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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Corpus Christi · TX, USA
32 objects over the south Texas sky. ((Spacelink satellites))
Sheboygan · WI, USA
Light formation. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Hobart · OK, USA
Lights moving over Hobart look like shooting stars or satellite
Atlantic City · NJ, USA
20 or more lights making formation above ocean and hotel roofs. Lasted from 40 to 60 minutes
Fermoy · Ireland
I saw at least 14 objects of round lights looked like moving stars in the sky appeared. ((Starlink satellites??))
New Iberia · LA, USA
Almost invisible, completely silent, and able to fly from one pole to the other at incredible speed.
Hale · MI, USA
2 or 3 star like objects in night sky, but not stars or satellites. Kept moving back and forth/up and down. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius??))
St. Paul · MN, USA
formation white lights. ((Starlink satellites?))
Calgary (Canada) · AB, Canada
In Calgary's north east skys from midnight till About 5am anywhere between 3 and 6 craft can be seen, undulating, shaking Irracticly,
Burnaby (Canada) · BC, Canada
This evening my husband took our dogs out side in our back yard facing north towards the mountains. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Reno · NV, USA
Unidentified light formation spotted twice in 5 minutes, different location
Long Beach · CA, USA
3 soft white non-blinking lights in an equilateral triangle formation, could not tell if there was a solid hull, traveled N to S.
Cochrane (Canada) · ON, Canada
Wwe noticed lights coming from the West travelling SE. ((Starlink satellites))
Hamilton · OH, USA
Hello, It said not to gives names of any place or person. So I'll just give a jist of what me and another had seen.It was about Mar
Rancho Cordova · CA, USA
Nine white lights (or more) following each other equidistant north to south at 5:45 am. ((Starlink satellites))
El Dorado · KS, USA
Over 50 small but very visible lights in formation one after the other coming from the N headed S. (("Spacelink" satellites??))
Wyndmoor · PA, USA
Elongated vertical red, green and yellow lights traveling from west to south sky.
Mount Horeb · WI, USA
24 objects in trail format moving west to east over south central Wisconsin at extremely high altitude. ((Starlink satellites))
North Idaho Falls · ID, USA
Straight line of 20+ average brightness lights appearing on one side of the sky and disappearing on the other. ((Starlink satellites))
Crescent City · CA, USA
Eight lights in V pattern traveling from east to west in seconds dissapearing over the ocean
Canandaigua · NY, USA
30-35 lights appearing from the horizon moving in a perfectly straight line and disappearing overhead. ((Starlink satellites))
Holbrook · AZ, USA
Hundreds of Orbs in a Line Formation Over Arizona ((Starlink satellites))
Marfa · TX, USA
looked like stars,even satellites, but 15 seconds apart. ((Starlink satellites))
Santa Cruz · CA, USA
A line of about twenty orange/yellow lights high up in the sky,they disappeared above us. ((Starlink satellites))
Tracy · CA, USA
Several formations of lights flying high in the sky at night over California. ((Starlink satellites))