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10 cases where witnesses described a triangle, from 1980 to 2025.

1980

Rendlesham Forest and the Halt Memo

Around 3 a.m. on 26 December 1980, US Air Force security police at the east gate of RAF Woodbridge saw lights apparently coming down into Rendlesham Forest and went to…

UnresolvedUK Ministry of Defence: 'nothing of defence interest'; no threat to…
1983

Hudson Valley Boomerang Sightings

From New Year's Eve 1982 and through the next two years, people across the commuter towns north of New York City reported a vast, quiet shape gliding low over highways…

DisputedNo formal government investigation; New York State Police (Troop K)…
1989

Belgian UFO Wave and the F-16 Night

On the evening of 29 November 1989, people around Eupen in eastern Belgium, police officers among them, reported a large, flat, triangular craft with lights beneath it…

UnresolvedBelgian Air Force released a report on the 30-31 March 1990…
1990

Petit-Rechain Photograph

At the height of the Belgian wave in April 1990, an anonymous photographer produced a slide showing a black triangular craft against a dark sky, with a bright light at…

Fabricated (admitted)No official classification; confessed fabrication by the photographer…
1992

Bonnybridge, Scotland

Bonnybridge is an unremarkable former foundry village between Falkirk and Glasgow, yet from 1992 it became one of the most talked-about UFO spots on the planet. The flap…

ReportedNo official investigation; requests to successive prime ministers went…
1993

RAF Cosford Incident

In the early hours of 31 March 1993, people across western Britain saw bright lights speeding across the night sky. Most of the reports, clustered between about 1:10 and…

DisputedMoD file DEFE 24/2086/1 (Nick Pope) and DIS file DEFE 23/254/1; Pope…
1997

Phoenix Lights

On the evening of 13 March 1997, people across a 300-mile corridor from the Nevada line through Phoenix to Tucson reported strange lights. Two separate things were seen…

DisputedUS Air Force / Maryland Air National Guard: the 10 pm lights were…
2022

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…

UnresolvedWitnesses: no evidence of non-terrestrial origin; most cases…
2024

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…

UnresolvedAARO: no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology…
2025

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…

DisputedNo official finding; claims and video not evaluated by the Pentagon at…

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