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37 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters of the kind “military encounter”, 1942 to 2024: 17 unresolved, 10 disputed, 9 explained, 1 unassessed. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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Battle of Los Angeles 25 February 1942 · Los Angeles, California EXPLAINED Foo fighters — 415th Night Fighter Squadron 23 November 1944 · Rhine valley near Strasbourg UNRESOLVED Mantell UFO incident 7 January 1948 · Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky EXPLAINED Gorman dogfight 1 October 1948 · Fargo, North Dakota EXPLAINED Farnborough test pilot’s disc — the Flying Saucer Working Party 14 August 1950 · Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire EXPLAINED Long Beach — six F-86s chase an object they cannot reach 23 September 1951 · Over Long Beach, California DISPUTED Wonsan and Sunchon B-29 sightings 29 January 1952 · Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea UNRESOLVED RAF Topcliffe disc — Exercise Mainbrace 19 September 1952 · RAF Topcliffe / Dishforth, North Yorkshire UNRESOLVED Kinross F-89 disappearance over Lake Superior 23 November 1953 · Lake Superior, off the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan UNRESOLVED Gravataí Air Base — the Brazilian Air Force communiqué 24 October 1954 · Gravataí Air Base (today Canoas Air Force Base), near Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul UNRESOLVED Milton Torres — ordered to fire on a UFO 20 May 1957 · Over East Anglia, from RAF Manston DISPUTED White Sands military police patrols 3 November 1957 · White Sands Proving Ground (up-range), New Mexico EXPLAINED Fort Itaipu sentries burned 4 November 1957 · Fort Itaipu, Praia Grande, São Paulo UNRESOLVED Big Sur — Atlas "Buzzing Bee" film 15 September 1964 · Anderson Peak, Big Sur, and Vandenberg AFB, California EXPLAINED Buenos Aires — Meteors scrambled 16 July 1965 · Buenos Aires UNRESOLVED Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight shutdown 16 March 1967 · Echo Flight, Malmstrom AFB missile field, Montana EXPLAINED Minot AFB — B-52 radar and missile-field sightings 24 October 1968 · Minot AFB and missile field, North Dakota DISPUTED Coyne helicopter incident 18 October 1973 · Near Mansfield, Ohio DISPUTED Loring Air Force Base intrusions 27 October 1975 · Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine UNRESOLVED Wurtsmith Air Force Base and the KC-135 chase 30 October 1975 · Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Oscoda, Michigan UNRESOLVED Malmstrom AFB — objects over the missile fields, November 1975 7 November 1975 · Malmstrom Air Force Base and its Minuteman missile fields, Montana UNRESOLVED Tehran F-4 Phantom intercepts 19 September 1976 · Tehran, Iran UNRESOLVED Colares "chupa-chupa" & Operação Prato 15 October 1977 · Colares Island, Pará DISPUTED La Joya air base pursuit 11 April 1980 · La Joya air base, Arequipa, Peru UNRESOLVED Rendlesham Forest 26 December 1980 · Rendlesham Forest, outside RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk DISPUTED Kapustin Yar — the KGB file on a night of lights over a missile depot 28 July 1989 · Military sites 30–45 km from Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan oblast UNASSESSED Cosford incident 30 March 1993 · RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire DISPUTED USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" 14 November 2004 · Pacific Ocean ~100 mi SW of San Diego UNRESOLVED Chilean Navy helicopter FLIR video 11 November 2014 · Coast between San Antonio and Quinteros, Chile DISPUTED USS Theodore Roosevelt — Gimbal & GoFast 21 January 2015 · Atlantic warning areas off Jacksonville, Florida DISPUTED USS Omaha sphere & USS Russell "pyramids" 15 July 2019 · Off San Diego, California DISPUTED AARO’s “Eglin UAP” — a lighting balloon 26 January 2023 · Eglin Air Force Base training range, over the Gulf off north-west Florida EXPLAINED Espora naval air base — the “battle” that the Navy denied 5 September 2023 · Base Aeronaval Comandante Espora, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires province EXPLAINED Imphal airport UFO — Rafales scrambled 19 November 2023 · Bir Tikendrajit International Airport, Imphal, Manipur UNRESOLVED Langley Air Force Base drone incursions 6 December 2023 · Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hampton, Virginia UNRESOLVED The Yemen orb and the Hellfire — shown to Congress 30 October 2024 · Off the coast of Yemen (exact location not released) UNRESOLVED Drones over the U.S. air bases in England 20 November 2024 · RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell and Fairford, England UNRESOLVED
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