Major UFO Incidents

Read detailed accounts of the most significant and well-documented UFO incidents throughout history, from Roswell to contemporary sightings.

Kecksburg 1965: The Classic UFO Case
Kecksburg is one of the classic UFO cases. Indeed, some have called it the Eastern Roswell. The incident occurred on December 9, 1965. The Kecksburg Incident...
The Astronauts and the UFOs
Of all the UFO witnesses, perhaps the astronauts are the most intriguing. Experienced pilots, trained observers, selected partly on the basis of their psycho...
The Battle of Los Angeles
On the night of February 24 1942, something extraordinary occurred in Los Angeles. Military forces throughout the coastal region detected a mysterious flying...
The Belgian UFO Wave
Nothing ever happens in Belgium, they say. Nothing except one of the most remarkable UFO waves of modern times, perhaps of all time. The events in question o...
The Chicago O'Hare Incident
Just when you thought all the great UFO cases were in the past, just when you thought the mainstream media had lost interest in the UFO subject completely, a...
The Mexican UFO Crash
On August 25 1974 American military radar operators tracked an object moving at extraordinary speed through the atmosphere towards North America. Thinking at...
The Phoenix Lights
One of the most remarkable modern UFO cases is what has come to be known as the “Phoenix Lights”. Like many other UFO incidents, it was characterised by...
The Roswell UFO Crash 1947
Roswell is the case that launched a thousands books. And not just books – films documentaries, radio interviews and computer games have all been inspired b...
The Shag Harbour Incident
The Shag Harbour incident is Canada’s best-known UFO case. Some have even called it the Canadian Roswell. It all started in October 1967 when some fisherme...
The Socorro Incident
In April 1964 Lonnie Zamora, a police officer in Socorro, in the U.S. state of New Mexico, was going about his usual duties, pursuing a speeding motorist, wh...
The Tully Saucer Nest
In Queensland, Australia, near the town of Tully, on January 19 1966, 28 year-old farm worker George Pedley was working the fields with his tractor. Thinking...
The Year That UFOs Buzzed Washington, D.C.
1952 was an extraordinary year in the history of the UFO phenomena. Since it had leapt into the public consciousness following Kenneth Arnold's sighting in 1...
UFOs in Court : the Cash-Landrum Case
Americans are known for their litigiousness so it was surely only a matter of time before a UFO incident ended up in court, and so it did in the Cash-Landrum...
UFOs over Tehran
The Tehran UFO case of 1976 is considered by many ufologists to be one of the best ever. It featured multiple eye witnesses, many of them military personnel;...
Walter Haut's Deathbed Roswell Confession
Whenever the Roswell story seems done and dusted, some new twist in it emerges. So it was in 2007, when an affidavit signed by Walter Haut entered the public...