Report a Sighting
Please consider investigating your sighting before reporting it. This eliminates the most common explanations and best respects the time of those who may end up reviewing your report.
Choose how to submit a report:
Post to r/UFOs
Organizations
Submit a Report to r/UFOs
This method requires you to have a Reddit account and involves using a template to make your own Reddit post on r/UFOs. To use this method select from the options below:
Link Post
You’d like to upload an image/video to Reddit related to your sighting. You will still be able to include text.
Text Post
You’d like your post to be only text. You will still be able to include links to image/videos hosted outside Reddit.
Link Post Instructions
1. Use the button to copy the post template to your clipboard.
2. Use the next button to begin submitting your post.
3. Enter a title and upload your image/video.
4. Select ‘Report’ as the post flair and submit your post.
5. Add a comment to your own post.
6. Paste in the template and fill out the necessary fields in your comment.
Date: Replace this text with your answer.
Time: Replace this text with your answer.
Duration: Replace this text with your answer.
Number of witnesses: Replace this text with your answer
Description of sighting: Replace this text with your answer.
Text Post Instructions (Desktop)
1. Use the button to begin making a Reddit post.
2. Fill out the necessary fields.
3. Select ‘Report’ as the post flair and submit your post.
Text Post Instructions (Mobile)
1. Use the button to copy the post template to your clipboard.
2. Use the next button to begin submitting your post.
3. Fill out the necessary fields.
4. Select ‘Report’ as the post flair and submit your post.
Date: Replace this text with your answer.
Time: Replace this text with your answer.
Duration: Replace this text with your answer.
Number of witnesses: Replace this text with your answer
Description of sighting: Replace this text with your answer.
Submit a Report to an Organization
There are no official government agencies for the public to report UFO sightings to and the FFA (Federal Aviation Administration) actually recommends reporting to an independent organization. We recommend choosing one from the options below.
NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center)
Non-profit / Founded in 1974
NUFORC is a long-standing reporting organization in the US. They have a phone hotline and guarantee anonymity to callers. They make available all their data in summary form, but more detailed information is made available to experienced UFO investigators. They have processed over 150,000 reports since they were founded.
NARCAP (National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena)
Non-profit / Founded in 1999
NARCAP claims to have logged more pilot and aviation repeated reports than any other organization. They’ve published many papers on UFOs and also established the term UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). Their mission is stated as:
NARCAP is committed to serving the aviation community, improving aviation safety, and enhancing scientific knowledge about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAP, through documentation, research, and advocacy. NARCAP’s dedicated volunteers are a source for quality research and credible documentation of UAP observations and incidents through careful adherence to logical analysis, technical knowledge, and standards of aviation investigations. NARCAP is entering its third decade and will continue to advocate for further research into UAP and aviation safety factors, safety planning, and education of pilots and aviation professionals by the aviation community.
TBVI (The Black Vault Investigations)
Volunteer-based / Founded in 2017
TBVI was created by UFO researcher John Greenewald, who is best known for his work related to FOIAing government documents and sharing them with the general public via The Black Vault. TBVI is a group of volunteers, including some professional investigators. Some of the reports are eventually featured here.
API (Aerial Phenomena Investigations)
Volunteer-based / Founded in 2012
API is a volunteer research organization which aims to provide scientifically sound, factual information related to UFOs. They state it is “not about either confirmation of true belief or dogmatic denial.” They produce a podcast and video series. They have a phone hotline in addition to their online reporting form. They have volunteer investigators who do follow up on specific cases. They are not a non-profit, but do not charge any fees for investigating cases.
UFO Hunters
Volunteer-based / Founded in 2013
UFO Hunters is a volunteer-based team which accepts international reports and claims to have cataloged over 200,000 cases. They are not affiliated with the History channel series of the same name.
International Groups
Additional organizations:
- MUFON (non-profit)
- Center for UFO Studies (inactive)
- ReportaUFOsighting.com
- Texas UFO Sightings
- UFO Casebook
- UFO Stalker
- UFOs Northwest
Additional Resources
- Wikipedia’s list of UFO Organizations
- UPDB – Open database of UFO reports from many sources.
- Chris Rutkowski’s guide on reporting UFO sightings