Formation UFO Sightings
4,600 Formation-shaped UFO sightings recorded worldwide since 1940, peaking in 2020 (415 reports); most commonly reported in United States.
- Total sightings
- 4,600
- Span
- 1940–2022
- Peak year
- 2020 (415 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Formation
1940–2022 · peak 2020 (415 reports)
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Tallulah · LA, USA
Night time sighting. Two reddish/brown discs passed directly overhead at amazingly low altitude.
Johannesburg (South Africa) · South Africa
3 red lights form triangular shape - just hovering in the air.
Spring Hill · FL, USA
3 or 4 faint light formation traveling south to south east in perfect formation across sky.
Butte · MT, USA
Six points of light seen in sky over Butte, MT.
Starr · SC, USA
Strange orange lights in the night sky
Imperial · MO, USA
cluster of lights in wheel shape with center hub light largest.
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
A large fast moving V formation of lights. Appeared to be one craft, no sound. Was only visible from my vantage point for about a min
Austin · TX, USA
Saw a string of about 10 to 12 lights in a loose V-formation very high up moving quickly across the sky in Austin, TX.
Granite Falls · NC, USA
Object is composed of three, solid, bright, white lights in a straight line and flew silently.
Cambridge · OH, USA
line of strange blinking lights over eastern Ohio sky
Bountiful · UT, USA
Same formation of lights seen again.
Thornville · OH, USA
10-12 hoovering balls of light
Lake City · MI, USA
((HOAX??)) Tessellated ufo with shifting rhomboidal panes. Very large and within hundreds of feet from the ground.
History Channel/Illinois · IL, USA
This was seen on a nationally aired program called "States" about Cahokia Mounds in Illinois.
Summerville · SC, USA
Unidentifiable, V formation of flashing lights in a flowing movement.
Orange · CA, USA
SIX FLYING IN FORMATION TRAVEL FROM WEST TO EAST
New Castle · PA, USA
formation of bright orange lights seen moving across the night sky from north to south and then disappears
Edmonds · WA, USA
2 objects flying South at high speed over the Seattle area
Pomona · CA, USA
Spotted over the freeway - Flying Squid Like object
Terre haute outskirts · IN, USA
I was travelling south on u.s. 41, about ten or 15 miles outside of Terre Haute, Indiana. About 200 feet ahead of me, on the east side
Edmonton (Canada) · AB, Canada
5 lights, jockeying around to make rectangle, triangle, circle and straight line formations travelling east
San Antonio · TX, USA
"V" shapped formation with 4 objects .
Savannah · GA, USA
3 slow moving lights in triangular formation over Savannah, GA
Spokane Valley · WA, USA
40+ fireballs in formation moving fast and changing shapes
Garden City Beach · SC, USA
Strange unnatural lights seen off Garden City Beach.