UFO Incidents
Las Vegas UFO
This incident involves two stories that have been brought together as one — the observation of a bright streak of light in the skies over Las Vegas, Nevada and a 911 call that was placed shortly after to report something unusual in a family's backyard. On April 30, 2023 around 11:50 PM, a police officer's body...
2016 Mosul Orb
An image depicting a metallic orb in the foreground of footage from a U.S. spy plane has sparked interest and questions about the nature and origin of this object. Acquired by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, the publicly released image was taken from footage collected by a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over...
Barra da Tijuca Photos
Photographer Ed Keffel and reporter João Martins claim to have witnessed - and documented with five famous photos - a UFO near Barra da Tijuca, Brazil. The authenticity of these photos has been in question for years. On May 7, 1952, at approximately 4:30 PM local time, photographer Ed Keffel took five photos of an...
STS-48 UFO with "Abrupt Turn"
Video footage from NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery on September 15, 1991, during the STS-48 mission, shows some objects that display unusual motion. This video has resulted in speculation and debate that the objects may have been self-propelled. In a detailed paper published in New Frontiers in Science (Vol. 3 No.1,...
USS Theodore Roosevelt UAPs
Hundreds of UAP sightings were reportedly observed by US Navy pilots flying off of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the mid-2010's. Two notable videos of such sightings--the "Gimbal video" and the "Go Fast video"--were verified as authentic by the Pentagon and were released to the public in 2019. The USS Theodore...
The Roswell Incident
The Roswell Incident is the granddaddy of UFO lore, the event which propelled UFO fascination into the modern mainstream zeitgeist. Over 75 years later, questions are still outstanding and the incident is shrouded in mystery. We know something crashed in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1947. But that is where...
1952 Salem UFO Photo
On July 16, 1952, Shell R. Alpert, a photographer with the U.S. Coast Guard, took a famous photograph of four bright objects in a "V" formation in the sky. This iconic photo was part of a wave of UFO sightings and awareness in the early 1950s. Alpert recounted the sighting, "I was sitting in the photo office filing...
1953 Lockheed Sightings
Two sets of witnesses observed a dark, sharply outlined object in the sky off of Point Mugu in Southern California. Observed from the ground and a Lockheed test aircraft, both parties provide remarkably consistent accounts of the UFO. On Wednesday, December 16th, 1953 between 5:00 PM and 5:05 PM, two sets of...
1967 Devon UFO Sighting
Sgt. Roger Willey and Pc Clifford Waycott witnessed an "unusual bright white light in the sky" while driving along a country road in Devon in October 1967. They reported that the object was moving slowly, and that it was bright white. Waycott said, "It wasn't a star. It was bright - it was white. If you look at glass...
1973 Coast Guard UFO
Two fishermen and the Coast Guard on the Pascagoula River observed "an unidentified submerged illuminating object" that projected a beam of amber light and followed their boats. On November 6, 1973, Raymond Ryan was night fishing on the Pascagoula River when he observed an underwater object that followed his boat....
1976 Tehran UFO Incident
Multiple Iranian military and civilian personnel witnessed a group of fast-moving, bright objects in the sky above Tehran. The objects appeared to be able to disable the communications and instrument controls on F-42 military jets, and performed maneuvers that were beyond the capabilities of known human aircraft. At...
1997 Mexico City UFO Video
This famous video from 1997 depicts a saucer-shaped object hovering and wobbling over Mexico City. Also known as "El OVNI de las lomas," there is disagreement as to whether this is a hoax. Delivered to Jaime Maussan's office at Televisa, this video attracted much attention and scrutiny when it was made public. In the...