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Oklahoma UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1,493 UFO sighting reports in Oklahoma to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (303 reports, 20.29% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (172 reports, 11.52% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (251 reports, 16.81% of total).
- 07/04/12 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (12 reports, 0.80% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (96 reports, 6.43% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (677 reports, 45.34% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Oklahoma
These Oklahoma 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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Bright flash in the sky. Then light dimmed to no light. UFO had additional lights.
Another bright flash and it was gone I was watching the sunset and it had just went down. I seen a bright light that lasted around 1-3 seconds come from the light west and I thought might have been a star or planet. So I looked again and it looked like an aircraft with red flashing lights.
I thought maybe the reflection of the sun off the aircraft. So I kept observing to see if I could see the white light again. After around 5-10 seconds the white light appeared again and the UFO was gone from the sky.
Appeared to be at high altitude maybe 20k-40k feet.
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Lights appear, then disappear. Would sometimes show up as 1, or 2, or 3. While on patrol, we would see lights appear and disappear.
We thought we were seeing Drones, so we took off to investigate. We then observed the lights appeared to move in a pattern, then disappear to reappear at a different area. The lights would then proceed to move in a different rotation.
We observed approximately 3 at the same time. We proceeded to try and get closer. We were unable to get close enough.
We then suddenly observed the lights/orbs directly behind us.
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Driving westbound just after sunset, a glowing orb of light in the SW sky was hovering and moving sound a localized position. Driving westbound with my 6 year old daughter after sunset. The sky overhead was clear, but I saw what appeared to be a glow behind a haze of grey clouds.
I thought I was seeing the moon at first and continued observing it because the light was not right, it was too small to be the moon. As I watched, a pinprick of very bright light emerged from the haze and moved abruptly south, approximately 1.5 inches distance in my field of vision.
It then moved westward again and the haze returned. A circular halo of clouds/haze appeared to “puff” away from the light and the ring of it had a very distinct glow against the backdrop and was moving very fast away from the center point. I kept glancing back to the light for the remainder of my drive, and it slowly faded it receded over the course of about 4 minutes.
My daughter saw it as well and kept asking me what it was/what was happening with “that weird light.”.
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Saw a equal sided black triangle traveling east to west at seemingly high altitude. I was on my daily walk at appx 12:30pm. It was partly cloudy and coolish for early March.
High altitude jets were forming contrails and one caught my attention maybe 30 degrees south of my zenith. I could barely make out the jet but noticed what I thought was a high soaring bird in that same line of sight. But the bird flew exactly ahead of the jet and stayed there.
I focused my eyes and realized the bird was a solid black triangle about the same size as the jet (if they were indeed at the same relative altitude as they seemed to be). They flew in and out of the clouds for about 3 minutes before I could no longer see them. I took 4 phone camera photos, (just aim and shoot) but they aren't of much value.
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Slow moving apparently HUGE object (based on visibility of NIR reflectance). Nothing on FlightRadar at time. I run a 24x7 NIR camera UAP monitoring station with 3 cameras pointing at same section of the northern sky.
Conventional aircraft, balloons and bird show high NIR reflectance. This object was very dim on the NIR camera (as you can see in the video) and if as far away as it seemed, very slow moving.
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There were three of us in the car but they did not see the object. This is not a UFO report. This is a question that I hope someone will help me understand.
On February 4, 2024, I was traveling from Duncan Oklahoma to Fort Worth Texas.We had traveled about 30 to 35 minutes from Duncan on Hwy 81 going south. When a light appeared in front of me.
It was at an angle of about 45 degrees. It appeared as a small circular, bright light, maybe six eight inches in diameter. With a visible splendor around it.
Moving backwards, in the direction that we were traveling. It looked like an eye that was looking straight at me. After maybe 10 or 15 seconds I had to look down at the road, just for an instance and the light had disappeared.
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At first I saw one First thought it was a jet going south. Then the object disappeared. Then the object reappeared.
The object disappeared again. Then there were two objects, circling each other. One object disappeared.
Other object was stationary for about 5 seconds, then disappeared. My phone cannot capture the objects when I tried to take a video. Later four objects appear circling each other, then disappeared.
This kept happening for about 10 minutes.
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with 23 Starlink satellites.
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Seen the blue white oval object dart right to left from upstairs windows. When I fist witnessed It was stationary. Went upstairs to make sure computers were shut down, I saw a white blue oval object directly North, approximately pea size at arms length, it was stationary.
It immediately darted from my right window (East) through the second and vanished from sight by the third window( West). Sighting duration less than 1 second. Object instantaneous accelerated from a stationary position.
I’m a former MUFON investigator. Weather Conditions: 37 degrees, clear sky’s with clouds in the distance; object darted parallel to horizon in a straight line R to L. Elevation was approximately 1000 ft.
I estimate the distance away was with (1) one to (2) two miles. I instantly looked at satellite apps and flight radar apps to rule out mundane objects, none were noted. Proceeded outside and did not observe any object and/or probable cause for said object.
This is not the first time I have seen unusual objects in my vicinity. I live close to Will Rogers Airport and am quite familiar with airplanes. I’m only reporting this sighting to support any witness who might come forward with a similar sighting in this timeframe.
We all know lights in the sky don’t prove much.
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As many as 4 lights were simultaneously observed corroborated with no less than 6-7 other aircraft on Denver Center Lights observed from the flight deck from what appeared to be slightly above or co-altitude with us in the 30's (32000-34000') from a consistent 280 heading over the 600+ mile flight northbound from dfw to rapid city. Distance to lights could not be determined as they were above the horizon. Lights would fade in from a dim red orange and intensely brighten for about 10 seconds before fading away.
Lights would often move in different directions including directions that would not make sense for satellites. It was not starlink or meteors stars or planets as some lights moved upward and others downward towards the horizon. Lights would occasionally abruptly change direction and velocity with the appearance of dancing or rotating around each other.
Lights were observed from a constant direction but were in no discernable formation. Witnessed by both flight crew and as many as 7 or more aircraft on frequency transiting from as far as the east coast to over Colorado from what we heard.
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Points of light maneuvering in upper atmosphere Flying a corporate jet at 43000 feet on a 290 heading. First saw several lights (usually 2 turning circles or zipping up and down diagonally but sometimes up to 4) at extremely high altitude at great distance at our 10-11oclock over Oklahoma City. So to the southwest of our position.
These lights came in and out of sight at about 5 minute intervals for approx 1 hour. Also varied in brightness from very bright to dim with no apparent pattern to that. Always staying in exactly the same place in our windshield so they paved us for at least 400 miles.
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Light/flying object that was flying at extremely high speed and then vanished. I was driving in my car and looked up with a traveling/moving light caught my eye that was moving really fast. I looked up as I saw it traveling extremely fast in a Western direction.
It was glowing blue in the dark sky. Just like that it looked like it just suddenly vanished.
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Lights changing directions There was one bright light, with 3 smaller lights on the horizon to the east. The smaller lights were up, down, side to side, crisscrossing each other. They Would be bright, then dim or disappear, then be seen in another part of the sky.
Radios were staticy, animals going crazy, animal behaviours were different.
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While driving on 2 going I noticed a black line in the sky that I thought might be an eagle. No wings, head, tail. Black cigar shape I was driving on Hwy.
2 moving SE toward Clayton, OK. At first I was noticing contrails in the sky. I saw a black dot way up in the sky thinking it might be a hawk or an eagle.
I continued to watch as it got closer to me and realized that it might be a government drone. It had no wings was black and cigar shaped. It was at least 1000 ft in the air and moving from the SE to the NW.
I have never seen anything like this. I know what drones look like but this did not have an apparent propulsion system. I do not know what I saw, I did not stop my car to watch as it went above my car.
I was not looking for any strange flying object. I cannot unsee what I saw and it puzzles me. I would like to have an explanation of what I saw in the daytime over rural Oklahoma.
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White light moving across sky expels plume. White circular light moving in what seemed to be a fog on a clear night. It moved across the sky staying as a white circle for a few minutes.
It appeared to stop, change shapes, get brighter, then a plume expelled from it. Before the plume happened you could see a perfect circle in the center, inside another circle. There is a moment before the plume that the white light reforms as a triangle inside the circle.
Then it started to head away from us and became dimmer.
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It was not a craft. More like laser light repeating in same pattern. In the same location.
Starting and stopping. 9-10 times. It made me think of the China satellite in China.
At first we thought it was a shooting star. But the light repeated the same pattern from the same start point to the same end point at least 8-10 times. It didn't move that fast.
And was faint. And when the faint cloud seem to pass we could no longer see it. It was a consistent and purposeful duration.
I think a laser from a satellite.
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3 lights appeared in the sky and flew in triangle formation & then disappeared one at a time I enjoy coffee every morning while watching the sky. I look for different celestial objects and the international space station. I even have an app that helps me understand what I am seeing.
On the morning of October 20th at approximately 6:45am I was stargazing and enjoying the view of Jupiter. Suddenly 3 lights appeared in the western sky between Jupiter and the horizon from my vantage point on my front porch. The 3 lights were moving North in a triangle formation for about 1 minute.
I tried to grab my phone to record, but when I looked back up 2 of the lights had disappeared and then the 3rd light disappeared. The lights did not fade or leave a trail. It’s as if the lights were snuffed out.
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Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS.
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Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS.
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Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS.
Oklahoma 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 | 303 reported sightings | 20.29% of all reports |
Circle | 158 reported sightings | 10.58% of all reports |
Triangle | 142 reported sightings | 9.51% of all reports |
Unknown | 124 reported sightings | 8.31% of all reports |
Other | 111 reported sightings | 7.43% of all reports |
Sphere | 83 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Disk | 83 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Fireball | 80 reported sightings | 5.36% of all reports |
Oval | 54 reported sightings | 3.62% of all reports |
Formation | 53 reported sightings | 3.55% of all reports |
Changing | 52 reported sightings | 3.48% of all reports |
Cigar | 48 reported sightings | 3.22% of all reports |
Rectangle | 39 reported sightings | 2.61% of all reports |
Cylinder | 31 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Flash | 22 reported sightings | 1.47% of all reports |
Chevron | 14 reported sightings | 0.94% of all reports |
Teardrop | 13 reported sightings | 0.87% of all reports |
Diamond | 12 reported sightings | 0.80% of all reports |
Egg | 12 reported sightings | 0.80% of all reports |
Cone | 10 reported sightings | 0.67% of all reports |
Orb | 6 reported sightings | 0.40% of all reports |
Cross | 5 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
Cube | 2 reported sightings | 0.13% of all reports |
Oklahoma 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 | 172 reported sightings | 11.52% of all reports |
October | 169 reported sightings | 11.32% of all reports |
November | 156 reported sightings | 10.45% of all reports |
August | 144 reported sightings | 9.65% of all reports |
September | 120 reported sightings | 8.04% of all reports |
June | 119 reported sightings | 7.97% of all reports |
May | 117 reported sightings | 7.84% of all reports |
December | 108 reported sightings | 7.23% of all reports |
January | 98 reported sightings | 6.56% of all reports |
April | 91 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
March | 81 reported sightings | 5.43% of all reports |
February | 76 reported sightings | 5.09% of all reports |
Oklahoma 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 | 251 reported sightings | 16.81% of all reports |
Wednesday | 227 reported sightings | 15.20% of all reports |
Friday | 212 reported sightings | 14.20% of all reports |
Tuesday | 207 reported sightings | 13.86% of all reports |
Sunday | 197 reported sightings | 13.19% of all reports |
Monday | 185 reported sightings | 12.39% of all reports |
Thursday | 172 reported sightings | 11.52% of all reports |
Oklahoma 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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07/04/12 | 12 reported sightings | 0.80% of all reports |
12/01/01 | 9 reported sightings | 0.60% of all reports |
10/24/20 | 6 reported sightings | 0.40% of all reports |
04/16/20 | 5 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
11/12/19 | 5 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
Oklahoma 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 | 677 reported sightings | 45.34% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 241 reported sightings | 16.14% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 239 reported sightings | 16.01% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 127 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 93 reported sightings | 6.23% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 74 reported sightings | 4.96% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Oklahoma
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Oklahoma.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Oklahoma
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Oklahoma