🔥 🤯 Here is the NUFORC UFO sighting numbers since 1947
• 1947: ~122 (Blue Book; public wave ~800 )
• 1948: 156
• 1949: 186
• 1950: 210
• 1951: 169
• 1952: 1,501 (major peak)
• 1953: 509
• 1954: ~487
• 1955: 545
• 1956: 670
• 1957: 1,006
• 1958: 627
• 1959: 390
• 1960: 557
• 1961: 591
• 1962: 474
• 1963: 399
• 1964: 562
• 1965: ~887
• 1966: ~1,112
• 1967–1969: Declining (total Blue Book 1947–69: 12,618)
1970s–1980s: Hundreds per year (gradual rise; limited detailed public sums).
1990s–2000s: Rising to thousands annually.
2010: ~5,000
• 2011: ~5,500
• 2012: ~7,000
• 2013: ~7,000–8,000
• 2014: ~8,651 (high point)
• 2015: ~7,000
• 2016: ~6,000
• 2017: ~5,500
• 2018: ~3,500–4,000
• 2019: ~6,000
2020: ~6,500–7,000
• 2021: ~4,000
• 2022: ~5,000
• 2023: ~4,500
• 2024: ~4,000–5,000
• 2025: ~4,500 (strong; >2,000 in first half)
• 2026 (partial to early May): ~850
For full details and monthly breakdowns (back decades), see NUFORC’s Reports by Month page. Most sightings have mundane explanations.