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August 10, 2023 · 4:20 PM
Probable conventionalSacy-Le-Petit, Picardie · France
Dans le jardin d'un ami, sur la commune de Sacy-le-Petit (60), le 10 août 2023, le témoin principal (T1), accompagné de son épouse et de leur fils, observent, entre 16h20 et 17h30 (heure précise non déterminée), un disque blanc bien délimité se déplaçant rapidement dans le ciel. L'objet suit une trajectoire rectiligne, partant du zénith pour disparaître à l'horizon après environ 7 secondes. Aucune traînée n’est présente et aucun bruit n’est perçu par le témoin. L’observation est discontinue du fait de la présence de nuages masquant par intermittence la visibilité du PAN. Deux hypothèses sont envisagées, celle d’un avion de ligne d’une part et celle d’un bolide* d'autre part (*entrée dans l'atmosphère d'un corps céleste naturel solide extraterrestre de plus ou moins grande taille (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). Bien qu’un avion de ligne soit en service au moment de l’observation, la vitesse apparente du PAN ainsi que l'absence de trainée rendent cette hypothèse peu probable. D’étrangeté et de consistance* moyennes (4 témoins, mais témoignage unique, pas de photo du PAN, horaire imprécis), ce cas s’avère être une probable observation diurne d’un bolide. La description du PAN est en effet cohérente avec celle d'un bolide observé en plein jour, notamment en raison de la brève durée de l’observation, associée à une vitesse apparente très rapide et une altitude élevée, puisque temporairement masqué par les nuages. La forme ronde observée est relativement cohérente, bien qu’en général les témoins de bolides décrivent plutôt une forme allongée. La couleur blanche est couramment rapportée. L’absence de traînée n’est pas rare lors d'observations diurnes, la luminosité du jour empêchant de la distinguer, surtout lorsque le bolide n'a pas une masse significative au moment de son entrée dans l'atmosphère. Aucun bolide correspondant n’a été trouvé dans les bases de données de l’AMS (American Meteor Society) et du programme FRIPON (Fireball Recovery and Inter Planetary Observation Network - déclenchement de systèmes de capture vidéo automatique), ce qui n’est toutefois pas surprenant pour une observation diurne en présence d’une couverture nuageuse même partielle. L’absence d’autre témoignage et l’horaire imprécis de l’observation rendent difficiles toutes investigations supplémentaires. Le cas est classé B, probable observation d’un bolide. *selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d’informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. [GEIPAN classification B — Bolide]
August 10, 2023 · 10:17 AM · UNKNOWN
Selfoss (near), SOUTHERN · Iceland
I was a passenger in a moving vehicle on a coastal road close to the town of Eyrarbakki on the southern coast of Iceland. The vehicle was moving at a speed of about 90 km/hour from east to west. I rolled down the window on the passenger side and looked inland towards Ingólfsfjall mountain, close to the town of Selfoss, about 10 km away towards north east. It was a cloudy day and there were scattered showers of rain around the mountain. The cloudy sky was featureless and light gray so that the object stood out against it. I took two pictures, two seconds apart. The object was small seen from such a distance and seemed to move fast from east to west. I used a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra phone to take both images. There was only one object that I could see and it was not until I looked at the images that I noticed the changing of shape or rotation of the object and the halo around it. It looked to be dark grey in color. I have a background in photography and always make sure my lens is clean. I know just as well that something on the lens would not show up sharp like this in the image. As the images are taken from a moving vehicle at such speed it is obvious that the foreground would be blurry from the motion. Only more distant objects would not be affected by this. The level of sharpness in the images is not optimal but it can be determined that the object is at least as far away as the mountain.
August 10, 2023 · 8:10 AM · EGG
Clifton, KS
Security camera pictures of object above soybean field.
August 10, 2023 · 5:50 AM · FIREBALL
Kansas Coty, MO
I thought it was a jumbo jet crashing. Broke into several pieces that maintained fire. Looked to go to the ground. Maybe Overland Park, KS?
August 10, 2023 · 5:48 AM · UNKNOWN
Garden City, Sealand, FLINTSHI · United Kingdom
I was out with my dog, walked three doors down and was at the end of my street, Brookside/Farm Road Junction about to walk towards the river about 500 yards away as we always do. I looked to the sky to see what birds were about and noticed this bright light that looked like 2 tic tac shapes but they were also firmly stuck together, moving slowly but weirdly,I watched for about 30 seconds before I realised it wasn’t anything I recognised definitely not a plane or helicopter anyway, so I started filming it, it was hard to film slightly because it started moving faster and sideways and up and down. I tried to get the tree tops in to show how high it was and a few birds flew past while filming also, then it faded and disappeared, the video is just over a minute long. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
August 10, 2023 · 1:30 AM · OTHER
Hanksville, UT
Me and a passenger were driving thru Aurora Utah on State Route 24 when I noticed a round orange basketball sized ball of light bouncing above the tops of the trees. I looked at what it was doing and at first I thought it was a mining equipment surveying the land. Then I looked at it again and I thought, that is a UFO. That orange light kept bouncing around thru the trees for a long time. It didn’t bother us or try to follow us. The orange ball split into 2 balls of light and they both kept to the north of us the whole way. I wasn’t afraid of it so I kept driving. We drove for about another 15 minutes when I noticed another craft following us. This craft was diamond shaped with four really bright diamond shaped white lights on it. I tried to get away from it and that craft chased us thru State Route 24 for about an hour and then it disappeared. About another 2 hours passed and I noticed another craft to the south this one was twinkling like a star but its movement was faster than an airplane it zipped around in the sky and then flew off to the east. When we started reaching the summit of that canyon above the tree line to the north west I saw a huge red UFO, the whole thing was round and it looked to be a flaming red hot round circle. We made it to Blanding Utah and we did not see any more other craft objects after we reached our destination. We did not take any great pictures of these objects worth sending to you but I do want to file a report about our experience driving thru Aurora Utah and Hanksville Utah on State Route 24.
August 9, 2023 · 11:56 PM · TRIANGLE
Whiteland, IN
As I entered my truck I looked up and saw what I thought was a commercial airliner. My first thought was, "Wow they're flying really low! If someone wanted to, they could shoot that." The object was in plain view, about the height of a single engine plane in my experience (Crop duster) It was a triangle shape, at the point was one light, and on the corners were two lights on either side. The lights were steady and not flashing. The craft was silent. At watching it fly over for a few seconds my heart sank as I realized how strange it was. No flashing lights, no lights on the tail, heck no tail! It quickly flew over, but not any faster than a standard aircraft. The sighting lasted about 30 seconds before I lost sight of it. Come to think of it, it disappeared rather quickly. Like completely gone from vision. On the drive home I saw several aircraft, all had flashing lights and lights on the tail of the aircraft.
August 9, 2023 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Indonesia
Video files are to large to send, please contact me and I will send you
August 9, 2023 · 9:53 PM · SPHERE
Westerville, OH
I have a video I’d like to share with you. How do I do that? I’ve described it in my video.
August 9, 2023 · 9:45 PM · CHANGING
San Diego, CA
I tried uploading the video to the website but it said the video exceeds the file size limit. I can upload some snapshots of the video that I was able to brighten and enhance. If there is another way to submit the video I will. The massive object hovered in the clouds over the naval station for approximately ten minutes emitting rapidly fluctuating neon colored patterns. Two military helicopters were circling underneath it and occasionally a searchlight was shown on it from either one of the helicopters or the military base. I captured a 6 minute video of it, and with the brightness and resolution turned up some of the colors and patterns are visible. In the video you see small blinking lights below the object near the horizon, those were the blinking lights of the helicopters circling beneath this thing. It appeared to be larger than a football field. At first the lights were purple and flashed several times before turning a dark neon blue, then a wide range of colors and patterns appear throughout the video. It was incomprehensible and beautiful.
August 9, 2023 · 9:15 PM · DIAMOND
Alhambra, CA
I saw 4 to 5 large red lights in the formation of a Diamond or square outline. The lights slowing glided into a triangular alignment & seemed to slowly tilt before no longer being visible. There was a small aircraft that shortly came through the same route.
August 9, 2023 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Fayston, VT
While letting my dog outside before bed, I had a very clear view of the stars over the mountains. A bright white star/ meteor like object moved across the sky from south to north. In the eastern sky. This object was moving so much faster than a satellite that there is absolutely no comparison. The object then began to slow down while in the center of my sky view. It then turned from bright white to bright yellow and changed direction to easterly. I could not sense any altitude change from my observation point. After slowing and changing direction it moved eastward for about 4 seconds, then was no longer visible. This is the third object like this I have seen in our crystal clear vermont night skies in three years the other two came from a westerly direction then slowed and turned northward. The air was absolutely still and no sound was ever noticed. I am a professional pilot with many years of viewing aircraft and satellites in the skies. These were something different.
August 9, 2023 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE
Myrtle Beach, SC
My brother and I (along with his wife and 3 kids) were on the boardwalk in Myrtle Beach when we both saw 4 red lights in a horizontal line over the Atlantic Ocean. It was pitch black over the water, they were high above the horizon. They appeared to be either very small or very far out. They were all lit up, then went out, one by one in a line. We didn’t see them again. We were the only two who saw it and didn’t realize we were both seeing it at the same time until my brother said something. Unfortunately it happened too quickly to get a photo or video. It all happened within a few seconds.
August 9, 2023 · 6:54 PM · DISK
Probable conventionalHampton, TN
The UFO seems to be moving pretty darn fast. Only two frames of it were captured but its clearly a disk shape. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]
August 9, 2023 · 6:33 PM · CIRCLE
Amarillo, TX
Have two videos of two crafts flying by when you zoom in I see lights flashing
August 9, 2023 · 12:13 PM · CIRCLE
Spring Hill, FL
I used my cell so it's not great video. It was there for an hour. I went inside about 20 minutes later I went back out and it was gone. Didn't seem to be a commercial plane, they pass over my house everyday so I know the difference. Maybe a drone but it was 12:13 am so I don't why someone would be flying one that late. [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
August 9, 2023 · 11:15 AM · TEARDROP
Irwin, PA
I was in my pool on a raft looking at the sky, large clouds that day. Wind was 5-7 mph from the west. I saw a black object about 150 ft from the ground, traveling east to west against the wind , approximately 100 mph in a straight line until it flew behind a large tree out of sight. It had the sun behind it so I couldn’t make out much detail on my side. It was the size of a large bird like an eagle and shape was like a wing of a plane looking from the side , very aerodynamic. It shot through the sky in a very straight line neither going up or down from its flight path. No sound at all. No lights. Nothing like a drone , no wings or propellers that I could make out.
August 9, 2023 · 7:20 AM · CIGAR
Denver, CO
On August 9th, at roughly 7:20am, I was on my way in to work. I happened to look down the street, and saw what appeared to be a black, cigar-shaped craft flying in the sky. At first, it appeared to be stationary, but then it appeared to be moving slowly toward my direction. It had rotated once or twice, was how I noticed the shape. I took a video with my phone, but got distracted. I looked up, and saw it was closer, and took another video, the one I uploaded. My attention was taken away briefly by another co-worker, and the next thing I knew it was gone. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
August 9, 2023 · 4:04 AM · OVAL
Dorotea, VÄSTERBO · Sweden
We saw a ufo dart through the sky many times in about 15 minutes then it stood still and I took the foto, and then it flew away and we never saw it again. When it flew it flew at least mach 4 it was very fast.
August 9, 2023 · 1:15 AM · SPHERE
Mayodan, NC
All witnesses observed multiple orbs of light that seemed to move in the same direction and disappear and then reappear in the original spot they first appeared. During this the some orbs would get brighter and dimmer. At times it appeared that orbs of light would spawn from other orbs. This incident was observed by myself and 4 other police officers and 1 citizen.
August 9, 2023 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Steilacoom, WA
I was looking up at the sky to the west about 1am aug 9 2023 and saw a quick 1 second white flash. If you were to hold a dime in outstretched in your fingers towards the sky thats how big it was, followed by am immediate bang right after. It didnt look to be caused by a meator as there was no shooting trail. So i decided to prop my phone up on hyperlapse pointing at that area of the sky. On hyperlapse 1 second in the video is equal to 15 seconds real time, so this 29 second video is actually just under 9 minutes real time. Upon watching the video playback at 14 seconds in something not in the sky caught my eye if you look mid center of the video u'll see something quickly flash. Zoom in and manually progress the video slowly from 13sec to 15sec and you see what is the puget sound something bright possibly hot or on fire appear above reflecting its glow off the water then submerg. The 1 second that it appears on video is actually 15 seconds real time that this object glided down into the water. The locatiin it went into water, I mapped the distance from me at about 3.3miles. Making whatever it was around the size of a semi with trailer. The only land near is Anderson Island home to the now abandoned prison. It was about 5 minutes after i saw the flash and bang before that object went in the water and a meteorite that size would of been visible whole way down and made a loud sound even from my viewpoint. Ive looked online and found nothing anywhere referencing this event ive also included a daytime photo next to the night shot of the object circled of the area it went down.
August 8, 2023 · 11:47 PM · LIGHT
Bellingham, WA
Sitting with my grandchild on the front porch. Pointing out various stars, planets and aircraft. I pointed out what I thought was a satellite. He wanted to know what satellites do and we started talking. He says Papa it’s moving around. I look back up and this object is moving around with crazy vector thrust making 90 degree turns. It lasted about 15 seconds and then went behind a cloud. Waited for the cloud to pass but nothing else was observed
August 8, 2023 · 11:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Abergele, CONWY CO · United Kingdom
Whilst outside in my garden I was looking at the stars and a meteor caught my eye, so I decided to look in that direction for more. After around a minute I noticed 3 dark triangles in formation, 1 in front and two to the rear travelling at speed from the North East direction headed Southwest. The speed was amazing and no with no sound they travelled most of the visible sky in around 5 seconds, I live below a flight path where planes fly at cruising altitude and they can be heard. I estimate them to be at a quite low altitude around a few hundred feet as they seem to be lit from street lights which made them harder to see. None of the them had lights.
August 8, 2023 · 11:07 PM · TRIANGLE
Longview, WA
I've seen them before and so I've been having my wife go out on the deck with me, and we seen 2 low flying triangle shaped objects, traveling very, very slowly for about 2-3 minutes and were out of view.