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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.
9,112 entries
May 25, 2023 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Long Point, ON · Canada
While camping I was having a fire at my sight, my head started to feel loose if that makes any sense, the weather was not severe but there was a lot of wind/insects/waves crashing but not overly loud. I had an odd feeling that something was about to happen, then everything went silent! The wind stopped, and it felt like I had gone deaf for a short bit. I looked up to see if there was a severe weather event about to break due to the pressure change and when I looked I saw a large object passing that was bending light around it, almost like it was see through but with rounded edges. The sky was clear and the deafness in my ears stopped as soon as it was gone. All sounds/wind/insects came back very quickly afterwards in almost a split second it felt like. I have 0 idea what I saw or thought I saw, but the sudden stop of everything left me feeling uncomfortable and had a hard time sleeping due to the intense pressure in my ears and lightness of my head, in terms of lightness I mean I felt no weight of my head on my neck for almost half the night.
May 22, 2023 · 9:59 PM · OTHER
Buffalo, NY
I witnessed 2 flying objects traveling at unbelievable speeds, in formation for about 10 seconds before I pulled my camera out to snap only one picture before they disappeared in an instant . Unbelievable, and now I’m definitely a believer now that I witnessed first hand something I can’t explain , even with all the knowledge I’ve learned in 42 years I still look at this picture just in amazement and what makes it even better is that’s the North Star and Jupiter in the picture when it was snapped.
May 21, 2023 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Palmdale, CA
We saw an object in the sky that was moving around so we started taking pictures. Then a second object came into view. Then I took some video and when I went through the video very slowly I noticed 3 more similar objects in the background. The objects changed color from white to pink to green. In the clearest photo the object appears to be square with a ring of lights around it and a smaller grayish rectangular object next to it. The second object also has a smaller rectangular object next to it.
May 20, 2023 · 8:50 PM · OTHER
Becket, MA
This thing just appeared and took up most of the sky.. it looked just like a picture of a satellite except the fact that it was super high and had to be atleaset 40 full size commercial jets long. idrc if you believe me or not this thing was silent and miles long and then just disappeared. No noise at all. Just a report, I hope someone else saw it besides us. Nothing is as big as this can be in the sky
May 19, 2023 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Plainfield, IN
I noticed an object in the sky . We live near the airport but this wasn’t a plane. It was stationary then moved to the side. This was the best of the two pics. I went in and called my wife to the front door . I showed her the pictures. We went back out and it was gone. The whole event took less than two minutes. I didn’t know what to make of it. I sent the picture to my brother. After he examined it for a minute he advised me to report it. I was afraid to be wrong about it and thought there must be some explanation . I have decided to report it because the image quality is very good. This picture was taken October 12 2021 at 9:00 pm. The bright light in the pic was a star. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Possible]
May 17, 2023 · 3:30 PM · OTHER
Santa Barbara, CA
Square shape with orbs on corners. Flat in another dimension - exposed by wobble. Continued north until no longer visible. Aircraft, possibly an airline, traveling east, recorded in video. The video was too large to attach. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
May 14, 2023 · 10:09 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalMt Royal, NJ
Saw some unusual lights coming at me and took out my camera to take pictures of the unusual object. I was able to get 3 pictures and it vanished! After looking at the first picture closely I notice a flat craft of some sort that moved to a horizontal position and vanished? [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 13, 2023 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Probable conventionalHouston, TX
It is getting lower and going in circles, left, right, it left on or around about 1:16am and started on or around 12:51am, Saturday, May 13 of 2023. It comes to this location very often. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
May 12, 2023 · 11:01 AM · OTHER
Buffalo, NY
While sitting outside an object popped up out of absolutely no where as we were both looking in the same direction. It traveled faster than anything we’ve ever seen before. But slow; like it was driving. Like it had a destination. I can’t even describe it. For about 40-60 seconds. It was extremely bright. Bright red. Reflection almost made it seem circular with an orb like shape, but focused, or screenshot, it’s oblong with black shapes at the top & or bottom it seems, one photo from my fiancés phone has a black dot in the middle…. I have a 31 second video, I stopped by accident , pressed second again - which I’m positive of - and recorded traveling just a bit more and it disappeared out of no where, I freaked out with excitement and stopped recording and went to go back to watch and it was no where to be found. I’ve tried uploading videos to other sites and I can’t get them to upload. I left a voicemail on your site and I really hope to share these with you. Someone needs to see these..
May 9, 2023 · 1:45 AM · OTHER
Chatham, ON · Canada
I saw the red cloud from my living room at first then went to my balcony to video what I was seeing. The light from the cloud would grow dim then brighten as it appeared to have some sort of rotation or movement occurring within the cloud. Two videos were taken - 1st one just over 2 minutes long and the 2nd video approximately 1 minute, 43 seconds in length. I paused one of the videos and took a screenshot to have a still photo of the cloud. I enhanced the photo to see of a definitive object would appear. The cloud was in the north sky above the city lights and tree lines. I watched it for approximately 20 minutes before it darkened, then disappeared completely. I sent short versions of the videos to Jason Wilde, a MUFON investigator as well as the enhanced photo. He stated he had never seen anything like that before and termed it bizarre. He contacted local officials who verified there were no fires in the area at that time. Chatham-Kent does not have the pink grow lights for agriculture and there were none in the area. Videos and photo were sent to local news agencies, but there has been no feedback from them. I live on the top floor and have a great view of the sky at night from the NW to the NE half of Chatham. No one else has revealed if they saw the cloud as well after the property manager posted the videos and photo on the complex Facebook page. There were no aircraft (planes, helicopters) in the area at the time of the sighting. It is still a mystery, and I would like to know what it could possibly have been. This is an addendum to the original report for May 9, 2023. I just saw where NUFORC classified the red cloud as light from the Canadian wildfires burning a great distance north and west of Chatham, ON. MUFON confirmed with local officials there were no fires in the area at the time of the sighting. I would appreciate the conclusion NUFORC has entered being amended to reflect this fact. There were no wildfires, barn fires, structure fires or any nature of fires at that hour of the morning. The cloud appeared in the direction of the north, as my apartment faces North. The next town north of Chatham of any consequence, is a small community named Wallaceburg, ON. Wildfires have not been visible from Chatham-Kent. We have had air quality alerts because of the fires in western Canada. Chatham-Kent is only about 75 kms. or 50 + miles from Detroit, Michigan. We are in the southern most part of Ontario and situated between Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair starting in June. There was definite rotation/movement within the cloud itself as the brief videos show, growing brighter then dimming as the movements occurred. Thank you for you interest.
May 8, 2023 · 11:30 PM · OTHER
Thrissur, KERALA · India
I saw a V shaped object, which was moving slowly towards the west, it was dark at night and I was confused, I looked at it for a little about 15 seconds, and then it just disappeared, as if the lights turned off, there were no gaps in between the v shape, it was a continuous v shaped light, I searched a little and I found another sighting that looks similar
May 7, 2023 · 1:42 AM · OTHER
McKinney, TX
It’s very clear on video from the shop cameras and saved on the shop camera digitally, as well as on my phone.
May 6, 2023 · 10:10 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalWest Seneca, NY
On the night of May 6th, 2023, I was walking my dog some time shortly after 10 p.m., when I happened to look up through the budding branches of a tree in front of my neighbor’s house, and noticed that the stars in the sky seemed to be moving. I thought my head was spinning or something, so I pulled the dog over and away from the tree to get a better look, and I clearly saw the following: there were little lights that looked like stars fading into view, before traveling directly straight upward and fading out again. Three to four of them would be visible at a time; as the one on top was disappearing, a new one would be reappearing at the bottom. I estimate that I was looking into the sky at a 40 degree angle from the ground, and this lasted from about 30 seconds to a minute, before everything suddenly faded out before my eyes. Their movement was perfectly vertical and perfectly regular (same speed and same distance apart). Everything appeared and disappeared in the middle of the sky at the same level; there were no clouds to obscure my view if they might’ve been traveling up from the horizon, and I could clearly see many other stars around. Further up northward, I could clearly see Venus, still visible in the sky, which was extremely bright, and looking a ways to my left, further south, there was another star which was at a similar level to my eyes as Venus. The lights I saw appearing and disappearing occurred somewhat close to the right of that other star I just described (sorry, but I do not know which star that was), and I believe this would have been occurring directly out over Lake Erie, although I have no idea how close or far away they were other than to say that they seemed to me to be at a great distance (due to their consistent visible likeness with stars). But that is a guess. I have tried to make sense of this in my mind, but in all my years of looking up at the sky, I have never seen anything resembling this, nor can I rationalize what normal phenomena it could have been. It was as if many spacecraft had lined up to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and were following each other in a perfect rhythm, traveling horizontally (fading in at the bottom) and then vertically before leaving. The other way I could describe it was as if there was a giant, narrow ferris wheel or disc turned vertically up and down in the sky, with lights on its edge, which was turning, causing the lights to appear and disappear; the lights disappearing on top had reached the summit of the wheel, faded out and disappeared behind the wheel, and reappeared at the bottom. This would explain the machine-like regularity of the movement, but I SAW NO OBJECT. I only saw lights. I must emphasize that these are only my best ways of describing what I saw; not claims as to what it actually was. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 4, 2023 · 9:15 PM · OTHER
Probable conventionalMellieha, Mellieħa, Malta
This object appeared quite high in the sky there are always aircraft flying in the night sky (non at the time of the sighting) coming into Malta Airport the object was a lot higher than local air traffic It was its length that caught our eye and the fact it was at least 4-5 times the length of any aircraft flying at that height its speed was that of an aircraft Not fast but again not slow and flying in a different direction to local aircraft traffic a local witness told us the direction it was travelling Malta towards Sicily As it was dark the shape of the object couldn't be identified it was like a worm with white lights. The lights were the same size and distance apart without noise or any other flashing lights or power source as it went into the distance the lights slowly disappeared merged to one as it disappeared into the night sky [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
May 4, 2023 · 9:15 PM · OTHER
Easton, MD
I witnessed up to 8 bright lights in a single row that simultaneously moved across the sky for approximately 6 to 8 seconds and Headed North then look to appear to jet off into the net night sky
May 4, 2023 · 8:12 PM · OTHER
Panama, NE
Astronomy is a hobby of mine. At 8:12pm my wife texted and said my son wanted to know what planet was northeast. I knew there shouldn’t be one at that time so I came out and saw a light that was comparable to the size and luminosity of Venus, but nowhere near the location of Venus and much too early to be seeing any other astronomical body. I opened my astronomy app and nothing should have been there. I laid down with it right on the corner of a building for 30-60 sec and I did not see movement. I got out my telescope and saw that it was a very bright ring with 10-12 impossibly bright lights around the outside. It appeared to be hollow. I called my brother in Lincoln and he could see it from where he was as well but in a much different direction. We shot some azimuths and using trig we estimated it was roughly above Palmyra and about 11.5 miles up. I started to notice that it was in fact moving imperceptibly slowly south and maybe slightly west. I followed it for at least 30 min. As the sun went down the stars got brighter and it slowly faded. As it got darker I could see a distinct blinking light in the center that pulses at roughly 1bps, but all of the other individual lights I had seen had disappeared. I wish I had some better pictures but none of my astrophography stuff was charged or accessible. These are both from my iPhone 14. One is at peak brightness prior to using my telescope, and the other was towards the end through my eyepiece as it was getting dark and fading. It looks like a star out of focus in a telescope, but I assure you it was focused. The ghosting was due to a long exposure in low light. Despite the appearance of a ring with lights around the outer bottom, we believe that the way it just drifted and definitely had a blinking light and based on its rough altitude that it was probably a spy balloon or something.
April 30, 2023 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
IdentifiedHypoluxo, FL
Last night at 8:30, as the sun was going down, a large, bowl-like shape appeared over our hedge, traveling east at about the speed of a plane. It seemed to be surrounded by fog even thought the sky was clear that night. Behind the light-colored "bowl" trailed a wide, white plume that varied in width - not a straight, thin line like a meteor and not symmetrical. As the bowl got harder to see in the distance, the white plume remained in the sky quite a bit longer. SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
April 27, 2023 · 10:37 PM · OTHER
Franz Josef · New Zealand
I was taking 10s exposure photos of the Milky Way whilst visiting New Zealand and weeks after I noticed some strange light traces in the photo. I thought possibly the camera had moved causing the streaks of light but none of the stars are streaky which led me to believe these traces I see are anomalies.
April 21, 2023 · 2:20 PM · OTHER
Stanley, NM
Driving north on highway 285, a reflection of sunlight caught my eye, except it was coming from the north instead of the direction of the sun. I looked up and saw a very unfamiliar sight. The reflection was coming from what sort of looked like a flock of birds similar to how starlings could move (fluid but creating beautiful patterns while flying roughly in the same area). So I first thought they must be some sort of bird flock that looks very white and could possibly reflect sunlight, but I’m not sure of any birds that fit that description and this was very high in the sky. I continued to watch it move around and continued on. Two other things to note, cell service dropped off right before I saw the thing and there were other cars there, just traveling south. When I looked back in my mirror, I could not see the thing anymore. The observer is a college graduate with no history of observing anything like this and is aware of how crazy this sounds. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
April 20, 2023 · 2:00 PM · OTHER
Ware, MA
3 adults, 1 child witnessed a UFO one afternoon while driving home after running errands. An adult in the backseat first noticed this & brought it to driver/passenger's attention. Driver pulled the vehicle over in a safe spot to better view the unknown object. This was certainly not an airplane, or other familiar aircraft. Shaped like a cigar, it was white in color, made no noise at all, had no jetstream, and we attempted to get photos & video, which came out poorly, due to inexpensive cellphones & object being a great distance away. We were able to watch this for awhile before it seemingly faded away, disappeared then reappeared in a different part of the sky. It was very bizarre. This happened not far from Janine's in Ware, MA.
April 19, 2023 · 8:40 PM · OTHER
Wayzata, MN
Standing on deck watching the storm, the outdoor parking lot lamp posts flickered and went out. Then heard a giant object above gliding in the sky, looked up and couldn’t see it but could hear how big it was and the sound was like woooooosh wooooooosh woooooosh and then finally passed and the lights went back on.
April 14, 2023 · 1:10 PM · OTHER
Pensacola, FL
Walking home from my friends house, 5 triangle shaped, flying in a v, no sound, then a direct 90° from where I was standing and headed towards Pensacola NAS, and at that moment there were many color lights, moving in multiple ways then completely disappeared, ive had to actually take 24 hours to adjust to what I saw, ive not seen any reports on this, but military did have a couple jets leave from here at that moment I saw what I saw, I'm well aware of the activity here this is my second sighting, 1st was on 4 of July 2017 Menasha Wisconsin, 3 orange triangle shaped, in a triangle hovered for a good 6 minutes.
April 10, 2023 · 9:14 PM · OTHER
St. Louis, MO
Multi color lights alternately appearing , disappearing in the sky above the treeline much like a drone array only no structure seen and much larger in width than a common drone. When I went to the window to get a closer look I heard a loud powerful propulsion lasting a couple seconds then no more to report. During the time I saw lights there was no sound just silence. After the propulsion noise no more sighting.
April 9, 2023 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Wooster, OH
Night sky, green red and blue flashing light on a spinning cone shaped disc , it hovered in the sky for minutes, it looked like a spinning disc with robotic arms and the ball in the middle