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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)

Tempe, AZ lightsSomething spotted in the sky in Vegas 17/05/2023Very strange video, uffos? Drones? Satelites?Triangular / Phoenix Lights Type UFO Sighting (Video)Military activity across Europe IIorbs over phoenixStrange stationary light trail seen over Miami, FLThree orbs in formation flying next to passenger airliner over Atlanta GA, USA on 06/02/2013Strange Santorini shapesBristol, UK. 11 August 2020, 21:30Tumbling UAP - Vancouver: April 30th, 2023Intriguing object recorded in 2010 in Adelaide (Australia)Exact location found for Washington D.C. UAP - No tower visibleBob Oechsler Fabricated his "NASA Mission Specialist" Origin Story7/15/21 - Austin, TX - object fades into brightness while moving then fades out and vanishes. Filmed with PVS14 night vision device in my backyardAmsterdam (July 19th at 23:22)Multiple bright orbs in TijuanaTaken 9/21/2024 in Manhattan. There were blinking drones and small planes / helicopters flying all over the skies but this object was above the clouds and larger and had no flashing strobe lights on…UFO/UAP Calgary,ABSighting Over Long Beach NY Right NowImage of possible UAP drone from parents European holiday April 2024Unusual Event Captured on Night Vision – “Shooting Star” Followed by Rising Lights (North-Northwest Sky)Time: 30/12/2025 at 3:26am Porto, PortugalHello, we were just presented with this a moment ago, for about half an hour. Bogotá, Colombia. I have more photos and videos but I don't know how to add themLooking for a video I saw during the Miami mall incidentIt’s 9pm right now in Sydney, Australia and I’m not really a pro at this kind of stuff but as soon as I saw this it just made me want to go to reddit. I was just in my bedroom when I looked out the…Saw this last night in Sunland/Tujunga area CA. Anyone know what this is.Looking North in Spokane, WA. There were originally 8-9 of these flying together. The tops were illuminated from below, with bright intense light emitting from below. The light was reddish and…Ufo in Chicago again?6K footage on a cinema camera — CAMERA NOT DESIGNED FOR LOW LIGHT — so do not expect a clean imageWas filming an Orb and this thing flew by.SpaceX Starship Flight Test Destroyed Above MiamiTaken on may 28th around 3am in the mist northern part of Phoenix, AZ. Reluctantly leaving in the embarrassing audio for a better description of what we were witnessing.Dumbbell shaped objectAnyone in the Phoenix area see last night's sighting?UFO sighting in San DiegoPhoenix AZ Sighting - 5/12/2005U.F.O I saw from Puebla, MXSan Diego, 6/27/22 pt. 2Phoenix, AZ drone.Here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UFOs, voodoo, and shootings.Short film UFO at Nat Bailey stadium in Vancouver2003 UFO , Phoenix AZ9/28/2022 Albuquerque, NM! Weather ballon maybe? Object was suspended mid air for over 35 minutes. Have 3 more videos, recorded from iPhone SE 2nd gen.Mass Sightings in History, Important Events That Support One AnotherWhat do you think this is?Three lights over Portland, OR4 Orange Orbs sighted over Queens, NY on 12/1/24

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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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