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103 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters from United States, 1896 to 2024: 43 disputed, 32 explained, 18 unresolved, 8 identified, 2 unassessed. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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Mystery airship wave 17 November 1896 · California to the Midwest and Texas, United States EXPLAINED Aurora, Texas airship "crash" 17 April 1897 · Aurora, Wise County, Texas EXPLAINED Brown Mountain lights 13 September 1913 · Brown Mountain, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina EXPLAINED Battle of Los Angeles 25 February 1942 · Los Angeles, California EXPLAINED The Trinity crash story 16 August 1945 · The Padilla ranch near San Antonio, New Mexico, north-west of the Trinity test site DISPUTED Maury Island incident 21 June 1947 · Maury Island, Puget Sound, Washington EXPLAINED Kenneth Arnold — "flying saucers" over Mount Rainier 24 June 1947 · Mount Rainier, Washington DISPUTED Rhodes photographs — Phoenix 7 July 1947 · Phoenix, Arizona EXPLAINED Roswell debris recovery 8 July 1947 · Foster homestead near Corona, New Mexico EXPLAINED Mantell UFO incident 7 January 1948 · Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky EXPLAINED Aztec “crashed saucer” — the story that ended in a fraud trial 25 March 1948 · Hart Canyon, about 12 miles north-east of Aztec, New Mexico (as the story told it) EXPLAINED Chiles–Whitted encounter 24 July 1948 · Near Montgomery, Alabama EXPLAINED Gorman dogfight 1 October 1948 · Fargo, North Dakota EXPLAINED The green fireballs of New Mexico 5 December 1948 · Over northern and central New Mexico, near Los Alamos, Sandia and White Sands DISPUTED Arrey, New Mexico — a theodolite track by a Skyhook balloon crew 24 April 1949 · About three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico, in the White Sands test area UNRESOLVED Clyde Tombaugh’s Las Cruces sighting 20 August 1949 · Las Cruces, New Mexico DISPUTED Farmington “armada” — a town watches discs for three days 17 March 1950 · Farmington, New Mexico DISPUTED McMinnville (Trent) photographs 11 May 1950 · Trent farm near Sheridan / McMinnville, Oregon DISPUTED Mariana film, Great Falls 15 August 1950 · Great Falls, Montana DISPUTED Lubbock Lights 30 August 1951 · Lubbock, Texas DISPUTED Fort Monmouth radar and T-33 sighting 10 September 1951 · Fort Monmouth and the Jersey Shore, New Jersey EXPLAINED Long Beach — six F-86s chase an object they cannot reach 23 September 1951 · Over Long Beach, California DISPUTED Mitchel AFB — a Navy TBM chases a “parachute” over Long Island 21 January 1952 · Mitchel Air Force Base, Hempstead, Long Island, New York DISPUTED Tremonton, Utah film 2 July 1952 · Near Tremonton, Utah DISPUTED Nash–Fortenberry sighting 14 July 1952 · Chesapeake Bay near Newport News, Virginia UNRESOLVED Salem Coast Guard Air Station photograph 16 July 1952 · U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Winter Island, Salem, Massachusetts DISPUTED Washington, D.C. radar-visual sightings 19 July 1952 · Washington, D.C. DISPUTED Carson Sink — two colonels in a B-25 meet three deltas 24 July 1952 · Over the Carson Sink, Nevada, on the airway to Salt Lake City UNRESOLVED 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 Ellsworth AFB — the Black Hawk light and the F-84 chase 5 August 1953 · Black Hawk and Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rapid City, South Dakota; later Bismarck, North Dakota DISPUTED Kinross F-89 disappearance over Lake Superior 23 November 1953 · Lake Superior, off the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan UNRESOLVED Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter 21 August 1955 · Sutton farm, Kelly, Kentucky EXPLAINED Marfa lights 1 July 1957 · Mitchell Flat, east of Marfa, Texas EXPLAINED RB-47 radar–ECM–visual encounter 17 July 1957 · Gulf Coast to Oklahoma UNRESOLVED Levelland vehicle-stopping reports 2 November 1957 · Levelland, Texas DISPUTED White Sands military police patrols 3 November 1957 · White Sands Proving Ground (up-range), New Mexico EXPLAINED Kirtland Air Force Base tower sighting 4 November 1957 · Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico EXPLAINED Coast Guard cutter Sebago — radar contacts in the Gulf of Mexico 5 November 1957 · USCGC Sebago, about 200 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico EXPLAINED American Airlines Captain Peter Killian’s three lights 24 February 1959 · Over central and northern Pennsylvania, between Philipsburg and Bradford DISPUTED Redmond, Oregon — an FAA station reports a hovering light 24 September 1959 · Redmond Airport, Redmond, Oregon DISPUTED Red Bluff — California Highway Patrol sighting 13 August 1960 · Red Bluff area, Tehama County, California EXPLAINED Betty and Barney Hill 19 September 1961 · U.S. Route 3, Franconia Notch to Indian Head, New Hampshire DISPUTED Socorro landing (Lonnie Zamora) 24 April 1964 · Socorro, New Mexico UNRESOLVED Big Sur — Atlas "Buzzing Bee" film 15 September 1964 · Anderson Peak, Big Sur, and Vandenberg AFB, California EXPLAINED Gemini 4 — McDivitt’s “beer can with an arm” 4 June 1965 · In orbit, passing over Hawaii, on the 20th revolution of Gemini 4 DISPUTED August 1965 — lights over Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas 1 August 1965 · Oklahoma City and across Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and New Mexico DISPUTED Heflin Polaroids — Santa Ana 3 August 1965 · Myford Road near Santa Ana, California DISPUTED Incident at Exeter 3 September 1965 · Kensington, near Exeter, New Hampshire DISPUTED Kecksburg fireball 9 December 1965 · Kecksburg, Pennsylvania DISPUTED Michigan "swamp gas" sightings 20 March 1966 · Dexter and Hillsdale, Michigan EXPLAINED Portage County police chase 17 April 1966 · Ravenna, Ohio → Conway, Pennsylvania DISPUTED Paulding Light 1 July 1966 · Robbins Pond Road, near Paulding, Michigan EXPLAINED Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight shutdown 16 March 1967 · Echo Flight, Malmstrom AFB missile field, Montana EXPLAINED Zond IV re-entry — the “craft with windows” 3 March 1968 · Across the sky from Kentucky through Ohio to Pennsylvania IDENTIFIED Minot AFB — B-52 radar and missile-field sightings 24 October 1968 · Minot AFB and missile field, North Dakota DISPUTED Jimmy Carter’s light at Leary, Georgia 6 January 1969 · Outside the Lions Club meeting, Leary, Georgia DISPUTED Delphos ring 2 November 1971 · Delphos, Kansas UNRESOLVED Pascagoula encounter 11 October 1973 · Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Mississippi UNRESOLVED Coyne helicopter incident 18 October 1973 · Near Mansfield, Ohio DISPUTED The Betz mystery sphere 27 March 1974 · Fort George Island, Jacksonville, Florida EXPLAINED 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 Travis Walton disappearance 5 November 1975 · Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona DISPUTED Malmstrom AFB — objects over the missile fields, November 1975 7 November 1975 · Malmstrom Air Force Base and its Minuteman missile fields, Montana UNRESOLVED The Allagash abductions 26 August 1976 · Eagle Lake, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, northern Maine DISPUTED Val Johnson — deputy's patrol car struck by a light 27 August 1979 · Near Stephen, Marshall County, Minnesota DISPUTED Paul Bennewitz and the lights over Manzano 24 October 1980 · Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano weapons storage area, Albuquerque, New Mexico DISPUTED Cash–Landrum incident 29 December 1980 · FM 1485 near Huffman, Texas DISPUTED Hudson Valley "Westchester boomerang" 24 July 1984 · Brewster, Putnam County, New York EXPLAINED Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 17 November 1986 · Over north-east Alaska DISPUTED Gulf Breeze photographs 11 November 1987 · Gulf Breeze, Florida EXPLAINED Lake Michigan lights — 911 calls and a weather radar 8 March 1994 · The Lake Michigan shore of Ottawa and Muskegon counties, Michigan (Grand Haven to Holland) UNRESOLVED America West Flight 564 over the Texas Panhandle 25 May 1995 · Over Bovina, Texas, near the New Mexico border UNRESOLVED Phoenix Lights 13 March 1997 · Henderson, NV → Phoenix → Tucson, Arizona EXPLAINED Southern Illinois police sightings 5 January 2000 · Highland → Lebanon → Shiloh → Dupo, Illinois DISPUTED Tinley Park lights 21 August 2004 · Tinley Park and Oak Forest, Illinois DISPUTED USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" 14 November 2004 · Pacific Ocean ~100 mi SW of San Diego UNRESOLVED Chicago O’Hare disc 7 November 2006 · O’Hare International Airport, Gate C-17 DISPUTED Stephenville, Texas 8 January 2008 · Stephenville / Dublin, Erath County, Texas DISPUTED Morristown lights (admitted hoax) 5 January 2009 · Morris County, New Jersey EXPLAINED The “mystery missile” off Los Angeles — an airliner’s contrail 8 November 2010 · Over the Pacific about 35 miles west of Los Angeles, north of Santa Catalina Island IDENTIFIED USS Theodore Roosevelt — Gimbal & GoFast 21 January 2015 · Atlantic warning areas off Jacksonville, Florida DISPUTED The light over California — a Trident II test from USS Kentucky 7 November 2015 · The Navy’s Pacific Test Range off Southern California; seen from California, Nevada and Arizona IDENTIFIED Fireball over the West — a Chinese rocket stage re-entering 27 July 2016 · Across California, Nevada and Utah IDENTIFIED The Los Angeles “UFO” — SpaceX Iridium-4 launch 22 December 2017 · Vandenberg Air Force Base; seen across Southern California and as far as Arizona IDENTIFIED Learjet and American 1095 over Arizona — “something just passed over us” 24 February 2018 · Over southern Arizona, east of the Sonoran Desert National Monument DISPUTED USS Omaha sphere & USS Russell "pyramids" 15 July 2019 · Off San Diego, California DISPUTED Colorado and Nebraska drone swarms 20 December 2019 · Phillips County and the plains of north-eastern Colorado DISPUTED American Airlines 2292 — “cruise-missile type of thing” 21 February 2021 · Northeastern New Mexico, at about 36,000 ft UNRESOLVED Lights over Seattle and Portland — a Falcon 9 stage re-entering 25 March 2021 · Over western Oregon and Washington; debris in Grant County, Washington IDENTIFIED Three objects on a Western U.S. military range 1 June 2021 · Military range, Western United States (withheld) EXPLAINED FBI files — orbs over one place in the north-eastern U.S. 1 November 2021 · A sparsely populated place in the north-eastern United States (withheld) UNASSESSED The Navy’s night-vision image shown to Congress — drones 1 January 2022 · Naval exercise areas off the U.S. East Coast (exact place and date withheld) IDENTIFIED AARO’s “Eglin UAP” — a lighting balloon 26 January 2023 · Eglin Air Force Base training range, over the Gulf off north-west Florida EXPLAINED Chinese surveillance balloon 28 January 2023 · Aleutians → Montana → Carolina coast IDENTIFIED February 2023 shoot-downs (Alaska, Yukon, Lake Huron) 10 February 2023 · Deadhorse AK · Yukon · Lake Huron UNRESOLVED Las Vegas backyard “landing” 30 April 2023 · North-west Las Vegas valley, Nevada DISPUTED Colorado Springs law-enforcement videos 1 October 2023 · Colorado Springs, Colorado UNRESOLVED Langley Air Force Base drone incursions 6 December 2023 · Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hampton, Virginia UNRESOLVED The Miami mall “alien” 1 January 2024 · Bayside Marketplace, downtown Miami, Florida EXPLAINED Tyndall "Tic Tac" — USCG C-144 24 April 2024 · Southeastern U.S., near Tyndall AFB, Florida UNASSESSED New Jersey drone sightings 18 November 2024 · Morris County, New Jersey, and the Northeast EXPLAINED
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