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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.
139,459 entries
July 19, 2023 · 9:39 PM · UNKNOWN
Lillington, NC
On a Blink camera attached to a tree in my back yard that kept going off for activity, we noticed something with a blinking light in the fat lady corner of the view. After turning up the volume, we hear what sounds like computer noises and what can seem like a radio communication sampling of voices, but not one word can be understood. This motion infrared camera kept going off and in some of the few second clips, we can see shadows. I have those clips to share.
July 19, 2023 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Probable conventionalHumboldt, AZ
I videoed it and took a picture [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
July 19, 2023 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedValley Village, CA
Started off as a red dot with a tail and quickly gained altitude. Then was a bluish dot around Star height with a parabolic tail. There was only one. I was out walking my dog when I thought I saw a shooting star. My mom and I were walking our dog and she stopped to look. Then another man down the street stopped to look. We watched the red dot shoot into the sky, then it briefly disappeared. Then, it returned but was a light blue and had a bluish, parabolic wake behind it rather than a tail. My mom is a middle age professional and I am a student. I have experience in both rocketry and planetary science, but have no clue as to what the object may be. My mom thought it looked like a rocket, but I checked and there were no recent launches to my knowledge. After some time it truly disappeared and we continued our walk. We then noticed a helicopter circling our area, which is unusual as it is a safe suburban neighborhood. My dog was acting weird the whole walk but I’m not sure that he saw it. SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 9:14 PM · CONE
Malibu, CA
We we're packing things up in the car after hanging out on the beach. One of the kids from the car in front of us asked if the object in the sky was a space ship. I looked up and saw a huge aura or haze in a cone like shape coming from the orb. The aura or haze was moving in different ways. But the orb was moving further away. It looked like something straight out of a movie. I took a video on my phone but the aura and haze don't look anywhere as significant as they did in person. The aura or haze stretched across the sky. I watched the orb slowly fade away along with the haze
July 19, 2023 · 9:12 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedDuarte, CA
Last night I was sitting outside waiting for Starlink. It was supposed to pass over Duarte California at 9:22 pm coming from Northwest to East. At 9:12 pm, I saw an individual object coming from the West and heading slightly Southeast. As the object got closer to me, I could see a white light behind it. That light was very bright white emitting in a large fan like pattern. I know Perseid is here, but unlike a meteor, this object was moving fairly slow, and it was visible to me for a couple of minutes. This was very visible over the Los Angeles area. Surely, I can't be the only person to have seen this. I took a short video of it with my camera phone. I don't know why, but the video shows the object as blue, but it was bright white. And it doesn't really show the large fan like light that it was emitting behind it. FYI, the horizontal white line in the video is just the telephone pole wires. It looked like a comet to me. Please let me know if you determine what this was. SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 9:11 PM · SPHERE
Fontan, CA
I saw a bright red, orange orb rise up and it was pretty bright it looked like was turning into a laser, then it shut off then it continued slowly hardly visible , and then suddenly started turning the sky bright [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Possible]
July 19, 2023 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedMenifee, CA
From our backyard, we looked up and saw what looked like a red comet entering the atmosphere. It had a long red tail of what looked like debris or smoke. We ran inside to grab a camera. When we returned, the comet turned bright white, emitting light horizontally from it. Then, it changed direction and went south. The tail disappeared when it did that and you could only see a very small light that changed from red to white. SpaceX launch form Vandenburg [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Earlimart, Allensworth area., CA
Standing outside, across from Big Bs truck stop on Front st in earlimart, ca, looking west, south-west, toward nothing but farmland, I saw what I believed was a firework going up. It had a orange-yellow glow to it, similar to the yellow light emitting from a farm home just below the area the light came up from, at least from my perspective. The light seemed to get brighter, realizing it seemed to be pointing in my direction, I figured it to be a drone from some jerk messing around. I turn my body to it as the light seems to be coming towards me. At this point, it's obviously too high to be a drone, so knowing this, I figure it came up from the horizon from further out than that house. But being in the San Joaquin Valley, I know the mountains are all around, so distance wise, I know it came up from the valley somewhere and am pretty sure it didn't come from over the mountains that are to the west. As the light sort of got brighter, still shining towards my direction, a red dot started to appear. Then, as quickly as it was seemingly coming towards my direction from the west, south-west direction, it started going south, and rising upwards as it went almost straight to the left after coming towards me. That red light got more intense, the orange yellow was gone and there had started to be a red streak behind it as it went south. This red "tail", as it seemed, followed directly behind the dot, no gaps in tail, no smoke, no exhaust, shot south, going upwards gradually, from my perspective. The red streak stops, then from the dot I see the atmosphere around the object begin to part from directly in front of the object. Still no smoke, no plumes, no exhaust. Upon realizing that it has entered the atmosphere, I go back and forth from inside were my wife is to try to get her to see. Also, I have never seen anything space related except on TV and the internet, so I'm super excited. It arches a bit higher at this point, but increases speed going southwards. If I had to say, the object may have been going south, south-east. Upon entering the atmosphere. I believe the red streak was it entering the lower atmosphere, then the hazy separation of the atmosphere was it pushing through and getting into space. At the point of atmosphere separation, the red dot had become tiny, an indication of how far away this is. As the dot makes its way, pushing through the atmosphere, I am going in and out of the rv, getting my 11 yo daughter to atleast witness. Once i had her outside, to my amazement, the object had already made it through the atmosphere, leaving two giant illuminated auras from around it, peculiarly, still no smoke, exhaust, not even the haze was directly behind it, as if the moment it reached the outside of our atmosphere, it left with such force, any haze left from the spreading of the atmosphere seemed to disipate exceptionally quickly. My daughter and I saw the giant spreading of the atmosphere, went inside instantly, made my wife come out in less than a minute, and the light and evidence of the atmosphere being distorted in any way was primarily gone. Just the haze of sorts leaving an almost unrecognizable area that you only can notice if someone saw and pointed it out to you, as I did with my wife. I took note of stars and constellations, I've never studied astrology in any way, but orions belt is where it seemingly vanished into the sky. Atleast, I think it's orions belt. But regardless of the actual constellation name, I know which stars it left towards. The speed, unfathomable. But I know it was about 5 minutes long of an incident, but not 7 minutes or longer. Maybe 6 minutes. Either way, I know it's not a normal rocket because of exhaust, that it's not a comet or shooting star, no tail whatsoever except when first speeding southwards, starting the more progressive climb that it took. It went through the atmosphere, seemingly from the ground, in a matter of roughly 5 minutes. Honestly, it could've been less, because I wasn't looking at time at all. But know it was over in minutes. My daughter and I both saw it pretty much finish getting through the atmosphere. There were no flashing lights. No logical way it could be something human made, given the amount of energy needed to make it through the atmosphere at such speed without leaving any evidence. I believe the red streak of a tail was atmosphere buring up around the object because it was leaving at such a high velocity, it was already red just before the tail started. Also, the tail was short, not long, nothing left behind at all afterwards. My wife thinks I'm crazy, daughter wants to watch Paul, and I thank you for your time. I hope others saw and report somewhere as well. Thank you for your time.
July 19, 2023 · 8:59 PM · LIGHT
IdentifiedSan Diego, CA
There was one object that crossed the sky with an amazingly bright light. All white, left a massive contour. SpaceX launch from Vandenberg [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
San Jose, CA
I am speaking for the witness, who is my 9 year old son. He was in the back yard playing with the dog when he observed a black sphere. There was sufficient features that allowed him to identify what appeared to be rotational movement. He was adamant it was not a balloon. It rose straight up and disappeared from sight. Insufficient information to determine a rate of speed or guestimates on initial altitude, or an estimate of size. My son and I are familiar with aircraft and fly regularly. At risk of sounding bias, his observational skills and ability to identify makes models and years of cars way exceeds my own, and though I am a UFO enthusiast and experiencer, he has spent the last four years telling me I am delusional, and so for him to say he wanted to make a report... Well, here we are. He would not entertain balloon, helicopter, or air clutter as an alternative. The precise time isn't known but reasonably between 1900 and 2000 hours. The date is accurate, as his experience occurred after our evening call. We speak daily, remotely. I live in Texas. He observed an aura around the artifact. This is not something I have discussed with him.
July 19, 2023 · 5:31 PM · DISK
Dayton, OH
I was driving southbound on Woodman at 5:31 PM today, July 19th of 2023 (writing this at 6:35 PM). Saw a shiny, reflective disk (shiny but shadowed on bottom) just like the one at 4 minutes, 13 seconds in The Phenomenon by James Fox. Was heading south, slightly west, away from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Disk appeared to be roughly 300 feet in the air. I could immediately tell - this was absolutely not a plane. Regardless, all options must be ruled out, so once I got home (15 minutes later), I checked numerous flight radars to see if there were any planes passing the surrounding area in said direction - nothing, at all. Object was not visible for approximately ten to fifteen seconds due to trees, after which I pulled into a very open parking lot in attempt to relocate object. Was completely gone, not visible whatsoever. Weather had clouds in the far distance, but was (still is) fairly clear in my relative area. I've seen things that were "hmm, that's kinda strange… could have a prosaic explanation I'm just not thinking of…" before. This was very, very obviously not a plane. There was no exhaust emitted from this object whatsoever. No trail. It was very, very obviously not a balloon or drone. I'm very confused as to what this was.
July 19, 2023 · 2:00 PM · SPHERE
Powell Junction, ID
I spotted a metallic sphere in a clear blue sky in the middle of the day. It was fairly windy and never moved. I was with a group of about 20 friends and only one other person was really able to see it because the sunlight was really bright. It stayed there for 2 hours and some time after it was gone. We were at approximately 7,000’ elevation and the object was 2,000’-3,000’ feet above us and slightly to the east.
July 19, 2023 · 9:16 AM · SPHERE
IdentifiedRialto, CA
I saw what I thought was a plane or helicopter then realized it was traveling backwards the lights were behind it. It was moving too fast to be conventional aircraft and it changed direction too sharp and fast. I considered it to be an asteroid or something like that but I went up in elevation and I’ve seen haley’s comet and Halle bop they never changed elevation. SpaceX launch from Vandenberg [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
July 19, 2023 · 7:27 AM · CIGAR
IdentifiedLemon Grove, CA
one object flying way above where airplanes fly (tho airplanes may fly lower here when coming in for a landing) - bullnose cigar shape had upper and lower fins or 'wings' - not like an airplane. flying east/southeast at 7.27am 7/19/23 about the speed of an airplane [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Certain]
July 18, 2023 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Toronto, ON · Canada
The light appeared to the south almost centred on the vertical, looking East Moved from a SSW position, 45 degrees from horizon to a NNW position at 30 degrees on the horizon. At first we thought it was a comet but it was too close, left no trail and was clearly within the Troposphere.
July 18, 2023 · 9:35 PM · SPHERE
Green Valley, AZ
yellow to white round light came from the sky and travelled parallel with the mountains then then simply disappeared, it seemed to be about a mile distant and a complete guess of altitude would be 2000ft which is far below the mountains that would be to the objects immediate left, or behind it from my viewpoint. it was hard to discern color, it appeared to be both white and yellow during the one to two minutes, the disappearing in the air was most unusual as it was obvious that the object was on the same side of the mountain range as I was. I had gone outside to collect laundry I had left to dry in the sun on chairs, I just happened to remember it before bed and didn't want to leave them out all night. Note: I did not include a phone number or my address as I dont want to be contacted, I just wished to relay what I saw as it was so unusual......it was no plane or helicopter, there were no clouds, and the moon wasnt out yet.
July 18, 2023 · 9:15 PM · OTHER
Farmington, NM
My name is PJ. I live in Farmington, New Mexico with my dog. On July 18, 2023, we experienced a "visit" from something completely unfamiliar to me; something we had never seen before, something apparently not of this world. The day of July 18 passed like any other day until around 9:15 pm. It was late dusk, and my dog was outside sleeping by the front door. I was inside piddling around. Suddenly, the dog (who hardly ever barks) began furiously barking and snarling. My first thought was he was being attacked by a rabid animal, or something similar. I opened the door to see what was happening. The dog was looking skyward, snarling, barking, and snapping at the air. Then I saw it. There in the sky in front of me, just a few hundred feet away, was some kind of metallic craft or vessel with bright lights on it, silently floating by. It was moving approximately 15 mph heading east, about 200 feet off the ground. It had no motor nor propeller; no visible means of propulsion. Its design was simply ladder-like in appearance; not like an A-frame type ladder but like a ladder with parallel legs. I could see the surface of the craft was made of what looked like brushed stainless steel. There were square and/or rectangular lights mounted along the sides and in the corners of each opening between the "rungs", and there seemed to be approximately thirty of these rungs. At the front or leading end of the object, the two parallel sides/legs came together and formed a point, but not a centered point, it was offset to one side. Mounted in the offset point was a round or oval-shaped light which was considerably larger and brighter than the other lights. The object was approximately 100 to 120 feet long and perhaps 12 to 15 feet wide. I grabbed my cell phone and began preparing the camera to get a video. When I looked up again, it was gone. It just vanished; disappeared. Something worth mentioning: my dog was not looking at the airborne object but rather in another direction, as though something else had been there, and had obviously entered his personal space. Though I was unable to get a photo of the thing, fortunately, I am an artist and can provide an illustration that shows exactly what it looked like; exactly what I saw that night. (See illustration) Note: I am a 61-year-old college graduate and veteran; a man who doesn't make up stories. This report is true and based on actual events as they happened, so help me God. I feel compelled to make this report as a civic duty; to inform the public in case there is danger or peril in store for us in the near future. I don't want anybody saying I "should have said something". Well, I saw something, so I'm saying something. I just hope people are listening. PJ Farmington, NM
July 18, 2023 · 8:24 PM · DISK
Probable conventionalMerrick, NY
We noticed the craft immediately because it was something neither of us have seen (we live near several airports) The irregular object was heading upwards to the sky and appeared as if it was spinning. The strangest part was that there were two lines of either smoke or fire coming out of the craft. We lost it when it went behind a cloud. Almost immediately after a giant aircraft looking plane passed the ufos line of motion. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
July 18, 2023 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Boston, MA
I was sitting on my porch watching the sunset and I saw a bright ball of fire come down and then quickly go back up. It disappeared with no trace. I kept looking to see it reappear or to be recognized as a plane. The shape it made was like the letter U. Reminded me of a shooting star in color and brightness.
July 18, 2023 · 7:44 PM · UNKNOWN
Sterling Heights, MI
Myself my son and wife were siting on a bench and my son noticed the object. Will try to attach video. More videos available
July 18, 2023 · 3:15 AM · CHEVRON
Fredericksburg, VA, International Waters
On the NASA ISS live feed, witnessed these "lights" that seemed to flee once ISS was close. Could be a lens thing with the cameras? However the way they moved was unusual. The ISS and NASA feed went offline very shortly after.
July 17, 2023 · 11:35 PM · SPHERE
Lancaster, PA
Was walking dog around 11:35 pm. Bright red light caught my eye I would estimate at 2 to 3 thousand feet high. Watched it slowly move across sky glowing red and sometimes orange. As I'm watching, wondering what the heck I'm seeing, it suddenly disappeared, as if it slipped into another dimension, like flipping off a light switch it just turned off. I stared at the spot hoping it would reappear. It didn't go into a cloud because where it disappeared there were no clouds, just starry sky. Very exciting and interesting. Don't know what it was,,,but I saw something and it vanished as I was looking right at it! No sound at all, completely silent.
July 17, 2023 · 10:10 PM · SPHERE
New Brighton, MN
I was smoking a cigarette and watching the sky, a very bright orb appeared at what I would guess was between 5000-10000 ft and shot toward the ground almost at 90 degrees and disappeared before it would've passed behind a short building in front of me. It was extremely fast, no tail like a meteor, no change in brightness or sound. The best way to describe the orb was just like the intensity of a headlight on a car straight ahead of someone, but it shines in all directions. Lasted about .5-1 second. I am a nerd who plane watches, sky watches, and am very mechanically inclined and have good reasoning abilities. This was very straightforward in terms of what I saw, but I can't explain what it was, it was like nothing I have ever seen. About 30 minutes there was a LADD FAA plane on adsb exchange doing a low circle in the area I observed the orb.
July 17, 2023 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Chicago, IL
I was driving west bound on Lawrence and saw two red objects in the sky. They were slowly moving, rectangular/diamond shape, and lit from within. It almost looked like two car break lights because of the shapes and light. I hit a red light at Clark and the objects moved behind a tall building. When the light turned green and I passed the building, the objects were gone.