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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Elyria · OH, USA
White cylinder.
Meridian · ID, USA
Bright orb viewed in twilight and night sky over Meridian/Nampa, Idaho. ((anonymous report))((NUFORC Note: Pilot report. PD))
Sedonna · AZ, USA
How anyone can see a UFO.
Nampa · ID, USA
Shiny daytime ufo over nampa idaho 08/06/2016
New Lenox · IL, USA
About a dozen fireballs passing overhead in single file but irregularly spaced. ((anonymous report))
Mt. Lookout · WV, USA
Very Bright Lights over Mt. Lookout, WV.
Windham (Catskills) · NY, USA
Orange balls or boat shapes, silent slow, over 15.
Grand Blanc · MI, USA
Looked like stars at first. Then stars where moving slow and low in the sky. There was no sound. We saw two lights joined. It was nothi
Boise · ID, USA
Right in the middle Vega and Arcturus was a bright circular light that looked like a planet but disappeared after only 20 minutes.
Bemidji · MN, USA
Fast, bright moving object in Northern Minnesota
Stanton · KY, USA
3 red lights moving in the sky over the trees
Layton · UT, USA
They looked like a hundreds of satellites drifting through the sky. Glittery blinking lights heading Northwest. Very strange. I can't s
Saugerties · NY, USA
Appeared from nowhere in the east sky moving slowly south, then just disappeared.
Dresden (near) · OH, USA
((HOAX??)) Boy scout road UFO sighting.
Bridgeport · CT, USA
Orange orb flys over Bridgeport, CT.
Roanoke · VA, USA
Craft over the city with two bright lights on the middle. It just sat there with out moving. It was as big as a blimp.
Seattle · WA, USA
Straight Line of White Circular Lights Traveling W to E
Los Banos · CA, USA
Triangle shape, with 3 lights.
Monte Crist · UT, USA
My girlfriend and I went up to the mountains to lay under the stars and look for stars, satellites, and meteors. We saw plenty of them.
College Park · MD, USA
Two triangle UFOs were spotted, one followed a commercial plane for a few seconds.
Yonkers · NY, USA
Bright orange circle broad daylight. ((anonymous report))
Antioch · CA, USA
2 orange lights ascended into the sky until no longer visible. ((anonymous report))
Edgerton · WI, USA
Flying bright orbs that flew around in a tight area like firefilies
Hastings/Revanna Townships · MN, USA
Looking North East. We see what we first thought was a plane. But it looked out of place. Only bright forward light. No blinking, red,
Indianapolis · IN, USA
Watched an orange circular globe travel from east to west. It disappeared after it enters a high cloud.