selected ufo cases
All Cases: Sorted by Date Posted
Photograph of Small, Spherical Object Over Water
2002 - Burnett Heads, Australia
Elaine from Burnett Heads, dropped into the ABC Wide Bay studios (in Austrlia) with a photo she took in winter, 2002. "My husband and I probably took five photos or so over an hour... When we got the photos back one had a round thing in the picture that we couldn't explain!" View full report
Source: ABC Wide Bay, Queensland, Australia / UFO Casebook ID: 405
Case Type: PressReport Features: Photo
Disk-Shaped Object Photographed by Military Pilot in Hungary
September, 29, 2001 - Budapest, Hungary
"A military pilot recorded a spectacular video of a silver disk object on September 29, 2001. The craft was flying to his left side and then moved very fast past him in the clouds as can be seen in the video." View full report
Source: Kal Korff / Rense.com ID: 404
Case Type: PressReport Features: Photo, Military, Pilot/Aircrew
Capsule-Shaped Object Photographed in Valley, Alabama
September, 16, 1996 - Valley, Alabama, United States
"A local radio station and newspaper received six different photos from an anonymous source that show a capsule-shape UFO hovering over a farm pasture. In a letter accompanying the photos, the source claims to have taken the remarkable UFO photographs on the 16th of September, 1996, in Valley, Alabama, USA." View full report
Source: UFO Casebook / ISUR ID: 403
Case Type: PressReport Features: Photo, Animal Reaction
Unknown Object Seen and Photographed in Turkey
1998 - Yamanlar Mountain Peak, near Karagol , Turkey
"For at least a hundred times," Cem Arat and Mehmet Safak returned to the site at the Yamanlar Mountain Peak near Karagol, where they saw and photographed a strange object in February 1996. This time another UFO showed up. They shot a lot of pictures, but the object was moving so fast, that they caught it on only two. View full report
Source: Michael Hesemann ID: 402
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Photo
Large Oval-Shaped Object Photographed Over Lake
June, 18, 2004 - Wisconsin, United States
This photo (close-up above, full image below) was taken at our family reunion. No one noticed the object until after it was downloaded. Now these people are doctors and layers just enjoying a quiet evening at a lake in Wisconsin on June 18th of this year (2004). Thought it was interesting.......I have no idea what it is. Anyone have a guess? Mike H. Oregon View full report
Source: Coast to Coast AM ID: 401
Case Type: RawReport Features: Photo
Three Disc-Shaped UFOs Photographed in Connecticut
October, 10, 2004 - Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
"I was on a trip with my family when we stoped on this step ridge/cliff to watch the sunset. One of my sons saw the 3 metalic objects in the distance. I took a picture of them as the moved to our right. The hovered in a organized formation and traveled at varying speeds (together) stopping now and then and then quickly moving to a new spot." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 400
Case Type: RawReport Features: Photo
Three UFOs Photographed in Connecticut Forest
July, 20, 2005 - Cockaponset State Forest, Connecticut, United States
"They were dark oblong shapes with some lights. Nothing bright and we didn't hear any noise. They didn't move for several minutes so I was able to take a few pictures. When they left they just floated away slowly." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 398
Case Type: RawReport Features: Photo, Multiple UFOs
Russian Cosmonaut sees UFO while in orbit aboard Salyut-6 Space Station
May, 5, 1981 - In Earth orbit (Salyut-6 Space Station),
Cosmonaut Major General Vladimir Kovalyonok, had an encounter during the Saljut VI Mission in 1981. "I just made some gymnastic exercises, when I saw in front of me, through a porthole, an object which I could not explain... I saw this object and then something happened I could not explain, something impossible according to the laws of Physics." View full report
Source: Michael Hesemann, International UFO Congress (2002) ID: 396
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Astronaut/Space, Witness Photo
Light grey, flat triangle with three lights on each corner
March, 2, 2005 - Okeechobee, Florida, United States
"It started out as a bright star in the South East corner, appearing larger with speed towards me, as I drove up to a lighted area, the unknown object lifted up into the sky and I saw a light grey, flat triangle bottom, with 3 lights one in each corner as it glided without any sound toward the North." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 395
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Soviet Cosmonaut shadowed by UFO in Earth orbit
April, 1979 - Earth orbit, enroute to Soviet Solyut 6 Space Station,
In April of 1979, Cosmonaut Victor Afanasyev lifted off from Star City to dock with the Soviet Solyut 6 space station. But while en route, something strange happened. Cosmonaut Afanasyev saw an unidentified object turn toward his craft and begin tailing it through space. View full report
Source: Sightings TV ID: 392
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Astronaut/Space, Witness Photo
Low-flying, slow-moving triangle object passes over house
2000 - Newtown Square, California, United States
"We stood in our driveway as they passed directly over us, moving very slowly. The objects were the shape of an equilateral triangle with large round lights on each of the three tips. The closeness of the objects and the light polution of the suburb allowed us to see the shape of the object beyond the illuminated tips." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 391
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Lockheed Engineer sees Slow-Moving, Silent Black Triangle
February, 9, 2005 - Owing Mills, Maryland, United States
Lockheed Martin software engineer, Frank Griffin, was in his backyard looking at the stars the evening of Feb. 9 when a black triangle hovering overhead caught his eye. The black triangle was at a low altitude, maybe 500 to 800 feet, with no lights, he said. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org / W*USA 9 News, Washington, D.C., USA ID: 389
Case Type: PressReport Features: Scientist/Engineer
Cumberland Spaceman / Solway Firth Photograph
May, 23, 1964 - Burgh Marsh / Solway Firth, United Kingdom
"As an amateur photographer on a day-trip with my family, I took the photograph on Burgh Marsh on May 23, 1964. I took three pictures of my daughter Elizabeth in a similar pose - and was shocked when the middle picture came back from Kodak displaying what looks like a spaceman in the background." View full report
Source: Daily Mail, London / England - December 13, 2002 ID: 385
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Alien Photograph, Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Photo
The Parque Forestal (Chile) Alien Photograph
May, 10, 2004 - Parque Forestal, Santiago, Chile
Civil Engineer Germán Pereira was taking photographs of the Carabineros (state police) on horseback in the Parque Forestal of Santiago, Chile. One of the photos, after being downloaded from his digital camera, showed the image of a possible alien being. CIFAE Chile has interviewed the witness and undertaken the analysis of the photograph. View full report
Source: Germán Pereira / Corporacion de Investigacion de Fenomenos Aereos (CIFAE), Chile ID: 380
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Alien Photograph, Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Photo
'Tomato Man' Photographs of Alien Body and the Laredo, Texas Crash
July, 7, 1948 - 38 Miles South of Laredo (Texas), Mexico
In 1978, a former Naval photographer released a series of photographs of the charred remains of a head and torso, which he claimed were extraterrestrial. He said that the photos were taken in 1948, when he was flown to Mexico, south of Laredo, Texas, to document the crash of 90-foot diameter "flying saucer" and its dead pilot. View full report
Source: Ron Schaffner, of the former Ohio UFO Investigators League (OUFOIL) ID: 378
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Alien Photograph, Humanoid/Occupant, Military, Crash/Retrieval
Long Craft Spotted Over North West Alabama
August, 8, 2005 - Florence, Alabama, United States
"We then thought it was a blimp, until it was just north of us and noticed it's size. Although we couldn't see an exact outline we knew it was very long as we watched the stars disappear from the sky as it passed between the lights. The craft we estimate to be as long as an aircraft carrier and was making no noise except for a very low hum." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 377
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
