UFO Sightings in the 1990s
11,203 UFO sightings reported during the 1990s, peaking in 1999 (3180 reports); most often described as unknown.
- Total sightings
- 11,203
- Span
- 1990–1999
- Peak year
- 1999 (3180 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Unknown
1990–1999 · peak 1999 (3180 reports)
Snelling · CA, USA
Couple see large disc in N sky "w/ white, yellow, blue lights going in a circle around it." Larger than clenched fist at arm's length.
Tempe · AZ, USA
Man sees two bright lights moving very strangely. "Too slow to be meteorite, too fast to be satellite."
Coos Bay · OR, USA
Woman hears dogs barking. Sees an "immense, creamy white light," blinking irregularly drop into nearby valley. Light continues.
Gardena · CA, USA
Woman sees an "orange-yellow light w/ long tail." Light suddenly dims, emits smoke, reappears as amber white light.
Cocoa Beach · FL, USA
Young couple witness cluster of 6 objs. over Cape Kennedy. Very high alt. Objs. were shiny, suddenly turn dull black. Move E to W.
Cle Elum · WA, USA
Woman, daughter see "huge piece of machinery w/gold lights, humming sound," pass overhead. Obj. "glided" over town. Like "disc."
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Woman sees shiny, cigar-shaped obj. hovering in E cloudless sky. VERY bright; hurt eyes. Obj. suddenly turned gray, disappeared.
Mansfield · TX, USA
Young couple witness small light, "like star," pass across sky to E, suddenly disappear. Obj. moved up, accel., trned L, streaked off.
Macon · GA, USA
FAA radar & tower report radar contact/very bright light in NW sky. Robbins AFB radar confirms. (Investigation suggests Venus.)
Everett · WA, USA
Man looking N, sees "line of lights, cascading L to R," streak to N horizon. No sound. No craft visbl.(Very detailed written rept.)
Norwood · PA, USA
18 Bright fast "Pearl" like UFOs in group between Philadelphia & Delawre crossed I-95
Idaho Falls · ID, USA
I never have told anyone about this because of the illegal nature of what we were doing when the event occured. Given the anonymous nat
Sewanee · TN, USA
Saw a perfect silver, metalic sphere move with unnatural physics in a crystal clear, afternoon sky.
Van Alstyne · TX, USA
Close encounter in Texas, missing time.
Kelseyville · CA, USA
Group of people witness "pinpoint of light w/ spiderweb of light outside center." Obj. ascends, leaves trail behind it, disappears.
Santa Cruz · CA, USA
Young couple watch very bright light to W over Pacific O. Had "corona effect"; reflected off water. Suddenly disappeared. (Planet?)
Black Hills · SD, USA
Man witnesses bizarre silvery disc, "as long as 2 school buses," hover, then streak away. (Phone line goes dead. No other data.)
Rochester · NY, USA
Man, brother, see bright yellow light hovering over local woods suddenly descend into woods, turn to orange. Sudden flash of light.
Scottsdale · AZ, USA
Man sees "very bright white light, with a trail of light," streak across sky to NW. Bigger than star, distinctly circular in shape.
Puerto Vallarto (Mexico) · Mexico
4 diamond shaped light over the ocean in Mexico in May of 1996
Regina (Canada) · SA, Canada
it was a light moving south east then it was like a camera flash and it was gone the for one sec it was there and streaked norht and wa
Tulsa · OK, USA
Spherical bluish green craft hovering over the water
Frankfort · IL, USA
Massive black triangle with red lights at ends hovering
Willard · MO, USA
huge object
Atolicita Hills · CA, USA
Woman driving to work sees 2 "really bright white lights, w/ strobing blue, yellow, red lights in center." Stops car; obj. moves off.