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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.
27,433 entries
November 21, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Oklahoma City, OK
Flying a corporate jet at 43000 feet on a 290 heading. First saw several lights (usually 2 turning circles or zipping up and down diagonally but sometimes up to 4) at extremely high altitude at great distance at our 10-11oclock over Oklahoma City. So to the southwest of our position. These lights came in and out of sight at about 5 minute intervals for approx 1 hour. Also varied in brightness from very bright to dim with no apparent pattern to that. Always staying in exactly the same place in our windshield so they paved us for at least 400 miles.
November 21, 2023 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
La Grande, OR
At approximately 6:30 am PST driving west into La Grande, Oregon, I saw a large bright white light that I assumed was a planet. I pointed it out to my granddaughter who stated it wasn’t a planet and was moving. The sky was completely light and no other stars were noted. It appeared to move to the southwest towards us and then just suddenly completely disappeared. No other object was there, it was just gone.
November 20, 2023 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalScarborough, ME
While driving I witnessed approximately 20 bright white lights in a diagonal line (at about a 45 degree angle) across the sky. They appeared to be about as high as an airplane would fly. Maybe higher. They looked like bright stars (white lights) but much closer than stars. They were equally spaced apart. I pulled over to watch them and they began to slowly move (maintaining their equal distance apart from each other) from their diagonal line into a straight vertical line. The top light then started to move a little bit away from the others straight off the top of the line and then all of a sudden it shot off and away from the others. Then the next light would do the same. When they shot off it was so fast that it looked like a shooting star and disappeared. Each one of the lights followed suit until they were all gone. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
November 20, 2023 · 5:15 PM · LIGHT
Halfway, MD
I was traveling North on I-81 in Hagerstown, MD at around 5:15 in slow moving traffic. Street lamps had just come on but it was still light out when I seen 4 lights that may have been in a diamond formation or just a cluster that I thought were just a bit than taller street lamps but were offset a good ways from the interstate. I was never able to pass them, so they were not stationary at all and kept the same height and distance as I drove 8 miles of driving distance. They continued to travel and I lost sight of them briefly when traffic slowed down. Once the traffic sped up to 50 mph I was able to regain site of them, until I was even with Hagerstown airports runway. The runway is on the eastern side of the interstate, on the western side of the interstate is farmland. Once the lights reached the farmland, they merged into 2 square lights that resembled the Lotto Shoe logo (2 squares joined but with a space) the bottom of the 2 squares was extremely bright. Much brighter than the upper portion.. Then they were gone. I did not see them go up or down or anything. Mind you this entire event lasted maybe 10-12 minutes if that long and I was driving in decently heavy traffic.
November 15, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Kimberly, WI
Walking in neighborhood when at around 9 PM I observed a unique reddish light pulsing (not blinking and not super bright) SSE of me, with no distinct separate lights but seemed more than one singular light, maybe moving slowly or appearing to move slowly because of its trajectory, or maybe it was still, hard to say as I never stopped walking. Its average intensity didn't change aside from the pulsing and I Kept an eye on it as I walked, but the immediate homes I was walking past obscured my view at times. Initially assumed it was likely a low aircraft, as planes are pretty common to see in that general area of the sky and the pulses were at a regular interval - I could also see white headlights of a plane further south down near the horizon. While catching it in a gap between two rooftops in the area where I was expecting to see the reddish light, was a much brighter white light, falling straight down, like a very bright shooting star. I ran to clear the next house (2-3 seconds), but there was no sign of anything in that part of the sky anymore. I continued to scan the sky and watched the distant plane as it slowly approached, identifiable as a plane by the clear individual lights as it passed me to the east heading north. It seemed like the area where the reddish light was seen was more to the west of that plane's flight path. I checked a flight tracker replay at home and saw the northbound plane, around 9:05, but nothing else that matched what I saw preceded it. Sky was clear with no cloud cover.
November 13, 2023 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT
Cumberland, VA
11/13/23 around 11:40pm, walking dog on farm hilltop, looking south east, a “meteorite” falls directly perpendicular, straight down from above, then makes 90* turn to the east, traveling horizontally ,just above the horizon. The trajectory was the shape of a backwards capital “ L”. The speed stayed consistent, did not change before or after the 90 degree turn. Like a pinball ricochets off of a wall. This thing moved very very fast in both directions. I was observing a twinkling star in the SE, and the object fell from directly above this particular star, traveling straight down, right into my direct view, making its turn below the star, zipping off to the east above the tree line, horizontally. Very very fast. So fast that by the time it turned and moved east, my eyes were still looking towards the twinkling star, and it moved east, out of my peripheral vision. I then asked Google if meteorites made right angle turns. I was surprised to see that they don’t in fact make those type of drastic turns. About an hour ago, 24 hours after this event, I just saw a news report of a “meteor’ seen last night in Minnesota traveling horizontally across the sky. The object moving across the sky in Minnesota was at a very similar distance above the horizon as the object I observed. It also had a similar speed. The news report didn’t mention which direction that object was moving. And the Minnesota event happens 4 hours prior to the one I saw here in central Virginia. There was no mention of the object falling first then making a right angle turn. But it was strikingly similar to what I observed in the way that it moved horizontally and fast. After seeing that news out of MN, I thought it would be a good idea to submit these details now, in the event that there were other similar events last night, or similar details yet to be reported from MN or VA. Based on what I saw, I would not be surprised if others saw the object in MN first fall towards earth and making a turn before streaking horizontally. The fact remains that 2 different strange and similar events occurred, 4 hours apart, and the one here in VA entered the atmosphere first traveling downward, then turning to the east. I didn’t hear a sonic boom. Im not sure if I would have been close enough to hear it had there been one. The news report from MN also mentioned that NASA doesn’t think it was a meteor in MN, which begs the question, what was it in MN? And what was it that I saw 4 hours later?
November 13, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Ione, WA
I was standing near a south facing window in my house in Northern Pend Oreille County WA. On 13 November around 11pm I saw three very bright Lights that looked like very bright “out of focus” stars in a horizontal line each was about 6 degrees spacing along the ecliptic in the direction of SWW. I thought for a moment that I should take a photo but realized the lights would not make a good photo. They did not seem to be moving. I debated on waking my husband up and instead went to bed. I told my husband about this the next morning and he mentioned that after looking on stelerium that Orion’s belt was in that area but it was not in a horizontal line. Jupiter was visible farther to the west. On the 14th and 15th I noticed military aircraft circling the area south of our house.
November 13, 2023 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Cheyenne, WY
At 10:20pm MT, I was the Captain operating SWA FLT 4900 MSP-DEN, we could see a light move up in the sky at a rapid speed and go from dim to a very bright light. At one time, we could see 4 lights come and go sometimes moving in a counterclockwise position.
November 13, 2023 · 6:51 PM · LIGHT
Nichols Hills, OK
I was driving in my car and looked up with a traveling/moving light caught my eye that was moving really fast. I looked up as I saw it traveling extremely fast in a Western direction. It was glowing blue in the dark sky. Just like that it looked like it just suddenly vanished.
November 12, 2023 · 6:50 PM · LIGHT
Prior Lake, MN
There was like 11 individual stars from when i noticed it. Looked like a bunch of stars but they were in a straight line in groups of 3s. It was a long line spaced apart, i would imagine several miles in distance from the first to the last one. They were bright like stars but appeared low as if they were floating in the sky. It was much higher then a tall voltage line but lower then an airplane. An aircraft flew in between 2 of the points and you could tell the airplane was higher in elevation. After the plane went by then the objects started disappearing 1 by 1. Then I saw a black image shoot straight up between where the lights were, like a shooting star with no lights but going up. Then when they all disappeared, a moment later there was a white flash in the spot where the line was.
November 12, 2023 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Identified[Aero] De Mexico (Mx.156) Vers Roissy-En-France, Autre · France
Le 12 novembre 2023, lors d’un vol transatlantique, un pilote et son équipage observent des lumières en mouvement, suivant des trajectoires apparemment aléatoires. Initialement, ils ont envisagé qu’il pourrait s’agir de satellites, mais sont restés perplexes face à ces manifestations inhabituelles. D’étrangeté faible et de bonne consistance* (plusieurs témoins, témoignage unique et assez complet), ce cas s’avère être une observation de flashs de satellites Starlink® ( voir le compte rendu d'enquête). *selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d’informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. La description du PAN correspond de manière cohérente à ce type d’observation : plusieurs points lumineux présentant une intensité lumineuse variable et effectuant des déplacements apparemment aléatoires, limités à une région spécifique du ciel.. Une vérification sur Stellarium permet de confirmer que le PAN est localisé à un angle de 45° au-dessus de la position apparente du Soleil. Au moment de l'observation, le Soleil se situant entre 30° et 45° sous l’horizon. Ce type d’observation, dans une configuration d’éclairement similaire, a fait l’objet d’une analyse détaillée dans une actualité dédiée sur le site web du GEIPAN et que l'on peut retrouver précisément dans Nouveau phénomène expliqué : les flashs de satellites Starlink. Le cas est classé « A », observation de flashs de satellites Starlink®. [GEIPAN classification A — Flashs Starlink]
November 11, 2023 · 8:04 PM · LIGHT
Midvale, UT
I did not see these live. These lights were caught on my Ring doorbell camera and I noticed this four hours after it had happened. Four bright lights flying, no noise and fading one at a time and three of the lights were flying in a triangular motion. No other reports of sighting from local news websites.
November 11, 2023 · 6:36 PM · LIGHT
Marquette-lez-Lille, HAUTS-DE · France
On November 11th 2023, between 6:36 39s and 6:36 43s PM, a fast-moving light, captured by my CCTV IR camera in Marquette-lez-Lille, appearing behind trees, at an estimate speed between Mach 2 to 4. The object has been globally following an S>N trajectory. Trees (poplars) are between 30 to 50 meters away from the camera, and they're very high (25? 30 meters?) I was watching at the screen when it appeared, in a room with an open door to the outside, and no noise was heard at this moment. After checking flightradar.com, there was not flight in the area possible to be mistaken with this objects. On the original recording, flights before and after can clearly be seen as a reference to compare. The sky was clear on that day. A bright star can also be seen in this footage, on its logical position for that day. The object is clearly moving behind the trees, and can't be a bug in the IR light.(IR exposition doesn't exceed 20 - 30 meters). Unclear which object the witnessif referring to in video.
November 10, 2023 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Iowa City, IA
Bright light overhead, clear night. Fast moving, disappeared quickly while still well above horizon. I don't think it was a meteor or aircraft even though this is the flight path for our municipal airport. Had headphones on couldn't hear if it made sound.
November 9, 2023 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
KY
Passenger aircraft cruising at FL34,000. I was a crew member that entered flightdeck mid-flight. Two other crew members pointed out the 4 lights they had been watching for 45 minutes. Lights flying in circles vertically, horizontally as well as tight zig zag patterns, then flying straight upward. The circular motions were like a dance. No regular patterns, but incredibly fast maneuvers. The lights would disappear and reappear occasionally. The altitude of the objects was unknown, but they were so high that they never left our view during that time. I watched them for 15 minutes before allowing another crew member to observe as well. As our pilot said, "no aircraft exists that can perform those maneuvers." Four crew members witnessed.
November 8, 2023 · 8:23 PM · LIGHT
Everett, WA
After dropping off a friend at his house in northern Everett, WA, while still sitting in my car, I saw the objects through my open window towards the south. There were three bright white lights in the sky approximately 35-40 degrees above the horizon. The three lights were in a non-equilateral formation and slowly moving independently of each other. They were much brighter and larger in the sky than any star, planet, or satellite I have seen. Based on the brightness and apparent distance, they seemed too close together to be landing lights on three separate planes and too far apart to be lights from a single plane. They also did not resemble flares in any way. I watched them for about 1-2 minutes before pulling away and for some odd reason I did not think to take a photo or a video. Once I got home, I saw on Facebook that 2 other people who live in the area saw the exact same objects and one of those people took a good video of the objects while driving in the same area that I had been in when I saw them. After thinking for awhile at home, I remembered that about 30 more to an hour before the sighting, I had been sitting in a church in downtown Everett, WA and I had heard the sound of a distant military jet. It stood out to me because I am in that area a lot and I have never heard any kind of plane in that area before. Some additional information about me: - I have spent many years enjoying recreational astronomy. I am familiar with stars, planets, etc. - I have previously witnessed many satellites in the sky including StarLink satellites. - I grew up right next to an airport with flights coming and going directly over my house just above the tree tops. - I have spent years educating myself about the space and aviation industry. I am pretty capable of identifying aircraft and rocket launches. Note: Attached photos are extracted from a video taken by another nearby observer within minutes of my sighting of the same objects.
November 8, 2023 · 5:26 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalCoconut Creek, FL
I came out this morning around 4:20am looked up and saw a bright light shining to the right of our moon, it seemed strange at the time because it was brighter than the actual moon which was only a quarter of a the moon shining this morning. Watched it for 1 hour no movement so I decided to take a photo. When I zoomed in I saw the imagine posted. Thought it would be interesting to share. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
November 4, 2023 · 7:58 PM · LIGHT
Fort Lauderdale, FL
From Westin hotel window we watched for 30 minutes unusual activity with 3 lights staying still over the ocean then 1 ascended slowly like a balloon while other 2 remained stationary.
November 4, 2023 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Barra del Chuy, ROCHA DE · Uruguay
I was on the beach with my partner, watching the sky, and towards the south of the Southern Cross constellation, we began to notice lights, about the size of a planet, moving in different directions, sometimes one alone, other times two, even four at the same time; in a short period of time these would appear, move at different speeds, and fade away. Me encontraba en la playa con mi pareja, observando el cielo, y hacia el sur de la constelación de la Cruz del sur, empezamos a apreciar luces, del tamaño de un planeta aproximadamente, moviéndose en distintas direcciones , a veces 1 sola, otras 2 , incluso 4 al mismo tiempo ; en un pequeño periodo de tiempo estas aparecían, se movían a distintas velocidades , y se desvanecían.
November 3, 2023 · 8:42 PM · LIGHT
Mansfield, NJ
I was on my way to my local ATM (I have receipt 8:51pm) so it must have been no more than 10 minutes before that, driving north on Homestead Drive in Homestead Adult Community in Columbus, NJ, I had just turned the slight left-turning curve about 10 meters north of Chestnut Hill Lane, when I saw very low in the sky, just above the treetops above the houses at the intersection of either Deep Hollow and Homestead Drive or Hill Top Lane and Homestead Drive, two alternating flashing red lights. They alternated about twice per second. The lights looked like short line segments. The lights looked about the same distance apart as the width of Homestead Drive. It was absolutely pitch black. I could see nothing else in the sky: I could not see any object to which they were attached. The two alternating red lights moved together as if they were part of the same rigid structure in the same direction, eastward and out of sight, as the line connecting the lights. I had all the windows of my car rolled up, because it was quite cold. So, I heard nothing. They moved off eastward over Homestead Drive and somehow out of view. The entire event lasted about ten seconds. No time for me to take my cellphone out and snap a photo. While I saw this, my feeling was that this was a police helicopter of some type, or some kind of police or military craft, because the lights were red, and because we have had many airplanes and helicopters from McGuire AFB fly over Homestead in broad daylight, since 1993. I felt it was strange, because of how low it was, but not strange enough to call it alien. It definitely WAS an unidentified flying object: a UFO, as I could not identify it. The fact that these two lights did not make a noise did not impress me. I do not remember them making a sound. But, I would really need to do an independent experiment to compare to the sounds made by known McGuire flyovers. There was some car ahead of me, about 50 meters, on Homestead Drive, traveling in the same direction I was. I was not able to read their license plate. They would have certainly been able to see this thing, too. On Monday, November 6, I posted a note in our clubhouse asking for whomever this driver was, who was out at this same time and location, to contact me. After I got home from the ATM, I called the guardhouse/frontgate to ask if they these lights. The man on duty told me he saw nothing.
November 3, 2023 · 7:03 AM · LIGHT
Markham, ON · Canada
This object looking like a star from its height in the sky took a slight turn to the right away from the half moon in the clear sky. It then went on across the rest of the sky quickly and disappeared from sight. No sound or any visible flashing but it moved very fast over the whole sky. Could have been something from here but even satellites in space that I have witnessed don't move that fast.
November 2, 2023 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
La Quinta, CA
Solid white bright light traveling south and up faster than a plane. Faded out and disappeared as we watched it
November 2, 2023 · 6:02 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
I was traveling on Hwy 87 toward Gilbert. It was around 6 pm. The sun was setting. At first I noticed a group of four crafts in the sky. What alarmed me was how close they seemed to be to each other and that they were slowly moving back and forth in the sky. One by one, the crafts disappeared. I made a turn onto Gilbert Road and saw three more crafts not moving in the sky. These crafts spread out and formed a triangle
November 1, 2023 · 5:45 PM · LIGHT
Sheep mountain, CO
@1730 .Dark,no clouds. Milky Way present. Son and I heading back to hunting camp. We noticed a very bright light that was directly behind a cloudy,or,hazy substance. There were no clouds . Clear night. This light was coming over Sheep Mountain. Coming from the North and NorthWest. Approximately 15-20 thousand feet in altitude. We were approaching Sheep Mountain to our North, North West. Nearest town from the approach angle is Gunnison, Colorado. Hunting camp near Sheep Mountain was @10,100 feet in elevation. Sheep Mountain is over 13,000 feet. We first thought it was a plane's nose light. Thought it was odd about the haze in front of this light. Son turned his headlamp on,and, this object veered to our left,gradually. Travelling South to SouthEast. Saw no id lights,and, no noise. Did not see an object. Light went off,and sky was clear. No object. Other hunters did not see,or, hear anything.