Last updated on June 1, 2024

Vermont UFO Sightings in 2020

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Vermont during 2020.

How many Vermont UFO sightings were there in 2020?

  • There were 35 officially reported UFO sightings in Vermont in 2020.
  • In 2020, Vermont ranked #42 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, Vermont ranks #5 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 2020, with an average of 5.44 reports per 100,000 residents.

Vermont Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 2020

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Burlington, VT 4 UFO Reports
2 Rutland, VT 2 UFO Reports
3 Williston, VT 2 UFO Reports
4 Arlington, VT 2 UFO Reports
5 Thetford, VT 2 UFO Reports

Vermont UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 35 UFO sighting reports in Vermont from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

Vermont UFO Sighting Reports in 2020

This is a sampling of 20 Vermont UFO reports from 2020, 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).

Burlington, VT

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Bright light shot up into the sky, very fast and then came to a complete stop and lingered. I was driving south on Pine Street in Burlington, VT just before coming to the Home Ave. intersection at approximately 6:08pm on Friday 12/11/20 and saw a bright light shoot up very quickly into the sky.

I thought it was a flare of some kind first, but then it came to a complete stop in the middle of the sky. I observed it for approx 2min and by the time I could park and look up again it was gone. It may have been a drone with a light on it, but it shot up into the sky at a very high rate of speed.

12/11/20 6:09 PM

UFO Shape: egg

Lasted: 2min

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Hyde Park, VT

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I saw a very bright light in the sky and then it disappeared. I saw very bright white lights that looked like three lights very close together. They were brighter than a star or any other light I had seen in the sky.

These lights were staying in one spot and did not move as I was driving towards them. It was as high in the sky as a plane would be and after about 30 seconds of watching them it suddenly disappeared.

12/01/20 6:00 AM

UFO Shape: diamond

Lasted: 30 sec

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Arlington, VT

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Bright light dropping vertically from sky then disappearing. Driving on Rt 313 heading west,we saw a light similar to a shooting star but much closer, dropped downward, vertical -out of the sky in front of the mountain backdrop, vanishing before it hit land about halfway between the horizon and land There wasn’t any fading, it just disappeared suddenly.

11/19/20 5:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 3 seconds

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Colchester, VT

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White orb of light hovering and moving White orb of light was hovering about 50 feet off the ground across the street from my house. It occasionally would around in different directions but never strayed too far from its spot.

11/17/20 3:00 AM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 1 hour

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Rutland, VT

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Pulled out of parking lot onto street & and saw 3 green lights in the sky ahead of me while driving. It caught my eye because it was unusual in sight but also because of location in the sky. Definitely wasn’t an airplane or helicopter & it was moving slow or hovering.

I finally pulled over to try & take a picture or video but it’s pace picked up & it was gone.

11/05/20 7:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 5 minutes

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Bennington, VT

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Cigar shape UFO over South Vermont. I was sitting on my front steps on the south west side of west mountain in South West Vermont, Bennington County. Looking out to the west where the sun sets I saw what I thought was a satellite.

I then saw another light and another, behind the empty trees. I moved to see past the trees and I saw it. First I though "OH! thats starlink satellites.

" This was quickly dropped as I saw the front and end of the craft. It was almost like aerogel. Kinda transparent.

It was like the moon and the sun was just right to refract light through it or I would have only seen the line of lights. It looked like a pipe fish from the deep sea. It had what looked like a hollow in tube front and a slender tail.

I could not get it on camera, I only caught a tiny light of it. I immediately went inside to find starlink in the sky. It was not any where near me.

No satellite or other craft was in the area at the time. It was 1000% a cigar shaped UFO. I have seen things that I ! could have excused, but was too strange to conclude.

Not this one. Not even slightly. I am so certain that this is EXACTLY what others have been seeing as it was one of the first pictures I found when searching for the UFO.

I am not very versed in what they look like in pictures or reports. It made the fact that I saw a CLEAR picture some one else took of a similar craft, that much more confident I was seeing a UFO. It had the exact same hollow tube nose and slender tail with the same lights.

What bothers me the most, I got distracted from the subject within 5 minuets. The next day I was thinking about that and had a thought". did I see one before?" I might have.

Living in Long island NY early 2000's I was coming home late around 10 or 11. I saw 3 lights in a triangle formation. First stars I thought, but moving, so no.

Next I thought plane. Nope! No flashes and size getting bigger. Eventually it was directly over head.

It took up the entire sky and flew comple! tely silent. I could not see through it. It blocked out the st! ars abov e my head and I knew at that point it was a solid craft.

So I say maybe because as clear as this memory is, it does not feel like mine. No matter how much I go over it in my head I feel like its not my story. I did not remember this until I thought about forgetting the NEW UFO I am reporting here.

Why did this not take over my life? Why is the shock value so diminished so soon? What is that? I know for a fact what I have seen this time. The cigar shape will be burned into my mind forever. I assume.

The triangle craft, I will never know if that was a real memory or not, and that hurts my foundation of reality as I usually have an amazing grounding even in things I forget. It has a certain feeling of right or wrong and this one wont fit that. It's stuck in the middle like it was another persons story that you adopted some how.

So strange. In summary, I saw 1 cigar shaped UFO with a front tubular looking end, and a slender tail. It was moving across the sky from north to south.

I saw the ship sideways looking from the east to the west. It had a translucent body, like a deep see pipe fish with luminescent dots on its side. It was also reminiscent of translucent blue aerogel.

It moved slowly and consistently. Lights where ?star yellow? no blue or red or flashing of any kind. Time was 7:28pm on October 24th year 2020.

I have no special credentials to give me any credibility. I will say this, I am rational and look to be skeptical in an objective observational sense. I would still accept information to prove or disprove what I have seen.

It is very hard to dismiss ones own eyes when a simple search brought up a clear photograph of what one has seen. The craft was almost 100% identical to a famous picture I have seen that was taken by George Adamski. The only missing bit was the more tapered tail, but that could h! ave been formed in the edge of the atmosphere? Like a comet tail? Maybe one day we will all know.

Until then, Im gonna keep looking up!.

10/24/20 7:28 PM

UFO Shape: cigar

Lasted: 5 minutes

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S Burlington, VT

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the fast flying object you have ever seen. At the S, Burlington airport the new F36 jets where landing. I looked down the road and there are trees on both sides of the road.

in between the gap a craft went by so fast that it blew my mind. i estamate that the craft would have flown over the 2nd F35 as it was landing. i texted my wife and told her right away what I seen.

there was no noise and it was going so fast it bade the trail as if you waved you hand if front of you. ((name deleted)).

10/13/20 12:00 AM

UFO Shape: unknown

Lasted: 0.5 second

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Rutland, VT

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Glowing oreo cookie shaped disc like object witnessed moving quickly and silently across the night sky. At approx. 9:45 PM on 09/30/2020 I witnessed a bright illuminated object with a greenish tint move rapidly and silently from the South to the North in a straight line across a portion of the night sky over Rutland, Vermont.

The object appeared to have a distinct shape and hard edges, appeared to be like two glowing hockey puck shaped discs stacked one on top of the other and moving in tandem. I could not determine if the upper and lower structures of the object were connected but it moved as one solid object. The object did not have the running lights of an aircraft and moved much quicker than I am accustomed to seeing conventional aircraft move across the sky at low or high altitudes.

It did not leave any kind of glowing or fiery trail in it’s wake. It did not appear to be falling from the sky. It moved horizontally and in complete silence.

I cannot judge distance or altitude and only had the object in my field of view for a few seconds. Comparatively speaking, from my vantage point, the object appeared to be about 25% the size of the full moon and much bigger than any of the visible planets or stars that night.

09/30/20 9:45 PM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 3-4 seconds

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Middlesex, VT

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On interstate 89, there were 3 lights that just appeared, then dashed off, upward, and then gone.

09/18/20 11:30 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: Seconds

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Island Pond, VT

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Bright round light moved in and out of focus turn side to side. Once it was closest it hovered in one place. After about 10 minutes of stillness the ibhext disappeared.

When the others was in sky it lit the sky like a bright full moon. Complete darkness was left after it disappeared. We have 3 minutes of video.

08/30/20 1:30 AM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: 20 minutes

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Burlington, VT

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Unblinking solid white Light traveling south to north, moving slowly. I was just stargazing and the light began to move. As it moved, the light faded and shortly disappeared entirely.

Seen from Grove Street, facing west.

08/15/20 9:45 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 45 seconds

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Fletcher Binghamville, VT

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Fletcher Binghamville Vermont orange fireball At 21:37 orange fireball sighted in southeastern sky. Object moving directly towards 2 witnesses. Fireball orange with red and yellow flickering middle.

Appeared to have "smoky" outer aura. Object was video taped with no results 3 photos taken of first object which continued towards the north where it became increasingly dimmer. 2nd object appeared in the original area of the first.

This object was photographed and video taped. Appeared identical to the first fireball. Followed same trajectory as 1st but veered halfway to the northeast.

There was no sound with either fireball. One witness observed orange lights 45 mins. prior to the fireball sighting.

The lights reflected off the tree line twice, no fireball observed at that time. There was a grating metallic sound with the lights. Only one person observed the lights.

Both fireball sightings were 2 mins each.

08/15/20 9:37 PM

UFO Shape: fireball

Lasted: 4 minutes

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Middlebury, VT

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Saw what we thought was intl space station until it changed direction 45 degrees . We were enjoying the eastern night sky at approx 945 pm and I noticed what I thought might be international space station somewhere top left of Orion’s Belt, object moves left in sky very distant and small but noticeable for about 1 min and then literally turned - Approx 45 degrees down to left kind of towards night horizon , mE and my friend saw it and were convinced it was space station until it changed course for about 10 seconds and we lost track of it in night sky, neither of us have ever seen anything like it , weird!.

08/13/20 9:45 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 1 minute

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Woodstock, VT

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Enormous, long, low flying ship flying Westbound over Woodstock, Vermont My son and I were in our backyard last night on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 9:20pm stargazing. I saw what looked like a giant military, C5 transport plane coming directly overhead, from East to West. The plane was lit up, so we could see it easily, but we also noticed that there was more to it, behind the plane.

I had my binoculars and I could see it was very long. Well behind the plane there was another plane partially lit up. It was about the same size as the monster transport plane in the front.

As it went overhead, and started to pass toward the west, we could see that they were connected by a large, long middle, as if it were one, large long ship like in the beginning of Star Wars movie. It was actually quite quiet considering how close it was, and how large it was, but it did sound like a plane, but far, far away. The object, or ship just continued westward.

It didn't do anything crazy or anything, so I suspect it was a man-made object, but I've neve! r seen anything like it.

08/05/20 9:20 PM

UFO Shape: rectangle

Lasted: 1 minute

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Arlington, VT

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Large ball of bright light flying low across the sky I was standing on my deck staring at the stars when I saw a very large ball of LED colored light came soaring through the sky just above the tree tops. It was much lower flying than any plane or helicopter. It was silent, and from my perspective appeared to be very large.

There was no distinct craft, just a large ball of light moving in a straight line, and at a controlled but fast speed. Behind it there was what appeared to be a jet stream, but it was pitch black out so it was more like a trail of very faint light that was the exhaust. The light was only in my view for a few moments but the exhaust light remained for a few more seconds before dissipating.

This was clearly not a shooting star or meteor. The “craft” continued on to an area out of my view. I am absolutely certain that this was nothing other than a craft of some sort whether it be military or ET.

There were planes in the area at the time, but they looked like ants compared to this thing.

07/26/20 11:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 3 seconds

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Burlington, VT

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It was at 11:17pm when my wife and went for a ride and we were traveling south on I89. We seen three really bright lights brighter than the full moon and brightest star in the sky flying in formation. We then noticed that three flying in formation we being followed by many more bright lights to many to count.

However the very front light in the formation shot behind our in the north direction and another took its place in front. But then the sky got so bright behind us it look as is the sun popped out. But then that light that disappeared behind was back in front of us and it bright so we pulled over to try and see what it was and it stopped suddenly and meanwhile the formation of lights and its tail of lights were farther in the distance.

Both of us looked in aww and we realized the bright light we were looking at was a craft in the sky and was oval in shape and looked like a giant apartment building hovering in the sky and had other bright lights up the si! de that we could see in different spot throughout the side. And as we sat on the side of I89 with our hazard lights blinking it seemed like we had been watching for an hour or longer not one vehicle went by on the N or S lanes we noticed that it still hovering above us but it looked like it was farther than it had been. And all of sudden a bright bright light illuminated the complete bottom side of this craft it shot straight up to the point the bright light on the botton of the craft was a little bigger and brighter than the brightest star in the sky and then moved so fast in the eastern direction it was just flash of light.

When it was all finished it was 27 minutes long but it seem like it was two hours. The two of us were physically drained and. I was driving i was so drained that i was falling asleep driving and my wife was asleep five minutes after it disappeared.

We see planes all the time and we see different types of helicopter because we live close to the flight path of a runway at Burlington International Airport and helico! pters fly over on their way to the hospital and the both are very noisy. This craft was not making any noise and definitely didn't move like any aircraft i know of. I truly believe we seen ufo's on America's Independence Day.

07/04/20 11:17 PM

UFO Shape: formation

Lasted: 30 minutes

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Putney, VT

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Red light near eastern horizon. Not blinking, possibly rising, disappears after a minute of observation. Red light near eastern horizon.

Not blinking. Brighter than a planet or typical airplane. Seemed to rise slightly over the course of a minute, but I could have imagined it.

Got somewhat dimmer about twenty seconds after being noticed, then returned to original brightness, then after another ten seconds faded out over 1-2 seconds. I looked through binoculars, and it was in focus at the maximum focal length, implying to me that it was at least farther than a few hundred feet away.

06/23/20 10:30 PM

UFO Shape: fireball

Lasted: 1 minute after being no

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Bridgewater Corners, VT

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Bright, spherical, 2x brighter than a bright star, assuming erratic movements, heading south. Slowly moving from north to south. All at once, rapid speed increase and erratic, jerky pattern assumed, still continuing southward.

05/23/20 11:10 PM

UFO Shape: sphere

Lasted: >10 minutes

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Thetford, VT

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It was seen twice throughout the day, once at dusk and once after dark around 9 pm. The dusk sighting looked like a bright light that moved across the sky, while the other appeared to be a longer diagonal shape of light moving.

05/06/20 9:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 1 minute

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Brookfield, VT

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Oval UFO seeing flickering lights, standing still and moving in farmland Vermont sky. Oval spacecraft seeing at night over Vermont mountains. First thought as an antenna, too high above surface to fit in.

Stationary white light, changing to red. Suddenly became 2 lights flickering between red and blue, still, as watched from a cliff, started to move slowly to the right as if scanning a place until it disappear fast in the night sky.

05/03/20 9:15 PM

UFO Shape: oval

Lasted: 3 minutes

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Vermont UFO Sightings From 2020 By Shape

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

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Light 8 reported sightings 22.86% of all reports
Circle 5 reported sightings 14.29% of all reports
Formation 4 reported sightings 11.43% of all reports
Disk 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
Triangle 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
Unknown 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
Sphere 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
Fireball 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
Rectangle 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
Other 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports
Cigar 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports
Diamond 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports
Cross 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports
Oval 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports
Egg 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports

Vermont UFO Sightings From 2020 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
March 7 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
August 5 reported sightings 14.29% of all reports
February 4 reported sightings 11.43% of all reports
April 3 reported sightings 8.57% of all reports
May 3 reported sightings 8.57% of all reports
November 3 reported sightings 8.57% of all reports
December 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
September 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
October 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
July 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
January 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports
June 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports

Vermont UFO Sightings From 2020 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 7 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Thursday 6 reported sightings 17.14% of all reports
Sunday 6 reported sightings 17.14% of all reports
Friday 5 reported sightings 14.29% of all reports
Tuesday 5 reported sightings 14.29% of all reports
Wednesday 4 reported sightings 11.43% of all reports
Monday 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports

Vermont UFO Sightings From 2020 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
02/23/20 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
08/15/20 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
03/05/20 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
03/18/20 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports
03/23/20 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports

Vermont UFO Sightings From 2020 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 17 reported sightings 48.57% of all reports
Early morning 04:00 - 07:59 7 reported sightings 20.00% of all reports
Evening 16:00 - 19:59 5 reported sightings 14.29% of all reports
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 3 reported sightings 8.57% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 2 reported sightings 5.71% of all reports
Morning 08:00 - 11:59 1 reported sightings 2.86% of all reports

All Vermont Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Vermont, in 2020

City Number of Reports View Reports
Burlington 4 UFO Reports Burlington UFO Sightings in 2020
Rutland 2 UFO Reports Rutland UFO Sightings in 2020
Williston 2 UFO Reports Williston UFO Sightings in 2020
Arlington 2 UFO Reports Arlington UFO Sightings in 2020
Thetford 2 UFO Reports Thetford UFO Sightings in 2020
Island Pond 2 UFO Reports Island Pond UFO Sightings in 2020
Colchester 2 UFO Reports Colchester UFO Sightings in 2020
Newport 1 UFO Reports Newport UFO Sightings in 2020
S Burlington 1 UFO Reports S Burlington UFO Sightings in 2020
Alburgh 1 UFO Reports Alburgh UFO Sightings in 2020
Bennington 1 UFO Reports Bennington UFO Sightings in 2020
Cabot 1 UFO Reports Cabot UFO Sightings in 2020
Jericho 1 UFO Reports Jericho UFO Sightings in 2020
Brookfield 1 UFO Reports Brookfield UFO Sightings in 2020
Hyde Park 1 UFO Reports Hyde Park UFO Sightings in 2020
Bridgewater Corners 1 UFO Reports Bridgewater Corners UFO Sightings in 2020
Northfield 1 UFO Reports Northfield UFO Sightings in 2020
Putney 1 UFO Reports Putney UFO Sightings in 2020
Middlesex 1 UFO Reports Middlesex UFO Sightings in 2020
Middlebury 1 UFO Reports Middlebury UFO Sightings in 2020
Orwell 1 UFO Reports Orwell UFO Sightings in 2020
Fletcher Binghamville 1 UFO Reports Fletcher Binghamville UFO Sightings in 2020
South Reading 1 UFO Reports South Reading UFO Sightings in 2020
Woodstock 1 UFO Reports Woodstock UFO Sightings in 2020
Bridgewater 1 UFO Reports Bridgewater UFO Sightings in 2020
Jay 1 UFO Reports Jay UFO Sightings in 2020

Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Vermont

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

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 6 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 14 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 21 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 18 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 35 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 22 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 22 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 20 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 23 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 47 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 38 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 66 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 57 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 23 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 13 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 23 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 15 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 22 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 10 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 16 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 9 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 8 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 14 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 10 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 7 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 5 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 3 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 3 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 2 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 2 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1992
1989 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 2 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 2 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1987
1985 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1985
1983 2 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1982
1981 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1981
1980 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1980
1979 2 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1979
1977 3 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 3 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1974
1972 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1972
1970 2 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 1 UFO Reports Vermont UFO Sightings in 1969