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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.
139,459 entries
October 23, 2023 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
West Haverstraw, NY
Taking moon shots, I noticed aligned lights over a nearby mountain. The lights became idle waiting for a stray light that appeared to be at the base of the mountain which ascended up to the group, then one by one they disappeared into the sky
October 23, 2023 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
West Haverstraw, NY
While doing a moon shot, I noticed 5 lights lining up over Hi Tor Mt/state park. They appear to align themselves hovering and idle waiting for 6th light, that appeared to be ascending from .the base of the mountain. The Hudson River is right there. Once the 6th stray light caught up, they disappeared one by one into the horizon. They did not fly across the sky on departing, just disappeared one by one [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
October 23, 2023 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Grayson, GA
Blue Light standing still for at least 2 minutes and then went straight down and stopped and then went to left at a high rate of speed and stopped and then took off again out of sight . No way a drone Drones don’t move this fast .
October 23, 2023 · 7:15 PM · CIRCLE
Khapa, MAHARASH · India
I was talking with my friend on my phone then I move my eyes towards the sky and suddenly I seen an small star like light in the sky and after some my friend also with me. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
October 23, 2023 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Mountainair, NM
I was traveling south on NM 542 just north of Mountainair, NM around 7pm MST. As I was driving I noticed a bright light that seemed to pulse red and white. I thought it may be a star at first and then maybe a cell tower on a mesa south of town but I could see sky below the light. It was too big and bright to be either. As I watched it, the light divided into 2 lights. The 2nd light was just to the left of the 1st at the same elevation and very near. The 2nd light then moved slowly back into the 1st and then back to the left. Then a 3rd light appeared just to the right of the 1st. The 2nd light moved back into the 1st and then they all blinked out. The second sighting was about 8 miles SW of Mountainair but it seemed to be in the same general area as the 1st sighting. It was just one light and it lasted for a few seconds. I have video of the 2nd sighting.
October 23, 2023 · 6:29 PM · SPHERE
Cottonwood, AZ
Solid white glowing orb, silent, left no trails or anything. Traveled East to North, no blinking lights. Sky was absolutely clear, no clouds at all (I have screenshots from Weather app). Wind 5 ssw with gusts up to 15mph; Visibility 25 mi. No transponding aircraft over that area (see Flightradar24 video attached). Started roughly in Pisces, above Jupiter, and ended video in or just above Perseus (checked SkyView app). The distance of the orb would have been far out of our city and beyond the next town easily. The only aircraft transponding was directly above my head (which I heard while taking the video, and saw above me). I recorded the video with my iPhone 14 Pro Max, from my front yard. Solid objects in video include house, tree, and stars. No SpaceX launch tonight (Oct. 21st was most recent launch). Also checked FindStarlink map, and heavens-above to see Starlink video launch map, nothing in this area of the planet. FindStarlink using my coordinates shows nothing visible tonight (see screenshot). Live Space Station (ISS) Tracking Map shows ISS was nowhere near the U.S. (see screenshot)
October 23, 2023 · 10:25 AM · OVAL
San Francisco, CA
I was taking a picture through the skyline and I saw these two blips on my screen and then I found them again and took two pictures within 3 seconds of each other. This thing is definitely a UAP. It's not a lens flare because it's not bright. I've also included a photo that I enhanced with luminosity. It's the one with the brown tint. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]
October 23, 2023 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Airborne (Oman), Oman
I am a Captain flying for an International Carrier based at UAE. On a scheduled flight crossing Oman into the Arabian Sea I observed usually strange lights at very high altitude at a specific area in the sky. The lights were traveling on a specific path and were very different to a usual meteorite entering the atmosphere at high speed. Sometimes two lights were travelling in tandem. I have never seen anything like this before. I managed to record the video of the lights moving. The bright light in the picture is Jupiter. The faint light were the objects moving.
October 22, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Middletown, OH
Approx 11PM EST I witnessed a circular grouping of high altitude white orbs at a speed I have never seen I have experienced many Meteor showers and meteors breaking up and leaving trails and hearing sonic booms. I have never seen such an organized grouping traveling this fast and staying in formation.
October 22, 2023 · 10:31 PM · CHANGING
Poolewe, HIGHLAND · United Kingdom
Me and my cousin were on a walk when we both noticed a very bright light I kept changing size and had a orb around it there was loads of little lights around it that we’re moving very fast it was also moving quite fast
October 22, 2023 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Nampa, ID
I am not sure how many objects I just witnessed, (I had to put a number in the box) because they were in a long stream moving rapidly across the sky between the clouds. They were moving very fast and went behind the cloud at a high rate of speed. I clicked on my sky app looking for starlink satellites because I thought this must be what I just saw, but from what I understand starlink satellites do not move extremely fast, nor are they blue, but there were no starlinks displaying on my screen moving in this direction. These were distinctly blue and we're moving rapidly, so rapidly it made me think of a weapon being fired that leaves a trail of light behind it. They were coming from the west and headed east and I caught them while I was glancing up to see a storm headed up from the southwest and there are some lightning flashes down there. And I could just barely see the moon behind the clouds due south of these objects. If they turn out to be starlink satellites I apologize but I can't imagine that they were. The gap in the clouds that I saw these through, was as wide as the space created when I hold my arm at full length toward the sky, and splay my fingers outward, from the tip of my thumb to the tip of my middle finger. They were very, very small points of bluish light, looking like nothing I've witnessed before.
October 22, 2023 · 7:45 PM · DIAMOND
Oviedo, FL
Myself, along with four other adults and multiple children witnessed an upside down pear-shaped object. The object was on a straight line trajectory coming from the south and going north/north west. It was moving at approximately 30 miles an hour, and maintained the same altitude and trajectory from the point of time when it entered to the time it exited line of view and exited our line of view. It was very clear that the object didn’t have any sort of wings or propeller system. The object also made absolutely no sound. The object also never deviated from its course in either direction or altitude. It looked like a black colored object and wizard right by us overhead. There was no shiny or metallic color to it as in a mylar balloon. It was also small. It could not have been more than 4 ft in height and diameter. Original report said it was 20 "years" away. Perhaps they meant yards?
October 22, 2023 · 4:37 PM · DIAMOND
Probable conventionalSitka, AK
we went on an excursion with NCL to the Raptor Center, Sitka National Historical Park and Fortress of the Bears and somewhere in between them the photo I took is where it was. I never saw it with the naked eye it was not until I started working on my photos that I saw this on a photo. I have 2 photos taken 1 min. apart and it only shows up in one photo. It had to have moved fast because of the time difference between each photo. The photo with the ufo is 20231022_163701 [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]
October 22, 2023 · 3:50 PM · SPHERE
Bellbrook, OH
We were watching some vultures circling about when we noticed 3 white or perhaps silver orbs in the distance. These orbs were traveling southeast at a speed that seemed normal for a small jet at a similar altitude. We observed the objects flying separately in a diagonal line for about 30 seconds. Then the objects quickly came together and flew as what appeared to be one triangular object. The object(s) remained visible for another 15 seconds and dissipated from view. No sounds were heard.
October 22, 2023 · 2:48 PM · UNKNOWN
Limerick, COUNTY T · Ireland
Took my dogs up Keeper Hill for a walk near Newport Tipperary in Ireland, took photos of dogs to send to my dad. Later at home I enlarged the photos and noticed a flying object above the clouds in one of the photos, I did not see it at the time and heard nothing in the sky. It looks strange. 1 object seen. It looks round but cannot be sure. Hard to make out colour. This is a mountain route in the Silvermines mountains in southern Ireland near my home.
October 22, 2023 · 4:34 AM · OTHER
Hollywood, CA
GREY ENTITY was seen time Skipped forward in time by HWY101 S and. N Cahuenga Blvd
October 22, 2023 · 4:29 AM · LIGHT
Fitchburg, MA
Traveling star is what I seen. Over the past 3 months, every time early mornings, I see one star traveling fast, last night I seen 2 of them simultaneously, they were traveling in a cross cross pattern, the AB’s past one another, one traveling into eastern direction, the second west. This is crazy & surly someone else is seeing this?! [NUFORC annotation: Satellite - Possible]
October 22, 2023 · 3:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Avondale, TX
As my partner and I were driving home very early that morning I noticed what appeared to be the lights from three airplanes on the approach to Hicks Field just SW of me in Saginaw, TX. I thought there was about to be a collision between the three lights until I noticed that the three white lights moved in tandem with each other. As I watched it became apparent they were part of a single craft. As it got closer the lights continued to move. The triangle was slowly rotating, if I remember correctly, in a clockwise motion. So no point or side was a leading edge as it came in my direction. It flew with the bottom slightly angled/elevated so that I could always see the three lights on the bottom. As the Triangle got almost overhead I heard what sounded like a very vague HUM. It was so soft that had there been any other noise I would have never heard the hum. I am not sure if because it was so vague that there was a “pulse” in the hum. It was difficult to tell since it was so quiet. As the rotating Triangle began passing overhead it slowly turned in a more Eastward direction. It was such a gentle slow turn, while rotating and so huge. It was stunning to watch. As the lights at the corners came overhead I thought how they looked “flat”. It reminded me of recessed ceiling lights. The lights were not very bright and simply looked like diffused soft white bulbs. The lights were seamless in the bottom corners of the triangle. As the middle of this triangle came virtually overhead what appeared to be a blue/purplish "haze like" light in the center. I tried to focus on one of the edges or corners of the Triangle as it passed. It was so dark though that without the lights on the corner bottoms I could barely make out the entire shape. The sides and corners seemed rounded but it was so dark. Up until that moment I really considered I was seeing a low flying dirigible of the Air Force from Carswell AFB (Now NAS) in Ft. Worth. And I thought it was extremely stupid to be flying low across the approach of an airport. That was until I realized how big it was. I have seen dirigibles many times and they are loud when that close. This was silent. And the rotation!? The tilt? A triangle? No dirigible could fly like that. I could not take my eyes off the triangle. It silently moved away and towards the approach of Alliance Airport runway. But as it moved East I lost sight of the lights as the tilt of the triangle was now away from me. The top of the triangle had no lights and was just a black mass disappearing away from me. As the Triangle moved away I got out a camera I had in the back seat. I tried to get it in the viewfinder but it was so difficult to see in the dark that it was impossible through the camera. I took some quick pics of where I thought it was but the images came out to nothing. I was telling my partner what I was seeing but he would not get out of the car. And would not look up. I have asked him for years why he did not get out and look. To this day he just says he doesn't know.
October 22, 2023 · 12:05 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBayeux, Basse Normandie · France
L'unique témoin de cet événement se trouve seul dans le jardin d'une maison à Bayeux, le 22 octobre 2023, à 00h05, lorsqu'il observe un PAN. Ce dernier se déplace initialement de manière rapide en ligne droite, du sud-est vers l’est-sud-est, et apparaît sous la forme d'une lumière rouge fixe. Le PAN s'immobilise ensuite, et deux lumières, une rouge et une verte, deviennent visibles, clignotant alternativement à un intervalle d'une seconde. Par la suite, un faisceau conique de couleur jaune pâle émerge du PAN, orienté vers le sol, avec un mouvement de balayage. Cette phase dure entre 6 et 7 secondes, avant que le PAN ne reprenne sa trajectoire instantanément vers l'est, disparaissant après un mouvement en « zigzag » durant environ deux secondes La consistance* de ce cas est moyenne avec un témoin unique et l'absence de photo ou de vidéo du PAN. *Selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d’informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. Deux hypothèses ont été examinées (voir le compte rendu d'enquête) : l'observation d'un hélicoptère ou d'un drone. Les lumières observées correspondant à la signalisation lumineuse réglementaire, rouge et verte, qui peut être fixe ou clignotante, à l'exception de la lumière verte pour un hélicoptère, devant être fixe (feu de position droit). De même, le déplacement rapide et le vol stationnaire restent des caractéristiques communes à ces deux types d'engins. Cependant, l'arrêt instantané en vol stationnaire et le redémarrage à une vitesse maximale sans accélération perceptible sont des comportements plus caractéristiques d'un drone. De plus, la description de mouvements en zigzag lors du départ du PAN est également compatible avec les capacités de manœuvre d'un drone. Le projecteur jaune pâle décrit peut être utilisé sur les deux types d’aéronefs mentionnés. Dans le cadre d’un hélicoptère, il peut être employé pour des opérations de recherche ou des signalisations. Concernant un drone, son utilisation peut également s'étendre à des applications récréatives. Il convient de noter que ces projecteurs, en raison de leur puissance, sont désormais facilement accessibles au grand public. Aucune trace radar n’a été rapportée par le Centre National des Opérations Aériennes (CNOA) au droit et à l’heure de l’observation. L’enquête n’a par ailleurs pas permis de trouver trace de l’utilisation d’un hélicoptère cette nuit-là par l’armée, la sécurité civile, l’aéroport du Havre ou un établissement hôtelier privé. L’absence de perception de bruit par le témoin n’est pas un élément déterminant dans la mesure où le vent n’était pas porteur au moment de l’observation. La distance peut également jouer en défaveur de la perception d’un bruit environnant le PAN. Il convient également de souligner que, dans le cadre de l'hypothèse d'un drone, son propriétaire contrevient à plusieurs interdictions, notamment celles relatives à l'utilisation nocturne, à l'opération dans une zone urbaine, ainsi qu'à la circulation dans une zone soumise à des restrictions de survol, telles que définies par Géoportaill. Parmi les deux hypothèses, celle du drone paraît la plus plausible, du fait de certains détails liés aux déplacements du PAN (zigzags, arrêt et départ brusques) davantage conformes aux possibilités de pilotage qu’offrent les drones. Le GEIPAN classe en B : observation probable d’un drone. [GEIPAN classification B — Drone]
October 22, 2023 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedLondon, LONDON B · United Kingdom
I recorded a short clip before my late bus came. They were fair clearer than the footage (perhaps the streetlamp in the foreground absored the focus of the camera). Very bright blue lights seemingly coming from above the clouds, rotating as if coming from a circular object (I could not see this object) Stadium light / laser show in Westham, London — Westham Stadium, specifically. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
October 21, 2023 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Monroe, NC
I saw a bright orange/yellow light hanging in the sky, brighter than any star or planet by far. While watching it, it suddenly moved south for a moment then suddenly stopped again. After a few seconds it quickly moved north out of my line of sight.
October 21, 2023 · 10:45 PM · CIRCLE
Charlotte, NC
My husband called to me to come out back last night (@9:45 PM) to 'see the light." What we saw was three (3) lights in a circle enclosed in a circle. My husband said he saw it 'move jerkily back and forth, and then stopped moving. When I got there, it had stopped moving and I saw those three lights, and then they disappeared and the object we saw was one bright light. At that point, we started guessing what it could be...Airplane was ruled out, it was not moving, no noise, it wasn't a copter, for the same reasons, it wasn't anything we could figure out, including a satellite. We both started taking photos with our cell phones and later I was back in the house, I used my finger to spread the light in the photos closer in. It was an amazing blob of light, and in each frame for each photo, they went from a point of light in the sky, to these amorphous blobs of light, very bright and pretty stationary in the sky.
October 21, 2023 · 10:44 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedHopewell Township, NJ
the orbs initially were going in and out of the clouds in no pattern. Then they became 4 distinct orbs going out in different directions and varying distances then coming together in the center. It was over an area where there is only residential homes. It was filmed from my 2nd story home window. which is on a high elevation. The sky was clear and a few striated clouds. I could not see any source or beams of light [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
October 21, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Luray, VA
On 10/21/23 at appx 10:30 pm my husband and I saw these lights behind a cloud above our house, once again. It looks like 2 circular lights that appear behind the clouds then smaller white lights shoot out of it. See attached video. We have been seeing this pretty frequently. Approximate location 38.6681218, -78.4308007 [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Possible]