List of major UFO sightings
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This article is a list of alleged UFO
sightings, including supposed cases of reported close encounter
s and abductions.
Unidentified flying object
A term originally coined by the military, an unidentified flying object is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object...
sightings, including supposed cases of reported close encounter
Close encounter
In ufology, a close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object. This terminology and the system of classification behind it was started by astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek, and was first suggested in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific...
s and abductions.
19th Century
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| 1883-08-12 | José Bonilla Observation José Bonilla Observation On August 12, 1883, the astronomer José Bonilla reported that he saw more than 300 dark, unidentified objects crossing before the sun while observing sunspot activity at Zacatecas Observatory in Mexico. He was able to take several photographs, exposing wet plates at 1/100 second... |
Zacatecas Observatory | Mexico | On August 12, 1883, the astronomer José Bonilla reported that he saw more than 300 dark, unidentified objects crossing the sun disk while observing sunspot activity at Zacatecas Zacatecas, Zacatecas Zacatecas is a city and municipality in Mexico and the capital of the state of Zacatecas. It is located in the north central part of the country. The city had its start as a Spanish mining camp in the mid 16th century. Prior to this, the area's rich deposits in silver and other minerals were known... Observatory in Mexico. He was able to take several photographs, exposing wet plates at 1/100 second. It was subsequently determined that the objects were highflying geese. |
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| 1886-10-24 | Maracaibo Incidence | Maracaibo Maracaibo Maracaibo is a city and municipality located in northwestern Venezuela off the western coast of the Lake Maracaibo. It is the second-largest city in the country after the national capital Caracas and the capital of Zulia state... |
Venezuela Venezuela Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south... |
In a letter printed in the December 18, 1886 issue of Scientific American, page 389, the US consul of Venezuela in Maracaibo reported a UFO sighting. A bright object, accompanied with a humming noise, appeared during thunderstorm over a hut near Maracaibo, causing its occupants to display symptoms similar to radiation poisoning. Nine days later the trees surrounding the hut withered and died. | |
| 1897-04-17 | Aurora Texas UFO Incident Aurora Texas UFO Incident The Aurora UFO Incident is a UFO incident that reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897 in Aurora, Texas, a small town in the northwest corner of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The incident reportedly resulted in a fatality from the crash... |
Aurora, Texas Aurora, Texas Aurora is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. The population was 853 at the 2000 census.Aurora was also a town in Jefferson County, Texas, near the mouth of Taylor Bayou on Sabine Lake... |
United States | There were reports of an alleged UFO crash and a burial of its alien pilot in the local cemetery. |
20th Century
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| 1908-06-30 | Tunguska event Tunguska event The Tunguska event, or Tunguska blast or Tunguska explosion, was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 7:14 a.m... |
Podkamennaya Tunguska River Podkamennaya Tunguska River The Podkamennaya Tunguska is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia; it is an eastern tributary of the Yenisei and has a length of . The name of the river comes from the fact that it flows under pebble fields without open water... |
Russian Empire Russian Empire The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union... |
A massive explosion, conjectured to be from a comet Comet A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet... or meteoroid Meteoroid A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System. The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere is called a meteor, or colloquially a shooting star or falling star. If a meteoroid reaches the ground and survives impact, then it is called a meteorite... . UFO conspiracy theorists however class it as an exploding UFO. |
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Miracle of the Sun | Fátima Fátima, Portugal Fátima is a city in Portugal famous for the Marian apparitions, recognized by the Catholic Church, that took place there in 1917. The town itself has a population of 7,756 and is located in the municipality of Ourém, in the Centro Region and Médio Tejo Subregion... |
Portugal | Thousands of people observed the sun gyrate and descend. This was later reinterpreted by Jacques Vallée Jacques Vallée Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.... , Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada as a possible UFO sighting, but not recognized as such due to cultural differences. |
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| 1940s | Foo fighter Foo fighter The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific Theater of Operations.... |
Small metallic spheres and colorful balls of light repeatedly spotted and occasionally photographed worldwide by bomber crews during World War II. | |||
| 1942 | Hopeh Incident Hopeh Incident The Hopeh Incident refers to a UFO that was supposedly spotted and photographed over Hebei, China in 1942.-Discovery:Masujiro Kiru had found the photograph while looking through his father's photo album during World War II. His father had purchased the photograph from a Tianjin street photographer... |
Hopeh Hebei ' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei... |
China | A UFO was spotted and photographed. | |
| 1942-02-24 | Battle of Los Angeles Battle of Los Ángeles The Battle of Los Ángeles was a military action fought on March 22, 1880 between the Chilean and Peruvian armies during the Tacna and Arica Campaign of the War of the Pacific... |
Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California... |
United States | Unidentified aerial objects trigger the firing of thousands of anti-aircraft rounds and raise the wartime alert status. | |
| 1946 | Ghost rockets Ghost rockets Ghost Rockets Danish Spøgelsesraketter were mysterious rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.... |
Scandinavia | Objects were sighted repeatedly over Scandinavia; Swedish Defense Staff expressed concern. | ||
| 1946-05-18 | UFO-Memorial Ängelholm UFO-Memorial Ängelholm The UFO-Memorial Ängelholm is a shrine dedicated to a supposed UFO landing in Kronoskogen, a suburb of Ängelholm, Sweden. Few such memorials exist in Europe... |
Ängelholm Municipality Ängelholm Municipality Ängelholm Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Ängelholm.... |
Sweden | Gösta Karlsson reports seeing a UFO and its alien passengers. A model of a flying saucer is now erected at the site. | |
| 1947-06-21 | Maury Island incident Maury Island incident The Maury Island Incident is said to be an early modern UFO encounter incident, which allegedly took place in June 1947, three days before the famous sighting by Kenneth Arnold, widely considered the original encounter with flying saucers. It is also one of the earliest reported instances of an... |
Washington | United States | Harold A. Dahl reported that his dog was killed and his son was injured by encounters with UFOs. He also claimed that a witness was threatened by the Men in Black Men in Black Men in Black , in American popular culture and in UFO conspiracy theories, are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen. It is sometimes implied that they may be aliens themselves... . |
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| 1947-06-24 | Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting was an incident on June 24, 1947, where private pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at then unheard of supersonic speeds that Arnold clocked at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour... |
Washington | United States | The UFO sighting that sparked the name flying saucers. | |
| 1947-07-08 | Roswell UFO incident Roswell UFO incident The Roswell UFO Incident was the recovery of an object that crashed in the general vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico, in June or July 1947, allegedly an extra-terrestrial spacecraft and its alien occupants. Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and of... |
Roswell, New Mexico Roswell, New Mexico Roswell is a city in and the county seat of Chaves County in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico, United States. The population was 48,366 at the 2010 census. It is a center for irrigation farming, dairying, ranching, manufacturing, distribution, and petroleum production. It is also... |
United States | United States Army Air Forces United States Army Air Forces The United States Army Air Forces was the military aviation arm of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II, and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force.... allegedly captures a flying saucer. |
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| 1948 | Green fireballs Green Fireballs Green fireballs are a type of unidentified flying object which have been sighted in the sky since the late 1940s . Early sightings primarily occurred in the southwestern United States, particularly in New Mexico... |
United States | Objects reported over several United States military bases; an official investigation followed. | ||
| 1948-01-07 | Mantell UFO Incident | Kentucky Kentucky The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth... |
United States | US Air Force sent a fighter pilot to investigate a UFO sighting over Fort Knox, Kentucky; the pilot was killed while pursuing the UFO. | |
| 1948-07-24 | Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter The Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter occurred on July 24, 1948 when two American commercial pilots reported that their Douglas DC-3 had nearly collided with a strange torpedo shaped object flying near them.... |
Alabama Alabama Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland... |
United States | Chiles and Whitted, American commercial pilots, reported that their aeroplane had nearly collided with a UFO | |
| 1948-10-01 | Gorman Dogfight Gorman Dogfight The Gorman UFO Dogfight was a widely-publicized UFO incident. It occurred on October 1, 1948 in the skies over Fargo, North Dakota, and involved George F. Gorman, a pilot with the North Dakota National Guard. In 1956, USAF Captain Edward J... |
North Dakota North Dakota North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S.... |
United States | A US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes over Fargo, North Dakota Fargo, North Dakota Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777... . |
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| 1950 | Mariana UFO Incident | Great Falls, Montana Great Falls, Montana Great Falls is a city in and the county seat of Cascade County, Montana, United States. The population was 58,505 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Great Falls, Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Cascade County... |
United States | The manager of Great Falls' pro baseball team took color film of two UFOs flying over Great Falls. The film was extensively analyzed by the US Air Force and independent investigators. | |
| 1950-05-11 | McMinnville UFO photographs McMinnville UFO photographs The McMinnville UFO photographs were taken on a farm near McMinnville, Oregon in 1950. The photos were reprinted in LIFE magazine and in newspapers across the nation, and are often considered to be among the most famous ever taken of a UFO... |
McMinnville, Oregon McMinnville, Oregon McMinnville is the county seat and largest city of Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. According to Oregon Geographic Names, it was named by its founder, William T. Newby , an early immigrant on the Oregon Trail, for his hometown of McMinnville, Tennessee... |
United States | Two farmers took pictures of a purported "flying saucer." These are among the best known UFO pictures, and continue to be analyzed and debated to this day. | |
| 1951-08-25 | Lubbock Lights Lubbock Lights The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas, from August-September 1951. The Lubbock Lights incident received national publicity and is regarded as one of the first great UFO cases in the United States.... |
Lubbock, Texas Lubbock, Texas Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University... |
United States | Lights were repeatedly spotted flying over the city. Witnesses included professors from Texas Tech University Texas Tech University Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the... and photographed by a Texas Tech student. |
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| 1952-07-13 | 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident The 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap or the Washington National Airport Sightings, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over Washington D.C. The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends, July 19–20... |
Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution.... |
United States | A series of sightings in July 1952 accompanied radar Radar Radar is an object-detection system which uses radio waves to determine the range, altitude, direction, or speed of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. The radar dish or antenna transmits pulses of radio... contacts at three separate airports in the Washington area. The sightings made front page headlines around the nation, and ultimately lead to the formation of the Robertson Panel Robertson Panel The Robertson Panel was a committee commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1952 in response to widespread reports of unidentified flying objects, especially in the Washington, D.C. area. The panel was briefed on U.S... by the CIA. |
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| 1952-07-24 | Carson Sink UFO incident | Nevada Nevada Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its... |
United States | Two pilots saw three unusual Delta-wing aircraft flying in a V-formation over Carson Sink. | |
| 1952-09-12 | Flatwoods monster Flatwoods monster The Flatwoods Monster, also known as the Braxton County Monster or the Phantom of Flatwoods, is an alleged unidentified extraterrestrial or cryptid reported to have been sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, on September 12, 1952... |
Flatwoods, West Virginia Flatwoods, West Virginia Flatwoods is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 348 at the 2000 census. It is found at exit 67 on Interstate 79. The area immediately around the exit has in recent years been commercialized to the point where it now has an outlet mall, a hotel, several gas... |
United States | 6 local boys and a woman report seeing a UFO land, and saw a bizarre-looking creature near the landing site. | |
| 1953-05-21 | Prescott Sightings | Prescott, Arizona Prescott, Arizona Prescott is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. It was designated "Arizona's Christmas City" by Arizona Governor Rose Mofford in the late 1980s.... |
United States | Three Prescott residents sight a total of eight craft at Del Rio Springs Creek, 20 miles north of Prescott. | |
| 1953-06 | Otis AFB | Falmouth, Massachusetts Falmouth, Massachusetts Falmouth is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States; Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 31,531 at the 2010 census.... |
United States | A U.S Air Force radar operator and pilot bailed out over Otis Air Force Base because of engine failure, after chasing a UFO. Plane and operator never seen again, though pilot lives and the canopy was the only remnant recovered. | |
| 1953-08-12 | Ellsworth UFO Case Ellsworth UFO Case The Ellsworth UFO case occurred in 1953.-Important Radar-Visual UFO:On August 5 and August 6, 1953 the US Military investigated a UFO incident in Bismarck, North Dakota... |
Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the second most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city's population was 61,272 at the 2010 census, while its metropolitan population was 108,779... |
United States | A UFO appearing as a red glowing light is witnessed by 45 people. The sighting takes place over a two night period. | |
| 1953-11-23 | Felix Moncla Felix Moncla First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla, Jr. was a United States Air Force pilot who mysteriously disappeared while pursuing an unidentified flying object over Lake Superior in 1953... |
Lake Superior Lake Superior Lake Superior is the largest of the five traditionally-demarcated Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, and to the south by the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is the largest freshwater lake in the... |
United States - Canada | U.S Air Force Pilot disappears while pursuing a UFO. | |
| 1955-08-21 | Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, also known as the Hopkinsville Goblins Case, and to a lesser extent the Kelly Green Men Case, is the name given to a series of presumably connected incidents of alleged close encounters with supposed extraterrestrial beings... |
Kentucky Kentucky The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth... |
United States | A group of strange, goblin-like creatures are reported to have attacked a family. The family shot at them several times with little or no effect. | |
| 1957 | Antonio Villas Boas Antonio Villas Boas Antonio Villas Boas was a Brazilian farmer who claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials in 1957... |
São Francisco de Sales São Francisco de Sales São Francisco de Sales is a municipality in the west of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 5,167 in a total area of 1,129 km². It became a municipality in 1962.-Location:... |
Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people... |
Antonio Villas Boas claimed to have been abducted and examined by aliens. He also claimed to have had sex with an alien woman while aboard the UFO. | |
| 1957-05-03 | Edwards Air Force Base UFO | California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area... |
United States | Jack Gettys and James Bittick, who were filming base installations on behalf of Gordon Cooper Gordon Cooper Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. , also known as Gordon Cooper, was an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and NASA astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space effort by the United States... , observed the landing and departure of a flying disk. Their film evidence was sent to Washington. |
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| 1957-05-20 | Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter The Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter is a case reported by a former jet pilot in the United States Air Force, Milton John Torres, of Miami, Florida. On May 20, 1957, the 25-year-old Torres was ordered on a mission to intercept and shoot down a large UFO that had been picked up by radar in the skies... |
East Anglia East Anglia East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of... |
United Kingdom | US Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres reports that he was ordered to interecept and fire on a UFO displaying "very unusual flight patterns" over East Anglia East Anglia East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of... . Ground radar operators had tracked the object for some time before Torres' plane was scrambled to intercept. |
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| 1957-11-02 | Levelland UFO Case Levelland UFO Case The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2-3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas. Levelland, which in 1957 had a population of about 10,000, is located west of Lubbock on the flat prairie of the Texas panhandle... |
Levelland, Texas Levelland, Texas Levelland is a city in Hockley County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 13,542. It is the county seat of Hockley County. It is located on the Llano Estacado, west of Lubbock. Major industries include cotton farming and petroleum production... |
United States | Numerous motorists reported seeing a glowing, egg-shaped object which caused their vehicle's engines to shut down. When the object flew away, their vehicles restarted without a problem. | |
| 1958-01-16 | The Trindade Island's UFO The Trindade Island's UFO The Trindade Island's UFO refers to a unidentified flying object which was seen and photographed over the Trindade Island on January 16, 1958. The photographs were rumored as being a hoax. In August 2010, a major TV show in Brazil aired information stating that the original photographer had made... |
Trindade Island | Brazil | Some members of the crew of the ship Almirante Saldanha saw a UFO. The photographer Almiro Barauna took three photos of the object. | |
| 1959 | Dyatlov Pass incident | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , commonly referred to as Soviet Russia, Bolshevik Russia, or simply Russia, was the largest, most populous and economically developed republic in the former Soviet Union.... |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | Mysterious deaths of experienced skiers in the Urals Ural Mountains The Ural Mountains , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan. Their eastern side is usually considered the natural boundary between Europe and Asia... is believed to have been caused by "unidentified orange spheres" and an "unknown compelling force". |
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| 1959-06-26&27 | Father William Booth Gill sighting | Boianai | Papua New Guinea | Missionary and 25 witnesses see UFO and occupants. | |
| 1961-09-19 | Betty and Barney Hill abduction Betty and Barney Hill abduction Betty and Barney Hill were an American couple who claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of New Hampshire on September 19–20, 1961.... |
New Hampshire New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian... |
United States | A widely publicized alien abduction experience. | |
| 1964-04-24 | Lonnie Zamora Lonnie Zamora Lonnie Zamora was a New Mexico police officer who reported a UFO sighting while on duty on Friday, April 24, 1964, near Socorro, New Mexico.... |
Socorro, New Mexico Socorro, New Mexico Socorro is a city in Socorro County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It stands in the Rio Grande Valley at an elevation of . The population was 9,051 at the 2010 census... |
United States | Police officer Zamora reports a close encounter. | |
| 1964-09-04 | Donald Shrum | Cisco Grove, California Cisco Grove, California Cisco Grove is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. Cisco Grove is located east of Emigrant Gap. It lies at an elevation of 5643 feet .... |
United States | Humanoids and robots allegedly attempted to abduct hunter. | |
| 1965-03-09 | Exeter incident Exeter incident The Exeter incident was a highly-publicized UFO sighting that occurred on September 3, 1965 approximately 5 miles from Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring community of Kensington... |
Exeter, New Hampshire Exeter, New Hampshire Exeter is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The town's population was 14,306 at the 2010 census. Exeter was the county seat until 1997, when county offices were moved to neighboring Brentwood... |
United States | UFO observed by a teenager and two police officers. | |
| 1965-12-09 | Kecksburg UFO incident Kecksburg UFO incident The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on December 9, 1965 at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, USA. A large, brilliant fireball was seen by thousands in at least six U.S. states and Ontario, Canada... |
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Kecksburg is an unincorporated community in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It is located along PA Route 982 in a heavily wooded area about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh at an elevation of 1,209 feet.- UFO incident :... |
United States | Mass sighting of a falling UFO, followed by a cordoning-off of the crash site. | |
| 1966 | The Mothman Prophecies The Mothman Prophecies The Mothman Prophecies is a 1975 book by author John Keel.The book combines Keel's account of his investigation into alleged sightings of a large, winged creature called Mothman in the vicinity of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, during 1966 and 1967 with his own theories about UFOs and various... |
Point Pleasant, West Virginia Point Pleasant, West Virginia Point Pleasant is a city in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The population was 4,637 at the 2000 census... |
United States | A wave of sightings of a winged humanoid is reported to be connected to other mysterious events including sightings of UFOs. | |
| 1966-04-06 | Westall UFO | Clayton South Clayton South, Victoria Clayton South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Kingston. At the 2006 Census, Clayton South had a population of 10,644.-History:... , Victoria Victoria (Australia) Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively.... |
Australia | A sighting by hundreds of people. Witnesses of "The Clayton Incident" still gather for reunions. | |
| 1966-04-17 | Portage County UFO chase Portage County UFO Chase The Portage County UFO Chase was an unidentified flying object encounter that began in Portage County, Ohio on the morning of April 17, 1966, when police officers Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff observed a metallic, disc shaped object flying in the skies.... |
Ohio Ohio Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus... |
United States | Several police officers pursue a UFO for 30 minutes. | |
| 1966-10-11 | The Grinning Man | Elizabeth, New Jersey Elizabeth, New Jersey Elizabeth is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 124,969, retaining its ranking as New Jersey's fourth largest city with an increase of 4,401 residents from its 2000 Census population of 120,568... |
United States | A tall man with no nose or ears is sighted in a neighborhood shortly after UFO sighting. | |
| 1967-05-20 | Falcon Lake Incident Falcon Lake Incident The Falcon Lake Incident is a reported unidentified flying object encounter near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada claimed to have occurred on May 20, 1967 by Stefan Michalak.-Incident:... |
Falcon Lake, Manitoba | Canada | A UFO's exhaust allegedly burns a man. | |
| 1967-08-29 | Close encounter of Cussac Close encounter of Cussac The Close encounter of Cussac is the name given to an event which happened to a young brother and sister in Cussac, Cantal, France in August 1967... |
Cussac, Cantal Cussac, Cantal Cussac is a commune in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region in south-central France.-History:On August 29, 1967, two young siblings claimed to have been the witnesses of a close encounter with a UFO and its occupants; the incident is now known as the close encounter of... |
France | A young brother and sister claim to have witnessed a UFO and its occupants. | |
| 1967-09-01 | Snippy the Horse Mutilation | San Luis Valley, Colorado | United States | Alien related animal mutilation - widely considered to be the first claimed and documented unusual animal death case, related to UFOs and Aliens. | |
| 1967-10-04 | Shag Harbour incident | Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia Shag Harbour is a small fishing village found along the South Shore of Nova Scotia. It is one of several small villages found in the Municipality of Barrington, Shelburne County. It has a population of roughly 400-450... |
Canada | A UFO was seen crashing into Shag Harbor Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia Shag Harbour is a small fishing village found along the South Shore of Nova Scotia. It is one of several small villages found in the Municipality of Barrington, Shelburne County. It has a population of roughly 400-450... . A Canadian naval search followed, and officially referred to the incident as a UFO crash. |
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| 1967-12-03 | Schirmer Abduction Schirmer Abduction Nebraska Police Sergeant Herbert Schirmer claimed that he was abducted by extraterrestrials on December 3, 1967, while in Ashland, Nebraska. His case was one of those investigated in the Condon Report. He flew to Boulder, Colorado and was examined under hypnosis by psychologist Dr. R... |
Ashland, Nebraska Ashland, Nebraska Ashland is a city in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 2,262 at the 2000 census.- History :Ashland is located at the site of a low-water limestone ledge along the bottom of Salt Creek, an otherwise mud-bottomed stream that was a formidable obstacle for wagon trains on the... |
United States | Sergeant Herbert Schirmer claimed he was abducted. | |
| 1969 | Jimmy Carter UFO incident Jimmy Carter UFO incident The Jimmy Carter UFO Incident is the name given to an incident in which Jimmy Carter reported seeing an unidentified flying object while at Leary, Georgia in 1969.... |
Leary Leary, Georgia Leary is a city in Calhoun County, Georgia in the United States. The population was 666 at the 2000 census. Seattle Mariners third baseman Chone Figgins was born in Leary.-Geography:Leary is located at .... , Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788... |
United States | Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office... 's sighting. |
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| 1973-10-11 | Pascagoula Abduction Pascagoula Abduction The Pascagoula Abduction occurred in 1973 when co-workers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed that they were abducted by aliens while fishing near Pascagoula, Mississippi... |
Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi... |
United States | Alien abduction of victims who were fishing on the Pascagoula River Pascagoula River The Pascagoula River is a river, about 80 mi long, in southeastern Mississippi in the United States. The river drains an area of about 8,800 sq mi and flows into Mississippi Sound of the Gulf of Mexico.... . |
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| 1973-10-17 | Eglin Air Force Base Eglin Air Force Base Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately 3 miles southwest of Valparaiso, Florida in Okaloosa County.... Sighting |
Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it... |
United States | An unidentified object was tracked by a Duke Field Duke Field Duke Field , also known as Eglin AFB Auxiliary Field #3, is a military airport located three miles south of the central business district of Crestview, in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States-Units:... radar unit during the same time period, and within the same area, that 10 to 15 people observed four strange objects flying in formation between Milton, Florida Milton, Florida Milton , or Milltown, because Milton had the largest mill around) is a city in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. The city was incorporated in 1844 and is home to Naval Air Station Whiting Field. The population was 7,045 at the 2000 census. In 2004, the population recorded by the U.S... , and Crestview, Florida Crestview, Florida Crestview is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. Crestview’s name was chosen because of its location on the peak of a long woodland range between the Yellow and Shoal rivers which flow almost parallel on the east and west side of the City.... , along Interstate 10 Interstate 10 Interstate 10 is the fourth-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, after I-90, I-80, and I-40. It is the southernmost east–west, coast-to-coast Interstate Highway, although I-4 and I-8 are further south. It stretches from the Pacific Ocean at State Route 1 in Santa Monica,... , according to Eglin officials. Reports from the base indicated that a bright glowing ball of light could be seen travelling parallel with an Air Force C-130 aircraft but at a much higher altitude. |
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| 1974-01-23 | Berwyn Mountain UFO incident | Llandrillo Llandrillo, Denbighshire Llandrillo is a small village and community in Denbighshire in Wales, between Bala, and Corwen on the B4401 road. It was historically in the county of Meirionnydd, and has a population of 587.... , Merionethshire Merionethshire Merionethshire is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, a vice county and a former administrative county.The administrative county of Merioneth, created under the Local Government Act 1888, was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 on April 1, 1974... , North Wales North Wales North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England... |
United Kingdom | An alleged UFO crash involving lights in the sky moments before a large impact shock. The cause of the incident was however soon revealed as a 3.5 magnitude earthquake. | |
| 1975-11-05 | Travis Walton | Arizona Arizona Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix... |
United States | Logger Travis Walton reports being abducted by aliens for five days. Walton's six workmates claimed to have witnessed the UFO at the start of his abduction. Walton described the event and its aftermath in The Walton Experience, which was dramatized in the film Fire in the Sky Fire in the Sky Fire in the Sky is a 1993 film based on an alleged extraterrestrial encounter, directed by Robert Lieberman, and written by Tracy Tormé based on Travis Walton's book The Walton Experience. The film stars Robert Patrick in the leading role as Walton's best friend and future brother-in-law, Mike... . |
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| 1976-06-22 | 1976 Canary Isles sightings 1976 Canary Island UFO Sighting The 1976 Canary Island UFO sighting was a UFO incident that occurred over the Canary Islands on the 22nd of June 1976. The sighting is notable for several reasons:* Duration; the encounter lasted over 40+ minutes.... |
Canary Islands Canary Islands The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union... |
Spain | Several lights and a spherical transparent blue craft, piloted by two beings was reported. | |
| 1976-08-20 | Allagash Abductions Allagash Abductions The Allagash Abduction is a purported UFO sighting and alien abduction which is alleged to have occurred in 1976.-The UFO incidents:The witnesses said the incident started on August 20, 1976 when four men, all in their early-twenties, ventured on a camping trip into the wilderness near Allagash,... |
Maine Maine Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost... |
United States | Four campers claimed to have been abducted by alien beings in the Allagash wilderness. | |
| 1976-09-19 | 1976 Tehran UFO incident 1976 Tehran UFO Incident The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident was a radar and visual sighting of an unidentified flying object over Tehran, the capital of Iran, during the early morning hours of 19 September 1976... |
Tehran Tehran Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to... |
Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia... |
A UFO disabled the electronic equipment of two F-4 interceptor aircraft, along with ground control equipment, a event thoroughly documented in the U.S. DIA Dia Dia is free and open source general-purpose diagramming software, developed originally by Alexander Larsson. Dia uses a controlled single document interface similar to GIMP and Sodipodi.- Features :... report. The Iranian generals involved in the incident claimed the object was extraterrestrial Extraterrestrial life Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth... . |
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| 1977 | Colares UFO flap | Colares | Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people... |
A bewildering account of an island attacked by UFOs shooting harmful beams of radioactive light at the residents. | |
| 1978-05-10 | Emilcin Abduction Emilcin Abduction Emilcin Abduction was a supposed alien abduction of farmer, Jan Wolski in May 1978. There was little media attention at the time. A monument was subsequently erected in Emilcin, Poland, at the site where the abduction is said to have taken place.... |
Emilcin Emilcin Emilcin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Opole Lubelskie, within Opole Lubelskie County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Opole Lubelskie and west of the regional capital Lublin.... |
Poland | A man in Emilcin Emilcin Emilcin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Opole Lubelskie, within Opole Lubelskie County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Opole Lubelskie and west of the regional capital Lublin.... , Poland is said to have been abducted by "grays." There is now a memorial at the site. |
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| 1978-10-21 | Valentich Disappearance Valentich Disappearance The Valentich disappearance refers to the unexplained disappearance on 21 October 1978 of 20-year-old Frederick Valentich while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait in Australia... |
Victoria Victoria (Australia) Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively.... |
Australia | Contacting air traffic control, an Australian pilot reported seeing a UFO before his aircraft vanished. | |
| 1978-12-21 | Kaikoura lights Kaikoura lights The Kaikoura lights is a name given by the New Zealand media to a series of sightings that occurred in December 1978, over the skies above the Kaikoura mountain ranges of the northeastern South Island of New Zealand... |
South Island South Island The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean... |
New Zealand | A series of sightings by a Safe Air freight plane; the airplane was escorted by strange lights that changed color and size. | |
| 1979-08-27 | Val Johnson Incident Val Johnson Incident In UFOlogy, the Val Johnson Incident refers to an alleged encounter by Marshall County, Minnesota Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson with a UFO in 1979.-Incident:... |
Marshall County, Minnesota Marshall County, Minnesota Marshall County is a county located in the U.S. State of Minnesota. In 2010, the population was 9,439. It's county seat is Warren.-Geography:... |
United States | A deputy sheriff spotted a bright light which appeared to have collided with his patrol car and damaged it. The deputy also suffered temporary retinal damage from the "light". | |
| 1979-11-09 | Robert Taylor incident Robert Taylor incident The Robert Taylor Incident, sometimes also referred to as the Livingston Incident or the Dechmont Woods Encounter is the name given an event which occurred on Dechmont Law near Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland in 1979, in which local forester Robert "Bob" Taylor reported encountering an... |
Livingston, Scotland | United Kingdom | A forester, Bob Taylor, was pulled by two spiked globes towards a UFO, which stood on a clearing. He lost consciousness and afterwards had trouble walking and speaking. He was also constantly thirsty for several days. | |
| 1979-11-11 | Manises UFO Incident Manises UFO Incident The Manises UFO incident took place on 11 November 1979, forcing a commercial flight to make an emergency landing at theManises' airport in Valencia, Spain.-Incident Details:... |
Valencia | Spain | Three large UFOs forced a commercial flight to make an emergency landing at Manises Airport Valencia Airport Valencia Airport in Manises , also known as Manises Airport, is the 8th busiest Spanish airport in terms of passengers and second in the region after Alicante. It is situated west of the city of Valencia. The airport has flight connections to about 15 European countries and 4.9 million passengers... . |
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| 1980-12-28 | Rendlesham Forest Incident Rendlesham Forest Incident The Rendlesham Forest Incident is the name given to a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of a craft or multiple craft of unknown origin in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, in late December 1980, just outside RAF Woodbridge, used at the time by the U.S.... |
Suffolk Suffolk Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east... , England |
United Kingdom | A sighting by military personnel, which at first appeared to be a downed aircraft. | |
| 1980-12-29 | Cash-Landrum incident Cash-Landrum incident The Cash-Landrum Incident was a reported Unidentified Flying Object sighting from the United States in 1980, which the witnesses insist was responsible for damage to their health... |
New Caney, Texas New Caney, Texas New Caney is an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Texas, United States within the metropolitan area. In 1980, population reached estimated 8000.-History:... |
United States | A huge diamond-shaped UFO irradiates three witnesses, who all required treatment for radiation poisoning Radiation poisoning Acute radiation syndrome also known as radiation poisoning, radiation sickness or radiation toxicity, is a constellation of health effects which occur within several months of exposure to high amounts of ionizing radiation... . The UFO was escorted by military helicopters. The victims have since sued the US Government. |
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| 1981-01-08 | Trans-en-Provence Case Trans-en-Provence Case The Trans-en-Provence Case is one of the rare cases where a UFO is said to have left physical evidence, in the form of burnt residue from a field. The event took place on January 8, 1981, outside the town of Trans-en-Provence in the French département of Var... |
Trans-en-Provence Trans-en-Provence Trans-en-Provence is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.-Air well:-References:*... |
France | Renato Nicolai, a farmer, saw an object which had the shape of two saucers, one inverted on top of the other. The UFO left physical evidence on the ground, in the form of mechanical pressure and burnt residue on the grass. | |
| 1986-11-17 | Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident Japan Air Lines flight 1628 was a UFO incident that occurred on November 17, 1986 involving a Japanese cargo jumbo freighter aircraft. The aircraft was en route from Paris to Narita, Tokyo with a cargo of Beaujolais wine. On the Reykjavík to Anchorage section of the flight, at 5:11 PM over eastern... |
Alaska Alaska Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait... |
United States | A group of UFOs flew alongside Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 for 50 minutes above Northeastern Alaska. One of the objects trailing the Boeing 747 Boeing 747 The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and was the first wide-body ever produced... was detected by military radar. |
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| 1987-11-11 | Gulf Breeze UFO incident Gulf Breeze UFO incident The Gulf Breeze UFO incident is a famous series of UFO sightings which occurred beginning on November 11, 1987.Gulf Breeze was a small city in Florida of approximately 6,000 at the time of a wave of UFO sightings that began in late 1987... |
Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it... |
United States | Ed Walters, a building contractor, saw a UFO and took photos of it. Walters continued to see UFOs for three weeks and he documented the sightings taking photos. Today most investigators think that the Walters' photos are faked, but other people in Gulf Breeze claimed UFO sightings during the same period. | |
| 1990-03-30 | Belgian UFO wave Belgian UFO wave The Belgian UFO wave refers to a series of sightings of triangular UFOs in Belgium, which lasted from 29 November 1989 to April 1990.The main picture of the Belgian UFO Wave is the Petit-Rechain picture. For 20 years, the ufological organisation Société Belge d'Etudes des Phénomènes Spatiaux ... |
Ans Ans Ans is a small Belgian municipality located in the Walloon province of Liège. On January 1, 2006 Ans had a total population of 27,322. The total area is 23.35 km² which gives a population density of 1,170 inhabitants per km²... , Wallonia |
Belgium | Mass sighting of large, silent, low-flying black triangles, which were tracked by multiple NATO radar and jet interceptors, and investigated by Belgium's military. Photographic evidence exists. | |
| 1991-09-15 | STS-48 incident | Space Shuttle Discovery Space Shuttle Discovery Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States, and was operational from its maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during STS-133 on March 9, 2011... while in orbit Orbit In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space, for example the orbit of a planet around the center of a star system, such as the Solar System... |
Outer space Outer space Outer space is the void that exists between celestial bodies, including the Earth. It is not completely empty, but consists of a hard vacuum containing a low density of particles: predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium, as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, and neutrinos.... |
Video taken during mission STS-48 STS-48 -Mission parameters:*Mass:**Orbiter landing with payload: **Payload: *Perigee: *Apogee: *Inclination: 57.0°*Period: 96.2 min-Mission highlights:... shows a flash of light and several objects, apparently flying in an artificial or controlled fashion. NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... explained them as ice particles reacting to engine jets. Philip C. Plait, in his book Bad Astronomy Bad Astronomy Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" is a non-fiction book by the American astronomer Phil Plait, also known as "the Bad Astronomer"... , agreed with NASA, but Jack Kasher proposed five arguments against them being ice particles. James Oberg James Oberg James Edward Oberg is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian space program.-Biography:... disputed these, and Lan Fleming argued that the shuttle's exhaust plume as not the cause of the flash of light that preceded the objects' abrupt change of course. Mark J. Carlotto noted that one of the objects apparently had three lobes arranged in a triangular pattern. |
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| 1994-06 | Meng Zhaoguo Incident Meng Zhaoguo incident In June 1994, while working at the Red Flag logging camp in the northwest portion of Wuchang, Meng Zhaoguo and two coworkers alleged they had seen a strange metallic shine coming from Mount Phoenix. Meng went to investigate what he thought was a downed helicopter... |
Wuchang | China | Meng claimed to have been abducted and forced to have sexual intercourse with a 10 feet (3 m), six fingered, female alien with braided leg fur. | |
| 1995-5-25 | America West Airlines Flight 564 | Bovina, Texas Bovina, Texas Bovina is a city in Parmer County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,874 at the 2000 census.One of the best-known Bovina residents was John Elmo Sherrill, Jr. , who held four different public offices in Bovina and Parmer County, including Bovina alderman, mayor , school board member, and... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
A 300-400 foot long cigar-shaped UFO with rotating strobe light followed an America West Boeing 757 Boeing 757 The Boeing 757 is a mid-size, narrow-body twin-engine jet airliner manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Passenger versions of the twinjet have a capacity of 186 to 289 persons and a maximum range of , depending on variant and cabin configuration... |
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| 1996-01-20 | Varginha UFO incident Varginha UFO incident The Varginha incident is an incident in information transmission in Brazil broadcasting. In 1996, popular reports informed that strange creatures were supposedly captured by Brazilian officials... |
Varginha Varginha Varginha is a city and municipality in southwest Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The estimated population is approximately 120,000 inhabitants and the area of the municipality is 396.39 km²... , Minas Gerais Minas Gerais Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the... |
Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people... |
Multiple sightings and the alleged capture of an alien by the Brazilian military. | |
| 1996-12-02 | STS-80 incidents | Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107. All seven crew... while in orbit Orbit In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space, for example the orbit of a planet around the center of a star system, such as the Solar System... |
Outer space Outer space Outer space is the void that exists between celestial bodies, including the Earth. It is not completely empty, but consists of a hard vacuum containing a low density of particles: predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium, as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, and neutrinos.... |
A video taken during mission STS-80 STS-80 -Mission parameters:* Mass: payload* Perigee: * Apogee: * Inclination: 28.5°* Period: 91.5 min-Mission highlights:* The mission deployed two satellites and successfully recovered them after they had performed their tasks.... of the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107. All seven crew... was analyzed by Mark J. Carlotto. It included three unusual phenomena Phenomenon A phenomenon , plural phenomena, is any observable occurrence. Phenomena are often, but not always, understood as 'appearances' or 'experiences'... : two slow-moving circular objects; a strange rapidly moving burst of light near the Earth's surface; and a number of object traces near the shuttle. The first two may be shuttle debris and an unusual atmospheric phenomenon. An analysis of the object traces near the shuttle suggested they were not shuttle debris or meteors, though James Oberg James Oberg James Edward Oberg is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian space program.-Biography:... deemed them to be nearby sunlit debris. |
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| 1997-03-13 | Phoenix Lights Phoenix Lights The Phoenix Lights were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects observed in the skies over the U.S... , or "lights over Phoenix" |
Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data... |
United States | Lights and craft of varying descriptions, most notably a V-shaped pattern, were seen by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles, from the Nevada Nevada Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its... line, through Phoenix Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data... , to the edge of Tucson Tucson, Arizona Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200... . |
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| 2001-03-19 | STS-102 The Washington Sequence | Space Shuttle Discovery Space Shuttle Discovery Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States, and was operational from its maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during STS-133 on March 9, 2011... while in orbit Orbit In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space, for example the orbit of a planet around the center of a star system, such as the Solar System... |
Outer space Outer space Outer space is the void that exists between celestial bodies, including the Earth. It is not completely empty, but consists of a hard vacuum containing a low density of particles: predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium, as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, and neutrinos.... |
Video broadcast during mission STS-102 STS-102 STS-102 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Discovery and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida... , allegedly recorded by Jeff Challender, shows a flash of light and three objects which performed movements which included starting, stopping, accelerating, and making sudden angled turns. Lan Fleming compared the timing of the flash of light and a course change of one of the objects to the timing of shuttle thruster firings and alleged that the flash and movements could not have been caused by thruster firings. |
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| 2001-07-15 | NJ Turnpike/Carteret Lights Incident | Carteret, New Jersey Carteret, New Jersey Carteret is a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 22,844.Carteret was created as the borough of Roosevelt on 11 April 1906, incorporating Woodbridge Township, and was a result of a referendum on 22 May 1906... |
United States | At least 15 people, including 2 police officers, stopped their cars along the New Jersey Turnpike to view light formations in the night sky. | |
| 2004-03-05 | 2004 Mexican UFO Incident 2004 Mexican UFO Incident On May 13, 2004 Jaime Maussan released his interview of Mexican Air Force pilots showing an infrared video footage from a military air patrol on March 5, 2004 against drug smuggling, that shows at least 11 very hot "spheres" moving irregularly with apparent great speed... |
Mexico | A drug-smuggling air patrol recorded on infrared camera what some claimed to be UFOs. The footage was released by Jaime Maussan Jaime Maussan José Jaime Maussan Flota is a Mexican journalist and Mexico's leading ufologist.- Career :Jaime Maussan studied journalism at the UNAM and the Miami University in Ohio, United States.... . The objects were however convincingly correlated with the burn-off flares of oil platforms. |
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| 2004-10-31 | The Tinley Park Lights Tinley Park Lights The Tinley Park Lights is a reference to a series of five mass UFO sightings which occurred on August 21, 2004, two months later on October 31, 2004, again on October 1 of 2005, and again on October 31, 2006, in Tinley Park and Oak Park, Illinois, suburbs of Chicago... |
Tinley Park, Illinois | United States | A sequence of five mass UFO sightings, first on August 21, 2004, two months later on October 31, 2004, again on October 1 of 2005, and once again on October 31, 2006, in Tinley Park and Oak Park, Chicago. | |
| 2006-11-07 | Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting 2006 | Chicago, Illinois | United States | United Airlines employees and pilots claimed sightings of a saucer-shaped, unlit craft hovering over a Chicago O'Hare Airport terminal, before shooting up vertically. | |
| 2007-04-23 | 2007 Alderney UFO sighting 2007 Alderney UFO sighting On April 23, 2007, captain Ray BowyerRay Bowyer was a flight calibration pilot before qualifying as airline pilot, accumulating 7,000 flight hours by 2010. He flew for eight airlines before serving as line captain for Aurigny Air Services. See Kean, 2010, p... |
Bailiwick of Guernsey Guernsey Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet... |
Crown Dependency | Two airline pilots on separate flights spot UFOs off the coast of Alderney Alderney Alderney is the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The area is , making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick... . |
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| 2007-09-25 | Kodiak Island UFO incident | Kodiak, Alaska Kodiak, Alaska Kodiak is one of 7 communities and the main city on Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough, in the U.S. state of Alaska. All commercial transportation between the entire island and the outside world goes through this city either via ferryboat or airline... |
United States | On September 25, 2007, several Kodiakans saw something fall from the sky Tuesday morning that may have landed in mountainous terrain on Kodiak Island. The incident prompted 911 calls and a helicopter search was launched from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, but no crash site was found. | |
| 2008-01-08 to 2008-02-09 | Stephenville, Texas UFO sightings | Stephenville, Texas Stephenville, Texas Stephenville is a city in and the county seat of Erath County, Texas, United States. The population was 14,921 at the 2000 census. Founded in 1856, it is home to Tarleton State University. Stephenville is among several communities that calls itself the "Cowboy Capital of the... , Dublin Dublin, Texas Dublin is a city located in southwestern Erath County in Central Texas. The population was 3,754 at the time of the 2000 census.The town is the home of the world's oldest Dr Pepper bottling plant... , Texas, Crawford Crawford, Texas Crawford is a town located in western McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is best known as the home of former President of the United States George W. Bush. He currently resides at the Prairie Chapel Ranch, which is located just outside Crawford, Texas.... , Texas |
United States | UFOs were, and are sometimes still reported from this area. One was an object described as 1 miles (1.6 km) by 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in size, spotted over Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas Crawford, Texas Crawford is a town located in western McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is best known as the home of former President of the United States George W. Bush. He currently resides at the Prairie Chapel Ranch, which is located just outside Crawford, Texas.... . The Air Force Air force An air force, also known in some countries as an air army, is in the broadest sense, the national military organization that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army, navy or... has identified the objects as training fighter jets that went unreported due to a "communications problem". |
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| 2008-05 to 2008-09 | 2008 Turkey UFO Sightings 2008 Turkey UFO sightings The 2008 Turkey UFO sightings were a series of videotaped and documented UFO sightings by the 42-year-old Yalcin Yalman, a night guard in Turkey. They occurred between May and September 2008, mostly while the sky was dark , though some of the video is taken at dawn, out over the Sea of Marmara... |
Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and... |
Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe... |
Over a four month span in 2008, a night guard at the Yeni Kent Compound videotaped one or more UFOs over Turkey at nighttime. Many witnesses confirmed the two and a half hours' worth of video, leading the Sirius UFO Space Science Research Center to dub it the "most important images of a UFO ever filmed". | |
| 2008-06-20 | Wales UFO sightings Wales UFO sightings The Wales UFO sightings were unexplained UFO sightings across south Wales in June and September 2008.- Summary :At 00:40 AM, June 8 2008, a South Wales Police helicopter with three experienced crew onboard was above MOD St Athan, an RAF base, waiting to land in order to refuel... |
Different cities, Wales | United Kingdom | According to media reports, a police helicopter was almost hit by a UFO, before it tried to pursue it. Hundreds of people reported to have witnessed a UFO on the same or preceding days, from different areas of Wales. | |
| 2008-06-21 | Moscow UFO sightings | Moscow | Russian Federation | Different people and media (including state-owned) reported sightings of 11 orange UFOs. Further confirmation came from Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea... and Novosibirsk Novosibirsk Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District... . On June 25 a similar report, now with 13 objects, was claimed from the UK. |
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| 2009-01-05 | Morristown UFO Morristown UFO The Morristown UFO hoax, also known as "The Great UFO Hoax of 2009," was originally thought to be an unidentified aerial event that occurred on Monday, January 5, 2009, between 8:15 pm and 9:00 pm... |
Morristown, New Jersey Morristown, New Jersey Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 18,411. It is the county seat of Morris County. Morristown became characterized as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the... |
United States | A confirmed hoax in Morristown, New Jersey, perpetrated by Chris Russo & Joe Rudy who sent up different sets of helium balloons with attached flares. | |
| 2009-12-09 | 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly The Norwegian spiral anomaly of 2009 appeared in the night sky over Norway on 9 December 2009. It was visible from, and photographed from, northern Norway and Sweden. The spiral consisted of a blue beam of light with a greyish spiral emanating from one end of it... |
Finnmark Finnmark or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens... |
Norway and Sweden | A large, circular spinning white light, trailed by a long blue tail over the skies of Norway was spotted by thousands for two minutes around 8:45 am on December 9. The Norwegian media and space center were swamped with calls, and the phenomenon was held to be anything from a UFO to a unique aurora borealis event. The following day Russian authorities confirmed a failed Bulava launch which was what the light was. | |
| 2010-01-25 | Harbour Mille incident Harbour Mille incident The Harbour Mille incident was the reported sightings of multiple unidentified flying objects during the night of January 25, 2010, near Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.- Incident :... |
Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400... |
Canada | At least three UFO's were spotted over Harbour Mille. The objects looked like missiles but emitted no noise. | |
| 2011-02-20 | Vancouver Washington UFO Sighting Vancouver Washington UFO Sighting The Vancouver, Washington UFO sighting occurred over two evenings in February 2011 as reported by many eyewitnesses in the Clear Meadows neighborhood of Vancouver.- Description of events :... |
Vancouver, Washington Vancouver, Washington Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. Incorporated in 1857, it is the fourth largest city in the state with a 2010 census population of 161,791 as of April 1, 2010... |
United States | Stationary green and red blinking lights with limited sideways movements, were recorded on video and still photography. They were witnessed by several residents who live off Southeast 192nd Avenue in Vancouver, Washington. |
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See also
- List of alleged aircraft-UFO incidents and near misses
- List of observations of solar and lunar transits of unknown objects
- List of unexplained explosion events