Formation UFO Sightings
4,600 Formation-shaped UFO sightings recorded worldwide since 1940, peaking in 2020 (415 reports); most commonly reported in United States.
- Total sightings
- 4,600
- Span
- 1940–2022
- Peak year
- 2020 (415 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Formation
1940–2022 · peak 2020 (415 reports)
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Papillion · NE, USA
we observed the first object moving from WSW to NE. ((Starlink satellites?))
Wahoo · NE, USA
Lights in night sky over Wahoo flying in formation. ((Starlink satellites?))
Stratford (Canada) · ON, Canada
Points of light, evenly spaced...about a mile apart. ((Starlink satellites?))
Leicester (UK/England) · United Kingdom
Looked out of bedroom window before turning in to bed and noticed 2 white stars close together but moving. ((Starlink satellites))
Muncy · PA, USA
Formation of 8-10? star-like lights, equal distance apart, quietly gliding across sky from SW to NE ((Starlink satellites?))
Weiser · ID, USA
4 flashing lights3 red 1 white in changing formation
Ware · MA, USA
Two rings composed of bulb-like objects were spotted before speeding away.
Minot · ND, USA
Fleet of unknown fast moving bright objects. ((Starlink satellites))
Ottawa (Canada) · ON, Canada
5 objects that moved kind of like birds in a V formation, but were lit up and glowing in the dark night sky.
Lee · NH, USA
cigar shaped object with two florescent tube like lights moving all around it.
Valrico · FL, USA
A perfect row of formation lights in a line moving across the nights sky. ((Starlink satellites?))
Plain · WA, USA
A uniform line of lights appeared from out of the stars facing southeast then unatturally vanished. ((Spacelink satellites?))
Moncton (Canada) · NB, Canada
Bright light turns into many small lights which turn into triangle formation.
Essexville · MI, USA
Approximately a mile long then started to move and disappeared. ((Starlink satellites?))
Escanaba · MI, USA
2 long linear formations of lights spotted, lights looked like, slow speed, silent. ((Starlink satellites?))
Grants Pass · OR, USA
Looking SE towards the coast, I noticed a few lights coming up from behind the pines in my neighbor's yard. ((Starlink satellites?))
Ortonville · MI, USA
The objects where in a straight line turned green with several white dots across the sky moving in a line. ((Spacelink satellites?))
Altura · MN, USA
4 people saw a formation of at least 19 craft obviously in the outer atmospher travel E to W. ((Starlink satellites?))
Bar Harbor · ME, USA
Long trail of slow-moving lights through the night sky. ((Starlink satellites?))
Waterboro · ME, USA
String of multiple white lights traveling across sky. ((Starlink satellites?))
Logan · UT, USA
String of lights composed of ~12 circular objects. Appeared briefly (10 seconds),and was moving N to S. ((Starlink satellites?))
Cole Harbour (Canada) · NS, Canada
Strange Light Formation spotted on back deck. ((Spacelink satellites?))
Elbert · CO, USA
vertical formation of stars connected by a straight, bright white light.
Wadhams · MI, USA
ufo sighting leaving work?
Joliet · IL, USA
White lights forming straight line. ((Starlink satellites?))