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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.
27,433 entries
September 3, 2023 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Grantham, NH
At first it was just one big red light and it wasn't moving. I thought it was a bright planet, so I took out my nightsky app and it was not showing up. So I keep looking at it, trying ti figure it out. And then four more appeared. They all lined up from left to right in a diagonal formation, and then they started moving around up and down and seemed to be forming patterns. This went on for about 15-20 mins. I fortunately found a neighbor at the very end, who at the end saw just the one bright red light and he watched it go poof...just disappeared. The other red lights all traveled to a spot in the sky, and one by one they disappeared into that location.
September 3, 2023 · 9:13 PM · LIGHT
Manahawkin, NJ
One stationary bright white light in the sky, took off northwest at an extremely rapid rate (much too fast to be a commercial flight) north west. The light had a long bright white trail and then the light and the trail disappeared from the sky at the exact same time
September 3, 2023 · 9:04 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBrooklyn, NY
"My wife and I were on our rooftop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when my wife noticed a string of lights high in the sky, moving rapidly. I exclaimed, "Wow, I think that's Starlink!" I quickly reached for my Sky Guide app and opened it, but to my surprise, Starlink did not appear on the app. Just as the lights passed directly over our heads, they began to vanish one by one, disappearing into the night sky, very near the star Rastaban. Intrigued, I immediately went downstairs and checked the Starlink tracker, only to find that Starlink satellites were nowhere near this part of the planet at that time." Even though Sky Guide and the Starlink Tracker did not indicate anything, this sounds very much like Starlink. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 3, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalWalnut Creek, CA
I noticed a line of approximately 20 perfectly aligned star objects moving south to north over my house. They were at a very high altitude similar to a satellite but moving at a faster speed. I called my wife out of the house and she witnessed them also. The transit lasted about 1 minute before going away. I have seen satelites passing overhead before but nothing like this. We really did see this. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 3, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Ocean city, MD
I was on my boat looking at the stars and I saw this light that was moving very fast and I thought it was plane then relized it disappeared and didn’t have a red and green light on each side or flashing. It almost looked like it was camouflaging as a star.
September 3, 2023 · 8:32 PM · LIGHT
Smryna, DE
My wife and I were traveling, driving on rt.1 North, outside of Smryna, Delaware, and out of nowhere on the opposite side of the highway,in a wooded area and over trees, was streaking a green light, but then it faded out. I asked my wife did she that and she said yes. We wanted to make sure it was no flare. She agreed that it was different. [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Possible]
September 3, 2023 · 7:06 PM · LIGHT
Port Macquarie, NEW SOUT · Australia
Moving extremely fast from north to south, nothing detected on flight radar or star map
September 3, 2023 · 4:26 AM · LIGHT
Arlington, WA
I woke up around 4:15-4:25am to feed our cat. Went to shut a window my daughter left open since it was getting windy out. I look up to the right and see this light that I thought was possibly a plane or helicopter until I saw no other lights on the craft. Couldn't see the craft either as it is too dark out. But I told my daughter to look at it and tell me what she saw. She is skeptical but she did agree there were no other lights on the moving light just the one solid light moving at a steady pace high above the trees but definitely was not a satellite. I don't really know how else to explain it...
September 3, 2023 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Saint Louis, MO
Looked up after getting off work at the night sky admiring the bright full moon and witnessed lights appearing out of thin air a few formed triangles. These lights were not FAA lights with the typical red and green flashes. These lights appeared out of thin air and blinked. As I gazed more and more, even more lights appeared. I do believe I genuinely witnessed an incident. I seen strange things before and tried to get insight into it but no leads. I truly believe we as humans have been visited and are continually visited by an advanced biological entity. I have countless experiences of what I seen over the years. What happened at the small Missouri town during an outdoor football game truly secured my personal research. I know they exist and they may very well be living amongst us humans. I do not have physical proof but will be working on getting that taken care of. I know this is very wordy but I know what i saw over these years and no government entity can tell me otherwise. Please take my inquiry as serious as a stemi.
September 2, 2023 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
New Orleans, LA
A friend and I had just packed up our kayaks after paddling on the bayou St John. I was shaking my friend's hand good evening when I saw behind him two bright white lights. They looked to be less than a mile away above City Park, coming toward us; roughly the width of a commercial plane's wings if it were very near. The lights were unblinking which is why I pointed it out to my friend. As we stood watching and wondering what aircraft had those lights, the lights rose together and appeared to be banking like a plane then phased out as if they flew behind a cloud bank. I could still see stars where the lights disappeared so there was no cloud. There was no engine noise of a commercial jet. We stood and watched to see if they would re-appear and that's when I saw two separate, unblinking lights on the horizon above City Park that raised and faded out one after the other.
September 2, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalNatural Bridge, VA
23 Lights traveling at an estimated elevation of 3 to 4000 feet all in a straight line following each other. No blinking lights, no formations and NO SOUND. Lights traveled from north to south in a straight line. Lights were separated by a short distance allowing me to count each light. No trailing lights, no flashes, no up or downward movement. Intensity of lights were that of a 100 watt light bulb at 20 feet. Each craft had one bright light. Viewing these lights occurred on a clear night in warm temperature, no obstructions such as trees, housing, power lines etc… I used binoculars to view as well as the naked eye. No camera available. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 2, 2023 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
New Rochelle, NY
I often see airplanes in the sky out my window (close to major NYC airports), and I know what they look like. I was in bed looking out my window tonight when I noticed 3-4 small orange lights spanning the sky. I initially thought it was just airplanes in formation, but they kept coming from the lefthand side of my window (some from high up, some from lower), much closer in succession than airplanes should be. At one point, two even appeared to merge (or get close to it). I have lived here for a while and never seen anything like this. I took a video in which at least two actual airplanes are captured amongst these lights, and they stand in stark contrast. There is more than one blinking light, I can see the shape of the airplane silhouetted, and they follow a clear, straight, predictable path. These lights kept appearing for at least five or more minutes, gradually either blinking out or going too far away to see, and then stopped coming as quickly as they appeared. So strange! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 2, 2023 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Antelope, -
White orbs floating in random flashing and moving slowly. 9 orb looking objects some would dissappear and re appear. It was cloudy and no other stars were in the sky. Very bright light. Took video of it before it disappeared.
September 1, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedChesapeake, VA
I was outside when I noticed something that looked like an airplane pulling lights behind it. I then watched as it got closer and all I saw was a long line of lights and the lights seemed like it was attached to a football field. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
September 1, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Granton, WI
I stepped outside around 7:00 pm (still broad daylight). My wife was 2 steps behind me. I looked up in the sky and a light was flying through the sky at tremendous speeds like that of a shooting star. The light started out green, then turned purple and then orange. I told by wife to look and by the time she reached the door, it had instantly disappeared. This all happened in less than 3 seconds.
September 1, 2023 · 8:30 AM · LIGHT
Colorado Springs, CO
There was an object south west of the sun shining just as bright, that almost looked like a star. It was reflecting the sun and I saw it transport across the sky to other locations as if it teleported rather than flew. It was at airplane height, and as two planes appeared to come down for landing (there’s an airport near by), the object seemed to disappear without ever flying away. I watched it in the sky for about 10 minutes.
September 1, 2023 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Ventucopa, CA
We were camping. I woke up at 4:30am and saw a large, bright craft at high altitude fly across the sky at the speed a bit faster than a passenger jet airliner, then it stopped in place for at least an hour. There were no trails or erratic movements. It was almost a full moon, so only a few stars were visible, but this craft was bright and highly visible, about 10x brighter than the brightest star. I watched it from within my tent for about an hour before I fell asleep. I was looking at it in a South-South East direction at about 60-70 degrees up from horizontal. In the course of the hour it seemed to move westerly at the same rate the few stars I could see, so it was stationary with cosmos and not the surface of the earth. Though it was at high altitude I took a photo and when zoomed in, it was fully lit up and oblong shaped, horizontally.
August 31, 2023 · 12:04 PM · LIGHT
Des Plains, WI
Driving on the highway there was a reflection in the sky. it looked like a flying object but it did not seem to be moving. the reflection from the sun was visible but no structure of the craft was visible
August 31, 2023 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Independence, MO
Noticed glowing pink luminous object appear, disappear, then re-appear. Checked starlink schedule online, did not find any visible starlink matching the time and date. These were mostly stationary, sometimes a single point, sometimes two close points. Most stars visible, no discernable cloud cover or lightning. Trained weather spotter and drone operator. Spotted from ground while at work on night shift, completely sober. Minimal luminosity to intense luminosity over a span of 1 second, maintaining medium luminosity for 5-15 seconds, then returning to barely perceptible luminosity for ~15-30 seconds. Have spent many hours outdoor at this location and time over the past 5+ months and have not observed similar phenomena.
August 30, 2023 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
St. Louis, MO
At 37000 ft. Over Missouri saw 3 to 4 lights rotating around each other. The lights would fade and dim. Tracked the sighting for 100s of miles. Also saw 2-3 shooting star like objects in the same vicinity. The rotating lights were east of the Big Dipper.
August 29, 2023 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
San Francisco, CA
Craft with two green and one red lights hovered, changing altitude and location several times at a high velocity. Video captured part of the sighting, including one high speed maneuver involving change of altitude and location.
August 29, 2023 · 7:33 PM · LIGHT
Aurora, OR
Saw steady bright light by the clouds.
August 29, 2023 · 5:25 AM · LIGHT
Polson, MT
I was outside going to the bathroom before I leave for work and noticed a really bright star. I thought it was kind of shimmering/moving but really couldn’t tell for sure. I said to myself on my way back to my camper that if it’s still shimmering that I was going to grab my phone and start recording. It really starts moving around and blinked once, when I start recording, I held my phone as still as possible. I think the video speaks for itself. I’m a simple person, live simple, don’t have much. I don’t do social media and never been on Facebook etc. Not the kind of person that takes pictures or videos of things.
August 28, 2023 · 8:47 PM · LIGHT
Key West, FL
I was riding a scooter back towards my hotel, after having dinner at the Hard Rock restaurant in Key West Florida. I was slowing down to approach a stop sign at the end of Caroline Street, at Whitehall Street. I did not have anything to drink that evening. Cloud cover was low over the entire island. I noticed a large, green light just above the cloud cover, moving very slowly in a North-West direction, towards the Navy Base on Key West. When the light got fairly close to the Navy Base, it abruptly changed course in a South-West direction and sped up to a near-subsonic speed, quickly disappearing over the horizon (behind trees and buildings). Immediately after it disappeared, at least 6 other people on the sidewalk along Caroline Street started exclaiming about the light and it's strange behavior, along with me. We all wondered about it for a while, then continued on our separate ways. During the entire experience, the UFO made absolutely no sounds - the abrupt change of course and speed did not appear to have any affect on the object.