list of reported UFO sightings

|Tulli Papyrus{{Cite journal|last1=Reggiani|first1=Nicola|location=Università degli Studi di Parma|date=2017|title=Il Papiro Tulli: un affaire egittologico tra storia e leggenda|url=https://www.academia.edu/38776957|journal=Analecta Papyrologica|volume=XXIX|publisher=SICANIA university press: www.sicania.me.it|pages=218|issn=1122-2336|language=it|via=R. Cedric Leonard "FIRE CIRCLES": www.scribd.com/document/323792193/Tulli-Papyrus}}

|AfricaAncient Egypt; Jebel Barkal, Lower Egypt{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/4864521|title=A Royal Star: On the "Miracle of the Star" in Thutmoses III's Gebel Barkal Stela and a Note on the King as a Star in Personal Names|journal=Revue dÉgyptologie|volume=64|date=2013|pages=231–248|last=Winkler|first=Andreas|location=Paris|publisher=Société française d'égyptologie & éditions Peeters|access-date=4 June 2023|archive-date=8 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708100304/https://www.academia.edu/4864521|url-status=live}}

|After a military campaign in Nubia, Thutmose III had a stele erected at the Temple of Amun, beneath the Jebel Barkal outcropping.{{cite book |last=Remler |first=Pat |title=Egyptian Mythology, A to Z |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLUjtPDyu-IC&pg=PT151 |access-date=11 August 2012 |year=2010 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-3180-1 |page=151 |archive-date=22 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122172536/https://books.google.com/books?id=wLUjtPDyu-IC&pg=PT151#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}} The stele describes how a "star came to the south...It shot at (the enemy).... None-could stand-[flames] being behind them and fire was in front of them" {{efn|W. Helck translation in Winkler: "It was the second hour. A/The star came to the south of them. Something similar had not occurred (earlier). It shot at it (the enemy posting) from its proper place. None therein could stand. [I slew them like those who have not come into existence, (they) being overthrown upon their (own) blood and having fallen] into heaps, [flames] being behind them and fire was in front of them." }} [https://collections.mfa.org/objects/145121 Victory stele of Thutmose III] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604155337/https://collections.mfa.org/objects/145121 |date=4 June 2023 }}, excavated by the Harvard University – Museum of Fine Arts Expedition in Sudan, Gebel Barkal, (19 January 1920). Assigned to the MFA, Boston (1 August 1923), 23.733. Photographs by MFA Boston. This account is the subject of the so-called Tulli Papyrus.{{cite news |last1=Lingeman |first1=Richard R. |title=Erich von Daniken's Genesis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/31/archives/erich-von-danikens-genesis.html |date=31 March 1974 |work=The New York Times |access-date=14 July 2017 |archive-date=7 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407135416/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20710FF3B5F107A93C3AA1788D85F408785F9 |url-status=live}} Quoting Thayer, Tiffany (July 1953). Doubt. Fortean Society, no. 41.

|Ships in the sky

|EuropeRoman Republic; Italia

|{{efn|During the wintertime in the war between the Carthaginians and Rome, Livy recorded "portents", including navium speciem de caelo adfulsisse}} navium speciem de caelo adfulsisse

:"A phantom navy was seen shining in the sky"{{cite web|author=Livy|author-link=Livy|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Liv.%2021.62&lang=original|translator=Rev. Canon Roberts|title=The History of Rome, Book 21, Chapter 62|access-date=8 October 2014|archive-date=23 September 2014|publisher=E. P. Dutton and Co.|publication-place=New York|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923170442/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Liv.%2021.62&lang=original|url-status=live}} (Ab Urbe Condita Libri)

:"a spectacle of ships gleamed in the sky"

|Arpi sky shields

|Arpi,{{cite web |last1=Charles |first1=Michael B. |last2=Anagnostou-Laoutides |first2=Eva |last3=Harmes |first3=Marcus |date=September 19, 2023 |title=Chariots of the gods, ships in the sky: how unidentified aerial phenomena left their mark in ancient cultures |url=https://theconversation.com/chariots-of-the-gods-ships-in-the-sky-how-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-left-their-mark-in-ancient-cultures-210276 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=4 May 2025 |website=The Conversation |publisher= |location=Southern Cross University; Macquarie University; University of Southern Queensland}}

Apulia{{cite book|last1=Bringmann|first1=Klaus|author-link1=Klaus Bringmann|chapter=The Roman Republic and it's Internal Politics between 232 and 167 BC|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AUdCCgAAQBAJ&dq=Liv.+22.1.9+Arpi&pg=PA394|location=|editor-last1=Mineo|editor-first1=Bernard |editor1-link=Bernard Mineo |title=A Companion to Livy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AUdCCgAAQBAJ&q=Liv.+22.1.9+Arpi|series=|language=|volume=|edition=|publication-place=|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|publication-date=17 November 2014 |isbn=1118301285 |page=399|access-date=4 May 2025|via=Google}}

|round parmas were seen in the sky{{Cite journal|last1=Stothers|first1=Richard |author1-link=Richard Stothers|date=2007 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30038660|title=Unidentified Flying Objects in Classical Antiquity|journal=The Classical Journal|volume=103|issue=1 |pages=79–92 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|doi=10.1353/tcj.2007.0009 |jstor=30038660 |access-date=4 May 2025|quote=Stothers: Liv. 22.1.9; Orosius 4.15|via="Log in through your institution" (url-access is preview): reviewable using: "217 BC Livy shields in the sky" (para. from: Charles, Anagnostou-Laoutides, Harmes; 2023) as a criteria i.e.: www.bing.com/search?q=217%20BC%20Livy%20shields%20in%20the%20sky&form=ANSPH1}} {{efn|the prodigies reported simultaneously from many places: - the sun's disk had seemed to be contracted; that glowing stones had fallen from the sky at Praeneste; {{blockquote|that at Arpi bucklers had appeared in the sky and the sun had seemed to be fighting with the moon;}} that at Capena two moons had risen in the daytime - at Antium, when some men were reaping, bloody ears of corn had fallen into their basket; that at Falerii the sky had seemed to be rent as it were with a great fissure; and through the opening a bright light had shone; and that lots had shrunk and that one had fallen out without being touched, on which was written, “Mavors brandishes his spear” - at Capua there had been the appearance of a sky on fire and of a moon that fell in the midst of a shower of rain. Afterwards less memorable prodigies were also given credence: that certain folk had found {{blockquote|Titus Livius(abridged); from HOR

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{{cite book|last1=Livius|first1=Titius|chapter=Book 22|chapter-url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0152%3Abook%3D22|location=Ancient Rome|editor-last1=Crane|editor-first1=Gregory R. |editor-link=Gregory R. Crane|title=The History of Rome |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0152%3Abook%3D22|publication-place=Tufts University|publisher=Perseus Project (4.0) Digital Library|access-date=4 May 2025 }}}} {{efn|Parma pigs might fly}}

|Spark from a falling star

|AsiaRoman Republic; Asia

|{{efn|According to Pliny the Elder}} "A spark fell from a star and grew as it descended until it appeared to be the size of the Moon. It then ascended and transformed into a torch."{{cite web|last=Pliny|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D35|title=Chap. 35. – An Ominous Appearance in the Heavens, That Was Seen Once Daily|website=Perseus|access-date=20 February 2021|archive-date=28 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228180550/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D35|url-status=live}} {{efn| Astronomer Richard Stothers interpreted the report as a description of a bolide.{{cite journal|title=The Roman fireball of 76 BC|last=Stothers|first=Richard B.|journal=The Observatory|volume=107|pages=211–213|date=1987|bibcode=1987Obs...107..211S|url=https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1987Obs...107..211S |access-date=4 June 2023|archive-date=15 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915022601/https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1987Obs...107..211S|url-status=live}}}}

|Flame-like wine-jars from the sky

|AsiaRoman Republic; Phrygia, Asia

|According to Plutarch, a Roman army commanded by Lucullus was about to begin a battle with Mithridates VI of Pontus when {{blockquote|"the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies"}} Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar (pithos).{{cite web|last=Plutarch|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Luc.+8.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0046|title=Lucullus, 8.6|website=Perseus|access-date=20 February 2021|archive-date=24 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224143459/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Luc.+8.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0046|url-status=live}}

|Sky army

|AsiaRoman Empire; Judaea

|Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus reported chariots "hurtling through the clouds" prior to the First Jewish–Roman War.{{cite journal|last=Stothers|first=Richard|author-link=Richard Stothers|title=Unidentified Flying Objects in Classical Antiquity|journal=The Classical Journal|date=Nov 2007|volume=103 |issue=1 |publisher=The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc. (CAMWS)|url=http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Stothers_2.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111022014623/http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Stothers_2.pdf|archive-date=22 October 2011}}

|Angel hair

|EuropeRoman Empire; Rome, Italia

|Historian Cassius Dio described a {{Blockquote|"fine rain resembling silver [that] descended from a clear sky upon the Forum of Augustus."}} He wrote that he was able to plate some of his bronze coins, but four days later, the silvery coating was gone.^:88

|Air ship of Clonmacnoise

|EuropeIreland; Teltown in County Meath, and Clonmacnoise in County Offaly

|{{efn|Several sets of Irish annals, those of Ulster, Tigernach, Clonmacnoise, and the Four Masters, have entries to the effect }} "ships with their crews were seen in the air".{{cite book|last=Cohen |first=Jeffrey Jerome|title=Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire|date=2015|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-1452945675|editor-last1=Cohen|editor-first1=Jeffrey Jerome |location=Minneapolis|quote-page=108|quote=The Annals of Ulster, for example, laconically state that 'ships with their crews were seen in the air.'|chapter=The Sea Above|access-date=18 May 2022|editor-last2=Duckert|editor-first2=Lowell|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTB0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT110|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191932/https://books.google.com/books?id=sTB0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT110|archive-date=26 March 2023 |url-status=live}}

|1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg

|EuropeHoly Roman Empire; Nuremberg, Bavaria

|An aerial battle, followed by the appearance of "something like a black spear, very long and thick {{efn|(translation: Ilse Von Jacobi) }}" {{efn|A broadsheet recorded witnesses observations }} hundreds of spheres, cylinders and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5wD5hS03NkgC&pg=PA153 |title=Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred |first=Jeffrey J. |last=Kripal |year=2011 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-45389-7 |pages=153–}}

|1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel

|EuropeSwitzerland; Basel, Basel

|A broadsheet published in 1566 depicted numerous spherical objects appearing out of the sun. {{efn|The event was recorded and depicted by Samuel Coccius, "a student of the Holy Scripture and of the free arts, at Basel".{{cite book |last=Jung |first=Carl|author-link=Carl Jung |page=95 |chapter=4. Previous History of the Ufo Phenomenon |title=Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies |date=1978 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-01822-5}} Extracted from Volume 10 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Civilization in Transition (1964). Originally published as Ein Moderner Mythus: Von Dingen, die am Himmel Gesehen werden (1958). Zurich and Stuttgart.}}

|Gwanghaegun period UFO Turmoil

|AsiaJoseon (Korea); Gangwon Province

|Multiple witnesses in Goseong, Wonju Gangneung, Chuncheon County and Yangyang County described a Halo or washbowl that was divided in two in the sky.{{cite news |last=Han |first=Dae-Kwang |date=18 July 2016 |title=Records of UFO, Black Soldiers of the Joseon Dynasty, Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty |work=Kyunghyang Shinmun |url=https://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?art_id=201607181630001 |access-date=13 March 2021 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191938/https://www.khan.co.kr/local/local-general/article/201607181630001 |url-status=live}} (Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty)

|Bonilla observation

|North AmericaMexico; Zacatecas Observatory, Zacatecas

|The astronomer José Bonilla photographed hundreds of dark objects crossing the sun while observing sunspot activity at Zacatecas Observatory. Bonilla published an account of the event three years later in L'Astronomie.{{Cite web |last=Voisey |first=Jon |date=2011-10-14 |title=Was the 'First Photographed UFO' a Comet? |url=https://www.universetoday.com/89911/was-the-first-photographed-ufo-a-comet/ |access-date=2023-03-22 |website=Universe Today |language=en-US |archive-date=30 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330112718/https://www.universetoday.com/89911/was-the-first-photographed-ufo-a-comet/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883 |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27264/ |work=MIT Technology Review |date=17 October 2011 |access-date=19 October 2011 |archive-date=17 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217155040/http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27264/ |url-status=dead |author=arXiv}}

|Mystery airships

|North AmericaUnited States

|Newspapers across California, and later other states, especially the Midwest, printed reports of strange airships and lights. Common elements of the descriptions included bright lights, cigar-shaped bodies, movable wings and a metallic hull.{{cite magazine |last=Genini |first=Ron |date=December 1979 |title=Close Encounters of the Earliest Kind |pages=94–99 |magazine=American Heritage |url=http://www.americanheritage.com/content/close-encounters-earliest-kind |access-date=14 February 2023 |archive-date=26 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126221008/http://www.americanheritage.com/content/close-encounters-earliest-kind |url-status=live}}.

|Aurora, Texas, UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Aurora, Texas

|Local correspondent S.E. Hayden reported the crash of an airship piloted by an alien. According to Hayden, the pilot was buried in the local cemetery. Residents of Aurora embrace the story without taking it seriously.{{ cite magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102185940/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948461,00.html |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,948461,00.html |url-status=live |archive-date=2 November 2007 |date=12 March 1979 |title=Close Encounters of a Kind |magazine=Time magazine |author=Time}}{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4587362.html |title=Aurora - Can a space alien rest in peace? |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |date=28 February 2007 |last=Peralta |first=Eyder |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=28 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628200413/http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4587362.html |url-status=live}}

|USS Supply

|North Pacific; about 300 miles from California{{cite web|author=Michael Tarbell| url=https://www.nicap.org/040228pacific_dir.htm|website=www.nicap.org|title=Coordinates given in the Monthly Weather Review of Mar 1904 |date=|publisher=National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena|access-date=4 March 2025}}

|{{efn|While onboard the USS Supply the eighth day after departing from Honolulu where the ship was re-coaled {{cite web|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/supply-ii.html|website=www.history.navy.mil|title=Supply II (Supply Ship)|date=11 March 2024|publisher=U.S. Navy |access-date=4 March 2025|via=www.guampedia.com/guam-leaders-from-1899-1904/#toc-jose-sisto-rodrigo-1898}} Observed by three crew-members.{{cite web|author1=Lt. Frank H. Schofield|author1-link=Frank Herman Schofield|author2=Fran Ridge|url=https://www.nicap.org/040228pacific_dir.htm|website=www.nicap.org|title=Three Red Objects Sighted From USS Supply|date=|publisher=National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena|access-date=4 March 2025}}}} Three objects "rather bright red" color with geometrical formation flight pattern "in-line" and "echelon"; the objects changed course and flightpath changed from the observed horizontal to angularly upwards. The duration of reported event was stated as 2 minutes plus. {{efn| The reporting officer who received the accounts stated all three accounts concurred. The ship docked in San Francisco on March 1, 1904.}}

|Mihal Grameno UFO

|EuropeOttoman Empire; Albania

|{{efn|Written in The Albanian Uprising by Mihal Grameno a distinguished Albanian journalist, writer, and activist}} "One night, while the fighters of Çerçiz were stationed at the top of a high mountain, a shiny object flew in front of us, stood suspended in the air for several minutes, and then disappeared."{{Cite book |last=Grameno |first=Mihal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I21PPwAACAAJ |title=Kryengritja shqiptare |date=1925 |publisher=Direttore |language=en |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=9 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609005559/https://books.google.com/books?id=I21PPwAACAAJ |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=UFO-t në Shqipëri |url=https://top-channel.tv/2013/10/22/ufo-t-ne-shqiperi/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=top-channel.tv |language=en-US |archive-date=6 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506111111/https://top-channel.tv/2013/10/22/ufo-t-ne-shqiperi/ |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Mihal Grameno e luftëtarët e Çerçiz Topullit kishin parë UFO-t e para në Shqipëri!? |trans-title=Mihal Grameno and the fighters of Çerçiz Topulli saw the first UFOs in Albania!? |language=sq |date=22 October 2016 |newspaper=Telegrafi |access-date=14 June 2023 |archive-date=25 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025025053/https://telegrafi.com/mihal-grameno-e-luftetaret-e-cerciz-topullit-kishin-pare-ufo-t-e-para-ne-shqiperi/ |url=https://telegrafi.com/mihal-grameno-e-luftetaret-e-cerciz-topullit-kishin-pare-ufo-t-e-para-ne-shqiperi/ |url-status=live |publisher=Telegrafi.com |location=Pristina, Kosovo}}

|New Zealand airship sightings

|OceaniaNew Zealand; Otago

|Moving and whirring lights were reported in the sky around Otago. In the following months, many sightings were reported across New Zealand with varying descriptions of the craft and crew.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/x-files/ |title=X-files: Strange happenings in the south |last=Yarwood |first=Vaughan |work=New Zealand Geographic |access-date=14 February 2023 |archive-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319052615/https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/x-files/ |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19210804.2.74 |newspaper=Evening Post |title=A Mystery of 1909 |via=Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz |date=4 August 1921 |access-date=22 September 2012 |archive-date=18 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018170706/http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19210804.2.74 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WH19090727.2.46 |newspaper=Wanganui Herald |title=An Otago Airship Mystery |via=Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz |author=United Press Association |date=27 July 1909 |access-date=22 September 2012 |archive-date=18 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018170706/http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WH19090727.2.46 |url-status=live}}

|Miracle of the Sun

|EuropePortugal; Fátima, Santarém District

|Thousands of people gathered in Fátima based on reported Marian apparitions and claimed to see bizarre solar activity. Catholic bishop José Alves Correia da Silva declared the miracle "worthy of belief" on 13 October 1930, and the primarily Catholic witnesses described the event in religious terms. Despite the many photographers present in the crowd, no unusual photo of the sun was captured. Later, Jacques Vallée, Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada would interpret it as a mass UFO sighting.{{cite book |first1=Joaquim |last1=Fernandes |first2=Fina |last2=d'Armada |title=Heavenly Lights |date=2005}}{{cite book |first1=Joaquim |last1=Fernandes |first2=Fina |last2=d'Armada |title=Celestial Secrets |date=2007}}{{cite book |first1=Joaquim |last1=Fernandes |first2=Fernando |last2=Fernandes |first3=Raul |last3=Berenguel |title=Fatima Revisited |date=2008}}{{cite web |title=Is This a Photo of Fatima's "Miracle of the Sun"? The Truth Behind the Popular Photo |url=https://www.churchpop.com/is-this-a-photo-of-fatimas-miracle-of-the-sun-the-truth-behind-the-popular-photo/ |website=ChurchPOP |language=en |date=11 May 2017}}

|Nicholas Roerich UFO sighting

|AsiaTibet

|During his Asian expedition, Russian theosophist Nicholas Roerich reported an oval in the sky above his caravan, which was later interpreted as a "flying saucer" by Roerich's Russian followers.{{cite book |last1=Nicholas Roerich |title=Altai Himalaya |date=1929 |publisher=Frederick A. Stokes Company, Nicholas Roerich Museum |isbn=9788173030444 |pages=361, 407 |url=https://www.roerich.org/roerich-writings-altai-himalaya.php |access-date=Jan 4, 2024 |quote=We all saw, in a direction from north to south, something big and shiny reflecting the sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp this thing changed in its direction from south to southwest. And we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly an oval form with shiny surface, one side of which was brilliant from the sun. |author1-link=Nicholas Roerich}}{{cite web |last1=Colavito |first1=Jason |title=Andrew Tomas, Nicolas Roerich, and the Flying Saucer Sighting of 1927 |url=https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/andrew-tomas-nicolas-roerich-and-the-flying-saucer-sighting-of-1927 |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en |date=7 November 2015}}{{cite thesis |title=The Legend of Shambhala in Eastern and Western Interpretations |last=Dmitrieva |first=Victoria |orig-date=Submitted 1997 |date=2000 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale du Canada |location=Ottawa |isbn=9780612438545 |oclc=1006670115 |url=https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=MQ43854&op=pdf&app=Library&oclc_number=1006670115 |access-date=6 January 2024 |degree=Master of Arts thesis |pages=69–73}}

|Frank Smythe UFO sighting

|AsiaChina–Nepal border; Mount Everest in the Himalayas

|During the 1933 Mount Everest expedition, Smythe witnessed two spots hovering and pulsating in the sky.{{cite journal |last1=Chatterji |first1=Champak |editor1-last=Harish Kapadia |title=The Climbing Partner - The Other Experience In The Himalaya |journal=Himalayan Journal |date=1993 |volume=49 |url=https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/49/16/the-climbing-partner-the-other-experience-in-the-himalaya/ |access-date=Jan 9, 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Horrell |first1=Mark |title=Frank Smythe is more interesting than George Mallory |url=https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2013/frank-smythe-is-more-interesting-than-george-mallory/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20saw%20two,series%20of%20tests.%E2%80%9D |website=markhorrell.com |access-date=Jan 7, 2024 |date=Dec 4, 2013}}

|Foo fighters

|Over World War II theaters

|During World War II, allied fighter pilots above Europe reported colorful balls of light following their aircraft at high speeds.{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775433,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417042038/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775433,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2008 |title=Foo-Fighter |access-date=3 July 2008 |magazine=Time |date=15 January 1945}}

|Cape Girardeau UFO legend

|North AmericaUnited States; Cape Girardeau, Missouri

|{{anchor|Cape1941}}A local legend gained wider attention in the 1980s when resident Charlotte Mann claimed in interviews that her father, Reverend William Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church, had administered last rites for the dying crew of a crashed flying saucer.{{cite news |url=https://www.kfvs12.com/story/31705969/75th-anniversary-of-alleged-ufo-crash-in-cape-girardeau/ |title=75th anniversary of alleged UFO crash in Cape Girardeau |publisher=KFVS |date=12 April 2016 |first1=Amber |last1=Ruch |first2=Kadee |last2=Brosseau |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=21 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521070310/https://www.kfvs12.com/story/31705969/75th-anniversary-of-alleged-ufo-crash-in-cape-girardeau/ |url-status=live}}{{cite AV media |url=https://www.kait8.com/video/2021/05/26/story-alleged-ufo-crash-near-cape-girardeau/ |title=Story of alleged UFO crash of 1941 near Cape Girardeau |publisher=KAIT |people=Hanson, Isabelle (reporter) |date=26 May 2021 |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=8 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708100304/https://www.kait8.com/video/2021/05/26/story-alleged-ufo-crash-near-cape-girardeau/ |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.southeastarrow.com/story/2455754.html |title=Before Roswell: The Cape Girardeau UFO of 1941 |last=Hartnett |first=Kara |date=26 October 2017 |publisher=Southeast Missouri State University |access-date=8 June 2023 |archive-date=21 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521070319/https://www.southeastarrow.com/story/2455754.html |url-status=live}}

|Battle of Los Angeles

|North AmericaUnited States; Los Angeles, California

|Just months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. radar stations picked up an unidentified aerial object in the early morning. For several hours, anti-aircraft artillery fired thousands of rounds, and the LA Times reported that “the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano."{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-17-me-1259-story.html |title=L.A. 'Battle' Launched a Golden Age of UFOs |work=Los Angeles Times |last=Rasmussen |first=Cecilia |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=20 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520084455/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/dec/17/local/me-1259 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=The Battle of Los Angeles |url=http://www.militarymuseum.org/BattleofLA.html |website=Military Museum |author=California Military Department |date=23 June 2017 |access-date=6 November 2015 |archive-date=27 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527214255/http://www.militarymuseum.org/BattleofLA.html |url-status=live}}

|Army Air Corps Flying School

|near Flying School, Columbus, Missouri{{cite web|url=https://www.columbus.af.mil/About-Us/|website=www.columbus.af.mil|title=Columbus Air Force Base History|publisher=United States Air Force|access-date=3 March 2025|via=Qwant}}

|Control tower operator observes two reddish colored round objects descend-hover-accelerate away

|468th Bomb Group {{cite book|last1=Reida|first1=Alvah M.|date=May 1964|chapter=Bomber Paced by UFO|location=1536 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington 36|editor-last1=Hall|editor-first1=Richard H. |editor-link=Richard H. Hall|title=The UFO EVIDENCE|chapter-url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=-ZJTAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA22&hl=en|pages=14–15(23)|publisher=National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena|access-date=2 March 2025|via=r/IndianDefense: IBeastMaster: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP or UFO) and notable incidents in and around India www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/comments/15ebhmk/unidentified_aerial_phenomena_uap_or_ufo_and/?force_seo=1 - archive.is/wip/gKwbO}}

|20–30 minutes airflight time from Palembang, Sumatra

|After midnight, returning from a bombing mission at an altitude of 14000 feet, speed "about 210 mph": 500 yards (about 457 meters) from the starboard an object appeared which the pilot estimated at the distance viewed was "probably 5-6 feet in diameter" (1.5-1.8 meters) - "intense red or orange" color - throbbed or vibrated constantly. The object followed the bomber for about 8 minutes while the pilot attempted evasive manoeuvres at the same 500 yard distance. The object flew "up" and away at a "90 degree" angle "accelerating rapidly".

|Trinity UFO Case

|North AmericaUnited States; New Mexico

|In 2003, two men began telling conflicting accounts of an avocado-shaped craft piloted by insectoid aliens crashing at the site of the first atomic bomb detonation. Despite a lack of evidence or internal consistency, the case was cited in the UFO investigation section of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023.{{Cite news |last=Tumin |first=Remy |date=2023-01-13 |title=Did Aliens Land on Earth in 1945? A Defense Bill Seeks Answers. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/us/ufo-new-mexico-congress.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230113195005/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/us/ufo-new-mexico-congress.html?smid=tw-share#selection-641.209-645.11 |archive-date=2023-01-13 |access-date=2024-01-18 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite web |last1=Dunning |first1=Brian |title=The Trinity UFO Crash of 1945 |url=https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4929 |website=Skeptoid |access-date=20 July 2024}}

|The Ghost Rockets

|EuropeScandinavia and other parts of Europe

|Thousands of UFO sightings were reported over Europe. Due in part to concerns that foreign governments were testing recovered experimental German technology, the Swedish and Greek governments investigated the reports separately.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mpiZRAiE0JwC&dq=swedish+ghost+rockets&pg=PA108 |title=Science in the Early Twentieth Century |first=Jacob Darwin |last=Hamblin |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-85109-665-7 |access-date=22 March 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326192001/https://books.google.com/books?id=mpiZRAiE0JwC&dq=swedish+ghost+rockets&pg=PA108 |url-status=live}}

|Ängelholm UFO memorial

|EuropeSweden; Ängelholm, Kristianstads County

|Swedish entrepreneur Gösta Carlsson, attributed his success to a 1946 UFO encounter, that he commemorated with a concrete monument. Independent investigations did not verify his account.{{cite news |date=23 November 2003 |title=Sannsagan om Pollenkungen |language=Swedish |trans-title=The true story of the Pollen King |work=Helsingborgs Dagblad |url=https://www.hd.se/2003-11-23/sannsagan-om-pollenkungen |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=4 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708060728/https://www.hd.se/2003-11-23/sannsagan-om-pollenkungen |archive-date=July 8, 2023}}{{cite news |last=Harrison |first=Dick |author-link=Dick Harrison |date=28 April 2017 |title=UFO i Skåne? |language=Swedish |trans-title=UFO in Skåne? |work=Svenska Dagbladet |url=https://www.svd.se/a/Rgo8r/ufo-i-skane |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127165728/https://www.svd.se/a/Rgo8r/ufo-i-skane |archive-date=27 January 2023 |quote=Det minner om en påstådd men inte bevisad landning av ett icke-jordiskt rymdskepp (”flygande tefat”, avbildat i vad som uppges vara skala 1:8) den 18 maj 1946. |trans-quote=It commemorates an alleged but not proven landing of a non-terrestrial spacecraft ("flying saucer", depicted in what is said to be a 1:8 scale) on May 18, 1946.}}{{cite book |last1=Semitjov |first1=Eugen |title=De otroliga tefaten |date=1974 |publisher=Askild & Kärnekull |location=Stockholm |isbn=978-9170089268 |language=Swedish |chapter=13 Mannen som teg i 25 år |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8tBDwAAQBAJ |pages=216–226 |access-date=10 April 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191550/https://books.google.com/books?id=L8tBDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}

|Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting

|North AmericaUnited States; North of Mount Rainier, Washington

|Private pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mount Rainier when he reported seeing a group of reflective craft moving at high speeds and flashing in the sun like mirrors. Bill Bequette of the East Oregonian, who first interviewed Arnold, summarized the sighting as, "nine saucer-like aircraft flying in formation." This introduced the term flying saucers, and Arnold's sighting sparked an explosion of UFO reports around the country.{{cite news |last=Lacitis |first=Erik |date=24 June 2017 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/flying-saucers-became-a-thing-70-years-ago-saturday-with-sighting-near-mount-rainier/ |title='Flying saucers' became a thing 70 years ago Saturday with sighting near Mount Rainier |newspaper=The Seattle Times |access-date=30 October 2021 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027022748/https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/flying-saucers-became-a-thing-70-years-ago-saturday-with-sighting-near-mount-rainier/ |url-status=live}}{{Cite book |last1=Grossman |first1=Wendy M. |last2=French |first2=Christopher C. |date=2017 |title=Why Statues Weep: The Best of the 'Skeptic' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1134962525 |via=Google Books |access-date=April 28, 2021 |archive-date=April 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428172932/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |url-status=live |pages=171–174}}{{cite news |last=Bequette |first=William C. |url=https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2454/files/2016/08/East-Oregonian-25June1947-FirstArticle.png |title=Impossible! Maybe, But Seein' Is Believin', Says Flyer |newspaper=East Oregonian |date=25 June 1947 |page=1 |access-date=18 February 2023 |archive-date=18 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230218055643/https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2454/files/2016/08/East-Oregonian-25June1947-FirstArticle.png |url-status=live}} (Scan of original Bequette article.){{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-man-who-introduced-the-world-to-flying-saucers/372732/ |title=The Man Who Introduced the World to Flying Saucers |website=The Atlantic |date=15 June 2014 |access-date=16 July 2023 |archive-date=11 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111183726/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-man-who-introduced-the-world-to-flying-saucers/372732/ |url-status=live}}

|1947 flying disc craze

|North AmericaUnited States; Washington and other states

|After the Kenneth Arnold sighting was reported in the news, over 800 similar sightings were reported throughout 1947.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |title=Why Statues Weep: The Best of the 'Skeptic' |first1=Wendy M. |last1=Grossman |first2=Christopher C. |last2=French |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-96252-5 |via=Google Books |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326192009/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |url-status=live}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjI4X7ZOvOIC |title=Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth, Ch 2 'The 1947 Flap' |first=Curtis |last=Peebles |date=1995 |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=978-0-425-15117-4 |via=Google Books}}

|Flight 105 UFO sighting

|North AmericaUnited States; En route from Boise, Idaho to Pendleton, Oregon

|A United Airlines crew including Captain Emil Smith, co-pilot Ralph Stephens, and flight attendant Marty Morrow witnessed nine unidentified objects. Believing them to be aircraft, Smith flashed the plane's landing lights intending to alert the objects which he described as "smooth on the bottom and rough appearing on top".{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109863026/eyewitness-account-of-flying-disc-by/ |title=Eyewitness Account of Flying Disc |via=Newspapers.com |newspaper=The Columbus Telegram |date=5 July 1947 |page=3 |author=United Press |access-date=18 February 2023 |archive-date=14 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114195357/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109863026/eyewitness-account-of-flying-disc-by/ |url-status=live}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjI4X7ZOvOIC |title=Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth |first=Curtis |last=Peebles |year=1995 |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=978-0-425-15117-4 |via=Google Books}}

|Rhodes UFO photographs

|North AmericaUnited States; Phoenix, Arizona

|Inventor and amateur astronomer William Albert Rhodes took photographs of what he described as a silent grey object that appeared after a thunderstorm. The Air Force investigated the photographs and concluded that they showed airborne "paper swept up by the winds".{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Linda |date=2016-01-25 |title=Did a UFO crash in the valley? |url=https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/did-a-ufo-crash-in-the-valley |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=FOX 10 Phoenix |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |last=Condon |first=Edward Euhler |url= |title=Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects |date=1969 |publisher=Dutton, University of Colorado (Boulder) |page= |language=en}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=21366790 |title=Mystery 'Whatsis' Photographed Over Phoenix |date=9 Jul 1947 |page=1 |publisher=Arizona Republic |author=Robert C. Hanika |website=Newspapers.com}}

|The Roswell Incident

|North AmericaUnited States; about 30 mi. north of Roswell, New Mexico

|Walter Haut, a United States Army Air Forces spokesperson, issued a press release announcing the "capture" of a "flying saucer". Hours later, the Army announced that the find was a crashed weather balloon. In 1978, the case regained attention after Jesse Marcel, the Army Officer who recovered the wreckage, told UFO researchers that the weather balloon explanation was a cover story. In 1994, the Air Force attributed the incident to the previously classified Project Mogul.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/18/ufo.report/ |title=Report on Roswell UFO crash due soon |date=18 June 1997 |publisher=CNN |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=7 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107072724/http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/18/ufo.report/ |url-status=live}}

|Maury Island hoax

|North AmericaUnited States; Puget Sound near Maury Island, Washington

|Fred Crisman mailed an account from employee Harold A. Dahl, along with a cigar box of metal wreckage, to Raymond A. Palmer who had previously published the Shaver Mystery stories. Dahl claimed that his dog was killed and his son was injured by debris in an encounter with six flying doughnut-shaped objects. He also reported that he was subsequently threatened by Men in Black. On July 31, 1947, Palmer arranged a meeting between Crisman, Dahl, Air Force investigators, and flying saucer witnesses Kenneth Arnold & Emil Smith.{{cite web |last1=Haulman |first1=Bruce |title=Time & Again: 75th Anniversary of The Maury Island Incident |url=https://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/news/time-again-75th-anniversary-of-the-maury-island-incident/ |website=Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber |access-date=17 February 2023 |date=22 June 2022 |archive-date=18 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230218061144/https://www.vashonbeachcomber.com/news/time-again-75th-anniversary-of-the-maury-island-incident/ |url-status=live}}{{cite book |last=Harrison |first=Albert A. |author-link=Albert Harrison (psychologist) |year=2007 |title=Starstruck: Cosmic Visions in Science, Religion, and Folklore |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-84545-286-5 |pages=123– |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORNcQUBAEjUC&pg=PA123 |access-date=October 2, 2013 |archive-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012231551/http://books.google.com/books?id=ORNcQUBAEjUC&pg=PA123 |url-status=live}}

|The Green Fireballs

|North AmericaUnited States; New Mexico and other parts of the Southwestern United States

|The US Air Force investigated reports of green flares streaking across the sky after an Air Force C-47 transport encountered a green ball of fire on 5 December 1948. The pilot, Captain Goede, described the object as larger than a meteor and not arching downward as a meteor would. The Air Force investigation was inconclusive.{{cite book |last=Ruppelt |first=Edward J. |date=1956 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17346 |title=Report on Unidentified Flying Objects |publisher=DoubleDay |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125165011/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17346 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.project1947.com/gfb/gfbchron.html |title=Green Fireball Chronology |last=Carpenter |first=Joel |website=Project 1947 |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=6 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206224458/http://www.project1947.com/gfb/gfbchron.html |url-status=live}}

|Mantell UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Kentucky

|Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died in the crash of his P-51 Mustang fighter plane near Franklin, Kentucky, United States, after being sent in pursuit of an unidentified flying object. While following the object, he climbed beyond {{convert|25000|ft|m}} and blacked out from a lack of oxygen. The military later identified the craft he was pursuing as likely a Skyhook weather balloon.{{cite book |author-link=Edward J. Ruppelt |first=Edward J. |last=Ruppelt |date=1956 |title=The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Doubleday Books |chapter=Chapter Three |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17346 |pages=44–45, 50, 56 |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125165011/https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17346 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Graff |first1=Garrett M. |title=A History of Confusing Stuff in the Sky |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/-chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-ufo-history/672982/ |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=The Atlantic |date=8 February 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230209131504/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/-chinese-spy-balloon-shot-down-ufo-history/672982/ |archive-date=9 February 2023 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Stilwell |first1=Blake |title=The First Air Force Pilot to Die Chasing a UFO Was Actually Chasing a Secret Balloon |url=https://www.military.com/history/first-air-force-pilot-die-chasing-ufo-was-actually-chasing-secret-balloon.html |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=Military.com |date=31 October 2022 |language=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231116050109/https://www.military.com/history/first-air-force-pilot-die-chasing-ufo-was-actually-chasing-secret-balloon.html |archive-date=16 November 2023}}

|Aztec, New Mexico UFO hoax

|North AmericaUnited States; New Mexico

|Conmen Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer sold "magnetic oil-detecting machines" based on the story that they had replicated technology from a crashed spaceship. The pair were convicted of fraud in 1953. Elements of their story regarding a crashed ship with occupants were later entangled in the Roswell narrative.{{cite news |last=Irvin |first=Leigh |title=Aztec UFO landing subject of new book |url=http://www.daily-times.com/ci_20271257/azrec-ufo-landing-subject-new-book |newspaper=Farmington Daily Times |location=New Mexico |date=28 March 2012 |access-date=1 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923212404/http://www.daily-times.com/ci_20271257/azrec-ufo-landing-subject-new-book |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |last1=Carroll |first1=Robert Todd |title=Aztec (New Mexico) UFO Hoax |url=http://skepdic.com/aztec.html |website=The Skeptic's Dictionary |access-date=8 April 2016 |archive-date=26 May 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000526033727/http://skepdic.com/aztec.html |url-status=live}}{{cite book |author=John Michael Greer |title=The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYU1GrJjUZMC&pg=PA119 |year=2009 |publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide |isbn=978-0-7387-1319-9 |pages=119– |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191947/https://books.google.com/books?id=EYU1GrJjUZMC&pg=PA119 |url-status=live}}

|Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter

|North AmericaUnited States; Montgomery, Alabama

|Clarence Chiles and John Whitted, American commercial pilots, reported that their airplane had nearly collided with a UFO near Montgomery. According to the pilots the object "looked like a wingless aircraft...it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare."{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Jerome |author-link=Jerome Clark |date=1998 |title=The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial |publisher=Visible Ink Press |isbn=978-1-57859-029-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/ufobookencyclope0000clar |url-access=registration}}{{cite book |last=Menzel |first=Donald |author-link=Donald Howard Menzel |date=1963 |title=The World of Flying Saucers: A Major Myth of the Space Age |url=https://archive.org/details/worldofflyingsau0000menz |url-access=registration |page=109}}

|Gorman dogfight

|North AmericaUnited States; North Dakota

|A US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes over Fargo, North Dakota. According to US Air Force officer Edward J. Ruppelt, this was one of three cases, along with the Mantell incident and Chiles-Whitted encounter, that shifted the Air Force's attitude about UFO reports leading to the creation of Project Blue Book.{{cite book |author=Clark, Jerome |title=Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs |year=2003 |publisher=Citadel Press |isbn=0-8065-2299-2 |page=66}}{{cite book |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17346/17346.txt |title=The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects |first=Edward J. |last=Ruppelt |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=28 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828235635/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17346/17346.txt |url-status=live}}

|McMinnville UFO photographs

|North AmericaUnited States; a farm near McMinnville, Oregon

|A farmer took pictures of a purported "flying saucer". These were the first flying saucer photographs since the coining of the term.{{cite news |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/history/2015/05/past_tense_oregon_ufo_photos_t.html |title=UFO photos taken near McMinnville in 1950 still raise questions |newspaper=The Oregonian |first=John |last=Killen |date=12 May 2015 |access-date=13 January 2023 |archive-date=17 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417032641/http://www.oregonlive.com/history/2015/05/past_tense_oregon_ufo_photos_t.html |url-status=live}}

|Mariana UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Great Falls, Montana

|The manager of Great Falls' pro baseball team took color film of two UFOs flying over Great Falls. The film was extensively analyzed by the US Air Force and several independent investigators.{{cite book |last=Baker |first=R.M.L. |chapter=Motion Pictures of UFO's |title=UFO's: a Scientific Debate |editor-first1=Carl |editor-last1=Sagan |editor-first2=Thornton |editor-last2=Page |publisher=Cornell University press |date=1972 |pages=191–198}}{{cite journal |url=http://files.ncas.org/ufosymposium/baker.html#evidence |last=Baker |first=R. M. L. |title=Observational Evidence of Anomalistic Phenomena |journal=The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences |volume=XV |number=1 |pages=31–36 |date=February 1968 |bibcode=1968JAnSc..15...31B |access-date=13 February 2023 |archive-date=23 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923070832/http://files.ncas.org/ufosymposium/baker.html#evidence |url-status=live}}

|Sioux City mystery plane incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Sioux City, Iowa

|Two pilots and a military officer passenger aboard a commercial DC-3 reported being buzzed by an unidentified straight-winged plane both larger and more maneuverable than a B-29.

|Lubbock Lights

|North AmericaUnited States; Lubbock, Texas

|Several lights in V-shaped formations were repeatedly spotted flying over the city. Witnesses included W. I. Robinson, A. G. Oberg, and W. L. Ducker, professors of geology, chemical engineering, and petroleum engineering respectively. Teenage student Carl Hart Jr. photographed the lights{{cite magazine |title=Have We Visitors From Space? |last1=Darrach |first1=H.B. |last2=Ginna |first2=Robert |magazine=LIFE Magazine |date=7 April 1952}} [http://www.nicap.org/life52.htm Reproduction of article with commentary from NICAP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306075415/http://www.nicap.org/life52.htm |date=6 March 2023 }}

|Wonsan-Sunchon UFO incident

|AsiaKorea; Wonsan and Sunchon

|Four American military personnel aboard two different B-29 bombers reported seeing an orange globe-shaped light over two different cities in northern Korea

|1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Washington, D.C.

|A series of sightings accompanied radar contacts in the Washington area. These were the first sightings to be widely and seriously reported as potentially physical craft operated by intelligent life from another planet. In response, the CIA formed the Robertson Panel which advised Project Blue Book to "strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired".{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20020727/ufos27/something-in-the-air-50-years-ago-ufos-streaked-over-dc |title=Something in the air: 50 years ago, UFOs streaked over D.C. |newspaper=The Seattle Times |last=Carlson |first=Peter |date=27 July 2002 |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=19 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919090009/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020727&slug=ufos27 |url-status=live}}{{cite book |author=Swords, Powell |title=UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry |url=https://archive.org/details/UFOsAndGovernment |url-access=registration |year=2012 |publisher=Anomalist Books |isbn=978-1-938398-15-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/UFOsAndGovernment/page/n164 153]–163}}{{cite book |last=Peebles |first=Curtis |author-link= |date=1994 |title=Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth |url= |location= |publisher=Berkley Books |pages=79, 102 |isbn=0-425-15117-4}}

|Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting

|North AmericaUnited States; Norfolk, Virginia

|William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry, pilots of a DC-4 airliner of Pan American Airways, radioed the Norfolk civil aviation authority to report eight large, round, glowing red objects.{{cite book |author=Swords, Powell |title=UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry |url=https://archive.org/details/UFOsAndGovernment |url-access=registration |year=2012 |publisher=Anomalist Books |isbn=978-1-938398-15-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/UFOsAndGovernment/page/n160 149]–150, 220}}{{cite book |last=Menzel |first=Donald Howard |year=1963 |title=The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age |publisher=Doubleday |pages=260–265}}

|The Flatwoods Monster

|North AmericaUnited States; Flatwoods, West Virginia

|Three local boys followed a bright object into the forest to what they believed was a UFO landing. They went to the nearby home of Kathleen May who accompanied them back to the spot along with two other children and teenage National Guardsman Eugene Lemon. In the forest, they smelled a foul odor and saw what May described as a tall figure with claws and "a head that resembled the ace of spades".{{cite journal |last=Griffin |first=Buddy |editor-last=Lilly |editor-first=John |title=The Legend of the Flatwoods Monster |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liLXAAAAMAAJ |date=Fall 2002 |journal=Goldenseal |publisher=State of West Virginia, Department of Commerce |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=56–61 |access-date=19 February 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191934/https://books.google.com/books?id=liLXAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live}}

|Marius Dewilde sighting

|EuropeFrance; Quarouble, Nord

|French metalworker Marius Dewilde claimed to have become a contactee in 1954. Local newspapers and Radar magazine covered Dewilde's story of small humanoid figures landing a ship on the abandoned railroad tracks near his home. The coverage of Dewilde and other 1950s contactees spurred the careers of French ufologists Aimé Michel and Jacques Vallée.{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230361362_13 |doi=10.1057/9780230361362_13 |chapter=Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France |title=Imagining Outer Space |year=2012 |last1=Miller |first1=James |pages=245–264 |isbn=978-1-349-31215-3}}

|Fiorentina Stadium mass sighting

|EuropeItaly; Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence

|A football game between Fiorentina and Pistoiese was under way at the Stadio Artemio Franchi when a group of UFOs traveling at high speed abruptly stopped over the stadium. The stadium became silent as the crowd of around 10,000 spectators witnessed the event and described the UFOs as cigar shaped.{{cite news |title=The day UFOs hovered over Fiorentina's Stadio Artemio Franchi |work=BBC Sport |last=Padula |first=Richard |date=4 January 2013 |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/20917594 |access-date=30 June 2020 |archive-date=18 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118014716/http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/20917594 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=The day UFOs stopped play |work=BBC News |date=24 October 2014 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29342407 |last=Padula |first=Richard |access-date=30 June 2020 |archive-date=16 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516101826/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29342407 |url-status=live}}

|Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter

|North AmericaUnited States; A farmhouse near Hopkinsville, Kentucky

|At a rural farmhouse, eleven people witnessed creatures in the night. Two of the men opened fire with a shotgun and rifle, and the entire group later fled to the Hopkinsville police station. The creatures have been variously described as goblins, aliens, "little green men", owls, and circus monkeys. Four officers, five state troopers, three deputies, and four military police investigated the farmhouse finding bullet holes but no monsters. The story has had a broad impact on popular culture.{{cite web |url=http://www.csicop.org/si/2006-06/i-files.html |title=Siege of 'Little Green Men' – The 1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident |first=Joe |last=Nickell |date=December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814154119/http://www.csicop.org/si/2006-06/i-files.html |archive-date=14 August 2009 |work=Skeptical Inquirer}}{{Cite web |last=reports |first=New Era staff |title=Archives {{!}} Story of space-ship, 12 little men probed today |url=https://www.kentuckynewera.com/eclipse/article_fecf69ce-8611-11e7-beaf-0ffce93df895.html |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=Kentucky New Era |date=20 August 2017 |language=en |archive-date=20 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020130021/https://www.kentuckynewera.com/eclipse/article_fecf69ce-8611-11e7-beaf-0ffce93df895.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Brehmer |first=Nat |title=Let's Examine the Real-Life UFO Encounter That Inspired 'Critters' |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3507236/lets-examine-real-life-ufo-encounter-inspired-critters/ |work=Bloody Disgusting |date=June 29, 2018 |access-date=2021-09-18 |archive-date=17 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617051327/https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3507236/lets-examine-real-life-ufo-encounter-inspired-critters/ |url-status=live}}

|Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Suffolk, England

| United States Air Force (USAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF) radar operators (from Lakenheath RAF Station, Bentwaters RAF Station, and Sculthorpe RAF Station) detected up to 15 objects over Suffolk. An RAF pilot was sent out from Waterbeach RAF Station in a de Havilland Venom, a jet aircraft with aircraft interception radar. The pilot reported spotting the object on radar and visually observing a luminous white object that moved behind his craft when he attempted to intercept.

|Elizabeth Klarer

|AfricaSouth Africa; Drakensberg

|A series of photos depicting a supposed UFO were taken on 24 July near Rosetta in the Drakensberg region. The photographer, meteorologist Elizabeth Klarer, claimed detailed adventures with an alien race including having had an alien lover, Akon, who would have fathered her son Ayling.{{cite web |last1=Beukes |first1=Lauren |title=The Woman Who Loved An Alien |url=http://laurenbeukes.bookslive.co.za/blog/2010/02/19/the-woman-who-loved-an-alien/ |date=19 February 2010 |website=bookslive |access-date=25 August 2016 |archive-date=17 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617050936/http://laurenbeukes.bookslive.co.za/blog/2010/02/19/the-woman-who-loved-an-alien/ |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Elizabeth Klarer-inspired SA musical Star+Crossed to hit the local theatre scene on December 9 |date=5 November 2022 |url=https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/life/elizabeth-klarer-inspired-sa-musical-starcrossed-to-hit-the-local-theatre-scene-on-december-9-24611377-2585-4a26-a8f2-161451739206 |access-date=16 June 2023 |newspaper=Cape Argus |publisher=Independent News and Media South Africa |location=Cape Town, South Africa |via=Independent Online |archive-date=17 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617004711/https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/life/elizabeth-klarer-inspired-sa-musical-starcrossed-to-hit-the-local-theatre-scene-on-december-9-24611377-2585-4a26-a8f2-161451739206 |url-status=live}}

|Gordon Cooper UFO Sightings

|North AmericaUnited States; Edwards Air Force Base, California

|

Gordon Cooper, one of the original Project Mercury astronauts, witnessed a type of metallic craft without wings flying over Germany in the 1950s. At the time, Cooper believed these to be Soviet aircraft. His attitude later changed after an incident at Edwards Air Force Base. Cooper sent a crew of James Bittick and Jack Gettys out to a dry lakebed to set up data-recording photography equipment. Cooper said the two men, both familiar with experimental aircraft, came back shaken and talking about witnessing a wingless aircraft with retractable legs silently land and take off near them. Cooper reported the incident to The Pentagon which asked for all photographs of the craft. Cooper looked at the photos before sending them off and believed that the government covered up a UFO encounter.{{cite web |url=http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/cooper.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223085906/http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/phenomena/cooper.html |archive-date=23 February 2010 |title=Gordon Cooper: No Mercury UFO |author=Martin, Robert |publisher=Space.com |date=10 September 1999 |quote=[...] the retired air force colonel, who once lectured the United Nations on the reality of UFOs, still holds an "unshakable" belief in extraterrestrial intelligence, thanks largely to personal experience.}}{{cite book |last1=Cooper |first1=Gordon |last2=Henderson |first2=Bruce |author2-link=Bruce Henderson (author) |title=Leap of Faith |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2000 |isbn=0-06-019416-2 |oclc=59538671 |pages=81–86}}

|Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; East Anglia

|{{Anchor|Torres1957}}U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres reports that he was ordered to intercept and fire on a UFO displaying "very unusual flight patterns" over East Anglia. Ground radar operators tracked what was believed to be an unidentified aircraft for some time before Torres' plane was scrambled to intercept.{{cite web |title=Letter to the Ministry of Defence, London, DEFE 31/176 |date=29 July 1988 |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos/ |format=PDF |access-date=15 March 2009 |author=Ministry of Defence |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609174333/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ufos/ |url-status=live |archive-date=9 June 2009}}{{Cite news |last=Burnett |first=Thane |title='I'll say what I believe – space aliens' |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=21 October 2008 |url=http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/thane_burnett/2008/10/21/7156786.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022161328/http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/thane_burnett/2008/10/21/7156786.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 October 2008 |access-date=19 March 2009}}{{Cite news |last=Evans |first=Michael |title=US airman Milton Torres told to shoot down UFO when based at RAF Manston |newspaper=The Times |date=October 20, 2008 |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/us-airman-milton-torres-told-to-shoot-down-ufo-when-based-at-raf-manston-jjqfb6qrr8d |access-date=20 March 2023 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320090615/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/us-airman-milton-torres-told-to-shoot-down-ufo-when-based-at-raf-manston-jjqfb6qrr8d |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last=Spangler |first=Nicholas |title=Retired pilot explains 1957 UFO incident |newspaper=Seattle Times |date=23 October 2008 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/retired-pilot-explains-1957-ufo-incident/ |access-date=20 March 2023 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320090616/https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/retired-pilot-explains-1957-ufo-incident/ |url-status=live}}

|Antônio Vilas-Boas Abduction

|South AmericaBrazil; Near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais

|Law student Antônio Vilas-Boas described being abducted by humanoid aliens and taken aboard their egg-shaped craft. He also said that he was confined within a small round room where he was compelled to have sex with a four foot tall alien woman.{{ cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970622/ai_n14100764/pg_2 |title=They came from out'a space |work=The Independent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103181652/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970622/ai_n14100764/pg_2 |archive-date=3 January 2009 |last=Hulse |first=Tim |date=22 June 1997}}

|Levelland UFO case

|North AmericaUnited States; Levelland, Texas

|Drivers observed cigar-shaped lights above the highway, followed by electrical failures.{{ cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837169-4,00.html |title=A Fresh Look at Flying Saucers |magazine=Time Magazine |author=Time |date=4 August 1967 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114212802/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837169-4,00.html |archive-date=14 January 2009}}

|Kirtland AFB UFO sighting

|North AmericaUnited States; Albuquerque, New Mexico

|Through binoculars, two Civil Aeronautics Administration tower operators reported seeing an egg shape emitting a white light beneath it.{{cite book |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-7607-0196-6 |editor-last1=Sagan |editor-first1=Carl |editor-last2=Page |editor-first2=Thornton |title=UFO's: A Scientific Debate |date=1972}} (James E. McDonald via Carl Sagan.){{cite conference |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d092d4990f93c000119785c/1560882508023/scienceindefault.pdf |title=Science in Default: Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigation |last=McDonald |first=James |date=27 December 1969 |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |author-link=James E. McDonald |pages=33–36 |access-date=23 July 2020 |archive-date=23 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723072851/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf80ff422b5a90001351e31/t/5d092d4990f93c000119785c/1560882508023/scienceindefault.pdf |url-status=live}}

|Betty and Barney Hill abduction

|North AmericaUnited States; South of Lancaster on Route 3, New Hampshire

|The Hills reported the first alien abduction experience to be widely spread in English-language publications. While driving home, they observed a light move through the sky and land ahead of them. Barney Hill said that, against his will, he turned the car down a side road towards the light, where he found six small humanoid beings waiting for them. Betty Hill reported that they inserted a needle through her navel among other vaguely medical tests.{{cite magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121162039/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828455,00.html |title=Testament for Believers |magazine=Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,828455,00.html |url-status=dead |date=18 November 1966 |last=Fuller |first=John |archive-date=21 November 2007}}

|Kallamishtez UFO incident

|EuropeAlbania; Kurvelesh

|Residents of Kallamishtëz in the Kurvelesh region reported a bright object in the sky. Albanian authorities said that it was a new jet plane used by the Albanian Air Force.

|Lonnie Zamora incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Socorro, New Mexico

|Police officer Lonnie Zamora investigated a roaring sound. Zamora and a nearby tourist found a craft that took off shortly after their arrival. The craft left impressions in the ground that did not aid in identification.{{cite web |url=http://www.dchieftain.com/news/81987-07-30-08.html |title=City plans to make UFO site into tourist attraction |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110718074256/http://www.dchieftain.com/news/81987-07-30-08.html |archive-date=18 July 2011 |work=El Defensor Chieftain |date=30 July 2008 |last=Cronce |first=Evelyn}}

|Solway Firth Spaceman

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Cumbria, England

|While on a day trip with his family, fireman Jim Templeton took a photo of his daughter, that when developed showed a mysterious figure in the background. Templeton believed it to be a "spaceman", but later analysis showed it was most likely his wife.{{cite news |last=Armstrong |first=Simon |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-27391210 |title=The mystery of the Solway Spaceman |date=23 May 2014 |work=BBC}}

|Big Sur UFO

|An Air Force team filming a missile test are ordered to secrecy after recording objects apparently following a warhead and emitting flashes. In 1993, the project engineer publicly revealed they had filmed the deployment of decoy warheads.{{Cite web|url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/19/air-force-veterans-who-are-ufo-true-believers-return-newly-attentive-washington.html|title=Air Force Veterans Who Are UFO True Believers Return to Newly Attentive Washington|first=Travis|last=Tritten|date=October 19, 2021|website=Military.com}}

|Dwikora Operation UFO incident

|AsiaSurabaya, Indonesia

|Officer Jacob Salatun—founder of the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space in Indonesia—wrote several books on UFOs and founded an organization to study UFO reports after he served as Minister of Industry. According to Salatun, one night during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, pilots reported seeing and shooting at a dark, mango-shaped craft with colored lights. Salatun claims that fragments of the military's shells struck individuals outside of their homes in Sidoarjo.{{Cite web |title=Peristiwa 'UFO Dwikora' tahun 1964, TNI menembaki piring terbang di Surabaya dengan Artileri Pertahanan Udara! |url=https://wartabulukumba.pikiran-rakyat.com/literatur/amp/pr-873478441/peristiwa-ufo-dwikora-tahun-1964-tni-menembaki-piring-terbang-di-surabaya-dengan-artileri-pertahanan-udara |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=wartabulukumba.pikiran-rakyat.com |archive-date=29 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429050357/https://wartabulukumba.pikiran-rakyat.com/literatur/amp/pr-873478441/peristiwa-ufo-dwikora-tahun-1964-tni-menembaki-piring-terbang-di-surabaya-dengan-artileri-pertahanan-udara |url-status=live}}

|Project Gemini UFO

|Low Earth orbit; Above Hawaii

|During Gemini 4, astronaut James McDivitt spotted a white cylinder with a protruding arm traveling in his orbit. McDivitt has said that it was impossible for him to assign scale to the object against the black background of space, saying that it could have been small enough to hold in his hands or "the size of the Empire State Building."{{cite interview |interviewer=Kevin M. Rusnak |series=NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project |title=Edited Oral History Transcript – Gerald P. Carr |location=Huntsville, Arkansas |date=25 October 2000 |first=Gerald P. |last=Carr |publisher=NASA |url=https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/CarrGP/CarrGP_10-25-00.htm |access-date=27 August 2021 |archive-date=27 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827224434/https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/CarrGP/CarrGP_10-25-00.htm |url-status=live}}

|The Incident at Exeter

|North AmericaUnited States; Exeter, New Hampshire

|Numerous people reported pulsating UFOs in Exeter, New Hampshire. The events were the subject of The Incident at Exeter by John G. Fuller.{{cite news |url=http://www.seacoastnh.com/Famous-People/Link-Free-or-Die/Norman-Muscarello-Recalls-His-UFO-Incident-at-Exeter/ |title=Norman Muscarello Recalls His UFO Incident at Exeter |work=SeacoastNH |editor-last=Robinson |editor-first=J. Dennis |date=October 1980 |access-date=12 December 2013 |archive-date=12 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212215432/http://www.seacoastnh.com/Famous-People/Link-Free-or-Die/Norman-Muscarello-Recalls-His-UFO-Incident-at-Exeter/ |url-status=live}}

|The Valensole UFO incident

|EuropeFrance; Valensole, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

|French farmer, Maurice Massé, witnessed a spherical vehicle in his lavender field. He noticed and approached two individuals that he observed near the vehicle, but after one pointed a tube in his direction, he stood still feeling paralyzed. He described the beings as child-sized, pale, large-headed, with only holes where a mouth should be. Massé said that after they left in their vehicle, he was never again able to grow a healthy plant in the area where the craft had landed. He did not personally comment on the effect this had on him, saying, "One always says too much." His wife reported that the man was plagued with exhaustion for months, that he had confessed some type of communication to her, and that it was a "spiritual experience" for her husband.{{cite book |first=Brenda |last=Denzler |title=The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnQU2Q65lWsC&pg=PA39 |year=2001 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-93027-8 |pages=39–}}{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Narváez |title=The Good People: New Fairylore Essays |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DLmoKKkxAX0C&pg=PA484 |year=1997 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0-8131-0939-6 |pages=484–}}

|Kecksburg UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Kecksburg, Pennsylvania

|Local newspapers and newscasts reported a fireball observed in the skies over Kecksburg. According to some residents, they found an acorn-shaped object in the woods. The U.S. military closed off the area to investigate and reported no evidence of a crash. A model built for Unsolved Mysteries is kept on display by the fire department, which leads an annual UFO celebration.{{cite web |last1=Dinkel |first1=Matthew |title=Acorn from Space: The Kecksburg Incident |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/acorn-space-kecksburg-incident |website=Pennsylvania Center for the Book |publisher=Pennsylvania State University |access-date=28 October 2019 |archive-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201003127/https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/acorn-space-kecksburg-incident |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://kecksburgvfd.com/ufo-festival-latest-news/ |title=UFO Festival-Latest News |author=Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department |work=UFO Festival |access-date=12 February 2023 |date=2022 |archive-date=13 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213041603/https://kecksburgvfd.com/ufo-festival-latest-news/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Oberg |first=James |author-link=James Oberg |title=Jim Oberg on the 'NASA lawsuit over Kecksburg UFO Documents' |date=7 January 2008 |url=http://www.jamesoberg.com/statement_nasa_kecksburg.pdf |access-date=13 February 2023 |archive-date=18 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818034146/http://www.jamesoberg.com/statement_nasa_kecksburg.pdf |url-status=live}}

|Michigan "swamp gas" UFO reports

|North AmericaUnited States; Dexter, Michigan and Hillsdale, Michigan

|Two mass sightings above wetlands were dismissed at a press conference as "marsh gas".{{Cite web|url=https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/magazine/flying-saucers-and-swamp-gas/|title=Flying Saucers and Swamp Gas | Bentley Historical Library}}

|Westall UFO

|OceaniaAustralia; Clayton South, Victoria

|Several hundred students and school faculty from Westall High School watched an object land at the nearby Grange Reserve.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/10/01/1127804696941.html |title=Academic throws light on 40-year-old UFO mystery |access-date=13 February 2007 |work=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=2 October 2005 |author=The Age |archive-date=5 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305061129/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/10/01/1127804696941.html |url-status=live}}

|Lead masks case

|South AmericaBrazil; Niterói, Rio de Janeiro

|The bodies of two recently deceased men were found on a hillside in Rio de Janeiro. They wore raincoats and handmade lead masks. A mutual friend, Elcio Gomes, said that the men had been "scientific spiritualists", members of a religious group that attempted to contact extraterrestrials using hallucinogens{{Cite web |title=Solving the Lead Masks of Vintem Hill |url=https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4398 |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=Skeptoid}}{{cite web |last1=Valjak |first1=Domagoj |title=Radioactivity, UFOs, cults, or just plain weirdness: The Lead Masks Case of Brazil is a baffling unsolved case |url=https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/28/the-lead-masks-case-of-brazil/ |website=The Vintage News |access-date=22 June 2024 |language=en |date=28 November 2017}}

|Malmstrom UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Montana

|A missile facility malfunction was claimed to be linked to a UFO report by Robert Salas.{{Cite web|url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/seminal-montana-ufo-events-pentagon|title=Nearly six decades after seminal Montana UFO incidents, air force vets brief Pentagon}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-air-force-personnel-ufos-deactivated-nukes/|title=Ex-Air Force Personnel: UFOs Deactivated Nukes - CBS News|date=September 28, 2010|website=www.cbsnews.com}}

|Falcon Lake Incident

|North AmericaCanada; Falcon Lake, Manitoba

|Prospector Stefan Michalak attributed unusual burns on his body to a purported UFO sighting near Falcon Lake.{{Cite web |title=UFOs in Canada |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ufos-in-canada |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Bernhardt |first1=Darren |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/falcon-lake-incident-book-anniversary-1.4121639 |title=Falcon Lake incident is Canada's 'best-documented UFO case,' even 50 years later |website=CBC News |date=19 May 2017 |access-date=22 June 2024}} Radiation tests done at Misericordia General Hospital came back negative. Higher levels of soil radiation at the area where Michalak said he was burned were traced to an underground vein of radium.{{cite news |last1=Turner |first1=Jay |title=The Falcon Lake Incident: UFOs on World Coins |url=https://coinweek.com/the-falcon-lake-incident-ufos-on-world-coins/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=CoinWeek |date=20 May 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Hendricks |first1=Jon |title=X-files at University of Manitoba: Investigative files, artifacts from UFO encounter donated to university archives |url=https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/x-files-at-university-of-manitoba-investigative-files-artifacts-from-ufo-encounter-donated-to-university-archives-1.4675255 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=CTV News |date=7 November 2019 |language=en}}

|Close encounter of Cussac

|EuropeFrance; near Cussac, Auvergne

|A 13-year-old boy and his younger sister reported an incident to their father, local police, and investigators. According to police reports, they witnessed a brilliant sphere and four small black occupants while herding cattle outside their village.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202132.html |title=French Get a Look at Nation's UFO Files |newspaper=Washington Post |date=23 March 2007 |last=Moore |first=Molly |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-date=10 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610120203/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202132.html |url-status=live}}

|1967 British flying saucer hoax

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Southern England

|Apprentices from the Royal Aircraft Establishment constructed six fake flying saucers out of metal-clad fiberglass. They filled them with flour, water, and electronic components, and dropped the saucers off in fields during the night. When a Scotland Yard bomb disposal squad was called in, X-Ray tests revealed the presence of Eveready brand batteries, and the hoax was exposed.{{cite web |title=The great saucer invasion: The day six 'spaceships' landed in England |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41110193 |publisher=BBC |date=3 September 2017 |access-date=3 September 2017}}{{cite web |title=Alien invasion hoax fooled MoD, archive papers reveal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/03/alien-invasion-hoax-fooled-ministry |work=The Guardian |date=3 March 2011 |access-date=3 September 2017}}

|Shag Harbour UFO incident

|North AmericaCanada; Gulf of Maine near Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia

|Royal Canadian Mounted Police and six civilians reported that a large illuminated object crashed into Shag Harbour. A Department of National Defence underwater search followed, but located no physical evidence.{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ufo/002029-1500.01-e.html |title=Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia |work=Library and Archives of Canada |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=15 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815133427/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ufo/002029-1500.01-e.html |url-status=deviated}}{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ufo/002029-1501-e.html |title=Canadian Department of National Defence Memo |work=Library and Archives of Canada |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=17 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017182355/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ufo/002029-1501-e.html |url-status=deviated}}

|Jimmy Carter UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Leary, Georgia

|While governor of Georgia, future president Jimmy Carter filed a written report of a "luminous, not solid" light over Leary, Georgia in 1969.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/04/30/ufo-over-georgia-jimmy-logged-one/080ef1c3-6ff3-41a9-a1e4-a37c54b5cbca/ |title=UFO Over Georgia? Jimmy Logged One |newspaper=Washington Post |last=O'Toole |first=Thomas |date=30 April 1977 |access-date=15 June 2023 |archive-date=9 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109013122/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/04/30/ufo-over-georgia-jimmy-logged-one/080ef1c3-6ff3-41a9-a1e4-a37c54b5cbca/ |url-status=live}}

|Finnish Air Force sighting

|EuropeFinland; Pori

|Finnish pilot Jouko Kuronen overheard a radio conversation between air traffic control and fighter pilot Tarmo Tukeva. Tukeva was ordered to investigate "seven balloons" visible from Kuronen's position in the sky. Kuronen described the objects as discs that accelerated in formation against the wind at speeds not feasible for balloons.{{cite web |url=http://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000000502183.html |title=Ruotuväki: Ilmavoimien lentäjät tekivät merkittävän ufo-havainnon 60-luvulla |trans-title=Ruutuväki: Air Force pilots made a significant UFO sighting in the 60s |language=fi |author=Ilta-Sanomat |date=8 May 2012 |website=is.fi |access-date=19 December 2017 |archive-date=3 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803172228/http://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000000502183.html |url-status=live}}

|Labor Day 1969 UFO Incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

|Four families with no prior connection alleged that they saw a UFO, were moved by a beam of light, and lost several hours of time. The Great Barrington Historical Society recognized the accounts as a "historical event" in 2015.{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/berkshire-ufo-sightings-unsolved-mysteries-alien-episode-what-happened-next-a9599251.html |title=Berkshire UFO sightings: Unsolved Mysteries episode is spooking viewers – but what happened next? |website=Independent.co.uk |last=Stolworthy |first=Jacob |date=3 July 2020 |access-date=8 January 2021 |archive-date=10 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310190618/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/berkshire-ufo-sightings-unsolved-mysteries-alien-episode-what-happened-next-a9599251.html |url-status=live}}

|Pascagoula Abduction

|North AmericaUnited States; Pascagoula, Mississippi

|Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing from a pier on the Pascagoula River when they say that they heard whirring sounds and witnessed a craft over 30 feet long with flashing lights. Both men say they were paralyzed and then taken by humanoids with "robotic slit-mouths" and "crab-like pincers".{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&dq=Pascagoula+Abduction&pg=PA703 |title=Conspiracy Theories in American History |first=Peter |last=Knight |year=2003 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-812-9 |access-date=22 March 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191928/https://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&dq=Pascagoula+Abduction&pg=PA703 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=The men claimed they were abducted by aliens. In Mississippi, police believed them. |last=Brockwell |first=Gillian |date=26 June 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/26/i-floated-inside-man-returns-site-ufo-abduction-it-gets-historical-marker/ |access-date=12 March 2023 |archive-date=11 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211194910/https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/26/i-floated-inside-man-returns-site-ufo-abduction-it-gets-historical-marker/ |url-status=live}}

|Berwyn Mountain UFO incident

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Llandrillo, Merionethshire, North Wales

|An alleged UFO crash involving lights in the sky moments before a large impact shock. The cause of the incident was however soon revealed as a 3.5 magnitude earthquake.{{cite journal |first=R.M.W. |last=Musson |year=2006 |title=The enigmatic Bala earthquake of 1974 |journal=Astronomy & Geophysics |volume=47 |number=5 |pages=11–15 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-4004.2006.47511.x |bibcode=2006A&G....47e..11M |s2cid=121529029 |doi-access=free}}{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/weird/ufos/pages/berwyn.shtml |title=Berwyn Mountains Incident |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123003533/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/weird/ufos/pages/berwyn.shtml |archive-date=23 November 2008 |work=BBC Wales |date=28 July 2008 |author=BBC}}

|John Lennon UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; New York City, New York

|Musician John Lennon and then-assistant May Pang report seeing a craft emitting lights that changed color in the night sky above their Manhattan penthouse. Lennon would later reference this experience in his song "Nobody Told Me".{{cite web |last1=Potter |first1=Jordan |title=John Lennon and his extra terrestrial experience |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-extra-terrestrial-experience/ |website=Far Out |date=26 June 2022 |access-date=March 22, 2023 |archive-date=23 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323013747/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-extra-terrestrial-experience/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Shewfelt |first1=Raechal |title=John Lennon believed in flying saucers. Here's how you can buy his drawing of a UFO. |url=https://www.yahoo.com/video/john-lennon-believed-flying-saucers-heres-can-buy-drawing-ufo-204755604.html |website=Yahoo |date=27 March 2019 |access-date=March 22, 2023 |archive-date=23 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323003448/https://www.yahoo.com/video/john-lennon-believed-flying-saucers-heres-can-buy-drawing-ufo-204755604.html |url-status=live}}

|North Hudson Park UFO sightings

|North AmericaUnited States; North Bergen, New Jersey

|George O'Barski reported seeing a dark object with lit windows near the Stonehenge building adjacent to North Hudson Park. His story was covered by ufologist Budd Hopkins and local newspapers.{{cite news |last1=Hopkins |first1=Budd |title=Sane citizen sees UFO in New Jersey |work=The Village Voice |date=1 March 1976 |page=12}}{{cite news |last=Hague |first=Jim |title=Still the champ in UFO sightings Since 1975, North Bergen had most reports in USA |newspaper=Hudson Reporter |date=December 18, 2007 |url=http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2414454/article-Still-the-champ-in-UFO-sightings-Since-1975--North-Bergen-had-most-reports-in-USA |access-date=2014-06-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826161029/http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2414454/article-Still-the-champ-in-UFO-sightings-Since-1975--North-Bergen-had-most-reports-in-USA |archive-date=August 26, 2014}}{{cite news |last=Rose |first=Lisa |title=Want to see a UFO? Try North Bergen |newspaper=The Star-Ledger |date=February 29, 2012 |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/even_weirder_nj_bergen_county.html |access-date=2014-06-06}}

|Travis Walton

|North AmericaUnited States; Near Turkey Springs in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona

|Logger Travis Walton disappeared for over 5 days resulting in a police investigation of his coworkers. When questioned on where he had been, Walton said that he had been taken aboard a spacecraft by nearly human creatures.{{cite web |title=Sheriff Skeptical of Story: Saucer Traveler Hiding After Returning To Earth |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19751113&id=1RJZAAAAIBAJ&pg=2223,2068472&hl=en |website=The Victoria Advocate |publisher=Associated Press, Nov 13, 1975 |access-date=26 April 2016 |archive-date=19 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019075723/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19751113&id=1RJZAAAAIBAJ&pg=2223,2068472&hl=en |url-status=live}} Walton's alien abduction account is the basis for the book The Walton Experience (1978), the film Fire in the Sky (1993), and the documentary "Alien Abduction: Travis Walton" (2022).{{cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/travis-walton-still-haunted-by-ufo_n_7119910 |title=UFO-Alien Abduction Still Haunts Travis Walton |first=Lee |last=Speigel |work=Huffpost |date=23 April 2015 |access-date=22 June 2020 |archive-date=25 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625232855/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/travis-walton-still-haunted-by-ufo_n_7119910 |url-status=live}}

|1976 Tehran UFO incident

|AsiaIran; Tehran, Tehran province

|A radar and visual sighting of a UFO over the capital of Iran, during early morning hours. Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors reported losing instrumentation and communications as they approached the object.{{cite magazine |title=How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously |magazine=The New Yorker |last=Lewis-Kraus |first=Gideon |date=30 April 2021 |access-date=13 February 2023 |archive-date=14 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114043507/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously |url-status=live}}

|Petrozavodsk phenomenon

|EuropeSoviet Union, Finland, Lithuania, and Denmark

|Residents of Petrozavodsk reported a giant glowing "jellyfish" of light (visible for over ten minutes) looming in the early morning sky. The light was seen and photographed in several Baltic Sea countries. In response to the phenomenon, the Soviet Union created a government program to study anomalous atmospheric phenomena. This program would later attribute the Petrozavodsk sightings to the secret night launch of the Kosmos 955 spy satellite. According to Soviet astrophysicist, Yuli Platov, sunlight can cause the giant plumes of gas and dust produced by rockets to glow, especially "in twilight hours, when the rocket streaks through sunlit regions and the observer is on the nighttime side of the Earth."{{cite journal |last1=Sokolov |first1=B.А. |last2=Platov |first2=Yu.V. |title=The Study of Unidentified Flying Objects in the Soviet Union |journal=Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences |volume=70 |pages=248 |year=2000 |url=http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Platov.pdf |access-date=8 September 2012 |archive-date=4 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504210306/http://www.noufors.com/Documents/Platov.pdf |url-status=live}}

|Operação Prato

|Brazil; Colares, Pará

|Residents of Colares believed that scars on their bodie were caused by aerial lights that they named Chupa Chupa (Sucker Sucker). In an attempt to ward off the lights, they held vigils, tended fires, and lit fireworks. The military launched Operação Prato (Operation Saucer) to investigate the lights and found no unusual phenomena.{{cite journal |last=Rodrigues |first=Fernando |title=SNI investigou óvnis durante a ditadura |journal=Folha de S. Paulo |date=11 January 2009 |volume=29138 |pages=A10–A11 |url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/brasil/fc1101200907.htm |access-date=13 December 2013 |trans-title=SNI investigated UFOs during the dictatorship |publisher=Grupo Folha |location=Brasília |language=pt}} [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww1.folha.uol.com.br%2Ffsp%2Fbrasil%2Ffc1101200907.htm English translation]{{cite web |last=Charleaux |first=João Paulo |title=No princípio era um chuchu |url=http://revistapiaui.estadao.com.br/edicao-83/esquina/no-principio-era-um-chuchu |work=piauí |publisher=Editora Alvinegra |access-date=17 December 2013 |location=São Paulo |language=pt |date=17 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217083816/http://revistapiaui.estadao.com.br/edicao-83/esquina/no-principio-era-um-chuchu |archive-date=17 December 2013}}{{cite web |title=Operação Prato |url=http://redeglobo.globo.com/Linhadireta/0,26665,GHT0-4604-212882,00.html |work=Linha Direta |publisher=Rede Globo |access-date=13 December 2013 |language=pt |date=25 August 2005}}

|Emilcin Abduction

|EuropePoland; Emilcin, Lublin Voivodeship

|Polish farmer Jan Wolski reported that while returning home, two "short, green-faced humanoid entities" wearing black overalls jumped onto his horse-drawn cart and started speaking an incomprehensible language. After about 1000 ft (300 m), he reported seeing a white flying object, from which an alien creature came out and invited Wolski inside. The farmer said that they examined him once inside.{{cite web |title=Kosmici na furmance. Co wydarzyło się w Emilcinie? |url=https://www.polskieradio.pl/39/156/artykul/2542811,kosmici-na-furmance-co-wydarzylo-sie-w-emilcinie |access-date=3 February 2022 |date=7 February 2021 |work=PolskieRadio.pl |trans-title=Aliens on a cart. What happened in Emilcin? |language=pl |author=M.C.}}

|Valentich disappearance

|OceaniaAustralia; Victoria

|Frederick Valentich left Moorabbin Airport in a Cessna 182 Skylane, a single-engined light aircraft. At 7:06 pm, he began reporting a strange craft to Melbourne air traffic control. Valentich's last words were, "That strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again … it is hovering and it's not an aircraft."{{cite news |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/victorias-own-xfile-unsolved-30-years-on/2008/10/11/1223749982638.html |title=Victoria's own X-File unsolved 30 years on |newspaper=Brisbane Times |last=Russell |first=Mark |date=14 October 2008 |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=16 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016123949/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/victorias-own-xfile-unsolved-30-years-on/2008/10/11/1223749982638.html |url-status=live}} Neither the pilot nor the plane were ever found.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/6591365.stm |title=Pilot spots 'UFO' over Guernsey |newspaper=BBC News |date=25 April 2007 |author= |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=12 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112012731/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/6591365.stm |url-status=live}}

|Zanfretta UFO Incident

|EuropeItaly; Torriglia, Genoa

|Italian nightwatchman Pier Fortunato Zanfretta perceived a red, oval object and phoned his supervisor. During the call, he described non-human creatures that he said were attacking him. He was later found in a state of shock and his experience was adapted into a stage play.{{cite news |title=Storia vera del più famoso rapimento alieno in Italia Al 'Caracol' il monologo sul caso Zanfretta |newspaper=La Nazione |pages=20 |language=Italian |date=7 February 2020}}

|Kaikoura lights

|OceaniaNew Zealand; South Island

|The crew of a cargo aircraft spotted lights above the Kaikōura Ranges on New Zealand's South Island. A news team from TV1 and Channel 0 arrived to record footage for a story about the sighting, and were able to capture the lights on camera. The New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research investigated and did not find evidence that the lights were solid objects.{{cite news |last1=Strang |first1=Bob |title=Govt officials couldn't explain Kaikōura lights UFO sightings, documents show |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/448174/govt-officials-couldn-t-explain-kaikoura-lights-ufo-sightings-documents-show |access-date=24 June 2024 |work=RNZ |date=31 July 2021 |language=en-nz}}{{cite news |title=New Zealand releases UFO government files |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12057314 |access-date=24 June 2024 |work=BBC News |date=22 December 2010}}{{cite news |title=The Kaikōura Files: Baffling mystery of New Zealand's UFO |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crew-remember-the-day-ufo-was-spotted-over-kaikoura-40-years-on/JXWELO7AJEOR6KVXCJ6OKVGUKU/ |access-date=24 June 2024 |work=New Zealand Herald |date=24 June 2024 |language=en-NZ}}

|Val Johnson incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Marshall County, Minnesota

|Sheriff Val Johnson attributed minor injuries and the shattered windshield of his squad car to a beam of light.{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Jerome |title=The UFO encyclopedia: the phenomenon from the beginning, Volume 1 |year=1998 |publisher=Omnigraphics |isbn=978-0-7808-0097-7}}{{cite book |last=Klass |first=Philip J. |title=UFOs: The Public Deceived |pages=227 |year=1983 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=978-0-87975-322-1}}

|Robert Taylor incident

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland

|Forestry worker Robert Taylor was walking near Dechmont Law when he said that he saw a flying dome descend, was approached by floating spheres, smelled a foul odor similar to "burning brakes", and blacked out. Ufologists erected a plaque at the site. Physicians have noted that Taylor's account matches an episode of temporal lobe epilepsy.{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/tv-show-to-probe-famous-livingston-ufo-encounter-1601566 |title=TV show to probe famous Livingston UFO encounter |work=The Scotsman |date=10 November 2012}}{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/im-after-the-aliens-that-beat-up-bob-2467885 |title=I'm after the aliens that beat up Bob.. |date=9 November 2004}}{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2007/03/29/robert-taylor |title=Robert Taylor |date=29 March 2007 |newspaper=The Economist |department=Obituary}}

|Manises UFO incident

|EuropeSpain; Valencia, Valencian Community

|En route to Las Palmas, commercial pilot Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada radioed air traffic control regarding a pair of red lights approaching his TAE Supercaravelle. Neither air traffic control in Barcelona nor the military identified the object. Tejada made an emergency landing at the nearby airport in Manises.{{cite news |last=Millás |first=Jaime |title=Un 'OVNI' forzó el aterrizaje de un Caravelle en Manises |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1979/11/13/espana/311295627_850215.html |location=Valencia |newspaper=El País |date=13 November 1979 |access-date=9 December 2017 |language=es |archive-date=10 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210071632/https://elpais.com/diario/1979/11/13/espana/311295627_850215.html |url-status=live}}

|Arequipa UFO incident

|South AmericaPeru; Arequipa Region

|{{anchor|Arequipa}} Early in the morning of April 11, La Joya Air Force Base ordered fighter pilot Oscar Santa María Huertas to intercept an object in restricted air space. Huertas pursued the object in a Sukhoi Su-22 and fired a barrage of 30mm shells into it. According to Huertas the object did not seem damaged and rose to 19,200 meters. He described it as similar in shape to an incandescent lightbulb with a much wider circular silver base and said that it "lacked all the typical components of aircraft. It had no wings, propulsion jets, exhausts, windows, antennae, and so forth".{{cite news |title=Objetivo: Derribar al OVNI en Perú |language=es |trans-title=Objective: To Shoot Down the UFO in Peru |last=Díaz |first=Yohanan |newspaper=El Universal |date=9 June 2018 |access-date=19 February 2023 |url=https://interactivo.eluniversal.com.mx/2018/10anios-enigmas/derribar-ovni.html |archive-date=19 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219065320/https://interactivo.eluniversal.com.mx/2018/10anios-enigmas/derribar-ovni.html |url-status=live}}{{cite book |title=UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record |editor-last=Kean |editor-first=Leslie |last=Huertas |first=Oscar Santa María |chapter=Close Combat with a UFO |publisher=Three Rivers Press |date=2010 |page=93 |isbn=978-0-307-71708-5}}{{cite news |url=http://larepublica.pe/sociedad/374004-piloto-se-enfrento-a-ovni-en-arequipa |title=Piloto se 'enfrentó' a OVNI en Arequipa |language=es |trans-title=Pilot Who 'Confronted' a UFO in Arequipa |newspaper=La República|date=14 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201232903/https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/374004-piloto-se-enfrento-a-ovni-en-arequipa |archive-date=1 December 2017}}{{cite news |newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |publisher=Gannett |last=Cox |first=Billy |title=Maybe they'll just go away |date=11 February 2011 |url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2009/02/11/maybe-theyll-just-go-away/28691915007/ |access-date=19 February 2023 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191931/https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2009/02/11/maybe-theyll-just-go-away/28691915007/ |url-status=live}}

|Rendlesham Forest incident

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England

|United States Air Force personnel reported various unusual observations at RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, two American air bases located in England. Their reports included lights in the sky, a metallic triangular object in the forest, multi-colored lights moving through the forest, and higher levels of radiation.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-54649675 |access-date=23 February 2023 |date=26 December 2020 |last=Rigby |first=Nick |title=Rendlesham Forest UFO: Are we any closer to the truth 40 years on? |work=BBC News |archive-date=23 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223182019/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-54649675 |url-status=live}}

|Cash–Landrum incident

|North AmericaUnited States; near Dayton, Texas

|Betty Cash and Victoria Landrum unsuccessfully sued the United States government in 1981. The two women attributed various symptoms to a diamond-shaped UFO they claimed to have seen pursued by air force helicopters the previous year. The judge dismissed their case due to a lack of evidence.{{cite news |last1=Wukman |first1=Alex |title=UFO Hunters TV show seeks to reopen Cash-Landrum case |url=https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/eastex/news/article/UFO-Hunters-TV-show-seeks-to-reopen-Cash-Landrum-9393577.php |access-date=27 June 2024 |work=Houston Chronicle |publisher=Hearst |date=July 16, 2008}}{{cite journal |last1=Scheaffer |first1=Robert |title=Between a Beer Joint and a Highway Warning Sign: The 'Classic' Cash-Landrum Case Unravels |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |date=March–April 2014 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=28–30 |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2014/03/p28.pdf |access-date=26 June 2024}}

|Trans-en-Provence case

|EuropeFrance; Trans-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

|Retired contractor, Renato Nicolai reported the landing of a flying object near his home to local police. Renato believed it to be a military craft. Groupe d'Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEPAN), a branch of French Space Agency created to investigate UFOs, conducted an investigation, photographed circular impressions on the ground, and took samples of the area.{{cite magazine |title=When UFOs Land |last=Wilson |first=Jim |date=May 2001 |others=Illustrated by Edwin Herder |magazine=Popular Mechanics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ts8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66 |access-date=10 June 2013 |pages=66– |publisher=Hearst Magazines |issn=0032-4558}} Skeptics have been critical of the GEPAN investigation which took place 40 days after the initial sighting.{{cite book |last1=Rossoni |first1=D. |last2=Maillot |first2=E. |last3=Déguillaume |first3=E. |year=2007 |title=Les OVNIS du CNES – 30 ans d'études officielles. |chapter=Trans-en-Provence |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203040638/http://www.observatoire-zetetique.org/divers/LesOvniDuCnes/OvniDuCnes_chapitre13.pdf |url=http://www.observatoire-zetetique.org/divers/LesOvniDuCnes/OvniDuCnes_chapitre13.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2008 |publisher=book-e-book.com}} (Critical skeptical investigations of GEPAN's work.) {{cite report |editor-last=Figuet |editor-first=M. |date=1995 |title=L'affaire de Trans-en-Provence. |publisher=Dompierre-les-Ormes, SERPAN.}}

|Maxial UFO incident

|EuropeMaxial, Portugal

|A metallic-looking flying object surrounded a DHC-1 Chipmunk aircraft from the Portuguese Air Force piloted by the then Lieutenant Júlio Guerra. The object was seen by two other pilots. A report was made after landing.{{Cite web |date=2016-06-26 |title=Ovnis entre nós |url=https://www.cmjornal.pt/domingo/detalhe/ovnis_entre_nos |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=www.cmjornal.pt |language=pt-pt}}{{Cite web |last=Renascença |date=2023-02-28 |title=Eles andam aí? Balões-espiões que são óvnis, óvnis que são balões-espiões - Renascença |url=https://rr.pt/fotoreportagem/mundo/2023/02/28/eles-andam-ai-baloes-espioes-que-sao-ovnis-ovnis-que-sao-baloes-espioes/321836/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=Rádio Renascença |language=pt-pt}}

|Hudson Valley Sightings

|North AmericaUnited States; Hudson Valley, New York

|{{Anchor|Hudson1983}}State police discovered that widespread reports of a massive object—described by one observer as a "city of lights" hanging silently above their home—were caused by a group of pilots flying small aircraft in formation. The events were the subject of an Unsolved Mysteries episode and Night Siege, a posthumous collaboration between ufologists including J. Allen Hynek.{{Cite news |url=https://syracusenewtimes.com/ufos-over-the-hudson-valley/ |title=UFO's over the Hudson Valley |first=Cheryl |last=Costa |date=7 November 2013 |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024821/https://syracusenewtimes.com/ufos-over-the-hudson-valley/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780345342133 |title=Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings by J. Allen Hynek |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024821/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780345342133 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Strange Sights Brighten the Night Skies Upstate |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/25/nyregion/strange-sights-brighten-the-night-skies-upstate.html |date=25 August 1984 |last=Schmalz |first=Jeffrey |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024820/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/25/nyregion/strange-sights-brighten-the-night-skies-upstate.html |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://unsolved.com/gallery/hudson-valley-ufo/ |title=The Mystery of the Hudson Valley UFO |date=22 April 2023 |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=27 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327045805/https://unsolved.com/gallery/hudson-valley-ufo/ |url-status=live}}

|"Night of the UFOs" in Brazil

|South AmericaBrazil; São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Goiás

|Radar and visual contacts were obtained with multiple 'bright colorful objects' in the sky across several states. Mirage IIIE and F-5 fighters were scrambled but failed to intercept, with pilots describing the objects as capable of impossible maneuvers and rapidly accelerating to as much as Mach 15 once approached.{{cite web |title=A noite em que 21 óvnis invadiram o espaço aéreo brasileiro e foram perseguidos por caças da FAB |language=pt |publisher=BBC |date=14 January 2022 |access-date=21 February 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-59953278 |last=Bernardo |first=André |archive-date=21 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221043130/https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-59953278 |url-status=live}}

|Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Alaska

|While piloting a Japanese Boeing 747-200F cargo aircraft on a polar route from France to Narita International Airport in Japan, the flight crew witnessed several unidentified objects over eastern Alaska. Captain {{Nihongo|Kenju Terauchi|寺内謙寿|Terauchi Kenju}}, co-pilot {{Nihongo|Takanori Tamefuji|為藤隆憲|Tamefuji Takanori}}, and flight engineer {{Nihongo|Yoshio Tsukuda|佃善雄|Tsukuda Yoshio}} reported rectangular arrays of what Captain Terauchi described as glowing nozzles or thrusters.{{cite web |last=Shincho |first=Shukan |title=Terauchi's London interview of December 1986 |work=JAL Pilot's UFO Story Surfaces after 20 Years |publisher=JapanToday |via=ufocasebook |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123052116/http://www.japantoday.com/jp/kuchikomi/443 |url=http://www.japantoday.com/jp/kuchikomi/443 |archive-date=23 November 2008 |access-date=8 May 2011 |date=8 December 2006 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case287.htm |title=Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 |author=Loy Lawhon |access-date=5 May 2011 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629160228/http://ufoevidence.org/cases/case287.htm |url-status=dead}}

|Ilkley Moor UFO incident

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Ilkley Moor

|Retired police officer, Philip Spencer, took a photograph of what he said was a strange being on the moor. According to Spencer, the being fled after being photographed and left in a domed craft.{{cite news |title=Picture Post: When Ilkley Moor became an alien landing site |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/picture-post-when-ilkley-moor-became-alien-landing-site-1832740 |access-date=12 December 2021 |publisher=The Yorkshire Post |date=13 October 2014 |archive-date=12 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212171750/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/picture-post-when-ilkley-moor-became-alien-landing-site-1832740 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Alien Evidence Re-investigated |url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8073980.alien-evidence-re-investigated/ |access-date=12 December 2021 |publisher='The Telegraph & Argus' |date=29 August 1998 |archive-date=12 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212173520/https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8073980.alien-evidence-re-investigated/ |url-status=live}}

|Gulf Breeze UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Gulf Breeze, Florida

|Florida contractor Ed Walters took a series of photographs that he claimed were of a spacecraft piloted by alien creatures that paralyzed him with a blue beam of light. After Walters moved, the next homeowners found a small model that resembled the purported spacecraft. The model had been hidden beneath insulation in the attic. Newspaper photographers were able to "nearly duplicate" Walters' photographs using the model.{{cite news |date=4 March 1988 |title=UFO Investigators Hope to Verify Photos of Spaceship |newspaper=Pensacola News Journal |location=Florida |pages=1A, 16A}}{{cite news |last1=Myers |first1=Craig |date=June 10, 1990 |title=Gulf Breeze UFO model found |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98969864/pensacola-news-journal-june-10-1990/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403075736/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98969864/pensacola-news-journal-june-10-1990/ |archive-date=April 3, 2022 |access-date=3 April 2022 |work=Pensacola News Journal |page=1A |via=newspapers.com}} Article continues on [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98969903/pensacola-news-journal-june-10-1990/ p. 8A.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403075741/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98969903/pensacola-news-journal-june-10-1990/|date=April 3, 2022}}{{cite news |url=http://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press-ufo-sightings-a-sign/142264238/ |title=UFO sightings a sign from heaven? |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |date=20 March 1994 |page=22}}

|Voronezh UFO incident

|EuropeSoviet Union; Voronezh

|In the early days of glasnost, the Russian state news agency TASS reported a sensationalist tale from 3 schoolchildren who said a glowing "banana-shaped" object landed in a park where a "three-eyed creature, about nine feet tall and fashionably dressed in silvery overalls and bronze boots and with a disk on its chest" exited with its robot. Tass reported common hematite at the park as rocks that "cannot be found on Earth".{{cite news |last1=Fein |first1=Esther B. |last2=Times |first2=Special To The New York |title=U.F.O. Landing Is Fact, Not Fantasy, the Russians Insist |work=The New York Times |page=6 |date=11 October 1989 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/world/ufo-landing-is-fact-not-fantasy-the-russians-insist.html}}{{cite web |url=https://time.com/3475954/voronezh-ufo-report-1989/ |last1=Rothman |first1=Lily |date=2014 |title=Why 'Aliens' 'Landed' in Russia 25 Years Ago |work=(TASS, 1989; New York Times) time.com Time |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210411111650/https://time.com/3475954/voronezh-ufo-report-1989/ |archive-date=11 April 2021 |access-date=20 June 2021}}{{cite news |last=Iams |first=John |title=Tass Says UFO Landing in Soviet Union Confirmed |url=https://apnews.com/article/5117ff1e9d2da3160174e7d9c8cbb6c4 |newspaper=The Associated Press |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201006020846/https://apnews.com/article/5117ff1e9d2da3160174e7d9c8cbb6c4 |archive-date=6 October 2020 |date=October 9, 1989 |quote=In July, Tass disputed a report in Socialist Industry quoting a UFO specialist, A. Kuzovkin, as saying a 26-foot-wide patch of burned ground near southern Moscow was probably caused by the landing of a UFO. Tass said firefighters believe a haystack simply caught fire and scorched the ground.}}

|Calvine UFO

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Perthshire, Scotland

|Sighting of an UFO near Calvine in Scotland in August 1990. The object was photographed.{{cite news |last=Lavelle |first=Daniel |date=11 February 2025 |title=What really happened in Calvine? The mystery behind the best UFO picture ever seen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/what-really-happened-in-calvine-the-mystery-behind-the-best-ufo-picture-ever-seen |access-date=11 February 2025 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}

|1994 Michigan UFO event

|North AmericaUnited States; Western Michigan

|Several hundred residents reported something resembling flickering Christmas lights in the sky. Religious residents interpreted them as a sign of the Biblical "end times". The Holland, Michigan police department contacted the National Weather Service who reported unusual radar blips. Aircraft were ruled out, but the specific cause of the lights was not determined.{{cite web |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/2017/03/ufo_1994.html |title=On this day in 1994, more than 60 people reported a Michigan UFO sighting |publisher=MLive |date=8 March 2017 |access-date=5 June 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-03-13-9503130025-story.html |title=LIGHTS, RADAR BLIPS STILL HAVE MICHIGAN FOLKS WONDERING |work=Chicago Tribune |date=13 March 1995 |access-date=5 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227000000/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-03-13-9503130025-story.html |archive-date=27 Feb 2024}} [http://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-lights-radar-blips-stil/142267899/ Alt URL]

|Ariel School UFO incident

|AfricaZimbabwe; Ruwa

|Over sixty students reported seeing a silver craft land in a field near the school. They described occupants dressed in all black that exited the silver object.{{cite news |last1=Christie |first1=Sean |title=Remembering Zimbabwe's great alien invasion |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-04-remembering-zimbabwes-great-alien-invasion/ |access-date=17 September 2021 |publisher=Mail & Guardian |date=4 September 2014 |archive-date=16 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916194035/https://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-04-remembering-zimbabwes-great-alien-invasion/ |url-status=live}}

|Varginha UFO incident

|South AmericaBrazil; Varginha, Minas Gerais

|In 1996, various individuals reported possibly unrelated incidents with what they described as UFOs, creatures, and the Brazilian military.{{cite web |url=http://forgetomori.com/2010/ufos/the-varginha-incident-case-closed |title=forgetomori ' The Varginha Incident: Case Closed? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127035253/http://forgetomori.com/2010/ufos/the-varginha-incident-case-closed/ |archive-date=27 November 2010 |date=7 November 2010 |author=Mori}} The events are the inspiration for saucer-shaped Varginha water tower, the Nave Espacial de Varginha; the 1998 Brazilian video game Incidente em Varginha; and 1996, a film by director Rodrigo Brandão.{{cite web |url=http://www.diariodocomercio.com.br/noticia.php?id=130090 |title=Varginha traça planos para atrair turistas |access-date=25 March 2017 |author=Daniela Maciel |date=8 February 2014 |work=Diario do Comercio |language=pt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326225639/http://www.diariodocomercio.com.br/noticia.php?id=130090 |archive-date=26 March 2017}}{{cite web |last1=Cardoso |first1=Rodrigo |title=A história oficial do ET de Varginha (in Portuguese) |url=https://istoe.com.br/105958_A+HISTORIA+OFICIAL+DO+ET+DE+VARGINHA/ |access-date=9 November 2017 |website=ISTOÉ |archive-date=8 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108115330/https://istoe.com.br/105958_A+HISTORIA+OFICIAL+DO+ET+DE+VARGINHA/ |url-status=live}} [https://istoe-com-br.translate.goog/105958_A+HISTORIA+OFICIAL+DO+ET+DE+VARGINHA/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp English translation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224044249/https://istoe-com-br.translate.goog/105958_A+HISTORIA+OFICIAL+DO+ET+DE+VARGINHA/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp |date=24 February 2023 }}

|Phoenix Lights

|North AmericaUnited States; Phoenix, Arizona

|Many residents photographed lights in a "V" pattern moving through Arizona,{{cite web |title=What were those lights in the Phoenix sky? |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/19/ufo.lights/ |website=cnn.com |access-date=2 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413133442/http://edition.cnn.com/US/9706/19/ufo.lights/ |archive-date=13 April 2017 |date=19 June 1997 |last=Hook |first=John}} during a night that the Air National Guard stationed in Tucson, Arizona, were conducting training exercises.{{cite web |last1=Sheaffer |first1=Robert |title=The 'Phoenix Lights' Become an 'Incident' |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/2016/11/the-phoenix-lights-become-an-incident/ |work=Skeptical Inquirer |date=8 November 2016|access-date=28 October 2022}}

|Bonsall UFO sighting

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Bonsall, Derbyshire

|{{Anchor|Bonsall2000}}Resident, Sharon Rowlands, filmed a luminous object in the night sky starting around 9:15 pm and continuing for several minutes. Various other residents reported strange lights including a man who described a "pink glow, vertically shaped like a shoe box".{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1363848.stm |access-date=2 March 2023 |date=1 June 2001 |title='UFO video' goes to Hollywood |work=BBC News |author=BBC |archive-date=3 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303052021/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1363848.stm |url-status=live}}{{cite video |title=Sharon Rowlands on her sighting of a UFO in Bonsall |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jn_I-IHGA |access-date=2 March 2023 |work=GB News |date=February 2023 |archive-date=3 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303052026/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jn_I-IHGA |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=http://www.aboutderbyshire.co.uk/cms/11/the-matlock-triangle-ufo-.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410040319/http://www.aboutderbyshire.co.uk/cms/11/the-matlock-triangle-ufo-.shtml |archive-date=10 April 2016 |date=3 July 2007 |title=The Matlock Triangle – U.F.O. Capital of the World! |author=Bates, Tom |publisher=About Derbyshire, U.K.}}, Retrieved 2013-5-31.

|2004 Mexican UFO incident

|North AmericaMexico; Campeche

|Mexican Air Force pilots filmed (initially unidentified) lights in the sky using infrared cameras while searching for drug-smuggling planes. Multiple subsequent investigations identified these as massive burn-off flares from a cluster of off-shore oil platforms in the Bay of Campeche.{{cite web |last=Smith |first=James C. |url=http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-07-24.html#mexiUFO |title=The Mexican Air Force UFO Affair: Aliens, Ball Lightning, or Flares? |date=24 July 2004 |access-date=13 May 2007 |work=Skeptic |archive-date=2 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102221037/http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-07-24.html#mexiUFO |url-status=live}}{{cite book |last=Randle |first=Kevin |title=The UFO Dossier: 100 Years of Government Secrets, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups |chapter=March 5, 2004 Mexico |date=21 September 2015 |publisher=Visible Ink Press}}{{cite web |title=Gas Flares in Bahía de Campeche |author=NASA Earth Observatory |date=14 September 2012 |url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/79153/gas-flares-in-bahia-de-campeche |access-date=25 February 2023 |archive-date=25 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230225082431/https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/79153/gas-flares-in-bahia-de-campeche |url-status=live}}

|Tinley Park Lights

|North AmericaUnited States; Illinois

|{{Anchor|Tinley2004}}On Halloween night (2004), residents were outside trick-or-treating on the streets of Tinley Park and other Chicago suburbs, when thousands of people watched, photographed, and filmed a formation of red lights above them.{{cite news |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4672066 |title=Lights in sky over Tinley Park have UFO believers looking up |date=18 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217134644/http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4672066 |archive-date=17 February 2007 |author=Chicago Sun-Times |publisher=ABC7}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2007/Do-You-Believe/ |title=Do You Believe? |magazine=Chicago Magazine |date=March 2007 |location=Chicago |last=Ruby |first=Jeff |access-date=17 January 2009 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407214806/https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2007/Do-You-Believe/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://illinoismufon.com/mufon_024.htm |title=Tinley Park |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041208020539/http://illinoismufon.com:80/mufon_024.htm |archive-date=8 December 2004 |first1=Sam |last1=Maranto |first2=Dave |last2=Finkbeiner |first3=Vic |last3=Connor |publisher=Illinois MUFON}}

|USS Nimitz UFO incident

|North AmericaUnited States; Off the coast of San Diego, California

|Several pilots from VFA-41 squadron flying Super Hornets from the USS Nimitz, were directed by the USS Princeton to intercept one of several unidentified flying objects detected by radar. The pilots reported a visual encounter and recorded an infrared video. The Navy has verified that the video was taken by Navy personnel and has stated that it has not yet identified the nature of the sightings which they classify as unexplained aerial phenomena.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html |title=2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing I've Ever Seen' |first1=Helene |last1=Cooper |first2=Leslie |last2=Kean |first3=Ralph |last3=Blumenthal |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 December 2017 |access-date=19 December 2017 |archive-date=14 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514012341/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-unlike/story?id=51856514 |title=Navy pilot recalls encounter with UFO: 'I think it was not from this world' |date=18 December 2017 |website=ABC News |access-date=19 December 2017 |last=McCarthy |first=Kelly |archive-date=18 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171218234950/http://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-unlike/story?id=51856514 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/12/18/former-navy-pilot-describes-encounter-with-ufo-studied-by-secret-pentagon-program/ |title=Former Navy pilot describes UFO encounter studied by secret Pentagon program |first=Eli |last=Rosenberg |date=18 December 2017 |access-date=19 December 2017 |via=www.washingtonpost.com |archive-date=19 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219100812/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/12/18/former-navy-pilot-describes-encounter-with-ufo-studied-by-secret-pentagon-program/ |url-status=live}}

|2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting

|North AmericaUnited States; Chicago, Illinois

|United Airlines employees and pilots reported sightings of a saucer-shaped, unlit craft hovering over a Chicago O'Hare Airport terminal, before appearing to leave with a rapid vertical rise.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/01/02/1167500092464.html |title='UFO' spooks pilots over Chicago |access-date=13 February 2007 |work=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=2 January 2007 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914010523/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/01/02/1167500092464.html |url-status=live}}

|2007 Alderney UFO sighting

|EuropeBailiwick of Guernsey; Alderney

|On separate flights, two airline pilots and multiple passengers reported a "sunlight-coloured" object off the coast of Alderney. One of the pilots, Ray Bowyer, filed a report with Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority upon landing.{{cite news |title=UK airline pilots spot giant UFO |url=https://www.theregister.com/2007/04/27/mystery_object/ |work=The Register |last=Haines |first=Les |date=27 April 2007 |access-date=21 March 2023 |archive-date=22 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322045951/https://www.theregister.com/2007/04/27/mystery_object/ |url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |author-last=Lewis-Kraus |author-first=Gideon |date=2021-04-30 |title=How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously |access-date=2023-05-13 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511010656/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously |archive-date=2023-05-11}}{{cite news |last=Campbell |first=Matthew |date=2021-08-01 |title=The truth is up there: how the Pentagon gave hope to Britain's UFO spotters |newspaper=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/the-truth-is-up-there-how-the-pentagon-gave-hope-to-britains-ufo-spotters-0thx8wp32 |access-date=2023-05-13 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230518015856/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-truth-is-up-there-how-the-pentagon-gave-hope-to-britains-ufo-spotters-0thx8wp32 |archive-date=2023-05-18 |url-status=live}}

|Dudley Dorito

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; West Midlands conurbation

|The "Dudley Dorito" refers to a series of black triangle sightings reported in the West Midlands conurbation.{{ cite news |url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/01/11/shape-of-things-to-come/ |title=Shape of things to come? |newspaper=Express & Star, (Wolverhampton) |date=11 January 2008 |author=Express & Star: Dudley |access-date=13 April 2008 |archive-date=14 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080114052712/https://www.expressandstar.com/2008/01/11/shape-of-things-to-come/}}{{cite news |url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/01/16/is-there-plane-truth-behind-the-ufos/ |author=Express & Star:Staffordshire |title=Is there plane truth behind the UFOs? |newspaper=Express & Star, (Wolverhampton) |date=16 January 2008 |access-date=13 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119115336/https://www.expressandstar.com/2008/01/16/is-there-plane-truth-behind-the-ufos/ |archive-date=19 January 2008}}

|Wales UFO sightings

|EuropeUnited Kingdom; Various cities, Wales

|Over the Bristol Channel, a South Wales Police helicopter took evasive actions to avoid what the crew described as a saucer-shaped UFO.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7465041.stm |title=UFO spotted by police helicopter |work=BBC News |author= |date=20 June 2008 |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=16 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016112834/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7465041.stm |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-06-21/welsh-police-confirm-ufo-sighting/2479208 |title=Welsh police confirm 'UFO' sighting |newspaper=ABC News |date=20 June 2008 |via=www.abc.net.au |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024820/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-06-21/welsh-police-confirm-ufo-sighting/2479208 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22996257 |title=Welsh 'sightings' in final UFO batch |work=BBC News |date=21 June 2013 |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024825/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22996257 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2160814/Police-chase-UFO-over-Cardiff.html |title=Police chase UFO over Cardiff |website=www.telegraph.co.uk |date=20 June 2008 |access-date=6 July 2023 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706024820/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2160814/Police-chase-UFO-over-Cardiff.html |url-status=live}}

|Morristown UFO hoax

|North AmericaUnited States; Morristown, New Jersey

|In the evening, citizens in Morristown and other town in Morris County, New Jersey saw five red lights in the sky. After three months, two men from the Morristown area announced that they had organized a UFO hoax, meant as a "social experiment".{{cite web |url=http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-04-01 |title=How We Staged the Morristown UFO Hoax |last1=Russo |first1=Christ |last2=Rudy |first2=Joe |date=1 April 2009 |website=skeptic.com |access-date=19 December 2017 |archive-date=24 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624095922/http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-04-01/ |url-status=live}}

|2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly

|EuropeNorway; Trøndelag and Northern Norway

|A failed Russian missile test produced a massive spiral light in the sky, visible from the northern counties of Norway and parts of Sweden.{{cite news |last1=Moskowitz |first1=Clara |title=Russia admits missile caused UFO lights |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34362960 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030032409/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34362960 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 October 2020 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=NBC News |date=10 December 2009 |language=en}}{{Cite news |author1=Haugdal, Marthe |author2=Andersen, Ingunn |author3=Bleikelia, Mats |author4=Enerstvedt, Vidar |url=https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/vaer-og-uvaer/vet-ikke-hva-den-mystiske-kjempespiralen-er/a/596369/ |title=Vet ikke hva den mystiske kjempespiralen er |trans-title=Unknown what the mysterious giant spiral is |work=Verdens Gang |location=Oslo, Norway |language=no |date=9 December 2009 |access-date=9 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212015217/http://www.vg.no/nyheter/vaer/artikkel.php?artid=596369 |archive-date=12 December 2009 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Linder |first=Alexander |title=Märkligt ljussken över Kiruna |trans-title=Strange lightning over Kiruna |work=Norrländska Socialdemokraten |date=9 December 2009 |url=http://www.nsd.se/nyheter/artikel.aspx?articleid=5054543#fank5054627 |language=sv |access-date=6 February 2010}}

|Harbour Mille incident

|North AmericaCanada; Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador

|At least three UFOs that looked like missiles but emitted no noise were spotted over Harbour Mille.{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/dnd-rcmp-mum-on-ufo-mystery-1.927262 |work=CBC News |title=DND, RCMP mum on UFO mystery |date=27 January 2010 |access-date=10 October 2011 |archive-date=4 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804224342/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2010/01/27/nl-ufo-military-012710.html |url-status=live}}

|Hangzhou Airport UFO

|AsiaChina; Hangzhou, Zhejiang

|Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport was shut down for an hour after reports of an alleged unidentified flying object near the airport.{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/science/cosmic-log/ufo-tales-just-keep-going-going-flna6c10403709 |work=NBC News |title=UFO tales just keep going, and going |date=7 October 2010 |access-date=7 October 2010}}

|Popocatépetl UFO

|North AmericaMexico; Popocatepetl, State of Mexico

|When Televisa was broadcasting activity of the Popocatepetl, a mysterious object was shown crashing into the crater of the volcano.{{cite news |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ufo-mexico-volcano-popocatepeti-400113 |work=IB Times |title=UFO Falling into Mexican Popocatepeti Volcano Captured on Camera |date=31 October 2012 |access-date=31 October 2012}}

|USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents

|North AmericaUnited States; East Coast of the United States

|Navy pilots from the Theodore Roosevelt began to notice unexplained objects on their radar after an equipment upgrade. Some pilots were unable to see the objects. Others captured video footage, later released to the public. The pilots reported these incidents to the then-obscure Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program resulting in new guidelines regarding unexplained aerial phenomena sightings.{{cite news |last1=Cooper |first1=Helene |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html |title='Wow, What Is That?' Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects |date=26 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=15 February 2020 |last2=Blumenthal |first2=Ralph |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |last3=Kean |first3=Leslie |archive-date=26 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226005917/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html |url-status=live}}

|Jetpack man

|North AmericaUnited States; Los Angeles, California

|The FBI and Federal Aviation Administration investigated reports from multiple professional pilots who, beginning in 2020, began to report something hovering over Los Angeles that looked like a man wearing a jet pack. Investigators said that it was unlikely to be a person and more likely to be a balloon or dummy attached to a drone.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-02/fbi-now-has-theory-about-the-jet-pack-man-seen-flying-in-skies-above-l-a |title=FBI floats a working theory on the 'jet pack man' flying above L.A. |date=2 November 2021 |last=Winton |first=Richard |work=Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211102202114/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-02/fbi-now-has-theory-about-the-jet-pack-man-seen-flying-in-skies-above-l-a |url-status=live |archive-date=2021-11-02}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/jetpack-sighting-lax.html |title='The Jetpack Guy Is Back': Los Angeles Sighting Draws an Inquiry, Again |last=Cramer |first=Maria |date=30 July 2021 |work=New York Times |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231006185851/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/jetpack-sighting-lax.html |archive-date=2023-10-06 |url-status=live}}

|List of high-altitude object events in 2023

|United States, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela

|Multiple airborne objects, sometimes reported as UFOs, were observed and shot down by military aircraft. Many of the objects were identified as meteorology or espionage balloons.{{cite news |last1=Chappell |first1=Bill |title=UFOs? Airborne objects? What we know about 4 recent shootdowns |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156498101/ufos-unidentified-objects-what-we-know-4-shootdowns |access-date=15 February 2023 |work=NPR |publisher=National Public Radio |date=13 February 2023 |archive-date=14 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230214235412/https://www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156498101/ufos-unidentified-objects-what-we-know-4-shootdowns |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Kaonga |first1=Gerrard |title=UFO Map Shows Locations Where U.S. Shot Down Mysterious Objects |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-map-location-shot-down-mysterious-unidentified-flying-object-1780854 |access-date=15 February 2023 |work=Newsweek |publisher=Newsweek Digital LLC |date=13 February 2023 |archive-date=15 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215002211/https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-map-location-shot-down-mysterious-unidentified-flying-object-1780854 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Lubold |first1=Gordon |last2=Youssef |first2=Nancy A. |title=As Mystery Objects Get Shot Down, U.S. Sets Up New Task Force on UFOs |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-mystery-objects-get-shot-down-u-s-sets-up-new-task-force-on-ufos-afa4d12c |access-date=15 February 2023 |work=Wall Street Journal |publisher=Dow Jones & Co., Inc. |date=2023-02-13 |archive-date=15 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215010751/https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-mystery-objects-get-shot-down-u-s-sets-up-new-task-force-on-ufos-afa4d12c |url-status=live}}

|2024 US air base drone incursions in the United Kingdom

|EuropeUnited Kingdom

|Unauthorized drones were reported near four US Air Force bases in the United Kingdom (RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Feltwell, and RAF Fairford) by pilots, air traffic controllers, and aviation enthusiasts.{{cite web |last=Altman | first=Howard | title=Drone incursions over USAF bases in England continue |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/drone-incursions-over-usaf-bases-215410569.html |website=Yahoo News |date=25 November 2024|location=New York | publisher=Yahoo}}{{cite web |last=Greet | first=Kai | publisher=David Cenciotti |location=Rome| title=Unauthorised drones continue to plague U.S. Air Force bases in the UK |url=https://theaviationist.com/2024/11/27/unauthorised-drones-continue-to-plague-u-s-air-force-bases-in-the-uk/ |website=The Aviationist |date=27 November 2024}}

|2024 United States drone sightings

|EuropeUnited States

| A large number of sightings of lights in the sky over New Jersey and other states, primarily in the Northeastern United States. The reported objects were generally referred to as "drones", and thousands of sightings were reported. The US Air Force denied any responsibility for the events.{{cite news | last=Oporto | first=Ernie | date=2024-12-07 |title=Growing mystery over drone sightings in New York & New Jersey | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/growing-mystery-over-drone-sightings-in-new-york-new-jersey-226507845902 | work=NBC News | location=Washington, D.C. | access-date=2025-01-08 | publisher=NBCUniversal Media, LLC}}{{cite news |last1=Kelley |first1=Tina |date=2024-12-08 |title=N.J. military base had 11 'confirmed' mystery drone sightings, Army says |url=https://www.nj.com/morris/2024/12/nj-military-base-had-11-confirmed-mystery-drone-sightings-army-says.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241210144238/https://www.nj.com/morris/2024/12/nj-military-base-had-11-confirmed-mystery-drone-sightings-army-says.html |archive-date=2024-12-10 |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=NJ.com}}{{Cite news |last=Watson |first=Eleanor |date=2024-12-13 |title=What do we know about mystery drones flying over New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania? - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drones-new-jersey-what-we-know/ |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Jr |first=Fernando Cervantes |date=2024-12-15 |title=Mysterious drones reported in New York, Maryland following weeks of sightings in New Jersey |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/13/mysterious-drones-new-york-maryland/76966288007/ |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}