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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 Navy Chief who was on the ship in San Diego when the famous leaked "Splash" USO video was filmed told Admiral Tim Gallaudet that there's "so much UAP activity in SoCal, the sailors on the ships…Mysterious White Orbs Spotted Over Costa Mesa, CA – Any Thoughts?So this is crazy… What is it?Drone + Orbs (maybe?) The Bronx, NYCI saw this in Nice, France. Have been sitting on this for a few years.Local news covering Gruschmy local city subreddit (San Diego) is blowing up with people seeing strange lights in the sky right now. Twitter has several videos too.UFOs over Santa Monica, USARed flashing lights in the sky. Took it from my bedroom window 2:30amSome of my favorite crafts so farDid anyone see these lights over Santa Monica last night around 11:30?MUFON Case 112147: Floating black craft or decent CGI ? Camden, NJ, US on Nov 6th 2020Strange rotating object in the sky, Split, Croatia.Two bobbing orbs filmed in Atlanta during severe electrical storm. 7/30/22 [OC]Saucer or bell-shaped craft recorded from Bogotá to Salento in Colombia on approximately October 10, 2023. The footage was posted to the Spanish Internet forum "Forocoches."Can anyone find a HD version of this video and more info?1561 celestial phenomenon over NurembergD.C. lawyer films UAP/UFOSpinning UFO captured in Serbia.Tulsa, OKLuminous UFO filmed during a TV time-lapse over San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1974.Strange lights over the Bronx (10/12/2021)Son caught this on Snapchat yesterday in PhoenixAny idea what that bright light is in the sky? Saw this around 6PM in Miami,FL. Seems to fade by the end of the video and didn’t show up again.Lima, Peru, 2/1/2021 between 15h-17h. Suggestions?The San Diego Sphere is what ARRO might be referring to when they see a lot of spheresIt’s Become Very Usual - NYCUFO probe recorded in Capão Redondo, São Paulo Brazil on 01/02/1998Warsaw, November 4 20251566 celestial phenomenon over BaselBlack "chopped up" helicopter UFO reported as far back as 1961?Seen about 3 hrs ago in NYC 11/28/24Tonight over Orlando/Kissimmee. What is this thing?UAP captured in Hermosillo, Sonora MexicoGulf Breeze FL 1993 UFOSpotted at SLC last monthStrange Sighting in Orlando2 UFOs spotted on the outskirts of Las Vegas during a lightning storm on 6/11/21Phoenix Lights explained?Rotating cube thing? Balloon? Upland, CA100+ shinning lights over Phoenix skyUAPs Ejecting Multiple Objects Filmed in Infrared - Long Beach, California. October 21, 2017. 8 min long Clip. Some of these objects form TriangelsUFO near Las Vegas, NV.What do they think about these images?Something hovering above downtown NYCUAP captured on 4k video June 16 2023 in San DiegoFootage in Villa Carlos Paz ArgentineGreen Orb In Vegas:

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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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