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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
139,459 entries
September 13, 2023 · 11:17 PM · CIRCLE
Stoughton, WI
Silver reflective donut shaped object moving at roughly the same altitude moving southwest. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
September 13, 2023 · 11:10 PM · LIGHT
Mount Vernon, IL
First, I thought it was a star, then it disappeared so I figured maybe it had wenrt behind the cloud, then I thought that was quick for a cloud! So I thought plane, then I realized there were no clouds in the sky so I went for my camera when I was fairly certain it was nothing normal what so ever! I was afraid I would get it but as though it was putting on a show it didn’t disappoint! I didn’t realize second craft until my wife brought it to my attention then I discovered that it popped up at least 3 more times then I realized! So amazing! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 13, 2023 · 9:48 PM · TRIANGLE
Peterborough, ON · Canada
I was driving home from picking a late supper up from McDonald's. As I was leaving the city driving down Brealy Drive (before the Parkhill Road roundabout intersection) I spotted what looked to be an airplane / helicopter at first. The lights were not blinking in a way I was familiar with but because of the lights I initially dismissed it as an airplane / helicopter. As I approached closer to the intersection, I noticed the object was no longer moving in any direction and was hovering in place. It was not directly over the intersection but about 50m before the intersection. I looked up as I approached it with my head out my car window, saw it was a big black triangle shaped aircraft about 300m above the road. I could see that it was made of metal due to the lights on the aircraft illuminating the underside and being so close to the ground. There was 0 noise coming from it. It was fully visible from below and 50m in size approximately from one point of the triangle to another point. While keeping my eyes on it I almost drove into the ditch and came to a complete stop so I could get out of my car and start recording a video - as I went to do this the object took off and flew southbound across the city with an acceleration/speed not typical of aircraft. It was past the horizon in about 10 seconds from the time it started accelerating. The object was above me so the background was the nightsky. It was close enough to the ground that I could make out details on the crafts underbelly / see the lights illuminating part of the underbelly. I immediately drove home processing what I had just witnessed and got to work researching to disprove that I had seen a UAP. I tried looking up experimental triangle craft the military have worked on and could find nothing other than a rumored anti grav triangle craft the US was rumored to have made some years ago - though that seems unlikely because why would they be hovering over the outskirts of my city?! I looked up all registered flight paths in my area + the radar data for the area to see if anything matched the flight path this object took - nothing was registered as having flown over that area at that time / date. Attached to this report is a photograph someone else had taken in the past - but matched exactly what I saw that night. I also am attaching a video from another person who had seen something similar + described it the same way as I saw that night. These files ARE NOT taken directly by me but were found by me when trying to find out what I'd seen and came across similar reports of these objects. The photo / video are IDENTICAL to what I saw above me that night - down to the lights, shape, etc. I have also attached a Google maps image with the location circled where it was hovering silently.
September 13, 2023 · 9:28 PM · FLASH
Shakopee, GA
We are not sure if this is even a ufo but it did not seem right in the sky. Everything went silent except the hot tub jets and we were just looking at the stars until it happened. Short flashes in the clouds that seemed to dance around then disappeared all together
September 13, 2023 · 9:22 PM · TRIANGLE
Somerset, -
Husband and brother in law went to corner store. Was right above neighborhood. Completely silent. Store employee seen it as well. Called friend asking if she looked outside as I went out and seen it to. She sent me a link from a man she knows that seen it yesterday morning on the road behind us. Smooth hoovering and there is a helicopter watching but not engaging it as well. Can hear helicopter only not the other
September 13, 2023 · 9:17 PM · CHANGING
St. Charles, MO
I am writing to bring to your attention a matter that I have hesitated to discuss due to its unconventional nature. Recently, I noticed that NASA established a team to investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena. We saw a gray alien and one of these interdimensional aliens that were declassified by the FBI in 2020. These two aliens killed our three pets and then has been trying to abduct my daughter over the past 3 years, even in our home in St. Charles, due to lack of response, and has continued to sexually assault her. We can't see it with our naked eye, but saw it one time, and there are two in our home, one shorter and one taller, which I detail below. We have been facing a peculiar situation for over three years, and despite reporting it, no action has been taken. There is one that looked like what the FBI declassified in 2020: https://thelifehacker.org/.../fbi-document-earth-has.../. And the other looked like this: https://www.pbs.org/.../alien-abduction-and-ufos-why-are.../. This alien has been responsible for the unfortunate deaths of all our animals within a span of mere months. It appears to have taken an interest in her when she was working in south-central Missouri, writing and editor of publications for a news network, and followed her home. We've since been horrified by this extraterrestrial, especially after an organization's response telling us there is nothing, we can do about aliens but move homes. We have shared our experience with various individuals in education and officials who study this area. Still, due to the unusual and sensitive nature of the situation, we have received varied and unhelpful responses. We also contacted officials, but they advised us to contact animal control. The alien species emits an electromagnetic field that has caused swelling in our faces and bodies. This alien also started freezing my daughter in place in bed, where it assaulted her for years during COVID-19, when it expressed its kind began studying us. And the ET remains dormant, for reasons we can only imagine, in our home. Before this experience, neither of us believed in the existence of alien life. It has been an incredibly distressing ordeal, compounded by the lack of appropriate channels to report it.
September 13, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Eastpointe, MI
i was smoking with my friend on the roof and the sky was clear, no clouds in sight, and we spotted these lights moving really fast through the sky and then we spotted another one and there were so many, they were faster than helicopters or planes and they were close to the stars so too high up for planes. some of them formed triangles, and some of them were just flying around. some of them had lights blinking red and white and some were still white or still red. we couldn’t identify a shape, they just looked like spheres with lights.
September 13, 2023 · 8:17 PM · FORMATION
Shoreview, MN
There were faded orange orbs 7 to 10, above the 694 highway 10 feet above the street lights. Hovering. They did not move and did not have a blinker or a true formation. Some were evenly spaced and other random. Thought they may be drones but 7 to 10 and no blinking. I turned on police scanner and no reports. I tried calling Shoreview dispatch and was disconnected. I was driving 65 mph and I didn't appear the other drivers were interested as when I looked up I was all over the road.
September 13, 2023 · 8:17 PM · LIGHT
Chatham, IL
I arrived at home at 8:15 and looked north over the town of Chatham, Il and saw 8 lights flying low over the city. Not in formation but moving in the same general direction. I took 2 videos and 1 still picture. They appears very bright and orange. And they disappears one at a time as they made their way to the southwest. They did not zip away, but just kind of disappears after a few minutes. One at a time. I called my wife who was inside and had her come out and look. I did not hear any noise associated with them. No rotor noise or anything like that. We were both kind of dumbfounded.
September 13, 2023 · 7:57 PM · LIGHT
Palatine, IL
I saw a bright white light traveling slowly with no sound from west to east. The object had no blinking lights indicating a conventional airplane. I recorded it for a period to show what I had witnessed. Using a plane tracking app shows no registered aircraft in the vicinity. Looking at the object through binoculars didn’t provide any more detail, the white light was just larger. I can’t say what it was but I know that it wasn’t an drone or an airplane.
September 13, 2023 · 7:39 PM · LIGHT
Vail (near Tucson), AZ
My son and I were out with the dogs about 7:35 and it was very clear after the rain that moved through. The Milky way was very clear/visible. I was looking for Andromeda (in the wrong spot it turned out) facing north and looking near the zenith when to the left/west of where I was looking a bright light appeared and then accelerated moving the length of my pinky finger held at arms length in a fraction of a second. The glow faded though I could still see the object and it seemed to stop or slowed greatly. Then it flared bright and moved again about the same amount in a similar amount of time. There was no sound. After this second movement, I was able to get my wits about me, to call my son's attention to it. We watched it do this brightening and accelerating, dimming and flaring bright with attendant acceleration and occasionally juking to the north. The juking happened during the dim phase, about every other movement. There was another 6-7 or so evolutions. It then fully disappeared. We both began scanning the sky in all directions and after about a minute or so I saw the object reappear in the vicinity of where I last saw it. It became very bright and zoomed the length of the Santa Catalina mountains in a second or so, from west to east, where it had been moving to the NNW. It became visible near the north, big end of the big dipper in the west. It was gone before I could call my son's attention to it. There was no tail but it was bright enough that time that it left a retinal glow/smear for a few seconds similar to what you'd get from watching a welding arc from across the room. It appeared to be in space and was moving at an apparent rate of speed well in excess of any conventional aircraft. We continued looking and saw several obvious satellites, C130, A10, some commercial air traffic and even a meteor. The meteor moved from south to northwest, moving slower (maybe 1/3 the speed) than the first object(s) we saw, had a tail and sparks with the brightest part being a large flare right before it went dark. Normal stuff. My son called it out and I was able to turn my head and watch it burn out. When the object went from west to east it happened so fast I couldn't call it out before it was essentially gone, therefore my din missed seeing that evolution. During the period of looking we also saw some satellites but then saw 2 additional objects tracking directly North with a red orange color. These did not pulse or juke but they looked very different than satellites, which normally go east to west or on a diagonal NNW to SSE and moving across the sky perhaps 2 times faster. While they did not pulse or flare in brightness, they also did not fade as satellites do and moved approximately 2x as fast They were there traversing the sky one moment, then just disappeared. None of the major planets were in the night sky and I know what they look like. I'm familiar with many aircraft types. These objects moved unlike airplanes I've ever experienced and much faster. Nor were they moving like conventional satellites. I've tracked observed the ISS and the shuttle, even both at the same time on one of the very last shuttle missions. Also witnessed Starlink strings and rocket launches. I lived on the Gulf Coast of Florida and watched shuttle launches at night, traverse the sky. This sighting was very different than any of those things, much brighter and moved at apparent speeds well in excess of what I've witnessed with aviation, satellites, spacecraft, and meteors.
September 13, 2023 · 7:04 PM · SPHERE
Pewaukee, WI
I was driving north in our subdivision on Millridge Cir, in the Town of Delafield, WI, when I saw a very bright object appear out of an extraordinarily dark-reddish cloud deck above the setting sun. I immediately pulled my vehicle off the road and jumped out to take a picture. I only got one picture but it was a “live” picture on my I-Phone 14 Pro, which has a fairly good resolution. After taking the picture, I looked down to see what I captured and then no longer saw the object. When I got home, just two blocks from where I took the photo, I told my wife I think I just took a picture of a UFO because I thought I saw this object move unlike a plane or helicopter and without any sound. I gave my wife the phone and she immediately zoomed in on the object and exclaimed that it didn’t look like anything she had ever seen flying in the sky When we looked at the “live” picture, the object appeared to make an almost instantaneous V maneuver, dropping and then rising across an unknown distance If the “live” picture accurately captured how the object actually moved and it wasn’t a photo artifact or from me possibly moving, it would defy any traditional plane or helicopter movement pattern or speed. This object appeared to be circular with the upper half grayish and divided by a darker band. The lower half appeared to be a distinctively arranged pattern or grouping of 11 or perhaps more, highly intense lights. I initially thought that this object may have been a mile or possibly more, west of where I took the picture, but the level of detail captured by my I Phone photograph, likely belied my initial estimate of the distance, unless this aerial anomaly was incredibly large. I called a local news station and the county police to report what I saw but the news station showed no interest and the county sheriff said that if the object was no longer there and there was no immediate threat to the community, there was nothing they would do I tried to report this to NASA, but they are evidently only taking reports from military/government employees or pilots
September 13, 2023 · 6:45 PM · FLASH
Gatton, QUEENSLA · Australia
My 19 year old daughter and I were heading towards Gatton from Ipswich way. We were about three minutes away from the Gatton exit when we noticed a very bright white light above the mountains to our left of our Horizon view ahead of us. The light was so bright like a LED high beam light of a car, and it was as big as looking at a light on a car that you’re about to pass by, but it was far in our horizon, just hovering right on the mountain. It then started to flash and was lifting up and out into the sky. The flashes were fast and short bursts of movement for about three or four flashes, but as the object started moving further across the sky with each flash it was moving a much further and faster distance. This thing was HUGE… like so big and bright, almost blinding bright and moving so fast. The last 2 flashes we saw it literally moved from our right peripheral vision all the way to our furthest left peripheral vision in literally a flash of a moment, like this was super speed, and then it disappeared. My daughter and I were absolutely bedazzled by this, and couldn’t believe what we witnessed. We also felt a very weird like pulling heavy sensation in the back of our heads and felt like a pulsing energy. Anyways, I dropped my daughter off to her girlfriends and pretty much turned around to drive back home straight away, and would you believe it I saw this thing again, YES, I saw it AGAIN!! I couldn’t believe it myself. This time it was travelling in the opposite direction, heading back towards the mountain that we originally saw it from and to my right. This time though, it was travelling very close to the ground as though it was almost skimming the ground flying across the cow paddocks with more frequent flashes. Again, this light was extremely bright and flashing and moving quickly. The size of it, which is strange, was the same size that we saw when it was up high in the sky, but it was obviously much closer to me this time as it was skimming the ground at the fields right next to me basically. But yes, again, it was a little bit bigger than you’d imagine looking at a headlight of a car and very bright white like a LED high beam light. I’d love to know if anyone else witnessed this or if there is any crazy explaination. Also there was zero sound…
September 13, 2023 · 6:37 PM · CHANGING
Bronx, NY
It’s a flashing set of lights or something going left to right, vanishing and reappearing. It went right to left as well and vanished again. There’s horizontal movement of flashing “something” Possible flock of birds [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
September 13, 2023 · 2:03 PM · SPHERE
Petoskey, MI
My wife and I observed the white orb for well over a half hour till light clouds obscured our vision. To be quite honest we both believe it matched previous Chinese Spy Balloons. We compared our photos and video to prior observers of the past spy balloons. It was a perfect match. Be aware the object is in approximately center of photos and video, so zoom in. Location out back patio compass showed 255 degree W. 45°22'30" N 84°47'48" W. In one screen recording I took of a video the object moves quickly from left to right. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
September 13, 2023 · 7:37 AM · CIRCLE
Wailuku, HI
I have been fishing in Maui on the beach’s for over 30 years and have never seen anything like this before very fast moving object and beam of light going up it was about 5 to 7 miles out I have amazing pictures no video I saw it go into the water butt it’s was far way and a minute later came up into the sky and very fast went towards Molokini.
September 13, 2023 · 3:22 AM · CROSS
Idk exactly -, YT · Canada
On the road between Delta Junction Canada and the AK Border on 9/13/23: First I thought I saw a cell tower suddenly show up to my right while driving in the dark at about 3:20 am. It had two red lights and one white light going vertically. Then while I was driving straight, no turns or elevation bc I looked at my navigation tool, it moved across the street to my left. Then it went back to the right and the white light disappeared and it was two red lights and now they were horizontal. Then I got my phone to record it. Sorry the videos are terrible. It kept moving around from horizontal to vertical. The last I saw of it, it was on the left of me in the grass area. Each red light looked like a giant “X” to me with my eyes but when I got a close up of my video later, it looked more oval. I reported on the form it looked like a cross, however, because that was my first impression. This “cell tower” changed position and elevation and was around our car from about 3:20 (I started recording at 3:22 am - 4:09 when it was on my left in the grass and we finally passed it and it was never in front of us again.) I was actually shocked to see so much time had passed in the video because it seemed to me like maybe 10 minutes and I kept timing the whole time until it disappeared. I started and stopped video bc it was hard to hold the video and drive. I woke up my son who also saw it.
September 12, 2023 · 11:00 PM · TEARDROP
Las Vegas, NV
Bright teardrop shape object rising in the sky very swiftly that was teal color and moving very quickly.
September 12, 2023 · 10:33 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalThunder bay, ON · Canada
It was insane. There were about 20 distinct lights in the sky. Then they dimmed out [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 12, 2023 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Pine city, MN
Not starlink. A solo, slow moving, star like object starts moving across the sky. It leaves a faint bluish trail behind it, also stationary star like objects spaced closer together at the start of trail and spaced farther apart towards the end. The only thing that moved was whatever the bright object was that created the trail. Its length was about 3 moons wide. It looked like a straight line of a finished connect the dots picture, due to the faint bluish light that connected each stationary object. I’m not sure if each 8 to 10 objects were a single object or separate because all objects disappeared at the same exact time. Completely different from how they had initially appeared.
September 12, 2023 · 9:25 PM · CIGAR
Lillooet, BC · Canada
I went outside to check if bears are away from my neighbors fruit tree , it was quiet .then to my surprise I round lights started to show up above my trees .it was peach dark and the lights were quite bright so I I couldn't figure out at first what it is , when the last light appeared I realized how long it is , I called my wife to see it , she came right in time before it went behind the clouds. There was no noise coming from it , it flew very slow , about 1000 m above my house . [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 12, 2023 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
NorthGlenn, CO
I grew up in Westminster, CO since 1982 and saw this same ship in the same spot twice in the 1990s. I have binoculars and now also I use the zoom on my cell phone. Inverted glowing triangle that radiates white blue and pink lights. Hovers still however towards the end of encounter it moved slightly then lifted up into the sky and gone.
September 12, 2023 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Cleveland, OH
White (glowing) UAP orb sighted to the west of KCLE (maybe 5-500) miles away (was unable to determine range), at unknown altitude (maybe 1000-50k feet above ground level) and was motionless for a minute, and then it slowly moved northward and started changing colors from red, to green, blue, purple, violet, and white. The way it changed colors seemed to animate or move around the craft in a projecting manner. Lastly, there seemed to be some kind of movement of smaller particles moving around the craft in an orbiting like fashion, similar to an animation of atomic particles moving around an atom. I also saw another aircraft with it’s strobe, beacon, and NAV lights on, moving towards the UAP. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
September 12, 2023 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Gulf Shores, AL
At Approximately 8:10 pm, September 12, 2023, my friend and I were on the deck of our vacation beach house in Gulf Shores, Alabama, gazing at the southwest sky over the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly an orange orb appeared in the sky about the size of a nickel held at arm’s length, so it seemed very close. The orb was very bright but not blinding with no aura or light beaming from it, much like a stoplight. It seemed to blink on like an eye opening. It did not move and was perfectly round. Almost immediately another identical orb blinked on to the left of the first, and then another to its right, all in a straight line and in perfect alignment with each other and none moving. There was no sound. Moments later they all blinked off. Approximately five to 10 minutes after the three orbs disappeared, what looked like a string of lights appeared lower in the sky and to the right of where the first three orbs were. These orbs were much smaller than the first three, all in a line and static in the sky. Like the first three, these orbs did not twinkle, although it appeared that one would go out on one end of the string and another come on at the other end. Immediately after this appearance, another identical string of orbs appeared far to the left of the first string and a bit lower in the sky but approximately the same size. The orbs in these strings were identical in shape and color to the first sighting of three. They remained static in the sky until they disappeared a few seconds after they appeared. There was no sound. The first photo is of the night sky on September 12 from my seated position on the deck. I’ve overlayed the graphic of orbs to provide an illustration of what we saw. On September 14, 2023, my friend and I were once again sitting on the deck and watching the night sky. Due south and far out over the Gulf of Mexico, much farther out than the previous sighting, we saw two orange orbs in a line similar in color and shape to the previous sighting on September 12. One of the orbs blinked out within moments, but my friend got a photo of the second orb. The second and third images are of this orb. The third photo is an enlargement of the second. [NUFORC annotation: Flares - Possible]