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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.
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December 9, 2021 · 10:46 AM · OVAL
Sandwich, MA
While driving I noticed something shining and moving in the sky to my left I cousins figure out what it was and pulled over when process of elimination in my head concluded that I had no idea what it could be. I started taking pics and video as it moved around sometimes looking like a blimp and others like a disk or a giant parachute but It was large and to me unexplainable. I drove off and watched it as best I could as it disappeared. It was above the Otis Air Force base as I was driving past the base at that point so I thought maybe it was something to do with the military base. I didn’t know we could report things like this until recently. I showed my husband that day and he said it could be weather balloon (and maybe it is) So I forgot about having the photos assuming he was right Until I learned you can use this website.
December 4, 2021 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Simi Valley, CA
Stationary large ovular bright object Spotted off 23 hwy off-ramp to Tierra Rejada Rd, to the Northeast over Simi Valley. Reporting on behalf of son (14) and his mother, retired USAF and can attest she did not recognize the object. Reported that the object appeared to be at or above normal flight path. Lost sight of object as hills began to block view on the drive west into Moorpark. Unfortunately terrible quality picture (live pic) was taken
December 4, 2021 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Probable conventionalLexington, NC
the light's were round they seemed like a beam of light not bright kind of what an airport beacon would be but no beam went up from the ground or came down from above. They would dance around not following a certain pattern. Then they would change 4 would meet and touch in the middle then sort of bounce back,and do that over and over. It seemed like they were playing. The next night Sunday evening they were back but not in the same area, further away but followed the same routine. 4 from our family and 3 from another family all seen the same thing.1 was a Veteran and said he never seen anything like that. Still trying to figure this out. Our dogs did not react to this. Advertising spotlights?? PD [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Probable]
November 18, 2021 · 3:00 PM · OVAL
Katy, TX
Interestingly, I was out in my backyard sky-gazing. I had previously seen another object in the sky that I could not identify. That took place on 10/29/2021. Unfortunately, I did not have my phone available to film that object. However, on November 18, 2021 at approximately 3 pm, I went into my backyard and noticed an angel/cross cloud and started filming it, along with the rest of the sky. The sun was very bright, making it almost impossible to see what I was filming. As I was panning my phone across the sky, I noticed a metallic flash of light with my naked eye, the duration maybe a second. I tried to locate it again with my naked eye but it was gone, or so I thought. I focused my camera in the area where I saw the flash and beyond, not knowing what I was capturing. I reviewed my video that night multiple times and at different speeds, backwards and forwards. It initially appears stationary, then started to fly upwards and then made a very distinctive turn headed right/south where it “hid” in the clouds. You can barely make out it’s moving through the clouds. Since I didn’t know in real time that I was filming this object, I panned over to the right too soon after it went into the clouds. I panned back to the same spot and I could no longer see it. The entire video is five minutes, the object appears at the 3:21 mark. I tried to upload my video to this site but it said exceeded max size.
November 16, 2021 · 3:34 PM · OVAL
Monee, IL
I saw two flying objects; one trailing white smoke and one trailing black. The objects were both moving in the same direction and looked like they were descending quickly. The second object (trailing black smoke) was far behind the first object, however, it was moving very quickly and soon passed up the first object. I thought they were planes at first, and I thought it was odd that they were so close together. I also thought that the object trailing black smoke might be a plane that was crashing because I've never seen a plane move that fast. Soon after the second object passed the first object, the first object (that was trailing the white smoke) glowed very brightly for about a minute and then disappeared. Less than a minute later, the object trailing the black smoke also disappeared. The sky was clear and the trails of smoke came to an abrupt stop. They did not reappear.
November 7, 2021 · 9:42 AM · OVAL
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA. Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 9:42am I was driving my car eastbound on Bush St. I just got on the 1700 block to turn right onto Gough, when I looked up into the lower left of my sunroof. I saw in the bright blue sky, a silver southwest plane flying overhead to the west and behind it, bright flashing lights higher in the sky close to some wispy white clouds moving to the west. If I had to place where they were flying over, i would say it was over the Pac heights neighborhood. My initial thought was the lights were airplanes higher in altitude, but I quickly realized they were in a fixed triangle formation and were flashing light between the grey body color and a bright white, like reflection of the sun and they were moving together. But the silver plane that flew by earlier wasn’t reflecting any sunlight in the way the ovals were. They were 3 ovals fixed with each other in an equilateral triangle and they floated very slowly and I could tell ! because they were moving and the cloud behind it they were up against was sometimes coming in front of the ovals as they passed through it. They flashed sometimes at the same time and sometimes alternately. The best way I can describe the flashing is if they were coins and when they flipped around they flashed light. The flashing lasted maybe a half second and then went back It wasn’t quite regular. The whole experience lasted maybe 20 seconds while I was waiting for the light to change behind several cars. When I looked down to drive, a couple seconds later I looked up and they were gone.
November 5, 2021 · 4:20 PM · OVAL
Denver, CO
It was Friday, November 5th, 2021, at 4:20 p.m. I was working on a car on my driveway, and I took a short break, and laid on my back to look at the sky for a minute, something I often do. I saw what I thought was a jetliner, way far up in the sky. Something looked a little strange about it, so I kept my eye on it. No contrail at all, for one thing. It was just a tiny, white oval shaped thing, just like a jetliner looks when it's very high up. Then, it stopped. Then, it reversed direction, instantly. Then it zig sagged several times like that. There were wispy clouds in the area and it seemed like it was going from one to another, as though it was trying to hide a little bit. The sighting lasted only 15 to 20 seconds. Also saw something a few minutes later. It was shiny, and lower then the first object. Looked similar to Mylar balloons tied together, except that it appeared more solid and stiff, rectangular and metallic. It slowly drifted to the east. A military fighter flew past a few minutes later, seemed like it was going slower then usual. Don't know if it was a coincidence or not.
October 31, 2021 · 7:00 PM · OVAL
Charles City, VA
Driving west on route 60 about to come up on route 33 to get on interstate 295. So about 1 minute away from bottoms bridge route 33 driving west on route 60. I saw a commercial airline to the southwest which was bright because the sun was setting. I kept my eye on it while driving so I could make sure it was a jet. And it disappeared. I pulled over wandering where it went, and it never showed. The only explanation is that I couldn't see the clouds above cause the sun was setting and it flew right behind heavy clouds. If that wasn't the case, it was a ufo.
October 29, 2021 · 8:10 PM · OVAL
Owasso, OK
Friday Oct 29, 2021 appx 7:45pm to 8:15pm cdt with clear skies. I was sitting in my backyard in Owasso, OK, 15 miles NE of Tulsa. Owasso is a few miles to my SW and neighborhood lights make star watching less than perfect but it was a very good night considering. Tulsa International Airport is about half way between Owasso and Tulsa, about nine miles away so I get lots of traffic in my skies. I also saw half-dozen satellites in the 30 minutes I was out. So I’ve seen lots of aircraft, large and small. Lots of meteors and lots of satellites. I’ve never seen anything like this before. I saw something, barely perceptible, moving from near my zenith to the WSW. I estimate it covered about 60-70 degrees in about 4 seconds. At first I thought it was a meteor (and it might have been) but it was just so dim. I’ve seen a lot of meteors from my backyard chair and I’ve never seen a meteor that dim move that far across the sky. It seemed a little larger than the head of a meteor and seemed to glow a dim orange, like an ember. But it was so dim I was surprised I saw it at all. It never changed speed and it’s brightness never wavered. It left no trail. I was surprised that it just kept going. It didn’t burn out as much as it disappeared into the glow of lights of downtown Owasso. It was moving way too fast to be anything headed to or from the airport and it didn’t make any sound.
October 26, 2021 · 11:00 AM · OVAL
Frederiksted St> Croix USVI, VI
I did not see the object until looking at pictures on my phone when we got back from vacation in St. Croix USVI. We have no idea what it is and do not remember seeing a hot-air balloon or kites while there. There were 4 of us on vacation and no one can remember seeing anything strange in the sky. I have other pictures of the same angle seconds apart and nothing is there,
October 19, 2021 · 3:19 PM · OVAL
Rochester, KENT · United Kingdom
Caught on my camera when taking pictures of river Bird in flight. PD
October 16, 2021 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
IdentifiedMarseille, Provence Alpes Cote d'azur · France
Le 16 octobre 2021 à 22h, le témoin voit par hasard un objet ovoïde qu'il croit être un ballon de baudruche égaré, qui se déplace à vitesse constante dans le ciel dégagé. Il interpelle son père qui le voit également. Le PAN continue sa progression sans modification apparente de vitesse jusqu’à ce que le témoin le perde de vue. L'observation aura duré 30 secondes environ. Un seul témoignage sera recueilli. La consistance est moyenne, deux témoins mais un seul a témoigné et n'a réalisé ni photo, ni vidéo du PAN ( voir le compte rendu d'enquête). L'enquête a montré que le témoin avait très probablement observé un ballon de baudruche, faiblement éclairé par les lumières de la ville, se déplaçant dans le sens du vent. Cette conclusion s’appuie sur les éléments suivants : - Forme ovoïde, commune pour ce type de ballon - Couleur : décrite par le témoin comme brun-saumon, par réflexion des lumières de la ville sur sa surface - Luminosité : nulle, le ballon n’est en réalité visible que par la réflexion des lumières de la ville à sa surface - Bruit : absence - Déplacement : globalement dans le sens du vent dominant - Emplacement du PAN : au-dessus d’une grande ville un samedi soir, jour propice à l’organisation de fêtes locales utilisant de tels ballons. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en « A » : observation d’un ballon de baudruche. [GEIPAN classification A — Ballon d’enfant]
October 16, 2021 · 2:00 PM · OVAL
Fort Collins/Loveland, CO
I am an extremely avid aviation and space enthusiast and have been for more than 20 years. I know about, or know of, probably most aircraft in existence whether they're blimps or dirigibles, drones, helicopters, airplanes, even rockets and satellites. On the weekend of October 16th and 17th, 2021, the Northern Colorado Regional Airport had an airshow, which included the Blue Angels. Living on Audubon Ct (80528), I was ~1.5-2 miles Northeast of the airport, and had a spectacular and uninterrupted view of the entire horizon to the south. From my roof on Audubon Ct (I have since moved), I watched, also using binoculars, the entire airshow from start to finish on both days. Sometime in the afternoon on what I believe was Saturday, Oct 16th and probably around 1400 hours, there were stunt planes demonstrating their performance. As I watched with binoculars, there was a reflection due south of the airport, probably 10-20 miles away and at an altitude between 1,000 and 5,000 feet (using the Foothills and mountains as a reference). I focused the binoculars and saw a very clear and distinct chrome, oblong object. It was completely stationary for 2-3 seconds, almost as if it was observing the airport and airshow. In a split second, it disappeared. I lowered my binoculars and, with the naked-eye, I saw the reflection again, raised my binoculars and saw it had reappeared significantly farther south and slightly to the west, where it, again, remained stationary for about 5 seconds, before completely vanishing upward. It was only 1 or 2 seconds between when it initially disappeared and reappeared. There was only the one craft, and there were no visible lights or trails, only the reflection of the sun coming off the object (it was very clearly some kind object with how it behaved). Because of the airshow, the airspace around the airport was, of course, very restricted and there were no other aircraft visible to the south during the airshows hours, especially during a performance. I tend to think of myself as being a logical person with a vast knowledge of aircraft and spacecraft, but what I saw that day defies everything I know, not to mention the actual physics behind it. I have quite a few friends and family in the aerospace industry, as well as the Airforce, and when I explained it to them, they had no explanation into what it could've been or how it did what it did. For the last 2 years, I have been grappling with what I saw and doubting myself, especially since I didn't see anyone else mention this on social media afterwards. However, in light of recent UAP/UFO information coming out from the DOD, I thought it prudent to submit this report in case it corroborates any other possible sightings of something similar that weekend.
October 15, 2021 · 3:45 PM · OVAL
Phoenix, AZ
Metallic gleam of light caught my eye looking up and towards the south mountains in my backyard. It appeared as a small speck in the sky, but with my Sigma 400mm lens I was able to capture some images. The craft appeared spherical, even star shaped in some photos.
October 14, 2021 · 2:00 AM · OVAL
Weston, VT
I’ve held onto this for a year now and I think about it every day. I needed to share in hopes to get it off my mind. I was car camping at the Greendale campground in the Green Mountain National Forest, a place I know well. I was listening to a podcast when my car started to shake. I thought it was a bear. It was almost as if an earthquake was happening. I quickly realize it was not a bear and got out of the car. The trees were moving, my car was moving, I felt it. Birds who were sleeping in trees now screamed. I have birds, their sounds were of being scared out of sleep, but so many, it gave me chills. I looked up and saw a large blimp like ship that was low, just above the tree line, it was like see through, it reflected the sky, it looked solid but not, it’s hard to explain. It was like stealthy I guess you could say, like a Star Trek ship cloaked. It made no noise and it moved slow. There was a power coming from it. Once it was over head it blow air on top of me, it was warm, like the engine was pushing out air. This is really hard to explain in words. I’ve had a lot of weird things happen in my life, I’ve seen my share of unexplained things, but this bothered me. It’s not like anything I’ve seen or heard of. All I can think of is it’s some kind of government ship being tested and I think that’s what bothers me most. I hope I explained myself well enough. I’ve clicked there was aura or haze around it because it did kind of have a hazy or cloudy look around what I feel was the outline of the ship.
October 12, 2021 · 7:00 PM · OVAL
Labadieville, LA
Previously saw same object in late 1960's. Had orange lights under the pedestal legs. Blinked light at them and they responded with blinked back. It landed and could see the glow over the trees. It was in an old abandoned pasture.
October 9, 2021 · 2:47 PM · OVAL
Upper Marlboro, MD
At 1447 I looked out of my window to see an oval object that was shiny at first from the reflection of the sun. Immediately I started recording because it did not look like anything I could recognize. The object was at least a couple miles away so I did have to zoom in. It was flying around in circles and from left to right. Occasionally dropping in altitude, but mostly stayed up close to the clouds. It's movement was very erratic sometimes flying to the left or right very quick. The object shape seemed to change a couple times in the video. At one point it looked like it was two smaller objects together and other times it was one object in the shape similar to a jelly bean. This went on for approximately 3 hours or longer.
October 9, 2021 · 1:23 PM · OVAL
Houston, TX
While photographing acrobatic and performing airplanes at the Wings Over Houston Airshow at Ellington Air Force Base on Saturday October 9, I noticed a single small metallic object at a much higher altitude than the performing aircraft and located directly overhead and slightly to the left. Most of the performing aircraft seemed to be at altitudes between 300 feet to approximately 1,000 feet. This object seemed to be around 10,000 to 15,000 feet. The object left no trail of any kind. I pointed the object out to my son and two other spectators one row over also began looking at it. I observed the object for about 4 to 5 minutes. The object was too far away to make out details, however it was clear it was not an airplane as it seemed to be completely stationary in the sky. It was mostly a clear and sunny day and the object seemed to be metallic (silver) as I could see the reflection of the sun from it. The object seemed round or oval shaped. After a few m! inutes of being stationary, the object seemed to slowly drift to a different point in the sky and then again became stationary. I took a photograph of the metallic object with my Cannon EOS Rebel T6 digital camera with a 75-300mm zoom lens. I had to sit down in my spectator chair and point the camera directly overhead and slightly to my left to capture the object. The object then slowly moved behind some clouds and I lost sight of it. Once we downloaded the digital picture and further zoomed in on our computer, you could make out a metallic oval shaped object. I am 56 years old and am an Environmental, Health, and Safety Manger. I enjoy photographing wildlife and vintage aircraft at air shows.
October 7, 2021 · 9:58 AM · OVAL
Hakui City (Japan) · Japan
We were driving in the car with my family and taking photos for my photo album and today when I checked all the photos I noticed that there was a strange object in the sky on one of my photos. I’m sure it was not a plane or a helicopter or a drone because I took several photos of the same place very quickly with my camera. In total I captured about five objects and the clearest one being a large oval shaped object. I have these photos and I would just like to have them authenticated. Thanks.
October 3, 2021 · 8:10 PM · OVAL
Dolberg (Germany) · Germany
Die Beobachtung wurde nach 5 Minuten eingestellt.
October 3, 2021 · 5:10 AM · OVAL
May, ID
I was driving with my wife on our way to hunt some elk on the morning of October 3rd, 2021, just outside May Idaho in the Challis national forest. At 5:10 pm (sic. a.m.) I noticed a large flying object that was visible through the windshield of my truck. I grabbed my wife's arm and told her to look up in the sky. I stopped the truck so we could watch the flying object. It was an unbelievable sight. It had a greenish color an looked like it was made up of metal. The Oval object was glowing in the sky. There were trails of lights that trailed the object and these light trails appeared to have fire sparks in them. The object was heading east and moving very fast. It left our view after 8-10 seconds.
October 3, 2021 · 5:10 AM · OVAL
May, ID
My husband and I witnessed a UFO sighting on Sunday October 3, 2021, at 5:10 am just outside of May, Idaho, in hunting unit 37 (Challis National forest). We were in our truck on our way to hunt some elk that morning. I had my head rested back on the seat and my eyes were closed but I wasn't sleeping. My husband very frantically grabbed my arm and said "you need to look at this!". He was pointing to an object through the front of the windshield and it was unlike anything I have ever seen. He stopped the truck and we were able to get an 8-10 second look at it before it disappeared. Just as I grabbed my phone to take a picture, it disappeared into the dark sky. The giant flying object appeared to be made up of greyish-green colored metal that was illuminated and glowing in the dark sky, almost as if there was a spotlight on it. It was very large in size and moving swiftly to the east. There were contrails of lights trailing the flying object. The contrails of lights were of multiple colors: blue, green, grey, and orange. The size of the flying object appeared to be at least the size of a football field.
October 1, 2021 · 10:15 PM · OVAL
Irving, NY
As I was waiting for my friend to unlock the car door in a parking lot I was looking up at the sky and saw a cylinder almost like a big bullet shaped object fly really fast across the sky it was in a orb of a very bright blue light no wings or tail but there was a streak of light behind the object almost like a shooting star but definitely was not a shooting star it flew straight across and then swooped down and disappeared both my friend and I witnessed it
October 1, 2021 · 3:28 PM · OVAL
Snohomish, WA
Yesterday I was driving to band rehearsal @ 3:29 PM on HWY 9 About 1 mile west of Lake Stevens . I'm traveling 55mph. An object in the sky caught my eye. Flying in the same direction as me moving horizontally slightly diagonally to the left. It was just above the tree line aprox 175ft. in altitude. It passed me and disappeared over the tree line 1\4 mile ahead of me on the left side. Approx size was 10-15 ft in length and solid black in color (Sky was clear & sunny ). Shape was round or oval. Now as a drone and R/C pilot for many years I am familiar with judging height and speed of the aircraft I fly. I was traveling at 55mph. The unknown aircraft passed me at at least double my speed. My fastest drone will do 45mph. I know of no drone that surpasses 65mph (small racing drones). So tell me, what has no wings, no props, no vertical stabilizer and no visible form of propulsion. I'll grant you a round disc like a frisbee is an airfoil and will fly. Also it was silent. This was not a parachute or hang glider or any thing I've ever seen . Idea's?????