List of reported UFO sightings

I’m having fun writing a series of books that correlate my own experiences with the UFO and contactee episodes throughout the time I have been alive on the planet. Also, I’m including my research going back to the Anunnaki. Of course, I can’t include everything. But I touch on those things most relevant to me, as I am the observer, the point of view, the perspective at this time. Years from now probably long after I’m gone, someone may find these records in the Akashic Records, Halls of Amenti or on the planetary super computer that I call Minerva. You may think I was silly. But maybe I was prophetic. But know that I enjoyed my dance, my time on this little blue planet called Earth. I loved and was loved. That’s the best we can do.

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A black tri­angle UFO in a photo­graph previous­ly class­ified by the UK Ministry of Defence.^[1]

This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) arranged by date. It includes reports of close encounters and abductions. This list is not an endorsement of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, the psychosocial hypothesis, the interdimensional hypothesis, the field of ufology in general, or UFO religions.

The term UFO was coined by officer Edward J. Ruppelt who investigated aerial phenomena for the United States Air Force in his role as leader of Project Blue Book during the 1950s. Before Project Blue Book, UFOs were often referred to as “flying saucers” in reference to the widely publicized Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting. Ruppelt explained that “the term ‘flying saucer’ is misleading when applied to objects of every conceivable shape and performance”.^[2]

What would later be called UFOs were reported before the 1947 flying saucer craze. Allied pilots during World War II described them as foo fighters. In Sweden, early 20th-century UFOs were called Spökraketer or ghost rockets. Mystery airships reported in the late 20th century, are seen as predecessors to UFO sightings. Unexplained aerial phenomena have been recorded stretching back into antiquity. Prior to the Scientific Revolution, they were often interpreted through the lenses of gods, ghosts, demons, and omens. Rice University professor of religion Jeffrey J. Kripal says of UFO encounters, “These are not especially rare events, nor are they restricted to any culture, race, religion, or time period.”^[3]

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Antiquity

Date	Name	Location	Description
c. 1440 BC	Fiery disks	AF: Ancient Egypt; Lower Egypt	According to the disputed Tulli Papyrus, the scribes of the pharaoh Thutmose III reported that “fiery disks” were encountered floating over the skies. The Condon Committee disputed the legitimacy of the Tulli Papyrus stating, “Tulli was taken in and that the papyrus is a fake.”[4][5][6]
218 BC	Ships in the sky	EU: Roman Republic; Rome, Italia	Livy records a number of portents in the winter of this year, including navium speciem de caelo adfulsisse (“phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky”).[7][8]
76 BC	Spark from a falling star	AS: Roman Republic; Asia	According to Pliny the Elder, a spark fell from a star and grew as it descended until it appeared to be the size of the Moon. It then ascended back up to the heavens and was transformed into a light.[9][8]
7 BC	Flame-like wine-jars from the sky	AS: Roman Republic; Phrygia, Asia	According to Plutarch, a Roman army commanded by Lucullus was about to begin a battle with Mithridates VI of Pontus when “all on a sudden, the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies. In shape, it was most like a wine-jar, and in colour, like molten silver.” Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar (pithos). The apparently silvery object was reported by both armies.[10][8]
AD 65	Sky army	AS: Roman Empire; Judaea	Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus reported chariots “hurtling through the clouds” prior to the First Jewish–Roman War.[11]
AD 196	Angel hair	EU: Roman Empire; Rome, Italia	Historian Cassius Dio described “A fine rain resembling silver descended from a clear sky upon the Forum of Augustus.” He used some of the material to plate some of his bronze coins, but by the fourth day afterwards, the silvery coating was gone.[8]
AD c. 740	Air ship of Clonmacnoise	EU: Ireland; Teltown in County Meath, and Clonmacnoise in County Offaly	Several sets of Irish annals, those of Ulster, Tigernach, Clonmacnoise, and the Four Masters, all have entries to the effect that “ships with their crews were seen in the air“.[12]

16th–17th centuries

Date	Name	Location	Description
1561- 4-14	1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg	EU: Holy Roman Empire; Nuremberg, Bavaria	Residents of Nuremberg saw what they described as an aerial battle, followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object and then a large crash outside of the city. A broadsheet recorded that witnesses observed hundreds of spheres, cylinders and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead.[13]
1566- 8-7	1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel	EU: Switzerland; Basel, Basel	A broadsheet published in 1566 depicted numerous spherical objects appearing out of the sun. This event is depicted in a 16th-century woodcut by Samuel Coccius (Samuel Koch) and Samuel Apiarius.[13]
1609- 9-22	Gwanghaegun period UFO Turmoil	AS: Joseon (Korea); Gangwon Province	On September 22, 1609, multiple witnesses reported seeing UFOs in Goseong, Wonju Gangneung at 사시 (9am-11am), Chuncheon County at 오시 (11am-1pm) and Yangyang County at 미시 (1pm-3pm). They described a Halo or washbowl that was divided in two.[14]

19th century

Date	Name	Location	Description
1803- 2-22 or 1803- 3-24	Utsuro-bune at Haratono-hama	AS: Japan; Hitachi Province	In 1803, local fishermen reportedly found a closed vessel with small windows adrift. They said when they investigated it, “a beautiful young woman” they described as having red and white hair and dressed in strange clothes emerged. The fishermen said that she held a square box “that no one was allowed to touch” and she spoke to them in a language they had never heard before. [15]
1883- 8-12	José Bonilla Observation	NA: Mexico; Zacatecas Observatory, Zacatecas	On August 12, 1883, the astronomer José Bonilla counted more than 300 dark, unidentified objects crossing the sun while observing sunspot activity at Zacatecas Observatory in Mexico. He was able to take photographs, exposing wet plates at 1/100 second. He published an account of the event three years later in L’Astronomie, a French astronomy journal.[16]
1896- 11-17 to 1897- 4-23	Mystery airships	NA: United States	Newspapers across California, and later other states, printed reports of strange airships. Common elements of the descriptions included flapping wings, a cigar-shaped body, and a metal hull.[17]
1897- 4-17	Aurora, Texas, UFO incident	NA: United States; Aurora, Texas	Local correspondent S.E. Hayden reported the crash of an airship piloted by an alien. According to Hayden, the spaceman was buried in the local cemetery.[18][19]

20th century

1909–1948

Date	Name	Location	Description
1909	New Zealand airship sightings	OC: New Zealand; Otago	In August 1909, moving and whirring lights were reported in the sky around Otago. In the following months, many sightings were reported across New Zealand with varying descriptions of the craft and crew.[20][21][22]
1917- 8-13, 1917- 9-13, 1917- 10-13	Miracle of the Sun	EU: Portugal; Fátima, Santarém District	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.[23][24][25]
c. 1940	Foo fighters	IC: Over World War II theaters	During World War II, allied fighter pilots above Europe reported colorful balls of light following their aircraft at high speeds.[26]
1942- 2-24	Battle of Los Angeles	NA: United States; Los Angeles, California	Just months after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. radar stations picked up an unidentified aerial object in the early morning. For several hours, anti-aircraft artillery fired thousands of rounds into the searchlight-scoured sky. The LA Times reported that “the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano.”[27][28]
1946	The Ghost Rockets	EU: Scandinavia and other parts of Europe	Thousands of UFO sightings were reported over Europe. Due in part to concerns that foreign governments were testing recovered experimental German technology, the Swedish and Greek governments investigated the reports separately.[29]
1946- 5-18	Ängelholm UFO memorial	EU: Sweden; Ängelholm, Kristianstads County	Swedish entrepreneur, Gösta Carlsson, the founder and owner of Cernelle AB says that he found a flying saucer with alien passengers in a clearing. He returned to the site and measured gouges in the ground that he believed to correspond to landing gear and a tail fin, which he would use decades later for a model erected at the site.[30][31]
1947- 6-21	Maury Island incident	NA: United States; Puget Sound near Maury Island, Washington	Fred Crisman mailed an account from employee Harold A. Dahl along with a cigar box of metal wreckage to Raymond A. Palmer, who had previously published the Shaver Mystery stories. Palmer arranged a meeting on July 31, 1947 between Crisman, Dahl, Air Force investigators, and flying saucer witnesses Kenneth Arnold and Emil Smith. Dahl said that his dog was killed and his son was injured by debris in an encounter with six flying doughnut-shaped objects. He also reported that he was subsequently threatened by Men in Black.[32]
1947- 6-24	Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting	NA: United States; North of Mount Rainier, Washington	Private pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mount Rainier when he reported seeing a group of thin, reflective craft moving at high speeds and flashing in the sun like mirrors. Bill Bequette of the East Oregonian, who first interviewed Arnold, summarized the sighting as, “nine saucer-like aircraft flying in formation.” This introduced the term flying saucers, and Arnold’s sighting sparked an explosion of UFO reports around the country.[33][34] [35]
c. 1947	1947 flying disc craze	NA: United States; Washington and other states	After the Kenneth Arnold sighting was reported in the news, over 800 similar sightings were reported throughout 1947. [36][37]
1947- 7-4	Flight 105 UFO sighting	NA: United States; En route from Boise, Idaho to Pendleton, Oregon	A United Airlines crew including Captain Emil Smith, co-pilot Ralph Stephens, and stewardess Marty Morrow witnessed nine unidentified objects. Believing them to be aircraft, Smith flashed the plane’s landing lights to alert the objects which he described as “smooth on the bottom and rough appearing on top”.[38][39]
1947- 7-8	The Roswell Incident	NA: United States; about 30 mi. north of Roswell, New Mexico	United States Army Air Forces announced the “capture” of a “flying saucer“. Hours later, the Army announced that the find was a crashed weather balloon. In 1978, the case regained attention after Army Officer Jesse Marcel told UFO researchers that the weather balloon explanation was a cover story.[40]
c. 1948	The Green Fireballs	NA: United States; New Mexico and other parts of the Southwestern United States	The US Air Force investigated reports of green flares streaking across the sky after an Air Force C-47 transport encountered a green ball of fire on December 5, 1948. The pilot, Captain Goede, described the object as larger than a meteor and not arching downward. The Air Force investigation was inconclusive.[41][42]
1948- 1-7	Mantell UFO incident	NA: United States; Kentucky	The flight tower at Godman Army Airfield instructed Captain Thomas Mantell to pursue a UFO sighted over Fort Knox, Kentucky. His aircraft crashed while in pursuit and Mantell died in Franklin, Kentucky. According to the historical marker placed on Interstate 65 near the site it “is still uncertain what Mantell was pursuing”.[43]
1948- 3-25	Aztec, New Mexico UFO hoax	NA: United States; New Mexico	Conmen Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer sold “magnetic oil-detecting machines” based on the story that they had replicated technology from a crashed spaceship. The pair were convicted of fraud in 1953. Elements of their story regarding a crashed ship with occupants were later entangled in the Roswell narrative.[44][45][46]
1948- 7-24	Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter	NA: United States; Montgomery, Alabama	Clarence Chiles and John Whitted, American commercial pilots, reported that their airplane had nearly collided with a UFO near Montgomery. According to the pilots the object “looked like a wingless aircraft…it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare.”[47][48]
1948- 10-1	Gorman dogfight	NA: United States; North Dakota	A US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes over Fargo, North Dakota. According to US Air Force officer Edward J. Ruppelt, this was one of three cases, along with the Mantell incident and Chiles-Whitted encounter, that shifted the Air Force’s attitude about UFO reports leading to the creation of Project Blue Book.[49][50]

1950–1974

Date	Name	Location	Description
1950- 5-11	McMinnville UFO photographs	NA: United States; a farm near McMinnville, Oregon	A farmer took pictures of a purported “flying saucer”. These were the first flying saucer photographs since the coining of the term.[51]
1950- 8-15	Mariana UFO incident	NA: United States; Great Falls, Montana	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.[52][53]
1951- 8-25	Lubbock Lights	NA: United States; Lubbock, Texas	Several Lights in V-Shaped formations were repeatedly spotted flying over the city. Witnesses included W. I. Robinson, A. G. Oberg, and W. L. Ducker, professors of geology, chemical engineering, and petroleum engineering respectively. Teenage student Carl Hart Jr. photographed the lights[54]
1952- 7-12 to 1952- 7-29	1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident	NA: United States; Washington, D.C.	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.[55][56]
1952- 7-14	Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting	NA: United States; Norfolk, Virginia	W. Nash and W. Fortenberry, pilots of a DC-4 airliner of Pan American Airways, sighted eight large, round, glowing red objects.[57]
1952- 9-12	The Flatwoods Monster	NA: United States; Flatwoods, West Virginia	Three local boys followed a bright object into the forest to what they believed was a UFO landing. They went to the nearby home of Kathleen May who accompanied them back to the spot along with 2 other children and teenage National Guardsman Eugene Lemon. In the forest, they smelled a foul odor and saw what May described as a tall figure with claws and “a head that resembled the ace of spades”.[58]
1954- 10-27	Fiorentina Stadium Mass Sighting	EU: Italy; Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence	A football game between Fiorentina and Pistoiese was under way at the Stadio Artemio Franchi when a group of UFOs traveling at high speed abruptly stopped over the stadium. The stadium became silent as the crowd of around 10,000 spectators witnessed the event and described the UFOs as cigar shaped.[59][60]
1955- 8-21 to 1955- 8-22	Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter	NA: United States; A farmhouse near Hopkinsville, Kentucky	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.[61]
1956- 7-24	Elizabeth Klarer	AF: South Africa; Drakensberg	A series of photos depicting a supposed UFO, were taken on 24 July near Rosetta in the Drakensberg region. The photographer, meteorologist Elizabeth Klarer, claimed detailed adventures with an alien race including having had an alien lover, Akon, who would have fathered her son Ayling.[62]
1957- 5-3	Gordon Cooper UFO Sightings	NA: United States; Edwards Air Force Base, California	Gordon Cooper, one of the original Project Mercury astronauts, witnessed a type of metallic craft without wings flying over Germany in the 1950s. At the time, Cooper believed these to be Soviet aircraft. His attitude later changed after an incident at Edwards Air Force Base. Cooper sent a crew of James Bittick and Jack Gettys out to a dry lake bed to set up data-recording photography equipment. Cooper said the two men, both familiar with experimental aircraft, came back shaken and talking about witnessing a wingless aircraft with retractable legs silently land and take off near them. Cooper reported the incident to The Pentagon which asked for all photographs of the craft. Cooper looked at the photos before sending them off and felt that the government covered up a UFO encounter.[63][64]
1957- 5-20	Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter	EU: United Kingdom; East Anglia	U.S. 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 tracked what was believed to be an unidentified aircraft for some time before Torres’ plane was scrambled to intercept.[65]
1957- 10-15	Antônio Vilas-Boas Abduction	SA: Brazil; Near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais	Law student, Antônio Vilas-Boas, described being abducted by humanoid aliens and taken aboard their egg-shaped craft. He also said that he was confined within a small round room where he was compelled to have sex with a four foot tall alien woman.[66]
1957- 11-2	Levelland UFO case	NA: United States; Levelland, Texas	Numerous drivers observed glowing objects hovering over the highway. They described them as approximately 200 feet long and shaped like eggs or cigars. The appearance of these lights was immediately followed by electrical failures including ignition failures in their cars.[67][68]
1957- 11-4	Kirtland AFB UFO sighting	NA: United States; Albuquerque, New Mexico	Two Civil Aeronautics Administration tower operators observed an egg-shaped object emitting a white light beneath it come down to the Kirtland AFB runway as if landing. At seven times magnification through binoculars, they could see neither wings, tail, nor fuselage. They watched the object come to a stop several feet above the ground, hover, and then rapidly ascend. The operators then called CAA Radar Approach Control who tracked the object on radar.[69] [70]
1961- 9-19	Betty and Barney Hill abduction	NA: United States; South of Lancaster on Route 3, New Hampshire	The Hills reported the first alien abduction experience to be widely spread in English-language publications. While driving home, they observed a light move through the sky and land ahead of them. Barney Hill said that, against his will, he turned the car down a side road towards the light, where he found six small humanoid beings waiting for them. Betty Hill reported that they inserted a needle through her navel among other vaguely medical tests.[71]
1964- 4-24	Lonnie Zamora incident	NA: United States; Socorro, New Mexico	Police officer Lonnie Zamora investigated a roaring sound. Zamora and a nearby tourist found a craft that took off shortly after their arrival. The craft left impressions in the ground that did not aid in identification.[72]
1965- 6-4	Project Gemini UFO	OS: Low Earth orbit; Above Hawaii	During Gemini 4, astronaut James McDivitt spotted a white cylinder with a protruding arm traveling in his orbit. McDivitt has said that it was impossible for him to assign scale to the object against the black background of space, saying that it could have been small enough to hold in his hands or “the size of the Empire State Building.”[73]
1965- 9-3	The Incident at Exeter	NA: United States; Exeter, New Hampshire	Numerous people reported pulsating UFOs in Exeter, New Hampshire. The events were the subject of The Incident at Exeter by John G. Fuller.[74]
1965- 7-1	The Valensole UFO incident	EU: France; Valensole, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur	French farmer, Maurice Massé, saw a spherical vehicle in his lavender field. He noticed and approached two individuals that he observed near the vehicle, but after one pointed a tube in his direction, he stood still feeling paralyzed. He described the beings as child-sized, pale, large-headed, with only holes where a mouth should be. Massé said that after they left in their vehicle, he was never again able to grow a healthy plant in the area where the craft had landed. He did not personally comment on the effect this had on him, saying, “One always says too much.” His wife reported that the man was plagued with exhaustion for months, that he had confessed some type of communication to her, and that it was a “spiritual experience” for her husband.[75][76]
1965- 12-9	Kecksburg UFO incident	NA: United States; Kecksburg, Pennsylvania	Local newspapers and newscasts reported a fireball observed in the skies over Kecksburg. According to some residents, they found an acorn-shaped object in the woods. The U.S. military closed off the area to investigate and reported no evidence of a crash. A model built for Unsolved Mysteries is kept on display by the fire department, which leads an annual UFO celebration.[77][78][79]
1966- 4-6	Westall UFO	OC: Australia; Clayton South, Victoria	Several hundred students and school faculty watched an object land at the Grange Reserve for horses, lift off, and vanish. Witnesses of “The Clayton Incident” still gather for reunions.[80]
1967- 8-29	Close encounter of Cussac	EU: France; near Cussac, Auvergne	A 13-year-old boy and his younger sister reported an incident to their father, local police, and investigators. According to police reports, they witnessed a brilliant sphere and four small black occupants while herding cattle outside their village.[81]
1967- 10-4	Shag Harbour UFO incident	NA: Canada; Gulf of Maine near Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia	A large illuminated 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. There were other UFO sightings in the area at the time.[82][83]
1969- 1-6	Jimmy Carter UFO incident	NA: United States; Leary, Georgia	Jimmy Carter (US President 1977–1981) reported seeing an unidentified flying object while at Leary, Georgia in 1969.[84]
1969- 4-12	Finnish Air Force sighting	EU: Finland; Pori	Seven disc-shaped objects hovering in formation around 1500–3000 meters were spotted by the air traffic controller and two pilots. When fighter pilot Tarmo Tukeva investigated, they accelerated away.[85]
1969- 9-1	Berkshire UFO sightings	NA: United States; Berkshire County, Massachusetts	Four unrelated families alleged being abducted by a UFO and moved by a ray of light.[86]
1972- 6-27	1972 UFO sightings in the eastern Cape	AF: South Africa; Fort Beaufort	A farmer near Fort Beaufort in the eastern Cape fired shots at what he said was an unknown light in the sky. The incident received coverage by international press, and led to businesses capitalizing on the incident, with a tavern calling itself the “UFO Bar” and painting flying saucers on the walls.[87][88]
1973- 10-11	Pascagoula Abduction	NA: United States; Pascagoula, Mississippi	Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing from a pier on the Pascagoula River when they say that they heard whirring sounds and saw a craft over 30 feet long with flashing lights. Both men say they were paralyzed and then taken by humanoids with “robotic slit-mouths” and “crab-like pincers”.[89]
1974- 1-23	Berwyn Mountain UFO incident	EU: United Kingdom; Llandrillo, Merionethshire, North Wales	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.[90][91]

1975–2000

Date	Name	Location	Description
1975-11-05	Travis Walton	NA: United States; Near Turkey Springs in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona	Logger Travis Walton disappeared for over 5 days resulting in a police investigation of his coworkers. When questioned on where he had been, Walton said that he had been taken aboard a spacecraft by nearly human creatures.[92] Walton’s alien abduction account is the basis for the book The Walton Experience (1978), the film Fire in the Sky (1993), and the documentary “Alien Abduction: Travis Walton” (2022).[93]
1976- 9-17	1976 Tehran UFO incident	AS: Iran; Tehran, Tehran province	The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident was a radar and visual sighting of a UFO over the capital of Iran, during early morning hours. Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors reported losing instrumentation and communications as they approached the object.[94]
1978- 5-10	Emilcin Abduction	EU: Poland; Emilcin, Lublin Voivodeship	Polish farmer Jan Wolski reported that while returning home, two “short, green-faced humanoid entities” wearing black overalls jumped onto his horse-drawn cart and started speaking an incomprehensible language. After about 1000 ft (300 m), he reported seeing a white flying object, from which an alien creature came out and invited Wolski inside. The farmer said that they examined him once inside. [95]
1978- 10-21	Valentich disappearance	OC: Australia; Victoria	Frederick Valentich left Moorabbin Airport in a Cessna 182 Skylane, a single-engined light aircraft. At 7:06 PM, he began reporting a strange craft to Melbourne air traffic control. Valentich’s last words were, “That strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again … it is hovering and it’s not an aircraft.”[96] Neither the pilot nor the plane were ever found.[97]
1978- 12-6	Zanfretta UFO Incident	EU: Italy; Torriglia, Genoa	Italian nightwatchman Pier Fortunato Zanfretta perceived a red, oval object and phoned his supervisor. During the call, he described non-human creatures that he said were attacking him. He was later found in a state of shock and his experience was adapted into a stage play.[98]
1980- 4-11	Arequipa UFO incident	SA: Peru; Arequipa Region	Early in the morning of April 11, La Joya Air Force Base ordered fighter pilot Oscar Santa María Huertas to intercept an object in restricted air space. Huertas pursued the object in a Sukhoi Su-22 and fired a barrage of 30mm shells into it. According to Huertas the object did not seem damaged and rose to 19,200 meters. He described it as similar in shape to an incandescent lightbulb with a much wider circular silver base and said that it “lacked all the typical components of aircraft. It had no wings, propulsion jets, exhausts, windows, antennae, and so forth”.[99][100][101][102]
1980-12-24 to 1980 -12-24	Rendlesham Forest incident	EU: United Kingdom; Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England	United States Air Force personnel reported various unusual observations at RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, two American air bases located in England. Their reports included lights in the sky, a metallic triangular object in the forest, multi-colored lights moving through the forest, and higher levels of radiation.[103]
1981- 1-8	Trans-en-Provence case	EU: France: Trans-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur	Retired contractor, Renato Nicolai reported the landing of a flying object near his home to local police. Renato believed it to be a military craft. Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEPAN), a branch of French Space Agency created to investigate UFOs, conducted an investigation, photographed circular impressions on the ground, and took samples of the area.[104] Skeptics have been critical of the GEPAN investigation which took place 40 days after the initial sighting.[105][106]
1986- 5-19	“Night of the UFOs” in Brazil	SA: Brazil; São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Goiás	Radar and visual contacts were obtained with multiple ‘bright colorful objects’ in the sky across several states. Mirage 2000 and F-5 fighters were scrambled but failed to intercept, with pilots describing the objects as capable of impossible maneuvers and rapidly accelerating to as much as Mach 15 once approached.[107]
1987- 12-1	Ilkley Moor UFO incident	EU: United Kingdom; Ilkley Moor	Retired police officer, Philip Spencer, took a photograph of what he said was a strange being on the moor. According to Spencer, the being fled after being photographed and left in a domed craft.[108][109]
1994- 9-16	Ariel School UFO incident	AF: Zimbabwe; Ruwa	Over sixty students reported seeing a silver craft land in a field near the school. They described occupants dressed in all black that exited the silver object.[110]
1996-01-20	Varginha UFO incident	SA: Brazil; Varginha, Minas Gerais	In 1996, various individuals reported possibly unrelated incidents with what they described as UFOs, creatures, and the Brazilian military.[111] The events are the inspiration for saucer-shaped Varginha water tower, the Nave Espacial de Varginha; the 1998 Brazilian video game Incidente em Varginha; and 1996, a film by director Rodrigo Brandão.[112][113]
1997- 3-13	Phoenix Lights	NA: United States; Phoenix, Arizona	Hundreds of people witnessed a series of lights in a “V” pattern moving through Arizona. The incident is unusual for the large number of photographs.[114]

21st century[edit]

Date	Name	Location	Description
2004-3-5	2004 Mexican UFO incident	NA: Mexico; Campeche	Mexican Air Force pilots filmed (initially unidentified) lights in the sky using infrared cameras while searching for drug-smuggling planes. Multiple subsequent investigations identified these as massive burn-off flares from a cluster of off-shore oil platforms in the Bay of Campeche.[115][116][117]
2004-11-14	USS Nimitz UFO incident	NA: United States; Off the coast of San Diego, California	Several pilots from VFA-41 squadron flying Super Hornets from the USS Nimitz, were directed by the USS Princeton to intercept one of several unidentified flying objects detected by radar. The pilots reported a visual encounter and recorded an infrared video. The Navy has verified that the video was taken by Navy personnel and has stated that it has not yet identified the nature of the sightings which they classify as unexplained aerial phenomena.[118][119][120]
2006-11-7	2006 O’Hare International Airport UFO sighting	NA: United States; Chicago, Illinois	United Airlines employees and pilots reported sightings of a saucer-shaped, unlit craft hovering over a Chicago O’Hare Airport terminal, before appearing to leave with a rapid vertical rise.[121]
2007-4-23	2007 Alderney UFO sighting	EU: Bailiwick of Guernsey; Alderney	Two airline pilots on separate flights spot UFOs off the coast of Alderney.[122]
2007-11-28 to 2011-12-13	Dudley Dorito	EU: United Kingdom; West Midlands conurbation	The Dudley Dorito were multiple sightings of a black triangle over the West Midlands conurbation of the United Kingdom which began in November 2007. The phrase was coined by the local press after hearing witness descriptions of the object.[123][124]
2008-6-20	Wales UFO sightings	EU: United Kingdom; Various cities, Wales	According to media reports, a police helicopter was almost hit by a UFO, before it tried to pursue it. Hundreds of people reported to have witnessed a UFO on the same or preceding days, from different areas of Wales.[125]
2009-1-5	Morristown UFO hoax	NA: United States; Morristown, New Jersey	In the evening, citizens in Morristown and other town in Morris County, New Jersey saw five red lights in the sky. After three months, two men from the Morristown area announced that they had organized a UFO hoax, meant as a “social experiment”.[126]
2010-1-25	Harbour Mille incident	NA: Canada; Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador	At least three UFOs that looked like missiles but emitted no noise were spotted over Harbour Mille.[127]
2014-6-2 to 2015-3-10	USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents	NA: United States; East Coast of the United States	Multiple UFO radar-visual encounters by United States Navy pilots over a period of nine months. Videos of two of the encounters were released. The Navy has verified that the videos were taken by Navy personnel and has stated that it has not yet identified the nature of the sightings which they classify as unexplained aerial phenomena.[128][129]
2021-2-21	Pilot’s UFO sighting over New Mexico	NA: United States; Clayton, New Mexico	The pilot, at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,278 m) reported seeing a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a “cruise missile type of thing” moving really fast right over the top of them according to published audio. American Airlines confirmed that the radio transmission came from flight 2292. FAA a few days later stated: “A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. FAA air traffic controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes.”[130]
2023-1-28 to 2023-2-13	List of high-altitude object events in 2023	IC: United States, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela	Multiple airborne objects, sometimes reported in mainstream media as UFOs, were observed and sometimes shot down by military aircraft. Many of the objects were reported as meteorology or espionage balloons.[131][132][133]

By location

The lists below contain UFO reports mentioned above along with less notable UFO reports from the specific areas.

• Argentina
• Australia
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Canada
• Canary Islands
• China
• France
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Italy
• Mexico
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Outer space
• Russia
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom
• United States

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to UFO sightings.

• Table of reports during the 1947 flying disc craze – A sortable table of the hundreds of 1947 flying disc sightings.
• List of alleged extraterrestrial beings – A list of entities reported in conjuction with UFOs and believed by witnesses to be alien in origin, unrelated to astrobiology or xenobiology.
• List of UFO religions
• List of investigations of UFOs by governments
• List of UFO organizations – Private organizations that investigate UFO sightings.
• Extraterrestrial hypothesis – The proposal that UFO sightings are observations of physical craft piloted by biological aliens from another planet.
• Interdimensional hypothesis – The proposal that UFO sightings are the result of experiences with another dimension.
• Psychosocial hypothesis – The proposal that UFO sightings can be explained by social and psychological processes.

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Claimed sightings	GeneralList of reported UFO sightingsSightings in outer spacePre-20th centuryTulli Papyrus (possibly 15th century B.C.)Ezekiel’s Wheel (circa 622–570 B.C.)Air ship of Clonmacnoise (740s)1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg1566 celestial phenomenon over BaselJosé Bonilla observation (1883)Airship wave (1896-7)Aurora (1897)20th centuryLos Angeles (1942)Kenneth Arnold (1947)1947 crazeFlight 105 (1947)Roswell (1947)Rhodes (1947)Mantell (1948)Chiles-Whitted (1948)Gorman Dogfight (1948)Mariana (1950)McMinnville photographs (1950)Sperry (1950)Lubbock Lights (1951)Nash-Fortenberry (1952)Washington, D.C. (1952)Flatwoods monster (1952)Kelly–Hopkinsville (1955)Lakenheath-Bentwaters (1956)Antônio Villas Boas (1957)Levelland (1957)Barney and Betty Hill abduction (1961)Lonnie Zamora incident (1964)Solway Firth Spaceman (1964)Exeter (1965)Kecksburg (1965)Westall (1966)Falcon Lake (1967)Shag Harbour (1967)Jimmy Carter (1969)Finnish Air Force (1969)Pascagoula Abduction (1973)Travis Walton incident (1975)Tehran (1976)Petrozavodsk phenomenon (1977)Operação Prato (1977)Zanfretta incident (1978)Valentich disappearance (1978)Kaikoura Lights (1978)Robert Taylor incident (1979)Val Johnson incident (1979)Cash–Landrum incident (1980)Rendlesham Forest (1980)Trans-en-Provence (1981)Japan Air Lines (1986)Ilkley Moor (1987)Voronezh incident (1989)Belgian UFO wave (1990)Ariel School (1994)Varginha (1996)Phoenix Lights (1997)21st centuryUSS Nimitz UFO incident (2004)Campeche, Mexico (2004)O’Hare Airport (2006)Alderney (2007)Norway (2009)USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents (2014)Jetpack man (2020–21)High-altitude object events (2023)Confirmed hoaxesMaury Island hoax (1947)Twin Falls, Idaho hoax (1947)Aztec, New Mexico hoax (1949)Southern England (1967)Majestic 12 (1985)Gulf Breeze (1987–88)Alien autopsy (1995)Morristown (2009)
Sightings by country	ArgentinaAustraliaBelarusBelgiumBrazilCanadaChinaFranceIndiaIndonesiaIranItalyMexicoNew ZealandNorwayPolandRussiaSouth AfricaSpain (Canary Islands)SwedenThailandUnited KingdomUnited States
Types of UFOs	Black triangleFlying saucerFoo fighterGhost rocketsGreen fireballsMystery airshipSpace jellyfish
Types of alleged extraterrestrial beings	Energy beingsGrey aliensInsectoidsLittle green menNordic aliensReptilian humanoids
Studies	The Flying Saucers Are Real (1947–1950)Project Sign (1948)Project Grudge (1949)Flying Saucer Working Party (1950)Project Magnet (1950–1962)Project Blue Book (1952–1970)Robertson Panel (1953)Ruppelt report (1956)National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (1956-1980)Condon Report (1966–1968)Institute 22 (1978–?)Project Condign (1997–2000)Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (2007–2012)Identification studies of UFOsUnidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (current)
Hypotheses	Ancient astronautsCryptoterrestrialExtraterrestrialInterdimensionalPsychosocialNazi UFOsTrotskyist-Posadism
Conspiracy theories	Area 51 Storm Area 51Bob LazarDulce BaseMen in blackProject Serpo
Involvement	Abduction claimsHistoryEntitiesClaimantsNarrativePerspectivesInsuranceOtherImplantsCattle mutilationClose encounterContacteeCrop circlesGovernment responses GEIPANOrganizationsUfologists
Culture	ConventionsFictionReligions list
Skepticism	List of scientific skepticsCommittee for Skeptical Inquiry
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Terminology	Cargo cult scienceCharlatanCrankFringe theory Fringe sciencePseudoarchaeologyPseudohistoryJunk scienceParanormalPathological scienceQuackerySnake oilSuperseded scientific theoryTrue-believer syndromeVoodoo Science
Topics characterized as pseudoscience	MedicineAcupunctureAromatherapyAdrenal fatigueAlternative medicineAnthroposophic medicineApplied kinesiologyAyurvedaBates methodBiorhythmsBloodlettingBody memoryChiropracticChromotherapyCorreactologyCryonicsCrystal healingCuppingDetoxification Colon cleansingDoctrine of signaturesDoktor Koster’s AntigaspillsEar candlingElectromagnetic hypersensitivityEnergy medicineGerm theory denialismHIV/AIDS denialismHomeopathyHumorismIridologyLeaky gut syndromeLunar effectMagnet therapyMiracle Mineral SupplementNaturopathyPalmistryPanchagavyaPatent medicinePhrenologyPrimal therapyRadionicsReikiTraditional medicine Traditional Chinese medicineTrepanningVertebral subluxationWind turbine syndromeSocial science2012 phenomenonAncient astronautsCatastrophismConspiracy theory 5G conspiracy9/11 conspiracy theoriesChemtrail conspiracy theoryClimate change denialCOVID-19 misinformationMoon landing conspiracy theoriesConversion therapyGenerational theory GenerationismStrauss–Howe generational theoryHollow Earth theoryIndigo childrenJaphetic theoryMediumshipNazi archaeologyNibiru cataclysmParapsychologyPseudoarchaeologyPseudohistory Genocide denialHistorical negationismHolocaust denialPseudolawRecovered-memory therapy Past life regressionScientific racism Aryan raceMelanin theoryOtherAlchemyAquatic ape hypothesisAstrologyBiodynamic agricultureCreation scienceCryptozoologyDianetics AuditingDowsingElectronic voice phenomenonEugenicsFacilitated communicationFeng shuiFlat Earth theoryGraphologyIntelligent designLaundry ballLevitationLysenkoismNumerologyOrgonePerpetual motionPolygraphPseudoscientific metrologyQuantum mysticismRapid prompting methodStatement analysisUfologyVoice stress analysisWater memory
Promoters of pseudoscience	Sucharit BhakdiIgor and Grichka BogdanoffRhonda ByrneDeepak ChopraIgnatius L. DonnellyGaia, Inc.Max GersonNicholas GonzalezGoop (company)Graham HancockWilliam Donald KelleyMike LindellJenny McCarthyJoseph MercolaMinistry of AyushTheodor MorellHans Alfred NieperMehmet OzRandolph StoneAndrew Wakefield
Related topics	Bogdanov affairBourgeois pseudoscienceDemarcation problemScientific methodSuppressed research in the Soviet Union
Resources	Committee for Skeptical InquiryCults of UnreasonFads and Fallacies in the Name of ScienceFortean TimesJREFQuackwatchSkeptical InquirerThe Natural History of QuackeryThe Psychology of the OccultThe Ragged Edge of ScienceThe Skeptic Encyclopedia of PseudoscienceThe Skeptic’s Dictionary

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