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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 16, 2023 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Levittown, NY
I was ready to leave my driveway around 8pm on Saturday September 16, 2023 and was startled to observe a short flash, very defined light burst where I looked up to the left in the dark sky, which appeared similar to a falling star but much shorter and wider, and probably a mile high. It then stopped and turned into a round bright light. I grabbed my phone, and started to video. It was spherical, like an orb, and moved steadily across the sky going south and east. It was also very high in the sky and I was able to film about two minutes on my phone camera but the video was a little shaky because I was walking down my driveway to keep filming it because it was going behind the trees, from my view. After I could no longer see it to film, I reviewed the video. The zoomed in shots are of a sphere, that changed colors, including golden yellow, light blues and light red, and one photo (if clear, looks like something sitting inside?) Definitely not a plane, lantern, or drone. I will include the video and the zoomed photos I have from screenshots of frames. I don’t know if anyone else in the area saw this, but I did call the 8th Police Precinct. The area was initially approximately 40.729 Latitude, -73.504 Longitude. Please let me know any information that may be shared. Thank you.
September 16, 2023 · 2:40 PM · SPHERE
Alingsås, VÄSTRA G · Sweden
While towing gliders, descending through 2000 ft, a grey ball was encountered on opposite course. The object was at same altitude, approximately 50 meters away. I was in a shallow left turn setting up my approach, and the orb was spotted very close before merging to my right. When seeing it was not a bird I turned right (to end up on a crossing course) to be able to keep my eyes on the object. At the point of least distance between us I could see a matte grey color (seemingly) perfect spherical shape, and i followed the object as it drifted of to my right out of sight. The sighting lasted ca 4-5 seconds in total. It was mid to dark grey, and did not have a shiny appearance. My airspeed was 200kmh. The objects speed is impossible to estimate. The merge happened fast, and when turning to a perpendicular heading it was seen floating away at some speed, although possibly simply at the general wind speed. I did not see anything inconsistent with a party balloon, besides the seemingly perfectly spherical shape. The object was travelling northbound, pretty much from the direction of a town, and did not seem to ascend or descend. I got a clear view of the objects color and shape and can with certainty rule out bird, plane and drone, however not with equal certainty a balloon of some kind.
September 16, 2023 · 12:20 AM · SPHERE
Aurora, CO
I was leaving Aurora, Colorado, heading south on E470 towards I-25. It was around 12:20 am on September 16th, 2023, that I noticed something flying in the sky maybe less than 1000ft in the air. I’ve worked in both military and private aviation and noticed immediately how strange the lights were for the craft. It had very bright white lights that were doing a wave-strobe effect to it, looked like the white lights were rotating around the craft while strobing. It also had two bright reddish/orange lights on the top and bottom that were pulsating with intensity. When I first noticed it, it seemed to be passing my field of view quickly as I was driving, but then it stopped moving and stayed still. It then started moving slowly towards Buckley Air Force Base on the other side of E470. I tried to watch it longer, but I was also driving on the highway and nearly got into a crash because it was hard to not look at this thing. As I moved closer to I-25, it went closer to Buckley and then it left my field of vision. Because of the time of night and highway lights it was difficult to discern any real shape to it, but it did have a pale blue glow at the bottom of it.
September 15, 2023 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Fife, WA
was out smoking and witnessed a line of object rising into the sky looked like an ir flare however it was not falling it was rising
September 15, 2023 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Canandaigua, NY
I was at a concert with my friend rj and we were sitting at a picnic table looking at the stats during the break. I noticed a satellite moving diagonally up to the right through the cup of the Big Dipper, then noticed one behind it at a fixed distance moving at the same speed. I assumed it was the Starlink satellite train and told rj “I think I see starlink” and pointed it out to him. He had an experience once when his friend Cody and him saw Starlink, Cody freaked out and said it was a ufo, but RJ looked up a video of Starlink and showed Cody, so RJ has seen and knows what Starlink looks like. We then watched and noticed there were three four or five dim lights following each other in a straight diagonal light. The light in the front would quickly fade our when reaching around the middle point of the cup of the Big Dipper. We noticed they were fading in in the start of the line, below the bottom left Star forming the bottom of the cup of the dipper, moving steady at a steady brightness and suddenly fading out near the center of the cup of the dipper. This went on long enough for us to have a whole conversation about what we were seeing. I would guess 90 seconds to two and a half minutes or so. I did not even get a full count of lights because you sort of needed to strain to see them, if I took my eyes off the one in the front I feared losing them. The lights were dimmer than the stars making up the Big Dipper. Near normal satellite brightness and speed. But they would seemingly disappear and reappear where they started, sort of like marquee lights. I joked with RJ “maybe it’s one big craft an those are the lights on the side” I looked in the sky along the same line that would wave been their path had they not faded out near the middle of the dipper and I saw absolutely nothing. Eventually while watching it all they lights dimmed and all faded out. We sat there looking nothing for 20 more minutes or so. We say various planes and satellites and grabbed the other’s attention for it but after 10 or 15 seconds of viewing each of those we quickly decided that it was a plane or satellite. Probably around 9:20 While looking at the big dipper a noticed what I assumed to be a bright star quickly fade away. RJ did not notice this as the light was completely stationary until disappearing. Later around 9:30-9:45 the music was back on and while dancing I caught a glimpse of a bright light wiz across the sky headed north and disappear. It is possible this could have been a shooting star, but I have seen plenty of shooting starts and this streak was much longer than any I have seen. Later after the show RJ and I sat on the back porch and continued our UFO hunt, again we say a few satellites and quickly decided they were such. I saw a few shooting stars, all in the same area of the sky all in the same direction, short dim streaks heading south. As far as a mundane explanation for the first set of lights I saw I suppose it’s possible it could be some satellite train but the more I look into that the less likely it seems. The venue had lights on the stage but they were off during set break and there was a building in between us and the stage at that point. Attached is a sketch at the lights in the Big Dipper [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
September 15, 2023 · 5:17 AM · SPHERE
Las Vegas, NV
It was approximately 5:17 a.m. on 9/15/2023 when I was outside my house taking my morning stretch. As I leaned back and looked into the sky, I saw a distant light/orb moving across the sky (it was still quite dark out). At first I dismissed it as the ISS drifting along its orbit, but then the orb started to make turns and moves. I dashed inside and grabbed my phone and was able to take one video of the orb (I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max). The uncut video is about 40 seconds long, but the orb can only be seen in the first 15 or so seconds. As you can see from the video, the orb really starts to make some moves at around the :03 second mark, and then it does several turns before zooming off and vanishing. I have attached the uncut original iPhone clip. I also retained a professional video editor to enhance and cleaned up. I attach two of those clips provided by the video editor. The enhanced version really shows the details of the moves the orb makes. This is not a hoax and I provide the raw, untouched video.
September 14, 2023 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Oakland, MD
It was late between 9:30 and 12:00, I went outside to smoke before going to bed, and I looked up into the night sky and it was completely pitch black, and suddenly the sky wasn't pitch black anymore there was a bright star hanging in the sky that wasn't there a moment ago. The light at first was a pale orange, like orange cream that turned into a brilliant white light, it hung there for a few moments and then started to strafe across the sky until it disappeared into the horizon, and it kept the same speed and it kept the same direction and it kept the same luminosity the entire time that it traveled across the sky, it didn't flicker it didn't blink it didn't do anything, it just moved across the sky in a straight line.
September 14, 2023 · 8:07 PM · SPHERE
Falkirk, FALKIRK · United Kingdom
The white light was hovering, looked like a planet at first but extremely bright. I tried to guess then planet, pulled out my phone to check the star map to confirm before realising it was total cloud cover overhead. As I went to take a picture instead, the light started flashing and moving. The white light continued to flash and other lights began flashing around it in many colours. It began to move quite quickly towards us, then changed direction unbelievably quickly and sped off in the opposite direction. It disappeared after a couple of minutes, but not because it travelled too far away. It just vanished. There was absolutely no sound whatsoever. I never managed to get a photo as it was moving too quickly and changed direction too quickly.
September 14, 2023 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE
IdentifiedArcadia, CA
I looked up and saw what looked like a a smoke trail with a colorful orb that broke away from the trail and disappeared into the night sky [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
September 14, 2023 · 9:45 AM · SPHERE
Fresno, CA
I was standing outside and looked up into the sky and seen this lights moving around like almost spinning I took out my phone and recorded what I seen but the problem is you have to slow it down to see them they where the same color as the sky and make it difficult to see unless you know what to look for there has been 5 times more after this that I have seen and recorded UFO/UAP in the sky when I look back and slow them done you can see things that are black shooting off of and object that pass the screen
September 13, 2023 · 7:04 PM · SPHERE
Pewaukee, WI
I was driving north in our subdivision on Millridge Cir, in the Town of Delafield, WI, when I saw a very bright object appear out of an extraordinarily dark-reddish cloud deck above the setting sun. I immediately pulled my vehicle off the road and jumped out to take a picture. I only got one picture but it was a “live” picture on my I-Phone 14 Pro, which has a fairly good resolution. After taking the picture, I looked down to see what I captured and then no longer saw the object. When I got home, just two blocks from where I took the photo, I told my wife I think I just took a picture of a UFO because I thought I saw this object move unlike a plane or helicopter and without any sound. I gave my wife the phone and she immediately zoomed in on the object and exclaimed that it didn’t look like anything she had ever seen flying in the sky When we looked at the “live” picture, the object appeared to make an almost instantaneous V maneuver, dropping and then rising across an unknown distance If the “live” picture accurately captured how the object actually moved and it wasn’t a photo artifact or from me possibly moving, it would defy any traditional plane or helicopter movement pattern or speed. This object appeared to be circular with the upper half grayish and divided by a darker band. The lower half appeared to be a distinctively arranged pattern or grouping of 11 or perhaps more, highly intense lights. I initially thought that this object may have been a mile or possibly more, west of where I took the picture, but the level of detail captured by my I Phone photograph, likely belied my initial estimate of the distance, unless this aerial anomaly was incredibly large. I called a local news station and the county police to report what I saw but the news station showed no interest and the county sheriff said that if the object was no longer there and there was no immediate threat to the community, there was nothing they would do I tried to report this to NASA, but they are evidently only taking reports from military/government employees or pilots
September 13, 2023 · 2:03 PM · SPHERE
Petoskey, MI
My wife and I observed the white orb for well over a half hour till light clouds obscured our vision. To be quite honest we both believe it matched previous Chinese Spy Balloons. We compared our photos and video to prior observers of the past spy balloons. It was a perfect match. Be aware the object is in approximately center of photos and video, so zoom in. Location out back patio compass showed 255 degree W. 45°22'30" N 84°47'48" W. In one screen recording I took of a video the object moves quickly from left to right. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
September 12, 2023 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Cleveland, OH
White (glowing) UAP orb sighted to the west of KCLE (maybe 5-500) miles away (was unable to determine range), at unknown altitude (maybe 1000-50k feet above ground level) and was motionless for a minute, and then it slowly moved northward and started changing colors from red, to green, blue, purple, violet, and white. The way it changed colors seemed to animate or move around the craft in a projecting manner. Lastly, there seemed to be some kind of movement of smaller particles moving around the craft in an orbiting like fashion, similar to an animation of atomic particles moving around an atom. I also saw another aircraft with it’s strobe, beacon, and NAV lights on, moving towards the UAP. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
September 12, 2023 · 8:10 PM · SPHERE
Gulf Shores, AL
At Approximately 8:10 pm, September 12, 2023, my friend and I were on the deck of our vacation beach house in Gulf Shores, Alabama, gazing at the southwest sky over the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly an orange orb appeared in the sky about the size of a nickel held at arm’s length, so it seemed very close. The orb was very bright but not blinding with no aura or light beaming from it, much like a stoplight. It seemed to blink on like an eye opening. It did not move and was perfectly round. Almost immediately another identical orb blinked on to the left of the first, and then another to its right, all in a straight line and in perfect alignment with each other and none moving. There was no sound. Moments later they all blinked off. Approximately five to 10 minutes after the three orbs disappeared, what looked like a string of lights appeared lower in the sky and to the right of where the first three orbs were. These orbs were much smaller than the first three, all in a line and static in the sky. Like the first three, these orbs did not twinkle, although it appeared that one would go out on one end of the string and another come on at the other end. Immediately after this appearance, another identical string of orbs appeared far to the left of the first string and a bit lower in the sky but approximately the same size. The orbs in these strings were identical in shape and color to the first sighting of three. They remained static in the sky until they disappeared a few seconds after they appeared. There was no sound. The first photo is of the night sky on September 12 from my seated position on the deck. I’ve overlayed the graphic of orbs to provide an illustration of what we saw. On September 14, 2023, my friend and I were once again sitting on the deck and watching the night sky. Due south and far out over the Gulf of Mexico, much farther out than the previous sighting, we saw two orange orbs in a line similar in color and shape to the previous sighting on September 12. One of the orbs blinked out within moments, but my friend got a photo of the second orb. The second and third images are of this orb. The third photo is an enlargement of the second. [NUFORC annotation: Flares - Possible]
September 12, 2023 · 9:37 AM · SPHERE
Copperas Cove, TX
On the evening of 12 September 2023 at approximately 9:37 PM while on the phone with a colleague, I walked around the back of my house and noticed an orange orb in the sky that appeared to be one and a half to 2 miles east north east of my location. It was between the Horizon and the powerlines across the street from my house. The entire sky was overcast except the southwest. The weather showed a 5 mph light wind from the north east. While trying to direct my colleague to its location he was unable to see due to an obstruction behind his house. I was trying to get my camera to focus and take a picture when after 10 seconds it begin to fade and appear to collapse in on its self. While explaining the specifics of what I have just seen, approximately four minutes later it appeared in the exact location that it was. It appeared to start as a small point of light and then expand to its previous size. It stayed the same for approximately 20 seconds then pulsated for 2 to 3 seconds before remaining steady again, then lasted a remaining 10 seconds before collapsing in on itself. I was a bright orange color that did not radiate outside of its spherical boundary. I was able to take two pictures of it on its second appearance.
September 11, 2023 · 11:03 PM · SPHERE
Alexandria, VA
On the evening of September 11, 2023, at approximately 11:03pm, two adults (ages 28 and 26), witnessed a circular orb (the size of a quarter, if you were to point the quarter to the sky), as bright as the moon quickly slingshotted into space faster than any aircraft, meteor or shooting star both participants have ever seen. The two participants were on the patio of their 4th floor apartment, stargazing, when they noticed the orb shoot through the sky. Since the orb shot through very fast there was no way to document the incident through phones, however, minutes after, we decided to jot down notes and draw out what we saw. We are more than happy to send over a copy of those drawings and information. The orb was seen from the corner of one of the participants eyes and its light, speed and direction commanded the night sky and was highly visible. It's trajectory was that of a slingshot. The orb appeared as if it had entered a dimension (it slingshotted through space and disappeared in less than a second). One participant said the orb had moved so fast that it looked as though it was going through stages. The participant said they saw the orb and then morphed versions of the orb as if it was moving through space at speeds far faster than any aircraft. It is important to note the area in which we saw this orb is heavily accessible by military helicopters and military aircrafts that routinely fly over the area, however, where the orb appeared was further, brighter and faster than any military aircraft that has ever flown past. There is 100% no way this was a military aircraft - there were no blinking lights. It was first seen peering through the clouds and shot through them, moving outside of the Earth's atmosphere. It did not move like a meteor across the sky, but instead moved upward toward space. The two adults are regular stargazers and are incredibly familiar with normal sightings in the sky (planets, stars, airplanes, missile launches, and meteors); this was completely abnormal.
September 11, 2023 · 8:40 PM · SPHERE
St. George, SC
This is just one of many sightings. This orb or light crossed in front of a plane, the plane was going South but the orb was going east. I would like to know if the pilots saw anything strange. Plane number is FFT2521
September 11, 2023 · 7:35 PM · SPHERE
Chesterfield, NJ
Driving in car with daughter from soccer practice single large bright white orb with white glow shoots up in sky. After about a minute object just disappears. First thought was a plane since close to Phili, trenton, and newark but light was too bright and too large to be known aircraft. I checked for any rocket launches reports or military activity known to public since I am very close to Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst. We are used to seeing military aircraft from our farm field and definitely was not one I have ever seen. I am reporting since population is obviously dense in tri-state area and we could not be the only ones that saw this object, just curious to what it was. Object was also seen 9/12 at around 8pm give or take... Will have cell phone in hand now to try and capture if seen again. Object attributes that piqued my curiosity in relation to my current aviation knowledge: 1. starting position - from our horizon line it looked to start from our perspective 1500 ft 2. trajectory - vertical ~ 80 degrees 3. velocity - increasing at high rate. 4. visibility - object rises and just disappears from sight with no visual fading effect not due to acceleration away from observers 5. size - object from visual perspective high in sky looked to be size between softball and basketball. 6. color attribute - white, blueshift appearance between 4000K and 5700K 7. propulsion - no visible contrail, just a giant orb. If more information is needed, I can be contacted. Unfortunately, no hard evidence available but would love to know that we are not crazy :)
September 9, 2023 · 6:50 PM · SPHERE
Miami, FL
I was walking towards my home. I looked into the sky while watching a plane ascend. In the nearby clouds was a black sphere that looked like a black star in the clouds. I had to go in the house. Came back out and it couldn’t be seen.
September 9, 2023 · 2:25 AM · SPHERE
Henderson, NY
It was large, round and horseshoe-like. It was bright yellow with a blue tint around it with a part of it darker. It appeared out of nowhere, stopped in place for a second, then the light zoomed and was gone. There was no trail like a shooting star would have. It lit up the whole sky and made it look like Day.
September 8, 2023 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Santa Fe, NM
I noticed a moving light in my periphery. Once I saw it clearly it was 3 large round orbs of light that seemed somehow diffused. They stayed in perfect formation, triangular, the entire time. I did not see an outline of a craft so I'm not sure it it was one craft with 3 lights or 3 crafts in formation. I tend to think the later. It was at a midrange altitude in the atmosphere. It moved in one direction very quickly and with no sound at all. Any typical craft flying at that altitude I would expect to be able hear.
September 8, 2023 · 5:45 PM · SPHERE
Richmond, VA
While sitting in my work vehicle I saw what appeared at first to be a bright light amongst the clouds. My first thought was that it was possibly headlights from an airplane because it appeared just east of the Richmond airport. As I continued to watch it I couldn’t help but notice that it wasn’t moving. I reasoned that maybe it was an airplane moving directly towards my direction but the glow was steady and unbroken. Due to its location at the lower portion of clouds it seemed to me that if it were an airplane the reflection of it would have altered as it passed below the shadow of the clouds above. But the object remained stationary for the entire 2 to 3 minutes that I observed it. I then took out my cell phone and put it on max zoom to snapped a photo. At first glance at the photo the object is very difficult to see. But once I enlarged the photo in my phone the orb appeared rather clearly amongst the clouds. Cannot discern orb in photo.
September 8, 2023 · 8:15 AM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalArnold, MO
I just left the house for work, driving eastward toward Saint John's catholic church, when out of my left peripheral I saw something moving through the tree line, when it appeared directly in front of me, I saw a sphere shape silverish object, spinning and reflecting light. When it stopped above the church, I decided to record, then it just glided off. I sure would like to know what it was. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
September 8, 2023 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
orono, ME
what did I just capture ? while I was listening to my song soul buzzin , something told me to stop and record this heat lightning , then when I was going to stop I see this yellow stream of light shoot 2 feet away from me and even makes a sound vanish 20 feet in front of me about 8 feet off ground