Shape Profile
Cone Sightings
834 reports describe a cone-shaped object — 0.39% of every sighting in the National UFO Reporting Center record.
Total reports
834
Share of all sightings
0.39%
Top state
CA
100 reports
Peak decade
2000s
335 reports
Trend by decade
are cones rising?Top 10 states
geographic spreadLatest 20 cone sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | State | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-25 | Mount Hood | OR | 5 minutes | Saw static object while driving |
| 2023-08-08 | Alpine | NJ | A couple of seconds | A silver colored teepee descending by the Palisades, just south of exit 2 of the Paliades parkway. |
| 2023-07-19 | Malibu | CA | maybe 1 minute | A moving orb omitting an aura or haze that stretched across the sky |
| 2023-06-14 | Brockton right above RT 24 | MA | 1 min I was driving by | Driving to work and a small silver object hovering above the highway and I was able to get a picture |
| 2023-05-27 | Washingtonville | NY | 10 seconds | Very fast constant speed traveling from S to N with continuous illumination, no flashing. Not a meteorite. |
| 2023-03-17 | Roseville | CA | 15 seconds | Six red fire balls I looked up and they were in the middle of the sky in 15 seconds or gone parallel, flying to the... |
| 2023-02-09 | Newark | OH | 10 to 12 minutes | Many flashing lights following a bigger object |
| 2023-02-02 | Foxboro | MA | 10 seconds | Narrow Cone-Shaped Craft Hovered then Disappeared from the Clear Blue Sky |
| 2023-01-15 | Boynton Beach | FL | Eastbound about 3 minutes | Cone shaped object with cloud like contrail that did not dissipate rapidly in sky |
| 2023-01-09 | Carrollwood | FL | Revised 8 mins on and off | 3 craft seen with Orange glow seen twice from larger of craft in an area not known for sightings. |
| 2022-12-16 | Belhaven | NC | — | Lighting in sky with orb of light around it and then disappeared after ~3-4 minutes |
| 2022-11-26 | Mount Holly | NJ | 3 seconds | Driving up the bypass I witnessed a metallic almost glassy cone shaped object. It was upright and vertical, and was... |
| 2022-11-01 | Holladay | UT | 2 seconds | I saw 2 lights appear in the sky that moved to that moved into a cloud and then the lights disappeared |
| 2022-10-30 | Sacramento | CA | 30 minutes | Observed a object that changed from a square and ended as a cone. It was white and gold, reflected the sun as it was in... |
| 2022-10-27 | Douglas | AZ | 10 minutes | Cone shapped, extremely bright white lighted opject moving SE with a contrail |
| 2022-10-17 | Shawnee | KS | 5 minutes | Object woth vapor trail descending for 5 mins woth 2 jets nearby. Wife & I have pics. |
| 2022-10-15 | Newport | RI | Not sure; less than 5 min | Cone shaped with tails appearing to be all white light. |
| 2022-10-15 | East Windsor | NJ | — | Riding my bicycle looked up this dark grayish/silver craft bright redish orange heat |
| 2022-10-14 | Bedminster | NJ | Seconds | Light |
| 2022-09-24 | Summit | NJ | 3 mins | While driving saw fast moving triangular shaped with lights in back |