Phenomenon type
Multi-witness (3+)
Three or more independent witnesses. Corroboration across observers is a filter against individual misperception.
20 cases in the archive
- FBI · 2025-09-15 · unresolvedWestern US FBI Imagery
Black-hot infrared imagery and witness composite documentation from western US encounters, captured during 2025 by FBI personnel and aviation crews.
- DoD · 2023-10-01 · unresolvedWestern US UAP, October 2023, AARO unresolved case
Five federal law enforcement agents observed a UAP in the Western US in October 2023. Released June 12, 2026 with an AARO Unresolved Case Analysis Update, five witness narrative statements, AI-rendered reconstructions, a...
- DoD · 2022-02-15 · unresolvedColorado Springs UAP, Cheyenne Mountain
February 15, 2022 sighting over Cheyenne Mountain near Colorado Springs. Subject described as a potato-shaped object with creamy or whitish opalescent color. Released June 12, 2026 with a formal Intelligence Community As...
- FBI · 2021-11-01 · unresolvedFBI Northeastern Orb video collection
Set of FBI-held eyewitness video files spanning November 2021 through July 2025, depicting bright orb-like objects in the Northeastern US. Released June 12, 2026 as part of PURSUE Release 03. The first FBI-contributed vi...
- OTHER · 2015-06-15 · unresolvedPantex nuclear-weapons plant UAP intrusion
Department of Energy report documenting a 2015 UAP intrusion over the Pantex nuclear-weapons assembly and disassembly plant near Amarillo, Texas. Officers observed an object with no sound and no visible propulsion system...
- OTHER · 2008-07-01 · unresolvedHarare International Airport sighting
July 2008 sighting of a disc-like object above Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe. Held in CIA records, declassified through PURSUE Release 03 on June 12, 2026. Among the first CIA-contributed files to the PURSUE c...
- DoD · 2008-01-08 · contestedStephenville Sightings
Dozens of ground witnesses in Stephenville, Texas reported observing a large, low-flying object with an array of bright lights. Subsequent FAA radar data analysis showed an unidentified track moving toward President Bush...
- DoD · 2004-11-14 · unresolvedUSS Nimitz Tic Tac Encounter
Multi-day series of radar contacts and visual encounters by F/A-18F crews from Strike Fighter Squadron 41 with a small white object resembling a Tic Tac, observed near the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group during pre-deplo...
- DoD · 1997-03-13 · contestedPhoenix Lights
Mass-witness sighting of a series of lights, and a separately reported large V-shaped craft, observed across Arizona during a roughly three-hour window on the evening of March 13, 1997.
- State · 1994-01-15 · unresolvedKazakhstan 1994, Pilot Witness Cable
January 1994 State Department cable from the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe reporting a UAP encounter observed during a jet flight over Kazakhstan. A Tajik commercial pilot and three U.S. nationals on the aircraft described a ...
- OTHER · 1990-03-30 · contestedBelgian F-16 Intercept
Two Belgian Air Force F-16s were scrambled to intercept multiple radar contacts coinciding with widespread ground reports of triangular craft. Onboard radar locks were briefly achieved but the aircraft did not establish ...
- OTHER · 1983-03-24 · contestedHudson Valley Boomerang Formations
Over a roughly three-year period beginning in March 1983, thousands of witnesses across the Hudson Valley region of New York and Connecticut reported observing large boomerang- or V-shaped formations of slow-moving light...
- DoD · 1980-12-29 · contestedCash-Landrum Incident
Vickie Landrum, Colby Landrum, and Betty Cash reported observing a diamond-shaped object discharging flame over a roadway near Houston, Texas, accompanied by what they described as approximately 23 helicopters. All three...
- DoD · 1980-12-26 · contestedRendlesham Forest Incident
USAF security personnel stationed at the joint RAF Bentwaters / RAF Woodbridge bases reported encountering an unidentified object in the adjacent Rendlesham Forest over the nights of December 26-28, 1980.
- OTHER · 1975-11-05 · contestedTravis Walton, Snowflake, Arizona
Arizona logger Travis Walton reportedly disappeared after a roadside encounter with a luminous object witnessed by six co-workers. Walton reappeared five days later and described an interior encounter with non-human figu...
- OTHER · 1973-10-11 · contestedPascagoula Encounter
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported being briefly taken aboard an unidentified craft while fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. They reported the encounter to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office the sam...
- OTHER · 1966-04-06 · contestedWestall School Sighting
Approximately 200 students and several teachers at Westall High School and the adjacent Westall Primary School in Melbourne, Australia reported observing one or more disc-shaped objects descending into a paddock adjacent...
- State · 1959-06-26 · unresolvedBoianai 1959, Father Gill Sighting
Anglican missionary Father William Booth Gill and approximately 37 mission staff, students, and locals observed a large disc-shaped luminous object hovering above Boianai mission station for two consecutive evenings in J...
- OTHER · 1949-02-16 · unresolvedLos Alamos green fireballs conference
Transcript of the February 16, 1949 conference at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at which physicists attempted to explain the green fireballs observed over New Mexico nuclear-weapons sites in late 1948 and early 1949. ...
- DoD · 1942-02-25 · explainedBattle of Los Angeles
U.S. Army anti-aircraft batteries fired more than 1,400 shells at unidentified objects over Los Angeles in the early hours of February 25, 1942, two months after the Pearl Harbor attack. A widely circulated Los Angeles T...