1908-06-30 | Tunguska event | 65 km north of Vanavara,Yeniseysk Governorate | Russian Empire | The explosion is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5--10 kilometres (3--6 mi) above the Earth's surface. Different studies have yielded varying estimates of the object's size, with general agreement that it was a few tens of metres across. The Tunguska event is the largest impact event over land in Earth's recent history. Impacts of similar size over remote ocean areas would most likely have gone unnoticed before the advent of global satellite monitoring in the 1960s and 1970s. UFO enthusiasts however, class it as anexploding UFO. | [12] | 0 |
1909 | Mystery airships | Otago | New Zealand | Strange moving lights and some solid bodies in the sky were seen around Otago and elsewhere in New Zealand, and were reported to newspapers | [13][14] | |
1917-08-13, 09-13, 10-13 | Miracle of the Sun | Fátima, Santarém District | Portugal | Thousands of people observed the sun gyrate and descend. This was later reinterpreted by Jacques Vallée, Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada as a possible UFO sighting, but not recognized as such due to cultural differences. | [15][16][17] | 1 |
1940s | Foo fighters | | over world war theaters | Small metallic spheres and colorful balls of light repeatedly spotted and occasionally photographed worldwide by bomber crews during World War II. | [18][19] | 2 |
1941 | Cape Girardeau UFO crash | Cape Girardeau, Missouri | United States | First responders and Baptist minister allegedly view crashed spacecraft and alien bodies. Military arrives and swears witnesses to silence. | [20][21][22] | 3 |
1942 | Hopeh Incident | Tsientsien, Hebei | Republic of China | Photographs show what is reported to be a UFO. | [23] | 2 |
1942-02-24 | Battle of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, California | United States | Unidentified aerial objects trigger the firing of thousands of anti-aircraft rounds and raise the wartime alert status. | [24] | 2 |
1946 | The Ghost Rockets | | mostly inScandinavia, but also other European countries | Numerous UFO sightings were reported over Scandinavia, causing the Swedish Defense Staff to express concern. | [25] | 2 |
1946-05-18 | UFO-Memorial Ängelholm | Ängelholm, Kristianstads County | Sweden | Gösta Karlsson reports seeing a flying saucer and its alien passengers. A model of it is now erected at the site. | [26] | 3 |
1947-06-21 | Maury Island incident | Puget Sound near Maury Island, Washington | United States | Harold A. Dahl reported that his dog was killed and his son was injured by debris in an encounter with four to six flying doughnut-shaped objects. He also claimed that a witness was subsequently threatened by the Men in Black. | [27] | 2 |
1947-06-24 | Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting | north of Mount Rainier,Washington | United States | The UFO sighting that sparked the name flying saucers. This sighting is considered as the start of the "Modern UFO era". | [28] | 0 |
1947-06/07 | 1947 UFO sightings | mostly Washington | United States | Several UFO sightings reported after the sighting of Kenneth Arnold. | [28] | |
1947-06 | Roswell UFO crash | about 30 mi north ofRoswell, New Mexico | United States | United States Army Air Forces allegedly captured a crashed flying saucer and its alien occupants. The find was soon explained to be a weather balloon but regained attention since 1978 after investigation of S. T. Friedman. | [29][30] | 3 |
1948 | The Green Fireballs | | United States | Objects were reported over several United States military bases; an official investigation followed. | [31][32] | 2 |
1948-01-07 | Thomas Mantell | Kentucky | United States | US Air Force sent a fighter pilot to investigate a UFO sighting overFort Knox, Kentucky; his aircraft crashed and the pilot was killed while pursuing the UFO. | [33] | 2 |
1948-07-24 | Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter | Alabama | United States | Chiles and Whitted, American commercial pilots, reported that their aeroplane had nearly collided with a UFO | | 1 |
1948-10-01 | Gorman dogfight | North Dakota | United States | A US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes overFargo, North Dakota. | [34][35] | 1 |
1948-10-15 | Fukuoka Incident | Kyushu Island | Japan | The radar of a F-61 Black Widow detected a target below the aircraft. While the aircrew tried to intercept it, the pilot saw the object, which appeared as a stubby cigar; then the object accelerated and disappeared. | [36] | 2 |
1949 | Frank Scully | New Mexico | United States | An alleged retrieval of a grounded UFO and its occupants from a plateau in New Mexico | | 3 |
1950-04-24 | Varese Close Encounter | Abbiate Guazzone,Lombardy | Italy | A factory worker reported that he sighted three "humanoids" near a craft and one "shot him with a beam". | [unreliable source?][37] | 3 |
1950-05-11 | McMinnville UFO photographs | a farm near McMinnville,Oregon | United States | A farmer took pictures of a purported "flying saucer". These are among the best known UFO pictures, and continue to be analyzed and debated to this day. | [38] | 2 |
1950-08-05 or 15 | Mariana UFO incident | Great Falls, Montana | United States | The manager of Great Falls' pro baseball team took color film of two UFOs flying over Great Falls. The film was extensively analyzed by the US Air Force and several independent investigators. | [39] | 2 |
1951-08-25 | Lubbock Lights | Lubbock, Texas | United States | Several Lights in V-Shaped formations were repeatedly spotted flying over the city. Witnesses included professors from Texas Tech University and photographed by a Texas Tech student. | [40] | 2 |
1951-09-10 | Fort Monmouth UFO Case | Monmouth County, New Jersey | United States | At Fort Monmouth Base, a radar operator picked up an unknown target. Seventeen minutes later, the crew of a T-33 saw a discus-shaped unidentified object. | [41] | 2 |
1952-07-12 to 29 | 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident | Washington, D.C. | United States | A series of sightings in July 1952 accompanied radar contacts at three separate airports in the Washington area. The sightings made front page headlines around the nation, and ultimately lead to the formation of the Robertson Panel by the CIA. | [42] | 1 |
1952-07-16 | 1952 Salem, Massachusetts UFO incident | Coast Guard Air Station Salem | United States | Coast Guard photographer Shell Alpert took a photograph of four roughly elliptical blobs of light in formation through the window of his photographic laboratory. A Coast Guard press release described the lights as "objects", however Seaman Alpert subsequently issued a statement saying, "I cannot in all honesty say that I saw objects or aircraft, merely some manner of lights." | [43] | 1 |
1952-07-24 | Carson Sink UFO incident | near Carson Sink,Nevada | United States | Two pilots saw three unusual Delta wing aircraft flying in a V-formation over Carson Sink. | [44] | 1 |
1952-09-12 | The Flatwoods Monster | Flatwoods, West Virginia | United States | Six local boys and a woman report seeing a UFO land, and saw a spade-headed creature near the landing site. | [45][46][47] | 3 |
1953-05-21 | Prescott Sightings | Prescott, Arizona | United States | Three Prescott residents sight a total of eight craft at Del Rio Springs Creek, 20 miles north of Prescott. | [48] | 0 |
1953-08-12 | Ellsworth UFO sighting | Bismarck, North Dakota | United States | A UFO appearing as a red glowing light is witnessed by 45 people. The sighting takes place for two nights. | [49] | 1 |
1953-11-23 | The disappearance of Felix Moncla and Robert Wilson | near the Soo Locks overLake Superior | United States/Canada | U.S. Air Force pilot and radar operator and their F-89C disappeared while pursuing an unidentified radar return. | [50] | 0 |
1953-12-16 | Kelly Johnson/Santa Barbara Channel Case | Seen from Agoura, California, and from aircraft flying over Pacific Ocean | United States | Legendary Lockheed aircraft engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, designer of the F-104, U-2, and SR-71, and his wife observed a huge Flying Wing over the Pacific from the ground in Agoura. Meanwhile, one of Johnson's flight test crews aboard an WV-2 (seeEC-121) spotted the craft from Long Beach, California. USAFconcluded these trained observers had seen a lenticular cloud, even though Johnson considered and ruled out that explanation. | [51][52] | 1 |
1955-08-21/22 | Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter | a farmhouse nearHopkinsville, Kentucky | United States | After the sighting of a disc-shaped aircraft a group of strange, goblin-like creatures are reported to have repeatedly approached a farm house and looked inside through the windows. Members of the two families present shot at them several times with little or no effect. The encounter lasted from evening to dawn. | [53] | 3 |
1956-07-24 | Drakensberg Contactee | Drakensberg | South Africa | A well-known photo series depicting a supposed UFO, was taken on 24 July near Rosetta in the Drakensberg region. The photographer, meteorologist Elizabeth Klarer, claimed detailed adventures with an alien race, besides having had an alien lover, Akon, who would have fathered her son Ayling. | [54] | 1, 5 |
1957-05-03 | Edwards Air Force Base flying saucer filming | Edwards Air Force Base(about 22 mi northeast ofLancaster), California | United States | Jack Gettys and James Bittick, who were filming base installations on behalf of test pilot and later astronaut Gordon Cooper, observed the landing and departure of a silent flying disk. Their film evidence was sent to Washington. | [55] | 2? |
1957-05-20 | Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter | East Anglia | United Kingdom | US Air Force fighter pilot Milton Torres reports that he was ordered to intercept and fire on a UFO displaying "very unusual flight patterns" over East Anglia. Ground radar operators had tracked the object for some time before Torres' plane was scrambled to intercept. | [56] | 2 |
1957-09 | Ubatuba UFO Explosion | Ubatuba | Brazil | Two Fishermen watched a UFO crash and explosion, and retrieved fragments of the object. | [57] | 2 |
1957-10-16/17 | Antonio Vilas Boas Abduction | near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais | Brazil | One of the very first abduction claims. Farmer Antonio Vilas Boas claimed to have been abducted and examined by humanoid aliens while working in the fields at night. He also claimed to have had sex with an alien woman aboard the egg-shaped aircraft. | [58][dead link] | 4 |
1957-11-02 | Levelland UFO Case | Levelland, Texas | United States | Numerous people describe seeing a glowing, egg-shaped object and a cigar-shaped object which caused their vehicle's engines to shut down. | [59] | 2 |
1957-12 | Old-Saybrook UFO incident | Connecticut | United States | Reports of an elliptically-shaped UFO with square ports. | [60] | 3 |
1958-01-16 | Trindade UFO Incident | Trindade Island | Brazil | 9 Separate sightings and 7 photos of UFO's were reported in the Trinidade Island during the meteorological and geological expeditions in the island. | [61] | 2 |
1959-02-02/03 | Dyatlov Pass incident | Kholat Syakhl, Sverdlovsk Oblast | Soviet Union | Mysterious deaths of experienced cross-country skiers in the Uralsare due to official investigation believed to have been caused by an unknown "compelling natural force". Some claim relation to unidentified orange spheres. | [62] | 2 |
1959-06-26/27 | Father William Booth Gill sighting | Boianai, Territory of Papua and New Guinea | Australia | Missionary and many natives saw several UFOs, one of them seeming to be repaired by four human-like occupants; witnesses and aliens waved at each other. The case was investigated by J. A. Hynek and accompanied by other sightings. | [63][64] | 3 |
1961-09-19 | Betty and Barney Hill abduction | south of Lancaster onRoute 3, New Hampshire | United States | The first widely publicized alien abduction experience. The Hills saw a huge flying disk while driving home in their car at late evening and were abducted and medically examined by small extraterrestrials. | [65] | 4 |
1964-04-24 | Lonnie Zamora incident | Socorro, New Mexico | United States | Police officer Zamora reports a close encounter. | [66] | 3 |
1964-09-05 | Cisco Grove Encounter | Cisco Grove, California | United States | Hunter Donald Schrum claimed he saw a flying white light in the forest and was pursued by men as well as "robots". Condon Committee investigators were skeptical of Schrum's story because of its inconsistencies. | [67] | 3 |
1965 to 1967 | Charles Hall | Las Vegas, Nevada | United States | Charles Hall claimed that while working at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada he had contact with tall white aliens who often traveled to Las Vegas casinos for entertainment with CIA agents. | [68][69] | 3 |
1965-03-09 | The Incident at Exeter | Exeter, New Hampshire | United States | Numerous reports of UFOs in Exeter, New Hampshire. | [70] | 2 |
1965-07-01 | The Valensole UFO incident | Valensole, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | France | Peasant Maurice Massé saw a landed spherical object and was paralyzed by two grey-like occupants. | | 3 |
1965-09-16 | 1965 Craft Landing | Pretoria–Bronkhorstspruit | South Africa | Police constables Lockem and de Klerk observed a landed, copper-coloured craft on the Pretoria–Bronkhorstspruit freeway. It was described as being 30 feet (9.1 m) wide and left a 6 feet (1.8 m) wide imprint on the asphalt after a rapid, fiery ascent. The incident was confirmed in a press release by Lt. Colonel J.B. Brits, district commandant for Pretoria North | [71] | 2 |
1965-12-09 | Kecksburg UFO incident | Kecksburg, Pennsylvania | United States | Mass sighting of a falling brilliant fireball dropping debris and causing sonic booms, followed by a cordoning-off of the probable crash site, alleged intimidation of a reporter by men in black and cover-up and the unresolved death of said witness. | [72] | 2? |
1966 | The Mothman Prophecies | Point Pleasant, West Virginia | United States | A wave of reported sightings of a winged humanoid are connected to other mysterious events including sightings of UFOs. | [73] | 3? |
1966-03 | Michigan Swamp Gas Sightings | Washtenaw County &Livingston County,Michigan | United States | Widely reported wave of sightings attributed to swamp gas by J. Allen Hynek. | [74][75] | 2 |
1966-04-06 | Westall UFO | Clayton South, Victoria | Australia | A sighting reported by hundreds of people. Witnesses of "The Clayton Incident" still gather for reunions. | [76] | 0 |
1966-04-15 | Catalina Island UFO | Catalina Island | United States | Cameraman Leman Hanson shot 10 seconds of 16 mm color footage of a UFO. | [77] | 2 |
1966-04-17 | Portage County UFO chase | Ohio | United States | Several police officers pursue what they believe to be a UFO for 30 minutes. | [78] | 1 |
1967-01-25 | Betty Andreasson Abduction | South Ashburnham, Massachusetts | United States | A woman claims to have been taken aboard UFOs by aliens many times over a number of years. | [79] | 4 |
1967-05-20 | Falcon Lake incident | near Falcon Lake inWhiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba | Canada | A man is reported to have been burned by the exhaust of a landed cigar-shaped object. | [80] | 3 |
1967-08-29 | Close encounter of Cussac | outside Cussac,Auvergne | France | A young brother and sister claimed to have witnessed a brilliant sphere and four small black occupants while herding cattle outside their village. | [81] | 3 |
1967-09-07 | Snippy the Horse Mutilation | near Alamosa in the San Luis Valley, Colorado | United States | Widely considered to be the first unusual animal death to be related by its witnesses to UFOs and aliens. | [82] | 2 |
1967-10-04 | Shag Harbour UFO incident | Gulf of Maine near Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia | Canada | A large lit object was reported to have crashed into waters near Shag Harbour. A Canadian naval search followed, and officially referred to the object as a UFO. Some military persons involved claim the unknown object to be an alien spacecraft. There were other UFO sightings in the area at the time. | [83][84] | 2? |
1967-12-03 | Herbert Schirmer | Ashland, Nebraska | United States | Police Sergeant Herbert Schirmer claimed that he was abducted by short reptile-like humanoids. He was examined by R. Leo Sprinkleand the case is widely believed to be the result of sleep paralysis. | [85] | 4 |
1968-02-18 | Vashon Island incident | Vashon Island,Washington State | United States | Three men reported seeing a shiny saucer shaped craft, which froze a pond over which it had hovered. | [86][87][88][89] | 2 |
1968-08-07 | Buff Ledge Camp Abduction | north of Burlington atLake Champlain, Vermont | United States | Two teenage employees of a summer camp reported sighting UFOs over the lake and claimed to have experienced missing time. | | 4 |
1969-01-06 | Jimmy Carter UFO incident | Leary, Georgia | United States | Later U.S. president Jimmy Carter's sighting of a UAP, which he didn't believe to be of extraterrestrial origin and is, contrary to him, thought to be Venus. | [90] | 1 |
1970-01-01 | Cowichan District Hospital UFO | Duncan, British Columbia | Canada | Nurse Doreen Kendall claims she looked out a hospital window and saw a UFO containing occupants seated at a control panel. Another nurse called over by Kendall saw only a bright, featureless light. | [91] | 3 |
1972-06-27 | 1972 UFO sightings in the eastern Cape | Fort Beaufort | South Africa | A craft was observed near Fort Beaufort in the eastern Cape, which attracted the attention of the military. | [92][93][94][95] | |
1972-11-12 | 1972 UFO sightings in the eastern Cape | Rosmead | South Africa | A school headmaster seems to have arrived at a still smouldering UFO landing site in the town of Rosmead | [93][96][97][98] | |
1973-05 | The Judy Doraty Abduction | at a road from Alta Lomato Texas City, Texas | United States | While under hypnosis, Judy Doraty claimed to have been abducted by aliens and to have witnessed a cattle mutilation. | [99] | 4 |
1973-09-20 | Skylab 3 UFO Encounter | space station Skylab 3 in Earth orbit | outer space | Blurred photographs of an unknown object were taken by astronauts. | [100] | |
1973-10 | Jeff Greenhaw | Alabama | United States | Alabama policeman Jeff Greenhaw claims he encountered a creature dressed in a shiny metal costume while investigating a UFO report. | [101] | 3 |
1973-10-11 | Pascagoula Abduction | near Pascagoula at thePascagoula River,Mississippi | United States | Two men fishing on the river claimed to be abducted by strange-looking humanoids. | [102] | 4 |
1973-10-17 | Eglin Air Force Base Sighting | Florida | United States | An unidentified object was tracked by a Duke Field radar unit during the same time period, and within the same area, that 10 to 15 people observed four strange objects flying in formation betweenMilton, Florida, and Crestview, Florida, along Interstate 10, according to Eglin officials. Reports from the base indicated that a bright glowing ball of light could be seen travelling parallel with an Air Force C-130 aircraft but at a much higher altitude. | [103] | 2 |
1974-01-23 | Berwyn Mountain UFO incident | Llandrillo, Merionethshire,North Wales | United Kingdom | An alleged UFO crash involving lights in the sky moments before a large impact shock. The cause of the incident was however soon revealed as a 3.5 magnitude earthquake. | [104][105] | 0 |
1974-05-31 | 1974 Abduction Event | Beitbridge | South Africa | Travellers Peter and Frances MacNorman claimed an abduction event on 31 May, which would have started near Fort Victoria in the current southern Zimbabwe, and which would have continued to the vicinity of Beitbridge on the South African border. | [106] | 4 |
1975-10-30 | Wurtsmith AFB | Near Oscoda, Michigan | United States | USAF security personnel reported an unidentified craft flying within exceptionally-secure Strategic Air Command airspace over a B-52 base housing nuclear weapons and delivery systems. An incomingKC-135 tanker was later ordered to commence pursuit over Lake Huron. The object or objects, last seen back over the base's weapons storage area, were never identified. | [107][108] | 1 |
1975-11-05 | Travis Walton | near Turkey Springs inApache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona | United States | Logger Travis Walton reports being abducted by aliens for five days. Walton's six workmates claimed to have witnessed a bright hovering large silvery disk and fled the scene leaving him lying on the ground. He reappeared on 11-10 at late evening in Heber-Overgaard. Walton described the event and its aftermath in the book The Walton Experience, which was dramatized in the film Fire in the Sky (with the scenes aboard the extraterrestrials' vessel significantly changed). | [102] | 4 |
1976-01-06/07 | Stanford Abduction | between Stanford andHustonville on Route 78,Kentucky | United States | Three women claimed to be abducted after seeing a bright red object and a blue light while driving in a car on the highway. | [109] | 4 |
1976-06-22 | 1976 Canary Isles sightings | Canary Islands | Spain | Several lights and a spherical transparent blue craft, piloted by two beings was reported. | [110] | 3 |
1976-08-26 | Allagash Abductions | Eagle Lake on theAllagash waterway, Maine | United States | Four campers claimed to have been abducted by alien beings in the Allagash wilderness. | [111][112] | 4 |
1976-09-19 | 1976 Tehran UFO incident | north of and in Tehran,Mazandaran and Tehran Provinces | Imperial State of Iran | A very bright object similar to a star was seen from Shemiran; after each approach to the UFO the electronic equipment of two F-4interceptor aircraft of the Imperial Iranian Air Force was disabled, along with ground control equipment in Mehrabad International Airport, an event thoroughly documented in the U.S. DIA report. The Iranian generals involved in the incident claimed the object wasextraterrestrial. | [113] | 2 |
1977 | Colares UFO flap | Colares, Pará | Brazil | Claims of UFOs on a river island investigated by the air force in "Operação Prato" and civilian researchers, among them J. F. Vallée. | [114] | 2 |
1977 | Broad Haven | Dyfed, Wales | UK | In the 1970s, the area was the scene of alleged UFO sightings and nicknamed the Broad Haven Triangle | [115][116] | 2 |
1978-05-10 | Emilcin Abduction | Emilcin, Lublin Voivodeship | Poland | A farmer in Emilcin is said to have been abducted and medically examined by short, green-faced, humanoid entities speaking an unearthly language in a white, hovering, humming craft. There is now a memorial at the site. | [117] | 4 |
1978-10-21 | Valentich disappearance | Victoria | Australia | Contacting air traffic control, an Australian pilot reported seeing a UFO before both he and his aircraft vanished. | [118][119] | 2 |
1978-12-21 | Kaikoura lights | South Island | New Zealand | A series of sightings by a Safe Air freight plane; the airplane was escorted by strange lights that changed color and size. | [120] | 1 |
1979-01-03 | 1979 Mindalore Incident | Krugersdorp | South Africa | A mother and her 12-year old son of Mindalore, Krugersdorp, both claimed an encounter with a group of human-like entities standing beside a craft. One of them encouraged her to depart with them permanently. After she refused, they entered the craft which then shot upwards and disappeared in 30 seconds. | [121] | 5 |
1979-08-27 | Val Johnson incident | Marshall County, Minnesota | United States | A deputy sheriff spotted a bright light which appeared to have collided with his patrol car and damaged it. The deputy also suffered temporary retinal damage from the "light". | [122][123] | 2 |
1979-11-09 | Dechmont Woods Encounter | Dechmont Law nearLivingston, Scotland | United Kingdom | A forester, Bob Taylor, was pulled by two spiked globes towards a large spheroid object, which hovered on a clearing. He lost consciousness and afterwards had trouble walking and speaking. He was also constantly thirsty for several days. | [124] | 2 |
1979-11-11 | Manises UFO incident | Valencia, Province of Valencia | Spain | Three large UFOs forced a commercial flight to make an emergency landing at Manises Airport. | [125] | 2 |
1980-12-24 to 28 | Rendlesham-Woodbridge Incident | Rendlesham Forest,Suffolk | United Kingdom | A sighting by USAF personnel, which at first appeared to be a downed aircraft. | [126] | 2 |
1980-12-29 | Cash-Landrum incident | on state highway FM 1485 in New Caney,Texas | United States | A huge diamond-shaped object expelling flame and emitting heat irradiated three witnesses on an isolated road in dense woods, who all required treatment for radiation poisoning. The UFO was escorted by military helicopters including CH-47 Chinooks. The victims have since sued the US Government. | [127] | 2 |
1981-01-08 | Trans-en-Provence Case | Trans-en-Provence,Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | France | Retired contractor Renato Nicolai said he saw a flying object shaped like two inverted bowls that reportedly left circular traces on the grass. | [128] | 2 |
1981 | Hudson Valley Sightings | Hudson Valley | United States | A wave of reported UFO sightings in the Hudson Valley. | | 2, 3 & 4 |
1983-06-30 | Copely Woods Encounter | a suburb of Indianapolis,Indiana | United States | Hundreds of Basketball-Sized ball of lights were sighted around a neighborhood, leaving unusually obvious marks behind. Budd Hopkins wrote his book "Intruders" about the case. | [129][dead link][130][131] | 4 |
1985-12-27 | Whitley Strieber | New York | United States | Author Whitley Strieber claimed he was abducted by aliens while at his cabin in upstate New York. | [132] | 4 |
1986-05-19 | São Paulo UFO sighting | São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Brazilian Air Force allegedly detect and intercept UFOs in southeastern Brazil. | | 2 |
1986-11-17 | Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident | from eastern to south central Alaska | United States | First two square-shaped, then one very large craft witnessed by the crew flew alongside Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 for 50 minutes above Alaska. One of the objects trailing the Boeing 747 was detected by military radar. | [133] | 2 |
1987-11-11 | Gulf Breeze UFO incident | Florida | United States | Ed Walters, a building contractor claimed to see a UFO and take photos of it. | | 2 |
1990-03-30 | Belgian UFO wave | Ans, Wallonia | Belgium | Reports of large, silent, low-flying black triangles, allegedly investigated by Belgium's military. | [134] | 2 |
1990-08-24 | Greifswald Lights | Greifswald, Bezirk Rostock | East Germany,Central Europe | At 8,30 p.m. many people saw a group of 7 luminous spheres in the sky. The spheres took the form of a Y and were witnessed for about 30 minutes. Photographic evidence exists. | [135] | 2 |
1991-04-07 | Baviaanspoort Sighting | Pretoria | South Africa | A hovering triangular craft with red central light, and white star-like lights on each extremity, was observed by a family at Baviaanspoort,Pretoria. A similar craft was sighted in the nearby Eersterusttownship on the evenings of 8 and 9 April, either stationary or moving. | [136][137][138] | 1 |
1991-09-15 | STS-48 incident | Space Shuttle Discoverywhile in orbit | Outer space | Video taken during mission STS-48 shows a flash of light and several objects, apparently flying in an artificial or controlled fashion. NASA explained them as ice particles reacting to engine jets. | [139] | 0 |
1993-08-08 | Kelly Cahill Abduction | at a road in theDandenong Ranges nearBelgrave, Victoria | Australia | Housewife Kelly Cahill reported seeing a large craft and beings with glowing red eyes. | [140][141] | 5 |
1993-11-18 | Sasolburg Sighting | Sasolburg | South Africa | Residents of Sasolburg observed a craft arriving from the direction of Vereeniging. The craft departed in a flash in the direction ofParys, but returned some three minutes later. The craft, similar in appearance to a water droplet, was observed to change colour and shape. With time individual lights were distinguished, and the body was determined to be cigar-shaped. While contained in a yellowish to orange glow, it emitted a downward blue light, before once again departing in a flash, upwards. A nearby town resident claimed to have found imprints of a small craft's landing gear some two months later. | [142][143] | 1, 2 |
1994-06 | Meng Zhaoguo incident | Wuchang, Heilongjiang | China | Meng claimed to have been abducted and forced to have sexual intercourse with a 10 feet (3.0 m), six fingered, female alien with braided leg fur. | [144] | 5 |
1994-09 | Warrenton Sighting | Warrenton | South Africa | A farmer claimed to have made repeated observations of a noisy, nighttime craft travelling at great speeds, besides what he described as a 'mother ship'. The craft's noise was compared to the sound of a helicopter or Volkswagen Beetle engine. The farmer's general claims were supported by four independent observers. | [145] | 1 |
1994-09-16 | Ariel School UFO Sighting | Ruwa, East Mashonaland | Zimbabwe | 62 children saw a landed round aircraft and a small man next to it near their school. | [146][147] | 3 |
1995-03 | South Africa UFO Flap | South Africa | South Africa | A UFO flap swept South Africa from late March to mid April 1995, which was widely reported in the media. | [148][149][150] | 2 |
1995-05-25 | America West Airlines Flight 564 | Bovina, Texas | United States | A 300–400 foot long cigar-shaped UFO with rotating strobe light followed an America West Boeing 757 | [151] | 2 |
1996-07-28 | Erasmuskloof Sighting | Pretoria | South Africa | A glowing disc was sighted by Sergeant Becker near the Adriaan Vlok police station, Erasmuskloof, Pretoria. The pulsating light contained a red triangle and emitted bright green tentacles, while a radar operator at Johannesburg International confirmed its presence. A chase ensued involving some 200 policemen and a police helicopter. The helicopter chase was given up at 10,000 ft near Bronkhorstspruit, when the object made a vertical ascent. | [152][153][154] | 1 |
1996-10-05 | Westendorff UFO sighting | Pelotas | Brazil | Pilot observes a UFO emerge from a mother craft | | 1 |
1996-12-02 | STS-80 incidents | Space Shuttle Columbiawhile in orbit | Outer space | A video taken during mission STS-80 of the Space Shuttle Columbiawas analyzed by Mark J. Carlotto. It included three unusualphenomena: two slow-moving circular objects; a strange rapidly moving burst of light near the Earth's surface; and a number of object traces near the shuttle. The first two may be shuttle debris and an unusual atmospheric phenomenon. An analysis of the object traces near the shuttle suggested they were not shuttle debris or meteors, though James Oberg deemed them to be nearby sunlit debris. | [155][156] | 2 |
1997-03-13 | Phoenix Lights | Phoenix, Arizona | United States | Lights and craft of varying descriptions, most notably a V-shaped pattern, were seen by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles, from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. | [157][158] | 1 |
1997-07 | Trichardt Sighting | Trichardt | South Africa | A hovering, cylindrical light or shiny cloud, was filmed by Andreas Mathios in the sky above the town of Trichardt, in the current western Mpumalanga province. Besides Mathios, it was independently observed by three other persons around 6:50am. The light suddenly dropped and rose again before disappearing. | [159] | 0 |
1998-12-27 | Graaff Reniet Sighting | Graaff Reniet | South Africa | The Laubscher family videotaped a group of roundish triangular craft passing over the town of Graaff Reinet, at about 25,000 ft. These were changing colour and sometimes circled one another, before being overtaken by a much larger, shiny, gold-coloured craft. At this point all the objects departed to a cloud bank on the horizon. | [160][161] | 0 |
2000-05-08 | Warden Sighting | Warden | South Africa | Police inspector Kriel claimed to have observed an approaching UFO while travelling on the N3 freeway, 70 km north of Warden in the eastern Free State province. The orange, oval-shaped light was fitted with two cupolas, one above and another below, and was wide enough to cover four lanes of the freeway. After a close approach the craft receded again. A follow up report claimed that the vicinity is known for moving light apparitions. | [162] | 1 |