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Foo Fighters of World War II
November 1944 · Rhine valley north of Strasbourg, Alsace, with reports across the European and Pacific theatres
UAP · Orb / light · 76 sources
50Partially documented
The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946
July 19, 1946 · Lake Kölmjärv, Överkalix, Norrbotten, Sweden (wave across Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark)
UAP · Cigar · 54 sources · 3 photos
86Well documented
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting
June 24, 1947 · Near Mount Rainier and Mineral, Washington
UAP · Other · 67 sources
35Partially documented
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave
c. 1947 · United States (nationwide, heaviest in the Pacific states: California, Washington and Oregon)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources
55Partially documented
United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho
July 4, 1947 · Over Emmett, Idaho, northwest of Boise
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources
23Thinly documented
Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings
July 8, 1947 · Muroc Army Air Field and Rogers Dry Lake, Kern County, California
UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources
40Partially documented
The Mantell UFO Incident
January 7, 1948 · Godman Field, Fort Knox, to the Phillips farm near Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky
UAP · Other · 100 sources · 1 photos
50Partially documented
The Chiles-Whitted Encounter
July 24, 1948 · 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama (near Hayneville, Lowndes County)
UAP · Cigar · 66 sources
41Partially documented
The Gorman Dogfight
October 1, 1948 · Hector Airport, Fargo, North Dakota
UAP · Orb / light · 58 sources
47Partially documented
Munich / Fürstenfeldbruck Radar-Visual Sighting
November 23, 1948 · Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, near Munich, Bavaria
UAP · Orb / light · 17 sources
42Partially documented
The Green Fireballs over New Mexico
December 5, 1948 · Los Alamos, Sandia Base and Kirtland AFB (Albuquerque), northern and eastern New Mexico, and West Texas
UAP · Orb / light · 61 sources
52Partially documented
The Farmington Saucer Armada
March 17, 1950 · Main Street, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico
UAP · Disc / saucer · 40 sources
35Partially documented
The RAF Tangmere Meteor Flying Saucer and the Wartling Radar Return
June 1, 1950 · Portsmouth area, Hampshire (pilot from RAF Tangmere, radar at RAF Wartling)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 8 sources
42Partially documented
The Sioux City Mystery Plane
January 20, 1951 · Sioux City municipal airport (now Sioux Gateway Airport), Sioux City, Iowa
UAP · Other · 18 sources
38Partially documented
The Bethune Encounter: US Navy Flight 125 off Newfoundland
February 10, 1951 · North Atlantic, about 200 miles northeast of Argentia, Newfoundland (the 'Gander' case)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
33Partially documented
Fort Monmouth radar and T-33 sightings
September 10, 1951 · Fort Monmouth, Point Pleasant and Sandy Hook, New Jersey
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
49Partially documented
Flying Saucers over the Belgian Congo Uranium Mines (Elisabethville, 1952)
c. 1952 · Elisabethville district (now Lubumbashi), over the uranium mines of southern Katanga, Belgian Congo
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
30Partially documented
The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting over Chesapeake Bay
July 14, 1952 · Over Chesapeake Bay, near Newport News, Virginia
UAP · Disc / saucer · 23 sources
25Thinly documented
The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap
July 19, 1952 · Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB, Washington, D.C. area
UAP · Orb / light · 97 sources
61Well documented
Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept
August 1, 1952 · Bellefontaine Air Force Station (Campbell Hill) and the Dayton area, Ohio
UAP · Sphere · 19 sources
54Partially documented
Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept
August 5, 1952 · Haneda Air Force Base, Tokyo (now Tokyo International Airport), Japan
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
61Well documented
Ellsworth AFB Radar-Visual Case and F-84 Pursuit, South Dakota, 1953
August 5, 1953 · Black Hawk Ground Observer Corps post and Ellsworth Air Force Base, near Rapid City, South Dakota
UAP · Other · 24 sources
60Well documented
The BOAC 'Flying Jellyfish': Captain James Howard and the Stratocruiser Centaurus
June 29, 1954 · Near the Quebec-Labrador border, about 150 nautical miles southwest of Goose Bay, Labrador
UAP · Formation · 16 sources
30Partially documented
Walesville F-94C Crash During an Unknown-Aircraft Intercept
July 2, 1954 · Walesville, Oneida County, New York
UAP · Unknown · 20 sources · 1 photos
43Partially documented
Tananarive mass sighting and blackout
August 16, 1954 · Avenue de la Libération, Tananarive (Antananarivo)
UAP · Cigar · 27 sources
33Partially documented
The "Sea Fury" Radar-Visual Incident near Goulburn, 1954
August 31, 1954 · Sky above the Goulburn district, near Marulan, west of RAN Air Station Nowra (HMAS Albatross), New South Wales
UAP · Cigar · 17 sources
42Partially documented
Orly Airport Radar and Air France DC-3 Sighting
February 17, 1956 · Orly Airport, Paris
UAP · Unknown · 22 sources
45Partially documented
Elizabeth Klarer and Akon of Meton
April 1956 · Flying Saucer Hill, near Rosetta, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal), Drakensberg foothills
Alien · Being / humanoid · 30 sources · 2 photos
29Thinly documented
The Lakenheath-Bentwaters Radar-Visual Incident
August 13, 1956 · RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, with RAF Neatishead, Norfolk
UAP · Orb / light · 45 sources
65Well documented
R. J. Childerhose's disc photograph from an RCAF Sabre, Alberta, 1956
August 27, 1956 · Foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Fort Macleod, Alberta
UAP · Disc / saucer · 16 sources · 1 photos
27Thinly documented
The Milton Torres Intercept Order: RAF Manston, 1957
May 20, 1957 · RAF Manston, Isle of Thanet, Kent, and the skies over East Anglia
UAP · Unknown · 37 sources
41Partially documented
RB-47 Radar and ELINT UFO Encounter
July 17, 1957 · Gulf Coast to Oklahoma City (Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma); first visual near Winnsboro, Louisiana
UAP · Unknown · 26 sources
57Partially documented
Caso Lemos Ferreira: Portuguese Air Force F-84G formation encounter
September 4, 1957 · Night route between Ota and Spain, reported over Cáceres, Córdoba, Portalegre and Coruche
UAP · Sphere · 17 sources
24Thinly documented
The Trindade Island Photographs
January 16, 1958 · Ilha da Trindade (Trindade Island), Trindade and Martim Vaz, Espírito Santo, South Atlantic
UAP · Disc / saucer · 46 sources · 13 photos
47Partially documented
The Killian Case: American Airlines Flight 139 Paced by Three Lights
February 24, 1959 · About 13 miles west of Williamsport, Pennsylvania (airliner route toward Ohio)
UAP · Formation · 17 sources
41Partially documented
The Nevada Fireball: The Las Vegas UFO Crash of 1962
April 18, 1962 · Las Vegas and Nellis AFB, Nevada, with reports from New York, Colorado, Utah and Reno
UAP · Other · 36 sources
57Partially documented
The Dwikora UFOs: Anti-Aircraft Fire Over East Java, 1964
September 18, 1964 · Surabaya, Malang and Bangkalan (Madura), East Java
UAP · Other · 22 sources
37Partially documented
Gemini 4: James McDivitt's "cylinder with a pole"
June 4, 1965 · Earth orbit over the Hawaiian Islands (Gemini 4, 20th revolution)
UAP · Cylinder · 25 sources · 1 photos
34Partially documented
The Edwards AFB Radar-Visual Incident
October 7, 1965 · Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave Desert, California
UAP · Unknown · 27 sources
51Partially documented
Northeast Blackout UFO Sightings, Clay Substation and Syracuse (1965)
November 9, 1965 · Clay substation, near Syracuse, New York
UAP · Sphere · 16 sources
35Partially documented