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"Rods" / "Skyfish" originating near Roswell, New Mexico, USA; the phenomenon is global (any video frame) disputed optical artifact "Snippy" the Horse San Luis Valley near Alamosa, Colorado, USA historically pivotal explained 'Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1) the inner Solar System (discovered from Haleakala, Hawaii) historically pivotal explained AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security, Washington, D.C., USA apparatus event AAWSAP / AATIP Defense Intelligence Agency program; fieldwork via Bigelow Aerospace (BAASS), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA apparatus event Aguadilla Incident near Rafael Hernandez Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico disputed optical artifact Battle of Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, USA historically pivotal explained Bob Lazar & the S-4 / Area 51 Claims S-4 / Papoose Lake, near Area 51 (Groom Lake), Nevada, USA (claimed) under corroborated Cash-Landrum Incident FM 1485, Piney Woods near Huffman, Texas, USA under corroborated Coyne / Mansfield Army Helicopter Incident (18 October 1973) airspace ~11 nm south of Mansfield, Ohio, USA phenomenologically open Falcon Lake Incident (20 May 1967) Whiteshell Provincial Park, near Falcon Lake, eastern Manitoba, Canada under corroborated Flatwoods Monster a hilltop on the G. Bailey Fisher farm above Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia, USA phenomenologically open George Adamski & the Contactee Movement the California desert near Desert Center, USA (and Adamski's base near Palomar Mountain) documented hoax Gimbal Video Atlantic warning areas off the U.S. East Coast (near Virginia Beach), USA disputed optical artifact GoFast Video Atlantic off the U.S. East Coast, USS Theodore Roosevelt operating area, USA disputed optical artifact Gulf Breeze UFO Incident Gulf Breeze, Florida, USA documented hoax Heaven's Gate Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, California, USA historically pivotal explained Hudson Valley Wave lower Hudson Valley, New York, and adjacent western Connecticut, USA phenomenologically open Japan Airlines Flight 1628 (17 November 1986) FL350 over eastern Alaska, USA, ~150 nm east of Fort Yukon, en route Anchorage under corroborated Joe Simonton's "Space Pancakes" (Eagle River) near Eagle River, Vilas County, Wisconsin, USA historically pivotal explained Kecksburg Incident the woods near Kecksburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA (fireball seen over ~6 states and Ontario) phenomenologically open Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter the Sutton farmhouse near Kelly, Christian County, Kentucky, USA under corroborated Kenneth Arnold Sighting between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams, Cascade Range, Washington, USA under corroborated Levelland, Texas EM Effects Wave (2–3 November 1957) Levelland and surrounding Hockley County, West Texas, USA phenomenologically open Lonnie Zamora / Socorro Incident (24 April 1964) a desert arroyo south of Socorro, New Mexico, USA phenomenologically open Lubbock Lights Lubbock, Texas, USA disputed optical artifact Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight missile shutdown (16 March 1967) Malmstrom Air Force Base missile field, near Great Falls, Montana, USA under corroborated Mantell Incident Godman Field (Fort Knox) airspace; crash near Franklin, Kentucky, USA historically pivotal explained Mariana Film (15 August 1950) Legion Park baseball stadium, Great Falls, Montana, USA under corroborated McMinnville (Trent) Photographs (11 May 1950) the Trent farm outside McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon, USA disputed optical artifact Mexican Air Force FLIR Video airspace over Campeche, near Ciudad del Carmen and the Bay of Campeche, Mexico disputed optical artifact Mexico City Eclipse UFO Mexico City, Mexico (during the total solar eclipse) disputed optical artifact Minot AFB Minuteman ICBM Incident (August 1966) Minot Air Force Base Minuteman ICBM complex (455th Strategic Missile Wing), North Dakota, USA under corroborated NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report NASA, United States apparatus event Nazca / Peru "Alien Mummies" presented to the Chamber of Deputies, Mexico City, Mexico; specimens originate from Nazca/Palpa, Peru documented hoax New Jersey / Northeast Drone Sightings New Jersey and the northeastern United States (NY, CT, MA, MD, VA) apparatus event O'Hare Airport UFO Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Concourse C (Gate C17), Illinois, USA under corroborated Pascagoula Abduction (11 October 1973) west bank of the Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA under corroborated Phoenix Lights (13 March 1997) Arizona, USA — an arc from the Nevada border through Phoenix to the Mexican state of Sonora disputed optical artifact Project Blue Beam originated in Quebec, Canada (Serge Monast); a global conspiracy-theory phenomenon documented hoax Project Blue Book Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, USA apparatus event Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, for the U.S. Air Force / Project Blue Book apparatus event Project Serpo Online — Victor Martinez's UFO email list and the serpo.org website (USA) under corroborated Project Sign Air Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, USA apparatus event Project Sign's "Estimate of the Situation" Project Sign, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, USA apparatus event Project Stargate SRI International (Menlo Park, CA), later SAIC; Army INSCOM unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, USA apparatus event Roswell Incident Foster/Brazel ranch near Corona, ~75 mi NW of Roswell, New Mexico, USA under corroborated Shag Harbour Incident (4 October 1967) Shag Harbour, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada phenomenologically open Skinwalker Ranch Uintah Basin near Fort Duchesne, Utah, USA (edge of the Ute reservation) under corroborated Stephenville, Texas (8 January 2008) Stephenville, Dublin, and Erath County, Texas, USA disputed optical artifact The "Trinity" / San Antonio (NM) Crash Claim near San Antonio, New Mexico, USA (~20-30 mi from the Trinity atomic-test site) documented hoax The 2017 New York Times AATIP Article published by The New York Times, United States apparatus event The 2019 Navy "Pyramid" & Sphere Videos (USS Russell / USS Omaha) off the coast of San Diego, California, USA (USS Russell and USS Omaha) disputed optical artifact The 8 March 1994 West Michigan UFO Event Holland / Grand Haven / Muskegon corridor, west Michigan, USA under corroborated The AARO Historical Record Report, Vol. 1 Washington, D.C., USA (the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) apparatus event The Allagash Abduction Eagle Lake, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Maine, USA under corroborated The Aurora, Texas Airship Crash Aurora, Wise County, north Texas, USA documented hoax The Aztec, New Mexico Crash Hoax Hart Canyon, near Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA documented hoax The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction U.S. Route 3 near Indian Head, White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA under corroborated The Betty Andreasson Abduction South Ashburnham, Massachusetts, USA under corroborated The Brown Mountain Lights Brown Mountain, Blue Ridge, near Morganton/Linville, North Carolina, USA historically pivotal explained The Carp / Guardian Affair Corkery Road near Carp, west of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada documented hoax The Cattle Mutilation Wave & the Rommel Report the US West and Midwest — especially Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska historically pivotal explained The Chiles-Whitted Encounter near Montgomery, Alabama, USA (aboard an Eastern Air Lines DC-3) phenomenologically open The Chupacabra Canóvanas, Puerto Rico (the 1995 panic); later the US Southwest / Texas historically pivotal explained The Cisco Grove Incident near Cisco Grove, Sierra Nevada, California, USA under corroborated The Condon Committee University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA (USAF-funded) apparatus event The Council Bluffs Molten-Metal Case Big Lake Park, Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA under corroborated The Del Rio / "Col. Robert Willingham" Crash Claim near the Texas-Mexico border, Del Rio area, Texas, USA / Coahuila, Mexico documented hoax The Delphos Ring the Johnson family farm near Delphos, Ottawa County, Kansas, USA under corroborated The Disclosure Project the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., USA under corroborated The Dulce Base Legend Archuleta Mesa near Dulce, New Mexico, USA (claimed) historically pivotal explained The Exeter Incident a field near Exeter, New Hampshire, USA phenomenologically open The February 2023 NORAD Object Shootdowns off South Carolina; over Alaska, the Yukon (Canada), and Lake Huron, USA/Canada under corroborated The Galileo Project Harvard University and field sites (first observatory at the Harvard College Observatory) apparatus event The Gorman Dogfight over Fargo, North Dakota, USA historically pivotal explained The Great Airship Wave of 1896-1897 the United States — California (Nov 1896) spreading east through the Midwest and Texas (spring 1897) historically pivotal explained The Green Fireballs of New Mexico New Mexico, USA — concentrated near Los Alamos, Sandia, and Kirtland AFB phenomenologically open The Herbert Schirmer Abduction near Ashland, Nebraska, USA (US-6 at NE-63) under corroborated The Jimmy Carter UFO Sighting Leary, Georgia, USA (a Lions Club meeting) historically pivotal explained The Kingman, Arizona Crash Claim desert site associated with Kingman, Arizona, USA (near the Nevada Test Site region) under corroborated The Langley AFB Drone Incursions (December 2023) Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hampton, Virginia, USA apparatus event The Linda Napolitano / Brooklyn Bridge Abduction Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, USA (over the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge) under corroborated The Majestic 12 (MJ-12) Documents surfaced via an anonymous Albuquerque, New Mexico mailing; promoted in the USA disputed provenance The Marfa Lights Mitchell Flat, southeast of Marfa, Presidio County, West Texas, USA disputed optical artifact The Maury Island Incident Maury Island, Puget Sound, near Tacoma, Washington, USA documented hoax The Men in Black Origin / Albert Bender Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA (the International Flying Saucer Bureau) historically pivotal explained The Michigan "Swamp Gas" Sightings (Dexter & Hillsdale) Dexter (Washtenaw County) and Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA phenomenologically open The Minot AFB B-52 Incident Minot AFB and its dispersed Minuteman ICBM facilities, North Dakota, USA disputed optical artifact The Mothman of Point Pleasant the 'TNT area' near Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA under corroborated The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting near Newport News / Norfolk, over Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA phenomenologically open The ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP Washington, D.C., USA (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) apparatus event The Paul Bennewitz Affair & the AFOSI Disinformation Campaign Albuquerque, New Mexico — overlooking Kirtland AFB and the Manzano nuclear-weapons storage area apparatus event The Pentacle Memorandum Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio → Wright-Patterson AFB (ATIC), USA apparatus event The Philadelphia Experiment & the Allende Letters Philadelphia Naval Yard, Pennsylvania, USA (the alleged setting); the letters originated 1955-56 documented hoax The Portage County UFO Chase Portage County, Ohio into Conway, Pennsylvania, USA phenomenologically open The RB-47 ELINT Incident over Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma, southern USA under corroborated The Rex Heflin Photographs near the Santa Ana Freeway by MCAS Tustin, Santa Ana, California, USA disputed optical artifact The Robertson Panel convened by the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence, Washington, D.C., USA apparatus event The Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act United States Senate (amendment to the FY2024 NDAA) apparatus event The Shaver Mystery & Ray Palmer the United States (Amazing Stories / Ziff-Davis, Chicago; Fate magazine) historically pivotal explained The Sturrock Panel Pocantico Conference Center, Tarrytown, New York, USA apparatus event The Tinley Park Lights Tinley Park and the southwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, USA disputed optical artifact The Tremonton Film near Tremonton, Box Elder County, Utah, USA disputed optical artifact The Val Johnson Incident County Road 5 near Stephen, Marshall County, Minnesota, USA under corroborated The Wilson-Davis Memo alleged meeting in Las Vegas / EG&G offices; document surfaced via the U.S. UFO research community under corroborated The Wow! Signal Big Ear radio telescope, Ohio State University, USA (source in Sagittarius) phenomenologically open The Yukon UFO Sighting Yukon Territory, Canada — Fox Lake, Carmacks, Pelly Crossing, Mayo, along the Klondike Highway disputed optical artifact Travis Walton Incident (5–10 November 1975) Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake/Heber, Navajo County, Arizona, USA under corroborated USS Nimitz Tic-Tac Incident off the coast of San Diego, California, USA under corroborated USS Theodore Roosevelt encounters (2014–2015) Atlantic training ranges off the U.S. East Coast (Virginia Capes / Jacksonville W-72, W-122 warning areas) and later the Persian Gulf phenomenologically open Washington National Flap Washington National Airport, Andrews AFB, and Bolling AFB airspace, Washington, D.C., USA disputed optical artifact

Cerro Uritorco / Huella del Pajarillo (Capilla del Monte) Capilla del Monte, Córdoba province, Argentina (the slope of Cerro El Pajarillo, below Cerro Uritorco) documented hoax Colares / Operação Prato (1977–1978) Colares, an island town in Marajó Bay near the mouth of the Amazon, with activity in Vigia, Mosqueiro and across northern Pará, Brazil under corroborated Puma Punku Tiwanaku, La Paz Department, Bolivia conventional explanation suffices The Antonio Villas Boas Case a farm near Sao Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil under corroborated The Atacama Humanoid "Ata" near La Noria, Atacama Desert, Chile historically pivotal explained The Brazilian Official UFO Night southeastern Brazil — Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Goias phenomenologically open The Chilean Navy / CEFAA IR Case off the central Chilean coast, west of Santiago, Chile disputed optical artifact The Nazca Lines Nazca Desert, southern Peru conventional explanation suffices The Ubatuba Magnesium Fragments Ubatuba beach, São Paulo state, Brazil (alleged); fragments received in Rio de Janeiro under corroborated Varginha 'ET' Incident (20 January 1996) Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil under corroborated

"Die Glocke" / the Nazi-UFO mythos alleged: Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany (the claim originates in post-2000 publishing) under corroborated Belgian Triangle Wave (29 November 1989 – April 1990) eastern and central Belgium — Eupen, Liège, and the Beauvechain air-defense sector phenomenologically open Billy Meier & the Plejaren Contacts Hinterschmidrüti, Canton Zürich, Switzerland (and surrounding countryside) documented hoax Crop Circles & the Bower-Chorley Hoax the cereal fields of Wiltshire and Hampshire, southern England documented hoax GEIPAN CNES (the French national space agency), Toulouse, France apparatus event Ghost Rockets Scandinavia — chiefly Sweden, with Finland; the best-known crash at Lake Kolmjarv, Norrbotten, far northern Sweden under corroborated Lakenheath–Bentwaters Incident (13–14 August 1956) RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, eastern England (USAF-operated) under corroborated Operation Mainbrace UAP Sightings NATO exercise waters off Denmark and Norway, plus RAF Topcliffe, England under corroborated Project Condign — the UK MoD's secret UAP study United Kingdom — the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), section DI55 apparatus event Rendlesham Forest Incident RAF Woodbridge / Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England disputed optical artifact Robert Taylor / Livingston Incident Dechmont Law, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland under corroborated The Aetherius Society & George King London, England (founding); now headquartered in London and Los Angeles, with a global membership historically pivotal explained The Alan Godfrey / Todmorden Case Burnley Road, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England under corroborated The Alderney / Channel Islands Sighting over the English Channel near Alderney, Channel Islands, UK disputed optical artifact The Alleged 1933 Italian Crash / Cabinet RS/33 near Magenta / Vergiate, Lombardy, Italy (claimed) disputed provenance The Baltic Sea Anomaly Gulf of Bothnia, northern Baltic Sea (between Sweden and Finland), ~85-90 m deep historically pivotal explained The Basel Celestial Phenomenon Basel, Swiss Confederation (modern Switzerland) disputed optical artifact The Berwyn Mountain Incident the Berwyn range near Llandrillo, Denbighshire, North Wales historically pivotal explained The Bonnybridge / Falkirk Triangle UFO Window Bonnybridge and the 'Falkirk Triangle' (Falkirk–Bonnybridge–Stirling), central Scotland under corroborated The Broad Haven / Dyfed Incident Broad Haven Primary School and the wider Pembrokeshire (Dyfed) coast, Wales under corroborated The Calvine Photograph near Calvine, Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross, Scottish Highlands, UK under corroborated The COMETA Report France (private committee linked to the IHEDN defense-studies institute) apparatus event The Cosford Incident western Britain, centered on RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire, England disputed optical artifact The Cussac Encounter Cussac, Cantal, Auvergne, France under corroborated The Domsten Encounter near Domsten, between Helsingborg and Höganäs, on the Öresund coast, Skåne, Sweden documented hoax The Emilcin Abduction Emilcin, near Lublin, eastern Poland under corroborated The Foo Fighters European Theater (Rhine valley, Germany) and the Pacific (B-29 routes over Japan) phenomenologically open The Greifswald Lights Greifswald Bay (Greifswalder Bodden), near Lubmin, Mecklenburg, former East Germany historically pivotal explained The Hessdalen Lights the Hessdalen valley, Holtalen municipality, central Norway phenomenologically open The Imjärvi Encounter Imjärvi, near Heinola, southern Finland under corroborated The Kumburgaz / Turkey Videos Kumburgaz, near Istanbul, over the Sea of Marmara, Turkey disputed optical artifact The Manises Incident over the Mediterranean near Ibiza/Valencia; emergency landing at Manises Airport, Valencia, Spain disputed optical artifact The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima Cova da Iria, near Fátima, Ourém, Portugal phenomenologically open The Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (modern Bavaria, Germany) disputed optical artifact The Petrozavodsk Phenomenon Petrozavodsk, Karelia, USSR — and across northwestern Russia, Finland, and the Baltic historically pivotal explained The Pre-WWI Phantom Airship Scares Great Britain and New Zealand historically pivotal explained The Quarouble / Marius Dewilde Case & the 1954 European Wave Quarouble, Nord, northern France (railway level crossing No. 79) under corroborated The Raelian Movement near Clermont-Ferrand, France (founding); a global movement historically pivotal explained The Robert Taylor / Dechmont Law Incident Dechmont Law, near Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland under corroborated The Rosa Lotti / Cennina Encounter Cennina, Bucine (Arezzo), Tuscany, Italy under corroborated The Solway Firth Spaceman Burgh Marsh, near Burgh by Sands, Cumberland (now Cumbria), England disputed optical artifact The Trans-en-Provence Case Trans-en-Provence, Var, southern France under corroborated The UMMO Affair Madrid, Spain (the letters' audience and the San José de Valderas / Aluche photo sites) documented hoax The Valensole Incident a lavender field near Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France under corroborated The Voronezh UFO Incident a park in Voronezh, Russian SFSR, USSR under corroborated

Ariel School, Zimbabwe (16 September 1994) Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe (≈35 km east of Harare) under corroborated Göbekli Tepe Şanlıurfa Province, southeastern Turkey conventional explanation suffices Tehran F-4 Incident (19 September 1976) skies over Tehran, Iran; intercept aircraft from Shahrokhi (Hamadan) Air Base, Imperial Iranian Air Force under corroborated The "Jellyfish" UAP a U.S. joint operations base in Iraq (exact site not in the public record) disputed optical artifact The "Mosul Orb" over Mosul, Iraq (US military reconnaissance footage) disputed optical artifact The Canary Islands Sightings the Canary Islands, Spain (Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera, Gran Canaria) and the Atlantic offshore historically pivotal explained The Tananarive Mass Sighting Tananarive (now Antananarivo), Madagascar (then a French colony) under corroborated Yemen MQ-9 Reaper Orb Encounter off the coast of Yemen (Red Sea / Gulf of Aden region) under corroborated

The Dalnegorsk Incident / Height 611 Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Soviet Far East (Height 611 / Mount Izvestkovaya) under corroborated The Dyatlov Pass Incident Kholat Syakhl ('Mountain 1079'), northern Ural Mountains, USSR (now Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia) historically pivotal explained The Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport Incident Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, Zhejiang, China under corroborated The Kapustin Yar UFO Legend ("Russian Roswell") near the Kapustin Yar missile test range, Astrakhan Oblast, USSR under corroborated The Ladakh / Indo-China Border Lights Pangong Tso / Thakung, near the Line of Actual Control, Ladakh, India historically pivotal explained The Meng Zhaoguo Incident Red Flag (Hongqi) Forest Farm, Wuchang, near Harbin, Heilongjiang, China under corroborated The Tunguska Event Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin, Siberia, Russia historically pivotal explained The Utsuro-bune ("Hollow Boat") Legend the Hitachi coast (modern Ibaraki), Japan historically pivotal explained

The Father Gill / Boianai Sighting Boianai Anglican mission, Papua New Guinea under corroborated The Kaikoura Lights off Kaikoura, on Argosy cargo flights between Blenheim and Christchurch, New Zealand disputed optical artifact The Knowles Family / Mundrabilla Incident the Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor Plain near Mundrabilla, Western Australia under corroborated The Min Min Light the Channel Country near Boulia, outback Queensland, Australia historically pivotal explained The Tully "Saucer Nest" / Horseshoe Lagoon Horseshoe Lagoon, Euramo, near Tully, North Queensland, Australia under corroborated Valentich Disappearance (21 October 1978) Bass Strait, en route Moorabbin (Melbourne) → King Island, off Cape Otway, Victoria, Australia under corroborated Westall Incident (6 April 1966) Westall High and State schools, Clayton South, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia under corroborated

The Deception Island / Antarctic Sighting Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica (Argentine, Chilean, and British bases) under corroborated

Trindade Island Photographs (16 January 1958) off Trindade Island, South Atlantic Ocean (~1,200 km east of Vitória, Brazil) disputed optical artifact

David Grusch House Oversight testimony (26 July 2023) House Oversight Committee, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., USA apparatus event Tabby's Star / Boyajian's Star (KIC 8462852) constellation Cygnus, ~1,470 light-years away (Kepler field) historically pivotal explained