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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.
27,433 entries
April 27, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
Just 4 lights above the city of Portland. 4 lights Standing still in the sky. 1 disappeared. Last 15-20 mins. Reminded me of the pheonix lights. You could see the planes flying in from east to west to land. Definitely wasn’t planes as I’m a former navy ATC and know how planes are directed to the airport to land.
April 26, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Reidsville, NC
I went out into the backyard to let the dogs out, and noticed an extremely bright light in the sky. I stared at it for a moment and it did not appear to be moving, and then I realized it was hovering very slowly in an inconsistent pattern (as opposed to drifting or flying upward on a path). The light was so bright and large that it almost appeared burning, as if it were a large meteor, but the movement of the light made it impossible to be a meteor, because it was not falling down towards the Earth. Another result of the size and pure brightness of the light is that it was very disorienting as far as depth perception; it was very hard to tell how far away it was because of the bright, burning nature of the light. When I say "burning", I mean similar to a pulsating light, but closer to the way light appears to move through a fire. I watched it move for no more than two minutes, then went inside to grab my phone and came back outside (no more than 30 seconds later), and it was gone, which is very strange considering how slowly it was moving.
April 25, 2023 · 4:32 AM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
Green moving fast
April 23, 2023 · 10:19 PM · LIGHT
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
I saw two dots spiraling around each other and one dot of light closely following it then they moved from my location over the ocean so fast that I couldn't keep up with them.
April 21, 2023 · 7:08 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalGreen Valley, AZ
I was unaware of the detail in the photograph until I loaded it on my computer and viewed it in Adobe Lightroom. The greenish object stood out as an oddity to me. Enlargement of the image gave a little more detail, but as with many pictures like this it leave a great deal to the imagination. There were no other lights associated with it, no sound or any indication of aircraft in the area. I'm a retired design engineer, and an avid photographer, but in this instance was taking a quick shot of the sky to fulfill a photochallenge for a group I post to on a weekly basis. I am not prone to wild flights of the imagination, and am certainly not an attention hound, in fact I was a little reticent about filing this report, but thought you might be able to interested in it. I've not contacted anyone else about this and only published it to the photogroup 52 Frames. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
April 20, 2023 · 8:43 PM · LIGHT
Baltimore, MD
Very bright lights hovering northwest, and southwest of 1100 block N Central Ave.
April 19, 2023 · 7:01 AM · LIGHT
Humboldt, TN
Went out east door before work and saw several jets in 1 area coming from east which attracted my attention to a huge ball of light beside the jet in the middle of the others. I pulled out my phone and the ball beside the 1 jet VANISHED. Not up or down no bank but DISAPPEARED. All that day at every break jets in that area made grid pattern. I attempted to video but was so distracted by trying to process what I had just witnessed I'm afraid I only caught proof of remainder of jets. Plz investigate or ask the pilots
April 18, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Lawtell, LA
While I was perched precariously on top a ladder installing new CCTV cameras at my recently deceased father's home my nephew said "hey nanny what's that?" I glanced back and immediately knew something wasn't right... I can't explain the feeling other than I was immediately concerned for our safety and wanted to get us away and safe (as a confirmed nightowl I can confidently say without doubt I have NEVER seen ANY THING like this before in my life!!! I am frequently outside in the country at night and typically alone and I have never been "spooked" I've done and seen ALOT but THIS was different somehow...) Not wanting to frighten my nephew I said "prolly just a plane" as I tried to climb down safely but swiftly! When I looked again the light was now fully visible (it had been partially hid from view by the tree tops across the road before) I now saw TWO HUGE yellow-ish lights hovering above the trees that line the road... My nephew said that the lights appeared to "be on fire" I replied I didn't see that and he said well my eyes are better than yours (true... Lol) he said it looked like how a fire "crackles" but again I only saw solid lights... Everything seems to be in slow motion when I think back but it couldn't have lasted in total more than 2 or 3 mins max! This convo happened while I was climbing down (I was installing camera on second story) so I didn't have a constant eye on it but once down I looked again & it seemed to have "jumped" closer crossing the road and now this sounds crazy I know but it felt like it was ACTIVELY LOOKING AT US!!!!! The lights had seemingly grown and swole to an unnatural size which sent me into a panic that I now couldn't hide! I grabbed the box cutter I'd had on the ladder and told my nephew to put it in his pocket as I grabbed his shoulder and seriously but silently said "WALK DO NOT RUN... NOW!!!" I pushed him in front of me trying to get him into my father's house and right before entering he said it's gone! I must be honest and say there was NO WAY that I was going back out there to look sadly! I pulled him into the ONLY place in the whole house that was windowless (the bathroom lol) and locked the doors as I sat on top the toilet trying to steady my nerves and slow my racing heart I realized I'd left my phone outside (OF COURSE!!!) Thankfully my nephews youthfulness means he ALWAYS has his phone (thank god! Lol) with my voice shaking I said call your mom (my sister an RN who lives next door) when she sleepily answered I rapidly over talked him and then just took the phone basically screaming at her what had happened and that we were scared and "locked in daddy's bathroom!!!" (Lol I have no idea what I wanted her to do but at that moment my mind was frazzled! Even tho I'd always believed basically that ANYTHING was possible in this world I surely NEVER thought that I'd see such things!!!!!!!! Even now I can't seem to get over the event and the thought of it brings paranoia and an intense fear...) Once I stopped and took a breath my sister immediately said "OMG it's probably on my camera's!" And promptly hung up on us! Lol mins later we heard her pull up and we ran to her she was in her nightgown no shoes but phone in hand and almost unbelieving her own eyes she just shoved the phone at me and said LOOK!!!!! She had indeed caught SOMETHING but whether or not it was what WE had saw I have no idea... One the video there is a small pinpoint of light (I actually didn't see it until she began scrubbing the video back and forth only then do you realize it had been there all along!) The almost invisible light suddenly grows it is visibly stationary until it zooms off of the screen straight up and is gone! But the thing that bothers me is that there is only ONE light visible in the video where we BOTH clearly saw TWO bright lights equally sized (and imo larger but could have simply been either have appeared so in my mind from the fear OR might have only appeared smaller on the video thru a lack of perspective I'm unsure) regardless WE SAW SOMETHING and thankfully completely independently my very very skeptical sister managed to unwillingly capture something very similar... I have no idea what those lights/light were but this I do know: there was NO blinking light on planes, there was ABSOLUTELY NO NOISE not even from the MANY animals housed on the farm, and lastly altho not measurable by anyone else I can freely say that my usually clear headed and rational mind that thus far in my life has NEVER been fearful of anything but man absolutely caught fire that night as I felt this unbelievable instant terror deep inside me that had me walk/running inside my father's home and locking myself and my nephew in a BATHROOM for gods sake too scared to look back even when I really really WANTED to I couldn't force my body to do so in fear of seeing something I may never be able to UNSEE and terrified at what that might mean to me and my previous love of the nights... I don't know what that was, what "they" wanted, nor what any of it meant but I do know this: when I've been back to feed (it's a working farm and animals HAVE TO be fed daily) I go EXTRA early now and I'm out of there before the sun goes down when before I'd only just be arriving... I'm not trying to recreate that "experience" that's for certain!
April 18, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Longs, SC
Had on going issue with balls of light, one very large and others very small at night in Maine for about the last year or so. I MOVED to SC a few days ago partly to see if the anomaly would surface again. And to attempt to rule out any drone theory. Tonight the major bright light is very active and it displayed an ability to "dim down" when I would try to get a picture or video at one point. There are also countless other lights that are more of a yellow color (2000 - 3000k) color temp. Now there's a new color showing up in the lights and it looks blueish. I'll attach tonight's video it may make me trim it. I have a lot of recordings from the last year or so as well. The upload portal says wrong format so I'll add some pictures but I'm going to paste my YouTube channel where I've been uploading some footage for safe keeping. I'll post that link here & and email I can send other stuff too would be appreciated ( I have some drone footage s well but I've had 2 flyaways in the last year and I don't want to lose another one.) https://youtube.com/@crowbaril903
April 17, 2023 · 8:35 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalRuidoso Downs, NM
Initially spotted three stationary white lights in the sky that were in a straight line parallel to the ground, due west, as a passenger in a vehicle traveling down highway 70, at mile marker 265. There was a decent amount of distance between them, not a massive amount, just enough to know that they were together. They stood out against the stars but did not emit an overpowering amount of light; Venus at the time was brighter than these objects. After noticing the lights, the far left light faded out and at the same time, another light of equal distance faded into sight to the right of the formation. This sequence happened again, the left light faded out and a new light appeared to the right of the formation. This sequence happened one last time, the left light faded out and a new light appeared to the right of the formation. I reached for my phone to open my camera app, and as soon as I did, the three visible lights all faded out to darkness at the same time. The distance of the formation was difficult to determine, they could have been out a few miles to as far as 30 miles, hovering over the White Sands Missile Range. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
April 17, 2023 · 2:23 AM · LIGHT
Ashford, KENT · United Kingdom
- Several light dots dancing above near Ashford International Railway Station - I was too nervous and tired. Therefore, I shut the curtain and buried myself in bed after taking the video. - My colleague living in the same town heard some strange sound from outside at about 00:00 (He didn't look out to see what it is). I didn't hear any strange sound. - There were also many birds flying in the sky at the time of sighting. Under normal situation most of those birds fly during daytime. But those birds won't emit light!
April 17, 2023 · 12:33 AM · LIGHT
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An aircraft reported two bright lights at flight level 350 that were turning on and off. Radar scopes showed two primary targets in the vicinity that were appeared and disappearing from radar. The report was on Washington Center frequency 118.92.
April 16, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Castle Rock, WA
I was driving from Silverlake, WA towards Castle Rock, WA on Sunday night when to the right of me I saw what looked like a fleet of orange colored lights. At first I was like, what is that… thinking that they might have put up cell towers or something to warn planes of a hillside, but then I realize that they were actually something that was up in the air. Definitely NOT planes, or helicopters. Possible drones of some kind, but they all seemed to move kinda like burning embers that would be floating in the sky or fireflies, but they were at least the size of planes. As soon as I got into Castle Rock I immediately pulled over and watched them cross over me. It looked like they were coming from the Southwest of me over towards the Columbia River heading Northeast. I had been listening to a podcast and had my phone hooked to Bluetooth, and when I opened my camera to try and catch some footage of them I couldn’t find the video button (I swear it was like the icon wasn’t even on my phone.) I then disconnected from Bluetooth thinking that might be why the video wasn’t working, I was fumbling and full of adrenaline so I rang my mother who was in Silverlake and told her to run outside to see if she could see them too. She couldn’t see anything from there yard where she was at because the property to the north of them is a big hill. I then returned to my camera to try and get footage, and the video button was ironically there that time, but the majority of the fleet had already disappeared into the clouds and there were only a few stragglers left in the sky. The footage I have doesn’t even come close to showing what I actually saw. I have seen many UFO sightings in my life, but never crafts of this kind. I don’t remember hearing them, but on the videos there are some weird sounds that the mic picked up. I didn’t feel at all threatened by their presence, but definitely was in awe and super charged up.
April 16, 2023 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalLumberton, MS
Really bright light almost every night the last couple of months. This light will move from what appears to be left to right, and every 3-5 minutes appears to fall a bit. Then will stop and dance again from left to right untill it finally disappears behind the tree line. It looks as if it may be changing colors, and so much bigger and brighter than all other stars. Looks nothing like satellites mentioned. Moves to erratically. In the past, you would see 2 of them. But it is now only 1. Does anyone know what this is that I am seeing? [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
April 16, 2023 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Mendota, IL
As I was heading North on I-39 on my way home from picking up my daughter from Nashville TN. This is a trip i have made numerous times and was very familiar with. I had set up check points along the way to determine how much more time I had left but something was strange that night, just ahead of us in the path of travel was a very bright light. At first, I thought I was just making better time than I thought because it would have been the next overpass in which all the exits have Street lighting, but as I go closer and closer, I noticed where I was and it's no way that its overpass lighting. At that time, I looked to my daughter and asked her if she sees the same light and her response was "yea Dad, I see it. What is it?" My response was I have no clue. So, I kept moving towards it. As we got directly under the light, which was still bright, I tried to look up out the windshield to see what it was. I couldn't see nothing but the light but as soon as I passed thru and looked in the review the light was gone. Not knowing what it was or what had happened I just told Arial something that wouldn't scare her so I brushed it off like must have been a helicopter or something searching for something. I also couldn't believe what I witnessed. So, the next day I pulled out my laptop and began to look into if anyone else had reported anything around that area. Nothing came up but I noticed a dad and his daughters had experienced something similar in WI. I looked at the video the dad had posted and noticed it was something very close to what we and experience. I kind of freaked me out so I decided to keep it to myself because I don't want to come off as crazy or have people thinking such about me, but even before that experience I have seen strange things but nothing to that extreme. Even up to today it seems like I know or can predict things that has not happened yet. My dreams are more vivid with some predicting something that will happen the next day. It's like if I remember something about a dream I had, as I move around the next day something will relate to the dream. I'm at the point that I feel I want to talk to someone about it but really don't know who or how to explain without someone being Judgmental so, this is me reaching out and letting my experience out.
April 16, 2023 · 1:20 AM · LIGHT
duncan, CO
While photographing the milky way on top of the dunes in great sand dunes national park, starting at 1:20 am to approximately 2:00 am or later. Witnessed 6-10 luminous craft flying in very bizarre patterns north of the park. We did photograph the lights. I have 5 raw photos I have exported as jpeg for this report of the lights from a sony a7riv 61 mp camera with a 14mm focal length. The lights changed luminosity constantly, sometimes disappearing completely and reappearing extremely brightly. The flight patterns were very fluid but bizarre and erratic, akin to fireflies. When zoomed into the photos, the streaks of the craft of the 30 second exposure photos exhibits what can be described as a pulsation of light or maybe a twisting of the craft. The crafts stayed up too long to be drones and were too bright and inconsistent to be anything ordinary. Report alludes to he bright streaks to the left of the much more faint formation of Starlink satellites seen just abov the tops of the distant mountain top. Photos are 30-second exposures. To the eye, in real time, the "streaks" appeared to the witnesses to be "orbs."
April 15, 2023 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Tukwila, WA
Small green light that was below the cloud line and moved at a medium speed that went down in front of me and was gone in about 2 seconds.
April 15, 2023 · 12:18 AM · LIGHT
Greenwood, NS · Canada
I was on a walk home when I looked into the sky as I normally would when outdoor and especially on a walk. I noticed what I thought was a bright star before realizing there was overcast. Within seconds of me watching it, I seen it go East with the speed of a shooting star. Within seconds of the object moving away from my location, I heard but did not see a gentle roar, as if it were a Jet or being followed by a Jet. There were no lights though and I have never seen or heard any sort of aircraft move this fast. I am unsure if the initial object made this noise as it took off or if something else was on its trail that I just couldn't see. It was only a matter of 15 seconds or so before this "light object" was out of sight. I have told a few people that I trust very much but or course I just sound crazy. Without a doubt, I seen something unexplained. After being home and speaking to some friends/family about it. I did experience a black out/fainted which I've never had happen before. This could be purely coincidence, however, I now have a bruised spine and brised ear/jaw from the fall. (I am only adding these details because of the questions following this statement)
April 14, 2023 · 11:50 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedLos Angeles, CA
This image suddenly disappeared then reappeared and burst like a firework of bright stars and I followed one of those smaller bright lights until it became too faint to see. No tail behind but a half dome shape of light appeared before it as it continued to move across the sky. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB Transporter-7 [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
April 13, 2023 · 9:02 PM · LIGHT
Quartzsite, AZ
Friend leaving our RV, closing the door, looking at the stars, felt uneasy, like I was moving. Looking west toward Blythe CA. Called my friend back, wife came out. Were 4 lights in square, right of Venus, brightness of average stars, thought it was big dipper, they were slowly moving together upwards. Above Venus and moved a little faster, the upper right light then shot off upwards to the right fast and faded out. The other 3 shortly faded away. Right after, 4 more lights came up from below right of Venus, they quickly turned into 3 lights, all moving upward with top of triangle on top, then that light shot of fast, faded, and other 2 lights faded after moving a little more. Lots of air traffic to right and left.
April 13, 2023 · 8:57 PM · LIGHT
Toronto, ON · Canada
Stationary white light. Saw an object seen to be released from it (as if a second oval vessel) and go down from it with a trail.
April 12, 2023 · 9:42 PM · LIGHT
Burbank, IL
A really bright circle in the sky not moving or doing anything its just floating there like a ufo
April 12, 2023 · 9:36 PM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
They are perhaps colored, with reddish or bluish tints, and are staying pretty much in the same position relative to Venus and each other. There are about 10 or 15 lights, maybe more. I cannot see a background object that the lights might be attached to. The array is about half the size of Cassiopeia (that is a rough estimate; I am not actually looking at Cassiopeia when I say that). The lights shimmer and dance slightly but are constant when viewed with binoculars. (When I was watching it without binoculars they appeared to be fizzling out and restarting.)
April 12, 2023 · 11:40 AM · LIGHT
Brantford, ON · Canada
Stepped outside. Noticed two lights in the sky. Thought it was a meteor or something of sorts. But it seemed to be way lower, As I could see the turbulence on the object as it or they flew across the sky. Going south to north. There was absolutely zero aircraft noise. I've seen many satellites and other random things in night sky but this seemed to be an actual aircraft of sorts in the sky. If I had to guess height I would say at least 2500-4000ft up, it was low.