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74 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters backed by military witnesses, 1912 to 2024: 33 unresolved, 26 disputed, 12 explained, 2 identified, 1 unassessed. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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The Sheerness airship — questions in Parliament 14 October 1912 · Sheerness and Queenborough, Isle of Sheppey, Kent DISPUTED 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 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 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 Farnborough test pilot’s disc — the Flying Saucer Working Party 14 August 1950 · Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire EXPLAINED U.S. Navy R5D — object over the North Atlantic 10 February 1951 · North Atlantic, east of Newfoundland 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 Wonsan and Sunchon B-29 sightings 29 January 1952 · Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea UNRESOLVED Tremonton, Utah film 2 July 1952 · Near Tremonton, Utah DISPUTED 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 RAF Topcliffe disc — Exercise Mainbrace 19 September 1952 · RAF Topcliffe / Dishforth, North Yorkshire UNRESOLVED Little Rissington Meteor encounter 21 October 1952 · Over Gloucestershire from RAF Little Rissington UNRESOLVED 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 West Malling Vampire sighting 3 November 1953 · Over RAF West Malling, Kent DISPUTED Kinross F-89 disappearance over Lake Superior 23 November 1953 · Lake Superior, off the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan UNRESOLVED The Nowra Sea Fury — two lights on the radar 31 August 1954 · South-west of Goulburn, New South Wales, on the way back to Naval Air Station Nowra UNRESOLVED Salandin near-miss over Southend 14 October 1954 · Over Southend-on-Sea, Essex 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 Lakenheath–Bentwaters radar-visual case 13 August 1956 · RAF Bentwaters & RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk UNRESOLVED West Freugh radar incident 4 April 1957 · RAF West Freugh, near Stranraer, Scotland UNRESOLVED Milton Torres — ordered to fire on a UFO 20 May 1957 · Over East Anglia, from RAF Manston DISPUTED RB-47 radar–ECM–visual encounter 17 July 1957 · Gulf Coast to Oklahoma UNRESOLVED Portuguese Air Force F-84s — the Lemos Ferreira sighting 4 September 1957 · Over the Portuguese–Spanish border region, returning to Ota air base UNRESOLVED 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 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 Trindade Island photographs 16 January 1958 · Trindade Island, South Atlantic DISPUTED Bahía Blanca and Espora air base sightings 11 May 1962 · Bahía Blanca and Espora Naval Air Base 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 Deception Island — the Antarctic sightings 3 July 1965 · Argentine station, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands UNRESOLVED 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 Six “flying saucers” across southern England (hoax) 4 September 1967 · A line of six sites from the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, to Clevedon, Somerset IDENTIFIED 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 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 Malmstrom AFB — objects over the missile fields, November 1975 7 November 1975 · Malmstrom Air Force Base and its Minuteman missile fields, Montana UNRESOLVED CFS Falconbridge — the NORAD message from Ontario 11 November 1975 · 30 nautical miles south-south-west of Canadian Forces Station Falconbridge, near Sudbury, Ontario UNRESOLVED Canary Islands sphere 22 June 1976 · Canary Islands (Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura) DISPUTED Tehran F-4 Phantom intercepts 19 September 1976 · Tehran, Iran UNRESOLVED Talavera la Real air base sentries 12 November 1976 · Talavera la Real Air Base, Badajoz UNRESOLVED Corporal Valdés — the patrol at Pampa Lluscuma 25 April 1977 · Pampa Lluscuma, near Putre, Arica DISPUTED Colares "chupa-chupa" & Operação Prato 15 October 1977 · Colares Island, Pará DISPUTED Cecconi G.91R photographs over Treviso 18 June 1979 · Treviso Sant'Angelo air base, Veneto DISPUTED Manises — airliner diversion & Mirage intercept 11 November 1979 · Over Ibiza → Valencia-Manises Airport, Spain DISPUTED La Joya air base pursuit 11 April 1980 · La Joya air base, Arequipa, Peru UNRESOLVED Paul Bennewitz and the lights over Manzano 24 October 1980 · Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano weapons storage area, Albuquerque, New Mexico DISPUTED Rendlesham Forest 26 December 1980 · Rendlesham Forest, outside RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk DISPUTED Brazil’s "Official UFO Night" 19 May 1986 · São José dos Campos – Rio de Janeiro – Goiás UNRESOLVED 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 Pereslavl-Zalessky — the Soviet air defence report 21 March 1990 · Pereslavl-Zalessky region, north-east of Moscow UNRESOLVED Belgian UFO wave — F-16 intercepts 30 March 1990 · Brussels – Wavre – Gembloux, Belgium DISPUTED Cosford incident 30 March 1993 · RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire DISPUTED Mexican Air Force FLIR — Campeche 5 March 2004 · Southern Campeche, Mexico EXPLAINED USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" 14 November 2004 · Pacific Ocean ~100 mi SW of San Diego UNRESOLVED Río de la Plata — two airliners and a rising light 4 April 2005 · Over the Río de la Plata between Ezeiza (Buenos Aires) and Carrasco (Montevideo) UNRESOLVED Ladakh lights — the “Chinese drones” that were planets 1 August 2012 · Thakung post, near Pangong Tso, eastern Ladakh, India EXPLAINED 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 AC-130J “cold orbs” over the Gulf of Oman 8 September 2021 · Gulf of Oman (exact location withheld) UNRESOLVED 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 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 Drones over the U.S. air bases in England 20 November 2024 · RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell and Fairford, England UNRESOLVED
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