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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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May 20, 2023 · 11:35 AM · TRIANGLE
Haslet, TX
Looking SSW loading a plane. A small Lear Jet was passing over heading S towards Meacham Airport about 5k feet. Just above about 7 to 10k feet, a triangle shaped craft emerged from a cloud then disappeared. Sun glinting off 3 tips. Not red, green or white lights. Sun shine glimmering.
May 20, 2023 · 10:00 AM · OVAL
Seattle, WA
As my husband and I were disembarking a cruise ship, we saw an oval white object with no propulsion and no wings fly by the space needle. It appeared to be flying at the level of the top of the space needle with no sound until it went out of view.
May 19, 2023 · 11:21 PM · TRIANGLE
Redfield, AR
First let me start with nctr only has one way in and one way out. I have been going to this place since I was 16 years old I have never seen anything of the sorts here. My fiancé and I drive this road At least 1 time everyday on good days we will drive it 2 maybe 3 times of the day. It’s my favorite place. Tonight we had an amazing lightning storm which we don’t normally get. I decided to go later in the night since my kid was staying with my cousin. It was 11 when we turned down nctr and went over the train tracks. I immediately noticed a star in the sky and announced to my fiancé that was weird being as the sky was so cloudy from the storm. He started to pay attention to it more at this point, he says did that just move I told him I didn’t know I couldn’t see it from the windshield he said holly shit it did move it changed from a one star looking light then it spreaded apart into 3 star looking lights with 3 red lights in the tips of the triangle on the bottom of the ship my fiancé said “look out the window I got the steering wheel” I did a quick head tilt to the left out of my window and I saw 2 white lights with a red light flashing between the white one I stated “that’s just a tower baby” immediately I realized there was no tower in the field there is actually a pond down in a valley right in that area and it is now open almost all of the trees have been cut to where you can see down to the pond. Once again 5 seconds go by and my fiancée is grabbing the wheel again telling me to look out of my window that I wouldn’t believe was I was fixing to see that he thought if I didn’t look right then I was going to miss it. I rolled my window back down enough where I could tilt my head to the side again but this time I couldn’t see it I stuck my head out of my window and looked straight up above my car. It was SO HUGE!!!!!!!! I can’t even explain the texture of the ship. It looked shiny but gooey like if you were to touch it slime would be stuck to your hand it was most definitely a black vessel. it was as low as the trees I’d say only 100ft above my car I felt in immediate danger and took off keep in mind the speed limit is 45 on this road and yes if my daughter isn’t in the car I ride 5 over so I was going 50mph I speed to the river and just sat there for a few seconds trying to get the courage up to drive back down the road to get out of nctr to come back home for the night. It was excatly 11:22 when I looked out of my window and the ship was above my car did I mention there was NO SOUND!!!! It was just hovering silently no wind from it no sound waves after I took off nothing!!!! There was a car behind me at the time but I am not sure if they saw it they kept going I assume they live down there somewhere they were going just as fast as I was I hit 70mph trying to get somewhere safe feeling to turn around. I was so excited at first then my body just told me to run!! We finally talked ourselfs back up to leave I called my mom as soon as I got service and made her stay on the phone with us becusse we were freaking out looking the whole sky trying to see where it went! We NEVER FOUND IT!!!!! It was gone by the time we made it back down the road! That confirmed it WAS NOT A TOWER. I realized afterwards I never heard one cricket the whole time I was down the road which is extremely not normal.
May 19, 2023 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Perham, MN
There were 5 bright yellow spheres then a break then 3 more all connected by what appeared a black line. Slowly floating just above Perham. Looking SE from back yard.
May 19, 2023 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Watsonville, CA
Saw a row of 3 bright lights and 1 larger lower brighter circle light. Due west over ocean. Stayed in fixed position for 1/2 hour, then we got cold. Saw 3 planes headed directly toward them. 1 seemed very close, enough to probably get a good look.
May 19, 2023 · 9:50 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalBowdoinham, ME
Saw contrails behind the clouds and then a formation of what I thought looked like aircraft flying West to East. It took about 40-60 seconds to cross the sky where I was before I lost sight. I do have trees on both sides of where I was sitting/standing. They were lit up with what appeared to be soft white lights, don't remember seeing any other color lights. Almost looked like a caterpillar formation. Did not appear to me that they were that high in elevation. Had my hot tub running so I did not hear any sound. Same line of flight that I saw a group of aircraft flying single file spaced out one or two to a slot, that was about 20 aircraft and was early morning earlier this spring. Again, I assume both of these instances were military aircraft. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
May 19, 2023 · 9:45 PM · CIRCLE
Eugene, OR
A couple weeks ago I saw a bright light in the sky, but didn’t think anything of it, a couple weeks later my daughter saw it and said mom, there’s a bright light outside, so we started taking pictures and recording it, and it didn’t move at all. I looked the next few nights for it but it was Over cast so on Monday 5/22/2023 I checked the sky and it was not there anymore. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
May 19, 2023 · 9:13 PM · CIRCLE
Ukiah, CA
A bright light orb it looked like it moved for a while.
May 19, 2023 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Plainfield, IN
I noticed an object in the sky . We live near the airport but this wasn’t a plane. It was stationary then moved to the side. This was the best of the two pics. I went in and called my wife to the front door . I showed her the pictures. We went back out and it was gone. The whole event took less than two minutes. I didn’t know what to make of it. I sent the picture to my brother. After he examined it for a minute he advised me to report it. I was afraid to be wrong about it and thought there must be some explanation . I have decided to report it because the image quality is very good. This picture was taken October 12 2021 at 9:00 pm. The bright light in the pic was a star. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]
May 19, 2023 · 8:49 PM · LIGHT
Katy, TX
Bright light noticeable with the naked eye. It was visible for about 20 minutes. Light first seen at 8:49pm. Multiple videos and photos up until 9:04pm. During the time of watching phones started acting weird on 2 separate cell phones for a brief minute.
May 19, 2023 · 7:58 PM · TRIANGLE
Boulder, CO
I was parked near the church at lookout road and 79th getting sunset photos. I looked east of my location. I saw a black shape I initially thought was a bird. I pointed my 500mm lens at it and got multiple photos. It looked like it has a cone shaped balloon at the top of the object. The cone was grey and had a black tip facing upward It had 4 round gray shapes hanging below the cone shape. I think something was tethered at the bottom of the round shapes by a single strap. It looked like it was floating north of my position [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
May 19, 2023 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
Sebring, FL
I was letting out my dogs in the backyard while looking northwest, I saw a Light, the best thing I could compare it to is a flashlight far in the distance. It moved southwest from its position, and faded completely out of existence and blended with the sky. It could be a airplane that went behind a cloud near it, But I waited and never saw the thing again. I thought most stories were made up but I swear to my grave that I saw that thing. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
May 19, 2023 · 2:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Walpole, NH
Two gray fighter jets were chasing a dark gray or black triangular shaped craft headed west. I’m unsure the elevation they were at but looked to be about 1.00” long. I would guess they were 5000-8000’. They were doing slalom like maneuvers which is what caught my attention. They were moving so fast it caught me so off guard I didn’t even notice the black triangular aircraft at first. The triangular craft was seemingly just moving, if that makes sense. As in, there wasn’t the expected movement like the jets. Almost as if I was blinking very quickly as it would move, but I wasn’t blinking. It definitely seemed like the craft was easily outmaneuvering the two jets. Unfortunately I couldn’t react fast enough to get pics or video.
May 19, 2023 · 10:48 AM · CIRCLE
Vancouver, BC · Canada
I filmed it in the sky. It seemed to flash the silver colour as if it was spinning and the sun was hitting it. I videotaped this object but it won’t let me send it. Send me a phone number and I’ll send it to you. I work on a boat that goes back and forth in the inner harbour of Vancouver. It was very high up in daylight. Hope this helps. Cheers
May 19, 2023 · 10:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Vero Beach, FL
While driving I observed a very brief very white flash or strobe from the sky. This caused me to look skyward which I did. After looking up into a clear blue cloudless sky I saw nothing for 8 - 10 seconds. I then observed an object that I would estimate to the size of a commercial airliner drifting to the east at an elevation of 15,000 - 20,000 ft. Battleship gray in color. After observing this object for maybe 5 - 8 seconds it disappeared. I continued to look in the sky and saw nothing. Another strobe or flash occurred in the sky but I saw nothing in the sky. I produced a drawing of the object but it looked much more advanced than I could create in a drawing. I checked with local law enforcement, see if they had any reports of something unusual in the sky. They had none. Also checked with the Vero Beach Air Traffic Control Tower, see if they have anything on radar during that time frame. They would not tell me anything. I am a good witness. I was a Fire Rescue Lieutenant for almost 33 years with no need to fabricate anything.
May 19, 2023 · 9:45 AM · SPHERE
Lakeville, PA
Large Blimp like object about 15-30 bus lengths long, moving slowly 25-50 MPH, only about 300-500 yards above lake surface. Moving in the North-East direction, linear movement. Observed from 18.5 ft aluminum boat drifting in Lake. Yes we realize the photos could resemble starlink, but this object appeared to be a Blimp, which doesn't display in Photos. We're fairly sure about the distance off ground of 300-500 yards, as I'm a surveyor. This is the first UFO myself and friend have seen ever (40 years old). My friend has higher resolution photos, these were sent to me by text message. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
May 19, 2023 · 1:49 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalHarrisburg East of I5, OR
I was on my way home from work driving on I5 northbound and I happened to noticed a string of lights in a completely straight line and not moving. As I continued to look at them the bottom 2 lights #'s 8&9 slowly faded out and disappeared then in about 5 seconds reappeared. Approx. 1-2 min. later the 3rd light from the top just disappeared for about 2 seconds then suddenly reappeared. About 3 min. into watching the lights they all slowly moved closer together all while staying in a perfectly straight line in the same location in the sky then all of them slowly faded out and never came back. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 19, 2023 · 1:10 AM · CIRCLE
Skiatook, OK
We walked out to take my dog out, and noticed a bright light up the hill that was just floating and bright. It began to flash and get closer and lower. As it got closer it turned into three lights but it was too small to be any type of plane. It was gas powered and it made me so unsettling.
May 18, 2023 · 7:40 PM · CIRCLE
Kippens, NL · Canada
Me and my mother were eating supper when I looked out the window and saw a big object in the sky. I thought it was a plane at first but then it was very fast. I got up from my seat after my mother and went to the window to get a better look. It was a silk white and sometimes shined gray, it moved horizontally, back and fourth quite fast. My mother thinks it was a eagle but I didn't see any wings or trail behind it. The sky today is clear with a few clouds.
May 18, 2023 · 1:27 PM · CIGAR
Hurricane, UT
Cigar shape maybe as large as two train cars in length. Floated up and around and down in all directions. Slow moving. Thought it was a balloon but it floated a few times without moving. Then in one of my videos there is a second tiny object with a flashing light zipping around the larger object and then takes off super fast. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
May 18, 2023 · 11:28 AM · CIRCLE
San Jose, CA
White ball first came down at an angle and went behind a stand of tall trees then came back out the same side and accelerated away very fast with no sonic boom. I was above clouds at times so we were thinking it was at around 5000 ft. in elevation. We saw it speed up and disappear in the clouds. No sounds. I asked my coworker how big he thought it was and he said bigger than a car. So I'm guessing as big as a van but round. I said if a plane is going 500 mph do you think it was going 1000 mph? He said faster...
May 17, 2023 · 11:20 PM · OVAL
Sharpsville, IN
Oval like object over Sharpsville, IN. Normally the object is bright with light. Tonite it is dull blue and red flashing and barely visible. Still hovering in circles moving up and down.
May 17, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CUBE
Tadepalligudem, ANDHRA P · India
When we are watching at night sky usually with clouds,we are on our terrace then suddenly a bright orange light felt like traveling ,we thought it may be aeroplane so i searched on google bit there are no particular planes flying across our area and the flying object is not even stationary ,so i took a photo of it with my phone ,it came out as different but unkowm
May 17, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Lynnwood, WA
Stargazing at 10:30 pm local time, facing north, my attention was drawn to a faint light I saw traveling high in NE sky (about 70 [seventy] degrees). The light appeared initially like a common satellite in terms of brightness and size as it approached from the east. Then, it slowed and seemed to descend, tracing out a path in the shape of the number 5. In other words, it slowed, continued to travel east-to-west, then dipped straight down, and then traced an arc (again, imagine the shape of a number 5). As it traced the arc, it increased in brightness until about midway through the arc's completion, it was as bright as an approaching airliner's landing lights, whereupon it began to decrease in luminosity. When the arc was completed, the light was back at its original luminosity. At this point, it accelerated in a straight path directly to the north and was gone in about five seconds.