| ORB | Spherical craft, often glowing, commonly reported as hovering or moving erratically. Famously reported in 'Foo Fighter' UFO sightings in 1944-1945 flying alongside fighter planes. The most commonly reported UFO shape, in craft sightings. NUFORC statistics state upwards or 29,000 reported cases. |
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| TRIANGLE | Often reported as dark, with lights along the edge of the triangle. Most famous for the 'Phoenix Lights' UFO sighting witnessed by many in Arizona in 1997. The second most commonly reported UFO shape, NUFORC statistics include roughly 20,000 individual cases involving triangular crafts. |
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| FIREBALL | Sometimes mistaken for meteors, but described to move back and forth, referenced prominently in the 'Green Fireball' incident, in 1948, New Mexico. UFO encounters that describe fireball-like crafts are common, with NUFORC statistics including up to 10,000 individual sightings. |
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| DISC | Disc shaped crafts, usually metallic and spinning. Roswell was a key event describing this shape of craft. The most well-known shape, when considering UFO's. Discs, or 'flying saucers' are normally what one imagines when hearing the word 'UFO'. NUFORC stats for disc craft sightings include 9,000 sightings. |
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| EGG | Egg shaped crafts are often described as featureless. Famously, Lonnie Zamora reported seeing an egg-shaped craft in Socorro, New Mexico, 1964. Egg shaped UFO's have been reported roughly 8,000 times on the NUFORC database. |
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| CIGAR | Cigar, or Tic-Tac crafts, are oblong, cylindrical and rounded on both ends. The famous USS Nimitz encounter, and recording in 2004 popularized this type of craft. Cigar-shaped crafts, while not exceedingly common at 6,500 sightings in the NUFORC database, are nonetheless mentioned in some very culturally significant UFO encounters. |
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| CHANGING | Changing crafts include any UFO sighting of an areial object or phenomena that seems to shapeshift or change. NUFORC sighting statistics include roughly 4,000 reports of a changing craft. | 🌀 |
| RECTANGLE | Rectangular UFO's have been reported roughly 2,700 times on the NUFORC database. | 🟥 |
| LIGHTS | Lights, or an unstructured light phenomena. Famously seen in Lubbock Texas, by many witnesses in 1951. Commonly mentioned to arrange in triangular formations, noteworthy overlapwith Triangular UFO's. Light UFO's involve any sighting of an unidentified craft that involves multiple lights moving indipendantly or alongside one another. |
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| DIAMOND | Diamond shaped UFO's have been reported roughly 2,000 times on the NUFORC database. | ♦️ |
| OTHER | Crafts that do not fit any of the descriptions above, get grouped into the 'other' category. NUFORC's database has upwards of 10,000 encounters in this category. | ❓ |
NUFORC'S CHART OF UFO SIGHTINGS BY SHAPE
