UFO Sightings in United States
123,349 UFO sightings reported in United States since 1930, peaking in 2014 (8162 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 123,349
- Span
- 1930–2030
- Peak year
- 2014 (8162 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1930–2030 · peak 2014 (8162 reports)
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Battle Ground · WA, USA
Large fireball type object shot straight downward, made sound.
Madison · WI, USA
Triangle ufo in Madison, WI.
Salem · OR, USA
3 yellow-ish/orange orbs that looked like oblong chunks plucked out of the sun, were seen moving across the Salem, OR, sky.
Eaton · OH, USA
Slow flying with three lights on two sides, one flashing and heading south
Moore · TX, USA
3 different strobing lights. ((anonymous report))
Elko New Market · MN, USA
Ring of lights spotted over Twin Cities in Minnesota. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect advertising lights from a casino. PD))
Ridley Park · PA, USA
The light was a perfect circle moving in a circular pattern above the clouds.
Hilton Head · SC, USA
Extremely bright ball of light traveling at a high rate of speed.
Hilton Head · SC, USA
6"-8" diameter white ball of light seen by two people in car in Hilton Head, SC. Was ~3 feet from windshield.
Hilton Head · SC, USA
I went to Savannah airport to pick up my friend for the weekend On our way home we were traveling toward hilton head island on route
Corning · AR, USA
UFOs seen above Corning, Arkansas.
Ventnor · NJ, USA
A flying disk, with 7 or 8 lights on the side, hovered for some time and abruptly descended straight downwards before it disappeared.
Sydney (Australia) · NS, USA
2 green lights that moved very fast can also disappear and stop on a dime in mid air and made no noise whatsoever
Tucson · AZ, USA
Three lights with one being green, if connected, one can form a triangle; also stood in place while the lights flashed in a pattern.
Pharr · TX, USA
Fireball in the sky.
Saratoga Springs · NY, USA
Bronze colored cube. 400-700 feet in the air. Lower than the clouds.
Elma · WA, USA
Fast moving, bright shimmering rectangular object near Elma WA in daylight
Albany · NY, USA
Was brillant lights and shape like cigar and disc, 3 one step for few and flew quik, the others 2 same. ((anonymous report))
Wilson Lake · KS, USA
Saw a helicopter chasing a orb across the sky at night. The orb looked like a star in the sky. Seemed like the helicopter and orb kept
Anchorage · AK, USA
Light moving in random motions at approximately 30,000' - 50,000' for more than 2 hours.
Lima · OH, USA
Husband and I and 2 of our children were waiting in line at drive thru restaurant. My 9 yr old said, "What are those bright lights?"
Farmington · NY, USA
Ultra fast cylinder, se to nw.
Cheyenne · WY, USA
Taking a smoke break in front of my house, was watching a satellite traveling east to west, looked in south/south east direction and im
Clayton · CA, USA
Solid Ball light, decends then goes dark as leveling out heading due north
Topeka · KS, USA
Orange light turning red moving south to north, not an aircraft I am familiar with.