This lane is only the curated case wiki — Roswell, Nimitz/Tic Tac, Phoenix Lights, Rendlesham, Tehran 1976, JAL 1628, and other public-interest cases. Release-file dossiers stay in the UFO Files lane.
Start with the 1947 case file most people know by name, with source-cited narrative and quick facts.
The 2004 carrier-group incident lane: witnesses, sensor context, official video history, and unresolved questions.
A public-facing mass-witness case page separated from the official-file release material.
Date / time : September–October 1954 (peak activity); the wave began building in late August and tapered through November 1954 Location : France wide; epicentre cases in northern France (Quarouble, Nord department), the Limoges region, Burgundy (Epoisses, Louhans), Charentes Mar…
Date / time : 27 October – 11 November 1975 (with subsequent reports through 25 November 1975) Location : Multiple Strategic Air Command installations across the northern United States and one Canadian Forces Station: Loring AFB (Maine), Wurtsmith AFB (Michigan), Malmstrom AFB (…
Date / time : November 13 – December 12, 2024 (peak activity: late November through mid December); sightings reported predominantly between dusk and midnight local time Location : New Jersey (primary epicenter), extending into New York, Pennsylvania, and the broader Mid Atlantic…
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Date / time : April 25, 2013, approximately 9:20 p.m. local time [S1][S2][S3] Location : Rafael Hernández Airport (IATA: BQN / ICAO: TJBQ), Aguadilla, northwestern Puerto Rico; object subsequently tracked over the adjacent Atlantic Ocean [S1] Witnesses : Crew of a US Customs and…
Date / time : Night of August 30–31, 1951; initial sighting before midnight, follow on disc observation at approximately 12:20 a.m. MST Location : Manzano Weapons Storage Area (eastern perimeter), adjacent to Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico; secondary observation site at C…
Date / time : 329 BCE (exact month and time of day unrecorded in surviving sources) Location : Jaxartes River (modern Syr Darya, spanning present day Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan); the region known in antiquity as Sogdiana / Bactria Witnesses : Soldiers of the Macedoni…
Date / time : Evening of Thursday, 26 August 1976; abduction alleged to have occurred during a night fishing excursion beginning after dark Location : Eagle Lake, Allagash Waterway, northern Maine Witnesses : Jim Weiner, Jack Weiner (identical twins), Charles Foltz ("Charlie"),…
Date / time : Primary event: 3 July 1965, 5:03 p.m. (Orcadas Base variometer reading) and approximately 7:42 p.m. (Deception Station extended sighting). Part of a broader series of sightings spanning June 7 – July 1965 across three Antarctic bases. Location : Multiple stations o…
Date / time : Night of 15–16 October 1957; approximately 1:00 a.m. (encounter begins); released approximately 5:30 a.m. [S1][S4] Location : São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil — farmland outside the town [S1][S3][S5] Witnesses : Antônio Villas Boas, 23 years old, farm w…
Date / time : 16 September 1994, approximately 10:00–10:15 a.m. local time Location : Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe (private primary school, approximately 20 km east of Harare) Witnesses : Approximately 60–62 children aged 5–12; no teachers directly observed the event (staff were…
Date / time : August 3, 1965 · approximately 12:37 p.m. local time [S8][S9] Location : A lonely stretch of road near Santa Ana, Orange County, California (precise road not specified in sources; in the vicinity of a railroad crossing sign Heflin had been assigned to inspect) [S2]…
Date / time : 23 April 2007, mid afternoon (en route flight Southampton to Alderney, approximately 40 minute transit) Location : Airspace over the Channel Islands, principally southwest of Alderney; one object tracked toward the Casquettes lighthouse area Witnesses : Captain Ray…
Date / time : 17 April 1897, approximately 6:00 a.m. local time Location : Aurora, Wise County, Texas, USA (~45 miles north of Dallas), on the property of Judge James Spencer Proctor Witnesses : Multiple unnamed Aurora residents described as "early risers"; James Stephens (fathe…
Date / time : 7 August 1566, at or shortly after sunrise Location : Basel, Switzerland (observed above the city, with the "Munster" cathedral and the Antistitium serving as landmarks in the contemporary engraving) Witnesses : Multiple unnamed citizens of Basel; population appare…
Date / time : Night of February 24–25, 1942; air raid sirens sounded throughout Los Angeles County on the night of February 24; anti aircraft fire began at approximately 3:05–3:16 AM and continued sporadically until 4:14 AM; all clear sounded at 7:21 AM [S3] Location : Los Angel…
Date / time : 23 July 1947 (exact time unspecified in primary sources) Location : Campina do Amoral, Colônia Goio Bang, between Luiziana and Mamboré, Paraná, Brazil; catalogued by some sources as "near Bauru / near Pitanga, Brazil" [S1][S2] Witnesses : José C. Higgins (primary,…
Date / time : November 29, 1989, 5:24 p.m. (initial sighting near Eupen); wave continued throughout 1990, culminating in the critical radar/intercept incident of March 30–31, 1990 Location : Eastern Belgium, primarily the region between Liège and the German/Netherlands border; s…
Date / time : 23 January 1974, approximately 8:30 p.m. local time; follow up sighting 24 January 1974 Location : Llandrillo village and Cadair Bronwen mountain, Berwyn mountain range, North Wales, UK (approximately 40 miles east of the Gwynedd coast; between Corwen and Bala) [S1…
Date / time : Night of 19–20 September 1961; sighting began approximately 10:15–10:30 PM EST; "missing time" period estimated at approximately two hours [S6] [S12] Location : US Route 3, White Mountains, New Hampshire — specifically between the Groveton area, Franconia Notch, an…
Date / time : August 12–13, 1883 (two day observation period); exact hours not recorded in available sources Location : El Cerro de la Bufa Meteorological Observatory, Zacatecas, Mexico Witnesses : José Árbol y Bonilla (director, astronomer) and at least one unnamed assistant [S…
Date / time : August 4, 1995 (peak date cited; the broader flap spans approximately 1992–ongoing, with intensification mid 1990s) Location : Bonnybridge, Falkirk Council area, Central Scotland, UK (roughly the corridor between Edinburgh and Glasgow, known as the "Falkirk Triangl…
Note on dating : The event header in this record carries a catalog date of 1989 09 27; however, every primary source in the graph corpus consistently places the incident in the early morning hours of November 30, 1989 , at approximately 3:00–3:30 a.m. [S2][S3][S4][S10]. The Sept…
Date / time : Allegedly 1290 (no specific month, day, or hour recorded in purported source) Location : Byland Abbey, North Yorkshire, England Witnesses : Members of the monastic community of Byland Abbey, including a monk identified in popular retellings as "Brother John"; the A…