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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.
2,379 entries
February 8, 2022 · 5:35 PM · CYLINDER
Highlands Ranch, CO
We were on our upper deck and just noticed the black object with what looked like a black jet stream appear. It moved super slowly (like falling) nothing like the meteors we see from our view and it had a strange shape. Possibly a satellite or piece of spacecraft? But why so slow? Please zoom in to see the object. One is it right after we saw it and then before it went behind the clouds
February 6, 2022 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Stamford, CT
Hovering directly east in the sky then it seemed to break apart in pieces and disappear and all of which one remained
January 31, 2022 · 6:50 PM · CYLINDER
Clarksville Sango area, TN
A large ball shaped glowing mass looked like it was drifting toward my location headed south at a slow speed. It then changed into a cylindrical shape and headed west . The cylinder shape began extending down toward the ground and disappeared. I would guess the size to be100-150 feet long and about half that distance in diameter. The position of the cylindrical shape was vertical to the ground and the only well defined lines were the vertical outline of the cylinder shape. I did not recognize any surfaces that appeared to be solid and saw no lights The sky was clear of clouds .
January 25, 2022 · 12:30 AM · CYLINDER
Portland, OR
There was a bright light in the sky with 2 smaller ones. The larger one would light up the s k y like a camera flash. The smaller ones moved irratically. Within about 20 minutes they all disappeared. It was about 12:30 am so it was really dark, I snapper pictures and some I lightened and zoomed In.
January 24, 2022 · 3:09 PM · CYLINDER
Bernalillo, NM
Saw silver missile looking object. No sound, no exhaust, no stability fins, no vapor trail, no rear flame headed NE about 45 degrees, approximately 500 feet above tree line. Watched about 5 minutes till it disappeared. Headed in the same direction of the silver tic tac I saw in 2013. I would like to know it was not China or Russia in our air space.
January 19, 2022 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Fort Payne, AL
These flying objects were captured on my security camera from 12 midnight to around 5 a.m. 1/19/2022. They were so fast, you have to watch them at slow speeds.
January 18, 2022 · 5:49 PM · CYLINDER
Fort Payne, AL
I've been seeing some strange indentations and holes all around my house. Over the last year, my motion detector on my back deck has been going crazy every night. It will come on and when I look outside, I would see nothing. Last night I was looking at my security camera and there seemed to be some lights flickering on my back porch, even with the motion light out. Normally, when the motion light is out, it's so dark you cannot see anything. Today, I decided to move my camera to a position that could see more up into the air and roof of my house hoping to capture whatever it is causing my motion light to come on. When I went outside to adjust my security camera, this thing was caught flying off. I didn't see it until my fiancé noticed it when we were checking out the security footage. I'm a little shocked to say the least.
January 4, 2022 · 8:00 PM · CYLINDER
Sun City West, AZ
I was in my backyard with my dog and looked up because it was a clear sky. I saw a brightly lit, slightly oval/cylindrical object high in the sky that appeared quickly, zipped to my right (NE, I think) and disappeared. It didn't seem to go far before it disappeared. I'm sure it wasn't a comet; there was no tail of any type. It just started at one spot, flew very fast and disappeared.
January 3, 2022 · 7:30 PM · CYLINDER
Springfield, VT
I left my parents house on Elm Hill around 7:30 to walk down the hill to my apartment. At the end of their driveway, I happened to look up (due west) and saw two large seemingly stationary objects with colored lights along the bottom. The lights on the top one made one blinking pass like Christmas lights. I observed them for maybe a minute or so. When I continued down the hill, they were still there. When I got home, I couldn’t sleep for most of the night thinking about what I saw. They were definitely not airplanes. They made no noise and did not change shape or size as long as I observed them. I now wish I would have observed them longer, but it was really cold out!
December 31, 2021 · 11:36 PM · CYLINDER
Winter Haven, FL
During a New Year’s Eve family gathering both my wife Jeannette and I took pictures of the three stars that make up Orion’s belt because the night was very clear. The next day, while examining the photos, we noticed the strange object appearing on both pictures. There were lights and various colors on the object. At the time, we didn't notice that the object was even there, therefore we didn't detect any type of motion. IMG_3765 was taken by my wife, while IMG_8282 was taken by me.
December 28, 2021 · 5:29 PM · CYLINDER
Colorado Springs, CO
I was driving east of Colorado Springs between 5-5:30 and noticed and extremely bright, what appeared to be circular object in the western sky which appears to be directly over NORAD. I continued to drive south and then west for over 20 minutes and the object didn’t move at all. Just hovered. As I started driving more west I could barely see some sort of elongation on the object and a faint glow of bluish lights. As I continued west the clouds obscured any further view of it.
December 15, 2021 · 9:00 PM · CYLINDER
Mojave, CA
I took pictures of the snow fall we had here in Mojave. I was using my cell phone. After showing friends I just let the pictures stay in my phone. A month ago I started cleaning out all the pictures I no longer wanted when I saw the cylinder shaped object in my picture I had not noticed. I enlarged and it is definitely something I cannot identify so I am sending to you professionals to evaluate.
December 15, 2021 · 1:10 PM · CYLINDER
Mojave, CA
I went out to take pictures of the snow we had the night before on 12/15/21 Mojave California. I took pictures and did not noticed what I had captured in the picture until I was clearing out pictures I no longer had a use for. In the picture I provided just to the left of center was a cylindrical object. I enlarged it and I could not identify what the object is so I'm sending to your staff to identify. NUFORC: reflection
December 3, 2021 · 10:30 PM · CYLINDER
Elgin, IL
Me and my son walked out of the house and Iooked up in the clear night sky to our amazement witnessed a UFO. We have power lines in front of our home, at first I thought it might be a glare from those power lines, not so. We walked to the middle of the steet past line power lines and veiwed a long silver,gray cylinder object flying high in the sky with no noice or lights. This object had to be at least five football fields long moving slow and then just slowly faded away like it never was there. The stange thing is it seem like the planes switched there fly pattern away from this object on there way to O'hare airport. We took a picture of it, you see the power lines to the left and the object to the right we forgot the flash was on the phone. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CYLINDER
IdentifiedConcord, NH
Was out walking my dog in my apartment complex at approximately 6:30 pm on December 3, 2021 when I noticed a unbelievable long cylindrical craft with a long single row of lights or windows decently bright enough to light the body of the craft enough up to see it was a long continuous grey cylinder of unbelievable length. This is what really blew my mind. My best guess in length would be 3 to 4 miles in total length. 30 to 40 semi bright lights or windows in a single row. Lights/ windows did not go to end of either end. Ends were lightless or windowless about 5 window/ lights in length on each end. Each end was rounded like a medication capsule/pill. Direction was coming from the west going east towards the ocean that is about 50 miles away. Besides guess at altitude would be 10 to 15 thousand feet. Sighting started near my unit which has a pool and pool house adjacent to my unit. Object first appeared in the area of pool. I watched for 15 to 20 seconds as it was moving east. There was light from from apartment windows and light poles making it hard to focus in object. After 15 or 20 seconds I ran with dog in tow to a field by the complex that has power lines running the length of the field. There were no lights to here to pollute my vision. Once in the field i watch the craft for another 20 seconds, but in great clarity this time. I got my best look at craft in this location. This is when I could clearly see it was a solid craft. I watch it till out of view over some tall pines. Once out of view I tried running to another area to see I could see it some more but the object was gone. No sound was heard during the entire duration of sighting. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:01 PM · CYLINDER
Downers Grove, IL
Was with my son in back yard, I looked up and noticed a very clear cylinder shaped object with looked like 5 white lights. I kept eyes on it and called my son to me, he was in a tree in yard shooting targets with bb gun. He came to me and asked "what" he could tell by tone of my voice it was something serious. I said "what's that" and pointed to object, he looked and his eyes got big, jaw dropped and said "wtf is that" I said something like I just wanted to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. I asked him to tell me what he saw, to confirm to me what I was seeing. He said to hurry and take a picture, but didn't have phone on me and didn't want to miss at least seeing it for longer. After watching it for a minute, the object and a cloud next to it seemed to fade before our eyes not take off flying in any direction, which was also very weird. It was still light out and sky was perfectly clear and blue in area once object "faded" away, my son asked "how did it do that" like I would know. I been searching for a report of same thing before I said anything, when seen report from person in Elgin describing same thing but no lights I used that date, I know it was 1st week of Dec., was wanting to just confirm someone else's report. Being in a Chicago suburb and being very obvious in sky, I thought there would be many reports of this object. It had to be pretty big, there were a handful of planes that could be seen in both easterly and western sky and from my observation this cylinder was much bigger. Hopefully this helps someone else seeing same thing.....
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · CYLINDER
Probable conventionalWentworth, MO
Two observers witnessed the sighting on 03 Dec 2021 at 6:09pm. Observer #1 (Female 64) has a master’s degree in Orthodontics. Observer #2 (Male 59) has an engineering degree with aerospace, automotive and medical device experience. Both observers witnessed the same sighting: one large, long, cylindrical craft with multiple (approximately 15) large white lights evenly spaced along the length of the craft. The sighting lasted approximately 20 seconds as the craft quietly (no sound whatsoever) moved from the west to the east. The outline of the craft could not be seen in the dark sky but the lights seemed to have a radial shape and were symmetrical. It is possible the lights were windows of a craft that was very brightly lit on the inside. It is difficult to assess the size, height and speed due to the darkness. A best educated guess is the craft is approximately 200 feet long, 12 feet diameter, a height of 500 feet to 1,000 feet and moving at 80 to 100 mph. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 3, 2021 · 4:15 PM · CYLINDER
Las Vegas, NV
4:15 pm 12/03/2021 while stand in the back yard with my neighbor, he points up in the sky and asks what is that? We live under the approach and departure area of the McCarran airport, I thought he was referring to another type of aircraft. But this was no aircraft it was a long cylinder or cigar object bright white and silvery looking. The orientation of the Cylinder like object was vertical, the ends up and down and it appeared to be hovering southeast of the airport. There had been air traffic departing in that area. I thought we would wait to see another aircraft pass by the area where the object was situated and gauge the size and altitude of it. But it seems at that moment all the aircraft that were departing had been diverted from that general area. There were two aircraft that had changed course and headed north east away from that area. then all air traffic for 8 to 10 minutes seem to have been stopped. About 10 minutes later an aircraft that looked like a C-20 in dark green paint was seen coming from the direction of the McCarran airport heading toward the object in the sky. The aircraft seem to have gotten about 1 mile from the object when it just winked out of sight. The aircraft passed through the area where the object was seen and continued on out of sight about 3 minutes later. I snapped a picture of it. Didn’t think it would come out because of the distance about 5 miles out. But when I enlarged the image I was surprised to see an image of a tic tac shaped UFO like the ones seen in the news recently. Image 1 is the actual photo taken , image 2 is an enlargement of 1, image 3 is an enlargement just after the the object vanished. Image 4 is map of area and approximate location of sightings.
December 3, 2021 · 4:14 PM · CYLINDER
Las Vegas, NV
I made a report on this sighting already. But I found a similar report from Downers Grove Illinois that occurred on the same date. Is it possible to contact this individual and show him my photos? He did make a request to compare information.. His report. Occurred : 12/3/2021 18:01 (Entered as : 12/03/2021 6:01 PM) Reported: 1/30/2022 10:11:10 AM 10:11 Posted: 3/4/2022 Location: Downers Grove, IL Shape: Cylinder Duration: minute or slightly more Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object Metallic cylinder in sky, hovering still no sound or movement. Was with my son in back yard, I looked up and noticed a very clear cylinder shaped object with looked like 5 white lights. I kept eyes on it and called my son to me, he was in a tree in yard shooting targets with bb gun. He came to me and asked "what" he could tell by tone of my voice it was something serious. I said "what's that" and pointed to object, he looked and his eyes got big, jaw dropped and said "wtf is that" I said something like I just wanted to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. I asked him to tell me what he saw, to confirm to me what I was seeing. He said to hurry and take a picture, but didn't have phone on me and didn't want to miss at least seeing it for longer. After watching it for a minute, the object and a cloud next to it seemed to fade before our eyes not take off flying in any direction, which was also very weird. It was still light out and sky was perfectly clear and blue in area once object "faded" away, my son asked "how did it do that" like I would know. I been searching for a report of same thing before I said anything, when seen report from person in Elgin describing same thing but no lights I used that date, I know it was 1st week of Dec., was wanting to just confirm someone else's report. Being in a Chicago suburb and being very obvious in sky, I thought there would be many reports of this object. It had to be pretty big, there were a handful of planes that could be seen in both easterly and western sky and from my observation this cylinder was much bigger. Hopefully this helps someone else seeing same thing..... My report 4:15 pm 12/03/2021 while stand in the back yard with my neighbor, he points up in the sky and asks what is that? We live under the approach and departure area of the McCarran airport, I thought he was referring to another type of aircraft. But this was no aircraft it was a long cylinder or cigar object bright white and silvery looking. The orientation of the Cigar like object was vertical, the ends up and down and it appeared to be hovering southeast of the airport. There had been air traffic departing in that area. I thought we would wait to see another aircraft pass by the area where the object was situated and gauge the size and altitude of it. But it seems at that moment all the aircraft that were departing had been diverted from that general area. There were two aircraft that had changed course and headed north east away from that area. then all air traffic for 8 to 10 minutes seem to have been stopped. Then it just winked out of sight. I snapped a picture of it. Didn’t think it would come out because of the distance about 5 miles out. But when I enlarged the image I was surprised to see an image of a tic tac shaped UFO like the ones seen in the news recently. Image 1 is the actual photo taken , image 2 is an enlargement of 1 notice how the area around the object appears distorted, image 3 is an enlargement just after the the object vanished. After seeing this object I have been searching for other witnesses that may have seen what I had seen.
December 3, 2021 · 7:00 AM · CYLINDER
boynton beach, FL
while fishing offshore I saw unusual rectangle shaped silver/gray cloud, then 2 teardrop shaped clouds dropped down from each bottom corner of rectangle. then vortex shaped cloud shot up from center top of rectangle cloud with star like object on top of vortex. vortex was spinning in clockwise motion. vortex remained, but object at top disappeared. then large cloud of vapor or mist erupted from the face of the rectangle for about 1 minuet. vapor stopped coming out of rectangle, but vapor remained in place. perceived movement in vortex from top to bottom. lasted several minuets. craft rode up thru vortex and about 150 to 200 feet above vortex. craft turned north, then west and then south southwest. portal disappeared, but vapor and the two teardrop shaped clouds remained. craft had arrowhead type appearance on nose, back part of craft cylinder shaped. about three fourths the length of 747. nose of craft morphed into same shape as rear so all was cylinder shape. bottom of portal never touched the ocean, and was about 50 to 75 feet above surface. after event ended I had a feeling of peace and calmness like nothing I ever felt. that night my teeth were very sensitive to hot (not spicy) food-first time that happened.
December 2, 2021 · 7:25 PM · CYLINDER
Duck Creek, UT
I know this is a little older but I hope the data might help. I was heading home evening of December 2nd from just east of Kanab Utah, a little after 6 p.m. I'm not 100% sure on the timing I'm using the timestamp of my photo for the exact moment I realized it was a UFO. Oddly enough though it was this thing was very bright and huge. However absolutely nothing appears in my photo. Anyhow, somewhere around 3 to 5 Mi before Highway 14 headed north on 89 I noticed a green comment. Which really stood out to me because I have red green Vision, most every light in the sky just looks yellow to me. As I came closer to the junction it fell out of my view oh, because of some Knowles, for a moment and I didn't see it again until I was heading west on 14. As I drove up the hill near an area we call Elkridge on the 14. I saw the comet again and it seemed bigger, later I realized I may have witnessed it entering our atmosphere. Anyhow, as I traveled further west on the 14 hi kept looking up at it and it seemed to get larger and larger. As I approached the Duck Creek area traveling around 50 miles an hour it went from a comment do a thick green line. To me it seemed like the size of the object kept increasing. I assumed that meant it was coming down. As I passed through Duck Creek Village I began to notice that it was not a comment. So I started driving a little slower to keep my eye on it. Just west of Duck Creek Village is a little pond. Maybe a hundred yards west of that pond is where I decided to pull over. In fact I was so stunned I believe I stopped in the middle of the road and then a second later realized I had better pull off to the side. My photo may even have GPS coordinates on it I will check. At this point it still seemed very high in the air. So I pulled my camera out, cell phone, and decided I was going to try to get a picture when I looked up to get a picture it seemed as though it had come much further down in altitude and was hovering above me. So I snapped the photo not realizing that my flash was still engaged. I looked at the photo and there was nothing in it so I hurry up turn the flash off reached up with my phone to get another picture, but it was gone. I believe it was heading north. A co-worker told me that his wife saw the same green comment as she was heading back from Richfield and to her it appeared to be over the Panguitch area which is north of where I was at 7:25. She said she saw it at around 9:15. The UFO / object was huge I couldn't even begin to tell you how big. Enormous is all I can say. It was lime green, and very long with what was either a dark colored or black band around it towards the front. Maybe one quarter of the vehicles length behind the front. If that makes sense. I am terrible at writing so if you want better explanation feel free to call. I left my name and number on the hotline. Andy, 435-590-6775. Here in southern Utah is not uncommon to see weird things in the sky. I have several incidences that left me wondering, what the heck was that. But this was the only time I could definitively say I saw the real thing. A UFO. My second youngest brother and I also have a very strange Experience which happened when we were teenagers visiting our uncle in Kanab Utah. I'll keep it brief, about the middle of the day we were stretching with each other. Maybe less than two feet apart. Clear skies and no weather yet a bright orange light enveloped the room we were in. So bright we couldn't see each other. Less than 2 feet apart. My brother was so terrified I did not run outside to see what it was. This experience was around 26 years ago. Don't know if you'd be interested but I wouldn't mind telling about that one too.
December 2, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CYLINDER
Modesto, CA
There were no lights, there was no trail, no wings, no sound. Just a solid white slender cylinder. It was dark outside and the craft may have been glowing white, or just reflecting the sun from beyond the horizon.
November 22, 2021 · 7:30 AM · CYLINDER
Probable conventionalPlacitas, NM
On the morning of November 22, 2021, at 7:45am, I witnessed and recorded a flying object travelling in a northerly direction. It looked like an oblong shaped object. I do not have the technology to zoom in on my video without the object becoming blurry. It would be helpful if someone could confirm what this object is. Thank you. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
November 6, 2021 · 5:45 PM · CYLINDER
San Juan (Puerto Rico), PR
On the date of November 6, 2021 approximately between 1745-1805hrs I was standing with a friend of mine (N) towards the east end of Condado Beach in San Juan, PR (approximately 18°27'24.8"N 66°04'10.2"W). She asked me what was that thing in the sky, if it was an airplane. It was a rather large, bright/glowing red/yellow/orange (kind of like a golden glow), cylindrical shaped object. It didn't have any flashing lights on it and it seemed to be moving at a relatively slow speed, slower than an airplane. Suddenly it stops mid-air and when focusing on it as hard as I could it looked as though it has hovering in all directions in the same place, as if it were vibrating. It begins to move farther away as if going exactly in the direction we were looking at. It was just getting smaller and smaller as if it wasn't moving on an X or Y axis. When I try to start recording (I say try because it was hard to concentrate on anything except at whatever I was looking at) as ! soon as I point my iPhone’s camera at it, it suddenly moves to the left at a speed that I have never seen anything move like in my life or movies alike and disappears. I’m still in shock of what I had just seen with my friend, so while we were walking back down the beach going west I didn’t take my eyes off the sky looking around at every area of the sky I could see around me to see if I could still see it. Suddenly my friend N says look up behind you and I see the same colored glowing object I had seen just moments earlier (approximately 18°27'25.5"N 66°04'15.9"W), although this time it seemed much closer to us where you could even see some details about its shape and depth (about half the distance compared to the first sighting. This thing was huge). It was moving approximately towards the same location we saw it moving towards the first time (East-Northeast) at a very slow speed. I started recording. We then see a plane (distinguishable plane outline, dark gray with blin! king red white and green lights) coming from the direction of ! the SJU airport and we were certain that the object was 100% different than the airplane or any drone I have ever seen. Once the plane gets closer the object starts moving at a faster speed, still noticeable to the human eye (note: slow movements/speed of object appeared slower than the movement of the airplane) getting farther away and smaller every second that goes by. I lose sight of it maybe three times before I finally lose sight of it completely never seeing it again as though it simply vanished. I was pretty amazed at what I had seen and it is still hard to wrap my head around the unexplainable phenomena I saw happen. I will attach an illustration of what saw and try to represent it’s relative size and distance from where I was standing. I’ve seen the Empire State Building standing from Hoboken, NJ and this object seemed like it was farther and higher than the top of the building whit the size of the object still being rather noticeable. At it’s farthest visible point it appe! ared to be like a bright star in the sky around the size of the eye of a needle being held with your arm fully extended. Maybe smaller than anything I've ever seen with my eye at a far distance yet it was still noticeable due to its glow/brightness. Feel free to contact me with any questions. I have a pretty good memory and I don't think I’ll ever be able to forget this either. E