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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Guntersville · AL, USA
Orange orbs going south.
Tempe · AZ, USA
Orange light formation.
Temperance · MI, USA
7-8 bright lights in formation, no sound, low in sky headed east towards lake Eire. Seen by 8 of us. Whole sky glowed.
Lafayette · LA, USA
Single file bright lights appear then disappear.
Hopkins · MN, USA
Formation of red lights over Hopkins, MN.
Villa Rica · GA, USA
Video taken and one picture.
Humboldt · IA, USA
Orange lights in a spread formation.
Revivim (Israel) · Israel
Whitish dots, floating silently.
Frederick · MD, USA
5 or 6 oranges objects seen flying over Frederick MD 11/29/2013 18:50.
Shelby · OH, USA
Multiple occurrences of several white lights in formation moving rapidly, moving quickly in and out of formation.
Lake St. Louis · MO, USA
Observed (4) unique red orbs that disappeared and arrived and drifted unlike an aircraft. ((NUFORC Note: Suspected lanterns. PD))
Lake St. Louis · MO, USA
Observed (4) red orbs that were at different heights and moved very oddly then disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Suspected lanterns. PD))
Homestead · FL, USA
An object/formation of object(s) in half moon shape formed by 7 lights too fast for an aircraft and too slow for a meteor.
Boca Raton · FL, USA
5 Red circles hovering, looked light lining of a structure....until I realized there is no structure.
Rexburg · ID, USA
My daughter and I saw 5-7 white lights in a shifting formation travel quickly across the Idaho night sky in a southwesterly direction.
Eastsound · WA, USA
2 unidentified high-wing large model aircraft flying low over water proceeding south along west side of East Sound.
Melber · KY, USA
Large ship and several escorts seen over Melber, KY.
Lombard · IL, USA
5-8 orange lights over suburban Chicago
St. Louis · MO, USA
Cluster of silver orbs fading in and out of view.
Lima · OH, USA
Husband and I witnessed 4 translucent lights moving clockwise then coming together in center and then spreading back out. I have seen t
Hamilton · OH, USA
Bright light splits into 4 and forms shapes, disappears one at a time, above Hamilton Ohio
Peoria · IL, USA
Several stationary orange lights in sky west of Peoria, in a descending arc which dissappeared in twos after a short period of time.
Aspen (~2 hrs. W of; driving) · CO, USA
3 orbs in sky remote Colorado oct 12 2013 moving in up and down to side to side plus sign formations .
Orangevale · CA, USA
Grouping of orange lights that moved in sync close over the house.
Council Bluffs · IA, USA
3 bright white amber lights forming a perfect triangle and moving into an arch without a vapor trail.