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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.
3,437 entries
July 30, 2023 · 9:50 PM · CIGAR
Trevose, PA
A few nights ago, while driving, I saw a cigar shaped sparkling object gliding through the sky from left to right, about 200 to 300 feet above me. I had my eyes on it for about 30 seconds. The weirdest thing was that there was no visible object attached to these sparkling dots or lights. I pulled over to quickly capture a video, but my car is extremely dark due to tinted windows and the area itself is filled with hills and trees and lost sight of it at that point. I continued driving and found myself in disbelief as I sat at a red light, questioning what I had just witnessed. About 10 seconds after making a right turn, I spotted the object again half a mile ahead of me, only to see it disappear over the tree line. The best way to describe what I saw is try imaging 3 or 4 large birthday sparkling candles in a row flying across the sky. It makes no sense.
July 29, 2023 · 5:39 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalMonroe Township, NJ
I was cooking in the yard by my deck. We’re in a flight pattern for Newark international so I’m always looking up. This bright cigar cylinder shaped object caught my eye. Quickly grabbed my phone that on my belt and recorded this video. I can’t explain what it was. No noise from object but I did have music on. You can zoom in and see the object move from a 1 o’clock position to a 7 as it disappears into a cloud. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
July 29, 2023 · 12:02 AM · CIGAR
Kongens Lyngby, CAPITAL · Denmark
At the specified date and time, while in the serene setting of Jægersborg Dyrehave, I observed five unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the sky. The objects were noticeably cigar-shaped, without any visible wings, tail fins, or any other discernible features typically associated with known aircraft. The UFOs emitted a pulsating light, continuously oscillating between hues of silver, blue, and lavender. This soft glow radiated from the objects themselves, illuminating their immediate vicinity and contrasting starkly against the night sky. The objects were arranged in a V-formation, moving with an uncanny synchronicity. Their movements were fluid and precise, exhibiting characteristics not typically associated with any known terrestrial aircraft: abrupt changes in direction without deceleration, hovering without any apparent means of propulsion, and instant acceleration to high speeds. After approximately fifteen minutes, the objects repositioned themselves into a vertical alignment. Upon completion of this formation, they ascended at an extremely high speed and disappeared from sight. Their departure was marked by a brilliant flash of white-blue light, which was immediately followed by a faint humming sound that quickly dissipated.
July 28, 2023 · 8:29 PM · CIGAR
Strømstad, VÄSTRA G · Sweden
I was sitting on my porch when I looked up and saw a weird figure in the sky and started to record it. The figure turned into a ufo looking circle after I zoomed in. I zoomed out and zoomed in again it turned into a cigarette shape white thing. At the end of the video it flew fast to the right and it flew right back after. It was flying slowly past but suddenly turned to the right
July 26, 2023 · 8:06 PM · CIGAR
San Antonio, TX
two tic tac fly overs [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
July 24, 2023 · 9:53 PM · CIGAR
Stone harbor, NJ
Viewed through my telescope with 60x magnification very close to the star Antares
July 23, 2023 · 11:59 PM · CIGAR
Mlini Dubrovnik, International Waters
Just around midnight, could be earlier there was an electric storm. Thunder and lightning a big downpour of rain and everything seemed to go quite. I was sitting on the balcony when the black night sky turned pink and this object appeared. There were people outside but not sure if anyone else reported it. I caught the photo as I was shooting photos of the storm.
July 20, 2023 · 10:24 PM · CIGAR
Bellevue, WA
Lights that hover, move and hover over downtown Bellevue. One of many lights that appear, hover and eventually depart.
July 19, 2023 · 7:27 AM · CIGAR
IdentifiedLemon Grove, CA
one object flying way above where airplanes fly (tho airplanes may fly lower here when coming in for a landing) - bullnose cigar shape had upper and lower fins or 'wings' - not like an airplane. flying east/southeast at 7.27am 7/19/23 about the speed of an airplane [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Certain]
July 17, 2023 · 10:27 AM · CIGAR
Sullivan, MO
My kids and I were carpooling home in 2 cars from St.Louis, MO to Springfield, MO headed west on I-44 when we saw a long white tic tac type cylinder with rounded edges hovering above the tree line. I instantly turned my phone towards it that was on a mount and I thought started recording. I first spotted an enormous long cylinder shape right above the tree line probably less than a few miles away. I noticed skydivers parachuting near by and thought this might be the plane that dropped them but then noticed the object was too far away from the skydivers to have dropped them and the more I looked I noticed the cylinder object was about the length of several large airplanes, and obviously not a small plane to drop skydivers. I would say the object was half a mile to a mile long. It was enormous in length. Solid white, with rounded ends, like a giant half mile long propane tank hovering in the sky. I was blown away. I went over a hill and the object disappeared behind the tree line, when I got over the hill the object was gone. The skydivers were still there. My teenage son who was driving behind me, called me on my cell phone right after it disappeared and said Dad did you see that! I was so happy that he had seen it too. I said yes and I got it on video but then I looked down and I noticed in my excitement I had forgot to hit record on the phone. I was so sad. I then asked my son what he had seen? He said that he was driving and noticed a white circle light in the sky and asked his sister who was also in the car with him if she saw it. At first she did not, but then after scanning the sky she saw it too. They both said then the object started moving left in the sky as a circle of light and then instantly became a giant line in the sky they said. They also noticed the parachuters but also noticed this object was miles away from the parachuters. I felt like the object was almost watching the skydivers, and if the skydivers were wearing cameras or if anyone was filming them coming down from the ground below they had to have caught this giant object on camera somewhere. Anyways my son said he saw it turn from a bright circle to a long line and then he said he looked again as he was driving and it was gone but my daughter said she watched the line move left in the sky and the rapidly take off like it had propulsion and disappear. I called the skydiving place to ask if they had any witnesses but they said they would get back to me and that was a few days ago and I haven’t heard back. 3 of us saw this but I think the reason I could make out it’s cylinder shape and rounded edges was because I was a few car lengths ahead of my kids and had the advantage of being closer to make out more detail. I can’t think of anything more except to say I know that highway was pretty busy and I am quite sure that other motorists had to have seen it as well. If I held my finger up to the window and tree line a normal plane would take up about a quarter inch of my finger, this object was easily a full inch of my finger long. Extremely long and that was from miles away, I can’t imagine how big it really was.
July 16, 2023 · 8:40 AM · CIGAR
Winnemucca, NV
I was standing outside of holiday inn express looking towards the mountain to the northwest of town when I saw a reflection in the sky, I pulled out my phone and zoomed in on it to see that it was a very large, metallic cigar shaped object that was moving from left to right with no visible signs of propulsion.
July 13, 2023 · 8:21 PM · CIGAR
North haven, CT
I was at a job site working. I noticed a plane overhead. I looked up and that’s when I saw it on TikTok shaped object. It was moving slow instead, I was able to get a small recording of it before the video was interrupted by a phone call. I kept my eye on it as a scene to move behind some clouds. When it reappeared, it was no longer white. It looked like a black spec. Then, within a blink of an eye, it was gone I could not see it anywhere. I was still able to see the plane that flew overhead. It was a lot farther than the UAP but I was able to tell that that was a plane. I could not figure out what this was. I have been coming to this location for the last four years and I’ve never seen anything like this in the sky. I am always looking up hoping that one day I get to see something. this was not a satellite. This was not a plane. This was not a helicopter. This was not a drone.
July 12, 2023 · 12:08 PM · CIGAR
London, LONDON B · United Kingdom
I was walking my dog on Upper Norwood Recreation Ground, which has a great panoramic view of the sky. While taking in the view, I spotted what I originally thought was an interesting cloud, as it wasn't anything like the cloud formations surrounding it. I took photos and a short video, then walked home. As I walked along the road, 13 minutes later, I looked in the same direction of the weird cloud, and not only was it still in the same place (unlike the clouds surrounding it), and had split into 2. The single and double cigar shapes were similar in colour to the slate grey clouds, mixed with the fluffy white formations, but the shape didn't change like the clouds over time. I've been watching a lot of declassified examples of UFOs and UAPs recently while I work from home (HR Advisor in digital marketing agency), which is why I thought it was particularly odd as it looked just like other sightings shared on TV and online. [NUFORC annotation: Cloud - Possible]
July 11, 2023 · 9:50 PM · CIGAR
St Catharines, ON · Canada
Huge dark long shadow in the sky!
July 11, 2023 · 4:44 AM · CIGAR
MALAGA, MÁLAGA P · Spain
I was taking a photo of the moon, saw the ufo decided to keep moon shot in the centre, to help prospective, this is facing south, I know this because of my solar panels. the sun rises to the left of the shot about 07:15 this time of year.
July 10, 2023 · 8:29 PM · CIGAR
Defiance, MO
Tic-tac/Cigar shaped object headed in a controlled SW direction. No sound. At times it appeared to be glowing. Color changed from metallic to white multiple times and it looked like the object was possibly rotating.
July 4, 2023 · 4:27 PM · CIGAR
IdentifiedCavalaire-Sur-Mer, Provence Alpes Cote d'azur · France
Le 4 juillet 2023, vers 16h25, alors qu’il est sur la plage en vacances à Cavalaire-sur-Mer (83), le témoin (T1) observe une forme allongée qui évolue lentement dans le ciel. L’observation est partagée avec son épouse, son fils et sa fille mais seul T1 remplit un Questionnaire Technique. Des clichés du PAN sont également transmis au GEIPAN. De faible étrangeté et de bonne consistance* (plusieurs témoins bien qu’un seul témoignage, plusieurs clichés), ce PAN s’avère être un ballon à l’hélium très probablement en forme de requin (voir la note d'enquête). Une rapide recherche sur le net révèle que ce type de ballon est disponible à la vente, avec des dimensions pouvant atteindre jusqu’à 2m de long. De plus, en période estivale et en bordure de mer, les conditions sont particulièrement propices à l'utilisation de cet objet récréatif. En agrandissant un cliché, la ressemblance avec un requin est confirmée par T1. Également, la trajectoire du PAN est compatible à l’orientation du vent présent au moment de l’observation. Le cas est classé en A : Ballon hélium type « Requin ». *selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d’informations considérées comme fiables, recueillies pour un témoignage. [GEIPAN classification A — Ballon]
July 1, 2023 · 9:57 PM · CIGAR
Eden Prairie, MN
I was walking my dog down the driveway and a UAP appeared in the Northern part of the sky heading South directly at my house and camera. It turned abruptly west and flew past my camera and directly behind me. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
July 1, 2023 · 9:33 PM · CIGAR
Shenandoah, VA
I was recording my neighbors fireworks and a green light cut across the sky, I checked the recording and the object appeared out of thin air glowing green then shot though the clouds into the sky moving some clouds in the process. It appears and is gone in one 10th of a second when I watched it frame by frame on the recording. [NUFORC annotation: Fireworks - Possible]
June 30, 2023 · 1:26 AM · CIGAR
Keizer, OR
I had just opened my car door and was looking up in the sky after getting off work at 1:30 in the morning it was probably about 1:26 a.m. and I saw 1 very large long object gliding across the sky very fast almost like a shooting star but it had no lights that I could tell. It disappeared just as quickly almost as I saw it right above my house it had Brown and grey tones to its color. I tried focusing my eyes on it more as I did it looked as if it had some kind of texture to it. The shape was much like a dragon without wings kind of fatter at the front of it and then long and skinny tapering off at the end kind of like what a comment with the tail would look like but more solid and more substance throughout the middle portion than a comet. It was strange enough looking that I felt I needed to file a report somewhere as soon as I seen it. So there's the report wish I could have had more to say about it but I only saw it for seconds.
June 25, 2023 · 11:15 PM · CIGAR
Bellevue, WA
The images are of a cylindrical aircraft flying across the nighttime Bellevue sky. The first image is blown up, the second is from a distance. I didn’t see wings or flashing lights, so I’m fairly certain it’s not an airplane.
June 25, 2023 · 6:41 PM · CIGAR
Riverside, RI
Me and my boyfriend were sitting on a park bench on a clear and sunny day. I noticed across the bay a stationary object above the tree line. I pointed it out to him and we figured it was a plane because it was in a common flight path. We watched it for about a minute and it seemed to not move at all then moved in almost a straight line down towards the tree line. It stopped right above the tree line for another few seconds and then move down again out of view. The whole encounter seemed to have lasted 1-2 minutes.
June 24, 2023 · 6:45 PM · CIGAR
Probable conventionalCoupeville, WA
I was in the car, my friends and I were driving back from paddle boarding in penn cove, towards Boon Road. I was looking out the window and saw what I thought was a plane. It was white/greyish and it was flying the same direction we were going. It was a cylinder-like shape and it was tilted slightly up, I genuinely thought it was a plane. After four seconds of looking at it, it disappeared extremely fast. It was there and then it was gone. It was blue clear skies, there was clouds up ahead but not close enough for the craft to disappear into. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
June 22, 2023 · 11:22 PM · CIGAR
Grand Rapids, MI
The craft was very large, but I can not say how large as I do not know what its altitude was. It was above the clouds. There was no sound or lights. It was lit by the moon light. It moved across the sky at a steady speed. It was clearly visible except when it went above a cloud. I was sitting in a chair, and I watched it for about 30 seconds. It was long and cylindrical. The sky was clear except for a few clouds. It was traveling in a west to east direction. I lost sight of it after it passed over my house. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]