The home of UFO sightings, done properly

ufos.dev brings every sighting, the full history and the official files together, and checks each report against the real sky, so you can see what was really up there.

17,522Sightings
9,665On the map
1,391Encyclopedia articles
624Timeline events
347Official records

Why ufos.dev

Most UFO sites are a pile of videos. This one gives every report the context to judge it.

For everyone

Free to browse. Join to post, vote, chat and get alerts.

Explore the archive

  • Every sighting in one place

    Photos and videos from YouTube, Reddit, X, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Rumble, Dailymotion and U.S. military DVIDS, played right on the page.

  • World map with a time slider

    Every sighting with a place, plus encyclopedia articles and case files. Filter by date, shape, video or points, and play the years one by one.

  • Search that understands meaning

    One box searches sightings, articles, the encyclopedia, boards, the timeline, official records and members. โ€œSilent orbโ€ finds โ€œquiet glowing ballโ€.

  • Ask the archive

    Ask a question in plain words and get an answer built only from the siteโ€™s sightings and articles, with links to each source.

  • Trending, top and newest

    See whatโ€™s growing fastest on YouTube, X, TikTok and Reddit this week, or sort by most viewed, most liked and newest.

  • Statistics

    When, where and what people see: shapes, colours, busy years, hotspots and more, in clear charts.

  • Browse by shape, place and tag

    Every shape, place and tag has its own page, with an overview of what people report there.

Get the full picture of each sighting

  • Sky conditions that night

    Weather, clouds, the Moon, planets and bright stars, rocket launches, Starlink trains, fireball reports and space station passes for that place and time.

  • What else was in the sky?

    A web search for launches, meteors, balloons, drone shows and other reports from the same place and night, with sources.

  • What the AI sees

    An AI looks at the photo or video stills and describes likely explanations and any signs of editing or AI fakes.

  • Skepticโ€™s corner

    The most likely ordinary explanation, written fairly, with what would rule it out. The poster can say why it doesnโ€™t fit.

  • I saw this too

    Other witnesses add their own account of the same event, so reports back each other up.

  • Verified witnesses

    The person who filmed it can prove it and get credit on the sighting.

  • Similar and nearby sightings

    Same shape the same week, nearby reports and AI-picked look-alikes, each with a short reason.

  • Linked to the encyclopedia

    Sightings are connected to the cases, places, people and programs they belong with.

  • Credibility votes and polls

    Vote on how credible a sighting is, or what you think it was: drone, balloon, Starlink, plane and more.

Learn the history

  • The UAP Encyclopedia

    Wikipedia-style articles on every event, person, program, place and term, with sources, photos and infoboxes.

  • The UAP Timeline

    Year-by-year history of UFO and UAP events, each with its source page.

  • Official files and the Disclosure Library

    Government UFO videos, photos and documents released batch by batch, plus reports, hearings and laws summarised in plain English.

  • Project Blue Book

    The U.S. Air Forceโ€™s 1947โ€“1969 investigation: cases by year, on the map.

  • Case files

    One page per famous event, like the Phoenix Lights, with a write-up, a timeline and a map of every related report.

  • Guides

    Whatโ€™s that light in the sky, Starlink in the sky, UAP explained, UFO news, famous UFO videos and documentaries, Area 51 and Skinwalker Ranch.

  • Tonightโ€™s Sky

    Pick a place and see tonightโ€™s clouds hour by hour, planets, space station passes, launches, meteor showers and a โ€œWhat did I just see?โ€ helper.

Join the community

  • Post a sighting with help

    Describe what you saw in your own words. An assistant fills in the form and asks a few follow-up questions.

  • Boards

    Discussion forum with categories, tags, emoji reactions, bookmarks, unread tracking and its own search.

  • Community feed

    Short posts with replies, quotes, reactions, votes and #hashtags.

  • Articles and news

    Write long reads in a rich editor. Members can suggest edits to any article, and every change keeps its history.

  • Chat and group chats

    One-to-one messages and group chats of up to 10, for example to plan a skywatch night.

  • Profiles

    A profile with your posts, a wall for updates, badges, rank, activity streaks and your own colours.

  • Ranks, badges and leaderboard

    Earn points for sightings, articles and helpful comments, and climb from Earthling to Legend.

Make it yours

  • Sighting alerts

    Get an email when thereโ€™s a new sighting near you, of a shape, with a tag, or any new one: right away, daily or weekly.

  • Notifications your way

    Choose, for each kind, whether you hear about it on the site, by email, or not at all.

  • Favorites and bookmarks

    Save sightings and articles. Articles remember how far you read, so you can continue later.

  • Read in 35 languages

    One button translates the page.

  • Dark and light mode

    Your choice is remembered on every device you sign in to.

  • Works like an app

    Made for phones first, and can be added to your home screen.

  • Easy, safe sign-in

    Email and password, or Google, Amazon, Discord, GitHub, Spotify, Tumblr or Steam. Private profiles, blocking and muting included.

  • RSS feeds and a weekly digest

    Follow articles and news in any feed reader, or get the weekโ€™s top sightings by email.

For site owners

Everything you need to run, grow and protect the site, from one admin area and without writing code.

Fill the site

  • Reddit importer

    Paste links, or pull a whole subreddit gently, with every picture checked for faces and screenshots of text before it goes live.

  • Official files and Blue Book

    Import the governmentโ€™s released UFO files and the 10,000+ Project Blue Book cases in a few clicks.

  • Auto-fill details

    Place, map pin, shape, movement, number of objects, date and time are read from each post, and the quick-fill screen lets you check them one by one.

  • Copies and first uploads

    Finds the same video on other sites and the earliest upload, so credit goes to the right person.

  • Story finder

    Finds posts with a real story or a strong link that could become articles, and drafts them.

AI that works for you

  • Free AI services, with a backup order

    Use up to 19 AI services, many free, in your order. When one hits its limit, the next one takes over.

  • Live AI meter

    See which service is working right now, what it used and whatโ€™s left today.

  • Pick the AI for each job

    Choose which service handles summaries, labels, search, moderation and every other job.

  • Write by hand

    Out of AI credit? Download any jobโ€™s questions in one file, have any AI answer them, and upload the answers. The site does the rest.

  • Clean-up helpers

    Better titles for vague posts, a place check, a duplicate check and a not-a-sighting sorter. Each one suggests, and you approve.

  • Summaries, labels and overviews

    Short summaries of long posts, automatic shape, colour, place and date labels, and overviews for every place, year and shape page.

  • Encyclopedia upgrade

    Rewrites encyclopedia articles from their sources and swaps drawings for freely licensed real photos.

Quality and moderation

  • Spam and abuse check

    New comments, posts and submissions are checked the moment theyโ€™re posted, with a bad-word filter, link-spam rules and slow mode for new accounts.

  • One review page

    Everything the helpers found waits on one page for a quick yes or no.

  • Duplicates

    Same link, near-identical picture, same story, or an AI-confirmed copy. Merging keeps all comments, votes and links.

  • Link check

    Finds dead videos, links and pictures across sightings, articles and the encyclopedia.

  • Face check

    Optionally hides pictures showing someoneโ€™s face until you look at them.

  • Reports, members and bans

    Handle reports, find any member or IP address, see their activity, and ban or unban in one click.

  • Picture sources

    See which websites pictures come from, and remove all pictures from one site at once if its owner asks.

Grow the audience

  • Built for search engines

    Clean page addresses, sitemaps, structured data and instant updates to Bing and Yandex.

  • Built for AI assistants

    A guide for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini describes every section and encyclopedia article.

  • Video export

    Makes copies of videos sized for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Rumble, Dailymotion and Reddit, with a watermark and intro card. An upload tracker keeps you within each siteโ€™s safe daily pace.

  • Weekly newsletter

    A โ€œTop sightingsโ€ post and email drafted for you every week, ready to review and send.

  • Views and likes from everywhere

    Reads views and likes from YouTube, X, TikTok, Dailymotion and Reddit, and double-checks them online.

  • Donations and ads

    A donation page with your own links and a monthly goal, plus Google AdSense that stays fully off until you switch it on.

Run it with confidence

  • Admin home and search

    Todayโ€™s numbers, what needs you, and a search box that finds any page, setting, member or post.

  • Traffic dashboard

    Live visitors, where they come from and what they read.

  • Daily jobs

    Everything the site does on its own, with a โ€œRun nowโ€ button for each job and a log of what it did.

  • Backups and restore

    Nightly full backups and video backups to your own cloud storage, plus a restore page that works even if the database is gone.

  • Security

    Two-step sign-in, a secret recovery link, sign out everywhere, lockdown, changed-file alerts, a security log, a morning report and uptime checks.

  • Site doctor

    Checks everything the site needs and explains any problem in plain words.

  • Site editor, no code

    Logo, fonts, colours, menu, announcement bar, footer, custom pages and page texts.

  • One page for every key

    Paste a key and itโ€™s tested at once. None are required, and each one switches on an extra feature.

See what was really in the sky.

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