selected ufo cases
All Cases: Sorted by Date Posted
Multi-colored flying object paces family in Temuka, New Zealand
July, 12, 1981 - Temuka, New Zealand
Mr. and Mrs. Thew were returning to Temuka (New Zealand) from Pleasant Point with their three daughters when a multi-coloured flying object paced them along the Waitohi Road in the early hours of the morning of July 12, 1981, approaching to within 120 yards of their car and changing colours as it went. It was estimated to be around 32ft in diameter, with a height of 15ft, and with windows around the object. View full report
Source: Timaru Herald (Timaru, New Zealand), 7/31/81 ID: 937
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Vehicle Encounter, Body Lights, Silent
Rectangular object with 'man' standing inside seen through binoculars in Westerville, Ohio
October, 2003 - Westerville, Ohio, United States
My wife and I were sitting on the back porch and saw a rather large bright object in the south-eastern sky. Looking through 7x50 field glasses [binoculars], we could easily make out an object that had 5 large retangular windows, with a "man" standing inside. . My wife and I could see him clearly through the windows. He was wearing a white or, light-colored one-piece suit from the neck on down. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 935
Case Type: RawReport Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Sketch
Large black triangle flies low over witness in 1971 in South Carolina
October, 1971 - Florence, South Carolina, United States
The sighting occurred in the fall of 1971 in Florence, SC. Around dusk one evening the witness went out to the backyard and watched as a large, black triangular craft was passing directly overhead. It was about 300 ft across from tip to tip and about half that distance from front tip to the rear. It was perfectly silent. After the object traveled out of sight, four fighter jets came screaming over, going in the same path. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 933
Case Type: RawReport Features: Silent
Ball of fire moves over 4 witnesses in boat on Bear Lake, Florida
July, 1983 - Bear Lake, Forest City, Florida, United States
The four witnesses had gone out in their boat to the middle of the lake, when they noticed a strange light that apeared as a flaming ball, orange and red with flames licking upward then like tongues of fire vanishing over the ball. The light then went out, but after a minute or two the fireball appeared again, directly over the witness' boat, before shooting away. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 932
Case Type: RawReport Features: Water-Related
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
Triangular, double-V shaped object seen by 3 people in Almunécar, Spain
August, 1992 - Almunécar, Granada/Andalusia, Spain
Three people were on a beach at Almunécar, in South Spain, at around 2 a.m., when they saw a triangular flying object, with a kind of bright "V" ( 2 of them) in the direction on the flight - just like two boomerangs fliying one behind each other, with the peak fordwards. It flew over their heads, without a sound, and disappeared with a "shining". The sighting lasted for about 10 seconds. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 930
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Silent
Six white discs in triangle formation over Illinois
May, 27, 2006 - Northbrook, Illinois, United States
"Discs were white looking. The discs were not bright, but rather dull white appearance. They definitely were not lights. The outstanding observation of the white discs was that they all had some size, and were perfectly placed between each other and in front of each other, making a perfect triangle (in inverted Christmas tree)." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 929
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, Multiple UFOs
Large black triangle seen by four witnesses in Munich, Germany in 1984
July, 1984 - Munich, Germany
On a warm summer night, four witnesses were lying on the banks of the Isar River when they saw three multicolured lights with a triangle dark shadow between the edges hovering in the sky from west to east. The sides of the object (the distances between the lights) were 30 or 40 meters in length. The object was flying at low speed and there was absolutely no noise at all. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 928
Case Type: RawReport Features: Silent, Witness Sketch
Photographs of close-range metallic object taken near Zdany, Poland
January, 8, 2006 - Zdany, Poland
A series of photographs was taken during an encounter with a metallic object by multiple witnesses near Zdany, Poland, in January 2006. Two men were returning from a wedding party when they spotted an object flying across the road. A moment later their car engine stopped, as well as the engine of another car behind them. One of the witnesses took a series of photographs. The encounter lasted at least 8 minutes, after which the car engines started with no problems. View full report
Source: Nautilus Foundation, Poland ID: 926
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Photo, Vehicle Interference
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
Dome-shaped object with 'humming' noise flies over house
1990 - Langley, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
"Sitting in loft room watching TV. Body became frozen, became aware of pulsating humming / electrical noise. Saw bright green object through window. Slow moving, dome-topped with 3 smaller domes on otherwise flat underside. Flew pretty much over the house." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 924
Case Type: RawReport Features: Humming, Witness Sketch, Physiological Effects
Large object hovers over TV station tower in Florence, SC, in 1970
March, 1970 - Florence, South Carolina, United States
The witness, who was an employee at a TV station, saw a "UFO in broad daylight hovering on top of the [TV] tower, [and then] ran back inside the station to get the news director, Mr. Bill Fields." The craft was metallic, round, with a round cupola on top of the craft. It was about 100 feet across and about 25 feet tall. The encounter lasted for more than four hours, during which the object moved and stopped a couple of times before shooting off at "blinding speed." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 922
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch, 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
Witnesses report 'frisbee-shaped' object over Bennet Lake, Michigan
November, 21, 2003 - Bennett Lake, Michigan, United States
In the early morning hours of 21 November, 2003, Robert Williams and his mother Christine Williams, observed an extremely bright light hovering over Bennett Lake at an altitude of about 50-60 feet. As the object approached to within 250-300 yards of the witnesses, the intense white light began to dim, and both witnesses were able to make out a defined structure. They agreed that the object had a definite "frisbee" shape, and was complete with individual white lights around the perimeter. View full report
Source: MUFON (2004) ID: 919
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Body Lights, Animal Reaction, Witness Sketch
Large 'inverted trapezoid' seen by several witnesses in Plymouth, Devon, UK
January, 1983 - Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
Large, low flying , silent and slow inverted trapezoid witnessed by two other people that I know of (who chased it in a car through Stoke village) as well as two other members of my family. [It had] lit up windows on it and it was apparently following a Dash 7 commercial airplane on route to land at Plymouth airport. The local paper the next day reported that a couple of women in a car had also observed this object and attempted to follow it as far as they could in their vehicle. View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 918
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
Cylindrical object moving 'intelligently' over St. Louis, MO
June, 2, 2005 - St. Louis, Missouri, United States
"While driving with my wife to the store she noticed something in the sky and realized it was oddly shaped (cylindrical) and moving in an intelligent manner... I had never seen a craft move so oddly (against the wind, stopping, moving again and then finally moving up through the upper clouds and disappearing completely." View full report
Source: NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center), Peter Davenport ID: 900
Case Type: RawReport Features: Witness Sketch
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
The Cressy Cigar (Cigar-shaped object w/ satellite objects witnessed by Anglican minister and wife)
October, 4, 1960 - Cressy, Tasmania, Australia
The Cressy sighting remains as one of Tasmania's best known UFO sightings. The cigar shaped 'mothership' and attendant discs were witnessed by the local Church of England minister, the Reverend Lionel Browning and his wife. The case was investigated by the Royal Australian Air Force, details were taken by the Victorian UFO Society, whilst Prof: James E McDonald interviewed Rev Browning in 1967. View full report
Source: Keith Roberts, TUFOIC (Tasmanian UFO Investigation Center) ID: 897
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Clergy, Multiple UFOs
Landed saucer-shaped craft with ladder and 'turret' in Anchorage, 1966
1966 - Anchorage, Alaska, United States
"I was standing in the middle of our street and there was a craft on stilts or legs with a ladder down from the center. It had just snowed, and I remember windows on the upper round part... The main body was like an upside down saucer with a cylindrical 'turret' on the top. The 'turret' was approximately 3 feet across and 2 to 3 feet high and appeared to rotate." View full report
Source: UFOEvidence.org ID: 892
Case Type: RawReport Features: Landing, Portholes/Windows, Children, Witness Sketch
The Isla De Lobos Case in Uruguay
October, 28, 1972 - Isla de Lobos, Uruguay
This is a single witness sighting, and yet it has become the best case coming from Uruguay due to the in-depth investigation done by the members of C.I.O.V.I. research group. The witness, Corporal Juan Fuentes saw a landed craft with three occupants at close range for time of about one minute. He attempted to shoot at the occupants but was stopped from doing so. The occupants entered the craft, and the craft rose up and flew away at high speed. View full report
Source: Dr. Willy Smith (UNICAT Project)/ C.I.O.V.I. ID: 887
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Military
Flying orange orb witnessed by two women in New Brunswick
February, 9, 2003 - Indian Mountain, New Brunswick, Canada
It was a clear, cold early February morning when Amy Wilbur saw a flying orange orb in the sky. "It was a round orange ball in the sky hovering across the road and field to the west in front of our house," she said. "It was bright and light orange, the edges even brighter, a red-orange." The orange ball moved very slowly, downward and diagonally, said Wilbur. View full report
Source: Times & Transcript, October 30, 2003 (New Brunswick, Canada) ID: 886
Case Type: PressReport Features: 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
Circular object appears in photograph in Norwich, UK
November, 18, 2005 - Norwich, United Kingdom
"My husband photographed this object late last year. I had sensed it; however, the object wasn't visible at the time this photograph was taken. There were a lot of shoppers that day and the public never noticed it. It was hanging there, invisible except to the camera. It made no noise." View full report
Source: Rachel Kleypas-Sparrow / UFOEvidence.org ID: 883
Case Type: RawReport Features: Photo
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
