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Large rectangular object hovers over golf course in Traverse City, Michigan

September, 2001 - Traverse City, Michigan, United States

The witness was driving home after a high school football game when he saw an enormous rectangular "aircraft" hovering above a golf course at close range. The craft gave off an incredible amount of white light. It was just above treetops (maples) within 600 yards, and had an estimated size of 150 to 200 feet long. No sound was heard. Two people standing outside their house were also looking in the direction of the object.  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 931
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Golf Course, Witness Sketch

Aircraft mechanic encounters massive, silent flying triangle near interstate

May, 23, 2001 - Allen Park, Michigan, United States

"The object was unmistakably triangle-shaped and extended beyond the width of both north and south bound lanes of M-39, at an altitude approximated between 500 and 1,000 feet. Mr. J. told me that his years of experience working around aircraft (including the military), left him with the feeling that this aerial object was not an airplane."  View full report

Source: Darryl Barker (Producer: 'Edge of Reality' documentary on Illinois sightings)   ID: 588
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Witness Sketch

Close Sighting of Large Triangular Object

April, 1, 2001 - Stillwater, Minnesota, United States

"Sitting on the passenger side of the car the witnesses were traveling in, witness 1 noticed a lighted, triangular object to his right. The object appeared to be about 250 ft on a side. The witness reported the triangle was equalateral, though his (inexact) drawing shows it as isosceles. It was not possible to discern a texture to the surface of the object. A bright white light was at each apex of the triangle underneath the craft."  View full report

Source: Craig R. Lang, Mr. Dean DeHarpporte, Minnesota MUFON and NUFORC (Nat'l UFO Report. Center)   ID: 574
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Witness Sketch

Large cylindrical craft hovering over apartment block

March, 23, 2001 - North Sydney, Australia

A couple were in their third floor apartment in North Sydney when they noticed three dim flashlight like beams above a large tree near their balcony. As they went out on the balcony to investigate, they found no trace of the light source. Instead they discovered a large cylindrical craft hovering above the apartment block.  View full report

Source: UFO Society of Western Sydney - Research of Australian Close Encounters (RACE)   ID: 803
Case Type: SummaryReport    Features:  Witness Sketch

Bright white large oval object rises above a house

January, 4, 2001 - Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

"Whilst travelling home in my car with my wife when I saw a very bright oval shaped object rise up from behind a house. Although it was very bright it did not hurt your eyes to look at it. The object was slowly rising steadily above a house in the street. I stopped my car to observe it the object then started to move off to the right with its speed increasing."  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 585
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Police, Witness Sketch

Boomerang-Shaped Craft Over North Vancouver, BC

May, 15, 2000 - North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

They both saw a large boomerang-shaped craft in the northern sky, travelling west. It was big, silent and moving fast. Pete said that the first things that caught his eye were the seven wide triangles - one in the center and 3 down each side (see drawings).  View full report

Source: UFO*BC   ID: 53
Case Type: StandardCase

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

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

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

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

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
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