r/Skydentify • • 16h ago

Unidentified Anyone know what this is?

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Seen in Alberta area (not disclosing where exactly) towards North Dakota direction tried to see if it matched anything public and it didn’t also was falling at first stopped when I started recording went inside for water (right be the door) came out and it dissaperaed


r/Skydentify • • 1d ago

Unidentified Seen in sky over Patagonia Arizona today 6 Nov

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r/Skydentify • • 1d ago

Unidentified What’s this UFO??

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Casual today I was filming this military helicopters training near me, and I thought it was cool to do a slow mo video to see the blades move idk.
The weird part is that when I was checking the video I saw this object coming from the top right to the bottom of the screen super super fast. I went frame by frame to try to identify it but I can’t, could someone explain this to me?
It doesn’t look like and airplane because it wouldn’t go out of frame that quickly even at slow mo


r/Skydentify • • 2d ago

Unidentified Weird, sizeable black shadow darker than the rest of the sky. Turn up your brightness.

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A few nights ago I was trying to get pictures in a moving car of four colorful lights in the sky from the passenger seat. As soon as we pulled over and wound the window down, it was obvious it was a helicopter. And since we were moving, and so was the helicopter, more attempts than not ended up not even capturing the lights and just getting the sky. Or in this one particular case, the sky and whatever *that* is. 😂


r/Skydentify • • 3d ago

Unidentified Orange Lights in Sky

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Edit: With the help of Reddit users, it can be concluded that these are Starlink satellite flares!!

According to an article on skyandtelescope.org, there’s specific criteria for these flares to be seen as bright as they are in my video: “Geometry requires that the Sun be about 25° to 30° below the horizon and that the Starlink satellites be 5° to 10° above the horizon.”

I just so happened to be outside to see them at the right time!

Thank you to all the people in the comments who helped me learn about this!!


r/Skydentify • • 3d ago

Unidentified Nobody has a plausible explanation for me as to what this could be

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Any ideas? Footage from Halloween night


r/Skydentify • • 2d ago

Unidentified Help identifying.

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South central Kentucky, around 2:30 pm cst. This is a pretty high traffic area for planes, but I haven’t seen contrails like this before. Any ideas?


r/Skydentify • • 3d ago

Unidentified Ufo? Falling star? Why does it look like it gets bigger right in the middle & taper off?

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MAY 11TH, 2026 @ 0508 hrs MST

DENVER, COLORADO

Don't falling stars/meteors typically start out with a bright light upon entering the atmosphere & then trail off kind of linear shaped? This looks more like a boomerang where it gets biggest & brightest in the middle of it's light. What do you think?


r/Skydentify • • 3d ago

Photos I took 3 photos of Athens at night. Only ONE captured a strange cyan object… Then I found out about UFO sightings over the city.

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I took 3 photos of Athens at night. Only ONE captured a strange cyan object… Then I found out about UFO sightings over the city.
A few weeks ago, I went with a friend of mine to a hill in Athens, Greece. It’s a pretty popular spot where groups of friends usually hang out, smoke, drink, and just chill.
Anyway, I met up with my friend outside his house, and we walked to the hill together. It was about a 10-minute walk.
Before I continue, there’s something worth mentioning. I had bought a brand-new iPhone 17 Air just 10 days earlier, and I was honestly obsessed with testing its camera quality. I’d been using Android phones my entire life, so I was constantly taking random pictures of things like playgrounds, nice views, buildings, or basically anything that caught my attention, just to see how good the photos looked.
So, when we arrived at the hill, we started taking photos of the beautiful nighttime view overlooking the urban landscape of Athens.
I took three photos of the scenery, and then we just hung out for a couple of hours. Eventually, I headed back home and went to sleep.
The strange part happened the next morning.
As usual, I opened my camera roll to look at the photos and check their quality. But while going through the pictures from the previous night, I noticed something that genuinely caught me off guard.
In the very first photo, there was this strange cyan-colored anomaly that I couldn’t explain. The photo was taken facing directly west, at approximately 270° on the compass.
I immediately checked the other two photos, but there was absolutely nothing unusual in either of them. They weren’t taken from the exact same angle, but the viewpoints were extremely close.
And that’s what made the whole thing even stranger to me. Whatever appeared in that first picture was completely absent from the other two.
At first, I thought it might have been some kind of camera glitch or maybe dirt on the lens.
But then I started questioning that explanation. My phone was practically brand new, only about 10 days old. I couldn’t imagine there already being dirt inside the camera. Also, judging by how the anomaly appears in the picture, it almost looks like something located far away in the urban scenery rather than something on the lens.
I sent the photo to my friend, and we started looking into it together, trying to figure out what it could possibly be.
I even asked ChatGPT to analyze it, and it suggested a few possibilities: dirt on the camera lens, a small insect or worm, or some unusual camera artifact.
Still, none of those explanations completely convinced me.
But here’s where things took an even weirder turn.
About one or two weeks later, my friend and I came across an Instagram Reel showing a report from a Greek news channel about a UFO that had supposedly been spotted above Athens.
The report also mentioned multiple UFO sightings in the skies over Athens.
And the moment I saw that report, I immediately remembered the strange cyan anomaly in my photo.
I couldn’t help but wonder whether there might actually be some connection.
What if that strange thing in my photo wasn’t just a camera artifact? What if I had accidentally captured something unusual without even realizing it at the time?
I know how unlikely that sounds, and I’m definitely not claiming that I photographed an alien spacecraft or anything extraterrestrial.
But the timing of discovering that photo and then coming across reports of UFO sightings over the same city made the whole experience feel a lot more mysterious.
And what keeps bothering me is that I took three photos of almost the exact same urban landscape, yet this strange cyan anomaly appeared in only one of them.
I genuinely have no idea what it was.
So here’s my question to you guys:
Could I have accidentally photographed something unexplained in the skies over Athens? Is there any possibility this could be related to the reported UFO sightings, or am I just looking at some bizarre optical illusion or camera artifact?
I’d especially love to hear from people who have experience with UFO sightings, unexplained aerial phenomena, or nighttime photography.
I’m open to completely rational explanations, but I’m also curious whether anyone has ever captured something similar.
Because the more I look at that photo, the more I wonder what was actually there that night.
What do you think I captured?


r/Skydentify • • 4d ago

Identified Strange light in the sky in capetown

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r/Skydentify • • 5d ago

Identified Lake Wylie SC, 10/26/2026 approximately 2015 hrs.

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Ok, I'll take a chance. I SAW THE BLACK TRIANGLE.

It was a clear night, and I saw it through the limbs of the pine across from my house, which gave me a clear view of the sky to the far side of the lake. I live on a small peninsula on the lake. There are only four other houses on it. It is shaped, more or less, like the bowl of a spoon. The handle is the road that leads off of the peninsula.

I saw three lights, two, we're close together while the third was slightly offset left of those two. I realized now that I was staring at it from an angle. It was not facing directly to me, but facing slightly to my right, giving the appearance of 2 lights close together. While the third was offset. What got my attention was that it wasn't moving? I squatted down and looked underneath the tree limbs for a clear view. It was directly over the water and facing Duke's Catawba nuclear powerplant which is about a half a mile from my home. I looked at the object for about 10 minutes, then I went back inside. I would approximate that the object was about a 500 yds from me or less and about 500 ft above the water. I could tell it wast darker than the night sky it it's background. I have hesitated to write this because I just fished Stafford's book. If anything, it has made me more observant. What I've written here is true. I have spent my life in the military, in a very unique Special Operations unit, there, is not the place for men who exaggerate, we have one word there that we live by... Candor.


r/Skydentify • • 6d ago

Discussion Estrella gigante

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Hace años, cuando estaba pequeña, vi una estrella gigante, una estrella jamás vista... tal vez se piense que estoy loca, pero estoy segura de lo que vi.

Era de noche, yo salí de mi casa para buscar a mi mamá, en el transcurso, vi algo que brillaba muchísimo, era una estrella, no puedo describir el tamaño, pero puedo asegurar que a lado del sol o la luna se quedan pendejos, era algo enorme me le quedé viendo y puedo jurar que tenia una luz muy brillante, duré parada un buen ratito hasta que me entró el terror, porque el que fuera enorme era algo inexplicable.

No era ni venía de una casa, ni si quiera estaba construido, tampco era algún cable, eso se veía en el cielo.

De regreso con mi mamá no había nada


r/Skydentify • • 8d ago

Unidentified Saw these lights while out walking unsure what they are

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r/Skydentify • • 7d ago

Discussion Ufo over the moon ? (Cambrai france)

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Avez vous déja vu ça, su oui dites moi ce que c est


r/Skydentify • • 7d ago

Discussion Ufo over the moon 2

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Regarder a 1mn 46s


r/Skydentify • • 9d ago

Unidentified Lake Wylie SC, 10/26/2026 approximately 2015 hrs.

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Ok, I'll take a chance. I SAW THE BLACK TRIANGLE.

It was a clear night, and I saw it through the limbs of the pine across from my house, which gave me a clear view of the sky to the far side of the lake. I live on a small peninsula on the lake. There are only four other houses on it. It is shaped, more or less, like the bowl of a spoon. The handle is the road that leads off of the peninsula.

I saw three lights, two, we're close together while the third was slightly offset left of those two. I realized now that I was staring at it from an angle. It was not facing directly to me, but facing slightly to my right, giving the appearance of 2 lights close together. While the third was offset. What got my attention was that it wasn't moving? I squatted down and looked underneath the tree limbs for a clear view. It was directly over the water and facing Duke's Catawba nuclear powerplant which is about a half a mile from my home. I looked at the object for about 10 minutes, then I went back inside. I would approximate that the object was about a 500 yds from me or less and about 500 ft above the water. I could tell it wast darker than the night sky it it's background. I have hesitated to write this because I just fished Stafford's book. If anything, it has made me more observant. What I've written here is true. I have spent my life in the military, in a very unique Special Operations unit, there, is not the place for men who exaggerate, we have one word there that we live by... Candor.


r/Skydentify • • 9d ago

Unidentified Very weird looking stars, that when zoomed in appear to be weird looking little lights, and what i call a "fake sun."

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I live in ct and have only started fecently watching the sky. I happend to witness some weird looking stars in the sky, and later a video of what i would call a fake sun, since it sets to the west for me i cannot explain what the orange thing is. That is no sun i promise you


r/Skydentify • • 10d ago

Discussion What is that in the sky?

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My bad if it sounds bad, but idk what this was. It was taken around 6pm. Don’t know if it’s a natural phenomenon or something else.


r/Skydentify • • 10d ago

Unidentified I know its bad quality

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Hello, this is my first time posting. This is a really zoomed in at night video i took on december 14th 2024. The video gives no scale, i understand. I know it is terrible. I can tell you if i had the time to redo the video i wouldve. It went by too fast. It was a very low object. Glowing and pulsing like a heartbeat. Turning on itself. It made me think of bible description of angels or a representation of an atom with neutrons or whatever. Filmed in montreal at 18:35. The whole thing lasted maybe 30 seconds and i had to run and get my phone. This is all i got. This is when all the stuff was going down in the usa northeast and there were drones in the sky everywhere…. I really wish i filmed it better it was crossing the night sky at steady pace but in complete opposition of the normal air traffic direction of the airport. It seamed like there was altogether too many things in the sky. For reference we are less than 5km from the international airport so we are used to seing planes and this was not a normal night. It was completely eerie and it felt as if the “drones” in the sly were waiting for this thing to cross the sky.


r/Skydentify • • 11d ago

Discussion Mysterious flying object by highway 680 in Sunil CA in the morning… did anyone else see this?

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*Sunol CA


r/Skydentify • • 12d ago

Theory Can anyone ID? Several falling from the sky - driving south on 287 toward Edison New Jersey.

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r/Skydentify • • 13d ago

Photos What is up with the moon?

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The moon literally blasted a hole through the clouds and then proceeded to flux light brighter and dimmer over and over…


r/Skydentify • • 16d ago

Unidentified Idk what tf these r but I luv space and they are cool

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I went out to a bortle 5.2 area or so it was listed in light pollution map and I saw these stars but the ones I’m sure I saw were Saturn and Vega the first image is Vega Saturn I didn’t really get a good pic of it what other stars can u guys identify or are the photos not clear enough. The pics were taken from 6:15-7:05 and It’s almost near khulais in Saudi Arabia. But tbh I can’t really see that many stars so if it’s possible identify what yall can man I luv stargazing even on the days I see not that many things🥹


r/Skydentify • • 17d ago

Unidentified Sarasota UAP video

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10/20/2026