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60 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters describing spheres and orbs, 1561 to 2024: 22 unresolved, 19 disputed, 13 explained, 5 identified, 1 unassessed. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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Celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg 14 April 1561 · Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Germany) EXPLAINED Celestial phenomenon over Basel 7 August 1566 · Basel, Swiss Confederacy (Switzerland) EXPLAINED Utsuro-bune — the "hollow ship" of Hitachi 22 February 1803 · Haratono-hama, Hitachi Province (Ibaraki), Japan EXPLAINED Foo fighters — 415th Night Fighter Squadron 23 November 1944 · Rhine valley near Strasbourg UNRESOLVED Gorman dogfight 1 October 1948 · Fargo, North Dakota EXPLAINED The green fireballs of New Mexico 5 December 1948 · Over northern and central New Mexico, near Los Alamos, Sandia and White Sands DISPUTED U.S. Navy R5D — object over the North Atlantic 10 February 1951 · North Atlantic, east of Newfoundland DISPUTED Long Beach — six F-86s chase an object they cannot reach 23 September 1951 · Over Long Beach, California DISPUTED Wonsan and Sunchon B-29 sightings 29 January 1952 · Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea 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 Little Rissington Meteor encounter 21 October 1952 · Over Gloucestershire from RAF Little Rissington UNRESOLVED Salandin near-miss over Southend 14 October 1954 · Over Southend-on-Sea, Essex UNRESOLVED Gravataí Air Base — the Brazilian Air Force communiqué 24 October 1954 · Gravataí Air Base (today Canoas Air Force Base), near Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul UNRESOLVED Florence stadium sighting 27 October 1954 · Stadio Comunale (Artemio Franchi), Florence DISPUTED Marfa lights 1 July 1957 · Mitchell Flat, east of Marfa, Texas EXPLAINED Portuguese Air Force F-84s — the Lemos Ferreira sighting 4 September 1957 · Over the Portuguese–Spanish border region, returning to Ota air base UNRESOLVED Antônio Vilas-Boas abduction claim 16 October 1957 · São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil DISPUTED Levelland vehicle-stopping reports 2 November 1957 · Levelland, Texas DISPUTED White Sands military police patrols 3 November 1957 · White Sands Proving Ground (up-range), New Mexico EXPLAINED Kirtland Air Force Base tower sighting 4 November 1957 · Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico EXPLAINED Redmond, Oregon — an FAA station reports a hovering light 24 September 1959 · Redmond Airport, Redmond, Oregon DISPUTED Bahía Blanca and Espora air base sightings 11 May 1962 · Bahía Blanca and Espora Naval Air Base UNRESOLVED Socorro landing (Lonnie Zamora) 24 April 1964 · Socorro, New Mexico UNRESOLVED Valensole landing 1 July 1965 · Lavender field, Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence UNRESOLVED The lead masks of Vintém Hill 17 August 1966 · Morro do Vintém, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED Falcon Lake incident 20 May 1967 · Falcon Lake, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba DISPUTED UMMO — the San José de Valderas photographs 1 June 1967 · San José de Valderas, Alcorcón, near Madrid IDENTIFIED Cussac — two children and four small black beings 29 August 1967 · Cussac, Cantal, Auvergne, France UNRESOLVED Pascagoula encounter 11 October 1973 · Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Mississippi UNRESOLVED The Betz mystery sphere 27 March 1974 · Fort George Island, Jacksonville, Florida EXPLAINED CFS Falconbridge — the NORAD message from Ontario 11 November 1975 · 30 nautical miles south-south-west of Canadian Forces Station Falconbridge, near Sudbury, Ontario UNRESOLVED Canary Islands sphere 22 June 1976 · Canary Islands (Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura) DISPUTED The Allagash abductions 26 August 1976 · Eagle Lake, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, northern Maine DISPUTED The Moroccan coast “UFO” — a Soviet rocket part re-entering 19 September 1976 · Along the Atlantic coast of Morocco, from Agadir to Kenitra and inland to Meknes and Fez IDENTIFIED The object that fell near Bermejo — Bolivia’s 1978 search 6 May 1978 · El Taire hill above the Bermejo River, Tarija department, on the Argentine border UNRESOLVED Gujan-Mestras — the light that put out the street lamps 19 June 1978 · Gujan-Mestras, Arcachon basin, Gironde EXPLAINED Clarenville — RCMP constable watches object over the water 26 October 1978 · Clarenville and Random Island, Newfoundland UNRESOLVED Zanfretta — the Torriglia night patrol 6 December 1978 · Marzano di Torriglia, Genoa, Italy DISPUTED Kaikōura lights 31 December 1978 · Kaikōura coast, New Zealand DISPUTED Dechmont Law — Robert Taylor 9 November 1979 · Dechmont Law, Livingston, West Lothian UNRESOLVED Cergy-Pontoise “abduction” (hoax) 26 November 1979 · Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d’Oise, France EXPLAINED Brest-Guipavas airport — the fireball by the runway 22 November 1981 · Brest-Guipavas airport, Finistère EXPLAINED Aeroflot Tu-134 over Minsk — the light that became a cloud 7 September 1984 · Over Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, on the flight to Tallinn DISPUTED Dalnegorsk “Height 611” crash 29 January 1986 · Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia DISPUTED Knowles family encounter 20 January 1988 · Nullarbor Plain, between Madura and Mundrabilla, Western Australia UNRESOLVED Voronezh park landing 27 September 1989 · Voronezh, RSFSR (Russia) DISPUTED Montreal — lights over the Bonaventure Hotel 7 November 1990 · Hôtel Bonaventure, downtown Montreal, Quebec UNRESOLVED Crop circles — Doug Bower and Dave Chorley own up 9 September 1991 · The fields of Hampshire and Wiltshire; their first circles near Cheesefoot Head, Winchester IDENTIFIED 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 Montevideo — the photo from the national team’s homecoming 13 July 2010 · Palacio Legislativo and Avenida del Libertador, Montevideo EXPLAINED Santiago — the silver spheres over the Paseo Bulnes 11 May 2012 · Paseo Bulnes, central Santiago IDENTIFIED Ladakh lights — the “Chinese drones” that were planets 1 August 2012 · Thakung post, near Pangong Tso, eastern Ladakh, India EXPLAINED Naga fireballs of the Mekong 19 October 2013 · The Mekong around Phon Phisai and Nong Khai, Thailand, and the Lao bank opposite DISPUTED USS Omaha sphere & USS Russell "pyramids" 15 July 2019 · Off San Diego, California DISPUTED Sendai’s white balloon 17 June 2020 · Over Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan IDENTIFIED AC-130J “cold orbs” over the Gulf of Oman 8 September 2021 · Gulf of Oman (exact location withheld) UNRESOLVED 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 MQ-9 "Middle East orb" 12 July 2022 · Middle East (exact location withheld) UNRESOLVED The “misshapen ball of white light” over Syria 1 October 2024 · Syria (exact location withheld) UNRESOLVED The Yemen orb and the Hellfire — shown to Congress 30 October 2024 · Off the coast of Yemen (exact location not released) UNRESOLVED
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