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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Anna Paulowna (Netherlands) · Netherlands
A formation of bouncing lights was flying over the IJsselmeer. ((NUFORC Note: May not be a serious report. PD))
Chadwell St Mary (Choose State/Prov) (UK/England) · United Kingdom
lights circling around central light!
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Four aircraft, in an unusual flight path and pattern, travelled, at high speed from west to east over Los Angeles.
Fresno · CA, USA
Conjoined formation of shape changing spheres crosses sky
Wolverhampton (UK/England) · United Kingdom
formation of 3 lights speeding across sky
Prescott Valley · AZ, USA
Watched 3 bright objects travel across night sky in triangle formation with no noise.
Mission Viejo · CA, USA
Formation high-flying 'pearls' in a daylight sky.
Del Mar (Rancho Sante Fe) · CA, USA
Line of orange lights that would go off, on and slowly floated rising and falling.
Beatty · NV, USA
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San Diego · CA, USA
3 stars pyramid shaped roaming slow then disappeared one by one. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly NOSS satellites in formation? PD))
Longlac (Canada) · ON, Canada
Northwestern ontario sighting while ice fishing!
Clearfield · UT, USA
Formation of small lights flying from South to North -- first two groups of 7 followed by 3, another of 14 and last of 7. Each group to
Coventry (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Photographs of a strange formation the appears to be in the sky.
Carrollton · TX, USA
I saw what looked to be like a mist coming across the sky to the west of where I was at. As I watched it I saw A formation of what look
Memphis · TN, USA
A formation of 3 objects in a straight line, unmoving, occasionally changing color.
Alhambra Golf Course · CA, USA
While golfing I and six others observed a single round solid object in n/e sky. It broke into 3 objects smaller than the 1st, then form
Gaithersburg · MD, USA
Three yellow/white lights moving in formation in north-south direction, then suddenly shifting positions within the formation.
Fresno · CA, USA
AS ME AND 3 FRIENDS WHERE GOING HME FROM MARDI GRAS EVENT IN FESNO,CA. MY GIRLFRIEND,IRENE, NOTICED AN OBJECT W/ 3 LIGHTS ON IT. I PULL
Scotts Valley · CA, USA
3 "Rods" in a Unilateral Triangle Formation appeared to follow Hiway 17 Northbound
Tuscaloosa · AL, USA
3 almost transparent, almost circular (amoeba shaped), phosphorous neon-green entities flying in a triangular formation. all 3 witness
Prescott Valley · AZ, USA
THEY WERE AMBER COLOR.STARTED IN A STRAIGHT VERTICLE LINE. THOUGHT THEY WER ORIONS BELT. THEY MOVED INTO A TRIANGLE FORMATION. THERE WA
Tampa · FL, USA
THREE OVAL CRAFTS FLYING AT VEARIOUS ALTITUDES AT EXACT FORMATION ONE ABOVE THE OTHER. CRAFTS FLYING SLOWLY ACROSS SKY OVER TAMPA BAY O
Rockford · IL, USA
Saw 5 orange lights in the sky viewed them for awhile they formed the big dipper then dimmed out
Appleton · WI, USA
3 fiery orbs mimicking a large plane
Atlantic · IA, USA
Bright white flashing lights in the sky. Four objects flying in the shape of a "W". Followed them approximately 13 minutes, keeping th