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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.
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December 16, 2022 · 3:47 AM · UNKNOWN
Santa Barbara, CA
I was in a Lyft on the way from Agoura Hills up to the Santa Barbara airport. It was the middle of the night and very dark. The driver and I were having good conversation, when suddenly she just pointed to the sky and we both went silent. We couldn’t make sense of what we were seeing. The sky was filled with a horizontal, orange glow. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a very, very brightly lighted object appeared and rose into the sky, disappearing into the night. It almost looked as though it had fire trailing after it, but not a long trail. It all happened very fast, as it seemed to disappear into the dark clouds. After that, both the driver and I kept searching the sky, wondering if we would see it again. We had no idea what it was, and the remainder of the ride was fully comprised of discussion about it. After the first sighting, we did see it again about two minutes later, but we did not see an object. We only saw that same orange hue in the sky. A horizontal glow. The Lyft driver thought she saw it a third time a few minutes later, just for a second, but I didn’t see that one. We kept talking about it, trying to make sense of it. We thought perhaps it was a missile or rocket or something, but that didn’t make sense, and it didn’t align with what we had seen. It was the orange horizontal glow across the sky that was very distinct and strange. We had no idea what it was, but by the end of the ride, we both agreed that it must have been a UFO. Neither of us had any ever seen anything like it in our entire lives. (I only finally thought to make a video by the time the Lyft driver thought she saw it a third time, but even though I wasn’t able to catch it, I figure I’ll upload it anyway. I also have a recording of us when we saw the first two.)
December 15, 2022 · 3:36 PM · UNKNOWN
Rio Rancho, NM
Noticed strange objects in afternoon sky. 5 objects moving South across the sky turning In southwest direction, almost veering right. Visible for about 2 minutes then gone.
December 14, 2022 · 6:33 AM · UNKNOWN
Gilbert, AZ
An object appeared to the northeast while driving North on Val Vista in between Chandler Heights and Ocotillo at approximately 6:30 AM in Gilbert, AZ. It only lasted a few seconds, and my initial thoughts were maybe a "shooting star", however it was too close (distance seemed in our immediate airspace, similar to an airplane) or maybe a firework (however, it was rather fast and there was no explosion).
December 6, 2022 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
boston, MA
his is not my encounter, but my sister's. A couple weeks ago, my sister and her boyfriend were surfing the internet, watching videos on astronauts seeing UFO's and other theories surrounding aliens, such as plane pilots encountering UFOs. **(my sister is a huge believer in anything paranormal, must be where i got it from).** About four nights ago, my sister and her boyfriend went out to smoke a cigarette around 2:30am. They were looking up at the moon and talking about how those astronauts in the videos they watched weeks ago really have no reason to lie about UFO sightings and how crazy it must have been for them. Within less than five seconds of talking about that out loud, they were peering up in the sky, and saw an orb-like bright light was so bright the light illuminated their faces as if in the presence of fireworks. It was going upwards in the sky, not in a completely straight path but was swerving a little and going upwards. There were a few spark-like elements coming from the bottom of the craft, and the craft itself was visible for about three seconds before it completely disappeared. The craft was completely silent and appeared pretty close, way too close to be a plane or some type of shooting star. They thought it could've been a comet, but also too close to be that, or a meteor landing on earth but it was traveling upward and also disappeared. My sister said the size of it was about the size of a streetlight from the ground's point of view but she couldn't make out the shape of the object because it was so bright. It was close to them that they narrowed it down to being a UFO. Both her and her boyfriend saw it which means one of them wasn't hallucinating. They were pretty scared, considering the fact that just seconds before the UFO appeared they were talking about alien encounters, they felt as if whatever it was heard them talking about that and wanted to prove their existence. It was more than just a coincidence. They went inside afterwards stunned, not believing or knowing exactly what they saw. My sister admitted to me that she thought it was cool to finally see a UFO for the first time. After about 45 minutes, her boyfriend wanted another cigarette and as hesitant as they were to go back outside, they went anyway. After about two minutes of being outside the second time, a black sedan SUV pulled up across the street -- seemingly out of nowhere with absolutely no sounds. A man in all black came out and opened the trunk of the SUV, turned around, and began to stare at them. They could tell he was dressed in black but couldn't make out his face. Within seconds of this, her and her boyfriend noticed two other men in black standing at the end of the street, one house down from where they lived, kind of swaying back and forth as if they were trying to make out who or what they were. It seemed as if they were more intrigued by seeing my sister and her boyfriend than they were to see the men in black. My sister described them as also wearing all black attire, and couldn't see their faces or even their skin color despite being only one house down from where they were standing. They were all blurred out and did not have distinct facial features. It was also almost 3:30am at this point, the MIB weren't talking to each other, smoking, or doing anything that made sense. They were just staring at them as was the guy with the trunk open to his SUV across the street. She said it gave her a very fearful, ominous impression. As soon as that happened she grabbed her boyfriend's hand and sprinted inside the house, fearing that if she wasn't physically touching him he could've mysteriously disappeared somewhere behind her as they were running. She has not been able to sleep, turn off any lights, and doesn't feel safe being alone. She tried contacting the police authorities, but they basically told her they only take crime reports and not UFO reports. My sister said this is the scariest thing she has ever encountered, the UFO sighting was scary enough, but the strange MIB who just so happened to be staring at them so late in the middle of the night was even more terrifying. People had asked her why she didn't record the men with her phone, and she said she was way too scared to stick around to find out what would happen if she did. What was the strange UFO she spotted in the sky with her boyfriend? And who were the men in black who happened to appear in the same area within less than an hour? If anyone has had a similar experience or encounter, please let us know!
December 2, 2022 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Brighton, MI
We are heading back to Pennsylvania, we went passed hartland Michigan almost passing Brighton Michigan and we seen strange lights in the sky, we seen them from a distance and thought it was the light that shines for airplanes. The closer we got the more we seen that it was 4 lights formed into a square and they were going in and out like expanding and it disappeared. I recorded it and there was no building that could have possibly did this.
December 2, 2022 · 7:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Brighton, MI
My 7 year old son first saw the lights in the sky when we were driving west on I-96 between Brighton and Howell, on our way home to Howell. He said there were 4 lights dancing and meeting in the middle and then spreading out, each time getting farther away from the center. He pointed to it and his sister also saw this. I was driving but managed to look a few times and also witnessed what he saw. I could not answer him when he asked what it was. It seemed to be either lights from above the clouds or lights shining on the clouds from below- I couldn’t tell.
December 2, 2022 · 7:34 AM · UNKNOWN
Palmetto, FL
Out for our daily walk at 7:30 AM. Noticed an irregularity in the southeast sky. The sky was completely clear, except for what looked like a square/rectangle portal type opening. On one side of the portal it was like a white jet stream and on the other it was rainbow colors or what resembled ozone colors. We watched as the portal appeared to close and the color dissipated.
December 1, 2022 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Savannah, GA
Testing my phones capabilities of seeing the moons on Jupiter. To my surprise I was able to see them when the sky was perfectly clear, I could capture shots of the shadows of the moons. I noticed the presence of a large, long thin object in all of the photos. I wanted to take pictures the following night (12/2) around the same time 6:30-7:00 pm, and found the object still there and appeared to have moved just a bit. I am reporting this sighting since I saw others online who have seen it also. Blog reference: https://www.ufosightingsfootage.uk/2022/12/huge-ufo-traveling-towards-jupiters.html?m=1
November 27, 2022 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Elkton, MD
Me and my husband went out back on our back deck to look at stars. It started when I took someone home around 8:30pm on Sunday November 27 2022. When I got back home, it was maybe 15 minutes later. I was getting out of my car I noticed all the stars out.I always wanted to look at stars but usually can't see them that great here and no where to go and watch them. I go in the house and tell my husband. Saying how I wish we had some where to watch stars cause they were really out tonight. My husband said we could go on deck and watch them. We were not use to having a deck, so didn't even cross my mind. Ten or fifteen minutes later we go out on deck. It is about 9 pm. We were out there naming the stars like little dipper ect..We were standing in the v part of deck. Where it goes in different direction. I do not know if it was North, South, East or West. Looking straight ahead with head tilted upward a bit.Soon as we got out there we seen a shooting star go from left to right. My first time ever seeing one. Only been looking at them about 2 or 3 minute's when I said,"hey there is a bunch of stars in the sky right above us but there was some tree branches blocking them a bit". I said," We need to move over a bit up and to the left". We both started to move in that direction. These stars were straight above us. You had to tilt your head as far as you could to see them. My husband even mentioned that. Next thing I know my husband said, "Do you see that". I could see out of the corner of my eye he was facing opposite of where I was looking. I turned around right away and my first thought was oh those are stars but then I realized they were moving. They were so close also. "Like a football field away from what my husband said anyways. I am horrible with distancing things. Just knew it was close and looked huge from how far lights were separated.It was a zig zag shape. That is at least from what I seen and husband also confirmed. Only could she the lights. Could not see the actual shape of it. Just shape of lights. They were like foggy looking. It looked like it was cloaked. I know that sounds strange but that is just what came to mind. That this looks close and cloaked and I was not suppose to be seeing this. Also it just glided very smoothly. It was just unnatural moving. No jets or engine sounds. Completely silent. You can hear planes way up in the sky before you actually saw them. Then they moved all together for a second and then start moving back to that zig zag. That's when I told my husband come on we are going in now. I was scared.
November 27, 2022 · 4:38 PM · UNKNOWN
lexington, SC
i was watching planes on and off throughout the afternoon. i live in high traffic landing/take off zone, west of columbia metro airport. in the minutes before i spotted this object, i was thinking how strange i had not seen an airplane in 5-ish minutes. i spotted white, tic tac looking-object come over the westerly tree line, traveling due east and then ESE across 70% (estimate) of the visible sky. i retrieved my phone and began recording at halfway point(me facing north). it slightly starts heading in ESE direction and i watched as it seemingly dissipated into the southern sky. when i zoom in, i see an aura/haze or airfield around it , no streams, no wings and there was no sound. compared to all of the planes i had seen throughout the day, and the last 3 years of living in this apartment , it was much faster and spanned my view of open sky in under 1.25 minutes. i do usually hear all of airplane, helicopter and in recent weeks fighter jet traffic, even when i am inside of my apartment. this object made no sound. i am very curious to learn if i may have actually filmed a uap/ufo. thank you for your time.
November 26, 2022 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Port Orchard, WA
Seeing strange lights from north. The past 5 nights now. The light is going towards my apartment.
November 24, 2022 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Wausau, WI
Unknown. Just blinking lights was moving pretty fast. Changed directions horizontally to vertically across at I assume same height.
November 22, 2022 · 5:21 PM · UNKNOWN
Waterford, CT
I was driving and looked up- saw to things in the sky that we’re heading and shooting down. Almost like an airplane far away but it wasn’t. One was red and one was white. They were biggish and slowly disappeared. By time I pulled into a plaza to take a video- they were both gone. I do have Live Photos I did in fact take while driving. I was honestly scared they were bombs coming for the local nuclear plant.. this is not the first time I’ve seen this before. About 3/4 years ago I saw that same thing and after a minute, that one also disappeared. Also this may seem crazy- and totally insane, but I have memories of extraterrestrial encounters and I’m not sure if they are dreams or actual memories. But it’s time to speak up of the things I see in the sky. I believe I’m Seeing these things for a reason.
November 21, 2022 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Orlando, FL
At first I thought it was the string of satellites but when I looked at it closer they all were not in a line. There was a cluster formation at the front and again at the back. I really am not sure what I’m looking at, that’s why I thought you should see the photo.
November 21, 2022 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Forest Lake, MN
As we watched in bewilderment, there were 3 ufos. Triangle formation at first. Then, the objects would dart around, zig zag, sometimes you could see only 2 then one then 2 then 3 etc. objects at time appear to come close but stayed very East. I saw the report from Bayport, Mn today. I knew I had to fill this out and put this on record. They would go up and down, no pattern I could discern. I remember clear as a bell. But not the date. My ex and I do not speak. His name is ((male's name deleted)) works at Century College in White Bear. He and I were married at the time of this observation. The sky was dusk. A pinkish hue. They stood out clearly. They were far so I can’t say shape. I saw the lights of the crafts And there were three crafts. I saw them in formation as a triangle first then it was like a scattered display of zigzagging and movement With not direct points but like scribbling on a paper? That’s how the flight pattern appeared from my position on Lake one, of Forest Lake that summer evening. I keep looking up. I know about the clouds too. The date in this report above? My phone is not accepting the movement to move the date so I’m putting todays date that I filed this. Thank you
November 21, 2022 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Steger, IL
From the patio of my home looking south I spotted an object in the sky with red and green lights. The 2 red lights were blinking sequentially and the green light was steady and seemed to cover a larger portion of the object perhaps covered a section of it. It's very hard to tell the altitude of the object. There are common flight paths coming from the Midway and O'Hare airports to the north and other flight paths going to and from other regional airports, so I am very familiar with seeing them come and go. They behave in a predictable manner. This object was primarily hovering at first. I saw at least 3 jets traveling at various directions at the same time as observing this object. One jet flying south passed either directly over or under this object. With naked eyes it's clear that the object was meandering, easy to notice when referencing trees and other land objects. When I realized this object was not ordinary I went inside and got my phone to record this object. The night sky recording is far inferior to my eyes and did not focus well on the object for most of the recording. The camera also did not pick up the trees or nearby homes to have a reference for altitude or size. I did think I heard a sound from the object. It was hard to tell as the house is close to railroad tracks that are way too busy with train horns and passing train car rumblings. But, it seem the camera did pick up a droning of some kind, either a faint prop or an indeterminate whooshing sound that seemed to wax and wane. The object was stationary but them meandered east and then north which eventually placed it directly above my home where I was standing. Unfortunately this was exactly when a train began blowing its horn and disturbed the sound recording. At this point the camera was able to focus a little better to see the red lights more clearly as they were blinking sequentially, and the solid green light underneath or to the sides. In the darkness the camera is not good enough to focus on the object itself but only recording the lights on it. After the object passed overhead and further east it changed direction to the south again and then to the west, over the forest preserves. It proceeded far into the western sky until I could only view it deep into the tree line. At that point it changed direction again and flew N/NW which again kept it basically flying over the extensive forest preserve area. It kept on that course until it vanished behind the tree line and presumably out of my horizon line of sight. I am not that familiar with drones and my suspicion was that it perhaps was a drone or perhaps a sort of helicopter but I've seen and heard many helicopters flying over this house and they are much louder and they fly along a straight path. If it was a drone it seems it was a pretty advanced one to fly at night and that high and far from a possible remote control. The forest preserve parking areas it flew over were all closed at this time of night. If it was controlled from a town neighborhood area that would be about 2 miles away at its closest. It is worth mentioning that just one block south of my home there is a cell tower. I tried to use that tower's height to estimate the altitude of the object and that's assuming the object was smaller than a single engine plane. I'd estimate the object's altitude was at least 1,000 feet but again depending on its size maybe much higher, or maybe a bit lower, but if so not much lower. I am almost sure the sound I heard briefly was coming from the object. I think if the pilot of that commercial flight that passed over that path looked down they'd have seen the red and green lights. If this object was inside the flight path I think it might have been seen on the control tower radar, but again I am not very familiar with these protocols. addendum: if I knew the maximum size allowed for uploading a video i would try again but after 3 edited videos and 3 failures to do so it's not going to happen I guess.
November 21, 2022 · 9:13 AM · UNKNOWN
Las Vegas, NV
Noticed a white/ish colored object of indiscernible shape moving in a slightly "wavering" flight path (as if being blown by the wind), at an average, slightly variable heading of ~240. My first impression was that it was a piece of blowing trash floating through the air, like perhaps a small plastic grocery bag. I then realized that conditions were completely calm (the KLAS automated weather station reports variable winds at speeds of 0 to 5 mph, consistently, between the times of 0540hrs and 1000hrs PST ). Upon looking away from the object to observe the wind speed, based on the trees and flags in my vicinity, I lost sight of the object and was unable to find it again. I estimated its altitude to be ~400ft, which would have put the speed of the object at an estimated ground speed of approximately ~60 mph; But I could not make out a specific shape of the object, so it's apparent low altitude, and thus it's ground speed, could have been an optical illusion (I derived said estimates based on an object obeying normal laws of physics). It is possible that the object was at a much higher altitude and ground speed. If it was at ~400' altitude, it's GPS location, at first sighting, would have placed it just north the intersection of University Center Dr. and E. Flamingo Rd., crossing squarely through the flight path of the 19R runway of McCarran Intl. Airport. However, if the object was actually at a much higher altitude, it could've been located generally over McCarran Intl. Airport, or possibly even south west of the airfield, and it's ground speed could have been as much as ~3.0 mach or higher. The strangest things about it were it's meandering characteristics: A non-linear flight path - variable speed, heading, and possibly altitude - as well as the fact that it was very difficult to "focus" on and discern a specific shape. Again, it most closely resembled a standard white, plastic grocery bag being blown by a stiff wind. It was not a bird. I am a sky watcher, and have extensive experience with detailed observation of birds & civil & military aircraft of all types, weather phenomena, and blowing trash (I live in Las Vegas), as well as thousands of hours in a very realistic and customized version of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. I have neither reported nor seen anything "UFO-ish" in my entire 52 years of life, so seeing & reporting something like this is in no way a regular occurrence for me.
November 20, 2022 · 6:01 PM · UNKNOWN
Thane, MAHARASH · India
This happened on 20-Nov-2022 at 6pm. I randomly looked at the sky and saw a light moving. There were 4 people with me and we were sure it was not an aircraft. The shape of it was resembling UFOs as we see in images.
November 20, 2022 · 5:01 PM · UNKNOWN
Hibbing or Kelly Lake, MN
while driving towards a pulsating (clear lights only) object in the sky. I took a zoomed in picture of the object...it was slowly moving SE away from town.. it stopped moving and hovered as I drove past it and snapped the zoomed in picture.
November 19, 2022 · 9:21 PM · UNKNOWN
Gold Hill, OR
Driving on FWY noticed odd slow moving object with bright elongated white lights that were slowly rotating in a circle. Extremely large dark black vessel , this thing was an enormous object. So dark you couldn’t make out a shape,it moved meticulously rotating in a smoothe clockwise turn , while the elongated light also rotated clockwise , parallel then horizontaly back to parallel etc.. it pretty much vanished. Like it peeled open part of the night sky and slide into it slowly, the lights were gone then we saw a reddish orange purpulsion, in comparison to what a sonic boom looks like, only red/orange in color, and completely silent. No noise at all. our best description and overall feeling we had, was how massive in size and powerful it was, This was an incredible and epic experience!
November 17, 2022 · 11:24 AM · UNKNOWN
Hayden, ID
This sound woke me up, and I hurried outside and eventually took my socks off in the snow to quickly videotape this. I was on my upstairs deck and barely got this footage.
November 17, 2022 · 3:25 AM · UNKNOWN
Vermillion, SD
I opened the door for my daughter who got off work at 300 am or so. She went to bed and this light was so bright coming through my entryway peephole. So bright I couldn't open door so I started to record it and it actually looked like the moon was too close. Finally I went outside and started filming. And what I saw has changed my life forever. I'm 42 studying criminal justice, no medication and I know I captured something. We have a new baby in our home. The image I feel like was mocking her. After this experience my stove light stayed on for weeks and an object is seen in one of my videos. I could never see it I noticed that my head movements are off. I would like to share the video of what I saw it's only 2 seconds but when analyzing it under a negative font view it looks like it was inserting something or about to insert something in a baby like alien. I'm not ashamed or embarrassed. I'm not too much afraid but I kind of am. It's a different feeling not so much as a spirit or ghost but in a sense similar. After I told my mom she told me China reported something but than they deleted it? I know it was the same day in June. All are the original except #4 that is an EMF version of photo number 2 , photo 3 is how the light started, photo taken through my peep hole.. Than I saw the green thing in the tree after I watched the video when I went outside.. Thank you so much Misty
November 14, 2022 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
SYDNEY, NEW SOUT · Australia
Star gazing beautiful clear night right before this sighting i felt i was vibrating and it would be cool to see something and the craft appeared straight away which i thought was interesting
November 14, 2022 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Moses Lake, WA
While an operating Horizon Airline MSO-SEA my captain and I overheard the United flight ahead of us reporting UFO activity ahead to the west. Within a minute or two we also began seeing 1 and sometimes up to 3 lights. Varying and changing in brightness and moving rapidly near each other. We were at FL380 and it appeared to be at least FL600 perhaps.