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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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November 19, 2023 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Valrico, FL
We were sitting at the kitchen counter and looked out the sliding glass doors to a giant light that was green and red and white launching straight into the sky from the ground. Thought it was a rocket but this was Sunday night. Too loud to be a drone but too quiet to be a plane. Slowed down frame by frame in my video you can see it rotating from red light to green light to white light like they were placed on a disk. It was moving fast bc we had to run to the front yard just to catch it. Wasn’t flying in. A straight like either and I had saw a plane go by about twenty min after this. The thing we saw was not a plane. You could see it glowing green past the horizon of trees. Circular for sure with disk like features. I thought it was just a drone at first but this looked like a rocket launch not a drone flying up. Also it was way too high up in the atmosphere to be a drone. You also just feel chills on your neck and body knowing that this is not something you regularly see. I had to stay out there for 20 extra minutes just peering into the sky. No rocket launches on the 19th.
November 19, 2023 · 6:04 PM · SPHERE
Denver, CO
On November 19, 2023 in Downtown Denver, Colorado me & my partner witnessed a large dark grayish object appearing in translucent looking clouds or smoke above a building directly in front of our balcony. We were staying at The Warwick Hotel on the 14th floor. After the large object appeared above The Secretary of State building, we were frozen in place unable to speak for several seconds then it opened & began dropping out 4 perfectly circular red/yellow/orangish orbs that pulsated and flashed and hovered at first then began to maneuver in all directions (up, down, left, right) forming shapes etc. Neither the “mothership” as we called it or the orbs made any noticeable sounds. As seen on our video footage some orbs hovered while others descended. One can be seen sharply changing directions as it descended behind SkyHouse Denver highrise. Just before all the orbs descended and disappeared from our view behind The Secretary of State building a black helicopter arrived in the precise area the orbs and mothership disappeared and circled for approximately 40mins to an hour. Afterwards time seemed to leap forward 2 hours and a large flock of crows came to the tree directly in-front of us and began crowing loudly after the orbs disappeared.
November 19, 2023 · 5:17 PM · DISK
Montville, CT
I saw what I initially thought to be Venus shining brighter and bigger than usual. Then it started moving fast so I took a video. It was red and spinning rather fast in a zigzag pattern.
November 19, 2023 · 4:38 PM · CHANGING
Painesville, OH
Started off as orange orbs then changed into a saucer shape then back into white lines before changing back into an orb.
November 19, 2023 · 4:07 PM · EGG
Shamong, NJ
At just after 4:00 on Sunday 11/19/23, I looked up because I heard a helicopter hovering around and something caught my eye at a much higher altitude beyond the helicopter. I saw a small silver metallic object moving in a southerly direction. It was hard to track with the naked eye due to the dusk lighting, it was shimmering inconsistently, and it appeared to be reflecting the sunlight much brighter than I have seen from any other object. I pulled out my iPhone, started a video, and pointed it in the direction of the object on full zoom not knowing if it could pick up the object. When replaying the video, I was surprised to see it showed up exactly how I saw it with my eyes. I held the phone as steady as I could (within 1/8”) and I do not have shaky hands. For the altitude of the object, it appeared to be moving unusually slow compared to the speed a plane would be traveling at that same altitude. I live in a rural area between Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and McGuire AFB where most plane traffic is at a visible altitude and traveling in a consistent flight path. This object was traveling from the northwest to southeast, which does not fit any air traffic I have seen before. It was also odd that the helicopter I witnessed at the lower altitude seemed to be hanging around with no defined flight path, unlike the Coast Guard, State Police, or news helicopters that fly straight over just west of my location. I am an engineer and I work for a defense contractor at a Navy test facility. I always look to the sky when I hear or see an aircraft and I have never seen anything like this before. I would like to submit an FOIA request for radar data for that day/time to see if there is any object appearing in that flight path at the time I observed.
November 19, 2023 · 3:40 PM · CHANGING
Grand River, OH
This was a very bright sunny day clear blue skies as I looked up above my apartment I noticed a large group of what I thought were flares because they were orange and extremely bright. The objects had moved north towards the lake and eventually disappeared within two minutes the objects reappeared and came back the same direction they had just went. They had changed colors shape and size. I went through and took screenshots of the video in slow motion and you can see there was at least three different objects that they changed into including a saucer shape and I had some pretty clear images that looked just like a perfect saucer.
November 19, 2023 · 12:15 PM · TRIANGLE
North York, PA
Late Saturday night/Sunday morning I was laying out watching for meteors with my feet facing east, I noticed a swift but silent moving triangular craft swiftly moving from NW to SE direction. It was black, with about 5-7 dimmed lights around the front two sides in a v formation. This was up well above where planes are, moving in deep in space amongst the stars. Within a few second it was out of sight. This is the second time I have personally seen this while out watching meteor showers in the last 2 years
November 19, 2023 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE
Pond Eddy, NY
White light in the shape of an orb was moving in different directions across the sky for about 30 minutes and then disappeared. It looked like it had white/gold strands coming off of it. It reappeared about an hour later in a different part of the sky. It was flashing red and green and white lights. It then disappeared again.
November 18, 2023 · 10:54 PM · TRIANGLE
Buffalo, NY
I was driving on Best Street heading East and saw what I immediately assumed was a plane. I saw two pinpoint flashing red lights on both the left and right sides of the object (east and West). Then I realized that it was not a plane. I could see the underside of the object which looked like the bottom of a mostly triangular shaped object shaped kind of like a bicycle seat. The grey color reminded me of the color of a jet. The object did not appear to be moving and if it was it had to be extremely slow as it was undetectable from my vantage point. I pulled over to to check the Flight Radar app and the closest plane was shown over Amherst, NY. The Buffalo Niagara International Airport is just a few miles from where I was so I wanted to just assume it was a plane. Planes don't stand still in the air or hover so I decided to report this. I really want to know what it was. I was approaching the turn for the 33 West and couldn't stay pulled over in the lane I was in so I had to drive off. The object was still there when I drove off.
November 18, 2023 · 4:50 PM · SPHERE
Blaine, WA
It was early evening on November 18, 2023 and my wife and I were sitting in our living room watching the news. Our leather sofa sits perpendicular to our ten-foot living room window which is on the north side of the house facing the US/Canada border. There is quite often activity along the border with drones and helicopters doing whatever it is they are supposed to do so we seldom pay much attention. However, that evening as we sat watching, my attention was drawn to a round bright light slightly higher than the tree line on my neighbor’s property about a half mile away. At first we thought it could be a helicopter but the light was larger than any we’ve seen before and it was pointed straight at our direction not searching the ground. We watched it for several minutes, musing between each other that maybe it was an airplane. But, then logic kicking in and we could not understand how a plane intending to land at a nearby airport (there is one in Abbottsford and one in Bellingham but neither are that close to us), would be holding such a low and, seemingly, fixed position. Finally, with curiosity getting the best of me, I got off the couch and walked to the window to get a better view. As soon as I made the window, with my wife still watching from the couch, the large round light began to retreat away from me, as it were, and the light grew smaller and smaller. It took maybe five seconds for it to become very small and then it took a 90 degree turn upwards and continued rising behind some misty clouds until it came to a stop and took the form of a red and white blinking light. It remained stationary in the sky and we shut the curtains.
November 18, 2023 · 12:15 PM · SPHERE
Oro Valley, AZ
Hello NUFORC, At around noon on 11/18/2023 I heard two low-flying fighters outside of our house. As I was standing in our backyard, I saw two F-35's fly around the house three times over the course of 15-30 minutes. I don't know why there were F-35's here, but Davis-monthan AFB in Tucson is not a fighter base (I was stationed there from 2007-2011). I don't want to assume too much, but the nearest F-35's I know about are stationed at Luke AFB in PHX. Sometimes they will have an airshow or other host nation partners' pilots will train here with some of the U.S. pilots. Either way, when I heard the aircraft outside it prompted me to investigate. As I was observing them I witnessed two other high-flying jets (higher than 20k ft approximately) that were streaming across the sky. This prompted me to grab my telescope (25mm lens) so I could get a better look at them. As I followed one of them with my telescope I observed a UAP floating in the background (not following the aircraft, but caught my eye). Light reflected off of it like it was metallic. I continued to observe the object for approximately twenty minutes until inclement weather prevented me from observing it anymore. It was moving, but it was very slow. I know because I had to adjust me telescope every minute or so. The photos that I took are through my 25mm lens facing west by southwest of our backyard. Even when light wasn't reflecting off of it, it was hard to make out what it was (that's how far it was). I don't want to assume what it was, but I attached some photos that I took from my telescope. It is difficult to take photos with my phone through the lens, but the photos do reflect what I saw. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or concerns. If you call please leave a voicemail so I know. Respectfully, Scott
November 18, 2023 · 10:40 AM · SPHERE
Fairfield, IL
The sphere was about 500 ft in the air at about 1,200 yards away. Sitting dead still. Shiny perfectly smooth sphere. Watched it for about 2 mins then it just disappeared. I don’t know if it flew off at super high speeds I couldn’t see or if it cloaked itself. I’ve had other hunters in my club see objects over the years they can’t explain either.
November 18, 2023 · 3:17 AM · SPHERE
Evansville, IN
I seen these same orbs in August, in Tennesse, same time, same direction. They fade in and out of brightness and will reappear in a different spot and move quickly in any direction. In August they appeared to be playing with each other.
November 17, 2023 · 10:34 PM · FLASH
Malang, EAST JAV · Indonesia
I don't know what i saw but i think it is strange. I was filming a night sky then i saw a strange moving object. I saw the video multiple times yet still don't know how to explain it. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
November 17, 2023 · 6:49 PM · CIRCLE
Noida, UTTAR PR · India
I was in park when I saw it. It was a ball type which was quite fast. It went very fast and then it disappeared. My friends and other's also saw it. It was yellow and white and blue in color. It was very different from a normal aeroplane. (plane that carry passengers go around my house) We also noticed that no noise was coming from it but after it disappeared, there was a sensation of heat.
November 17, 2023 · 6:45 PM · CIRCLE
Cambridge, ON · Canada
I made a right on Edworthy Side Road at approximately 6:45pm on the evening of the sighting. I noticed 1 flashing red light a few hundred yards ahead. I have been on this road hundreds of times and never noticed a light before. There are no street lights. I first thought that a tower had been erected, but as I got closer I noticed there were 3 red lights. As I drove almost under it (it was slightly off the road about 40-50 feet in the air), I noticed a set of blue lights on the opposite side of the red. The red lights were staggered, like the middle one was in front of the other 2. The space between the red and blue lights was completely opaque (could not see the night sky). There was no tower, no structure, nothing. Just this floating object that was difficult to make out, other then the lights. As I drove under it I rolled my window down and stuck my head out for a closer look. Again, almost impossible to make out the edges. It just appeared darker then the night sky. As I drove past it, I became frightened and accelerated until the traffic light. There was at least 1 car on the road at the same time as me - driving about 10-20 car lengths ahead of me. They didn't appear to slow down. On my way home later that evening I took the same route home. There were no lights or structure there.
November 17, 2023 · 12:58 PM · OTHER
Lincolnshire, IL
I was driving home with my wife beside me and spotted something above and ahead of us close to the road. My 40 degree angle of visual contact was becoming more steep as we approached and I turned onto the driveway, causing me to lose sight of the craft. Jumping out of the car, I grabbed my phone from my pocket while running toward the street with the intention of taking a photograph, but it was completely gone when I got there. I scanned the sky and saw only a smaller private jet, which was also white. What interested me most here was the jet's path: its movement was curved and put me and anything directly above me at the center of the near semicircle it was following. It is a good possibility that a person or persons on that aircraft saw what I had just seen. I have a series of photos that can document the curved path of which I speak. Description of the machine: My estimation of the object's size is 8' x 20'. The entire thing had a very white matte finish. There were no markings of any kind that were visible to me. Upon first spotting the object I focused on what I thought of as its front end. It appeared to be a perfect sphere from my vantage point. There were no windows and this portion of the form looked seamless. My gaze then moved to the platform type structure and I especially focused on what appeared to be panels on the platform's side. I was fixated on how the two panels that hung down beyond the bottom of the main part of the structure were exactly the same size in length and width as the two panels directly above each of them. Any details that I observed about the bottom of the craft were done mostly with peripheral vision but I did focus on the bottom for a fraction of a second. I left the bottom of the craft unaddressed in my drawing, but I do know there was additional architecture there. I believe I saw a tubular structure that was molded seamlessly and extended from the front to the back of the platform's bottom, presenting itself as something like a half round. I saw other components mostly as a general impression, but I also believe I saw two more extensions on the bottom of the opposite side and their thickness extended below the main body of the craft. The lower panels did not extend as far down below the platform's bottom as my drawing would indicate, but I have not been able to draw all of the proportions to my satisfaction. There is no doubt that the sphere and platform were attached, but because of the way I visually jumped from one aspect of its construction to the other I am not completely sure of how these two main parts transitioned. I am open to sharing more with any interested parties but understand that that may be of limited usefulness unless there are other witnesses. Location details: Most of the leaves where still on the trees. The craft was just above the smallest larger tree on the right side of the street in the photo Using a nearby by utility pole (estimated at 45 feet tall) as a reference, the craft was around 60 feet off the ground. The craft seemed nestled in and around the trees, although it was obvious that it was not in direct contact with them or anything else. As I said before, it was stationary and silent. Even though my wife was with me as my story unfolded, she was focused on her device and apparently didn't react to my statement, "What is that" as we approached. She later claimed her own sighting on November 22 which she hopefully will report.
November 16, 2023 · 8:45 PM · OVAL
Bedminster, NJ
We saw this Glass looking sliding UFO aircraft
November 16, 2023 · 8:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Oak Ridge, TN
I was standing outside stargazing with my two small children. I noticed a craft out of the corner of my eye and disregarded it as an airplane. My youngest daughter asked “dad, what’s that” I told her “it is an airplane” Then I paused and said “but it’s the wrong shape……with the wrong lights….. And wrong sound” I wish I had gotten a video but at that point it was in the tree line. It moved pretty slow and the sound was a low humming sound. Grew up on Air Force bases. Did not sound like a plane to me.
November 16, 2023 · 5:38 PM · RECTANGLE
Burbank, WA
I was driving and saw bright lights that appeared to hover over the side of the freeway. I was on the phone with my dad and hung up because I wanted to film it. It seemed like a low plane at first but quickly I realized I was approaching it, and it wasn’t moving. It was crazy. When I passed it going 40 mph in a 70 I saw the side of it. It was not flat like a drone but more ball shaped? Maybe rectangle? But not flat. It had volume. And it was very large? Truck sized at least. And silent. I pulled over and started filming again and it just started moving away from me opposite direction, along highway. I tried to zoom in on it but it’s very hard to tell in video. It seemed to have two big circles on the back of it, inside where the light was coming from. And that’s the direction it moved. Like big jet engines on the back is what it made me think of. But they weren’t lit up and it was silent. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
November 16, 2023 · 12:45 PM · DISK
Boyce, VA
Object was white and circular. It made no noise and left no contrail. It moved rapidly side to side and up and down. It appeared to be rotating and there were faint blue and red lights on the outer part of the saucer. No aircraft could have maneuvered like that. Clear sky, light haze, 70 degs.. Suddenly/abruptly it disappeared as I was watching it, just poof, it was gone. I am a retired Senior Intelligence Officer and am a trained observer. It was definitely not an aircraft.
November 16, 2023 · 2:30 AM · CIRCLE
Fort Myers, FL
I happened to look out my bedroom window at around 2:30am and I saw a small circular UFO that blinked between white and black. it moved up and down and left and right and loop-d-looped. The bottom part of my window was covered with a drop-cloth because my parents and I are getting new shades for our windows. I tried taking a video and photos of the UFO but my flip-phone apparently does not allow for that function. I got our binoculars but the binoculars did not work well and I could not get a clear sight on the lense. I had my TV on because I was watching the news. I watch the news in the middle of the night. My parents were sleeping and nobody in my neighborhood was awake apparently. We live in a gated community in Fort Myers, Florida. There is a sidewalk in front of out house and nobody was walking on the sidewalk and no cars drove by on our street. I did not tell my parents about this UFO sighting. I have seen vidoes of this type of UFO sighting that I saw on the internet. It is the first time I have seen a UFO with my own eyes.
November 15, 2023 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Lincolnshire, IL
I was driving with my wife and noticed this unusual object moving quickly over the tree line of the forest preserve.Watching it reminded me of a flat bed truck traveling down the highway at too fast a speed. Since the quality of the light was so unusual and I do not draw well, the image I attached is more of a schematic.The single arrow in front of the craft shows the forward movement. The very back was not illuminated; I represented this by shading that area. The side I could see best had enough light to show a sharp edge, but I had no sense of how tall the side was ...except that it was very close to the trees. I believe I saw two rows of four dim blue/violet lights that nicely light almost all of the platform surface. There was a second, less defined, yet radiating, light source coming from the front in a hue somewhere between a warm white LED bulb and yellow represented by the three grouped arrows. It was a bit brighter in both color and intensity and intermingled with the other color to some extent. For the question about the size of the object, it was really more like the size of two pennies at something like a two to one ratio. Even though the sighting was very brief, it made a strong impression. And even though it made a strong impression, I would not have made this report if I didn't have another event two days later. My notes are from two days after this experience.
November 15, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Kimberly, WI
Walking in neighborhood when at around 9 PM I observed a unique reddish light pulsing (not blinking and not super bright) SSE of me, with no distinct separate lights but seemed more than one singular light, maybe moving slowly or appearing to move slowly because of its trajectory, or maybe it was still, hard to say as I never stopped walking. Its average intensity didn't change aside from the pulsing and I Kept an eye on it as I walked, but the immediate homes I was walking past obscured my view at times. Initially assumed it was likely a low aircraft, as planes are pretty common to see in that general area of the sky and the pulses were at a regular interval - I could also see white headlights of a plane further south down near the horizon. While catching it in a gap between two rooftops in the area where I was expecting to see the reddish light, was a much brighter white light, falling straight down, like a very bright shooting star. I ran to clear the next house (2-3 seconds), but there was no sign of anything in that part of the sky anymore. I continued to scan the sky and watched the distant plane as it slowly approached, identifiable as a plane by the clear individual lights as it passed me to the east heading north. It seemed like the area where the reddish light was seen was more to the west of that plane's flight path. I checked a flight tracker replay at home and saw the northbound plane, around 9:05, but nothing else that matched what I saw preceded it. Sky was clear with no cloud cover.