By Kay Whatley, Editor
Across the United States each year, thousands of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are reported. UFO reports cover close encounters of various types, range from blinking lights in the sky to unusual aircraft to reports of contact.
In December 2018, approximately 257 UFO sightings were reported across the US. Reporters were made to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and/or the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Numbers below are as reported on MUFON.
- Alabama — 2
- Alaska — 1
- Arizona — 12
- Arkansas — 4
- California — 29
- Colorado — 14
- Connecticut — 1
- Delaware — 1
- Florida — 14
- Georgia — 3
- Hawai’i — 1
- Idaho — 3
- Illinois — 8
- Indiana — 4
- Iowa — 3
- Kansas — 1
- Kentucky — 5
- Louisiana — 1
- Maine — 1
- Maryland — 3
- Massachusetts — 4
- Michigan — 8
- Minnesota — 3
- Mississippi — 0
- Missouri — 3
- Montana — 2
- Nebraska — 0
- Nevada — 3
- New Hampshire — 1
- New Jersey — 7
- New Mexico — 6
- New York — 4
- North Carolina — 7 (incl Tarboro orbs sighting)
- North Dakota — 0
- Ohio — 10
- Oklahoma — 4
- Oregon — 4
- Pennsylvania — 10
- Rhode Island — 2
- South Carolina — 4
- South Dakota — 0
- Tennessee — 5
- Texas — 22
- Utah — 3
- Vermont — 1
- Virginia — 9
- Washington — 14
- Washington, DC — 1
- West Virginia — 2
- Wisconsin — 7
- Wyoming — 0
These are the reported sightings. Note that sightings are sometimes reported months or years later, and these numbers may go up over time.
To search the MUFON database and read details of these accounts, or to report your own sighting of a flying object you could not identify, visit www.mufon.com. Membership is available for those interested in more intensive database searches.
To report a sighting or see the latest NUFORC reports — or UFO reports going back a long, long, long time — visit www.nuforc.org.
