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r/UFOsNSFW

The UFO reddit. A community for discussion related to Unidentified Flying Objects. Share your sightings, experiences, news, and investigations. We aim to elevate good research while maintaining healthy skepticism. Founded 2008 · 4.2M members

4.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 55.6K upvotes, which works out to 13 per 1,000 members.

13peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.2Mmembers
55.6Kbest post
24.9Kmost comments
892posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Text 30% Video 29% Link 14% Question 12% Image 10% Gallery 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Disclosure 191 Question 111 Historical 103 Sighting 85 Government 65 NHI 36 Science 32 Space Launch 31 Whistleblower 20 Video 18

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY U.S. HAS RETRIEVED CRAFT OF NON-HUMAN ORIGIN

↑ 55.6K 💬 10.6K link 2023

The Arizona "UFO" post earlier u/Sufficient-Win4388 is literally just a street light. This is why this sub shouldn't push away sceptics

↑ 35.9K 💬 959 image 2022

Birds, satellites, plane and UFO that changes direction

↑ 30.3K 💬 2.1K video 2021

Strange object captured over Malvern Hills, Western England

↑ 28.1K 💬 3.9K video 2025

Bombshell UFO Report: U.S. Military Encounters UFOs ‘Every Day’ That Far Exceed Its Tech, Capabilities

↑ 26.3K 💬 5.7K link 2021

A tweet from Edward Snowden

↑ 25.7K 💬 1.7K image 2023

Close Up of Drone from Airplane

↑ 25.6K 💬 4.3K video 2024

People be like: iT's fAKe aNd a FaLsE fLaG

↑ 24.9K 💬 2.1K image 2021

A UFO just dripped a molten metal like material above me and I managed to collect some of the pieces

↑ 23.6K 💬 6.3K gallery 2024

Another Clear UAP caught on film flying by Airplane!

↑ 23.4K 💬 3.5K video 2023

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/UFOs, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/UFOs?
r/UFOs ("The UFO reddit") describes itself this way: A community for discussion related to Unidentified Flying Objects. Share your sightings, experiences, news, and investigations. We aim to elevate good research while maintaining healthy skepticism. It was founded in 2008 and has 4.2M members.
How many members does r/UFOs have?
r/UFOs has about 4.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 892 of its posts; the biggest reached 55.6K upvotes, which is 13 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/UFOs?
"INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY U.S. HAS RETRIEVED CRAFT OF NON-HUMAN ORIGIN" reached 55.6K upvotes and 10.6K comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/UFOs.
What subreddits are similar to r/UFOs?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/im14andthisisdeep.
What kind of posts do best on r/UFOs?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are text posts and 29% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/UFOs?
Across 892 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 12:00 UTC (18.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 08:00 UTC (17.2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (11.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/UFOs?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/UFOs has 17.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 263 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/UFOs, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.