21st Century
| Date | Name | City, State | Country | Description | Sources | Hynek Scale
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| 2001-07-15 | NJ Turnpike/Carteret Lights Incident | Carteret, New Jersey | United States | At least 15 people, including 2 police officers, stopped their cars along the New Jersey Turnpike to view light formations in the night sky. | 1 | |
| 2004-03-05 | 2004 Mexican UFO Incident | Mexico | A drug-smuggling air-patrol recorded on infrared camera what some claimed to be UFOs. The footage was released by Jaime Maussan. The objects were however convincingly correlated with the burn-off flares of oil platforms. | 0 | ||
| 2004-10-31 | The Tinley Park Lights | Tinley Park, Illinois | United States | A sequence of five mass UFO sightings, first on August 21, 2004, two months later on October 31, 2004, again on October 1 of 2005, and once again on October 31, 2006, in Tinley Park and Oak Park, Chicago. | 1 | |
| 2006-11-07 | Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting 2006 | Chicago, Illinois | United States | United Airlines employees and pilots claimed sightings of a saucer-shaped, unlit craft hovering over a Chicago O'Hare Airport terminal, before shooting up vertically. | 1 | |
| 2007 | Charles Hall | Nevada | United States | Charles Hall claimed to have met and befriended several tall, pasty-white extraterrestrials while working on the Nellis Air Force Base | 3 | |
| 2007-04-23 | 2007 Alderney UFO sighting | Bailiwick of Guernsey | Crown Dependency | Two airline pilots on separate flights spot UFOs off the coast of Alderney. | 1 | |
| 2007-09-25 | Kodiak Island UFO incident | Kodiak, Alaska | United States | On September 25, 2007, several Kodiakans saw something fall from the sky Tuesday morning that may have landed in mountainous terrain on Kodiak Island. The incident prompted 911 calls and a helicopter search was launched from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, but no crash site was found. | 1 | |
| 2008-01-08 to 2008-02-09 | Stephenville, Texas UFO sightings | Stephenville, Texas, Dublin, Texas, Crawford, Texas | United States | UFOs were, and are sometimes still reported from this area. One was an object described as 1 mile (1.6 km) by 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in size, spotted over Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas. The Air Force has identified the objects as training fighter jets that went unreported due to a "communications problem". | 1 | |
| 2008-05 to 2008-09 | 2008 Turkey UFO Sightings | Istanbul | Turkey | Over a four month span in 2008, a night guard at the Yeni Kent Compound videotaped one or more UFOs over Turkey at nighttime. Many witnesses confirmed the two and a half hours' worth of video, leading the Sirius UFO Space Science Research Center to dub it the "most important images of a UFO ever filmed". | 0 | |
| 2008-06-20 | Wales UFO sightings | Different cities, Wales | United Kingdom | According to media reports, a police helicopter was almost hit by a UFO, before it tried to pursue it. Hundreds of people reported to have witnessed a UFO on the same or preceding days, from different areas of Wales. | 2 | |
| 2008-06-21 | Moscow UFO sightings | Moscow | Russian Federation | Different people and media (including state-owned) reported sightings of 11 orange UFOs. Further confirmation came from Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk. On June 25 a similar report, now with 13 objects, was claimed from the UK. | 2 | |
| 2009-12-09 | 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly | Finnmark | Norway and Sweden | A large, circular spinning white light, trailed by a long blue tail over the skies of Norway was spotted by thousands for two minutes around 8:45 am on December 9. The Norwegian media and space center were swamped with calls, and the phenomenon was held to be anything from a UFO to a unique aurora borealis event. The following day Russian authorities confirmed a failed Bulava launch, explaining the anomaly. | 1 | |
| 2010-01-25 | Harbour Mille incident | Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | At least three UFO's were spotted over Harbour Mille. The objects looked like missiles but emitted no noise. | 1 | |
| 2011-01-28 | Jerusalem Dome of the Rock UFO incident | Jerusalem | Israel | Two fake UFO videos were released on the internet, causing a chain reaction of popularity, media attention and additional fake videos released by copy cat hoaxers. | ||
| 2011-02-20 | Vancouver Washington UFO Sighting | Vancouver, Washington | United States | Stationary green and red blinking lights with limited sideways movements, were recorded on video and still photography. They were witnessed by several residents who live off Southeast 192nd Avenue in Vancouver, Washington. | 1 | |
| 2011-06-07 | Yerevan UFO Sighting | Yerevan, Armavir and Syunik Regions. | Armenia | People noticed a strange object in the sky at 09.45 p.m. in various parts of country on Thursday. The eyewitnesses state that the phenomenon lasted very short: at first light grew, then became like smoke and quickly disappeared. The strange phenomenon was observed in Yerevan city and in Armavir and Syunik Regions. It was also reported by hundreds of observers in several Middle Eastern countries including Lebanon and Israel. The sighting was attributed to a Russian ICBM test similar to the Norwegian sighting in 2009. | 1 |
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