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New Hampshire UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 31 UFO sighting reports in New Hampshire from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (11 reports, 35.48% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 16.13% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 29.03% of total).
- 07/27/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 6.45% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (12 reports, 38.71% of total).
New Hampshire UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 New Hampshire UFO reports from 2021, 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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Silent craft moving then stationary between 3A and Merrimack River Driving north on on Route 3A in Litchfield right before Page Road, I noticed a light about the size of a streetlight over the forest. I slowed to a stop at the junction of 3A and Page Road and lowered my window and watched as the lights just hovered silently. Looked light Christmas lights in a diagonal orientation from top right to bottom left.
Multicolored with a blinking red light in center. No sound. Not moving.
I was stopped in the middle of the street and saw headlights coming up from behind so I just continued on driving to work.
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A bright round object streaked across the sky and disappeared A bright ball type object caught my attention. It was moving at a very fast pace from the west to the east. I watched the object for an unknown time and eventually pulled out my phone to record.
I was able to record approximately 10 seconds of the object before it disappeared. There was no noticeable sound coming from the object.
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Two bright lights/objects moving at a high rate of speed, one above the other. Two bright lights/objects in the Northern Sky each moving Southward at a high rate of speed, one above the other, separated by a space equal in diameter to one of the objects. There were NO colored or strobe lights.
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Witness an enormously long cylindrical craft Was out walking my dog in my apartment complex at approximately 6:30 pm on December 3, 2021 when I noticed a unbelievable long cylindrical craft with a long single row of lights or windows decently bright enough to light the body of the craft enough up to see it was a long continuous grey cylinder of unbelievable length. This is what really blew my mind. My best guess in length would be 3 to 4 miles in total length.
30 to 40 semi bright lights or windows in a single row. Lights/ windows did not go to end of either end. Ends were lightless or windowless about 5 window/ lights in length on each end.
Each end was rounded like a medication capsule/pill. Direction was coming from the west going east towards the ocean that is about 50 miles away. Besides guess at altitude would be 10 to 15 thousand feet.
Sighting started near my unit which has a pool and pool house adjacent to my unit. Object first appeared in the area of pool. I watched for 15 to 20 seconds as it was moving east.
There was light from from apartment windows and light poles making it hard to focus in object. After 15 or 20 seconds I ran with dog in tow to a field by the complex that has power lines running the length of the field. There were no lights to here to pollute my vision.
Once in the field i watch the craft for another 20 seconds, but in great clarity this time. I got my best look at craft in this location. This is when I could clearly see it was a solid craft.
I watch it till out of view over some tall pines. Once out of view I tried running to another area to see I could see it some more but the object was gone. No sound was heard during the entire duration of sighting.
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Horizontal lights in the sky. I came out of the house & saw what i thought was a meteor shower. When i realized it was not a meteor shower i called to my friend inside the house.
We watched the lights hover across the sky for 3-5 mins. There was about 10 orange lights evenly spaced moving very slowly horizontally across the sky until they faded almost into what seemed like another dimension. Just before it disappeared i seen a white light shoot down from it tword the ground.
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For the last year there have been numerous reports regarding a fast-moving blinking light seen looking north over the Ossipee Mountain Range.
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As I went outside to get a coffee from my girlfriend who was about to pull up to her house around 730pm I looked up into the sky and spotted a short beam of light coming from the sky. right to the left of the bottom of the beam I seen a bright object that I thought might have been an airplane at first but quickly realized it had no tail or flashing lights it moved to the center of that beam then straight up and when it hit the top of the light beam they both disappeared and I waited like 10 minutes just staring into the sky in disbelief but hoping I seen it again or anything else and there was nothing. I swear to god I have never in my life seen anything like this and am completely freaking out about it.
I am 38 yo with no mental illness and am NOT on any type of drugs or medications. Oh and the ufo was brighter than the beam of light.
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Bright white light or orb moving dramatically. Strange bright white light hovering which seems to be just above the tree tops on a mountain side, object was moving like a swinging back and forth motion, then it would go up the mountain side and then back down. I saw this light about a month ago, and then yesterday morning to the left of the mountain, same light and same moving characteristics.
And saw the same object tonight on 10-29-21 on the right hand side of the mountain same place where I saw it the first time. Witnessed by my girlfriend as well.
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One gray triangular aircraft the size of a large jet with a white light at each point, and a red light in the middle October, 28 202119:15 in Enfield NH My wife and I were sitting in our hot tub on the back deck observing the stars when my wife exclaimed "what is that!". I looked over my shoulder and saw one triangular aircraft. It had a white light at each point, and a red light in the middle.
I estimate it was flying in a E to W direction. I estimate that if you were to use the lengthof a large jet to make the 3 sides of a triangle, that would be about the size of what we observed. It was moving about the same speed as a jet, but was low enough that I should have been able to hear it, and I could not.
We could both see the gray outline of it, and it looked like a large triangle. What are your thoughts? Thank you.
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Orange glowing circles slowly synchronize in a circle motion and a black hole forms I was taking my dogs out to use the bathroom at 735, just happened to look up at the sky in my back yard I see orange circular lights rising up from behind a couple of trees. They moved very slow and it was a big wide span it took up in the sky. The orange circles were slowly rotating in a synchronized circle and out of nowhere the sky looked like it opened up and a black hole was slowly growing near the top orange circle.
I also noticed at the bottom of the synchronized orange glowing circle lights they began to come out of the trees more as the craft and black hole moved I saw their was a small triangle along with a longer triangle formed with the orange circle lights. Each orange circle light I noticed were slowly rotating upward in a slow circular motion and they would disappear in the same spot in the sky. The black hole also disappeared as fast as it came in that very same spot each light went away in.
I heard no sounds I did video tape it I was kind o! f freaked out so I did swear in the video and my son who noticed the black hole was telling me mom get inside. I did catch 2 videos of this strange and scary event that took place right in back of my house and I was not able to sleep well at all last night. I do not know who to send my videos in but I have two really good ones.
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Quite bright RED lights above an Irving Gas station on 302, Bartlett I was leaving a rented condo for a trip back to work in the Boston area. There is a procedure to that for leaving: Making sure I'm cleaning up after a quick breakfast, shutting off water and heat, etc. Upon departure I checked the north facing deck on the ground floor for signs of my stuff and looking at the weather.
Dark outside at 5:30. Planning to leave at six. Cloudy conditions with a cloud base probably at 3500 feet, which obscures mountain tops in the area.
Looking across the river valley (Saco), there was a dense mist, cloudy fog. Between the layers was a bright red light. I had on 2.
5 cheater glasses, and went back in to get a 1.00 glasses. I noticed another dim light breaking to the R of the 1st.
It increased in brilliance to the same intensity. Both hovered over Rt 302. two minutes to the same intensity.
Then a 3rd, same increase over two min. watched for minutes, and then they winked out slowly. I've never seen anything but bright ! white lights there at an intersection BELOW that area.
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Fast moving (over 30 miles in 10 minutes), sharp 90 degree turns, solid light with no flashes. Fast moving object overserved traveling over 30 miles in roughly 10 minutes, smoothly through the sky. Not high altitude so I’m ruling out a satellite.
Solid white light. No noise, no flashing lights so I’m ruling out drone or GA. 90 degree sharp turns.
Observed flying above Mason, NH into Manchester and then down to the Westford/Groton area. Observed from a location with long distance views and with over 5 witnesses. People stopped their cars and got out to view.
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Many small white orbs moving in weird directions around sky, one orb glew into bright white light then dimmed back down before dissapearing. At 3 different times in between small white orbs moving around there was big yellow/ orangeish balls of light appeared in the middle of the sky that shot in downward direction very quickly with no tails no sound before dissapearing.
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Red dots in triangle form, stationary, then move slowly in straight line, changing to bright white light, and disappeared. At 11:50pm on July 27,2021, I saw red dots lights in a Christmas tree or triangle form. It was stationary for about a minute, then the dots faded to orange color and began to move slowly forward.
As it moved color changed to white light, like a small fireball or star. After about 3 minutes, the color faded back to the red orange dotted triangle shape, then it receded, and completely disappeared. After 30 minutes, now Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 12:20 AM EST, there appeared TWO of the exact same sighting I just described here.
The second sightings were further away than the initial sighting. Both sightings included being stationary at first, then slow aligned movement, and sudden light fading then complete disappearance. Both lasted about 3 minutes.
They appeared to move to a single same point in the sky before disappearing.
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Saw triangle dotted reddish lights from my bedroom window, which began to slowly move and change to bright light, then disappeared. Saw a bright reddish orange lights in a triangle dotted form. It stayed still at first, then appeared to move very slowly toward me, while looking up from my bedroom window.
The lights changed to bright light, then faded away gradually, then it was gone. Within 10 minutes, now, TWO just appeared, but further away than the first sighting. Again they moved toward me slowly, getting brighter as they moved.
Again they just faded away and we’re gone.
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Some kind of aircraft with an oval of light to accompany it. I was on my way to work when I saw a UFO. The route I use takes me through an area with a history of various UFO sightings and encounters.
I was driving on a backroad, with lots of open space and farmland. I just so happened to look to my right, and I saw a very distant object, hovering in the sky, just above the trees. To the lower left of it was another disk-shaped object, only slightly larger, and glowing white.
Both were stationary but floating. I didn't get to look for long, as I didn't have time to pull over or I would end up being late. I tried to capture what I saw with my phone, but the images and brief video aren't the best quality.
As stated earlier, I do live in an area where UFO sightings are somewhat common. Many of the sightings had been on the exact road I was on. Later, on my way back from work, I took the same route and saw some strange activity then too.
As I was driving in pitch darkness, I saw two different flashes of light, several minutes apart from each other, in completely different locations, that seemed to come from nowhere, with no noise to accompany them.
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Circular white light instant acceleration defy forces of gravity no sound Claremont self storage Washington street My wife and I were emptying out our old storage unit from the end of Washington street Claremont when I saw what I thought was a shooting star I literally said aww babe you missed it. Then it came back and was going back and forth from one side of the sky to the other back and forth performing circles figure rights unbelievable speed no sound from it at all .then it would just stop and shoot straight down to the ground it looked as if it landed or crashed at the top of green mountain road then it would shoot back up at unreal speeds however Everytime it seemed to land there would be a bright white flash of light then back to doing more spins and back and forth maneuvers by the time the first two minutes had past watching this incredible circular white light my wife was so scared she fled to the U-Haul and was yelling to leave this was unbelievable the speed on this object from zero mph to the other side of the sky in less then a second it's not possible with! our current understanding of physics the whole time I'm watching this I'm literally yelling like a fool what are you? Please show yourself! I need to know how they survived the g forces of this display.
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Definitely not an airplane The object changed shape. It first appeared oblong then seemed thin and then back to larger oblong shape. The object seemed to cloak or disappear for a few seconds also.
This all happened as I approached exit 7 on 101 East and then turning onto 125 Calef Highway in Epping NH. I am extremely interested to see if anyone else saw this object. Please send updates if other reports are made.
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MADAR Node 27.
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Football sized metallic object over wing at flying into Boise Thursday 5/26/21 at 4:21pm My daughter - a registered nurse - was flying back to Boise from Boston yesterday, and she says she saw a UFO. She said that as the plane was approaching Boise, just as they were breaking through the cloud layer, she was sitting in the left window seat right over the wing. She was looking out over the wing and an object, “about the size of a football” flew right over the wing toward the wing tip, traveling in the opposite direction (toward the rear of the plane).
She said it was very metallic in color, but could not describe the shape. She said it was not shaped like a football and said it had (angles). She asked the pilot as she left the plane if he had seen it saying “ I asked the pilot he said no but kind of looked suspicious lol like he didn’t want to tell me yes lol.
The flight attendant was like what was it? And I was like I don’t know that’s why I’m asking lol”.
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 11 reported sightings | 35.48% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Other | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Circle | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2021 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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December | 5 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
April | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
July | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Friday | 9 reported sightings | 29.03% of all reports |
Wednesday | 5 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
Thursday | 5 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2021 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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07/27/21 | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
12/03/21 | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
11/11/21 | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
08/16/21 | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
07/16/21 | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
New Hampshire UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 12 reported sightings | 38.71% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 6 reported sightings | 19.35% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 6 reported sightings | 19.35% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
All New Hampshire Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New Hampshire, in 2021
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.