List of reported UFO sightings

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.

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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".[1]

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 19th 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."[2]

Antiquity
DateNameLocationDescription
 
c. 1440 BC Fiery disks AFAF, 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."[3][4][5]
218 BC Ships in the sky EUEU, 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").[6][7]
76 BC Spark from a falling star ASAS, 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.[8][7]
7 BC Flame-like wine-jars from the sky ASAS, 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 "the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies". Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar (pithos).[9][7]
AD 65 Sky army ASAS, Roman Empire; Judaea Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus reported chariots "hurtling through the clouds" prior to the First Jewish–Roman War.[7]
AD 196 Angel hair EUEU, 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.[7]
AD c. 740 Air ship of Clonmacnoise EUEU, 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".[10]

16th–17th centuries
DateNameLocationDescription
 
1561-4-14 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg EUEU, Holy Roman Empire; Nuremberg, Bavaria Residents of Nuremberg described an aerial battle, followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object, and then a crash outside of the city. A broadsheet recorded that witnesses observed hundreds of spheres, cylinders and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead.[11]
1566-8-7 1566 celestial phenomenon over Basel EUEU, Switzerland; Basel, Basel A broadsheet published in 1566 depicted numerous spherical objects appearing out of the sun.[11] The event was recorded and depicted by Samuel Coccius, "a student of the Holy Scripture and of the free arts, at Basel".[12]
1609-9-22 Gwanghaegun period UFO Turmoil ASAS, 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.[13]

19th century
DateNameLocationDescription
 
1803-2-22 or 1803-3-24 Utsuro-bune at Haratono-hama ASAS, Japan; Hitachi Province In 1803, local fishermen reportedly found a closed vessel with small windows adrift. They said when they investigated it that "a beautiful young woman" with red and white hair and dressed in strange clothes emerged, holding a square box "that no one was allowed to touch" and that she spoke to them in a language they had never heard before.[14]
1883-8-12 Bonilla observation NANA, Mexico; Zacatecas Observatory, Zacatecas On August 12, the astronomer José Bonilla counted over 400 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.[15][16]
1896-11-17 to 1897-4-23 Mystery airships NANA, 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 NANA, 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. Residents of Aurora embrace the story without taking it seriously.[18][19]

20th century

1909–1948
DateNameLocationDescription
 
1909 New Zealand airship sightings OCOC, 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 EUEU, Portugal; Fátima, Santarém District Thousands of people gathered in Fátima based on reported Marian apparitions and observed bizarre solar activity. Catholic bishop José Alves Correia da Silva declared the miracle "worthy of belief" on 13 October 1930, and the primarily Catholic witnesses viewed the event in religious terms. Later, Jacques Vallée, Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada interpreted it as a mass UFO sighting.[23][24][25]
1940 c. 1940 Foo fighters ICIC, 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 NANA, 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 EUEU, 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 EUEU, Sweden; Ängelholm, Kristianstads County Swedish entrepreneur, Gösta Carlsson, the founder and owner of Cernelle AB, attributes his success to a 1946 UFO encounter. Decades later, he erected a concrete monument in the clearing where he says the flying saucer landed.[30]
1947-6-21 Maury Island incident NANA, 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. Dahl claimed 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. On July 31, 1947, Palmer arranged a meeting between Crisman, Dahl, Air Force investigators, and flying saucer witnesses Kenneth Arnold & Emil Smith. [31][32]
1947-6-24 Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting NANA, 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][36][37]
1947 c. 1947 1947 flying disc craze NANA, United States; Washington and other states After the Kenneth Arnold sighting was reported in the news, over 800 similar sightings were reported throughout 1947.[38][39]
1947-7-4 Flight 105 UFO sighting NANA, 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 intending to alert the objects which he described as "smooth on the bottom and rough appearing on top".[40][41]
1947-7-8 The Roswell Incident NANA, United States; about 30 mi. north of Roswell, New Mexico Walter Haut, a United States Army Air Forces spokesperson, issued a press release announcing 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 Jesse Marcel, the Army Officer who recovered the wreckage, told UFO researchers that the weather balloon explanation was a cover story. In 1994, the Air Force attributed the incident to the previously classified Project Mogul.[42]
1948 c. 1948 The Green Fireballs NANA, 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 5 December 1948. The pilot, Captain Goede, described the object as larger than a meteor and not arching downward as a meteor would. The Air Force investigation was inconclusive.[43][44]
1948-1-7 Mantell UFO incident NANA, 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".[45]
1948-3-25 Aztec, New Mexico UFO hoax NANA, 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.[46][47][48]
1948-7-24 Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter NANA, 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."[49][50]
1948-10-1 Gorman dogfight NANA, 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.[51][52]

1950–1974
DateNameLocationDescription
 
1950-5-11 McMinnville UFO photographs NANA, 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.[53]
1950-8-15 Mariana UFO incident NANA, 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.[54][55]
1951-8-25 Lubbock Lights NANA, 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[56]
1952-7-12 to 1952-7-29 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident NANA, 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.[57][58]
1952-7-14 Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting NANA, 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.[59]
1952-9-12 The Flatwoods Monster NANA, 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".[60]
1954-10-27 Fiorentina Stadium Mass Sighting EUEU, 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.[61][62]
1955-8-21 to 1955-8-22 Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter NANA, 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.[63]
1956-7-24 Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident EUEU, United Kingdom; Suffolk, England United States Air Force (USAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF) radar operators (from Lakenheath RAF Station, Bentwaters RAF Station, and Sculthorpe RAF Station) detected up to 15 objects over Suffolk. An RAF pilot was sent out from Waterbeach RAF Station in a de Havilland Venom, a jet aircraft with Airborne Interception radar. The pilot reported spotting the object on radar and visually observing a luminous white object that moved behind his craft when he attempted to intercept.[64][65]
1956-8-13 Elizabeth Klarer AFAF, 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.[66]
1957-5-3 Gordon Cooper UFO Sightings NANA, 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.[67][68]

1957-5-20 Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter EUEU, 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.[69][70][71][72]
1957-10-15 Antônio Vilas-Boas Abduction SASA, 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.[73]
1957-11-2 Levelland UFO case NANA, 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.[74][75]
1957-11-4 Kirtland AFB UFO sighting NANA, 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.[64][65]
1961-9-19 Betty and Barney Hill abduction NANA, 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.[76]
1964-4-24 Lonnie Zamora incident NANA, 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.[77]
1964-9-18 until 9-24 Dwikora Operation UFO incident ASAS, Surabaya, Indonesia During the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, a strange black object that resembles like a mango fruit and described to have greenish blue lights was spotted in the dark sky. Several military personels tried to shot down the object but failed and resulted in additional casualties as the fragments of the artilery (from the military) ended up striking those who were outside of their home in Sidoarjo during the incident[78]
1965-6-4 Project Gemini UFO OSOS, 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."[79]
1965-9-3 The Incident at Exeter NANA, 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.[80]
1965-7-1 The Valensole UFO incident EUEU, France; Valensole, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur French farmer, Maurice Massé, witnessed 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.[81][82]
1965-12-9 Kecksburg UFO incident NANA, 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.[83][84][85]
1966-4-6 Westall UFO OCOC, 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.[86]
1967-8-29 Close encounter of Cussac EUEU, 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.[87]
1967-10-4 Shag Harbour UFO incident NANA, 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.[88][89]
1969-1-6 Jimmy Carter UFO incident NANA, United States; Leary, Georgia Jimmy Carter (US President 1977–1981) reported seeing an unidentified flying object while at Leary, Georgia in 1969.[90]
1969-4-12 Finnish Air Force sighting EUEU, 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.[91]
1969-9-1 Berkshire UFO sightings NANA, United States; Berkshire County, Massachusetts Four unrelated families alleged being abducted by a UFO and moved by a ray of light.[92]
1972-6-27 1972 UFO sightings in the eastern Cape AFAF, 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.[93][94]
1973-10-11 Pascagoula Abduction NANA, 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 witnessed 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".[95][96]
1974-1-23 Berwyn Mountain UFO incident EUEU, 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.[97][98]
1974-8-23 John Lennon UFO incident NANA, United States; New York City, New York Musician John Lennon and then-assistant May Pang report seeing a craft emitting lights that changed color in the night sky above their Manhattan penthouse. Lennon would later reference this experience in his song "Nobody Told Me".[99][100]

1975–2000
DateNameLocationDescription
 
1975-11-05 Travis Walton NANA, 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.[101] 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).[102]
1976-9-17 1976 Tehran UFO incident ASAS, 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.[103]
1977-9-20 Petrozavodsk phenomenon EUEU, Soviet Union, Finland, Lithuania, and Denmark Residents of Petrozavodsk reported a giant glowing "jellyfish" of light (visible for over ten minutes) looming in the early morning sky. The light was seen and photographed in several Baltic Sea countries. In response to the phenomenon, the Soviet Union created a government program to study anomalous atmospheric phenomena. This program would later attribute the Petrozavodsk sightings to the secret night launch of the Kosmos 955 spy satellite. According to Soviet astrophysicist, Yuli Platov, sunlight can cause the giant plumes of gas and dust produced by rockets to glow, especially "in twilight hours, when the rocket streaks through sunlit regions and the observer is on the nighttime side of the Earth."[104]
1978-5-10 Emilcin Abduction EUEU, 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.[105]
1978-10-21 Valentich disappearance OCOC, 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."[106] Neither the pilot nor the plane were ever found.[107]
1978-12-6 Zanfretta UFO Incident EUEU, 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.[108]
1979-11-11 Manises UFO incident EUEU, Spain; Valencia, Valencian Community En route to Las Palmas, commercial pilot Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada radioed air traffic control regarding a pair of red lights approaching his TAE Supercaravelle. Neither air traffic control in Barcelona nor the military identified the object. Tejada made an emergency landing at the nearby airport in Manises.[109]
1980-4-11 Arequipa UFO incident SASA, 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".[110][111][112][113]
1980-12-24 to 1980 -12-24 Rendlesham Forest incident EUEU, 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.[114]
1981-1-8 Trans-en-Provence case EUEU, 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.[115] Skeptics have been critical of the GEPAN investigation which took place 40 days after the initial sighting.[116][117]
1986-5-19 "Night of the UFOs" in Brazil SASA, 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.[118]
1986-11-17 Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident NANA, United States; Alaska While piloting a Japanese Boeing 747-200F cargo aircraft on a polar route from France to Narita International Airport in Japan, the flight crew witnessed several unidentified objects over eastern Alaska. Captain Kenju Terauchi (寺内謙寿, Terauchi Kenju), co-pilot Takanori Tamefuji (為藤隆憲, Tamefuji Takanori), and flight engineer Yoshio Tsukuda (佃善雄, Tsukuda Yoshio) reported rectangular arrays of what Captain Terauchi described as glowing nozzles or thrusters.[119][120]
1987-12-1 Ilkley Moor UFO incident EUEU, 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.[121][122]
1994-9-16 Ariel School UFO incident AFAF, 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.[123]
1996-01-20 Varginha UFO incident SASA, Brazil; Varginha, Minas Gerais In 1996, various individuals reported possibly unrelated incidents with what they described as UFOs, creatures, and the Brazilian military.[124] 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.[125][126]
1997-3-13 Phoenix Lights NANA, 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.[127]

21st century
DateNameLocationDescription
 
2000-10-5 Bonsall UFO sighting EUEU, United Kingdom; Bonsall, Derbyshire Resident, Sharon Rowlands, filmed a luminous object in the night sky starting around 9:15 PM and continuing for several minutes. Various other residents reported strange lights including a man who described a "pink glow, vertically shaped like a shoe box".[128][129][130]
2004 c. 2004 Tinley Park Lights NANA, United States; Illinois At 8 PM on Halloween night (2004), residents were outside trick-or-treating on the streets of Tinley Park and other Chicago suburbs, when thousands of people watched, photographed, and filmed a formation of red lights hanging in the October sky above them. Similar formations of lights drifted over the area the following autumn.[131][132][133]
2004-3-5 2004 Mexican UFO incident NANA, 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.[134][135][136]
2004-11-14 USS Nimitz UFO incident NANA, 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.[137][138][139]
2006-11-7 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting NANA, 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.[140]
2007-4-23 2007 Alderney UFO sighting EUEU, Bailiwick of Guernsey; Alderney Two airline pilots on separate flights reported a massive object at an altitude of around 3,500 feet off the coast of Alderney.[141]
2007-11-28 to 2011-12-13 Dudley Dorito EUEU, 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.[142][143]
2008-6-20 Wales UFO sightings EUEU, 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.[144]
2009-1-5 Morristown UFO hoax NANA, 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".[145]
2010-1-25 Harbour Mille incident NANA, Canada; Harbour Mille, Newfoundland and Labrador At least three UFOs that looked like missiles but emitted no noise were spotted over Harbour Mille.[146]
2014-6-2 to 2015-3-10 USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents NANA, 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.[147][148]
2021-2-21 Pilot's UFO sighting over New Mexico NANA, 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."[149]
2023-1-28 to 2023-2-13 List of high-altitude object events in 2023 ICIC, 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.[150][151][152]

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

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