📊 Analysis

Daytime sightings — an analysis

What 525 reports of daytime sightings have in common: when and where they are seen, shapes, colours, how long they last and what the sky shows — compared with all UFO sightings.

525 sightings🎥 340 with video91 in the last 12 months🗓️ 1950–2026

What stands out

  • 0% of daytime sightings with a time were seen at night (9 pm to 5 am), against 44% of all sightings.
  • The busiest hour is 4 pm.
  • The busiest year so far is 2025, with 150 reports.
  • 51% come from the United States.
  • The Sky match explains 0% of the daytime sightings it has checked (a launch, satellite, fireball, planet or plane), against 6% of all sightings.
  • The most-reported shape is orb (59).

When

Sightings per year
19502026
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Sightings per yearSightings
19503
19510
19523
19530
19540
19550
19560
19571
19580
19590
19600
19610
19620
19630
19640
19650
19662
19670
19680
19690
19700
19710
19720
19731
19740
19750
19760
19771
19781
19794
19800
19811
19820
19830
19840
19850
19860
19871
19880
19890
19900
19910
19920
19930
19940
19951
19960
19971
19980
19990
20000
20010
20020
20030
20041
20051
20063
20072
20080
20091
20102
20111
20122
20131
20143
20154
20165
20174
20184
20195
202017
202126
202233
202375
202491
2025150
202674
Last 24 months
Dec 2024Nov 2026
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Last 24 monthsSightings
Dec 202435
Jan 202515
Feb 202514
Mar 202510
Apr 20256
May 202520
Jun 202517
Jul 20255
Aug 202517
Sep 20258
Oct 202512
Nov 202519
Dec 20257
Jan 20268
Feb 202612
Mar 202610
Apr 20269
May 20266
Jun 202613
Jul 20267
Aug 20264
Sep 20261
Oct 20263
Nov 20261
Time of day local time
12 am11 pm
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Time of daySightings
12 am0
1 am0
2 am0
3 am0
4 am0
5 am0
6 am0
7 am0
8 am0
9 am54
10 am57
11 am61
12 pm69
1 pm55
2 pm58
3 pm70
4 pm101
5 pm0
6 pm0
7 pm0
8 pm0
9 pm0
10 pm0
11 pm0
Month of the year
JanDec
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Month of the yearSightings
Jan41
Feb46
Mar32
Apr38
May42
Jun52
Jul29
Aug56
Sep41
Oct38
Nov53
Dec57

Where

Top towns and cities
  • Los Angeles, California5
  • Las Vegas, Nevada5
  • Burbank, California4
  • San Diego, California4
  • Denver, Colorado4

What people saw

Shapes
Colours
  • Silver68
  • White47
  • Black39
  • Grey12
  • Red10
  • Blue9
  • Orange9
  • Yellow5
What the Sky match found
  • No ordinary match233
  • Starlink train1

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Counted from the sightings on this site, as reported — shapes, times and places are what witnesses said. Updated hourly.

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