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)
Oak Island · NC, USA
Two reddish-orange lights appearing 2-4 seconds, then reappearing every 5-10 minutes, several smaller lights twinkling continuously
Venice · LA, USA
Five yelowish lights apeared in the sky, four where aligned in a row then the fifth seemed to fly up into the four then they dimmed out
Valdosta · GA, USA
We could only see the lights,Very Large Lights.
Milwaukie · OR, USA
Clear kidneybean shaped thing in the sky
Gulf breeze · FL, USA
brightness, changing shape, light trail
Grand Junction · CO, USA
Four large lights in V formation, going fast, passed over my house.
Greensboro · NC, USA
oval shaped object flying overhead far faster than any airplane
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
Orange lights over the ocean sky of Myrtle Beach. ((NUFORC Note: Many other sighting reports from this area. PD))
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Round shape illuminated object going South and then becoming totally dark as it continued flying
Surfside Beach · SC, USA
On 5/27/09 and 5/28/ 09, I and 16 members of my family witnessed and took video of lights hovering and moving off the coast at MB, SC.
Pawleys Island · SC, USA
Strange lights in sky over Pawleys Island. ((NUFORC Note: Many other sighting reports. PD))
Los Padres National Forest · CA, USA
A bright light started flying along the ridge of the mountain above us. ((NUFORC Note: ISS over-flight?? PD))
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
3 lights appeared over the ocean; lasting for several seconds; exactly like the sighting in Myrtle Beach on 9/08.
North Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
Around 10pm looking towards the Atlantic Ocean from North Myrtle, SC, we saw 3 progressively blinking reddish-orange lights.
Surfside Beach · SC, USA
Two red dots moving in sequence and numerous flashes of light. ((NUFORC Note: Many other sighting reports from this area. PD))
Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
This was not an airplane or distress flares. ((NUFORC Note: Many other sighting reports. PD))
Washington · D.C., DC, USA
Glowing orb with sharp turns in Washington ,DC
El Paso · TX, USA
Triangular blueish lights seen over El Paso, TX.
Farmington · NM, USA
80 to a100 strange lighted objects coming from the east skys
San Leandro · CA, USA
On april 28 2009 at 3 am pacific time an alien appeared in the living room as i was sleeping on the couch.
El Rito · NM, USA
Bright object descended rapidly, leaving a shower of sparks, and turned in a J shape, then stayed the same.
Gilbert · AZ, USA
my son called me @ 0545 he said woman on radio 104.7 reported 17 ufos over gilbert and just hovering and changing positions. I work in
Gilbert/Chandler · AZ, USA
Observed nine circles, NW of Queen Creek, over Chandler. They went from a box formation to triangle formation.
West Midlands (UK/England) · United Kingdom
strange flight patern
Cottonwood Heights · UT, USA
Unusual object over Wasatch Front Range.