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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.
9,368 entries
September 6, 2021 · 7:56 PM · FIREBALL
Lancaster, CA
This unidentified flying object gliding through like a fireball and then dissipated out of the sky like a light bulb Lights out as it was gliding away. There was only one unidentified flying object gliding in the sky. The color of this flying object was like a red orange colored fireball, sought of like an oval shape object. The background skies was dark night, recorded from the grounds. Location direction facing South East from the back yard of the address submitted
September 5, 2021 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Sinking Spring, PA
I was letting my dog out last night and I for no reason looked to my left and the were 2 round orange (ish) Like they were on fire, round crafts moving about in a random travel path. They circled back twice then disappeared. I have it on video but it does not do justice to what I saw. This is the second sighting I've had in this area. The first were 3 small cubicle crafts that had the same color but their texture seemed to resemble hammered metal.
September 5, 2021 · 8:47 PM · FIREBALL
Chester, PA
A fire ball of an object appeared over my house. It was sitting in one place as I filmed it but began to move when the film started. It was white. Then there were two blue oblong type shaped items the showed in the video. It was a cloudy evening there were no stars showing. I shot two videos of the object.
September 2, 2021 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Athens, GA
A bright white light flying relatively low to the ground flew halfway through my observable sky from the cover of the tree line behind me at a tremendous speed, proceeding to take an almost perfect hard 90° left turn without slowing down at all and then vanishing out of my line of sight at an unfathomable speed. All of this occurred without the craft making any sound whatsoever.
August 31, 2021 · 8:35 PM · FIREBALL
Spokane, WA
I was in my backyard at about 8:35pm tonight and looked up just as an orange ball of light was shooting west to east direction, very fast, silent, and then it disappeared. It was about as high up as an airplane that is getting near an airport.
August 29, 2021 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Durham, NC
Bright white and red/orange lights flashing and darting around in the night sky. I watched it for about 40 minutes and took 2 videos with my iPhone. It was so bright!
August 26, 2021 · 10:25 PM · FIREBALL
Milton, ON · Canada
Witnessed two bright orange lights, in the southwest sky above the Milton/Oakville region. Both myself, my husband, as well as our two young children witnessed this. Initially it was one light, but another became visible and occasionally one or the other would go dark and seem to disappear. At some point they were being circled by helicopters. We have video footage as well as pics.
August 19, 2021 · 3:00 AM · FIREBALL
Santa fe, NM
The night of August 19th 2021 around 3:00 in the morning I look towards the ski base Santa Fe New Mexico and I saw a ball of light in the sky couple minutes passed by and I saw it come down and meet with another one both of them swirled around and disappeared after about 2 minutes .
August 18, 2021 · 8:40 PM · FIREBALL
St. Louis, MO
When I googled “ufo green light” there is a picture looks exactly like what I saw with no explanation or definition
August 17, 2021 · 8:55 PM · FIREBALL
Durham, NC
My friend was leaving a business in downtown Durham, NC around 9 PM last night when he looked up and saw three "flares" slowly floating by above the old Durham Bulls Athletic Park. He filmed them on his smartphone and shared it.
August 15, 2021 · 12:47 AM · FIREBALL
Jaffna (Sri Lanka), Sri lanka
When me and my family came out of our house tonight(08:15:2021), we saw a flying object in the sky.it looked like a ball of fire.it was different without flying in a path and not like a meteorite falling to earth or any other man made flying objects. We feel uncomfortable now.
August 12, 2021 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Calgary, AB · Canada
Fireball developing west to east, orange.
August 11, 2021 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Corbett, OR
Sighting occurred at the Vista House Observatory. A friend and I were watching the Perseids when I spotted what I thought at first was a meteor. It was a small orange light almost directly overhead that flashed orange. I pointed it out to my friend who spotted it too. Instead of vanishing like normal meteor, it dimmed a little and kept moving across the sky. As we watched, it changed direction and seemed to occasionally move in small serpentine patterns in a manner that could not have been a satellite despite clearly being high altitude. We could also see large helicopters working on a forest fire in the region, but this was clearly much higher and only orange. It continued to move at a steady speed and switch directions before vanishing, though it may have been obscured by the smoke. I believe others may have seen this as well because we heard people close to us mention it too. I’d like to stress that we saw a number of meteors, satellites, planes, etc. This couldn’t have been any of those. None of them could move the way this light did.
August 3, 2021 · 11:30 PM · FIREBALL
Nevada Highway 375, 10 miles E of US Hwy 6, NV
A few minutes after we turned off of US Highway 6 onto Nevada Highway 375, (on our 6-hour trip from Mammoth Lakes, CA to St. George, UT), my daughter and I saw on the left side of the highway a line of four, equally spaced, white lights along a line parallel to the highway inclined by about 10 degrees above horizontal. The lights were fairly dim, and we thought they might be streetlights along a parallel road on a nearby ridge, but we could not see any terrain around us to confirm this. Only what our headlights lit up was visible, and all else was black except for these lights because it was a moonless and starless night, although visibility was unlimited at ground level. As we passed the lights on our left, they seemed to be about as far apart from each other as their distance from the road, and it took a minute or two to travel from the closest point to one light to the closest point to the next light. We were driving about 65 MPH, so the lights were a mile or two apart from each other, and about the same distance from the highway. Because they were inclined at about 10 degrees, they were probably between 900 and 1800 feet above the elevation of the highway. As we were neared the closest point on the highway to the fourth and final light, all four lights suddenly lit up very brightly in four different colors, brilliant red, blue, green, and amber. They flew up, down, and sideways, and looped around each other. One light shot out a vivid green beam of light. We stopped our car to get out and look at the spectacle. I saw the closest light, which was a very bright amber ball of light, drop down to ground level and start flying right at us. In about 30 seconds, it stopped only a few hundred yards from us between 100 to 200 feet above the ground. I heard no noise. I could not see any structure to the object, just a very bright light that lit up several acres of ground under it. I could see rocks and scrubby desert bushes or trees under it. My daughter who had been driving panicked and screamed at me to get back in the car as she jumped back in behind the wheel. As soon as I climbed back in next to her and shut my door, she sped away from the lights down the highway. We were fearful that the lights might follow us, but none of them did.
August 3, 2021 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Buckeye, AZ
Orange glowing balls all flying about the same hieght above ground (15-20deg above horizon when viewed from 10 freeway) spaced out over a good few miles possibly 20+mi. The orange balls would move gently swaying close to each other, fade out/fade in, come together in pairs and fly high. The lights have been appearing every night since aug 3 2021- aug 5 around 22:00-2300. Some nights there are 4 lights other nights I've seen 2 just lights flying around together. The night of august 4 I Tried to drive to the lights but the further I drove closer the further they seemed to be (very far). I noticed about 5 other cars pulled over on the road trying to record the lights as well. I possibly thought they might be hot air. Balloons but they dont appear to have the large balloon above that would glow. The light is also very bright orange glow which seem very big considering how far away they were from my viewpoint.
July 27, 2021 · 11:58 PM · FIREBALL
Indianapolis, IN
I left work later in the night and decided to spend some downtime in a parks empty parking lot. Close to the time I was about to leave I noticed a ball of reddish/orange light that seemed to be one or two neighborhoods away. It was hard to tell what it was because there was no definite shape at first. I also don’t recall how long it had been there seeing as I had been staring at the sky and my phone for 20 mins at that point. It looked too big to be a star and didn’t move at all. I took a short video to catch it at 11:58pm. Suddenly it began to lift vertically into the sky very slowly, too slowly to catch on camera with shaky hands but visible to me. I took another short video but again the camera wasn’t good enough. I was trying to be rational but a kinda stubby beam the same color seemed to protrude out very slightly from the bottom. It wasn’t the long white beam I thought I’d see in my first encounter but it was apparent. The object continued to rise into the sky. I had music playing on my phone at less than half volume so I could still hear a pen drop. No sound was ever heard during any of this encounter. It was silent. Then lights began to blink, about 4 green vertical rectangular lights on the right side, and 4 red ones on the left. I took a third and final video of the blinking lights which only appear slightly in my video at 12:00am. When I zoom into the video it looks similar a sun with five/six hoops moving around it like an atom. At that point it was a lot higher in the sky and began moving toward me at a rate that continues to send chills down my back hours later. I could tell it was fast because the size of the object increased in less than seconds. I immediately started my car, reversed, and sped off. As I was speeding off i FaceTimed my friend to explain what was happening as quickly as I could. When I was turning out of the park, I took a quick glance- but nothing. The sky was empty. The encounter felt like forever, when I looked at the timestamps I really couldn’t believe it was only about 2 mins. I’ve never been so shaken up by anything before.
July 24, 2021 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
Probable conventionalWashington Township, NJ
My spouse and I visited her sister and husband for a few hours in July of 2021. When my brother-in-law and I stepped outside around 10:30 pm, we saw a group of stationary lights in the sky. They were too bright to be stars but also too luminous to be any aircraft we'd ever seen. There was another object with a blue-green haze to the left of the main object. The main object had a haze color that illuminated out, like a light bulb. The objects remained stationary for the entire time we were outside, around 10 minutes. No noise or sound was noticed from the object. We were unable to tell how far away the object may have been. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
July 23, 2021 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Summerville, SC
My sons were in the yard. They saw this gold- illuminated, flickering but not flashing, as if made of fire. No other lights....pure gold light. Moving quickly at first, then slowed and decreased altitude, then disappeared over the treeline behind our home. There was no sound whatsoever and I think at the decreased altitude, we would have heard some sort of sound. We heard nothing.
July 17, 2021 · 2:00 AM · FIREBALL
Bognor Regis, WEST SUS · United Kingdom
Sighting was brief as driver of vehicle got unnerved when UFO came close. I spent 5 years as enlisted airman in Royal Air Force as an aircraft engineer and I have never encountered anything like this before. In my opinion this was not a manmade vehicle.
July 16, 2021 · 5:40 AM · FIREBALL
Homestead, FL
It was 5:40 AM Friday I was on my way to the car, to head to work. I went to the back area of my house and then saw the ball of light flying south, I noticed it made no sound and there was no indication of flashing light from a plane or helicopter. I ran inside and told my father to look at the object, it flew pretty close to my area at pretty fast speeds he shrugged it off as a satellite but it looked too close to the ground to be a satellite. There is the Homestead Air Reserve Base nearby so I thought it could be a military plane but the object kept flying south, also planes fly in the outskirts of my town in both flight patterns south or north depending on the wind direction but fly rarely above residential areas.
July 14, 2021 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Clifton Forge, VA
On the evening of Wednesday, July 14, 2021 I have been driving for approximately four hours on the interstate with intermittent stops, for travel related to family matters. When I arrived at my uncles house at 11:00 PM I paused to look up at the night sky, as I always do because I am an amateur astronomer, and I saw a light at least as bright as Jupiter and probably a little bit brighter in the North, moving from left to right on a flat trajectory to the northeast. It looked very close, but it vanished after about 3 seconds of flight, during which it covered about 20 degrees of arc in the sky. I then went in and visited my uncle for 4 hours. It just so happens that my house is also to the north, so after visiting my uncle I drove to my house in the country about a half-mile away. When I arrived at my house, the sky was fully dark, completely clear, and there was no moon that I could see from my vantage point but there are some trees that may have been blocking it. Upon getting out of the car I looked up to the north and immediately saw the same object at 3:00 AM that I had seen some four hours earlier. Again this object was a single bright point of orange light, about as bright as Jupiter or perhaps a little bit brighter, but not as bright as Venus on an early morning. This object was in the northern sky making what appeared to be huge curves or circles, slowly loitering above our rural town. I attempted to film it with my iPhone but it was impossible because the quality was too bad. I saw the object move from approximately northwest to approximately north east in a soft curve trajectory that was definitely pronounced enough to be a curve, but there were no sudden movements. Judging from my days of model rocketry, I would estimate the altitude to have been approximately 1500 feet to 2500 feet, and the object appeared to cover approximately 1/4 the sky in the space in a time of maybe six or seven seconds. At no time was there a contrail or a sound of any kind. It just looked like an extremely large, bright orange fireball that was very orange in color and resembled the planet Jupiter burning clearly on a dark night, only it was moving in a curved path. After curving from approximately Northwest to Northeast, left to right, over six seconds, it doubled back to come in my direction and rapidly grew dim at the same time, then vanished without a trace. I stayed outside for about an hour looking for this object to return since it had loitered in the area for approximately four hours, but it never came back. This was a rural town that is quite small and there are no airports or drone activity anywhere around here. The only air traffic we get is passenger jets at a very high altitude, and occasionally we get an Osprey Naval aircraft flying through to get to Norfolk Naval base, but they make so much noise you can hear them for nearly a full minute before you ever see them, even in broad daylight. The object I saw on July 14 at 11:00 PM was unmistakably 100% the same object I saw in the same area of sky on July 15 at 3:00 AM. I have no idea what this was, it remains an extremely intriguing and unexplained sighting for me. I tried to take a video both times, but I was too late the first time, and the second time it was there but I set the camera at max zoom hoping to get a closeup, and I could not aim the camera to get the object in frame the way it was moving, at that zoom level. I’ll be glad to send NUFORC the videos.
July 8, 2021 · 9:22 PM · FIREBALL
Richardson, TX
Was sitting on the couch watching TV. Saw a orange bright color in the tree line in the distant south western side of my yard. Stood up at the back door to get a better look and saw a bright rolling molten (sun like) round object in the western sky moving north. It looked as large as the setting sun. It disappeared as it moved north being blocked by backyard trees. When there was a clearing there were 2 round orange glowing much smaller objects moving in tandem across the sky. They seemed to become stationary momentarily and started moving again seemingly to the west. The objects got smaller and eventually lost their glow but still looked like they were moving away and then disappeared. The next object came through the clearing and was similar in size to the first objects at that point in the sky. Looked like a rolling glowing ball of fire in the sky, moving to the north then stopped and hovered in that area for a little while then moved westerly. Eventually disappearing out of sight.
July 3, 2021 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Beverly Hills, FL
I was sitting on my front porch facing the south, a bright light caught my eye. I saw this fire ball that was emitting light like the sun. I turned on my phone camera and snapped a picture of it.
June 18, 2021 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Duluth, MN
Alright I’m doing this on my phone but I was snapping friends and excited to see a storm from my deck. I’m watching the clouds roll in and about 50-100 ft not super high but 2 glowing balls are headed from over the hill towards superior (I also have a video my roommate who witnessed it with me got one caught in on film when I was trying) they flew like just over the power lines like light softballs or something of that size. I thought it was a bird but it looked like it was on fire like a firework. I’m like that can’t be a drone I just seen 5 of them. All different courses but mostly towards superior at different angles just like fast floating in which made me think this isn’t a drone race or something. I saw one maybe 200 ft up headed same direction a few minutes later and pointed it out to my roommate. She was snapping the double rainbow the clouds were giving and caught the tail end of the last one. I thought I was the only one to see it with her but my g! aming buddy said his girlfriend and neighbor just witnesses one in proctor which is like top of the hill before you enter duluth. I saw roommates snap and told her to save it and email it so it didn’t lose quality and you can still see the object and they all looked just like that one. All towards superior but different trajectories. Only have the one video was hoping more people saw it and reported it.