Civil nuclear power plants
Most nuclear cases are at weapons sites. These are at civilian power plants: Indian Point (sensors and computers failed), the Arkansas Nuclear One lines at Dardanelle, Genkai in Japan, and Bushehr in Iran, seen by both the Iranian Air Force and US surveillance flights.
- Cases
- 4
- Countries
- 4
- Span
- 1984–2025
- Found by
- Cross-match
The cases
- 1984A giant craft over the Indian Point nuclear plant (24 July 1984)On the night of 24 July 1984, during the Hudson Valley sighting wave, security police at the Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan, New York, reported a conical craft as long as three football fields, with white, yellow and blue oscillating lights, passing…
- 2003Iran's Air Force and the luminous objects over its nuclear sitesBetween 2003 and 2005 Iran's Air Force logged nearly 180 sightings of luminous objects, clustered around the Bushehr, Natanz and Arak nuclear sites.
- 2009B-1-size triangle near Arkansas Nuclear One power linesOn 20 April 2009 a nurse driving near Dardanelle and Mount Nebo, Arkansas, by the Arkansas Nuclear One power lines, saw a dark triangle the size of a B-1 bomber with rotating metallic-blue lights come within about 100 feet.
- 2025Genkai nuclear plant: three lights and Japan's first UAP policy pushOn the evening of 26 July 2025 staff at the Genkai nuclear plant in Kyushu saw three lights over the site, and the operator reported a nuclear-material protection event.
What if?
If the interest is nuclear material itself, power plants should draw it as weapons sites do.
What would settle it
Plant security and incident logs for each date.