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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.
456 entries
November 14, 2023 · 5:30 PM · CROSS
Flying Hills, PA
First sighting was near Ephrata, PA. It looked like a vertical string of several white lights. It seemed to hover or move slowly. I kept trying to see how it was moving. It appeared it was moving East. I lost sight of it for awhile. I was driving North by Northeast. I exited the major road onto a state road. I saw the shape again in the Western sky. It was moving slowly or hovering. I kept trying to catch a glimpse of it through trees and around houses. When I came to an especially clear vantage, I was able to see there were 5 of the lines of light in a virtually straight east by southeast line. At one point I had three in sight. All had been white lights hanging in a vertical line. When I looked up I caught only one still in my line of sight, and then one with a vertical line of red lights instead moving slightly faster than a jet. I think at least one of its red lights was blinking, but I am not remembering clearly now. The white light objects appeared to blink or shimmer. I am sorry I cannot give a better explanation. I want to say they were at a height of 1 to 3 miles. Probably closer to the lower end. I thought I might be seeing hot air balloons, but it was dark, and hot air balloons could not move at the speed of which the one with red lights moved. The red lights moving stayed in the straight vertical line formation. When I had a safe place to stop there was just one I could see through the trees. I took only one picture but it was not visible in the poor quality duplication. I could see tree branches and perhaps a star nowhere near where the object was. At no time could I see the object to which the lights belonged on any of the lighted lines. Not even the vaguest of shapes to guide me to a credible description of the shape. I said cross shaped because it looked like the upper portion of the lights might have contained projections on either side that seemed at times to also have lights. I could see at least three lights on every one, but it seemed there could have been more. I could not tell, just like I could not give credible sizing. When I saw the extended line of the different "crafts," it looked like they may have had three miles or so in between each of the five I could see. That is about all I can remember. Sorry for the length of this. As the observer, I am a 54 year old white male with masters level degrees used to teach in a grade 7-12 building. I have never made a report of this kind before. I still kind of believe they could have been balloons, but cannot explain the movement of the red lights. I am just not sure what I saw.
October 21, 2023 · 5:21 PM · CROSS
Henryville, IN
The object was not seen by the naked eye. It was no lens flare, and have the photos to prove that a cross shaped object makes a rapid decent and gets closer goes over our heads and keeps flying north. It was the middle of the early evening. Still plenty bright out. The photos capture the crafts path over the course of a few minutes. Again, neither of us saw anything in person. But then looked at our photos later and really dug deep into it. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
September 27, 2023 · 2:30 AM · CROSS
Corsicana, TX
The light is beginning to dim more as I’m writing this at 2:45, but got the last 15 minuets I have been watching the light as the other 4 has been fading and coming back, only now is it becoming difficult to see. The lights are in an orientation that would be easily described as a cross, or almost the shape of a bull skull. There is one light that seems to move around the other lights as the others stay in position and fade in and out, aside from the one in the center of all the lights. In total, there is 6 lights with the tip that is closest to the strongest light being the dimmest, the arms of the cross are equal in orientation to the bright light, and along with the bottom of the cross, fade in and out. The lights continue to fade more and more as I write this, now I can only see 2-3 faint strobes along side the now much smaller center light. I have seen a UFO once before in Granbury, one that was at least 50 miles long and in the shape of a bus, but this has been the longest lasting and doesn’t align with any consultation or star pattern I have ever witnessed. With the moon basically looking like a strobe light at the moment with how bright it is and it is making the sky, I am surprised that I am able to see it. Still, in comparison to the other star consultations in the sky not a single one is showing the same signs as the lights. These lights are a bright white from where I am, and seeing as I can see the other planes coming in and out, moving through the sky while the strobes of their lights happen, I can confidently and with 100% certainty say that this is not a plane nor a set of stars. The object appears to be very very high in the atmosphere, but not in orbit or as low as a plane would be.
September 16, 2023 · 4:50 PM · CROSS
Chicago, IL
Item, larger than an eagle, traveling eastward (and potentially a little north or south), not moving upwards or downwards in the sky. It appeared to be flying lower than planes that were landing Midway Airport. It was further south of the planes landing. [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
September 13, 2023 · 3:22 AM · CROSS
Idk exactly -, YT · Canada
On the road between Delta Junction Canada and the AK Border on 9/13/23: First I thought I saw a cell tower suddenly show up to my right while driving in the dark at about 3:20 am. It had two red lights and one white light going vertically. Then while I was driving straight, no turns or elevation bc I looked at my navigation tool, it moved across the street to my left. Then it went back to the right and the white light disappeared and it was two red lights and now they were horizontal. Then I got my phone to record it. Sorry the videos are terrible. It kept moving around from horizontal to vertical. The last I saw of it, it was on the left of me in the grass area. Each red light looked like a giant “X” to me with my eyes but when I got a close up of my video later, it looked more oval. I reported on the form it looked like a cross, however, because that was my first impression. This “cell tower” changed position and elevation and was around our car from about 3:20 (I started recording at 3:22 am - 4:09 when it was on my left in the grass and we finally passed it and it was never in front of us again.) I was actually shocked to see so much time had passed in the video because it seemed to me like maybe 10 minutes and I kept timing the whole time until it disappeared. I started and stopped video bc it was hard to hold the video and drive. I woke up my son who also saw it.
August 31, 2023 · 5:20 AM · CROSS
Probable conventionalRome, NY
Very bright object in the shape of a cross. It does not look like it is moving, but if one was to see it an hour ago, and again now, one would see it did move up some within that time frame. It is very high in the sky, and from the ground it would be about a half inch big. I can not tell if it is making its own light, or if the light I am seeing on it is a reflection from the very bright moon we are having right now. I do not hear any noise from it. It has been in the sky for over an hour. Picture was taken from my front yard, with camera pointing north east. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
August 30, 2023 · 11:50 PM · CROSS
Probable conventionalPalo Alto, CA
Craft has been hoeing up for over a month, movement can be seen but in general try to imitate path of a star go from east to west every evening [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
August 29, 2023 · 12:45 PM · CROSS
Mumbai, MAHARASH · India
Seen 6 storys above ground and gradually ascending higher
August 6, 2023 · 5:54 PM · CROSS
Munford, AL
Sighted object appeared to be puff of smoke but with binoculars looked like 2 aircraft. Were visible for 2 minutes then appeared to travel SW and higher altitude.
July 23, 2023 · 9:00 PM · CROSS
Northfield, NH
I was driving south on I93 and, shortly after Tilton, I saw what looked like white-blue lights hovering over the highway — higher than any building or structure, but way below planes overhead. There were no blinking lights, and no red/blue lights, as distinguish planes. I kept an eye on the lights as I drove south and after a few minutes (meaning a few miles of road) I passed under them, with them still evidently stationary. The lights appeared to be in clusters of two, in a T formation; I could not tell, against the night sky, if there was anything between or among them, but it seemed like there was the dark outline of a craft between the lights. As I drove south, I kept the lights in my rear view mirror, and they didn’t seem to move until I had driven another 5+ minutes/miles and the road had turned. I was unable to find a place to pull over to take a photo or video. I asked my friend who is an ATC and he said there was nothing on radar in that area. However, a friend who lives nearby said that Sikorsky helicopters had been spotted in the area earlier circling (he had taken photos). Whatever I saw I am highly confident was not the running lights of a helicopter based on both lights and shape of craft. No idea what it was.
July 13, 2023 · 9:10 PM · CROSS
Oceanside, CA
Saw silent moving object shaped like a cross moving slow with no sound then disappeared when I grabbed my phone from my pocket.
June 10, 2023 · 3:12 AM · CROSS
Phoenix, AZ
The butterfly light came out of the shimmering lights, like a portal, flew south a bit in an arc it went back up into something and slowly faded out.
May 17, 2023 · 1:30 AM · CROSS
Pahrump, NV
Traveling North East on highway 160 approaching the town of Pahrump Nevada at approximately 1:30 a.m. on 05/14/3023, my girlfriend and I observed what appeared to be a highway patrol car or motorcycle approaching us in the opposite direction at a very high rate of speed (approximately 100 mph or higher) with its extremely bright alternating and "flashing" red and blue emergency lights on, coming in the opposite direction. As the lights got closer I realize that there were no headlights or other forward facing white lights of any kind but what appeared to be a total of 8 red and blue flashing lights in the shape of a cross. As it approached us I saw it was apparently not a car, I thought to myself it's got to be a motorcycle. As it appeared to be hovering just above the road surface. As our vehicle was closing the distance of the oncoming object / lights and just before our point of intersecting or passing the other object at about a 100 yards in front of us it completely disappeared in front of our eyes... Nothing passed us, there was no sound and no light, it was just completely gone. I hit the brakes rolled down the window look to see if it was possible "if whatever it was" could have went off the road but there was a guardrail and would have been impossible. It was just gone !!! Poof I even turned around to see what it was and where it went. But there is absolutely nothing there. The lights were incredibly bright and then whatever it was disappeared into thin Air… Thinking it was an emergency vehicle, I was slowing down and looking for a place to pull off to the side to let it pass. I noticed that there was a car about a quarter mile in front of us that actually passed the light as it was coming through a sweeping left hand bend in the road towards us. The entire situation reminded me of the scene out of the movie close encounters of the third kind where in the beginning of the movie there was a UFO flying down the road… Inexplicable it's impossible there's no way that it was a drone or another type of vehicle. It just disappeared before our very eyes.
May 16, 2023 · 11:59 PM · CROSS
Castle Rock, WA
The object was spotted moving quickly across the sky above my head at what appeared to be fairly low altitude. The object was blurry or foggy looking (possibly pulsating). It was in the shape of a cross. It happened quickly and I was the only witness. No pictures were taken. There was no noted sound. I'd been specifically listening to the frogs in my pond and the owls in the woods behind my house. The sighting did not startle my horses either. The object was moving fast enough that it was over in just a few seconds.
April 26, 2023 · 10:50 AM · CROSS
New Boston, MI
Object was a small white object shaped like a bird circling in small tight circles just to the north about 8-10 times overhead then made 1 large circle then at a high rate of speed it sped off to the west extremely faster than a bird could fly. There was never a flapping of wings, the object was out of sight faster that we could get binoculars.
March 1, 2023 · 7:30 PM · CROSS
Leesburg, GA
Second night I have witnessed the lights. A neighbor called and told me about them. Tonight they were a little more Southwest than they were last night but I didn’t look at them til around 8:30 pm. I looked again at around 9:30 pm and they were gone. The lights were stationary (not moving) and no sound. Jupiter and Venus
February 27, 2023 · 7:45 PM · CROSS
Brandon, SD
We noticed two lights in the western sky from Brandon, so these may have been over the northern part of Sioux Falls. The two lights appeared to be coming from the bottom of two craft that looked to the naked eye like they were boomerang shaped, but zooming in on the camera image, the shapes appear to be more like crosses - very thick (height-wise) crosses that would be several times taller than one would expect a plane to be. We checked back on them several times over the course of about half an hour and they were not moving. I stepped outside to see if I could hear rotors, but could not. The last time we checked on them, they appeared further away, but were in the same position in the sky and relative to each other. Jupiter and Venus
February 20, 2023 · 8:35 PM · CROSS
Troy, IL
We were in our backyard and saw a large bow shaped glowing shock wave in the night sky moving from west to east. I quickly grabbed my phone and took a picture. When we exposed the photo we found multi items in the sky, not seen by our naked eyes. 10 min later a large grouping of light colored objects, what appeared to look like geese (but way to far up) moving through the sky, flying from north west towards the same flight path and also disappearing.
February 9, 2023 · 3:11 PM · CROSS
Madera, CA
Heard an unusually loud noise I couldn’t find. Checked on an app for planes and it showed nothing. Looked up and seen these things. Moving fast .
February 3, 2023 · 5:20 PM · CROSS
Palm Springs, CA
Yesterday about 5pm black object, not a circle. It was one and was hovering on the clear blue sky for at least 10 minutes, moving very very slowly to their right. Then a helicopter appeared just below the object looks like it was going in the direction of the object. One of the witnesses took a video i am waiting to receive it.
January 19, 2023 · 11:45 PM · CROSS
AZ
I saw the ship while driving in an uber. Headed East on university Dr at 11:45 pm. It was the size of a small commercial aircraft. I couldn't tell what color it was. It had red and white lights. It was shaped like a cross similar to an airplane. I thought it was flying to low for something that big.. it also hovered like drone. It acted like a drone but was way to big and heavy looking it looked to be the size of 2 school buses side by side and as long about 60 feet long.hovered above the 2 story houses about 60 to 100 feet above the roofs. No sound and no wind.
December 28, 2022 · 7:02 PM · CROSS
Shiloh, PA
For the past couple months I have been seeing strange lights in the sky, that I later confirmed myself were not air planes using a live radar application on my phone called Flightradar24. I live in York, Pennsylvania, specifically Shiloh township, and on the night of December 28, 2022, I went to my girlfriends’ parents’ house to pick my son up, to which he was sleeping. They told me I can let him sleep and go back to get him when he’s awake. I agreed with it and needed to go to the grocery store up the street anyways. As I’m leaving to get in my car, I saw a bright white light in the sky that looked like it was only a few hundred feet up. I thought was a plane until about a minute later, while I’m leaving the neighborhood, I noticed that the light didn’t move. I’m starting to get skeptical about it at this point. So, I turn right from manor road to get on Derry Road, I’m looking at the light and suddenly started moving Northeast. It wasn’t going very fast, but the way it was moving was strange. It was like it was moving perfectly straight, as if it was along an x or y axis, without going up or down. Eventually, I turned onto church road, and when I get to the intersection, the light was directly above me. I looked out my sunroof and I could kind of make out its shape since it wasn’t very high. The shape of it was a cross, like a plane, but the wings didn’t look like one and didn’t have engines of propellers. It just looked like a rectangular cross. Right before the intersection light turned green, the object above me started moving in the opposite direction from where it was going. I was trying to look at the object but had to pay attention to the road as I was turning. About a minute or two later I get to the grocery store, Weis Markets, and the light was now thousands of feet in the sky, going diagonally up towards the moon. It got so high it became a spec. I was fortunate enough to get pictures of it and in the photo there are two lights side by side. I also have a video of a light in the sky blinking behind the clouds, not moving, when I got back home. I am now reporting this case because I just witnessed another event this morning as I’m writing this, which I will be submitting another report. I also believe I witnessed something else before the date of this report, however I was unable to get a picture.
December 18, 2022 · 9:05 PM · CROSS
Conover, NC
I have been having internet problems recently. On 12/17.2022, I had connectivity problems with my internet and as a result emergency services was called to my house twice for a series of alleged 911 hang-up calls. These calls coincided with a "spike" in the Spectrum Internet DOCSYS modem that provides my internet and telephone services as well as a severe degradation of my WiFi signal causing my use of a streaming service to be interrupted. The police came to my house twice asking if everything was okay. I explained that the internet was acting up and it must be an error, till it happened again a few minutes later. I called Spectrum Internet to report the anomaly and set-up a technician to come out and replace the modem. The next day, 12/18/2022 (one hour ago or so at time of writing), I started getting the same intermittent internet issues and checked the available networks that were broadcasting within range of my device. There was an open network called "Marvell" with a number I don't remember showing a signal strength higher than my own high-end gaming router's signal, which is 30 feet away from my device. This signal was stronger than any other the device could detect by far, so I thought there was someone outside since Wifi doesn't usually have such a high powered signal when coming from any amount of distance and through thick brick walls. As I walked outside, I noticed what I believe to be a drone very, very low above my house. This was larger than a Mavic drone commercially available, and was larger than most drones I have ever seen. It was huge and very close. This is NOT a report of aliens or whatever. This was obviously a drone, I have seen and flown drones, and am familiar with their shape, size, and flight characteristics. This was a drone. There were 4 white LEDs flashing in unison about once per second and the drone appeared to react to my presence by ascending quickly and leaving my house near the Cook Out restaurant and heading towards the Conover Fairgrounds about a mile away. I attempted to follow the drone barefoot, but the machine was moving too fast for me to keep up. I had hoped to follow it to it's point of origin, but was unable to keep up. After giving chase for about 2 minutes, I realized it was futile and the operator must have been farther away than I could walk as I live in a urban area, and would not have caught it for all the traffic and it's speed. I returned home and called the police to report the incident. There is a 911 call to Catawba County documented. An office came by, took a very quick verbal report and warned me against shooting at it as that was my first instinct since it seemed threatening and large enough to possibly kill someone if it struck them. The officer left quickly and I feel he was going to try and track it down. This was a very large drone, not like the expensive toys I have seen and played with, this was something different. I plan to file FOIA requests with a few agencies to see if any of them had a drone flying that night. This is a small town, and I don't feel like the cop knew about it's presence or purpose as he did seem to want to catch it too. If it wasn't the cops, and it wasn't a "normal" drone, who is operating such a device? This should be investigated as the pilot was NOT within any line-of-sight that I could see, and I looked. I wanted to follow it back to them and break it. The size and speed of this device makes it a possible lethal weapon being operated by unknown actors with an unknown intent while producing similar effects which disrupted emergency services and internet service at my house. I will swear to this in court.
December 13, 2022 · 12:07 PM · CROSS
Kent, OH
I was in a parking lot when I saw something that looked like a plane moving upwards after takeoff. I realized the “cross” shape did not go away, that the object was remaining stationary. I moved part way through the video to get more footage from a different angle. As I moved, I quickly noticed it moving sideways while maintaining its shape. I moved the camera back and got footage of this rapid sideways movement of a “cross/T-shape” object.