UFO Incidents
McMinnville UFO Sighting
On May 11, 1950, Paul and Evelyn Trent took two photographs of an object flying in the sky near their farm in rural Oregon. Skeptics have debated and attempted to debunk the photos for decades. Everyone can agree that the Trents never tried to profit from the photographs that became so famous and deeply scrutinized....
Mexican Air Force Video
On March 5, 2004, Mexican Air Force pilots recorded infrared video of eleven unidentified flying objects flying at an altitude of 11,500 feet near Campeche. In 2004, Jaime Maussan, a Mexican investigator, was given a video by Secretary of Defense General Ricardo Vega Garcia. This infrared video, taken from a Mexican...
Muhammed Ali UFO Encounters
On the September 7, 1973 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Muhammed Ali described his encounters with, and ongoing interest in UFOs. Ali appeared along with Ken Norton on the Johnny Carson show, and he didn't waste time getting into the subject: "I've been studying UFOs. Did you know there are UFOs out here flying...
Nash-Fortenberry UFO Sighting
Pilots William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry witnessed a group of eight brightly lit, saucer-shaped objects fly in formation over Chesapeake Bay. This case was officially classified as "unknown" by Project Blue Book and has been cited as a UFO incident that contributed to the U.S. military taking UFOs more...
Newhouse UFO Tremonton Utah
This 16mm film of 12-14 bright objects in the sky above Utah, shot by Navy photographer Delbert C. Newhouse, stirred considerable interest from government investigators at Project Blue Book. According to Newhouse, the Air Force took possession of the film and returned a poor quality copy with less than half of the...
Oldfield Film
Well-known at the time, this short, blurry film purported to depict a UFO from within an airplane. This incident was debunked by the BBC and faded into obscurity. In 1966, Joan Oldfield shot a brief film from her seat on a passenger plane that was initially thought to depict a UFO flying outside of the plane, and...
Phoenix Lights
"Bigger than anything I've ever seen in the sky ... absolutely silent." Thousands of people across Nevada and Arizona witnessed two different sets of lights in the sky on March 13, 1997. The U.S. military explanation has left many in the public unconvinced. On March 13, 1997, thousands of people across a geography...
Putin Volgograd UFO Sighting
On Thursday, February 2, 2023, a "color-changing UFO" was reported by four Russian passenger aircraft near Volgograd, Russia. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin was giving a speech in Volgograd that commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. Although details and sources are sparse,...
Ronald Reagan UFO Sighting
Although official documentation and details are limited, it has been reported that Ronald Reagan witnessed a UFO while Governor of California, and had a lifelong interest in the subject. In 1974, while flying in a Cessna Citation to Bakersfield, California, Reagan and three other passengers witnessed an unusual moving...
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,...
The Battle of Los Angeles
During the early morning hours of February 25th, 1942, the U.S. military launched over 1,400 rounds of anti-aircraft fire into the night sky above Los Angeles amidst widespread confusion and panic. Conflicting eyewitness accounts, inconsistencies in DOD explanations, and a famous LA Times photograph have long served...
Trans-en-Provence Case
Renato Nicolai, a French farmer living in the small region of Trans-en-Provence, claims to have witnessed a small unidentified flying object land on a patch of ground near his house. This case is different than many UFO cases in that there was reported to be physical evidence of the landing, in the form of marks and...
