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)
Trumbull · CT, USA
Bright white light over Trumbull, CT. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Berwick · ME, USA
(light with defined beam appeared very bright(looked like an upside down v). ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Troy · NY, USA
large bright missle like object, headed straight up leaving an inverted v shaped dust cloud behind it - very very large - reached a cer
Abingdon · MD, USA
Extremely bright and radiating light outward. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Riverhead · NY, USA
It was like a bright white spot light. It then split into 2 and disapeared. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Howell · NJ, USA
A bright light with a cone shaped lighted mist. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Wrightsville Beach · NC, USA
Glowing disk with single beam sighted at Wrightsville Beach 9/19/09 at 7:50p.m. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Harrisonburg · VA, USA
Very bright disk shape eastern sky Harrisonburg. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Colchester · CT, USA
Large, bright white "spotlight" high in sky over Colchester, Ct ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Plainfield · NH, USA
Growing, star-like object expels glowing cloud and then collapses into cloud and is gone.((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Cornwall · VT, USA
cone of light in sky at height of air traffic ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Southbury · CT, USA
Cone shaped bright white light - gradually disappeared / resembled a flashlight pointing down.((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
New Milford · CT, USA
Star-like object in the sky with beam of light directed down to earth
Mount Penn · PA, USA
Light appears, searches, than disappears into a mist. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Dundalk · MD, USA
dot of light whith a beam of light below it, beam of light was in a cone shape ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Glens Falls · NY, USA
Circle of light with triangular ray ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Auburn · PA, USA
bight light appeared in sky shinning a beam down for 30 seconds ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
West Chester · PA, USA
A white circle of light with a lighter, cone-shaped light underneath it; the circle disappeared the cone shape faded to a "cloud"
Great Barrington · MA, USA
Bright pure white cone of light, not moving, over northwestern Connecticut, for about 20 sec.. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Boonton · NJ, USA
Sighting of an elevating object that emitted a strong traingular light downward.
Wareham · MA, USA
We called 911 and reported this to the Bourne State police barracks. No way we were the only ones who saw this.
Whitinsville · MA, USA
Bright white light for 10 seconds with a fading shower. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Ellington · CT, USA
Odd bright light in sky, with haze around it that seems to fade out. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Lititz · PA, USA
Saw a bright disk shaped light that omitted a steamy substance and then dissapeared. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Westover · PA, USA
09/19/09 Westover, PA Light with beam coming out of it. lasted about 1 min ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))