List of major UFO sightings

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

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.

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Close Encounters of the First Kind

  • 6 B.C.: Star of Bethlehem has long thought to be more than just a star by Ufologists. Analysis of the biblical report suggest that the "star" was a controlled object able to move to the spot of the nativity scene to indicate its exact location to the three magi.
  • 1235: Kyoto, Japan September 24th General Yoritsume and his army watched many unusual lights in the sky for many hours.
  • 1271: Kamakura, Japan September 12th Buddhist priest Nichiren was to be beheaded then an object to the moon appeared in the sky and the beheading was called off.
  • 1561: Nuremberg, Germany April 4th UFO's "swarm" over the city of Nuremberg
  • 1566: Basel, Switzerland August 7th Black globes flooded the sky above the town of Basel. Theories today say it most likely was an atmospheric occurrence but some still doubt.
  • 1800: March 29th, Prediger Fritsch saw in Quedlinburg a tiny spot crossing the sun in 6 hours [1]. (DE)
  • 1802: February 27th, Prediger Fritsch saw in Quedlinburg a tiny spot crossing the sun in nortwestern-direction and accelerated thereby[2]. (DE)
  • 1839: October 2nd, Cupper saw transit of unidentified object in front of the sun.
  • 1849: March 12th, Sidebotham saw transit of tiny spot on the sun.
  • 1859: March 26th, Lescarbault saw transit of unknown body in front of the sun. Liais in Brasilia saw no such thing.
  • 1862: March 20th, Lummis, ingenieur of Manchester, saw transit of unknown object in front of the sun.
  • 1913 and later: The Brown Mountain Lights, made famous via a bluegrass song.
  • 1942-45: World War II UFO Sightings, UFO's and other unexplained arieal phenomenon were sighted during World War II.
  • 1942: February 24 and 25, the West coast air raid, or the Battle of Los Angeles; unidentified aerial objects trigger the military to fire thousands of anti-aircraft rounds into the sky and raised the wartime alert status. See also: 1942 Los Angeles UFO
  • 1944: Foo fighters, colourful spheres recurringly spotted by military air crews around the world.
  • 1954: French flap, Hundreds of sightings. [3]
  • 1954: Unknown orbiting satellites reported, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh involved.
  • 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.
  • 1952: Carson Sink Case over western Nevada, USA.
  • 1952: Washington flap, a stirring series of sightings with radar contacts in Washington, DC, USA. This resulted in the implementation of the Robertson Panel by the CIA, to set up protocol in which UFO/alien witnessess, interested parties are to be ridiculed and discredited, UFO groups,etc. are to be spied upon. This protocol is still in effect.
  • 2005: April 27th, White House evacuated as UFO enters restricted air space, then disappears. It was explained as "probably a cloud or several birds." [4]
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Close Encounters of the Second Kind

  • 1947: June 23, Maury Island incident, a highly controversial story, where a dog was killed and 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.
  • 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: Mantell Incident, US Air Force sent a fighter pilot to check a UFO sighting—the pilot crashed.
  • 1948: Kapustin Yar Incident, where supposedly a "cigar" shaped UFO was shot down by a Russian MiG that crashed.
  • 1950: August 15, The Mariana UFO Incident in Great Falls, Montana.
  • 1953: U.S Air Force Pilot Felix Moncla disappears while pursuing a UFO.
  • 1965: Northeast Blackout of 1965 UFO's were allegedly sighted and was theorized as the cause of the blackout.
  • 1971: Delphos ground trace, UFO left an obscure impression.
  • 1980: Rendlesham Forest Incident, a sighting in United Kingdom taken at first as a downed aircraft.
  • 2003: 2003 North America blackout UFO's 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 [5]
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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 Malevolent Abduction Research's Homepage, Paranormalnews's Homepage.

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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind

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Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind

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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, he took a picture of the UFO that followed the Gemini 7 flight.
  • 1966: April 6, A sighting by hundreds of people in the Melbourne suburb of Westall. [6]
  • 1967: Falcon Lake Incident, according to the story UFO's exhausts burnt 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 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. [7]
  • 1978: Valentich Disappearance, an Australian pilot reported a UFO to air traffic control before vanishing without a trace.
  • 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. [8]
  • 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 29th, Height 611 UFO Incident, a UFO crash claim in Dalnegorsk, USSR, followed by a UFO landing claim in 1989.
  • 1986: November 16th, 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 [9]
  • 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.
  • 2001: September 11, a UFO is allegedly filmed during the 9/11 attacks in New York City. A small object can be seen in the sky as the second plane hits the World Trade Center.
  • 2003-Present: Iran-Iraq UFO Sightings- reports of UFOs during the Iraq War and in Iran.


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See also

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External links

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References


--Angel 17:08, 13 June 2006 (CDT)

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