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Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 40 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 2013 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (8 reports, 20.00% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 15.00% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 11/28/13 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 5.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (16 reports, 40.00% of total).
Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 2013
This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 2013, 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:
Orange pulsating orb over downtown While taking the trash out my husband spotted an orange round pulsating orb hovering above the homes on our block, he called me out to the street and we stared dumb founded as we watched the object move north east at a very slow steady pace. The entire event lasted over five minutes, long enough that we attempted to run inside and grab our cameras. Sadly our camera only had enough battery life to capture one photo, while everything else in the frame is still the object blurred and appears as a curved orange line, we assume this is due to how the object was pulsing, while watching with our naked eyes it appeared round and full of light.
After snapping the photo we stood in the street barefoot in our robes and watched until it disappeared. I should add, without giving too much personal information away, that my husband works at Stennis Space Center (30 minutes from our home) and has never encountered anything in his career to relate this object to. The object was silent and much lower than any planes that fly in our area.
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Mysterious Lights seen over field; Caught on Video. Approx. 2 miles off of Interstate 55 and exit 246 ("North Batesville"), numerous unidentified flying objects were seen.
Me and my Father were outside, and upon looking to the North (directly North), we noticed multiple lights over a vast field on the North side of Highway 35. We immediately got our video camera and prepared to take video. By the time we cut the camera on, and then got back outside to bein filming, the object(s) started moving.
They seem intelligent, as they began to span out as we started recording from our backyard. The objects move extremely fast and are much larger than an airplane. The Panola County Airport is down the road a small distance and we see airplanes and helicopters all the time--- This was neither.
I have no knowledge of any aircraft that can go from a dead stand-still and move a couple miles within seconds. And the G-Force would be unbearable, in my eyes. The objects also can stop on a dime and begin traveling in the opposite direction.
They are some form of intelligence. After getting a couple of video clips, the objects slowly vanished one by one. They seemed to, flash and burn off.
It was at one point four different lights visible, all of which appear (through camera and binoculars) to blink a red, white, green/blue pattern. The lights seem to move independently. In addition, at the beginning of filming, we noticed a motor vehicle driver was stopped, facing North, on a road meeting Highway 35.
I believe he/she observed the lights also, but after a few moments, they left the scene going Westbound on Highway 35 towards Interstate 55. Last year near this time, we experienced the same lights, and their was atleast 4 witnesses at that point. We were unable to capture video last year, and are and were shocked we captured the clips this year.
I'm not sure why the river and Sardis Lake seems to be a hot spot, but its obviously a lot of activity, from personal experience and from reading others reports after this event. Other notes.: There was no, I repeat NO noise from these objects.
And no traffic on the Highway, other than the one driver who came from a nearby road. I cannot explain any of this. But I know what I saw, and so does my Father.
And if you do not believe me, my video will prove, if nothing else, what we seen. But, our video nor my testimony can completely concrete what exactly was seen. It is vast possibilities, but low probabilities of anything other than, an extra-terrestrial of some sort.
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15 lights in sky in petal MS on 12/12/13 Was on my way to hattiesburg was entering red light looked up in sky seen about 15 lights really scary stuff as my mom drove ppl were pulling over watching the lights about 12 min later a plane coming flying underneath and they started to disappear as the plane was approching them ive heard nothing on the news or anything please post here so i know im not the only person to see them ppl were stopping along the road watching them.
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911 was called; I was told a policeman on duty had seen these bright objects; Columbus AFB confirmed no aircraft flying T'giving Day. There were seven bright objects in the low, NW sky; yellow/orange in color; bright as Venus which was setting. They moved quickly, making various formations, including the Big Dipper.
Then one by one, they followed each other, fading from view.
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Duration from first sphere appearing to last disappearing approx. 7 minutes On November 28 at approx. 5:48 pm in Amory, Mississippi we {myself & my wife} were preparing to make our regular trip back home where we have been taking care of our mother since late March 2011, who is a 94 year old stroke victim and lives with us in Tennessee.
We take her home as much as we can {it seems to help her condition} While I was taking out the garbage during a clean up process I noticed a very bright large white star in the west south-west sky, it was very beautiful. I stared at it for a moment and then looked further to the west and gazed at a tiny star twinkling and then further west north-west an orange star began to appear it reminded me of the moon that every now and again turns yellow orange {you know}. Peering through the trees out at the horizon the orange star was moving – “ oh well jet airliner As it drifted higher like the ember from a fire another orange star began to appear, I was certain that the Columbus Air Force Base was conducting drills.
As the two orange lights rose slowly from the horizon-I was waiting for a familiar aerial sound-wop, wop, wop, but there was no sound and then another orange light appeared in the same area of orientation and began to rise into sky. As I stood there I certainly did not want to make a complete fool out of myself while another orange light began to rise. My hopes were very anxious and high that a sonic boom or a popping sound would become proof that it was Columbus doing their thing.
Only seconds had passed from the first light to the fourth. I turned and opened the kitchen door and called out to my wife and said honey come here and look at this and she I immediately came to where I was standing and said “WOW “its beautiful! What is it?” Then another orange sphere begin to rise from the same location as all the others came from. As we peered through the trees my wife said I bet we can see them better in the front yard so we went to the front yard and the view was a little better as the orange lights were rising higher and were heading due north and then another orange sphere began to appear from the same area of orientation and then another and then another it was like a roman candle in a slow m! otion rotation pattern.
Somewhere higher than the others in a drift pattern you would expect the embers of a fire swirling in the wind. My wife said “there is no sound maybe its those balloons they put candles in and release on a wish! OK I was starting to buy into the idea and suddenly all the lights became in alignment shaped like a v or as my wife put it – like a row of geese but the alignment was moving due north and the point of the shape was pointing south. They began quickly to disappear and my wife ran inside the house to get a camera to possibly photograph them.
There were only 3 light left – 1 alone and 2 together. These images were sent to you and now there is a written recording of our memory. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Neon wavy streak of light. 2 witnesses. In Mississippi.
My 18 year old daughter and I were driving on HWY 8, headed east right at the Calhoun/Chickasaw County line. We noticed a glowing (silver-ish) ball that was going back and forth from one ball to two balls. Connected like Mickey Mouse ears.
It was just above the tree line. Hovering. After about 45 seconds, it disappeared.
Then about 20 seconds later a blinding neon light was coming straight at us. At first, it looked like headlights. But it was so bright that it lit up everything like looking through infrared glasses.
It was greenish blue waves that looked hot. Like how the highway looks on a extremely hot day- kinda wavy. This light shot straight through my car and passed by the passenger side window.
When I turned to look, everything in the background - the field - the trees were lit up. And then it was gone. It happened so fast that I didn't realize I had slammed on my brakes.
An 18 wheeler must have seen it too because he was stopped dead still on the highway too. The reason I'm posting this now is due to my daughter's nightmares. About a month ago she started having dreams about the incident.
She won't go into detail about them but she has slept with me every night since. I'm not sure why it started 5 months after we saw this, but she is terrified. This isn't normal behavior for her.
Full Report Text:
My employee and his wife witnessed two lights in the sky that lingered for most of an hour before disappearing. This was witnessed by one of my employees and his wife while my employee was working the graveyard shift last night. At approximately 0400 US central time, my employee walked outside of the plant for a security check.
He observed due east of our location a pulsating light in the sky that at first appeared to be a star or planet. From his perspective it was about the same size as a bright star or planet like Venus, but again, the light was pulsating from relatively dim to bright, back to dim then back to bright, etc. The apparent altitude was about two fingers' width above the horizon.
After he had been watching it for about 20 minutes off and on (he was in and out of the plant checking operations) his wife arrived to bring him some food while on her way to work. This was at about 0430. They were both watching it when she spotted a second almost identical pulsating light that he hadn't previously seen move from the north side of the original object to its south side.
After the second object moved to the south side of the first object, the first object started to move higher into the sky, as though gaining altitude without moving in any other direction, forward, backward, or sideways. He started thinking that the lights may have been helicopters, but he had the further impression that if they had been helos they were close enough that he could've heard their engine or rotor noise. After the first object increased its altitude about two to three times what it had been previously, it became stationary.
The one that had moved south of it was stationary the whole time the first object was moving. After the first object once again became stationary for a few minutes, the second object to the south slowly descended until it was no longer visible above the horizon. It was not seen again.
Several minutes after the second object disappeared below the horizon, the first object started moving slowly to the south, gradually gaining speed until reaching an apparent speed comparable to what is observed of a jet aircraft at high altitude. Within 30-45 seconds the object was no longer visible, having passed the southern horizon. Total time of observance was about 45 minutes to one hour.
During the entire time there was no discernible sound coming from either object. Background noise from the plant was minimal. ((NUFORC Note: We have recommended that the witnesses look again, and determine whether the objects they witnessed might have been "twinkling" stars, possibly the star, Sirius.
PD)).
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4 fast crafts going different directions coming and going to a floating orb Floating Giant orb moving very quickly getting brighter and getting dimmer. 4 crafts come this orb going extremely fast at a variation of heights and disappeared out of sight. amazing yet frightening ((NUFORC Note: The party who submitted the report elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to contact the witness.
PD)).
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Star like object in mid air shining bright then dim then very bright for about an hour then just disappeared! ((NUFORC Note: The party who submitted the report elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to contact the witness. PD)).
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Bright White light I was standing out on my patio I noticed what I thought was a satellite coming through, only it stopped next to a comet/star the other one took off at full speed in the opposite direction. The main one stayed for about 3 more minutes then it took off as well then all the sudden you see a red light like a comet falling to earth. Now with that being said On Oct 29th at this same time, I seen this same type of thing happen this object was flying lower no noise no identifiable marks no flashing lights just really bright lights like a plane it passed over the tree's in the backyard I followed to the other side of the tree's to watch it I seen a red light shoot out of it and the object then disappeared only to reappear once again and vanish altogether Clear nights no air traffic in sight.
((NUFORC Note: The party who submitted the report elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to contact the witness. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Bluish green object, the size of a dime held at arms length traversing approximately a 10 degree path toward the southwest horizon I witnessed a single object descend behind the distant tree-line moving from approximately 285 degrees to approximately 275 degrees before being lost behind trees. The object was the size of a dime held at arms length and was of a mottled bluish-green color. I observed the object for just a few seconds.
I was moving from the northeast moving toward the southwest and was nothing like the hundreds of shooting stars and satellites I have seen over the years. The differences were primarily the size and color of the object.
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While camping out on the 13th of oct anround 9:00 to 11:00 pm saw a light travling North to South. the object stayed in view for a period of maybe 1.5 min to 2.
5 min. I work as an aircraft mechanic. The light was pulsing over a 2 second intervles.
The light wasnt a flash, it was a slow rise to bright and slow discharge to off, I looked for navigation (red/green) lights and a beacon and or strobes, none were visible. there were aircraft flying above the altitude of the object and also below this object. I live near an airport and could see other flight paths.
I have no idea what this object was, because I could not see a silhouette of the object, due to the dark background of the sky.
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Very bright fast moving orb(s) I walked outside to smoke and looked up at the sky thinking how clear and bright all the stars looked the dog next door was braking I figured he saw a deer or something. Something caught the corner of my eye and I looked I saw a goldish yellow orb rise above the tree line I was facing southwest and it move impossibly fast to the east back down behind the tree line then to the north I saw another or same one shoot up and out of sight. It all happened in line a second or two kinda hard to explain but it was very bright but not shining if that makes any sense.
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White rotating cylinder shaped object flies over house I hesitated to report this as I just sent in a report last night and don't want to be seen as a nut case but as an avid sky-watcher I felt that I needed to report what I saw as this is the only way data can be compared. The sky is partly cloudy with a lot of brilliant blue in between. I stepped out to get a smoke, and coming out of the west was a white cylinder shaped object rotating or spinning as it passed headed due east.
As in other sightings like these, the object seemed to be in two sections, the forward section being smaller than the back one. The object had a narrow black band in the middle and wasn't that high up. Maybe 6 or 7 hundred feet.
There was no sound and no contrail. The object clearly had no wings or tail as it was easily seen. The object also moved in a way that planes just don't.
It was very smooth flying and seemed to be on an invisible line being pulled along. I've talked with three people that have seen the same objects and have encouraged them to make reports. These cylinder shaped objects are becoming more prevalent and I'm wondering if they could be some sort of drone.
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Three odd moving lights blinking at each other I stepped outside this evening to check the weather as we are looking for storms and noticed a blinking white light moving from north to south. I figured it was just a small plane but it was moving very, very slowly and then it seemed to just stop and another light above and to the left of it appeared and blinked twice and moved slowly above and behind it. When the first object got about midway across my viewing area another object appeared right above it and blinked twice also.
These accompanying lights then blinked several times and the first light blinked back. Then they all just stopped and then headed back north very slowly and seemed to hover and then shot up at an angle in the direction they were headed and vanished. There was no sound and the objects did not have colored lights like a plane.
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Orange orbs in ms Was headed home going down 306 and spotted 15 to 20 orange orbs coming over the tree tops headed south west. I was on my bike and the person in front of me was driving really slow, they had to have seen them too. I had to pull over and try to get a video of them.
By the time I got my phone out most if them had already went over the trees. I caught four of them with my iPhone. I started looking into the orange orb phenomena and come to find out these orbs are being seen every where.
There are great videos of them on YouTube people have caught.
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Dark Triangle hovering north of interstate highway At about 0830 PM, I was driving east on Interstate 10 between Biloxi, Ms. and Pascagoula, Ms. I noticed an unusual row of lights ahead, low on the sky, and north of the interstate highway.
Since I am a helicopter pilot, I found these lights peculiar for any operating aircraft to exhibit. These lights did not move and I quickly gained on them. Arriving abeam, I clearly observed a dark shaped triangle, darker than the night sky.
The object was stationary, approximately 400 Feet of altitude, and less than a mile north of the highway. Due to traffic congestion, my attention was divided and therefore I was unable to fully scrutinize this object. Perplexed about what I had just seen, I drove on and subsequently lost sight of it.
Hindsight, I wish I had found a place to pull over for further observation.
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"Star-like" light keeps appearing a disappearing at sunset. Me and my girlfriend keep seeing lights in the sky around the same time of day. Her cousin was with us one time before and saw the lights too, so he believes us now.
Nobody I tell will believe me. They all think I'm seeing things, but how could we all be "thinking" we see the same thing? Our latest sighting of the light was September 1, 2013 at 7:19 (19:19). The sunset on that day was said to occur at 7:27, so the sun was still up pretty good.
The sky was still very well lit and blue, so no stars were out yet. If any stars were out, they would've been in the eastern sky since the sun was setting in the west. We were driving into Grenada on highway 8 west when I was looking at the sunset and I noticed what appeared to be a star up above the sunset in the middle of the bright blue sky.
This is exactly how it looked the first time I saw it, so I instantly knew what it was. I quickly tell my girlfriend to record a video with her phone and point out to her where it is. As I'm pointing, the light does what it has done every other time we've seen it.
The best way I can explain what happens is imagine a normal looking star, just in the middle if the day. As we are looking at the light, it fades out of sight. Then, about 10 seconds later, it comes back into view! About 30 seconds after that, it fades out again and this time it stayed gone.
We kept looking and didn't see it again until about 5 minutes later when we were in Grenada still looking for it. We have seen this "light" about 3 different times now and nobody will believe us. After we see it every time, I feel like I need to tell somebody about it.
I don't care how crazy people think we are or if people think we are making it up, I know what I saw, I know other people with me have seen it, and there is something going on above Grenada. Now, to denounce any skeptical ideas anyone may have. I promise I've heard plenty.
It wasn't a flashing light from a cellphone tower or any other tower. This light wasn't "hovering" above the ground. It was in the sky.
I'm talking miles in the sky. Higher than a plane. If you can find a tower 5 miles high, show me.
It wasn't a plane light flashing. It was still daylight outside so I wouldn't have seen the lights that easily. I have considered it being the sunlight reflecting off a plane or jet, but it's still just way too high for any of our aircraft.
It looks exactly like a star, it just fades in and out randomly. Not on a set amount of time or anything. It could be visible for 5 minutes and then fade out or it could be there for 10 seconds and then fade out.
It's random. I just think its very strange to keep seeing this thing and nobody else notices. I want to know what it is.
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Looked Like A Low Star then dotted off over tree line ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Two white cylinder shaped objects with black bands in middle fly over Bude, Ms. I was on my porch a few minutes ago looking at the moon and saw a bright white cylinder shaped craft with a black band fly over the direction of the moon which is south right now. It seemed to be flying as if pulled on a string.
As I was thinking about getting my camera another identical object passed over as though it was on the same line as the first. Both objects seemed to appear suddenly, had no contrail, no wings, no sound and were headed East. In fact I've seen several jet contrails today and these two objects had none.
This is the third time I've seen these type of objects in our area. Last year in Meadville, Ms, and several yrs ago in a rural area in a National Forest area.
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2013 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 | 8 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Circle | 7 reported sightings | 17.50% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2013 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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October | 6 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
November | 6 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
August | 5 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
July | 5 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2013 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 | 10 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 7 reported sightings | 17.50% of all reports |
Tuesday | 6 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
Monday | 6 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2013 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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11/28/13 | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
08/15/13 | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
08/24/13 | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
07/30/13 | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
12/26/13 | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2013 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 | 16 reported sightings | 40.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 13 reported sightings | 32.50% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 5 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2013
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 2013
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.