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New Hampshire UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 88 UFO sighting reports in New Hampshire from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (25 reports, 28.41% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (14 reports, 15.91% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (20 reports, 22.73% of total).
- 03/27/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 4.55% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (45 reports, 51.14% of total).
New Hampshire UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 New Hampshire UFO reports from 2020, 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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Large, brightly glowing orange spheres, which moved in a pattern of hovering and rapid movement. At approximately 10:30pm, my parents whom reside next door, were walking down their driveway toward ours. They observed in the sky, a large intensely glowing orange ball.
The elevation was difficult to perceive, but at minimum it was larger than our car (2020 Ford Explorer XLT); if higher, it could’ve been as large as a house. The object hovered, moved forward quickly, hovered again, moved forward, and repeated this pattern for several minutes. My mom came inside our house, terrified, and mentioned she felt tingly and fearful, as my dad was outside still watching it.
My husband (a local police officer) went outside and watched the first orange-glowing object move beyond the trees. The observed a second large orange glowing sphere and my husband asked me to come outside, quickly. I saw the object; the orange glow was quite intense.
The large object moved, hovered and continued to move. It suddenly seemed to “burn out”, losing its glow comple! tely. My father took several photos; in the photos a “tail” is visible but it was not visible to us/the naked eye.
In one photo, of the first glowing sphere I believe, you can distinctly see three orbs of orange light, with a dark/black perimeter. We initially thought a meteor, but the objects hovered, moved, hovered - which seems atypical of a meteor. They seemed too large to be drones, and the second “burnt out”/faded completely, which also seems unlike a drone.
Im happy to include photos upon request!.
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On December 19, 2020, a UFO was observed in the vicinity of River Road in New Boston, NH. As we were traveling down the road, we saw two low flying objects flying in synch with one another. Both had bright white lights and a blinking red light.
At first, we thought they may be airplanes, but as we got closer and the UFOs got lower, we realized this was not the case. As we progressed down the road, we came closer to one of the two UFOs. It increasingly lowered, and at one point I thought it was going to land right in front of us.
The other UFO headed northeast and was soon out of sight. The UFO we had eyes on was hovering over a nearby residence. We pulled into a parking lot right across the street and stepped out of the vehicle to have a better look.
The UFO was practically silent upon getting out of the vehicle. There was a faint hum and that was it for noise. It was rectangular in shape with two white lights on each side and a blinking red light in the middle.
Within a few seconds of us getting out, the UFO stopped hovering and quickly moved away from us, heading over the Hillsborough County fairgrounds. The pattern at which it moved away was strange and like nothing I had seen before. The UFO moved side to side and up and down.
It did not fly in a straight pattern. As it moved away, we headed up to a nearby hill and watched these two objects hover in the distance for nearly 20 minutes. The movements they made seemed unnatural, choppy and sporadic.
Soon several airplanes were in the sky and were seemingly looking for something. It was definitely a strange occurrence that is unexplainable and like nothing I have ever seen.
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LIGHT/OBJECT CHANGING DIRECTION THREE TIMES QUICKLY, AND CHANGING COLOR. A bright white light in the NNW, 60 degrees above horizontal, flashed then disappeared. It reappeared three more times moving downward, a flash then disappearing for five seconds each time .
The last flash in the downward direction was red before disappearing. Five seconds later the flash (white) reappeared moving to the left, disappearing and reappearing five seconds later continuing leftward as a red flash. The next two flashes were white, at five second intervals, and moving to the right.
It then disappeared.
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Me and my wife were going out to the car for work and seen a bright light out towards center harbor it was round with what u could call tentacles of light coming out and moving in all directions but staying in relatively same position it it was unreal it kinda messed with our eys.
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Green orb over Rochester N.H. My wife stated excitedly ;look a shooting star.
I looked and witnessed a light green orb at high altitutude, with no trail, which passed over in an Eastward vector within a second. It came from West of us maybe Manchester or Concord N.H.
headed over Berwick headed over Berwick ME at what appeared to be thousands of miles per hour. I see lots of planes fly over my house at low and medium altitude which takes a minute or more. This thing was up there and cookin'.
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Mysterious Green Light Zooms Off at the Speed of Light On 11/5/2020 at appx 21:10 I was traveling on I293 South in Manchester, NH. I'm a registered nurse and I work as an evening supervisor at a nursing home, I was on my way home from leaving my shift slightly early that evening to catch the US election on the news. I began to take Exit 2 for Brown Avenue.
As I was changing into the off ramp, I noticed a light ahead. Not from a plane, which are very common in the area as the airport is appx 2 miles from that specific location. Instead, this light was emanating from within a cloud and was green in color, and the area it covered appeared larger than a regular airplane which I observe on a regular basis.
It appeared that the light was either square or triangular in shape vs. round or elongated. It was in the eastward direction, at a decent height but low enough in the sky to be noticeable within my windshield view.
And without a sound or other event, the light zoomed off in such a fast speed that I can only describ! e it by saying that if I had looked away or blinked at that moment, I would have missed it entirely and thought the light had just vanished. It had accelerated off into the eastward direction. This all occurred within the time it took for me to signal off of the exit and was gone before I came to a stop at the light at the end of the ramp, appx 3-4 seconds, as the light did not stay after I had witnessed it in the sky.
I am not aware of any other witnesses to this event, I do not remember any other vehicles at the off ramp at that time, as I was the first vehicle at the red light.
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Glowing object darts across sky followed by a bright white flash then vanished I was unloading my groceries and happened to look up. I seen what I think may have been a small craft that darted across the sky like a flash but it didn't really look like a "craft" more like a superhero going into hyperspeed as silly as that sounds. It had a blue green glow.
It shot off North, North-West and it was in our atmosphere. It felt like it was close by. A few seconds later, there was a flash in the sky directly North which look like a star exploded.
it was pretty bright, but a quick flash. The Flash was a bright white light. There was no star there before or after.
Perhaps it was a portal?The Object was more west of the bright flash and at a lower altitude.
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Solid rectangular craft white lights At approximately 1945 on 10/24/20 for at least 4 minutes we observed a string of lights moving in the western night sky of Dunbarton NH. It was low in the sky traveling over an open meadow near the road. It moved very slowly and as it came closer I could see it was very large in a long “shoebox” shape.
It was silent and the white lights on it were in a straight line and constant. We lost sight of it as it passed by.
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Long string of lights hovering just above the buildings. Long string of lights seen hovering just above buildings on West St in Keene NH, as if it was a saucer with lights along it. Disappearing 10 seconds later.
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Cylinder like UFO w lights on the tips gliding over the trees in my backyard making a loud hovering noise. It was dark. But I was in the shower when my family started freaking out about a loud noise and something white and red outside flying around behind our house going back and forth.
I went to the window facing my back yard in my parents room. Behind our house is a 160ish acre field and next to it is maybe twice or three times as much worth of woods. It appeared to be a mile or so far away when I first saw it.
Then just like that it was right in my backyard woods. Maybe 70 to 100 yards away and it was gliding towards my house getting closer and closer and then it stopped. Then it turned right as in my right so that would be it's left and glided in that direction.
That's when I was able to to make out its long cylinder like shape but the ends were rounded off like the top an egg on each side. Both ends had one light at this time and it was a dim light. Not bright white like LEDs.
It was like older headlights on a car. It had to be the size and length of a schoo! l bus maybe bigger. We have ducks and chickens and a fair amount of people have dogs on our street and nearby.
They all started freaking out and making noises. The UFO had a hovering noise that sounded like a lasso spinning in the air like the wild west movies. The UFO just glided over the trees like it was searching for something and soon the lights disappeared.
I went outside to investigate and walked up to the treeline and I sat there for a minute watching and listening and my mom was begging me to come inside. Right when she started asking me to come inside I just heard was seemed to be multiple animals or people sprinting through the woods. I couldnt see anything but tons of sticks were cracking and you could hear leaves and whatever else on the forest floor being stepped on as all these things were moving quickly through the woods.
It was honestly unlike anything ive ever seen in my life. And right now I honestly feel like its still out there doing something. In the m! orning I'm going out to look in the area it was hovering.
This! was def initely not a drone. The hovering noise it made was too loud and the UFO was too big. If you saw this thing youd know something was very wrong here.
About 4 years ago my sister described waking up in the middle of the night to something exactly like this and it makes me wonder why I never listened to her. There was definitely something out there and it was not from this planet. I swear I'm not making this up.
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Moving light in sky emitting bursts with solid-like ogtagon shape. On Oct. 17, 2020, my husband let our dog out and called me to look at what seemed to him to be an extremely bright star in the sky.
I grabbed my cell phone to take a photo and realized when I looked through the camera it was sort of dancing so I switched my setting over to video to start recording. Meanwhile, my husband had gone inside to grab his binoculars(we were both quite curious now. When he looked through them that one light you could see with a naked eye looked like two.
The object (light) was moving around randomly, always staying within a circle that reminded me of the beam of a car’s headlight and emitting off beautiful bursts of light resembling(to me) what looking at samples through a microscope would look like. I took several videos over the course of an hour. When I finally came inside I put one of the videos on my computer and pulled still shots from one of the videos and zooming in on them as much as possible.
In one of those images, it appears to be a flat octagon object inside the fog. Thinking it was a satellite I looked up images of them online and it does not seem to be the case. I would love to hear if this could be explained, or if it is truly an unexplainable event.
I will be paying more attention to the night sky for the object again in the days to come.
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Stationary light suddenly and rapidly headed north. Northern night sky, 50 degrees from horizontal, a stationary light suddenly and quickly moved northward (towards Canada) until out of sight. I initially mistook it for a star .
until it started moving! ((ADDENDUM FROM WTNESS)) Correction 5:25 AM @ 10/12/20 report CORRECTION: 5:25 AM not PM. ((END ADDENDUM)).
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Correction 5:25 AM @ 10/12/20 report CORRECTION: 5:25 AM not PM.
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Two glowing ring disc "crafts?" glide over intestate I was merging into i93 north when I saw a dim light above. At first I thought it was a plane because there is a local airport. But this was low to the ground (around the tree line and was almost hazy and dimly lit.
) When I looked i saw 4 round circular rings which seemed to be 4 lights on the bottom of some sort of "craft" the body i could not see. It was almost just like 4 glowing rings dimly but VERY SWIFTLY glided above and spun 90• while doing so before losing sight. Split second later ANOTHER one followed.
This one did not rotate in any sort from what I could see. Shocked and confused.
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Bright, non moving, horizontal lights in sky We have a condo on the beach in Naples, FL. At about 9pm, me and the other witness were relaxing outside on the porch. All of a sudden, my friend sees this extremely bright glowing star in the sky.
It was so bright, that it did not look like your average star. Through the binoculars, we saw it much clearer. I could see the outline or the object, which looked like your average alien space ship shape.
It had three lights; one big one in the middle and two smaller ones on the sides. The lights seemed to change colors, from green to yellow to red. They are so bright that I could see the clouds surrounding the object.
It hovered it in the same exact spot for at least 10 minutes. After some minutes of staring, the lights seemed to just go pretty much out. Through the binoculars, you could see the lights dimly.
The object started moving, and then very fastly went up into the sky and completely disappeared. We’ve also seen this now two nights in a row.
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A stationary bright flash of light in the northern sky at 50 degrees from horizontal. It disappeared, then every three seconds afterward would flash/reappear being smaller and less bright, moving northward with a noticeable increase in speed and distance with each of the eight reappearances in 24 seconds.
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Lights hovering over Lake Winnipesaukee I was eating dinner in my car at Center Harbor town docks on the Shore of Lake Winnipesaukee. I noticed an object consisting to two horozontal bright lights hovering over the lake about a mile from me. With binoculars I could see no real form and it had no blinking lights as helicopters have.
It hovered about a hundred feet above the lake. Then it rose up slightly and nthen moved to the right in a westerly direction, passing behind some trees.
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Two UAPs seen on September 26, 2020 from Pemigewassett Overlook. The weekend of September 26th and 27th of 2020, a friend and I were visiting Lincoln, NH. I wanted to the see the site thought to be where Betty and Barney Hill were abducted, and my friend wanted to go Geocaching.
On the evening of September 26, 2020, we decided to go to the Pemigewassett overlook, and do a little sky watching. We got to the overlook after dark, around 8pm. The weather was partly cloudy, temperature in the mid 50’s, and windy.
We got out a couple of camping chairs and sat to watch the sky. Around 8:30pm, we noticed a bright red flash on the west edge of a cloud bank that was to our north. An object emerged from the cloud bank, traveling from west to east.
The object appeared to be triangular, with alternating red and white pulsating lights. The lights would start at the east edge and alternate red/white moving toward the west edge of the object. The object was approximately 1000-1500 ft in the air, and was at an approximate 70 degree! angle above the ground.
At that distance, with arm outstretched, the object measured approximately ¼ to 3/8 of an inch. The pulsating lights made the edges slightly difficult to distinguish. The edge of the object was approximately 1/8 of an inch in height (also slightly difficult to distinguish due to the lights).
The object moved slowly from west to east, and was completely silent. The object was in view for approximately 20 to 30 seconds, and then disappeared into the cloud bank. While not completely familiar to the area, the object was estimated to be about ¼ of a mile away, based on previously seen landmarks.
Shortly after this object disappeared, a second areal phenomenon was seen. This consisted of a bright, homogeneous, rectangular, white light in the western sky. Unlike, a meteor, the light was homogeneous, did not taper, “unrolled” (similar to how a roll of tape would unroll if it didn’t stick to itself), stayed in this elongated state briefly, and then disa! ppeared all at once.
This phenomenon occurred to the west of u! s, and w as oriented (unrolled) from the NW to the SE. Since I was not familiar with landmarks to the west, it’s difficult to estimate how far away it was, and the altitude, however, it appeared to be higher up in elevation than the triangular object was. With the arm outstretched, it was located at a 70-80 degree angle above the ground, and measured approximately an inch in length, with a width of approximately 1/8 of an inch.
This phenomenon was in view for about 1 second. No noise was associated with this phenomenon.
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2nd ufo sighting same place I can hardly believe I am reporting another ufo sighting after nearly 2 months from the last one seen. This time I was ready, and got video footage. however what was recorded on camera was not what I was seeing.
Fortunately there was one slight second I dropped the phone and got a clear image of the ufo. Both times seeing the ufo it appears from the distance a very bright moving moon or sun. The speed is slow but definitely this time was coming from a much further distance.
At first sight there was no noise just a very bright light heading towards me at a somewhat slow speed. When I grabbed my phone to record it, for whatever reason it showed up as at first one circular light and as it came closer 2 intertwining light . There were a few possibly even more blinking lights.
I believe red white and blue . The video footage I got with the camera can be seen showing a flash but not very detailed in its color. Here is what I captured.
I managed to slow the video ! down and capture the ufo the way it actually looked from my view. However like I said the video camera picked up a totally different image.
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((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information. PD)).
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 25 reported sightings | 28.41% of all reports |
Other | 12 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Circle | 11 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Triangle | 7 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
Rectangle | 6 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
Disk | 5 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.14% of all reports |
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2020 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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September | 14 reported sightings | 15.91% of all reports |
August | 13 reported sightings | 14.77% of all reports |
October | 10 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
March | 9 reported sightings | 10.23% of all reports |
June | 8 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
July | 7 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
February | 7 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
April | 4 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 20 reported sightings | 22.73% of all reports |
Friday | 16 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Tuesday | 13 reported sightings | 14.77% of all reports |
Monday | 11 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Thursday | 11 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Sunday | 10 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
Wednesday | 7 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2020 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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03/27/20 | 4 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
08/25/20 | 3 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
09/05/20 | 3 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
10/02/20 | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
01/30/20 | 2 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 45 reported sightings | 51.14% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 12 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 11 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 10 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
All New Hampshire Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New Hampshire, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in New Hampshire
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in New Hampshire.