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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
9,112 entries
July 9, 2023 · 10:40 PM · OTHER
Moundridge, KS
This object was rectangular and appeared to have rear fenders. It came from behind me over my right shoulder from the west south west direction. Once it was over head it was white hot and bright but the light was on the bottom portion only and towards the rear of the object. It was traveling east north east rapidly. When it was directly in front of my view facing due east, this fast moving object then changed its speed. It noticeably slowed down to 1/20th of the speed it flew in at. After it had slowed down to a crawl comparatively, with the white light still glowing at a slow speed, the lights turned off. I could still see it in the air without light for another second. I lost sight of it after that. I do not think it is far away right now because of the slow speed, I just cannot see it in the dark. This was very low flying with a almost horizontal trajectory. I would estimate it was at most one mile above ground and perhaps only a quarter mile above surface once it slowed down by me. This is the second object in two days, but this was much lower and visible. This was a naked eye siting. I am in a rural area. Very dark and clear out tonight. I am a night time sky photographer and I sit in this spot for hours every night. I am practiced on the subject and this was the first time I have witnessed one of this shape. Again, it was very low, visible, completely quiet, and slowed its self down. Only minutes later and still now, there is a helicopter in the distance moving in a flight pattern like a grid search. I was unable to capture a picture but am including the sky as it is now.
July 7, 2023 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Lincoln, CA
About 9:30pm on July 7, 2023 I was looking out my bedroom patio door (north) and noticed an odd set of lights near a tower/silo/building off to my west (10 o’clock) the building normally has red flashing clearance lights at the top and is something I’m used to seeing at night. I believe it’s an agricultural area and the structure is at least fifteen plus miles away, it is north of Sacramento International Airport and I would say east of the Sacramento River/Hwy 99. The lights I was observing were positioned horizontally, four of them. I didn’t notice any defined shape just the four horizontal lights. When I first saw them they appeared to either be coming out of the south side of the tower/silo/building or from behind it. They slowly turned east, towards my location then north slowly gaining altitude, traveled north for what I estimate was maybe 15 miles towards Marysville/Yuba City/Beale A.F. Base and guessing to about 2000 feet max altitude. They slowly turned west then back south back towards the tower and slowly lost altitude until they were out of site behind trees? I was curious and kept watching and there were two more of the same lights exit the tower area and take the same path, neither of the second two went as far north but both turned west with one again turning south and disappearing on descent as the first, this one was closer to the tower location than the first. The other one proceeded west and went out of site. On these two objects It appeared that as the four lights flashed you could notice flashes of blue/green lights at the right side on these two objects heading north. During this duration of time three other, four light objects appeared to exit the building area and went south on slow climbs till out of my line of site due to the roof line of my home. The tower itself normally has two red lights at night but when this started it appeared to have four or five. When the last of the lights left the building it was back to what appeared to be two red ones. My back yard/patio area faces north and I have a clear view east and west to the Sierras and Coast Mountain ranges. During the day when clear you can see distant tree lines and the Sutter Buttes. I regularly see jet liners coming in from the east and making a slow turn south for landing at Sacramento International Airport. During the time I viewed the lights I think there were maybe three or four flights that came into Sacto in their normal pattern. I went to bed but got up several times and at one point I noticed a couple of airliners on approach to Sacto airport but they had changed their flight pattern and were coming in straight from the North. In the four years we have lived here I don’t recall seeing them come in from that direction.
July 6, 2023 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Spokane Valley, WA
Suddenly appeared and disappeared but saw 4 large jet like engines propelling an extremely large craft that appeared and disappeared within 3 seconds. Seemed like a dimensional thing as it was very large, silent, and very low altitude.
July 4, 2023 · 10:12 PM · OTHER
Mount Holly springs, PA
Started as a circle bright as day in the night sky to the north east slow moving was not the moon after 10 minutes, it began to flatten out ,at which point another craft or object separated from it and headed towards the ground/horizon the main craft that flattened departed in seconds literally vanishing , no red blue yellow or green light like those on planes drones or helicopters were observed , no reports of local military exercises in the area ,or plane crashes . It was not fire works the main object or craft climbed in altitude faster then any military jet ever observed it covered over 3000ft(rough estimate in seconds before vanishing no sonic boom or sound of after burners like those on military jets which can be heard over a mile away further when going away from point of observation. Animals which are normally heard at night were extremely quiet, horses across the way weren't making a sound also unsual.phone signal also was lost for about 20 to 30 seconds after the high speed climb.
July 4, 2023 · 8:47 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalPelham, NY
The object hovered in the same spot for maybe 10 minutes. I would look at it off and on. I also took a 10 second video. It was very stable in it's position. I saw nothing beyond the blinking light. (I think I would have noticed the bodyframe of a helicopter. But only that one blinking light was visible.) The light was greenish in color, though at one point it turned red. I did see it move, quickly, and to the left. Then it suddenly came to a dead stop. To my eye it did not maneuver like a helicopter. It was too rock steady. And it's start-stop maneuver was too crisp. I stopped looking when the fireworks display started. About 10 minutes after the start of the display I remembered to check for the light, but it was gone. (My video is not very dramatic, but please note the small blinking light a little above the big tree that sits center-left in the video frame.) [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Probable]
July 4, 2023 · 8:45 PM · OTHER
Edmonton, AB · Canada
The time was about 8:45pm, still full daylight and the sun was pretty west. The object was moving from east to west, and below the cloud-line, (although there were not alot of clouds around, only to the west, so the object was mostly seen in a clear sky.) The object moved silently, in a fixed position, (meaning it did not rotate in any direction), maintained a steady speed which was not particularly fast by any means, and also maintained a straight line with no change in altitude, or side-to-side movement, indicating it was not being affected by wind gusts. Its lack of any kind of movement other than its straight path from east to west allowed me to rule out balloons and birds, as well, I ruled out it being a drone based off of the fact that it stretched such a large distance in its path, and in my admittedly limited knowledge of drones, there is a limit to how far they can go, (and I believe there are some laws about drone use in the city.) To the naked eye, it looked like a black blob, I estimated the size would have been the same as a small vehicle. There was no sun reflection, (although the sun was on the opposing side to where we were), nor were there any lights.
July 2, 2023 · 1:19 AM · OTHER
Probable conventionalCoalinga, CA
My son and I were driving on I5 south. We were currently on Coalinga that time. We came from Arizona and was driving to Tacoma WA. While I was driving I saw lights that suddenly appeared on my left. It looked like strobe lights but very faint. I thought they were fireworks at first. I then saw a very faint outline of what I could only assume was a craft. It looked like something invisible but you can still see the shimmer and the outline so you know something is there. Then all of a sudden it materialized and 3 very bright lights came on. The lights were so bright they looked like spotlights you can see from afar. Then as suddenly as it appeared, the light turned off and the craft flew directly in front of my windshield then went to the passenger side. Please note that I was driving at 90mph during that time. I woke my son up and he started recording it when it was on his side. When it flew past my windshield I saw that it was a grayish brown in color and from what I saw did not look like metal. It was some kind of textured material. I would say it looked like some kind of "skin". I might sound crazy but it looked like the skin of a dragon. Also for some reason, it looked like it was flying at a 45 degree angle. Like a plane with the nose up. I may be seeing things but that's how it looked to me. For background, I am a nurse and I work for the health department. I do believe we are not alone but I am also very skeptical when someone says they saw a ufo. My son works as a service advisor and has the same outlook as me. So when I tried telling my friends and family about it, it felt like I was making it up. It was a very frustrating feeling. And made me wonder to myself if I was seeing things. So when my son finally started recording, the craft was on our left side. It was flying very low and had so sound or any exhaust that I can see. It turned a bit towards us and the three bright lights came on again. To me it looked like the lights were at the end of long tubes if that makes sense. After the lights turned on, it slightly turned and just disappeared. My son told me that he saw the underside and it looked invisible. Like when something is being cloaked but you can still a distortion or a shimmer around it. There was no sound and the way it was moving looks like it had no trouble going in any direction at all. There were other cars on the highway but they far from us. But other cars must have seen the very bright lights that came on twice. From the video it looks like an aircraft of some sort. But from our perspective, it looked very different. I am reporting this in case someone else saw it so I wouldn't think I was seeing things. As for my feelings during that time, it did not feel threatening or dangerous. It felt curious to me. Both my son and I just wanted to get home quickly and were not even thinking anything remotely about ufo's. So it wasn't that we wanted to see something that wasn't there. If it was a ufo then it was really cool we saw it. If it was an aircraft or drone of some sort, it was still cool to see the advanced technology of drones today. There is a Naval air base in the vicinity. Likely training exercise. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
June 29, 2023 · 1:30 PM · OTHER
Kyrgyzstan
We were traveling westbound over Kyrgyzstan at FL320 on an established airway from Guangzhou China to Cologne Germany. It was a little past local apparent noon and the sun was slightly behind us. I looked up and saw a bright contact close in off our right nose. I checked TCAS and saw nothing. I looked back up and saw a small craft very close and slightly above us. The size and distance were difficult to determine because we did not know what we were looking at. However the craft was very clearly seen, I believe it was within half a mile. I estimated the rough size to be that of a car or SUV stood vertically. It appeared to be two flattened spheres with a disk between them, a small mast on top and a longer mast/antenna on the bottom. The lower mast had several (2-3) small spheres along the length with one on the bottom. There were no visible means of propulsion or wings. The flattened spheres appeared solid and symmetrical. The did not appear to be ballon’s or lifting bodies. Additionally the were not large enough to be lifting bodies for the relative size of the craft. Again closure rate was hard to determine because we did not know exactly what we were looking at. I don’t believe the object was traveling in the opposite direction. I believe it was the same direction of travel (just much slower) or stationary. The craft did not appear react to our aircraft. There were no lights on the craft. There were no visible windows or sensors attached to the craft. The Captain and I have over 60 years of military and civilian aviation between us and almost in unison our reaction was “What the #@$& was that?!” Of all the photos and drawings of UFOs I’ve never seen anything like this. I would be very interested to hear if anything like this has been reported by others or if this is something in your database.
June 27, 2023 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Fortuna Foothills, AZ
Looked up and saw a triangle of lights fade into view, like a plane's lights would between blinking. Red light in front, two white lights behind. I watched it for a second and then the lights fade back out. They never fade back on and I then saw a large rounding shape barely silhouetted against the dark night sky. Visually tracking the direction of the slow moving lights, I kept focused on where the lights should fade back in, but it never did. I watched for a couple minutes then came in to get my wife to see if she could see it, too. It never came back on, but the triangle is lights was definitely there but only the one time. Super weird.
June 25, 2023 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
IdentifiedNew York City, NY
Wife and I saw south of Prospect Park Brooklyn for at least a minute before filming. Clear and low on the horizon. Video shows something inconsistent with flight patters. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
June 25, 2023 · 1:30 PM · OTHER
Newport Beach, CA
Very visible at first, then went higher and higher until it disappeared. It stayed in a formation of 8 bubble-like objects with a short "tail". It was very clear at first (on the beach between 18th and 19th street). When I first saw it it appeared over the ocean and was very clear. It moved higher and higher and then disappeared. I watched it for about 10 minutes or so. I kept looking around to see if anyone else noticed it because it was really clear at first. But it seemed like people were just enjoying the beach and playing ball, etc. Unfortunately, it was a day that I didn't have my phone with me. I wanted to relax and "unplug" so I left my phone at home.
June 23, 2023 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Lamy, NM
It was a clear night sky. There was a line of maybe 10-15 lights that looked like stars (not Starlink I looked it up) but I’ve looked at the night sky long enough to know they weren’t. They were stationary but tilted at an angle. We kept trying to figure out what it was then all the lights slowly started moving East (still tilted up at and angle) It was like they were lights on an object and it did have a distinct saucer shape vibe. It moved for a few seconds then the lights just disappeared.
June 21, 2023 · 10:55 PM · OTHER
CA
Gear night vision camera pointing NE. This is not starlink. Starlink train has a structured orbit in all formats even when de-orbiting in burnout.
June 20, 2023 · 11:09 AM · OTHER
Boca Raton, FL
Driving east toward n dixie I saw an almost stationary large gray windowless plane with no visible engines or propellers almost stationary and low altitude. I photographed it on my iPhone through my car window but in the photo the plane is missing. I tried a second time and the second photo also captures the sky where I saw the plane but it is not visible. I lost sight of the plane while passing a building and then it was gone. I consider myself a skeptic. But I saw an object that I cannot explain.
June 10, 2023 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Elgin. (Rural), OK
The craft traveled South to north and had just passed over Ft Sill restricted airspace. It resembled what I would expect a futuristic spycraft to look, very long and dart shaped. But it made no sound and had no lights on. I pulled up my flight radar app and it wasnt showing up.
June 9, 2023 · 1:00 PM · OTHER
Bridgeton, MO
Parked my work truck near a truck mechanic shop I frequent to take my lunch. while on break, I was watching Boeing test fly 2 F/A-18s in a race track pattern to the East. 15 minutes into my break a pill shaped object shot down from above the circling jets. It was very shiny, the sun was reflecting off of it very intensly. It was suspended in the air for about a minute until it started to move a short distance from side to side very rapidly. By then I had gotten the attention of 3 mechanics I knew to ask if they saw what I did, which they did. They pulled out their phones and tried taking video but could only get still-photos of it. After another minute or so it stopped and remained completely still. The mechanics called over another 2 people to ask what they thought it was. The 2 jet fighters stopped making a race track pattern and came around together low and fast from the south towards the object. Before the jets made it to about 500 meters away from , the object shot like a bullet to the west parallel to the ground. It moved so quick that it would have looked like it just disappeared if we had not been watching it.
June 7, 2023 · 8:20 PM · OTHER
Baker ?, CA
I was traveling to Henderson Nevada with my daughter-in-law granddaughter and daughter while driving on the freeway. My daughter-in-law took a quick second look and said oh my god what is that? She asked my granddaughter do you see it? My granddaughter said yes what is that and my daughter as well saw it, they said it was black dark black shaped almost like a hook or a boot somewhere around on top just hovering like floating in the desert. I was traveling on the highway so I couldn’t take my eyes off the wheel, but all three of the girls saw it , we unfortunately did not get a photo. Has anyone else reported this ,what is it? It wasn’t anything that we would’ve seen here It was dark black. Round top slim neck then a little wider down and with a hook out. They described it as looking like a boot. In the middle of nowhere in the desert, with no town, we were already well beyond the airbase that I am aware of as we were headed towards the Las Vegas area, but we were still in the California side. I had my daughter draw a picture of what they saw, and my granddaughter and my daughter-in-law, and they all come up with the shape that’s kind of rounded on top comes down and almost looks like a boot or a hook, but solid black.
June 6, 2023 · 8:26 PM · OTHER
napier, HAWKE · New Zealand
A tall white being followed me as i exited my car to enter my house. I was ultimately frightened as I saw a tall white approaching to follow me, then it vanished in thin air, also had sighted a ship days leading up to this event.
June 2, 2023 · 4:00 PM · OTHER
East Atlantic Beach, NY
This was hovering over the Atlantic Ocean off East Atlantic Beach, NY. It remained in one location for approx 30 minutes, then slowly moved West along the coastline. Lost sight of it.
June 1, 2023 · 2:30 AM · OTHER
Winter Park, FL
Matthew here in Orlando Florida with a bit of a grammar revision to my report of interference with a Commercial Airliner over Winter Park Florida that includes some information I mixed up as far as words that mainly specifies that the aircraft appeared to almost fall into a wormhole. That is all and thanks for your hard work and all you do to raise awareness about/address the phenomena... I was on my way home from an outing in Downtown Orlando crossing town and I noticed a Commercial on approach to O.I.A. from the north over Winter Park. It started falling like it reached stall speed or lost headwind and began to fall pretty much right into the sink hole lake at Martin Luther King Jr. Park behind Austin Coffee and Film, a coffee shop I used to frequent, almost like it fell into a wormhole. Last I saw it seemed to be slowing down and my maybe "falling in", i.e. into said wormhole, before it hit the water/park then I go blank and black out and head over to help/investigate instead of immediately pulling over to call 911 like I intended to do and just did, delayed, 7 years late after I snapped out of it about a half hour ago. Furthermore, after I got to the scene and noted no crash I again go blank or it all goes kinda black and I just drive home forgetting to call anyone about it or even blog about the sighting, as I used to do whenever I witnessed such U.A.P./events, before I was given the National U.F.O. Reporting Center number/website, until roughly 7 years later. Other than this I can remember it was warm out at night possibly in the summer in roughly 2016. That is all I can remember on this one and I report it as soon as possible in hopes that it will help ensure the safety of the general public/airline passengers.
June 1, 2023 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Spokane, WA
3 sightings. All same location. 2 looked like flashes of light like a meteor, 2nd was a large hovering craft with red lights on the corners that did not flash. It hovered and then vanished. Too big to be a helicopter. Planes do not hover. The 2nd sighting of what seemed to be a meteor but exact same spot, I was not alone and my friend saw it too.
May 31, 2023 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Panama City Beach, FL
At 11:30 pm I heard a loud jet noise, ran outside and looked up to see a V shaped craft zoom over my house with a jet chasing close behind. The jet had a white and black bottom. Later I saw a TV show with an F-16 JET . SAME jet that I saw on 5/31/2023!
May 27, 2023 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Elgin, IL
I was sitting on my patio around 8:30 pm facing west, twilight. A large circle of very bright light passed over my house. If you hold your thumbs and index fingers together and make a circle and hold them up, that was about the size, pretty large. It was moving east to west fairly fast. The house behind me have some large trees. It only took about 3 seconds from when I saw it until it went behind the trees. I ran to the back of the yard to try and see through the trees and beyond. It was gone. This was a round circle of very bright light. It wasn't fire, but did seem to be high energy. This circle of light / energy did not emit light and there was no sound from it. I live about 20 miles from O'Hare airport. we have planes that circle Elgin and start there decent to land. The altitude of this wasn't treetop, but I believe well below the altitude of planes we see which will land at the airport. Again, this only lasted about three seconds, but was incredible. My wife told me not to tell anyone, but I can't forget this. I'd like to know if there was anyone else had seen this and reported it to anyone. I'd like to stay anonymous other if someone would want to contact me.
May 26, 2023 · 9:20 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalHueytown, AL
Around 9:15-9:20 my kids were outside stargazing. I came out to check, at that exact moment I heard them say “what is that?” I looked up and there were about 10 or more star sized lights in a straight line headed maybe southeast. I ran inside to get my wife,came back out and they were still there. I looked at my wife as she laughed not believing us or looking up, a plane came by from maybe the northwest area and then the “lights” disappeared. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]