Recent sightings
The archive's case files ordered by when the sighting itself happened, most recent events first. A daily sweep scans public reports for new UFO and UAP material; cases that survive the two-pass review join the map. Cases whose date cannot be reliably traced sit at the end.
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The Chris Bledsoe Family Lights
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Orbs Around Venus Over Townsville, Queensland
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Trump Directs Agencies to Waive UAP Nondisclosure Agreements
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The Lights Over Mission Bay
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The "Gold Nuggets" Over Tenerife: Two Static Amber Lights and a Field of Moving Ones
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The King Air Crew Over Londrina: "It Gives Us Chills" (13 July 2026)
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The "Vibrating" Light Over Rocky Mountain National Park
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The Rotating Color-Changing Light Over Prague
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A Straight Line of Light Over the Coachella Valley
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A Metallic Orb Over Disneyland
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Three Lights Over Western New York
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Two Fireballs Over Herzliya
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A Shape-Shifting Light Over Choa Chu Kang
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A Shimmering Object Over Waterloo
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A White Pill Over Manila Bay
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Two Metallic Spheres Over Robinson Township
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A Green Object Over Diskit, Ladakh (June 2026)
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A Light Over the North Illinois Suburbs (28 June 2026)
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A Stationary Light Over Lower Manhattan (28 June 2026)
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Three Orange Lights Over Laguindingan Airport
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A Color-Flickering Light Over Rural Sonora (27 June 2026)
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Two Orbs Over Bairnsdale (27 June 2026)
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An S-Shaped Object Over L’Aquila, Abruzzo (26 June 2026)
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The 2026 UAP Disclosure Forum on Capitol Hill
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Bright Orbs Over Norfolk, Virginia (24 June 2026)
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Color-Changing Orbs Over Baltimore (24 June 2026)
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Orange Orbs Over Carolina Beach (24 June 2026)
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An Amber Light Above the Clouds Near San Francisco (23 June 2026)
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A Flickering Light Over Cannock Chase, Staffordshire (22 June 2026)
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An Amber Orb Over Northwest Indiana (22 June 2026)
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A Bright Glow Through Cloud Over Denver (21 June 2026)
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A Grey Sphere Falls Into Cape Cod Bay (20 June 2026)
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A Sphere Over Ormiston, East Lothian (20 June 2026)
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Green Lights Over Kolkata
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A Silent Light Over Mancelona, Michigan (17 June 2026)
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A White Orb Over Springfield, Ohio
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The Graniteville Sphere (14 June 2026)
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Two Orbs Over Helensburgh, Scotland
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The UAP Science Advisory Council
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An Amber Orb Over Pine Creek Near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania (8 June 2026)
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A White Cylinder Over Pomona, California (4 April 2026)
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The Roswell Shiny Object
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A Blue-White Orb Over Elyria, Ohio (11 March 2026)
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Glowing Orbs Over the Water in Miami (6 February 2026)
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The Copenhagen Airport Drone Incursions (September 2025)
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The Traverse City Dark Object
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The Five-Minute East China Sea Contrast (PURSUE PR105)
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The Six-Pointed Star Over the Yellow Sea (PURSUE PR104)
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The Buga Sphere
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A Multicolored Sphere Filmed by Anoka Police, Minnesota (19 February 2025)
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The New Jersey Drone Flap
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The Yemen Orb and the Hellfire Missile (2024)
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DOW-UAP-PR102/PR103: Unresolved UAP Report over the East China Sea (2024) (PURSUE Release 04)
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The Line of Contrasts Over the South China Sea (PURSUE PR101)
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The Virginia Coast Maritime Swarm: 100 Airborne UAP and Two Uncrewed Surface Craft (AARO FY2025 Report)
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The Pentagon AARO Historical Record Report (2024)
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The Ten-Foot Aliens Report, Bayside Marketplace, Miami (2024)
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The Western US Orbs-Launching-Orbs Encounter
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DOW-UAP-PR100: Unresolved UAP Report over the Yellow Sea, 2023 (PURSUE Release 04)
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The Two Bright Contrasts Over the Middle East (PURSUE PR024)
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The Lake Huron Shootdown
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The Bratislava Metallic Sphere
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The Four UAP Formation Over Water Near Iran (PURSUE PR050)
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The Cigar Object
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The Northeastern Orb Sightings (FBI PURSUE Files)
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The Colorado Springs "Potato" Over Cheyenne Mountain (FBI PURSUE Files)
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Two UFOs Videotaped over Marion, Ohio
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The Third Phase of the Moon Disc
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DOW-UAP-PR106: Unresolved UAP Report over the Eastern United States (2020) (PURSUE Release 04)
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PURSUE PR108: The "Tic-Tac" Infrared Track Over the Western United States (2020)
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The "NAG UAP" Humanoid Figure (PURSUE PR059)
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The Atlantic "Floating Brain" Range Fouler
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The "Unlike Anything I Had Seen" Range Fouler (PURSUE PR112)
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The California Ocean Object
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The MacDill "JP" Triangle Photos
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UFOs Videotaped over Los Angeles (2017)
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The "Nellis" Blue Disc (Recycled 2016 Clip)
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The Diamond Over the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant
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The Object by the Calbuco Eruption
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The Miraflores Construction-Site Object
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The Pentagon GIMBAL Video
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The Eight-Pointed Star (PURSUE PR38)
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The Aguadilla Thermal Video (2013)
Disputed -
The Hebei Power Plant Octahedron
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UFO Videotaped over Winsted, Connecticut (2011)
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The Moscow Pyramid
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The Greenville Black Triangle
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The Wurzburg UFO Photograph
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V-Shaped Object Over Los Angeles (2008)
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The Harare Airport Disc (CIA PURSUE Files)
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The British UFO Wave of 2008
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South Wales Police Helicopter Encounter
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The Indiana Treeline Object
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The Stephenville Lights
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The Greece Air Force and Airliner Sighting
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The Kumburgaz Videos
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The Alderney Channel Islands Pilot Sighting
Verified Unexplained -
The Arkansas Colonel's Photographs
Strongly Disputed -
The Alagamar Photograph, Natal
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The Ipiales Lake Luminescence
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The Chicago O'Hare Airport Sighting
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The Marcia Burke Encounter
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The Oklahoma Pond Object
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The Baghdad Power Plant Disc Photo
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The Zdany Silver Sphere Photographs
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UFO Filmed From a Mexicana Airliner Over Oaxaca
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The Tintagel Holiday Photograph Disc
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The Noble, Oklahoma Jet Chase
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The Half Moon Bay Flying Discs
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The Billerica Deck Levitation
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The USS Nimitz Tic Tac
Verified Unexplained -
The California Airline Pilot Sighting (2004)
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The Bristol, Tennessee Triangle Close Encounter
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The Tinley Park Lights
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The Staffordshire UFO Wave (2004)
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The Mexican Air Force Infrared UFOs
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Red Disk Passes a US Airways Jet
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The Alaska Alien Photograph
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The Blagoevgrad Saucer
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The Weyauwega Twilight Disc
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The Albany Airport UFO Video
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The Tyrone, Pennsylvania Beam Photograph
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The Las Cruces, New Mexico Photograph (2002)
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The Trenton-Brookville Sightings
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The Paintsville Train Collision
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The Gundiah-Mackay Abduction
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The Carteret, New Jersey Lights
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The Waynesville, Ohio Police UFO Report
Verified Unexplained -
UFO Over the Water, Palmas, Brazil (2001)
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The Salt Lake City Ring Photographs
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The Bonsall Video, Sharon Rowlands (2000)
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The Tanah Merah Marshland Landing
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The Stinson Lake, New Hampshire Photograph
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The St. Clair County Police Triangle
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The Lake Powell 1998 Photograph
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The Rod Dickinson UFO Footage (1998)
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The Swissair Flight 127 Near-Miss
Verified Unexplained -
The "Alien Interview" Area 51 Video
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The Phoenix Lights
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The Object Photographed From Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-80, 1996)
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The Hungary UFO Photograph (1996)
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The Shuttle 5959 Encounter
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The Varginha Incident
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The Denver January 1996 Daylight Disc
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The Gosford Mass Sighting
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The Gosford Central Coast Flap
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Commercial Airliners Report a UFO off Long Island (1995)
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The America West Flight 564 Encounter
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The Manchester Airport Near-Miss (1995)
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The Trumbull County Police Sightings
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The Ariel School Encounter
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The Mongo Photo Case
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The Bryce Canyon Photo
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The Holland, Michigan Sightings (1994)
Verified Unexplained -
Air France Flight 3532 (1994)
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The Seattle Triangle (1993)
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The Kelly Cahill Encounter
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The Cosford and Shawbury RAF Sightings
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The Maslin Beach Photographs
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The A70 Abduction
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The Khoury Abduction and DNA Claim
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Carlos Diaz and the Ships of Light
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The Lee Family Encounter
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The USS Kirk USO Encounter
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The Mexico City Solar Eclipse Sightings
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The Alitalia Near-Miss Over Kent
Verified Unexplained -
The Daytona Beach Police FLIR Footage
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The Place Bonaventure Sighting
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The France Mass Sighting of 5 November 1990
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The Alfena UFO Photographs (1990)
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The Greifswald Lights
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The Aegean Sea USO Photograph
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The Calvine Photograph
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The Inaja Photograph
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The Linda Napolitano Abduction
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The Belgian UFO Wave
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The Brecon Beacons Multi-Lighted UFO
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The Carp "Guardian" Landing Claim
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The Emtsa Truck Drivers' Landed Craft
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The Voronezh Landing
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The Nashville 1989 Saucer Photographs
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The Phobos 2 Incident
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The Ralph Fuller Gulf Breeze Video
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The Knowles Family Nullarbor Encounter
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The Ilkley Moor Alien (1987)
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The Gulf Breeze Sightings
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The Wytheville, Virginia Sightings
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The Corydon, Indiana Video (1987)
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The Christa Tilton Abduction
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The Jason Andrews Abduction
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Two Aircraft UFO Encounters over Alaska (January 1987)
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Japan Air Lines Flight 1628
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The Brazilian Night of the UFOs
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The Whitley Strieber Encounter
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The Isidoro Ferri Encounter
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The Minsk Tu-134 Radar-Visual Case
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The Whaley Lake Encounter
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The Indian Point Nuclear Plant Encounter
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The Abduction of Alfred Burtoo
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The Copley Woods Encounter
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The Hudson Valley Sightings
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The Ota Air Base Encounter: A Portuguese Air Force Pilot Circled by a Disc (1982)
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The Amarante Case: A Lone Biologist's Ovoid in a Laxou Garden
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The Eliot Wedge
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The Lake Baikal Divers
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The Hannah McRoberts Photograph
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The Lintel Lake Incident
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The Lake Michigan L-1011 Object
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The Hessdalen Lights
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The Trans-en-Provence Landing Trace
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The Cash-Landrum Encounter
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The Rendlesham Forest Incident
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The Alan Godfrey Abduction
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The Kirtland AFB Encounter (1980)
Verified Unexplained -
The Kalygir Lake Object (1980)
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The Fartek Sighting: A Mirage Pilot's Grounded Saucer
Verified Unexplained -
The Manises Airliner Diversion
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The Robert Taylor Encounter at Dechmont Woods
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The Val Johnson Squad Car Collision
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The Tetas de Cayey Cave Body
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The Cecconi Gun-Camera Cylinder
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A Soviet Cosmonaut Sees a UFO (1979)
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The Kaikoura Lights
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The Zanfretta Encounters
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The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
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A Motorist Meets "Naazra-Abuc" Near Alicante (1978)
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The Cullen Abduction
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A Policeman Burned by a UFO: The Kerman Incident (Amparano, 1978)
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The Fort Dix-McGuire Alien Encounter
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The Hallstrom Daylight Disc
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The Ellsworth AFB "Site L-9" Document (1977)
Strongly Disputed -
The Fostoria Train Encounter
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The Petrozavodsk Jellyfish
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The RAF Boulmer Radar-Visual Sighting
Verified Unexplained -
The Colares Island Flap
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The West Pittsburg "Eastbay" Landing
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The F.E. Warren AFB Missile-Field Cigar (1976)
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The Tehran F-4 Incident
Verified Unexplained -
The Allagash Abductions
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The Canary Islands Sphere (1976)
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The Cannon AFB Flight-Line UFOs
Verified Unexplained -
The Travis Walton Abduction
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The 1975 Overflights of the SAC Missile Bases
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The Loring AFB Overflights
Verified Unexplained -
The Billy Meier Beamships
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The George O'Barski Encounter, North Hudson Park (1975)
Verified Unexplained -
The Carbondale UFO Crash
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The Carl Higdon Abduction
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The Edwin Fuhr Encounter
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The Holloman AFB Landing Film
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The Ronald Reagan UFO Sighting
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The Berwyn Mountains Incident
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The Hochries Mountain Encounter
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The Lyndia Morel Encounter
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The Mt. Vernon Train Stoppage
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The Coyne Helicopter Encounter
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The Falkville Metal Man
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The Pascagoula Abduction
Verified Unexplained -
The Dayton, Ohio UFO Wave (1973)
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The Skylab 3 Red Object (1973)
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The Princeton, Indiana Saucer (1973)
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The Schenectady Flying Saucer
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The Richards Family Landing Trace, Columbia Missouri
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The Judy Doraty Abduction
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The Piedmont Flap and Project Identification
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The Apollo 17 "Fourth of July" Lights (PURSUE Files)
Disputed -
The Pasadena Police Helicopter Encounter
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The McChord AFB Encounter (1972)
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The Plymouth Zoo Giraffe Photo
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The Apollo 16 UFO Film
Strongly Disputed -
The Nazca Disc Landing of 1972
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The Delphos, Kansas Glowing Ring
Verified Unexplained -
The Lago de Cote Disc: Costa Rica's Government Mapping Plane Photograph (1971)
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A NASA Fire Technician on the Apollo 15 Hadley Rille Object
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The Edwards AFB Abductee Crash Claim
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The Karnes City Uranium Mine UFO
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The USS John F. Kennedy Glowing Sphere
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The USS John F. Kennedy Glowing Sphere
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The Rudi Nagora Disc Photographs
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The USS Trepang Periscope Photos
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Metallic Saucers Morph over Yuma, Arizona (1970)
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The Tagish Lake Photographs
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The Cowichan District Hospital Sighting
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A UFO Lights Up a Kentucky Mine
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The Jose Antonio da Silva Abduction
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Jimmy Carter's Leary, Georgia Sighting (1969)
Disputed -
The Hanbury Dome Encounter
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The Minot AFB B-52 Encounter (1968)
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The Lakeland Glass-Globe Occupant Case
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The Buff Ledge Camp Abductions
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The Claremont, New Hampshire Dome Object
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An Ohio Pilot Eludes a UFO (1968)
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The Brigham City Promontory Landing
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Trees Stripped in a Diamond Pattern, Salisbury, Massachusetts (1968)
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The Ririe, Idaho Occupant Encounter
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The Angus Brooks Encounter
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The Devon Flying Cross
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The Shag Harbour Incident
Verified Unexplained -
The Cussac Encounter: Two Children, Four Beings and a Sphere
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The Saucer That Stopped a Car near Meridian, Mississippi
Verified Unexplained -
The Falcon Lake Incident
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The Munroe Falls, Ohio Occupant Encounter (1967)
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The Echo Flight Shutdown at Malmstrom
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The Mothman of Point Pleasant
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The A5 Road Incident
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The Fort Smith Mass Sighting
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The Presque Isle Beach Landing
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Encounter at Gulfport, Mississippi
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The Utah Red UFO
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The Nha Trang Engine-Stopping UFO
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The USS Tiru Encounter (1966)
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The Yorktown, Iowa Cigar-Shaped Object
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The Beverly, Massachusetts Close Encounter
Verified Unexplained -
The Portage County UFO Chase
Verified Unexplained -
The Westall School UFO
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The Burkes Flat Bent Headlights
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The Vicksburg, Michigan Disc
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The Michigan Swamp Gas Case
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The Tully Saucer Nest
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The Wanaque Reservoir Incident
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The Kecksburg Crash
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The Gemini 7 "Bogey at Ten O'Clock High"
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A UFO Illuminates a Police Car at Damon, Texas (1965)
Verified Unexplained -
The Incident at Exeter
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The Cherry Creek Landing
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The Rex Heflin Santa Ana Photographs (3 August 1965)
Disputed -
The Tulsa, Oklahoma UFO Photograph (1965)
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The Andersson Photograph
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The Valensole Lavender-Field Landing
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The Florida Everglades Encounter (Flynn, 1965)
Verified Unexplained -
The Warminster Thing
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The Staunton, Virginia Cone-Shaped Object
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The New Berlin Double Landing
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The Big Sur Vandenberg Film
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The Cisco Grove Bow-and-Arrow Encounter
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A Vehicle Encounters a UFO at Lavonia, Georgia (1964)
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A Saucer Hovers over Lynn, Massachusetts
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The Solway Firth Spaceman
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Socorro Landing (Lonnie Zamora)
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The Oberwesel Train Photo
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The Wayne City Car Chase
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The Paul Villa Saucer Photos
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The Las Vegas Crash Report (1962)
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The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
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The Eagle River Pancakes
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The Red Bluff UFO Incident
Verified Unexplained -
The Yacanto Photographic Case
Verified Unexplained -
The Father Gill Sightings at Boianai
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The Disappearance of Private Gerry Irwin
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The Loch Raven Dam Incident
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The Devil's Canyon Landing
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The Monon Railroad Encounter (1958)
Verified Unexplained -
The Trindade Island Photographs
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The Old Saybrook Occupant Sighting
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The UFO Photographed from the SS Ramsay (1957)
Strongly Disputed -
The Madison, Ohio Kuhn Case (1957)
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The Fort Itaipu Heat Encounter
Disputed -
The Levelland Sightings
Verified Unexplained -
The Antônio Villas Boas Abduction
Disputed -
The Fort Belvoir Ring Photographs
Strongly Disputed -
The Ubatuba Magnesium Fragments
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The RB-47 Electronic Surveillance Incident
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The Lake Isabella Photograph
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The Milton Torres RAF Manston Scramble
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Gordon Cooper and the Edwards AFB Film (1957)
Strongly Disputed -
The Wardle Incident
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A Large UFO over South Dakota (1956)
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The Lakenheath-Bentwaters Radar Incident
Verified Unexplained -
The Elizabeth Klarer Drakensberg Photograph (1956)
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The Navy R7V-2 Giant Disc
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The Senator Russell Soviet Disc Sighting
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The Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins
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The Bexleyheath Encounter
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The Ranton Encounter (Roestenberg, Staffordshire, 1954)
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The Australian Sea Fury Incident
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The Tananarive City Object
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Did Eisenhower Meet with Aliens? (1954)
Strongly Disputed -
The Santa Barbara Channel UFO (1953)
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The Kinross Incident
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The Ellsworth Air Force Base Incident
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The Kingman, Arizona Crash Claim (1953)
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The F-86 Triangle Over Albany, Georgia (1953)
Verified Unexplained -
The Adamski Scout Ship
Discredited -
The Gulf of Mexico B-29 Encounter
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The Flatwoods Monster
Strongly Disputed -
Navy Aviators Encounter Three Discs Over Thule (1952)
Verified Unexplained -
A UFO with Occupants over Pittsburg, Kansas (1952)
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The Florida Scoutmaster Encounter
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The Seat Pleasant Occupant Sighting
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The George Stock Photographs
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The Washington, D.C. Sightings
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The Coast Guard UFO Photograph
Verified Unexplained -
The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting
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The Tremonton, Utah Film
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The Barra da Tijuca Photographs
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The Davis-Monthan B-36 Discs
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The Fort Monmouth Radar Incident
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The Lubbock Lights
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The Puerto Maldonado Smoking Saucer
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The Great Falls Film (Mariana, 1950)
Verified Unexplained -
Dr. Botta Enters a Flying Saucer
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The McMinnville Trent Farm Photographs
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The Bruno Facchini Encounter at Abbiate Guazzone, Varese (1950)
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The Douglas C-54 Skymaster Vanishing (1950)
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The Alleged Mexico City Crash (1950)
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The Norwood Searchlight Incident
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The Fort Hood (Camp Hood) 1949 Wave
Verified Unexplained -
The New Mexico Green Fireballs
Verified Unexplained -
The Gorman Dogfight
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The Chiles-Whitted Sighting
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The Aztec, New Mexico Crash Claim
Strongly Disputed -
The Death of Thomas Mantell
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A B-17 Encounters Nine Flying Discs (1947)
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A Pilot Sees Discs over Morristown, New Jersey (1947)
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The 1947 Roswell Crash
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The Portland Police Disc Flap of July 1947
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Project Sign (1947 to 1949): The Air Force's First UFO Study and the "Estimate of the Situation"
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The Wright Field Craft and Creatures Claim
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The Kenneth Arnold Sighting
Verified Unexplained -
The Maury Island Incident (1947)
Disputed -
The Malta Fishermen's Submarine and the Little Men
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The Spitzbergen Crash Claim (1946)
Strongly Disputed -
The Jack LeMonde Horseback Photograph
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The Foo Fighters of World War II
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The Battle of Los Angeles
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The Cape Girardeau Crash Claim
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The Aurora, Texas Airship Crash (1897)
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The Denison, Texas Daylight Object (1878)
Verified Unexplained -
Saucers Over a Cruise Ship
Strongly Disputed -
The "Argentina 1981" Photograph
Unknown -
The "Kazakhstan 1995" Photograph
Unknown -
The Japan Saucer
Unknown -
The Na Pali Coast Object
Unknown -
The New York Cylindrical Object Airliner Near-Miss
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The Padeswood Poachers' Purple Ball
Unknown