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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.

11,675 entries

May 27, 2023 · 9:35 AM · SPHERE

Probable conventional

PANAMA CITY BEACH, FL

Alot of lights in a line moving pretty fast and disappeared one by one in a few seconds [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]

May 26, 2023 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE

While driving home, we saw a flashing green and blue ball of light falling from the sky. It was probably about the size of a car. The light sphere seemed to be rotating as it was falling. It fell behind a tree line and we could no longer see it.

May 26, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE

San Francisco, CA

While exercising my dog with a friend, I looked out over the bay near Alcatraz Island. I saw what I initially thought were balloons released. There was a scattering of about 15 black spots, possibly spheres. Most were in a scattered pattern and there was a clump of several. The objects were moving all together, from West to East over the bay. My friend and I started hypothesizing what we thought they were. We had several minutes to observe them as they moved across the sky. We dismissed the idea of balloons because we thought there looked too large from our vantage point. They moved all together and it seemed unlikely that the objects were propelled from the wind as they kept a random but distinct shape the whole time. It was not particularly windy that day but it could have been stronger at altitude. I watch the sky often as I enjoy identifying birds. San Francisco has had many more birds of prey in the area since the COVID lock downs. I am in the habit of looking up often. I'm also interested in aviation and like to note the various helicopters and aircraft in the region. This sighting looked nothing like any air craft I've seen before. No sound was made either. It's possible these black objects where man made, we couldn't rule it out. We just thought it odd that these objects looked distinctly round even at a distance of about 1.5 miles out. I estimate the distance at 1.5 miles b/c Alcatraz Island is also about that distance and these objects were not far past that distance.

May 26, 2023 · 4:50 PM · SPHERE

Watsonville, CA

My son and I were in our backyard when he saw a bright circular object in the direction of the moon. We thought at first it was maybe a planet although it was daytime . We watched the object with our naked eyes and binoculars for over 30 minutes moving east slowly away from the moon across half of the sky until we could not see it because of lower clouds. In the binoculars it looked like a white shiny ball or disc. The airline traffic appeared much lower so I would say the object was many miles above 30,000 ft. which would make the object rather large. My wife and daughter also watched with us after we told them what we were doing. The picture is with an iPhone zoomed a little . It was more impressive when looking through the binoculars. Please let me know if anyone knows what this was. Thank you

May 25, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE

Bloomsburg, PA

Looking up I saw a really bright orb (brighter than stars)moving slow and steady across the skyline about airline altitude but noticed no noise , no flashing lights like a airplane would have at nite , so I called her out and we both just looked at it while scanning the sky we could see to the north airplanes with lights flashing on their usual routes,we could see this thing gliding across the sky in a route that planes don’t fly near our house was as quick as u turn your head it was gone just kinda went a little dimmer light and object got long thin and vanished within seconds!!

May 25, 2023 · 4:38 PM · SPHERE

Shrewsbury, PA

see linked report (pdf)

May 24, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE

Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdon

I was looking at the waning moon through my telescope as it was exceptionally clear that night, and looking amazing. Zooming in and out and exploring the area I noticed a white dot moving with purpose travelling from north to south in a straight line, it had no trail and was moving with great velocity, it was really clear and as bright as the moon itself, it was visible for about 5 or so seconds then slowly disappeared. [NUFORC annotation: Satellite - Possible]

May 24, 2023 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE

Enderby, BC · Canada

We were taking the dog out for a pee and my husband saw this large white bright orb in the sky that was not very far away from the ground or the mountain top. This orb was gracefully lowering down with barely any shaking, it was bright and beautiful. We watched as it disappeared behind the mountain. No flashing of lights, no spiral, it stayed in the exact position as it slowly came down. After this I saw a smaller orb in the distance. Which I thought was a star as I saw it before the large orb that was extremely close to us. This smaller orb started moving away in to the distance and farther into the sky, somewhat fast. It ended up moving above over our heads until it was so small we couldn’t see the light coming off of it.

May 22, 2023 · 8:24 PM · SPHERE

Jordan, MN

At first I thought it was a paragliding craft. But it was solid black and sphere shaped. It was moving fairly fast. I saw two more coming right above me. I took two pics and a video.

May 21, 2023 · 8:07 PM · SPHERE

Tucson, AZ

Multiple orbs some white and some in other colors flashing not like aircraft.Often appearing from random directions which seem to be from out of nowhere then streaming across the sky then just dissapearing

May 21, 2023 · 12:50 PM · SPHERE

Sydney · Australia

Playing tennis and were looking up to the sky as serving and saw a very visible perfectly spherical metallic sphere craft travelling in a straight line around average low cloud height very swiftly without ANY sound. Not like any known military drone or craft publicly known (I am from a military family background and well informed in Russian and US craft development; including ‘classic’ saucer types that are in use/development). Two others were witnesses who were instantly spooked.

May 21, 2023 · 12:44 AM · SPHERE

Sartell, MN

Looked in the sky and noticed an object in the sky at a very high altitude heading North and it looked on fire. As if it were coming into the atmosphere. The object slowly turned East and seemed to hoover for around 10 minutes (video included) . The slowly a continued east, but not with the horizon but continued gaining altitude until out of sight.

May 20, 2023 · 9:44 PM · SPHERE

Pine Bluff, AR

I was standing outside my house at 4 E. Richard Dr. in Palm Bluff, Arkansas watching the night sky. At roughly 9:30 p.m. I noticed a glowing orb, flying low and very slowly or duration of about 12 seconds, until it completely disappeared out of the sky. It was as if just when I was getting good and focused on it the orb dematerialized from the sky.

May 20, 2023 · 9:24 PM · SPHERE

Hawke · New Zealand

The eastern sky camera views the area of sky to my east and trees in my back paddock are used as reference points for the FOV. Camera is a 4K 15fps 2.8mm in night exposure mode with no form of camera illumination. In the frames preceding the object entering the FOV it illuminates the top of a reference tree which is known to be 70m (229ft) from the camera. It is raining heavily and the object leaves a light trail and wake through the rain which is consentient with its shape and size. The object appears to vanish instantly leaving the light trail which dissipates shortly after. Footage link... Https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t65vanupwpwjqvaz8d7p4/h?dl=0&rlkey=d814iwk8id80xmw5med8bpd1k

May 19, 2023 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE

Perham, MN

There were 5 bright yellow spheres then a break then 3 more all connected by what appeared a black line. Slowly floating just above Perham. Looking SE from back yard.

May 19, 2023 · 9:45 AM · SPHERE

Lakeville, PA

Large Blimp like object about 15-30 bus lengths long, moving slowly 25-50 MPH, only about 300-500 yards above lake surface. Moving in the North-East direction, linear movement. Observed from 18.5 ft aluminum boat drifting in Lake. Yes we realize the photos could resemble starlink, but this object appeared to be a Blimp, which doesn't display in Photos. We're fairly sure about the distance off ground of 300-500 yards, as I'm a surveyor. This is the first UFO myself and friend have seen ever (40 years old). My friend has higher resolution photos, these were sent to me by text message. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]

May 15, 2023 · 10:41 PM · SPHERE

SHARPSVILLE, IN

Bright light in the sky moving in circulation mode. Sometimes appear to move in and out. Was here tonite for an hour then moved out of site further, but more at distant.

May 15, 2023 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE

Ramsey, NJ

I woke up to what I thought was a star out my bedroom window to the West, but realized quickly that the object was not a star or an airplane evidenced by the bizarre motion of the orb like object that is hovering and zig zagging. There are no lights whatsoever on this object but it does appear to be shiny

May 14, 2023 · 11:47 PM · SPHERE

Chander, OK

I observed a round object moving east to west across the sky at approximately 11:45 pm on May 14, 2023. It was lighted flashing about once per second changing color from orangish brown to blueish gray. It appeared to be somewhat larger than an airplane. I used my Apple 11 cell phone to video it for about 30 seconds until I could no longer see it. The night sky was cloudy. The color change appeared to be somewhat fragmented, not changing color all at the same time and the object appeared to have somewhat of a rolling motion.

May 14, 2023 · 11:57 AM · SPHERE

Simnasho, OR

We were flying southbound from Hood River, Oregon to Sunriver, Oregon. Sometime between 11:55am and 12:10pm at a cruising altitude (GPS) of ~10,500' my wife and I saw two metallic spheres. I was the pilot, and my wife was riding in the back seat of our cessna 182 with our toddler. I thought at first that I was seeing a bird, and remarked to my wife how weird it was that there was a bird up so high. She saw the object, and as we approached it we both realized it was not a bird at the same time. We both observed it to be two spheres, gray or metallic, connected by a horizontal tether. The spheres appeared to be about 12" diameter. They were perfect spheres. Our first thought was maybe party baloons, but they were too perfectly spherical and had no apparent surface deformations that would indicate a baloon's neck/tie-off spot. We did not observe a tether to the ground, or any means of propulsion. As we passed them, they appeared stationary to me but my wife said she thought they accelerated in the opposite direction of our track. We were on the CTAF frequency for the area, and heard no radio reports or disturbances. We were not on flight following, and therefore did not report to Seattle Center. I have a .kml file recorded from gps data on that flight.

May 14, 2023 · 4:30 AM · SPHERE

Chillicothe, TX

Light in the sky hovering above the house across the street. Caught by my front porch camera. It’s in the top middle of the attached video. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Possible]

May 14, 2023 · 3:14 AM · SPHERE

Clackamas, OR

I was walking at 3 am it was a very clear night. I left my house and walked about 100ft when I looked up from my phone to look at the stars. Immediately I noticed a bright white-yellow light transiting through the Big Dipper, which at the time appeared high in the north west sky. I mad no sound at all. I could tell it was not an aircraft of any sort it did not blink or change in intensity as it changed moved by, I checked FlightRadar immediately after the sighting and there was nothing. So I pulled out my phone and started filming. While filming I was thinking maybe satellite but it was really bright for that and appeared to vary in course and speed slightly. After it went behind the house I stopped filming but walked so I could see it. It seemed to approach the horizon the way in way which seemed similar to an aircraft at cruising altitude. Once it got to dim to see I checked flight tracker to confirm it was definitely no airplane or helicopter. I sat on the sighting for a few days but when I went to report it on the 21st of may I found many reports of similar objects and trajectories. Very interesting indeed! The video is pretty good! Unfortunately to big to upload. Still images are included.It shows the object as it moved nearly directly overhead from the northwest to the southeast on a heading of about 100-110 degrees. It took about 3min to leave my view before it was too dim to see. It appears to vary its course to “dodge” a star slightly as it left. Definitely no meteor, helicopter, or airplane. Perhaps a satellite. But I have never seen a satellite that bright and move that slow.

May 14, 2023 · 12:21 AM · SPHERE

Monmouth, OR

At 12:21am silver ball shaped uap with orange light underneath moving less than 50 mph ne across Josephine street east. And not deviating path. No other lights that indicates airplane. 3:27am 60 min contact with 3 disk shaped objects asking for assistance via advanced technology: see secondary report.

May 13, 2023 · 11:59 PM · SPHERE

Myrtle Beach, SC

I was stargazing on the balcony, I saw 3 orbs of light travel South in the form of a triangle( barley visible); one orb steering itself closer to another and back to formed shape, I scream at my boyfriend to come outside and see what I see. His eyes weren’t adjusted as he was playing video games, and the 3 lights went off into the distance. About two seconds later, my boyfriend and I saw these 6 orbs of light appear and glide itself over the hotel building.