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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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UAP near Airport in Las VegasWhat did I see?Huge Copenhagen UAP 4k and noise reductionUAP Sighting near São Paulo, Brazil (12/23/25)Time: 2020 september. Location: Austin TXMorhership deployed probe September 7th 2025 6:40 A.M. in Louisville KY off 3rd street RdOrb-sightingOrbs and something…UAP Video 1 (Phoenix)Tons of UFOs in Phoenix, AZIs this debris in orbit or a sighting?UFO over Sydney 5-1-12Weird lights over Montreal 09-26-2013UFO lights filmed over Boston, Massachusetts - 10 December 2013Flying Saucers in Triangle Shape over Phoenix - April 2015 UFO SightingUFO INVASION SALT LAKE CITY UTAH 9/16/2017Saw this in Astoria, NY yesterdayUFO over MiamiUFO SLC 07302020 18:44Not sure what this is...no sound, not a plane or bird, has a boomerang spin/ shape. Steady pace. Also have video. Seen in Las Vegas today.Has anybody seen a UFO like this before? Last night at roughly 11pm in broadmeadows, Victoria Aus saw this little guyUFOs picked up on CCTV cams in RioSeen Vancouver BC Friday at 6 am - what is it? Moved across the sky to the horizon.Just caught this in Edinburgh tonight at around 22:05 any ideas ?3 UFOs in formation, changing colours, moving in groups! captured a few hours ago in Perth, AustraliaA short YouTube presentation. Albuquerque, New Mexico's important military research, development and testing complex since 1947Radio-Controlled "Flying Discs" manufactured in Belgrade?!Any ideas of what this is or could be? Was seen around the Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood, FL area at about 9:05pm ESTUAP in ack of the yards ChicagoDeparting out of Porto, Portugal I saw this array of lights for a brief 10-15 seconds from an altitude of 30,000ft. Any ideas?Local news expanding on the San Diego “flares”. (Whose reporting what )Strange things nearby power plant in Warsaw, Poland (May 6th, 2020)Waikiki, HawaiiSaw a couple lights disappearing and reappearing in a linear trail on flight home above Chicago around September last year, not much to see but I wanted to know what you guys thought of it.Maybe it's silly but I can't stop thinking about it for months nowWhite sphere of light in a cloudy skyDaughter filmed last nights storm over Brisbane.Jellyfish UAP - August 23’ filmed from a boat, traveling Bahamas to FL at night. screen shots from another Reddit user. Not my video.Tucson AzAnyone else see the big bright UFO/UAP between Eagle River and Anchorage, AK between 430pm and 530pm on 12/3?UAP/UFO Spotted in Atlanta, 10:28pm heading SSE.Previously Posted: Phoenix, AZWhat is this? Salt Lake City, UtahDrone | Austin l Monday 13th 2025 | 8:30Sighting at 8pm over Louisville. Couldn’t find any launches scheduled but it was remarkable regardlessFilmed north of Portland, ME. 2/4/25, 7:56 pmOrb in Phoenix 5/16Is this a satellite or? 6/5/25 in Portland, OR

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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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