The catalog
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
October 31, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Casa Grande, AZ
My wife and I were sitting outside giving out Halloween candy to the kids when I noticed a bright rectangular white light (with binoculars looked like two lights on top of a long bright light) to the NortWest. Wind blowing at ground level but rock steady. Maintained the same position for three hours before it became too cold and we went inside. Airplanes flying over and under. Clearly not an airplane or helicopter or consumer drone (no drone can hover for three hours). I am a retired police officer with an aviation background and hold an FAA Commercial Pilot certificate.
October 31, 2023 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Tiverton, RI
I was on flight NK2060 MCO-BOS seating on 25A (window on Port side of the plane) enjoying my vacation. The descent had already started and we were around 15 minutes from landing. I estimate the altitude should be around 6000 feet. I was looking at the window and recognizing other Aircraft models that passed by (I like to do that since I work at an airport and I’m interested in planes). I recognized several of them, but suddenly I saw this spherical object reflecting very bright white blueish light going SW direction. I mean it passed in the opposite direction we were heading and I could see it for about 7 seconds and I didn’t have enough time to grab a camera. It passed by us I would say not more than 1 mile below and 1 mile East and moved at at least double speed of other aircrafts. It had nothing to do with any aspect of an aircraft.
October 30, 2023 · 7:54 PM · LIGHT
The Colony, TX
I routinely record timelapse of sunrise and sunsets. Great condition to see 'red skies" on Monday so I broadcast the sunset live on Instagram and also recording a timelaspe to post later. Stopped all recording after sun was down. Still really clouds flowing so I started a new time-lapse 7:37pm - 10:34pm. Downloaded the file and did a quick view before deleting as intended. The flying object showed up a 7:54. I'm close to a small aiport so I'm seeing planes all the time gut nothing like this. I looks huge compared to the other planes flying by that night. It caught my attention immediately and then it does something that projects forward that resembles a sonic smoke right. Captured on a Wyze 2k camera with timestamps.
October 30, 2023 · 7:52 PM · LIGHT
Garden City, KS
The light seemed to be flying through a cloud, had a haze around it and seemed to be a directional light changing where it was pointing a couple of times. I am an air traffic controller and the light was verified by a pilot but not seen by our radar services. When the light got south of the airfield it had a seemingly burst of gas the shot out in front of it like a cone shape and then the light slowly faded until it was spotted again about 30 seconds later further to the southeast looking more like a bright star while moving and faded out very rapidly after about 10 seconds and then faded again until it was no longer visible or observed.
October 30, 2023 · 7:51 PM · LIGHT
Hot Springs, AR
I was in the Dollar Tree parking lot waiting for my kids to come to the vehicle and I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look and saw a smoke ring blow off of the light-yellow orb light. By the time I got my camera up to video, the light had moved away but you can barely see it at the two sec mark traveling away in the video I took. It made no noise whatsoever. You can hear the toddler in the vehicle saying something about fireworks. She thought it was fireworks, she saw it as well. She is only two but she saw it. The light looked large and nearby, smoke ring looked very close not far away in the sky so it was either very big and far away or it was local. It was large when first spotted and moved away quickly after the smoke ring shot out. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
October 30, 2023 · 7:04 PM · LIGHT
South Fork, CO
My wife and I saw a very bright light south of highway. Light was moving SSE. Light appeared to be behind mist as if in fog, but no clouds were in sky. Witnessed a plane fly in close proximity to bright light but did not have the same hazed effect. Object appeared to increase in speed after plane went by. Object suddenly grew in intensity of brightness then appeared to pulse out sphere of light that could be seen growing out from center like a ripple in a pond. Got binoculars on object as it was going over horizon at a very far distance. Could see two distinct lights. Called parents later to discuss. They live south of Pagosa Springs, CO approx 8 miles. They said they and my brother saw a very similar object about 30 min before we did. Said they viewed with binoculars and the object had what appeared to be a tower on top with multiple squares of light. Had a large rectangular or possibly cylindrical light source on bottom that was source of most of the light. They described the object pushing out light more as if it was pushing out mist that was lit up by the object. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
October 30, 2023 · 6:51 PM · LIGHT
Bosque Farms, NM
On October 30, 2023 at 6:51 PM, I arrived home and as I got out of my car I noticed a strange light in the sky above my house towards the west. It was rapidly getting dark and this steady glowing light that was slowly moving to the southeast was obscured by a kind of fog even though it was a completely clear night. There was no sound at all emanating from this object, there were no other lights and no blinking lights like a plane. I got my wife from the house, I took 1 picture and thought I started a video but actually didn’t. Ugg. We watched it drift over us and towards the southeast and it was hard to tell how high it was with this weird fog around it, 2000 to 5000 ft high maybe. At one point a jet flew between us and this object and the contrast of a completely in focus commercial jet and this weird silent foggy light. Right at the end as it was about to go out of sight we both witnessed a 360 degree, what I would call a pressure wave, emanate outward from this object and a fast pace and dissolve. That pressure wave was the absolute most unreal thing I have ever seen. It then continued out of site to the southeast over the Manzano mountains. This was no balloon, it's not the moon I can prove that, it's no air vehicle that I have ever seen. I'm 68. And I did not really believe. That has absolutely changed. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
October 30, 2023 · 6:45 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalAlbuquerque, NM
Was watering plants in back yard saw light above/south in the sky moving east from the west. Did not look like any plane or military aircraft. Had no noise. Called a friend outside to take a look at it with me. He did not know what it was. I went inside and grabbed my bird watching binoculars and looked at it some more. It had no shape just a round light but on the back of it there was a stick like protrusion at a 45 degree angel. It looked like a folded up umbrella or a parachute that failed to inflate. The protrusion seemed very rigid and did not change shape. It was headed SE over KAFB or four hills and I saw it emit a spray in a round shape like a smoke ring. In a slightly down ward angle. The spray/emission was much bigger then the light that produced it. I then proceeded to access my roof (took one min)to get a better view and it was gone. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
October 28, 2023 · 5:10 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalSandpoint, ID
From 1978 to this day, I believe I saw 3 UFOs (Unknown Flying Objects). One when I was an ATC (Air Traffic controller) in the Air Force, another one when I was a Flight Attendant and another one as a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI ) pilot. Those UFOs had different shapes such as diamond shape and croissant shape. Last night, I woke up at 5am. I saw a bright light in the sky from my bed. I leave by the Lake Pend’Oreille in Sandpoint, Idaho. I walked to the balcony. First I thought it was the position on the planet Venus at that time (5:10am). Considering the rotation of the Earth, that “thing” was not moving. Then I began to take pictures with my cell phone. And this is what is appearing (see pictures)! I leave the analysis and conclusion to the experts. But please let me know the verdict! [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
October 27, 2023 · 4:44 PM · LIGHT
Red Boiling Springs, TN
I was watching a video I posted online of my plane’s decent. When I noticed 2 flashes of light one coming and one going extremely fast So fast I did not see it while filming the video only week later did I notice these events while watching the video objects are moving extremely fast It was a clean blue sky We were just starting to enter the clouds as you can see in the video Please watch video very closely and look for the streak of white lights one coming and going in the left hand corner
October 27, 2023 · 7:45 AM · LIGHT
Kingston, MA
Star looking object that appeared to be slightly moving back and forth and oscillating light. Similar to a star but more pronounced. A moving blue light appeared out of nowhere near it. It was doubled in size to the white starlike object. It moved for 3 seconds then disappeared. About 10 seconds later it reappeared in a different location, but still near the object. It disappeared after a few seconds. A few minutes later a white circular flash (.5 second duration) appeared much farther south and closer to me. I when I returned a short time later to check on it, the object was gone and nothing similar anywhere nearby. When I tried to get compass coordinates, my phone compass is swapping east and west *I did not have my phone to catch the blue lights. The video does show up the starlike object slightly moving and fluctuating light. It is subtle and was more noticeable in real life. The video does show the circular flash at the tree line around 11 second on video time line
October 26, 2023 · 7:20 AM · LIGHT
Canton, GA
Had just made it to work with a co-worker of mine. parked facing east and sat for a minute listening to the radio. it was around 7:20 a:m. was studying what i thought was a morning star above the tree line. But realised it was too bright. and it looked like it was pulsing a little bit. Then noticed it was SLOWLY ascending. Then its light began to grow dim and it gradually picked up speed and ascended above cloud coverage outta sight. 10 minutes later the cloud coverage was gone and nothing was in sight.
October 25, 2023 · 2:55 AM · LIGHT
colton, CA
The two round green lights moved at a high rate of speed. Faster than any helicopter or drone could possibly go. I don’t think a jet can move that fast. The lights flashed. As each flash the object would move about a mile. It went out about 10 miles and stopped and hovered for a few minutes then shot back the opposite way . It seemed to stopped once it passed me and hover and even turn around, then turned back and left. It had a glow around it but a light one.
October 24, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Deshler, OH
Was driving west on county road 111 surrounded by corn and bean fields. About half a mile away as we were approaching we noticed a very bright light on the ground in the field. Initial thought it was a fire in the distance, had an orange hue with an aura around it. It was almost a rectangular shape making us think it was a combine. As we approached it , it suddenly disappeared as if shutting down a combine or turning off head lights. The light lasted for about 10 seconds. When we passed the location there was no combine or farm machinery and no other vehicles or house. It was an empty bean field.
October 24, 2023 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalStanion, NORTHAMP · United Kingdom
Around 8 to 6 spots of light all in a row. Very straight line. The lights went out one by one then nothing. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
October 24, 2023 · 12:35 PM · LIGHT
Pasadena, CA
At the time of the sighting, approximately 12:35pm, the skies were clear with 10-mile visibility conditions. I was, for a second time today, walking laps around my backyard to stretch my sprained left hip muscle, which is why I wasn’t at work. Now what I’m about to write might sound strange but considering this is my fourth or fifth sighting to leave me baffled, I’ve actually come to expect these types of sightings in my every day life. Specifically in the San Gabriel Mountain area near Pasadena I’ve witnessed dozens of craft that may very well be balloons of some sort since most that I see travel extremely slow and reflect the sun’s white light to appear like stars in the middle of the day. As I paced in my backyard and turned to face the mountains, a dim gray-colored craft flying west to east caught my attention for some reason. It seemed to be at or above 30,000 ft traveling as fast as a plane, but I like to test things now by “transmitting” a telepathic thought out; something along the lines of, “If you can hear me, stop and reverse course.” I then used a helpful technique of finding a nearby tree branch as a reference point to not lose sight of crafts flying through cloudless skies. I followed this first plane-like object with my eyes, taking small steps toward my left to keep it in my sight as it flew eastward. Then it stopped mid-flight and I immediately thought, “Of course, another balloon about to drift in a new direction.” Then for the next 3 to five minutes it remained stationary, and gradually grew so faint that I lost sight of it. Nothing spectacular, but I’ve learned the hard way that an initial disappearance does not signal the end of the experience. Patience is key. I scanned the same area of the sky for another couple of minutes before a craft reflecting or emitting bright white light at the same altitude and speed of the first came into my view. “Must be a plane,” I thought as it approached the spot where the first craft had vanished. Suddenly the second UAP begins circling that very spot in the sky. I’ve never seen a plane exhibit bird-like behavior and make full tight circles within a few seconds. My immediate thought was, “Nobody will believe this,” since I had left my phone in the house and couldn’t record video. As I became fully aware of what I was witnessing, the circling craft started emitting smaller white flares at different points perpendicular and outward of its circular path. I counted four flares in the first four “orbits” and then it circled for at least another 3 or 4 loops before continuing eastward like a regular plane for one or two minutes before I lost sight of it behind the neighbor’s tree. Of course, I “transmitted” a message of thanks before I lost sight of it. I went back inside the house and on my laptop, visited RadarBox.com to look up any possible flight using the playback history feature but nothing stood out to me that matched what I had seen.
October 23, 2023 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
West Haverstraw, NY
While doing a moon shot, I noticed 5 lights lining up over Hi Tor Mt/state park. They appear to align themselves hovering and idle waiting for 6th light, that appeared to be ascending from .the base of the mountain. The Hudson River is right there. Once the 6th stray light caught up, they disappeared one by one into the horizon. They did not fly across the sky on departing, just disappeared one by one [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
October 23, 2023 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Airborne (Oman), Oman
I am a Captain flying for an International Carrier based at UAE. On a scheduled flight crossing Oman into the Arabian Sea I observed usually strange lights at very high altitude at a specific area in the sky. The lights were traveling on a specific path and were very different to a usual meteorite entering the atmosphere at high speed. Sometimes two lights were travelling in tandem. I have never seen anything like this before. I managed to record the video of the lights moving. The bright light in the picture is Jupiter. The faint light were the objects moving.
October 22, 2023 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Nampa, ID
I am not sure how many objects I just witnessed, (I had to put a number in the box) because they were in a long stream moving rapidly across the sky between the clouds. They were moving very fast and went behind the cloud at a high rate of speed. I clicked on my sky app looking for starlink satellites because I thought this must be what I just saw, but from what I understand starlink satellites do not move extremely fast, nor are they blue, but there were no starlinks displaying on my screen moving in this direction. These were distinctly blue and we're moving rapidly, so rapidly it made me think of a weapon being fired that leaves a trail of light behind it. They were coming from the west and headed east and I caught them while I was glancing up to see a storm headed up from the southwest and there are some lightning flashes down there. And I could just barely see the moon behind the clouds due south of these objects. If they turn out to be starlink satellites I apologize but I can't imagine that they were. The gap in the clouds that I saw these through, was as wide as the space created when I hold my arm at full length toward the sky, and splay my fingers outward, from the tip of my thumb to the tip of my middle finger. They were very, very small points of bluish light, looking like nothing I've witnessed before.
October 22, 2023 · 4:29 AM · LIGHT
Fitchburg, MA
Traveling star is what I seen. Over the past 3 months, every time early mornings, I see one star traveling fast, last night I seen 2 of them simultaneously, they were traveling in a cross cross pattern, the AB’s past one another, one traveling into eastern direction, the second west. This is crazy & surly someone else is seeing this?! [NUFORC annotation: Satellite - Possible]
October 22, 2023 · 12:05 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalBayeux, Basse Normandie · France
L'unique témoin de cet événement se trouve seul dans le jardin d'une maison à Bayeux, le 22 octobre 2023, à 00h05, lorsqu'il observe un PAN. Ce dernier se déplace initialement de manière rapide en ligne droite, du sud-est vers l’est-sud-est, et apparaît sous la forme d'une lumière rouge fixe. Le PAN s'immobilise ensuite, et deux lumières, une rouge et une verte, deviennent visibles, clignotant alternativement à un intervalle d'une seconde. Par la suite, un faisceau conique de couleur jaune pâle émerge du PAN, orienté vers le sol, avec un mouvement de balayage. Cette phase dure entre 6 et 7 secondes, avant que le PAN ne reprenne sa trajectoire instantanément vers l'est, disparaissant après un mouvement en « zigzag » durant environ deux secondes La consistance* de ce cas est moyenne avec un témoin unique et l'absence de photo ou de vidéo du PAN. *Selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d’informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. Deux hypothèses ont été examinées (voir le compte rendu d'enquête) : l'observation d'un hélicoptère ou d'un drone. Les lumières observées correspondant à la signalisation lumineuse réglementaire, rouge et verte, qui peut être fixe ou clignotante, à l'exception de la lumière verte pour un hélicoptère, devant être fixe (feu de position droit). De même, le déplacement rapide et le vol stationnaire restent des caractéristiques communes à ces deux types d'engins. Cependant, l'arrêt instantané en vol stationnaire et le redémarrage à une vitesse maximale sans accélération perceptible sont des comportements plus caractéristiques d'un drone. De plus, la description de mouvements en zigzag lors du départ du PAN est également compatible avec les capacités de manœuvre d'un drone. Le projecteur jaune pâle décrit peut être utilisé sur les deux types d’aéronefs mentionnés. Dans le cadre d’un hélicoptère, il peut être employé pour des opérations de recherche ou des signalisations. Concernant un drone, son utilisation peut également s'étendre à des applications récréatives. Il convient de noter que ces projecteurs, en raison de leur puissance, sont désormais facilement accessibles au grand public. Aucune trace radar n’a été rapportée par le Centre National des Opérations Aériennes (CNOA) au droit et à l’heure de l’observation. L’enquête n’a par ailleurs pas permis de trouver trace de l’utilisation d’un hélicoptère cette nuit-là par l’armée, la sécurité civile, l’aéroport du Havre ou un établissement hôtelier privé. L’absence de perception de bruit par le témoin n’est pas un élément déterminant dans la mesure où le vent n’était pas porteur au moment de l’observation. La distance peut également jouer en défaveur de la perception d’un bruit environnant le PAN. Il convient également de souligner que, dans le cadre de l'hypothèse d'un drone, son propriétaire contrevient à plusieurs interdictions, notamment celles relatives à l'utilisation nocturne, à l'opération dans une zone urbaine, ainsi qu'à la circulation dans une zone soumise à des restrictions de survol, telles que définies par Géoportaill. Parmi les deux hypothèses, celle du drone paraît la plus plausible, du fait de certains détails liés aux déplacements du PAN (zigzags, arrêt et départ brusques) davantage conformes aux possibilités de pilotage qu’offrent les drones. Le GEIPAN classe en B : observation probable d’un drone. [GEIPAN classification B — Drone]
October 22, 2023 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedLondon, LONDON B · United Kingdom
I recorded a short clip before my late bus came. They were fair clearer than the footage (perhaps the streetlamp in the foreground absored the focus of the camera). Very bright blue lights seemingly coming from above the clouds, rotating as if coming from a circular object (I could not see this object) Stadium light / laser show in Westham, London — Westham Stadium, specifically. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
October 21, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Luray, VA
On 10/21/23 at appx 10:30 pm my husband and I saw these lights behind a cloud above our house, once again. It looks like 2 circular lights that appear behind the clouds then smaller white lights shoot out of it. See attached video. We have been seeing this pretty frequently. Approximate location 38.6681218, -78.4308007 [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Possible]
October 21, 2023 · 9:09 PM · LIGHT
Hollywood, CA
A UFO that's pretending to be a star that's letting off projectiles of other crafts that look like stars that's floating location Northeast of Los Angeles towards Glendale area of Los Angeles