Julius Obsequens' Book of Prodigies: Shields, Armies and a Golden Globe
Julius Obsequens, a Roman writer of the late 4th or early 5th century AD, compiled a year-by-year catalogue of the portents reported to the Roman state between 249 and 12…
Nuremberg Sky Battle, 1561
In April 1561 Hans Glaser, a Nuremberg 'letter-painter' and printer, published an illustrated broadsheet describing a terrifying spectacle around sunrise on 14 April…
Basel Black Spheres, 1566
In summer 1566 the people of Basel saw three unsettling sky events, described in an illustrated broadsheet the same year. On the evening of 27 July the sun lost its…
Gangwon Province Objects, Joseon Korea, 1609
The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty preserve an official dispatch from Yi Hyeong-uk, governor of Gangwon Province, entered in the Gwanghaegun Diary in the 9th lunar month of…
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…
Foo Fighters, 1944-1945
In the last winter of the Second World War, American night-fighter crews flying over the Rhine began reporting glowing balls of light that joined them in the dark. On 27…
Thomas Mantell Crash, Kentucky
On the afternoon of 7 January 1948 the Kentucky State Police called Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox about a large, round object drifting over towns to the east and…
Great Falls (Mariana) Film, Montana
Checking the wind before an afternoon game at Great Falls' empty Legion Stadium, baseball manager Nick Mariana saw a flash and then two bright, silvery objects moving…
Tremonton Film, Utah
Driving north from Tremonton, Utah, on 2 July 1952 with his family, Navy Warrant Officer Delbert Newhouse, a veteran aerial photographer with more than a thousand hours…
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…
Lakenheath–Bentwaters Radar-Visual Case, England
From about 9:30 pm on 13 August 1956, USAF radar operators at RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk tracked targets crossing their scopes at thousands of miles an hour, including a…
RB-47 Radar and ELINT Encounter
In the early hours of 17 July 1957 an RB-47H electronic reconnaissance jet, carrying six officers and gear for detecting enemy radar transmissions, was heading home from…
Westall School, Melbourne
During morning break on Wednesday 6 April 1966, students on the oval at Westall High School in Melbourne's southeastern suburbs began shouting and pointing at a silvery…
Cussac, Cantal
On a sunny morning on the Cussac plateau in the Auvergne, 13-year-old François and his 9-year-old sister Anne-Marie were minding the family's cows when the boy saw…
Colares and Operação Prato
In 1977 people in the fishing communities around Colares, at the mouth of the Amazon, began telling of lights that came down at night and attacked them. Fishermen spoke…
Kaikoura Lights
On 21 December 1978 the crew of a Safe Air Argosy freighter flying from Blenheim to Christchurch saw strange lights around their aircraft, and Wellington air traffic…
Robert Taylor, Dechmont Woods
Robert Taylor, a forester for the Livingston Development Corporation, parked his pickup near the M8 on the morning of 9 November 1979 and walked up a forest track on…
Hessdalen Lights
Hessdalen is a remote 12-kilometre valley south-east of Trondheim with only a couple of hundred residents. Odd lights have been reported there since at least the 1930s…
Dalnegorsk 'Height 611'
At about five to eight on the evening of 29 January 1986, people in the mining town of Dalnegorsk in Russia's far east saw a reddish glowing ball, about half the apparent…
Official Night of the UFOs, Brazil
At dusk on 19 May 1986, the lone controller in the tower at São José dos Campos airport saw three bright lights over the field that kept changing colour, red to yellow to…
Voronezh Park Landing
On 9 October 1989 the Soviet news agency TASS told the world that a flying saucer had landed in a park in Voronezh, a city of some 800,000 south-east of Moscow, and that…
Mexico City Eclipse Sightings
On 11 July 1991 the longest total solar eclipse of the twentieth century swept across Mexico, and at about 1:24 pm the Moon's shadow reached Mexico City. Millions of…
Ariel School, Ruwa
During the mid-morning break on 16 September 1994, pupils at Ariel School, a private primary school near Ruwa about 22 km south-east of Harare, said one or more silvery…
Chulucanas Lights, Peru
Chulucanas, a town in Peru's northern Piura region known for its pottery, has a long reputation for strange lights. On 13 October 2001, according to the account given by…
Mexican Air Force FLIR Video
On 5 March 2004 a Mexican Air Force crew on a routine anti-drug-smuggling patrol over southern Campeche recorded a cluster of bright points, eleven in all, on their…
Aguadilla Thermal Video, Puerto Rico
Late on 25 April 2013, a US Customs and Border Protection aircraft over north-western Puerto Rico recorded about three minutes of infrared video of a small warm object…
First public congressional UFO hearing in over 50 years
On 17 May 2022 the House Intelligence Committee's Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation, chaired by Representative André Carson…
ODNI 2022 Annual Report on UAP
On 12 January 2023 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, working with the new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, published an unclassified version of…
The Chinese surveillance balloon over North America
In late January 2023 a white high-altitude balloon carrying a large solar-paneled payload drifted from Alaska across western Canada and into the continental United…
AARO FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP
On 14 November 2024, the day after the Exposing the Truth hearing, the Defense Department and ODNI released AARO's consolidated annual report for fiscal 2024. Between May…
AARO FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP
AARO's report for fiscal 2025, issued by what is now styled the Department of War, covers 2 June 2024 to 30 May 2025 but was not published until July 2026, months after…
Task Force on Declassification UAP hearing
On 9 September 2025 the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Representative Anna Paulina Luna, held its first UAP…
PURSUE: the Pentagon's first UAP file releases
On 8 May 2026 the Department of War launched WAR.GOV/UFO and published the first tranche of files under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP…