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July 24, 2023 · 10:38 PM · LIGHT
Bailieboro, ON · Canada
Witness: Retired Canadian Armed Forces/Private Investigator. At approximately 2238hrs while standing in my backyard I noticed a bright orange light appear in the sky to the north. The light almost seemed to be traveling up into the sky before heading southeast and eventually over top of me. It continued on a southeast course over the trees to the east of my property, and eventually out of sight. The bright orange colour of the object immediately caught my eye, as it did not resemble any other satellites or celestial objects I had seen before while star gazing (which I do quite frequently). The light also appeared to be lower and slower than satellites I have seen pass over my home. The light was completely silent and the sighting lasted approximately three minutes.
July 24, 2023 · 10:30 PM · CHANGING
Probable conventionalStaten Island, NY
As my wife and I were crossing the street walking dog I see you when I appear to be an airplane light. It looks brighter than usual when you look in the sky. As I was watching this fly across sky I noticed right away it looked alot different then a airplane. As I ran back across the street to get a better open view, the light completely disappeared, but there was still a something flying same speed only no light just a pure silhouette. I also do not have vidoe. But after I lifted the phone to take a video and went home, I stayed outside, and saw two planes close to each orher. I could be wrong but u thought maybe it was military planes afterwards. God only knows Likely an aircraft moving towards the witness then turning away [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
July 24, 2023 · 9:53 PM · CIGAR
Stone harbor, NJ
Viewed through my telescope with 60x magnification very close to the star Antares
July 24, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Witness observed a light that at first looked to be a normal satellite transiting the sky, about 45 degrees above the horizon while looking out to sea. It appeared to be moving in a south / southeast direction. After observing this dim star-like light for about 15 seconds, it executed an immediate ~ 120-degree turn to the left (from the witness’ perspective) and instantly accelerated to a velocity that was about 10x its original speed. The light sped away and disappeared within about a second after making the turn.
July 24, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Hubert, NC
I saw a very strange thing on the night of 24 Jul 2023 at 2130. I was laying in bed and just happened to open my eyes and saw a red "star" in the sky that was very bright. I instantly thought it was Mars and just looked at it for a second or two before I realized that it was moving towards the South. As I watched it move, it grew in size to about the size of the Moon and I decided to wake up my wife. I asked her what it was and she immediately said, "that is the Moon." I pointed out that the Moon was higher up and while I showing her the Moon, the object split into a bunch of red "stars" and grew to about the size of the Sun when it is on the horizon. There were probably 15 or 20 stars all arranged in a circle. They then expanded outward slightly and intensified their illumination and then vanished. The lights seemed to be at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. The whole event lasted about 30 seconds, so I didn't have time to get a camera or go outside. It was the craziest thing that my wife and I have ever seen. Somebody said it could have been StarLink, but these were red lights and not in a straight line. They made a semetrical circle with all of the lights evenly spaced. A coworker told me that there was a Facebook post asking if anyone saw the red lights the night before, but he didn't read it and couldn't give me the details. I don't have Facebook, but I know a lot of people do. Any insight would be awesome. Thank you.
July 24, 2023 · 8:54 PM · CIRCLE
St Neots, CAMBRIDG · United Kingdom
When I saw it, I was trying to figure out if it was a bird but couldn’t see any wings and the pace was different to a bird’s. I shouted to my husband to see it just to be sure that it doesn’t look like a plane or a bird. He did agree that the shape is funny and he could see a light in it which I could see on my turn too. And that just confirmed that it was not a bird. The shape was circular and black travelling in a steady pace and speed. We only couldn’t see it further because the building of the house blocked our view but I assume that it was going to the same direction from North heading West or South or South-West.
July 24, 2023 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Los Angeles, CA
My wife and I went for a later than usual walk with our dog. Right before we were got home, my wife points out a light in the sky and asks me, “Is that a plane?” I look up and see the bright light, and I start my process of elimination. I’ve many times looked up hoping to see something that wasn’t a satellite or airplane, but often to my own disappointment, I can quickly figure out when that’s the case. Then, the light begins to dim, so I think space debris, and then it lights up again, changing direction by around 45°. At this point I’m still thinking shooting star or something. Until it started to light and dim over and over and we see it flying in an S shaped path. My wife and I both noticed between its bright cycle would almost be a dim red/orange light. Eventually it went past the horizon of the mountain and we lost sight of it.
July 24, 2023 · 8:02 PM · FORMATION
Enfield, CT
At 8:02 PM on Monday July 24th 2023 while at my son's Little League baseball game, I noticed, initially 2 oddly shaped objects flying overhead from the south, the objects appeared over the tree line (for a moment I thought the objects were powered parachute type ultra-light aircraft however, I quickly realized they were moving too fast and maneuvering oddly), they were dark gray or black, they had definitive lines of structure to them. One appeared to be an inverted pyramid, or upside-down top, this object looked as though it were tumbling forward, then would rotate / spin, the next object (in trail) appeared cube/diamond like, with curved edges so that when rotated at times would appear to be almost spherical, exhibiting similar flight characteristics. At this point in time another parent and I made eye contact, she said "tell me I'm not the only one seeing this", (2 other parents also witnessed this event and all were perplexed). At this time the third object came into view, further to the west, appearing to be higher in altitude and moving faster. This object appeared to be similar to object #2, it gained on the first 2 objects and then held in a loose formation, the formation was somewhat similar to an isosceles triangle. I was able to get the attached pictures. Weather at the time at nearby Bradley International Airport is included in the attached screenshot of the ATIS information that was current at the time of the sighting. The fields this sighting occurred at are quite large, the area is flat with a good field of view, these objects transited the visible sky from roughly south to north within 45-60 seconds. There was no noise, no contrails, no lights of any kind. According to the attached screenshot of flightradar24 there were no aircraft correlating to the location of these objects or in their direction they were traveling (at least none utilizing a transponder). Initial report to NUFORC was made via phone shortly after sighting occurred.
July 24, 2023 · 9:45 AM · OVAL
Ouray, CO
I was back in Ouray Sunday evening July 23rd. Monday morning, my husband & I were closing the 3rd Floor balcony door s facing toward Telluride to the West & the upper windows facing South to seal in the cooler air against the heat without AC. I saw the whitish, squashed-football craft, the same type as I saw in Texas, June 6th, silently making its way from the West to the East until it disappeared over the Eastern Ridgeline towards Cascade Falls. I pointed it out to my husband , then went to the next Southern Window to watch it pass out of view over the East Ridgeline about 60-80 degrees above ground. It surprised me that it was similar to the silent Oval craft I saw in Texas June 6. The skin of the craft was whitish, almost translucent & refracted or reflected the light. It would have blended in with clouds but we have 300 days of sunshine in Ouray & the summer monsoons happen normally between 2-4 pm, so they're were no clouds to hide behind. It took about 38 seconds to travel 40 degrees across the sky at a silent, steady pace. I have seen the jet fighters shoot the Narrow Ouray Canyon on 4th of July from South to North & every sound echoes & reverberates through the Ouray canyon. The commercial flights from south to north to the Montrose airport similarly intensify any engine noise but this was completely silent as it passed over. There were no lights there were no means of propulsion visible just a whitish oval craft traveling from west to east & then out of sight over the peak where the Perimeter Trail passes by Cascade Falls toward the South. I made this report because this was the 2nd time in 6 weeks, 937 miles apart I saw this same, silent, whitish, squashed-football craft: in June in Texas & in July in Colorado. I would very much like to know if others are seeing this craft in the daytime, where else it is sighted, how large it is & how fast it travels. I can draw some images of the two sightings but only in Texas are there water towers & other landmarks to try& garage distance/ size. Maybe it's like when you get a certain make and color of car then you seem to see those everywhere. I have only ever seen craft at night that I thought were planes in Houston until it made 90 degree at speed. I saw a 2-3, silent, low-flying orangish lights in the winter sky in Prescott Arizona in 2022 near Granite Mountain heading South to Downtown Prescott. These 2 sightings of daytime craft were likely because I paid more attention to the daytime sky since the Chinese Spy Balloon was in the news. In Arizona, my former HotShot Wildland FireFighter Friends spoke of unusual lights From the Superstition Mtns to the Coconino Forest from Snowflake to Flagstaff & how the Natives believe in Star People. People with ranches in that area have seen weird lights & knew+believed Travis Walton. My stephenville ranching relatives reported seeing odd behaving lights decades before Former President Bush had a no-fly zone around the Crawford Ranch. My father saw an odd craft in rural Blanco Texas while hunting in the late 1960s. My husband agrees what we saw was not a known aircraft but refuses to speculate on what it exactly was either time we witnessed it in Texas or Colorado. Has the crow flies Prescott Arizona is not very far from Sedona & just a short drive to Prescott valley where the Phoenix lights of 1977 were first spotted in Arizona as they headed south to PHX. In Ouray we have spent many hours at night , winter & summer sitting in the City Hot Springs seeing the bright Milky Way & many shooting stars. In Prescott & Texas, we watch for the Elon's satellite launches & space station flyovers. We know many of the night paths of satellites & commercial flyers. We watch the Orionids & Leonid Meteor Showers each summer but neither of us or our contractor had seen daylight craft flying silently until June in Texas or July in Colorado. I did not post on Nextdoor like I did in Prescott for the nighttime orangish lights. Others saw an orange-lit çraft fly low over their homes including an outdoor party. I like this anonymous forum. I hope to get answers about these craft.
July 24, 2023 · 1:30 AM · SPHERE
Wetmore, MI
Three witnesses saw the same thing. Whitish yellow sphere seen shining through densely forested area. Object then climbed to a height above the tree line, and then took on a bouncing, stair stepping-like pattern as it made its way toward the lake, along the tree line. Followed what appeared to be the shoreline at a rapid rate. Object had differing levels of flying heights, abrupt speeds and stops, seemingly aware of our presence. Silent movements. Everything was silent; even the frogs. The object flew toward us from across the lake after pausing, in what seemed like a response to my brother saying, “Hey!” My brother said, “Hey!” a second time after it had paused, and that’s when it abruptly flew toward us from all the way across the lake. We ran inside our cabin (like that would somehow provide safety, we joked afterwards), and the object remained at a height of about 10 feet off the ground. It then seemed to float alongside our cabin and then vanished from view. We can not explain it and have ruled out any reasonable speculation of what it could have been.
July 24, 2023 · 12:20 AM · OVAL
Newcastle, WA
Saw a Large black oval that I thought was a helicopter while driving south bound on I405 above Newcastle. It was large enough to be a helicopter, but the silhouette was smooth, and on the left side there was a green blinking light. It was not moving, and it was completely silent, and stayed above in the air in one spot the entire time I passed by it.
July 24, 2023 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Buffalo, NY
Myself and two of my friends cited a ufo/up over Georgetown Park in the early morning of July 24th 2023
July 23, 2023 · 11:59 PM · CIGAR
Mlini Dubrovnik, International Waters
Just around midnight, could be earlier there was an electric storm. Thunder and lightning a big downpour of rain and everything seemed to go quite. I was sitting on the balcony when the black night sky turned pink and this object appeared. There were people outside but not sure if anyone else reported it. I caught the photo as I was shooting photos of the storm.
July 23, 2023 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
Buffalo, NY
Flying around my home at around 10-11 pm
July 23, 2023 · 9:51 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedFort Worth, TX
Noticed a larger (larger than Star smaller than moon) sphere of light with an aura around it moving through the night sky at about the same rate a satellite would. Aura got larger and larger then dissipated. Sphere shot another aura out of the front of it and the aura moved in front of the sphere spreading out as it moved. Sphere disappeared behind house line. Was moving southwest across the sky SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 23, 2023 · 9:46 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalMcKinney, TX
We were sitting on back porch the object approached from the west moving east. It appeared like a plane with landing lights flying in cloudy or foggy sky but the sky was clear I stayed out afterwards and all planes that flew a similar area were clear and lights could be made out clearly. As it moved along without sound a large line like a projector appeared in front of the object but did not move as the object did when it got to the line the object appeared to go into it and disappeared. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen a few moments after it disappeared there was a bright flash like lightning from the same area. SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
July 23, 2023 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalQuanah, TX
SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
July 23, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedFlorence, TX
I can best give the time as: past sunset, still a little orange at the horizon. Venus was in the orange part of sky near horizon. The moon was crescent and it was illuminating some high clouds that night. The UFO started as a glowing orb moving across the western sky from N-NW towards S-SE. I can't tell if the glow was caused by interaction with high clouds, but I initially thought it was a satellite reentry judging by the speed and apparent distance. There were no blinking lights or sound, and it was moving about same speed as a passing satellite. As the object passed (from my viewpoint) under the crescent moon, that's when a donut shaped cloud formed just ahead of the object and, surprisingly to me, the cloud seemed to progress ahead of the object faster than the object was moving. The cloud appeared to move in the same direction as the object as the cloud expanded, similar to someone blowing a smoke ring from a cigar. From my viewpoint, I was seeing the cloud almost edge-on, but off enough to see clearly that it was a ring-shaped cloud. My two best guesses for what I saw are: A - a satellite bouncing off the upper atmosphere, and some part of it triggered a transonic induced ring cloud. B - a craft launched a projectile that created the ring cloud as the projectile went transonic. I never heard any kind of sonic boom though, nor could I ever see any projectile (just the cloud formed ahead of the object that I could see). The ring cloud is what made me think this was weird enough to report. Also, last detail, after the ring cloud, the original object dimmed as it moved away and there was no longer any glow around it. SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 23, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Buckholts, TX
White bright lights with haze like fog surrounded the object, There was no noise audible from the craft. The craft made a right turn in the sky and flew into thin clouds.
July 23, 2023 · 9:26 PM · TRIANGLE
IdentifiedCaddo Mills, TX
Observed a white light that looked to be behind clouds or fog, as it got closer I was unable to see where the light originated from so I stop at the local car wash and watched the light as it got closer. The craft continued to travel northeast then turned right to travel east / south east. That's when I saw the outline of a triangle craft that was translucent or trying to be invisible. The craft traveled east/south east and before I knew it, it was gone. SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 23, 2023 · 9:26 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedGRAHAM, TX
Noticed moving light just below Venus moving slowly across sky. The light was very fuzzy so I thought it could be moisture in the air causing it. Venus, the moon and all other stars were clear so I don't think it was moisture. As it moved we could see a faint fuzzy arc ahead of it until it disappeared to the southwest. We did not see any navigation lights and did not hear any sound. Total sighting time was about 10 minutes. I am an Air Force veteran and amateur astronomy is a hobby. SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 23, 2023 · 9:26 PM · CHANGING
IdentifiedSouth Padre Island, TX
A bright star-like object turned into a glowing disk constantly moving in rainbow-like trajectory. It released a cloud like substance around it that becaume a size of a football field. It then turned back into 2 stars moving in parallel and disappeared SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 23, 2023 · 9:26 PM · SPHERE
Copperas Cove, TX
My friend was looking up at the stars while we were chilling outside on the bottom floor of our complex. She said to me, "Hey,(My Name). Am I trippin' or is that like... what the fuck is that a tiiny moon below the actual moon?!" And I had my glasses on so I could see the bright, distinct sphere gently gliding over the area, but it produced no sound. It appeared to be a very bright white, or light gold orb to the naked eye, but appears to be a disc on the 8X Zoom video I took. The video also appears to be able to see the air moving in front of the craft. It is a sight to behold. We have roughly 6 witnesses. I am 23, one 18 year old, 2 older females who I know, but cannot accurately recall their ages, and 2 children roughly age 10. We all witnessed this, and I have the video to prove it which explores multiple different levels of zoom and focus. You can hear all of us in the background. It drifted from over the horizon to the other horizon within 3-5 minutes.
July 23, 2023 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalHaslet, TX
From the naked eye, the object appeared like a foggy orb. It drifted across the sky and then emitted something. Conditions are clear where I am. I though it looked like plane high beams but it clearly emitted/shot something from the front in a fan shape. There was only a bright white color. Zoomed in on the camera, the object appears to be linear in shape versus round. [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]