UFO Sightings In Georgia: What Witnesses Saw

GEORGIA — Nobody can say 2020 has been a normal year: The coronavirus pandemic, cancelation of many college and professional sports, social justice protests and a very active Atlantic hurricane season, just to name a few things. While UFO Awareness Day was observed July 2, every week seems to bring reports of strange celestial sightings.

Witness accounts from Georgia indicate there’s plenty to see in the heavens, even though the state does not rank among those with the most sightings.

The National UFO Reporting Center has hundreds of reports of unidentified flying objects, piquing the curiosity of folks fascinated by the possibility that we’re not alone here on Earth and aliens from another galaxy are circling the planet in strange-looking spacecraft.

So far, 1,871 UFO reports have been filed from Georgia, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.

Some of the more interesting ones include:

Cumming: On July 22 an observer reported a circular lighted craft emitted a beam of bright white lights onto surrounding clouds for hours during a comet. "Circle of white lights along diameter of craft. Red blue light on top at times. Moving through clouds sometimes emitting white light from craft onto clouds surrounding it. Seen "teardrop orb" fall or come out of bottom of craft twice. Not a star."

Johns Creek: A resident reported that on June 25 they saw a flashing grey UFO. "The object seemed to be a grey circle. It was flashing a green light about every 2 seconds and it moved in a zig zag form. At a certain point it even zoomed up and down. It moved across my horizon and left after it went behind the trees in front of my house. I am 90 percent sure it is not a airplane because of the way it moved."

Douglasville: A report on April 13 noted lights racing across the sky in a repeated pattern. "One bright light stationary in sky to my west. Multiple lights streaming across sky,seeming to be going to same area, coming from north west to east on two different paths. Too high for plane and too fast."

Decatur: On April 6 a resident reportedly saw a bright moon-like shape hovering in the clearing in trees behind their home. "It was an almost sphere like shape at times shining very bright and seemed to be hovering in one spot, but movement was noticeable as it hovered. I could hear a low humming sound. At times the light would appear to have a beam and other times it would fade and disappear. When the light reappeared it would become very bright. It looked similar to a near full moon hovering lower than the tree tops, but it was not the moon."

You can read more UFO sightings from Georgia on the National UFO Reporting Center site.

The notion of intergalactic travel got a boost when information emerged from the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a shadowy $22 million Defense Department program that began in 2007 to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena. The multi-year program was shut down in 2012, but the Pentagon released UFO videos earlier this year.

The Pentagon acknowledged the secret program to investigate UFO sightings in 2017, the same year as retired naval Cmdr. David Fravor dramatically recalled a confounding encounter with a UFO when he was conducting a training mission off the coast of California in 2004.

The wingless oblong craft about 40 feet long was flying erratically through his airspace at incredible speed, maneuvering in a way that defies accepted principles of aerodynamics. Fravor didn't know what to make of it but said it was not like anything he had ever seen in nearly 20 years of flying.

He described the UFO as other-worldly.

“I can tell you, I think it was not from this world,” Fravor told ABC News. “I'm not crazy, haven't been drinking. It was — after 18 years of flying, I've seen pretty much about everything that I can see in that realm, and this was nothing close.”

Not all accounts are that dramatic, but there are more than a few head-scratchers among the witness accounts.

Your chances of seeing a UFO are better in some places than others. According to the ranking of states by SatelliteInternet.com, those with the most sightings are:

1. Idaho
2. Montana
3. New Hampshire
4. Maine
5. New Mexico

The states with the fewest sightings are:

1. Texas
2. Louisiana
3. New York
4. Maryland
5. Illinois