Shapes

A point or patch of light with no discernible structure — the most reported form in the archive.

A circular form, seen face-on or without depth cues.

Three-cornered craft or three-light formations, heavily reported from the late 1980s on.

A ball with apparent volume, frequently metallic or white.

A burning or incandescent sphere, often trailing — the shape most often resolved to meteors.

Forms outside the standard vocabulary, as described in the report text.

The witness declined to name a form — often the most honest entry on the ledger.

The classic saucer: a lenticular or plate-like form, dominant in mid-century reporting.

An elongated round form, between sphere and cigar.

Multiple objects holding a deliberate arrangement.

A form that would not hold still — morphing between shapes as watched.

A long tube without wings or tail, reported since the nineteenth-century airship waves.

A right-angled slab or box, one of the rarer structured forms.

A tube with apparent depth, kin to the cigar.

A momentary burst of light, too brief to carry structure.

A rhombic form, sometimes described as two joined pyramids.

A V or boomerang form — the shape of the Phoenix Lights accounts.

An ovoid with volume; the shape Lonnie Zamora reported at Socorro.

A drop-shaped form, tapered at one end.

A tapered form, point up or point down.

A cruciform arrangement of body or lights.