UFO and UAP cases: formations and rows of lights

19 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters describing formations and rows of lights, 1947 to 2023: 9 disputed, 5 unresolved, 2 explained, 2 identified, 1 unassessed. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.

19 cases

• Kenneth Arnold — "flying saucers" over Mount Rainier 24 June 1947 · Mount Rainier, Washington DISPUTED
• Lubbock Lights 30 August 1951 · Lubbock, Texas 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
• Oloron-Sainte-Marie "angel hair" 17 October 1952 · Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques DISPUTED
• American Airlines Captain Peter Killian’s three lights 24 February 1959 · Over central and northern Pennsylvania, between Philipsburg and Bradford DISPUTED
• Trancas — lights over the Moreno farm 21 October 1963 · Finca of the Moreno family beside the Belgrano railway, Trancas, Tucumán UNRESOLVED
• Incident at Exeter 3 September 1965 · Kensington, near Exeter, New Hampshire DISPUTED
• Shag Harbour crash-landing 4 October 1967 · Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia UNRESOLVED
• Cosford incident 30 March 1993 · RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire DISPUTED
• America West Flight 564 over the Texas Panhandle 25 May 1995 · Over Bovina, Texas, near the New Mexico border UNRESOLVED
• The Yukon “mothership” 11 December 1996 · Along the Klondike Highway from Fox Lake through Carmacks to Pelly Crossing, Yukon DISPUTED
• The Haiti UFO videos 15 August 2007 · Said to be Haiti, and in a second video the Dominican Republic EXPLAINED
• Morristown lights (admitted hoax) 5 January 2009 · Morris County, New Jersey EXPLAINED
• AARO’s “Southeast Asia Triangles” — fishing nets 30 August 2017 · A river in Southeast Asia (exact location withheld) IDENTIFIED
• Learjet and American 1095 over Arizona — “something just passed over us” 24 February 2018 · Over southern Arizona, east of the Sonoran Desert National Monument DISPUTED
• 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
• Long March 5B core stage burns up over Sarawak 31 July 2022 · Over Sarawak, Malaysia, toward the Sulu Sea IDENTIFIED
• Langley Air Force Base drone incursions 6 December 2023 · Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hampton, Virginia UNRESOLVED

By shape

• Lights and fireballs 137
• Spheres and orbs 60
• Discs and saucers 47
• Cylinders and cigar shapes 26
• Triangles and V shapes 19