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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.
528 entries
November 25, 2023 · 9:59 AM · CONE
Mount Hood, OR
While driving to a Christmas tree farm in Oregon City, OR, sited an unusual object hovering in the sky and not moving. No cables or power lines were in the vacinity of my view of the object.
August 8, 2023 · 9:24 PM · CONE
Probable conventionalGlasgow, SCOTLAND · United Kingdom
There was a strange light in the sky above spare ground, it was there when I left my house and could still see it down the road then it suddenly disappeared. I spoke with my son and showed him the pictures and he said he seen that from a train station too but didn’t think anything of it. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
August 8, 2023 · 3:15 PM · CONE
Alpine, NJ
I saw a shape that looked like a large upside down silver teepee descending quickly in-between the trees and the Hudson River. I only spotted it for a couple of seconds. I couldn't see it any longer when it went down past the trees off the Palisades Parkway.
July 23, 2023 · 8:58 PM · CONE
Probable conventionalTurks And Caicos Islands
Seemed to travel too slowly to be shooting star or meteor. Was silent and without flashing lights SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
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
June 14, 2023 · 6:32 AM · CONE
Probable conventionalBrockton right above RT 24, MA
Need to zoom into photo to see the small silver pointy thing floating above highway [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
May 27, 2023 · 9:20 PM · CONE
Washingtonville, NY
Live in vicinity of airport (5 miles) sitting on deck at night and noticed something at about 20K feet moving 5x the speed of jet aircraft across the sky in straight line heading S to NE. No tail or flashing light. Appeared as a cylindrical shape. Followed it for about 8-10 seconds before it disappeared from view. This should have shown up on KSWF radar if the tower was active at this time. My wife and I both viewed it.
May 15, 2023 · 9:45 PM · CONE
IVER HEATH, BUCKINGH · United Kingdom
Flying towards Northolt Airport (West London) at a great speed in the direction of Uxbridge Middlesex.
March 17, 2023 · 9:55 PM · CONE
Roseville, CA
Took my dog for a walk down the street to the park coming home, looked up in the sky, middle of the sky, six fireballs, reddish with tails at first I thought meteor right shower, but they went parallel with the earth till they were out of sight they didn’t come down to the ground Took them about 15 seconds to get out of my sight and they were gone. I couldn’t see them no more maybe it was some meteors flying parallel with the ground I I’ve never seen it that’s why I don’t think they were meteorites.
February 10, 2023 · 10:12 AM · CONE
taueanga, BAY OF P · New Zealand
Saw it hover at my house for 3 minutes and it didn't seem to do anything
February 9, 2023 · 7:16 PM · CONE
Newark, OH
The main object didn't move much it was the smaller objects that moved quick as Christmas lights is what caught my attention the weather that night was very very windy and the fact they were so high up makes me think it wasn't commercial drones they came in between onions belt and the north star and that's where they did the little light show and one by one the lights went out and then the big one was the last to go I reported this because it's the day after the 1st Chinese Ballon I don't think it was green lizard people trying to steal our cows or people it was all just very odd
February 2, 2023 · 4:00 PM · CONE
Foxboro, MA
I was driving by myself and the sky was clear blue with no clouds. A bright silver narrow cone-shaped craft high up in the sky to the East of the sun caught my attention. It was hovering, not moving. Then it disappeared from the sky without a trace— no jet stream, smoke, trail or lights.
January 15, 2023 · 6:00 PM · CONE
Boynton Beach, FL
As described above. I will attach photo of contrail that still existed in sky 4-5 minutes after object disappeared from view. NUFORC: Appears to be Spacex falcon Heavy launch
January 9, 2023 · 11:50 PM · CONE
Carrollwood, FL
This is a confirmed revised statement: I am an armed Security Officer posted at the Hillsborough County Child Services in the Carrollwood area of Tampa, Fl. On Monday 09 January 2023 at 2350 hours (11:50pm), I was grtting prepared to do a golf cart patrol of the facility when I saw an orange glow in the sky in the Carrollwood area of Tampa, Fl, just South of Hillsborough County Child Services ( Lake Magdline rd. Entrance). Then almost immediately 2 smaller craft broke away from the center of what appeared to be a mothership heading in separate directions. About 30 seconds later, I saw the same large orange glow to the southeast for approximately 6 seconds before it completely disappeared at 0000 hours (12:00am) Tuesday morning 10 January 2023. I stopped for about 2 mins waiting to see if it would reappear but it did not. Unfortunately, there was no one else with me or around me to witness this unusual event. I looked up the number to report this event and made phone contact with the national UFO reporting center who advised me to file this report in depth using their online reporting tool, and to contact the media outlets. I have been an overnight Officer at this post since August 2022 and I have never seen such a thing before. Due to privacy and legal reasons, I would like to keep the company name and information out of this report. My contact info is provided below.
December 16, 2022 · 5:53 PM · CONE
Belhaven, NC
Lighting in sky with orb of light around it and then disappeared after ~3-4 minutes
December 12, 2022 · 10:00 PM · CONE
Lower Hutt, WELLINGT · New Zealand
Was standing outside at 10pm on the 12/12/22 and saw a strange white light approaching from the west in what looked like a cloud. There were no clouds that night so I watched it for about 15 min and could not identify it as anything usual. It flew off towards the South East and eventually faded out. I took Photos of it and later read reports from around New Zealand on the weatherwatch meteor reports website that were the same as what I saw. Therefore it wasn't local to just Wellington and could be seen around the country. This suggests it could be high in the atmosphere. There was some suggestion there that it could have been a Chinese rocket launch that apparently occurred at 9.30pm. It could possibly be that, but I haven't seen it confirmed. Its very unusual to see any sort of rocket like that in New Zealand.
November 26, 2022 · 2:17 PM · CONE
Mount Holly, NJ
Driving up the bypass I witnessed a metallic almost glassy cone shaped object. It was upright and vertical, and was rotating with the sun shining on it prominently, which is what drew my attention to the object initially. The sun was off to my right through the windshield of my work Van, as the object rotated the sun gleamed off of it very brightly, almost blindingly so. It only lasted around 3 seconds, but it was very well defined, and clearly not a plane or any other regular object such as a drone. The object continued to rotate, and as it did so, it began to fade away in a very strange fashion, almost as if it was being hidden behind a sheet made of the blue sky behind it. There were no clouds anywhere near this object. Having seen this, I pulled over into the parking lot across from the McDonald's, attempted to look for this object and began to film in the event it returned, to no avail. Considering I was working, I only had so much time to sit and wait, so I stayed put for around 5 minutes, returned to my work van and made note of the time, location and any other pertinent details. It was utterly bizarre.
November 11, 2022 · 11:20 PM · CONE
Adelaide. South Australia., SOUTH AU · Australia
On the 11-11-22 while photographing clouds, I turned my attention to a passing Virgin Australia Boeing 737. I had the aircraft in my view finder, when I noticed something extremely bright, enter from the bottom right and pass directly in front of the aircraft and disappear straight up, existing from sight. the duration of the sighting was about 6 seconds, and it was gone. I managed to get one photograph of the object, before it disappeared.
November 7, 2022 · 8:35 PM · CONE
Calgary, AB · Canada
Will include photos
November 1, 2022 · 9:28 PM · CONE
Holladay, UT
I was stopped at a red light when a light appears in the sky that made me look up. I then looked up and saw 2 lights. One light to the right and one light to the left. The lights moved rapidly across the sky and went behind a cloud. I know this because I saw the cloud light up. But then the lights disappeared and didn’t reappear.
October 30, 2022 · 5:30 PM · CONE
Sacramento, CA
On October 30 of 2020 I observed an what turned into a conical shaped object. i moved from north east direction to the south east direction from my position. I’ve taken three videos with my own phone, which is an iPhone 13. Using my fathers phone we took two videos of which we were able to zoom in on the object. Myself, my mother and father had observed the object for roughly 35 to 40 minutes. During that 30 minute observation, the object moved in a straight path, but at times would move south, then move in a north again. Sometimes it seemed to bounce. At first it looks like it was an elliptical shape, then a cube but had later on taken the shape of a cone, it had one light at the rear of the cone and one light or appendage on the bottom of the cone. There was also a commercial airliner that had passed from Southwest to Northeast toward that object. I’m pretty sure they may have seen it too. I have high definition video of the object but they’re pretty large files and doubt I can load them here so I’ll just load some of the screenshots.
October 27, 2022 · 6:18 PM · CONE
Douglas, AZ
I was driving north on Leslie Canyon road about five miles north of Douglas, AZ which is right on the Mexican border adjacent to Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. Looking to my left or to the west over the mountains I saw an extremely brightly lit cone shaped projectile light heading SE and the cork screw contrail from where it came from was in the NE which would be in the area of Tucson. It had a missile type shape to the front of it although I could not see the shape of missile behind the cone in the front. There was a cone shaped corona emitting from the tip of the object that spread out quite a distance from the "tip" of the object. I don't know how fast it was moving, but it was about the same speed as a jet aircraft as I could easily track it with my phone camera. It was sunset and the light emitted from the object eclipsed the sunset it was so bright. I thought to myself it could be a missile being shot at another object, but I did not see any other objects in the sky it could be aiming for. I presumed it might be a missile shot from Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson. I was able to take video with my phone, but I was in the middle of the road and needed to pull to the side since a car was coming. I had my hazard lights on, but was concerned it would crash into me so I pulled over. While parking, disconnecting my safety belt and exiting the car, I inadvertently stopped the video. I thought it was still running as I "filmed" it continue to move over the Mexican border at which point the front part of the projectile "blacked out" and there was an object I could still see, but it was blurry and hard to make out. The light from the object's "contrail" was long and could be seen for the next hour or so until the sun went down. I have photos and video of the event.
October 17, 2022 · 3:00 PM · CONE
Shawnee, KS
My wife & I were driving at 3pm in Shawnee, Ks. with me in the passenger seat as we observed an object descending for approx 5 minutes that looked like it had a vapor trail. There were 2 jets nearby at the time of the sighting:
October 15, 2022 · 2:33 PM · CONE
Newport, RI
Cone shaped in its entirety appearing to be all white light. Headed toward earth, with movement that is similar to some thing that would be burning. The cone shape was made possibly by the "tails" which seemed to come off the original possibly round shape. Shape and tails were all the same color, white light. Movement appeared to be slowly descending based on the distance where it was observed.