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This page groups source records where the individual identity is unnamed, withheld, redacted, or described only by role. It is not a person biography.
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11 source-linked records
2023-09-01 / United States (test site, specific location redacted) / unresolved
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.
Linear object with a super bright white light on the east side
1944-12-01 / European Theater of Operations (ETO) / unresolved
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.
Blinking lights that changed colors, flew in formation with aircraft, came very close, reported by 415th Night Fighter Squadron crews
1985-01-24 / Papua New Guinea / unresolved
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.
High-altitude, high-speed aircraft
1947-01-01 / Grand Blanc, Michigan / unresolved
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.
Color-slide photograph of a saucer-like object silhouetted against the moon, taken in February during the second night of the full moon, Grand Blanc, Michigan
2016-11-18 / Eastern Mediterranean / unresolved
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.
Unidentified low-flying object appearing to be in sea skim mode, traveling at approximately 500 knots on a southeasterly heading, detected via EO/IR sensor, observed for approximately 2 minutes
2025-01-01 / Mountain test range (location unspecified) / unresolved
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.
Orange orbs, oval-shaped with white or yellow center, emitting light in all directions, observed stationary just above rotor disk to the right of helicopter at approximately 700 feet AGL
2020-01-01 / Eastern United States / unresolved
A U.S. Navy O-4 pilot filed a Range Fouler Debrief reporting a daytime airborne sighting over the Eastern United States in 2020. The pilot described the object as "quite small," with a shape that was "indiscernible," a metallic appearance, and a reflective underside, and noted it "continued in a constant direction." The Department of the Navy released the document in part on May 19, 2026; the date, time, location, speed, and sensor type used to capture the object are all redacted.
Quite small in apparent size
1948-12-05 / Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico / unresolved
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.
Green fireball with color estimated at approximately wavelength 5200 angstroms (hue green or yellow-green), appearing at full intensity instantly with no increase in light, traveling on a nearly horizontal path at elevations of 8 to 10 miles, traversing at approximately constant angular velocity, lasting approximately two seconds, breaking into bright green fragments just before end of path, producing no substantiated sound, visible at distances of up to approximately 400 miles, with horizontal
2020-01-01 / Atlantic Ocean / unresolved
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.
Single contact; darker, maroonish color; approximately 12,15 feet in height; appeared as a large, somewhat deformed balloon; round, square, and balloon-shaped checked; metallic, opaque, and reflective checked; no apparent propulsion; no moving parts; no markings; no wings or airframe; traveled with the wind in a generally southern direction; no maneuvers or change in direction observed; unable to verify balloon classification at merge
1954-01-01 / Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio / unresolved
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.
Avro Project Y2: near-circular vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft utilizing Coanda Effect and annular jet stream for hovering; radial flow jet engine; later versions with radially disposed axial flow turbojets; circular planform; approximately 12-unit designation in SAB report; thrust augmentation for hovering of 60,80% in small-scale tests
2019-01-01 / Eastern United States / unresolved
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.
Small object below the platform, traveling in a straight line opposite the platform's direction at high speed