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Delaware UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 9 UFO sighting reports in Delaware from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "sphere" (2 reports, 22.22% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 22.22% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 22.22% of total).
- 11/29/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 11.11% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (5 reports, 55.56% of total).
Delaware UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Delaware UFO reports from 2021, 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:
Looking West 75 41 23 44 An extremely long perfect line of lights. Very slowly moving, constant white. moving north.
I was connecting the battery to my grandson's gator when I looked up and saw what I first thought to be an incoming meteor. After realizing it wasn't typical I ran inside and grabbed my camera. I tried to get a video but only got a very poor photograph.
The lights were only one color, white, they moved in a very perfect line on a North / East direction. At my location I see and hear the fighter jets from Patuxent three times a day, this there was no noise. I could not get an accurate count as there were so many, the slow speed is what really surprised me and that it didn't break up like one would expect from a meteor.
I have no idea what I just saw! It did not seem to be a trail but a long "stick" of lights.
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Long string of lights moving slowly across the sky Large object with a string of lights moving south to north over Laurel, De towards DAFB. 13 second video.
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I saw a very large black cloud like structure and within minutes disappeared What appeared to be a large black, cloud-like structure, started moving towards my direction faster than any cloud I’ve seen during a storm. Exception was that there was not a storm or any other clouds in the sky. I saw a V pattern following it and alerted my wife.
When she came outside it was still present but within seconds it became distant and disappeared. We tried following the direction but there was no sight of the object. I have a photo for reference.
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High rate of speed and sudden stop and back to a high rate of speed At 1935hrs I was out back with my dog looking up at the clear sky when a bright object moving at a high rate of speed moving southwest to northeast came into view at about 25 to 35 degrees magnetic north. I first thought it was a shooting star but the light flashed and suddenly came to a stop for about 3-4 seconds. Then the light flashed a few more times before it jumped to a high rate of speed.
The object again came to a dead stop a second time, this time the object moved around in a side to side somewhat circular motion and jumped back to a high rate of speed from a complete stop. The whole event occurred over the course of 20 seconds.
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Triangle shape craft with lights at points and center made low turn over tree line and disappeared into trees.
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6 orange globes in the night sky over Rehoboth Beach. While driving home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware myself and my partner saw 5 orange lights floating in the sky forming a U shape. We pulled over and took pictures and video.
All 5 aircraft were slowly moving in unison from East to West. They made no sounds and were completely silent. They looked like globes with orange lights that were slowly flickering, kind of like electric lanterns or candles with flicker bulbs.
After a couple of minutes a 6th identical aircraft came out of the East (moving West) quickly towards the others. As it approached 3 of the aircraft forming the West side of the U went dark or disappeared. The 6th aircraft approached the remaining 2 and they formed a triangle.
We continued to drive home but kept watching the lights in the sky. The remaining 2 aircraft disappeared and the 6th aircraft changed course and started moving East, flying quickly. When we got home a few minutes later I took another video of the 6th aircraft flying in a straight line East in the direction of the ocean which is 1 mile from where we live.
The aircraft drifted up into the clouds and disappeared. Afterwards we heard a lot of helicopters flying around our house and area for approximately 2 hours.
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Massive String of lights in sky Seen a string of lights that took up our whole skyline. Was traveling north and then disappeared after approximately 3-5 minutes. 2 of us tried to video the lights, but both of our videos just came out black.
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Is this explainable? Sending this for your opinion. A neighbor saw this and took the pics. I have no idea what she saw and she doesn't know either.
I thought that you guys have more than enough experience to take a look. It was about 1/2 hour after sunset and it appears to moving & the white lights in the upper right are reflections from her car windshield. If you have an interest in this let me know and I'll see if she is willing to follow up with you.
Thanks ((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: We probably would have followed up…but source of report provides no contact information!!! PD)).
Full Report Text:
Watching a airplane high in sky saw a silver object come out of the clouds west of airplane flew at high rate of dipped from one cloud to the other cloud.
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2021 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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July | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Friday | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2021 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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11/29/21 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
12/03/21 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
12/04/21 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
07/10/21 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
07/12/21 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Delaware UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 5 reported sightings | 55.56% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 3 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
All Delaware Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Delaware, in 2021
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Lewes | 2 UFO Reports | Lewes UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Laurel | 2 UFO Reports | Laurel UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Rehoboth Beach | 1 UFO Reports | Rehoboth Beach UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Dover | 1 UFO Reports | Dover UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Millville | 1 UFO Reports | Millville UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Camden | 1 UFO Reports | Camden UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Newark | 1 UFO Reports | Newark UFO Sightings in 2021 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Delaware
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Delaware.