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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 10, 2023 · 8:45 PM · CIRCLE
Methuen, MA
Green round light was spotted traveling at high speeds towards a wooded area. Other cars were also on the same highway at the time of spotting.
September 10, 2023 · 8:05 PM · FORMATION
Probable conventionalFairfield, CA
The above linear formation of orbs floated above me in the evening consisting of 10 orbs in a line equidistant from each other. Also seemed to have colorful tints to them. After watching them for no more than a minute: they looked disappeared as if the dissolved into the night sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 10, 2023 · 6:49 PM · RECTANGLE
Bass Lake, IN
My wife and I were flying in our Cirrus SR22T from KAGC to KDPA. We were at 10,000 feet altitude and traveling at ~200 MPH on an Instrument flight plan. The weather was VMC, outside air temperature was 5 C. We were in contact with South Bend ATC. The object was approaching us rapidly about 200 yards north of our position. We were just south of Bass Lake, Indiana and north of Wheeler Airport (IG05) at 6:49PM EDT. We both were shocked to see an object at our exact altitude and so close to the airplane. We contacted ATC to ask if they had seen anything on their radar. They indicated they did not have anything showing up in our location but had indicated there was a commercial aircraft 30,000 feet above us. They asked us to describe the object. It was of metal material and color. It had a sphere on the top with what appeared to be a black visor across the facing position. Under the attached sphere were three attached rectangular cubes stacked vertically. The entire object appeared to be about 2-3 meters in vertical length. No obvious form of propulsion on the object. It was moving horizontally at a high rate of speed or at least it appeared to be, however we were also moving fast so we aren’t sure if the object was move or if it was just us moving. This was not a drone, bird, or aircraft. It almost appeared as a automated jet-pack like structure with a monitoring head but without extremities of arms or legs. I have been a pilot for 25 years and have flown over 800 hours of flight time. My wife has flown many missions with me and is a keen observer of other aircraft while flying.
September 9, 2023 · 11:18 PM · CYLINDER
Old town, FL
An object travels in a straight line at a very high speed, not like an animal flying. I can only relate my impression to a bullet but I didn’t hear anyone shooting. The object came out of the woods of my backyard and traveled straight towards the front yard passing between the house and the shed at a height of 6-8 ft. I took the image on my iPhone from my tv screen and recorded it in real time and slow play. The object appears to be opaque and leaves a trace image of its trail. I’m guessing it traveled 50 feet in one second? I don’t know why the camera triggered and then happened to catch the image. The next camera in the direction it headed was not triggered to record but did capture the image of that area about 10 seconds before the moment that was recorded. The night before there was a light in the area that the object came from. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
September 9, 2023 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalTaunton, MA
During a night out at a car meet a drone captured a light shoot across the sky. It comes from beyond the building in the distance a looks like a tiny glowing dot. As it approaches it get bigger and cross over in just a few frames. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Probable]
September 9, 2023 · 9:35 PM · CIRCLE
Yelm, WA
While walking my dog at approximately 9:35 PM, I noticed a bright orange light above the tree line. My dog and I both watched the light grow larger as if it was coming toward us for approximately 1 to 2 minutes before it shrunk into a white light and disappeared. There were no sounds.
September 9, 2023 · 9:32 PM · FIREBALL
North Richmond Hill, ON · Canada
The red orbs were spotted moving laterally and horizontally before they disappeared up high in the sky. The orbs did not move like asteroids as they moved too quickly and different directions and they were in groups of 3 before more emerged. Although I have video … it is too long in length.
September 9, 2023 · 8:34 PM · CIRCLE
CA
There was one going across the sky shiny round. It looked to be. It was pretty far up in the sky going across the sky at a pretty fast speed I'm assuming and then following that another one same direction and then another one went crossways very fast speed as well
September 9, 2023 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Hull, EAST RID · United Kingdom
My friend and I was walking into the town centre, I felt the urge to look up, as there was an electrical storm with no thunder, I saw the white light stationary, held my head still to confirm it wasn't a plane, after several minutes of it being amongst the lightning, it then turned red... A minute after the craft started flashing red... Then zoomed off into the night sky like ion drive had kicked in
September 9, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
South Scottsdale AZ, AZ
We was just sitting outside and looked up and seen that and it happened 3 times different days but only cought it once on video
September 9, 2023 · 6:50 PM · SPHERE
Miami, FL
I was walking towards my home. I looked into the sky while watching a plane ascend. In the nearby clouds was a black sphere that looked like a black star in the clouds. I had to go in the house. Came back out and it couldn’t be seen.
September 9, 2023 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Edenton, NC
I had just climbed out of my hunting stand and noticed a bright white light traveling in the sky. It reminded me of a landing light on an airplane. I really didn't think much of it because there are a few runways around. As I watched it, it took a instant 90 degree shift (not like a turn) to the west. I went behind the tops of trees out of my sight. So, I pulled up my binoculars and started searching the sky at the end of the tree line. Never saw the bright white light come out the other side, but what I did see were to small lights (one red, one white) heading back in a southerly at an unreal rate of speed. They were not blinking like navigation lights. The movement of the white light was smooth and instantly shifted to the west unlike anything I have ever seen move in the sky.
September 9, 2023 · 5:00 PM · EGG
Byron, CA
On Sep 9, 2023 around 500-530pm, I was recording a video of beautiful cumulus clouds in the sky. My camera is a Canon 5D Mark IV and the lens is a Canon EF 70-200mm 1:2.8 L IS USM Lens. I recorded for 20-30 minutes. The next day, I watched the video and saw a glowing white egg-shaped object fly across the video at extremely high speed on a linear path. The glowing white egg-shaped object had no fire-trail, no wings, and at the point of entry into the camera frame, it appeared "ghost-like" then transformed into a bright glowing white object. The light appeared to emit from the object versus reflection of sunlight. This object was flying below the cumulus clouds. The camera was mounted on a tripod pointing straight up to the sky on top of my patio roof. The entire time, I was standing inside the house about 5-10 feet away while the camera was capturing video. I placed the camera on top of my patio roof via a window from my house. The sky was filled with clouds with patches of blue sky during day light. The video quality is very good and allows for zoom-in and video speed reduction to clearly see the object. In the video, it appears to be at two places at once as it travels on a linear path but this might be an artifact from the video encoding since it was traveling extremely fast. I need to double check the video metadata to confirm if this occurred Sep 9 (either it was Sep 9 or Sep10)
September 9, 2023 · 1:29 PM · CYLINDER
A few miles north of Osawatomie, KS
The object was hovering in the sky completely stationary. I noticed it out of the car window. I'm not sure how far away it was. It was a clear sunny day and just caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of my eye. Zoom in to the right side of uploaded pictures to see object.
September 9, 2023 · 8:28 AM · CIGAR
Woodinville, WA
Large cigar shaped object. White or reflective in the sun. No visible control surfaces, no sound. I have an aviation background and can identify most civilian and military aircraft by shape and sound. First observed directly above my head as I looked up while in a seated position. Noticed the object, at first glance I thought it must be a plane as we’re in the landing flight path for a regional airport. But I noticed at a longer glance I could not identify it because it had no control surfaces. Not quite sure what to make of it I waited until it had passed my position trying to listen for the sound of the jet engine. It was dead silent. Total observed time was about 20 seconds. I grabbed my phone to take a picture but it had passed out of view going to the NW. I opened my flight radar app immediately and there was nothing transponding anywhere near me on radar. Details: - 8:28-8:29AM Sat Sept 9th 2023 - Not any identifiable aircraft to me - No flight surfaces of any kind - No sounds - Color white or silver - No visible lights - Estimated size, about the size of a 747 fuselage from my vantage point. Fight Characteristics: - Flying in a straight line at a steady speed - Heading: 308deg NW coming from the NE - Estimated altitude 2-5k feet - Estimated speed 250kph best guess - Not transponding via flight radar app (screenshot attached) Environmental Conditions: - Weather 58deg no clouds, visibility 17 miles wind at ground level 2mph from the North Barometric pressure: 30.14 inHG *Three images included. One of the flight radar app at the time. One from my observation point. One of the weather conditions at the time
September 9, 2023 · 2:25 AM · SPHERE
Henderson, NY
It was large, round and horseshoe-like. It was bright yellow with a blue tint around it with a part of it darker. It appeared out of nowhere, stopped in place for a second, then the light zoomed and was gone. There was no trail like a shooting star would have. It lit up the whole sky and made it look like Day.
September 9, 2023 · 1:55 AM · UNKNOWN
Hinckley, IL
At approximately 1:55 a.m. on Saturday, September 9, I decided to head off to bed after watching television. I am a night owl, so it is normal for me to be wide awake late into the evening and early morning hours. Upon laying down and looking directly out an open west window one foot away from the bed, I noticed an unknown object with intense bright blue light surrounding it flying erratically using sudden darting movements high in the sky west of Hinckley. I immediately got out of bed and watched it maneuver for the next 15 minutes. I couldn't take my eyes off of it. The most stunning movement was how it literally appeared to fall or drop from the sky at blinding speed. But then it then came to a complete stop and remained in one place. It darted back up into the sky, and in general continued to dart at will around the sky west of Hinckley. Occasionally, the object would completely disappear and then suddenly reappear a few seconds later. The night was clear with no clouds, so there was nothing to obscure the object from visibility. The next thing that occurred was simply amazing! As it started to move east across Hinckley on the north side of town, the object suddenly became TWO unknown objects, each surrounded with bright blue light. Together, in absolutely precise tandem, they flew to the east at high speed. In order to continue watching, I had to quickly run from the west side of the house to the east side. When I arrived on the deck on the east side of the house, the two objects had either blended back into one, or one of them had left the area. The remaining blue object then flew out of sight south of Hinckley. Absolutely stunned by the unbelievable sharp turns it would make at high speed, I continued to remain on the deck waiting to see if it might return. And it did! It flew back from the south where it had previously gone and proceeded further east. I did not see it again although I continued to monitor the sky for quite some time after. I'll do my best to try to describe the speed at which this object moved. Imagine using your finger to point up into the sky on the west side of Hinckley. Then quickly swing your finger all the way to the east side of Hinckley. In about one second the object moved across the Hinckley sky before coming to a complete stop, changing direction, and flying off again. When it suddenly dropped from the sky at the beginning of the sighting, it happened so quickly that I thought it was going to hit the ground. But no, it simply stopped mid-air before it decided to dart off into another direction. The objects were incredibly easy to see in the sky due to the intensity of the blue light surrounding each of them. For as high into the sky as they were, they must have been fairly large objects to be seen so easily from my location on the ground. I thought about alerting the local police of the sighting, but I simply didn't want to take my eyes away from what I was viewing as I may never see something like this again in my lifetime. And since I imagine a sighting such as this would be perceived as unbelievable, I decided to report what I saw on this website instead. I have never reported, nor experienced, anything such as this ever before.
September 8, 2023 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Morse, LA
The first one was noticed when turning off Hwy 13 onto Hwy 92. It was stationary. Flashing. Then as we got closer we noticed another one on the other side of 92. Then a third one appeared. After we started to video they started moving fast. One headed east. The others northeast. We took videos. * please excuse the language in the video. We were on our way home from a football game. We decided to not go home and see where they were. It was like two miles or so past our house.
September 8, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Paramount, CA
Light appears, then disappears then reappears and remains lit ad it desends vertically. Then travels east at a rate of speed faster than any other object in the sky. Just before vanishing, turn south and slightly changes in color and last moment.
September 8, 2023 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Santa Fe, NM
I noticed a moving light in my periphery. Once I saw it clearly it was 3 large round orbs of light that seemed somehow diffused. They stayed in perfect formation, triangular, the entire time. I did not see an outline of a craft so I'm not sure it it was one craft with 3 lights or 3 crafts in formation. I tend to think the later. It was at a midrange altitude in the atmosphere. It moved in one direction very quickly and with no sound at all. Any typical craft flying at that altitude I would expect to be able hear.
September 8, 2023 · 8:36 PM · LIGHT
Istanbul, ISTANBUL · Turkey
There was only 1 object. The color of the object was very bright yellow/orange. The object I saw was almost as bright as a star, but not perfectly round. At first it made strange movements, for example it went to the right and stopped suddenly, then it went to the left and stopped again. Even though it was far away, it was moving very fast. It moved left and right like this for about 5 minutes and suddenly it started to draw a circle in the sky. After 1-2 minutes, it got closer and fell while turning, making neither light nor sound as it fell. By the way, I'm not sure if the object fell because a tree blocked my view as the object was falling downwards. I saw this light very above the Black Sea.
September 8, 2023 · 7:53 PM · LIGHT
Marlton, NJ
As I was driving in my car, I looked in the sky and saw a stationary object lighting up. I then saw it move quickly and diagonally to the right, and then it stopped moving and then after a few seconds, it went off to the right again.
September 8, 2023 · 6:15 PM · CHANGING
Memphis, TN
Craft was metallic in color. Shapeshifting from round/bulbous to rectangle and flat like a sheet. Flying too high for an airplane just taking off from the airport which is within a couple of miles from where I was. Flying way too slow to be n airplane. No wings or tail fin observed. No sound. No exhaust.
September 8, 2023 · 5:45 PM · SPHERE
Richmond, VA
While sitting in my work vehicle I saw what appeared at first to be a bright light amongst the clouds. My first thought was that it was possibly headlights from an airplane because it appeared just east of the Richmond airport. As I continued to watch it I couldn’t help but notice that it wasn’t moving. I reasoned that maybe it was an airplane moving directly towards my direction but the glow was steady and unbroken. Due to its location at the lower portion of clouds it seemed to me that if it were an airplane the reflection of it would have altered as it passed below the shadow of the clouds above. But the object remained stationary for the entire 2 to 3 minutes that I observed it. I then took out my cell phone and put it on max zoom to snapped a photo. At first glance at the photo the object is very difficult to see. But once I enlarged the photo in my phone the orb appeared rather clearly amongst the clouds. Cannot discern orb in photo.