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3 miles SW of SEATTLE-FORT, Louisiana
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
Region not stated / 2 incidents
Aegean Sea
A U.S. Air Force aircrew filed MISREP 9337873 reporting that on 29 October 2023 at 0811Z, while returning to base over the Aegean Sea, they spotted a UAP flying just above the ocean surface and moving straight toward land. The UAP was described as seemingly circular, too small to make out details, solid, and traveling at an estimated 30 MPH; it was lost from their sensor feed at 0811Z. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and not under intelligent control. The report was declassified on 22 January 2026 by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Approximately midway between Everett (Mass) Fan Marker and Bedford Radio Beacon, approximately 10 miles NW of Boston, Massachusetts
On 4 August 1947 at 1600 EDT, Pan American Airways Captain Alpheus O. Powell and navigator Walter I. White separately sighted flying objects near Boston while piloting a Constellation from Gander, Newfoundland to La Guardia Field. Powell described his object as cylindrical, blunt at both ends, roughly the length of a P-40 fuselage, and bright orange; White described his as elliptical, deep gold, and approximately 15 feet long. Air Defense Command at Mitchel Field, New York interviewed both men and issued summaries of information on 12 and 15 September 1947.
Region not stated / 7 incidents
Arabian Gulf
MISREP 4871281 records that a U.S. military operator took off from OKAS on 1 October 2020 and, during a 21-hour NAVCENT support mission over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, observed 1X UAP at 1829Z on 2 October 2020. The report references OBSERVATION LINE 1 for UAP details, but that section is not present in the released text. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026 under MDR 26-0028 and approved for release to AARO.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Atlantic Ocean
A U.S. Navy O-3 Weapons Systems Officer filed a Range Fouler Debrief with the Department of War recording an encounter over the Atlantic Ocean at dusk in 2020. The observer described a single contact as "a darker, maroonish color, approximately 12-15ft in height," appearing as "a large, somewhat deformed balloon" that "traveled with the wind" in a generally southern direction with no maneuvers or change in direction. The crew passed the object at the merge, could not verify the balloon characterization, and returned to the ship. The date, location, and several narrative passages are redacted.
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Azerbaijan, Soviet Union
A CIA memorandum dated 31 October 1955, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence and authored by Herbert Scoville Jr., Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, summarizes debriefings of four witnesses who observed "flying saucers or unconventional aircraft" from a train near Alyaty, Soviet Azerbaijan, at 1910 hours in 1955. The witnesses included Senator Richard Russell, who saw a small greenish-yellow glowing ball rising rapidly, and Colonel Hathaway, who described a shadowy object with a rotating light at its base that did not resemble any aircraft, rocket, or missile he had seen.
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Campbell Air Force Base, Camp Campbell, Kentucky
On July 24, 1949, a fireball was reported over the general neighborhood of Socorro, New Mexico at 8:26 p.m. Researchers W. D. Crozier and Ben K. Seely of the New Mexico School of Mines then made systematic airborne particle collections at Socorro from July 25 through August 1, finding copper-bearing opaque particles and three apparently perfect spherical cobalt-indication particles twelve microns in diameter in the July 26 afternoon collection.
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Centennial Coliseum, 4590 S. Virginia St., Reno, Nevada
Section 10 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 contains the program for the AFSCA 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention, held July 8-10, 1966, at the Centennial Coliseum in Reno, Nevada, along with a citizen letter and the Bureau's reply. On August 31, 1966, Florence C. Dow of Goffstown, New Hampshire, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stating that her first issue of the AFSCA journal "Flying Saucers International" struck her as Communist-backed.
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Chicago, Illinois
In January 1955, Lt. Col. Joseph A. Bloomer of the Air Force Directorate of Intelligence responded to letters from Senator Sparkman, private citizens, and foreign correspondents regarding the Unidentified Flying Object Program. The correspondence addresses the "seizure" of a meteorite that fell through the roof of Mrs. Hewlett Hodges' home in Sylacauga, Alabama, in November 1954, which Air Force officers retrieved, flew to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and determined to be a meteorite before returning it to Mrs. Hodges' attorney on 9 December 1954.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
In July and August 1954, the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and Washington Field Office documented reports from civilian informant Thomas Eickhoff concerning flying saucer lecturers Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson, and from Navy Security Officer John Hutson concerning Frances Swan's claimed thought transmission contact with beings designated "AFFA" and "PONNAR," commanders of ships M-4 and L-11. Eickhoff reported attending a luncheon at the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati on June 7, 1954, where Bethurum and Williamson stated their story was factual and consented to government scrutiny.
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Clarksburg, West Virginia
Serial 403 of FBI case 62-HQ-83894 consists of the dust jacket and promotional text from Gray Barker's 1956 book "They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers," published by University Books, Inc. of New York. The jacket text states that flying saucer researchers who challenged government denial were silenced after visits from "three men in dark suits," and that Barker began his research in 1952 after a flying saucer allegedly landed near his home in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Barker is identified as a Clarksburg businessman who also published a flying saucer periodical called The Saucerian.
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Contact altitude: 26,000 ft
On October 27, 2020, at 01:12:21 Zulu, an O-3 pilot from 77 EFS filed a Range Fouler Debrief reporting two contacts at 26,000 feet, described as balloon-shaped, metallic, reflective, and visually tallied as "2x red blinking strobes." The target pod showed two IR significant contacts, with one range fouler circling the other, and noise jamming was received, indicated by two chevrons. The operator could not close within 16.9 NM, and "in 1/30th of a second, they were gone."
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Detroit, Michigan
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
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Eastern Mediterranean
On November 18, 2016, a U.S. P-8A aircraft monitoring carrier task group activity in the Eastern Mediterranean observed an unidentified low-flying object 55 nautical miles northwest of Latakia, Syria, via its EO/IR sensor. The object appeared to be in "sea skim mode," traveling at approximately 500 knots on a southeasterly heading, and passed between the Russian vessel INGUL ARS and one unidentified vessel before the P-8A lost visual contact after two minutes. The CTG 67.1 mission commander characterized the interaction as safe and assessed the activity as consistent with standard carrier task group activity.
Region not stated / 2 incidents
Eastern United States
In 2019, five personnel aboard a civilian King Air over the Eastern United States reported observing a small object below their aircraft traveling in a straight line opposite their direction at high speed. The primary observer, who reported 28 years of service with the USAF and Navy, tracked the object for approximately 10 to 15 seconds before activating a recorder; when zooming in for resolution, the object's speed carried it out of the field of view and it could not be reacquired. Post-flight analysis of the video suggested the object appeared to be rectangular.
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European Theater of Operations (ETO)
SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 contains messages and memorandums from December 1944 through March 1945 documenting reports of "night phenomena (foofighters)" by crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the European Theater. Crews described blinking lights that changed colors and flew in formation with their aircraft, reddish flames, red balls of fire, and arrow-like light formations. On 1 March 1945, HQ IX TAC reported that pilots observed an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped object approximately 12 feet long floating at 9,000 feet, which was attacked, partially deflated, and produced a red flame without smoke.
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Ft. Adams district (prospector sighting location, June 24, 1947)
On August 25, 1947, Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer of Headquarters Fourth Air Force, A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, forwarded to the FBI SAC in San Francisco a letter from F. M. Johnson, a prospector who wrote from Portland, Oregon on August 20, 1947, reporting that he had observed flying discs in the Ft. Adams district on June 24, 1947, the same date as the Kenneth Arnold sighting. Johnson described the objects as round, about 30 feet in diameter, tapering to a point at the head end, with a bright top surface, no engine noise, and a tail object shifting side to side like a big magnet.
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Grafton, Wisconsin
FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.
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Grand Blanc, Michigan
FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 compiles sighting reports, media clippings, and investigative memos covering incidents from 1947 through 1968. Reported incidents include American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian's account of three shining saucer-like objects trailing his DC6 for 45 minutes in February 1958, the Coast Guard cutter Sebago tracking an object on radar for 27 minutes in the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated 1,000 miles per hour, and grain buyer R. O. Schmidt's claim of encountering a cigar-shaped craft near Kearney, Nebraska, in November 1957.
Region not stated / 3 incidents
Gulf of Aden
A U.S. Air Force TSGT assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and 609 CAOC observed one UAP over the Gulf of Aden at 05:17Z on July 14, 2024, while conducting ISR in support of NAVCENT. The observer reported the UAP maintained a straight flight path at the same altitude, traveled northwest at low altitude, and moved faster than the observing aircraft's flying speed. The observer assessed the UAP as benign and followed it until the distance became too far to follow. The report was filed as MISREP 10194673 by the 124th Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM.
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Gulf of Oman
MISREP 4871281 records that a U.S. military operator took off from OKAS on 1 October 2020 and, during a 21-hour NAVCENT support mission over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, observed 1X UAP at 1829Z on 2 October 2020. The report references OBSERVATION LINE 1 for UAP details, but that section is not present in the released text. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026 under MDR 26-0028 and approved for release to AARO.
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Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, Germany
In a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt Golssen, approximately 30 miles east of Berlin, circa 1944, while held there as a Polish prisoner of war. The vehicle was circular, 75 to 100 yards in diameter and about 14 feet high, with a rapidly moving middle section producing a continuous blur similar to an aeroplane propeller.
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Hackensack, New Jersey
On July 9, 1947, Raymond Edward Lane, a Dow Chemical Company employee, and his wife Laura reported hearing a puff noise and seeing a ball of white about the size of a bushel basket burning a foot off the ground in a Dow-owned field in Midland, Michigan. Lane brought recovered material to the Dow Physics Laboratory the next day; laboratory examination found ordinary sand, a small silver nugget, melted sand droplets giving off ammonia odor, and a grayish radioactive material. The FBI Detroit Division reported the incident to the Director on August 5, 1947, and recommended forwarding the material to the War Department.
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High galactic latitudes (North Galactic Pole and South Galactic Pole)
At the Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science on January 8, 1973, at Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dick Henry, co-investigator on the ultraviolet experiment, reported that the UV spectrum observed at high galactic latitudes resembled the spectrum of a hot star, but no hot stars were within the field of view.
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Hobson, Ohio
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
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INDOPACOM AOR
An Information Disclosure Analyst from the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security sent an email confirming that tearlines from a mission report were approved at the UNCLASSIFIED level. The tearlines state that a US aircraft observed one possible UAP for 12 seconds at 2353Z on 10 April 2025, and one possible UAP for 23 seconds at 0007Z on 11 April 2025, both at unknown altitude and speed, with no interference noted. A PAROC Intel Data Analysis Technician at 12 AF/DET 3 confirmed with the observing unit that the tearlines and the INDOPACOM AOR designation were both UNCLASSIFIED.
Region not stated / 4 incidents
Iraq
In May 2022, U.S. Central Command submitted a UAP report to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of a still image from a U.S. military system. The original reporter digitally altered the image by adding a red encircling line before submission, and the operator reported being unable to positively identify the UAP. A companion mission report, DoW-UAP-D12, described the UAP as moving from north to northeast.
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Kansas City, Kansas
In July, August, and September 1949, and again in January 1950, military and civilian witnesses filed reports under Flight Service Regulation 200-4 describing flying objects over Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Ohio, South Carolina, and New York. Objects were described variously as dish-shaped, circular, and cylindrical, with reported speeds exceeding that of a B-29 and, in one case, an orange and white flame exhaust more than twice the length of the object. Reports were submitted by Lowry, Olmsted, McChord, Maxwell, and Wright-Patterson Flight Service Centers to the Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Kazakhstan
On January 27, 1994, the crew of a Tajik Air 747SP at latitude 45 North, longitude 55 East over Kazakhstan reported encountering a bright light of enormous intensity that approached from the east at great speed and higher altitude, then maneuvered in circles, corkscrews, and 90-degree turns for approximately forty minutes. Captain Ed Rhodes photographed the object with a pocket Olympus camera and intended to send copies to the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe and the Tajikistan Desk contact Lowry Taylor.
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Kodori Gorge, Georgia
A confidential cable sent October 30, 2001, from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the State Department reports that Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, categorically denied that Russian planes flew over or bombed positions in the Kodori Gorge on October 28 and 29, despite Georgian accusations. MFA Georgia Desk Chief Tereoken echoed the denial but added that "any side" could have sent planes over Kodori, prompting the embassy to comment that "to posit that they could be UFOs would be humorous if it were not for the seriousness of the violations.
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Kuwait
In May 2022, U.S. Central Command submitted a UAP report to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of a still image from a U.S. military system. The original reporter digitally altered the image by adding a red encircling line before submission, and the operator reported being unable to positively identify the UAP. A companion mission report, DoW-UAP-D12, described the UAP as moving from north to northeast.
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Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
On February 16, 1949, the United States Atomic Energy Commission convened a classified conference on aerial phenomena at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico, attended by scientists including Dr. Edward Teller and Dr. Frederick Reines, along with Army, FBI, and AFSWP representatives. The conference examined recurring "green fireball" sightings reported since December 1948 by airline pilots, AESS inspectors, and others over New Mexico and western Texas.
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Los Alamos, New Mexico
A correspondent wrote to James L. Tuck at Los Alamos reporting several sightings of green lights in the Jemez Mountains between 1948 and 1951, typically between 9 and 11 PM, and one afternoon sighting of five objects flying in formation from southeast to northwest over Los Alamos. The writer directed Tuck to Protective Force logs as the record of times and dates, and named redacted Protective Force members as witnesses.
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Los Alamos, NM
A May 20, 1986 newsletter from the Pajarito Astronomers of Los Alamos, New Mexico announces a club meeting scheduled for May 29, 1986, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ranch Room at Fuller Lodge. Guest speaker Dr. John Warren of AT-6 was to address the topic "Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFO's?" The newsletter's closing signature block is redacted, with two lines blacked out following "Sincerely."
Region not stated / 2 incidents
Los Angeles, California
A Department of War file dated 1954-1955 contains reports, memoranda, and correspondence on Avro Project Y2, a near-circular VTOL aircraft developed by A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. that a 1954 memorandum noted could be mistaken for a flying saucer. The file includes an AFOIN special project investigating Soviet capabilities to develop a vertical take-off aircraft similar in appearance to a flying saucer, and a USAF committee finding that simultaneous ground radar returns and aircrew visual sightings of a UFO near Newfoundland in July 1955 could not be explained.
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Low Earth Orbit
At 4 hours 24 minutes into the Gemini 7 flight in December 1965, Commander Frank Borman reported "a bogey at ten o'clock high" to Houston, confirmed it as "an actual sighting," and described hundreds of small particles passing to the left at three to four miles, traveling at 90 degrees to the vehicle's path and going into polar orbit. Pilot James Lovell separately identified the Titan II booster at the two o'clock position as a brilliant, slowly tumbling body with trillions of particles on it.
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Lunar surface
At the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing on January 4, 1973, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt told NASA debriefers that the crew had light flashes "just about continuously during the whole flight" when dark adapted, and that he believed one was a flash on the lunar surface. Schmitt noted no flashes were visible to himself or the other two crewmen during the ALFMED blindfold experiment interval, though the flashes resumed for him before sleep that same night. Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans separately described seeing a fireball through the rendezvous window that appeared as "a tunnel with a bright spot in the middle."
Region not stated / 3 incidents
Mediterranean Sea
A U.S. military operator reported observing two round, white hot UAPs moving south at approximately 240 nautical miles per hour near grid coordinate 35SQT3423692957 in the Mediterranean Sea at 1653Z in 2025. The report is a MISREP filed with AARO, originating from Djibouti. Multiple fields on page 7 are redacted under exemption 1.4(a), and the exact date of the incident is not specified in the document.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Mexico City, Mexico
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstantiated stunt" that took away from pilots' UAP experiences. The same cable reported that criminals killed two Guerrero prosecutors within one week: FGR state delegate Fernando Garcia Fernandez, shot from two vehicles in Chilpancingo on September 12, and FGE regional prosecutor Victor Manuel Salas Cuadras, kidnapped and found with approximately 50 gunshot wounds in Coyuca de Catalan on September 9.
Region not stated / 2 incidents
Moon
In November 1969, during Apollo 12's fifth mission day, Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean reported an "all s flash" pulsing every second on both the address and information registers of the AGS, at about one-fifth the brilliance of the normal numbers. Houston attributed the phenomenon to EMI, citing similar observations during ground testing of spacecraft at Bethpage. On the sixth day, Command Module Pilot Dick Gordon reported that the Lunar Module Intrepid's blinking tracking light had stopped blinking and he could not acquire Intrepid in the sextant.
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Mountain test range (location unspecified)
In late 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence officer and two pilots departed a Joint Operations Center by helicopter to investigate loud thuds and UAP sightings over a weapons test range. Hovering at 700 feet AGL, they observed countless orange orbs swarming near a mountain, then two large oval orbs stationary just above the rotor disk that expanded into a "T" formation of four or five before dimming over 10 to 15 seconds. Orange orbs also appeared directly above transiting fighter jets, matching their speed and flight path, and separately formed a triangle formation before vanishing.
Region not stated / 2 incidents
Muroc Air Field, Muroc, California
The Air Materiel Command issued this initial report on unidentified flying objects on 23 April 1948, prepared at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base under Project SIGN, which had been directed by a Headquarters USAF letter dated 30 December 1947 signed by General L. C. Craigie on the subject of "Flying Discs." The report tabulates 100 sightings from 1947 through 1 February 1948, noting that exhaust trails were reported 23 times and that speeds ranged from hovering to supersonic.
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New Mexico
On February 16, 1949, the United States Atomic Energy Commission convened a classified conference on aerial phenomena at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico, attended by scientists including Dr. Edward Teller and Dr. Frederick Reines, along with Army, FBI, and AFSWP representatives. The conference examined recurring "green fireball" sightings reported since December 1948 by airline pilots, AESS inspectors, and others over New Mexico and western Texas.
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Norcatur, Kansas
On 18 February 1948 at 5:01 P.M., an aerial explosion occurred over Norcatur, Kansas, logged as Incident 101 by the Department of War. Farmer Leland Sammons reported a funnel-shaped object roughly four feet long, with a pipe at the rear and fire belching from it, hovering near his farmhouse before departing northwest and exploding in a cloud of smoke. Beginning 24 April 1948, meteorite fragments were recovered, including a 109-pound achondrite piece found two feet underground in a clover field. Civilian Norman Garrett Markham wrote to the Office of the Chief of Staff speculating the object may have been a rocket or space-craft.
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The Air Intelligence Division of the U.S. Air Force and the Office of Naval Intelligence jointly produced Study No. 203, "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States," dated December 10, 1948. The study examined approximately 210 reported incidents involving flying objects described as disk-shaped, rough cigar-shaped, or balls of fire, observed by U.S. Weather Bureau personnel, USAF rated officers, and experienced civilian pilots.
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Open grassy field / meadow (rural landscape, specific location unknown)
The image is a composite sketch created in Adobe Photoshop 25.6, combining a photographic background of a rural grassy field with a digitally rendered golden-bronze disc-shaped flying saucer in the upper right. A bright starburst light effect appears adjacent to the left side of the craft. PDF metadata records a creation date of April 20, 2024, and a modification date of April 30, 2024, both in NZST.
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Pacific Time Zone
In March 2023, a witness in the Pacific Time Zone reported observing a large blue featureless triangular object hovering near a national security facility for approximately three minutes before moving in a "jerking" or "jumping" manner for a total observation time of about eight minutes. The witness said they "didn't think" the object was a drone and could not identify its means of propulsion.
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Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas
On September 1, 2015, at approximately 0710 hours, the Pantex Plant Ground Surveillance Radar detected an unknown object flying west of the facility near Amarillo, Texas, traveling north at 10 to 15 mph. Protective Force personnel followed the object by vehicle for several miles; a lieutenant and SPO observed it through binoculars and described it as a "diamond" type shape, approximately 4 ft. tall and 2 ft. wide at the bottom, with no audible sound and no identifiable propulsion system. The object was last seen heading ENE near County Road G and F.M. 1342 in Carson County before personnel lost sight of it.
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Pantex Plant, Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
Pages 5 and 6 of a six-page "Pantex UAP Incident Report," produced by Pantex Plant (managed by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC), show a Ground Surveillance Radar Tower image with a small point target circled in red; the lower half of the radar image is withheld under exemption (b)(3) (UCNI). Page 6 presents two Sandia National Labs enhanced photographs of the UAP, each showing a dark, roughly mushroom-shaped form surrounded by a diffuse blue-gray halo. No incident date, scale reference, or witness information appears in either page.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Papua New Guinea
On January 28, 1985, the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby cabled USCINCPAC in Honolulu reporting that Papua New Guinea's National Intelligence Organization had inquired about sightings of high-altitude, high-speed aircraft over PNG on the evening of January 24. The PNG NIO described "various reports of UAP," including fast-moving objects with lights, contrails, and noise, and placed particular credence in an Air Niugini pilot whose radar picked up aircraft flying south to north at high altitude and high speed over Angoram.
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Patrick AFB, FL 32925
Research Triangle Institute prepared this final report for the Air Force's 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB and 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB, completed September 10, 1996, under Contract No. FO4703-91-C-0112. The report describes how "Mode-5 failure responses," meaning significant vehicle deviations from the intended flight line, are modeled in RTI's risk-analysis program DAMP, using two shaping constants calibrated by trial and error against simulated malfunctions for vehicles including Atlas IIAS, Delta-GEM, Titan IV, and LLV1.
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Pentagon, Room 5D-1014, Washington, D.C.
On April 19, 1966, the USAF Scientific Advisory Board's Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book met at the Pentagon to discuss implementing its recommendation that the Air Force contract university scientists to investigate selected UFO sightings. On April 5, 1966, Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown had accepted the recommendation and assigned General Ferguson responsibility for implementation.
Region not stated / 5 incidents
Persian Gulf
MISREP 4592219, filed by the 482nd Attack Squadron under USCENTCOM, records that on 8 August 2020 at 0726Z, a U.S. Air Force asset operating from OKAS observed one UAP "transitting" in the vicinity of grid 39RWL08 over the Arabian Gulf, via full motion video. The report notes "no impact to mission" and states that "dense cloud coverage intermittently impacted FMV collection." The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 20 March 2026, and approved for release to AARO on 27 March 2026.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Pinar del Rio, Cuba
On November 20, 1957, the FBI Legal Attache in Havana reported that Jose Maria Nieto and Carmelo Guzman had told the Havana newspaper Diario de la Marina they saw a flying disc in the shape of a man's hat hovering silently over Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, before it disappeared at high speed toward the sea. An FBI memo dated November 12, 1957, from R. R. Roach to A. H. Belmont noted a surge in flying saucer and UFO reports across the United States following the Soviet release of Sputnik, which Air Force Intelligence told the Bureau were all resolved as nonauthentic.
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Portland, Oregon
The Air Materiel Command issued this initial report on unidentified flying objects on 23 April 1948, prepared at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base under Project SIGN, which had been directed by a Headquarters USAF letter dated 30 December 1947 signed by General L. C. Craigie on the subject of "Flying Discs." The report tabulates 100 sightings from 1947 through 1 February 1948, noting that exhaust trails were reported 23 times and that speeds ranged from hovering to supersonic.
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Prague
A 1955 CIA memorandum from Harvey Scoville Jr., Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence, analyzes a Prague dispatch dated 13 October 1955 reporting the sighting of two "flying saucers or disc-like unconventional aircraft." Mr. Efron, one of four observers, told interviewers he saw only two lights rise vertically and pass overhead at roughly 9,000 feet, and could not describe the body or shape of the objects.
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Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range, USSR
A former Soviet citizen reported observing an unidentified sharp green circular object or mass in the sky over Site 7 at the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR sometime between November 1972 and November 1973. The source stepped outside while watching a Canada-USSR televised sports competition and saw the object to the west at approximately 70 degrees elevation; within 10 to 15 seconds the green circle widened and several green concentric circles formed around the mass, which faded within minutes with no associated sound. The source had no opinion as to what the phenomenon was, and there were no resultant rumors.
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Savannah River Plant, AEC, South Carolina
On August 9, 1952, the FBI Savannah field office sent an urgent teletype to Director Hoover reporting that two employees of E. I. Du Pont Company saw a blue light with an orange fringe shaped like a saucer fly over the Four Hundred Area of the Savannah River Plant AEC facility at approximately 9:30 PM on August 8. Between August 11 and August 20, 1952, Hoover forwarded letters from multiple citizens about flying saucers and flying disks to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, Department of the Air Force.
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Sigonella Airbase (LICZ)
A U.S. Air Force ISR asset took off from Sigonella Airbase on 29 May 2022 and conducted IMINT over the Eastern Mediterranean under Operation HUMMER SICKLE. At 0117Z on 30 May 2022, the screener observed one possible small UAP flying north to northeast and followed it as long as possible but could not get a positive ID. No UAP signatures were recorded. The report was approved for release to AARO and declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 8 October 2025.
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Skylab space station, low Earth orbit
Excerpts from three NASA Skylab technical crew debriefings, dated June 30, 1973, October 4, 1973, and February 22, 1974, record crew observations of light flashes, a bright reddish rotating object, and flashing lights outside the station. Science Pilot Joseph Kerwin reported that all three Skylab 2 crew members saw light flashes, possibly linked to the South Atlantic anomaly. Science Pilot Owen Garriott reported that the Skylab 3 crew tracked a bright reddish rotating satellite in a very similar orbit for 5 to 10 minutes; Garriott stated no one ever explained its identity.
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Socorro, New Mexico
On July 24, 1949, a fireball was reported over the general neighborhood of Socorro, New Mexico at 8:26 p.m. Researchers W. D. Crozier and Ben K. Seely of the New Mexico School of Mines then made systematic airborne particle collections at Socorro from July 25 through August 1, finding copper-bearing opaque particles and three apparently perfect spherical cobalt-indication particles twelve microns in diameter in the July 26 afternoon collection.
Region not stated / 2 incidents
Strait of Hormuz
MISREP 4871281 records that a U.S. military operator took off from OKAS on 1 October 2020 and, during a 21-hour NAVCENT support mission over the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf of Oman, observed 1X UAP at 1829Z on 2 October 2020. The report references OBSERVATION LINE 1 for UAP details, but that section is not present in the released text. The document was declassified by MG Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on 16 March 2026 under MDR 26-0028 and approved for release to AARO.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Sylacauga, Alabama
In January 1955, Lt. Col. Joseph A. Bloomer of the Air Force Directorate of Intelligence responded to letters from Senator Sparkman, private citizens, and foreign correspondents regarding the Unidentified Flying Object Program. The correspondence addresses the "seizure" of a meteorite that fell through the roof of Mrs. Hewlett Hodges' home in Sylacauga, Alabama, in November 1954, which Air Force officers retrieved, flew to the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and determined to be a meteorite before returning it to Mrs. Hodges' attorney on 9 December 1954.
Region not stated / 3 incidents
Syria
A U.S. Air Force aircrew operating over Syria on October 20, 2024, reported observing a "misshapen and uneven ball of white light" on their Full-Motion Video feed between 1559Z and 1644Z, describing multiple "glares or light from unknown origin at different angles and directions" and a "light/glare halo effect" at the top of the FMV feed. The MISREP, filed by the 12th Special Operations Squadron under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, records the UAP physical state as "Plasma," propulsion means as "UNKNOWN," and notes the aircrew assessed the event as not a lasing event and "benign" with no mission impact.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Trans-Caucasus region, USSR
Air Intelligence Information Report IR 193-55, dated 14 October 1955 and prepared by Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan of the U.S. Air Attache office in Prague, documents an eyewitness account of two round, circular unconventional aircraft resembling flying saucers seen at 1910 hours on 1 October 1955 between Atjaty and Adzhijabul in the Trans-Caucasus region of the USSR. Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron observed the disc aircraft ascending almost vertically one minute apart, with outer surfaces revolving slowly to the right, two stationary lights near the top, and sparks or flame from the bottom.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Translunar coast (approximately 1 day from the Moon)
During the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing on July 31, 1969, Buzz Aldrin described three observations from the mission. Approximately one day from the Moon, the crew spotted an object of sizeable dimension that appeared L-shaped through the monocular and like a hollow cylinder through the sextant; ground control confirmed the S-IVB stage was 6,000 miles away, and the crew reached no conclusion about the object's size, range, or identity. Aldrin also reported recurring small flashes of light inside the darkened cabin, spaced roughly a minute apart, which he guessed were caused by some penetration of an object into the spacecraft.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Turkmenabat, Lebap Welayet (province), Turkmenistan
On November 5, 2004, the U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission and USAID Director met with the Board of the Union of UFOlogists of Turkmenabat in Lebap Welayet, Turkmenistan. UOU President Ovezberdy Muradov stated that Turkmen military and government authorities had consulted him about mysterious occurrences in Turkmen airspace, but said there had been no confirmed sightings of UFOs in Turkmenistan. The cable, transmitted November 12, 2004 and signed by Jacobson, describes the UOU as a USAID grant recipient and the first independent NGO registered in post-Soviet Turkmenistan.
Region not stated / 4 incidents
United States
The Air Intelligence Division of the U.S. Air Force and the Office of Naval Intelligence jointly produced Study No. 203, "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States," dated December 10, 1948. The study examined approximately 210 reported incidents involving flying objects described as disk-shaped, rough cigar-shaped, or balls of fire, observed by U.S. Weather Bureau personnel, USAF rated officers, and experienced civilian pilots.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
United States (test site, specific location redacted)
An FBI FD-302, drafted in October 2023, documents a FaceTime video interview with a redacted contractor who observed a UAP at a U.S. test site in September 2023 while traveling to conduct LiDAR drone tests. Around 7:30 AM, the witness saw a metallic gray, wingless linear object with a super-bright white light at approximately 5,000 feet AGL, moving east to west for five to ten seconds before the light went out and the object vanished. All witness names, the test site location, and the precise dates are redacted throughout the document.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Vandenberg Air Force Base
The 30th Space Wing Office of History compiled a launch summary covering all launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 1958 through 2000. The document defines launch vehicle types, test categories, and program abbreviations, and lists military and contractor recipients including Aerospace Corporation, Boeing Defense and Space Group, ITT Federal Services Corporation, and TRW. The report was dated February 3, 2000, and released by the Department of War.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Ventura, CA 93001
On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Renaissance Hotel stationery, transmitted the French COMETA report "UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?," originally published in July 1999 by G.S. Presse Communication. Rosin noted in her letter that she had served as spokesperson for Wernher von Braun during the last years of his life and had founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in 1983.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
On March 19, 1950, Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, a pianist, composer, and self-described ideographic inventor from Veracruz, Mexico, wrote to the President of the Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, describing his concept of stratospheric aerostats and attributing flying saucers to U.S. atomic technology. The letter, translated by Mrs. Sophia Saliba, was received by the FBI New York Field Office by April 7, 1950, and filed under case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 220.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Virginia
The U.S. Air Force Directorate of Intelligence issued Air Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79, "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States," Study No. 203, dated April 28, 1949. The study examined approximately 210 reported incidents involving flying objects, described in three categories: disk-shaped, rough cigar-shaped, and balls of fire, with observers including U.S. Weather Bureau personnel, USAF rated officers, and experienced civilian pilots.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Washington 25, D.C.
Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Washington, D.C.
A Department of War file dated 1954-1955 contains reports, memoranda, and correspondence on Avro Project Y2, a near-circular VTOL aircraft developed by A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. that a 1954 memorandum noted could be mistaken for a flying saucer. The file includes an AFOIN special project investigating Soviet capabilities to develop a vertical take-off aircraft similar in appearance to a flying saucer, and a USAF committee finding that simultaneous ground radar returns and aircrew visual sightings of a UFO near Newfoundland in July 1955 could not be explained.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
West coast of Holland, 5155N/0355E
On 4 November 1948, USAFE transmitted intelligence cable TT #1524 to General Cabell and the USAF Directorate of Intelligence. Three crews of the 307th Bomb Group had sighted an aircraft on 5 September 1948 off the west coast of Holland at 30,000 feet, assessed as a single jet-propelled aircraft employing probable rocket assists, rated B-2. The cable also reported a flying saucer hovering over Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes, and relayed the Swedish Air Intelligence Service's conclusion that such phenomena "cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth."
Region not stated / 25 incidents
Western United States
Seven federal law enforcement special agents working in the western United States reported four categories of sightings over two days in 2023. The reported events included orange orbs launching smaller red orbs at dusk, a large glowing orange orb hovering near a rock pinnacle, a kite-shaped object with lights pursued after being mistaken for a car, and a transparent kite-shaped object roughly 6 meters off the ground through which stars were faintly visible. The Department of War summary was released by AARO on May 8, 2026.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
On September 23, 1947, Lt. Gen. N. F. Twining of Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, transmitted a letter to Headquarters Army Air Forces stating that the flying disc phenomenon "is something real and not visionary or fictitious," describing observed objects as disc-shaped, flying in formations of three to nine at speeds above 300 knots. On December 30, 1947, Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie directed AMC to establish Project SION, priority 2A, classified "restricted," to collect and distribute flying disc sighting data. Photographs submitted by Mary L.
Region not stated / 1 incidents
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
A Department of War file dated 1954-1955 contains reports, memoranda, and correspondence on Avro Project Y2, a near-circular VTOL aircraft developed by A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. that a 1954 memorandum noted could be mistaken for a flying saucer. The file includes an AFOIN special project investigating Soviet capabilities to develop a vertical take-off aircraft similar in appearance to a flying saucer, and a USAF committee finding that simultaneous ground radar returns and aircrew visual sightings of a UFO near Newfoundland in July 1955 could not be explained.