selected ufo cases
Cases by Decade: 2000 to Current
A close daytime sighting
August, 10, 2003 - Canyon Creek Subdivision, Yukon Territory, Canada
The witness was driving toward Whitehorse on the Alaska Highway just north-west of MacRae Subdivision when she spotted an object on Haeckel Hill. The object was cigar-shaped, no wings or markings and looked like the body of an aluminum airplane. View full report
Source: Investigated by Hans Grasholm (UFO*BC) ID: 350
Case Type: StandardCase
Metallic object seen and photographed from plane
August, 4, 2003 - Gulf Of Mexico , Louisiana, United States
"Watching clouds on airplane window, notice a large object moving next to airplane almost same speed. I took my camera and take a picture and soon as possible, suddenly moved upward and when out of sight." View full report
Source: J.S. / UFOEvidence.org ID: 249
Case Type: RawReport Features: Photo
UFO seen and photographed in Poland
July, 26, 2003 - Brzostek, Poland
The unidentified object was first noticed as it flew above the city of Skurowa at an extremely high altitude. Then it changed course and flew over a market. The initial photos were taken while the witness was in his garden. View full report
Source: UFO Casebook / Tomek Wierszalowicz / Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research ID: 261
Case Type: PressReport Features: Photo
May, 27, 2003 - Phoenix, Arizona, United States
cigar shaped just hovering there - pinpoint lights alongside of it enough to show that it was a cigar shaped. At the ends of the cigar shaped object there were slightly larger red lights. It never moved, made noise, it just hung in there the whole time I watched it. Then suddenly it just took off upright toward the sky so fast and but it seemed like it just disappeared as it zoomed off. View full report
Source: NUFORC ID: 1
Case Type: RawReport
Silent, triangular craft sighted over West Seattle
May, 1, 2003 - Seattle, Washington, United States
'A triangular craft was moving across the sky above us at an altitude similar to airplanes in this part of the city (near Boeing field, not far from SeaTac Airport). It had a light at each of the points that was a dim orange and the lights seemed striped rather than solid. The craft was completely silent... We realized that [our dog] was trembling and then he became lethargic and lost his balance.' View full report
Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) ID: 447
Case Type: RawReport Features: Animal Reaction
Large triangle object flying at low altitude
February, 16, 2003 - Kirkland, Washington, United States
"I saw a GIGANTIC jet black triangle, with lights, come very slowly twords me (it was heading west) over the trees... Upon seeing this thing, I pulled my truck over to the side of the road approximately 1/4 mile west of the entrance to the high school. It appeared to be no higher than perhaps 75 to 100 feet, and it was IMMENSE." View full report
Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) ID: 445
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Flying orange orb witnessed by two women in New Brunswick
February, 9, 2003 - Indian Mountain, New Brunswick, Canada
It was a clear, cold early February morning when Amy Wilbur saw a flying orange orb in the sky. "It was a round orange ball in the sky hovering across the road and field to the west in front of our house," she said. "It was bright and light orange, the edges even brighter, a red-orange." The orange ball moved very slowly, downward and diagonally, said Wilbur. View full report
Source: Times & Transcript, October 30, 2003 (New Brunswick, Canada) ID: 886
Case Type: PressReport Features: Witness Photo
Weyauwega UFO Photographs
February, 2003 - Weyauwega, Wisconsin, United States
The witness states that she was outside during the evening and happened to notice lights that passed overhead. She says that her impression was the lights were from a balloon, which should be noted, but the photographs that she took seem to depict something other than a hot-air balloon or dirigible. View full report
Source: UFO Wisconsin Report ID: 260
Case Type: RawReport Features: Photo
Black triangle with 3 dome lights directly above car
January, 24, 2003 - Kingston , Ontario, Canada
"I couldn't believe my eyes; it was a black equilateral triangle right ahead of me above the road. The triangle was exactly even and equal in length on all three sides and each of the three angles. There was a large white dome light steadily 'glowing' at each of the three points... As it passed over my car I got a very good look at the bottom of the craft." View full report
Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center), Peter Davenport, Director ID: 580
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Video of close-range saucer-shaped object in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
2003 - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
A clear, close-range video of a saucer-shaped object spinning near a building in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria sometime in 2003. According to B. J. Booth, who eventually acquired and made public the video, it was taken by a woman, who made it available to local authorities in Bulgaria, who confiscated it from her. Luckily she had made a copy of it and placed it in the care of a friend. View full report
Source: B. J. Booth, UFO Casebook ID: 1027
Case Type: SummaryReport Features: Photo, Rotary/Spin Motion, Silent
Saucer-shaped craft with legs in Saskatchewan, Canada
November, 2002 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
From the witness: "It was a metal saucer shape with about 5 legs with these large metal balls under the legs but not attached to the legs. These balls were idle spinning very fast. It was almost like the spinning balls were keeping the UFO in mid air with the force. Then the balls started moving in a counter clockwise direction (still spinning) underneath the object in a circle." View full report
Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (hbccufo.org) ID: 1072
Case Type: RawReport Features: Multiple UFOs
Large, Luminous UFO Stops Cars, Electronics In City
July, 15, 2002 - Campamento Vespucio, Argentina
An unidentified flying object (UFO) of large size and intense luminosity was seen in the town of Campamento Vespucio. The event caused a sensation in this community. The object was of the size and shape of a rugby ball. The phones stopped working and the electrical systems of several cars were left for dead. View full report
Source: Scott Corrales - 'El Tribuno' de Salta - Argentina July 21, 2002 - Rense.com ID: 30
Case Type: PressReport Features: E-M Effects, Vehicle Interference
Enormous Cigar-Shaped UFO In Argentina
May, 1, 2002 - Cachi, Argentina
Three motorcyclists from Cachi saw 'an enormous cylinder measuring some 100 meters in length, shining like a mirror in the reflected light of the setting sun. It was shaped like a giant cigarette and flew slowly some 200 meters from the ground. View full report
Source: Scott Corrales, El Tribuno Digital (Argentina ID: 33
Case Type: PressReport
UFO seen floating on lake on witness' property in Tennessee
April, 10, 2002 - Tennessee, United States
At 5:30 A.M. the witness arose and went downstairs to the kitchen and opened the blinds to look for deer on the lake on her and her husband's property, when she saw a bronze metallic octagon-shaped object about 20 feet across which seemed to float on the lake. She heard no sound but watched the object for about a minute, then ran upstairs to call her husband to look. By the time the two returned the object had disappeared. View full report
Source: MUFON South Florida ID: 771
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Water-Related, Landing
Triangle UFO in Ewing, Kentucky
April, 2002 - Ewing, Kentucky, United States
From the witness: "When we got to our home, at the end of our drive was a black triangle with 3 dimly lit lights. The triangle made no sound and was just barely clearing the trees. The triangle traveled very slowly so its ability to maintain altitude was not due to aerodynamics. The next day my son and I took these photographs and added in a black triangle graphic to show what we saw." View full report
Source: coasttocoastam.com ID: 1154
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Silent, Body Lights
Family in car observes saucer-shaped object with lights hovering over trees, Orsay, France
February, 2, 2002 - Orsay, France
On February 2, 2002 around 7 p.m. 40, a family in the car observes a mass illuminated in the shape of saucer. This mass is of gray color with white luminous lights on its periphery. The phenomenon is stationary above the trees with a diameter estimated by the witnesses at about fifteen meters. No noise is perceived during the observation which was stopped because of the profile of the road. No explanation could be brought to this phenomenon. View full report
Source: GEIPAN (French government UFO program) ID: 1123
Case Type: SummaryReport Features: Body Lights, Silent, Witness Sketch
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
Large glowing disc hovers near Oregon home
2002 - Oregon, United States
The witness described a "really large, plate like, fluorescent lit airborne craft" floated silently and slowly to the right, revealing itself for its size and brilliance as it continued to drift into view. The 100 foot wide glowing craft tilted slightly and came to a stop just beyond the trees some 60 feet away and 50 feet up. View full report
Source: Eric Byler. Oregon UFO Review, 2002 ID: 1015
Case Type: StandardCase
25 witnesses observed a black oval shaped object
2002 - Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada
And in a clear sky overhead and to the south was a black object in the oval shape of a rugby ball! It was not moving and stayed exactly where it was as we approached. It seemed to be about 2000 feet above the ground near our Central Park and about the size of a 747. Many people pulled off the highway to look at it, including 2 policemen. It did not move at all and was not a balloon or kite. View full report
Source: Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research (hbccufo.org) (Credit: UFO*BC) ID: 1137
Case Type: RawReport Features: Group Sighting, Police, Witness Sketch
Massive Wing-Like Object at Mary Lake
December, 12, 2001 - Mary Lake Subdivision, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
A man came home from work to find that his daughter was very excited to tell him about a strange sight that she and others had seen early that morning. The daughter saw a massive, wing-like thing, slowly flying over, southeast. "All I know is that it was not a plane !" she added as an ending note. View full report
Source: Martin Jasek ID: 784
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Children
Unknown object photographed in Canada
November, 14, 2001 - Resolute Bay, Canada
"I took several shots of the surrounding airport terrain and when I got back to the office a week later I went through the 100 plus photos. To my surprise picture number 97 had an object in the background." View full report
Source: Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research ID: 262
Case Type: RawReport Features: Photo
The Gundah Mackay Abduction Milieu
October, 5, 2001 - Near Tiaro, Australia
An extraordinary and controversial milieu has developed around events that reportedly began late on the evening of Thursday, October 4th, 2001, at a Gundiah property near Tiaro, culminating in the early hours of Friday, October 5th, 2001, and then played out in the glare of rapidly escalating media coverage. View full report
Source: Bill Chalker & Diane Harrison ID: 64
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Abduction
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
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
