NUFORC — National UFO Reporting Center
The NUFORC Databank is the largest independently collected set of UFO/UAP sighting reports available. Founded in 1974 by Robert J. Gribble, operated from Davenport, WA.
Dataset: 80,331 geocoded sightings
• Coverage: 1906–2014 (scrubbed & validated)
• Fields: date, city, state, country, shape, lat/lng
• 29 shape classifications from witness reports
• Countries: US (65K), CA (3K), GB (2K), AU, DE + others
Shape Groups (color-coded markers)
• 💡 Lights — light, fireball, flash, flare
• 🛸 Discs — disk, circle, oval, round, dome, egg
• 🔺 Triangles — triangle, chevron, delta
• 🔷 Cylinders — cigar, cylinder, rectangle
• 🔮 Spheres — sphere, diamond, cone, pyramid, teardrop
• ⬡ Formations — formation
• ❓ Other — changing, other, unknown
Source: Kaggle/NUFORC scrubbed dataset. Geocoded at city level via MaxMind GeoLite2.