Shape Profile
Chevron Sightings
2,576 reports describe a chevron-shaped object — 1.2% of every sighting in the National UFO Reporting Center record.
Total reports
2,576
Share of all sightings
1.2%
Top state
CA
403 reports
Peak decade
2000s
971 reports
Trend by decade
are chevrons rising?Top 10 states
geographic spreadLatest 20 chevron sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | State | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-11 | Morro Bay | CA | 45 seconds | An object moving through the sky then disappearing |
| 2023-12-08 | Pittsburgh | PA | Approximately 5 minutes | My husband and I saw and took a video of a very large, chevron shaped craft with a straight row of lights across the... |
| 2023-12-06 | Austin | TX | 30 seconds | A light grey craft similar to that of a B2 flying overhead Austin, TX, with no apparent lights and sound. |
| 2023-11-23 | Grand Island | NY | 1-3 minutes | Object with flashing lights takes off. Vertically makes unnatural course correction. |
| 2023-11-08 | Longview | WA | approx. 45 seconds | silent as in no air moving at low speed moderate altitude |
| 2023-11-05 | Indianapolis | IN | 5 minutes | They looked to be 40 or 50 and flew like drones and they had black or dark sides and light or bright sides. |
| 2023-11-03 | Melbourne | FL | 3 seconds | While sitting in my hot tub I was looking in a Southward direction waiting for the SpaceX rocket launch, when I saw what... |
| 2023-11-02 | Sioux Falls | SD | 35 seconds | Low flying silent craft with stealth coating. |
| 2023-10-14 | Richardson | TX | 15 seconds | Large, silent v shape, translucent but had luminescence flying and appeared twice |
| 2023-10-07 | Springfield | OR | 10-15 seconds | 12 or more dim lights in a perfect chevron or boomerang shape |
| 2023-10-05 | Topeka | KS | 20 seconds or so. | Somewhat low to the ground, silent, black, with many reflective points. |
| 2023-10-05 | White Plains | NY | 10min | 2 objects in the sky (stationary) |
| 2023-10-03 | Town of Carmel outside of the City of Millville | NJ | 1-2 min | A UFO chevron shaped three swirling lights hovering without moving much sound, larger than my car, low flying and moving... |
| 2023-10-01 | ENFIELD | CT | 2mins | We saw it. My husband did say ok my bf. Said he saw 20 of them the week before following each other |
| 2023-10-01 | Broadview Heights | OH | 15 seconds | Chevron shaped craft with ‘plasma’ trail silently screamed across 140 degrees of the visible night sky from NW to SE |
| 2023-09-30 | Rapid City | SD | 10 seconds | Large Boomerang shape UFO with no lights flew over our house |
| 2023-09-14 | Santa Rosa Beach | FL | 30 seconds | 2 Cloud-like chevron/ V-shaped objects pass over house about 30 seconds apart |
| 2023-09-03 | Clearwater | FL | Four minutes | A shooting star slowly ascending up in the sky with parallel lines of smoke. |
| 2023-08-16 | Moab | UT | 4 seconds | Triangle shape, multiple points of light high rate of speed. Viewed twice, once north to south, then south to north |
| 2023-07-26 | Spokane | WA | 45 seconds | Triangle shaped object that stopped moving and held still above houses for about 2 seconds. |