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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.
3,437 entries
September 3, 2023 · 12:36 PM · CIGAR
Louisburg, KS
I spotted the first object flying very straight and fast. I tried to get my co worker to see it but she did not spot it. It vanished from my sight and I was not able to get a photo. She went inside and I sat back down and looked back at the sky. I saw another object in the same spot flying in the same direction. I quickly snapped some pictures of the sky with my phone. The objects both looked the same. They were white looking in the sky. They made no sound I could hear and it was very quiet where I was. They did not appear to have wings. There was no sign of exhaust behind them. They were tic tac shaped and looked longer when I was looking at them in the sky than they do in the photos. They moved as fast as a jet plane and flew very straight and smooth. They both seemed to vanish around the same spot. There were no clouds in the sky.
September 2, 2023 · 8:22 AM · CIGAR
The Colony, TX
I was in my back yard watering plants when I heard a large jet to my south banking toward the east. Living near the DFW airport and other smaller airports I look up quite often to identify aircraft. The aircraft I was looking at was a large USAF or Civilian aircraft cargo type gray in color. I was trying to see the markings when I noticed another very large cigar shape craft to my right traveling @ a high rate of speed with a climbing attitude. This cigar shaped craft did not appear to have wings or any to stabilize its flight. It was coming from the northwest gaining altitude as it traversed. Living very close to DFW airport this did not appear to be any aircraft I had witnessed in the past. Also, as former military I was trained to identify several aircraft as an Antiaircraft missile team chief. The altitude I would estimate @ first sight was 8,000 to 10,000 feet and as I watched it gain altitude till vanished it traveled several miles. Weather conditions were clear sky, no clouds. The object made no sound as I observed it. I have no pictures and rely only on my profession training to observe and identify aircraft.
September 1, 2023 · 8:50 PM · CIGAR
Fairfax, CA
It wasn't a clear nite. There were a few clouds in the nite sky. In the western sky,I noticed a low flying object. Long and flying slowly from North to south-south-east. It seemed quite large. Hard to gauge, but perhaps 1/2 mile to a mile long. While the shape appeared to have a cylinder /cigar shape, the outline and object seemed amorphous. The white lights on the edges of the craft were asymmetrical as the blinking lights created a flowing pattern that made the object seem alive. There were no sounds. About 10-15 minutes after the sighting I heard jets flying over the same path, but much higher in the sky.
August 30, 2023 · 7:15 PM · CIGAR
Chandler, AZ
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August 30, 2023 · 3:28 PM · CIGAR
I am in the forest, the nearest is newark, NOTTINGH · United Kingdom
I was sitting down and then I looked at the sky and I saw two cigar shaped ufos flying past each other, completely white, no wings, nothing to show that it was an airplane. I didn’t hear any noise from the engine and it was clear something extraterrestrial was happening.
August 28, 2023 · 5:11 PM · CIGAR
Ann Arbor, MI
Against a bright blue cloudless sky, saw white tube shaped thing/vehicle in the sky. Plane flew right by us to the left a few seconds after it disappeared which was a clear reminder that this thing was NOT AN AIRPLANE. Not a cloud. Unmistakable and remarkable. It was stationary in the sky above our neighborhood park, and stayed there for about a minute and then VANISHED. It looked so close I could see lines near the middle, and a darker area near the top of it. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Resembled the body of a submarine, very very close in shape and size, except bright white and no propellers or other visible exhaust or machinery to move it or allow it to stay stationary for such a long time.
August 27, 2023 · 12:45 PM · CIGAR
El Monte, CA
while driving on west 10 freeway toward El Monte we noticed a very bright object in the clear blue sky. No other clouds or airplanes in sight. After noticing that the object was not a plane, just a very bright flat cigar shaped object the passenger of the car started to record on iphone to get better look of the object. After a few minutes of recording the object it vanished in thin air.
August 27, 2023 · 5:00 AM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalWellington, WELLINGT · New Zealand
Was walking home from work and I saw some white objects that looked strange in the sky when I went to take a photo and soon as I did a saw a green light flash about 4 times and then vanish within seconds and the resulting. Image I got was I got clearly shows a bright green blall of light with a tic tac object in it . [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
August 24, 2023 · 12:02 PM · CIGAR
Athy, COUNTY K · Ireland
My Grandson was taking shots of what seemed an almost clear blue sky which in itself is rare in Ireland! when this object appeared, there was no sound, and no visible trail of any kind, we check to see if any Blimps had been flying in the area but there were none reported.
August 23, 2023 · 11:30 PM · CIGAR
Bigbury-on-sea, DEVON · United Kingdom
I was van camping with one other friend in the top carpark at Bigbury-On-Sea (what3words exact location… ///reporting.stored.deduced). I was on my laptop in the back of the van with my friend, it was around 11 or 12 at night when my friend opened the side door to go to the toilet. He immediately shouted to me “Quick shooting star!” I hastily climbed to the door to see, when I noticed immediately that it was not a shooting star it was moving far too slow for that. I shouted to him “that’s not a shooting star I think that is a UFO” I quickly jumped back in the van to grab my phone to take a picture or video but by the time I had grabbed my phone it had gone and there was nothing to be seen. (I’m not sure my camera is good enough quality to pic it up anyway as it was very dark outside). We looked around and listened for a good 5 minutes to see if it reappeared or see where it went but it had vanished with no trace. My friend had a much better look at it and for longer than me. I estimate that I only viewed it for no longer that 5 or 6 seconds. It was a very clear night with very little cloud cover, no wind or rain but there was some very light wispy clouds dotted around the sky. The object had just entered some low clouds it appeared like a cigar shaped off white light with a green glow, moving completely silently slowly forward. It was completely symmetrical and appeared about an inch to inch and a half long moving forward in one direction. My first thought was UFO but being slightly sceptical about these things I tried to rationalise it. I ruled out Starlink as it was far to short and stubby and it was to big to be satellites. My next thought was an aircraft’s headlight being projected through the clouds leaving a glow similar to a cars headlights in fog. But the light was very defined and there was no aircraft sound, silhouette or an aircraft at the back also there was no anti-collision bacon or port and starboard lights flashing at all. The cloud was to thin this would have been visible and at the altitude that it was we would have heard some engine noise. I am an Aviation, Firefighter and I work around aircraft. I’ve never seen a UFO before and I know what aircraft in the air look like. I didn’t have any phone signal at the time as I wanted to check on flight tracked to see if an aircraft had just passed to rule that out. I checked the next day and aircraft do come close to that spot on rout from Europe to Manchester Airport. But in my opinion this was very unusual and not an aircraft. I can only give the facts to what I saw and I would not report it if I thought there was a chance it was just a plane. My friend got a much better look at it for longer than me and he said that it looked like it was ribbed. He explained it as almost Caterpillar like. I cannot comment on that as I can only say what I saw. I’ve tried to do my best to illustrate it but my art skills are not very good.
August 23, 2023 · 12:00 PM · CIGAR
Nelson, CAERPHIL · United Kingdom
Lying on the grass in a field with a friend watching the clouds. Saw a long silver cigar shaped object just hovering above us. We just lay there and stared at it for about five minutes then it suddenly accelerated and shot off to the left of us and disappeared from view. It was very, very fast and disappeared in a matter of seconds. This happened back in the 1960s probably around 1962. during the school holidays. There were no lights and no sound
August 23, 2023 · 9:07 AM · CIGAR
San Diego, CA
I was fishing on Shelter Island pier around 9am when I spotted the craft. Brilliant white. Headed very, very slowly between Point Loma and North Island Naval air base. Not a plane, jet, drone nor blimp. Never have seen anything like it. Silent. Could not judge size, didn’t know the distance from me. I watched it in amazement. I then leaned over to get my cup of coffee (one second max) and looked up and it was gone. I mean gone.
August 22, 2023 · 8:15 PM · CIGAR
Abergavenny, MONMOUTH · United Kingdom
It was just there stationary for a few minutes then moved right and disappeared into what I can only discribe as a port hole . There were no lights or sound . It seemed to be possibly as long as a football pitch.
August 19, 2023 · 8:41 PM · CIGAR
Leland, MI
We were watching the sunset and I noticed an object above the clouds above the sun, the sun had just gone over the horizon and quickly took a picture.
August 19, 2023 · 12:00 PM · CIGAR
Alfaz del Pi, ALICANTE · Spain
On the 19th of August 2023 approximately mid day my partner spotted a metallic object very high in the sky, the object appeared to be metallic and was rolling and flashing as if the sun light was bouncing off its surface, at first we thought it was an airplane but it looked like it was out of control in a rolling motion but not falling to the ground, it slowly drifted west until it went out of sight, we both watched it for around 45 minutes. It was cigar shaped. We tried to take pictures with our mobile phones but it was too distant however we watched it though binoculars, my partner said she thought it looked like a satellite with solar panels but we thought that would be impossible to see during the day or even at night, and if it was a satellite re entering earth's atmosphere surely it would be burning up and what's left would be falling to the ground very quickly not drifting for such a long period.
August 18, 2023 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
Riverside, CA
It was about 60 feet in diameter, the coloration was a flat grey. It was at an altitude higher than a plane could travel, it had no trail of steam or smoke, it had no visible form of propulsion. It pretty much defied the laws of physics.
August 17, 2023 · 9:15 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalSpearfish, SD
I was watching the sunset on my computer of Spearfish S Dakota weather cam, shortly after sunset a cigar shape appears it was metallic and moved slowly from left to right on my screen. My husband and I watched until it got to the end of my screen. I was able to back up and watch again that's when I started to video and take pictures. There were no flashing lights like a plane would have, in fact no lights at all. This took place at 9:15 central standard time that's my time. I believe that Spearfish is an hour behind us. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
August 16, 2023 · 7:15 AM · CIGAR
Jasper, AL
It was shaped like a cigar. It had two small fins on it one on each side and was maybe 1000 feet up in the air. It was a very dark brown color and look to be maybe as long as two buses possibly and also seemed like a very skinny craft. It wasn’t very wide. I made a sketch real fast of it on my hand. As soon as I saw it, I will attach it.
August 12, 2023 · 10:30 AM · CIGAR
Virginia Beach/cheasapeake, VA
A tic tack object moving slowly in and out of clouds, it stopped at edge of clouds than moved quickly out from behind them and stopped . I said to my son what is that and as I stared at it it just disappeared.
August 11, 2023 · 3:14 AM · CIGAR
Sozopol, Burgas Province, Bulgaria
I'm 100% sure that I saw something really unusual probably a UFO sight. It was dark and cloudy when I looked at the sky and at the orange-yellowish gigantic cylindrical/cigar object in the sky was passing in the clouds. The object was hundreds of times bigger than an airplane it was enormous for something that is this far away. It was illuminating like an aura/haze the surrounding clouds in its bright orange coloring and it was traveling tens of times faster than an airplane. Also the orange color was going from full lighting to off light really slowly on and off about 3 times for the period of 20ish seconds. I'm not 100% sure about that but I Think I saw that the whole "space craft" was even bigger than the bright cigar part itself. The cigar shape was just the lighted part of the UFO and there was something behind it , maybe much bigger that I was not able to see clearly because it was really dark. Not too sure about that last part again it was dark. There was no sound from the object. It dissapeared in the clouds. The time that I saw this was about 3 in the morning I don't know the exact time and minute
August 9, 2023 · 7:20 AM · CIGAR
Denver, CO
On August 9th, at roughly 7:20am, I was on my way in to work. I happened to look down the street, and saw what appeared to be a black, cigar-shaped craft flying in the sky. At first, it appeared to be stationary, but then it appeared to be moving slowly toward my direction. It had rotated once or twice, was how I noticed the shape. I took a video with my phone, but got distracted. I looked up, and saw it was closer, and took another video, the one I uploaded. My attention was taken away briefly by another co-worker, and the next thing I knew it was gone. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
August 8, 2023 · 8:19 AM · CIGAR
Henderson, NC
At 8:19 am on August 8th 2023 I had stepped out side on my front porch and looked up to see the clouds as a storm is approaching and I seen what appeared to be a flying object shaped like a pill/cigar in the air, no fuel streams behind the object and no propeller sounds, it was extremely quiet, heading North East 26.4 degrees NE Carolina Ave crossing over E Montgomery street in Henderson NC. Disappeared within seconds.
August 5, 2023 · 5:50 PM · CIGAR
Norwalk, CA
Daytime sighting with clear skies. Object looked to be stationary in the skies over Norwalk, ca for the duration of the approximately 30 I was able to keep in view while riding in the back seat of friends car traveling on Hwy 91 east. Object appeared to be metallic and reflected the sun strongly at the end of sighting due to angle of sight. It looked to be cigar shape but not completely uniform. I got a good enough view for a long enough time to realize it was not a plane or blimp due to the irregular shape, metallic finish and the fact that it did not seem to move at all while hovering at approximately 500ft-1000ft above the city. The distance from me was just enough for my eyes to not completely be able to focus and understand exactly what I was looking at but to me it's what I know it wasn't that only leaves an anomaly as a explanation. I believe many others closer could and should easily have long duration of views of this object and I'm curious to see if similar reporting are sent in by any one else that witnessed the same object.
August 1, 2023 · 7:27 AM · CIGAR
London, LONDON B · United Kingdom
I saw a being with many eyes hover and flit away, it was gold in colour with many eyes. Many strange sightings here, dark beings moving very fast at night and in the day.