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158 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters backed by official government documents, 1912 to 2026: 55 unresolved, 52 disputed, 31 explained, 17 identified, 3 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 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 Foo fighters — 415th Night Fighter Squadron 23 November 1944 · Rhine valley near Strasbourg UNRESOLVED Ghost rockets — Lake Kölmjärv 19 July 1946 · Lake Kölmjärv, Norrbotten, Sweden UNRESOLVED 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 McMinnville (Trent) photographs 11 May 1950 · Trent farm near Sheridan / McMinnville, Oregon DISPUTED Farnborough test pilot’s disc — the Flying Saucer Working Party 14 August 1950 · Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire EXPLAINED Mariana film, Great Falls 15 August 1950 · Great Falls, Montana DISPUTED U.S. Navy R5D — object over the North Atlantic 10 February 1951 · North Atlantic, east of Newfoundland 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 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 BOAC Stratocruiser paced by seven objects 29 June 1954 · Gulf of St. Lawrence, near Sept-Îles, Quebec 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 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 Ubatuba magnesium fragments 14 September 1957 · Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil DISPUTED 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 Trindade Island photographs 16 January 1958 · Trindade Island, South Atlantic DISPUTED 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 Trancas — lights over the Moreno farm 21 October 1963 · Finca of the Moreno family beside the Belgrano railway, Trancas, Tucumán UNRESOLVED Socorro landing (Lonnie Zamora) 24 April 1964 · Socorro, New Mexico UNRESOLVED Valensole landing 1 July 1965 · Lavender field, Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence UNRESOLVED Deception Island — the Antarctic sightings 3 July 1965 · Argentine station, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands UNRESOLVED 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 The lead masks of Vintém Hill 17 August 1966 · Morro do Vintém, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight shutdown 16 March 1967 · Echo Flight, Malmstrom AFB missile field, Montana EXPLAINED Falcon Lake incident 20 May 1967 · Falcon Lake, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba DISPUTED Cussac — two children and four small black beings 29 August 1967 · Cussac, Cantal, Auvergne, France UNRESOLVED 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 Shag Harbour crash-landing 4 October 1967 · Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia UNRESOLVED Devon "flying cross" police chase 24 October 1967 · A3072, Holsworthy to Hatherleigh, Devon 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 Lake Cote aerial survey photograph 4 September 1971 · Laguna de Cote, Costa Rica UNRESOLVED Coyne helicopter incident 18 October 1973 · Near Mansfield, Ohio DISPUTED Langenburg rings 1 September 1974 · Langenburg, Saskatchewan UNRESOLVED 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 The Moroccan coast “UFO” — a Soviet rocket part re-entering 19 September 1976 · Along the Atlantic coast of Morocco, from Agadir to Kenitra and inland to Meknes and Fez IDENTIFIED 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 Petrozavodsk phenomenon 20 September 1977 · Petrozavodsk, Karelia, USSR DISPUTED Colares "chupa-chupa" & Operação Prato 15 October 1977 · Colares Island, Pará DISPUTED The object that fell near Bermejo — Bolivia’s 1978 search 6 May 1978 · El Taire hill above the Bermejo River, Tarija department, on the Argentine border UNRESOLVED Gujan-Mestras — the light that put out the street lamps 19 June 1978 · Gujan-Mestras, Arcachon basin, Gironde EXPLAINED Disappearance of Frederick Valentich 21 October 1978 · Bass Strait, off Cape Otway, Victoria 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 Cecconi G.91R photographs over Treviso 18 June 1979 · Treviso Sant'Angelo air base, Veneto DISPUTED Pranles — the yellow light with a turning blue beam 21 July 1979 · Pranles, near Les Ollières-sur-Eyrieux, Ardèche UNRESOLVED Dechmont Law — Robert Taylor 9 November 1979 · Dechmont Law, Livingston, West Lothian UNRESOLVED Manises — airliner diversion & Mirage intercept 11 November 1979 · Over Ibiza → Valencia-Manises Airport, Spain DISPUTED Cergy-Pontoise “abduction” (hoax) 26 November 1979 · Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d’Oise, France EXPLAINED 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 Cash–Landrum incident 29 December 1980 · FM 1485 near Huffman, Texas DISPUTED Trans-en-Provence landing trace 8 January 1981 · Trans-en-Provence, Var UNRESOLVED The spiral over south-west China 24 July 1981 · Sichuan and Yunnan, and across south-west, north-west and south-central China DISPUTED Brest-Guipavas airport — the fireball by the runway 22 November 1981 · Brest-Guipavas airport, Finistère EXPLAINED Trancrainville — gendarmes on the A10 and the lit-up ground 23 January 1982 · A10 motorway near Trancrainville, Eure-et-Loir, north of Orléans UNRESOLVED Brazil’s "Official UFO Night" 19 May 1986 · São José dos Campos – Rio de Janeiro – Goiás UNRESOLVED Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 17 November 1986 · Over north-east Alaska 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 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 Calvine photograph 4 August 1990 · Moors above Calvine, Perthshire UNRESOLVED The “immense triangle” over France — a Proton re-entry 5 November 1990 · From the Bay of Biscay across France to Alsace IDENTIFIED Alitalia MD-80 near miss over Kent 21 April 1991 · Near Lydd, Kent, England UNRESOLVED Cosford incident 30 March 1993 · RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire DISPUTED Air France 3532 — radar-visual over Coulommiers 28 January 1994 · Near Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, France UNRESOLVED British Airways 5061 near miss over the Pennines 6 January 1995 · About 8 nautical miles south-east of Manchester Airport UNRESOLVED Varginha "ET" 20 January 1996 · Varginha, Minas Gerais EXPLAINED The Wash incident 5 October 1996 · The Wash, Lincolnshire coast EXPLAINED Howden Moor — sonic booms and the search for a crash 24 March 1997 · Howden Moors, Dark Peak, on the Derbyshire–South Yorkshire border 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 Chicago O’Hare disc 7 November 2006 · O’Hare International Airport, Gate C-17 DISPUTED Alderney airline sighting 23 April 2007 · English Channel near Alderney & Guernsey UNRESOLVED Cláudio — Military Police report 19 November 2008 · Cláudio, Minas Gerais UNRESOLVED Norwegian spiral 9 December 2009 · Northern Norway and Sweden (seen from Troms and Finnmark) 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 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 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 AARO’s “Southeast Asia Triangles” — fishing nets 30 August 2017 · A river in Southeast Asia (exact location withheld) IDENTIFIED 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 Sendai’s white balloon 17 June 2020 · Over Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan IDENTIFIED 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 Maldonado — the UFO videos that were a festival campaign 12 August 2021 · Parque del Jagüel, Punta del Este, Maldonado EXPLAINED AC-130J “cold orbs” over the Gulf of Oman 8 September 2021 · Gulf of Oman (exact location withheld) UNRESOLVED 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 MQ-9 "Middle East orb" 12 July 2022 · Middle East (exact location withheld) UNRESOLVED Long March 5B core stage burns up over Sarawak 31 July 2022 · Over Sarawak, Malaysia, toward the Sulu Sea IDENTIFIED MQ-9 records object with "wake" — South Asia 15 January 2023 · South Asia (exact location withheld) EXPLAINED 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 The balloon over Colombia — China’s second airship 3 February 2023 · Northern Colombian airspace; also reported over Costa Rica and on towards Venezuela IDENTIFIED February 2023 shoot-downs (Alaska, Yukon, Lake Huron) 10 February 2023 · Deadhorse AK · Yukon · Lake Huron UNRESOLVED The “Nazca mummies” shown to Mexico’s Congress 12 September 2023 · Chamber of Deputies, San Lázaro, Mexico City (the figures came from the Nazca area of Peru) IDENTIFIED Colorado Springs law-enforcement videos 1 October 2023 · Colorado Springs, Colorado UNRESOLVED 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 Tyndall "Tic Tac" — USCG C-144 24 April 2024 · Southeastern U.S., near Tyndall AFB, Florida UNASSESSED The “plume” over Buenos Aires — a Chinese rocket identified 8 May 2024 · Castelar, Buenos Aires province; also seen from Entre Ríos, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay IDENTIFIED The teardrop with a pole — United Arab Emirates 1 June 2024 · United Arab Emirates (exact location withheld) UNRESOLVED The “misshapen ball of white light” over Syria 1 October 2024 · Syria (exact location withheld) UNRESOLVED New Jersey drone sightings 18 November 2024 · Morris County, New Jersey, and the Northeast EXPLAINED Drones over the U.S. air bases in England 20 November 2024 · RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell and Fairford, England UNRESOLVED The drones that closed Europe’s airports 22 September 2025 · Copenhagen Airport first; then Oslo, Aalborg, Billund, Munich, Brussels and Liège UNRESOLVED Campo Largo — an influencer’s lights traced to a campsite 31 May 2026 · Rural Campo Largo, Paraná EXPLAINED
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