The National UFO Reporting Center Online Database
The NUFORC Databank is the largest independently collected set of UFO / UAP sighting reports available on the internet. For 25 years, it has been the go-to resource for researchers and the general public interested in following the most recent first hand UFO witness accounts, or delving into a deep archive of historical reports. The reports are freely available to the public to browse through the indexes below. For any other use, including commercial use, please refer to our Terms of Service at the bottom of the page.
NUFORC staff review each report, and highlight a small subset of what we feel to be the most credible or interesting cases. These tend to be reports from trained observers such as pilots, reports of anomalous structured craft seen at close distances, and reports with interesting and clear video or photographic evidence. To date, reports received since March 2023 have been reviewed for highlighting. We are working our way backwards through older reports to identify more such cases, and will be updating the online database periodically as they are marked. In each report index the highlighted cases are indicated by a yellow background color on the “Open” link.
List of HIGHLIGHTED REPORTS
List of PILOT REPORTS
List of ALL REPORTS
UFO reports can also be accessed from the following four indexes:
Index by EVENT DATE
Index by STATE/COUNTRY
Index by SHAPE OF UFO
Index by DATE POSTED
We hope that this information will prove to be useful to the general public and the UFO community at large. We post reports on a periodic basis as they are processed through our database.
The National UFO Reporting Center makes no claims as to the validity of the information in any of these reports. Obvious hoaxes have been omitted, however most reports have been posted exactly as received in the author’s own words.is
Audio Archive
In the early years of NUFORC, reports were primarily made over the telephone hotline, which was set up by NUFORC’s founder, Robert Gribble. The Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study organization maintains an online archive of calls from 1974-1977, which can be accessed here.
UFO Detection Using Passive Radar Technology
At the 2022 MUFON Symposium, Peter Davenport and Mitch Randall gave an update on the project to build a UFO detection system utilizing passive radar, which Peter originally proposed in 2004. Click here for details.