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)
Humboldt (near Saskatoon) (Canada) · SA, Canada
Bright flash directly overhead in night sky, lasting two or three seconds.
Chandler · AZ, USA
A bright green "string of round lights"- seemed to be connected. Falling fast vertically.
Deer Lake · WA, USA
Red and green slow-moving object silently and slowly followed shoreline of lake.
Ashland · OR, USA
Large object just hovered over the vehicle for about 30 sec
Fortuna · CA, USA
round ball of light. looked like suns light reflecting off of ball in the sky. stayed motionless and hovered for 2-3min then moved nor
Kirkland · WA, USA
VIEWED A FLASHING OBJECT WITH TRAILING FIRE IN THE SKY
Portland · OR, USA
Spectacular day-time meteor or satellite re-entry
Snohomish · WA, USA
Bright fireball trailing a little black smoke, headed straight down just SW of Snohomish, WA then vanishes at a few hundred feet.
Kent · WA, USA
Noon 7/31/00 a 3 1/2 foot long torpedo or football shaped object flying horizontally at a high speed by freeway underpass. Blue color.
Hopewell · VA, USA
Two witnesses saw a huge neon-green fireball travelling parallel to the ground, behind treetops, near Richmond VA on I-295
Hopewell · VA, USA
Large neon-green fireball, travelling parallel to I-295 (south) at 200 mph and parallel to ground, behind treetops, near Hopewell, VA
Crescent Bar · WA, USA
While talking with friends and looking for satelites overhead 4 people witnessed an explosion that was half the size of the moon in the
Flinn Springs · CA, USA
Huge bright light appeared right above my garage while I was looking at the stars. It had smaller white lights on each side, with color
Kuroki (near Saskatoon) (Canada) · SA, Canada
After seeing an unusual flash in the night sky the previous evening, I was curious to see if the phenomenon would occur the following e
Joshua Tree National Park · CA, USA
Joshua Tree N. P. object. ((NUFORC Note: Photos seem to us to be ambiguous. PD))
Auburn · WA, USA
Craft appears over Auburn,WA. then speeds away as quickly as it came.
San Pedro · CA, USA
I was on a boat just off shore of Cabrillo Beach. I was looking nearly straight up and saw a huge white object at a stand still . It l
San Francisco · CA, USA
Three dim lights moving linearly in locked, triangle formation, stars seen between them.
Saxton (a small village in Yorkshire) (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Silver sphere sighted in Yorkshire, UK in the early hours of June 2000.
Powhatan · VA, USA
Every night around 12:00pm, over the skys in Flintrock Powhatan Virginia, there have been about 100 or so objects.
Livonia · MI, USA
Large Circle Craft on 7 mile road
Macon · GA, USA
eight bird shaped objects flying in a figure eight pattern
Albuquerque · NM, USA
On a clear cloudless summer afternoon in the summer of 2000, I was hiking alone in the Sandia Mountains just east of Albuquerque, NM.
Milledgeville · GA, USA
A huge bird shaped object, formed from other birds, hovered silently over the sky in Milledgeville.
Chattanooga · TN, USA
My brother and I were out playing basketball and then took a break. As I leaned against a pole, i looked into the sky and saw a really