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35 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters of the kind “close encounter”, 1947 to 2023: 17 disputed, 13 unresolved, 5 explained. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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Maury Island incident 21 June 1947 · Maury Island, Puget Sound, Washington EXPLAINED The Florida scoutmaster — burned, and called a hoax 19 August 1952 · Palmetto scrub off a back road inland from West Palm Beach, Florida DISPUTED Flatwoods "monster" 12 September 1952 · Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia EXPLAINED Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter 21 August 1955 · Sutton farm, Kelly, Kentucky EXPLAINED Antônio Vilas-Boas abduction claim 16 October 1957 · São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil DISPUTED Levelland vehicle-stopping reports 2 November 1957 · Levelland, Texas DISPUTED Father Gill’s sightings at Boianai 26 June 1959 · Boianai Mission, Papua (Papua New Guinea) UNRESOLVED Betty and Barney Hill 19 September 1961 · U.S. Route 3, Franconia Notch to Indian Head, New Hampshire DISPUTED Trancas — lights over the Moreno farm 21 October 1963 · Finca of the Moreno family beside the Belgrano railway, Trancas, Tucumán UNRESOLVED Incident at Exeter 3 September 1965 · Kensington, near Exeter, New Hampshire DISPUTED Portage County police chase 17 April 1966 · Ravenna, Ohio → Conway, Pennsylvania DISPUTED The lead masks of Vintém Hill 17 August 1966 · Morro do Vintém, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED Cussac — two children and four small black beings 29 August 1967 · Cussac, Cantal, Auvergne, France UNRESOLVED Fort Beaufort — police fire at an object 26 June 1971 · Braeside farm near Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape UNRESOLVED Pascagoula encounter 11 October 1973 · Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Mississippi UNRESOLVED Travis Walton disappearance 5 November 1975 · Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona DISPUTED The Allagash abductions 26 August 1976 · Eagle Lake, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, northern Maine DISPUTED Talavera la Real air base sentries 12 November 1976 · Talavera la Real Air Base, Badajoz UNRESOLVED Broad Haven schoolchildren — the Welsh Triangle 4 February 1977 · Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales DISPUTED Corporal Valdés — the patrol at Pampa Lluscuma 25 April 1977 · Pampa Lluscuma, near Putre, Arica DISPUTED Emilcin abduction report 10 May 1978 · Emilcin, Lublin Voivodeship UNRESOLVED Kuwait’s oil-field sightings and the pumps that stopped 9 November 1978 · Kuwait Oil Company fields around Umm al-Aish, near the satellite earth station, northern Kuwait UNRESOLVED Zanfretta — the Torriglia night patrol 6 December 1978 · Marzano di Torriglia, Genoa, Italy DISPUTED Val Johnson — deputy's patrol car struck by a light 27 August 1979 · Near Stephen, Marshall County, Minnesota DISPUTED Dechmont Law — Robert Taylor 9 November 1979 · Dechmont Law, Livingston, West Lothian UNRESOLVED Cergy-Pontoise “abduction” (hoax) 26 November 1979 · Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d’Oise, France EXPLAINED Todmorden — PC Alan Godfrey 29 November 1980 · Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire UNRESOLVED Cash–Landrum incident 29 December 1980 · FM 1485 near Huffman, Texas DISPUTED Trancrainville — gendarmes on the A10 and the lit-up ground 23 January 1982 · A10 motorway near Trancrainville, Eure-et-Loir, north of Orléans UNRESOLVED Knowles family encounter 20 January 1988 · Nullarbor Plain, between Madura and Mundrabilla, Western Australia UNRESOLVED Voronezh park landing 27 September 1989 · Voronezh, RSFSR (Russia) DISPUTED Ariel School, Ruwa 16 September 1994 · Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe DISPUTED Varginha "ET" 20 January 1996 · Varginha, Minas Gerais EXPLAINED Cláudio — Military Police report 19 November 2008 · Cláudio, Minas Gerais UNRESOLVED Las Vegas backyard “landing” 30 April 2023 · North-west Las Vegas valley, Nevada DISPUTED
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