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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.
139,459 entries
May 14, 2023 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
jackson township, NJ
The linear lights traveled from the northwest, heading southeast, in unison. Rate of speed was faster than commercial aircraft
May 14, 2023 · 10:09 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalMt Royal, NJ
Saw some unusual lights coming at me and took out my camera to take pictures of the unusual object. I was able to get 3 pictures and it vanished! After looking at the first picture closely I notice a flat craft of some sort that moved to a horizontal position and vanished? [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 14, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Brodheadsville, PA, PA
Above Venus a transparent, elongated object started moving vertically with 1 bright, solid light at the top. It appeared to be moving away from us at first, pretty similar to a rocketships trail. I pointed asking my spouse what that was when we were on the porch, and we both couldn't take our eyes off it because it seemed different. We continued to watch and it started to come across the sky slowly. It appeared as one object, but almost transparent but could still make out a shape, the best thing to call it would be a saucer, the size was unreal I'm guessing 150ft long maybe more. It finally started hovering above our yard, and we both agreed there was distanct 7 lights in a line with even spaces. This was clearly from one object and it was lower than the plane that was passing near it to the right of it infront. The odd part of it was as my spouse reached for his phone to finally take a video as it was right above us. I was keeping my eyes on it and all the lights slowly dimmed and disappeared before he even looked back up. We both have seen questionable things in the sky before, as we are outdoor folk and have been in remote locations with open sky's but nothing has compared to this experience. We both questioned each other after, "Did we really just see that?" After that I felt eerie or as if being watched from a distance and was hearing some odd sounds that I couldn't explain, so we went inside. Its something you hear about but to see yourself was an experience.
May 14, 2023 · 9:55 PM · CIRCLE
Deer Park, AL
I was outside smoking a cigarette talking on the phone. I was watching a circular, green and white flashing thing in the sky to the northeast. I watched a torpedo shaped/ orange fire colored object emitted from the bottom of the circular object and went straight down towards earth. I then couldn’t see it as the trees blocked my view the closer it got to earth. Then my dog ran in that direction and was barking.
May 14, 2023 · 9:40 PM · DISK
Cannon Beach, OR
I was taking a picture of the sunset, and noticed the darker cloud/craft. I zoomed in and saw two more. Then I decided to take a video and one of them appeared too quickly to be a cloud. They faded away faster than a cloud would also. My phone was acting unusal and zooming more rapidly than usual. I take sunset pictures each night when I am at work. I got scared and stopped filming. I have a couple video clips I could share but they are too big to attach. My coworker at the hotel is filling this out because the video is so compelling. Please reach out.
May 14, 2023 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedThermopolis, WY
We were sitting and looked up to see two parallel lines of light, matching in length, connected by smaller lines of light. It was moving south east, high in the sky, like you would expect a comet. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
May 14, 2023 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I saw a bright white light (brighter than Venus) to the south, moving NE at about the speed I’d expect an aircraft to fly. There was no perceptible sound, and no red/green lights. Immediately, I saw a small white light move “out of” the large white light, move away for a couple seconds, and then disappear. I watched for about 15 seconds, as the light continued its NE course, then took out my iPhone and filmed video at 1x, as it moved away. During the first 10 seconds or so, the video shows a small white light moving around the large light, appearing and disappearing. I filmed the object from the street in facing my home (last home on dead-end street) in the eastern sky.
May 14, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Klamath Falls, OR
Wife and I out as we are often at sunset on our patio or in the yard with eyes in the sky. I personally aim for “EENT” which in my 8 years in the USMC as a Scout Sniper followed by over 10 years as I private security “contractor” has lead me to a unique idea that often pays dividend in sightings. I usually don’t record them or have the chance to. I’ve made efforts to now capture when possible. The light seemed to “flash into” our atmosphere really and then slowly travel a slight “wobbly” path. The wife and I celebrated our first communal sighting since our move to Oregon from Arizona in December. The weather and hectic life/ schedules had not allowed us to do our nightlight sunset/eent watch. But it was Mother’s Day and we made it a point. Our girls were returning from an errand which requires our dogs that were out in the yard with us to be taken in the house. As my wife proceeded I recorded further as much as I could post the intial shock wearing off we had a solid UAP. I add to the credentials my wife is also a 20 year retired Air Force F15 jet mechanic. We understand our known aircraft operations and I have a very good identifications for items that should be in our orbit. Video to large to upload (2:08) and some zoomed in good “orbish” qualities. Cut down a center quality zoom in and out section for review
May 14, 2023 · 8:40 PM · CIRCLE
Athens, AL
Huge yellow-white sphere 5 times the size of the moon and it was only there for a couple of seconds and then it vanished
May 14, 2023 · 6:04 PM · TRIANGLE
Little Canada, MN
A very bright triangle very high in the sky above the lake. I was out in the backyard gardening with my wife and I looked up and I saw this very bright triangle very high in the sky higher than I ever see a plane and I see lots of planes from my location. I look left to tell my wife that plane must be very high, and when we look back, it was gone. Very disappointing I didn’t immediately take out my phone. My wife and I have seen UFO in the past we saw a TikTac vehicle above the Saint Paul airport 10 years ago. So when I told her that she wasn’t surprised. I thought I should tell the story.
May 14, 2023 · 11:57 AM · SPHERE
Simnasho, OR
We were flying southbound from Hood River, Oregon to Sunriver, Oregon. Sometime between 11:55am and 12:10pm at a cruising altitude (GPS) of ~10,500' my wife and I saw two metallic spheres. I was the pilot, and my wife was riding in the back seat of our cessna 182 with our toddler. I thought at first that I was seeing a bird, and remarked to my wife how weird it was that there was a bird up so high. She saw the object, and as we approached it we both realized it was not a bird at the same time. We both observed it to be two spheres, gray or metallic, connected by a horizontal tether. The spheres appeared to be about 12" diameter. They were perfect spheres. Our first thought was maybe party baloons, but they were too perfectly spherical and had no apparent surface deformations that would indicate a baloon's neck/tie-off spot. We did not observe a tether to the ground, or any means of propulsion. As we passed them, they appeared stationary to me but my wife said she thought they accelerated in the opposite direction of our track. We were on the CTAF frequency for the area, and heard no radio reports or disturbances. We were not on flight following, and therefore did not report to Seattle Center. I have a .kml file recorded from gps data on that flight.
May 14, 2023 · 10:45 AM · OVAL
Troy, NY
A large oval object passed by, increased altitude and disappeared into the darkness, it's about 108+ft in length by eye estimation, there wasnt much light to get any images but you could clearly see the outline in the sky in person, there's no lights on it like Goodyear blimps but it could've been one although it's unidentified currently, there were also a couple helicopters in the vicinity for quite some time before and after we saw it [NUFORC annotation: Blimp - Possible]
May 14, 2023 · 4:30 AM · SPHERE
Chillicothe, TX
Light in the sky hovering above the house across the street. Caught by my front porch camera. It’s in the top middle of the attached video. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Possible]
May 14, 2023 · 3:14 AM · SPHERE
Clackamas, OR
I was walking at 3 am it was a very clear night. I left my house and walked about 100ft when I looked up from my phone to look at the stars. Immediately I noticed a bright white-yellow light transiting through the Big Dipper, which at the time appeared high in the north west sky. I mad no sound at all. I could tell it was not an aircraft of any sort it did not blink or change in intensity as it changed moved by, I checked FlightRadar immediately after the sighting and there was nothing. So I pulled out my phone and started filming. While filming I was thinking maybe satellite but it was really bright for that and appeared to vary in course and speed slightly. After it went behind the house I stopped filming but walked so I could see it. It seemed to approach the horizon the way in way which seemed similar to an aircraft at cruising altitude. Once it got to dim to see I checked flight tracker to confirm it was definitely no airplane or helicopter. I sat on the sighting for a few days but when I went to report it on the 21st of may I found many reports of similar objects and trajectories. Very interesting indeed! The video is pretty good! Unfortunately to big to upload. Still images are included.It shows the object as it moved nearly directly overhead from the northwest to the southeast on a heading of about 100-110 degrees. It took about 3min to leave my view before it was too dim to see. It appears to vary its course to “dodge” a star slightly as it left. Definitely no meteor, helicopter, or airplane. Perhaps a satellite. But I have never seen a satellite that bright and move that slow.
May 14, 2023 · 2:29 AM · UNKNOWN
Greenup, IL
Kept seeing flashing lights every few seconds out my window, tried to see if there was any storms, and there's no rain or thunder. Heard some unexplained noise (didn't go outside)
May 14, 2023 · 12:21 AM · SPHERE
Monmouth, OR
At 12:21am silver ball shaped uap with orange light underneath moving less than 50 mph ne across Josephine street east. And not deviating path. No other lights that indicates airplane. 3:27am 60 min contact with 3 disk shaped objects asking for assistance via advanced technology: see secondary report.
May 13, 2023 · 11:59 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
I was stargazing on the balcony, I saw 3 orbs of light travel South in the form of a triangle( barley visible); one orb steering itself closer to another and back to formed shape, I scream at my boyfriend to come outside and see what I see. His eyes weren’t adjusted as he was playing video games, and the 3 lights went off into the distance. About two seconds later, my boyfriend and I saw these 6 orbs of light appear and glide itself over the hotel building.
May 13, 2023 · 11:29 PM · RECTANGLE
Hart, MI, American Samoa
It started of as a unusually bright circle in the sky, not high enough to be a star but lint low enough to be human, we watched it and it morphed and had crazy movements, zig zag up and down, disappeared in an instance
May 13, 2023 · 10:59 PM · FORMATION
Shelton, CT
A line of four spaced out bright red lights. Looked up images of space x and the do not match what we saw. We were driving home from work I look at the sky frequently and saw the lights. I said to my husband look at the sky and he saw and began recording. We got off the highway to get a better view and saw two more. They seems to be moving together then stopped and disappeared.
May 13, 2023 · 10:17 PM · UNKNOWN
Lake katrine, NY
Bright circle moving in the sky very slowly with no flashing lights or anything and it didn’t change at all I watched it until I couldn’t see it anymore. Front, back, and sides all white
May 13, 2023 · 10:17 PM · DIAMOND
jacksonville, FL
I was walking outside to my car and looked up and saw this abnormally, large, shining, bright fluorescent, orange light, it shined, as if it were an active fire. It was higher than the airplanes, and the only movement it had was the activity of its lights. I could not tell whether or not it was stationary, but if it was not, it barely moved. The activity of the lights did not stop, but during the two minute duration, it started to get dimmer. Soon enough, the light dimmed all the way off, as if you just turned off a lightbulb, the light took a second to completely go away, and it was just slightly bigger than planes, and I could tell it was not a plane because the center of it was brighter than the rest, as if the it was on fire or something, but it was not a star because this object was a very fluorescent orange, a very Crayola crayon orange, and much larger than a star.
May 13, 2023 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Lebanon, PA
Two lights were flying in tandem as I was driving. I thought it was the Phila to Harrisburg regular evening flight but the lights’ arrangement was odd. As I turned into grocery store parking lot, the movement stopped. The lights remained in place as it looked to be over a military area north west of lebanon called Gap. I watched for 5 minutes from dark area of parking lot and took a photo which showed a single circular light, not the two that I saw with naked eye. I returned to route 322 to drive a mile east to a 2nd store and the lights moved parallel to my driving, very fast, but then returned to prior area within a few minutes. When I exited the store I returned to the original parking area to find that they were in a similar location but not exact as I had seen them half hour earlier. I then returned home and stopped watching. Lights were white and object itself couldn’t be seen. When it was the closest initially I didn’t look since I thought it was a plane.
May 13, 2023 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedVA
Gradual moving cluster of four (4) orbs of light visible to moving in constant pattern over course of 2 (two) hours. Confirmed with local law enforcement no local training exercises in progress. No sounds heard. No visible beam of light from ground visible. Bystander confirmed orbs could be seen with naked eye. Light caught on recording with two separate cameras. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
May 13, 2023 · 9:53 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBOWIE, MD
Me, my neighbor and two adult kids saw and I recorded strobing, white colored spotlight patterns in the sky that would spread apart and then come back together. I was able to capture this event on video. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Probable]