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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 sightings (1,545)

Full Videos San Diego CA 7/17/26 9:30pm

Interesting scene from “The Age of Disclosure” trailer

NUFORC UFO Sighting #196932

May 30 above Philadelphia airport. via my friend: "this is so weird. A glowy orb, non-blinking thing moving through the sky just now and then 2 blinky things come towards it and it just disappears."

The Washington UFOs were toying with the fighter jets that tried to get close to them during the 1952 incident over Washington D.C.

Seen over Chicago

When a UFO left a tree with no leaves, burned a hill and evaporated the organs of insects. The incident of "Sierra del Pajarillo".

Was scared to share this but I think it’s time, clearest photo I’ve seen of a UFO

What the Heck??

Fireball seen over Norfolk, VA

Saw this today in Portland OR, thought y'all might appreciate it. Sorry if it's been posted before, I haven't seen it here.

Norwalk, CA 5/16/2026 7:45 PM

The Maury Island UFO material photos, released May 8 2026. Classified as "Unidentied Substance" in the 1947 AAF report

Enhancing the Manhattan UAP using Frame Interpolation

UFOs over Minneapolis, MN tonight

Fleet of UFOs over Marina del Rey, CA - multiple witnesses

Swe this while flying out of detroit.

Since the themes of the last week have been "motherships" and flying metallic spheres/balls, why not revisit the Nuremberg event on April 14, 1561?

March 22, 1950: Eleven members of an Atomic Test Group witnessed a tan coloured 'flying wing' shaped UFO northwest of Kirtland AFB - "extremely high speed"

Sighting from March 10, 2021 in NYC

The exact same Same UFO from Manchester in Florida? (Video in comments)

Serious Video Capture of Light and Dark UAP Orbs falling from the sky in São Paulo 🇧🇷

29th november 24’

Saw this over Amsterdam too in reference to u/graceloran 's post. Thought I'd share. Sorry for the shaky movement. Might be a drone?

Photo of LA UFOs

Famous brazilian singer Anitta shared today on her instagram

UFO over Boston filmed from an airplane (could this be a drone?)

Spotted in Vancouver BC just an hour ago

Remember this video? What do we know about it?

UFO photo taken by a Peruvian architect named Hugo luyo vega who was driving through the country side to look for plots of land with a client in Lima, Peru. October 19th 1973.

Lights over Lisbon

Seen while driving from Tucson to Phoenix, Arizona 3/22/24

Erratic green light spotted at 2am over Tempe, AZ 12/9/24

A much better amateur video of the ISS doing a pass over Las Vegas, NV this morning 2/17 at 5:45am. With commentary. NOT A UFO!

Scottsdale, AZ Lights 11/15/25

Does anyone have a clue about what these are? Seemed to be traveling rather fast. Filmed in Rotterdam around 18:30 local time.

UFO flying across the sky in Calgary

Phoenix Lights - A painting I did for this classic case. What’s actually the debunker’s theory for it?

Palm Springs 5/20/23 10:15am

UFO in Austin?

Took this last year in Ottawa from the hospital I work at.

UAP / ORB Over Saint-Côme, Québec, Canada - November 29 2024

Weird flashing lights over the water in San diego

UFO over Radiohead concert - 6/27/2006 San Diego

$ABC News - Unidentified object hits plane - plane dropped 10,000 ft in seconds before landing safely in Salt Lake City - the pilot’s arm was bleeding, the windshield fractured, glass all over…$

For Your Consideration

UAP ID, please (UWS NYC)

Add recording of Live Photo from my last post. Taken 7/6/21 in Austin, Texas around sunset. 8-8:30pm

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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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