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UFO Encounter at Little Fox Lake, Yukon Featured Case

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 Featured Case

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) Featured Case

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 Featured Case

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 Featured Case

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 Featured Case

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

Witnesses in sailing ship observe UFO with lights in France

July, 3, 1997 - Perigny, France

In the night of July 3, 1997 at 4 a.m., a witness in his sailing ship observes an intense gleam which goes down quickly during 2 to 3 seconds, stabilizes itself a few moments before moving out again very quickly horizontally to disappear in 2 or 3 seconds approximately. The witness calls his two fellow-members who were sleeping to announce his observation to them when they are witnesses to a second phenomenon in the form of yellow rhombus ochre with lights on the tops.  View full report

Source: GEIPAN (French government UFO program)   ID: 1122
Case Type: SummaryReport    Features:  Body Lights, Water-Related, Witness Sketch

Woman observes a 'frisbee-sized' UFO near Whitehorse, Yukon

June, 1997 - Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada

The witness "went outdoors for a look and there out over her septic field about 50 meters away this object hovering just a meter or two above the ground. It was a pale, pale green, almost white and had a bright glow to it. It was about the diameter of a frisbee and about 10 centimetres (4 inches) thick. When it flew by her deck, she estimated it to be travelling slightly slower than a thrown frisbee. She continued to watch the object for about 20 minutes just hovering back and forth."  View full report

Source: Martin Jasek   ID: 1010
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Animal Reaction

The Phoenix Lights Featured Case

March, 13, 1997 - Phoenix, Arizona, United States

The Phoenix Lights UFO incident is a complex series of events that took place on March 13, 1997 over the states of Nevada, Arizona, and possibly New Mexico, and which would quickly become known as the "Phoenix Lights" sightings. It involved sightings by tens, or perhaps even hundreds, of thousands of witnesses on the ground, and it gave rise to a storm of controversy over what had caused the event.  View full report

Source: Peter B. Davenport, Director, National UFO Reporting Center   ID: 270
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Mass Sighting, Silent, Photo, Witness Sketch, Famous Person, Witness Photo

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

22+ Witnesses Observe a UFO Larger than a Football Stadium Featured Case

December, 11, 1996 - Yukon Territory, Canada

On December 11th, 1996 an incredible "UFO event" took place in the Yukon Territory, Canada. The giant craft was believed to be from a half mile to over a mile in diameter based on triangulation calculations and the testimony of the witnesses.  View full report

Source: Investigated by Martin Jasek, M.Sc., P. Eng.   ID: 96
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Group Sighting, Witness Sketch

Hungarian Photo Snapshot Featured Case

October, 27, 1996 - Erpatak, Hungary

Lajos Kosina's girlfriend posed for one snapshot in her parents garden and no one noticed anything unusual in the sky at the time. Upon having the photograph developed some weeks later Lajos was surprised to see a ‘disc-shaped’ object in the sky behind his girlfriend.  View full report

Source: Hungarian UFO Network (HUFON) / Philip Mantle   ID: 237
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Photo, Witness Photo

Father and two sons witness object with lights travelling slowly

October, 8, 1996 - North Croydon & Wonga Park, Australia

The object was then at its closest point to us. It had a large bright light at either end, with 4 Possibly 5 smaller lights in between. At either end, behind the large lights there were very small red and blue lights that were not easily visible. These smaller lights looked like portholes. The large light on the leading end went out and there was a dimmer light coming from inside, similar to an interior light of a car shining out the windscreen.  View full report

Source: VUFORS (Victorian UFO Research Society), Australia   ID: 732
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch, Body Lights, Portholes/Windows

Pilot encounters giant pyramid-shaped UFO over Pelotas, Brazil Featured Case

October, 5, 1996 - Pelotas, Brazil

Brazilian pilot Haroldo Westendorf, 39, was flying over Pelotas when he encountered an enormous pyramid or cone shaped UFO, with 8-10 sides; it was 100 meters in diameter and 70 meters high. Westendorf was able to fly around the base of the object three times, at one point coming as close as 40 meters. Then, out of an opening at the top of the craft, a smaller classic disc-shaped UFO emerged and flew off at tremendous speed. Three air traffic controllers and others on the ground also witnessed the event.  View full report

Source: CNI News, Dec. 20, 1997   ID: 699
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Pilot/Aircrew, Multiple UFOs
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