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Oklahoma UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 52 UFO sighting reports in Oklahoma from 2023 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (9 reports, 17.31% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 21.15% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (12 reports, 23.08% of total).
- 05/30/23 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 7.69% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (22 reports, 42.31% of total).
Oklahoma UFO Sighting Reports in 2023
This is a sampling of 20 Oklahoma UFO reports from 2023, 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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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.
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Saw a bright blue light that looked like a star, thought it was weird so I pointed it out. So myself and the two other witnesses were outside our place of work moving some stuff around with a forklift. I turned around and was walking back to open our gate to go back inside and I noticed a bright blue orb in the sky which I thought was a star and was confused because it was the middle of the day.
Once I noticed the light it brightened then went out, but I could see what looked to be a stick standing on its end up and down in front of the cloud. I pointed it out to my coworker who was standing by me and asked if he saw what I was seeing and as I pointed it out to him it brightened itself back to the bright blue light then went out. Around that time as it’s drifting with the clouds to the north I assume trying to hide itself another coworker on the forklift drove up and asked what we were looking at and I pointed it out again and it did the same thing again and then disappeared into the distance with the cloud.
20 to 30 minutes later an Air Force aircraft showed up and was circling the area we saw the craft for like 20 minutes before just flying off.
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Shiny craft with two gray squares towards both ends not moving Driving 65 mph dry weather clear no clouds light wind over the top of buffalo mt I was looking at the cell towers and saw craft above the towers and to the east of them maybe few hundred yards appeared to be couple hundred few higher than towers. I watched it as I was driving and every time I looked at it I could not make out wings or anything except it was whiteish rectangular with gray squares at each end ! And each time I looked at it appeared to be hoovering distance from towers never changed. I did not see wings craft appeared to be still I pulled over and tried to take but trees in way so I drove about 200 yds and pulled over again but craft was gone.
So pics.
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Standing inside the Arkansas River taking pictures seen a triangular craft hovering above While at the Arkansas River in South broken arrow I was taking pictures noticed a triangular craft hovering in the sky I went to switch my tablet over to video and as I looked up it seemed to be a flash of light or like a mirror reflection and then completely disappeared without any movement or sound. I scan the skies around seeing no aircraft heard no aircraft at all.
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Orbs of 1-4 lights that were moving unnaturally in the sky. We work early morning hours and me and my 2 coworkers were outside smoking a cigarette before shift started at 4 am. As we were talking I saw what I thought was a bright star dim and fall slowly out of the sky and didn't think anything of it.
Continued with conversations until 1-2 minutes later I saw the same "star" pop back up where I saw it fall from so at this point, I tell my co workers what I saw and as I did and we were looking at it, it did it again and we all seen it at that point. It continued the same cycle, falling down and dimming and then 5 seconds later it popped back up where it came from out of no where, at one point one of the lights split into 2 separate lights , we saw a triangle formation, there were 3 lights in a straight line at one point, we also have on video, very bad quality, of what looks like a light moving very fast around something circular.
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Bright color changing orb Walked out to Jeep at 8:08pm and somethjng so bright caught my attention and I realized it wasn’t an aircraft/drone/satellite/starlink so I rushed in to tell my wife and she ran out with her phone ok and captured it the best we could. We ruled out satellites and planes from tracking apps and have no idea what it was, but we submitted video as well.
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There are two stationary very bright lights, in line in east to west,.are not stars. I have lived here 25 yrs-never been there.
There are two very bright objects in the sky. Due to the large size of the light they seem rather near, however, one cannot tell how near or far they are. They do not move.
When the sun rises they are no longer visible. These are not stars. The object is a light so i did not check any characteristics below.
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My husband, nephew and myself witnessed 3 plane like objects. At first we thought it was a plane, it had a green light that flashed. They moved too fast to be a jet and did maneuvers we've never seen.
It was 3 but one after the other coming from different directions but all landed in the same area. It would stop and hover, move diagonally, straight down and up before disappearing as it decended to the ground. One came south to north, the second west to east and the third, north to south.
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A bright light rose in the east that would dim completely for about 30 seconds and come back just as bright I noticed a bright light more intense than any star ive seen before rise over the tree tops. At first i thought it was the comet we was expecting until i realized it was barely moving. Every 5 to 10 minutes it would dim completly about 20 seconds then come back as intense as before.
After full sunrise it was undetectable in the sky. Then tonight 09/09/23 at 11 pm i seen it rising above the trees in the exact same spot. Its not a star.
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They looked like birds at first. I was a passenger in the car ,going to family's as usual. I looked up to see,What I thought was two birds.
After watching them. I noticed, the bodys looked round. Very close together.
Where the wings should be ,they looked to be spinning quickly. Along with a jerking movement at the same time.They disappeared off to the NE.
Oklahoma UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 9 reported sightings | 17.31% of all reports |
Circle | 8 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 9.62% of all reports |
Orb | 5 reported sightings | 9.62% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Cube | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Oklahoma UFO Sightings From 2023 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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October | 11 reported sightings | 21.15% of all reports |
May | 9 reported sightings | 17.31% of all reports |
August | 6 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 9.62% of all reports |
June | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
July | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Oklahoma UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 12 reported sightings | 23.08% of all reports |
Saturday | 10 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Sunday | 9 reported sightings | 17.31% of all reports |
Tuesday | 9 reported sightings | 17.31% of all reports |
Wednesday | 6 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Oklahoma UFO Sightings From 2023 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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05/30/23 | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
10/13/23 | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
10/20/23 | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
07/23/23 | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
02/11/23 | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Oklahoma UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 22 reported sightings | 42.31% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 11 reported sightings | 21.15% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 7 reported sightings | 13.46% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 5 reported sightings | 9.62% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 9.62% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
All Oklahoma Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2023
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Oklahoma, in 2023
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Oklahoma
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Oklahoma.