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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
November 1, 2021 · 9:30 PM · CYLINDER
Palmer, MA
The object was seen off in the distance on my way home. Looked to be a cylinder shape with the top and bottom rotating. The object gave off a green glow and darted off within the blink of an eye.
October 30, 2021 · 3:00 PM · CYLINDER
Donegal, COUNTY D · Ireland
I parked my van, and was walking to the cafe when I met my brother going to work in a nearby restaurant, I stopped to tslk to him and saw the object in the sky above his head, got out my phone and started recording. The object had no wings, no propellers and was completely silent. It looked to be white in colour round on both ends and went in behind a cloud and did not come back out again. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
October 28, 2021 · 7:40 AM · CYLINDER
Union, NJ
It was moving away from me. Looked like shiny airplane without wings or tail. No windows visible.
October 20, 2021 · 9:24 PM · CYLINDER
Flat Rock, NC
I did not see anything except the moon and sky when I took the shot. After I came back inside I noticed that an object appeared in both photos. One above the moon and the other a bit higher and right of it in the second shot, both within that timeframe of 3 seconds. The moon is bright white. The object is tinted blue with a cylindrical almost u-shaped body. It also had its own glow. Since I didn't see the photo until well afterwards, I have no idea how long it remained in the sky.
October 20, 2021 · 7:20 AM · CYLINDER
Jacksonville, FL
7:20 AM - as I was walking to my car in the parking lot with another witness . Looked at the sky seen 2 white objects clear to the naked eye view . I tried to record but only was able to see one on my phone . Description of objects: Solid white object. Smooth , with no wings . No windows (from my view) looked like 2 long slender rounded objects stuck together as one . The size of 2 cars (from my view) like 2 tic-tac forming a line . There was a bright haze around it but no smoke trail .
October 19, 2021 · 1:30 PM · CYLINDER
Bolingbrook, IL
On Tuesday October 19, 2021, at approximately 1:30 pm I went upstairs to my motel room to grab my phone charger. While in my room I decided to raise the blinds and see what type of view I had. After only a minute I noticed a shiny object moving in the sky off in the distance. For a second, I thought “is it a balloon”? But then I saw it moving quickly across the sky and glimmering in and out of view. It was very bright at times, then at other times it appeared to be reflecting the sunlight off a translucent or silver body. It appeared to move in and out of the clouds starting at the skyline the moving upwards and away over and over. I thought I had better grab my phone thinking this could be the real thing. I did not do a great job recording as I am unskilled and was very distracted by the object. It appeared for about ten of the thirteen minutes that I filmed. As I reviewed the video, I discovered that I could zoom in and at one point noticed it looked cylindrical, but at other times it appeared to be growing and shrinking without form like a mass of energy. It moved great distances in a way that our aircraft cannot move. I was incredibly nervous, scared, and excited all at the same time. This was something like I have never seen before. Having been in the USMC I can honestly say I have never seen anything fly the way this thing flew around today, except in the movies. I loaded it onto YouTube, it is titled “UFO IN BOLINGBROOK IL. I do not know what else to say except that there were multiple planes in the sky and one helicopter which all appeared black or as silhouettes, but this object was super bright.
October 17, 2021 · 11:49 PM · CYLINDER
Coral Springs, FL
Was light bolls of light pair white and them land on top the house the transform like it shadows !! On the clouds landing and stars cant the activity the you can’t see on the videos downloading
October 9, 2021 · 7:15 PM · CYLINDER
La Palma (Canary Islands) · Spain
https://youtu.be/ABIsiuohba0
September 30, 2021 · 6:00 PM · CYLINDER
Boston, MA
My partner was on our rear deck -second level of a 2 family (no roof). We had just finished grilling and eating. He came rushing in the house to get me. I was right in the kitchen and didn’t have far to go. When I went on the deck with him there were two (2) UFO’s right above our roof line… no more than 20 ft away from us. They hovered, stationary and completely silent. There were some lites on the object. I just stood there stunned. It had some lights but not glaring or projecting. And then without any noise, without any gearing up it dashed off diagonally to the right (South), both at the same time but at slightly different angles. When my partner ran down to the sidewalk to get a better view there was no sight of them anywhere in the sky. Not too long after that our neighbor and friend called, and without any prompting told us his account of a sighting. He said he saw a ufo that landed in the cemetery behind his house. He was too rattled and didn’t want to talk about it much but he said he saw a… something. Like maybe a body of some sort. -Not a human body. He stopped telling us anymore when we started telling him that we saw something too because he thought we were joking or mocking him.
September 24, 2021 · 8:30 PM · CYLINDER
Boswell, PA
A bright distorted ovalish object appeared out of nowhere darted in the sky leaving a very bright line left for maybe 20 yards then disappeared. After three what I thought to be planes were going slowly in all different direction in the area. It dark but clear because you could see the stars in the sky.
September 23, 2021 · 10:01 AM · CYLINDER
Fort Walton Beach, FL
On Thursday morning, 23 September 2021, my family and I waded in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico on the shoreline of Fort Walton Beach on Okaloosa Island, Florida, behind the Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites, where we stayed for our trip to the area. Fairfield Inn & Suites is located at 540 Santa Rosa Boulevard, in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. We had flown into Pensacola International Airport the previous evening, and Thursday morning around 09:00 AM was our first opportunity to walk and explore along the beach behind the hotel, and enjoy the warm Gulf waters and look for shells. The sky was clear and beautiful, with the Sun shining high and bright in the eastern part of the sky, a prelude to the nice day ahead of us. Shortly after 10:00 AM local time, Central Standard Time (CST) [11:00 AM EST], we started to head back to the beach access boardwalk, and return to the hotel. My wife and daughter were ahead of me, as I looked out towards the sky across the Gulf waters. There were a few other people standing approximately 50-60 feet out beyond the shoreline in the water, when I spotted a faint dark object in the sky above them. The object appeared to maneuver closer towards the beach. I have followed military and civil aviation developments since my childhood and recognize a broad variety of fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft. I was therefore naturally curious to see what aircraft might be approaching the area. Earlier in the morning, I observed different types of aircraft flying above us, and heading southwards over the Gulf of Mexico, and as I came to note during our stay, there was frequent flight traffic overhead in the Fort Walton/Destin area throughout the day. I knew that just across the Choctawhatchee Bay, northeast of Fort Walton Beach, there was Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), which conducts development and testing of tactical air weapons and armaments for the U.S. Air Force; and to the West was Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, the hub of naval aviation training and home of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels aerobatic demonstration team. Further down the eastern coastline, close to Panama City, was Tyndall AFB, which houses the 325th Fighter Wing that! trains all F-22 Raptor pilots, and in the past hosted the Air Force’s biennial William Tell air-to-air weapons competition. I stopped walking in the sand and stood silently facing the water to see if I could recognize the vehicle in the sky that was approaching us overhead. I didn’t call out to my wife and daughter, because I assumed this was a conventional aircraft, and that was of no interest to them. It is also for this reason that I did not immediately pull out my mobile phone from my pocket, to take pictures or a video of the object, as I had already taken pictures of my family while we hunted for sea shells and other things. As the object approached closer to the beach, I observed it was a cylindrical shaped object, hovering nearly vertical in the sky, at a slight angle tilting forward. It was black or a dark color, with some panel lines that could be made out in the bright sky. The vehicle featured shiny longer extensions that protruded at the upper end from either side of its thin tube-shaped body. These extensions reflected bright in the clear morning sky, almost as if they glowed ! at irregular intervals. They looked similar to solar panels extending from the sides of a space satellite. The object made no apparent sound that I could hear, although it appeared to hover above the water at a distance of about 500 feet, and perhaps 700 feet in the air. As I viewed the shape and configuration of this object, I tried to associate its features with an aircraft, manned or unmanned, that I might be familiar with, so I could clearly reference it. I did initially think this might be a new type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and perhaps a hovering helicopter drone, similar to what I believe the U.S. Navy experimented with in the past – I think back in the 1990s – to provide a shipborne scout and reconnaissance drone. That vehicle had a set of coaxial rotor blades aerodynamically integrated into a fairly large curvy, hourglass-shaped body, but which never made it into production. I could not remember the manufacturer or the designation of that vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle but could probably be referenced in a past Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft volume. The object in the sky appeared to have a conceptual resemblance to this past defense project, at first. I initially thought that, because of the protruding p! anels that, from a distance, and when the vehicle was at a level perspective, appeared to be in the shape of rotating blades, like a conventional helicopter. In addition to its protruding extensions, the vehicle had several needle-like extensions below the cylindrical body that were angled outwards; maybe antenna or sensors of some kind. However, since the object made no sound, and there was no downwash from any turning rotor blades onto the surface of the water, it quickly became clear to me that this was not a conventional air vehicle moving in the sky but something else. Moreover, it appeared to observe the aforementioned people in the water, close to the shoreline. Had the object made any apparent sound, those people would have turned their heads to the sky to also view what I was seeing from the beach. But they did not; the 2-3 people in the water were oblivious to the hovering object in the sky that was closing in on them, from what I could tell, and continued to talk and go about their business, uninterrupted. I called out to wife and daughter that I was observing something in the sky that I wanted them to see. I did say that I thought it might be a UFO, or unidentified flying object, or some kind of unknown type of UAV. My wife stopped walking, as she was almost at the beach access ramp, and turned around to walk back towards me, and see what I was watching. She called out for me to take a video of it, and I reached down into my pocket to grab my phone and activate the video mode. During this time, I observed how the object came to what was probably its closest point to the beach, possibly around 400 feet within the beach and 500 feet in altitude, and hovered at an angle to “observe” the people in the water. It rotated slightly around its axis, as the protruding silver-colored panels reflected bright against the sunlight. The people below took no visible note of the vehicle, from what I could discern. Judging by the altitude and distance of the object to the people in the water, I roughly estimated the main body of the vehicle to be larger than a 6-foot tall man, possibly around 8-10 feet in height, with the total span across the panels measuring approximately 15-18 feet. The most peculiar aspect of this encounter was that the object then appeared to “notice” that I had observed its presence, and as I tried to point my cellphone to the sky in its direction, the vehicle took off at great speed out over the water into the Gulf. It made no sound as it flew out, to quickly put a large distance between it and the shoreline. By the time I had activated the video camera on my phone and recorded as closely as a I could zoom in onto the object, it was already far out over the water, perhaps at a distance of over 3,000 feet away from the beach. The video has a creation timestamp of 10:04 AM CST [11:04 AM EST], and has a runtime of 45 seconds. Due to the bright daylight of the morning Sun, it was difficult to make out the object in the sky with my cellphone and focus in on it. It was also challenging to clearly view anything on the phone screen, let alone see small, faint objects that the camera might acquire. The only reference point in the sky I had was to note the object’s reflection, so I would not entirely miss recording the event. As I pointed the lens of my phone camera in the object’s approximate direction, I was able to catch interm
September 18, 2021 · 5:45 PM · CYLINDER
Mastic, NY
Traveling South on William Floyd Parkway in Mastic Long Island. We were about 2 miles north of Brookhaven laboratory. It was late in the afternoon about 5:45 PM. The sun was glaring on my right side I saw a flash and noticed a shiny cylinder shaped object hovering stationary in the sky. The object was extremely reflective and seemed to reflect the sun off the object. The object did not have writing or lights on it. the trees going by on the right side made it difficult to get a long view of the object because it was at a lower height then an airplane would be. I lost sight momentarily behind the trees but located it seconds later and then it was gone.
September 12, 2021 · 12:30 PM · CYLINDER
Logansport, IN
During the escort for the marine returning home from Afghanistan is when this instance happened. I do not own the rights to the video, the guy who took the video is Robert McElheny. I did try to get into contact with him but haven’t heard anything. When I returned home from the escort, I reviewed all footage of the event on Facebook and that is when I found this particular video in Logansport, IN. The craft is dark colored against a blue-sky background. The video is 28 seconds in length. Three jets pass through the frame, and directly behind the third jet at 24 seconds a small object estimated 4-6 feet in length traveling very fast, or faster than the jet is seen to be chasing the jet.
September 11, 2021 · 7:40 PM · CYLINDER
Philadelphia, PA
20-23 small, cylindrical objects flying south to north. Red light on each went off when overhead.
September 11, 2021 · 3:30 PM · CYLINDER
York, PA
The object I observed yesterday on September 11, 2021 at around 3:30 - 3:45 PM was a somewhat shiny cylinder shape in an up/ down orientation. It appeared stationary and I could see it had a slow rotation to it because it had some kind of bump out / protrusion towards the top of its shape that would shine bright probably from the reflection of the sun. It was northeast in the sky from where I was observing it. It was hard to tell just how high it was at first and I was in total awe as to what I was looking at. I quickly went inside to grab binoculars and had my wife and daughter come out to take a look. I was afraid that it would be gone but sure enough we all spotted it... but it was smaller and no doubt higher up. Even with the binoculars it was hard to get a clear view of it. A few clouds at one point obstructed it so I knew then it had to be fairly high up by now. We watched it as it just kept getting smaller and disappeared from sight. We all agreed i! t had rotation to it and had no idea what it could have been. None of us have ever witness anything like this. I am reporting this in the hopes of learning that others may have seen it and took the time to report it as well.
September 7, 2021 · 7:45 PM · CYLINDER
Papillion, NE
It was a white tik tak with a black ring around the center. Moved slow and had no sound being emitted from it. It had no wings for propellers and moved like it new we were watching it.
September 7, 2021 · 3:00 PM · CYLINDER
Liverpool (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Vertical cylinder, slow moving but caught sunlight reflects a couple of times which is what made me look up.was travelling in a south to north direction at a high altitude. The sky was cloudless and blue. There was no sound from object but a jet went over very high five minutes later which I could hear. Took about 6 photos on my mobile phone camera.
September 6, 2021 · 12:35 PM · CYLINDER
Jacksonville, FL
JACKSONVILLE, FL - On September 6, 2021 - (Labor Day), I was traveling on a Jet Blue flight from Boston, MA to Jacksonville, FL. Our plane departed Logan Airport on time at 10am....scheduled to land in Jacksonville, FL at 12:50pm. The weather was clear blue skies for the entire flight. In full disclosure, I have been a licensed private pilot for 24 years, and a licensed drone pilot for 6 years. Typically when I fly commercially, I tend to book a window seat...on an exit row. On this flight, I was sitting in Row 12, window seat – exit row, on the left side of the aircraft. The jet configuration was two seats on the left, an aisle, and two seats on the right. At approximately 12:35pm, we had just entered the “pattern” for landing at Jacksonville International Airport. The Jet was on a downwind leg (paralleling the runway). The Jet was heading due West, at approximately 2,800 feet in the air, traveling at roughly 240mph. I clearing saw JAX airport out of the left window. Everything at the airport was very clear. The runways, the jets, the terminal, control tower, etc. I pressed my face against window looking west to see/gage when the pilot might turn left on the base leg of the pattern. Yes, I know it’s weird. As a pilot I tend to do that. Flying over this part of the pattern is a thick, heavy forest. In August, the leaves on the trees are very dark green. As I looked out the window, facing west, I saw three bright white objects flying in the opposite direction. I didn’t know what they were. Big white birds, three drones, no way, but I couldn’t tell. As they got closer, they were three long cylindrical objects. They were in a triangle pattern. They were roughly 75 feet to 150 feet above the tree line. I was above the objects. I was completely stunned what I saw. It was crystal clear and their white fuselage stuck out against the dark tree line. I could clearly see these “aircraft”. They were all white, I am guessing about the size of 2 or 3 cars (20 to 25 feet long)....maybe a bit longer. The width was about as wide as a car. They clearly had a rounded front fuselage, and a rounded rear – everything looked completely smooth. All three were the exact same size – and they were flying in a perfect triangle. These three had NO wings, NO rotors (blades), and absolutely NO exhaust. I could not see any windows. The entire encounter lasted 10-15 seconds. As they passed our Jet Blue flight, the left wing blocked my view for a second. As they flew past the wing, I looked to the rear and followed them until they were out of sight. I was completely stunned! After the flight, the captain of our plane was standing in the aisle outside of the cockpit. I stopped and asked him if he noticed anything on radar right before he turned the base leg. He said he did not notice anything. As I got into my vehicle, I was so upset that I pulled over and contacted the Jacksonville Control Tower. They took my information, and took a report. I told two people in the control tower what I saw. They probably thought I was nuts. When I got home, I also contact Naval Station Mayport. Since it was Labor Day, they had a skeleton crew working. I did leave 2 messages, one with a Lieutenant of Air Operations. To say that I am upset with what I saw is an understatement. Aeronautically speaking, what I observed is not possible. BUT I SAW IT! I hope I’m not cracking up. We spoke at length with the witness, and consider him to be exceptionally capable, and credible. PD
September 6, 2021 · 10:26 AM · CYLINDER
Indianapolis, IN
Observer had spotted an unknown object. Witness was a retired Marion County and State Capitol Police officer, and at the time of the sighting, an Uber driver. Report as follows. Beach Grove/Indianapolis, retired police officer was sitting at the corner of Thompson Road and Emerson Avenue in the old Kmart parking lot. He was in his car facing West when he looked up and saw a black cigar-shaped craft with 7 round white lights on the trailing edge of the object, which was silent. He estimated the craft was 1800-2000 feet high, similar to low flying helicopters. From witness's vantage point inside his vehicle, he estimated the object to be around 1/2 mile (2640 feet) away. When looking at it with his arm outstretched, eye to thumbtip of around 25-30 inches, he noted it was 45 degree angle up and about the size of 3-4 of his thumbnails which is approximately 3-3-1/2 inches. This indicates a large craft estimated to be about 300 feet wide which would make the 7 li! ghts on trailing edge about 15 feet across. Object moved from NE to SW and disappeared out of sight as he drove off to pick up a customer. He stated he had seen this exact same craft in August 2021 about 8-10 miles West of this location near his home.
August 28, 2021 · 3:28 PM · CYLINDER
Berryville, AR
I was sitting in Walmart parking lot eating some lunch and I was just taking a picture of the clouds they had a peculiar squareness to the sides of them didn't know that I caught something else in the photo until I got home and was cropping the photograph so I will send the original photo and then the zoomed-in cropped photo so you can see the craft because the original zoomed out photo you cannot see it at all.
August 19, 2021 · 4:46 PM · CYLINDER
Probable conventionalWells next the Sea, NORFOLK · United Kingdom
Whilst close to the beach my brother in law who likes to take photos of clouds saw a very fast moving object. Too quick to be aircraft, bird or insect travelling from right to left [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]
August 15, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CYLINDER
During flight my guess Midwest south west, UT
Spirit flight 333 aug 15th 630 pm somewhere Midwest/southwest area maybe Utah. Captures tic Tac uap was not there when I snapped the photo of the cloud tops pretty wild and neat to see where not the only ones out there picture is clear I tried zooming in and it’s gets blurry see photos of you want more photos email me at ((addddress deleted) I took several at the time that I caught that and there may be something else on it but it was not there when I snapped the picture on my phone of the clouds
July 26, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CYLINDER
Phoenixville, PA
Outwalking and looked up to see contrail. A tic tac object white without wings was making this. I watched it go for a few seconds heading EAST. I then saw another tictac white without wings coming WEST at the same elevation and about 100 feet from the first object. They passed each other as on a two lane highway. Second tic tac did not make contrail. They were higher than the passenger aircraft coming from Phila. airport in the East which flew under them both about 2000 feet lower. Tic tac going west caught the sun's rays and it appeared to glint off several windows going the length of it. No noise was heard.
July 25, 2021 · 2:00 PM · CYLINDER
San Diego, CA
While out for a walk on a clear, cloudless day, I noticed a pure white cylinder shaped object in the sky. It had no wings, tail, or any visible means of flying, was silent,was not moving, or was barely moving/flying at all so as to appear to be sitting still. I watched it in that exact same spot for several minutes when suddenly, it either blinked out or left at such a high rate of speed that my eyes could not track it. It reminded me of the white tic-tac object seen by pilots, shown on TV some time ago, but was not moving.