Last updated on May 1, 2024

Mississippi UFO Sightings in 2006

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Mississippi during 2006.

How many Mississippi UFO sightings were there in 2006?

  • There were 18 officially reported UFO sightings in Mississippi in 2006.
  • In 2006, Mississippi ranked #40 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, Mississippi ranks #48 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 2006, with an average of 0.63 reports per 100,000 residents.

Mississippi Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 2006

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Dlberville, MS 1 UFO Reports
2 Walls, MS 1 UFO Reports
3 Vancleave, MS 1 UFO Reports
4 Starkville, MS 1 UFO Reports
5 Water Valley, MS 1 UFO Reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 18 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 2006 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 2006

This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 2006, 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).

Walls, MS

Full Report Text:

Dark amber colored object flying at a high rate of speed My wife and I were down in the Mississippi delta watching the meteor shower that occured on December 13, 2006. At approx. 9:20 p.

m., my wife saw what she thought to be a meteor coming out of the north (towards Memphis). I turned around and we watched a dark amber colored object fly about 4 miles in 15-20 seconds.

The object was about 1,000 ft. above the ground and approximately .5 to 1 mile west of us.

You could make out that there was a craft there, but we were too far to see any kind of shape. The object never made a sound and got about 3 miles south of us, appeared to make a left turn and instantly dissapeared. We didn't see a streak of light as it left, it was like the lights were just turned off.

We were sitting near the intersection of Nail Road and U.S. 61.

I'm the biggest UFO skeptic out there, but I know what we saw. Hopefully someone else out there saw something also.

12/13/06 9:20 PM

UFO Shape: unknown

Lasted: 15-20 seconds

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Lucedale, MS

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Large trianglar object with blue lights on the underside hoovering over the northwest side of Lucedale, MS at 20:45 p.m. on 12/06/06.

It was a trianglar type object with lights that slowly moving over the tree line in a floatiing manner. As it moved to the clearing were we were standing we saw many blue lights on the underside of this object. It was traveling in a Southwesterly direction.

We continued watching until it gradually moved out of sight. This object made the sound of a muffled moter that could be heard when it was directly overhead. The size was compariable to a large aircraft.

12/06/06 8:45 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 3-5mins

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Olive Branch, MS

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An oddly shaped, black craft with no lights flying at very low altitude was observed at daybreak. At 07:05 10/19/06 I was alone in my car traveling North at the 7700 block on Hacks Cross Road in Olive Branch, MS. There was heavy rush hour traffic and it was just beginning to get daylight.

Out my drivers side window at approximately 10 o'clock and about 30 degrees up I saw an oddly shaped black craft traveling directly Southeast. The instant I spotted it, I leaned down and watched as it traveled in a straight line from NW to SE directly over my roof. It was in my sight for 2, maybe 3 seconds at the most.

The reason it caught my eye was due to its low altitude and odd shape. There was a low ceiling and patchy dense fog in the immediate area. Judging from the apparent altitude of 100-150 feet, the craft was clearly visable and appeared to have a very flattened fuselage 15-20 feet in length, 6-8 feet across with short canards 2-3 feet long approximately 5 feet from the aft end.

It was traveling in the range of 125 to 150 knots would be my best guess. I saw no lights on the craft in the brief time it was in my sight. There were no visible means of propulsion and my first impression was that it resembled a shortened cruise missle.

I tried to see it as it passed farther to the SE but my view was blocked. I did have the radio on, but didn't hear any loud noise I would expect from an aircraft at that altitude. I continued to look in the general SE direction to see if there were any sudden flashes of light but did not observe any.

My location was approximately 1/4 mile West of the Olive Branch airport and 8 miles SE from the Memphis International Airport. The craft was traveling at such a low altitude it was very unlikely that it could have been on approach to OLV as the runway is north & south. I am a Mechanical Engineer and have some knowledge of aircraft.

10/19/06 7:05 AM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 2 secs.

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Corinth, MS

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Bright orb with odd flight pattren appears, slows down, changes color, and dissolves in the night sky. Earlier in the evening, I got a phone call from my parents saying that there was something "weird" in the sky outside their house. I grabbed by digital SLR and drove to their house.

The object appeared to be a sattelite and eventually disappeared behind some trees. I couldnt capture the object with my camera. We stayed outside for a while (my mom, dad and myself) talking and observing the sky.

Suddenly, a white light with an orb shape came up from behind the trees. It wasnt flying straight like an airplane, it was more sporatic (imagine a gnat flying through the air). It made a sharp turn to the right, and during the turn, the light faded from white to red.

I tried to take a picture, but I couldnt get the camera to focus properly. The object seemed to slow down a bit. I lowered my lens, and then the object faded back to white.

Then the object seemed to just dissolve in the sky. Afterwards, there was a lot of aircraft activity in the sky. This included a very low flying jet and a low flying single engine plane.

(At least that is my observation) It was a very strange experence.

10/17/06 8:30 PM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: about 1 minute

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Water Valley, MS

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Fireball observed in N. Mississippi A fireball was seen at this time low on the horizon (approx 30 degrees) to the SW of the city. The event lasted for approx 6 seconds and was not traveling at a high rate of speed.

10/04/06 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: fireball

Lasted: 6 secpnds

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Vancleave, MS

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very colorful flashing object in the night sky 11:00 pm to 12:00 am, dark sky no moon. red, yellow, blue, green, and white rapidly flahing lights. moved in all different directions, sometimes in rolling on circular pattern.

it would blink almost completely out and then come back on very bright.not a star, too colorful, stars can't move like this and i looked at both with binoculars that night. not a plane or a helicoptor as the movement was impossible.

((NUFORC Note: We assume that the sighting may have been that of a "twinkling star." PD)) ((NUFORC Note: We assume the date of the sighting was Saturday night, September 23. We have changed the indicated date above.

PD)).

09/23/06 11:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 1 hour

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Dlberville, MS

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it was huge light we thought it was a plane or something so we just keep on parting then it got bigger or closer it didn't look like a plane it was 3 lights and they were very bright my friend took several pictures some people ran away and like 30 mins. later it had gone away like it was nothing.

08/24/06 2:27 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted:

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Arlington, MS

Full Report Text:

Orange colored orb with lightning bolts from ground up. Orange sphere dropped to above tree line and hovered. Then proceeded North across a field generating a huge electromagnetic field (lightning bolts coming from the ground up to the object).

About 10 minutes later two fighter jets flying side by side formation came within a mile of it and it then shot up at a 45 degree angle and was gone in just a second or two. Jets kept flying at same altitude heading north. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

08/12/06 2:00 AM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: 15 minutes

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Eupora, MS

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Silent near invisiable arrow, reflecting stars, moved across thes sky at night. The object was arrow shaped, the width shape of a boomerange and the size of a plane. It was black and reflecting the stars, like it was cloaked.

It flew at the average altitude of a cropdusting plane when it dusts a field. It was silent. No noise at all.

It moved across the sky heading north to south in the duration of 10 seconds.

06/20/06 11:30 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 10 seconds

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Soso, MS

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A fire blue circular type object. Me and my family were fishing on a pier. There were two piers we were on the right.

It was late at about 2 to 3 am we could see in the trees in the distance a large circular object. It came out of the trees it rose straight up and paused a second then slowly moved over us. It looked fire like it could not of been a commit or shooting star because it moved so slow.

It was like a blue fire type object with some white and green in it. Which was moving so slow we just watched. It passed by above us and it just kept moving behind us and the pier a few moments later a couple ran out of woods asking us if we saw it.

We said yes then they left short after. They were frightened but we stayed and kept fishing but it was so strange ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

05/20/06 2:00 AM

UFO Shape: fireball

Lasted:

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Starkville, MS

Full Report Text:

Silent white object spotted, then moved 2 miles, flashed, moved again, flashed, moved again, flashed 3 times, then dissapeared I am submitting this report for an individual who lives right next door to me. We are both of sound mind and body, and the nature of this letter is to do nothing more than report an event that occurred, based on this persons account on Wednesday March 29th .After asking this individual if he was going to report it, he said hell no.

Perplexed and astounded by testimony he gave, I am going behind his back to report this event. Simply because he stated “this was the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life”. He was very serious, specific and said this was not any sort of aircraft, based on how it behaved.

At approximately 8:55 PM on Wednesday March 29th in rural Starkville Mississippi, the individual was leaning against the bed of his truck, facing North East having a cigarette looking towards the sky casually. It was pitch black, stars illuminated the clear sky, the crescent moon behind him. In the sky at about 1000 feet he noticed a peculiar white light in the sky just sitting there about a mile and a ½ from him, just over to the right.

In a matter of one second the object moved about 2 miles South West, which was closer, and to the left of where he first saw it. It stopped and did one flash (white light), then immediately went North about a ½ mile in a split second , stopped and flashed again just once. Then the object darted East South East about another mile and ½ where it was just above the tree line as he was looking at it, then it flashed 3 times, same white light.

The final spot it stopped but further right from where he first spotted it, but closer to him. Then in an instant it simply just disappeared. He said it was completely silent, and the light was like a pure white light bulb when it flashed.

03/29/06 8:55 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 12 seconds

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Carriere, MS

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While looking at stars, noticed light as bright as a star moving across sky, from west to east, moving quicker than a plane, no blinking ligts,no noise, just white light. Skys are clear, no clouds, object just faded quickly and was gone. Out here in the country, see lots of planes, this was not a plane! ((NUFORC Note: Possible satellite?? One of four reports from same source.

PD)).

03/03/06 7:15 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 1min

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Macon, MS

Full Report Text:

Orb shaped light seen , lights moved and changed from light to dark as they seemed to move around in a circle. Was leaving the city of Macon Ms using Hwy 45 going North. I noticed a light to my left, turning I saw what I thought at first was a crecent moon.

It was sitting very low at a distance over the tree tops. During the 10 mile ride home to the next town of Brooksville Ms I kept noticing what I thought was the moon then I mentioned it to my husband. We both watched as lights seemed to move rotating around it then it began to glow very bright then like a light being turned off it went black only to light up again, much like a light show.

This went on until we reached Brooksville and got off the road. We have traveled this road many times over the years at night but never have seen anything like this before. We went down the same road tonight and it was dark as usual.

We know what we saw was like nothing we ever saw before but have no idea what it could have been if not a UFO.

03/01/06 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: about 10 minutes

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Brandon, MS

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the most interresting thing we ever saw shear power over gravity and reason . well i am a pilot and did not believe in this kind of stuff but what me and my wife saw was not of this world we were washing clothes at a mat and we saw a ball of light .well she saw it first and i saw it last a man was standing aginst a wall and was spanish he was very upset.

he went inside.it was very fast and hid behind a cloud at very low alt. until a number of civil air patrol started flying around " very wierd.

i know i was civil air when i was a kid. They must have picked it up on radar. there was three dots of light they got real bright and shot out of sight.

have never seen anything like this.a friend told me i should post this.i am really at a lose of words.

no sound!.

02/26/06 5:30 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 1 hour

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Collinsville, MS

Full Report Text:

Plane and fireball signaling each other? First let me say I live way out in the country on a dirt road with only a few scattered residences. Anyway, I was out feeding my dog in the backyard and when I finished I looked up to observe the stars which were beautiful and clear. I noticed across the road to the west on the horizon and through the trees a very bright, white light was shining through.

There is nothing there for miles as it is a huge tree farm and very rural. I thought " I bet somebody is night hunting." I also heard, and saw, a plane going overhead coming from the east.

I could clearly hear it. It was about 20000 feet up. Oddly, it had landing lights on.

It blinked its lights 3 times! Just a few seconds later a huge fireball with a long burning tail came from the northwest. I thought its going to crash to the earth! But it burned out just seconds before impact. Strangely the light on the horizon blinked out and the plane shut all its lights off and I could hear it heading off to the west.

All this occured in seconds of each other and may have a mundane explanation, although it appeared to be comminication of some sort to me. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

02/20/06 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 1 minute

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Meadville, MS

Full Report Text:

2 large cylinder shaped objects seen in clear daylight At 4:00 pm Feb 7th, my husband and i were putting up a television antenna. I was holding the ladder as he was on the roof. The skies were perfectly clear and you could easily see the moon to the east.

I looked up and saw a large silver cylinder shaped object coming from the North-east. It looked like it was larger in the back with front being more narrow. It made no noise and glided rightover our heads.

I am not sure of the altitude. I yelled to my husband to look up but he was in a precarious position and failed to see the object. I watched it as it headed south and it just vanished out of sight.

Then another object just like it came from the same direction and I told my husband to hurry, hurry and look up. He saw this object as it passed over but this one headed in a easterly direction and it too just disappeared from view. I recently joined the UFO casebook forum and reported thSince you are up and runnig I also have some drawings to send to you to go along with a report I sent about 2 months ago.

02/07/06 4:00 PM

UFO Shape: cylinder

Lasted: 1 minute

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Mendenhall, MS

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I saw about 30 winged lights and together made a diamond shape flying low in the sky and disappeared in seconds. My mother and I were driving down the highway and about 1 mile from our turn-off we saw something in the sky.It was about 30-40 objects with what appeared to to be lights with wings and when put together it made a huge diamond shape.

It was high in the sky and within a minute it was about tree-top level and then within a couple of seconds it disappeared.About 1 minute after it disappeared we saw a dark plane flying at tree-top level. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

01/14/06 10:10 AM

UFO Shape: diamond

Lasted: 3 minutes

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, MS

Full Report Text:

Cirlcular disk seen flying along I-20 in Mississippi on January 5, 2006. I don't know exactly where I was because I was finishing a 9 hour drive back form Chattanooga, TN. However, I know it happened in the last 4 hours of the trip because it was just dark.

Therefore, I am pretty sure the siting occurred in Mississippi, though it could possibly have been in eastern Louisiana. I was driving along I20 when I looked up and saw a circular disk flying just over the interstate pretty low. It had lights around the bottom of the disk.

It was flying the opposite direction that I was driving which is why I only saw it for a moment and at 70 mph I couldn't turn around. However, the image was pretty clear for that brief moment, definately not just the blur of streetlights after a long road trip as suspected by some people I've told.

01/05/06 12:00 AM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 2 seconds

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Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2006 By Shape

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

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Light 4 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
Sphere 3 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Other 3 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Fireball 2 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
Diamond 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Unknown 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Circle 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Cylinder 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Triangle 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Disk 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2006 By Month

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

Month Sightings % Of Total
October 3 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
February 3 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
March 3 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
August 2 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
December 2 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
January 2 reported sightings 11.11% of all reports
June 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
September 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
May 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2006 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
Wednesday 5 reported sightings 27.78% of all reports
Saturday 4 reported sightings 22.22% of all reports
Tuesday 3 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Thursday 3 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Sunday 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Friday 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Monday 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2006 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
02/20/06 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
01/14/06 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
02/26/06 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
08/24/06 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
12/06/06 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports

Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2006 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 9 reported sightings 50.00% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 3 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 3 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Morning 08:00 - 11:59 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports
Early morning 04:00 - 07:59 1 reported sightings 5.56% of all reports

All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2006

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 2006

City Number of Reports View Reports
Dlberville 1 UFO Reports Dlberville UFO Sightings in 2006
Walls 1 UFO Reports Walls UFO Sightings in 2006
Vancleave 1 UFO Reports Vancleave UFO Sightings in 2006
Starkville 1 UFO Reports Starkville UFO Sightings in 2006
Water Valley 1 UFO Reports Water Valley UFO Sightings in 2006
Corinth 1 UFO Reports Corinth UFO Sightings in 2006
Olive Branch 1 UFO Reports Olive Branch UFO Sightings in 2006
Eupora 1 UFO Reports Eupora UFO Sightings in 2006
Meadville 1 UFO Reports Meadville UFO Sightings in 2006
Collinsville 1 UFO Reports Collinsville UFO Sightings in 2006
Brandon 1 UFO Reports Brandon UFO Sightings in 2006
Lucedale 1 UFO Reports Lucedale UFO Sightings in 2006
Macon 1 UFO Reports Macon UFO Sightings in 2006
Carriere 1 UFO Reports Carriere UFO Sightings in 2006
Soso 1 UFO Reports Soso UFO Sightings in 2006
Mendenhall 1 UFO Reports Mendenhall UFO Sightings in 2006
Arlington 1 UFO Reports Arlington UFO Sightings in 2006

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