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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.
27,433 entries
October 21, 2023 · 7:42 PM · LIGHT
Riverside, CA
Over western Riverside county south of city of Riverside west of March ARB. The video was taken with a Pixel 7 phone camera.
October 21, 2023 · 7:42 PM · LIGHT
Riverside, CA
Multiple Star objects flying in different tracts.
October 21, 2023 · 3:50 PM · LIGHT
Beatrice, NE
Just a number of lights in the sky doing 90 degree turns. Just darting around going in a north to south direction.
October 21, 2023 · 1:25 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalLong Beach, CA
Before the video starts it had a bright red and blue trail , which you don’t see anymore throughout the video. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
October 21, 2023 · 12:37 AM · LIGHT
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, AZ
Dark Sky footage at one of my weather stations captured an unexplained image. This Image is an 8 second exposure that repeats every 5 minutes of the night sky at a remote weather station site. Upon reviewing the timelapse, I found one image displaying a point of light traveling 60-80 miles in that 8 second exposure, along an irregular pathway. I welcome further review! See the public footage here: (odd image occurs at 12:37am on Oct 21, 2023) https://webcam.io/webcams/P1j5xz
October 20, 2023 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Wellston, OK
It made me think of the China satellite in China. At first we thought it was a shooting star. But the light repeated the same pattern from the same start point to the same end point at least 8-10 times. It didn't move that fast. And was faint. And when the faint cloud seem to pass we could no longer see it. It was a consistent and purposeful duration. I think a laser from a satellite.
October 20, 2023 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Tulsa, OK
I enjoy coffee every morning while watching the sky. I look for different celestial objects and the international space station. I even have an app that helps me understand what I am seeing. On the morning of October 20th at approximately 6:45am I was stargazing and enjoying the view of Jupiter. Suddenly 3 lights appeared in the western sky between Jupiter and the horizon from my vantage point on my front porch. The 3 lights were moving North in a triangle formation for about 1 minute. I tried to grab my phone to record, but when I looked back up 2 of the lights had disappeared and then the 3rd light disappeared. The lights did not fade or leave a trail. It’s as if the lights were snuffed out.
October 19, 2023 · 7:44 PM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
At approx 19:44hrs I had stepped outside the storage facility I have storage at for some fresh air and not doing anything specific and flash! stutter...stutter...stutter...flash! fade to black, yet there's like this dark very dark blue-ish/brown coloured cloud barely barely visible IMO that its hiding and dancing around in, the flash deformed or morphed? into a spark! now & I can barely see the spark! now, flash! (like seeing fluffy broken cloud cover and this object is 'presenting' itself as, for whatever reason) is done and that spark! is now fading, fading fading as it 'flits!' here, 'flits!' there. Like a peek-a-boo! game, from up high. *Points upwards. Not too high an altitude, not typical high altitude trucking along craft(s) or objects IMO. Maybe 10,000 to 15,000ft. in altitude. Until not viewable from my line of sight looking to the S-SW at the storage facility... outta nowhere blamo! that odd cloud like formation (mostly coloured dark brown, dark blue against mostly black/dark sky) dwindled and faded away as well. Something was either up there and BIG maybe supporting those craft/spark! objects? In closing, for whatever its worth. The immediate (1st) and only impressions I took in on the cloudlike formation *see artistic representation here . The 'light' or craft direction of travel depicted in drawing would go clockwise. Meaning. At top of drawing follow 'light' object clockwise until it is barely visible on far, upper left of artistic representation... make sense?
October 19, 2023 · 5:51 AM · LIGHT
Clarksburg, MO
October 19,2023 05:51 Clear sky, many stars visible. Stepped off my front porch and looked upwards, facing south-by-southwest, when I saw an object, star-like in appearance, flying in a tight circle around the star Aldebaran of the Taurus constellation. I only witnessed this strange behavior for a second or two before the object suddenly stopped and took off in a straight line to the left, passing through the center of the Orion constellation and continuing on until it was out of sight. It took 45-60 seconds to cross the sky, moving at what seemed a slower pace than when it was circling the star.
October 19, 2023 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Las Vegas (in flight), NV
While operating a B777 from HNL-DEN at 37,000’ both the Captain and I witnessed what appeared to be stars moving at a very high altitude and distance. We were approximately 50 miles SW of Las Vegas at about 0300 local time. The lights appeared to be SE of our position. All three lights were observed to be moving independently in some type of pattern. The lights were the approximate size and brightness of the stars in the background and were steady with no flashing that we typically observe on aircraft. They would each move relatively quickly in one direction for about one minute and then reverse course and move in another direction. We observed this phenomenon for about one hour. We questioned Los Angeles Center about high altitude military activity but they were not aware of any. After about one hour two of the lights continued northbound until they were out of sight. The third light remained for about 20 more minutes before heading southwest bound and disappearing. Over the course of the hour we travelled approximately 500 nautical miles but the lights never appeared to get any closer to us.
October 18, 2023 · 10:44 PM · LIGHT
Indian Harbour Beach, FL
Looking East, South East, from a half mile in from the ocean, I saw two blinking lights, varying in intensity and with an irregular, non rhythm/mechanical blinking pattern. Each one alternated when it was blinking. This lasted a few minutes then it was gone, but there was no directional change.
October 18, 2023 · 7:55 AM · LIGHT
Chico, CA
Same as above: object appeared as l turned my head to the SE. Bright light at approx 15 degrees shot towards the SE horizon and disappeared in less than a second
October 17, 2023 · 4:15 AM · LIGHT
Amarillo, TX
Every morning on the way to work myself and coworkers have witnessed these lights. We all are prior military and have not seen anything like this before. They are only seen between 415 am and 445 am to the left of Venus about 20 degrees. They are mostly directly parallel with Venus. The lights fade in and out and move around each other at a high rate of speed. Sometimes they are extremely bright and sometimes really dull. We have tried to make sense of them and discuss them every morning when we arrive at work but have no good theories. So here we are looking for answers.
October 17, 2023 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Middle of the Caspian Sea directly east of Baku, Unspecified
I was flying 37,000 feet above Baku and could see directly in front the Caspian Sea. It was night time very early in the morning (13 Zulu). My Co-pilot said look over there. It was 10 degrees below the horizon. I started to make some calculations to understand where in elevation it was. It looked like bright planet but it was 10x times the size of the planet. The light started to descend and then moved 20 degrees above the horizon. Then it took off at an incredible speed going towards Kazakstan. This was definitely not the orbital station because it was way faster. It was probably 150 km in front of us.
October 15, 2023 · 8:46 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedWaxhaw, NC
Camera alerted to activity in the driveway. It appears to be a beam of some kind from the sky starting in the top left frame. You can see the beam hit through the two trees in the lawn, but terminates into an orb instead of hitting the ground. The orb periodically splits into two and reforms into one again. If you look closely there is a black line in the orbs when they split and reform, the line alternates from one side to the other. Once the orbs reform into one orb the line is gone. The beam also hits the siding of the house at the top of the frame at the end creating another orb reflection perhaps. It is not acting like a laser or other source of light beam. It never reflects off of the ground. We suspected it was the vehicle reflection that later passes, but it doesn't make any sense as it would be impossible to hit the top of the trees and leaves straight down from the sky. Also it wouldn't be moving all over the place like it is. Activity starts 20 seconds in. Spiderweb [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Certain]
October 15, 2023 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Idaho falls, ID
We took a photo with a camera, but it looks fuzzy when zoomed in, so it’s par for any odd event for photography [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
October 14, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Crackington, Bude, CORNWALL · United Kingdom
As the lights slowly, almost hovered for a while, then neared us, crossing the sky. We watched them and marvelled (my wife was somewhat unnerved). They approached and then seperated the closer above Cornwall they reached; one by one, they reduced their lights becoming a very faint, barely noticeable I saw an orange glow. This happened as they respectively broke formation, as if, I assume was an exploration—I mean almost impossible to see, they were there in the dark. We had, before this turned all lights out to enjoy the star gazing; we are Midland's folk and our light pollution ruins such activities. I tried to find a decent iPhone for the ladies, recovered one. Sadly instead of the light embued celestial bodies, I captured faint dots, so comparibly anaemic, useless image. They are unidentified it doesn't have to be alien, if they were drones or space junk please let us know.
October 14, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedMt. Pleasant, IA
Driving home and saw what appeared to be a light in the sky. The light separated into 4 smaller light that made a square, then they went back to one. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
October 13, 2023 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalColumbia, TN
Wasn't enough room for my video but sent it to engimalabs and I have a full video 5-6 min long. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Probable]
October 13, 2023 · 8:48 PM · LIGHT
Bangalore, KARNATAK · India
I looked out of my window, and saw this bright star. It was stationary at first, nothing suspicious. I kept looking at it as I love looking at stars. And then it starts to move and I couldn't believe at first because how can a star move like that? Then I thought maybe my body is moving or something is wrong with me. So I held support of the wall and stopped breathing to ensure that I was fully still. At this point the star was still moving, in circles and I was damn sure that its not me, the star was actually moving. Then I tried to record it, but it stopped moving! Then I waited, it moved again but then not for long enough for me to record. Later it was covered by clouds.
October 13, 2023 · 7:42 PM · LIGHT
Spotswood, NJ
Swarm of 12-15 lights with a slight orange or red glow flying at a medium slow pace to the southwest. All lights were flying at the same speed but at different altitudes. They were flying low over the horizon, from my perspective they were just above the tree tops to about 35-60 degrees moving left to right. There was no sound that I could detect that I could attribute to the lights. There were no blinking lights. There was a slight twinkle to the lights similar to the kind of atmospheric disturbance one sees with stars. A few others were standing in the street watching. I captured video of the phenomenon but cannot seem to attach it to this form. If you would like me to send the video please contact me.
October 13, 2023 · 7:40 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedTurnerTown/Overton, TX
We are a crew of two, in a EMS unit (ambulance) heading westbound on 64 approaching turnertown when a large light appeared about 200 feet above the tree line. We reduced speed as we observed it speculating what it could be, we can confidently rule out any conventional aircraft (helicopter, planes) and we were assuming a possible meteor. As the light appeared closer it appeared to be shrouded in smoke but not leaving a trail. We lost sight of it briefly before turning down a county road when it came back into view, it was a clear bright light/orb and now nearing the tree line when it made a abrupt 180 degree turn and starting flying now westbound, then vanished. Even more curious when it completed such a maneuver it left behind a very distinct smoke ring that quickly dissipated. This was just as the sun just set over the horizon and it was generally dark. We then pulled over, got out of the ambulance to observe the sky with no further sighting. No sounds such as propulsion or bangs were heard. We as a 911 EMS crew frequently observe and land helicopters and are aware of different aircraft. We are objective and non-assuming but through our own observations cannot explain this with anything we are familiar with especially once the object made a direct 180 turn, at speed and vanished. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
October 13, 2023 · 7:36 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSandia, TX
On October 13, 2023, my daughter and I sighted a bright light heading in a southernly direction. First thought was an airplane with its landing light on. As the object got closer it was engulfed in vapor, and then it appeared the vapor traveled in front of the object in a perfect circle. It continued across the sky never changing directions but still ingulfed in this vapor. It went into the clouds, and we lost sight of it. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Reflection - Certain]
October 13, 2023 · 7:35 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalWichita, KS
We saw a (1) bright slow pulsing northern like star with a constant plume or atmospheric vapor surrounding the object, descending downward as we drove westward on KS-96 at 7:30 - 7:35p on October 13th, 2023. Right before it took off it emitted a large halo plume that appeared to be cloud height. This is currently being reported as a spaceX launch, but if that’s true, the object didn’t appear to be more then a couple thousand feet in the air. The additional spotting(s) in Oklahoma and Texas were reported later than 7:30p (closer to 8pm there) so that has me wondering if we all were seeing the same thing at the same time, or was this same aircraft being spotted later since we saw it dart off to the east? The light was a warmish white color and pulsated brighter at times, but the plume surrounding the light gave it a very “God-like” radiance. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]