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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.
27,433 entries
December 3, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Wheat Ridge, CO
I was jokingly flashing my flash light at a very bright star in the southwest sky at 6:35 pm. I was out looking for a rock to prop my apt building door. Approx 2 minutes after I flashed the star, I heard a loud jet noise above my head. (as loud as a jet taking off on the runway) I looked up and a round red light was above my head. I remember thinking I could fit through that hole and wondering if I was going to get beamed or a ray come out. I was scared. Out of the corner of my eye I saw several flashes of light going on and off to the south. Then the lights were gone and they reappeared approx 1-2 seconds later to the west. They were all red in color and flashed on and off one at at a time rapidly from north to south taking up the whole half of the sky to the south. The line of lights disappeared and reappeared 1-2 seconds later farther west. this repeated 10 times in total, until I could not see the lights flash across the sky. Also, not all of the 8-10 lights flashed on, some were only partially visible and the jet noise gradually decreased in loudness until I could not hear it at all toward the last 2 rows of flashing lights. The lights flashed to rapidly to count in a row and seemed to follow I-70 /CO 58 West to the mountains. I waited 2 seconds after the lights were gone and then saw a small white object in the west sky just above and to the right of where the lights disappeared. The small white object moved 45 degrees descending toward where I last saw the lights. I never saw a craft, a plane or a jet trail
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Bogia on Escambia River, FL
Driving home from a hunting trip on escambia river to pensacola i saw a series of perfectly level lights hanging maybe a thousand feet above the ground. At first I thought they were stars, but then noticed they were moving spatially with the car and they were much too close to be stars. I remained looking at them for about 4 or 5 minutes until they were no longer visible behind the curvature of the road. The elderly gentleman with me was looking at the road as he was towing a boat and refused to look over. I tried to get a picture but they were too far away; I was able to catch a brief glimpse on video nothing is really visible.
December 3, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedHuntley, IL
We were getting out of the car and gathering our groceries. I look up and there is a giant straight line of lights moving super slow. After a minute or so they faded out and disappeared. The lights were above farm lands and could not have been from any other objects. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSheffield, MA
A line of tiny blinking lights appeared in the sky moving slowly. I took two pictures [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSouth Hadley, MA
A line of 30-100 lights appeared in the sky traveling in line. The lights were a bit dimmer of a commercial airplane. They were the samE color as the stars. They were moving North/Northeast. We watched them in the sky for a minute then they all disappeared. The line was not quite perfect some were a but higher or lower but pretty close to perfect. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedHubbardton, VT
I looked up to the East and saw dots of light traveling in a straight line moving slowly across the sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedLaurel, DE
Large object with a string of lights moving south to north over Laurel, De towards DAFB. 13 second video [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 1, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Miami, FL
Wednesday December 1st, 2021 Occurred around 6:40pm -7:20pm I believe I saw a ufo. Previous experience of seeing something coming strait at me fast while outside this light but it vanished quickly into thin air like it’s crazy. I didn’t think nothing of it. But that’s not why I’m here. I recorded off a voice memo like a voice message as soon as I got back inside after seeing what I saw. I don’t know how to explain it but ima do my best writing it down. First the star I was looking at I knew it wasn’t a star because previously I saw it blinked like a red color & some other color but all I remember was red. But that same “star” had me stuck while I was staring at it. Like it made me feel weightless as if I was levitating. But that’s the thing the more I was looking at the “star” it kept getting closer, and closer and closer. Like spreading out to many dots around it then had sticks on the outside after connecting. It’s weird Ik but that’s what happened. But before I was in like a trance like stuck like daydreaming, all Ik is that it felt like home. Like peace so I teared up a bit I’m not gone lie. Like when ppl die they feel peace that’s what I heard and that what it felt like. Peace, calming. I went back inside the house hurried up n wrote what I saw but I had this overly sensation of a body high like my body was stretching it was so crazy but I felt like I could’ve died. It had me paranoid. And the more I tried to write what I saw it’s like I couldn’t even write like it was so hard to even do it. It’s crazy. So I looked up what to do & then I said ima record what I saw in a voice memo/ message just in case the next day I don’t remember what I saw & felt. I drew this picture of what I saw as well on the paper I written on. Idk if I can send the voice memo as well so I just described it the best I could.
December 1, 2021 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
Wytheville, VA
Driving to work I noticed what I thought was an airplane until I noticed no aviation lights, just a pulsating white light like a star. I noticed it between 2 stars before it started moving. It would get very bright then real dim. I slowed down to watch it then noticed it started moving. Very slowly at first, then gaining speed. I started watching as it started to make a couple sharp 90° turns and I knew it wasn't an airplane. It took off very fast then slowed down and done a couple zig zag maneuvers before it stopped. Once it stopped it sat for 2-3 seconds before just disappearing but i never seen it fly off, it just vanished. I didn't have time to get my phone to take any pictures or videos. It was only 1 craft that I noticed. I've never had any experience like this before. I'm an avid stargazer and have no reports of any mental health issues in my family. I'm a healthy 29 year old male with no medical or mental health issues. There has been 1 other UFO sighting in my same small town back in the 1980's that I know of. Very strange sighting and have seen a couple stories of the exact same lights in other places.
December 1, 2021 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
Went outside to let my dogs out and saw these lights in the sky moving in erratic directions. Clearly not a satellite, and not a plane. Their movement while did have some level of pattern to it, was rather erratic. I could not see any beam of light that might explain their origin, and even if there was, I find it doubtable that someone is shining 4 spotlights in the sky at 3:30 in the morning on a Wednesday. I was able to record the event, though the footage does not fully capture their luminosity. I am perplexed by this phenomenon. Yesterday, my local news network showed a video of the same event happening the night prior, but with more clarity then my video. I’m not the only one who witnessed these lights, and I feel it is worth submitting an entry.
November 30, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedLos Angeles (Malibu), CA
As you see from the video, we all saw what appeared to be a craft with a long set of lights flying across the sky at a steady rate. The lights did not flash. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
November 30, 2021 · 12:00 PM · LIGHT
Waukesha, WI
At approx 12:05 pm on 11/30/21 as I was driving south on a road I drive everyday I saw a bright object about 30 degrees off the horizon. It looked almost like a streak coming off of it as though it was traveling west to east but as I saw it it wasn't moving. As I reached to try to grab my phone to take picture since I thought it was interesting enough to show the wife I saw out of the corner of my eye instantly shoot up and there was nothing left. At first I thought it might be a comet but since it appeared to go up I knew that couldn't be it and as I saw it there didn't appear to be any movement. Also there is a small to midsized airport about half a mile west from where I was, but the object wasn't near there and there is no small plane, or large for that matter, that could be gone in an instant like this appeared to. Also I know it wasn't Venus since I see that when I drive home from work everyday this time of year at about the same height off the horizon, but Venus is about 15 degrees to the west from where this was. Plus I've never seen it at 12 o'clock in the afternoon. To say this is a UFO only in the literal sense that it was unidentified to me, but it seemed odd enough to find a reporting sight.
November 27, 2021 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
port angeles, WA
when i woke up really early this morning i couldn’t go back to sleep so i got a snack and sat down in front of my window facing the Mt Angeles/hurricane ridge mountains when i saw 3 white lights that weren’t exactly flashing but they were fading and dimming in and out. Personally i think those lights are way too high to be any people/houses this early
November 26, 2021 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedVilleneuve-D'Ascq, Nord-Pas-de-Calais · France
Dans la nuit du 26/11/2021 au 27/11/2021, entre 23h et 00h30, à Villeneuve-d'Ascq (59), le témoin observe en 2 sessions de 15 minutes environ, « quelque chose » qui s'apparente de prime abord, à une étoile extrêmement lumineuse, avec parfois une luminosité bleue, et des mouvements quasi permanents, plutôt rectilignes mais légers, tout en restant dans la même zone. Lors de la deuxième observation, le phénomène est toujours présent mais évolue de 3 à 4 mètres environ en haut à droite. L’élévation estimée est entre 15° et 30°, avec un azimut initial estimé à 140° et final à 160°. Aucun autre témoignage n'a été recueilli. La durée très longue de l’observation oriente vers une observation astronomique. Le site JPL/Nasa Horizon Systems, NAO permet d’identifier l’objet en question, il s’agit de l’étoile RIGEL. Les caractéristiques données par le site sont les suivantes : - A 23h : azimut 137°, élévation 22° et à 23h30 : azimut 160°, élévation 29°. - La magnitude de Rigel sur cette période est 0.2, ce qui rend cette étoile très facilement observable dans le ciel. Ceci est cohérent avec la mention « extrêmement lumineuse » formulée par le témoin. - Enfin, Rigel est une étoile très chaude, qui apparaît bleue, ce qui là aussi est cohérent avec la description de l’observation. L’étrangeté perçue par le témoin est due : - à l’extrême luminosité du PAN, - à l’insensibilité au vent et la stagnation dans une même zone sur une durée longue, - aux mouvements rectilignes, légers, quasi permanents. Les deux premiers éléments sont cohérents avec les caractéristiques de l'observation de l’étoile RIGEL, de forte luminosité, et se déplaçant d’une vingtaine de degrés sur la période d'observation. Les déplacements sont donc très lents. Le dernier point s’explique par le phénomène d’autocinétique ou autokinésie, une illusion de perception fréquente lorsqu'on observe un point lumineux dans l’obscurité (voir l'article sur l'effet autocinétique et sur le site GEIPAN dans [GEIPAN classification A — Etoile]
November 26, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
San Francisco, CA
Traveling on our tugboat from Long Beach to San Francisco we me and my watch partner saw a giant flash of light which lit up the entire night sky like it was daylight. It lasted about two or three seconds. We both saw the flash of light and I turned my head to look out the side window to see where it was coming from and I saw one round craft right as it disappeared. The flash made no noise at all. Also, the craft made no noise. After the incident there was chatter on the radio about it from ships in the area. It was seen by ships as far away as 35 miles, so it must have been up pretty high in the sky. It definitely was not a shooting star or space junk falling to earth. It was something else. Whatever it was, it was big. Some ships reported it as a flare, but it wasn't a flare, as it didn't hang in the air at all. It just flashed off and disappeared. It wasn't lightning either. It was a clear night. Very odd. I can't stop thinking about it.
November 26, 2021 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Sebring, FL
Talk about synchronicity! My mom and I were star gazing by our camp fire when I asked her if she had ever seen any UFO's, she said no and I proceeded to share my first sighting story (that happened a couple of years ago while I was driving - I saw a green light in the sky). As I was finishing my story she pointed out two lights flying across the sky above us interacting with each other, then a third light appeared and followed the other two and then all three of them disappeared. About 10 minutes later while I was taking photos of our surroundings with my camera, a large bright ball of light appeared about 15ft above ground level directly in front of my field of view over the bushes behind our camp site. I called out to my mom to come out from the tent to see this. We both stared at this light, it moved in our direction at first, then it stopped and hovered over the bushes and then it started to move away from us. After a couple of minutes it disappeared. I took several pictures during its presence.
November 25, 2021 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Huntington, VT
At approximately 830pm, my husband and I were walking our dog in the dark. We live in a very rural location with woods all around, no city or town in sight with only a couple neighbors. It was dark but we were not using a flashlight as the moon was out enough to light our way faintly. It was overcast, but not raining/snowing. At almost the same time, my husband and I saw an illuminating, circular (disk) light coming from an area above the woods, which appeared like it was shining down through the clouds, rather than from the ground up. We both pointed and acknowledged it to each other when, all of a sudden, the light moved literally at warp speed to the left and vanished. Then almost immediately, it reappeared in the same spot that we had just seen it. It hovered for a few seconds then darted to the right (again at a VERY high rate of speed). Once again, it reappeared in the same spot. We both never saw the light coming back to the spot, it would just reappear. It made a final dart to the left and disappeared, not to return. We stood there in awe for a minute or two waiting for it to come back, which it didn't. We turned around and headed back home (that was enough excitement for us!). We walked about a 1/4 mile or so back to our house and before we turned into our driveway, the light reappeared from our right, made a sharp turn and went in a straight line from in front of us, then over our heads, and behind us...and disappeared. Again, we were in awe and stayed out in our field (in the complete darkness, no neighbors in site, no towns, no cities, etc) and waited for over about 15 minutes. It once again reappeared in the night sky, hovered, and took off. That was the last of it we saw. We did not hear any noise from an airplane or helicopter and the speed at which this object was traveling was absolutely astonishing - it would go from one side of the horizon to the other in a fraction of a second. There is nothing that we can think of that has the ability to go that fast (airplane, helicopter, drone, etc). We thought perhaps it was a deer hunter with a very high powered spot light shining it into the sky; however, the light appeared to be shining down from the clouds rather than up and we assumed that if it was a spotlight, we would see some sort of "beam" of light illuminating the woods/tree line and extending into the night sky, which we did not witness. The entire surroundings and night sky was very dark, just this light illuminating in one spot in the sky, coming from the clouds. Also, if it was a hunter with a spot light, the manner in which the light presented itself didn't seem "human-like", if it was a hunter "playing" with his spot light we would think it would of been more human-like behavior with the light waving back and forth, etc. and what we witnessed was split second speeds, hovering then darting off, reappearing without any light coming back to that same spot, etc. There very well could be a good explanation of what we saw; however, witnessing it first hand, it just didn't seem like anything we could explain away (airplane, Chinese lantern, helicopter, drone, etc). It was a very interesting encounter, one that my husband and I will always remember!
November 25, 2021 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
New London Township, PA
My wife and I went for a hike in the late afternoon on Thanksgiving Day, 2021. We were driving home, turned a corner, and saw these lights in the sky (see attached photo and videos). Despite what the camera appears to show, these lights were not flashing in any way. The camera also failed to capture the color accurately. They were an orangish color seeming to glow like a candle. These lights silently moved from what appeared to be low altitude in the southwest to higher altitude in the northeast, each one disappearing into a cloud bank. The whole event was over in less than ten minutes. For reference, I'm an senior managing engineer with a software company. My wife is a registered nurse. We are both in our mid fifties.
November 25, 2021 · 6:36 AM · LIGHT
IdentifiedCregy-Les-Meaux, Ile-de-France · France
Le 25 novembre 2021, à 06h36 (heure locale), pendant son footing matinal au bord du canal de l'Ourcq, près de Meaux, le témoin alerté par un bruit bizarre, lève les yeux au ciel et aperçoit, ce qu'il pense être un avion, avec des lumières (comme des flammes) inhabituelles. Le témoin voit la lumière, mais pas vraiment l’objet, car il faisait nuit. Il observe une courte traînée de fumée légèrement zigzagante et large d'environ 1 cm. Après environ 4 secondes, l’objet s’est enflammé sur, ce qui a semblé être au témoin, son côté gauche, sans bruit d’explosion, tout en poursuivant sa trajectoire de manière rectiligne. A la fin de son footing, vers 07h30, sur la plage de Meaux dans le parc du Pâtis, en regardant vers l’Est, le témoin observe une trace de fumée dans le ciel. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. Ce témoignage est de consistance moyenne, un seul témoignage, pas de photos, mais le témoin répond précisément aux questions de l'enquêteur (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). La description du témoin oriente vers l'observation d'un bolide. Il se trouve que ce 25 novembre 2011 à 06h36:12 (heure locale) un bolide a effectivement été observé et signalé. Sa trajectoire s’accorde parfaitement avec le témoignage, tant par la description globale que par la plage des directions d’observation, du sens de déplacement et de la durée d’observation. Les éléments d'étrangeté perçus par le témoin, à savoir : des lumières comme des flammes, un embrasement, une traînée de fumée s'expliquent de l'hypothèse bolide. Reste le léger bruit insolite perçu concomitamment et ayant attiré l'attention du témoin, ce bruit passager peut provenir de l'environnement, notamment d'une des deux lignes ferroviaires situées à 1,5 et 3,3km du témoin. Le GEIPAN classe ce cas en A : observation d'un bolide. [GEIPAN classification A — Bolide]
November 24, 2021 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Canterbury, CT
Right outside my back door right above a 70 acre field is a bright light really high up but you can tell it's moving up down back and forth but not hovering. Second time we've seen it. No sound at all.
November 24, 2021 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Sebastian, FL
They then were about 1000 ft north of me and no more than a few thousand ft overhead, still no noise. They continued east over the river then went into the storm clouds where I lost sight.
November 24, 2021 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
New Gloucester, ME
I randomly woke startled , I have 6 large windows in my bedroom, the light was in one of the windows , it didn’t move it was just hovering, it was too close to be a star, too far to be a drone, no colored lights , no visible shape to make out. the drone wouldn’t have been so stable, it stayed in the same place, I stared at it and I don’t know if my eyes we’re playing tricks but it had a small tail like a commit, I could gage it because of the window, it stayed for about 1.5 hours and then was just gone, like someone turned the star off. Extremely creepy.
November 23, 2021 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Walnut Shade, MO
I was lying in bed and a light caught my eye. I thought it was a star at first.It started moving and noticed it going pretty far from right to left up and down.it was hovering like a bee.then two dimmer smaller ones showed up and they were hovering and zig zagging and I watched this while I was scared to move just continued to watch these lights move.i finally stopped watching them and I had to go to sleep.it took me some research to find this website so I couldn't do anything about it last night.thank you it was Unbelievable.i tried to get a photo or video. it was just too dark for my camera to see in the dark.
November 23, 2021 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Tuftonboro, NH
For the last year there have been numerous reports regarding a fast-moving blinking light seen looking north over the Ossipee Mountain Range.