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Stories137 · page 7

Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept

August 1, 1952 · Bellefontaine Air Force Station (Campbell Hill) and the Dayton area, Ohio

UAP · Sphere · 19 sources

54Partially documented

The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap

July 19, 1952 · Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB, Washington, D.C. area

UAP · Orb / light · 97 sources

61Well documented

Paul R. Hill's Hampton Roads sighting

July 16, 1952 · Hampton waterfront, looking south over Hampton Roads, Virginia

UAP · Sphere · 20 sources

26Thinly documented

Pope Pius XII sees the 'miracle of the sun' in the Vatican Gardens (1950)

October 30, 1950 · Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes (Lourdes Grotto), Vatican Gardens

Paranormal · Orb / light · 26 sources

14Thinly documented

The Oak Ridge Atomic Plant Radar-Visual Flap

October 1950 · Oak Ridge and Knoxville, Tennessee

UAP · Other · 23 sources

58Partially documented

Seymour Hess sighting at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, 1950

May 20, 1950 · Lowell Observatory, Mars Hill, Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona

UAP · Sphere · 15 sources

21Thinly documented

Radar-Visual Sighting Over Dayton and Wright-Patterson AFB (ATIC)

March 8, 1950 · Dayton Municipal Airport, Vandalia, and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

UAP · Sphere · 12 sources

50Partially documented

The Paget Silver Sphere, Bermuda 1949

June 20, 1949 · South Shore, Paget Parish, Bermuda

UAP · Sphere · 6 sources

21Thinly documented

The L'Île-Bouchard apparitions: Our Lady of Prayer

December 8, 1947 · Church of Saint-Gilles, L'Île-Bouchard, Indre-et-Loire

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 22 sources

31Partially documented

Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings

July 8, 1947 · Muroc Army Air Field and Rogers Dry Lake, Kern County, California

UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources

40Partially documented

The USAT Delarof Sphere, Aleutian Islands (1945)

c. 1945 · Open sea past Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

UAP · Sphere · 12 sources

25Thinly documented

The Heede Apparitions

November 1, 1937 · Old churchyard of St. Petrus in Ketten, Heede, Emsland, Lower Saxony

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources

27Thinly documented

The Empty Chair: Conan Doyle's Spiritualist Memorial at the Royal Albert Hall

July 13, 1930 · Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources

17Thinly documented

Mihal Grameno and the Shining Object over Çerçiz Topulli's Camp

c. 1907 · High mountain pasture, Gjirokastër region, southern Albania (then Ottoman Empire)

UAP · Unknown · 22 sources

15Thinly documented

The Utsuro-bune (Hollow Ship) of Hitachi, 1803

1803 · Sharihama beach, Hasaki, Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture (historic Hitachi Province)

UAP · Other · 34 sources

19Thinly documented

The Alençon "fiery globe" landing and Inspector Liabeuf's report

June 12, 1790 · Hilltop near the city gates of Alençon, Orne, Normandy

UAP · Sphere · 18 sources

6Thinly documented

The 1566 Celestial Phenomenon over Basel (the Basel Broadsheet)

August 7, 1566 · Münsterplatz, Basel

UAP · Sphere · 28 sources

14Thinly documented

Names28 · see all

Ivan T. Sanderson Person · 27 stories
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
Adrian Shine Person · 13 stories
Adrian Shine was a naturalist with the Loch Ness and Morar Project.
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos Person · 12 stories
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
Baikonur Place · 8 stories
A Soviet launch site whose rockets turn up again and again in the debate over strange lights.
Taylor Person · 8 stories
Several different people share this surname in the archive.
Allan Hendry Person · 6 stories
Allan Hendry was chief investigator for the Center for UFO Studies, and he wrote The UFO Handbook.
Ryan Graves Person · 6 stories
A Navy F/A-18F pilot with VFA-11, the Red Rippers, flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana.
Guardia Civil Organisation · 5 stories
Spain's Guardia Civil turns up again and again in the archive, as witnesses, investigators and record keepers.
Mount Tomorr Place · 5 stories
A mountain in Albania, and the setting of one of the country's best known UFO cases.
Corbell Person · 4 stories
Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has spent years putting military UAP footage in front of the public, usually working alongside reporter George Knapp.
Graves Person · 4 stories
Lt.
Jeremy Corbell Person · 4 stories
A filmmaker who keeps returning to footage the public was never meant to see.

Documents224 · see all

Sighting of Unusual Phenomenon on Horizon Near Iranian/Ussr Border FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1966-08-03· 3 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 2 …The sphere appeared suddenly and at the first sighting was approximately three times the size of a full moon. At…
- p. 3 …One theory advanced to me was that the sphere was a "false moon" and that such a phenomenon was seen…
Sighting of Unusual Phenomenon on Horizon Near Iranian/Ussr Border FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1955-09-28· 2 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …The sphere appeared suddenly and at the firstighting was approximately three times the size of a full moon. At the…
- p. 2 …One theory advanced to me was that the sphere was a "false moon" and that such a phenomenon was seen…
Dechmont Law UFO information leaflet Document

West Lothian Council· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …Intrigued, Taylor began to approach the sphere but as he did so two smaller spheres dropped from the main sphere…
NASC Inquiry into Bahia, Brazil Incident, November 13, 1963 Official release

Executive Office of the President· 1963-11-13· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …THE MYSTERIOUS SPHERE HAS WINDOW SHAPED OPENINGS COVERED WITH THICK GLASS. INSIDE IS A HUMAN BODY DRESSED IN HEAVY CLQTHING…
Defense Intelligence Reference Document Invisibilty Cloaking Theory And Experiments Report

Defense Intelligence Agency· 29 pages· 5 pages mention it
- p. 23 …A line drawn from the North Pole of the sphere through a point on the surface intersects the equatorial plane…
- p. 24 …Light rays would either pass the sphere or enter, through the connecting line, the surface of the sphere, whereupon, after…
AAWSAP DIRD, Invisibility Cloaking Theory and Experiments, March 2010 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 2010-03-02· 29 pages· 5 pages mention it
- p. 23 …A line drawn from the North Pole of the sphere through a point on the surface intersects the equatorial plane…
- p. 24 …Light rays would either pass the sphere or enter, through the connecting line, the surface of the sphere, whereupon, after…

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Videos75 · see all

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“Orbs Over the Pond,” 2024

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From The CARET Drone UFO Photographs

testimony: UAP was a cube within a transparent sphere!

From The Cube Inside a Sphere: Navy Near Miss off Virginia Beach

U.S. Air Force Sphere Video ('Mosul Orb')

From The Mosul Orb: MC-12 Footage Over Iraq

LEAKED Video: Alien Sphere Over Iraq?

From The Mosul Orb: MC-12 Footage Over Iraq

Special Report: Inside the Buga Sphere

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