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UFOs near airports

Sightings reported within 15 km of a large airport — where planes on approach are a common explanation, and where some famous cases happened.

1,545 sightings 🎥 1,171 videos 🗓️ 1950–2026 📍 Most from Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego

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Pins are sightings; small dots are large airports (from Wikidata).

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The sightings (1,545)

Anyone around Atlanta see this?UFO in North PhoenixUFO seen flying out of clouds in slowmo videoStrange Orange Lights Over PhillyRecorded in Philly at around 6pm today downtown 8/20/2022UAPs over Baltimore???Has Bigelow always had this Alien on their building in Vegas?I found recurring sightings of symmetrical cross-shaped UFOsBelgrade, Serbia - possible sighting?Very Fast Mover Over SoCalLights above IndianapolisPossible Phoenix Lights?"Small plane" crashes in PhiladelphiaSquid looking object with green blinking light seen through telescope.White Orb UFO Albuquerque filmed during evening jog along the Rio Grandeanyone else see this in Vancouver this morn around 11am?!?Sighting-Austin,TXNLV Bigelow Aerospace Facility has Alien FacePhoenix lights filmed from my front porch in 2006 or 2007. Never published before. I figured you people here might like to take a look at them. I had a good vantage point because my home was on a…1989 - KGB document on the Kapustin Yar case, UFO hovers over Russian military base near nuclear test siteFast Moving Object Caught with High Speed Camera Burbank, CAWe saw this light yesterday in MadridShape Shifting Aircraft in Warwick, Rhode IslandLights over Northern VA“Time: 10th of October 2025 9:03am “Location: The Irish SeaI think I captured a UFO over Okanagan Lake in Kelowna, B.C.UFO in Tampa?Multiple Orange Orbs - Phoenix, ArizonaJust saw these above Fairfax VaWest LADrones last night (12/12/24) in Philadelphia.UFO - Sofia, BulgariaColorful Lights In The Sky - was driving north on i-95 last night around midnight in Hollywood, FL. Never seen anything like that before. What do you think it is?I spotted a dark line in the sky on March 25th 2022 between San Marcus and Austin, TXMilan (It) yesterday. What is that? Ballons?North of Albany, NY. Nothing radar indicated. Something blinking red several meters off the tail of some other object. 01/02/2025 @7:19pmDo Historical “Sky Battles” Resemble Modern UAP Reports? A Source-Critical Study of Nuremberg 1561, Basel 1566, Stralsund 1665, and the PURSUE FilesBarcelona 28/12/24 12:03Drone Seems to DisappearSan Diego Sphere stabilized (alternate view)Rex helfin's UFO photos photographed at Santa Ana, California on the 3rd August 1965.My Detailed Research On The 2011 UAP IncidentSpherical UAP at Pacifica CAShanghai UFO Location MatchThis light has been floating over downtown Phoenix, AZ for 2 hours and hasn’t moved. I just took a 1 minute video and it still hasn’t moved.Miami, FL 12/18/24UFO Splits Into 2 (digital thermal footage)The San Diego Sphere — Witness Testimony

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🗓️ Event · 11 min readO'Hare Airport UFO sightingOn November 7, 2006, about a dozen United Airlines employees and other witnesses reported seeing a silent, dark grey, disc-shaped object hovering near Gate C17 at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Witnesses stated that the object rapidly shot upward throu…

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