UFO Sightings Map: The Investigation Board

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Every clipping below is a real case, pinned where the investigation left it. Verdicts are handwritten on each one: verified unexplained (the material is authenticated, the object is not explained), disputed, unknown (no official narrative exists), and discredited.

• 1965 Case fileClose encounter / triangular object

  A UFO Illuminates a Police Car at Damon, Texas (1965)

  Highway 36 between Damon and West Columbia, Brazoria County, Texas, USA · 3 September 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 on Texas Highway 36, heading… Verified Unexplained
• 1952 Case fileMilitary aviator sighting

  Navy Aviators Encounter Three Discs Over Thule (1952)

  West of Thule Air Base, near Qaanaaq, Baffin Bay, Greenland · 29 August 1952 On the morning of 29 August 1952, a four-aircraft detachment of Patrol Squadron VP-23 was… Verified Unexplained West of Thule Air Base, Greenland
• 2007 Case filePilot / radar-visual

  The Alderney Channel Islands Pilot Sighting

  English Channel west of Alderney, Channel Islands · 23 April 2007 At about 3pm on Monday 23 April 2007 Captain Ray Bowyer, a fifty-year-old pilot with around… Verified Unexplained
• 1991 Case fileAviation encounter

  The Alitalia Near-Miss Over Kent

  Over Lydd and Romney Marsh, Kent, England · 21 April 1991 On the evening of 21 April 1991, Alitalia flight AZ284, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 registered I-DAWC, was inbound from Milan-Linate to London Heathrow with 57 people on… Verified Unexplained
• 1966 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Beverly, Massachusetts Close Encounter

  Beverly, Massachusetts · 22 April 1966 Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on the evening of 22 April 1966, eleven-year-old Nancy Modugno was in… Verified Unexplained Beverly, United States
• 1990 Case filePhotograph

  The Calvine Photograph

  Moors near Calvine, Perthshire, Scotland · 4 August 1990 A large, stationary, diamond-shaped object. Two young men heard a low humming, watched it hover for about ten minutes, took six photographs, and saw it shoot off… Verified Unexplained
• 1976 Case fileMilitary base incursion

  The Cannon AFB Flight-Line UFOs

  Cannon Air Force Base and Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico · 21 to 22 January 1976 Over two nights in late January 1976, a string of luminous objects was reported in the skies… Verified Unexplained

• Cases by verdict

  Verified unexplained: 36

  Barely disputed: 223

  Strongly disputed: 15

  Disputed: 6

  Unknown: 150

  Discredited: 1
• 1952 Case filePhotograph

  The Coast Guard UFO Photograph

  U.S. Coast Guard Air Station, Salem, Massachusetts · 16 July 1952 On the morning of 16 July 1952, around 9:35 a.m., Seaman Shell R. Alpert was on duty in the… Verified Unexplained U.S. Coast Guard Air Station, United States
• 1987 Case fileVideo

  The Corydon, Indiana Video (1987)

  Near Corydon, Harrison County, Indiana, USA · 23 August 1987 During the night of 23 August 1987 a team of Mutual UFO Network field investigators had gathered near Corydon in Harrison County, southern Indiana, specifically to watch… Verified Unexplained
• 1971 Case filePhysical trace / close encounter of the second kind

  The Delphos, Kansas Glowing Ring

  Johnson family farm near Delphos, Ottawa County, Kansas, United States · 2 November 1971 At about 7:00 in the evening on 2 November 1971, sixteen year old Ronald Johnson was penning… Verified Unexplained
• Case fileDaylight disc / historical newspaper sighting

  The Denison, Texas Daylight Object (1878)

  Six miles south of Denison, Grayson County, Texas, United States · January 1878 On a Tuesday morning in late January 1878, John Martin, a farmer who the Denison Daily News said lived "some six miles south of this city," was out hunting in the open… Verified Unexplained Six miles south of Denison, United States
• 1953 Case filePilot sighting with radar confirmation

  The F-86 Triangle Over Albany, Georgia (1953)

  Near Albany, between Moody AFB and Lawson AFB, Georgia, United States · 28 January 1953 On the evening of 28 January 1953 an unnamed United States Air Force pilot was flying an F-86… Verified Unexplained
• 1979 Case filePilot / Military Witness

  The Fartek Sighting: A Mirage Pilot's Grounded Saucer

  Village near Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France · 9 December 1979 On the morning of 9 December 1979, at around 9:15, Captain Jean-Pierre Fartek was at home in a… Verified Unexplained
• 1965 Case fileClose Encounter / Physical and Medical Effects

  The Florida Everglades Encounter (Flynn, 1965)

  Everglades wetlands east of Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida, United States · 14 to 15 March 1965 James W. Flynn, a 45-year-old East Fort Myers cattleman and experienced woodsman, drove his custom swamp buggy deep into the Everglades around the middle of March 1965… Verified Unexplained Everglades wetlands east of Fort Myers, United States
• 1949 Case fileMilitary / nuclear-site sighting wave

  The Fort Hood (Camp Hood) 1949 Wave

  Killeen Base, Camp Hood (now Fort Hood / Fort Cavazos), Central Texas · March to June 1949 Over roughly three months in the spring of 1949, soldiers guarding the atomic stockpile at… Verified Unexplained
• 1975 Case fileClose Encounter / Landing Trace

  The George O'Barski Encounter, North Hudson Park (1975)

  North Hudson Park, North Bergen, New Jersey, USA · 12 January 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 district of Manhattan, was driving… Verified Unexplained
• 1950 Case fileFilm

  The Great Falls Film (Mariana, 1950)

  Legion Park baseball stadium, Great Falls, Montana · August 1950 Around 11:30 in the morning on a clear day in August 1950, Nick Mariana, the general manager… Verified Unexplained Legion Park baseball stadium, United States
• 1994 Case fileRadar-visual

  The Holland, Michigan Sightings (1994)

  Holland, Grand Haven, and the Lake Michigan shoreline, Ottawa and Muskegon counties, Michigan, USA · 8 March 1994 On the cold, clear night of 8 March 1994, 911 dispatchers along the Lake Michigan shoreline… Verified Unexplained
• 1947 Case fileDaylight disc formation

  The Kenneth Arnold Sighting

  Near Mount Rainier, Cascade Range, Washington · 24 June 1947 On the afternoon of 24 June 1947 Kenneth Arnold, a Boise-area businessman who sold fire-suppression equipment and flew his own single-engine CallAir A-2, took off from… Verified Unexplained
• 1980 Case fileMilitary / nuclear-security UFO incident (official document)

  The Kirtland AFB Encounter (1980)

  Manzano Weapons Storage Area and Coyote Canyon, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico · 8 to 9 August 1980 On the night of 8 August 1980, three United States Air Force security policemen assigned to… Verified Unexplained Manzano Weapons Storage Area and Coyote Canyon, United States
• 1956 Case fileRadar-visual military

  The Lakenheath-Bentwaters Radar Incident

  RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, England · 13 to 14 August 1956 On the night of 13 to 14 August 1956, ground-controlled approach radar at RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk, then operated by the United States Air Force, began catching a… Verified Unexplained
• 1957 Case fileMass sighting

  The Levelland Sightings

  Levelland and surrounding farm roads, Hockley County, Texas · 2 to 3 November 1957 Across about two and a half hours on the night of 2 to 3 November 1957, the Levelland police… Verified Unexplained
• 1975 Case fileMilitary base incursion

  The Loring AFB Overflights

  Loring Air Force Base, near Limestone, Aroostook County, Maine · 27 October 1975 On the night of 27 October 1975, shortly before 8:00 p.m., Staff Sergeant Danny K. Lewis of… Verified Unexplained Loring Air Force Base, United States
• 1958 Case fileNocturnal discs / multiple-witness encounter

  The Monon Railroad Encounter (1958)

  Between Wasco and Kirklin, Clinton County, north-central Indiana, USA · 3 October 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 of 56 cars stretching… Verified Unexplained
• 1973 Case fileClose encounter / abduction

  The Pascagoula Abduction

  West bank of the Pascagoula River, by the old Shaupeter shipyard, Pascagoula, Mississippi · 11 October 1973 On the evening of 11 October 1973 two shipyard workers from the Ingalls yard, 42-year-old… Verified Unexplained
• 2015 Case fileMilitary sensor

  The Pentagon GIMBAL Video

  Atlantic warning area off the US East Coast · January 2015 A disc- or oval-shaped infrared object at roughly 25,000 feet that appeared to rotate on its axis while moving into the prevailing wind. The aircrew reacted to a whole… Verified Unexplained Atlantic warning area off the US East Coast, United States
• 1966 Case filePolice and military witness

  The Portage County UFO Chase

  Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio, to Conway, Beaver County, Pennsylvania · 17 April 1966 In the predawn dark of 17 April 1966, around 5:00 a.m., Portage County deputy sheriff Dale… Verified Unexplained
• 1977 Case fileMilitary radar-visual

  The RAF Boulmer Radar-Visual Sighting

  RAF Boulmer, near Alnwick, Northumberland, England · 30 July 1977 In the early hours of 30 July 1977, the night shift at RAF Boulmer, a Cold War air-defence… Verified Unexplained
• 1960 Case filePolice and multiple-witness nocturnal object with radar and EM effects

  The Red Bluff UFO Incident

  Hoag Road near Corning and Red Bluff, Tehama County, California, USA · 13 August 1960 Late on Saturday 13 August 1960, at about 11:50 pm, two California Highway Patrol officers, Charles A. Carson and Stanley Scott, were driving east on Hoag Road outside… Verified Unexplained Hoag Road near Corning and Red Bluff, United States
• 1967 Case fileDaylight disc / car-stop close encounter

  The Saucer That Stopped a Car near Meridian, Mississippi

  Lizelia, near Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States · 10 July 1967 On the late afternoon of 10 July 1967, at about 5:50 p.m., a man was driving on a rural… Verified Unexplained
• 1967 Case fileWater splashdown / crash-retrieval

  The Shag Harbour Incident

  Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada · 4 October 1967 At roughly 11:20 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time on the night of 4 October 1967, a low-flying lit object came down over the water off Shag Harbour, a fishing village on the… Verified Unexplained
• 1997 Case fileAviation encounter

  The Swissair Flight 127 Near-Miss

  Over Long Island, near John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York · 9 August 1997 At 2107 UTC (5:07 p.m. local) on 9 August 1997, Swissair Flight 127, a Boeing 747-300 with… Verified Unexplained Over Long Island, United States
• 1976 Case fileMilitary / radar-visual

  The Tehran F-4 Incident

  Tehran, Iran (intercepts from Shahrokhi AFB, Hamadan; over Shemiran district and Mehrabad Airport) · 19 September 1976 Just after midnight on the night of 18 to 19 September 1976, the command post of the Imperial… Verified Unexplained
• 2004 Case fileMilitary / Naval encounter

  The USS Nimitz Tic Tac

  Off Baja California, Pacific Ocean, southwest of San Diego (Nimitz Carrier Strike Group operating area) · 14 November 2004 On the morning of November 14, 2004, Commander David Fravor, the commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 41 (the VFA-41 Black Aces) flying off the aircraft carrier… Verified Unexplained
• 2001 Case fileNocturnal lights / multiple-witness police case

  The Waynesville, Ohio Police UFO Report

  Waynesville and Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, USA · 24 April 2001 On the night of Tuesday 24 April 2001, a husband and wife living near the 4600 block of… Verified Unexplained Waynesville and Lebanon, United States
• 1960 Case filePhotographic

  The Yacanto Photographic Case

  Villa General Belgrano, near Yacanto, Cordoba Province, Argentina · 3 July 1960 On the afternoon of 3 July 1960, at about 4:30 PM, Captain Hugo F. Niotti of the Argentine Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Argentina, AAF) was driving from Yacanto toward the… Verified Unexplained
• 1956 Case fileMultiple-Witness Nocturnal Light

  A Large UFO over South Dakota (1956)

  Pelican Rapids, Minnesota to Redfield, South Dakota, via Graceville, Ortonville and Big Stone City · November 1956 A young dairy truck driver named Marlen Hewitt reported watching a huge, color-changing object… Barely Disputed
• 1971 Case fileAnecdotal testimony

  A NASA Fire Technician on the Apollo 15 Hadley Rille Object

  Mission Operations Control Room viewing room, Building 30, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas (object reported on a TV screen showing Hadley Rille on the Moon) · July to August 1971 The account comes from an anonymous man who says he worked at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center… Barely Disputed Mission Operations Control Room viewing room, United States
• 1947 Case fileDaylight disc / pilot sighting

  A Pilot Sees Discs over Morristown, New Jersey (1947)

  Morristown, New Jersey, United States · 9 July 1947 On the morning of 9 July 1947, John H. Janssen, the airport columnist for the Morristown Daily Record in New Jersey, reported watching a formation of four disc-like… Barely Disputed
• 1978 Case fileClose Encounter / Physiological Effects

  A Policeman Burned by a UFO: The Kerman Incident (Amparano, 1978)

  Kerman, Fresno County, California · 13 May 1978 At about 3:32 a.m. on 13 May 1978, Kerman senior police officer Manuel Amparano, then 33 years… Barely Disputed
• 1952 Case fileOccupant / craft sighting

  A UFO with Occupants over Pittsburg, Kansas (1952)

  Yale Road near Frontenac, about seven miles northeast of Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kansas, USA · 25 August 1952 At about half past five on the morning of 25 August 1952, William Squyres, a musician and staff entertainer at radio station KOAM in Pittsburg, Kansas, was driving from… Barely Disputed Yale Road near Frontenac, United States
• 1964 Case fileVehicle encounter / close encounter with physical effects

  A Vehicle Encounters a UFO at Lavonia, Georgia (1964)

  Between Carnesville and Lavonia, Franklin County, Georgia, USA · 29 June 1964 Beauford E. Parham, a businessman, was driving home late on the night of 29 June 1964 on the… Barely Disputed
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A White Orb Over Springfield, Ohio

  Springfield, Ohio · 16 June 2026 The footage is a single handheld phone clip, about one minute and fourteen seconds long,… Disputed
• 1994 Case fileAircraft encounter with radar correlation

  Air France Flight 3532 (1994)

  Over Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, southeast of Paris, France · 28 January 1994 On 28 January 1994 at 13:14 GMT, Air France flight AF 3532, an Airbus A320 (registration F-GFKG) flying the Nice to London leg at cruise altitude near Coulommiers in… Barely Disputed Over Coulommiers, France
• 1992 Case filePhotograph

  Carlos Diaz and the Ships of Light

  Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico · 7 June 1992 By Diaz's account the case began at a lookout in the Ajusco volcanic zone south of Mexico… Barely Disputed
• 1995 Case filePilot and air traffic control report

  Commercial Airliners Report a UFO off Long Island (1995)

  Atlantic airspace off Long Island, New York, near a military operating area south of the coast, on the Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center frequency · 17 November 1995 On the night of 17 November 1995, at about 10:20 p.m. Eastern (logged as 2220 hrs in the radio transcript), two long-haul commercial flights crossing the airspace off… Barely Disputed
• 1950 Case fileLanding / Occupants

  Dr. Botta Enters a Flying Saucer

  Near General Acha, La Pampa, Argentina · 15 May 1950 The witness was an Italian architect and aeronautical engineer who had relocated to Venezuela,… Barely Disputed Near General Acha, Argentina
• 1986 Case filePilot and radar case

  Japan Air Lines Flight 1628

  Over eastern Alaska near Fort Yukon, northeast of Fairbanks · 17 November 1986 On the evening of 17 November 1986, Japan Air Lines Flight 1628, a Boeing 747-200F freighter… Barely Disputed
• 1969 Case fileMultiple-Witness Nocturnal Light

  Jimmy Carter's Leary, Georgia Sighting (1969)

  Leary, Georgia, United States · 6 January 1969 The sighting happened just after dark, around 7:15 p.m., as Carter and roughly ten to twelve members of the Leary Lions Club stood outside waiting for their meeting to… Disputed
• 1970 Case fileDaylight disc / nocturnal lights (shape-shifting craft)

  Metallic Saucers Morph over Yuma, Arizona (1970)

  Yuma, Arizona, United States · August 1970 The event survives in one document: a first-person account written by a man who gives his name… Barely Disputed Yuma, United States
• 1964 Case fileLanding / physical trace, close encounter of the third kind

  Socorro Landing (Lonnie Zamora)

  Socorro, New Mexico · 24 April 1964 Barely Disputed
• 2008 Case filePolice / aviation encounter

  South Wales Police Helicopter Encounter

  Over MOD St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, near Cardiff, Wales · 8 June 2008 Shortly after midnight, at about 12:40am on 8 June 2008, the South Wales Police air support… Barely Disputed
• 1997 Case fileHoax / staged footage

  The "Alien Interview" Area 51 Video

  Claimed S-4 / Area 51, Groom Lake, Nevada; tape distributed from Los Angeles, California · 1997 The footage at the center of this case is a short, silent, color video clip, usually described… Barely Disputed Claimed S-4 / Area 51, United States
• 2016 Case fileVideo

  The "Nellis" Blue Disc (Recycled 2016 Clip)

  Location unestablished (claimed North Carolina 2016, recycled as "Nellis") · First appeared September 2016 A detailed disc with a blue underglow and a ring of portholes or lights underneath, presented as a close-range recording. Barely Disputed
• 1947 Case fileCrash retrieval

  The 1947 Roswell Crash

  Foster Ranch, near Corona, northwest of Roswell, New Mexico · 8 July 1947 On a Tuesday afternoon, 8 July 1947, the public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field,… Barely Disputed
• 1975 Case fileMilitary / nuclear-site incursion

  The 1975 Overflights of the SAC Missile Bases

  Northern-tier Strategic Air Command bases: Loring AFB (Maine), Wurtsmith AFB (Michigan), Malmstrom AFB (Montana), Minot AFB (North Dakota), and CFS Falconbridge (Ontario) · 27 October to 11 November 1975 Over roughly two weeks in the autumn of 1975, security police, missile-site crews, radar operators, helicopter and tanker aircrews, and tower personnel at a string of… Barely Disputed Northern-tier Strategic Air Command bases: Loring AFB (Maine), United States
• 1966 Case fileClose encounter with claimed physical effects

  The A5 Road Incident

  A5 road near Montford Bridge and Great Ness, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England · 8 November 1966 Late on the night of 8 November 1966, at 2355 hours, a 22-year-old typist named Diane Foulkes… Barely Disputed
• 1992 Case fileAbduction

  The A70 Abduction

  A70 road near Harperrig Reservoir, between Edinburgh and Tarbrax, Scotland · August 1992 On a clear summer night in August 1992, two men set out from the south side of Edinburgh to… Barely Disputed
• 1990 Case fileUSO / underwater photograph

  The Aegean Sea USO Photograph

  Saros Bay, northern Aegean Sea, off the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey · 15 August 1990 On 15 August 1990, at about 14:00, two divers were working a deep wreck-discovery dive at roughly 57 meters in Saros Bay, the long gulf at the northeastern corner of the… Barely Disputed Saros Bay, Turkey
• 2013 Case fileGovernment Footage

  The Aguadilla Thermal Video (2013)

  Aguadilla, Puerto Rico · 25 April 2013 The evidence is a single thermal-infrared video, three minutes and 54 seconds long, of which… Disputed
• 1980 Case fileClose encounter / abduction

  The Alan Godfrey Abduction

  Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England · 28 November 1980 In the early hours of 28 November 1980, Police Constable Alan Godfrey of West Yorkshire Police was on patrol in the small Pennine town of Todmorden, driving his panda… Barely Disputed
• 2003 Case fileEntity / humanoid photograph

  The Alaska Alien Photograph

  Alaska, United States (location unverified) · August 2003 (image surfaced; claimed taken early 1930s) What people actually have is a single black and white photograph and a short story attached to… Barely Disputed Alaska, United States
• 2002 Case fileVideo

  The Albany Airport UFO Video

  Albany International Airport, Colonie, New York · 20 October 2002 On Sunday, 20 October 2002, at roughly 4:20 p.m. EDT, Brandon Mowry, a videographer for… Barely Disputed
• 1990 Case filePhotographic case

  The Alfena UFO Photographs (1990)

  São Vicente de Alfena, Valongo, Porto District · 10 September 1990 On the morning of Monday 10 September 1990, at about 8:30 a.m., people in São Vicente de Alfena, a parish in the municipality of Valongo just east of Porto, reported a… Barely Disputed
• 1976 Case fileAbduction

  The Allagash Abductions

  Eagle Lake, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Aroostook County, northern Maine · 26 August 1976 On Friday 20 August 1976, four young men drove out of Boston for a two-week canoe and camping… Barely Disputed Eagle Lake, United States
• 1949 Case fileCrash / Retrieval Claim

  The Alleged Mexico City Crash (1950)

  Mountains south of Mexico City, Mexico · December 1949 (reported 9 March 1950) There was no sighting in the ordinary sense. What exists is a story told to reporters. On 9 March 1950, in Los Angeles, Ray L. Dimmick, the sales manager of the Apache… Barely Disputed
• 1982 Case fileClose encounter with physical traces

  The Amarante Case: A Lone Biologist's Ovoid in a Laxou Garden

  Laxou, western suburb of Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle · 21 October 1982 On the late morning of Thursday 21 October 1982, a 30 year old biology researcher, anonymised… Barely Disputed
• 1995 Case fileCommercial aircraft encounter

  The America West Flight 564 Encounter

  Near Bovina, Texas and Tucumcari, New Mexico · 25 May 1995 On the night of 25 May 1995 the crew of America West Flight 564, a Boeing 757 using the call… Barely Disputed Near Bovina, United States
• 1965 Case filePhotograph

  The Andersson Photograph

  Russian River near Cooper Landing, Kenai Peninsula, south of Anchorage, Alaska · 5 July 1965 The case rests on a single 35mm photograph said to have been taken by a man named Barry Andersson. According to the only published account, the analyst Adrian Vance's… Barely Disputed
• 1967 Case fileStructured craft

  The Angus Brooks Encounter

  Moigne Downs, near Ringstead Bay, Dorset · 26 October 1967 A little after 11:25 a.m. on 26 October 1967, J. B. W. "Angus" Brooks was walking on Moigne… Barely Disputed
• 1972 Case fileAstronaut sighting

  The Apollo 17 "Fourth of July" Lights (PURSUE Files)

  Cislunar space (Apollo 17 translunar coast and lunar orbit) · December 1972 In December 1972, during Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the Moon, all three astronauts logged sightings of bright lights and drifting objects that the mission's… Disputed Cislunar space (Apollo 17 translunar coast and lunar orbit)
• 1994 Case fileMass close encounter (CE-III)

  The Ariel School Encounter

  Ariel School, Ruwa, near Harare, Zimbabwe · 16 September 1994 On the morning of Friday 16 September 1994, at roughly 10:15, around 62 pupils of Ariel… Barely Disputed
• Case fileHistoric Airship Wave

  The Aurora, Texas Airship Crash (1897)

  Aurora, Wise County, Texas, USA · 17 April 1897 At about six o'clock on the morning of 17 April 1897, according to the only contemporaneous… Barely Disputed
• 1954 Case fileRadar-visual aviation encounter

  The Australian Sea Fury Incident

  Airspace southwest of Goulburn, New South Wales, near RAN Air Station Nowra (HMAS Albatross) · 31 August 1954 On the evening of 31 August 1954 Lieutenant J. A. "Shamus" O'Farrell, a 25 year old Royal Australian Navy pilot, was flying a Hawker Sea Fury fighter back to the naval… Barely Disputed Airspace southwest of Goulburn, Australia
• 1952 Case filePhotograph

  The Barra da Tijuca Photographs

  Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 7 May 1952 At about 4:30 PM, Martins spotted an object approaching at high speed and shouted to Keffel,… Barely Disputed
• 1942 Case fileMilitary / radar-visual

  The Battle of Los Angeles

  Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California, United States · 25 February 1942 In the early hours of 25 February 1942, less than three months after Pearl Harbor and barely two days after a Japanese submarine had shelled the California coast, the… Barely Disputed
• 1989 Case fileTriangle wave

  The Belgian UFO Wave

  Eupen and the Walloon provinces, Belgium · 29 November 1989 to mid-1990 The Belgian wave was not one sighting but a flood of them, concentrated in the French- and… Barely Disputed Eupen and the Walloon provinces, Belgium
• 1974 Case fileLight / glowing object on the ground

  The Berwyn Mountains Incident

  Berwyn range, near Llandrillo and Llandderfel, Merionethshire, North Wales · 23 January 1974 On the night of Wednesday 23 January 1974 the villages strung along the northern edge of the… Barely Disputed
• 1961 Case fileClose encounter / abduction

  The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction

  U.S. Route 3 near Indian Head and Lincoln, White Mountains, New Hampshire · 19 to 20 September 1961 Barney and Betty Hill of 953 State Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, were driving home down U.S. Route 3 through the White Mountains late on the night of September 19,… Barely Disputed
• 1964 Case fileMilitary and government

  The Big Sur Vandenberg Film

  Anderson Peak, Big Sur, California, tracking a Vandenberg AFB Atlas launch over the Pacific · September 1964 In late summer 1964 a small United States Air Force photo-optical team from the 1369th… Barely Disputed Anderson Peak, United States
• 1975 Case filePhotograph

  The Billy Meier Beamships

  Schmidruti, Hinwil district, Switzerland · 1975 onward Strikingly detailed daytime photographs of domed metallic beamships with banded, porthole-like edges over Swiss countryside. Over a thousand were produced between 1975… Barely Disputed
• 2000 Case fileVideo

  The Bonsall Video, Sharon Rowlands (2000)

  Bonsall, Derbyshire, England · 5 October 2000 On the evening of 5 October 2000, Sharon Rowlands, 44, of Slaley in the village of Bonsall,… Barely Disputed
• 1986 Case fileMilitary radar-visual

  The Brazilian Night of the UFOs

  Vale do Paraiba and Sao Jose dos Campos, with radar and visual contacts across Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Goias · 19 May 1986 On the night of 19 May 1986 air traffic controllers, civil and military pilots, and ground… Barely Disputed Vale do Paraiba and Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
• 2008 Case fileMass sighting wave

  The British UFO Wave of 2008

  United Kingdom (epicentre: RAF St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales) · 2008 (peak June 2008) The British UFO wave of 2008 was not one object but a year-long surge of public reports to the Ministry of Defence, concentrated in a remarkable cluster across June… Barely Disputed
• 1950 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Bruno Facchini Encounter at Abbiate Guazzone, Varese (1950)

  Abbiate Guazzone, Tradate, Province of Varese, Lombardy · 24 April 1950 On the night of 24 April 1950, in the hamlet of Abbiate Guazzone near Tradate in the Province… Barely Disputed
• 1968 Case fileWitness testimony

  The Buff Ledge Camp Abductions

  Buff Ledge Camp, Clay Point Road, Colchester (Malletts Bay), Lake Champlain, Vermont · 7 August 1968 On the evening of 7 August 1968, two staff members at Buff Ledge Camp, a private girls' camp of about thirty acres off Clay Point Road in Colchester, Vermont, on the… Barely Disputed Buff Ledge Camp, United States
• 2025 Case fileRecovered object

  The Buga Sphere

  Buga, Valle del Cauca · 2 March 2025 In the air, a silent sphere moving erratically over Buga in March 2025, captured in witness… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case fileVehicle interference and physical trace

  The Burkes Flat Bent Headlights

  Dunolly to St Arnaud road near Burkes Flat, Victoria · 4 April 1966 On the night of 4 April 1966, Ron Sullivan, a steel contractor, was driving home along a… Barely Disputed
• 1976 Case fileMass sighting with close encounter

  The Canary Islands Sphere (1976)

  Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain · 22 June 1976 On the night of 22 June 1976 the sky west of the Canary Islands lit up for somewhere between twenty and forty minutes, and the event was logged from several independent… Barely Disputed Gran Canaria, Spain
• 1941 Case fileCrash Retrieval Claim

  The Cape Girardeau Crash Claim

  Near Cape Girardeau, Missouri · Spring 1941 There is no footage, no photograph in hand, and no contemporaneous report. What exists is a… Barely Disputed
• 1974 Case filecrash-retrieval

  The Carbondale UFO Crash

  Russell Park silt pond, Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA · 9 to 11 November 1974 On the evening of Saturday 9 November 1974, three teenage boys were near a coal-silt pond behind Russell Park in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, a former anthracite town in… Barely Disputed
• 1974 Case fileAbduction / close encounter of the third kind

  The Carl Higdon Abduction

  McCarty Canyon, Medicine Bow National Forest, near Rawlins, Wyoming · 25 October 1974 Everett Carl Higdon Jr., a 41 year old oil-rig foreman from Rawlins, Wyoming with about… Barely Disputed McCarty Canyon, United States
• 1989 Case fileLanding / Trace / Crash-Retrieval Claim

  The Carp "Guardian" Landing Claim

  Manion Corners, West Carleton (near Carp and Corkery), Ontario, Canada · November 1989 The case opened not with a sighting report but with the mail. In late 1989 an anonymous sender… Barely Disputed
• 2001 Case fileLights / formation

  The Carteret, New Jersey Lights

  Carteret, over the Arthur Kill waterway, New Jersey · 15 July 2001 In the first minutes after midnight on 15 July 2001, drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike and residents of Carteret looked up and saw a tight group of golden-orange lights… Barely Disputed
• 1980 Case fileClose encounter with physical and medical effects

  The Cash-Landrum Encounter

  Farm to Market Road 1485 near Huffman, Texas · 29 December 1980 On the night of 29 December 1980, Betty Cash, 51, Vickie Landrum, 57, and Vickie's… Barely Disputed Farm to Market Road 1485 near Huffman, United States
• 1979 Case filePhotograph

  The Cecconi Gun-Camera Cylinder

  Treviso-Sant'Angelo air base, Italy · 18 June 1979 A black cylindrical object photographed by Italian Air Force pilot Giancarlo Cecconi, who was returning his G-91R jet to Treviso-Sant'Angelo when ground radar at Istrana… Barely Disputed
• 1965 Case fileLanding and physical-trace case (CE-II) with radar correlation, animal effects, and electromagnetic interference

  The Cherry Creek Landing

  Butcher dairy farm, Aldrich Road, near Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, New York · 19 August 1965 On the evening of 19 August 1965, sixteen-year-old Harold Butcher was alone in the barn on his… Barely Disputed
• 2006 Case fileAirport / aviation encounter

  The Chicago O'Hare Airport Sighting

  Gate C17, Concourse C, O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois · 7 November 2006 Shortly after 4:15 pm Central Standard Time on 7 November 2006, a ramp mechanic standing on… Barely Disputed Gate C17, United States
• 1948 Case fileAircraft Encounter

  The Chiles-Whitted Sighting

  About 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama · 24 July 1948 At about 2:45 in the morning on 24 July 1948, an Eastern Air Lines DC-3 was on a scheduled run from Houston to Atlanta, cruising at around 5,000 feet about twenty miles… Barely Disputed
• 1987 Case fileAbduction

  The Christa Tilton Abduction

  Oklahoma (witness's home), with the alleged underground facility identified by her as Dulce, New Mexico · July 1987 Christa Tilton, an Oklahoma woman who later published out of Tulsa under the imprint Crux… Barely Disputed
• 1964 Case fileClose encounter / occupant case

  The Cisco Grove Bow-and-Arrow Encounter

  Near Cisco Grove, Loch Leven Lakes area, Tahoe National Forest, Placer County, California · 4 September 1964 On the night of Friday 4 September 1964, Donald Shrum, a welder of about 27 from the Sacramento area, was bow-and-arrow deer hunting in the Loch Leven Lakes country near… Barely Disputed Near Cisco Grove, United States
• 1977 Case fileMass flap with official military investigation and claimed physical effects

  The Colares Island Flap

  Colares and Vigia, Pará, Brazil (Amazon estuary near Marajó Bay) · July 1977 to January 1978 Through the second half of 1977 the towns of the Pará estuary, Colares and Vigia chief among… Barely Disputed
• 1983 Case fileAlien abduction / close encounter with ground trace

  The Copley Woods Encounter

  Copley Woods subdivision, southeast side of Indianapolis, Indiana · 30 June 1983 On the evening of 30 June 1983, Debbie Jordan, then a 28-year-old mother of two living with… Barely Disputed
• 1993 Case fileMilitary and government

  The Cosford and Shawbury RAF Sightings

  RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire and the West Midlands, England · 30 to 31 March 1993 Across the late evening of 30 March and the early hours of 31 March 1993, police forces and military bases across western Britain logged a wave of sightings now called… Barely Disputed RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, United Kingdom
• 1970 Case fileClose encounter with occupants

  The Cowichan District Hospital Sighting

  Cowichan District Hospital, Duncan, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada · 1 January 1970 In the dark before dawn on 1 January 1970, around 5 a.m., Doreen Kendall, a practical nurse on… Barely Disputed
• 1973 Case fileAircraft Encounter

  The Coyne Helicopter Encounter

  Near Mansfield, Ohio, USA · 18 October 1973 At about 11:02 p.m. on 18 October 1973, an Army Reserve Bell UH-1H "Huey" helicopter, tail number 68-15444 of the 316th Medical Detachment out of Cleveland, was cruising… Barely Disputed
• 1978 Case fileAbduction / alleged implant

  The Cullen Abduction

  Yuma, Colorado (Highway 59 near the Vernon Road junction) · 30 May 1978 Tim Cullen was a cement contractor living in Yuma, a small farming town on the high plains of… Barely Disputed Yuma, United States
• 1967 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Cussac Encounter: Two Children, Four Beings and a Sphere

  Cussac, Cantal, Auvergne · 29 August 1967 The morning of Tuesday 29 August 1967 was clear on the Cussac plateau, 1,042 metres up in the… Barely Disputed
• 1952 Case fileMilitary aircraft encounter

  The Davis-Monthan B-36 Discs

  Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona · 1 May 1952 At about 9:10 in the morning on 1 May 1952, Major Rudolph "Rudy" Pestalozzi, the base Air Intelligence officer at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base just outside Tucson, was… Barely Disputed
• 1973 Case fileMass sighting / flap

  The Dayton, Ohio UFO Wave (1973)

  New Lebanon and the Dayton-Cincinnati corridor, southwestern Ohio, USA · 10 October 1973 At least fifteen sightings of unidentified objects "covered with red, green and blue lights"… Barely Disputed New Lebanon and the Dayton-Cincinnati corridor, United States
• 1991 Case fileFLIR / Thermal Footage

  The Daytona Beach Police FLIR Footage

  Near Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida · 1 March 1991 On 1 March 1991 a helicopter crew from the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, working the airspace near Daytona Beach, Florida, recorded roughly 33 seconds of an object on… Barely Disputed
• 1948 Case fileMilitary pilot encounter

  The Death of Thomas Mantell

  Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky, with the crash near Franklin, Kentucky · 7 January 1948 On the afternoon of 7 January 1948 the control tower at Godman Army Air Field, Fort Knox,… Barely Disputed
• 1996 Case filePhotograph

  The Denver January 1996 Daylight Disc

  Downtown Denver, Colorado · January 1996 The photo is a clear daylight shot of a downtown Denver park area, with a dark office tower… Barely Disputed Downtown Denver, USA
• 1967 Case fileLight / Nocturnal Object

  The Devon Flying Cross

  A3072 between Hatherleigh and Holsworthy, near Okehampton, Devon, England · 24 October 1967 In the early hours of 24 October 1967, two Devon and Cornwall police constables, Roger Willey and Clifford Waycott, were on night patrol in car Delta Nine, based at… Barely Disputed
• 1978 Case filePilot disappearance / aerial encounter

  The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich

  Bass Strait, off Cape Otway, en route to King Island, Victoria, Australia · 21 October 1978 At about 7:06 in the evening on 21 October 1978, Frederick Valentich, a 20-year-old pilot with… Barely Disputed
• 1959 Case fileClose encounter / unexplained physiological event

  The Disappearance of Private Gerry Irwin

  Route 14 near Cedar City, Iron County, Utah, USA · 28 February 1959 On the night of 28 February 1959, Private First Class Gerry Irwin, a twenty-four-year-old Nike missile technician stationed at Fort Bliss near El Paso, Texas, was… Barely Disputed Route 14 near Cedar City, United States
• 1950 Case fileDisappearance

  The Douglas C-54 Skymaster Vanishing (1950)

  Between Snag and Aishihik, southwest Yukon, Canada · 26 January 1950 On the evening of 26 January 1950 a United States Air Force Douglas C-54D Skymaster, serial… Barely Disputed
• 1961 Case fileClose Encounter / Occupant Report

  The Eagle River Pancakes

  Eagle River, Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States · 18 April 1961 Around eleven o'clock on the morning of 18 April 1961, Joe Simonton, a sixty-year-old plumber… Barely Disputed
• 1971 Case fileCrash retrieval / abduction claim

  The Edwards AFB Abductee Crash Claim

  North of Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave Desert, California · Summer 1971 North of Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave Desert, California Barely Disputed North of Edwards Air Force Base, United States
• 1974 Case fileClose Encounter / Physical Trace (CE-II)

  The Edwin Fuhr Encounter

  Near Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada · 1 September 1974 On the morning of 1 September 1974, Edwin Fuhr, a 36-year-old farmer working land about six… Barely Disputed
• 1956 Case filePhotograph

  The Elizabeth Klarer Drakensberg Photograph (1956)

  Near Rosetta, Natal, foothills of the Drakensberg, South Africa · 17 July 1956 On the afternoon of 17 July 1956, at about four o'clock, Elizabeth Klarer was in the foothills of the Drakensberg near Rosetta in what was then Natal, South Africa, in… Barely Disputed
• 1953 Case fileRadar-Visual

  The Ellsworth Air Force Base Incident

  Ellsworth Air Force Base, Black Hawk and Rapid City, South Dakota, tracked north toward Bismarck, North Dakota · 5 August 1953 On the night of 5 August 1953, shortly after dark at about 8:05 p.m., a Ground Observer Corps… Barely Disputed Ellsworth Air Force Base, United States
• 1989 Case fileLanding / Close Encounter

  The Emtsa Truck Drivers' Landed Craft

  Emtsa railway station, Arkhangelsk Region, Russia · November 1989 On a freezing night at the start of November 1989, two professional long-haul drivers, Oleg… Barely Disputed
• 1967 Case fileClose encounter with physical trace

  The Falcon Lake Incident

  Falcon Lake, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba · 20 May 1967 On the morning of Saturday 20 May 1967, Stephen Michalak, a 51-year-old industrial mechanic from Winnipeg with a sideline in amateur geology, drove east to the… Barely Disputed
• 1973 Case fileHumanoid / Entity

  The Falkville Metal Man

  Falkville, Morgan County, Alabama, USA · 17 October 1973 On the night of 17 October 1973, Jeff Greenhaw, the twenty-six-year-old police chief of… Barely Disputed Falkville, United States
• 1959 Case fileClose Encounter (occupants)

  The Father Gill Sightings at Boianai

  Boianai Anglican Mission, Goodenough Bay, Papua (now Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea) · 26 to 27 June 1959 On the evening of Friday 26 June 1959, Rev. William Booth Gill, the Anglican missionary in charge of the station at Boianai on the north shore of Goodenough Bay, walked… Barely Disputed
• 1952 Case fileClose Encounter / Physical Trace

  The Florida Scoutmaster Encounter

  Military Trail, near Lantana, Palm Beach County, Florida · 19 August 1952 On the night of 19 August 1952, a Boy Scout troop meeting at a church near West Palm Beach,… Barely Disputed
• 1944 Case fileHistorical military sighting wave

  The Foo Fighters of World War II

  Rhine Valley and Hagenau region, Alsace, France (and Pacific theater) · November 1944 to early 1945 Through the late autumn and winter of 1944 to 1945, American night-fighter crews flying… Barely Disputed Rhine Valley and Hagenau region, France
• 1978 Case fileHumanoid encounter and alleged body recovery

  The Fort Dix-McGuire Alien Encounter

  Fort Dix and McGuire Air Force Base, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA · 18 January 1978 In the pre-dawn hours of 18 January 1978, somewhere between roughly 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., a string of low UFO sightings was reported over the adjoining military… Barely Disputed
• 1951 Case fileRadar-Visual

  The Fort Monmouth Radar Incident

  Fort Monmouth and Sandy Hook, New Jersey · 10 to 11 September 1951 On the morning of 10 September 1951 a Signal Corps radar operator at the Army radar school at… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case fileMass sighting

  The Fort Smith Mass Sighting

  Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas · 15 to 16 August 1966 On the clear, moonless night of 15 August 1966 and into the early hours of 16 August, an estimated 1,500 people across Fort Smith, Arkansas, watched lights and shapes… Barely Disputed Fort Smith, United States
• 1990 Case fileMass sighting / reentry event

  The France Mass Sighting of 5 November 1990

  Across France, from the Bay of Biscay to Alsace · 5 November 1990 On the evening of Monday 5 November 1990, somewhere around 19:00 local time, thousands of… Barely Disputed
• 1965 Case fileAstronaut sighting

  The Gemini 7 "Bogey at Ten O'Clock High"

  Low Earth orbit, over the Pacific, aboard Gemini VII · 4 December 1965 About four hours and twenty-four minutes into the fourteen-day Gemini 7 mission, on 4 December… Barely Disputed
• 1952 Case filePhotograph

  The George Stock Photographs

  200 block of Brooks Avenue, Passaic, New Jersey · 31 July 1952 A greyish metallic disc, estimated around 30 feet across, with a large semi-transparent dome jutting from its center. It approached at a leisurely pace, came nearly to a… Barely Disputed 200 block of Brooks Avenue, USA
• 1948 Case fileMilitary pilot encounter

  The Gorman Dogfight

  Over Hector Airport, Fargo, North Dakota · 1 October 1948 On the night of Friday 1 October 1948, Second Lieutenant George F. Gorman of the 178th Fighter… Barely Disputed
• 1995 Case fileMass sighting

  The Gosford Central Coast Flap

  The Broadwater and Brisbane Water, Gosford, New South Wales · 30 December 1995 The Broadwater and Brisbane Water at Gosford, NSW, near the Gosford Sailing Club Barely Disputed
• 1995 Case fileMass sighting

  The Gosford Mass Sighting

  Brisbane Water and the Central Coast, near Gosford, New South Wales · New Year's Eve, 31 December 1995 Across the night of 31 December 1995, the head of Brisbane Water around Gosford on the New… Barely Disputed Brisbane Water and the Central Coast, Australia
• 2007 Case filePilot and Radar Case

  The Greece Air Force and Airliner Sighting

  Airspace west of Athens, over Attica toward Karystos on Euboea, Greece · 11 November 2007 At about 03:20 in the early morning of 11 November 2007 the captain of Olympic Airways flight… Barely Disputed
• 1990 Case fileLights / Formation

  The Greifswald Lights

  Greifswalder Bodden, near Greifswald and the Lubmin nuclear power station, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · 24 August 1990 On the evening of 24 August 1990, between roughly 20:30 and 21:00, two groups of seven glowing spheres appeared in the sky over the Greifswalder Bodden, the shallow… Barely Disputed
• 1952 Case fileMilitary radar-visual

  The Gulf of Mexico B-29 Encounter

  Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast · 6 December 1952 In the pre-dawn dark of 6 December 1952, a United States Air Force B-29 Superfortress of the… Barely Disputed Gulf of Mexico, United States
• 1981 Case filePhotograph

  The Hannah McRoberts Photograph

  Rest area about 30 miles north of Kelsey Bay, east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia · 8 October 1981 On the morning of 8 October 1981, around 11:00, Hannah McRoberts, then 25 and living in Campbell River, British Columbia, was parked with her husband and their young… Barely Disputed
• 1983 Case fileMass sighting / light formation

  The Hudson Valley Sightings

  Hudson Valley, New York and western Connecticut (Brewster, Yorktown, Kent, Putnam and Westchester counties) · March 1983 As above in seen. Barely Disputed
• 1987 Case fileEntity / Humanoid Encounter

  The Ilkley Moor Alien (1987)

  Ilkley Moor, near White Wells, West Yorkshire, England · 1 December 1987 On the morning of 1 December 1987 a man using the pseudonym Philip Spencer, an off-duty police… Barely Disputed Ilkley Moor, United Kingdom
• 1990 Case fileDaylight photograph

  The Inaja Photograph

  Inaja Memorial Picnic Grounds, hills above Santa Ysabel, San Diego County, California · 1 July 1990 On 1 July 1990 Michael J. Orrell, then 34, a drywaller, amateur photographer and occasional bit actor living in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego, drove into the back… Barely Disputed
• 1965 Case fileClose encounter, multiple witnesses, low-altitude lighted object

  The Incident at Exeter

  Kensington and Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire · 3 September 1965 In the early hours of 3 September 1965, eighteen-year-old Norman Muscarello was hitchhiking… Barely Disputed
• 1984 Case fileNuclear-facility encounter

  The Indian Point Nuclear Plant Encounter

  Indian Point Energy Center, Buchanan, Westchester County, New York · 14 June and 24 July 1984 On two nights in the summer of 1984, security police employed by the Power Authority of the State of New York reported a large, low, silent object over the Indian Point… Barely Disputed Indian Point Energy Center, United States
• 1945 Case filePhotograph

  The Jack LeMonde Horseback Photograph

  Pickwick Riding stables area, Burbank, California · June 1945 The photo shows Jack LeMonde, a pseudonym for a twice-wounded US Marine home on leave, sitting… Barely Disputed
• 1987 Case fileAbduction

  The Jason Andrews Abduction

  Family home near Slade Green, Kent, England · 2 July 1987 The case begins on 2 July 1987 at the Andrews family home near Slade Green in Kent, on what… Barely Disputed
• 1969 Case fileAbduction

  The Jose Antonio da Silva Abduction

  Bebedouro, near Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil · 4 May 1969 In the afternoon of 4 May 1969, around 3 p.m., Jose Antonio da Silva, a 24 year old soldier in the Brazilian Guards Battalion, was fishing alone at a lagoon at… Barely Disputed Bebedouro, Brazil
• 1973 Case fileAbduction

  The Judy Doraty Abduction

  Texas City and the Alta Loma area near Houston, Texas, USA · May 1973 In May 1973, Judy Doraty was driving home to Texas City, Texas, after a night of playing bingo… Barely Disputed
• 1978 Case fileLights / multiple-witness radar-visual

  The Kaikoura Lights

  Off the Kaikoura coast, east of the South Island, New Zealand · December 1978 The Kaikoura Lights were not one sighting but a cluster over two nights in December 1978, off the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, all involving Safe Air… Barely Disputed
• 1980 Case fileLanding/Occupant and Water Object

  The Kalygir Lake Object (1980)

  Lake Bolshoy Kalygir, Kalygir Bay, east coast of Kamchatka, near the Zhupanovsky liman · 7 August 1980 The witness most often named in connection with this event is Valery Viktorovich Dvuzhilny, a… Barely Disputed Lake Bolshoy Kalygir, Russia
• 1971 Case fileClose encounter / physical-trace claim

  The Karnes City Uranium Mine UFO

  Open-pit uranium mine west of Karnes City, Karnes County, Texas · Summer 1971 The entire account comes from one man, identified as Michael Harvey in the source attribution… Barely Disputed
• 1965 Case fileCrash retrieval

  The Kecksburg Crash

  Kecksburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania · 9 December 1965 Late on the afternoon of Thursday, December 9, 1965, a brilliant fireball crossed the sky over the Great Lakes. It was reported from at least six US states and from… Barely Disputed
• 1993 Case fileClose encounter / abduction

  The Kelly Cahill Encounter

  Belgrave-Hallam Road near Eumemmerring Creek, Narre Warren, Victoria · 7 to 8 August 1993 Just before midnight on the night of 7 August 1993, running into the early hours of 8 August,… Barely Disputed Belgrave-Hallam Road near Eumemmerring Creek, Australia
• 1955 Case fileClose encounter / humanoid entity report

  The Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins

  Sutton farmhouse, Old Madisonville Road, Kelly, Christian County, Kentucky · 21 to 22 August 1955 On the evening of Sunday 21 August 1955, eleven people were at the small farmhouse rented by Elmer "Lucky" Sutton on the Old Madisonville Road, about seven miles north… Barely Disputed
• 1992 Case fileAbduction / Physical Evidence

  The Khoury Abduction and DNA Claim

  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 23 July 1992 (hair recovered), with an earlier encounter reported in July 1988 Peter Khoury was a Lebanese-born Sydney resident, born in 1964, married to Vivian and raising… Barely Disputed
• 1953 Case fileCrash retrieval claim

  The Kingman, Arizona Crash Claim (1953)

  Near Kingman, Arizona, United States (claimed site, exact location never fixed) · 21 May 1953 The Kingman case rests almost entirely on one man's testimony. He surfaces first as "Fritz… Barely Disputed Near Kingman, United States
• 1953 Case fileMilitary aircraft / radar intercept (aircrew lost)

  The Kinross Incident

  Lake Superior, off the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan · 23 November 1953 On the evening of 23 November 1953, a ground control intercept radar station on the Keweenaw Peninsula picked up an unidentified target moving over restricted airspace… Barely Disputed
• 1988 Case fileClose encounter / vehicle interference

  The Knowles Family Nullarbor Encounter

  Eyre Highway, about 40 km west of Mundrabilla, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia · 20 January 1988 In the pre-dawn dark of 20 January 1988, Faye Knowles, 48, and her three sons were driving… Barely Disputed
• 2007 Case fileVideo

  The Kumburgaz Videos

  Yeni Kent compound, Kumburgaz, Istanbul Province, Turkey · 2007 to 2009 Between the summer of 2007 and May 2009, Yalcin Yalman, the night guard at the Yeni Kent residential compound in Kumburgaz on Istanbul's Marmara coast, repeatedly filmed… Barely Disputed Yeni Kent compound, Turkey
• 1971 Case filePhotograph

  The Lago de Cote Disc: Costa Rica's Government Mapping Plane Photograph (1971)

  Lago de Cote, near Arenal, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica · 4 September 1971 On the morning of 4 September 1971, a four-man crew from the Instituto Geografico Nacional of… Barely Disputed
• 1982 Case fileUnidentified Submerged Object / underwater humanoid encounter

  The Lake Baikal Divers

  Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia (event as told also names Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan) · Summer 1982 (as told); first published 1992 witness-text-placeholder Barely Disputed
• 2023 Case fileMilitary sensor

  The Lake Huron Shootdown

  Over Lake Huron, near the United States and Canada border · 12 February 2023 The object was tracked by NORAD radar over Lake Huron near the United States and Canada border, at an altitude of roughly 20,000 feet, slow moving and described by… Disputed Over Lake Huron, United States
• 1957 Case filePhotograph

  The Lake Isabella Photograph

  Lake Isabella, Kern County, California, USA · 1957 In 1957 a man identified only by the initials "B.C." was riding a Harley Davidson through the… Barely Disputed
• 1981 Case filePilot sighting / aircraft near-encounter

  The Lake Michigan L-1011 Object

  South central Lake Michigan, at FL370 on airway between San Francisco and New York · 4 July 1981 On the afternoon of 4 July 1981, Captain Phil Schultz, aged 54, was in command of TWA flight 842, a wide-body Lockheed L-1011 carrying passengers from San Francisco to… Barely Disputed
• 1998 Case filePhotograph

  The Lake Powell 1998 Photograph

  Near Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona border, USA, per the photographer's own caption · April 1998 The photo shows an elongated metallic disc at mid-distance over desert canyon terrain under… Barely Disputed Near Lake Powell, USA
• 1962 Case fileCrash / Retrieval Report

  The Las Vegas Crash Report (1962)

  Eureka and Nephi, Utah, west to Mesquite Range near Las Vegas, Nevada · 18 April 1962 On the evening of 18 April 1962 an intensely bright object crossed much of the western United… Barely Disputed
• 2026 Case fileOrbs

  The Lights Over Mission Bay

  Bay Park hillside above Mission Bay, San Diego, California · 17 July 2026 On the night of 17 July 2026, at about 9:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, a San Diego resident posting under the handle DelToroAngel stood in his own backyard and filmed a… Barely Disputed
• 1989 Case fileAbduction

  The Linda Napolitano Abduction

  Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, near the Brooklyn Bridge and FDR Drive · 30 November 1989 Just after 3:00 a.m. on 30 November 1989, Linda Napolitano, a married mother of two living on… Barely Disputed Lower East Side, United States
• 1981 Case fileAbduction

  The Lintel Lake Incident

  Linteler See, Lintel district of Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Kreis Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia · mid-August 1981 In the account that circulates under Marcin Mizera's name, the witness is a 55-year-old Polish emigrant and painter living in Rheda-Wiedenbrück in what was then West… Barely Disputed
• 1958 Case fileClose encounter with electromagnetic and physiological effects (CE-II)

  The Loch Raven Dam Incident

  Loch Raven Reservoir, Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA · 26 October 1958 Late on the night of 26 October 1958, around 10:30 pm, two young Baltimore men were driving… Barely Disputed
• 1951 Case fileLights / Formation

  The Lubbock Lights

  Lubbock, Texas · 25 August 1951 On the evening of 25 August 1951, four professors from Texas Technological College were… Barely Disputed Lubbock, United States
• 1973 Case fileClose encounter / occupant case

  The Lyndia Morel Encounter

  Highway 114, Goffstown, near Manchester, New Hampshire · 2 November 1973 Lyndia Morel, a masseuse at the Swedish Sauna in Manchester, New Hampshire, signed out of work at 2:45 a.m. on Friday 2 November 1973 and started the roughly eight mile… Barely Disputed
• 2017 Case filePhotograph

  The MacDill "JP" Triangle Photos

  Near MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida · August to October 2017 A small dark triangular object in clear daytime sky over a rooftop near MacDill Air Force… Barely Disputed
• 1947 Case fileEntities / occupants

  The Malta Fishermen's Submarine and the Little Men

  About 20 miles south of Malta, Mediterranean Sea · June 1947 On an evening in June 1947, a small fishing boat working the water about 20 miles south of Malta, near latitude 35.39 north and longitude 14.25 east in the… Barely Disputed About 20 miles south of Malta, Malta
• 1995 Case fileAviation encounter

  The Manchester Airport Near-Miss (1995)

  Over the Pennines, about 8 nautical miles southeast of Manchester Airport, England · 6 January 1995 At about 1848 hours on the evening of 6 January 1995, a British Airways Boeing 737-200,… Barely Disputed
• 1979 Case fileAircraft encounter

  The Manises Airliner Diversion

  Manises Airport, Valencia, Spain (over the western Mediterranean) · 11 November 1979 On the night of 11 November 1979 a Sud Aviation Supercaravelle of the Spanish charter airline… Barely Disputed
• 2006 Case fileVideo

  The Marcia Burke Encounter

  Deer Trail, Colorado · July 2006 Marcia Burke, a horse rancher who lived outside Deer Trail on the eastern plains of Colorado, told the story herself on national television. By her own account on the… Barely Disputed Deer Trail, United States
• 1993 Case filePhotograph

  The Maslin Beach Photographs

  Maslin Beach, South Australia · 10 March 1993 Four 35mm colour frames show a light grey, domed disc against sky and sea off Ochre Point. The… Barely Disputed
• 1972 Case fileMilitary base encounter

  The McChord AFB Encounter (1972)

  TACAN navigation site near McChord Air Force Base, Pierce County, Washington, USA · 14 October 1972 The account describes the afternoon of 14 October 1972 at a Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) site roughly eight miles east of McChord Air Force Base in Pierce County,… Barely Disputed
• 1950 Case filePhotograph

  The McMinnville Trent Farm Photographs

  Trent farm, off the Salmon River Highway near Sheridan, Yamhill County, Oregon · 11 May 1950 Around 7:30 pm on Thursday, 11 May 1950, Evelyn Trent was feeding the rabbits behind the… Barely Disputed Trent farm, USA
• 2004 Case fileMilitary sensor

  The Mexican Air Force Infrared UFOs

  Over southern Campeche, near Ciudad del Carmen · 5 March 2004 Eleven objects visible only on the infrared sensor, not to the naked eye, pacing and appearing… Barely Disputed
• 1991 Case fileVideo

  The Mexico City Solar Eclipse Sightings

  Mexico City and central Mexico (Valle de Mexico, Puebla) · 11 July 1991 On 11 July 1991 the longest total solar eclipse of the twentieth century swept across Mexico. Greatest eclipse fell over the Pacific off the Nayarit coast at 19:06… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case fileMass sighting / official investigation

  The Michigan Swamp Gas Case

  Dexter and Hillsdale, Michigan, USA · 20 to 21 March 1966 For about a week in March 1966 the farm country of southern Michigan filled with lights that… Barely Disputed Dexter and Hillsdale, United States
• 1957 Case fileMilitary radar interception

  The Milton Torres RAF Manston Scramble

  RAF Manston, Kent, England, scramble vectored over East Anglia and the North Sea · 20 May 1957 Just before midnight on 20 May 1957, First Lieutenant Milton John Torres was sitting five-minute alert at the end of the runway at RAF Manston in Kent. Torres, then… Barely Disputed
• 1968 Case fileMilitary / radar-visual

  The Minot AFB B-52 Encounter (1968)

  Minot Air Force Base and surrounding Minuteman missile complex, North Dakota, USA · 24 October 1968 In the early morning hours of 24 October 1968, Air Force personnel scattered across the… Barely Disputed
• 1984 Case fileRadar-visual / aircraft encounter

  The Minsk Tu-134 Radar-Visual Case

  Near Minsk, Byelorussian SSR (Aeroflot flight SU 8352, Tbilisi to Rostov-on-Don to Tallinn) · 7 September 1984 In the pre-dawn hours of 7 September 1984, Aeroflot flight SU 8352, a Tupolev Tu-134A of the… Barely Disputed Near Minsk, USSR (present-day Belarus)
• 1994 Case filePhotograph

  The Mongo Photo Case

  Trading Post Campgrounds, Mongo, LaGrange County, Indiana · 31 August 1994 Six men, retirees aged 45 and up, were sitting around a campfire at the Trading Post Campgrounds at Mongo, in LaGrange County, Indiana, about 40 miles north-northwest of… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case fileCryptid / unidentified flying creature

  The Mothman of Point Pleasant

  TNT area (West Virginia Ordnance Works / McClintic Wildlife Station), north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia · 15 November 1966 The first widely reported encounter came late on the night of 15 November 1966. Two young… Barely Disputed
• 1967 Case fileClose Encounter (CE-II / occupant)

  The Munroe Falls, Ohio Occupant Encounter (1967)

  Little River Road, west of Munroe Falls, near Kent, Summit County, Ohio, United States · 28 March 1967 David Morris, 19 years old, a factory worker employed in Kent, Ohio, was driving home to Munroe Falls in the early morning of 28 March 1967. At about 2:30 a.m., heading… Barely Disputed Little River Road, United States
• 1952 Case filePilot sighting

  The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting

  Chesapeake Bay near Newport News and Langley Field, Virginia, United States · 14 July 1952 On the clear, moonless evening of 14 July 1952, a Pan American World Airways DC-4 was being… Barely Disputed
• 1989 Case filePhotograph

  The Nashville 1989 Saucer Photographs

  Near Nashville, Tennessee · 1989 The image shows a disc-shaped object at night ringed by roughly 32 red, white and blue… Barely Disputed
• 1956 Case fileMilitary aircraft encounter

  The Navy R7V-2 Giant Disc

  North Atlantic Ocean, east of Gander, Newfoundland · 1956 (as published by Keyhoe; widely indexed to 8 February 1957) On a clear night with unlimited visibility, a US Navy R7V-2 transport, the four-engine turboprop Super Constellation, was cruising west across the North Atlantic at… Barely Disputed North Atlantic Ocean, Canada
• 1972 Case fileClose Encounter / Landing Trace

  The Nazca Disc Landing of 1972

  Pampa Carbonera, south of Nazca, Ica Region, Peru · 3 February 1972 The account places two men on the road from Puquio toward Nazca on the morning of 3 February… Barely Disputed
• 2024 Case fileMass sighting

  The New Jersey Drone Flap

  Cape May and the US Northeast · November to December 2024 Clusters of red, green and white lights moving at night. Tens of thousands of public reports came in over several weeks during the largest drone-sighting wave in recent… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case fileMilitary encounter

  The Nha Trang Engine-Stopping UFO

  Nha Trang Air Base, South Vietnam · June 1966 On a June 1966 night at about 9:45 p.m., several hundred American and South Vietnamese… Barely Disputed Nha Trang Air Base, Vietnam
• 1949 Case filePhoto and film case

  The Norwood Searchlight Incident

  Norwood and greater Cincinnati, Ohio · 19 August 1949 On the night of 19 August 1949 the Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic church in Norwood, a small city… Barely Disputed
• 1964 Case filePhotograph

  The Oberwesel Train Photo

  Oberwesel, Rhine gorge, Germany · 8 March 1964 (some archives say August 1964) A blurred dark disc or spindle shape with a whirling smear beneath it, against the Rhine riverside landscape. The caption that has circulated since the photo books of… Barely Disputed
• 2015 Case fileVideo

  The Object by the Calbuco Eruption

  Calbuco volcano, southern Chile · 22 to 23 April 2015 A pair of white lights, or a single bright object, hovering near the giant ash column before… Barely Disputed Calbuco volcano, Chile
• 1957 Case fileOccupant / close encounter

  The Old Saybrook Occupant Sighting

  Old Saybrook, Connecticut, United States · 16 December 1957 In the early hours of 16 December 1957, between two and three in the morning, Mrs. Mary M. Starr was alone in her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. She had gone to bed… Barely Disputed
• 1982 Case fileMilitary pilot encounter

  The Ota Air Base Encounter: A Portuguese Air Force Pilot Circled by a Disc (1982)

  Near Ota Air Base, between Torres Vedras and the Serra de Montejunto, Estremadura, Portugal · 2 November 1982 On the morning of 2 November 1982, Portuguese Air Force pilot Julio Miguel Guerra was flying a… Barely Disputed
• 2002 Case fileClose Encounter / Physical Trace (claimed)

  The Paintsville Train Collision

  Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky · 14 January 2002 The case exists as a single first-person account submitted anonymously to the National UFO… Barely Disputed Paintsville, United States
• 1963 Case filePhotograph

  The Paul Villa Saucer Photos

  Rio Grande valley near Albuquerque, New Mexico · 1963 to 1965 (famous set: 18 April 1965) Two famous sets of color photographs showing a domed metallic disc hovering low over trees and desert scrub. For the Easter Sunday 1965 shots, Apolinar "Paul" Villa… Barely Disputed
• 2024 Case fileGovernment Document

  The Pentagon AARO Historical Record Report (2024)

  Washington, D.C. (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Department of Defense) · February 2024 (released to the public 8 March 2024) This case is not a sighting but a government document, and the "witnesses" are the people the… Barely Disputed
• 1977 Case fileMass sighting, wide-area luminous phenomenon, rocket-launch correlation

  The Petrozavodsk Jellyfish

  Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, and across northwestern USSR and Scandinavia · 20 September 1977 At roughly four o'clock in the morning on 20 September 1977, a huge luminous object appeared in the pre-dawn sky over Petrozavodsk, the capital of Soviet Karelia. Early… Barely Disputed Petrozavodsk, Soviet Union (Russia)
• 1989 Case fileSpacecraft imagery

  The Phobos 2 Incident

  Mars orbit, near the moon Phobos · March 1989 On 27 March 1989 the Soviet Union lost contact with Phobos 2, the surviving half of its… Barely Disputed
• 1997 Case fileMass sighting

  The Phoenix Lights

  Phoenix and across Arizona, from Paulden and Prescott south to Tucson · 13 March 1997 The night of Thursday 13 March 1997 produced two distinct light shows over Arizona that have… Barely Disputed
• 1990 Case fileMass sighting / multiple-witness aerial object

  The Place Bonaventure Sighting

  Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, downtown Montreal, Quebec · 7 November 1990 On the evening of 7 November 1990 a stationary, silent array of lights hung over downtown Montreal for nearly three hours, from about 7:15 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. The first… Barely Disputed Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Canada
• 1947 Case fileMass sighting / police witnesses

  The Portland Police Disc Flap of July 1947

  Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington · 4 July 1947 Just after 1 p.m. on Friday 4 July 1947, Portland police patrolman Kenneth A. McDowell was… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case fileLanding and trace case

  The Presque Isle Beach Landing

  Beach 6, Presque Isle State Park, Erie, Pennsylvania · 31 July 1966 On the evening of Sunday 31 July 1966, six people from the Jamestown, New York area drove out onto the sand at Beach 6 on the Lake Erie end of Presque Isle State Park… Barely Disputed
• 1951 Case filePhotograph

  The Puerto Maldonado Smoking Saucer

  Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru · 19 July 1951 On the afternoon of 19 July, around 4:30 PM, in the Madre de Dios jungle region of… Barely Disputed Puerto Maldonado, Peru
• 1954 Case fileClose Encounter (CE3 / occupants)

  The Ranton Encounter (Roestenberg, Staffordshire, 1954)

  Vicarage Farm, Ranton, near Stafford, Staffordshire, England · 21 October 1954 On the afternoon of 21 October 1954, at about 4:45 p.m., Jessie Roestenberg was at Vicarage… Barely Disputed
• 1957 Case fileRadar/Visual

  The RB-47 Electronic Surveillance Incident

  Gulf Coast, from Mississippi across Louisiana and Texas into Oklahoma · 17 July 1957 In the early hours of 17 July 1957 a Boeing RB-47H electronic reconnaissance jet of the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing took off from Forbes Air Force Base near… Barely Disputed
• 1980 Case fileMilitary encounter

  The Rendlesham Forest Incident

  Rendlesham Forest, between RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk · 26 December 1980 Rendlesham Forest is often called "Britain's Roswell," and it is the rare UFO case backed by… Barely Disputed Rendlesham Forest, United Kingdom
• 1965 Case filePhotograph

  The Rex Heflin Santa Ana Photographs (3 August 1965)

  Santa Ana, Orange County, California · 3 August 1965 At about 12:30 to 12:37 p.m. PDT on 3 August 1965, Rex E. Heflin, age 38, a highway maintenance engineer for the Orange County Road Department, stopped his work van near… Disputed
• 1973 Case fileClose encounter and physical trace (CE-II)

  The Richards Family Landing Trace, Columbia Missouri

  Mobile home about half a mile southeast of Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, near Route WW · 28 June 1973 An odd thrashing sound in the trees roughly 80 feet north of the kitchen window brought James… Barely Disputed
• 1967 Case fileClose Encounter / Occupant

  The Ririe, Idaho Occupant Encounter

  Highway 26 near Ririe, Bonneville and Jefferson Counties, Idaho, United States · 2 November 1967 On the night of 2 November 1967, two young Navajo men, Guy Tossie and Will Begay, were driving… Barely Disputed Highway 26 near Ririe, United States
• 1998 Case fileVideo

  The Rod Dickinson UFO Footage (1998)

  The Ridgeway, near Weymouth, Dorset, England · 7 April 1998 On the morning of 7 April 1998 a man named Rod Dickinson stood on or near the B-road that runs along The Ridgeway, the chalk escarpment that overlooks Weymouth in… Barely Disputed
• 1971 Case filePhotograph

  The Rudi Nagora Disc Photographs

  St. Lorenzen im Mürztal, Styria, Austria · 23 May 1971 On 23 May 1971, at roughly 12:30 in the afternoon, Rudi Nagora, a professional musician from… Barely Disputed
• 2001 Case filePhotograph

  The Salt Lake City Ring Photographs

  Beck Street industrial corridor, north Salt Lake City, Utah · 1 March 2001 Around midday on 1 March 2001 a truck driver was making a regular delivery run through downtown and north Salt Lake City. By his own account he first noticed a bright… Barely Disputed Beck Street industrial corridor, United States
• 1953 Case fileAircraft and ground multiple-witness sighting

  The Santa Barbara Channel UFO (1953)

  Santa Barbara Channel, off Point Mugu and the Channel Islands, Southern California · 16 December 1953 At about 17:00 PST on Wednesday 16 December 1953, two separate groups of Lockheed personnel… Barely Disputed
• 1955 Case fileCold War government witness sighting

  The Senator Russell Soviet Disc Sighting

  Trans-Caucasus railway between Baku and Tbilisi (Tiflis), Azerbaijan SSR, USSR · 4 October 1955 On the evening of 4 October 1955, a small American party was riding a Soviet train south… Barely Disputed
• 1973 Case fileAstronaut / orbital sighting

  The Skylab 3 Red Object (1973)

  Low Earth orbit aboard the Skylab space station, roughly 270 miles up, on the daylight-to-darkness terminator near the equatorial region of the orbit track · 20 September 1973 On the 59th day of the Skylab 3 mission, science pilot Owen Garriott was at the wardroom window when he noticed a bright object holding position outside the station. He… Barely Disputed Low Earth orbit aboard the Skylab space station, United States
• 1964 Case filePhotograph

  The Solway Firth Spaceman

  Burgh Marsh, Burgh by Sands, overlooking the Solway Firth, Cumberland (now Cumbria), England · 23 May 1964 On 23 May 1964 Jim Templeton, a Carlisle firefighter and keen amateur photographer, took his… Barely Disputed
• 2000 Case fileTriangle / multiple law-enforcement witnesses

  The St. Clair County Police Triangle

  St. Clair and Madison Counties, southwestern Illinois (Highland, Lebanon, Shiloh, Millstadt, Dupo), near Scott Air Force Base · 5 January 2000 In the pre-dawn dark of 5 January 2000, a chain of police officers across southwestern Illinois reported tracking a single enormous, silent, low-flying object, and they… Barely Disputed
• 2004 Case fileMass sighting / lights wave

  The Staffordshire UFO Wave (2004)

  Cannock, Lichfield, Stafford and Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England · August 2004 Over roughly two days in early August 2004, the Staffordshire UFO Group (SUFOG), run by Graham… Barely Disputed Cannock, United Kingdom
• 1964 Case fileClose encounter, landing trace, vehicle interference

  The Staunton, Virginia Cone-Shaped Object

  U.S. Route 250 near Fishersville, between Staunton and Waynesboro, Augusta County, Virginia · 21 December 1964 Late on the afternoon of Monday, 21 December 1964, Horace Burns, a 54-year-old gunsmith who… Barely Disputed
• 2008 Case fileMass sighting with radar correlation

  The Stephenville Lights

  Stephenville and Dublin, Erath County, Texas · 8 January 2008 On the evening of Tuesday, 8 January 2008, dozens of people across the dairy country around Stephenville and Dublin in Erath County, Texas, reported a large, brilliant,… Barely Disputed
• 1970 Case filePhotograph

  The Tagish Lake Photographs

  Tagish Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada · around 1970 Two couples were boating on Tagish Lake, a long glacial lake roughly 100 km south of… Barely Disputed Tagish Lake, Canada
• 1954 Case fileMass sighting

  The Tananarive City Object

  Tananarive (Antananarivo), Madagascar · 16 August 1954 Late on the afternoon of Monday 16 August 1954, at about five o'clock with the light beginning to fade, a large luminous ball of what witnesses called "electric green"… Barely Disputed
• 1970 Case fileAlien body / entity recovery claim

  The Tetas de Cayey Cave Body

  Tetas de Cayey, between Cayey and Salinas, southern Puerto Rico · Claimed late 1970s, popularly tagged 1979 The story, as Puerto Rican investigator Jorge Martin tells it and as Michael Hesemann… Barely Disputed
• 1981 Case fileLanding trace / physical evidence

  The Trans-en-Provence Landing Trace

  Trans-en-Provence, Var, southeastern France · 8 January 1981 On the afternoon of 8 January 1981, at about 5pm, Renato Nicolai, a 55-year-old farmer and… Barely Disputed Trans-en-Provence, France
• 1975 Case fileAlien Abduction

  The Travis Walton Abduction

  Turkey Springs, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, near Heber and Snowflake, Navajo County, Arizona, USA · 5 November 1975 On the evening of Wednesday, November 5, 1975, a seven-man logging crew was driving out of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest after a long day thinning trees on a… Barely Disputed
• 1952 Case fileFilm

  The Tremonton, Utah Film

  U.S. Highway 30S, about 7 miles past Tremonton, Box Elder County, Utah · 2 July 1952 On the morning of 2 July 1952, Delbert C. Newhouse, a chief photographer and commissioned… Barely Disputed
• 2002 Case fileLights / triangular formation

  The Trenton-Brookville Sightings

  Trenton, Butler County, Ohio and Brookville Lake, Franklin County, Indiana · 9 August 2002 On the evening of Friday 9 August 2002, separate reports of an unidentified object crossed the Ohio-Indiana state line and tied up police dispatchers in two counties for… Barely Disputed Trenton, United States
• 1958 Case filePhotograph

  The Trindade Island Photographs

  Trindade Island, South Atlantic, off Espirito Santo, Brazil · 16 January 1958 A few minutes after noon on 16 January 1958, the Brazilian Navy training and survey ship NE… Barely Disputed
• 1994 Case filePolice and military multiple-witness sighting

  The Trumbull County Police Sightings

  Trumbull County, Ohio (Liberty Township, Hubbard, Howland, Girard and Vienna), United States · 14 December 1994 In the early hours of Wednesday 14 December 1994, the Trumbull County 9-1-1 center in… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case filePhysical trace / landing nest

  The Tully Saucer Nest

  Horseshoe Lagoon, near Euramo and Tully, Far North Queensland · 19 January 1966 At about 9 a.m. on Wednesday 19 January 1966, George Alfred Pedley, a 28 year old banana farmer from Euramo near Tully in tropical Far North Queensland, was driving a… Barely Disputed Horseshoe Lagoon, Australia
• 1965 Case filePhotograph

  The Tulsa, Oklahoma UFO Photograph (1965)

  Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States · 2 August 1965 At roughly 1:45 a.m. on Monday 2 August 1965, fourteen-year-old Alan R. Smith was standing in… Barely Disputed
• 1957 Case filePhysical trace / material sample

  The Ubatuba Magnesium Fragments

  Ubatuba, Sao Paulo state, Brazil · September 1957 There is no clean, named eyewitness to the Ubatuba event. Everything traces to a single anonymous letter received in early September 1957 by Ibrahim Sued, the society… Barely Disputed
• 1971 Case fileNaval encounter, single-witness memory report, electromagnetic effects

  The USS John F. Kennedy Glowing Sphere

  Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida, aboard USS John F. Kennedy (CVA-67) · 2 July 1971 The witness is Jim Kopf, who in 1971 served in the communications department of the… Barely Disputed Atlantic Ocean, United States
• 1971 Case fileMilitary encounter

  The USS John F. Kennedy Glowing Sphere

  USS John F. Kennedy (CVA-67), Atlantic Ocean, claimed within the Bermuda Triangle · 2 July 1971 The case rests entirely on the first-person account of one man, Jim Kopf (he also gives his… Barely Disputed
• 1991 Case fileUSO (Unidentified Submerged Object)

  The USS Kirk USO Encounter

  Eastern Pacific Ocean, roughly 350 to 400 nautical miles off the west coast of South America · December 1991 (as told by the witness) The account comes from a single named source who signed himself only as "GMV," an operations and intelligence petty officer (a Navy Operations Specialist) who says he… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case fileNaval / USO (unidentified submerged object)

  The USS Tiru Encounter (1966)

  Hood Canal / Dabob Bay area, Puget Sound, Washington (claimed); USS Tiru (SS-416), Pacific Northwest · June 1966 The account is a single first-person narrative attributed to Milton William "Bill" Cooper, who… Barely Disputed Hood Canal / Dabob Bay area, United States
• 1971 Case filePhotograph

  The USS Trepang Periscope Photos

  Arctic Ocean, between Iceland and Jan Mayen · Claimed March 1971, surfaced 2015 Black-and-white photos, allegedly shot through the periscope of the USS Trepang (SSN-674), showing a large cigar or blimp-shaped object, a triangular object, and an egg… Barely Disputed
• 1979 Case fileVehicle-interference / physical-trace close encounter

  The Val Johnson Squad Car Collision

  County Road 5 near State Highway 220, west of Stephen, Marshall County, Minnesota, USA · 27 August 1979 At roughly 1:40 a.m. on 27 August 1979, Marshall County deputy sheriff Val Johnson was on solo… Barely Disputed
• 1965 Case fileClose Encounter / Landing Trace

  The Valensole Lavender-Field Landing

  Valensole, Basses-Alpes (now Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), France · 1 July 1965 Just after 5 a.m. on 1 July 1965, Maurice Masse, a 41-year-old lavender grower, went out to… Barely Disputed Valensole, France
• 1996 Case fileHumanoid encounter / alleged creature capture

  The Varginha Incident

  Jardim Andere, Varginha, Minas Gerais · 20 January 1996 Varginha is a coffee-trade city of roughly 120,000 people in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil. The events span about a month in early 1996, not a single afternoon, and that… Barely Disputed
• 1989 Case fileClose Encounter / Humanoid

  The Voronezh Landing

  Voronezh, Russian SFSR (Soviet Union) · late September 1989 On the evening of 27 September 1989, a group of children playing in a park in the Yuzhny… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case fileMass sighting, police and official witnesses, claimed physical trace

  The Wanaque Reservoir Incident

  Wanaque Reservoir and Raymond Dam, Wanaque, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States · 11 January 1966 On the evening of Tuesday 11 January 1966, beginning around 6:20 pm and running to roughly 8:58 pm, a bright object was reported over the frozen Wanaque Reservoir, New… Barely Disputed Wanaque Reservoir and Raymond Dam, United States
• 1957 Case fileDisc / Domed object

  The Wardle Incident

  Wardle, Lancashire, England (Pennine Moors, near Rochdale) · 15 February 1957 On the clear, frosty night of Friday 15 February 1957, at about 10 pm, nineteen-year-old… Barely Disputed
• 1964 Case fileMass sighting / UFO flap

  The Warminster Thing

  Warminster, Wiltshire, England · 25 December 1964 The first event came before dawn on Christmas morning, 25 December 1964. Mrs Marjorie Bye, a… Barely Disputed
• 1952 Case fileRadar-visual

  The Washington, D.C. Sightings

  Washington National Airport, Andrews Air Force Base, and the skies over Washington, D.C. · 19 to 27 July 1952 On Saturday 19 July 1952, at 11:40 p.m., air traffic controller Edward Nugent was watching the long-range radar at the Air Route Traffic Control center at Washington… Barely Disputed Washington National Airport, United States
• 1963 Case fileClose Encounter (EM effects)

  The Wayne City Car Chase

  Wayne City and Keenes, Wayne County, Illinois · 4 August 1963 On the night of Sunday 4 August 1963, eighteen-year-old Ronnie Austin and his girlfriend… Barely Disputed
• 1977 Case fileClose Encounter (CE-III)

  The West Pittsburg "Eastbay" Landing

  West Pittsburg (now Bay Point), Contra Costa County, California · 20 May 1977 On the night of Friday 20 May 1977, around 11 p.m., three 14-year-old boys were out in a dark, open field in West Pittsburg, an unincorporated community in Contra Costa… Barely Disputed
• 1966 Case fileMass Sighting / Landing Trace

  The Westall School UFO

  Westall High School and The Grange reserve, Clayton South, Melbourne, Victoria · 6 April 1966 On the morning of Wednesday 6 April 1966, somewhere around 10:15 to 11:00 am, more than two… Barely Disputed Westall High School and The Grange reserve, Australia
• 1984 Case fileClose encounter

  The Whaley Lake Encounter

  Whaley Lake, Holmes, Dutchess County, New York · Summer 1984 On a summer evening in 1984 two nineteen-year-old friends rowed out onto Whaley Lake in… Barely Disputed
• 1985 Case fileAbduction / close encounter

  The Whitley Strieber Encounter

  Strieber cabin, Ulster County, upstate New York, United States · 26 December 1985 On the night of 26 December 1985, the novelist Whitley Strieber, then forty, was asleep in the upstairs bedroom of the log cabin he and his wife Anne owned in a secluded… Barely Disputed
• 1947 Case fileCrash retrieval and recovered material claim

  The Wright Field Craft and Creatures Claim

  Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), Area B, Dayton, Ohio, United States · 1947 The "craft and creatures" core of this case is a single, second-hand account. As told to Brian… Barely Disputed Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), United States
• 2009 Case filePhotograph

  The Wurzburg UFO Photograph

  Along the river Main near the railway lines, Wurzburg, Bavaria · 8 March 2009 On the evening of 8 March 2009, around 6pm as dusk was coming down, a Wurzburg man who later signed his account only as "Martin" was walking along the railway lines that… Barely Disputed
• 1987 Case fileMass sighting flap

  The Wytheville, Virginia Sightings

  Wytheville and Wythe County, Virginia, USA · October 1987 The Wytheville flap opened on the night of 7 October 1987. Wythe County Sheriff Wayne Pike… Barely Disputed
• 1978 Case fileAbduction / close encounter

  The Zanfretta Encounters

  Marzano di Torriglia, hills above Genoa, Liguria · night of 6 to 7 December 1978 On the night of 6 to 7 December 1978, Pier Fortunato Zanfretta, a 26 year old night watchman… Barely Disputed Marzano di Torriglia, Italy
• 2006 Case filePhotograph

  The Zdany Silver Sphere Photographs

  Zdany, near Zbuczyn and Siedlce, Mazovia, Poland · 8 January 2006 A bright, mirror-finished object shaped like two bowls welded together at the rims, estimated by the witnesses at roughly 2 metres across, about the size of a small car.… Barely Disputed
• 2021 Case fileLights / nocturnal object

  Two UFOs Videotaped over Marion, Ohio

  Marion, Marion County, Ohio · 16 December 2021 On the evening of 16 December 2021, near Marion in central Ohio, a short clip was recorded… Barely Disputed
• 1979 Case fileAstronaut/cosmonaut sighting

  A Soviet Cosmonaut Sees a UFO (1979)

  Earth orbit, en route to Salyut 6 space station · April 1979 (date as claimed; see dispute) The account, as it circulates in the UFO literature, runs like this. In April 1979 cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev is said to have lifted off to dock with the Soviet orbital… Strongly Disputed Earth orbit, Soviet Union
• 1954 Case fileGovernment / contact claim

  Did Eisenhower Meet with Aliens? (1954)

  Muroc / Edwards Air Force Base and Smoke Tree Ranch, Palm Springs, California · 16 April 1954 There is no sighting in the ordinary sense here, no photograph of a craft and no radar trace.… Strongly Disputed
• 1957 Case fileAstronaut and military pilot testimony, photographic case

  Gordon Cooper and the Edwards AFB Film (1957)

  Edwards Air Force Base, Rogers Dry Lake, Kern County, California · 3 May 1957 Two distinct stories sit under this case, and keeping them apart is the whole problem. The… Strongly Disputed
• Case filePhotograph

  Saucers Over a Cruise Ship

  Aboard a cruise ship at sea Two small disc or saucer-shaped objects in blue sky above the ship funnel. Strongly Disputed
• 1972 Case fileFilm

  The Apollo 16 UFO Film

  Trans-Earth coast, between the Moon and Earth (Apollo 16 Command Module Casper) · April 1972 For about four seconds of 16mm motion picture film shot from inside the Apollo 16 Command… Strongly Disputed
• 2007 Case filePhotograph

  The Arkansas Colonel's Photographs

  Van Buren, Arkansas, United States · 9 January 2007 Just before 7 p.m. on the evening of 9 January 2007, retired Air Force Colonel Brian Fields, 61, was cooking chicken at his home in Van Buren, in western Arkansas, when… Strongly Disputed
• 1948 Case fileCrash and retrieval claim

  The Aztec, New Mexico Crash Claim

  Hart Canyon, near Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States · March 1948 (as later fixed to 25 March 1948 by William Steinman) There were no public, named eyewitnesses to the alleged Aztec crash at the time it was… Strongly Disputed Hart Canyon, United States
• 1977 Case fileHoax document / fabricated military report

  The Ellsworth AFB "Site L-9" Document (1977)

  Site L-9 Minuteman missile field, near Nisland, north of Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, United States · 16 November 1977 There were no witnesses to an actual event. What exists is a two-page typed document,… Strongly Disputed
• 1952 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Flatwoods Monster

  Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia · 12 September 1952 In the early evening of Friday, 12 September 1952, three boys were playing on the grounds of the Flatwoods School in Braxton County, West Virginia, when they saw a… Strongly Disputed
• 1957 Case filePhotograph

  The Fort Belvoir Ring Photographs

  Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, Virginia · September 1957 At about nine in the morning on a day in September 1957, an Army private stationed at Fort… Strongly Disputed Fort Belvoir, United States
• 1987 Case filePhotographs

  The Gulf Breeze Sightings

  Gulf Breeze, Santa Rosa County, Florida · 11 November 1987 On the evening of Wednesday 11 November 1987, Ed Walters, a building contractor in Gulf Breeze, Florida, said he was working in the home office of his house on… Strongly Disputed
• 2001 Case fileAbduction

  The Gundiah-Mackay Abduction

  Gundiah, near Tiaro, Queensland, Australia · 4 October 2001 On the night of Thursday 4 October 2001, three people were staying in a caravan and annex on a… Strongly Disputed
• 1979 Case fileClose encounter with physical trace

  The Robert Taylor Encounter at Dechmont Woods

  Dechmont Woods, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland · 9 November 1979 On the morning of 9 November 1979, Robert Taylor, a forester for the Livingston Development… Disputed Dechmont Woods, United Kingdom
• 1946 Case fileCrash retrieval claim

  The Spitzbergen Crash Claim (1946)

  Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Norway (Arctic Ocean) · May 1946 (date as later claimed) There is no first-hand witness account of a 1946 Spitsbergen crash. That absence is the single most important fact about this case, because the story is almost always… Strongly Disputed
• 1957 Case filePhotograph

  The UFO Photographed from the SS Ramsay (1957)

  Off the coast of San Pedro / Southern California, North Pacific · December 1957 On or about 2 December 1957, around half past two in the afternoon, the British cargo vessel… Strongly Disputed
• 1947 Case fileMilitary aircrew sighting

  A B-17 Encounters Nine Flying Discs (1947)

  Promontory Point and the Great Salt Lake salt flats, Utah, USA · 16 July 1947 The single source for what happened is a first-person account written by a man who signed himself "ETW, Colonel, USAF (Retired)." He said that on 16 July 1947, at 15:30,… Unknown Promontory Point and the Great Salt Lake salt flats, United States
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Blue-White Orb Over Elyria, Ohio (11 March 2026)

  Elyria, Ohio, United States · 11 March 2026 The clip runs about a hundred seconds, shot handheld on a phone along a residential street of… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Bright Glow Through Cloud Over Denver (21 June 2026)

  Denver, Colorado, United States · 21 June 2026 The clip runs about a minute and is shot handheld on a phone, looking toward a treeline with a… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Color-Flickering Light Over Rural Sonora (27 June 2026)

  Rural Sonora, Mexico · 27 June 2026 The footage was posted to r/UFOs on 27 June 2026 by a user named "Severe_Reflection_94," who timed the sighting at 12:07 AM. It shows a dark, near silhouette horizon of… Unknown Rural Sonora, Mexico
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Flickering Light Over Cannock Chase, Staffordshire (22 June 2026)

  Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, England · 22 June 2026 The clip runs about twenty seconds and shows a residential rooftop, a brick chimney, several… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Green Object Over Diskit, Ladakh (June 2026)

  Diskit, Nubra Valley, Ladakh · 29 June 2026 In late June 2026 a traveller staying at a hotel in Diskit, in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh in far northern India, posted a clip to r/UFOs describing a green object that… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Grey Sphere Falls Into Cape Cod Bay (20 June 2026)

  Sagamore Beach, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts · 20 June 2026 The witness, posting as "threeoneoh," described filming from a balcony at Sagamore Beach,… Unknown Sagamore Beach, United States
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Light Over the North Illinois Suburbs (28 June 2026)

  North Illinois suburbs, near Naval Station Great Lakes · 28 June 2026 The clip was posted to r/UFOs on 28 June 2026 by a user named "Yalldoneonfooked," who said… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Metallic Orb Over Disneyland

  Disneyland, Anaheim, California · 3 July 2026 At about 8:20 in the evening on 3 July 2026, a parent visiting Disneyland in Anaheim, California, was near the Plaza Cafe in Tomorrowland when their child pointed at the… Unknown
• 1978 Case fileHumanoid / Contactee Encounter

  A Motorist Meets "Naazra-Abuc" Near Alicante (1978)

  An isolated curving road near Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain · 5 July 1978 According to the only surviving account, a businessman identified solely as "Pablo R." was… Unknown An isolated curving road near Alicante, Spain
• 2025 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Multicolored Sphere Filmed by Anoka Police, Minnesota (19 February 2025)

  Anoka, Minnesota · 19 February 2025 According to the FBI records, three or more employees of the Anoka Police Department, at least one of them a sworn officer, were finishing a debriefing after training in… Unknown
• 1964 Case fileClose-range disc, structural detail report

  A Saucer Hovers over Lynn, Massachusetts

  Henry Street, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA · 15 June 1964 At 11:10 p.m. on the night of 15 June 1964, William Angelos, a 20-year-old technical school… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Shape-Shifting Light Over Choa Chu Kang

  Choa Chu Kang, Singapore · 2 July 2026 On the evening of 2 July 2026, at about 8:50pm local time (GMT +8), a resident of Choa Chu… Unknown Choa Chu Kang, Singapore
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Shimmering Object Over Waterloo

  Waterloo, Ontario · 1 July 2026 On the evening of 1 July 2026, at about 9:45, a witness posting to r/UFOs as MrCrix recorded a small object hanging in the twilight sky over Waterloo, Ontario. The… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Silent Light Over Mancelona, Michigan (17 June 2026)

  Mancelona, Northern Michigan · 17 June 2026 The witness, posting as "mittenmetal7," said the object was seen on 17 June 2026 at 4:25 in… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Sphere Over Ormiston, East Lothian (20 June 2026)

  Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland · 20 June 2026 The witness account, posted by "Greendreams07," is that the poster's son captured the object on the evening of 20 June 2026 at about 8:23 in the evening while out… Unknown Ormiston, United Kingdom
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Stationary Light Over Lower Manhattan (28 June 2026)

  Downtown Brooklyn, looking west over Lower Manhattan and the harbor · 28 June 2026 On the night of 28 June 2026 at about 9:45 pm, a witness in downtown Brooklyn filmed a bright… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A Straight Line of Light Over the Coachella Valley

  Coachella Valley, California · 6 July 2026 In the small hours of 6 July 2026, at about 12:35 in the morning, a group out sky watching in… Unknown
• 1969 Case fileStructured craft

  A UFO Lights Up a Kentucky Mine

  Midway Mining Co. fluorspar mine near Frances, Crittenden County, western Kentucky · Fall 1969 Two men reported it: the mine owner, identified in the report only as W.L.D., and an employee identified as J.K. By the owner's account they ran a small fluorite, zinc,… Unknown Midway Mining Co. fluorspar mine near Frances, United States
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A White Cylinder Over Pomona, California (4 April 2026)

  Pomona, California · 4 April 2026 According to the witness, the sighting happened over Pomona in eastern Los Angeles County at… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  A White Pill Over Manila Bay

  Manila Bay waterfront, Metro Manila, Philippines · 1 July 2026 Around 11:35 in the morning on 1 July 2026, a witness posting as sggrbt photographed a bright white object hanging over Manila Bay, framed against a heavy bank of dark… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  An Amber Light Above the Clouds Near San Francisco (23 June 2026)

  Over the San Francisco Bay Area, California · 23 June 2026 The clip runs about twelve seconds and is shot through an aircraft window at night. Below is a… Unknown Over the San Francisco Bay Area, United States
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  An Amber Orb Over Northwest Indiana (22 June 2026)

  Northwest Indiana, United States · 22 June 2026 The clip runs about forty five seconds, shot handheld on a phone. The foreground is a paved… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  An Amber Orb Over Pine Creek Near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania (8 June 2026)

  Blackwell, near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania · 8 June 2026 The footage was shared to the r/UFOs forum on 25 June 2026 by a user posting on behalf of her partner, who is not on Reddit. By her account the sighting happened on 8… Unknown
• 1968 Case filePilot sighting

  An Ohio Pilot Eludes a UFO (1968)

  Warren, Ohio (near Youngstown), United States · 8 July 1968 On the night of 8 July 1968, at about 10:20 p.m., four people were aloft in a Cessna 172… Unknown Warren, United States
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  An S-Shaped Object Over L’Aquila, Abruzzo (26 June 2026)

  L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy · 26 June 2026 The clip was filmed at about 19:56 local time on 26 June 2026 and posted to the r/UFOs forum the same evening by a user named Corsonovo, who gave the location as… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Bright Orbs Over Norfolk, Virginia (24 June 2026)

  Norfolk, Virginia · 24 June 2026 The witness, posting as "Complex-Peace2602," said they were in Norfolk, Virginia and had never… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Color-Changing Orbs Over Baltimore (24 June 2026)

  Baltimore, Maryland · 24 June 2026 The witness, posting as "Legitimate_Use_5860," gave the time as 7:02pm on 24 June 2026 and the… Unknown Baltimore, United States
• 2023 Case fileGovernment file

  DOW-UAP-PR100: Unresolved UAP Report over the Yellow Sea, 2023 (PURSUE Release 04)

  Yellow Sea · 2023 The footage is a single continuous clip captured in 2023 by an electro-optical and infrared sensor system aboard a U.S. military platform operating over the Yellow Sea.… Unknown
• 2024 Case fileGovernment file

  DOW-UAP-PR102/PR103: Unresolved UAP Report over the East China Sea (2024) (PURSUE Release 04)

  East China Sea · 2024 The event is documented by two short infrared clips released by the U.S. Department of War… Unknown
• 2020 Case fileGovernment file

  DOW-UAP-PR106: Unresolved UAP Report over the Eastern United States (2020) (PURSUE Release 04)

  Eastern United States · 2020 The clip is a short infrared sensor sequence recorded from a U.S. military platform over the Eastern United States in 2020. AARO's own frame-by-frame caption opens with… Unknown Eastern United States, United States (Eastern U.S. airspace, exact location undisclosed)
• 1966 Case fileClose encounter, occupant report

  Encounter at Gulfport, Mississippi

  Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi, USA · July 1966 The only first-person account of this event comes from a single witness who allowed her story… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Glowing Orbs Over the Water in Miami (6 February 2026)

  Miami waterfront, Biscayne Bay, Florida · 6 February 2026 The witness wrote that at about 7:44 pm on 6 February 2026 they were walking the dog and… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Green Lights Over Kolkata

  Kolkata, West Bengal · 19 June 2026 The footage, about twenty seconds of a longer sighting, shows a dark Kolkata skyline of rooftops, a telecom tower, and the orange glow of street lighting along the… Unknown Kolkata, India
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Orange Orbs Over Carolina Beach (24 June 2026)

  Carolina Beach, North Carolina · 24 June 2026 The witness, posting as "leprechan923," said he and his wife were sitting out on the deck of a… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileOrbs and Lights

  Orbs Around Venus Over Townsville, Queensland

  Townsville, Queensland · 26 July 2026 The whole primary record is a single Reddit submission to r/UFOs titled "Orbs sighted over Townsville, QLD, Australia." posted by the account No-Counter7697, permalink… Unknown
• 1947 Case fileGovernment file

  Project Sign (1947 to 1949): The Air Force's First UFO Study and the "Estimate of the Situation"

  Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio · 1947 to 1949 Project Sign was the first formal investigation into unidentified flying objects ever… Unknown Air Materiel Command, United States
• 2020 Case fileGovernment file

  PURSUE PR108: The "Tic-Tac" Infrared Track Over the Western United States (2020)

  Western United States · 2020 The file is 1 minute 34 seconds of monochrome infrared footage from a sensor aboard a U.S.… Unknown
• 2003 Case fileAircraft Encounter

  Red Disk Passes a US Airways Jet

  Over northern New Jersey, on descent into LaGuardia Airport, New York · 23 November 2003 A passenger flying into New York reported a single fast-moving red circular object that passed his airliner during descent. By his own account he was aboard an… Unknown
• Case filePhotograph

  The "Argentina 1981" Photograph

  Claimed: Saavedra, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Actual shooting location unconfirmed. The image shows a domed grey disc in a hazy blue sky above flat grazing land with cattle and a… Unknown Claimed: Saavedra, Argentina (claimed)
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness footage

  The "Gold Nuggets" Over Tenerife: Two Static Amber Lights and a Field of Moving Ones

  Tenerife, Canary Islands · 15 July 2026 The footage was recorded at roughly 3am local time on 15 July 2026 from Tenerife in the Canary Islands, pointed low toward the horizon into a dark patch of sky. The… Unknown
• Case filePhotograph

  The "Kazakhstan 1995" Photograph

  Claimed: Bogadinski, Kazakhstan, a place that does not exist on Kazakh maps. Actual shooting location unconfirmed. The photo shows a classic domed disc, slightly tilted, against an overcast sky above a… Unknown
• 2020 Case fileMilitary Sensor Footage

  The "NAG UAP" Humanoid Figure (PURSUE PR059)

  Undisclosed location, U.S. Central Command area of responsibility · 1 June 2020 The clip runs four minutes and fifty-one seconds. For most of it the sensor holds a single… Unknown Undisclosed location, Undisclosed
• 2019 Case fileGovernment file

  The "Unlike Anything I Had Seen" Range Fouler (PURSUE PR112)

  Eastern United States · 2019 The footage runs about twenty seconds. It comes from an infrared sensor aboard a civilian aircraft operating over the eastern United States in 2019, and it is redacted… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness footage

  The "Vibrating" Light Over Rocky Mountain National Park

  Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, United States · 10 July 2026 A backpacker camping in the backcountry of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado recorded a… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileGovernment Disclosure

  The 2026 UAP Disclosure Forum on Capitol Hill

  Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. · 25 June 2026 The Disclosure Foundation convened what it billed as a first of its kind public forum in the Kennedy Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on… Unknown Russell Senate Office Building, United States
• 1983 Case fileClose Encounter / Abduction

  The Abduction of Alfred Burtoo

  Basingstoke Canal, near Gasworks Bridge on Government Road, Aldershot, Hampshire, England · 12 August 1983 In the small hours of 12 August 1983, Alfred Burtoo, a 77-year-old retired soldier, farmer and… Unknown
• 2006 Case filePhotograph

  The Alagamar Photograph, Natal

  Alagamar, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil · 26 November 2006 The photograph shows a bright blue late-morning sky with scattered cumulus over a… Unknown
• 2020 Case fileGovernment file

  The Atlantic "Floating Brain" Range Fouler

  Atlantic Ocean, off the eastern United States · 1 January 2020 The clip runs 32 seconds and is drawn from an infrared targeting sensor on a U.S. military platform. Through the entire sequence the sensor zooms and pans to keep the… Unknown Atlantic Ocean, United States
• 2006 Case filePhotograph

  The Baghdad Power Plant Disc Photo

  Route Jackson corridor, southern Baghdad, Iraq · Claimed May 2006, first traceable 12 March 2007 The photograph shows a small lens-shaped disc in a hazy sky above power lines, with three tall… Unknown
• 1955 Case fileDaylight disc / close encounter (landing)

  The Bexleyheath Encounter

  King Harold's Way, Bexleyheath, southeast London, England · 17 July 1955 Just before noon on 17 July 1955, a hot summer Sunday, something is reported to have come down in the residential streets of Bexleyheath in southeast London. The… Unknown
• 2004 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Billerica Deck Levitation

  Billerica, Massachusetts · 12 December 2004 On Sunday, 12 December 2004, at about 7:10 p.m., a Billerica couple who would only allow their… Unknown Billerica, United States
• 2003 Case fileVideo

  The Blagoevgrad Saucer

  Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria · 2003 A spinning saucer-shaped disc hovering close to apartment buildings at 7:12 in the morning,… Unknown
• 2022 Case fileVideo

  The Bratislava Metallic Sphere

  Bratislava, Slovakia · 18 September 2022 A dark, metallic-looking, roughly spherical object tumbling and drifting in clear blue daytime sky over the city. Unknown
• 1989 Case fileClose encounter (multi-witness nocturnal disc)

  The Brecon Beacons Multi-Lighted UFO

  Brecon Beacons moorland, on the road between Leamington Spa and Neath, Powys, Wales · November 1989 On an early evening in November 1989 a great-aunt named Janice was driving her two… Unknown Brecon Beacons moorland, United Kingdom
• 1968 Case fileLanding / ground object

  The Brigham City Promontory Landing

  Brigham City, Utah, looking west toward the Promontory, USA · 7 May 1968 In mid-afternoon on 7 May 1968, Mrs. L. P. Cragin of Brigham City, Utah, reported to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) that she and her… Unknown
• 2004 Case fileTriangle Close Encounter

  The Bristol, Tennessee Triangle Close Encounter

  Bristol, Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA · 2 October 2004 A single witness, kept anonymous in the case file, said he was driving home before dawn on… Unknown
• 1994 Case filePhotograph

  The Bryce Canyon Photo

  Bryce Canyon, Utah · 7 June 1994 (miscaptioned "1997" in reposts) A blurry whitish disc-shaped object low among the hoodoo rock formations, discovered only… Unknown Bryce Canyon, United States
• 2004 Case filePilot sighting

  The California Airline Pilot Sighting (2004)

  North of Stockton, California, on approach to San Francisco International Airport · 3 November 2004 At about 11 p.m. on 3 November 2004 a jetliner was making its approach into San Francisco International Airport, coming in from the east and passing just north of… Unknown
• 2018 Case fileVideo

  The California Ocean Object

  Off the California coast · Around May 2018 A small dark object holding position and moving low over the ocean surface. Unknown
• Case fileVideo

  The Chris Bledsoe Family Lights

  North Carolina · Ongoing Star-like points of light and a bright flare in the night sky, from the family of North Carolina experiencer Chris Bledsoe. Unknown North Carolina, United States
• 2022 Case filePhotograph

  The Cigar Object

  Location unestablished · 19 August 2022 A dark, metallic, cone or cigar-shaped object narrowing to a point, presented with a zoomed… Unknown
• 1968 Case fileNear-landing / physical-effects

  The Claremont, New Hampshire Dome Object

  Claremont, New Hampshire, USA · 30 July 1968 In the early hours of 30 July 1968, two unconnected sets of witnesses in Claremont, New… Unknown
• 2022 Case fileMilitary Witnesses

  The Colorado Springs "Potato" Over Cheyenne Mountain (FBI PURSUE Files)

  Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs, Colorado · February 2022 On a clear winter morning in February 2022, five members of a U.S. Army unit stationed at Fort Carson walked out of an office building in Colorado Springs and looked… Unknown Cheyenne Mountain, United States
• 2025 Case fileAirspace incursion / official investigation

  The Copenhagen Airport Drone Incursions (September 2025)

  Copenhagen Airport (Kastrup) and Danish military sites · 22 September 2025 At about 20:26 on 22 September 2025, Copenhagen Airport suspended all departures and arrivals… Unknown
• 1958 Case fileClose encounter / occupant landing

  The Devil's Canyon Landing

  Devil's Canyon, between Blackhead and Roundtop mountains, near Hunter, Greene County, New York · October 1958 The account comes from a single hunter who is never named in any published version. By his telling it was October 1958, just before deer season, and his hunting buddies… Unknown
• 2015 Case fileGovernment file

  The Diamond Over the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant

  Pantex Plant, Carson County, Texas · 1 September 2015 The object was described as a diamond shape that was more rounded at the top, roughly four… Unknown Pantex Plant, United States
• 1967 Case filemilitary

  The Echo Flight Shutdown at Malmstrom

  Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, USA · 16 March 1967 At roughly 0845 local time on 16 March 1967, every one of the ten Minuteman I intercontinental… Unknown
• 2013 Case fileMilitary Sensor Footage

  The Eight-Pointed Star (PURSUE PR38)

  Middle East, U.S. Central Command area of responsibility · 2013 The clip runs one minute and forty-six seconds. A small, sharply defined area of contrast sits above a horizon line in a thermal view rendered in black-hot polarity, so… Unknown
• 1982 Case fileCraft sighting

  The Eliot Wedge

  Eliot, Maine, United States · Summer 1982 It was dusk in the summer of 1982 in Eliot, Maine, a small town that sits across the… Unknown Eliot, United States
• 1976 Case fileMilitary / Nuclear

  The F.E. Warren AFB Missile-Field Cigar (1976)

  F.E. Warren Air Force Base Minuteman III missile field, north of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA · Fall 1976 In the fall of 1976, on a night that runs roughly from 2:00 a.m. to about 4:30 a.m., a Minuteman III combat crew on alert at an F.E. Warren AFB Launch Control Facility… Unknown
• 2025 Case fileGovernment file

  The Five-Minute East China Sea Contrast (PURSUE PR105)

  East China Sea · 2025 The clip runs five minutes, which alone sets it apart. Almost every video in the fourth PURSUE… Unknown
• 1977 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Fostoria Train Encounter

  Fostoria, Ohio, United States · Late October 1977 At roughly 3:20 in the morning on a night in late October 1977, a Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O)… Unknown Fostoria, United States
• 2022 Case fileMilitary Sensor Footage

  The Four UAP Formation Over Water Near Iran (PURSUE PR050)

  Over water, U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, near Iran · 26 August 2022 The footage runs about ten seconds. For the first few seconds, four distinct areas of contrast transit the sensor field of view together, entering from the lower third… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  The Graniteville Sphere (14 June 2026)

  Graniteville, South Carolina · 14 June 2026 On the afternoon of 14 June 2026, a witness in Graniteville, South Carolina, a small town just… Unknown
• 2009 Case filePhotograph

  The Greenville Black Triangle

  Greenville County, South Carolina · 26 May 2009 A dark, flat object photographed against heavy storm cloud, reading as a disc in one frame and a sharper black triangle in another. A further frame from the same set… Unknown Greenville County, United States
• 2005 Case filePhotograph

  The Half Moon Bay Flying Discs

  Half Moon Bay beach, San Mateo County, California · 2 February 2005 Photographer Watson Morris was on the beach shooting black and white frames of the rocks when,… Unknown
• 1978 Case fileDaylight disc

  The Hallstrom Daylight Disc

  Over downtown Santa Monica, California, near Los Angeles International Airport · 1 January 1978 A little after 12:35 p.m. on New Year's Day, 1 January 1978, Floyd P. Hallstrom lifted his… Unknown
• 1968 Case fileClose encounter (CE-III, occupants)

  The Hanbury Dome Encounter

  Farm road near Hanbury, Staffordshire, England · 20 November 1968 Late on the afternoon of 20 November 1968 a Yugoslavian family, Milin Milakovic, his wife Doris and their eleven-year-old son Slavic, were driving home to 432 Cannock… Unknown Farm road near Hanbury, United Kingdom
• 2008 Case fileIntelligence Document

  The Harare Airport Disc (CIA PURSUE Files)

  Harare International Airport, Harare · 2 July 2008 According to the CIA information report, on the afternoon of 2 July 2008 an unidentified… Unknown
• 2011 Case filePhotograph

  The Hebei Power Plant Octahedron

  Luannan County, Tangshan, Hebei, China · 9 September 2011 A solid black octahedron, two square pyramids joined base to base, apparently hovering in clear sky above the smokestack and cooling tower of a power plant in Luannan… Unknown
• 1981 Case fileNocturnal lights / scientific field study

  The Hessdalen Lights

  Hessdalen valley, Holtalen municipality, Sor-Trondelag, Norway · 1981 to 1984 (recurring) Hessdalen is a narrow, sparsely populated valley roughly 12 kilometres long in central Norway.… Unknown Hessdalen valley, Norway
• 1973 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Hochries Mountain Encounter

  Hochries summit, Chiemgau Alps, Upper Bavaria, near the Austrian border · 10 December 1973 On the evening of 10 December 1973, two men were inside the Hochrieshütte, the alpine club… Unknown
• 1974 Case fileFilm / government disclosure claim

  The Holloman AFB Landing Film

  Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States; promoted via Norton AFB, San Bernardino, California · 1974 There is no contemporaneous witness sighting at the core of this case. What exists is a chain of testimony about a film. In 1973 Robert Emenegger, then a vice president… Unknown
• 1996 Case filePhotograph

  The Hungary UFO Photograph (1996)

  Érpatak, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county · 27 October 1996 On 27 October 1996 a young Hungarian man named Lajos Kosina was visiting his girlfriend's… Unknown Érpatak, Hungary
• 2008 Case filePhotograph

  The Indiana Treeline Object

  Rural Indiana, town and county not recorded · 31 January 2008 At dusk on January 31, 2008, the witness noticed an object about 300 to 400 feet away, just across the street and above the treeline behind neighboring houses. First… Unknown
• 2006 Case filePhotograph

  The Ipiales Lake Luminescence

  Lake near Ipiales, Narino, Colombia · Weekend of 18 and 19 November 2006 During the weekend of November 18 and 19, 2006, a witness identified only as Freddy took a… Unknown
• 1984 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Isidoro Ferri Encounter

  Villa la Radicchia, Polcanto, Borgo San Lorenzo (Mugello), Florence province, Italy · 9 to 10 October 1984 In the night between 9 and 10 October 1984, at around three in the morning, Isidoro Ferri was… Unknown Villa la Radicchia, Italy
• Case filePhotograph

  The Japan Saucer

  Japan A domed metallic disc hovering over a hazy hillside, captioned 1970 Japan. Unknown
• 2026 Case filePilot and air traffic control report

  The King Air Crew Over Londrina: "It Gives Us Chills" (13 July 2026)

  Londrina, Paraná, Brazil · 13 July 2026 On the night of Monday 13 July 2026, at around 21:00 local time, the crew of a Beechcraft King… Unknown
• 1968 Case fileClose encounter (occupants)

  The Lakeland Glass-Globe Occupant Case

  Medulla, south of Lakeland, Polk County, Florida · 18 October 1968 On the evening of 18 October 1968, at about 7:30 PM, Buck McMullen and his wife Grace were sitting down to dinner at their modest house in Medulla, an unincorporated… Unknown Medulla, United States
• 2002 Case filePhotograph

  The Las Cruces, New Mexico Photograph (2002)

  Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA (object photographed against the ranges west of the city) · 5 October 2002 On the afternoon of 5 October 2002, an anonymous witness in Las Cruces, New Mexico took four… Unknown
• 1991 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Lee Family Encounter

  Havana, Florida (Gadsden County, north of Tallahassee) · December 1991 On a night in December 1991, the Lee family drove from their home in Havana, Florida, a small… Unknown
• 2024 Case fileGovernment file

  The Line of Contrasts Over the South China Sea (PURSUE PR101)

  South China Sea · 2024 The footage is one minute and forty-six seconds of infrared video from a sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in the South China Sea in 2024. Through the clip the… Unknown South China Sea, International waters (South China Sea)
• 1957 Case fileClose Encounter (CE2), physiological effects

  The Madison, Ohio Kuhn Case (1957)

  Madison, Lake County, Ohio · 10 November 1957 Between roughly 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. on 10 November 1957, Mrs. Leita Kuhn was awake in the dog… Unknown
• 2015 Case fileVideo

  The Miraflores Construction-Site Object

  Miraflores, Lima, Peru · 10 February 2015 A small dark lens-shaped disc, purple-tinged in some frames, hovering for several minutes over a building under construction in the Miraflores district of Lima. It was… Unknown
• 2009 Case fileVideo

  The Moscow Pyramid

  Moscow, Russia · December 2009 A large pyramid or tetrahedral object reported to hover over the city; in the headline clip a… Unknown Moscow, Russia
• 1973 Case fileElectromagnetic interference / vehicle effect

  The Mt. Vernon Train Stoppage

  L&N Railroad line east of Mt. Vernon, Indiana, near Caborn and Lamont Crossing · 20 October 1973 In the early morning of 20 October 1973, at about 6:50 a.m., a Louisville and Nashville (L&N)… Unknown
• Case filePhotograph

  The Na Pali Coast Object

  Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii A bright, angular diamond or lozenge-shaped object in the sky near the cliff ridgeline, sharper in the zoomed frame. Unknown
• 1964 Case fileClose encounter, landing trace and occupants

  The New Berlin Double Landing

  New Berlin, Chenango County, New York, near State Route 80 · 25 November 1964 On the night of 25 November 1964, just north of the hamlet of New Berlin in Chenango County,… Unknown New Berlin, United States
• Case fileAviation Encounter

  The New York Cylindrical Object Airliner Near-Miss

  Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York The case exists as a single line in a federal document, but it is among the most consequential lines in the entire report. In its Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual… Unknown
• 2005 Case fileTriangle

  The Noble, Oklahoma Jet Chase

  Noble, Oklahoma, USA · 27 May 2005 Late on the night of Friday 27 May 2005, at about 23:30, a single witness in Noble, Oklahoma,… Unknown
• 2022 Case fileVideo

  The Northeastern Orb Sightings (FBI PURSUE Files)

  Northeastern United States (exact location withheld by the FBI) · March 2022 to July 2025 The clearest footage, logged as FBI-UAP-PR004, was shot in July 2025 at about 2100 local time.… Unknown Northeastern United States (exact location withheld by the FBI), United States
• 1996 Case fileAstronaut / orbital sighting

  The Object Photographed From Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-80, 1996)

  Low Earth orbit aboard Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-80) · 19 November to 7 December 1996 STS-80 flew from 19 November to 7 December 1996, a mission that still holds the record for the longest shuttle flight at more than seventeen days. Somewhere in that… Unknown
• 2006 Case fileUnidentified submerged object / water

  The Oklahoma Pond Object

  A private farm pond in rural Oklahoma, location tagged "Flagler" · 27 June 2006 The entire case rests on one written report submitted by an anonymous grandparent and… Unknown
• Case fileHistorical / pre-1900 aerial phenomenon (oral-history folk account)

  The Padeswood Poachers' Purple Ball

  Padeswood, near Mold, Flintshire (historic Clwyd), North Wales · 1880s The story is set among the coal-mining communities around Mold in Flintshire, North Wales, during the hard years of the 1880s. A group of colliers, by some tellings men… Unknown Padeswood, United Kingdom
• 1972 Case filePilot and police encounter

  The Pasadena Police Helicopter Encounter

  Pasadena, California, near the San Gabriel foothills · October 1972 On a fog-edged night in October 1972, two members of the Pasadena Police Department air crew… Unknown
• 1973 Case fileNocturnal lights / scientific field study

  The Piedmont Flap and Project Identification

  Piedmont, Missouri, United States · February 1973 to 1980 In the late winter and spring of 1973 the small Ozarks town of Piedmont, in Wayne County,… Unknown
• 1972 Case filePhotograph

  The Plymouth Zoo Giraffe Photo

  Plymouth Zoo, Devon, England · 1972 Nothing was seen in the sky at the time. Zoo visitor Wilfred Power photographed a giraffe, and a small, sharply bounded saucer-shaped disc above the giraffe's head was… Unknown Plymouth Zoo, United Kingdom
• 1973 Case fileClose encounter / structured craft

  The Princeton, Indiana Saucer (1973)

  Highway 64 through the Wabash River bottoms, near Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana · August 1973 On an evening in August 1973, around 9:00 p.m., a family of three was driving home to… Unknown
• 1988 Case fileVideo

  The Ralph Fuller Gulf Breeze Video

  Gulf coast near Gulf Breeze, Florida · 1988 In 1988, on the Gulf coast in the stretch of Florida panhandle around Gulf Breeze, a local resident named Ralph Fuller pointed a consumer camcorder at the sky over the… Unknown
• 1974 Case fileAerial light / pacing object

  The Ronald Reagan UFO Sighting

  Near Bakersfield, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA · 1974 On a night in 1974, the twin-jet carrying California Governor Ronald Reagan was flying through… Unknown Near Bakersfield, United States
• 2026 Case fileVideo

  The Roswell Shiny Object

  Claimed Roswell, New Mexico · Claimed 25 March 2026 A bright, reflective, elongated pill or lozenge-shaped object in daytime sky, tumbling… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness footage

  The Rotating Color-Changing Light Over Prague

  Near Prague, Czech Republic · 9 July 2026 The witness reported the sighting at about 23:51 Central European Time on 9 July 2026, from a location near Prague in the Czech Republic. In the video a single point of… Unknown
• 1973 Case fileDisc

  The Schenectady Flying Saucer

  Schenectady, New York, near the General Electric works · Late 1973 Two sisters were driving the roughly twenty miles from Amsterdam, New York into Schenectady to… Unknown Schenectady, United States
• 1952 Case fileOccupant / Humanoid Encounter

  The Seat Pleasant Occupant Sighting

  Seat Pleasant, Maryland · August 1952 On a hot evening in August 1952, at about 9:30 p.m., Mrs. Suzanne E. Knight, a young housewife and mother, was in the kitchen of her home in Seat Pleasant, Maryland,… Unknown
• 1993 Case fileBlack Triangle

  The Seattle Triangle (1993)

  East Marginal Way South, beside Boeing Field (King County International Airport), Seattle, Washington · November 1993 On a Sunday night in November 1993, at about 9:30 pm, Seattle writer and graphic artist Gary… Unknown
• 1996 Case filePilot and air traffic control encounter

  The Shuttle 5959 Encounter

  Over Michigan, near Saginaw and northwest of Detroit, in Cleveland Center airspace · 28 February 1996 In the early hours of 28 February 1996, around 12:50 AM, the crew of a flight using the… Unknown Over Michigan, United States
• 2025 Case fileGovernment file

  The Six-Pointed Star Over the Yellow Sea (PURSUE PR104)

  Yellow Sea · 2025 The video is short, about fifteen seconds, shot on an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform over the Yellow Sea in 2025. AARO's own caption is almost clinical:… Unknown
• 2000 Case filePhotograph

  The Stinson Lake, New Hampshire Photograph

  Stinson Lake, Rumney, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA · February 2000 There is one photograph and one short narrative, and both come from the same place. A man… Unknown
• 2000 Case fileLanding trace

  The Tanah Merah Marshland Landing

  Kampung Gobek, Tanah Merah, Kelantan, West Malaysia · March 2000 In the early hours of around 3 March 2000, residents of Kampung Gobek, a small village in the Tanah Merah district of Kelantan in West Malaysia, reported that a large,… Unknown Kampung Gobek, Malaysia
• 2024 Case fileMass event / viral incident

  The Ten-Foot Aliens Report, Bayside Marketplace, Miami (2024)

  Bayside Marketplace, 401 Biscayne Boulevard, downtown Miami, Florida, USA · 1 January 2024 On the night of Monday 1 January 2024, shortly before 8:30 p.m., a large law-enforcement… Unknown
• 2021 Case fileVideo

  The Third Phase of the Moon Disc

  Location unestablished · Dated 24 March 2021 A domed, saucer-shaped object with a row of lights along its rim, hovering over bare trees at… Unknown
• 2004 Case fileMass Sighting

  The Tinley Park Lights

  Tinley Park, Illinois · 21 August 2004 On three nights spread across thirteen months, hundreds of people in the south suburbs of Chicago watched the same thing appear in their sky: three red lights, hanging… Unknown Tinley Park, United States
• 2005 Case filePhotograph

  The Tintagel Holiday Photograph Disc

  Coast path near Tintagel, Cornwall, United Kingdom · 2005 Nothing was reported seen at the time. The dark, lens-shaped object was apparently noticed… Unknown
• 2025 Case fileVideo

  The Traverse City Dark Object

  Traverse City, Michigan · Captioned 3 July 2025 A small, dark, roughly blocky object low in a pale dusk sky, holding position and drifting slowly. Unknown
• 2023 Case fileGovernment file

  The Two Bright Contrasts Over the Middle East (PURSUE PR024)

  Middle East · 2023 The footage is short, eighteen seconds of infrared video from a sensor aboard a U.S. military… Unknown Middle East, Middle East (undisclosed)
• 2002 Case filePhotograph

  The Tyrone, Pennsylvania Beam Photograph

  Ice Mountain, near Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania · 20 October 2002 On Sunday evening, 20 October 2002, a man was hiking in the woods on Ice Mountain near the… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileGovernment Document

  The UAP Science Advisory Council

  Washington, D.C. (White House / interagency UAP Governance Board) · 13 June 2026 This entry is not a sighting. It is an institutional development inside the United States government's response to UAP, and it belongs in the archive because it changes… Unknown
• 1966 Case filePhotograph

  The Utah Red UFO

  About 25 miles southwest of Provo, Utah · Summer 1966 A brick-red object, flat on the bottom with a dome on top, photographed on two 35mm slides… Unknown About 25 miles southwest of Provo, United States
• 1966 Case fileClose encounter / vehicle interference (EM effect)

  The Vicksburg, Michigan Disc

  Near Vicksburg, Kalamazoo County, Michigan · 31 March 1966 In the early hours of 31 March 1966, Jeno Udvardy, a machinist and 1956 Hungarian refugee, was driving home from a late work shift on a road near Vicksburg in Kalamazoo… Unknown
• 2024 Case fileGovernment file

  The Virginia Coast Maritime Swarm: 100 Airborne UAP and Two Uncrewed Surface Craft (AARO FY2025 Report)

  Off the coast of Virginia (Virginia Capes operating area) · 2024 to 2025 In a single paragraph buried in a fourteen-page government statistics report, the U.S.… Unknown
• 2023 Case fileGovernment file

  The Western US Orbs-Launching-Orbs Encounter

  Near a sensitive national security site, western United States (location classified) · October 2023 According to the agents’ statements, the lights appeared over two consecutive days and took… Unknown Near a sensitive national security site, United States
• 2003 Case filePhotograph

  The Weyauwega Twilight Disc

  Weyauwega, Waupaca County, Wisconsin · 1 February 2003 The witness reported that she and her son were visiting a friend just north of Main Street, east of Highway 110 and south of the train tracks. As darkness fell her son… Unknown
• 2024 Case fileMilitary sensor

  The Yemen Orb and the Hellfire Missile (2024)

  Off the coast of Yemen (Red Sea / Gulf of Aden) · 30 October 2024 The footage runs only a few seconds and is shot in the grainy black and white of a military… Unknown
• 1966 Case fileLanding trace / close encounter (CE2)

  The Yorktown, Iowa Cigar-Shaped Object

  Yorktown, Page County, Iowa (near Clarinda) · 23 April 1966 In the early hours of Saturday 23 April 1966, at about 2:10 a.m. central daylight time, a farm family living on the land near Yorktown in Page County, Iowa, a few miles… Unknown Yorktown, United States
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Three Lights Over Western New York

  Western New York, USA · 3 July 2026 On the evening of 3 July 2026, at about 9:48pm, a witness in Western New York photographed… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Three Orange Lights Over Laguindingan Airport

  Laguindingan Airport, Misamis Oriental, Philippines · 28 June 2026 On the evening of 28 June 2026, at about 7:28pm local time (UTC +8), a witness near… Unknown
• 1968 Case filePhysical trace

  Trees Stripped in a Diamond Pattern, Salisbury, Massachusetts (1968)

  Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States · April 1968 The entire case rests on a single first-person narrative signed only with the initials "A.J.C." and published on the UFO Casebook website. In it, the writer says he… Unknown Salisbury, United States
• 2026 Case fileGovernment and Disclosure

  Trump Directs Agencies to Waive UAP Nondisclosure Agreements

  The White House, Washington, D.C. · 21 July 2026 This is a policy event rather than a sighting, so the thing observed is a document that nobody… Unknown
• 1987 Case fileAircraft encounter

  Two Aircraft UFO Encounters over Alaska (January 1987)

  Airspace between Elmendorf AFB and Eielson AFB, interior Alaska · 30 to 31 January 1987 Two separate aircraft encounters are reported on consecutive days over interior Alaska, in the same airspace and only weeks after the far better known Japan Air Lines… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Two Fireballs Over Herzliya

  Herzliya, Israel · 3 July 2026 On the night of 3 July 2026, at about 10:00pm local time, a witness in Herzliya on the central… Unknown Herzliya, Israel
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Two Metallic Spheres Over Robinson Township

  Robinson Township, Pennsylvania · 30 June 2026 At about 4 in the afternoon on 30 June 2026, a witness posting as NecessaryBoat9180 was lying… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Two Orbs Over Bairnsdale (27 June 2026)

  Near Bairnsdale, Gippsland, Victoria · 27 June 2026 On the evening of Saturday 27 June 2026, around 7:45 pm, a resident near Bairnsdale in the Gippsland region of eastern Victoria recorded the night sky to the south west… Unknown
• 2026 Case fileEyewitness Footage

  Two Orbs Over Helensburgh, Scotland

  Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute · 14 June 2026 The footage is a single handheld clip, a little over five minutes long, filmed in portrait on… Unknown Helensburgh, United Kingdom
• 2005 Case fileAviation encounter

  UFO Filmed From a Mexicana Airliner Over Oaxaca

  Over the Salina Cruz region, Oaxaca, on the Tapachula to Mexico City air route · 21 September 2005 On the afternoon of 21 September 2005, at about 14:15 hours, an engineer named Carlos Cauich Carrillo was a passenger aboard a Mexicana de Aviacion commercial airliner… Unknown
• 2001 Case fileClose encounter (CE-III), humanoid and craft, no imagery

  UFO Over the Water, Palmas, Brazil (2001)

  Palmas, Tocantins (Tocantins River / Lajeado reservoir) · 22 March 2001 Two people, named in the report as Vinicius da Silva and Marta Rosenthal, were driving home… Unknown
• 2011 Case fileVideo

  UFO Videotaped over Winsted, Connecticut (2011)

  Winsted, Connecticut, United States · January 2011 On a winter night in Winsted, a small mill town in Litchfield County in the northwest corner… Unknown Winsted, United States
• 2017 Case fileVideo

  UFOs Videotaped over Los Angeles (2017)

  Los Angeles, California · March 2017 The footage at the center of this case shows what a MUFON photoanalyst described in his own words as "2 disk or sphere-shaped object apparently ascending" in the sky… Unknown
• 2008 Case fileTriangle/V-shaped craft

  V-Shaped Object Over Los Angeles (2008)

  San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles, California · 14 November 2008 Just after 8:00 pm on 14 November 2008, a man and his girlfriend were leaving her house for… Unknown
• 1952 Case filePhotograph

  The Adamski Scout Ship

  Palomar Gardens, California · 13 December 1952 The canonical image was made on December 13, 1952 at Palomar Gardens, the property on the southern slope of Mount Palomar, California where George Adamski lived and… Discredited Palomar Gardens, United States
• 1957 Case fileClose Encounter

  The Antônio Villas Boas Abduction

  Farm near São Francisco de Sales, Triângulo Mineiro, Minas Gerais · 15 October 1957 Everything in this section is the testimony of Antônio Villas Boas as he gave it to the… Disputed
• 1957 Case fileClose encounter with physical and medical effects

  The Fort Itaipu Heat Encounter

  Forte de Itaipu, Praia Grande, São Paulo · 3 to 4 November 1957 On the moonless night of 3 to 4 November 1957, two sentries stood watch on top of the coastal… Disputed
• 1947 Case fileHistorical Case

  The Maury Island Incident (1947)

  Maury Island, Puget Sound, Washington · 21 June 1947 On the overcast morning of 21 June 1947, Harold A. Dahl was running a salvage boat in the waters off Maury Island, a wooded spur of land joined to Vashon Island in Puget… Disputed Maury Island, United States
• 1948 Case fileHistoric wave

  The New Mexico Green Fireballs

  New Mexico (Los Alamos, Sandia, Kirtland) · November 1948 to 1951 The wave began quietly in November 1948, when residents around Albuquerque started reporting… Verified Unexplained

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