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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 12, 2023 · 12:30 PM · TEARDROP
Los Angeles, CA
What looked like a stationary point of white in the sky seemed to disappear and re-appear from site. How ever it was so small in view it’s hard for our eyes to focus on it even just seeing it seconds before. Originally I thought a single object was moving to slightly different points in the sky. But the last time I saw an object it very much slowly drifted across the sky. By the last time seeing it/them I believe it was a sort of balloon at high altitude. And I feel now thinking about it that there were 3 separate ones that went by during my observation. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
November 12, 2023 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Identified[Aero] De Mexico (Mx.156) Vers Roissy-En-France, Autre · France
Le 12 novembre 2023, lors d’un vol transatlantique, un pilote et son équipage observent des lumières en mouvement, suivant des trajectoires apparemment aléatoires. Initialement, ils ont envisagé qu’il pourrait s’agir de satellites, mais sont restés perplexes face à ces manifestations inhabituelles. D’étrangeté faible et de bonne consistance* (plusieurs témoins, témoignage unique et assez complet), ce cas s’avère être une observation de flashs de satellites Starlink® ( voir le compte rendu d'enquête). *selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d’informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. La description du PAN correspond de manière cohérente à ce type d’observation : plusieurs points lumineux présentant une intensité lumineuse variable et effectuant des déplacements apparemment aléatoires, limités à une région spécifique du ciel.. Une vérification sur Stellarium permet de confirmer que le PAN est localisé à un angle de 45° au-dessus de la position apparente du Soleil. Au moment de l'observation, le Soleil se situant entre 30° et 45° sous l’horizon. Ce type d’observation, dans une configuration d’éclairement similaire, a fait l’objet d’une analyse détaillée dans une actualité dédiée sur le site web du GEIPAN et que l'on peut retrouver précisément dans Nouveau phénomène expliqué : les flashs de satellites Starlink. Le cas est classé « A », observation de flashs de satellites Starlink®. [GEIPAN classification A — Flashs Starlink]
November 11, 2023 · 11:59 PM · SPHERE
Redding, CA
Descending blue orb appear out of nowhere, shined bright blue/white light, briefly intensifying. As it moved in falling arcing motion from left to right (west to East) across horizon (viewing north from south of object’s position), its light intensified and it had a short tail that appeared to be the same light as the orb itself, then it extinguished in the air.
November 11, 2023 · 11:59 PM · UNKNOWN
Seattle, WA
Did not see craft was in home when green blue light like a scanner came into home and all of outside too scary also saw something big floating outside home thru drapes .
November 11, 2023 · 10:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Slippery Rock, PA
While driving with my wife we both saw what at first appeared to be a large helicopter moving horizontally across the sky , it quickly turned and came straight at us and went right over head and we saw it plainly. It was moving like something out of a sci fi movie and was triangular in shape with what looked like a green and red arrow lights underneath. Definitely not a drone, helicopter or airplane. Just after we saw it my wife said , watch out for that deer crossing the road. It wasn’t a deer and we can both only describe it as a mix between a llama and a hyena. Don’t know if the two are connected but that’s what we saw. Was looking for a place to pull over to try to get a pic or video of the craft when we saw the animal then decided to just get the hell out of there. Rural road and we weren’t taking any chances.
November 11, 2023 · 9:36 PM · CIRCLE
Probable conventionalPittsburgh, PA
it's white and is larger than stars and is seen nightly between the hours of 9pm and 10pm est hovering over the building of moorhead tower apartments or across the street from the building; as you walk down the street, the object appears to follow you; when you stop moving it stops moving; at times it is seen hovering directly over the building; numerous tenants in the building have observed this and classified it as a drone of some sort [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Probable]
November 11, 2023 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Lakeland, FL
I was walking my dog with my son like I usually do around 9-10 pm and my son said “look dada” and he had pointed out a flying plane that you could see the red blinking lights and such and I’d say 4 seconds later, I looked away and looked up again and i see a HUGE triangle ship “gliding” across the sky. It was flying above the plane my son had pointed out and it was completely silent. The lights were bright in a perfect shaped “V” on the front of the triangle and it was flying about 78 degrees from the horizon so it was kinda above me. It was so big and I stared at it in awe and I had goosebumps and I felt happy as hell. Never in my life I have never seen anything like that and something that HUGE going across the sky and I say it was “gliding” because it did not move like a normal object. It seemed to go across the sky so effortlessly by just simply “gliding” on it. Lasted a solid 10 seconds max but that’s being lenient, it went across the sky really fast until it got out of my view across the top of my apartment building .
November 11, 2023 · 9:24 PM · CIRCLE
IdentifiedHighland Village, TX
9:24 PM Nov 11,2023 Highland Village Texas. We were driving home and saw these strange lights in the sky behind the clouds. We stopped and observed the lights from the side of the road for about 3 minutes. There was not the tell tale sign of a ground based spot light or laser from the reflecting on the clouds, but these lights were behind the clouds. The lights moved in a specific pattern. First we saw two lights and then it would dance in a shuffling back and forth revealing four or five lights approximately, then one or two sustained lights on the far side and then sequentially shine one light at a time around the full circumference of the craft. A full light cycle lasted approximately 10 seconds. We saw four such cycles. I estimate 12 - 15 total lights around the circumference, but I could not see the backside. Our friend observed the lights from a different location independently from us and sent us the attached clip, he was much further away from the lights than we were respectively and captured less than one full cycle. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
November 11, 2023 · 8:04 PM · LIGHT
Midvale, UT
I did not see these live. These lights were caught on my Ring doorbell camera and I noticed this four hours after it had happened. Four bright lights flying, no noise and fading one at a time and three of the lights were flying in a triangular motion. No other reports of sighting from local news websites.
November 11, 2023 · 6:36 PM · LIGHT
Marquette-lez-Lille, HAUTS-DE · France
On November 11th 2023, between 6:36 39s and 6:36 43s PM, a fast-moving light, captured by my CCTV IR camera in Marquette-lez-Lille, appearing behind trees, at an estimate speed between Mach 2 to 4. The object has been globally following an S>N trajectory. Trees (poplars) are between 30 to 50 meters away from the camera, and they're very high (25? 30 meters?) I was watching at the screen when it appeared, in a room with an open door to the outside, and no noise was heard at this moment. After checking flightradar.com, there was not flight in the area possible to be mistaken with this objects. On the original recording, flights before and after can clearly be seen as a reference to compare. The sky was clear on that day. A bright star can also be seen in this footage, on its logical position for that day. The object is clearly moving behind the trees, and can't be a bug in the IR light.(IR exposition doesn't exceed 20 - 30 meters). Unclear which object the witnessif referring to in video.
November 11, 2023 · 6:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Windham, ME
Last night, I had a wtf moment, still not sure what to make of it. I have never seen anything I could not identify before. I've been outside day and night my whole life, never seen anything strange. On my way home from Portland around 630pm or so, I was about halfway home and south of Windham a few miles, on a dark two lane road through rolling small hills, no shoulder, forest on each side with sometimes trees hanging over the road. In a break of the trees, out my front windshield at about my 1 o'clock and above the tree tops, I saw a vertical object just floating in the sky (it was not moving) about 1k ft in the air, maybe a little lower. It was hard to tell how far away it was from me but probably less than 1/4 mile. Because it was hard to tell how far away it was it’s hard to tell how big it was but im guessing it was between the size of a Chevy Suburban and a city bus, maybe bigger if it was standing on its end. It was backlit at the top like there was a light behind it and then facing me were 3 lights in a vertical row and I believe they dimmed and brightened in sequence. Because of the light behind it I could see the outline of it so i could tell it was an elongated rectangle. It happened fast, I couldn’t stop and take a photo, by the time it registered in my mind I was under the tree canopy again and a hundred feet or so down the road and I also thought I may see it again but there were too many trees. There are no radio towers out here and it def wasn’t a balloon, a plane, a helicopter or a drone.
November 11, 2023 · 5:58 PM · TRIANGLE
Polk, PA
I had been texting my friend after putting away the dogs in the garage and I walked outside and heard what sounded like a plane. I looked up and saw a triangle of three green and white dots steadily moving across the sky. I tried to take pictures but they wouldn’t turn out and the UFO looked like a blob on camera. Soon it was out of sight Begins trees and I no longer heard it.
November 11, 2023 · 5:27 PM · EGG
Wallasey, ENGLAND · United Kingdom
It looked like the ufos you see in movies and was moving horizontally and the lights flashed then paused for a few seconds then flashed again, like a pulse. When I tried getting pictures, my phone started lagging as if something was preventing me from getting an image. I definitely observed one but as I watched it, it felt like something was in my mind. It disappeared and I went inside. Despite how far it was, before and after the encounter I could and can still smell a burnt metallic scent and I can feel something pulsing in my head, the same rhythm as the ship was. This isn’t the first time I have seen it, in fact it is the fourth time. However I dismissed it the first few times
November 10, 2023 · 11:02 PM · SPHERE
Mill Valley, CA
At first sight I thought it was a helicopter low in the sky, traveling south east. Then the UFO quickly descended to the height of a 40 story building. At lower elevation the sphere looked like the size of a bicycle. The object swiftly fly east towards an apartment building. Then the object descended down towards the building, as I watched it disappeared in front of my eyes.
November 10, 2023 · 8:46 PM · CIRCLE
St. Louis, MO
The was no noise as I am used to seeing jets go over. These had no noise and did not change their path. Each seemed to originate from same area of the skyline and disappeared in the same area of skyline. They were about 20 seconds apart from each other. I have seen many things but not like these.
November 10, 2023 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Bridgewater, VA
I was getting out of my car and looked up and saw a bright round ball that speed away south extremely fast and disappeared. It did have a light trail when it accelerated.
November 10, 2023 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Iowa City, IA
Bright light overhead, clear night. Fast moving, disappeared quickly while still well above horizon. I don't think it was a meteor or aircraft even though this is the flight path for our municipal airport. Had headphones on couldn't hear if it made sound.
November 10, 2023 · 6:44 PM · OTHER
Dixon, CA
Firstly, this is fresh. This literally just happened 1 hour ago. 4 adults and one 7 year old child saw the following. My wife, daughter and I were dropping off her friend at her house in the country by Dixon, CA. We arrived at approximately 6:45PM on 11/10/2023. It was dark and the sky was mostly clear with some scattered clouds. They live in the country and there is very little light pollution. My daughters friend ran in the house as soon as we arrived. However, we stay on the porch talking we her parents for 10 minutes or so like we always do. Suddenly, we heard the oscillating rumble of an aircraft coming from the northeast (more east than north). I immediately noticed the rumble was deep but I assumed it was just a low flying life flight helicopter coming to land at its home at the Nut Tree Airport which was just a few miles away. However, as it got closer the house literally began to shake (Windows, glasses on their laundry room table tops, etc.) Still thinking that it was a helicopter I instinctively looked up as it began to fly over. At first I couldn't make out what I was seeing. It happened all at once and it was a wave of visual mathematics that my mind was working to solve. The is the exact sequence of events as I observed it. It may seem haphazard and arrhythmic but this is the exact sequence in which I saw the aircraft. So imagine you are looking through your own eyes when you read this. 1) Whatever it was was flying slow. 75 MPH or less. 2) I saw a really dim pair of lights. At first, I thought they were they were part of a helicopter, then my brain quickly realized they were on the rear of some sort of aircraft. 3) I saw a laser dot about 200 yards immediately to the left of the pair of lights referenced in part "2". The laser dot was red or orange, extremely dim and literally looked like someone from the ground was shinning a laser pointer at something in the sky. At this point I literally thought that is exactly what someone was doing. 4) Suddenly, as my eyes were focused on the faint laser dot, a cloud immerged in the background of the dot way off in the distance. It picked up just enough light pollution from the nearby city of Vacaville that it momentarily revealed that the laser point I was staring at was on the front end of the nose of an air craft. The cloud was illuminated just enough to backlight the nose of the air craft. The air craft moved forward and as quickly as the outline appeared on the cloud it was gone. 5) Immediately my thought was that "Oh, there IS as a second aircraft leading the one following to the right. 6) When the nose cone moved past the cloud and back into darkness my peripheral vision suddenly became heightened and out of the corner of my eye I saw a laser beam that was as feint as the dot on the nose. However, the laser beam stretched from the point where I saw it all the way back to the pair of dim lights 200 yards to the right. It looked like someone was shining a cheap laser pointer from a helicopter, straight forward in its path. 7) A patch of scattered clouds back light approximately 60-70% of the body of the aircraft and I suddenly realized the entire thing was connected. The outline was only visible for a few seconds. It looked like a commination of surf board and He-Man's sword and at least 150-200 yards long. That's literally the best way I can describe it. We all started freaking out when the outline revealed itself. My wife and I immediately said "Don't discuss it! We need to draw what we see independently and then show each other. It's the only way we will know we aren't lying to ourselves. If we are wrong and all see different things then we know it was nothing". Attached are the pics we each made of the object.
November 10, 2023 · 6:13 AM · SPHERE
Denver, CO
Driving east bound Friday November 10 at 6:13am on highway 285 near the intersection of S Sheridan Blvd and Highway 285, I looked to my left (north north east), and there was a large ball of light. The ball of light was approximately the size of a basketball with a dark core, the majority of the light coming from the outer edges. It was moving too slow/low to be an airplane in this area. It was significantly brighter than anything I have ever seen in the sky (while flying or on the ground). If holding an object at arm’s length away to cover the object, it would be the size of a basketball. It looked like there were multiple lights on the outer edges of the sphere when looking at it. The color was a bright white with the middle of the orb a darker color. There looked like there was an aura around the object, I'm not quite sure how to describe it. It looked like when you can see the heat around a hot oven after opening it. The middle was not black but there was significantly less light coming from the middle. When I grabbed my phone to take a picture of it, it became significantly smaller and dimmer before it disappeared. It was light outside when this happened and I could not see an object in the sky when it disappeared. This happened within 1-2 minutes. I make this drive everyday Monday-Friday to go to work at this same time each day and I have never seen this or anything similar before.
November 10, 2023 · 12:15 AM · CHANGING
Fairport, NY
There was a reptilian looking alien thing standing on my front porch. Head shape changed smaller to large, neck was vibrating, had a gold orb thing floating around. Boyfriend couldn’t see him at all when looking directly at it.
November 9, 2023 · 8:36 PM · CHANGING
Tifton, GA
It appeared to be flying toward us with a single bright light then appeared to roll a few times with 2-3 dots of lights that streamed down from it, then began flying north with a tail that seemed to drag behind it
November 9, 2023 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
KY
Passenger aircraft cruising at FL34,000. I was a crew member that entered flightdeck mid-flight. Two other crew members pointed out the 4 lights they had been watching for 45 minutes. Lights flying in circles vertically, horizontally as well as tight zig zag patterns, then flying straight upward. The circular motions were like a dance. No regular patterns, but incredibly fast maneuvers. The lights would disappear and reappear occasionally. The altitude of the objects was unknown, but they were so high that they never left our view during that time. I watched them for 15 minutes before allowing another crew member to observe as well. As our pilot said, "no aircraft exists that can perform those maneuvers." Four crew members witnessed.
November 9, 2023 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Anacortes, WA
I spotted five round, glowing red craft hovering over the Skagit Valley, when looking eastbound from Fidalgo Island. They did not move. All stayed in formation and kept an even distance from one another. There were two, noticeably larger ones of similar size to each other and three smaller ones around the same size. An aircraft passed by during this time, but they did not react to the aircraft.
November 9, 2023 · 7:24 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedEden Prairie, MN
I was walking my dog with my father on the loop around my neighborhood, hidden oaks and basswood streets, when we saw a ring of 11 white orbs. We live in Eden Prairie, MN. I was watching from in front of the entrance of my neighborhood and the sidewalk/path near it. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]