Flash UFO Sightings
2,383 Flash-shaped UFO sightings recorded worldwide since 1946, peaking in 2015 (151 reports); most commonly reported in United States.
- Total sightings
- 2,383
- Span
- 1946–2021
- Peak year
- 2015 (151 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Flash
1946–2021 · peak 2015 (151 reports)
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Fire Island (Barett Beach) · NY, USA
A flash of blue green light in a south western direction about 75 feet above Atlantic Ocean coastline.
Burney · CA, USA
Constant Stable Flashing On Top Of HATCHET MOUNTAIN in BURNEY, CALIFORNIA. ((anonymous report))
Oregon City · OR, USA
There was a strange very slow blinking white light heading east at a snail's pace. It was moving so slow that it looked stationary. Eve
Columbus · OH, USA
Approx 1215am while driving on 270 S, a blue light went across the sky toward airport then a sudden blue flash. ((anonymous report))
Leola · PA, USA
moving stright in A line.
Elkins · AR, USA
White lights over southern Fayetteville, Arkansas
Corinth/Monson (betweem) · ME, USA
Bright, changing, colored lights behind treeline in Maine.
San Juan · Puerto Rico Commonwealth
Strong white glow in object. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of an Iridium satellite?? PD))
Jarvie (Canada) · AB, Canada
Bright object with strange shape.
Blyton · IL, USA
Bright, spread out white flash in northeastern sky 10:00PM 09/09/2017
Mantorville · MN, USA
I was visiting my parents this fall. My father had gone to bed and my mother and I were sitting outside on the patio late at night, enj
Saint Louis · MO, USA
Me and my father were sitting down on our back deck at around 2 am. I was around 9 years old when this occurred, we heard a loud vibrat
Albion · ME, USA
Stationary flashes of varying intensity in south sky over 5-10 minutes.
Pigeon Forge · TN, USA
I saw a red & green "flash" hovering in the sky near Dollywood. ((anonymous report))
Onion Creek · WA, USA
I LOOKED UP JUST AS A VERY BRIGHT FLASH HAPPENED. IT WAS ON A N-S PATH, HEADED N. ((NUFORC Note: Iridium 37 at 19:21 hrs. PD))
Brick Twp. · NJ, USA
Heading north on the NJ parkway around mile marker 95 at exactly 12 AM a green (traffic light green in color) flash lit up the sky to t
Blaine · MN, USA
Shooting star like object fell towards Earth, North of 125th Street in Blaine.
Laurel · MD, USA
My daughter and I were driving to the beach. The time of day was around sunset, but the sky was still bright as day. In the distance we
Sahuarita · AZ, USA
Random white flashes of light of differing intensity in the same small area of sky
Knoxville · TN, USA
White Flashing Light in the Sky Not An Airplane. ((anonymous report))
San Bernardino · CA, USA
Flashes of light in Northeast part of the sky 1 second at a time approximately 50 seconds to a minute apart in the same place.
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Streak of light ending with 3 objects flashing intermittently moving in the opposite direction for 5 minutes.
Ogden · UT, USA
Blue light flashed for 1 or 2 seconds, and dimmed, then turned back on, and flashed within 2 to 3 seconds to the right.
Sylmar · CA, USA
Witnessed one clear flashing light in sky moving West to East in a slow manner. Object appeared to be high in the
Marlborough · CT, USA
Dark night with the only light coming from the moon. At midnight all of a sudden a huge flash that lit up everything as of it was day t