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Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness Film, Foyers Bay (1960)
April 23, 1960 · Foyers Bay, Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
30Partially documented
The March Locomotive Depot Sighting
c. 1960 · March locomotive depot, Hundred Road, March, Cambridgeshire (Isle of Ely / Fenland), England
United Kingdom
UAP · Sphere · 10 sources
19Thinly documented
Col. Remy Van Lierde's giant snake (the Congo snake or Katanga snake)
August 1959 · About 100 km north-north-west of Kamina Air Base, Katanga, Belgian Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources · 6 photos
33Partially documented
The Silpho Moor Flying Saucer, Scarborough 1957
c. 1957 · Silpho Moor, near Reasty Bank and Broxa Forest, north-west of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 22 sources · 1 photos
40Partially documented
The Milton Torres Intercept Order: RAF Manston, 1957
May 20, 1957 · RAF Manston, Isle of Thanet, Kent, and the skies over East Anglia
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 37 sources
41Partially documented
The Dover Strait Radar Object and the Javelin Scramble
April 29, 1957 · St Margaret's Bay, Kent, and the English Channel (tracks over Somerset and out past Land's End)
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 9 sources
40Partially documented
West Freugh Radar Incident
April 4, 1957 · RAF West Freugh and the Luce Bay bombing range, Wigtownshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 26 sources
48Partially documented
The Cleethorpes "Glass Globe" Tracked from RAF Manby
September 22, 1956 · Cleethorpes promenade and the Lincolnshire coast, observed from RAF Manby near Louth
United Kingdom
UAP · Sphere · 10 sources
40Partially documented
The Lakenheath-Bentwaters Radar-Visual Incident
August 13, 1956 · RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, with RAF Neatishead, Norfolk
United Kingdom
UAP · Orb / light · 45 sources
65Well documented
Flt Lt James Salandin's Meteor near-miss over Southend
October 14, 1954 · Over Southend-on-Sea, Essex (flight from RAF North Weald)
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 19 sources
24Thinly documented
The BOAC 'Flying Jellyfish': Captain James Howard and the Stratocruiser Centaurus
June 29, 1954 · Near the Quebec-Labrador border, about 150 nautical miles southwest of Goose Bay, Labrador
Canada
UAP · Formation · 16 sources
30Partially documented
Port Swettenham "Flying Cigar" Sightings
March 12, 1954 · Port Swettenham harbour (now Port Klang), Klang, Selangor, Federation of Malaya; second sighting also over Cheras
Malaysia
UAP · Cigar · 16 sources
24Thinly documented
The Skåne Disc: Transair Captain Ulf Christiernsson's Sighting
December 17, 1953 · Airborne near Hässleholm, Skåne, on the Malmö-Bulltofta to Stockholm-Bromma route
Sweden
UAP · Disc / saucer · 13 sources
27Thinly documented
RAF West Malling Vampire Sighting
November 3, 1953 · RAF West Malling, Kent, England
United Kingdom
UAP · Sphere · 17 sources
47Partially documented
The BEA "Two Saucers Rim-to-Rim" Sighting over the English Channel
October 9, 1953 · English Channel, on the London Airport (Heathrow) to Paris Orly route
International waters
UAP · Disc / saucer · 6 sources
24Thinly documented
Beachy Head radar 'blip' over the English Channel (1953)
1953 · RAF Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 12 sources
24Thinly documented
Little Rissington UFO Incident
October 21, 1952 · RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
46Partially documented
The RAF Topcliffe "Perfect Flying Saucer" During Exercise Mainbrace
September 19, 1952 · RAF Topcliffe, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire (approach to RAF Dishforth)
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
33Partially documented
The Dieppe Raid "battle replay" at Puys
August 4, 1951 · Puys, near Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandy
France
Paranormal · Other · 12 sources
20Thinly documented
The Mount Kilimanjaro Sighting from an East African Airways Lodestar
February 19, 1951 · Above Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), seen from a Lodestar over southern Kenya
Tanzania
UAP · Cigar · 14 sources
29Thinly documented
  • The National Archives· 22 pages· 14 pages mention it
    • p. 19 …17 McDonald, Air Vice Marshal Bill 54 Machrihanish, RAF 136 Manston, RAF 67 Mantell, Captain Thomas 39, 62, 91 Marcel…
    • p. 21 …UFO panic (1952) 46, 57 Wattisham, RAF 120–1 Watton, RAF 108 Waycott, Clifford 73 Weeden, Simon 105–6 Wells…
  • The National Archives (UK)· 2009-03· 8 pages· 4 pages mention it
    • p. 5 …p149 A RAF pilot and his student flying at 2,000ft near Cranwell (Lincolnshire) on 11 September 1991 saw a…
    • p. 6 …An RAF note reads: "Caller sounded genuine enough and his main concern seemed to be that he didn't want…
  • · 8 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 5 ARMS Email System Page 3 of 4 SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED UK Coast Buzzed By 24,000 MPH UFO RAF Our…
    • p. 6 …based phenomena ? Why after years of denial are the RAF releasing information confirming that we do have Unidentified Flying Objects…
  • dep ba1 FOIA release
    Office of the Secretary of Defense· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 1 …1.1.1.1 CD 13 Jan 81 ## 20: RAF/CC 1. Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80…
  • The National Archives· 13 pages· 8 pages mention it
    • p. 5 …According to Capt Edward Ruppelt, of Project Blue Book, it was the Topcliffe sighting that „caused the RAF to officially…
    • p. 10 …AIR 2/18564 and AIR 20/9320 contain reports from various RAF stations including RAF West Freugh in 1957. The…
  • The National Archives· 2011-08· 15 pages· 8 pages mention it
    • p. 5 …According to Capt Edward Ruppelt, of Project Blue Book, it was the Topcliffe sighting that ‘caused the RAF to officially…
    • p. 11 …AIR 2/18564 and AIR 20/9320 contain reports from various RAF stations including RAF West Freugh in 1957. The…

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