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 March 2020, about 270+ US UFO sightings were reported to either the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) or the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) — while there is overlap, some reports are only in one database or the other.
Numbers below are as reported on MUFON, which collects citizen reports and catalogs them by date, location, and includes a description.
- Alabama — 3
- Alaska — 1
- Arizona — 24
- Arkansas — 2
- California — 58
- Colorado — 22 (10 sightings March 5-6)
- Connecticut — 6
- Delaware — 1
- Florida — 29
- Georgia — 8
- Hawai’i — 3
- Idaho — 3
- Illinois — 22 (7 sightings on March 6th)
- Indiana — 16 (3 sightings on March 5th)
- Iowa — 8
- Kansas — 6
- Kentucky — 23 (6 sightings on March 5th)
- Louisiana — 1
- Maine — 6
- Maryland — 8
- Massachusetts — 4
- Michigan — 27
- Minnesota — 12
- Mississippi — 2
- Missouri — 10 (6 sightings on March 5-6)
- Montana — 3
- Nebraska — 2
- Nevada — 3
- New Hampshire — 5
- New Jersey — 9
- New Mexico — 7
- New York — 17
- North Carolina — 7*
- North Dakota — 1
- Ohio — 31 (16 sightings on March 5th)
- Oklahoma — 2
- Oregon — 10
- Pennsylvania — 28 (8 sightings on March 5th)
- Rhode Island — 3
- South Carolina — 2
- South Dakota — 1
- Tennessee — 5
- Texas — 8
- Utah — 5
- Vermont — 0
- Virginia — 11
- Washington — 20
- Washington, DC — 1
- West Virginia — 6 (4 on March 5th)
- Wisconsin — 14
- Wyoming — 1
These are the reported sightings. Note that sightings are sometimes reported months or years later, and these numbers may change over time.
Noted is a pattern of reports for March 5 and 6, 2020 above. Many of these reports have similar descriptions: a string of multiple lights.
To search the MUFON database and read details of reported 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 and access to other MUFON resources.
To see the latest NUFORC reports — or their sighting reports going back a long, long time (millennia) — or report a UFO sighting, visit www.nuforc.org.
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* While this month NUFORC lists no NC sightings (potentially a temporary site issue), MUFON lists seven (Belhaven, Candler, Connelly Springs, Gastonia, High Point, Middlesex, and Warrensville).
