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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Virginia Beach · VA, USA
Orange lights seen moving very fast across the sky above the clouds from east to west.
Houston · TX, USA
triangle formation seen for about fifteen minutes hovering clear blue sky
Perth Amboy · NJ, USA
4 white lights moveing around area after initial UFO then into formation
Franklin/Nashville · TN, USA
Large blinking objects that appeared to defy the laws of physics appearing and disappearing were seen in the skies over Franklin TN.
Boone (Vally Crusis) · NC, USA
Took place on the Blue ridge park way. Lots of mountain and wide mountain landscape.Around 50 to 70 objects spotted by me and then
Calgary (Canada) · AB, Canada
Spherical White-Silver objects in formation seen over Western Calgary
Adelaide (South Australia) · Australia
ive got three different cases to report.The first involved 2 silver craft that were so high up one had to strain their eyes to see
Mount Pleasant · SC, USA
Amber formation races across sky in 5 or 6 seconds.
Yakima · WA, USA
3 very bright lights in a V formation, no sound and flying very slowly
Brooksville · FL, USA
strange array of lights suddenly appear about 1/2 mile in front of my truck, in Brooksville Florida.
Hopewell · NJ, USA
Sighting involving light formation and a mysterious vehicle
Omaha · NE, USA
Air Traffic Controller receives a report from airline pilot of UFO's
Edmonton (Canada) · AB, Canada
tight faint formation directly over Edmonton, AB Canada. Going NNW.
Kissimmee · FL, USA
3 bright objects moving in a V formation, no sound, suddenly began making rapid, intricate manuvers. Converging, orbiting each other.
Westfield (3 mi north of) · IN, USA
4 bright white orbs in line formation near intersection of SR 38 & US 31 near Westfield, IN.
Sunnyside · WA, USA
bright clusters of light
Escondido · CA, USA
6 horizontal lights appear to be large craft hovering over Leucadia California.
Post Falls · ID, USA
2 lights travelled from North to South in about 3 seconds @ 7:30 pm on 2-12-04.
Why/Tracy · AZ, USA
My sons and I observed four bright, winking lights in the sky in a diagonal fashion in southern Arizona.
Tulsa · OK, USA
Three adults allegedly witness three formations of "points of light" pass overhead at high speed.
Edmonton (Canada) · AB, Canada
Orange Ball
Kingsport · TN, USA
They were the brightest lights I ever saw in the sky during the day
Boston · MA, USA
Two amber lights just above the city skyline altered between visible and invisible shortly after NYE. One was higher than the other and
Butte · MT, USA
Unusual formation of lights entrances witnesses
Browning · MT, USA
me and my family was driving home from cutbank MT when we saw a light that looked like a star but changing it proceeded to follow us