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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
December 8, 2023 · 4:40 PM · LIGHT
Fitchburg, MA
December 8, 2023 4:47 p.m. Driving home from work I saw a bright, warm white light above downtown Fitchburg. The sky was overcast and it was the only light in the sky. It immediately struck me as odd as it appeared to be in front of the clouds, stationary and was not blinking. I was driving on 2A heading towards ChapelBarker Hill graveyard. My route took me around the graveyard where I lost sight of it. Headed northeast down Laurel st, I saw it again as I stopped at the stop light. I then noticed the light was slowly moving southwest towards me. I continued to glance at the light as I drove past the shopping center southeast down Water St. At the next stop light, I could still see it through the drivers window which was rolled down. I couldn't hear anything except the noise of the traffic. It was stationary again and I could see what looked like a smaller and much fainter light descending from the main light. It was very hard to make out and looked like it was almost twinkling. I lost sight of the twinkling light when the bigger light started slowly moving, southwest still, over my car. I thought I could just barely see a circular silhouette around the light. Then the stop light turned green and I took a lefthand turn to cross fifth st. bridge, driving the opposite direction the light in the sky was heading. I lost track of it and pulled over on fulton st. to try to find it again out of my passenger window, but it was completely gone. I’ve been into the UAP topic seriously since 2020. I’ve seen starlink, iss, planes and drones. This did not have any normal characteristics of any of these except maybe a drone however it appeared much larger than what a drone would be.
December 7, 2023 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Fairfax, MO
At approximately 8:40pm I saw an orange light at approx 20 degrees elevation at heading due west at 270 degrees. This orange light was as bright as the star Sirius in magnitude. Beneath this orange light another orange light moved from 5 degrees from the left to 5 degrees to the right of the stationary orange light. This orange light was about 5 degrees below this stationary light. Time taken for this light to travel was about 10 seconds and then it faded out. A few seconds later the stationary orange light faded out. Between three and five minutes later I saw another orange light ten degrees off of the horizon rise in a curve to the left approx ten degrees above the horizon and fade out. 90 seconds later starting in the same location another orange light rises again in a concordal curve and fade in the same place as the first. This happened four times total every 90 seconds. From my location at night I can see planes leaving from Omaha and Kansas City. Omaha is north northwest of this location 90 miles away and Kansas City is south east from this location 100 miles away. The only commercial airport in the direction of sighting is Denver but at 600 miles the distance to horizon is too far to see air trafic from there. Weather was clear and 54 degrees.
December 7, 2023 · 8:09 PM · LIGHT
Wellfleet, MA
I observed bright lights from multiple locations in wellfleet. The lights would get more intense the closer it got then dim out and disappear while other lights reappear. I’d usually see three at a time. Sometimes appearing stationary or slowly moving until dimmed out then gone. I’ve consistently observed these types of lights these locations on clear nights the past few weeks [NUFORC annotation: Boats - Possible]
December 6, 2023 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Red Lion, PA
Second sighting same location. Pulsating light. I grabbed binoculars and it looked like something flew of from it. So I grabbed my dslr and telescopic lens. This is what I saw. It appears to be very far away from me and hovering in the same spot
December 6, 2023 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
I sighted an object that has a body like a small helicopter . It has a long smoky tail and it was moving smoothly westward in a vertical form and there was no any sound or noise. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
December 6, 2023 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Lawler, IA
I stepped outside with a colleague to have a cigarette and noticed a couple of lights off to the distance that seemed out of place. I watched them fade in and out and move up and down at a high rate of speed. After seeing this I cut my co worker off mid conversation and asked if he was seeing what I was seeing. He looked and saw the same thing. A moment later the two lights turned into four and seemed to be flying in some sort of formation but were fading in and out then got really bright before fading out once again. This went on for roughly 45 minutes. There were eight people who witnessed this event. Was really fascinating. The lights seemed to pulse then slowly fade out of existence. They would loop around one another and then seemed to be stationary before fading out of sight. Then moments later be miles away and do the same pattern again.
December 3, 2023 · 11:59 PM · LIGHT
Memphis, IN
At midnight a witness saw a very bright white light approximately 50 yards from his house. It was so bright he couldn’t look at it long at a time. He took pictures. It lasted about 3 minutes. It was in a rural area in between 2 houses in a wooded area.
December 2, 2023 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Great Falls, MT
5+ white lights circling/maneuvering from our perspective over or beyond Malmstrom Airforce Base. Lights changed in intensity as they turned like a landing light would on an aircraft.
November 30, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Buckhead, GA
Around 7 in the evening my mother called my father and I out to the front porch to show us a moving light in the sky toward the south. At first it appeared to be a star, maybe only slightly brighter than the average star. It took only a few moments to realize that it was moving; it would wobble side to side, move slightly to the left, and move upward (either literally up, or north). It would repeat these movements in a cycle over a period of perhaps 30 seconds, maybe upwards of a minute. None of these movements were fast, nor extreme; a thumb held at arm's length would cover the area in which it was doing the movements. It would also dim and brighten slightly, but there seem to be less of a pattern when it came to this. We watched it for maybe ten or fifteen minutes, pretty dumbfounded by it. I thought to grab my father's binoculars to see if I could see any it better, but once I found it using them it was still just a pinpoint of light; I couldn't see any kind of structure to the object which made me think it was really far away. At this point it was still doing it's little dance, and we got cold so we went inside. Every ten minutes or so I would go back out see if it was still there, and it was. After checking up on it a few more times with no changes, I started looking up possible astronomical objects that it could be, but I was pretty sure that wasn't the explanation; it had to be in atmosphere. Ruling out stars, planets, and satellites, I thought it could've been a drone, but supposedly drones don't have the endurance to stay up as long as this object was. Plus, would have to have been REALLY high up, and I feel that a person-controlled drone would have had more sporadic movements than what we witnessed. After doing this research, I went back outside, some two hours or so after first seeing it, and it was still in the sky, but at a different angle of elevation, perhaps 70 degrees, and slightly further west. That was the last time I saw it. In hindsight I should have at least attempted to film it with my phone, but it was small and the movements were also relatively small. It would've been a classic "crappy" UFO video. I've never seen anything else I haven't been able to explain, so this experience has really stuck with me.
November 29, 2023 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalGroveland, MA
The uppermost light increased in speed and shot straight up into the atmosphere and disappeared out of sight. Followed by the next object which increased in speed and shot up out of sight, followed by the next and so forth until all six were gone. It was incredible to see. I had my girlfriend come outside to see and she said oh my God! It was quite a sight. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
November 27, 2023 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Taylorsville, KY
I was driving north on Highway 55 when a large fuzzy light appeared in the sky just below the top of the windshield of my minivan. It was darting around erratically, then disappeared. It was very confusing. Then I saw 4-5 of the same kind of lights doing the same thing, but disappeared more quickly than the first one had. I’m unsure of the exact order, but I believe I saw a single light 3 times and a group of lights twice within a 1-2 minute period.
November 27, 2023 · 5:46 PM · LIGHT
Manteo, NC
3 bright white objects traveling from the north to the southeast. They were not traveling in a straight line and were staggered in distance in unequal distances. Observed for about 40 seconds and videotaped for 25 seconds until they were out of sight. I verified it was not Starlink and using satellite tracker app verified that there were no satellites in that area.
November 27, 2023 · 4:35 PM · LIGHT
Brinnon, WA
Lasted approximately 7 minutes, hovered, unmoving, the top faded out first, then the middle, then the bottom
November 27, 2023 · 11:20 AM · LIGHT
Gresham, OR
White light in the sky. At first glance the light almost looked like a star seen during the day, however there were no other visible stars. The light did not appear to be moving. I was driving and temporary lost sight of the object after a few minutes due to my line of sight being blocked by trees and buildings. A minute or two later when my sight was no longer obstructed, the light had disappeared, however in the same section of the sky there was now two fighter jets moving in the direction of where the light had been.
November 26, 2023 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Casa Grande, AZ
I take my dog out at approximately 10:00 each night. On Sunday 11/26/2023 at 9:55 i saw what I thought to be a jet moving from North to South but then thought it must be a satellite because of the rate of speed it was traveling. I always check for the moon shape and location in the sky. This object was in my view. There was a large ring of clouds circling the moon last night. The object was maybe 10 to 15 degrees West of the moon. I took notice as it stopped moving which seemed abnormal. While watching it made a number of erratic and sometimes very high speed movements. It stayed within an open unclouded area. If it started to disappear behind clouds, another high speed movement to clear sky happened. I called my wife out and she witnessed the same phenomenon. I placed my phone on my bbq and reversed the image to make sure it was visible and shot a couple of short videos of what we were seeing. Videos are in reverse from phone setting. As lookin to the South, it’s the bright light and would have been to the right (west) of moon. Object would appear stationary then make 90 degree turns, zig zags and what appeared to almost look like figure 8 patterns before going completely still. My wife has tremendous vision much better than mine and she mentioned seeing what appeared to be sides or dimensions to it.
November 26, 2023 · 5:56 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedBattle Ground, WA
One flashed like a lighter trying to be lit. Would flash, go dark, move, and then flash again a further distance away. And repeat [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
November 24, 2023 · 8:16 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalLas Vegas, NV
I thought the was the ISS . But it keeps passe with the moons path and does not leave . [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
November 24, 2023 · 4:51 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalNampa, AB · Canada
Was heading home from Edmonton the moon was full with a nice bright star so I took a pic never seen this till today when I got a new phone and was looking at pics iPhone XR was the phone possibly a reflection ?? I will try to recreate it but I’m baffled at this point [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
November 23, 2023 · 11:36 PM · LIGHT
Puyallup, WA
At approximately 11:30 PM I looked out my window and noticed an object blinking multiple lights. First I thought it was a drone. The object appeared about about a mile away when I first noticed it. I retrieved my field binoculars, took them outside. What I see is beautiful, multicolored bright, flashing lights all over the outside of the object. Deep deep blues, gold, red, silver, green and white colors. The object remains in the same spot for over an hour now, no noise at all. I live in a quiet neighborhood, if it was making noise I would have heard it. I also thought it might have been a Helicopter, I looked on flight aware and did not see any aircraft in that area. But it might have been masked also. It was one of the most beautiful objects I've seen in the sky. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
November 23, 2023 · 7:02 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedMontura, FL
unfortunately I moved when taking photo. Streaks are because of that. The white lights in a line to right side of streaks is what I saw. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
November 23, 2023 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
Buckley, WA
While walking from my house to my Garage, saw a bright red (almost glowing) light over the tree line to the northeast. In the center of the light was an even brighter white light which almost had an amber tint, like incandescent light. The light appeared unusually low and moving very slowly, almost as if floating. At first I thought it might be a low flying helicopter but it made no sound and there were no flashing lights or spotlight beam. As it slowly moved over my property, it seemed to be gaining altitude rapidly, but not moving rapidly. I grabbed some binoculars and watched it for 30-45 seconds through the binoculars. There was no shape that I could see, just the light, which was now moving to the southwest and seemed to be much higher than when I first saw it. Then it suddenly disappeared, as if you had just shut the light off. The total elapsed time from first sighting was 2-3 minutes. The sky was clear, moon was bright, and some stars visible. This is a rural area with very little light pollution. It is also located under the flight path for both SeaTac airport and the Joint Base Lewis-McChord base, which is about 25 miles SW of my location. I see commercial flights daily, and regularly see military craft including low flying single and double rotor helicopters (which are extremely loud) and occasionally large multi engine military transport planes. This was unlike anything I have ever seen before.
November 23, 2023 · 5:50 PM · LIGHT
El Paso, TX
At 5:50 pm, me and two witnesses saw red and blue blinking lights outside my sister's apartment hovering rock solid still, approximately 600 feet in the sky. We watched it and were amazed at how still it was. My friend said it looked like it was on a tower. But there are no towers near there. After about 5 minutes, we decided to leave and see if we could get closer. But as we walked toward my car, it took off at tremendous speed and was a solid, luminous blue as it flew away. There was never any sound. Could not see a solid object while it hovered. It looked solid blue when it took off. The shape seemed oval while it flew away. I did shoot it as it hovered, but if course, it was gone way too fast to whip my phone out again to get it while it flew away. My buddy was blown away and says he's a believer now. I don't know if my sister caught it taking off as she was leaving for another location. She called that location to tell them to film using a DSLR HD camera with a good zoom lens. I doubt they caught it.
November 23, 2023 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Bemidji, MN
While in my backyard, I noticed moving white light in sky, which was clear with no clouds, and very dark out. This light was very bright and shiny, and moved overhead from a W/SW direction. I used my binoculars to see any details, but it just looked like a bright white light, somewhat spherical. As it tracked above my location toward the E/NE, it seemed to move in a slightly wiggling or erratic path. As I watched, it also seemed to slow down in its path. After about 2 minutes of viewing, I went inside the house to get a coat, and watch it from the front of our house. About 30 secs later as I went to front yard (thinking it would still be in sight), it had disappeared. I didn't behave or look like a high altitude satellite, which I've seen many times before. What was noticeable was its brightness and how close it seemed to the Earth (relatively speaking). I checked the location of the International Space Station, and the ISS was not above North America, so I don't think it was that.
November 21, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Stillwater, OK
Lights observed from the flight deck from what appeared to be slightly above or co-altitude with us in the 30's (32000-34000') from a consistent 280 heading over the 600+ mile flight northbound from dfw to rapid city. Distance to lights could not be determined as they were above the horizon. Lights would fade in from a dim red orange and intensely brighten for about 10 seconds before fading away. Lights would often move in different directions including directions that would not make sense for satellites. It was not starlink or meteors stars or planets as some lights moved upward and others downward towards the horizon. Lights would occasionally abruptly change direction and velocity with the appearance of dancing or rotating around each other. Lights were observed from a constant direction but were in no discernable formation. Witnessed by both flight crew and as many as 7 or more aircraft on frequency transiting from as far as the east coast to over Colorado from what we heard.