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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.
3,437 entries
December 3, 2021 · 7:00 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalNew Tazewell, TN
At approximately 7:04pm on December 3, 2021 my fiance and I were outside at the above coordinates when I notice a line of lights in the sky. They immediately grabbed my attention because they were very different from the stars around them. There was no sound coming from them either. The lights themselves were bright white, rather than the warm white glow the moon and stars give, there also wasn't a hazey ring like you'd typically see with those things. They were also perfectly round and appeared to be about the same distance away as you'd typically see planes. They were quite large, assuming the distance is accurate and not an illusion. There was only 3 lights at first, then within a few seconds of them catching my eye, another light appeared, but dimmer. It started to grow brighter and once it matched the previous 3, another light appears and does the exact same thing and taking the same amount of time. Within 20 or so seconds there were 8 lights in total. The lights were in a perfectly straight line and each light kept a constant distance from the ones on either side. They moved in unison across the sky in a line just as straight. It moved much slower than a plane would have. There was a faint out line surrounding the lights, it didn't appear to be attached but stayed at a constant distance from each light. If there was anything connecting them it was either hidden by the bright lights or transparent. Soon the light at the end of the row started to dim and then disappeared from sight, the rest of them followed suit. I immediately checked public sites to see if there was a plane or satellite overhead. There were none I could find. I've never seen a satellite or a plane do anything like this so I wasn't surprised. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Sullivan, MO
Observed what seemed to be a meteor shower coming from south to north. The 25 light “shower” ended up laying horizontally cruising as fast as a commercial aircraft and about as high, I believe. It cruised for nearly 30 seconds northward and simply disappeared. Holding my arms up, my hands would be 3 feet apart. That was the size, at least 20 commercial airplanes. The ufo was silent. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedDehradun · India
Saw a long trail of light around a black cigar shaped object moving from west corner to east corner in the sky. It lasted for about 10-12mins then lost sight in the clouds. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedHighlands Ranch, CO
I was walking the dog in our community around 6:42 pm and as usual, was looking at the sky to see what constellations were visible. I saw a rigid formation of lights moving quickly at an angle before disappearing instantly. The sighting lasted about 20-30 seconds. No discernible sound was emitted. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedPhoenix, AZ
On 12/3/2021 at 6:40pm. It was already dark outside, I was walking my dog in my community. I love looking at stars while walking my dog in the evening. At that time, I was on the phone with my sister in China. Suddenly I saw a long shining bright chain-like object showed up in the middle of the sky and moving from west to east, and it flew away out of sight after 4 minutes. I took a picture with my phone, but the quality of the picture isn’t the best due to the capacity of my phone camera. My son said later he also saw the same flying object while he was out. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Valencia, CA
My husband called me to come downstairs and look at this thing outside. It was dusk so there was still a lot of light out, but the sun had just set. It looked like a cigar shape but tilted like a forward slash with 1000's of lights all over it (like you put on a Christmas tree not in a straight line just all over it). The lights were moving in perfect sync in the shape of a tilted cigar from right to left, not up, as if attached to something we could not see. It was heading northeast. It looked like it was really really far away but, it took up a lot of the view as if it were humongous, as big as a city block but 100's of miles away. I ran upstairs to look at it from the balcony and get a picture, but the iPhone wouldn't focus on the lights. It was heading northeast and I watched it for a few seconds and then it was gone. I still should have been able to see it, but it disappeared. We watched it for a total of about 2-4 minutes. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 2, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalPhoenix, AZ
At the date and time indicated above I saw a cigar shaped object in the night sky around 7:30 pm. It was fully illuminated in yellow. It moved silently about 45 degrees from the horizon and moving east northeast at about a 15 degree climb. It was only a few seconds that I saw it. No time to grab a camera. It seemed to nose up and then faded out completely and disappeared. It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before. This is in Phoenix AZ, and was over a Sky Harbor Airport flight path, so maybe was caught on radar? I was in the military and recently retired as an engineer. It was not a conventional aircraft, flare, helicopter, meteor, kit. It was a cloudless, clear, still evening and no lightning was present. the object was totally silent, and moved in a deliberate steady trajectory. When it disappeared, the lights seemed to 'dissolve' into nothing. I was in my backyard and just happened to look up and see it. There was no time to grab a camera. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Probable]
December 2, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalParker, AZ
Every night this week a bright light has appeared in the sky by 7 p.m. and disappeared by 7:55 p.m. I originally thought this bright light was a planet at first appearance, but when it disappeared I question otherwise. Every night I went outside and this occurred between 11/29/21-12/2/21. Tonight, when I noticed that incredibly bright light disappear, I looked adjacent to where the light was and saw a cigar shaped light that I filmed for 7 seconds. It was there at least 10 seconds before I figured out how to use my camera and it disappeared as if it faded behind nonexistent clouds in the night sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
December 2, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedLoomis, CA
At first glance, I though it might be a small passenger plane with all of the windows screens open, but there were no other lights (on wings or tail), and it didn't move like a plane. Moved slowly traveling North. I took my phone out to video it and it then went strait up and lights faded away slowly. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 2, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Clovis, CA
I just got home from work and was getting out of my car when my attention was initially grabbed by a bright shooting star that I saw in my peripheral vision to the north-west. I looked up and saw another unusual light to the south-west which I then turned to look at. It was a big bright cigar-shaped light. It was travelling slowly and steadily in a roughly north-eastern direction. I have lived near an airport for over 30 years and am used to seeing airplanes and drones but it was immediately clear that this was something that I hadn't seen before. It was a thick line of light. It did not blink or change. It made no sound. I stopped what I was doing to look at it. The sky was clear. I pulled out my phone to record a video but later discovered, to my great disappointment, that it was in picture mode instead of video mode so all I got was one blurry photo. The object was very bright and to my eye it appeared larger and had a haze around it, giving it a halo effect, which was not captured in the picture my phone took. Interestingly the picture also captured a second oddly shaped light which I did not notice myself at the time. I estimate that the object was visible for between one and two minutes. It slowly travelled in a straight line. If straight up is 0 degrees then I observed it from about 45 degrees to the south-east until it was about 15 degrees to the north-west, travelling not quite over my head but a bit to the north of me. Then over the span of about 15 seconds the light slowly and steadily faded out. It seemed like an oddly long time for the light to dim. I continued to watch that part of the sky for another minute. The object was big enough that I felt that I should still be able to see it even without the light but it was as if the object itself had faded away. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
December 2, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedGarden Grove, CA
12/2/21 at 6:24 PM cigar shape object light bar traveling north east. Object appeared in the city of Garden Grove CA for at 10 to 15 seconds. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 2, 2021 · 10:30 AM · CIGAR
Suffield, CT
My friend was pointing to the sky, I looked up and saw a small whitish tic tac shape thing going towards the north. Saw it for about 5 seconds, then the trees were blocking my view. Not sure if there was sound or not, too much noise around me.
November 20, 2021 · 5:30 PM · CIGAR
Dry Ridge, KY
My son was with myself and my husband. He was in the backseat admiring the storm clouds and noticed something in the clouds. So he rolled the window down and took a picture with his cell phone.
November 20, 2021 · 5:30 PM · CIGAR
Dry Ridge, KY
Saw something in the sky while sitting in the drive thru and took a picture
November 13, 2021 · 8:05 PM · CIGAR
Rural Doornkop, Mpumalanga, MPUMALAN · South Africa
We went outside after there was a huge storm. Lightning must have struck some electricity poles as there was no electricity. We went outside to light a fire. The sky started to clear after the storm. Suddenly this cigar shaped object appeared. It moved from North to South. Slowly. It was incredibly bright. It looked like it had a brighter part on one side. It was cigar shaped. It look huge and was completely silent. We could see it was metal. It moved along the mountain. My son got his cell phone and took some pictures. The pictures dont justify what we saw. We could see something radiated a very bright light from the inside, out. 2 of us were pilots. 5 of us saw it. It had openings on the side facing us with the light coming outwards. Very bright. It moved slowly and disappeared to the South out of our view. There are very few houses in this rural area. The nearest town is about 25 km away.
November 11, 2021 · 6:18 PM · CIGAR
North Las Vegas, NV
It was very dark in color then moved to a different altitude droping square pods that are different color the craft then moved higher and at an angle turning very very bright the shining a light, two probes looked malfunctioned and smoking. the other two probes were left and right of main craft, zoomed in and you can see dufferent compartments.
November 8, 2021 · 8:05 AM · CIGAR
Birdseye, IN
Started as a light, I thought it was a star or a planet at first, but it was broad daylight in the morning. Not a cloud in the sky. Also there were 3 commercial jets flying in the sky in different directions at the same time for me to use for reference. Object only moved vertically. Light dimmed like a dimmer switch in a house and and then all you could see was the cigar shape, then the center of the shape faded and all you could see was the outline, then the outline disappeared. All this happened while it was stationary disappeared and reappeared 3 times. Mile marker 51 Interstate 64 east between Stendal and Birdseye.
November 5, 2021 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Terra Alta, WV
At approximately eighteen hundred hours, I was outside with my dog when I sighted a cigar shaped object hovering in the sky over my neighbor's home. It was approximately the size of a football field and appeared silver in color. It seemed to stay hovering in that spot for about a minute and suddenly it got very bright and then took off upward very fast and it was gone.
October 30, 2021 · 4:30 PM · CIGAR
Tahlequah, OK
I was in my car geting ready to help a friend change a tire while waiting in car I notice s white cigar shape object going across the sky I was like that don't look like no jet or plane so I took my phone and tried to film it best as I could I took screen shots of film and after filming I had to adjust in my car so I look at the sky again and it was gone
October 26, 2021 · 9:30 AM · CIGAR
Gaston, SC
day time experience about 9:30a on my deck having coffee. Sky was clear blue, I was observing the moon in the west at about 40 degrees elevation. When I saw what was similar to a flashbulb but long enough duration to show detail. It was black, with bright yellow lights radiating from it all around. Not beams. These were all the same size and shape. About 4x longer than the cross section. no sound, cigar shape with pointed ends. object appeared stationary.
October 22, 2021 · 11:00 PM · CIGAR
Hebron, IN
Front door light turned on so I brought up our blink camera to see of it was a cat or deer. Instead it showed a cigar shaped object colored purple, pink to orange. The object appeared to right of our well in our yard.
October 21, 2021 · 11:10 PM · CIGAR
Calgary, AB · Canada
My wife and I were walking our dog through a green space in N.E Calgary when we noticed something coming from the west flying faster than any satellite we’ve ever seen glowing a fluorescent bright blue and flying higher than airplanes but lower than space. We watched it coming towards us rapidly for around 5-10 seconds and then it changed direction instantaneously and flew S-S.E and it was out of site between 5-10 seconds tops, we were both dumbfounded and stuck in our spots wondering what we just saw! It wasn’t a plane because the entire craft was lit up and it was easily 2-3X’s bigger than a jumbo jet both in length and diameter and it wasn’t a satellite because it was moving way too fast and we could see the defined shape of whatever it was and it looked like a giant pill capsule or a tic tac. I’m an amateur star gazer and have been looking at stars and planets and satellites for years and whatever it was it definitely wasn’t any of those, I’m 52 and I’ve never seen anything like it before or since but it will stay with me for the rest of my life!! I would’ve reported it sooner but I had no idea where to report it until today
October 20, 2021 · 7:24 AM · CIGAR
Milton, GA
Driving about 50 mph down New Providence Road in Milton I see a cigar shaped craft (hovering still) above the intersection of Doris Rd about 1000-2000 feet above the ground. I saw three visible lights (very stark white almost blue) blinking in 5 second intervals in this pattern (left light, right light, middle light).
October 19, 2021 · 4:48 PM · CIGAR
Ft Worth, TX
While flying my kite at Arcadia Pk in Watauga Ft Worth I accidentally video taped ufo flying at a distance and faster than a commercial or private airplane. I zoomed in and enlarged ufo and found no wings or tail structure. No vapor or fume exhaust behind it and no noise associated with something flying that fast. The ufo is seen flying across the sky (East to West) and below the kite about 22 seconds into the clip. Tried to report it to WFAA in Dallas. She didn’t seem interested nor did KVIA -ABC 7 in El Paso. I tried sending an Email clip to both news casters but the clip was to large. I told them I would send the clip as a message and never heard from either of them. I suddenly felt like the scientists in the “Don’t Look Up” movie. I was relocated in Watauga, Tx for about a year in 2021.