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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 9, 2023 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalTaunton, MA
During a night out at a car meet a drone captured a light shoot across the sky. It comes from beyond the building in the distance a looks like a tiny glowing dot. As it approaches it get bigger and cross over in just a few frames. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Probable]
September 9, 2023 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
Hull, EAST RID · United Kingdom
My friend and I was walking into the town centre, I felt the urge to look up, as there was an electrical storm with no thunder, I saw the white light stationary, held my head still to confirm it wasn't a plane, after several minutes of it being amongst the lightning, it then turned red... A minute after the craft started flashing red... Then zoomed off into the night sky like ion drive had kicked in
September 9, 2023 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
South Scottsdale AZ, AZ
We was just sitting outside and looked up and seen that and it happened 3 times different days but only cought it once on video
September 9, 2023 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Edenton, NC
I had just climbed out of my hunting stand and noticed a bright white light traveling in the sky. It reminded me of a landing light on an airplane. I really didn't think much of it because there are a few runways around. As I watched it, it took a instant 90 degree shift (not like a turn) to the west. I went behind the tops of trees out of my sight. So, I pulled up my binoculars and started searching the sky at the end of the tree line. Never saw the bright white light come out the other side, but what I did see were to small lights (one red, one white) heading back in a southerly at an unreal rate of speed. They were not blinking like navigation lights. The movement of the white light was smooth and instantly shifted to the west unlike anything I have ever seen move in the sky.
September 8, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Paramount, CA
Light appears, then disappears then reappears and remains lit ad it desends vertically. Then travels east at a rate of speed faster than any other object in the sky. Just before vanishing, turn south and slightly changes in color and last moment.
September 8, 2023 · 8:36 PM · LIGHT
Istanbul, ISTANBUL · Turkey
There was only 1 object. The color of the object was very bright yellow/orange. The object I saw was almost as bright as a star, but not perfectly round. At first it made strange movements, for example it went to the right and stopped suddenly, then it went to the left and stopped again. Even though it was far away, it was moving very fast. It moved left and right like this for about 5 minutes and suddenly it started to draw a circle in the sky. After 1-2 minutes, it got closer and fell while turning, making neither light nor sound as it fell. By the way, I'm not sure if the object fell because a tree blocked my view as the object was falling downwards. I saw this light very above the Black Sea.
September 8, 2023 · 7:53 PM · LIGHT
Marlton, NJ
As I was driving in my car, I looked in the sky and saw a stationary object lighting up. I then saw it move quickly and diagonally to the right, and then it stopped moving and then after a few seconds, it went off to the right again.
September 8, 2023 · 2:04 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalPoinciana, FL
Took a picture of approaching storm to send to my wife at work. When I looked at the photo (taken on my iPhone) the light anomaly appeared over the roof of the house next door. I had live photo turned on which produces a short video. I am including both the JPG and MOV files. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]
September 8, 2023 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Krebs, OK
I noticed a bright light more intense than any star ive seen before rise over the tree tops. At first i thought it was the comet we was expecting until i realized it was barely moving. Every 5 to 10 minutes it would dim completly about 20 seconds then come back as intense as before. After full sunrise it was undetectable in the sky. Then tonight 09/09/23 at 11 pm i seen it rising above the trees in the exact same spot. Its not a star [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
September 8, 2023 · 2:13 AM · LIGHT
Russellville, AL
I saw some bright light that I thought was a shooting star from the west. I noticed it curved, much like a boomerang, only to vanish into thin air. This "bright light" would repeat this multiple times. After a few minutes, there were two bright lights that followed each other in a dancing fashion. These bright lights moved extremely quick, considering they were at about the height of an airplane. They made very quick, and sharp movements in the blink of an eye, only to disappear. After about 20 minutes, 7 bright lights left in uniform fashion (like the air force) heading south. The weather was foggy during the encounter, but quickly cleared up after the group of lights were seen leaving.
September 7, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Knoxville, NC
While flying from Charlotte to Memphis, I was piloting a jet aircraft at 34000 to 36000 feet. I was on a heading of approximately 273 degrees. The Big Dipper was to the right of the airplane. Approximately 30 minutes prior to touchdown around 1115pm to 11:30pm eastern standard time, a light appeared below the handle of the Big Dipper. It appeared very dim like a distant star, then increased in brightness very quickly. When it was full bright, we could see approximately 3-4 smaller very faint dim lights that would fly around the main light. After 5-10 seconds, they would all disappear. A couple minutes later, they would all reappear in the same area. A few minutes later the same thing would happen, except they would be above the handle of the Big Dipper. A couple of times, there would be 2 bright stars far apart from each other. They would appear full bright and quickly fly to each other then disappear. These lights had no aircraft strobes or red/green position lights. This kept happening for at least 30 minutes until we landed in Memphis. It could have gone on longer, but as we approached the city, the lights of the town made it difficult to see the sighting location. In my opinion, these lights appeared to be in outer space, and not in our atmosphere. It was definitely not satellites, star link, shooting stars, etc.
September 7, 2023 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Ashcroft, BC · Canada
While on the back deck last night observing the stars together, my partner and I both started tracking a rapidly moving light high in the Eastern sky. It moved fast and erratically but we were able to track it in our binoculars; it looked as bright as a star. We then tracked another one a bit North of the first. We saw a third for their North of the two with the same movements observed; however, this object seemed to maybe reflect light at a couple points in its flight because it got incredibly bright and then faded making it hard to track as well; it seemed to disappear and reappear at times.
September 7, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Boise, ID
Went outside to watch a lightning storm go by. I saw a red star shaped object travel out of a lightning filled storm cell into clear skies for 5 seconds and then it went into another cell. Seconds later another red object followed in the same direction. Traveling south to north.
September 7, 2023 · 9:09 PM · LIGHT
Arnold, MD
I was taking out the recycle bin when I happened to look up. What I saw was something I have seen before. - Conventional technology can't explain this. I saw a light that looked like a really bright star going fast that did a 90 degree turn without slowing down. That qualifies as a UFO.
September 7, 2023 · 7:28 PM · LIGHT
Ocracoke, NC
We had gone to the area past the Ferry dock and adjacent to the NC Teachers Building to watch the sunset over the sound on a mostly clear evening. At first, I thought I was seeing the setting sun’s reflection off of something in the distance, and I asked my partner if he saw it. His first impression was that it was the lights off of a giant crane, but the perspective was off…as there was no crane in the sound. There were no ferries, and the lights were too high to have been on a boat - especially since these were far in the distance ( our estimate ten miles). They didnt flicker per se, but did seem to intensify in brightness…but it was not dark out. Then they simply vanished. My cell phone could not capture what our eyes were seeing. And frankly, at the time it seemed so strange that I was uneasy. The fascinating thing is the four lights formed a curved vertically oriented line…and the lights held their position. They did not sink nor move. It looked like a brightly lit constellation- over the water in the distance. They were above the water line, but at that distance they would have had to have been on something quite large. We did not see any structure though. Their light intensity reminded me of a white airplane headlight in the sky when the plane is overhead, and was more intense than a satellite light.
September 6, 2023 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Cedar city, UT
Every night, they are flying around three peaks. One has been close, once on video it left. They disabled my fuel truck twice, and I have seen two beings on the ground with me. They are large, and fast. Every night you guys can go out on highway 56, or be north of there and see them now at 11:30 PM. I'm not at the same job site, that I had the close encounter of the 3rd kind. I will warn you, you will have flu like symptoms if they get close to you, and would not suggest being alone after dark west of cedar city after dark.these guys can run on all fours.
September 6, 2023 · 9:44 PM · LIGHT
Ocala, FL
Right at the above stated time, I noticed a plane flying over head heading South, south east. See flight tracker info for owner and flight information. This whit light which was about half as dim as the planes lights, and it flashed at a much slower rate. Would guess it took 1 sec to flash each time. It approached the plane from the NW closing in on the plane about at a 45 degree angle. I was thinking it was just going to cross. Then it abruptly turned to parallel the plane on the west side for 1 flash (1 second). The next time it lit up it was heading away from the plane also at a 45 degree angle towards the SW. Also 1 flash which took about 1 second. And as the plane flew away,. this light shot across half the sky heading east flashing twice with the same interval as before. It had to have covered 50 to 60 miles across the sky in 2 seconds. Every turn it took, I saw no arc in the light at all. No trail, No noise. I don't remember hearing the plane either. Quickly brought up the Flight Tracker app that I use. Found out the plane was a Cessna Citation flying at 15,000 feet descending into Orlando Executive Airport. I have attached the screen shot showing the info of the plane and flight path.
September 6, 2023 · 9:31 PM · LIGHT
Washington, MI
Just went to walk go outside of the apartment complex. Looked over and saw lights flying as airplane, but sometimes shaking side to side. Lights pattern does not correspond to airplane. It was light a yellow star of 6 or 8 points, with a red circle in the middle. Flight pattern was from 42.725611329717715, -83.0310610191616 to 42.73566765566228, -83.02167009855278, the disapeared in the layer of light cloud, not showing up again.
September 6, 2023 · 5:28 AM · LIGHT
Glenside, PA
I went out on my back kitchen porch as my coffee was brewing to take a look at the moon and predawn sky... Looking up at the 1/2 moon and red star(Mars I assume) nearby I noticed a dot(light) moving in an East Southeast direction between the moon and the red star(Mars)... The direction of the object was unusual as it is not a regular flight path of commercial aviation from my regular observations... There were no blinking lights or other typical aircraft identification signals; no jet exhaust sounds; just a dot of light moving East Southeast... So I assumed it was very high in the sky or orbital... I watched the object, moving at a steady speed, for about 15 seconds when it seemed to stop, blink red, and disappear... The blink of red was followed, I think, by a momentary fade; a millisecond, to orange, before disappearing... I thought it might be an orbital rocket whose booster fired however there was no visible separation of the object into 2 parts or visual evidence there of... And after the object blinked red it just vanished... I checked online regarding rocket launches and there was one reportedly planned, by China, for a launch 3 hours prior to my sighting. Perhaps that is what I saw; the booster firing to lift the 2nd stage into higher orbit... I don't know if that is what I witnessed. but it was something so unusual that I thought I should report it...
September 5, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Buffalo, NY
Orbs seen flying off of "craft" and then more "craft" appearing.
September 4, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
SPRINGFIELD, OR
My wife noticed the light over the Coburg Hills around 10:30. Oddly enough this is the same location as my 12/10/2022 "chicken coop" sighting documented with nuforc. Light looked strange and behaved very strange. Appeared to he very "glitchy", hopping left and right so quickly it blew my mind, literally at blurring speeds. Some of the videos are crazy. There were at least two others lights lurking around it at times. It's tracking was consistent and slow, but it's micro movements were incomprehensible. It was a shape shifty, highly erratic, multi colored plasma like ball probably at 10,000 feet? Not sure..... If interested the videos are posted on YouTube @sky_phenomenon. This experience is the only reason I made the channel. Photos and video were taken with a s22 ultra, stabilized by our slider door, I used everything from a 1x to 100x zoom. Enjoy.
September 4, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Bluffton, IN
My husband and I were sitting at our campfire in Oubache State Park campground on September 4th, 1030 p.m. (the night after almost everyone else there had left from Labor Day weekend). He looked into the sky (his phone compass app said it was 284° WNW) and saw a light that looked like a star, except that it was changing colors (back and forth from white and red to white and green at varying lengths and speeds and sometimes just white). It was also randomly moving up and down and side to side and at angles. I am slightly near-sighted and couldn't see the colors and movements at first, so we moved away from the campfire to somewhere darker. Then I saw what he saw, including the colors and small movements. As we were standing there, the light suddenly started to "zip" further away from its originating point and then "zip" back. This happened at random intervals, in random directions, and at random distances from its originating point. It always returned to its originating point. We didn't hear any sound accompanying the light. I called our friends who live in the country in Marion, Indiana (46952) when this was happening and they saw the exact same thing we did. The light gradually slipped lower and lower in the sky as time went on, like stars do. But I'm 54 years old and my husband is 64 years old and we've never seen a star behave anything close to this way. My husband has owned his own payment processing services company for over 30 years. He is a 10-year Air Force veteran, and has degrees in Mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Aeronautical Engineering. My background is in Community, Economic, and Workforce Development. My husband is semi-retired and I am physically disabled. My husband was also very involved for several years in paranormal investigation; and was a respected member of that community. He has conducted approximately 150 investigations, including one in Kokomo, Indiana in 2008 the night of the Kokomo Boom of 2008. Their team was seeing an unusually high level of activity that night; but when the Boom happened, all activity stopped. He also served as an on-site investigator for the documentary "The Haunting of Fox Hollow Farm" (on Prime Video). He is a logical, scientific-minded, well-spoken person with a healthy curiosity for mystery. I lean more to the skeptical side; but am also curious, love science and mystery, and well-spoken. Note: the 1st attached video was taken last night by me on my cell phone at 10:57 p.m. the 2nd video was taken by my husband on his cell phone starting at 10:59 p.m. last night. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
September 4, 2023 · 5:16 AM · LIGHT
Clayton, NC
It was close to 5:00a.m. and I went to the store just about 5 miles from where I live south on US70, I got to the store at 5:00a.m., I got what I needed then I walked back to my car got in and started to drive, I was going North to get back home on US70 the time was now 5:15a.m. and something told me to glance over my left shoulder, I looked and thêre it was l, a bright light flying fast and flying low, my first thought was this is flying too low to be a plane but I said nevermind and kept driving, I finally get to a point where I could turn left off of US70 so I did, soon as I turned the light turned to the left with me. I told myself ok I didn't just see that I must be tired and seeing things so I kept driving, on my left hand side is Clayton high school but now the light is on my right hand side and seems to be getting loét, I make it to a stop sign on main street and I make a right turn, the light turns to the right with me, At this point I'm starting to think I'm going crazy cause I know nothing of this world can do that so I tell myself jokingly I'm going to stop and if this light stops I'm getting out of hêre so I stop, The light went about 2 or 3 feet then stopped in mid Air, once I saw that I freaked out, it didn't move until I made a U-turn and started following me again, I made my way back to US70 going south and it followed me all the way back to the store I originally went to, I parked and got out and thêre it was hovering above the store but now it was higher up in the air, it was making slow movements inch by inch in all directions, People that came in and out of store I pointed it out to thêm and they all said they didn't know what it was especially cause they even pointed out the stars that were in the sky and we all agreed what we were looking at definitely wasn't a star, I took out my phone and started to film then I got back in my car and stayed in my car until 6:30a.m. The light was still above the store, I told mýelf I'm going to drive to another store 5 miles from this one going North, I started driving and the light took off following me again slightly ahead of me until I reach the store, I got out to film it but thí time it wasn't showing on my screen, I could see it with my eyes but it wasn't showing on my screen, it's 7:00am I get back on the car and start to drive home. The light followed me until I almost got home then it vanished, My video is short but the few people I sent it to that are like me and done believe in this kind of stuff all said they can't explain what they are looking at
September 3, 2023 · 10:27 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalDelray Beach, FL
Starlink-103 (6-12) LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]