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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
August 28, 2023 · 6:48 AM · LIGHT
Massillon, OH
I noticed a fast moving star heading north but it slowed down to almost to a stand still and flashed very bright light then continued to pick up speed and I watched it until it went out of sight. At first I thought it was a satellite but it was moving too fast then slowed down almost stopping then let off a intense flash then continued back to its fast speed. I could tell that this star like object was not in our atmosphere but was traveling in space.
August 28, 2023 · 12:40 AM · LIGHT
Cedar City, UT
Fueling at the BZI project west of cedar, I seen lights to the north, I started recording, something ran in front of my truck, flashing my headlights, I turned to record it, I seen the bright lights, and the first UFO. it was going south to north, then faded. I watched one after the other, coming left to right, then right to left. I got video of some of them, but editing here at home, my video was cut and not uploaded. The last time I seen them, I was in my truck, they pulled my electrical, and partially disabled my fuel pump. This time, as I was out of my truck, what was on the ground with me did no harm.
August 28, 2023 · 12:35 AM · LIGHT
Cedar City, UT
Something blocked my headlights out. I was recording lights I thought might be UFO'S, it turned out, Something was to my left, it was tall on all fours and ran as soon as I turned the camera to it. I didn't see the light above me to my left until then. They had already disabled my fuel truck twice in previous nights out there.
August 27, 2023 · 3:48 AM · LIGHT
Boulder, CO
I woke up to check the building my boyfriend owns and instead saw an intensely bright light move from left to right on the horizon. It lasted 10 or 15 seconds and went in a very straight line. It did not look like a shooting star it was too straight. There was an odd muffled sound and almost a vibration after and I woke up my boyfriend out of shock but it was over.
August 26, 2023 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSan Antonio, TX
A bright light appeared in the clear low moisture Northwest sky. It appeared to be a drone or helicopter in the low level distance with a searchlight however the altitude was difficult to judge. It was traveling parallel to the horizon, NW to SE at what appeared to be a slow rate of speed. The object did not have leave a re-entry trail. The object ultimately exhibited a plume of visible moisture or smoke from the leading portion, and disappeared. No ADSB hits at the time. There was a starlink cluster in the area but this was a single object. It was very high altitude based on video. Multiple reports from at least 5+ mile radius and possibly 200+ mile on social media. Starlink-101 (6-11) Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS Florida, United States [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
August 26, 2023 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Loving, NM
I walked out the front door of my house and saw a very bright light, it was so bright, that I thought it was the moon at first. When I realized that it was moving, I noticed the moon was far off to the left side of my view. The light moved quickly all the way across the sky from right to left. It seemed to fade as it got closer to the moon. I only had time to run back into the house, grab my phone, and start recording, and was only able to catch the very end of it, as it was approaching the light of the moon. As it got closer towards the moon and clouds, the light began to fade and then dissipate into the clouds. I took video from a standing-point on the front porch of my house. The light comes into the video near the top middle (towards the left side). And by this time it was approaching the clouds above the moon. When it gets to the clouds, it disappears into them, and they look affected by whatever it was. You can see the clouds move in a strange way. It almost looked like whatever it was, turned into clouds and disappeared. It the background of the video you can hear our dog barking and a motorcycle running that was out in the garage. I didn't hear anything out of the normal.
August 26, 2023 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedGrand Canyon National Park, AZ
While attending an evening ranger program in the amphitheater at Phantom Ranch (in the bottom of the Grand Canyon), a few people looked up and saw a strange, fuzzy, foggy white light moving roughly west to east across the sky. The sun had just gone down and a few of the brightest stars were starting to appear in the twilight. The UFO light looked like it was shining through a cloud--though the sky was completely clear; stars appeared crisp and clear. Additionally, the object was silent. I'm aware there was a SpaceX launch this evening; however, I've seen SpaceX rockets in the sky before and they do not move this quickly and they usually leave a trail. I've seen countless satellites, the ISS on multiple occasions, and other phenomena, but this one seemed different. The light intensity on this object stayed the same during its path across the sky. And it was not dark enough to see satellites yet. My background: I'm a park ranger, trained in astronomy, with many hours of stargazing experience. I was on an overnight hike during a work trip to Grand Canyon with several ranger colleagues who also saw the object. We were in the amphitheater audience at another ranger's evening program. Other members of the public who were in attendance saw the object as well. Our latitude & longitude: 36.104642, -112.095122 From our vantage point looking south, the object was flying roughly ESE, almost but not directly overhead. Falcon 9 Starlink-101 (6-11) SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
August 25, 2023 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Pearce, AZ
So I look up for some reason and there's this bright orange yellowish light high in the sky was there for about a min or so then next thing you know it two aircrafts jets and drones and sattlelights circling the area above my property about an hour later right above me a light in the sky I would say sky it was pretty close to me comes on then a second and then a third was just like staring at me it felt then it disappears no other flashing lights no mouse nothing lights it was freaking me out an then about two hours later I seen a shooting star from the corner of my eye so I turn my head real quick and it was closer then I thought I'm filling it with my eyes then all of a sudden like sparks are flying from it like a firework or a flare gun type thing but no that shit came from the sky and sounded like it landed in the hard it look like it did but it was so dark and I didn't go look I was alone and already freaked out by everything else that was going on you should call the Air Force Base and see what that was cause they were looking for whatever it was all night so was I anf the lights were round I swear that was nothing from here it eas rigjt above me but couldn't see nothing else I thought theh were gonna take me sense they were all around me I looked up on googlr next day no record of anything
August 25, 2023 · 8:42 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBrentwood, TN
I looked at my ring camera and saw a line shooting very fast across the sky horizontal. It was way to fast to be anything man made and it flew with a zig zag that would not be normal for a shooting star or comet. I have the sighting on video. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Probable]
August 24, 2023 · 9:31 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
Slightly left of the moon, observably about 200 miles, object is not seen moving, strobing luminosity
August 24, 2023 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Tacoma, WA
My buddy and I we’re leaving the gym at night when I looked at the moon. I noticed a flashing light next to the moon. It was twinkling like a star, but it was too bright, and then too dark to be a star. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
August 24, 2023 · 12:16 PM · LIGHT
Cheviot, OH
Looking out side window of house facing south. I see red/pinkish thought strange not Venus. Lights dimmed then intensified. I turn my head to look at my garage. I turn my head back facing south. It’s gone.
August 23, 2023 · 10:40 AM · LIGHT
Monrovia, CA
This happens everytime I go to work at around 10 40 am. On the 210 freeway going west. It started when me and my cousin enter irwindale and ends as we get close to Monrovia. We notice it flashing colors starting red, orange, green and then blue. It is so bright is shines through the day. The flashing color light use to last about 30 seconds but gets shorter everytime. I pull out my phone to film but because my phone is so old, the camera takes a minute to load so I end up missing the light. The light seems to be happening in the San Gabriel Mountains close to those spires at the top of the mountain where the old observatory is, I would assume but looking, I could be wrong. We have only seen this flashing colored light 3 times this year.
August 22, 2023 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
A bright flash in the sky caught my eyes. I looked and saw a white light silently travelling across the sky from west to east. It was blinking erratically sometimes barely visible and then sometimes flashing very brightly. One particular flash actually left what looked like a relatively-large slightly-erratic solid illuminated yellowish-orange line in the sky. It looked like long exposure photography. It was visible for the time the light was lit during that flash, perhaps a second. The line was the length of maybe a quarter of the diameter the moon appears in the sky. I've never seen anything before like that in real life. The light continued moving in a straight line toward the East, blinking erratically with mostly dim blinking which made it hard to see as it traveled away. I often watch the sky at night and see many planes and satellites at night and this definitely wasn't a plane. The flashing was irregular and I can almost always see the red light on planes and distinguish the different lights. It did not appear to be a satellite due to the blinking and the strange line artifact. Afterwards, just to be sure, I thoroughly checked my glasses' lenses for scratches, thinking perhaps it was reflection in a scratch, but I didn't find one and I've been wearing glasses for decades and I've never seen anything like that. Maybe ball lighting? I have no idea what this was.
August 20, 2023 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Llanelli, CARMARTH · United Kingdom
It was very bright, (much brighter than venus at its brightest), and looked like a pulsating orb of blue white light. When moving, it left a streak or a trail of light behind it. It hovered beside a visible star in the sky that night and that is how it caught my attention. I only realised it was more than a star when it started to move. Its movement was at first very slow and it did not pulsate at all in the beginning. It moved upwards and curved gracefully around its position in the night sky without deviating far from where i first saw it. A few minutes passed and it just looked like a very bright object in the sky moving around up until it stopped near where i first spotted it, hovered without seemingly moving an inch, and then shot across the sky to the left on a very straight level, so fast that i almost lost sight of it. A trail was visible to the naked eye and this is when it started to pulsate in lumination and change its colour from white to whitey blue. A visible ring of light around the centre mass seemed discernable to my naked eye. It stopped seemingly immediately and just stayed there, before flying up at a fast but slower speed, gracefully arcing back to its starting position again where i first saw it. This is when i pulled out my phone and started to record it. The video i have is recorded in uhd 60fps on my samsung galaxy s20 fe. The quality is good, but nowhere near as good as what i saw with my naked eye. It all occured above a row of houses which almost and eventually did obscure my view of the object. When recording, you can easily see the pulsating light and its ring if zoomed in, and the trail it leaves behind when it moved. Unfortunately it did not move at such incredible blindingly fast speeds on the two minute video i captured. But it did fly at a what seemed to be a considerable speed to the left, arcing gracefully through a cloud before coming to an immediate stop, then rising slowly upwards and traversing back to roughly its "starting" position again (where i first saw it). Then it dips and glows very very brightly, before disappearing behind the row of terraced houses. This is where the video ends and i last see the object. I did not hear any sound coming from the craft. I could not make out any tangible solid shape off of it. But i can without a shadow of a doubt put claim to it, that it was real, and something that i have never seen before. I know what drones are like in the night sky with their downward lights on look like. I know how planes and satellites and the iss move through the night sky. Ive witnessed them all. This was something else entirely and i would love to be proven wrong because it has scared me a little bit. And i hate being wrong. It displayed characteristics to things that i have only ever heared or seen about in other ufo sighting claims. # i have two videos to share. Unfortunately the one that i mention in this description is 1.2gb in size due to its recording quality, and this site will not allow me to upload it. Fortunately i have uploaded it to youtube, but due to the swearing in it i removed the audio using youtube studio. I do have the raw original video with sound on my device if you want to offer me a different method of sharing it with you. The link it below. Set the video quality to high to see it properly. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zngXjdfVzAk The photos i upload are one of a map showing where i was stood (the bottom end of the yellow arrow), and the direction i was facing in. The second image of street view show the same, but the arrow indicates the position that i first spotted the ufo in and ultimately the location it kept returning to (not precisely) and where it dipped behind the buildings and out of sight. Seen on my youtube video upload. The second shorter video was recorded first as i was talking to a food delivery driver. In it i have taken a still of the object whilst zooming in on the recording video (post).
August 20, 2023 · 10:01 PM · LIGHT
Washington, PA
Saw bright red light in night sky, sitting stationary with the light not blinking. It then began to slowly almost bounce around in the sky, move to the west and stop again. Here the light blinked a few times, but not like an aircraft. The light would completely disappear for 5 to 10 seconds and then return. It then rapidly moved out over the horizon. It returned 15 minutes later and repeated the same behavior as before. Now, on the 24th, it returned again. This time it appeared in the West and after floating about as before it moved in a winding pattern that took it directly over my house. I could see no details other than a bright light, and strangely it made no noise whatsoever. It was maybe 500 feet above my house and if it was a helicopter or airplane I would have clearly heard it. It moved slowly into the East and vanished in some clouds. I have been an active star gazer since I was 10 years old starting with a three inch refractor telescope. And, before this I have never seen anything I could not explain like this. I've seen many amazing things over the years. But until now I could explain them all
August 20, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburgh, PA
Looking west we saw a bright light. It moved slowly for about 15 seconds then went out. A few seconds later the light appeared again, but was traveling in a different direction. There was only one light seen at a time. It did this maybe three times and then it stopped completely. About a half an hour later but looking straight up and more northeast, it appeared again. It did the same routine as described from the first time. I’m on my deck watching planes, helicopters, tracking stars and satellites every night. This wasn’t any of that. It was also not a shooting star…I am very familiar with those.
August 20, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Cordova, SC
I went outside to see about the tree line a bright circular object that had like a force field type deal around it and some type of disturbance swirling around it. It started to fly away and it disappeared. I then called for it to come back and I’m not completely sure if it was the same thing but then 4 appeared directly above me hovering and started blinking as if trying to communicate to me or to eachother and then disappeared.
August 20, 2023 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Conklin, NY
I got to a friends to drop off some material for a job and I got out of my truck and a light out of the corner of my eye caught my attention I looked up in and all of a sudden it took off wicked fast and left a white streak through the sky and then it disappeared totally
August 19, 2023 · 3:40 PM · LIGHT
Centerpoint, AL
Blue bean of light, green and blue flashing orbs descending from blue light beam in distance night sky as sky was foggy and hazzy, then it fades out completely.. Then shortly after where me and my friend was standing looking up as it went away, in the tree line above us a yellowish ord comes flying out of the trees at us. It stopped for a short pause, I saw the lights from street lamps reflecting a yellowesh color.then zipped away in a flash. No sound.
August 19, 2023 · 2:41 PM · LIGHT
Bloomington, IN
Please look at both pic I took on cell today is this ufo? Or meteor ? Zoom in mid right side pix in sky what is this?? Or these?? Back in 1968 1965 times I have seen many nite objects b4 I did report some to the project blue book in those times but who knows what those were but this is in day lite clear sky ! I know meteors at nite sky’s about this time but this is strange there’s 2 or so With trail pls advise Tks [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Possible]
August 19, 2023 · 12:27 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalLias, Midi-Pyrénées · France
Le témoin, ayant mis en place un système automatisé d'enregistrement d'images de la voûte céleste depuis la terrasse de son domicile à Lias (32) dans la nuit du 19 au 20 août 2023, il constate après dépouillement des enregistrements la présence de deux PANs ayant la même apparence et le même type de trajectoire sinueuse et erratique. La consistance* de ce cas est considérée comme élevée, malgré l'absence d'observation directe. Les images enregistrées par l'instrument, présentant les PAN, ont pu être exploitées de manière exhaustive pour l'enquête, avec un recalage temporel précis réalisé grâce à l'analyse des métadonnées associées aux fichiers (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). *Selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d'informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. Plusieurs hypothèses ont été examinées dans le cadre de l'enquête. La synthèse est la suivante: - Les trajectoires des PANs peuvent faire penser à des chiroptères. Cependant les données relatives à l'altitude et à la vitesse, une fois calculées et corrélées ne cadrent pas du tout avec cette hypothèse, les vitesses étant trop faibles et les altitudes trop élevées. - De même, l'hypothèse d'oiseaux, en particulier de deux oiseaux nocturnes (hiboux grand-duc), l'un, jeune, étant en apprentissage auprès d'un adulte, n'est pas cohérente avec les données calculées d'altitudes, trop importantes au regard de la vitesse de vol. La période d'observation étant par ailleurs trop tardive. - L'hypothèse de deux insectes se trouvant proches de l'objectif a également été étudiée mais n'a pas été retenue car elle implique qu'ils devaient se trouver à plus de 3,50 m de l'objectif de la caméra, et donc voler selon une vitesse bien trop faible pour parcourir le trajet en près de 30minutes. - L'hypothèse de deux ballons lumineux équipés de lumières LED cadre en revanche bien avec la plupart des données issues de l'analyse, avec en particulier un déplacement lent sinusoïdal cohérent avec la faible vitesse des vents en altitude avec la présence avérée d'un phénomène de cisaillement. Ces éléments ayants été confirmés par l'expert Météo France auprès du GEIPAN. Plus en détail : •couleur blanchâtre, tout à fait commune pour ce type de ballon, •déplacement général dans le sens global du vent, orienté sud-est, •déplacement erratique causé par la présence d'un phénomène de cisaillement de vent entre les altitudes de 750 et 875 m, •vitesses calculées compatibles à celles du vent estimés à ces altitude par les données Météo France, •observation un week-end, propice à l'utilisation de tels ballons festifs lumineux. L'exploitation des images n'a cependant pas permis d'estimer la forme réelle des PAN, compte tenu de la déformée occasionnée par le temps de pose de chaque photographie. Le GEIPAN considère que cette hypothèse permet de réduire l'étrangeté de cette observation, mais rappelle que l'absence de témoin visuel direct aurait normalement dû conduire à rejeter le cas, conformément aux critères d'éligibilité des cas enquêtés au GEIPAN. Cette étude a été menée à cause de son caractère curieux pour nous et pour le témoin ainsi que pour l'intérêt de la méthodologie déployée pour l'enquête. Le GEIPAN classe ce cas en « B », observation probable de deux ballons LEDs portés par le vent en altitude. [GEIPAN classification B — Ballon LED]
August 18, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Lakeway, TX, TX
We walked outside to the back to let the dogs potty. We noticed the lights immediately as we looked to the west - northwest as they were bright lights slightly drifting upwards in a vertical straight line. They were at about 5000ft to 15000ft. Maybe even less. There were 2 separate airplane lights that were at higher altitudes on both sides to reference this. It looked like they were trying to achieve greater separation from each other and as they got into position, they all disappeared. The top one disappeared first and then the next one lower from the top. It was in sequence highest to lowest as they all disappeared one after the other in about a half second to one whole second. Just found this site and would appreciate feedback as to others in the area seeing this as well. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
August 17, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Emmett, AR
Notice 15 to 20 bright lights in the sky that. Seem to be hovering and motionless. Took out a 25000 luminan spotlight. Shine the light at the lights that were informations of two, the formations of two marched one behind the other in a line, and then each vanished one by one immediately after shining the spotlight at them. I've seen star links before this was definitely no star link