UFOs in New Hampshire

Information listed in the below states were compiled from a number of Internet sources that have databases listing reported sightings. Due to a number of duplications of sighting reports in those various sources, it is somewhat difficult to give credit where credit is due to the originating source. Therefore, this site acknowledges and gives credit to all the sources of these reports presented to you collectively now, as I cannot determine the origin of each particular sighting report: National UFO Reporting Center, MUFON, NH MUFON, MA MUFON, VT MUFON, CT MUFON, Miningco.com's UFO/Alien web site, Magonia, Project Bluebook, Filer's Files, National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, and anyone else who made a report or who I missed ! Plus, we can't forget the people that had the sighting experience and had the courage to come forward and report their incident so the world could know.

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Location	Date	Description
Alton Bay	1998 November 24	Report of 2 people seeing a bright light hovering over the vicinity of the Belknap mountain range. The light began to perform some very erratic maneuvers, while blinking on and off. They observed this phenomenon for approximately 5 to 10 minutes before the light disappeared. - NUFORC
Auburn	2000 November 23	Two adults and a child report seeing two objects, both didn't move much in 1 1/2 half hours. When they moved they swayed, spiraled or zigzagged. They saw lots of colors coming from them. Blue, green and red dominated. When viewing one with binoculars reportably could see rows of windows. They watched them to about 11:30 pm and both were still in the sky when they went to bed. - NUFORC
Barrington	1999 September 20	Occupants of a vehicle traveling westbound on a roadway report seeing a cigar shaped object for a few seconds before losing sight of it behind a tree line. When the vehicle crested a hill, the occupants had a clear view of the area where the object was last seen, but it was no longer there. - NUFORC
Berlin	1997 June 3	A report was made of a woman that noticed strange lights and movements in the sky. She saw a sphere and a second object in the shape of an arrow. The sphere had bright green and red lights. The witness called her son and husband to come and look. They grabbed a pair of binoculars to obtain a closer look. The two UFOs would move apart and then together, leaving a trail of white lights. The sphere appeared to be spinning. - UFO Roundup
Colebrook	2000 July 3	Two witnesses were in a vehicle driving north on route 3 out of Colebrook towards Pittsburg at approx. 10:30 p.m. on a cloudy and drizzly night. They were talking and both took notice of all the fire flies in front of their vehicle. While looking out of the windshield they saw a capsule shaped green glowing object in the sky directly over head and then in the next instant it landed in front of them on the highway. The only way they were able to see this was because of the huge flash of green light that it gave off. They immediately turned the vehicle around and drove in the opposite direction. While doing this one witness saw that the craft was disk shaped, black with red under glow. They were driving away, not being able to move very fast because of the weather conditions, traveled at least four miles and spotted the craft now glowing solid green following them as it was about a mile away just above tree line. They sped up driving at least 75 miles per hour. Both were terrified and did not get a good or curious feeling from or about this thing. When they looked again in the rear view it was not there. They drove back into Colebrook and reported it to the police. - NUFORC
Concord	2000 December 20	A witness reported he was going to move the car in the driveway when he looked up and saw a roundish green object with reddish light around the edge of it. It was going about 200-400 m.p.h. south to north. There was an odd smell like sulfur 30 seconds later. It lasted for about 10 seconds. The same thing 3 seconds later 2 others side by side following close behind. Same lights, sulfur smell, etc. - NUFORC
Concord	2000 August 5	A man and his wife were outside having a cigarette when she looked up and saw an object and then it just shot off to the South west. She said it was kind of like a car's headlight. She did not think it was an airplane and she said it was faster than anything she had ever seen. It made no sound. - NUFORC
Concord	1954 May 31	A woman reported seeing a very white, elongated object that flew very fast, and then blinked out after 8-10 seconds. - Project Bluebook
Derry	1999 May 15	A person reported an unknown disk was following his car with very bright blinding brightness that was as low as tree level. - NUFORC
Derry	1999 May 6	A student reported a bright light with an aura around it being seen in the opposite direction of the sun. It moved in circles and after about 5 minutes there appeared to be another aircraft that was "chasing" it. After about 20 minutes, the light changed blue and "shot" something at the other craft. The other craft then had the blue glow around it and in a couple seconds completely vanished. When the blue thing was shot out, there was a quiet, yet irritating hum. - NUFORC
Durham	1999 September 5	Occupants of a vehicle driving east on Rte 4 report seeing a white colored rectangular shaped object high in the sky traveling from south to north then disappear behind a cloud. The sighting lasted a few minutes before the witnesses lost sight of it. - NUFORC
East Kingston	1989 October 12	Two witnesses reported seeing 4 to 5 round objects that pulsated from white to green traveling in formation from west to east. No sound was heard. - MUFON
Exeter	1997 December 28	While driving along a highway, a person reported being nearly blinded by a bright blue light in the sky - Boston Globe 1/10/98, Filer's Files
Exeter	1965 September 3	Two police officers and others report witnessing a large, dark, elliptical object with a row of red lights around it, move slowly and erratically around houses and trees, while lights blinked in sequence. Farm animals were very noisy. the sighting lasted about 1 hour. - Project Bluebook
Gilford	1978 July 1	A Police Officer from the Town of Gilford reported observing a number of objects in the sky from a high land observation point called Liberty Hill. The objects appeared to be in a perfect formation flashing lights back and forth between them as they hovered stationary in the sky. After work, this officer met with another officer from the town of Tilton and they sat on the edge of Interstate 93 for approximately 2 hours watching these objects that were mostly stationary in the sky, flashing lights back and forth. Finally the objects flew South over I-93 and they communicated this information via radio to NH State Police Headquarters and they acknowledged the objects were over their location. The next morning those officers were instructed to not speak about this incident again as it might cause panic among the population of the towns and State. - NUFORC
Greenland	1998 March 12	A truck driver reports seeing a green glowing sphere cross horizontally from east to west. The object appeared to be about the size of a baseball. At least four other truck drivers had witnessed the same event. - NUFORC
Hampton	1998 March 17 & 25	Multiple witnesses report seeing a large green colored tadpole shaped object hovering above the ocean before streaking away seaward - Filer's Files
Holderness	1998 March 16	A delivery driver reports seeing a large greenish blue fireball. The rate of speed was much slower than a meteorite. It appeared to be very low, almost directly overhead. The following night he witnessed another at a much greater height. - NUFORC
Somewhere between Lancaster and Ashland in the northern part of NH	1961 September 19	Betty and Barney Hill's famed sighting & abduction report. While driving along the highway the Hills observed a light in the night sky that seemed to move unlike any night's stars or moon. They stopped their car as Barney Hill then observed the sighting through a pair of binoculars and saw a large pancake shaped object. Becoming frightened, he returned to his vehicle. They then remember finding themselves miles down the road and continued on their way home. Series of examines on the Hills later revealed memories of an alien encounter.
Littleton	1997 January 23	A woman reported that while driving home from work she saw this thing from her windshield. She watched the object cross the sky from west to east, coming from Vermont and passing over the Connecticut River. It was oval and she counted six windows. There was a green light in front of it. It hovered slowly, but there was no noise. After a few minutes, the UFO took off over the mountains. - UFO Roundup
Londonderry	2000 August 24	A star like flashing object was seen in the Northwest sky over Londonderry. For about 15 minutes it looked like it changed colors from red to silver. It moved downward and upward and slowly took off. - NUFORC
Londonderry	1998 September 10	A person reports seeing a triangular shaped craft having three bright white lights. The object appeared to be traveling low and moved from one spot to another almost instantaneously - Filer's Files
Manchester	1999 June 8	A man and his family report seeing a bright green rectangle of light behind the clouds. He watched it for a few minutes then saw other bright green streaks of light run parallel to it. After about 4 minutes the rectangle lost its "width" but it was getting longer. He ran in the house to get his wife and son. As they got outside it was still there. They watched it together for over an hour. Its green light definitely "pulsed" & seemed to do a few "chase" patterns. They saw some white flashes of light come out from the side of it. (They called channel 9, the local TV station but were told they were too busy.) At times the light would seem long and narrow, sometimes whole, sometimes with a "dark" or unlit section in the middle. Other times it seemed wider and the light more concentrated in a rectangular shape. Another very strange thing was that it would suddenly "turn off", then on again. It was partly to mostly cloudy during this time, but its light was definitely visible through the clouds. Just before they went to bed they looked out the window & it was still there, but had gone from green to blue. - NUFORC
Manchester	1998 October 1	An ex military observer reported seeing an oval shaped craft above the city landfill. A beam of light came from the ship to the surface. There were no external lights on the ship and it had three portholes visible. It hovered at about 700 ft. with no forward movement and just vanished. - NUFORC
Manchester	1998 August 15	While driving along a roadway during the early morning, at a distance over some hills, a woman reported briefly seeing an unknown Y or Mercedes Benz emblem shaped object - Filer's Files
Manchester	1996 March 16	Several people report seeing a shiny triangular object. The UFO was motionless and hovered at 4,000 to 5,000 feet above the outskirts of Manchester's airport. The crowd watched the object for 20 minutes. - UFO Roundup
Mt. Sunapee	1966 June 16	A case of a UFO extending a rod-like extension and touching electrical wires occurred on June 16th in Mt. Sunapee, NH. Mrs. Gordon Avery told NICAP investigator John Meloney that she saw a white oval object about 4:00 p.m. while looking for the source of a brilliant light illuminating her living room. She saw the UFO hovering a few feet above the telephone wires. As she watched, a jagged extension protruded from the object and seemed to touch the wires. It had no apparent physical effect. After about 5 minutes the rod retracted and the UFO began moving northeast, accelerating and disappearing over a mountain at high speed. - NICAP UFO Investigator, October-November 1966, pg. 4
Nashua, Bow, Northfield	1999 January 10	People report seeing a bright green fireball traveling extremely low. It made a hissing sound according to one witness. The FAA reported that nothing had been reported in that area. - NUFORC & Manchester Union Leader newspaper
Nashua	1974 June 14	A maneuvering disk shaped object was seen by independent witnesses at 12:35 a.m., 12:50 a.m., and 2:00 a.m. over Nashua. - Center for UFO Studies case investigation files, received July 17, 1974
New Boston	1998 December 11	A man and his wife reported seeing a hovering light with flashing blue and red; Its movement was erratic and non-airplane like. Another smaller light appeared to float around this larger light. - NUFORC
Newfields	2000 April 14	At approximately 3:05 am a witness reports looking up at the stars and noticing a moving object, thought it was a commercial aircraft at first, then thought it might be a star due to it's brightness and size. The size of the object was twice the size of a star and was moving magnetic north. The witness estimated the object's elevation at approx. 30,000 ft. and noticed it was moving at an incredible rate of speed estimated in excess of mach 5. There was no sort of sound trail. The witness states it was NOT a shooting star as the time rate was far to long and wonders if it might have been a satellite. - NUFORC
Newport	1989 February 23	Two witnesses reported seeing a very large bright light approach their car. They stopped and got out of the car to observe this light pass about 300 feet overhead and heard it give off a high pitched humming sound. The sighting lasted for about a minute - MUFON
Newton	2000 May 26	A witness reported seeing a weird bright solid light, not blinking like a plane and had no sound. It made jerky movements and it would stop for about 30 sec. and then keep moving. It would go up a little and move and finally went out of sight. - NUFORC
North Hampton	1999 July 7	A person reports being awake in a room with their eyes closed when a direct beam entered the room and was directed at their right eye. When the person opened their eyes, the beam retracted through the skylight (light didn't illuminate the room). The person looked outside & saw a bright object through the trees and thought it must be the moon, but knew direct beams didn't come from the moon. The person didn't get a clear view of it and a few moments later, it vanished. The object was in the southern night sky when it was observed. - NUFORC
North Stratford	1997 January 23	A witness reported seeing an object the size of a house. It had pink and blue lights glowing around it. - UFO Roundup
Ossipee	1998 February 23	A person reports seeing a bright light in the sky that traveled from east to west across the road at approximately 200 mph then stopped suddenly and appeared to go straight down towards the earth. It was brilliant, fast, and turned at angles that defies normal airspace travel. - NUFORC
Portsmouth	1997 November 25	Two witnesses report driving toward Maine when a bright bluish white object became visible directly ahead and to the left of their car. It was almost crescent shaped. It remained in sight for approximately five seconds and then fell toward the car, increasing in brightness before it vanished from their sight. They looked for several minutes for another trace of the object, but could not find any. - NUFORC
Portsmouth	1951 July 24	Two military personnel report seeing a 100-200 ft. tubular object, 5 times long as it was wide, with fins at one end, and colored grayish with many black spots. It flew 800-1,000 m.p.h. at 1-2,000 feet, leaving a faint swath. Sighting lasted about 20 seconds. - Project Bluebook
Salem	2001 February 1	A witness reports looking up at the sky and noticed something glimmer, upon looking closer noticed 4 or 5 little objects near the clouds. They where darting around them, almost like they had been chasing each other. It was witnessed in full day light. - NUFORC
Salem	1999 June 11	A witness reported seeing a large flashing strobe, white in color. It stayed still high in the sky and then moved a short distance, stood still for a few seconds, then shot South a large distance with no trailing light or tail. It stopped again, flashed for a few seconds and moved a large distance in a Southwest direction. All movements happened in a blink of an eye. The object then moved out of sight. - NUFORC
Salem	1995 July 15	A number of teenagers were reported to have looked up in the sky and saw a yellow egg shape and in the middle a kind of brown circle. It gave off a bright flash then everything was brown and sounded a loud boom! One of the parents had a police scanner and heard that other people had seen this object. - NUFORC
Sandwich	1967 March 3	A man and his wife reported driving toward Sandwich when they saw a lighted object going up and down, turning from white to greenish blue, and following their car for 20 minutes. It left to the northeast. They reported feeling an electric discharge as it left, and their dog was very nervous during the observation. - Magonia
Seabrook	2000 November 17	During the rush hour evening commute, two stationary crafts in the sky over I-95 were reported to have separated from each other and one launched a fireball. Initially a witness saw what he thought was the rear wingspan of a landing airplane. It caught his attention because the left wing lights were blinking like the craft was signaling a turn. On the left wing there were three white lights equally distanced apart. On the right wing there were only two lights, a white and a red one. They were located at the outside and inside ends of what he thought was the right wing of a large airplane. He was driving north on I-95 at 70 mph. After a few moments of observing the craft he realized that it was stationary in the sky. The crafts separated, the one on the left was lower and the one on the right went up. The two crafts remained within a matter of yards of each other. As he continued to watch the crafts he saw the upper craft launch a fireball in a northward direction. It resembled a shooting star in the night sky. The fireball followed a straight trajectory until it disappeared from view in the distance. He pulled into a rest area parking lot to continue watching the crafts. The two crafts moved slowly to the south, continuing to maintain a pairing. - NUFORC
Stewartstown	1997 June 16	Reports were made from two vantage points of moving white and red lights near Stewartstown. It looked like one of the lights went on top of the other, brightened and dimmed, then moved slowly east to west over a house. A third witness who was apparently closer claimed to see a large round craft with numerous lights passing over the area. - UFO Roundup
Stratford	1997 February	A woman and her family reported seeing a saucer shaped object. A few days later, the woman spotted the object again. - UFO Roundup
Stratham	1998 December 27	A person reports seeing a rectangular shape in the sky that had a bluish light in the center, and a pearl colored light at each end. The witness thought it was an airplane but when it listed to the right, it went left, and when it listed to the left, it went right, It moved behind a church and some trees and that was the last he saw of it. - NUFORC
Twin Mountain	1997 October 7	While driving home, a person reported looking up in the sky and seeing blue and green lights that were flashing in front of them. They quickly disappeared in a greenish white colored blur. - NUFORC
Weare	1996 March 14	A man reported looking out his windows and seeing a UFO some distance away. It had the size and shape of a dinner plate. It had orange sparkles that were shooting out of it. The object descended with a falling leaf motion and disappeared in the southeast. - UFO Roundup
Wolfeboro	1999 May 15	Witnesses report seeing a bright white light moving silently and speedily across a clear night sky changing directions. The light moved from points east to points south, almost the entire field of view. It then made a sudden 45 degree turn and cut straight across the sky, passing directly overhead and continuing until it was out of their field of view. It appeared to be very high in the sky. - NUFORC

NH	Belknap	32
NH	Carroll	15
NH	Cheshire	21
NH	Coos	14
NH	Grafton	46
NH	Hillsborough	56
NH	Merrimack	33
NH	Rockingham	143
NH	Strafford	15
NH	Sullivan	9