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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.
13,832 entries
August 11, 2023 · 7:25 PM · CIRCLE
Chicago, IL
Very brief sighting, object was hovering in the air stationary. Shining like a star, but in the daylight, clear skies. From the moment we saw it, it was only there for 10 secs or less. We were driving in a semi truck, on I-294 headed south, it was toward Harvey or Lansing, Illinois. Another truck blocked our view briefly and when we looked in the same direction again it was gone. Definitely wasn’t a plane and definitely wasn’t a star, but the whole object was shining bright like a star, and before we could see again it was gone.
August 11, 2023 · 11:00 AM · CIRCLE
Austin, TX
1963. (Can I report?) I'm only 10 y.o., daytime, probably summer. Austin, Texas. Playing chasing running tumbling outside with cousins & neighborhood kids, caught sight of an object coming toward me, stopped, watched it sail toward me slowly & just over my head, noiselessly (maybe just the slightest of a hum), & flew on down the neighborhood street until I could no longer see it, straight line. It was small, dark grey, oval, metallic, thicker more squarish sides, with a dome on top. No lights, no windows, no noise, no wind or electrical effects felt underneath as it passed just above my head, I just stood gaping, following it with my eyes, just a foot or so, above my head! The underside was very maze-like. It sailed on down the neighborhood street until I could no longer see it, although I strained to follow it with my eyes. No thought of yelling to other kids, Hey! Look! Or of running after it, to follow it, just kind of stunned, I guess. Took about 45, 60 seconds the whole incident. None of the other kids seemed to notice it! Thank you for your work. And for considering my old sighting. I've never forgotten it. Life went on, maybe other "things" paranormal. Finally started researching heavily upon hearing Karla Turner on the radio, 1990s. It all came flooding back! Someone actually talking publicly about UFOs! Eventually, I wrote Jacques Vallee a long letter including other paranormal experiences; he sent me an autographed card. Then, I began helping Cheyenne Turner of the Eclectic Viewpoint (friend of Lucius Ferris, RIP), typesetting her mail-out announcements for speakers in Plano north of Dallas, big lectures; I met Timothy Good & others (RIP Cheyenne, 1997/8), & we attended Ozarks conf 2x. Got busy teaching, but I'm now retired some years, and I am once again curious & researching a project, having to do with Betty& Barney Hill's case, I have a theory & this case, my best evidence. So, I'm rereading old & new books. (Desousa's recent book has wrong date for their event! P. 47! Inexcusable, my degree is in history & English & studies in history of science, lol). But I know . . . I feel . . .that my experience was for something I am to do. A theory I have... has led me to believe Betty Hill's "map" was not a zeta reticulum star system. It is something totally different, totally different. And if I'm right . . . . Even your sightings, Mr. Davenport, the dates are very interesting. Details like dates, times, colors, are important in my analyses of these things. The work you do, important. Wish me luck getting my idea written & published. Data & your work, is important for researchers, so thank you! And I swear to God, my sighting in 1963, the account I've given you, is true and as clear in my memory as the day it happened. Sincerely, (name deleted) (no relation to James E. McDonald, a great & courageous man, RIP).
August 11, 2023 · 1:17 AM · CIRCLE
Worthing, WEST SUS · United Kingdom
On the 10/8/2023 I was on my way home from my friends house at approximately 1:30AM a shining blue object appeared and flew across the sky then disappeared leaving me confused and in shock. The next day at approximately 1:20Am I went on a walk around the road when I saw another shining blue object appearing then shoot across the sky and vanished again leaving me shocked and nervous. Because this has happened 2 times In the same place it has made me feel on edge not knowing what it could be but the only logical explanation I can come up with is it’s a ufo mostly down to the insane speed of this craft and the way it appears and disappears.
August 10, 2023 · 9:27 PM · CIRCLE
Hornell, NY
3 orange circular objects came low over the city. First 1 went upward pulsing, then changed shape and color to white, looking flatish, slightly curved, then picked up speed quickly. The other two followed doing the same, forming a triangle. They spend off quickly. I have mul pile pictures fairly clear
August 10, 2023 · 8:19 PM · CIRCLE
Laurel, MD
I don't know what details to put here but I was just looking out my window on my bed and I saw four green dots by the way my window was open and there was no screen and there's four green dots in a plus shape moving around and then I saw them zoom off at probably like 200 mph which was too fast to be a drone.
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 · 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 8, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Reno, NV
When out for a smoke, looked up and a flash of light caught my eye right above me then right where flash happened what I thought was a star immediately started moving south bound. It was very slow moving then fast then it would stop then it would move a little east or west an repeated this pattern until I lost sight of it. Plus maybe 4 days ago I watched 2 stars next to each other start moving at the same time and speed for a distance. If you held out your hand they moved about 10" then stopped, my brother looked them up in his star app and they where confirmed to be stars! I can ask him to look up the names again but I cant remember them. I know I watched them change positions in the sky i was not seeing an illusion, which has happened before where I thought I star moved for a split second but it's just my body not able to stand perfectly still. I have also seen a green light over Gardnerville that my Dad witnessed, it was like it knew we seen it and it hid behind Jobs peak then it popped out as if to check if we where still looking then shot back behind the peak. The green light was probably 10 years ago though I'm not sure if any of this helps but I had to say something seeing how I watched 2 separate odd occurrences in less than a week.
August 8, 2023 · 9:44 PM · CIRCLE
Wrightsville, NC
all lights were orange
August 7, 2023 · 8:59 PM · CIRCLE
IdentifiedSanta Clarita, CA
Coming in, it Looked like a shooting star almost … had a long fire tail behind it… once it stopped burning it just continued flying… almost looked like a satellite but was red. It didn’t blink lights like a normal aircraft. Also thought it had to do with SpaceX since I am in California. Was able to get a small clip of it and a few pictures. SpaceX Starlink-97 (6-20) launch from Vandenburg [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
August 7, 2023 · 11:32 AM · CIRCLE
Pilot Point, TX
I parked in the convenience store parking lot and looked out my passenger window, toward the northern sky, noticing quite a few aircraft contrails, blinked, and there was suddenly a perfectly circular black object, in my line of sight. I did not see it approach—one moment it wasn’t there, and the next it was—in the span of one blink. I could tell it was quite a distance away and at enough of an altitude that because it was at the top of the visible sky, through the passenger window, with me sitting in the driver seat, the size proximity was roughly that of a half dollar, indicative of a fairly sizable object, at a great distance. What struck me so eerily was that the object completely lacked 3 dimensional shape. It was the darkest black I have ever seen, almost appearing as though a hole had been cut in the sky. There were no discernible features of any kind and, as mentioned, and was so dark in contrast to the sky that it made my eyes physically feel strange, and immediately gave a sensation that “this does not belong here”. It stayed stationary for approximately five seconds and then shot directly upward and out of field of vision, at a rate of speed that it almost appeared to vanish as quickly as it appeared.
August 5, 2023 · 9:07 PM · CIRCLE
IdentifiedAsheville, NC
You will notice in the picture that the object went from one side of the street lying to the other on the left, it seem to move faster than light, as there is an orb behind it and on the right it’s as if it sits still, it’s like a green bottom light so bright it has an aura around it [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
August 5, 2023 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Fontana, CA
Yesterday at night at my parents house were sitting and me and my family seen above in the sky from 9pm- 10pm aircraft’s going from one direction to the other bright white light it moved faster then a plane then disappears and also would move side to side it was multiple sightings some where even following others or and it was so so high in the sky after about 30 seconds or so it would disappear
August 5, 2023 · 4:43 PM · CIRCLE
Probable conventionalGreensboro, NC
It was just sitting there. I was coming off of 840 on 240 taking the wendover west exit [NUFORC annotation: Blimp - Probable]
August 4, 2023 · 10:32 PM · CIRCLE
Mifflinburg, PA
I was taking the dogs out before heading to bed. I was standing on my patio and something caught my eye. I looked up and watched a small ball of light come in from the northwest then slow quickly, turn sharply and head east. No sound emitted from the object. I have seen these light quite often around my house and where I used to live in Mill Hall
August 4, 2023 · 6:25 PM · CIRCLE
Unadilla, NY
I was on my back porch after having added a potato skin to my compost tumbler. I noted the odd weather, which has been threatening storms all day, but it has not actually rained yet. It is eerily dark outside and feels oppressive, probably from the high pressure system moving in. I walked back up on my porch and turned around to look back out over the yard and I saw a bright light, a warmish shade of bright bright white, brighter than anything else in the sky or around me. It was not terribly far or high, and looked like it might be over the river or just past it, and not even as high as the hill behind it. (Crane Hill, Unadilla). It was, from my perspective a bit smaller than the moon would look. It held for just a moment and then shrank down into a smaller dot, perhaps half its original size with no change in brightness or color. Then it simply vanished.
August 3, 2023 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Enumclaw, WA
First night I noticed was Tuesday august 1st 2023 at 10 pm or so. Each night since, now four nights in a row. It shows up flashing red and blue. It stays in the same spot for hours. There seems to be air craft passing underneath several times. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
August 3, 2023 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
Myrtle Beach, SC
3 or 4 orange lights that blinked like a beacon. From left to right. One at a time. Maybe the same light that was moving, not sure. But it was a straight line from left to right. Never seen anything like this before. My girlfriend and I could not understand what we were seeing.
August 3, 2023 · 9:03 PM · CIRCLE
Elkview, WV
it was like a round object almost like see through but with color at the same time orangish pink I was playing bat sounds on my phone watching bats flying when I observed it just moving across the sky at 1st I was like that's not the sun that's not the moon and I went to turn my camera on and poof it was gone it was like you could see through it I don't know how to explain it
August 3, 2023 · 8:20 PM · CIRCLE
Studio City (Looking South), CA
I'm a 58 year old widow, walking my dog with my 89 year old mother who was walking her dog. I saw very bright white lights that travelled toward the setting sun. Bright as a welder's arch. They were silent, moved too fast for a plane or helicopter. East to West with a slight arch. Not very high in the sky. My view was intermittently blocked with a row of Italian Cypress. I'm not sure if the lights were a reflection of the sun or if they emitted light. Not sure if it had a tail or if there were more than 1 traveling in sequence. Lots of air traffic in the sky.
August 3, 2023 · 12:55 AM · CIRCLE
Orlando, FL
I was standing outside waiting for the Falcon launch, when a red orb appeared above a neighbors house and it began to travel West towards me very slowly for about a minute. When it slowly turned South and traveled a short time before it was “enveloped” into a dark mass. I had my phone in my hand waiting for the launch, and I’m absolutely sure that it wasn’t the Falcon 9..
August 2, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Ogden, UT
It was dark so all we could see was the lights around the outer edge and dark body within that circle or ring shape. It slowly came from the north not much higher then the mountain top then hovered just above I'm guessing about where the freeway is at 12 th street then then it went straight up and hid behind a cloud for a second then once the cloud moved my girlfriend and I watched it continue straight up then remained by these 2 stars to form a triangle and remained there til it got light. We tried to get pictures but only had cell phones and could not get clear images
August 2, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Enumclaw, WA
Looking north towards Seattle wa. From Enumclaw, to the east slightly, up high in the sky above mountain side. Craft stayed in one spot for three night in a row. I have a video to share. Air craft has passed underneath several times. you will need to zoom in to see.