NUFORC UFO Sighting 188996
Occurred: 2025-04-16 19:50 Local
Reported: 2025-04-16 12:57 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa

Shape: Chevron
Color: Colourless
Estimated Size: 15 meters
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: W 250°
Angle of Elevation: 90
Closest Distance: 30000 ft
Explanation: Birds - Possible


Colourless and silent boomerang object flew over me while stargazing

Earlier this evening I was sitting on the balcony with my mother and I was looking up at the stars, facing west and gazing around the Orion constellation and mostly looking at Sirius (southern hemisphere sky). Suddenly coming from South and moving directly north was a silent object roughly the same size of my hand outstretched in the sky. It's dimension in the sky was very large, like an aircraft.

It was colourless and it blended in with the night sky, moving at a constant speed, like you would see with a satellite. It was fast and large but it was certainly closer than a satellite would be. It made no sound and had no lights and its shape stayed constant, it looked like a boomerang/crecent in shape. It was higher than cloud level and it seemed transparent

I'm very puzzled with what it could be.







Posted 2025-04-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 187583
Occurred: 2025-02-08 04:15 Local
Reported: 2025-02-08 03:08 Pacific
Duration: 2-3min
No of observers: 3

Location: Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: -26.188456, 28.262895

Shape: Orb
Color: white/orange
Estimated Size: Cannot say
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 80
Closest Distance: Cannot say
Estimated Speed: Cannot say
Explanation: ISS - Certain


Bright orange/white orb flying steadily across the horizon in a north-easterly direction until disappearing over the horizon

At approximately 4:15 AM, while standing outside with two friends, I saw an orange-white orb in the sky. My friends confirmed seeing the same object. As soon as I noticed it, I took out my phone and started recording, but I struggled to focus.

The orb moved at a consistent and fairly rapid speed, maintaining a steady north-easterly direction without changing course, accelerating, or slowing down. The night sky in the East Rand is quite polluted with light, making only the brightest stars and planets visible. However, the orb appeared significantly brighter than the surrounding stars.

We did not observe any red or green navigation lights or strobe lights typically seen on aircraft. While observing, my friend pointed out a slightly smaller object moving in a different direction, which we believed to be a satellite.

To the naked eye, the orb appeared orange-white, but in the video, it seems to have a slight green tint. It had no visible trail, such as those left by comets. On this day, first light was at 5:22 AM, and visibility was 23 km. We stayed outside until sunrise but did not see any other similar objects.


NUFORC Note:

The International Space Station (ISS) was visible from Boksburg, South Africa, on Saturday, February 8, 2025, at approximately 4:13 AM. The sighting lasted for about 5 minutes, reaching a maximum height of 58° above the horizon.








Posted 2025-02-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 187571
Occurred: 2025-02-07 21:59 Local
Reported: 2025-02-07 12:15 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: Close to the city of Johannesburg, relatively near the OR Tambo INTL Airport

Shape: Orb
Color: Orange with red hue
Estimated Size: Tough to estimate size. Glowing at nighttime.
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: 280 degrees
Angle of Elevation: 30
Closest Distance: 800 metres
Estimated Speed: 150kmh
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Saw an orb that's clearly not a drone or an airplane. It was moving on a horizontal axis fading away and reappearing.

Saw a singular object that moved on a horizontal axis just past the approach path of a South Africa's biggest airport. It was not a drone, nor a plane with the characteristic red and green position lights. Moved in a linear line, glowing bright then fading away. As a plane approached for landing, it disappeared.

Posted 2025-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182841
Occurred: 2024-08-31 00:30 Local
Reported: 2024-08-31 01:45 Pacific
Duration: For around 15-20 mins
No of observers: 4

Location: Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Shape: Cylinder
Color: Blue green
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 90


At around 12:30 last Friday night we were at friends place in the garden and then my husband noticed glowing objects in the sky.

Last night we are at friends place for get together we are 4 people. when we are about to leave we spent some time talking in the garden then my husband noticed three glowing objects in sky, these objects are very stable they are not moving but got dissappear for few minutes and then reappear and stays for few more minutes we all witnessed that and capture some photos.







Posted 2024-08-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 180797
Occurred: 2024-03-11 18:47 Local
Reported: 2024-03-12 02:20 Pacific
Duration: 50 Seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Shape: Other
Color: Blue
Estimated Size: 3 meters
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: South
Angle of Elevation: 21
Closest Distance: 300 meters
Estimated Speed: 60 km/h
Explanation: Balloon - Possible


Object flying across the sky with very unusual shape and color. Emitted no sound or light

Object moved across the sky at a reasonable fast pace. No light or sound came from it. Looked as if it had a blue to purple hue to it and was completely silent.







Posted 2024-03-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 180216
Occurred: 2024-01-19 14:13 Local
Reported: 2024-01-28 06:57 Pacific
Duration: 10 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: In my garden on a mostly sunny afternoon.

Shape: Light
Color: White
Estimated Size: I would imagine a satellite
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: 254 degrees south
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: Honestly no idea. But further than clouds
Estimated Speed: No idea. Super slow. A bit faster than a planet
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

Not a satellite as i couldn't visibly see movement. I thought space junk but what flys past it super fast at the end? Very weird

Sitting in my garden having a smoke break. As I work from home. I often sky gaze (day and night) so I am very familiar of how satellites, planets, stars, meteors etc. look and move.

This was super odd. I thought it could be space junk, as it seemed to be sitting it in one spot. But I realized it was moving very slowly (far too slow to be a satellite).

You could only set it when the light would shine off it (i assume the suns reflection). What got me though was the light that speeds past it right at the end.

It was visible for around 10 minutes until the clouds covered it.

Please excuse my language in the video.




Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 188910
Occurred: 2023-05-06 09:30 Local
Reported: 2025-04-13 02:46 Pacific
Duration: 40 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: , Gauteng, South Africa

Shape: Cylinder
Color: grey
Estimated Size: Like a rocket capsule, 20Meter diameter?
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: West, SW
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 1 Km
Estimated Speed: fast


A conish aircraft with flat top, no apex, bottom base bigger than top base

I was on my way in the car to a client on the freeway R59 from Johannesburg to Midvaal. Just few Kilometers before the exit to my client location, R 550. The sky was very clear, I noticed the object speeding to my left, then suddenly stopped and changed direction to the right. The stop of a fast object, changing direction, with no inertia nut sudden was what shocked me. I remember that was a day that the Pretoria air show was happening, but I was like 70 Km away from show. Amazing speed but the sudden stop and change of direction was the unbelievable part. I am fairly knowledgeable on aircrafts to know was not a jet, helicopter of similar planes. My only regret was that I was travelling on a Highway and could not stop for not even a picture, never mind a video. I only reported it today because I was reading about some new CIA documents made available to the public. I do not drink or take drugs and was like 9 am or so in the morning of a clear sky.

Posted 2025-04-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182983
Occurred: 2023-03-30 12:52 Local
Reported: 2024-09-10 00:41 Pacific
Duration: 2 days
No of observers: 1

Location: Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: Industrial area, right next to Waterkloof air force base

Shape: Sphere
Color: White
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 85


Took pictures with my new phone and noticed an orb when zooming in

I was testing out my new iPhone pro camera taking pictures of the clouds etc, decided to take a picture through my sunglasses polarized lens and while randomly zooming in, saw what appears to be a white orb high in the sky. It was static and in the same spot for 2 days.

The photo/video I've added was on the second day when I took a photo of the spot in the sky where I saw it first to see if I could see it again. Picture is in Apple Pro Raw.








Posted 2024-09-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174024
Occurred: 2023-01-19 20:06 Local
Reported: 2023-01-19 22:04 Pacific
Duration: 44.sec
No of observers: 5

Location: Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: Roodepoort discovery

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

I saw it and I called my friends to come see as the cigar made no noise passing above us

Was out side looking at the stars when I saw this cigar flying over



NUFORC Note:

Likely Starlink


Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173508
Occurred: 2022-12-22 00:00 Local
Reported: 2022-12-21 15:29 Pacific
Duration: 15 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: Randburg, Ferndale

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Strange flying objects moving in different directions

For the past 2 months or so, I have noticed strange flying objects in the skies above my house. At first I thought maybe it could be a satellite or drone however the more I observed these objects, the stranger it got.

There was 1 object at first, it had a bright orange/yellow colour and the shape seemed to be a triangle however the 'bottom' of the triangle was not straight and instead tilted inwards. Hard to explain however imagine a diamond with 4 corners, now reverse the bottom half of the diamond to its shaped inside instead of outside.

Suddenly now there is more objects howerving in the sky. One of them seemed to be bright blue and would travel up/down/left or right. While observing this object, it would suddenly disappear out of nowhere and reappear more higher up in the sky.

Reason why I am reporting this is cause now these objects seem to deploy some weird blue light that would travel closer to the ground as if they are coming to get me. When these unexplained blue lights travel closer to me, I get freaked out and would run back into the house. A few minutes later I would go outside again and they would seem to be traveling back into the skies.

I have noticed how these lights can travel from the clouds to maybe 500 meters above the ground and quickly travel back into the skies. These lights seemed to follow the objects which are hovering above the skies.

I understand if I may seem insane however I strongly believe there's something up there that can't be explained and it's movements don't make sense for such a small object to be so high up in the clouds and move the way they do.

Today December 21 at around 10pm to December 22 at around 12:30am, the skies were full of these unexplained objects which seemed to flash red/blue at times. One of the lights that followed these objects traveled closer and closer to the ground, the moment I tried to identify the shape, the light would then disappear out of nowhere as if it was invisible

I hope someone can give me an explanation for all of this cause the internet doesn't seem to have the answers i'm looking for.

To clarify, I am reporting the triangle flying objects and the small blue lights that seem to follow them at a lower distance than them. The objects seem to be high up in the clouds, moving slowly in different directions and the lights seem to be closer to the ground also moving strangely in different directions

The objects are always surrounded by similar looking objects and at times they would all move together in a formation

Anyway I hope someone understands what I'm trying to explain cause to be honest, I can't. I don't know what they are but I am certain it's not a satellite or drone hovering above my house











Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 167756
Occurred: 2022-04-02 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-05-06 11:17 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: Over silverfields, Krugersdorp

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object

Silent Black delta with approximately 9 lights

Experienced hobby pilot (RC) was standing outside trying to find planets to sight through telescope. Witness 2 alerted to a "Boeing" making no sound. Witness 1 confirmed it was definitely not a Boeing, craft was a sharp delta, dark grey or black, with approximately 9 downward facing lights. Craft flew right above clouds and was about 3 times larger than a 747. No sound was heard before, during or after the sighting

Posted 2022-05-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 168647
Occurred: 2022-03-20 21:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-06-15 05:24 Pacific
Duration: Couple frames
No of observers: 8

Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: Shadow or object passing in-between the earth and the moon

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Was trying out astrophotography of the moon and in the video you can see something passing in the clip

Taking a video of the full moon with my Canon DOS 600 D with a 500mm lense the clip was only cut for time. It could be just a bird or a satellite but not sure.




Posted 2022-06-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166905
Occurred: 2022-02-10 21:04 Local
Reported: 2022-02-26 05:00 Pacific
Duration: Lasts about 3-5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Meyerton, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: About 20 deg North east

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object

They occur frequently at night, flashing while standing still and would then dissapear or change location

The sighting has occurred for months now since the one came over our house with an enormous bright light, it appeared southwest moving east with a bright flash, and stayed that way up until it couldn't be seen anymore. Flashes have been occurring more frequently of still standing objects that cant be identified with the naked eye as they are too far up. Some travel at satellite height or even much lower at hyper speed and some change direction suddenly. these don't occur much but the flashes are almost every night. either from the northern parts, eastern parts, and southern parts of the sky as the bird flies. At first, we thought they were planes, but realized planes have noise and don't standstill. Then we thought it was a helicopter, but again, a helicopter has noise and they aren't that high. we have tried flashing them back with a tactical laser 200km distance beam.....they seem to disappear/ stop flashing after that. There was a case where one kept on flashing after it was flashed back in morse code. They usually appear in more or less the same place at night. The latest one that was sighted moved low, cloud height, to the south coming from the north. They are shiny seems like they are illuminated in some way or have bright lights surrounding them. They are never alone, feint ones can be spotted if you look very very carefully, your eyes play tricks on you sometimes if you lose focus. But looking away and regaining your focus helps to see them again for a moment. It is too dark to take any videos or images via phone, I have tried, but the bright ones appear as a small star, and that wouldn't be valid. They seem to be getting closer at some stages.

Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 186346
Occurred: 2008-12-31 23:00 Local
Reported: 2025-01-02 15:33 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: Agricultural Holdings area of Rynfield, Benoni

Shape: Circle
Color: Red
Estimated Size: A yoga ball 60-80cm
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North East
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 50 metres
Estimated Speed: 10-20km per hour it was very slow
Characteristics: Lights on object, Made a sound

My friend and I were sitting on a wall, we saw a red light hovering over the road in front of us and it moved on.

Benoni is a very quiet suburban area of Johannesburg. Out in the agricultural holdings there aren’t many lights either. The year was either 2007 or 2008 but my friend and I both remember what we saw 17 years later, (and she’s deeply religious and I’m not at all) so for us to agree that what we experienced was strange and unusual means something.

We were sitting on a wall in anticipation for any fireworks that may show up in the distance. As we were talking we see this red light hovering about 5-8 meters above the ground coming down from another street the size of a yoga ball. It made no sound of propellers and bearing in mind drones were not even commercially available back then and if they were no one in Benoni would have one. We’d hear it but this made a single intermittent beeping. It turned down our road and approached us to a distance of about 50 meters away then retraced its path and continued down the first road and out of sight.

I’d thought it was a flare. But flares have tails and fizzle out and make a noise. This only beeped and was otherwise silent. It was something we couldn’t explain but never gave it much thought as UFOs were not even on our minds back then. I chalked it up as a weird thing and forgot about it until I saw a documentary where a woman described the exact same phenomenon she’d witnessed and it was uncannily similar. I asked my friend last year (2024) if she even remembers what she saw and she said she still couldn’t make heads or tails of it. We hadn’t spoken about it for 17 years but for her to still remember it is very comforting that I wasn’t singular in experiencing something that I cannot explain with science, rationality and fact.

Posted 2025-01-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181299
Occurred: 1985-04-02 01:00 Local
Reported: 2024-04-28 05:59 Pacific
Duration: 60 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Johannesburg South, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: 2000 ft above Rosebank south Africa

Shape: Triangle
Color: white
Estimated Size: 5 Meters
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: view from a elevated position around 20 degrees
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 10-15 km
Estimated Speed: 80km to + 3000km
Characteristics: Lights on object

Observed strange static lights that moved erratically with no sound

Observed a what appeared to be a three bright white static lights in the shape of a triangle approximately 3 to 5 meters , No physical shape could be observed. This was observed from my open bedroom window aprox 2000 ft above a residential area in the normal airplane and helicopter flight path where they are clearly visible and audible especially in the early morning hours.
This object immediately got my attention as I assumed it was a police helicopter at first with a search spotlight as they flew regularly over this area , however no engine noise could be heard , The lights were also Static and equally bright but emitted no beam. The object moved in a very erratic slow almost jerky zig zag pattern, and was able to change direction almost as if not stoping it would also remain stationary for a few seconds , this is something a helicopter could never do . After observing this for around 60 mesmerising seconds the object accelerated at warp speed at around a 45 degree angle into the stratosphere , it was about as fast as a shooting star . To this day I have never seen anything move that fast in the sky some 40 years later .

Posted 2024-05-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174057
Occurred: 1983-05-02 08:07 Local
Reported: 2023-01-21 22:38 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Location details: ext 10 lenasia

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Possible abduction, Missing Time

i saw a rectangle craft it had glass windows un southder like glass tiles it had like a dark tint .

i was really ubducted and i have mindblowing information please contact me
((# deleted)) im in south africa.

Posted 2023-03-06