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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.
27,433 entries
July 5, 2023 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Concord, CA
I just saw 3 UFO’s/ UAP’s from my backyard at first I thought the first one was a satellite or the space station but it slowed down and another one went directly for the first one and the first one made an impossible move and then they both phased out then the third one kept jumping back and forth then phased out. The second most incredible sighting I have ever witnessed!!!
July 5, 2023 · 1:16 PM · LIGHT
San Jacinto, CA
Watched as a bright silver round light moved back and forth in the day sky, changing directions from left to right then up and down before descending rapidly disappeared in the direction of the back of my house when I walked to the back I could no longer see or find it. There was no visible lights since it was itself silvery and bright, no sound was heard.
July 4, 2023 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Cheektowaga, NY
About 11:40 pm 7/4/23 saw first object flying south to north, bright yellow orange flickering light climbing slowly in sky. Another object followed behind along same trajectory and same appearance. Continued climbing and started turning east while climbing. First one then the second disappeared into clouds presumably. Seemed to have bright central light and 2 or 3 smaller lights flickering or blinking close to central light. Was not fireworks. Looked at Flightradar24 app at 11:44 pm, no planes appeared anywhere close to that trajectory or in a pair. I would guess altitude at 5,000 feet but difficult to tell. My impression was they were low. They were seen in the direction of the airport from my vantage but were not following typical flight paths. The lights were larger and brighter than airplanes. No sound of engines could be heard.
July 4, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Red Bluff, CA
Our 14 yo boy spotted the 3 starlike dull stars moving slowly between the Big Dipper and the “W” in the sky. He pointed them out to the three adults and we watched them for several minutes as they formed a triangle. After that, I (g’mother), saw another coming in from the area of the Big Dipper. Then the 14 yo yelled, “another!” There was a ‘lighter’ area of the darkness of the sky, not actually a shape, just a somewhat lighter spot where it looked like the objects were coming from. There were 3 adults, 4 teens and 2 children who watched 11 objects come from the ‘dull’ spot. 15 objects in all as they formed a straight line and headed past the ‘W.’ I have looked at all the photos of ‘Starlink,’ and these were none of them.
July 4, 2023 · 10:19 PM · LIGHT
Macomb, MI
I was watching fireworks when I saw a strange object flying in the sky. I thought it was a drone but it was too high up. It moved up, down, and side to side really fast and had lights blinking. I saw another one fly out of it and disappear. The lights went out a few times on it. The lights started going really fast and were mainly red.
July 4, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Gresham, OR
Objects appearing like evenly spaced stars moving in straight line south to north at at least 1000 ft higher than regular incoming aircraft. Additional family member confirmed and also witnessed them stop moving, become stationary and split into small groups in multiple locations directly above before we eventually lost track of them. They seemed to blend in with surrounding stars .
July 4, 2023 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
Brooklyn, NY
Hello, I saw a white light on Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 and I was having a nice time on the roof of my apartment and I ended up running into this object, this object was going up very rapidly, it stood for a couple of minutes, then it was going side-toside, left-to-right and it went down very rapidly and I saw this object with my two eyes. You need to see this so you can be shocked about this object!
July 4, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
reno, NV
I witnessed a strange thing tonight from my backyard in northwest Reno. it was behind a slowly moving cloud. it was round, translucent and changing colors from blue to red to green and it would also be moving with the cloud. pretty high up so it was too high up and too late on a weeknight for it to have been some kind of drone color light show plus it was behind the cloud and faint. it would randomly shoot out faded white sorta roundish shapes that would roll through the sky like there was a dome or something it reminded me how a kaladiscope works as the cloud slowly dissipated so did the colors. then I went inside. very strange
July 4, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Columbia, NC
Green blinking light made 6 erratic moves at great distances which appeared to be at supersonic speed
July 4, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Mission Viejo, CA
I was with my family a group of about 25 people standing on a path above Upper Oso Reservoir, at the southwestern most end, watching fireworks directly south across the canyon. I noticed a red light coming from the direction of the fireworks and rising into the sky. It had a green blinking light next to it. At first I thought it was an airplane, but I noticed it was moving very fast, much too fast for a plane, and appeared lower than a plane. It moved toward the group and crossed nearly overhead. Its arc appeared to break slightly to the west more than once, and this movement was unlike that of a plane. The most unusual behavior was this: when it was more or less overhead, the blinking green light split into two lights, which separated and moved forward and away from the red light in a "v" pattern before going out. This happened a few times before I lost sight of it behind a house. At that point I saw a that gentleman behind me watching it as well, and I said, "what was that?!" but he said nothing. I don't know if anyone else saw it. Everyone was watching the fireworks. I did not mention it to anyone, and have been looking for other accounts online, but have not found any. I do not believe it was an airplane, helicopter, or drone. It was most definitely not a firework. There was no sound that I could hear.
July 3, 2023 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Justice, IL
I was watching a fireworks show when I saw a red orb coming towards my direction. I was stunned because the same thing happened to me eight years ago. That time I was with someone and saw 6 red orbs over roughly two hours. As tonights orb came towards me a Southwest jet was coming from the southwest towards Midway airport. I'm located about 6 miles southwest of the airport. At one point the jet was under the orb. I would take the elevation of a jet six miles before landing, and double it. That would be the elevation of the orb I saw tonight.
July 3, 2023 · 8:42 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Around 8:40 pm, on the evening of July 3, 2023, I was in the backyard with our dog, Luna, and saw something strange in the eastern sky. The last bit of twilight slowly faded away. There were a few bursts of pre-fourth fireworks lighting up the sky. I looked toward the east and saw what looked like a star that seemed out of place because of the intensity and the location. I grab my phone and was about to use the Star Guide app to identify it, when it darted to the left, then right. I was thinking it could be a drone, I own two drones myself and I recently ordered lights for them. I know that you can purchase lights that allow a pilot to control the intensity from the ground, I continued recording when the object suddenly dipped down toward a lower altitude and dropped an amber teardrop-like object that I watched slowly descend towards the rooftops of distant homes, seemingly morphing into a single point of light, which disappeared behind the roofs. Check out the video. I have more footage showing the main object fading in and out. If it were a drone, it violated the FAA flight ceiling, because it was well above 400 feet when I first noticed it. It was also so close to the Deer Valley Airport approach and departure traffic. Very interesting video.
July 3, 2023 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Monroe, WA
I was walking for exercise on long deck outside, facing a full moon to the south, behind trees. Above my right shoulder I suddenly saw a very bright "star" -- a little larger than Venus and much brighter -- shoot across the sky (north to south) and disappear behind the trees. During the few seconds it was visible, it stayed exactly the same size, shape and brightness (no flickering out, no trailing or streaking) with uniform speed and a perfectly straight path parallel to earth. Normally I would assume it was a "shooting star" but its brightness was more like intense LED white. I have never seen a meteor display that type of white light. Also that it didn't vary, flicker, or burn out, or leave a trail. It just disappeared behind the trees. Although it was very fast, it seemed slower than a meteor. It seemed to last too long. [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Possible]
July 2, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Elizabethtown, PA
My wife and I were sitting on our back patio on the evening of July 2, 2023. As we were sitting and talking casually amongst ourselves, at around 9:45 the “motion” light on our backyard shed turned on. It immediately caught my attention as it’s roughly 30-35 feet from where we were sitting. My wife’s car is parked a couple of feet in front of the shed where the light shines off the front left side. At first I didn’t really think too much of it but I continued watching for just a moment. Then very quickly, I saw a very short “being” run from behind the shed out past a gap and behind the car from our perspective. Its skin color was a very tan looking color. It was barely taller than the hood of the car, which is a small sedan. So roughly 3-3 1/2 feet in height. Its body was small and slender and its head was bigger and more rounded. Its eyes were huge and took up most of its facial space. The eyes were black and very shiny. I could see two eyes looking towards me as it ran by like it knew we were sitting there. I felt as if we made eye contact as it ran by and I was genuinely left speechless for a moment. Immediately after it ran behind the car there was a flash of green light what seemed barely 15-20 feet in the air and that was it, it vanished into thin air. We never saw anything else and were honestly so freaked out we came back inside. After initially seeing the being’s eyes and the feeling that I saw them so clearly I felt like I had made eye contact with it. I had an overwhelming feeling of emotions and my eyes didn’t stop watering for a while. We couldn’t talk about anything else the rest of the night. Every time I even thought about the instance I got instant chills and still felt like I could see them so clearly in my memory. This is a first time encounter for my wife and I and really felt like it needed to be reported somewhere. Thank you for taking the time to read.
July 2, 2023 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Rapid City, SD
About 9:30-9:40 pm, as I was looking south at the rising full moon in a clear night sky from my back porch, I saw a bright white light cross the sky, coming toward me from south to north; it passed over my home and continued north to slightly north-east. It was moving fast, steady, level, bright and silent, and was not as high as airplanes usually are. It was of the brightness of a car headlight, but not as large. I called my husband to come, but it was gone before he could see it. We went into the street to look for it. As we were, we both saw two more lights appear just under the star Arcturus, which was fairly high in the sky to the south-west. The first light was heading east and a second was following behind it from a short distance. Again, both lights were round, bright, steady without flashing, moving fast and silent. They were more like the surrounding stars in brightness, and further away and less bright than the first light that passed over our house, and they were travelling faster than the airplanes that I commonly see overhead. We are in the flightpath of airplanes from the Rapid City Regional Airport, and planes are common sights and sounds. We are also two blocks from our city's hospital and under the Life Flight helicopter's path. These were not airplanes or helicopters. The second light was appearing to catch up to the first when it suddenly took a fast 90 degree turn to the south. The turn was smooth and tight and the light did not slow down. As it was turning, the first light came to a stop and hung there for almost half a minute. It looked remarkably like one of the background stars as it did. Had it not been moving, I would have taken it for a star. The night, at that time, was crystal clear. We soon lost the light that turned south into the distance, and the first light resumed its eastward course. We were able to keep eyes on it for almost half a minute before we lost it in the glare of the full moon. However, as it resumed its course, it seemed to slow and speed up a couple of times, as well as to swerve once, as though something were in its way. We saw nothing, but there was a definite change and then correction to its course. We went inside and my husband checked the flight path of the ISS. It was reported as being in Florida at this time. I have seen these same kind of lights several times in this same part of the sky over the last few years, but this is the first time that someone has been with me as a witness. I am a night person and I love the night sky. I look at it often and am interested in the stars. I am not a UFO person, but a curious person as to what it is that I so often see. My husband mostly humors me, he would rather be inside watching tv, but last night he was disturbed by the two lights that he saw. These lights have always been the same round, white, bright lights that don't change shape or size, that move quickly without sound and that don't flash. They resemble stars and when they are not moving, they are difficult to notice. During the last full lunar eclipse visible in my area, which I observed in it's entirety from my driveway, I also observed two of these lights. They were stationary on the southern horizon, and I was puzzling because I didn't recognize what stars they were, when they both began to accelerate straight up into the night sky. I watched them for a full minute as they crossed paths and disappeared. It is my opinion that they can remain unnoticed when they are stationary, and once they move, they are visible for such a short time that there is nothing to do but watch and be amazed. I personally look up, I keep an eye to the sky because I love the ever changing aspect of the sky both day and night. I always have, and so I see things most people don't simply because they don't pay attention. I think there is more to see that we are aware simply because we don't look. I am also an artist, and I look to everything with an artist's eye and because I want to see. Because I look, almost 20 years ago, I had an opportunity to observe a round, front-lighted, metallic object about the size of a basketball cross low over the roof of my neighbor's house and continue west until I lost it. It could not have been more than 20-30 feet from me. It too moved steadily, on a level course, silent and unflashing. I don't talk to people about it because I am tired of being made fun of, but I think it was significant. It was not a drone. It had no visible propulsion or wings or tail. No intake or exhaust. It left no wake or trail. It was dead silent. I don't know what it was or why it would have been in a small neighborhood in Rapid City, South Dakota, but it was. I would talk about it to someone who didn't make fun of me, though I don't know what that would prove. It came and it went, there was no time to grab a camera, no time to draw attention to it, it passed with a sense of purpose and was gone. It did have to navigate it's way around several trees as I watched. I have no idea what such a thing could be. But had I not paused for a moment to look up, I would never have known it was there. Our backgrounds. My husband is an honorably retired member of the USAF. He's not particularly imaginative and couldn't care less about things like UFOs. I am college educated, had my own graphic design studio, am an active artist of realism, not a sci fi fan, am interested in almost everything, and I am a Jehovah's Witness. My faith places a very high priority on honesty and most in it are very conservative. Few would even consider the possibility of such a thing as an UFO. For myself, I am simply a curious person interested in the beauty and complexity of this world who keeps her eyes constantly open. If anyone believes me enough to want to talk to me, that's fine. What we saw was not ground shaking, but real. The straight-traveling lights could be passed off as anything, but few things can stop and hang in the sky, or execute such a perfect 90 degree turn as they did last night. I do think, given the odds of seeing what we have seen, that there must be a lot more up there than we notice.
July 2, 2023 · 1:26 AM · LIGHT
Ashford, KENT · United Kingdom
Myself and my daughter saw a bright flashing light 90° from the moon. It was like a very bright star, but was flashing and changing direction. Sometimes the light faded then came back. It was visible between 10-20 minutes from 01.26 on 02/07/2023. We were at her house, and went out for a smoke when we noticed it.
July 1, 2023 · 5:40 PM · LIGHT
31.997470, 44.353483, Najaf Governorate, Iraq
Hello my friends I am Mr. Ahmed from Iraq I was born on 1975 In the late nineties I was on the roof of Before sunset, I was looking by chance towards the west (to this area approximately 31.999386, 44.329176), so I saw a very slow descent of five luminous bodies, four of which were of the same size, and the fifth was slightly larger, so it descended until it reached a height of about 100 meters and remained hovering in place. Fifth, it slowly descended to the ground, I do not know where exactly, because the distance was far, and after five minutes had passed, the luminous body slowly rose and joined the four bodies that seemed to be waiting for it or perhaps guarding it, then they all set off to the heights of the sky at an amazing speed like the speed of meteors, I Before this incident, I did not believe in these things, until I saw them with my own eyes
June 29, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalGarfield, AR
Seen a military aircraft east of Garfield Arkansas. Had a blinking white aircraft light. Was definitely not civilian. Extremely high altitude, and moving at a high rate of speed. It was out running the engine exhaust cloud trail by a long distance before the exhaust trailer would appear behind the aircraft. Sound barrier breaking speed. It's quiet living in the country and never heard a sound. I tracked the aircraft appearing in the sky east of Garfield Arkansas. The flight path was southwest in direction. Total time I was able to track with just my eyes was all of 1 minute, minute and a half at most. Fastest moving aircraft I've ever seen. Fast and silent. It was military, not civilian. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
June 27, 2023 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
Marion, IA
Was out on a walk with my dog. Noticed an unusual light in the sky. Probably outside within our atmosphere. Noticed unusual flight patterns with it zig zagging and suddenly stopping
June 25, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
New Milford, CT
I received a notification there was 16% chance of seeing aurora in our area at 10pm so I was skywatching. I saw a greenish light appear out of nowhere and it started to move left and right slowly then started to descend. I tried to hit video but I mistakenly hit the option to take multiple pictures in quick succession. It moved downward continuously until it disappeared into the horizon beneath the trees & my line of sight. It was not falling fast enough to be a meteor. It was slow moving but the entire sighting was less than a minute. Not sure if it was any way related but my phone lost connection - could not connect to any mobile tower or wifi it had an X thru my bars and said "NO SERVICE" the entire time the light was visible and for about 5min after.
June 25, 2023 · 4:43 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBismarck, AR
String of lights ad no cell signal. Phone was scrambled wouldn't work at all. When the lights disappeared my phone worked fine. I called the wife to see if she saw anything too but she couldn't see the lights. It was right over me while I was fishing on the lake a little after 4 am. I was also alone, normally I am not but was this morning. The object was a string of bright lights but the string was the length of a football field. It really scared me. The sky was very dark bc expecting rain today. They were white lights. I also attempted to take a photo but my cellphone wouldn't do anything at all. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
June 25, 2023 · 12:38 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalGautier, MS
On Jun 25th at approx. 12:38am I observed an extremely bright light in the sky traveling extremely fast. It was heading Northeast. I caught a glimpse of it for a couple of seconds and knew immediately it was not a familiar object. It seemed to be flying rather low in the sky and was brighter and faster than anything I had ever seen. It resembled a shooting start with a tail following behind it which could have been from the sheer speed of which it was moving. It was clearly not a plane, nor was it the reflections of headlights in my windshield. It was a UFO. [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Probable]
June 24, 2023 · 9:31 PM · LIGHT
Salem, VA
Sitting on our back porch we can see NW across the Blue Ridge mountains. It was sunset and there were dark clouds. We usually can see planes or even rarely comets, but there was a red light flying eastward, but then stopped. Turned white then red several times, and jets do not stop, change directions and hover. It also went higher and then circled back and forth about two times, then it just disappeared. I could no longer see it. I told my wife it was a drone, but she thought it was too far away, since it seemed to go in and out of that dark cloud ( the light would come and go as if it was going through the cloud).
June 24, 2023 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
El Centro, CA
Approximately 45 minutes after sunset I was sitting in my front yard enjoying a cup of coffee and a pleasantly cool June evening. I was sitting under a large Indian Laurel tree that gave a clear view of a sizeable amount of sky between branches. It was a cloudless and clear night. The crescent moon and Venus were brightly lit to the west (my right). I was facing south looking up at the sky about 80 degrees above the horizon. I live approximately 12 miles from the Mexican border and this object was most likely operating in Mexican airspace. I often do this looking for satellites or space debris and occasionally the Space Station (I have an iPhone app I frequently use that identifies the debris being observed but I did not have my phone with me this time). While looking at the sky (there were two small stars visible) I observed what appeared to be a fast moving satellite moving west to east. It was just a point of light, about the same size as the star that was visible. It was at a very high altitude and moving very, very fast. I observed it for a few seconds with the intent to watch it until it went out of sight when it suddenly made an incredible u turn, reversing course in literally a second and returning in the direction it came from. I lost sight of it about 5 seconds later as it went behind tree foliage. No aircraft I know of could make a u turn at that speed and survive! My Background: I am a 68 year old retired Supervisory Special Agent with the Dept of Homeland Security. I am also a former Police Officer and a 9 year veteran of the US Coast Guard where I served as a Search & Rescue Aircrewman in both Fixed and Rotary Wing aircraft. For 7 years while serving as a Special Agent I conducted investigations of drug smuggling involving private aircraft. I am very familiar with various types of aircraft and their performance. This isn't a very exciting report but one never knows if reporting it supports other sightings. I do have a fairly strong, but skeptical, interest in UFO related information. The recent 'disclosures' by the government leave me wondering what the 'end game' is what such disclosure is benefitting. I do know what I saw, according to modern physics, should not have been possible.