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August 4, 2023 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Taylorsville, UT
I walked outside to try to view a thunderstorm that was to the north, just east of the Great Salt Lake. Told my mother who was standing outside with me that there was supposed to be a meteor shower soon. We watched the skies for roughly 3-4 minutes before she headed back inside. I looked up and in the dark, I could make out a craft of some type but could not determine what type of craft it was, as it had no lights on it and it moved silently. It seemed to weave into/behind the clouds, trailing/moving the clouds slightly as it moved through them and and I lost sight of it very quickly, it almost appeared to cloak itself as it moved south west. This object was too large to be a bird based on the size of it near the clouds, it also moved in such a way that would not possible for a bird in the strong winds while ascending. The best way to describe the shape is an amalgam of a crescent, a boomerang and a V in one shape. One single object with what appeared to be sections on the body which I imagine is where lights or some sort of multi-point propulsion system would go underneath. This thing was exceptionally stealthy, I would not have noticed it had I not been looking in that area of the sky for a small window of time. This may be unrelated but roughly 40 minutes later, I noticed a large/heavy helicopter that did not show up on flight radar flew low over my house in the direction the craft was heading. I'm familiar with medical transport helicopters, news helicopters and police helicopters, this was none of those. I testify that I am of reasonably sound mind and was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol during this event.
August 4, 2023 · 12:03 PM · OTHER
Monroe, UT
I was flying my drone just north of Monroe Ut. I had sent the command for the drone to return and land. As I was watching the drone, now directly overhead, an object flew northbound into my field of view. At first I though it could be a plane or a bird, however, the two "wings" were round and white in color. I continued to observe the object as it proceeded north. The speed was still equivalent to a plane or low flying bird, but the two round "wings" still made no sense. The object/s appeared hazy or diffused. As I observed the object it made a tight U-turn at an estimated speed of 2 to 3 times faster than it's straight line speed. The object did not bank as it turned. The two round "discs" stayed together as it turned. The object continued travelling south at the same speed as it's previous northbound speed for 7 or 8 seconds, then accelerated immediately and left at an astonishing speed in a SSE direction. I watched the object as it sped away until it was out of sight. My entire observation lasted approximately 20 seconds. The two discs (possibly orbs) stayed in the same side by side configuration during the entire time that I observed it. I was not able to photograph the object, but I have completed a map with the object path of flight.
August 2, 2023 · 9:18 PM · OTHER
Hammonton, NJ
Driving down AC expressway saw from really far away but it was just kind of hovering in the same spot. As we got closer to it could see that it had two long rectangular (maybe hexagon) wings with a pod like center. Had crazy red and white flashing lights. Out of no where it just disappeared.
August 2, 2023 · 2:38 AM · OTHER
Pawcatuck, CT
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July 31, 2023 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Naples, FL
Initial sighting of smallish craft I thought it was a drone, flashing blue and white lights rhythmically. It appeared over the tree line near the intersection of US 41 and Barefoot Williams Road. It flew slowly towards the east it did not pause, was very deliberate. It appeared to maintain the same altitude from my perspective. I was able to see it against clear, dark, nearly cloudless sky. It traversed nearly 6 miles slowly disappearing from my view. It’s approximate location when it was out of. My sight would’ve been Collier Boulevard somewhere north of US 41.My dog heard it before I actually saw it. It was only moments later that it came into my view. it was a very low sound somewhat like a hum or tone. Constant sound, it didn’t change. The lights were what made it most noticeable, actual shape of the craft, for lack of a better term was almost indistinguishable as any real shape. I had believed it to be a drone at first but it flew way, WAY too far for it to be under ground based control. Unless it was a military drone which I find highly unlikely in this area. It’s slow, consistent forward motion maintained the entire time I was able to see it. There was one moment after about nine minutes of watching it where it appeared to either stop or make a slight deviation to the north then it continued on to the west. In the following hour and a half, after losing sight of it, my dog heard something outside again, and reacted very violently. There was nothing outside that we could see. [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
July 30, 2023 · 9:12 PM · OTHER
Oroville East, CA
Watched and determined unknown craft.. ran into house, got phone only got it flying away and it disappeared. Very bright, husband said solid yellow gold looking so bright shape unknown...no blinking, no other colors, silent. Husband says 4, to 5,000 feet in elevation. Our house is on a hill and outside of Oroville some distance, no competing light source. Just noticed from video in front of house a street lamp. We were watching in back yard.
July 30, 2023 · 2:45 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalLongview, WA
The 2 men who first witnessed the object, said they had been watching it for about 10 minutes. When they first saw it, it was 2 blocks away, near St. John Hospital. It was floating about 50 feet in the air. It "appeared" to be a black umbrella, 4 feet wide, with a white handle. There was no wind. When it was first pointed out to me, it looked like it was 300 feet in the air, and slowly ascending. After the 3 of us watched it for 10 minutes, one suggested I film it, which is when I started taking pictures and filming. From the moment it was first spotted, it was upside down the whole time. As it "floated", it maintained a swinging motion. When I first started filming, it was maybe 1500 feet high. It probably climbed another 500 feet, and after about 25 or 30 minutes, it went into a cloud, and never came out. Friends have told me there are many pictures/videos posted of this object on face book, taken from the Walmart parking lot, about a half mile from where I was. That was the general direction the object was headed. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
July 30, 2023 · 1:39 PM · OTHER
Bedford, NH
No clouds, clear crisp blue skies. Breezy. In back yard doing yoga, laying on my back facing NW/W sky, heard & watched a helicopter pass thru my line of sight. Not common but not unusual for helicopters to fly in the area.... did noticed it looked gov't/official. I can't remember if my music turned off before or after the helicopter... either way I had to restart my playlist on my phone. I'm only mentioning this because you ask below.... otherwise no other issues and it started right back up. Not sure how soon after the helicopter, I noticed a distinct black dot above the tree lines (NW 320°). Suspended, not moving and completely still. The lack of movement against the vibrant blue skies are probably the only reason I noticed it... as we have a hawk nest near by and lots of bird/wildlife activity in our neighborhood. Don't know how long it was there or how long I watched it... maybe 30 seconds give or take the time it took me to comprehend this wasn't a hawk or sun spots. Then it moved. A fast smooth burst, stopped and moved again (W 270°). At this point, I'm thinking drone or UAP. I grabbed my phone, stood up and took 2 short videos capturing the object while it was hovering & flying in area. Note that while taking the videos I made the mistake of looking thru my phone and lost sight of the object on the screen. In video 1, I only saw a bird flying on my screen and actually dismissed the whole thing and stopped recording. However when I looked to the skies with my naked eyes I saw both the bird and object. I immediately started recording again and was able to zoom in a bit and pick it up. The object then vanished. It didn't return. A description of the object is difficult as I couldn't distinguish it's true shape as it seemed to look different depending on the angle it was flying. Black in color. I'm guessing that though it appeared to be the same size as a hawk/eagle or drone to the eye, it was a lot bigger and father away then appeared. Birds and drones also don't disappear into thin air. Object briefly visible in videos.
July 29, 2023 · 11:20 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalDubuque, IA
Went outside on my work break. Went to take a picture of the lights of the city and saw this thing on the upper left. It was gone after I took the picture. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
July 29, 2023 · 2:45 AM · OTHER
Hurricane, WV
My boyfriend and I were sitting in my car in my driveway talking after we came home late one night, around 1:30am. We noticed a light that was bobbing and weaving all around as it came up over the eastern tree line back past my pond, about 200 yards from where we were parked. It proceeded to fly over to where we were parked at and hover in the air almost directly above us, I would have to guess and say it was maybe 100 feet in the air but close enough for us to use binoculars to see the triangle shaped bright white light with 2 red lights, one on each side of the top point. It's probably 4 or 5 feet at its widest point. We could hear a loud buzzing sound the entire time it was present. A few times it shined a beam of light down like it was looking for something. We watched this strange light for hours. I downloaded a sky map and it wasnt showing up on it. We also noticed lots of birds were chirping loudly the whole time it was there too. We continued to watch it until daylight when it started to get higher in the sky until it disappeared. It has came back every night since and we watch it every night. It comes up over the back treeline by my pond and will come so close to us and hover there moving back and forth in the air all night until daybreak then it leaves. We have pictures and videos but not very good quality because they were taken on a phone sitting inside my car.
July 28, 2023 · 4:00 PM · OTHER
Greenwater, WA
My 5 friends and I were out camping off NF70 in Greenwater WA. It was around 4pm. We were all around the campfire when we heard this incredibly loud deep low pulsing noise in the sky come to a stop above us. My friends dog started growling with her cakles up for no reason. We all looked up and saw nothing. It went completely silent. We looked at each other with extreme confusion. 5 seconds later the pulsing started and sped up in pulse speed and you could hear it take off per say. The sound was something like you hear from the star wars pod racing. The deep pulses you could feel in your chest. We all stood there a bit freaked out and confirmed we all just heard and felt the same thing. It's a noise none of us had ever heard before. This was an experience we will never forget.
July 27, 2023 · 6:15 AM · OTHER
Dawson, WV
I work overnight at a hotel. Right after daylight I walked outside. I look up and I noticed what I first thought was a plane. I noticed there is no exhaust or sound and it seems to be glowing. I watch it for probably less than a minute. I see it going above clouds and coming back into view. What was clearly a rocket or some other elongated shape suddenly became a dot and disappeared as if it shot into space.
July 25, 2023 · 2:30 PM · OTHER
GA
Near Atlanta, GA. I was sitting at my pool when an object about the size of a human being with a dark grey/dark green tint flew overhead. My first thought was that it was a bird or something...however the object's velocity was very quick and there were no flapping wings. It was partly cloudy outside. The altitude of this object was slightly higher than the average bird. It spanned across my view in approximately 5 seconds... so short of time that when I tried to tell the person next to me about the object, it was already too far away.
July 23, 2023 · 9:24 PM · OTHER
IdentifiedNoble, OK
I was sitting on my back porch when the light from the diatant cell tower caught my eye and made me look up. I saw Jupiter and then when I went to look around just in a normal fashion, enjoying the fact that it cooled down, this anomoly caught my eye because it was a light that looked like it was in fog, but there is currently not a cloud in the sky, which I documented by video also. I quickly took a photograph and reviewed it, blowing it up, and could clearly see that it was not a helicopter nor airplane as there was no shape to it, no blinking lights,and soundless. I immediately began to video it and happened to catch an aircraft flying the opposite direction, which allowed a comparison with the anomoly, along with the moon and a star that are also present in the same frame. As I continued to video the anomoly suddenly got bright and what I can only describe is that it looked like it poofed something out of the front of it, similar to like watching a slow motion video of the sound barrier being broken or a bullet exiting a firearm. I continued to video it and the light from the barn created a glare in the camera, so I continued to watch it with the naked eye. It was like it suddenly disappeared into thin air. I literally cannot rationalize what I saw. I grew up around airplanes, helicopters, NASA, etc., as a child, coming from a family of aviators and air traffic controllers, and I legitimately cannot find an explanation to what I just witnessed. I do not drink and do not take drugs. I don't have a rational, logical explanation to what I just witnessed and captured in photograph and video. SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 20, 2023 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Yelm, WA
I was in my room and I saw 3 almost translucent/holographic small sort of dark bell-shaped objects appear all in a row and of equal size in a straight line, they hovered around as if I was being observed - they moved around the room a bit and then disappeared. While they were present, I stuck my arm out and moved it through the objects from left to right, as I did that - the cross section appeared as maroon with some yellow where my arm cut through them, this is how I know they were not just a trick of the eye or something like that- I interacted with them by doing this. Perhaps multi-dimensional? Also on 13Jul23, I was sleeping at my parent's house (they live on farmland in Enumclaw, WA) and I woke up around midnight to the dog barking. As I lifted my head up, I caught a dark image through the blinds moving away from the window - the window is waist high so it had to have been a taller subject and I recognized the movment to be strange/not like any animal. I got up and checked outside from all of the windows and saw nothing however it is dark in the felds. I went to lay back down and I saw through the blinds a light move from left to right quickly and then disappear- there is no light source in their backyard and no aircraft moves like that (that we know of). The dog stopped barking. Never in my life have I experienced anything like this that I am aware of at least.
July 20, 2023 · 8:31 PM · OTHER
St Catharines, ON · Canada
Very bad thunderstorm and seeing a very huge rock in the sky almost like a peace of land
July 18, 2023 · 9:15 PM · OTHER
Farmington, NM
My name is PJ. I live in Farmington, New Mexico with my dog. On July 18, 2023, we experienced a "visit" from something completely unfamiliar to me; something we had never seen before, something apparently not of this world. The day of July 18 passed like any other day until around 9:15 pm. It was late dusk, and my dog was outside sleeping by the front door. I was inside piddling around. Suddenly, the dog (who hardly ever barks) began furiously barking and snarling. My first thought was he was being attacked by a rabid animal, or something similar. I opened the door to see what was happening. The dog was looking skyward, snarling, barking, and snapping at the air. Then I saw it. There in the sky in front of me, just a few hundred feet away, was some kind of metallic craft or vessel with bright lights on it, silently floating by. It was moving approximately 15 mph heading east, about 200 feet off the ground. It had no motor nor propeller; no visible means of propulsion. Its design was simply ladder-like in appearance; not like an A-frame type ladder but like a ladder with parallel legs. I could see the surface of the craft was made of what looked like brushed stainless steel. There were square and/or rectangular lights mounted along the sides and in the corners of each opening between the "rungs", and there seemed to be approximately thirty of these rungs. At the front or leading end of the object, the two parallel sides/legs came together and formed a point, but not a centered point, it was offset to one side. Mounted in the offset point was a round or oval-shaped light which was considerably larger and brighter than the other lights. The object was approximately 100 to 120 feet long and perhaps 12 to 15 feet wide. I grabbed my cell phone and began preparing the camera to get a video. When I looked up again, it was gone. It just vanished; disappeared. Something worth mentioning: my dog was not looking at the airborne object but rather in another direction, as though something else had been there, and had obviously entered his personal space. Though I was unable to get a photo of the thing, fortunately, I am an artist and can provide an illustration that shows exactly what it looked like; exactly what I saw that night. (See illustration) Note: I am a 61-year-old college graduate and veteran; a man who doesn't make up stories. This report is true and based on actual events as they happened, so help me God. I feel compelled to make this report as a civic duty; to inform the public in case there is danger or peril in store for us in the near future. I don't want anybody saying I "should have said something". Well, I saw something, so I'm saying something. I just hope people are listening. PJ Farmington, NM
July 17, 2023 · 1:15 AM · OTHER
Elvanfoot, SCOTLAND · United Kingdom
On Monday night, 17 July 2023 about 1am, I couldn't sleep so went downstairs to get a drink. Looking out of my kitchen window I observed a very single intense white light with two red lights attached to it due east from my house. I would say it was about 5-10 miles away sitting just above the horizon. It was moving across my field of view from right to left at a steady speed. I got my binoculars and looked at it more closely. It was very weird. The red lights were fixed and not blinking but the white light was dancing on and off, up and down, round and round, sometimes it would partially disappear, only to re-appear dancing and morphing its brightness and shape. I would describe it as looking like 'electrical plasma'. If you can imagine electricity charge similar to lightning trapped in a glass sphere but in this case the object was not rigid, it was deforming its shape and orientation as the electrical white light pulses bounced around the inside. I watched it travel across the sky towards the town of Moffat and then disappeared from view. I returned to bed puzzled by what I had seen. I also saw another similar but static electrical object in the sky from my house in June 2023 (when there was a full moon), but didn't report it. I tried to take a photo of the object with my iphone but was unsuccessful. My house is not far from the listening / radar station at Sanquhar.
July 15, 2023 · 6:20 PM · OTHER
Seattle, WA
We noticed a strange metallic object reflecting light in the sky and spinning around and drifting. It looked to be the same distance away as the jet planes we also saw flying that day, but further away than the planes taking off from the nearby SeaTac Airport. Based on this distance it was around the same size as a small jet plane. It was S shaped (letter Z, number 2 or 5, etc). It spun around but did not follow the same direction of the wind that the clouds were being blown in. It changed direction, descended a little bit once, changed direction again, and then ascended out of view. It is unclear if the lights that we were seeing were from the aircraft or if it was reflecting sunlight, but it did seem to be propelled by its own power source. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
July 13, 2023 · 11:13 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalErin, ON · Canada
This ufo was spotted for several hours in my backyard. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Probable]
July 13, 2023 · 4:29 PM · OTHER
Arlington, WA
First saw the object through a cluster of trees while driving south on I5 in Arlington WA. The object was not moving initially. After taking exit 208 I immediately noticed it’s shape being far different than any kind of blimp, balloon, plane, or helicopter I had ever seen. At this time it began traveling to the west. Based on the size and distance I would estimate the speed to be somewhere around 30-50 mph. I took mental notes regarding its physical characteristics, and was even able to take a short video while the object was stationary. I soon lost sight of it after driving through a wooded area. As I emerged from this wooded area, the object was no longer there. Within 30 seconds of its disappearance I called my partner and told her I saw a something I could not explain. When asked to describe its shape and flight characteristics, I was unable to recall any details aside from that it was black and slightly larger than a school bus. I was certain that I would never forget the objects appearance, but after only 30 seconds I could not recall any of the specific details I had mentally noted. Note from investigator: July 13 2023 at 3 PM witness saw a school bus size object over I-5 at exit 208, Arlington, WA. Arlington Airport is at that exit. Airport contacted. Nothing to report but they keep my number to call back. Witness unsure of characteristics and lost memory of what his saw. He experienced no loss of time. He made his scheduled daily appointments on time. Object in video appears as rectangular with attachments hanging down. Witness sent video directly to my iPhone. Object in this case was described the same as in this other recent NUFORC case: https://nuforc.org/webreports/reports/176/S176437.html
July 12, 2023 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Willow street, PA
I looked across the sky and pointed out what I thought was the brightest version of Venus I ever saw. It wasn’t quite dusk, so it was a very easily seen object, but it was so shiny I believe and visible that it appears to be lit up like a planet however, it proved me wrong when it took a sharp right corner and went a different direction, and it started moving south west until it was in clouds and out of site. within 5 minutes it was back to the original sighting spot then slowly moved SW once more, hovered in the same spot for about 15 minutes and then it was gone by a weird pattern and planes started flying by my house very close to the object it was seen and they were flying information to three, but they looked like commercial airlines they did not let military leader that evening one plane that looked in military because it was extremely large like a cargo carrier flew over my house and that was the last we saw a bit about the set of three planes that were flying over. They were running every every minute and they did that for about two hours constant.
July 11, 2023 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Vallecito, NM
Tuesday evening, July 11, three of us sitting around a campfire listening to music on a portable radio. All of a sudden the radio started acting up with sound going in and out. One of us happened to look up into the sky and yelled, “What is that?” It looked like a train with large square cars attached evenly spaced, about 1/2 dozen squares. Each square or cube was quite large, bigger than an airplane, and there were no red or green running lights pulling it…Just a bunch of squares evenly spaced and attached like train cars moving slowly across the sky. Each square mostly white with blue haze against dark sky and no sound. We had limited view of sky through tall pine trees, but it was directly overhead. The “square train” was traveling west to east at 10:15 PM. Now each night for the rest of the week we all keep looking up at the sky. The following Sunday, we witnessed what looked like your pictures of space x star link passing through our viewing area which was different in shape and size. The first sighting on July 11, was lower, wider, and much larger in the sky, but moving at about the same speed with no sound. We would like to know what we saw. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
July 10, 2023 · 7:21 PM · OTHER
Walden, NY
I was standing on my deck when I noticed the object moving across the Sky at a high rate of speed. It was white and shaped like a TikTak or a small pill but it was moving so fast that it traversed the sky in a incredibly short amount of time. It was highly lit by the sun and appeared white with a small depression towards the center kinda like a pill. It was move upwards and south west. There was a noticeable agitation or discoloration to the air immediately surrounding the craft and it was kind of Gray and appearance against the rest of the very very blue sky. Immediately after a plane flew low in the horizon and I live near Stewart Air Force base was a commercial passenger plane coming from the South and look nothing like the craft actually it was quite dark against the sky at the height it was in the atmosphere. I have a video although my hands shake pretty bad of the craft shooting across the sky And my surprise as I hold a science BA and have never seen any UAP in person. My dog also noticed it initially. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]