selected ufo cases
Sightings by Children & Youth
Small triangle craft with lights observed hovering above tree top in Washington state
January, 18, 2008 - Graham, Washington, United States
From the witness' father: 'she then witnessed a triangular shaped craft hovering just above a tree in the front of her house. She said it was "five feet" away but from her description it was more then likely about twenty feet away from her window... it is a standard triangle with little lights making the triangle form on the bottom and one larger light in the center of it." The size was "maybe twenty feet long and able to hold two people max." View full report
Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center, Peter Davenport, director) ID: 1179
Case Type: RawReport Features: Body Lights, Children, Silent
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
Disc Seen Over Cloverdale Elementary School
April, 22, 2000 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Three brothers were playing soccer with two friends at Cloverdale School, when one looked up in the clear sky and noticed a disk-shaped object that was silently moving in an easterly direction. The black or dark blue disk had white domes on top and bottom. It View full report
Source: Gord Heath, UFO*BC ID: 346
Case Type: RawReport Features: Children
Oscillating, orange cigar-shape object mesmerizes two young brothers
January, 1997 - Crestview Subdivision, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
Two brothers age 11 and 13 were sitting in their living room. While watching television, something caught the attention of the younger gentleman's eye. He was shocked to see an orange cigar shape with a yellow centre as depicted by his drawing below. The edges were well defined and there was a soft orange glow emanating around the object. View full report
Source: Martin Jasek (Yukon Report) ID: 885
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Children, Witness Sketch
The Varginha Incident (Brazil)
January, 20, 1996 - Varginha, Brazil
In 1996 in Varginha, Brazil, during the course of several weeks at least two and perhaps as many as six alien creatures were captured or killed and turned over to American authorities, and a UFO may have crashed. Eyewitnesses described the creatures as humanoid and 3 to 4 feet tall. They had dark brown, hairless skin, big triangular heads with three short "horns" on top, and huge red eyes that were vertically oval. View full report
Source: Press release by A.J. Gevaerd, Editor of UFO Magazine (Brazil), June 12th, 1996 ID: 498
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Crash/Retrieval, Injury, Children, Witness Photo
A Weird Night and Missing Time on the Pennine Hills
November, 5, 1994 - Penine Hills, United Kingdom
For two Rochdale youngsters remembering November 5th will never be a problem again, because it was on Guy Fawkes night of 1994 that they were subjected to a frightening ordeal that has left them both emotionally drained. View full report
Source: Flying Saucer Review, 1981? ID: 29
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Missing Time, Children
African Schoolchildren See Landed UFO and Occupant (Ariel School Sighting in Ruwa, Zimbabwe)
September, 16, 1994 - Ruwa, Zimbabwe
On 14th September, 1994, a UFO streaked across the sky over Southern Africa. Two days later, something landed in a schoolyard in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, with three or four things beside it, according to journalist Cynthia Hind. This was witnessed by 62 schoolchildren, who had little or no exposure to TV or popular press accounts of UFOs. Cynthia Hind interviewed them the day after the encounter and made them draw pictures of what they had seen. View full report
Source: Cynthia Hind, UFO AFRINEWS 1994 ID: 127
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Children, Group Sighting, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo
Voronezh, Russia UFO Landing and Aliens
September, 27, 1989 - Voronezh, Russian Federation
The story of the Voronezh aliens recounts the adventures of several young children who claimed to have seen a three-eyed alien with a robot escort. The alien was said to be about nine foot tall. The craft, according to eye witness testimony, landed on the outskirts of the city. Shortly thereafter, the tall alien appeared, and upon seeing the young lad, shot a type of weapon at him, causing him to vanish before the eyes of the other people around him. View full report
Source: UFO Casebook / other sources ID: 120
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Physical Trace, Physiological Effects, Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Children, 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
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
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
Young boy struck by beam of light from UFO
December, 5, 1980 - Foxboro, Massachusetts, United States
13 year-old boy declaring he had been struck by a beam of light from a UFO that seemed to appear above him from nowhere and to hover so closely that he could estimate its size to be "bigger than a house." View full report
Source: Joseph Nyman, Mass. MUFON Chief Investigator, Mass. MUFON and Edwin 'Ed' Fogg, Jr. ID: 3
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Physiological Effects, Children
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
Three boys frightened by strange creatures from landed UFO
May, 20, 1977 - West Pittsburg, California, United States
On the night of May 20, 1977, three Contra Costa County boys say they saw an object resembling a flying saucer land in West Pittsburg. They fled in terror when strange creatures came toward them, walking like stiff robots surrounded by smoke or steam vapor. The Center for UFO Studies, directed by J. Allen Hynek, considered this to be one of only three credible humanoid encounter cases of the year. View full report
Source: Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), Apr. 2, 1978 ID: 452
Case Type: PressReport Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Children, Portholes/Windows, Witness Photo
Cigar-shaped UFO with smaller objects observed in Jemgum, Germany
March, 7, 1977 - Jemgum, Germany
A 16 year old student, standing in front of his parents house, observed a bright spot in the sky. Through his binoculars, he could see that the object was cigar-shaped and surrounded by an orange-colored halo. This object filled 4/5 of his field-of-view in the binoculars. It appeared reflective, almost glaring. Smaller objects were also observed. View full report
Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger / MUFON-CES (1998) ID: 654
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Multiple UFOs, Children
Youth reports UFOs with 'greenish creatures'
January, 19, 1977 - Harrah, Washington, United States
Nine-year-old Jose Cantu of Harrah woke his mother up at about 6:30 a.m. asking her to explain the little "man" he saw outside. According to the boy, he had seen two greenish creatures about three feet tall, who rotated on a base instead of having feet, and two "steely" crafts in which 2 other creatures were sitting. View full report
Source: Toppenish Review (Toppenish, WA), Jan. 26, 1977 ID: 462
Case Type: PressReport Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Children, Witness Sketch, Physical Trace
