List of major UFO sightings

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This is a list of UFO sighting flaps and well-known individual sightings. Included are also cases of alleged alien sightings and abductions.

Some cases are popularly known, and have become folklore. Others are more obscure, and known mainly to Ufologists and enthusiasts.

1 Close Encounters of the First Kind
2 Close Encounters of the Second Kind
3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4 Dated events
5 Footnotes
6 References
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Close Encounters of the First Kind

1235 - Kyoto, Japan September 24 General Yoritsume and his army watched many unusual lights in the sky for several hours.^{[citation needed]}
1271 - Kamakura, Japan September 12 - Buddhist priest Nichiren was to be beheaded, when an object appeared in the sky and the beheading was called off.^{[citation needed]}
1561 - Nuremberg, Germany April 4 UFO's "swarm" over the city of Nuremberg
1566 - Basel, Switzerland August 7 Black globes flooded the sky above the town of Basel. Theories today say it most likely was an atmospheric occurrence but some still doubt.^{[citation needed]}
1800 - March 29, Prediger Fritsch saw in Quedlinburg a tiny spot crossing the sun in 6 hours <ref>http://www.astronomie.de/bibliothek/artikel/geschichte/vulkan/</ref>. (DE)
1802 - February 27, Prediger Fritsch saw in Quedlinburg a tiny spot crossing the sun in northwestern-direction and accelerated thereby<ref>http://www.astronomie.de/bibliothek/artikel/geschichte/vulkan/</ref>. (DE)
1839 - October 2, Cupper saw transit of unidentified object in front of the sun.^{[citation needed]}
1849 - March 12, Sidebotham saw transit of tiny spot on the sun.^{[citation needed]}
1859 - March 26, Lescarbault saw transit of unknown body in front of the sun. Liais in Brasilia saw no such thing. ^{[citation needed]}
1862 - March 20, Lummis, ingenieur of Manchester, saw transit of unknown object in front of the sun.^{[citation needed]}
1913 and later - The Brown Mountain Lights, made famous via a bluegrass song.
1919 - June 19: - UFO sighting at Docking, Norfolk in England.^{[citation needed]}
1926 - Nicholas Riley, Russian explorer/artist, reported in his travel diary spotting a bright, shiny object flying above the mountains in northern China.
1942-45 - World War II UFO Sightings, UFO's and other unexplained aerial phenomena were sighted during World War II.
1942 - February 24 and February 25, the West coast air raid; unidentified aerial objects trigger the military to fire thousands of anti-aircraft rounds into the sky and raised the wartime alert status.
1944 - Foo fighters, colorful spheres recurringly spotted by military air crews around the world.
1946 and later - Ghost rockets, objects with characteristics of cruise missiles sighted repeatedly all over Scandinavia—Swedish Defense Staff expressed concern.
1948 - So-called Green Fireballs were reported over several United States military bases; an official investigation followed.
1949 - Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh reported a strange sighting.
1953 - Ellsworth UFO Case UFO seen as a red glowing light and is witnessed by forty-five people in Bismarck, North Dakota. The sighting takes place over a two night period on August 5 & August 6.
1954 - French flap, Hundreds of sightings. <ref>http://www.larryhatch.net/EUR54.html</ref>
1954 - Unknown orbiting satellites reported, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh involved.
1952 - Carson Sink Case over western Nevada, USA.
1952 - Washington flap, a series of sightings with radar contacts in Washington, DC, USA. This resulted in the implementation of the Robertson Panel by the CIA.
1966 - Portage County UFO Chase several Ohio police officers chased a UFO for 30 minutes.
1972 - Salt Lake City, Utah Daytime UFO appears on tourist photograph as he took pictures of the city skyline, when he find a bright round object travels over him in the sky.
1976 - 1976 Canary Island UFO Sighting
1981-1986 - Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, where it resulted in many thousand reports of similar shaped UFOs. The first sighting was made by a retired policeman in Kent, New York late New Year's Eve 1981. The "Incident at Indian Point", a nuclear power plant, in 1984 was one of the Hudson Valley Sightings.
2002 - China, mysterious light-emitting UFO was seen by many Chinese. It flew over Jiangsu, Henan, Xiaxi, and Sichuan. The object, as the Chinese media reported, appear in various shapes, such as like a flaming arrow and a spiral.
2005 - April 27, White House evacuated as UFO enters restricted air space, then disappears. It was explained as "probably a cloud or several birds." <ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-27-alarm_x.htm</ref>
2005 - Rockaway Beach, Queens A UFO was sighted over the water near what looked like aircraft carriers. It disappeared as quickly as it came.^{[citation needed]}
2005 - Woodside, Queens Five Flying Saucers appeared over Woodside, Queens in November 2005. They were seen throughout the whole Queens and Manhattan area. They disappeared
2005 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Boy sees oval of bright light flying at very high speed, then disappeared.

one at a time.^{[citation needed]}

2006 - Kent, England on May 25, Oval orb observed hovering above a location in Kent at some distance. Then moved off in a westerly direction" <ref>http://www.cgfoundry.com/Edward20.jpg</ref><ref>http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g171/edgovan20/DSC00143.jpg</ref><ref>http://www.artilife.no/ufo/</ref>

[edit] Close Encounters of the Second Kind

mid 1800s-onwards - Jersey Devil, sightings and encounters of a flying horse-like creature.
1886 - October 18, the US consul of Venezuela in Maracaibo reports to Scientific American that a bright object, accompanied with a humming noise, appeared over a hut near Maracaibo. The people in the hut showed afterward symptoms of a sickness, which one would today interpret as radiation disease. The trees surrounding the hut withered after nine days <ref>http://www.nuforc.org/GNSciAm.html</ref>.
1947 - June 23, Maury Island incident, a highly controversial story, where a dog was killed, a boy injured by UFOs, and the witness threatened by Men in Black.
1947 - June 24, Kenneth Arnold's sighting, the incident that sparked the name flying saucers. <ref>(Original Radio Interview)</ref>
1947 - June 14 or July 4, Roswell UFO incident, US Air Force on July 8 - captured flying saucer; on July 9 - weatherballoon; in 1994 and 1997, respectively]] - Project Mogul balloon train. Witnesses and UFO researcher - crashed UFO and alien crew.
1948 - Petra, Jordan, ground trace, UFO left an obscure impression.
1948 - Mantell Incident, US Air Force sent a fighter pilot to check a UFO sighting—the pilot crashed. Some have claimed he was shot down with a laser - like weapon.
1948 - Kapustin Yar Incident, where supposedly a "cigar" shaped UFO was shot down by a Russian MiG.
1950 - August 15, The Mariana UFO Incident in Great Falls, Montana.
1953 - U.S Air Force Pilot Felix Moncla disappears while pursuing a UFO.
1957 - November 2, Levelland UFO Case, numerous motorists around the town of Levelland, Texas report seeing a strange egg-shaped object which caused their engines to shut off. When the object flew away, their vehicles would restart and work normally. Other UFO car stallings occurred in the next few days.
1965 - Northeast Blackout of 1965 UFOs were allegedly sighted and was theorized as the cause of the blackout.
1971 - Delphos ground trace, UFO left an obscure impression.
1976 - September 19, 1976 Tehran UFO Incident, UFO over Tehran, Iran knocked out two F-4 interceptor and ground controller electronics. Well-documented in U.S. DIA report and other documents. Iranian generals involved went on public record that object was extraterrestrial.
1980 - Rendlesham Forest Incident, a sighting in United Kingdom taken at first as a downed aircraft.
1980 - December 29, The Cash-Landrum Incident, a huge diamond-shaped UFO irradiates three witnesses near Dayton, Texas. They had to be treated for radiation poisoning and have since sued the US government, as military helicopters were seen with the UFO.
1986 - Brazil, Noite oficial dos OVNIs(UFO´s Official Night), more than 20 UFOs are seen and captured in radar in various parts of the country. Colonel Ozires Silva, former Embraer and at the time Petrobras President, flying a Xingu PT-MBZ aircraft near the place, is informed and tries to pursue the UFOs, later declaring “The lights were primary targets in the radar, positive targets, a concrete thing”. Two F-5 Tiger II and three Mirage III are ultimately sent to intercept the UFOs. After radar and visual sightings, the objects disappeared. In the aftermath, Brigadier Otávio Júlio Moreira Lima, at the time the Ministry of Aeronautics, public declared]] - "Between 20:00 (19/05) and 01:00 (20/05) at least 21 objects have been detected by Brazilian radars.[...]We can only give technical explanations and we do not have them.[...]It’s fantastic, the radar signals were very clear." <ref>http://www.infa.com.br/a_noite_oficial_dos_ovnis.html</ref>(in Portuguese)
1993 - Carp, Ontario, Canada An anonymous video of a UFO landing in a wheat field, followed by black and white photographs of an alleged alien from the spacecraft. Had official Canadian investigation, claimed to be a hoax, but many believers not convinced.
2001 - Kirkby Liverpool, UK Several crowds of people across the small town of Kirkby spot a luminous yellow ring moving quickly across the daytime sky.
2003 - North America Blackout UFOs allegedly sighted before the blackout.
2004 - Mexican air patrol sighting, a drug-smuggling air patrol recorded UFOs on infrared camera, footage released by Jaime Maussan. Case debunked in July 2004 by Captain Alejandro Franz <ref>http://www.alcione.org/FAM/FLIR_CONCLUSION.html</ref>
Date unknown - Shades Of Death Road a white orb was said to chase motorists back out to Shades of Death Road and then turn red in the process.

[edit] Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Ideas of abduction appeared in the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

See UFO Casebook and go to <ref>Malevolent Abduction Research's Homepage </ref>, <ref>Paranormalnews' Homepage </ref>.

1915 - August 12 - Mutual vanishing of First-Fourth Norfolk at Gallipoli ( see Vanishing of First-Fourth Norfolk Regiment).
1946 - May 18, Ängelholm UFO-landing - Gösta Karlsson claimed observing a UFO landing near Ängelholm in Sweden. On the site, a model of a flying saucer was erected <ref>http://www.ufo.se/fakta/artiklar/carlsson.shtml</ref>.
1952 - July 9, Gleimershausen UFO-landing, Oskar Linde, the former mayor of Gleimarshausen (Germany), saw a disc-shaped object on a forest clearing near Hasselbach, Thuringia with two strange looking men, who worked around it. He took them for Russian military staff. The object, which was seen by several witnesses, left a trace on the ground. <ref>http://www.mimufon.org/1970%20articles/TheUFOPapers.htm</ref>, <ref>http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case715.htm</ref>
1955 - Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter, a group of strange, playful creatures bullied a family, while the family shot at them.
1961 - Hill Abduction, the first widely publicized alien abduction experience.
1975 - Travis Walton abduction, an Arizona lumberjack alleged to have been abducted by a UFO from the side of a road. There were 4 eyewitnesses who watched the encounter and tried to report the event to the local sheriff department. The sheriff arrested the four men and held them in custody as prime suspects of Walton's disappearance. After the four men were given Lie detector tests, all were shown to be telling the truth. Travis Walton reappeared after being listed as missing for 7 days, but he thought it was 5 hours, and testified that it was a legitimate experience. The story was written into a 1993 movie Fire in the Sky.
1978 - May 10, Emilcin abduction - a man at Emilcin in Poland is said to be abducted by grays. On the site, where this should have taken place, there is now a memorial.
1978 - June 19, <ref>Janos People</ref> - a family driving through Oxfordshire, United Kingdom are intercepted by a UFO and a book follows.
1981 - January 8, Trans-en-Provence Case, a mutual UFO-landing, which left interesting traces.
1985 - Whitley Strieber, Alleged abductee and paranormal writer, Strieber wrote on his experiences in his national best-seller novel Communion. In a 1996 Larry King interview, Strieber denied the event and stated that it never happened. He currently hosts a nighttime radio show Dreamland which is similar to the Coast To Coast AM radio show in its format.
1989 - November 30, a woman is allegedly abducted by a UFO. Witnesses include a UN Delegate and CIA agents. <ref>UFO Abducts Woman, Millions See it, including two CIA agents, some VIPs, UN Delegate. Pix of Delegate included here</ref> , <ref>Millions See UFO Abduct Woman</ref> This incident report was investigated by Budd Hopkins.
1997 The Area 51: The Alien Interview of a supposed video of an alien interview.

[edit] Dated events

1957 - 1957 flap, multiple car stallings by large UFOs in Levelland Texas and New Mexico, sightings over New Mexico military areas
1964 - Lonnie Zamora, a police officer in Socorro, New Mexico, US, reports a close encounter.
1965 - December 9, Kecksburg incident, mass sighting of a falling UFO followed by an alleged isolation of the crash site.
1965 - Frank Borman's photo, a UFO picture by an astronaut. The UFO followed the Gemini 7 flight.
1966 - April 6, A sighting by hundreds of people in the Melbourne suburb of Westall. This incident is also known as "The Clayton Incident" after the adjoining suburb, apparently the incident occurred on th boundry. Witness's gather for infrequent reunions<ref>http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/10/01/1127804696941.html</ref>
1967 - Falcon Lake Incident, according to the story, a UFO's exhausts burnt a man.
1967 - October 4, Shag Harbor Nova Scotia UFO crash, object seen crashing into Shag Harbor followed by Canadian naval search; officially referred to as a UFO crash.
1969 - Jimmy Carter's sighting, a UFO officially reported by a President.
1969 - Neil Armstrong's sighting, a UFO reported by an astronaut, he saw two UFOs after the Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
1973 - Pascagoula Abduction, a well-publicized alien abduction experience.
1974 - Berwyn Mountain Incident, a sighting in United Kingdom taken at first as a downed aircraft.
1975 - Travis Walton abduction, a man went missing for days—came back with a story of an abduction, wrote a book which was adapted into a film.
1977 - Colares flap, a bewildering account of a Brazilian island swamped by harmful UFOs—35 injured, island evacuated. <ref>http://www.bobpratt.org/colares.html</ref>
1978 - Valentich Disappearance, an Australian pilot reported a UFO to air traffic control before vanishing without a trace.
1978 - Kaikoura Lights, a series of sightings by a Safe Air freight plane flying off the coast of Kaikoura, New Zealand is escorted by strange lights of changing color and size.
1979 - Marshall County incident, a sheriff spotted a weird bright light which seems to have collided with his vehicle.
1980 - Cash-Landrum incident, a peculiar sighting accompanied by injuries to three witnesses.
1982 - Baikonur Cosmodrome Raid, the launching site was temporarily shut down after having been supposedly raided and sabotaged by UFOs in June. <ref>http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~tkbnetw/Simon_Harvey-Wilson_10.htm</ref>
1985 - Tbilisi-sighting, Soviet commercial airliners crew and passengers observed a strange light during a flight from Tbilisi in Georgia to Tallinn in Estonia in January 1985.
1986 - January 29, Height 611 UFO Incident, a UFO crash claim in Dalnegorsk, USSR, followed by a UFO landing claim in 1989.
1986 - November 16, Japan Air Lines Flight 1628, a group of UFOs flew with Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 in northeastern Alaska for 50 minutes.
1990 - Belgian flap, several mass sightings of triangular UFOs—Belgian Air Force intercepted a radar-visual contact and released footage see Black triangles.
1990 - Montréal, Québec, Canada UFO - November 7, 1990, More than 40 people, including policemen, observe a UFO for more than 3 hours above a hotel in downtown Montréal <ref>http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-725-4366/life_society/ufos/clip10</ref>
1996 - Varginha incident, multiple sightings of strange creatures in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
1997 - Mexico City footage, see External links.
1997 - Phoenix, Arizona UFO incident, multiple slow moving lights in formation over the Phoenix metro area.

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[edit] Footnotes

[edit] References

Landman, Jack, "Mexico City, August 6th, 1997".
Lindemann, Michael, "Mexico City, August 6, 1997: An Analysis". CNI News.
Holman, J. L., et. al., "Mexico City, August 6, 1997". UFON. (MOV file format)
Day, Marcus, Aliens: Encounters with the Unexplained CLB. 1998
Emenegger Robert, UFO's Past, Present & Future, Ballantine Paperbacks, 5th Printing, July, 1978, Pages 52 & 53 (source for the above listed Bismarck, ND UFO sighting).
Campbell, Steuart, The UFO Mystery Solved, Explicit Books 1994. ISBN 0-9521512-0-0