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[[File:UFO Sightings by Shape.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|alt=Shapes reported as UFOs include orbs, triangles, other shapes, fireballs, discs, lights, eggs, cigars, changing shapes, rectangles, and diamonds, from most to least common. Full data is available at the linked image page.|Most commonly reported shapes in UFO sightings gathered in the [[National UFO Reporting Center]] (NUFORC) Online Database <ref>{{multiref2|NUFORC has collected over 100,000 UFO reports spanning decades. The most common description was of "lights" in the sky, and many UFOs were of an "unknown" or "unspecified" shape. As of 2025, other reported shapes include: cubes (90), cones (643), crosses (531), teardrops (1273), and stars (280).
|{{cite news|url=https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/ufo/index.html|newspaper=[[South China Morning Post]]|last=Arranz |title=Are we alone?|first=Adolfo|others=Infographics by Pablo Robles|date=24 December 2017|access-date=22 July 2023|archive-date=22 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722184527/https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/ufo/index.html|url-status=live}}
|{{cite web|url=https://nuforc.org/webreports/ndxshape.html|access-date=8 February 2025|title=UFO Report Index by Shape of Craft |date=20 August 2023 |publisher=[[National UFO Reporting Center]]|archive-date=8 February 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250208002153/https://nuforc.org/ndx/?id=shape|url-status=live}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250208002310/https://nuforc.org/ndx/?id=shape|date=8 February 2025}}}}</ref>]]

This is a list of notable reported sightings of [[unidentified flying object]]s (UFOs) some of which include related claims of [[Close encounter#Hynek's scale|close encounters of the second or third kind]] or [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] [[alien abduction|abduction]]. UFOs are generally considered to include any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. Upon investigation, most UFOs are [[Identification studies of UFOs|identified]] as known objects or atmospheric phenomena, while a small number remain unexplained.<ref name="Prothero">{{cite book |last1=Prothero|first1=Donald|last2=Callahan|first2=Timothy|title=UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says|date=2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5SFDwAAQBAJ&q=UFOs%2C+Chemtrails%2C+and+Aliens%3A+What+Science+Says|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|isbn=978-0253026927|access-date=20 August 2023|archive-date=9 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009222509/https://books.google.com/books?id=F5SFDwAAQBAJ&q=UFOs,+Chemtrails,+and+Aliens:+What+Science+Says|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Scheaffer">{{cite book |last1=Sheaffer|first1=Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RrAEAAAACAAJ&q=robert+sheaffer+ufos|title=UFO Sightings: The Evidence|date=1998|publisher=[[Prometheus Books]]|isbn=978-1573922135|access-date=20 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009222509/https://books.google.com/books?id=RrAEAAAACAAJ&q=robert+sheaffer+ufos|archive-date=9 October 2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Barnes">{{cite news|last1=Barnes|first1=Julian E.|title=Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=28 October 2022 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html|access-date=20 August 2023|archive-date=19 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819211826/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html|url-status=live}}</ref> UFOs have been referred to using a range of terms including the more specific "[[flying saucer]]" and the more general term "[[Unidentified flying object#Terminology|unidentified anomalous phenomena]]" (UAP). "UAP" is sometimes used to avoid cultural associations with [[UFO conspiracy theories]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Becket|first1=Stefan|title=What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-are-uaps-unexplained-aerial-phenomenon-ufos-new-name/|access-date=13 July 2024 |work=[[CBS News]]|date=14 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=UFOs or UAPs: What's the difference and why are people talking about them?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57344606|access-date=13 July 2024|work=[[BBC Newsround]]|date=7 June 2021}}</ref>

Although often viewed as abnormal, UFO sightings are reported frequently.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[BBC]]|url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230726-the-weird-incidents-piquing-nasas-interest|title=The UFO reports piquing Nasa's interest|date=26 July 2023|last=Govett|first=Zaria}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-07-26/the-us-congress-takes-ufos-seriously-sightings-are-not-rare-or-isolated.html|work=[[El País]]|title=The US Congress takes UFOs seriously: 'Sightings are not rare or isolated'|first=Iker|last=Seisdedos|date=July 26, 2023}}</ref> During the United States' [[1947 flying disc craze|initial 1947 wave]], over 800 sightings were reported in the news.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kottmeyer |first=Martin S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHo2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238 |title=Why Statues Weep: The Best of the "Skeptic" |date=2017|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-1134962525|editor-last=Grossman|editor-first=Wendy M.|location=Oxfordshire, England |chapter=Why Have UFOs Changed Speed Over the Years?|editor-last2=French|editor-first2=Christopher C. |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/whystatuesweepbe0000gros/page/170/|page=172}}</ref> The [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|British Ministry of Defence]] receives hundreds of reports each year.<ref>{{cite web|title=16 things commonly mistaken for UFOs|url=https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/things-mistaken-for-ufos|website=[[BBC]] [[Sky at Night Magazine]]|last=Pearson|first=Ezzy|date=3 June 2024|language=en}}</ref> In [[Brazil]], pilots alone report dozens of annual sightings.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Marshall|first1=Euan|title=Pilots record 30 UFO sightings in Brazil over 2023|url=https://brazilian.report/society/2024/09/01/pilots-ufo-sightings/|access-date=12 October 2024|work=The Brazilian Report|date=1 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Audi|first1=Amanda|title=Brazil and UFOs: a hotbed for the unexplained|url=https://brazilian.report/society/2023/09/19/brazil-ufos-hotbed-unexplained/|website=The Brazilian Report|access-date=12 October 2024|date=19 September 2023}}</ref> A small portion of reported sightings have lasting cultural significance,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Betz|first1=Eric|title=Reports of rising UFO sightings are greatly exaggerated|url=https://www.astronomy.com/science/reports-of-rising-ufo-sightings-are-greatly-exaggerated/|access-date=12 October 2024|work=[[Astronomy Magazine]]|date=2 October 2020}}</ref> interpreted through the cultural and technological expectations of the time.<ref>{{cite news|title=Aliens? You've Heard This Story Before, Regents Professor Lisa Yaszek Says|publisher=[[Georgia Tech]] |url=https://iac.gatech.edu/news/item/648827/aliens-heard-this-story-before-regents-professor-lisa-yaszek-says|access-date=12 October 2024|work=IAC News|date=July 15, 2021|language=en}}</ref>

== Antiquity ==
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|[[Temple of Amun, Jebel Barkal|Thutmose III Jebel Barkal Stele]]
|<span style="display:none">Africa</span>[[Ancient Egypt]]; [[Jebel Barkal]], [[Lower Egypt]]
|After a military campaign in [[Nubia]], [[Thutmose III]] had a [[stele]] erected at the [[Temple of Amun, Jebel Barkal|Temple of Amun]], beneath the [[Jebel Barkal]] outcropping.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The stele describes how "a star came down" to set fire to Thutmose's adversaries.<ref>''[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.</ref><ref>{{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=[[Peeters Publishers]] |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}}</ref> This has been cited by ufologists via the purported [[Tulli Papyrus]], likely a fraud.<ref>{{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}}</ref> This alleged translation—published in issue 41 of the [[Fortean Society]]'s magazine ''Doubt''—used such [[Charles Fort#Fortean phenomena|Fortean tropes]] as "circles of fire" and fish that "fell down from the sky".<ref name="Vallee-Aubek">{{cite book |last1=Vallee |first1=Jacques |last2=Aubek |first2=Chris |title=Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XINLC2ubHqwC&dq=Tulli+Papyrus+%2B+hoax&pg=PT347 |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-101-44472-6 |via=books.google.co.uk |publisher=Penguin |access-date=14 July 2017 |author-link=Jacques Vallée |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326191943/https://books.google.com/books?id=XINLC2ubHqwC&dq=Tulli+Papyrus+%2B+hoax&pg=PT347 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|369–372}}
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|[[Religion in ancient Rome#Omens and prodigies|Ships in the sky]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Roman Republic]]; [[Roman Italy|Italia]]
|During the build-up to the [[Second Punic War]], [[Livy]] recorded [[Religion in ancient Rome#Omens and prodigies|prodigies]] in the winter sky, including ''navium speciem de caelo adfulsisse'' ("phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky").<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="nasa" />
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|[[Bolide#Definitions|Spark from a falling star]]
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>[[Roman Republic]]; [[Asia (Roman province)|Asia]]
|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. Astronomer [[Richard Stothers]] interpreted the report as a description of a [[bolide]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|[[Third Mithridatic War#Mithridates's defeat in western Asia, 73–72 BC|Flame-like wine-jars from the sky]]
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>[[Roman Republic]]; [[Phrygia]], [[Asia (Roman province)|Asia]]
|According to [[Plutarch]], a Roman army commanded by [[Lucullus]] was [[Third Mithridatic War#Mithridates's defeat in western Asia, 73–72 BC|about to begin a battle]] with [[Mithridates VI of Pontus]] when "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]]).<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="nasa" />
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|data-sort-value="0065"|AD&nbsp;65
|[[Omen (ancient Rome)|Sky army]]
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>[[Roman Empire]]; [[Judaea (Roman province)|Judaea]]
|Romano-Jewish historian [[Flavius Josephus]] reported chariots "hurtling through the clouds" prior to the [[First Jewish–Roman War]].<ref name="nasa">{{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}}</ref>
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|data-sort-value="0196"|AD&nbsp;196
|[[Angel hair (folklore)|Angel hair]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Roman Empire]]; [[Rome]], [[Roman Italy|Italia]]
|Historian [[Cassius Dio]] described a "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.<ref name="nasa" />
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== 8th–17th centuries ==
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|[[Air ship of Clonmacnoise]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Ireland]]; [[Teltown]] in [[County Meath]], and [[Clonmacnoise]] in [[County Offaly]]
|Several sets of [[Irish annals]], those of [[Annals of Ulster|Ulster]], [[Annals of Tigernach|Tigernach]], [[Annals of Clonmacnoise|Clonmacnoise]], and [[Annals of the Four Masters|the Four Masters]], have entries to the effect that "[[Air ship of Clonmacnoise|ships with their crews were seen in the air]]".<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1561-<wbr>04-14
|[[1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Holy Roman Empire]]; [[Nuremberg]], [[Duchy of Bavaria|Bavaria]]
|Residents of Nuremberg described an aerial battle, followed by the appearance of "something like a black spear, very long and thick" (translation: Ilse Von Jacobi). A [[broadsheet]] recorded that witness accounts of hundreds of spheres, cylinders and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead.<ref name="Kripal2011">{{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–}}</ref>
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|1566-<wbr>08-07
|[[1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Old Swiss Confederation|Switzerland]]; [[Basel]], [[Canton of Basel|Basel]]
|A [[broadsheet]] published in 1566 depicted numerous spherical objects appearing out of the sun.<ref name="Kripal2011" /> The event was recorded and depicted by Samuel Coccius, "a student of the Holy Scripture and of the free arts, at Basel".<ref>{{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.</ref>
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|1609-<wbr>09-22
|[[Gwanghaegun of Joseon|Gwanghaegun]] period UFO Turmoil
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>[[Joseon]] (Korea); [[Gangwon Province (historical)|Gangwon Province]]
|In 1609, multiple witnesses in [[Goseong County, Gangwon|Goseong]], [[Wonju]] [[Gangneung]], [[Chuncheon]] County  and [[Yangyang County|Yangyang]] County described a [[Halo (optical phenomenon)|Halo]] or [[Bowl|washbowl]] that was divided in two in the sky.<ref>{{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]]'')</ref>
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== 19th century ==
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|[[Bonilla observation]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[Porfiriato|Mexico]]; [[Zacatecas, Zacatecas|Zacatecas]] Observatory, [[Zacatecas]] 
|The astronomer [[José Bonilla (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 (magazine)|L'Astronomie]]''.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1896-<wbr>11-17 to 1897-<wbr>04-23
|[[Mystery airship]]s
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]
|Newspapers across [[California]], and later other states, especially the Midwest, printed reports of strange [[airship]]s and lights. Common elements of the descriptions included bright lights, cigar-shaped bodies, movable wings and a metallic hull.<ref>{{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}}.</ref>
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|1897-<wbr>04-17
|[[Aurora, Texas, UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Aurora, Texas]]
|Local correspondent S.E. Hayden reported the crash of an [[mystery airships|airship]] piloted by an [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]]. According to Hayden, the pilot was buried in the local cemetery. Residents of Aurora embrace the story without taking it seriously.<ref>{{ 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}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4587362.html |title=Aurora&nbsp;- 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}}</ref>
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== 20th century ==
=== 1900–1949 ===
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|1904-02-28 <ref name=supply>{{cite book|vauthors=USS-Supply|date=May 1964|chapter=<small>GEOMETRICAL FORMATION CASES</small>|location=1536 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington 36|editor-last1=Hall|editor-first1=Richard H. |editor-link=Richard H. Hall|title=The UFO <small>EVIDENCE</small>|chapter-url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=-ZJTAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA14&hl=en|pages=6–7|publisher=National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena|access-date=3 March 2025}}</ref>
|USS ''Supply''<ref name=supply/>
|North Pacific;<ref name=supply/> about 300 miles from [[California]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
|{{efn|While onboard the [[USS Supply (1872)|USS ''Supply'']] the eighth day after departing from [[Honolulu]] where the ship was re-coaled <ref name=USNAVY>{{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}}</ref> Observed by three crew-members.<ref name=FHSchofield>{{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}}</ref>}} Three objects <ref name=supply/> "rather bright red" color <ref name=FHSchofield/>  with geometrical formation flight pattern "in-line" and "echelon"; the objects changed course and flightpath changed from the observed horizontal to angularly upwards.<ref name=supply/> The duration of reported event was stated as 2 minutes plus.<ref name=FHSchofield/>  {{efn| The reporting officer who received the accounts stated all three accounts concurred.<ref name=FHSchofield/> The ship docked in [[San Francisco]] on March 1, 1904.<ref name=USNAVY/>}}
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|1907
|[[UFO sightings in Albania#1907|Mihal Grameno UFO]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Ottoman 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 Topulli|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."<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Telegrafi2016">{{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}}</ref>
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|1909
|[[Mystery airship#1909–1913|New Zealand airship sightings]]
|<span style="display:none">Oceania</span>[[New 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1917-<wbr>08-13, 1917-<wbr>09-13, 1917-<wbr>10-13
|[[Miracle of the Sun]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[First Portuguese Republic|Portugal]]; [[Fátima, Portugal|Fátima]], [[Santarém District]]
|Thousands of people gathered in Fátima based on reported [[Marian apparition]]s 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.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Joaquim |last1=Fernandes |first2=Fina |last2=d'Armada |title=Heavenly Lights |date=2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Joaquim |last1=Fernandes |first2=Fina |last2=d'Armada |title=Celestial Secrets |date=2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Joaquim |last1=Fernandes |first2=Fernando |last2=Fernandes |first3=Raul |last3=Berenguel |title=Fatima Revisited |date=2008}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1926}}
|[[Nicholas Roerich#Asian expedition (1925–1929)|Nicholas Roerich]] UFO sighting
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>[[Tibet]]
|During his [[Nicholas Roerich#Asian expedition (1925–1929)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><!-- < < [[WP:FRIND]] --><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1933-06-01
|[[Frank Smythe]] UFO sighting
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>China–Nepal border; [[Mount Everest]] in the [[Himalayas]]
|During the [[1933 British Mount Everest expedition|1933 Mount Everest expedition]], Smythe witnessed two spots hovering and pulsating in the sky.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1940s}}
|[[Foo fighter]]s
|Over [[World War II]] theaters
|During World War II, [[Allies of World War II|allied]] fighter pilots above Europe reported colorful balls of light following their aircraft at high speeds.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1941}}
|Cape Girardeau UFO legend
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>United States; [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri|Cape Girardeau]], [[Missouri]]
|{{anchor|Cape1941}}<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1942-<wbr>02-24
|[[Battle of Los Angeles]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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 ''[[Los Angeles Times|LA Times]]'' reported that “the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano."<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1942-08-29 <ref name=Solomon>{{cite book|last1=Solomon|first1=Michael|date=May 1964|chapter=Air Force observations|location=1536 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington 36|editor-last1=Hall|editor-first1=Richard H. |editor-link=Richard H. Hall|title=The UFO <small>EVIDENCE</small>|chapter-url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=-ZJTAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA18&hl=en|pages=10–11(19)|publisher=National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena|access-date=3 March 2025}}</ref>
|Army Air Corps Flying School <ref name=Solomon/>
|near [[Columbus Air Force Base|Flying School]], [[Columbus, Missouri]]<ref name=Solomon/><ref>{{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]]}}</ref> 
|Control tower operator observes two reddish colored round objects descend-hover-accelerate away <ref name=Solomon/>
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|1944-08-10 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nicap.org/ufoe/ufoe33_38.htm|website=www.nicap.org|title=WHAT THE PILOTS HAVE SEEN|date=|publisher=[[National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena]]|access-date=2 March 2025|url-status=|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250302171353/https://www.nicap.org/ufoe/ufoe33_38.htm|archive-date=2 March 2025}}</ref>
|[[468th Bombardment Group|468th Bomb Group]]<ref name=Reida>{{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 <small>EVIDENCE</small>|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}}</ref>
|20–30 minutes airflight time from [[Palembang]], Sumatra <ref name=Reida/>
|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".<ref name=Reida/>
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|1945
|[[Trinity UFO Case]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>United States; [[New Mexico]]
|In 2003, two men began telling conflicting accounts of an avocado-shaped craft piloted by insectoid aliens crashing at the [[Trinity (nuclear test)|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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1946
|[[Ghost rockets|The Ghost Rockets]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Scandinavia]] and other parts of [[Europe]]
|Thousands of UFO sightings were reported over Europe. Due in part to concerns that foreign governments were testing [[Nazi UFOs#Ghost rockets|recovered experimental German technology]], the Swedish and Greek governments investigated the reports separately.<ref>{{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}}</ref><!--The Hamblin source is okay, but German-language Wikipedia has several high quality sources [[:de:Special:Permanenter Link/209403430]] -->
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|1946-<wbr>05-18
|[[Ängelholm UFO memorial]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Sweden]]; [[Ängelholm]], [[Skåne County|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.<ref name="PollenKing2003">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Harrison2017">{{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.}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>06-24
|[[Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; North of [[Mount Rainier]], [[Washington (state)|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.<ref name="Lacitis2017">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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.)</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1947}}
|[[1947 flying disc craze]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Washington (state)|Washington]] and other states
|After the [[Kenneth Arnold]] sighting was reported in the news, over 800 similar sightings were reported throughout 1947.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>07-04
|[[Flight 105 UFO sighting]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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".<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>07-07
|[[Rhodes UFO photographs]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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".<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="AzRepJul9">{{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}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>07-08
|[[Roswell incident|The Roswell Incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; about 30&nbsp;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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1947-<wbr>07-29
|[[Maury Island hoax]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Puget Sound]] near [[Maury Island]], [[Washington (state)|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|Men in Black]]. On July 31, 1947, Palmer arranged a meeting between Crisman, Dahl, Air Force investigators, and flying saucer witnesses [[Kenneth Arnold]] & [[Flight 105 UFO sighting|Emil Smith]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1948}}
|[[Green fireballs|The Green Fireballs]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1948-<wbr>01-07
|[[Mantell UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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|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 [[hypoxia (medical)|blacked out from a lack of oxygen]]. The military later identified the craft he was pursuing as likely a [[Skyhook balloon|Skyhook weather balloon]].<ref name="Ruppelt1956">{{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 (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}}</ref><ref name="Graff2023">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Stillwell2022">{{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}}</ref>
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|1948-<wbr>03-25
|[[Aztec, New Mexico UFO hoax]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="Greer2009">{{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}}</ref>
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|1948-<wbr>07-24
|[[Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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."<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1948-<wbr>10-01
|[[Gorman dogfight]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Clark, Jerome |title=Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs |year=2003 |publisher=Citadel Press |isbn=0-8065-2299-2 |page=66}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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=== 1950–1974 ===
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|1950-<wbr>05-11
|[[McMinnville UFO photographs]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref name="oregonlive photos">{{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}}</ref>
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|1950-<wbr>08-15
|[[Mariana UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1951-<wbr>01-20
|[[Sioux City mystery plane incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref name="Ginna"/>
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|1951-<wbr>08-25
|[[Lubbock Lights]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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<ref name="Ginna">{{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 }}</ref>
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|1952-<wbr>01-29
|[[Wonsan-Sunchon UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>[[Korea]];  [[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<ref name="Ginna"/>
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|1952-<wbr>07-12 to 1952-<wbr>07-29
|[[1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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 [[Central Intelligence Agency|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".<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1952-<wbr>07-14
|[[Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1952-<wbr>09-12
|[[Flatwoods monster|The Flatwoods Monster]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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".<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1954-<wbr>09-10
|[[Marius Dewilde]] sighting
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Fourth French Republic|France]]; [[Quarouble]], [[Nord (French department)|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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1954-<wbr>10-27
|[[Stadio Artemio Franchi#1954 UFO sightings|Fiorentina Stadium mass sighting]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Italy]]; [[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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1955-<wbr>08-21 to 1955-<wbr>08-22
|[[Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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 [[goblin]]s, aliens, "[[little green men]]", [[Great horned owl|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1956-<wbr>07-24
|[[Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United 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.<ref name="Sagan1972" /><ref name="McDonald1969" />
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|1956-<wbr>08-13
|[[Elizabeth Klarer]]
|<span style="display:none">Africa</span>[[Union of South Africa|South 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1957-<wbr>05-03
|[[Gordon Cooper#UFO sightings|Gordon Cooper UFO Sightings]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Edwards Air Force Base]], [[California]]
| <!-- NOTE: Cooper is commonly associated with three UFO incidents: (1) firsthand sighting of unknown craft in Germany, (2) secondhand interactions with witnesses plus photographs at Edwards Air Force Base, and (3) sightings in Space. Do NOT insert material from (3) outer space sightings. Cooper has publicly denied this and the commonly reproduced quotes regarding the Mercury Project in ufology are either falsely attributed to Cooper or taken out of context. To claim any validity for (3) Cooper's Mercury UFO sighting is a violation of WP:BLP.-->
Gordon Cooper, one of the [[Mercury Seven|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 [[Cinetheodolite|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.<ref>{{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.}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1957-<wbr>05-20
|Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United Kingdom]]; [[East Anglia]]
|{{Anchor|Torres1957}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. -->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.<ref>{{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=[[Portable Document 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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1957-<wbr>10-15
|[[Antônio Vilas-Boas]] Abduction
|<span style="display:none">South America</span>[[Fourth Brazilian Republic|Brazil]]; Near [[São Francisco de Sales]], [[Minas Gerais]]
|Law student Antônio Vilas-Boas described being [[Alien abduction|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.<ref>{{ 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}}</ref>
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|1957-<wbr>11-02
|[[Levelland UFO case]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Levelland, Texas]]
|Drivers observed cigar-shaped lights above the highway, followed by electrical failures.<ref>{{ 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}}</ref>
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|1957-<wbr>11-04
|[[Kirtland AFB UFO sighting]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]]
|Through binoculars, two Civil Aeronautics Administration tower operators reported seeing an egg shape emitting a white light beneath it.<ref name="Sagan1972">{{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]].)</ref><ref name="McDonald1969">{{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}}</ref>
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|1961-<wbr>09-19
|[[Betty and Barney Hill abduction]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; South of [[Lancaster, New Hampshire|Lancaster]] on [[U.S. Route 3|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1963
|[[UFO sightings in Albania#January 1963|Kallamishtez UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[People's Republic of Albania|Albania]]; [[Kurvelesh (region)|Kurvelesh]]
|Residents of Kallamishtëz in the [[Kurvelesh (region)|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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Telegrafi2016" />
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|1964-<wbr>04-24
|[[Lonnie Zamora incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1964-<wbr>05-23
|[[Solway Firth Spaceman]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1964-<wbr>09-22
|[[Big Sur UFO]]
||<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Big Sur]], California
|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.<ref name="Military">{{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}}</ref>  
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|1964-<wbr>09-18 until 9-24
|[[Jacob Salatun|Dwikora Operation UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>Surabaya, Indonesia
|Officer [[Jacob Salatun]]&mdash;founder of the [[National Institute of Aeronautics and Space]] in Indonesia&mdash;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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1965-<wbr>06-04
|[[James McDivitt#Project Gemini|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."<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1965-<wbr>09-03
|[[Exeter incident|The Incident at Exeter]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1965-<wbr>07-1
|[[Valensole UFO incident|The Valensole UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[France]]; [[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.<ref>{{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–}}</ref><ref>{{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–}}</ref>
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|1965-<wbr>12-09
|[[Kecksburg UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1966-<wbr>03-20 
|[[Michigan "swamp gas" UFO reports]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>United States; [[Dexter, Michigan]] and [[Hillsdale, Michigan]]
|Two mass sightings above wetlands were dismissed at a press conference as "marsh gas".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/magazine/flying-saucers-and-swamp-gas/|title=Flying Saucers and Swamp Gas &#124; Bentley Historical Library}}</ref>
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|1966-<wbr>04-06
|[[Westall UFO]]
|<span style="display:none">Oceania</span>[[Australia]]; [[Clayton South, Victoria]]
|Several hundred students and school faculty from Westall High School watched an object land at the nearby Grange Reserve.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1966-<wbr>08-20
|[[Lead masks case]]
|<span style="display:none">South America</span>[[Military dictatorship in Brazil|Brazil]]; [[Niterói]], [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|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 [[hallucinogen]]s<ref>{{Cite web |title=Solving the Lead Masks of Vintem Hill |url=https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4398 |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=Skeptoid}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>      
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|1967-<wbr>03-16
|[[Malmstrom UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; Montana
|A missile facility malfunction was claimed to be linked to a UFO report by [[Robert Salas]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1967-<wbr>05-20
|[[Falcon Lake Incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[Canada]]; [[Falcon Lake (Manitoba)|Falcon Lake]], [[Manitoba]]
|Prospector Stefan Michalak attributed unusual burns on his body to a purported UFO sighting near Falcon Lake.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Radiation tests done at [[Misericordia Health Centre|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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/x-files-at-university-of-manitoba-investigative-files-artifacts-from-ufo-encounter-donated-to-university-archives/ |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=CTV News |date=7 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
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|1967-<wbr>08-29
|[[Close encounter of Cussac]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[France]]; near [[Cussac, Cantal|Cussac]], [[Auvergne (region)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1967-<wbr>09-4
|[[1967 British flying saucer hoax]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United 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 Battery Company|Eveready brand]] batteries, and the hoax was exposed.<ref name="BBChoax">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Guardianhoax">{{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}}</ref>
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|1967-<wbr>10-04
|[[Shag Harbour UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[Canada]]; [[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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1969-<wbr>01-06
|[[Jimmy Carter UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1969-<wbr>04-12
|[[Finnish Air Force sighting]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Finland]]; [[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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1969-<wbr>09-1
|[[Labor Day 1969 UFO Incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Berkshire County, Massachusetts]]
|Four families with no prior connection alleged that they saw a UFO, were moved by a beam of light, and [[Dissociative amnesia|lost several hours]] of time. The Great Barrington Historical Society recognized the accounts as a "historical event" in 2015.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1969-<wbr>09-08
|{{ill|Pudasjärvi sighting|fi|Pudasjärven ufot}}
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Finland]]; [[Pudasjärvi]]
|A taxi driver and his passengers observed about a dozen football-sized flying bright lights for half an hour between 1:25 and 1:50 a.m. on Sunday and Monday night, when the weather was partly cloudy. The lights varied in color, direction of flight, and speed. A larger light was also seen inside the clouds, estimated to be 170 meters in diameter. In one place, the light illuminated a room with dazzling brightness. The light was observed in many nearby towns.<ref>{{cite book | first = Soini | last= Lax | year = 1972 | title = Pudasjärven ufot. Uraania vai utopiaa? | page = 16 | publisher = Kirjayhtymä Oy | language = fi | isbn = 951-26-0151-6}}</ref>
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|1973-<wbr>10-11
|[[Pascagoula Abduction]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Pascagoula, Mississippi|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".<ref name="books.google.co.uk">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1974-<wbr>01-23
|[[Berwyn Mountain UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United Kingdom]]; [[Llandrillo, Denbighshire|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.<ref name="R. M. W. Musson">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1974-<wbr>08-23
|[[John Lennon UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|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]]".<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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=== 1975–1999 ===
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!Date !!Name !!Location !!Description
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|1975-<wbr>01-12
|[[North Hudson Park UFO sightings]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[North Bergen, New Jersey]]
|George O'Barski reported seeing a dark object with lit windows near the [[Stonehenge (building)|Stonehenge building]] adjacent to [[North Hudson, New Jersey|North Hudson Park]]. His story was covered by ufologist [[Budd Hopkins]] and local newspapers.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hopkins |first1=Budd |title=Sane citizen sees UFO in New Jersey |work=The Village Voice |date=1 March 1976 |page=12}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1975-<wbr>11-05
|[[Travis Walton UFO incident|Travis Walton]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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).<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1976-<wbr>09-17
|[[1976 Tehran UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>[[Iran]]; [[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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1977-<wbr>09-20
|[[Petrozavodsk phenomenon]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Soviet Union]], [[Finland]], [[Lithuania]], and [[Denmark]]
|Residents of [[Petrozavodsk]] reported a giant glowing "[[Space jellyfish|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 phenomenon|twilight hours]], when the rocket streaks through sunlit regions and the observer is on the nighttime side of the Earth."<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1977 to 1978
|[[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.<ref name=folha>{{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]</ref><ref name=piaui>{{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 (magazine)|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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1978-<wbr>05-10
|[[Emilcin Abduction]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Poland]]; [[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&nbsp;ft (300&nbsp;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.<ref>{{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.}}</ref>
|-
|1978-<wbr>10-21
|[[Valentich disappearance]]
|<span style="display:none">Oceania</span>Australia; [[Victoria (Australia)|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."<ref>{{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}}</ref> Neither the pilot nor the plane were ever found.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1978-<wbr>12-06
|[[Zanfretta UFO Incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Italy]]; [[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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1978-<wbr>12-21 to 1978-<wbr>12-30
|[[Kaikoura lights]]
|<span style="display:none">Oceania</span>[[New 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 (Australian TV channel)|TV1]] and [[ATV (Australian TV station)|Channel 0]] arrived to record footage for a story about the sighting, and were able to capture the lights on camera. The [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)|New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]] investigated and did not find evidence that the lights were solid objects.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1979-<wbr>08-27
|[[Val Johnson incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Marshall County, Minnesota]]
|Sheriff Val Johnson attributed minor injuries and the shattered windshield of his squad car to a beam of light.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1979-<wbr>11-09
|[[Robert Taylor incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United 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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1979-<wbr>11-11
|[[Manises UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Spain]]; [[Valencia, Spain|Valencia]], [[Valencian Community]]
|En route to [[Las Palmas de Gran Canaria|Las Palmas]], commercial pilot Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada radioed air traffic control regarding a pair of red lights approaching his [[TAE – Trabajos Aéreos y Enlaces|TAE]] [[Sud Aviation Caravelle|Supercaravelle]]. Neither air traffic control in Barcelona nor the military identified the object. Tejada made an emergency landing at the nearby airport in Manises.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1980-<wbr>04-11
|Arequipa UFO incident
|<span style="display:none">South America</span>[[Peru]]; [[Arequipa Region]]
|{{anchor|Arequipa}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. --> Early in the morning of April 11, La Joya [[Peruvian Air Force|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-17#Variants|Sukhoi Su-22]] and fired a barrage of [[Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30|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".<ref>{{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 (Mexico City)|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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1980-<wbr>12-26 to 1980 -12-28
|[[Rendlesham Forest incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1980-<wbr>12-29
|[[Cash–Landrum incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1981-<wbr>01-08
|[[Trans-en-Provence case]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[France]]; [[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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Skeptics have been critical of the GEPAN investigation which took place 40 days after the initial sighting.<ref>{{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.) <!-- Additional extracts: https://web.archive.org/web/20071031214447/https://zetetique.fr/page/doc.php?publication=1&ecritId=37 --></ref><ref>{{cite report |editor-last=Figuet |editor-first=M. |date=1995 |title=L'affaire de Trans-en-Provence. |publisher=Dompierre-les-Ormes, SERPAN.}}</ref>
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|1982 -11-02
|Maxial UFO incident
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>Maxial, 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|1983}}
|[[1984 Hudson Valley UFO sightings|Hudson Valley Sightings]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Hudson Valley]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
|{{Anchor|Hudson1983}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. -->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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1986-<wbr>05-19
|[[1986 Brazilian UFO incident|"Night of the UFOs"]] in Brazil
|<span style="display:none">South America</span>[[Brazil]]; [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]], [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|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 III|Mirage IIIE]] and [[F-5 Tiger II|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1986-<wbr>11-17
|[[Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Alaska]]
|While piloting a [[Japan]]ese [[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}}, [[First Officer (civil aviation)|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 [[Propelling nozzle|nozzles]] or thrusters.<ref><!--archived news source-->{{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}}</ref><ref><!--ufoevidence.org is a tertiary source-->{{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}}</ref>
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|1987-<wbr>12-1
|[[Ilkley Moor UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>United 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.<ref name="Yorkshire Post">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1987 to 1988
|[[Gulf Breeze UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>United 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.<ref>{{cite news |date=4 March 1988 |title=UFO Investigators Hope to Verify Photos of Spaceship |newspaper=Pensacola News Journal |location=Florida |pages=1A, 16A}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{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}}</ref>
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|1989-<wbr>09-27
|[[Voronezh UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Soviet 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".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fein |first1=Esther B. |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}}</ref><ref>{{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 magazine|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}}</ref><ref>{{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.}}</ref>
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|1990-08-04
|[[Calvine UFO]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>United Kingdom; [[Perthshire]],  Scotland
|Sighting of an UFO near [[Calvine]] in [[Scotland]] in August 1990. The object was photographed.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1994-<wbr>03-08
|[[1994 Michigan UFO event]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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]</ref><ref name="auto"/>
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|1994-<wbr>09-16
|[[Ariel School UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">Africa</span>[[Zimbabwe]]; [[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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|1996-<wbr>01-20
|[[Varginha UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">South America</span>[[Brazil]]; [[Varginha]], [[Minas Gerais]]
|In 1996, various individuals reported possibly unrelated incidents with what they described as UFOs, creatures, and the Brazilian military.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref>
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|1997-<wbr>03-13
|[[Phoenix Lights]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Phoenix, Arizona]]
|Many residents photographed lights in a "V" pattern moving through Arizona,<ref>{{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}}</ref> during a night that the [[Air National Guard]] stationed in [[Tucson, Arizona]], were conducting training exercises.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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== 21st century ==
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!Date !!Name !!Location !!Description
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|2000-<wbr>10-05
|Bonsall UFO sighting
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United Kingdom]]; [[Bonsall, Derbyshire]]
|{{Anchor|Bonsall2000}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. -->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".<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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.</ref>
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|2004-<wbr>03-05
|[[2004 Mexican UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[Mexico]]; [[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 [[Cantarell Field|cluster of off-shore oil platforms]] in the [[Bay of Campeche]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref><!-- No debate from ufologists:  -->{{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]]}}</ref><ref><!-- Background information on why oil platforms would burn valuable natural gas and also just how bright the flares can be: -->{{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}}</ref>
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|2004-<wbr>10-31
|Tinley Park Lights
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[Illinois]]
|{{Anchor|Tinley2004}}<!-- Anchors are for redirected pages. They are positioned at the beginning of their descriptions because it is the topmost line of the entry. -->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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2004-<wbr>11-14
|[[USS Nimitz UFO incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; Off the coast of [[San Diego, California]]
|Several pilots from [[VFA-41]] squadron flying [[Super Hornet]]s from the [[USS Nimitz]], were directed by the [[USS Princeton (CG-59)|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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2006-<wbr>11-07
|[[2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2007-<wbr>04-23
|[[2007 Alderney UFO sighting]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Bailiwick 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2007-<wbr>11-28 to 2011-<wbr>12-13
|[[Dudley Dorito]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United Kingdom]]; [[West Midlands conurbation]]
|The "Dudley Dorito" refers to a series of [[Black triangle (UFO)|black triangle]] sightings reported in the [[West Midlands conurbation]].<ref>{{ 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/}}<!--The URL is active but there are rendering errors on the page as of 2023--></ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2008-<wbr>06-20
|[[Wales UFO sightings]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2009-<wbr>01-05
|[[Morristown UFO hoax]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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".<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2009-<wbr>12-10
|[[2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[Norway]]; [[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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2010-<wbr>01-25
|[[Harbour Mille incident]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[Canada]]; [[Harbour Mille]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador]]
|At least three UFOs that looked like missiles but emitted no noise were spotted over Harbour Mille.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2010-<wbr>07-07
|[[UFO sightings in China#2010|Hangzhou Airport UFO]]
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>[[China]]; [[Hangzhou]], [[Zhejiang]]
|[[Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport]] was shut down for an hour after reports of an alleged unidentified flying object near the airport.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2012-<wbr>10-25
|Popocatépetl UFO 
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[Mexico]]; [[Popocatepetl]], [[State of Mexico]]
|When [[Televisa]] was broadcasting activity of the Popocatepetl, a mysterious object was shown crashing into the crater of the volcano.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2014-<wbr>06-02 to 2015-<wbr>03-10
|[[USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United States]]; [[East Coast of the United States]]
|Navy pilots from the [[USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)|''Theodore Roosevelt'']] began to notice [[Close encounter#Radar-Visual|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|{{circa|sortable=yes|lk=no|2020}}
|[[Jetpack man]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2023-<wbr>01-28 to 2023-<wbr>02-13
|[[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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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|2024-<wbr>11-20 to 2024-<wbr>11-20
|[[2024 US air base drone incursions in the United Kingdom]]
|<span style="display:none">Europe</span>[[United 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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| December 2024
|[[2024 United States drone sightings]]
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>[[United 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.<ref name="NBC NJ Drones 2024-12-07">{{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}}</ref><ref name="NJ.com Army Drones 2024-12-08">{{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]]}}</ref><ref name="CBS What's Known 2024-12-13">{{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}}</ref><ref name="USA Today Maryland 2024-12-13">{{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}}</ref> 
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|2023-<wbr>04-19
|AARO Middle East 2022 MQ-9 orb video
|<span style="display:none">Asia</span>Middle East
|At a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing, AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick presented an MQ-9 infrared clip from July 12, 2022 that showed a small metallic orb crossing the sensor field of view. AARO said the object did not display anomalous behavior given the limited data, and independent reviews on Metabunk argued the imagery is consistent with a balloon and camera geometry artifacts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hearing, To receive testimony on the mission, activities, oversight, and budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office |url=https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-the-mission-activities-oversight-and-budget-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office |website=U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee |date=19 April 2023 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Middle East Object |url=https://www.europeafrica.army.mil/VideoPlayer/?videoid=880273 |website=U.S. Army Europe and Africa |date=12 July 2022 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Middle East 2022 MQ-9 observed apparent spherical UAP, via AARO |url=https://www.metabunk.org/threads/middle-east-2022-mq-9-observed-apparent-spherical-uap-via-aaro.12932/ |website=Metabunk.org |date=22 April 2023 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref>
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|2023-<wbr>05-31
|NASA public meeting Western U.S. objects video
|<span style="display:none">North America</span>United States, western range
|At NASA's public UAP meeting, AARO played a 2021 infrared range clip known as Western U.S. Objects and correlated the dots with commercial flight tracks. AARO's case resolution stated the targets were three distant airliners and posted a technical note, and Metabunk discussions tracked methods and data sources.<ref>{{cite web |title=UAP |url=https://science.nasa.gov/uap/ |website=NASA |date=31 May 2023 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Western U.S. Objects |url=https://www.dvidshub.net/video/885193/western-us-objects |website=DVIDS |date=31 May 2023 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Official UAP Imagery, Western U.S. Objects case resolution |url=https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/Official-UAP-Imagery/ |website=AARO |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=NASA holds first public meeting on UFO study |url=https://www.metabunk.org/threads/nasa-holds-first-public-meeting-on-ufo-study.12973/ |website=Metabunk.org |date=31 May 2023 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref>
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|2025-<wbr>09-09
|Yemen orb missile engagement video
|<span style="display:none">Middle East</span>Yemen, off the coast
|At a House Oversight hearing, a congressman played MQ-9 footage from 30 October 2024 that he said showed a Hellfire missile striking a bright orb and the orb continuing unaffected. Metabunk frame analysis documented a proximity fuzed airburst and sensor track dropout and found no public evidence of a direct hit on the object.<ref>{{cite news |title=Newly released video raises questions at House UFO hearing |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-house-ufo-hearing-us-missile-strikes-unidentified-object/ |work=CBS News |date=10 September 2025 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Watch, Congressman shows video of "orb" surviving missile strike at UFO hearing |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch-congressman-shows-video-orb-surviving-missile-strike-ufo-hearing/ |work=CBS News |date=9 September 2025 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Martinez |first=Luis |title=Congressman shows never-before-seen video at military UFO hearing |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congressman-shows-video-military-ufo-hearing/story?id=125413475 |work=ABC News |date=9 September 2025 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=UAP hearing, new video, Yemen orb |url=https://www.metabunk.org/threads/uap-hearing-new-video-yemen-orb.14427/ |website=Metabunk.org |date=9 September 2025 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=3D analysis of the Yemen orb |url=https://www.metabunk.org/threads/3d-analysis-of-the-yemen-orb.14446/ |website=Metabunk.org |date=17 September 2025 |access-date=7 October 2025}}</ref>
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== By location ==
The lists below contain UFO reports mentioned above, along with less notable UFO reports from the specific areas.

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* [[UFO sightings in Africa|Africa]]
* [[UFO sightings in Albania|Albania]]
* [[UFO sightings in Argentina|Argentina]]
* [[UFO sightings in Australia|Australia]]
* [[UFO sightings in Belarus|Belarus]]
* [[UFO sightings in Belgium|Belgium]]
* [[UFO sightings in Brazil|Brazil]]
* [[UFO sightings in Canada|Canada]]
* [[UFO sightings in the Canary Islands|Canary Islands]]
* [[UFO sightings in China|China]]
* [[UFO sightings in the Czech Republic|Czech Republic]]
* [[UFO sightings in France|France]]
* [[UFO sightings in Greece|Greece]]
* [[UFO sightings in India|India]]
* [[UFO sightings in Indonesia|Indonesia]]
* [[UFO sightings in Iran|Iran]]
* [[UFO sightings in Italy|Italy]]
* [[UFO sightings in Mexico|Mexico]]
* [[UFO sightings in Nepal|Nepal]]
* [[UFO sightings in New Zealand|New Zealand]]
* [[UFO sightings in Norway|Norway]]
* [[UFO sightings in outer space|Outer space]]
* [[UFO sightings in Poland|Poland]]
* [[UFO sightings in Russia|Russia]]
* [[UFO sightings in South Africa|South Africa]]
* [[UFO sightings in Spain|Spain]]
* [[UFO sightings in Sweden|Sweden]]
* [[UFO sightings in the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]
* [[UFO sightings in the United States|United States]]
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== See also ==
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* [[Table of reports during the 1947 flying disc craze]]&nbsp;–&nbsp;A sortable table of the hundreds of 1947 flying disc sightings.
* [[List of alleged extraterrestrial beings]]&nbsp;–&nbsp;A list of entities reported in conjunction with UFOs and believed by witnesses to be alien in origin, unrelated to [[astrobiology]] or [[xenobiology]].
* [[List of UFO religions]]
* [[List of investigations of UFOs by governments]]
* [[List of UFO organizations]]&nbsp;–&nbsp;Private organizations that investigate UFO sightings.
* [[Extraterrestrial hypothesis]]&nbsp;–&nbsp;The proposal that UFO sightings are observations of physical craft piloted by biological aliens from another planet.
* [[Interdimensional hypothesis]]&nbsp;–&nbsp;The proposal that UFO sightings are the result of experiences with another dimension.
* [[Psychosocial hypothesis]]&nbsp;–&nbsp;The proposal that UFO sightings can be explained by social and psychological processes.
* [[Time-traveler UFO hypothesis|Time-traveler hypothesis]]&nbsp;–&nbsp;The proposal that UFO sightings can be interpreted as advanced humans traveling from the future.

== References ==
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==Notes==
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