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This is a list of UFO sightings including cases of alleged alien sightings and abductions. Some cases are popularly known and have become folklore. Others are more obscure, and known mainly to ufologists and enthusiasts.

19th-20th centuries

Date	Name	City, State	Country	Description	Close enc.	Sources
1897-04-19	Aurora Texas UFO Incident	Aurora , Texas	United States	Alleged crash of a UFO and confirmed burial of the pilot, purported to be an alien, in the local cemetery.	3
1908-06-30	Tunguska event	Podkamennaya Tunguska River	Russian Empire	Massive explosion, allegedly of a comet or meteoroid, also explained as an explosion of a UFO	2
1917-08-13, 09-13, 10-13	The Miracle of the Sun	Fatima	Portugal	Thousands of people saw what they thought was the sun gyrate and descend. This was later reinterpreted by Jacques Vallee, Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada as a possible UFO sighting that was not originally recognized as such due to cultural differences.	1
1926			Unknown, possibly Nepal (the Himalayas )	Nicholas Roerich's travel diary mentions that he and his companions encountered a silver metallic disc hovering above the Himalayas. They observed the disc through binoculars for some time until it disappeared beyond mountain peaks.	1
1940s	Foo fighter			Small metallic spheres and colorful balls of light repeatedly spotted, and on occasion photographed, by military air crews around the world during World War II.	1
1942	Hopeh Incident	Hopeh	China	A UFO was spotted and photographed.	1
1942-02-24	Battle of Los Angeles	Los Angeles , California	United States	Unidentified aerial objects trigger the military to fire thousands of anti-aircraft rounds into the sky and raise the wartime alert status.	1
1946	Ghost rockets		Scandinavia	Objects were sighted repeatedly over Scandinavia; Swedish Defense Staff expressed concern.	1
1946-05-18	UFO-Memorial Ängelholm	Ängelholm Municipality	Sweden	Gösta Karlsson reports seeing a UFO landing and alien beings. A model of a flying saucer is now erected at the site.	3
1947-06-21	Maury Island incident	Washington	United States	Harold A. Dahl reported an incident in which he claimed that his dog was killed and his son was injured by UFOs, and that a witness was threatened by Men in Black.	2
1947-06-24	Kenneth Arnold	Washington	United States	The UFO sighting that sparked the name flying saucers.	2
1947-07-08	Roswell UFO incident	Roswell, New Mexico	United States	United States Army Air Forces allegedly captures a flying saucer.	3
1948	Green fireballs		United States	Objects reported over several United States military bases; an official investigation followed.	1
1948	Kapustin Yar	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	A "cigar" shaped UFO was supposedly shot down by a Russian MiG.	2
1948-01-07	Mantell UFO Incident	Kentucky	United States	US Air Force sent a fighter pilot to investigate a UFO sighting over Fort Knox, Kentucky ; the pilot was killed while pursuing the UFO.	2
1948-10-01	Gorman Dogfight	North Dakota	United States	A US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes over Fargo, North Dakota .	1
1950	Mariana UFO Incident	Great Falls , Montana	United States	The manager of Great Falls' pro baseball team took color film of two UFOs flying over Great Falls. The film was extensively analyzed by the US Air Force and independent investigators.	1
1951-08-25	Lubbock Lights	Lubbock , Texas	United States	Lights were repeatedly spotted flying over the city. They were witnessed by science professors from Texas Tech University and photographed by a Texas Tech student.	1
1952-07-13	1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident	Washington, D.C.	United States	A series of sightings in July 1952 accompanied radar/visual contacts at three separate airports in the Washington area. The sightings made front-page headlines around the nation, and ultimately lead to the formation of the Robertson Panel by the CIA.	1
1952-07-24	Carson Sink UFO incident	Nevada	United States	Two pilots saw three unusual aircraft, flying in a V-formation and with a Delta-wing airfoil, over Carson Sink.	1
1952-09-12	Flatwoods monster	Flatwoods , West Virginia	United States	6 local boys and a local woman report seeing a UFO landing and a bizarre-looking creature near the landing site.	3
June, 1953	Otis AFB	Falmouth, Massachusetts	United States	A man claims that a U.S Air Force radar operator and pilot bailed out over Otis Air Force Base because of engine failure. They were chasing a UFO. Plane and operator never seen again. Pilot lives and the canopy is the only thing recovered.	1
1953-08-12	Ellsworth UFO Case	Bismarck , North Dakota	United States	A UFO appearing as a red glowing light is witnessed by forty-five people. The sighting takes place over a two night period.	1
1953-11-23	Felix Moncla	Lake Superior	United States - Canada	U.S Air Force Pilot disappears while pursuing a UFO.	1
1955-08-21	Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter	Kentucky	United States	A group of strange, goblin-like creatures are reported to have attacked a family, while the family shot at them.	3
1957	Antonio Villas Boas	São Francisco de Sales	Brazil	Antonio Villas Boas claimed to have been abducted and examined by aliens. He also claimed to have had sex with an alien woman during his time aboard a UFO.	4
1957-05-20	Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter	East Anglia	United Kingdom	US Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres reports that he was ordered to interecept and fire on a UFO displaying "very unusual flight patterns" over East Anglia. Ground radar operators had tracked the object for some time before Torres' plane was scrambled to intercept.	1
1957-11-02	Levelland UFO Case	Levelland , Texas	United States	Numerous motorists reported seeing a strange, glowing, egg-shaped object which caused their vehicle's engines to shut off. When the object flew away, their vehicles restarted and worked normally.	2
1959	Dyatlov Pass incident	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Mysterious deaths of experienced skiers in the Urals is believed to have been caused by "unidentified orange spheres" and an "unknown compelling force".	2
1959	Alor Incident	Alor Archipelago	Indonesia	This incident occurred on July 1959, in the Alor Islands area.	3
1961-02-17			Europe	NATO radar stations detected 50 objects coming from the Soviet Union, flying at high speed over Europe. Coming at the height of the Cold War, they feared the outbreak of World War III, but the objects vanished after 9 minutes. A Potsdam astronomer possibly observed the transit of an object over the sun's disc at the time.	1
1961-09-19	Betty and Barney Hill abduction	New Hampshire	United States	A widely publicized alien abduction experience.	4
1961-11-10		Vukovar	Croatia	A UFO with flickering lights appeared. An increase in static electricity was observed.	2
1964-04-24	Lonnie Zamora	Socorro , New Mexico	United States	Zamora, a police officer, reports a close encounter.	3
1965	Exeter incident	Exeter , New Hampshire	United States	A UFO was observed by a teenager and two police officers.	1
1965	Project Serpo		United States	A reported secret exchange program between the U.S government and an extraterrestrial race from Planet Serpo.	5
1965-12-01	Adhara Observatory UFO Lunar Transit	Greater Buenos Aires	Argentina	The Adhara Observatory took photographs of the moon after the public reported something unusual on the moon. Some of these pictures show disk shaped objects. Afterwards three luminous strange objects flew over La Plata.	1
1965-12-09	Kecksburg UFO incident	Kecksburg , Pennsylvania	United States	Mass sighting of a falling UFO, followed by a cordoning-off of the crash site.	1
1966	The Mothman Prophecies	Point Pleasant , West Virginia	United States	A wave of sightings of a winged humanoid is reported to be connected to other mysterious events including sightings of UFOs.	1
1966-01-11	Wanaque Reservoir UFO	Wanaque Reservoir, Wanaque, New Jersey	United States	UFO in the form of a bright light seen in the vicinity of Wanaque Reservoir, leading to traffic jams and overloaded police communications networks. UFO changed color on a continuing basis, although white was apparently one of the major colors; it shot a beam of light down towards the ice near the dam, stayed around there for about a half hour, and flew off to the southeast, where it was sighted by others. Another UFO sighting of a similar nature, flying in a back and forth motion, occurred the next night in Wanaque.	1
1966-04-06	Westall UFO	Clayton South , Victoria	Australia	A sighting by hundreds of people. Witnesses of "The Clayton Incident" still gather for reunions.	1
1966-04-17	Portage County UFO chase	Ohio	United States	Several police officers pursue a UFO for 30 minutes.	1
1966-10-11	The Grinning Man	Elizabeth, New Jersey	United States	Strange tall man with no nose or ears is sighted in a neighborhood shortly after UFO sighting.	2
1967-03-05	Minot Air Force Base UFO Incidents	Minot /Minot A.F.B., North Dakota	United States	UFO hovers over area, strike teams are called in and confront the craft.	1
1967-03-??	Malmstrom AFB Incident	Malmstrom A.F.B.	United States		1
1967-05-20	Falcon Lake Incident	Falcon Lake , Manitoba	Canada	A UFO's exhaust allegedly burns a man.	2
1967-08-29	Close encounter of Cussac	Cussac, Cantal	France	A young brother and sister claim to have witnessed a UFO and its occupants.	3
1967-10-04	Shag Harbour incident	Shag Harbour , Nova Scotia	Canada	A UFO was seen crashing into Shag Harbor. A Canadian naval search followed, and is officially referred to as a UFO crash.	2
1967-12-03	Schirmer Abduction	Ashland , Nebraska	United States	Sergeant Herbert Schirmer claimed he was abducted.	4
1967	Minot Air Force Base UFO Incidents	Minot /Minot A.F.B., North Dakota	United States	Air Force claims unidentifiable craft "attacks" air base, specifically the missile silos. (the "attack" was two strange, beams of light, one of which seemed to be an offensive weapon. One of numerous cases involving the base, which is home to a nuclear weapons stockpile, and the missile silos are home to nuclear warhead missiles.)	1
1968-6-6	Minot Air Force Base UFO Incidents	Minot /Minot A.F.B., North Dakota	United States	UFO hovers over a silo, then leaves. After the craft left, personnel discovered that the missile was armed and unlocked in launch mode, and the nuclear warhead was armed.	2
1968-10-25	Minot Air Force Base UFO Incidents	Minot /Minot A.F.B., North Dakota	United States		1
1969-01-01		Prince George , British Columbia	Canada	Three unrelated witnesses reported a strange, round object in the late afternoon sky. The sphere radiated a yellow-orange light and appeared to ascend from to .	1
1969	Jimmy Carter UFO incident	Leary , Georgia	United States	Jimmy Carter's sighting.	1
1970s	Barry DeLong UFO incident	Somerset County , Maine	United States	Sheriff Barry A. DeLong witnessed a UFO: "They were hovering about from my cruiser, late at night. It had fixed lights that were spinning. It was huge, and oval-shaped. I knew it wasn't a jet fighter. It slowly started backing off toward Sugarloaf, and then at a terrific speed."	1
1971-09-04	Lake Cote UFO	Arenal, Alajuela	Costa Rica	Considered the best UFO picture of all times. An UFO was photographed during an official mapping mission from an airborne camera, over Lake Cote, Costa Rica. No crew member saw the object at the time, but an image appeared on the developed film.
1973-10-11	Pascagoula Abduction	Mississippi	United States	Alien abduction occurs while the victims were fishing on the Pascagoula River .	4
1974-01-23	Berwyn Mountain UFO incident	Llandrillo, Merionethshire , North Wales	Wales	An alleged UFO crash. Some claim that the event was actually the result of an earthquake.	1
1975-01-12	North Hudson Park UFO sightings	North Bergen, NJ	United States	Considered a close encounter of the second and third kind, the case introduced Budd Hopkins to UFO research, a later key figure in alien abduction research. Researcher Jerome Clark cites it as one of the best-documented, the core story being corroborated by numerous independent witnesses.	2
1975-11-05	Travis Walton	Arizona	United States	Logger Travis Walton reports being abducted by aliens following his five-day disappearance. Walton's six workmates claimed to have witnessed the UFO at the start of his abduction. Walton described the event and its aftermath in The Walton Experience, which was dramatized in the film Fire in the Sky.	4
1976-06-22	1976 Canary Isles sightings	(Several)	Canary Islands (Spain )	Several lights and a spherical, transparent blue craft, piloted by two beings was reported.	1
1976-08-20	Allagash Abductions	Maine	United States	Four campers claimed an abduction by alien beings in the Allagash wilderness.	4
1976-09-19	1976 Tehran UFO incident	Tehran	Iran	A UFO disabled the electronic equipment of two F-4 interceptor aircraft, and ground control equipment as well. The event is well-documented in the U.S. DIA report and other documents. The Iranian generals involved in the incident said on public record that object was extraterrestrial.	2
1977	Colares UFO flap	Colares	Brazil	A bewildering account of an island which was flooded by harmful UFOs.	2
1978-05-10	Emilcin Abduction	Emilcin	Poland	A man at Emilcin , Poland is said to be abducted by "grays." There is now a memorial at the site.	4
1978-06-19	Frank Johnson	Oxfordshire, England	United Kingdom	While driving, a family is intercepted by a UFO. The family later wrote a book (The Janos People ) about the incident.	4
1978-10-21	Valentich Disappearance	Victoria	Australia	An Australian pilot reported a UFO sighting to air traffic control before he and his aircraft vanished without a trace.	1
1978-12-21	Kaikoura lights	South Island	New Zealand	A series of sightings by a Safe Air freight plane; the airplane was escorted by strange lights that changed color and size.	1
1979-08-27	Val Johnson Incident	Marshall County , Minnesota	United States	A deputy sheriff spotted a strange bright light which appeared to have collided with his patrol car and damaged it. The deputy also suffered temporary eye damage from the "light".	2
1979-11-09	Robert Taylor incident	Livingston	Scotland	A forester, Bob Taylor, was pulled by two spiked globes towards a UFO, which stood on a clearing. He lost consciousness and afterwards had trouble walking and speaking and felt thirsty for days. At the clearing several traces were found.	4
1979-11-11	Manises UFO Incident	Valencia	Spain	Three large UFOs forced a commercial flight to make an emergency landing at Manises airport.	1
1980s	Hudson Valley UFO sightings	Hudson Valley	United States	A UFO flap during the eighties and early nineties, involving thousands of reports of similarly-shaped UFOs. They were first observed by a retired policeman in Kent, New York , late on New Year's Eve, 1981. The 1984 "Incident at Indian Point " was one of these sightings.	1
1980-6-28	Disappearance of N3808H	Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico	Flight N3808H disappears without a trace at a flight from Santo Domingo, Dominicain Republic to San Jose, Puerto Rico	2	http://www.ufocasebook.com/n3808hpuertorico.html
1980-12-28	Rendlesham Forest Incident	Suffolk, England	United Kingdom	A sighting which was first thought to be a downed aircraft.	2
1980-12-29	Cash-Landrum incident	Dayton , Texas	United States	A huge diamond-shaped UFO irradiates three witnesses, who were treated for radiation poisoning. The UFO was in the company of military helicopters and the victims have since sued the US Government.	2
May 1981	Salyut 6 orbital station		Earthbound orbit	Cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinykh supposedly established contact with a UFO while working at the Salyut 6.	1
1981-01-08	Trans-en-Provence Case	Trans-en-Provence , Var	France	A UFO-landing which left traces.	2
1985	Tbilisi-sighting	Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	In January, 1985, Soviet commercial airline crew and passengers observed a strange light during a flight from Tbilisi in Georgia to Tallinn in Estonia .	1
1985-12-26	Whitley Strieber	Toronto and New York state	Canada and the United States	A paranormal writer and alleged abductee, Strieber described his experiences in his national best-seller novel Communion. He later retracted his statements in a 1996 Larry King interview. He currently hosts a nighttime radio show Dreamland.	4
1986	1986 São Paulo UFO sighting		Brazil	Some 20 UFOs seen and detected by radar in various parts of Brazil. Colonel Silva pursues some in an aircraft, and later declares them to be “positive targets, a concrete thing”. They disappear as five other military aircraft are sent to intercept them. Afterwards Minister of Aeronautics, Brig. Lima, publicly declared: "...at least 21 objects were detected by Brazilian radars. [...] It’s fantastic, the radar signals were very clear."	1
1986-01-29	Height 611 UFO Incident	Dalnegorsk , Primorsky Krai	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	An alleged UFO crash, followed by an alleged UFO landing in 1989.	1
1986-11-17	Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident	Alaska	United States	A group of UFOs flew alongside Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 for 50 minutes above Northeastern Alaska. One of the objects trailing behind the Boeing 747 was detected by military radar.	1
1987-11-11	Gulf Breeze UFO incident	Gulf Breeze , Florida	United States	A UFO wave started late 1987 over this town in western Florida. A fair number of these sightings, though by no means all, are attributed to Ed Walters, whose claims are now doubted.	1
1988-12-26		Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires	Argentina	A silver UFO flew over this high density area in the city of Buenos Aires. It is maybe the most spectacular UFO incident of Argentina, with more than 7,500 witnesses. The local airport reported an object flying towards General Paz Ave. seen on the radars on that sunny afternoon.	1
1990-03-30	Belgian UFO wave	Ans , Wallonia	Belgium	Mass sighting of large, silent, low-flying black triangles, which were tracked by multiple NATO radar and jet interceptors, and investigated by Belgium's military. Photographic evidence exists.	1
1990-11-07	1990 Montreal UFO	Montreal , Quebec	Canada	For more than 3 hours, more than 40 people, including policemen, observe a UFO above a downtown hotel.	1
1990 / 1992-07-08	Sassowo explosions	Sassowo	U.S.S.R. / Russian Federation	Two mysterious explosions, equivalent to 25 tons high explosive.	2
1991-04-21	Achille Zaghetti	London , England	United Kingdom	Alitalia pilot Achille Zaghetti reports a cigar-shaped UFO flying past his plane at high speed during his descent to Heathrow Airport on a flight from Milan to London. Immediately following the near-miss, Zaghetti contacted the area control center radar operator who confirmed an unidentified target was observed 10 nautical miles behind the plane. British defence officials ruled out a missile, but offered no explanation for the sighting.	1
1991	STS-48 incident	Orbit, Space	Discovery, STS-48	A video apparently shot during STS-48 mission, appears to depict objects flying in an artificial fashion. NASA explained the objects as ice particles reacting to engine jets. Philip C. Plait briefly discussed it in Bad Astronomy, and agreed with NASA. A Florida Today article of 2000 quoted Dr. Jack Kasher as saying that found the footage to depict independently operated spacecraft, see "Journal for UFO Studies".	1
1992	Steven M. Greer	Alton Barnes , Wiltshire , England	United Kingdom	While at a Woodborough Hill farm, a CSETI team experiences a close encounter with a "100-foot in diameter" UFO.	1
1993	Steven M. Greer		Mexico	Near Popocatépetl volcano, on the road towards Indian village Atlimayaya, (Atlixco and Metepec region, Mexico ) a CSETI team experienced a close encounter with a triangular UFO and "extremely luminous and white" extraterrestrials within it.	5
1993	Kelly Cahill	Victoria	Australia	East of Melbourne's Dandenong foothills Kelly Cahill and five others were confronted by a flying saucer shortly after midnight, besides tall, slim, black aliens with glowing red eyes. A number of scientific organisations performed subsequent tests of the area and found significant anomalies in soil and vegetation samples.	5
1994-06	Meng Zhaoguo Incident	Wuchang	China	Meng claimed to have had sexual intercourse with an alien, and to have been subsequently abducted.	4
1994-12-14	Trumbull Ohio Disturbance	Vienna, Ohio	United States	Many citizens and at least 15 local police officers near Youngstown, Ohio, observed and pursued large, low-flying multicolored UFOs during the early hours of 12/14/1994. Citizens and police went on record giving testimonials on the 1999 NBC special "Confirmation". Publicly available 9-1-1 communications detail the event and officers' behavior. Local Air Force reps denounced local authorities saying the police were chasing Mercury for 7 hours at high speed. FAA also denied any anomalies. Local Youngstown media acknowledged the incident's importance, but refused coverage, reportedly out of fear. Gross abuse of media and military influence is claimed, which deliberately concealed the event. The principal investigator was Kenny Young of Cincinnati, OH.	1
1996-01-20	Varginha UFO incident	Varginha , Minas Gerais	Brazil	Multiple sightings and alleged capture of alien entity by the Brazilian military.	3
1997	Area 51: The Alien Interview	Area 51 , Nevada	United States	Video footage of an alleged interview with an alien.	5
1997-03-13	Phoenix Lights	Nevada , Arizona , and New Mexico	United States	A strange set of lights are seen over Nevada , Arizona and possibly New Mexico .	1
1997-08-06	Mexico City skyline UFO	Mexico City	Mexico	An amateur cameraman with a digital camera captured footage of a UFO passing behind and above several buildings. Air traffic was restricted that day except for two helicopters.	1
2000	Eastern Afghanistan UFOs		Afghanistan	Residents of nw. Pakistan and e. Afghanistan claimed to have seen strange lights in the sky. The then-ruling Taliban regime suspected a US attacked on Al-Qaeda training camps, or Pakistani missile tests, which were denied by the respective countries. The suspicion was discounted as the lights were seen heading back towards the sky. The lights however returned after two weeks.	1
2000-01-05	Southern Illinois UFO	St. Clair County, Illinois	United States	Between the hours of 4am and 7am, six people, four of whom were police officers, observed a large, triangular shaped object in the night skies only a few hundred feet over St. Clair county. The object glided silently and slowly in a south-westerly direction over several towns before vanishing near the town of Dupo just before 7am. The object which was reported to have several bright lights, was also reported to be as tall as a two-story house and as long as a football field.	1

21st century

Date	Name	City, State	Country	Description	Close enc.
2004-03-05	2004 Mexican UFO Incident		Mexico	A drug-smuggling air patrol recorded on infrared camera what some claimed to be UFOs. The footage was released by Jaime Maussan. Others suggest the objects are oil platform burn-off flares.	1
2004-10-27		Woodside, Queens	United States	Five flying saucers appeared and were observed by people throughout the Queens and Manhattan area. They disappeared one by one.	1
2004-10-31	The Tinley Park Lights	Tinley Park , Illinois	United States	A sequence of five mass UFO sightings, first on August 21, 2004, two months later on October 31, 2004, again on October 1 of 2005, and once again on October 31, 2006, in Tinley Park and Oak Park, Chicago.	1
2005-04-27		Washington, D.C.	United States	The White House was evacuated when a UFO entered restricted air space, then disappeared. It was explained as: "probably a cloud or several birds."	1
2006-05-25		Kent , England	United Kingdom	An oval orb was observed hovering above a location in Kent. It then moved off in a westerly direction.	1
2006-06-24			Vatican City	A Polish tourist photographed a UFO hovering near the Vatican Basilica's cuppola.	1
2006-08-17		Nanjing	China	A UFO was recorded hovering over an apartment building.	1
2006-10-23		North Carolina	United States	An object was sighted traveling northeast at night until, as it was claimed, it expelled a blue ring and split in two. The first piece continued to fly northeast, while the latter ricocheted in the opposite direction, and disappeared from view. The first part was seen to have light on its back, and shaped like a small blimp.	1
2006-11-07	Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting 2006	Chicago , Illinois	United States	United Airlines employees and pilots claimed sightings of a saucer-shaped, unlit craft hovering over a Chicago O'Hare Airport terminal, before shooting up vertically. The FAA initially denied having received reports, but information gained by means of the Freedom of Information Act revealed otherwise.	1
2007-01-20			Poland	Seventeen or eighteen UFOs were spotted.	1
2007-02-02		Islington , London , England	United Kingdom	Ten to fifteen UFOs are spotted.	1
2007-02-16		Kaliningrad	Russian Federation	A student records a UFO on his video camera.	1
2007-03-03		New Delhi	India	A green fireball was seen over Delhi by ten pilots.	1
2007-03-07		New Delhi	India	Two UFOs were detected near the prime minister's residence.	1
2007-03-10		Cleveland , Ohio	United States	UFO seen over a peace rally.	1
2007-04-23		Channel Islands		Two airline pilots on separate flights spot UFOs off the coast of Alderney .	1
2007-05-02		Sutton , England	United Kingdom	John Gregory spotted a UFO after 10 pm. As he was observing the sky he noticed a very bright object, which at first he considered to be a star. Later he began to doubt this, and was very surprised by the very unusual and clear phenomenon, which was visible for miles around. The image, which seemed to be shaped like a face, nose and mouth, remained for about 20 minutes and then just vanished.	1
2007-05-11		Massillon , Ohio	United States	At 10:40 pm, Rosemary Lyons and a co-worker were taking a smoke break outside the Loyal Order of Moose Lodge, located at 2935 Lincoln Way West, when they witnessed a UFO. They estimated its size as in diameter. Lyons: "The first thing I said was 'Oh my gosh. Look at that,' We saw it for 20 to 25 seconds. It was round and luminous underneath. It wasn't a plane, it wasn't a helicopter, it wasn’t a blimp and it wasn't a balloon. It made absolutely no sound. It was flying over just carefree – like it was no one's business."	1
2007-05-12		Bangor , County Down, Northern Ireland	United Kingdom	Orange colored UFOs were spotted during the evening. Clifford Rossbottom said, "There were three orange globes, nearly in a straight line, ... an absolutely fascinating sight. I watched them for five minutes, and then very slowly, they just disappeared. The only thing I thought it could have been was three high-flying aircraft. If that is not the case, then I have no idea, and the only other thing I can think of is in fact that they were UFOs." Belfast International Airport 's air traffic control received calls from people (including the Coastguard) who spotted the objects, but the airport reported no aircraft in the area during the time of the sightings. A company called UFO Balloons later claimed their product was responsible for the events. One month later two similar aircraft were sighted over Buela, Colorado.	1
2007-05-27		Chilliwack , British Columbia	Canada	Dave Francis and Kelly McDonald witnessed a UFO over UCFV campus. Francis said, "I really think it was a UFO. I don’t really care if anybody else believes me ... it was the craziest thing I ever saw. Whatever it was, they were moving from place to place as a unit [and then] just faded away." McDonald said, "I know that I saw something that wasn’t from here. I’ve never seen anything move that way. It wasn’t birds. [As the UFO approached] it broke apart into 20 or more of these little spheres ... birds don’t dive-bomb in at each other. "	1
2007-05-28		Bangalore	India	Afzal Khan told CNN IBN that he photographed a UFO, "Today (Monday) at around 9 pm (IST), I and my brothers saw a bright, slow-moving object which looked like a group of lights moving in a triangular formation in the sky towards west/north-west direction. This object was definitely not an aeroplane as it was moving very slowly. We observed the object from around 9 pm until 9.30 pm before it disappeared into the distance. During this time we managed to take some pictures with my camera. The astronomical/space/science departments of any activity in the sky during the above time can be confirmed. We live in Jayanagar area of Bangalore. Another thing that we noticed during this time was an aircraft that took-off from Bangalore Airport was flying very close to this object. It is possible that the pilot of that aircraft could have spotted this object as well."	1
2007-07-23		Warwickshire , England	United Kingdom	Crowd of 100 persons saw a formation of strange lights in the sky for 30 minutes.	1
2007-09-15	Double mothership sighting	Nassau	Bahamas	Event took place around 8 pm, two huge motherships in front of the moon, then suddenly vanish one after the next.	1
2007-09-25	Kodiak Island UFO, 2007	Kodiak , Alaska	United States	On September 25, 2007, around 6:45am, a bright red light was flying fast over Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. Within seconds, it travelled to Kodiak Island air space, over 300 miles away. Many claimed to have seen it descend behind a mountain. Local troopers and Coast Guard personnel were unable to find traces.	1
2007-10-30		Calcutta	India	Many people claimed to see a UFO near Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, Calcutta. It was also recorded by an amateur videographer. It was like a ball of light which some time hovered, sometimes moved very fast and changed shape and size. The video was broadcasted on local news channels.	1
2007-11-08		Larnaca	Cyprus	UFO reported to have come from the coast inland near a village called Catalkoy in small and rapid zigzags, then stopped and hovered for approximately 30 seconds before making a smooth ascent at 45 degrees east. Many witnesses have reported such events to a local newspaper.	1
2008-01-01		San Diego , California	United States	Nine separate lights were spotted moving in an arc formation across the sky at around half past midnight on New Years Day. Around the globe, many people are said to have reported the same exact lights in the sky. A later Fox News San Diego report by anchor Jim Patten showed these lights to be Chinese New Year floating Lanterns. On February 16, 2008, two individuals reported seeing a large, pulsing orb of light hovering in place above Miramar Air Base.	1
2008-01-08 to 2008-02-09	Stephenville, Texas UFO sightings	Stephenville , Texas , Dublin , Texas, Crawford , Texas	United States	UFOs were, and still are, sometimes reported in this area. One was an object that was by in size, spotted over Bush Ranch in Crawford , Texas . The Air Force has identified the objects as training fighter jets that went unreported due to a "communications problem".	1
May–Sept, 2008	2008 Turkey UFO Sightings	Istanbul	Turkey	Over a four month span in 2008, a night guard at the Yeni Kent Compound videotaped one or more UFOs over Turkey at nighttime. Many witnesses confirmed the two and a half hours' worth of video, leading the Sirius UFO Space Science Research Center to dub it the "most important images of a UFO ever filmed".	1
2008-05-14		Needles , California	United States	A flaming object crashed near the Colorado river. Several witnesses claim to have seen five helicopters picking up the strange object after 17 minutes and heading into direction of Las Vegas.	1
2008-06-20	Wales UFO sightings	Different cities, Wales	United Kingdom	After media reports of a police helicopter that was almost hit by a UFO, before it tried to pursue it, hundreds of people reported to have witnessed a UFO on the same or preceding days, from different areas of Wales.	1
2008-06-21	Moscow UFO sightings	Moscow	Russian Federation	Different people and media (including state-owned) reported sightings of 11 orange UFOs. A US blogger reported seeing the same phenomenon. Also see YouTube video: . Further confirmation came from Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk. On June 25 a similar report, now with 13 objects, was claimed in the UK.	1
2008-06-29		Weston-super-Mare , Somerset	United Kingdom	Royal Navy aircraft engineer Michael Madden watched a UFO hover above the M5 motorway near Weston-super-Mare for around three minutes before it disappeared at high speed. Madden described the UFO as looking "like alien aircraft in the films".	1
2008-12-10		Zagreb	Croatia	Bright lights were seen over an insurance building in Zagreb. They were filmed and put on the news. The UFO was actually a misidentified media stunt.
2009-01-05	Morristown UFO	Morristown, New Jersey	United States	A confirmed hoax in Morristown, New Jersey, perpetrated by Chris Russo & Joe Rudy who sent up different sets of helium balloons with attached flares.
2009-03-18		London , England	United Kingdom	A group of UFOs appear on a photo, even though they were invisible to the naked eye.	1
2009-05-31		Calcutta	India	UFOs detected by Kolkata ATC	1
June, 2009		Wisconsin , Texas , Nevada , Mexico City , Tijuana	United States , Mexico	Scattered reports of UFO sightings all over the United States from June 3rd to 22nd, 2009.	1, 2
2009-08-05		North England	United Kingdom	UFO captured on BBC webcam.	1
2009-08-16		Russia	Ural	Alledged disappearance of an 11 year old girl at an UFO sighting	1
2009-09-16		Cerro Azul	Panama	Confirmed hoax, four teenagers aged 15-16 claimed to have killed a small alien after spotting the creature at the entrance to a cave. The creature was then confirmed to be a type of sloth.
2009-10-10		Pécs	Hungary	Either six or seven Spherical unidentified aircraft seen flying in sky.	1
2009-10-20		Florida	United States	200-foot-long triangle-shaped craft spotted flying at 100 feet altitude.	1