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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.
8,980 entries
May 25, 2022 · 3:20 AM · UNKNOWN
TX
While laying in bed I observed a light in the night sky seen through my bedroom window blinds. When this light remained stationary and there weren’t any blinking navigation lights, it was then I realized this was something different. I heard no sound although it was estimated to be mile or more in distance at less than 5,000 feet altitude. When I leaned toward the window to pull the blinds back, the light on it went totally dark and I never saw it again.
May 23, 2022 · 12:58 AM · UNKNOWN
Wikwemikong First Nation, ON · Canada
I was going to have a smoke in my backyard. The sky was clear and we had seen some satellites floating by. I opened the door and looked up at the sky. I saw these three bigger lights close together. There were coloured lights going off around the three lights. I woke up my mom because she was just talking about wanting to see a ufo. It was slowly moving away but she saw the ending of it as it disappeared over the trees. She saw two big yellow lights, one was white. The two yellow lights were on the outside and the white light was in the middle. With all the reports coming out I just wanted to make sure I reported this just in case there was something going on that should maybe be looked into. Thanks for your time.
May 22, 2022 · 12:48 AM · UNKNOWN
San Jose, CA
I was checking out a steel post I installed for my shade in the backyard, eyes up to the sky, when a flash of light (yellowish/white) surprised me in the sky. It was not far away like a star, maybe lower than a plane would be, it's hard to tell because it was night time. In a blink of an eye the thing that was moving forward (straight line movement) emitted a blue light (blinking) and totally disappeared, vanished. All of this happened very fast, like crazy fast! I didn't perceive any sound emission from that thing. I felt like that thing was defying the law of physics.
May 19, 2022 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Webberville, MI
Standing at my kitchen sink window this evening I noticed what appeared to be a shooting star approaching from the northeast sky. I went outside to get a better view. It traveled at a high jet speed but was dead quiet and not a sound. Suddenly two smaller flickering stars were emitted from the main one but disappeared 30 seconds later. The main Star flickered like a star but was larger and brighter than the two emitted from it. As it got closer it flickered between white and red lights. Dead quiet. I observed it till it disappeared over the southwest horizon.
May 16, 2022 · 2:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Westminster, SC
I noticed something odd, at first dismissed the idea and thought of another airplane flying by. However as I continued to star gaze and enjoy the moon so close, the lighted aircraft began to move in unusual maneuvers. As if a kid flying a kite the movement was similar, that’s what made me think something odd and strange. It briefly disappeared only to reappear close enough to see what resumed to be any other aircraft with red and white blinking lights flying a straight pattern. There was almost no sound made when it flew by, unlike the jets that fly over daily. My dog barked most of the night, he has never done that on any other night.
May 15, 2022 · 11:07 PM · UNKNOWN
Lake Charles, LA
Taking pics of eclipse at different times. Then used SkyView Lite to see how eclipse would look - saw anomaly ( lines horizontally and vertically with no name or number near the redline- equator) decided to take a pic on phone camera- saw strange structure- not visible by my eye. Took more pictures of eclipse and area where object was seen. Anomaly, no longer on SkyView lite when I looked again. Took more pictures later and again, next night around the same time -nothing. Can’t explain it
May 15, 2022 · 10:49 PM · UNKNOWN
Bozeman, MT
At 10:49pm my fiancee, 30 M, and I, 26 F, were walking back from viewing the lunar eclipse. We headed out around 10pm so only out there for max 30 minutes viewing the moon. My fiancee had randomly stopped in our driveway and then looked up. That when I heard him go "beautiful what the fuck are those lights right there?". I turned around and looked up and saw these lights that looked like they were rotating and blinking. I automatically grabbed my cellphone and recorded since this wasn't my first time seeing ufos. It only lasted mere seconds when he pointed out it was disappearing. It just vanished into the night sky as if nothing was there. I automatically stopped the video sent it to my parents and then looked up the starlink satellites to double check that it wasn't that. The starlink satellites had appear above us around 10:00pm and lasted around 10:05 pm so these were not part of it according to the website. Which I provided both the website recording and my actual recording.
May 15, 2022 · 9:07 PM · UNKNOWN
Playa del Rey, CA
I was standing on a first floor balcony looking east toward the full moon. This photo was taken just after another trying to capture the lunar eclipse that night. The first photo was successful, this photo…I don’t know what it shows. Is it a plane out of focus? Planes often do fly in and out of LAX in that direction, I’m just curious as to why the first photo would have turned out well and this one shows something entirely different, in a different place, and does not show the moon at all which was at the time still visible in the sky, despite the eclipse (visible with red tint). I’ve seen many unidentified things over the years, this is one I believe may be easily explainable, but I’ve only reported four sightings before, and never to your organization. Thank you for all you do!
May 15, 2022 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Gloucester, MA
This is the second time I have seen this. The first time was approximately 2 months ago, driving towards town on Washington Street in Gloucester, MA. It is a large-ish red glowing (not firey) lit object that hovered high up over Dogtown Commons. I could not make out the actual shape of it. There also appeared to be a dark slightly shimmery barely illuminated billowing kite above/behind/attached to it. It was stationery a while. I stopped to watch it near Plum Cove beach. It began to move, but did not fly away like jets do, eventually like when you watch them. That was the first time seeing it. I saw the ¿same? Object again last Sunday night over near Good Harbor Beach. It was floating. Then it began moving inland.
May 13, 2022 · 7:22 PM · UNKNOWN
Speers, PA
Observed in the sky headed north northwest over the town of Charleroi Pennsylvania on May 13, 2022 at 1922 hours.
May 12, 2022 · 7:49 AM · UNKNOWN
McCordsville, IN
A single object was floating above a crop field. The color was grey/black. It was very large although it appears small in photos. It did not move, rotate, or change position. The object displayed 2-dimensional characteristics as the perspective remained the same from all directions.
May 12, 2022 · 12:38 AM · UNKNOWN
Liverpool, UNITED K · United Kingdom
Bright ++ white light flying in a downwards direction then disappeared after approx 4 seconds.
May 12, 2022 · 12:01 AM · UNKNOWN
Gordonsville, WV
VTE611 and UPS1114 reported seeing too numerous to count unknown lighted objects flying west to east above flight level 390. Slow moving. Air Traffic Advised they were not known to them but that numerous primary targets were seen in the vicinity. Primary targets were unverified.
May 11, 2022 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Comfort, TX
Before going to bed I was looking out a window that looks over our hay field. All the lights were out in the house. I was looking at the stars and just kind of taking in the night before getting in bed. I saw a bright light shoot over my field from south to north above the eastern horizon. It moved extremely fast and was only visible for about one second. The light was very bright and did not have a tail or appear to be a shooting star which I see often and am familiar with. The light appeared to be already in motion when it became visible and went out as fast as it showed up. There wasn’t any “dimming” affect, acceleration or deceleration that I detected …it just shut off. Wife and kids were all in bed asleep. I stood there for a while looking out the window trying to understand what I had just seen. I guess there is a possibility it was a low, fast and bright shooting star but I have never seen anything like it. It appeared to be close in proximity to me, I would guess within 2-3 miles, given how big it appeared, that is only my perception…it could have been a long ways off. I live on a farm and spend a lot of time outside. I’m very familiar with the night sky and what is “normal”…this has me stumped. Thought I’d report just in case anyone else might have had a central Texas sighting that night. I’m curious.
May 11, 2022 · 7:01 PM · UNKNOWN
Fort Gratiot, MI
I was walking in the MI State Game Area off of M-136 with my Daughters dog and snapped some scenery pictures on my Android of the area and I just happened to go view them for the first time today. I noticed that 3 of the 5 pictures had a greenish sphere or orb possibly. I didn't see anything at the time they were taken. So not sure what, if anything, it is.
May 9, 2022 · 8:35 PM · UNKNOWN
New York, NY
At the time stated above I was walking back to my building from a nearby supermarket, walking east. I noticed something with 3 or 4 orange lights approaching from the east. At first I thought it was an aircraft taking off from La Guardia, but I could see no strobe or navigation lights, so it got my attention. It continued moving to the west, I would say it was below 2,000 feet, until it got to about my 2 o'clock position when it slowed down, then turned to the south. I then lost sight of it below the buildings. I could hear no sound from it. There were 3 young Guys outside my building who had been watching also, and were quite excited. Then another 2 identical objects appeared, following the same trajectory, but were much closer to each other. They made a similar turn to the south but their paths were diverging just before I lost sight of them. I spoke to one of the Guys who told me they saw another identical object before the 3 that I saw, and that it moved much faster than the other previous 3 I got into my apartment by 8:45pm and looked at Flight Radar 24 on the net. It showed no tracks of aircraft or helicopters in this area. Aircraft on approach into La Guardia were coming in from the south, over Brooklyn, onto runway 4. Aircraft taking off were using 31 going out to the east, towards Long Island. The wind was coming from the north east but the objects were all taking a southerly turn over Manhattan, and I could see no flickering of the orange lights. They could not have ]been magic lanterns. I'm sure they were not aircraft or helicopters. I considered balloons, but I would not think the winds would suddenly veer over Manhattan. I guess drones are a possibility? I imagine other people must have noticed them.
May 8, 2022 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Standing in my backyard my wife Andi witnessed two orange lights coming out of the southeast sky moving northwest. They appeared to fly like an airplane but did not have the usual lights we see on the many aircraft in the area. ( We live near the airport). We also heard no sound and the lights seemed to following one another at a constant set distance. The light was very much orange in color and flickered like fire. It wasn't the bright white light of a commercial airliner and there were no other colors or anything flashing. Just constant orange light. We could not see any shape or vehicle, just light without sound. They moved across the sky much like two airplanes would until one began climbing quickly followed soon after by the other. In a matter of seconds they were out of sight.
May 8, 2022 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Gatlinburg, TN
We were in the hot tub outside that overlooks the Mountains. It was completely clouded sky and all of a sudden a bright glow overwhelmed one of the mountain sides for about 5 minutes then vanished.
May 8, 2022 · 5:51 PM · UNKNOWN
menasha, WI
we saw something in the sky in a picture we took may 8th 2022. we want you to take a look to see what you think it may be
May 7, 2022 · 8:39 PM · UNKNOWN
Unspecified
I was watching ISS feed and this object showed up towards ISS and then went out the same way The ISS was coming into the Sunset (Daylight) to the left off screen. This object came towards ISS and when it was closest looked like 2 headlights then went back out same way turning into blueish famish.
May 6, 2022 · 5:47 AM · UNKNOWN
Lorida, FL
Bright light shining down from what looked like transparent cloud shaped like a helicopter. Seen in pasture then moving over highway while driving. [NUFORC annotation: Hoax - Possible]
May 6, 2022 · 5:46 AM · UNKNOWN
Sarasota, FL
It was this morning May 6, 2022 at 5:46 AM this object is hovering over apartment housing area it was very large and it was blue the whole update was blue and color and it appears that there’s some lights coming out of it and the shape is very odd very very odd there’s a picture of it
May 2, 2022 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Harvest, AL
Matte black large aircraft futuristic looking. Moving very slow almost hovering just above tree line.aoeta arrowhead in shape
May 1, 2022 · 2:43 PM · UNKNOWN
Weatogue, CT
Possible Drone?