rapidly move with erratic movements. Lights went off and object reappear on opposition location, very rapidly. The sound was very loud like a big jetplane.
November 12, 2023 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
La Grange Park, IL
While looking west at approximately 8:00 pm I noticed a light coming fast from the south to the north several miles away and fairly low. As it crossed my position in front of me I could make out a shape with two points of light at each end. It continued north and then made a turn to the east and appeared to circle to the south as I lost sight of it. The shape was moving faster relative to the planes in the sky as I am situated on a flight path to midway airport and o’hare. I have seen military jets up close and didn’t hear the tell tale afterburners.
November 12, 2023 · 6:55 PM · DISK
Nixon, PA
My husband and I were driving our family home from dinner at our parents. My husband exclaimed, “look at that!” I looked to where he was pointing and saw a red trail of light zoom off and disappear. It was a very clear night—you could see all the stars. It did not move like an airplane— it did a circular “swoop” before it disappeared. If it was a plane we would have seen it continue to travel off into the distance. My husband said when he initially saw it it was a green lit up object (half circle shape) that very quickly dropped straight down, and then jolted up (to make a “J” shape, before it zoomed off. When I saw it zoom off, it was red—-when he saw it, it was green. I have never seen anything like it. This was my husands second UFO sighting— he saw another years ago and it was similar.
November 12, 2023 · 6:50 PM · LIGHT
Prior Lake, MN
There was like 11 individual stars from when i noticed it. Looked like a bunch of stars but they were in a straight line in groups of 3s. It was a long line spaced apart, i would imagine several miles in distance from the first to the last one. They were bright like stars but appeared low as if they were floating in the sky. It was much higher then a tall voltage line but lower then an airplane. An aircraft flew in between 2 of the points and you could tell the airplane was higher in elevation. After the plane went by then the objects started disappearing 1 by 1. Then I saw a black image shoot straight up between where the lights were, like a shooting star with no lights but going up. Then when they all disappeared, a moment later there was a white flash in the spot where the line was.
November 12, 2023 · 5:44 PM · SPHERE
De Motte, IN
Three orbs of blue light flying in a rotating triangle pattern moving from north to south. Moving fast estimated 300mph, or faster than commercial jet.
November 12, 2023 · 3:19 PM · TEARDROP
Culver City, CA
I initially thought this was a guy using a jet pack wearing an all white wing suit. The shape was like the Christ the Redeemer Statue. I observed it from the 405 freeway between the 90 and the 10. It appeared to be over Culver City, Cheviot Hills or maybe South Beverly Hills from my perspective. It was hovering and then moved slowly straight upwards. Someone else posted a sighting of this same object but a couple of hours earlier than me.
November 12, 2023 · 12:30 PM · TEARDROP
Los Angeles, CA
What looked like a stationary point of white in the sky seemed to disappear and re-appear from site. How ever it was so small in view it’s hard for our eyes to focus on it even just seeing it seconds before. Originally I thought a single object was moving to slightly different points in the sky. But the last time I saw an object it very much slowly drifted across the sky. By the last time seeing it/them I believe it was a sort of balloon at high altitude. And I feel now thinking about it that there were 3 separate ones that went by during my observation. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
November 11, 2023 · 11:59 PM · SPHERE
Redding, CA
Descending blue orb appear out of nowhere, shined bright blue/white light, briefly intensifying. As it moved in falling arcing motion from left to right (west to East) across horizon (viewing north from south of object’s position), its light intensified and it had a short tail that appeared to be the same light as the orb itself, then it extinguished in the air.
November 11, 2023 · 11:59 PM · UNKNOWN
Seattle, WA
Did not see craft was in home when green blue light like a scanner came into home and all of outside too scary also saw something big floating outside home thru drapes .
November 11, 2023 · 10:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Slippery Rock, PA
While driving with my wife we both saw what at first appeared to be a large helicopter moving horizontally across the sky , it quickly turned and came straight at us and went right over head and we saw it plainly. It was moving like something out of a sci fi movie and was triangular in shape with what looked like a green and red arrow lights underneath. Definitely not a drone, helicopter or airplane. Just after we saw it my wife said , watch out for that deer crossing the road. It wasn’t a deer and we can both only describe it as a mix between a llama and a hyena. Don’t know if the two are connected but that’s what we saw. Was looking for a place to pull over to try to get a pic or video of the craft when we saw the animal then decided to just get the hell out of there. Rural road and we weren’t taking any chances.
November 11, 2023 · 9:36 PM · CIRCLE
Probable conventionalPittsburgh, PA
it's white and is larger than stars and is seen nightly between the hours of 9pm and 10pm est hovering over the building of moorhead tower apartments or across the street from the building; as you walk down the street, the object appears to follow you; when you stop moving it stops moving; at times it is seen hovering directly over the building; numerous tenants in the building have observed this and classified it as a drone of some sort [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Probable]
November 11, 2023 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Lakeland, FL
I was walking my dog with my son like I usually do around 9-10 pm and my son said “look dada” and he had pointed out a flying plane that you could see the red blinking lights and such and I’d say 4 seconds later, I looked away and looked up again and i see a HUGE triangle ship “gliding” across the sky. It was flying above the plane my son had pointed out and it was completely silent. The lights were bright in a perfect shaped “V” on the front of the triangle and it was flying about 78 degrees from the horizon so it was kinda above me. It was so big and I stared at it in awe and I had goosebumps and I felt happy as hell. Never in my life I have never seen anything like that and something that HUGE going across the sky and I say it was “gliding” because it did not move like a normal object. It seemed to go across the sky so effortlessly by just simply “gliding” on it. Lasted a solid 10 seconds max but that’s being lenient, it went across the sky really fast until it got out of my view across the top of my apartment building .
November 11, 2023 · 9:24 PM · CIRCLE
IdentifiedHighland Village, TX
9:24 PM Nov 11,2023 Highland Village Texas. We were driving home and saw these strange lights in the sky behind the clouds. We stopped and observed the lights from the side of the road for about 3 minutes. There was not the tell tale sign of a ground based spot light or laser from the reflecting on the clouds, but these lights were behind the clouds. The lights moved in a specific pattern. First we saw two lights and then it would dance in a shuffling back and forth revealing four or five lights approximately, then one or two sustained lights on the far side and then sequentially shine one light at a time around the full circumference of the craft. A full light cycle lasted approximately 10 seconds. We saw four such cycles. I estimate 12 - 15 total lights around the circumference, but I could not see the backside. Our friend observed the lights from a different location independently from us and sent us the attached clip, he was much further away from the lights than we were respectively and captured less than one full cycle. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
November 11, 2023 · 8:04 PM · LIGHT
Midvale, UT
I did not see these live. These lights were caught on my Ring doorbell camera and I noticed this four hours after it had happened. Four bright lights flying, no noise and fading one at a time and three of the lights were flying in a triangular motion. No other reports of sighting from local news websites.