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Gulfport, Mississippi UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 40 UFO sighting reports in Gulfport, Mississippi to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (6 reports, 15.00% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (8 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 22.50% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 20.00% of total).
- 12/31/97 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 (13 reports, 32.50% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Gulfport, Mississippi
These Gulfport, Mississippi UFO reports are 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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saw 2 very huge Florissant green circles that seemed attached that were vertical,moving south to north in the sky At 2216 12 May 2022 while on my back porch smoking, I thought I heard a strange helicopter sound or something flying over and when I looked up a saw 2 very huge Florissant green hazy circles that seemed attached flying south to north. The rings were way too big for an aircraft! Looked like “OO”. I also saw an aircraft (may have been a helicopter I heard) following closely behind it off to the side of it a little lower than the rings.
The rings made the aircraft look very small in comparison! The aircraft had the normal flashing lights but didn’t see any other lights on the rings, I also didn’t see anything in front or behind the rings just the 2 rings that was Florissant green in color and a little hazy It was not moving too fast but no time to grab my phone to take a pic of it. I just said out load to my self “what the hell is that” twice and it went out of sight over the tree line in the back of my yard. Way to big to be any kind of drone of any kind or aircraft.
I really can’t say what it was other something I never saw before in the sky that’s for sure! Afterwards I came I’m my house and got my phone ready in case I saw it again and waited a few minutes before I came back in the house and told my wife what I saw and asked her to see if anyone posted anything on Facebook or any other platforms she knew about. No posts at this time which somebody else had to see what I experienced!!.
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Adult woman observed sphere moving west, just below clouds. Sat, Jan 2, 2020 2:04 pm Central Standard Time We were driving Interstate 10 Westbound at Lorraine Cowan exit 38 in Mississippi. Gray or silver sphere, perfectly rounded, was headed west just below the clouds.
Daughter said look at ufo and before she could point to it, the thing had already disappeared. Temperature approx 63 degrees. Sky partly sunny.
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I went outside. I always look around. And above the tree line behind my house.
there was a rather large ball of light. Starting from the middle of the sky. It was white and fell to the ground it seemed.
Very bright no sound around at all. It scared me. I still looked trying to figure this all out.
The sky in the same direction seemed to kind of light up. Then I ran inside. But it was too quiet.
Not even a bug could be heard. It was odd. I live close enough to an airport and naval base as well as airforce base but it wasnt a plane 100%.
Can anyone else explain what I saw please?.
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White Tic-Tac object spotted over Gulfport, MS I was driving to work that morning enjoying the early morning sky, I saw what at first I believed to be a Vapor Trail. Being that I live on the gulf coast ,USA near many military bases, NASA research centers and airports I paid no mind. However, as I continued upon my route the object I noticed it was moving in atypical aviation patterns.
I am closely familiar with aviation capabilities (known) and come from a line of pilots and military personnel. This was different from anything I had ever seen. It seemed to change altitude effortlessly with no Trail or heat byproduct behind it.
I observed it flying at an FL of 7-10 feet. It appeared bright white throughout and had a longer body than width an almost looked like cigar with more rounded edges. I did manage to take a short video and 2 photos.
The stability of the video is shaky from driving but clear. The reason I did not think it to be a known aircraft was its ability to change direction laterally with! ease.
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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 have video of two of them Approx. 7:35 (p.m.
), my wife, granddaughter, and myself was headed home we turn down 20th Ave.and abt three blocks down and three hundred yards up in single file these round orange, reddish, and yellow balls was going west we cut through to 22nd Ave. Jumped out of the car and they went in three separate ways abt half went north the others wen west we watched them fading when two more came across the sky and I had my phone and got video of them not very good, but you can see them.
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Came out of Walmart and seen a light in the sky that was not moving in the sky. Sat and watched it for a bit before going home, which was 5 mins away. When we reached home, it was still visable for about 5 mins.
We then watched it fade away.
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Huge Red pulsating ball seen in the western sky around 8:35 pm. Craft was low on the horizon traveling north. Disappeared and then came back to the same spot about 30minutes later traveling the same path.
Went inside on the second sighting to get my husband to see it too. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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I was standing on my front porch out in the county. I saw a long oblong shaped craft, tilted on its side hovering with no noise moving laterally with a lot of silver flashing lights on the outside no other colors noticed. Hovered for about 10 minutes at about a 1/4 mile up and disappeared.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Strange lights over large plum of smoke. I was at dinner with my husband at a local Chilli's. It is off a major highway here, HW 49.
On our way there, we saw a very large plum of smoke rising into the sky, like something massive was on fire. When we arrived I noticed it was still coming up from the ground, so I took a picture and sent it to my mother, asking if she had heard on the news of anything burning. She checked our local news website and found nothing, saying it might have been a controlled burn.
When I looked at the picture I noticed a series of strange lights hovering over the smoke. Where we live there are no tall buildings, the tallest is 15 stories, and these lights were easily as high as some clouds. There is an airport close to this area, but behind where I am taking the picture from.
The only thing in the area of the picture is a lot of woods and some small residential neighborhoods. The amount of smoke that was coming up looked like it must have been coming from a massive forest fire, or something similar, it certainly isn't what you would see with a house fire. Having lived here my entire life, I have never witnessed airplanes flying this close together, some of these lights appear to be in a triangular formation, while others just contain two lights.
There was also the absence of any blinking or red lights as most airplanes have. If you look at the photo and zoom in, to the left of the obvious bright series of lights, there are also some duller ones visible. I cannot readily explain what these are.
Curiously there has still been no report of anything burning, or of controlled burns in our news.
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Last evening, I went outside to smoke. I looked up I saw a orange ball. Flying from the east to west.
As it came over my head. It was some sort of craft. With a orange glow FWD and AFT.
All around as it passed over head. It definitely had a blue flame. Much like the after-burners on a fighter jet.
It made no noise. No noise. Commercial jets fly over head 35k you can hear them.
It definitely had some sort propulsion engine. As far as the size of this aircraft, it was 5 times the size of a commercial jet flying at altitude. I guess that's the best way to describe it.
It looked like it was flying maybe 10,000 feet at the most. With no noise I just assumed it was much higher. It was between 18:30 and 19:00.
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Triangle shaped ufo We were at the pool and seen a very large, black triangle shaped object glide over us as if there where no perpultion. There were no lights there was no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Circular brilliant green light shoots straight up near I10 and Canal Rd. exit. I was standing on our back porch smoking last night, when I saw a flashing green/white light which was heading straight toward our home off Canal Road and Robinson Road.
As it came toward our home it went up and hovered which is truly what caught my attention as no plane that I know of here at Keesler AFB can do this maneuver without a sound. The craft moved east then made a sharp turn then came back west.it was probably over I10 near the Canal Road Exit.
As it turned and headed back east it began to flash red.it shot straight up flashing a brilliant green and that's when I yelled for my husband to come witness what I was seeing. We stood there watching this light which had turned red once again going back and forth.
east/west.for several minutes before finally turning white and heading straight up only to disappear into a cloud. I searched all night but never saw it again.
I'm hoping to see it this evening and hopefully get some pics of it for everyone to see.
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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)).
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Soundless red LED/electronic like lighted bright light coming from The Gulf and heading rapidly to the east near Gulfport, Mississippi. I was standing by our sliding door in our subdivision of WOODGLEN (Oakwood Drive) and my husband said to me "what the hell is that!" I came out the house and looked to my left (south, coming from the beach/Gulf) and a led-electronic type bright red light oblong in shape that was rapidly changing various shades of red. Absolutely NO sound.
Moving quickly to the east. My husband thought it was a hot air balloon but it couldn't be because I use to live in Goshen, New York, where many hotair balloons flew overhead in early morning or early evening because of the updraft. and it seemed to be too late for that and there was no sound coming from the shooting flame.
I believe it wound-up being too high for a balloon by the time it headed easterly. I posted a photo of it on Facebook on my account there -- and it wouldn't show up red. just a bright blurry vivid-white light.
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Circular aircraft casting green spiral light flying north from the gulf. Driving on the I-10 east near the canal st exit, a circular strobing green light roughly 40 feet in diameter passed over the road. The aircraft was moving perpendicularly to the road.
As it passed over the road the circular light strobed over the whole highway 2-3 times. We then looked up toward the sky we saw a circular aircraft flying at an altitude of about 100-150 feet northbound. Very hard to describe the light, but it was very bright, when we then discussed it afterward, we both drew the exact same picture.
This light had a very particular shape and pattern to it that was clear to both of us.
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11:30am in gulfport, MS cigar shape craft broke into two ships lasted 15 mins a plane couldnt land circled 3xs I noticed a reg.plane circling and can't land.went into circles three times on hwy 49 in the back was a white sigcare shape going right then went left then broke off Into two shapes kept looking then they disappeared and noticed the plane had to Go towards biloxi from gulfport to keesler airforce base.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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White/Bluish glwoing flying balls Two white/bluish glowing balls just appeared. Lights remained parallel each other, then preceded to zig-zag (kinda like playing tag with each other). They merged into one ball floated and disappeared.
I know for a fact it was not a bird, aircraft, or a shooting star,.
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Soft red glowing object hovering n. Gulfport.guitar pick shaped.
Soft red glowing guitar pick shaped aircraft cruising at a slow pace heading nw in Gulfport ms. There was no audible exhaust and it was flying very low. It also had a soft orange/yellow burning circular glow in the bottom, almost like it was fire burning to make it operate.
This glow also sometimes would go dim and bright again. I've never seen anything like this and wonder if anyone else in the area saw it, because 2 people saw this last night.me and my boyfriend.
I felt it was my duty to report.
Full Report Text:
At 0400 on 07/13/12, I was returning from work, driving East on I-10. I noticed an extremely bright light in the sky, illuminating like a star but extremely low on the horizon toward Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS. The description matches the posting on this sight that occurred on 05/19/12.
I arrived home approximately 10 minutes after I first noticed the light. It could still be observed in the sky. I watched it for approximately 20 minutes.
It did not move. My wife thought it might be a star but it was way too low on the horizon and seemed to generate its own light. Extremely bright-the brightest thing in the sky.
From my location, with my arm extended I made a crude attempt to measure the object utilizing my thumb and index finger. The object was approximately a ½ inch from top to bottom. It has not been observed since.
Gulfport, Mississippi UFO Sightings 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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Circle | 6 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Light | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Gulfport, Mississippi UFO Sightings 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 | 8 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 17.50% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Gulfport, Mississippi UFO Sightings 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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Wednesday | 9 reported sightings | 22.50% of all reports |
Friday | 8 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 6 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 5 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
Gulfport, Mississippi UFO Sightings 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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12/31/97 | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
07/13/12 | 2 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
11/08/12 | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
10/23/16 | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
07/23/08 | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Gulfport, Mississippi UFO Sightings 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 | 13 reported sightings | 32.50% 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 | 4 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 3 reported sightings | 7.50% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.50% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Gulfport, Mississippi
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All Mississippi Cities with UFO Sightings
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