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)
Newburgh · NY, USA
Unidentified light emmiting cone shaped object spotted hovering over Newburg, NY ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Shelton · CT, USA
circle of light with beam of light shining towards the ground ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Mount Jewettt · PA, USA
Bright white triangle off to the lower right of Jupiter. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
North Smithfield · RI, USA
I was looking up at the stars and all of the sudden a giant circle was right in front of my eyes. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Marion · NY, USA
very bright spotlight with mist straight upward motion. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Lincoln · NE, USA
Orange fireball looking object moving very slowely in the sky.
Arlington · MA, USA
Cone Shaped light from bright dot. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Elysburg · PA, USA
Cone of light eerily appears to Knoebel's Amusement Park goers on the way to the parking lot.((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Orangebury · NY, USA
Circular bright light casting a downward triangular foggy beam then dissipating into its own fog((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Plumsteadville · PA, USA
bright circular light shining down toward the ground. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Wallingford · CT, USA
Wallingford, CT UFO siting? ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
A brief, bright light in Western Pennsylvania. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Orwell · VT, USA
Cone of light emanating downward from stationary point in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Canton · OH, USA
Ball of light with illuminating light shining down at night sat still. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Greenfield · MA, USA
White light with no known source fading into a mist without sound on cloudless night. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Gibsonia · PA, USA
Strange coned shaped light setting still and silent in the eastern night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Jim Thorpe · PA, USA
beam of light hovered for 30 seconds vanished into thin air. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Plymouth Meeting · PA, USA
Cone of light, higher than plane or helicopter, Did not move. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Neptune City · NJ, USA
very bright large cone shaped light in sky for 15 seconds .... then disapered. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Millersvill · PA, USA
Bright beam of light in night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Chatham · NJ, USA
very bright V shape light pointing downwards. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Glenside · PA, USA
A triangular bright light pointing downward in a haze on a clear night.((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Forestburgh · NY, USA
Saw a large cigar shaped bright light that emitted a cone shaped light downward with steamy fog ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Long Branch · NJ, USA
Bright light in sky pointing down. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Farmingdale · NY, USA
The beam of light was controlled, there was no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))