UFO Sightings in the 2000s
43,471 UFO sightings reported during the 2000s, peaking in 2008 (5331 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 43,471
- Span
- 2000–2009
- Peak year
- 2008 (5331 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
2000–2009 · peak 2008 (5331 reports)
Sangerville · ME, USA
yellow/white light seen from about three miles away
Spokane · WA, USA
Steel fish-looking ufo swimming through our atmosphere
Columbus · OH, USA
bright white orb moves slowly, dims, and vanishes followed by all night power outage
Hobbs · NM, USA
Large, pear shaped (upside down teardrop shape) object glowing orange, then drifted away.
Karimnagar (India) · India
Blue light over karimnagar INDIA viewed from top floor building
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Black triangle, 3 lights at each point, thin in shape, hanging point down, turned clockwise, lights stretched and sped away
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Red and Greenish/White lights making a zigzag motion, then disappearing over the horizon
Plymouth · WI, USA
UFO to the North - bright starlike object just above the horizon that flashes colors from red to green.... ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD))
Portland · OR, USA
Something was flying over downtown Portland on August 6th
Irvine · CA, USA
A light in the night sky that wobbled, changed direction and zoomed off at an astonishing rate of speed
Saskatoon (Canada) · SK, Canada
Star-like point of light, flashing periodically, erupts into bright sparkle after 30 minutes.
Hartwell · GA, USA
I saw a rather big white light which I took for a planet or possibly a star at WNW. ((NUFORC Note: Intl. Space Station sighting. PD))
Soddy Daisy · TN, USA
Bright light traveling quickly changes to reddish-orange globe then disappears. ((NUFORC Note: Intl. Space Station sighting. PD))
Val-des-Monts (Canada) · QC, Canada
Object travaled In a straight line,no flashing lights and very bright, "jumped" up and came down repeated up down and then faded away.
Broaddus · TX, USA
pulsationg lights in northern sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star?? PD))
Cranford · NJ, USA
Small blinking lights moving fast in the distance. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star?? PD))
Paso Robles · CA, USA
A silver shiny cigar shaped object hovering 300 ft above the ground in Paso Robles.
Ingleside · TX, USA
ABOUT 30 SILVER DISC SHAPED OBJECTS
Denton · TX, USA
I went outside for my afternoon break and happened to look up and see a shiny object traveling thru the sky. Of course my first thought
Lake Wales · FL, USA
It was triangle shaped and it had bright white lights no red or green lights were present. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Chula Vista · CA, USA
Slow Moving, Oval shaped, very low in the sky, and a very bright white,and it vanished… ((NUFORC Note: ISS? PD))
Toronto (Canada) · ON, Canada
white luminescent orb over lake ontario
Allen · TX, USA
Around 9:20 we saw a really bright light in the sky at first we thought it was an airplane but it didn't have red blinking lights and i
Dublin · CA, USA
Bright Still Light, After 15-20 Seconds sped away with greenish light. too low and too fast to be a plane
Choctaw County (southeastern OK) · OK, USA
Bright, glowing white light moving slowly above us with no blinking lights. ((NUFORC Note: ISS? PD))