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Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 24 UFO sighting reports in Mississippi from 2023 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 20.83% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 02/06/23 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 4.17% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (10 reports, 41.67% of total).
Mississippi UFO Sighting Reports in 2023
This is a sampling of 20 Mississippi UFO reports from 2023, 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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Numerous Orbs high altitude and Fantastic speeds Took this video of the night sky on 12/17/2023 using an Equinox-X650 night vision camera. (I have about 10 other videos taken this night. It was an active night of many things transversing the night sky.
Are they planes, satellites, UFOs, meteors or other?) I don't claim to know, but, I will say they are definitely something.) This is unedited.
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Two red blinking lights that moved down. The lights were stationary and definitely not a plane or helicopter.
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Small lights flying rapidly across the sky, orbiting around a central point. At around 8:15 PM CT, November 11 2023, I was sitting in a clear section of my back yard setting up my telescope. Suddenly I saw 4-5 small lights in the sky, quickly moving northwest.
The objects were small singular points of light similar in appearance to the Pleiades star cluster from the naked eye. They seemed to rotate around a central point and go in front of and behind each other. Within just about 25 seconds they had gone out of sight behind a tree.
Using my best estimate of their distance I calculated their speed to be around 250 mph.
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star like objects changing directions two star like objects were moving in diferent directions across sky. one stopped and changed directions before ascending towards space.
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Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS.
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Unexplained flying object that was observed by two witnesses and then vanished. We are in a very low populated area with no outside lights or noises. The surrounding area is mostly pine trees.
We were outside at about 5:50am on October 3, 2023, drinking coffee and looking at the stars like we do most mornings. Normally we will see stars and satellites. In this area it is rare to see aircraft at night.
On this calm clear morning, we observed three large white lights close together in a triangle shape that appeared to be all part of the same craft. These lights appeared to be low in the sky and close to us. The lights moved from the East to the West at a slow and steady pace with no noise or disruption.
There were no colored (red and green) lights like an aircraft. There was no noise like an aircraft. It was very low, seemed very close to us and made no sounds or wind movement at all.
It was observed in the clear sky with no cloud cover, No wind, no noise, no other lights, and no obstructions from trees. Then it vanished. It didn't change direction or shoot into the sky.
It just vanished/went dark as we were watching it and talking about it.
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Multipe Flashing lights hovering over field. Three bright lights lowered over field and each began flashing eradically for around 10 minutes. Dogs all over area began howling and our dog began growling.
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Bright orbs or spheres were seen in perfect line formation passing from west to east at approx 1000 feet in plain view. I was looking into our new telescope when my wife said what is that? I turned around and saw a dozen orbs or spheres approx. 20 feet in diameter and very bright in perfect formation traveling from west to east at approx.
150 mph. and 1000 feet from the ground. The craft appeared less than a mile from our view point.
A small airplane was seen traveling at a greater height heading south westerly and may have also seen them. the lights continued across the sky to the east and then dimmed and vanished completely within plain view. My son came outside and we then observed about 6 other bright lights very high in the sky two of them in close formation as they would sometimes become very bright then vanish entirely.
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Yellow to dark red undulating elongated hexagonal shaped craft. I saw some sort of craft that changed from shades of yellow to dark red that pulsed and undulated, almost like a flame would on a candle. It started from the tree row 200 ft from the house and slowly rose about another 75 feet before gradually moving in a diagonal upward manner until disappearing into the night sky.
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Strange craft playing hide and seek with military craft. I was sitting on my porch as I often did. I saw a large military plane fly over as they usually do.
It looked like smoke on top of the plane, and I was afraid it was on fire. However, as it continued to fly over, the 'smoke' appeared to roll off the back of the plane and sit there as the gray tint disappeared. A strange craft that was transparent and reflecting light off of rectangle panels that were moving in circular motions was stationary, fairly low to the top of my house.
It was bigger than my house and had a flat transparent bottom. There was no sound. I could not figure out what I was looking at, and pictures I took only looked blurry where the craft was sitting.
You could not see it in the picture, but everything around where it was was clear and in focus. It sat there about 10-15 minutes, and I just stared at it, trying to figure out what in the world I was looking at and trying to gather words to describe it. It finally let down three lights in the shape of a triangle from the bottom of the craft, made a sharp turn, and headed east at a very fast rate of speed.
A few moments later, a military helicopter came out towards my direction, went a little south past my house, and then returned north to the airport. Then I saw the craft come back from the west a little more south this time and duck behind some trees just as another military helicopter and a military plane came from the airport almost to my house. This time, they both went east, which is unusual for them to fly that way.
The UFO emerges from the tree line and takes off again, flying further south out of sight. The military crafts fly around the general area, including where I saw the UAP duck behind trees for about 10 minutes, and then go back toward the airport. At which time the UAP comes back, zooms over to the northwest, and I captured a picture of it.
It looks like a yacht in the sky and does not resemble an airplane. Also, I am not sure how I captured a clear picture of it from my porch since it was 10:07 PM and dark, yet in the picture, it is bright white in the sky and clear as possible. It is triangle-shaped but like on its side.
I have the pictures on my phone and videos.
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Long silver reflective cylinder moving south Observed a silver reflective cylinder moving slowly south about 1500 ft. Was driving so not able to hear it if it was making a sound.
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I walked out back, looked up, saw an object moving across the sky in an orbital pattern. I pulled out my phone and took video At 8:12pm on June 26 2023 I walked out side to my back yard and saw an object moving across the sky in an orbital pattern. I noticed that this object appeared to be lower than the ISS when it passes over which led me to grab my phone and record video.
The object moves across the sky and eventually moves beyond my sight. I have I video of the event. I’m only reporting this because I checked the position of the ISS and it could not have been the ISS I also check into starling satellites and it appears to be different than those.
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Large extremely bright light traveling Northeast On Jun 25th at approx. 12:38am I observed an extremely bright light in the sky traveling extremely fast. It was heading Northeast.
I caught a glimpse of it for a couple of seconds and knew immediately it was not a familiar object. It seemed to be flying rather low in the sky and was brighter and faster than anything I had ever seen. It resembled a shooting start with a tail following behind it which could have been from the sheer speed of which it was moving.
It was clearly not a plane, nor was it the reflections of headlights in my windshield. It was a UFO.
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Silent brightly lit triangle object I was drinking coffee on my deck at approx 4:30 am when I saw a triangular shaped craft slowly approaching from the east. Memphis airport is 12 miles east of my home so I’m used to seeing jets every morning. However this object had colored lights above and brightly lit white light covering the entire bottom.
It made no noise at all. It was traveling directly over head at approximately 300 feet. It was very low.
It took approximately 3 minutes from sighting to be out of my view. It did not stop and hover but kept going in a north east direction slowly. It was not huge triangle but about the size of a Cessna 10 seater.
There was no sound at all.
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Brighter than stars light that would move left and right while dropping behind treeline after few hours Really bright light almost every night the last couple of months. This light will move from what appears to be left to right, and every 3-5 minutes appears to fall a bit. Then will stop and dance again from left to right untill it finally disappears behind the tree line.
It looks as if it may be changing colors, and so much bigger and brighter than all other stars. Looks nothing like satellites mentioned. Moves to erratically.
In the past, you would see 2 of them. But it is now only 1. Does anyone know what this is that I am seeing?.
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Driving south on hwy 43 almost drove under it the thing was only about 30 ft above the tree tops The thing had 3 round lights that are hard to describe an a rectangle light in the middle it was a light on the inside like some one tig welding aluminum the thing had seams on it the surface was not smooth it was gray dull coler it went slow the end of its wings were rounded we drove by it went up the road turned around came back by it turned around again came back we had plenty of time to look at it no noise at all it gave off a weird feeling like electrified the air I got a little video it was strange how the lights were they did not light up the trees but yet they were bright.
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Large dimly lit V shape line of dots moving swiftly across the sky On our nightly walk we were looking at the sky because it was a very clear night. We were able to see the stars quiet well. At around 8:30pm I noticed a very dimly lit line of dots in the shape of a V, much like you would see a flock of geese flying.
One side was longer than the other. It was moving quite fast, much faster than any aircraft and much larger. It silently flew to towards the North and appeared to be at a high altitude.
I've never seen anything move like that in the sky before. I checked to see if Starlink would be passing by, but it was not scheduled anywhere near that time.
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Filmed Multiple lights with Nightscope - Changing Speed I routinely can capture various lights traveling across the sky during clear night skies using a Nightscope. On this particular night (Either March 4 or March 11) I filmed this object that sped away at a fantastic speed. I have many of these types of videos.
It isn't uncommon to capture 10-15 per sitting. I have recorded some changing direction, increasing speeds and others with multiple lights converging. (Some could obviously be satellites.
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2 star-like objects close together not moving but there was too much cloud cover to see other stars 2 star-like objects very close together not moving but there was too much cloud cover to see other stars. Slightly blinking, disappeared after watching for about an hour. Saw planes near lights.
Seemed stationary in nature but they disappeared after we tracked them for about an hour. NUFORC Note: Jupiter and Venus.
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Green with red tail falling fully vertical There was no flashes sounds or impact noise. Two of us just happened to look East (everyone else facing west) and at first I thought it blew up like a firework but it was silent and fell vertically-happened so fast our brains couldn’t register it before it disappeared behind an apartment roof. Everybody thought we were lying! But then I told my friend yesterday and she finished my sentence-two of her Snapchat friends saw the same on the same night, one lives in hernando and the other in Southaven-idk how large it was for them but it WAS HUGE - very close looking to us here.
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 5 reported sightings | 20.83% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Orb | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2023 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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March | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 25.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2023 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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02/06/23 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
12/17/23 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
03/01/23 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
03/04/23 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
07/05/23 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Mississippi UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 41.67% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 6 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 5 reported sightings | 20.83% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
All Mississippi Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2023
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Mississippi, in 2023
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mississippi
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mississippi.