Topic
Military
148 records: 86 cases, 51 people, 7 organizations, 2 documents, 1 places, 1 narratives · 1948–2026
Its 86 cases
Strength
A 5B 28C 29D 23E 1
Plausibility
Very high 10High 61Moderate 15
On a line of years
19482026
Most connected
Michael HerreraWitness profileThe Nimitz 'Tic Tac'A2004 · Pacific, off Baja CaliforniaBobby Ray InmanThe White Sands lure and the shoot-down questionB2025 · White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (alleged)Edgar FouchéAir Force Plant 42 (Palmdale)Palmdale, California (Antelope Valley)James ClapperNaval Air Station Patuxent River (Pax River)St. Mary's County, Maryland
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Cases 86
1948Fukuoka: an F-61 night fighter and the 'rifle bullet'B1948 · Near Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan1948Sweden's Supreme Commander and the projectile in the bayB1948 · Våmfjärden, Fågelbrolandet (Värmdö) and the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden1953Ellsworth radar-visual chaseB1953 · Ellsworth AFB and Rapid City, South Dakota, to Bismarck, North Dakota1955Col. Willingham's Del Rio crash (1955)D1955 · Across the Rio Grande from Langtry, about 60 mi northwest of Del Rio, Texas (Mexico)1957Ota: four F-84Gs and the yellow sphereD1957 · Night navigation route from Ota air base toward Córdoba and Cáceres, Portugal and Spain1957The RB-47 radar-visual case (1957)B1957 · Over Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma (from Gulfport to Oklahoma)1958Nike Ajax site W-93, Maryland: a disc crash and a landing (1958)D1958 · Nike Ajax sites W-92 (Gaithersburg) and W-93 (near Olney), Maryland1960Ascension Island missile-cassette recovery light (25 June 1960)C1960 · Off Ascension Island, South Atlantic (Atlantic Missile Range)1964A 4,400 mph contact near Puerto RicoB1964 · Atlantic Fleet Weapons Range1964Big Sur: a beam at an Atlas warheadC1964 · Vandenberg AFB launch, filmed from Big Sur, California1964Indonesia: Salatun's 1964 radar week and an F-16 pilot's contactD1964 · Surabaya, Malang and Bangkalan (East Java), Indonesia1964The Holloman landing, as told to George H. W. BushD1964 · Holloman AFB, New Mexico1965Edwards AFB: the tower-tape UFO alertA1965 · Edwards AFB, California1965USS Hassayampa: four radar targets circle the shipB1965 · Philippine Sea, about 20°N 135°E1966Project Northern Tier: incursions at northern nuclear bases, 1966-1977B1966 · Minot AFB (North Dakota), Wurtsmith AFB (Michigan), Loring AFB (Maine) and other northern-tier SAC bases1967Bandırma 1967: F-5s with orders to fireD1967 · Bandırma, Turkey1967Montánchez: two radars, a T-33 and an F-86 scrambleB1967 · Over Montánchez (Cáceres) and Badajoz, Spain1968Minot AFB B-52 radar-visual case (24 October 1968)B1968 · Minot AFB, North Dakota1969Chu Lai: an egg-shaped light lands at the ammunition dumpD1969 · Chu Lai Defense Command, Quang Tin, South Vietnam1969Pori: seven yellow 'balloons' outrun a jetD1969 · Over Pori airport, Finland1970Plaški: a MiG-21 can't catch a luminous object at 22,000 mD1970 · Over Plaški, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)1971Swiss Mirage III pilots and the 'snake' light over InterlakenB1971 · Over Interlaken and Winterthur, Switzerland1975Prevlaka: Yugoslav MiGs chase a radar object while Tito watchedD1975 · Over Dubrovnik-Ćilipi and Prevlaka, Yugoslavia (now Croatia/Montenegro)1976Canarias 1976: the corvette, the doctor and the sphereB1976 · Off Fuerteventura and over Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain1976Jets lose weapons over TehranA1976 · Tehran, Iran1976Seoul fires on the lights over the Blue HouseC1976 · Central Seoul, restricted zone P-73 near Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea1977A Mirage IV paced near ChaumontD1977 · Near Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France1977Elmas: an orange sphere among the night exerciseB1977 · Cagliari-Elmas airport, Sardinia, Italy1977Italy 1977: professional sightings missing from the Air Force dossierC1977 · Central Italy, Naples-Capodichino and Pisa1978Setka: the Soviet state UAP programmeA1978 · USSR: Ministry of Defence and Academy of Sciences1980Two ROK Air Force F-4s circle a glowing object near DaeguC1980 · Palgongsan (Daegu) to Yeongil Bay (Pohang), South Korea1982The Soviet ICBM launch-panel incidentB1982 · Strategic Rocket Forces division, Ukrainian SSR (Usovo/Byelokoroviche, Zhytomyr oblast, or near Khmelnytskyi)1983Karakuş's F-4 formation and the light beamC1983 · Eskişehir – Balıkesir – Denizli – Konya, Turkey1984The Borisoglebsk air crashesC1984 · Borisoglebsk aviation hub, Voronezh oblast (Borisoglebsk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots)1987Czech army scrambles at a silver 'cigar', 1987 and 1992D1987 · Vranov nad Dyjí; Tři Sekery – Jirkov, Czechoslovakia1988Ankara 1988: F-16s and F-4s against a radar giantC1988 · Over Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey1990The Pereslavl-Zalessky interceptor eventB1990 · Pereslavl-Zalessky, Zagorsk, Kirzhach and nearby (Moscow Air Defence District)1994The Boscombe Down crash (1994)E1994 · MoD Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, England1997The crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)D1997 · Peruvian Andes near the Colombian/Brazilian border (radar site per Gerb: Iquitos), during Operation Laser Strike1997The triangle at Twentynine Palms (Hunter Warrior, 1997)D1997 · Near Emerson Dry Lake, north-west of MCAGCC Twentynine Palms, California (restricted airspace R-2501C)1998Cangzhou: radar alarm and a JJ-6 chaseD1998 · PLA Air Force flight test and training centre, Cangzhou, Hebei, China2001Anápolis: a Mirage scrambled on a radar plotB2001 · Anápolis air base, Goiás, Brazil2001Çandarlı: a T-37 in a 'dogfight'C2001 · Çandarlı Gulf, İzmir, Turkey2002Bagram Airborne Triangle (FBI PURSUE file)C2002 · Bagram, Afghanistan2004Iran's Air Force and the luminous objects over its nuclear sitesC2004 · Bushehr, Khondab (Arak), Natanz and Kharg Island, Iran2004The Nimitz 'Tic Tac'A2004 · Pacific, off Baja California2005Italian Air Force OVNI entries with radar: Grazzanise 2005 and Maleo 2019C2005 · Grazzanise (Caserta) and Maleo (Lodi), Italy2007The triangle over the missile silos (DIA video)C2007 · US nuclear missile silos (base not named)2009Boomerangs, missing time and a military search near NAS FallonC2009 · Near NAS Fallon, Nevada2009Sumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craftC2009 · Jungle near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia2010An F-5M's radar paints a Mach 1.5 targetC2010 · About 340 NM north-north-west of Anápolis, Brazil, at FL2502012Hurt by UAP: the medical filesC2012 · United States (military and intelligence personnel)2012Ladakh: hundreds of luminous objects on the China borderC2012 · Thakung near Pangong Tso, and Demchok, eastern Ladakh, India2013The 'Off-World Technologies Division' under NSWC Crane (2012-15)D2013 · Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, Indiana2015GIMBAL and GOFASTA2015 · Atlantic coast, USS Theodore Roosevelt2017A triangle hovers over Russian naval vessels off Kamchatka (Immaculate Constellation brief)D2017 · Pacific Ocean off Kamchatka, eastern Russia (as Brown recalls it)2020The nuclear-submarine bait missionC2020 · Off the US East Coast2020The two admirals and the blocked debriefD2020 · A US Navy training compound (Top Gun, NAS Fallon per a YouTube recap, unconfirmed)2020Tracking UAP over IranB2020 · Iran2021'Syrian UAP instant acceleration'C2021 · Syria (CENTCOM)2021Cold orbs versus an AC-130B2021 · Gulf of Oman2021Corbell's pyramids and the diving sphereB2021 · Off San Diego2022Spheres in and out of the water near a submarineC2022 · At sea (location withheld)2023An F-16 shoots down a UAPB2023 · Lake Huron, Michigan2023Four tic tacs off the USS JacksonB2023 · W-291 warning area, off Southern California2023Imphal airport closed; the IAF sends RafalesB2023 · Bir Tikendrajit International Airport, Imphal, Manipur, India2023Ninety-degree turns over the AegeanB2023 · Aegean Sea, Greece2023Rizhao: 'preparing to shoot down' an unidentified objectC2023 · Sea off Rizhao and Qingdao, Shandong; Shijiazhuang Zhengding airport, Hebei, China2023Romania and Moldova: MiG-21s scramble at a balloon-like objectC2023 · South-east Romania and Soroca, Moldova2023The swarm over LangleyB2023 · Joint Base Langley-Eustis and Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia2024About 100 objects off the Virginia coastC2024 · Off the coast of Virginia2024Poland's radar object that was never foundC2024 · Entered opposite Chervonohrad, faded near Tyszowce, Lublin province, Poland2024Spheres over the Yellow and East China SeasB2024 · Yellow Sea, East and South China Seas2024The 'Jellyfish' over IraqD2024 · Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq2025The El Paso airspace closuresB2025 · El Paso and Sierra Blanca, Texas2025The White Sands lure and the shoot-down questionB2025 · White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (alleged)2026Drones over Australia's F-35 baseC2026 · RAAF Base Williamtown, New South Wales, Australia2026Gimhae airport closed for lights over the baseD2026 · Gimhae International Airport, Busan, South Korea2026Lublin's flying object: heard by residents, caught on military radar, never found (Poland, 2026)D2026 · Zalew Zemborzycki and gmina Niedrzwica Duża, south of Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland2026Taiwan's CCK air base closed by an unidentified droneC2026 · Ching Chuan Kang air base, Taichung, Taiwan2026The Arab al-Aramshe objectB2026 · Arab al-Aramshe, Western Galilee, Israel2026Ukraine's armed forces UAP procedureD2026 · Ukraine2026Unidentified drones over Toulon during exercise TyphonB2026 · Toulon naval base, DGA Toulon and the 54e régiment d'artillerie at Hyères (Var), France; restricted zone LF-P 622026Unknown objects pass within feet of a BA airliner and RAF jets (UK Airprox Board, 2026)C2026 · Guildford, Surrey; North Sea off Cromer; danger area D323 off the Yorkshire coast; United KingdomA glowing giant and a black diamond over Minuteman silosDU.S. Air Force missile field (base not named)NORAD's east-coast chaseCEastern United States (NORAD)
People 51
Alex DietrichWitness profileAlexandro WigginsWitness profileArthur TrudeauBarry GoldwaterBobby Ray InmanBoris SokolovChristopher C. MillerDan 'Tanna' IsbellWitness profileDavid FravorWitness profileDwight D. EisenhowerEdgar FouchéGen. Igor MaltsevGlen VanHerckGregory GuillotH. Marshall WardHarland BentleyHelge JungWitness profileIm Byung-sunWitness profileJake BarberWitness profileJames ClapperJames D. CobbWitness profileJeffrey NuccetelliWitness profileJonathan WeygandtWitness profileJosé Lemos FerreiraWitness profileKarl NellWitness profileLee Seung-baeWitness profileLt. Gen. John M. RiggsMario WoodsWitness profileMichael HerreraWitness profileMichael JohnsonWitness profileMike FlahertyWitness profileMikhail ZakharchukNat KobitzNick BettsWitness profileOctávio Moreira LimaPhilip J. CorsoWitness profileRandall WaldenRandy AndersonWitness profileRichard DotyWitness profileRobert JacobsWitness profileRobert SalasWitness profileRoderick CastleWitness profileRyan GravesWitness profileScott BraySerhiy BeskrestnovStephen LovekinSumner ShapiroTim GallaudetWitness profileViktor BalashovWalter HautWillard Miller
Organizations 7
Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OHAir Force Plant 42 (Palmdale)Palmdale, California (Antelope Valley)Armed Forces Special Weapons ProjectArmy Foreign Technology Division (OCRD, 1960-63)Pentagon, Office of the Chief of Research and DevelopmentJoint Special Operations Command (JSOC)Naval Air Station Patuxent River (Pax River)St. Mary's County, MarylandNaval Surface Warfare Center Crane (NSWC Crane)Crane, Indiana