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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Rockaway · NJ, USA
Bright light shines through clouds and reveals a very weird object. ((anonymous reports))
Syracuse · NY, USA
unknown object in photo. ((NUFORC Note: We believe that the blurry, gray object may be a bird or insect in flight. PD))
Fairfield · ME, USA
Black dot the size of a star appeared and began to shine a green light intermittently as it flew over the Kennebec River to N.
Quartzsite · AZ, USA
I did not witness anything while I was shooting my photos,I took them blindly of the bright sky. ((NUFORC Note: Lens flares. PD))
Huntingdon · PA, USA
Cigar shaped silver object in northeast moving quickly.
Garden City · MI, USA
Disk shaped object seen in the sky.
Trezevant · TN, USA
Orb of light appears in western sky near sunset when planes are in sky, then disappears after a few seconds.
Milan · NH, USA
Saw one red circle on the right and then a second light appeared near the other red light. ((anonymous report))
Firth · ID, USA
((HOAX??)) Bright blue green ball of light. It was bright to where u could not miss it sat there for 10 seconds. ((anonymous report))
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
Object hovering over NYC
Stockholm · NJ, USA
Star-like light.
Fairfield · ME, USA
White 'stars' that suddenly appear out of nowhere and begin zooming across the sky, sharp turns. ((NUFORC Note: Satellites?? PD))
Ansonia · CT, USA
((HOAX?? Photo looks bogus.)) Pink ufo made of 7 round pink circles or blobs. ((anonymous report))
St. George · UT, USA
Strange fast moving craft seen over St. George, Utah.
Anaheim (NE of) · CA, USA
UFO on fire.
New York City (over the Hudson) · NY, USA
Huge Egg Shaped Glowing Hovering Behind Manhattan (Seen from Brooklyn: Bushwick Rooftop)
Winston-Salem · NC, USA
I looked outside window like I always do at night and then I saw it above the trees and the lights fluttered back and forth.
Fredricksburg · VA, USA
Orange circular fireballs moving across the sky. Looked like orange candle flames, surrounded by a light halo, and made no sound.
Maryville · IL, USA
Large orange sphere materialized over cornfield, sped off traveling S to N, disappeared in mid air
O'Fallon · MO, USA
Nothing of this world I have seen or can rationalize. ((anonymous report))
Las Cruces · NM, USA
Bright green dot. Struck straight down for about a second and disappeared.
Ash · NC, USA
Smaller aircraft which had no noise with rotating white lights, accompanied but super large area of twinkling smaller lights.
Collegeville · PA, USA
Hovering ufo started to move, and then transformed into a plane. ((NUFORC Note: Landing lights, we believe. PD))
Gunnison · CO, USA
Large round light came from above in one smooth 3-4 second movement,
Lower Haines City · FL, USA
The object I saw was as small as the stars out tonight, the size of a pin head, moving in a very straight line, which seemed too small