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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Rio Rico · AZ, USA
5 red orange flashing orbs descending in size.
Alamogordo · NM, USA
4 bright orange lights flashing in sequence, then disappears. Minutes later a single orange light appears. ((anonymous report))
Evansville · IN, USA
Saw three triangles in a dream..
Evansville · IN, USA
Saw three triangles in a dream and was possibly put into a combat simulation. ((anonymous report))
Greencastle · IN, USA
Formation of red and green lights that split up, started to descend close to the ground then shot back up and disappeared.
Lebanon Junction · KY, USA
Green sphere with a glowing green streak behind it.
Greenville · KY, USA
1/2 disc formation of 4 crafts.
Yuba City · CA, USA
There were 4 lights in diagonal formation that moved side to side to side. The fifth craft was moving in a figure 8 motion.
Colmor · NM, USA
Driving S on I-25, W off the hwy. towards Ocate 7 crafts where flying in formation accelerating and decelerating rapidly. ((anonymous))
West Vancouver (Canada) · BC, Canada
Two long thin objects and one sphere. ((anonymous report))
American Fork · UT, USA
Light Clusters Passing Overhead.
Nottingham · MD, USA
Slow moving, extremely bright, and silent. Moving across the tree lines. Looked like a combination of shapes. ((anonymous report)).
Puyallup · WA, USA
5 craft seen, huge triangle of 3 move across sky in Puyallup, Wa. Helicopter heads toward it.
Edmonton (Canada) · AB, Canada
Cluster of star like objects moving with incredible speed
Black River Falls · WI, USA
Five lights hover in night sky going dark one by one and then illuminated again for a brief moment before disappearing!!
Duluth · MN, USA
Light formation with large disk at center
Moran · MI, USA
Late evening over east lake star watching access to lake looks west to the south was watching what appeared to be a weather event told
Prudenville · MI, USA
Row of three green lights moving erratically, changing colors, then speeding away.
Farmingdale · ME, USA
Orbs of light clustered together flying in non-linear pattern in with irregular, but high, velocities for 2 hrs. ((anonymous report))
Elgin · IL, USA
A few orange orbs appeared to make a formation along with another group, totaling around 10 orbs.
Surprise · AZ, USA
((HOAX??)) Some time in the next week or so, 3 large groups of Unidentified Flying Objects will be visible in the sky.
Greenbush · MI, USA
Bon fire lake huron looked up for stars and noticed 2 lights traveling northbound at a 20 degree angle, 30,000 ft, saw multiple pairs l
Marion · NC, USA
Observed 3 objects in a triangular formation at high altitude ie: 30-40K ft. which remained stationary for approximately 10 minutes in
Palm Desert · CA, USA
V shaped formation in the sky formed by round objects flying together and very close to each other (looked like they could be attached)
Powell River (Canada) · BC, Canada
A friend and I witnessed a rigid, boomerang shaped formation of between five and ten lights glide silently over our heads.