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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.
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May 17, 2023 · 10:14 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
An object was observed moving east to west across the night sky add an extremely high velocity. The location is very urban; near downtown Chicago. The object appeared as a point of light that I initially thought was a plane. It was moving so quickly it caught my eye and I looked up. It appeared to move in a straight line. I live in a place where I regularly see planes move from east to west, preparing for landing at Chicago Midway airport. This light was not following one of the typical plane paths that I see approach the airport. Since it was just a single point of solid whitish, blue light, I thought it might be a plane very high in altitude, but as I watched it move, I realized it was something much smaller and much closer to the ground. I cannot rule out a drone entirely, but the speed and distance seem to rule that out. The object was moving at a somewhat steep angle, seemed to come from quite high in the sky, and move towards midway airport in a descending motion approaching lower altitude. The sighting only lasted about two seconds. In that short amount of time I watched the object move from nearly above me to a great distance from me, perhaps closer to the airport. If I had to guess I would say the object was moving at the speed of miles per second. My guess based on google maps is that in those 2 seconds the object may have moved 3-5 miles. Its speed was constant and its direction did not change from a straight line. Estimating the objects altitude is tough for me, but roughly I would say it started a few hundred meters up in the sky, and where I lost sight it may have been only 100 or so meters in the sky. I lost sight of the object when it was blocked by other buildings on my immediate horizon. It could have been a piece of space debris falling to the ground, but most shooting stars I have seen are very quick wisps that move across the sky and disappear. Also, I have never seen a shooting star in the city. This object did not seem to fit that pattern. The object left no trail in the sky and was completely silent.
May 17, 2023 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Jeffersonville, IN
Just stationary with glow going around part of the edge. Silent. Same time same night another person just across the river in Louisville, Ky also witnessed and reported here on this site.
May 17, 2023 · 9:49 PM · LIGHT
Sterling City, TX
Star like lights moving at similar speeds appeared in a cloudless sky amongst other starlight, moved west to east and disappeared amongst other starlight, with my outstretched arm, the lights are as far apart from each other as my hand was wide, so this does not seem to match the star link satellites. We have seen them before, and again since. Only 9 or 10 lights are visible at once, and over about 8 minutes we think we saw close to 30 lights. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
May 17, 2023 · 7:45 PM · CHANGING
Prescott, AZ
We first spotted the circular formation of 6 to 8 lights while driving west on Anthem Way looking west towards Prescott. Observed the stationary pattern of lights for approximately one to two minutes. As our view changed while driving we lost sight of the circular pattern of lights for a minute then as they came back into view we observed that the lights were now in a perfectly straight line. We observed the lights for another minute or so and continued driving.
May 17, 2023 · 3:30 PM · OTHER
Santa Barbara, CA
Square shape with orbs on corners. Flat in another dimension - exposed by wobble. Continued north until no longer visible. Aircraft, possibly an airline, traveling east, recorded in video. The video was too large to attach. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
May 17, 2023 · 11:54 AM · DIAMOND
Atlin, BC · Canada
we live in south facing cabin and monitor air traffic over our home and valley.my wife noticed very bright abnormal light traveleing at a fast speed across the sky just above mountain tops.i was able to put binos on for brief moment before it traveled out of view.it had a prism shape of very white light.this was not a commercial aircraft.at the same time as it passed a very high craft traveled south to north over us.this we heard the sonic boom.it was not a civillian aircraft as it traveled to high and too fast.the prism light was completely quite and brighter than any star or aircraft I have ever seen.this was not the space station or satilite.everthing about my sighting I felt was not anything I have seen latley.i have been a canadien ranger and was briefed on reporting these objects.
May 17, 2023 · 1:30 AM · CROSS
Pahrump, NV
Traveling North East on highway 160 approaching the town of Pahrump Nevada at approximately 1:30 a.m. on 05/14/3023, my girlfriend and I observed what appeared to be a highway patrol car or motorcycle approaching us in the opposite direction at a very high rate of speed (approximately 100 mph or higher) with its extremely bright alternating and "flashing" red and blue emergency lights on, coming in the opposite direction. As the lights got closer I realize that there were no headlights or other forward facing white lights of any kind but what appeared to be a total of 8 red and blue flashing lights in the shape of a cross. As it approached us I saw it was apparently not a car, I thought to myself it's got to be a motorcycle. As it appeared to be hovering just above the road surface. As our vehicle was closing the distance of the oncoming object / lights and just before our point of intersecting or passing the other object at about a 100 yards in front of us it completely disappeared in front of our eyes... Nothing passed us, there was no sound and no light, it was just completely gone. I hit the brakes rolled down the window look to see if it was possible "if whatever it was" could have went off the road but there was a guardrail and would have been impossible. It was just gone !!! Poof I even turned around to see what it was and where it went. But there is absolutely nothing there. The lights were incredibly bright and then whatever it was disappeared into thin Air… Thinking it was an emergency vehicle, I was slowing down and looking for a place to pull off to the side to let it pass. I noticed that there was a car about a quarter mile in front of us that actually passed the light as it was coming through a sweeping left hand bend in the road towards us. The entire situation reminded me of the scene out of the movie close encounters of the third kind where in the beginning of the movie there was a UFO flying down the road… Inexplicable it's impossible there's no way that it was a drone or another type of vehicle. It just disappeared before our very eyes.
May 16, 2023 · 11:59 PM · CROSS
Castle Rock, WA
The object was spotted moving quickly across the sky above my head at what appeared to be fairly low altitude. The object was blurry or foggy looking (possibly pulsating). It was in the shape of a cross. It happened quickly and I was the only witness. No pictures were taken. There was no noted sound. I'd been specifically listening to the frogs in my pond and the owls in the woods behind my house. The sighting did not startle my horses either. The object was moving fast enough that it was over in just a few seconds.
May 16, 2023 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Claremont, CA
Overhead blinking object, about 1 Hz cycle, alternating red and green. Videos (3) attached, hopefully. One object, rapid positional movement, appeared to be actively surveilling. Oblique views were captured, but direct overhead views were not. (The two companion linked lights which appear in the video were possibly artifacts. They were not visible to me.) NB: One 5 minute video file is too large. It is available …
May 16, 2023 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Albany, OR
Looked out my window at 10:30pm to see what appeared to be a very bright planet but it was strobing. Looked at it for awhile trying to make out what it could be. It was stationary for the duration. Video makes it appear to move, that’s just me not being stable. Decided to get my phone and record for a minute. Took the video (poor quality), returned my phone to the charger. When I turned around the light was gone. Took screen shots, frame by frame of the video and it’s pretty obvious that there’s some type of lighting and orbs forming a shape. It would pulse multiple colors rapidly, dim out and reset a pattern of colors. From a distance, it looked similar to a landing gear lights on a plane in brightness. Really odd that it was stationary and disappeared so rapidly. There was also no aircraft noise and my radar app showed no aircraft in the area. Both my wife and I had woken up strangely and both noticed this out our north facing window.
May 16, 2023 · 9:20 PM · CUBE
Lawndale, NC
My wife and I were waiting out a strong storm with intense lightning this evening. While sitting in our living room with the lights off, she had fallen asleep and I was watching distant lightning from the window. During one of the lightning flashes, the sky was lit for a period of about 4-6 seconds, and I witnessed a cube like object above the tree tops between the lightning and myself. I can not say for certain whether it was directly across the road in the treetops or if it was farther away in the sky and appeared as if it was that close. But it was most definitely a cube shape soaring across the skyline. Black in color due to only seeing the shape, it had what appeared to be 4 sides, but appeared to tumble or rotate slightly. It appeared to be moving very quickly. I saw no lights or anything else during this time.
May 16, 2023 · 7:58 PM · TRIANGLE
Varanasi, UTTAR PR · India
On 16 May 2023 b/w 7:58 pm and 8:00 pm (all times are in IST standard time) My mother, my father and me, all 3 of us have seen strange triangle shape object, black colour in the sky from our house garden. It had green colour lights at 3 corners and 1 in the centroid position. my mother saw that thing first approximately at 7:58 PM on 16 May 2023 while washing the garden area she poured the water bucket on the gate to the garden entrance and she saw these light triangle shape 3 lights at its corner and 1 light in the centre and all in green colour in the North direction of small size as described in next para, she rushed to me inside the house as she has seen passing flying disks in past when she was about 10 years old while she was in Gaya city Bihar approx. 35-40 years ago sleeping in the open night sky regularly and she thought I was the best person to consult for this and when I came to the entrance I also saw the same thing but I noticed it was black in colour and all the lights were having a glaring effect and that thing was hovering. I rushed back into the room and grab my Samsung M20 smartphone and answer my father's question which he was asking me that "What's Going on? " I answered with excitement but briefly to save time "PAPA there is a UFO !!" and I rushed out into the garden area with my father also following me with amazement and we saw that UFO as described before and everyone noticed the same detail as described above and Everyone was watching this thing for about 1 min since the first visual contact. We don't have the exact estimation of its size may it was too big or small in dimensions depending on how far or close it was but we can estimate this only as everyone has a different opinion my father said that it was a massive size and was far away and hovering on Godowalia chauraha approximately 2.00 Km away from our location, But my estimate is that it was small in size and it was very close about 30 m away from us at a height of 10 m at max altitude And my mother agreed with me. I thought at that moment maybe it was observing us that’s why it was hovering that long it was a BIG size Drone but the arrangement of lights as explained doesn’t match with the drone light spec available in the publicly open market drone I searched for that but didn’t find the exact match on the internet and my video editing expert friend said based on the photo and description that it was a 40% UFO and 60 % Unknown Drone but I later showed him the ref images than he reversed this percentage but also said the evidence is not clear and prove UFO theory. Let us come back to the incident, to disprove the drone theory as I don’t have evidence but only my family's naked-eye experiences, Now when we all were seeing that thing I was busy opening my phone camera app and it was not opening my phone started to Hang in a weird manner and when I opened my camera app since it was having a flashlight on by default so flashlight tuned on when switched to Video mode and I remember I was not able to Click on start button rather my phone switched to selfie mode and this switch was happening whenever I touched the start button meanwhile I tried to look on the phone screen but only 3 dim light spots where only visible during this struggle with my phone. Maybe due to the continues flashing of my flashlight in this chaos while constantly pointing my camera and fingers towards that thing, we saw that started to move towards the West and then towards the East to hide in the building as we were at the ground level We also shifted our position in order to see that thing continuously and the way it was moving was not naturally what a drone is able to do while changing its position as that thing was not tilling towards the direction where it was going, not like a drone which does this by adjusting the propeller thrust and tilting a little bit which could be observed in the even the most advanced drone in the market (basic Physics was defied by the object). It was in the same orientation since we were tracking it. When it started to move it actually changed its light colour to green and red colour alternatively on all its corners and edges (which indicates the Drone Theory possibility) My phone was not in my control as that thing was acting as a kind of jammer to stop me to get any visuals of him/her captured. But the Drone theory is disproved again when the thing after a small game of hide and seek decided to finally escape so when hiding in the building didn't work it started to move in the west and stopped there and then started to look like a dot of light while it is accelerated towards the North of East and hover there like a bright star and then started to move slowly towards East towards Ganga river which is just 178 m away from the location and while it was just going to vanish into the building and getting off visual sight. Just before it goes Off sight I got my phone controls back and I was able to switch to capture mode and taped the button on the screen multiple times until it vanished I was very disappointed as I didn’t have any concrete evidence(video), but suddenly I saw this photo in my gallery which left me amazed, it was a black and White image But my camera was a coloured high-quality camera but it took a black and white photo without any use of a filter. And that photo was taken exactly at 8:00 PM on 16 May 2023 and that light dot where clearly visible 2 white dots in the photo and a red trail of light which is visible when you zoom in closely on the 2 dots. Another thing to be mentioned when this thing was happening I also saw 2 passenger jets going on their way one in the North and the other in the West and both of them were at high altitude airways which are just above our house. After this all these incidents, I started to share this incident with my Friends and family on WhatsApp, I was recording a voice note to my elder sister and then I saw a similar thing again but this time it was looking like a drone with a strobe light and straight-line movement just after 8 mins of this incident going from East towards West maybe this was a POLICE DRONE which had came to investigate that thing which might also be seen by its operator as us. I also made the video of that possible Police drone as a reference for the future on 16 May 2023 at 8:08 PM. 8 min after the UFO incident. Since I am a Pro Gamer of Flight Simulator games and often play FSX 2010 edition, I Know a lot about flying objects in the sky and easily spot the difference b/w planes, helicopters and Dones of any kind and often do that when I see the flying things in the sky. We were amazed but felt quite lucky we initially thought during the encounter that it was a POLICE DORNE but when I recalled all the incident carefully and typed out all the details while writing this report, today 19 MAY 2023 at 11:03 AM, NOW I am 100% Sure that it was not a Drone, star, falling star or plane, etc but non-other than a UFO. Maybe it does get annoyed by our courageous moves (flashing lights and trying to record and track it ). It thought that it was caught by courageous and fearless people and It decided to escape. I have attached all the measurements of possible distances as discussed and coordinates of the exact location of the incident and the Police drone Video and the UFO. Photo and a reference photo from the internet edited to describe the object. Sorry to mention lastly I believe no buddy apart from us has seen this UFO as we were lucky to be in the right place and at the right time and I and I have not talked to the local people who were there at this location as they will find me crazy so I request investigator not to reveal my name among the local people of the area.
May 16, 2023 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Oro Valley AZ, AZ
We were sitting in the football stadium grandstands at Canyon Del Oro High School in Oro Valley AZ (a suburb of Tucson) for a high school graduation ceremony on May 16, 2023 at 1900.. I estimate approx 1,000 people in the stands and 350 graduation students on the field. At 1900 the ceremonies began. It was at this point that my partner pointed out a strange dark object was hovering to the east approx 5-10 miles from our location. It was north of the Santa Catalina mountains and northeast of Pusch Ridge. I advised my partner that is was most likely an airplane from the nearby Davis Monthan AFB or Tucson Intl Airport. However, as we watched it, no movement was noticed. Other people in the stands also saw the object and started to question what it was. My partner attempted to capture the object on his mobile phone but was unable to get a clear picture, most likely due to distance. At 1925 the object lit up with 3 bright white lights in a strobing fashion. I could see a faint outline of the object which appeared to be triangle in shape. The object continued to hover for approx 5 more mins with its flashing lights and not moving. At approx 1930 the object moved at extreme speed southwest over the Tucson valley. I estimated it traveled over 25 miles in a matter of seconds. It proceed to stop abruptly and again hover. At approx 1935 the object went into what appeared to be a spiral roll down and I could clearly see it was triangle in shape. We lost sight of it as it disappeared behind buildings.
May 16, 2023 · 7:00 PM · DISK
Tucson, AZ
The object appeared as we were still in a High School football stadium outside during a graduation ceremony. We (many around the seats were sitting on) noticed a disc shaped object hovering over the Santa Catalina Mountains above the city of Tucson to the east of our location and north of Tucson.. At the beginning of the sighting, it was a hovering without any lights. Many of us speculated that it was an airplane - only it was not moving. The object simply hovered for about 10 minutes high in the sky. We attempted to take a phone but out camera photo was not capable of Suddenly the object begins flashing a single white light then it appeared to have more than one light flashing. Some people thought it was a plane from the nearby Air Force Base (Davis Monthan) but it was not moving - just hovering. Some thought it was a helicopter but again it was not moving. Suddenly it moved very rapidly from the east of us to the south of us. I would estimate it moved about 20 miles directly over Tucson. No airplane - military or civilian- could possible travel this distance in about 3 seconds. The object hovered over Tucson for only a few minutes then flew directly downward, almost appearing to be in a free fall. It disappeared after that.
May 16, 2023 · 12:58 PM · TRIANGLE
IdentifiedTampon (Le), Outre-Mer · France
Le mardi 16 mai 2023, le témoin se balade au belvédère de Notre-Dame de la Paix (Cd 36 Nd de la Paix / La Plaine des Cafres) sur l'île de La Réunion. Il a, par la suite, remarqué la présence d'un Phénomène Aérospatial Non identifié (PAN) sur une des photos prises avec son smartphone, lors de cette promenade. L'enquête démontre que le témoin a vraisemblablement pris en photo un animal, de type insecte, oiseau ou papillon. Il est fortement probable qu'il s'agisse d'un papillon endémique de La Réunion nommé « Neptis Dumetorum », évoluant rapidement à proximité de l'objectif. Mesurant environ 2 cm de long, ce papillon présente des similitudes marquées en termes de forme et de couleur avec le phénomène aérospatial non identifié (PAN) mentionné (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). Ce cas est classé « A », il s’agit très probablement d’un papillon. [GEIPAN classification A — Insecte]
May 16, 2023 · 3:20 AM · CIRCLE
Viola, AR
The objects appeared one at a time and only lasted for a few seconds ( 10 at most). They appeared in different locations, but in the same area. There were 7 total over about 15 minutes. They would appear ( extremely bright, like Jupiter or Venus) and travel in a downward direction towards the tree line then it would fade and disappear. This has happened a few times before in this same area and allowed me to get a couple of pictures. We see several “ufo’s” that have the same pattern of appearing, fly for a few seconds, and disappear. All these take place in the north/northeast sky. I would love to know what they are. If they are satellites or something else.
May 15, 2023 · 10:41 PM · SPHERE
SHARPSVILLE, IN
Bright light in the sky moving in circulation mode. Sometimes appear to move in and out. Was here tonite for an hour then moved out of site further, but more at distant.
May 15, 2023 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Lawton, MI
The object had no sound, no blinking lights,moved very slow, no trail. It was brighter than the surrounding stars. When it was above us, it disappeared. Duration was approximate 3 minutes. The body of the triangle looked sky dark. About 5 minutes later, we noticed 3 similar sized lights to the east, only in a straight line. Not connected to a constellation, nor was it Venus, which was more to the east and brighter. I felt uneasy, we went inside.
May 15, 2023 · 9:45 PM · CONE
IVER HEATH, BUCKINGH · United Kingdom
Flying towards Northolt Airport (West London) at a great speed in the direction of Uxbridge Middlesex.
May 15, 2023 · 6:10 PM · CIGAR
Athabasca, AB · Canada
Video
May 15, 2023 · 4:35 PM · DISK
Fenton, MI
Spotted a metal object in the sky at a very low altitude. The object was hovering in one spot above the freeway and looked to be a disc shape with a central light. Underneath the object it appeared to be a plane shape but was not moving and just hovered for about 15 seconds in one spot. I captured a video of it and after a few seconds of recording the object blurred itself from my camera. When I looked back at the object after passing underneath it, it had vanished without a sound or trail.
May 15, 2023 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Ramsey, NJ
I woke up to what I thought was a star out my bedroom window to the West, but realized quickly that the object was not a star or an airplane evidenced by the bizarre motion of the orb like object that is hovering and zig zagging. There are no lights whatsoever on this object but it does appear to be shiny
May 14, 2023 · 11:47 PM · SPHERE
Chander, OK
I observed a round object moving east to west across the sky at approximately 11:45 pm on May 14, 2023. It was lighted flashing about once per second changing color from orangish brown to blueish gray. It appeared to be somewhat larger than an airplane. I used my Apple 11 cell phone to video it for about 30 seconds until I could no longer see it. The night sky was cloudy. The color change appeared to be somewhat fragmented, not changing color all at the same time and the object appeared to have somewhat of a rolling motion.
May 14, 2023 · 10:20 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalCollege city, CA
Cont from sight summary…we were in awe..just watching them..thought it could be a blimp or something so I put my flashlight up at them…immediately right when I did that they faded slowly but in progression from first light to the last..and they were gone..they did t fade due to horizon or charge of light or sky it was all the same. They faded right when I put flashlight up at them. No noise..no plane..no blimp..no marker lights..NOTHING..and these were not up in space.they were lower than planes we saw later flying over. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]