Topic
Sighting
84 records: 84 cases · 1897–2026
Its 84 cases
Strength
A 10B 22C 35D 17
Plausibility
Very high 7High 62Moderate 15
On a line of years
18972026
Most connected
Missiles shut down at MalmstromB1967 · Malmstrom AFB, MontanaThe Belgian triangle waveA1990 · Eupen and across BelgiumRendlesham ForestA1980 · RAF Woodbridge, EnglandSaucers over the CapitolA1952 · Washington, D.C.Green fireballs over the atomic labsA1949 · Los Alamos and Sandia Base, New MexicoBig Sur: a beam at an Atlas warheadC1964 · Vandenberg AFB launch, filmed from Big Sur, CaliforniaThe Ariel School encounterB1994 · Ruwa, ZimbabweThe Phoenix LightsB1997 · Arizona
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Cases 84
1897The Aurora, Texas airship crash (1897)D1897 · Aurora, Wise County, Texas1942The Battle of Los AngelesB1942 · Los Angeles, California1944Foo fighters over EuropeA1944 · Rhine valley and the Pacific1946Ghost rockets over SwedenC1946 · Sweden and Scandinavia1947Kenneth Arnold sees nine 'saucers'B1947 · Mount Rainier, Washington1948Sweden's Supreme Commander and the projectile in the bayB1948 · Våmfjärden, Fågelbrolandet (Värmdö) and the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden1949Catalina Island reports, 1949-1955D1949 · Santa Catalina Island and San Pedro, California1949Green fireballs over the atomic labsA1949 · Los Alamos and Sandia Base, New Mexico1950The Farmington 'saucer armada'C1950 · Farmington, New Mexico1950The Great Falls filmB1950 · Great Falls, Montana1952Professor's luminous sphere over SassariC1952 · Sassari, Sardinia, Italy1952Saucers over the CapitolA1952 · Washington, D.C.1952The Tremonton filmA1952 · Tremonton, Utah1953Humming light over a B-29 at Prince GeorgeC1953 · Prince George airport, British Columbia, Canada1953Lights facing Soviet Chukotka from Little Diomede and GambellD1953 · Little Diomede and Gambell (St Lawrence Island), Alaska, facing the USSR1953Red lights in the Berlin air corridorC1953 · Berlin air corridor over the Soviet Zone, near Genthin, Germany1953Transair DC-3 crew see a metallic disc over HassleholmC1953 · Over Hassleholm, southern Sweden1953Two ringed craft in formation over Seymour, IndianaD1953 · Seymour, Indiana1954Florence 1954: the match stopped and the falling fibresC1954 · Stadio Comunale (now Artemio Franchi), Florence, and Novoli, Calenzano and Sesto Fiorentino, Italy1954Kautokeino: the sheriff's three objectsD1954 · Kautokeino, Finnmark, Norway1955Senator Russell's flying saucersA1955 · Between Baku and Tbilisi, USSR1956F-86D pilot outclimbed and circled by a light over GuamC1956 · Over Guam, Mariana Islands1956Objects over BudapestC1956 · Hungary1957B-52 paced by a radar unknown over Saudi ArabiaC1957 · Over Saudi Arabia, about 27N 47E1957Ota: four F-84Gs and the yellow sphereD1957 · Night navigation route from Ota air base toward Córdoba and Cáceres, Portugal and Spain1964Big Sur: a beam at an Atlas warheadC1964 · Vandenberg AFB launch, filmed from Big Sur, California1966The Uinta Basin display: Junior Hicks's 400 sightingsC1966 · Uinta (Uintah) Basin, northeast Utah1966The Westall school sightingB1966 · Clayton South, Melbourne, Australia1967Missiles shut down at MalmstromB1967 · Malmstrom AFB, Montana1968Cluj: the Hoia-Baciu photographsC1968 · Meadow by the Hoia-Baciu forest, Cluj, Romania1968UFOs over the HimalayasD1968 · Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan1969Chu Lai: an egg-shaped light lands at the ammunition dumpD1969 · Chu Lai Defense Command, Quang Tin, South Vietnam1971Swiss Mirage III pilots and the 'snake' light over InterlakenB1971 · Over Interlaken and Winterthur, Switzerland1975The Nakatsugawa sightingsD1975 · Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan1976Canarias 1976: the corvette, the doctor and the sphereB1976 · Off Fuerteventura and over Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain1976Seoul fires on the lights over the Blue HouseC1976 · Central Seoul, restricted zone P-73 near Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea1977A Mirage IV paced near ChaumontD1977 · Near Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France1977The Petrozavodsk phenomenonB1977 · Petrozavodsk, Karelia (also seen in Leningrad and Pskov oblasts, the Baltics and Finland)1978Kuwait's oil-field objectsB1978 · Kuwait Oil Company northern gathering centre and Kuwait City1980Kuwait Airways KU542 and the giant lightB1980 · North-west of Kuwait City, before the Wafra VOR1980Muddus: a 'rocket' lands in a forest lakeD1980 · Muddus National Park, near Jokkmokk, Sweden1980Rendlesham ForestA1980 · RAF Woodbridge, England1980Upper Heyford: a silent triangle over the golf courseC1980 · RAF Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, England1981The '7·24' spiral over western ChinaC1981 · Seen across Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai and south-central China1982Korea's dawn wave: a glowing 'pillow' across the countryC1982 · Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, Pohang, Ulsan, Gangneung, Changwon and Jeju, South Korea1982The Soviet ICBM launch-panel incidentB1982 · Strategic Rocket Forces division, Ukrainian SSR (Usovo/Byelokoroviche, Zhytomyr oblast, or near Khmelnytskyi)1982Trancrainville: a green-lit mass over the A10C1982 · A10 autoroute, Trancrainville (Eure-et-Loir) to Artenay and Ormes (Loiret), France1984A giant craft over the Indian Point nuclear plant (24 July 1984)C1984 · Indian Point nuclear power plant, Buchanan, New York1984Kaiyo Maru: a wandering light off the FalklandsD1984 · South-west Atlantic, about 53°45'S 64°37'W (east of Tierra del Fuego)1985Halle: the object the Stasi reported to MielkeD1985 · Halle, East Germany1985Papua New Guinea's night of lightsC1985 · Papua New Guinea1986Kaiyo Maru: six hours of radar contacts north of WakeC1986 · North Pacific, north of Wake Island, en route to Midway1986Puttgarden: the BND's 'UFO' fileC1986 · Puttgarden ferry terminal, Fehmarn, Germany1990Greifswald lightsC1990 · Greifswald, Baltic coast, Germany1990Montréal: the object over Place BonaventureC1990 · Over the Hilton Bonaventure rooftop pool, Montréal, Québec, Canada1990The Belgian triangle waveA1990 · Eupen and across Belgium1990The Pereslavl-Zalessky interceptor eventB1990 · Pereslavl-Zalessky, Zagorsk, Kirzhach and nearby (Moscow Air Defence District)1991Papuda, Brasília: police watched, CINDACTA trackedC1991 · Papuda prison, Brasília, Brazil1994Air France 3532 and the giant disc over CoulommiersB1994 · Over Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne), France, at FL3901994Corkscrews at 41,000 feetC1994 · Over Kazakhstan1994The Ariel School encounterB1994 · Ruwa, Zimbabwe1994Ussy-sur-Marne: a triangle over a gendarmerie carC1994 · D3E at the A4 bridge, Ussy-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne), France1995The Sherman ranch: craft, doorways and missing cattleC1995 · South of Fort Duchesne, Uintah County, Utah1997The Phoenix LightsB1997 · Arizona1997The triangle at Twentynine Palms (Hunter Warrior, 1997)D1997 · Near Emerson Dry Lake, north-west of MCAGCC Twentynine Palms, California (restricted airspace R-2501C)2004Samudra Tapu: an ISRO glacier team watches a 'walking' objectB2004 · Samudra Tapu glacier, Chandratal, Lahaul-Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India2008The Kumburgaz footage, TurkeyC2008 · Kumburgaz, Istanbul, Turkey2010Repentigny: a red disk that splitD2010 · Repentigny, Québec, Canada2010The rounded rectangle over SpainC2010 · Amsterdam to Málaga, over Spain, FL4102011The '8·20' giant sphere seen from an airlinerC2011 · Seen from Shanghai, Beijing, Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, China2012Ladakh: hundreds of luminous objects on the China borderC2012 · Thakung near Pangong Tso, and Demchok, eastern Ladakh, India2013Collahuasi: the disc over the copper mineC2013 · Collahuasi copper mine, Tarapacá, Chile (4,300 m)2014The Naha lightsC2014 · Sky west of Naha, Okinawa, Japan2022Cheyenne Mountain "Potato" ObjectB2022 · Fort Carson / Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs, Colorado2023Colorado officers film silent lightsA2023 · Colorado2023Federal agents' two-day encounterA2023 · Near a sensitive site, western U.S.2023Four tic tacs off the USS JacksonB2023 · W-291 warning area, off Southern California2023Three lights from Cyprus to the BalkansD2023 · South of Cyprus to the Balkans, in flight2024The FBI's northeastern orbsB2024 · Northeastern United States2026Red lights and slow moversA2026 · Western United States2026The Arab al-Aramshe objectB2026 · Arab al-Aramshe, Western Galilee, Israel2026Unidentified drones over Toulon during exercise TyphonB2026 · Toulon naval base, DGA Toulon and the 54e régiment d'artillerie at Hyères (Var), France; restricted zone LF-P 62A glowing giant and a black diamond over Minuteman silosDU.S. Air Force missile field (base not named)NORAD's east-coast chaseCEastern United States (NORAD)