UFO and UAP cases of the 2010s

24 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters of the 2010s, 2010 to 2019: 10 disputed, 7 identified, 5 explained, 2 unresolved. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.

24 cases

• Harbour Mille — the “missiles” over Fortune Bay 25 January 2010 · Harbour Mille, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland DISPUTED
• The spiral over eastern Australia — Falcon 9’s first flight 5 June 2010 · Eastern Australia: New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland IDENTIFIED
• Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport closure 7 July 2010 · Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport DISPUTED
• Montevideo — the photo from the national team’s homecoming 13 July 2010 · Palacio Legislativo and Avenida del Libertador, Montevideo EXPLAINED
• El Bosque Air Base — the object in the air-show video 5 November 2010 · El Bosque Air Base, Santiago DISPUTED
• 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
• The light over the Dome of the Rock (hoax) 28 January 2011 · Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif), Old City of Jerusalem EXPLAINED
• Santiago — the silver spheres over the Paseo Bulnes 11 May 2012 · Paseo Bulnes, central Santiago IDENTIFIED
• Ladakh lights — the “Chinese drones” that were planets 1 August 2012 · Thakung post, near Pangong Tso, eastern Ladakh, India EXPLAINED
• Chelyabinsk meteor — and the “UFO that shot it down” 15 February 2013 · Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia; the air burst south of Chelyabinsk EXPLAINED
• Collahuasi mine — CEFAA’s “UFO” photographs 15 April 2013 · Collahuasi copper mine, 4,300 m up in the Tarapacá Andes UNRESOLVED
• Aguadilla thermal video (DHS) 25 April 2013 · Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico EXPLAINED
• Naga fireballs of the Mekong 19 October 2013 · The Mekong around Phon Phisai and Nong Khai, Thailand, and the Lao bank opposite DISPUTED
• 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
• 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
• Jeffreys Bay — a cargo crew’s green light 12 December 2016 · About 10 nautical miles off Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape UNRESOLVED
• AARO’s “Southeast Asia Triangles” — fishing nets 30 August 2017 · A river in Southeast Asia (exact location withheld) 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
• Ireland — airline pilots report fast lights 9 November 2018 · Atlantic off County Kerry, Ireland 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

By decade

• 1950s 48
• 1970s 38
• 2020s 33
• 1960s 31
• 1980s 25
• 1990s 21
• 1940s 16
• 2000s 12
• Before 1900 6
• 1910s 5
• 1900s 2