selected ufo cases
All Cases: Sorted by Date Posted
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
Cigar-shaped object with three lighted windows seen by driver in Sweden
June, 1985 - Uppsala to Orsundsbro, Sweden
A woman driver who prefers to remain anonymous was driving home to Orsundsbro from Uppsala (Sweden) on route 55. After one mile, she saw two policecars blinking bluish lights, or so she thought. Later she saw the object again. It appeared larger than an ordinary helicopter. It had three lighted windows and a blindingly strong white light. It had been seven to eight minutes since she first saw the object. View full report
Source: Enkopings Posten (Encoping, Sweden), July 12, 1985 ID: 946
Case Type: PressReport Features: Witness Sketch
Man sees unusual object with lights in night sky over Amherst, Ohio
1985 - Amherst, Ohio, United States
Arthur Schindler and his wife, Eva, had just returned from Lenten services at St. Paul Church, when he saw a light in the sky. He watched the object for more than an hour. "It looks like a huge dish with two sets of yellow lights around the rim. On top of the dish, it looks like a castle. Kind of like a pyramid. There are lights all over it. The blue and white beams shoot out from the front of it." View full report
Source: Lorain Journal (Lorain, OH), June 13, 1985 ID: 945
Case Type: PressReport Features: Body Lights, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo
Flying 'ball of fire' seen by 3 children camping in backyard in Redwood Valley, CA
June, 19, 1985 - Redwood Valley, California, United States
Three children were camping in their Redwood Valley backyard when they heard a "whoosh" and saw a bright light. The flying "ball of fire" made three circles above their yard. Debbie, 11, said the object was bigger than a beach ball. The object began to get smaller and increase its speed until it disappeared in the southwest. View full report
Source: Ukiah Daily Journal (Ukiah, CA), June 20, 1985 ID: 944
Case Type: PressReport Features: Children, Sound, Witness Photo
Low-flying cigar-shaped object sighted over Los Angeles in 1981
April, 19, 1981 - Los Angeles, California, United States
A large, low-flying cigar-shaped object with white lights shining from a row of "windows" and bearing green-blue and white "running lights" was sighted by a West Los Angeles resident on the night of April 19, 1981 at about 11:30 p.m. Taff estimated the object, which made no sound, was about 65 feet in length and about 15 feet high. View full report
Source: News World (New York, NY), Dec. 12, 1981 / APRO Bulletin, 1981 ID: 943
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Witness Sketch, Silent, Portholes/Windows, Body Lights
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
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
Monroe, NC man is abducted and has meeting with occupant of craft
March, 1979 - Monroe, North Carolina, United States
In March 1979, Pat Eudy was driving home when he saw a bright light in the sky, after which his memory went blank, leaving a "missing time" of about three hours. A session with a psychologist allowed Eudy to reconstruct what happened. "[I remember being on] board (a UFO) and seeing an astronaut in a suit," Eudy said. The being stood about 5 feet tall..." Eudy asked a lot of questions about how the craft worked, and he was strapped to a chair where possible tests were performed. View full report
Source: Monroe Enquirer-Journal (Monroe, North Carolina), 9/27/81 ID: 938
Case Type: PressReport Features: Abduction, Missing Time
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
Rectangular object with 'man' standing inside seen through binoculars in Westerville, Ohio
October, 2003 - Westerville, Ohio, United States
My wife and I were sitting on the back porch and saw a rather large bright object in the south-eastern sky. Looking through 7x50 field glasses [binoculars], we could easily make out an object that had 5 large retangular windows, with a "man" standing inside. . My wife and I could see him clearly through the windows. He was wearing a white or, light-colored one-piece suit from the neck on down. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 935
Case Type: RawReport Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Sketch
Large black triangle flies low over witness in 1971 in South Carolina
October, 1971 - Florence, South Carolina, United States
The sighting occurred in the fall of 1971 in Florence, SC. Around dusk one evening the witness went out to the backyard and watched as a large, black triangular craft was passing directly overhead. It was about 300 ft across from tip to tip and about half that distance from front tip to the rear. It was perfectly silent. After the object traveled out of sight, four fighter jets came screaming over, going in the same path. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 933
Case Type: RawReport Features: Silent
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 rectangular object hovers over golf course in Traverse City, Michigan
September, 2001 - Traverse City, Michigan, United States
The witness was driving home after a high school football game when he saw an enormous rectangular "aircraft" hovering above a golf course at close range. The craft gave off an incredible amount of white light. It was just above treetops (maples) within 600 yards, and had an estimated size of 150 to 200 feet long. No sound was heard. Two people standing outside their house were also looking in the direction of the object. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 931
Case Type: RawReport Features: Golf Course, Witness Sketch
Triangular, double-V shaped object seen by 3 people in Almunécar, Spain
August, 1992 - Almunécar, Granada/Andalusia, Spain
Three people were on a beach at Almunécar, in South Spain, at around 2 a.m., when they saw a triangular flying object, with a kind of bright "V" ( 2 of them) in the direction on the flight - just like two boomerangs fliying one behind each other, with the peak fordwards. It flew over their heads, without a sound, and disappeared with a "shining". The sighting lasted for about 10 seconds. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 930
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Silent
Six white discs in triangle formation over Illinois
May, 27, 2006 - Northbrook, Illinois, United States
"Discs were white looking. The discs were not bright, but rather dull white appearance. They definitely were not lights. The outstanding observation of the white discs was that they all had some size, and were perfectly placed between each other and in front of each other, making a perfect triangle (in inverted Christmas tree)." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 929
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Multiple UFOs
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
Photographs of close-range metallic object taken near Zdany, Poland
January, 8, 2006 - Zdany, Poland
A series of photographs was taken during an encounter with a metallic object by multiple witnesses near Zdany, Poland, in January 2006. Two men were returning from a wedding party when they spotted an object flying across the road. A moment later their car engine stopped, as well as the engine of another car behind them. One of the witnesses took a series of photographs. The encounter lasted at least 8 minutes, after which the car engines started with no problems. View full report
Source: Nautilus Foundation, Poland ID: 926
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Photo, Vehicle Interference
Black triangular object seen above motorway near Stirling, Scotland
July, 6, 1997 - Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
Black triangular UFO seen hovering above the motorway by four passengers in a car, in Stirling, Scotland in 1997. The object had a small rectangular "bar" at one apex. The object was an equliateral (or very close) triangle with sides of possibly 30 to 40ft. The sighting took place on the M9 (M80) motorway near Stirling in Scotland, a very rural area of Scotland. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 925
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Dome-shaped object with 'humming' noise flies over house
1990 - Langley, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
"Sitting in loft room watching TV. Body became frozen, became aware of pulsating humming / electrical noise. Saw bright green object through window. Slow moving, dome-topped with 3 smaller domes on otherwise flat underside. Flew pretty much over the house." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 924
Case Type: RawReport Features: Humming, Witness Sketch, Physiological Effects
Large object hovers over TV station tower in Florence, SC, in 1970
March, 1970 - Florence, South Carolina, United States
The witness, who was an employee at a TV station, saw a "UFO in broad daylight hovering on top of the [TV] tower, [and then] ran back inside the station to get the news director, Mr. Bill Fields." The craft was metallic, round, with a round cupola on top of the craft. It was about 100 feet across and about 25 feet tall. The encounter lasted for more than four hours, during which the object moved and stopped a couple of times before shooting off at "blinding speed." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 922
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Body Lights
Sphere-shaped object seen by witness in Salt Lake City, UT
September, 15, 1998 - Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
At 3 AM on Sept. 15, 1998, witness Chris Rock stepped outside and fired his laser pointer into the sky toward west-southwest in the general direction of Jupiter. Within a minute or two, a gray, spherical object, with an apparent 7" diameter at arm's length appeared in the western sky, hovering over an adjacent building at a (measured) distance of 260 feet from the witness and 40 feet above the ground. The object sat motionless for 2 to 3 seconds, before passing over the witness and out of sight. View full report
Source: MUFON (Jan, 2003) ID: 920
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Interaction/Reaction, Witness Sketch
Witnesses report 'frisbee-shaped' object over Bennet Lake, Michigan
November, 21, 2003 - Bennett Lake, Michigan, United States
In the early morning hours of 21 November, 2003, Robert Williams and his mother Christine Williams, observed an extremely bright light hovering over Bennett Lake at an altitude of about 50-60 feet. As the object approached to within 250-300 yards of the witnesses, the intense white light began to dim, and both witnesses were able to make out a defined structure. They agreed that the object had a definite "frisbee" shape, and was complete with individual white lights around the perimeter. View full report
Source: MUFON (2004) ID: 919
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Body Lights, Animal Reaction, Witness Sketch
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
Cylindrical object moving 'intelligently' over St. Louis, MO
June, 2, 2005 - St. Louis, Missouri, United States
"While driving with my wife to the store she noticed something in the sky and realized it was oddly shaped (cylindrical) and moving in an intelligent manner... I had never seen a craft move so oddly (against the wind, stopping, moving again and then finally moving up through the upper clouds and disappearing completely." View full report
Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center), Peter Davenport ID: 900
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
