All 261 case files

261 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters from 1561 to 2026, in 47 countries and territories: each with its sources, its timeline and the official or best explanation. Each link opens the case file; from there it opens on the 3D globe with its flight path, the footage and the files.

Before 1900 · 6

• 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
• Bonilla observation — objects crossing the Sun 12 August 1883 · Zacatecas Astronomical Observatory, Mexico EXPLAINED
• Mystery airship wave 17 November 1896 · California to the Midwest and Texas, United States EXPLAINED
• Aurora, Texas airship "crash" 17 April 1897 · Aurora, Wise County, Texas EXPLAINED

1900s · 2

• Tunguska explosion 30 June 1908 · Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin, Central Siberia EXPLAINED
• The 1909 New Zealand airship scare 23 July 1909 · Kelso, West Otago, and across the South Island, New Zealand DISPUTED

1910s · 5

• The Sheerness airship — questions in Parliament 14 October 1912 · Sheerness and Queenborough, Isle of Sheppey, Kent DISPUTED
• Great Meteor Procession 9 February 1913 · Toronto, Ontario, on a path from Saskatchewan to Bermuda EXPLAINED
• Brown Mountain lights 13 September 1913 · Brown Mountain, Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina EXPLAINED
• 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

1940s · 16

• Battle of Los Angeles 25 February 1942 · Los Angeles, California EXPLAINED
• Foo fighters — 415th Night Fighter Squadron 23 November 1944 · Rhine valley near Strasbourg UNRESOLVED
• 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
• Ghost rockets — Lake Kölmjärv 19 July 1946 · Lake Kölmjärv, Norrbotten, Sweden UNRESOLVED
• Maury Island incident 21 June 1947 · Maury Island, Puget Sound, Washington EXPLAINED
• Kenneth Arnold — "flying saucers" over Mount Rainier 24 June 1947 · Mount Rainier, Washington DISPUTED
• Rhodes photographs — Phoenix 7 July 1947 · Phoenix, Arizona EXPLAINED
• Roswell debris recovery 8 July 1947 · Foster homestead near Corona, New Mexico EXPLAINED
• Mantell UFO incident 7 January 1948 · Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky 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
• Chiles–Whitted encounter 24 July 1948 · Near Montgomery, Alabama EXPLAINED
• 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
• Arrey, New Mexico — a theodolite track by a Skyhook balloon crew 24 April 1949 · About three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico, in the White Sands test area UNRESOLVED
• Clyde Tombaugh’s Las Cruces sighting 20 August 1949 · Las Cruces, New Mexico DISPUTED

1950s · 48

• 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
• 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
• Fort Monmouth radar and T-33 sighting 10 September 1951 · Fort Monmouth and the Jersey Shore, New Jersey EXPLAINED
• 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
• 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
• Tremonton, Utah film 2 July 1952 · Near Tremonton, Utah 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
• Washington, D.C. radar-visual sightings 19 July 1952 · Washington, D.C. DISPUTED
• Carson Sink — two colonels in a B-25 meet three deltas 24 July 1952 · Over the Carson Sink, Nevada, on the airway to Salt Lake City 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
• Flatwoods "monster" 12 September 1952 · Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia EXPLAINED
• 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
• 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
• Kinross F-89 disappearance over Lake Superior 23 November 1953 · Lake Superior, off the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan UNRESOLVED
• BOAC Stratocruiser paced by seven objects 29 June 1954 · Gulf of St. Lawrence, near Sept-Îles, Quebec UNRESOLVED
• The Nowra Sea Fury — two lights on the radar 31 August 1954 · South-west of Goulburn, New South Wales, on the way back to Naval Air Station Nowra UNRESOLVED
• Quarouble railway encounter — Marius Dewilde 10 September 1954 · Quarouble, near Valenciennes, Nord, France 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
• Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter 21 August 1955 · Sutton farm, Kelly, Kentucky EXPLAINED
• Lakenheath–Bentwaters radar-visual case 13 August 1956 · RAF Bentwaters & RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk UNRESOLVED
• West Freugh radar incident 4 April 1957 · RAF West Freugh, near Stranraer, Scotland UNRESOLVED
• Milton Torres — ordered to fire on a UFO 20 May 1957 · Over East Anglia, from RAF Manston DISPUTED
• Marfa lights 1 July 1957 · Mitchell Flat, east of Marfa, Texas EXPLAINED
• RB-47 radar–ECM–visual encounter 17 July 1957 · Gulf Coast to Oklahoma UNRESOLVED
• Portuguese Air Force F-84s — the Lemos Ferreira sighting 4 September 1957 · Over the Portuguese–Spanish border region, returning to Ota air base UNRESOLVED
• 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
• White Sands military police patrols 3 November 1957 · White Sands Proving Ground (up-range), New Mexico EXPLAINED
• Fort Itaipu sentries burned 4 November 1957 · Fort Itaipu, Praia Grande, São Paulo UNRESOLVED
• Kirtland Air Force Base tower sighting 4 November 1957 · Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico EXPLAINED
• Coast Guard cutter Sebago — radar contacts in the Gulf of Mexico 5 November 1957 · USCGC Sebago, about 200 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico EXPLAINED
• 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
• Father Gill’s sightings at Boianai 26 June 1959 · Boianai Mission, Papua (Papua New Guinea) UNRESOLVED
• Redmond, Oregon — an FAA station reports a hovering light 24 September 1959 · Redmond Airport, Redmond, Oregon DISPUTED

1960s · 31

• Red Bluff — California Highway Patrol sighting 13 August 1960 · Red Bluff area, Tehama County, California EXPLAINED
• Betty and Barney Hill 19 September 1961 · U.S. Route 3, Franconia Notch to Indian Head, New Hampshire DISPUTED
• Bahía Blanca and Espora air base sightings 11 May 1962 · Bahía Blanca and Espora Naval Air Base UNRESOLVED
• Trancas — lights over the Moreno farm 21 October 1963 · Finca of the Moreno family beside the Belgrano railway, Trancas, Tucumán UNRESOLVED
• Socorro landing (Lonnie Zamora) 24 April 1964 · Socorro, New Mexico UNRESOLVED
• The Solway Firth “spaceman” photograph 23 May 1964 · Burgh Marsh, near Burgh by Sands, Cumberland EXPLAINED
• Big Sur — Atlas "Buzzing Bee" film 15 September 1964 · Anderson Peak, Big Sur, and Vandenberg AFB, California EXPLAINED
• 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
• Valensole landing 1 July 1965 · Lavender field, Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence UNRESOLVED
• Deception Island — the Antarctic sightings 3 July 1965 · Argentine station, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands UNRESOLVED
• Buenos Aires — Meteors scrambled 16 July 1965 · Buenos Aires UNRESOLVED
• 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
• Michigan "swamp gas" sightings 20 March 1966 · Dexter and Hillsdale, Michigan EXPLAINED
• 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
• Paulding Light 1 July 1966 · Robbins Pond Road, near Paulding, Michigan EXPLAINED
• The lead masks of Vintém Hill 17 August 1966 · Morro do Vintém, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED
• Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight shutdown 16 March 1967 · Echo Flight, Malmstrom AFB missile field, Montana EXPLAINED
• 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
• 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
• Shag Harbour crash-landing 4 October 1967 · Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia UNRESOLVED
• Devon "flying cross" police chase 24 October 1967 · A3072, Holsworthy to Hatherleigh, Devon EXPLAINED
• Zond IV re-entry — the “craft with windows” 3 March 1968 · Across the sky from Kentucky through Ohio to Pennsylvania IDENTIFIED
• 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

1970s · 38

• Fort Beaufort — police fire at an object 26 June 1971 · Braeside farm near Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape UNRESOLVED
• Lake Cote aerial survey photograph 4 September 1971 · Laguna de Cote, Costa Rica UNRESOLVED
• Delphos ring 2 November 1971 · Delphos, Kansas UNRESOLVED
• Pascagoula encounter 11 October 1973 · Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Mississippi UNRESOLVED
• Coyne helicopter incident 18 October 1973 · Near Mansfield, Ohio DISPUTED
• Berwyn Mountains "crash" 23 January 1974 · Cadair Berwyn, North Wales EXPLAINED
• The Betz mystery sphere 27 March 1974 · Fort George Island, Jacksonville, Florida EXPLAINED
• 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
• Loring Air Force Base intrusions 27 October 1975 · Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine UNRESOLVED
• Wurtsmith Air Force Base and the KC-135 chase 30 October 1975 · Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Oscoda, Michigan UNRESOLVED
• Travis Walton disappearance 5 November 1975 · Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona DISPUTED
• Malmstrom AFB — objects over the missile fields, November 1975 7 November 1975 · Malmstrom Air Force Base and its Minuteman missile fields, Montana UNRESOLVED
• 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
• Tehran F-4 Phantom intercepts 19 September 1976 · Tehran, Iran UNRESOLVED
• 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
• Talavera la Real air base sentries 12 November 1976 · Talavera la Real Air Base, Badajoz UNRESOLVED
• 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
• 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
• Emilcin abduction report 10 May 1978 · Emilcin, Lublin Voivodeship UNRESOLVED
• Gujan-Mestras — the light that put out the street lamps 19 June 1978 · Gujan-Mestras, Arcachon basin, Gironde EXPLAINED
• Disappearance of Frederick Valentich 21 October 1978 · Bass Strait, off Cape Otway, Victoria UNRESOLVED
• Clarenville — RCMP constable watches object over the water 26 October 1978 · Clarenville and Random Island, Newfoundland UNRESOLVED
• 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
• 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
• Pranles — the yellow light with a turning blue beam 21 July 1979 · Pranles, near Les Ollières-sur-Eyrieux, Ardèche UNRESOLVED
• Val Johnson — deputy's patrol car struck by a light 27 August 1979 · Near Stephen, Marshall County, Minnesota DISPUTED
• Dechmont Law — Robert Taylor 9 November 1979 · Dechmont Law, Livingston, West Lothian UNRESOLVED
• Manises — airliner diversion & Mirage intercept 11 November 1979 · Over Ibiza → Valencia-Manises Airport, Spain DISPUTED
• Cergy-Pontoise “abduction” (hoax) 26 November 1979 · Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d’Oise, France EXPLAINED

1980s · 25

• La Joya air base pursuit 11 April 1980 · La Joya air base, Arequipa, Peru UNRESOLVED
• Paul Bennewitz and the lights over Manzano 24 October 1980 · Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano weapons storage area, Albuquerque, New Mexico DISPUTED
• Todmorden — PC Alan Godfrey 29 November 1980 · Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire UNRESOLVED
• Rendlesham Forest 26 December 1980 · Rendlesham Forest, outside RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk DISPUTED
• Cash–Landrum incident 29 December 1980 · FM 1485 near Huffman, Texas DISPUTED
• Trans-en-Provence landing trace 8 January 1981 · Trans-en-Provence, Var UNRESOLVED
• 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
• Brest-Guipavas airport — the fireball by the runway 22 November 1981 · Brest-Guipavas airport, Finistère EXPLAINED
• Trancrainville — gendarmes on the A10 and the lit-up ground 23 January 1982 · A10 motorway near Trancrainville, Eure-et-Loir, north of Orléans UNRESOLVED
• 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
• Morenão stadium sighting 6 March 1982 · Estádio Morenão, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul UNRESOLVED
• Hessdalen lights 1 February 1984 · Hessdalen valley, Norway UNRESOLVED
• Hudson Valley "Westchester boomerang" 24 July 1984 · Brewster, Putnam County, New York 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
• Brazil’s "Official UFO Night" 19 May 1986 · São José dos Campos – Rio de Janeiro – Goiás UNRESOLVED
• Torpo film 13 July 1986 · Mountain farm near Torpo, Hallingdal UNRESOLVED
• Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 17 November 1986 · Over north-east Alaska DISPUTED
• Gulf Breeze photographs 11 November 1987 · Gulf Breeze, Florida EXPLAINED
• Ilkley Moor photograph 1 December 1987 · Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire, England DISPUTED
• Knowles family encounter 20 January 1988 · Nullarbor Plain, between Madura and Mundrabilla, Western Australia UNRESOLVED
• Villa Urquiza Christmas sighting 25 December 1988 · Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires UNRESOLVED
• 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
• Voronezh park landing 27 September 1989 · Voronezh, RSFSR (Russia) DISPUTED

1990s · 21

• Pereslavl-Zalessky — the Soviet air defence report 21 March 1990 · Pereslavl-Zalessky region, north-east of Moscow UNRESOLVED
• Belgian UFO wave — F-16 intercepts 30 March 1990 · Brussels – Wavre – Gembloux, Belgium DISPUTED
• Calvine photograph 4 August 1990 · Moors above Calvine, Perthshire UNRESOLVED
• The “immense triangle” over France — a Proton re-entry 5 November 1990 · From the Bay of Biscay across France to Alsace IDENTIFIED
• Montreal — lights over the Bonaventure Hotel 7 November 1990 · Hôtel Bonaventure, downtown Montreal, Quebec UNRESOLVED
• Alitalia MD-80 near miss over Kent 21 April 1991 · Near Lydd, Kent, England UNRESOLVED
• Mexico City eclipse videos 11 July 1991 · Mexico City, Mexico DISPUTED
• 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
• Cosford incident 30 March 1993 · RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire DISPUTED
• Air France 3532 — radar-visual over Coulommiers 28 January 1994 · Near Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne, France UNRESOLVED
• 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
• Ariel School, Ruwa 16 September 1994 · Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe DISPUTED
• British Airways 5061 near miss over the Pennines 6 January 1995 · About 8 nautical miles south-east of Manchester Airport UNRESOLVED
• America West Flight 564 over the Texas Panhandle 25 May 1995 · Over Bovina, Texas, near the New Mexico border UNRESOLVED
• Bariloche — the blackout and Aerolíneas Argentinas 674 31 July 1995 · San Carlos de Bariloche airport, Río Negro, Argentina UNRESOLVED
• Varginha "ET" 20 January 1996 · Varginha, Minas Gerais EXPLAINED
• Pretoria police helicopter chase 28 August 1996 · Pretoria to Cullinan, Gauteng UNRESOLVED
• The Wash incident 5 October 1996 · The Wash, Lincolnshire coast EXPLAINED
• The Yukon “mothership” 11 December 1996 · Along the Klondike Highway from Fox Lake through Carmacks to Pelly Crossing, Yukon DISPUTED
• Phoenix Lights 13 March 1997 · Henderson, NV → Phoenix → Tucson, Arizona EXPLAINED
• Howden Moor — sonic booms and the search for a crash 24 March 1997 · Howden Moors, Dark Peak, on the Derbyshire–South Yorkshire border DISPUTED

2000s · 12

• Southern Illinois police sightings 5 January 2000 · Highland → Lebanon → Shiloh → Dupo, Illinois DISPUTED
• Mexican Air Force FLIR — Campeche 5 March 2004 · Southern Campeche, Mexico EXPLAINED
• Tinley Park lights 21 August 2004 · Tinley Park and Oak Forest, Illinois DISPUTED
• USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" 14 November 2004 · Pacific Ocean ~100 mi SW of San Diego UNRESOLVED
• Río de la Plata — two airliners and a rising light 4 April 2005 · Over the Río de la Plata between Ezeiza (Buenos Aires) and Carrasco (Montevideo) 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 Haiti UFO videos 15 August 2007 · Said to be Haiti, and in a second video the Dominican Republic EXPLAINED
• Stephenville, Texas 8 January 2008 · Stephenville / Dublin, Erath County, Texas DISPUTED
• Cláudio — Military Police report 19 November 2008 · Cláudio, Minas Gerais UNRESOLVED
• Morristown lights (admitted hoax) 5 January 2009 · Morris County, New Jersey EXPLAINED
• Norwegian spiral 9 December 2009 · Northern Norway and Sweden (seen from Troms and Finnmark) IDENTIFIED

2010s · 24

• Harbour Mille — the “missiles” over Fortune Bay 25 January 2010 · Harbour Mille, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland DISPUTED
• The spiral over eastern Australia — Falcon 9’s first flight 5 June 2010 · Eastern Australia: New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland IDENTIFIED
• Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport closure 7 July 2010 · Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport DISPUTED
• Montevideo — the photo from the national team’s homecoming 13 July 2010 · Palacio Legislativo and Avenida del Libertador, Montevideo EXPLAINED
• El Bosque Air Base — the object in the air-show video 5 November 2010 · El Bosque Air Base, Santiago DISPUTED
• The “mystery missile” off Los Angeles — an airliner’s contrail 8 November 2010 · Over the Pacific about 35 miles west of Los Angeles, north of Santa Catalina Island IDENTIFIED
• 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
• 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
• Chelyabinsk meteor — and the “UFO that shot it down” 15 February 2013 · Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia; the air burst south of Chelyabinsk EXPLAINED
• Collahuasi mine — CEFAA’s “UFO” photographs 15 April 2013 · Collahuasi copper mine, 4,300 m up in the Tarapacá Andes UNRESOLVED
• Aguadilla thermal video (DHS) 25 April 2013 · Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico EXPLAINED
• 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
• The light over California — a Trident II test from USS Kentucky 7 November 2015 · The Navy’s Pacific Test Range off Southern California; seen from California, Nevada and Arizona IDENTIFIED
• Fireball over the West — a Chinese rocket stage re-entering 27 July 2016 · Across California, Nevada and Utah IDENTIFIED
• Jeffreys Bay — a cargo crew’s green light 12 December 2016 · About 10 nautical miles off Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape UNRESOLVED
• AARO’s “Southeast Asia Triangles” — fishing nets 30 August 2017 · A river in Southeast Asia (exact location withheld) IDENTIFIED
• The Los Angeles “UFO” — SpaceX Iridium-4 launch 22 December 2017 · Vandenberg Air Force Base; seen across Southern California and as far as Arizona 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
• 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

2020s · 33

• Sendai’s white balloon 17 June 2020 · Over Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan IDENTIFIED
• American Airlines 2292 — “cruise-missile type of thing” 21 February 2021 · Northeastern New Mexico, at about 36,000 ft UNRESOLVED
• Lights over Seattle and Portland — a Falcon 9 stage re-entering 25 March 2021 · Over western Oregon and Washington; debris in Grant County, Washington IDENTIFIED
• Three objects on a Western U.S. military range 1 June 2021 · Military range, Western United States (withheld) EXPLAINED
• Maldonado — the UFO videos that were a festival campaign 12 August 2021 · Parque del Jagüel, Punta del Este, Maldonado EXPLAINED
• 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
• The Navy’s night-vision image shown to Congress — drones 1 January 2022 · Naval exercise areas off the U.S. East Coast (exact place and date withheld) IDENTIFIED
• The blue spiral over New Zealand — a Falcon 9 upper stage 19 June 2022 · Across New Zealand, photographed from Queenstown, Stewart Island and Motueka IDENTIFIED
• MQ-9 "Middle East orb" 12 July 2022 · Middle East (exact location withheld) UNRESOLVED
• Long March 5B core stage burns up over Sarawak 31 July 2022 · Over Sarawak, Malaysia, toward the Sulu Sea IDENTIFIED
• Porto Alegre — airline pilots report blinking lights 5 November 2022 · Approach to Salgado Filho airport, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul DISPUTED
• MQ-9 records object with "wake" — South Asia 15 January 2023 · South Asia (exact location withheld) EXPLAINED
• AARO’s “Eglin UAP” — a lighting balloon 26 January 2023 · Eglin Air Force Base training range, over the Gulf off north-west Florida EXPLAINED
• Chinese surveillance balloon 28 January 2023 · Aleutians → Montana → Carolina coast IDENTIFIED
• The balloon over Colombia — China’s second airship 3 February 2023 · Northern Colombian airspace; also reported over Costa Rica and on towards Venezuela IDENTIFIED
• February 2023 shoot-downs (Alaska, Yukon, Lake Huron) 10 February 2023 · Deadhorse AK · Yukon · Lake Huron UNRESOLVED
• Las Vegas backyard “landing” 30 April 2023 · North-west Las Vegas valley, Nevada DISPUTED
• Espora naval air base — the “battle” that the Navy denied 5 September 2023 · Base Aeronaval Comandante Espora, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires province EXPLAINED
• The “Nazca mummies” shown to Mexico’s Congress 12 September 2023 · Chamber of Deputies, San Lázaro, Mexico City (the figures came from the Nazca area of Peru) IDENTIFIED
• Colorado Springs law-enforcement videos 1 October 2023 · Colorado Springs, Colorado UNRESOLVED
• Imphal airport UFO — Rafales scrambled 19 November 2023 · Bir Tikendrajit International Airport, Imphal, Manipur UNRESOLVED
• Langley Air Force Base drone incursions 6 December 2023 · Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hampton, Virginia UNRESOLVED
• The Miami mall “alien” 1 January 2024 · Bayside Marketplace, downtown Miami, Florida EXPLAINED
• Tyndall "Tic Tac" — USCG C-144 24 April 2024 · Southeastern U.S., near Tyndall AFB, Florida UNASSESSED
• The “plume” over Buenos Aires — a Chinese rocket identified 8 May 2024 · Castelar, Buenos Aires province; also seen from Entre Ríos, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay IDENTIFIED
• The teardrop with a pole — United Arab Emirates 1 June 2024 · United Arab Emirates (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
• New Jersey drone sightings 18 November 2024 · Morris County, New Jersey, and the Northeast EXPLAINED
• Drones over the U.S. air bases in England 20 November 2024 · RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell and Fairford, England UNRESOLVED
• The drones that closed Europe’s airports 22 September 2025 · Copenhagen Airport first; then Oslo, Aalborg, Billund, Munich, Brussels and Liège UNRESOLVED
• Campo Largo — an influencer’s lights traced to a campsite 31 May 2026 · Rural Campo Largo, Paraná EXPLAINED