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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 16, 2023 · 6:15 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedCabot, AR
While driving north on I-167 in Cabot, Arkansas, I saw multiple lights flying around in the sky. So I started recording. There was about 50 seconds prior to my video where nothing happened. Then it picked back up again and the lights started flashing and flying together. Usually in pairs of 2’s, however sometimes they would separate then meet each other again a couple seconds later. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
December 14, 2023 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Fort Wayne, IN
Bright white light traveling faster than any aircraft seen. Travelled horizontally and at very high elevation. Suddenly appeared traveling and within 15 seconds disappeared.
December 14, 2023 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Harleysville, PA
Driving home from work at 6:00 PM and saw this bright multicolored sphere flashing and moving away from me at a fairly low altitude. It made no noise at all. I pulled my car to the side of the road and shot a video with my phone until it disappeared behind the trees.
December 13, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Greensboro, NC
Around 7AM on Dec 13th, I was on the front porch of my home and saw an extremely intense light above the tree line on the hole of the golf course that my house is situated on. The trees are roughly 500-750 ft from my front porch viewpoint. It was hovering left and right with periods of standstill. It was difficult for me to gauge the elevation of the object but it appeared lower than a plane in the sky at the time. Also of note is that there were no visible stars in that field of view, or in my periphery. The only stars faintly visible were directly above my head. With regard to directional positioning, it was just a tad west of the rising sun, but not by much, and was lower than the sun in my field of vision. It caught my eye as it was so intensely bright. It was very mesmerizing. And as it got my attention, I noticed it was periodically emitting a blue light, almost like a beam but more of a tentacle appearance than a typical “linear” laser we think of. The object was relatively stable and hard to get an idea of the exact shape because the light was so bright. However, it looked almost like a pyramid in nature. But would hover around in a small vicinity without much perceived pattern, at least to my eye. I wanted to get a picture but my phone was dead. As I was in awe, a member of the household was leaving for work and saw the same thing. She agreed it was strange but had to leave for work. The object was gone when I came back outside with a family member’s charged phone, within 2 mins of me going inside to retrieve the phone. I probably would have dismissed this or even forgotten about the morning event but late that evening around midnight, I was called outside by a family member who claimed they saw an “orb.” Remembering the event from 18 hrs ago, I came outside and saw the same thing I did in the morning along with lots of animal sounds, like they were disturbed. This time, it was much closer to my house - it was basically above my yard and hovering around the ¾ acre that we live on from above. This time, the pyramid structure was a bit more defined and the light was more of a gold color than the intense bright light I saw in the same morning. It would stay in one place for a few minutes and then hover around aimlessly. In addition to blue lights, this one also emitted red and green lights, both in a tentacle fashion. The majority of the mass of the object would appear in a more rounded muted orange color when the projections were not coming from it. There were moments when it appeared to be transitioning between the two states (pyramid/tentacle structure and orb structure). It also seemed to have a noticeable blackness around it, almost like a cloud when I the pyramid form. About 30 minutes later, 2 family members are watching this with me and another identical object appears on the other side of the house. It seemed to be the same type of object. These things hovered around for about 3 hrs and slowly moved from above our yard to the west. I still had a visual on one from my window when I came to bed and got a video of it jetting away. After many many tries of trying to focus I finally did, right in time for it to be caught ZOOMING away!!! I was in total disbelief but this is the best evidence I have. From what I can see in the video, it moved away so fast that it left a blur with the video recording at 60fps. It went from basically standstill to these speeds. Of note, a family member has claimed he has seen similar things and many orbs on this property but I gave it no attention due to “stigma.” I now believe every word he has said. Now this is speculation but it felt like these things knew they were being watched, there was even a moment when it was behind trees when I was trying to record it and it seemed to move to areas that had optimal tree cover. Since I couldn't get a good in-focus picture, I sketched what I saw to the best of my ability. (the pyramid form) and the video shows the orb form zooming away. The 2 most anomalous things I recall - 1) the speed of which this thing took off from a complete standstill 2) I lost sight one of the objects when viewing it from my room window only to find it, and when I did, this time it appeared to be casting a straight blue beam down to the ground. I did not have view of the ground beneath however the beam was linear this time, casting much further from the object than the wavy lights in the picture. It also appeared to be in orb form during this behavior. The "tentacle" lights only appeared when it was in pyramid form.
December 13, 2023 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Identified[Aero Tvf] De Erevan (Am.Er) Vers Orly, Autre · France
Le soir du 13 décembre 2023, durant un vol TVF reliant Erevan (Arménie) à Paris (France), un pilote de ligne et son collègue ont observé, à travers les vitres du cockpit, des phénomènes lumineux étranges dans le ciel. L'observation a commencé aux alentours de 19h00 UTC, au-dessus de l'extrémité occidentale du lac Balaton en Hongrie, et s'est poursuivie jusqu'au début de la descente vers Paris, vers 20h40 UTC. Seul un des deux pilotes a témoigné de l'événement. Le phénomène aérien non identifié (PAN) était constamment visible à proximité de l'étoile Altaïr, au nord-ouest (azimut de 310°). L'observation a eu lieu au-dessus de plusieurs pays européens, notamment la Hongrie, l'Autriche, l'Allemagne, la Suisse et la France. Le PAN est décrit comme étant composé de lumières sphériques de couleur blanche, apparaissant et disparaissant avec des variations d'intensité. Parfois, ces lumières clignotaient. Elles pouvaient rester fixes ou se déplacer de manière rectiligne. L'observation a duré environ 1h40, bien que le PAN ne soit pas constamment visible. En fin d'observation, les lumières sont devenues rouges, possiblement en raison de la densité atmosphérique. De nombreuses vidéos ont été prises tout au long de l'observation, totalisant plus de 4 minutes d'enregistrement. Deux hypothèses sont envisagées ( voir le compte rendu d'enquête) : l’observation d’un exercice militaire aérien ou de flashs satellitaires (reflets du Soleil). Bien que des manœuvres militaires aient eu lieu au sud-ouest de l’Angleterre pendant la période de l’observation, cette hypothèse est écartée pour les raisons suivantes : - le PAN reste fixe par rapport à l’étoile Altaïr pendant toute la durée de l’observation, et sa hauteur angulaire diminue progressivement au même rythme que celle d’Altaïr, en raison de la rotation de la Terre. - le fait que le PAN demeure toujours près de l’horizon, alors que l’avion a parcouru une grande distance durant l’observation, indique que le PAN est très éloigné. De plus, lors de la descente sur Paris, les témoins ont noté que la couleur du PAN virait au rouge, vraisemblablement en raison de la densité atmosphérique (absorption de la partie bleue du spectre lumineux). Ces éléments suggèrent que le PAN se trouve bien au-dessus de l’atmosphère terrestre. La seconde hypothèse, celle de flashs satellitaires, est retenue. L’observation correspond parfaitement à d’autres cas signalés par des pilotes au GEIPAN, expliqués comme des « Starlink cluster flares » (groupes de flashs de satellites Starlink en orbite opérationnelle). Une vérification avec l’outil Stellarium confirme que la position du PAN par rapport au Soleil est favorable à ce type d’observation (environ à 45° au-dessus du Soleil et à moins de 10° au-dessus de l’horizon), conformément aux descriptions et comme illustré dans l'article Web starlink-satellites-flaring-in-cassiopeia. Ce cas, de faible étrangeté mais de bonne consistance (plusieurs témoins, témoignage unique mais très complet et détaillé, vidéos du PAN), est donc identifié comme une observation de « Starlink cluster flares ». La position du Soleil par rapport à certains satellites favorise une réflexion spéculaire épisodique sur les structures des satellites, ce qui a été perçu par l’équipage de ce vol. Le cas est classé A : observation de flashs de satellites Starlink en orbite opérationnelle. Cette observation présente de très grandes similarités avec d’autres cas enquêtés par le GEIPAN et publiés sur le site du GEIPAN. [AERO AFR] de ABIDJAN (CI.AB) vers PARIS (95) 08.04.2023. [AERO TVF] de AMMAN (JO.AM) vers ORLY (94) 31.01.2023. [AERO AFR] de KINSHASA (CD.KN) vers PARIS (75) 10.04.2023. Ces quatre cas servent d’appui à une note technique d’enquête et d'une publication dans la section Actualité. [GEIPAN classification A — Flashs Starlink]
December 12, 2023 · 11:22 PM · SPHERE
Austin, TX
I was on an electric scooter home and noticed three lights against the backdrop of the clouds. They were white faint orbs and whizzing back and forth in a triangular formation. What I mean is if each orb was A, B, and C, it looked as if A would whizz to position B, B would whizz to position C, and C would whizz to position A. This continued for 2-3 rounds before disappearing. I saw it for a 45 seconds in complete disbelief. Once they disappeared I parked my scooter and went inside my apartment building. This was about 20 minutes ago and I am only now processing the event. I fully believe this could be a UFO.
December 12, 2023 · 5:06 PM · SPHERE
Ocala, FL
I was driving home from work and saw what looked light an extremely bright star in the sky. However, it was only 5pm and still bright outside. I noticed it move slightly and began to take pictures. My live picture was setting was on for the first image and I was able to break it down into multiple frames when I got home. I was able to take 3 pictures total before it quickly disappeared. I've never seen anything like it. When I went through the frame-by-frame, there are a few frames where the orb splits into two. I have included the three original images, as well as a screenshot I took of the zoomed in frame-by-frame shot of the split. I watched a report from earlier today in Melbourne FL, and its behavior and appearance looked similar, but closer in terms of distance.
December 11, 2023 · 10:36 PM · SPHERE
Alexandria, VA
I saw one fast light fly over my house a half an hour later got video of a light in my woods scanning the forest
December 9, 2023 · 6:42 PM · SPHERE
Brooklyn, NY
My son aged 10 told me he saw lights in the night sky that he’d never seen before. I was in the shower and my wife was working in the other room. I came out and saw these orange lights. I hadn’t seen these lights before either. We called my wife in who also observed them. We watched them until they all floated into the clouds and vanished. My son theorized they were Chinese lanterns. Perhaps they were, but I felt it couldn’t hurt to alert someone to their presence. Thank you so much for taking the time to look into this. PS I have video but the file size was too large so I put some screen grabs for you to see. There was a screen in front of the camera lens but I opened the screen for the end of the video. [NUFORC annotation: Chinese Lantern - Possible]
December 8, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Kingston, TN
I looked up in the sky and saw a low altitude pulsating light moving very fast then disappearing. It was overcast I could see a few stars and they were fuzzy just as this light was. I can see an airplane above I could see the cell towers from bays mountain. I have seen all hemispheres of the sky. I have seen the Milky Way in Peru because of no light pollution. I have seen rockets I have seen starlink I have seen falling stars I have seen satellites and space stations. I have seen the helicopters and airplanes and drones and cell towers. I have some meteors and comments and eclipses. This was none of these things.
December 8, 2023 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
West Goshen Township, PA
I work near a small airport, always we always have a lot of air traffic. Myself and two of my co-workers were chatting before leaving and an amber orb appeared and traveled over our heads at what seemed to be a high altitude. There we no FAA lights. I wanted to explain it as a Chinese lantern but was moving very quickly. No sound observed.
December 8, 2023 · 4:29 AM · SPHERE
Lawrence, KS
The summary is pretty much it. I sometimes can’t sleep so I will look out my window and will sometimes see this object, sometimes I see plans coming and going from the airport nearby. This object struck me as different because it doesn’t move like a plane, it just hovers. It always pulses white, blue, and pink light with what looks like solar flares coming from the main body in those same colors. Sometimes it will disappear and reappear within the same second in a different area of the sky and will hover there for a while before disappearing altogether. I can’t tell if it is hovering high above Eastern Lawrence or if it is closer to Kansas City. It doesn’t behave like anything I know. My husband is a retired Army pilot and he says it freaks him out.
December 7, 2023 · 11:05 AM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
After seeing numerous orbs in this area in 2022, this is only the second sighting of them in 2023. I checked my apps like Flight Radar to confirm it was not a plane or weather balloon. I am guessing it was floating above at about 2,500 feet. It stopped momentarily above me, then continued on. I have a bit of footage of it on my iPhone, but i had my dog on a leash pulling me around. I was unable to get in my house in time to grab binoculars, so for this sighting, video is all I have. The orb was identical to other orbs I've been seeing every once in a while. There was absolutely no sound, and there were jetliners to the left of it at a much higher altitude. This orb was glowing and spinning. I wonder in anyone else in North Columbus saw it?
December 6, 2023 · 1:36 AM · SPHERE
Latexo, TX
I stepped outside to enjoy the night before going to bed. While standing on my porch stairs, with our dog, I noticed a very bright orb object to the west just above our storage container. I continued to watch it as it morphed into a 5 point star form and split into two seperate orb/star forms while moving from west to east, and then becoming stationary. The dog then hit the door full tilt trying to get into the house, and i noticed thst the only other thing i heard was "whooshing" in my ears and feeling my heart beat. I reached behind and opened the door to let the dog in and called for my bf to come out and see what i was seeing. When i looked back the orbs had become one again, but closer. my boyfriend then grabbed our binoculars to tske a lpok and saw that they were still TWO orbs but very close together to look as one. When i looked through them, i saw the same thing. They never moved again, staying stationary so we went inside. The dog refused to go back outside.
December 5, 2023 · 5:25 PM · SPHERE
Saint Paul, KS
So idk what's happening in my small town, since the end up September. I've seen anything like this before. So ever single night orbs every I mean left going all different directions all different sizes and heights. They only come out very early like 545 to about 7 PM. After that they hardly show themselves. I go outside look up in just seconds I see them. They legit post as Stars. Your see a Star as you look for more then the a star you just looked at, starts flying threw the night sky. Damn military planes.ars flying over every day and night. How do I know cuz flew next each other and right at each other. I thought they were gonna crash at times no joke. Now theses a huge UFO thats.flown right over my house 3 times seen it 4 times. This is no orb. It's huge the speed of it I can only compare it moving a Lazer it's that fast. No sound either nothing. This thing was low too. Triangle/dimoamd shape..you could only see the outline of the shape of the craft it's self. 6 to 9 very dim Green lights made the outline. Last night the lights were circling the Craft it's self as it flew over us.. we've seen Star Link fly over our town 5 times in last 2 months. I think that's very weird giving that I've only seen that once before 2 years ago. So yea I need a documentary crew out here lol I can't get any of this on my phone camera [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
December 4, 2023 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Lorain, OH
Shortly after walking outside to smoke a cigarette, I felt like I was being watched, so walked to the rear of my driveway, looked up and noticed a small, slightly illuminated, approximately 5ft wide, spherical cloud floating around 23 to 25ft in the air above the front portion of my backyard. The object appeared to be stationary until observed and briefly spoken to (when I initially spotted the object I said aloud "What are you doing?") At this point, the object slowly (about walking pace) circled above my house, then continued circling around the front of my house, circled above the driveway which I was standing on, circled above the home of the closest neighbor to my left, then back around to the rear my the driveway, then proceeded toward the front of the drive, before vanishing directly above my head. While circling over both house, the lower portion of the object was obscured briefly at the peak of each respective house, which verified my approximate observation of it's height. I walked from center to back, then back to front, then front to back, and then directly under the object as it changed direction east, in order to maintain unbroken observation. To be clear, I have no indication that the object left the area at this point, it simply became invisible to me. It was entirely inaudible, and when stared at directly, no hard lines, shapes, edges or color variations could be observed. I passed my hand through my field of vision while observing the object without any change in it appearance, in order to rule out the possibility of hallucination or optical illusion. This occurred at night, and the weather conditions were cloudy, but my side door has a soft light. No neighbors were present, and no vehicles passed by during the observation. No possibility of abduction, as no time was missing, the object appeared too small to take a person, and no bodily effects were observed during or afterwards. I am an Air Force Veteran, who served on an active flightline for an overseas long tour at Ramstein Air Base during the height of OEF/OIF as an aerospace ground equipment mechanic. Honorably Discharged. During the observation I was under no impairment, was of calm mind and entirely awake. I made no attempt to photograph or record the object, since it was acting subtly, potentially covertly above my home and those seemed like actions that might be interpreted as hostile.
December 3, 2023 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Davenport, FL
Me, my children, and family, were swimming when I noticed it first after looking up. I thought maybe I was seeing things until I looked at my sister in law and said- Did you see that or am I crazy? There were two orbs that were going in circles chasing each other kind of, I’m not sure but they were moving so fast in the sky it looked unreal. It looked nothing like a normal plane or aircraft going by it moved WAY too fast. By then it went away for a few minutes and I told everyone by this time- even the neighbors came out and saw what ever was moving at the speed of light. After about half an hour there was no more sight of the orbs.
December 2, 2023 · 6:54 PM · SPHERE
New York, NY
Ok so I’m leaving RiteAid and I looked up over the elevated train towards the clouds. Don’t know why. I see a perfectly round orb shape hovering - it looked like it was hovering - then it was up, then down. Went into clouds and came out either up or back to the left etc. it seemed to be hiding in clouds. At one point the shape changed and it looked black w a light in the center. I was watching this - looking for a second light - nothing. Then it just disappeared like poof!!! At one point I saw an airplane heading towards it. That caught my eye because I’m close to Manhattan and no planes are allowed over it now. So this plane looked like it came over the city - which you can see from here, and the orb disappears but after the plane veered away from it, the orb reappeared. It went east, west, up and down
December 2, 2023 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Haverhill, MA
While outdoors around 5pm, four people (2 adults 2 children) saw multiple (approximately a dozen) points/ orbs of light in the sky over the course of about an hour. The setting had some urban neighborhood lighting but the sky was clear and dark. The lights were of similar size and intensity. They appeared small, though distance was difficult to determine. The observers saw a mix white, red and green lights. The lights did not appear to blink though some twinkling through atmosphere was noticed. Some lights appeared to travel across sky laterally, unlike a meteor. Possibly like a drone. Some lights appeared to hang in the same spot which was hidden in the sky behind a large tree. Observers have previously seen Starlink, ISS, meteor showers and single drones flying and this seemed different. A large solar flare was recently publicized.
November 30, 2023 · 7:13 PM · SPHERE
Island Lake, ON · Canada
https://youtu.be/SAwnzvpnehw?si=t9-kVSQRkRg86h6d
November 30, 2023 · 5:26 PM · SPHERE
Chorlton-cum-Hardy, ENGLAND · United Kingdom
A cross shaped formation of approx 40 bright orbs to the south one leader orb very bright after approx 60 seconds the leader orb moved/ rapidly and all the other orbs followed rapidly/quicker than a jet plane.
November 30, 2023 · 4:59 PM · SPHERE
Gouverneur, NY
wife and daughter called saying I think we just seen a ufo . I went out back with my phone and watched the sky in the area they said and one orb showed up turned to 4 orbs from left to right two more times about 15 mins apart, I videoed with my phone both times. Returned inside and set up a small camera.
November 30, 2023 · 6:20 AM · SPHERE
Sterling, KS
It was very foggy when my husband went outside to let our cat out. He saw the lights shaped like a triangle at a 60° angle. Three larger lights seemed to form the triangle with 4 or 5 smaller lights in between the two larger bottom lights.They were not moving. The moon could also be seen at a higher angle north of the triangle lights. We live on a small lake and there were approximately 20 or more Canadian geese right in front of our house just floating in the water and making no noise. At 6:35 A.M. my husband came and woke me up to see the lights. I went outside with him and also saw the lights. I thought they looked like Christmas lights on the peak of someone's roof. My husband pointed out that they were way too high in the sky for that. We kept going out to check them and could no longer see them by 6:50 A.M. I was able to see them better using night vision on my phone camara.
November 30, 2023 · 3:10 AM · SPHERE
Franksville, WI
Objects were at the 30-40 degrees position off the horizon. They would move at the speed of a small plane it seemed but sometimes move in circles - not a straight line. Event went on for 15 minutes. There was 1 bright white object that appeared in the sky like when you slowly turn on a dimmer switch for a light. This object would brighten up in the sky, move around a bit and then dim back out and disappear. Then maybe 15 seconds – 30 seconds later, the same object and as many as 3 objects would brighten up at the same time and dance around each other and move to the north slowly but steadily. After 15-30 seconds all objects would dim back down and disappear. After another 15-30 seconds the main object would appear again but further from where it was originally. Then seconds after it appeared another 2 objects would brighten up and start moving around the main object in a circular and back and forth pattern. Objects dimmed out again. Then after another 15-30 seconds, the main object brightened up and 4 smaller objects brightened up after and buzzed the main object like bees being stirred up. Quite spectacular. Event occurred for 15 minutes between 3:00am - 3:30am. The same event happened two days earlier on 11-28-23 at the same time too and in the same location in the sky. Objects are not drones. They appear to be very high above cloud level. At least as high as small propeller planes fly. Objects appeared in major flight path of jetliners. They drop down over Racine County and bank north and land at Milwaukee airport. On 11-28-23 event, a jetliner was approaching from the south going north. As it got closer to the objects they disappeared and did not return. Weather: clear skies/ 30 degrees. Planets: The planet Venus was rising on the horizon to the east. Event occurred north/left of Venus location in sky. Location: Seen objects while driving east on 5 mile road from Raynor avenue all the way to I-94. I stopped in parking lot of Extreme Fireworks on 5 Mile Road/ I-94 to watch for a while.