List of Major UFO Sightings - Encounters

Close Encounters of the First Kind are defined by J. Allen Hynek
as any UFO reported to have been within a maximum of 500 feet
or less of the witness.


593 BC - Disputed encounter of Ezekiel. Josef Blumrich, former
chief of the systems layout branch of NASA, set out to disprove
such suggestions, however, from a careful analysis of the data
available, he concluded that the vehicle described in the Bible
actually was a UFO.  Ezekial saw a wheel within a wheel turning
together in the sky.

329 BC - Central Asia, (Reign of Alexander the Great, 356-323 B.
C.) A historian of the reign of Alexander the Great allegedly tells of
two strange craft that dived repeatedly at his army, until the war
elephants, the men, and all the horses panicked and refused to
cross the river where the incident occurred... The historian
describes the objects as "great shining silvery shields, spitting fire
around the rims... things that came from the skies and returned to
the skies." (Frank Edwards: 'Stranger Than Science' (Pan Books,
London), p. 198.)

1235 - Kyoto, Japan September 24 General Yoritsume and his
army watched many unusual lights in the sky for several hours.

1271 - Kamakura, Japan September 12 - Buddhist priest Nichiren
was to be beheaded, when an object appeared in the sky and the
beheading was called off.[citation needed]

1492 - October 11, From Christopher Columbus' Journal Logs - 5
hours before the discovery of the New World - While patrolling the
deck of the Santa Maria at about 10:00 PM on October 11, 1492,
Columbus thought he saw "a light glimmering at a great distance."
He hurriedly summoned Pedro Gutierrez, "a gentleman of the
king's bedchamber," who also saw the light. After a short time it
vanished, only to reappear several times during the night, each
time dancing up and down "in sudden and passing gleams, like
the flickering wick of a candle" The light, first seen four hours
before land was sighted, was never explained."

1561 - Nuremberg, Germany April 4 UFO's "swarm" over the city
of Nuremberg

1566 - Basel, Switzerland August 7 Black globes flooded the sky
above the town of Basel. Theories today say it most likely was an
atmospheric occurrence but some still doubt.

1800 - March 29, Prediger Fritsch saw in Quedlinburg a tiny spot
crossing the sun in 6 hours.

1802 - February 27, Prediger Fritsch saw in Quedlinburg a tiny
spot crossing the sun in northwestern-direction and accelerated
thereby.

1839 - October 2, Cupper saw transit of unidentified object in front
of the sun.[citation needed]

1849 - March 12, Sidebotham saw transit of tiny spot on the sun.
[citation needed]

1859 - March 26, Lescarbault saw transit of unknown body in front
of the sun. Liais in Brasilia saw no such thing.[citation needed]
1862 - March 20, Lummis, ingenieur of Manchester, saw transit of
unknown object in front of the sun.[citation needed]

1868 - July, The investigators of this phenomenon define the "first
official modern documented sighting" as having happened in
Copiapo city, Chile.

1913 and later - The Brown Mountain Lights, made famous via a
bluegrass song.

1919 - June 19, UFO sighting at Docking, Norfolk in England.
[citation needed]

1926 - Nicholas Riley, Russian explorer/artist, reported in his
travel diary spotting a bright, shiny object flying above the
mountains in northern China.

1942 - Hopeh Incident, a UFO was spotted and photographed
over Hopeh, China.

1942 - 1945 - UFO's and other unexplained aerial phenomena
were sighted during World War II.

1942 - February 24 and February 25, the West coast air raid;
unidentified aerial objects trigger the military to fire thousands of
anti-aircraft rounds into the sky and raised the wartime alert status.

1944 - Foo fighters, colorful spheres repeatedly spotted by
military air crews around the world.

1946 and later - Ghost rockets, objects with characteristics of
cruise missiles sighted repeatedly all over Scandinavia—Swedish
Defense Staff expressed concern.

1948 - So-called Green Fireballs were reported over several
United States military bases; an official investigation followed.

1949 - Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh reported a strange sighting.

1953 - Ellsworth UFO Case UFO seen as a red glowing light and is
witnessed by forty-five people in Bismarck, North Dakota. The
sighting takes place over a two night period on August 5 & August
6.

1954 - French flap, Hundreds of sightings.

1954 - Unknown orbiting satellites reported, astronomer Clyde
Tombaugh involved.

1952 - Carson Sink Case over western Nevada, USA.

1952 - Washington flap, a series of sightings with radar contacts
in Washington, DC, USA. This resulted in the implementation of
the Robertson Panel by the CIA.

1966 - Portage County UFO Chase several Ohio police officers
chased a UFO for 30 minutes.

1966 - 1967 - Point Pleasant, West Virginia A wave of sightings
occur, believed to be connected to a set of other mysterious
events (See: The Mothman Prophecies)















Lima, Peru, Feb 2, 1967. This is the only surviving photo of the
funnel-shaped flying object that paced the Fawcett Airlines DC-4
passenger liner in flight from Piura to Lima on February 2, 1967,
at 06:30 P.M. The passengers were all held for interrogation by
authorities after the plane landed. Several of the passengers had
taken photos of the strange craft alongside the airliner, but all
cameras were taken and all film was confiscated. One passenger,
who insisted on remaining anonymous, succeeded in saving his
film from which this single photograph was made.















1967-Zagreb, Yugoslavia. This picture has been taken on
November 23, 1967 by Farcich Zoran, near Zagreb. Ironically, the
two "orbs" are very similar to what is being filmed around the world
the last two or three years, especially in California
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