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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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October 8, 2023 · 12:31 PM · OVAL
Littleton, CO
I was on an exercise bike when I saw this object going south. That lasted about 3 minutes at a consistent altitude. Very slow speed for an aircraft. I lost sight when it went behind a tree. About 5 minutes later I saw it heading north now at about the same altitude and speed. I took a photo but it's blurred from trying to autofocus through the glass. Three photo is looking east, and the trees at bottom were about a mile from my position. The object was slightly further than that.
September 30, 2023 · 10:57 PM · OVAL
IdentifiedVigneux-Sur-Seine, Ile-de-France · France
Le 30 septembre 2023, à 22h57, le témoin, présent à son domicile à Vigneux-sur-Seine (91), observe dans le ciel un objet ovale, lumineux, d'une teinte rouge-orange. Il le décrit comme rayonnant, donnant l'impression d’être en feu ou de refléter la lumière du soleil, sans laisser de traînée visible. L’objet est resté dans son champ de vision pendant environ 30 secondes, se déplaçant de manière stable vers l'horizon nord-est. D’étrangeté et de consistance* moyennes (témoin unique, pas de photo du PAN), ce cas s’avère être l’observation probable d’une lanterne céleste (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. Cette hypothèse est confortée par les éléments suivants : - Observation un samedi soir, jour typique pendant lequel ces lanternes sont lâchées à l’occasion de célébrations diverses (fêtes, anniversaire, mariage…), - Couleur typique d’une lanterne, rouge/orange, décrite par le témoin comme semblable à « du feu », - Observation ayant duré quelques dizaines de secondes ; donc persistante, - Absence de bruit, - Présence éventuelle d’un halo, correspondant à l’enveloppe de la lanterne. L’étude des conditions météorologiques, et en particulier du vent, au moment de l’observation, révèle que sa direction et sa force, tant au sol qu'en altitude, étaient compatibles avec l'orientation du déplacement du PAN, suggérant ainsi qu'il s'agissait d'un objet porté par le vent.. Le cas est classé « A » : observation d’une lanterne céleste. [GEIPAN classification A — Lanterne thai]
September 18, 2023 · 11:34 PM · OVAL
Shuniah, ON · Canada
I was outside alone at my camp taking pictures of the northern lights. Nobody else was around/outside. Suddenly a extremely bright light appeared in sky that hovered silently in the sky on the border of the tree line and beach for approx 8 minutes. I looked away at one point for a brief moment and returned in the direction of the light and it had disappeared suddenly without any noise. I was able to take a picture. In the picture the brightest light in the sky is the object that I saw which appeared suddenly and and then disappeared. It was clearly visible with my eyes. The last picture shows the same area with no light prior to it appearing.
September 18, 2023 · 6:55 AM · OVAL
Probable conventionalElburn, IL
Appears to be a powered aircraft with three contrails. Flying at a really high altitude towards the northwest. I've seen aircraft at high altitude fly over before but really in the skies above my home... this thing was really weird and it had no discernible wings or anything which you normally see. I suspect it was just due to the reflection of the Sun but who the hell knows, its 2023, the world is a nut house so I figured I'd share it maybe it's something, maybe not. I have photographs that I took on a pixel 6 pro, I can share them. I have 10 photos. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
September 17, 2023 · 3:46 PM · OVAL
North Bethesda, MD
While driving south on Rockville toward Washington, MD, an Uber driver sitting at a traffic light saw a slowing moving north toward the driver as if following the road or parallel to the Potomac River. The driver takes a photo from the driver's car window. The traffic light changes and he parks his vehicle in a mini strip mall parking lot gets out and shoots 2nd photo. After the second photo, the object makes a right-angle turn, shoots off west at tremendous speed, and disappears from sight. Photo Details: Dimensions 1636 x 2180, Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max, 75mm. Photo1- f/2.2, 1/786, Lat. 39* 3' 18.73" N, Long. 77*7' 6.32" W Photo 2 - f/2.2, 1/1,248, 39* 3' 17.14" N 77* 7' 3.25" W
September 14, 2023 · 3:50 PM · OVAL
Sutkothai UNESCO heritage site · Thailand
A Bright star in the sky appears on photo. I know it was a UAP, because it made a loud electrical humming noise. It travelled overhead, and I took a photo, unfortunately , without a telephoto lens. The star shaped object was white and bright hot. It is not a meteor or fireball, because it leaves no trail in the sky. I observed one craft, but did not see what was making the noise. Afterwards when I developed the photo, a star shaped object in the sky is revealed. Increasing magnification reveals an oval object. I was in Thailand on Holiday, visiting the Sukhothai UNESCO world heritage site. I came across a UAP/ UFO. I had an ordinary pre digital camera. I did not see the UAP, as the sun was too bright. However I Took a photo with my camera, it was a question of point and click. The air was filled by an electrical humming noise, which came from the craft. That is how I know it was UAP/ UFO. When i developed the photo there was an oval shaped object, orb like in structure. I know it is not a meteorite or space junk as it would leave a trail as it burned up in the atmosphere. It is not a blemish, or lens flare or the sun. The photo is taken from the southerly direction. I have run the photo through an AI image enhancer. The photo remains the same, except for an improvement in quality, and an oval shape can be clearly seen. The colour is white and there is one object.
September 8, 2023 · 5:20 PM · OVAL
Saint Amable, QC · Canada
An oval, shimmery chrome object moving very fast across the sky, under the clouds and then disappeared
September 7, 2023 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
Ironton, OH
Hovered for approximately 20 seconds next to the top of the trees. I was mesmerized by all the lights around it. I went to grab my phone and it disappeared. I didn’t see it fly away but I looked away for like 2 seconds for my phone. It was extremely bright because the next night I looked out the same window and couldn’t even see the trees. I was visiting my parents home.
September 7, 2023 · 1:45 PM · OVAL
Golden, CO
The Afternoon: A testimony encouraged by my 1 friend, my dad who is not sure if he believes me but supported me, more importantly, my coworker who was there and was moved and for anyone else that was curious what it was.... On a crisp afternoon, we pulled into a landscape yard to load some dirt for a job. A blue bird day, one could almost see to Wyoming, the air was so clear crisp. Cleanest air I have seen all year. Made me wish I was in the mountains climbing that day. I was working. I noticed an object, unlike anything I have seen before in the sky's. The words expressed from us... 3 men working mid day.... ME.... T.... and the " Load Guy" 1)What ((words deleted)) is that bro! 2) What are you guys looking at, ....yo what... I see that... 3) Yo it seems to be floating....Its so bright from reflection, yet white....very high up, wow! Must be around 10...no 15 thousand feet we are at almost 5800 ft no that must be 16 ..17.... Description- The object was shaped in a parabolic nature and oval in shape. The reflective nature of the white color, and absorbtion of pure white was amazing, and the defined shape on its edges was sharp. (It must be a high flying paraglider, I thought?) I told my co worker to observe and it was clear that this was an object, not a cloud. An employee from the company working the front loader, who we were patrons of came out to view the object after our curiosity. We all started taking pictures and discussing what the object could be? This object was over the frontrange, north of Golden, just south of Boulder. We saw commercial planes going underneath it flying west out of DIA. We also saw a few lear jets, most likely on approach from the west to land at centennial airport... Citation jet size planes under the object. (This is how I judged its altitude and size at the time) We were curious if others saw the object. We submit our evidence to add to our reaserch to explain this, understand and identify the object . It hovered at approximately 16,000 ft to 20,000 feet for our observed 30 minutes. Size was judged around the size of a large Prevost bus a bit larger.... Some sparse clouds were observed in area but not around object. Object did not move or change with cloud formation. (Again, it was clear that object was not translucent or hazy, but an ultra white material shape with unwavering parabolic shape. (As we saw the object in almost perfect viewing conditions, its form was an obvious solid object, however the altitude obscured details.) Object did rotate 20 degrees 2 times in 20 minutes then returning to original position. Stoic in its location and azimuth in atmosphere. After having to go about my day, we lost track of object. I had to get back to work! Right... Object was unobserved 5 min later... Object Must have been paraglider???? But all white? At 17000 ft? Every paraglider here has some color on sail around here. Weather balloon? Released by CU? In the track of the busiest airspace in the country? It's my duty to report this for avaiton safety and to also answer our curiosity! In its brilliant white form, we will be in awe by its beauty and wonder and will remember our unwavering curiosity to an object that 3 men, just loading a truck full of dirt saw in the atmosphere that afternoon. Hoping someone else can add to our observation, with evidence as we are both inquisitive but skeptical.
September 6, 2023 · 7:15 PM · OVAL
Oakland, CA
Approximately at sunset 7:15-7:30 while leaving house to take evening walk my spouse and I noticed an oddly shaped object in the cloudless south east sky around 10-11 o'clock if 12 is overhead. Altitude appeared to be less than 10,000 feet. It's shape looked more oval than a cylinder and was highly reflective. Size was less than a 1/4 inch if between my outstretched fingers. It moved silently in a deliberate straight line past our house facing southeast to the southwest traveling maybe a few hundred knots if actually 5,000-10,000 feet in altitude. I ran into house to check flight radar phone app as it moved past however no recorded air traffic was in the vicinity. As it faded from view in the south east over either land south of San Francisco or the Pacific Ocean the now small dot reflected a golden bright light and appeared to leave a faint trail behind. My eyes are often looking up and I enjoy watching birds and tracking planes but this was the most out the ordinary thing I've seen. Thus my first ufo report.
September 6, 2023 · 11:00 AM · OVAL
Sherwood, OR
Birderswith long lenses all saw 100% still stationary big white opaquish pill shaped but vertical object by descending moon in perfectly clear blue sky. No clouds. It did not move, unaffected by winds aloft. Jetliner high passes just above it.then vanished in thin air.suddenly not there. Had seen similar but silver over wilsonville in summer 2019 but before it too vanished 2 silver saucers came out one on either side, each circled in a perfectly unearthly motion, also unaffected by the atmosphere or physical and then both in again perfect direct line departed. Nw at a speed too fast for man-made anything. Background lifelong in aviation, no technology that unaffected by the physical, that fast or that most markedly exact precise motion.
September 6, 2023 · 10:55 AM · OVAL
Probable conventionalKeizer, OR
I confirmed seeing an object in the sky. I took some pictures at 3000 mm with a Nikon P1000 camera. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
September 6, 2023 · 10:40 AM · OVAL
Tigard, OR
Glowing white tic tac shaped object been sitting in clear blue sky's for awhile and hasn't moved at all. It is not a planet or star.
September 6, 2023 · 12:24 AM · OVAL
Churchill, MB · Canada
Background Information Page 1 I, ((name deleted)), do hereby state that the text below is about my true experience in capturing a video of, what I believe to be, an Alien spacecraft traveling over Hudson Bay Canada in the vicinity of Churchill, Manitoba. The Churchill Northern Studies Centre has a” Cam” for the use, by the public, for seeing and recording the Aurora Borealis. The cam is on 24 hours per day and I believe it is usually unmanned, except for orienting the cam in different directions in preparation of Auroral activity that night. I am a retired executive of NBC, having left the company in 2000. Because of a physical illness, I am now wheelchair bound, and I enjoy using the Churchill Northern Studies cam to capture images of the Aurora Borealis. My technique has been to put the image from the cam on my desktop computer and use my iPhone on a tripod to record the Aurora. This way, I can use the pointer on my mouse to point to specific sections while recording it. I narrate the video, because I air the Aurora videos on my family’s private web site, Kindred Spirits. On Wednesday, September 6th 2023, I awoke at 1am (Midnight Churchill time.) and decided to check for Auroral activity in Churchill, Manitoba Canada, using the cam at the Centre. Churchill is not in the Arctic Circle, but it is a major location for seeing activity. I set up my iPhone on the tripod, centered the monitor image and activated the computer. The cam is available via Explore.org- Zen Cams- Aurora Borealis. There was an aurora active at the time and I watched it until it faded away. Thinking that was all the action for the night, I removed my iPhone from the tripod and stored the tripod away. As I turned back to the computer monitor, I saw what I thought was a satellite just emerging from behind the Centre’s cell tower. I grabbed my iPhone, started recording, and called out “Satellite alert!”. The image was not as steady as when I was using the tripod, but I was able to keep it fairly steady. It turned out to be not a satellite, not an aircraft, because it had no recognition lights, not a meteor, and not a weather balloon.The primary recording was 7:14 in length. I ran out of recording time and started a second recording that lasted an additional 4 minutes. When I played back the recording, I froze the recording and used my iPhone to zoom into the recording. It DID reveal that it was a circular shaped craft. The craft’s attitude gave it an oval shape. The first attached picture is of the first recording showing the object just clearing the centre's cell tower. The object was heading in a north eastern direction as it smoothly reduced altitude. The second picture is the magnified image of the object in the frozen image from the first recording, clearly showing a white circular object.
September 5, 2023 · 6:40 PM · OVAL
Koblenz (25 miles out), RHINELAN · Germany
Hello from Germany. My name is ((deleted)). i´m 55 jears old and i´m a professionell Bodyguard with my own Company since 1987. You can check my personality over ((e-address deleted)) so long to my Person Thank you for reading my mail. I send you one picture it´s part of an video round about 2 Minutes long, made by my own on my iPhone during my son had a soccer match last week. First at all i want to tell you, that i was watching the game with a few parents on the side. One man ist a member of the US Army (James xy..)working in Germany for the NATO office. Out of a sudden there was this objekt in the clear blue cloudless sky. a few planes colored by the evenig sun in pink/orange, (can see them on a video too) i made 3 Videos of the soccer match, by the way.. The objekt was like a spinning top, loudless and bright shinning. it moved quick and was gone..and the shinning get´s more and more brighter too a glare light i never saw before...... the other parents saw it too... Now i come to the POINT!! At night i looked the videos from my son´s soccer game . at minute 1:14 in this video you can see FOR A SPLIT 1/100 SECOND this objekt. it´´s in and out in the same moment. no incoming no outgoing.... The video i made was before i saw that thing for mayby 10 seconds, so i don´t know that i had that objekt on video!! If you are realy interested to see the hole video, please come back to me. send an email or contact med over my mobil The photo and video are made by my self . It´s my property and i reserved all rights to it.
September 4, 2023 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Roulette, PA
Seemed to be up higher than planes
September 4, 2023 · 9:28 PM · OVAL
Portage, MI
Walking Soutbound along Moorsbridge Rd in Portage MI and saw a line of 12 or so blue lights toward my East traveling in a straight line from the South, Northbound. They were visible for approx 2 minutes when I noticed them and as I turned around and followed them, they disappeared into the sky. They were not white lights in tonight’s sky, they were more of a blue hue. I checked the starlink website and the traveling directions and times do not match.
September 4, 2023 · 7:37 PM · OVAL
Kowal, KUYAVIAN · Poland
I'm going for a walk, suddenly I look at the forest in the distance and something catches my attention, but there's nothing there, and then a few seconds later again and suddenly I see a very small visible dot in a very similar color to the sky, which appeared with nowhere, because there was nothing there a moment ago, I start recording and the object flies faster and faster, turns black, then I went to the application that shows the nearest planes and satellites, there was nothing near me, the closest thing was a plane 50 km away which was flying in a different direction
September 4, 2023 · 9:28 AM · OVAL
Ashington, NORTHUMB · United Kingdom
While sitting looking out of van window I seen this craft which didn't look like a boat. Also it didn't move like a boat and was moving fast and smooth. There was no sound detected but not sure how far this was away. Maybe 1 mile.
September 2, 2023 · 11:00 AM · OVAL
Clayton, NC
I was walking my dog at approximately 11:00 am on September 2, 2023. It was a beautiful clear day. There may have been a few wispy low level clouds that I noticed earlier during the walk but at the time of my encounter there were no visible clouds. I reached Latitude 35.655348 Longitude -78.350902 and was climbing a small hill north of a small pond next to Triangle YMCA when I looked NNE and saw a hawk in a dive approximately 30 degrees off the horizon. Behind the hawk, I saw a small, oval, white “orb” for lack of a better description. It was slightly larger than a sesame seed held at arms length. I wouldn’t have paid any attention to it, but the movement of the hawk caught my eye. Otherwise, I most likely would have missed this. In fact, initially I thought it was a white bird, perhaps fighting with the hawk. I lost visual sight of the hawk because it blended in with the tree line, but the white orb sat motionless in the sky. I used to be an aviator with the US Air Force and I am used to spotting objects in the sky and familiar with their movement patterns in order to de-conflict traffic. This object was behaving abnormally due to its lack of motion in the sky but honestly, I didn’t think much of it. I continued to walk with my dog off the leash heading north, and the object became obscured behind a tree that was close by me hindering my view. It took me 10 to 15 seconds to pass by the tree and obtain another unobscured view of the sky as a crested the small hill. Curiously I looked up for the object and saw that it was gone. I thought that was a little strange and I proceeded to scan approximately 30° off the horizon from west to east several times looking for movement. I could see nothing, not even small aircraft which frequent the area. I took my eyes off the sky for a few seconds for whatever reason (maybe glancing at my dog or looking down to secure footing), and then looked back towards the area and was surprised to see the object had returned. I stopped walking and decided to observe the characteristics of this object. Again, it was motionless and about a outstretched hand’s width further to the east. I noticed that the object seemed to increase and decrease in size every few seconds, making it clearly visible one moment and then harder to see the next moment. At this point, the object really had my attention solely for the fact that this was unique. I immediately began trying to determine what I was seeing. My first assumption is that this was an aircraft on the horizon, making turns which allowed it to reflect the sun at variable brightness based on its profile in various positions, making it more visible and less visible as it maneuvered. The problem with this assumption is that it appeared motionless in the sky for several minutes. I considered that perhaps it was moving away but that wouldn’t it explain why it appeared to be decreasing and then increasing in size from my vantage point. I considered that this might be a balloon but how could it be motionless when visible, disappear and reappear few miles from its original position and becoming motionless again? It is not my intention to speculate on this craft, but I think it’s important to let you know my mindset as I was observing this. Had it acted like any aircraft I had seen in the past while flying, I wouldn’t have paid any attention beyond a curious glance. It was the uniqueness, and it’s characteristics of flight that caught my attention. It made no sense to me. As I stood and watched the object, I speculated on what it could be, then I realized that my dog was off leash and wandering the field alone behind me. I turned my head to call him back to my side and as I turned back to continue observing the object, it was gone. I began meticulously scanning of the horizon for movement and remember laughing out loud at how odd this situation had become. I didn’t observe any motion in the sky. A lot of times, when an aircraft adjusts its attitude and position, it will no longer reflect the sunlight and become less visible, but your eyes can still catch movement of the craft. There was absolutely nothing observable in the sky after it disappeared. I hooked my dog to my leash and settled in to observe the sky for the next several minutes. I would estimate 2 to 3 minutes passed when the object came into view a third time and was another one to two hand widths across the horizon towards the east. It slowly faded into view and behaved just as it had before. It appeared motionless but this time remained a constant size and brightness. At this point, I determined I wasn’t going to take my eyes off it except to blink. I patiently observed this object sit motionless, 30° off the horizon for about 90 seconds and then fade out of view over 3-5 seconds as if turning down a light source using a dimming switch. I must’ve stayed in that field for another 10 minutes, scanning the horizon and looking for any movement, but saw nothing. So I resumed my walk back to my house about 15 minutes away. The only reason why I am reporting what I saw is that I have lots of experience as an aviator and this object behaved like nothing I had ever witnessed. Had it only popped into view once and disappeared, I would’ve dismiss this as an aircraft. But to watch it sit motionlessly, disappear, move unobserved across the horizon, then reappear only to sit motionless again was very strange. I have run through this scenario several times and every logical explanation simply returns with questions on the strange flight characteristics of this object. It most likely was an aircraft, but I just can’t explain how it behaved. There are plenty of little airfields locally and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is about hour’s drive from this area. I consider that this may be a fighter jet maneuvering on the horizon but we hear those jets all the time. This object was absolutely silent. Another strange thing was that I had no desire to pull out my phone and record this. It’s strange to me because recording seemed to not even be an option. It was like I didn’t even remember I had a phone on me. Maybe I was task saturated with observing this object and fleshing out what it could be?
September 1, 2023 · 11:40 PM · OVAL
Albany, GA
While riding down US Highway 19 at around 11:40 PM. I noticed bright white lights in the sky that were not moving. I asked my daughter did she see it and she said yes. When we moved closer to the area the lights were, I could tell it wasn't a plane by how bright the lights were and how still the object was. The lights were bright like lights at a football game but coming from in the air. There was a shadow in a V shape from a light being cast from the top of the object. After about 45 seconds of intensely looking at the object, the lights in the front of it looked as if it pointed up and the object disappeared. We both looked around the sky in every direction but we no longer saw the object. It was too fast to be a plane or drone. It was also way to larger to be a drone and to round to be a plane. Other drivers were on the road at the time that may can confirm this.
August 31, 2023 · 10:07 PM · OVAL
Lewiston, ID
Did not see in person, security footage picked it up. One slow moving oval shape light with tails crossing the western sky over Lewiston Idaho. When zoomed in on the object, you can see it pulsating. Never disappeared during the recording. Did not appear to move in a straight line the entire time. Original video is on security system that I installed at my place of employment.
August 29, 2023 · 9:25 AM · OVAL
Avenal, CA
Ballon type object floating in the same space, naked eye can see it, looks white or grey. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
August 27, 2023 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Byesville, OH
The ship up front had windows from bottom to top . Front had most lights on. There had to be 30 levels of windows on it. Was so close saw small stream of smoke from it and low hum. Have great picture of this . It has lights all around it you can tell it is oval round shape. I see this craft every night it usually looks like a very bright star and will go out and move closer to my house. I am scared and would appreciate a call back 740 XXX-XXXX .also had vision of being on the craft and they put something in both ears and saw its face for about 5 seconds. Also been followed by it. Seen this for 2 years and every night since. Thank You