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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.
9,112 entries
September 1, 2023 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalStony Brook, NY
There was a big ship shaped flying object hovering overhead. It was very loud and sounded like a drone, but bigger and louder. It had 1 or 2 white lights and 1 red light. It did not look like a plane or helicopter. It was moving very slowly in the same area for about 20 minutes, then flew away quickly. There were other what looked like smaller drones flying about as well toward the end. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
August 31, 2023 · 9:50 PM · OTHER
Ellisville, MS
I saw some sort of craft that changed from shades of yellow to dark red that pulsed and undulated, almost like a flame would on a candle. It started from the tree row 200 ft from the house and slowly rose about another 75 feet before gradually moving in a diagonal upward manner until disappearing into the night sky.
August 31, 2023 · 5:10 AM · OTHER
Rome, NY
It moved ever so slowly up on an angle.I could still see it after about an hour. Then the sun was to bright to see it. I could not make what it look like. It was to far away, but it did have a very bright light. Just moving way to slow for of anything that I know of that would be up there. I was looking at it in the east sky from my garage over head door opening.
August 31, 2023 · 2:30 AM · OTHER
Indianapolis, IN
I was looking at the sky and asked my roommate to come look at the bright light in the sky above my neighbors house. At first I thought it was a drone but it was too big. The moon was south of this, the object was east. I took a picture but it was moving, so we took 2 videos of it. It almost danced in the sky. I held my phone still and the object appeared to come closer and had a swirl shape and it would drop out of the camera and then come right back up. It was bright white and had a yellowish bottom edge. We watched this for approximately 15 minutes until it disappeared. We went to bed and I had forgotten about it until later that afternoon.
August 30, 2023 · 8:07 PM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
The picture was taken by a friend of my brother's wife. The friend was taking a picture of the "blue moon" on or around August 30,2023. She did not notice the object when taking the picture, but noticed it later when checking out the picture of the full moon and flowers. My brother sent me the picture and I cropped it to see the object better. Honestly, I do not know what the object is. If it's a hoax, I'd like to know so I can pass it on to my brother. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]
August 30, 2023 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Appleton, WI
My husband & I saw this object so clearly. We live by the airport, so this is very strange indeed! We were outside when I spotted 1 oddity in the sky. It was on Wednesday August 30 2023 at approximately 7 pm. I pointed & asked my husband if he could see the object? He said Yes! It was like a white chunky tic tac/capsule shape. It had many propellers around the center with a "sheer-like" quality. It was moving silently, at a fast pace. I ran to the end of our driveway, to try & capture pictures. I zoomed in & couldn't see it in my camera phone, it had disappeared. It was there one second & gone the next. Now we are watching the sky more often. My husband & I do not drink or do recreational drugs. It's fair to say, that we thought twice about reporting this, due to the possibility of ridicule. However after conversing, we felt it could be of importance. Thanks for your time.
August 29, 2023 · 11:07 PM · OTHER
Staten Island, NY
Unknown
August 29, 2023 · 9:50 PM · OTHER
Leeds · United Kingdom
First object seen was with 2 red lights and 1 blinking white light, then it moved far away. Seen it close to Kirkstall Leisure Centre. It is one I usually see around that area. It moves slowly, and it doesn't go straight, sort of zigzagging, it has a triangular shape. I went to the bus stop, about 5 minutes walk from the first sighting point. After a few minutes, another object, much bigger than the first one, a Pentagon of hexagon shaped , with many lights, at least 8, maybe 9, and they were steady, red and white lights , and honestly it looked like a spacecraft or anything I have never seen and for sure wasn't a plane. It was moving slowly , I would say it wasn't flying straight, but not even zigzagging. A few moments after I saw a blinking light just close to this object, it appeared once, then disappeared for 1-2 seconds, appeared again closer to the hexagon shaped object, and disappeared. It happened between 9:50 -10pm
August 27, 2023 · 11:50 PM · OTHER
Cambria, CA
I saw an object mid-way about 45 degrees in the sky north of my house, guessing 10 plus miles north. It had a distinct red burning glow to it. I grabbed my binoculars because it was so peculiar. The object cleared up and the colors I saw were red and green like Christmas tones in shapes next to or on a round white light. It didn’t move so I walked inside. As I walked past a window, I saw not only had it moved, it was continuing to move swiftly from North to South/SE. I quickly walked back out and it was already flying over my neighbor’s tree, out of sight. I would say that was about 15-20 miles in a few seconds (6-10?), and the object was high up in the sky. I had hight power binoculars but it still didn’t seem close or clearer than vague shapes with color.
August 27, 2023 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Colorado Springs, CO
On the weekends I tend to bike at night between, I start my ride around midnight. Between 0230 and 0400, I was startled by a very bright green fireball, at first, I assumed it was a flair from a military aircraft. But upon wider observation of the sky, no aircraft within the vicinity. Also, the intensity and duration of the light was not consistent with an aircraft flare or firework. I could not hear it. I was wearing headphones. My assumption at the time was that it was some kind of meteor burning up in the atmosphere with some kind of core when heated, produce a bright green light. Shooting star activity that night was on the higher side as well. The only reason I’m reporting this is because I read on the news that several people have said that they spot similar event. So hopefully my information helps to give some clarification. The event was spectacular.
August 26, 2023 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Brackendale, BC · Canada
Saw object swaying back and forth...my bf and i had flash lights so i started flashing it then object went dark and would only emit a single red flash 3xs
August 26, 2023 · 12:15 AM · OTHER
Richmond, VA
At Appx. 1215 AM on August 26, 2023. 4 separate aircraft reported an unidentified flying object moving in all directions in the vicinity of RIC VOR at very high altitudes. All reports suggested the location was in the proximity of the Big Dipper. The object reportedly had three white lights with one being significantly brighter than the others. The lights dimmed and became brighter multiple times.
August 19, 2023 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
IdentifiedWhitstable, UNITED K · United Kingdom
At 10:00 PM on August 19th, while situated on Tankerton beach, I photographed the beach huts. Unintentionally, my camera also captured a sizeable, brightly illuminated oval craft moving rapidly between the two shots (which were taken within milliseconds of eachother). [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
August 17, 2023 · 10:08 PM · OTHER
Strasburg, CO
….dim white light caught my eye and it was fading from white to green as it entered the atmosphere and it changed from green to orange too red and at that point I could see a cocoon of illuminated gas or something behind it. It traveled in an ark from left to right about 180 degree turn and back out of the atmosphere at the speed of light. Whatever it was entered earths atmosphere, made a huge ark and then shot off. Whatever it was was not small. It was very large and the ark it took was as big as the United States if not bigger. It had to have entered the atmosphere so were over tge Atlantic Ocean.
August 17, 2023 · 8:17 PM · OTHER
Guntersiville, AL
Object was bright white, shaped like a stubby football, flying horizontally moving faster than any prop aircraft I've seen, (I was a Navy pilot) I would estimate the size of it to be a slight bit larger than a private aircraft. There were no contrails or other exhaust indications. I was indoor and heard no sound. Never saw anything like it before except on TV. Most aircraft I've seen seem to be flying "slowly" in nearby skies; not this object. It seem to be moving at least twice the speed of prop aircraft in this area. I would estimate it's altitude to be between 1 -2 thousand feet. There is a small private airport about 5 miles to my north. P.S. It follows the Good Year blimp that flew a similar path a few days before. I have a video of that.
August 16, 2023 · 3:15 AM · OTHER
London · United Kingdom
Was with my cat this was Loughton and I was cat sitting and the cat kept meowing and wanted to take me outside. I saw a massive ufo close to the ground and ran inside and locked my cat outside . It was like Muslim energy my cats fine now but I recently started reading the Old Testament and don’t know if that was Allah I’m Muslim and catholic I believe in both I’m just trying to find a way basically . The whole situation felt evil anyways not sure if it was magnetic or whatnot or anything like that but I felt the air shift . I also do this blue aura near my home on the date noted above which was shifting and moving with some lighting and weird cloud movements . Also I had a brainchip put in 3 years ago against my will and I thought a serial killer did it and I still haven’t got helped but I hear people speaking on it constantly making scary things happen. The two locations are lindfield road looking to west links and directly at 97 lushes road at my aunties I won’t be there so maybe come to my address below as she didn’t see [NUFORC annotation: Hoax - Possible]
August 15, 2023 · 2:00 AM · OTHER
Crewe, CHESHIRE · United Kingdom
I sit out most nights observing through my telescope and watching shooting stars, satellites and the hopes for more without the telescope. I find it all very fascinating. Im not sure if anything will come of this but i want somebody to see what i saw. I have a very good video that i captured on my mobile phone being a Samsung galaxy S10. There is 1million% something there and it was extremely big. It had various shapes and im not sure on the size or distance. It looked like after so long of hovering it totally vanished also on film. This happened around 2 AM. Just incase i havent left it previously my email is: ((name and e-address deleted)) please get back to me.
August 14, 2023 · 8:55 PM · OTHER
Taos Canyon, NM
I was driving North through Taos Canyon. I was timing the drive from one end of the canyon to the other so I was vary aware of the time. I entered the canyon at 8:38 pm. Just beyond the Penasco turn off to the east, about 15 minutes through the canyon, I saw an object that at first glance looked like an an object on fire getting ready to crash. I was in the shape of a vertical fin.l It was about 60 ft. from top to bottom and had an extremely bright blue flame shooting out the rear end. The flame was consistent (even) from the top of the rear of object to the bottom. It barely cleared the hill to the west of my truck. The trajectory of the object was about a 45 degree angle heading downward.The blue flame was so bright it was bit frightening. It was traveling at a very high rate of speed based upon how fast it came into view from the East side of the highway until it cleared the hills on the West side of the highway. I immediately slowed down to a crawl and was certain I would witness a huge explosion. With the trajectory and the speed of the object I was sure it would crash any second. I waited for a bright light or explosion...but nothing. That is when I realized that the object made no sound at all. After it went just beyond the hills on the West side of the highway it just disappeared. No sign of it at all. I went up the road just a bit to try and see around the hills and when I had a clear view in maybe 1 minute there was nothing. It was so clear, fast, and bright and mind boggling there is no way I can compare it to anything I ever seen. I worked on the airfield at Joint Base Balad in Iraq and I have seen many types of aircraft day and night but I have never seen anything like this in my life. At 9:50 pm I called the NM State Police just to see if anyone else had reported this sighting and they hung up on me.
August 12, 2023 · 8:08 AM · OTHER
Lucerne Valley, CA
These things are all around that island traveling in massive groups. I'll gather the coordinates, you can decide for yourself. Hatched egg? 51°54'19"N 177°14'29"E Right across from it are these things that are all around the island. They are elongated in shape, they have a bright blue shining aura to them(giving them a type of blue light, highlighted in color) some of them are black. They travel in swarms. Some are bigger than others. An email or text message would be the ideal way of contacting me. I have also witnessed UFO sightings. And also my first memory (when I was 3) involved something that related to a UFO abduction/lights. I don't remember being abducted, I remember being implanted/placed into a home. ²I have witnesses that can testify to this (they had there own experience of it, but I don't believe I was abducted, since I was with the light from the beginning and was placed into a home that the light brought me too). The story is rather unusual and very interesting like no other.
August 10, 2023 · 1:30 AM · OTHER
Hanksville, UT
Me and a passenger were driving thru Aurora Utah on State Route 24 when I noticed a round orange basketball sized ball of light bouncing above the tops of the trees. I looked at what it was doing and at first I thought it was a mining equipment surveying the land. Then I looked at it again and I thought, that is a UFO. That orange light kept bouncing around thru the trees for a long time. It didn’t bother us or try to follow us. The orange ball split into 2 balls of light and they both kept to the north of us the whole way. I wasn’t afraid of it so I kept driving. We drove for about another 15 minutes when I noticed another craft following us. This craft was diamond shaped with four really bright diamond shaped white lights on it. I tried to get away from it and that craft chased us thru State Route 24 for about an hour and then it disappeared. About another 2 hours passed and I noticed another craft to the south this one was twinkling like a star but its movement was faster than an airplane it zipped around in the sky and then flew off to the east. When we started reaching the summit of that canyon above the tree line to the north west I saw a huge red UFO, the whole thing was round and it looked to be a flaming red hot round circle. We made it to Blanding Utah and we did not see any more other craft objects after we reached our destination. We did not take any great pictures of these objects worth sending to you but I do want to file a report about our experience driving thru Aurora Utah and Hanksville Utah on State Route 24.
August 7, 2023 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Vancouver, WA
While walking my dog I looked southward down the street and saw, at an altitude of roughly 8-10,000 feet, a large green colored barrel shaped light fall at a incredible speed. It was much faster than terminal velocity and from my position in the Northern most part of Vancouver Washington, it appeared as if the object was at least as far south as Portland Oregon. I would guess that the object was at least same size as a Boeing 747 given it's relative size to it probable distance from myself.
August 6, 2023 · 3:00 PM · OTHER
La Mesa, CA
Second time I saw a black, shiny, strangely shaped object moving in the sky
August 5, 2023 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Arlington, TX
I dont recall what time of day this occurred only that it was night time as the sun had already set. At the time, i had just stepped out on our back patio/balcony (2nd floor apartment) for a cigarette. I was gazing up at the stars to my right which would have been 30° or NE when something caught my attention out of my left periphery. As I turned my head to look the first thing i noticed was a flashing beacon of light which I could clearly see was an airplane in the far distance. But the second was a series of lights which looked highly unusual. It appeared to be a series of lights in a vertical string but each varied in size and color yet I got the feeling they were part of (1) object and not 5 or 6 separate objects. I work for American Airlines so i'm very familiar with all kinds of aircraft but commercial aircraft especially and this or they were no commercial aircraft. I can't be certain what i saw but I'm certain it was no airplane! My initial thought was that someone had been popping fireworks primarily because of the way the object(s) appeared to be falling from the sky. It seemed to me and according to my compass the objects appeared to be falling in a SE manner towards earths surface. Yet, it/they left no streak in the sky, no exhaust plume, and no tell-tell firework smoke that's left behind once they're deployed. And there was no sound either. It was eerily silent outside too and the object(s) made zero noise. There were approx. 5 to 6 lights which appeared to be in a vertical line yet each varying in size and color. All appeared to be round objects like a ball but i can't be sure as it happened so quickly. I can't be certain but i got the feeling that the lights were part of a single object and not multiple or separate objects. The first light in the series (closest to the ground) was a brilliant orangish color and all the subsequent lights were whitish in color but each varied in its intensity or hue from the one before it (all different shades of white). According to my compass i was facing West when i saw the object(s). According to my Iphone compass the objects were here: 32°43'59" N 97°3' 35" W (600ft elevation). Though it seemed to be moving SE from the sky toward the earth until it disappeared behind the tree line. Here are the coordinates of the direction it was headed: 32°34'59" N 97°3'35" W (600ft elevation). I'd like to suggest enhancement to your platform. It would be great if you could implement a way for us to draw or illustrate what we've seen. Maybe add a section so we can use our trackpads or mice to draw what we've seen. As some of us have a better time of conveying a message through illustrations rather than our words. Thanks There was no light trail like lights do when they wiz by either. NO tracers or light trails yet it was moving fast just like a firework does when it falls from the sky but again, this was no firework! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
August 5, 2023 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Vandergrift, PA
(Name deleted): "Each time, I got cold with chill, experiencing goosebumps all over my body. I saw a large white light accompanied by four big, medium, and four small grey and blue crafts. One of them was flashing colors: red, orange, yellow, lavender, turquoise, royal blue, changing as it pulsed in the sky. I managed to take a few pictures, but your page says the file is too large. I can't shrink it anymore. I'd be happy to show them to an investigator or supervisor. The same ships follow a certain fly pattern, appearing and disappearing while flashing in a strobe pattern. It's super quiet until I hear a large boom; it startles me as if I were dreaming in bed. When I look up, I see the center orb turn bright orange followed by multiple blue flashes occurring at the exact same time, and then poof, they disappear.