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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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April 29, 2025 · 10:58 PM · DISK
IdentifiedPointel, Basse Normandie · France
Le 29 avril 2025 autour de 23h un témoin observe pendant 3 minutes depuis le jardin de son domicile situé à POINTEL (61), une forme lenticulaire et sombre avec 2 lumières vertes aux extrémités qui vole à vitesse constante, à basse altitude, sans bruit perceptible. Le témoin perçoit un arrêt et un changement de trajectoire. Le témoin est intrigué par cette forme sombre inhabituelle, les lumières vertes fluorescentes et l'arrêt pendant le trajet. Les réactions des animaux familiers augmentent l'étrangeté (chat, chèvres et vaches). La consistance* du témoignage est jugée bonne malgré un témoin unique et l'absence de photo/ vidéo exploitable du PAN, le témoin ayant fourni des informations claires et précises sur les conditions d'observation et les caractéristiques du PAN (voir le compte rendu d'enquête). *Selon les critères du GEIPAN, la consistance est la quantité d'informations considérées comme fiables et objectivées, recueillies pour un témoignage. Il a été établi grâce aux relevés radar du Centre Air de Planification et de Conduite des Opérations et de Défense Aérienne - CAPCODA- de l'Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace que cette observation est cohérente avec le passage de deux avions militaires volant en formation, équipés de slime lights (lumières vertes fluorescentes). Explications aux éléments d'étrangeté relevés par le témoin : - l'illustration du PAN fournie par le témoin s'explique par la forme lenticulaire et sombre de ces avions militaires massifs observés de nuit et de profil, à basse altitude. - les lumières vertes proviennent de deux sources possibles : les slime lights verts fluorescents utilisés lors de vols en formation, présents et confirmés par les militaires et/ou la signalisation verte de l'aile droite qui est face au témoin en permanence. - l'absence de bruit perceptible depuis la position du témoin situé au plus près à 3 km des avions : de conception ces avions sont peu bruyants. Par ailleurs, un léger vent de sud ouest en éloignait la portée sonore. Enfin, les bruits extérieurs étaient possiblement atténués par le casque que portait le témoin pour parler au téléphone avec son amie. - la réaction des animaux peut s'expliquer par le fait que le témoin était au téléphone pendant toute la première partie de l'observation probablement en élevant la voix et se déplaçant en courant pour suivre le phénomène qui disparaît à plusieurs reprises, caché par les feuillages et la maison. Les animaux qui ne sont pas habitués à ces mouvements nocturnes ont pu être effrayés par l'excitation du témoin. - la perception d'une «accélération excessivement brutale » s'explique lorsqu'un avion qui s'éloigne vers le nord-est change brutalement de cap et se rapproche par le sud-est comme l'indique la trajectoire sur la carte militaire. - la perception d'immobilité : lorsqu'un avion change de cap, l'angle de vue et l'éloignement provoquent un effet d'immobilisation ou d'arrêt momentané surtout si l'avion se rapproche de l'observateur. Ce biais est connu en aéronautique. Le GEIPAN classe le cas en A : observation d'avions militaires. [GEIPAN classification A — Avion]
December 18, 2023 · 4:57 PM · DISK
Kelso, WA
The UFO was a disc shaped object and it was black.It was moving smoothly side to side then it vastly moved away. It looked like it was going around 500 miles per hour. It was close to 600 feet in the air. There was only one UFO but there where 2 viewers of looking at it.
December 16, 2023 · 3:30 PM · DISK
Reading, PA
There where 4 metallic objects very shiny at times there was also a plane above on the photos. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]
December 13, 2023 · 3:34 PM · DISK
Benson, NC
My daughter who is 30 and myself. I am 51. We were riding in the car together and out of our windshield ahead of us we saw this object in the sky that at first I thought was a weather balloon and as I looked at it. I said to my daughter. What is that and she said mom? I was just thinking the same thing and we watched it. It never moved it was big. It was the shape of the planet Saturn. It was mirrored or silver. And it was extremely bright and all of a sudden. It just disappeared. We pulled into a neighborhood after it disappeared to see if we could spot it again and it was just gone.I still don't know. What it is we saw but it was a unidentified flying object! We searched the sky after pulling into the neighborhood and saw 2 planes off in the distance. Not near where the sighting was and they looked nothing like what we saw and there was nothing else in the sky. It was a blue sky and whatever we saw was gone. There was nothing!
December 8, 2023 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Lowell, MI
I was driving from Ludington MI to visit family on east side of state. I was driving on I-96 heading east just passing Grand Rapids on Friday December 8, 2023 at about 9:00pm. In between Cascade and Lowell Charter Township on north side of highway, a very bright light fell from sky. It then slowed and hovered right by highway on north side. It was a thicker disc shape, grey/silver in color, just hovering, with two very bright white lights on each side on front circumference and multiple multi colored lights around back end of circumference, red, green. The lights from the front illuminated so bright, that you could view around it and there weren’t any wings or segmented parts, just disc shape. Appeared to either be shiny or have windows on the side facing us. My son was sitting behind me and was a witness also. We were so shocked and scared that we couldn’t pick up our phone to take photo right away. I begged my son to please get a video while it was still hovering and I driving away from it. We were about a mile down road by the time he was able to come out of a scared mindset to take the video. You can see it on the upper right side of the video briefly. I was so scared and wanted to get out of there so fast. I now regret not turning around and going back to get better videos or pictures. I am still very shaken up by this and try to not let my son know how emotional I am right now about what we witnessed. I have never believed in any such paranormal thing or ufo until now! In the video you can here my son still saying he can’t take video with how shocked he was and me in disbelief in background. Please help me to find out if more people have videos or captured anything on radars in this area. My son said to me, “mom I can almost see inside of it”. That is how close it was. Maybe a football field away from highway and about football field up. Size comparison would be roughly 3 or 4 school buses in size, of course being compacted in disc shape. I called the hotline also to make report. Second report iof same incident: I was driving from Ludington MI to visit family on east side of state. I was driving on I-96 heading east just passing Grand Rapids on Friday December 8, 2023 at about 9:00pm. In between Cascade and Lowell Charter Township on north side of highway, a very bright light fell from sky. It then slowed and hovered right by highway on north side. It was a thicker disc shape, grey/silver in color, just hovering, with two very bright white lights on each side on front circumference and multiple multi colored lights around back end of circumference, red, green. The lights from the front illuminated so bright, that you could view around it and there weren’t any wings or segmented parts, just disc shape. Appeared to either be shiny or have windows on the side facing us. My son was sitting behind me and was a witness also. We were so shocked and scared that we couldn’t pick up our phone to take photo right away. I begged my son to please get a video while it was still hovering and I driving away from it. We were about a mile down road by the time he was able to come out of a scared mindset to take the video. You can see it on the upper right side of the video briefly. I was so scared and wanted to get out of there so fast. I now regret not turning around and going back to get better videos or pictures. I am still very shaken up by this and try to not let my son know how emotional I am right now about what we witnessed. I have never believed in any such paranormal thing or ufo until now! In the video you can here my son still saying he can’t take video with how shocked he was and me in disbelief in background. Please help me to find out if more people have videos or captured anything on radars in this area. My son said to me, “mom I can almost see inside of it”. That is how close it was. Maybe a football field away from highway and about football field up. Size comparison would be roughly 3 or 4 school buses in size, of course being compacted in disc shape. I called the hotline also to make report.
December 7, 2023 · 10:12 PM · DISK
Honea Path, SC
We often enjoy star gazing from our hot tub at night and because my husband works in aviation we like to guess where airplanes are heading and then check them on a radar to see who is closest. This craft was disk or space shaped and was traveling south at a high rate of speed. It was soundless and moved more like it was in water than the sky. It was made of lights but they were not blinking or alternating and were nothing like airplane lights. I would say that it was more or less glowing as it slid across the sky. I first thought it was a shooting star but once my eyes adjusted I realized it was just a fast and unrecognizable craft sliding across the sky. Although it was quick, I had enough time to point it out to my husband and he saw it too and agreed with me that it was a UFO. It’s such a cool, exciting, and eerie feeling!
December 6, 2023 · 11:59 AM · DISK
Melbourne, FL
Was in my work truck heading to my very last stop at Dustin‘s barbecue off of Wickham Road when I saw the object seemingly suspended in place, not moving in any apparent direction. Filmed the object for approximately one minute to show its immobility before it seemed to Shoot off directly away from me before disappearing in a small flash of light.
November 28, 2023 · 6:18 AM · DISK
IdentifiedSan Francisco, CA
I decided to film the morning sky before entering Golden Gate Bridge from SF side and saw with my eye and both the camera the very fast flying dot through all the sky It seemed too fast to be something human made. It had weird trajectory and it is not the camera defect, because I saw it with my own eye while filming. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
November 25, 2023 · 6:30 PM · DISK
Auburn, ME
Was in hot tub, facing North, looking skyward. Low haze, but not super overcast, sky was mostly clear/normal. My wife was with me but not facing in direction to see it. Object was not there, sky was empty, then object - it was the shape (and at arms length, the size) of an M&M - appeared - fully lit - in sky at ~45 deg. The weird part was it was already moving at significant speed when it appeared. Also appeared to be fully unwaveringly illuminated the whole time with no trails or dissapation. Traveled ~15 inches across the sky in ~2 seconds, from East to West at a downward trajectory. It looked like it was a mile or so away. Disappeared just as quickly. Did not appear to fizzle out, just disappeared. I have seen hundreds of shooting stars, it was NOT a shooting star. It was of a size that if it was an object, it was large enough to be seen on radar.
November 25, 2023 · 1:22 PM · DISK
Brinnon, WA
Cool, Coldish day. Reasonably clear. Vehicle backdropped by clouds. Enough highway noise to mask any sound. No sonic boom. 500 mph? In zoom appears to have field around it.
November 24, 2023 · 8:07 PM · DISK
IdentifiedChennai, TAMIL NA · India
After finding this particular object in air , we thought this might be some natural activity happening but as time goes on we noticed weird movements like as soon as light came closer we could see clouds covering it and even the light circulating it was in its fixed position with the air craft and even when it was moving towards other direction the light was fixed and flowing its same way of light movement as if like moving car headlights which is fixed in car and moves as the car moves . I have same video with me . If the any other way i can send you video please contact me . [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Certain]
November 22, 2023 · 9:30 PM · DISK
London, ENGLAND · United Kingdom
Glowing and no sound, very bright.
November 22, 2023 · 5:14 PM · DISK
Probable conventionalFerris, TX
I was driving in to Dallas on IH45 headed north with my wife and it was a perfect day without a cloud in the sky and the first thing I saw was a light in the sky that I had kinda noted but didn’t think anything of it. Then I looked away and looked up and it was gone so that was my first clue. I told my wife about it. Then I saw it pop up again and pointed it out to her and we were just observing it for a few minutes. We would see it light up then disappear then show up in a different location and move in weird directions and would move in opposite directions. Then I saw it close and got a better view of it but thought it was maybe a plane then it lit up and disappeared again. And then I saw it again and caught a video. In the video, you can see it stall in mid-air, then start to descend, then speed up at a crazy fast speed, then disappear, light up, and disappear again. After we stopped filming, the craft headed towards a plane that was very obviously a plane and it appeared like they almost ran into each other. Shortly after that, it disappeared again and we never saw it again. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
November 19, 2023 · 5:17 PM · DISK
Montville, CT
I saw what I initially thought to be Venus shining brighter and bigger than usual. Then it started moving fast so I took a video. It was red and spinning rather fast in a zigzag pattern.
November 16, 2023 · 12:45 PM · DISK
Boyce, VA
Object was white and circular. It made no noise and left no contrail. It moved rapidly side to side and up and down. It appeared to be rotating and there were faint blue and red lights on the outer part of the saucer. No aircraft could have maneuvered like that. Clear sky, light haze, 70 degs.. Suddenly/abruptly it disappeared as I was watching it, just poof, it was gone. I am a retired Senior Intelligence Officer and am a trained observer. It was definitely not an aircraft.
November 12, 2023 · 6:55 PM · DISK
Nixon, PA
My husband and I were driving our family home from dinner at our parents. My husband exclaimed, “look at that!” I looked to where he was pointing and saw a red trail of light zoom off and disappear. It was a very clear night—you could see all the stars. It did not move like an airplane— it did a circular “swoop” before it disappeared. If it was a plane we would have seen it continue to travel off into the distance. My husband said when he initially saw it it was a green lit up object (half circle shape) that very quickly dropped straight down, and then jolted up (to make a “J” shape, before it zoomed off. When I saw it zoom off, it was red—-when he saw it, it was green. I have never seen anything like it. This was my husands second UFO sighting— he saw another years ago and it was similar.
November 9, 2023 · 9:45 AM · DISK
Topeka, KS
Sighting was viewed from my back yard. Visible just above the tree line looking to be but only a few city blocks away was one reflective black UAP. It zig-zagged about left to right and up and down for several minutes I'd say about 4 or 5 minutes. Then it just disappeared NOT zipping off but just diapering, poof gone!
November 9, 2023 · 6:45 AM · DISK
Elkin, NC
On my way to work I saw off to my right a silver metallic disk like craft rising vertically from the ground. It seemed to be half a mile away rising from an open field. I watched it until the nearby woods obscured it. Once I got clear of the trees I stopped to look for it but it was gone. The disc was flat with a slight bulge in the center top. I could see the sunlight reflecting off the outside. I drove back and forth the same way the same time over several days trying to see if it was caused by the rising sun but I never saw anything like it again.
November 3, 2023 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Hales Corners, WI
I have been reading all things ufo for years. I have seen things a few times but never really was sure it couldn’t be explained away. Until a few days ago! Im in true shock as I try to type now. A few nights ago my husband and I were driving and I at first thought it was a huge light on a pole but then I saw lights go on around the object it rose up and blinked out. I clearly saw a saucer with lights one by one in quick order showing its shape and size before rising quickly to blink out. I was almost scared to finally witness a true ufo as I always asked for clear proof. I was asking my husband he had to have seen what I did and telling him I finally know and I remember irritation because he kept saying he wasn’t sure what he saw but it was so close and clear there was no way to have confusion. Then im feeling overwhelming excitement and feeling to we both somehow dropped it completely. I was surging with emotions and instantly completely calm somehow. It left us both and we had no memory whatsoever. Tonight we were in the car at night don’t recall our conversation or my thoughts but it hit me out of no where what we saw the other night. He barely remembers it but recalls parts. I had to question it a dream like im crazy but I know it happened. We witnessed something real and it left our minds mind conversation. I have read of people claiming this and I now lived through this. I would never let this go it’s not like me at all. What happened to us? Is this worth sharing? We experienced something strange and I understand others whom claimed they dropped the subject quickly more than anyone might. We lost our memories I feel like I have something worth hearing. I have never experienced memory loss especially happening with my adrenaline racing while taking to completely nothing and calmness. I wasn’t supposed to remeber and im grateful I was with someone to corroborate something so hard to believe. At least can someone reply so I know it was read and if possible share any thoughts or information to help me not feel so taken advantage of… can’t think of the right word to describe an invasion of memory like this. Thanks for your time i
October 19, 2023 · 5:15 PM · DISK
Mesquite, NV
Looking out the back window of the house a white circular object rose into view. 1st-second, I thought someone released a balloon that was reflecting the late day sun. That thought was immediately dismissed, it was not drifting or wavering in the air. 2nd-second, I thought it must be a drone. That was also immediately dismissed, it was rising straight up very fast and I thought; “can a drone rise that fast”? I said to my wife; “what is that”? I got up and quickly went to the back window…it was already getting to the height of my 10ft tall patio awning. I had to bend over to keep it in view as it rose so fast. At that point I thought; “what the heck, this is fast” and it was above the awning out of sight. I felt it sped up as it rose. I immediately opened the sliding door and went out and scanned the skies. It was gone. Being aware of drone battery life, I stood for a long time scanning the area to be sure nothing was returning to the town area. Nothing came into view. Here is some reference information. I am very familiar with aircraft in the sky, have built WWII model airplanes growing up, built and fired model rockets (kits and home-made designs) growing up, worked for Northrop Grumman, sky watch and own a telescope spotting scope and binoculars. I grew up in Torrance California and saw many Vandenberg Missiles diffuse in the evening sky growing up. I dismiss everything I normally see. This “item” was baffling. The speed in rising didn’t look normal for anything citizen owned. It went very straight…straight up. The “item” looked round but like a dime turned maybe to a 45 degree angle although the size was smaller. It was not solid white (like a blinding bulb) but more like setting sun reflecting on something but not yellow or orange…so maybe it’s own light. It did not leave a trail (smoke). The base of the Virgin Mountains is about 10 miles away to the south (in the background) but I couldn’t pick up on any depth/distance for the “items” size, sorry. I do believe, looking at the area now, it came from the desert out toward the base of the mountains or Virgin River basin area. As far as altitude, southbound airliners over those mountains (again dismissed) must be at 25-30k feet (guessing). The partial moon visible above my awning was higher in the sky than that. The “item went out of view above all of that before I could get past the awning. It was all over in 10 seconds and is the first thing that’s left me baffled over the years.
October 17, 2023 · 7:11 PM · DISK
Walnut Grove, GA
We saw, what appeared to be, 3 disk like objects that were stationary in the sky, spinning very fast, and disappearing like lightening. We saw another one that looked like a ball of fire. This continued for 2 hours.
October 17, 2023 · 7:11 PM · DISK
Litchfield Park, AZ
We were outside and all of a sudden my sister laughed jokingly saying, “oh my gosh it’s a UFO” I looked up and saw this large bright light with a faded light surrounding it. It was hard to make out what it was. It was not like any plane I’d seen before. It was so bright and was moving very slow hovering above us. Then in an instant it started traveling fast but away from us. It was so fast. All I could say was what the hell is that. Since my sister was the first person to see it she told me what she saw before we looked. She said it was moving side to side in a quick motion. She said she had never seen any plane move that quick side to side before.
October 14, 2023 · 10:09 AM · DISK
IdentifiedLake Havasu city, AZ
I snapped a picture of the tail end of the ring of fire eclipse, and saw what I thought was a lens flare, or reflection of some sort within the iPhone, but on closer inspection of the anomaly in the photo, it looks like some partially cloaked bright green object, within the general shape of a saucer. Also, the light beams seem bent downstream of the object, suggesting the presence of an object or something bending the light possibly. If it’s a lens flare I haven’t seen one like it before. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
October 13, 2023 · 7:36 PM · DISK
IdentifiedHastings OK, OK
I was sitting outside and saw a strange lighted object in the sky traveling from the northwest to the southeast. I recorded it and put it on my YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/I7AX7jqgGRo?si=CSipesRLNYs5FD-7 Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]