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PC Colin Perks's Wilmslow Sighting
January 7, 1966 · Alderley Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire
United Kingdom
UAP · Other · 15 sources
36Partially documented
Northeast Blackout UFO Sightings, Clay Substation and Syracuse (1965)
November 9, 1965 · Clay substation, near Syracuse, New York
United States
UAP · Sphere · 16 sources
35Partially documented
The Rex Heflin UFO Photographs, Santa Ana 1965
August 3, 1965 · Myford Road near Walnut Avenue, outside Santa Ana (Tustin/Irvine area), Orange County, California
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 39 sources · 16 photos
40Partially documented
Tinker AFB and Wichita Radar Sightings, 1965
August 1, 1965 · Tinker AFB, Midwest City (Oklahoma City), Oklahoma, with reports across Oklahoma and at Wichita, Kansas
United States
UAP · Formation · 17 sources
51Partially documented
The Big Sur Atlas Missile UFO Film
September 1964 · Anderson Peak area, Los Padres National Forest, above Big Sur, Monterey County, California (filming site); launch from Vandenberg AFB
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 38 sources
19Thinly documented
Pro early
Beauford E. Parham's Giant Spinning Top, Northeast Georgia, 1964
June 29, 1964 · Highway between Carnesville and Lavonia, Franklin County, Georgia
United States
UAP · Other · 9 sources
22Thinly documented
Pro early
The Willow Grove Close Encounter: Charles Brew's Milking-Shed Sighting
February 15, 1963 · Brew family dairy farm, Willow Grove, Victoria (northwest of Moe)
Australia
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
17Thinly documented
Pro early
The Camba Punta Airport Sphere
July 31, 1962 · Cambá Punta International Airport (now Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International Airport), Corrientes
Argentina
UAP · Sphere · 15 sources
25Thinly documented
The Sauchie Poltergeist ("Wee Hughie"), Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, 1960
November 22, 1960 · 19 Park Crescent, Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 24 sources
22Thinly documented
Clan Lake crash
1960 · Clan Lake, about 30 miles north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Canada
UAP · Other · 17 sources
33Partially documented
The Antônio Villas Boas Abduction
October 15, 1957 · Villas Boas family farm near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais
Brazil
UAP · Egg · 64 sources
25Thinly documented
Pro early
The Lergravsviken "bicycle-bell" discs (the Åkerberg sighting), Gotland
August 5, 1957 · Lergravsviken, near Fårösund, Rute parish, Gotland
Sweden
UAP · Disc / saucer · 12 sources
20Thinly documented
Pro early
Captain Rainbow's NAC DC-3 "Flying Light", Waitara to the Waikato Coast
November 1, 1955 · Off the North Island west coast, from west of Waitara to the Waikato River mouth (between Ohura and Raglan)
New Zealand
UAP · Unknown · 17 sources
33Partially 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
Goose Bay AFB radar-visual sighting: "target suddenly enlarges"
June 19, 1952 · Goose Air Base (now CFB Goose Bay), Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador
Canada
UAP · Unknown · 25 sources
44Partially documented
The Mariana UFO Film
August 15, 1950 · Legion Park, Great Falls, Montana
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 63 sources · 3 photos
55Partially documented
The Little Green Men of Steep Rock Lake
July 2, 1950 · Sawbill Bay, near Steep Rock Lake, Atikokan, Ontario
Canada
UAP · Disc / saucer · 14 sources
7Thinly documented
The Oskar Linke Landing at Haselbach
June 17, 1950 · Near Haselbach, by Gleimershausen, Thuringia (Soviet Zone)
Germany
UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources
37Partially documented
The McMinnville (Trent) UFO Photographs
May 11, 1950 · Trent farm, southwest of McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 56 sources · 6 photos
37Partially documented
Pro early
Kodiak Naval Radar-Visual Encounters: P2V-3 Patrol Plane and USS Tillamook
January 22, 1950 · Naval Air Station Kodiak, Kodiak, Alaska
United States
UAP · Other · 18 sources
51Partially documented

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Documents239 · see all

  • ADA128307 UFOsandUAPs FOIA release
    Office of the Secretary of Defense· 9 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 7 …Third, even if the charged particles are indeed rotating several thousand km above the Earth, it is still impossible for…
    • p. 8 …7 • 2 4 UFO Rotation Speed Spiral Spiral Shape Direction of Spiral Motion 1 - 2 cycle/min several disclike nearly…
  • Sightings of Flying Saucers of Unconventional Aircraft FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 1955-10-31· 2 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 1 …It was also a similarly object with a single light in the middle at the top and a rotating light…
  • German Scientist's Article on 'Flying Discs' FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 1950-06-01· 8 pages· 4 pages mention it
    • p. 5 …Flettner proved that the conditions of a rotating object are similar to those which appear in a "translatorischen" movement. Thus…
    • p. 7 …The attaching of spoodily rotating tops assures side stability. There is also the possibility of attaching horizontal auxiliary propellers of…
  • Eyewitness Account of UFO Sightings Published FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 1980-10-01· 5 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 3 …It was rotating (but I have forgotten the direction of rotation), and it had a power source that emitted light…
    • p. 4 …We saw only that it belched smoke and shot out tongues of flame as it rotated off to the south…
  • Tabulation on Unconventional Flying Object Sighted Near Baku (with Memo Attached Dated 560123, Subject: Sighting of Unconventional Flying Object Near Baku, USSR on 4 October 1955) FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 1956-01-24· 4 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 3 …NOTION OF JET Rotated slowly as it rose Rotation not seen made three to seven spirals Rotated slowly NOTION OF…
  • AARO GoFast Case Resolution (mirror) Document
    The Black Vault· 2025-02· 26 pages· 7 pages mention it
    • p. 8 …This calculation was done by defining a line-of-sight (LOS) or “pointing” vector and then rotating this vector around…
    • p. 9 UNCLASSIFIED 9 UNCLASSIFIED elevation and denoted by β; the angle of rotation about the z-axis is the “left and…

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Videos9 · see all

Released footageFBI-UAP-PR0022022
“Red Orb Rotation,” Northeastern United States, 2022
PURSUE release
Released footageDOW-UAP-PR0732022
IIR 1 655 S0053 23/Several Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Encountered In The Vicinity of Columbus OH"
PURSUE release
Released footageFBI-UAP-PR0012021
“Triangle Orbs,” Northeastern United States, 2021
PURSUE release
Released footageDOW-UAP-PR0972019
"Hi-Res: [CALLSIGN] Observes UAP on 25SEP19 at 2135Z"
PURSUE release
Released footageFBI-UAP-PR0042025
“Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025
PURSUE release
Video2009
the rotating light, northern Norway. What do you think it is?
From The Norwegian Spiral Anomaly
Video1944
Oliva Mazzocchi testimony
From The Ghiaie di Bonate apparitions: Adelaide Roncalli's visions of the "Queen of the Family" and the whirling sun over Bergamo
Video1982
24 July 1984 Bob Pozzuoli Videotape Excerpt
From The Hudson Valley UFO Wave (The Westchester Boomerang)

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