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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.
11,675 entries
August 25, 2023 · 12:01 AM · SPHERE
Mooresville, NC
Let the dog out approximately at midnight. The "moon" was so bright it appeared to be a harvest moon, but the color was so bright and reddish in color. There was no sound. Moon appeared to be stationary above the lake. The shape was not fully rounded - more half to crescent, yet 3-D. Watched it for about a minuted, then took a picture to share with my family. Picture was taken from inside a screened in porch due to elevation when attempted to take picture outside that area. Returned inside, thinking it was just a pretty moon. Asked my adult son to look at the "moon" that it was really bright. When he went out, he could not see anything. I returned outside and could no longer see anything. I looked up moon rise and set times and it did not appear to correlate with this sighting.
August 23, 2023 · 9:18 PM · SPHERE
Orient, OH
I witnessed the object coming from the south, it was solid in color, orange/red, it was not blinking as a plane or helicopter would. It had a linear path and traveled at a constant speed. There was no sound at any point of travel. It was rapid but constant. It appeared round in shape. Orb, not disc. It was bright. We live west of Rickenbacker International Airport, we see planes all day long. This was no plane. My wife agrees.
August 23, 2023 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Auburn (looking SW), ME
Large enough to look like a planet, we saw an orb hovering above and slightly to the right of the moon. Seemed ‘normal’ for a couple minutes until it started a steady descent straight down, halfway to the horizon line. It then stopped, hovered, in one place, reducing size for about 30 seconds before it disappeared. No visible trail. No wavering. Movement seemed direct and with intent. Very odd indeed.
August 23, 2023 · 5:10 AM · SPHERE
Bakersfield, CA
I would like to upload the video i captured at a later date as I need to get it downloaded from my phone to a device. Pretty decent video footage!
August 23, 2023 · 4:53 AM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
Saw stationary lights in the sky northeast of me. At first I thought they were the lights of a cell phone tower. But I know the area well and there was no tower in that direction. Observed lights for about 23 minutes. Lights remained stationary for a long time. Then they shifted very quickly to the right. And again remained stationary. I was able to take pictures with my cell phone, but It’s an old flip phone and doesn’t have a great camera. At the end of the sighting the lights moved away to the north out of view. This movement was extremely fast. Almost in an instant. That the thing that astounded me about this sighting. Is how it remained stationary for so long. Then in an instant it moved. First to another position in the sky. And then out of sight. Is speed was incredible. For the entire encounter the lights were silent. I worked in the airlines for over 20 years. I’ve worked security for 3 years. I’ve never seen anything like it. From experience, I know this was not plane, helicopter, and it moved too fast to be a drone. I’m stumped.
August 23, 2023 · 12:28 AM · SPHERE
Lacomb, OR
I was sitting at my home watching TV and a flying helicopter could be heard approaching my property and shook my house I immediately ran outside at 12:28 a.m. in the morning to see what was going on if it was like flight or something serious some sort of emergency and saw this helicopter over stretch of miles has it passed my house and made a complete circle and then I noticed it was chasing a green light as it streaked across the sky and disappeared and reappeared several miles further away the green light and the helicopter chased it off in the distance and then roughly 20 minutes later the helicopter reappeared near my home close enough for me to hear the helicopter and then I saw the green light reappear again and disappear as it seem like the helicopter was chasing it.
August 22, 2023 · 9:48 PM · SPHERE
Rockwall, TX
Looks like antenna system being towed across sky at different altitudes. Others are ball shaped vehicles with circular vapor trail through atmosphere.
August 21, 2023 · 9:52 PM · SPHERE
Mineral Bluff, GA
On August 21 At 9:52 PM in Mineral Bluff, Georgia I saw a golf ball sized white object slowly heading east towards Murphy, North Carolina when I zoomed in I noticed that it was very brilliant and changing.
August 21, 2023 · 12:27 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalWarsaw, MO
UAP caught overnight on game camera along with picture of buck. Image has a bright orb to the left with a trail & larger circle extending above the buck’ head. This is not in an area where someone would be hiking (especially at night) and the buck does not respond to the object. The camera is in IR mode at night. There is no artificial lighting In This area and no power sources. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
August 20, 2023 · 7:01 PM · SPHERE
Queen Creek, AZ
Driving and saw stationary/floating bright light under clouds. Light was twinkling bright white & stayed there for about 45 seconds to 1 min. 1st witness was driving and called attention to it. Passenger in vehicle noticed it as well and thought it was strange. Didn’t want to freak kids out in the back so we underplayed it but they saw it too. It eventually twinkled out and disappeared. About 5 minutes later, the same orb returned for about 30 second in the same space of sky. All four people saw it this time, the same exact hue of light, and we caught a short video of it.
August 20, 2023 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
Erlanger, KY
I saw a bright orb, white in color, shimmering across the afternoon sky. I jokingly told my 6 year old it was a ufo thinking it was just a high flying plane, as well as pointing it out to my aunt. I tracked it northwest across the clear afternoon sky until it looked like it came to a stop above the house. It sat there and it started fading out until it either disappeared or I lost it in the bright blue afternoon sky.
August 19, 2023 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Ferndale, WA
Always thought it was cool. On my way home from my sisters house. I live at the Canadian border in Blaine. Zero cool anymore. It’s like taking a super bright blue LED light then it turns into two. I do have bipolar disorder so maybe I’m just nuts. I don’t know but it frightened me so I killed the headlights and hauled ass home! I Do Not want any weird dudes at my house.
August 19, 2023 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Kensington, KS
While driving southbound on E 1100 Road, south of E Hunter Rd in Kensington, KS, heading towards Agra, KS, a very bright blue-white round orb was seen in the southern sky moving from west to east. It was thought to be a plane reflecting the bright setting sun, but it then quickly faded away completely, leaving no trace. This was after about 5 seconds of observing the object. It was thought for a bit to be seeing a very wispy black or gray cloud in the same spot where the orb object had just disappeared from, also dissipating nearly immediately. This was generally a cloudless blue sky on a very hot and sunny early evening. The passenger of the vehicle stated seeing two flashes of long bright lines travelling the other direction, but that was unobserved by the driver of the vehicle and cannot be accurately described for the purposes of this report.
August 19, 2023 · 12:02 PM · SPHERE
Santa Barbara, CA
I saw one bright orb in the sky approximately facing SW. I saw the object again at 1:10pm while on a bike ride in goleta. The object didn't seem to move but seemed to hover high in the sky. I lost sight after clouds rolled in.
August 18, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Vacaville, CA
I was in my backyard stargazing as I had heard the Perseid meteor shower was still going to be visible until the end of the month. I actually viewed several a night over the past several nights leading up to Aug 18th and I'm 51y/o so I have seen my fair share of "shooting stars" in my life. My eyes were acclimated to the dark sky as I had been outside looking up for about 40 minutes prior so more and more stars were coming into focus and in my field of view. I then saw what I thought was a shooting star but it took a 90 degree turn went a distance while slowing and then made another 90 degree turn before it accelerated and faded out. I literaly didn't believe what I had seen. It was at a very high altitude. Looked like a star in the sky making turns. So weird. I'm one city away from Travis AFB in northern California so I've seen plenty of military aircraft before and this wasn't one of "Ours". It moved at a ridiculously fast but smooth speed and then changed direction on a dime and appeared to slow down but then sped up and changed direction at 90 degrees again. The entire event lasted maybe 2 or 3 seconds. I will never forget it. It's been bothering me for nearly a week now. What the hell was it? Drones can't operate that high right? And at supersonic speed?
August 18, 2023 · 9:34 PM · SPHERE
Puyallup, WA
While driving on 104th st e, I was headed towards south hill mall when I saw a glowing orb hovering to my left, it hovered for a while then descended downwards, I lost sight of it behind some trees. Made no noise and seemed to flicker or be continuously turning. Looked pretty high up I have video footage.
August 18, 2023 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Middletown, CT
Around 8 pm, I was working at a wedding outside the venue at the Pavilion on Crystal Lake. I was alone outside setting up a photo booth, then looked out onto the lake. I see three bright, glowing orbs in a triangular formation quickly fly west, then tilt upwards facing me and disappear flying skyward.
August 18, 2023 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Cherhill, AB · Canada
On acreage...above trees but lower than clouds. There was a clicking noise. The orb shape shifted. My videos are on YouTube
August 17, 2023 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Skiathos · Greece
10-12 white dots, flying fast in pairs, in two straight lines, from west to east, hight up on the sky without any sound. We were standing on the north side of our hotell with our backs towards the hotel, the sea on the other side of the hotell.The sky had very little light polution. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
August 17, 2023 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Roulette, PA
Was out side with dog, clear night. Looking up at stars and spot ufo and whatched for 20min went left without turning and then gone. No lights on it. The whole thing was illuminated
August 17, 2023 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Lyerly, GA
Was on our way home from having dinner in the town of Summerville, headed towards Lyerly we witnessed a bright white object, looked like a large beautiful star shining, as we got closer to the town of Lyerly the object got bigger and a orange beam resembling a laser shot out down towards the area object was hovering above, we weren’t sure what we just saw so we pulled over and I got out my phone to take pictures/video as we rolled down our windows the object took off faster then a plane over the mountain range towards the Menlo area, the night sky was clear and full. The rest of our party in another vehicle also witnessed this.
August 16, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Erwinna, PA
While sitting outside with after dinner coffee I clearly observed two luminous orbs, (one red and one blue), moving very slowly north approx. 250 ft. up just above the tree tops on the shoreline of the Delaware riven. Each object appeared to be the size of a large farm tractor rear drive wheels. The night was relatively clear and there was no haze in the sky. The night was also quiet and there was no road traffic at the time of my observation.The objects did not emit any sound nor was there any exhaust vapor trailing the objects. I did not have a phone/camera to snap a picture at the time.
August 16, 2023 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Sioux city, IA
After watching a jet go straight up in the air then and west going straight above us a sphere shaped craft appeared at the halfway mark of the trail left by the jet while it went straight. As we were looking at it and wondering where it came from a bright light appeared in the sky north of it and then it dimmed with a flicker . Then the sphere like craft headed west until we couldn't see it anymore. I believe he light.was from a metallic craft reflecting the sun.
August 16, 2023 · 7:08 PM · SPHERE
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
When I seen it I ran inside got my camera and telephoto lens and took a couple pictures although it was there for a bit I only got a couple pictures it was moving kind of fast and not at a steady pace