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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Nottingham (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Flashes Over Nottingham
Kingston · NY, USA
White Flash near Exit 19 Thruway Kingston
Swarthmore · PA, USA
((HOAX??)) Massive bright green-blue flash over the Philadelphia sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax from Swarthmore College. PD))
Omaha · NE, USA
white flashes and red laser beams
Plymouth · MN, USA
Very bright, streaking object blueish green in color traveling west over the western suburbs of Minneapolis.
Columbia · MO, USA
Stephen's Park Columbia, MO. Football shaped light in the sky takes odd turn.
Silver City · NM, USA
Very faint flashing strobe.
Parkland · FL, USA
Flashing yellowish light, low in the sky over northern Broward County Florida
Old Lyme · CT, USA
white (looked like a planet) with red and green flashing around it, like police lights. CT. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star?? PD))
Firestone/Frederick · CO, USA
FOUR BRIGHT CAMERA LIKE FLASHES IN DIFFERENT AREAS
La Motte · IA, USA
Wierd flash of light
Chicago · IL, USA
Chicago Flash of Light
Klamath Falls · OR, USA
Bright flashes, high pitched sound.
Sault Ste. Marie (Canada) · ON, Canada
White and blue thing
Whitianga (New Zealand) · New Zealand
Extremely bright light lit up huge area behind hill, happened 5 times then somehting flew over us.
Chicago · IL, USA
brief expansion of a wand of light, that dissapeared as quickly as it appeared.
Trout Lake · WA, USA
Bright strobe passes between viewers and Mt Adams then streaks skyward
Macedonia · OH, USA
A point of light in the sky moving around an aircraft in an unusual manner.
Montreal (Canada) · QC, Canada
Brilliant white light moving and splitting in 2 red trangles
White Plains · NY, USA
driving home, headed south , from pougkeepsie,ny, on lower RT# 684, 3 very bright strobes flew over our car about 150 ft in the air hea
Fargo · ND, USA
Update on bright flare...
Great Scott · MN, USA
flashing light in deserted forest
Onion Creek · WA, USA
TRACKING A FAINT SATELLITE, AND AN EMERGING FLASH!
New York City (Glandale/Queens) · NY, USA
SHOOTING FLASHBALL appears from nowhere and disappears.
Medford · OR, USA
Unidentified Falling Object - Not Meteor.