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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.
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June 19, 2023 · 5:30 PM · SPHERE
Wheat Ridge, CO
Walking south easterly along a gravel path in Crown Hill Park. 90+ degrees, not a lot of people in the park and none in that area at the time. Orb approached flying north, probably about 5 degrees out of dead on toward me, going slightly toward my left. I stopped walking to watch it. It was moving much faster than planes or helicopters normally seen in the area. While it was moving too fast to be at high altitude, it was absolutely silent. Seemed like at most 1000 feet up. Plainly visible as a reflective orb. Kept waiting for more details to emerge as it neared me. Then it turned in an arc toward the west, then southwest. It came pretty close, I am sure it was over the park, but it never made a sound and never changed it's shape. No details ever emerged to indicate it was anything other than an orb. Looked metallic due to the reflectivity. As it was flying away I started walking again -- glanced toward the path and when I looked back the sky was clear, the orb was gone which I thought was jarring since it would have had to significantly alter its speed to be gone that quickly. About 40 minutes later a plane flew over that I thought might be around the same altitude. The plane was a twin engine fixed wing, very loud of course and very clearly a plane and very much slower than the orb. If the plane and the earlier orb were about the same height, the the diameter of the orb would be about the size of the plane's cockpit, maybe 10-12 feet.
June 18, 2023 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Upper Sandusky, OH
I was carefully walking the railroad tracks back home 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, and I walked into what I just assumed was a number of lightning bugs, like I said, I was watching where I was stepping I wasn't necessarily looking up and focusing until I was in the middle of it, and I Saul along the other side of the railroad track a bobbing light that was much tighter, and it's a luminescence it almost looks like a lackadaisical walker with a flashlight on the other side of the tracks. I know I'm not supposed to be on the railroad tracks at all so I quickly jumped off and kind of crouch in the longer grass and that's when it made a beeline directly at me and when it came of the tracks it hugged the ground, almost like it was making a point to traverse each track on its own. It stopped about 3-5 feet from my face and we just stared at each other for what felt like 60 seconds. Then it turned, got up on the track set i had been walking and shot due west. I stayed crouched for maybe 3 minutes or less terrified but eventually i talk to myself into getting back up on the tracks and walking thinking to myself. What am I gonna do? I got a knife on me versus is it gonna take me to go to take me so I'm just gonna walk this I walked directly at it, and it stayed a distance away. I walked through what had to of been 100 are over that flashing orbs on each side of me and I eventually I got off the track as soon as I could that fertilizer plant and that's kind of what I was planning on doing to kind of end my walk as I sing, and this one fertilizer barn has great acoustics, so I was like I think most people probably would I was talking to myself. I don't remember exactly what I was saying at first, but I do remember specifically saying "they're not going to stop me from singing" and that's when the sliding door shook in response to what I was saying, like something was shaking it from behind the door deliberately, and then I swore several times. I don't know why at that point I was not white as a ghost, but then responded to me again, my shaking the door and nobody was there. It was just me I didn't take me very long to get back home we live not even a 10th of a mile from the fertilizer plant and I didn't know what to do. I don't have anybody to tell so I just video document in my account of what happened and I immediately just uploaded it. I didn't edit it or anything I've since taken that down or hit it. I've made it private because it's freaks people out. I actually had a girl that I was talking to just stop talking to me because of it, but that Upload didn't go up until two in the morning roughly, and i don't know what happened to that time.
June 18, 2023 · 5:50 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalWatsonville, CA
Looked up and saw shiny object - maybe a weather balloon - watched for about 20 min [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
June 16, 2023 · 1:05 PM · SPHERE
Carlsbad, CA
At about 1:00 pm looking west towards above in the sky these white object were darting in different directions and different speeds and then disappearing. I was finally able to capture this attached video. At 41 seconds into video moving from the upper right to the lower left of the screen you will see it streak at a very fast rate of speed. The still photo shows what a single frame looks like.
June 15, 2023 · 11:10 PM · SPHERE
Seattle, WA
They appeared one by one, synchronized in flight over Novelty Washington area, (47.6798° N, 122.0169° W towards and over Mnt Rainier 46.8523° N, 121.7603° W) The last one changed speeds in the beginning slightly then also at then vanished upwards going south like the first 4.
June 15, 2023 · 10:23 PM · SPHERE
Sayville, NY
Object noticed in direct southern sky; about 45 degrees; south of bright star (planet) to the near west but lower. Traveled east quickly; high up and seemed too high and fast for a plane. I thought it was a satellite, but was traveling too quickly. Abruptly turned north, almost a 90 degree angle, and then the pattern was erratic. Whatever star (planet) was directly east from me, about 65 degrees, it was moving up and down there; disappeared (cloudy and ashy conditions). There was a definite up and down movement, in a zig zag fashion. Nothing that makes sense. I have been casually watching planets, stars, space stations, satellites. This was weird.
June 15, 2023 · 7:46 PM · SPHERE
Three Rivers, TX
It had just turned night. Riding in SUV. To the south, at about 2,000 ft; noticed a large round object, made up of smaller red, white, blue round parts . Appeared to be 3-4 miles away. Was very clear and sharp; clear skies.
June 15, 2023 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
San Francisco, CA
I was trying to look through the plane window at San Francisco bay. A few minutes to land and I saw clearly a sphere metallic object flying against our direction. It was 5 seconds at least. It was fast. I have never seen something like this, I'm not sure what was that .
June 14, 2023 · 11:25 PM · SPHERE
Cleethorpes, NORTH EA · United Kingdom
Very clear summer night with great visability of the night sky. Could see all stars overhead. Object was really high up, well above the altitude of comercial passenger jets or military aircraft. Object travelled from west to east, was not the ISS(as checked ISS tracker) and was not as bright as the ISS. Viewed the ISS many, many times from my location and can normally have very bright visual contact for around three to four minutes. There were no flashing lights to indicate an aircraft of any sort. No sound or sonic boom(which I would expect from something moving many times faster than the speed of sound.) It disappeared before entering the Earth's shadow. It was directly overhead. There was no trail to indicate a merteorite burning up. It seemed impossible for something to travel so fast given the altitude. If an aircraft passes near our location we can normally hear it after it has passed. It was my 19yr old Son and I that witnessed the object. Also, last summer, the two of us(my Son and I) witnessed another object travelling really, really fast fly overhead and made a very sharp 90 degree angular turn which defied everything I know about physics and the capabilities of aircraft travelling many times faster than the speed of sound. Did not have time to take any pictures as was sat in a hot tub at the time of both sighting and always lay, looking straight up as we have a great view of the night sky. Hot tub was not warm enough to cloud our vision with steam as it was kept quite cool as it had been a very warm day and we needed to cool off a little.
June 13, 2023 · 10:50 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalOceanside, CA
We were driving home we turned on to Benet from 76 right above the hills on the camp pendelton line we saw a line of bright lights lower then aircraft flow. as soon as we looked up to it we could hold our gaze to it for maybe 2 minutes - then it vanished. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
June 12, 2023 · 10:50 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalLouisville, KY
Lots of lights flying in a row. Like a large space ship. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
June 12, 2023 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Smithville, MO
Bright white orb moving from Northeast to Southwest for 5-8 seconds. The tail was white with green coming off the object as it flew through the sky. No indication of meteors or comets in the area.
June 11, 2023 · 7:02 PM · SPHERE
Cape coral, FL
It was a spherical, very shiny, very bright, metallic, looking object. That’s what caught your attention, the fact that it was very shiny and bright even though we could tell it was very far away as fast as she could grab a Phone it disappeared. She alerted me to the object so I went outside and didn’t see anything for several minutes and then there it was we both saw it very quickly. It was not moving. It was stationary and then boom it was gone! I suppose it could have been a meeting, a light making it so shiny, but it appeared more metallic, than lit.
June 11, 2023 · 4:20 PM · SPHERE
Pembroke, MA
Out in my back yard with my dog, I heard an airplane overhead, looked up and saw the plane with a black dot above it to the rear of it, at first I thought it was a bird and then thought it was too high up to be a bird, the object then did a circle and headed off to the south for about 2 sec then stopped and went back to the east before doing a right angle turn towards the north before disappearing into a cloud bank
June 10, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Oro valley near tucson, AZ
Noticed orb getting closer from my vantage point. I have all this filmed. It stops ,glows, throws off multiple colors and shapes. Objects entering and leaving its vicinity. During this time a substance in multiple colors slowly builds in siz e till the orb releases it and it slowly falls to earth showing multiple, multiple colors and slowly disappears. The orb then leaves and comes back 2 more times and repeats the process
June 10, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Killeen, TX
On 10 June 2023 my granddaughter and I were driving out of our local grocery store when we noticed strange cloud formations. My granddaughter filmed a quick video to send to my husband upon further examination, my husband noticed an orb flying by in the video. This is the second orb we witnessed in Cancun Mexico. We were 100 ft from a metallic orb flying 20 ft over the ocean and flew right past us. We were so dumbfounded, we never thought to start filming.
June 10, 2023 · 3:17 PM · SPHERE
Vass, NC
My passenger and I saw a silver orb (possible balloon) with small flat edges (not a perfect circle) while flying northbound at 5,000 feet msl at ~135 knots (ground speed). The object appeared in front of the airplane on the left side and traveled pass the left side slightly lower at perhaps 4,500 to 4,800 feet msl. Perhaps the object was 200 to 3,000 feet from my left wing. The object appeared near the western edge of the Fort Bragg/Fort Liberty Restricted -5311 airspace. The object was reported to Fayetteville Approach in the air shortly after the sighting. Also, video/digital evidence was provided to an FAA (Fayetteville approach) employee after landing. As of this post on June 13th 2023, there has been no follow up questions. Either the object was either small (weather) balloon perhaps extremely nearby (possibly stationary) or a larger object, further away traveling in the opposite direction… hard to tell without a known size of the object… perhaps someone can calculate possible speeds and sizes based on the aircraft’s information, my estimates, and the object relative to the relative ground reference in the video. I’m withholding the tail number of the aircraft unless someone is serious about calculations and further information. I am an accountant and IFR pilot. The passenger is a program manager/data analyst. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
June 10, 2023 · 3:00 PM · SPHERE
Oro Valley, AZ
Date – June 10, 2023 First, I heard loud helicopter rotors The sound was coming from North of my location, very loud. I noticed the Blackhawk first and then as it banked to the right around the UAP I noticed the ORB It was over the mountains at about 5000 feet in elevation After the Blackhawk flew about halfway around the object the ORB began to rise fairly slowly at first and then disappeared straight up. The Blackhawk stayed around for 10-15 minutes, apparently still looking for the ORB and then flew south. The ORB was not particularly large, about the same diameter as the fuselage of the helicopter. It was very reflective, metallic, it almost looked like it was chrome. I called the Oro Valley police, they declined to take a report
June 9, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Erode, TAMIL NA · India
I am walking on the terrace in an 3 floor building and watching the star as I do it regularly during night.Suddenly this thing came up.
June 9, 2023 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
My sister who lives in Las Vegas took these photos from her bedroom window. She sees 4 lights hovering in the distance. Two moved left and disappeared but came back to their original position within several seconds. The orb on the right glowed yellow for a short time and then went white again. This spanned from around 9:00pm till10:30 pm.
June 9, 2023 · 10:47 AM · SPHERE
Reno, NV
Currently a fast moving black sphere above Reno. As I type this, a jet just started chasing it. I’ve never seen anything like this. It moved very quickly, and then started hovering for about 15 minutes while my friend and I watched it. I took Iphone video and photo but it’s pretty bad. This thing was definitely there, and it took off well before the jet could get close enough to engage.
June 8, 2023 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Rehoboth Beach, DE
Strange lights erratically moving in the sky. Sometimes 3 sometimes 8
June 8, 2023 · 4:10 PM · SPHERE
Honley, KIRKLEES · United Kingdom
I saw a flash out of the corner of my eye high in the sky and saw 2 round objects flashing, one then disappeared behind a cloud, I got a video clip of one, it moved slowly across the sky from east to west, then that too disappeared into cloud.
June 8, 2023 · 12:37 AM · SPHERE
Blackshear, GA
My dad saw, whatever it was, first while he was walking by himself in a wooded area between my neighborhood and one close to mine where there is a pronounced dirt trail/track around an overgrown man-made pond. From his words, "I was walkin' around the pond a few minutes ago, and I seen this ball of light in the air flashing like it was taking pictures! I sat there and watched it turn around the end of the pond and keep going without making a sound. I ran to see where it went, and it was gone!" At the time of telling me this, I had just gotten home from a friend's house to find him in the truck with it cranked and ready to go. He was telling me that he was about to go get me so we could ride around to the other neighborhood, which was in the direction that he last saw it moving. As we got to the end of main road in the adjacent neighborhood, we both saw it. I immediately pulled my phone's camera up and out of the window of the passenger truck door and began recording. In the video, you can see a bright ball of light flashing that seems to move away from the camera, further into the treeline on the other side of the opening it was originally in. After thinking about all possible ways to debunk what we saw, I came to thinking I may have been up a little to long and was mistaking the blinking light of a cell tower that is normally seen right above the treeline in a couple directions at night. Even after rewatching the video, I convinced myself that the ball of light was motionless and it was just my shakiness moving it on-screen. The strange part about that being the reason would be that the cell tower has a red blinking light, and if that were the case, there would be no possible way I could the camera far enough to move the light behind the trees. I was sitting still in the passenger seat of a truck, stopped at the end of a road. Thinking back, I could also very vividly, with the naked eye, see the tops of the trees around the orb light up with every flash as it moved further into the trees. The picture shows the location and view as a reference. It was accidentally taken with the flash as I was in a rush to get the camera out to film a video.