selected ufo cases
Press Report
Fourteen young hikers encounter saucer-shaped object
July, 28, 1976 - Winsted, Connecticut, United States
Fourteen young hikers of Camp Delaware, including a 24-year-old counselor, said they encountered a whining, saucer-shaped object during an afternoon hike on the 1,460-foot Blueberry Hill. The object was noticed following a high pitched screech, then hovered silently at tree-top level on an angle above the witnesses' heads. View full report
Source: Winsted Citizen (Winsted, CT), Aug. 23, 1976 ID: 373
Case Type: PressReport Features: Group Sighting, Children
Boys on camping trip report sighting UFO
July, 26, 1976 - Patesville, Kentucky, United States
Five boys were camping in a forest valley, when at around 11 p.m. one of the boys glimpsed a bright, glowing bell-shaped object traveling at fantastic speed in an east-to-west direction. The object was a glowing, golden color, and maintained an altitude of 450-500 feet'. The boys described it as emitting "sparkles" from the rear as it traversed the sky. View full report
Source: Hancock County Clarion (Hawesville, KY), July 29, 1976 ID: 418
Case Type: PressReport Features: Children
UFO lands and humanoid taps young schoolboy on shoulder
February, 23, 1975 - Kofu City, Japan
Young Japanese schoolchildren watched a UFO touched down on February 23, 1975. The landing took place near Kofu City, Yamanshi Prefecture, Japan. An occupant allegedly emerged and touched one child on the shoulder, temporarily paralyzing him. The occupant then walked around the craft and reboarded. The boys, in hysterics, ran home to their parents, who observed a large, orange-red light hovering over the vineyard. View full report
Source: Yamanashi Nichi-Nichi Shimbun (Daily News, Japan), Feb. 25, 1975 ID: 443
Case Type: PressReport Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Children, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo, Physical Trace
UFO with two occupants hovers over man's car
1975 - San Antonio, Texas, United States
A 48-year-old San Antonio sheet metal worker claims he had a close encounter of the third kind with two occupants of a UFO. He was driving his pickup truck just south of San Antonio when he "was approached, spotlighted and, nearly buffeted off the road by an unidentified craft," investigators report. View full report
Source: San Antonio Evening News (San Antonio, TX), Feb. 20, 1978 ID: 437
Case Type: PressReport Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Vehicle Interference, Witness Sketch, 'Dyad Scout Craft'
Man finds gold 'nugget' after seeing bright light
1972 - Sierra Mountains near Stanislaus River, California, United States
Tom McCully of Merced said he had gone camping alone and was up before dawn fishing when he first noticed a bright pulsating light reflecting off the water. Then he said there was a sudden brilliant flash and something like hailstones pelted the area around him. Frightened, he bent down, he said, to pick up his fishing pole, which had dropped, and noticed what appeared to be a gold nugget. View full report
Source: Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA), Sept. 13, 1976 ID: 374
Case Type: PressReport Features: Artifact, Witness Photo
City Youth Tells Of A Strange Ship
May, 1967 - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"The bespectacled 14-year-old was just going to his home at 5311 106th St., when he said he noticed the “space ship” and began the vigil which has probably resulted in the most detailed report of any UFO in the Edmonton area." View full report
Source: The Edmonton Journal, May 8, 1967 (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) (Credit: UFO*BC) ID: 348
Case Type: PressReport Features: Physical Trace, Children, Witness Photo, Witness Sketch
Sheriff reveals 1966 UFO encounter and death of dog
August, 9, 1966 - Richmond , Virginia, United States
"I happened to look up and there was that UFO right above the cornfield, it was just hovering right up above the power lines" about 200 feet in the air, Mathews said. The craft, which Mathews described as white and about 30 feet in diameter, made hardly a sound and emitted no light. "It was just like the ones you see on TV," Mathews said. View full report
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia), October, 1999 ID: 1073
Case Type: PressReport Features: Police, Animal Reaction, Interaction/Reaction, Silent
Planes chased by elliptical luminous object, EM effects over Japan
March, 21, 1965 - Himeji, Ieshima Islands, Japan
"Inaba was the captain of the Convair-240, with 28 passengers aboard, which encountered the oblong and luminescent object over the Ieshima Islands in the Seto Inland Sea at 7.06 p.m. on Thursday. Fearing a collision, Inaba turned the plane 60 degrees to the right, but the flying saucer made an abrupt turn and flew along with the plane for about three minutes." View full report
Source: Tokyo Japan Times, March 21, 1965 (UPI), Mainichi Daily News (Tokyo), March 22 ID: 628
Case Type: PressReport Features: E-M Effects, Pilot/Aircrew
County councillor reveals sighting of dome-shaped UFO in Cornwall, UK
1965 - Karslake, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Joan Vincent, County and Restormel Borough Councillor, revealed that she and her husband Roy had observed a mystery craft late at night during 1965 in a then rural area. The matter remained "virtually a family secret" over the years because the couple feared that they would be ridiculed if they told their story. The UFO was "a large, dome-shaped object that looked as if it were made of glass," estimated to be 50-70 feet across and 30-40 feet high. View full report
Source: Ian Shepherd, Cornish Guardian (Bodmin, England), Nov. 26, 1998 ID: 729
Case Type: PressReport Features: Portholes/Windows, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo
Multiple witnesses observe saucer above road in 1955, UK
July, 17, 1955 - Bexley, United Kingdom
It was July 17, 1955 when Margaret Fry spotted the object as she was making her way to her GP's surgery in King Harold's Way from her home in Hythe Avenue. Mrs Fry described it as saucer shaped with a "blue/silver/grey/pewter texture, yet none of those colours". She said it had three spheres set into its base, one of which "flopped out", landing on the ground at the junction of nearby Ashbourne and Whitfield roads. View full report
Source: The News Shopper, (London, UK), March 7, 2007 ID: 1054
Case Type: PressReport Features: Witness Photo, Humming, Rotary/Spin Motion, Body Lights, Portholes/Windows, Children, Group Sighting, Landing
Navy Sees 'Flying Saucers' on Radar Screen
December, 16, 1954 - Goulburn, Australia
Navy pilot has reported seeing two "flying saucers" flash past him while he was flying over Goulburn, N.S.W. Radar officers at Nowra Fleet Air station picked up the objects on their screen. View full report
Source: Daily Telegraph December 16th 1954 ID: 22
Case Type: PressReport Features: Radar, Pilot/Aircrew, Military
Teenage Girls See Saucer
June, 6, 1954 - Dandenong, Melbourne outer suburb, Australia
Girls claim, a ‘flying saucer hovered less than 20 yards above their heads. A cylindrical shape, about 30ft. Long and 15ft. High, with a canopy and window on top and a window on each end View full report
Source: Sunday Telegraph June 13th 1954 / Australian UFO Research Network ID: 19
Case Type: PressReport Features: Children
'Human Figures Seen in Saucer'
June, 1954 - East Malvern and Carnegie , Australia
Witnesses said they thought they had seen human figures in a flying saucer. They saw the figures through portholes in the saucer they said. Six people reported having seen a pear-shaped, green object. View full report
Source: Daily Telegraph JUNE 1954 / Australian UFO Research Network ID: 20
Case Type: PressReport Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Portholes/Windows
The Farmington UFO Armada
March, 17, 1950 - Farmington, New Mexico, United States
"Fully half of this town's population still is certain today that it saw space ships or some strange aircraft -- hundreds of them zooming through the skies yesterday. Estimates of the number ranged from & quotes several to more that 500. The objects appeared to play tag high in the air. At times they streaked away at almost unbelievable speeds." View full report
Source: Farmington Daily Times, March 18, 1950 ID: 880
Case Type: PressReport Features: Multiple UFOs, Group Sighting, Mass Sighting
Disc Zooms Down Snake River Canyon, Idaho
August, 13, 1947 - Snake River Canyon, Idaho, United States
A farmer and his two sons, were at his fishing camp on August 13, 1947. He noticed an object some 300 feet away, 75 feet above the ground. It was edge hopping, following the contour of the ground, was sky blue, about 20 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick, and had pods on the side from which flames were shooting out. It made a swishing sound. View full report
Source: Twin Falls Times News, (Twin Falls, Idaho) August 15th, 1947 ID: 415
Case Type: PressReport
Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Car' Photographed By Youth
July, 9, 1947 - Norfolk , Virginia, United States
The flying disc "was lots bigger then an automobile" and 13-year-old Bill Turrentine of 410 West fourteenth Street doesn't understand why almost everybody in Norfolk didn't see. He saw the large object, "rocking and spinning like a football" and coming from the southwest. View full report
Source: Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (Norfolk, Virginia), July 9th, 1947 ID: 414
Case Type: PressReport Features: Photo, Children
