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92 well-documented disputed UFO/UAP encounters (explanation proposed but contested), 1909 to 2023: 92 disputed. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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The 1909 New Zealand airship scare 23 July 1909 · Kelso, West Otago, and across the South Island, New Zealand DISPUTED The Sheerness airship — questions in Parliament 14 October 1912 · Sheerness and Queenborough, Isle of Sheppey, Kent DISPUTED The South African “phantom monoplane” 11 August 1914 · Across the Union of South Africa: the Transvaal, Natal, the Cape and the Free State DISPUTED 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 Kenneth Arnold — "flying saucers" over Mount Rainier 24 June 1947 · Mount Rainier, Washington DISPUTED The green fireballs of New Mexico 5 December 1948 · Over northern and central New Mexico, near Los Alamos, Sandia and White Sands DISPUTED Clyde Tombaugh’s Las Cruces sighting 20 August 1949 · Las Cruces, New Mexico DISPUTED 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 Mariana film, Great Falls 15 August 1950 · Great Falls, Montana DISPUTED U.S. Navy R5D — object over the North Atlantic 10 February 1951 · North Atlantic, east of Newfoundland DISPUTED Lubbock Lights 30 August 1951 · Lubbock, Texas DISPUTED Long Beach — six F-86s chase an object they cannot reach 23 September 1951 · Over Long Beach, California DISPUTED Mitchel AFB — a Navy TBM chases a “parachute” over Long Island 21 January 1952 · Mitchel Air Force Base, Hempstead, Long Island, New York DISPUTED Barra da Tijuca — the O Cruzeiro disc photographs 7 May 1952 · Coast at Barra da Tijuca, near Pedra do Marisco, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED Tremonton, Utah film 2 July 1952 · Near Tremonton, Utah DISPUTED Salem Coast Guard Air Station photograph 16 July 1952 · U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Winter Island, Salem, Massachusetts DISPUTED Washington, D.C. radar-visual sightings 19 July 1952 · Washington, D.C. DISPUTED The Florida scoutmaster — burned, and called a hoax 19 August 1952 · Palmetto scrub off a back road inland from West Palm Beach, Florida DISPUTED Oloron-Sainte-Marie "angel hair" 17 October 1952 · Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques DISPUTED Ellsworth AFB — the Black Hawk light and the F-84 chase 5 August 1953 · Black Hawk and Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rapid City, South Dakota; later Bismarck, North Dakota DISPUTED West Malling Vampire sighting 3 November 1953 · Over RAF West Malling, Kent DISPUTED Florence stadium sighting 27 October 1954 · Stadio Comunale (Artemio Franchi), Florence DISPUTED Milton Torres — ordered to fire on a UFO 20 May 1957 · Over East Anglia, from RAF Manston DISPUTED Ubatuba magnesium fragments 14 September 1957 · Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil DISPUTED 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 Trindade Island photographs 16 January 1958 · Trindade Island, South Atlantic DISPUTED American Airlines Captain Peter Killian’s three lights 24 February 1959 · Over central and northern Pennsylvania, between Philipsburg and Bradford DISPUTED Redmond, Oregon — an FAA station reports a hovering light 24 September 1959 · Redmond Airport, Redmond, Oregon DISPUTED Betty and Barney Hill 19 September 1961 · U.S. Route 3, Franconia Notch to Indian Head, New Hampshire DISPUTED Gemini 4 — McDivitt’s “beer can with an arm” 4 June 1965 · In orbit, passing over Hawaii, on the 20th revolution of Gemini 4 DISPUTED August 1965 — lights over Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas 1 August 1965 · Oklahoma City and across Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and New Mexico DISPUTED Heflin Polaroids — Santa Ana 3 August 1965 · Myford Road near Santa Ana, California DISPUTED Incident at Exeter 3 September 1965 · Kensington, near Exeter, New Hampshire DISPUTED Kecksburg fireball 9 December 1965 · Kecksburg, Pennsylvania 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 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 Minot AFB — B-52 radar and missile-field sightings 24 October 1968 · Minot AFB and missile field, North Dakota DISPUTED Jimmy Carter’s light at Leary, Georgia 6 January 1969 · Outside the Lions Club meeting, Leary, Georgia DISPUTED Coyne helicopter incident 18 October 1973 · Near Mansfield, Ohio DISPUTED Coyame “crash” — Chihuahua 25 August 1974 · Coyame, Chihuahua, Mexico DISPUTED Travis Walton disappearance 5 November 1975 · Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona DISPUTED 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 Broad Haven schoolchildren — the Welsh Triangle 4 February 1977 · Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales DISPUTED Corporal Valdés — the patrol at Pampa Lluscuma 25 April 1977 · Pampa Lluscuma, near Putre, Arica DISPUTED Petrozavodsk phenomenon 20 September 1977 · Petrozavodsk, Karelia, USSR DISPUTED Colares "chupa-chupa" & Operação Prato 15 October 1977 · Colares Island, Pará DISPUTED Zanfretta — the Torriglia night patrol 6 December 1978 · Marzano di Torriglia, Genoa, Italy DISPUTED Kaikōura lights 31 December 1978 · Kaikōura coast, New Zealand DISPUTED Cecconi G.91R photographs over Treviso 18 June 1979 · Treviso Sant'Angelo air base, Veneto DISPUTED Val Johnson — deputy's patrol car struck by a light 27 August 1979 · Near Stephen, Marshall County, Minnesota DISPUTED Manises — airliner diversion & Mirage intercept 11 November 1979 · Over Ibiza → Valencia-Manises Airport, Spain DISPUTED Paul Bennewitz and the lights over Manzano 24 October 1980 · Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano weapons storage area, Albuquerque, New Mexico DISPUTED Rendlesham Forest 26 December 1980 · Rendlesham Forest, outside RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk DISPUTED Cash–Landrum incident 29 December 1980 · FM 1485 near Huffman, Texas DISPUTED The spiral over south-west China 24 July 1981 · Sichuan and Yunnan, and across south-west, north-west and south-central China DISPUTED 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 VASP flight 169 — the light that paced a Boeing 727 8 February 1982 · Night flight from Fortaleza to Rio de Janeiro, first seen near Petrolina, Pernambuco DISPUTED 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 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 17 November 1986 · Over north-east Alaska DISPUTED Ilkley Moor photograph 1 December 1987 · Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire, England DISPUTED Voronezh park landing 27 September 1989 · Voronezh, RSFSR (Russia) DISPUTED Belgian UFO wave — F-16 intercepts 30 March 1990 · Brussels – Wavre – Gembloux, Belgium DISPUTED Mexico City eclipse videos 11 July 1991 · Mexico City, Mexico DISPUTED Cosford incident 30 March 1993 · RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire DISPUTED Ariel School, Ruwa 16 September 1994 · Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe DISPUTED The Yukon “mothership” 11 December 1996 · Along the Klondike Highway from Fox Lake through Carmacks to Pelly Crossing, Yukon DISPUTED 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 Tinley Park lights 21 August 2004 · Tinley Park and Oak Forest, Illinois DISPUTED Chicago O’Hare disc 7 November 2006 · O’Hare International Airport, Gate C-17 DISPUTED Stephenville, Texas 8 January 2008 · Stephenville / Dublin, Erath County, Texas DISPUTED Harbour Mille — the “missiles” over Fortune Bay 25 January 2010 · Harbour Mille, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland DISPUTED Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport closure 7 July 2010 · Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport DISPUTED El Bosque Air Base — the object in the air-show video 5 November 2010 · El Bosque Air Base, Santiago DISPUTED Naga fireballs of the Mekong 19 October 2013 · The Mekong around Phon Phisai and Nong Khai, Thailand, and the Lao bank opposite DISPUTED Chilean Navy helicopter FLIR video 11 November 2014 · Coast between San Antonio and Quinteros, Chile DISPUTED USS Theodore Roosevelt — Gimbal & GoFast 21 January 2015 · Atlantic warning areas off Jacksonville, Florida DISPUTED 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 Ireland — airline pilots report fast lights 9 November 2018 · Atlantic off County Kerry, Ireland DISPUTED USS Omaha sphere & USS Russell "pyramids" 15 July 2019 · Off San Diego, California DISPUTED Colorado and Nebraska drone swarms 20 December 2019 · Phillips County and the plains of north-eastern Colorado DISPUTED Porto Alegre — airline pilots report blinking lights 5 November 2022 · Approach to Salgado Filho airport, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul DISPUTED Las Vegas backyard “landing” 30 April 2023 · North-west Las Vegas valley, Nevada DISPUTED
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