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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
January 24, 2023 · 6:49 PM · LIGHT
Klamath Falls, OR
Sister-in-law was heading home from picking up niece when she saw a bright light that’s not typically in the sky. It was north west of Klamath Falls. Very bright, moving very slow. My father’s been in the Air Force for 20 years. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m a military brat. I’ve lived on multiple Air Force bases. I was told never to report anything like this, so I’m kind of nervous.
January 24, 2023 · 1:55 PM · LIGHT
Lake forest, CA
I pulled over to look at it and in 2 seconds it disappeared
January 23, 2023 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
North Fort Myers, FL
On January 23rd 2023 at 10:45pm I went outside on my deck to get some fresh air staring up at the sky I noticed what appeared to be a satellite I watched it for at least one minute going west and then all of a sudden it made a u-turn going the opposite direction going east I watched it for at least another minute in that direction before I couldn't see it anymore it seemed like it was a lot higher than a normal satellite to me and dimmer not as bright.
January 23, 2023 · 9:17 PM · LIGHT
New York, NY
There was a random formation of blue light in the night sky. I took a video of it at 9:17 pm.
January 23, 2023 · 8:04 PM · LIGHT
Statham, GA
I went out to let the dog out and it is a super crisp, clear evening and the stars are very bright. I looked up and saw Orion's belt and noticed two stars to the left(which would be north from where I was standing, so I was facing east and could see Orion mid lower in the eastern sky. I noticed these stars and thought, how have I never seen these before. They were as bright as the main stars in the rest of the constellation, and I have looked at the night sky my entire life and have never seen them, so I was staring at them trying to figure this out.They seemed to be moving, but not left to right, it was as if they were moving maybe a millimeter to the right toward the belt, but the movement was so slight it was as if they were flying away from earth. Both lights/starts/ufos were moving at the same rate and their light dimmed at the same time. They were super bright and then over maybe a minute they got dimmer and dimmer and then disappeared, however they were the same brightness as the stars when I initially noticed them. If they were some sort of ship, they would have been flying at the same pace/ distance from earth and in the same direction --completely in tandem. The light was bright white light, no other colors.Their distance from each other was a few inches in terms of my view the sky(so like if I held my hand one foot from my face and held my fingers and inch apart), so farther than the three stars in the belt, but not as far as from the belt to the other stars in the constellation.
January 23, 2023 · 7:20 PM · LIGHT
Okeechobee, FL
See sighting summary and a flashing "star" in the eastern sky. It flashes red, blue, green and yellow. Too high and fast to photograph.
January 23, 2023 · 2:15 PM · LIGHT
Benicia, CA
I was sitting on a bench at the waters edge of downtown Benicia enjoying my coffee and muffin before work. I was looking south-bound towards port costa and what caught my eye was this shimmer of something metallic moving very still and straight east-bound. The objects reflection got brighter and my eyes lost focus because I was also facing the sun and could no longer see it or where it went. My immediate reaction was to dismiss it as a small airplane that caught reflection off the sun and then I lost focus of it. That's when I noticed 3 airplanes that I could positively identify as such at much further distances emitting chem trails. One plane was traveling the exact same course as said unidentified object except my eyes didn't lose focus of it despite the sun and was not reflecting sunlight either. The movement of the object was way to still, straight and ominous to be a plane. Why would I even witness a reflection if the object was between myself and the sun? the light would reflect south and not north in my direction and why did it disappear after it got to its brightest point and in mid-day? What the hell did I witness?
January 23, 2023 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Rohrsburg, PA
I saw what I thought was the international space station but it was slightly less bright. I've seen the ISS many times. Then I noticed another dimmer light in front of it that appeared to be leading it. I thought it was star link but there were only 2 lights with nothing visible in between them. The lights were as far apart as the big dipper is long. I checked the ISS flyover times and none were scheduled at that time. I have seen other satellites before but never one following another. They never blinked and they were traveling from north to south. I also saw this same event 5-8 weeks before this but I don't remember the date. I do know I saw that at 5:40 AM when I saw it and it was traveling from northwest to southeast. During both these events it was dark and the stars were bright.
January 23, 2023 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Benicia, CA
I went out into my back yard at approximately 5:30 am while waiting for my coffee to brew and saw an aircraft above flying in from the SSW. Nothing unusual there. I then took a gander at the stars and noticed one was moving, coming from the southeast. Not quickly but slowly, at the speed of a plane, and it was flickering, if not blinking, but with only white lights. I thought it was too high for a plane so I figured it might be a satellite. So I continued to watch it and after about five seconds it momentarily stopped, made a small looping movement off course to the southwest and then back on course, continued for a moment, then made a straight movement to the southwest again, returned to its original course and then stopped dead and remained still. I watched for another minute or so, but it didn't move, so I went back inside. It covered two inches of sky I'd say and the side movements an eighth of an inch.
January 22, 2023 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
FL
Delta 8934 MIA-MSY, B757, flight level 380, we began to observe a small, point-light object moving rapidly in the vertical and horizontal. The sighting was towards our 11 o’clock and we were headed due West, over the Gulf of Mexico, offshore from KSRQ, approximately between BAGGS and REMIS waypoints. It was a very dark night, and we had the lighting as dim as possible in order to help us detect thunderstorm build ups over the Gulf. The object appeared intermittently over about 30 minutes, and would vary in brightness intensity. Sometimes the object glowed very bright, much brighter than a typical planet. Then it would fade to a dim point, and accelerate in various directions, unlike most aircraft I’ve ever seen, including military fighter aircraft I have flown. It would appear for about 5-10 seconds each time. We observed it illuminate, and then accelerate rapidly straight down. It illuminated, and went pure vertical. It got very bright, then dim, and accelerated horizontally, and continued into an arcing zoom climb before fading out. A nearby shooting star occurred, which looked very distinct from this phenomena. Various iterations of these maneuvers occurred and the sighting was reported to ATC. ATC confirmed there were no unusual aircraft out tonight besides the usual traffic. At first sighting, the object appeared in the general direction of another airliner at 40 miles to our 11 o’clock, and had a very distinct appearance from strobed aircraft lighting. ATC then said there was a previous report in that area 2 hours prior. We turned northwest towards HRV (New Orleans area) and lost sight of any further activity.
January 22, 2023 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Nowata, OK
Driving home from coffeville to nowata, its a dark drive and I window watch, noticed an amber light in the sky expected it to go out of view but it stayed in exactly the same position the entire drive, husband saw it too, seemed to have a smaller light just behind it, this too , no movement just hung in the sky, i thought it might be a tower but.. it would have gone from view but this held its position for entire 30 minute drive from town to town. No flashing, no fading, no other lights, just hanging there, i even checked to see if it was a reflection from something in the truck, negative. My husband pulled over and I opened the window and pointed to it so it was no reflection…. Was still in the sky as we pulled in, but off in the distance.
January 21, 2023 · 7:29 PM · LIGHT
Athens, OH
I was walking to meet my friends at a restaurant on Court St. Athens Ohio. When I was walking out of my building I noticed the a light in the sky that was flashing green, blue, purple, and white. This light was not moving and continues the flash in what seemed to be a color coordinated sequence. I took 2 short videos, and observed the flashing light until I got into the restaurant.
January 20, 2023 · 9:37 PM · LIGHT
Staten Island, NY
I was taking out the garbage for the next morning pickup at a little past 9:30 PM Jan 20th, and I happened to look up in the sky towards the ocean (southeast). My attention was drawn to what I thought were 3 aircraft flying in an odd formation past and a little higher (in perspective) than the neighboring rooftops across the street. Each had one orange light, with no other lights visible (no navigation or anti-collision lights, etc). While the first formation was moving in a northeast direction, the middle object in the first formation of 3 made a sharp sudden dive towards the ground and pulled back up as sharply, rejoining the other two objects in formation. They were followed by a second formation of 5 additional objects (lights) perhaps 5 to 10 seconds behind the first formation, flying at a similar speed and in the same northeast direction. Also with one orange light each, with no navigation or anti collision lights visible on any of the group in the second formation. There was no sound from any of the objects in either formation, either during or afterwards. The shape or outline could not be determined in the short time both formations were visible (about 30 seconds, plus or minus). Sight of both formations was lost behind trees and other houses, and may have gone behind low clouds in that part of the night sky when I went to the back of the house to try and regain sight of them, without any luck. Usually, if there are helicopters flying overhead or nearby, they can easily be heard. If there 2 or more, the racket is unmistakeable. Small or large aircraft also are unmistakeable. I pretty much thought these objects were drones, or maybe ultralight aircraft, except that the sky in the NYC area is pretty busy at any given time, and you would have to be a complete idiot to fly in a formation (or 2!) at night without navigation or anti collision lights. I never gave it any real thought it could be anything other than a man-made event designed to perpetrate a hoax, or sheer stupidity...maybe. The first photo is of the neighborhood, with overhead wires removed and sky darkened to illustrate the objects and direction. The second photo is a portion of a FAA sectional chart, which seems to indicate a generalized path for aircraft to take using Hylan Blvd as a possible navigation aid (TK-502). The last photo is a screen shot taken from flightradar24, showing the path many aircraft take also using Hylan Blvd as a navigation aid. Both formations of objects seemed to follow the same route. The fuzzy dot is my approximate location.
January 20, 2023 · 6:10 PM · LIGHT
United Kingdom
4 lights banked and turned in a u turn then changed to 3 white lights moving very slowly at low altitude away over the treetops. I felt dizzy and disoriented whet it banked and turned. It was only 500 meters away.
January 20, 2023 · 7:25 AM · LIGHT
Essex · United Kingdom
Driving along side the runway at stansted airport, I could see a bright light high up which I thought was odd for a plane to be that high coming into land. I watched it come closer and then it disappeared. There was no cloud cover for it to go behind and it didn’t appear again.
January 20, 2023 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Hayes, VA
As I went out for a 5:00am cigarette. I was met with what seemed like a normal night sky. Having spent my night watching YouTube videos about quantum physics and computing, etc weird stuff... I thought to myself: "why isn't humanity good enough for ET, why don't they help us become better". Then to my amazement the object (which appeared like an average star) began moving approx 7 o'clock. After it travelled approximately 500,000 miles (approx) it vanished. I assume it travelled at 2,000,000 mph.
January 19, 2023 · 6:37 AM · LIGHT
Lake Havasu City, AZ
Been seeing these on clear nights. It appears to be the same characteristics. They are stationary for an hour and then move to another location almost instantly. I'm using 22x power binoculars. Full light spectrum emitting from objects. close up reveals a circle or haze surrounding the objects with smaller objects dashing around the main body in random patterns. I did not take photos or video because I already have some from earlier in the month. The photos are from objects that remained stationary over an hour before moving locations. I will attach those as they are the same object that I saw this morning before light. These photos were taken with a Samsung A13 on 50 MP setting. I would guess they were at least 10 to 15 miles away.
January 18, 2023 · 6:50 PM · LIGHT
Conway, NH
When we first saw the lights, there were two together and one below. The object turned and there was a bar of lights (4-5). The Lights disappeared and reappeared in a different spot, behind a dark gray small cloud (clear sky except for that one little cloud). We saw the light for a split second behind the cloud then nothing. The cloud stayed. The sky was full of stars with the exception of this weird very dark cloud.
January 17, 2023 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Ashington, NORTHUMB · United Kingdom
I was out with my dog and looking up to find Pegasus , could not find it but knew roughly where to look. I held my hand up to block the street lights to get a better look. I saw a star sized dot of light moving fast , no plane as no flashing lights. It did a 180 turn like a missile would and shot off very fast and disappeared probably behind clouds. This was no plane , too high too fast and nothing can turn like that. No noise, no drone, I’ve had one. Never thought I’d see anything like that. I was looking North towards Edinburgh This all happened in 2-3 seconds
January 16, 2023 · 6:50 AM · LIGHT
Shiloh, PA
This morning saw two bright lights in the sky about half a mile to a mile apart from one another. They also didn’t look too high up. The first one I saw was in front of me on Derry Road facing North West, in the same location from my last report. At first, I thought it was a plane until I noticed it wasn’t moving. I didn’t think much of it until I turned onto church road, now facing North, and noticed another one in the sky about a mile down the road, and it wasn’t moving. Fortunately, I was able to get a couple pictures of the second one while sitting at a light. When I turned my focus back to the road, a minute or two later I looked back in the same spot the light was at and it was no longer in the sky. A couple minutes later I got to work, pulled out my radar app, and there wasn’t any commercial planes in the sky in the area. The only ones were one I saw in the sky that was thousands of feet high and one facing south that was going west. While I was at work, I get a message from my friend who he claimed to have seen a bright metallic object in the sky hours after my encounter.
January 15, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Middle River, MD
I was outside walking my dog when I was admiring how bright all the stars were in the sky. I looked up, I could identify Orion's belt, the Big Dipper and that's when I realized it looked like another smaller Big Dipper and I noticed some of the stars were so very bright and usually when that's the case those are indicative that it's a planet. so I started staring at what I believe was Orion's belt cuz it was so far away from where I was and that's when I noticed around there these lights moving so quickly or what I thought was Stars they were solid yellowish orange lights but they were moving. so I steadied myself and focused with just my eyes and I could see they were moving, like you could snap a finger and they shot over to the Big Dipper and then they shot back. at one point three of the lights came together where it was only the Big Dipper and now it's a perfectly huge triangle of lights I take the dog in I come back out I'm again finding where the position was and as I'm looking up at these stars and what I believe I is lights moving quickly the triangle is there again and as I guess the clouds cuz it's so dark the clouds start to move and I can see what looks like a grayish blackish like Mass with the lights attached just hovering there I later see a good amount maybe five of later red blinking lights which I'm believing that maybe it was helicopters or planes coming to investigate these lights moving around. in the past I've been at the same location and I have physically seen what I believe is a spaceship coming from the cloud so huge almost like a kite looking Mass with lights on the end just kind of hovering and floating there but is never looked like any type of aircraft that's been in this area. I am near an airport so I know that's normal but typically at night time helicopters and planes are going to blink red and these were just solid typical light color like yellowish Orange hovering there but the amount and fastness that they were able to jump from one set of stars to the next was like nothing I've ever seen and that's how I knew it was not a regular helicopter or plane in the area. I know this sounds crazy. I also should say that I'm a state parole and probation agent, I don't drink or do drugs but because I've seen this in the past where I had my brother come out and witness the spaceship or whatever it is that I saw. I know what I saw again and it's just crazy to keep seeing it in this area we're also near Lockheed Martin so I don't know if that has any play in it or not, it was just, I felt like it had to be reported but at the same time I know I sound crazy.
January 15, 2023 · 5:59 PM · LIGHT
Miami Shores, FL
I was driving north to my home. I look up and see something that looks like a jet leaving behind a strong jet stream. Something about this however, was very attractive. I noticed it moving super fast and so I started recording. Honestly my first thoughts were that I’m exaggerating to myself and shouldn’t record a plane/jet looking normal with a jet stream. The truth was, after looking for a while, it was clearly not a jet or anything that looked to be man made. It looked like a dot of light. Then, after recording for 20 or so seconds, in the stream of smoke of this entity, i see another light emerge. I couldn’t believe it. As I’m recording, I notice the second light, in the stream of the first entity, begins to create its own plume of smoke. At this point, I know I need to pull over ASAP. The first video cuts off, because I’m recording on Snapchat, which only allows 1 minute recordings at a time. I start a second video as fast as I can. At this point the first jet stream is far to the right of the second light. My attention(and the camera) begins to drift to the second light which has remained it seems where it originally appeared. Until it started creating its own more full and expanded smoke trail, in an upwards direction! The angle of directional change was surely over 90 degrees. I begin to stop my car and get a clear zoom shot of the second light going in this new upwards direction. As I look at it with my eyes then at the camera, It’s clear that this second light has turned into 2 new lights creating their own smoke trails. Both entities were headed in a visibly parallel direction to one another. The light of these entities appeared to be pulsing in a non uniform pattern. However when they lit up, they lit up together. After only close to 7-10 seconds of getting a look at these lights, they disappeared, as did the smoke trails fade into their disappearance. However, the smoke trails of the entire travel and distance covered were to last for about one to five minutes. With the smoke trail of the 2 objects being the smoke that lasted the longest in the sky. After the disappearance of the 2 objects, I quickly try to find the first light, which still had an apparent smoke trail. There were lots of houses and trees around me, and I couldn’t see where it led to at one moment. But after driving to where I could see where this object would’ve been, I saw nothing. The smoke trails of the original first light had faded significantly, and there was nothing left but a several lines of smoke in the aftermath. I’ve never seen anything move faster than this in the sky other than satellites and shooting stars. I still don’t know if this a rocket entering in the atmosphere or exiting it, asteroid, or meteor. That’s why I’m reaching out here. Please reach back to me so I know this is being seen, otherwise I will try reporting it to another organization. Apologies for my foul language, and shaky camera. Thankfully the most significant moments were captured with clarity. Please keep me posted as to what this could be, I’m not necessarily hoping it’s a UFO, I just want to learn what this extreme event could’ve been. It surely must be something of interest to the scientific community. I’m waiting on a response, thank you! 3 videos I took are attached. The picture of a pinned location shows where I first spotted the entity and started recording.
January 14, 2023 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Ranch S/W of Tilden, TX, TX
I am a retired Army LTC and was a military aviator with 23 years of flying experience. On January 14, 2023 at approximately 7:30 PM, I observed either 2 or 3 erratically moving green lights approximately 75 degrees above the horizon in a South Easterly direction from the given coordinates. The small green lights were circling and darting about each other with the lights turning off and then on in different locations. These lights were near a very bright star in that SE location. I quit observing after about 15 minutes as I had to leave the sight. Two acquaintances were with me and they both observed the same thing. One is a practicing attorney and the other is a retired school teacher. Both are well respected in their community.
January 14, 2023 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Portland, OR
I saw an orange reddish light just above the West hills in Portland. I grabbed a pair of binoculars and I looked at it. I looked away for a second and it was gone. About 15 minutes later The light came back. I grabbed the binoculars again and looked at it for about 2 minutes and it turned to a blue color and disappeared. Almost like the light collapsed in on itself. I know planes and helicopters look like at night. I know what stars look like. This was nothing that was explainable.