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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.
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August 11, 2023 · 7:25 PM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
Very brief sighting, object was hovering in the air stationary. Shining like a star, but in the daylight, clear skies. From the moment we saw it, it was only there for 10 secs or less. We were driving in a semi truck, on I-294 headed south, it was toward Harvey or Lansing, Illinois. Another truck blocked our view briefly and when we looked in the same direction again it was gone. Definitely wasn’t a plane and definitely wasn’t a star, but the whole object was shining bright like a star, and before we could see again it was gone.
August 11, 2023 · 6:40 PM · CYLINDER
NW Austin, TX
I boarded American Airlines flight# 4244 from Austin to Albuquerque. Flight left late. We took off around 5:16pm. I was seated on the outside seat looking out the next seat window in front of me admiring and studying the interplay of light and dark on the cloud formations below us. I am a amateur painter and was studying the clouds and how to paint them. When suddenly within my field of view, I was seated on the starboard side of the my plane, Seat 21D. I saw this large white cylindrical object at our same level. It was flying in the opposite direction traveling extremely fast. I saw NO markings, windows, cockpit windows. I saw no tail fin, wings nor engines. No propulsion trail nor engine on rear like a rocket. Yet it was shaped like a rocket but flying perfectly horizontal and in the same plane as my flight. Hard to guess how far away it was. But it was close. Perhaps a ½ mile or less. (?) As it past from one window then to my seat window, I immediately popped the slide shade up to see the object speedily passing before my eyes. The sighting was no more than 3-5 sec. But, I saw the object. It was as if a plane was flying with out its wings and tail fin and no markings or windows were seen. The shape was cylindrical. Is the best I can describe. I’ve uploaded a pic of the clouds. The Object was going too fast for me to react by taking a photo. It looked at my watch it was 6:41pm when I saw the object. I turned around to see if other passengers were looking out their respective windows and sadly no one in my vicinity witnessed what I saw. When we landed in Albuquerque. I asked the pilot if he witnessed seeing a cylindrical object flying in the opposite direction on our starboard side. He said No, he saw nothing.
August 11, 2023 · 4:00 PM · SPHERE
Santa Monica, CA
I was driving, headed from the I-405 towards Ocean Ave on Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica, CA around 4:00pm. It was a bright sunny afternoon with no clouds in the sky, and suddenly in front of my car maybe 50 ft above the tree line I saw a perfectly spherical orb hovering. It was almost black against the sky, but had a slight metallic sheen to the surface. It was hard to tell whether or not it was moving, but it appeared to be hovering at a fixed altitude as I was driving. It quickly passed out of my view as I was realizing what I was looking at, and when I looked behind me expecting to see it in my rear view as I kept going, it was gone. I didn't see it again.
August 11, 2023 · 2:45 PM · CYLINDER
Glastonbury, CT
Moving west to east high altitude no noise looked reflective and as if spinning possibly still in orbit or slowly falling out of orbit
August 11, 2023 · 2:00 PM · LIGHT
Union Grove, NC
They also would dim out regularly, and reappear like a dimmable bulb, but they would be in a different pattern, sometime close together, sometime a few degrees apart. First on Tuesday and then tonight. Same stretch of road, 2 or 3 am. I had to exit off I 77 and take my semi to the shop around the Jonesville/Boonville area. And on my way home I stopped at a couple places that face north on highway 67 east, to see if I could get a video, but no luck. I will report again when I run this route again.
August 11, 2023 · 11:00 AM · CIRCLE
Austin, TX
1963. (Can I report?) I'm only 10 y.o., daytime, probably summer. Austin, Texas. Playing chasing running tumbling outside with cousins & neighborhood kids, caught sight of an object coming toward me, stopped, watched it sail toward me slowly & just over my head, noiselessly (maybe just the slightest of a hum), & flew on down the neighborhood street until I could no longer see it, straight line. It was small, dark grey, oval, metallic, thicker more squarish sides, with a dome on top. No lights, no windows, no noise, no wind or electrical effects felt underneath as it passed just above my head, I just stood gaping, following it with my eyes, just a foot or so, above my head! The underside was very maze-like. It sailed on down the neighborhood street until I could no longer see it, although I strained to follow it with my eyes. No thought of yelling to other kids, Hey! Look! Or of running after it, to follow it, just kind of stunned, I guess. Took about 45, 60 seconds the whole incident. None of the other kids seemed to notice it! Thank you for your work. And for considering my old sighting. I've never forgotten it. Life went on, maybe other "things" paranormal. Finally started researching heavily upon hearing Karla Turner on the radio, 1990s. It all came flooding back! Someone actually talking publicly about UFOs! Eventually, I wrote Jacques Vallee a long letter including other paranormal experiences; he sent me an autographed card. Then, I began helping Cheyenne Turner of the Eclectic Viewpoint (friend of Lucius Ferris, RIP), typesetting her mail-out announcements for speakers in Plano north of Dallas, big lectures; I met Timothy Good & others (RIP Cheyenne, 1997/8), & we attended Ozarks conf 2x. Got busy teaching, but I'm now retired some years, and I am once again curious & researching a project, having to do with Betty& Barney Hill's case, I have a theory & this case, my best evidence. So, I'm rereading old & new books. (Desousa's recent book has wrong date for their event! P. 47! Inexcusable, my degree is in history & English & studies in history of science, lol). But I know . . . I feel . . .that my experience was for something I am to do. A theory I have... has led me to believe Betty Hill's "map" was not a zeta reticulum star system. It is something totally different, totally different. And if I'm right . . . . Even your sightings, Mr. Davenport, the dates are very interesting. Details like dates, times, colors, are important in my analyses of these things. The work you do, important. Wish me luck getting my idea written & published. Data & your work, is important for researchers, so thank you! And I swear to God, my sighting in 1963, the account I've given you, is true and as clear in my memory as the day it happened. Sincerely, (name deleted) (no relation to James E. McDonald, a great & courageous man, RIP).
August 11, 2023 · 10:30 AM · LIGHT
Marshall, VA
7 people in two different cars, arriving at slightly different times to a home, saw 6-7 yellow lights in a line, perfectly spaced in the sky, static and unmoving. They remained in the sky for approximately 30 seconds or so and then disappeared without a trace. We were unable to capture any images of the object/lights. Immediately afterward, we began to see what appeared to be jets coming from the east, one after the other, heading in the direction of whatever we saw. We counted 15 jets total and we are not in a flight path for planes. We also checked to see if it was possible that the object was the starlink satellite but it was located elsewhere at the time.
August 11, 2023 · 8:50 AM · CYLINDER
Newburgh, IN
My family and I saw 6 fire glowing objects traveling NE about 50 mph, about 600 feet in the air all traveling the same path. It’s hard to say the shape because of how bright they were, but I would say cylinder. There was no noise and they traveled at the same speed. It was around 8:50 pm and the sky was mostly clear with some clouds.
August 11, 2023 · 5:44 AM · SPHERE
Calhoun, LA
So I was going to work one morning and I always look in the sky. I saw some orbs of light traveling through the sky they looked like stats just moving from one side of sky to the other. I only saw one at a time not multiple at once but 5 or 6 each morning each night. I’ve never seen anything like it before. The first time I saw this was when I was looking for the comet. I only saw one that night and so did all my kids. The morning after I saw the last one I saw a orb of light in the sky it was stationary then started moving and faded out. It was not high in the sky like the others. I’ve been looking in the sky all my life and have never seen anything like this. I did not get it on video. The lights where to high in the sky and the orb I saw while driving to work at sunrise.
August 11, 2023 · 3:14 AM · CIGAR
Sozopol, Burgas Province, Bulgaria
I'm 100% sure that I saw something really unusual probably a UFO sight. It was dark and cloudy when I looked at the sky and at the orange-yellowish gigantic cylindrical/cigar object in the sky was passing in the clouds. The object was hundreds of times bigger than an airplane it was enormous for something that is this far away. It was illuminating like an aura/haze the surrounding clouds in its bright orange coloring and it was traveling tens of times faster than an airplane. Also the orange color was going from full lighting to off light really slowly on and off about 3 times for the period of 20ish seconds. I'm not 100% sure about that but I Think I saw that the whole "space craft" was even bigger than the bright cigar part itself. The cigar shape was just the lighted part of the UFO and there was something behind it , maybe much bigger that I was not able to see clearly because it was really dark. Not too sure about that last part again it was dark. There was no sound from the object. It dissapeared in the clouds. The time that I saw this was about 3 in the morning I don't know the exact time and minute
August 11, 2023 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
Cedar City, UT
When first spotted after work from my driveway, lights resembling fireflies in the sky, were moving up, down, back and forth, only visible on the horizon around the planet that's 1/4 from northern horizon from Cedar city. Once I reached my back porch, I grabbed my binoculars, and witnessed a steady stream of staggered formation glowing gold objects. The were only visible as they past above and below that area around the star. They had stopped their eradic movement, as 4 or five passed in formation, high and low, in a near continuous trajectory. This went on for an hour. There was a small brake between the next group, but they kept their staggered formations high and low. One broke formation, and went high to low in a dropping maneuver, but quickly turned and joined the next passing formation. I witnessed this through my binoculars, while on the phone with a friend who had just arrived home. He could not see them from the north side of cedar city. This was the meteor shower they have been talking about. I seen them with tails, moving double the speed of these craft. Satellites, don't act like them, and as I watched them in the first, they are absolutely agile enough to mimic the movement of fireflies. This is my second such incident in a month, I work night in the field fueling equipment alone. This time I had just arrived home with no issues until then. If they are gold flying soccer's, they are not coming as one gold craft, they are here in the hundreds. Nobody cares anymore, maybe you guys do, maybe you don't, but what is happening is an invasion. Biden shouldn't have shot a few of them down, maybe things would be as they were.
August 11, 2023 · 1:17 AM · CIRCLE
Worthing, WEST SUS · United Kingdom
On the 10/8/2023 I was on my way home from my friends house at approximately 1:30AM a shining blue object appeared and flew across the sky then disappeared leaving me confused and in shock. The next day at approximately 1:20Am I went on a walk around the road when I saw another shining blue object appearing then shoot across the sky and vanished again leaving me shocked and nervous. Because this has happened 2 times In the same place it has made me feel on edge not knowing what it could be but the only logical explanation I can come up with is it’s a ufo mostly down to the insane speed of this craft and the way it appears and disappears.
August 11, 2023 · 12:30 AM · CUBE
Oklahoma City, OK
8-11-23,watching live railroad video at oklahoma city 12:30 am.filmed with my cell phone on the tv what appeared to be a large object above a aerospace facility. it was there stationary the whole time.whent to bed 1:30and it was still there.was very big reminded me of the hull of a ship.sending pictures and video. aug 28 12:am.Even closer to the aerospace facility a smeared object.Out of the bottom a sphere drops out and descends somewhat from the larger object.reminded me of a chicken laying an egg.I wasn't able to record that event. the cell phone in another room.Then I saw to the right a second sphere that just blinked out.This was recorded.Do not enlarge the video of the spheres.if you do you won't see the second sphere.
August 11, 2023 · 12:15 AM · LIGHT
Cocoa Beach, FL
I saw what looked like a star but it would move to the right then stop. It would go up and stop. It would go down stop. It would zig zag. I got some binoculars and looked at it it had red, blue, green blinking lights. It did this for over a hour. We had a SpaceX rocket launch at 1.17 am.
August 10, 2023 · 11:30 PM · SPHERE
Castle Shannon, PA
My fiancé and I were talking smoking a cigarette, out of no where the sky above and right behind us lit up kinda how lightening does but this was not lightening at all. We saw some type of bright white/blueish light either go up or down it was hard to tell and then just took off into the night sky faster then you can blink and it was gone. It also made a noise when the beam came down that sounded similar to something you would here in Star Wars when they take off with hyperspeed. I still have chills it was an amazing experience and also very unexpected. My fiancé and I both tried to debunk what we had just witness and he is not a believer in aliens or ufo but he is not because what we saw was no natural nor created on this world it just can’t be. This is a real and true statement. I wish I could find out if anyone else heard or seen what we saw in our area but most people are afraid to talk about things like this because of the fear of being judged or called a liar unfortunately
August 10, 2023 · 11:13 PM · FIREBALL
Probable conventionalCaro, MI
((name deleted)) [NUFORC annotation: Meteor - Probable]
August 10, 2023 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Lebanon, TX
Top left bright light.
August 10, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Gap, PA
Saw a slow moving white glowing orb to the west of the front of my house, it got brighter and yellow/orange as it moved closer. I stepped outside onto my front lawn in awe thinking I was witnessing a shooting star or meteoroid and eventually it appeared as three bright light with many other smaller lights on a large low flying triangular craft that went over our house and jetted off quicker than I could get anyone in the houses attention to come see. We went out to the backyard to look and saw no sign.
August 10, 2023 · 10:08 PM · LIGHT
Mitchell, SD
Saw orangeish yellow light (not incredibly bright, but noticeable) moved from the west to east- about 2 Minutes later I saw another light, same color and brightness, go in the same direction. It seemed lower than what an airplane flies at. Then a few minutes later, I saw the 3rd light with same color and brightness move from the north to southwest. Lights did not disappear or blink from what I could tell. Steady light. It was slower than a shooting star, where I could walk on my deck and follow it. It was fast but not incredibly fast.
August 10, 2023 · 9:27 PM · CIRCLE
Hornell, NY
3 orange circular objects came low over the city. First 1 went upward pulsing, then changed shape and color to white, looking flatish, slightly curved, then picked up speed quickly. The other two followed doing the same, forming a triangle. They spend off quickly. I have mul pile pictures fairly clear
August 10, 2023 · 8:55 PM · UNKNOWN
Tehachapi, CA
At first, i thought the object was approaching, but as it moved SE, it seemed to take a path over the mountains south of Tehachapi. I could not determine the shape of the object, but as it turned toward the mountains, the orange light elongated as if a beam, and then seemed to reflect or emanate off the length of the object. I thought it might be a blimp, but my friend, who observed it alongside of me, thought that whatever it was emitted an orange-colored exhaust cloud ejected from the rear. I don't believe I ever saw a blimp over this area. As the object continued in the same direction, the light faded, becoming a faint point of light like an airplane, and then disappeared from view.
August 10, 2023 · 8:19 PM · CIRCLE
Laurel, MD
I don't know what details to put here but I was just looking out my window on my bed and I saw four green dots by the way my window was open and there was no screen and there's four green dots in a plus shape moving around and then I saw them zoom off at probably like 200 mph which was too fast to be a drone.
August 10, 2023 · 7:43 PM · CYLINDER
Sevierville, TN
Was grilling on porch of the cabin we were staying in when something caught my attention flying overhead with no sound! Called my wife to come look at the object and she commented that there was no sound, wings or lights. I snapped a picture of the object and never heard any noise, Conn trail or source of propulsion. The object was cylindrical in shape about the length of a Jumbo jet. An airplane followed in the same trajectory North to South a few minutes later and I could definitely hear the engine of the small plane and not sure what I had witnessed.
August 10, 2023 · 7:00 PM · EGG
Sweet Home, OR
Object appeared in a blink of an eye and traveled for about 20 seconds horizontal to the ground at a slower speed but then shot off at a high rate of speed that is faster than any known aircraft that I know of. The sky was clear, the object was white in color but I also saw a brief moment of metallic color as well. Object had a fuzzy area around it's edge. The object was like an egg shape and then stretched out flat like. There were no flashing lights seen on the object. It then became the shape of an egg again and disappeared. Altitude was possibly between 25 to 40 thousand feet. There was no contrail to indicate it as a conventional aircraft. Within the time of my observation, the object went from large to small then it was gone. There were no obstructions within the line of sight of the object. No clouds, trees or mountains. Although meteor showers happening during this time period, I don't think it was a meteor because it had no trail behind it and it slowed down at one point in time during my observation.