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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
September 21, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Ocean City, MD
Nineteen independent red lights appeared over the ocean in sky well above horizon. They appeared in random spots and had no tail like a flare or fireball. They they disappeared after 20-30 seconds. The lights were not in a line and not all at the same height but well above the horizon.
September 21, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Freedom, ME
myself and my fiancée were out watching the stars .... it was a clear evening with multiple satellites and aircraft going over. Being from the UK im used to light pollution so this was very special - no light pollution at all! my attention was drawn to what at first appeared to be a satellite - it was about 30 degrees above the horizon and was brighter than previous satellites. It was traveling from the NW towards the North at a 'normal' satellite speed. However - it was bouncing / jumping up and down. I would describe it as having a similar appearance to a trace from an ECG monitor. I asked my fiancée if she was seeing the same as me and she confirmed that she was. i know what a satellite looks like - i know what starlink looks like. I work at an airport and am familiar with all known aircraft. I have no idea what this was......
September 21, 2023 · 8:05 PM · LIGHT
Hot Springs, SD
I went outside for a cigarette around 2005 and looked up at sky like I always do. I saw 2 lines of green lights moving fast across the sky from west to east. At first I thought it might have been a meteor with a tale but I saw it was dozens of individual lights, green & constant. Staggered in random groups from 1 to 3 in a row, then space, then another group. Both lines different in groupings and spacing, reminding me of piano player tape. The line of lights moved very fast & w/o sound. As the got farther east they began disappearing from the beginning of lines to end but all at one spot in sky. Seemed like they were entering a tunnel or turning off lights when reaching a certain spot. Sky was clear & lights were much brighter than stars in sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 21, 2023 · 2:30 AM · LIGHT
We were airborne heading East at 39000 feet, NE
My copilot and I started seeing the objects while at 39,000 feet around Omaha, Nebraska. We were flying east to Detroit, MI from Las Vegas, Nevada. We seen as many as 4 objects at a time, traveling in multiple directions outside the earths atmosphere. They kept to an area just in front of the bowl of Ursa Major. It was almost as if they were playing with each other like a pod of dolphins. The objects looked like stars but moving at high speeds and changing directions. At times they would get brighter than any of the stars in the sky. They appeared to be way outside the atmosphere of earth. Total duration of the sighting was at least 2 hours. The magnetic bearing of the objects stayed at about a 035. Hence the reason along with other factors I believe the objects to be way outside earths atmosphere. This is my second time seeing these objects while I was flying through this same area.
September 18, 2023 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Grinnell, IA
About 10 crafts passed from the west side of the sky moving very fast to the east side of the sky. They reached a certain point in the east, and at that point each one would turn blue for a second, then tremble, and disappear. All of the crafts appeared to be flying in a very straight line spaced out about evenly. They were all far from each other but were coming from and going to the same place. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 18, 2023 · 8:33 PM · LIGHT
Carthage, MS
Three bright lights lowered over field and each began flashing eradically for around 10 minutes. Dogs all over area began howling and our dog began growling.
September 17, 2023 · 8:45 AM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalSan Rafael (Lucas Valley / Marinwood), CA
Observing about fleet of 20 bright lights floating inline from west to east (from ocean to in land) over Lucas Valley / Marinwood. Lights were a size of stars in the night sky, and the fleet of light was moving in sky with equal interval between each other, in very straight line like a military unit. But, by reaching some abstract and invisible point in sky they become disappearing one after another (not all at once). Unfortunately, a camera on Iphone 12 is too weak to make recording of those light in night sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
September 16, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
Bedding down for the night (currently homeless) and got laid down on my back looking up at the stars from my not comfortable sleeping position and bogey!, from the W - N.W. did fly one single BIGGER, brighter, fuzzy (kinda) spark. It trucked along as they typically do. It was such an obvious UAP (to me) that I did emote (mental telepathy) out loud!, to any/all parking lot users within mindshot to, "look up! There's one!" It continued on to the E - S.E. until out of my viewable sight. -end
September 16, 2023 · 8:16 PM · LIGHT
Indian Lake, NY
8:16 pm Saturday night, September 16, 2023 - UFO spotting in Indian Lake, NY - an extra bright light moving vertical relatively fast (at first thought it was a satellite), but then started going back and forth horizontal and then began to fade and disappeared.
September 16, 2023 · 8:12 PM · LIGHT
Conneaut, OH
My wife and I were watching the ISS fly over our house. Suddenly we saw another light rapidly coming up behind the ISS, on what appeared to be the same path as the ISS. The light then caught up to and rapidly passed the ISS, at which point we could tell it was quite a bit higher than the ISS and much, much faster. The light passed above and just slightly to the left of the space station, and quickly disappeared behind the clouds. We watched the ISS for probably another 45 seconds to a minute until it also went behind the clouds.
September 16, 2023 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
New Haven, CT
A nice night, my husband (former Air Force) and I were on our deck enjoying the night. He looked up and said "Look! A shooting star!" I caught it flying diagonally downwards from the east (about a 30 degree trajectory) and it just stopped. The "tail" of what we first thought was a shooting star dissipated very quickly before it stopped in mid-air. Just a small dot of light. Then three steady, round red lights poof! went on. It just hung out there, perfectly still, in mid air for about a minute. Then the lights turned green for a few seconds. The lights went white and it sped off west. We lost sight of it behind the trees. There was no sound, no chem trails, no light trail. No craft in the sky. We unfortunately did not get a picture. We weren't quick enough. But I can draw a diagram to figure the distance and size.
September 14, 2023 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
The lights would move up and down sideways, diagonally and in circles
September 14, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Eastampton, NJ
I was on the phone with a friend, just passively watching the night sky (as I always do when outside at night), and noticed a light in the sky I first took for a star. The object was hovering. Then it moved left and right in a lazy, swaying kind of motion, before pausing, and then dropping straight down at a very, very fast pace toward the ground. The closest analogy I can muster is that it was like watching a duck falling out of the sky after being shot, it just dropped plumb down from its original position. It disappeared from my view behind a building, but the object had to be quite far away. It was along a line between Mt. Holly, NJ and Rehoboth Beach, DE based on comparisons between my Night Sky App, my phone’s compass app, and Google maps. I tried to find reports on the news, or videos on social media, but found nothing. It would be extremely hard to believe that no one else had seen the same phenomenon.
September 14, 2023 · 7:40 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedTucson, AZ
Saw a distant light coming slowly across the sky with large aura/tail of light Alpha Firefly SLC-2W, Vandenberg SFB California, United States Responsive space mission for the USSF's Space Systems Command, Firefly has 24 hours to launch upon notice. https://fireflyspace.com/missions/victus-nox/ [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
September 13, 2023 · 11:10 PM · LIGHT
Mount Vernon, IL
First, I thought it was a star, then it disappeared so I figured maybe it had wenrt behind the cloud, then I thought that was quick for a cloud! So I thought plane, then I realized there were no clouds in the sky so I went for my camera when I was fairly certain it was nothing normal what so ever! I was afraid I would get it but as though it was putting on a show it didn’t disappoint! I didn’t realize second craft until my wife brought it to my attention then I discovered that it popped up at least 3 more times then I realized! So amazing! [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 13, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Eastpointe, MI
i was smoking with my friend on the roof and the sky was clear, no clouds in sight, and we spotted these lights moving really fast through the sky and then we spotted another one and there were so many, they were faster than helicopters or planes and they were close to the stars so too high up for planes. some of them formed triangles, and some of them were just flying around. some of them had lights blinking red and white and some were still white or still red. we couldn’t identify a shape, they just looked like spheres with lights.
September 13, 2023 · 8:17 PM · LIGHT
Chatham, IL
I arrived at home at 8:15 and looked north over the town of Chatham, Il and saw 8 lights flying low over the city. Not in formation but moving in the same general direction. I took 2 videos and 1 still picture. They appears very bright and orange. And they disappears one at a time as they made their way to the southwest. They did not zip away, but just kind of disappears after a few minutes. One at a time. I called my wife who was inside and had her come out and look. I did not hear any noise associated with them. No rotor noise or anything like that. We were both kind of dumbfounded.
September 13, 2023 · 7:57 PM · LIGHT
Palatine, IL
I saw a bright white light traveling slowly with no sound from west to east. The object had no blinking lights indicating a conventional airplane. I recorded it for a period to show what I had witnessed. Using a plane tracking app shows no registered aircraft in the vicinity. Looking at the object through binoculars didn’t provide any more detail, the white light was just larger. I can’t say what it was but I know that it wasn’t an drone or an airplane.
September 13, 2023 · 7:39 PM · LIGHT
Vail (near Tucson), AZ
My son and I were out with the dogs about 7:35 and it was very clear after the rain that moved through. The Milky way was very clear/visible. I was looking for Andromeda (in the wrong spot it turned out) facing north and looking near the zenith when to the left/west of where I was looking a bright light appeared and then accelerated moving the length of my pinky finger held at arms length in a fraction of a second. The glow faded though I could still see the object and it seemed to stop or slowed greatly. Then it flared bright and moved again about the same amount in a similar amount of time. There was no sound. After this second movement, I was able to get my wits about me, to call my son's attention to it. We watched it do this brightening and accelerating, dimming and flaring bright with attendant acceleration and occasionally juking to the north. The juking happened during the dim phase, about every other movement. There was another 6-7 or so evolutions. It then fully disappeared. We both began scanning the sky in all directions and after about a minute or so I saw the object reappear in the vicinity of where I last saw it. It became very bright and zoomed the length of the Santa Catalina mountains in a second or so, from west to east, where it had been moving to the NNW. It became visible near the north, big end of the big dipper in the west. It was gone before I could call my son's attention to it. There was no tail but it was bright enough that time that it left a retinal glow/smear for a few seconds similar to what you'd get from watching a welding arc from across the room. It appeared to be in space and was moving at an apparent rate of speed well in excess of any conventional aircraft. We continued looking and saw several obvious satellites, C130, A10, some commercial air traffic and even a meteor. The meteor moved from south to northwest, moving slower (maybe 1/3 the speed) than the first object(s) we saw, had a tail and sparks with the brightest part being a large flare right before it went dark. Normal stuff. My son called it out and I was able to turn my head and watch it burn out. When the object went from west to east it happened so fast I couldn't call it out before it was essentially gone, therefore my din missed seeing that evolution. During the period of looking we also saw some satellites but then saw 2 additional objects tracking directly North with a red orange color. These did not pulse or juke but they looked very different than satellites, which normally go east to west or on a diagonal NNW to SSE and moving across the sky perhaps 2 times faster. While they did not pulse or flare in brightness, they also did not fade as satellites do and moved approximately 2x as fast They were there traversing the sky one moment, then just disappeared. None of the major planets were in the night sky and I know what they look like. I'm familiar with many aircraft types. These objects moved unlike airplanes I've ever experienced and much faster. Nor were they moving like conventional satellites. I've tracked observed the ISS and the shuttle, even both at the same time on one of the very last shuttle missions. Also witnessed Starlink strings and rocket launches. I lived on the Gulf Coast of Florida and watched shuttle launches at night, traverse the sky. This sighting was very different than any of those things, much brighter and moved at apparent speeds well in excess of what I've witnessed with aviation, satellites, spacecraft, and meteors.
September 11, 2023 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Carlsbad, CA
Flashing horizontal lights 3 abreast. Saw for 3 minutes.
September 11, 2023 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
South Bend, IN
My son and I were waiting on the bus and we saw three stars in the sky all in a line, like Orion’s belt but it was too far northeast to be Orion. We suddenly watch the left-most star begin to slowly yet steadily drift away from the other stars as it eventually disappeared, seemingly fading into the dark of the early morning sky.
September 10, 2023 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Spokane, WA
Beginning last nite say approx. 23:45hrs or so as I sat in the River Park Square park, taking in yet another clear, highly visible sky and as it and they go someway, somehow on or in a frequency! that has repeatedly (over the years) pinged me, "Hey Ry?" and always (varied, typically) directing my gauze to the area or direction that very specific, lowww frequency they utilize, and again last nite I mostly whipped my head to the right and upwards and 'flashy flash flashy floo' red, flash! a very distant appearing 'star' ...huh. and out loud in moi mind, "did ANYONE observing or on this freq. see that?" Whoa... And then not more than two more times a red flash! on two other 'star' appearing points in the nighttime sky. And two very very obvious, distinct blue, not so much a flash! and certainly not any prior observed transition in the darkness above ever observed by me prior. 'NEW!' Like an all of a sudden blue dot over that bright 'appearing star'. And then about at that point in time my mind went to one specific caveat about UAP's in their observable, operational wherewithal that they do, can, have and will position themselves in front of the viewable (from Terra Firma) star at whatever distance and essentially utilize that celestial object ( observable star- twinkle twinkle!) as in-flux camouflage (morphing) using the position in the sky and appearance to post up and observe. IMO. - Fin
September 10, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Cedar City, UT
Every night thy show up. Circling around. They move directly depending on the night. There was less of them last night. You best send someone out to get good videos before they are gone. I have full video if you wanted me to send them. The files are to large. I do not dare edit them. The last time I did that, the video was erased!
September 10, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Cedar city, UT
I'm on a different job site so they are not doing anything at the distance I'm at. This has been going on for weeks. At another job site, a few weeks ago, they were brighter and more numerous. You can see in the video they are moving in a circle. They are not as steady as the video shows. They move like fireflies, and I almost got video of them going high to low. They changed course once I started recording.