List of UFO sightings

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This list of UFO sightings and UFO incidents summarizes a selection of cases that are considered to be of particular importance to the UFO issue and appear several times in the literature on the subject. The entries are classified according to J. Allen Hynek's classification system for UFO encounters .

Tabular overview of selected UFO incidents

date designation place object Witnesses class
August 12, 1883 José Bonilla observation Mexico, Zacatecas (city) Flying saucer 1 DD
Nov 1896 - May 1897 Phantom Airship Wave 1896–1897 USA, several places various 'airships' 10,000+ DD, CE-1
1946 Scandinavian UFO wave Sweden , several places Rocket-like 1,000+ NL, DD
0July 8, 1947 Roswell incident USA, Roswell (New Mexico) Flying saucer (debris) / balloon ?, different depending on the count CE-2, CE-3
0October 1, 1948 Gorman Dogfight United States, Fargo Ball of light 1 RV, CE-1
20th September 1961 Betty and Barney Hill kidnapping case USA, White Mountains (New Hampshire) Flying saucer 2 CE-4
05th November 1975 Travis Walton kidnapping case USA, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Flying saucer 7th CE-4
September 18, 1976 Tehran incident Iran, Tehran Ball of light, several 5+ NL, CE-2
Dec 26, 1980 - Dec 28, 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident GB, Woodbridge (Suffolk) Triangle, sphere of light, discus 5+ CE-2, CE-3
March 19, 1986 Official UFO Night of Brazil Brazil, Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo region Ball of light, 21 4+ RV
17th November 1986 Japan Airlines Flight 1628 USA, Alaska Rectangles, 2 / sphere, 1 3 CE-2
Nov. 29, 1989 - Apr. 1990 Belgian UFO wave Belgium , whole country Triangle, mainly 10,000+ CE-1, CE-2
August 24, 1990 Greifswald objects Germany, Greifswalder Bodden Ball of light, several 100+ NL
September 16, 1994 Ariel School Encounter Zimbabwe, Ruwa Flying saucer, two beings 62 (children) CE-3
March 13, 1997 Phoenix lights USA, Phoenix (Arizona) V-shaped object 100+ CE-1

Brief description of selected UFO incidents

A brief description of the cases that do not have their own lemma in Wikipedia.

Tehran incident

Date: September 18, 1976 Place: Tehran , Tehran Province , Iran Object (s): several balls of light Witnesses: more than 5 Classification: NL / CE-2
Tehran night panorama, 2008

On the night of September 18, 1976, several calls were made to the tower of Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. Residents of Tehran report an unusual light over the city. The flight controller on duty, Hossein Pirouzi, can see the object through his binoculars. According to his description a bright, white light with a red light in the middle. After the information was passed on to the responsible air force general, a Phantom F-4 interceptor was launched for reconnaissance around 00:30 . Both the pilot and the navigator of this jet can see the object. When the interceptor approached the object, the jet's on-board electronics and communications fail. The pilot therefore decides to turn back. The systems worked again on the way back. The jet lands and a second Phantom F-4 fighter is launched. The pilot of this machine is Major Parwis Jafari. He and his navigator can also visually confirm the object. Jafari later describes the object as brightly shining and flashing intensely in different colors. On the way to the object, it would have changed its position abruptly several times over a greater distance. According to the pilot and navigator, the on-board radar was able to detect the object. When the F-4 approaches the object, the on-board electronics also fail. According to Jafari, a small ball of light detaches itself from the large object and flies towards the jet. Jafari thinks it is a missile and tries to shoot it down with a heat-seeking missile . This attempt fails due to the failure of the weapon systems. Jafari also decides to turn back. The small object tracks and orbits the jet for a few minutes as the jet continues its return flight to the airport. The on-board electronics only work again after the small object has been turned off. Shortly afterwards, a small, brightly shining object is observed falling to the ground outside of Tehran. According to Jafari, all objects suddenly disappeared shortly after he landed. A later examination of the suspected landing site did not produce any results.

In addition to the statements made by Major Parwis Jafari and Hossein Pirouzi, this case is documented by a report by the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). DIA representatives were present at the debriefing and were able to speak to the witnesses and superiors.

Investigations

  • The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP, today Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) with the case investigator Philip J. Klass investigated the case. Accordingly, the bright light that was seen over Tehran was the planet Saturn . The training of the pilots and the military personnel of the Iranian Air Force was very poor at that time and the pilots were under great stress due to the nightly alarm start. According to Klass, their statements are therefore doubtful. For Klass, the radar contact of the second jet can be traced back to expectations and incompetence. From Iranian newspaper reports, Klass reconstructs (contrary to the statements of the witnesses involved) that the first interceptor did not return because of technical problems, but because of another small object that passed the jet. The pilot then turned back out of fear. The system failures of the second F-4 interceptor are due to the generally poor maintenance condition and have nothing to do with the sighting. The smaller objects were probably racing cars , according to Klass . In the days leading up to the event, there were several reports of UFO sightings in the Iranian press. This would have favored a misinterpretation of the stimuli for all involved.
  • An official investigation is not known. However, a document from the US Defense Intelligence Agency has been released through the Freedom of Information Act . The DIA summarizes the case and statements of the pilots, radar pilots and superiors. In an assessment by the DIA, the case is described as “an outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets all the criteria necessary for a valid study of the UFO phenomenon. "

Official UFO Night of Brazil

Date: March 19, 1986 Place: Region Rio de Janeiro / Sao Paulo , Brazil Object (s): up to 21 balls of light Witnesses: more than four Classification: RV
Panorama of São José dos Campos

At around 21:20 UTC − 3 (local time), the Brazilian Air Force received reports of unidentified aircraft movements near the city of São José dos Campos . The message comes from the control tower at the city's airport. Several lights are described that change their color between red, yellow, green and orange and could be detected by radar. The crew of a civilian machine can confirm the sighting and describes a red star that moves from east to west. Around 10:20 p.m. the first fighter jet was launched for reconnaissance. A total of five jets took off in the following two hours, two from the Santa Cruz Air Force Base and three from the Anápolis Air Force Base. Three of the pilots manage to establish contact with the objects. Several radar stations on the ground register the objects during use.

At around 10:55 p.m., Captain Viriato can capture an object in a Mirage using aircraft radar and track it for a few minutes before it disappears from the radar. Viriato later stated that the object had flown in a zigzag according to the radar. Viriato couldn't make out the object visually. Around 11:15 p.m. Lieutenant Kleber, pilot of an F-5E Tiger II , saw a ball of light in front of his plane. His radar and ground penetrating radar show a contact 19 kilometers in front of his jet. Kleber follows the object in the direction of the Atlantic without being able to catch up with it. At around 11:20 p.m., Captain Jordão can turn out a red light in an F-5E and establish radar contact with an object 32 kilometers away. Jordão chases the target for a few minutes until the target disappears from view and from the radar at the same time. Later, thirteen objects are located close to the jet by the ground penetrating radar. These accompany the jet for a few minutes without Jordão being able to see the targets. The objects only disappear after a 180-degree turn. Around 1:00 am all objects disappeared and the jets landed again.

Four days later, on May 23, 1986, the then Brazilian Minister of Aviation, Octavio Moreira Lima, called a press conference on the incident with the responsible military personnel and the pilots of the military aircraft involved. Lima confirms the incident and reports: “Our jets were followed by these objects for several minutes. [...] And the explanation? We can't give you one because we don't have one. ”Hence the incident is called“ Official UFO Night ”. Minister Lima announced that it would publish an official investigation report within 30 days. This announcement was not kept, and such a report was never published. It was not until 2009 that an internal investigation into the events that had been kept secret was released to the public. [See research below]

Investigations

  • Werner Walter from CENAP suspects radar errors in connection with misinterpretations of astronomical objects by the pilots. Walter points out that the UFOs recorded by radar could either not be observed visually and, if they were observed, they had similarities with stars and planets distorted by inversion weather conditions . According to Walter, the coordinates of the radar location and the location of the visual sighting often did not match, which would support this interpretation.
  • The British space expert Geoffrey Perry points out that the Soviet space station Salyut 7 released garbage during the period in question, which burned up in the earth's atmosphere in the region of Brazil. According to Perry, this could have been the trigger for the sightings.
  • Brazilian Air Force experts disagree with these statements. José Carlos Pereira, four-star brigadier general and commander of the aviation security command from 1999 to 2001, rejects suspicions about radar errors. He states that through the mutual confirmation of different radar systems which run on different frequencies, "a measurement error or a false correlation can be excluded". Jose Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Brigadier and head of the Air Force's internal investigation into the incident, argues that space debris does not correspond to the recorded movement patterns of the objects and can therefore be excluded as an explanation.
  • An internal investigation by the Brazilian Air Force dated June 2, 1986 into the incident was released to the public in 2009. The report states that the registered phenomenon was detected by different radar systems, showed different speeds (from hovering to supersonic), possessed the ability to suddenly accelerate, decelerate and make sharp changes of direction, and at times glowed in different colors. The Air Force Command comes to the conclusion that "the phenomenon was a solid body that showed intelligent behavior through its ability to follow the observer, keep a distance and fly in formation. It is not necessarily manned vehicles. " An explanation for the phenomenon is not given.

Japan Airlines Flight 1628

Date: 17th November 1986 Place: Alaska , USA Object (s): two rectangles with lights, one big sphere Witnesses: 3 Classification: CE-2
A Japan Airlines 747 freighter

Japan Airlines Flight 1628 is a cargo flight from Paris via Reykjavík , Anchorage to Tokyo . The crew consists of flight captain Kenju Terauchi, copilot Takanori Tamefuji and flight engineer Yoshio Tsukuba. On the way from Reykjavík to Anchorage on November 17, 1986 around 17:10 UTC-9 at an altitude of about 10.5 km, Captain Terauchi sees strange lights under the Boeing 747 to the left . Terauchi thinks they are military machines and pays no special attention to them. For a few minutes the lights seem to fly parallel to Flight 1628 and follow the machine. At around 5:20 p.m. these lights disappear and two larger objects suddenly appear in front of the Boeing 747. The aircraft crew later describes the objects as rectangles on the long sides of which are several rows of round, bright, yellow lights. The lights would have illuminated the interior of the cockpit and would have been intense like airplane headlights. The light could be felt warm on the skin. The ground radar of the Air Route Traffic Control Center could not detect the objects. Approx. The objects accompanied the Boeing for 10 minutes and flew slight curves in formation. Around 5:30 p.m. they suddenly disappear. Seconds later, Terauchi notices a larger glowing object in the direction of flight. Terauchi turns on the aircraft's weather radar and receives contact with a non-solid object, such as a car, about 14 km away. B. a cloud bank. Both the civil surface radar and the military radar of the Elmendorf Air Force Base can also confirm a radar contact. A few minutes later, Flight 1628 approaches the city of Fairbanks . In the sky lit by the lights of the city, the crew thinks they can see the silhouette of a large, dark, spherical object, the luminous object being a light from the large spherical object. Terauchi later describes the size as "similar to an aircraft carrier". Flight 1628 tries to avoid the object in a big curve and leave it behind. The object appears to be following the Boeing and can still be seen from the side window of the cockpit. The object changes its position abruptly over large distances several times. At around 5:40 p.m., ground control asked the pilot of a United Airlines passenger plane to change course to confirm the sighting. At around 5:50 p.m., before United Airlines comes into view, the spherical object falls back and disappears from the view of Flight 1628 and from the radar. United Airlines can't find anything out of the ordinary. Flight 1628 lands at Anchorage Airport at around 6:20 pm.

All three crew members of Flight 1628 confirmed this representation. The case did not become known in the media until weeks later and then aroused great media interest.

Investigations

  • The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) opened an investigation due to the public attention on January 1, 1987, just under two months after the incident. The result was announced on March 5, 1987. Accordingly, the FAA was “unable to confirm the incident” (“was unable to confirm the event”). The radar contacts are explained as "uncorrelated primary and secondary contacts", in which the actual position of the aircraft (primary contact) and that of the radio transponder signal (secondary contact ) are not synchronized and therefore display two targets on the radar screen. Regarding the sightings of the crew, the FAA merely states that the FAA is not conducting any investigations into UFO sightings.
  • The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP, today Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) published the following statement with the case investigator Philip J. Klass : The sighting of the first two luminous objects were ice crystals that reflected the moonlight. After the plane passed the ice crystals, the crew searched for the supposedly disappeared UFO and discovered the planet Jupiter . This was then mistaken for the big UFO. The radar contacts are due to thin cloud banks. (A previous declaration by the CSICOP has been withdrawn and replaced by this one)
  • Investigators like physicist Bruce Maccabee contradict both the FAA publication and the statements of the CSICOP. Both explanations would ignore various points of the description, such as the described shape of the objects, intensity of light, felt warmth on the skin and movement patterns of the objects. Maccabee also disagrees with the FAA's radar analysis. According to Maccabee, the incident remains unresolved.
  • John Callahan, executive director of the FAA's Accidents, Evaluations and Investigations Division from 1981 to 1988, reported on the FAA investigation into the incident several years after his retirement. According to him, all data on the case were presented at a meeting to staff of the CIA and the Scientific Advisory Board of the US President. At the end of the 90-minute meeting, the CIA and advisory staff are said to have been very interested in the incident. According to Callahan, everyone involved was sworn to secrecy about the meeting and the incident on the grounds that they did not want to cause panic among the population. The official FAA analysis of the radar data is purposely wrong to hide the seriousness of the incident. No other witnesses or official statements confirming Callahan's statements are known.

Greifswald objects

Date: August 24, 1990 Place: Greifswalder Bodden , Germany Object (s): several balls of light Witnesses: over 100 Classification: NL

On the evening of August 24, 1990, over a hundred people saw bright spheres of light over the Greifswalder Bodden . The first sightings were made around 8:15 pm and lasted until 9:00 pm. The balls were described as "glistening bright" with reddish-white light and could be seen from Usedom, Rügen and places between Rostock and Neubrandenburg. The objects were divided into two groups of 6-7 lights each. Four video films and various photographs were made. None of the video films shows the incident in its entirety, only a few minutes at a time. Also, most of the Witnesses only observed the phenomenon part of the time.

The objects swayed slightly, otherwise remained motionless. From time to time, small flashes of light can be seen on the films. At least once one of the groups went out and then reappeared in another place about a minute later. Whether this happened several times is controversial. It is also controversial whether there were occasional flight movements of the light balls. One witness reported that “smaller objects flew away from the formations, stopped for a short time and then flew back into them”. The consensus is that the last objects went out around 9 p.m.

The Greifswald objects are considered the most famous UFO incident on German territory.

Flares from a US Navy military exercise

Investigations

  • The UFO association CENAP and the GWUP see the incident as a military exercise of the Warsaw Pact . The explanation says that flares were brought into the air as training targets for infrared missiles or similar projectiles. These targets would then float to the ground on parachutes for several minutes and show the corresponding lighting behavior. The balls would have lit up for a maximum of 10 minutes and then replaced by new targets. There would have been no flight movements, but projectiles trying to hit the targets. This declaration is also based on statements by a former NVA officer who claims to have participated in similar exercises.
  • Dennis Kirstein from Ufo-Informationen.de also suspects a military exercise of the Warsaw Pact, but not the Navy, but the Air Force. According to Kirstein, there are numerous indications that light bombs from aircraft were deployed as training targets by the Czechoslovak Air Force. Here, too, the lights burned for about 10 minutes and were then replaced by new lights.
  • Some researchers such as those of the UFO research associations MUFON-CES and DEGUFO contradict the explanations of the exercise goals . The balls had been in the sky for much longer than 10 minutes and therefore could not be training targets, since such long-burning targets do not exist. In addition, the flight movements reported by some witnesses contradict the explanation of parachute targets.

Ariel School Encounter

Date: September 16, 1994 Place: Ruwa , Mashonaland East , Zimbabwe Object (s): metallic object on the ground, two beings Witnesses: 62 (children) Classification: CE-3

On the morning of September 16, 1994, around 10:15 am, 62 students aged 8 to 12 at the private Ariel Primary School observed three unusual objects in the sky. According to the reports, these were round, metallic, and had flashing red lights. They disappeared several times, only to reappear in another part of the sky. One of the objects would have slowly sunk down after a few minutes and fell to the ground behind a group of trees about 100 meters away from the school building. The school's teachers were at a meeting in the building at the time and dismissed the children's calls as a game.

The students reported that they ran to the suspected landing site. The children's description is consistent in the main points: Behind the group of trees stood or floated close to the ground a large, round, metallic object in the form of a flying saucer. There was one being with the object, a second one had emerged from the object. The beings were described as small, dressed in a kind of black overalls , with pale complexions, as well as large, black, oval eyes and long black hair. The beings would not have spoken. However, some children said they had received words criticizing the destruction of the environment by humanity. Many of the students got scared and ran back to the school building, where they informed the teachers. The teachers described the children's behavior as panicking. The object was lifted again after a short time. When faculty arrived at the site, there was no sign of the object or a landing. The students' statements differed in various details about the appearance of the object, the appearance of the beings or the course of the encounter.

Investigations

  • A first on-site investigation was carried out on September 20, 1994 by journalist Cynthia Hind. This had the students make drawings and carried out interviews with the children, teachers and parents. She concludes that the children are not lying and that their statements are too consistent to be imagined. According to Hinds, the reports are based on a real event.
  • The most famous research was carried out in November 1994 by the psychiatrist John E. Mack . He conducted surveys on site over two days and conducted interviews with twelve of the students. Mack concluded that the children “describe these experiences or events as a person would describe something that happened to them. [...] All the quality and the way they talk about it: It's the way a person talks about something that happened to them. "
  • While researching the documentary Encounter in Ruwa: The Ariel School UFO Sighting , filmmaker Randall Nickerson interviewed many of the students again in 2008 about the case. All the witnesses interviewed confirmed that they had really experienced what was described.

Phoenix lights

Date: March 13, 1997 Place: Phoenix , Arizona , USA Object (s): a large V-shaped object with strong lights Witnesses: several 100 Classification: CE-1

On the evening of March 13, 1997, a series of UFO sightings occurred in an area around Phoenix . The sightings can be divided into two sighting waves. The first wave of sightings began around 8:15 pm with testimony from Prescott . The following sightings reveal a southern flight path of the lights. According to witnesses, around 8:30 p.m. the lights fly over parts of Phoenix, and around 8:45 p.m. Tucson . They were last seen near Tucson around 9:00 p.m. The reports come from hundreds of witnesses and are received by police stations, the local air force base and the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) , among others . The witnesses speak of a V-shaped formation of 5 to 9 white and / or red lights, which spanned a great distance of several hundred meters. Most eyewitnesses report that these lights were placed on the underside of a massive, dark, V- or delta- shaped object. When flying over this object would have covered the stars in the night sky so that the silhouette of the object could be seen. Most witnesses say that it flew silently and rather slowly. Air traffic controllers at the nearby Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport could also see the lights, but could not identify them. The radar had no contact. No videos or photos are known of this event.

The second wave of sightings begins at around 10:00 p.m. Hundreds of witnesses see a string of bright, white lights over the Estrella Mountains southwest of Phoenix. The lights appeared in quick succession, floated in place, and went out 4-5 minutes later. There are several videos and photos of this event.

The case was initially only covered in a few local newspapers. It was not until an article in USA Today on June 18, 1997, more than ten weeks after the event, that the case became known nationwide. In 2007, the incident moved again into public interest: The governor of Arizona at the time of the incident, Fife Symington III. , stated in an interview that she had observed the alleged object himself. Symington testified to have seen a "huge, delta-shaped" object, which in his estimation could not have come from humans. At a press conference immediately after the incident, Symington had made a major contribution to ridiculing the incident by presenting his police chief in an alien costume as "the culprit".

Flares are thrown from an F-16

Investigations

The Luke Air Force Base has announced that around 22:00 so-called flares were dropped from military aircraft for training purposes. Most of the investigators agree that the second wave of sightings from around 10:00 p.m. onwards is due to these flares and that all published photos and videos show these flares. The further-mentioned investigations therefore only relate to the first wave of sightings from 8:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

  • Some skeptical investigators such as the CENAP group and the podcast magazine Skeptoid.com consider the testimony of the first wave of sightings to be untrustworthy and negligible because there is no photographic evidence for them. Only the videos and photos are conclusive - and these show flares. It can therefore be assumed that nothing other than flares caused the sightings.
  • Many skeptical investigators suspect a formation of military aircraft as an explanation. Mitch Stanley, an amateur astronomer from Scottsdale , said he saw the lights too and observed them through his Dobsonian telescope . He claims to have clearly recognized airplanes as the source of the lights. The time when Stanley made his observation is not published, but the sighting is often given as an explanation for the first wave of sightings. Accordingly, a formation of military aircraft would have flown the route of the alleged UFO in V formation. Observers wrongly interpreted a coherent object from the position lights of the aircraft. For example, the white and red position lights on aircraft match the often reported colors of the lights on the object.
  • An official investigation is not known. According to Fife Symington III. , Governor of Arizona 1991-1997, the governor's office investigated the origin of the flying object. Questions have been submitted to the Department of Public Safety , the Air National Guard, and Luke Air Force Base . According to Symington, these questions have not been answered. The city councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood, who has called for an investigation, reports something similar. According to her statement, the authorities did not cooperate.

Individual evidence

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