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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Demotte · IN, USA
Very bright eye-shaped bluish white light seen moving fast alongside a treetop line in broad daylight.
Poland · ME, USA
((HOAX??)) Blue ball shaped object buzzed through the sky. ((anonymous report))
Cambridge Springs · PA, USA
I tried to video the event with my phone and there is only audio as far as i can tell.I don`t understand this because it was so bright.
Panama City Beach · FL, USA
Massive lighted kites on Florida beach front, initially mistaken for UFO's. ((NUFORC Note: Apparently kites, not UFOs. PD))
Centralia · WA, USA
They are still moving. Different directions. Coming from different ways. They look like moving stars.
Canon City · CO, USA
After a series of lightning storms, about twenty minutes after the clouds cleared we saw what appeared to be a very bright and then pul
Midlothian · VA, USA
We saw a bright green ball of light last night moving steadily across the sky in a straight line. ((anonymous report))
Marlborough · MA, USA
Strange wobbly light in the sky moves around for two hours
Columbia · SC, USA
Flash appeared like a starburst. It was like a gateway opening and closing within seconds.
Grants Pass · OR, USA
Hovering craft with lights at each end.
Riverton · UT, USA
Completely dark oblong object silhouetted only by the starlight backdrop and still night sky ether. No lights at all. 1" long
Mohawk · NY, USA
Orange circle shaped light hovered and then moved across sky
Asheville · NC, USA
What was thought to be glare from the Sun turns out to be Strange Orb on Indian Land.
Galt · CA, USA
Balloon type object but seemed to be moving very slowly...wind a ground level est 4-6 knots w to e.
Bloomington · IL, USA
Craft appear in photographs at Bloomington, IL regional airport
Charlotte · NC, USA
Triangle Shape In Downtown Charlotte. ((NUFORC Note: Lens flare, from photographing a bright reflection. PD))
Muskego · WI, USA
It was really dark and all of a sudden we look up at the sky and there is this circular objects slowly going closer to the ground (didn
Roseburg · OR, USA
Starting at 21:15 hours a light coming from the SW heading NE about 15 thousand feet high.There were no blinking lights or strobes like
Clarence Center · NY, USA
2 bright orange lights moving north/south and stationary in western sky. ((anonymous report))
Riverside · CA, USA
Pair of white light balls rapidly fade in and out, over Riverside City, Southern California.
Davenport · FL, USA
Bright orange/yellow sphere hovering over home in Davenport, FL. ((anonymous report))
Terre Haute · IN, USA
Driving down 25th St. Hovering above a funeral home two formations of lights looked triangular with a aura like glow I pulled off the
Bainbridge Island · WA, USA
Triangle shape object with lights flew at very high speed across sky and stopped to descend
Reardan · WA, USA
Large bright golden triangle moving rapidly from west to east near zenith then suddenly vanishes. ((anonymous report))
Hutchinson · MN, USA
UFO, possibly aircraft with unfamiliar and odd flashing light pattern.