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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.
11,675 entries
July 25, 2023 · 12:00 PM · SPHERE
Paderborn & Bonn, NORTH RH · Germany
Looks like something from the moon Titan. Has gyro axis alike moves with light bending around in circular motion in Saturn ring form and a little unsteady moving around in formation. Something weird I heard people saw others with cat like eyes, which I don't believe. But the aircraft I saw. I try to record this, I swear I find things like this. In another city they were at night circling a skyscraper in Bonn, like analysing or gathering information slowly in Bonn near UN building like 10 meters before around.
July 25, 2023 · 4:40 AM · SPHERE
Louisville, KY
I saw a very distant blinking light, it was white, and i thought it was a plane because planes pass all the time but it was moving really weird. it was dancing around and zipping too fast to be a plane so i asked my roommate if she saw it too, and we watched it for a while. we saw other flashing lights but this one kept coming back, it zipped around for a while before passing directly over our building and out of sight. as it got closer the color got orangey, but white at the same time almost. it was close enough to where we could see the lights clearly but they just looked like lights, no craft.
July 24, 2023 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Wetmore, MI
Three witnesses saw the same thing. Whitish yellow sphere seen shining through densely forested area. Object then climbed to a height above the tree line, and then took on a bouncing, stair stepping-like pattern as it made its way toward the lake, along the tree line. Followed what appeared to be the shoreline at a rapid rate. Object had differing levels of flying heights, abrupt speeds and stops, seemingly aware of our presence. Silent movements. Everything was silent; even the frogs. The object flew toward us from across the lake after pausing, in what seemed like a response to my brother saying, “Hey!” My brother said, “Hey!” a second time after it had paused, and that’s when it abruptly flew toward us from all the way across the lake. We ran inside our cabin (like that would somehow provide safety, we joked afterwards), and the object remained at a height of about 10 feet off the ground. It then seemed to float alongside our cabin and then vanished from view. We can not explain it and have ruled out any reasonable speculation of what it could have been.
July 23, 2023 · 9:51 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedFort Worth, TX
Noticed a larger (larger than Star smaller than moon) sphere of light with an aura around it moving through the night sky at about the same rate a satellite would. Aura got larger and larger then dissipated. Sphere shot another aura out of the front of it and the aura moved in front of the sphere spreading out as it moved. Sphere disappeared behind house line. Was moving southwest across the sky SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 23, 2023 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalQuanah, TX
SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
July 23, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Buckholts, TX
White bright lights with haze like fog surrounded the object, There was no noise audible from the craft. The craft made a right turn in the sky and flew into thin clouds.
July 23, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedFlorence, TX
I can best give the time as: past sunset, still a little orange at the horizon. Venus was in the orange part of sky near horizon. The moon was crescent and it was illuminating some high clouds that night. The UFO started as a glowing orb moving across the western sky from N-NW towards S-SE. I can't tell if the glow was caused by interaction with high clouds, but I initially thought it was a satellite reentry judging by the speed and apparent distance. There were no blinking lights or sound, and it was moving about same speed as a passing satellite. As the object passed (from my viewpoint) under the crescent moon, that's when a donut shaped cloud formed just ahead of the object and, surprisingly to me, the cloud seemed to progress ahead of the object faster than the object was moving. The cloud appeared to move in the same direction as the object as the cloud expanded, similar to someone blowing a smoke ring from a cigar. From my viewpoint, I was seeing the cloud almost edge-on, but off enough to see clearly that it was a ring-shaped cloud. My two best guesses for what I saw are: A - a satellite bouncing off the upper atmosphere, and some part of it triggered a transonic induced ring cloud. B - a craft launched a projectile that created the ring cloud as the projectile went transonic. I never heard any kind of sonic boom though, nor could I ever see any projectile (just the cloud formed ahead of the object that I could see). The ring cloud is what made me think this was weird enough to report. Also, last detail, after the ring cloud, the original object dimmed as it moved away and there was no longer any glow around it. SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 23, 2023 · 9:26 PM · SPHERE
Copperas Cove, TX
My friend was looking up at the stars while we were chilling outside on the bottom floor of our complex. She said to me, "Hey,(My Name). Am I trippin' or is that like... what the fuck is that a tiiny moon below the actual moon?!" And I had my glasses on so I could see the bright, distinct sphere gently gliding over the area, but it produced no sound. It appeared to be a very bright white, or light gold orb to the naked eye, but appears to be a disc on the 8X Zoom video I took. The video also appears to be able to see the air moving in front of the craft. It is a sight to behold. We have roughly 6 witnesses. I am 23, one 18 year old, 2 older females who I know, but cannot accurately recall their ages, and 2 children roughly age 10. We all witnessed this, and I have the video to prove it which explores multiple different levels of zoom and focus. You can hear all of us in the background. It drifted from over the horizon to the other horizon within 3-5 minutes.
July 23, 2023 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalHaslet, TX
From the naked eye, the object appeared like a foggy orb. It drifted across the sky and then emitted something. Conditions are clear where I am. I though it looked like plane high beams but it clearly emitted/shot something from the front in a fan shape. There was only a bright white color. Zoomed in on the camera, the object appears to be linear in shape versus round. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
July 23, 2023 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedSouthlake, TX
Read above. SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 23, 2023 · 9:24 PM · SPHERE
Dallas, TX
After turning from an “orb” shape to point of light, object emitted a cloud or vapor that drifted south. Appeared as if object went supersonic to create the vapor. The object had no flashing lights. There were also no clouds in the sky tonight to make object change apparent size. Other (commercial) aircraft were spotted in the same apparent position and running lights were clearly visible and again, no clouds. The object I saw flew in a straight path, roughly SSE and took about 3 minutes to go out of view but was flying at a speed I would think as “average” for a typical commercial aircraft. Going from a fairly large orb, to point of light to ejection of a vapor in the span of about 30-40 seconds, with no change in light intensity is something I have not witnessed before. Possibly it was a satellite but re-entry over a major population center? Also, I have seen satellites before but only outside of Dallas/Ft. Worth due to “light pollution”. This object, IMO opinion was illuminated too brightly (white) and flew at a trajectory too low to be lighted from the sun (which had set 45 minutes or more earlier). A military craft? Probable but if the vapor emission was the object going supersonic, there was no “boom”. In fact, there was no sound at all and I am several blocks removed from a higher traveled road.
July 23, 2023 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalEl Reno, OK
Seen an orb and the sky pointed to it so my friends can see it it pushed an explosion of light out of the right side that burst like a wave slowly getting dinner then the orb disappeared in a cloud of light very slowly SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
July 23, 2023 · 9:23 AM · SPHERE
IdentifiedMidland, TX
Moving 5x faster than a plane with no av lights. Would appear fuzzy then momentarily clear/brighten. At highest point appeared to throw a plume, almost like a plane cloud seeding. Rising Sun is in the NE sky. Maybe witness meant 21:23 hrs. SpaceX launch form Florida. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 23, 2023 · 12:06 AM · SPHERE
Yuba City, CA
Was sitting outside with friends. An bright orange orb appeared high above us. It was still for a couple seconds before moving east. We watched as it moved across the sky a vanished in the same way it appeared.
July 22, 2023 · 3:30 PM · SPHERE
Idaho Falls, ID
Working for a IF City department, leaving the Maverick on Sunnyside and S Yellowstone walking north to the truck with two other coworkers. I looked up and saw and object and said "what is that?" The other two looked up and saw what I was looking at. It was all white, and round. The underside appeared to be grey maybe due to shadow. The shape to me looked like a somewhat flattened ball. It was maybe 500 feet in the air and headed in a northward direction at a high rate of speed. We watched it until it traveled out of sight to the north. Maybe 10-15 seconds total. It did not make a sound. I immediately pulled out my phone and checked the Flight Radar app and there were no planes in the area. One guy I was with agreed it was a UAP. The other one is very skeptical. Doesn't think it is a UAP, but has no idea what it could have been. If it was that low, we should have heard something. If it was higher than I thought, it was going at an incredible speed. I did not think to try and video it at the time. I wanted to take it all in with my eyes. I don't care if I'm contacted by an investigator, but this is mainly for documentation.
July 22, 2023 · 3:30 PM · SPHERE
Hobucken, NC
Saw a silver (shiny) sphere/ orb moving at very high speed at about 75 feet of altitude over the waters of Bay River heading towards the Pamlico Sound. No sound, very fast, straight line level flight towards the Pamlico sound. Moving from the NW to the SE.
July 21, 2023 · 10:56 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalLakeville, MA
A bright orb lowering down over me quickly changed into a craft, while another craft speeding by in the background in the opposite direction. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
July 21, 2023 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
New Auburn, MN
My husband (sales Director), dad (retired police chief) and myself were outside after putting the kids to bed. Not positive on timing. Looking at the sky we were looking for satellites among the stars. Backs facing Long Lake (East), we were looking up facing West. The Big Dipper was behind us (we had to turn heads to view it). We all noticed this single bright light (brightest “light” in the sky) moving slowly, then stopped before changing directions then disappearing all together. The skies were clear, no clouds. We all saw it were all shocked! Eliminating planes and satellites, we assumed it was some sort of UFO. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
July 20, 2023 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Trabuco canyon, CA
Saw a formation of orbs sitting in the sky off the coast toward San Clemente. They did not appear to move but would disappear then appear again in a new formation. As few as 3 and as many as 8. All disappeared for a minute then reappeared in a vertical formation. They were an orange mush color but seemed to get brighter/whiter at times
July 20, 2023 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Cedaredge, CO
My location is approximately 6200 above sea level. The object was elliptical and lasted approximately 1-2 seconds. I'm not sure of the dated but, If I'm not mistaken someone reported a similar one in a location around Colorado Springs, Colorado.
July 20, 2023 · 4:41 PM · SPHERE
Bonita, CA
Viewed, videod, 2 photos of metallic spherical object traveling from the north heading south west at high altitude steady linear speed. No exhaust trail no other observational traits.
July 20, 2023 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Baldwin, GA
A white sphere the size of a small car traveling from north east to south west Elevation was approximately 500-1000 feet above ground. Sphere was within 1500 feet of my position and close enough to see the curvature of the sphere No sound, lights. It then shook instantly then disappeared.
July 19, 2023 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalHempstead, TX
I noticed a cluster of about 35 white Orbs which began to get into a straight line and traveled to a certain point in the sky where each one disappeared as they moved to the same point in the sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
July 19, 2023 · 9:11 PM · SPHERE
Fontan, CA
I saw a bright red, orange orb rise up and it was pretty bright it looked like was turning into a laser, then it shut off then it continued slowly hardly visible , and then suddenly started turning the sky bright [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]