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Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 1979 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "disk" (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 07/01/79 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the late night, between the hours of 00:00 - 03:59 (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 1979
This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 1979, 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:
the strange object in the sky that I do not talk about but will always remember My friend and I came home late from a party one night. As we were walking into the house a strange craft appeared from nowhere. It made no sound and stopped just above us.
I remember seeing very bright lights and a shape of something looking at me from the object. I do not remember anything after that until I woke up the next morning in bed. The date may be off as much as 3 years it was a long time ago.
To tell the truth my friend and I never spoke of this event until some twenty years later. After my friend brought it up we were surprised to find out that we had both seen the object and remembered nothing after that. Why did we not talk about it for twenty years? We decided that it was because we thought no one would believe us and we wasn't sure the other had seen it.
STRANGE!!!!!!!! ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Sensation of loud noise, crash, and time stopping This is not an account of seeing a UFO, but of something that occurred that is just as peculiar. When I was a young child, my family was driving down Hwy 49 S in MS towards the Gulf Coast. About two hours into the trip, I heard a loud noise and had the sensation that we were being hit by a semi-truck.
At that point, time seemed to stop. However, there was actually no "real" noise that I know of, and we were not in an accident, as I had felt. As soon as I felt things return to normal, everyone in the car (there were five of us) turned to each other and asked "what just happened?".
Everyone in the car had felt the same thing I had. I remember my parents were somewhat concerned about feeling like time had stopped and immediately checked the clock, but it was the time it should have been. Can anyone give an explanation for what could cause this sensation? It has been a long time, but it still perplexes me.
It would be nice to finally have a reason behind this phenomen. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain anonymous. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Around midnight came to a T section silver disc was hovering treetop level above trailer & zoomed up & to the left & disappeared with no sound ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Very bright, fast moving light spreeing across sky. A friend and I were outside my house ( in the country) talking. We suddenly saw a very bright round light hovering above us, it quickly ‘flew’ away, then zigzagged a bit.
Very, very fast movements from one end of the sky to the other. When the bright light was above us. The colour seemed to vaguely dull.
After a few more seconds, It was completely gone.
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1979 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
| Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Disk | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
| Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
| Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
| Light | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1979 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
| Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| July | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
| December | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
| February | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1979 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
| Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1979 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 07/01/79 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
| 12/01/79 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
| 07/15/79 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
| 02/17/79 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1979 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
| Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
| Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1979
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 1979
| City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
|---|---|---|
| Florence | 1 UFO Reports | Florence UFO Sightings in 1979 |
| Water Valley | 1 UFO Reports | Water Valley UFO Sightings in 1979 |
| Hattiesburg | 1 UFO Reports | Hattiesburg UFO Sightings in 1979 |
| Meadville | 1 UFO Reports | Meadville UFO Sightings in 1979 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.