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47 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters describing discs and saucers, 1917 to 2013: 24 disputed, 15 unresolved, 5 explained, 2 identified, 1 unassessed. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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Fátima — the “miracle of the sun” 13 October 1917 · Cova da Iria, near Fátima, Portugal DISPUTED The Trinity crash story 16 August 1945 · The Padilla ranch near San Antonio, New Mexico, north-west of the Trinity test site DISPUTED Ängelholm landing report 18 May 1946 · Kronoskogen, Ängelholm, Sweden DISPUTED Rhodes photographs — Phoenix 7 July 1947 · Phoenix, Arizona 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 Farmington “armada” — a town watches discs for three days 17 March 1950 · Farmington, New Mexico DISPUTED 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 Fort Monmouth radar and T-33 sighting 10 September 1951 · Fort Monmouth and the Jersey Shore, New Jersey EXPLAINED Mitchel AFB — a Navy TBM chases a “parachute” over Long Island 21 January 1952 · Mitchel Air Force Base, Hempstead, Long Island, New York DISPUTED Wonsan and Sunchon B-29 sightings 29 January 1952 · Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea UNRESOLVED Barra da Tijuca — the O Cruzeiro disc photographs 7 May 1952 · Coast at Barra da Tijuca, near Pedra do Marisco, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED Nash–Fortenberry sighting 14 July 1952 · Chesapeake Bay near Newport News, Virginia 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 Oloron-Sainte-Marie "angel hair" 17 October 1952 · Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques DISPUTED Little Rissington Meteor encounter 21 October 1952 · Over Gloucestershire from RAF Little Rissington UNRESOLVED Ubatuba magnesium fragments 14 September 1957 · Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil DISPUTED Trindade Island photographs 16 January 1958 · Trindade Island, South Atlantic DISPUTED Father Gill’s sightings at Boianai 26 June 1959 · Boianai Mission, Papua (Papua New Guinea) UNRESOLVED Betty and Barney Hill 19 September 1961 · U.S. Route 3, Franconia Notch to Indian Head, New Hampshire DISPUTED Buenos Aires — Meteors scrambled 16 July 1965 · Buenos Aires UNRESOLVED Heflin Polaroids — Santa Ana 3 August 1965 · Myford Road near Santa Ana, California DISPUTED Tully "saucer nest" 19 January 1966 · Horseshoe Lagoon near Tully, Queensland DISPUTED Westall school sighting 6 April 1966 · Westall High School, Clayton South, Melbourne DISPUTED 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 Lake Cote aerial survey photograph 4 September 1971 · Laguna de Cote, Costa Rica UNRESOLVED Coyame “crash” — Chihuahua 25 August 1974 · Coyame, Chihuahua, Mexico DISPUTED Langenburg rings 1 September 1974 · Langenburg, Saskatchewan UNRESOLVED Billy Meier’s “beamship” photographs 28 January 1975 · Zürcher Oberland, around Hinwil, canton of Zürich IDENTIFIED Travis Walton disappearance 5 November 1975 · Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona DISPUTED Broad Haven schoolchildren — the Welsh Triangle 4 February 1977 · Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales DISPUTED 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 Cecconi G.91R photographs over Treviso 18 June 1979 · Treviso Sant'Angelo air base, Veneto DISPUTED Dechmont Law — Robert Taylor 9 November 1979 · Dechmont Law, Livingston, West Lothian UNRESOLVED Trans-en-Provence landing trace 8 January 1981 · Trans-en-Provence, Var UNRESOLVED Hannah McRoberts’ photograph — Vancouver Island 8 October 1981 · A provincial park by the Eve River bridge on Highway 19, near Kelsey Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia 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 Mexico City eclipse videos 11 July 1991 · Mexico City, Mexico DISPUTED Air France 3532 — radar-visual over Coulommiers 28 January 1994 · Near Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, France 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 The light over the Dome of the Rock (hoax) 28 January 2011 · Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif), Old City of Jerusalem EXPLAINED Collahuasi mine — CEFAA’s “UFO” photographs 15 April 2013 · Collahuasi copper mine, 4,300 m up in the Tarapacá Andes UNRESOLVED
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