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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.
4,558 entries
August 16, 2023 · 10:37 PM · FORMATION
Stevensville, MT
I seen a fast moving formation of 3 lights in a straight line that had a definition of a dark/haze cylinder shaped object I could make out that the lights were on. It was moving very fast and almost seemed to fade away. About 20 minutes later it flew back in the exact same spot I seen it the first time headed the opposite direction.
August 16, 2023 · 9:38 PM · FORMATION
Robertsdale, AL
It didn't last long. I got a paranoid feeling that I wasn't alone, so I went outside. I heard this unnatural thrumming noise that was slowly getting quieter. I didn't think too much of it; it was probably a helicopter. As I looked northwest though, I saw a string of lights appear in an alternating pattern of one, then two, then one again. It was like stars actings as hopscotch squares. They disappeared after a few seconds, row by row. I didn't know what to make of it. I then watched two stars move very quickly to a different location, but they stayed in the same position. Like two points in a diagonal slash. \ I'll share a quick drawing.My neighbor's dog just wouldn't stop barking until it stopped too. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
August 16, 2023 · 9:05 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalBarnegat, NJ
See video [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
August 16, 2023 · 8:20 PM · FORMATION
Athens, OH
I regularly take a swim in Strouds Run State Park. I swim across and then return back. On my way back I looked up and saw the sky. It was sunset and dark blue above me. To the horizon was colorful sunset. Above me I noticed thin clouds. I noticed among them were 5-7 square yellow green colored objects. All equal distance and within the clouds. There was no noise. They moved very slowly over head. I could not come ot any other human make objects which they may have been. It was a bit frightening being in the middle of the lake as the object(s) passed overhead of me. I felt am awareness of myself and that something above was looking at me. It was a strange feeling. I swam as quickly as I could back to shore. At this point it had passed and was continuing East slowly over the lake. More more detail, the green/yellow squares apeared to be blinking.
August 15, 2023 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Sorbas, ALMERÍA · Spain
First 1 moving from west to east. Spilt into 2 . One returned in direction of east. The about 10 came from north towards main light. Curving around main light, then moving west to horizon. The main light stayed above mountain before growing brighter then departing to the direction it came. The west. No way this was a meteor or manned object. Not the first time. Happened about a year ago... What now !!!????
August 13, 2023 · 10:25 PM · FORMATION
Carbondale, CO
I was looking up into the sky to watch the meteor shower in a small mountain town with very little light pollution. I was in the backyard of my townhome and my girlfriend had just gone to bed. I noticed 3 lights in a straight line with 1-2 lights flanking each side of it, almost resembling a complete arrow or half of an arrow. It was hard to count all the lights to truly put a concrete number on it, but there were at least 4, but likely 5. The weirdest part is that the area between the lights looked blurry. It was not a solid object, at least what I could see. It looked blurry, as if you were looking at blacktop asphalt in the distance on a super hot and sunny day. I was able to watch it for about 7 seconds before it passed far enough to fall behind roof of the home next door and out of my line of sight. Over the course of those 7 seconds, I blinked several times - to ensure I was actually seeing what I was seeing. It, whatever it was, was not high enough to blend within the stars or where you would see a satellite - it was closer than that. Maybe just beyond where you’d imagine to see a cloud. I’ve seen starlink before and this was not it. It was not nearly as long and there were lights flanking alongside of the line. This was also not a plane. The lights were not blinking - they were constant. With how far they were spread out, the plane would have had to have been either the biggest plane beyond our imagination or far closer to the earth than this was. Close enough to be able to ID it as a plane and even hear it. There could very well be a rational explanation for it - maybe it was drone(s), but it was a lot higher than any drone I’ve personally seen.
August 13, 2023 · 12:00 PM · FORMATION
Waterbury, CT
When I looked outside the window I was seeing a black almost football shaped object hovering in the air it was clear as day then going up towards the clouds hiding in the clouds . I know the difference between a balloon or a aircraft that was none of the above .
August 12, 2023 · 11:10 PM · FORMATION
Oconomowoc, WI
While watching for meteors, we witnessed approximately 10-20 white lights flying tightly northwest to northeast- they began separating and flying different directions- we saw 3 sets of them one directly after the others
August 12, 2023 · 9:15 PM · FORMATION
Rochester, IL
Was watching the perseid meteor shower looking West when my girlfriend and I noticed 1 orb of light moving across the sky going South East. As we watched 2 more orbs appeared also going the same direction. All 3 were in a triangle formation. They would stop and hover for a few seconds before moving across the sky. They disappeared one at a time around the same point in the sky. These lights didn't appear to be satellites or aircraft and they didn't have the usual blinking green or red lights most aircraft have.
August 11, 2023 · 10:15 PM · FORMATION
Ellettsville, IN
We were driving home from Switchyard park in Bloomington on hwy 46 westbound through ellettsville. My wife, from the passenger seat said "what's that?".. I looked up and seen a short pattern of lights. Maybe 3 inches across if I was to hold out my hand and open my fingers to each side of the formation. The lights were moving East/South East at a steady rate of speed. The line was somewhat slanted in the sky, as far as their trailing pattern goes. They were not all in the same plane as each other, although travelling at the same heading. Somewhat straight line though. My first thought was Starlink, but it wasn't like any of the starlink formations that I've seen. I also checked a starlink tracking page (the same one this site provides), and it showed they were still way off the West coast. I began to attempt to pull over to take pictures or video. Once I got in the turning lane, to turn left into a parking lot, they appeared to fade behind some clouds. My best guess from my flying experience, was anywhere between 5000 to 10000 feet up maybe(?). 10-20 minutes later my brother was messaging me to tell me what he just seen.. Ends up getting seen it as well, although he described the lights as being green, and possibly lower elevation. He was located in Judah Indiana area, which would be the direction they were heading.
August 8, 2023 · 9:45 PM · FORMATION
Breckenridge, TX
Looked to be in parallel lines/groupings. After passing of green lights, there was significant aircraft activity to include stationary hovering of aircraft in areas along the horizon in all directions surrounding the given coordinates. The colors of the flashing lights from aircraft were a combination of red, white, amber, and green. Estimated to see 12-15 moving and stationary aircraft with different light features. After the passing of the strange green lights, all observable aircraft returned to the westbound airspace. They slowly dissipated over the span of 9:45 pm and 12:00am. Aircraft activity seen thereafter was of normal and expected capacity.
August 8, 2023 · 9:05 PM · FORMATION
flagler beach, FL, 0
I was driving on S 23rd street between the atlantic ocean and the intracoastal waterway when my son spotted something in the sky; I pulled over to have a look. We both saw approx. 8 round white lights/objects all flying through the sky from the northeast, heading in a line at a very high altitude and moving rapidly given their apparent altitude. The lights all moved in a line in formation; they moved together in unison, so that it appeared as if they were all tethered together. The movement was similar to what you would see observing the tail of a kite in the wind, or a rollercoaster. The objects continued heading southwest until they disappearead behind a large cloud. I think observed flashes of light in the clouds. I have a video of the flashes in the clouds but could not get the camera out in time to ctch the object. Also, these lights did not look anything like starlink satellite pictures I've seen. Instead, they looked identical to the lights observed over the Fukushima nuclear disaster site back in 11' (the daytime video). The lights were each relatively large given their distance in the sky; they were each roughly 0.5 cm in the sky (from my ground perspective) This sighting occurred near the atlantic ocean beach in Flagler Beach, which is nearby to both a nuclear facility and cape canaveral space port.
August 7, 2023 · 9:23 PM · FORMATION
Upland, CA
Headed out back to water the plants, I scan the night sky as always. Suddenly, appearing as if from a cloud, a centipede like, segmented, well lit with a green hue, each segment sort of square. Rounded front and rear. Appeared segment by segment until a full, long craft appeared then seemingly "flowed by" for about 7 seconds, disappearing towards the slight southeast, segment by segment. It was oddly low in the sky, I could see the stars above it. I see many small planes in our local skies with an airport roughly a mile from my home. They fly low and they were in the sky at the same time tonight. This was clearly hundreds of yards above at most, and enormous. Wide, but longer. Kind of like a bunch of train car bottoms lit up green, with some additional patterns, from underneath, but flying silently above me. It had to be seen by others. Brief, but enormous and well lit. Terrifically bright against the sky in the background. So low anyone outside looking up at that moment surely witnessed it as well. I clearly, rationally viewed this UAP directly above my home in Upland Ca this night of 8/07/2023. I've always believed, have often watched the skies and now have been completely blown away, as if witnessing a dream sequence so realistic. But, I have never dreamed of seeing a UAP. I was watching it live. I now know for sure. Could have been nothing else but a flying craft. A fucking, flying , unidentifiable craft appearing briefly in the sky. Truly magnificent and mind blowing.
August 3, 2023 · 9:07 PM · FORMATION
Dallas, TX
Driving down the Dallas freeway we saw five craft that initially looked like aircraft lining up to land. After they stayed still and started to move off at 90 degree angles and flash on and off, and did not have additional aircraft lights, but were single orbs of light, we realized they were not normal aircraft. When we got back to the hotel, we continued watching the craft from the parking lot. One broke off and flew silently directly overhead at about 1,500 feet, at which point we could see a structure within the light. Craft continued to move slowly and silently past DFW airport and out of site. At times, they moved close to other aircraft and appeared to present a danger to aviation.
August 3, 2023 · 8:17 PM · FORMATION
Los Angeles, CA
While watering in my backyard in Elysian Heights I looked absentmindedly up to the sky and suddenly saw a formation of 2-3 bright lights streaking across the sky in the direction of Hollywood. I would say they were traveling northwest. Although the formation entered from outside my field of vision, I was able to view them for some time crossing my field of vision. There was a bright blue one, what seemed like a light green, and then a red one, that looked rather like a plane light. All three of these lights were stacked very nearby one another, and moving together. I assumed it was a plane and then a firework, but I noticed no sound emitted whatsoever, during or at the end. I only realized it could not have been a plane nor a firework once it was gone. Firstly, the formation was moving horizontally across the sky at a low altitude. Secondly, the lights moved together in a line and then seemed to separate and then “fizzle out” before leaving my field of vision. Due to this I thought it could be a firework… But a firework lit on the ground would not have the chance to travel so far horizontally, and at such great altitude. It would also have made some noise —this was silent. I was on a hill near the highest point, and the lights were far above the crest of the mountains. You couldn’t shoot a firework off from that height. A drone, too, would not have been able to travel that fast, perhaps unless it was a stealth military unmanned drone…but the multiple lights and the splitting up of the formation looked to me like it was multiple objects OR that one object was breaking up, the way something would in the atmosphere. However it was not moving down, but sideways. This made me think of a shooting star as well. But a shooting star appears to happen much higher up in the atmosphere, and fizzle out as it approaches the Earth. These were definitely moving HORIZONTALLY across the sky, not vertically up or down. From my perspective, the phenomenon occurred right above Sunset Blvd on the way from Echo Park to Silverlake, so I assume that other people will have noticed it too. This is a densely populated area and the sighting occurred in a fairly visible place. They left no trail, other than maybe a light trail on my retinas. The whole thing must have lasted only a few seconds, the way a firework does as you watch it burn and fizzle out. I only caught the end of this event. It was clear to me that the objects had already been moving for a considerable amount of distance/time by the time I saw them. This i judge by the speed at which they moved once I noticed them. Overall a very curious event that I will be wondering about for a long time.
August 2, 2023 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
concan, TX
Perfect dark sky saw 21 to 28 objects: heading ssw to sse perfect formation each craft had a white
July 28, 2023 · 11:07 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedSt. Petersburg, FL
Was walking back to our apartment from Walmart. I looked to my left and high above the power lines were 2 separate objects. One was a cluster of lights and the other was a very large ball of an even brighter light. Both close together. Told my bf and he saw them, quickly grabbed my phone to take video and while I was trying to get my phone to fix the clarity of the focus, the cluster of lights faded into a slow fade. The bright ball of light was still there but then it faded away slowly too. So much clearer in person. See video SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 26, 2023 · 7:15 AM · FORMATION
Fond du lac, WI
eEA in progress in Oshkosh, Wi. and sight could have been distantly above EEA eveny.
July 24, 2023 · 8:02 PM · FORMATION
Enfield, CT
At 8:02 PM on Monday July 24th 2023 while at my son's Little League baseball game, I noticed, initially 2 oddly shaped objects flying overhead from the south, the objects appeared over the tree line (for a moment I thought the objects were powered parachute type ultra-light aircraft however, I quickly realized they were moving too fast and maneuvering oddly), they were dark gray or black, they had definitive lines of structure to them. One appeared to be an inverted pyramid, or upside-down top, this object looked as though it were tumbling forward, then would rotate / spin, the next object (in trail) appeared cube/diamond like, with curved edges so that when rotated at times would appear to be almost spherical, exhibiting similar flight characteristics. At this point in time another parent and I made eye contact, she said "tell me I'm not the only one seeing this", (2 other parents also witnessed this event and all were perplexed). At this time the third object came into view, further to the west, appearing to be higher in altitude and moving faster. This object appeared to be similar to object #2, it gained on the first 2 objects and then held in a loose formation, the formation was somewhat similar to an isosceles triangle. I was able to get the attached pictures. Weather at the time at nearby Bradley International Airport is included in the attached screenshot of the ATIS information that was current at the time of the sighting. The fields this sighting occurred at are quite large, the area is flat with a good field of view, these objects transited the visible sky from roughly south to north within 45-60 seconds. There was no noise, no contrails, no lights of any kind. According to the attached screenshot of flightradar24 there were no aircraft correlating to the location of these objects or in their direction they were traveling (at least none utilizing a transponder). Initial report to NUFORC was made via phone shortly after sighting occurred.
July 20, 2023 · 9:28 PM · FORMATION
Ocala, FL
My wife is retired air force and knows a lot about satellites and planes. She can't explain this. It was 6 bright lights very high above, moving in a straight formation. They shot quickly through the sky but we lost them because trees obstructed the view. It was probably a coincidence, but dry lightening started right when we saw them. Too organized (followed in a straight line) to be a meteor shower. My wife thinks there's a small chance they were planes from the base, but they were very high and very fast. I watched the starlink videos you posted but this was much faster and there were only 6 or so. They were white lights, possibly other cars but I was so surprised that I don't remember. It was night, so we could only see the lights.
July 15, 2023 · 10:40 PM · FORMATION
Fullerton, PA
Both me and my girlfriend were in the car driving home from a baseball game when we mutually observed 3 red/orange craft in the air hovering at about 500 feet in a stationary triangle-like formation. The 3 craft then began to drift slowly to the east, when 1 by 1 they began to fade into the night sky. My girlfriend was able to take a pretty good video as well as a photo of the event and has left us very convinced of what we saw.
July 10, 2023 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalChattanooga, TN
A long line of lights travelling across the horizon [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
July 9, 2023 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Greentown, IN
I was driving east bound on US HWY 35 from Greentown to Kokomo on Saturday July 9th at approximately 9:30pm. I was about 1.5 miles west of US HWY 31 in Kokomo and the sky was just getting dusk, and I saw these 3 fire orange round orbital lights floating about 50 feet in the air above a house next to a corn field. The orbs were about the size of basketballs and not moving. The orbs were in a perfect diagonal line about 20 feet apart from each other. I thought maybe they were drones or helicopters so I rolled my windows down but heard nothing. I slowed down as I passed and looked back and all of a sudden I saw only one orange orb and it suddenly shot across the sky and disappeared and in less than a second it was completely gone! This is the first time I have ever seen anything like this so I researched it and found that Howard County Indiana has had quite a past with these experiences. Because I was driving alone I was not able to get any pictures. Thank you.
July 6, 2023 · 9:40 PM · FORMATION
Dekalb, IL
Northern sky shifted drastically many times