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Sightings
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October 2, 2023 · 2:02 PM · FORMATION
Taylorville, IL
20 white craft with forward swept wings flying in formation with no sound at all at a fairly high altitude, probably 15,000 to 20,000 ft.
October 2, 2023 · 1:03 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalSilver Spring, MD
On Monday October 2nd, I saw multiple streaks of light/star/cloud trails enter the atmosphere. This was around 1p.m. At first I thought it was airplanes or satellites but the streaks would come straight down or come in diagonally, and go straight into a cloud. Sometimes coming out sometimes not. Or hover and get smaller and disappear. Around 6:15 the same evening, two streaks came down, one behind the other, stopped in mid air, and joined together. There was no trail; they now looked like stars. Just hovering. (The one streak came down and joined with the other that had stooped mid-air). Another streak hovered then very slowly turned around and went back up into the sky into a cloud directly above it. These seem to have consciousness. There was a round metallic sphere that went into a cloud nearby (and did not come back out while I watched) in the same vicinity around the time all these streaks were coming into the atmosphere. I only saw that once. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
October 2, 2023 · 5:20 AM
IdentifiedMones, Midi-Pyrénées · France
Le 2 octobre 2023, à 05h17, un résident de Monès (31), en ouvrant la porte de sa terrasse, observe, avec son épouse, une forme longitudinale particulièrement lumineuse se déplaçant en direction de Lombez (32). La consistance* du cas est évaluée comme moyenne : bien qu'il y ait deux témoins, un seul a complété le questionnaire de témoignage (QT) et aucune documentation visuelle (photo ou vidéo) n'a été fournie. *selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d’informations considérées comme fiables, recueillies pour un témoignage. L'analyse des cartes fournies par le Centre National des Opérations Spatiales (CNOA) de l’Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace, ainsi que les données du site FlightRadar24, nous ont permis de démontrer que les témoins avaient observé un avion de ligne, un Boeing 77W, vol REU975 de la compagnie Air Austral, reliant Saint-Denis (974) à Tarbes (65) (cf. le compte rendu d'enquête). La trajectoire suivie par l’avion de l’est vers l’ouest est très proche du sens de déplacement du PAN de l’est-sud-est vers l’ouest-nord-ouest. L’horaire de l’observation correspond à l’horaire de passage de l’avion au-dessus des témoins.La forme longitudinale est compatible avec l'apparence d'un avion se déplaçant transversalement par rapport au point d'observation, d'autant plus que le Boeing 777-300 est le modèle le plus grand de la série B777. L’absence de bruit rapportée par le témoin peut s’expliquer ainsi : l’avion est en phase de descente, donc à vitesse réduite, de plus le vent venant de l’est-sud-est, ne porte pas le bruit vers les témoins. La forte luminosité est probablement due à l’allumage des phares d’atterrissage un peu avant l’exigence règlementaire, la représentation de T2 avec des lumières sur le pourtour de la forme fait très probablement référence à la luminosité répartie et pas stricto sensu à des éclairages ponctuels. Enfin, si le PAN observé n’était pas cet aéronef, il serait surprenant que les témoins ne l’aient pas mentionné comme élément de leur témoignage, car il était, comme nous l’avons démontré très visible. Le cas est classé A, observation très probable d’un avion de ligne. [GEIPAN classification A — Avion de ligne]
October 2, 2023 · 3:13 AM · LIGHT
Chatsworth, GA
At around 3:00 AM, I went out on the porch to let my German Shepherd out to do her thing. It was unusually clear and very bright. While I was waiting for her return, I was facing due East. There was a bright Half-Moon at around bearing 045º, and I thought it was extra bright and orange, probably at perigee...beautiful. The moon made it possible to see very well. I thought I could almost read by the light. There were also many stars visible, constellations I specifically admired because of their brightness, Pegasus, Cassiopeia, and Andromeda at bearing 075º through 085º, approximately. Clouds were thin and very sparse. I saw Alice (my dog) returning across the field in the moonlight...few things are more beautiful than a German Shepherd at a gallop. Sorry, I digress... As I turned to face due North to reach behind me for the doorknob, I noticed in my peripheral vision some movement in the sky coming from the NNW. I turned my head and looked up to see a perfectly straight (appearance-wise) line of small blueish-white lights traveling at what I thought would have been the speed of an L-1 towing a sign (I used to work for a sign-towing company), but there was no engine noise. Just the normal night sounds. It traveled in a straight line from NNW to NNE at an azimuth of 45º and I did not lose sight of it. I think when it went in front of stars, it really went in front of them, but I could be wrong. I reached for the doorknob, opened the door, and shouted for my wife to come look at this and bring one of the cell phones so I could take a picture. but she was unable to respond in time. I turned back to watch the lights, by now almost due North, still the same azimuth. No course change, no apparent altitude change, no noise, and no sign of a tow plane. No running lights, nothing. They all appeared to be of the same size, about like the medium stars, and the same brightness. Not faint, but not bright. They appeared to be evenly spaced. I didn't know what size they really were, so I was unable to estimate the actual size, speed, or altitude. They appeared to be a towed sign with no words, just dots, by something similar to a Cessna or Stearman that tows at around 65mph, at 500 ft. But there was absolutely no engine noise or anything to indicate there was an aircraft towing it. Alice did not react, but she seldom does to anything in the sky, like planes, birds, etc... I followed them to about bearing 025º, Azmuth approximately 70º, when Alice, almost to the porch, barked at something and took off after it. I followed her for a bit (visually) then looked for the lights once again. They were gone, or out of sight. Alice returned in a few minutes, we went inside and that was about it. My opinion, for what it is worth is that it was something being towed, and for some reason used no running lights (red, green, white), and the sound could not be heard, for some reason, maybe atmospheric. I don't know why anyone would be doing that, but that's what it seemed like to me. But that's probably above my pay-grade. If not that, then some sort of unusual atmospheric phenomena, maybe because of the super-bright moon and other factors. I do not know if it was reported by anyone else, picked up on radar, or anything else. I did not see it listed in the local newspaper, nor on the local Facebook page (if it's not on Facebook, how far from the pack have you strayed?). Earlier today (Oct 5), my wife told me about a similar incident in Alaska recently, so I thought if I reported this, it might help to find the actual identification. My money is still on something towed by an unseen something. I'd like to say in closing that I do not think it was any sort of manned (for lack of a better word), extraterrestrial spacecraft, or any other nonsense. I am a Skeptic. There is a normal explanation for it that doesn't involve little, green men from Mars. I used to write for a website called Hiding the Truth, and we debunked all kinds of nonsense, pseudo-science, and the like. I don't want anyone to think I am a UFO nut, because I am not. Just an aging, reasonably-well educated Hobby-Scientist. I hope this helps. Feel free to publish all or part of this, or use it any way you see fit. Thanks [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
October 2, 2023 · 12:48 AM · LIGHT
Luray, VA
As I was sitting in my living room on my couch, I looked out of my front window which faces Northeast, and viewed two faint balls of white light that were steadily moving North up the Shenandoah Valley. When I first noticed these two lights, they were above the horizon to the immediate right of the mountaintop “Kennedy’s Peak” of the George Washington National Forest. After bringing the lights to the attention of my younger brother, we both ran over to the window and opened it it gain a better view of the lights. These lights appeared to be maintaining a constant altitude of approximately 30,000 feet AGL and traveling faster than a regular passenger aircraft- if they were at the range they appeared to be they could have been traveling at more than 800 knots. These lights were rather faint, and they maintained perfect separation of about a thumbnail on an extended arm throughout the entire duration of the sighting which lasted about ten seconds total. By the time I found a pair of binoculars to get a better view of them, the right-hand light began to fade and was quickly joined by the left-hand light before totally fading into the darkness. We watched the sky for about five minutes afterward and saw nothing out of the ordinary. FlightAware.com and FlightRadar24.com had no aircraft in the area at the time. No satellite trackers had anything in the area either. I do not believe these were Starlink satellites- I have seen them several times before, however, I have never seen just a pair traveling perfectly along the horizon. Perhaps military jets on a training exercise? Both me and my brother are lifelong aviation enthusiasts with a father who is a private pilot. I've never seen anything quite like this before.
October 1, 2023 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalDallas, TX
Object looks like a light from a distance, when observed through binoculars object is moving eracticly, very fast. Object hovers. Planes don't hover, stars don't hover and satellites don't move eracticly. Many people have witnessed this, have viewed it through binoculars and can't tell what it is. I see this object every night, it follows me wherever I go. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
October 1, 2023 · 9:19 PM · CIRCLE
Shelburne Falls, MA
We saw two round, blinking red white blue green objects in the sky. They were stationary for the most part therefore at least 10 minutes or so, and then disappeared. You can see in the video that at one point a plane flew underneath one or past or through one. The next night we noticed one object stationary for approximately 10 to 20 minutes. The week before we saw two objects, same size shape, colors, moving extremely slowly, and then disappearing into the clouds.
October 1, 2023 · 9:07 PM · LIGHT
Fort Worth, TX
Appeared as a small star but traveled very slowly, moving in an irregular pattern from west to east, lingered, then south.
October 1, 2023 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
IdentifiedSherman, TX
After pic was taken, they all disappeared in formation toward the south. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
October 1, 2023 · 8:47 PM · LIGHT
Hollister, MO
I arrived at home from the grocery store in Hollister, MO at 8:47PM and noticed how big the Moon appeared to be and how it was almost an orange color. I stopped to take a couple of pictures to send to my mother, who was staying about 10 minutes from me in Branson, MO at Stone Castle Inn. I continued to look at the Moon and opened my Satellite Tracker app to see what planet was close to it and saw that it was Jupiter. As I was about to walk indoors, I saw a VERY bright white, long and thin rectangle appear inbetween Jupiter and the Moon. It was moving at the pace of a pretty fast jet directly towards the Moon. It began to get even more bright white (I've never seen something this "shade" of white), it began to go faster, angling up towards the Moon and as soon as it was directly in front of it from where I was standing, it completely disappeared. It literally was there one moment and gone the next. I have never seen anything move quite like it before and the speed it reached, made no sense to me. There was no noise and for something THAT large, I do not understand why I did not hear anything. Anyways, whatever it was, was absolutely captivating and beautiful. After this event, I received a text message from my mother and she asked me if I had seen something weird by the Moon (as she went outside after I had initially sent her the two photos of the Moon). She described a very similar experience, with the only difference being that she thought she saw a smaller round shaped "something" further below this object that was moving in sync with it. I attached a photo that I sent my mother, with a circle where this object first appeared and the direction that it moved. I would love to be contacted if anyone else has reported this event.
October 1, 2023 · 8:31 PM · SPHERE
Columbia, MD
Went out on the deck just looking around. White orb moving very fast 182° South in the sky. No blinking lights. Went in to get my binoculars in the kitchen (I like looking at the moon, also have 2 telescopes) and it was no where to be found in the sky. Checked the location of the ISS @ that time it was over Australia. I checked that because I thought perhaps that's what I was seeing. That's it.
October 1, 2023 · 8:18 PM · EGG
SHELBYVILLE, TN
I have actually seen a few of these before. I see them all over no matter what state I am in I eventually find one, or they find me. They appear to be small drones that, when noticed or finished with the gathering of info, activate an active camouflage. I say active mask due to the fact that when they disappear from sight the light can be observed bending around them rather than just vanishing. They fly relatively low to the ground and can be seen at night or day. I assume most people dont see them because they dont pay attention. Other times I feel as if they are watching me in particular, keeping tabs on me for some unknown reason.
October 1, 2023 · 7:38 PM · CHEVRON
ENFIELD, CT
But I got this one on video. Honestly I don't what shape it was [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
October 1, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Vancouver, WA
On October 1st, 2023, my partner and I arrived home at approximately 7:30pm. Upon exiting the car, I looked south from our street in the Lincoln neighborhood of West Vancouver, Washington which provides a view of downtown Portland, specifically the I-405 (aka Fremont) bridge and the Bancorp tower area. I noticed two orbs of light oddly lined up and stationary. They seemed to be somewhat flickering between white/warm white and red. I thought it was odd and pointed it out to my partner. We unloaded the car then looked closer since they were still there. I took a short video and a photo then proceeded inside to make dinner. I had all but forgotten about the orbs of light while in the kitchen for an hour, I then went into the living room which has a window that faces south. I look and am surprised to see a third light orb has appeared, lined up with the original two, this is at 8:30pm. They were all still stationery and flashing between white and red, out of sync with one another. We observe them for about 10 minutes while trying to explain what they could be, we were observing domestic flights flying lower than the orbs. We started watching a movie, occasionally pausing, and getting up to look out the window, they were still there for another 30 minutes, then began seeming to disappear and reappear suddenly. It was a clear night and often only one of the three would disappear. Eventually around 10:30pm they all disappeared and did not reappear from our perspective. I posted photos to the neighborhood app Nextdoor and someone replied with a video much clearer than the ones I got of the same three orbs in the sky, the male and female heard in the video were also confused as to what they could be. Background on us: My partner (29yo M) has a bachelor’s degree in software engineering, and I (29yo F) have a bachelor’s degree and am currently in medical school. I do not know the background of the male and female who replied with a video of the 3 light orbs to my Nextdoor post.
October 1, 2023 · 6:58 PM · CIGAR
Salt Lake City, UT
There was a very bright cigar shaped object in the sky above the houses. I was facing north. There was a storm coming in. It did not move. I watched for about 4 minutes and it was motionless. Took 3 pics, went to get binocs when I came back it was gone.
October 1, 2023 · 2:08 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalNew Hartford, NY
While returning from a hike on McKeever Road, I took a photo of the trailhead sign on Route 28. It was only after we returned home later that I looked at my photos and noticed two strange clusters of lights and nearby what looks like a cloud shaped like a triangle. When I took the photo I didn't hear or see any planes or helicopters in the sky. In fact, no sounds were heard. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
October 1, 2023 · 1:55 PM · EGG
Mount Vernon, OH
Me and my wife was on the Harley. Heading to Mount Vernon Ohio. We just happen to look up and see a silver TicTac object I said, do you see that she said yeah we seen it very clear came around the tree and it was gone just like that, it was above Walmart, hovering there and then just vanished. I’m absolutely positive it was a ufo
October 1, 2023 · 7:08 AM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalKnox, IN
Was walking my dogs. Probably 48 degrees F. Not a sound except crickets. Out in the country near massive solar fields. Held my arm up to capture top of cornfield with fog and took the picture. Got home and noticed a black ‘dot’ on photo from I-phone. The image was a ‘live’ image so I touched the screen to see if I could tell what the black dot was and surprised to see how fast it moved across the screen. Super,super fast. No sound. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]
October 1, 2023 · 6:50 AM · UNKNOWN
Hamtramck, MI
I was facing south at first when I noticed a bright green light in the sky to the west of me and I started to watch it when it started to flash the green light and started to fly away further and higher when it disappeared then all of a sudden at the original spot a bright red light was there hovering then flashing then started to move behind some clouds and disappeared again before it showed back up and started to descend before it just disappeared out of sight. I can’t tell the shape of it but I do have video and one picture. Also I called out to my dad and he seen the same thing. This was few miles to the west of my location
October 1, 2023 · 3:43 AM · CIRCLE
Los Angeles, Fontana, CA
I routinely look up at the night sky especially when full moons are out and seen something floating around just east of the moon. It was circle shaped and it's brightness would undulate through various shades of white light. I started recording with my phone camera and when I zoomed the details showed something completely different from what I could see. The shape looks like an elongated oval with a void in the center that's circular in shape. I drove home to see it flash in and out just above the horizon during the freeway drive & when I got home it returned to it's original sighting spot next to the moon. There was only one of these objects and the whole thing lasted about 2 hours. I am the only observer. I was actually working at my second job at the LA yard moving trucks to different cities containing customer furniture. By day I am a Letter Carrier for USPS.
October 1, 2023 · 1:45 AM · DISK
Delano, MN
The object was suspicious it was a gray disk with a blue oval on top kind of in the gray oval looking like a ufo, I wasn’t sure to be exact what it was till we researched it and found this page, it was moving very slow then sped up and started blinking before disappearing I think it flew back into the sky leaving super faint blue shadows, It happened very quickly and are phones weren’t allowing us to record. We were all very anxious so that being might be why our dog was acting weird but she stood there whining and staring at the object, she wouldn’t listen to her name being called or even look at us for a good 5 minutes after whatever this object deems to be.
October 1, 2023 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Ebensburg, PA
The sky was clear. I had stepped outside to see the moon. Two orange lights appeared low in the western sky streaking from west to southeast seming to be climbing. Then it vanished. Probably lasted about four seconds. It was not an aircraft, no blinking lights. I've never seen something moving that fast through the sky. The orange side-by-side lights had an orange trail behind as it streaked across the sky. There was no sound. It did not appear to be high in the sky like the airliners that fly over.
October 1, 2023 · 1:00 AM · CHEVRON
Broadview Heights, OH
At approximately 1am on Sunday October 1st, 2023, my friend and I both witnessed in it’s entirety, a dark chevron/bullet shaped craft appear out of nothing roughly 20° above the horizon from the Northwest and silently scream (the best way I can describe it’s consistent high rate of speed) across the entire visible sky to the East/Southeast where it then disappeared into nothing roughly 20° above the horizon. This craft wasn’t high enough to be a plane at cruising altitude, and it wasn’t low enough to be a landing plane either. Behind the craft is what appeared to be an orange, red and black plasma trail (best description of the visual, certainly not saying it was for sure plasma), which was roughly 3 to 4 times the length of the craft itself. Unlike a contrail from a plane that will last in the sky for the period of time after the plane has traveled by, this plasma trail stayed at a consistent length and travel behind the craft the entire time it was visible. The craft wasn’t super low, but it was low enough to make out edge lines and details, such as gradients or different textures on the craft itself. On this night it was also a very bright moonlight sky, which, aided in making out the edge and shape of the craft as it was clearly contrasted against the moonlight navy sky, and it’s own black/gray coloring. I know this reporting is only available, because the people behind it believe in this kind of thing, and so do I. I don’t want to go into a long description of how I know it was not shooting star, or how I know it wasn’t a plane, or anything else that could be reasonably explained with our current means of technology. The only thing I can really say is that this has been a huge interest of mine for a long time, I’m not biased as I look at things from a logical and scientific approach. The elevation that this craft was flying at, the speed it was flying at, the way it appeared as it flew, and the fact that it made not a single speck of a sound immediately solidified in my eyes and mind as a true UAP. I have seen many things that I can’t explain in my life in the sky, I read up and keep up with all the latest UFO/UAP research and declarations made by designated teams to study these things, such as the recent NASA panel, and the very recent congressional hearing we had on UAPs. And even through all the strange things that I have seen and cannot explain myself, at the end of the day in my mind, I still said well there could be an explanation for what I saw I’m just not aware of it, a human explanation that is. But I can promise that what I saw does not have a human explanation. I am no certified expert, however, I am a very well-versed mind in the field of UFO/ UAP’s. I have taken multiple collegiate level classes at Arizona State University in astronomy, my understanding of the stars is above average in terms of our society in the United States. If I was able to record at all what I saw, aside from any evidence that is currently being withheld from the public by the governments of the world, what I saw would be the smoking gun evidence the world would need to believe UAPs. An interesting part is that in the past all the things that I have seen that I can’t explain, I have always been alone. However, for this one, which is by far exponentially the craziest thing that I have ever seen, I had a friend with me. WhileI am agnostic if you will, and really approach most of everything in life with a scientific approach, she is not. She is an extremely religious person, who does not, and has not ever given UFO/UAP the time of day she seldom looks up into the night sky. However, on this night after we got home from seeing a movie and going for a short drive, I suggested we walk to my backyard as I had this instinct, I got a gut feeling that we would see something. I said, “I bet if we walk back there, we will see within five minutes.” Not only did we see something, we saw the craziest thing either of us have ever seen in our lives. The most unexplainable thing that either of us have ever seen in our lives; and our experience and description of the craft are identical, even though our upbringing and beliefs are not. If I can find footage of what I saw, maybe from the neighbors ring door camera, and can get access to some sort of radar records of the area at that time of that night, I know that we can bring to light what we saw that night.
October 1, 2023 · 12:06 AM · FORMATION
Modesto, CA
On my way home I saw a formation of orange lights in the sky not blinking but some were getting brighter I have a video of it