NUFORC UFO Sighting 186521
Occurred: 2025-01-06 14:50 Local
Reported: 2025-01-07 16:08 Pacific
Duration: around 20 seconds
No of observers: 1 - Military

Location: Ridgeland, MS, USA
Location details: right by the airport,bruce campbell airport

Shape: Other
Color: black
Estimated Size: half a mile
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: south
Angle of Elevation: 40
Closest Distance: half a mile
Characteristics: Lights on object, Electrical or magnetic effects

It was a long thin black line,maybe half a mile long.

Driving home from work, passing the airport heading towards Lake Harbor Rd, looking at the Trace Bridge, I saw an object—black, thin, and long. A light blinked at one end, then blinked at the other end, then blinked back on the other side. I thought to myself, thinking it was an airplane because of the blinking. I said, "Where is the tail?" Thinking I was driving closer to it, then it was gone! It was about 1,000 ft high.

Posted 2025-01-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 172734
Occurred: 2022-10-20 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-10-29 06:07 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Ridgeland, SC, USA
Location details: Tillman: US 321 and State 336

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Military helicopter following a light

On this night, I heard (from inside my house) a military helicopter flying around nearby several times. When I heard it approach again for the third time, I went outside to see what was going on. I saw the military helicopter flying extremely slow, east of me and traveling south. As I was watching it, I then noticed a solid orange light preceding the helicopter. It appeared to be about 100 yards in front of the helicopter. I watched it for around 15 minutes total as it traveled south and then circled back north.

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119150
Occurred: 2015-05-24 21:20 Local
Reported: 2015-05-24 18:53 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Ridgeland, SC, USA

Shape: Teardrop


Orange silent moving thing.

We were sitting on the the back porch talking, I looked up, pointed it out to the family, we watched it go across the sky rather quickly, no contrail, bright orange, no blinking lights, not a plane, went over in arch, could see it through the clouds, and it made no noise. very weird.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2015-05-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119101
Occurred: 2015-05-23 05:45 Local
Reported: 2015-05-23 06:09 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Ridgeland, MS, USA

Shape: Fireball


About 30 amber to orange lights moving north on the west side of I-55.

While driving to work on I-55 southbound, the same route I take to work every day, I noticed a few dozen amber to orange lights as I looked toward the Washington Monument replica that is located at about the Ridgeland Madison border.

I pulled over to the side of the interstate and noted that they were moving in a northbound direction, all at the same speed, in a lose formation.

I turned off the radio and rolled down the window but heard no sound.

I have never seen anything like this.

Posted 2015-05-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 96328
Occurred: 2013-02-15 16:00 Local
Reported: 2013-02-15 14:41 Pacific
Duration: ~1.5 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Ridgeland, MS, USA

Shape: Circle


5 year old niece had brought it to our attention yesterday (02/14/2013 around 16:00) that she said she saw some “white things” in the sky, and rushed in to tell us. We went outside, we live in an apartment complex, and looked up at the sky facing NE, and we saw some white circular shapes. First thing we told my niece is that they are birds. But we kept looking, and we saw that light was reflecting off of the shapes. If you've ever seen birds, you can tell what their color is, and light does not reflect off of them. We kept looking for a good minute, and there were literally more than one hundred. They were making fast movements, and out of nowhere, they would start disappearing in groups. And then, they were gone. It lasted about a minute and a half.

Today (02/15/2013 around 16:00) we saw them again. It lasted about the same short period, and there were hundreds of them. And like the day before, they disappeared in groups. If they are birds, I have never seen birds do that. We birds fly away, as far as I've seen, you can see them leave because they usually don’t go higher. And light does not reflect off their bodies! We are going to try to record them on camera tomorrow.

Posted 2013-02-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 91652
Occurred: 2012-08-10 23:59 Local
Reported: 2012-08-09 22:04 Pacific
Duration: 60 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Ridgeland, MS, USA

Shape: Unknown


UFO close to the ground

Very low to the ground! Heard sounds and it sounded like an airplane flying right over our house so I ran outside. All I saw was a whole bunch of trees rustling as the spacecraft had gone over them. By the time I went to get my camera, the noise had stopped and it was as if nothing had happened other than a whole lot of leaves fallen to the ground! Freakiest night of my life.

I don't believe in UFO's and thought they were 100% hoax... Not anymore!

Posted 2012-08-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86531
Occurred: 2012-01-12 01:23 Local
Reported: 2012-01-12 00:56 Pacific
Duration: 1 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Ridgeland, SC, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

cigar shape slow moving above tree tops

I was wide awake and walking out to my vehicle to respond to a structure fire at 1:23AM and noticed a very large slow moving cigar shaped craft that was moving very slow right above the tree tops, no more than 300 to 400 feet away from me and made no sound. The sky was clear and the moon was almost full, so when i grabbed my night vision gen3 monocle it was hard to see the craft clearly, but i could see no wings only the fuselage.

The body of the craft or fuselage was abnormally long and appeared to be at least twice the length of any aircraft I've ever seen and I've dealt with many different aircraft as I was once in the USAF's Crash Rescue Team.

It did not have standard aircraft light markings, its lights seemed backwards... The red blinking/pulsating light was on the front and it had 2 white dimmer lights on the rear.

Within a minute it was across my yard and into a very large open field area and as I left my house en route to the emergency call i looked ! to my left across the field and it was gone. It should have been very visible at the slow speed it traveled which was almost a hover or landing speed.

I have seen many military aircraft over the years and Emergency Medical Life flights come over my house very low, but nothing like this and you can hear them for miles, this thing was silent.

Also, no other aircraft in the area.

Posted 2012-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83814
Occurred: 2011-09-09 21:00 Local
Reported: 2011-09-09 20:09 Pacific
Duration: 20 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Ridgeland, SC, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Large Craft hovering over Highway surrounded by Bright white lights

3rd Party Report from civilian witness. Under investigation at this time, please contact me for further details if needed.

I received a report of a Large Craft hovering over Grays HWY (HWY 278) Cross street Wooden Horse Run on the sharp Curve.

Caller was very upset and stated that she just observed a large unidentified craft move and hover in front of her car from the sod farm fields next to the HWY at tree top level. The current information I have is that the craft had an unknown number of bright white lights surrounding it or encircling it, after hovering for a moment it then departed at a very high rate of speed and was visible again in the distance through the trees on the opposite side of the HWY for a moment.

Note: I have also found that this isn't uncommon for that area and that in the past a vehicle was "pursued" or tracked by a similar object. Obviously many of these reports are not readily shared. I also made a report about 2 years ago in which myself and a number of other Emergency Responders witnessed similar lighted crafts within 15min North of that area from different locations.

Posted 2011-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 46814
Occurred: 2004-10-04 11:00 Local
Reported: 2005-10-04 21:52 Pacific
Duration: not sure
No of observers: 0

Location: Ridgeland, MS, USA

Shape: Disk


Low , non moving, white , oval/sperical(blimp like) object seen in Ridgeland at 11 AM.

I was driving to class a little before 11: A.M. About 5 minutes before I reached the Ridgeland exit I looked over and saw what appeared to be a white plane, but I did not see wings. I am slightly near-sighted so I passed it off as vision problems, but then when I got a full view of the object I discovered it was not moving. It was hovering there, not going forward, and it was too low to the ground to be a plane. There was a building several yards away and it was higher than the building, but it was still very low. After studying the object for a minute it slowly rose a few feet into the air but continued to hover. It was then that I took the Ridgeland Exit and went to my class. I don't know what it was. It was not a plane or a blimp although it resembled more of a blimp like object. It was not particularly big or small, it was probably a little bit smaller than a commercial plane, but bigger than a small plane. It was white. It had no lights and no markings. At the time there were many cars on the interstate so I'm sure others must have seen it, especially since the object was not very far away and it was a clear, sunny day outside.



Posted 2005-10-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 38574
Occurred: 2004-08-07 20:00 Local
Reported: 2004-08-10 14:12 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Ridgeland, MS, USA

Shape: Circle


Ball of light moving at a rapid speed.

The ufo I saw was a white ball. It was at a fairly high altitude and moving at a speed that would not have been a jet or plane. I was sitting on the backyard swing about 8 p.m. central/standard time Saturday, Aug. 7th, and looked down on the ground for only a couple of seconds to pick up some trash underneath the swing and when I looked back up at the sky in the clearing was this ball of light that had just appeared out of nowhere in a vast clearing in the sky. It was moving quite swiftly.

I live not far from the airport here and I can say with certainty that there were no strobe lights as required by the AFA as well as this being a perfectly shaped ball. When a plane is at that altitude it simply cannot appear to move as fast as this ball of light was doing. It was making a straight shot through the sky, had no sound, and left no chemtrails of any kind, nor was it losing any altitude like a meteor particle or falling star would.

It moved across a vast opening in the sky in 30 seconds or less and had this been a plane I would have sat and watched it for several minutes before it made that distance.

This is the second sighting I've had; the other one was saucer shaped over downtown Jackson, MS, in May.

Posted 2004-08-11