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Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 7 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 1998 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (3 reports, 42.86% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 28.57% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 42.86% of total).
- 05/15/98 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 28.57% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (4 reports, 57.14% of total).
Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 1998
This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 1998, 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:
Slow fliying, triangular shaped object, that moved from the horizon, overhead, until it vanished from sighton the opposite horizon I am a 28 year old band agent and talent scout for a well known concert promotion/entertainment agency. I was in Oxford, MS on business, and stopped at a friends apartment befor going out for the night. On the drive over, my other friends and I had japed that it was a perfect night to see a U.
F.O. because of the beautiful clear sky.
I stepped out back (9:45)to light a cigarette, and happened to glance at the tree covered sky line, to see what I thought was a kite flying in the distance. It appeared to be a black plastic triangular kite, barely reflecting the light. As the object got closer (about the size of my hand held at arms leangth), I thought maybe someone had lost a kite and it was flying free.
The only thing that seemed stange was the fact that the object was flying in a straight line. At this point I realized I could make out the shape of the object because of it's reflective or illuminated front sides. As the thing approched almost directly overhead the it was still almost invisible, other than the nine or eleven very dim lights outlining the front.
at this time it had gone from legal pad sized to a full arms lenght across. I new I didn't have a camera, so I called into the apartment to get some attention. Three friend came outside to see the object pass overhead and disapear into the night on the opposit horizon.
Although the triangle seemed to light up in the front, we could not tell if it was reflecting light or self illuminated. the triangle was so faint that if you were not looking directly at it, you couldn't see it. It didn't stand out aginst the night at all.
The object made no sounds or sudden movements. As a matter of fact, it did nothing spectacular at all. I'v always believed in U.
F.O'S, but never that I would see one: until now. I don't know what to make of this.
Danny H.
Full Report Text:
This event happen in the late 90s Look like one of those big spinning tops that you push the handle down with your hand. but it had windows in it. I did not see anything in it but the interior no ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.
PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
I was on my pourch talking to my neighbor latr at nite.I looked up in the sky across the power lines about 1000 feet up and i saw a small orange light. as i looked the light came closer at a speed of light and the object just grew instantly to a huge oval object.
and sat there. my neighbor saw it and screamed. and ran inside.
On the night of 6/21/98,at approximately 2330hrs.,I was sitting on my front pourch with my neighbor smoking a cigarette. I was looking in the sky off and on while we were talking and I noticed a bright orange square.
It was very high in the sky but bright. As I watched it, all of a sudden it came forward at the speed of light and stopped. when it stopped,the lights shut off.
The object was black. It was about 300 to 400 yards long and 5 to 10 stories tall.At this point I was very amazed at what i was looking at.
I did not tell my neighbor about at first. everything that I have described so far I witnessed.As the object just sat there huvering in the sky above, it stayed dark for about 30 seconds,then solid bright orange lights turned on.
on the side of the object. the were the size of a huge hollywood light. There were about 25 of them across the side of the object that was facing us.
At this point i turned to my neighbor and said"Oh my God", and she said, "whats wrong", I said don't freak out but look up!As my neighbor looked up in the sky, she saw this huge oval shaped object with the orange lights on around it. then the lights started to blink in a rotating pattern, different lights at different times causing a strobe effect. my neighbor was scared at this point and ran in my house terrified.
The object started to move slowly upward in the sky and then all of a sudden it just dashed away at the speed of light. The object was silent it did not make any noise at all. It was so Awesome it took my breath away.
I know what all planes and military aircrafts look like i can name most of them. I can Tell airplanes apart at night from helicopters and stars and sattelites apart from them all.But for the first time in my life I BELEIVE!!!!!!!!I just got a computer in January.
I just found your site today and decided to tell you my story. Maybe somebody will beleive me.
Full Report Text:
Strange, unidentified light that makes seemingly intelligent responses to it's sighting. My future wife and I were driving home from a late work shift. About 12 minutes out of town we noticed what looked like a low/large orangish star.
(We were thinking Venus or Mars or something.) The closer we came to town we noticed the object seemed to get larger and lower in the sky. About 12 minutes pass and we arrive at the first stop sign in town.
At this point the object was really low and a little big to pass for a star/planet. I stepped out of the car to look at it clearly (without windshield between line of sight). I told my wife (future) as I stepped out that it was really low in the sky.
As I said this, I pointed at the object. At that precise moment as if reacting to my pointing it made this fantastic manuever that I know for a fact no known human craft can do. It made a really fast spiral pattern, leaving a light trail behind it.
(motion blur). It then began to "float" across the sky very slowly. I drove up the street a little further, pulled over into a parking spot and watched it some more.
I noticed a police officer parked just up the street and walked out to his car to point out the object to him. I did not see what happened next myself, but my girlfriend (wife now of 13 years) said as I walked up to the officers car the object shot off into the horizon at amazing speed. It may be one of those "you had to be there" moments, but for me and my wife it was something that we still talk about and are still confused and intrigued by today.
I would definitely like to be contacted about this by an investigator if possible. It would be nice to talk to someone with more experience in this field about what happened.
Full Report Text:
Red light viewed over Nettleton, MS, light acended from trees and disappeared with two jets a minute behind. I was driving west towards home. It was dusky dark and the road I was on has two sharp curves the first is to the left and as I turned the curve I noticed a red light coming straight up from a tree line in the east.
At first I thought it was an antenna tower from the hills in that direction because it was flashing slowly, bright to dim and back again. It looked as if it were at least a mile away so I didn’t think much of it but it kept getting higher so I stopped my truck and watched. The light first came straight up then it went northwest.
It dimmed and changed from red to white dimmed and then changed red again. From the moment it change direction it started moving faster, at first I thought it was a plane but it ended up going much to fast for a plane. It dimmed and it just blinked out.
I sat there for a minute trying to figure out what I saw, then two jets flying staggered but side by side came from the same direction as the light did and disappeared behind the hill. It really started to make me wonder what I had seen. The light didn’t disappear behind the hill it just disappeared.
Then I seen the two jets fly over and I could follow them the whole way. The jets appeared just only a minute after I seen the light. I got freaked out and went to my house got my mother and took her to were I saw the light and told her what I had seen.
That was the end of that and I haven’t seen anything like it since. I’ve told a couple of people since but no one believes me.
Full Report Text:
My Grandmother and I were going home on Hwy 51 in Southaven, MS when I saw a flying disk, metalic in nature move through the sky. My Grandmother and I were returning from the Walgreens on Hwy 51 at Bullfrog Corner. We traveled south on Hwy 51 to the four way stop at the intersection of Church Rd.
and Hwy 51. As we traveled south from Bullfrog Corner, I noticed a strange shiny light in the sky. The disk, metalic, moved from right to left, like a bee dancing.
I watched for a few minutes to make sure. I informed my Grandmother, because I was that sure it wasn't a plane. She could not figure out what it was either.
It moved in a southernly direction for a second. A green plane moved through the sky beneath the disk. The unidentifed object moved closer and then disappeared in the direstion of the plane.
Down Church Road in that direction, in the woods, are large radar dishes fenced off from the road. A small airfield is at the end of the road.
Full Report Text:
Looked like a star then started moving slowly. After a few minutes it streaked off as if it where the speed of light. My wife, her brother, and I were standing outside of our home when we saw what looked like a star.
It was motionless at first and then it slowly started moving. I told my wife it was just a satellite or aircraft. After I said that the object took off.
It streaked across the the sky faster than any man-made aircraft. Just guessing I would say it was going about 10 or 20 thousand miles per hour. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.
PD)).
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1998 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 | 3 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1998 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 | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1998 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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Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1998 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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05/15/98 | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
11/11/98 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
03/15/98 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
06/21/98 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
01/25/98 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 1998 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 | 4 reported sightings | 57.14% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1998
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 1998
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Oxford | 1 UFO Reports | Oxford UFO Sightings in 1998 |
Southaven | 1 UFO Reports | Southaven UFO Sightings in 1998 |
Waveland | 1 UFO Reports | Waveland UFO Sightings in 1998 |
Ripley | 1 UFO Reports | Ripley UFO Sightings in 1998 |
Jackson | 1 UFO Reports | Jackson UFO Sightings in 1998 |
Nettleton | 1 UFO Reports | Nettleton UFO Sightings in 1998 |
Sebastopol | 1 UFO Reports | Sebastopol UFO Sightings in 1998 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.