. Some cases are popularly
known and have become
. Others are
more obscure, and known mainly to
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 |
|
Date |
Name |
City, State |
Country |
Description |
Close enc. |
Sources |
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. |
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2005-04-27 |
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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." |
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2006-05-25 |
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Kent , England |
United Kingdom |
An oval orb was observed hovering above a location in Kent. It
then moved off in a westerly direction. |
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2006-06-24 |
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Vatican City |
A
Polish tourist photographed a UFO hovering
near the Vatican Basilica's cuppola. |
1 |
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2006-08-17 |
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Nanjing |
China |
A UFO was recorded hovering over an apartment building. |
1 |
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2006-10-23 |
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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. |
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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. |
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2007-01-20 |
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Poland |
Seventeen or eighteen UFOs were spotted. |
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2007-02-02 |
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Islington , London , England |
United Kingdom |
Ten to fifteen UFOs are spotted. |
1 |
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2007-02-16 |
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Kaliningrad |
Russian Federation |
A student records a UFO on his video camera. |
1 |
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2007-03-03 |
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New
Delhi |
India |
A green fireball was seen over Delhi by ten pilots. |
1 |
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2007-03-07 |
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New
Delhi |
India |
Two UFOs were detected near the prime minister's
residence. |
1 |
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2007-03-10 |
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Cleveland , Ohio |
United States |
UFO seen over a peace rally. |
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2007-04-23 |
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Channel Islands |
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Two
airline pilots on separate flights spot UFOs off the coast of
Alderney . |
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2007-05-02 |
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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. |
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2007-05-11 |
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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." |
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2007-05-12 |
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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. |
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2007-05-27 |
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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.
" |
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2007-05-28 |
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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." |
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2007-07-23 |
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Warwickshire , England |
United Kingdom |
Crowd of 100 persons saw a formation of strange lights in the
sky for 30 minutes. |
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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. |
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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. |
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2007-10-30 |
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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. |
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2007-11-08 |
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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. |
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2008-01-01 |
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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. |
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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". |
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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". |
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2008-05-14 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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2008-06-29 |
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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". |
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2008-12-10 |
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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. |
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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. |
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2009-03-18 |
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London , England |
United Kingdom |
A group of UFOs appear on a photo, even though they were
invisible to the naked eye. |
1 |
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2009-05-31 |
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Calcutta |
India |
UFOs detected by Kolkata ATC |
1 |
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June, 2009 |
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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. |
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2009-08-05 |
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North England |
United Kingdom |
UFO captured on BBC webcam. |
1 |
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2009-08-16 |
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Russia |
Ural |
Alledged disappearance of an 11 year old girl at an UFO
sighting |
1 |
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2009-09-16 |
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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. |
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2009-10-10 |
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Pécs |
Hungary |
Either six or seven Spherical unidentified aircraft seen flying
in sky. |
1 |
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2009-10-20 |
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Florida |
United States |
200-foot-long triangle-shaped craft spotted flying at 100 feet
altitude. |
1 |
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