UFO

We have just released 1275 new reports received at the Center since late December. The reports consist of a wide variety of sightings, from structured craft, to lights moving erratically in the sky, to frequent sightings of mysterious orange or blue “orbs”.

Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus

Reports spiked heavily in late February and the first few days of March when Jupiter and Venus appeared just 1/2 degree apart from each other in the western sky, a rare and spectacular astronomical alignment. Many witnesses mistook this as a single craft, and reported it as such to us both over the …

Those of you who diligently scan our reports have likely noticed references to MADAR nodes, for example this report from May of 2022. MADAR stands for Multiple Anomaly Detection and Automated Recording, and these reports document alerts triggered by a network of special sensors placed in strategic locations around the globe. The sensors are designed to detect electromagnetic and ionospheric disturbances that may be caused by UFOs. The project is unique in that it uses a scientific approach to collecting data and analyzing it, rather than relying on anecdotal evidence. This has led to a high level of credibility …

The NUFORC website has been updated as of Thursday December 22, 2022, with the posting of 1255 new UFO sighting reports, submitted to our Center since mid-October of this year.

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The National UFO Reporting Center was recently visited by Erik Lacitis of the Seattle times, who wrote a nice piece about it for the October 14 edition of Pacific NW Magazine. Check out the full article here.…

The NUFORC website has been updated with the posting of 657 new sighting reports, received at our headquarters between September 7^th and the afternoon of October 8^th, 2022.  In addition to those reports, we include an additional 109 reports that may have been received prior to that time, but which have been corrected, or amended, for any of several reasons.

When reading the reports, visitors should be alert to the fact that all of the reports are preliminary, and may be explainable by prosaic events of terrestrial cause or origin.  A good example of this point is …

We have finally updated the NUFORC website with the posting of approximately 1,300 reports received since June 21^st, 2022.  We apologize for the long delay in our updates, and hope to get back to a schedule of posting new reports at least once per week. The full list of new reports can be accessed here.

E-MAIL POLICY

In a word, NUFORC is being flooded…deluged might be a better description…with e-mailed messages, far more than the sole person at the NUFORC headquarters can respond to.  We ask that everyone limit themselves to only important messages, and please keep …

The NUFORC website has been updated as of Wednesday, June 22, 2022, with the posting of 795 new UFO sighting reports, submitted to our Center since mid-May of this year.

Due to a tight schedule, the new batch of reports has not been thoroughly vetted, and could contain objectionable material or personal information. If, in the course of reading the reports, you encounter such a report, please forward the url of the report to webmaster@ufocenter.com and we will quickly correct it.

Mass Sightings on 6/19

NUFORC received a deluge of reports and photos of a spectacular bright object follow …

The following is a bit of NUFORC history written by Maurene Morgan, WA state director for MUFON, and originally published in the November 2021 Washington MUFON newsletter.

Seattle firefighter Bob Gribble’s fascination with UFOs began in 1954 when he happened to pick up a copy of True Magazine. An article about UFOs grabbed his attention. Riveted, he quickly ordered Flying Saucers on the Attack by Harold Wilkins that was advertised in the magazine. Fascinated, he read it multiple times. Next came Donald Kehoe’s book, Flying Saucers Are Real. Now, Gribble was thoroughly hooked. Reading these books began his life-long conviction: …

We attempted to update the homepage and database of sighting reports on May 13^th, 2022, but were thwarted in that attempt by overlapping travel schedules of Peter Davenport, Director of NUFORC, and Mr. Christian Stepien, NUFORC Technical Director, during the last two weeks of May.  We perform a preliminary update, as of this date, May 31^st, with the posting of 284 written reports that had been received by our offices by early Saturday, May 14^th, and expect to complete a second update within a week, bringing the site up to currency at that time.  …