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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Eden Prairie · MN, USA
13 to 26 lights in two concentric rings. One ring disappeared.
Chapel Hill · NC, USA
Multi-colored light array drifting low, pattern shapes and colors in RBG. 15/501 S towards Pittsboro, NC
Chapel Hill (north of) · NC, USA
Cluster of UFO’s seen close to Chapel Hill, NC
Boise · ID, USA
((NUFORC Note: Source of report does not include detailed information. PD))
Boynton Beach · FL, USA
V shape formation of very bright lights flew by at incredible speed.
Milpitas · CA, USA
3 Objects, triangle formation, irregular, rapidly blinking pattern of red lights over Milpitas California.
Seattle · WA, USA
UNUSUAL LIGHTS OVER SEATTLE DURING A DAYTIME PASS OF THE ISS
Santa Clarita · CA, USA
Possible UFO caught in wild fire footage on news.
Puyallup · WA, USA
3 lights hovering above horizon
Crested Butte · CO, USA
Line formation, roughly 20 objects, at jet altitude or higher, moving west-east, viewed from north.
Riverside · CA, USA
Lots of lights in formation one behind each other
Leander · TX, USA
Clear sky, full moon, no breeze. I saw 5 low-flying UFOS, orange solid light, flying in formation. No sound. Dogs in acre behind me whe
Philadelphia · PA, USA
I have brief video of what looks like 2 white circles moving. We live bu airport and this is definitely not a plane
North Myrtle Beach · SC, USA
A rectangular formation of three reddish orange round lights that lite up one at a time in a line. Stayed few seconds. Repeated the sa
Rosemary Beach · FL, USA
Very bright lights then line of 4 lights
Brooklyn · NY, USA
Multiple stationary bright lights
Murrieta · CA, USA
I was driving my children home from dinner and my son pointed at something in the sky that looked like a large floating city. I pulled
Winchester · CA, USA
Triangular in shape, dozens of lights slowly descending and aircraft flying toward it.
Menifee · CA, USA
Got a call from mother in law to go out my front porch . I went outside and looked up. Saw a huge formation and what looked like helico
Glendale · USA
Star like shapes moving and then forming a conveyor like line in sky. ((NUFORC Note: "Starlink" satellites? PD))
Philadelphia · PA, USA
There were strange lights floating in the sky it almost seemed like bags of light or flashes of light but they were definitely moving p
Winnipeg · MB, Canada
I saw 3 whiteish objects flying just above the clouds In a triangle formation heading due south at a very good pace. The one object in
Georgetown · TX, USA
My dog and I were standing in my yard. I started to grill some dinner. It was very dark. As flames shot up from my grill, me and my dog
Albuquerque · NM, USA
V-shaped formation of multiple white lights over Albuquerque, NM
Sammamish · WA, USA
two crafts flying in formation, and then turned toward outer-space and vanished.