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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.
8,980 entries
July 28, 2023 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Olathe, KS
Contrail looking object was moving west to east in north sky it never dissipated and was about 1/8 mile long. It was pacing the speed of the satellite and moved east out of sight in about 20 seconds it was white or light gray. I've never seen a contrail actually stay formed and also move. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Possible]
July 26, 2023 · 8:21 PM · UNKNOWN
Charlotte, NC
Close up shows What appears to be three exhaust pipes. No flights on Flightradar24.
July 25, 2023 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Yardley, PA
There are alien bird noises played by an alien speaker in our backyard. When we go outside to check if there are birds, there are none. It is also 90 degrees outside and the noises are heard at 5:00pm. I repeat there are no birds outside and these noises are coming from a kind alien who planted a speaker in our backyard. If you send some troops over I can show them the noises. The noises are electronic in sound and definitely not real birds. The speaker appears to be micro as I cannot find it, I need specialized equipment and a ladder to find it (it seems to be planted on our roof). The noises are included in the zip folder attached, and I repeat they are repetitive and electronic. [NUFORC annotation: Hoax - Possible]
July 19, 2023 · 10:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalMancos, CO
Around 10:15 PM I saw this light in the sky. It was something traveling slowly from north to south (right to left in photo). It had a wide wide beam of light behind it (pointing north). The trail of light stayed in the sky for a few minutes after the object was gone. SpaceX launch from Vandenberg [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
July 19, 2023 · 9:39 PM · UNKNOWN
Lillington, NC
On a Blink camera attached to a tree in my back yard that kept going off for activity, we noticed something with a blinking light in the fat lady corner of the view. After turning up the volume, we hear what sounds like computer noises and what can seem like a radio communication sampling of voices, but not one word can be understood. This motion infrared camera kept going off and in some of the few second clips, we can see shadows. I have those clips to share.
July 18, 2023 · 7:44 PM · UNKNOWN
Sterling Heights, MI
Myself my son and wife were siting on a bench and my son noticed the object. Will try to attach video. More videos available
July 17, 2023 · 10:13 AM · UNKNOWN
La Mirada, CA
Looking out my office window, at approximately 10:13am (Pacific), I noticed something curious in the sky. At first it seemed as if it was blinking or flashing. After watching it for a minute or two, and as I began filming it with my phone, it looked more like a metallic object catching sunlight. Also, as I zoomed in with my camera, there was a distinct appearance that the object was spinning. The object looked to be very high up – at, or most likely much higher than the commercial planes we often see. A few minutes after I stopped recording, the object seemed to elevate quickly upwards, then hover in place for a bit, then lowered again, and at one point seemed to move north/away from us. Eventually, after around 10-12 minutes, it seemed to move in a westerly direction, disappearing from site and into the clouds. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
July 16, 2023 · 11:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Schesslitz, BAVARIA · Germany
upon closer examination, in an orderly, not necessarily v-type formation as we first thought, but more like a soccer-ball pattern. Like I said, this was fairly dense, dim, but very well defined, and star-like in appearance. I cannot stress that enough. When we first noticed them they appeared to be coming from the left, or west, (we were walking on a paved farm road in wide open fields going almost due north, and moved in and arc toward south south east, fading out of view, blending easily with the stars. Soon after we noticed a brighter light moving at about the same speed from west to east, and as suspected THAT light was just the ISS, according to the iss tracking app. I've seen starlink formations, this was not a string of moving star like lights moving in a line, this was a cluster. Moving as a round-ish group, more ore less, hard to tell. It was organized in an organized, geometric, soccer ball like (organized triangles?) formation. They did not blink. They could easily be confused as stars if you didn't notice them moving against all the other stars in the sky. We've seen things come into the atmosphere and burn up. Sometimes quite a bit. We know what a meteor shower looks like. Not that at all. Bamberg Germany, about 1105pm local time. Someone please tell us what we saw, there has to be a logical explanation for this.
July 13, 2023 · 11:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Portland, OR
Observer descriptions 1) 71-year-old male, retired physician, education includes bachelors degree, MD, Masters of Public Health. Observer 1 is author of this report. 2) 76 -year-old female, retired visual artist, formal education in the arts with a bachelor’s degree, keen observer of plants, animals and natural phenomena At 11:40 PM I was getting into bed, preparing to go to sleep. Observer 2 was already in bed, falling asleep. I was sitting up in bed, checking my smart phone before going to sleep. I was facing east, with a clear view out of our bedroom’s 4’ X 6’ east-facing picture window. The window looks out over the NE Portland skyline, but the view is somewhat broken up by a large pine tree near our house. As I glanced up looking through the window, I noticed unusually bright lights to the east. At first I thought they were aircraft heading to PDX airport, but they were unusual in the following ways: a) the lights were were much brighter than usual aircraft lights, b) they were multi-colored - orange on some of the objects in addition to typical red and white, c) the lights were distributed more broadly than on a typical aircraft, resulting in a larger pattern/apparent size of each object, d) the objects clustered together in groups of 2 or 3 as they traveled from south to north. We have lived in this house for 20 years, and have never seen a comparable pattern of lights. We regularly see aircraft through the bedroom’s north facing window - these form the basis of the comparisons I just cited. I observed the objects from bed for about 5 minutes, then got a pair of binoculars from a bedside table. I went out onto the second floor deck located just east of the east-facing window. Viewing with binoculars revealed multiple lights on each object more clearly, but I could not discern a shape of the objects themselves nor any other details. At this point - about 5-10 minutes since I first noticed the lights - I awakened observer 2 who joined me in viewing the objects with both naked eyes and through binoculars. She concurred with my description, and agreed that the appearance was highly unusual and different from our usual experiences looking at that section of sky. We are very familiar with that part of the urban skyline from regular watching of the moon rise. The pattern of lights appearing, traveling to the north, descending, then disappearing continued for about 20-25 minutes, ending about midnight. I estimate there were roughly 10 objects, but did not make an effort to count them or capture images. About 20 minutes into the occurrence I called the Portland Police non-emergency phone number and was referred to the NUFORC and made my call a few minutes later.
July 13, 2023 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalMurrels Inlet, AL
Three separate sighting within 20 minutes. We watched two high-flying crafts trek the entirety of the night sky at incredible speeds. High and fast. These were orange/yellow in color. They both exited view. We then looked up and the 15-20 blue lights connected by a single blue light uncloaked and headed east. It moved slowly and had no sound. It was approximately 100 ft above us. We both tried taking pics and videos but it did not register. Our videos were blank, black. Her pictures did not even register. It was as if we didn't use our phones. We sat for approximately 15 minutes when we noticed 6 orange orbs stack on each (2 rows, 3 columns). This was interactive. I felt as if I were being struck with multiple strings of energy. The other witness was about 5 feet from me when this was occurring. She reported being able to feel me touching her. It felt as I was being pulled towards these lights, although I had no issue resisting. The lights began the appearance of approaching us. That's when I decided to pursue the lights on foot. I made the solo trek south, along the coast line towards the orange lights. As I got closer, I heard an electric sound coming towards me and then I was hit with what I can describe as a electrical pulse directly into my chest. It did not hurt. I kneeled down and thought it was a warning to leave.. but I did not. That's when the orange lights switched to one red light that spawned approximately 6 smaller red lights that floated around the original red light. I was at the end of the peninsula when this occurred. I have 20/20 vision and know what I saw. I am also a registered nurse and know what's real and what is not. I went back the following night to debunk the orange and red lights, but could not. There is also an accidental picture taken the prior evening of a 4 light object above the house. These are saved on personal thumb drives. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
July 12, 2023 · 9:23 PM · UNKNOWN
Epping, NH
While driving west on 101 this evening, I watched a solid orange light descend, and steadily head north. Lost sighting after 5-7 min. No flights on the tracking site, too bright to be a drone.
July 9, 2023 · 10:13 PM · UNKNOWN
Sutton, VT
I was on porch after a storm and saw 2 objects in the sky one was blue line and a shape thing above it and the other one was a dark color thing. i did take a picture and once i blew it up i could see it better. scared the hell out of me. Waited for a bit because was scared to post this, if it happens again i am going to video it!
July 4, 2023 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Tucson, AZ
This sighting time is approximate, as the observers were outside during 4th of July fireworks celebrations (which were focused in the western night sky, close to the horizon. The physical characteristics of this object were unusual. Three flashing red lights in a vertical formation bisected the object and would light simultaneously. It also had 2-4 horizontal green lights which flashed opposite the red lights. There may have been persistent green or yellow lights on the object along the horizontal axis. It hovered in the sky, about halfway between the horizon and the North star in the southeastern night sky, for about a minute. I stood near two power or cable lines to verify the object was not moving. It looked quite small in the sky, about the size of a typical jet (many fly over the city at all times of day and night), but jets do not hover in position while flashing lights. It appeared larger than any stars or planets in the sky. Similarly, planes or helicopters at the altitude of this object (if it was of comparable size, which is impossible to verify without a better sense of scale for the object), are audible above the city, even over the sounds of fireworks. Suddenly, the object accelerated and flew quickly out of sight, due east. There was no sound from the object as it flew away, and it took seemingly no time for it to reach speeds unseen by other regularly observed aircraft. The observers were not on any substances. One is a school teacher, the other is a teaching assistant; neither has seen anything like this object in the sky before, nor have they witnessed other objects of unknown origin. Both have lived in Tucson for much of their lives and are quite familiar with the many aircraft that regularly travel over the city sky.
June 29, 2023 · 2:41 AM · UNKNOWN
Binghamton, NY
Flashing object, red, blue and white lights. Hovered and jarred when it moved. Appereared to send out tiny red lit objects. In the sky approximately 5 min before it dropped then disappeared. Witnessed by one other.
June 28, 2023 · 7:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Cape Coral, FL
At the end they came together and went straight up very fast. [NUFORC annotation: Birds - Possible]
June 26, 2023 · 8:12 PM · UNKNOWN
Hattiesburg, MS
At 8:12pm on June 26 2023 I walked out side to my back yard and saw an object moving across the sky in an orbital pattern. I noticed that this object appeared to be lower than the ISS when it passes over which led me to grab my phone and record video. The object moves across the sky and eventually moves beyond my sight. I have I video of the event. I’m only reporting this because I checked the position of the ISS and it could not have been the ISS I also check into starling satellites and it appears to be different than those.
June 26, 2023 · 4:25 AM · UNKNOWN
IdentifiedFirebaugh, CA
It was about 200ft long of lights straight line and it was moving away Video clearly shows Stalink [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
June 25, 2023 · 8:31 PM · UNKNOWN
Jefferson, GA
We had bad storms yesterday afternoon/evening. I walked outside to head out to the grocery store and called my husband out to look at the rainbow that came out. As we’re looking at the rainbow we saw a glowing white streak going across the sky. At first we thought it was a plane but it was going way too fast to be a regular airplane. So I took a photo with my phone. I couldn’t get my video on quick enough but the photo I have is a live photo from my iPhone. When I zoom in and play it, it’s definitely not an airplane. It’s a bright white cylinder shape and if you look carefully, it looks almost like a gyroscope. Lasted about 30 seconds and just disappeared.
June 22, 2023 · 2:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Yellowstone National Park, WY
There were 3 in my group, we didn’t see the image until later when viewing the pics. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
June 19, 2023 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Painesville, OH
Well all I have to say is this isn’t an ordinary flying object encounter I believe this was an OBE with highly intelligent life form I’ve been experiencing my entire life it started when I was a child I had an OBE I use to observe myself sleeping being young I had no knowledge of what was going on at that time due to my parents education was less than high school so I couldn’t talk to them about what I was experiencing but with this platform I can now talk about my experiences, it only occurs at night when I’m sleeping and I know when this event is about to happen my brain receives some kind of signal that puts me in a different state of being just like with that organic oblong being I could see through the object as it approach me while sleep in my bed the strange thing is my wife is in the bed with and somehow it only isolated me for the contact as this oblong organic object approach me I didn’t fear it and I could touch it, it was soft and rubbery in touch and I could breathe in it as it consumed my entire body but could not see anything but I could communicated with it in English it gave me a name but could not remember ( I know this sound like it’s out of a movie ) but this is for real I don’t speak on it fear of being called crazy and I would like to say there is some sort of fascination for asshole probing its as if their putting something in me and even after the procedure I mean days later I can still feel something inside of my rectum just wanted to let you’ll there is more to this than UFO’s thanks for an outlet.
June 15, 2023 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Plano, TX
I saw an object that was stationary/hovering with red and green flashing lights. After studying this object for a couple of minutes, it flew quickly but smoothly to the north for a relatively short distance. It stopped and after a couple of seconds it flew back to the south in the same manner until it was out of my eyesight. Building was blocking my vision. I attempted to take video but in my haste just took a photo. Two photos attached. The second one is just magnified.
June 14, 2023 · 11:12 PM · UNKNOWN
Longview, WA
About a year ago or there about, I started seeing these lights in the sky, all of red, green and blue color and I seen as many as 9 at a time as far as down to 2 at a time, and not all in the same part of the sky. I've seen many, many satellites and that is not what they were, there is not that many in the sky at the same time and everyone knows what stars look like, and it's not stars. I've watched them for over a year now, they are not airplanes, when they move they are to slow for planes, and they don't always move. Well a few nights ago about the beginning of the week, I used a green laser light and shined toward them, and just after I did, I seen one appear in the middle of the sky out of nowhere, I kind of laughed it off, but did think it was odd, so the next night I tried it again, twice and after each flash I saw more, so Thursday night I did it again, and I only saw one, well when I came back in the house I was walking from the kitchen to the living room, and all of a sudden I heard this really loud, loud whirling sound and I thought what the hell is that and I ran back out to the deck and not to far above the tree tops, I seen one of the objects shoot through the sky, I still wasn't able to see the shape of it, but right behind it was a helicopter, and I know for a fact whatever it was the copter was chasing it. So finally last night I had my wife go out with me, and I shined the laser at one again, and one came through the sky, and I did it again and 3 more, one behind the other came through the sky, and we waited just for a minute and without me even doing the laser again 2 more came, we both agreed too slow for planes, no helicopter sounds, and some were making a up and down rollercoaster motion. All I can do is call them UFO's because we know they are not planes, not helicopters. Thank You
June 12, 2023 · 10:50 PM · UNKNOWN
PLEASANT HILL, CA
While walking dog for nightly constitutional was headed home looked up and observed a very bright white broken double line moving at an extremely high speed from west to east in the sky. If not for the illumination I would say the object resembled a con trail from a jet aircraft. In the time it took me to enter the house scream at my wife to come look at it and go back outside it was already reaching the east horizon line. The object must have been very large aand it was at about 20 to 30 thousand feet in the air about the same height as as normal flight pattern for commercial aircraft. No engine noise or sonic boom was heard. Never seen anything fly that fast and it was gone before i could even get my phone to try to photograph it. The speed had to be incredible due to the distance that was covered in such a short period of time. Quite exciting only wish I could have got a photo for you. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
June 12, 2023 · 10:28 AM · UNKNOWN
Probable conventionalThornton, NH
I was watching two f35 practicing over my property, when I saw what I had thought was one of them just floating, not flying. I thought this was strange so I started videoing with my phone and found that it was not a plane. When I reviewed video and zoomed in it appears to be some sort of zeppelin with propeller. As the video shows , it was flying erratically or being pushed by the wind. It appears to be rotating. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]