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Vermont UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 607 UFO sighting reports in Vermont to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (132 reports, 21.75% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (73 reports, 12.03% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (104 reports, 17.13% of total).
- 11/20/13 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (10 reports, 1.65% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (66 reports, 10.87% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (294 reports, 48.43% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Vermont
These Vermont 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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Witnessed 2 inverted bowl shaped craft with very bright rotating flashing lights - white, green, red Aprox 10:15 pm we saw a hovering object with blinking lights. Using binoculars we clearly saw an inverted bowl shaped craft of large size - larger than a commercial airliner. It was rapidly rotating with bright flashing white, green and red lights.
Craft was clearly and easily seen with binocs. Hovered for at least 15 minutes then move further away. Then we noticed another of the same craft off to the right of the original which became more distant.
We were viewing out our west facing condo window. We have seen identical crafts for many years at our previous location in Hyde Park VT. However this was the best view of this craft where we could very clearly see the shape as an inverted bowl or maybe a rounded triangle.
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Very bright yellow light in the low sky that changed to a very dim red blinking light Sitting in my living room looking out westward toward West Fairlee where there was a very bright yellow light in the low sky, probably 4-6 miles away moving very slowly from the west toward the south. I stepped outside on the patio as it was really bright, see small planes all the time in the area but this did not have a visible shape or making any sound. Right after I stepped outside to look an actual plane flew south to north, red & green blinking lights and could hear the delayed engine sound, the bright light was still to the west when even further out west I hear a fighter jet flying north from south(common sight).
as soon as I heard the jet sound, the bright yellow light immediately faded out to a barely noticeable blinking red light that i had to really squint to see. I tried to keep eyes on it as it moved to the south until it was out of my field of sight, no sound of engines or anything.silent.
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Small circular object in sky with flashing lights which hovered about 5-10 miles away in the sky for 40 minutes Saw a flying circle object which I intentionally believed to be geological survey lights from the nearby mountain but realized it wasn't that, it was hovering in the SE direction and moving slowly towards Hanover, NH. It had flashing lights that were not fast or slow just changing color subtly. Tried to sight it on a telescope but could not zoom in on time before it disappeared.
3 aircraft in Lebanon/Hanoever area on radar but not anywhere near where it was.
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Strange fast moving blinking lights on horizon which was too silent for a regular aircraft I went to lock up my chickens in my backyard. I live in a rural part of town and the sky was dark with no stars visible. I saw two strange lights moving and blinking at a speed way too fast for a regular airplane of that height.
I’m an army veteran too and can tell whether it’s a regular air craft or not. I’ve seen these lights before and this was one of the first times I was able to get it on camera. The nearest airport is too small for fast moving aircraft, and the nearest big one (BTV) doesn’t generally have fast moving planes but I’ve seen some F35’s, however those planes are very loud and these lights were dead silent.
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I did not see a UFO. I experienced an extraterrestrial. I don't expect any reader to believe this, but I have had regular experiences with beings who don't have human forms (for the past 7 years or so) who seem to be from places other than Earth.
One has made regular contact with me for the past couple of years, and this morning he appeared very powerfully during my meditation and said that I should report my experience with him through a website, and that the website would not be a government-run one but that certain people from the government would be reviewing the information. He told me to report that he is Centaurion (from Centaurus, I assume) and that he can provide information about technology that will enable humans to identify non-human frequencies or energy or something like that (energy with ET origins on Earth). I'm not a scientist, so I don't really know anything about that.
Anyway, I recognize that I probably sound either delusional or like a conspiracy theorist, and I am neither, though I don't expect you to believe that via this submission. I should mention that this particular being does not appear in a solid form and is not discernible to most people.
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Stationary blinking light, then exceptionally fast traveling light As I was looking out of a skylight in my house, I saw a blinking light that I thought was an airplane, but the blinking was a different frequency than an airplane and it was only white, not white and red (not navigation lights). Then the blinking stopped. Then, the light lit up and flew away to the north faster than anything I’ve ever seen in the sky.
It wasn’t a shorting star - the chances of looking up and seeing a blinking light and then a “shooting star” in the same place in the sky at the same time are impossibly small.
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Green light flash in the sky approx 100 yards from intersection on a diamond-esque, dark colored shape low in the sky, vanished I was driving to work and noticed a green light flash in the sky as I came up a hill before Lake rd turn, it flashed twice and appeared to be on the "nose" of a large diamond-esque shaped dark craft that was very low in the sky, much lower than a small plane would fly, it was maybe 10-15 seconds and it just vanished. It didn't propel forward, up, or down, just vanished. There was an 18-wheel truck headed north at the same time that braked heavily at the same time I did but then proceeded on.
I slowly turned onto Lake Rd but didn't notice anything else.
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Moving light amongst the stars At 530 in the morning, my wife and I went for a walk before sunrise. On our way home, we noticed a light in the sky that was moving in a weird direction. Stopping and observing for a moment, noticing it may be a drone we continued on our way asking who would be flying and why since we live on a farm away from people.
After using my military training and using flight apps available nothing was in the air above our location and the light was moving in a non aircraft way. After arriving home I watched for a good 10 mins before grabbing my phone and started taking pics. I then zoomed in and noticed something not of this worlds.
After recording it and taking pics, the craft hung around until about 705 in the morning when I left to bring my kids to school. I showed other members of my family and asked others what they think of the pictures I saw. Most agree it is something they haven’t seen.
The object in the picture is possibly a Death Star looking item. Lights seemed to be the color of the bottom with possible rotating light. The light was constant on the bottom and was still bright after the stars were no longer available.
The craft did maneuver in a zig zag quick circle pattern.
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Bright white light moving south to north almost at the speed of a meteor. Light then began to slow down and changed direction. While letting my dog outside before bed, I had a very clear view of the stars over the mountains.
A bright white star/ meteor like object moved across the sky from south to north. In the eastern sky. This object was moving so much faster than a satellite that there is absolutely no comparison.
The object then began to slow down while in the center of my sky view. It then turned from bright white to bright yellow and changed direction to easterly. I could not sense any altitude change from my observation point.
After slowing and changing direction it moved eastward for about 4 seconds, then was no longer visible. This is the third object like this I have seen in our crystal clear vermont night skies in three years the other two came from a westerly direction then slowed and turned northward. The air was absolutely still and no sound was ever noticed.
I am a professional pilot with many years of viewing aircraft and satellites in the skies. These were something different.
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Between 12am and 2 am there were white small circles hovering in sky Clear sky lots of stars between 12am and 2am we noticed little white circles flying /hovering across the sky some wear vary notice able others wear behind clouds but going in different directions some we would follow they would go behind clouds and come back out some would be going real fast and sum not so fast there wear a few we would watch and they would disappear vary weird we also saw but completely different their also was a lot of shooting stars tonight unusual wonder if any one else noticed all this it was vary noticeably if you wear star gazing tonight.
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Was watching the 2 object moving I was on porch after a storm and saw 2 objects in the sky one was blue line and a shape thing above it and the other one was a dark color thing. i did take a picture and once i blew it up i could see it better. scared the hell out of me.
Waited for a bit because was scared to post this, if it happens again i am going to video it!.
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1 30-sec orange glow in driveway seen through blinds around 0330, then orange flash (orb shape?) by the ceiling a few minutes ago. At approximately 0330 in the morning, I saw an orange light through the blinds in the kitchen looking out into the driveway (at the north corner of the house), at first only a single point of focused light resembling a glowing eye. As soon as I focused on it, the lights in the house flickered and it expanded and faded to an orange glow similar to candlelight, remaining steady for the next 30 seconds or so before disappearing all at once.
Immediately before it disappeared, I spoke aloud, saying, "Leave us alone, you're not welcome here." This incident occurred while I was attempting to find information relating to several previous unsettling experiences I have had with entities; I will note that I have never seen something I would consider a UFO before this, only entities (which I have not reported because I worried I might be labelled as a schizophrenic), but I have felt as though I was being watched for almost my entire life, often by an invisible observer which I was absolutely certain was above me despite having no evidence. This morning, I found a single footprint on the hill which was indistinct but clearly left by something with claws; I would think it was left by a bear if not for the complete absence of any other tracks and the orange glow I saw in the night.
My dog was very interested in the footprint and followed a scent trail up the hill that abruptly ended out in the open. I would not have reported this except for a second sighting of either the same (or a similar) object a few minutes ago, which I saw out of the corner of my eye in the upper left of my peripheral vision, superimposed in the west corner of the living room (which is in the south corner of the first floor of the house). This object appeared to be an orange circle/orb surrounded by a clearly delineated black ring which was itself surrounded by a ring of orange light.
When the flash occurred, my computer screen and the television screen both briefly froze. My dog also saw the object and has been staring nervously at the area where it appeared since; she has also cautiously approached that corner, where there is a door to the front porch, looking up at the ceiling, barking and growling. My mother walked into the room a moment after the flash and doesn't believe me despite the dog's behaviour.
This coincides with numerous strange occurrences throughout the area, which began about two weeks ago and have been increasing in frequency and strangeness. The incidents started with people feeling watched and seeing large black dogs, then progressed through tapping on windows and scratching at doors, to a lingering smell of sulphur, urine and honey. There have also been several black bear attacks in the area recently, which is highly abnormal, and some people have told me they had seen an abnormally large black bear, about 4 feet tall at the shoulder, who appeared to be stalking them.
Most people are acting like nothing is out of the ordinary, but it seems to me that everyone is a little bit more nervous than usual. As an additional detail, I should note than I am colorblind, having blue cone monochromacy, so although I describe the object's colour as "orange," that is merely how it appeared to me (any wavelength greater than about 500 nm looks either orange or grey to me).
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11pm, looking to the sky, the most brilliant thing I've ever seen. At just about 11pm I saw a UFO. It was the most brilliant thing I've EVER seen.
That thing zipped around the Milton area, towards where the fire works were and the dog park is. It cut across the sky with a brilliant white rooster tail, then it would hop across the sky without a tail. It would very quickly appear, then disappear in the blink of an eye.
It looked kind of tube like, with no rhyme or reason about which end the tail came out of. This all happened in about 15 seconds, then the craft zipped across the sky heading towards the lights I believe were coming from Essex Junction or even Burlington with a very long tail. I now can rest easy, I KNOW that UFO'S exist.
I'm shaking like a leaf as I type this, I'm still in shock. SERIOUSLY, WHO do I call to report this? VTANG? The Burlington Airport? The media? And there is no possibility it was a drone, or even a group of drones. Or fireworks, satellites, or even Starrlink.
It was a UFO. HELP!.
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Object bright moving over head Circular object moving across sky no blinking lights and appear to change speed at time went directly over head I have looked many times before at the sky in that area and have not seen before nor since.
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Color changing, appears to be spinning UFO over Lake Champlain It was spotted from the bedroom window of a lake house on Lake Champlain. I had just settled in for the night and was innocently gazing out my window, as one does, when I saw it. The object appeared to be spinning as it changed from green to fuchsia to deep purplish blue to teal and back again.
It remained stationary in the sky while this took place. It's still in the sky an hour later, though it doesn't feel like an hour has elapsed. My father went outside to see for himself and captured footage of his own.
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Orange flashes of light, various positions Orange flashes of light, varying positions in sky (not as high as stars, but high above mountains nearby). The light flared & then disappeared (did not rise or fall). Once two flashes appeared almost at the same time in the same place (first one flared, second one flared before first disappeared), & then a red light moved away toward the West, & the red light was brief but visible longer than the orange; the red light was much smaller diameter & did not flash as one would see on an airplane.
The sky was dark, spotty clouds to the East, stars present high in the sky. These orange lights were not like fireworks nor like aircraft lights. They appeared to be larger than a star, & very bright orange.
They appeared & were gone almost immediately. 7 total.
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2 or 3 sorta blue orbs floating in the sky. I was letting my dog out for his morning piss around 4:30/4:25 AM and I look up, I see all the stars and I see the constellations, then I see 2 kinda dark blue/almost a grey orbs going one way, and I think a 3rd going another way but I don’t remember, so I stare at them thinking its just my imagination, they were not moving very fast but too fast to be a drone and too slow to be any aircraft, the way they were flying was really unsettling for some reason also it’s like they weren’t 2 objects but 1 really long one and if that’s the case it would be bigger then a football field, when I realized I should record it I tried to pull my phone out they were already gone like I just spaced out and watched them go. But next thing I know I already let my dog inside and it’s 5:45 AM.
I had a very uneasy feeling in my gut so I went inside and locked my doors.
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Bright Orb appeared, split into 2, one shot off extremely fast, the stationary one faded away. Driving North on interstate 91 just past the Thetford exit. I witnessed an extremely bright object appear in the sky.
The object then split into two separate equally bright objects. One of the two objects shot off across the night sky and was out of sight within half a second. The remaining stationary object faded into the night sky over the course of the next 10 seconds.
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We see satelites quit a bit. This was a row of about 50 of them equally spaced & going about the speed of a satellite. This is in Central Vermont above Brookfield, Vermont where we live.
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These oval crafts surrounded by white lights hovering and moving around in the sky I have been observing for the past twelve years. In Oval lighted shapes landing in my pastures and then entering my barn and doing things to my horses cutting their hair and shaving their bodies I've completely locked all doors they still get in and there is a illuminating light coming from the inside of my barn they leave no trace that they were there except my horses being assaulted and mamed.
Vermont 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 | 132 reported sightings | 21.75% of all reports |
Circle | 65 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
Triangle | 48 reported sightings | 7.91% of all reports |
Sphere | 47 reported sightings | 7.74% of all reports |
Unknown | 44 reported sightings | 7.25% of all reports |
Other | 43 reported sightings | 7.08% of all reports |
Fireball | 39 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
Disk | 29 reported sightings | 4.78% of all reports |
Oval | 24 reported sightings | 3.95% of all reports |
Formation | 23 reported sightings | 3.79% of all reports |
Cigar | 19 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Rectangle | 14 reported sightings | 2.31% of all reports |
Flash | 13 reported sightings | 2.14% of all reports |
Cylinder | 13 reported sightings | 2.14% of all reports |
Changing | 12 reported sightings | 1.98% of all reports |
Diamond | 7 reported sightings | 1.15% of all reports |
Egg | 5 reported sightings | 0.82% of all reports |
Cross | 5 reported sightings | 0.82% of all reports |
Cone | 4 reported sightings | 0.66% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 0.49% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 0.49% of all reports |
Orb | 2 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
Vermont 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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August | 73 reported sightings | 12.03% of all reports |
July | 62 reported sightings | 10.21% of all reports |
November | 56 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
September | 56 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
January | 50 reported sightings | 8.24% of all reports |
December | 50 reported sightings | 8.24% of all reports |
May | 50 reported sightings | 8.24% of all reports |
October | 46 reported sightings | 7.58% of all reports |
February | 42 reported sightings | 6.92% of all reports |
March | 39 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
June | 39 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
April | 39 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
Vermont 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 | 104 reported sightings | 17.13% of all reports |
Friday | 99 reported sightings | 16.31% of all reports |
Thursday | 97 reported sightings | 15.98% of all reports |
Wednesday | 96 reported sightings | 15.82% of all reports |
Tuesday | 71 reported sightings | 11.70% of all reports |
Sunday | 68 reported sightings | 11.20% of all reports |
Monday | 67 reported sightings | 11.04% of all reports |
Vermont 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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11/20/13 | 10 reported sightings | 1.65% of all reports |
08/19/22 | 5 reported sightings | 0.82% of all reports |
02/06/13 | 5 reported sightings | 0.82% of all reports |
05/24/19 | 4 reported sightings | 0.66% of all reports |
11/22/12 | 4 reported sightings | 0.66% of all reports |
Vermont 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 | 294 reported sightings | 48.43% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 141 reported sightings | 23.23% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 78 reported sightings | 12.85% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 39 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 28 reported sightings | 4.61% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 22 reported sightings | 3.62% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Vermont
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Vermont.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Vermont
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Vermont