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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
July 21, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Twentynine Palms, CA
Hello at 8:30 pm. my brother and i saw an object/light above the mountains as if you were going to las vegas leaving 29 palms. I noticed the anomaly right after passing the palms restaurant on amboy road. I noticed it because it looked like a star but super bright and the only one. I looked around outside and confirmed it was still light out so no stars were visible yet. I mentioned it to my brother and he said something along the line of it's a planet or star. I told him to keep looking and that it looked as if there were two lights. A smaller one above a much larger light but so close as if they looked like one light. He said if anytime it was twinkling. After that he looked away. No sooner than looking away it just vanished. Just gone as if it was turned off with a light switch, instantly gone. As soon as it disappeared all i could say is " it's gone" (i never looked away after noticing it was the only "star" or whatever it was in the sky) i looked at my brother and his jaw dropped. When it disappeared we had just past the telephone tower next to our home. We pulled over in our driveway and my brother got out his phone and used two apps. One was for looking at stars and planets. Absolutely nothing was in that direction. The next app we used tells us the location of planes and helicopters. There was a jetliner two moutain ranges back but this is not what we saw. We agreed we would continue looking that way until we could see the jet. I ran to my home and charged my phone and called my friend at 8:42 and then 8:46. At first he didnt answer so i texted and called agin. He picked up and my brother and i told him what happened and what we saw. After getting off the phone with him we saw the jet and knew that it was way to high in the sky and it took roughly ten minutes to see the jet. My brother and i both agree that this is something we have never seen before and that it was definitely not a plane. It never moved from the position above the mountains my brother and i both agree on that.
July 19, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Winder, GA
On the evening of July the 19th, I was outside at approximately 10:00 PM gazing upon the southern night sky. I noticed that about three to four, what appeared to be, commercial aircraft lights. Only one of the aircraft was following a rather typical flight pattern and that is what caught the attention to that of my curiosity. The three lights that were out of the typical flight patterns, are what I was watching. All three were at about a 30° angle from the south sky. One was traveling east and the other two were traveling west, with about a 4° gap spacing between. While watching the two lights traveling westward, the one lighted object, which was in between the other two lights, simply just vanished before my eyes. I've ruled out an iridium flare, for I am lucky to have witnessed one in the daytime years ago. I would also like to add that the lighted object that vanished, never had any flashing anti-collision lights.
July 19, 2023 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedValley Village, CA
Started off as a red dot with a tail and quickly gained altitude. Then was a bluish dot around Star height with a parabolic tail. There was only one. I was out walking my dog when I thought I saw a shooting star. My mom and I were walking our dog and she stopped to look. Then another man down the street stopped to look. We watched the red dot shoot into the sky, then it briefly disappeared. Then, it returned but was a light blue and had a bluish, parabolic wake behind it rather than a tail. My mom is a middle age professional and I am a student. I have experience in both rocketry and planetary science, but have no clue as to what the object may be. My mom thought it looked like a rocket, but I checked and there were no recent launches to my knowledge. After some time it truly disappeared and we continued our walk. We then noticed a helicopter circling our area, which is unusual as it is a safe suburban neighborhood. My dog was acting weird the whole walk but I’m not sure that he saw it. SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 9:12 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedDuarte, CA
Last night I was sitting outside waiting for Starlink. It was supposed to pass over Duarte California at 9:22 pm coming from Northwest to East. At 9:12 pm, I saw an individual object coming from the West and heading slightly Southeast. As the object got closer to me, I could see a white light behind it. That light was very bright white emitting in a large fan like pattern. I know Perseid is here, but unlike a meteor, this object was moving fairly slow, and it was visible to me for a couple of minutes. This was very visible over the Los Angeles area. Surely, I can't be the only person to have seen this. I took a short video of it with my camera phone. I don't know why, but the video shows the object as blue, but it was bright white. And it doesn't really show the large fan like light that it was emitting behind it. FYI, the horizontal white line in the video is just the telephone pole wires. It looked like a comet to me. Please let me know if you determine what this was. SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedMenifee, CA
From our backyard, we looked up and saw what looked like a red comet entering the atmosphere. It had a long red tail of what looked like debris or smoke. We ran inside to grab a camera. When we returned, the comet turned bright white, emitting light horizontally from it. Then, it changed direction and went south. The tail disappeared when it did that and you could only see a very small light that changed from red to white. SpaceX launch form Vandenburg [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Earlimart, Allensworth area., CA
Standing outside, across from Big Bs truck stop on Front st in earlimart, ca, looking west, south-west, toward nothing but farmland, I saw what I believed was a firework going up. It had a orange-yellow glow to it, similar to the yellow light emitting from a farm home just below the area the light came up from, at least from my perspective. The light seemed to get brighter, realizing it seemed to be pointing in my direction, I figured it to be a drone from some jerk messing around. I turn my body to it as the light seems to be coming towards me. At this point, it's obviously too high to be a drone, so knowing this, I figure it came up from the horizon from further out than that house. But being in the San Joaquin Valley, I know the mountains are all around, so distance wise, I know it came up from the valley somewhere and am pretty sure it didn't come from over the mountains that are to the west. As the light sort of got brighter, still shining towards my direction, a red dot started to appear. Then, as quickly as it was seemingly coming towards my direction from the west, south-west direction, it started going south, and rising upwards as it went almost straight to the left after coming towards me. That red light got more intense, the orange yellow was gone and there had started to be a red streak behind it as it went south. This red "tail", as it seemed, followed directly behind the dot, no gaps in tail, no smoke, no exhaust, shot south, going upwards gradually, from my perspective. The red streak stops, then from the dot I see the atmosphere around the object begin to part from directly in front of the object. Still no smoke, no plumes, no exhaust. Upon realizing that it has entered the atmosphere, I go back and forth from inside were my wife is to try to get her to see. Also, I have never seen anything space related except on TV and the internet, so I'm super excited. It arches a bit higher at this point, but increases speed going southwards. If I had to say, the object may have been going south, south-east. Upon entering the atmosphere. I believe the red streak was it entering the lower atmosphere, then the hazy separation of the atmosphere was it pushing through and getting into space. At the point of atmosphere separation, the red dot had become tiny, an indication of how far away this is. As the dot makes its way, pushing through the atmosphere, I am going in and out of the rv, getting my 11 yo daughter to atleast witness. Once i had her outside, to my amazement, the object had already made it through the atmosphere, leaving two giant illuminated auras from around it, peculiarly, still no smoke, exhaust, not even the haze was directly behind it, as if the moment it reached the outside of our atmosphere, it left with such force, any haze left from the spreading of the atmosphere seemed to disipate exceptionally quickly. My daughter and I saw the giant spreading of the atmosphere, went inside instantly, made my wife come out in less than a minute, and the light and evidence of the atmosphere being distorted in any way was primarily gone. Just the haze of sorts leaving an almost unrecognizable area that you only can notice if someone saw and pointed it out to you, as I did with my wife. I took note of stars and constellations, I've never studied astrology in any way, but orions belt is where it seemingly vanished into the sky. Atleast, I think it's orions belt. But regardless of the actual constellation name, I know which stars it left towards. The speed, unfathomable. But I know it was about 5 minutes long of an incident, but not 7 minutes or longer. Maybe 6 minutes. Either way, I know it's not a normal rocket because of exhaust, that it's not a comet or shooting star, no tail whatsoever except when first speeding southwards, starting the more progressive climb that it took. It went through the atmosphere, seemingly from the ground, in a matter of roughly 5 minutes. Honestly, it could've been less, because I wasn't looking at time at all. But know it was over in minutes. My daughter and I both saw it pretty much finish getting through the atmosphere. There were no flashing lights. No logical way it could be something human made, given the amount of energy needed to make it through the atmosphere at such speed without leaving any evidence. I believe the red streak of a tail was atmosphere buring up around the object because it was leaving at such a high velocity, it was already red just before the tail started. Also, the tail was short, not long, nothing left behind at all afterwards. My wife thinks I'm crazy, daughter wants to watch Paul, and I thank you for your time. I hope others saw and report somewhere as well. Thank you for your time.
July 19, 2023 · 8:59 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSan Diego, CA
There was one object that crossed the sky with an amazingly bright light. All white, left a massive contour. SpaceX launch from Vandenberg [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 18, 2023 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Toronto, ON · Canada
The light appeared to the south almost centred on the vertical, looking East Moved from a SSW position, 45 degrees from horizon to a NNW position at 30 degrees on the horizon. At first we thought it was a comet but it was too close, left no trail and was clearly within the Troposphere.
July 17, 2023 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
I was driving west bound on Lawrence and saw two red objects in the sky. They were slowly moving, rectangular/diamond shape, and lit from within. It almost looked like two car break lights because of the shapes and light. I hit a red light at Clark and the objects moved behind a tall building. When the light turned green and I passed the building, the objects were gone.
July 17, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Casa Grande, AZ
Watching the evening sky and notice a white light hovering. It slowly went behind the house. Then reappeared as a flashing white and red light across the sky. It was low flying and flew from east to south. I actually thought it was a plane until it came to a stop almost in the center of my vision and turn a sharp right turn. Then it disappeared.
July 16, 2023 · 11:42 PM · LIGHT
Winnipeg, MB · Canada
It was bright white, silent and moved slower than any sort of aircraft If seen, had not other coloured lights just bright white orb. It moved from south to north direction, took a quite sharp turn to the east then it accelerated into the clouds. The sky was clear but beginning to cloud over at the time. This is the second time I’ve experienced this white silent low altitude orb, first time was in Kamloops BC.
July 16, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Blanco, TX
It was a late evening / Early morning Summer July 2023, We were at a rented farm house for a party. As everything was coming to an end a few of us decided to step out in to the field and look at the stars. The area we were in had little to moderate light pollution so being from the city we were very happy to see more stars than we normally do. As we were looking out we saw shooting stars, satellites and planes (tons). As we looked to the north (basically the Lat and Long given) between two hills we saw what we thought were a formation of satellites. However as we would watch them we started realize that they behaved way differently and changed. The shape and color was unknown however they projected very bright lights from each craft. they were at least 100 + miles away or more, approx 20 to 40 thousand feet off the ground. Based off the curve the earth and distance. At first the lights stated in a single file line, one by one they would travel across sky from our left to right (west to east), the same speed and same brightness and would appear and disappear at the same time. I am a bit of an aviation nerd and I have a flight radar app. I used this app to see if there was any civilian aircraft lining up to approach Austin or even aircraft taking off or landing from DFW area (just based off distance and direction). however as I was looking my friends noticed that the lights began to travel more erratically and changed speeds. Example: 1 light would move across the area (same as before) quickly accelerated "up" from horizontal to vertical very quickly and disappeared. Next it seemed the "lights" followed each other in the same manner. Then as one light would move from west to east, we began seeing sets of 2-3 lights in formation, changing speeds, brightness, appear and disappear. (When i say they would appear and disappear, unlike a satellite or plane ((where you can see it move across the sky fully)) it would rapidly appear in the sky and leave without travel across the WHOLE sky). Looking at my flight radar app there were no planes in the general direction of the lights traveling and to my knowledge there was no miliary or Air Force base in the direction. Now as the night when on the formations of the lights would begin in sets of 3-5 in a single file light, then sets of 2 (one above the other). Other single lights were be moving, "stall" / "stop" then rapidly move up and away. Last before i went to bed, I saw at least 2 - 5 single lights move from Northeast to southwest direction, Up to down The lights made no sound, left no trails. They moved in a way that no man made aircraft (that i'm aware of) could do. See attached (really bad made) paint picture, and areas we were in.
July 16, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBelle river, ON · Canada
After watching my video in slow motion, I can see flashing red and green lights [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
July 16, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalGraniteville, SC
There was no lights in my town due to a power outage fairly large town. I tried to record what I saw, but it was a string of 20 to 30 lights in the sky much brighter than stars, and they were just going like a train for 25 to 30 seconds then they just totally disappeared. I tried to record my phone would not pick it up. It’s something I’ve never seen. Looked liked a plane, pulling a banner but it was so bright, and then just disappeared one by one in sequential order no clouds at all in the sky I could see every star. I don’t know what that was but it was nothing I’ve ever seen, but it was big or a lot of them. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
July 16, 2023 · 10:02 PM · LIGHT
Beachwood, NJ
So me and my buddy were swimming in a pool when all of a sudden, we look up and we see a spotlight. This spotlight looks like a cone coming down from the sky, and then there's a bunch of orange haze around this one black cloud with, like flickering lights on it, and we are like, huh? So we keep staring at it for about minute and a 1/2.
July 15, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Watkins, MN
My wife and I live south of Watkins, Mn on a farm slightly higher in elevation than much of the surrounding area. We have seen strange lights when looking to the East, generally towards the Buffalo area. We have seen these on multiple locations all times of the year. Typically they are white to red in color and varying in intensity. Sometimes they hang out for several minutes other times it for a brief moment. Almost always they will just vanish without moving much. They will show up just above the horizon, maybe a finger or two width from our vantage point. We have seen as many as 3 of these strange lights at one time. We have had multiple friends and family that have been with us that have also witnessed these strange phenomenon. Most leave unsure of what they just saw. We moved into this place in the fall of 2019 and have seen them the whole time, the latest sighting was just a couple weeks ago on July 15th 2023. We were hanging out with a friend of ours at our grain bin bar that has a view of the eastern and south east sky. We saw these lights on and off for a couple hours. Our friend had not seen these lights before and was surprised to hear how common of an occurrence this was for us. He was so bothered by those lights that he reached out to me yesterday July 27th 2023 about it and this is what has pushed me to post this. These lights are not planes, radio towers, drones, or anything that you could reasonably use to explain it. I have seen them just after dark as well as 2:00 am, middle of summer or a cold winter night. I'm not saying I know what they are but it sure is strange.
July 15, 2023 · 9:41 PM · LIGHT
Asbury Lake, FL
I with other witnesses were having a conversation while looking up at the sky when we saw an object that seemed odd. It was just a bright light moving from west to east across the sky at what appeared to be an extremely high altitude. However it moved faster and was brighter than what I have normally seen from satellites. As it gained more attention from the group the objective instantly made a 90° turn to what looked like straight through the atmosphere with an acceleration that I have never seen in my life. I was transfixed and shocked and confirmed others saw what I had just seen. Fortunately I also had my girlfriend on speaker and she could hear the others confirm what I saw. Now I'm not sure if what happened next was right before or right after the object accelerated away an orange stationary orb appeared in the sky. It was just stationary and silent before just disappearing.
July 15, 2023 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Doyline, LA
I was standing outside my home on the west side smoking a cigarette being directly between my house, and a strip of trees that separates the adjacent home. As I was smoking my cigarette, I noticed what I then believed to be a neighborhood drone, or the direct neighbors drone, meandering in the wood-line approx. 10 yd. high and 12 yds. away. The craft as essentially invisible with a prominent, yet soft, green light at its center. I had guessed the craft was helicoptering to stay aloft, but it made no sound, and no mechanical movement was observed. As I watched it, it became aware of me and began to watch me through the darkness. I felt no danger whatsoever. Soon the light, as it swayed and bobbed almost imperceptibly, hid itself from my direct line of sight by placing a very skinny tree between itself and myself. I honestly found this humorous, as if it were a game, but then I was still thinking it was a drone from a kid. I would walk forward somewhat and again have line-of-sight on the green light, and it again would softly and slowly position itself with another skinny tree between the two of us, perfectly breaking line of sight each time, with no accidental deviance to reveal itself if i stayed stationary. Soon I noticed another green light, higher by 2-3 yds., and closer by 1-2 yds., not trying to hide at all as it entered the area amongst the trees. It was at this moment I began to feel unease. I continued to try and maintain line-of-sight on the first light, but soon it was positioned behind a large tree and I could no longer advance to change my vantage as the bramble of the woods blocked my advance. I wasn't completely done with my cigarette, but I snuffed it anyway as I left with haste to go inside, almost fleeing. Never once did i feel danger, but I was at once put at unease by the appearance of a second light. I also felt as though there were many lights that were unseen, positioned array-like among the trees, yet this is likely to be nothing but paranoia induced by the appearance of the second light. Until Yesterday morning I had forgotten the incident, thinking it nothing more than a childs toy, until I watched the UAP open conference and have come to understand the intensity of our situation as people on a planet among many. I will and can freely admit to any and all experiences related to this matter as truthfully as possible. And, to know, no one in this neighborhood has any drones, and especially not the family and kid nextdoor, as I had assumed at the time, makes me believe it was an UAP. My friend may have been with me, I don’t recall if he was or wasn't.
July 15, 2023 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Springtown, TX
The only way I can describe this. I went outside at 5 o'clock in the morning Saturday morning. I sit down as drinking some coffee. I look up and I see 2 objects in the sky. And I'm thinking it's a plane or it's a drum. The more I got to look at it more it was not a drone one of them wouldn't Come down close to me , but the other one did and I seen it I because it was like it was playing a game. It would look at me and go back up then it would come back down . It look like A fairy. It was flapping his wings so fast, This did this for over an hour. Then I got tired and I turned around and was going into the house. I seen another one This one was bigger, it had multiple colors and it was just sitting there. I got some footage of this one actually moving and the other 2 going over to it. I cannot explain it by writing this. That 1 did look like UFO..
July 15, 2023 · 12:01 AM · LIGHT
Shasta City, CA
My fiance, his dad, and I were visiting my fiance's cousin and her boyfriend in Shasta. After we returned from dinner, we sat out on their porch to look at the stars for about an hour and a half, from about 11 pm to about 1230 am. We were facing Mt Shasta, looking in a Northeasterly direction. We saw the milky way really clearly, a couple of satellites, a plane, and a few small shooting stars. Then a few minutes after midnight, a single, very bright white light (brighter than any star, satellite, or plane we saw that night), entered into our view coming from the N/NW direction (to our left). It was oscillating (going up and down). It moved like you might expect a drone to move (kind of jerky, constantly adjusting its altitude) but it was SO much bigger. So bright we could see it clearly from almost 10 miles away. It was gradually descending, all the time bobbing up and down. From our perspective, it was going slowly. If we were watching a car for example, I would have estimated it as going about 5 mph? It was slow. We didn't know what it would do as it lowered to the mountain, but when it reached the silhouette of the mountain, the light went out. It looked as if it either landed on the mountain or went behind it. It did not ascend again. We waited outside for another half an hour but didn't see anything else. None of us could understand what it was. All of us were completely sober (we don't drink, and none of us were intoxicated in any way at all, and only had mint tea and cookies after dinner). Three of us were not from Shasta. It was our first time visiting. My fiance and I are about 40, my fiance's dad is 70, and my fiance's cousin and her partner are 65. The latter two believe in UFOs; they live in the area. My fiance and I had never seen a UFO and weren't looking for one while we sat outside that night. And my fiance's Dad is a chemist and is totally skeptical, but even he couldn't think of anything to explain it.
July 14, 2023 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Villas, NJ
Sitting on beach at night and saw a bright round light across the bay towards state of Delaware. It was moving sporadically up and down from (towards Delaware). Then other lights appearing (10-12) moving sporadically.
July 14, 2023 · 11:02 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBristol, PA
Observed bright object in sky. Not moving for approx 20 min. Remained in same location [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
July 14, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Simpsonville, SC
I have seen dozens and dozens of bright stars moving in unbelievable ways since Dec 2022. High up Above the clouds, probably above 30,000ft. With so much activity that anyone in Simpsonville would be able to look up and see them nearly every a single night like me. I stay up late and watch them while I lay in the bed of my truck, I have seen over 10 UFO in a single night from 11pm-3am They move in many different ways, steady flight, stationary to quick erratic movements, up/down/left/right in seemingly random ways back and forth. I made my wife watch them too to confirm I’m not crazy, even though she hates the idea of UFO and wants nothing to do with it, even she can confirm the things I saw, we even watched a moving “star” disappear in the blink of an eye (clear sky, no clouds, it just vanished) I’ve also seen them move in weird rhythmic bursts, like a water bug floating still on the water then a quick jut forward, and then again a second or two later. They are hard to see but I have watched faint orbs move around the bright stars, like moths around a porch light, back and forth. I have also seen more “shooting stars” than I ever have in my life, but these are faster with shorter trails than a normal comet, I can’t confirm these are UFO, but I have to report it. Again, I have seen so many different sightings in Simpsonville nearly every single night, I can’t be the only one who has seen them. It’s so frequent I believe anyone could simply look up and see unexplainable things, I can’t believe it isn’t on the news.
July 14, 2023 · 10:54 PM · LIGHT
Spanaway, WA
I'm twenty nine years old and I've never seen anything like this. I stepped outside to hit my vape and get some nicotine in my system, and when I do so at night (in this case about 10:50pm) I like to look up at the sky, we're near JBLM so theres always planes, I frequently see satellites, even got to see Mr. Elon Musk's string of satellites flying through the air. But tonight was something different I was looking at what I thought was a star, until it started moving then my mind jumped to satellite. But it was anything but, it started to move fast and sporratically. Taking sharp turns, up and down, left and right, I took my phone out and started recording as quickly as I could. It was also strange to me that my phone camera wasn't picking up any of the other stars and yet somehow had no issue seeing the one light in the sky I was trying to record (thankfully) I ran back into my house to get my cousin to come out to be extraordinarily sure I wasn't going crazy. But by the time we made it back out of the house to look, it was gone, so much for an extra witness. Now I regret taking my eyes off of it.