Last updated on May 1, 2024

UFO Sightings In The United States

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in the USA.

How many UFO sightings have there been in the United States?

There have been 131,749 officially reported UFO sightings in the United States from 1969 to 2024, with an average of 0.78 reports per 100,000 citizens made across that timeframe.

What state has the most UFO sightings?

California has the most UFO sightings overall, with 16,116 formally reported UFO sightings.

What state has the most UFO sightings per capita?

Washington has the most UFO sightings per capita, with an average yearly rate of 2.06 reports filed per 100,000 residents.

United States UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 131,749 UFO sighting reports in the USA to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

United States UFO Sightings By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Light 26,212 reported sightings 19.90% of all reports
Circle 14,005 reported sightings 10.63% of all reports
Triangle 11,745 reported sightings 8.91% of all reports
Unknown 8,948 reported sightings 6.79% of all reports
Fireball 8,903 reported sightings 6.76% of all reports
Other 8,797 reported sightings 6.68% of all reports
Sphere 8,368 reported sightings 6.35% of all reports
Disk 7,456 reported sightings 5.66% of all reports
Oval 5,609 reported sightings 4.26% of all reports
Formation 4,342 reported sightings 3.30% of all reports
Changing 3,564 reported sightings 2.71% of all reports
Cigar 3,277 reported sightings 2.49% of all reports
Rectangle 2,336 reported sightings 1.77% of all reports
Cylinder 2,202 reported sightings 1.67% of all reports
Flash 2,174 reported sightings 1.65% of all reports
Diamond 1,849 reported sightings 1.40% of all reports
Chevron 1,550 reported sightings 1.18% of all reports
Egg 1,105 reported sightings 0.84% of all reports
Teardrop 1,091 reported sightings 0.83% of all reports
Orb 745 reported sightings 0.57% of all reports
Cone 506 reported sightings 0.38% of all reports
Cross 447 reported sightings 0.34% of all reports
Star 164 reported sightings 0.12% of all reports
Cube 39 reported sightings 0.03% of all reports
Delta 30 reported sightings 0.02% of all reports

United States 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
July 14,888 reported sightings 11.30% of all reports
August 13,191 reported sightings 10.01% of all reports
September 12,451 reported sightings 9.45% of all reports
October 12,365 reported sightings 9.39% of all reports
June 11,865 reported sightings 9.01% of all reports
November 11,008 reported sightings 8.36% of all reports
December 9,369 reported sightings 7.11% of all reports
January 9,051 reported sightings 6.87% of all reports
May 8,988 reported sightings 6.82% of all reports
April 8,983 reported sightings 6.82% of all reports
March 8,782 reported sightings 6.67% of all reports
February 7,854 reported sightings 5.96% of all reports

United States 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
Saturday 22,899 reported sightings 17.38% of all reports
Friday 18,792 reported sightings 14.26% of all reports
Sunday 18,724 reported sightings 14.21% of all reports
Thursday 17,884 reported sightings 13.57% of all reports
Wednesday 17,544 reported sightings 13.32% of all reports
Tuesday 16,842 reported sightings 12.78% of all reports
Monday 16,110 reported sightings 12.23% of all reports

United States 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
11/07/15 288 reported sightings 0.22% of all reports
07/04/14 269 reported sightings 0.20% of all reports
07/04/10 205 reported sightings 0.16% of all reports
07/04/12 195 reported sightings 0.15% of all reports
11/16/99 187 reported sightings 0.14% of all reports

United States 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
Night 20:00 - 23:59 60,561 reported sightings 45.97% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 23,535 reported sightings 17.86% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 18,975 reported sightings 14.40% of all reports
Early morning 04:00 - 07:59 10,037 reported sightings 7.62% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 8,595 reported sightings 6.52% of all reports
Morning 08:00 - 11:59 7,092 reported sightings 5.38% of all reports

States With The Most UFO Sightings

These are raw UFO sighting report counts per state, from 1969 - 2023. This data is continually updated as new reports come in.

Rank State Number of Reports
1 California 16,116 UFO Reports
2 Florida 8,252 UFO Reports
3 Washington 7,199 UFO Reports
4 Texas 6,165 UFO Reports
5 New York 5,876 UFO Reports
6 Pennsylvania 4,999 UFO Reports
7 Arizona 4,947 UFO Reports
8 Ohio 4,446 UFO Reports
9 Illinois 4,262 UFO Reports
10 North Carolina 3,651 UFO Reports
11 Michigan 3,649 UFO Reports
12 Oregon 3,538 UFO Reports
13 Colorado 3,251 UFO Reports
14 New Jersey 2,876 UFO Reports
15 Missouri 2,786 UFO Reports
16 Indiana 2,715 UFO Reports
17 Georgia 2,707 UFO Reports
18 Virginia 2,694 UFO Reports
19 Massachusetts 2,694 UFO Reports
20 Wisconsin 2,439 UFO Reports
21 Tennessee 2,293 UFO Reports
22 South Carolina 2,240 UFO Reports
23 Minnesota 2,090 UFO Reports
24 Connecticut 2,022 UFO Reports
25 Maryland 1,840 UFO Reports
26 Nevada 1,691 UFO Reports
27 Kentucky 1,679 UFO Reports
28 New Mexico 1,661 UFO Reports
29 Utah 1,519 UFO Reports
30 Oklahoma 1,493 UFO Reports
31 Alabama 1,392 UFO Reports
32 Idaho 1,358 UFO Reports
33 Arkansas 1,285 UFO Reports
34 Iowa 1,225 UFO Reports
35 New Hampshire 1,193 UFO Reports
36 Maine 1,187 UFO Reports
37 Kansas 1,185 UFO Reports
38 Louisiana 1,120 UFO Reports
39 Montana 994 UFO Reports
40 West Virginia 904 UFO Reports
41 Mississippi 777 UFO Reports
42 Nebraska 694 UFO Reports
43 Hawaii 665 UFO Reports
44 Alaska 635 UFO Reports
45 Vermont 607 UFO Reports
46 Rhode Island 597 UFO Reports
47 Delaware 415 UFO Reports
48 Wyoming 414 UFO Reports
49 South Dakota 395 UFO Reports
50 North Dakota 271 UFO Reports

States With The Most UFO Sightings Per Capita (Yearly Average)

These are the per capita UFO sighting report statistics per state, from 1969 - 2023.

These per capita amounts are calculated on a yearly basis as follows: we take the number of reports made in a state in one year, divide by the state's population for that year, multiply by 100,000 to get the "per 100k" measurement, and finally average these yearly per capita amounts to achieve an overall yearly per capita amount for each state.

Rank State Yearly Average Reports
1 Washington 2.06 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
2 Montana 1.86 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
3 Vermont 1.75 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
4 Alaska 1.74 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
5 Oregon 1.74 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
6 New Hampshire 1.67 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
7 Idaho 1.63 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
8 Arizona 1.62 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
9 Maine 1.60 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
10 New Mexico 1.55 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
11 Nevada 1.46 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
12 Wyoming 1.37 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
13 Colorado 1.24 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
14 Utah 1.07 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
15 Connecticut 1.01 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
16 Rhode Island 0.99 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
17 Hawaii 0.91 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
18 South Carolina 0.90 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
19 Delaware 0.86 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
20 Florida 0.85 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
21 Missouri 0.85 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
22 South Dakota 0.85 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
23 West Virginia 0.85 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
24 California 0.82 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
25 Arkansas 0.81 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
26 Wisconsin 0.78 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
27 Indiana 0.76 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
28 Kansas 0.75 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
29 North Carolina 0.73 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
30 Iowa 0.72 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
31 Massachusetts 0.72 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
32 Minnesota 0.72 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
33 Oklahoma 0.72 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
34 Kentucky 0.71 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
35 North Dakota 0.70 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
36 Pennsylvania 0.70 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
37 Nebraska 0.68 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
38 Ohio 0.68 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
39 Tennessee 0.67 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
40 Michigan 0.65 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
41 Virginia 0.63 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
42 Illinois 0.60 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
43 Maryland 0.58 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
44 New Jersey 0.58 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
45 Georgia 0.54 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
46 Alabama 0.53 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
47 New York 0.53 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
48 Texas 0.49 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
49 Mississippi 0.48 UFO Reports per 100k Residents
50 Louisiana 0.44 UFO Reports per 100k Residents

Years with Reported UFO Sightings in the USA

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in the USA.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 642 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 3,831 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 4,239 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 3,411 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 6,898 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 6,040 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 3,360 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 4,860 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 5,451 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 6,594 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 8,189 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 7,191 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 7,501 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 5,229 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 4,294 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 4,341 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 4,751 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 4,132 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 3,237 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 3,836 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 3,913 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 3,557 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 3,013 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 3,004 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 2,712 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 2,759 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 1,788 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 1,327 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 905 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 1,414 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 469 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 340 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 297 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 263 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1991
1990 284 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1990
1989 294 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 266 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 250 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 214 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1986
1985 244 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1985
1984 204 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 200 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 215 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1982
1981 200 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1981
1980 285 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1980
1979 284 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 380 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 330 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 334 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 358 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 307 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 281 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 199 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 134 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1971
1970 173 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 179 UFO Reports United States UFO Sightings in 1969

20 Most Recent UFO Sighting Reports in the United States

These UFO reports are presented exactly as they were made, other than some paragraph breaks added to improve readability. Click the Report link to view any associated pictures submitted with the report to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).

Willsboro, NY

Full Report Text:

Saw 5-6 white cylindrical objects floating from NW to SE I observed multiple white objects floating in the sky. They went by one at a time for 15-20 min.

04/26/24 9:45 AM

UFO Shape: cylinder

Lasted: 20 minutes

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Schenectady, NY

Full Report Text:

Flat square, white one side and dark metallic grey on other, tumbling and flapping through the air near a turkey vulture, similar size I was driving home from work, on I-90 exit 25, on the bridge going over 90. I looked up ahead and saw a turkey vulture and a flat, square object with white on one side and dark metallic grey on the other flying next to it. The square object was flapping and tumbling through the air, almost trying to imitate the turkey vulture, but it was very obviously a flat square and not a bird.

There was no wind, and it was very high up. The object never changed dimensions but was flexible and mobile, appearing to stay a float without wings or wind. It almost looked like a large piece of square paper and was flexible in the same way.

I wanted to observe longer but it was rush hour, lots of traffic, unable to pull off to the side. I could not see it in my rearview mirror but the direction I was driving also changed. I am sure other drivers must have noticed it as well, but I cannot confirm anyone in particular other than myself.

I am a Physician Assistant for background and am of sound mind. I was unable to get a picture or a video as I was driving. The pictures I have attached are me trying to recreate what I saw.

The post-it note has lines on one side and blank on the other, like the object was white on one side with dark grey metallic color on other, and at times could just see one side of it vs when bent and flapping form.

04/25/24 4:53 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 15 seconds

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Captain Cook, HI

Full Report Text:

Maybe military vessels with a military helicopter overhead I saw out on the horizon what looked at first like a large island. Then I saw a military helicopter circling above. As I focused in I noticed it was vessels possibly military.

I started taking pictures and captured a large UFO high above the ships then lowered and hovered above the vessels. Two orb like UFOs appeared out of the ocean and i caught a picture of those .i actually was trying to photograph what looked like a floating island and caught site of the UFOs by accident.

What got my attention in the beginning was the military helicopter probably from Pohakuloa military installation on Mauna Kea.

04/25/24 3:42 PM

UFO Shape: cylinder

Lasted: 20 minutes

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Sweetwater, TN

Full Report Text:

Lights that fade in and out moving really fast! I work on a farm and a couple years ago while at work I saw a light that just kept getting real bright and then moved really fast across the sky and faded out. Sometimes there will be 3 or 4 lights at the same time! This is still happening to this day. It will happen in the same area over about a 2 month period and then stop for about a month and then they will just start showing up again but at a different spot and show up there every night for about 2 months and it just keeps going back and forth between the 2 spots.

I know for a fact that these are not airplanes or helicopters because I can watch planes fly by while these are showing up and they are just way too different, there is no noise and some of the moves these lights make is just incredible! I could show anyone these lights! I don't have a good camera to capture them with. I have filmed them on my phone before but it just looks like a light in the sky. The phone camera doesn't do it justice! Anyways thats my report.

I wish I could figure out what Im seeing. There have been other sightings in this area. One by my brother.

If you have any questions please reach out! Thanks.

04/25/24 3:00 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: Currently Ongoing

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Reynoldsburg, OH

Full Report Text:

Caught a round glowing white object on my Blink doorbell camera that seemed to be lowering in orbit on an arc toward Earth:S to N Camera caught the image for about 5 seconds of total video but could have been happening longer as my camera was set to take multiple shots an hour at the time of the video capture. It seemed almost completely round. Glowing bright white.

Moving from Southern Sky toward Northern Sky in an arc toward the ground(?)/lower horizon Could have been a satellite or plane but I have never caught anything like it before.

04/25/24 1:26 AM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 5 seconds

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Indianapolis, IN

Full Report Text:

Two craft with a triangle light formation on the bottom and a flashing strobe light and zero engine noise flew past when I was outside. I went outside around 11:40 PM EST to let my dogs out in the front yard of my house. Shortly after going outside, I noticed two blinking lights somewhat off in the distance, moving in the sky from north to south.

As the lights got closer, I could start to see a triangle light formation on the bottom of the craft. There was also a blinking white strobe light on both crafts. I could make out the same triangle light formation on both crafts.

Both crafts appeared to be identical. I could not see the craft clearly enough to make out its entire shape. I could mostly just see the triangle light formation and a blinking strobe light.

But there was enough light to tell that these triangle lights were attached or part of the craft and not just floating lights. The two crafts were flying one in front of the other but with a safe enough distance between them. I would estimate the crafts' size to be about equal to a small or medium-sized fighter jet, like an F-16 or F-15, for example.

The crafts made absolutely no sound whatsoever. No engine noises. No visible engine exhaust or afterburner.

I would say these crafts were flying at about the same level you would expect a helicopter to be at if it were flying across a city. They were flying relatively slowly. At this point of viewing the craft for maybe about a minute, I decided to run inside and get my phone as fast as I could to film.

The time it took me to get my phone and start the video is probably about a minute. Unfortunately, I was not able to film when they were close enough to make out the triangle light formation. I filmed the craft continuing to fly north to south over the city of Indianapolis.

By the time you see the craft in the video, I would say they are over downtown Indianapolis or possibly the Indianapolis International Airport. The craft flew in a relatively straight line when I could see them close. By the time they get over more of the city, they seem to be farther apart than when I first saw them.

I wanted to go down to the end of the street to keep filming but decided to take the dogs inside first. By the time I came back outside, I could no longer see either of the crafts. I stayed outside continuing to look at the sky.

3-5 minutes after returning outside from letting the dogs in, I noticed a small white orb high in the sky. It appeared much higher in the sky than the two crafts I had witnessed. I saw the orb moving slowly in the sky for about 5 seconds when it suddenly vanished into thin air.

I continued going in and outside for a few hours to see if any of the crafts returned, but clouds rolled in, and I did not see anything else that night. A few details about the video: During the video, there appear to be three lights in the sky, but the light furthest to the right is a star, I believe. There also appear to be some bugs flying around near the camera at the end of the video.

I did not have my camera’s auto-rotate feature on, and at one point in the video, I turned the camera horizontally, causing the video to be sideways. I do not have any video of the white orb I saw; it was gone before I could turn my camera back on. I would consider myself very knowledgeable about what most military aircraft and helicopters from World War II and newer look and sound like.

I read about military aviation quite frequently and have been to many airshows.

04/24/24 11:40 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 5 min

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Munfordville, KY

Full Report Text:

I was looking through my telescope and took a picture and it was on live. I noticed a black circle aircraft flying off the moon A black circular aircraft was seen flying off of the moon’s surface and was witnessed by 2 people. I have video evidence.

04/24/24 9:30 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 5 seconds

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Chicago, IL

Full Report Text:

Ellipsoid-shaped reflective UFO gliding at high speed over the University of Chicago What at first appeared to be a drone emerged into my sightline as I was sitting on the fifth floor of the Regenstein Library. As I put on my glasses, it didn't appear to be any kind of drone I knew. The UFO was metallic, almost a silver color, with a darker line in between the top and the bottom of the oval-shaped chassis.

I was in the Air Force for six years, and would consider myself to be a professional plane-spotter. This was not an aircraft that I am familiar with. It moved similarly to a helicopter or drone, but had no propellers or engines that were visible.

It moved fairly fast, at what I'd estimate to be 350 knots. I pulled out my phone to take a single photograph, which thankfully is a live photo (a short 2 second video), but the UFO was gone before I got a second one. As the UFO was moving, it was spinning in the air, which is visible in the photo.

There appears to be a small beam in front of the UFO, but it may appear to be something pulling it along. As you can see in the picture, the sky was incredibly clear with few clouds.

04/24/24 3:41 PM

UFO Shape: oval

Lasted: 30 seconds

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Cove City, NC

Full Report Text:

My wife and I were sitting outside and I noticed something coming over the treeline towards a big swamp behind our house. We were sitting outside enjoying the day and I got up to walk around and saw this object that looked like a possible drone swarm. We both started watching it and I noticed it acted with a hive or swarm mentality.

This object climbed in altitude rapidly and was soon as high as the jets vapor trails. My wife and I both recorded this on video.

04/23/24 2:00 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: 10 minutes

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Morgantown, WV

Full Report Text:

Floating green orbs above tree line I was looking for my cat behind my apartment I noticed a green illumination and heard a faint humming near the wooded area across the creek at this point I looked up in to the trees my first thought was lightening bugs but it hasn't been warm enough for them these orbs seemed to notice I was looking at them and began to flee very panicked yet organized they moved quickly and the humming intensified they stayed low in the wooded area. I rule out drones due to the heavily wooded area and size of the objects very small but got bigger as they grouped together above the trees and strobed until disappearing. After seeing this I went back inside and remember nothing from that point I have a few lumps under my skin above my knee that where never there before.

I would rather talk in person I'm afraid to share my story and fear the government.

04/21/24 9:52 PM

UFO Shape: orb

Lasted: 5 minutes

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Honolulu, HI

Full Report Text:

Saw this twice in one week. Saw on Thursday on north shore cause in Live Photo today unknowingly. Saucer.

04/21/24 3:50 PM

UFO Shape: changing

Lasted: Seconds

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Rancho Cordova, CA

Full Report Text:

Silver looking object/reflecting sun with what appears to be strings underneath it Silver object that appeared to reflect the sun- very high in the sky and changing between being static and moving at significant pace. String looking objects underneath it. Moving NE to SW.

04/21/24 1:10 PM

UFO Shape: teardrop

Lasted: 30minutes+

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St Louis, MO

Full Report Text:

Start faint white flash ZigZag then abrupt turns impossible aerodynamics quick change multiple flash outline of larger one. Releasing of Chinese sky lanterns, windy but clear skies to start out with. Start seeing very faint white movements.

Then the flashes really start being more visible as they ZigZag. Some points they look like dots then almost like a sideways oval. Then suddenly there's 3 that expands into multiple ones appear and almost outlined a what faintly looks like a larger object.

At about 4 mins 37 secs-4 min 46 secs you see zigzaging then what is very bright light far away like supersonically appears to be coming right at us almost looks like a shooting star until it randomly reversed direction headed back way it came quick a lighting disappeared. There was absolutely no sound and the sound barrier was never broken that we're aware of.

04/20/24 8:53 PM

UFO Shape: changing

Lasted: 20 mins

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Sacramento, CA

Full Report Text:

Appeared glowing orange at first until the lights went out. A gray circular or square rotating object hovered over us. Me and my son were walking our dog over the bridge overpassing the City College Station (WB) by Sacramento City College.

We stopped to see if we could get a look at the Pons-Brook comet but no luck due to light pollution. However, I noticed a glowing orange orb coming towards our direction (West to East) just above Land Park which is adjacent to the front of City College (Freeport Blvd area). As the object got closer to us, the orange light appeared to go out completely revealing a grey or silver like sphere-like object rotating while moving.

As it (zoomed slowly) or hovered right above and pass our heads. It was far away but closer to us than a normal aircraft would fly so I'd say about 100 feet up at least. It went right past us towards Highway 99 (going pass it) and disappeared into the night sky.

The orange light never came back on, so we followed it by eye the best that we could. I thought it to be a drone of some sort but where is this drone operator? And it was a silent.

04/20/24 8:46 PM

UFO Shape: orb

Lasted: 3 Minutes

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Chicago, IL

Full Report Text:

Fireball lights that moved in sky then disappeared behind the night sky I was sitting on my bed when i looked at my security camera and noticed circular lights on the screen. At first i thought they were fireflies but the lights appeared to be at a further distance. I got up and looked out my bedroom window on the second floor and witnessed what appeared to be fireballs in the sky but they were moving.

I immediately woke my husband up and told him to look at the sky, “i think i see UAPs”. He looked and said, “Yeah, that does look strange”. I then ran to another window fully facing east and saw the orange lights flicker then ascend behind the night clouds.

I believe my neighbor’s guests witnessed it too because they had a drone flying, looking East. I also noticed an aircraft flying high in the direction of the lights before they disappeared but this could not be caught in the camera. I reviewed my security camera that captured the lights moving as well as one light that appeared to shoot upwards after appearing to be close to the ground.

When I rewinded the footage it appears that the sky flashed like an impending lightning then a few minutes later the lights appeared. Perhaps the flash was when they entered the atmosphere. I noticed there was another sighting tonight caught on the security camera, this time at 20:25pm.

There were only two crafts this time.

04/20/24 8:16 PM

UFO Shape: fireball

Lasted: 4 mins

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Las Vegas, NV

Full Report Text:

Hovered in air for far too long to be falling space junk. Not a weather balloon Was leaving the area and heading west when I saw a black object floating in sky. Moving too slowly to be falling.

Did not appear to be weather balloons or bunch of balloons. There are two Air Force bases in the vicinity so we see a lot in the sky but nothing like this over civilization.

04/20/24 7:23 PM

UFO Shape: unknown

Lasted: Couple of minutes

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Crooks, SD

Full Report Text:

Stationary object seen hovering with no movement from the wind. Object shimmered out of vision, reappeared, the shimmered out again. 10 ft wide, black triangular object seen near power lines easy of the interstate north of Sioux Falls SD.

Object did not move, even in high winds. Object shimmered, then disappeared from view. Object reappeared ~100 yards away, was visible, the again shimmered, briefly going between visible and invisible, before disappearing.

Myself and my traveling companion saw the object. We were sober, listening to a podcast. I enjoy pointing out various types of birds while driving.

This was absolutely not a bird, did not look like a quadcopter, was not moving forward/backward, or up and down.

04/20/24 1:30 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 20 seconds

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Coeur d'Alene, ID

Full Report Text:

Multiple silver reflective orbs dancing in the sky. They made v shapes periodically. Kayaking early afternoon.

My wife and I went kayaking About 12pm this afternoon. We moved around tubbs hill. We noticed a collection of reflective orbs changing shapes and reflecting in and out of the light on the 3rd street entrance side.

It was about 1:03pm. They appeared silver and round with no obvious drone like propeller blades. We observed them in broad day light for about 6 to 8 minutes.

Changing patterns and moving in random at the same time. They did not seem to emit any sound. We watched as they collectively headed northeast.

Over the course of observing them, they achieved a variety of positions in the air, including v shaped patterns.

04/20/24 1:03 PM

UFO Shape: orb

Lasted: 9:00minutes

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Clark Fork, ID

Full Report Text:

Reddish shovel shaped aircraft, which appeared to be jet propelled, passed fairly quietly over north face of Scotchman Peak. I and three friends happened to be in the right place at the right time to see a strange aircraft fly past our position. The aircraft was jet-propelled, I feel fairly certain of this because its sound was very much in line with the sound of a small civilian jet aircraft, and also because the craft had visible inlets and exhaust.

The weird parts about this thing were as follows: 1 color. The whole thing was red, orangeish-red, not actually quite rust red, but I'm not sure of the name for the hue it was. 2 shape of the airframe.

The thing had all the parts of a modern man-made aircraft; engines, verticle stabilizer, seemingly viable wing/airfoil, and tinted black canopy. The weird bits were that the top-down or bottom-up view of the thing was shovel-shaped. I can't really think of any other way to describe it, the leading edges and trailing edges of the wing curved out from the aircraft center but came to a point at the nose and to brief straight back lines at the wingtips.

We saw the craft in what appeared to be a gradual bank as it passed our vantage point. 3 it left no contrails or any other sort of vapor or exhaust trail, this in spite of flying fast enough to produce a vapor trail. 4 the sound of its engines sounded too weak for its apparent speed suggested by the vapor cone and the short duration of our sighting.

The other three of us assumed collectively that what we saw must be some new military stealth tech, given the craft's fuselage was blended into the wing and did not protrude from the leading or trailing edge, which reminded us of a stealth bomber, but I'm uncertain for the following reasons: 1 once again color, why the hell does someone paint their advanced military jet like it’s a barn? 2 the tubes that seemed to house the engine were not blended into the fuselage very well, and sort of appeared to sit atop the base of the wing either side of the fuselage, this plus the straight upwards sizable vertical stabilizer seem like they would destroy the stealth capabilities of the design. 3 no hardpoints or weapons of any kind were visible. I'm not sure who built that jet or how to explain its weird characteristics.

I'm also not really sure if this counts as a UFO, but I've been thinking about this nonstop since I saw it, and my friends started to tease me about it. I needed to get my thoughts out somewhere, and was also curious to see if anyone else had filed a report of similar description, nobody has as far as I could find.

04/19/24 7:49 PM

UFO Shape: other

Lasted: only about 10 seconds max

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Scottsdale, AZ

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We saw in the eastern sky a large bank of very orange lights in a rectangular shape the lights lasted about 15 sec and faded out This thing was huge! The light were solid in color and faded out in about five seconds. My lady and I saw this object.

04/18/24 8:50 PM

UFO Shape: rectangle

Lasted: 15/20 sec

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