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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.
6,009 entries
August 20, 2020 · 10:42 PM · OVAL
Reisterstown, MD
I have it all on video 2 min of this object glowing different colors and changing shapes. Frame by frame you can see the evidence. Recorded on my iPhone 11
August 20, 2020 · 1:15 PM · OVAL
Titusville, FL
Was standing outside watering plants and happened to look up. I saw a white oval shaped object hovering. I thought I was seeing things so I went inside and grabbed my binoculars. I focused and I wasn’t seeing things, it was white/light grayish in color it was hovering and then began to move forward, then shot off VERY VERY FAST!! I then lost sight! My fiancé was with me and saw it as well. We’re still in shock from what we both saw. After the “tick tack” videos, I’m 100% that’s exactly the same object we BOTH saw!
August 20, 2020 · 5:30 AM · OVAL
Topock, AZ
Early Thursday morning, around 5:30 am. I was checking the security cameras that are mounted on the front of my house. I noticed a blinking object on the camera that faces east. It didn't really move. It flashed for about five minutes then vanished. I'm including a low quality video.
August 19, 2020 · 10:30 PM · OVAL
Guelph (Canada), ON · Canada
At approximately 2230Hrs EST Myself and my partner witnessed what apeared to be an oval Shaped object in the sky that hung just above the tree line. The object made no noise and seemed to hover over the area. It swayed back and fourth. It levelled out and began to gain altitude in an upwards direction before stopping in place. After about one minutes of hovering, it began to lower and a bright red light was emitted for the lower section. The object in question seemed to be the shape of a narrow oval. It had three sets of very bright white lights across and a very bright red light on the belly that cast a light into the woods. The object made no noise. The skies were clear and a slight wind was present. Unfortunately I didn’t have my phone on me at the time. I will keep and eye out for this or any similar objects over the course of the next few weeks and have a high resolution camera with me.
August 19, 2020 · 10:00 AM · OVAL
Sedalia, MO
Round light with five flashing lights following it. Was visible for fifteen minutes
August 18, 2020 · 3:30 PM · OVAL
Holland, MI
I am a recently retired Engineering Standards Lead for a major aviation company. On August 18, 2020, my wife and I were riding our bikes and took a break at approximately 3:15 PM. We typically rest in a grassy area adjacent to a golf course about 3 miles from Lake Michigan, where we have a clear view of most of the sky. We saw a couple commercial jet aircraft, and one that we watched heading east seemed to be a bit different from the usual aircraft we see. Shortly after that plane flew over, we saw two white objects that appeared a bit oval in shape, flying east at about twice the speed of the other jet aircraft we observed. The objects then varied their flight path and turned to the south east, where we lost track of them in some clouds. We haven't been able to find any other info about the incident.
August 17, 2020 · 8:31 PM · OVAL
Spring Valley, CA
Yellowish oval shaped object moving from the southeast to the northwest. Floated over la mesa, intersection 8 and 54 and el cajon area. Stopped flashed 5 times changed back to solid yellowish and continued moving northwest.
August 15, 2020 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Murrells Inlet, SC
Three round objects with bright lights disappeared in a blink of eye
August 15, 2020 · 9:41 AM · OVAL
Denver, CO
I was driving east on highway 285 looking directly north up sheridan and saw a 3 light craft hovering in the smoke approximately 3-5 miles north of me. I got a picture and went to get a video but my line of sight dropped under tree line for .25 miles and when I came back above tree line the craft was gone.
August 14, 2020 · 9:45 PM · OVAL
South Windsor, CT
Around 9:45PM on 8/14/2020, my passenger and I saw a bright white and greenish light go across the sky then disappear. It was going quite fast and we both said to each other, "what was that?". We didn't discuss it much until we got to our destination then told separate people of what we saw and our stories matched. We were going east-southeast on Gray Street towards Avery Street in South Windsor, CT. We could see the blinking red light on the tower in the distance while this was happening. This was just over the tree tops and made no noise.
August 14, 2020 · 7:30 AM · OVAL
Greenwood, IN
The lady said that she and her eight-year-old daughter had left home to take her to school.. They were heading south on Madison Ave entering the round-a-bout at Smith Valley. There is a Rural King southwest of there about 200 yards away. Above and behind the Rural King, higher than the tree, was a black solid oval object roughly the size of a car (in comparison to the vehicles below). The object moved upward and west through the cloud about "as fast as you could blink". Behind the object was a very light blue "tail" appearance, see-through. She called her mother who lives behind the rural King, and mentioned what had happened, and her mother asked if this had occurred just after 7:30. She said yes and asked why. She said her dog was outside looking up frantically barking and shaking. She added that she went out to get her dog and the dog ran inside and went under the bed.
August 13, 2020 · 6:57 PM · OVAL
Centennial, WY
On August 13, 2020, my son, mother, and I were fishing at Hanging Lake above Centennial, Wyoming. We walked the short distance to the other end of the lake and started to fish. We were catching fish every cast, so very preoccupied with excitement. My son, looked up and noticed it first (he is three years old). A plane was flying close to the object. I looked at my mom and asked, “what is that?” The plane kept moving and the object was at a dead standstill. There were hardly any clouds in the sky, so it was not a reflection of anything. It was oval/oblong and glowing white. I was able to get pictures of it, but they don’t do it justice. My phone battery went down to 1 percent quickly, so I was only able to capture a couple pictures. It stayed above us for about 20 minutes and then just like that, gone. We must have looked down for just a brief moment and then looked back up and it was gone. It was larger than a plane, because the plane flew by it and it was just a bit larger than that (depending on how close to us it was compared to the plane) but to the blind eye it appeared to be bigger than a jet. It stayed put, not moving at all, for about 20 minutes and then disappeared. I posted a comment about it on social media and my phone started to blow up with other people having similar reports this week and previously. One was a man that works for Game and Fish. He saw it on Tuesday (August 11, 2020) and at night. He said he went to go investigate what the light was over the ridge (same area I saw it), and he said that his phone wouldn’t work when he tried to take a picture, almost as if it was scrambled. He also reported that there was a vibration on the ground below him. Another resident of Centennial wrote and said she saw the same thing, around 5pm early in the week, and that she looked up with her husband while driving and said, “wow, a UFO!” and that she was almost “so mesmerized that she couldn’t take a picture” – she’s a professional photographer, so this is really odd for her. Prior to this sighting (which is the first time I have ever witnessed something like this), I had an overwhelming feeling of joy. Like a flood of joy just overwhelmed my body – it’s hard to describe. I have been going through an incredibly difficult time and so joy isn’t something that I have experienced full-on in a while. This feeling was immense and strong. Not sure if its related, but I believe that it is. It looks like that was a similar sighting (recorded on video) over a ranch near there on November 6, 2019 and that was posted on LaramieLive (a local news source online). There have been several other reports from Centennial residents and it sounds like they are all in the same area, so I am finding out any way. I did call our local airport and asked if the pilot in the plane had reported anything suspicious. They said they would get back to me. Incredible.
August 13, 2020 · 5:00 PM · OVAL
Pompton Lakes, NJ
I was sitting on lower patio looking at trees in my yard when this football shaped object entered the yard to my right flying to my left in a u about 10 feet off the ground out the other side of the yard. It then reappeared over my pool about 40 feet off the ground stopped and remained still for a couple of seconds then out to the left again, still no sound. It was about 2.5 to 3 feet in length and about 1 foot in height in the middle, I couldn’t tell top from bottom, no lights no wings no tail, no markings and no sound. It’s color was light grayish blue like over cast sky. This wasn’t a drone, I have 2 DJI phantoms and the kids up the street have the Mavic type drone and you hear them before you see them. This thing was fast and Quiet.
August 13, 2020 · 3:55 AM · OVAL
Oak Harbor, WA
30 oval lights flying in 2 abreast trail formation. Objects observed flying at a speed and altitude similar to what would be seen watching the ISS flying at 45 degrees above the horizon. Observation was pure luck. I had been watching the meteorite shower for maybe 25 minutes when I started following a dull bright satellite across the sky from the south to the north, it flew almost directly overhead my location, as I watched it descending in the northern sky it was intersected by the path of the other objects flying from west to east
August 13, 2020 · 2:00 AM · OVAL
Rumford, ME
While watching meteor shower, 12 small objects appeared two by two following each other in a straight pattern. When the last one slowed down the one before it stopped and waited for it the they both went faster to get back into formation which satellites do not do.
August 12, 2020 · 3:20 PM · OVAL
Fayetteville, GA
While enjoying the pre storm calm outside with my dog, I watched as what I believe was a ufo, flying above me. He was acting strangely, and so I figured we would just let the rain start, then go inside. As I was appreciating the beauty of the leaves at the top of the trees, I noticed what I originally thought was a drone, sitting right between the trees. I then realized, that the object was round, like oval but squished, and much farther away but larger. I watched as it glide through the treetop line view, in what seemed to be a perfectly still and straight line. As soon as the object was out of view, the first thunder clap rung out what seemed to be right about my head. Then the lighting and thunder commenced at a much more reasonable tone level. As the rain started coming down I realized that I didn’t pull my phone out. One thing that I know for sure, was that I saw this black metallic mass in the sky, approximately the size of a large suv, maybe 200 -250 feet up. I saw it very clearly, and watched it slowly move in a direct line away from me. This is the second clear sighting I’ve had here. The first was a few years ago and is a much more intense account. I’m hoping that these two are connected, but am left with nothing to go on besides vivid memories.
August 8, 2020 · 11:15 PM · OVAL
Sandy, UT
My granddaughter and I watch an opaque oval shaped object travel quickly from the north to the south between big and little cottonwood canyon. At first I thought it was a large signal light but could not see anything coming from the ground and it was not moving.Then the object moved fast south and was out of sight.
August 8, 2020 · 9:10 PM · OVAL
Probable conventionalUzes, Languedoc Roussillon · France
Le 8 août 2020, vers 21h10, alors qu'ils se trouvent dans le jardin de leur domicile à Uzès (Gard), le témoin principal (T1) et son épouse (T2) remarquent la présence d'un point dans le ciel. Les conditions d'observation semblent bonnes, la visibilité étant suffisante pour distinguer les astres. T1 procède alors à une observation plus détaillée à l'aide de jumelles, ce qui lui permet de préciser la forme et le comportement du PAN. Le PAN présente une forme parfaitement ovoïde, de couleur noir mat, sans émission lumineuse apparente. Il se déplace à faible vitesse, effectuant de légers mouvements verticaux aléatoires tout en suivant une trajectoire moyenne rectiligne, évoluant par paliers. L'observation dure environ quinze minutes, jusqu'à ce que le PAN disparaisse du champ de vision des témoins. La consistance* du cas est jugée moyenne : 2 témoins mais un unique témoignage, une photo qui s'est avérée être inexploitable. Toutefois, le témoignage reste précis et rapporté peu de temps après l'observation. *Selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d'informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. L'analyse a permis d'envisager l'hypothèse d'une confusion avec un ballon fantaisie évoluant sous l'effet des faibles vents locaux (voir compte rendu d'enquête). Cette conclusion s'appuie sur les éléments suivants : - la forme et la couleur du PAN sont conformes à certains modèles de ballons fantaisie. - le déplacement lent, globalement rectiligne et à vitesse constante, est compatible avec la trajectoire d'un objet léger porté par un vent de faible intensité. La principale étrangeté perçue, à savoir le déplacement du PAN dans une direction différente de celle des vents ressentis au sol par les témoins, peut s'expliquer par la différence de position géographique et altimétrique entre ces derniers et le PAN. En effet, les témoins se trouvent au sol, dans une zone entourée de collines, où la topographie locale influence significativement la direction et la perception du vent, celui-ci étant perçu comme venant du nord. L'analyse, notamment à partir des données AROME* fournies par Météo France, a permis de confirmer que le PAN se déplaçait conformément au vent général d'ouest. Les mouvements verticaux lents et aléatoires observés peuvent être expliqués par les conditions météorologiques spécifiques au moment de l'observation, notamment les variations de température et d'humidité survenant durant le crépuscule, ainsi que par la faiblesse et la variabilité du vent. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en « B », observation probable d'un ballon fantaisie. AROME : *Application of Research to Operations at MEsoscale) est un modèle avec une maille très fine (maille de 1.3 km) pour la prévision en France (METEO France). [GEIPAN classification B — Ballon Mylar]
August 7, 2020 · 4:40 AM · OVAL
Kelso, WA
We saw an oval shaped object at about 3000' elevation. Object had dim light running through center. Looked like Blimp, but didn't have any noise from engines. It was traveling North at higher speed than any Blimp I've seen.
August 5, 2020 · 11:35 PM · OVAL
Sycamore, IL
I was driving home from my sisters around 11:30pm at night Wednesday, Aug 5th 2020. About a mile from home I noticed a bright object in the sky over the cornfields off to my right. It seemed strange to me immediately, and I pulled to the side of the road to look at it. The object seemed to be made entirely of light. It was so bright and twinkly, I couldn't clearly see the perimeter, but it was oblong/oval/tic tic-tac shaped, and at least 20 or more times larger than the a bright star or planet. It appeared to be in our atmosphere, as it sat, unmoving in the sky. Saturn was bright that night, and this object appeared in the sky near Saturn, so it was easy to have a frame of reference. I watched for between one and two minutes. The object never moved. Not closer or further, not left or right. After watching for those couple minutes and being totally mystified, I got spooked and drove the remaining mile home. When I got home. I came out to look at Saturn. No oval light in sight.
August 5, 2020 · 8:43 PM · OVAL
Sarasota, FL
Last night Aug 5, 2020 I went outside around 8:30PM to water my plants. As I was looking at them I thought I would take a picture on my phone of the front of my house because I had recently re- landscaped and was happy with the outcome. Minutes after I took the picture I thought I would send it to my son’s so they could see how it came out. After I sent the picture I went back to look at it myself and as I made the picture larger on my phone I looked to the left of the larger palm in my yard and noticed 2 saucer shaped things in the sky. They don’t appear to have color. There was no noise because if there were I believe I would have looked to my left. I didn’t see these with my naked eye because I was focused on my front yard. I called my son’s and asked them to make the picture larger on their phones and just asked if they noticed anything, I didn’t tell them what I thought because I wanted an honest answer. They all had remarks mostly surprised at what they thought they were seeing. I live in Sarasota Fl. These things were north of my house, right next to Interstate 75 near Exit 205. Maybe a cloud formation maybe a reflection, I’m just not sure. Weird they are so similar in shape.
August 3, 2020 · 9:05 PM · OVAL
Escondido, CA
I was walking my dog this evening, like I've done every evening for 20 years in my neighborhood. Tonight as we were walking on platanus Drive, looking directly due north, there was a red oval glowing sphere. We get lots of military aircraft flying from camp Pendleton heading east so we're used to seeing all kinds of stuff, but this was just hovering with a red solid light, then it would go off periodically for a second or two, then get bright red again. Looked very large in the distance not something up close like a drone or anyting. Then it just disappeared
August 2, 2020 · 2:45 PM · OVAL
Baltimore, MD
On the afternoon of Sunday, August 2nd 2020, I was in my 2nd floor living room watching the live stream of the Space X Crew Dragon splashdown. Moments before the splashdown occurred (which was at exactly 2:48pm Eastern) I saw an object outside in the sky, through the southernmost of my three 2nd floor row home windows, which are facing East, and provide a very good view of the sky over Eastern Baltimore. Note: I see a tremendous amount of air traffic through these windows on a daily basis, including police and MEDEVAC helicopters, BWI air traffic (mostly making landing approaches), various private and commercial aircraft, and occasional military overflights (cargo, A-10s, etc.) I have had a lifelong interest in aircraft, have flown a Robinson R-22 helicopter, and can generally identify every aircraft I see. I first noticed this object, I would estimate, about 45-60 seconds before the splashdown at 2:48pm -- the four parachutes on the capsule were deployed, they had switched from the airborne to the the surface/ship-based camera view of the capsule coming down, and I was really trying to pay attention to what was going on on my TV, as I had been watching the stream for a good 45+ minutes, waiting for the safe return. But something about this object out of the corner of my eye, going by in the sky outside, absolutely demanded my attention -- something about it struck me as "off" and worthy of more attention, even though I was distracted by the Space X capsule return going on on my TV. The television was literally saying things like "the spacecraft is about to return," and similar statements. I got up and walked several feet to my window, and looked out at the object. I was completely blown away by what I saw -- it was a highly-reflective/super-shiny ellipsoid, with a clearly-defined surface that looked shiny like a finely-polished steel. I interpreted it as seeing a traditional disc-shaped UFO, seen from the side, but from my point of view it was a longer oval, or ellipsoid. Toward the upper-right corner of this aircraft-sized object, there was an ongoing, irregular flashing or glinting of yellowish light. At first I thought it might be a reflection of the Sun, but for the whole (estimated) 60-90 seconds I saw this thing flying North/Northeast (I would say generally toward Towson/Parkville), there was this irregular glinting, visually evident even when the object was a speck out in the distance in the Northeastern sky near the horizon. As I said, it was clearly the size of an aircraft -- not a balloon. It traveled at a consistent speed and in a consistent direction, perhaps roughly the speed a helicopter would fly at. It did not bob around or make any sudden movements, or apparent changes to altitude or heading. I did not think to photograph the object, because frankly I was utterly stunned by what I was seeing, and the odd synchronicity of seeing a UFO (my only sighting in my ~44 years) at the exact moment of a spacecraft returning to Earth on TV, with the TV issuing a fairly relevant narration for what I was seeing out of my living room window. It was very, very odd. I have had a lifelong interest in UAP, and this is the only thing I have seen that I would remotely describe as a UFO -- and it was not a speck, not a dot, not a light, not something vague -- it was a super-shiny silver disc thing flying by in the middle of the afternoon, totally casually. My estimation is that it was flying relatively low, definitely under a few thousand feet. My sense is it was traveling between my location in Baltimore's Abell neighborhood, and Lake Montebello. I think it was probably near Loch Raven Blvd. I would estimate it was maybe 30-50 feet in diameter? The size of an aircraft, but I think closer to a smaller plane or a helicopter, versus an airliner. No obvious features, just a very shiny/reflective metallic surface, making that weird glinting flash. About a week later I had the idea to see if aircraft flight data is available online, and learned that ADS-B was at that point fully in service (I'd heard about it years earlier, but didn't know it had been fully rolled out). Because I knew the precise several-minute window of my sighting, due to its overlap with the Space X splashdown, I was able to "rewind" to the airspace at the time using Flightradar 24. I saw absolutely nothing, at all, flying over the entire Baltimore 495 area, for a few minutes on either side of the 2:48pm Eastern splashdown. I checked the time many times, to make sure I wasn't making an error in an Eastern to UTC conversion (Flightradar24 historical data is recorded in UTC). Nothing, within the entire circumference of the 495 beltway. I reported this sighting to MUFON about a week after it occurred, but decided recently I would also submit the report to NUFORC in the spirit of completeness.
August 2, 2020 · 7:30 AM · OVAL
Walden, CO
The objects were large. They were well above 60,000 feet of altitude, well above the few cirrus clouds. At first we thought it was the morning star, but seemed too large and in the wrong place. It did not move in the sky for over an hour. We noticed another. It was smaller, but it also was further away. This one was also stationary for most of an hour. With 2 pair of binoculars and a monocular we agreed they were oval. The center of the oval was dark. They seemed to have an "aura", like a bright light field around them. There is some difference of opinion, but the aura may have been brighter and wider on the short ends. Though the entirity of the objects was quite bright, easily seen in the blue sky with the sun fully risen, there was a VERY bright spot which seemed to be a reflection of the sun. One of us saw that there seemed to be a gray line along the center of the long access. At some point the lower object seemed to change from oval to circular. Perhaps a position shift of a capsule shaped object? When they moved It was NE to SW. The higher one moved rather quickly out of sight crossing from the center of my visual field to 2/3rds toward the edge of my peripheral field in about 20 minutes. The larger, lower one stayed stationary longer then followed the other at a slower pace.