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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
May 27, 2023 · 8:21 PM · SPHERE
Huntsville, AL
Out with friends at Bar Vista at the AC Hotel- downtown Huntsville, AL- took a picture from the bar patio on the 2nd floor. Took the picture toward the west.
May 27, 2023 · 2:30 PM · CIRCLE
Edmond, OK
The object had yellowish white lights. It was about midday, so I don't think it was a satellite. It was moving slowly at first but then accelerated.
May 27, 2023 · 9:35 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalPANAMA CITY BEACH, FL
Alot of lights in a line moving pretty fast and disappeared one by one in a few seconds [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 27, 2023 · 3:20 AM · LIGHT
Barrington, NH
Outside having a smoke. Saw a bright light heading south right along the big dipper's handle. Brighter and faster than a satellite. Blocked by tree shortly after end of handle. 2 seconds later, another one just appears mid handle and heads East for about half the handle's length and quickly fades, thought I saw very dim altered direction/speed. That was it. Seen/reported unusual lights of this sort before. This was unique. I could swear there was a small bit of red next to the bright white light. Definitely faster and brighter than satellite.
May 27, 2023 · 1:19 AM · LIGHT
Tobay Beach, Massapequa, Town of Oyster Bay, NY
I was driving, my partner sat in the passenger seat beside me. The sky was clear but there weren’t too many stars visible. Something caught my eye as we were talking: an oblong orange shape was suddenly visible in the sky in front of us, just left of center of our field of vision, maybe 30 degrees above the horizon. It gradually brightened as it appeared, like a slow flare, but constant in shape, speed, and utterly silent (the windows were down), and it traveled at a speed that, at the time and in recollection, seemed too fast to have been a plane or a drone, but far too slow to have been a meteor. It travelled upwards on a diagonal for maybe 5 seconds, give or take, before it gradually dimmed as it disappeared. I took the next turn-around and wondered aloud about the possibility of an aircraft practicing for the upcoming Memorial Day Air Show. My partner noted the time, 1:19 am, not an hour that one would expect such practice flights to take place. There were no other vehicles nearby. Object left no trail and the light source never blinked or flickered and had no discernible haze. Encounter was too brief to accurately estimate the object’s speed, size, or supposed distance from our vehicle, but we both got the sense that the object we had just seen was considerably larger than a drone, but likely smaller than a commercial jet. It certainly was not fireworks. I have not heard or seen any other reports on this event, though my resources are limited and I’ve never done this kind of thing before.
May 26, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Allendale, MI
Bright white light, (brightest by far, like phone flashlight) first seen straight overhead in black skies. Could see all stars planes and satellites clearly. Light was airplane height. It literally sashayed left and right like someone was paddling a canoe. I pointed it out to everyone. 2 of us saw it clearly. A 3rd saw it just as it turned off. It turned off just before passing under? an airplane. "Sashay" was slight but noticeable with a pause between each forward motion.
May 26, 2023 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Nicholasville, KY
The lights following each other we're not right next to each other but fairly close when watching them from a distance. Right after we could see the last ones a huge meteorite Fireball dropped from the sky to South but dropping fast.
May 26, 2023 · 10:03 PM · FIREBALL
Streamwood, IL
I was sky watching for scheduled ISS crossover. Some thin clouds. A Red streak with wide (hazy?)signature crossed in front of path of the ISS. It raced across for maybe ? 3 seconds then I couldn't see beyond trees to know if it was viewable longer. I noticed it at aprox 65-70 Degr high it 'appeared' from West headed NE. moving much faster than even the ISS. While ISS appears to 'arc' in the sky, the 'Streak' actually seemed possibly closer to earth and appeared to move more parallel to horizon than any meteors Ive seen. The ISS was on its way, arcing 'up' and crossed the Red Streaks' path aprox 30 Sec to 1 minute after It (red streak) had already transversed the area and out of my line of sight. Im thinking maybe it was space junk burning up or a meteor (tho Ive never seen a red one) Im reporting this because I saw another strange thing in conjunction with the ISS about...5-7 ?? years ago (that I did not report) where an 'object' was trailing the ISS across the (evening) sky staying a constant, even, distance behind it, (for at least 5-10minutes) clear as the ISS itself, but appeared to be smaller. I was on the phone with a friend who witnessed the same. We were about 21 miles apart - watched and commented to each other over the call until ISS was out of sight. I didn't report, assuming it was garbage from the ISS (?) Then, sometime later I saw a few reports about 'objects' following the station. So, now Im wondering about that event, and curious about what I saw tonight. Could very well have been junk or a meteor I guess. I didnt find any meteor showers listed to happen tonight. Just wanted to report this, see if anybody else saw, and to see what you all think.
May 26, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CYLINDER
Edison, NJ
Hi like to report a craft cyl shaped coming next to a major Highway rte 1 in Edison. Nj craft was silent no jet noise observed fo 20 mins or so craft had a central bright. Light flanked by two dim yellow tan ones it also seems to emit a dull whitish vapor when near my perspective checked my time and looked up it was gone. Craft was less than 1k. Ft high and path took it over major mall duration was 20 mins had to be. Views by pilots to for in landing approach of major NYC airports too Thanks
May 26, 2023 · 9:55 PM · CIRCLE
Yakima, WA
I was outside and I saw what I thought was a plane as I always see planes in the air, but this was not a typical plane like I usually see. It was an orange round light slowly moving across the sky, no sound and no blinking. I watched for about 40 seconds and it looked like it slowed then stopped and then vanished. I waited for about three to four minutes looking into the sky, but I did not see it anymore. Who knows how long it was in the sky before I noticed it. And where did it go? Most importantly, what was it? This is not the first time I've seen unusual objects. Me and my partner both witnessed something strange. A handful of years ago in a place where we use to reside at, I was awakened to a strange sound in my kitchen, so I quickly glanced out from our bedroom and I noticed a red orange what looked like a fireball in the center of our kitchen, and it just vanished. While also there, we noticed strange lights moving in the night sky, I think I still may have a video of it somewhere. My partner also has seen a silver cigar shaped object in the sky kind of behind a cloud during the day as we were driving. I also have dreams of seeing UFO's, there are always lots of them with lots of lights, flying everywhere and it's always during the day. The dreams never change. And I always experience loss of time. Even while I am awake. Connected? Visitations? I'm not sure but it's kind of bizarre.
May 26, 2023 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
Wesley Chapel, FL
While driving home, we saw a flashing green and blue ball of light falling from the sky. It was probably about the size of a car. The light sphere seemed to be rotating as it was falling. It fell behind a tree line and we could no longer see it.
May 26, 2023 · 9:20 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalHueytown, AL
Around 9:15-9:20 my kids were outside stargazing. I came out to check, at that exact moment I heard them say “what is that?” I looked up and there were about 10 or more star sized lights in a straight line headed maybe southeast. I ran inside to get my wife,came back out and they were still there. I looked at my wife as she laughed not believing us or looking up, a plane came by from maybe the northwest area and then the “lights” disappeared. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 26, 2023 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Probable conventionalVALLEJO, CA
Object was rectangle, looked similar to a shipping container, but larger, it moved perfectly across the horizon from noth to south. It was a dark color, brown or black. It was clearly not a plane or drone, there were no wings or lights. Possible advertising banner being pulled by an airplane. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
May 26, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
San Francisco, CA
While exercising my dog with a friend, I looked out over the bay near Alcatraz Island. I saw what I initially thought were balloons released. There was a scattering of about 15 black spots, possibly spheres. Most were in a scattered pattern and there was a clump of several. The objects were moving all together, from West to East over the bay. My friend and I started hypothesizing what we thought they were. We had several minutes to observe them as they moved across the sky. We dismissed the idea of balloons because we thought there looked too large from our vantage point. They moved all together and it seemed unlikely that the objects were propelled from the wind as they kept a random but distinct shape the whole time. It was not particularly windy that day but it could have been stronger at altitude. I watch the sky often as I enjoy identifying birds. San Francisco has had many more birds of prey in the area since the COVID lock downs. I am in the habit of looking up often. I'm also interested in aviation and like to note the various helicopters and aircraft in the region. This sighting looked nothing like any air craft I've seen before. No sound was made either. It's possible these black objects where man made, we couldn't rule it out. We just thought it odd that these objects looked distinctly round even at a distance of about 1.5 miles out. I estimate the distance at 1.5 miles b/c Alcatraz Island is also about that distance and these objects were not far past that distance.
May 26, 2023 · 6:45 PM · CIRCLE
Detroit, MI
It was like 25 to 30 white dots high in the sky. Looked like stars was out in the day time. They were moving around and looked like they were in a formation of some sort.
May 26, 2023 · 4:50 PM · SPHERE
Watsonville, CA
My son and I were in our backyard when he saw a bright circular object in the direction of the moon. We thought at first it was maybe a planet although it was daytime . We watched the object with our naked eyes and binoculars for over 30 minutes moving east slowly away from the moon across half of the sky until we could not see it because of lower clouds. In the binoculars it looked like a white shiny ball or disc. The airline traffic appeared much lower so I would say the object was many miles above 30,000 ft. which would make the object rather large. My wife and daughter also watched with us after we told them what we were doing. The picture is with an iPhone zoomed a little . It was more impressive when looking through the binoculars. Please let me know if anyone knows what this was. Thank you
May 26, 2023 · 3:10 PM · OVAL
Seattle, WA
Object was jet black, cashew shaped, orientation, longer up to down. Top sw side was shining white light, likely due to sun placement but odd because the sun was already towards the west side of the object. 3:10 pm . Headed east, slightly south. I'd say from Seattle, roughly 110 degrees on a compass. Object between size of a car and a normal bus. I was driving half way on the floating bridge i90, headed west towards Seattle from mercer island about 3:10pm. About 50-70 feet from the Mt baker tunnel, it disappeared. Just gone. I was interested and turned around by the stadiums, I took the exit, and saw in my rear view it was back and absolutely in the same area. But when I was able to turn around it was gone once again.
May 26, 2023 · 12:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Bradenton, FL
There appeared to be fifty or more. At first my son and I Thought they may be drones. They were very high in the sky and moved like a swarm and changing direction together. They were not birds. They were metallic appearing and we watched for about ten minutes before leaving the area, which was over a housing development. I took videos and made screen shots from the video. I am a former educator with an advanced degree and my adult son, who is highly observant, was with me. We pulled over to observe these objects.
May 26, 2023 · 10:23 AM · CIRCLE
Henderson, NV
At approximately 1023 AM while walking northwest along Canyon Village Parkway near Mint Orchard Drive in Henderson, Nevada I had just completed my morning jog when I observed an extremely bright red flash in the skyline just to the east of Black Mountain towards Las Vegas. I then witnessed what appeared to be a round metallic object continue to flash in an extremely bright red light similar to a welding torch. I thought at first it may have been an aircraft reflecting sunlight as the sun was to my back, but it remained stationary approximately 3-5 miles due northwest at about 45 degrees above the skyline just to the east of Black Mountain from my location. It continued to flash brightly for a couple of minutes. There seemed to be no pattern to the flashes. After about 5 minutes, I then witnessed two bright white orbs appear from the east and west of the flashing object. The two orbs were smaller than the first object and stopped to each side adjacent to the flashing red light. The orbs were illuminated in a very bright white light and remained solid in color. After five minutes, all three objects disappeared. There was no sound and I could not tell which direction they went as they just seemed to vanish. As a military veteran, I have no explanation as to what these objects could have been. I definitely know that they were not any aircraft or any balloon.
May 26, 2023 · 12:05 AM · CIRCLE
phoenix, AZ
At about 00:05 hrs in Phoenix, Arizona, from my kitchen window I saw a red & green lighted object acting unusual to the west of my house near 44th Street & Indian School. I grabbed my iPhone and went out to my back yard to video it. I was probably over 2 or 3 miles away at a 20 degree angle above the ground to the west of my house. My wife, Jacque, came out also when I grabbed my iPhone and told her there was an unusual light flying to the west. I also saw and filmed a second object which I only saw for 10 or 15 seconds. The object seemed to be rotating and giving off a green and red light. It acted erratically when it started to move and was able to descend and accend at a fairly fast rate which told me it was not a normal aircraft and was not a helicopter because of the speed of vertical movement. I am a private pilot and very familiar with aircraft lights and motion. We frequently see aircraft flying near by because of our proximity to Sky Harbor Airport 3 miles directly south of us. Both lights shot downward and out of sight after about 5 minutes.
May 25, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Mosinee, WI
I’ve seen these fairly regularly (once a month with me skywatching 30 min a day) but only one I’ve been able to catch on camera. Noise in video is from nearby highway. I’m ex military and live by an airport, so very familiar with different types of aircraft
May 25, 2023 · 10:18 PM · LIGHT
Laconia, NH
I went out waiting for pizza to be delivered and figured I'll see if Venus was still out then I happened to see this light at first I thought was Venus but it was moving and at a pretty good clip I took some video and tried to get a zoomed in Pic but nothing that shows actual shape or even that it was moving after I took a 27x zoomed photo I tried to get a Pic at 50x zoom and the light had turned off and it was essentially gone also had no blinking lights and no sound associated with it at all. Now I'm just an amateur skygazer but this is the second time I witnessed something out of the ordinary and I had the pizza delivery person with me
May 25, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Bloomsburg, PA
Looking up I saw a really bright orb (brighter than stars)moving slow and steady across the skyline about airline altitude but noticed no noise , no flashing lights like a airplane would have at nite , so I called her out and we both just looked at it while scanning the sky we could see to the north airplanes with lights flashing on their usual routes,we could see this thing gliding across the sky in a route that planes don’t fly near our house was as quick as u turn your head it was gone just kinda went a little dimmer light and object got long thin and vanished within seconds!!
May 25, 2023 · 9:09 PM · CIGAR
Tower City, PA
I’ll send u a pick