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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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The sightings (1,545)

Orbs over Sydney airport or CronullaUfo sighting in SerbiaLas Vegas night sky a few min ago. It’s gone now. Crescent moon is the brightest.Reference: Balloons in the Wind + Bonus Bird Flying Across FrameChicago OG caught this in his backyard about 4am...Sphere filmed in Pucallpa, Peru. December 20th 2016.This was on our neighborhood FB page this morning here in ChicagoDeleted Video: "spotted over Montréal last night at around 830pm". Automod filters a TONNE of interesting content. It needs to be disabled for reddit video posts. The kind of simple folk that…Phoenix “Drone” Orb Sighting 10.1.24 @ 6:56pm Full Video: New Data Confirms What We Saw, Orbs Now Showing Up Nationwide (See All Reference)Looks like a person hovering in the sky for about an hourRecent San Diego sighting1989: Triangle spotted during night launch of Space ShuttleJust a bunch of orbsThe 27 August 1987 Shanghai UFO incidentPotential UFO sighting over “Wingfest” in Pooler GA, on 6/7/25.Massive Green UFO ORBS with Spotlights!UFO over Salt Lake City 9:30 PM MT 9/4/22A brightly shining point in the sky that was moving at high speedWeird lights over TucsonUFO Sighting - Crete 2012Shimmering golden disc on flight from Burbank to Albuquerque w/orbs (vid 1/2)UFO spotted in Chicago suburb?Is this the same kind of object as the battle at Nuremberg?Myrtle Beach SCTrailer For Wilson-Davis Memo Inspired Short FilmReuploading my video from Vegas with a red dot to focus on. If you look here for the first 15 seconds you will see multiple examples.Met Stephen Basset at the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance meetupBurbank, CA 11/11/2020 Lady sees a green glowing object that exhibits controlled flight, any thoughts?Drone sighting in Charlotte, NC 12/21/24Flying from Chicago to LAX saw this in the desert. We were so high up you couldn't see a car but what could make these lights?Any idea of what this could be? Recorded in Miami, FlAttended my first edm fest #shakybeats in downtown Atlanta yesterday.... and I also witnessed my first UFO'sUFO caught Sydney AUS 🇦🇺UAP recorded over the Vila da Penha neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro; 2 UAP are eventually presentLights in São Paulo, Brazil (2016)Orb over ATL airportSighting in San Antonio TXSaw this on saturday outside Longbeach CA at around 5:40pm.ufo in puerto vallarta mexico last night?Echo Event - Paris with C. Mellon, and moreLocation and time of UAPHUGE UFO RECORDED HOVERING OVER BOGOTANO COLOMBIA 12-31-2020The Carlos De Los Santos, UFO incident, if genuine, clearly represents an intentional real world training exercise, being conducted by non-human intelligences, in order to test their capabilities in…Weird orb off the coast of West Palm Beach, FlUFO Near Chicago IL (suburb)MOORE OKLAHOMA 10-30-2023 @7:54pmSeen in the NetherlandsSaw these lights in Phoenix? Any ideas?

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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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