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Stories19

The ODNI Preliminary Assessment on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (the 2021 Pentagon UFO Report)

June 25, 2021 · Washington, D.C. (delivered to the congressional intelligence committees)

UAP · Unknown · 49 sources

51Partially documented

The Roswell Slides and the BeWitness Event

May 5, 2015 · Auditorio Nacional, Paseo de la Reforma 50, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City

UAP · Being / humanoid · 29 sources · 1 photos

32Partially documented

Chilean Navy / CEFAA Infrared Video

November 11, 2014 · Off the coast west of Santiago, between San Antonio and Quintero, Valparaíso Region

UAP · Other · 35 sources · 1 photos

35Partially documented

Jerusalem Dome of the Rock UFO Videos

January 28, 2011 · Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount, Old City of Jerusalem (filmed from the Armon Hanatziv promenade)

UAP · Orb / light · 27 sources

9Thinly documented

The El Bosque Air Show UFO

November 5, 2010 · El Bosque Air Base, Santiago

UAP · Other · 23 sources · 1 photos

36Partially documented

2010 Chinese Airport Closures: Hangzhou Xiaoshan and Baotou

July 7, 2010 · Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, Zhejiang (second incident at Baotou airport, Inner Mongolia)

UAP · Other · 50 sources

43Partially documented

The Yukon Mothership: Fox Lake, 1996

December 11, 1996 · Fox Lake, Carmacks and Pelly Crossing, Klondike Highway, Yukon

UAP · Other · 33 sources

23Thinly documented

Skinwalker Ranch (Sherman Ranch)

1994 · Skinwalker Ranch, southeast of Ballard, Uintah County, Utah

UAP · Other · 84 sources

44Partially documented

The French UFO wave of 5 November 1990 (Gorizont 21 re-entry)

November 5, 1990 · Across France, from the Bay of Biscay to Alsace (Gretz-Armainvilliers, Tulle, Dax, Colmar, Mulhouse), also seen from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany

UAP · Triangle · 36 sources · 1 photos

54Partially documented

The Petit-Rechain Triangle Photograph

c. 1990 · Petit-Rechain, Verviers, province of Liège

UAP · Triangle · 27 sources · 3 photos

22Thinly documented

Kosmos 1188: the "Dolphin" and "Jellyfish" UFO over Russia and South America

June 14, 1980 · Moscow and European Russia; Buenos Aires and South America

UAP · Other · 15 sources

43Partially documented

The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident (Dogfight over Tehran)

September 19, 1976 · Tehran (Shemiran, Mehrabad Airport and airspace north and south of the city)

UAP · Other · 46 sources

59Partially documented

Travis Walton Abduction

November 5, 1975 · Turkey Springs, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, near Heber, Navajo County, Arizona

UAP · Being / humanoid · 45 sources

26Thinly documented

Jimmy Carter UFO Sighting, Leary, Georgia

January 6, 1969 · Leary, Calhoun County, Georgia

UAP · Orb / light · 42 sources

35Partially documented

Malmstrom AFB Echo and Oscar Flight Missile Shutdowns

March 16, 1967 · Echo Flight missile complex between Hilger and Winifred, near Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana

UAP · Disc / saucer · 47 sources

36Partially documented

The Great Soviet Crescent sightings, 1967

1967 · South-western USSR, from Ukraine to the Caucasus (Donbas, lower Don, Kislovodsk, lower Volga)

UAP · Other · 28 sources

41Partially documented

Betty and Barney Hill Abduction

September 19, 1961 · US Route 3 near Indian Head, Lincoln, New Hampshire

UAP · Being / humanoid · 61 sources

43Partially documented

Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: the Battelle statistical study, 1955

May 5, 1955 · Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio (for Project Blue Book, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 32 sources

35Partially documented

The McMinnville (Trent) UFO Photographs

May 11, 1950 · Trent farm, southwest of McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon

UAP · Disc / saucer · 56 sources · 6 photos

37Partially documented

Names6

Robert Sheaffer Person · 19 stories
A sceptic of the UFO field, and a Skeptical Inquirer columnist.
Venus Term · 59 stories
The planet Venus was the explanation sceptics offered again and again.
Skeptical Inquirer Organisation · 57 stories
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
William K. Hartmann Person · 9 stories
An astronomer, and one of the Condon Committee's most careful investigators.
Allan Hendry Person · 6 stories
Allan Hendry was chief investigator for the Center for UFO Studies, and he wrote The UFO Handbook.
McMinnville Place · 5 stories
A town in Oregon, and the name attached to one of the most debated photo cases in the archive.

Documents2

NASA Information Sheet 78-1 on UFOs Document

NASA / DoD FOIA reading room· 1978· 7 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 7 …Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal UFO Subcommittee Robert Sheaffer, Chairman 9805 McMillan Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301…
Black Vault compilation, pp. 91-93 Document

The Black Vault· 134 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 101 …Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal UFO Subcommittee Robert Sheaffer, Chairman ~805 Mcf'1illan Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910…
- p. 103 …computer spec1alist Robert Sheaffer. concluded that the photo was made wnh a smudged lens and that the obiect appears to…