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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.
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August 23, 2023 · 4:53 AM · SPHERE
Portland, OR
Saw stationary lights in the sky northeast of me. At first I thought they were the lights of a cell phone tower. But I know the area well and there was no tower in that direction. Observed lights for about 23 minutes. Lights remained stationary for a long time. Then they shifted very quickly to the right. And again remained stationary. I was able to take pictures with my cell phone, but It’s an old flip phone and doesn’t have a great camera. At the end of the sighting the lights moved away to the north out of view. This movement was extremely fast. Almost in an instant. That the thing that astounded me about this sighting. Is how it remained stationary for so long. Then in an instant it moved. First to another position in the sky. And then out of sight. Is speed was incredible. For the entire encounter the lights were silent. I worked in the airlines for over 20 years. I’ve worked security for 3 years. I’ve never seen anything like it. From experience, I know this was not plane, helicopter, and it moved too fast to be a drone. I’m stumped.
August 23, 2023 · 12:28 AM · SPHERE
Lacomb, OR
I was sitting at my home watching TV and a flying helicopter could be heard approaching my property and shook my house I immediately ran outside at 12:28 a.m. in the morning to see what was going on if it was like flight or something serious some sort of emergency and saw this helicopter over stretch of miles has it passed my house and made a complete circle and then I noticed it was chasing a green light as it streaked across the sky and disappeared and reappeared several miles further away the green light and the helicopter chased it off in the distance and then roughly 20 minutes later the helicopter reappeared near my home close enough for me to hear the helicopter and then I saw the green light reappear again and disappear as it seem like the helicopter was chasing it.
August 23, 2023 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Eugene, OR
I saw a bright light flashing, moving from south to north in the eastern sky. Approximately 45-55 degrees above the Horizon. Then suddenly it shot like a shooting star 10 to 20 degrees (at least from my perspective angle) to a sudden dead stop seemingly almost above me. It seems as if it was just a few blocks away or over down town, but seemed like it was only 500 feet above the city! It then began to flash a single bright flashing light every second to two second intervals very steady pace. Not making a single sound! Where it just hung out stationery for approximately ten minutes or so, silently. I called my neighbor out to watch it and witness it too. Which she did. Behind and above the brilliant flash I could see what seemed like a large bay window. Like maybe an observational window. It was an aqua color.Then it after what seemed like about ten minutes or so, it slowly went out of view behind the building as it moved in a N.E. direction. At first I went back to my porch then decided to walk all the way over to where I had last seen it going behind the buildings. I briefly saw it again but as it kept moving I lost sight of it. So I went back up to my porch. Next thing I knew it was in the deep southern sky traveling west and went out of sight behind the trees. What it seemed like it did was make a maneuver that was impossible for a human occupant to survive (thus showing off ‘’we are not human”) Then stopped directly in the middle of air traffic flight path from the Eugene Airport and hovered there for ten minutes or so, as if to say “so what are you going to do about it”? I am trained in deep sky observations, and using indirect field of view it see details as I have had a number of large telescopes and have sat on the board of directors of the Eugene Astronomical Society. I can’t say for sure what it was I saw. But I can tell you what it wasn’t. I am not ignorant to the night sky.
August 22, 2023 · 11:10 PM · RECTANGLE
Derby, CITY OF · United Kingdom
Only explanation could be a projection as it moved faster than anything else possible. However, we can't stop light by our scientific understanding to date..
August 22, 2023 · 9:48 PM · SPHERE
Rockwall, TX
Looks like antenna system being towed across sky at different altitudes. Others are ball shaped vehicles with circular vapor trail through atmosphere.
August 22, 2023 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Waltham, MA
My wife and I were sitting outside on our terrace approximately between 7 and 10pm. I was looking up at the night sky enjoying the view of Mars. At around 9:30pm I noticed an object cruising at a very high altitude between Mars and the first star of the big dippers handle. I first thought that I was watching a satellite, but it's speed was too slow. I showed my wife what it was I was looking at and when I pointed it out right before the first star of the big dipper the object stopped. Within the next few seconds the object got very bright and shot straight up and disappeared within a few seconds.
August 22, 2023 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Las Vegas, NV
A bright flash in the sky caught my eyes. I looked and saw a white light silently travelling across the sky from west to east. It was blinking erratically sometimes barely visible and then sometimes flashing very brightly. One particular flash actually left what looked like a relatively-large slightly-erratic solid illuminated yellowish-orange line in the sky. It looked like long exposure photography. It was visible for the time the light was lit during that flash, perhaps a second. The line was the length of maybe a quarter of the diameter the moon appears in the sky. I've never seen anything before like that in real life. The light continued moving in a straight line toward the East, blinking erratically with mostly dim blinking which made it hard to see as it traveled away. I often watch the sky at night and see many planes and satellites at night and this definitely wasn't a plane. The flashing was irregular and I can almost always see the red light on planes and distinguish the different lights. It did not appear to be a satellite due to the blinking and the strange line artifact. Afterwards, just to be sure, I thoroughly checked my glasses' lenses for scratches, thinking perhaps it was reflection in a scratch, but I didn't find one and I've been wearing glasses for decades and I've never seen anything like that. Maybe ball lighting? I have no idea what this was.
August 22, 2023 · 8:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Santa Cruz, CA
in the past i had a similar encounter near the old satellite box trail off hicks road. i was early 20s and i thought i saw something similar but i was approached by unrecognizable "beings". i could not see them, they were blurry or see through. i ran and jumped into my car and took off. i never really thought about that and i repressed the whole incident thinking i lost time. i did lose time. i didnt think anyone would believe me. i had the same feeling today when i saw this triangle type craft. maybe not so much a triangle but one with rounded edges.i didn’t see any "beings" except when I was 21 or 22 when that happened. The thing was I knew I was being watched. And this was like 10-15 seconds long today. When it left all the natural sounds returned. I could even hear the bats above me flying around. I have experienced this "dead sound" before but never looked around and saw anything. This brief absence of sound always is accompanied by cold sweat and extreme fatigue.i only connect this weird feeling when it happens and then I never talk about it at all and I forget. I thought I had to write this down at least once.
August 22, 2023 · 8:15 PM · CIGAR
Abergavenny, MONMOUTH · United Kingdom
It was just there stationary for a few minutes then moved right and disappeared into what I can only discribe as a port hole . There were no lights or sound . It seemed to be possibly as long as a football pitch.
August 22, 2023 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Las Vegas, NV
Backyard Ring camera captured 2.5 hours of video footage of a bright triangle moving across the sky from 6:30pm to 9:10pm when it traveled out of sight behind my neighbors house.
August 22, 2023 · 12:25 PM · CYLINDER
Las Vegas, NV
White pill traveling E to W North of Vegas 12:30 PM
August 22, 2023 · 5:23 AM · FLASH
Escondido, CA
Saw it far above in the sky, was flashing different colors - I took a 14 second clip with my iphone 14 pro max and zoomed in as much as I could. This was at 5:23 am - I was headed to my gym. I saw this right before entering my car to leave for the gym. I saw no other aircrafts visibility around this object.
August 22, 2023 · 2:33 AM · FIREBALL
Long Beach, CA
At 2:33 am pst, as i was going to my bathroom on the second floor, i looked out my window saw a ( fire ball ) with trailing red and orange flames moving from WNW to SE. I thought it might be an aircraft with flaming engine or maybe some kind of space junk, i estimated my sight was 45 degrees horizontal plane. This object was moving in a horizontal direction for about 11/2 minutes before the flames went out. After the flames went out there was a small bright dot with a faint glow behind it that continue for 3-5 minutes moving SE. But after this, a lower orange ball of light appeared well below about 10 degrees horizontal plane, that appeared to circle for 30 seconds and disappeared.
August 22, 2023 · 1:33 AM · FLASH
IdentifiedNusa Dua, BALI · Indonesia
I saw several times 2 different lights appearing and disapearring on the sky. They came together, overlapping and after that disapearred. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
August 21, 2023 · 9:54 PM · TRIANGLE
Bozeman, MT
A triangle of lights flew fast across from west to east over Bozeman with no sounds and so high it was faint one of the lights went back off formation then caught right back up
August 21, 2023 · 9:52 PM · SPHERE
Mineral Bluff, GA
On August 21 At 9:52 PM in Mineral Bluff, Georgia I saw a golf ball sized white object slowly heading east towards Murphy, North Carolina when I zoomed in I noticed that it was very brilliant and changing.
August 21, 2023 · 7:15 PM · OVAL
Queen Valley, AZ
It was slowly hovering above Queen Valley AZ, just below the clouds which were more solid and shaped like a submarine stretching to the west. It was motionless when i first saw it then it slowly moved Westward, Altitude approximately, 3-4k ft up, No shape of wings of aircraft or bird. Just oval/oblong dark. It began moving slowly towards Phoenix to the west, It did pick up speed but not too fast. Faster than a single engine airplane can go but slower than a jet. It kept close to the bottom of the cloud for cover. It finally disappeared into the cloud bank far to the west. I did not take a video as I was too stunned to believe it myself. Most importantly, it was dead calm silent at that time and I could hear nothing.
August 21, 2023 · 6:35 AM · CIRCLE
Thomaston, GA
I was walking my son to the bus stop for school .. and he said look momma .. dat star is moving .. so I looked up .. and I automatically thought it was a plane then I immediately realized it wasnt .. it looked just like a star .. accept it was moving .. .. I’m in Thomaston ga and it doesn’t be any planes like that .. I’m really shocked .. and i really want to just confirm I’m not tripping .. I have the video
August 21, 2023 · 4:45 AM · FORMATION
Marion, VA
At first I thought it was a bright satellite. Like ISS bright. Then another came behind it. After that one three more. See the attached pic for an approximation. The first one was a bit ahead of the other four. The trailing four were equally spaced apart. I loaded Stellarium to see what satellites they were but there was nothing at that particular time. So either I saw new sats go over that I've never seen before (highly unlikely), or I saw something else. There was no sound from aircraft engines. This was not a Starlink chain. They were too large, too fast, only 5 of them, and the distance from the first to last covered too much of the sky.
August 21, 2023 · 12:27 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalWarsaw, MO
UAP caught overnight on game camera along with picture of buck. Image has a bright orb to the left with a trail & larger circle extending above the buck’ head. This is not in an area where someone would be hiking (especially at night) and the buck does not respond to the object. The camera is in IR mode at night. There is no artificial lighting In This area and no power sources. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
August 20, 2023 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Llanelli, CARMARTH · United Kingdom
It was very bright, (much brighter than venus at its brightest), and looked like a pulsating orb of blue white light. When moving, it left a streak or a trail of light behind it. It hovered beside a visible star in the sky that night and that is how it caught my attention. I only realised it was more than a star when it started to move. Its movement was at first very slow and it did not pulsate at all in the beginning. It moved upwards and curved gracefully around its position in the night sky without deviating far from where i first saw it. A few minutes passed and it just looked like a very bright object in the sky moving around up until it stopped near where i first spotted it, hovered without seemingly moving an inch, and then shot across the sky to the left on a very straight level, so fast that i almost lost sight of it. A trail was visible to the naked eye and this is when it started to pulsate in lumination and change its colour from white to whitey blue. A visible ring of light around the centre mass seemed discernable to my naked eye. It stopped seemingly immediately and just stayed there, before flying up at a fast but slower speed, gracefully arcing back to its starting position again where i first saw it. This is when i pulled out my phone and started to record it. The video i have is recorded in uhd 60fps on my samsung galaxy s20 fe. The quality is good, but nowhere near as good as what i saw with my naked eye. It all occured above a row of houses which almost and eventually did obscure my view of the object. When recording, you can easily see the pulsating light and its ring if zoomed in, and the trail it leaves behind when it moved. Unfortunately it did not move at such incredible blindingly fast speeds on the two minute video i captured. But it did fly at a what seemed to be a considerable speed to the left, arcing gracefully through a cloud before coming to an immediate stop, then rising slowly upwards and traversing back to roughly its "starting" position again (where i first saw it). Then it dips and glows very very brightly, before disappearing behind the row of terraced houses. This is where the video ends and i last see the object. I did not hear any sound coming from the craft. I could not make out any tangible solid shape off of it. But i can without a shadow of a doubt put claim to it, that it was real, and something that i have never seen before. I know what drones are like in the night sky with their downward lights on look like. I know how planes and satellites and the iss move through the night sky. Ive witnessed them all. This was something else entirely and i would love to be proven wrong because it has scared me a little bit. And i hate being wrong. It displayed characteristics to things that i have only ever heared or seen about in other ufo sighting claims. # i have two videos to share. Unfortunately the one that i mention in this description is 1.2gb in size due to its recording quality, and this site will not allow me to upload it. Fortunately i have uploaded it to youtube, but due to the swearing in it i removed the audio using youtube studio. I do have the raw original video with sound on my device if you want to offer me a different method of sharing it with you. The link it below. Set the video quality to high to see it properly. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zngXjdfVzAk The photos i upload are one of a map showing where i was stood (the bottom end of the yellow arrow), and the direction i was facing in. The second image of street view show the same, but the arrow indicates the position that i first spotted the ufo in and ultimately the location it kept returning to (not precisely) and where it dipped behind the buildings and out of sight. Seen on my youtube video upload. The second shorter video was recorded first as i was talking to a food delivery driver. In it i have taken a still of the object whilst zooming in on the recording video (post).
August 20, 2023 · 10:08 PM · CHANGING
Columbus, IN
The craft was round in the western sky. It had an orange shaped crescent on the right side of the object. The crescent went from bright to dim, broke into two parts, moved away from the main craft, then moved back to the main craft, went back to a single crescent, and got brighter again. May be the moon partially obscured by clouds. [NUFORC annotation: Moon - Possible]
August 20, 2023 · 10:01 PM · LIGHT
Washington, PA
Saw bright red light in night sky, sitting stationary with the light not blinking. It then began to slowly almost bounce around in the sky, move to the west and stop again. Here the light blinked a few times, but not like an aircraft. The light would completely disappear for 5 to 10 seconds and then return. It then rapidly moved out over the horizon. It returned 15 minutes later and repeated the same behavior as before. Now, on the 24th, it returned again. This time it appeared in the West and after floating about as before it moved in a winding pattern that took it directly over my house. I could see no details other than a bright light, and strangely it made no noise whatsoever. It was maybe 500 feet above my house and if it was a helicopter or airplane I would have clearly heard it. It moved slowly into the East and vanished in some clouds. I have been an active star gazer since I was 10 years old starting with a three inch refractor telescope. And, before this I have never seen anything I could not explain like this. I've seen many amazing things over the years. But until now I could explain them all
August 20, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburgh, PA
Looking west we saw a bright light. It moved slowly for about 15 seconds then went out. A few seconds later the light appeared again, but was traveling in a different direction. There was only one light seen at a time. It did this maybe three times and then it stopped completely. About a half an hour later but looking straight up and more northeast, it appeared again. It did the same routine as described from the first time. I’m on my deck watching planes, helicopters, tracking stars and satellites every night. This wasn’t any of that. It was also not a shooting star…I am very familiar with those.