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25 witnesses observed a black oval shaped object

2002 - Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada

And in a clear sky overhead and to the south was a black object in the oval shape of a rugby ball! It was not moving and stayed exactly where it was as we approached. It seemed to be about 2000 feet above the ground near our Central Park and about the size of a 747. Many people pulled off the highway to look at it, including 2 policemen. It did not move at all and was not a balloon or kite.  View full report

Source: Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research (hbccufo.org) (Credit: UFO*BC)   ID: 1137
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Group Sighting, Police, Witness Sketch

Large glowing disc hovers near Oregon home

2002 - Oregon, United States

The witness described a "really large, plate like, fluorescent lit airborne craft" floated silently and slowly to the right, revealing itself for its size and brilliance as it continued to drift into view. The 100 foot wide glowing craft tilted slightly and came to a stop just beyond the trees some 60 feet away and 50 feet up.  View full report

Source: Eric Byler. Oregon UFO Review, 2002   ID: 1015
Case Type: StandardCase

Photograph of Small, Spherical Object Over Water

2002 - Burnett Heads, Australia

Elaine from Burnett Heads, dropped into the ABC Wide Bay studios (in Austrlia) with a photo she took in winter, 2002. "My husband and I probably took five photos or so over an hour... When we got the photos back one had a round thing in the picture that we couldn't explain!"  View full report

Source: ABC Wide Bay, Queensland, Australia / UFO Casebook   ID: 405
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Photo

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

Unknown object photographed in Canada

November, 14, 2001 - Resolute Bay, Canada

"I took several shots of the surrounding airport terrain and when I got back to the office a week later I went through the 100 plus photos. To my surprise picture number 97 had an object in the background."  View full report

Source: Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research   ID: 262
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Photo

The Gundah Mackay Abduction Milieu

October, 5, 2001 - Near Tiaro, Australia

An extraordinary and controversial milieu has developed around events that reportedly began late on the evening of Thursday, October 4th, 2001, at a Gundiah property near Tiaro, culminating in the early hours of Friday, October 5th, 2001, and then played out in the glare of rapidly escalating media coverage.  View full report

Source: Bill Chalker & Diane Harrison   ID: 64
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Abduction

Disk-Shaped Object Photographed by Military Pilot in Hungary

September, 29, 2001 - Budapest, Hungary

"A military pilot recorded a spectacular video of a silver disk object on September 29, 2001. The craft was flying to his left side and then moved very fast past him in the clouds as can be seen in the video."  View full report

Source: Kal Korff / Rense.com   ID: 404
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Photo, Military, Pilot/Aircrew

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

Large black triangle craft with glowing red portholes in the Arizona desert

September, 2001 - Near Phoenix, Arizona, United States

"Saw a huge black triangle with glowing red port holes in the Arizona desert. It was moving slowly along a river where i was camping. It was blacker than night with 6 large glowing red port holes along the side that I could see. The red portholes glowed but did not emit light. They did not brighten up the area or any of the surroundings. The craft was just sort of "gliding" along. Like anti-gravity."  View full report

Source: ufoevidence.org   ID: 801
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Silent, Portholes/Windows

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

Large black triangle UFO over Idaho mountain

September, 27, 2000 - Challis, Idaho, United States

Immense, triangular shaped object hovering motionless and silently, witnessed by four hunters camping in Idaho. The triangle was estimated to be at least the size of a football field, several hundred feet on all sides. The object then moved away silently, and was seen to have a white light at each of its corners and a red strobing light from the middle.  View full report

Source: Skywatch International / NUFORC / UFO Casebook   ID: 13
Case Type: StandardCase

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

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
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