Orb-Like UFOs Are Four Times More Common Than Disk-Like UFOs

 On the page here you can see the current totals (by shape) of UFOs reported by  the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). 

Unspecified 6388

Changing 3872

Chevron 1713

Cigar 3688

Circle 14083

Cone 602

Cross 493

Cube 20

Cylinder 2431

Delta 1

Diamond 2087

Disk 8602

Egg 1260

Fireball 9826

Flash 2408

Formation 4784

Light 27207

Orb 5562

Other 9957

Oval 6281

Rectangle 2554

Sphere 7560

Star 146

Teardrop 1222

Triangle 12952

Unknown 9860

It seems reasonable to combine the categories of "Circle," "Fireball," "Sphere" and "Orb" into a single category we may call "orb-like."  Doing that we get a total of 37,031 for orb-like UFOs.  UFOs in this category are more than four times more common than disk-like UFOs (with 8602 occurrences). But for some reason when people think of UFOs they tend to imagine disk-like objects. Maybe it was all that talk of "flying saucers" around 1952 that created such a "stereotype." 

We read here of a sighting of many yellow orbs in India in 2012:

"Units of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) reported over 100 sightings of UFOs in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir between August and October. Observers described the objects as yellowish spheres that rose from the Chinese side, traversed the sky for several hours, and then disappeared. Despite investigations involving ground-based radar, spectrum analysers, and a reconnaissance drone, the objects remained unidentified."