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October 13, 2023 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE
Fort Worth, TX
Bright fixed, white light with gradient of same color coming from center. Brighter than star, believed it to be Jupiter/Mars. After 2 minutes, began traversing slowely from 1 o’ clock orientation of the highway to the other side in sight of all the vehicles driving home westbound on I30. As light was traversing, encircling gradient of light become more diffuse and larger in diameter, and brightness of middle waxed and waned, like a revolving light, but aura maintained intensity. Lastly, a slightly visible cone-like projection of light was passed from the object, shaped like that of the cone that comes off an aircraft when breaking the sound barrier, but moved ahead of the craft with increasing distance. The middle of the objects focal light then dimmed with the aura/gradient of light remaining, followed by the aura fading from the sky. No trace of what was seen remained in the sky. Never have I seen such a thing as this, but don’t believe it to be a helicopter or airplane due to the quirks of the focal light changing in relation to the gradient of light and the pace of movement in relation to the intensity of the light, most notable the visual cone of light/air/material emitted from the object in the same orientation as the object, moving at a greater speed than the object, and dimming away from visibility. Many, many witnesses on I30 westbound to Fort Worth between exits to Fielder Rd and Cooks Rd at 1935 (7:35 PM); drivers on the highway traveling home. Airplane in the sky at 10 o’ clock during event with flashing red light, highly notable as an aircraft, distinctly familiar and very different in quality to the object of light seen. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
October 13, 2023 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedEureka Springs, AR
Walking to the car, my mother and I both noticed a very bright light flying from west to east to the south of us. It was low in the sky and seemed maybe only a mile or two away. At first we thought it might be a helicopter, but we realized quickly it was a solid light with no blinking signal lights and no apparent shape other than the orb of light. As it flew, it emitted what looked like a plume of light/fog/smoke into the direction it flew, and then the single light seemed to break into two. For a minute or so our view of it was partially obscured by a large tree (unfortunately this is where I stopped filming). We watched it emerge from the other side of the tree, then it suddenly disappeared. A murky cloud seemed to be left in its place, which continued moving at the same pace and trajectory, but shortly thereafter the cloud disappeared too. It was a perfectly clear night, we saw plenty of stars and not a single cloud in the sky. We heard no sound from the orb. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
October 13, 2023 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedDallas, TX
There was lighted orb in the sky, it emitted a circle of energy that went out horizontally from the center of the orb. We took out our phone and took a picture and a video. Video was started after it had emitted the energy. It then went way out into the distance looking like a star Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
October 13, 2023 · 7:32 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedAustin, TX
Orb light with haze around it Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
October 13, 2023 · 7:03 PM · SPHERE
Green Valley, AZ
My wife and I observed a brightly glowing orb 1-3 feet in diameter moving slowly (30 mph) from east to west about a hundred feet off the ground at 7:04 PM. Immediately after passing overhead it suddenly disappeared, seemingly jetting into infinity without making a sound. Streetlights and night lights are restricted in our area due a nearby telescope on Mt. Hopkins making night viewing optimal. We are accustomed to watching for aircraft in the night sky on a regular basis and frequently use the "Flightradar" app on my iPhone to identify aircraft and helicopters in our region. At first glance we thought it was a drone, but a complete lack of noise and the round, brightly-glowing orb shape with undefined edges were unfamiliar. The floresent 'glow' it gave off was as bright as burning posphorous, much brighter than a floodlight or car headlight. It was difficult to determine the exact height above the ground because we were uncertain about the diameter of the sphere. We are accustomed to viewing, satellites, planets, meteorites, aircraft of all types. Most of our lives we have lived in the presence of coyotes. Just before the orb appeared, we heard the loudest outburst of multiple coyotes howling ever experienced.
October 13, 2023 · 4:22 AM · SPHERE
Medical Lake, WA
Orange light towards the east. Floating and then moving towards the south out of site due to trees
October 13, 2023 · 2:15 AM · SPHERE
Everett, WA
I’m a nightshift worker who gets home around 2:00 AM each night except Sundays. My routine is to walk my dog before going to bed. On October 13, 2023 at 2:15 AM, I noticed three “orbs” overhead traveling in a “loose formation” meaning that they weren’t in the tight triangle formation that one would see jets fly in. These three “orbs” weren’t as bright as the background stars which they were flying by. The background stars in question would be the stars that make up the constellation of Orion the Hunter. These three “orbs” were moving rapidly, but certainly not as fast as meteors. They came from the NW (300 degrees) and flew towards the SE (117 degrees). What was particularly odd was the way that they flew…it was very “loose” as well. They didn’t fly in a direct line like jets or meteors for that matter. They flew in a manner that reminded me of downhill skiers as they ski back and forth (slalom skiing) as they go downhill. This odd way of flying, very “loose” formation and very “sloppy” flying with regard to linear movement (non-uniform linear motion) was what struck me the most as being unusual…moreso than their dimness and their silence. The sighting lasted about 5 or 6 seconds. It was brief, but longer than typical meteor streaks. I’ve seen bolides go high above crossing the sky in long straight lines that took 5-6 seconds to go across the sky, but they were always singular and of course, much brighter than these three dim orbs. Perhaps others in the surrounding neighborhoods North of Seattle might’ve seen these three “sloppy flyers” as well. I’ll upload two photos. The one photo with the red arrow denotes the line of travel past the constellation of Orion the Hunter. The buildings in the foreground are simply other townhouses here at this complex. The photo of the compass (screen grab) is showing the direction of 117 degrees SE in which these three orbs were going. They came from the opposite direction which would be 300 degrees NW.
October 12, 2023 · 9:48 PM · SPHERE
Port Arthur, TX
Me and the wife watched a glowing sphere flying 3 times faster than the normal airplanes and jets I see every night but with no sound . But one single orange yellow glow .but much bigger than a plane light. Solid glowing light .it took 30 seconds or less to go from one end of the sky to other with no sound . If I had to guess 1000 ft to 2000ft above ground with no sound... Awesome feeling...this is the 2nd encounter in Port Arthur. The first one being much lower
October 12, 2023 · 8:55 PM · SPHERE
Cancun, QUINTANA · Mexico
Hello Me and my wife went on vacation to Cancun and we were sitting in our balcony with ocean view saw a light in distance. Took the video and at first it was sitting at one place with yellow and orange globe. At one point it went to small and got bigger again. Later it started moving with blinking light.
October 12, 2023 · 2:29 AM · SPHERE
Finger, TN
I was driving home and saw bright flashing light in the sky to the west.It moved very fast in erratic ways.I videoed it for 19 minutes.At one point there was another object that approached it stopped directly beside it then moved away.It had red lights and wasn’t picked up by my camera.If you know what this was I would love to know.
October 11, 2023 · 2:15 PM · SPHERE
Baltimore, MD
I was at work, up on a extension ladder, assisting a co-worker, who was up on a steep roof painting a dormer. My job was just serve as a “weight” so he would not fall. At some point, I saw an object flying at high velocity, flying toward the northeast part of town. I told my co-worker about it, but he could not turn around on time, plus he thought I was messing with him. Then, I stopped seeing the object, mainly because my sight started seeing “dots” in sky! The one thing I am sure I saw, was an object flying very fast. It wasn’t a plane (it was too fast), I wasn’t a paper. It did look like that TicTac ufo that was reported by the Navy video that I saw on TV. Everything lasted less than 20 seconds.
October 10, 2023 · 11:48 PM · SPHERE
Fredericksburg, VA
I was able to take a video for 11 minutes. It seemed to stop after reaching a high altitude.
October 10, 2023 · 11:15 PM · SPHERE
South Dennis, MA
This glowing, flashing, slow moving red orb looked to be close to the beach area. It moved slowly, from east to west. Very slowly. It took a full 3 min for it to go across my line of vision until it disappeared behind the trees heading west. No sound.
October 10, 2023 · 10:32 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalBrandywine, MD
I first took a pic, but then noticed that it was moving around. Please, someone let us know what is going on! This is the 3rd time we’ve seen these entities. Please ignore the lights in the lower right corner(they’re neighbor’s lights). The pic was taken near our pool (the fence is shown). [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
October 10, 2023 · 6:20 PM · SPHERE
South Amherst, OH
Pretty much just what was stated above. The object was seen while walking the dog and a small bright light was stationary in the sky visible at the top of our treeline and appeared to be a distance away. The object stayed stationary for 3-5 mins and suddenly darted away very fast similarly to an object being yanked by a string. Was very odd and different from any aircraft that has been seen above our property. We get lots of planes and drones and such but never seen anything like this
October 10, 2023 · 2:52 AM · SPHERE
Port Orchard, WA
I was driving to work at 2:52 AM when I noticed a bright green orb floating in the air. My dash cam also picked up the footage.
October 9, 2023 · 8:53 PM · SPHERE
New Braunfels, WI
On the evening of October 9th at about 8:52 PM I was walking across the tennis courts to my room when I noticed a bright reddish orb silently approaching from the east horizon. At first I thought it was a plane but it didn’t seem quite right so I took out my iPhone 13 and began recording as the orb crossed over head towards the south west horizon below the cloud cover of night. At some point in the video I zoom in. It took about two minutes for the object to cross the entire east to SW horizons before it was completely gone and out of sight. The flight pattern did not appear to be entirely straight either. At times it appeared as if the object took a “C” or “S” pattern as it traveled across the sky. I noticed this before I started filming and it shows a little bit of its pattern in the recording as well. I filmed for about 1 1/2 minutes before setting the phone down to watch the orb disappear in the SW horizon. If this is a UFO sighting it would be my first. I am 39 years old. As I watched the orb silently cross the sky, I was filled with curiosity for what it is.
October 8, 2023 · 7:40 PM · SPHERE
Guntersville, AL
I live on a small farm. We are always outside looking at the stars, as we are able to see constellations easily with it being so dark and far from city lights. On October 8, 2023, my family (husband, mother in law and son) and I were in the front yard just stargazing. What looked like a star was moving extremely fast while the others were still. I kept my eyes on it because I thought it was a shooting star. When it didn’t stop moving, I realized this was no shooting star. It wasn’t a plane, there were several of those out as well, all which had blinking lights. This had no blinking lights, and I watched it move SEVERAL miles in probably less than 10 seconds. Then it started moving in circles, very big circles, then it moved up, down did zigzags and this was all within just a few seconds. I sent my husband in the house to get a flashlight. As he was shining the flashlight toward the area we were seeing this at, the light reflected off a shiny “orb”. I had my phone out videoing the whole thing. We never could find it again. Later that night, I spent HOURS watching this video. Slowing it down, changing the saturation. What I found was much more interesting than what I had originally seen. After further observation, I noticed SEVERAL (7-8?) differently shaped objects flying in the direction of the shiny thing we had originally seen. I took screenshots of the video and was amazed at what I was seeing. I also see on the video an “object” that is shaped like an old “spinning top” toy, and after zooming and changing the saturation, I could also see 4 red lights on this one. The next night 10/9/23, I was curious to see if I could catch something 2 nights in a row. I saw 4 orb objects. One was moving in a straight line, it didn’t do anything interesting. My husband told me to look directly above us, where we saw 2 orb objects almost playing in the sky. They were headed right for each other. The last one I saw, I noticed a plane flying toward it but below it. When the plane was almost directly underneath it, it shot up hundreds of feet and then once the plane passed it moved back down. I also got this on video but it will only allow me to enter 4 photos/videos. I have many many more that I will gladly share if someone contacts me! The video that is included in this post is slowed down. You will first see the shiny object in the upper left reflecting off the flashlight. The last 20ish seconds of the video you will see several objects moving from right to left from the upper right and middle of video
October 8, 2023 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Ridgefield (fairgrounds area), WA
I live in a rural area where I have lived for over 38 yrs. A territorial view home, an unincumbered view from south to North as well as everything between. This night in question at the time presented above I was outside taking my little dog for his outside tinky-winky before to bed him. I do this to just monitor him from predators (coyotes) and such. With my view I always look to the sky because I can see all the traffic coming and going from PDX. Depending on the weather the flight paths that deferrer from how they take off and land in conjunction to the weather patterns here. I know all the flight paths from planes coming and going depending on offshore flow and of course the Columbia gorge. This particular incident night was calm with high clouds. When I was outside I was immediately drawn to a commercial flight, flying due north bypassing Pdx with all navigation lights visible .Descending at from 25k-30,00 ft. Most likely on a decent to land at SeaTac. When I first noticed the plane, I also noticed this orb flying ahead in parallel, mile or two apart with the orb at an elevation 10k above the commercial flight. The commercial flight by passed the orb. Flying in total parallel, but at different elevations. I brought my witness to see this as we watched the commercial flight overtake and pass this orb at different speeds as the orb at 400- 450 mph and the commercial flight at 550-600 There is no way the pilots could not see what I witnessed. Check flight logs and whatever you do, this is legit!
October 8, 2023 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Wichita, KS
It was dusk, just around 6pm on Saturday, October 8th in Wichita, KS. I was sitting on my back patio on a beautiful early evening. Our backyard has some trees on the perimeter but is mostly clear so that the sun can shine on the pool. Out of nowhere, I noticed at our treeline, which isn't extremely high, 15-20 clear, metallic orbs that were descending lower together. The formation were lines of 3 and 4, coming down together, like Space Invaders(pardon the pun). They were not in one long chain, so this was no Starlink. I couldn't believe that I actually had time to count them or that I was seeing so many at one time. There was absolutely no sound, so this was not a drone. They were self propelled and not swaying with any wind changes, so not a balloon either. They hung there for about 5 seconds and I got the feeling that they were checking me out? Then they all started pulsating light together, nothing that hurt me and no sound with the lights. They then moved up together and disappeared. There was no trail to follow, they simply vanished. I took a video, but it is very short and difficult to view. By the time I realized that these could be UFO's the event was partially over and I was very nervous so the filming is jumpy. The video is below. You have to enlarge the video with your fingers and then move around to view the objects. At 3 seconds if you stop, enlarge and move around you will see several of them.
October 8, 2023 · 5:30 AM · SPHERE
Miramar Beach, FL, 0
I was staring out my 7th floor balcony window overlooking trees and the Choctawhatchee Bay at about 5:30 am in the morning. The sun was just starting to rise and then out of the blue, 2 orbs appeared to my right and hovered near and above my neighbor's balcony. It was almost as if someone turned on a light switch and they were suddenly visible. Oddly, too, I felt like they turned on just for me to see it. I was awestruck and couldn't believe it was actually happening! The whole thing lasted maybe about 6 - 7 seconds and then they floated higher and out of my view. As for size and color... for the size, if an adult were to take their 2 middle fingers and touch the tips together and then raise their arms and hands above their head, it would create a round/oval. Expand the circumference of that oval just a few more inches out and I would say that was the size. It kind of reminded me of a large round softbox used for a camera shoot. As for the color, it was a beautiful brilliant white, opaque and ethereal looking. The ends of the oval were blurry/feathery. There was no sound and they were both relatively similar in size. I was not afraid and I found the whole thing very beautiful… I do not have any pictures.
October 7, 2023 · 5:12 PM · SPHERE
Denver, CO
My husband and I saw a white orb float across the sky at a steady pace and pretty fast for how far away I the sky it was. The orb disappeared in the southern sky, but about 5 minutes later we noticed multiple orbs floating in irregular patterns while lighting up and then disappearing. We observed this for about 10 minutes before we lost sight of them. I attempted to catch these on my iPhone camera and after darkening the shadow and increasing highlights, I realized I caught a couple of these on video. At around 1:13-1:22 in the video you can see two objects light up.
October 7, 2023 · 6:00 AM · SPHERE
Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4XiTRkg9s8 UFO in this video is clearly visible in the media released video hovering over HAMAS attack on Israeli village. Above power lines, 2:00/2:30 position. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
October 5, 2023 · 5:35 PM · SPHERE
Lawrence, MA
I observed a bright silver orb at a very high altitude for about 30 seconds due north from Massachusetts towards the NH border. I checked flight radar 24 and saw no aircraft in the vicinity except a small commuter private plane at 7,000 feet. This object eventually went behind a bank of clouds and disappeared.