UFO and UAP cases with police witnesses

36 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters backed by police witnesses, 1952 to 2025: 15 disputed, 12 unresolved, 8 explained, 1 identified. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.

36 cases

• The Florida scoutmaster — burned, and called a hoax 19 August 1952 · Palmetto scrub off a back road inland from West Palm Beach, Florida DISPUTED
• Levelland vehicle-stopping reports 2 November 1957 · Levelland, Texas 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
• Socorro landing (Lonnie Zamora) 24 April 1964 · Socorro, New Mexico UNRESOLVED
• August 1965 — lights over Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas 1 August 1965 · Oklahoma City and across Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and New Mexico DISPUTED
• Incident at Exeter 3 September 1965 · Kensington, near Exeter, New Hampshire DISPUTED
• Tully "saucer nest" 19 January 1966 · Horseshoe Lagoon near Tully, Queensland 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
• 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
• Fort Beaufort — police fire at an object 26 June 1971 · Braeside farm near Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape UNRESOLVED
• Clarenville — RCMP constable watches object over the water 26 October 1978 · Clarenville and Random Island, Newfoundland UNRESOLVED
• Val Johnson — deputy's patrol car struck by a light 27 August 1979 · Near Stephen, Marshall County, Minnesota DISPUTED
• Todmorden — PC Alan Godfrey 29 November 1980 · Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire UNRESOLVED
• Trancrainville — gendarmes on the A10 and the lit-up ground 23 January 1982 · A10 motorway near Trancrainville, Eure-et-Loir, north of Orléans UNRESOLVED
• Hudson Valley "Westchester boomerang" 24 July 1984 · Brewster, Putnam County, New York EXPLAINED
• Belgian UFO wave — F-16 intercepts 30 March 1990 · Brussels – Wavre – Gembloux, Belgium DISPUTED
• Montreal — lights over the Bonaventure Hotel 7 November 1990 · Hôtel Bonaventure, downtown Montreal, Quebec UNRESOLVED
• Cosford incident 30 March 1993 · RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire DISPUTED
• 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
• Pretoria police helicopter chase 28 August 1996 · Pretoria to Cullinan, Gauteng UNRESOLVED
• 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
• Southern Illinois police sightings 5 January 2000 · Highland → Lebanon → Shiloh → Dupo, Illinois DISPUTED
• Stephenville, Texas 8 January 2008 · Stephenville / Dublin, Erath County, Texas DISPUTED
• Cláudio — Military Police report 19 November 2008 · Cláudio, Minas Gerais UNRESOLVED
• Morristown lights (admitted hoax) 5 January 2009 · Morris County, New Jersey EXPLAINED
• Colorado and Nebraska drone swarms 20 December 2019 · Phillips County and the plains of north-eastern Colorado DISPUTED
• 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
• The Miami mall “alien” 1 January 2024 · Bayside Marketplace, downtown Miami, Florida EXPLAINED
• New Jersey drone sightings 18 November 2024 · Morris County, New Jersey, and the Northeast EXPLAINED
• The drones that closed Europe’s airports 22 September 2025 · Copenhagen Airport first; then Oslo, Aalborg, Billund, Munich, Brussels and Liège UNRESOLVED

By evidence

• Official government documents 158
• Many independent witnesses 135
• Military witnesses 74
• Pilot and aircrew witnesses 57
• Photographs 55
• Video footage 53
• Radar tracking 48
• Physical traces 39
• Infrared or other sensor data 21
• Audio recordings or radio transcripts 15
• Reported electromagnetic effects 13
• Documented physiological effects 11
• Motion-picture film 6