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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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December 7, 2023 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Fairfax, MO
At approximately 8:40pm I saw an orange light at approx 20 degrees elevation at heading due west at 270 degrees. This orange light was as bright as the star Sirius in magnitude. Beneath this orange light another orange light moved from 5 degrees from the left to 5 degrees to the right of the stationary orange light. This orange light was about 5 degrees below this stationary light. Time taken for this light to travel was about 10 seconds and then it faded out. A few seconds later the stationary orange light faded out. Between three and five minutes later I saw another orange light ten degrees off of the horizon rise in a curve to the left approx ten degrees above the horizon and fade out. 90 seconds later starting in the same location another orange light rises again in a concordal curve and fade in the same place as the first. This happened four times total every 90 seconds. From my location at night I can see planes leaving from Omaha and Kansas City. Omaha is north northwest of this location 90 miles away and Kansas City is south east from this location 100 miles away. The only commercial airport in the direction of sighting is Denver but at 600 miles the distance to horizon is too far to see air trafic from there. Weather was clear and 54 degrees.
December 7, 2023 · 8:09 PM · LIGHT
Wellfleet, MA
I observed bright lights from multiple locations in wellfleet. The lights would get more intense the closer it got then dim out and disappear while other lights reappear. I’d usually see three at a time. Sometimes appearing stationary or slowly moving until dimmed out then gone. I’ve consistently observed these types of lights these locations on clear nights the past few weeks [NUFORC annotation: Boats - Possible]
December 7, 2023 · 7:20 PM · RECTANGLE
IdentifiedRehoboth Beach, DE
On the evening of Thursday, December 7, 2023 at approximately 7:20 PM, I noticed some objects that appeared to be moving and then they disappeared. My son used the Iphone technology to enlarge one shape and you can clearly see a Triangle of coordinated light. I did not hear anything and whatever it was has been posted to NextDoor in Northern Virginia and DC and 10,900 people have not been able to figure it out. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
December 7, 2023 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Mill Valley, CA
15-20 objects moving east across the sky
December 7, 2023 · 12:33 PM · FIREBALL
Memphis, TN
I hope this email finds you well. My name is MichaelMcKinney, and I am writing to bring to your attention a peculiar occurrence I observed in my backyard yesterday. At approximately 11 til 2pm, I noticed a strange object in the night sky beaming down from above. The sighting seemed unusual, and I thought it might be of interest to NASA. While I understand there could be various explanations for such phenomena, I wanted to report it in case it aligns with any ongoing observations or investigations. Please find the attached videos for your reference. I appreciate your time and attention to this matter. Thank you for your dedication to exploring and understanding the mysteries of our universe.
December 7, 2023 · 11:05 AM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
After seeing numerous orbs in this area in 2022, this is only the second sighting of them in 2023. I checked my apps like Flight Radar to confirm it was not a plane or weather balloon. I am guessing it was floating above at about 2,500 feet. It stopped momentarily above me, then continued on. I have a bit of footage of it on my iPhone, but i had my dog on a leash pulling me around. I was unable to get in my house in time to grab binoculars, so for this sighting, video is all I have. The orb was identical to other orbs I've been seeing every once in a while. There was absolutely no sound, and there were jetliners to the left of it at a much higher altitude. This orb was glowing and spinning. I wonder in anyone else in North Columbus saw it?
December 7, 2023 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Roberts, WI
I stargaze often and know the constellations to a ok degree and upon looking up I noticed something in the sky looked out of place. Upon focusing my eyes and eliminating the rest of the lights you could very well see the silhouette of a triangle shaped vessel. From my perspective the vessel looked as if it was lowering its altitude and would increase multiple times. It would also rotate clockwise or counterclockwise. Never rotated it's axis. It was simply there. After a while I suddenly starting hearing animals from other properties acres away and even wild animals all howling together which spooked me enough to run inside. While inside I could still observe the vessel. Upon viewing it from inside, I realized not only was there one vessel but 2. The second one was so massive it made the first one look small.
December 6, 2023 · 11:50 PM · FLASH
Pearland, TX
I have spent the past couple years doing my meditation outside and (earthing /grounding to help deal with chronic pain and depression). About a year and a half back i started seeing in the night sky, flashes of light here and there mostly above 45 degrees. Some would but dim flashes some would be quite bright much brighter than jupiter or venus. sometimes while the flash was blooming it would collapse and be followed by a short streak of light. Or there would be several short flashes in a row then nothing again. or nonlinear flashes.. I am a ham radio operator and used to tracking satellites.. At first I was thinking some could be written off as iridium flares, other satellites rotating etc.. Maybe some kind of star explosions? But the flash streaks I couldn’t explain.. Back then I had no way to capture what I saw as my camcorder couldn’t really see stars very well unless zoomed way in and my cell phone doesn’t really see stars well either.. Too bad because back then I could almost set my watch by the sightings as they were very reliable.. I was fairly sure they weren't satellites as they happened pretty late at nite or at all hours at nite.. From 8:30pm to well after 3:00 am in the morning. So they would have to be really high orbit satellites and probably pretty large to put off that much light. Also most of these sightings all pretty much clustered around arcturus. Fast forward to current time, I recently aquired a nite vision monocular, inexpensive, but it sees the nite sky very well.. Not super high definition but quite well. So now I have a tool.. But the flashes in the sky have been almost nill. Or so I thought. So during my meditation time and stargazing periods, I would occasionally pull out the monocular and just scan the sky. On Dec 6 I saw my flashes again.. Only not in a visible spectrum.. Had my binoculars with me and verifies I could not see visibly with magnification. I hit record and recorded . The camera creates 3 min vids then starts another vid etc. so I got like 4 vids of the object totalling maybe 11-12 min. In the constellation of orion, just above and to the right of the orion nebula and slowly moving to the left.. Over that whole time period, I figured if I hold my hand at arms length, and hold up 1 finger, the object traveled basically the width of my finger or maybe 1 degree of arc.. So it was most likely in very high altitute or in space. The blinking was interesting to me as it was usually two dim flashes(pulses) followed by 1 really Bight flash(pulse), and kept repeating. Being in the IR range, I don’t think it would be nav lights of anything I am aware of other than possibly military. Or maybe some type of propulsion system? My IR can see in black and white or it also has a mode where some of the IR colors can be seen thus you can see some of the color in the nebula and the colors of the flasshes are like a dim yellow red orange and the bright flash is usually very white.. I uploaded the videos to my youtube channel to an unlisted channel not for widespread sharing at the moment, but for the purpose of reporting. Https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh1otXudAlzhyMGOdhNC6xajELwKDuNHQ&si=NeD2wfcSv6NBqOUt This is the Monocular used - ESSLNB Night Vision Monocular 5X40 Night Vision Infrared Monocular with 1.5" TFT LCD Take Photos and Videos Playback Function 16G TF Card Digital Night Vision Scopes. I did not use any zoom. I have worked in Aviation for about 12 years and am familiar with numerous aircraft and flight cgaracteristics.. I live in the flight path of a major airport and also familiar with aircraft flight characteristics on approach and take off and sounds etc.. As well as many of the different nav lights , landing lights etc. Im not an expert but quite familiar. I captured the object again on december 7or 8 a nite or two later in Orion near the nebula but moving up and to the right.. It was cloudy so only got one short vid which I may add to the youtube ones.
December 6, 2023 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Red Lion, PA
Second sighting same location. Pulsating light. I grabbed binoculars and it looked like something flew of from it. So I grabbed my dslr and telescopic lens. This is what I saw. It appears to be very far away from me and hovering in the same spot
December 6, 2023 · 2:00 PM · DIAMOND
San Diego, CA
Out walking dog, saw bright flashes in the sky. Took a couple of videos and still photos but can’t find the object in the still photos. Hard to discern the shape. It almost looked like flat mirror spinning. San Diego. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
December 6, 2023 · 11:59 AM · DISK
Melbourne, FL
Was in my work truck heading to my very last stop at Dustin‘s barbecue off of Wickham Road when I saw the object seemingly suspended in place, not moving in any apparent direction. Filmed the object for approximately one minute to show its immobility before it seemed to Shoot off directly away from me before disappearing in a small flash of light.
December 6, 2023 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
I sighted an object that has a body like a small helicopter . It has a long smoky tail and it was moving smoothly westward in a vertical form and there was no any sound or noise. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
December 6, 2023 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Lawler, IA
I stepped outside with a colleague to have a cigarette and noticed a couple of lights off to the distance that seemed out of place. I watched them fade in and out and move up and down at a high rate of speed. After seeing this I cut my co worker off mid conversation and asked if he was seeing what I was seeing. He looked and saw the same thing. A moment later the two lights turned into four and seemed to be flying in some sort of formation but were fading in and out then got really bright before fading out once again. This went on for roughly 45 minutes. There were eight people who witnessed this event. Was really fascinating. The lights seemed to pulse then slowly fade out of existence. They would loop around one another and then seemed to be stationary before fading out of sight. Then moments later be miles away and do the same pattern again.
December 6, 2023 · 1:36 AM · SPHERE
Latexo, TX
I stepped outside to enjoy the night before going to bed. While standing on my porch stairs, with our dog, I noticed a very bright orb object to the west just above our storage container. I continued to watch it as it morphed into a 5 point star form and split into two seperate orb/star forms while moving from west to east, and then becoming stationary. The dog then hit the door full tilt trying to get into the house, and i noticed thst the only other thing i heard was "whooshing" in my ears and feeling my heart beat. I reached behind and opened the door to let the dog in and called for my bf to come out and see what i was seeing. When i looked back the orbs had become one again, but closer. my boyfriend then grabbed our binoculars to tske a lpok and saw that they were still TWO orbs but very close together to look as one. When i looked through them, i saw the same thing. They never moved again, staying stationary so we went inside. The dog refused to go back outside.
December 6, 2023 · 12:48 AM · CHEVRON
Austin, TX
Standing outside of my 12th-floor patio in my apartment building, I witnessed something approaching from North Austin with no visible lights (it was past midnight). Knowing this did not match commercial flight routes I had seen previously, I watched it fly almost directly overhead me in a south or nearly southeast direction. The first thing that came to mind was a stealth bomber like the B2, but I wouldn't understand why it was flying so low with no lights. I could clearly see the Chevron shape in a light grey tone, but couldn't discern whether it had a full triangle that was black or a darker color. I watched it fly above me for about 30 seconds, where once it got above I removed my headphones and heard no audible noise. At one point, I almost believed the front of the object changed shape from being a straight-angled Chevron, but I couldn't say this for certainty.
December 5, 2023 · 5:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Payson, AZ
I was driving on AZ-260 near the RX wildfire, heading towards Holbrook. I looked to my left and saw a triangular shaped craft hovering in the smoke with lights visible (before the 260 Trailhead turn off). There was no noise such as propellers, jet engines, or helicopter blades. The craft didn't move but remained stationary. I later drove back in an attempt to get a picture but by then it was gone. I later heard a propeller driven plane at 6:10 PM but am not sure if this is related to my sighting.
December 5, 2023 · 5:25 PM · SPHERE
Saint Paul, KS
So idk what's happening in my small town, since the end up September. I've seen anything like this before. So ever single night orbs every I mean left going all different directions all different sizes and heights. They only come out very early like 545 to about 7 PM. After that they hardly show themselves. I go outside look up in just seconds I see them. They legit post as Stars. Your see a Star as you look for more then the a star you just looked at, starts flying threw the night sky. Damn military planes.ars flying over every day and night. How do I know cuz flew next each other and right at each other. I thought they were gonna crash at times no joke. Now theses a huge UFO thats.flown right over my house 3 times seen it 4 times. This is no orb. It's huge the speed of it I can only compare it moving a Lazer it's that fast. No sound either nothing. This thing was low too. Triangle/dimoamd shape..you could only see the outline of the shape of the craft it's self. 6 to 9 very dim Green lights made the outline. Last night the lights were circling the Craft it's self as it flew over us.. we've seen Star Link fly over our town 5 times in last 2 months. I think that's very weird giving that I've only seen that once before 2 years ago. So yea I need a documentary crew out here lol I can't get any of this on my phone camera [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
December 5, 2023 · 5:36 AM · OVAL
Santa Monica, CA
There were five lights high above the Pacific not moving. One had rotating lights. Seemed too high in the air to be drones.
December 4, 2023 · 10:45 PM · FLASH
Corinth, NY
Looked up saw blink flash appear then it was gone
December 4, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Dunkirk, IN
I'm an old guy. Was watching TV and noticed a stationary round white light to the N-NE out of my east facing family room window. Didn't really think much about it, thought it was an airplane or helicopter. It disappeared. Seconds later it reappeared and was closer-about 100 yards in the same direction, however it was larger. That's when the white beams of light came on. It was obviously night-time and the lights were so bright they illuminated the entire woods. They weren't normal search type lights-they moved to fast. At this time I went outside for a better look, it was gone, it was dead quiet. No helicopter and airplane sounds. This happened in about a 20 seconds. I guess it might have been an aircraft, but I've never seen anything like this in the past. I believe it was a UFO because there was NO sound at all. I prefer my name not used. You can contact me if this is a legitimate UFO sighting.
December 4, 2023 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Lorain, OH
Shortly after walking outside to smoke a cigarette, I felt like I was being watched, so walked to the rear of my driveway, looked up and noticed a small, slightly illuminated, approximately 5ft wide, spherical cloud floating around 23 to 25ft in the air above the front portion of my backyard. The object appeared to be stationary until observed and briefly spoken to (when I initially spotted the object I said aloud "What are you doing?") At this point, the object slowly (about walking pace) circled above my house, then continued circling around the front of my house, circled above the driveway which I was standing on, circled above the home of the closest neighbor to my left, then back around to the rear my the driveway, then proceeded toward the front of the drive, before vanishing directly above my head. While circling over both house, the lower portion of the object was obscured briefly at the peak of each respective house, which verified my approximate observation of it's height. I walked from center to back, then back to front, then front to back, and then directly under the object as it changed direction east, in order to maintain unbroken observation. To be clear, I have no indication that the object left the area at this point, it simply became invisible to me. It was entirely inaudible, and when stared at directly, no hard lines, shapes, edges or color variations could be observed. I passed my hand through my field of vision while observing the object without any change in it appearance, in order to rule out the possibility of hallucination or optical illusion. This occurred at night, and the weather conditions were cloudy, but my side door has a soft light. No neighbors were present, and no vehicles passed by during the observation. No possibility of abduction, as no time was missing, the object appeared too small to take a person, and no bodily effects were observed during or afterwards. I am an Air Force Veteran, who served on an active flightline for an overseas long tour at Ramstein Air Base during the height of OEF/OIF as an aerospace ground equipment mechanic. Honorably Discharged. During the observation I was under no impairment, was of calm mind and entirely awake. I made no attempt to photograph or record the object, since it was acting subtly, potentially covertly above my home and those seemed like actions that might be interpreted as hostile.
December 3, 2023 · 11:59 PM · LIGHT
Memphis, IN
At midnight a witness saw a very bright white light approximately 50 yards from his house. It was so bright he couldn’t look at it long at a time. He took pictures. It lasted about 3 minutes. It was in a rural area in between 2 houses in a wooded area.
December 3, 2023 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Davenport, FL
Me, my children, and family, were swimming when I noticed it first after looking up. I thought maybe I was seeing things until I looked at my sister in law and said- Did you see that or am I crazy? There were two orbs that were going in circles chasing each other kind of, I’m not sure but they were moving so fast in the sky it looked unreal. It looked nothing like a normal plane or aircraft going by it moved WAY too fast. By then it went away for a few minutes and I told everyone by this time- even the neighbors came out and saw what ever was moving at the speed of light. After about half an hour there was no more sight of the orbs.
December 3, 2023 · 8:25 PM · DIAMOND
San Cristobal de las Casas, CHIAPAS · Mexico
I was walking down Guadalupe Victoria St. Heading west, from the central plaza area. Looking to my left, I glanced at a radio tower decorated with many rows of vertical colored lights for X-mas. Then, a brightly glowing amber object caught my eye. It seemed to be stationary. It was too big and oddly shaped to be a star. It was too slow to be a plane and too close to be a helicopter, because there was no sound. I realized that it appeared stationary, because it was slowly moving the ssme direction I was (west).I stopped walking and realized it was moving in relation to some power cables in front of me. The entire object glowed amber, but bright street lights prevented me from verifying the exact shape. The gendral shape of a diamond or an oval - but from top to bottom, not side to side. After about 2 minutes, it looked similar to a bright star, except for its bright amber glow. By then, it had floared, or drifted closer to the mountains and street lights further down the street blacked out its image. It was at a 15 degree angle in front of me when it became no longer visible. There was no fireworks show tonight as there was 10 days before, nor any exploding bottle rockets ( which locals claim are chur h related). The bottle rockets don't stay aglow. They only explode. The object was a glowing object, not a mass of sparks. It maintained a uniform shape till it headed due west, beyond view.