Unknown UFO Sightings
15,584 Unknown-shaped UFO sightings recorded worldwide since 1941, peaking in 2020 (1216 reports); most commonly reported in United States.
- Total sightings
- 15,584
- Span
- 1941–2030
- Peak year
- 2020 (1216 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Unknown
1941–2030 · peak 2020 (1216 reports)
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Sweet Home · OR, USA
A witness in Sweet Home, Oregon reported lightning-like flashes from a hovering cloud formation, with waves of cloud moving in and out silently, during a sighting in October 1972.
Potwin · KS, USA
Iwas abducted around age 7 or 8. They came will I WAS Asleep. they look into my room from the hall. They took me to a room. I think the
Denton · TX, USA
A witness in Denton, Texas reported a slow-moving object that split into two parts, one speeding away while the larger part moved slowly in the opposite direction, in October 1972.
Panama City · FL, USA
This was more of an audible sighting instead of a visual. At approx. 3:00 in the morning, my backyard suddenly lit up with a brilliant
Nanton (Canada) · AB, Canada
A witness near Nanton, Alberta, Canada reported a flaming object traveling slowly at low altitude on a horizontal path from north to south, during a one-to-two-minute sighting in August 1972.
Brunswick · GA, USA
A witness in Brunswick, Georgia recalled, as a young boy in July 1972, seeing an unfamiliar face looking at him from a hallway in his family's home, during a brief encounter.
Holden · ME, USA
((HOAX??)) entity can be described as a "gray" peering into bedroom window. ((anonymous report))
Bath (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness in Bath, England reported lights that vanished abruptly without fading, slowing, or making sound, recurring at the same location over three consecutive nights in June 1972.
BondeCroft · TN, USA
Myself and two other children ages four where driven by one female to a nearby place taken inside a house where aliens implanted a devi
Monterey · CA, USA
A witness in Monterey, California reported a silent, unidentified object flying toward the Pacific Ocean shoreline during a one-minute sighting in June 1972.
Newnan · GA, USA
Two couples in Newnan, Georgia reported an unidentified object and an apparent period of missing time during an encounter in 1972; further sighting details were not specified.
Loomis & Folsom Lake · CA, USA
A family near Loomis and Folsom Lake, California reported multiple unidentified objects in the sky above the lake area throughout the summer of 1972.
Roanoke · VA, USA
Witnesses in Roanoke, Virginia reported several star-like lights moving together in formation across the sky during a five-minute sighting in June 1972.
Dallas · TX, USA
My father worked for NASA and he told me there are little people from outer space. He said that we can communicate with them by focusi
New Mexico (rural · northern part of), NM, USA
A witness in rural northern New Mexico reported an out-of-body experience lasting five to ten minutes in May 1972; no object shape was specified in the case record.
Port Penn · DE, USA
A witness in Port Penn, Delaware reported a silver-blue streaking object zipping into the center of a starlit sky during a five-minute sighting in May 1972.
Essex (UK/England) · United Kingdom
ODD SOUND
Los Lunas · NM, USA
A witness in Los Lunas, New Mexico reported an object with an unusually bright light and flight capabilities described as beyond current technology, over about twenty minutes in March 1972.
Millers Falls · MA, USA
Alien sighting
Cherry Hill · NJ, USA
Very intense encounter
Huntsville · AL, USA
A witness in Huntsville, Alabama reported three lights moving at extremely high speed, silently making a 90-degree turn, during a two-minute sighting in January 1972.
Malmstrom AFB · MT, USA
UFO on USAF base 1972 or 1973
Holliston · MA, USA
Fast moving bright light that hovered and bolted in non typical directions and speed; Holliston, Ashland, Framingham; fall 1971 or 1972
Crescent City · CA, USA
Two witnesses in Crescent City, California reported seeing a gray figure standing on a forest path and staring at them during an encounter lasting about an hour in September 1971.
Fredonia · AL, USA
my wife and I were travling east of fredonia 'when my wife noticed strange lights crossing alarge pasture. i stopped the car and got o