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Every case, in order.

The whole corpus arranged chronologically by incident date. Color-coded by status: unresolved cases in red, explained in gray, contested in plum.

1940s

5 cases
  1. Battle of Los Angeles
    DOD·Los Angeles, California
  2. Kenneth Arnold Sighting
    OTHER·Mount Rainier, Washington
  3. FBI Flying Disc Files
    FBI·Multiple, United States
  4. Roswell 1947 Historical File
    FBI·Roswell, New Mexico, United States
  5. Mantell Incident
    DOD·Franklin, Kentucky

1950s

2 cases
  1. RB-47 Multi-Sensor Encounter
    DOD·Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi airspace
  2. Boianai 1959, Father Gill Sighting
    STATE·Boianai, Milne Bay Province

1960s

6 cases
  1. SP 16 Memo, Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question
    STATE·Washington, D.C., United States
  2. Lonnie Zamora, Socorro Landing
    DOD·Socorro, New Mexico
  3. Gemini 7 Borman 'Bogey' Audio
    NASA·Earth orbit
  4. Westall School Sighting
    OTHER·Westall, Melbourne
  5. Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing
    NASA·Lunar mission
  6. Apollo 12 Photographic Anomalies
    NASA·Lunar orbit and surface

1970s

5 cases
  1. Apollo 17 Lunar Anomalies
    NASA·Lunar orbit, near Grimaldi crater
  2. Pascagoula Encounter
    OTHER·Pascagoula, Mississippi
  3. Coyne Helicopter Encounter
    DOD·Mansfield, Ohio
  4. Travis Walton, Snowflake, Arizona
    OTHER·Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona
  5. 1976 Tehran Incident, DIA Report
    STATE·Tehran, Iran

1980s

5 cases
  1. Rendlesham Forest Incident
    DOD·RAF Bentwaters / RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk
  2. Cash-Landrum Incident
    DOD·Huffman, Texas
  3. Trans-en-Provence Physical Trace Case
    OTHER·Trans-en-Provence, Var
  4. Hudson Valley Boomerang Formations
    OTHER·Hudson Valley region, New York and Connecticut
  5. JAL Flight 1628, Alaska
    OTHER·Over Alaska

1990s

4 cases
  1. Belgian F-16 Intercept
    OTHER·Belgian airspace
  2. STS-48 Discovery Footage
    NASA·Earth orbit
  3. Kazakhstan 1994, Pilot Witness Cable
    STATE·Airspace over Kazakhstan
  4. Phoenix Lights
    DOD·Phoenix, Arizona

2000s

2 cases
  1. USS Nimitz Tic Tac Encounter
    DOD·Pacific Ocean, off San Diego
  2. Stephenville Sightings
    DOD·Stephenville, Texas

2010s

5 cases
  1. Aguadilla CBP Thermal Video
    DOD·Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla
  2. GoFast Video, USS Roosevelt
    DOD·Atlantic Ocean, off Jacksonville
  3. Gimbal Video, USS Roosevelt
    DOD·Atlantic Ocean, off Jacksonville
  4. Syria November 2016 Mission Report
    CENTCOM·Syria
  5. USS Omaha Pyramid Footage
    DOD·Pacific Ocean, off San Diego

2020s

15 cases
  1. Iran November 2020 Mission Report
    CENTCOM·Iran
  2. Iraq May 2022, Baghdad Phantom
    CENTCOM·Iraq
  3. Iraq Small UAP Encounter
    CENTCOM·Iraq
  4. Greece IR Encounter
    CENTCOM·Aegean Sea, Greece
  5. Indo-Pacific 2023, Companion Footage
    INDOPACOM·Indo-Pacific theater
  6. UAE Coastal Encounter
    CENTCOM·Off the coast of the UAE
  7. UAE October 2023, Companion Stills
    CENTCOM·Off the coast of the UAE
  8. Greece SWIR Diamond, January 2024
    CENTCOM·Mediterranean Sea, near Greece
  9. Japan Football-Shaped Object
    INDOPACOM·Near Japan
  10. UAE June 2024, Inverted Teardrop
    CENTCOM·Off the coast of the UAE
  11. Indo-Pacific 2024, Companion Footage
    INDOPACOM·Indo-Pacific theater
  12. Syria October 2024 Mission Report
    CENTCOM·Syria
  13. Djibouti 2025 Mission Report
    CENTCOM·Djibouti
  14. Western US FBI Imagery
    FBI·Western United States
  15. Department of the Army Encounter, 2026
    DOD·Undisclosed US territory
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