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The Twining Memo: AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs'
September 23, 1947 · Headquarters, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources
28Thinly documented
The Villa Santina Encounter: L. R. Johannis and the Red Disc of Raveo
August 14, 1947 · Chiarsò valley, lower slopes of Col Gentile, near Raveo and Villa Santina, Carnia, province of Udine, Friuli
Italy
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
13Thinly documented
Snake River Canyon Disc: The A.C. Urie Sighting
August 13, 1947 · Auger Falls Trout Farm, Snake River Canyon, near Twin Falls, Idaho
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources
23Thinly documented
The Kerry Priests' Rocket-Like Object
c. 1947 · Killarney district, County Kerry
Ireland
UAP · Other · 9 sources
25Thinly documented
The Hamilton Field Escort Discs: Two Milky-White Objects Pace a P-80, 1947
July 29, 1947 · Hamilton Army Airfield, Novato, Marin County, California
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources
26Thinly documented
Twin Falls saucer hoax
July 11, 1947 · T. H. Thompson residence, Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources · 1 photos
28Thinly documented
Harmon Field Disc and Cloud Hole Photographs
July 10, 1947 · Harmon Field, Stephenville, Newfoundland
Canada
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
32Partially documented
Roswell Incident
July 8, 1947 · Foster ranch, about 30 miles south of Corona, New Mexico (announced from Roswell Army Air Field)
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 80 sources · 6 photos
64Well documented
Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings
July 8, 1947 · Muroc Army Air Field and Rogers Dry Lake, Kern County, California
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources
40Partially documented
Rhodes UFO photographs ("shoe-heel" photos), Phoenix, Arizona, 1947
July 7, 1947 · Phoenix, Arizona
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 33 sources · 1 photos
41Partially documented
United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho
July 4, 1947 · Over Emmett, Idaho, northwest of Boise
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources
23Thinly documented
The Caherciveen "Doughnut" Disc
c. 1947 · Caherciveen, Iveragh Peninsula, County Kerry
Ireland
UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources
23Thinly documented
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting
June 24, 1947 · Near Mount Rainier and Mineral, Washington
United States
UAP · Other · 67 sources
35Partially documented
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave
c. 1947 · United States (nationwide, heaviest in the Pacific states: California, Washington and Oregon)
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources
55Partially documented
The Maury Island Incident
June 21, 1947 · East Passage of Puget Sound, off Maury Island, King County, Washington
United States
UAP · Other · 77 sources
35Partially documented
The Malta fishermen's "submarine" with little men on deck
c. 1947 · At sea, 20 miles south of Malta, central Mediterranean
Malta
UAP · Being / humanoid · 10 sources
11Thinly documented
The Lariosauro of Lake Como: two hunters fire on a crested creature at Pian di Spagna
c. 1946 · Pian di Spagna, near Colico, northern tip of Lake Como, Lombardy
Italy
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
13Thinly documented
The Anchor Point "lizard-like monster": a beached carcass hailed as a dinosaur and identified as a killer whale (1946)
October 1946 · Anchor Point, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (near Homer and Kachemak Bay)
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 7 sources · 1 photos
31Partially documented
The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946
July 19, 1946 · Lake Kölmjärv, Överkalix, Norrbotten, Sweden (wave across Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark)
Sweden
UAP · Cigar · 54 sources · 2 photos
86Well documented
The Valais Monster and the Eischoll Wolf
April 26, 1946 · Central and Upper Valais, from Finges (Pfynwald) to Eischoll, Switzerland
Switzerland
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
38Partially documented

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  • Project Blue Book Special Report (second copy) Report
    Internet Archive· 309 pages· 96 pages mention it
    • p. 105 …Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1948 132 Table A35. Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups…
    • p. 107 …Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting, 1948 154 Table A84. Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting…
  • Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects Analysis
    United States Air Force, Air Technical Intelligence Center· 1955-05-05· 309 pages· 96 pages mention it
    • p. 105 …Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1948 132 Table A35. Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups…
    • p. 107 …Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting, 1948 154 Table A84. Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting…
  • (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects) FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 2005-07-12· 312 pages· 140 pages mention it
    • p. 107 …Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1948. 132 Table A35. Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups…
    • p. 108 …Evaluation of All Sightings for 1952 by Sighting Reliability Groups, Civilian Observers 139 Table A60. Reported Colors of Objects Sighted…
  • CIA-UAP-015, Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects) Case file
    Central Intelligence Agency· 312 pages· 95 pages mention it
    • p. 107 …Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1948 . Table A35. Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1949…
    • p. 109 …Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting, 1948 Table A84. Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting, 1949…
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense: 25_Sky_View_Final_Draft Official release
    Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.· 2023· 16 pages· 14 pages mention it
    • p. 5 …A timeline of reported sightings for the study period is provided in Figure 1, with a marked peak in sightings…
    • p. 10 …increasing sightings); values below 1 indicate a negative relationship (decreasing sightings). For example, the coefficient for Mean Light Pollution is…
  • Fact Sheet Air Force UFO Report FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-04-30· 5 pages· 5 pages mention it
    • p. 1 # NEWS RELEASE PLEASE NOTE DATE IMMEDIATE RELEASE ## FACT SHEET AIR FORCE UFO REPORT A total of 173 sightings of unidentified…
    • p. 4 …first, there is no evidence that unidentified sightings were inimical or hostile; second, there is no evidence that unidentified sightings…

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Videos351 · see all

Released footageFBI-UAP-PR0042025
“Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025
PURSUE release
Released recordingNASA-UAP-D003A1965-12-05
Gemini 7 Audio Excerpt, 1965
PURSUE release
Released footageDOW-UAP-PR0752021
"09JUN2021 [Platform] observed UAP in the ECS"
PURSUE release
Released recordingDOW-UAP-PR1601952-03-26
Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952
PURSUE release
Video1566
1561 Sky Battle: The Best of History's UFO Sightings, Ep 121
From The 1566 Celestial Phenomenon over Basel (the Basel Broadsheet)
Video1869
Bigfoot Sightings in Western New York: Steuben County
From The Wild Man of Woodhull: 200 Men Hunt a Shrieking Figure Through the Steuben County Woods
Video1871
The North Queensland Striped Tiger Cat or Marsupial Tiger sightings in the early 1900s
From The Sheridan Boy and the Striped Queensland Tiger, Cardwell (1871)
Video1896
'Mystery Airship' Sightings, 1896-1897
From Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897

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