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Large black triangle seen by four witnesses in Munich, Germany in 1984

July, 1984 - Munich, Germany

On a warm summer night, four witnesses were lying on the banks of the Isar River when they saw three multicolured lights with a triangle dark shadow between the edges hovering in the sky from west to east. The sides of the object (the distances between the lights) were 30 or 40 meters in length. The object was flying at low speed and there was absolutely no noise at all.  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 928
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Silent, Witness Sketch

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

Ball of fire moves over 4 witnesses in boat on Bear Lake, Florida

July, 1983 - Bear Lake, Forest City, Florida, United States

The four witnesses had gone out in their boat to the middle of the lake, when they noticed a strange light that apeared as a flaming ball, orange and red with flames licking upward then like tongues of fire vanishing over the ball. The light then went out, but after a minute or two the fireball appeared again, directly over the witness' boat, before shooting away.  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 932
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Water-Related

Large 'inverted trapezoid' seen by several witnesses in Plymouth, Devon, UK

January, 1983 - Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

Large, low flying , silent and slow inverted trapezoid witnessed by two other people that I know of (who chased it in a car through Stoke village) as well as two other members of my family. [It had] lit up windows on it and it was apparently following a Dash 7 commercial airplane on route to land at Plymouth airport. The local paper the next day reported that a couple of women in a car had also observed this object and attempted to follow it as far as they could in their vehicle.  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 918
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch

U.S. Congressman and Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich sighting of large triangular craft in Washington state

September, 1982 - Graham, Washington, United States

Dennis Kucinich saw a large triangular craft over the home actress Shirley Macline in the 1980's. "He looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered, soundless, for ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend."  View full report

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Wall Street Journal, and other sources   ID: 1177
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Silent, Witness Photo, Famous Person

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

Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger / MUFON-CES, (1998)   ID: 651
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Group Sighting, Children, Light Beam

Large object with windows cruises by house

1982 - National Park Road, Canungra, Australia

"I saw this huge object slowly crusing towards us then past us at eye level. It was very close, about 200 meters away... The part that I could see was like the brim of hat with a row of glowing windows on top of it... It cruised past at the equivalent pace of a car going 15 to 20 kph. It's length was longer than a semi-trailer."  View full report

Source: AUFORN (Australian UFO Research Network), Australia   ID: 621
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch, Portholes/Windows

Bell-shaped object with flashing lights seen by 10 people in Queens, New York

September, 5, 1981 - Queens, New York, New York, United States

At least ten people in Corona, Queens, said they saw a bell-shaped UFO with flashing multi-colored lights making a beeping noise on Sept. 5, 1981, at 10:00 p.m. Reportedly, as the UFO hovered over a tenement block, a triangular-shaped ray of green light shot out from the bottom of the object and shone on the face of a teen-aged girl observing the object from the window of her friend's house.  View full report

Source: News World (New York, NY), Sept. 19, 1981   ID: 941
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Group Sighting, Light Beam, Body Lights, Children, Witness Sketch, Sound

Saucer-shaped object observed entering water in Hamilton, Ontario

August, 1981 - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

In late August of 1981, three men and two women were driving near Hamilton, Ontario when they observed a red-orange, domed saucer shaped object. The UFO moved towards Hamilton Harbour, slowed down, and gently entered the water. The group remained in the area for seven hours, wondering if the object would resurface. Finally, two objects were seen to partially emerge and remain in that position through the point that the group finally left.  View full report

Source: Carl Feindt, WaterUFO.net   ID: 774
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Water-Related, E-M Effects

Multi-colored flying object paces family in Temuka, New Zealand

July, 12, 1981 - Temuka, New Zealand

Mr. and Mrs. Thew were returning to Temuka (New Zealand) from Pleasant Point with their three daughters when a multi-coloured flying object paced them along the Waitohi Road in the early hours of the morning of July 12, 1981, approaching to within 120 yards of their car and changing colours as it went. It was estimated to be around 32ft in diameter, with a height of 15ft, and with windows around the object.  View full report

Source: Timaru Herald (Timaru, New Zealand), 7/31/81   ID: 937
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Vehicle Encounter, Body Lights, Silent

TWA airline pilot sees round metallic object with portholes

July, 4, 1981 - South central Lake Michigan, United States

On a clear day in 1981, Captain Schultz was piloting TWA flight 842 from San Francisco to John F. Kennedy Airport over Lake Michigan. In his written report, he described seeing a "large, round, silver metal object" with six jet black "portholes" equally spaced around the circumference, which "descended into the atmosphere from above."  View full report

Source: Richard Haines, 2000 (Credit: CFI / NARCAP)   ID: 656
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Pilot/Aircrew, Portholes/Windows

Cigar-shaped object with portholes seen by 7 witnesses over Northern Texas

May, 13, 1981 - Denison, Texas, United States

At least seven persons spotted an unidentified flying object over Texomaland last Wednesday morning. Jim Shelton, mechanic at Jim Graham International, described the sighting and drew a sketch. "It was a flying object with lit portholes. Fire was streaming in sparks from the rear, and it had green and yellow pulsating lights," he said. "It was real. I saw it, and if they lock me up, I still saw it. It was long, a cigar-like shape."  View full report

Source: Irene Flaherty, Denison Herald (Denison, TX), May 17, 1981   ID: 948
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Silent, Witness Sketch

Fishing crews observe large conical object hovering over water

March, 25, 1981 - Ayamonte (Huelva), Spain

The fishing boat Moguer 5 left port at Ayamonte (Huelva) Spain and proceeded out to sea. Six other boats comprised the rest of a small fishing fleet. The Moguer 5 was 400 meters from the shore when a conical-shaped object was seen 100 meters farther out to sea, hovering over the water's surface. The witnesses watched the cone for 20 minutes while it rotated just above the sea's surface for 20 minutes at which time it rose vertically and disappeared into the sky.  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin (vol. 29, no. 11)   ID: 766
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Water-Related, Group Sighting

Large low-flying object with square windows seen by couple in car over Bethesda, MD

March, 15, 1981 - Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Martin Buxbaum was driving with his wife and noticed an unusual object silhouetted against the dark blue evening sky. The object had the wingspan of a 717 but was flying low, he says. It was accented by a row of square windows in the front and two "cherry red" exhaust lights to the rear. But most mysterious of all, the object made no sound at all  View full report

Source: Mike M. Ahlers, Montgomery Journal (Chevy Chase, MD), March 25, 1981   ID: 949
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Silent, Witness Sketch

The Hudson Valley Boomerang Sightings Featured Case

1981 - Hudson Valley, New York, United States

Between 1982 and 1995, more than seven thousand cases were investigated and documented by a team of investigators led by Philip J. Imbrogno, a high school science teacher and astronomer in Greenwich, Connecticut. The heaviest period was between the end of 1982 and 1986, when more than five thousand people reported seeing the object.  View full report

Source: Bob Pratt   ID: 1084
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Mass Sighting

Reinhold Messner, famous mountain climber, sees moon-sized object while climbing in Himalayas

1981 - Katmandu, Nepal

Italian Reinhold Messner, one of the world's foremost mountaineers, said Friday he watched a UFO "the size of a full moon" for nearly three hours while climbing in the Himalayas. On his return to Katmandu after an unsuccessful attempt on 24,248-foot Mount Chamlang, he said he spotted the UFO as it drifted south into Nepal from Tibet over the mighty snowcapped mountains.  View full report

Source: News World (New York) / United Press International, Oct. 10, 1981   ID: 942
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Famous Person

The Cash-Landrum Case Featured Case

December, 29, 1980 - Huffman, Texas, United States

A terrifying encounter with a flame belching UFO on a lonely road near Huffman, Texas, resulted in appalling injuries for the three innocent victims. According to Bob Pratt, "the case remains one of the most important in the history of ufology. It has never been resolved. Someone in the U.S. knows exactly what happened to Betty and Vickie and Colby but they have remained silent despite all the suffering - and ridicule - those three endured."  View full report

Source: NICAP   ID: 86
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physiological Effects, Injury

The Rendlesham Forest Incident Featured Case

December, 26, 1980 - Rendlesham Forest, United Kingdom

What is widely considered Britain’s most extraordinary encounter took place between 26 and 28 December 1980. It involved at least a dozen civilians from villages surrounding Rendlesham Forest, a large pine wood in south east Suffolk eight miles from the large town of Ipswich. However, it also gained a high profile because of its military witnesses, part of a huge USAF contingent at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge located beside the forest.  View full report

Source: Jenny Randles   ID: 279
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Physiological Effects, Military, Nuclear Facility, Witness Photo, Witness Sketch

Vedder River UFO

August, 1980 - Vedder River, British Columbia, Canada

Cynthia and her family were driving home from a camping trip... A large, round, dark object moving to the right hand side of the car suddenly interrupted their pleasant drive. It appeared to be a disc, with a “shiny, metallic surface…"  View full report

Source: Richard Tortorella and Martin Jasek - September 2002 (Credit: UFO*BC)   ID: 349
Case Type: StandardCase

UFO Shoots Beam at Four Boys

1980 - Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada

"A UFO moved silently out from the right just above the tree line. Its speed was approximately 5 miles an hour, its size, 50 feet diameter. The UFO stopped directly in the middle of the gravel road approximately 20 feet forward and about 50 feet up. When it stopped a blue beam shot out of the craft directly between the 4 of us."  View full report

Source: UFO*BC   ID: 345
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Children

Large object with lights photographed by police officer, seen by hundreds

1980 - Levittown, Puerto Rico, United States

Hundreds of witnesses observed a disc, illuminated by bright lights, flying at a low altitude over a residential quarter of Levittown. When dozens of people called the local police station, a patrol car was sent. Police Officer Sgt. José Cordero arrived just in time to observe the large disc passing directly over him. He was able to take ten photos with his official Polaroid camera.  View full report

Source: Hesemann   ID: 408
Case Type: SummaryReport    Features:  Photo, Group Sighting

Star-shaped objects observed for several nights over Ingolstadt, Germany

September, 6, 1979 - Ingolstadt, Germany

Star-shaped objects were observed for several nights in September 1979 over the city of Ingolstadt. Since that time members of MUFON-CES, the German UFO research organization, have interviewed several flight controllers, a dozen police officers and numerous other witnesses. They have also analyzed photographs and radar recordings that where made on film.  View full report

Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger / MUFON-CES, (1998)   ID: 653
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Group Sighting, Police, Pilot/Aircrew

UFO Abduction at Maringa (Jardim Alvorada Affair)

April, 13, 1979 - Maringa , Brazil

The Jardim Alvorada Affair is the study of a UFO abduction involving sexual relations and dialogue with the crew of a UFO. The case was investigated by the Center for Flying Saucer Research. The investigation included a number of interviews with the two main witnesses, who are brothers, and then hypnotic regression sessions, which were carried out by Dr. Oswaldo Alves, an MD.  View full report

Source: A. J. Gevaerd   ID: 1033
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Abduction, Physiological Effects
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