1990.03.07 10.40 Another incident involving a helicopter’s near-miss with a UFO took place in the vicinity of Nalchik Airport, [Russia,] USSR, on 7 March 1990, when the crew of a Mil Mi-2, commanded by V Silka, was ordered to investigate a low-flying unidentified object that had been tracked on radar since 10.40 am. The helicopter […]
Turin, Piedmont, Italy, Europe
1978.11.30 19.00 It was approximately seven o’clock in the evening when Riccardo Marano approached Caselle airport in his Piper Navajo. As he was about to land, the control tower radioed information of an unidentified flying object some 1,200 feet (365 metres) over the runway. Marano aborted the landing and flew towards the object, but it […]
Lakenheath / Bentwaters, Suffolk, England, Europe
1956.08.13 The Royal Air Force bases at Bentwaters and Lakenheath in eastern England were both leased to the USAF. Any unknown aircraft coming from the east over the North Sea was reckoned to be potentially hostile. On the night of 13 – 14 August several UFOs flying at fantastic speeds were picked up by several […]
Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco, Africa
1953.03.25 [Click image to clarify and enlarge] (The Hynek UFO Report, Hynek) 21.23 C-47 Crew Saw Object Land on Airbase / Ground Radar At approximately 9.35 pm, the control tower at Nouasseur informed the C-47 number 9181 that had observed the object earlier, that GCA radar had detected four objects on their screen and there were […]
Yaak, Montana, America, North America
1952.09.01 04.45 But only five other cases were discussed [by the Robertson Panel] in any detail… The Yaak, Montana (August [sic] 1,1952) [incident]… (The Hynek UFO Report, Hynek) Radar/Visual at Air Force Radar Site Brad Sparks: September 1, 1952; Yaak, Montana (BBU 2023) 4.45 am: Visual sighting by two USAF enlisted men, radar tracking by […]
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Asia
1952.08.05 [Click image to enlarge] 23.30 On August 5, 1952, just before midnight, two Air Force control tower operators at the Haneda US Air Force Base near Tokyo, Japan, noticed a brilliant light in the sky, joined others and watched it through 7×50 binoculars. (ufoevidence.org) An “unusually bright bluish white light” [was] seen at 23.30 […]
Bellefontaine, Ohio, America, North America
1952.08.01 [Click image to clarify and enlarge] Hovering obejct scanned by radar and seen by ground watchers, caught on film by a climbing jet pilot. These unretouched 35mm gun-camera movie frames, released to True by the Air Force, were taken at 30,000 feet, near Wright Field, at eleven am on August 1, 1952. 11.00 The strange […]
Washington, District of Columbia, America, North America
1952.07.19 23.40 Hardly had the concerns about this this worrying case died away when radar screens all around the capital started to pick up UFOs. (The Complete Book of UFOs, Hough and Randles) It was nearly midnight when staff of the Air Route Traffic Control (ARTC) at Washington National Airport noticed a formation of seven […]
Norfolk, England, Europe
1947.01.16 22.30 On 8 August a London [FBI] agent reported an incident that had occurred on 16 January 1947 – five months before the Kenneth Arnold sighting. At 22.30 hours an RAF Mosquito was on night flying practice 100 miles out over the North Sea near the Dutch coast when a radar tracking was made […]
Los Angeles, California, America, North America
1942.02.25 This damaged and retouched photograph by a Los Angeles Times reporter shows searchlight beams converging on a mysterious aerial intruder over the Culver City area of Los Angeles on the morning of 25 February 1942. The UFO can just be made out. The small blobs of light are not UFOs, but bursts of anti-aircraft […]