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)
Chicago · IL, USA
Amberish orb 20-30,000 ft above the night sky in Lincoln Park area Chicago, IL, Sept' 2009.
Winthrop · WA, USA
Multi-colored flashing UFO and White bright UFO.
Winnipeg (Canada) · MB, Canada
bright object many colors stationary with a little movement
Chicago · IL, USA
3 red/orange lights in an isosceles triangle formation.
Gilbert · AZ, USA
Gilbert, Az. 09/13/09 11:30pm
Fontana · CA, USA
5 white circles were seen from the east going from south to north.
Salt Lake City · UT, USA
star-like object changed color from white light to red; moved very fast & maneuvred like no conventional aircraft
Ann Arbor · MI, USA
Craft flashing many colors near Ann Arbor, MI
Somersworth · NH, USA
Ball of flame that appeared to prepare to land!
Meadville · PA, USA
((HOAX??)) SPIDER ALEIN, 20 legs waist high showed itself to me. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Phoenix · AZ, USA
6 craft over phoenix in broad day light visible for at least 15 minutes
Warrior · AL, USA
bright lime green sphere explodes and falls in Blount co. Alabama
Vallejo · CA, USA
Observed a kite-shaped asterism silently moving like a low flying plane.
Burlington · MA, USA
Multicolored object moving vertically and horizontally without sound. ((NUFORC Note: Possible twinkling star?? PD))
Chesapeake · VA, USA
Around 10:15 pm on September 14, 2009. My fiance and I witnessed a light traveling at a fast speed. At first glance we thought it was
Isle of Palms · SC, USA
7 lights sighted off of Isle of Palms, SC, 9/14/09
Auburn · WA, USA
Orange light seen over South King Co Wa,
Glendale · CA, USA
A V-shaped object in the night sky, no noise, could only be seen with binoculars
Port Byron · NY, USA
Cigar-shaped object sighted in NY
Houston · TX, USA
Oval shaped object, huge and very, very bright approx. 100 yards in front of my car.
Auckland (New Zealand) · New Zealand
1 ball shaped red craft moving at fast speed from oriens belt top star to the bottom
Lake Havasu City · AZ, USA
Two bright verticle blue neon lights appeared the in sky flashed, then disappeared.
El Dorado Hills · CA, USA
looks like a blinking star with white, red, blue lights , appears and disappears. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius? PD))
Milton · FL, USA
Silver disk with a slight dome in the center, about 20-30 feet in diameter, made no sound.
Oneonta · NY, USA
Disk shaped object discovered in photograph.