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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.
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October 5, 2023 · 5:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Chapin, SC
This early morning, as indicated here, I was letting my Golden out for the morning routine. While she is doing her thing, I always look to the sky either last night PM or early AM morning This morning, I looked straight up, and there was an orange object, very noticeable that just stood out from the black sky. It appeared maybe 6 to 8 seconds. I carry a high density flash light, and I shined it at the exact spot in the sky. Expecting what to happen, I don't know. It wasn't a aircraft. This orange color was right off a color pallet, pure orange as if engine exhaust. Twenty seconds later, a satellite passed by almost the same location. This is the second incident of spotting a lone light that completely disappears. A previous twin orange viewing was reported here.
October 5, 2023 · 5:03 AM · SPHERE
Auburn, CA
My husband and I are both 75 years old, retired professionals and have lived in this house for 37 years We live in eastern Sierra foothills of California on 4.5 acres at 1400’ altitude on the top of a hill. I have a view of both east and west from my house. The back of my house has many large decks that have a spectacular unobstructed western view of the valley and west coast hills toward San Fransisco. It is from one of the decks that I viewed this event in the sky looking west. There are no street lights in my neighborhood. We do have some local ground lights from stores about 2 miles away. This particular early morning had no clouds so the stars were very visible. The moon was not in sight. I also live the flight path of Sacramento airport and have flown over my house many times. The time it takes from passing my home to touchdown at Sacramento is 7 minutes. I can easily see the plane lights on their dissent. They are very low. This object that I observed was so high that I thought it was a star. It was obviously not an approaching airplane. AT 4:50am on 10/05/23 my dog started barking aggressively (something she has never done). I got up, went to her cage and let her out. She ran very fast still barking down the stairs to our very large fig tree in the back yard. I was trying to call her in and looked west to the night sky and noticed what appeared to be a star moving very slowly in a horizontal direction from south to north. At first, I thought it was an airplane but because it was moving so slowly, I then thought it must be a satellite until it changed direction and started moving east. My husband by then was on the computer checking our security cameras to see what the dog was barking at. I told him to come and see this light in the sky that was now moving northeast very slowly. Then the object stopped. No movement for a few minutes then it started moving slow again. At 5:03am I got my phone and started taking videos of this light. I then zoomed in (12% as far as my zoom would allow) and to my amazement I saw that it was now an orb and it was strobing multi-colored lights while spinning. The orb itself was white and the colors around the outside edges were green, blue, red, yellow and orange. It started moving again eastward then it stopped again. I took many videos with some being over 2 minutes. During one of the videos the orb expanded to 3 to 4 times its’ size for about 2 seconds then returned to normal size. It did this 3 times recorded on my video. My husband watched as I was video tapping but never did so with his phone. My cat was acting very unusual also by running around crazy on the deck while the dog barked on and off at the fig tree. Very unusual for this behavior. I watched this event until 6:15am when the sky started to lighten up from the sunrise. Also to note, our security cameras did not pick up any movement even though we have one on the deck that points to the dog door that my dog ran out of.
October 5, 2023 · 1:46 AM · CHANGING
Homosassa, FL
We went on a night walk through our neighborhood the early morning hours of Oct 5, around 1:45 am. It is a small horseshoe-shaped road-- to walk the entire thing takes about 15 min. 1/4 of the walk from the house, facing east, slightly southeast, I saw what at first appeared to be an EXTREMELY large fireball/comet. I pointed it out to my companion in excitement, and he followed to get a better view. It was less than 2,000ft AGL, and AT LEAST from end to end, school bus sized. Moreover, as we sprinted about 40 yards to get a better look from behind my neighbors tree, I realized it was completely motionless. Not only that, but it was 100% not a comet. It was a bright crimson red rectangle facing West (since that seemed to be the front, not entirely sure) 'hovering' vertically, and tapered to a point or rounded point back towards the east side of it. As my eyes adjusted to what my brain was processing, I blinked and squinted to force the object to make more sense, but instead it flashed a subtle rainbow wave along its bottom end. We jokingly said "hello" and waved to it, trying to make fun of ourselves. Instantaneously, the entire motionless object disappeared. Not by leaving slowly, or fading away; but blinking out of existence. We thought the experience was over, then no more than 2 seconds after disappearing, in the same exact patch of sky, it reappeared, but as a lonely twinkle of light that looked like just a star. Initally in this form, it was very bright, then its brightness lowered a bit. However, it was clear it was the same object, just in different form. Not only because we could sense the invisible parts of the object that we could see when it was bright red, but we remained watching it vigilantly as this "star" rotated from a Westerly facing direction, to an Easterly facing direction, and remaining at around 2000 ft AGL---couldn't have been much higher, or faster than 120knots--- it ambled in a southeast direction over farmland, until it got too small for us to follow with our eye. It sincerely felt like when we said "hello" it reacted and tried to conceal itself. I know this is conjecture, but it was an intense feeling that I must note. The sky conditions were completely clear. The moon was a bright half moon in the Northeast, and Orion was rising up out of the eastern horizon to the right of the moon from our perspective that night. From where I stood, my best guess is this object was, at the beginning of the occurrence, at least 2mi to 3mi southwest. By the time we lost sight of it as it slowly trolled away as a star, I'd guess it was 12, 15 miles to the Southeast. Ryan Montgomery
October 5, 2023 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Liberty, KY
Me and my family were observing to see if the deer were able to eat the cover crops at about 1am the ground was frozen hard and school had been canceled for the 3rd week in a row due to snow on this night it was below 0 degrees like many that had passed we were looking at some deer when my mom started screaming and crying that it was the end of the world and began to pray with her doing so I burst into tears and looked toward the sky to witness what she was so upset about when I seen a huge fireball plumiting to earth with a bunch of smaller fireballs behind it my brother which has passed since and my father were speechless we actually thought it was going to crash on our truck so my dad grinds our old 72 Ford 3 speed colum shift in reverse and we move away as it crashed into a field and across a hilltop and was kept quiet by my father because noone believed it at the local store. For years everytime I would pass the field on a school bus I would turn to look there so 33 years later I was telling my daughter this event that took place that night and she ask me if I ever want and looked and I remember that someone had an accident on that farm and Noone was allowed to be on the farm per insurance so when I checked to see who owned it it was my old high school principal and he gave consent to look for anything and I believe that I have located whatever it was burning that fell that night and it will be the size of a school bus or a little bigger.
October 4, 2023 · 11:55 PM · CIRCLE
Brookshire, TX
Circular, bright orb hovering in the sky. This wasn’t a known craft (helicopter), lens flare or star.
October 4, 2023 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
Searcy, AR
Wednesday, Octobet 4th, 2024, approximately at around 11:15 pm, I was moving south on the trail. I was going in the direction of Berry Hill Park. There was a tropical storm effecting the area, and it was a very dark night. I crossed the creek bridge by the sewer pond, and saw a cluster of pulsating white orbs moving at near surface level. They moved with amd against one another, leaving a glow trail behind them, and also moved at random. They appeared to be anywhere from 100 yards to a half a mile , with a span of 100 yards they seemed to operate within, downhill, towords a low swampy area. I crept closer slowly to the wood line. Two minutes of lights were observed, then I got to the tree line. No more lights were visible. Then I heard a loud nearby advance towords me, and visibility was 0%. It chased me dien the trail. I turned to try communication, nothing bit sheer terror did I feel. I ride out as fast as I could to the park.
October 4, 2023 · 10:41 PM · LIGHT
Orange, CT
We have 2 ring cameras and the one at the back barely gives us warning , suddenly we had a movement, when we checked it 3 lights on the same line came from sky to ground then moved up back, we thought that they were bugs or something then we realized that we could see their lights on the ground and on trees. We might be wrong but what if we are right, if there is any movement on FAA radar that may help you, otherwise sorry for taking your time when you are watching the video
October 4, 2023 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
Las Vegas, NV
Sometimes the sparkly lights would slow down the they would go fast
October 4, 2023 · 9:36 PM · SPHERE
Hixson, TN
Was driving down road and shiny object caught my eye in sky . I took pictures cause I thought it was weird. The object was stationary in the sky then moved towards the left and disappeared from sight . There was also a green hollow ring in the sky to the direction it moved before it vanished. The object seamed to reflect the suns light on the top and seemed silver but I could not really tell due to the reflecting light on the orb. I witnessed this in the daytime. I thought it was a balloon at first but it was too large and the the way it moved and then disappeared from sight at such a fast rate scared me cause balloons do not do that .I saw this with my eyes and it also appears in the photos.
October 4, 2023 · 9:35 PM · CHANGING
Mineral Wells, TX
Was taking pictures of the sky, while I noticed a bright light that was going dim, and then very bright again. The flying object began to hover in the sky without making any noise whatsoever. Next up several more smaller began to fly sporadically around the larger object, I originally saw. That is when they begin to go in directions that made absolutely no physical sense. I was unable to notice shape, changing of the primary object going from round hexagonal, and then to a sphere it had rotating lights, and then More became to follow flying by as if they were shooting stars, but they would return upward towards the original object. It wasn’t long after that we as a group saw airplanes, trying to go in the direction of where these objects were, but unable to keep up with them. This is all caught on video.
October 4, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
PA
I saw it very clearly at first, and ran inside to get my phone. When I got back there were two, not close together. First one white, second one red. They did not remain a fixed distance apart. They were silently moving west at a slow rate of speed. By the time I got my camera on them, they had moved too far away to see the details, but they were both shaped like a regularly pulsing Christmas star, with many points, only visible when the lights pulsed. I got video as they drifted out of sight, behind the trees. I’m an aircraft enthusiast, and I’ve never seen aircraft lights like these. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
October 4, 2023 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Aurora, OR
I stayed outside another 15-20 minutes and do not see again and went inside. I contacted my neighbors to see if anyone was flying a drone at 9:08 pm pst, that was right after second siting. Even though it was much higher than a drone, figured my eyes could be deceiving. No one in our rural neighborhood admitted to knowing what it was.
October 4, 2023 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Myerstown, PA, PA
I was driving on 422 from Myerstown PA to Lebanon PA , when I looked up to see what looked like an airplane with 3 lights in the shape of a triangle. It was flying lower than a normal aircraft, then it just slowly faded away into the clouds. It was after sunset.
October 4, 2023 · 7:28 PM · TRIANGLE
Probable conventionalFall River, MA
On Oct 4th 2023 at around 7:20p est as I was about to clock out for lunch, I noticed what appeared to be a plane's smoke trail. I found this strange as it was dark out and it looked like a fire trail. "I took 2 photos but it was to fast" I initially thought that maybe it was a meteorite or something until the next day I zoomed into the pictures and one looks like a triangular shaped object with a sphere in its center. It also appears to be climbing altitude at the time of shot. I honestly believe I have captured a true photo of a U.A.P. I showed the photo to a friend at Camp Edwards and his exact words were "It ain't ours" [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
October 4, 2023 · 7:05 PM · LIGHT
Arlington, VA
Local weather: KDCA 070252Z 16005KT 10SM FEW060 FEW085 BKN150 22/19 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP120 T02220194 58005 (I live about 3 miles from DCA) [DECODED Weather: Temperature: 22.2°C ( 72°F) Dewpoint: 19.4°C ( 67°F) [RH = 84%] Pressure (altimeter): 29.89 inches Hg (1012.3 mb) [Sea level pressure: 1012.0 mb] Winds: from the SSE (160 degrees) at 6 MPH (5 knots; 2.6 m/s) Visibility: 10 or more sm (16+ km) Ceiling: 15000 feet AGL Clouds: few clouds at 6000 feet AGL, few clouds at 8500 feet AGL, broken clouds at 15000 feet AGL] About me: I rent this apartment (since 2017) because of the panoramic view facing east and because of the proximity to Washington/National (DCA) airport. I am passionate about military and civilian aviation and, as a result, I spend an inordinate amount of time looking at airplanes [noting their make/model, company (owner), path, assumed route, and deviations], weather, and the sky. My Observations: On Wednesday, 04 October 2023, at approximately 1910 local, while sitting on my easterly facing balcony with a friend, talking, I was facing approximately NNE. I observed three lights that "popped into my view", suddenly, causing me to say "whoa" out loud. I did not have to point out the lights to my friend, I simply said something like what are those lights in the sky over the Kenedy Center. She observed the same lights and had no idea what they were. I observed that three dots heading together in a due north direction, at a satallite's passing overhead speed, in an open triangle formation. The three lights were on a triangle, with one light "leading" the formation to the north and two more lights all equidistant from each other to the south. These did not look like the Starlink sattelite pattern of lights so frequestly seen in the sky. Then, within a minute, they all disappeared, first the most northly, then the other two, one after another. The lights were a whitish (with a hint of blue) color. There was no variation in color. There was no variation in the path nor movement. The lights appeared about 35 - 45 degrees above the horizon. They appeared that they were over the surface a great distance away, guessing maybe at least 75 miles away(?) if they were even within low earth atmosphere. They were possibly operating (as I suspect they were) in space. There was no sound. I knew the sun set recently, so I first considered what I was seeing to be a reflection. I disregarded that because the lights "popped" into view versus gradually illuminating - plus, I should have seen a "reflection" well before passing so far north in the sky. (In other words, since the lights traveled south to north, perpendicular to the sun's path, I would have seen any reflection that high in the sky much, much sooner in the more southern sky.) My next thought was that I was seeing satellites - but satellites do not fly in triangle formation in "close" proximity to each other. We did see a satellite later that evening that I suspect was the space station traveling overhead from west to east and very brightly illuminated. The three lights looked completely different. I am familliar (very) with UFP/UAP history, incidents, and converasations, etc. My initial reaction was not that I was seeing a UFO/UAP, but was a "head tilting" but was a "what the heck was that" reaction. Then I concluded that, from my perspective, since it was unknown to me, it was, by definition, an unknown flying object / unknown aerial phenomena. I thought of trying to take a picture, but I know from experience that my cell phone would not have captured the lights.
October 4, 2023 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Near Fareham · United Kingdom
Several red balls like splodges about 9 or 10. Seemed to be following each other. Stopped and hovered occasionally. Watched them for about 15 minutes then they gradually disappeared. I was the only person at home looking out of my kitchen window. I am 69 years old with 20 20 vision and wearing my glasses. I hold a certificate in ufology.
October 4, 2023 · 6:32 PM · SPHERE
Los Angeles, CA
Three black balls or spheres were following a plane and surrounding it as it flew by. 3 black individual non reflective spheres. I observed trying to see if the balls were something else but I could clearly see large black spheres.
October 4, 2023 · 6:09 PM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
Exited swan mart with 4 year old son. While placing son in car seat, he reports “look at those lights, mama.” I look around parking lot and said, “what lights?” He stated, “No mama, in the sky.” I viewed glimmer lights, about 15 orbs in a V formation, at the same altitude as birds(was low) at onset. Secured son in car seat with tablet to distract, closed door of car. I then took pictures and video for 3-4 min or strange lights. . They were nothing I had seen. No sound or wings observed. The orbs reflected light and were glimmering. Initially, moved north but dissolving into the sky at times, very hard to see. Orbs, reappeared far in the distance (toward the NE) on one occasion briefly, then again dissolved into the clear sky that evening. Reappeared one final time, near the SW and disappeared into the sky. [NUFORC annotation: Birds - Possible]
October 4, 2023 · 3:10 PM · OTHER
Fair Oaks, CA
I just made a report of what I saw 2 days ago, come out to the backyard and see them again, but only about 5. They seem to be flying very high, because they appear in the middle of the blue sky, do some circles, and vanish again in the blue sky. They were about 5 white dots. They could be birds, but I don't see where they come from or where they go. It just looks like they come from a high altitude and go back vary high.
October 4, 2023 · 1:45 PM · OTHER
Rye area over I95, CT
It appeared high up in the sky and was small like higher than an airplane. It was freight, silver, and either typical UFO shape or a long cylinder, not quite sure, because it appeared for a few seconds, and then it disappeared and then I was like wait a minute without a UFO and then it reappeared again, like as if to answer lol. And then a few seconds later, it disappeared again. The sky is blue, and no clouds in sight. About 30 to 45 minutes later the emergency alert system went off and I thought the timing was interesting so I figured the military had seen it and it being so close to New York City…? Maybe it set off the alert so I thought I should report what I saw!
October 4, 2023 · 6:10 AM · SPHERE
Fairborn, OH
At around 6:10am, my friend and I were walking into work. I noticed a something flying northbound and when I looked at flight radar it showed a Delta Airlines plane was in that vicinity. I looked back up and seen something else that almost just looked like a star way far away but it was moving in a straight line and kind of slowly, eastbound. I look back at flight radar and there was nothing showing up for this one. Me and my friend were watching it as it moved across the sky then all the sudden it disappeared. I tried getting it on camera but it was too far for my phone to pick up. This location is basically right next to Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
October 4, 2023 · 5:30 AM · DISK
Pinehurst, NC
Taking dog out and looking up at the sky I saw the object and wrote down the time when I got inside!
October 3, 2023 · 9:40 PM · DIAMOND
London · United Kingdom
In the evening near Greenwich Park, I spotted a UFO shaped like a diamond. The sighting lasted about 15 minutes. The UFO had flickering lights, and its shape was clear against the night sky. Unfortunately, there were no other witnesses, and my phone didn't work when I tried to take pictures.
October 3, 2023 · 8:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Port Orchard, WA
Saw a triangle craft, with lights at each corner, could have been military. Warning, ufo's are radioactive and can give a person cancer, accept if they are air sightings. If you were to see one up close could be harmful to health.