📊 Analysis

Jellyfish sightings — an analysis

What 97 reports of jellyfish 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.

97 sightings🎥 57 with video9 in the last 12 months🗓️ 1977–2026

What stands out

  • 29% of jellyfish sightings with a time were seen at night (9 pm to 5 am), against 44% of all sightings.
  • The busiest hour is 7 pm.
  • The busiest year so far is 2024, with 58 reports.
  • 9% come from the United States.
  • The Sky match explains 0% of the jellyfish sightings it has checked (a launch, satellite, fireball, planet or plane), against 6% of all sightings.
  • The most-reported shape is jellyfish (97).

When

Sightings per year
19772026
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Sightings per yearSightings
19771
19780
19790
19800
19810
19820
19830
19840
19850
19860
19870
19880
19890
19900
19910
19920
19930
19940
19950
19960
19970
19980
19990
20000
20010
20020
20030
20040
20050
20060
20070
20080
20091
20100
20111
20120
20130
20140
20150
20160
20172
20180
20190
20200
20213
20220
20233
202458
202520
20268
Last 24 months
Dec 2024Nov 2026
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Last 24 monthsSightings
Dec 20243
Jan 20253
Feb 20250
Mar 20251
Apr 20253
May 20255
Jun 20250
Jul 20250
Aug 20252
Sep 20253
Oct 20251
Nov 20252
Dec 20250
Jan 20260
Feb 20260
Mar 20261
Apr 20261
May 20262
Jun 20260
Jul 20260
Aug 20264
Sep 20260
Oct 20260
Nov 20260
Time of day local time
12 am11 pm
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Time of daySightings
12 am1
1 am0
2 am0
3 am1
4 am0
5 am0
6 am1
7 am0
8 am0
9 am0
10 am0
11 am2
12 pm0
1 pm1
2 pm0
3 pm0
4 pm0
5 pm1
6 pm1
7 pm3
8 pm1
9 pm1
10 pm0
11 pm1
Month of the year
JanDec
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Month of the yearSightings
Jan47
Feb4
Mar4
Apr5
May9
Jun1
Jul2
Aug10
Sep4
Oct3
Nov4
Dec4

Where

Top towns and cities
  • Los Angeles, California1
  • Helsinki, Finland1
  • Palm Beach, Florida1
  • Wantage, New Jersey1
  • Petrozavodsk, Russia1

What people saw

Shapes
Colours
  • Black7
  • Red4
  • White2
  • Blue1
  • Pink1
  • Silver1
  • Multicolored1
  • Purple1
What the Sky match found
  • No ordinary match14

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