UFO and UAP cases with video footage
53 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters backed by video footage, 1957 to 2026: 17 explained, 13 identified, 11 unresolved, 10 disputed, 2 unassessed. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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- Marfa lights EXPLAINED
- Hessdalen lights UNRESOLVED
- Hudson Valley "Westchester boomerang" EXPLAINED
- Torpo film UNRESOLVED
- Gulf Breeze photographs EXPLAINED
- Mexico City eclipse videos DISPUTED
- Pretoria police helicopter chase UNRESOLVED
- Phoenix Lights EXPLAINED
- Mexican Air Force FLIR — Campeche EXPLAINED
- Tinley Park lights DISPUTED
- USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" UNRESOLVED
- The Haiti UFO videos EXPLAINED
- Morristown lights (admitted hoax) EXPLAINED
- Norwegian spiral IDENTIFIED
- The spiral over eastern Australia — Falcon 9’s first flight IDENTIFIED
- El Bosque Air Base — the object in the air-show video DISPUTED
- The “mystery missile” off Los Angeles — an airliner’s contrail IDENTIFIED
- The light over the Dome of the Rock (hoax) EXPLAINED
- Santiago — the silver spheres over the Paseo Bulnes IDENTIFIED
- Chelyabinsk meteor — and the “UFO that shot it down” EXPLAINED
- Aguadilla thermal video (DHS) EXPLAINED
- Naga fireballs of the Mekong DISPUTED
- Chilean Navy helicopter FLIR video DISPUTED
- USS Theodore Roosevelt — Gimbal & GoFast DISPUTED
- The light over California — a Trident II test from USS Kentucky IDENTIFIED
- Fireball over the West — a Chinese rocket stage re-entering IDENTIFIED
- The Los Angeles “UFO” — SpaceX Iridium-4 launch IDENTIFIED
- USS Omaha sphere & USS Russell "pyramids" DISPUTED
- Colorado and Nebraska drone swarms DISPUTED
- Sendai’s white balloon IDENTIFIED
- Lights over Seattle and Portland — a Falcon 9 stage re-entering IDENTIFIED
- Three objects on a Western U.S. military range EXPLAINED
- Maldonado — the UFO videos that were a festival campaign EXPLAINED
- AC-130J “cold orbs” over the Gulf of Oman UNRESOLVED
- FBI files — orbs over one place in the north-eastern U.S. UNASSESSED
- MQ-9 "Middle East orb" UNRESOLVED
- Long March 5B core stage burns up over Sarawak IDENTIFIED
- Porto Alegre — airline pilots report blinking lights DISPUTED
- MQ-9 records object with "wake" — South Asia EXPLAINED
- Chinese surveillance balloon IDENTIFIED
- February 2023 shoot-downs (Alaska, Yukon, Lake Huron) UNRESOLVED
- Las Vegas backyard “landing” DISPUTED
- Espora naval air base — the “battle” that the Navy denied EXPLAINED
- The “Nazca mummies” shown to Mexico’s Congress IDENTIFIED
- Colorado Springs law-enforcement videos UNRESOLVED
- The Miami mall “alien” EXPLAINED
- Tyndall "Tic Tac" — USCG C-144 UNASSESSED
- The “plume” over Buenos Aires — a Chinese rocket identified IDENTIFIED
- The teardrop with a pole — United Arab Emirates UNRESOLVED
- The “misshapen ball of white light” over Syria UNRESOLVED
- The Yemen orb and the Hellfire — shown to Congress UNRESOLVED
- New Jersey drone sightings EXPLAINED
- Campo Largo — an influencer’s lights traced to a campsite EXPLAINED
By evidence
- Official government documents 158
- Many independent witnesses 135
- Military witnesses 74
- Pilot and aircrew witnesses 57
- Photographs 55
- 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