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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Portland · OR, USA
Formation of lights across the night sky in Portland
Williamsport · MD, USA
varying pattern of blinking lights VERY bright, shaped like an inverted question mark
Rosamond · CA, USA
Large Orange cluster of orbs
Saint Paul · MN, USA
We were outside to observe the ISS flying overhead flying from the NNW to the North and did observe it successfully. We then looked sou
Troy · OH, USA
Flight path about 20k feet. 20 objects moved rapidly across the sky.
Chicago · IL, USA
Objects in a straight line formation. About 15 lights (not planes as they came too close to each other)
Middleport · NY, USA
Long line of lights
Alamo · MI, USA
My best description is "The Phoenix lights" but a lot more. I recorded the event over "Rupert Lake" in North Western Kalamazoo County.
Syosset · NY, USA
Saw 3 bright white lights in the sky in a stacked vertical formation. They were flashing on and off in an irregular pattern.
Portland · IN, USA
I was standing outside and I happen to look up facing north, and I seen a line of dots moving in a line formation heading east.Then
Portland · OR, USA
I saw three strange lights moving very fast across the sky in formation but not perfect unison (separate objects)
Mehama · OR, USA
Silver Like crafts 1 single the 2 in formation flying east of Mehama ,Oregon quickly disappear
St Charles · IL, USA
Straight string of lights about 35 of them traveling from NW to the SE the center light was the brightest. ((Starlink satellites?))
Crossville · TN, USA
UFO SIGHTING
Medford · OR, USA
A line of about 100 small lights traversed the sky in a single line and headed east. ((Starlink satellites??))
Gaston · SC, USA
3 bright white lights followed by a single bright light at a distance, all traveling at high speed
El Rito · NM, USA
Multiple changing colored lights following a path
Dean City · FL, USA
We were driving east on a dirt road that separated Broward County and palmbeach county we were about 13 miles west of Hwy US. 27, in f
Auburn · CA, USA
continuous formation of white lights
Morongo Valley · CA, USA
String of lights all in line equally spaced heading south east . It looked exactly like a string of dim white Christmas lights going a
Socal · CA, USA
There is something going on with the cloud/marine coverage around Mt. Baldy and inland empire area. There is a lot of static and it fee
Clarkston · MI, USA
Two instances of a formation of three lights moving rapidly across the sky
South Lake Tahoe · CA, USA
Too round & bright to be a plane; it was quiet; moved slightly erractically; disappeared in a flash
Aberdeen · MS, USA
8-10 lights in what seemed to be in a perfectly spaced formation, as they disappeared across the sky.
Nicoma Park · OK, USA
UFO seen in Oklahoma. ((Starlink satellites??))