Great Airship Wave: Sacramento and California, November 1896
On the evening of 17 November 1896 a bright light drifted slowly over the eastern side of Sacramento, California, at what witnesses judged to be about a thousand feet. It…
USS Supply 'Remarkable Meteors', North Pacific, 1904
Early on 28 February 1904 the US Navy stores ship Supply was steaming from Guam toward San Francisco when the officer of the deck, Acting Boatswain Frank Garvey, saw…
Florence Stadium "Angel Hair"
Early in the second half of a reserve match between Fiorentina and local rivals Pistoiese, the 10,000 people inside Florence's concrete stadium stopped watching football…
Levelland, Texas
Late on 2 November 1957, a month after Sputnik, farm workers Pedro Saucedo and Joe Salaz phoned the Levelland, Texas, police: driving west of town they had seen a blue…
Socorro, New Mexico (Lonnie Zamora)
Late on a Friday afternoon, Socorro police sergeant Lonnie Zamora broke off chasing a speeding car when he heard a roar and saw a funnel of blue-orange flame descend…
Valensole (Maurice Masse)
At dawn on 1 July 1965, lavender farmer Maurice Masse was starting work on the Valensole plateau in Provence when a sharp whistling drew his attention to what he first…
The Amaranth Case, Nancy
Just after midday on 21 October 1982, a young biologist came home early to his house in a suburb of Nancy and lingered in his tiny walled garden, which he tended…
Knowles Family, Nullarbor
Driving east across the empty Nullarbor in the small hours of 20 January 1988, the Knowles family saw a light on the road ahead. They thought at first it was a truck, but…