UFO sightings in New Hampshire
There are 39 civilian UFO sighting reports from New Hampshire in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1956 to 2013. The busiest year was 2013, with 10 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (16), cigar (6) and triangle (6).
Most reports come from Manchester (5), Dover (2) and Hampton (2), out of 30 places in the state with at least one report.
UFO sightings by city in New Hampshire
Places with at least three reports. 29 other places in New Hampshire have one or two.
Recent sighting reports from New Hampshire
All 39 reports, newest first.
- 23 Oct 2013 · 18:30StrathamOrb· 4 min
Bright yellow/orange fireball hovered with no noise at low altitude, shining right at my house.
Show on map - 23 Oct 2013 · 05:45MilfordTriangle· 5 min
Bright light in the distance, got closer large hovering craft with no noise above rt. 101.
Show on map - 22 Oct 2013 · 19:30OssipeeSphere· 5 s
Bright circle flashed across the sky in Ossipee only lasted about 3-5 seconds.
Show on map - 22 Oct 2013 · 19:28KensingtonOther· 5 s
The craft moved quickly then hovered, then went out of sight in seconds.
Show on map - 20 Oct 2013 · 08:10SalemCigar· 10 s
Metallic object reflecting the Sun, then vanishes.
Show on map - 18 Oct 2013 · 21:30BedfordOrb· 10 min
UFO Sighting, Bedford, NH
Show on map - 18 Oct 2013 · 01:45LitchfieldSphere· 3 min
Bright object moving in sky.
Show on map - 14 Oct 2013 · 11:47HamptonCigar· 1 min
White cylinder with red light at back. Didn't have wings. Moving silently very fast towards the southwest then disappeared!
Show on map - 10 Oct 2013 · 21:30HudsonOrb· 1 s
Very white bright light moving fast inside clouds.
Show on map - 10 Oct 2013 · 20:00HudsonOrb· 5 s
White, orb above the clouds moving very fast, no flashing lights, zoomed across the sky and disappeared out of sight.
Show on map - 20 Oct 2012 · 18:40HamptonOrb· 3 min
20 plus orange orbs seen in Hampton sky
Show on map - 25 Oct 2011 · 20:59HanoverOrb· 3 s
Green fireball lasting a few seconds only, must be other witnesses out there.
Show on map - 22 Oct 2011 · 23:25LitchfieldTriangle· 5 s
strange traingle flying objects seen in sky above field in letchfield nh
Show on map At around 7:50pm EST this evening, Friday October 22nd 2010, I was driving North on 93, just North of Manchester, NH. Above the toll ga
Show on map- 16 Oct 2010 · 22:00MeredithOrb· 1 h
red/white twinkling light in eastern NH sky. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of a celestial body? PD))
Show on map - 26 Oct 2009 · 06:05HooksettTriangle· 20 min
Black Triangle gliding over RT 93
Show on map - 17 Oct 2009 · 22:00WarnerOrb· 1 min
Two red/orange round balls of star-like light hovering over us then disappearing.
Show on map - 12 Oct 2009 · 07:00DoverOther· 5 s
I saw a shiny object that shot across the northeast sky at a high rate of speed.
Show on map - 15 Oct 2008 · 07:45Bretton WoodsDiamond· 45 min
Bright orange diamond shape object moving from ground to sky
Show on map - 23 Oct 2007 · 20:55LondonderryOrb· 2 min
While walking my dog, I saw 4 beams of light moving in and out and circling in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights?? PD))
Show on map - 14 Oct 2006 · 01:25JaffreyOrb· 10 s
Brilliant white and blue fireball over Jaffrey , NH at 1:25am
Show on map - 15 Oct 2005 · 22:00BrentwoodOrb· 20 min
There were red dot in the distance and the would blink and they had nonoise and my father told me that they might of been stelth bomber
Show on map - 26 Oct 2004 · 19:35KeeneOrb· 5 s
Looked like plane or scud missle shot down.
Show on map - 18 Oct 2003 · 20:45NashuaSphere· 1 min
8 to 12 Very bright round objects seen over Nashua, NH
Show on map Bright light sundenly vanished when telescope is trained on it.
Show on map- 13 Oct 2001 · 17:30Franconia NotchCigar· 3 s
UFO AT CANNON MOUNTAIN INT 93, N.H. OCT 13, 2001
Show on map - 13 Oct 2001 · 15:00Franconia Notch/White MountainsCigar· 2 s
SIGHTING at FRANCONIA NOTCH, New Hampshire October 13, 2001
Show on map - 14 Oct 1999 · 22:50RaymondTriangle· 15 min
ITMOVED VERY SLOW,FLASHED BRIGHT PINK LIGHT,AND NO NOISE.
Show on map hovering above city landfill. beam of light from craft to ground.
Show on map- 12 Oct 1997 · 23:00FranklinOther· 15 s
Round green ball-shaped object
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Show on map- 1 Oct 1995 · 23:00DoverTriangle· 10 min
six light triangle in dover
Show on map - 15 Oct 1993 · 18:00PortsmouthOrb· 1 min
Strage lights over the river in NH
Show on map - 22 Oct 1987 · 20:00PortsmouthCigar· 20 min
Large silent black cigar shaped craft sighted over Pease AFB
Show on map - 1 Oct 1987 · 21:00AlsteadOrb· 30 min
sitting in a car in a open field, keeping in mind this is in a town where we are in the hills. the field during the day has
Show on map A red glowing sphere stopped and watched me.
Show on map- 15 Oct 1978 · 22:00CandiaDisc· 20 min
Very large object seen in mid October 1978
Show on map - 15 Oct 1969 · 21:00ExeterCigar· 30 min
I was returning from the first Vietnam Moratorium (that is how I fix the date accurately) in Boston with some friends in an old VW bus.
Show on map - 1 Oct 1956 · 19:00NewportRectangle· 5 min
Disk with glass center section, and flames behind the glass
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Where these reports come from
Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.