Marilyn A. Hudson is no longer State Director of Oklahoma MUFON. There are no meetings currently planned.
BEST UFO/UAP DOCUMENTATIES
UFOs: 50 Years of Denial? (1997), James Fox Directed. This documentary aims to demystify the controversial phenomenon of UFOs and offers explosive information about some of the biggest cover-ups of the last century. From Roswell to Area 51, former government officials, astronauts and military experts offer firsthand accounts of their experiences with the unknown.
Out of the Blue (2003). The definitive investigation on the UFO phenomenon narrated by Peter Coyote.
I Know What I Saw (2014). James Fox Directed.
Moment of Contact (2022) - / Is an exploration of extraterrestrial encounters centered on a series of events in 1996 when citizens of Varginha, Brazil, reported seeing a UFO crash and one or more strange creatures. James Fox Director.
The Phenomenon, (2020)/ James Fox Directed. his documentary examines unidentified aerial phenomenon. With testimony from high-ranking government officials, and NASA Astronauts, Senator Harry Reid says it "makes the incredible credible."
The UFO Phenomena (2021) - It is now beyond doubt that strange, anomalous objects filling our skies and caught on camera are the real deal. Even the Pentagon admits it’s true. These seemingly intelligently controlled craft are operating above the clouds, in our oceans and in our orbit – travelling at hypersonic speeds far beyond any known human technology and completing maneuvers unknown to science. The subject of conspiracy and derision for years, UFOs are now the hottest topic in Washington and the world. Five-time Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart – who has been investigating the phenomena for the past two years – led the 7NEWS Spotlight team across the US, amassing never-before-seen compelling evidence and speaking to the key players behind an event that will change the course of history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm6AL5lA4Zc&t=278s
A Tear in the Sky (2022) – IMDb/ This award-winning documentary A Tear in the Sky takes you on an unprecedented journey into the UFO / UAP phenomenon.
Historic Early Works
The UFO Mystery (1950) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7EwnG9R6t8&t=3s
UFO: The True Story…Documentary (1956) - UFO (full title: Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers) is a 1956 American semi-documentary about the development of the UFO phenomenon in the United States. Clips from the documentary have often been used in other UFO documentaries and television episodes related to UFOs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bGTLtdwPHM
Your September #16 eNewsletter
MUFON CMS Statistics for 2025: The First Seven Months
by Rob Swiatek
Generally, statistics speak best for themselves when seen in
graphs, so herewith I’m presenting graphically two select categories of UFO
numbers for 2025. We’re more than halfway through 2025, and inquiring minds
need to know what’s happening in the skies. Has the phenomenon markedly
diminished? Or does it continue apace, as it has for at least the last 78
years? Well, no suspense as to the latter: The phenomenon continues to be seen
and to mystify.
The stats collected by MUFON are amenable to illustrating
any of several trends. For example, one could compile the number of U.S.
unknowns for each day of the week for a certain time period or note how
specific UFO shapes vary per day or month over a year. For this article,
however, and as I typically do, I’ve chosen to show MUFON’s incoming U.S. cases
and unknowns for the first seven months of 2025. Basic as it is, this remains
an important graph, in my opinion. And then I went a bit outside the box: the two
pie charts that follow illustrate how a subset of the 24 shapes (which include
the category “Other”) set forth in CMS vary between U.S. and non-U.S. cases
Unusual for a Winter month, January, with its cold weather
and short daylight periods, is currently the high-water month for 2025
sightings—both incoming and unknown. Happily gone, one will note, are the three
dispiriting months of 2024 when the CMS was shut down, resulting in the loss of
hundreds of sightings that were never reported. Still, despite the robust
number of 2025 cases, MUFON was outdone by the National UFO Reporting Center,
which had 2,565 events—U.S. and international—versus MUFON’s 1,959 (U.S. and
international) for the same time span and tabulation date. The difference is
606 events. (NUFORC sighting totals acquired from the nuforc.org website.
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Turning to the pie charts, it’s an understatement to note
the MUFON international total of UFO events is dominated by the U.S. numbers.
For example, as of 31 August 2025, the CMS had 13 reports from India, the most
populous country in the world at 1.45 billion, for the period 1 January 2025
through 31 July 2025; the corresponding number for China—with a population of
1.41 billion—is zero. Not one has yet come in! Nevertheless, with that
understatement in mind, it’s almost eerie how cylindrical unknown UFOs are 8%
of both U.S. and non-U.S. cases and star-like unknowns hover around 6.8%.
Sometimes the statistics of UFOs can evince the phenomenon’s anomalous nature
as much as an unknown trace sample held in the hand
The unknown percentages for discoidal and spherical objects
are also close, considering that both spheres and discs are sometimes reported
as circular UFOs, which occupy a separate slice of the chart. Combined, the
latter three shape categories account for 42.4% and 56.3%, respectively, of the
U.S. and non-U.S. unknowns.
I was a bit surprised the non-U.S. slate of unknowns didn’t
include a single square or rectangular UFO, a category normally boasting a
small, yet persistent number of U.S. entrants year after year. But the 3.2% of
U.S. square/rectangular cases reflects only eight cases out of 250 unknowns,
however, so they’re not common sights by any means. On the other hand, use of
the trademark “Tic Tac” to refer to UFOs having the peculiar shape of the
iconic mint seems to be confined to the U.S., thanks to David Fravor’s use of
this term to describe the object he saw in 2004 over the Paci‹ c. Since 2017,
when his case received nationwide publicity, U.S. witnesses routinely pronounce
stubby-cylindrical or tablet-shaped UFOs as tic tacs. In the world outside the
U.S., however, they’re still cylinders.
AUGUST 2025 Sightings Report
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UNITED STATES 379
UNITED KINGDOM 24
CANADA 21
GERMANY 11
FRANCE 10
AUSTRALIA 10
MEXICO 5
BRAZIL 3
SWITZERLAND 3
PORTUGAL 3
NETHERLANDS 2
POLAND 2
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 2
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2
NEW ZEALAND 2
CYPRUS 2
HUNGARY 2
IRAN 2
DENMARK 2
ROMANIA 2
EGYPT 1
ISRAEL 1
ARGENTINA 1
CROATIA 1
GREECE 1
MACEDONIA 1
BELGIUM 1
INDIA 1
TURKEY 1
MADAGASCAR 1
VENEZUELA 1
BOLIVIA 1
ECUADOR 1
MOROCCO 1
SOUTH AFRICA 1
CHINA 1
JAPAN 1
PERU 1
BANGLADESH 1
ICELAND 1
MARTINIQUE 1
TOTAL: 513
SHAPE
Circle 65
Sphere 58
Other 56
Unknown 53
Disc 42
Triangle 34
Oval 25
Star-like 22
Cigar 19
Cylinder 13
Square/Rectangular 10
Fireball 8
Diamond 7
Boomerang 6
Flash 6
Egg 6
Tic Tac 5
Chevron 4
Blimp 4
N/A 4
Cross 2
Teardrop 2
Bullet/Missile 2
Dumbbell 1
Saturn-like 1
Cone 1
UNITED STATES
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New York 21
Pennsylvania 20
Florida 16
Arkansas 15
Colorado 15
Ohio 14
Washington 13
Michigan 13
North Carolina 12
Tennessee 12
Oregon 12
Texas 11
Indiana 11
New Jersey 11
Missouri 10
Arizona 10
Oklahoma 9
South Carolina 8
Connecticut 8
Illinois 7
Utah 6
Minnesota 6
Alabama 5
Georgia 5
Louisiana 5
Maine 5
Maryland 5
West Virginia 5
New Mexico 5
Wisconsin 5
Idaho 4
Virginia 4
Massachusetts 4
South Dakota 4
Kentucky 3
Nevada 3
Kansas 3
Mississippi 3
Iowa 2
District of Columbia 1
Montana 1
North Dakota 1
Hawaii 1
Nebraska 1
New Hampshire 1
Wyoming 1
DISTANCE
< 100 ft 70
101-500 ft 61
501 ft - 1 Mile 74
Over 1 Mile 86
Unknown 78
NO VALUE 24
ERT *Experiencer Resource Team
Most impressively there were 15 Landings, Hovering, or
Takeoffs reported, and 33 Entities observed.
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