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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.

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July 14, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT

Simpsonville, SC

I have seen dozens and dozens of bright stars moving in unbelievable ways since Dec 2022. High up Above the clouds, probably above 30,000ft. With so much activity that anyone in Simpsonville would be able to look up and see them nearly every a single night like me. I stay up late and watch them while I lay in the bed of my truck, I have seen over 10 UFO in a single night from 11pm-3am They move in many different ways, steady flight, stationary to quick erratic movements, up/down/left/right in seemingly random ways back and forth. I made my wife watch them too to confirm I’m not crazy, even though she hates the idea of UFO and wants nothing to do with it, even she can confirm the things I saw, we even watched a moving “star” disappear in the blink of an eye (clear sky, no clouds, it just vanished) I’ve also seen them move in weird rhythmic bursts, like a water bug floating still on the water then a quick jut forward, and then again a second or two later. They are hard to see but I have watched faint orbs move around the bright stars, like moths around a porch light, back and forth. I have also seen more “shooting stars” than I ever have in my life, but these are faster with shorter trails than a normal comet, I can’t confirm these are UFO, but I have to report it. Again, I have seen so many different sightings in Simpsonville nearly every single night, I can’t be the only one who has seen them. It’s so frequent I believe anyone could simply look up and see unexplainable things, I can’t believe it isn’t on the news.

July 14, 2023 · 11:00 PM · DISK

Seabeck, WA

UFO, large as house, flew directly over me. MAYBE 200 yards up. The bottom was red from the speed of the craft. Super fast, no wind, no sound , no flashing lights, it did glow red and orange.just before I saw it, coyotes was howling like crazy.

July 14, 2023 · 10:54 PM · LIGHT

Spanaway, WA

I'm twenty nine years old and I've never seen anything like this. I stepped outside to hit my vape and get some nicotine in my system, and when I do so at night (in this case about 10:50pm) I like to look up at the sky, we're near JBLM so theres always planes, I frequently see satellites, even got to see Mr. Elon Musk's string of satellites flying through the air. But tonight was something different I was looking at what I thought was a star, until it started moving then my mind jumped to satellite. But it was anything but, it started to move fast and sporratically. Taking sharp turns, up and down, left and right, I took my phone out and started recording as quickly as I could. It was also strange to me that my phone camera wasn't picking up any of the other stars and yet somehow had no issue seeing the one light in the sky I was trying to record (thankfully) I ran back into my house to get my cousin to come out to be extraordinarily sure I wasn't going crazy. But by the time we made it back out of the house to look, it was gone, so much for an extra witness. Now I regret taking my eyes off of it.

July 14, 2023 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT

Riverside, CA

First spotted near intersection of Van Buren & Mockinbird approx 80-85 degress from horizon - above SSE 140-150 degrees heading. It hovered for nearly a minute while pulsating irregularly. The pure white light would pulsate very bright (Venus bright) to dim. It would be max brightness for 2-3 seconds then slowly fade to dim for a few seconds. After a few pulsating cycles, it would go dim and stay dim for 10 seconds or more. The whole cycle seemed to vary in timing, but the dim state period always returned to the pulsating cycle. After 2-3 minutes, two neighbors I'm unfamiliar with drove up to me and stopped. She said "Oh you see it too?" I replied "Yes I thought I was imagining things." She told me they had seen it before, a couple months ago. It appeared to be high altitude 30,000ft or more. The strangest thing was the way it moved. It went from hovering to slowly moving toward SSE. It traveled 5-10 degees and then hovered for several seconds. Then it began moving back toward it's original position hovered a while and started moving SW. When it would go from hovering to moving, it seemed as if the light would go bright and stay bright before a somewhat rapid acceleration to it's maximum speed, never appearing faster than 1/3 to 1/4 the transit speed of the ISS. The speed never appeared to be fast, just rapid acceleration. I watched it off and on for at least an hour, the whole time it followed the irregular pulse/dim and hover/move behaviors. The area was quiet, so if the object was low enough to be a rotary aircraft I'm fairly sure I would have heard it. The object continued to move SW just not in a straight line. I stopped watching it at approx 30 degrees above SW 235. I don't know of any tech we have that can hover at that altitude other than a maneuverable High Altitude Balloon. It moved like I would expect a maneuverable HAB to move, but the bright pulsations don't make sense for an HAB unless it's low enough to be a danger to other aircraft. I have been flying R/C planes for 43 years and quad-copters for 8. I've been staring at the sky my entire life watching satellites, meteor showers, eclipses, comets, planets, airplanes and helicopters. Over the years I have seen a few unusual things that I could not identify, but this one was strange enough that I thought I should report it. I don't own a smart-phone (and I pray I never have to) so sorry no video.

July 14, 2023 · 10:11 PM · SPHERE

Probable conventional

Hernando, FL

Fishing on open lake with two friends. Boat oriented West. From North to South line appears out of thin air of perfectly symmetrical round orbs with lights on each one in rings from center to outermost part of orbs. 12 orbs or more The orbs were perfectly in line and perfectly spaced. Distance looked really far of the orbs and the ring of lights on them were amber color and seem faded. The Massive orbs, then crossed behind a single cloud West of boat and as each one flew above it they disappeared and then the cloud faded away quickly. All other clouds in sky remained all around. I screen shot the google maps of where we were and where the orbs came from and disappeared at. Also shows live location of where on lake we were and what way we were facing. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]

July 14, 2023 · 10:06 PM · LIGHT

Wellton, AZ

July 14, 10:06pm, Wellton, AZ. My fiance and I witnessed multiple bright UAPs with amazing directional changes, both quickly descending and ascending, hovering, and blinking in and out, over the course of about 3-4 minutes. Afterwards, there was a large bright starlike object that changed colors for almost 10 minutes before slowly moving and descending out of sight. I have numerous videos to show ALL of this!

July 14, 2023 · 9:13 PM · LIGHT

destin, AR

my family and I were hunting for crabs when we looked up and saw the starlink satellites moving southeast above the ocean. once they disappeared in the clouds, 2 lights moving in the opposite direction appeared then disappeared, and right after a third light appeared and slowly moved across the sky slightly zig-zagging. soon enough the light disappeared behind another cloud above the city of destin.

July 14, 2023 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE

New haven, CT

Friday evening around 9 PM July 14th I looked out my window I am on the 16th floor. There was a UFO outside my window. I can't estimate how far away it was, but it looked like it was at the level of my apartment. It seemed like when I noticed them. They took off. Then I saw. The aircraft began to go behind the clouds. And at that point, it seemed to turn and become the shape of a saucer. Immediately following that, there were 2 orbs. I spotted silver transparent. They were also behind the clouds. Then again, almost immediately standing at my window. I heard a very, very large engine like noise over my head like I said. I'm on the 16th floor and there's only one floor above me. It almost seemed like they were coming after me. I didn't have a good feeling about it.

July 14, 2023 · 8:41 PM · CIRCLE

Probable conventional

Goodyear, AZ

We were walking around our neighborhood and I looked up and we saw these white circles moving southwest in a straight line about 30 of them in a row it lasted about 2 minutes crossing the sky [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]

July 14, 2023 · 8:30 PM · CYLINDER

Probable conventional

Bickley, KENT · United Kingdom

Cylinder [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]

July 14, 2023 · 8:16 PM · CIRCLE

Identified

Malmo, SKÅNE CO · Sweden

There is a circle on the horizon but when you zoom in you can clearly see 7 small spots forming the circle and after two minutes or less the is object is gone [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]

July 14, 2023 · 10:20 AM · SPHERE

Kailua Kona, HI

I am a 67-year old woman residing in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. This morning at roughly 10:20 AM (give or take a couple of minutes), I was stopped at a traffic light on Hawaii 19 at the intersection of Kealakehe Parkway. It was a clear day, blue sky all around. Waiting for the light to change, just looking out the car window, I saw a dark-colored sphere in the sky moving quickly from East to West. My initial impression was that it was not a plane, wrong size/shape. Then I thought of drones, but it was moving way too fast to be a drone. The sphere passed across the highway and then turned right, heading North. It suddenly shrank from view, reduced to a pin-point size and very quickly disappeared. I have never seen a plane or other flying object disappear so very quickly. Here in Kona, I live at an elevation of 1,500 feet above Kona International Airport, so I’m very familiar with seeing all sorts of commercial planes, military planes, private planes and helicopters. This resembled none of those. Also, in this area we never see aircraft flying east to west, as Mount Hualalai rises 8,00 feet from the ocean to the east. I would estimate the total time from noticing it until it disappeared was 3 seconds, at most 4 seconds. Most of that time was the initial movement I saw, from East to West, before it turned north and rapidly disappeared.

July 14, 2023 · 5:10 AM · CIRCLE

Bear, DE

July 14th 2023, seen a few minutes before sunrise at 510am. We saw a circle a white light at first. The light changed to red, but the object seemed to be hovering in one spot. The light changed to a faded white then it disappeared for a few seconds and reappeared as an orange almost fireball looking ball. then the object started moving. It was moving very fast, but we couldn’t hear anything like you would with an airplane or helicopter. It happened so fast, lasting only 2 minutes.

July 14, 2023 · 5:10 AM · CIRCLE

Bear, DE

July 14, 2023 · 5:00 AM · SPHERE

Fairfield, CT

I was sitting on my front porch which faces south. Several strong thunderstorms had already rolled through the area, the sky was heavily clouded and all was quiet. I was looking above the line of trees which are on a hill about 100’ in front of the porch. Suddenly I saw what looked like a large bright star and in front of and to the side of the ‘star’ was a blueish/white orb in front of the clouds. From my perspective, it was about 1/4 inch in size…larger than the ‘star’. The ‘star’ blinked out and the orb began moving southeast into the clouds in the direction of Long Island Sound. It was hard to judge the distance to the orb…possibly 1/4 mile. There was no sound of a small light plane or any other other aircraft…only quiet.

July 14, 2023 · 1:26 AM · CHEVRON

Carmel, IN

I was driving west near the intersection of W 116th St. and Ditch Rd. in Carmel, IN when I saw a massive craft directly overhead that was flying extremely fast. It was also traveling west like I was, so it came from behind me in the east. It was just after 1 AM so it was difficult to make out the exact color of the craft, but it appeared to either be black or dark gray. The shape was clearly that of a chevron and it was the size of at least several football fields. The wingtips each had several lights that interchangeably swapped between red and green at a very fast pace, about several times a second or so. It was only visible for several seconds before it disappeared into the distance; at first it was just traveling very fast, likely faster than the speed of sound. However, it became increasingly faster the longer it was in sight. Ultimately, it was so fast that it looked as if it left an after-image and just otherwise vanished.

July 14, 2023 · 12:30 AM · TRIANGLE

Lesterville, MO

Flew in rapid succession. Appearing then disappearing quickly and flying at speeds and heights I’ve never seen. Friend saw it first then I saw and we watched for close to five minutes. They continued to fly and started coming down lower and then disappeared. An orb was then in the trees behind us and remained steady. That orb was in trees for nearly an hour appearing then disappearing. No sounds were heard from the orb and it stayed in same spot for duration. My co-campers witnessed and the camper family next to us saw it as well. They even extinguished their campfire to see more crafts throughout the night. The next day another family on-site said they saw the crafts too and spoke about it although unprompted by my party.

July 14, 2023 · 12:00 AM

Identified

Panazol, Limousin · France

Le 14 juillet 2023 à 20h40, une famille dine à l'extérieur, lorsqu'un témoin est intrigué par le passage silencieux, dans le ciel, d'un objet qu'il ne reconnait pas. Un seul témoignage est recueilli. Le témoin a observé un Boeing 738 reliant Bristol à Barcelone. Celui-ci est passé à 20h40 - heure locale (18h40 UTC) - à l'est du témoin avec une orientation globalement NS. (voir le document FR24 position temoin-avion) A cet horaire, l'appareil était à une altitude de 37 000 pieds (soit 11,28 km), ce qui détermine une élévation de 62°, qui comparé à l’estimation du témoin de 50° puis 70°, reste tout à fait compatible compte tenu de la difficulté à estimer précisément une élévation sans repère fixe. L'étrangeté perçue par le témoin est due à l'absence de trainée de condensation. Les trainées de condensation ne sont pas systématiquement présentes, elles se forment en fonction des conditions de pression, de température et d'humidité, notamment dans des conditions d'air froid. Voir un exemple très détaillé avec l'étude du cas KANFEN (57) 12.07.2020. Classification du cas en A : observation d'un avion de ligne. [GEIPAN classification A — Avion]

July 13, 2023 · 11:40 PM · UNKNOWN

Portland, OR

Observer descriptions 1) 71-year-old male, retired physician, education includes bachelors degree, MD, Masters of Public Health. Observer 1 is author of this report. 2) 76 -year-old female, retired visual artist, formal education in the arts with a bachelor’s degree, keen observer of plants, animals and natural phenomena At 11:40 PM I was getting into bed, preparing to go to sleep. Observer 2 was already in bed, falling asleep. I was sitting up in bed, checking my smart phone before going to sleep. I was facing east, with a clear view out of our bedroom’s 4’ X 6’ east-facing picture window. The window looks out over the NE Portland skyline, but the view is somewhat broken up by a large pine tree near our house. As I glanced up looking through the window, I noticed unusually bright lights to the east. At first I thought they were aircraft heading to PDX airport, but they were unusual in the following ways: a) the lights were were much brighter than usual aircraft lights, b) they were multi-colored - orange on some of the objects in addition to typical red and white, c) the lights were distributed more broadly than on a typical aircraft, resulting in a larger pattern/apparent size of each object, d) the objects clustered together in groups of 2 or 3 as they traveled from south to north. We have lived in this house for 20 years, and have never seen a comparable pattern of lights. We regularly see aircraft through the bedroom’s north facing window - these form the basis of the comparisons I just cited. I observed the objects from bed for about 5 minutes, then got a pair of binoculars from a bedside table. I went out onto the second floor deck located just east of the east-facing window. Viewing with binoculars revealed multiple lights on each object more clearly, but I could not discern a shape of the objects themselves nor any other details. At this point - about 5-10 minutes since I first noticed the lights - I awakened observer 2 who joined me in viewing the objects with both naked eyes and through binoculars. She concurred with my description, and agreed that the appearance was highly unusual and different from our usual experiences looking at that section of sky. We are very familiar with that part of the urban skyline from regular watching of the moon rise. The pattern of lights appearing, traveling to the north, descending, then disappearing continued for about 20-25 minutes, ending about midnight. I estimate there were roughly 10 objects, but did not make an effort to count them or capture images. About 20 minutes into the occurrence I called the Portland Police non-emergency phone number and was referred to the NUFORC and made my call a few minutes later.

July 13, 2023 · 11:20 PM · SPHERE

Windsor, ON · Canada

I was sitting behind my Window logging off from my computer when I looked up into the sky and I saw a blue orb. This orb was still, then it took off in seconds. I felt sick, I feel crazy even thinking I saw an alien. But there's no other explanation. From Windsor, Ontario - heading South from Howard / Tecumseh.

July 13, 2023 · 11:15 PM · TRIANGLE

Merced, CA

In pool stargazing the ufo flew over head and scared my wife and 11yo son they said it was black triangle and had 5 lights

July 13, 2023 · 11:15 PM · FIREBALL

SANDUSKY, OH

My son and I was standing on our back porch looking in the sky with family and then a few hundred feet (200-300) above the trees, a bright blue light appeared and was coming down and thee blue light stretched about 50 feet and disappeared in seconds. There were no sounds. It looked exactly like the ufo reported on the officers body cam in las Vegas in June 2023. I ran after the light and stopped because i felt something off/erie. My daughter that was on the porched screamed and i turned around and ran. I stood on my back porch and my neighbors moition flood light came on. (I've never seen it turn on when cats or other animals were around) then it quickly went off, I felt like something was watching us for a few minutes until we went inside.

July 13, 2023 · 11:13 PM · OTHER

Probable conventional

Erin, ON · Canada

This ufo was spotted for several hours in my backyard. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Probable]

July 13, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING

Island Park Reservoir, NV

We were a party of 8 adults and 4 children on a pontoon boat taking a night ride on Island Park Reservoir, trying to get a glimpse of the northern lights that the news had forecasted the possibility of seeing. We had been on the water for about an hour when just over the horizon to the south we saw a string of lights. At first sight we thought they could have been Starlink but the lights began to cluster and move at different rates of speed; each moving in slightly different formations as they hovered. There were at least two dozen lights twinkling like stars as they moved. They all moved in front of a low cloud where they all independently slowed to a stop then either vanished or just blended into the stars in the background. This first encounter lasted about 5 minutes. Roughly 20 minutes later, the international space station flew bright in the sky as it headed north. Within just a few minutes we saw what we believe to be the same cluster of lights as before but directly overhead heading in the same direction as the space station. They could have been mistaken for satellites except their visibility would come and go. Their movement again was sporadic with variable speeds. As we headed back to the dock, multiple members of the party reported feeling a momentary loss of their sense of direction. We made it safely back to the dock and recounted our sighting.