Reported UFO and UAP Sightings

Beginning in November 2024, thousands of reports of large drones or unidentified objects were made across New Jersey and neighboring states, including near military facilities such as Picatinny Arsenal. The reports prompted FAA flight restrictions, a federal multi-agency investigation, and extensive media coverage.

On the night of 30 April to 1 May 2023, a Las Vegas family called 911 to report a crash in their backyard and the presence of tall figures, shortly after a bright object was recorded on a police officer's body camera and reported across the region. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police investigated the property and released the bodycam footage and 911 call.

On the evening of 7 July 2010, Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou, China, was closed for about an hour after a flight crew reported an object near the airport. Outbound flights were grounded and inbound flights were diverted, and the event was widely reported by Chinese state media and international outlets.

Between 2007 and 2009, night guard Murat Yalçın recorded video of objects over the Sea of Marmara near Kumburgaz, Turkey. The footage was presented at a 2009 press conference by the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center and received wide media coverage in Turkey and internationally.

Dozens of residents in and around Stephenville reported a large object and bright lights in the evening sky. The Air Force later stated that F-16 fighters had been training in the area that night.

United Airlines employees at O'Hare International Airport reported a disc-shaped object hovering over a gate before shooting up through the clouds. The FAA attributed it to a weather phenomenon.

On several nights between 2004 and 2006, residents of Tinley Park and neighbouring suburbs reported and filmed formations of red lights moving slowly across the sky.

In the early morning of 5 January 2000, police officers from several departments in southwestern Illinois, including Highland, Lebanon, Shiloh, Millstadt and Dupo, independently reported a large, silent, triangular object with bright lights moving slowly across the area. A civilian witness in Highland also reported it. The reports were investigated by the National Institute for Discovery Science, which interviewed the officers and produced a detailed study of the event.

Thousands of people across Arizona reported lights, including a V-shaped formation, on the evening of 13 March 1997. The US Air Force attributed the later stationary lights to flares dropped during a training exercise.

Police officers, military personnel and members of the public across England reported lights and a large object over two nights, including over RAF bases.

Thousands of Belgians reported large triangular objects with lights, and F-16 jets were scrambled after radar contacts in March 1990.

Contractor Ed Walters published a series of photographs of a glowing craft over Gulf Breeze, sparking a local wave of reports.

Through the mid-1980s, many residents of the Hudson Valley reported large, boomerang or V-shaped arrangements of lights moving slowly and quietly.

Lights have been reported in Norway's Hessdalen valley since the early 1980s, with an automated research station recording them.

Residents of Petrozavodsk and other northern areas saw a large glowing jellyfish-like object in the pre-dawn sky.