UFO Sightings in United States
277 documented cases in this archive come from United States. Each links to a full case file covering what witnesses saw, the official narrative, and a two-pass assessment with its evidence tier. The interactive globe on the homepage plots every case by exact location.
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The Pentagon GIMBAL Video
Verified Unexplained -
The New Jersey Drone Flap
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The Greenville Black Triangle
Unknown -
The Na Pali Coast Object
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The California Ocean Object
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The Traverse City Dark Object
Unknown -
The Utah Red UFO
Unknown -
The Adamski Scout Ship
Discredited -
The Roswell Shiny Object
Unknown -
The Chris Bledsoe Family Lights
Unknown -
The MacDill "JP" Triangle Photos
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The Paul Villa Saucer Photos
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The Bryce Canyon Photo
Unknown -
The Northeastern Orb Sightings (FBI PURSUE Files)
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The Western US Orbs-Launching-Orbs Encounter
Unknown -
The 1947 Roswell Crash
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Socorro Landing (Lonnie Zamora)
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The Kecksburg Crash
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The Travis Walton Abduction
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The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
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Japan Air Lines Flight 1628
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The Phoenix Lights
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The USS Nimitz Tic Tac
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The Aurora, Texas Airship Crash (1897)
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The Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins
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The Levelland Sightings
Verified Unexplained -
The Incident at Exeter
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The Coyne Helicopter Encounter
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The Pascagoula Abduction
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The Cash-Landrum Encounter
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The Chicago O'Hare Airport Sighting
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The Stephenville Lights
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The Allagash Abductions
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The St. Clair County Police Triangle
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The Stinson Lake, New Hampshire Photograph
Unknown -
The Salt Lake City Ring Photographs
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The Waynesville, Ohio Police UFO Report
Verified Unexplained -
The Carteret, New Jersey Lights
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Encounter at Gulfport, Mississippi
Unknown -
The Tyrone, Pennsylvania Beam Photograph
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The Albany Airport UFO Video
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The Paintsville Train Collision
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Red Disk Passes a US Airways Jet
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The Bristol, Tennessee Triangle Close Encounter
Unknown -
The Las Cruces, New Mexico Photograph (2002)
Unknown -
The Trenton-Brookville Sightings
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The Billerica Deck Levitation
Unknown -
The Arkansas Colonel's Photographs
Strongly Disputed -
V-Shaped Object Over Los Angeles (2008)
Unknown -
The Noble, Oklahoma Jet Chase
Unknown -
The California Airline Pilot Sighting (2004)
Unknown -
The Oklahoma Pond Object
Unknown -
The Marcia Burke Encounter
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The Inaja Photograph
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The Holland, Michigan Sightings (1994)
Verified Unexplained -
The Lee Family Encounter
Unknown -
The Daytona Beach Police FLIR Footage
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The Seattle Triangle (1993)
Unknown -
The America West Flight 564 Encounter
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The Mongo Photo Case
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The Trumbull County Police Sightings
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The Kirtland AFB Encounter (1980)
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The Hudson Valley Sightings
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The Lake Michigan L-1011 Object
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The Copley Woods Encounter
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The Whitley Strieber Encounter
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The Indian Point Nuclear Plant Encounter
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The Delphos, Kansas Glowing Ring
Verified Unexplained -
The Holloman AFB Landing Film
Unknown -
A NASA Fire Technician on the Apollo 15 Hadley Rille Object
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The USS John F. Kennedy Glowing Sphere
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Metallic Saucers Morph over Yuma, Arizona (1970)
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The Judy Doraty Abduction
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The Skylab 3 Red Object (1973)
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The Apollo 16 UFO Film
Strongly Disputed -
The McChord AFB Encounter (1972)
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The Pasadena Police Helicopter Encounter
Unknown -
The Richards Family Landing Trace, Columbia Missouri
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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 Princeton, Indiana Saucer (1973)
Unknown -
The Falkville Metal Man
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The Dayton, Ohio UFO Wave (1973)
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The Mt. Vernon Train Stoppage
Unknown -
The Red Bluff UFO Incident
Verified Unexplained -
The Eagle River Pancakes
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The Las Vegas Crash Report (1962)
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The Wayne City Car Chase
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The Big Sur Vandenberg Film
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The Portage County UFO Chase
Verified Unexplained -
The Michigan Swamp Gas Case
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The Wanaque Reservoir Incident
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The Minot AFB B-52 Encounter (1968)
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The Buff Ledge Camp Abductions
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The Florida Everglades Encounter (Flynn, 1965)
Verified Unexplained -
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 Cherry Creek Landing
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The Presque Isle Beach Landing
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The USS Tiru Encounter (1966)
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The Saucer That Stopped a Car near Meridian, Mississippi
Verified Unexplained -
The Claremont, New Hampshire Dome Object
Unknown -
The Beverly, Massachusetts Close Encounter
Verified Unexplained -
An Ohio Pilot Eludes a UFO (1968)
Unknown -
A Vehicle Encounters a UFO at Lavonia, Georgia (1964)
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The Tulsa, Oklahoma UFO Photograph (1965)
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A Saucer Hovers over Lynn, Massachusetts
Unknown -
The Cisco Grove Bow-and-Arrow Encounter
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The New Berlin Double Landing
Unknown -
The Staunton, Virginia Cone-Shaped Object
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The Andersson Photograph
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The Vicksburg, Michigan Disc
Unknown -
The Yorktown, Iowa Cigar-Shaped Object
Unknown -
The Fort Smith Mass Sighting
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The Munroe Falls, Ohio Occupant Encounter (1967)
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The Ririe, Idaho Occupant Encounter
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Trees Stripped in a Diamond Pattern, Salisbury, Massachusetts (1968)
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The Brigham City Promontory Landing
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The Lakeland Glass-Globe Occupant Case
Unknown -
A UFO Lights Up a Kentucky Mine
Unknown -
The Great Falls Film (Mariana, 1950)
Verified Unexplained -
The Lubbock Lights
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The Washington, D.C. Sightings
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The Tremonton, Utah Film
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The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting
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The RB-47 Electronic Surveillance Incident
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The Kinross Incident
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The Davis-Monthan B-36 Discs
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The Florida Scoutmaster Encounter
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The Coast Guard UFO Photograph
Verified Unexplained -
The Seat Pleasant Occupant Sighting
Unknown -
The Fort Monmouth Radar Incident
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The Ellsworth Air Force Base Incident
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The Loch Raven Dam Incident
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Gordon Cooper and the Edwards AFB Film (1957)
Strongly Disputed -
The Disappearance of Private Gerry Irwin
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The Monon Railroad Encounter (1958)
Verified Unexplained -
The Santa Barbara Channel UFO (1953)
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The Old Saybrook Occupant Sighting
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The Lake Isabella Photograph
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A UFO with Occupants over Pittsburg, Kansas (1952)
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The Gulf of Mexico B-29 Encounter
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The Kingman, Arizona Crash Claim (1953)
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A Large UFO over South Dakota (1956)
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The Madison, Ohio Kuhn Case (1957)
Unknown -
The F-86 Triangle Over Albany, Georgia (1953)
Verified Unexplained -
Did Eisenhower Meet with Aliens? (1954)
Strongly Disputed -
The Fort Belvoir Ring Photographs
Strongly Disputed -
The UFO Photographed from the SS Ramsay (1957)
Strongly Disputed -
The Devil's Canyon Landing
Unknown -
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting
Verified Unexplained -
The Death of Thomas Mantell
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The Chiles-Whitted Sighting
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The Gorman Dogfight
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The Aztec, New Mexico Crash Claim
Strongly Disputed -
The Battle of Los Angeles
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A B-17 Encounters Nine Flying Discs (1947)
Unknown -
The Cape Girardeau Crash Claim
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The Wright Field Craft and Creatures Claim
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The Portland Police Disc Flap of July 1947
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The Fort Hood (Camp Hood) 1949 Wave
Verified Unexplained -
The Norwood Searchlight Incident
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A Pilot Sees Discs over Morristown, New Jersey (1947)
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The Carbondale UFO Crash
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The Colorado Springs "Potato" Over Cheyenne Mountain (FBI PURSUE Files)
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The Loring AFB Overflights
Verified Unexplained -
The Lyndia Morel Encounter
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The Schenectady Flying Saucer
Unknown -
The Ronald Reagan UFO Sighting
Unknown -
The Carl Higdon Abduction
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The 1975 Overflights of the SAC Missile Bases
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The George O'Barski Encounter, North Hudson Park (1975)
Verified Unexplained -
The Cannon AFB Flight-Line UFOs
Verified Unexplained -
The F.E. Warren AFB Missile-Field Cigar (1976)
Unknown -
The West Pittsburg "Eastbay" Landing
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The Hallstrom Daylight Disc
Unknown -
The Fort Dix-McGuire Alien Encounter
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The Ellsworth AFB "Site L-9" Document (1977)
Strongly Disputed -
The Fostoria Train Encounter
Unknown -
The Cullen Abduction
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The Val Johnson Squad Car Collision
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A Policeman Burned by a UFO: The Kerman Incident (Amparano, 1978)
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The Gulf Breeze Sightings
Strongly Disputed -
The Linda Napolitano Abduction
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The Wytheville, Virginia Sightings
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The Christa Tilton Abduction
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Two Aircraft UFO Encounters over Alaska (January 1987)
Unknown -
The Whaley Lake Encounter
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The Eliot Wedge
Unknown -
The Corydon, Indiana Video (1987)
Verified Unexplained -
The Ralph Fuller Gulf Breeze Video
Unknown -
The "Alien Interview" Area 51 Video
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Commercial Airliners Report a UFO off Long Island (1995)
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The Shuttle 5959 Encounter
Unknown -
The Swissair Flight 127 Near-Miss
Verified Unexplained -
The Denison, Texas Daylight Object (1878)
Verified Unexplained -
The Alaska Alien Photograph
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UFO Videotaped over Winsted, Connecticut (2011)
Unknown -
UFOs Videotaped over Los Angeles (2017)
Unknown -
Two UFOs Videotaped over Marion, Ohio
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The Ten-Foot Aliens Report, Bayside Marketplace, Miami (2024)
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The Pentagon AARO Historical Record Report (2024)
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The Mothman of Point Pleasant
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The New York Cylindrical Object Airliner Near-Miss
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The Flatwoods Monster
Strongly Disputed -
The Graniteville Sphere (14 June 2026)
Unknown -
A White Orb Over Springfield, Ohio
Disputed -
The UAP Science Advisory Council
Unknown -
The Lake Huron Shootdown
Disputed -
A Grey Sphere Falls Into Cape Cod Bay (20 June 2026)
Unknown -
A Silent Light Over Mancelona, Michigan (17 June 2026)
Unknown -
A Bright Glow Through Cloud Over Denver (21 June 2026)
Unknown -
An Amber Orb Over Northwest Indiana (22 June 2026)
Unknown -
A Blue-White Orb Over Elyria, Ohio (11 March 2026)
Unknown -
Jimmy Carter's Leary, Georgia Sighting (1969)
Disputed -
An Amber Light Above the Clouds Near San Francisco (23 June 2026)
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The Maury Island Incident (1947)
Disputed -
Orange Orbs Over Carolina Beach (24 June 2026)
Unknown -
Bright Orbs Over Norfolk, Virginia (24 June 2026)
Unknown -
Color-Changing Orbs Over Baltimore (24 June 2026)
Unknown -
The Rex Heflin Santa Ana Photographs (3 August 1965)
Disputed -
A Multicolored Sphere Filmed by Anoka Police, Minnesota (19 February 2025)
Unknown -
An Amber Orb Over Pine Creek Near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania (8 June 2026)
Unknown -
The 2026 UAP Disclosure Forum on Capitol Hill
Unknown -
A Light Over the North Illinois Suburbs (28 June 2026)
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A Stationary Light Over Lower Manhattan (28 June 2026)
Unknown -
Two Metallic Spheres Over Robinson Township
Unknown -
The Tinley Park Lights
Unknown -
The Piedmont Flap and Project Identification
Unknown -
Three Lights Over Western New York
Unknown -
The Echo Flight Shutdown at Malmstrom
Unknown -
A Metallic Orb Over Disneyland
Unknown -
A Straight Line of Light Over the Coachella Valley
Unknown -
The Atlantic "Floating Brain" Range Fouler
Unknown -
The Diamond Over the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant
Unknown -
The New Mexico Green Fireballs
Verified Unexplained -
The "Unlike Anything I Had Seen" Range Fouler (PURSUE PR112)
Unknown -
Project Sign (1947 to 1949): The Air Force's First UFO Study and the "Estimate of the Situation"
Unknown -
PURSUE PR108: The "Tic-Tac" Infrared Track Over the Western United States (2020)
Unknown -
The "Vibrating" Light Over Rocky Mountain National Park
Unknown -
Trump Directs Agencies to Waive UAP Nondisclosure Agreements
Unknown -
The Lights Over Mission Bay
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The Marfa Lights: Mitchell Flat, West Texas
Strongly Disputed -
The Senior Intelligence Officer Helicopter Encounter
Unknown -
The White Object on the Molokai to Maui Approach
Unknown -
The House Adopts the UAP Disclosure Act as an NDAA Amendment
Unknown -
The ODNI Memorandum That Put the UAP NDA Waiver Into Force (ES 2026-00818)
Unknown -
The Night Airline Pilots Were Told to Manoeuvre Around Something Over Oregon (7 December 2024)
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The Night Vision Clip From Fort Irwin During Project Convergence Capstone 6 (Claimed 25 July 2026)
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The Man in the Wingsuit Over the LAX Approach (14 June 2026)
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The Officer, the Reservoir and the Sphere the Size of a Mini Cooper (Fairfield County, April 2022)
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The FBI's 2026 Western United States Reports (PURSUE Release 05)
Unknown -
The Dark Triangle Filmed South of Carrollton, Georgia (Claimed 3 August 2026)
Unknown -
Two Triangles Over Colorado Springs, October 2023 (FBI FD-302s, PURSUE Release 05)
Unknown -
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Says Things Flying Over U.S. Military Installations Are Not Ours (11 August 2026)
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Monterey County UFO Sighting: Night Vision Lights Over California (2 August 2026)
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Ross Coulthart's Claim That the U.S. Is Shooting Down UAP Over White Sands (10 August 2026)
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The Mr. President Campaign: UAP Whistleblowers Film a Direct Appeal to Donald Trump (10 August 2026)
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The Stationary Daylight Object Over New Castle, Colorado
Unknown -
The Lon Yarbrough Car Stop: Old Frio City Road, San Antonio, Texas (5 November 1957)
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American Airlines Flight 2292 and the Cylinder Over Clayton, New Mexico (21 February 2021)
Disputed -
Eric Davis Says the U.S. Government Holds Four Types of Alien Bodies, and Wants Immunity Before He Talks (NewsNation, 17 August 2026)
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The Orange Orb Over Ocean City, Maryland (15 August 2026)
Strongly Disputed -
The Rectangular Craft Over a Farm West of Ocala, Florida (13 August 2026)
Unknown -
The Formation of Lights Behind Cloud Over San Jose, California (21 August 2026)
Unknown -
The Abilene Blue Green Glow: Incident 231, Abilene, Texas (1 January 1948)
Unknown -
The Coeur d'Alene Rectangular Object, Idaho (14 August 2026)
Unknown -
The Spinning Crescent Over Cleveland, Texas (10 August 2026)
Unknown -
Two Worm Shaped Objects Filmed on a Thermal Monocular Over Denver, Colorado (20 August 2026)
Unknown -
The Bright White Oblong Photographed Over Bishop, California (25 August 2026)
Unknown -
Skinwalker Ranch: The Sherman Family Reports, the NIDS Years and the Pentagon Contract (Uintah County, Utah, from 1994)
Disputed -
The Fielding Lake Sighting, Alaska, 9 July 1948 (Project Sign Incident 145)
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Thirty Air Force UAP Records Reach the National Archives Catalog, 27 August 2026
Unknown -
The Walesville Jet Crash: An F-94C, an Unidentified Target and Four Deaths in Oneida County, New York (2 July 1954)
Strongly Disputed -
The Five Eyes UAP Caucus Working Group: The Pentagon Meeting of 24 May 2023, and the Answers London and Canberra Gave About It
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AARO Moves to Buy the Largest Private UFO Archive: The NUFOHRC Sole-Source Notice, 31 July 2026
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The 1952 Flying Saucer Talk: Edward Ruppelt's Beacon Hill Briefing Tape and the Fight to Recover It
Unknown