Unknown UFO Sightings
15,584 Unknown-shaped UFO sightings recorded worldwide since 1941, peaking in 2020 (1216 reports); most commonly reported in United States.
- Total sightings
- 15,584
- Span
- 1941–2030
- Peak year
- 2020 (1216 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Unknown
1941–2030 · peak 2020 (1216 reports)
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Las Vegas · NV, USA
Woman repts. two stationary, "colorful," lights to W & NW of her position. (Description not inconsistent w/ twinkling stars.)
Birmingham · AL, USA
Man standing outside sees what looks like "shooting star." Obj. split into 3 lights, "like isosceles triangle," shot across sky to SE
Lake Oswego · OR, USA
Woman repts. three peculiar green beams of light overhead. (MUFON investigator reptd. was probably laser-based adv. light.)
American Canyon · CA, USA
Woman and daughter witness w/ binoculars 2 strange lights in sky. Flashing white, red, green. (Not inconsistent w/ twinkling star.)
Midway · GA, USA
Mother notices "aircraft" over Midway River, suddenly "engine noise" seem to slow. She & kids see 2 "mushroom shaped" craft.
Green Co. · TN, USA
FAA empl. relays facts of written rept. Man and woman encounter 3 bizarre ships that hovered over them on Hwy. 70.
Elk Grove · CA, USA
Woman outside smoking sees bizarre craft "w/ red lights" pass silently overhead. When she peered around house, was gone.
Tacoma · WA, USA
Young man repts. he returned home from store, neighborhood boys excited about strange obj. that had just passed overhead.
Simsbury · CT, USA
Woman & friend (pilot) see very large blazing yellow/orange "comet" streak horiz. E to W, explode. Changed course, dropped vert.!
Orange · VT, USA
Woman witnesses multiple red, radiant objs. hovering over her mountaintop farm, then immense white flash. Objs. streaked S (?).
Basking Ridge · NJ, USA
Young man, while driving N, witnesses dramatic white fireball to east streak N to S. Sees similar red streak N to S in W sky!
FAA (Sector 18) · NY, USA
FAA Boston Cntr. relays 2 rpts: 2 comm. jetliner crews rept very bright light, green tail, pass by them on N side very fast. Close.
Lower Nazareth · PA, USA
Woman witnesses huge, triangular-shaped ship, covered w/ bizarre lights, "like traffic lights." Very dramatic sighting.
Yarmouth · ME, USA
Young man reports huge, bright white light, "w/ green wake," pass overhead very fast. Other witnesses stopped cars.
York · ME, USA
Father, son, & many bystanders witness incredible "starlike" obj. w/ "white aura, long green tail," STREAK FAST from NE to SW.
Fall River · MA, USA
Young woman saw extremely bright white light with green tail streak toward the south. No sound.
Biddeford · ME, USA
Man leaves work at hospital, encounters large "plate-shaped obj. w/ 3 multi-color rings around it." Obj crossed road, rose vert.
Arlington · WA, USA
MUFON member relays multiple reports about people who witnessed "pink and blue flashes" same night as sightings over Seattle.
Seattle · WA, USA
Man repts. witnessing peculiar red and blue flashes over Seattle. One flash filled 180 deg. of sky w/ red light. Observed an orb.
Seattle · WA, USA
Young woman repts. witnessing multiple "flashes of red and blue light" in and above the clouds. Were to the NE of Capitol Hill.
Seattle · WA, USA
2nd Seattle Univ. student calls to report remarkable "pink and " blue flashing lights in, or above the clouds.
Seattle · WA, USA
Young woman in Seattle Univ. dormitory sees bizarre, pronounced red, pink, blue intense, multiple flashes of light in clouds to east.
Seymour-Johnson AFB · NC, USA
Duty sergeant rpts multiple calls from citizens regarding 1 or more (?) objects hovering, maneuvering near USAF base. Radar neg.
Orlando · FL, USA
Woman repts. bizarre "half circle" obj. in sky to SE. Projects ray downward! Something appeared to "fall" from the main object.
Muskegon · MI, USA
Woman repts. daughter encountered intensely bright red, triangular obj. sitting on side of road. Obj. rose, disappeared suddenly.