Shape Profile
Circle Sightings
20,688 reports describe a circle-shaped object — 9.65% of every sighting in the National UFO Reporting Center record.
Total reports
20,688
Share of all sightings
9.65%
Top state
CA
2,471 reports
Peak decade
2010s
9,891 reports
Trend by decade
are circles rising?Top 10 states
geographic spreadLatest 20 circle sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | State | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-16 | Harrison | NY | 30 seconds | I was driving on I-684, I saw it coming towards me so I looked up,It flew over my car, I looked at it, It didn't appear... |
| 2023-12-14 | Smiths Creek | MI | 1-2 hours | Multicolor craft seen over tree line in front of Michigan home. |
| 2023-12-12 | TATAMY Borough | PA | about 2 minutes | Flash then light |
| 2023-12-11 | Bassett | VA | 10 minutes | I saw an object move very strangely and I did not notice lights on it and it stopped and then moved, several times. |
| 2023-12-11 | San Leandro | CA | 5 minhutes | Object traveling very fast doing sprials and zig zagging across the sky |
| 2023-12-10 | Scottsdale | AZ | 1 minute | Possibly drone, but very high altitude |
| 2023-12-07 | Martinsville | VA | 30 minutes | I viewed the anomaly for about 30 minutes after work and it wasn’t there tonight |
| 2023-12-04 | Dunkirk | IN | 20 seconds | No sound, projected several bright beams of light from round circle of light into woods onto the ground. |
| 2023-12-03 | Sisseton | SD | 05:30PM-05:47PM | Three circular lights that were dim, and one single circular bright light. |
| 2023-11-29 | Kensington | NH | 3 minutes | Rapidly changing altitude bright light |
| 2023-11-28 | Prescott Valley | AZ | 60-75 seconds | While in our yard we noticed a silver, round, craft moving East. It made 2 90 degree turns over a 30 second period. |
| 2023-11-28 | Prescott Valley | AZ | Around 45 seconds | We noticed a silver circular craft moving East at a steady speed. It made 2 90 degree turns before disappearing behind... |
| 2023-11-28 | New Lenox | IL | Approximately 2 minutes. | Bright deep yellow sphere with red bottom with long yellow trailing tail in appearance of a fireball |
| 2023-11-26 | Thedford | NE | 30-hour plus | 3 lighted objects circling at high altitude that were both bright and dim |
| 2023-11-25 | San Jose | CA | 35 or 50 miles | So I was working out and I know what a shooting star looks like and what I saw was not it it was bright white and no... |
| 2023-11-25 | Lake Como | NJ | 10 minutes | When taking a picture of the moon I noticed a dark line in the sky. I snapped another pic and saw a red light at the end... |
| 2023-11-25 | Friday Harbor | WA | 1 sec | I was laying down on the ground and I saw what looked like a star and then it flashed and then it was gone. |
| 2023-11-25 | Woodland | CA | 20 | Light hovered in sky past 2 nights |
| 2023-11-24 | Mesa | AZ | 15 minutes | I saw a small black circle in the sky moving back and forth in the sky in a strange flight pattern. |
| 2023-11-23 | Conway | SC | 5 min I watched | Happened to see them, 3 white lights, 1 red |