Fireball UFO Sightings
9,610 Fireball-shaped UFO sightings recorded worldwide since 1932, peaking in 2012 (1111 reports); most commonly reported in United States.
- Total sightings
- 9,610
- Span
- 1932–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (1111 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Fireball
1932–2022 · peak 2012 (1111 reports)
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Neoga/Mattoon (between; on I-57) · IL, USA
Never seen anything like that before. Definitely not a firework. Definitely lasted a good deal of time. It was quite bright. Not a mete
New York City · NY, USA
4 orange colored balls, moving from south to east. glided low and took off and disappeared in 2 mins. There was helicopter activity 30
Beloit · WY, USA
Four orange spheres seen traveling east to west at 9:45 in Beloit, WI.
Arnold · MO, USA
Spotted a bright orange, burning fireball heading northeast.
Antioch · CA, USA
Fireball over Antioch California seen for 15-20 minutes travelling at varying speeds and making dramatic direction changes.
Southern Pines · NC, USA
Very large green fireball moving through the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? PD))
Auburn · NY, USA
Orange flaming ball of fire, flying west to east, with no sound or navigation lights.
Salvo · NC, USA
Large and bright red fireball or light, silent and very fast moving N, and then nearly 90 degree westward turn over Pamlico Sound.
Avon · NC, USA
Yellowish/Orange fireball and 2 red lights 4 witnesses.
Avon · NC, USA
Orange fireballs create a V-formation over beach at Avon.
Spanish Fork · UT, USA
((HOAX??)) The unidentified objects were heading tord the ground
Surf City · NC, USA
Round fireball object that hovered, and rose out of sight.
Cornelius · NC, USA
While sitting on front porch noticed a bright orange light moving very slow. My husband and I walked out to sidewalk to see it better a
Toronto (Canada) · ON, Canada
Sorry to have troubled you. After seeing pictures of sky lanterns, I think that must have been what we saw.
Richmond · VA, USA
Flickering fireball silently flying parallel to plane across the sky a few hundred feet in the air.
North Las Vegas · NV, USA
((HOAX??)) I noticed what seemed to be a shooting star but was moving to slow....was above the earths atmosphere.
Westfield · WI, USA
We watched an orange glowing fireball float across the sky. We ran across the field by our house following it only for a couple of minu
Austin · TX, USA
Dark object flames-out over sw skies of Austin, TX.
Perkinstown (south of) · WI, USA
South of Perkinstown at 2:30am on Sawyer I witnessed big green fireball
Raleigh · NY, USA
Bright orange fireball with no sound.
Toone · TN, USA
Bright reddish unidentified circular object suddenly appears in sky then is followed by helicopters.
Ghanzi (Botswana) · Botswana
Second time I have seen the this in 2 years in same place.
Little Current (Canada) · ON, Canada
Fast moving orange orbs spotted again.
Coates · MN, USA
Two fireball/star/planet like shapes that grew very large then shrunk and disappeared.
Bakersfield · CA, USA
Saw an orange light with flame like trail completely silent, traveling from north to south, headed toward Los Angeles.