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F-22 Shoots Down Unidentified Object Over Alaska
A military F-22 Raptor engaged an unidentified object near the Arctic Circle on February 10, 2023, marking the second such incident in as many weeks.
Five Witnesses in Fifty-One Weeks: APRO's Government-Witness Network, 1953 to 1957
The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization is usually remembered as one of the two large American civilian UFO groups of the post-war period, a small Wisconsin outfit that grew...
Alamogordo to Rio: APRO's International Network, 1957 to 1958
By the summer of 1958, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization had Carl Jung as its Psychology Consultant, Dr. Olavo Fontes as its Special Representative in Brazil, and Murray...
Sixteen Years Early: The J. Allen Hynek That APRO Recorded, 1953 to 1955
J. Allen Hynek's public break with the Air Force position is usually dated to 1966, the year he proposed the swamp-gas explanation for the Dexter and Hillsdale Michigan sightings...
The Investigator Who Was Everywhere: Lincoln La Paz Across the 1948 to 1954 Documentary Record
The 22 May 2026 PURSUE release surfaced a 116-page Sandia Base correspondence file that puts Dr. Lincoln La Paz at the centre of the 1948 to 1950 Green Fireballs investigation....
The Ariel School Encounter: 62 Children Report Contact in Zimbabwe
On September 16, 1994, sixty-two students at Ariel School near Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported that one or more unidentified craft landed near their schoolyard during morning break and...
The Belgian UFO Wave: Military Jet Pursuit and Government Transparency
Between November 1989 and April 1990, thousands of witnesses across Belgium reported sightings of large, silent, triangular craft, prompting Belgian Air Force F-16 scrambles, radar...
The Betty and Barney Hill Case: First Widely Documented Abduction Account
In September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill reported a close encounter on a New Hampshire highway that became the first widely publicized UFO abduction case in the United States,...
Etheria Calling: The BSRA Ether-Ship Doctrinal Lineage, 1945 to 1956
The cosmology that flying saucers are vehicles from an adjacent vibrational plane, projected into our density by intelligences who choose to be visible, was articulated in print in...
Declassified UAP History: From Project Blue Book to AATIP
A public-record history of U.S. government UFO/UAP investigation programs from the 1940s through the modern AATIP revelation, tracing eight decades of official involvement.
Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: Pilot Encounter Over Alaska Investigated by the FAA
On November 17, 1986, the crew of Japan Air Lines cargo flight 1628 reported a prolonged encounter with unidentified objects over Alaska, an incident tracked on FAA radar and...
The Kecksburg Incident: Unidentified Object Recovery in Pennsylvania
On December 9, 1965, residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania witnessed a fireball streak across the sky and reported that an object came down in nearby woods, followed by a rapid U.S....
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting: The Report That Launched the Modern UFO Era
On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine unusual objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier, Washington, a report that introduced the term 'flying...
Lake Huron Shoot-Down: February 2023: What the Public Record Contains
A comprehensive accounting of the publicly available information regarding the February 12, 2023 shoot-down of an unidentified object over Lake Huron by an F-16C, including the...
The Papua New Guinea Wave: 79 Sightings, One Oxford Priest, and the Case That Almost Changed Everything
Between 1953 and 1959, missionaries, patrol officers, and Papuan teachers across the Territory of Papua and New Guinea reported dozens of unidentified aerial objects. Rev. N.E.G....
The Pascagoula Abduction: Two Fishermen's Account Under Official Scrutiny
On October 11, 1973, shipyard workers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported being taken aboard an unidentified craft while fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi, an...
The Phoenix Lights: Mass Sighting Over Arizona
On the evening of March 13, 1997, thousands of witnesses across a 300-mile corridor from Nevada to Tucson, Arizona reported seeing a large V-shaped formation of lights, an event...
The Rendlesham Forest Incident: Britain's Most Documented Military UFO Case
Over two nights in December 1980, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England reported encounters with unidentified objects in the adjacent Rendlesham...
The Roswell Incident: What the Public Record Shows
In July 1947, debris recovered from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico became the subject of the most consequential UFO controversy in history, one that remains central to...
The Silence of the Engineers
MIT's Technology Review published 362 articles on radar, rockets, and nuclear energy between 1947 and 1955. It never once addressed the flying saucer reports those technologies...
The Socorro Incident: Police Officer Lonnie Zamora's Close Encounter
On April 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico police officer Lonnie Zamora reported observing a landed egg-shaped craft and two small figures near it, an encounter investigated by the...
The Tehran UFO Incident: Iranian Air Force Jet Intercept Documented by U.S. Intelligence
On September 19, 1976, Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom jets were scrambled to intercept an unidentified object over Tehran after multiple civilian reports, an encounter that caused...
The Travis Walton Case: Five-Day Disappearance in the Arizona Woods
On November 5, 1975, forestry worker Travis Walton disappeared for five days in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona after co-workers testified they witnessed him...
The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' Encounter: The Case That Reopened Government UAP Investigation
In November 2004, the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encountered an unidentified object off the coast of Southern California that was tracked on multiple sensor systems, an...
The 1952 Washington D.C. UFO Incidents: Radar-Confirmed Objects Over the Capitol
Over two consecutive weekends in July 1952, unidentified objects were tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base while visual sightings were...
The Westall Encounter: Mass School Sighting in Melbourne, Australia
On April 6, 1966, over 200 students and teachers at Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia witnessed an unidentified object descend behind the school before rising and...
The Yukon Shoot-Down
U.S. F-22 Raptor downs unidentified object over Canada in third early-February 2023 incident
