UFO Incidents
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...
USS Nimitz UFO Incident
The USS Nimitz incident is one of the most high-profile UFO sightings in recent history. Multiple U.S. Navy F/A-18 pilots witnessed a strange Tic-Tac shaped object in flight above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. A FLIR video captured the object and led to widespread media attention, including...
Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting
Kenneth Arnold – businessman and aviator – allegedly encountered nine craft operating in unusual flight patterns and at high rates of speed on June 24th, 1947 in Washington State. The event coined the term "flying saucer" and kicked off a UFO craze in the United States in 1947. On June 24th, 1947, Kenneth...
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
The events over Washington D.C. in July 1952 are some of the most famous events in the history of the UFO phenomenon. Many credible witnesses–including air traffic controllers and USAF pilots dispatched to intercept the objects–believe they saw physical objects in the sky and on radar during this period....
Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe
62 students at the Ariel School, ages six to twelve, reported an encounter with a UFO. Some students claim seeing a humanoid life form exit one of the crafts. The Ariel School was an expensive private school located in a remote area, Ruwa, outside the capital of Zimbabwe. Most of the students were from well-to-do...
2023 Chinese Spy Balloon
The U.S. Department of Defense stated publicly that they had detected and were tracking a Chinese surveillance balloon that traveled from the Aleutian Islands, across Canada, and into U.S. airspace. The high altitude surveillance balloon was, as of February 2, 2023, over Montana, and being actively tracked by...
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...
