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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Franklin · TN, USA
2 orange balls of light approaching from the W and moving ESE slowly and silently, disappeared one by one as get closer.
Spring · TX, USA
Orange lights from Northeast to Southwest.
Concord · CA, USA
Ball shaped object with green glow in sky near full moon. ((NUFORC Note: Lens flares, caused by photographing the Moon. PD))
Santa Fe · NM, USA
Green-blue, thick, falling star-like flash.
Huntington · TX, USA
Seven orange lights moving slowly at low altitude beside highway.
Quartzsite · AZ, USA
UFO changes from red to green to white then projects a beam to the ground that also changes color.
Long Beach · CA, USA
Large bright orange circle, rapidly ascending from sea level straight up in to the stars.
Council Grove · KS, USA
Red orange light hovered in the sky in front of my car, then disappeared.
Azusa · CA, USA
8 bright yellow red and orange triangular objects. One was blinking, then they disappeared.
Damascus · MD, USA
When getting ready for bed, I noticed an object moving across the sky. It was emitting a red and blue-green light.
Ridgecrest · CA, USA
Orange Orb With Odd Flight-path In Sky.
Reno · NV, USA
4-5 UFO's (orange lights) circled around a bobbling circular UFO mothership (white light with a red light on the top or rear)
Lancaster · OH, USA
Large fireball in the sky to the left of the sun, seemed to changed it's shape, and size.
Bolton · NY, USA
Object over Lake George, NY observed by commercial aircraft
Sterling · IL, USA
20 pulsing orange orbs fly a few miles before disappearing.
Loveland · CO, USA
My husband called me and told me that there where lights over the mountains towards the west and I looked and saw quite a few like 5 bu
Douglas · GA, USA
I work for circus pages and after our last show I was loading the animals and I looked up for some reason and thought I saw a helicopte
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
Walked outside & the object caught my attention. I live behind Oceana Air Base (US Government owned). ((NUFORC Note: Sirius? PD))
Montevallo · AL, USA
We were heading towards W, when I look into the sky and saw at first one light that seemed between yellow & orange.
Huntingdon · TN, USA
There were three reddish orange lights, then a fourth light came up and joined the first three then all four disappeared.
Henderson · NV, USA
Two orangish glowing orbs silent, extreme acceleration and speed.
Lakveville · MN, USA
Two orange glows in the sky going fast an low with absolutly no sound of jet engines or rotor blades.
Four Oaks · NC, USA
Strange yellow lights near Garner, NC.
Lake Elsinore · CA, USA
Craft about the size of a 747, flying less than 1000 feet off the ground, hovering over a small hill near the 15 freeway.
Auburn · WA, USA
Green bright light. Fast and slow. Circular patterns. Part force field around it. ((NUFORC Note: Laser advertising light?? PD))