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)
Palos Verdes Estates · CA, USA
Powerful light with odd-shaped trails pierced the clouds ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Los Angeles · CA, USA
What I saw was orange and white light radiating from one and only one cloud in the sky and it was not the sun or moon.
Westlake Village · CA, USA
Bright white fireball north of Los Angeles with four white streaks, surrounded by huge white vapour cloud part of which was turquoise
Manteca · CA, USA
bright light with white and blue trail ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Truckee · CA, USA
Bright round slow moving light with spotlight and colorful tail, explodes.
Temecula · CA, USA
Bright circular light that left a glowing tail with the object moving straight up and then hanging for moments before disappearing.
Porterville · CA, USA
Fireball above Porterville, California. ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Creswell · OR, USA
SLOW MOVING COMET LOOKING OBJECT SPOTTED NEAR CRESWELL, OREGON. ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Redwood Valley · CA, USA
High altitude brightly lit fireball with a brightly lit trail which ended in a huge explosion/disintegration, seen in the southern sky.
Grass Valley · CA, USA
Test minuteman or intersepeter rocket ? ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Madras · OR, USA
Saw a 2 tailed chevron shaped object, head like a snowball flying over Cascades, possible Vandenberg missile?
Medford · OR, USA
The hovering spotlight simply went out and disappeared completely
Murphys · CA, USA
Meteor like object moving slowly eventually breaking apart leaving a blue streak. ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Ivins · UT, USA
Three fireballs appeared which emitted orange/yellow beams, faded in, then out.
Fall River Mills · CA, USA
Comet like light in sky over Northern Calif mountains. ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Goldendale · WA, USA
Oct 15 - 7:30 p.m. a disk shaped object with bright triangular shaped jet blast rose from Centerville Valley then disappeared.
Anderson · CA, USA
almost rocket like, but like nothing I ever saw ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Las Vegas, UFO sighting? ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Cagayan de Oro City (Philippines) · Philippines
My boyfriend and I went outside the firexit stairs on a 4 sorey building, where the fm radio station is. My boyfriend first saw a white
San Jose · CA, USA
I NCOULD HEAR A FAINT HUM OF WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A JET THEN A HELICOPTER FLEW BYEI WENT OUT AND COULD SEE THE VAPOR TRAIL OF THE ROCKET.
Hollister · NV, USA
Very Bright Light in the Western Sky over Hollister, NV on 10/14/02 ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK/England) · United Kingdom
The object swayed and suddenly dropped, then made of circular motions,with the coloured lights circling it in no particular sequence
San Jose · CA, USA
I have video of UFO seen over silicon valley on 10/14/02 ((Vandenberg rocket launchZ PD))
Gaysville · VT, USA
Multicolor flashing cone object in Vermont
Elmo · UT, USA
Large very bright circular light spanding much of the countryside. ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))