Last updated on May 1, 2024

Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2002

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Mississippi during 2002.

How many Mississippi UFO sightings were there in 2002?

  • There were 13 officially reported UFO sightings in Mississippi in 2002.
  • In 2002, Mississippi ranked #45 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, Mississippi ranks #49 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 2002, with an average of 0.46 reports per 100,000 residents.

Mississippi Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 2002

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Pontotoc, MS 3 UFO Reports
2 Clinton, MS 1 UFO Reports
3 Tupelo, MS 1 UFO Reports
4 Long Beach, MS 1 UFO Reports
5 Olive Branch, MS 1 UFO Reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 13 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 2002 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 2002

This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 2002, 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).

Fayette, MS

Full Report Text:

Bright white light that slowly moves overhead and suddenly fades away, while making no sound. It was a bright white light, moving accross a tree line in front of my house. I was on the front porch; it couldn't of been much more than about 200' in front of me.

I watched it move from North to south very slowly. After a few minutes, it suddenly faded away. At the same time, a plane that was heading Westward at an elevation of 30,000+, changed direction to the North, when the light faded.

10/10/02 11:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 4 minutes

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Olive Branch, MS

Full Report Text:

We saw two disk like objects crash. I was downtown in Olive Branch Mississippi near Memphis when there where about five metallic silver disc like objects hovering and makeing odd and strange movements without a sound. A lot of people were pulled on the side of the road wathching them.

suddenly two of the objects crashed into each other in a nearby field. The others flew away at an amazing high speed. Some kind of military personel took the rubble away it was like they didnt want anyone seeing what had crashed.

They later said they were all weather balloons, but if it were weather balloons why were they in such a hurry to pick up the rubble.

10/03/02 2:00 PM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: about or around 10 minute

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Biloxi, MS

Full Report Text:

Couple observes Star-like objects over Keesler AFB I was standing on the upper deck of my apartment with my girlfriend. I was looking toward the west off and on. Having looked down momentarily, then back up, I saw a bright light in the distance.

Thinking it was a star, I said to myself, "this is the first star tonight, I'll make a wish". I looked down to pick up something for a second time, then looking back, the single star was gone and was replaced by two star-like objects, side by side, about 5 inches apart at arms length. I alerted my girlfriend as they suddenly faded out.

Above these lights all the while was a slow moving jet,leaving a contrail. In about ten minutes, we were startled to see a small BLACK single engine plane appear out of nowhere, headed southeasterly from Keesler AFB. Our apartment is about 2 miles east of the base in Biloxi, Ms.

This is my first UFO sighting, but hopefully not my last.

09/29/02 5:30 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 2-3 Min.

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Lake Center, MS

Full Report Text:

Trucker observes Star-like object near Lake Center, Ms. While driving a tractor-trailer rig from Tupelo, Ms. to Fayetteville, Arkansas, I observed a pear or tear-shaped star-like object, just off Hwy.

78, near Lake Center, Ms. It was just above tree level and appeared to be about the size of one-fourth of a dime at arms length. At first, it was yellowish in appearance, like a star, then faded to red, then to blue, before disappearing.

Obviously, it was traveling paralell to the highway, as I kept it sight for 3-4 minutes, before it faded. ((NUFORC Note: We received a telephoned report about this sighting. We have no idea what the witnesses observed.

PD)).

09/22/02 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: teardrop

Lasted: 3-4 Min.

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Shannon, MS

Full Report Text:

Roughly 50 ft. overhead were two enormous crafts with dozens of white lights flashing on and off an random intervals My wife and I had just gotten off work near the Barnes Crossing mall. We were headed to my mother’s house, where we were staying, and as we approached the 45 overpass we couldn’t help but notice an enormous, stationary, metallic craft floating roughly 50 ft.

above the overpass. It was covered in dozens of white lights all flashing at apparently random intervals. We got out of the car and watched for what seemed like 15-20 minutes.

All of a sudden, a second, identical, craft approached from over the tree line to the right. It halted next to the first, and in a split second both shot off, in unison, toward the right.

08/13/02 10:30 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: several minutes, 15 or so

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Flowood, MS

Full Report Text:

look guys awhile back my wife and i saw something that was very strange,we had gone to bed and was laying there talking the lights were off all of a sudden we saw a bright flash it sort of looked like a cam flash went off in the living room our dog started barking. and i say something in front of the bedroom door that,i know this is crazy but it looked like one of those gray aliens you see on tv it stayed there for 5-6 sec then moved past the door disipearing in the living room. we had a very scared feeling (hair standing up,wide eyed heart racing fear).

we basicly said lets get the crap out of here we grabed the dog and went to my mom's 8 miles away for the next 2 nights. I really don't get scared,i don't see things i'm just a life insurance agent and no i was not drinking or doing drugs,i can't explaine it. Thanks ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

08/01/02 11:00 PM

UFO Shape:

Lasted: 5-7 sec

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Hermantown, MS

Full Report Text:

details of my first sighting of triangle in Hermantown. I don't know its altitude, but it took up half my windshield! first of all, i'd like to say i'm very excited to share my observations with this site(which i just discovered). In roughly august 2001, i was driving northbound on highway 53 through hermantown.

when i got to the dopplar radar, my friend's dad(itting shotgun), pointed to a "airplane" on the left side of the road. i thought nothing of it at first, but then realized it was much too large to be a commercial jet and started watching it. the craft continued to cross the highway directly over my car.

i stopped right on the highway(as other motorists sped by!) the craft took up over half my windshield relatively-wise and i saw it clear as day. the most striking characteristic to me was that the craft did not seem aerodynamic at all! it was like a triangle, blocky ship(like a triangle brick, very thick)ttom. it was not smooth and was covered in what i can only describe as"piping and ductwork" this thing looked like it should just drop from the sky like a brick.

it was equilateral with had a large white light on each corner and a blinking red light in the center.i got out of my car to listen and there was no noise. i know this thing landed just over the treeline, not more than 500 ft from hwy 53! it was right next to the ANG base(which is definitely in operation, by the way) on the right side of road by Pure Pleasures and the national weather service Dopplar station.

this was the most exciting thing i have ever seen and it gave me newfound faith in the strength of the US military. if this thin could carry troops or tanks, it will change warfare forever. i watch the sky by hermantown everytime i drive by it; and i'm willing to bet this craft lands here every day around 10-1030.

i have seen the light pattern numerous times(app. 4-5)n, but never anywhere near as close as my first sighting. this ship has enormous capabilities, possibly cloaking( in one daytime sighting, the ship seemed to be the same blue as the horizon, only the bright lights showing) it also moves very fast(one evening sighting, the tri-light pa! ttern wa s over the treetops traveling south parrallel with the highway seemed to kick it down and go really fast towards hermantown.

this light pattern was as big as a nickle relatively speaking.) sorry if this message is too long, but i'm excited that theres an organization that studies this type of thing. i dont want to jeopardize national security, but this craft is real and I personally believe it is based out of the hermantown air national guard base.

your investigators best time would be between 930-1030. there are numerous business parking lots right along the highway. If i owned a camcorder i'd be there already! i just wonder why this craft has been stationed up here so long(at least one year) i hope this information leads you to an equally as amazing sight as we were treated to.

Peace ((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

08/01/02 12:00 AM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 1 minute

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Clinton, MS

Full Report Text:

Triangular object seen twice within one hour, in a city area, 4 witnesses. At approximately 10:08PM CST, me,my friend, and my 2 cousins were traveling down Morrison Drive heading North, I looked at the tree line and spotted a flying triangular object, with what appeared to be 3 white lights in the front but as it passed over it i observed that there was a light on each corner of the triangle and the two on the back were shining forward in bright intensity as to cast a beam of light straight ahead. There was also a smaller, less bright light on the back between the two bright ones, and one red in the middle.

I called the attention on everyone in the car, I screamed "stop the car" we all saw the object as it was hovering then sped off SW then disappearing, it was then 10:10 PM. It was about 100 ft. or higher in the sky.

The sky was clear, no clouds, and no visible stars. I am a ammature ufo researcher, I read about them in my spare time, This is the first absolute clear image i have ever seen. My friend, Jennifer, is not a real believer in any paranormal.

One cousin, Courtney, WAS a straight skeptic until last night. and my other cousin, Kristin, was neither believer nor skeptic. At about 10:45-10:50, we were at my house, when we decided we had better draw what we had seen while it was fresh on our mind.

Kristin was in my room, she screamed she heard something above the house we ran outside just in time to see it take off from over our house heading straight SW again. I am positive it was the same object, I live less than one mile from where the first sighting was spotted.

07/12/02 10:08 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: appx. 2 minutes

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Tupelo, MS

Full Report Text:

Tupelo woman has daylight sighting I was waiting at a traffic light on South Gloster street, south of Tupelo, about 1230 hours CDT when I glanced above the light at a large "Chemtrail". As I observed the trail, just below it appeared a very bright sphere or disc. At first it was stationary, then moved a short distance to the east, changing to a darker shade as it moved, then just disappeared.

I continued to my home where I reported the event to my husband.

06/07/02 12:30 PM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: 10 seconds

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Pontotoc, MS

Full Report Text:

I saw a v shaped craft come straight up out of the west it took about 5 mins to rise to around 2000 ft it stopped for a couple of mins and then it proceeded to go in a southerly direction at a very slow rate of speed it took around 10 mins to go out of sight.

01/27/02 7:10 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 25min

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Long Beach, MS

Full Report Text:

saw it as one shape then changed to two moved too quickly to be a plane and changed direction of flight to abruptly it was late saturday night we were at a bon fire it was around 11 o'clock and i was the first to see it. the object had no distinct shape but it did appear to be on fire. my freinds all thought it was an airplane because we live two town down from an air force base.

so just kinda watched it for a while and it was moviing at incredible speeds and then would just seem to stop really quick and change its direction. it got to be about 500 yards off into the water when we all started to freak a little it jsut sat there and then it splint into three seperate things and flew off in different directions.

01/19/02 10:00 PM

UFO Shape: changing

Lasted: 15:00

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Pontotoc, MS

Full Report Text:

Large, low-flying rectangular object sighted 11/19 at 9:45 PM 3 wedged shaped they had red green white &yellow lights no sound approx.1500-2000ft. they were traveling east to west at a very high rate of speed in a triangle formation ((NUFORC Note: Please see similar report from Cornelius, OR, for same date.

Two witnesses appear to have submitted reports with identical wording for the Summary. We will try to investigate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Paucity of information provided about sighting.

Please see other report for January 08, 2002, from Mississippi. Apparently, two separate witnesses have submitted reports with identical wording for the Summary portion of their respective reports. We will investigate.

PD)).

01/08/02 8:30 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 60secs.

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Pontotoc, MS

Full Report Text:

i saw a wedge shaped craft at about 6:40 pm it was heading in an east to south direction i would say that it was at about 2000 feet it had like one continious light which lit up the whole outer edge of the craft the sighting lasted about 30 secs.it made no noise. as i was coming into the house i noticed that there was another wedge shaped object just ,hovering it is now 7:30 and it is still there.

((NUFORC Note: Later report follows from same source. PD)) Large, low-flying rectangular object sighted 11/19 at 9:45 PM 3 wedged shaped they had red green white &yellow lights no sound approx.1500-2000ft.

they were traveling east to west at a very high rate of speed in a triangle formation.

01/08/02 6:40 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 30seconds

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Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2002 By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Triangle 3 reported sightings 23.08% of all reports
Other 2 reported sightings 15.38% of all reports
Light 2 reported sightings 15.38% of all reports
Sphere 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
Changing 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
Disk 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
Teardrop 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
Circle 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2002 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
January 4 reported sightings 30.77% of all reports
August 3 reported sightings 23.08% of all reports
September 2 reported sightings 15.38% of all reports
October 2 reported sightings 15.38% of all reports
July 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
June 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2002 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 4 reported sightings 30.77% of all reports
Tuesday 3 reported sightings 23.08% of all reports
Sunday 3 reported sightings 23.08% of all reports
Friday 2 reported sightings 15.38% of all reports
Saturday 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2002 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
01/08/02 2 reported sightings 15.38% of all reports
08/01/02 2 reported sightings 15.38% of all reports
07/12/02 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
06/07/02 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports
01/19/02 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2002 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
Night 20:00 - 23:59 7 reported sightings 53.85% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 3 reported sightings 23.08% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 2 reported sightings 15.38% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 1 reported sightings 7.69% of all reports

All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2002

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 2002

City Number of Reports View Reports
Pontotoc 3 UFO Reports Pontotoc UFO Sightings in 2002
Clinton 1 UFO Reports Clinton UFO Sightings in 2002
Tupelo 1 UFO Reports Tupelo UFO Sightings in 2002
Long Beach 1 UFO Reports Long Beach UFO Sightings in 2002
Olive Branch 1 UFO Reports Olive Branch UFO Sightings in 2002
Lake Center 1 UFO Reports Lake Center UFO Sightings in 2002
Biloxi 1 UFO Reports Biloxi UFO Sightings in 2002
Hermantown 1 UFO Reports Hermantown UFO Sightings in 2002
Flowood 1 UFO Reports Flowood UFO Sightings in 2002
Fayette 1 UFO Reports Fayette UFO Sightings in 2002
Shannon 1 UFO Reports Shannon UFO Sightings in 2002

Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 2 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 24 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 21 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 17 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 27 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 33 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 25 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 25 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 32 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 41 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 44 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 40 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 46 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 23 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 20 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 29 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 25 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 26 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 18 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 22 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 23 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 16 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 13 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 25 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 16 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 18 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 7 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 9 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 3 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 2 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1991
1989 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 3 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 3 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1986
1984 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 2 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1982
1981 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1981
1979 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 10 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 6 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 5 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 3 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1971
1970 1 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 4 UFO Reports Mississippi UFO Sightings in 1969