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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.
11,675 entries
August 15, 2023 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Vega, TX
It was a as bright as a star blue and green lights pulsating and orb shaped. There was no sound or smoke. It was between the towns of amarillo and adrian texas. It was seen while driving on the highway going into farm land. It lite everything around it.
August 14, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Bothell, WA
This is creeping me out. Second time in 3 weeks I’ve watched “stars” move. Tonight star gazing on my deck. Saw a flash out of my left peripheral vision, thought maybe it was a late perseid meteor. Looked to the area and saw what i thought was a star, until the damn thing started moving. It was at about my 10oclock, went kind of down to the right then in an upside down arch like a smile, kind of down, over and up to about 2 o’clock, then faded away by the bottom of the Big Dipper. It was moving damn fast and scared the crap out of me. Not an international flight, as I see them regularly and know what they look like. This was WAY up high, fast and freaky. There’s a bunch of light pollution to my north, where I lost sight of it.
August 13, 2023 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Kenner, LA
The object was high in the sky like a star but not blinking/twinkling. Just a steady glow. Shape was circular. It moved at a fast but steady speed from the east all the way towards the northwest until it disappeared. Too fast to be a plane or ISS.
August 13, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
McMinnville, OR
At approximately 9:40pm we went outside to see if we could see a few meteors. I was waiting for my Dad and my son was running around the driveway. I looked up from the ramp onto the deck and noticed a sparkly looking star that was moving kind of strange. It was a little erratic like it zigged a little one way and then zagged back the other way. It also appeared to emit something or sparkle. I pulled up Sky Tonight and nothing in the spot and it was moving so I figured it wasn't a star. I did record video which is hard to do with a phone at night. This is one of a few sightings I have had out here. Each sighting has kind of triggered my anxiety and made me a little nervewracked and not wanting to or being able to sleep. They seem to be getting more and more frequent. I am completely sober. I don't drink or do drugs or anything. I don't even smoke or vape. I am going to upload the video to YouTube like I have done before and add the link to this report. https://youtu.be/8NAtL7cBSes
August 13, 2023 · 9:36 PM · SPHERE
Anchorage, AK
I noticed a white orb with a trail behind it flying just above east mount susitna before abruptly changing course and heading north. After moving north for about 2 seconds, it abruptly changed course again, heading east. It stopped moving for about 5 seconds, then flew east off camera
August 13, 2023 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Chewelah, WA
I got up early around 3:45 am to watch the meteor shower. I was out for 45 minutes and saw approx. 12 meteors and 2 LEO satellites. About 4 am looking north, I saw in a ball of bright white light rising straight up in the sky. At first I thought it was another satellite but as it was rising it turned amber/brown then deep red and finally just faded out or blinked out. I'm 61 years old and have seen many meteors and satellites, planes and drones but never anything like this. For the record, there is an airport north of Chewelah. But again, this was no airplane. I may have seen a ufo a long time ago when I was a kid with my family but don't really remember. I've always wanted to see one and am a big fan of Peter Davenport. I remember hearing him on Art Bell years ago and wondered if he was still manning the reporting hotline. I had no missing time and I know it's not much of a sighting but for me it's a big deal. Thanks for all the hard work you do. Keep up the good work! Ps If you have any other questions feel free to contact me anytime.
August 13, 2023 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Glenwood, NM
Went to cosmic campground to watch meteor shower. Noticed what we first thought to be helicopters on the NE horizon, maybe 20 miles away. Looking at a map later we decided they would have been flying near Eagle Peak. From about midnight till 2am we watched these lights- several flying crafts that had speed and ability to change direction inconsistent with helicopters or army jets. They would speed up, change direction, slow down, hover, and drop very quickly. They were staying in one specific area, as if surveying a canyon. Sometimes they would fly in pairs, other times no formation. Usually we could only see 2 or 3 at a time but briefly saw as many as 6 at once. They emitted an odd light that would dim and get brighter, and then disappear for several minutes. We watched for 2 hours trying to come up with a logical explanation, and could not. A few commercial planes passed by the area, and the lights became inactive while planes were in the vicinity. I wouldn’t say that there were lights on the objects as much as they created light, more like an aura. The hue of the lights changed, but not rapidly. They were for the most part white lights, but at times had orange or blue hues.
August 12, 2023 · 11:25 PM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
I began walking the track at Bill Briare Park at 11:00 PM. Weather was scattered clouds, no wind, no moon in the horizon. The park lights were off. The park was slightly illuminated by highway lights from I-95 and Summerlin Pkwy. At approximately 11:25 PM, while I was at northside of the track (at 36°10'45.6"N 115°14'51.0"W ), I noticed a large bright orb moving south quickly below the cloud cover. I estimate that the obect was between 100 and 300 feet above my head, and it entered and left my line of sight in two to three seconds. The orb was larg, possibly the size of a small car. It emitted a constant bright orange-white light. It did not blink. It left no tail which is why I've dismissed the possibility of the orb being a falling star. It made no sound. It moved to quickly for me to take any video or pictures.
August 12, 2023 · 9:55 PM · SPHERE
Rehoboth Beach, DE
I saw two different types of objects. The smaller, farther ones looked like stars but they changed direction and moved at impossible speeds. They could not have been meteors because they didn't burn out, they just hovered and moved again in a different direction. They aligned themselves and shifted all at once, maintaining the shape. There seemed to be some lights "leading" and the others would shift around it. They made shapes that looked like a rhombus and like a backwards number 4- all forming completely straight lines. At first I just noticed one light moving, but then I noticed all of the others around it were moving too. There were too many to count and they kept shifting. They all started moving north, to the point where we had to turn our bodies to see where they were going. When we looked south, the sky where we first saw them was black. They all seemed to be clustered/ heading towards an area offshore, around north Rehoboth or Lewes. They were mostly coming from above the sea but some seemed to be coming from land or across the bay. The other objects were lower and looked more like drones, but they moved very fast so it was hard to tell. I observed 4 lights on the bottom of these crafts, 2 white above and 2 red below. They flashed in quick succession counterclockwise- white, white, red. The fourth red (bottom right corner of the "drone") occasionally flashed but not consistently. These crafts were also moving erratically like the smaller objects and seemed to be heading in the same direction. We watched for about half an hour, walked back to the car and drove home, and when we got home about 20 minutes later we could still see them above the house moving towards the ocean.
August 12, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Bakersfield, CA
Green orb appeared suddenly mid sky and fell so fast, different than falling star and then disappeared
August 12, 2023 · 9:23 PM · SPHERE
Hunstville, MO
Me and my husband were looking at the stars and we noticed 4 dots that looked like stars, they started close together then started moving away from each other. They spread out in different directions. one stopped moving for a minute then continued its course. One changed direction completly. The other two continued on their original course. All 4 dissapeared after about 1-2 minutes. We saw more orb dots that looked like stars moving slowly for the rest of the time we were outside. The other ones we saw never changed direction or stopped so its possible the other ones were airplanes however they did not look like the airplanes we did see. The ones that im sure were airplanes have blinking lights the unidentified objects have no blinking lights and looked like silver orbs
August 12, 2023 · 1:07 PM · SPHERE
Goodyear, AZ
Blue Sky and observed a shiny whitish oblong sphere below the sun, hovered for several minutes and then started to move right to left and then upwards and downwards. I started to video and in the video it looked like there were multiple objects. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]
August 12, 2023 · 2:30 AM · SPHERE
Enigma, GA
At approximately 2:30 - 3:00 a.m. I noticed a faint light in the night sky in the north east. The light goes from being faint to about as bright as the bightest star in the sky in about 3 seconds. (Similar to if you turned a dimmer switch to the right). When it reaches ful brightness, it then slowly moves to the right (to the east) as if it's floating. It does this for about 4-5 seconds then dims until it's no longer visible. Roughly 3-5 minutes later, the light reappears the same way and in the same location it previously did. It will perform the same movement and disappear the same way as previously. Sometimes 2 lights appear instead of one. Sometimes the will move in the same direction in the same way. Sometimes they will appear and then go in opposite directions. I've been seeing this activity almost nightly for the past month when I originally noticed this.
August 12, 2023 · 2:23 AM · SPHERE
Enterprise, UT
See pictures. These are 20 second exposures. These were resized to attach I do have large jpeg files and Nikon RAW files as well
August 12, 2023 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Pavo, FL
Myself and six friends went out to a favorite stargazing spot at the top of the hill right up the road from where I grew up to watch the Perseid meteors. We arrived right before midnight and planned to stay through the peak of the shower at 3am, then go out to eat at Waffle House afterwards. Two of my friends brought up ufos and were telling stories they had read about, and one of them suddenly went, “Woah, there’s an orb right there!” And of course I thought he was just messing around, but we all looked where he pointed anyway and there was a luminous orange orb. This was at approximately 2am, possibly a few minutes after. It appeared to be hovering over the field across the road from us. In the middle of that field is a strip of trees, it appeared to be right above the trees. If it was as close as it looked, it would have to have been about the size of a small suv. We turned just in time to see it, see it turn white, and see it disappear. Just a few minutes later it reappeared, moved slowly and laterally back and forth, then quickly arced up and disappeared. About 20 minutes later it reappeared on the other side of the road (the side we were parked on) over the wood line farther away and at a higher altitude. It moved back and forth laterally, almost like it was scanning. It disappeared and reappeared several times continuing the scanning motion when it would reappear. At least once we all observed it rotate; it was as if on side was illuminated and one was not, but it didn’t produce a beam of light. We saw the object multiple times for approximately an hour. I packed up our belongings when it reappeared on our side of the road so that we could leave quickly if needed. By 3am we were thoroughly freaked out and decided to get out of there, so we don’t know how long the object actually stayed in the area. When I told my partner and a couple of other friends about the encounter, they asked if we had pictures or a video, and I realized none of us had even tried to take a picture. I had even had my big camera set up on a tripod to take long exposures of the meteors. I realized I hadn’t /wanted/ to take a picture of it. I texted the group of friends I had been with and asked how they felt about that. It is highly unusual behavior that we wouldn’t have at least tried. We had been taking photos all night. We’re a friend group that is always taking pictures of our get togethers. All but one of the others in our group said the thought hadn’t even crossed their minds, and that was extremely strange. One person responded that he hadn’t wanted to share it with us, but he had taken a picture, and as soon as he took it he felt a huge spike of anxiety and nausea, followed by extreme fatigue. As mentioned previously, we were supposed to have an early breakfast at Waffle House after the meteor shower, but the friend that took the picture was so fatigued on the drive back to town that it frightened his passengers and they decided to just go home. The picture isn’t very remarkable, but it is attached to this report.
August 12, 2023 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Grand Chain, IL
On this night there was a haze in the sky with some moon. There were mostly orbs and one after the other for an hour before moving away. I have seen these for months now with other objects mixed in. This was a small portion of video of that night and went on continuously for an hour. They would come into view coming from the north and split off, some moving southeast and some going south. I think the haze in the air made them glow when they made there turn. They always seemed to making very big circles miles even. I have had trouble sending in reports. I think I have been trying to send to much video so I have kept it short this time. I have many hours of video. I do not live near a airport and they are not people flying drones and I know what a satellite looks like. If you need more call.
August 11, 2023 · 8:38 PM · SPHERE
Tacoma, WA
This is now our fourth time seeing these orbs hovering, fading, multiplying and disappearing with no sound and so damn quickly northeast over the puget sound. They come around the time frame of 8:30-10pm at the same location. Have multiple videos.
August 11, 2023 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Santa Monica, CA
I was driving, headed from the I-405 towards Ocean Ave on Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica, CA around 4:00pm. It was a bright sunny afternoon with no clouds in the sky, and suddenly in front of my car maybe 50 ft above the tree line I saw a perfectly spherical orb hovering. It was almost black against the sky, but had a slight metallic sheen to the surface. It was hard to tell whether or not it was moving, but it appeared to be hovering at a fixed altitude as I was driving. It quickly passed out of my view as I was realizing what I was looking at, and when I looked behind me expecting to see it in my rear view as I kept going, it was gone. I didn't see it again.
August 11, 2023 · 5:44 AM · SPHERE
Calhoun, LA
So I was going to work one morning and I always look in the sky. I saw some orbs of light traveling through the sky they looked like stats just moving from one side of sky to the other. I only saw one at a time not multiple at once but 5 or 6 each morning each night. I’ve never seen anything like it before. The first time I saw this was when I was looking for the comet. I only saw one that night and so did all my kids. The morning after I saw the last one I saw a orb of light in the sky it was stationary then started moving and faded out. It was not high in the sky like the others. I’ve been looking in the sky all my life and have never seen anything like this. I did not get it on video. The lights where to high in the sky and the orb I saw while driving to work at sunrise.
August 10, 2023 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Castle Shannon, PA
My fiancé and I were talking smoking a cigarette, out of no where the sky above and right behind us lit up kinda how lightening does but this was not lightening at all. We saw some type of bright white/blueish light either go up or down it was hard to tell and then just took off into the night sky faster then you can blink and it was gone. It also made a noise when the beam came down that sounded similar to something you would here in Star Wars when they take off with hyperspeed. I still have chills it was an amazing experience and also very unexpected. My fiancé and I both tried to debunk what we had just witness and he is not a believer in aliens or ufo but he is not because what we saw was no natural nor created on this world it just can’t be. This is a real and true statement. I wish I could find out if anyone else heard or seen what we saw in our area but most people are afraid to talk about things like this because of the fear of being judged or called a liar unfortunately
August 9, 2023 · 9:53 PM · SPHERE
Westerville, OH
I have a video I’d like to share with you. How do I do that? I’ve described it in my video.
August 9, 2023 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
My brother and I (along with his wife and 3 kids) were on the boardwalk in Myrtle Beach when we both saw 4 red lights in a horizontal line over the Atlantic Ocean. It was pitch black over the water, they were high above the horizon. They appeared to be either very small or very far out. They were all lit up, then went out, one by one in a line. We didn’t see them again. We were the only two who saw it and didn’t realize we were both seeing it at the same time until my brother said something. Unfortunately it happened too quickly to get a photo or video. It all happened within a few seconds.
August 9, 2023 · 1:15 AM · SPHERE
Mayodan, NC
All witnesses observed multiple orbs of light that seemed to move in the same direction and disappear and then reappear in the original spot they first appeared. During this the some orbs would get brighter and dimmer. At times it appeared that orbs of light would spawn from other orbs. This incident was observed by myself and 4 other police officers and 1 citizen.
August 8, 2023 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Tampa Bay, FL
I noticed an orb transparent gray going across Cumulus clouds it was visible because it was a different shade of gray perfectly round almost transparent going north to south in a perfect line. My guess it was about 12 feet round gone in 10 seconds.