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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.
139,459 entries
August 20, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Cordova, SC
I went outside to see about the tree line a bright circular object that had like a force field type deal around it and some type of disturbance swirling around it. It started to fly away and it disappeared. I then called for it to come back and I’m not completely sure if it was the same thing but then 4 appeared directly above me hovering and started blinking as if trying to communicate to me or to eachother and then disappeared.
August 20, 2023 · 7:01 PM · SPHERE
Queen Creek, AZ
Driving and saw stationary/floating bright light under clouds. Light was twinkling bright white & stayed there for about 45 seconds to 1 min. 1st witness was driving and called attention to it. Passenger in vehicle noticed it as well and thought it was strange. Didn’t want to freak kids out in the back so we underplayed it but they saw it too. It eventually twinkled out and disappeared. About 5 minutes later, the same orb returned for about 30 second in the same space of sky. All four people saw it this time, the same exact hue of light, and we caught a short video of it.
August 20, 2023 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
Erlanger, KY
I saw a bright orb, white in color, shimmering across the afternoon sky. I jokingly told my 6 year old it was a ufo thinking it was just a high flying plane, as well as pointing it out to my aunt. I tracked it northwest across the clear afternoon sky until it looked like it came to a stop above the house. It sat there and it started fading out until it either disappeared or I lost it in the bright blue afternoon sky.
August 20, 2023 · 3:55 PM · CIRCLE
Rayleigh, ESSEX · United Kingdom
Our back garden faces south. Approx 70 degrees up from horizon, this object I spotted with my partner against a cloud initially. Ran inside and got my phone to record what I could. Speed appeared to be constant until end when I felt it was accelerating and changing direction slightly. No sound. Object was black, spherical, no wings no vapour trail and not anything I have seen or could recognise. The snap shots of the object in screen shots appeared to show a slight halo or could just be the image distorting at max zoom
August 20, 2023 · 5:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Maitland, FL
Was sitting on the balcony having coffee. This object was flashing different colors and seemed to be changing shapes possibly. This stayed in one place for around 20 minutes. I had to go in to get ready for work, looked out the window and it was gone.
August 20, 2023 · 5:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Wallaceburg, ON · Canada
Got up for whatever reason i dont know, went out to the balcony, Look straight ahead and immediately seen green flashing light. It changed intensity and size. Then suddenly flew straight up, and then after moving a little bit maybe 30 feet to east horizontally and getting bigger again. It just suddenly took off fast. To the southeast towards dresden.
August 20, 2023 · 4:48 AM · CIRCLE
Middleburg, FL
I was star gazing as I do every night and I saw this one weird looking star I thought it was a planet but my guy said it was a plane so I decided to download a stargazing app so I could prove him wrong but by the time I pulled it up I went to look to see which planet the object was and it had moved to right above my head. So I videoed it for about 20 minutes before I got a friend to verify and double check to confirm I wasn’t crazy. So he came out and thought it was a plane until he stared at it and was like “ No way, that things not moving” and he proceeded to freak out with me. This object was NOT a plane, it wasn’t a planet, nor was it a drone because it was in the sky looking like a star and really far away. I’m hoping my video will send so you all can see and check this out with me!! Good ole Middleburg has now confirmed a real ufo sighting !!!
August 20, 2023 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Conklin, NY
I got to a friends to drop off some material for a job and I got out of my truck and a light out of the corner of my eye caught my attention I looked up in and all of a sudden it took off wicked fast and left a white streak through the sky and then it disappeared totally
August 19, 2023 · 11:18 PM · TRIANGLE
Searsport, ME
The craft had a bright white light I thought it was a star when I looked out the window of my door but noticed it was way to close it did not make a sound but as it flew over my house it made a turn to go parallel to my home as it passed over my property and flashing lights on both side flying very low to the ground close enough to make out the bottom of it where there where less bright lights around the object. As I said it did not make a sound if it was a plan you would here the engines that low to the ground or a helicopter would have been loud but it could have been a stealth helicopter military grade but why would they be observing me. They hovered for 2 minutes just above the tree tops looking straight at me and when I went to the window it took off in about a minute and a half flew straight at me turning to avoid my home.
August 19, 2023 · 10:25 PM · CIRCLE
Columbia, SC
The ufo was in the tree line right outside my window the object was too close and fast to be a plane and made no noise from what i could hear in bed. 6 very orange lights in a almost perfect circle moved straight ahead almost seemed like it was heading toward my direction and went past my window. Very strange and looked nothing like I’ve ever seen it seemed too large to be a drone but too small and quiet to be a plane.
August 19, 2023 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
IdentifiedWhitstable, UNITED K · United Kingdom
At 10:00 PM on August 19th, while situated on Tankerton beach, I photographed the beach huts. Unintentionally, my camera also captured a sizeable, brightly illuminated oval craft moving rapidly between the two shots (which were taken within milliseconds of eachother). [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
August 19, 2023 · 9:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Narborough, NORFOLK · United Kingdom
5 red dots flying east to east slowly across the sky no noise when they flew above me they just looked like they were in a V shape they were evenly spaced
August 19, 2023 · 8:41 PM · CIGAR
Leland, MI
We were watching the sunset and I noticed an object above the clouds above the sun, the sun had just gone over the horizon and quickly took a picture.
August 19, 2023 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Ferndale, WA
Always thought it was cool. On my way home from my sisters house. I live at the Canadian border in Blaine. Zero cool anymore. It’s like taking a super bright blue LED light then it turns into two. I do have bipolar disorder so maybe I’m just nuts. I don’t know but it frightened me so I killed the headlights and hauled ass home! I Do Not want any weird dudes at my house.
August 19, 2023 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Kensington, KS
While driving southbound on E 1100 Road, south of E Hunter Rd in Kensington, KS, heading towards Agra, KS, a very bright blue-white round orb was seen in the southern sky moving from west to east. It was thought to be a plane reflecting the bright setting sun, but it then quickly faded away completely, leaving no trace. This was after about 5 seconds of observing the object. It was thought for a bit to be seeing a very wispy black or gray cloud in the same spot where the orb object had just disappeared from, also dissipating nearly immediately. This was generally a cloudless blue sky on a very hot and sunny early evening. The passenger of the vehicle stated seeing two flashes of long bright lines travelling the other direction, but that was unobserved by the driver of the vehicle and cannot be accurately described for the purposes of this report.
August 19, 2023 · 4:30 PM · OVAL
Probable conventionalNottingham, NOTTINGH · United Kingdom
In the image attached with this report, please look at the sky. A large blob of light with a bright white centre and an oval Corona in blue around is seen in the sky. More impressions of the blue Corona can also be seen directly above and below the sighting, as if movement was captured. Two very similar pictures were taken in the moment incidentally, one of them had this UFO in it and the other one (with the exact same phone position and cloud formation) did not. I did not observe this UFO in the present, only while looking back at my pictures afterwards. It quickly disappeared as the other image did not capture it. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
August 19, 2023 · 3:40 PM · LIGHT
Centerpoint, AL
Blue bean of light, green and blue flashing orbs descending from blue light beam in distance night sky as sky was foggy and hazzy, then it fades out completely.. Then shortly after where me and my friend was standing looking up as it went away, in the tree line above us a yellowish ord comes flying out of the trees at us. It stopped for a short pause, I saw the lights from street lamps reflecting a yellowesh color.then zipped away in a flash. No sound.
August 19, 2023 · 2:41 PM · LIGHT
Bloomington, IN
Please look at both pic I took on cell today is this ufo? Or meteor ? Zoom in mid right side pix in sky what is this?? Or these?? Back in 1968 1965 times I have seen many nite objects b4 I did report some to the project blue book in those times but who knows what those were but this is in day lite clear sky ! I know meteors at nite sky’s about this time but this is strange there’s 2 or so With trail pls advise Tks [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Possible]
August 19, 2023 · 12:02 PM · SPHERE
Santa Barbara, CA
I saw one bright orb in the sky approximately facing SW. I saw the object again at 1:10pm while on a bike ride in goleta. The object didn't seem to move but seemed to hover high in the sky. I lost sight after clouds rolled in.
August 19, 2023 · 12:00 PM · CIGAR
Alfaz del Pi, ALICANTE · Spain
On the 19th of August 2023 approximately mid day my partner spotted a metallic object very high in the sky, the object appeared to be metallic and was rolling and flashing as if the sun light was bouncing off its surface, at first we thought it was an airplane but it looked like it was out of control in a rolling motion but not falling to the ground, it slowly drifted west until it went out of sight, we both watched it for around 45 minutes. It was cigar shaped. We tried to take pictures with our mobile phones but it was too distant however we watched it though binoculars, my partner said she thought it looked like a satellite with solar panels but we thought that would be impossible to see during the day or even at night, and if it was a satellite re entering earth's atmosphere surely it would be burning up and what's left would be falling to the ground very quickly not drifting for such a long period.
August 19, 2023 · 6:25 AM · OVAL
Probable conventionalSilver Springs, FL
This is a still shot taken of rain coming in.However if you look up at the whitest cloud there's a golden egg shaped object that appears to have something on top and a few things,* sorry best word I can think of on the front underside. [NUFORC annotation: Cloud - Probable]
August 19, 2023 · 12:27 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalLias, Midi-Pyrénées · France
Le témoin, ayant mis en place un système automatisé d'enregistrement d'images de la voûte céleste depuis la terrasse de son domicile à Lias (32) dans la nuit du 19 au 20 août 2023, il constate après dépouillement des enregistrements la présence de deux PANs ayant la même apparence et le même type de trajectoire sinueuse et erratique. La consistance* de ce cas est considérée comme élevée, malgré l'absence d'observation directe. Les images enregistrées par l'instrument, présentant les PAN, ont pu être exploitées de manière exhaustive pour l'enquête, avec un recalage temporel précis réalisé grâce à l'analyse des métadonnées associées aux fichiers (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). *Selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d'informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. Plusieurs hypothèses ont été examinées dans le cadre de l'enquête. La synthèse est la suivante: - Les trajectoires des PANs peuvent faire penser à des chiroptères. Cependant les données relatives à l'altitude et à la vitesse, une fois calculées et corrélées ne cadrent pas du tout avec cette hypothèse, les vitesses étant trop faibles et les altitudes trop élevées. - De même, l'hypothèse d'oiseaux, en particulier de deux oiseaux nocturnes (hiboux grand-duc), l'un, jeune, étant en apprentissage auprès d'un adulte, n'est pas cohérente avec les données calculées d'altitudes, trop importantes au regard de la vitesse de vol. La période d'observation étant par ailleurs trop tardive. - L'hypothèse de deux insectes se trouvant proches de l'objectif a également été étudiée mais n'a pas été retenue car elle implique qu'ils devaient se trouver à plus de 3,50 m de l'objectif de la caméra, et donc voler selon une vitesse bien trop faible pour parcourir le trajet en près de 30minutes. - L'hypothèse de deux ballons lumineux équipés de lumières LED cadre en revanche bien avec la plupart des données issues de l'analyse, avec en particulier un déplacement lent sinusoïdal cohérent avec la faible vitesse des vents en altitude avec la présence avérée d'un phénomène de cisaillement. Ces éléments ayants été confirmés par l'expert Météo France auprès du GEIPAN. Plus en détail : •couleur blanchâtre, tout à fait commune pour ce type de ballon, •déplacement général dans le sens global du vent, orienté sud-est, •déplacement erratique causé par la présence d'un phénomène de cisaillement de vent entre les altitudes de 750 et 875 m, •vitesses calculées compatibles à celles du vent estimés à ces altitude par les données Météo France, •observation un week-end, propice à l'utilisation de tels ballons festifs lumineux. L'exploitation des images n'a cependant pas permis d'estimer la forme réelle des PAN, compte tenu de la déformée occasionnée par le temps de pose de chaque photographie. Le GEIPAN considère que cette hypothèse permet de réduire l'étrangeté de cette observation, mais rappelle que l'absence de témoin visuel direct aurait normalement dû conduire à rejeter le cas, conformément aux critères d'éligibilité des cas enquêtés au GEIPAN. Cette étude a été menée à cause de son caractère curieux pour nous et pour le témoin ainsi que pour l'intérêt de la méthodologie déployée pour l'enquête. Le GEIPAN classe ce cas en « B », observation probable de deux ballons LEDs portés par le vent en altitude. [GEIPAN classification B — Ballon LED]
August 18, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Vacaville, CA
I was in my backyard stargazing as I had heard the Perseid meteor shower was still going to be visible until the end of the month. I actually viewed several a night over the past several nights leading up to Aug 18th and I'm 51y/o so I have seen my fair share of "shooting stars" in my life. My eyes were acclimated to the dark sky as I had been outside looking up for about 40 minutes prior so more and more stars were coming into focus and in my field of view. I then saw what I thought was a shooting star but it took a 90 degree turn went a distance while slowing and then made another 90 degree turn before it accelerated and faded out. I literaly didn't believe what I had seen. It was at a very high altitude. Looked like a star in the sky making turns. So weird. I'm one city away from Travis AFB in northern California so I've seen plenty of military aircraft before and this wasn't one of "Ours". It moved at a ridiculously fast but smooth speed and then changed direction on a dime and appeared to slow down but then sped up and changed direction at 90 degrees again. The entire event lasted maybe 2 or 3 seconds. I will never forget it. It's been bothering me for nearly a week now. What the hell was it? Drones can't operate that high right? And at supersonic speed?
August 18, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Lakeway, TX, TX
We walked outside to the back to let the dogs potty. We noticed the lights immediately as we looked to the west - northwest as they were bright lights slightly drifting upwards in a vertical straight line. They were at about 5000ft to 15000ft. Maybe even less. There were 2 separate airplane lights that were at higher altitudes on both sides to reference this. It looked like they were trying to achieve greater separation from each other and as they got into position, they all disappeared. The top one disappeared first and then the next one lower from the top. It was in sequence highest to lowest as they all disappeared one after the other in about a half second to one whole second. Just found this site and would appreciate feedback as to others in the area seeing this as well. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]