✈️ Collection

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

Map

Pins are sightings; small dots are large airports (from Wikidata).

📊 Read the analysis — when, where and what

The sightings (1,545)

Terence McKenna interviews John E. Mack on the alien abduction phenomenon (Prague, 1992)Not sure why it's even up for debate. Nuremburg 1561 incident.UFOs spotted over Tianjin Airport 11 Sept. Fighter jets scrambled. Airport closed for hours.To go along with the 1561 Nuremberg Battle post it occurred again less than 4 years later in Basel, SwitzerlandUFO Las VegasLas Vegas UAP DebunkQuestion about the Yumbo sphere video.Caught another UFO floating over Vancouver BC.Canary Islands UFO, 1976: 2 tall humanoid beings seen inside a spherical UFO wearing red clothing and head gear. UFO flies away at 'breakneck speeds'.Burbank, California approximately 3:30pm PST4 UFOs I saw in Kahnawake, Quebec todayCaptured this during the eclipseSaw this UFO from my telescope last night and recorded with my cellphone. Vancouver, BC.Lisbon July 24th Group of blinking lights7 UAP photos 1968What is this? Spotted in Rio de Janeiro, looking west from Leblon. Vertical line of flashing lights with some firework-like explosions.Bright GLOWING ORB hovering over Chicago + rapid movementLights over Syracuse NYAnother video of the UAP over Phoenix 2/22Captured this Calgary, AB June 23rd, 2019Sighting in 2024Dripping UFO Filmed by Police Helicopter in Long Beach. UFO only shows up in FLIR mode, drips and then skedaddles away quicklyMilitary sites that make UFOs/UAPs & sightingsSaw this in Philadelphia today, on 8/30 at 3:47 pmChicago TikTok Video Full Frame Stabilized and AnalysisNashville, TN sighting from NUFORC report dumpJust seen off Myrtle Beach1990 Hotel Bonaventure Montreal, Québec, CanadaMetallic (?) orb sighting April 19 2025 Cambridge MAMass UFO sighting above Rome, Italy 1-Jun-2014.6 Former Congress Members Thoughts on UFOs from the Citizen Hearing on DisclosureJust saw this near Downtown Orlando, FL. Any idea?San Diego Sky 6/1/22DOW-UAP-PR086, "UAP from Dec 2019 (East Coast)"Possible Drone? 2/27 DFWStrange Lights in the Sky over AlbuquerqueUnidentified object in Tianjin, China - Government hurries to claim it is a weather monitoring operation of no concern, published today in Chinese press2 Orbs spotted in Las Vegas part 2Odd Object off Palm Beach CoastLights over Phoenix 8:11 pm on 7/4/21Orange lights rotating in the sky - Berwyn, IL, 5/31/24, 10:29pmAn attempted summary of the phenomenonOn January 20, 2011, the official website of the Argentine Air Force was hacked, condemning the cover-up by “government agents and foreign military” of the crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft in…Anybody ever see this photo supposedly taken of a "UFO" over Vancouver's city hall in 1937? Has it ever been proven prosaic or a hoax? Some context I found is linked in the comments.Collection of drone / orb videos from the December frenzyStrange fast objects captured by my DWARF 3 during automatic night sky recording !Fast moving 'pipe-shaped' objects swarm glider pilot Bob Pett in 2015 over NYC. FAA said the radar data "went missing".UFO in San Diego?

📖 Deep dive

The encyclopedia articles behind this topic, with sources.

More collections

Explore more

GalleryBrowseFeedBoardsStatsFavorites Guides What’s that light?Starlink in the skyUAP explainedUFO newsUFO videos & documentariesArea 51Skinwalker RanchExplore by placeData reportsCollectionsWhat was that last night?UFO waves & burstsOfficial UFO files