In 2023, the National UFO Reporting Center cataloged 4,186 eyewitness accounts of close encounters around the globe.
“That is not a motherf–ing airplane!” the unknown Texan — the Center does not publicize the names of purported witnesses — is heard exclaiming on the 13-second video.
California was the state that reported the most UFO sightings in 2022 and 2023, according to the National UFO Reporting Center. Shutterstock
“That is not a motherf–ing airplane!” an unknown Texan is heard exclaiming on a 13-second video of a “large chevron shape” he spotted on Jan. 4, 2023, over the small town of Forney.
The poster noted that the UFO “dropped lower and I went to my backyard to film some more and by the time I got there it was gone.”
He later explained to the Center: “I was outside smoking a cigarette. I noticed a large chevron shape hovering in one spot. It had lights running along the outer edge and at times appeared to move from left to right. I see low-flying aircraft all the time and have never seen something so large at this elevation.”
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He continued: “The object dropped lower and I went to my backyard to film some more and by the time I got there it was gone.”
The Utah sighting was reported in June, but the incident — which resembled a scene out of “Top Gun” — took place near Moab in May 2021.
The minute-long Utah clip captured “two spherical metal objects fly by, both following the same flight path.”
The unnamed videographer said he was “filming the sunset using a drone at approximately 200 feet elevation … From the ground, I saw what appeared to be a large metal basketball fly past my drone. I turned to watch it fly over the horizon within a few seconds, noting this as the setting sun made the object reflect as if metal as it flew away from me.”
The unnamed Utah videographer said he was “filming the sunset using a drone at approximately 200 feet elevation.”
“Upon reviewing my video I noticed I captured two of these objects, the second following a little lower in elevation but at the same speed and trajectory as the first. Both seem to emerge from over rocks on the horizon and fly past the camera.”