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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
27,433 entries
August 1, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalHamden, CT
Noted a bright ‘orb’ with rapid flashing white light which flew in an irrigular pattern. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
August 1, 2023 · 12:19 AM · LIGHT
Quincy, IL
I was talking about UFOS and their existence stepped outside to take my dog I suddenly felt weird so I looked up quickly. Within seconds a bright light that was stationary suddenly dropped rapidly in elevation towards me and just as quickly shot off into space. The whole incident was not even 5 seconds. The light was very similar to a star. Impossible movements that no humans are capable of. I was talking about them beforehand which I thought was very odd. It was a light. It didn't have lights on it. It was too fast to capture I'm lucky I saw it. No sounds. No trail .
July 31, 2023 · 11:41 PM · LIGHT
Cartersville, GA
Light appeared around 11:41pm it was out in the distance in front of my house not sure how far out exactly but my ring camera picked it up. I saw it would get brighter and sometimes it would stand still for a couple of minutes and kept moving to the right as well. as it kept moving to the right it would dim out. My boyfriend went to go pee outside and he never noticed it but the light stood still as soon as he opened the front door and when he came back inside the light kept moving to the right. I’m not going to include the part where my boyfriend steps outside to pee but I have the video saved if you do need it please let me know and I can attach it. Maybe it’s nothing but I have no clue what that light is for and I’ve checked previous nights before and haven’t seen anything like that like today.
July 31, 2023 · 5:47 AM · LIGHT
Attalla, AL
It was amazing. I just took my dog out. Its daylight out so I found it kinda weird when I looked up and seen it. The lights was so bright. And it just sit there for a bit then started to move direction like up and down before it vanished from site. This may sound weird but it made me feel something I can't quite explain and I was like in a trance for a minute or so. Its the most wonderful thing I've ever seen.
July 30, 2023 · 10:02 PM · LIGHT
Monrovia, CA
looked like a star at first. moving fast then slow, then zig zags , circles. irratic movement. it stopped a few times very still. bright like a star.
July 30, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
I work grave yard shifts. I went outside to take a break. I noticed what I first assumed was one of those advertising spotlights off to the west of me. The light made a half circle, stopped for about 5 seconds, then returned back to it's starting point, where it stopped again for 5 seconds . It traced a half circle once again stopped for another 5 seconds then moved off in a southeast direction until it disappeared from sight. After about 20 seconds I looked over my right shoulder and saw that it was back behind my right shoulder. It was back behind me long enough for me to grab my phone and set the camera to video mode. It began moving northwest until it came back to the original spot where I first noticed it. During the time I was observing it, it made no sound. The object began to move back in a southeasterly direction again while I "filmed" it. It continued in that direction until it was no longer visible and did not return. Of course when I checked the video there was nothing recorded, so either I did not start the video correctly or my phone malfunctioned.
July 30, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Palamos, CATALONI · Spain
Ufo cant be a star or anything human its high in the sky and seen at night
July 30, 2023 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Miami, GA
I was driving northbound on I-95 to visit my mom with my daughter and I looked to my east (our right side while driving north bound) and noticed 3 lights that were in a triangle formation like an equilateral triangle. I asked my daughter what she saw she said "what are those mom"? she seemed as surprised as I was. We kept looking and saw the moved in synch. They were moving from equilateral to scalene triangle smoothly, but stayed in a formation of three the whole time we observed them. One became really bright and faded from view, the other two appeared to be moving toward us and my daughter noted "its coming this way" but then those 2 remaining lights also seemingly vanished. We live by Miami International Airport, we've observed drones at the beach, satellites while hiking in other states, this was not was not a helicopter, plane or drone. It was three lights forming a triangle, moving strangely and vanishing. The whole time we observed them we saw commercial planes flying by and are certain these were not other planes.
July 30, 2023 · 11:35 AM · LIGHT
Gladwin, MI
Yeah, just lay down to start watching shooting stars my mom and my two kids. Within five minutes my mom said look at that shooting star which it was not. It was very low, very bright round, light coming from the south west from the direction of town. It was lower than a plane, but still high in the sky. It was headed in the north east direction, and when it started shifting directions, it got brighter like the source was angle at us. And then started heading north or more of a north west direction and rising. There was no sound. It was much faster than a plane, much slower than a shooting star. It was no tail. It was like something I’ve never seen we kept her eyes onto it and continued actually into the direction of the big dipper. And actually disappeared ( continued out of our sight) into the center of the big dipper. That night, we also seen planes and seen a jet even heard the jet, but nothing to do with that light, just wanted it to be known we know the difference we like stargazing..
July 30, 2023 · 12:20 AM · LIGHT
Davis, CA
At approximately 12:15 AM, I was standing on the roof of the Social Sciences and Humanities building on Davis campus and looking out in a north/northeastern direction. I noticed some bright lights in the sky, which struck me as being a few miles out; they were more luminous than any plane, star, or planet. At first I assumed they were planes coming directly at me, but I quickly realized that they were moving parallel to me rather than perpendicular. I took out my phone and began filming at 12:20. The two objects, moving in opposite directions, completed two long ellipse like maneuvers where one would pass over the other when they met in the middle. I also noticed at one point that the object to the right (east) appeared to stand still for about 20 seconds (at the point in the video where I point this out it appears to have just started moving again), although it is possible that it was just moving very slowly. About 9 minutes into filming, both objects dipped below the tree line in front of me (as I said they seemed some miles out, so I didn’t think they were as low as the trees, it just appeared so) and disappeared from sight. At 12:42 I saw one briefly reemerge above the trees. At 12:49 both reappeared and I began filming again. I still thought they might be planes executing some kind of long bank maneuver, because at one point the object on the left (west) appeared to glow the brightest at approximately the time that it changed direction and began moving the other way. They performed one more ellipse, and at this point I noticed that the light on top was red and the one on the bottom was blue or white. Shortly after this final maneuver, first the blue and then the red light disappeared below the tree line one more time, not to reappear for me. I noticed another bright light, but it was directly over Sacramento and heading my way, so I assumed it was a plane. I’m a history major at UC Davis, but I’ve always loved the cosmos—my favorite Christmas present ever was a telescope. I’ve become interested in UAPs specifically over the course of the last few years. I'll post a screenshot of exactly where I was in the images section. Here are the videos I took: https://youtu.be/VQUbBljYdWk https://youtu.be/8C0Sv6PjoXA
July 29, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Adel, IA
Observed a bright light to the south/ southeast of my location, traveling towards the north. Object appeared to then turn directly east. Captured video. I first assumed it was a satellite until it turned and was quickly at a great distance from my location.
July 29, 2023 · 9:51 PM · LIGHT
Albany, IN
Grandson and I were looking at the stars in between races at the dragstrip. He noticed a bright white perfectly round one moving from the northwest. I looked on Flight Aware and Planes live but it wasn’t on there. We were at a dragstrip and it was too noisy to hear if it had any sound. Appeared to be over 5000 feet traveling southeast at maybe 250-300 mph and we watched it travel across the sky. It was very bright and 30 seconds before it faded away it became brighter, dimmed to normal before it faded out. I thought it might be some type of military aircraft but I took a couple of pictures anyway. The pics were taken with my iPhone 13 and they raised my curiosity. Maybe it’s just the way the camera works taking pics of light when it’s dark out but it seems odd to me. A few minutes later i saw an airplane fly close to the same path but appeared to be at a higher altitude but it didn’t appear on either flight app i have on my phone. The apps did show aircraft but not real close to where we were. My grandson is 6 and I’m a 57 year old area sales manager.
July 29, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Calgary, AB · Canada
-Small points of light started appearing at dusk. They would start, stop, make sharp 180° turns and accelerate at a mind bending speed (travelled across the entire night sky in about 2 seconds) - Also saw a bright white/orange light fly toward downtown and disappear (didn't appear to be a meteor as it had no trail) - last I saw before heading to bed was a bright light that slowly appeared and then faded away shortly after.
July 29, 2023 · 9:07 PM · LIGHT
Honolulu, HI
Coordinates of observation position is 21.26614° N, 157.81542° W A white, star-like object moved across the bright night sky in a NNW direction about 45 degrees. Altitude was at least 30K feet. It moved like a jet until it disappeared right before my eyes. The Northern sky was bright and clear. The Big Dipper was in the field of view and situated to the left of the moving object. The duration of this sighting was 5-10 seconds.
July 29, 2023 · 8:48 PM · LIGHT
Madison, WI
Object falling to the left of the moon, no stars in the sky fell for about 15 seconds and made in abrupt. Turn towards the south then went behind. The clouds. Only lasted 45 seconds or so. Looks similar to a shooting star until it made a sharp turn!
July 29, 2023 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Malang, EAST JAV · Indonesia
5:40 I saw a flashing green light in distance in night sky. I asked my wife if it was same as what she’d described two nights earlier. She said yes but there were more of them. She had passed them off as Starlink. Upon further inspection there were in fact 4 I could see. One due N, one due W, and two NW. S and E views are blocked. One of the NW pair is moving gently left and right. All 4 are pulsing on and off. The NW pair was actually seen moving into their current position, but have maintained now for over 3 hours. Video is real-time but movement more noticeable if sped up slightly.
July 29, 2023 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Cedar City, UT
Driving on a dirt road to one of my job sites, I seen two lights like headlights shining at me on the other side of my equipment I fuel at night. Once I got to my equipment, I got my phone out to record, the object turned red, and stated to move north west. I videoed the object until a helicopter passed over me in my fuel truck. I felt safe to get out then, so I started my truck up, engaged my PTO fuel pump, reved my truck to 1200 RPMS and got out. My truck has an idle shut off, so when the PTO is engaged, the truck will not shut down. As I was out, Taking numbers from the equipment, my truck shut down. I was in shock, this has only happened one time before in deep snow. The electrical plug, was pulled off due to ice, this time, I hadn't drove over anything that could have ripped that plug off! The hair on my head stood up, I was not alone, and now, my work lights were off. I walked around my truck, looked under it to see the wire hanging as if something pulled it off to get me in the dark alone. I plugged it in, started my truck up, only to see three helicopters flying around where the craft was hovering. They are not here for peace and love, they tried to possibly contact me, attack, or abduct me. I had a armed encounter with a flying saucer when I was 14, 1989, hunting elk above deer creek. These whistle blowers, have not been on the ground in the daylight, having their saucer in their cross hairs, I have. They are not going to stop now. I can not fuel at night armed, it is against company policy. My truck has strobe lights, and bright halogen work lights, they know my location nightly. The feds may need to watch me fir a few weeks from a distance at night. PS they are on the ground now, I feel they are not just watching us, they are here for more this time.
July 28, 2023 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT
Gainesville, FL
I was enamored by a visual in the sky at 11:00pm, in an Easterly direction. It looked like a meteor casting a "dust trail" in the atmosphere in the shape of a star. This slowly moved North, from my right to left. To the right of that, was a "firework" style light show behind it, in a single spot not moving. I presume this to be the Falcon 9 Heavy far away from me. I'm in Gainesville FL, and the Space X launch is at Kennedy Space Center, over 100 miles away. (I didn't know this at the time of viewing) Anyway, 5 minutes after the sky clears up from that Space launch event, I drove a golf cart away. I glance in the general direction again (East) and now, much closer to my location, appears a pair of orange orb/spherical lights in the sky. Slightly south from my perspective of the Space event, these entities are moving slowly Southward. They formed a diagonal line going up and back. Not more than a moment after viewing, the front light disappears, followed by the second light, mere seconds later.
July 28, 2023 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT
Gainesville, FL
I was enamored by a visual in the sky at 11:00pm, in an Easterly direction. It looked like a meteor casting a "dust trail" in the atmosphere in the shape of a star. This slowly moved North, from my right to left. To the right of that, was a "firework" style light show behind it, in a single spot not moving. I presume this to be the Falcon 9 Heavy far away from me. I'm in Gainesville FL, and the Space X launch is at Kennedy Space Center, over 100 miles away. (I didn't know this at the time of viewing) Anyway, 5 minutes after the sky clears up from that Space launch event, I drove a golf cart away. I glance in the general direction again (East) and now, much closer to my location, appears a pair of orange orb/spherical lights in the sky. Slightly south from my perspective of the Space event, these entities are moving slowly Southward. They formed a diagonal line going up and back. Not more than a moment after viewing, the front light disappears, followed by the second light, mere seconds later. Possibly the launch stage descending for recovery.
July 28, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Ben Lomand, CA
At approximately 11pm with dark, clear skies atop the Santa Cruz mountains near Loma Prieta multiple witnesses observed red round lights that shifted position from a diamond shape with 4 lights to a single red light, flashing, then steady, slowly floating up and down, then flashing red to bright white,and bright purple to red, streaking and darting rapidly, then fading and reappearing in a different spot. .A halo / haze was noticed around the activity that blurred out the stars within it, yet stars were visible everywhere else. These lights had a high bright scintillation that was different from typical aircraft nav lights also visible in distance at the same time.
July 28, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Cedarburg, WI
There was a thunderstorm or heat lightening over the lake east of me. No sound so it must have been heat lightening and it became more rapid so I filmed it. I saw a blip in the corner so I stopped and reviewed it and saw this. And it was fast. Slowing it down there's a tail to it. I star watch all the time and the closest thing I can compare it to was a comet or something same color in Madison, WI I saw the night before my brother's graduation but to my knowledge comets or meteors don't go up....
July 28, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Centennial, CO
I saw a orange object moving across the sky approximately 500-1000 ft high out of my kitchen window. Looked odd so I walked out on back porch and called my son out to verify what I was watching was not anything normal. We watched it move about the speed of a helicopter then start traveling east and upwards until its light either went out or got far away really fast.
July 28, 2023 · 4:25 AM · LIGHT
Sioux falls, SD
I was looking up at the sky and facing south, there was a light like a star, I don't know why but I kind of stared up there for about 5 minutes and it just diasappeared, no clouds at that time it was clear. It's probably nothing but thought I would report it, it was not falling debris or starlink like the pictures. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
July 27, 2023 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT
san francisco, CA
A solid blue light moving through the high fog from West to East at a rapid pace. It illuminated the surrounding fog in a diffused blue color. The light was only blue, not blinking and there was no sound. I would estimate the altitude to be a thousand feet up. It travelled in a straight line until it vanished after about 45 seconds.