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Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 16 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 2003 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (7 reports, 43.75% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 37.50% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 31.25% of total).
- 11/05/03 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 12.50% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (6 reports, 37.50% of total).
Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 2003
This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 2003, 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:
A disk shaped copper colored object passed overhead as we were watching hawks flying above. The craft slowly flew past seemingly eratic at times like a bird might fly. It was mid day clear skies however there seemed to be a haze around the craft.
We watched the craft fly at a low altitude for a mile or more then ascend into the upper atmosphere until out of sight. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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2 objects w/Red green/blue white light in sky for hours, started east last I seen almost south Saw 2 objects in a straight line, good distance between them. They seem to spin or the lights (red green/blue white)moved around it,(was not blinking). Too high up in the sky to tell.
traveled east then bout 4hrs. later, they were almost south. Could have been three.
Third one was only visible for a short time cause it was so high. They could have formed a triangle pattern. they stayed same distance apart.
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When driving to work on I-20 east bound, saw bright orb-like object to the north of an east bound high flying jet. Jet approx. 150ft in length or more with a con-trail of 600ft or less, object had no trail and seemed to fade away and not return.
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In November my friend and I were driving back from New Orleans when we saw 1 maybe 2 crafts. I reported it to you a few days after that happened. I beleive the craft or crafts left some evidence on the winshield of my Jeep.
we were driving and it was wet and cold and I noticed something on the window. At first I thought it was fingerprints or something but then I looked again and saw that it was a definate symetrical pattern and a perfect circle. I asked My friend If he had put anything on the window.
he said no. then he said there was one on the passenger side also. I pulled over and we examined the window.
the picture on the window matched our drawings of what we saw that night. the strange thing is that it will not come off the window. we rubbed really hard but it would not change or come off.
I am hoping that there is a logical explanation for this. I thought at first maybe THAT (the marks on the window) was what we saw that night, but I saw it out of the side window as well and there are no marks on the side window. My friend is convinced there is writing or symbols by the circle marks.
I could not be sure of that but there are definately 2 things on the front window of my Jeep that won't go away.
Full Report Text:
I was going home to Arkansas after attending a company meeting in Jackson, MS on 12/11/03. About 12 miles out from Belzoni, MS on Route 49 before turning off on Route 12, I had noticed a "star" that did not twinkle the same as the others, this object was first red, them white, then Green. A young kid with a weapon in one hand saw the objective as well.
Full Report Text:
green light moving at high rate of speed Driving eastbound on I20 about 13 miles from Jackson, Mississippi at approximately 10 pm. Saw a bright green light about the size of a penny at arms lenght at it's largest moving in a east north east direction at a high rate of speed. Light moved in a direct line across the sky from directly above to the horizon appearing to dispappear from view, not go out.
Total duration for light to travel this distance was approximately 2 seconds. Appeared too low and too slow to be a meteor, but too high and too fast to be a conventional aircraft. No other light other than green.
Full Report Text:
We noticed a light in the sky we first thought was a bright star. It moved irratically up and down and in circles. With binoculars, we can see strobes of green red and bright white lights.
We ruled out aircraft after realizing an aircraft would not be moving like that. East of this one, we saw another one moving around like the other one. This is the second time in a month, we have seen this over our home, but in different areas of the sky.
What is it? ((NUFORC Note: We suspect "twinkling" stars. PD)).
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Triangular Object - Silent - No lights - Low Flying - Light colored markings on underside On 11-19-03 at 10:41pm central time, me and a friend were standing behind the house we were at. We had gone outside to look for falling stars as it was a very dark and clear night. The moon wasn't very bright and I don't think it was anywhere near where we were looking.
We were talking about UFOs and such, all of a sudden in a completely coincidental and serendipitous moment, a triangular object came into our field of vision. We were standing close to the house, so it appeared to come from over the rooftop and then flew in a straight line from south-east to the north-west. I was only able to see it for about 5 seconds as it flew over the tree line behind me.
There were tall pine trees all around me and the object was about 2 to 3 times the height of the tree top level. There were no visable lights and it was completely silent. At first my brain thought I was seeing a falcon gliding or a hang-glider, because of the speed, height, and smoothness of the way the object was flying.
but we quickly realized it was a large object like a craft or something. It was too slow to be plane, too fast to be a blimp. It appeared to defy gravity.
It was so quiet i could hear everything around me. the slight hum of the street lights, etc. You WOULD NOT have seen this thing unless you just happened to be looking at the exact spot that we were looking at at that exact moment.
It was a one in a trillion shot! It was so dark, as was the sky that night, so it was very well camoflauged. I say triangular, but i could only make out 2 sides of the triangle in the dark sky, so I don't know how the back of the object was shaped. It could have been a triangle or a diamond.
The back was just too dark to see anything. I had the feeling it was a top secret military craft that was maybe on a test flight just to see if anyone would report seeing something that night. I wouldn't be surprised if I was the only one in the city to see it that night.
I just happened to be looking for something at just the right time in the right patch of the sky. But it had white or light-colored markings on the underside, they were on the left and the right side. They were symetrical, about 4 or 5 white spots or streaks running down the left and right side.
They seemed to defeat the purpose of hiding the craft, but they were on there non-the-less. I am including a sketch.
Full Report Text:
cluster of small red blinking lights that changed shape with each blink, no background While driving home from work east on I10 at 5:50 pm, in Gulfport Mississippi, from the "Canal" exit to just before the Hwy 49 exit. I witnessed a cluster of red blinking lights. These lights blinked on and off.
And with each blink the cluster appeared to change shape. It went from a vertical zig-zag, to an upside down v, to snake like line of red lights. The total size of the cluster was about as wide as the interstate.
The size of each light was about the same as a red light on top of a tower. There was no visible shadow or background. It was a misty dark evening.
The total cluster drifted from the north side of the interstate just above the tree line, to the south side, back again, then back to the south, it dipped down below the tree line, to slightly rise, to dip again. I got to a point where the trees cleared, and could not spot it again. Very uneventfull, but definately unidentifiable.
I can be contacted at ((e-address deleted)).
Full Report Text:
IT WAS ROUND AND FLAT LARGER THEN A HOUSE WITH RED LIGHTS ON THE SIDE AND WHITE LIGHTS UNDERNEATH. WELL I AM JUST AN EVERYDAY MOM. I GO TO WORK AT CITY HALL I COME FROM WORK PICK UP MY CHILD AND MY HUSBAND AND I GO HOME HOME EVERY DAY SAME ROUTINE.
NOTHING STRANGE UNTIL YESTERDAY ON OUR WAY HOME WE WERE APPROXIMATELY 1/3 OF A MILE FROM OUR DRIVEWAY WHICH IS NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE IN A SPARSLEY POPULATED AREA, DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE I NOTICED A LINE OF FLASHING RED LIGHTS ALL IN A ROW TO CLOSE TO BE PLANES OR HELICOPTERS BUT AS I GOT CLOSER I STARTING YELLING TO MY HUSBAND IN THE PASSENGERS SEAT DO YOU SEE THAT? WHAT IS IT? HE SAID I CANT BELIEVE IT SPEED UP LETS FOLLOW IT SO I CONTINUED NORTH BUT THE OBJECT REMAINED STILL DIRECTLY ABOVE THE TREE LINE RIGHT BELOW THE CLOUDS ALMOST HOVERING I WOULD SAY. I STOPPED THE CAR AND WE GOT OUT THE OBJECT SEEMED CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH BUT IT WAS STILL ATOP THE TREES WHERE IT REMAINED IT WAS BIGGER THAN A HOUSE AND IT SEEMED AS IF IT WERE SPINNING BUT IT WASNT MOVING IT ALSO HAD LIGHTS ON THE BOTTOM SIDE BUT THEY WERE WHITE NOT RED AND SHINED BRIGHTLY I WAS HORRIFIED AT WHAT I HAD SAW SO I GOT BACK IN THE CAR. MY HUSBAND DECIDED WE SHOULD FOLLOW THE OBJECT SO WE DID.
THE OBJECT CONTINUED TO MOVE EASTERLY DIRECTLY ALONG SIDE OF THE INTERSTATE FOR SEVERAL MILES, I FOLLOWED AS LONG AS I COULD AT APPROXIMATELY 85 MPH BUT AS DARKNESS BEGAN TO FALL I DECIDED TO TURN AROUND AND GO HOME THE OBJECT CONTINUED TOWARDS THE EAST AND DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT. I WOULD NEVER HAD BELIEVED WHAT I SAW BUT I SAW IT AND NOW I THINK OTHER PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW. I AM JUST AN EVERY DAY JOE SO THESE THINGS REALLY ARE OUT THERE.
WHAT THEY ARE OR WHERE THEY COME FROM WHO KNOWS. I JUST THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE WITH A FEW PEOPLE WHIO MIGHT BE INTERESTED. NOW I AM PICKED ON BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS BUT I SAW WHAT I SAW AND I'LL NEVER FORGET IT.
Full Report Text:
Totally unexpected, brilliant and very possibly a slightly curved course. Approximately 2030 on 5 Nov 2003, I observed a fireball type object in the northern sky. Short duration.
The "head" was a brilliant white, and the rather short tail that was predominately blue. No sound was heard. The sky was partly cloudy that night.
The direction of flight was from NNW to NNE, crossing the N/S meridian. The two things different were a. how brilliant the head was, abd b.
the "impression" that I had of a slightly (very slightly) curved course. As I said, no sound and it was a cohesive mass, not breaking apart or shedding part of itself as it went down toward earth.
Full Report Text:
3 spheres spotted over Amory, MS while jets from Columbus AFB were training overhead. As usual I hear the roar of T-38's buzzing overhead as Columbus Airforce Base is just 40 miles south of Amory. On this day I happened to look up and I do sometimes to watch the aircraft play dogfight.
Most days you cannot see anything because of the haze but every great once and a while you can. On this day I spotted 3 spheres together. they were in a cluster.
I never saw them make any irradict moves nor did I ever see them separate. They had a metallic look to their finish. since all of the jets were about 10k I can only assume these were somewhere in the same realm.
I could not gestimate their size since I had nothing near by to reference them to.
Full Report Text:
saw something weird on the 15th this is gonna sound weird. two nights ago, i saw something in the sky. i'm from a small town in mississippi and at first thought it was the space station.
i had heard a report or something on being able to see it. i've seen the space station from my shaded backyard before and it was nothing of this shape, texture.glow.
it was weird though. and now all these things are being said about one thing or another.i'm not conspiracy theorist.
by the way and could frankly care less but for some reason i feel compelled to say something about what i saw. it wasn't what i think i saw.it was what i saw.
i often look to the sky in my wanderings between unemployment and the usual day-to-monotonous-day upon which my life is centered. and i've often searched the skies for an answer to something more great than life. though, when i saw the sun-cloud hovering i was speechless.
i wanted to say 'over-here freakin pick me up'. i couldn't. i couldn't scream a word; which is not like me usually.
so think of it what you will. today is the 17th and i would say i saw it in the southeastern sky the 15th. carthage, mississippi is the closest town.
just kindof been on my mind. they or it was like a really bright flashlight.except it had a flashlight behind it, a larger one.
it looked like the suns corona but smaller.truthfully, i was a bit taken aback by it.
Full Report Text:
BRIGHT LIGHT MOVING ACROSS SKY, SLIGHTLY ZIG ZAGGING, MET 2 OTHER FAINT LIGHTS.GONE On the night in question, a friend and I went outside to look at the stars. After a few mintues I looked to the southwest sky and it looked like a really bright satellite moving across like they normally would.
after a few seconds I noticed that it really didn't have a geo-synchronous orbit like a Satellite. For about 10 seconds it went behind the clouds, at which point I thought I had lost it but my friend pointed it out when it came out from behind the clouds. As it came out from behind the clouds, it started to drop in the sky, somewhat zig-zagging and moved toward the horizon at which point it was moving too fast and was too bright to be a satellite.
Just as it was due south fairly high above the horizon, we noticed two very faint lights moving towards the main big light at the same time. Right after they started to move together the lights suddenly disappeared, sort of like a fading effect. Didn't see anything else after that.
Full Report Text:
Biloxi couple witnesses odd lights over Gulf of Mexico My fiance and I were driving west on Beach Boulevard and had just passed the Keesler AFB entrance from the beach and we saw a string of lights hovering over the water. I said it must be an airplane, my fiance said it's got to be a helicopter. Then we passed some trees and looked over the water and the string of lights just "disappeared".
Then we saw some type of aircraft coming from Keesler headed toward the area that we saw the "UFO", like maybe it was going to investigate the same area. We noticed that the traffic on the other side of the road was slowing down like maybe they saw what we saw. We kept driving, but got close to a well-lighted souvenir shop, we did'nt see it anymore.
Full Report Text:
I was staring at a object with about 4 bright lights across the front with one red blinking light it was shaped like a saucer. The object had lights across the front and one small red blinking loight on it. It did not move thats kind of what made us think it could possibly be a UFO.
It was flat across the front and shaped like a saucer. The object was not very high in the air it was just above the tree line. ((NUFORC Note: Witness does not indicate duration of sighting; elects to remain totally anonymous.
PD)).
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2003 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 | 7 reported sightings | 43.75% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2003 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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November | 6 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 31.25% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2003 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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Thursday | 5 reported sightings | 31.25% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 4 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2003 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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11/05/03 | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
11/28/03 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
11/22/03 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
06/15/03 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
12/21/03 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2003 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 | 6 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 18.75% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2003
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 2003
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Georgetown | 1 UFO Reports | Georgetown UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Horn Lake | 1 UFO Reports | Horn Lake UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Pass Christian | 1 UFO Reports | Pass Christian UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Carthage | 1 UFO Reports | Carthage UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Shannon | 1 UFO Reports | Shannon UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Belzoni | 1 UFO Reports | Belzoni UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Pascagoula | 1 UFO Reports | Pascagoula UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Morton | 1 UFO Reports | Morton UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Amory | 1 UFO Reports | Amory UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Olive Branch | 1 UFO Reports | Olive Branch UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Hattiesburg | 1 UFO Reports | Hattiesburg UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Vancleave | 1 UFO Reports | Vancleave UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Biloxi | 1 UFO Reports | Biloxi UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Starkville | 1 UFO Reports | Starkville UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Gulfport | 1 UFO Reports | Gulfport UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Jackson | 1 UFO Reports | Jackson UFO Sightings in 2003 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.