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Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 3 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 1972 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "other" (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
- 06/01/72 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the early morning, between the hours of 04:00 - 07:59 (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 1972
This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 1972, 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:
School Teacher observes large Oval craft near Tupelo Driving into Tupelo early one morning on Hwy.6 approaching the Bissell community, I observed a very large oval craft just above the trees trav- eling from north to south. It was dull aluminum in color, made no sound, and left no trail.
I was taking my baby daughter to daycare before going to work as a school teacher. I was terrified and pulled over to watch. The craft finally went out of sight and i resumed my journey.
I called Columbus Air Force Base, and they said they were'nt interested. I had never seen such a craft before, but when i related the sighting to my family, they treated me shamefully and said i must be crazy!.
Full Report Text:
It was about 10:00 pm on a warm June night. I was riding my bike near the Ancient Oaks subdivision golf course in North Biloxi. This was shortly after the Pascagoula, Miss.
incident involving so-called direct contact with a UFO. Anyway, I saw a small, saucer shaped object, glowing luminously and moving slowly over the golf course at treetop level. It continued this way for a few minutes then suddenly accelerated to tremendous velocity and took off almost straight up out of sight.
I don't know if it was a natural phenomenon or artificial, but it was unlike anything I had ever seen. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
We saw two stars slowly moving in the milkyway, stopping, starting, making right turns, shining a light. While fishing late one night under the milky way, I was looking at the stars. I have always looked at the colors.
dead, white, blue white and sparkly. One of the stars appeared to be slowly moving and we verified this . It was moving across the milky way, we figured from NW to SE.
based on where we were facing. After awhile it slowed and stopped. made a right turn and moved in that direction for a short while, then moved back to the track, continuing on till it reached straight up and then it stopped ,,waited and then a very long beam of light shone.
Then it slowly moved some more ,stopping occasionally and then another 'star' on the same path started moving toward the first one and it too had a light. The stars moved towards each other and then both turned on their lights, which touched, then they moved together where they did not move again for an hour . We stopped watching.
I had the strange feeling I had been told the display was for me because I had always believed. Some years later I awoke, wide awake to see a 'star' moving in the leafless branches of a tree in the same manner of the one in Mississippi. I again felt communicated with.
It again was a star, this time over Norfolk Virginia .
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1972 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
| Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
| Oval | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
| Disk | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1972 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
| Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| June | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
| September | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1972 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
| Friday | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1972 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 06/01/72 | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
| 09/15/72 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1972 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
| Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
| Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1972
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 1972
| City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
|---|---|---|
| Gautier | 1 UFO Reports | Gautier UFO Sightings in 1972 |
| Tupelo | 1 UFO Reports | Tupelo UFO Sightings in 1972 |
| Bilxoi | 1 UFO Reports | Bilxoi UFO Sightings in 1972 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.