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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.

11,675 entries

September 28, 2023 · 4:20 AM · SPHERE

Probable conventional

West Deptford, NJ

UAP not moving, just in place towards 295 N, NJ, took photos from exit 26/Bellmawr. On my departure it was still in place. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]

September 26, 2023 · 10:50 PM · SPHERE

I was leaving to walk my dog when I saw what looked like a meteor by its brightness. It did not move like one but did maneuver in the sky with some speed. It was going north to south then stood stationary. It would change from bright white to orange the fade out. Then repeat. As it was faded out, it maneuvered further away when dark then reappear in another spot illuminated again. Looked like it could have been a very large drone, but it's range of travel seemed unlikely to be a personal drone. It eventually remained lit and returned to the north off into the horizon and left my sight heading towards North Shore of LI / Connecticut. I recorded 2 30 second video clips. Also this was 100% not a plane or helicopter. I had full visual of all the plane traffic in the area and they all were at the correct altitudes for arrival into JFK. This light was intense. You can see airplanes and a star in the background of the videos I took.

September 26, 2023 · 7:26 PM · SPHERE

Atchison, KS

I noticed the object because of the rate of climb and pause. It would ascend around 2 or 3 hundred feet diagonally southward and pause for a half second. It did this a few times and then flew directly westward with no pause after it's last climb at a ridiculous speed. There was ample daylight still as it headed west, but no telltale sign of any type of aircraft body. It remained a dull orange colored orb as it flew out of sight.

September 26, 2023 · 12:30 AM · SPHERE

Milton Keynes, BUCKINGH · United Kingdom

Sighting in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. Whilst walking home just after midnight I observed some lights in the sky to the West. Due to the number of street lights where I was I walked towards a retail park where it was a little darker to get a better view. I observed a bright light in the sky which illuminated the surround clouds. Its altitude did not change it was not a comet or meteorite in the atmosphere. There was 3 objects which circled around each other, at times their altitude went a little higher and they made a C shape at one point, was very bright. I managed to film but as this totally caught me by surprise and I am not use to recoding much on my phone especially at night I did not make full use of the zoom feature. I recorded a 5 minute video 2x zoom but too large to upload its nearly 700MB and took some photos which have attached. I did not observe any noise from the distance I was from them which I estimate to be 4-5kms. I am trying to keep anonymous if you want the video email me.

September 25, 2023 · 10:51 PM · SPHERE

Edgerton, MO

This is the second time I have video recorded this ball of light in the sky over my farm. It is about the height of a helicopter but makes no sound. It hovers and makes swift changes in direction but stays in the same area. I was trying to find out what this object may be. I do live close to an airport and know what the airplanes look like it does not seem as high as the airplanes and stays in the same spot appearing to be a spinning ball of light.

September 23, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE

Probable conventional

Crittenden, KY

On the night of september twenty third, at about nine thirty p m I was taking my dog out and seen brigth white moving from the northwest to the southeast. At first there was 2and I hollered for my Wife. When she got to the back porch the 2 had disappeared in the southeast. That's when we saw 8 more appear in the northwest. We watched them move across the sky the same has the others and disappear then 4 more appeared and moved across the sky and to same spot as the others and just vanish. They moved at a very fast pace but they were all in a somewhat straight line and somewhat evenly spaced in the 3 separate groups we saw. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]

September 22, 2023 · 10:45 PM · SPHERE

Cardiff, WALES · United Kingdom

I looked up to the sky to notice these round shaped white lights bouncing around each other following in fast movement behind the clounds but bright enough to see they would go back n forth the edging of the clouds then disappear rapidly coming back in like a repeating pattern then there was a 45 min gap which i shone a lazer for litrally a split second then out of no where they were back as the clouds broke apart what looked like a shooting star in flame orange colour flew across the sky so fast i dont do this as a hobbie it caught my attention what was this

September 21, 2023 · 11:41 PM · SPHERE

Albuquerque, NM

Facing South-Fast Moving Light ball (golf ball) appeared out of nowhere and shot straight up and disappeared. It was between 11:30 and 11:45pm.

September 21, 2023 · 10:07 AM · SPHERE

Staines on Thames, SURREY · United Kingdom

My Mum and Sister saw a plane during travelling to Staines on Thames Surrey UK when my mum noticed a plane seemed to be frozen in time in the sky. Was upset by the sighting and felt uneasy. Once the visit ended 2 hours later she saw what seems to be the same plane still frozen in place in the sky at the same location. This freaked her out and she took a photo which showed a series of lights that trailed nearby all linked by direction changing contrails which seemed to link to a light sitting in the nearby tree. Photo is most clear on her phone when zoomed in. On transferring to other devices become less clear and pixelated. This was a really distressing scenario to my mum as she felt no one would believe her, though she told us and we could see from the picture something weird is going on. Perhaps all the lights are the same craft travelling close to speed of light that froze the image of the passing plane behind? Very strange and creepy, a real hair raiser.

September 20, 2023 · 5:14 PM · SPHERE

Surrey-white rock, BC · Canada

I was driving home after work at about 5:14 pm and looked up at the sky and saw a craft high above the tree line. It was about as high as an airplane. It had no visible wings or tail. It shined brightly like it was reflecting the sun, and then completely vanished in thin air. Clear, sunny conditions. I have a dash cam and will review the footage and see if it captured the craft.

September 19, 2023 · 4:50 AM · SPHERE

Innisfil, ON · Canada

While driving south bound, I see a flying object/orb flying from south-west to north-east at a low altitude, seemed to have constant speed and flying in a specific direction. I'm familiar with seeing planes and stars in the night sky and was trying my best to catch any other lights to signify what was flying but the object was a warm orange color which did not change during the duration of the flight. I could tell it was flying low because of the trajectory it was moving compared to other lights in the sky and the pre-sunrise on the horizon.

September 19, 2023 · 2:39 AM · SPHERE

Battle Mountain, -

The balls of light would start randomly appearing then disappearing. Some of them would get bright and then kinda orange, then would again disappear, shortly after filming the first video and started the second one they started appearing and disappearing in a different spot kinda close to where they were coming from. I would say they are orb like but when zoomed in the have a different shape.

September 19, 2023 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE

Cardington, OH

4-5 hours of 2 lights chasing g each other in the sky and in the grass

September 18, 2023 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE

Cortez, CO

I was closing my upstairs bedroom window which overlooks Cortez at around 10:15 pm when I saw this strange red light. At first I thought it was the moon, but it was in the wrong position in the sky. I called my two sons to look at it and they saw the same thing. It was red, glowing, elongated upright that grew taller and then shorter a few times. At one point it looked like a thin cresent moon, hanging cockeyed in the sky. At one point we couldn't see it, then it came back before disappearing. I am a lab technician, one of my sons is a college graduate. My other son works in Durango. My dog was acting scared and wouldn't be left alone. We did take pictures with my cell phone but they are not clear.

September 18, 2023 · 8:23 PM · SPHERE

Bow, WA

Was leaving our shop and noticed a single bright orb like light hovering above. The light appeared to be white in color but again it was very bright. Seemed to have no sound. It was up pretty high but not star distance, it was heading east moving down slowly then fast some what frantically and slowed down again dropping out of sight behind my home. I ran to the other side to find it and it was gone.

September 18, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE

Picton, ON · Canada

I witnessed multiple yellow orbs before sunset and with clear blue sky. Upon placing my direct vision / eyesight on an orb it would pause then immediately speed up and disappear into thin air. These where in no formation and witnessed in the same part of the sky over a 15 minute duration and at far distance. In particular two these orbs moved in my direction before vanishing and myself observing what I would describe as a transparent ring following the same path.

September 18, 2023 · 4:28 PM · SPHERE

Blandford Forum, ENGLAND · United Kingdom

We spotted a silver shiny orb like object at or above cloud cover height in an otherwise clear sky. It was heading on an easterly course in the opposite direction to the wind direction so appeared to be acting on its own propulsion. I checked on my aircraft app and there was no aircraft in that area at that time. I have video footage from my IPhone of this which is 3 minutes long. The object was round orb type and appeared to be silver with sunlight shining off it. There was one object. I am a semi retired ex Supermarket manager and my wife is a part time primary teacher.

September 18, 2023 · 6:30 AM · SPHERE

Charleston International Airport, SC

Looked like it was shuffling along with a strange smoke behind it unlike anything I’ve seen in aircraft

September 17, 2023 · 9:51 PM · SPHERE

Monterrey, NUEVO LE · Mexico

Saw from a balcony with a south-east view. 4 lights on the clear sky, moving. Too fast to be planes, also too low. Changing colors from blue to red to white. A few seconds after we started recording, the lights started to scatter, moving at different speeds Biggest, static white light it's a radio antena located on a mountain at around 1800 meters high, and 9 miles away from the balcony we recorded from, so the moving lights were closer than that. It was right above a big city, we looked up for drone shows and none came up for the area, but lights moved way too fast and way to high to be drones for a drone show, they were also too big.

September 17, 2023 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE

Identified

Ossining, NY

Two orbs were bouncing off of each other in the night sky. Three hours after there was a power outage in my area. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]

September 17, 2023 · 1:35 AM · SPHERE

Melrose, WI

This object has been routinely spotted this summer on clear nights. The object in the enclosed video slowly ascended straight up out of view, but danced around from side to side-it appeared an object like a saucer -was both spinning in the sphere and moving 180 continuously in the sphere This is my first time reporting but on June 2nd I got a clear view of a saucer that was much lower to the ground through my field binoculars. I believe the saucer is creating some kind of magnetic field as it navigates our environment which is not visible to the naked eye during a daytime sighting. In the evening the lights of the saucer allow for a view of this magnetic field as its lights bounce off it, creating the view I am uploading tonight. I have seen this object at varying different altitudes all summer. eventually lights will dim as the object decides to take off. This appears to me to be the same type object our Navy has been spotting and recording. If you have good binoculars, when the lights dim for departure a saucer can be seen in the sphere. We dont fly aircraft in pitch black at 40K with the cockpit lights bright, you can not see well out the window. I believe the same applies here, while loitering in the same spot at different altitudes in the evening you see the lights of the saucer bouncing off this field. Making it difficult to identify what it is. On June 2nd at 1051 pm when this same object decided to leave, the lights dimmed and in the spere- Through my binoculars at close range-=a grey saucer with lights around the sides that had dimmed. I did not get that view last night as when first spotted the sphere was much higher then on June 2. I am retired USAF-Have spent my life flying and looking to the sky. I can not explain what I have been seeing, not a drone, not a plane, not a weather balloon-a saucer in a sphere the way it looks to me. if you can zoom into this, you will get a good view of the sphere and discern movement in it.

September 16, 2023 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE

Lake Worth, FL

I was outside viewing about 7 or so before I ran inside to grab my cell phone, it was in my room so grabbed my mothers. I filmed for 6 minutes or so, ran back inside to get my mom to witness and handed her her phone. I ran to my room and grabbed my phone because its newer so I figured it was a better camera. I sent the video to my cousin who is a sergeant in the marines and asked if these looked like drones, flares or something else military oriented. He said: "I have no clue what that could’ve been. No way it was a drone or flare with the way those were moving that’s really cool though." While sky lanterns are illegal in FL I know people will break the law so entertained these objects could be that, but in one video an orb disappears then reappears in the 6:04 video (within the first 17 seconds or so), and the lot of them move backwards. It was not breezy at all out, you can see there is no movement in the treetops. I suppose a pocket of air up high could have caused the backwards movement. Here's a Youtube link with all of the footage stitched together unedited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRtWfXbF2c

September 16, 2023 · 8:13 PM · SPHERE

North Tonawanda, NY

While observing the ISS passing overhead, I saw a star-like object travelling parallel to, and just north of the ISS. It was perhaps 5 degrees north of the ISS, and "pacing" it in the sky. It was pulsating in light intensity, about 6 times in the 40 seconds of observation. It's speed was about double that of the ISS. It went out of view in the northeast, as did the ISS.

September 16, 2023 · 8:05 PM · SPHERE

Levittown, NY

I am including additional photos, to a previous post. On September 16, 2023 around 8 PM, I witnessed a short downward flash in the night sky, which turned into a pulsing sphere, that traveled across the sky in a southeast direction. The video is a bit shaky because I was going down my driveway to get a better view with my video phone, and I was able to later review in detail. I’ve enclosed the original video, and some enlarged photos from frames, which are pretty INCREDIBLE.. Aside from the changing colors, there appears to be possible rims, split shapes and something inside another photo but very faint. I hope this can be reviewed.