selected ufo cases
All Cases: Sorted by Most Recent First
Close Encounters of the 5th Kind in Monterrey, Mexico
December, 1994 - Monterrey, Mexico
The following is an account of events that occurred during a CSETI investigative team activation to Monterrey, Mexico in Decemer of 1994. - Witnesses saw a large disc with a sloped dome on top. View full report
Source: Shari Adamiak, CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) ID: 44
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Interaction/Reaction, Humanoid/Occupant, Human-Initiated Contact
A Weird Night and Missing Time on the Pennine Hills
November, 5, 1994 - Penine Hills, United Kingdom
For two Rochdale youngsters remembering November 5th will never be a problem again, because it was on Guy Fawkes night of 1994 that they were subjected to a frightening ordeal that has left them both emotionally drained. View full report
Source: Flying Saucer Review, 1981? ID: 29
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Missing Time, Children
Triangle-shaped object with lights hovers above, then follows car in Selestat France
October, 30, 1994 - Selestat, France
The car leaves the city quickly but a little further finds the phenomenon in front of the vehicle: a triangle with the same type of light on the circumference came to be added to the circle. The triangle is equilateral 10 side meters approximately and altitude from 10 to 15 meters. The phenomenon accompanied the vehicle which ran to approximately 80 km/h while adapting at the speed and that on several km. During a change of direction the object accelerated and moved away. View full report
Source: GEIPAN (French government UFO program) ID: 1117
Case Type: SummaryReport Features: Vehicle Encounter, Body Lights, Witness Sketch
African Schoolchildren See Landed UFO and Occupant (Ariel School Sighting in Ruwa, Zimbabwe)
September, 16, 1994 - Ruwa, Zimbabwe
On 14th September, 1994, a UFO streaked across the sky over Southern Africa. Two days later, something landed in a schoolyard in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, with three or four things beside it, according to journalist Cynthia Hind. This was witnessed by 62 schoolchildren, who had little or no exposure to TV or popular press accounts of UFOs. Cynthia Hind interviewed them the day after the encounter and made them draw pictures of what they had seen. View full report
Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO AFRINEWS 1994 ID: 127
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Children, Group Sighting, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo
Three saucer-shaped objects with lights around middle
August, 16, 1994 - Pentacost River, Australia
"They came in quite low and then just stopped and hovered about 200 yards to my left, ovoid in shape (typical saucer shaped) with first red and then green lights travelling horizontally around the middle of the saucer. They were still there at 10.30pm that night, at one stage I felt I could almost touch them. They were completly silent and did nothing at all until they left that night." View full report
Source: UFO Research (NSW), Australia ID: 619
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Multiple UFOs
A UFO in a Street in Plauen, Germany
May, 21, 1994 - Plauen, Germany
The witness 'spotted a big luminous object approximately 100 meters away, hovering at an altitude of about 30 meters just above the building. It looked to her like two frisbees stuck together, turning in opposite directions. The bottom part had small, dark squares that looked like windows under which a circle of white lights rotated in a clockwise direction. The object appeared to be about 10 meters in diameter.' View full report
Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger - MUFON-CES ID: 435
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Portholes/Windows
Ex-airline pilot has close encounter with dome-shaped UFO in Brazil
May, 6, 1994 - Guarantingueta, Brazil
I could see the shape of the object and it was the familiar "flying saucer" dome shaped object. I walked two hundred feet on the side of the road towards the object which was hovering low, no sound came from it... The object was quite large and I estimated it to be at least 70 feet in diameter and about 30 feet high. It was just hovering in the air at about 120-150 feet high." View full report
Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (hbccufo.org) ID: 1115
Case Type: RawReport Features: Silent, Humming, E-M Effects, Body Lights, Group Sighting
The Story that 48 Hours Missed
March, 20, 1994 - Mt. Popocatepetl , Mexico
CSETI allowed a crew from CBS's 48 Hours "news show" to accompany an RMIT, March 20, 1994 to show its audience CSETI, doing real-time research in an area of known UFO/ET activity at Mount Popocatepetl in central Mexico. View full report
Source: Wayne Peterson ID: 48
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Interaction/Reaction, Human-Initiated Contact
Air France Flight 3532 sighting of brown-red disk-shaped object
January, 28, 1994 - Paris, France
While flying over the Paris region, the crew noticed a large brown-red disk hovering on the horizon and constantly changing shape. From the pilot: "This object seemed to us then absolutely abnormal by its size which seemed immense, its dark red color and of the fuzzy edges. I had the impression to observe a gigantic lens in evolution. It did not resemble anything we had seen in our flying careers. " View full report
Source: UFOCOM (Credit: Ufologie.net - Patrick Gross) ID: 1062
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Pilot/Aircrew, Witness Photo
Luminous rectangular object with lights in Nouzonville, France
January, 9, 1994 - Nouzonville, France
On January 9, 1994 about 19:30 a young woman and her friend in the car observe a luminous rectangular form in the sky. Having stopped their vehicle, they observe this form which is illuminated with white and red lights. Having lost sight of the object, they go in the car to find a better point of observation. Again stopped, the young woman observes an oval-shaped form with the same red and white lights which then seems to come in its direction. View full report
Source: GEIPAN (Official French government UFO program) ID: 1118
Case Type: SummaryReport Features: Body Lights, Vehicle Encounter, Silent, Witness Sketch
Man observes cone-shaped object with lights; physiological effects in France
January, 4, 1994 - Fleury Sur Andelle, France
On January 4, 1994 with 23h50 a man who was watching television observes outside an orange light appearance moving to and from. While approaching, the witness observes a luminous conical [cone-shaped] form turning around its axis and comprising on its circumference stripes of various colors... The witness then feels muscular contractions in his legs and the bottom of his back. View full report
Source: GEIPAN (French government UFO program) ID: 1119
Case Type: SummaryReport Features: Sound, Animal Reaction, Physiological Effects, Witness Sketch
Close-up Sighting Of A Black Triangle UFO
November, 1993 - Seattle, Washington, United States
"Craning my neck to see the craft as it passed slowly directly over my head at an estimated altitude of less than 500 feet, I could see it was a gigantic black triangle. There is no other way to describe it because that's precisely what it was; a huge, black, triangle." View full report
Source: Gary Val Tenuta / Rense.com ID: 138
Case Type: StandardCase
Kelly Cahill Abduction
August, 8, 1993 - Dandenong foothills, Australia
In August 1993, 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children were driving home after a visit to a friend's house. After midnight the Cahills first noticed the lights of a rounded craft with windows around it. It silently hovered above the road. Different colored lights were clearly visible on the bottom of the object. View full report
Source: Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter, Sept/Oct 1994, Vol 19, No 5 ID: 187
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Missing Time, Abduction, Witness Photo, Portholes/Windows
Round object with rotating lights around edge
July, 1993 - Clarendon, Texas, United States
"I saw an round flying object in plain view in the night sky around 2am. It was close enough to see round lights around the edges and the lights were rotating in one direction. The ufo was traveling at a low speed and close enough to notice it was not a human made object. There was no engine noise." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 808
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Body Lights
The 1993 Maslin Beach photo case
March, 10, 1993 - Maslin Beach, Australia
When Eric Thomason in Maslin Beach, Australia, looked out across the ocean, he saw - to his great surprise - how an object rose from the waves and started flying towards him. When the object came nearer, Eric took out his camera and started taking photographs. View full report
Source: Claus Svahn, UFO Sweden ID: 1045
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Photo, Water-Related
UFO encounter in Germany, witnesses experience paralysis
March, 9, 1993 - Braunschweig , Germany
"Through the bedroom window, we saw a bright round shining object stationary at a height of some 10 metres or so above the birch trees to the east... it was now immediately quite clear to me that I was looking at an unknown flying object... we could see its shape absolutely clearly." View full report
Source: Dr. Peter Hattwig, German UFO Investigation Group DEGUFO, in FSR, Winter, 1996 ID: 611
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Witness Sketch, Physiological Effects, Physical Trace, Animal Reaction, Humming
