Shape Profile
Unknown Sightings
22,397 reports describe a unknown-shaped object — 10.44% of every sighting in the National UFO Reporting Center record.
Total reports
22,397
Share of all sightings
10.44%
Top state
CA
2,423 reports
Peak decade
2010s
8,113 reports
Trend by decade
are unknowns rising?Top 10 states
geographic spreadLatest 20 unknown sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | State | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-19 | Early | IA | 2-4 minutes | Changing Lights, odd directional changes |
| 2023-12-15 | Buena Vista | GA | It didn't disappear. | Something small is burning; black smoking air |
| 2023-12-15 | Parks | AZ | 25 seconds | A huge see-through dark object appeared in one of my photos during an all-night time lapse I was doing. |
| 2023-12-14 | Brownstown Charter Township | MI | At least 10 minutes | Very bright multi colored pulsating irregular shaped stationary object or light |
| 2023-12-12 | West Harrison | IN | 12 seconds | Fast moving object with glittering trail |
| 2023-12-12 | Greenville | MS | 5 minutes | Two red blinking lights that moved down. The lights were stationary and definitely not a plane or helicopter. |
| 2023-12-11 | Litchfield | SC | 1 minute | Object flying in many directions |
| 2023-12-07 | Mill Valley | CA | 20 seconds | Series of green bird shaped ufo's moving in a line quickly accross the sky and disappearing. |
| 2023-12-01 | Albion | ME | 12 to 14 seconds | Spotted a Craft this morning. |
| 2023-11-30 | Denton | NE | 5 minutes | I observed an aircraft with two bright lights to be stagnant and hovering over my pasture approximately 100' in the air. |
| 2023-11-29 | Storm Lake | IA | hours | It looked like it could be a white hot air balloon, but very high- like a jet plane. |
| 2023-11-20 | San Jose | CA | 1 minute | An orange light in the sky moving slowly. No flashing lights that an airplane or helicopter would have. |
| 2023-11-13 | South Brunswick Township | NJ | 1 minute | A slow moving point of light, traveling west on clear conditions at high altitude. |
| 2023-11-11 | Seattle | WA | Green blue light came in | Woke up Saturday night. Pain was gone in my hip and buzzing sound above home. Strange green blue scanning light went... |
| 2023-11-09 | Joliet | IL | 1-2 minutes | We were on our way home from the VA Hospital. |
| 2023-11-05 | Mangum | OK | 45 minutes | Lights changing directions |
| 2023-11-02 | Guilford | CT | 5 min | Metallic spinning object twinkling in the sun. Spinning consistently with what looked like lights as well. |
| 2023-10-31 | Mount vernon | WA | 5 minutes | Highly reflective slow moving object. |
| 2023-10-28 | Brooklyn | NY | Consistent | We saw something that looked strange in the sky. |
| 2023-10-27 | Tacoma | WA | 4 seconds | A big light, traveling faster that humanly possible flew over me. |