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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Northern Allegheny County · PA, USA
Red flashes of light traveling NNW followed by an unlit helicopter at night.
St. Peters · MO, USA
Colored lights assembled into diamond shape then gave off a very bright light
Long Beach · CA, USA
Equilateral triangle of diffuse, stationary white lights off coast.
Newbury Park · CA, USA
3 bright white lights in the sky.
Croswell · MI, USA
Circle craft flies over-head with bright light, Turing off my vehicle.
Milwaukee · WI, USA
I live in a 14th floor apartment in downtown Milwaukee. As I was getting ready for bed this past Sat night / Sun morning, I looked out
Charlotte · NC, USA
Four evenly spaced lights.
Sioux Falls · SD, USA
The Ufo was white and a cylinder shape.
Moro Bay · CA, USA
Black orb seen in photo taken of Moro Rock in CA.
Hollywood · FL, USA
Formation of about 6 randomly shaped craft seen. Smaller craft may have been coming out of the larger one. ((anonymous report))
Floral Park · NY, USA
Drone-ish type thing.
Colchester · VT, USA
Noticed a bright red light over the tree line. towards Burlington Vt. I never have seen a plane this bright so I went to look.
Poughkeepsie · NY, USA
Triangular flying object with white lights on each angle and green light in the middle. Traveled at un-normal flying speeds.
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
2 bright lights with flashing lights on sides. Hovering in western sky. ((NUFORC Note: Venus and Jupiter. PD))
Dallas · TX, USA
I was in the car driving home when my friend asked me what some lights in the night sky are. It was in the general area of Love field
Sidney · MT, USA
2 stationary orange balls of light over Sidney, MT, in the night sky.
Alexandria · VA, USA
Orange flickering ball. Looked like junk burning in the sky, as if something was reentering. It wasn't moving fast, appeared that it wa
Walnutport · PA, USA
Seen something jet black crawling around the bushes on all fours about 2 foot by 2 foot.
Paw Paw · MI, USA
Two Brite red lights.
Huntsville (Owens Cross Roads) · AL, USA
Object burning as it flew in a trajectory parallel to the ground, with flaming pieces. ((NUFORC Note: Satellite re-entry. PD))
Phoenix · AZ, USA
A large flagellated bug, the size of a house, silently floating around Phoenix.
Senoia · GA, USA
Fireball with 2 long tails traveling high above tree tops traveling SW to NE; visible for approximately 10-15 seconds. ((Satellite))
Patterson · LA, USA
Saw a rectangle obj. with fire on each end and smoking moving from SE to NW...appeared to about the size of a bed on a pickup truck.
Chester · SC, USA
Fireball With Long Tail Witnessed by 3 Observers in Chester, SC, at 1AM on June 29, 2015. ((NUFORC Note: Satellite re-entry. PD))
Wadley · GA, USA
Large obj. with fluid oil slick body spurting sparks from the rear; flies dirctly over our truck. ((NUFORC Note: Satellite? PD))