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September 18, 2023 · 9:38 PM · TEARDROP
Yakima, WA
I was driving eastbound on I-82 coming up the Umtanum mountains. It was 9:38pm. My 12 year old daughter was in the front seat not looking up. I frequently drive this route with her. A bright flash of light occurred in the distance behind the mountain and then a very bright white light began rising from behind the mountain [position through my windshield was at 11 o'clock to my left and started at about 45 degrees and rose to about 60 degrees]. The initial bright flash was so bright, it backlit the entire hill/mountain it occurred behind. In fact, I had thought at the time, was I seeing an explosion? {but there was no sound or blast waves}, was I seeing a flare? {but the object was very briefly illuminated, no longer than 5 seconds... so... lousy flare, maybe...}, was it lightning? {but the skies were totally clear}. ((( for example: imagine a large flash of lightning very momentarily illuminating the sky, but with zero sound, and nearly 1 second after, a bright white light object rising from it, hovering for 5 seconds while lit ))) Similarly, when someone walks upon you with a bright flashlight, I couldn't make out the shape of the object until 5 seconds after the initial flash - that is when the white light went out. Then I could very distantly see the vague shape of the object that had been this rising light. It was either shaped like a tear drop or shaped like a cigar - from that distance and that angle, that is what it looked like. Then it appeared to move away backwards and upward. At that time I continued in shock with my daughter (she never saw the initial flash or hovering light because she was looking down at the time). Then my daughter points in the same direction and says "what, what is THAT?" At that time, an object appeared to be nearing, with 3 steady non-flashing red lights affixed to different points on the craft. This craft was extremely close to the freeway and was operating parallel to I-82. It was so close above us... no more than 75 feet up. It was about 15-20 feet across. 3 red lights. No sound {I rolled down the window expecting to hear helicopter blades whirring or an engine sound of some type, but no, it was totally silent}. I vaguely felt like the object might be a helicopter, and as it passed very close above our heads, to me, it looked like it was shaped like a teardrop or a cigar. It was dimly lit by the steady red lights. My daughter got a better look. I was careful not to prompt her, and she drew the shape of the object with her finger describing it, similar to what I had thought I'd seen. As we passed by this large object, there was no way to turn around or to observe it. I was going 70mph and that road is scary, dark, twisted, and unforgiving. I noted we were very close to Burbank Creek bridge near mile post 17. Whatever this thing was, it was too close to the freeway to be considered a safe flying distance {pretty sure the FAA would've not allowed that}. It is important to note that the Army range is very close to that area, as well as some alleged NSA listening operations. However, if that was a military exercise, that was extremely dangerous doing that on a random Monday night so incredibly close to the freeway. The light was blinding and the whole event was shocking and distracting, and we could've been hurt by driving down that treacherous stretch of freeway while simultaneously being distracted. Interestingly enough, when I was about my daughter's age {also a pre-teen}, my own mother and I were out for a walk in Seattle and we also encountered a low flying silent craft. She and I also lost a little bit of time on that walk {my dad noticed it took longer than usual to get home from our walk though she and I didn't stop walking our normal pace, except to stop and look at the craft "briefly"}. That being said, I find it interesting this Umtanum ridge sighting was also only with my pre-teen daughter. Something about mothers and daughters, maybe?
September 18, 2023 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE
Cortez, CO
I was closing my upstairs bedroom window which overlooks Cortez at around 10:15 pm when I saw this strange red light. At first I thought it was the moon, but it was in the wrong position in the sky. I called my two sons to look at it and they saw the same thing. It was red, glowing, elongated upright that grew taller and then shorter a few times. At one point it looked like a thin cresent moon, hanging cockeyed in the sky. At one point we couldn't see it, then it came back before disappearing. I am a lab technician, one of my sons is a college graduate. My other son works in Durango. My dog was acting scared and wouldn't be left alone. We did take pictures with my cell phone but they are not clear.
September 18, 2023 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Forest, ON · Canada
So, this isn't the most exciting story but I thought it was a cool experience and I have no idea what this could have been besides a UFO. I was walking my dog in my neighborhood, it was dark out and apart from a handful of small clouds it was a clear night so I was looking up often to check out the stars. At one of the times I was looking up I saw 2 lights that were high up and close together (like almost an inch apart if I held up my arm and measured with a ruler), but they were far away so I'm not sure how far apart they actually were. The front one was bright and almost looked like a star but a bit bigger, the second was also bright like a bigger star but had a light glow circle around it (about 1/4 inch diameter, if I held out a ruler at arms length and measured). Like a circle of glowing light with a brighter center dot. But it wasn't super bright, if I didn't happen to look up right where they were I wouldn't have seen them. I think the first circle might have also had a glow circle around it but much lighter than the second one. But I can't be sure, it happened so fast. They appeared to be much lower than an airplane (which I saw many of that night) and they moved very, very fast. I saw them when I looked straight up and within 5 seconds they had moved across the sky and out of sight. There was no sound at all, so it couldn't have been a low flying airplane or helicopter. They were much bigger and way faster than any satellite I've seen. They moved very fast and smoothly, it looked almost like the 2 lights were either chasing each other or were attached to something pretty big but I didn't notice a shadow or shape around the lights. The lights didn't blink and stayed the same size and brightness. I'm colourblind though so I cant speak to what colour the were or if it changed colour. I can't think of anything known that it could gave been. I don't need to be contacted by an investigator but it would be cool to find out what it was or if anyone has seen anything like this before.
September 18, 2023 · 8:33 PM · LIGHT
Carthage, MS
Three bright lights lowered over field and each began flashing eradically for around 10 minutes. Dogs all over area began howling and our dog began growling.
September 18, 2023 · 8:23 PM · SPHERE
Bow, WA
Was leaving our shop and noticed a single bright orb like light hovering above. The light appeared to be white in color but again it was very bright. Seemed to have no sound. It was up pretty high but not star distance, it was heading east moving down slowly then fast some what frantically and slowed down again dropping out of sight behind my home. I ran to the other side to find it and it was gone.
September 18, 2023 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Tulsa, OK
They moved too fast to be a jet and did maneuvers we've never seen. It was 3 but one after the other coming from different directions but all landed in the same area. It would stop and hover, move diagonally, straight down and up before disappearing as it decended to the ground. One came south to north, the second west to east and the third, north to south.
September 18, 2023 · 7:40 PM · CIRCLE
Tucson, AZ
Big bang, happened once at 530 and then again at 740 pm, over 20 lights flashing at first in and then moving like planes but erratically and disappearing and then reappearing, then completely disappearing all together except one looked like it landed on Sabino Canyon. Then all of a sudden they would reappear after disappearing and move, some really fast, others slow and then disappear again.
September 18, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Picton, ON · Canada
I witnessed multiple yellow orbs before sunset and with clear blue sky. Upon placing my direct vision / eyesight on an orb it would pause then immediately speed up and disappear into thin air. These where in no formation and witnessed in the same part of the sky over a 15 minute duration and at far distance. In particular two these orbs moved in my direction before vanishing and myself observing what I would describe as a transparent ring following the same path.
September 18, 2023 · 6:58 PM · EGG
Penrose, CO
While driving home from the store one day at the time of sunset I began to film the unusual clouds when I noticed something in my video that at the time look to be shaped like a bullet it did not appear in my naked vision but was easy to see on camera I kept filming it I watched it drop off some flashes of light and then take off ridiculously fast with two other spacecraft waiting for it there is another witness
September 18, 2023 · 4:28 PM · SPHERE
Blandford Forum, ENGLAND · United Kingdom
We spotted a silver shiny orb like object at or above cloud cover height in an otherwise clear sky. It was heading on an easterly course in the opposite direction to the wind direction so appeared to be acting on its own propulsion. I checked on my aircraft app and there was no aircraft in that area at that time. I have video footage from my IPhone of this which is 3 minutes long. The object was round orb type and appeared to be silver with sunlight shining off it. There was one object. I am a semi retired ex Supermarket manager and my wife is a part time primary teacher.
September 18, 2023 · 6:55 AM · OVAL
Probable conventionalElburn, IL
Appears to be a powered aircraft with three contrails. Flying at a really high altitude towards the northwest. I've seen aircraft at high altitude fly over before but really in the skies above my home... this thing was really weird and it had no discernible wings or anything which you normally see. I suspect it was just due to the reflection of the Sun but who the hell knows, its 2023, the world is a nut house so I figured I'd share it maybe it's something, maybe not. I have photographs that I took on a pixel 6 pro, I can share them. I have 10 photos. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
September 18, 2023 · 6:30 AM · SPHERE
Charleston International Airport, SC
Looked like it was shuffling along with a strange smoke behind it unlike anything I’ve seen in aircraft
September 17, 2023 · 9:51 PM · SPHERE
Monterrey, NUEVO LE · Mexico
Saw from a balcony with a south-east view. 4 lights on the clear sky, moving. Too fast to be planes, also too low. Changing colors from blue to red to white. A few seconds after we started recording, the lights started to scatter, moving at different speeds Biggest, static white light it's a radio antena located on a mountain at around 1800 meters high, and 9 miles away from the balcony we recorded from, so the moving lights were closer than that. It was right above a big city, we looked up for drone shows and none came up for the area, but lights moved way too fast and way to high to be drones for a drone show, they were also too big.
September 17, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedOssining, NY
Two orbs were bouncing off of each other in the night sky. Three hours after there was a power outage in my area. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
September 17, 2023 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Taylor, ND
The whole day I was just feeling eerie id look around me a lot just had that feeling I was being watched. I also kept hearing whistles and it sounded different than a bird it was like a deep long whistle, but I didn’t think into it. I wanted to finish cutting this alfalfa so I stayed into the night and at the same time as the sun was setting I noticed these lights directly east, but the bottom one was not directly under the other it was kinda ahead summed it up to be a phone pole just so I didn’t freak out because I know there is one by the shop, but the shop was directly south east of where I was and the lights were straight east not long after these lights moved south over this big hill and got a whole lot brighter I started hauling ass to my pickup got to my pickup and got to the section line that goes to the road and started taking videos and a little red light appeared out of bum fuck nowhere exactly where I was. I went to go clock out and noticed these lights were directly ahead of me and they went around the shop out of my sight. I took a pic of shop because I’m a scared 18 y/o girl everything was running though my head. As I left the lights were now heading north of the phone pole. A few days later went through all the videos and you can clearly see odd faces and bodily shapes in this completely empty field and one is even seen moving out of the video frame. And the photo I took to clock out you can see a perfect shadow nothing in the shop even relatively is body shaped let alone tall enough to make a shadow. Mind you the farm I work at is all old people and one middle aged guy who are all either drunk or in bed by 9pm. I wasn’t gonna report until I went back with a friend at night to see if the lights were there and almost the exact thing happened but lights appeared and disappeared at different places on two different nights.
September 17, 2023 · 8:11 PM · UNKNOWN
Grove City, OH
On September 17, 2023, at about 8:11pm, my wife and myself were in our backyard when we observed two lights flying above us heading southward. We can normally hear aircraft when they fly over. These crafts were silent. As we watched the crafts we observed them increase altitude and disappear in the cloud cover. The lights were warm in color and didn't resemble the cooler wing lights of conventional aircrafts. The crafts we observed also didn't have red and green flashing lights. About 3 minutes later we observed two more crafts that appeared to follow the same flight plan as the first two. And then another minute later a fifth craft was observed. During each sighting I checked my FlightAware app and confirmed that no aircrafts were in the immediate area.
September 17, 2023 · 7:57 PM · CIRCLE
Otsego, NY
3 orange circles in the sky, moved slowly,grew brighter and then dimmed, Disappeared after watching for 10 minutes.
September 17, 2023 · 7:40 PM · CIGAR
Fort Worth, TX
Date: Sunday Sept 17, 2023 Location: Ridgmar Blvd. and Green Oaks Rd Fort Worth, Texas Time: Right after sunset about 7:30 to 7:45 PM Local Wind Speed: 2 MPH from the east Description of object: Roughly Cigar shaped with irregular bumps on the sides. It was an irregular shaped object. It was a black or very dark grey color. There were no wings or other means of propulsion. It was close enough to us that that would have been easily observable. The length of the object is estimated to be 50 to 100 feet. The width at the mid-point was maybe 10 to 20 feet. Approximate speed. 30-40 MPH Altitude: Estimated 1000 to 1500 feet. Direction of travel: South East to North West Time Observed: About 5 to 10 minutes Description: Was driving east on Ridmar Blvd toward Green Oaks Road when my wife asked if I could see an object above us on the passenger side of the car. I couldn’t see the object, so when I reached the stop sign on Ridgmar Blvd at Green Oaks Rd., I put the car in park and got out to look at the object. It was at about 75 to 80 degrees above the horizon and about 1000 to 1500 feet in altitude as best as I could tell, moving slowly to the north east at about 30-40 MPH in a straight line. The sky was still very light as the sun had just gone down. I looked at it and tried to figure our what the object was. At first, the shape sort of resembled an helicopter, but there was no sound coming from the object. It was close enough to us that if it had been a helicopter, I most definitely would have heard it. It was moving toward the south end of the runway of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth. I know from being a drone operator and trying to fly in this exact area, that it is a restricted area and you can’t get permission to fly here. I watched it until it got approximately over the south end of the runway and then I got back in my car and moved to a store parking lot on Green Oaks Rd. I got out and watched it until it was almost out of sight in the distance. It never changed speed, direction or altitude that I could tell. My wife thought it might be a balloon, but I have never seen a balloon in that shape. There was no discernable wind at ground level and this object was very low, so I don’t think there would have been enough wind to move a balloon at that speed. By the time I thought of taking a picture of it, it was so far away it wouldn’t have shown much detail. I am an electrical engineer and a drone pilot.
September 17, 2023 · 3:46 PM · OVAL
North Bethesda, MD
While driving south on Rockville toward Washington, MD, an Uber driver sitting at a traffic light saw a slowing moving north toward the driver as if following the road or parallel to the Potomac River. The driver takes a photo from the driver's car window. The traffic light changes and he parks his vehicle in a mini strip mall parking lot gets out and shoots 2nd photo. After the second photo, the object makes a right-angle turn, shoots off west at tremendous speed, and disappears from sight. Photo Details: Dimensions 1636 x 2180, Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max, 75mm. Photo1- f/2.2, 1/786, Lat. 39* 3' 18.73" N, Long. 77*7' 6.32" W Photo 2 - f/2.2, 1/1,248, 39* 3' 17.14" N 77* 7' 3.25" W
September 17, 2023 · 8:45 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalSan Rafael (Lucas Valley / Marinwood), CA
Observing about fleet of 20 bright lights floating inline from west to east (from ocean to in land) over Lucas Valley / Marinwood. Lights were a size of stars in the night sky, and the fleet of light was moving in sky with equal interval between each other, in very straight line like a military unit. But, by reaching some abstract and invisible point in sky they become disappearing one after another (not all at once). Unfortunately, a camera on Iphone 12 is too weak to make recording of those light in night sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 17, 2023 · 1:35 AM · SPHERE
Melrose, WI
This object has been routinely spotted this summer on clear nights. The object in the enclosed video slowly ascended straight up out of view, but danced around from side to side-it appeared an object like a saucer -was both spinning in the sphere and moving 180 continuously in the sphere This is my first time reporting but on June 2nd I got a clear view of a saucer that was much lower to the ground through my field binoculars. I believe the saucer is creating some kind of magnetic field as it navigates our environment which is not visible to the naked eye during a daytime sighting. In the evening the lights of the saucer allow for a view of this magnetic field as its lights bounce off it, creating the view I am uploading tonight. I have seen this object at varying different altitudes all summer. eventually lights will dim as the object decides to take off. This appears to me to be the same type object our Navy has been spotting and recording. If you have good binoculars, when the lights dim for departure a saucer can be seen in the sphere. We dont fly aircraft in pitch black at 40K with the cockpit lights bright, you can not see well out the window. I believe the same applies here, while loitering in the same spot at different altitudes in the evening you see the lights of the saucer bouncing off this field. Making it difficult to identify what it is. On June 2nd at 1051 pm when this same object decided to leave, the lights dimmed and in the spere- Through my binoculars at close range-=a grey saucer with lights around the sides that had dimmed. I did not get that view last night as when first spotted the sphere was much higher then on June 2. I am retired USAF-Have spent my life flying and looking to the sky. I can not explain what I have been seeing, not a drone, not a plane, not a weather balloon-a saucer in a sphere the way it looks to me. if you can zoom into this, you will get a good view of the sphere and discern movement in it.
September 17, 2023 · 1:30 AM · CYLINDER
Hueytown, AL
The first night I only noticed one oblong shape hovering. The second night I was more aware and the sky was full of movement along with many in different shapes ( triangular, oblong, circle, sphere) hovering. I even seen beams of light scan around the said UFO's. I noticed something falling from the sky on several accounts As I was sitting out watching the sky I heard tin crashing in a neighbors yard. When I looked in that direction I seen something that seemed to be crawling and the eyes were like lights. Then I heard dogs barking in another neighbors direction when I seen the same lighted eyes except this time it was walking with a slump. I will be watching tonight but I have no camera to take pictures or video. I do apologize, I wish I did.
September 17, 2023 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE
Sosua, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic
We were taking down our clothes drying on the balcony and looked out over ocean and saw six to eight giant rays at least a mile in diameter with a larger parent with a tail like a sting ray feeding in the clouds. They are translucent like a jellyfish and could be made of water vapor. They move around the sky resembling rays, jellyfish, and protozoa so they are from this Earth. I think they migrate every September to the Puerto Rican trench. [NUFORC annotation: Cloud - Possible]
September 16, 2023 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Lake Worth, FL
I was outside viewing about 7 or so before I ran inside to grab my cell phone, it was in my room so grabbed my mothers. I filmed for 6 minutes or so, ran back inside to get my mom to witness and handed her her phone. I ran to my room and grabbed my phone because its newer so I figured it was a better camera. I sent the video to my cousin who is a sergeant in the marines and asked if these looked like drones, flares or something else military oriented. He said: "I have no clue what that could’ve been. No way it was a drone or flare with the way those were moving that’s really cool though." While sky lanterns are illegal in FL I know people will break the law so entertained these objects could be that, but in one video an orb disappears then reappears in the 6:04 video (within the first 17 seconds or so), and the lot of them move backwards. It was not breezy at all out, you can see there is no movement in the treetops. I suppose a pocket of air up high could have caused the backwards movement. Here's a Youtube link with all of the footage stitched together unedited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRtWfXbF2c