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Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 25 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 2018 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (6 reports, 24.00% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 24.00% of total).
- 07/20/18 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 8.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (10 reports, 40.00% of total).
Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 2018
This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 2018, 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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2 strange formations of continuous red-orange, silent craft in the night sky. My family and I observed 2 separate formations of red-orange "aircraft" flying what appeared to be east-northeast tract. The formations exhibited a continuous red-orange color.
I'm former military and civilian and military aircraft typically have flashing lights while flying at night. The first formation were 3 craft that traveled the same east-northeast tract for approximately 5 minutes at different speeds before disappearing in the clouds. The second formation were also 3 craft flying the same tract at different speeds and also disappeared in the clouds.
All 6 craft did not produce any noise. We originally thought the craft were drones; however, drones can not travel that distance without losing signal. These lights were not fireworks as firework lights do not travel that distance and then gain additional altitude after their report.
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Light flashing at regular intervals, no seen source. Me and my family noticed a strange light flashing in the sky. It seemed not to be emanating from a light, and it continued at regular intervals until we drove past it.
It was in the sky.
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Bright green fireball in sky. Green fireball brightly lit in sky. It was so bright, we thought it was fireworks, but it was a Tuesday night and not holiday.
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Dozens of glowing orange balls of light traveling in formation. At approximately 1930 yesterday evening, I was driving home from picking up a pizza for myself and husband. I was traveling West on a main road, preparing to make a left hand turn onto the road that I live on.
We live in a fairly quiet, rural area. There are very few street lights on our road. As I prepared to turn left onto our road, I observed an orange glow just through the top of the trees.
I turned left onto our road and continued traveling North. About 400 feet ahead, I observed a truck pulled over to the side of the road with its hazards on. As I got closer to the truck, it very quickly pulled onto the road and took off.
At this point, I had reached the section of road where the landscape opens and there are no trees blocking the vista. To my east, there were dozens of bright orange balls of light in the sky. They were in small groups of three (triangular pattern).
Each group was parallel to each other. The lights were glowing bright orange and seemed independent of each other. At that moment, the groups of light appeared stationary in the sky.
The mass of lights extended in a "lane" that appeared at least 200 feet in length. There were some single balls of light (not in a triangle pattern) towards the end of the line . These lights were at a very low altitude.
My best guess would be a few hundred feet off the ground. As I looked out my car window, I barely had to lift my gaze to make these observations. There was no sound whatsoever.
The mass of lights appeared to be moving east to west/northwest. I felt true panic in that moment. And frantically dialed my husband to get outside.
I was less than one mile from my home at this time. As I continued North, I lost sight of the lights. At about 1/2 mile from my home, I opened the sunroof and observed some balls of light in the sky above me.
These balls of light were traveling in a singular formation. Not the same triangle formation I had initially observed a mile back. They appeared higher in altitude at this point.
I passed a vehicle pulled over in the southbound lane and could see the driver with his cell phone out the window. This helped to validate that what I was seeing was real! When I reached my driveway, my husband was outside waiting. He was able to observe 2 glowing orange balls of light to the south of his location, traveling west/northwest.
They disappeared quickly beyond the tree line. Roughly 20 minutes later, we observed a helicopter traveling south towards the location we saw the lights. We often see helicopters and various aircraft over our property, but hardly do they travel in a north to south pattern.
Especially at night. My husband is retired Coast Guard. We have lived near many military installations with very active air traffic.
I'm used to seeing helicopters, military aircraft at all times of the day performing various exercises so I like to think that I have a slight advantage over the general public in observing aircraft. I can say with 100% certainty this was not any type of plane or helicopter. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Grey V shape about 200 yards if on ground. Flying Southwest. Silent.
"Unrelated Military helicopters flying around today the Grey V shape about 200 yards if on ground. Flying Southwest. Silent.
"Unrelated" Military helicopters flying around today then right after it flew by. Coincidence?.
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Reflective spherical object hovering in sky then after few impossible maneuvers disappears into cloud evading 3 black helicopters. Reflective spherical object approx the size of a large motor vehicle hovering motionless and noiseless in sky east of Hwy 49 in McHenry, MS on 10/09/18 at approx 18:13. Saw it when I was headed southbound on Hwy 49 coming up on the Dollar General.
Object was still for several seconds about 500 to 1000 ft from the ground then began making quick, lateral and vertical movements such that it covered great expanses of ground instantaneously with no chem trails or noise. Next it began to climb vertically into a cumulus cloud located directly overhead and completely disappeared. It didn’t appear to exit the cloud.
Seconds later, 3 black helicopters came from the west flying in the direction of where the object had been. Once they crossed Hwy 49 they fanned out and ultimately headed in a SE direction until they were out of sight.
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I watched this ufo for 2 hours. I watched this ufo on the flight deck of the LHA 7 at the shipyard and it was as bright as a star and as i was going off the ship it was coming back towards the ship i was on so i went back across the crossing and waited for it to come back this way to verify that what I was seeing was real. When it came back it clearly was in the shape of a triangle with two distinct red light at the bottom, as if it were the propulsion system but it was flying to fast as if it were breaking the sound barrier without sound and I ran back to tell the guy to look at this bright sphere and sure enough it came back and he said the same thing it was no plane or drone.
It kept traveling back and forth and when it came back into clear view the bright lights cut off as if it were trying to hide itself but as it got closer you could clearly see the underbody of the craft it had white lines going across the bottom connected to the red lights that i had seen. So I knew it was a propulsion system of som! e type. Somebody needs to come out to Mississippi to investigate this phenomenon because this is happening on a regular now in the same place at different times and yes this has happened twice now.
It was a beautiful phenomenon. I actually felt at ease about it which is crazy. I didn't feel strange or weirded out I was thinking more like this should have been on the news.
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Hwy 63 bridge cylinder shape ufo We were going over the Hwy 63 bridge from Moss Point into Pascagoula. It was night time around 8pm. As we were coming over the bridge in the pitch black sky my husband & I saw a ufo in the shape of a cylinder/cigarette it seemed to extend and open, a extremely bright white light came from the cylinder opening.
A few minutes later 7 round bright color ufo came from out of the cylinder. They were round ufo and they were coming out one by one. Once they all came out they were floating around the cylinder/cigarette shape ufo.
After the last circular ufo object the cylinder/cigarette shape ufo disappeared like a light switch, just off and gone. Again like a light switch there on and then suddenly off. The circular ufos that came from it were still steadily floating in the same area.
A few minutes later one by one flew extremely fast away to multiple directions. (Out of this world fast) my husband and I were in complete shocked. There was maybe 2 more cars in front of in the same Hwy 63 bridge, I know they saw it too because they were hitting their brake lights.
I could have maybe gotten a picture of it but again we were completely shocked by what we were seeing. Definitely something out of this world.
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UFO Sighting Moss Point, MS. Wednesday, Sept 10, 2018 8pm. Heading home from having dinner at San Miguel’s going over Moss Point bridge heading back to Pascagoula.
As we were passing the big bridge, my husband and 2 kids notice something up in the sky shining with lights. Clear white and flashing lights. It was 8 object, best way to describe tubes (straws) completely lit up but also each had maybe 4 flashing lights.
They were all touching seem to be one object but then a few seconds split away from each other turn into circular shapes, then completely lit like a red/orange color. Splitting away from each other changing into a circular shape, then floating close to each other. Flying away and also turning all visual lights off.
I have never seen anything like it in my life and it really made my blood drop. I am not a believer and never put thought into it but what I saw was something out of this world and made me scare. Sharing my story.
In Moss Point,MS heading to Pascagoula.
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On 9/07/2018, I was standing in my yard. I was feeding my dogs, when I looked up and saw a bright object that I could not identify. I know it wasn’t a aircraft.
The object was probably 1500-2000 feet. The object was bright white moving fast from south to north, around 10:00pm the object was not blinking. You could see normal aircraft flying with the red and green lights around their normal cruising altitude.
It was probably visible for about ten minutes.
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I got up to get a drink and looked out of a south facing window in my kitchen and saw a cigar shaped white light hovering in the distance. It would rise into the air then slowly get lower then rise again. It never appeared to get any closer or farther away.
Only the altitude of the object changed. I watched the object for several minutes before returning to bed.
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Hello,I live in Batesville, Mississippi on Farrish Gravel Road. At about 4:00PM I was walking my dog and I glanced at some lights in the sky but didn't pay them any mind because there are street lights that can be seen behind some trees. About 10 minutes later I looked up to see that the lights were closer than before when I left the house as well as higher in the sky.
When I started to look at the lights I noticed that there were 3 lights in a triangular shape at the bottom of base I guess you could call it, with another single light at the top. I then noticed that there was a weird shape sort of like a pyramid and that the lights were part of an object and not separate lights. I can't really determine the size but it was flying lower than an airplane and was still about the size of my thumb if I held it out in front of me.
There weren't any distinguishable colors of the shape other than a sort of hazy looking transparency. The lights were orangish yellow. But I looked at the object for maybe 10 minutes until it got too far me to see.
The direction it was going was straight up when it got out of sight. That is all I can recall and it's pretty exact on what happened.
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Me and two of my friends were driving to another friends gone to attend a bachelorette party. On the way to the house right after we had turned down a secluded road surrounded by trees I saw a large triangle shaped aircraft flying in the sky just above the trees. I alerted my friends to the object and then we couldn’t see it for a second because of the angle from which we were driving and the trees because it was flying low right above the trees.
After a few more seconds we were able to see it again and then my other two friends could see it. The object was flying low and slow paced almost as if it was flying at the same pace as the car we were in but it was big probably the size 2000 sq ft home if not bigger and there was no sound coming from it at all. There were what appeared to be three lights close together on the edge of the craft in the middle of the side we were looking at and appeared to be blinking lights on each corner of the side we were looking at.
We watched it for about a minute as we continued to travel to the house right when we were making a turn to get to the house we could no longer see it. When we arrived we told the other people at the house of what we saw but they thought it was likely a military aircraft of some sort. But we knew it was definitely not a normal aircraft.
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I was driving to work at 4:45a.m. No other cars were on the road at that time.
When all of a sudden I seen a triangle shaped object with at least 2 bright white lights on it hovering from above a little ways in front of me. As as I drove closer, and was right underneath it, it had no sound. I figured out what it was and stumped on the gas and drove from underneath it in a hurry, it scared me being so close.
When I got to work nobody believed me though. ((NUFORC Note: Because of another report submitted by the witness who submitted this report, we wonder whether this is a serious-minded report. PD)).
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My friend and I were coming home from a friend's around 3 am and we spotted a red light in the sky it appeared to be crescent shape with a red aura around it and it hovered for a moment then disappeared.
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4th of July Red Orbs on Mississippi Gulf Coast There was a fireworks show hosted by the Silver Slipper Casino just past Waveland, MS, in a section called Lakeshore. At first, I thought it was a helicopter. I told my son to watch the red lights because it was heading towards us (east - Bay St.
Louis). However, it stopped. Around that time I noticed there were two more red orbs behind it in a straight line, but with a lot of distance between them.
They started heading East again in a straight line when they just simply vanished. No sound. They were too far up in the sky to get any video from my iPhone.
I wouldn't have given it any thought until I mentioned it to my mom. Before I could finish, "Hey., did you see" my mom said, "The three red lights in the sky?" -.
just weird. But, you know, probably swamp gas or maybe flares. There had to be a few hundred people in the general area where I was tonight, possibly more that could witness it from Slidell, LA, or Pass Christian, MS.
And, with any luck, someone with an HD camera.
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My wife and kids have witnessed 3-4 objects hovering around our area close to HWY 4 West on our side of town. I have seen these objects with them and by myself almost every night this week and almost nightly since around the 20th of April (or so). These objects almost are somewhat triangular but almost remind me of something from Star Trek or Star Ward like a Warbird or Falcon type aerial vehicle.
HOWEVER, they seem to be hovering and only move so slightly and in a flight path unlike any regular plane I've ever heard of. Even as of last night, three to four of them are position in an almost quadrilateral type formation. They seem to be just 'watching us'.
The objects we observe seem to give off a blue-ish hue.yet lights (flickering orange/green sometimes emanate from them). They seem to almost react intelligently as I am wandering my yard trying to keep focused on them.
They flicker sometimes that it almost seems impossible to focus. I have seen these thin! gs so often that any notion of considering it to be anything 'recognizable or explained away' diminishes. My family and I also have witnessed red and green lighted low-flying aircraft in the skies on two of these occasions.
They don't seem to perceive the objects and 'they' in turn seem unaffected, as well. It's freaky. Has anyone else seen these? ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the possibility of stars and planets would have to be ruled out, before we conclude that the objects are genuine UFOs.
PD)).
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19:55 central time fireball traveling South to North. Fireball traveling from South to North at fast speed seemed to change from blue to bright orange.
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They were covered in purple lights. I was in my yard, bored, running around doing cartwheels, when I noticed the first blinking of a light. At first, I thought it might have been a helicopter because it was simply hovering in the sky.
Then it began to get lower and you could see more flashing purple lights spread across this ship. It began to take form as it got closer and closer to the ground when it was close enough to the ground to be able to tell the size of the ship which the equivalency of a medium above ground swimming pool was, another ship began to come into view. It seemed almost as if the ship closer to the ground noticed the higher ship because it swiftly took off into the sky.
With the second ship following afterward.
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Saw oval, white flying object traveling from Southeast to Northwest. Passed over the Palace Casino. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and she described the object as being smaller that the appearance of the Sun in the daytime sky.
PD)).
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2018 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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Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 24.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2018 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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July | 5 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
January | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2018 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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Sunday | 6 reported sightings | 24.00% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2018 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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07/20/18 | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
02/23/18 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
09/07/18 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
01/21/18 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
08/26/18 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 10 reported sightings | 40.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 5 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2018
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 2018
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.