NUFORC UFO Sighting 188543
Occurred: 2025-03-25 20:42 Local
Reported: 2025-03-25 18:34 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Petersburg, MI, USA
Location details: in front of summerfield high school

Shape: Light
Color: LED/green
Estimated Size: bigger than an airplane
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: south
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: unknown
Estimated Speed: very fast
Characteristics: Lights on object

Large LED light with green light on bottom flying through sky

When driving down ida west road I noticed a bright LED light to my left. There was a green light on the bottom and this object was flying very fast to the west I got to look at it for a couple seconds but it was gone within seconds

Posted 2025-03-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 188670
Occurred: 2025-01-08 01:30 Local
Reported: 2025-04-01 16:16 Pacific
Duration: 45 seconds
No of observers: 2 - Military

Location: Petersburg, AK, USA
Location details: Traveling by the Alaska Marine Highway System

Shape: Orb
Color: Bright light
Estimated Size: 8 inches, approximately
Viewed From: Boat
Direction from Viewer: 230 degrees
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: Within 100 ft
Estimated Speed: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Underwater light traveling very fast.

Traveling on the state ferry from Petersburg to Wrangell Island on New Year's Eve, my husband and I saw a very fast moving light in the water on the left side of the ship, in the opposite direction that we were traveling. That made it difficult to tell it's speed. We were just amazed and both of us agreed it had to be an orb!

The other event taking place at the same time was a huge Aurora. The Kp index that night was an 8!! Which is why we were glued to the windows.

Posted 2025-04-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 180417
Occurred: 2024-02-14 19:24 Local
Reported: 2024-02-14 17:18 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 2 - Military

Location: Petersburg, KY, USA

Shape: Orb
Color: White
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 45
Explanation: Rocket - Probable
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Saw a rather impressive “shooting star” while satellite. A few minutes later we saw a white light with an orb of “blurry”light below it

White light with a large orb of blurry light below it even though sky was clear, we were spotting satellites when we saw a really nice long “shooting star” from west to north east direction. Several minutes later we saw pretty much out of nowhere an object that looked light a sphere of light and above it a single white light moving in unison with each other from above our heads moving to the north east moving fairly slow. The orb of light appeared to be blurry even though the stars behind it in the sky were clear?




Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 186083
Occurred: 2021-07-04 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-12-27 17:54 Pacific
Duration: Approximately 1 minute 30
No of observers: 3

Location: Petersburg, VA, USA
Location details: Wasn't an aircraft more like an orb bright sun orange orb. And it came real close to us

Shape: Circle
Color: Reddish-orange
Estimated Size: Impossible to say in such little words I don't kno
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Diagonal because it was coming from towards another compnext headed straight towards me.
Angle of Elevation: 80
Closest Distance: 13 to 14 feet
Estimated Speed: It was moving slow 2 maybe 3 miles an hour
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

I notice an orange orb headed towards me and I called a couple people to look.

I don't know how to explain this it was around 2021 most likely in the summer time I'm believing it was July I don't even know how to prove that it happened other than meet my girlfriend and my other witness seeing it and I can show you exactly where it was it floated across to us and disappeared behind a tree branch yet it was bigger than the tree branch it disappeared behind so most of it was still visible as it disappeared in right in front of our eyes. And I do not use drugs or drink so this was not a hallucination. It was approximately 10 feet no more than 12 feet above us and I get within a good 12 to 13 feet of it because I got almost directly under it.

Posted 2025-01-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 157099
Occurred: 2020-06-16 23:40 Local
Reported: 2020-06-16 23:28 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Petersburg, IN, USA

Shape: Other


Pulsating orange orbs followed by bright white orb seen over Petersburg, Indiana

Two pulsating orange orbs were spotted in the sky, observed from Princeton Indiana and appearing to be above Petersburg Indiana. I saw them as I was driving, first assuming they were planes. As I watched they continued to float in a stationary position approximately one mile apart from each other in perfect alignment. After approximately 10 minutes they simply vanished. The conditions of the skies were completely clear with no possibility of clouds or fog covering the objects. They appeared a second time in the same area nearly one hour later, having the same alignment as well as the same color. Once again, they vanished without any movement. I would like to note that the pulsation was in sync with each orb and very different from the blinking light of any standard aircraft. I would also like to note that approximately one hour after the orbs disappeared the second time, in the same location as before, there was a sudden bright white orb that lit for a few s! econds and then also vanished.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149524
Occurred: 2019-10-04 05:30 Local
Reported: 2019-10-04 18:52 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Petersburg, VA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Animals reacted

Seen triangle shaped craft hovering in the sky

Was pulling out of Salem Bros. store on S. Crater Rd, Petersburg, Va, at 5:30 a.m. on 10/04/19 spotted a triangle shaped object in the sky. The UFO hovered in one place for about 5 minutes.

On the side of S. Crater Rd. there were 6-8 deer standing at the side of the road.

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149352
Occurred: 2019-09-30 07:51 Local
Reported: 2019-09-30 16:56 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Petersburg, NY, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Cigar shaped object with red lights elevated into low hanging clouds. The clouds illuminatrd red. Wasnt fast enough with phone to catch object moving but got the illuminated clouds.



Posted 2019-10-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 179728
Occurred: 2019-01-21 01:28 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-12-15 20:10 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Petersburgh, NY, USA
Location details: 50 to 100 feet west side of house

Shape: Light
Color: Unknown
Estimated Size: Unknown
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Both directly above camera and behind camera
Angle of Elevation: 90
Closest Distance: 75 feet
Estimated Speed: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

Beams of light and ambient light caught on wildlife camera

I did not observe this in real time. Photos were caught on a wildlife camera.See attached photos.These are 4 of 5 photos on wildlife cam.

• Photo 1: Numerous lights appear to be shining down from some central source in the air above our west lawn at 1:28 AM. Some low-level diffuse light seen to be lighting the lawn as well in later photos. It was a moonless night, and at this time of night if there was a moon shadow it would be from south to north at this time of year. Streaks do not appear to be snow falling as there are no branches above the lawn and snow on the nearby branches is not disturbed, so there was no air turbulence as from a helicopter (snow was powdery). Camera faces east.

• Photo 2: Next photo at 2:53 AM, over an hour later, now shows increased diffuse light across the west lawn illuminating the west side of our house. Tree shadows suggest the light source is airborne and just above the tree crowns on the west side of the camera to be able to throw a long shadow of the tree across the lawn (shadow is west to east).

• Photo 3: Next photo at 2:53 AM, still within that same minute, shows no change in diffuse light intensity. It does show a change in a single light beam coming down. It may be from point under an aerial object above the lawn. Would the aerial object need to be large to cast a tree shadow from the edge of the lawn and generate the “beams of light” from the north, noting the angle of the “light beam”?

• Photo 4 at 3:33 AM over 30 min later: now the aerial object / source of the light shifts to the north or northwest slightly (note the tree shadow shift on the lawn and a shadow line on the side of the house going onto deck) but remains very close to the tree tops given the tree shadow stretches across the entire lawn.

Questions … it is not clear how the camera would be activated as normal light does not activate camera. And why are there no pools of light on the snow? There is no line of sight to fly a drone at night, and trees surround this area. A helicopter this dangerously low would have blown dry, powdery snow off the branches in the photos.














Posted 2023-12-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 130145
Occurred: 2016-09-22 04:15 Local
Reported: 2016-09-23 01:59 Pacific
Duration: Hour
No of observers: 3

Location: Petersburg, VA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Animals reacted

There has been an object hovering outside of our home for almost an hour now. It moves zigzag and in a circle while changing pattern and colors of flashing lights.

Posted 2016-09-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128499
Occurred: 2016-07-14 16:02 Local
Reported: 2016-07-14 13:18 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Petersburg, VA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I was watching a helicopter flying above me. As I followed it, I noticed a black round object hovering in its flight path. As the helicopter approached, the object disappeared.

About 30 seconds after the helicopter left, the object reappeared and flew in a NE direction. The object was as high as the clouds and flew at what appeared to be the same rate as a commercial airliner. I followed it until it left out of my view.

Posted 2016-07-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 118879
Occurred: 2015-05-08 23:58 Local
Reported: 2015-05-08 23:28 Pacific
Duration: 1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Petersburg, TN, USA

Shape: Light


As I was traveling South on US 431 between Belfast and Petersburg, I saw a white light shoot across the sky. It appeared to be in our atmosphere parallel in direction from the ground.

Size of the light was a lot larger then a star, it's hard to describe the size of anything. If you placed a tennis ball 15' in the air it was around the same size as that would be in relation to it being high in altitude, much larger then a star.

It had no curve in its path with a direction of mostly South, if anything it was south-southwest.

Law Enforcement

Posted 2015-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 115076
Occurred: 2014-11-02 08:20 Local
Reported: 2014-11-02 06:58 Pacific
Duration: ?
No of observers: 2

Location: Petersburg, KY, USA

Shape: Orb


huge orb like object in picture not visable to naked eye.

I was taking a picture of the fog over the water. The sky around was clear and bright blue. Nothing but pure blue sky was visible however, when I looked at the picture there was a huge glowing bright orb like object. My husband and I both looked and saw nothing before and after taking the shot. Just clear blue sky. I have no idea what this could be.

Posted 2014-11-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112354
Occurred: 2014-08-08 20:37 Local
Reported: 2014-08-10 11:17 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Petersburg, VA, USA

Shape: Fireball


I viewed 5 fireball UFOs in Petersburg. The last showed up very bright and seemed as if it came from the ground and vanished.

Was leaving work driving down Washington St. By the library, and as I look up, I saw 3 orange balls sitting in 1 spot side by side.

At this point I slow my car completely down and they appear to vanish within the clouds.

As the 3 vanish I see another appear within the cloud and in seconds I see a 5th one that was extremely bright orange but it look as if it had came from the ground, and it was rising higher and higher.

Posted 2014-08-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101493
Occurred: 2013-08-22 22:00 Local
Reported: 2013-08-23 16:02 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Petersburg, VA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby, Possible abduction

ball of fire dissapear in night sky

My friend was driving down the street when we noticed a ball of fire dissapear in the sky .

We stopped got out and seen 5 other objects come from far away off the ground going up into the sky all in a line and dissapear .

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 94289
Occurred: 2012-11-09 01:00 Local
Reported: 2012-11-09 21:25 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Petersburg, TX, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Brite green flash in west texas sky lights up the night as if it was dawn for about 2 seconds.

At 1.00 AM on NOV.9th while driving North on hiway 789 from Petersburg,TX. My friend and I seen a brite green flash in the dark night sky so brite it lit up the night as if it was dawn for only about 2 seconds and had a brite white short streek unlike any shooting star I have ever witnessed. It was almost as if it came in and out of our atmospere verry rapidly FLASH and then it was gone.

Posted 2012-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 98061
Occurred: 2011-11-15 16:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2013-05-16 18:52 Pacific
Duration: unknown
No of observers: 0

Location: Petersburg, VA, USA

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

Large Black Rectangle with pulsing green light. possible time dilation.

I was driving along going from colonial heights into petersburg one evening. I noticed out of the corner of my eye in the top left hand side of the windshield a large, slow, black, and rectangular craft with a slow pulsing green light either the out lay was one large light in the center or four smaller one on each corner I cannot recall.

Of unknown altitude, size, or approximate knowledge of origin. I only really only know that when i try to remember the event it it very difficult and it feels as though that the event took entirely too long to occur.

I do believe that some type of time dilation was experienced. Possible abduction but unknown. No hypnotic regression attempted.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2013-06-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 73521
Occurred: 2009-11-28 22:52 Local
Reported: 2009-11-28 22:09 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Petersburg, IL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 orange lights fly over petersburg Illinois

At about 10:52 PM in Downtown Petersburg, Illinois I and 3 other witnesses all saw the same UFO flying overhead. It covered about 50 degrees of the sky in no more than 10 seconds. It was triangular in shape with an orange glowing light on each point of the triangle. It had absolutely no sound as it passed through the sky. During the time it was flying overhead my friends and I were able to determine that it was nothing man made.

It passed overhead from a direction of Northwest and flew southeast until we couldn’t see it due to light pollution of fast food signs. The lights at first made me think that it was a collection of birds, but upon realizing that they were all too uniformly spaced to be anything of the sort. It was amazing how fast it was flying because right after we looked a plane and it appeared to be going at least 10 times faster than the plane.

The size in comparison to the moon was about 3 moons in the area of a triangle. The area between the three lights blocked out the stars behind it. It was like nothing I have ever seen in my life. There is no other way to explain it. It was a large triangle shaped craft of some sort that moved swiftly through the sky and made absolutely no sound.

Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 73520
Occurred: 2009-11-28 22:52 Local
Reported: 2009-11-28 22:07 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Petersburg, IL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

its was 10:52 pm three brownish-orange circles with a dark center appeared in a triangular formation for around ten seconds.

Three of my friends and I were laying down on a trampoline at one of the friend's house at 10:52 PM. It was a pretty moonlit night. We were all looking at the stars and then one person declares, "Oh my God!"

In the sky, we see three circles, a brownish orange in color, flying from the north-west. The were in a triangular formation, flying equidistant from each other. In between the circles was black and whenever it passed a star, you were not able to see the stars. It was also noiseless.

It lasted for around ten seconds before it disappeared in the south-east direction.

Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 73519
Occurred: 2009-11-28 22:50 Local
Reported: 2009-11-28 21:42 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Petersburg, IL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Black, triangular UFO over a small central Illinois town.

Three of my friends and I were sitting outside on the trampoline in my backyard. We live downtown in Petersburg, IL. It's a very small town, but there are enough nearby shops and streetlights that light pollution can be fairly bad. Nevertheless, we are usually able to see stars and such, which makes stargazing on clear days (like this) one of our favorite pastimes.

It was just past 10:50 p.m. when my friend started pointing northwest in the sky and yelling "What is that?!" We all looked up and noticed three brownish objects gliding through the sky, forming a perfect triangle. For a second, I thought they might be birds, but they were way too still and uniformly spaced. They were also way to low, dimly lit, and fast to be any sort of aircraft I know. The triangle itself blended with the sky behind it, but my friend said he would see the stars behind it disappearing when the triangle passed under them.

It took maybe five, ten seconds to completely pass across the sky, and it was completely noiseless. My friends and I were amazed. A few minutes after it passed, I remembered the air force base about 30 minutes (by car) southeast of us - the direction that the Unidentified Flying Object was headed. I'm still looking to hear if anybody else noted these same sightings.

Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51661
Occurred: 2006-08-13 11:00 Local
Reported: 2006-08-14 11:56 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Petersburgh, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown


Black object over Berlin NY

I was sitting outside an i notice a black object in the sky. origginally i think noting of it.I thought it was a plane. But when it stayed stationary for 1:55 minuites. I knew it was a UFO After the time period o f 1:55 min it flew away.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 18951
Occurred: 2001-08-12 22:53 Local
Reported: 2001-08-13 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Petersburg, AK, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

A silent lighted triangle

I was out on a remote logging road when I saw a shooting star. I pulled off the road into a big rock pit and reclined my car seat and layed back to watch for more. I have seen them before and they ussually showed up more than one at a time. shortly agter seeing the star I noticed something slowly coming towards me in the same path that the star was in. It was a triangular and had lights on it. The craft was fairly high but came lower as it aproached my vehicle. It had 4 lights on the front of it. Two of them were red and two of them were blueish white. It moved extremely slow and it made zero noise. It literally scared the piss out of me when it hovered infront of and around my vehicle. As it left my area I could see that it had maybe six to ten bars of light on the back. They were as tall as the craft and I noticed that two of them were red and two of them were blinking white. That is about much detail as I can remember. I am still in shock. It actually was very scary for me. It looked exactly like something you would see on unsolved mysteries or some ufo show. I have always believed in them but now I know they exist. Anyway that is about all that I can say right now. Is there any expanation for what I saw? could the "star" been the ufo entering the earth? Interested in learning about what I saw.



NUFORC Note:

Please see reports from Victoria, B.C., for the morning of 12AU01. PD


Posted 2001-08-20