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Throughout the Twentieth century, there have been numerous unexplained aerial phenomena. Some have become legendary, and the suspicion aroused from the apparent reluctance of government cooperation have led to many ].


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| NUFORC has collected over 100,000 UFO reports spanning decades. The most common description was of "lights" in the sky, and many UFOs were of an "unknown" or "unspecified" shape. Others included: cubes (16), cones (600), crosses (491), teardrops (1221), and stars (138).
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| {{cite news |url=https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/ufo/index.html |newspaper=South China Morning Post |last=Arranz |title=Are we alone? |first=Adolfo |others=Infographics by Pablo Robles |date=24 December 2017 |access-date=22 July 2023 |archive-date=22 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722184527/https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/ufo/index.html |url-status=live}}
*] (abduction claim in which a map was seen)
| {{cite web |url=https://nuforc.org/webreports/ndxshape.html |access-date=22 July 2023 |title=UFO Report Index by Shape of Craft |publisher=National UFO Reporting Center |archive-date=22 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722061151/https://nuforc.org/webreports/ndxshape.html |url-status=live}}
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This is a list of notable reported sightings of ]s (UFOs) and related claims of ] or ]. UFOs are generally considered to include any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. Upon investigation, most UFOs are ] as known objects or atmospheric phenomena, while a small number remain unexplained.<ref name="Prothero">{{cite book |last1=Prothero |first1=Donald |last2=Callahan |first2=Timothy |title=UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says |date=2017 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5SFDwAAQBAJ&q=UFOs%2C+Chemtrails%2C+and+Aliens%3A+What+Science+Says |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0253026927 |access-date=20 August 2023 |archive-date=9 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009222509/https://books.google.com/books?id=F5SFDwAAQBAJ&q=UFOs,+Chemtrails,+and+Aliens:+What+Science+Says |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Scheaffer">{{cite book |last1=Sheaffer |first1=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RrAEAAAACAAJ&q=robert+sheaffer+ufos |title=UFO Sightings: The Evidence |date=1998 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=978-1573922135 |access-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009222509/https://books.google.com/books?id=RrAEAAAACAAJ&q=robert+sheaffer+ufos |archive-date=9 October 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Barnes">{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Julian E. |title=Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash |work=The New York Times |date=28 October 2022 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html |access-date=20 August 2023 |archive-date=19 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819211826/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html |url-status=live}}</ref> UFOs have been referred to using a range of terms including the more specific "]" and the more general "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP). The term "UAP" is sometimes used to avoid cultural associations with ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Becket |first1=Stefan |title=What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name? |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-are-uaps-unexplained-aerial-phenomenon-ufos-new-name/ |access-date=13 July 2024 |work=CBS News |date=14 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=UFOs or UAPs: What's the difference and why are people talking about them? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57344606 |access-date=13 July 2024 |work=BBC Newsround |date=7 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Markham |first1=Devan |title=UFO vs. UAP: What's the difference? |url=https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/ufo-vs-uap-whats-the-difference/ |access-date=13 July 2024 |work=News Nation |date=January 12, 2024}}</ref>
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Although often viewed as abnormal, UFO sightings are reported frequently.<ref>{{cite news |work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230726-the-weird-incidents-piquing-nasas-interest |title=The UFO reports piquing Nasa's interest |date=26 July 2023 |last=Govett |first=Zaria}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-07-26/the-us-congress-takes-ufos-seriously-sightings-are-not-rare-or-isolated.html |work=El País |title=The US Congress takes UFOs seriously: 'Sightings are not rare or isolated' |first=Iker |last=Seisdedos |date=July 26, 2023}}</ref> During the United States' ], over 800 sightings were reported in the news.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kottmeyer |first=Martin S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |title=Why Statues Weep: The Best of the "Skeptic" |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1134962525 |editor-last=Grossman |editor-first=Wendy M. |location=Oxfordshire, England |chapter=Why Have UFOs Changed Speed Over the Years? |editor-last2=French |editor-first2=Christopher C. |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/whystatuesweepbe0000gros/page/170/ |page=172}}</ref> The ] receives 100s of reports each year.<ref>{{cite web |title=16 things commonly mistaken for UFOs |url=https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/things-mistaken-for-ufos |website=BBC Sky at Night Magazine |last=Pearson |first=Ezzy |date=3 June 2024 |language=en}}</ref> In ], pilots alone report dozens of annual sightings.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Marshall |first1=Euan |title=Pilots record 30 UFO sightings in Brazil over 2023 |url=https://brazilian.report/society/2024/09/01/pilots-ufo-sightings/ |access-date=12 October 2024 |work=The Brazilian Report |date=1 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Audi |first1=Amanda |title=Brazil and UFOs: a hotbed for the unexplained |url=https://brazilian.report/society/2023/09/19/brazil-ufos-hotbed-unexplained/ |website=The Brazilian Report |access-date=12 October 2024 |date=19 September 2023}}</ref> A small portion of reported sightings have lasting cultural significance,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Betz |first1=Eric |title=Reports of rising UFO sightings are greatly exaggerated |url=https://www.astronomy.com/science/reports-of-rising-ufo-sightings-are-greatly-exaggerated/ |access-date=12 October 2024 |work=Astronomy Magazine |date=2 October 2020}}</ref> interpreted through the cultural and technological expectations of the time.<ref>{{cite news |title=Aliens? You've Heard This Story Before, Regents Professor Lisa Yaszek Says |publisher=Georgia Tech |url=https://iac.gatech.edu/news/item/648827/aliens-heard-this-story-before-regents-professor-lisa-yaszek-says |access-date=12 October 2024 |work=IAC News |date=July 15, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

== Antiquity ==
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|{{continent code |AF}}, ]; ], ]
|After conquering the ancient Nubian city of ], ] had a ] erected at the ], beneath the ] outcropping.<ref>{{cite book |last=Remler |first=Pat |title=Egyptian Mythology, A to Z |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLUjtPDyu-IC&pg=PT151 |access-date=11 August 2012 |year=2010 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-3180-1 |page=151 |archive-date=22 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122172536/https://books.google.com/books?id=wLUjtPDyu-IC&pg=PT151#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref> The stele describes how "a star came down" to set fire to Thutmose's adversaries.<ref>'' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604155337/https://collections.mfa.org/objects/145121 |date=4 June 2023 }}'', excavated by the Harvard University – Museum of Fine Arts Expedition in Sudan, Gebel Barkal, (19 January 1920). Assigned to the MFA, Boston (1 August 1923), 23.733. Photographs by MFA Boston.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.academia.edu/4864521 |title=A Royal Star: On the "Miracle of the Star" in Thutmoses III's Gebel Barkal Stela and a Note on the King as a Star in Personal Names |journal=Revue dÉgyptologie |volume=64 |date=2013 |pages=231–248 |last=Winkler |first=Andreas |location=Paris |publisher=] |access-date=4 June 2023 |archive-date=8 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708100304/https://www.academia.edu/4864521 |url-status=live}}</ref> This has been cited by ufologists via the purported ], likely a fraud.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lingeman |first1=Richard R. |title=Erich von Daniken's Genesis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/31/archives/erich-von-danikens-genesis.html |date=31 March 1974 |work=] |access-date=14 July 2017 |archive-date=7 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407135416/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20710FF3B5F107A93C3AA1788D85F408785F9 |url-status=live}}</ref> This alleged translation—published in issue 41 of the ]'s magazine ''Doubt''—used such ] as "circles of fire" and fish that "fell down from the sky".<ref name="Vallee-Aubek">{{cite book |last1=Vallee |first1=Jacques |last2=Aubek |first2=Chris |title=Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XINLC2ubHqwC&dq=Tulli+Papyrus+%2B+hoax&pg=PT347 |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-101-44472-6 |via=books.google.co.uk |publisher=Penguin |access-date=14 July 2017 |author-link=Jacques Vallée |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191943/https://books.google.com/books?id=XINLC2ubHqwC&dq=Tulli+Papyrus+%2B+hoax&pg=PT347 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|369–372}}
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|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|During the build-up to the ], ] recorded ] in the winter sky, including ''navium speciem de caelo adfulsisse'' ("phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky").<ref>{{cite web |author=Livy |author-link=Livy |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Liv.%2021.62&lang=original |title=The History of Rome, Book 21, Chapter 62 |access-date=8 October 2014 |archive-date=23 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923170442/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Liv.%2021.62&lang=original |url-status=live}} (])</ref><ref name="nasa" />
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|{{continent code |AS}}, ]; ]
|According to ], a spark fell from a star and grew as it descended until it appeared to be the size of the Moon. It then ascended and transformed into a torch. Astronomer ] interpreted the report as a description of a ].<ref>{{cite web |last=Pliny |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D35 |title=Chap. 35. – An Ominous Appearance in the Heavens, That Was Seen Once Daily |website=Perseus |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=28 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228180550/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D35 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The Roman fireball of 76 BC |last=Stothers |first=Richard B. |journal=The Observatory |volume=107 |pages=211–213 |date=1987 |bibcode=1987Obs...107..211S |url=https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1987Obs...107..211S |access-date=4 June 2023 |archive-date=15 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915022601/https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1987Obs...107..211S |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|{{continent code |AS}}, ]; ], ]
|According to ], a Roman army commanded by ] was ] with ] when "the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies". Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar (]).<ref>{{cite web |last=Plutarch |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Luc.+8.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0046 |title=Lucullus, 8.6 |website=Perseus |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224143459/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Luc.+8.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0046 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="nasa" />
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|{{continent code |AS}}, ]; ]
| Romano-Jewish historian ] reported chariots "hurtling through the clouds" prior to the ].<ref name="nasa">{{cite journal |last=Stothers |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Stothers |title=Unidentified Flying Objects in Classical Antiquity |journal=The Classical Journal |date=Nov 2007 |volume=103 |issue=1 |publisher=The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc. (CAMWS) |url=http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Stothers_2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111022014623/http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Stothers_2.pdf |archive-date=22 October 2011}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="0196"|AD&nbsp;196
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|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|Historian ] described a "fine rain resembling silver descended from a clear sky upon the ]." He wrote that he was able to plate some of his bronze coins, but four days later, the silvery coating was gone.<ref name="nasa" />
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|data-sort-value="0740"|AD&nbsp;c.&nbsp;740
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|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ] in ], and ] in ]
|Several sets of ], those of ], ], ], and ], have entries to the effect that "]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Jeffrey Jerome |title=Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire |date=2015 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-1452945675 |editor-last1=Cohen |editor-first1=Jeffrey Jerome |location=Minneapolis |quote-page=108 |quote=The Annals of Ulster, for example, laconically state that 'ships with their crews were seen in the air.' |chapter=The Sea Above |access-date=18 May 2022 |editor-last2=Duckert |editor-first2=Lowell |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTB0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT110 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191932/https://books.google.com/books?id=sTB0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT110 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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== 16th–17th centuries ==
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|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|Residents of Nuremberg described an aerial battle, followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object, and then a crash outside of the city. A ] recorded that witnesses observed hundreds of spheres, cylinders and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead.<ref name="Kripal2011">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5wD5hS03NkgC&pg=PA153 |title=Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred |first=Jeffrey J. |last=Kripal |year=2011 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-45389-7 |pages=153–}}</ref>
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|1566-<wbr>08-07
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|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|A ] published in 1566 depicted numerous spherical objects appearing out of the sun.<ref name="Kripal2011" /> The event was recorded and depicted by Samuel Coccius, "a student of the Holy Scripture and of the free arts, at Basel".<ref>{{cite book |last=Jung |first=Carl |page=95 |chapter=4. Previous History of the Ufo Phenomenon |title=Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies |date=1978 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-01822-5}} Extracted from Volume 10 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, ''Civilization in Transition'' (1964). Originally published as Ein Moderner Mythus: Von Dingen, die am Himmel Gesehen werden (1958). Zurich and Stuttgart.</ref>
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|1609-<wbr>09-22
|] period UFO Turmoil
|{{continent code |AS}}, ] (Korea); ]
|On September 22, 1609, multiple witnesses in ], ] ], ] County and ] County described a ] or ] that was divided in two in the sky.<ref>{{cite news |last=Han |first=Dae-Kwang |date=18 July 2016 |title=Records of UFO, Black Soldiers of the Joseon Dynasty, Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty |work=] |url=https://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?art_id=201607181630001 |access-date=13 March 2021 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191938/https://www.khan.co.kr/local/local-general/article/201607181630001 |url-status=live}} ('']'')</ref>
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== 19th century ==
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|1803-<wbr>02-22 or 1803-<wbr>03-24
|] at Haratono-hama
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|In 1803, local fishermen reportedly found a closed vessel with small windows adrift. They said when they investigated it that "a beautiful young woman" with red and white hair and dressed in strange clothes emerged, holding a square box "that no one was allowed to touch" and that she spoke to them in a language they had never heard before.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Kazuo |last=Tanaka |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/07/did-a-close-encounter-of-the-third-kind-occur-on-a-japanese-beach-in-1803/ |title=Did a close encounter of the Third Kind occur on a Japanese beach in 1803? |magazine=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=24 |number=4 |date=August 2000 |issn=0194-6730 |pages=37–44 |access-date=14 February 2023 |archive-date=14 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230214041510/https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/07/did-a-close-encounter-of-the-third-kind-occur-on-a-japanese-beach-in-1803/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1883-<wbr>08-12
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|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; Zacatecas Observatory, ]
|On August 12, the astronomer ] photographed hundreds of dark objects crossing the sun while observing sunspot activity at ] Observatory in Mexico. Bonilla published an account of the event three years later in '']''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Voisey |first=Jon |date=2011-10-14 |title=Was the 'First Photographed UFO' a Comet? |url=https://www.universetoday.com/89911/was-the-first-photographed-ufo-a-comet/ |access-date=2023-03-22 |website=Universe Today |language=en-US |archive-date=30 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330112718/https://www.universetoday.com/89911/was-the-first-photographed-ufo-a-comet/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883 |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27264/ |work=] |date=17 October 2011 |access-date=19 October 2011 |archive-date=17 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217155040/http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27264/ |url-status=dead |author=arXiv}}</ref>
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|1896-<wbr>11-17 to 1897-<wbr>04-23
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|{{continent code |NA}}, ]
|Newspapers across ], and later other states, especially the Midwest, printed reports of strange ]s and lights. Common elements of the descriptions included bright lights, cigar-shaped bodies, movable wings and a metallic hull.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Genini |first=Ron |date=December 1979 |title=Close Encounters of the Earliest Kind |pages=94–99 |magazine=American Heritage |url=http://www.americanheritage.com/content/close-encounters-earliest-kind |access-date=14 February 2023 |archive-date=26 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126221008/http://www.americanheritage.com/content/close-encounters-earliest-kind |url-status=live}}.</ref>
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|1897-<wbr>04-17
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| {{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Local correspondent S.E. Hayden reported the crash of an ] piloted by an alien. According to Hayden, the pilot was buried in the local cemetery. Residents of Aurora embrace the story without taking it seriously.<ref>{{ cite magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102185940/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948461,00.html |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,948461,00.html |url-status=live |archive-date=2 November 2007 |date=12 March 1979 |title=Close Encounters of a Kind |magazine=] |author=Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4587362.html |title=Aurora&nbsp;- Can a space alien rest in peace? |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |date=28 February 2007 |last=Peralta |first=Eyder |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=28 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628200413/http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4587362.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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== 20th century ==

=== 1900–1949 ===
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|] a distinguished Albanian journalist, writer, and activist writes in ''The Albanian Uprising'', "One night, while the fighters of ] were stationed at the top of a high mountain, a shiny object flew in front of us, stood suspended in the air for several minutes, and then disappeared."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grameno |first=Mihal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I21PPwAACAAJ |title=Kryengritja shqiptare |date=1925 |publisher=Direttore |language=en |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=9 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609005559/https://books.google.com/books?id=I21PPwAACAAJ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=UFO-t në Shqipëri |url=https://top-channel.tv/2013/10/22/ufo-t-ne-shqiperi/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=top-channel.tv |language=en-US |archive-date=6 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506111111/https://top-channel.tv/2013/10/22/ufo-t-ne-shqiperi/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Telegrafi2016">{{cite news |title=Mihal Grameno e luftëtarët e Çerçiz Topullit kishin parë UFO-t e para në Shqipëri!? |trans-title=Mihal Grameno and the fighters of Çerçiz Topulli saw the first UFOs in Albania!? |language=sq |date=22 October 2016 |newspaper=] |access-date=14 June 2023 |archive-date=25 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025025053/https://telegrafi.com/mihal-grameno-e-luftetaret-e-cerciz-topullit-kishin-pare-ufo-t-e-para-ne-shqiperi/ |url=https://telegrafi.com/mihal-grameno-e-luftetaret-e-cerciz-topullit-kishin-pare-ufo-t-e-para-ne-shqiperi/ |url-status=live |publisher=Telegrafi.com |location=Pristina, Kosovo}}</ref>
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|1908-<wbr>06-30
|]
|{{Continent code|EU}}, ]; near the ] river
|A fireball crossed the sky above Siberia, exploded, and flattened approximately 80 million trees.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jay |first1=Paul |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/the-tunguska-event-1.742329 |title=The Tunguska event |access-date=22 June 2024}}</ref> Researchers in the 1950s and 1960s found microscopic ] and ] spheres, consistent with a ].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Florenskiy |first=K P |author-link=Kirill Florensky |title=Preliminary results from the 1961 combined Tunguska meteorite expedition |journal=Meteoritica |volume=23 |year=1963 |url=http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/tungmet.html |access-date=26 June 2007 |archive-date=20 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720064557/http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/tungmet.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The area became a drop zone for Soviet rockets launched from ]. In the 2000s, the Tunguska Space Phenomenon, a team of Russian ufologists, explored the area to search for remnants of a supposed alien spaceship, and they may have found pieces of these discarded rocket components.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Britt |first1=Robert Roy |title=Russian Alien Spaceship Claims Raise Eyebrows, Skepticism |url=https://www.space.com/250-russian-alien-spaceship-claims-raise-eyebrows-skepticism.html |website=Space.com |access-date=22 June 2024 |language=en |date=12 August 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Oberg |first1=James |title=Russians add new twist to old UFO myth |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5686713 |website=NBC News |access-date=22 June 2024 |language=en |date=12 August 2004}}</ref>
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|1909
|]
|{{continent code |OC}}, ]; ]
|In August 1909, moving and whirring lights were reported in the sky around Otago. In the following months, many sightings were reported across New Zealand with varying descriptions of the craft and crew.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/x-files/ |title=X-files: Strange happenings in the south |last=Yarwood |first=Vaughan |work=New Zealand Geographic |access-date=14 February 2023 |archive-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319052615/https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/x-files/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19210804.2.74 |newspaper=Evening Post |title=A Mystery of 1909 |via=Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz |date=4 August 1921 |access-date=22 September 2012 |archive-date=18 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018170706/http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19210804.2.74 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WH19090727.2.46 |newspaper=Wanganui Herald |title=An Otago Airship Mystery |via=Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz |author=United Press Association |date=27 July 1909 |access-date=22 September 2012 |archive-date=18 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018170706/http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WH19090727.2.46 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1917-<wbr>08-13, 1917-<wbr>09-13, 1917-<wbr>10-13
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|Thousands of people gathered in Fátima based on reported ]s and claimed to see bizarre solar activity. Catholic bishop ] declared the miracle "worthy of belief" on 13 October 1930, and the primarily Catholic witnesses described the event in religious terms. Despite the many photographers present in the crowd, no unusual photo of the sun was captured. Later, ], Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada would interpret it as a mass UFO sighting.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Joaquim |last1=Fernandes |first2=Fina |last2=d'Armada |title=Heavenly Lights |date=2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Joaquim |last1=Fernandes |first2=Fina |last2=d'Armada |title=Celestial Secrets |date=2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Joaquim |last1=Fernandes |first2=Fernando |last2=Fernandes |first3=Raul |last3=Berenguel |title=Fatima Revisited |date=2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Is This a Photo of Fatima's "Miracle of the Sun"? The Truth Behind the Popular Photo |url=https://www.churchpop.com/is-this-a-photo-of-fatimas-miracle-of-the-sun-the-truth-behind-the-popular-photo/ |website=ChurchPOP |language=en |date=11 May 2017}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1926}}
|] UFO sighting
|{{continent code |AS}}, ]
|During his ], Russian ] Nicholas Roerich reported an oval in the sky above his caravan, which was later interpreted as a "flying saucer" by Roerich's Russian followers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nicholas Roerich |title=Altai Himalaya |date=1929 |publisher=] Company, ] |isbn=9788173030444 |pages=361, 407 |url=https://www.roerich.org/roerich-writings-altai-himalaya.php |access-date=Jan 4, 2024 |quote=We all saw, in a direction from north to south, something big and shiny reflecting the sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp this thing changed in its direction from south to southwest. And we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly an oval form with shiny surface, one side of which was brilliant from the sun. |author1-link=Nicholas Roerich}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Colavito |first1=Jason |title=Andrew Tomas, Nicolas Roerich, and the Flying Saucer Sighting of 1927 |url=https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/andrew-tomas-nicolas-roerich-and-the-flying-saucer-sighting-of-1927 |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en |date=7 November 2015}}</ref><!-- < < ] --><ref>{{cite thesis |title=The Legend of Shambhala in Eastern and Western Interpretations |last=Dmitrieva |first=Victoria |orig-date=Submitted 1997 |date=2000 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale du Canada |location=Ottawa |isbn=9780612438545 |oclc=1006670115 |url=https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=MQ43854&op=pdf&app=Library&oclc_number=1006670115 |access-date=6 January 2024 |degree=Master of Arts thesis |pages=69–73}}</ref>
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|1933
| ] Italy UFO Incident
|] - Italy
|The 1933 Magenta UFO incident is a rumored event in which an aircraft of unknown origin crashed in the Italian town of Magenta. The aircraft was initially suspected to be a failed launch from the German ] experimental aircraft. In 2000, Roberto Pinotti published material regarding the so-called "Fascist UFO Files", which dealt with a flying saucer that had crashed near Milan in 1933, and of the subsequent investigation by a never mentioned before Cabinet RS/33, that allegedly was authorized by Benito Mussolini, and headed by the Nobel scientist Guglielmo Marconi. A spaceship was allegedly stored in the hangars of the SIAI-Marchetti in Vergiate near Milan.<ref>{{cite book| first1=Roberto |last1=Pinotti |first2=Alfredo |last2=Lissoni |title=Mussolini e gli UFO| publisher=Idea Libri |location=Bologna |date=2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |work=Italia 1 |title=Lombardia: il primo UFO è italiano| publisher=Mediaset Infinity |url=https://mediasetinfinity.mediaset.it/video/freedomoltreilconfine/lombardia-il-primo-ufo-e-italiano_F312699401001C06 |date=15 June 2024| access-date=2024-02-04}}</ref>
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|1933
|] UFO sighting
|] in the ]
|On June 1 of the ], Smythe sighted two dark-coloured unidentified flying objects hovering and pulsating in the sky.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chatterji |first1=Champak |editor1-last=] |title=The Climbing Partner - The Other Experience In The Himalaya |journal=] |date=1993 |volume=49 |url=https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/49/16/the-climbing-partner-the-other-experience-in-the-himalaya/ |access-date=Jan 9, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Horrell |first1=Mark |title=Frank Smythe is more interesting than George Mallory |url=https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2013/frank-smythe-is-more-interesting-than-george-mallory/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20saw%20two,series%20of%20tests.%E2%80%9D |website=markhorrell.com |access-date=Jan 7, 2024 |date=Dec 4, 2013}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1940s}}
|]s
|{{continent code |IC}}, Over ] theaters
|During World War II, ] fighter pilots above Europe reported colorful balls of light following their aircraft at high speeds.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775433,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417042038/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775433,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2008 |title=Foo-Fighter |access-date=3 July 2008 |magazine=Time |date=15 January 1945}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1941}}
|Cape Girardeau UFO legend
|{{continent code |NA}}, United States; ], ]
|{{anchor|Cape1941}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. -->A local legend gained wider attention in the 1980s when resident Charlotte Mann claimed in interviews that her father, Reverend William Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church, had administered last rites for the dying crew of a crashed flying saucer.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.kfvs12.com/story/31705969/75th-anniversary-of-alleged-ufo-crash-in-cape-girardeau/ |title=75th anniversary of alleged UFO crash in Cape Girardeau |publisher=] |date=12 April 2016 |first1=Amber |last1=Ruch |first2=Kadee |last2=Brosseau |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=21 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521070310/https://www.kfvs12.com/story/31705969/75th-anniversary-of-alleged-ufo-crash-in-cape-girardeau/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.kait8.com/video/2021/05/26/story-alleged-ufo-crash-near-cape-girardeau/ |title=Story of alleged UFO crash of 1941 near Cape Girardeau |publisher=] |people=Hanson, Isabelle (reporter) |date=26 May 2021 |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=8 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708100304/https://www.kait8.com/video/2021/05/26/story-alleged-ufo-crash-near-cape-girardeau/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.southeastarrow.com/story/2455754.html |title=Before Roswell: The Cape Girardeau UFO of 1941 |last=Hartnett |first=Kara |date=26 October 2017 |publisher=Southeast Missouri State University |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=21 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521070319/https://www.southeastarrow.com/story/2455754.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1942-<wbr>02-24
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Just months after the Japanese ], U.S. radar stations picked up an unidentified aerial object in the early morning. For several hours, anti-aircraft artillery fired thousands of rounds, and the ] reported that “the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano.”<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-17-me-1259-story.html |title=L.A. 'Battle' Launched a Golden Age of UFOs |work=Los Angeles Times |last=Rasmussen |first=Cecilia |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=20 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520084455/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/dec/17/local/me-1259 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Battle of Los Angeles |url=http://www.militarymuseum.org/BattleofLA.html |website=Military Museum |author=California Military Department |date=23 June 2017 |access-date=6 November 2015 |archive-date=27 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527214255/http://www.militarymuseum.org/BattleofLA.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1945
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, United States; ]
|In 2003, two men began telling conflicting accounts of an avocado-shaped craft piloted by insectoid aliens crashing at the ]. Despite a lack of evidence or internal consistency, the case was cited in the UFO investigation section of the ].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tumin |first=Remy |date=2023-01-13 |title=Did Aliens Land on Earth in 1945? A Defense Bill Seeks Answers. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/us/ufo-new-mexico-congress.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230113195005/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/us/ufo-new-mexico-congress.html?smid=tw-share#selection-641.209-645.11 |archive-date=2023-01-13 |access-date=2024-01-18 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dunning |first1=Brian |title=The Trinity UFO Crash of 1945 |url=https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4929 |website=Skeptoid |access-date=20 July 2024}}</ref>
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|1946
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ] and other parts of ]
|Thousands of UFO sightings were reported over Europe. Due in part to concerns that foreign governments were testing ], the Swedish and Greek governments investigated the reports separately.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mpiZRAiE0JwC&dq=swedish+ghost+rockets&pg=PA108 |title=Science in the Early Twentieth Century |first=Jacob Darwin |last=Hamblin |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-85109-665-7 |access-date=22 March 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326192001/https://books.google.com/books?id=mpiZRAiE0JwC&dq=swedish+ghost+rockets&pg=PA108 |url-status=live}}</ref><!--The Hamblin source is okay, but German-language Misplaced Pages has several high quality sources ] -->
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|1946-<wbr>05-18
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|Swedish entrepreneur Gösta Carlsson, attributed his success to a 1946 UFO encounter, that he commemorated with a concrete monument. Independent investigations did not verify his account.<ref name="PollenKing2003">{{cite news |date=23 November 2003 |title=Sannsagan om Pollenkungen |language=Swedish |trans-title=The true story of the Pollen King |work=] |url=https://www.hd.se/2003-11-23/sannsagan-om-pollenkungen |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=4 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708060728/https://www.hd.se/2003-11-23/sannsagan-om-pollenkungen |archive-date=July 8, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Harrison2017">{{cite news |last=Harrison |first=Dick |author-link=Dick Harrison |date=28 April 2017 |title=UFO i Skåne? |language=Swedish |trans-title=UFO in Skåne? |work=Svenska Dagbladet |url=https://www.svd.se/a/Rgo8r/ufo-i-skane |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127165728/https://www.svd.se/a/Rgo8r/ufo-i-skane |archive-date=27 January 2023 |quote=Det minner om en påstådd men inte bevisad landning av ett icke-jordiskt rymdskepp (”flygande tefat”, avbildat i vad som uppges vara skala 1:8) den 18 maj 1946. |trans-quote=It commemorates an alleged but not proven landing of a non-terrestrial spacecraft ("flying saucer", depicted in what is said to be a 1:8 scale) on May 18, 1946.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Semitjov |first1=Eugen |title=De otroliga tefaten |date=1974 |publisher=Askild & Kärnekull |location=Stockholm |isbn=978-9170089268 |language=Swedish |chapter=13 Mannen som teg i 25 år |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8tBDwAAQBAJ |pages=216–226 |access-date=10 April 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191550/https://books.google.com/books?id=L8tBDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>06-24
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; North of ], ]
|Private pilot ] was flying near ] when he reported seeing a group of reflective craft moving at high speeds and flashing in the sun like mirrors. Bill Bequette of the ], who first interviewed Arnold, summarized the sighting as, "nine saucer-like aircraft flying in formation." This introduced the term ''flying saucers'', and Arnold's sighting sparked an explosion of UFO reports around the country.<ref name="Lacitis2017">{{cite news |last=Lacitis |first=Erik |date=24 June 2017 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/flying-saucers-became-a-thing-70-years-ago-saturday-with-sighting-near-mount-rainier/ |title='Flying saucers' became a thing 70 years ago Saturday with sighting near Mount Rainier |newspaper=] |access-date=30 October 2021 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027022748/https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/flying-saucers-became-a-thing-70-years-ago-saturday-with-sighting-near-mount-rainier/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Grossman |first1=Wendy M. |last2=French |first2=Christopher C. |date=2017 |title=Why Statues Weep: The Best of the 'Skeptic' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1134962525 |via=Google Books |access-date=April 28, 2021 |archive-date=April 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428172932/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |url-status=live |pages=171–174}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bequette |first=William C. |url=https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2454/files/2016/08/East-Oregonian-25June1947-FirstArticle.png |title=Impossible! Maybe, But Seein' Is Believin', Says Flyer |newspaper=East Oregonian |date=25 June 1947 |page=1 |access-date=18 February 2023 |archive-date=18 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230218055643/https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2454/files/2016/08/East-Oregonian-25June1947-FirstArticle.png |url-status=live}} (Scan of original Bequette article.)</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-man-who-introduced-the-world-to-flying-saucers/372732/ |title=The Man Who Introduced the World to Flying Saucers |website=] |date=15 June 2014 |access-date=16 July 2023 |archive-date=11 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111183726/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-man-who-introduced-the-world-to-flying-saucers/372732/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1947}}
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ] and other states
|After the ] sighting was reported in the news, over 800 similar sightings were reported throughout 1947.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |title=Why Statues Weep: The Best of the 'Skeptic' |first1=Wendy M. |last1=Grossman |first2=Christopher C. |last2=French |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-96252-5 |via=Google Books |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326192009/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjI4X7ZOvOIC |title=Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth, Ch 2 'The 1947 Flap' |first=Curtis |last=Peebles |date=1995 |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=978-0-425-15117-4 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>07-04
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; En route from ] to ]
|A ] crew including Captain Emil Smith, co-pilot Ralph Stephens, and flight attendant Marty Morrow witnessed nine unidentified objects. Believing them to be aircraft, Smith flashed the plane's landing lights intending to alert the objects which he described as "smooth on the bottom and rough appearing on top".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109863026/eyewitness-account-of-flying-disc-by/ |title=Eyewitness Account of Flying Disc |via=Newspapers.com |newspaper=The Columbus Telegram |date=5 July 1947 |page=3 |author=United Press |access-date=18 February 2023 |archive-date=14 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114195357/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109863026/eyewitness-account-of-flying-disc-by/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjI4X7ZOvOIC |title=Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth |first=Curtis |last=Peebles |year=1995 |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=978-0-425-15117-4 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>07-07
|]
|{{Continent code|NA}}, ]; ]
|Inventor and amateur astronomer ] took photographs of what he described as a silent grey object that appeared after a thunderstorm. The Air Force investigated the photographs and concluded that they showed airborne "paper swept up by the winds".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Linda |date=2016-01-25 |title=Did a UFO crash in the valley? |url=https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/did-a-ufo-crash-in-the-valley |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=FOX 10 Phoenix |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Condon |first=Edward Euhler |url= |title=Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects |date=1969 |publisher=Dutton, University of Colorado (Boulder) |page= |language=en}}</ref><ref name="AzRepJul9">{{Cite web |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=21366790 |title=Mystery 'Whatsis' Photographed Over Phoenix |date=9 Jul 1947 |page=1 |publisher=Arizona Republic |author=Robert C. Hanika |website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>07-08
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; about 30&nbsp;mi. north of ]
|], a ] spokesperson, issued a press release announcing the "capture" of a "]". Hours later, the Army announced that the find was a crashed weather balloon. In 1978, the case regained attention after ], the Army Officer who recovered the wreckage, told UFO researchers that the weather balloon explanation was a cover story. In 1994, the Air Force attributed the incident to the previously classified ].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/18/ufo.report/ |title=Report on Roswell UFO crash due soon |date=18 June 1997 |publisher=CNN |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=7 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107072724/http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/18/ufo.report/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>07-29
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ] near ], ]
|] mailed an account from employee Harold A. Dahl, along with a cigar box of metal wreckage, to ] who had previously published the ] stories. Dahl claimed that his dog was killed and his son was injured by debris in an encounter with six flying doughnut-shaped objects. He also reported that he was subsequently threatened by ]. On July 31, 1947, Palmer arranged a meeting between Crisman, Dahl, Air Force investigators, and flying saucer witnesses ] & ].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Haulman |first1=Bruce |title=Time & Again: 75th Anniversary of The Maury Island Incident |url=https://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/news/time-again-75th-anniversary-of-the-maury-island-incident/ |website=] |access-date=17 February 2023 |date=22 June 2022 |archive-date=18 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230218061144/https://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/news/time-again-75th-anniversary-of-the-maury-island-incident/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Harrison |first=Albert A. |author-link=Albert Harrison (psychologist) |year=2007 |title=Starstruck: Cosmic Visions in Science, Religion, and Folklore |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-84545-286-5 |pages=123– |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORNcQUBAEjUC&pg=PA123 |access-date=October 2, 2013 |archive-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012231551/http://books.google.com/books?id=ORNcQUBAEjUC&pg=PA123 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1948}}
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ] and other parts of the ]
|The US Air Force investigated reports of green flares streaking across the sky after an Air Force C-47 transport encountered a green ball of fire on 5 December 1948. The pilot, Captain Goede, described the object as larger than a meteor and not arching downward as a meteor would. The Air Force investigation was inconclusive.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ruppelt |first=Edward J. |date=1956 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17346 |title=Report on Unidentified Flying Objects |publisher=DoubleDay |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125165011/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17346 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.project1947.com/gfb/gfbchron.html |title=Green Fireball Chronology |last=Carpenter |first=Joel |website=Project 1947 |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=6 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206224458/http://www.project1947.com/gfb/gfbchron.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1948-<wbr>01-07
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a ] pilot, died in the crash of his ] fighter plane near ], ], United States, after being sent in pursuit of an ]. While following the object, he climbed beyond {{convert|25000|ft|m}} and ]. The military later identified the craft he was pursuing as likely a ].<ref name="Ruppelt1956">{{cite book |author-link=Edward J. Ruppelt |first=Edward J. |last=Ruppelt |date=1956 |title=The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=] |chapter=Chapter Three |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17346 |pages=44–45, 50, 56 |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125165011/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17346 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Graff2023">{{cite news |last1=Graff |first1=Garrett M. |title=A History of Confusing Stuff in the Sky |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/-chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-ufo-history/672982/ |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=The Atlantic |date=8 February 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230209131504/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/-chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-ufo-history/672982/ |archive-date=9 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Stillwell2022">{{cite news |last1=Stilwell |first1=Blake |title=The First Air Force Pilot to Die Chasing a UFO Was Actually Chasing a Secret Balloon |url=https://www.military.com/history/first-air-force-pilot-die-chasing-ufo-was-actually-chasing-secret-balloon.html |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=Military.com |date=31 October 2022 |language=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231116050109/https://www.military.com/history/first-air-force-pilot-die-chasing-ufo-was-actually-chasing-secret-balloon.html |archive-date=16 November 2023}}</ref>
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|1948-<wbr>03-25
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Conmen Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer sold "magnetic oil-detecting machines" based on the story that they had replicated technology from a crashed spaceship. The pair were convicted of fraud in 1953. Elements of their story regarding a crashed ship with occupants were later entangled in the Roswell narrative.<ref>{{cite news |last=Irvin |first=Leigh |title=Aztec UFO landing subject of new book |url=http://www.daily-times.com/ci_20271257/azrec-ufo-landing-subject-new-book |newspaper=] |location=New Mexico |date=28 March 2012 |access-date=1 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923212404/http://www.daily-times.com/ci_20271257/azrec-ufo-landing-subject-new-book |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Carroll |first1=Robert Todd |title=Aztec (New Mexico) UFO Hoax |url=http://skepdic.com/aztec.html |website=The Skeptic's Dictionary |access-date=8 April 2016 |archive-date=26 May 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000526033727/http://skepdic.com/aztec.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Greer2009">{{cite book |author=John Michael Greer |title=The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYU1GrJjUZMC&pg=PA119 |year=2009 |publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide |isbn=978-0-7387-1319-9 |pages=119– |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191947/https://books.google.com/books?id=EYU1GrJjUZMC&pg=PA119 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1948-<wbr>07-24
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Clarence Chiles and John Whitted, American commercial pilots, reported that their airplane had nearly collided with a UFO near Montgomery. According to the pilots the object "looked like a wingless aircraft...it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare."<ref>{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Jerome |author-link=Jerome Clark |date=1998 |title=The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial |publisher=Visible Ink Press |isbn=978-1-57859-029-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/ufobookencyclope0000clar |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Menzel |first=Donald |author-link=Donald Howard Menzel |date=1963 |title=The World of Flying Saucers: A Major Myth of the Space Age |url=https://archive.org/details/worldofflyingsau0000menz |url-access=registration |page=109}}</ref>
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|1948-<wbr>10-01
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|A US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes over ]. According to US Air Force officer ], this was one of three cases, along with the Mantell incident and Chiles-Whitted encounter, that shifted the Air Force's attitude about UFO reports leading to the creation of ].<ref>{{cite book |author=Clark, Jerome |title=Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs |year=2003 |publisher=Citadel Press |isbn=0-8065-2299-2 |page=66}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17346/17346.txt |title=The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects |first=Edward J. |last=Ruppelt |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=28 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828235635/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17346/17346.txt |url-status=live}}</ref>
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=== 1950–1974 ===
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!Date !!Name !!Location !!Description
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|1950-<wbr>05-11
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; a farm near ]
|A farmer took pictures of a purported "flying saucer". These were the first flying saucer photographs since the coining of the term.<ref name="oregonlive photos">{{cite news |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/history/2015/05/past_tense_oregon_ufo_photos_t.html |title=UFO photos taken near McMinnville in 1950 still raise questions |newspaper=The Oregonian |first=John |last=Killen |date=12 May 2015 |access-date=13 January 2023 |archive-date=17 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417032641/http://www.oregonlive.com/history/2015/05/past_tense_oregon_ufo_photos_t.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1950-<wbr>08-15
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|The manager of Great Falls' pro baseball team took color film of two UFOs flying over Great Falls. The film was extensively analyzed by the US Air Force and several independent investigators.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baker |first=R.M.L. |chapter=Motion Pictures of UFO's |title=UFO's: a Scientific Debate |editor-first1=Carl |editor-last1=Sagan |editor-first2=Thornton |editor-last2=Page |publisher=Cornell University press |date=1972 |pages=191–198}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://files.ncas.org/ufosymposium/baker.html#evidence |last=Baker |first=R. M. L. |title=Observational Evidence of Anomalistic Phenomena |journal=The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences |volume=XV |number=1 |pages=31–36 |date=February 1968 |bibcode=1968JAnSc..15...31B |access-date=13 February 2023 |archive-date=23 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923070832/http://files.ncas.org/ufosymposium/baker.html#evidence |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1951-<wbr>01-20
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Two pilots and a military officer passenger aboard a commercial DC-3 reported being buzzed by an unidentified straight-winged plane both larger and more maneuverable than a B-29.<ref name="Ginna"/>
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|1951-<wbr>08-25
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Several Lights in V-Shaped formations were repeatedly spotted flying over the city. Witnesses included W.I. Robinson, A.G. Oberg, and W.L. Ducker, professors of geology, chemical engineering, and petroleum engineering respectively. Teenage student Carl Hart Jr. photographed the lights<ref name="Ginna">{{cite magazine |title=Have We Visitors From Space? |last1=Darrach |first1=H.B. |last2=Ginna |first2=Robert |magazine=] |date=7 April 1952}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306075415/http://www.nicap.org/life52.htm |date=6 March 2023 }}</ref>
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|1952-<wbr>01-29
|]
|{{continent code |AS}}, ]; ] and ]
|Four American military personnel aboard two different B-29 bombers reported seeing an orange globe-shaped light over two different cities in northern Korea<ref name="Ginna"/>
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|1952-<wbr>07-12 to 1952-<wbr>07-29
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|A series of sightings in July 1952 accompanied ] contacts in the Washington area. These were the first sightings to be widely and seriously reported as potentially physical craft operated by intelligent life from another planet. In response, the ] formed the ] which advised ] to "strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20020727/ufos27/something-in-the-air-50-years-ago-ufos-streaked-over-dc |title=Something in the air: 50 years ago, UFOs streaked over D.C. |newspaper=The Seattle Times |last=Carlson |first=Peter |date=27 July 2002 |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=19 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919090009/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020727&slug=ufos27 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Swords, Powell |title=UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry |url=https://archive.org/details/UFOsAndGovernment |url-access=registration |year=2012 |publisher=Anomalist Books |isbn=978-1-938398-15-5 |pages=–163}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Peebles |first=Curtis |author-link= |date=1994 |title=Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth |url= |location= |publisher=] |pages=79, 102 |isbn=0-425-15117-4}}</ref>
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|1952-<wbr>07-14
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry, pilots of a ] airliner of ], radioed the Norfolk ] to report eight large, round, glowing red objects.<ref>{{cite book |author=Swords, Powell |title=UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry |url=https://archive.org/details/UFOsAndGovernment |url-access=registration |year=2012 |publisher=Anomalist Books |isbn=978-1-938398-15-5 |pages=–150, 220}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Menzel |first=Donald Howard |year=1963 |title=The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age |publisher=Doubleday |pages=260–265}}</ref>
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|1952-<wbr>09-12
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Three local boys followed a bright object into the forest to what they believed was a UFO landing. They went to the nearby home of Kathleen May who accompanied them back to the spot along with two other children and teenage National Guardsman Eugene Lemon. In the forest, they smelled a foul odor and saw what May described as a tall figure with claws and "a head that resembled the ace of spades".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Griffin |first=Buddy |editor-last=Lilly |editor-first=John |title=The Legend of the Flatwoods Monster |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liLXAAAAMAAJ |date=Fall 2002 |journal=Goldenseal |publisher=State of West Virginia, Department of Commerce |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=56–61 |access-date=19 February 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191934/https://books.google.com/books?id=liLXAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1954-<wbr>09-10
|] sighting
|{{continent code|EU}}, ]; ], ]
|French metalworker Marius Dewilde claimed to have become a ] in 1954. Local newspapers and ''Radar'' magazine covered Dewilde's story of small humanoid figures landing a ship on the abandoned railroad tracks near his home. The coverage of Dewilde and other 1950s contactees spurred the careers of French ufologists ] and ].<ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230361362_13 |doi=10.1057/9780230361362_13 |chapter=Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France |title=Imagining Outer Space |year=2012 |last1=Miller |first1=James |pages=245–264 |isbn=978-1-349-31215-3}}</ref>
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|1954-<wbr>10-27
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ] in ]
|A football game between Fiorentina and Pistoiese was under way at the Stadio Artemio Franchi when a group of UFOs traveling at high speed abruptly stopped over the stadium. The stadium became silent as the crowd of around 10,000 spectators witnessed the event and described the UFOs as cigar shaped.<ref>{{cite news |title=The day UFOs hovered over Fiorentina's Stadio Artemio Franchi |work=BBC Sport |last=Padula |first=Richard |date=4 January 2013 |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/20917594 |access-date=30 June 2020 |archive-date=18 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118014716/http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/20917594 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The day UFOs stopped play |work=BBC News |date=24 October 2014 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29342407 |last=Padula |first=Richard |access-date=30 June 2020 |archive-date=16 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516101826/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29342407 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|1955-<wbr>08-21 to 1955-<wbr>08-22
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; A farmhouse near ]
|At a rural farmhouse, eleven people witnessed creatures in the night. Two of the men opened fire with a shotgun and rifle, and the entire group later fled to the Hopkinsville police station. The creatures have been variously described as ]s, aliens, "]", ], and circus monkeys. Four officers, five state troopers, three deputies, and four military police investigated the farmhouse finding bullet holes but no monsters. The story has had a broad impact on popular culture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csicop.org/si/2006-06/i-files.html |title=Siege of 'Little Green Men' – The 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident |first=Joe |last=Nickell |date=December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814154119/http://www.csicop.org/si/2006-06/i-files.html |archive-date=14 August 2009 |work=Skeptical Inquirer}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=reports |first=New Era staff |title=Archives {{!}} Story of space-ship, 12 little men probed today |url=https://www.kentuckynewera.com/eclipse/article_fecf69ce-8611-11e7-beaf-0ffce93df895.html |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=Kentucky New Era |date=20 August 2017 |language=en |archive-date=20 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020130021/https://www.kentuckynewera.com/eclipse/article_fecf69ce-8611-11e7-beaf-0ffce93df895.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Brehmer |first=Nat |title=Let's Examine the Real-Life UFO Encounter That Inspired 'Critters' |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3507236/lets-examine-real-life-ufo-encounter-inspired-critters/ |work=] |date=June 29, 2018 |access-date=2021-09-18 |archive-date=17 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617051327/https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3507236/lets-examine-real-life-ufo-encounter-inspired-critters/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1956-<wbr>07-24
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
| United States Air Force (USAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF) radar operators (from Lakenheath RAF Station, Bentwaters RAF Station, and Sculthorpe RAF Station) detected up to 15 objects over Suffolk. An RAF pilot was sent out from Waterbeach RAF Station in a ], a jet aircraft with ]. The pilot reported spotting the object on radar and visually observing a luminous white object that moved behind his craft when he attempted to intercept.<ref name="Sagan1972" /><ref name="McDonald1969" />
|-
|1956-<wbr>08-13
|]
|{{continent code |AF}}, ]; ]
|A series of photos depicting a supposed UFO, were taken on 24 July near Rosetta in the ] region. The photographer, meteorologist Elizabeth Klarer, claimed detailed adventures with an alien race including having had an alien lover, Akon, who would have fathered her son Ayling.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beukes |first1=Lauren |title=The Woman Who Loved An Alien |url=http://laurenbeukes.bookslive.co.za/blog/2010/02/19/the-woman-who-loved-an-alien/ |date=19 February 2010 |website=bookslive |access-date=25 August 2016 |archive-date=17 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617050936/http://laurenbeukes.bookslive.co.za/blog/2010/02/19/the-woman-who-loved-an-alien/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Elizabeth Klarer-inspired SA musical Star+Crossed to hit the local theatre scene on December 9 |date=5 November 2022 |url=https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/life/elizabeth-klarer-inspired-sa-musical-starcrossed-to-hit-the-local-theatre-scene-on-december-9-24611377-2585-4a26-a8f2-161451739206 |access-date=16 June 2023 |newspaper=] |publisher=Independent News and Media South Africa |location=], South Africa |via=] |archive-date=17 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617004711/https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/life/elizabeth-klarer-inspired-sa-musical-starcrossed-to-hit-the-local-theatre-scene-on-december-9-24611377-2585-4a26-a8f2-161451739206 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|1957-<wbr>05-03
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ], ]
| <!-- NOTE: Cooper is commonly associated with 3 UFO incidents: (1) firsthand sighting of unknown craft in Germany, (2) secondhand interactions with witnesses plus photographs at Edwards Air Force Base, and (3) sightings in Space. Do NOT insert material from (3) outer space sightings. Cooper has publicly denied this and the commonly reproduced quotes regarding the Mercury Project in ufology are either falsely attributed to Cooper or taken out of context. To claim any validity for (3) Cooper's Mercury UFO sighting is a violation of WP:BLP.-->
Gordon Cooper, one of the ], witnessed a type of metallic craft without wings flying over Germany in the 1950s. At the time, Cooper believed these to be Soviet aircraft. His attitude later changed after an incident at ]. Cooper sent a crew of James Bittick and Jack Gettys out to a dry lake bed to set up ]. Cooper said the two men, both familiar with ], came back shaken and talking about witnessing a wingless aircraft with retractable legs silently land and take off near them. Cooper reported the incident to ] which asked for all photographs of the craft. Cooper looked at the photos before sending them off and felt that the government covered up a UFO encounter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/cooper.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223085906/http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/cooper.html |archive-date=23 February 2010 |title=Gordon Cooper: No Mercury UFO |author=Martin, Robert |publisher=Space.com |date=10 September 1999 |quote= the retired air force colonel, who once lectured the United Nations on the reality of UFOs, still holds an "unshakable" belief in extraterrestrial intelligence, thanks largely to personal experience.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cooper |first1=Gordon |last2=Henderson |first2=Bruce |author2-link=Bruce Henderson (author) |title=Leap of Faith |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2000 |isbn=0-06-019416-2 |oclc=59538671 |pages=81–86}}</ref>
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|1957-<wbr>05-20
|Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ]
|{{Anchor|Torres1957}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. -->U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres reports that he was ordered to intercept and fire on a UFO displaying "very unusual flight patterns" over ]. Ground radar operators tracked what was believed to be an unidentified aircraft for some time before Torres' plane was scrambled to intercept.<ref>{{cite web |title=Letter to the Ministry of Defence, London, DEFE 31/176 |date=29 July 1988 |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos/ |format=] |access-date=15 March 2009 |author=Ministry of Defence |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609174333/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos/ |url-status=live |archive-date=9 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Burnett |first=Thane |title='I'll say what I believe – space aliens' |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=21 October 2008 |url=http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/thane_burnett/2008/10/21/7156786.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022161328/http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/thane_burnett/2008/10/21/7156786.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 October 2008 |access-date=19 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Evans |first=Michael |title=US airman Milton Torres told to shoot down UFO when based at RAF Manston |newspaper=The Times |date=October 20, 2008 |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-airman-milton-torres-told-to-shoot-down-ufo-when-based-at-raf-manston-jjqfb6qrr8d |access-date=20 March 2023 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320090615/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-airman-milton-torres-told-to-shoot-down-ufo-when-based-at-raf-manston-jjqfb6qrr8d |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Spangler |first=Nicholas |title=Retired pilot explains 1957 UFO incident |newspaper=Seattle Times |date=23 October 2008 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/retired-pilot-explains-1957-ufo-incident/ |access-date=20 March 2023 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320090616/https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/retired-pilot-explains-1957-ufo-incident/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1957-<wbr>10-15
|] Abduction
|{{continent code |SA}}, ]; Near ], ]
|Law student, Antônio Vilas-Boas, described being ] by humanoid aliens and taken aboard their egg-shaped craft. He also said that he was confined within a small round room where he was compelled to have sex with a four foot tall alien woman.<ref>{{ cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970622/ai_n14100764/pg_2 |title=They came from out'a space |work=The Independent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103181652/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970622/ai_n14100764/pg_2 |archive-date=3 January 2009 |last=Hulse |first=Tim |date=22 June 1997}}</ref>
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|1957-<wbr>11-02
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Drivers observed cigar-shaped lights above the highway, followed by electrical failures.<ref>{{ cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837169-4,00.html |title=A Fresh Look at Flying Saucers |magazine=Time Magazine |author=Time |date=4 August 1967 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114212802/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837169-4,00.html |archive-date=14 January 2009}}</ref>
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|1957-<wbr>11-04
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Through binoculars, two Civil Aeronautics Administration tower operators reported seeing an egg shape emitting a white light beneath it.<ref name="Sagan1972">{{cite book |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-7607-0196-6 |editor-last1=Sagan |editor-first1=Carl |editor-last2=Page |editor-first2=Thornton |title=UFO's: A Scientific Debate |date=1972}} (] via ].)</ref><ref name="McDonald1969">{{cite conference |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d092d4990f93c000119785c/1560882508023/scienceindefault.pdf |title=Science in Default: Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigation |last=McDonald |first=James |date=27 December 1969 |publisher=] |author-link=James E. McDonald |pages=33–36 |access-date=23 July 2020 |archive-date=23 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723072851/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d092d4990f93c000119785c/1560882508023/scienceindefault.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1961-<wbr>09-19
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; South of ] on ], ]
|The Hills reported the first alien abduction experience to be widely spread in English-language publications. While driving home, they observed a light move through the sky and land ahead of them. Barney Hill said that, against his will, he turned the car down a side road towards the light, where he found six small humanoid beings waiting for them. Betty Hill reported that they inserted a needle through her navel among other vaguely medical tests.<ref>{{cite magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121162039/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828455,00.html |title=Testament for Believers |magazine=Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828455,00.html |url-status=dead |date=18 November 1966 |last=Fuller |first=John |archive-date=21 November 2007}}</ref>
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|1963
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ]
|Residents of Kallamishtëz in the ] region reported a bright object in the sky. Albanian authorities said that it was a new jet plane used by the Albanian Air Force.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Telegrafi2016" />
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|1964-<wbr>04-24
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Police officer Lonnie Zamora investigated a roaring sound. Zamora and a nearby tourist found a craft that took off shortly after their arrival. The craft left impressions in the ground that did not aid in identification.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dchieftain.com/news/81987-07-30-08.html |title=City plans to make UFO site into tourist attraction |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110718074256/http://www.dchieftain.com/news/81987-07-30-08.html |archive-date=18 July 2011 |work=El Defensor Chieftain |date=30 July 2008 |last=Cronce |first=Evelyn}}</ref>
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|1964-<wbr>05-23
|]
|{{continent code|EU}}, ]; ], ]
|While on a day trip with his family, fireman Jim Templeton took a photo of his daughter, that when devloped showed a mysterious figure in the background. Templeton believed it to be a "spaceman", but later analysis showed it was most likely his wife.<ref>{{cite news |last=Armstrong |first=Simon |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-27391210 |title=The mystery of the Solway Spaceman |date=23 May 2014 |work=BBC}}</ref>
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|1964-<wbr>09-18 until 9-24
|]
|{{continent code |AS}}, Surabaya, Indonesia
|Officer ]&mdash;founder of the ] in Indonesia&mdash;wrote several books on UFOs and founded an organization to study UFO reports after he served as Minister of Industry. According to Salatun, one night during the ], pilots reported seeing and shooting at a dark, mango-shaped craft with colored lights. Salatun claims that fragments of the military's shells struck individuals outside of their homes in Sidoarjo.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peristiwa 'UFO Dwikora' tahun 1964, TNI menembaki piring terbang di Surabaya dengan Artileri Pertahanan Udara! |url=https://wartabulukumba.pikiran-rakyat.com/literatur/amp/pr-873478441/peristiwa-ufo-dwikora-tahun-1964-tni-menembaki-piring-terbang-di-surabaya-dengan-artileri-pertahanan-udara |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=wartabulukumba.pikiran-rakyat.com |archive-date=29 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429050357/https://wartabulukumba.pikiran-rakyat.com/literatur/amp/pr-873478441/peristiwa-ufo-dwikora-tahun-1964-tni-menembaki-piring-terbang-di-surabaya-dengan-artileri-pertahanan-udara |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1965-<wbr>06-04
|]
|{{continent code |OS}}, ]; Above ]
|During ], astronaut James McDivitt spotted a white cylinder with a protruding arm traveling in his orbit. McDivitt has said that it was impossible for him to assign scale to the object against the black background of space, saying that it could have been small enough to hold in his hands or "the size of the Empire State Building."<ref>{{cite interview |interviewer=Kevin M. Rusnak |series=NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project |title=Edited Oral History Transcript – Gerald P. Carr |location=Huntsville, Arkansas |date=25 October 2000 |first=Gerald P. |last=Carr |publisher=NASA |url=https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/CarrGP/CarrGP_10-25-00.htm |access-date=27 August 2021 |archive-date=27 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827224434/https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/CarrGP/CarrGP_10-25-00.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1965-<wbr>09-03
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Numerous people reported pulsating UFOs in Exeter, New Hampshire. The events were the subject of ''The Incident at Exeter'' by John G. Fuller.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.seacoastnh.com/Famous-People/Link-Free-or-Die/Norman-Muscarello-Recalls-His-UFO-Incident-at-Exeter/ |title=Norman Muscarello Recalls His UFO Incident at Exeter |work=SeacoastNH |editor-last=Robinson |editor-first=J. Dennis |date=October 1980 |access-date=12 December 2013 |archive-date=12 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212215432/http://www.seacoastnh.com/Famous-People/Link-Free-or-Die/Norman-Muscarello-Recalls-His-UFO-Incident-at-Exeter/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1965-<wbr>07-1
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|French farmer, Maurice Massé, witnessed a spherical vehicle in his lavender field. He noticed and approached two individuals that he observed near the vehicle, but after one pointed a tube in his direction, he stood still feeling paralyzed. He described the beings as child-sized, pale, large-headed, with only holes where a mouth should be. Massé said that after they left in their vehicle, he was never again able to grow a healthy plant in the area where the craft had landed. He did not personally comment on the effect this had on him, saying, "One always says too much." His wife reported that the man was plagued with exhaustion for months, that he had confessed some type of communication to her, and that it was a "spiritual experience" for her husband.<ref>{{cite book |first=Brenda |last=Denzler |title=The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnQU2Q65lWsC&pg=PA39 |year=2001 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-93027-8 |pages=39–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Narváez |title=The Good People: New Fairylore Essays |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DLmoKKkxAX0C&pg=PA484 |year=1997 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0-8131-0939-6 |pages=484–}}</ref>
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|1965-<wbr>12-09
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Local newspapers and newscasts reported a fireball observed in the skies over Kecksburg. According to some residents, they found an acorn-shaped object in the woods. The U.S. military closed off the area to investigate and reported no evidence of a crash. A model built for '']'' is kept on display by the fire department, which leads an annual UFO celebration.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dinkel |first1=Matthew |title=Acorn from Space: The Kecksburg Incident |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/acorn-space-kecksburg-incident |website=Pennsylvania Center for the Book |publisher=Pennsylvania State University |access-date=28 October 2019 |archive-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201003127/https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/acorn-space-kecksburg-incident |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://kecksburgvfd.com/ufo-festival-latest-news/ |title=UFO Festival-Latest News |author=Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department |work=UFO Festival |access-date=12 February 2023 |date=2022 |archive-date=13 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213041603/https://kecksburgvfd.com/ufo-festival-latest-news/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Oberg |first=James |author-link=James Oberg |title=Jim Oberg on the 'NASA lawsuit over Kecksburg UFO Documents' |date=7 January 2008 |url=http://www.jamesoberg.com/statement_nasa_kecksburg.pdf |access-date=13 February 2023 |archive-date=18 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818034146/http://www.jamesoberg.com/statement_nasa_kecksburg.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1966-<wbr>03-20
|]
|{{Continent code|NA}}, United States; ] and ]
|Two mass sightings above wetlands were dismissed at a press conference as "marsh gas".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/magazine/flying-saucers-and-swamp-gas/|title=Flying Saucers and Swamp Gas &#124; Bentley Historical Library}}</ref>
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|1966-<wbr>04-06
|]
|{{continent code |OC}}, ]; ]
|Several hundred students and school faculty from Westall High School watched an object land at the nearby Grange Reserve.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/10/01/1127804696941.html |title=Academic throws light on 40-year-old UFO mystery |access-date=13 February 2007 |work=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=2 October 2005 |author=The Age |archive-date=5 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305061129/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/10/01/1127804696941.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1966-<wbr>08-20
|]
|{{Continent code|SA}}, ]; ], ]
|The bodies of two recently deceased men were found on a hillside in Rio de Janeiro. They wore raincoats and handmade lead masks. A mutual friend, Elcio Gomes, said that the men had been "scientific spiritualists", members of a religious group that attempted to contact extraterrestrials using ]s<ref>{{Cite web |title=Solving the Lead Masks of Vintem Hill |url=https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4398 |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=Skeptoid}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Valjak |first1=Domagoj |title=Radioactivity, UFOs, cults, or just plain weirdness: The Lead Masks Case of Brazil is a baffling unsolved case |url=https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/28/the-lead-masks-case-of-brazil/ |website=The Vintage News |access-date=22 June 2024 |language=en |date=28 November 2017}}</ref>
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|1967-<wbr>05-20
|]
|{{Continent code|NA}}, ]; ], ]
|Prospector Stefan Michalak attributed unusual burns on his body to a purported UFO sighting near Falcon Lake.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UFOs in Canada |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ufos-in-canada |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bernhardt |first1=Darren |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/falcon-lake-incident-book-anniversary-1.4121639 |title=Falcon Lake incident is Canada's 'best-documented UFO case,' even 50 years later |website=CBC News |date=19 May 2017 |access-date=22 June 2024}}</ref> Radiation tests done at ] came back negative. Higher levels of soil radiation at the area where Michalak said he was burned were traced to an underground vein of ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Turner |first1=Jay |title=The Falcon Lake Incident: UFOs on World Coins |url=https://coinweek.com/the-falcon-lake-incident-ufos-on-world-coins/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=CoinWeek |date=20 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hendricks |first1=Jon |title=X-files at University of Manitoba: Investigative files, artifacts from UFO encounter donated to university archives |url=https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/x-files-at-university-of-manitoba-investigative-files-artifacts-from-ufo-encounter-donated-to-university-archives-1.4675255 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=CTV News |date=7 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
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|1967-<wbr>08-29
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; near ], ]
|A 13-year-old boy and his younger sister reported an incident to their father, local police, and investigators. According to police reports, they witnessed a brilliant sphere and four small black occupants while herding cattle outside their village.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202132.html |title=French Get a Look at Nation's UFO Files |newspaper=Washington Post |date=23 March 2007 |last=Moore |first=Molly |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-date=10 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610120203/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202132.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1967-<wbr>09-4
|]
|{{continent code|EU}} ]; ]
|Apprentices from the ] constructed six fake flying saucers out of metal-clad ]. They filled them with flour, water, and electronic components, and dropped the saucers off in fields during the night. When a Scotland Yard bomb disposal squad was called in, X-Ray tests revealed the presence of ] batteries, and the hoax was exposed.<ref name="BBChoax">{{cite web |title=The great saucer invasion: The day six 'spaceships' landed in England |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41110193 |publisher=] |date=3 September 2017 |access-date=3 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="Guardianhoax">{{cite web |title=Alien invasion hoax fooled MoD, archive papers reveal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/03/alien-invasion-hoax-fooled-ministry |work=] |date=3 March 2011 |access-date=3 September 2017}}</ref>
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|1967-<wbr>10-04
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ] near ]
|] and six civilians reported that a large illuminated object crashed into Shag Harbour. A Department of National Defence underwater search followed, but located no physical evidence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ufo/002029-1500.01-e.html |title=Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia |work=Library and Archives of Canada |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=15 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815133427/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ufo/002029-1500.01-e.html |url-status=deviated}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ufo/002029-1501-e.html |title=Canadian Department of National Defence Memo |work=Library and Archives of Canada |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=17 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017182355/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ufo/002029-1501-e.html |url-status=deviated}}</ref>
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|1969-<wbr>01-06
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|While governor of Georgia, future president ] filed a written report of a "luminous, not solid" light over Leary, Georgia in 1969.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/04/30/ufo-over-georgia-jimmy-logged-one/080ef1c3-6ff3-41a9-a1e4-a37c54b5cbca/ |title=UFO Over Georgia? Jimmy Logged One |newspaper=] |last=O'Toole |first=Thomas |date=30 April 1977 |access-date=15 June 2023 |archive-date=9 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109013122/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/04/30/ufo-over-georgia-jimmy-logged-one/080ef1c3-6ff3-41a9-a1e4-a37c54b5cbca/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1969-<wbr>04-12
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ]
|Finnish pilot Jouko Kuronen overheard a radio conversation between air traffic control and fighter pilot Tarmo Tukeva. Tukeva was ordered to investigate "seven balloons" visible from Kuronen's position in the sky. Kuronen described the objects as discs that accelerated in formation against the wind at speeds not feasible for balloons.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000000502183.html |title=Ruotuväki: Ilmavoimien lentäjät tekivät merkittävän ufo-havainnon 60-luvulla |trans-title=Ruutuväki: Air Force pilots made a significant UFO sighting in the 60s |language=fi |author=Ilta-Sanomat |date=8 May 2012 |website=is.fi |access-date=19 December 2017 |archive-date=3 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803172228/http://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000000502183.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1969-<wbr>09-1
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Four families with no prior connection alleged that they saw a UFO, were moved by a beam of light, and ] of time. The Great Barrington Historical Society recognized the accounts as a "historical event" in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/berkshire-ufo-sightings-unsolved-mysteries-alien-episode-what-happened-next-a9599251.html |title=Berkshire UFO sightings: Unsolved Mysteries episode is spooking viewers – but what happened next? |website=Independent.co.uk |last=Stolworthy |first=Jacob |date=3 July 2020 |access-date=8 January 2021 |archive-date=10 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310190618/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/berkshire-ufo-sightings-unsolved-mysteries-alien-episode-what-happened-next-a9599251.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1973-<wbr>10-11
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ], ]
|Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing from a pier on the ] when they say that they heard whirring sounds and witnessed a craft over 30 feet long with flashing lights. Both men say they were paralyzed and then taken by humanoids with "robotic slit-mouths" and "crab-like pincers".<ref name="books.google.co.uk">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&dq=Pascagoula+Abduction&pg=PA703 |title=Conspiracy Theories in American History |first=Peter |last=Knight |year=2003 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-812-9 |access-date=22 March 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191928/https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&dq=Pascagoula+Abduction&pg=PA703 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The men claimed they were abducted by aliens. In Mississippi, police believed them. |last=Brockwell |first=Gillian |date=26 June 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/26/i-floated-inside-man-returns-site-ufo-abduction-it-gets-historical-marker/ |access-date=12 March 2023 |archive-date=11 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211194910/https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/26/i-floated-inside-man-returns-site-ufo-abduction-it-gets-historical-marker/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1974-<wbr>01-23
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ], ]
|An alleged UFO crash involving lights in the sky moments before a large impact shock. The cause of the incident was however soon revealed as a 3.5 magnitude earthquake.<ref name="R. M. W. Musson">{{cite journal |first=R.M.W. |last=Musson |year=2006 |title=The enigmatic Bala earthquake of 1974 |journal=Astronomy & Geophysics |volume=47 |number=5 |pages=11–15 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-4004.2006.47511.x |bibcode=2006A&G....47e..11M |s2cid=121529029 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/weird/ufos/pages/berwyn.shtml |title=Berwyn Mountains Incident |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123003533/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/weird/ufos/pages/berwyn.shtml |archive-date=23 November 2008 |work=BBC Wales |date=28 July 2008 |author=BBC}}</ref>
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|1974-<wbr>08-23
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ], ]
|Musician ] and then-assistant ] report seeing a craft emitting lights that changed color in the night sky above their Manhattan penthouse. Lennon would later reference this experience in his song "]".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Potter |first1=Jordan |title=John Lennon and his extra terrestrial experience |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-extra-terrestrial-experience/ |website=Far Out |date=26 June 2022 |access-date=March 22, 2023 |archive-date=23 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323013747/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-extra-terrestrial-experience/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Shewfelt |first1=Raechal |title=John Lennon believed in flying saucers. Here's how you can buy his drawing of a UFO. |url=https://www.yahoo.com/video/john-lennon-believed-flying-saucers-heres-can-buy-drawing-ufo-204755604.html |website=Yahoo |date=27 March 2019 |access-date=March 22, 2023 |archive-date=23 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323003448/https://www.yahoo.com/video/john-lennon-believed-flying-saucers-heres-can-buy-drawing-ufo-204755604.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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=== 1975–1999 ===
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!Date !!Name !!Location !!Description
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|1975-<wbr>01-12
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|George O'Barski reported seeing a dark object with lit windows near the ] adjacent to ]. His story was covered by ufologist ] and local newspapers.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hopkins |first1=Budd |title=Sane citizen sees UFO in New Jersey |work=The Village Voice |date=1 March 1976 |page=12}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hague |first=Jim |title=Still the champ in UFO sightings Since 1975, North Bergen had most reports in USA |newspaper=Hudson Reporter |date=December 18, 2007 |url=http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2414454/article-Still-the-champ-in-UFO-sightings-Since-1975--North-Bergen-had-most-reports-in-USA |access-date=2014-06-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826161029/http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2414454/article-Still-the-champ-in-UFO-sightings-Since-1975--North-Bergen-had-most-reports-in-USA |archive-date=August 26, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Rose |first=Lisa |title=Want to see a UFO? Try North Bergen |newspaper=The Star-Ledger |date=February 29, 2012 |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/even_weirder_nj_bergen_county.html |access-date=2014-06-06}}</ref>
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|1975-<wbr>11-05
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; Near Turkey Springs in ], ]
|Logger Travis Walton disappeared for over 5 days resulting in a police investigation of his coworkers. When questioned on where he had been, Walton said that he had been ] aboard a spacecraft by nearly human creatures.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sheriff Skeptical of Story: Saucer Traveler Hiding After Returning To Earth |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19751113&id=1RJZAAAAIBAJ&pg=2223,2068472&hl=en |website=The Victoria Advocate |publisher=], Nov 13, 1975 |access-date=26 April 2016 |archive-date=19 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019075723/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19751113&id=1RJZAAAAIBAJ&pg=2223,2068472&hl=en |url-status=live}}</ref> Walton's ] account is the basis for the book ''The Walton Experience'' (1978), the film '']'' (1993), and the documentary "Alien Abduction: Travis Walton" (2022).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/travis-walton-still-haunted-by-ufo_n_7119910 |title=UFO-Alien Abduction Still Haunts Travis Walton |first=Lee |last=Speigel |work=Huffpost |date=23 April 2015 |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=25 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625232855/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/travis-walton-still-haunted-by-ufo_n_7119910 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1976-<wbr>09-17
|]
|{{continent code |AS}}, ]; ], ]
|The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident was a radar and visual sighting of a UFO over the capital of Iran, during early morning hours. Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors reported losing instrumentation and communications as they approached the object.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Lewis-Kraus |first=Gideon |date=30 April 2021 |access-date=13 February 2023 |archive-date=14 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114043507/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1977-<wbr>09-20
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ], ], ], and ]
|Residents of ] reported a giant glowing "]" of light (visible for over ten minutes) looming in the early morning sky. The light was seen and photographed in several ]. In response to the phenomenon, the Soviet Union created a government program to study anomalous atmospheric phenomena. This program would later attribute the Petrozavodsk sightings to the secret night launch of the ] spy satellite. According to Soviet astrophysicist, Yuli Platov, sunlight can cause the giant plumes of gas and dust produced by rockets to glow, especially "in ], when the rocket streaks through sunlit regions and the observer is on the nighttime side of the Earth."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sokolov |first1=B.А. |last2=Platov |first2=Yu.V. |title=The Study of Unidentified Flying Objects in the Soviet Union |journal=] |volume=70 |pages=248 |year=2000 |url=http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Platov.pdf |access-date=8 September 2012 |archive-date=4 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504210306/http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Platov.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1977-<wbr>12-17
|Council Bluffs, Iowa fireball
|Council Bluffs (Iowa) US
|Local residents reported seeing a reddish fireball approximately 500 to 600 feet in the air falling straight down and disappearing behind trees, followed by a flash of bluish-white light suggesting an impact. The fire department was called to extinguish a grass fire where it recovered molten metal. Samples of the metal were analyzed and determined to be a simple high-carbon steel of a type common in manufacturing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Warner |first=Richard |title=UFO Crash at Big Lake Park |url=https://www.thehistoricalsociety.org/h/ufo.html |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=Historical and Preservation Society of Pottawattamie County}}</ref>
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|1977 to 1978
|]
|{{continent code|SA}}, ]; ]
|The Colares UFO refers to an outbreak of UFO sightings that occurred in 1977 on the Brazilian island of Colares. During the outbreak, the UFOs allegedly attacked the citizens with intense beams of radiation that left burn marks and puncture wounds. These sightings led to the Brazilian government dispatching a team to investigate under the codename "Operation Saucer", but the government later recalled the team and classified the files until the late 1990s. This was the first operation of the ] conducted only to investigate UFO-related issues.<ref name=folha>{{cite journal |last=Rodrigues |first=Fernando |title=SNI investigou óvnis durante a ditadura |journal=] |date=11 January 2009 |volume=29138 |pages=A10–A11 |url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/brasil/fc1101200907.htm |access-date=13 December 2013 |trans-title=SNI investigated UFOs during the dictatorship |publisher=] |location=] |language=pt}} </ref><ref name=piaui>{{cite web |last=Charleaux |first=João Paulo |title=No princípio era um chuchu |url=http://revistapiaui.estadao.com.br/edicao-83/esquina/no-principio-era-um-chuchu |work=] |publisher=] |access-date=17 December 2013 |location=São Paulo |language=pt |date=17 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217083816/http://revistapiaui.estadao.com.br/edicao-83/esquina/no-principio-era-um-chuchu |archive-date=17 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Operação Prato |url=http://redeglobo.globo.com/Linhadireta/0,26665,GHT0-4604-212882,00.html |work=] |publisher=] |access-date=13 December 2013 |language=pt |date=25 August 2005}}</ref>
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|1978-<wbr>05-10
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|Polish farmer Jan Wolski reported that while returning home, two "short, green-faced humanoid entities" wearing black overalls jumped onto his horse-drawn cart and started speaking an incomprehensible language. After about 1000&nbsp;ft (300&nbsp;m), he reported seeing a white flying object, from which an alien creature came out and invited Wolski inside. The farmer said that they examined him once inside.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kosmici na furmance. Co wydarzyło się w Emilcinie? |url=https://www.polskieradio.pl/39/156/artykul/2542811,kosmici-na-furmance-co-wydarzylo-sie-w-emilcinie |access-date=3 February 2022 |date=7 February 2021 |work=PolskieRadio.pl |trans-title=Aliens on a cart. What happened in Emilcin? |language=pl |author=M.C.}}</ref>
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|1978-<wbr>10-21
|]
|{{continent code |OC}}, Australia; ]
|Frederick Valentich left ] in a ], a single-engined light aircraft. At 7:06 pm, he began reporting a strange craft to ] air traffic control. Valentich's last words were, "That strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again … it is hovering and it's not an aircraft."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/victorias-own-xfile-unsolved-30-years-on/2008/10/11/1223749982638.html |title=Victoria's own X-File unsolved 30 years on |newspaper=Brisbane Times |last=Russell |first=Mark |date=14 October 2008 |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=16 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016123949/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/victorias-own-xfile-unsolved-30-years-on/2008/10/11/1223749982638.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Neither the pilot nor the plane were ever found.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/6591365.stm |title=Pilot spots 'UFO' over Guernsey |newspaper=BBC News |date=25 April 2007 |author= |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=12 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112012731/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/6591365.stm |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1978-<wbr>12-06
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|Italian nightwatchman Pier Fortunato Zanfretta perceived a red, oval object and phoned his supervisor. During the call, he described non-human creatures that he said were attacking him. He was later found in a state of shock and his experience was adapted into a stage play.<ref>{{cite news |title=Storia vera del più famoso rapimento alieno in Italia Al 'Caracol' il monologo sul caso Zanfretta |newspaper=] |pages=20 |language=Italian |date=7 February 2020}}</ref>
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|1978-<wbr>12-21 to 1978-<wbr>12-30
|]
|{{continent code |OC}}, ]; ]
|The crew of a cargo aircraft spotted lights above the ] on New Zealand's ]. A news team from ] and ] arrived to record footage for a story about the sighting, and were able to capture the lights on camera. The ] investigated and did not find evidence that the lights were solid objects.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Strang |first1=Bob |title=Govt officials couldn't explain Kaikōura lights UFO sightings, documents show |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/448174/govt-officials-couldn-t-explain-kaikoura-lights-ufo-sightings-documents-show |access-date=24 June 2024 |work=] |date=31 July 2021 |language=en-nz}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=New Zealand releases UFO government files |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12057314 |access-date=24 June 2024 |work=BBC News |date=22 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Kaikōura Files: Baffling mystery of New Zealand's UFO |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crew-remember-the-day-ufo-was-spotted-over-kaikoura-40-years-on/JXWELO7AJEOR6KVXCJ6OKVGUKU/ |access-date=24 June 2024 |work=New Zealand Herald |date=24 June 2024 |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
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|1979-<wbr>08-27
|]
|{{continent code|NA}}, ]; ]
|Sheriff Val Johnson attributed minor injuries and the shattered windshield of his squad car to a beam of light.<ref>{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Jerome |title=The UFO encyclopedia: the phenomenon from the beginning, Volume 1 |year=1998 |publisher=Omnigraphics |isbn=978-0-7808-0097-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Klass |first=Philip J. |title=UFOs: The Public Deceived |pages=227 |year=1983 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=978-0-87975-322-1}}</ref>
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|1979-<wbr>11-09
|]
|{{continent code|EU}}, ]; ], ]
|Forestry worker Robert Taylor was walking near ] when he said that he saw a flying dome descend, was approached by floating spheres, smelled a foul odor similar to "burning brakes", and blacked out. Ufologists erected a plaque at the site. Physicians have noted that Taylor's account matches an episode of ].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/tv-show-to-probe-famous-livingston-ufo-encounter-1601566 |title=TV show to probe famous Livingston UFO encounter |work=The Scotsman |date=10 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/im-after-the-aliens-that-beat-up-bob-2467885 |title=I'm after the aliens that beat up Bob.. |date=9 November 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2007/03/29/robert-taylor |title=Robert Taylor |date=29 March 2007 |newspaper=The Economist |department=Obituary}}</ref>
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|1979-<wbr>11-11
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|En route to ], commercial pilot Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada radioed air traffic control regarding a pair of red lights approaching his ] ]. Neither air traffic control in Barcelona nor the military identified the object. Tejada made an emergency landing at the nearby airport in Manises.<ref>{{cite news |last=Millás |first=Jaime |title=Un 'OVNI' forzó el aterrizaje de un Caravelle en Manises |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1979/11/13/espana/311295627_850215.html |location=Valencia |newspaper=] |date=13 November 1979 |access-date=9 December 2017 |language=es |archive-date=10 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210071632/https://elpais.com/diario/1979/11/13/espana/311295627_850215.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1980-<wbr>04-11
|Arequipa UFO incident
|{{continent code |SA}}, ]; ]
|{{anchor|Arequipa}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. --> Early in the morning of April 11, La Joya ] Base ordered fighter pilot Oscar Santa María Huertas to intercept an object in restricted air space. Huertas pursued the object in a ] and fired a barrage of ] into it. According to Huertas the object did not seem damaged and rose to 19,200 meters. He described it as similar in shape to an incandescent lightbulb with a much wider circular silver base and said that it "lacked all the typical components of aircraft. It had no wings, propulsion jets, exhausts, windows, antennae, and so forth".<ref>{{cite news |title=Objetivo: Derribar al OVNI en Perú |language=es |trans-title=Objective: To Shoot Down the UFO in Peru |last=Díaz |first=Yohanan |newspaper=] |date=9 June 2018 |access-date=19 February 2023 |url=https://interactivo.eluniversal.com.mx/2018/10anios-enigmas/derribar-ovni.html |archive-date=19 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219065320/https://interactivo.eluniversal.com.mx/2018/10anios-enigmas/derribar-ovni.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record |editor-last=Kean |editor-first=Leslie |last=Huertas |first=Oscar Santa María |chapter=Close Combat with a UFO |publisher=] |date=2010 |page=93 |isbn=978-0-307-71708-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://larepublica.pe/sociedad/374004-piloto-se-enfrento-a-ovni-en-arequipa |author=La Republica |title=Piloto se 'enfrentó' a OVNI en Arequipa |language=es |trans-title=Pilot Who 'Confronted' a UFO in Arequipa |newspaper=La Republica |date=14 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201232903/https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/374004-piloto-se-enfrento-a-ovni-en-arequipa |archive-date=1 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=] |publisher=] |last=Cox |first=Billy |title=Maybe they'll just go away |date=11 February 2011 |url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2009/02/11/maybe-theyll-just-go-away/28691915007/ |access-date=19 February 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191931/https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2009/02/11/maybe-theyll-just-go-away/28691915007/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1980-<wbr>12-26 to 1980 -12-28
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ], ]
|] personnel reported various unusual observations at RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, two American air bases located in England. Their reports included lights in the sky, a metallic triangular object in the forest, multi-colored lights moving through the forest, and higher levels of radiation.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-54649675 |access-date=23 February 2023 |date=26 December 2020 |last=Rigby |first=Nick |title=Rendlesham Forest UFO: Are we any closer to the truth 40 years on? |work=] |archive-date=23 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223182019/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-54649675 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1980-<wbr>12-29
|]
|{{continent code|NA}}, ]; near ]
|Betty Cash and Victoria Landrum unsuccessfully sued the United States government in 1981. The two women attributed various symptoms to a diamond-shaped UFO they claimed to have seen pursued by air force helicopters the previous year. The judge dismissed their case due to a lack of evidence.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wukman |first1=Alex |title=UFO Hunters TV show seeks to reopen Cash-Landrum case |url=https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/eastex/news/article/UFO-Hunters-TV-show-seeks-to-reopen-Cash-Landrum-9393577.php |access-date=27 June 2024 |work=Houston Chronicle |publisher=Hearst |date=July 16, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Scheaffer |first1=Robert |title=Between a Beer Joint and a Highway Warning Sign: The 'Classic' Cash-Landrum Case Unravels |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |date=March–April 2014 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=28–30 |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2014/03/p28.pdf |access-date=26 June 2024}}</ref>
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|1981-<wbr>01-08
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ], ]
|Retired contractor, Renato Nicolai reported the landing of a flying object near his home to local police. Renato believed it to be a military craft. Groupe d'Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (]), a branch of French Space Agency created to investigate UFOs, conducted an investigation, photographed circular impressions on the ground, and took samples of the area.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=When UFOs Land |last=Wilson |first=Jim |date=May 2001 |others=Illustrated by Edwin Herder |magazine=Popular Mechanics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ts8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66 |access-date=10 June 2013 |pages=66– |publisher=Hearst Magazines |issn=0032-4558}}</ref> Skeptics have been critical of the GEPAN investigation which took place 40 days after the initial sighting.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rossoni |first1=D. |last2=Maillot |first2=E. |last3=Déguillaume |first3=E. |year=2007 |title=Les OVNIS du CNES – 30 ans d'études officielles. |chapter=Trans-en-Provence |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203040638/http://www.observatoire-zetetique.org/divers/LesOvniDuCnes/OvniDuCnes_chapitre13.pdf |url=http://www.observatoire-zetetique.org/divers/LesOvniDuCnes/OvniDuCnes_chapitre13.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2008 |publisher=book-e-book.com}} (Critical skeptical investigations of GEPAN's work.) <!-- Additional extracts: https://web.archive.org/web/20071031214447/https://zetetique.fr/page/doc.php?publication=1&ecritId=37 --></ref><ref>{{cite report |editor-last=Figuet |editor-first=M. |date=1995 |title=L'affaire de Trans-en-Provence. |publisher=Dompierre-les-Ormes, SERPAN.}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1983}}
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ], ]
|{{Anchor|Hudson1983}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. -->State police discovered that widespread reports of a massive object—described by one observer as a "city of lights" hanging silently above their home—were caused by a group of pilots flying small aircraft in formation. The events were the subject of an Unsolved Mysteries episode and ''Night Siege'', a posthumous collaboration between ufologists including ].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://syracusenewtimes.com/ufos-over-the-hudson-valley/ |title=UFO's over the Hudson Valley |first=Cheryl |last=Costa |date=7 November 2013 |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024821/https://syracusenewtimes.com/ufos-over-the-hudson-valley/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780345342133 |title=Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings by J. Allen Hynek |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024821/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780345342133 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Strange Sights Brighten the Night Skies Upstate |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/25/nyregion/strange-sights-brighten-the-night-skies-upstate.html |date=25 August 1984 |last=Schmalz |first=Jeffrey |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024820/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/25/nyregion/strange-sights-brighten-the-night-skies-upstate.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://unsolved.com/gallery/hudson-valley-ufo/ |title=The Mystery of the Hudson Valley UFO |date=22 April 2023 |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=27 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327045805/https://unsolved.com/gallery/hudson-valley-ufo/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1986-<wbr>05-19
|] in Brazil
|{{continent code |SA}}, ]; ], ], ] and ]
|Radar and visual contacts were obtained with multiple 'bright colorful objects' in the sky across several states. ] and ] fighters were scrambled but failed to intercept, with pilots describing the objects as capable of impossible maneuvers and rapidly accelerating to as much as Mach 15 once approached.<ref>{{cite web |title=A noite em que 21 óvnis invadiram o espaço aéreo brasileiro e foram perseguidos por caças da FAB |language=pt |publisher=BBC |date=14 January 2022 |access-date=21 February 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-59953278 |last=Bernardo |first=André |archive-date=21 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221043130/https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-59953278 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1986-<wbr>11-17
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|While piloting a ]ese ]-200F ] on a ] from France to ] in Japan, the flight crew witnessed several unidentified objects over eastern Alaska. Captain {{Nihongo|Kenju Terauchi|寺内謙寿|Terauchi Kenju}}, ] {{Nihongo|Takanori Tamefuji|為藤隆憲|Tamefuji Takanori}}, and ] {{Nihongo|Yoshio Tsukuda|佃善雄|Tsukuda Yoshio}} reported rectangular arrays of what Captain Terauchi described as glowing ] or thrusters.<ref><!--archived news source-->{{cite web |last=Shincho |first=Shukan |title=Terauchi's London interview of December 1986 |work=JAL Pilot's UFO Story Surfaces after 20 Years |publisher=JapanToday |via=ufocasebook |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123052116/http://www.japantoday.com/jp/kuchikomi/443 |url=http://www.japantoday.com/jp/kuchikomi/443 |archive-date=23 November 2008 |access-date=8 May 2011 |date=8 December 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref><!--ufoevidence.org is a tertiary source-->{{cite web |url=http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case287.htm |title=Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 |author=Loy Lawhon |access-date=5 May 2011 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629160228/http://ufoevidence.org/cases/case287.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|1987-<wbr>12-1
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, United Kingdom; ]
|Retired police officer, Philip Spencer, took a photograph of what he said was a strange being on the moor. According to Spencer, the being fled after being photographed and left in a domed craft.<ref name="Yorkshire Post">{{cite news |title=Picture Post: When Ilkley Moor became an alien landing site |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/picture-post-when-ilkley-moor-became-alien-landing-site-1832740 |access-date=12 December 2021 |publisher=The Yorkshire Post |date=13 October 2014 |archive-date=12 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212171750/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/picture-post-when-ilkley-moor-became-alien-landing-site-1832740 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Alien Evidence Re-investigated |url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8073980.alien-evidence-re-investigated/ |access-date=12 December 2021 |publisher='The Telegraph & Argus' |date=29 August 1998 |archive-date=12 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212173520/https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8073980.alien-evidence-re-investigated/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1987 to 1988
|]
|{{Continent code|NA}}, United States; ]
|Florida contractor Ed Walters took a series of photographs that he claimed were of a spacecraft piloted by alien creatures that paralyzed him with a blue beam of light. After Walters moved, the next homeowners found a small model that resembled the purported spacecraft. The model had been hidden beneath insulation in the attic. Newspaper photographers were able to "nearly duplicate" Walters' photographs using the model.<ref>{{cite news |date=4 March 1988 |title=UFO Investigators Hope to Verify Photos of Spaceship |newspaper=Pensacola News Journal |location=Florida |pages=1A, 16A}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Myers |first1=Craig |date=June 10, 1990 |title=Gulf Breeze UFO model found |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98969864/pensacola-news-journal-june-10-1990/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403075736/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98969864/pensacola-news-journal-june-10-1990/ |archive-date=April 3, 2022 |access-date=3 April 2022 |work=Pensacola News Journal |page=1A |via=newspapers.com}} Article continues on {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403075741/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98969903/pensacola-news-journal-june-10-1990/|date=April 3, 2022}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite news |url=http://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press-ufo-sightings-a-sign/142264238/ |title=UFO sightings a sign from heaven? |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |date=20 March 1994 |page=22}}</ref>
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|1989-<wbr>09-27
|]
|{{continent code|EU}} ]; ]
|In the early days of ], the Russian state news agency ] reported a sensationalist tale from 3 schoolchildren who said a glowing "banana-shaped" object landed in a park where a "three-eyed creature, about nine feet tall and fashionably dressed in silvery overalls and bronze boots and with a disk on its chest" exited with its robot. Tass reported common ] at the park as rocks that "cannot be found on Earth".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fein |first1=Esther B. |last2=Times |first2=Special To The New York |title=U.F.O. Landing Is Fact, Not Fantasy, the Russians Insist |work=The New York Times |page=6 |date=11 October 1989 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/world/ufo-landing-is-fact-not-fantasy-the-russians-insist.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://time.com/3475954/voronezh-ufo-report-1989/ |last1=Rothman |first1=Lily |date=2014 |title=Why 'Aliens' 'Landed' in Russia 25 Years Ago |work=(], 1989; ]) ] ] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210411111650/https://time.com/3475954/voronezh-ufo-report-1989/ |archive-date=11 April 2021 |access-date=20 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Iams |first=John |title=Tass Says UFO Landing in Soviet Union Confirmed |url=https://apnews.com/article/5117ff1e9d2da3160174e7d9c8cbb6c4 |newspaper=The Associated Press |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201006020846/https://apnews.com/article/5117ff1e9d2da3160174e7d9c8cbb6c4 |archive-date=6 October 2020 |date=October 9, 1989 |quote=In July, Tass disputed a report in Socialist Industry quoting a UFO specialist, A. Kuzovkin, as saying a 26-foot-wide patch of burned ground near southern Moscow was probably caused by the landing of a UFO. Tass said firefighters believe a haystack simply caught fire and scorched the ground.}}</ref>
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|1994-<wbr>03-08
|]
|{{continent code|NA}}, ]; ]
|Several hundred residents reported something resembling flickering Christmas lights in the sky. Religious residents interpreted them as a sign of the Biblical "end times". The ] police department contacted the ] who reported unusual radar blips. Aircraft were ruled out, but the specific cause of the lights was not determined.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/2017/03/ufo_1994.html |title=On this day in 1994, more than 60 people reported a Michigan UFO sighting |publisher=MLive |date=8 March 2017 |access-date=5 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-03-13-9503130025-story.html |title=LIGHTS, RADAR BLIPS STILL HAVE MICHIGAN FOLKS WONDERING |work=] |date=13 March 1995 |access-date=5 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227000000/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-03-13-9503130025-story.html |archive-date=27 Feb 2024}} </ref><ref name="auto"/>
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|1994-<wbr>09-16
|]
|{{continent code |AF}}, ]; ]
|Over sixty students reported seeing a silver craft land in a field near the school. They described occupants dressed in all black that exited the silver object.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Christie |first1=Sean |title=Remembering Zimbabwe's great alien invasion |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-04-remembering-zimbabwes-great-alien-invasion/ |access-date=17 September 2021 |publisher=Mail & Guardian |date=4 September 2014 |archive-date=16 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916194035/https://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-04-remembering-zimbabwes-great-alien-invasion/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|1995-<wbr>01-12
|Feira de Santana UFO incident
|], ] ]
|In the early hours of January 12, 1995, a luminous object was seen falling vertically onto a farm in the Jaíba district, east of the city. Shortly after the UFO fell, a major power outage occurred that spread across dozens of nearby cities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.correio24horas.com.br/entre/ha-27-anos-queda-de-ovni-em-feira-teria-mobilizado-ate-o-exercito-relembre-0122|title=Há 27 anos, queda de ovni em Feira teria mobilizado até o Exército; relembre|website=www.correio24horas.com.br}}</ref>
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|1996-<wbr>01-20
|]
|{{continent code |SA}}, ]; ], ]
|Varginha Incident or Incident in Varginha, as it became known by the Brazilian press, was an alleged series of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), which generated conspiracy theories about the capture of extraterrestrial beings (ETs) by ] in January 1996, in the municipality of Varginha, south of the state of Minas Gerais.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebc.com.br/noticias/2016/01/et-de-varginha-ainda-instiga-imaginario-brasileiro-20-anos-depois|title=ET de Varginha ainda instiga imaginário brasileiro 20 anos depois|work=EBC |date=19 January 2016}} </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB835915673862027500|title=Tale of Stinky Extraterrestrials Stirs Up UFO Crowd in Brazil|first=Matt|last=Moffett|date=28 June 1996|work=]}}</ref><ref name="g1">{{cite web|url=http://g1.globo.com/mg/sul-de-minas/noticia/2016/01/et-de-varginha-caso-completa-20-anos-com-misterios-e-incertezas.html|title=ET de Varginha: caso completa 20 anos com mistérios e incertezas|date=20 January 2016}} </ref>
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|1997-<wbr>03-13
|]
| {{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Many residents photographed lights in a "V" pattern moving through Arizona,<ref>{{cite web |title=What were those lights in the Phoenix sky? |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/19/ufo.lights/ |website=cnn.com |access-date=2 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413133442/http://edition.cnn.com/US/9706/19/ufo.lights/ |archive-date=13 April 2017 |date=19 June 1997 |last=Hook |first=John}}</ref> during a night that the ] stationed in ], were conducting training exercises.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sheaffer |first1=Robert |title=The 'Phoenix Lights' Become an 'Incident' |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/2016/11/the-phoenix-lights-become-an-incident/ |work=Skeptical Inquirer |date=8 November 2016|access-date=28 October 2022}}</ref>
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== 21st century ==
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!Date !!Name !!Location !!Description
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|2000-<wbr>10-05
|Bonsall UFO sighting
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ]
|{{Anchor|Bonsall2000}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. -->Resident, Sharon Rowlands, filmed a luminous object in the night sky starting around 9:15 pm and continuing for several minutes. Various other residents reported strange lights including a man who described a "pink glow, vertically shaped like a shoe box".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1363848.stm |access-date=2 March 2023 |date=1 June 2001 |title='UFO video' goes to Hollywood |work=] |author=BBC |archive-date=3 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303052021/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1363848.stm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite video |title=Sharon Rowlands on her sighting of a UFO in Bonsall |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jn_I-IHGA |access-date=2 March 2023 |work=] |date=February 2023 |archive-date=3 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303052026/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jn_I-IHGA |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aboutderbyshire.co.uk/cms/11/the-matlock-triangle-ufo-.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410040319/http://www.aboutderbyshire.co.uk/cms/11/the-matlock-triangle-ufo-.shtml |archive-date=10 April 2016 |date=3 July 2007 |title=The Matlock Triangle – U.F.O. Capital of the World! |author=Bates, Tom |publisher=About Derbyshire, U.K.}}, Retrieved 2013-5-31.</ref>
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|2004-<wbr>10-31
|Tinley Park Lights
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|{{Anchor|Tinley2004}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. -->On ] (2004), residents were outside ] on the streets of ] and other ] suburbs, when thousands of people watched, photographed, and filmed a formation of red lights above them.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4672066 |title=Lights in sky over Tinley Park have UFO believers looking up |date=18 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217134644/http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4672066 |archive-date=17 February 2007 |author=Chicago Sun-Times |publisher=ABC7}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2007/Do-You-Believe/ |title=Do You Believe? |magazine=Chicago Magazine |date=March 2007 |location=Chicago |last=Ruby |first=Jeff |access-date=17 January 2009 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407214806/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2007/Do-You-Believe/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://illinoismufon.com/mufon_024.htm |title=Tinley Park |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041208020539/http://illinoismufon.com:80/mufon_024.htm |archive-date=8 December 2004 |first1=Sam |last1=Maranto |first2=Dave |last2=Finkbeiner |first3=Vic |last3=Connor |publisher=Illinois MUFON}}</ref>
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|2004-<wbr>03-05
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Mexican Air Force pilots filmed (initially unidentified) lights in the sky using infrared cameras while searching for drug-smuggling planes. Multiple subsequent investigations identified these as massive burn-off flares from a ] in the ].<ref>{{cite web |last=Smith |first=James C. |url=http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-07-24.html#mexiUFO |title=The Mexican Air Force UFO Affair: Aliens, Ball Lightning, or Flares? |date=24 July 2004 |access-date=13 May 2007 |work=Skeptic |archive-date=2 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102221037/http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-07-24.html#mexiUFO |url-status=live}}</ref><ref><!-- No debate from ufologists: -->{{cite book |last=Randle |first=Kevin |title=The UFO Dossier: 100 Years of Government Secrets, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups |chapter=March 5, 2004 Mexico |date=21 September 2015 |publisher=]}}</ref><ref><!-- Background information on why oil platforms would burn valuable natural gas and also just how bright the flares can be: -->{{cite web |title=Gas Flares in Bahía de Campeche |author=NASA Earth Observatory |date=14 September 2012 |url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/79153/gas-flares-in-bahia-de-campeche |access-date=25 February 2023 |archive-date=25 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230225082431/https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/79153/gas-flares-in-bahia-de-campeche |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|2004-<wbr>11-14
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; Off the coast of ]
|Several pilots from ] squadron flying ]s from the ], were directed by the ] to intercept one of several unidentified flying objects detected by radar. The pilots reported a visual encounter and recorded an ] video. The Navy has verified that the video was taken by Navy personnel and has stated that it has not yet identified the nature of the sightings which they classify as ].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html |title=2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing I've Ever Seen' |first1=Helene |last1=Cooper |first2=Leslie |last2=Kean |first3=Ralph |last3=Blumenthal |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 December 2017 |access-date=19 December 2017 |archive-date=14 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514012341/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-unlike/story?id=51856514 |title=Navy pilot recalls encounter with UFO: 'I think it was not from this world' |date=18 December 2017 |website=ABC News |access-date=19 December 2017 |last=McCarthy |first=Kelly |archive-date=18 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171218234950/http://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-unlike/story?id=51856514 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/12/18/former-navy-pilot-describes-encounter-with-ufo-studied-by-secret-pentagon-program/ |title=Former Navy pilot describes UFO encounter studied by secret Pentagon program |first=Eli |last=Rosenberg |date=18 December 2017 |access-date=19 December 2017 |via=www.washingtonpost.com |archive-date=19 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219100812/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/12/18/former-navy-pilot-describes-encounter-with-ufo-studied-by-secret-pentagon-program/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|2006-<wbr>11-07
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|United Airlines employees and pilots reported sightings of a saucer-shaped, unlit craft hovering over a Chicago O'Hare Airport terminal, before appearing to leave with a rapid vertical rise.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/01/02/1167500092464.html |title='UFO' spooks pilots over Chicago |access-date=13 February 2007 |work=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=2 January 2007 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914010523/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/01/02/1167500092464.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|2007-<wbr>04-23
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ]
|On separate flights, two airline pilots and multiple passengers reported a "sunlight-coloured" object off the coast of Alderney. One of the pilots, Ray Bowyer, filed a report with Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority upon landing.<ref>{{cite news |title=UK airline pilots spot giant UFO |url=https://www.theregister.com/2007/04/27/mystery_object/ |work=The Register |last=Haines |first=Les |date=27 April 2007 |access-date=21 March 2023 |archive-date=22 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322045951/https://www.theregister.com/2007/04/27/mystery_object/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author-last=Lewis-Kraus |author-first=Gideon |date=2021-04-30 |title=How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously |magazine=] |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously |access-date=2023-05-13 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511010656/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously |archive-date=2023-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Campbell |first=Matthew |date=2021-08-01 |title=The truth is up there: how the Pentagon gave hope to Britain's UFO spotters |newspaper=] |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-truth-is-up-there-how-the-pentagon-gave-hope-to-britains-ufo-spotters-0thx8wp32 |access-date=2023-05-13 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230518015856/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-truth-is-up-there-how-the-pentagon-gave-hope-to-britains-ufo-spotters-0thx8wp32 |archive-date=2023-05-18 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|2007-<wbr>11-28 to 2011-<wbr>12-13
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; ]
|The "Dudley Dorito" refers to a series of ] sightings reported in the ].<ref>{{ cite news |url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/01/11/shape-of-things-to-come/ |title=Shape of things to come? |newspaper=Express & Star, (Wolverhampton) |date=11 January 2008 |author=Express & Star: Dudley |access-date=13 April 2008 |archive-date=14 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080114052712/https://www.expressandstar.com/2008/01/11/shape-of-things-to-come/}}<!--The URL is active but there are rendering errors on the page as of 2023--></ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/01/16/is-there-plane-truth-behind-the-ufos/ |author=Express & Star:Staffordshire |title=Is there plane truth behind the UFOs? |newspaper=Express & Star, (Wolverhampton) |date=16 January 2008 |access-date=13 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119115336/https://www.expressandstar.com/2008/01/16/is-there-plane-truth-behind-the-ufos/ |archive-date=19 January 2008}}</ref>
|-
|2008-<wbr>06-20
|]
|{{continent code |EU}}, ]; Various cities, ]
|Over the Bristol Channel, a South Wales Police helicopter took evasive actions to avoid what the crew described as a saucer-shaped UFO.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7465041.stm |title=UFO spotted by police helicopter |work=BBC News |author= |date=20 June 2008 |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=16 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016112834/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7465041.stm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-06-21/welsh-police-confirm-ufo-sighting/2479208 |title=Welsh police confirm 'UFO' sighting |newspaper=ABC News |date=20 June 2008 |via=www.abc.net.au |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024820/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-06-21/welsh-police-confirm-ufo-sighting/2479208 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22996257 |title=Welsh 'sightings' in final UFO batch |work=BBC News |date=21 June 2013 |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024825/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22996257 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2160814/Police-chase-UFO-over-Cardiff.html |title=Police chase UFO over Cardiff |website=www.telegraph.co.uk |date=20 June 2008 |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024820/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2160814/Police-chase-UFO-over-Cardiff.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|November 2008
|Cláudio UFO Incident
|] Brazil
|The Claudio Case is one of the most well-documented and recent UFO cases in the world. It occurred on November 19 and 20, 2008, in Claudio, Minas Gerais, when the Military Police chased luminous humanoid creatures and photographed UFOs. The case report was signed by seven military personnel and includes three photographs and a police report.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.98live.com.br/entretenimento/entretenimento/contatos-imediatos-em-claudio-mg-policiais-perseguem-dois-seres-luminosos|title=Contatos imediatos em Cláudio-MG: Policiais perseguem dois seres luminosos|website=98 Live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=SÉTIMA REGIÀO DA POLÍCIA MILITAR VIGÉSIMO TERCEIRO BATALHAO 139ª CIA PM CLÁUDIO |url=https://achadosepedidos.org.br/uploads/pedidos/Governo%20do%20Estado%20de%20Minas%20Gerais/01250000008201581_resposta_Relatorio_do_Cmt_da_PM_em_Claudio.pdf |website=achadosepedidos.org.br}}</ref>
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|2009-<wbr>01-05
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|In the evening, citizens in Morristown and other town in ] saw five red lights in the sky. After three months, two men from the Morristown area announced that they had organized a UFO hoax, meant as a "social experiment".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-04-01 |title=How We Staged the Morristown UFO Hoax |last1=Russo |first1=Christ |last2=Rudy |first2=Joe |date=1 April 2009 |website=skeptic.com |access-date=19 December 2017 |archive-date=24 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624095922/http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-04-01/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|2009-<wbr>12-10
|]
|{{Continent code|EU}}, ]; ] and ]
|A failed Russian missile test produced a massive spiral light in the sky, visible from the northern counties of ] and parts of Sweden.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Moskowitz |first1=Clara |title=Russia admits missile caused UFO lights |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34362960 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030032409/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34362960 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 October 2020 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=NBC News |date=10 December 2009 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author1=Haugdal, Marthe |author2=Andersen, Ingunn |author3=Bleikelia, Mats |author4=Enerstvedt, Vidar |url=https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/vaer-og-uvaer/vet-ikke-hva-den-mystiske-kjempespiralen-er/a/596369/ |title=Vet ikke hva den mystiske kjempespiralen er |trans-title=Unknown what the mysterious giant spiral is |work=] |location=Oslo, Norway |language=no |date=9 December 2009 |access-date=9 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212015217/http://www.vg.no/nyheter/vaer/artikkel.php?artid=596369 |archive-date=12 December 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Linder |first=Alexander |title=Märkligt ljussken över Kiruna |trans-title=Strange lightning over Kiruna |work=] |date=9 December 2009 |url=http://www.nsd.se/nyheter/artikel.aspx?articleid=5054543#fank5054627 |language=sv |access-date=6 February 2010}}</ref>
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|2010-<wbr>01-25
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ], ]
|At least three UFOs that looked like missiles but emitted no noise were spotted over Harbour Mille.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/dnd-rcmp-mum-on-ufo-mystery-1.927262 |work=CBC News |title=DND, RCMP mum on UFO mystery |date=27 January 2010 |access-date=10 October 2011 |archive-date=4 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804224342/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2010/01/27/nl-ufo-military-012710.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|2010-<wbr>07-07
|Hangzhou Airport UFO
|{{continent code |AS}}, ]; ], ]
|] was shut down for at least one hour after reports of something flying near the airport, a reaction blamed on similar reports being publicized in the British tabloid ].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boyle |first1=Alan |title=UFO tales just keep going, and going |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/science/cosmic-log/ufo-tales-just-keep-going-going-flna6c10403709 |work=NBC News |date=8 October 2010}}</ref>
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|2014-<wbr>06-02 to 2015-<wbr>03-10
|]
| {{continent code |NA}}, ]; ]
|Navy pilots from the ] began to notice ] after an equipment upgrade. Some pilots were unable to see the objects. Others captured video footage, later released to the public. The pilots reported these incidents to the then-obscure ] resulting in new guidelines regarding ] sightings.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cooper |first1=Helene |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html |title='Wow, What Is That?' Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects |date=26 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=15 February 2020 |last2=Blumenthal |first2=Ralph |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |last3=Kean |first3=Leslie |archive-date=26 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226005917/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|April 2016
|Mosul UFO
|], ]
|A metallic-looking orb was filmed by a U.S. military spy plane in an active conflict zone, the four-second clip of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, a government-coined phrase that means UFO, was recorded by a reconnaissance plane moving over Mosul, Iraq, in April 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/mosul-orb-us-silent-ufo-filmed-military-iraq|title='Mosul Orb': US silent on UFO filmed by military over Iraq|first=Chris|last=Eberhart|date=15 February 2023|website=Fox News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/jellyfish-ufo-video-pentagon-response/ | title=Pentagon 'jellyfish' UAP response raises questions | work=NewsNation | date=20 January 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/ufo-caught-on-cam-when-jellyfish-uap-flown-over-us-military-base-in-iraq-global-rewind-2024/videoshow/116377517.cms?from=mdr|title=UFO caught on cam: When 'Jellyfish' UAP flown over US military base in Iraq &#124; Global Rewind 2024|first=E. T.|last=Online |date=16 December 2024|website=The Economic Times}}</ref>
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|October 2018
|The Jellyfish UFO
|]
|An unidentified flying object seen in a video hovering over a US base in Iraq has been officially named the UAP "the jellyfish", it is seen in "RAW" footage haunting the Marine base<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/2442101/offbeat|title='Jellyfish' UFO sighted in Iraq was 'ghost story' at base, says former Marine|date=15 January 2024|website=Arab News}}</ref>
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|July 2019
|]
|]
|An 18-second video shows what is described as three pyramid-shaped UFOs flying over the USS Russell warship at night in July 2019 off the coast of San Diego. At one point, the pyramid-shaped object was said to be about 650 feet above the Russell's "tail."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://telegrafi.com/en/the-pentagon-confirms-the-truth-of-the-newly-leaked-images-that-show-multiple-UFO-sightings/|title=Pentagon confirms authenticity of newly leaked footage showing multiple UFO sightings|date=16 April 2021|website=Telegrafi}}</ref>
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|July 2019
|]
|]
|In July 2019, the USS Omaha recorded a UFO – or UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) – that buzzed a Navy fleet off San Diego and disappeared into the ocean without a trace.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/underwater-ufos-display-capability-jeopardizes-us-maritime-security-ex-navy-officer-says|title=Underwater UFOs display capability that 'jeopardizes US maritime security,' ex-Navy officer says|first=Chris|last=Eberhart|date=12 April 2024|website=Fox News}}</ref>
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|May 12 and 13, 2020
|The ] Case
|], ] ]
|The Magé Case was a "sighting" of lights in the sky that occurred on the night between May 12 and 13, 2020, in the city of Magé, a metropolitan region in Rio de Janeiro. During the early hours of the morning, residents of the city recorded videos showing lights in the city's sky and flashes on the horizon and shared them on their social networks. The main conspiracy theory would be that a UFO was shot down by the military in the city.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/ufo-over-mage-brazil-sparks-social-media-panic-and-conspiracies/|title=UFO Over Magé, Brazil Sparks Social Media Panic and Conspiracies|date=15 May 2020}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|2020}}
|]
|{{continent code |NA}}, ]; ], ]
|The ] and ] investigated reports from multiple professional pilots who, beginning in 2020, began to report something hovering over Los Angeles that looked like a man wearing a ]. Investigators said that it was unlikely to be a person and more likely to be a balloon or dummy attached to a drone.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-02/fbi-now-has-theory-about-the-jet-pack-man-seen-flying-in-skies-above-l-a |title=FBI floats a working theory on the 'jet pack man' flying above L.A. |date=2 November 2021 |last=Winton |first=Richard |work=Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211102202114/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-02/fbi-now-has-theory-about-the-jet-pack-man-seen-flying-in-skies-above-l-a |url-status=live |archive-date=2021-11-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/jetpack-sighting-lax.html |title='The Jetpack Guy Is Back': Los Angeles Sighting Draws an Inquiry, Again |last=Cramer |first=Maria |date=30 July 2021 |work=New York Times |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231006185851/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/jetpack-sighting-lax.html |archive-date=2023-10-06 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|2023-<wbr>01-28 to 2023-<wbr>02-13
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The shapes reported as UFOs include orbs, triangles, other shapes, fireballs, discs, lights, eggs, cigars, changing shapes, rectangles, and diamonds, from most to least common. Full data for the infographic is in the linked footnote.
Most commonly reported shapes in UFO sightings gathered by the National UFO Reporting Center Online Database (NUFORC)

This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related claims of close encounters or abductions. UFOs are generally considered to include any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. Upon investigation, most UFOs are identified as known objects or atmospheric phenomena, while a small number remain unexplained. UFOs have been referred to using a range of terms including the more specific "flying saucer" and the more general "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP). The term "UAP" is sometimes used to avoid cultural associations with UFO conspiracy theories.

Although often viewed as abnormal, UFO sightings are reported frequently. During the United States' initial 1947 wave, over 800 sightings were reported in the news. The British Ministry of Defence receives 100s of reports each year. In Brazil, pilots alone report dozens of annual sightings. A small portion of reported sightings have lasting cultural significance, interpreted through the cultural and technological expectations of the time.

Antiquity

Date Name Location Description
c. 1450 BC Thutmose III Jebel Barkal Stele •AFAF, Ancient Egypt; Jebel Barkal, Lower Egypt After conquering the ancient Nubian city of Napata, Thutmose III had a stele erected at the Temple of Amun, beneath the Jebel Barkal outcropping. The stele describes how "a star came down" to set fire to Thutmose's adversaries. This has been cited by ufologists via the purported Tulli Papyrus, likely a fraud. This alleged translation—published in issue 41 of the Fortean Society's magazine Doubt—used such Fortean tropes as "circles of fire" and fish that "fell down from the sky".
218 BC Ships in the sky •EUEU, Roman Republic; Rome, Italia During the build-up to the Second Punic War, Livy recorded prodigies in the winter sky, including navium speciem de caelo adfulsisse ("phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky").
76 BC Spark from a falling star •ASAS, Roman Republic; Asia According to Pliny the Elder, a spark fell from a star and grew as it descended until it appeared to be the size of the Moon. It then ascended and transformed into a torch. Astronomer Richard Stothers interpreted the report as a description of a bolide.
73 BC Flame-like wine-jars from the sky •ASAS, Roman Republic; Phrygia, Asia According to Plutarch, a Roman army commanded by Lucullus was about to begin a battle with Mithridates VI of Pontus when "the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies". Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar (pithos).
AD 65 Sky army •ASAS, Roman Empire; Judaea Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus reported chariots "hurtling through the clouds" prior to the First Jewish–Roman War.
AD 196 Angel hair •EUEU, Roman Empire; Rome, Italia Historian Cassius Dio described a "fine rain resembling silver descended from a clear sky upon the Forum of Augustus." He wrote that he was able to plate some of his bronze coins, but four days later, the silvery coating was gone.
AD c. 740 Air ship of Clonmacnoise •EUEU, Ireland; Teltown in County Meath, and Clonmacnoise in County Offaly Several sets of Irish annals, those of Ulster, Tigernach, Clonmacnoise, and the Four Masters, have entries to the effect that "ships with their crews were seen in the air".

16th–17th centuries

Date Name Location Description
1561-04-14 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg •EUEU, Holy Roman Empire; Nuremberg, Bavaria Residents of Nuremberg described an aerial battle, followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object, and then a crash outside of the city. A broadsheet recorded that witnesses observed hundreds of spheres, cylinders and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead.
1566-08-07 1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel •EUEU, Switzerland; Basel, Basel A broadsheet published in 1566 depicted numerous spherical objects appearing out of the sun. The event was recorded and depicted by Samuel Coccius, "a student of the Holy Scripture and of the free arts, at Basel".
1609-09-22 Gwanghaegun period UFO Turmoil •ASAS, Joseon (Korea); Gangwon Province On September 22, 1609, multiple witnesses in Goseong, Wonju Gangneung, Chuncheon County and Yangyang County described a Halo or washbowl that was divided in two in the sky.

19th century

Date Name Location Description
1803-02-22 or 1803-03-24 Utsuro-bune at Haratono-hama •ASAS, Japan; Hitachi Province In 1803, local fishermen reportedly found a closed vessel with small windows adrift. They said when they investigated it that "a beautiful young woman" with red and white hair and dressed in strange clothes emerged, holding a square box "that no one was allowed to touch" and that she spoke to them in a language they had never heard before.
1883-08-12 Bonilla observation •NANA, Mexico; Zacatecas Observatory, Zacatecas On August 12, the astronomer José Bonilla photographed hundreds of dark objects crossing the sun while observing sunspot activity at Zacatecas Observatory in Mexico. Bonilla published an account of the event three years later in L'Astronomie.
1896-11-17 to 1897-04-23 Mystery airships •NANA, United States Newspapers across California, and later other states, especially the Midwest, printed reports of strange airships and lights. Common elements of the descriptions included bright lights, cigar-shaped bodies, movable wings and a metallic hull.
1897-04-17 Aurora, Texas, UFO incident •NANA, United States; Aurora, Texas Local correspondent S.E. Hayden reported the crash of an airship piloted by an alien. According to Hayden, the pilot was buried in the local cemetery. Residents of Aurora embrace the story without taking it seriously.

20th century

1900–1949

Date Name Location Description
1907 Mihal Grameno UFO •EUEU, Ottoman Empire; Albania Mihal Grameno a distinguished Albanian journalist, writer, and activist writes in The Albanian Uprising, "One night, while the fighters of Çerçiz were stationed at the top of a high mountain, a shiny object flew in front of us, stood suspended in the air for several minutes, and then disappeared."
1908-06-30 Tunguska event •EUEU, Russian Empire; near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river A fireball crossed the sky above Siberia, exploded, and flattened approximately 80 million trees. Researchers in the 1950s and 1960s found microscopic silicate and magnetite spheres, consistent with a meteor air burst. The area became a drop zone for Soviet rockets launched from Baikonur. In the 2000s, the Tunguska Space Phenomenon, a team of Russian ufologists, explored the area to search for remnants of a supposed alien spaceship, and they may have found pieces of these discarded rocket components.
1909 New Zealand airship sightings •OCOC, New Zealand; Otago In August 1909, moving and whirring lights were reported in the sky around Otago. In the following months, many sightings were reported across New Zealand with varying descriptions of the craft and crew.
1917-08-13, 1917-09-13, 1917-10-13 Miracle of the Sun •EUEU, Portugal; Fátima, Santarém District Thousands of people gathered in Fátima based on reported Marian apparitions and claimed to see bizarre solar activity. Catholic bishop José Alves Correia da Silva declared the miracle "worthy of belief" on 13 October 1930, and the primarily Catholic witnesses described the event in religious terms. Despite the many photographers present in the crowd, no unusual photo of the sun was captured. Later, Jacques Vallée, Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada would interpret it as a mass UFO sighting.
1926 c. 1926 Nicholas Roerich UFO sighting •ASAS, Tibet During his Asian expedition, Russian theosophist Nicholas Roerich reported an oval in the sky above his caravan, which was later interpreted as a "flying saucer" by Roerich's Russian followers.
1933 Magenta Italy UFO Incident Magenta, Lombardy - Italy The 1933 Magenta UFO incident is a rumored event in which an aircraft of unknown origin crashed in the Italian town of Magenta. The aircraft was initially suspected to be a failed launch from the German "Die Glocke" experimental aircraft. In 2000, Roberto Pinotti published material regarding the so-called "Fascist UFO Files", which dealt with a flying saucer that had crashed near Milan in 1933, and of the subsequent investigation by a never mentioned before Cabinet RS/33, that allegedly was authorized by Benito Mussolini, and headed by the Nobel scientist Guglielmo Marconi. A spaceship was allegedly stored in the hangars of the SIAI-Marchetti in Vergiate near Milan.
1933 Frank Smythe UFO sighting Mount Everest in the Himalayas On June 1 of the 1933 Mount Everest expedition, Smythe sighted two dark-coloured unidentified flying objects hovering and pulsating in the sky.
1940s c. 1940s Foo fighters •ICIC, Over World War II theaters During World War II, allied fighter pilots above Europe reported colorful balls of light following their aircraft at high speeds.
1941 c. 1941 Cape Girardeau UFO legend •NANA, United States; Cape Girardeau, Missouri A local legend gained wider attention in the 1980s when resident Charlotte Mann claimed in interviews that her father, Reverend William Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church, had administered last rites for the dying crew of a crashed flying saucer.
1942-02-24 Battle of Los Angeles •NANA, United States; Los Angeles, California Just months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. radar stations picked up an unidentified aerial object in the early morning. For several hours, anti-aircraft artillery fired thousands of rounds, and the LA Times reported that “the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano.”
1945 Trinity UFO Case •NANA, United States; New Mexico In 2003, two men began telling conflicting accounts of an avocado-shaped craft piloted by insectoid aliens crashing at the site of the first atomic bomb detonation. Despite a lack of evidence or internal consistency, the case was cited in the UFO investigation section of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023.
1946 The Ghost Rockets •EUEU, Scandinavia and other parts of Europe Thousands of UFO sightings were reported over Europe. Due in part to concerns that foreign governments were testing recovered experimental German technology, the Swedish and Greek governments investigated the reports separately.
1946-05-18 Ängelholm UFO memorial •EUEU, Sweden; Ängelholm, Kristianstads County Swedish entrepreneur Gösta Carlsson, attributed his success to a 1946 UFO encounter, that he commemorated with a concrete monument. Independent investigations did not verify his account.
1947-06-24 Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting •NANA, United States; North of Mount Rainier, Washington Private pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mount Rainier when he reported seeing a group of reflective craft moving at high speeds and flashing in the sun like mirrors. Bill Bequette of the East Oregonian, who first interviewed Arnold, summarized the sighting as, "nine saucer-like aircraft flying in formation." This introduced the term flying saucers, and Arnold's sighting sparked an explosion of UFO reports around the country.
1947 c. 1947 1947 flying disc craze •NANA, United States; Washington and other states After the Kenneth Arnold sighting was reported in the news, over 800 similar sightings were reported throughout 1947.
1947-07-04 Flight 105 UFO sighting •NANA, United States; En route from Boise, Idaho to Pendleton, Oregon A United Airlines crew including Captain Emil Smith, co-pilot Ralph Stephens, and flight attendant Marty Morrow witnessed nine unidentified objects. Believing them to be aircraft, Smith flashed the plane's landing lights intending to alert the objects which he described as "smooth on the bottom and rough appearing on top".
1947-07-07 Rhodes UFO photographs •NANA, United States; Phoenix, Arizona Inventor and amateur astronomer William Albert Rhodes took photographs of what he described as a silent grey object that appeared after a thunderstorm. The Air Force investigated the photographs and concluded that they showed airborne "paper swept up by the winds".
1947-07-08 The Roswell Incident •NANA, United States; about 30 mi. north of Roswell, New Mexico Walter Haut, a United States Army Air Forces spokesperson, issued a press release announcing the "capture" of a "flying saucer". Hours later, the Army announced that the find was a crashed weather balloon. In 1978, the case regained attention after Jesse Marcel, the Army Officer who recovered the wreckage, told UFO researchers that the weather balloon explanation was a cover story. In 1994, the Air Force attributed the incident to the previously classified Project Mogul.
1947-07-29 Maury Island hoax •NANA, United States; Puget Sound near Maury Island, Washington Fred Crisman mailed an account from employee Harold A. Dahl, along with a cigar box of metal wreckage, to Raymond A. Palmer who had previously published the Shaver Mystery stories. Dahl claimed that his dog was killed and his son was injured by debris in an encounter with six flying doughnut-shaped objects. He also reported that he was subsequently threatened by Men in Black. On July 31, 1947, Palmer arranged a meeting between Crisman, Dahl, Air Force investigators, and flying saucer witnesses Kenneth Arnold & Emil Smith.
1948 c. 1948 The Green Fireballs •NANA, United States; New Mexico and other parts of the Southwestern United States The US Air Force investigated reports of green flares streaking across the sky after an Air Force C-47 transport encountered a green ball of fire on 5 December 1948. The pilot, Captain Goede, described the object as larger than a meteor and not arching downward as a meteor would. The Air Force investigation was inconclusive.
1948-01-07 Mantell UFO incident •NANA, United States; Kentucky Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died in the crash of his P-51 Mustang fighter plane near Franklin, Kentucky, United States, after being sent in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. While following the object, he climbed beyond 25,000 feet (7,600 m) and blacked out from a lack of oxygen. The military later identified the craft he was pursuing as likely a Skyhook weather balloon.
1948-03-25 Aztec, New Mexico UFO hoax •NANA, United States; New Mexico Conmen Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer sold "magnetic oil-detecting machines" based on the story that they had replicated technology from a crashed spaceship. The pair were convicted of fraud in 1953. Elements of their story regarding a crashed ship with occupants were later entangled in the Roswell narrative.
1948-07-24 Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter •NANA, United States; Montgomery, Alabama Clarence Chiles and John Whitted, American commercial pilots, reported that their airplane had nearly collided with a UFO near Montgomery. According to the pilots the object "looked like a wingless aircraft...it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare."
1948-10-01 Gorman dogfight •NANA, United States; North Dakota A US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes over Fargo, North Dakota. According to US Air Force officer Edward J. Ruppelt, this was one of three cases, along with the Mantell incident and Chiles-Whitted encounter, that shifted the Air Force's attitude about UFO reports leading to the creation of Project Blue Book.

1950–1974

Date Name Location Description
1950-05-11 McMinnville UFO photographs •NANA, United States; a farm near McMinnville, Oregon A farmer took pictures of a purported "flying saucer". These were the first flying saucer photographs since the coining of the term.
1950-08-15 Mariana UFO incident •NANA, United States; Great Falls, Montana The manager of Great Falls' pro baseball team took color film of two UFOs flying over Great Falls. The film was extensively analyzed by the US Air Force and several independent investigators.
1951-01-20 Sioux City mystery plane incident •NANA, United States; Sioux City, Iowa Two pilots and a military officer passenger aboard a commercial DC-3 reported being buzzed by an unidentified straight-winged plane both larger and more maneuverable than a B-29.
1951-08-25 Lubbock Lights •NANA, United States; Lubbock, Texas Several Lights in V-Shaped formations were repeatedly spotted flying over the city. Witnesses included W.I. Robinson, A.G. Oberg, and W.L. Ducker, professors of geology, chemical engineering, and petroleum engineering respectively. Teenage student Carl Hart Jr. photographed the lights
1952-01-29 Wonsan-Sunchon UFO incident •ASAS, Korea; Wonsan and Sunchon Four American military personnel aboard two different B-29 bombers reported seeing an orange globe-shaped light over two different cities in northern Korea
1952-07-12 to 1952-07-29 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident •NANA, United States; Washington, D.C. A series of sightings in July 1952 accompanied radar contacts in the Washington area. These were the first sightings to be widely and seriously reported as potentially physical craft operated by intelligent life from another planet. In response, the CIA formed the Robertson Panel which advised Project Blue Book to "strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired."
1952-07-14 Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting •NANA, United States; Norfolk, Virginia William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry, pilots of a DC-4 airliner of Pan American Airways, radioed the Norfolk civil aviation authority to report eight large, round, glowing red objects.
1952-09-12 The Flatwoods Monster •NANA, United States; Flatwoods, West Virginia Three local boys followed a bright object into the forest to what they believed was a UFO landing. They went to the nearby home of Kathleen May who accompanied them back to the spot along with two other children and teenage National Guardsman Eugene Lemon. In the forest, they smelled a foul odor and saw what May described as a tall figure with claws and "a head that resembled the ace of spades".
1954-09-10 Marius Dewilde sighting •EUEU, France; Quarouble, Nord French metalworker Marius Dewilde claimed to have become a contactee in 1954. Local newspapers and Radar magazine covered Dewilde's story of small humanoid figures landing a ship on the abandoned railroad tracks near his home. The coverage of Dewilde and other 1950s contactees spurred the careers of French ufologists Aimé Michel and Jacques Vallée.
1954-10-27 Fiorentina Stadium Mass Sighting •EUEU, Italy; Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence A football game between Fiorentina and Pistoiese was under way at the Stadio Artemio Franchi when a group of UFOs traveling at high speed abruptly stopped over the stadium. The stadium became silent as the crowd of around 10,000 spectators witnessed the event and described the UFOs as cigar shaped.
1955-08-21 to 1955-08-22 Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter •NANA, United States; A farmhouse near Hopkinsville, Kentucky At a rural farmhouse, eleven people witnessed creatures in the night. Two of the men opened fire with a shotgun and rifle, and the entire group later fled to the Hopkinsville police station. The creatures have been variously described as goblins, aliens, "little green men", owls, and circus monkeys. Four officers, five state troopers, three deputies, and four military police investigated the farmhouse finding bullet holes but no monsters. The story has had a broad impact on popular culture.
1956-07-24 Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident •EUEU, United Kingdom; Suffolk, England United States Air Force (USAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF) radar operators (from Lakenheath RAF Station, Bentwaters RAF Station, and Sculthorpe RAF Station) detected up to 15 objects over Suffolk. An RAF pilot was sent out from Waterbeach RAF Station in a de Havilland Venom, a jet aircraft with aircraft interception radar. The pilot reported spotting the object on radar and visually observing a luminous white object that moved behind his craft when he attempted to intercept.
1956-08-13 Elizabeth Klarer •AFAF, South Africa; Drakensberg A series of photos depicting a supposed UFO, were taken on 24 July near Rosetta in the Drakensberg region. The photographer, meteorologist Elizabeth Klarer, claimed detailed adventures with an alien race including having had an alien lover, Akon, who would have fathered her son Ayling.
1957-05-03 Gordon Cooper UFO Sightings •NANA, United States; Edwards Air Force Base, California

Gordon Cooper, one of the original Project Mercury astronauts, witnessed a type of metallic craft without wings flying over Germany in the 1950s. At the time, Cooper believed these to be Soviet aircraft. His attitude later changed after an incident at Edwards Air Force Base. Cooper sent a crew of James Bittick and Jack Gettys out to a dry lake bed to set up data-recording photography equipment. Cooper said the two men, both familiar with experimental aircraft, came back shaken and talking about witnessing a wingless aircraft with retractable legs silently land and take off near them. Cooper reported the incident to The Pentagon which asked for all photographs of the craft. Cooper looked at the photos before sending them off and felt that the government covered up a UFO encounter.

1957-05-20 Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter •EUEU, United Kingdom; East Anglia U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres reports that he was ordered to intercept and fire on a UFO displaying "very unusual flight patterns" over East Anglia. Ground radar operators tracked what was believed to be an unidentified aircraft for some time before Torres' plane was scrambled to intercept.
1957-10-15 Antônio Vilas-Boas Abduction •SASA, Brazil; Near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais Law student, Antônio Vilas-Boas, described being abducted by humanoid aliens and taken aboard their egg-shaped craft. He also said that he was confined within a small round room where he was compelled to have sex with a four foot tall alien woman.
1957-11-02 Levelland UFO case •NANA, United States; Levelland, Texas Drivers observed cigar-shaped lights above the highway, followed by electrical failures.
1957-11-04 Kirtland AFB UFO sighting •NANA, United States; Albuquerque, New Mexico Through binoculars, two Civil Aeronautics Administration tower operators reported seeing an egg shape emitting a white light beneath it.
1961-09-19 Betty and Barney Hill abduction •NANA, United States; South of Lancaster on Route 3, New Hampshire The Hills reported the first alien abduction experience to be widely spread in English-language publications. While driving home, they observed a light move through the sky and land ahead of them. Barney Hill said that, against his will, he turned the car down a side road towards the light, where he found six small humanoid beings waiting for them. Betty Hill reported that they inserted a needle through her navel among other vaguely medical tests.
1963 Kallamishtez UFO incident •EUEU, Albania; Kurvelesh Residents of Kallamishtëz in the Kurvelesh region reported a bright object in the sky. Albanian authorities said that it was a new jet plane used by the Albanian Air Force.
1964-04-24 Lonnie Zamora incident •NANA, United States; Socorro, New Mexico Police officer Lonnie Zamora investigated a roaring sound. Zamora and a nearby tourist found a craft that took off shortly after their arrival. The craft left impressions in the ground that did not aid in identification.
1964-05-23 Solway Firth Spaceman •EUEU, United Kingdom; Cumbria, England While on a day trip with his family, fireman Jim Templeton took a photo of his daughter, that when devloped showed a mysterious figure in the background. Templeton believed it to be a "spaceman", but later analysis showed it was most likely his wife.
1964-09-18 until 9-24 Dwikora Operation UFO incident •ASAS, Surabaya, Indonesia Officer Jacob Salatun—founder of the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space in Indonesia—wrote several books on UFOs and founded an organization to study UFO reports after he served as Minister of Industry. According to Salatun, one night during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, pilots reported seeing and shooting at a dark, mango-shaped craft with colored lights. Salatun claims that fragments of the military's shells struck individuals outside of their homes in Sidoarjo.
1965-06-04 Project Gemini UFO •OSOS, Low Earth orbit; Above Hawaii During Gemini 4, astronaut James McDivitt spotted a white cylinder with a protruding arm traveling in his orbit. McDivitt has said that it was impossible for him to assign scale to the object against the black background of space, saying that it could have been small enough to hold in his hands or "the size of the Empire State Building."
1965-09-03 The Incident at Exeter •NANA, United States; Exeter, New Hampshire Numerous people reported pulsating UFOs in Exeter, New Hampshire. The events were the subject of The Incident at Exeter by John G. Fuller.
1965-07-1 The Valensole UFO incident •EUEU, France; Valensole, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur French farmer, Maurice Massé, witnessed a spherical vehicle in his lavender field. He noticed and approached two individuals that he observed near the vehicle, but after one pointed a tube in his direction, he stood still feeling paralyzed. He described the beings as child-sized, pale, large-headed, with only holes where a mouth should be. Massé said that after they left in their vehicle, he was never again able to grow a healthy plant in the area where the craft had landed. He did not personally comment on the effect this had on him, saying, "One always says too much." His wife reported that the man was plagued with exhaustion for months, that he had confessed some type of communication to her, and that it was a "spiritual experience" for her husband.
1965-12-09 Kecksburg UFO incident •NANA, United States; Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Local newspapers and newscasts reported a fireball observed in the skies over Kecksburg. According to some residents, they found an acorn-shaped object in the woods. The U.S. military closed off the area to investigate and reported no evidence of a crash. A model built for Unsolved Mysteries is kept on display by the fire department, which leads an annual UFO celebration.
1966-03-20 Michigan "swamp gas" UFO reports •NANA, United States; Dexter, Michigan and Hillsdale, Michigan Two mass sightings above wetlands were dismissed at a press conference as "marsh gas".
1966-04-06 Westall UFO •OCOC, Australia; Clayton South, Victoria Several hundred students and school faculty from Westall High School watched an object land at the nearby Grange Reserve.
1966-08-20 Lead masks case •SASA, Brazil; Niterói, Rio de Janeiro The bodies of two recently deceased men were found on a hillside in Rio de Janeiro. They wore raincoats and handmade lead masks. A mutual friend, Elcio Gomes, said that the men had been "scientific spiritualists", members of a religious group that attempted to contact extraterrestrials using hallucinogens
1967-05-20 Falcon Lake Incident •NANA, Canada; Falcon Lake, Manitoba Prospector Stefan Michalak attributed unusual burns on his body to a purported UFO sighting near Falcon Lake. Radiation tests done at Misericordia General Hospital came back negative. Higher levels of soil radiation at the area where Michalak said he was burned were traced to an underground vein of radium.
1967-08-29 Close encounter of Cussac •EUEU, France; near Cussac, Auvergne A 13-year-old boy and his younger sister reported an incident to their father, local police, and investigators. According to police reports, they witnessed a brilliant sphere and four small black occupants while herding cattle outside their village.
1967-09-4 1967 British flying saucer hoax •EUEU United Kingdom; Southern England Apprentices from the Royal Aircraft Establishment constructed six fake flying saucers out of metal-clad fiberglass. They filled them with flour, water, and electronic components, and dropped the saucers off in fields during the night. When a Scotland Yard bomb disposal squad was called in, X-Ray tests revealed the presence of Eveready brand batteries, and the hoax was exposed.
1967-10-04 Shag Harbour UFO incident •NANA, Canada; Gulf of Maine near Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Mounted Police and six civilians reported that a large illuminated object crashed into Shag Harbour. A Department of National Defence underwater search followed, but located no physical evidence.
1969-01-06 Jimmy Carter UFO incident •NANA, United States; Leary, Georgia While governor of Georgia, future president Jimmy Carter filed a written report of a "luminous, not solid" light over Leary, Georgia in 1969.
1969-04-12 Finnish Air Force sighting •EUEU, Finland; Pori Finnish pilot Jouko Kuronen overheard a radio conversation between air traffic control and fighter pilot Tarmo Tukeva. Tukeva was ordered to investigate "seven balloons" visible from Kuronen's position in the sky. Kuronen described the objects as discs that accelerated in formation against the wind at speeds not feasible for balloons.
1969-09-1 Labor Day 1969 UFO Incident •NANA, United States; Berkshire County, Massachusetts Four families with no prior connection alleged that they saw a UFO, were moved by a beam of light, and lost several hours of time. The Great Barrington Historical Society recognized the accounts as a "historical event" in 2015.
1973-10-11 Pascagoula Abduction •NANA, United States; Pascagoula, Mississippi Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing from a pier on the Pascagoula River when they say that they heard whirring sounds and witnessed a craft over 30 feet long with flashing lights. Both men say they were paralyzed and then taken by humanoids with "robotic slit-mouths" and "crab-like pincers".
1974-01-23 Berwyn Mountain UFO incident •EUEU, United Kingdom; Llandrillo, Merionethshire, North Wales An alleged UFO crash involving lights in the sky moments before a large impact shock. The cause of the incident was however soon revealed as a 3.5 magnitude earthquake.
1974-08-23 John Lennon UFO incident •NANA, United States; New York City, New York Musician John Lennon and then-assistant May Pang report seeing a craft emitting lights that changed color in the night sky above their Manhattan penthouse. Lennon would later reference this experience in his song "Nobody Told Me".

1975–1999

Date Name Location Description
1975-01-12 North Hudson Park UFO sightings •NANA, United States; North Bergen, New Jersey George O'Barski reported seeing a dark object with lit windows near the Stonehenge building adjacent to North Hudson Park. His story was covered by ufologist Budd Hopkins and local newspapers.
1975-11-05 Travis Walton •NANA, United States; Near Turkey Springs in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona Logger Travis Walton disappeared for over 5 days resulting in a police investigation of his coworkers. When questioned on where he had been, Walton said that he had been taken aboard a spacecraft by nearly human creatures. Walton's alien abduction account is the basis for the book The Walton Experience (1978), the film Fire in the Sky (1993), and the documentary "Alien Abduction: Travis Walton" (2022).
1976-09-17 1976 Tehran UFO incident •ASAS, Iran; Tehran, Tehran province The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident was a radar and visual sighting of a UFO over the capital of Iran, during early morning hours. Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors reported losing instrumentation and communications as they approached the object.
1977-09-20 Petrozavodsk phenomenon •EUEU, Soviet Union, Finland, Lithuania, and Denmark Residents of Petrozavodsk reported a giant glowing "jellyfish" of light (visible for over ten minutes) looming in the early morning sky. The light was seen and photographed in several Baltic Sea countries. In response to the phenomenon, the Soviet Union created a government program to study anomalous atmospheric phenomena. This program would later attribute the Petrozavodsk sightings to the secret night launch of the Kosmos 955 spy satellite. According to Soviet astrophysicist, Yuli Platov, sunlight can cause the giant plumes of gas and dust produced by rockets to glow, especially "in twilight hours, when the rocket streaks through sunlit regions and the observer is on the nighttime side of the Earth."
1977-12-17 Council Bluffs, Iowa fireball Council Bluffs (Iowa) US Local residents reported seeing a reddish fireball approximately 500 to 600 feet in the air falling straight down and disappearing behind trees, followed by a flash of bluish-white light suggesting an impact. The fire department was called to extinguish a grass fire where it recovered molten metal. Samples of the metal were analyzed and determined to be a simple high-carbon steel of a type common in manufacturing.
1977 to 1978 Operação Prato •SASA, Brazil; Colares, Pará The Colares UFO refers to an outbreak of UFO sightings that occurred in 1977 on the Brazilian island of Colares. During the outbreak, the UFOs allegedly attacked the citizens with intense beams of radiation that left burn marks and puncture wounds. These sightings led to the Brazilian government dispatching a team to investigate under the codename "Operation Saucer", but the government later recalled the team and classified the files until the late 1990s. This was the first operation of the Brazilian Air Force conducted only to investigate UFO-related issues.
1978-05-10 Emilcin Abduction •EUEU, Poland; Emilcin, Lublin Voivodeship Polish farmer Jan Wolski reported that while returning home, two "short, green-faced humanoid entities" wearing black overalls jumped onto his horse-drawn cart and started speaking an incomprehensible language. After about 1000 ft (300 m), he reported seeing a white flying object, from which an alien creature came out and invited Wolski inside. The farmer said that they examined him once inside.
1978-10-21 Valentich disappearance •OCOC, Australia; Victoria Frederick Valentich left Moorabbin Airport in a Cessna 182 Skylane, a single-engined light aircraft. At 7:06 pm, he began reporting a strange craft to Melbourne air traffic control. Valentich's last words were, "That strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again … it is hovering and it's not an aircraft." Neither the pilot nor the plane were ever found.
1978-12-06 Zanfretta UFO Incident •EUEU, Italy; Torriglia, Genoa Italian nightwatchman Pier Fortunato Zanfretta perceived a red, oval object and phoned his supervisor. During the call, he described non-human creatures that he said were attacking him. He was later found in a state of shock and his experience was adapted into a stage play.
1978-12-21 to 1978-12-30 Kaikoura lights •OCOC, New Zealand; South Island The crew of a cargo aircraft spotted lights above the Kaikōura Ranges on New Zealand's South Island. A news team from TV1 and Channel 0 arrived to record footage for a story about the sighting, and were able to capture the lights on camera. The New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research investigated and did not find evidence that the lights were solid objects.
1979-08-27 Val Johnson incident •NANA, United States; Marshall County, Minnesota Sheriff Val Johnson attributed minor injuries and the shattered windshield of his squad car to a beam of light.
1979-11-09 Robert Taylor incident •EUEU, United Kingdom; Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland Forestry worker Robert Taylor was walking near Dechmont Law when he said that he saw a flying dome descend, was approached by floating spheres, smelled a foul odor similar to "burning brakes", and blacked out. Ufologists erected a plaque at the site. Physicians have noted that Taylor's account matches an episode of temporal lobe epilepsy.
1979-11-11 Manises UFO incident •EUEU, Spain; Valencia, Valencian Community En route to Las Palmas, commercial pilot Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada radioed air traffic control regarding a pair of red lights approaching his TAE Supercaravelle. Neither air traffic control in Barcelona nor the military identified the object. Tejada made an emergency landing at the nearby airport in Manises.
1980-04-11 Arequipa UFO incident •SASA, Peru; Arequipa Region Early in the morning of April 11, La Joya Air Force Base ordered fighter pilot Oscar Santa María Huertas to intercept an object in restricted air space. Huertas pursued the object in a Sukhoi Su-22 and fired a barrage of 30mm shells into it. According to Huertas the object did not seem damaged and rose to 19,200 meters. He described it as similar in shape to an incandescent lightbulb with a much wider circular silver base and said that it "lacked all the typical components of aircraft. It had no wings, propulsion jets, exhausts, windows, antennae, and so forth".
1980-12-26 to 1980 -12-28 Rendlesham Forest incident •EUEU, United Kingdom; Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England United States Air Force personnel reported various unusual observations at RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, two American air bases located in England. Their reports included lights in the sky, a metallic triangular object in the forest, multi-colored lights moving through the forest, and higher levels of radiation.
1980-12-29 Cash–Landrum incident •NANA, United States; near Dayton, Texas Betty Cash and Victoria Landrum unsuccessfully sued the United States government in 1981. The two women attributed various symptoms to a diamond-shaped UFO they claimed to have seen pursued by air force helicopters the previous year. The judge dismissed their case due to a lack of evidence.
1981-01-08 Trans-en-Provence case •EUEU, France; Trans-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Retired contractor, Renato Nicolai reported the landing of a flying object near his home to local police. Renato believed it to be a military craft. Groupe d'Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEPAN), a branch of French Space Agency created to investigate UFOs, conducted an investigation, photographed circular impressions on the ground, and took samples of the area. Skeptics have been critical of the GEPAN investigation which took place 40 days after the initial sighting.
1983 c. 1983 Hudson Valley Sightings •NANA, United States; Hudson Valley, New York State police discovered that widespread reports of a massive object—described by one observer as a "city of lights" hanging silently above their home—were caused by a group of pilots flying small aircraft in formation. The events were the subject of an Unsolved Mysteries episode and Night Siege, a posthumous collaboration between ufologists including J. Allen Hynek.
1986-05-19 "Night of the UFOs" in Brazil •SASA, Brazil; São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Goiás Radar and visual contacts were obtained with multiple 'bright colorful objects' in the sky across several states. Mirage IIIE and F-5 fighters were scrambled but failed to intercept, with pilots describing the objects as capable of impossible maneuvers and rapidly accelerating to as much as Mach 15 once approached.
1986-11-17 Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident •NANA, United States; Alaska While piloting a Japanese Boeing 747-200F cargo aircraft on a polar route from France to Narita International Airport in Japan, the flight crew witnessed several unidentified objects over eastern Alaska. Captain Kenju Terauchi (寺内謙寿, Terauchi Kenju), co-pilot Takanori Tamefuji (為藤隆憲, Tamefuji Takanori), and flight engineer Yoshio Tsukuda (佃善雄, Tsukuda Yoshio) reported rectangular arrays of what Captain Terauchi described as glowing nozzles or thrusters.
1987-12-1 Ilkley Moor UFO incident •EUEU, United Kingdom; Ilkley Moor Retired police officer, Philip Spencer, took a photograph of what he said was a strange being on the moor. According to Spencer, the being fled after being photographed and left in a domed craft.
1987 to 1988 Gulf Breeze UFO incident •NANA, United States; Gulf Breeze, Florida Florida contractor Ed Walters took a series of photographs that he claimed were of a spacecraft piloted by alien creatures that paralyzed him with a blue beam of light. After Walters moved, the next homeowners found a small model that resembled the purported spacecraft. The model had been hidden beneath insulation in the attic. Newspaper photographers were able to "nearly duplicate" Walters' photographs using the model.
1989-09-27 Voronezh UFO incident •EUEU Soviet Union; Voronezh In the early days of glasnost, the Russian state news agency TASS reported a sensationalist tale from 3 schoolchildren who said a glowing "banana-shaped" object landed in a park where a "three-eyed creature, about nine feet tall and fashionably dressed in silvery overalls and bronze boots and with a disk on its chest" exited with its robot. Tass reported common hematite at the park as rocks that "cannot be found on Earth".
1994-03-08 1994 Michigan UFO event •NANA, United States; Western Michigan Several hundred residents reported something resembling flickering Christmas lights in the sky. Religious residents interpreted them as a sign of the Biblical "end times". The Holland, Michigan police department contacted the National Weather Service who reported unusual radar blips. Aircraft were ruled out, but the specific cause of the lights was not determined.
1994-09-16 Ariel School UFO incident •AFAF, Zimbabwe; Ruwa Over sixty students reported seeing a silver craft land in a field near the school. They described occupants dressed in all black that exited the silver object.
1995-01-12 Feira de Santana UFO incident Feira de Santana, Bahia Brazil In the early hours of January 12, 1995, a luminous object was seen falling vertically onto a farm in the Jaíba district, east of the city. Shortly after the UFO fell, a major power outage occurred that spread across dozens of nearby cities.
1996-01-20 Varginha UFO incident •SASA, Brazil; Varginha, Minas Gerais Varginha Incident or Incident in Varginha, as it became known by the Brazilian press, was an alleged series of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), which generated conspiracy theories about the capture of extraterrestrial beings (ETs) by Brazilian military authorities in January 1996, in the municipality of Varginha, south of the state of Minas Gerais.
1997-03-13 Phoenix Lights •NANA, United States; Phoenix, Arizona Many residents photographed lights in a "V" pattern moving through Arizona, during a night that the Air National Guard stationed in Tucson, Arizona, were conducting training exercises.

21st century

Date Name Location Description
2000-10-05 Bonsall UFO sighting •EUEU, United Kingdom; Bonsall, Derbyshire Resident, Sharon Rowlands, filmed a luminous object in the night sky starting around 9:15 pm and continuing for several minutes. Various other residents reported strange lights including a man who described a "pink glow, vertically shaped like a shoe box".
2004-10-31 Tinley Park Lights •NANA, United States; Illinois On Halloween night (2004), residents were outside trick-or-treating on the streets of Tinley Park and other Chicago suburbs, when thousands of people watched, photographed, and filmed a formation of red lights above them.
2004-03-05 2004 Mexican UFO incident •NANA, Mexico; Campeche Mexican Air Force pilots filmed (initially unidentified) lights in the sky using infrared cameras while searching for drug-smuggling planes. Multiple subsequent investigations identified these as massive burn-off flares from a cluster of off-shore oil platforms in the Bay of Campeche.
2004-11-14 USS Nimitz UFO incident •NANA, United States; Off the coast of San Diego, California Several pilots from VFA-41 squadron flying Super Hornets from the USS Nimitz, were directed by the USS Princeton to intercept one of several unidentified flying objects detected by radar. The pilots reported a visual encounter and recorded an infrared video. The Navy has verified that the video was taken by Navy personnel and has stated that it has not yet identified the nature of the sightings which they classify as unexplained aerial phenomena.
2006-11-07 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting •NANA, United States; Chicago, Illinois United Airlines employees and pilots reported sightings of a saucer-shaped, unlit craft hovering over a Chicago O'Hare Airport terminal, before appearing to leave with a rapid vertical rise.
2007-04-23 2007 Alderney UFO sighting •EUEU, Bailiwick of Guernsey; Alderney On separate flights, two airline pilots and multiple passengers reported a "sunlight-coloured" object off the coast of Alderney. One of the pilots, Ray Bowyer, filed a report with Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority upon landing.
2007-11-28 to 2011-12-13 Dudley Dorito •EUEU, United Kingdom; West Midlands conurbation The "Dudley Dorito" refers to a series of black triangle sightings reported in the West Midlands conurbation.
2008-06-20 Wales UFO sightings •EUEU, United Kingdom; Various cities, Wales Over the Bristol Channel, a South Wales Police helicopter took evasive actions to avoid what the crew described as a saucer-shaped UFO.
November 2008 Cláudio UFO Incident Cláudio, Minas Gerais Brazil The Claudio Case is one of the most well-documented and recent UFO cases in the world. It occurred on November 19 and 20, 2008, in Claudio, Minas Gerais, when the Military Police chased luminous humanoid creatures and photographed UFOs. The case report was signed by seven military personnel and includes three photographs and a police report.
2009-01-05 Morristown UFO hoax •NANA, United States; Morristown, New Jersey In the evening, citizens in Morristown and other town in Morris County, New Jersey saw five red lights in the sky. After three months, two men from the Morristown area announced that they had organized a UFO hoax, meant as a "social experiment".
2009-12-10 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly •EUEU, Norway; Trøndelag and Northern Norway A failed Russian missile test produced a massive spiral light in the sky, visible from the northern counties of Norway and parts of Sweden.
2010-01-25 Harbour Mille incident •NANA, Canada; Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador At least three UFOs that looked like missiles but emitted no noise were spotted over Harbour Mille.
2010-07-07 Hangzhou Airport UFO •ASAS, China; Hangzhou, Zhejiang Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport was shut down for at least one hour after reports of something flying near the airport, a reaction blamed on similar reports being publicized in the British tabloid The Sun.
2014-06-02 to 2015-03-10 USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents •NANA, United States; East Coast of the United States Navy pilots from the Theodore Roosevelt began to notice unexplained objects on their radar after an equipment upgrade. Some pilots were unable to see the objects. Others captured video footage, later released to the public. The pilots reported these incidents to the then-obscure Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program resulting in new guidelines regarding unexplained aerial phenomena sightings.
April 2016 Mosul UFO Mosul, Iraq A metallic-looking orb was filmed by a U.S. military spy plane in an active conflict zone, the four-second clip of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, a government-coined phrase that means UFO, was recorded by a reconnaissance plane moving over Mosul, Iraq, in April 2016.
October 2018 The Jellyfish UFO Iraq An unidentified flying object seen in a video hovering over a US base in Iraq has been officially named the UAP "the jellyfish", it is seen in "RAW" footage haunting the Marine base
July 2019 USS Russell UFO incident Pacific Ocean An 18-second video shows what is described as three pyramid-shaped UFOs flying over the USS Russell warship at night in July 2019 off the coast of San Diego. At one point, the pyramid-shaped object was said to be about 650 feet above the Russell's "tail."
July 2019 USS Omaha UFO incident Pacific Ocean In July 2019, the USS Omaha recorded a UFO – or UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) – that buzzed a Navy fleet off San Diego and disappeared into the ocean without a trace.
May 12 and 13, 2020 The Magé Case Magé, Rio de Janeiro Brazil The Magé Case was a "sighting" of lights in the sky that occurred on the night between May 12 and 13, 2020, in the city of Magé, a metropolitan region in Rio de Janeiro. During the early hours of the morning, residents of the city recorded videos showing lights in the city's sky and flashes on the horizon and shared them on their social networks. The main conspiracy theory would be that a UFO was shot down by the military in the city.
2020 c. 2020 Jetpack man •NANA, United States; Los Angeles, California The FBI and Federal Aviation Administration investigated reports from multiple professional pilots who, beginning in 2020, began to report something hovering over Los Angeles that looked like a man wearing a jet pack. Investigators said that it was unlikely to be a person and more likely to be a balloon or dummy attached to a drone.
2023-01-28 to 2023-02-13 List of high-altitude object events in 2023 •ICIC, United States, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela Multiple airborne objects, sometimes reported as UFOs, were observed and shot down by military aircraft. Many of the objects were identified as meteorology or espionage balloons.
November 2024 2024 US air base drone incursions in the United Kingdom United Kingdom Between November 20 and 26, 2024, a series of unauthorized drone activities was reported over and near four US Air Force bases in the United Kingdom: RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Feltwell, and RAF Fairford.These installations, located in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Gloucestershire, are critical to US military operations in Europe.The drone activity persisted for several days, raising concerns about the coordination and intent behind the incursions.
December 2024 2024 United States drone sightings United States A large number of sightings of lights in the sky over New Jersey and other states, primarily in the Northeastern United States. The reported objects were generally referred to as "drones", and thousands of sightings were reported. The US Air Force denied any responsibility for the events.

By location

The lists below contain UFO reports mentioned above, along with less notable UFO reports from the specific areas.

See also

Notes and references

    • NUFORC has collected over 100,000 UFO reports spanning decades. The most common description was of "lights" in the sky, and many UFOs were of an "unknown" or "unspecified" shape. Others included: cubes (16), cones (600), crosses (491), teardrops (1221), and stars (138).
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