selected ufo cases
Nuclear Facilities (Nuclear Bases and Power Plants)
'Sinister-looking' black triangle craft with 4 lights over Kentucky
September, 30, 2005 - Paducah, Kentucky, United States
The witness was going home when he encountered "a sinister looking thick flat black triangle with rounded edges and four large white lights under it. [It was] flat across the bottom." The apparent size of the object was two feet across at arm's length. There was a "very low rumble that seemed to be behind and higher up than the [object]." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 586
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Nuclear Facility
Triangular-shaped, silent object with lights seen in Kentucky
September, 4, 2005 - Murray, Kentucky, United States
"We saw a triangular shaped object traveling south-east. It was moving faster than an airplane. It was similar to an isosoleis triangle; the two longest sides were lined with atleast 6 lights each and the shortest side appered dark/transparent. It appeared to be as large as 2 1/2 moons. It was silently traveling low in the horizon." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 467
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Nuclear Facility
Large triangular craft with three lights at each end
July, 5, 2004 - Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
"There it is coming right over the house. This thing is massive!... 3 lights (brownish orange very dim ), one at each point of the triangle, not that it is pointed but at the ends. The ends are rounded off. It seems to be a blue black color but flat no shine, almost a rough finish, a circular dome dead center of the bottom in a hexagon type enclosure. " View full report
Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (www.hbccufo.org) ID: 457
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Witness Sketch, Nuclear Facility
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
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
The Rendlesham Forest Incident
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
Kirtland Air Force Base 1980 UFO Landing
August, 9, 1980 - Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
On the morning of August 9, 1980, several security guards at the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, adjacent to Kirtland AFB, saw a bright light descend in (a) restricted area. A fourth guard observed a disk shaped light in the vicinity of a bunker used to store nuclear weapons. The incident resulted in a report being filed with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) at Kirtland. View full report
Source: Francis Ridge, NICAP ID: 218
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Military, Nuclear Facility
