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Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 41 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 2015 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "fireball" (8 reports, 19.51% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 17.07% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 21.95% of total).
- 12/17/15 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 7.32% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (19 reports, 46.34% of total).
Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 2015
This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 2015, 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).
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Metallic oval-shaped UFO vibrating above house with light emitting from bottom two blocks off the Gulf Coast I had just left my friend's house and was in an elated mood. It was around 0230 in the morning. I know this, because I pulled over and drew two pictures on my phone that are time-stamped immediately following my experience.
I was heading northbound about to make a right turn that would have me parallel to railroad tracks approximately two blocks from the beach on the Gulf Coast. About 20-30 yards before making my right turn, I suddenly noticed a very bright light above my car. I remember thinking to myself, "Where is this light coming from?" It appeared very suddenly and was extremely bright, almost blinding.
This blinding light caught my immediate attention, because I drove past this area almost every other night to see my best friend and this light was never there before. Just as soon as I noticed the light, it was gone. I take a right at a stop sign (now going northeast) and am now parallel with the aforementioned railroad tracks.
I went approximately 1.6 miles when I suddenly noticed what appeared to be a metallic saucer-like flying object in the sky appear before my eyes. It was about 50 yards northwest of me, on the other side of the tracks, hovering above a big brown house.
I know exactly which house it was to this day which is why I can tell you exactly how far I drove. There was light emitting from the bottom of the UFO going down in a V shape, like a tornado, over the house with the same hue of "true" white light that was above my car not long before. I will now describe the UFO to you.
It was disk-shaped but fairly thick/tall/great in height. Part of me wants to tell you to think of an oval as opposed to being flatter, like a disk. There were lights going horizontally across the sides that repeated this pattern: )•( )•( )•( )•( with the lights being only the center dots (white light) and the parentheses just being metallic accents in the structure itself.
What I remember extremely vividly is that while this object was stationary in mid-air above this two-story house, I could tell it was vibrating in place very strongly. I watched this object hover over the house for what seemed like a minute, in reality probably only 10-20 seconds, while driving very slowly. I was fixated on it.
I could not see anything inside the white light emitting from the bottom. Then the UFO was just gone. It didn't fly away quickly.
It didn't dart back into the sky above. It didn't slowly disappear from sight as it got farther away or anything. It was just gone before my eyes.
I couldn't believe what I had just seen, so I pulled over immediately to document it while it was fresh in my mind. I opened up Snapchat because was the first thing I thought of to draw with since I had no pen and paper with me; I drew two pictures. One drawing is of my view, showing my car in relation to the UFO and the tracks, and the other drawing is of the UFO itself with all the detail I could place at the time.
I will be emailing you those two drawings plus a Google Maps image of where I was facing. I'm telling this now because I've been too afraid to previously. I've heard about the strange deaths/ disappearances of people who talk about these kinds of first-hand experiences so I was very deterred from telling anyone what I witnessed, even close friends.
I ask that if you choose to contact me, which I'm very open to, please either inform me beforehand or leave a voicemail for me to call you back, because I have a tendency to not pick up for numbers I don't know. Thank you for your time.
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Craft seen with lights on top and bottom. December 18, 2015 Sir: About 17:35 CST, in the Northeastern quadrant of Neshoba county, Mississippi, I witnessed a craft of unknown size for about 2 minutes. This was a little after sundown but still there was enough light for me to see my dog about 75 yards away.
I couldn't tell the shape because of the bright lights that were situated on the top and the bottom of the craft. I watched it hover for the period of time stated and then entered my home to call for someone else to observe. When I again exited my home the object was gone.
The appearance of the object, as far as I could see, was as though there was a straight line with three lights on top and three lights on bottom. As I said, the lights were very bright and prevented me seeing any detail other than what has been stated. From my position, I was looking approximately at a 30 degree angle and the object was about ¾ of a mile away.
After it was no longer in my view, about 7 to 10 minutes later, a jet came from the north, heading in a southern direction. To our NNE, about 50 miles away is Columbus Air Force Base. To our SSE is the Meridian Naval Air Station, about the same distance.
I hope this helps. I have an MBA and a B.S.
Degree in Secondary Education. I was stationed at Redstone Arsenal, in Huntsville, Al as a meteorologist. I used to own a Mercedes dealership.
I tell you these things to let you know that most people consider me sane. Not that it should matter, I'm 66 years old.
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Two white lights together in western sky north Ms, 12/17/15 I was sitting in the hot tub on our back porch and saw what i thought, was an airplane in the western sky, but it wasn't moving it was fading in and out and two bright lights were dimming and getting brighter. At one point they were facing in my direction and i thought the object was coming my way. I called my sister in law outside to take a look with me.
She confirmed my suspicion that it was not a plane or a star. It was too close to us to be a star, and a star wouldn't have two bright lights facing us. It faded out again towards the west, like going straight backwards almost, until it was completely out of sight.
It then came back into view and stayed for maybe another ten minutes and the lights once again became really bright,almost like they were coming to us and fading in and out. The lights were white, I did not see colors, or was too far away to see any colors. I never did come back so i went inside.
This was all in a pitch black sky, we are out in the country with only one street light. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Mr Davenport, We ourselves asked the same question. The airport in the area is not to the west.
I never saw a plane this low.two lights bigger than car headlamps facing us but 50-60 yards up. Maybe a little more.
The way the lights faded straight backwards Then came forward again.there are no bases in this part of Mississippi. Over towards the west are fields , cotton crops.
It's the delta. I really don't think it is media worthy. It is what it is.
Thanks anyway. ((END ADDENDUM)).
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TWO DISC SHAPED UFO'S CHANGING FROM RED TO GREEN IN MADISON, MS. Last night Thursday, December 17th, 2015, (7:00 PM). I ran into Walgreen's in Madison, MS, leaving my father in the car, when I returned I apologized for taking so long (10 min.
), his reply was that’s ok, I have been watching the weirdest things in the sky, he said look over there and where he pointed there were two disc shaped objects with lights changing from red to green. They looked like they were hovering over Home Depot, it put chills all over me! We sat there a few more minutes (7:15 PM) and decided to leave and go out of the city where there would be no light pollution to watch them. We drove about a mile and lost them, after getting to an area that was dark and a clear shot of the sky we parked and looked for another 5 or so minutes without seeing anything, I then left heading west after a couple of miles I turned back east and drove to a top of a hill where we saw them again (7:35 PM), they were much further away to the west and not as close together but were stationary and changing from red, green to white.
There were several planes in the sky so you could defiantly tell they were not planes. After another 5 or so minute’s they shot off to the West. I decided to report this sighting after my father called me to tell me someone from the Madison Airport reported seeing several UFO’s last night.
This is not my first time seeing this type of thing, I grew up about 15 miles west of Madison, MS, and in the time I lived in Flora, MS (21 yrs.) I saw more than I can count Unidentified Flying Objects mostly in the Big Black River bottom west of town. There have been several national stories done on all of the UFO sightings in that area.
This is the first time in 28-30 years I have seen any, but knowing from many years ago you could see a lot of them for a few months and then not see any for months or longer. I believe if you will watch you will continue to see them for a while. I will be watching for more sightings in the weeks to come with a good camera in hand.
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Red, spherical lights moving slowly in the sky. The lead mechanic for ((deleted)) in Madison, MS, came inside the FBO and requested that all the employees on staff step outside to witness the objects. We initially saw five, red, spherical objects in the western sky traveling southbound at a rapid but steady pace.
(The objects were approximately two hand widths vertical distance from ground level). The red light on the objects was not blinking. All of the objects began to disappear (their red lights faded slowly, as if burning out) once they all reached the same point in the sky.
A sixth and final object emerged, appearing to lag behind the initial objects but heading in the same direction and traveling at the same approximate speed. It, too, disappeared once it reached the same point in the sky. The entire event lasted between four and seven minutes.
The sighting was witnessed at an airport by personnel who have had numerous years in and around aircraft. This was not typical aircraft behavior.
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I saw what appeared to be a blue orb or disc shaped UFO streak across the sky, at around 2 am in the morning. I saw what appeared to be a Blue orb or disc shaped UFO Streak across the sky at around 2 am in the morning. I was outside smoking a cigarette when this happened.
This did not appear to be a Meteor and it was in low orbit. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD)).
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Sphere with Red and Green lights hovering over Ross Barnett Reservoir in Madison, MS. ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides a minimum of information, so we can only guess at what he might have witnessed. However, We wonder whether he might have been observing a so-called "twinkling" star, and possibly the star, Sirius.
We don't know what time Sirius might have risen above the southeast horizon, in the area where the sighting occurred. PD)).
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Red orange in the sky I was talking to a worker around 8:15 pm. And my eyes observe some bright light red and orange color moving so fast from south to north east. The lights direction move like a rainbow, like an arc, loosing in the sky, as soon I mention to my parnert what I was seeing, he get out to see it too, but the ligths were gone.
It was not a plane and it was not an helicopter. Something is out here. This is my first experience with something unknow.
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Faint white glow, hung in the air over Highway 9 just past Endville Road. 2-3 seconds after observation, it moved to the west fairly quickly, the glow increased slightly, and it vanished.
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From the window of my second floor apartment my daughter (12) began shouting for me to look at these lights in the sky. She thought it was a meteor shower of some kind. I ran over and saw these orange lights floating across the sky.
The lights appeared to be orange balls, they almost looked like candlelight, like Floating lanterns of some kind. I'm not sure that is possible because we have almost no breeze at all. I had her run and get my cellphone as I watched from outside on my porch.
I began recording the lights with my iPhone 6s. I recorded for 1 minute and 5 seconds until the last light vanished in the distance. There was no noise from the lights at all.
They did not appear to move like any aircraft I have ever seen. I'm a 32 year old female and this is this is a first for me!.
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Formation of red lights flying over Ellisville Mississippi Red lights flying in a loose formation from west and then turning north. There were no blinking lights and no sound. They seemed to be flying low and very slow.
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I was leaving my house after 4am to pick up my husband from work when I noticed a bright light; much brighter than a star hovering in the sky. It appeared to be pulsing slightly and the light wavered between white and yellow. After I returned home with my husband about 30 mins later, the light was still in the sky but had changed position and was further south.
We both got out our phones and pulled up Skyview to see if we could figure out what it was. The position was close to the position of the constellation Leo but was not a planet either. Even though I could clearly see the light through my viewfinder, the app did not recognize the object.
When I went back out later after 5am, it was gone. The same light appeared the next night with the same result of Skyview not being able to determine the object. The times we saw it were between 3 am and 4 am.
Last night the object did not appear, however, earlier in the evening, my daughter claims to have seen somethi! ng similar hovering in the area of Back bay of Biloxi. We had not told her of our sighting and she had described a similar large glowing object that was much larger than a star. ((NUFORC Note: Venus.
PD)).
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Extremely bright brilliant white oval hoovering in the eastern sky outside of Lumberton, MS near Carnes area. Our dogs were extremely restless and barking a lot. Our inside dog was also very agitated and started whining to go outside (the first time in the 5 months we have had him).
I went out to walk him and I noticed a very bright light in the sky moving quickly around a small area to the east of our home. We live in the country and so it was particularly noticeable. I yelled at my husband to come outside, NOW.
He did and said I was crazy that was the North star. I assured him it was not. It was MUCH brighter and in the East.
He said to go get my phone and record it but it was dead so I plugged it in to charge. I went back and looked at it a couple of times and it remained in that area. He said I crazy and to come to bed.
Not long after that the dogs seemed to quieten down. Tonight, my husband went back outside and called me out there. No object was in the sky tonight and he started freaking out asking me why I didn't record it… ((NUFORC Note: Venus? PD)).
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We were driving back from my sisters home we are all night owls so our visits are at night. We came up on a hill and this huge bright as the sun orange with a haze around it was setting over trees. It was as if someone was burning the trees tops.
My daughter said mom I don't mean to scare you but are you seeing this, unfortunately, I was. I was at first just hoping it was the moon but the moon was grey tonight. And this huge orange haze of a ball the size of a trailer just disappeared.
I call sister in a panic. I'm unsure what this was all I know is we drove home so terrified we are still up and it's daylight now.
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Solid objects with vapor like circle around them flying fast. outside looking at sky and 2 round jellyfish like objects without tentacles appeared in north sky and flew to the south. the.
5 min later the sky was full of them from the north again they flew fast and erractic at least 6 to 8 of the same objects. solid center with a vapor like circle around them. there were also at least 6 other people in the park across the lake looking up at the sky.
some of them appeared white and some were green. been looking at the sky for a long time and NEVer saw anything like this.
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Circular green object moving from north to south overhead. On September 13th, 2015 at 10:00 pm, I entered my bedroom and sat on the bed and looked out my south facing window. Immediately overhead a green, circular object moved from north to south and disappeared on the horizon.
The object made no sound. It wasn't a flare, nor did it look like a shooting star. The light didn't pulse nor did it flash.
The outer rim of the round object was a lighter green, with the inner part of circle being of a darker green.
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Shining object released from plane? I was watching planes fly overhead this morning when I noticed one plane in particular flying lower than the others and much faster with a thick white contrail/chemtrail behind it. It began to change course, curving to the right. Mid-curve it appeared as if some shining object was either released from it or appeared from above it and slowly moved to the left, sometimes wavering slightly to the right and then back again to the left.
It then slowly floated up, disappearing into a cloud. I tried to look up any similar phenomena but can't find any reports like it.
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WE WERE DRIVING SOUTH THRU DIAMONDHEAD, MS, LAST NIGHT TOWARDS I-10. A GREEN FIREBALL LIT UP THE SKY. IT WAS TRAVELING EAST TO WEST.
THERE WERE THREE OF US IN THE CAR. WE ALL SAW IT. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Just circle of lights standing still. Spotted the first one it was multi colored red white blue and as we got off the porch to look my friend spotted two more then as we kept looking we notice four more all white in a circle.
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Bright orange fireballs moving very fast--at least 8. Bright orange fireballs, followed by 2 more, moving very fast from North to South at a high rate of speed. Flames were visible.
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2015 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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Fireball | 8 reported sightings | 19.51% of all reports |
Circle | 7 reported sightings | 17.07% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 12.20% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 9.76% of all reports |
Light | 3 reported sightings | 7.32% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 7.32% of all reports |
Other | 3 reported sightings | 7.32% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 4.88% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2015 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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June | 7 reported sightings | 17.07% of all reports |
December | 7 reported sightings | 17.07% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 14.63% of all reports |
July | 4 reported sightings | 9.76% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 7.32% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 7.32% of all reports |
November | 3 reported sightings | 7.32% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 4.88% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 4.88% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 4.88% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 9 reported sightings | 21.95% of all reports |
Wednesday | 8 reported sightings | 19.51% of all reports |
Saturday | 7 reported sightings | 17.07% of all reports |
Tuesday | 7 reported sightings | 17.07% of all reports |
Friday | 5 reported sightings | 12.20% of all reports |
Sunday | 4 reported sightings | 9.76% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2015 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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12/17/15 | 3 reported sightings | 7.32% of all reports |
06/03/15 | 2 reported sightings | 4.88% of all reports |
05/20/15 | 2 reported sightings | 4.88% of all reports |
07/23/15 | 2 reported sightings | 4.88% of all reports |
09/13/15 | 2 reported sightings | 4.88% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 19 reported sightings | 46.34% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 9 reported sightings | 21.95% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 8 reported sightings | 19.51% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 9.76% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2015
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 2015
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.