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Follow documented UFO and UAP cases by date, from historical reports to modern military and aviation records.
- 1561 Nuremberg celestial phenomenon
Germany · A surviving 1561 broadsheet by Hans Glaser describes and depicts a terrifying dawn sign over Nuremberg. The print is a genuine historical artifact, but its religious language and interpretive woodcut do not constitute modern evidence of an aerial battle or extraterrestrial craft. - Utsuro-bune legend
Japan · Edo-period texts and later copied illustrations preserve a story of a hollow vessel and a foreign-looking woman said to have reached the Hitachi coast in 1803. They document a literary and folkloric tradition, not a photographed event or a verified early UFO encounter. - Tunguska UFO theories
Russia · The 1908 Tunguska explosion was a real, devastating airburst, but the alien-spacecraft, antimatter and black-hole explanations were proposed decades later. Expedition records and modern impact modeling support a natural asteroid or other small cosmic body's atmospheric breakup; they do not supply UFO evidence. - Battle of Los Angeles UFO case
United States · Los Angeles really did black out and fire more than 1,400 antiaircraft rounds on 25 February 1942, but no enemy aircraft was confirmed. The best military histories describe a wartime false alarm probably initiated by a meteorological balloon, while the iconic newspaper image was substantially retouched for print. - Foo fighters of World War II
France and Germany · Allied aircrews used “foo fighters” for varied lights reported on separate night missions, especially by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the Rhine region in late 1944 and January 1945. A newly public SHAEF file confirms the reports and intelligence review, but preserves no event image, physical trace or positive radar track and reaches no single demonstrated explanation. - Ghost rockets
Sweden · Swedish authorities investigated hundreds of differing Scandinavian reports as possible meteors or Soviet missile tests. They recovered no projectile and established no single cause for the 1946 wave. - Ängelholm UFO memorial
Sweden · A concrete monument marks Gösta Carlsson’s claimed 1946 encounter, but the story became public only in 1971 and lacks a contemporary case file or reproducible physical test. - 1947 Roswell incident
United States · The U.S. Army recovered lightweight debris near Roswell in July 1947, briefly announced a “flying disc,” then identified balloon material. Later Air Force and GAO reviews support a Project Mogul explanation, while alien-craft and body claims lack contemporary 1947 documentation. - Kenneth Arnold Sighting (1947)
United States · On 24 June 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine bright, tailless objects near Mount Rainier. His written statement, contemporary press coverage and later Air Force review document the report and the birth of “flying saucer,” but no photograph, instrument record or conclusive identification survives. - Maury Island incident
United States · Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman said debris fell from disc-shaped objects near Maury Island in June 1947. FBI and Army records preserve the investigation, admissions that the fragment story was false, and a separate fatal B-25 engine-fire crash—not proof of the claimed sighting. - West Rindge UFO debris case
United States · A 1947 report of small fires and hot cast-iron fragments, preserved in FBI memoranda but unsupported by a surviving specimen, laboratory file or complete custody chain. - 1948 Mantell UFO Incident
United States · Captain Thomas Mantell's fatal P-51 pursuit, the Godman Field radio record, the crash investigation and why a high-altitude balloon remains the leading explanation without a confirmed flight identity. - Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter
United States · Two Eastern Air Lines pilots described a brief wingless, luminous, flame-tailed object near Montgomery. The only awake passenger saw a streak of light but no body, and later official analyses never converged on an identification. - Gorman dogfight
United States · A 1948 F-51 pilot's prolonged pursuit report, tested against brief ground observations, the original Project Sign file and a later Air Weather Service balloon reconstruction. - Aztec UFO incident
United States · The alleged 1948 crash near Aztec entered print through Frank Scully, relying on Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer rather than identifiable recovery witnesses or records. Fraud evidence seriously damages those sources, but the criminal verdict concerned an oil-detection confidence scheme—not a judicial finding on every crash claim. - Clyde Tombaugh UFO sighting
United States · On 20 August 1949, Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, his wife and his mother-in-law reported a brief geometric pattern of lights over their Las Cruces yard. Later accounts preserve a sketch and competing explanations, but no photograph, instrument record or public original report. - 1950 Farmington UFO Armada
United States · Residents of Farmington, New Mexico, reported large numbers of bright or silvery objects over several days in March 1950. Contemporary newspaper coverage is extensive, but the counts were estimates and no authenticated event image, instrument record or case-specific official conclusion is public. - Mariana UFO Film (1950)
United States · Nick Mariana recorded two bright objects on 16mm Kodachrome at Great Falls, Montana. The surviving film is genuine period footage, but its date, custody history, alleged missing frames and aircraft-reflection explanation remain contested. - 1950 McMinnville UFO Photographs
United States · The two Trent photographs, original-negative analysis and the unresolved suspended-model debate. - 1951 Lubbock Lights
United States · Texas Tech professors reported recurring formations of lights over Lubbock in August and September 1951, while Carl Hart made five disputed photographs. The records support a serious investigation but also show that the observations and photographs may not depict the same phenomenon. - Fort Monmouth UFO case
United States · A source-led review of the separate radar and aircrew reports from 10-11 September 1951, the disputed speed estimates, Project Grudge's mixed findings, and the records that do not survive in the public file. - 1952 RAF Topcliffe UFO sighting
United Kingdom · Five RAF Shackleton aircrew standing at RAF Topcliffe reported a brief daylight view of a silver circular object near a descending Meteor on 19 September 1952. Two contemporary files preserve the report, but they disagree on the Meteor's altitude and no photograph, radar record or measured track is public. - Tremonton UFO film
United States · Delbert Newhouse's 2 July 1952 Kodachrome film is a genuine military-analyzed record, but it supplies no measured scale or distance. Sunlit birds are the best-supported conventional reading; an extraordinary craft was never demonstrated. - Haneda AFB Radar-Visual UFO Case
Japan · On 5-6 August 1952, four Haneda tower operators watched an unusual light while Shiroi ground radar and an F-94 separately reported targets. The Air Force kept the case unknown, but timing conflicts and missing raw data prevent proof that every channel tracked one object. - Oloron-Sainte-Marie UFO sighting
France · French newspapers reported an unusual midday display and falling filaments over Oloron on 17 October 1952. The press record is real, but descriptions conflict, no authenticated sample or laboratory report survives publicly, and airborne spider silk remains a plausible—not demonstrated—explanation. - 1952 Washington, D.C., UFO Radar Incidents
United States · Radar returns, pilot reports and fighter scrambles over two July weekends, alongside the Air Force explanation and limits of the surviving record. - 1952 Flatwoods Monster incident
United States · A widely seen fireball preceded a frightening hilltop encounter reported by Kathleen May and six boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, on 12 September 1952. The meteor identification is well supported; the barn-owl and aircraft-beacon reconstruction fits parts of the brief sighting but is not proven by surviving physical evidence or scene photography. - Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting
United States · Two Pan American pilots reported eight red-orange lights below their DC-4 near Norfolk on 14 July 1952. Project Blue Book retained the case as Unknown, but its spectacular size and speed figures were visual estimates, and no photograph, radar track or physical evidence is public. - Kinross incident
United States · On 23 November 1953, a U.S. Air Force F-89C disappeared during a radar-directed interception over Lake Superior. Official American and Canadian records establish the loss and search, while the target's identity, the aircraft's fate, and later UFO claims remain separate questions. - 1953 Ellsworth AFB radar-visual report
United States · Air Force records date the linked Black Hawk and Rapid City reports to 5-6 August 1953 near Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota—not Ellington AFB, Texas. Witnesses, F-84 pilots and radar personnel reported unusual lights and returns, while later analysis proposed stars, a meteor and propagation effects. - 1954 BOAC Labrador UFO sighting
Canada · A BOAC Stratocruiser crew reported dark changing silhouettes for 18 minutes on the Seven Islands-Goose Bay route. A fighter was vectored, but the contemporary file records no intercept and no radar target other than the airliner. - Florence stadium UFO sighting
Italy · A 1954 football crowd reported objects above Florence and filament-like material nearby. Contemporary coverage confirms the public episode, but crowd size, exact timing, the match report and the material's chain of custody remain unverified. - 1954 Quarouble UFO Encounter: Marius Dewilde
France · Marius Dewilde reported two short figures and a dark oval object beside railway tracks in northern France. Contemporary newspapers document the report and a changing trace story, but no public official file identifies the object or verifies an extraordinary origin. - Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter
United States · On 21 August 1955, people at a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky, reported small figures outside and sought police help after gunfire. Contemporary reporting establishes the alarm and search, but no authenticated event image, recovered body, craft, or tested physical trace survives; great horned owls remain a plausible, unproven explanation. - 1956 Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO Incident
United Kingdom · A source-led review of the Bentwaters and Lakenheath radar reports, the disputed RAF Venom interception, the Condon-era analysis and later aircrew testimony that changed the case. - 1957 Milton Torres UFO intercept
United Kingdom · USAF pilot Milton Torres said ground control directed him toward a radar target and authorized a full rocket salvo. The public archive preserves his later account and a partly conflicting recollection from another pilot, not the original radar or mission record. - 1957 RB-47 radar-visual UFO incident
United States · A six-officer U.S. Air Force crew reported visual lights, passive electronic detections and a ground-radar contact on 17 July 1957. Contemporary records survive, but the raw sensor recordings needed to test every claimed correlation do not. - Fort Itaipu UFO incident
Brazil · A 1959 UFO bulletin alleged that two Brazilian sentries were burned and Fort Itaipu lost power in November 1957. The public archive contains a 1976 inquiry about that story, not a contemporary incident report; later research found limited support for a light sighting but none for the injuries, blackout or secrecy narrative. - Kirtland AFB UFO sighting
United States · What the Condon Report, James McDonald’s archival review and later controller interviews do—and do not—establish about the 4 November 1957 visual and radar reports. - Levelland UFO case
United States · On 2-3 November 1957, motorists and officers around Levelland, Texas, reported unusual lights, with several motorists also claiming engine or headlight failures. The Air Force file preserves real interviews and checks, but its witness totals conflict and its ball-lightning conclusion did not verify a common cause for every report. - 1958 Trindade Island UFO Photographs
Brazil · What Almiro Baraúna's four disputed photographs show, what Brazilian and U.S. naval records actually say, and why the surviving public evidence cannot settle authenticity. - Father Gill Papua New Guinea sighting
Papua New Guinea · At the Boianai Anglican mission on 26-27 June 1959, William B. Gill and other residents reported bright objects and apparent figures, with notes made during the first evening. The surviving record is copy-based, witness totals conflict, and no photograph, sensor record or physical proof establishes a craft or occupants. - Red Bluff Project Blue Book UFO case
United States · Two California Highway Patrol officers reported a long, close-looking encounter near Corning in August 1960. The surviving Air Force file preserves their account, contradicts the claimed radar confirmation, and closes the wider Red Bluff reports as inversion/refraction without a site-specific reconstruction that resolves every detail. - 1964 Socorro UFO incident: Lonnie Zamora and the Blue Book file
United States · Police officer Lonnie Zamora reported a close-range object, two figures and a powered departure near Socorro, New Mexico. Project Blue Book preserved his statement, a site diagram and trace-test results, but no photograph, radar confirmation or anomalous material identified the object. - 1965 Exeter UFO incident
United States · Norman Muscarello and Exeter patrolmen Eugene Bertrand Jr. and David Hunt reported five pulsing red lights near Kensington, New Hampshire, on 3 September 1965. Project Blue Book filed the case as unidentified, while the aircraft explanations remain disputed. - 1965 Kecksburg UFO incident
United States · A well-documented Great Lakes fireball became linked to disputed reports of an acorn-shaped object and a military recovery near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. The official file records an unsuccessful search, while later litigation exposed gaps in NASA's record search rather than proof of a recovered craft. - Warminster Thing
United Kingdom · Warminster’s “Thing” was not one stable object but a 1964–65 sequence of sound reports, varied lights, newspaper stories and organised skywatches. The reports are real as local history; no surviving recording, authenticated event film, instrument record or official finding identifies a single extraordinary cause. - 1965 Valensole UFO Incident
France · Maurice Masse's close-range account, gendarmerie trace records, French archive treatment and the limits of a single-witness case. - 1966 Portage County UFO Chase
United States · Ohio officers reported following a brilliant object for about 80-86 miles into Pennsylvania. The Blue Book file documents the pursuit, negative radar and balloon checks, a disputed photograph, and a satellite-plus-Venus conclusion that does not reconstruct every witness claim. - Tully saucer nest
Australia · On 19 January 1966 George Pedley reported a brief disc-like object rising beside Horseshoe Lagoon near Tully, followed by a circular mat of flattened reeds. Police and RAAF records confirm the report and trace investigation, but not a craft; waterspout, vegetation collapse and deliberate manufacture remain incompletely tested explanations. - 1966 Westall UFO Incident
Australia · What pupils and teachers reported over two Melbourne schools, what the 1966 press preserved, why the famous footage is missing, and how balloon theories fit the evidence. - Lead Masks case
Brazil · In August 1966, two electronics technicians were found dead on Morro do Vintém in Niterói beside lead eye masks and timed instructions. The scene is documented; the cause of death and purpose of the experiment were not established, and the UFO link remains a later interpretive layer rather than an official finding. - 1967 Duhamel UFO landing marks
Canada · A Canadian defence scientist measured four unusual pasture rings near Duhamel, Alberta. The official memorandum recorded normal background radiation, no formation witness and no conclusive cause. - 1967 Shag Harbour UFO incident
Canada · Witnesses reported a row of lights descending into the water off Nova Scotia on 4 October 1967. Police, the Coast Guard and National Defence responded, but the public record contains no wreckage or authenticated event imagery. - 1967 Falcon Lake Incident
Canada · Stefan Michalak's 1967 account, documented burns, RCMP records, radioactivity claims and the evidence-chain problems that keep Canada's Falcon Lake case disputed. - Malmstrom missile UFO reports
United States · Ten Echo Flight missiles lost alert status on 16 March 1967, and the Air Force investigated a reproducible electronics vulnerability. Reports of a UFO-linked Oscar Flight shutdown belong to later testimony and are not established by the released operational record. - Cussac UFO encounter
France · On 29 August 1967, two children near Cussac reported four small dark figures and a brilliant object. A same-week newspaper and a later GEPAN reinvestigation preserve different evidence layers; neither supplies photographs, instrument data or a surviving contemporaneous gendarmerie file. - 1968 Minot AFB UFO encounter
United States · Missile-site personnel and a B-52 crew filed separate light, radar and radio reports near Minot AFB on 24 October 1968. Project Blue Book preserved radar-scope photographs and proposed several conventional explanations, but the public file does not demonstrate one cause for every report. - 1969 Pori Finnish Air Force UFO sighting
Finland · Two named Finnish military pilots later described seven yellow objects at Pori Airport, but the public record is retrospective and contains no 1969 radar plot, flight log, photograph or film. - 1971 Lake Cote Costa Rica UAP Photograph
Costa Rica · Frame 300 came from a Costa Rican government mapping flight, but no crew member reported seeing the form. The original-film analyses, a pressure-mark objection and the later copy-negative drum scan leave its identity unresolved. - USS Trepang UFO photographs
Arctic Ocean · USS Trepang did operate under Arctic ice in 1971, but the photographs were attributed to the submarine only by an anonymous letter received in 2015. The U.S. Navy could not authenticate them, the commanding officer denied any sighting, and later composites must be separated from the circulating set. - 1973 Pascagoula UFO encounter
United States · Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported an abduction beside Mississippi's Pascagoula River on 11 October 1973. A covert police recording confirms a prompt, distressed report, but no authenticated event image, physical trace or official identification supports the alleged craft or occupants. - Coyne helicopter incident
United States · At 23:05 on 18 October 1973, four U.S. Army Reserve crewmen reported a red light converging on helicopter 68-15444 near Mansfield, Ohio. Their signed Army form records an evasive descent and a later 3,500-foot altimeter reading with the collective full down; shape, green illumination, compass and broader radio claims come from early press or later testimony. No public radar plot, flight recorder or final identification resolves the report. - Falkville metal man
United States · Falkville police chief Jeff Greenhaw said he photographed a reflective human-shaped figure late on 17 October 1973. Next-day newspaper metadata anchors the report, but the surviving images lack a complete original chain, no independent event witness has been located, and a fire-protective-suit prank is the best-supported explanation rather than a publicly proven identification. - Berwyn Mountain incident
United Kingdom · On 23 January 1974 a magnitude 3.5 earthquake shook North Wales while fireballs and other lights were reported over a wider area. Police and RAF searchers found no crash site; the later alien-crash and military-cordon story is not supported by the surviving logs and partly conflates a 1982 Harrier crash. - 1975 Loring AFB UFO incursions
United States · Declassified command records document repeated reports of an unidentified low-flying aircraft near Loring's weapons storage area, unsuccessful helicopter searches and a later slow RAPCON target. They establish a serious security response, but not the intruder's identity or exotic performance. - Wurtsmith AFB UFO incident
United States · On 30 October 1975, security reports, RAPCON returns and a KC-135 pursuit documented unidentified low-flying aircraft near Wurtsmith AFB. The same operational record corrected its first helicopter report: there was no hovering. - Travis Walton abduction
United States · On 5 November 1975, six logging coworkers reported that Travis Walton vanished after approaching a light in Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. A missing-person search and contemporary press record are real; the beam, craft and five-day abduction remain testimony without independently recoverable physical or instrumental evidence. - 1976 Talavera Air Base UFO incident
Spain · Spain's declassified archive preserves a striking humanoid account, but the public file begins with a later newspaper copy and records that the original incident report could not be found. - 1976 Cannon AFB UFO Report
United States · A 21 January 1976 National Military Command Center memorandum recorded two reported objects near Cannon AFB's flight line. The document confirms an operational alert, but the public record does not contain the radar and weather-check results or a final identification. - 1976 Tehran UFO incident
Iran · A declassified U.S. report records two Iranian F-4 sorties, a reported radar return and equipment-failure claims over Tehran. The document is important, but raw radar, maintenance records and authenticated event media are not public. - 1976 Canary Islands UFO incident
Spain · A Spanish naval crew and observers across the Canary Islands reported a vast luminous halo on 22 June 1976. The declassified inquiry left the main display unidentified but doubted a separate occupants story; later launch records and Spanish aerospace analysis make two Poseidon missile plumes the leading explanation. - Operation Saucer: Brazil's Colares UFO Investigation
Brazil · The 1977 Brazilian Air Force inquiry, witness reports, surviving records, and evidence limits. - 1977 Petrozavodsk phenomenon
Russia · A predawn ‘jellyfish’ of light reported over Petrozavodsk on 20 September 1977 coincided with the Kosmos-955 launch from Plesetsk. Observatory photographs and later atmospheric research make a sunlit rocket-exhaust cloud the well-supported explanation for the principal display, without proving that every regional report or later physical-effect claim had the same cause. - Broad Haven UFO sightings
United Kingdom · On 4 February 1977, pupils at Broad Haven Primary School reported a silver, domed object near the playing field and made drawings. The report is well documented as testimony, but no authenticated event image, instrument record or physical trace identifies an extraordinary craft; later regional stories and the “Welsh Triangle” label must be kept separate. - Amarante 1977 UFO record dispute
Portugal · The archive’s old 25 October ‘photographs’ label cannot be traced to a photographic case file. A separate source records three children reporting a figure at Padronelo on 14 January; the two entries must not be merged. - Frederick Valentich disappearance
Australia · On 21 October 1978, pilot Frederick Valentich reported an unidentified illuminated object to Melbourne Flight Service while flying Cessna 182L VH-DSJ toward King Island. Official records establish the call and disappearance, but do not identify the object or establish a UFO cause. - Kaikōura lights
New Zealand · Two December 1978 SAFE Air flight episodes produced aircrew reports, radar returns and 16 mm film. New Zealand's official file documented real observations but found that most had conventional or atmospheric explanations, with a small residue left inconclusive. - Emilcin abduction
Poland · Jan Wolski’s 10 May 1978 story was recorded and publicized within weeks, but the craft, beings and examination remain one witness’s account; later investigations and a 2005 monument document the story’s reception, not an alien visit. - Zanfretta UFO incident
Italy · Night watchman Pier Fortunato Zanfretta reported a frightening encounter near Torriglia on 6–7 December 1978. Employer and Carabinieri paperwork shows that a report was made, but the surviving public files are unofficial scans, while abduction details emerged through hypnosis and later retellings rather than independent confirmation. - Clarenville UFO sighting
Canada · Contemporaneous RCMP and defence records document a long optical sighting toward Random Island, but they also say no photograph was taken and no radar target was detected. A later NRC note proposed Jupiter, while popular retellings added details absent from the surviving reports. - Val Johnson incident
United States · A Minnesota deputy reported that a bright light struck his patrol car on 27 August 1979. The damaged car and prompt reports are documented, but no independent observation or reproducible test identifies what caused them. - Robert Taylor incident
United Kingdom · On 9 November 1979, forestry worker Robert Taylor said a dome-like object and two spiked spheres confronted him in Dechmont Woods near Livingston. Police documented an apparent assault and examined marks and torn clothing, but the accessible record has no independent witness, authenticated event image, diagnostic medical finding or trace analysis that identifies an extraordinary cause. - Manises UFO incident
Spain · On 11 November 1979, TAE flight JK297 diverted to Valencia after its crew reported two intense red lights. A military intercept followed, but the declassified file records no radar track of an unknown object and reaches no categorical identification. - 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident
United Kingdom · A source-led review of the military witnesses, Halt memorandum, field recording, disputed ground traces and incomplete official records. - 1980 Cash-Landrum UFO Incident
United States · Three witnesses, a reported hot luminous object, tandem-rotor helicopters, medical claims and a federal lawsuit examined against the surviving record. - The Halt Memorandum and Rendlesham Record
United Kingdom · A document-focused guide to the 1981 memorandum, the field recording, later testimony and the gaps that prevent the archive from identifying an extraordinary source. - La Joya UFO incident
Peru · A Peruvian Air Force pilot says he fired on an unidentified object near La Joya in 1980. A released U.S. intelligence message confirms an attempted intercept was reported, but conflicts with the pilot's later date and preserves no radar, gun-camera or firing record. - Trans-en-Provence UFO case
France · A single witness reported a brief landing in southern France in 1981. Gendarmes documented ground marks and collected samples; GEPAN later found mechanical, thermal and plant changes but could not establish that they were caused by the reported object. - 1982 Laxou L'Amarante UFO case
France · A biologist reported a silent oval object above his Laxou garden in October 1982. GEPAN investigated wilted amaranth plants, but the single-witness account, failed camera, sampling limits and ordinary biological confounders left the cause unresolved. - Hudson Valley UFO wave
United States · A regional series of V- and boomerang-shaped light reports, best documented from March 1983 through summer 1984, in which strong evidence for night formation flying coexists with incomplete incident-level records. - Japan Airlines Flight 1628 UFO incident
United States · On 17 November 1986, a JAL cargo crew reported unusual lights and Captain Kenju Terauchi later described a huge dark object over Alaska. FAA records confirm the report and air-traffic response, but not a single extraordinary craft jointly verified by the crew and radar. - Brazil Night of the UFOs
Brazil · On 19 May 1986, Brazilian air-defense controllers tracked unexplained returns and launched fighters from Santa Cruz and Anápolis while pilots reported different combinations of lights, radar contacts and no contact. The released records document a real alert and failed identifications, but not one continuous object, extraordinary performance proved by raw data, or an extraterrestrial origin. - Height 611 UFO incident
Russia · Residents of Dalnegorsk reportedly watched a luminous red-orange body descend toward Hill 611 on 29 January 1986, followed by a hilltop glow or fire. Later investigators collected metal droplets and charred material, but the public record lacks contemporaneous statements, a controlled recovery log, complete laboratory reports or an official final finding. - Gulf Breeze UFO incident
United States · Ed Walters's 1987-1988 Polaroids made Gulf Breeze an international UFO story, but the photographs never acquired an uncontested chain of custody. A model found in his former house in 1990, competing photo analyses and Walters's denial leave the case historically important but disputed. - Belgian UFO Wave (1989-1990)
Belgium · Police triangle reports, the March 1990 F-16 operation, a newly released radar analysis and the Petit-Rechain photo hoax. - Voronezh UFO reports (1989)
Russia · Children’s accounts of a landed object and beings in a Voronezh park became world news after TASS reported them in October 1989. Contemporary reporting establishes the media chain, but not a landing: the correspondent was not an eyewitness, descriptions varied, and the physical-trace claims were promptly disputed. - Calvine UFO photograph
United Kingdom · A surviving print matches the image handled by the UK Ministry of Defence in 1990, but the anonymous witnesses, missing negatives and unknown scale prevent identification. Photographic analysis rejects simple print manipulation, not a model or other construction placed before the camera. - 1990 Greifswald Lights
Germany · What the multi-camera Baltic footage records, why parachute illumination flares fit its seven-light formations, and which military details remain unverified. - Cosford UFO incident
United Kingdom · The Ministry of Defence archive records more than 30 reports over six hours in the early hours of 31 March 1993, including a police patrol at RAF Cosford. A replay of RAF radar tapes found nothing unusual, and The National Archives says a Russian rocket re-entry caused the majority of sightings. That wording does not resolve every report, while the familiar RAF Shawbury triangle narrative rests mainly on later retellings rather than an openly reproduced witness statement. - 1994 Ariel School encounter
Zimbabwe · In September 1994, more than 60 pupils near Ruwa, Zimbabwe, reported seeing unusual objects and small figures beyond their playground. Their drawings and interviews make the case historically important, but no adult eyewitness, authenticated event image, instrument record or confirmed physical trace establishes what caused the reports. - Bariloche UFO incident
Argentina · Two aircraft crews and airport personnel reported unusual lights near Bariloche on 31 July 1995, and an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight went around when the runway lights failed. The records support a real operational episode, but not a causal link between the lights and two separate electrical faults; a 2019 official review's aircraft-and-sky-projector explanation is strong but retrospective. - South African Airways UFO report
South Africa · The inherited 1995 label cannot be tied to a flight, crew, route, time, aircraft or primary report. Traceable SAA pilot cases belong to 1968 and 1972 and must remain separate. - 1996 Varginha UFO Incident
Brazil · Three young women reported a strange crouching figure in Varginha, Brazil, and later stories alleged creature recovery by firefighters and the military. Contemporary reporting confirms the sighting claim; the public record does not authenticate a recovered being, craft or biological evidence. - Yukon giant UFO (1996)
Canada · Residents later described rows of lights across the northern sky near Fox Lake, Carmacks, Pelly Crossing and Mayo on 11 December 1996. A 2012 orbital reconstruction strongly matches the re-entry of the Cosmos 2335 second stage; the famous count of 31 witnesses comes from a UFO*BC investigation conducted years later, not a recovered contemporary government file. - 1997 Phoenix Lights
United States · Reports across Arizona on 13 March 1997 combined two different episodes: an earlier moving formation and later stationary lights southwest of Phoenix. The later display is strongly supported as military illumination flares; the earlier reports are less completely documented and are most consistent with conventional aircraft. - 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac Encounter
United States · A source-led review of the aviator encounter, radar claims, FLIR1 video, official release record and the data that remain unavailable. - Mexican Air Force UFO affair
Mexico · A Mexican Air Force surveillance crew recorded bright infrared sources near Campeche on 5 March 2004. The military provenance is real, but the distributed tape lacks range and radiometric data; flight geometry, fixed bearings and independent thermography make offshore oil-platform flares the best-supported explanation. - 2006 Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting
United States · United Airlines employees reported an unlit disc above Concourse C, and an FAA tower call survives in released communications. No event image or radar track has been authenticated, leaving weather, lighting and other conventional explanations open without establishing one. - Guernsey UFO sighting
United Kingdom · On 23 April 2007, Aurigny captain Ray Bowyer, passengers and a second airline captain reported yellow or beige aerial appearances near Alderney. The record contains live air-traffic communications and later aviation paperwork, but no measured range, decisive radar match or authenticated event image. - Dudley Dorito
United Kingdom · West Midlands residents described triangular arrangements of orange or red lights in late 2007, and a local newspaper coined the nickname “Dudley Dorito.” The surviving record is mostly one newspaper’s reporting after public appeals; it does not establish that every report involved one object, and the claimed original video is not publicly traceable. - Kumburgaz UFO videos
Turkey · Yalçın Yalman said he filmed unusual night-time appearances from Kumburgaz on the Sea of Marmara across 2007, 2008 and 2009. Contemporary reporting and a limited observatory review document the recordings, but the public chain does not preserve a verified complete set of original MiniDV tapes, calibrated sightlines or a demonstrated identity. - Stephenville UFO sightings
United States · Texas residents reported unusual lights and large silent forms on 8 January 2008. The Air Force later corrected its initial denial and acknowledged ten F-16s training from 18:00 to 20:00, while a civilian study of FAA radar data proposed only conditional, disputed correlations rather than one confirmed anomalous track. - Wales UFO helicopter incident
United Kingdom · A South Wales Police helicopter crew reported an unusual aircraft near RAF St Athan shortly after midnight on 8 June 2008. The police confirmed the sighting but denied a chase; no image or radar return is public, and wedding lanterns remain a plausible—not formally proven—explanation. - 2009 Norwegian Spiral Anomaly
Norway · A blue-green trail and expanding white spiral appeared over northern Norway on 9 December 2009. Contemporary reporting, a Russian Defence Ministry acknowledgment and later optical analysis identify it as the visible exhaust of a failed Bulava missile test, not an unresolved craft. - Morristown UFO hoax
United States · Five red-light displays over Morris County in January and February 2009 were deliberately staged with road flares and helium balloons. The perpetrators later published their documentation, pleaded guilty, and received fines and community service. - 2010 Xiaoshan Airport UFO Incident
China · What happened at Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport on 7 July 2010, what the disputed images show, and why the initiating target remains unidentified. - El Bosque Air Base video case
Chile · Small fast marks were found after a Chilean Air Force command-change display was filmed at El Bosque in November 2010. CEFAA examined several recordings, but its surviving text called the work preliminary; unknown distance, missing original files and strong insect or bird explanations prevent a reliable extraordinary-speed claim. - 2011 Jerusalem Dome of the Rock UFO videos
Israel · Several clips claimed to show a light descending over Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock on 28 January 2011. The uploads went viral, but anonymous provenance, missing originals and reported editing artifacts make them a disputed video case rather than verified observation evidence. - 2013 Aguadilla UFO Video Incident
Puerto Rico · What the official CBP infrared video shows, why it appeared fast and transmedium, and how AARO reached a moderate-confidence sky-lantern explanation. - 2015 Gimbal UAP Video
United States · What the official 34-second Navy infrared clip confirms, what later aviator testimony adds, and why the apparent rotation and flight path remain disputed. - 2015 GoFast UAP Video
United States · What the official Navy infrared video shows, how NASA and AARO measured its motion, and why the object's identity remains open after the extraordinary-speed claim was resolved. - 2016 Mosul Orb Video
Iraq · A source-led review of the government-released sphere video, its reported military acquisition, FOIA history, missing metadata and possible explanations. - 2019 USS Omaha Sphere Video
United States · What the Navy confirmed, what remains attributed to the private release, and why the public clip does not prove a transmedium object. - Los Angeles jetpack man reports
United States · Pilots made separate human-shaped-object reports near LAX in 2020 and 2021. FAA and FBI records confirm the reports and investigation, but not a jetpack operator; a police balloon video supports a possible category of explanation, not identity across dates. - Mage UFO reports
Brazil · Night-sky clips from Magé, Rio de Janeiro, went viral on 13–14 May 2020 and were rapidly joined by crash, explosion and military-cordon claims. The public record documents the online panic, but it does not authenticate a crashed object or a single event shared by every clip. - Eglin AFB UAP case resolution
United States · A military pilot detected four radar targets near Eglin AFB on 26 January 2023 and captured two still images of one object. AARO later assessed that object as very likely a lighter-than-air craft; the other three targets remain unsupported by imagery. - 2023 North American High-Altitude Object Shootdowns
United States · NORAD tracked three small airborne objects over Alaska, Yukon and Lake Huron in February 2023. Fighters shot down all three, but no debris was recovered and their exact identities remain unconfirmed. - 2024 U.S. Drone Sightings
United States · A timeline of the New Jersey reports, official findings, verified airspace concerns, and common misidentifications. - 2024 U.S. Air Base Drone Incursions in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom · Official statements confirm repeated small-drone activity around four RAF sites used by U.S. forces in November 2024, but the operators, intent and full technical record remain undisclosed.