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Georgia UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 2,707 UFO sighting reports in Georgia to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (505 reports, 18.66% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (274 reports, 10.12% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (426 reports, 15.74% of total).
- 11/28/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (10 reports, 0.37% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (226 reports, 8.35% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (1,220 reports, 45.07% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Georgia
These Georgia 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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Lightning?.
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Saw it with binoculars Looking out window- watching a storm roll in, there seems to be a black ball? moving across the sky slowly and low. So I go outside and grab my binoculars, as it comes over my house. I see a circular round, metal object with clear circular middle and something black dangling from that middle.
It was a bronze, muddy, black, shiny color. The front and back of the craft were flat, the wings were in the front and back-there was nothing out the sides. There was no sound- put out no wind- the trees were not moving.
It moved with purpose. When it hit the tree line, I tried looking through the binoculars and could not see it. When I took the binoculars down to check the area it was right there.
Weirdest thing ever. It then it just took off. It was not a balloon, it was not a drone, it was unidentifiable.
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Observed structured lights following a plane. UAP changed position relative to the plane it was following with a smooth quickness. Between 11:59 am and 12:05 pm while flying my drone at 120ft I observed two extremely bright sapphire lights that seemed to be connected, and following a plane that was likely on its final approach to the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson international airport.
The approximate size of each light was about the same size as the Jet engine of the aircraft it was following . It absolutely was not a reflection observed as the angle of observation changed without any change to the UAP. UAP changed position relative to the plane it was following with a smooth quickness beyond typical flight norms.
Based on my drones telemetry and flight tradar app I believe that the airplane being followed was a boeing 737-9gp airplane servicing Delta flight DL2349 . At the time of observation the altitude was 9,100 ft and traveling at 345mph. The lights following the plane changed position several times during the sighting from slightly ahead then parallel to trailing and parallel ect , From my vantage point I don't think they were ever in direct sight of the pilots but unable to be sure of this.
The duration of the sighting was just under a minute. More details may be available if requested.
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Myself, husband, and son saw 4 total orbs traveling spaced out through the night sky. At approximately 8:19 PM my son and myself were walking through the neighborhood park when we noticed a orange /red light (orb shaped) moving through the night sky. It was no more than 2000 feet above the tree line and was a solid light never any varying degrees of brightness.
It was traveling south to north and at one point a small airplane (the shape was illuminated and could be seen in the moonlight) flew over the flying orb which allowed me to really take note of it's altitude. We turned and watched it as it went directly overhead and moved out of view passing over the tree line and field of view. This all took about a minute and a half.
As we turned to leave marveling at what it could be we noticed another orb appearing from the same location. It's path was slightly to the right of the original orb, but it was traveling in the same direction and at the same speed. At this point I called my husband and both my son and myself began taking pictures and video.
When I zoomed in with my camera I got a look at what appeared to be four points not illuminated on the orb at the edge of a bright light and dark red on the rim. Unfortunately I did not record that as I was talking on the phone and apparently you can't record video while speaking on the phone. At this point I hung up the phone with my husband and tried to get video.
My son got video of the second orb. We watched this orb go out of view and turned around again to leave where a third orb originating from the same location appeared slightly left of the original orb but otherwise traveling in the same direction. I was able to take pictures of it but was busy trying to get zoomed in photos so missed out on video.
My son did get video of the third orb. Same as before we watched it pass our field of view and we turned to leave and saw the fourth orb. It was traveling at the same speed and in the same direction but was even more slightly left than the original orb.
I was able to obtain video of this orb and my son did as well. These orbs made no sound. We could hear passing cars from a nearby road but no plane or drone sounds.
I was able to hear the plane that went over the first orb but the orb made no sound and the following 3 orbs also made no sound. I work at tv station and called a coworker at around 8:28 PM who checked his radar app for planes and could not see anything on the radar at that time. Upon arriving home my husband said he was able to briefly view an orb which he observed traveling in the opposite direction to the orbs my son and I observed.
His location was 2500 feet southwest of my location. I went in to work the next day and had one of the meteorologists bring up the wind speeds aloft at the day and time of my sighting and we determined that the wind speeds aloft were less than 10 miles an hour. These orbs were traveling faster than 10 miles per hour so I don't think they were balloons or lanterns.
I also checked FAA websites to determine if a NOTAM was filed and there weren't any filed for my area for that day and time. I also checked the flight logs on flight tracker and determined no other planes were flying out of the smaller airports at that time except the plane I observed during the first orbs passing. I could verify that plane's flight log.
I will attach an image I obtained by taking my video and bringing it in to a professional editing software and grabbing a still image. I have definitely observed the ISS and other satellites in addition to Starlink and these orbs were feet above ground rather than miles. The fact that the small plane I observed flew over the first orb also verifies it was not a satellite as it's altitude was too low.
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How the moon looks with thin clouds over it. It looked like light was bleeding out from edges. It could have been round, and looked oval Looked like moon looks behind clouds.
Edges of shape had light bleeding out from it. Very fast.
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Approximately 330AM in a NNE sky, a cigar shaped object traveled around the Dubhe star in the Big Dipper. Just a quick background about myself.I'm an Army Aviation Veteran and Flight Engineer.
I know just about everything there is to know about Aviation, including known spacecraft and Satellites of NASA, Space X, Blue Origin, etc. and what I saw on or near the night of February 6th was definitely an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. The area of Stockbridge Ga.
that I live in is a direct flight path to the Atlanta Airport, so there is a lot of aircraft that move in throughout the evening, and usually slows down around 10 or 11PM for noise control, I always see aircraft very high in the sky as well, but I can definitely tell they are known aircraft with no second guessing. Around the morning of Feb 6th at around 330AM, my routine is to let my dogs out in the backyard to use the restroom around that time every morning, and I walk out onto the back deck and look around at the sky and breathe in some fresh cool air. I have been on this routine for quite a few years (just a habit and I love the quietness of that time of morning.
) This particular morning I happened to look at the Big Dipper and noticed an object that I thought at first glance was a satellite, but I knew I've never seen a Satellite that time of morning so I watched it a little bit longer. As I watched it, it seemed to grow a smidge in length from a star like object to a cigar shaped object. The object made no noise whatsoever and made no trails.
As the object got to about the Dubhe star in the Big Dipper, it seemed slow down and kind of spin in place and turn sideways.for example.if you take a pencil and look at it into the light, you can see the light reflection on the 5 sides as you turn it with your fingers.
This is exactly what the object seemed to do. As it moved, it made a sharp turn and went around the Dubhe star like a car on a race track and then started to move directly in a South Eastern direction toward the Ailoth and Mizar stars of the Big Dipper, as it moved toward those stars, it quickly faded and disappeared, not to be seen again. I knew immediately this was no Satellite and no known aircraft.
Since then, I constantly look up and see if I can get a glimpse of the object or something similar, but have yet to see anything like that again.
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We got followed by a tall black figure in the middle of the night. Me and my friend were in the middle of the woods at night, we went along the highway, started hearing dogs then coyotes then a screech, after that screech we heard the wind pick up and the grass next to us moving, it got pitch quiet after that so me and my friend went to walk back home, as we were doing so an extremely tall black figure started following us back at a slow pace at first, but as we starting running thru a river to get back to our tent, it ran at us, we made it back eventually but heard morning birds at 2:10 am then it got pitch quiet again. After that the entity threw a big piece of metal towards our head near the tent.
And that was all that happened.
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An orb of light that is gradually moving in the sky. Lights flicker and dim from time to time and at one point it seemed to be turning I was walking the dog when I saw this white light in the sky. Stars were around it and yet it illuminated differently from them.
I them called the mother and brother to come outside because the object had gradually moved upward. As my family were out there, we all saw flickering light and the object would dim from time to time. Later on I was the light getting smaller and eventually turned at one point.
This brought terror I could have never imagined. I was able to recorded the object and it does captures it however it doesn’t show the full account of what happened. As I’m writing it’s still out there.
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Flying in a pattern Saw three flying objects over my house and when I turned back around they was gone it took out the WiFi and the outside camera.
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We heard a high frequency noise getting closer and closer we ran to the back door then we look up an see an orb above the trees My son and i were getting groceries that were dropped off by delivery service, my dog walked out first and ran to wear the food was left and srarted barking an grawling , i thought she was showng us where the food was left , we both grabbed groceries then my son said moma run, i saud why , just then i heard a weird high pitched almost electronic like turkey gooble sound getting closer and louder, i dropped my bags and ran to the back deck and yelled in to my daughter that something was out there coming at us, so she came out, just then i looked up at the back corner of my yard right above the tree line and see what looks like one of the stars or planets but i knew it couldnt be because it was sitting way too low and I said I never saw a star there before, the kids glanced up at it and saw it move just a little up then completely disappear before our eyes. It was unbelievable and amazing.
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Something small is burning; black smoking air Unknown black object is burning in the air (not exactly sure it is burning).
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Over a period of a couple hours my parents and I watched a distant light in the night sky make small, cyclical movements. Around 7 in the evening my mother called my father and I out to the front porch to show us a moving light in the sky toward the south. At first it appeared to be a star, maybe only slightly brighter than the average star.
It took only a few moments to realize that it was moving; it would wobble side to side, move slightly to the left, and move upward (either literally up, or north). It would repeat these movements in a cycle over a period of perhaps 30 seconds, maybe upwards of a minute. None of these movements were fast, nor extreme; a thumb held at arm's length would cover the area in which it was doing the movements.
It would also dim and brighten slightly, but there seem to be less of a pattern when it came to this. We watched it for maybe ten or fifteen minutes, pretty dumbfounded by it. I thought to grab my father's binoculars to see if I could see any it better, but once I found it using them it was still just a pinpoint of light; I couldn't see any kind of structure to the object which made me think it was really far away.
At this point it was still doing it's little dance, and we got cold so we went inside. Every ten minutes or so I would go back out see if it was still there, and it was. After checking up on it a few more times with no changes, I started looking up possible astronomical objects that it could be, but I was pretty sure that wasn't the explanation; it had to be in atmosphere.
Ruling out stars, planets, and satellites, I thought it could've been a drone, but supposedly drones don't have the endurance to stay up as long as this object was. Plus, would have to have been REALLY high up, and I feel that a person-controlled drone would have had more sporadic movements than what we witnessed. After doing this research, I went back outside, some two hours or so after first seeing it, and it was still in the sky, but at a different angle of elevation, perhaps 70 degrees, and slightly further west.
That was the last time I saw it. In hindsight I should have at least attempted to film it with my phone, but it was small and the movements were also relatively small. It would've been a classic "crappy" UFO video.
I've never seen anything else I haven't been able to explain, so this experience has really stuck with me.
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Noticed very bright light to my left as it approached I slowed down the lights got brighter As the lights got closer the aircraft came into view it was large the lights were so bright I had to squint to see the aircraft it was large and very close to the ground as if it was landing. It was not spinning it was hovering the circle of lights was stationary under the aircraft. It did not fly away I was afraid to stop on the dark road.
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My boyfriend and I both saw a bright large light that appeared to roll a few times It appeared to be flying toward us with a single bright light then appeared to roll a few times with 2-3 dots of lights that streamed down from it, then began flying north with a tail that seemed to drag behind it. It appeared first as an abnormally large glow then rotating several times.
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Triangle craft with green lights gliding through sky I am a police officer and deputy sheriff. While on duty after dark, near the top of my windshield (frame of view) I witnessed movement in the sky (southbound direction of view). Upon concentrating my focus, viewing through the low light, I was able to make out a triangle craft, with 3 dim green lights per side (just bright enough to assess size, shape, and movement).
The craft moved to my right (westbound). Due to tree coverage, I lost sight of it quickly, to which I never located it again, maintaining visual contact for less than 10 seconds. While it appeared very low, it is difficult to determine distance, size, and speed, given the relationship between those factors.
I did not hear any noises, however I was at speed on the roadway inside a vehicle. I am privy to what helicopters and airplanes look like in the sky, frequently working alongside medical flight crews in the area, and where nearby airports are, making me somewhat familiar with common areas of the sky in which low air travel is common. This was unlike anything I had ever witnessed.
It should also be noted, that within approximately one hour of my sighting, I responded to a call from a homeowner reporting hearing something running outside of his home, to which he stated did not sound like an animal. The callers’ residence was in the direction from which the object came when I witnessed it, as the crow flies, in a heavily wooded and forested area. There were no other similar or relevant calls, and no reported sightings through our 911 center.
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The light seemed to pulse a little. was ascending VERY slowly up then dimmed and ascended fast above cloud coverage out of sight. Had just made it to work with a co-worker of mine.
parked facing east and sat for a minute listening to the radio. it was around 7:20 a:m. was studying what i thought was a morning star above the tree line.
But realised it was too bright. and it looked like it was pulsing a little bit. Then noticed it was SLOWLY ascending.
Then its light began to grow dim and it gradually picked up speed and ascended above cloud coverage outta sight. 10 minutes later the cloud coverage was gone and nothing was in sight.
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Blue Light standing still for at least 2 minutes and then went straight down and stopped and then went to left at a high rate of speed and stopped and then took off again out of sight . No way a drone Drones don’t move this fast .
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Upon entering into my driveway, I noticed 3 stationary objects We saw, what appeared to be, 3 disk like objects that were stationary in the sky, spinning very fast, and disappearing like lightening. We saw another one that looked like a ball of fire. This continued for 2 hours.
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Witness is looking with binoculars in one of the photos. The moons of Jupiter appear as smaller lights beneth the planet when viewed at magnification. The only contraindication to this is the statement that it suddenly moved.
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Saw a bluish green gumdrop shaped object flying probably around 1000 feet. Flew off at an incredible speed west towards the horizon The light was obviously visible to me and my passenger and was immediately abnormal looking. The object was a solid blue ish green light not flashing or pulsing.
The object moved so fast towards the horizon it almost appeared to fly into the ground. Flow flying air planes and helicopters are very common in this areas and I see them on a nearly daily basis but this was very clearly different to me and my passenger. The object moved so fast it was hard to get a clear image of what it was but it appeared to be a gumdrop shape.
No noise was heard and the light was not bright enough to illuminate the ground but was a stark contrast to the black starless night sky of Atlanta. The object seemed very large. I was traveling west approximately 70mph and the object flew past at a speed seemingly hundreds of miles per hour.
Neither of us have ever seen something like this but this was so completely odd I must report. There would have been hundreds of other people on 285 with us that could have seen it.
Georgia 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 | 505 reported sightings | 18.66% of all reports |
Circle | 313 reported sightings | 11.56% of all reports |
Triangle | 243 reported sightings | 8.98% of all reports |
Other | 195 reported sightings | 7.20% of all reports |
Unknown | 193 reported sightings | 7.13% of all reports |
Fireball | 192 reported sightings | 7.09% of all reports |
Sphere | 172 reported sightings | 6.35% of all reports |
Disk | 170 reported sightings | 6.28% of all reports |
Oval | 103 reported sightings | 3.80% of all reports |
Cigar | 81 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Changing | 78 reported sightings | 2.88% of all reports |
Formation | 67 reported sightings | 2.48% of all reports |
Flash | 48 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Rectangle | 47 reported sightings | 1.74% of all reports |
Cylinder | 40 reported sightings | 1.48% of all reports |
Diamond | 37 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Egg | 25 reported sightings | 0.92% of all reports |
Chevron | 24 reported sightings | 0.89% of all reports |
Teardrop | 22 reported sightings | 0.81% of all reports |
Orb | 17 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
Cross | 12 reported sightings | 0.44% of all reports |
Cone | 11 reported sightings | 0.41% of all reports |
Star | 5 reported sightings | 0.18% of all reports |
Georgia 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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October | 274 reported sightings | 10.12% of all reports |
September | 264 reported sightings | 9.75% of all reports |
November | 247 reported sightings | 9.12% of all reports |
July | 232 reported sightings | 8.57% of all reports |
June | 230 reported sightings | 8.50% of all reports |
May | 225 reported sightings | 8.31% of all reports |
January | 220 reported sightings | 8.13% of all reports |
December | 214 reported sightings | 7.91% of all reports |
August | 211 reported sightings | 7.79% of all reports |
April | 205 reported sightings | 7.57% of all reports |
March | 175 reported sightings | 6.46% of all reports |
February | 165 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
Georgia 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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Saturday | 426 reported sightings | 15.74% of all reports |
Friday | 403 reported sightings | 14.89% of all reports |
Thursday | 382 reported sightings | 14.11% of all reports |
Wednesday | 377 reported sightings | 13.93% of all reports |
Sunday | 376 reported sightings | 13.89% of all reports |
Tuesday | 360 reported sightings | 13.30% of all reports |
Monday | 338 reported sightings | 12.49% of all reports |
Georgia 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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11/28/06 | 10 reported sightings | 0.37% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 9 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
01/15/14 | 8 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
08/23/14 | 7 reported sightings | 0.26% of all reports |
12/20/19 | 6 reported sightings | 0.22% of all reports |
Georgia 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 | 1,220 reported sightings | 45.07% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 414 reported sightings | 15.29% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 391 reported sightings | 14.44% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 297 reported sightings | 10.97% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 181 reported sightings | 6.69% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 159 reported sightings | 5.87% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Georgia
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Georgia
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Georgia