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UFO and cryptid sightings near me
See what people have reported around you: Bigfoot, Dogman, lake monsters, strange lights and UFOs. Use your location or pick a town anywhere in the world. You'll get reader reports from the last few weeks, plus 11,893 official UFO files and survey sightings from the archives.
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Latest reader reports
The newest encounters our readers sent in, checked by a person before they go up. Locations are shown to about 5 km so nobody's home is on the map.
- Rectangular dark grey ufoDate is messed up but year is right. Just a kid looking out the window(me)and then I notice something strange like flying either quite far or right above 5 stories. Neither makes it more normal. I thought it…
Boomerang and V-shaped UFOsI was walking home and occasionally looking at night sky thinking about life and hoping to see planes, jets or accasional or(or maybe far up helis?). But then I see a strange glowing like most in form of an…
Orbs and lightsMy partner and I had an incredibly uneasy experience at around 9:10pm on August 29th.
We were sitting by our campfire near boya lake chatting away when this what looks liked a ball zoomed through our campsite…- Orbs and lightsI saw something weird in the sky this morning. I was driving to work from Alberta Beach to Winterburn in Edmonton. At the Stony Plain turnoff I noticed what I thought was a meteor falling southeast in the sky.…
- A short (3 ft tall) slimey green creature that looked like a fantasy creatureThis was summer of 2024. Me and my best friend Joe were in the North Beach/Chesapeake Beach area for the few days leading up to and including the 4th of July. The night of the 2nd, we decided to take a walk…
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What's on this map
- Reader reports. Sent in through our report form and read by a person before they go up. Shown to about 5 km. Reports about creatures from living Indigenous and local traditions are shown only to the nearest region, about 100 km.
- Project Blue Book (US Air Force, 1947 to 1969) (7,950 on this map). US National Archives, Sanitized Version of Project Blue Book Case Files. US federal records, public domain.
- FAA pilot and controller UAP reports (2007 to 2024) (572 on this map). US Federal Aviation Administration records. US federal records, public domain.
- PURSUE declassified UAP records (2026) (296 on this map). US Department of War. US federal records, public domain.
- Canadian UFO Survey (1989 to 2025), sightings per town (2,903 on this map). Compiled by Ufology Research.
- Greek close encounters (1901 to 2007) (48 on this map). Shared with Encounter Atlas by the Greek UFO Network (GRUFON), 2026-10-21, by email from the data owner.
Air Force files that only name a state or country are drawn as a faded ring over that area, never as a pin. Archive files come from every year; the time buttons apply to reader reports.
Your location stays yours. We round it to about 1 km before searching and don't save it. Picking a place uses a town list on this site, not an outside service.