List of UFO sightings

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This is a list of UFO sightings including cases of alleged alien sightings and abductions. Some cases are popularly known, and have become folklore. Others are more obscure, and known mainly to ufologists and enthusiasts.

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Date Name City, State Country Description Close Encounter Sources
1492-10-11 Christopher Columbus, while on the Santa María in the Atlantic Ocean, saw "a light glimmering at a great distance." It disappeared and reappeared several times during the night. 1 [1]
1566-08-07 Basel Switzerland Black globes appeared in the sky above the town. 1 [2]
1800-03-29 Quedlinburg Germany Prediger Fritsch saw a tiny spot crossing the sun in 6 hours. Arguably, this was a sunspot. 1 [3]
1802-02-27 Prediger Fritsch saw a tiny spot, similar to his 1800 sightings, crossing the sun in a northwestern direction. 1 [3]
1868 Copiapó Chile A strange "aerial construction" bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over the town. Local people described it as a giant bird covered with large scales and producing a metallic noise. This is the first nineteenth-century instance of close observation of an unknown object at low altitude. 1 [4]
1886-10-18 Maracaibo Venezuela The US consul of Venezuela in Maracaibo reports to Scientific American that a bright object, accompanied with a humming noise, appeared over a hut near Maracaibo. The people in the hut subsequently developed a sickness, which one could interpret today as radiation disease. The trees surrounding the hut withered after nine days. 2 [5]
1897-04-19 Aurora Texas UFO Incident Aurora, Texas United States An alleged UFO crash. ? [6]
1902 Eiffel Tower Lightning Damage Paris France In 1902, a lightning strike heavily damaged the upper 100 metres of Eiffel Tower, so that the section had to be rebuilt. It is speculated that, given the tower's electricity-conducive design, the damage could have been produced by a UFO as in the Val Johnson Incident of 1979. 2 [7]
1908-06-30 Tunguska event Podkamennaya Tunguska River Russia Most debated disaster, which occurred in 20th century, presumably an explosion of a comet entering atmosphere, however kept sometimes as explosion of an UFO 2 [citation needed]
1917-10-13 The Miracle of the Sun Fatima Portugal 70000 witnesses at Fatima saw the "sun dancing". The pheomena was visible in a radius of approximately 40 kilometres around Fatima. 2 [citation needed]
1926 Nicholas Roerich, Russian explorer and artist, reported in his travel diary that he and his companions encountered a silver metallic disc hovering above the Himalayas. The entire group observed the disc through binoculars for some time until it disappeared beyond the mountain peaks. 1 [8]
1940s Foo fighter Colorful spheres repeatedly spotted by military air crews around the world. 1 [citation needed]
1942 Hopeh Incident Hopeh China A UFO was spotted and photographed. 1 [citation needed]
1942-02-24 Battle of Los Angeles Los Angeles, California United States Unidentified aerial objects trigger the military to fire thousands of anti-aircraft rounds into the sky and raise the wartime alert status. 1 [citation needed]
1946 Ghost rockets Objects with characteristics of cruise missiles were sighted repeatedly over Scandinavia; Swedish Defense Staff expressed concern. 1 [citation needed]
1946-05-18 UFO-Memorial Ängelholm Ängelholm Municipality Sweden Gösta Karlsson claimed he observed a UFO landing. A model of a flying saucer was erected on the site. 3 [9]
1947-06-14 Roswell UFO incident Roswell, New Mexico United States United States Army Air Forces allegedly captures a flying saucer. 3 [citation needed]
1947-06-21 Maury Island incident Washington United States A highly controversial incident was reported, in which a dog was killed, a boy was injured by UFOs, and a witness was threatened by Men in Black. 2 [citation needed]
1947-06-24 Kenneth Arnold United States The UFO sighting that sparked the name flying saucers. 2 [10]
1948 Green fireballs Objects reported over several United States military bases; an official investigation followed. 1 [citation needed]
1948 Kapustin Yar A "cigar" shaped UFO was supposedly shot down by a Russian MiG. 2 [citation needed]
1948-01-07 Mantell UFO Incident Kentucky United States US Air Force sent a fighter pilot to investigate a UFO sighting over Fort Knox, Kentucky; the pilot was killed while pursuing the UFO. 2 [citation needed]
1950 Mariana UFO Incident Great Falls, Montana United States The manager of Great Falls' pro baseball team took color film of two UFOs flying over Great Falls. The film was extensively analyzed by the US Air Force and independent investigators. 1 [citation needed]
1951-08-25 Lubbock Lights Lubbock, Texas United States Lights were repeatedly spotted flying over the city. They were witnessed by science professors from Texas Tech University and photographed by a Texas Tech student. 1 [citation needed]
1952-07-13 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident Washington, D.C. United States A series of sightings in July 1952 accompanied radar/visual contacts at three separate airports in the Washington area. The sightings made front-page headlines around the nation, and ultimately lead to the formation of the Robertson Panel by the CIA. 1 [citation needed]
1952-07-24 Carson Sink UFO incident Nevada United States 1 [citation needed]
1952-07-09 Germany Oskar Linde, the former mayor of Gleimarshausen (Germany), observed a disc-shaped object on a forest clearing near Hasselbach, Thuringia. He also saw two strange-looking men working in its vicinity, which he assumed were Russian military staff. The object, which was observed by several witnesses, left a trace on the ground. 3 [11][12]
June, 1953 Otis AFB Falmouth, Massachusetts United States A man claims that a U.S Air Force radar operator and pilot bailed out over Otis Air Force Base because of engine failure. They were chasing a UFO. Plane and operator never seen again. Pilot lives and the canopy is the only thing recovered. 1 [13]
1953-08-05 Ellsworth UFO Case Bismarck, North Dakota United States A UFO appearing as a red glowing light is witnessed by forty-five people. The sighting takes place over a two night period. 2 [citation needed]
1953-11-23 Felix Moncla U.S Air Force Pilot disappears while pursuing a UFO. 3 [citation needed]
1954-10-25 Carmelo Papotto Tripoli Libya A colonist claims that he saw a UFO and some beings of unknown origin. 3 [14][15]
1955-08-21 Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter Kentucky United States A group of strange, goblin-like creatures bullied a family, while the family shot at them. 3 [citation needed]
1956-10-08 Appearance of The Virgin Mary at Eisenberg Eisenberg Austria Mutual appearance of The Virgin Mary after which a cross appeared in the lawn, which was visible until 1993. 2 [16][17]
1957 Antonio Villas Boas Brazil Antonio Villas Boas claimed to have been abducted and examined by aliens. He also claimed to have had sex with an alien woman during his time aboard a UFO. 4 [citation needed]
1957-11-02 Levelland UFO Case Levelland, Texas United States Numerous motorists reported seeing a strange, glowing, egg-shaped object which caused their vehicle's engines to shut off. When the object flew away, their vehicles restarted and worked normally. 2 [citation needed]
1959 Dyatlov Pass Accident Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The mysterious deaths of nine experienced skiers in a remote area of the Ural Mountains is believed to have been caused by "unidentified orange spheres". The lead investigator believes that the deaths were due to an "unknown compelling force", and has no doubt that aliens were responsible. 2
1959 William Gill / Papua New Guinea Sighting Papua New Guinea Bosinai A series of incidents that occurred in Bosinai, Papas New Guinea, involving sighints of several UFOs by multiple witnesses; as well as the observation several humanoids aboard the UFO craft who responded to signals. 3 [18]
1959 Alor Incident Alor Archipelago Indonesia This incident occurred on July 1959, in the Alor Islands area. 3 [citation needed]
1960s Fargo Incident North Dakota United States Fargo pilot chases UFO [citation needed]
1960s Minot Air Force Base Incident North Dakota United States Air Force claims unidentifiable craft "attacks" air base, specifically the missile silos. (the "attack" was two strange, beams of light, one of which seemed to be an offensive weapon. One of numerous cases involving the base, which is home to a nuclear weapons stockpile, and the missile silos are home to nuclear warhead missiles.) [citation needed]
1960s North Dakota United States Multiple sightings of UFOs and green meteors [citation needed]
1961-02-17 Europe NATO radar stations detected 50 unidentified objects coming from the direction of the Soviet Union, and flying at a high speed over Europe. It was the height of the Cold War, and many feared the outbreak of World War III. The objects vanished after 9 minutes. An astronomer on Potsdam observatory possibly observed the transit of an unknown object in front of the sun during that time. 1 [19][20]
1961-09-19 Betty and Barney Hill abduction United States A widely publicized alien abduction experience. 4 [citation needed]
1961-11-10 Vukovar Croatia A UFO with flickering lights appeared. An increase in static electricity was observed. 2 [21]
1964-04-24 Lonnie Zamora Socorro, New Mexico United States Zamora, a police officer, reports a close encounter. 3 [citation needed]
1964-05-24 Cumbria Spaceman Photograph Cumbria, England United Kingdom Jim Templeton, a local firefighter takes a picture of his young daughter Elizabeth, who apparently is accompanied by spacesuit-clad figure in background who wasn’t seen during initial photographic session. 3 [citation needed]
1965 Exeter incident Exeter, New Hampshire United States A UFO was observed by a teenager and two police officers. 1 [citation needed]
1965 Project Serpo United States A reported secret exchange program between the U.S government and an extraterrestrial race from Planet Serpo. 5 [citation needed]
1965-12-01 Adhara Observatory UFO Lunar Transit Buenos Aires Argentina At 8.30 pm local time the Adhara Observatory started taking photographs of the moon after several people called there, that they saw something unusual on the moon. On some of these pictures some disk shaped objects were recorded. Shortly afterwards three luminous strange objects flew over La Plata. None [22]
1965-12-09 Kecksburg UFO incident Kecksburg, Pennsylvania United States Mass sighting of a falling UFO, followed by an alleged cordoning-off of the crash site. None [citation needed]
1966 The Mothman Prophecies Point Pleasant, West Virginia United States A wave of sightings occurs, and is believed to be connected to a set of other mysterious events. 1 [citation needed]
1966-04-06 Clayton South, Victoria Australia A sighting by hundreds of people. This incident is also known as "The Clayton Incident." Witnesses still gather for reunions. None [23]
1966-04-17 Portage County UFO chase Ohio United States Several police officers pursue a UFO for 30 minutes. 1 [citation needed]
1967-05-20 Falcon Lake Incident Falcon Lake, Manitoba Canada A UFO's exhaust allegedly burns a man. 2 [citation needed]
1967-08-29 Close encounter of Cussac Cussac, Cantal France A young brother and sister claim to have witnessed a UFO and its occupants. 3 [citation needed]
1967-10-04 Shag Harbour incident Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia Canada A UFO was seen crashing into Shag Harbor. A Canadian naval search followed, and is officially referred to as a UFO crash. None [citation needed]
1967-12-03 Schirmer Abduction Ashland, Nebraska United States Sergeant Herbert Schirmer claimed he was abducted. 4 [citation needed]
1969-01-01 Prince George, British Columbia Canada Three unrelated witnesses reported a strange, round object in the late afternoon sky. The sphere radiated a yellow-orange light and appeared to ascend from 2,000 to 10,000 feet (3,000 m). 4 [24]
1969 Jimmy Carter UFO Incident Leary, Georgia United States Jimmy Carter's sighting. None [citation needed]
1970s Somerset County, Maine United States Sheriff Barry A. DeLong witnessed a UFO: "They were hovering about 15 feet (4.6 m) from my cruiser, late at night. It had fixed lights that were spinning. It was huge, and oval-shaped. I knew it wasn't a jet fighter. It slowly started backing off toward Sugarloaf, and then at a terrific speed." 1 [25]
1973-10-11 Pascagoula Abduction Mississippi United States Alien abduction occurs while the victim was fishing on the Pascagoula River. 4 [citation needed]
1974-01-23 Berwyn Mountain UFO incident Llandrillo, Merionethshire, North Wales United Kingdom A alleged UFO crash. Some claim that the event was actually the result of an earthquake. None [26]
1975-01-12 North Hudson Park UFO sightings North Bergen, NJ United States This incident is classified as a "close encounter of the second kind" because of physical evidence found at the scene, and as one "of the third kind," because witnesses describe observing UFO's. This is the case that brought Budd Hopkins into the field of UFO research; he later became a key figure in the research of alien abduction.

Researcher Jerome Clark cites the case as one of the best-documented of its kind, because the core story was corroborated by numerous independent witnesses.

 1 [citation needed]
1975-11-05 Travis Walton Arizona United States A man went missing for days and returned with an abduction story. He wrote a book which was later adapted into a film. 4 [citation needed]
1976-06-22 1976 Canary Island UFO sighting Canary Islands 1 [citation needed]
1976-09-19 1976 Tehran UFO incident Tehran Iran A UFO disabled the electronic equipment of two F-4 interceptor aircraft, and ground control equipment as well. The event is well-documented in the U.S. DIA report and other documents. The Iranian generals involved in the incident said on public record that object was extraterrestrial. 2 [citation needed]
1977 Colares UFO flap Colares Brazil A bewildering account of an island which was flooded by harmful UFOs. 2 [citation needed]
1978-05-10 Emilcin abduction Emilcin Poland A man at Emilcin, Poland is said to be abducted by "grays." There is now a memorial at the site. 4 [citation needed]
1978-06-19 Oxfordshire, England United Kingdom While driving, a family is intercepted by a UFO. The family later wrote a book about the incident. 3 [27]
1978-10-21 Valentich Disappearance Victoria Australia An Australian pilot reported a UFO sighting to air traffic control before he and his aircraft vanished without a trace. 1 [citation needed]
1978-12-21 Kaikoura lights South Island New Zealand A series of sightings by a Safe Air freight plane; the airplane was escorted by strange lights that changed color and size. 1 [citation needed]
1979-08-27 Val Johnson Incident Marshall County, Minnesota United States A deputy sheriff spotted a strange bright light which appeared to have collided with his patrol car and damaged it. The deputy also suffered temporary eye damage from the "light". 2 [citation needed]
1979-11-09 Robert Taylor incident Bob Taylor, a forester, was during the inspection of a forest clearing pulled by two balls with spikes towards a UFO, which stood on the clearing. Hereby he lost consciousness. Afterwards he had problems with walking and speaking and a thirst feslt for several days. O the clearing several traces, which can have their origin from a ball with spikes, were found. 4 [28]
1979-11-11 Manises UFO Incident Valencia Spain Three large UFO's forced a commercial flight to make an emergency landing at Manises airport. 1 [citation needed]
1980s Hudson Valley United States A series of UFO sightings that took place during the eighties and early nineties. It resulted in thousands of reports of similarly-shaped UFO's. They were first observed by a retired policeman in Kent, New York, late on New Year's Eve in 1981. The "Incident at Indian Point" (a nuclear power plant) in 1984 was one of the Hudson Valley Sightings. [29]
1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident Suffolk, England United Kingdom A sighting which was first thought to be a downed aircraft. 3 [30]
1980-12-29 Cash-Landrum incident Dayton, Texas United States A huge diamond-shaped UFO irradiates three witnesses, who were treated for radiation poisoning. The UFO was in the company of military helicopters and the victims have since sued the US Government. 2 [citation needed]
May 1981 Salyut 6 orbital station Cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinykh supposedly established contact with a UFO while working at the Salyut 6. 1 [31][32]
1981-01-08 Trans-en-Provence Case Trans-en-Provence, Var France A UFO-landing which left traces. 3 [33]
1985 Tbilisi-sighting In January, 1985, Soviet commercial airline crew and passengers observed a strange light during a flight from Tbilisi in Georgia to Tallinn in Estonia. 1 [citation needed]
1985-12-26 Whitley Strieber An alleged abductee and writer of the paranormal, Strieber described his experiences in his national best-seller novel Communion. He later retracted his statements in a 1996 Larry King interview, stating that the events he described never happened. He currently hosts a nighttime radio show Dreamland'.' 3 [citation needed]
1986 Brazil More than 20 UFOs are seen and detected by radar in various parts of the country. Colonel Ozires Silva, former president of Embraer Petrobras, pursues the UFO's in a Xingu PT-MBZ aircraft. He later decalres that “The lights were primary targets in the radar, positive targets, a concrete thing”. Two Northrop F-5 and three Mirage III are sent to intercept the UFOs, but the objects disappeared from sight and radar detection. In the aftermath, the Minister of Aeronautics, Brigadier Otávio Júlio Moreira Lima, publicly declared: "Between 20:00 (19/05) and 01:00 (20/05) at least 21 objects have been detected by Brazilian radars.[...]We can only give technical explanations and we do not have them.[...]It’s fantastic, the radar signals were very clear." 2 [34]
1986-01-29 Height 611 UFO Incident Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai USSR An alleged UFO crash, followed by an alleged UFO landing in 1989. 1 [citation needed]
1986-11-17 Alaska United States A group of UFO's flew alongside Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 for 50 minutes above Northeastern Alaska. One of the objects trailing behind the Boeing 747 was detected by military radar. 1 [35]
1987-11-11 Gulf Breeze UFO incident Gulf Breeze, Florida United States 2 [citation needed]
1990-03-30 Ans Belgium Mass sighting of large, silent, low-flying black triangles, which were tracked by multiple NATO radar and jet interceptors, and investigated by Belgium's military. Photographic evidence exists. 1 [36]
1990-11-07 Montreal, Quebec Canada For more than 3 hours, more than 40 people, including policemen, observe a UFO above a downtown hotel. 1 [37]
1990 / 1992-07-08 Sassowo explosions Sassowo Russia Two mysterious explosions, equivalent to 25 tons high explosive 1 [38]
1992 Steven M. Greer Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England United Kingdom While at a Woodborough Hill farm, a CSETI team experiences a close encounter with a "100-foot in diameter" UFO. 5 [39][40]
1993 Steven M. Greer Mexico Near Popocatépetl volcano, on a road towards an Indian village called Atlimayaya, located near Atlixco and Metepec, Mexico, a CSETI team experiences a close encounter with a triangular UFO and the "extremely luminous and white" extraterrestrials within it. 5 [41]
1993 Kelly Cahill Victoria Australia East of Melbourne in the Dandenong foothills Kelly Cahill and five others were confronted by a flying saucer shortly after midnight. Aliens were tall, slim and black with glowing red eyes. A number of scientific organisations made subsequent tests of the area involved and found significant anomalies in the soil and vegetation. 6 [citation needed]
1994-12-14 Trumbull Ohio Disturbance Vienna, Ohio USA Many citizens and at least 15 local police officers near Youngstown, OH. observed and pursued large, lowflying multicolored UFO's throughout early am, 12/14/1994. Citizens and police went on record giving testimonials about the incident on NBC special "Confirmation" aired in 1999. Publicly available 9-1-1 communications detail the event and officers behavior. Local Air Force reps denounced local authorities saying that all the police were in fact chasing Mercury for 7 hours at high speed. FAA also denied any anomalies. Local Youngstown media acknowledged the importance of incident, but refused to cover the story reportedly because of fear. Gross abuse of media and military influence to deliberately conceal this incredible event. Principal investigator of this event was Kenny Young (Ufologist) of Cincinnati, OH. 1 [citation needed]
1994 Meng Zhaoguo Incident Wuchang China Meng claimed to have had sexual intercourse with an alien, and to have been subsequently abducted. 4 [citation needed]
1996-01-20 Varginha UFO incident Varginha, Minas Gerais Brazil Multiple sightings of strange creatures. 5 [citation needed]
1997 Area 51: The Alien Interview Area 51, Nevada United States A video of an alleged interview with an alien. 5 [citation needed]
1997-03-13 Phoenix Lights Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico United States A strange set of lights are seen over Nevada, Arizona and possibly New Mexico. 1 [citation needed]
1997-08-06 Mexico City Mexico An amateur cameraman with a digital camera captured astounding footage of a UFO passing behind and above several buildings. Air traffic was restricted that day except for two helicopters. 1 [42][43]
2000 Middle East Residents in North western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan claimed to have seen strange lights in the sky. The then-ruling Taliban regime suspected that the United States was targeting Al-Quaida training camps or that Pakistan was testing new missiles. This suspicion was discounted after the lights were seen heading back towards the sky. They were seen again within two weeks. Both the US and Pakistan government denied the use of missiles at the time of the reported sightings. 1 [44]
2004-03-05 2004 Mexican UFO Incident Mexico A drug-smuggling air patrol recorded on infrared camera what some claimed to be UFO's. The footage was released by Jaime Maussan. Others suggest the objects are oil platform burn-off flares. 2 [45]
2004-10-27 Woodside, Queens United States Five flying saucers appeared and were observed by people throughout the Queens and Manhattan area. They disappeared one by one. 1 [46]
2005-04-27 Washington, D.C. United States The White House was evacuated when a UFO entered restricted air space, then disappeared. It was explained as: "probably a cloud or several birds." 1 [47]
2006-05-25 Kent, England United Kingdom An oval orb was observed hovering above a location in Kent. It then moved off in a westerly direction. 1 [48][49]
2006-06-24 Vatican City A Polish tourist photographed a UFO hovering near the Vatican Basilica's cuppola. 1 [50]
2006-08-17 Nanjing China A UFO was recorded hovering over an apartment building. 1 [51][52][53]
2006-08-21 Ajax, Ontario Canada A UFO was photographed 8-10 kilometers west of the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant. 1 [54]
2006-10-23 North Carolina United States An object was sighted traveling northeast during the night until—as described—burst a blue ring out and split in two. The first piece continued to fly northeast, while the second ricocheted in the opposite direction, and disappeared from view. The first part was seen with one light on its back and the object was in the shape of a small blimp, and continued to fly on, which was not found in the morning. 5 [citation needed]
2006-11-07 Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting 2006 Chicago, Illinois United States A group of United Airlines employees, including pilots, claimed to have seen a mysterious, saucer-shaped, unlit craft hover over a Chicago O'Hare Airport terminal before shooting up through the clouds. The FAA initially denied having received such reports, but information released by means of the Freedom of Information Act revealed otherwise. 1 Wikinews [55][56][57]
2007-01-10 Kerman Iran Eyewitnesses told the Fars News Agency (FNA) that a radiant UFO had crashed in the Barez Mountains that morning. 1 Wikinews
2007-01-03 Bahçelievler, Istanbul Turkey Residents claimed they had seen a UFO flying in the night sky, according to the Turkish newspaper Sabah. They claimed the UFO had glowing white lights and that it spun. 1 Wikinews
2007-01-09 Van Buren, Arkansas United States Brian Fields, a retired United States Air Force Colonel, photographed what he claims are two UFO's hovering over his home. 1 Wikinews
2007-01-20 Poland Seventeen or eighteen UFO's were spotted. 1 [58]
2007-01-26 Charlotte, North Carolina United States A turquoise colored UFO is reported by locals and an officer. 1 Wikinews
2007-01-29 Honolulu, Hawaii United States A mysterious light appears above Waikīkī Beach. 1 Wikinews
2007-02-02 Islington, London, England United Kingdom Ten to fifteen UFO's are spotted. 1 [59]
2007-02-16 Kaliningrad Russia A student records a UFO on his video camera. 1 [60]
2007-03-03 New Delhi India A green fireball was seen over Delhi by ten pilots. 1 [61]
2007-03-07 New Delhi India Two UFO's were detected near the prime minister's residence. 1 [62]
2007-03-10 Cleveland, Ohio United States UFO seen over a peace rally. 1 [63]
2007-04-23 Channel Islands Two airline pilots on separate flights spot UFO's off the coast of Alderney. 1 Wikinews [64]
2007-05-02 Sutton, England United Kingdom John Gregory spotted a UFO after 10 p.m., and described the incident: "I was looking at the sky and saw this object because it was very bright. At first I thought it was a star but now I am not sure and would love to know what it was. It was very unusual and I was rather surprised to see it. It was very clear and could be seen for miles around. The image stayed in the sky for about 20 minutes and then just vanished and I have not seen it since. The image seemed to have a face, nose and a mouth, it was very strange and I have never seen anything like it before." 1 [65]
2007-05-11 Massillon, Ohio United States At 10:40 pm, Rosemary Lyons and a co-worker were taking a smoke break outside the Loyal Order of Moose Lodge, located at 2935 Lincoln Way West, when they witnessed a UFO. They estimated its size as 60 feet (18 m) in diameter. Lyons described the incident as follows: "The first thing I said was 'Oh my gosh. Look at that,' We saw it for 20 to 25 seconds. It was round and luminous underneath. It wasn't a plane, it wasn't a helicopter, it wasn’t a blimp and it wasn't a balloon. It made absolutely no sound. It was flying over just carefree – like it was no one's business." 1 [66]
2007-05-12 Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland United Kingdom Orange colored UFOs were spotted during the evening. Clifford Rossbottom said, "There were three orange globes - nearly in a straight line - they were an absolutely fascinating sight. I watched them for five minutes, and then very slowly, they just disappeared. The only thing I thought it could have been was three high-flying aircraft. If that is not the case, then I have no idea, and the only other thing I can think of is in fact that they were UFOs." Belfast International Airport's air traffic control received calls from people (including the Coastguard) who spotted the objects, but the airport reported no aircraft in the area during the time of the sightings. A company called UFO Balloons later claimed their product was responsible for the events. One month later two similar aircraft were sighted over Buela, Colorado.[67] 1 [68]
2007-05-27 Chilliwack, British Columbia Canada Dave Francis and Kelly McDonald witnessed a UFO over UCFV campus. Francis said, "I really think it was a UFO. I don’t really care if anybody else believes me ... it was the craziest thing I ever saw. Whatever it was, they were moving from place to place as a unit [and then] just faded away." McDonald said, "I know that I saw something that wasn’t from here. I’ve never seen anything move that way. It wasn’t birds. [As the UFO approached] it broke apart into 20 or more of these little spheres ... birds don’t dive-bomb in at each other." 1 [69]
2007-05-28 Bangalore India Afzal Khan told CNN IBN that he photographed a UFO, "Today (Monday) at around 9 pm (IST), I and my brothers saw a bright, slow-moving object which looked like a group of lights moving in a triangular formation in the sky towards west/north-west direction. This object was definitely not an aeroplane as it was moving very slowly. We observed the object from around 9 pm until 9.30 pm before it disappeared into the distance. During this time we managed to take some pictures with my camera. The astronomical/space/science departments of any activity in the sky during the above time can be confirmed. We live in Jayanagar area of Bangalore. Another thing that we noticed during this time was an aircraft that took-off from Bangalore Airport was flying very close to this object. It is possible that the pilot of that aircraft could have spotted this object as well." 1 [70]
2007-07-23 Warwickshire England Crowd of 100 persons saw a formation of strange lights in the sky for 30 minutes. 1 [71]
2007-09-15 Double mothership sighting Nassau Bahamas Event took place around 8 pm, two huge motherships in front of the moon, then suddenly vanish one after the next. 1 [citation needed]
2007-10-30 Calcutta India Many people claimed to see a UFO near Eastern Metropolitan Bypass(Calcutta). Its was also recorded by an amateur videographer. It was like a ball of light which some time hovered, sometimes moved very fast and changed shape and size. The video was broadcasted in local news channels. [citation needed]
2007-11-08 Larnaca Cyprus UFO reported to have come from the coast inland near a village called Catalkoy in small and rapid zigzags, then stopped and hovered for approximately 30 seconds before making a smooth ascent at 45 degrees east. Many witnesses have reported such events to a local newspaper. [citation needed]
2007-12-19 Haiti Two objects had appeared in the skies of Haiti with five parts with glowing lights. Then the objects flew to space together. This was later confirmed as a hoax by the British man who added the CGI objects to the blank Haiti sky [citation needed]
2008-01-01 San Diego, California United States Nine separate lights were spotted moving in an arc formation across the sky at around half past midnight on New Years Day. Around the globe, many people are said to have reported the same exact lights seen in the sky. A later Fox News San Diego report by anchor Jim Patten later showed these lights to be Chinese New Year floating Lanterns. On February 16, 2008, two individuals reported seeing a large, pulsing orb of light hovering in place above Miramar Air Base. [72]
2008-01-08 Stephenville, Texas UFO sightings Stephenville, Texas United States Dozens of witnesses reported a completely silent object with bright lights flying low and fast. This was not the beginning of the sightings, which go back to November 2007, and in a historic scale, back to the mid-1800s. Also, this was the beginning of a major UFO sighting event which reportedly has lasted into March 2008, albeit the sightings having "moved south-east ward." 20 in Stephenville [citation needed]

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