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Delaware UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 415 UFO sighting reports in Delaware to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (66 reports, 15.90% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (49 reports, 11.81% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (73 reports, 17.59% of total).
- 06/01/99 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 0.72% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (37 reports, 8.92% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (197 reports, 47.47% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Delaware
These Delaware UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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I was taking pictures of the eclipse on April 8 with my cellphone when I decided to zoom in and caught the UFO on one photo I was taking photos of the eclipse on April 8, 2024. At approximately 3:25 pm I took around 7 pictures in about 10 seconds. About the 5th picture I zoomed the Samsung camera up close and captured a dark grayish/black object in only 1 picture.
A circular object that was gone in a few seconds when I took the next picture.
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Took my dog out, noticed some objects in the sky that did not look natural, took a video, immediately said to my son I just saw ET.
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Took my dog out, noticed some objects in the sky that did not look natural, took a video, immediately said to my son I just saw ET. On the evening of Thursday, December 7, 2023 at approximately 7:20 PM, I noticed some objects that appeared to be moving and then they disappeared. My son used the Iphone technology to enlarge one shape and you can clearly see a Triangle of coordinated light.
I did not hear anything and whatever it was has been posted to NextDoor in Northern Virginia and DC and 10,900 people have not been able to figure it out.
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Was out walking my dog when I looked up in sky I saw multiple objects hovering I was out walking my dog standing in the dog park at 8:37 pm when I looked up towards northeast sky and saw three very bright objects hovering about 100 feet above one of the objects had a bright light coming from it for about a minute or so these three objects were stationary no sound no exhaust I took a pic with my phone I could not get a video because I had my dog in a leash pulling but I did get one good picture now after a minutes or so the objects moved silently northwest with no sound nothing omitting from the objects at first they were just moving along slowly if you look at the pic on of the objects had a light coming from it as if it was looking for something the objects were there on second and gone the next just gone all of em it was amazing I can not believe what I saw when I got home I was looking at the pic and if you look closely at the pic between 2 of the objects you can see a different object that I did not see with a naked eye this was a incredible experience they were not airplanes or drones or helicopters I am 100 percent sure of what I saw.
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S green objects flash and travel across the sky In a wooded area My wife and I were traveling, driving on rt.1 North, outside of Smryna, Delaware, and out of nowhere on the opposite side of the highway,in a wooded area and over trees, was streaking a green light, but then it faded out. I asked my wife did she that and she said yes.
We wanted to make sure it was no flare. She agreed that it was different.
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Bright objects that caught my attention since I had never seen planes like this before. There was one, followed by another one and then four together like a square, followed by four more in a single line. Then, one by one, each flew higher into the clouds until out of sight.
They appeared be bright yellow in color.
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Lights looked like stars but moved fast and hovered, changing direction. They aligned with each other, formed lines and shapes. I saw two different types of objects.
The smaller, farther ones looked like stars but they changed direction and moved at impossible speeds. They could not have been meteors because they didn't burn out, they just hovered and moved again in a different direction. They aligned themselves and shifted all at once, maintaining the shape.
There seemed to be some lights "leading" and the others would shift around it. They made shapes that looked like a rhombus and like a backwards number 4- all forming completely straight lines. At first I just noticed one light moving, but then I noticed all of the others around it were moving too.
There were too many to count and they kept shifting. They all started moving north, to the point where we had to turn our bodies to see where they were going. When we looked south, the sky where we first saw them was black.
They all seemed to be clustered/ heading towards an area offshore, around north Rehoboth or Lewes. They were mostly coming from above the sea but some seemed to be coming from land or across the bay. The other objects were lower and looked more like drones, but they moved very fast so it was hard to tell.
I observed 4 lights on the bottom of these crafts, 2 white above and 2 red below. They flashed in quick succession counterclockwise- white, white, red. The fourth red (bottom right corner of the "drone") occasionally flashed but not consistently.
These crafts were also moving erratically like the smaller objects and seemed to be heading in the same direction. We watched for about half an hour, walked back to the car and drove home, and when we got home about 20 minutes later we could still see them above the house moving towards the ocean.
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Blinking circle that changed colors from red to faded white July 14th 2023, seen a few minutes before sunrise at 510am. We saw a circle a white light at first. The light changed to red, but the object seemed to be hovering in one spot.
The light changed to a faded white then it disappeared for a few seconds and reappeared as an orange almost fireball looking ball. then the object started moving. It was moving very fast, but we couldn’t hear anything like you would with an airplane or helicopter.
It happened so fast, lasting only 2 minutes.
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Blinking circle that changed colors from red to faded white July 14th 2023, seen a few minutes before sunrise at 510am. We saw a circle a white light at first. The light changed to red, but the object seemed to be hovering in one spot.
The light changed to a faded white then it disappeared for a few seconds and reappeared as an orange almost fireball looking ball. then the object started moving. It was moving very fast, but we couldn’t hear anything like you would with an airplane or helicopter.
It happened so fast, lasting only 2 minutes.
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Seen through DelDot traffic cam Strange lights erratically moving in the sky. Sometimes 3 sometimes 8.
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Round white light raced from the south headed north. Incredibly fast, it flew my whole visual of the sky in 2 to 3 seconds. No sound.
It was 9pm, I was headed in to work so know the time. A few clouds. A very bright white light which appeared to be round caught my eye coming from the South.
As fast as I could turn my head it was gone, due north. Parallel to the nearby Atlantic Ocean. It appeared to be flying the same height as passenger planes based on how it went through the cloud cover.
It was much larger than a plane or helicopter. Maybe 100x’s larger. There were no blinking lights, it was solid very bright white.
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An unusually fast, straight tracking object, at passenger flight altitude First, this is the first time I have ever reported seeing a UAP. I am fully aware that most UAP can be identified, and that certainly may be the case here. However, this was so unusual, that I have felt the need to at least report what I saw.
My wife and I were at the beach in Delaware. The East Coast of the US is, obviously, a major fly-way for airport traffic. We saw many jets that day, at cruising altitude.
We also see military aircraft from time to time as well. In the middle of the afternoon I observed a cylindrical/spherical/circular-like disk traveling at a rate of speed that was anomalous to all other aircraft. It was moving in a straight path heading ENE out over the ocean at a high altitude.
I knew I had never seen anything like it before. I could not hear any aircraft-related sound, as is typical with other aircraft. I attempted to get my wife to visually verify, but it was moving too quickly and it was out of sight very quickly.
I dismissed the possibility of a drone, because it was too high, and too large. It was definitely not a passenger plane or military aircraft that I am familiar with. The most logical, and easiest explanation is that it was just an ordinary passenger or military aircraft, that I could not immediately identify within the short visibility window.
But, this was different, and I immediately knew this was not that. My wife and I both have doctorates and are retired academics. We understand the concepts of reliability and validity.
We always look for rational, scientific evidence for explanations. We are aware of the number of UAP reports that are being generated around the world, and off the east coast of the US. I can't explain what I saw, but I can report it as the anomaly it was at this time.
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3 lights at each corner of triangle I was driving from Claymont to Middletown, as soon as I passed exit 9 I noticed 3 lights hovering off the right as I going south down I-95. I noticed that they were not planes lights or building lights or even tower lights. When I got closer to it I noticed it was hovering over Wilmington near the cinema.
At that time I saw it shift and change position. There were many cars on the road and most of us were driving over the limit until the lights of the triangle moved around. Then we slowed down in amazement before we drove past it.
It was strange how the lights shifted and even though the triangle was black as night you could see the outline of it.
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Three stationary bright orbs I observed three bright orbs over the ocean. They were in a triangle pattern. I believed them to be Milatary Helicopters training because they were stationary in mid air.
Then the one on the North side of the triangle went to the North at a speed greater than an standard aircraft it dispeared in a matter of seconds. The remaining two made erratic movements and then shot straight up and suddenly disapeared. They were round and bright white like a star.
I am not sure what they were but they are not anything I have ever seen.
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Me and everyone outside saw it from the street. I saw a ufo a bunch of them I was on my way back home from the gas station I stuck my head out the window and saw 7 fireball discs lined up in the sky perfectly there were so many people watching in shock outside and they all separated and went all over the place it looked nowhere near man made ufos started coming out of one and its almost as if the sky pulled it back in I was recording when it went extremly fast stopped and went back into space I was flabbergasted I been seing ufos most my life yet nobody ever belived me until they see it themselves.
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smal group of bright lights moving independently at erratic direction and quite rapid speed. It's like these intelligent creatures are waiting for me and seem to start moving very quickly after I begin looking for them. Wish someone might be here with a proper optical device.
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Triangle of lights moving above highway I was driving northbound on route 1, north of Dover Delaware around 9:00 pm. The particular area is pretty dark. It was very cold at the time.
The sky appeared mostly clear. I saw 3 lights in the sky in a triangular formation. The formation was moving slowly across the highway from left to right.
Definitely slower than airplanes move in the area. The formation was from my perspective: the light farthest away was leading, the second nearest light was behind the leading light, to the left of it closest to me, the 3rd light was appeared not quite as far away as the leading light and was at the rear (left)of the formation in the direction they were going. The time I saw the formation was probably less than 10 seconds so I don’t believe it could have been extremely high.
My guess of the distance from light to light is hundreds of feet given its width in comparison to the highway. The lights were an off white similar to an incandescent bulb hooked to a low battery. All 3 lights appeared spherical.
All 3 lights were flickering very fast. Dozens of flickers a second. All 3 lights looked kind of like they were out of sharp focus and made them appear larger.
Meaning the center of the light was brighter and the outer edges were dimmer. Additionally the lights were not bright such as one would see on an airplane. You can see many airplanes in that area because Dover AFB is south of Dover.
I lost sight of the lights as I drove under them.
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I saw a light that was not flashing moving then disappeared I was driving to work (home Depot) when I pulled into the parking lot and I saw this light that was not a airplane. It was really bright. I was trying to get my phone to take a picture and it was gone.
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I opened a portal in my kitchen I have lots of footage I make them come around.
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After retiring to bed have straight up view of heavens. Always seem waiting for me and continuing as long as I keep looking. Bright lights seen nightly and continuing moving erradically and fast in high night sky over Rehoboth Beach, DE.
Delaware UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 66 reported sightings | 15.90% of all reports |
Circle | 62 reported sightings | 14.94% of all reports |
Triangle | 58 reported sightings | 13.98% of all reports |
Sphere | 33 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
Fireball | 29 reported sightings | 6.99% of all reports |
Unknown | 26 reported sightings | 6.27% of all reports |
Other | 26 reported sightings | 6.27% of all reports |
Disk | 24 reported sightings | 5.78% of all reports |
Formation | 15 reported sightings | 3.61% of all reports |
Oval | 15 reported sightings | 3.61% of all reports |
Changing | 10 reported sightings | 2.41% of all reports |
Rectangle | 9 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
Flash | 6 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
Diamond | 6 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
Orb | 5 reported sightings | 1.20% of all reports |
Cylinder | 5 reported sightings | 1.20% of all reports |
Egg | 4 reported sightings | 0.96% of all reports |
Chevron | 4 reported sightings | 0.96% of all reports |
Teardrop | 4 reported sightings | 0.96% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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August | 49 reported sightings | 11.81% of all reports |
July | 48 reported sightings | 11.57% of all reports |
December | 43 reported sightings | 10.36% of all reports |
June | 41 reported sightings | 9.88% of all reports |
November | 40 reported sightings | 9.64% of all reports |
September | 35 reported sightings | 8.43% of all reports |
January | 35 reported sightings | 8.43% of all reports |
October | 32 reported sightings | 7.71% of all reports |
May | 24 reported sightings | 5.78% of all reports |
April | 21 reported sightings | 5.06% of all reports |
February | 21 reported sightings | 5.06% of all reports |
March | 19 reported sightings | 4.58% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Thursday | 73 reported sightings | 17.59% of all reports |
Saturday | 69 reported sightings | 16.63% of all reports |
Friday | 63 reported sightings | 15.18% of all reports |
Wednesday | 59 reported sightings | 14.22% of all reports |
Sunday | 57 reported sightings | 13.73% of all reports |
Monday | 48 reported sightings | 11.57% of all reports |
Tuesday | 39 reported sightings | 9.40% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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06/01/99 | 3 reported sightings | 0.72% of all reports |
08/20/20 | 3 reported sightings | 0.72% of all reports |
08/28/14 | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
06/11/17 | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
04/13/23 | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 197 reported sightings | 47.47% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 86 reported sightings | 20.72% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 45 reported sightings | 10.84% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 38 reported sightings | 9.16% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 23 reported sightings | 5.54% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 19 reported sightings | 4.58% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Delaware
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Delaware
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Delaware