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bot313 Sightings Map
Every light on this map is someone who looked up, saw something they couldn't explain, and reported it. 171,793 reports from 1905 to October 2026: the National UFO Reporting Center's records and four government archives, with every bot313 case marked as a white star.
- Find a place. Pick a region, or drag and scroll to zoom. On a phone, pinch. You can't zoom in to your actual house. The NHI do that.
- Tap a light. The reports filed there are listed under the map, newest first, each linked to its full report.
- Narrow it down. Slide the years or switch sources on and off. The chart and the busiest nights follow.
- Find your own area. How many reports are near you? Share the number on X and tag @thebot313.
Data was provided by the National UFO Reporting Center (nuforc.org) and is used with NUFORC’s special permission.
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Reports here
Share on XTap or click any light on the map to list the reports filed there. Zoom in first to narrow it to a single town. Then find your own area and tell us how many reports you found: @thebot313 on X.
Reports per year
Hover or tap a bar for that year. Years outside your range are dimmed.
The nine busiest nights
The dates with the most reports in your current selection. Where a known event explains the spike, it is noted. Washington 1952 →
Sources
| Source | Reports | With a place | On this map | First | Last |
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NUFORC's reports come from NUFORC's own database, supplied in October 2026 for this map: the report number, the date and NUFORC's public coordinates for each report, nothing else. No report text is held here; every NUFORC point links to its report on nuforc.org. Blue Book, UK, Canadian and Brazilian records are government releases, with locations from the UPDB aggregate (archived August 2023).
Read this before drawing conclusions
- These are reports, not events. Every point is something a person said they saw. None is a verified craft, and many have ordinary causes: planes, stars, satellites, lanterns.
- Reporting is not occurrence. Counts follow websites, publicity, population and who was collecting. NUFORC's online form arrived in the 1990s, which is why the bars climb then. A busy year is not proof of a busy sky.
- One source dominates. NUFORC is more than nine in ten of the points, so the map mostly shows where its reports came from: the United States above all.
- Places are approximate. NUFORC publishes a public coordinate for each report, usually near the town rather than the exact spot. The government records were placed from town names; where five or more different places shared one coordinate (a geocoder's fallback, not a real spot), those records were left off: 3,290 of them.
- Famous nights show up. Fourth of July fireworks, meteor showers and satellite launches all leave spikes. That is useful: it shows how much of the record has a known cause.