UFO and UAP cases with photographs
55 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters backed by photographs, 1883 to 2024: 20 disputed, 15 explained, 13 identified, 7 unresolved. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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- Bonilla observation — objects crossing the Sun EXPLAINED
- Fátima — the “miracle of the sun” DISPUTED
- Battle of Los Angeles EXPLAINED
- Maury Island incident EXPLAINED
- Rhodes photographs — Phoenix EXPLAINED
- Roswell debris recovery EXPLAINED
- McMinnville (Trent) photographs DISPUTED
- Lubbock Lights DISPUTED
- Barra da Tijuca — the O Cruzeiro disc photographs DISPUTED
- Salem Coast Guard Air Station photograph DISPUTED
- Washington, D.C. radar-visual sightings DISPUTED
- Marfa lights EXPLAINED
- Trindade Island photographs DISPUTED
- Bahía Blanca and Espora air base sightings UNRESOLVED
- The Solway Firth “spaceman” photograph EXPLAINED
- Gemini 4 — McDivitt’s “beer can with an arm” DISPUTED
- Buenos Aires — Meteors scrambled UNRESOLVED
- Heflin Polaroids — Santa Ana DISPUTED
- Kecksburg fireball DISPUTED
- Michigan "swamp gas" sightings EXPLAINED
- Paulding Light EXPLAINED
- UMMO — the San José de Valderas photographs IDENTIFIED
- Minot AFB — B-52 radar and missile-field sightings DISPUTED
- Lake Cote aerial survey photograph UNRESOLVED
- Billy Meier’s “beamship” photographs IDENTIFIED
- Canary Islands sphere DISPUTED
- Colares "chupa-chupa" & Operação Prato DISPUTED
- Cecconi G.91R photographs over Treviso DISPUTED
- Hannah McRoberts’ photograph — Vancouver Island DISPUTED
- Hessdalen lights UNRESOLVED
- Gulf Breeze photographs EXPLAINED
- Ilkley Moor photograph DISPUTED
- Calvine photograph UNRESOLVED
- Mexico City eclipse videos DISPUTED
- Crop circles — Doug Bower and Dave Chorley own up IDENTIFIED
- Phoenix Lights EXPLAINED
- Cláudio — Military Police report UNRESOLVED
- Morristown lights (admitted hoax) EXPLAINED
- Norwegian spiral IDENTIFIED
- Harbour Mille — the “missiles” over Fortune Bay DISPUTED
- The spiral over eastern Australia — Falcon 9’s first flight IDENTIFIED
- Montevideo — the photo from the national team’s homecoming EXPLAINED
- Santiago — the silver spheres over the Paseo Bulnes IDENTIFIED
- Collahuasi mine — CEFAA’s “UFO” photographs UNRESOLVED
- Naga fireballs of the Mekong DISPUTED
- The light over California — a Trident II test from USS Kentucky IDENTIFIED
- AARO’s “Southeast Asia Triangles” — fishing nets IDENTIFIED
- The Los Angeles “UFO” — SpaceX Iridium-4 launch IDENTIFIED
- Colorado and Nebraska drone swarms DISPUTED
- Sendai’s white balloon IDENTIFIED
- The Navy’s night-vision image shown to Congress — drones IDENTIFIED
- The blue spiral over New Zealand — a Falcon 9 upper stage IDENTIFIED
- AARO’s “Eglin UAP” — a lighting balloon EXPLAINED
- Chinese surveillance balloon IDENTIFIED
- New Jersey drone sightings EXPLAINED
By evidence
- Official government documents 158
- Many independent witnesses 135
- Military witnesses 74
- Pilot and aircrew witnesses 57
- Video footage 53
- Radar tracking 48
- Physical traces 39
- Police witnesses 36
- Infrared or other sensor data 21
- Audio recordings or radio transcripts 15
- Reported electromagnetic effects 13
- Documented physiological effects 11
- Motion-picture film 6