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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
May 14, 2023 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
jackson township, NJ
The linear lights traveled from the northwest, heading southeast, in unison. Rate of speed was faster than commercial aircraft
May 14, 2023 · 9:40 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedThermopolis, WY
We were sitting and looked up to see two parallel lines of light, matching in length, connected by smaller lines of light. It was moving south east, high in the sky, like you would expect a comet. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
May 14, 2023 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I saw a bright white light (brighter than Venus) to the south, moving NE at about the speed I’d expect an aircraft to fly. There was no perceptible sound, and no red/green lights. Immediately, I saw a small white light move “out of” the large white light, move away for a couple seconds, and then disappear. I watched for about 15 seconds, as the light continued its NE course, then took out my iPhone and filmed video at 1x, as it moved away. During the first 10 seconds or so, the video shows a small white light moving around the large light, appearing and disappearing. I filmed the object from the street in facing my home (last home on dead-end street) in the eastern sky.
May 14, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Klamath Falls, OR
Wife and I out as we are often at sunset on our patio or in the yard with eyes in the sky. I personally aim for “EENT” which in my 8 years in the USMC as a Scout Sniper followed by over 10 years as I private security “contractor” has lead me to a unique idea that often pays dividend in sightings. I usually don’t record them or have the chance to. I’ve made efforts to now capture when possible. The light seemed to “flash into” our atmosphere really and then slowly travel a slight “wobbly” path. The wife and I celebrated our first communal sighting since our move to Oregon from Arizona in December. The weather and hectic life/ schedules had not allowed us to do our nightlight sunset/eent watch. But it was Mother’s Day and we made it a point. Our girls were returning from an errand which requires our dogs that were out in the yard with us to be taken in the house. As my wife proceeded I recorded further as much as I could post the intial shock wearing off we had a solid UAP. I add to the credentials my wife is also a 20 year retired Air Force F15 jet mechanic. We understand our known aircraft operations and I have a very good identifications for items that should be in our orbit. Video to large to upload (2:08) and some zoomed in good “orbish” qualities. Cut down a center quality zoom in and out section for review
May 13, 2023 · 9:53 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBOWIE, MD
Me, my neighbor and two adult kids saw and I recorded strobing, white colored spotlight patterns in the sky that would spread apart and then come back together. I was able to capture this event on video. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Probable]
May 13, 2023 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Klamath falls, OR
Light seen in the distance traveling outside and in a different direction then know flight patterns. Also not appearing the be in a satellite path. Long time observer, first time filing and many more to follow, I believe.
May 12, 2023 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Lincoln, NE
I was looking at clouds around 9:15pm following some severe weather storms and noticed high above the clouds a light like that of a plane. So I started watching it and noticed several other lights in the same area. I thought that was strange because you don’t normally see that many planes flying in the same area at the same time and going different directions. I witnesses about 6-7 different lights all separate from each other but in the same area of the sky behaving strangely. 3 of them I witnessed fall straight down like a falling star at a high speed. 2 I saw increase speed and change direction quickly. And a couple of them just moved across the area slowly like a plane would. On 1 of them I saw red and green lights so I thought that might have been plane lights on the wings. But what’s weird is what explains the activity of the other lights in the area? The lights were small like that of a plane in the night sky. They were moving in and out of clouds so i can’t be sure if some of the lights were the same ones that I was seeing again or different ones. Again I thought it was strange that so many aircraft were in the same area at the same time doing different things. Maybe you can tell me if there was militant activity in the area this night or a plane being escorted by other aircraft or something that can’t be explained. The whole incident lasted about 5-7 minutes maybe and then the clouds were covering a lot of the night sky and I lost them.
May 10, 2023 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Oak Harbor, WA
Shortly after sunset noticed a bright white light in the sky that was stationary. Live near NAS Whidbey, and their jets were having heightened activity much of the afternoon. Being able to follow their lights at night and not just the sound, I was able to see the jets doing a perimeter around the light as it hung in the sky. Over the course of 4 hours, it moved very little from where I originally saw it. A call to the base was answered saying they "could not provide me with any information." About a month ago, my fiancee was at the beach about a mile from our home around midnight and she said she saw several of them. The light was over the Pacific Ocean, WNW of the north gate of NAS Whidbey. There were strange noises throughout the night similar to a cello mixed with the echoes of a crotch rocket, that is the best I can describe it. Increased, abnormal military activity today as well.
May 10, 2023 · 2:50 AM · LIGHT
Albany, OR
Got up to let the dog out and noticed what looked like two stars darting around in the sky. They were white and sometimes a secondary red light flashed for a few seconds, but not at regular intervals like an airplane. They were smaller than airplanes. They moved faster than airplanes or helicopters. The way they moved was most like a drone: rapidly darting then staying relatively still. They did not make any noise. I saw smaller white “stars” moving around them. It looked like the smaller objects were engaging them in some way. One of the two original objects disappeared. It seemed like it accelerated out of view in a couple seconds. The remaining object continues to hover and dart in the same area of the sky as I write this 45 minutes later. I am 34, F, college educated, employed. I have no medical conditions, mental health conditions, or medications that would cause hallucinations. I do not use any drugs, including cannabis. I have not consumed alcohol in over 48 hours. I have never seen anything like this before. I am a UFO skeptic and believe all UFOs are man-made, and most are probably military surveillance devices undergoing testing.
May 9, 2023 · 9:38 PM · LIGHT
Tecate ?, BAJA CAL · Mexico
I'm from Oregon, I'm retired and I live in Rosarito, Baja California, which is about 20 minutes south by car from Tijuana. Went out on my front porch at about 9:38 / 9:40-ish saw two lights in the sky over towards the east / north-east. They were / are dancing pretty good, (it's still on-going as I write this report at 10:15 pm). At first I thought it might be my eyes, I know there is a phenomena where your eye can deceive you into thinking something is moving when it's not. But I was soon disabused of that notion, lol. The light on the right was dancing / moving around far too much and changing it's brightness levels. Looked like it was trying to keep the same position but was failing. I also used the telephone line across the street as a reference level and both lights were changing quite a bit compared to it. Also, I looked at some obvious stars and my eye was not deceiving me, i.e. they just sat there in the same position. I looked back over at the UFO's and they both were moving quite a bit. Then 100% confirmation - a small light dropped out of the big light on the right and went towards the ground. A little later another did the same. If that was not enough then a small light came up from the ground and it looked like it went into the big light on the right. Then the 'slam dunk' - a small light came up super fast from below and shot off into the sky at about a 50 degree angle, towards the south / (my right). Not sure how far away from me they are. 10 miles ? I think over towards Tecate. Not sure but I think on the Mexican side of the border. I just checked right now at 10:22 pm, they're still out there dancing around. I'll be interested to see if there are any there reports of this. I couldn't get any pictures, the camera in my phone was not picking it up. Oh, last thing, the local dogs were not doing their usual barking, they were howling.
May 7, 2023 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Des moines, IA
3rd sighting. Solid green with rotating red yellow and purple lights. Hovers in the same spot for different lengths of time and the it will quickly drop out of sight. Always after sunset. Once there were 3 other lights flying around it.
May 6, 2023 · 1:32 AM · LIGHT
Reedsville, OH
As I rounded a curve in the road the object was low In the night sky about 3/4 of a mile ahead and off my 1 o'clock position and I would estimate a altitude of 400-600 ft. I pulled over and shut my motorcycle off and removed my helmet to listen for any familiar sounds of propulsion but heard nothing then literally as soon as I pulled my phone out and opened the camera app the object silently and slowly tracked towards my position in a slow hovering but not directly at me, it ended up coming up on my right side at approximately 300 ft now and as it neared closer to me I became overwhelmed with the fight or flight feeling of danger that was like nothing I've experienced before. Every fiber in my body started screaming for me to put distance between myself and the craft which I should mention was seemingly quite large (maybe twice the size of a Blackhawk).
May 5, 2023 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Green Cove Springs, FL
We were sailing from the Bahamas to the Port St Lucie, Fla inlet overnight 5/4/23-5/5/23 and around midnight I noticed two objects in the sky over Florida moving randomly. I quickly got my husband to watch them with me. One object seemed to have just a white light and moved very randomly, like a firefly. At first we thought maybe a drone but it was too random and seemed to darted around in all directions. This light stayed in the same general area. The other object had a red light which seemed to be blinking and while it moved randomly it seemed more intentional. This object moved back and forth in the sky, seemingly still along the Fla coast, with occasional random up and down movement. Neither object appeared to have the movement I would associate with a drone. When I first saw the lights they were close together, then the red one went up the coast a bit. It later came back near the other light for a bit, then left and went down the coast and then back by the other light again. Both myself and my husband watched both for at least an hour. Then some light cloud cover and the full moon made them harder to see so we stopped looking for them.
May 4, 2023 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
WA
Object was stationary when spotted and chased off by what appeared to be a plane.
May 4, 2023 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Logan, WV
Bright white circle appeared in NE and instantly shot NW, it was between Cesna and commercial flight height, maybe 10000-15000ft and size of quarter in my finger measurement, distance covered was about 4 inches in tenths of a second. It left a perfect white light trail its whole distance that all disappeared at the exact same time as the ufo. The streak was so defined and clear I could see windsheer around the object seperating the light from the object. There was no sound and this was not a exhaust trail like a plane, it was just bright white light.
May 3, 2023 · 1:45 AM · LIGHT
Albuquerque, NM
Unfortunately, my phone's camera was only able to catch a glimpse of the brighter object momentarily before becoming too dim to be captured, again. In the video, you will see a light become brighter then dim. My eyes could see way more than my phone's camera was capable of picking up at the time. The UAP I captured on camera was the bright object you see speed up, slow down, and dim. It was bright and light yellow and more conspicuous. I point out where it will appear, prior. When you watch the video, I say and point out where it will appear, and it does. This is because I watched them perform various maneuvers prior to the recording. There was a second dimmer, light blue object that would follow it using odd maneuvers, as well. Before, during, and after the recording, I would view the bright one appear in the sky, move, and dim. The dim one would appear somewhat alongside it and it really did seem like they were "playing" almost like you would see at an airshow. They would always come from the same direction and general region of the sky and dim out to the right before reappearing back to the left. This seems like a satellite flair, but it doesn't explain the maneuvers I witnessed them display. It was also about 2 AM, so I'm not sure if satellites in LEO can flair at that time unless the moon somehow illuminated them. Neither object displayed typical orbital flight characteristics (persistent line across the sky). I've seen fighter jets, I'm hesitant to suggest that's what these were due to the altitude, silence, lights, and recurring flight origins. I'm unfamiliar with drones at that altitude and brightness. That being said I'm open to suggestions because I'm not educated on fighter jet and drone capabilities. When I first witnessed them I saw what I thought were three stars in the sky. They became brighter and began moving oddly. I don't recall if the third light ended up being a star or another UAP, but I don't remember seeing it again. The camera is pointed NNE, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, towards the Los Alamos area. Footage was captured 05/03/2023 1:48 AM MT. I can confirm multiple witnesses now who were informed by an individual who witnessed it prior. The individual had prior knowledge of the phenomenon and advised them the exact constellation (Cassiopeia) and time (circa the time I recorded) and they witnessed the same event on the same day at the same time in the same exact area of the sky. I believe it had been witnessed prior multiple times at that specific time range.
May 2, 2023 · 4:46 AM · LIGHT
Falkville, AL
I saw one bright, white light. It moved at a steady pace from the south up to the north. Faster than satellites, planes or helicopters. It never flickered, had no shape surrounding the light I could see and never fluctuated its path. As soon as the 1st light was gone I saw 2 more of a similar appearance going the same direction. Possibly a couple of miles apart from each other. When those 2 had almost passed beyond the horizon I saw a 4th one heading south, having just passed the other two I witnessed. I've watched the night sky a lot in my life and have seen several different things. I've never seen anything like this before.
May 1, 2023 · 9:13 PM · LIGHT
Meredith, NH
I was walking my dog when I noticed a light flying across the sky. There was no sound and normally I'd hear a plane, it was also just a single light and wasn't blinking red and white like airplanes do. I've had sightings in the past so I pulled out my phone and filmed it cross the sky. In the past I've seen a single light like this make a very fast zig zag maneuvre before accelerating out of sight at impossible speed, (though this object just travels straight across the sky), which is why I decided to film. I'm not sure what this is, but I wanted to pass it along. I'm fine with being contacted for follow up if needed (or if the video didn't upload), but I'd prefer to remain anonymous in any publishing (web or otherwise). Also, I'm not usually up until the afternoon.
May 1, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Chesapeake, VA
Began at sunset. Still light out. Several hours witnessed. Several videos and photos captured. Naked eye was difficult to see object. Slower shutter speeds on cell phone camera was like a filter allowing more clear viewing of incident. The object changed colors and sizes. It stayed motionless and would move as well. It was full of vibrant changing colors and suddenly would explode into a huge white orb of light and then would shrink back down into changing lights again.
May 1, 2023 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Comer, GA
Attached a bright photo of the sky where video is seen. It is zoomed in is why it is fuzzy. And the sound is transfer truck rolling the lonely highway and deer blowing at me and my cat meowing loudly bc she gets scared when she gets left behind.?
April 30, 2023 · 3:40 AM · LIGHT
Downers Grove, IL
3:40 am, looking west northwest notice intermittent bright white on object at aporoximately 10,000 ft altitude ( we constantly get a lot of Ohare airport traffic overhead here in the Chicagoland area and become a pretty good judge of plane altitudes having seen them in all phases of approach and take off all my life and have flown extensively myself to Europe and Asia and Pacific) moving from west to east in a path that would've taken it right over the south portion of Ohare airport field. Silent with intermittent on/off bright white light that would move from side to side of object during off period. No port or starboard red or green lights, no under belly red light either. I could not discern a shape only intetmittent foreward facing very bright intermittent White light shifting from side side as it moved across the sky in about one minute or less time. If it was military it had no red or green lights but was being obvious about its presence - strange that it was not constant white light but instead on/off ftom side to side.
April 29, 2023 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedPRESCOTT VALLEY, AZ
I have been watching these lights every night for over a week now from my backyard in Prescott Valley, AZ. The lights are in the northern sky and start out slightly west of north and drift as a group east of north over the course of one to two hours. Anywhere from midnight to 2 AM. I can't hear them, probably because they are too far away. I can't tell how far away they are but I'm thinking they are very very far away. They move slowly, gradually in arcs as if they are circling like debris in a slow motion tornado. They are at different elevations and sometimes seem to follow each other one after another in that arc pattern. It's like each one has a powerful light that points in one direction and I can only see it as they are turning when the light points in my direction. This is a guess based on observations. They can disappear for minutes at a time, then start their swirling arc pattern of flight again. Mostly I see one or two at a time, but have seen 3 lights quite often and 4 or 5 lights once, all doing the same arcing pattern. They stay together like a flock of birds. They remind me of pelicans flocking and swirling. Sometimes the lights are very bright and other times they are dim. The seem to flicker a bit as the lights are becoming visible at the start of the arc, then become very bright, then die out flickering at the end of the arc. One after another they do this as a group and sometimes the group as a whole changes elevation, or drifts to the right or to the left, but the overall drift is west to east. They are anywhere from 10 degrees above the horizon to perhaps 30 degrees. I never see them illuminated when they move up or down. I only see the lights move horizontally. Nearly always left to right. Sometime they seem to disappear and then as a group appear in a slightly different area of the sky. They re-appear one by one again in the arc pattern. I have checked two different flight tracker/radar websites multiple times and these lights (aircraft?) don't show up at all on them. I have numerous videos of them on my trail camera that I have set up in my backyard to record the wildlife. I first saw the lights in one of the trail cam videos at around 1:20 AM 4/22/23. I have been seeing them every night since then. Today is 5/1. Last night I stood out in my backyard and watched them for an hour, 12:30 AM to 1:30 AM. I also noticed that there are occasional flashes of light, like a pin-prick star-like flash of light in the vicinity of the group of lights. At first I thought I was seeing fighter jets practicing/training, but I no longer believe that to be the case. This is just too strange. I am a scientist. I have a degree in biology. I am a logical and analytical thinker. I do not know what these lights are, and it is a little scary. ___________________________ I would like to add an update to my post that is listed at 4/29/23 in PRESCOTT VALLEY, AZ. I have 100% debunked the lights as being flaring Starlink satellites. They are not UFOs. They are satellites flaring in a specific area of the sky at the same time each night for a couple of hours until the rotation of the Earth takes me out of the viewing window because the sunlight is no longer hitting the satellites in the area where I can see them. I first noticed them in the spring and it is now summer and I am still seeing them every night but the viewing area has shifted higher in the sky and the satellites are dimmer and harder to see. I expect next spring I will be able to see them brightly again. I always see them in the north between the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia constellations. This video explains it better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8BCl2yVU0 From what I have read the satellites that I am seeing from my backyard in central AZ are over northern Canada, 2000 miles away. Amazing. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
April 28, 2023 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Woodland, WA
I arrived just before 5:00 am to fish in the morning at the Merwin fish hatchery boat ramp in Woodland, WA. Looking towards the west above the tree line I saw a bright light and after a few seconds I noticed it moving at a steady pace heading towards me in the west. I started recording the object on my phone about 10 seconds from the time I noticed it. It continued to fly west above my head until it disappeared behind the horizon directly on the other side of the dam at Merwin reservoir. While watching the object the bright light stayed illuminated at the same brightness ever after passing overhead as if the entire outside of the object was illuminated. The object appeared to be close enough and bright enough that I would be able to see the red and green navigation lights found on planes. It also seemed close enough that I would be able to hear the sound of an engine. The area was completely silent and I was the only one there for the first 75% of the encounter. My friend John arrived as it was in the west where I ended the video and showed him the object. Both of us were unable to explain the encounter.
April 27, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Coeburn, VA
My husband was the first person to notice the bright light moving around in the sky about our front yard tree line, he hollered at me and told me to come outside and look at this bright light in the sky. When I get outside on her front porch I could see two lights moving around extremely fast but had no sound could not see any wings rotors or any kind of a exhaust streaks been made in the sky from this unknown flying lights. However we could see the airplanes exhaust streaks behind it in the sky as it passing over in the sky to our far right side and the unknown light was to immediately lift. One unknown light fly up in to the clouds and he was just gone you think you want to stay around for a little bit and did the same surely after when I'm safe blue I mean it shot straight up and with gone. I tried to get pictures but all I had was my phone and they don't look like it did to us in person. I also took a picture of the airplane in the sky and also the moon. I wanted to be able to show someone that whatever we was looking at in the sky could not I'm anyway be one of these items. I will also attached the picture I made of the unknown lights, airplane and moon to this so you can see the difference in these three optics. I have also marked the unknown lighs with a blue circle number to my picture and also attached the unmarked pictures of all three items. The craziest thing happened later that night with the video I had recorded of the unknown lighs in the sky. So after the unknown lighs fly up into a cloud I stopped recording and we looked a little bit longer and then when in the house, I was looking at the picture and then when to watch the video and this is where it gets a little bit more stranger and crazy. When I started to watch the video it wasn't anything there but the rocks from my driveway. No unknown lights no noise of any kind of just straight like I was recording the rocks in my driveway, but I'm not sure how that could have happened when I was looking at the lights through my phone as I was recording them because it made it a little easier to see how they where where moving around. Unfortunately Im not sure what happened to cause my phons video camera not working correctly. I don't know if you heard of anything like this happening to other people or not.