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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.
6,009 entries
August 23, 2022 · 8:10 PM · OVAL
Queens, NY
My husband and I were at Cunningham Park, Queens lying on a picnic blanket on a patch of green near the Tennis Court. It was nearing sunset and I laid on my belly using my phone, while my husband laid on his back facing the sky. After some time, he nudged me and point up to the sky and as I looked and focused in, I could see a large oval space craft gliding past me-- smooth, fast, and soundless. As we were lying on the park ground, near the Tennis court wall, our view of it was blocked as it headed south and passed over the wall and many trees. The skies were grey-ish blue and the outline of the craft was only a tinge darker so we could spot it, however, it was so light "grey/silver" it looked translucent. We could see what looked like ridge patterns (for lack of a better word) on the bottom face of the craft but it moved so quickly, that was all we could gather. It was incredibly large, and considerately close to the ground, so what we both saw was undeniable.
August 22, 2022 · 9:42 PM · OVAL
Calgary, AB · Canada
Motionless neon green craft in the north sky caught my eye when I went outside to video lightning activity far off to the west. There was no rain or thunder and it was calm. It was still for several minutes and slowly moved forward and stopped. After a couple of minutes, it reversed without turning around. Almost to where I first spotted it. It was silent and had flashing red and white lights. Suddenly the wind gusted and I got kind of spooked. I went inside to get more appropriate footwear, but when I returned, it had left. I was in my condo complex courtyard.
August 21, 2022 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
IdentifiedPierrefort, Auvergne · France
Le 21 août 2022 à 21h30, quatre témoins rapportent avoir observé, depuis la terrasse d'une maison de campagne située sur la commune de Pierrefort (15), plusieurs phénomènes lumineux de forme ovale et de couleur blanche. Ces objets évoluaient de manière régulière, se déplaçant par paires rapprochées selon une trajectoire rectiligne, légèrement ascendante, orientée du nord-ouest vers le sud-est. L'observation a duré environ cinq minutes, au cours desquelles une vidéo a été enregistrée. Aucun bruit associé n'a été perçu par les témoins, et les phénomènes lumineux ont disparu spontanément sans événement particulier. La consistance* du cas est bonne, puisqu'il y a plusieurs témoins et une vidéo des PANs (la vidéo publiée est anonymisée). Toutefois, un seul des témoins a transmis un témoignage au GEIPAN. *selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d'informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. La description des PANs (forme ovale, couleur blanche, mouvements réguliers et répétitifs selon la même trajectoire) évoque très bien l'observation d'une animation lumineuse produite par un skytracer (ou skyrose), projecteur habituellement utilisé par des discothèques ou pour signaler des évènements festifs (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). Le ciel couvert de nuages situés à l'étage moyen est également un élément favorable à l'observation, ces nuages servant de support à la lumière projetée vers le ciel. De même, l'absence de faisceau visible entre les projecteurs au sol et les nuages s'explique par la distance (11 km au sol séparent le lieu d'utilisation des témoins) et une excellente visibilité horizontale, avec peu de particules en suspension dans l'air. Bien que nous ne disposions pas d'informations précises sur le modèle utilisé ce soir-là, la portée théorique de tels projecteurs utilisés en extérieur est importante (pouvant aller jusqu'à plus de 10 km). Or, l'enquête a pu déterminer qu'une fête avait lieu à Paulhac (15), commune située à seulement une dizaine de km du lieu d'observation, le soir du 21 août 2022. Contactée par téléphone, la société qui animait le bal de clôture a pu confirmer l'emploi d'un type particulier de skytrackers, des « lyres », pouvant projeter de puissants faisceaux lumineux dans le ciel. L'heure d'utilisation de ces lyres aurait débuté après l'horaire d'observation du PAN mais une utilisation plus tôt à des fins de tests est tout à fait envisageable. Le cas est classé « A », observation de skytracers. [GEIPAN classification A — Sky rose]
August 21, 2022 · 3:20 PM · OVAL
Wolfegg, BADEN-WÜ · Germany
I wanted to see a UFO because of all the news in the media, but didn't think I'd be able to catch an object so quickly. The object was dark silver and had the classic UFO (oval) shape. It was ultra fast (it was only in frame for half a second) and just flew through the sky. For the fact that I used a 90x camera, it was quite large in the image for such a long distance. I'm assuming it was an airplane, helicopter, fighter jet, or insect as it flew at an odd angle (slightly tilted) and was incredibly fast. The sky was very cloudy, I sighted this object on Sunday August 21st at about 15:20. translated from German as submitted
August 21, 2022 · 1:02 AM · OVAL
Gatineau, QC · Canada
An upward facing infrared camera captured an object that moved into the screen from the mid-right and exited from the screen top. I selected "oval" as the shape, but the side of the object facing the upper right corner of the screen in the second of the three screen shots provided appears flat, whereas the opposite side appears rounded - a bit like a mushroom cap, perhaps.
August 20, 2022 · 12:17 AM · OVAL
West Hills, CA
Video attached. Bright single, oval object appeared from nowhere with a slight mist or vapor which dissipated quickly. Object quickly travelled east to west horizontally. Eye witness says that the object came to a full stop. I was called out to see it, but the object was no longer there just a few seconds later. The sky was clear of clouds. There was no sound.
August 18, 2022 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Leavittsburg, OH
I witnessed a translucent oval shape in the sky. What made me notice it was symetrical angles within the cloud. It was as if it was blocking the cloud, if not for that you would never have known it was there. It appeared to be almost camouflaged. It was in the sky for approximately 50 minutes. It seemed to be stationary.
August 14, 2022 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Andover, ME
My wife, my mother-in-law and I were camping on Richardson Lake in Andover Maine. We were staying at the Black Point site run by South Arm Campground (not the day use area). Because it was so clear out and we could clearly see the milky way, my wife decided we should lay on the beach and look at the stars. We were laying flat in our backs, feet pointing west, heads east. I could see the big dipper to our right (north), and what we believed to be Orion to our left (south). I was just looking straight up at 3 or 4 starts that formed a triangle (pointing upwards) when a star that I had seen before, right below the triangle stars got incredibly bright and got much larger than anything else in the sky and started moving at a high rate of speed to our right (north). It seemed to fade, the get get bright again before it faded and disappeared over the point/day use area. Both my wife and I exclaimed when we saw this happen. She also confirmed all the details, including the fact that it appeared to just be a star before it got bright and big, and stared it move. It was several times larger than anything else in the sky, there was no mistaking this for a star. We've also seen satellites, but they are much smaller and don't stay stationary then start moving, and they are significantly smaller than what we saw. We've both seen shooting stars before, this was not one. It made no sound. The campsite is 13 miles down a camp/logging road to South Arm Campground, then 12 miles up via boat to the site… It's remote, we can hear people from miles away, and can easily hear planes flying far above… We heard no sound. After seeing this, my usually calm wife decided she had done enough star gazing for one night and it was time for bed. The thing that bothers me the most was that I thought it was just another star, it was completely stationary before getting big and bright, suddenly moving across the sky suddenly without having to accelerate. It just went from still to moving at incredible speeds instantaneously. The object looked like a glowing white oval.
August 14, 2022 · 8:45 PM · OVAL
Murphysboro, IL
I was taking my dog out. After leaving the porch, my dog didn’t want to go into the yard and it took some coaxing to get him to go. As he was going I noticed a light above me & to my left. (We have a yard light so for me to notice the light from the sky is unusual plus it was cloudy out. ) I looked up and saw a bright “ball” of light moving low and horizontal across the sky. It was to my left /west and was moving north. After a few seconds, it disappeared. I never seen a falling star like that- so low & bright and moving horizontal. It looked like a ball moving across, with a trail of light behind it and possibly in front. It seemed like it was directly crossing over my yard and wasn’t that high in the air- maybe double the height of a tall tree .
August 14, 2022 · 8:18 PM · OVAL
Corvallis, OR
I was laying on a rock beach at the Willamette River looking at the sky and noticed a white object lit up by the setting sun. It moved slowly in a SSE direction over the river. It had no wings. It was about as high up as a drone would be but made no noise. There was no smoke trailing behind it. It moved steadily across the sky, slowly making its way to the SSE in a straight line. The white lit up part looked linear like "cigar" shaped, but after zooming in on the pic it appears to be rounded and somewhat disc shaped.
August 13, 2022 · 9:35 PM · OVAL
Rochester, NY
It was a beautiful dark clear star lit night , when a small red light approach us in back yard of home , it expanded to approximately 30 feet wide and 15 feet high,,, hovering behind a tree at about 70 feet high ,,, it slowly moved to the right into plain view , glowing red , making no sound,, we were stunned, ,it hovered for about 1 minute, and then in blink of an eye shot up at 45 degree angle to about 20,000 feet ,, and green halo formed around it and then it it shot out of site ,,,what was also very strange is when it disappeared out of site the hot tub we were in stopped working, I tried to restart it ,, but it started on its own
August 11, 2022 · 8:15 PM · OVAL
AFTON, VA
Shooting cloud formation after sunset using iPhone SE (2020). First photo had clouds, second had one object, third shows two. Same location. Objects were not visible to human eye. Overlaying the images shows the two with the objects are in same spot /location over 4 minutes. Time on Aug 11, 2022 was 2015, 2016 and 2020 AFTON Va
August 10, 2022 · 8:50 PM · OVAL
Norcross, GA
as I was driving along I was on the phone with a friend and jokingly said oh there's a car flying in the sky thinking that it was the front lights of a incoming plane. I then realized that this vehicle had no wings and two lights on the front and was sitting completely still. It was a distinct two lights aiming downwards.
August 8, 2022 · 1:30 PM · OVAL
Dungeness Spit near Sequim, WA
Dungeness Spit is a five mile spit of land that ends at a light house. It was a warm, cloudless day with beautiful views of the Olympic Mountains to the south of me. Three of us hiked out to the lighthouse for lunch and were about half way back (heading west) when I saw the first object. I called out, "There's a UFO!" My friends (as well as others on the beach) looked to the vast sky where I was pointing. Almost immediately, I saw a smaller object to the right (west). After scanning the sky, we walked on. Within 2 minutes I saw a third small object to the left (east). No one saw them but me. I would estimate that they were flying somewhere above Sequim or south of Sequim. They did not appear to be as far away as the mountains. I do not know whether I saw one object 3 times or three different objects. I believe that I was seeing only a part of the object(s) - and this part was reflecting sunlight. The first object was observed the longest - maybe for a full second. The others were just similar flashes. The shape of the object was a 2 dimensional oval with the top cut straight off. Imagine cutting this shape out of a piece of paper. I saw it with its long side tilted about 30 degrees towards me. Immediately, it began rotating up. When it became flat, it disappeared. Just blue sky. Again, I believe I saw only a small part of a larger object (with the rest of it invisible or cloaked?). The part was reflecting the sunlight which is why it appeared flat. I originally reported this to MUFON and was contacted by their investigator. My background: I am a 70 year old retired teacher and school psychologist. I hike several times a week. Nature and observation have always been a part of my life.
August 8, 2022 · 10:22 AM · OVAL
West midlands, SOLIHULL · United Kingdom
There were three objects traveling in line i thought they where starlink satellites or balloons but separated in different directions on decent the middle one was oval the other two where circular they seemed to pulsate with a shimmer the middle one stopped still as i started taking pictures with my phone.
August 7, 2022 · 8:15 PM · OVAL
Crystal City, Arlington, VA
1 tic tac Some sort of halo around it Moved at a steady pace in a single direction No visible wings or propulsion system No sound No contrail
August 7, 2022 · 3:00 AM · OVAL
Gridley, CA
My nine-year-old,and myself seen oval ball shaped it’s was very large and started off high in the sky. It was a strange color of green and as it got lower it lit up the my room green, and then took off at unbelievable fast speed in seconds. But before the large ball There were other little lights that we saw those were higher! and moved from one side to the other until they disappeared and one of them was like a shooting star.
July 30, 2022 · 3:35 PM · OVAL
Chenoa, IL
We (my wife and I... ) arrived at the Chenoa pool around 3:00pm. We were facing east floating on are back when an eagle caught our eye. while watching the eagle we noticed a super jumbo jet go over head going south east to north west, and being that it was partly cloudy the jet was very noticeable against the dark blue sky. It quickly disappeared behind a cloud. We noticed a smaller passenger jet flying at about the same altitude. Then at around 3:35pm an oval something ??? shot across the sky. It appeared to be moving 3 to 4 times faster than the jets we had seen just a few minutes before and twice (if not more) higher than the jets, and about a 3rd of the length of the commercial jets. Before we could yell to point it out to others in the pool it had gone behind the clouds.
July 30, 2022 · 12:30 AM · OVAL
Maupin, OR
I noticed this object in the sky above and beyond one of the ridges in the valley that we were camping. I held the camera as still as possible as the object hovered about in one general area. Upon watching the video, the object appeared to change colors and move in an abnormal way.
July 28, 2022 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
South Shields · United Kingdom
Myself and partner where outside watching a meteor shower/shooting stars for around 20 minutes and we couldn't believe how amazing it was. Then we we seen a glowing object hoover then move slowly over us..it moved from right to left then headed over temple park out of our field of view ,we couldn't believe what we had seen.The object moved silently and slowly,once you know it was there you couldn't miss it if that makes sense we both laughed and couldn't believe it. It wasn't a shooting star it moved under it's will and stood out from everything once you locked onto it.
July 27, 2022 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
Boulder, CO
There was vast amounts of lightning during the night. I had been watching the intense lightning through my window. After multiple hours of storming, I noticed a bright orange light out of the corner of my eye. When I looked I saw a skinny, oval shaped black shape, with a bright orange outline. The figure was hovering for roughly a second after I had turned my head to look and it very quickly moved out of view in a second or less.
July 26, 2022 · 9:43 PM · OVAL
Shelby Township, MI
Bright Sphere that was spinning clockwise , and then turned to cigar shape and then went updward Very fast. Traveling about 3900 foot above ground level Speed was about 150 knots Traveling south / south east at 143 degrees No sound from the object Almost like it knew I was watching it
July 26, 2022 · 9:38 PM · OVAL
LaPorte, IN
I saw plasma orbs and UFO. I had an experience on election night 20/20 and it took took my breath away it was beautiful it was approximately 18 in away 4 inches off the ground gold and purple dense but translucent barely a whirring sound and it was 18 inches away from me for almost I would say 10 seconds and then as fast as well faster than what we can think of it was going I went to thirds of my property and made it right into the cedars and then I saw my second sighting 4 months later after the second thing I saw it all the time if there's not all clouds in the sky if there's any clearing they're there
July 26, 2022 · 9:31 PM · OVAL
Chagrin Falls, OH
My wife and I notice a big object in the sky. Thought at first it was a star but it kept getting brighter then fading repeatedly. As we were looking at that object, two smaller white orbs traveled toward the larger one at a high rate of speed. One of the orbs moved up and around the other. At the same time the main larger object got brighter then faded out. Minutes later we noticed several planes in the immediate area. I was able to capture it on my phone’s video. When you zoom in on the larger object, it appears to have a black circle in the middle. I have never seen anything in the sky behave that way and have no idea what it could have been.