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New Hampshire UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1,193 UFO sighting reports in New Hampshire to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (244 reports, 20.45% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (141 reports, 11.82% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (202 reports, 16.93% of total).
- 06/18/02 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 0.67% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (96 reports, 8.05% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (550 reports, 46.10% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in New Hampshire
These New Hampshire 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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Disco balls flashing multiple colors. Spotted in the sky, in an open field, top of ravine bank.
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Changing shapes, spinning multi-colored lights, portal jagged edges, disc w/ beams of light, low and high in sky. They were shining rainbow/multiple colored lights and changing colors, sometimes shining them all at once, almost like the speed of light. Other times it would change shapes like a rocket shape, triangle, long lines, circular disc, condensing down to almost nothing.
Then it looked like a portal with rainbow/multiple lights changing around the jagged edges, but mostly blue in color. Sometimes it would look like beams of rainbow lights shining under a disc. We counted 6 UFOs.
Some touched down and then went back up. We saw military aircrafts looking for something, traveling slowly and afterwards we saw more UFOs spread out through the sky. One was over our house and close to the moon.
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bright light in sky changing shape but almost boomerang shaped & moving, 2 smaller lights showed up, then it all disappeared We were laying in bed and its usually pitch black in out back yard but there was a crazy bright white light that looked crescent moon shaped almost behind the trees. It was a little past 10pm so there was no way the moon would be so low in the tree line, and it wasn't there earlier as we had been in bed for a while and would've seen it. I got my partners attention and we ended up going into the other room to see it at a different angle and we shined a spot light up in the direction of it but it only lit up the trees.
the light got brighter and seemed to come closer to the point where my backyard was lit up slightly but it remained in the air behind the trees. it changed shape moved up and down but very subtly then drastically. there were two other much much smaller lights that popped up all the sudden.
the first was high and to the left of it then a few mins later the other one showed up a lot farther to the right and lower. we watched them for about a half hour moving around then they all just slowly got dimmer/ smaller and disappeared. there no lights in my neighbors trees, and one of the lights would've been over my property which has no lights either.
There wasn't anything on fire and the way they moved they weren't attached to a tree. there was no sound when we opened the windows, so not like a helicopter or plane. when they disappeared my back yard went back to being pitch black.
The whole thing had a very eerie creepy feeling. my picture don't do it justice.
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It was a clear night but the object was emitting fog and mist along with projecting blue lights. It was half a mile high in the sky. Driving back from work I noticed a "foggy star" at first and it was strange because it was a clear night with all stars and Jupiter and moon visible.
I parked car near York Stables and climbed out ofy seat leaning on the roof. The object showed blue lights and started moving across Zenith and zigzagged few times confusing me as I was expecting it to already pass the car like an aircraft would. It seemed as it was stuck on a loop But then it got lower and I quickly exited the car and started recording it.
When I looked at my phone camera I noticed even brighter blue and other color lights that this object was emitting in addition to continued mist/fog around it. It disappeared instantly moving Northeast. I was standing in a clear field and there was nobody around.
There was absolutely no sound except for the wind.
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Multiple crafts I've been seeing for a week straight. I noticed a bright white light in the early morning hours of February 5th at around 01:00. I looked 10 minutes later and it moved closer to the tree line.
5 minutes later I look again and it's gone. The next week, I notice crafts every night. There is always the original craft in a similar location that shines the brightest.
I have witnessed that one moving around slowly and also changing colors slightly with red, green, and blue. During the week span, I have also noticed a small white dot that is high into the sky that moves very slowly as well. There is also a red dot that is tucked between the trees that I see every night as well.
The red one does not move much at all, but i can confirm movement every couple of minutes. There are also small white dots that form a formation of a triangle. The center dot is equidistant to the two other dots that are slightly lower to its sides.
The 3 dots move from SW to W behind the tree line. Most of the craft move from SW to W. I have been looking at the night sky since I was very young.
I know what planets, satellites, planes and helicopters look like. These are nothing like I have experienced before. They are very likely not drones because of the altitude and the behavior.
It is a common occurrence from The early morning hours of February 5th to the night of February 10th and early morning hours of February 11th. Every night without fail, who knows how long they have been doing this. I don't know if they are alien craft or very sophisticated aircraft developed by the US government or a foreign government.
There behavior is very strange and I wish they would just leave, because I don't know their intentions.
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Saw a ufo that then came into my yard + house I was looking across out the window, up at the stars, and saw a plane. I thought “it’s always a plane and never a ufo” or something like that. Right then, the “plane” just stopped acting plane like.
It changed its lights up, ditched the two blinking anti collision lights. Then that light slowed down. It slowed down to a dead stop.
It went from being stopped and started zig-zagging back and forth, and all around. Like someone was dragging it around the screen with a computer mouse. It then came right at the house, at fasssssst speeds.
Like if a plane landing from its highest point in the sky, took 1 second. I could see it was a glowing ball/orb/sphere! It was like a warm golden yellow, and glowing very brightly. Was beautiful.
So it had now gone from far away (plane level far), to the tree line one house over. Just floating there at the tree line between our houses, glowing. It was like there was liquid inside, the light moved and was alive like a fire is.
Then… it sunk down to almost the ground level in our back yard right on the perimeter of the property line. At that point I realized this was interacting specifically with me? Like I wasn't watching something cool, I was a part of what was happening. I started to get afraid.
Not terror struck but kind of like, “brace yourself.” When it dropped down to the yard, it cooled down/lost its glow and was solid. Just a yellow color without a glow, and looked in the moonlight just like a yellow car would, sheen wise and in how solid it looked.
For some reason I specifically thought it reminded me of cars from the 50s, Like a heavier metal? Once it was ground level it slowed way down, and just floated toward the house. It floated up the back porch steps, across the porch, and toward the screened in porch (where I was). It floated right up to me, and then directly into the house siding!? Picture watching a car drive slowly into a wall and just pass thru it like a ghost.
It was very very very strange. I feel lucky to have experienced it, and it was not ominous or threatening. Magical.
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Red orb behind trees in SW sky. Moved erratically, not in a steady trajectory. I was awake and went to check the temp in the sunroom and look at the sky.
I noticed a red orb behind tall trees moving slowly, erracticaly, steadily. Backward then upwards slowly ascending the dark sky moving east and then climbing, then descending. Then disappeared.
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Rapidly changing altitude bright light Crossing the sky heading from West to east changing altitude rapidly. Flying lower than a commercial or military aircraft. Steady white light.
Then dissapearing suddenly.
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Five family members observed black, S-shape object, rotating counter-clockwise, due east, over Epping,NH. On the evening of September 29, 2023, my wife and I met our son at the Park-Ride parking lot in Epping,NH, about 6:30 PM where we picked up our two grandchildren, ages 10 and 13. There was plenty of daylight.
Suddenly my wife pointed out the passenger-side front windshield and said, "What is that flying up there?" It took me a moment to see exactly where she was pointing, but then I saw what she was talking about. A flying object, in the shape of a pudgy S, was rotating counter-clockwise on its axis, moving unswervingly due east, at a constant speed. It was black.
There were no observable lights. There was no detectable sound. All of us watched it until it moved out of sight, not climbing vertically, but moving on a steady, horizontal path.
One of us watched the object through a spotter scope for about 20 seconds. On the website reddit there are several postings about a black, rotating, S-shape object. If you Google "UFO, drone, or weather balloon above Reagan National Airport" you will see a video that matches exactly what we saw flying over Epping on September 29, 2023.
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looked in the sky an armada of disks, I delta. somthing came out of nothing I have photos. Im a retired police detective who served in Afghanistan as a military contractor.
I'm seventy years old. In good health non drinker or drug person. At 7:17, I was sitting on my front porch smoking a cigar.
The moon was to my right. To the left of the moon was clear, and I could see no clouds. As I looked up to the sky to the left of the moon.
Three saucer-like or balls looking orange then appeared in my vision. There was a shimmer hard to detect the shape, plus I'm seventy. They had what appeared to be rotating white-red-orange lights.
To the right of me, looking up from the stairs left of the moon coming into the moonlight, I checked my phone. They were going due north. I would estimate ten thousand feet.
The first three craft were in delta formation Since Pease Air force base is several miles from my house, I thought they may be planes in formation I have seen that before. I didn't think much of it. Seconds later, the original three were followed by at least 20.
following loosely put with purpose. Not floating in a straight line same path North. At least thirty or forty more after that.
Now I said WTF? Then more were coming. I have been in hot zones in the past I didn't want my imagination to run away, But I said to myself this is an armada there going to take over Pease. They were not moving at a high rate of speed.
I sound like a nut, but I actually thought it was an invasion. I feel like a fool thinking of it. This wasn't a drone, flares, Elon's toys or Jupitor.
Im not that stupid I was trained extensively to be an observer. I also knew this may be significant. I told myself to pay attention.
They had a purpose going north. I ran to my neighbor's house across the street. To help me verify I was on his ring photo thing.
He wasn't home. I went back in the street, praying someone was seeing this and not just me. Then, out of nowhere, Im not going to say wormhole from nothing came something like a white maggot it was a length of light it popped out of nowhere, gyrating, squiggling, it went through the lights that were moving north.
It dipped behind my vision was blocked by a tree. Then this made me say Woah! In the moonlight, I could see clearly. Rising from below the tree was a delta shape, something in had to be turned sideways like I was watching a black triangle, much lower than the lights, I saw the outline distinctly.
I have no proof, but I think that white squiggly thing that went behind the top of the tree was the Delta Craft I'm calling it. It was black I could only see the silhouette as it flew in front of the moon. No light whatsoever.
With the coming and going of the airport I thought for a minute it could be dangerous. It traveled on the same path. I could only estimate, but it was the size of a trailer truck.
Much lower in altitude. Then nothing.I ran into the house thinking it would be all over the news, but nothing.
My wife and I checked everything, even the local papers and such, but nothing. I know what I saw I have the pictures of the Armada and the white thing, for lack of a better word. Nothing of the delta craft sorry my phone died.
Well, that's it.I told no one, but my neighbor saw the photo. I do find it strange not another person saw it.
All you had to be doing was looking at the moon.
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We saw an object we couldn’t identify over the highway it hovered for a moment moved slightly and disappeared suddenly We saw the object hovering and then disappear. My significant other is ex Air Force and didn’t recognize the object as having any light pattern he was aware of. It was high above the highway in the mountains and it suddenly was gone.
The aura was visible when I enlarged the image I took with my phone. I am not necessarily requesting to speak with an investigator but would be happy to if the investigators have questions.
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Five Red lights moving in strange patterns At first it was just one big red light and it wasn't moving. I thought it was a bright planet, so I took out my nightsky app and it was not showing up. So I keep looking at it, trying ti figure it out.
And then four more appeared. They all lined up from left to right in a diagonal formation, and then they started moving around up and down and seemed to be forming patterns. This went on for about 15-20 mins.
I fortunately found a neighbor at the very end, who at the end saw just the one bright red light and he watched it go poof.just disappeared. The other red lights all traveled to a spot in the sky, and one by one they disappeared into that location.
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Object briefly visible in videos.
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Driving home from Hospice House (Mom dying). Witnessed a sphere shaped craft. Changing colors and spinning very fast.
Driving home at 1:30 am to take dogs out while my mother was dying in Hospice. Second night I saw this. Quickly spinning sphere shaped craft changing colors, red, blue, green, pink, yellow, white, purple.
I stopped at an intersection and did a short video. There was no noise at all. Husband flies helicopter, and it was not a helicopter.
Spinning very fast. I crossed the intersection, and it jetted off upward quickly. Told my husband it seemed like a UFO.
Saw it the night before, and have not seen it since, but I’m not outside at those hours. Saw a light in the back secluded woods last night so it prompted me to finally send my video.
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a T shaped cluster of blue/white lights hovering over I93 I was driving south on I93 and, shortly after Tilton, I saw what looked like white-blue lights hovering over the highway — higher than any building or structure, but way below planes overhead. There were no blinking lights, and no red/blue lights, as distinguish planes. I kept an eye on the lights as I drove south and after a few minutes (meaning a few miles of road) I passed under them, with them still evidently stationary.
The lights appeared to be in clusters of two, in a T formation; I could not tell, against the night sky, if there was anything between or among them, but it seemed like there was the dark outline of a craft between the lights. As I drove south, I kept the lights in my rear view mirror, and they didn’t seem to move until I had driven another 5+ minutes/miles and the road had turned. I was unable to find a place to pull over to take a photo or video.
I asked my friend who is an ATC and he said there was nothing on radar in that area. However, a friend who lives nearby said that Sikorsky helicopters had been spotted in the area earlier circling (he had taken photos). Whatever I saw I am highly confident was not the running lights of a helicopter based on both lights and shape of craft.
No idea what it was.
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I witnessed a bright white light for 3-4 seconds that suddenly disappeared. I observed a white circular light in the sky for about 3-4 seconds before it disappeared. It was very bright straight ahead of me.
I would estimate it was at an altitude of 2-3,000 feet.
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Solid orange light descending and moving north. While driving west on 101 this evening, I watched a solid orange light descend, and steadily head north. Lost sighting after 5-7 min.
No flights on the tracking site, too bright to be a drone.
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Floating possibly propelled object. I was watching two f35 practicing over my property, when I saw what I had thought was one of them just floating, not flying. I thought this was strange so I started videoing with my phone and found that it was not a plane.
When I reviewed video and zoomed in it appears to be some sort of zeppelin with propeller. As the video shows , it was flying erratically or being pushed by the wind. It appears to be rotating.
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Date is approximate, within a few days. Two bright lights within a few seconds, first along big dipper handle, then perpendicular. Outside having a smoke.
Saw a bright light heading south right along the big dipper's handle. Brighter and faster than a satellite. Blocked by tree shortly after end of handle.
2 seconds later, another one just appears mid handle and heads East for about half the handle's length and quickly fades, thought I saw very dim altered direction/speed. That was it. Seen/reported unusual lights of this sort before.
This was unique. I could swear there was a small bit of red next to the bright white light. Definitely faster and brighter than satellite.
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Large as bright as Venus and moving fairly quickly then the light turned off I went out waiting for pizza to be delivered and figured I'll see if Venus was still out then I happened to see this light at first I thought was Venus but it was moving and at a pretty good clip I took some video and tried to get a zoomed in Pic but nothing that shows actual shape or even that it was moving after I took a 27x zoomed photo I tried to get a Pic at 50x zoom and the light had turned off and it was essentially gone also had no blinking lights and no sound associated with it at all. Now I'm just an amateur skygazer but this is the second time I witnessed something out of the ordinary and I had the pizza delivery person with me.
New Hampshire 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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Light | 244 reported sightings | 20.45% of all reports |
Circle | 128 reported sightings | 10.73% of all reports |
Triangle | 116 reported sightings | 9.72% of all reports |
Unknown | 83 reported sightings | 6.96% of all reports |
Sphere | 78 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
Other | 73 reported sightings | 6.12% of all reports |
Disk | 63 reported sightings | 5.28% of all reports |
Fireball | 60 reported sightings | 5.03% of all reports |
Oval | 41 reported sightings | 3.44% of all reports |
Cigar | 39 reported sightings | 3.27% of all reports |
Changing | 35 reported sightings | 2.93% of all reports |
Formation | 34 reported sightings | 2.85% of all reports |
Rectangle | 32 reported sightings | 2.68% of all reports |
Diamond | 22 reported sightings | 1.84% of all reports |
Cylinder | 20 reported sightings | 1.68% of all reports |
Flash | 12 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Chevron | 9 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Teardrop | 8 reported sightings | 0.67% of all reports |
Egg | 7 reported sightings | 0.59% of all reports |
Cross | 5 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
Cone | 4 reported sightings | 0.34% of all reports |
New Hampshire 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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August | 141 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
September | 139 reported sightings | 11.65% of all reports |
July | 128 reported sightings | 10.73% of all reports |
October | 111 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
November | 104 reported sightings | 8.72% of all reports |
June | 100 reported sightings | 8.38% of all reports |
March | 87 reported sightings | 7.29% of all reports |
January | 78 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
December | 77 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
May | 75 reported sightings | 6.29% of all reports |
February | 74 reported sightings | 6.20% of all reports |
April | 63 reported sightings | 5.28% of all reports |
New Hampshire 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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Saturday | 202 reported sightings | 16.93% of all reports |
Friday | 187 reported sightings | 15.67% of all reports |
Wednesday | 164 reported sightings | 13.75% of all reports |
Tuesday | 162 reported sightings | 13.58% of all reports |
Thursday | 161 reported sightings | 13.50% of all reports |
Sunday | 159 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Monday | 142 reported sightings | 11.90% of all reports |
New Hampshire 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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06/18/02 | 8 reported sightings | 0.67% of all reports |
08/19/22 | 7 reported sightings | 0.59% of all reports |
11/01/15 | 5 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
09/21/05 | 5 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
12/12/12 | 5 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
New Hampshire 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 | 550 reported sightings | 46.10% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 253 reported sightings | 21.21% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 154 reported sightings | 12.91% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 78 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 72 reported sightings | 6.04% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 70 reported sightings | 5.87% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in New Hampshire
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in New Hampshire
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in New Hampshire