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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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NBC Today Show: A leaked video shows what appears to be a UFO flying around a Navy ship off the coast of San Diego

May be something, May be nothing...But it was very interesting to observe! Triangular object I spotted over Albany, NY ... What do you think?

Lantana, FL UFO or something in sky over ocean

Sighting: Perth 23/10/25 @ 19:47

Weird light bouncing around

Weird object in the sky moved (apparently) slowly from north west towards south then vanishes in a blur

Group of lights floating above Baltimore, MD 8/24. Faded and disappeared within 10 minutes

Captured on 04/12/23 1020pm EST near Detroit. Anomolous lights doing interesting things for over 3 minutes.

UFO in Portland, OR part 2

Ord captured from Spokane to LAX flight.

Drones over Newark Airport - October, 1st - V1

Possible UFO formation over Cork, Ireland. December 2012

The Phoenix Lights | REVISITED (2018)

UFO sighting in Mendoza

I saw this in Clovis, Ca on 5/15/22 8:28 pm while sitting outside and I’m still wondering what it could’ve been. It looked like a bright star gradually moving across the sky when I started…

Can anyone tell me what I saw last night?

Sharing about Garry Nolan and Jacques Vallee scientific paper on UAP Material

Me and my wife just filmed a ufo over Orlando

Large cluster of lights above Philadelphia

10/1 @ 6:56pm. Personal Sighting With Video Includes Flight, Satellite, Weather, and Visual Reference Data At The End

I recorded a UFO last night @ 1:05am in Charlotte, NC.

Strange lights seen in Washington DC.

Something spotted over SATX 11/26/22

UAP/UFO filmed over San Diego

Recorded today, May 27th Cardiff, Wales.

UFOs Appear Over Phoenix Sandstorm on CNN July 6, 2011

Light in sky in Norwalk, CA. dropping 2 objects. Recorded 05/23/2020

I just filmed this going over at 10:10pm this evening. Birmingham, UK

On March 17, 1981, police officers in St. Helens, Oregon saw a large, glowing UFO above a river. They recorded these "metallic sounds" it was making.

Video of UAP/UFO I took while looking out the window on a commercial plane Nov ‘22 flying from Nashville to NYC.

Some fascinating footage over Phoenix last night - Scottsdale, Arizona - 8:20 pm 12/15/24

Erratic blinking lights in Chicago suburbs

Saw a drone in PA today

Sightings in Tucson

Weird lights over Vegas

Anyone have any ideas?

Time: June 4, 2026 at 10:10pm from my balcony in Charlotte

Portland, OR (2020)

Seen in Las Vegas sky 8/20

Spheres over Fort Lauderdale

Possible UAP over Bahamas Oct 30, 2023

Spotting in north dallas tx

Forest Hills, Queens, NYC - Drone/Orbs Sighting

San Jose , Ca Orb 12/20/24 5:53 am

Busan, South Korea

Orb #2 over Chicago

Vegas Video side by side (Low tech screen capture)

Guam - December 4, 2020

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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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