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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Bellingham · WA, USA
Fireball with tail suddenly hits lower altitude, flame gone, half-circle shape with antennae.
Willemstad · CA, USA
Three light single line formation.
Tijeras · NM, USA
Red lights in the southern New Mexico sky multiplying and disappearing.
Housesprings · MO, USA
I was walking to a parents house at night, June 30th, 2015. And I got to the top of a hill on a road. I saw it moving fast and spinning
Conway · AR, USA
It was a ball like fire in the sky moving from east to west we thought it was going to explode at any moment but it didn't it never mov
Portland · WA, USA
Saw 2 very bright still circle object in the westward sky.
Cincinnati · OH, USA
Lights in sky. There were 2 that appeared to be next to each other. Not stars. ((NUFORC Note: Venus and Jupiter. PD))
Eugene · OR, USA
My neighbor and I saw a rectangle with bright blue and red lights traveling away and turning around at unexplainable speeds.
Tallahassee · FL, USA
2 nights of bright as the moon object and 5 aircraft in night sky after seeing it. ((NUFORC Note: Venus & Jupiter. PD))
Houston · TX, USA
Airplane look- two red lights- flying- stopped in mid-air for 14 seconds- then came straight down rapidly
Citrus Springs · FL, USA
2 stationary objects in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Probably Venus and Jupiter in the northwestern sky. PD))
Portland (far east; Corbett) · OR, USA
Two rectangular crafts in the sky. Very bright lights. Just hovering in the sky. They were so bright I almost drove off the road.
Boise · ID, USA
BRIGHT LIGHT GOING EAST TO WEST AT INCONCEIVABLE SPEED. ANOTHER LIGHT GOING NORTH TO SOUTH MOVING SLOWER AND NOT AS BRIGHT AND GONE.
Pecatonica · IL, USA
Large, silent, triangular craft.
Lake Mary · FL, USA
Starlight, Starbright… ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus and Jupiter? PD))
Sutherlin · OR, USA
((HOAX??)) I & friends talking about satellites and lights in the sky weather there airplanes or UFOs. ((anonymous report))
Mountain Home · ID, USA
White egg shaped object and 4 round colored objects seen in the southern sky from Mountain Home, Idaho.
Mountain Home · ID, USA
Four colored objects moving in formation, moving in unison.
Mountain Home · ID, USA
Saucer shaped object with 18 red blinking light s along it's outer edge.
Mountain Home · ID, USA
Saucer like object made up of 18 red lights in eastern sky from Mountain Home, Idaho.
Kingston · NH, USA
I heard humming harp like noises coming from the sky.
Nampa · ID, USA
During the spring of 2015 I rose out of bed and went out on my rear patio to smoke a cigarette. I am a stargazer and loved watching th
Rockies · VT, USA
Flying above the Rockies at 35,000 feet. I was sitting in a window on the plane looking down at the mountains covered with snow.
Portland · OR, USA
White, then green, ball of light seen moving about sky. ((NUFORC Note: Awaiting photo. We suspect a lens "flare." PD))
UT · USA
Circular domed translucent airborne objects in formation and pairs and alone.