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Delaware UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 8 UFO sighting reports in Delaware from 2006 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
- 05/01/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 12.50% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (5 reports, 62.50% of total).
Delaware UFO Sighting Reports in 2006
This is a sampling of 20 Delaware UFO reports from 2006, 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).
Full Report Text:
3 objects interacting over DE City A Co-worker and I observed 3 objects rotating around one another at first,and then fly off in seperate directions.1 blue sphere-shaped craft,1 rectangular craft that seemed to be going end-over-end as it hovered and then disappeared,and 1 small black disk shaped craft that moved rapidly eastward after about 10 minutes interacting w/ the other objects.Blue sphere hovered above and then below the clouds,in and out of sight,for a few minutes after other objects left.
It finally ascended out of view upon arrival of military helicopter,possibly a Blackhawk from Dover AFB.
Full Report Text:
bright green oblonged object flying vertical in sky During a summer vacation at the beach my wife, my brother, my sister in law, and I witnessed a ufo on our way back from dinner on the night of 6/20/06. Just after we turned off of rt.1 (coastal highway) onto John J.
Williams Hwy. right before we crossed over the bridge at Love Creek we got about a 20 sec. glimpse of an oblonge, saucer-shaped object in the sky right in front of us.
The object was glowing with a bright flourescent green color and had a hazy tail behind it. It was flying vertical at a high speed and disapeared suddenly. It was hard to distinguish how high the ufo was due to the dark night sky, but it was definitly below the clouds.
We would love to know if anyonelse witnessed this or has any info. about it.
Full Report Text:
While sitting outside, witnessed an unusual aircraft, which changed speeds amazingly. I was outside on my patio and i heard what sounded like an airplane. Suddenly it sounded like a helicopter as it was approching.
i stood to my front yard and looked over my house, South, and saw it heading my direction, North. When it was close enough the noise changed to a Humming Pulse. It wasnt moving very fast, about 100-200mph.
Altitude approx. 150-200 ft. Suddenly stopped completely approx.
600 ft. past me. Spaceship was in shape of an H very flat.
with a light in each corner, and a smaller light in the center of the ship. I went inside to grab a witness, and as i was moving away, it took off six times faster than it was moving before. Definitally Believe in UFO's now.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
bright light stopping/starting and changing directions; east to west migration x 45 minutes before stopping Saw what I thought was a bright star that was flickering, it was due southwest from my balcony from RT 54 area. After blinking about 20 times, it began to move VERY SLOWLY and it wasnt until then I realized it wasnt just a bright star. I said something to friend at that point and we both then watched it for over 40 minutes.
Its movement was in east to west direction but it stopped and started many times over and with seemingly different velocities over 45 minute period and often made directional changes back/forth and up/down--with a gradual westerly progression as net effect. At 12:01 seemed to stop and not move again, still a bright light (brightest in this night sky). Would a satellite act like this?? NO trails, auras, sounds, beams or other objects.
Several planes went by in this general direction much faster than this bright light.
Full Report Text:
Floating Airliner? My girlfriend and I were travelling down Route 1 heading toward Ocean City Maryland. We had just passed Dover AFB minutes earlier and were south on Route 1 when I noticed what seemed to be a large tower with multiple lights on it from a distance. As we got closer, my girlfriend thought it was another plane coming in to land (it had blinking lights) but neither of us could see it moving.
As we got almost underneath it, we noticed that the object was stationary and making no noise. It was getting dark so we could only barely see the outline of the object, which seemed to look like a large commercial airliner. However, it was not moving, only hovering! It also made no noise.
As we drove by, we noticed other cars viewing the object but no one pulling over. It was one of the weirdest things I had ever seen. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Weird Lights I was driving home from work and I spotted these two lights. At first I thought they were planes in a holding pattern. As I got closer, another light appeared and they appeared to fly in formation.
As I took a left turn onto Lancaster Pike, these three lights flew fast over Silverbrook Cemetary and headed into the Town of Elsmere. I lost sight of them over the trees until I got onto Kirkwood Hwy. They flew over the Elsmere Bridge and into the City of Wilmington where I lost sight of them.
I called a friend of mine and he also spotted them over Alban Park on Maryland Ave outside of Wilmington with 2 USAF Trucks following them.
Full Report Text:
triangular shape with lights triangular shape red,green,blue lights was not very far up virtualy had no noise exept a little hover sounded nothing like a plane ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information, save for e-address. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Brilliant sphere floats above the Wilmington Suburbs. My son and I were on our way to his guitar lesson in Wilmington, Delaware. We stopped for a traffic light in order to go Soutg on US-202.
As we waited for the light, both our eyes were caught by the gleam of an object that was about the size of a pea held at arms length, and at about 60 degrees above the horizon. The object was at least several miles up in the atmosphere, as it was blocked out momentarily by clouds. We were stopped, and we had the chimney of a house across the street as a point of reference.
The brilliant orb was suspended motionless, and then began to drift slowly in a south-westerly direction. After about a minute, it took offlike a bullet in the same direction, disappearing from sight. An amazing sighting!.
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2006 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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Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2006 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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May | 4 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2006 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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Monday | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2006 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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05/01/06 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
05/08/06 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
08/09/06 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
04/15/06 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
05/21/06 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2006 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 | 5 reported sightings | 62.50% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
All Delaware Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2006
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Delaware, in 2006
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Wilmington | 4 UFO Reports | Wilmington UFO Sightings in 2006 |
Dover | 1 UFO Reports | Dover UFO Sightings in 2006 |
Fenwick Island | 1 UFO Reports | Fenwick Island UFO Sightings in 2006 |
Newark | 1 UFO Reports | Newark UFO Sightings in 2006 |
Rehoboth Beach | 1 UFO Reports | Rehoboth Beach UFO Sightings in 2006 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Delaware
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Delaware.