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UFO Encounter at Little Fox Lake, Yukon
March, 30, 2000 - Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada
Witnesses saw a 30 to 40ft diameter saucer, hovering about 200 ft off the ground! . It was a classic disc shape with a dome on top. The dome had two curved windows or lights from which a blue light was shining. The car headlights dimmed and their tape deck stopped playing. Their watches stopped functioning. View full report
Source: Martin Jasek ID: 115
Case Type: StandardCase Features: E-M Effects, Vehicle Interference, Portholes/Windows, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo
Large oval-shaped craft with blue 'ionized' gas on rear flying slowly over highway
January, 7, 2000 - Busch Wildlife Area, Missouri, United States
"Saw craft appear out of darkness when cloud of ionized gas, or corona effect, appeared at back end of craft. The blue corona lasted for about 3 or 4 seconds. Craft was moving slowly westward, at altitude of 500 to 1000 feet. Back end of craft was approx. 60 to 100 feet across, and 15 to 30 feet high." View full report
Source: ufoevidence.org ID: 800
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Illinois Triangle UFO Sighting (by multiple police officers)
January, 5, 2000 - Illinois, United States
This famous UFO case involved the sighting of a huge unidentified triangular-shaped UFO by police officers and others in the early morning hours of January 5, 2000, over the state of Illinois. The officers, from a number of small Illinois towns, were able to track the unknown object and maintain radio contact with each other during the event. Their in-depth testimonies have been fully documented by investigators. View full report
Source: David B. Marler, Illinois State Director, MUFON Journal No. 383 (March 2000) ID: 277
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Police, Polygraph Test, Portholes/Windows, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo
Formation of three black triangle craft hovering over Los Angeles
2000 - Los Angeles, California, United States
"I was driving with my then girlfriend late one afternoon before sunset... I had to lean forward to be able to see up through the windshield to observe 3 identical black triangular objects... The objects were motionless and we could not hear any noise from the objects... The objects were in a loose triangle formation separated from each other by a distance of approximately 5 times their individual width." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 899
Case Type: RawReport Features: Multiple UFOs, Witness Sketch
Low-flying, slow-moving triangle object passes over house
2000 - Newtown Square, California, United States
"We stood in our driveway as they passed directly over us, moving very slowly. The objects were the shape of an equilateral triangle with large round lights on each of the three tips. The closeness of the objects and the light polution of the suburb allowed us to see the shape of the object beyond the illuminated tips." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 391
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Long, tube-like object with small lights flying behind
August, 8, 1999 - Makena Beach, Maui, Hawaii, United States
"It was shaped like an eight-sided object---but long tube like... there was a break in the object, and then there was a second (same 8 sided shape tube) closely behind it. As it passed I saw many darting lights flying around the end of the object. It seemed to be translucent... meaning we could see though it, but it had lights all along the six-sided shape" View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 470
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
The Washington State Elk Abduction
February, 25, 1999 - Cascade Mountains, Near Mt. St. Helens, Washington, United States
A team of forestry workers allegedly had been witness to an incident on Thursday, February 25, 1999, during which time an elk was lifted off the ground and carried away by a very peculiar, disc-shaped object. View full report
Source: National UFO Reporting Center ID: 14
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Animal Reaction, Witness Photo, Group Sighting
Chinese Air Force pilot chases 'mushroom-shaped' UFO
October, 19, 1998 - Changzhou, China
The [Chinese] air force had a prolonged up-close encounter with a UFO last month that one fighter pilot described as "just like ones in foreign movies," a government-controlled newspaper reported Thursday. At least 140 people on the ground also saw the object. They described an object with a mushroom-shaped dome on top and a flat bottom covered with bright, continually rotating lights. View full report
Source: AFP (Agence France Presse) - November, 1998 ID: 1074
Case Type: PressReport Features: Group Sighting, Pilot/Aircrew, Military, Radar, 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
Cross-shaped object hovers above car in Australia
August, 27, 1998 - Echuca, Australia
"It was about 75 to 150 feet above us and completely still... I got out of the car to have a closer look... It was large and had what appeared to be four wings like in a cross. I estimate the size at about 60 feet across. Each wing would be 20 feet and the centre canopy was also about 20 feet and glowing red." View full report
Source: James Owen, VUFORS (Victorian UFO Research Society), Australia ID: 616
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Witness Sketch
Noctural light with light beam; animal reactions; satellite objects
March, 4, 1998 - Southgate, Australia
Donna noticed a very bright white light just above the horizon, and an estimated 2km away. During their close observation, the light did some unusual maneuvers and some unexplainable things were observed. There was a 'wedge shaped' beam of light emanating from the object. All witnesses observed an estimated 50 smaller objects entering the main object from the left and right. View full report
Source: Barry Taylor, Network Update 06.02.98 (AUFORN, Robert Frola) ID: 1094
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Light Beam, Animal Reaction, Sound, Multiple UFOs
Unknown Object Seen and Photographed in Turkey
1998 - Yamanlar Mountain Peak, near Karagol , Turkey
"For at least a hundred times," Cem Arat and Mehmet Safak returned to the site at the Yamanlar Mountain Peak near Karagol, where they saw and photographed a strange object in February 1996. This time another UFO showed up. They shot a lot of pictures, but the object was moving so fast, that they caught it on only two. View full report
Source: Michael Hesemann ID: 402
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Photo
Police officer observes unknown craft
October, 27, 1997 - (Location unknown),
From the witness: "I observed an aircraft, approx. 150-200ft above ground level and approx 300-500ft slant range from my location. It was rolling out of a right bank and the streetlights were illuminating it enough so that I could see a distinct silhouette of the fuselage and the underbelly. This object appeared to be the same color as the night sky, flat black or dark gray. There were no lights, no exhaust flames and no engine noise... just absolute silence!" View full report
Source: coasttocoastam.com ID: 1155
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Police, Silent
Large triangular-shaped object with lights observed in Paris, France
September, 7, 1997 - Paris, France
On September 7, 1997 at 01 hours 43, a witness observes from his balcony a triangular form with two blue lights and a green one which moves slowly on a rectilinear trajectory. The observation lasts 12 seconds. No noise was perceived but the witness felt vibrations in the body, and when he wanted to take a photograph, its apparatus was blocked. The dimension of the object was estimated by the witness at approximately 700 meters. The investigation did not make it possible to give an explanation to this phenomenon. View full report
Source: GEIPAN (French government UFO program) ID: 1124
Case Type: SummaryReport Features: Body Lights, Physiological Effects, Silent
Mexico City 1997 UFO Video
August, 6, 1997 - Mexico City, Mexico
In September 1997, [Mexican TV host and UFO researcher] Jaime Maussan received a very special package. Someone had sent him a video tape, in itself nothing remarkable. But when he played the tape on his video recorder, it took his breath away. For the anonymously sent recording showed nothing but points of light and sky - except for a large, metallic, structured, rotating disk, which maneuvered in broad daylight over Mexico City, with a dateline of 6 August 1997. View full report
Source: Michael Hesemann (2000) ID: 864
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Photo
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
