Shape Profile
Light Sightings
41,818 reports describe a light-shaped object — 19.5% of every sighting in the National UFO Reporting Center record.
Total reports
41,818
Share of all sightings
19.5%
Top state
CA
5,090 reports
Peak decade
2010s
18,034 reports
Trend by decade
are lights rising?Top 10 states
geographic spreadLatest 20 light sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | State | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-15 | Capac | MI | 1 minute | Saw a horseshoe shaped orange light with blue center hovering, it turned 180° on its axis and sped off gaining altitude |
| 2023-12-14 | Fingerville | SC | Roughly 7-10 minutes | Light was observed, likely stationary then it just extinguished and disappeared |
| 2023-12-14 | Almont | MI | 1 hour | Lights in the sky appearing, moving around, and then disappearing |
| 2023-12-10 | Paragould | AR | 1 minute | 4 bright lights changing up coordinations |
| 2023-12-08 | Fitchburg | MA | 3 minutes | Saw a non blinking moving light while driving with a possible smaller light descending from it |
| 2023-12-07 | Fairfax | MO | 10 min total | Orange lights seen ascending up from great height |
| 2023-12-07 | Wellfleet | MA | A few hours | Bright lights changing in intensity |
| 2023-12-06 | Red Lion | PA | At least 20 minutes | This is the second sighting of this object in the same location. It appears as a white pulsating light |
| 2023-12-06 | Lawler | IA | 30 - 45 minutes | 4 to 5 lights in the sky to the east of New Hampton IA aprox 10 miles roughly above Lawler IA |
| 2023-12-03 | Memphis | IN | 3 minutes | Unexplained bright shiny light |
| 2023-12-02 | Great Falls | MT | 3:45AM on going hr + | 5+ white lights circling/maneuvering from our perspective over or beyond Malmstrom Airforce Base. Lights changed in... |
| 2023-11-30 | Buckhead | GA | 2 to 2 and a half hours. | Over a period of a couple hours my parents and I watched a distant light in the night sky make small, cyclical... |
| 2023-11-29 | Groveland | MA | 5 minutes | Six lights equal distance apart in a straight line formation rising up almost perpendicular from the horizon towards the... |
| 2023-11-27 | Taylorsville | KY | 1-2 minutes | I saw first one, then 4-5 fuzzy lights that moved erratically, disappeared and reappeared several times. |
| 2023-11-27 | Manteo | NC | 25 seconds | I saw 3 lights staggered in distance coming from the north to the southeast |
| 2023-11-27 | Brinnon | WA | 7 minutes | Three lights, stacked atop one another, white on top, then a slightly larger orange one, then another white, roughly 100... |
| 2023-11-27 | Gresham | OR | A few minutes | White light in the sky. At first glance the light almost looked like a star seen during the day, however there were no... |
| 2023-11-26 | Casa Grande | AZ | Over 15 minutes | I thought i saw a jet or satellite going N to S. It stopped then moved quickly and erratically. |
| 2023-11-26 | Battle Ground | WA | 5-7 minutes over the past | On different occasions over the past week. 8-15 of the same lights. Some close together I groups, some spread apart. One... |
| 2023-11-23 | Puyallup | WA | Ongoing since 11:37pm | Dazzling multicolored object |