UFO Sightings in the 2000s
43,471 UFO sightings reported during the 2000s, peaking in 2008 (5331 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 43,471
- Span
- 2000–2009
- Peak year
- 2008 (5331 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
2000–2009 · peak 2008 (5331 reports)
Frostburg · MD, USA
Looked out my bedroom window and saw two objects in the sky moving in clockwise motion.
Charlotte · NC, USA
I,d never seen anything like it befor. It was a red string of lights.It didnt move.
Wallingford · VT, USA
round anomolies.
Nice (France) · France
bright light with changing colores under need speeding from west to east at high altitude
Truth or Consequences · NM, USA
Possible metalic object reflected sun's light very brightly for over an hour.
Grand Junction · CO, USA
first object was huge second much smaller both chased by fighter jets.
Albuquerque · NM, USA
Possible Weather Balloon?
Marysville · WA, USA
low flying unfamiliar object just ahead in the sky
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
lights moving closer and farther away same direction and still at one point and a ufo lighting up the sky with its red/orange light
Grand Rapids · MN, USA
this thing was super bright!!!
Pasadena · CA, USA
Faint moving object glows white then disappears over Pasadena 9/16/04 ((NUFORC Note: Iridium satellite "flare?" PD))
Ruislip (UK/England) · United Kingdom
tiny bright flashing lights in a formation changing into organised patterns
Boss · MO, USA
four orange lights
Poulsbo · WA, USA
Lighted object seen near the Bangor Naval Subbase exibiting irrational flight behavior.
China Lake · CA, USA
Red and white lights.
Austin · TX, USA
Triangle shaped craft hovering over middle school in south austin sped away silently to the west
Bremerton · WA, USA
I noticed Venus in the wrong place and it was moving!
Grand Junction · CO, USA
Grand Junction, Colorado 3 minutes
Scottsdale · AZ, USA
Daylight sighting of a large spherical object on 9/17/04 hovering for more than three hours over northeast Scottsdale, AZ. ((Balloon))
Phoenix · AZ, USA
DAYLIGHT SIGHTING OF SPHERE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA
New York City · NY, USA
((NUFORC Note: Possible optical anomaly caused by the Sun? PD)) UFO flying by the Flatiron building in NYC.
Littleton · CO, USA
Cigar shaped flying object appears for 3-5 seconds in the southern sky
Dugas · AZ, USA
flashing square-shaped motionless light in night sky
Locust · NJ, USA
Saucer shining a light above treeline on our top lawn, followed by encounter, scariest moment of my life
San Antonio · TX, USA
Triangle shape craft sighted moving north west aprox 15 knots @ 1,500 agl, with large lights surrounding the craft.