12 Days of December UFO Sightings

Santa’s sleigh isn’t the only thing in the sky this holiday season.

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The National UFO Reporting Center maintains a massive database of UFO sightings around the country each year. Last December, there were more than 300 reports of UFO activity in the United States.

December 1, 2017

It was dusk in Foyil, Oklahoma, when a man and woman noticed four star-like objects moving across the sky. The smaller objects flew underneath a large, diamond-shaped silent object. The crafts were observed all night and then disappeared in a bright flash of light at dawn.

December 3, 2008

A woman in Omaha, Nebraska, believes an alien was inside her family’s new home. The woman woke up and saw the creature floating 6-8 feet off the floor. It looked like a cluster of several orbs with tentacles hanging towards the floor. After a few moments, it glided out of the room and was not seen again.

December 6, 2011

A Fresno, California resident feared they were about to be abducted when they saw a UFO coming closer and closer to their vehicle. The UFO had three circular lights in a triangular shape on the bottom, and the lights quickly changed colors between red and blue as they rotated. After a few seconds, the object slowly began to move away before quickly shooting up into the sky.

December 9, 1998

A 30-year-old US Army veteran was looking out his window in Eureka, California when he saw a large, orange object in the southern sky descending towards the earth. When viewed through binoculars, the object appeared tear-drop shaped. According to the report, seven jets were in pursuit of the object, and the object and five of the jets disappeared behind the treeline with the craft.

December 12, 2019

Two people traveling through Chester, Virginia, thought they saw a falling star, but the object was blue-green in color, and its descent seemed too slow and controlled to be a meteor or other space junk, and there was no light trail behind it. The object was visible for about 5 seconds before disappearing near the earth’s surface.

December 15, 1990

An Ocean City, Maryland, resident returned to their waterfront condo just after midnight and noticed a disc hovering over the ocean. The craft appeared to be probing the water and taking samples before ascending back away from the sea. This repeated three times over the course of three hours before the craft zoomed south.

December 17, 2005

Travelers in Hockinson, Washington, thought they were seeing a cell phone tower when they noticed a bright light to the east, but the light began moving towards them. It was triangular shaped, flanked with red lights, and appeared to be about 100 feet above the trees. They lost sight of it a short time later.

December 22, 2018

A woman and her daughters left their Caryville, Tennessee, home and realized there was something shining a light down onto the mountains behind their home. The trio left the area in a vehicle and reported a round ship with white lights surrounding it. The ship hovered in the sky over the nearby interstate before flying away.

December 24, 2006

A man stepped outside to smoke a cigarette on Christmas Eve when he noticed six white orbs flying over his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The orbs, whose lights varied in intensity, were individual objects flying in a triangular formation. The group of lights did a u-turn and were not seen again.

December 25, 2013

A driver outside St. Louis, Missouri, spotted a triangular craft with red, blue, and green lights at each point as they drove south on I70. The craft, which also had a bright white light in the center, also moved slowly through the sky at an estimated altitude of 500-700 feet.

December 28, 2019

Two people driving south on Highway 22 in Cremona, Alberta, Canada, saw what they thought was the handle to the big dipper constellation. Instead, it was a parade of approximately 80 lights crossing overhead from west to east. The evenly spaced lights moved at the same speed and continued to cross overhead for several minutes.

December 31, 2020

Late on New Year’s Eve, two people walking to the house next door saw a large, glowing orange ball hovering in the sky near Ashland, New Hampshire. One of the witnesses reported feeling "tingly and fearful" as she and her husband observed the object. The object seemed to burn out and the light disappeared completely before it reilluminated. The light faded out a second time and the object completely disappeared.

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12 Days of December UFO Sightings

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December 1, 2017

December 3, 2008

December 6, 2011

December 9, 1998

December 12, 2019

December 15, 1990

December 17, 2005

December 22, 2018

December 24, 2006

December 25, 2013

December 28, 2019

December 31, 2020

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