Sightings

Index by date
[-1890]	[1890-1900]	[1900-1920]	[1920-1930]
[1930-1940]	[1940-1950]	[1950-1960]	[1960-1970]
[1970-1980]	[1980-1990]	[1990-]

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FAQ's Types of Sightings

- TO 1890
Daylight Disk Egypt Reign of Pharaoh Thutmosis III Hypothetical daylight disk and close encounters Middle East 14th to 6th century BCE Daylight disk Jaxartes River, India; Tyre, Phoenicia 329 BCE and 322 BCE Close encounters of the third kind Mali, Africa 200 BCE	Daylight disk, lights in the sky Italy 216-66 BCE Daylight disk, lights in the sky, close encounters Europe 5th to 16 century CE light in the sky England, Ireland, Romania 9-10 December 1731 Daylight disk Denison, Texas, USA 2 January 1878 Light in the sky At sea between Melbourne and Sydney, Australia 11 June 1881

1890 TO 1900
Cylindrical UFO Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA 5 September 1891 Close encounters of the first, second and third kind USA 17 November 1896 - 6 May 1897	Lights in the sky, daylight disk South-western states, USA, and various locations, France 1898 and 1899

1900 TO 1920
Lights in the sky England, Denmark, France, USA, Wales May 1902-July 1908 Impact and explosion Stony Tunguska Valley, Siberia, Russia 30 June 1908 Close encounters of the first, second and third kinds United Kingdom and New Zealand March-May and July-August 1909 Close encounters of the first kind Manhattan Island, New York, USA 30-31 August 1910	Lights in the sky Central Canada, USA, Cape Sao Roque, Brazil 9 February 1913 Daylight disk Chisbury, Wiltshire, England 8 April 1912 Close encounters of the first kind United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany October 1912-March 1913 Close encounters of the fourth kind Suvla bay, Gallipli, Turkey 28 August 1915 Close encounters of the third kind Fatima, Portugal 13 October 1917

1920 TO 1930
Close encounters of the third kind Bolton, Lanchshire, England November 1926	Mystery aircraft, daylight disk, light in the sky Wales, California, USA, Atlantic Ocean 22 September 1922, early 1927, 29 August 1929

1930 TO 1940
Close encounters of the first kind Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand 1931 Close encounters of the first and second kinds Finland, Norway and Sweden 1932-1937	Daylight disk Guipuzcoa, Spain 2 October 1936

1940 TO 1950
Lights in the sky Environs of Los Angeles, California, USA 25 February 1942 Close encounter Newbiggin-on-Sea, Norhumberland, England September 1942 Close encounters of the first kind European, Asian and Pacific theaters of war 1943-45 Lights in the sky, close encounters of the first and second kind Denmark, Finland, Greece, Norway, Sweden June-August 1946 Daylight disks France and USA April-June 1947 Close encounters of the second kind Maury Island, Puget Sound, Washington State, USA 21 June 1947	Daylight Disks Cascade Mountains, Washington State, USA 24 June 1947 Daylight disks UFO landings and lights in the sky Perm, Russia and USA June-August 1947 Crash/retrieval episode Foster Ranch, near Roswell, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA 2 July 1947 Daylight disk, multiple witnesses Godman Field near Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA 7 January 1948 Lights in the sky Centered on New Mexico, USA 1948-51 Lights in the sky Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 20 August 1949

1950 TO 1960
Daylight disk McMinnville, Oregon, USA 11 May 1950 Lights in the sky Albuquerque, New Mexico, Lubbock, Texas, USA August-October 1951 Daylight disks, lights in the sky, close encounters Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe 1952 Daylight disks and lights in the sky Washington, DC, USA 19-20 July and 26-27 July 1952 Close encounter of the third kind Mojave Desert, California, USA 20 November 1952 Close encounter of the third kind Tujunga Canyons, California, USA 22 March 1953 Multiple daylight disks, multiple witnesses North Atlantic Ocean 29 June 1954 Lights in the sky, multiple witnesses Ivory Coast, West Africa 18 September 1954	Close encounters of the second and third kind France Fall, 1954 Close encounter of the third kind Sutton Farm, Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA 21-22 August 1955 Raday-visual sighting Bentwaters and Lakenheath AFBs, near lpswich, Suffolk, England 13 August 1956 Close encounter of the third kind Sao Francisco De Salles, Minas Gerais, Brazil 15-16 October 1957 Lights in the sky, electromagnetic effects Levelland, Texas, USA 2-3 November 1957 Close encounter of the first kind Trindade Island, South Atlantic Ocean 16 January 1958 Close encounter of the third kind Boianai, Papua New Guinea 26-28 June 1959 Contactees Brazil, South Africa, USA 1950-1960

1960 TO 1970
Radar interference Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA 10 January 1961 Ground marking Karelia, Russia February 1961 Close encounter of the third kind Eagle River, Wisconsin, USA 18 April 1961 Close encounter of the fourth kind Indian Head, New Hampshire, USA 19 September 1961 Radar-visual Rybinsk, Russia Summer 1961 Daylight disk Kiev, Ukraine August 1961 Radar contact and ground markings Sverdlovsk Russia 1961 Crash/retrieval episode South of Alamogordo, Otero county, New Mexico, USA 1962 Radar-visuals Earth orbit over Australia 16 May 1962 Close encounters of the third kind Environs of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 18 April and 16 June 1963 Close encounters of the third kind Trancas, Tucuman, Argentina 21 October 1963 Radar tracking Earth orbit 18 April 1964 Close encounters of the third kind Newark Valley, Tioga County, New York State, USA 24 April 1964 Close encounter of the third kind, ground markings Socorro, New Mexico, USA 24 April 1964 Close encounters of the third kind Cisco Grove, Placer County California, USA 4-5 September 1964 Crash/retrieval Fort Riley, Kansas, USA 10 December 1964 Multiple sightings, vehicle effects, radar-visual evidence Environs of Washington, DC, USA 21 December 1964 - 11 January 1965 Close encounter of the third kind Augusta archery range, Augusta County, Virginia, USA 19 January 1965 Close encounter of the third kind Valensole, France 1 July 1965 Lights in the sky Ogre observatory, Latvia 26 July 1965 Close encounter of the second kind Highway 15 south of Abilene, Kansas, USA 4 August 1965 Lights in the sky, close encounter of the first kind, multiple witnesses Exeter, New Hampshire, USA September 1965	Lights in the sky, daylight disk Warminster, Wiltshire, UK 1965 onward Lights in the sky Hillsdale and Dexter, Michigan, USA 20-21 March 1966 Light in the sky, electromagnetic effects, multiple witnesses US forces base, Nha Trang, South Vietnam June 1966 Close encounter of the second kind, electromagnetic effects, ground markings Bealiba, Victoria, Australia 4 April 1966 Various reports USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia 1966 Alleged daylight disk Mount St Clemens, Michigan, USA 9 January 1967 Close encounter of the fourth kind South Ashburnham, Massachusetts, USA 25 January 1967 Daylight disk, photographs, multiple witnesses San Jose de Valderas, MCErid, Spain 1 June 1967 Daylight disks South-west of Calgary, Alberta, CanCEa 3 July 1967 Daylight disks Kislovodsk, Caucasus, Russia 18 July, 18 August, 4 September, 18 October 1967 Close encounter fo the first kind Moigne Downs, Dorset, England 26 October 1967 Close encounter of the second kind, multiple witnesses Avon and Sopley, Hampshire, UK 6 November 1967 Close encounter of the fourth kind Ashland, Nebraska, USA 3 December 1967 Close encounter of the third kind Pilar De Goias, Brazil 13 August 1967 Animal mutilation Alamosa County, ColorCEo, USA 15 September 1967 Teleportation Near Chascomus, Argentina May 1968 Close encounter of the third kind Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba, Argentina 13 June 1968 Close encounter of the third kind Serra De Almos, Spain 16 August 1968 Close encounter of the second kind Southern France 1 November 1968 Close encounter of the fourth kind Bebedouro, north of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil 4 May 1969 Radar visual Trajectory to the Moon 14-15 November 1969

1970 TO 1980
Close encounter of the third kind Imjarvi, Finland 7 January 1970 Close encounter of the second kind, cover-up Laos, England and USA 1970-1980 Close encounter of the second kind North of Calliope River, Queensland, Australia 12 August 1971 Close encounter of the third kind Dapple Grey Lane, South Los Angeles, California, USA August 1971 Close encounter of the first kind Lot-et-Garonne, Bordeaux, France 14 November 1971 Close encounter of the second kind Fort Beaufort, Cape Province, South Africa 26 June 1972 Close encounter fo the second kind, multiple witnesses Taize, Cluny, Saone-et-Loire, France 11 August 1972 Lights in the sky Piedmont, Missouri, USA February-April 1973 Close encounter of the second kind Catanduva, Sao Paulo, Brazil 22 May 1973 Close encounter of the third kind Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan 22 may 1973 Close encounter of the fourth kind Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi, USA 11 October 1973 Close encounter of the third kind Falkville, Alabama, USA 17 October 1973 Close encounter of the second kind Near Mansfield, Ohio, USA 18 October 1973 Close encounter of the fourth kind Langfourd Budville, Somerset, England 16 October 1973 Close encounter of the second kind Salisbury, Rhodesia to Durban, South Africa 31 May 1974 Close encounter of the fourth kind Medicine Bow National Park, Wyoming, USA 25 October 1974 Contactee, close encounters of the third kind Hinwel, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland January 1975 - April 1978 Daylight disks, multiple witnesses Akita Airport, Northern Honshu, Japan 17 October 1975	Lights in the sky, multiple witnesses Military bases, USA 27 October - 11 November 1975 Close encounter of the fourth kind, Men In Black Tripp Pound, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA 27 October 1975 - 24 September 1976 Close encounter of the second kind Medford, Minnesota, USA 2 November 1975 Close encounter of the fourth kind Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, near Snowflake, Arizona, USA 5 November 1975 Close encounter of the fourth kind Stanford, Kentucky, USA 6 January 1975 Close encounter of the second kind Nemingha, near Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia 22 March 1976 Radar Visual Teheran, Iran 19 September 1976 Lights in the sky, multiple witnesses Agadir to Fez, Morocco, North Africa 19 September 1976 Lights in the sky, multiple witness Zhang Po, Fujian, China 7 July 1977 Lights in the sky, multiple witnesses Petrozavodsk, Karelskaya Russia 20 September 1977 Close encounter of the third kind, alien retrieval Fort Dix / McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, USA 18 January 1978 Close encounter of the second kind Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 29 March 1978 Close encounter of the second kind Bass Strait, Australia 21 October 1978 Close encounter fo the second kind Umm Al-Aish, northern Kuwait 10 November 1978 Radar-visual Kaikoura, between Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand 30-31 December 1978 Close encounter of the third kind Lanxi, Zhejiang, China 13 October 1979 Close encounter of the third kind Cergy, Potoise, Ile de France, France 26 November 1979

1980 TO 1990
Animal mutilation, close encounter of the fourth kind Near Cimarron, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA Spring 1980 Cover-up, disinformation Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Summer 1980 onward Close encounter of the second kind Near Huffman, Texas, USA 29 December 1980 Close encounter of the second kind Rendlesham Forest, near RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK 27 December 1980 Close encounter of the second kind White Acres, Rosedale, Victoria, Australia 30 September 1980 Close encounter of the second kind Trans-en-Provence, France 8 February 1981 Light in the sky Guizhou Province, China 24 July 1981 Close encounter of the second kind Cape Vaaranieml, Lieksa, Finland July 1981 Lights in the sky, Earthlights Hessdalen Valley, Norway November 1981 - December 1985 Close encounter of the second kind Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan (then part of the USSR) 1 June 1982 Close encounter of the fourth kind Near Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 30 June-3 October 1983 Close encounter of the third kind Basingstoke Canal, Aldershot, Hampshire, England 12 August 1983	Lights in the sky, multiple witnesses Eastern New York State, western Connecticut, USA 31 December 1982 - 10 July 1986 Secret UFO-related documents The White House and the Pentagon, Washington, DC, USA Received on 11 December 1984 Daylight disk, multiple witnesses Bulawayo, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe 22 July 1985 Close encounter of the fourth kind New York State, USA 27 December 1985 Multiple radar visuals Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 19 May 1986 radar-visual Near Fort Ukon, Alaska, USA 17 November 1986 Close encounters of the third and fourth kind gulf Breeze, Pensacola, Florida, USA November 1987 - May 1988 Close encounter of the second kind Nullarbor Plain, near Mundrabilla, Western Australia 21 January 1988 Close encounter of the first kind Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England 24 March 1988 Close encounter of the third kind Perm and Voronezh, Russia July 1989 and October 1989 Multiple witness abduction Manhattan island, New York, USA 30 November 1989 Lights in the sky, daylight disk Vanous locations, Puerto Rico, West Indies July 1989-April 1992

1990 TO -

radar-visual
Belgian airspace
30-31 March 1990

Close encounter of the second kind
Mary, Turkmenistan (former USSR)
25 May 1990

Radar-visual
Hoyt Lakes, near Skibo, Minnesota, USA
10 October 1990

Radar visual, close encounter of the second kind
Near Samara (then named Kuybyshev), Russia
13 December 1990

Light in the sky
Faribault, Minnesota, USA
2 April 1991

Light in the sky
Voronezh to St Petersburg, Russia
20 August 1991

Close encounter of the second kind
Prague, Oklahoma, USA
7 January 1992

Light in the sky, multiple witnesses
Williamsport, Susquehanna Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
5 February 1992

Light in the sky
Komsomolsk-Na-Amure, near Khabarovsk, Russia
18 April 1992

Close encounter of the second kind
Raeford, North Carolina, USA
27 June 1992

Close encounter of the first kind
European and US airspace
April 1991-August 1992

Lights in the sky
Wales and England, UK
30-31 March 1993

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