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What happened Pan American World Airways pilots William Nash and William Fortenberry reported eight bright, red-orange disc-like objects passing beneath their DC-4 at high apparent speed. They said the objects flew in two formations, executed a synchronized re
Read record →What happened Residents and schoolchildren reported moving lights, whirring sounds and dark airship-like forms during a period of international anxiety about German technology. Descriptions expanded as newspapers covered the sightings. No aircraft capable of t
Read record →What happened Personnel aboard USS Princeton had reportedly tracked unusual returns during a carrier-group exercise. On 14 November, Navy aviators including David Fravor and Alex Dietrich were directed toward one contact and described a smooth white elongated
Read record →What happened A vast blue beam and white spiral appeared before dawn and was photographed across northern Norway. The pattern expanded and formed a dark centre before fading, prompting immediate UFO and portal speculation. Evidence Mass photographs and videos
Read record →What happened A broadsheet by Hans Glaser described many spheres, crosses, rods and other forms appearing near the rising Sun, seeming to fight before falling in smoke; a large dark spear-like form followed. The woodcut has become a staple of ancient-UFO liter
Read record →What happened United Airlines employees at O'Hare reported a dark disc or oval object hovering beneath a cloud ceiling above Concourse C. Some said it accelerated upward and left a sharply defined opening in the cloud. The Federal Aviation Administration initi
Read record →What happened Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker told Jackson County sheriff's officers that a glowing oval craft appeared while they were fishing and that three floating, clawed beings took them aboard. Hickson described an examination before both men were ret
Read record →What happened Observers across several countries saw a luminous object or ‘jellyfish’ spreading rays across the predawn sky. Photographs and reports prompted a Soviet programme for anomalous atmospheric phenomena. The display coincided with the secret launch o
Read record →What happened Thousands of people across Arizona reported lights on 13 March 1997. Earlier reports described a V-shaped formation moving south across the state; later video from the Phoenix area showed a row of stationary lights that appeared and disappeared n
Read record →What happened Residents, police and local officials reported multicoloured lights over the hills near Piedmont. Some witnesses described hovering, rapid movement and objects illuminating the ground. The area became a gathering place for observers, increasing b
Read record →What happened Pliny the Elder recorded a fiery, sparkling shield travelling from west to east at sunset. The short sentence is frequently presented as a Roman flying-saucer report because a round shield resembles later disc imagery. Pliny, however, catalogued
Read record →What happened Plutarch wrote that before a battle involving Lucullus and Mithridates, the sky opened and a huge flame-like body descended between the armies. He compared its shape to a pithos, a large wine jar, and said the armies separated. Modern writers som
Read record →What happened Police officers Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff reported a bright object rising from woods and followed it across county and state lines. Other officers joined or reported related lights. The pursuit ended near Conway, Pennsylvania, where the object w
Read record →What happened Railway worker Marius Dewilde said he saw a dark object on tracks near his home and two small figures approaching it. A brilliant light reportedly immobilised him before the object departed. Police documented marks and damaged sleepers, although
Read record →What happened A U.S. Air Force RB-47 electronic-intelligence aircraft crew reported a sequence of unusual radar, electronic and visual observations during a training mission across the southern United States. Operators detected signals near the frequency of gr
Read record →What happened California Highway Patrol officers Charles Carson and Stanley Scott reported a large luminous object manoeuvring above the landscape for roughly two hours. They described red lights, a white beam and apparent responses to their movement; other of
Read record →What happened U.S. Air Force security personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge reported lights in Rendlesham Forest during several nights. On the first night, Jim Penniston and John Burroughs described approaching a bright object or lights among the trees; Pennis
Read record →What happened Inventor William Rhodes photographed a dark, heel- or disc-shaped object after hearing a jet-like sound during unsettled weather. Army intelligence and the FBI examined prints and interviewed Rhodes. Project investigators later suggested paper or
Read record →What happened Forestry worker Robert Taylor reported encountering a large dome-like object and two spiked spheres that grabbed his trousers before he lost consciousness. He returned disoriented with torn clothing, and police treated the site as a possible assa
Read record →What happened Livy recorded reports that phantom ships had been seen gleaming in the sky during the political and religious anxiety surrounding the Second Punic War. The entry appears in a catalogue of prodigies that Roman authorities interpreted ritually. It
Read record →What happened Navy aviators assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier group reported repeated encounters with unusual radar tracks and visually observed objects during training off the U.S. East Coast. Pilots described compact objects, including a dark cu
Read record →What happened Ranch foreman W. W. “Mac” Brazel found lightweight debris on the Foster ranch after a storm. Roswell Army Air Field personnel recovered it, and on 8 July issued a press release saying the 509th Bomb Group had obtained a “flying disc”; the command
Read record →What happened Airport personnel and other residents reportedly watched a metallic oval or disc near Santa Maria, with some accounts including radar or photographic attempts. The case entered Portuguese and international UFO literature during the 1965 wave. Ev
Read record →What happened Residents around Shag Harbour reported a line or cluster of lights descending toward the sea. Some believed an aircraft had crashed, prompting an RCMP and Coast Guard response. Witnesses and rescuers reported a light or yellowish foam on the wate
Read record →What happened Two pilots and a military-officer passenger aboard a Mid-Continent Airlines DC-3 reported a large straight-winged aircraft-like object passing close, then manoeuvring more sharply than a B-29. They saw no markings or conventional engine detail. T
Read record →What happened Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora broke off a traffic pursuit after hearing a roar and seeing a flame descend beyond a ridge. At close range he reported a white oval or egg-shaped object on legs and two small figures nearby. As he approached,
Read record →What happened Police officers in several jurisdictions reported a large, silent object or triangular arrangement of lights moving across southwestern Illinois before dawn. Dispatch records allowed investigators to reconstruct a route, though descriptions of sh
Read record →What happened Residents around Stephenville and Dublin reported brilliant lights, some in formation and some associated with a very large silent object. Several witnesses said military jets pursued the lights. The U.S. Air Force first said no relevant training
Read record →What happened Spanish Air Force sentries José María Trejo and José Hidalgo reported a strange whistling sound and a tall luminous or dark figure near the perimeter. A guard dog reacted, shots were fired and the figure reportedly disappeared. Spanish military r
Read record →What happened Witnesses across Tananarive reported a green luminous ball followed by a large cigar-like form moving over the city. Electrical disturbances and frightened animals were later included in accounts. The episode became a prominent international mass
Read record →What happened After public calls about a bright object over Tehran, the Imperial Iranian Air Force launched two F-4 fighters. The first crew returned after reported instrument and communications problems; the second, piloted by Parviz Jafari, reported radar co
Read record →What happened Large numbers of residents photographed and filmed three red lights forming a triangle over Tinley Park and nearby suburbs, including on Halloween. The lights drifted and changed apparent geometry while remaining individually unresolved. Evidenc
Read record →What happened Farmer Renato Nicolaï reported hearing a whistling sound and seeing a small lead-colored object descend, remain briefly near his property and depart rapidly. A circular trace was found on the ground. French gendarmerie and GEPAN investigators col
Read record →What happened Logging crew members said a bright disc hovered near their truck and that Travis Walton approached it before a beam struck him. The crew fled; Walton was missing for five days, then returned saying he had awakened aboard a craft among non-human b
Read record →What happened U.S. Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse filmed a group of bright objects moving against a clear daytime sky while his family watched. The surviving sequence shows multiple unresolved points that change relative position, with one object separatin
Read record →What happened Photographer Almiro Baraúna took a sequence of images from the Brazilian Navy vessel Almirante Saldanha showing a Saturn-like object near Trindade Island. Several people reportedly saw it, and Navy personnel handled the film. Critics later argued
Read record →What happened Jose Padilla and Reme Baca later said that as boys they saw an avocado-shaped craft and small occupants near the Trinity atomic-test region and watched military personnel remove it. Their story emerged publicly decades later and changed in import
Read record →What happened Farmer George Pedley said he saw a grey-blue disc rise from a lagoon and depart, leaving a circular area of flattened reeds floating on the water. Similar nests were later reported. The event helped popularise the term ‘saucer nest’ before crop-c
Read record →What happened Captain Emil Smith, co-pilot Ralph Stephens and flight attendant Marty Morrow reported nine objects pacing or passing their DC-3. Smith flashed the landing lights because he initially thought they were aircraft. The crew described broad, flat obj
Read record →What happened Personnel aboard USS Omaha recorded a dark, roughly spherical image over the ocean during a period of Navy encounters with small objects. In the released segment, the image descends toward the horizon while voices say 'splash,' after which it is
Read record →What happened Night-vision imagery recorded from USS Russell showed blinking triangular or pyramid-like lights. The footage was widely described as showing triangular craft, but optical analysis indicates that out-of-focus point sources can take the triangular
Read record →What happened Deputy Val Johnson reported a bright light approaching his patrol car, after which he lost consciousness. The windshield was cracked, a headlight damaged, antennas bent and both his watch and the car clock reportedly lost time. Investigators docu
Read record →What happened Lavender farmer Maurice Masse reported finding a small vehicle in his field and two child-sized beings nearby. He said one being pointed a tube-like device at him, after which he was temporarily unable to move; the figures entered the object and
Read record →What happened Pilot Frederick Valentich radioed Melbourne flight service that a large object with bright lights was circling above his Cessna 182. He reported engine trouble and said it was ‘not an aircraft’ before communications ended with an unusual sound. N
Read record →What happened Three young women reported a crouching brown creature with large red eyes. Other stories described a crashed craft, additional creatures, military capture and the death of a police officer after contact. Brazilian military authorities said unusua
Read record →What happened Farmer Antônio Villas-Boas said a red star descended into an egg-shaped craft, whose occupants forced him aboard, examined him and arranged a sexual encounter with a humanoid woman. He sought medical attention for symptoms he associated with expo
Read record →What happened Children playing in a Voronezh park reported a red or pink luminous object descending and large humanoid figures emerging. Their accounts included a robot-like companion, a three-eyed being and an episode in which a boy appeared to vanish tempora
Read record →What happened A South Wales Police helicopter crew reported a brightly lit object approaching near St Athan and said they manoeuvred to avoid it before attempting to follow. Early press reports described a saucer-shaped craft, while official statements were mo
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