selected ufo cases

Standard / Medium Cases

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'Arrowhead triangle' with lights during night launch of Space Shuttle

November, 22, 1989 - Cooper City, Florida, United States

"My wife and I observed a very large, dark triangle (arrowhead shaped) flying low from east to west. It was completely silent. We counted seven (7) circular white lights on the underside. The triangle craft was moving at a high rate of speed, surrounded by a white haze." View full report

Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center), Peter Davenport, Director ID: 577

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Witness Sketch

UFO hovers over Russian military base near nuclear test site of Kapustin Yar

July, 28, 1989 - Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation

In 1989, at a military base near the nuclear test site of Kapustin Yar, members of two army units noticed a UFO which hovered for hours over the arsenal of the base. The KGB files contained the handwritten reports of the sighting. It flew over the stores of the unit and moved in the direction of the missile arsenal. When it hovered over the arsenal, a bright ray appeared on its underside. View full report

Source: Michael Hesemann, 1998 ID: 663

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Military, Nuclear Facility, Light Beam, Witness Sketch

Space Case: The Night the Coast Guard Got Buzzed

March, 4, 1988 - Lake Erie, Ohio, United States

This incident involves a football shaped object, "larger than the Goodyear blimp," which released up to a half dozen triangular shaped lights and objects, some of them fyling towards the Perry nuclear power plant and Eastlake coal burning plant. View full report

Source: UFOs at Close Sight (Patrick Gross) ID: 8

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Multiple UFOs, Nuclear Facility

Knowles Family UFO Encounter in Mundrabilla, Australia

January, 21, 1988 - Mundrabilla , Australia

The Mundrabilla incident of a few years ago received much media publicity. The Knowles described how the UFO shot over their car and lifted it off the road. Their voices changed in pitch, the family dog in the car went crazy, and the car started shaking. The news media described the incident as a 'UFO attack' and reported that the car was covered by strange dust. View full report

Source: UFO Research Queensland (Australia) ID: 1090

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Vehicle Encounter, Physiological Effects, Animal Reaction, Vehicle Interference, Physical Trace, Humming, Light Beam

Abduction on the North Canol Road - Yukon, Canada

September, 3, 1987 - Yukon Territory, Canada

Witness saw cigar-shaped object of green color, with portholes along side of it, flying low. Soon after, 2 beings/creatures were seen briefly nearby on the ground, and then abduction experience followed. Scoop marks found on hands afterwards. View full report

Source: Martin Jasek, M.Sc., P. Eng. ID: 100

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Abduction, Humanoid/Occupant, Humming, Portholes/Windows, Physiological Effects, Witness Sketch

Bright, glowing disc-shaped object hovers over cabin in Old Crow, Yukon

September, 20, 1986 - Old Crow , Yukon Territory, Canada

From the witness: "I looked outside and there was this UFO right over the trees! It was bright blue, almost too bright to look at and was rotating fairly fast... I continued to watch the UFO for about 5 minutes, then it just slowly descended down towards the river bank and away from us, started speeding up going cross river, then it just shot off rapidly into the distance!" View full report

Source: Martin Jasek ID: 1011

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Rotary/Spin Motion, Sound

Jet Chase Over Brazil

May, 19, 1986 - Brazil

As many as twenty UFOs were seen and tracked by ground radar and at least six airplanes. Unidentified radar returns were tracked by airports in São Paulo and the Integrated Air Defense & Air Traffic Control Center (CINDACTA) in Brasilia. Two F-5E and three Mirage jet fighters were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB in Sao Paulo State, and Anápolis AFB in Goias State. View full report

Source: Don Berliner, UFO Briefing Document ID: 51

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Radar, Pilot/Aircrew, Military, Multiple UFOs

Two large saucer-shaped objects encountered by family in car in Surrey, UK

September, 15, 1985 - Bagshot Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom

David and Susan McMurray were driving home across Bagshot Heath, Surrey, to Famborough, Hampshire, with their two children when they encountered a "huge saucer-like craft about 50ft. long with brilliant lights coming from portholes around the centre. Then it suddenly took off." When a second craft began to tail the family's car David stopped, got out and went to investigate. But it too, took off. View full report

Source: Bill Davey, Sunday Mirror (London, UK), Sept. 29, 1985 ID: 947

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Portholes/Windows, Vehicle Encounter, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo

Bob White Alien Artifact

1985 - Near Grand Junction, Colorado, United States

White and a friend were driving from Denver to Las Vegas, when they witnessed an object that was about 100 yards in front of him, he said, "and it was huge ... absolutely huge." As the craft flew away, White said, he noticed an orange light falling to the ground. He recovered the object, which is about 7-1/2 inches long and shaped like a teardrop. View full report

Source: Knight Ridder Newspapers, June 22, 2004 ID: 365

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Artifact, Witness Photo, Polygraph Test, Interaction/Reaction

Cigar-shaped UFO and three small discs at Hexam, NSW, Australia

December, 1984 - Hexam, Australia

The witness "observed a large, cigar-shaped object with a brilliant white light at the front it was coming towards them... The cigar had windows along the side... three small disc-shaped objects (3-4 metres across) flew into view moving towards the object...They travelled very quickly, zigzagging to join the larger cigar... Mrs L said that she saw what seemed to be a shadow or outline of a head with a helmet on in one of the smaller discs..." View full report

Source: UFO Research (NSW), Australia - UFO Reporter, June 1992 ID: 1071

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Multiple UFOs, Humming, Portholes/Windows, Body Lights

UFO follows witnesses home, hovers over driveway

August, 20, 1984 - Mahopac Falls, New York, United States

Mrs. Irene Lunn, the wife of a policeman, and her daughter Erica were driving home when they saw a large object directly over the pond at the Circle A Farm. The object suddenly made a 90-degree left turn and came slowly towards them. It stayed with them as they reached home, until it was directly over their driveway. About one minute after it started hovering, another UFO came out of the west over the driveway. View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 32 No. 11 (May 1985) ID: 359

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Multiple UFOs

Close Encounter at Indian Point Nuclear Reactor, NY

June, 14, 1984 - Buchahan, New York, United States

The object consisted of ten or more lights arranged in a boomerang pattern. It appeared to be hovering about a quarter of a mile from one of the gates to the complex, and at that distance, they could not make out any shape... He estimated the object was at least 300 feet from one end to the other. View full report

Source: J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt (excerpt from Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings) ID: 1080

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Nuclear Facility, E-M Effects, Group Sighting

Soviet merchant ship UFO sighting in the Mediterranean

June, 1984 - Straits of Gibraltar, Spain

The following is the UFO Report of Alexander G. Globa, a Russian sailor and engineer, who observed a UFO over the Mediterranean Sea at close quarters through binoculars in June 1984. This report was included in a declassified CIA UFO File on Soviet UFO sightings. The UFO reminded him of 'an upside-down frying pan' and had a grayish metallic shine. The lower portion of the craft had a precise round shape, its diameter no more than twenty meters. Many lights illuminated its bottom portion. View full report

Source: Robert Morningstar / Paul Stonehill ID: 1112

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Water-Related, Body Lights

The Alfred Burtoo Encounter

August, 12, 1983 - Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Alfred Burtoo was fishing along an isolated canal when a disc-shaped UFO landed nearby. The beings were humanoid, 4'6" tall, dressed in green overalls and wore helmets with visors. The beings gestured at the witness to follow them and he went up a stairway into the craft. He was made to stand under an amber light. The beings spoke to him in broken English telling him that he was too old and infirm for their purposes, he was then let go. View full report

Source: CJ website ID: 707

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Witness Sketch, Animal Reaction, Contact, Communication, Witness Photo

Close encounter with huge object, 20-30 occupants seen inside

February, 3, 1983 - Mobile, Alabama, United States

Huge object witnessed by Pat Norris of Mobile, Alabama. "As the craft appeared Mrs. Norris' attention was drawn to a top deck with a long window which she estimates 53 feet and through which she viewed 20 to 30 persons, apparently oblivious of her presence, walking about as if they were changing shift." View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May 1984) ID: 267

Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Portholes/Windows

Disk-shaped UFO seen by group of teenagers in Messel, Germany

March, 13, 1982 - Messel, Germany

Several 15-17 year olds were at a discotheque in the town of Messel, when they saw outside a steel blue luminous disk with a dome on top which appeared over the woods about 600 meters from where they where standing. It slowly approached the witnesses at very low altitude, a distance of about 100 meters. Its diameter was about 10 meters wide. After a few seconds the disc started to move in spiral curves down to the ground; it stopped for a moment before it flew away at a steep upward angle. View full report