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Stories137 · page 1

Ukrainian Drone Six-Pointed Sphere Encounter

May 2025 · Front line, Ukraine (sector undisclosed)

UAP · Sphere · 20 sources

14Thinly documented

The Buga Sphere

March 2, 2025 · Alto Bonito sector, Guadalajara de Buga, Valle del Cauca

UAP · Sphere · 31 sources

35Partially documented

Anoka Police "Atom-Shaped" Sphere (FBI UAP File)

February 19, 2025 · Anoka, Minnesota (Domino's Pizza parking lot and Anoka Municipal Ramp), object toward Monticello

UAP · Sphere · 19 sources

34Partially documented

NASA UAP Independent Study Team final report

September 14, 2023 · Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

UAP · Sphere · 50 sources

38Partially documented

The Eglin AFB "Apollo capsule" UAP over the Gulf of Mexico (2023)

January 26, 2023 · Over the Gulf of Mexico, off the Florida Panhandle, in airspace used by Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

UAP · Other · 20 sources · 1 photos

53Partially documented

AARO "Middle East Object": MQ-9 Reaper Films a Silver Orb

July 12, 2022 · Undisclosed location, Middle East (geolocated by Bellingcat northeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria)

UAP · Sphere · 32 sources

36Partially documented

The Sendai White Balloon

June 17, 2020 · Aoba Ward, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture

UAP · Sphere · 39 sources

38Partially documented

The Crozon Sighting: Three Red Rectangles in the Storm (2020)

January 13, 2020 · Crozon, Crozon peninsula, Finistère, Brittany

UAP · Rectangle · 7 sources

10Thinly documented

USS Russell "pyramids" and USS Omaha "splashdown sphere"

July 2019 · Navy warning areas off San Diego, California (SOCAL range complex)

UAP · Triangle · 27 sources · 2 photos

59Partially documented

The Christchurch Colour-Changing Sphere: Oisin Lavelle's Footage

June 13, 2016 · Lower Cashmere, Christchurch, Canterbury

UAP · Sphere · 11 sources · 3 photos

17Thinly documented

The Mosul Orb: MC-12 Footage Over Iraq

April 16, 2016 · Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraq

UAP · Sphere · 25 sources · 2 photos

34Partially documented

The Pentyrch Incident: a pyramid of light and military helicopters over a Welsh village

February 26, 2016 · Fields behind Caz Clarke's home, Pentyrch, western edge of Cardiff, Wales

UAP · Triangle · 55 sources

33Partially documented

The GIMBAL and GOFAST Videos

January 2015 · Atlantic Ocean, about 300 miles off Florida (USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group)

UAP · Other · 61 sources · 2 photos

54Partially documented

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

2014 · Warning Area W-72, over the Atlantic east of Virginia Beach, Virginia

UAP · Sphere · 40 sources

34Partially documented

Peru's Air Force Revives Its UFO Office (DIFAA)

October 18, 2013 · Miraflores, Lima (relaunch); Cerro Marabamba, Huánuco and Chilca (sightings)

UAP · Orb / light · 47 sources

26Thinly documented

Collahuasi copper mine disc photographs

April 2013 · Collahuasi copper mine (Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi), Tarapacá Region

UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources · 2 photos

27Thinly documented

Ladakh Unidentified Luminous Objects at Pangong Tso (2012 to 2013)

August 1, 2012 · Thakung post, south bank of Pangong Tso, eastern Ladakh (then Jammu and Kashmir); later sighting at Lagan Khel, Demchok

UAP · Sphere · 27 sources

25Thinly documented

Kim Wilde's Garden UFO Sighting, Hertfordshire

June 26, 2009 · Kim Wilde's garden, Welwyn Hatfield area, Hertfordshire, England

UAP · Orb / light · 23 sources

18Thinly documented

The Conisholme Wind Turbine "Octopus UFO"

January 4, 2009 · Fen Farm (Conisholme Fen) wind farm, Conisholme, near Louth, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire

UAP · Sphere · 30 sources

37Partially documented

The Cláudio Case: Police Pursue Luminous Beings in Minas Gerais

November 19, 2008 · Cláudio, Minas Gerais

UAP · Being / humanoid · 24 sources · 8 photos

44Partially 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

Released footageFBI-UAP-PR0042025

“Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025

Released footageFBI-UAP-PR0032024

“Orbs Over the Pond,” 2024

California Drone UFO with Intelligent Spheres (Motion Stabilized)

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

From The Buga Sphere

New Buga Sphere Appears August 28 2025

From The Buga Sphere

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