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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
November 20, 2020 · 5:17 PM · OTHER
Hopewell Junction, NY
On November 20, 2020, a very bright star caught my eye but it appeared to be moving. I started to record it on my iPhone figuring I could zoom in on the video to get a closer look. I took 2 videos-VIDEO 1 was a minute long and VIDEO 2 was a 2 second video that I must have taken by accident. I adjusted brightness contrast on the 1 minute video to get a better idea as to how much the light orb had moved in relation to the background and what I saw definitely seemed odd. I sent the 1 minute video to my boyfriend who was a few miles away picking up his son from daycare. He responded with a video of his own (VIDEO 3) saying he just saw the same thing 30 minutes after I saw it. In his video, he shined a flashlight at it. In response, the light quickly rose in the sky until it was almost directly over his head. At that point, he got back in his car and left. The orb must have been closer to him than me because we compared sizes and what he saw was about 5 times lar! ger than what I saw. Things to look for in VIDEO 1 - the distance the light orb moved within the one minute video - The thing that swoops in at the top of the screen about 20 seconds in. Doubtful it was a bug since it was almost the end of November in the northeast. Also, I didn’t see this until I watched the video - The appearance of a second orb above the first ** the light orb had some similarities to the star Sirius but it couldn’t have been Sirius because it moved from one location to another and because Sirius didn’t rise above the horizon until after 10pm (5 hours after the video was taken). I confirmed that through an interactive sky chart on skyandtelescope.org. In fact, there were no planets and no other significant stars in my viewing area at that time. Things to look for in VIDEO 2 (you may have to manually scrub through the video to see it almost frame by frame because stuff happens so fast you could miss it. - at first you see the 2 spheres that were seen in VIDEO 1. * Then the bottom sphere disappears just as some Christmas tree/centipede shaped object flies across the screen in the top left corner. Whatever this thing was, it was moving at an incredible speed and I didn’t see it while I was taking the video. It’s kind of hard to determine how close it was to me but either way, it’s large and seems like something I should have been able to see with the naked eye VIDEO 3 is my boyfriends video which I explained earlier
November 16, 2020 · 5:33 AM · OTHER
Gastonia nc, NC
i was driving to work, all of sudden this big doughnut shape craft appears in the sky, it was in a slow motion for about 4 seconds than flew away and dissapear in the sky.
November 13, 2020 · 5:30 PM · OTHER
Sheridan, WY
We saw three bright lights hovering in the near distance over Wendy's in Sheridan just after it had gotten completely dark outside. We were stopped at a stoplight, watching the craft. At first we thought it was a plane, but it was just hovering - not moving at all. Then, suddenly, it started coming straight for us at a pretty good speed, descending as it went so that by the time it was over our car it was only about a one-story house above us and we got a good look at it for a couple of seconds before it vanished. It looked like a standard hexagon, only squished down so it was flatter. It was dark green in color, with four bright lights on the underside of it. It also seemed metallic. It made absolutely no noise whatsoever, despite how close it was to us. After it passed over the car we saw no trace of it again. No lights, no sound - nothing. It was like it had never been there. We have evidence of this object on our dash cam, all the way up until it was rig! ht over us and we were able to see it clearly.
November 13, 2020 · 5:45 AM · OTHER
Moncks Corner, SC
We have a landfill in town. Something resembling a rocket took off from the area the landfill is at. It's also a methane processing plant. I watched this rocket looking object shoot up. It released two smaller balls of blinking lights. Went further up and released another one. So three total. I had my girlfriend and her dad watch with me. It was kind of brief but I couldn't have been the only one who seen it. I've seen planes release contrails but this was not the same. If anyone else seen this event just know your not alone. I'm truly baffled.
November 12, 2020 · 6:20 PM · OTHER
Knoxville, TN
Sighting occurred right after sunset. At sunset, I noticed two strange "sunbeams" emanating in a "V" shape at the western horizon. I took a picture of it. Once the sun completely set, I saw the eight objects appear.....in the same vicinity as the two beams I photographed about 20 minutes earlier. The objects started out in a "V" formation....and primarily appeared to be a flock of geese, but they emanated a translucent iridescent glow that caused me to stay focused on them. As they progressed across the sky, the formation changed to single file, then a circle, then a hopskotch-type action. I realized they were definitely not geese, and thought maybe they were hangliders....each with a candle-type glow. Their movement was haphazard as they got right above me....some were stationary for 20-30 seconds while the others circled them in no specific pattern. It was as if they were being "playful" with each other. Rea! lizing that their altitude was too high for a hanglider, I wondered if they were some odd type of parachutes(that glowed)....but when they started ascending....one after the other....I knew they were not. They emitted no sound whatsoever. They seemed to be headed for the heaviest cloud-cover in the visible sky. Once they were obscured by the cloud cover, I lost sight of them. I took several photos, but only two of them showed pin-point-type lights. What I saw was not lights powered by a known energy source. They "glowed" with a translucent, iridescent light....all white...no color...no blinking. I cannot believe that other people did not see this anamoly. It was very visible, and the sighting lasted about eight minutes. There is no explanation. Too high and quiet to be drones. The stop/start/fast/slow irregular nature is inexplicable. I will never forget it.....and wonder what -if any- relation they had to the two strange pre-sunset beams that shone from the western horizon.
November 12, 2020 · 6:10 PM · OTHER
Dublin, CA
I was taking out the trash at my condo. Why was I looking at the sky. Obvious question to the skeptical. I always loved a clear view of the stars, but especially, since I was 10 , in 1980, when I saw my first , and only other UFO. I always look up. I love the stars, yet, I am not knowledge in constellations, etc. I do know, when I am seeing a satellite. I love to watch, for the brief time, a satellite pass by. And at this time, I thought I was seeing one. I had put away the trash, went to the best location , to view stars, in my parking area( which isn't great. Parking lights create a lot of light pollution). I know, to get any good view of stars, I block direct light with my hands. I also know , from experience, look into the darkest areas of the sky, and look with my peripheral vision for movement. Not only that, but if you look into the darkestest areas, then, the dimmest stars will gradually appear slowly, and depending on several factors. Your sight, sky interference, of sorts etc. you can hopefully see something , far away. That is the greatest. To see a faint star, that is so far away. I would so like to see it close. But to the point. That is how I saw this UFO. I clasped my hands, to block as much encompassing light around my vision, that was near me, that would prevent, what I might see in the sky. (Which would be a great thing for a UFO. Fly where there is much blinding city night light, as so to hide). I chose to look, (and its not always the same areas, but at this time, ), at a darkened area of the sky. Not directly into any star or light. I was looking towards the East. In the East, San Francisco Bay Area, and my stare into the sky , by my estimate, was a 46 degree angle. It was cool. I'm not sure the temp. Sky clear as a bell. I had not a drink, nor drugs of any kind in my system. I must say, that the event, was not glamorous, such as, many videos online, tend to be. If this was video recorded, I feel, all would say its very boring to view. To the view: 6:10pm pac time: I watched and saw , what I thought to be a satellite. I was excited. I loved catching rare views of satellites. But it slowed. I was instantly. Shocked. /unless there is technology, that allows a satellite to do the following. It was traveling south. Slowly. Smoothly. Then , it slowed. As if curious. But it didn't stop. In my report, I used the word "loopy loop". That was not the correct wording to use. I was busy trying to remember and record, if I could , which wouldn't and et. Multitask. Currently, I would use the word, u-turn. I saw , what I was seeing, and thought ...video record this! But , as I'm good with getting the video going, etc , I quickly realized, this was going to be a terrible shot. Too far away. Too dim. Just visuallize the event and tell someone. Essentially, it was smoothly sailing, much higher than a jet plane. About half as dim as a star. Then, it slowed, as if curious, then took a u-turn toward the north. It was a very gradual movement. But, I've had a 1980 experience, where the UFO did a point-point-point instant take-off and stop. This was not that. This was a u-turn, very high, and if I placed my thumb to the sky, the u-turn was inside my thumb area. But extremely controlled. Not a tight turn but not extra wide. It brought out of the u-turn, just as gradually, as if viewing something of worth maybe, then proceeded north, and widening its flight pattern, slightly to the East, as it went forth. As it progressed North, it easily, increased speed. Much more than a jet plane could. It was a very dim light to see. I had to struggle to view it. But I traced it with my finger across the sky with its movement, to try to judge speed, if possible. , and my hand swept by. My only other UFO sighting was when I was 10, 1980
November 12, 2020 · 5:00 PM · OTHER
Wheatland, CA
Source, who elects to remain anonymous, does not indicate a date. PD
November 12, 2020 · 5:00 PM · OTHER
North Hollywood, CA
No lights,no sound, approximately 300/ 1000 feet elevation. It was shaped like a surfboard or a straight single wing. It was tan or light yellow in color. The speed was about 200/ 250 Miles per hour. Flying like an out stretch oversized glider. No evidence of mechanical propulsion visible. No visible exhaust or sound.
November 11, 2020 · 11:11 AM · OTHER
Planet Earth, Yup
UFO Twitter is currently involved in a massive software effort to categorize and log UFO reports in a searchable manner that will wholly replace nuforc as the database for sightings. You guys need to sort your shit out. No updates during this period is embarassing. There are sitting senators, and defense industry personnel talking about UAP's, Navy investigating sightings, missile bases going offline, tic tac flying everywhere... And you can't be bothered to pass the torch to somebody who gives a shit. In a month or two, you're going to see the Senate intelligence committee start to blow the lid off this BS and your website will become bigger than ever... But you'd rather be scooped by a bunch of millennials on twitter. It's sad, really
November 9, 2020 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Irvine, KY
star shape high in the sky.it glittered at one of the edges.i was driving when i saw this huge 5 point star
November 6, 2020 · 6:58 PM · OTHER
Philadelphia, PA
Too hard to describe. Needs to be seen in person. This object cant be seen without a night vision security camera. You can not see with the naked eye.
November 5, 2020 · 11:03 AM · OTHER
Montrose, WV
For well over a month now I have been seeing these orange or bright LED orbs where I live. My neighbor up the road has seen and managed to catch almost the same unidentified objects on film also. Last night 11/4 I was startled with a close encounter. I woke up in the middle of the night to let the animals out. When I swung open my front door I immediately seen at least 10 orbs hovering above my yard. I love in the country with very little neighbors close by, so it's always dark with no lights obstructing the view. When I looked up at them they were floating or swaying down towards the ground real slow. These were orange in colored and would fade out when there was movement on the ground. This incident scared me and I immediately shut the door and curtains and went to our bedroom. Normally I'll stay up and watch these orbs just to see what they do and make sure that I'm truly seeing what I'm seeing. I've mentioned to it to family members about these sightings! and everyone just brushes it off to be a plane which is so frustrating. So tonight I was outside putting firewood in our outdoor furnace and noticed 2 LED colored orbs across the road by the farm equipment hoovering. There was 3 over in the field where the horses graze and 5 to my left further on up the road at my grandmother's farm where the cows are. Watching there movements is incredible. It's this graceful swaying at times to no movement. The LED orbs are so bright it hurts your eyes to look at. I've pulled out binoculars to see what it could be and it's so bright. At times you can see them turning in circles when hoovering in one spot. Almost like a flashlight turning with them. I was watching one hoovering in front of my neighbors window at night(she lives on top of the mountain, me in valley but at night now that leaves are off the trees I can see her lights coming from their living room. Mt husband and I literally watched this orb hoovering within eyesight of her w! indow. We watched it come down from the sky and stay there for! well ov er 30 mins. It then slowly and gracefully lowered down into the valley and worked it's way over the cattle field also triggering a motion light as it passed right by. This particular orb wasn't no more than 30 feet from the ground. The last thing I want to mention is, last night when I seen the ones hoovering in my front yard that scared me. Later that night 3am ish I seen this bright bright white light coming through my curtains. I glanced out the crack and saw 2 orbs hoovering above my truck. It was so bright it lookws like the sun was shining. It was so crazy. I'm such a thrill seeker and get so excited seeing unexplained things such as these. Buy lately, it's getting to close for comfort and now I'm just genuinely freaked out bc I have no clue what this is. We've been seeing these more frequently. And my husband is dumbfounded with no explanation on what we are seeing. Before he would blow it off. But not now. We seem to always see orbs. Orange and the bright LED color. ! We have watched blinking red crafts that stay in one spot for long periods of time and take off. These blinking ones defy the odds of being a plane or drone. The movement has been incredibly fast and my neighbors has a video of a fleet. I've never seen anything like it in my life. I've reached out to my brothers who are in the military and they were amazed at what they seen to. I would welcome a team of investigators to stay on our farm for 1 week to document and explain to us what we are seeing. And I'm not sure if this means anything but when we've tried to film with our cell phones our batteries drain so fast or our phones shut off even if they are at 50% battery life. Maybe its the temperature changes maybe not. But this is the 2nd battery I've had to replace on my cell since spring of 2020.
November 4, 2020 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
Riverside, CA
I am the only witness I know of. I am an astrophysicist and can usually explain these things. I was not in any way inebriated when I saw this. At approximately 6pm I was taking my trash out and looked up to admire the stars. I noticed something moving across the sky. It was crescent shaped, dim, and about 5" across. It moved across about 45 degrees of sky in 10 to 20 seconds in a northwest direction. It did not change shape or brightness. I tried to surmise whether it was something low and hovering (a drone or maybe a group of birds moving pretty quick) or higher and moving very quickly. I thought perhaps I wasn't seeing it clearly at first but after a few seconds I could see a clear cresent shape. The lighting on it did not change in a way I would expect if it was low. I decided it was probably a bow shock catching the sun (now set)'s light like a noctilucent cloud. However I am unfamiliar with what produces such long lived and steadily moving bowshock. I did not see that there were any vandenburg launches when I looked after. One other odd note: as I was watching it a meteor passed through it (diagonally vaguely ENE and at a very different soured of course so I assumed it was unrelated). I'm very interested in optical phenomena and as I said am an astronomer so I usually explain these things easily. This time while I suppose a jet or something might produce such a bow shock I am a little baffled so I thought I should report it.
November 3, 2020 · 7:20 PM · OTHER
Dillsburg, PA
Saw a string of bright white lights hovering or slowly moving above South Mountain. We were in the car and lost sight of it as the road turned.
November 3, 2020 · 4:35 PM · OTHER
Lexington, IL
Driving on I-55 South-Southwest near Lexington, IL: noticed 5-6 sliver like objects in sky, similar in appearance to exhaust trails from a jet airplane. One in upper right quadrant of view, higher altitude than other 5. After 3-4 minutes of watching the close one, noticed the location had not changed. Other farther objects were all similar shape, but oriented in different rotations in respect to the ground. Objects appeared slightly orange-white, with some amount of reflection from either setting sun or refracted light. Estimated to be about 10,000-15,000 feet above ground at first sight, and around 10 miles out, moving in a very steady West-Northwest pace. After 5 minutes, I exited to get on an East-West bearing country road, only one object remained, which had crossed from the North to the South of this road, but slowly getting farther away from field of vision. At around 4:50, remaining object was gone from field of view, too far in the Southwest! sky. Observer is a licensed architect with the state of Illinois, living in Chicago and traveling to visit Mother at time of sighting. No previous observations of UFO sightings.
November 2, 2020 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Warrenton, VA
I was walking the dog on a clear night, and noticed the Western sky was very bright. I looked up, and saw the approach of a large object that had bright white lights completely around its perimeter. It was so bright, that I couldn't tell if it was pentagonal or hexagonal in shape, but I believe it was one of those shapes. It was definitely not rectangular, triangular, round, or oblong. It made no noise as it moved slowly across the sky to the northeast. I observed this from a residential neighborhood about 2 miles from The Warrenton Training Center.
November 2, 2020 · 3:45 PM · OTHER
Wheat Ridge, CO
There was a tiny ribbon of light, surrounded by 7 or 8 tiny dots of light.
November 1, 2020 · 1:40 PM · OTHER
Pine Valley, CA
Was driving southbound(downhill) 20-40mph from the peak of mount laguna(6k ft elevation). Around 4k ft elevation directly in front and above me an object suddenly appeared. The object was about 50-100ft in front of me and hovering about 50 ft altitude(right below the tree line for reference). I was in utter amazement/disbelief/awe. Wasn’t afraid, was truly mesmerized. It was roughly schoolbus size in length narrower in width hovering horizontally. Was an unusual cigar shape with one portion of one end being more pointy, hard to describe but i witnessed this up close as it rotated 3 times. No welds, rivets, windows, doors, nothing. Was a silver almost chrome like in color. My jaw dropped. It was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I reached down to get my phone camera while maintaining visual, as I grabbed my phone and unlocked it I watched the object just dissipate into nothing in 1/4 second. Watched countess ufo documentaries/videos since and have not seen a pic video or report of what I saw. Have not seen the object since then.
October 31, 2020 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Ogden, KS
Driving home Halloween night we noticed bright lights over the highway. As we got closer they did not appear to be moving. Once even closer the line of six lights was very low over a field next to the highway. We decided to take the exit next the lights so that we could drive under. The shape was hard to make out because of the brightness of the lights but it did appear to be a dark grey, very similar to the night sky so that the full length of the craft was not determinable. We drive 20 feet up the road to the end of the ramp and there was no sight of the lights behind us at all. The lights, all white, remained in the same formation the entire time and whatever the craft was slow moving until it entirely disappeared. Latitude: 39.1156 | Longitude: -96.696358
October 26, 2020 · 4:10 AM · OTHER
Reading, PA
So there was this weirdly shaped dark object that had a halo of light around it, it was slowly moving in a specific direction. No wind. it was almost like a clumpy shape. I have a video of it.
October 24, 2020 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Mokuleia, HI
Last night at Mokuleia Beach, a cluster of lights shaped in a form that almost resembled an airplane (the lights forming a long main body and two wings) moved slowly and consistently across the sky. I estimate 25-30 lights (maybe there were more, but not less), and as it disappeared from view over the ocean, it left a faint trail of light where it had been. The trail of light (like a fuzzy white glow that the cluster had painted through the sky as it moved) lasted about another minute before it faded too.
October 24, 2020 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Enid, OK
I saw a long chain of lights. There were approximately 20 small spears of light. Each light was separate but they were very close together, much like what you would see if you laid a pearl necklace in a line. The lights were mostly white but there were other colors as well. This perfect line of lights moved relatively fast and in about 25 seconds was out of my view. I am familiar with birds flying at night. I do not believe that is what I saw. The lights were traveling ESE.
October 24, 2020 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Kingsland, TX
Line of about 50 lights moving from north, northwest to south, southeast slowly. Lights were in line, not blinking, and moving as if connected, not in formation. I moved into the yard with binoculars as it moved overhead and they faded out. I was calling out to my neighbor to look, but he was entertaining guests and didn't hear me. I'm on the south waterfront side of the Llano river arm of lake LBJ.
October 24, 2020 · 7:31 PM · OTHER
Catawissa, PA
Saw a long line of lights (or one only illuminated line) moving N to S at what appeared to be high altitude aircraft speed, but closer to the ground and hundreds of feet long.