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1561Nuremberg 1561 Celestial Phenomenon: Hans Glaser Woodcut & Aerial Battle ReportThe 1561 Nuremberg celestial phenomenon: Hans Glaser's broadsheet documented a reported aerial battle of spheres, crosses, and cylinders ove… 1628Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 UFO: FAA Files, Terauchi Sketches, Radar & 360 TurnThe definitive JAL Flight 1628 UFO case file: Terauchi’s original sketches, three crew accounts, live Anchorage ATC, onboard weather-radar r… 1743Isle of Anglesey UFO Sightings: From a 1743 Sky-Ship to a 2016 Jet-Chase ReportIsle of Anglesey, Wales — one of Wales’s oldest unusual-sky stories (1743 Peibio) extending into modern aviation-era reports near RAF Valley… 1803Utsurobune 1803 — The Japanese LegendThe 1803 Utsurobune legend: Japanese accounts describe a hollow disc-shaped vessel washing ashore with a pale-skinned woman — folklore, hist… 1847Carmarthenshire UFO Sightings: From the 1847 Trimsaran ReportCarmarthenshire, Wales — an unusually long UFO record that opens in 1847 with a Trimsaran report of a ball of fire, then runs through the mo… 1878The Denison, Texas Daylight Object (1878)A January 1878 newspaper report says farmer John Martin saw a dark object approach from the southern sky while hunting, grow from the appare… 1897Aurora Texas 1897 — The Airship LegendThe 1897 Aurora, Texas airship legend: a single newspaper story claimed an airship crashed into a windmill and a pilot was buried — widely t… 1897Aurora Texas Airship Crash (1897) | Original Newspaper, Grave & Hoax EvidenceThe Aurora, Texas airship crash of 1897 examined from the original Dallas Morning News dispatch, the 1896–97 airship wave, the alien-grave l…
1904USS Supply Red-Object Formation, 1904On 28 February 1904, Lieutenant Frank H. Schofield and two sailors aboard the USS Supply observed three bright red objects in formation, doc… 1905Ceredigion UFO Sightings: From a 1905 Tregaron Fire-Ball to Cardigan BayCeredigion, Wales — a broad chronology from a 1905 Tregaron fire-ball to modern Aberystwyth and Cardigan Bay reports. 1905Powys UFO Sightings: Machynlleth, the Brecon Beacons & a Rural RecordPowys, Wales — a dispersed rural record from a 1905 Llanidloes light to a reported 1975 Machynlleth landing and decades of Brecon Beacons re… 1909Caerphilly UFO Sightings: The 1909 Mountain “Aircraft”Caerphilly, Wales — in May 1909, before aeroplanes were common over Wales, something was reported on Caerphilly Mountain, part of the wider … 1909Conwy UFO Sightings: The 1909 Llanrwst Airship & a North Wales RecordConwy, Wales — the 1909 Llanrwst airship report opens a north-Wales record that runs through a 1961 Penmaenmawr disc to modern Llandudno. 1909Merthyr Tydfil UFO Sightings: The 1909 Mountain AirshipMerthyr Tydfil, Wales — a small record anchored by a 1909 Merthyr Mountain mystery-airship report, sibling to Caerphilly within the 1909 wav… 1909The Valleys Skywatchers — Rhondda Cynon Taf, WalesRhondda Cynon Taf, Wales — the valleys watched the 1909 airship panic, the 1954 saucer summer and the 1983 triangle wave; a record of lights… 1917Fátima 1917: The Sun Miracle, 70,000 Witnesses & O Século ReportThe 1917 Fátima event: 70,000 people gathered to witness a promised solar miracle. A skeptical reporter for O Século filed a front-page acco… 1922Barmouth & the 1922 Sea Object — WalesBarmouth, Wales — a small harbour town where the record reaches back to 1905, and where something was reported entering the sea in 1922.
1941The Cape Girardeau Crash ClaimThe claim that a disc-shaped craft and non-human bodies were recovered near Cape Girardeau in 1941 is not supported by a contemporary newspa… 1942Battle of Los Angeles 1942: Anti-Aircraft Fire Over the CityThe 1942 Battle of Los Angeles: 1,400+ anti-aircraft rounds fired over the city, searchlights, witness reports, the famous photograph, and w… 1942The Battle of Los AngelesIn the tense weeks after Pearl Harbor, Southern California air defences opened a massive anti-aircraft barrage after radar and visual alerts… 1944Foo Fighters WWII: 415th Night Fighter Squadron, Ringwald File & Air MinistryWWII foo fighters: the 415th NFS night sightings, the Ringwald intelligence file, the British Air Ministry investigation, and why trained pi… 1944The Foo Fighters of World War IIFrom late 1944, Allied night-fighter crews—most famously the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron—reported small orange, red or white luminous … 1945Jack LeMonde Horseback Photograph (1945)The 1945 Jack LeMonde horseback photograph from Burbank, California: a striking pre-1947 image, a missing negative, a late provenance trail,… 1946Ghost Rockets of Sweden (1946)Sweden's 1946 Ghost Rocket wave: military investigations, Lake Kölmjärv impact searches, radar claims, U.S. intelligence concern, the Vanden… 1946The Spitsbergen Crash-Retrieval LegendStories of a crashed flying saucer recovered on Spitsbergen circulate with conflicting dates—commonly 1946 or 1952—and derive from sensation… 1947John H. Janssen's Morristown Pilot SightingOn the morning of 10 July 1947, pilot and aviation editor John H. Janssen reported seeing a formation of bright, round objects while flying … 1947Kenneth Arnold 1947 — The UAP Map 1947Malta Fishermen's Submarine and Little Men (1947)The 1947 Malta fishermen's 'black submarine' and 'little men' encounter: a strange maritime report, a late source chain, and a case that can… 1947Muroc AFB Daylight Discs 1947 — The Signed StatementsThe 1947 Muroc AFB daylight discs: weeks after Kenneth Arnold, multiple military witnesses reported two silver discs and four officers signe… 1947Roswell 1947: The Army's Own Flying Disc Announcement, Debris & MogulRoswell 1947 reconstructed from the Roswell Daily Record front page, the Army's flying disc announcement, the same-day retraction, Project M… 1947The Claimed B-17 Nine-Disc EncounterA later account attributed to a retired USAF colonel identified only by initials says a B-17 crew saw nine disc-like objects over Utah on 16… 1947The Malta Fishermen's Submarine and the Little MenA later Maltese UFO account attributes to fisherman Pawlu Zammit and companions a summer 1947 encounter with a dark submarine-like object on… 1947The Maury Island Incident (1947)Harold Dahl claimed that on 21 June 1947 six doughnut-shaped craft appeared over his boat near Maury Island and dropped hot debris, injuring… 1947The Portland Police Disc Flap of July 1947On 4 July 1947, during the first national flying-disc wave, multiple Portland-area police officers and other witnesses reported fast-moving … 1947The Wright Field Craft and Creatures ClaimClaims that recovered alien craft or bodies were stored at Wright Field/Wright-Patterson in 1947 are later conspiracy narratives rather than… 1947United Airlines Flight 105 1947 — The Disc ReportsThe 1947 United Airlines Flight 105 sighting: ten days after Kenneth Arnold, the crew reported disc-shaped objects over Washington. 1948Chiles–Whitted UFO Encounter 1948 — Eastern Air LinesThe 1948 Chiles–Whitted encounter reconstructed from Eastern Air Lines pilot testimony, Project Sign records, contemporary Air Force investi… 1948Gorman Dogfight 1948 — The Fargo Air EncounterThe 1948 Gorman dogfight: Lt. George Gorman’s 27-minute pursuit of a small light, the ground corroboration, the Project Sign investigation, … 1948Green Fireballs over New Mexico 1948–1949: Los Alamos Conference & Edward TellerThe New Mexico green fireballs: brilliant green objects seen over Los Alamos and Sandia nuclear sites, the 1949 secret conference convened b… 1948New Mexico Green Fireballs (1948–1951) | Project Twinkle UFO CaseThe New Mexico green fireballs: Los Alamos, Sandia, Lincoln LaPaz, the 1949 secret conference, 209 Sandia-area reports, Project Twinkle and … 1948Project Sign: The Air Force's First UFO InvestigationProject Sign, the U.S. Air Force's first formal UFO investigation: Twining, Mantell, Chiles–Whitted, Gorman, newly released 1948 intelligenc… 1948The Aztec, New Mexico Crash ClaimThe Aztec crash-retrieval story was popularised by journalist Frank Scully in 1949–50 from claims supplied by Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer. … 1948Thomas Mantell UFO Incident (1948)The 7 January 1948 Thomas Mantell UFO incident: a Kentucky Air National Guard F-51 pursuit, multiple ground witnesses, fatal crash, the hypo… 1949Fort Hood 1949: The Army Tried to Measure the LightsIn the spring of 1949, soldiers at Camp Hood's Killeen Base — tied to the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile — reported a wave of unidentified a… 1949The Norwood Searchlight IncidentBeginning on 19 August 1949, a powerful searchlight operated in Norwood repeatedly illuminated or appeared to intersect a bright object in t…
1950Bruno Facchini Encounter, Abbiate Guazzone 1950The Bruno Facchini encounter at Abbiate Guazzone, Italy: a 1950 close encounter reconstructed from the witness account, damaged clothing, me… 1950Douglas C-54 Skymaster Vanishing (1950)The 1950 disappearance of USAF C-54D Skymaster 42-72469 over the Yukon with 44 people aboard: Operation Mike, icing, missing wreckage, and w… 1950Great Falls UFO Film 1950 — Mariana FilmThe Great Falls / Mariana UFO film of August 1950: two witnesses, colour 16mm footage, Project Blue Book analysis, the Robertson Panel, Cond… 1950Mariana FilmOn August 15, 1950, Nick Mariana, manager of the Great Falls Electrics minor league baseball team, was inspecting the field when he observed… 1950McMinnville Photographs 1950 — The Trent UFO PhotosThe 1950 McMinnville/Trent photographs: two images of a metallic disc, published in LIFE and analysed for decades — still unresolved. 1950Mexico City UFO Crash Claim (1950)In March 1950 Ray L. Dimmick's sensational Mexico City flying-saucer crash claim spread across American newspapers. Within roughly a day, th… 1950The Enrique Botta / La Pampa Saucer StoryA story published years after the alleged event says physician/engineer Enrique Caretenuto Botta encountered a landed metallic craft in La P… 1950The McMinnville Trent Farm PhotographsPaul and Evelyn Trent reported seeing a metallic disc near their Oregon farm on 11 May 1950, and Paul took two photographs. The negatives we… 1951Fort Monmouth Radar Incident (1951)The Fort Monmouth radar-visual UFO incident of 10–11 September 1951: military radar operators, a T-33 visual chase near Sandy Hook, later ba… 1951Lubbock Lights (1951) — UFO Case FileThe Lubbock Lights of 1951: Texas Tech professors, repeated formations, Carl Hart's five photographs, the Air Force investigation, and the b… 1951Lubbock Lights, 1951The 1951 Lubbock Lights: V-formation blue-green lights over Texas, photographed in Life magazine and investigated by Project Blue Book. 19521952 Washington D.C. UFO Flap: Radar, F-94 Intercepts & Pentagon Press ConferenceThe 1952 Washington D.C. UFO sightings over two consecutive weekends: radar returns, F-94 scrambles, pilot reports, the Samford Pentagon pre… 1952Barra da Tijuca UFO Photographs (1952) | Keffel, Martins & Condon AnalysisThe 7 May 1952 Barra da Tijuca UFO photographs examined from the original O Cruzeiro image sequence, Brazilian Air Force claims, Condon Case… 1952Brookley AFB 1952: Radar-Visual UFO Over Mobile Bay, AlabamaIn early 1952, radar operators at Brookley Air Force Base tracked an unidentified target over Mobile Bay, Alabama. The object was visually c… 1952Davis-Monthan B-36 UFO Discs (1952)The 1 May 1952 Davis-Monthan B-36 UFO case: Major Rudy Pestalozzi, two bright discs, a B-36 bomber, reported aircrew corroboration, James Mc… 1952Flatwoods Monster 1952: The West Virginia Close Encounter & Barn Owl TheoryThe Flatwoods Monster 1952: a fireball, a group of witnesses on a hillside, a tall figure with glowing eyes, the original investigation, the… 1952Florida Scoutmaster UFO Encounter (1952)The 1952 Florida Scoutmaster UFO case: Sonny DesVergers, three Boy Scouts, alleged burns and a red fireball, Project Blue Book's investigati… 1952George Stock UFO Photographs — Passaic 1952The George Stock UFO photographs of Passaic, New Jersey, 31 July 1952: five clear images, next-day newspaper publication, John Riley's role,… 1952Gulf of Mexico B-29 1952: The Radar Returns That Looked ImpossibleThe 1952 Gulf of Mexico B-29 radar-visual UFO encounter: military witnesses, computed 5,000+ mph returns, blue-white flashes, anomalous prop… 1952Haneda Radar Interception 1952 — The PursuitThe 1952 Haneda radar interception: USAF tower operators tracked an object that a pilot pursued, treated by scientist James McDonald. 1952Hasselbach Forest LandingDuring June 1952, former Gleimershausen mayor Oskar Linke was travelling near Hasselbach with his 11-year-old daughter Gabriella when a tyre… 1952Nash–Fortenberry UFO 1952: OSI Debrief, Blue Book Unknown, Robertson Panel & Formation ReversalThe definitive Nash–Fortenberry case file: two Pan Am pilots, the six-plus-two formation, same-morning OSI interrogation, deliberately conse… 1952Navy Aviators Encounter Three Discs Over Thule (1952)On the morning of 29 August 1952, a four-aircraft detachment of Patrol Squadron VP-23 was… 1952Norrtälje Twin-Object PhotographsOn the morning of 6 March 1952, photographer Esse Jansson observed two bright objects in the sky near Norrtälje. He used his camera to obtai… 1952Oloron Aerial Formation and Filament FallDuring the early afternoon of 17 October 1952, school superintendent Jean-Yves Prigent and numerous residents of Oloron-Sainte-Marie noticed… 1952Salem UFO Photograph 1952: The Coast Guard PhotoA U.S. Coast Guard photographer captured four luminous forms over Salem in 1952. The Air Force examined the original negative, changed its e… 1952The Adamski Scout ShipGeorge Adamski's 13 December 1952 'Venusian scout ship' photograph became one of the defining UFO images of the contactee era… 1952The Davis-Monthan B-36 DiscsOn 1 May 1952, Major Rudy Pestalozzi, an intelligence officer at Davis-Monthan AFB, reported seeing two bright disc-like objects overtake a … 1952The Gulf of Mexico B-29 EncounterA USAF B-29 crew over the Gulf of Mexico reported a sequence of fast radar targets around 05:24 on 6 December 1952, with some accounts also … 1952The Pittsburg, Kansas Squyres EncounterAt about 5:30 a.m. a driver identified in NICAP literature as Mr. Squyres reported a low-hovering object in a wooded area near Yale Road, wi… 1952The Puerto Maldonado Smoking Saucer PhotographA widely reproduced photograph attributed to customs inspector Domingo Troncoso shows a dark elongated object over Puerto Maldonado with a s… 1952The Seat Pleasant Occupant SightingSuzanne E. Knight reported that on a hot evening in August 1952 she saw a dull-silver wingless fuselage-like object hover near her home and … 1952Tremonton UFO Film (1952): Newhouse Footage, Navy Analysis & Robertson PanelThe Tremonton UFO film of 2 July 1952: Delbert Newhouse's 16mm Kodachrome footage, the 1953 U.S. Navy photogrammetric analysis, the Robertso… 1952Wonsan-Sunchon Bomber Encounters, 1952On 29 January 1952, a B-29 crew near Wonsan during the Korean War observed an orange luminous globe pacing the bomber. The encounter is docu… 1953Ellsworth AFB UFO 1953: F-84 Intercepts, Radar & Project Blue BookThe Ellsworth Air Force Base UFO incident of 5 August 1953: Ground Observer Corps reports, ground radar, two F-84 intercepts, a radar gunsig… 1953F-86 Triangle Over Albany (1953)A U.S. Air Force F-86 pilot chased a bright target over Georgia in 1953 that Edward Ruppelt said was also tracked by ground radar. 1953Kelly Johnson UFO 1953: Santa Barbara Channel Lockheed SightingA source-led reconstruction of the 16 December 1953 Kelly Johnson / Lockheed UFO sighting over the Santa Barbara Channel: two independent wi… 1953Kingman, Arizona UFO Crash Claim (1953)The Kingman, Arizona crash-retrieval claim traces to engineer Arthur Stansel, known as Fritz Werner. His real technical career and a possibl… 1953Kinross UFO Incident 1953 — Missing F-89 Over Lake SuperiorThe 1953 Kinross UFO incident reconstructed from the official F-89 accident record, radar intercept, disappearance of Felix Moncla and Rober… 1953The Durban Letter: A 1953 Flying Saucer Seen From the Botanic GardensA typed private airmail letter written by Barbara Graves from Durban in March 1953 records that she and 'Tom' saw a round object h… 1953The Kinross IncidentOn 23 November 1953, USAF F-89C 51-5853 carrying pilot Felix Moncla and radar observer Robert Wilson disappeared during a ground-controlled … 1954Australian Sea Fury UFO Incident (1954) | Nowra Radar-Visual CaseThe 31 August 1954 Australian Sea Fury UFO encounter: Lt J.A. O'Farrell's visual report, Nowra radar paints, Petty Officer K.E. Jessop's ori… 1954Cardiff UFO Sightings: The 1954 Canton ReportsCardiff, Wales — an unusually substantial urban UFO record anchored by the 1954 Canton reports of silver discs, reaching back to the 1909 ai… 1954Nowra Sea Fury 1954 — The Australian EncounterThe 1954 Nowra Sea Fury encounter: Lieutenant James O’Farrell reported two lights crossing ahead of his aircraft, with a radar contact, reco… 1954Quarouble Railway-Track Encounter, 1954On 10 September 1954, railway worker Marius Dewilde reported a dark object and two small figures near a railway line at Quarouble. The genda… 1954Tananarive UFO 1954: 1964 GEPA Account, 1955 Newspaper Trace, Campagnac & Meteor TestThe definitive Tananarive 1954 case file: Edmond Campagnac’s 1964 GEPA account, the 1955 Fandrosoam-Baovao trace, the green meteor-like firs… 1954Taormina Twin-Object PhotographsDuring November 1954, photographer Giuseppe Grasso observed two bright aerial objects above Taormina on Sicily's eastern coast. He obtained … 1954The Eisenhower–Aliens Meeting ClaimA long-running conspiracy story claims President Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly left a Palm Springs vacation on the night of 20 February 1954… 1954The Florence Stadium ObjectsOn 27 October 1954, players and spectators at Florence's Stadio Artemio Franchi began looking upward during a match between Fiorentina and P… 1954The Green Object Over AntananarivoAt approximately 5:45 p.m. on 16 August 1954, Air France technical director and former military pilot Edmond Campagnac was standing with col… 1954The Marcilly Construction-Site EncounterAt approximately 4:30 p.m. on 30 September 1954, construction supervisor Georges Gatay was working with seven men near Marcilly-sur-Vienne. … 1954The Ranton EncounterJessie Roestenberg reported that on 21 October 1954 she heard a loud rushing sound and saw a metallic disc hovering near her Staffordshire h… 1954The Roestenburg Close Encounter, Ranton, StaffordshireOn 21 October 1954 Jessie Roestenburg and her two young sons reported a low disc-like object near their isolated Staffordshire home with two… 1954Thessaly Sightings, 1954In the autumn of 1954, multiple witnesses in the Thessaly region of Greece reported bright unidentified objects in the sky, followed by what… 1954Venezuela 1954 Sighting WaveIn October 1954, Venezuela experienced a wave of close-encounter reports, primarily around Caracas. Multiple independent witnesses — includi… 1954Woomera Radar-Visual Disc, 1954On 5 May 1954, radar personnel at the Woomera weapons-testing range acquired an unidentified target, with a visual report. The case is docum… 1955Kelly–Hopkinsville 1955 — The UAP MapThe Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter of 1955: a farmhouse under observation, witness testimony, police records, and possible explanations. 1955Richard Russell UFO 1955: Senator’s Soviet Disc SightingA source-led reconstruction of Senator Richard Russell’s October 1955 Soviet UFO sighting between Baku and Tiflis: declassified Air Intellig… 1955The Bexleyheath EncounterMargaret Fry later described a large saucer-like object at low altitude near King Harold’s Way on 17 July 1955, with her doctor and children… 1956A Large UFO over South Dakota (1956)Dairy truck driver Marlen Hewitt told a newspaper that he watched a bright, colour-changing object during an overnight haul toward Redfield … 1956Elizabeth Klarer Drakensberg UFO Photograph (1956)Elizabeth Klarer's 1956 Drakensberg UFO photograph sequence near Rosetta, South Africa: seven claimed images, uncertain original negatives, … 1956Lakenheath–Bentwaters UFO Incident 1956 — Radar Visual CaseThe 1956 Lakenheath–Bentwaters UFO incident reconstructed from Project Blue Book records, multiple radar tracks, visual observations, RAF Ve… 1956The Navy R7V-2 Giant Disc EncounterDonald Keyhoe published a dramatic account in which U.S. Navy commander George Benton and a transport carrying roughly 30 naval airmen alleg… 1957Bridgend UFOs: A Century of Strange Encounters — WalesBridgend, Wales — from a 1957 police sea sighting at Porthcawl and a surviving 1979 BBC report at Pencoed, to a 1909 phantom airship at Maes… 1957Gordon Cooper and the Edwards AFB Film ClaimAstronaut Gordon Cooper later recounted that while he was managing precision-landing camera work at Edwards AFB in 1957, two camera technici… 1957Lemos Ferreira Formation 1957 — The Portuguese EncounterThe 1957 Lemos Ferreira encounter: four Portuguese Air Force F-84 pilots reported an object during a night exercise. 1957Levelland UFO Case 1957 — The Cars That StoppedThe 1957 Levelland UFO case: multiple motorists and officers reported a luminous object that stalled engines and lights — investigated by Pr… 1957Milton Torres RAF Manston UFO Scramble (1957)The 1957 Milton Torres RAF Manston UFO scramble: an F-86D interceptor, a claimed radar lock, an order to fire 24 rockets, a target that vani… 1957RB-47 UFO Incident (1957): Radar, ELINT & Visual EvidenceThe 1957 RB-47 UFO incident involved six USAF officers, electronic-intelligence bearings, cockpit visual observations and ground radar. Expl… 1957The Antônio Villas Boas AbductionAntônio Villas Boas said that on the night of 15–16 October 1957, while ploughing alone, an egg-shaped craft landed, small suited beings car… 1957The Fort Belvoir Ring PhotographsAn Army private at Fort Belvoir reportedly took a series of photographs in September 1957 showing a dark toroidal ring drifting above the tr… 1957The Fort Itaipu Heat EncounterOn the night of 3–4 November 1957, two Brazilian Army sentries were reported to have seen an orange luminous object approach and hover over … 1957The Lake Isabella Photograph (1957)A striking 1957 color slide from Lake Isabella, California appears to show a tilted disc above the landscape. The photograph is famous, but … 1957The Lon Yarbrough Car Stop (1957)On 5 November 1957, Lackland AFB civilian cook Lon Yarbrough said his radio failed, headlights dimmed and engine stopped on Old Frio City Ro… 1957The Madison, Ohio Kuhn Case (1957)At about 1:20 a.m. on 10 November 1957, Leita Kuhn reported a brilliant acorn/domed object hovering low near her dog kennels in Madison, Ohi… 1957The Old Saybrook Occupant SightingFormer teacher Mary M. Starr told NICAP investigators Richard Hall and Isabel Davis that during the night of 15–16 December 1957 she was awa… 1957The S.S. Ramsay PhotographsRadio officer Thad Fogl said he photographed a disc-like object from the S.S. Ramsay in December 1957. The case entered NICAP-era compilatio… 1957The Wardle IncidentA Lancashire man reported discovering or observing a domed/disc-like object near Wardle in February 1957, after which Air Ministry intellige… 1957Ubatuba UFO Fragments 1957: Magnesium, Isotopes & What the Lab Tests FoundThe definitive evidence-led guide to the 1957 Ubatuba magnesium fragments: the anonymous letter, custody chain, Brazilian tests, Colorado Pr… 1958The Devil's Canyon LandingAn anonymous hunter claimed that in October 1958 he encountered a landed disc and three tall figures in a Catskills clearing near Hunter, Ne… 1958The Loch Raven Dam Incident (1958)On 26 October 1958, Phillip Small and Alvin Cohen said a glowing egg-shaped object hovered over a bridge at Loch Raven Reservoir, killed the… 1958The Monon Railroad Encounter (1958)In the small hours of Friday 3 October 1958, Monon Railroad freight train No. 91 was running southbound from Monon to Indianapolis, a string… 1958Trindade Island UFO 1958: Brazilian Navy Photographs & Almiro BaraúnaThe 1958 Trindade Island UFO: Almiro Baraúna's photographs of a Saturn-shaped object near a Brazilian Navy vessel, multiple military witness… 1959Évora Filament Fall, 1959On 2 November 1959, witnesses in Évora reported bright objects and a falling filament-like substance. The case is documented; the object ide… 1959Father Gill Boianai UFO 1959: Gill’s Original Notes, 38 Witnesses, 27 Signatures, Waving Figures & RAAF FileThe definitive Father Gill / Boianai case file: Stephen Moi’s 21 June precursor, Gill’s time-stamped 26–27 June notes, 38-person witness gro… 1959Gerry Irwin UFO Mystery (1959)The 1959 Gerry Irwin UFO mystery near Cedar City, Utah: a bright descending light, a soldier found unconscious in the snow, amnesia, later b… 1959Moreland Farm EncounterAt approximately 5:30 a.m. on 13 July 1959, Eileen Moreland was walking across her family's dairy farm near Blenheim when a green light illu…
1960Red Bluff Police SightingOn August 13, 1960, two California Highway Patrol officers — Charles Carson and Stanley Scott — were on patrol near Red Bluff, California, w… 1960The Yacanto Photographic CaseArgentine Air Force Captain Hugo F. Niotti said that while driving near Villa General Belgrano on 3 July 1960 he stopped to photograph a dar… 1960Wewak Test Range Light 1960 — The Official ReportThe 1960 Wewak light: a Commonwealth Police constable observed a brilliant white light over the Wewak test site, documented in an Australian… 1961Betty & Barney Hill 1961: White Mountains Sighting, Star Map & AbductionThe Betty and Barney Hill 1961 case: the White Mountains sighting, the Air Force report, the star map, the hypnosis sessions, and the eviden… 1961Eagle River Pancakes UFO Case (1961)Joe Simonton's 1961 Eagle River pancake UFO case: a landed disc, three occupants, a request for water, physical food samples, Project Blue B… 1961The Betty and Barney Hill EncounterBetty and Barney Hill reported a close nighttime encounter with a large structured object while driving through New Hampshire. Their initial… 1962Espora Naval Base UFO 1962: Argentine Navy Radar IncursionsIn May 1962, personnel at Comandante Espora Naval Air Base in Argentina reported luminous objects entering restricted airspace. The incursio… 1962Meløy UFO Pursuit 1962 — Fighter Chase Over NorwayThe 1962 Meløy UFO case: multiple witnesses, a reported military interception from Bodø, a pursuit to 33,000 feet and the missing Norwegian … 1962The Nevada–Utah Fireball of 18 April 1962On 18 April 1962 a brilliant fireball crossed the western United States and exploded near Eureka, Utah. Decades later, UFO literature transf… 1963The Conde Metal Sphere and the Dead Crewman, Bahia, Brazil, November 1963A sensational 1963 story from Conde, Bahia alleged that a metallic sphere or crashed craft was found with a dead non-human occupant. Recentl… 1963The Paul Villa Saucer PhotographsApolinar 'Paul' Villa produced several exceptionally clear flying-saucer photographs between 1963 and 1965 and said the sessions w… 1963The Trancas Ranch LightsAt about 9:30 p.m. on 21 October 1963, members of the Moreno family were inside their ranch near Trancas, Tucumán Province, when their dogs … 1963The Wayne City Car ChaseEighteen-year-olds Ronnie Austin and Phyllis Bruce reported that a bright circular object followed or paced their car for nearly an hour aft… 1964A Saucer Hovers over Lynn, Massachusetts (15 June 1964)At about 23:10 on 15 June 1964, 20-year-old technical student William Angelos reported a loud throbbing sound and a domed, flat-bottomed dis… 1964Big Sur Vandenberg UFO Film Claim (1964) | Jacobs, Mansmann & Kingston GeorgeThe 1964 Big Sur Vandenberg missile-film claim reconstructed from Bob Jacobs's account, Florenz Mansmann's later corroboration, Kingston Geo… 1964Socorro UFO 1964: Lonnie Zamora Landing, Traces & Project Blue BookThe Socorro UFO landing of 24 April 1964: police officer Lonnie Zamora, a landed oval object, two figures, four ground impressions, scorched… 1964Solway Firth Spaceman 1964 — The PhotographThe 1964 Solway Firth Spaceman photograph: Jim Templeton’s image, the spaceman interpretation, and the conventional explanation of the figur… 1964The Beauford Parham Lavonia EncounterBusinessman Beauford E. Parham reported that a bright light approached his car late at night and then appeared directly ahead as an amber, s… 1964The Cisco Grove Bow-and-Arrow EncounterA bow hunter later identified as Donald Shrum reported a prolonged nighttime encounter in the Sierra Nevada in September 1964 involving huma… 1964The New Berlin Double LandingLater accounts say Kathy Hatzenbuhler and her mother-in-law watched two craft land near New Berlin, New York on 25 November 1964 and observe… 1964The Oberwesel Train PhotographA spindle- or disc-shaped object photograph attributed to Harry Hauxler/Haukler is said to have been taken from a train passing Oberwesel on… 1964The Solway Firth Spaceman PhotographOn 23 May 1964, Carlisle firefighter Jim Templeton photographed his five-year-old daughter Elizabeth on Burgh Marsh. One frame showed a pale… 1964The Staunton–Fishersville Cone-Shaped ObjectOn 21 December 1964, gunsmith Horace Burns reported that a huge cone- or beehive-shaped object crossed Route 250 ahead of his car, descended… 1964The Warminster ThingWarminster's famous UFO era began with reports of strange loud noises around Christmas 1964 and expanded through 1965 into numerous sig… 1964USS Gyatt UFO 1964: Radar Film, F-8 Intercept, CIA OXCART Review & 3,800-Knot DisputeThe definitive USS Gyatt Puerto Rico case file: Kyle Woodbury’s visual intercept, 19 radar-scope prints and original radar film, the 3,800-k… 1965A UFO Illuminates a Police Car at Damon, Texas (1965)Late on the night of Friday 3 September 1965, around 11:00 p.m., two Brazoria County peace officers were driving a marked patrol car south o… 1965Deception Island 1965 — The Antarctic ObservationsThe 1965 Deception Island observations: personnel at Antarctic bases reported luminous objects, recorded in Chilean and British reports. 1965Fort-de-France 1965 — The Martinique SightingThe 1965 Fort-de-France mass sighting: several hundred witnesses reported a ball or disk of light over the Martinique harbour. 1965Gemini 7 “Bogey at Ten O’Clock High” (1965)The Gemini VII bogey sighting of 5 December 1965: Frank Borman's real NASA transmission, Jim Lovell's debris observations, the known booster… 1965Incident at Exeter (1965)The 1965 Exeter UFO incident: Norman Muscarello reported five intense red lights near Exeter, New Hampshire. Patrolmen Eugene Bertrand and D… 1965James Flynn Everglades Encounter (1965)James W. Flynn reported a close UFO encounter in the Florida Everglades in 1965. His eye injury was real, his doctor later found site anomal… 1965Kecksburg UFO 1965: Fireball, Blue Book Recovery Team & The Acorn ObjectThe 1965 Kecksburg incident: a multi-state fireball, the Air Force three-man Blue Book recovery team, witness descriptions of an acorn-shape… 1965Pretoria Police Highway TraceShortly after midnight on 16 September 1965, police constables John Lockem and Koos de Klerk were patrolling the Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit h… 1965Rex Heflin UFO Photos 1965: Santa Ana Polaroids, Blue Book & ReanalysisThe Rex Heflin UFO photographs of 3 August 1965: four Polaroids near Santa Ana, Project Blue Book's hoax label, NICAP/JPL analysis, the stri… 1965The Alan Smith Tulsa PhotographTeenager Alan Smith photographed a bright multicoloured object over Tulsa on 2 August 1965 using a simple camera. The Oklahoma Journal later… 1965The Andersson Photograph (1965)The 1965 Bart Andersson UFO photograph reconstructed from the contemporary AP/Anchorage and APRO trail, with the later Adrian Vance interpre… 1965The Cherry Creek LandingMembers of the Butcher family reported a large luminous elliptical object descending or landing near their dairy farm on 19 August 1965, acc… 1965Valensole UFO 1965 — Maurice Masse Encounter & Gendarmerie Trace EvidenceThe Valensole UFO case of 1 July 1965: Maurice Masse's close encounter, reported paralysis, two small figures, the documented ground trace a… 1966Balwyn UFO Photograph 1966 — James Kibel PolaroidThe 2 April 1966 Balwyn UFO photograph reconstructed from James Kibel's original report, James McDonald's 1967 interview, the Polaroid 800 c… 1966Beverly 1966: Jupiter Explains Part of the Night — Not All of ItThe Beverly, Massachusetts UFO incident of 22 April 1966: the women’s reported close overhead object, the later police observations, and why… 1966Burkes Flat Bent Headlights 1966Ron Sullivan's 1966 Burkes Flat UFO encounter reconstructed from contemporary press, the James McDonald interview, the reported ground trace… 1966Encounter at Gulfport, Mississippi (July 1966)A woman writing under the pseudonym 'Eve' told UFO Casebook around 2002 that, as a 12-year-old in Gulfport in July 1966, she saw s… 1966Fort Smith Mass UFO Sighting (1966)The Fort Smith mass UFO sighting of 15–16 August 1966: roughly 1,500 reported witnesses, police and FAA observers, Project Blue Book investi… 1966Michigan Swamp Gas UFO Sightings (1966)The Dexter and Hillsdale UFO sightings of March 1966: police witnesses, the Mannor family, Hillsdale students, J. Allen Hynek, Project Blue … 1966Portage County UFO Chase, 1966On 17 April 1966, Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur and deputy Wilbur Neff pursued a luminous object for about 86 miles. The chase is documented; th… 1966The A5 Road Incident (1966)Diane Foulkes, the A5 near Montford Bridge, an RAF investigation, a failed headlight and claimed physical effects. The surviving official re… 1966The Nha Trang Engine-Stopping UFOA near-contemporary letter mailed from Nha Trang on 20 June 1966 describes a brilliant object over the air base that allegedly coincided wit… 1966The Point Pleasant Mothman ReportsOn 15 November 1966, two young couples near the former West Virginia Ordnance Works reported a large winged humanoid or bird-like figure tha… 1966The Presque Isle Beach LandingOn the night of 31 July 1966, Betty Jean Klem and companions at Beach 6 reported a bright metallic object descending or landing nearby while… 1966The USS Tiru USO ClaimMilton William 'Bill' Cooper later claimed that while serving aboard submarine USS Tiru in 1966 he and other sailors saw a huge me… 1966The Vicksburg, Michigan DiscAt about 2 a.m. on 31 March 1966, machinist Jeno Udvardy reported encountering a brightly lighted disc hovering a few feet above a rural roa… 1966The Yorktown, Iowa Cigar-Shaped ObjectAt about 2:10 a.m. on 23 April 1966, farmer Ronald E. Johnson and family members reportedly saw a roughly 60-foot cigar-shaped object settle… 1966Tully Saucer Nest 1966: Original Police File, Nest Photos & Best EvidenceThe definitive Tully Saucer Nest case file: George Pedley’s 1966 close-range report, original police/RAAF chronology, authentic nest imagery… 1966Utah Red UFO 1966 — Condon Case 7 PhotosThe Utah Red UFO of summer 1966: two 35mm slides from a retired USAF command pilot, Condon Report Case 7, the disputed frame-number chronolo… 1966Wanaque Reservoir UFO 1966: Police Chronology, Jupiter Match, Blue Book Limits & Fake Beam PhotosThe definitive Wanaque Reservoir case file: the 11 January 1966 police/official mass sighting, Joe Cisco’s own later skepticism, January tim… 1966Westall UFO 1966: Joy Tighe Report, Greenwood’s Five Aircraft, HIBAL 292 & Missing Official FileThe definitive Westall UFO case file: Joy Tighe’s 7 April 1966 report, Andrew Greenwood’s 21 April five-aircraft account and 1967 McDonald i… 19671967 Fortuna AFS Radar Case — 5,000 mph ReturnIn the spring of 1967, the 780th Radar Squadron, stationed at Fortuna Air Force Station in northwestern North Dakota, tracked an anomalous h… 1967Angus Brooks UFO Encounter (1967) | Moigne Downs, DorsetThe 1967 Angus Brooks encounter on Moigne Downs above Ringstead Bay: the 22-minute daylight observation, cross-shaped object, Air Ministry i… 1967Cussac Plateau Encounter, 1967On 29 August 1967, François Delpeuch and his younger sister Anne-Marie reported four small dark figures near a bright spherical object near … 1967Cussac UFO Encounter (1967)The 29 August 1967 Cussac encounter in France: two children, four small black figures, a spherical object, rapid gendarmerie involvement, ea… 1967Devon Flying Cross UFO (1967)The Devon Flying Cross UFO case of 24 October 1967: two police constables, a bright cross-shaped light over the A3072, a wider North Devon U… 1967Falcon Lake UFO Incident 1967 — Stefan Michalak Burns, RCMP Files & Physical EvidenceThe Falcon Lake UFO incident of 1967: Stefan Michalak's close encounter, patterned burns, illness, RCMP and military investigations, site sa… 1967Malmstrom Echo Flight 1967: Nuclear Missiles Shut Down During UFO SightingThe 1967 Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight incident: ten nuclear missiles went offline simultaneously while a UFO was reported overhead. The Air For… 1967Shag Harbour UFO 1967: RCMP Report, Navy Search & Canadian Government FilesThe 1967 Shag Harbour incident: multiple witnesses saw an object crash into the harbour, the RCMP filed a report, the Canadian Navy conducte… 1967The Munroe Falls Occupant EncounterNineteen-year-old factory worker David Morris reported encountering an orange-glowing cone-shaped object and several small luminous figures … 1967The Ririe, Idaho Occupant EncounterTwo young men, identified in case literature as Guy/Clyde Soccie and Will Begay, reported that a small luminous saucer forced their car from… 1967THE SAUCER THAT STOPPED A CAR NEAR MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPIOn the late afternoon of 10 July 1967, at about 5:50 p.m., a man was driving on a rural… 1967Walker AFB Incident, 1967In August 1967, security personnel at Walker AFB, a Strategic Air Command base, reported a glowing object hovering near the base. The case i… 1968An Ohio Pilot Eludes a UFO (1968)At about 22:20 on 8 July 1968, pilot Richard Montgomery, his brother Ken and passengers Elizabeth Soverns and Rosalind Rians reported a meta… 1968Buff Ledge Camp Abductions 1968The Buff Ledge Camp UFO encounter of 7 August 1968 reconstructed from Walter Webb's investigation: the conscious light sighting, missing tim… 1968Cluj-Napoca 1968 SightingIn August 1968, multiple witnesses in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, observed a large, cigar-shaped object hovering over the city. The object was des… 1968Mendoza Hospital Encounter, 1968At approximately 1:20 a.m. on 22 July 1968, a nurse at a psychiatric hospital outside Mendoza entered the grounds after hearing dogs reactin… 1968Minot AFB 1968: Nuclear Missile UFO Incursion & Aircrew ReportsThe 1968 Minot Air Force Base case: military radar tracked an unknown object near nuclear missile silos, an aircrew reported a close encount… 1968The Brigham City Promontory LandingOn 7 May 1968, Mrs. L. P. Cragin told NICAP that she and her daughter watched a shiny hemispherical object apparently resting on four leg-li… 1968The Claremont, New Hampshire Dome ObjectNICAP documented two sets of Claremont observations on 30 July 1968: a worker saw a low bright object around 1:12 a.m., and roughly an hour … 1968The Hanbury Dome EncounterMilin and Doris Milakovic and their son reported a bright object rising from a field near Hanbury, passing over their car and later revealin… 1968The Lakeland Glass-Globe Occupant CaseBuck and Grace McMullen and other family members reportedly watched a transparent glowing globe hover near their Medulla home for about twen… 1968Trees Stripped in a Diamond Pattern, Salisbury, Massachusetts (1968)A 1968 Salisbury, Massachusetts physical-trace report attributed to investigator Raymond Fowler describes frightened residents after a loud … 1969A UFO Lights Up a Kentucky MineAn anonymised mine owner, W.L.D., later described seeing with employee J.K. what looked like a newly erected roughly 80-foot metal building … 1969Jimmy Carter Sighting, 1969In October 1969, Jimmy Carter — then a state senator and future U.S. President — reported seeing an unidentified object. The sighting is doc… 1969Jimmy Carter's Leary, Georgia SightingFuture U.S. president Jimmy Carter and a group of Lions Club members watched a bright, color-changing light in the western sky for roughly t… 1969José Antônio da Silva Abduction (1969)The 1969 Bebedouro abduction claim: José Antônio da Silva's missing days, immediate Brazilian press attention, civilian investigation, medic… 1969Pori UFO Incident 1969 — Finnish Air Force InterceptThe 1969 Pori UFO incident reconstructed from Finnish Air Force witness accounts: seven yellow objects, Tarmo Tukeva's interception attempt,…
1970Imjärvi UFO Encounter 1970 — Finland Close EncounterThe 1970 Imjärvi UFO encounter reconstructed from the accounts of Aarno Heinonen and Esko Viljo, witness drawings, medical after-effects, co… 1970Metallic Saucers Morph over Yuma, Arizona (1970)A first-person account written roughly three decades later says a 16-person family group saw two low, silent metallic discs near Yuma at abo… 1970The Cowichan District Hospital SightingOn New Year's Day 1970, nurse Doreen Kendall and other hospital staff reported a large saucer-like object near Cowichan District Hospit… 1970The Japan Saucer PhotographA clear-looking photograph of a domed metallic disc above a hazy hillside circulates under the caption '1970 Japan.' No photograph… 1970The Tagish Lake PhotographsA photograph showing several dark or disc-like objects over Tagish Lake was brought to researchers' attention only in 1998, when invest… 1971A NASA Fire Technician on the Apollo 15 Hadley Rille ObjectIn 2005 an anonymous former NASA contract fire-and-safety worker described watching a round object on a Mission Control display during a lun… 1971Delphos Landing RingOn November 2, 1971, 16-year-old Ronald Johnson was tending sheep on his family's farm near Delphos, Kansas, when he observed a glowing mush… 1971Delphos UFO Ring (1971)The 1971 Delphos, Kansas UFO case: Ronald Johnson reported a low hovering luminous object that left behind a glowing, water-repellent soil r… 1971Edwards AFB Alien Crash / Abductee Claim (1971)The 1971 Edwards AFB alien-crash and abductee claim: the later Lorraine Cordini recovered-memory narrative, the real YF-12A 60-6936 crash on… 1971Fort Beaufort Fireball EngagementOn the morning of 26 June 1971, farmer Bennie Smit saw a brilliant object moving low over Braeside Farm near Fort Beaufort. The object was d… 1971Karnes City Uranium Mine UFO (1971)A 1971 Texas uranium-mine UFO story rests on one account filed 28 years later, with an extraordinary claimed ore anomaly that still lacks co… 1971Lago de Cote UFO Photo 1971: Costa Rica Government Mapping PhotographThe Lago de Cote photograph of 4 September 1971: Costa Rica's government mapping flight, frame 300, Zeiss survey camera, original negative, … 1971The Holloman AFB Landing Film ClaimProducer Robert Emenegger and associates said Air Force-linked personnel promised them authentic 16 mm footage of an alleged UFO landing at … 1971The Rudi Nagora Disc PhotographsMunich musician Rudi Nagora reported seeing a silver disc while holidaying near St. Lorenzen on 23 May 1971 and photographed it repeatedly w… 1971The USS John F. Kennedy Glowing Sphere ClaimA former sailor, Jim Kopf, reported around 2000 that while serving aboard USS John F. Kennedy in July 1971 he saw a large glowing yellow-ora… 1971USS John F. Kennedy Glowing Sphere — Duplicate RecordThis inventory entry is a duplicate of the USS John F. Kennedy glowing-sphere claim listed under navy-officer-1971. Both records describe th… 1972Apollo 17 “Fourth of July” Lights (1972) | NASA Transcript UFO CaseApollo 17's 'Fourth of July' lights examined from the NASA record: bright fragments, regular flashers, astronaut retinal light flashes, and … 1972McChord AFB Encounter Claim (1972)The alleged 1972 McChord AFB TACAN encounter: a dramatic saucer-and-occupant story attributed decades later to Robert Collins, with no authe… 1972Rosmead School Trace Incident, 1972On 12 November 1972, a member of staff at Rosmead Junior School reported a bright object moving low over the school, with a physical trace r… 1972The Apollo 16 UFO FilmA roughly four-second Apollo 16 film sequence shows a disc-like object apparently moving outside the command module during the return to Ear… 1972The Isla de Lobos Lighthouse IntrusionAt approximately 10:00 p.m. on 28 October 1972, Uruguayan Navy Corporal Juan Fuentes Figueroa left the lighthouse residence on Isla de Lobos… 1972The McChord AFB Encounter Claim (1972)A dramatic story claims that personnel at a TACAN site near McChord AFB encountered a landed saucer and humanoid beings on 14 October 1972, … 1972The Nazca Disc Landing Claim (1972)A widely circulated UFO story says feed-store owners Tito Rojas and Adolfo Peñafiel encountered a landed polished disc on the Pampa Carboner… 1972The Pasadena Police Helicopter EncounterA Pasadena police helicopter pilot later described a large dark rotating object, likened to a cluster of balloons, pacing the aircraft at ab… 1972The Plymouth Zoo Giraffe PhotoWilfred Power photographed a giraffe at Plymouth Zoo in 1972. A small sharp-edged disc-like form was noticed only after the film was develop… 1973Caselle Airport Radar Object 1973 — The Turin ContactThe 1973 Caselle Airport radar object: controllers detected a low-altitude target and a pilot reported visual confirmation. 1973Columbia Missouri UFO 1973: Richards Family, Hynek, Ted Phillips & Landing TracesThe definitive 1973 Columbia Missouri UFO case file: James and Vanea Richards, real-time phone corroboration, exact beam/object descriptions… 1973Coyne Helicopter UFO Encounter (1973)The 18 October 1973 Coyne helicopter encounter near Mansfield, Ohio: four Army Reserve crewmen, a near-collision report, an unexplained clim… 1973Dayton, Ohio UFO Wave (1973)The October 1973 Dayton and southwest Ohio UFO wave: police witnesses, treetop lights, dozens of reports, Wright-Patterson AFB, pranks, airc… 1973Dionisio Llanca EncounterOn October 28, 1973, Dionisio Llanca, a 25-year-old truck driver, was found injured and disoriented on a highway near Bahía Blanca, Argentin… 1973Falkville Metal Man UFO Case (1973)The Falkville Metal Man case of 17 October 1973: police chief Jeff Greenhaw, four Polaroid photographs of a reflective humanoid figure, the … 1973Judy Doraty Abduction (1973)The Judy Doraty case: a 1973 Texas roadside light sighting that later became an abduction and cattle-mutilation narrative under regression h… 1973Latina Airliner and Fighter Confirmation, 1973During 1973, an Alitalia airliner and a fighter near Latina, Italy reported an unidentified object. The case is documented; the object ident… 1973Lyndia Morel Encounter (1973)Lyndia Morel's 1973 Goffstown, New Hampshire encounter: a glowing honeycomb-patterned globe, a reported occupant, a frantic escape, police r… 1973Pascagoula 1973 — The UAP MapThe Pascagoula encounter of 1973: two workers’ account, police recordings, investigation records, and the case’s unresolved questions. 1973Piedmont Missouri UFO Flap & Project Identification: Harley Rutledge Scientific UFO Field StudyThe 1973 Piedmont Missouri UFO flap and Harley Rutledge’s Project Identification scientific field study: Reggie Bone sighting, multi-station… 1973Skylab 3 Red Object 1973 — NASA Photos & Astronaut DebriefThe Skylab 3 red object of 20 September 1973: three astronaut witnesses, four NASA photographs, a 5–10 minute observation, NASA's 'Satellite… 1973The Hochries Mountain EncounterFriedrich Lennartz and Peter Zettel, at the Hochries mountain lodge, reported a red light that reacted after a rescue flare, approached as a… 1973The Mt. Vernon Train StoppageAt about 6:50 a.m. on 20 October 1973, crew aboard an L&N freight east of Mt. Vernon reported a bright object and later a brilliant &#x2… 1973The Princeton, Indiana SaucerA family of three driving east toward Princeton during a thunderstorm reported a 30–40 ft disc-like object with a straight-sided cupola and … 1973The Schenectady Flying SaucerTwo sisters later recalled seeing a huge silent saucer hover over General Electric's Schenectady works in late 1973 while the plant lig… 1974Berwyn Mountain Incident, 1974On the evening of January 23, 1974, residents of the Berwyn Mountains area in northern Wales reported a loud noise and a bright light in the… 1974Berwyn Mountains UFO Incident (1974) | Earthquake, Lights & Crash LegendThe Berwyn Mountains incident of 23 January 1974 reconstructed from the Bala earthquake, police logs, search operation, witness lights, RAF/… 1974Denbighshire UFO Sightings: The Berwyn Mountains & the County RecordDenbighshire, Wales — the Berwyn Mountain event of 23 January 1974 made the county famous, but its record of lights runs before and after th… 1974Edwin Fuhr UFO Encounter (1974)The Edwin Fuhr UFO encounter near Langenburg, Saskatchewan on 1 September 1974: five hovering discs, a 15-minute daylight observation, five … 1974John Lennon UFO Sighting — New York, 1974On the evening of August 23, 1974, John Lennon was in his New York City apartment when he saw what he described as a UFO — a glowing, red, o… 1974The Carbondale UFO CrashThree teenagers reported seeing a bright object descend toward a small silt pond in Carbondale on 9 November 1974, after which a light was o… 1974The Carl Higdon AbductionElk hunter Carl Higdon was found disoriented near his truck in Wyoming on 25 October 1974 and told an extraordinary story involving a humano… 1974The Ronald Reagan UFO SightingDuring a 1974 night flight near Bakersfield, California Governor Ronald Reagan, pilot Bill Paynter and two security personnel reportedly wat… 19751975 Nuclear Base UFO Overflights: Malmstrom, Loring, Wurtsmith & MinotThe 1975 overflights of northern-tier Strategic Air Command bases: Loring, Wurtsmith, Malmstrom, Minot and Falconbridge. NORAD logs, F-106 i… 19751975 SAC Missile-Base Overflights: A Real Multi-Base Wave — Not One Proven CraftThe 1975 northern-tier SAC/NORAD UFO wave: Loring, Wurtsmith, Malmstrom, Minot and Falconbridge, with radar, visual reports, interceptor scr… 1975Billy Meier Beamships | Photographs, Films, Models & ProvenanceThe Billy Meier beamship case audited item by item: photographs, films, sound, metal samples, Asket/Nera images, model evidence and the prov… 1975Kofu UFO Incident 1975 — Japan Close EncounterThe 1975 Kofu UFO incident reconstructed from the two boys' original account, witness sketches, landing-site investigation, family observati… 1975Loring AFB 1975: The Intruder Nobody Could IdentifyThe 1975 Loring AFB overflights: multi-night intrusions near a Priority A weapons-storage area, radar-supported phases, a failed National Gu… 1975Northern SAC Incursions 1975A documentary flagship case file on the 1975 Northern Strategic Air Command incursions across Loring, Wurtsmith, Malmstrom, Minot and the no… 1975The George O'Barski Encounter, North Hudson Park (1975)At around three in the morning on 12 January 1975, George O'Barski, a seventy-two year old co-owner of a liquor store in the Chelsea di… 1975The Travis Walton Abduction — Deep DiveThe Travis Walton abduction 1975 Arizona UFO Fire in the Sky evidence witnesses polygraph logging crew close encounter. One of the most famo… 1975Travis Walton 1975: The Arizona Abduction, Polygraph Tests & Five-Day SearchThe 1975 Travis Walton abduction: a logging crew saw a UFO, Walton disappeared for five days, the police suspected murder, six witnesses pas… 1976Allagash Abductions (1976)The 1976 Allagash UFO case: four men reported a strange light over Eagle Lake in Maine. Years later, hypnotic regression produced a shared a… 1976Canary Islands UFO Sphere 1976The 22 June 1976 Canary Islands UFO event reconstructed from the Spanish Air Force file, the corvette Atrevida, Dr Francisco Padrón's close … 1976Cannon AFB 1976: The Military Reported Two Objects — Then the Paper Trail StopsThe Cannon AFB UFO report of 21 January 1976: Security Police, two structured objects near the flight line, the genuine NMCC memorandum, and… 1976Clermont-to-Grenoble Corridor Object, 1976During 1976, witnesses between Clermont-Ferrand and Grenoble reported a brilliant object moving across central France. The case is documente… 1976Rives/Voreppe Sighting — Physicist WitnessOn November 5, 1976, near Voreppe, Isère, France, a French physicist identified as Dr. S. was driving home towards Grenoble when he observed… 1976Talavera Air-Base Intrusion, 1976On 12 November 1976, Spanish Air Force soldiers guarding the fuel area at Talavera la Real reported an object. The case is documented; the o… 1976Tehran UFO Incident 1976: F-4 Phantom Intercept, Radar, Jafari & DIA RecordThe 1976 Tehran UFO incident reconstructed from the declassified U.S. Defense Attaché report: two Iranian F-4 intercepts, radar lock, Parviz… 1976The F.E. Warren AFB Missile-Field Cigar (1976)Former missile combat crew commander Bruce Fenstermacher publicly described in 2010 a fall-1976 incident at F.E. Warren AFB in which securit… 1977Baía do Sol 1977 — The Operation Saucer ObservationThe 1977 Baía do Sol observation: Brazilian Air Force personnel observed a luminous object during Operation Saucer, documented in the offici… 1977Broad Haven School UFO Sighting 1977 — WalesThe 1977 Broad Haven School UFO sighting reconstructed from contemporary witness reports, pupil drawings, BUFORA material, Ministry of Defen… 1977Mirage IV Pursued over Chaumont, 1977On 7 March 1977, a Mirage IV crew near Chaumont reported being pursued by an unidentified object. The case is documented; the object identit… 1977Operação Prato 1977 — Brazil’s Military InvestigationOperação Prato: in 1977, Colares residents reported beams of light; the Brazilian Air Force launched a military investigation and later rele… 1977Operação Prato 1977: What the Brazilian Air Force Actually DocumentedOperação Prato / Colares 1977: a genuine Brazilian Air Force investigation, military photographs, a 26-photo dossier, contemporary medical t… 1977Petrozavodsk Phenomenon 1977 — Soviet Jellyfish UFOThe 1977 Petrozavodsk phenomenon reconstructed from Soviet witness reports, photographs, Academy of Sciences investigation and the Kosmos-95… 1977RAF Boulmer 1977: The Long Watch and the Radar ContactsThe RAF Boulmer radar-visual UFO case of 1977: three named RAF witnesses, a 1 hour 40 minute visual observation, Type 84 and Type 85 radar c… 1977The 1977 Welsh Triangle — Pembrokeshire UFO WavePembrokeshire UFO sightings in 1977: the Broad Haven school sighting became the doorway into a county-wide Welsh Triangle wave reaching Litt… 1977The Ellsworth AFB Site L-9 Document HoaxA typed report circulated as an Air Force security document describing a landed UFO and humanoids at Minuteman missile site L-9 near Ellswor… 1977The Fostoria Train EncounterA late-October 1977 account describes two railroad workers near Fostoria seeing a low disc-like object around industrial/private rail lines,… 1977The West Pittsburg 'Eastbay' LandingThree 14-year-old boys reported seeing a landed saucer and small humanoid occupants near West Pittsburg on 20 May 1977. A sheriff's dep… 1978A Motorist Meets "Naazra-Abuc" Near Alicante (1978)The surviving account describes an anonymised businessman, "Pablo R.," whose car allegedly failed near a bright disc on a rural Al… 1978Clarenville Harbour Object, 1978On 26 October 1978, a constable in Clarenville, Newfoundland reported a brightly lit object, investigated by the RCMP. The case is documente… 1978Cullen Abduction / Alleged Implant (1978)Tim Cullen's 1978 Yuma, Colorado UFO sighting and the alleged implant removed in 2000: what was remembered at the time, what came later, and… 1978Emilcin UFO Incident: Jan Wolski (1978)The 1978 Emilcin incident in Poland: farmer Jan Wolski's horse-cart encounter, his reported voluntary entry into a hovering craft, a brief e… 1978Fort Dix–McGuire Alien Encounter (1978)The alleged 1978 Fort Dix–McGuire alien-body recovery: the anonymous Fort Dix MP, 'Jeffrey Morse', Leonard Stringfield, the disputed DD Form… 1978Frederick Valentich Disappearance (1978)The disappearance of Frederick Valentich over Bass Strait on 21 October 1978: the recorded radio exchange, his description of an unknown air… 1978Gujan-Mestras Power-Failure ObjectOn the evening of 19 June 1978, witnesses in Gujan-Mestras near Arcachon reported a bright aerial object moving above the town. The phenomen… 1978Kaikōura Lights 1978: The Film Was Real — the Radar Story Was More ComplicatedThe Kaikōura Lights of 1978–79: SAFE Air crews, Wellington radar, David Crockett's authentic 16mm film, the Argosy weather-radar return, and… 1978North Yorkshire Police A629 SightingOn December 12, 1978, at approximately 4:30 AM, Police Sergeant Tony Dodd and Police Constable Alan Dale of North Yorkshire Police were driv… 1978The Hallstrom Daylight DiscVeteran pilot Floyd P. Hallstrom reported a close daylight pass by a bright metallic domed disc while flying a Cessna 170A over Santa Monica… 1978The Manuel Amparano Kerman EncounterAt about 3:32 a.m. Kerman police officer Manuel Amparano reported a stationary crimson oval south of town, followed by a brief blue flash an… 1978The Zanfretta EncountersSecurity guard Pier Fortunato Zanfretta reported encountering a large red object and towering humanoid beings during a night patrol on 6–7 D… 1978Zanfretta Abductions 1978 — The Italian SeriesThe Zanfretta abductions: Italian night watchman Pier Fortunato Zanfretta reported multiple abductions, investigated by police, resting larg… 1979Cecconi UFO 1979: Italian Air Force Gun-Camera CylinderThe 18 June 1979 Cecconi UFO case over Treviso: Italian Air Force pilot Giancarlo Cecconi, Istrana radar vectoring, repeated G-91R passes, d… 1979Fartek UFO Sighting (1979)French Mirage III pilot Jean-Pierre Fartek and his wife reported a structured object hovering near Dijon in 1979. 1979Manises Airliner Diversion (1979)The 1979 Manises UFO incident: TAE flight JK-297 diverted to Valencia, unknown lights remained near the airport, and a Spanish Air Force int… 1979Manises UFO Incident 1979 — The Forced LandingThe 1979 Manises incident: a Spanish airliner with 109 passengers diverted after its crew reported red lights, and a fighter jet was scrambl… 1979Robert Taylor UFO Incident — Dechmont Woods 1979The 1979 Robert Taylor UFO incident at Dechmont Woods: a close encounter, torn clothing, police investigation, ground marks and medical expl… 1979Robert Taylor UFO Incident 1979: Dechmont Woods, Police Investigation & Physical TracesThe 1979 Robert Taylor incident at Dechmont Woods: a forestry worker's close encounter, physical ground traces, a police investigation for a… 1979The Misattributed Viktor Afanasyev 1979 UFO StoryA widely repeated internet story claims cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev saw and photographed a large metallic UFO while flying to Salyut 6 in Apr… 1979The Tetas de Cayey Cave Body ClaimA widely repeated Puerto Rican UFO story claims that youths exploring caves in the Tetas de Cayey area encountered small humanoid beings and… 1979Val Johnson UFO Incident 1979: Patrol Car Damage, 2:19 Call, 14-Minute Clocks & CUFOSThe 1979 Val Johnson UFO incident: Deputy Johnson’s taped account, the surviving damaged Ford LTD, Ford and Honeywell examinations, FAA/Air …
1980Alan Godfrey UFO Encounter 1980 — Todmorden Police CaseThe 1980 Alan Godfrey UFO encounter reconstructed from his police account, witness sketch, radio-failure claim, missing-time episode, physic… 1980Cash-Landrum 1980: The Encounter, Illness, Helicopters & LawsuitThe Cash-Landrum incident reconstructed from the 1981 Bergstrom AFB interview, early witness records, medical summaries, the Army helicopter… 1980Kalygir Lake Object (1980)What really happened at Lake Bolshoy Kalygir in 1980? The fuller account describes a lake disturbance, dead fish and repeated blue luminous … 1980Kirtland AFB / Manzano 1980: The Sightings, the Blackout, and the Missing LinkThe 1980 Kirtland AFB / Manzano UFO case: named Security Police witnesses, a separate Sandia guard disc report, a later radar-system blackou… 1980La Joya Incident 1980 — The Peruvian DogfightThe 1980 La Joya incident: a Peruvian Air Force pilot reported intercepting and firing at a balloon-shaped object over La Joya Air Base — a … 1980Rendlesham Forest 1980: Halt Tape, Binary Code, USAF Witnesses & RAF BentwatersRendlesham Forest 1980 reconstructed from the Halt tape, the Halt memo, USAF witness statements, RAF Bentwaters landing traces, and the bina… 1980The Rendlesham Forest IncidentUSAF security personnel reported unusual lights near RAF Woodbridge over two nights in late December 1980. Deputy base commander Charles Hal… 1981Hannah McRoberts 1981: The Missing Number Is DistanceThe 1981 Hannah McRoberts UFO photograph: original-negative analysis, the 30-foot minimum-distance claim, the 1.3-degree scale problem, and … 1981Hessdalen Lights: Norway's Recurring UFO Valley, Radar & Scientific StudyThe Hessdalen lights: a Norwegian valley where unusual luminous objects were reported repeatedly from 1981–1985. Radar, spectroscopy, the 20… 1981The "Argentina 1981" PhotographA soft-focus colour photograph of a domed disc over cattle pasture circulates as a 1981 image from Saavedra, Argentina, attributed to '… 1981The Hannah McRoberts PhotographHannah McRoberts took a landscape photograph on Vancouver Island in October 1981 and only noticed a sharply defined disc-like object after t… 1981The Hessdalen LightsHessdalen is a recurring luminous-phenomena complex that peaked from 1981 to 1984 and has been investigated instrumentally since 1983. Proje… 1981The Lake Michigan L-1011 Object (1981)On 4 July 1981, TWA captain Philip Schultz reported a close daylight encounter with a metallic disc while flying an L-1011 over Lake Michiga… 1981The Lintel Lake Incident (1981)A 55-year-old Polish emigrant in West Germany allegedly encountered a huge silent craft, strange beings and missing time at Linteler See in … 1981Trans-en-Provence 1981: The Physical Trace Was Real — What Made It Was Not ProvenThe 1981 Trans-en-Provence UFO case: Renato Nicolaï's single-witness landing report, next-day gendarmerie trace documentation, GEPAN soil an… 19821982 South Korea DMZ SightingIn May 1982, South Korean military personnel stationed near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea reported observing an… 1982Amarante / Laxou Garden UFO Case (1982)The 1982 Amarante case near Nancy, France: a biology researcher reported a small ovoid object hovering over his garden. GEPAN investigated, … 1982Nancy Amaranth Case 1982 — The GEPAN InvestigationThe 1982 Nancy Amaranth case: an ovoid object reportedly descended into a French garden, investigated by GEPAN. 1982Newport UFO Sightings: UFO History of Newport, WalesExplore UFO sightings in Newport, Wales, including the early-1980s Gwent wave, Beechwood Park, Bettws and the city’s wider UFO record. 1982Portugal UFO 1982: Júlio Guerra & the Ota Air Base EncounterThe definitive evidence-led guide to the 1982 Ota Air Base UFO encounter: Portuguese Air Force pilot Júlio Guerra, co-witnesses Carlos Garcê… 1982The Eliot WedgeA witness identifying himself only as Chris F. reported in 2008 that, as a 14-year-old in Eliot, Maine in summer 1982, he saw a dark wedge-s… 1982The Lake Baikal Divers (1982)A famous story claims Soviet military divers encountered three-metre humanoids in Lake Baikal in 1982 and that three men died after an attem… 1983Hudson Valley UFO Sightings (1983–1984)Thousands reported huge V-shaped lights over the Hudson Valley in 1983–84. Explore the Stormville formation flights, the strongest residual … 1983Neath Port Talbot UFO Sightings: The 1983 “Night of the Triangles”Neath Port Talbot, Wales — on 19 January 1983 people across South Wales reported a huge triangle covered in lights, part of an industrial bo… 1983Swansea & the Night of the Triangles, 1983 — WalesSwansea UFO sightings and the 19 January 1983 Night of the Triangles: several Swansea districts produced triangle reports that night, from U… 1983The Alfred Burtoo Basingstoke Canal EncounterAlfred Burtoo, 77, said that while night-fishing near Aldershot on 12 August 1983 he followed two small suited figures into a landed craft, … 1983The Copley Woods EncounterThe Copley Woods case centres on 'Kathie Davis', later publicly identified as Debbie Jordan-Kauble, whose alleged 1983 encounter a… 1984Indian Point Nuclear Plant UFO Encounter (1984)Security guards were reported to have seen large lights near Indian Point nuclear plant during the 1984 Hudson Valley UFO wave. Explore the … 1984Minsk UFO 1984: Aeroflot 8352, Lazurin’s 14 Sketches, Second Tu-134 & Missile TheoryThe definitive 1984 Minsk UFO case file: Aeroflot Flight 8352’s four-man cockpit crew, Gennady Lazurin’s 14 real-time sketches, second Tu-13… 1984The Isidoro Ferri EncounterCaretaker Isidoro Ferri reported waking around 03:00 to a brilliant beam outside Villa la Radicchia, seeing a dark humanoid-like figure abou… 1984The Whaley Lake EncounterWhaley Lake sits within the wider 1983–84 Hudson Valley UFO wave. Later researcher Philip Imbrogno described a dramatic close encounter ther… 1985The Minsk Tu-134 Radar-Visual CaseIn the early hours of 7 September 1984, the crew of an Aeroflot Tu-134 reported a bright, shape-changing object near Minsk that appeared to … 1985The Whitley Strieber EncounterAuthor Whitley Strieber said that on 26 December 1985 he awoke at his upstate New York cabin, encountered a non-human figure and later found… 1986Brazilian Night of the UFOs 1986 — Radar, Fighters & Official FilesThe 19 May 1986 Brazilian Night of the UFOs reconstructed from Brazilian government records, radar reports, fighter scrambles, pilot testimo… 1986Dalnegorsk Height 611 1986 — The Soviet CrashThe 1986 Dalnegorsk crash: a glowing sphere was reported crashing into Height 611 in the Soviet Far East; a scientific expedition examined t… 1986The Brazilian Night of the UFOsOn 19 May 1986 Brazilian air-defence radars and multiple civilian/military witnesses reported numerous unidentified aerial targets. Five Air… 1987Corydon 1987: The Video Is Stronger Than the CalculationsThe 1987 Corydon UFO video: the MUFON stakeout, the unidentified light, the aircraft crossing, the missing depth dimension and what the foot… 1987Ilkley Moor Alien Photograph (1987)A former police officer said he photographed a small humanoid on Ilkley Moor in 1987. Explore the original image, Kodak analysis, hypnosis c… 1987Jason Andrews Abduction (1987)The Jason Andrews abduction case from Slade Green, Kent: the 1987 family incident, the 1995 alien-abduction interpretation, the Andrews fami… 1987The Christa Tilton AbductionChrista Tilton said she experienced roughly three hours of missing time in July 1987 and later described an elaborate abduction involving mi… 1987The Gulf Breeze SightingsBeginning in November 1987, Gulf Breeze contractor Ed Walters produced dozens of Polaroid photographs and video sequences of a distinctive U… 1987The Wytheville UFO SightingsBeginning in October 1987, Wytheville radio reporter Danny Gordon became involved in a wave of local UFO reports after learning that sheriff… 1987Two Aircraft UFO Encounters over Alaska (January 1987)Civilian radar-case catalogues describe two back-to-back Alaska encounters on 30–31 January 1987: a USAF KC-135 crew reportedly saw a very l… 1987Vranov UFO IncidentOn July 12, 1987, multiple witnesses at the Vranov nad Dyjí reservoir in Czechoslovakia observed a bright, glowing object hovering and maneu… 1988Mundrabilla Vehicle-Lifting Encounter, 1988On 20 January 1988, the Knowles family reported a strange object that lifted their car on the Nullarbor Plain. The case is documented in a p… 1988The Khoury Abduction and DNA ClaimPeter Khoury reported a 1992 bedroom encounter with two unusual female figures and later said he found strands of hair entwined around his g… 1988The Knowles Family Nullarbor Encounter (1988)Four members of the Knowles family reported a terrifying pre-dawn encounter on Australia's Nullarbor Plain in January 1988. Their car was in… 1988The Ralph Fuller Gulf Breeze VideoRalph Fuller filmed a bright light over the Gulf coast that appeared on consumer analog video to become a horizontal row of multiple red/ora… 1988Villa Urquiza Christmas Night ObjectOn the evening of 25 December 1988, telephone calls began reaching police stations, newspapers and broadcasters from residents across northe… 1989Belgian UFO Wave 1989–1990: F-16 Radar Locks, 13,000 Reports & Triangle SightingsThe Belgian UFO Wave of 1989–1990: Eupen police reports, F-16 radar locks on triangular objects, 13,000 civilian reports, the SOBEPS investi… 1989Emtsa Truck Drivers UFO Encounter (1989)The 1989 Emtsa truck drivers UFO case in Russia: Oleg Kirzhakov and Nikolai Baranchikov, a stalled truck, a large landed disc, Kirzhakov's c… 1989Linda Napolitano / Brooklyn Bridge Abduction Claim (1989)Linda Napolitano said she was floated from a 12th-floor Manhattan apartment into a hovering craft on 30 November 1989. Budd Hopkins later pr… 1989The Brecon Beacons Multi-Lighted UFOIn November 1989, an adult driver and two children later said they watched a large silent object carrying a curved row of multicoloured ligh… 1989The Carp "Guardian" Landing ClaimThe Carp 'Guardian' case grew from anonymous packages containing alleged government documents, maps and alien imagery, followed by… 1989The Nashville 1989 Saucer PhotographsA striking series of night photographs showing a brightly lit saucer-like object was circulated by retired U.S. Navy commander Graham Bethun… 1989The Phobos 2 'UFO' IncidentThe Soviet Phobos 2 spacecraft lost contact on 27 March 1989 shortly before a planned close encounter with Phobos. UFO narratives later clai… 1989The Voronezh LandingChildren in Voronezh reported that a red spherical object landed in a park on 27 September 1989 and that tall three-eyed beings and a robot …
1990Alfena 1990: Four Photographs — and a Trail of Bigger ClaimsThe Alfena UFO photographs of 10 September 1990: Manuel Gomes de Moura's four-photo sequence, original negatives, witness reports, Haines' 1… 1990Calvine UFO Photographs 1990: Six Frames, One Survivor & The HarrierThe Calvine photographs: six images of a diamond-shaped object near a Harrier, taken by two hikers in 1990. The chain of custody, the MoD co… 1990France UFO Wave 5 November 1990 — Mass Sighting Explained?The 5 November 1990 France mass UFO sighting: thousands of witnesses, triangle reports, gendarmerie files and GEIPAN's identification of a S… 1990Greifswald Lights (1990) UFO CaseMultiple witnesses filmed the Greifswald Lights over the Baltic in 1990. Explore the genuine multi-camera footage, the military flare explan… 1990Greifswald Lights 1990 — The German Mass SightingThe 1990 Greifswald Lights: an estimated 300–500 residents of East Germany watched two formations of lights form geometric patterns — the ca… 1990Megaplatanos Burned-Hillside IncidentAt approximately 9:30 p.m. on 2 September 1990, residents around Atalanti and Megaplatanos reported a formation of roughly a dozen luminous … 1990The Aegean Sea USO Photograph (1990)Erol Erkmen's 15 August 1990 underwater photograph from Saros Bay: what the witness said, what the negative showed, and why the 300× enlarge… 1990The Inaja Photograph (1990) | UFO Photo Case FileA forensic case file on Michael Orrell's 1990 Inaja photograph: ten dark objects, one 35mm frame, no eyewitness sighting, unresolved scale a… 1990The Place Bonaventure SightingOn 7 November 1990, hotel guests, staff, journalists and Montreal police observed a luminous oval/circular arrangement of lights above downt… 1991Alitalia AZ284 1991: The Radar Contact Was Real — But Was It the Same Object?Captain Achille Zaghetti's 1991 Alitalia AZ284 UFO encounter near Lydd: a missile-like visual object, a genuine primary radar return, offici… 1991Daytona Beach Police FLIR Footage (1991)The 1 March 1991 Daytona Beach police-helicopter FLIR footage: two law-enforcement crewmen, an object invisible to the eye, a strange two-lo… 1991Mexico City Solar Eclipse UFOs (1991)The Mexico City solar eclipse UFO sightings of 11 July 1991: multiple amateur videos, national television exposure, Venus at exceptional bri… 1991The Lee Family EncounterJared Lee later described a December 1991 family encounter at their Havana, Florida home: lights over the treeline, a car horn sounding, col… 1991The Mexico City Solar Eclipse SightingsDuring the total solar eclipse of 11 July 1991, several people in central Mexico videotaped a brilliant point-like object in the darkened sk… 1991The USS Kirk Red-Flash USO ClaimA former USS Kirk operations/intelligence petty officer using initials 'GMV' reported years later that at about 02:00 on 16 Decemb… 1992The A70 Abduction (1992)Garry Wood and Colin Wright's 1992 A70 encounter near Harperrig Reservoir, separated into the original road event and the later hypnosis-der… 1992The Bonnybridge Sighting Wave and Falkirk TriangleBonnybridge became a major British UFO hotspot from 1992 onward, with numerous heterogeneous reports rather than one single event. The first… 1992The Carlos Díaz Tepoztlán 'Ships of Light' CasePhotographer Carlos Díaz produced a long-running series of photographs and videos of luminous, disc-like objects around Tepoztlán and later … 1993Cosford & Shawbury, 1993: The RAF SightingsAn evidence-led reconstruction of the 30–31 March 1993 Cosford and Shawbury RAF sightings: MoD police, a RAF meteorological observer, radar … 1993Cosford Incident 1993 — The MoD’s Mass SightingThe 1993 Cosford incident: over 30 witnesses including police and RAF personnel reported a low triangular craft; the MoD investigated and th… 1993Maslin Beach UFO Photographs (1993)The Maslin Beach photographs of 10 March 1993: four extraordinary colour frames, Eric Thomason's sea-emergence account, a 14-month developme… 1993The Kelly Cahill EncounterKelly Cahill reported seeing a large illuminated object while driving with her husband near Melbourne in August 1993, followed by missing ti… 1993The Seattle Triangle (1993)Seattle writer and illustrator Gary Val Tenuta says that on a Sunday night in November 1993 he stopped beside Boeing Field and watched three… 1994Air France AF3532 1994: One Sighting — and a Radar Track That May Not Be the Same ThingThe Air France AF3532 UFO case of 28 January 1994: a daylight aircrew sighting, a real unidentified military radar track, and the geometry p… 1994Air France AF3532 UFO 1994: GEIPAN D, F-GFKG, CODA Chronology & Radar-Correlation DisputeThe definitive AF3532 case file: Air France A320-111 F-GFKG, Jean-Charles Duboc and Valérie Chauffour, live Reims report, CODA chronology, t… 1994Ariel School, 1994: The Child-Witness EncounterThe Ariel School encounter reconstructed from early child testimony, drawings, interviews and the later evolution of the story. 1994Guiyang Forest Destruction EventAt approximately 3:00 a.m. on 1 December 1994, workers near the Duxi Forest Farm outside Guiyang were awakened by a powerful roaring sound a… 1994Holland Michigan UFO 1994: 911, Police and Weather RadarThe 8 March 1994 Holland, Michigan UFO sightings: civilian 911 calls, Officer Jeff Velthouse's visual observation, Jack Bushong's live WSR-7… 1994The Ariel School UFO Incident — Deep DiveAriel School UFO 1994 Zimbabwe 62 children witnesses Dr John Mack drawings: evidence, timeline, skeptical analysis, human impact, books, and… 1994The Mongo Photo CaseSix men at a campground near Mongo, Indiana reported a luminous object moving past them on 31 August 1994, and one witness took several 35mm… 1994Trumbull County UFO 1994: The Police Dispatch NightThe 14 December 1994 Trumbull County UFO case: civilian 911 calls, multiple police departments, Sgt Toby Meloro's close-range encounter, Lt … 1995America West Flight 564 UFO Encounter (1995)On 25 May 1995, America West Flight 564 reported a long dark object or sequential white lights near Bovina, Texas. The sighting unfolded ove… 1995Bariloche Airport Encounter 1995 — The ApproachThe 1995 Bariloche airport encounter: a Boeing 727 crew reported a bright object, and the airport’s power failed — the object identity remai… 1995Gapyeong UFO Photograph 1995 — The Korean ImageThe 1995 Gapyeong UFO photograph: a Korean newspaper image that became widely recognised in Asia, with its interpretation still contested. 1995Gosford UFO Flap — Central Coast 1995The Gosford Central Coast UFO flap of December 1995: dozens of reports around Brisbane Water, reported police involvement, the 1996 Gosford … 1995Manchester Airport UFO Near-Miss (1995)The Manchester Airport near-miss of 6 January 1995: two British Airways pilots, an official CAA airmiss investigation, a witness sketch, no … 1995The "Kazakhstan 1995" PhotographA crisp photograph of a classic domed disc above snowy mountains circulates as a 27 April 1995 image by 'Semyon Teglyov' in '… 1995The Gosford Mass SightingThis inventory record appears to duplicate the same Gosford/Central Coast wave already listed as 'gosford-1994'. The principal eve… 1995The Long Island Lufthansa / British Airways EncounterOn the night of 17 November 1995, crews of Lufthansa Flight 405 and British Airways Flight 226 separately reported a bright object with a gr… 1995The Manchester Airport Near-Miss (1995)On 6 January 1995, the crew of a Boeing 737 approaching Manchester reported a dark or black object passing extremely close to the aircraft. … 1996Denver Daylight Disc Photograph (1996)The January 1996 Denver daylight disc photograph attributed to artist Joe Clower: a reported two-frame sighting, a claimed passage behind a … 1996Pretoria Police Helicopter Pursuit, 1996On 28 August 1996, South African police officers in Pretoria observed a bright object and pursued it in a helicopter. The pursuit is documen… 1996The Érpatak UFO PhotographLajos Kosina photographed his girlfriend in a garden at Érpatak on 27 October 1996; nobody present noticed an object at the time, but a dark… 1996The Object Photographed From Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-80, 1996)Three archival NASA frames from STS-80 show a small bright, roughly triangular or irregular object near the Earth limb. The images were rele… 1996The Shuttle 5959 EncounterShortly after midnight on 28 February 1996, crews of Air Shuttle 5959 and Mesaba 3179 reported a bright pulsating object over Michigan while… 1996Varginha UFO Incident 1996: Three Witnesses, Varginha Creatures & Brazilian MilitaryThe 1996 Varginha incident: three witnesses described creatures after a reported crash, the Brazilian military denied involvement, and the s… 1997Phoenix Lights 1997: Timeline, V Formation, Mitch Stanley & 10 PM FlaresThe Phoenix Lights reconstructed as two distinct events: the earlier moving formation and the later flare display. 1997The "Alien Interview" Area 51 VideoA short silent colour clip showing a Grey-like humanoid behind a partition was marketed in the 1997 home-video documentary Area 51: The Alie… 1997The Bryce Canyon PhotoTourist Roger Louie took two canyon photographs about thirty seconds apart on 7 June 1994; a blurred whitish disc-like form appears only in … 1997The Phoenix LightsReports across Arizona on 13 March 1997 are best separated into an earlier southbound V-shaped formation and a later line of lights near Pho… 1997The Swissair Flight 127 Near-MissAt 2107 UTC (5:07 p.m. local) on 9 August 1997, Swissair Flight 127, a Boeing 747-300 with… 1998The Lake Powell 1998 PhotographJoe Clower's April 1998 Lake Powell photograph shows a metallic disc over desert canyon terrain. The image is visually striking and traceabl… 1998The Rod Dickinson UFO FootageRod Dickinson filmed a dark or metallic disc-like object near The Ridgeway above Weymouth on 7 April 1998. The footage shows a daylight obje…
2000Illinois Triangle UFO 2000: St. Clair County Police SightingsThe St. Clair County police triangle of 5 January 2000: multiple on-duty officers, real-time dispatch traffic, witness sketches, a failed Po… 2000The Bonsall Video, Sharon Rowlands (2000)Sharon Rowlands' six-and-a-half-minute Bonsall UFO video reconstructed from contemporary reporting, surviving footage, later television anal… 2000The Stinson Lake, New Hampshire PhotographA photograph attributed by later publication to J. Foss shows a mirror-like, wingless-looking form above snow-covered trees at Stinson Lake … 2000The Tanah Merah Marshland LandingA Bernama dispatch carried by The Star on 6 March 2000 named two residents who reported a brilliant light and a shining object hovering over… 2001Chulucanas Formation VideosDuring the evening of 13 October 2001, residents of Chulucanas in northern Peru began watching luminous objects moving and hovering over the… 2001The Carteret, New Jersey LightsJust after midnight on 15 July 2001, numerous motorists and residents around Carteret and Staten Island reported orange-gold lights arranged… 2001The Gundiah–Mackay Abduction ClaimAmy Rylance was reported missing from a rural property near Gundiah on 4 October 2001 after housemate Petra Heller said she saw Rylance pull… 2001The Palmas Water-Collection EncounterA catalogue report attributed to Brazilian researcher Thiago Luiz Ticchetti says Vinicius da Silva and Marta Rosenthal encountered a metalli… 2001The Salt Lake City Ring PhotographsAn anonymous truck driver photographed a sharply defined black ring over Salt Lake City's Beck Street industrial corridor around midday… 2001The Waynesville, Ohio Police UFO ReportA Warren County couple reported a stationary multicoloured light on the night of 24 April 2001. A responding Waynesville officer saw two sta… 2002The Albany Airport UFO Video (2002)The 2002 Albany Airport UFO video: Brandon Mowry's Fox 23 footage, the FBI tape controversy, Brian Huff's analysis, radar claims and the lim… 2002The Bagram Airborne TriangleIn a 2024 FBI interview, a former military pilot recalled that in June 2002 at about 04:30 local time he and another pilot at Bagram saw sta… 2002The Las Cruces PhotographAn anonymous witness took four Canon PowerShot G2 landscape photographs west of Las Cruces. Two small marks were noticed only after download… 2002The Paintsville Train Collision ClaimA story first made widely public by NUFORC director Peter Davenport in 2006 describes an anonymous CSX coal-train crew allegedly striking or… 2002The Trenton–Brookville SightingsOn 9 August 2002, witnesses in Butler County, Ohio and Franklin County, Indiana reported unusual lights or a triangular formation moving acr… 2002The Tyrone, Pennsylvania Beam PhotographAn anonymous hiker reportedly saw a pulsating light near Ice Mountain on 20 October 2002, described a narrow blue-white beam, retrieved a ca… 2003Red Disk Passes a US Airways Express Jet (23 November 2003)An anonymous passenger signing only “J. A.” reported seeing a bright reddish circular object pass a US Airways Express/Chautauqua ERJ-145 du… 2003The Alaska Alien PhotographThe famous '1930s Alaska alien' photograph surfaced anonymously in 2003. The image is real; its date, location, photographer and subject are… 2003The Blagoevgrad SaucerA widely circulated video attributed to Blagoevgrad in 2003 shows a classic saucer-like form near apartment buildings, apparently rotating a… 2003The Padeswood Poachers' Purple BallWelsh oral history recounts several colliers/poachers encountering a large purplish-red luminous ball low over a field near Padeswood in the… 2003The Weyauwega Twilight DiscAn anonymous mother said she and her son saw a lighted object approach while he was sledding in Weyauwega in early February 2003. She took a… 2004Las Piñas SightingOn August 28, 2004, more than 10 unidentified flying objects were seen over Las Piñas, Metro Manila, Philippines at approximately 7 PM. Thre… 2004Mexican Air Force C-26 Encounter, 2004On 5 March 2004, a Mexican Air Force C-26 aircraft detected 11 unidentified objects on FLIR; the Secretary of Defense released the footage. … 2004Mexican Air Force Infrared UFOs (2004)The 2004 Mexican Air Force FLIR UFO case over Campeche: authentic military infrared video, separate radar contacts, no naked-eye sighting, a… 2004Mexican Air Force UFO Video (2004) — Campeche FLIR CaseMexican Air Force UFO video, Campeche 2004: authentic military FLIR footage, Jaime Maussan release history, separate radar contacts, no nake… 2004Nimitz in 10 MinutesUnderstand the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac encounter in ten minutes: the radar contacts, the pilots, the object, the footage and the missing evidenc… 2004The Billerica Deck LevitationA Billerica couple identified publicly only as Robert and Anne said a brilliant white light approached their house on 12 December 2004 and t… 2004The Bristol, Tennessee Triangle Close EncounterAn anonymous driver told MUFON Tennessee that before dawn on 2 October 2004 a huge triangular object with reddish-orange illuminated areas p… 2004The California Airline Pilot Sighting (2004)An anonymous airline captain with fourteen years' commercial experience reported that he and another cockpit crew member watched a star… 2004The Marfa LightsVisitors to Mitchell Flat east of Marfa report distant moving lights that appear to split, merge or drift. Controlled studies in 2004 and 20… 2004The Staffordshire UFO Wave (2004)During August 2004, residents across Staffordshire and the West Midlands reported unusual lights and objects, later grouped into a regional … 2004The USS Nimitz Tic TacOn 14 November 2004, two US Navy F/A-18F crews were directed from USS Princeton to investigate an anomalous contact off Baja California. Fou… 2004Tinley Park Lights — Halloween Mass SightingOn the evening of October 31, 2004, at approximately 8:00 PM, three bright red lights were observed in the eastern sky over Tinley Park, Ill… 2004Tinley Park Lights 2004: Chicago Triangle UFO Mass SightingThe Tinley Park Lights UFO case: 21 August 2004, Halloween 2004 and the 2005 recurrence. Witness video, police dispatch, FAA air-show explan… 2005The Half Moon Bay Flying DiscsPhotographer Watson Morris said beachgoers alerted him to several disc-like objects over Half Moon Bay on 2 February 2005 and that he shot f… 2005The Mexicana Airliner Oaxaca VideoAt about 14:15 on 21 September 2005, passenger/engineer Carlos Cauich Carrillo filmed the coastline from a Mexicana de Aviación flight and l… 2005The Noble, Oklahoma Jet ChaseA single witness in Noble, Oklahoma reported watching a silent triangular light configuration apparently pursued by a conventional jet for a… 2005The Tintagel Holiday Photograph DiscA 2005 holiday photograph submitted to UFOEvidence by a woman named Patricia shows a dark elliptical blur above a coastal path near Tintagel… 2006Marcia Burke Encounter (2006)The Marcia Burke encounter at Deer Trail, Colorado: a single-witness night-video case involving multiple lights, later entity footage, a Mon… 2006O'Hare Airport 2006 — The Multi-Witness SightingThe 2006 Chicago O’Hare airport sighting: airline-employee reports, the NARCAP investigation, the Chicago Tribune account, and the FAA’s wea… 2006The Alagamar Photograph, NatalRoberto Di Sena, described as a former Brazilian military member, found a small domed disc in one digital photograph taken around 08:30–10:0… 2006The Baghdad Power Plant Disc PhotographA sharp daylight image of a small lens-shaped disc near a Baghdad power-station skyline is attributed to an anonymous U.S. soldier and claim… 2006The Chicago O'Hare Airport SightingAround 4:15 p.m. on 7 November 2006, a group of United Airlines employees reported a dark grey disc-like object hovering over Gate C17 at Ch… 2006The Ipiales Lake LuminescenceDuring the weekend of 18–19 November 2006, a witness identified only as Freddy submitted five digital photographs taken around Ipiales. The … 2006The Oklahoma Pond ObjectAn anonymous grandparent reported that five grandchildren aged roughly 7–13 saw a violent moving whirlpool, steam/vapour and what some descr… 2006The Zdany Silver Sphere PhotographsA series of photographs circulated from a claimed 8 January 2006 encounter near Zdany, showing a metallic flattened sphere or 'walnut&#… 2007Alderney UFO 2007 — The Channel SightingThe 2007 Alderney sighting: Aurigny pilot Ray Bowyer reported two large bright objects over the English Channel, corroborated by a second pi… 2007Greece Air Force & Olympic Airways UFO Sighting (2007)Three Olympic Airways crews, Athens controllers and the Hellenic Air Force reported a brilliant object over Greece in 2007. No radar return … 2007The Arkansas Colonel's PhotographsRetired USAF Colonel Brian Fields photographed bright yellow-orange lights near Van Buren shortly before 19:00 on 9 January 2007. Fields con… 2007The Chris Bledsoe Family LightsThe Bledsoe family has repeatedly published videos of star-like lights and bright flares in the night sky as part of Chris Bledsoe's br… 2008Kumburgaz UFO 2008 — The Turkish FootageThe 2008 Kumburgaz footage: night security guard Yalcin Yalman recorded video of objects over the Sea of Marmara; its authenticity is contes… 2008South Wales Police Helicopter EncounterA South Wales Police helicopter crew reported an unusual illuminated object while approaching MOD St Athan shortly after midnight. Contempor… 2008Stephenville Lights 2008: FAA Radar, F-16 Intercepts & 2,100 mph TrackThe 2008 Stephenville lights: witness reports from 8 January, the Air Force's corrected F-16 statement, 2.8 million FAA radar returns, the S… 2008The British UFO Wave of 2008Britain's 2008 UFO wave reconstructed report by report: the South Wales Police helicopter encounter, Tern Hill's thirteen lights, the Minist… 2008The Harare International Airport UAP ReportA declassified CIA information report dated 3 July 2008 records an unidentified object over Harare International Airport the previous aftern… 2008The Indiana Treeline ObjectAn anonymous Indiana resident reported a silent dark object hovering 300–400 ft away over a treeline at dusk on 31 January 2008, photographe… 2008V-Shaped Object Over Los Angeles (2008)Just after 20:00 on 14 November 2008, a San Fernando Valley couple reported a large, dark V-shaped arrangement crossing the sky; later accou… 2009Norwegian Spiral Anomaly 2009 — The Missile ExplanationThe 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly: a spectacular white spiral over northern Norway, widely photographed and attributed to a Russian missile … 2009The Greenville Black TriangleA photographer identified as C. Salvo circulated a three-frame set from 26 May 2009 showing a dark object against storm clouds near Greenvil… 2009The Moscow PyramidSeveral viral clips circulated in December 2009 purporting to show a huge dark pyramid/tetrahedron hovering above or near the Kremlin. Conte… 2009The Würzburg UFO PhotographA witness using the name 'Martin' reported photographing a dark disc-like object near the Main and railway lines in Würzburg on 8 …
2010Hangzhou Airport Closure 2010 — The Radar ContactThe 2010 Hangzhou airport closure: an unidentified radar contact shut Xiaoshan International Airport for about an hour and diverted dozens o… 2010Harbour Mille Incident — NewfoundlandOn the night of January 25, 2010, multiple residents of the small community of Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, observed an… 2011The Hebei Power Plant OctahedronVideo and stills circulated in September 2011 showing a geometrically regular black octahedron apparently suspended near a power-plant compl… 2011The Winsted, Connecticut Light VideoAn anonymous witness leaving a restaurant in Winsted recorded a bright oval/point-like light and said a crowd watched it silently disappear … 2013Aguadilla UFO Video (2013)The 2013 Aguadilla UAP video: authentic CBP thermal footage near Rafael Hernández Airport, Puerto Rico. Explore the apparent water entry, sp… 2013Collahuasi UFO Photographs 2013 — Chile CEFAA InvestigationThe 2013 Collahuasi mine UFO photographs: technicians at a high-altitude Chilean copper mine reported a bright disc-like object, later analy… 2013Eight-Pointed Star UAP 2013 — PR38PURSUE PR38: the 2013 Middle East infrared UAP video described by AARO as an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with alternat… 2014Chilean Navy UAP 2014 — The CEFAA InvestigationThe 2014 Chilean Navy UAP: infrared footage of an unidentified object, tracked on radar and investigated for two years by CEFAA — ending uni… 2015Gimbal UFO Video (2015) | Navy UAP Case FileThe Gimbal UAP video was recorded by a U.S. Navy F/A-18 crew in January 2015 and officially released by the Pentagon in 2020. Explore the au… 2015Pantex UFO Incident 2015: DOE Report, Radar & Nuclear Site SecurityThe 2015 Pantex nuclear weapons plant UFO incident: DOE-UAP-D005, ground-surveillance radar, CROWS tracking, security witnesses, Sandia-enha… 2015The Miraflores Construction-Site ObjectOn 10 February 2015 the production team of the television programme Alto al Crimen and other observers filmed a violet disc-like object appa… 2015The Object by the Calbuco EruptionVideo from the spectacular April 2015 Calbuco eruption shows a small bright/dark object moving near the growing ash plume. UFO websites prom… 2015The USS Trepang Periscope PhotographsA set of dramatic black-and-white periscope photographs surfaced publicly in 2015 with claims that USS Trepang (SSN-674) photographed enormo… 2016The "Nellis" Blue Disc (Recycled 2016 Clip)A close-looking blue-lit disc clip circulated in 2026 as a new 'Nellis' event, but archived material traces the same footage to Th… 2017MacDill “JP” Triangle Photographs (2017)The 2017 MacDill 'JP' triangle photographs: repeated image sets, an anonymous source, local reporting, the Air Force response, and the prove… 2017The Los Angeles Two-Object Video (2017)A short March 2017 video routed through Korean UFO researcher Jong Han Seo to former MUFON photoanalyst Jeffrey Sainio shows two bright disk… 2017The MacDill "JP" Triangle PhotographsIn 2017, UFO writer Michael Salla published several batches of photographs supplied by an anonymous source he called 'JP', said to… 2018The California Ocean ObjectA short video circulating by May 2018 shows a small dark object apparently holding position or moving low over the ocean off California. The… 20192019 Pacific UAP Videos: PR123–PR127 Navy UAPTF FilesThe five 2019 Pacific UAP videos DOW-UAP-PR123 to PR127: Navy UAPTF custody, official AARO footage, VIRIN links, digital alteration warning,… 2019Eastern U.S. UAP 2019 — PR112 Range FoulerDOW-UAP-PR112: the 2019 Eastern United States range-fouler case in which an experienced USAF/USN observer reported flight characteristics un… 2019USS Omaha Encounter, 2019In July 2019, the USS Omaha encountered multiple spherical UAPs that were tracked on sensors and filmed. The Pentagon later confirmed the fo…
2020DOW-UAP-PR106: Unresolved UAP Report over the Eastern United States (2020)AARO says U.S. Northern Command submitted an 11-second infrared recording from a military platform in 2020 with an accompanying Range Fouler… 2020DOW-UAP-PR116 — The Atlantic “Floating Brain” Range FoulerAARO released 32 seconds of infrared footage from a U.S. military platform tied to a NORTHCOM Range Fouler debrief. The accompanying report … 2020NAG UAP Humanoid Figure 2020 — PR059DOW-UAP-PR059, the 2020 'NAG UAP' military infrared clip: the upright humanoid-like shape, unexplained 2m overlay, nearly five-minute tracki… 2020Western U.S. UAP 2020 — DOW-UAP-PR108DOW-UAP-PR108: the unresolved 2020 Western United States infrared UAP video submitted by NORTHCOM and released by AARO. Full sensor timeline… 2021Gulf of Oman 2021 2021Northeastern Orb Sightings: FBI UAP Videos 2021–2025The FBI's Northeastern Orb Sightings: PR001–PR004, FBI-UAP-D004–D010, 2024 FBI agent observations, eyewitness accounts, authenticated videos… 2021The Na Pali Coast ObjectA bright angular/lozenge-shaped object appears in a photograph associated online with Kauai's Na Pali Coast. An extensive provenance tr… 2021The Third Phase of the Moon DiscA short night video dated 24 March 2021 shows a classic domed saucer with lights over bare trees. No named witness, location, original file … 2021Two Lights over Marion, OhioA short moving-vehicle video from 16 December 2021 shows two bright warm-white lights over Marion, Ohio. 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No named witness, location, scale, raw me… 2022The Colorado Springs "Potato" Over Cheyenne Mountain (FBI PURSUE Files)In February 2022, five U.S. Army personnel at Fort Carson reported a motionless, pale opalescent 'potato'-shaped object over Cheye… 2022The Fairfield County Officer and the Reservoir SphereVeteran Connecticut police officer Robert Klein says that during a midnight shift in April 2022 he encountered an intensely luminous colour-… 2023Greece UAP 2023: DOW-UAP-PR34 Video & 90° TurnsDOW-UAP-PR34 Greece 2023 case file: official Aegean infrared video, reported 90-degree turns, 80 mph estimate, mission report D33 and what t… 2023Indo-Pacific Three-Light UAP 2023 — PR47DOW-UAP-PR47: the 2023 INDOPACOM infrared video showing three areas of contrast that appear to maintain fixed position and orientation relat… 2023Lake Huron UAP Shootdown 2023 — New AARO Video & Debris RecordsThe 12 February 2023 Lake Huron shootdown: NORAD radar track, F-16 engagement, newly released AARO PR071 infrared video, later debris record… 2023Middle East UAP 2023 — PR024 Two Bright ContrastsDOW-UAP-PR024: the 18-second 2023 CENTCOM infrared UAP video showing a tracked dark contrast while two bright areas cross left-to-right. 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The witness described a si… 2026A Grey Sphere Falls Into Cape Cod Bay (20 June 2026)On the evening of 20 June 2026, a couple at Sagamore Beach reported watching a small object descend toward Cape Cod Bay during a storm. One … 2026A Light Over the North Illinois Suburbs (28 June 2026)At about 03:40 on 28 June 2026, a witness in the northern Illinois suburbs filmed faint lights through heavily overcast, light-polluted sky … 2026A Metallic Orb Over Disneyland (3 July 2026)At about 20:20 on 3 July 2026, a Disneyland visitor photographed a small reflective round object above the park after their child pointed it… 2026A Shape-Shifting Light Over Choa Chu Kang (2 July 2026)At about 20:50 on 2 July 2026, a Choa Chu Kang resident filmed and photographed a small blinking light that appeared nearly stationary or sl… 2026A Shimmering Object Over Waterloo (1 July 2026)At about 21:45 on 1 July 2026, a Waterloo witness recorded a small dark object apparently hanging in the twilight sky near a power-line sigh… 2026A Silent Light Over Mancelona, Michigan (17 June 2026)At 04:25 on 17 June 2026 a witness near Mancelona filmed a bright silent light low in the northeast. 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It appe… 2026An Amber Orb Over Pine Creek Near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania (8 June 2026)At dusk on 8 June 2026 a witness near Blackwell filmed a steady amber point above the forested ridge and reportedly watched it hold position… 2026An S-Shaped Object Over L’Aquila, Abruzzo (26 June 2026)At 19:56 on 26 June 2026 a witness in L’Aquila filmed a dark, curved S/5-shaped object drifting in daylight. The original post itself asked … 2026Army UAP 2026 — DOW-UAP-PR49 Infrared ReportDOW-UAP-PR49: the Department of the Army's 2026 infrared UAP report. Two areas of contrast, 1:49 of official military-sensor footage, exact … 2026Black Circular Objects Over the North Sea: Two RAF Airprox in Six DaysTwo RAF Airprox reports six days apart describe small black circular objects at military operating altitudes. 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Multiple… 2026The Colour-Flickering Light over Rural SonoraJust after midnight on 27 June 2026, a witness in rural Sonora filmed a single bright point low over the treeline that flickered white, oran… 2026The Dark Oval Over IllerriedenA witness near Illerrieden reported a dark elongated/oval object on 1 August 2026 and posted a short video after an initial claimed vertical… 2026The Dark Triangle Filmed South of Carrollton, GeorgiaA passenger flying from Jackson, Mississippi to Atlanta posted footage of a dark triangular-looking form near the Alabama/Georgia border on … 2026The Elyria Blue-White OrbAt 06:42 on 11 March 2026, an Elyria resident filmed a bright diffuse orb moving through a cloudy dawn sky and reported that three other loc… 2026The Fort Irwin Night-Vision Clip During PC-C6A night-vision clip posted online in 2026 is claimed to show unusual lights over Fort Irwin on 25 July during Project Convergence-Capstone 6… 2026The Graniteville Sphere (14 June 2026)At about 16:46 on 14 June 2026, a witness in Graniteville filmed a small bright object crossing a partly cloudy sky northwest-to-southeast i… 2026The King Air Crew Over Londrina: "It Gives Us Chills"Around 21:00 on 13 July 2026 the crew of King Air C90 PR-OTE asked Londrina Approach about intense lights west of the city. ATC said a simil… 2026The La Serena Livestream ObjectAt about 20:23 on 2 August 2026 a fixed low-light camera livestreaming the sky over La Serena recorded a small luminous object moving throug… 2026The Lights Over Mission Bay (2026)On 17 July 2026 a San Diego resident filmed clusters of bright lights beyond Mission Bay. SeaWorld was operating a 600-drone summer show nea… 2026The Lights Over Mother Cummings PeakFrom about 6 July 2026, Meander Valley residents—including Mayor Wayne Johnston—reported recurring lights around Mother Cummings Peak on man… 2026The Man in the Wingsuit Over the LAX Approach (14 June 2026)On 14 June 2026 a military Gulfstream transport pilot on approach to LAX reported over ATC that a person had crossed above the aircraft at a… 2026The Roswell Shiny ObjectA short daytime video circulated with a claim that it was recorded over Roswell on 25 March 2026. It shows a bright elongated reflective obj… 2026The Rotating Color-Changing Light Over PragueAt about 23:51 on 9 July 2026 a witness near Prague filmed a single bright stationary point with an iPhone 16 Pro. At high zoom it appeared … 2026The Silent White Sphere Over Montreal (26 July 2026)At 1:08 a.m. on 26 July 2026 a Montreal resident reported a brilliant silent white light making an unusual U-turn before travelling north. F… 2026The Springfield, Ohio White Orb VideoA Springfield resident filmed a bright white object in daylight at about 8 p.m. on 16 June 2026. Three days later local station WHIO identif… 2026The Stationary Daylight Object Over New Castle, ColoradoA fencing crew near New Castle reported watching a bright round or translucent white object remain apparently stationary from about 11:00 un… 2026The UAP Science Advisory CouncilIn June 2026, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb publicly announced that he had been asked to chair a new UAP Science Advisory Council advising… 2026The White Object on the Molokai to Maui ApproachPassenger Tami Dixon told Hawaii News Now that as a Mokulele flight from Molokai approached Kahului on 9 July 2026 and emerged from cloud, s… 2026Three Lights Over Western New YorkAround 9:48 p.m. on 3 July 2026, witnesses in western New York reported several bright lights moving together before fading; accounts vary b… 2026Three Orange Lights Over Laguindingan AirportAt about 7:28 p.m. on 28 June 2026, a witness near Laguindingan Airport reported three orange lights apparently hovering above the airfield … 2026Trump Directs Agencies to Waive UAP Nondisclosure AgreementsOn 21 July 2026, the Trump administration directed agencies to implement a waiver allowing people covered by qualifying UAP-related nondiscl… 2026Two Fireballs Over HerzliyaAt about 10 p.m. on 3 July 2026, a Herzliya witness filmed two amber-orange lights moving slowly together for nearly two minutes. The clip h… 2026Two Metallic Spheres Over Robinson TownshipAt about 16:00 on 30 June 2026, a Robinson Township resident and his fiancée watched two reflective spherical objects cross the daylight sky… 2026Two Orbs Over BairnsdaleAround 19:45 on 27 June 2026, a resident near Bairnsdale filmed faint lights low in the southwest/western sky that appeared to change pace a… 2026Two Orbs Over Helensburgh, ScotlandAt 20:51 on 14 June 2026 a Helensburgh resident filmed two small objects against a daylight overcast for more than five minutes. One appears… 2026Two Sightings in One Day Over Tel Aviv and JerusalemA Reddit user posted a compilation said to combine a dawn Tel Aviv clip of a compact light cluster and a midday Jerusalem clip of scattered … 2026Two Unknown Objects Over the London TMA in Thirty-Two MinutesOn 8 May 2026 two Heathrow departures reported close passes with unknown objects 32 minutes apart in the London TMA. At 17:51 an A320 at FL0…