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"CARET" Drone Incident
The "CARET" Drone Incident were a series of alleged sightings of small, unidentified, and unmanned aircraft which were supposedly seen and photographed between May and June of 2007 in the state of California and Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The sightings were first reported in May of 200…
Edward J. Ruppelt
Edward James Ruppelt was a United States Air Force officer probably best known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). He is generally credited with coining the term "unidentified flying object", to replace the…
David M. Jacobs
David Michael Jacobs is an American historian and retired Associate Professor of History at Temple University specializing in 20th-century American history. Jacobs is a prominent figure in ufology and the study of the alien abduction phenomenon, including the use of hypnosis on …
Erich von Däniken
Erich Anton Paul von Däniken was a Swiss author of several pseudoscientific books which made claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968. Däniken was one of the main figures responsible for …
Robert Salas
Robert L. Salas is a ufologist and former United States Air Force officer. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Salas served on active duty in the continental United States for seven years before resigning his commission. He later worked for the Federal Aviation Administrat…
UFO sightings in outer space
Unidentified flying objects have been reported by astronauts while in space. These sightings have been claimed as evidence for extraterrestrial life by ufologists.
Flatwoods monster
The Flatwoods monster, in West Virginia folklore, is a creature reported to have been sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, on September 12, 1952, after a bright light crossed the night sky. Investigators now suggest the light was a me…
1947 flying disc craze
In 1947, from June to July, a rash of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the United States were widely publicized by the news media. The craze began on June 24, when media nationwide reported civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold's story of witnessing disc-shape…
The Age of Disclosure
The Age of Disclosure is a 2025 American documentary film about UFOs directed and produced by Dan Farah, in which a number of former United States government officials and people associated with the disclosure movement assert that alien intelligence is present on Earth and has b…
Time-traveler UFO hypothesis
The time-traveler hypothesis, also known as chrononaut UFO, future humans, extratempestrial model and Terminator theory is the proposal that unidentified flying objects are humans traveling from the future using advanced technology. Some notable people have given recent public e…
UFO files release (2026)
In 2026 the U.S. Government released files related to purported "UFOs". An initial set of files was released on May 8, 2025, though officials stated that additional batches of releases would follow. Contents of the initial release consisted largely of previously disclosed materi…
United States UAP files
The United States UAP files, also called "the UFO files" are a collection of declassified government records on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), released by the administration of Donald Trump on May 8, 2026.
Pentagon UFO videos
The Pentagon UFO videos are selected visual recordings of forward-looking infrared (FLIR) targeting cameras from United States Navy fighter jets based aboard the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt in 2004, 2014 and 2015, with additional footage taken by othe…
Mitch Horowitz
Mitch Horowitz is an American author, publisher, speaker, podcaster, and television host specializing in occult and esoteric themes. A frequent writer and speaker on religion and metaphysics in print and on television, radio, and online, Horowitz's writing has appeared in The Ne…
Fallstreak hole
A fallstreak hole – also known as a cavum, hole punch cloud, punch hole cloud, skypunch, cloud canal, or cloud hole – is a large gap, usually circular or elliptical, that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. The holes are caused by supercooled water in the clouds su…
Arthur Shuttlewood
Arthur Shuttlewood (1920–1996) was a British journalist, author and ufologist.
Archives of the Impossible
The Archives of the Impossible (AOTI), sometimes called the Center for the Impossible, is a special collection at Rice University in Houston, Texas, United States. Founded in 2014 by Jeffrey J. Kripal, AOTI is based at the Woodson Research Center in the Fondren Library. It stewa…
Mantell UFO incident
On 7 January 1948, 25-year-old Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died when the P-51 Mustang fighter plane he was piloting crashed near Franklin, Kentucky, United States, after being sent in pursuit of an unidentified flying object (UFO). Pursuing th…
Phoenix Lights
The Phoenix Lights were a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects observed in the skies over the southwestern U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada on March 13, 1997.
Ion Hobana
Ion Hobana, first name also Ioan, last name also Hobană was a Romanian science fiction writer, literary critic and ufologist. His debut as a journalist, novelist and children's poet coincided with the early stages of Romanian communism, when he was also employed as an editor and…
Neil McCasland
William Neil McCasland is an astronautical engineer, retired United States Air Force major general, and former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory. He is currently the director of technology at Applied Technology Associates. Following his disappearance in February 202…
Ross Coulthart
Ross Coulthart is an Australian investigative journalist, author, and documentary producer. As of 2023, he is the senior special investigations correspondent for NewsNation. He believes that governments have covered up knowledge of extraterrestrial spacecraft and is an advocate …
Nick Pope (journalist)
Nicholas George Pope, was an English UFO investigator, author, media commentator and civil servant. He was a regular guest on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens, and while employed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was responsible for investigating UFO phenomena. He has be…
Aztec crashed saucer hoax
The Aztec crashed saucer hoax was the allegation that a flying saucer crashed in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico. The story was first published in 1949 by journalist Frank Scully in his Variety magazine columns, and later in his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers. In the mid-1950s, t…
John E. Mack
John Edward Mack was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry. He served as the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T. E. Lawrence.
Donald Keyhoe
Donald Edward Keyhoe was an American Marine Corps naval aviator, writer of aviation articles and stories in a variety of publications, and tour manager of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh.
Glenn Dennis
Glenn Dennis was a founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico.
William Kenneth Hartmann
William Kenneth Hartmann is an American planetary scientist, artist, author, and writer. He was the first to convince the scientific mainstream that the Earth had once been hit by a planet sized body (Theia), creating both the Moon and the Earth's 23.5° tilt.
Robert Friend (pilot)
Robert Jones Friend was an American military officer and pilot who served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and led the USAF's Project Blue Book from 1958 to 1963. He also served during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He had a 28-year military career.
Kevin D. Randle
Kevin Douglas Randle is an American ufologist, science fiction and historical fiction writer and a military veteran. Within the UFO community, he is often regarded as one of the preeminent experts on the reported crash of a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947.
Orfeo Angelucci
Orfeo Matthew Angelucci was an American author, lecturer, and one of the alleged UFO contactees who rose to prominence in the 1950s. Angelucci claimed that he had experiences with extraterrestrial beings. He lectured extensively on the subject of his extraterrestrial encounters …
Unidentified flying object
An unidentified flying object (UFO) is an object or phenomenon seen in the sky but not yet identified or explained. The term was coined when United States Air Force (USAF) investigations into flying saucers found too broad a range of shapes reported to consider them all saucers …
Southern Television broadcast interruption
The Southern Television broadcast interruption was a broadcast signal intrusion that occurred on 26 November 1977 in parts of southern England in the United Kingdom. The audio of a Southern Television broadcast was replaced by a voice claiming to represent the "Ashtar Galactic C…
James E. McDonald
James Edward McDonald was an American atmospheric physicist and meteorologist. He is known for his scientific research in weather modification through cloud seeding, while working as an associate director at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and a professor of meteorology at…
Philip J. Klass
Philip Julian Klass was an American aviation and aerospace journalist and UFO researcher, best known for his skepticism regarding UFOs. In the ufological and skeptical communities, Klass inspires polarized appraisals. He has been called the "Sherlock Holmes of UFOlogy". Klass de…
Hilary Evans
Hilary Agard Evans was a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena.
Art Bell
Arthur William Bell III was an American broadcaster and author. He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM, which is syndicated on hundreds of radio stations in the United States and Canada. He also created and hosted its co…
George Knapp (television journalist)
George T. Knapp is an American journalist, news anchor and talk radio host. Much of his work has focused on the paranormal, particularly UFOs. Knapp is noted for bringing to prominence UFO conspiracy theorist Bob Lazar in 1989. He is also known for his work as a television prese…
Jean Miguères
Jean-Richard Miguères was a French UFO contactee and ufologist. He wrote several books putting forth a narrative of having been visited by extraterrestrials after a car accident in 1969. Miguères was a controversial figure even among other ufologists, who criticized him for illo…
Felix Moncla
First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr. was a United States Air Force (USAF) pilot who disappeared while performing an air defense intercept over Lake Superior in 1953. His disappearance is sometimes known as the Kinross Incident, after Kinross Air Force Base, where Moncla was …
Paul Vigay
Paul Vigay was a British computer consultant, notable for work in developing and supporting RISC OS software and named as a leading expert on UFOs and crop circles.
UFO photographs
Since the 1940s, media has covered purported photographs of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Numerous examples have been determined to be hoaxes.
Colin Wilson
Colin Henry Wilson was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and main…
Mystery airship
The mystery airship or phantom airship was a phenomenon that thousands of people across the United States claimed to have observed from late 1896 through mid 1897. Typical airship reports involved nighttime sightings of unidentified flying lights, but more detailed accounts repo…
Skinwalker Ranch
Skinwalker Ranch, previously known as Sherman Ranch, is a property of approximately 512 acres (207 ha), located southeast of Ballard, Utah, that is reputed to be the site of paranormal and UFO-related activities. Its name is taken from the skin-walker, a malevolent witch in Nava…
List of reported UFO sightings
This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) some of which include related claims of close encounters of the second or third kind or alien abduction. UFOs are generally considered to include any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be imm…
Vril Society
The Vril Society was a fictitious secret society that is said to have existed in Germany in the early to mid-twentieth century. A series of conspiracy theories and pseudohistorical texts, starting with The Morning of the Magicians (1960), claim that it was involved in the rise o…
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, The Impulsive Character (1925), The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Character Analysis (1933), and The…
List of ufologists
This is a list of notable people who are ufologists.
Dave Foley
David Scott Foley is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, and writer. He is known as a co-founder of the comedy group The Kids in the Hall, who have appeared together in a number of television, stage and film productions, most notably the 1988–1995 TV sketch …
Nick Redfern
Nicholas Redfern is a British author of books on unidentified flying objects, cryptozoology, conspiracy theories and similar subjects. Several of his books have been best-sellers.
Eric Gairy
Sir Eric Matthew Gairy PC was the first Prime Minister of Grenada, serving from his country's independence in 1974 until his overthrow in a coup by Maurice Bishop in 1979. Gairy also served as head of government in pre-independence Grenada as Chief Minister from 1961 to 1962 and…
Jacques Bergier
Jacques Bergier was a chemical engineer, member of the French resistance, spy, journalist and writer. He co-wrote the best-seller The Morning of the Magicians with Louis Pauwels as a work of "fantastic realism".
Whitley Strieber
Louis Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his alleged experiences with non-human entities. He has maintained a dual career as an author of fiction and advocate of metaphysic…
Michigan "swamp gas" UFO reports
The Michigan "swamp gas" UFO reports were two mass sightings of unidentified flying objects during the nights of March 20 and 21, 1966, in Michigan, United States. The first occurred around marshland near Dexter, while the second mass-sighting took place near the campus arboretu…
Gabriel Green (ufologist)
Gabriel Green was an American UFO contactee active from the 1950s to the 1970s. During this time he claimed to be in regular contact with extraterrestrials, and founded the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. Green had a minor political career, unsuccessfully running for…
Stephen Bassett (lobbyist)
Stephen Bassett is an American political activist and lobbyist. As of 2021, he was the first and only person registered to lobby about UFOs in the United States.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is a Swiss-born writer, and television presenter and producer. He is a ufologist and a promoter of the ancient astronauts hypothesis. He is host and producer of Ancient Aliens, a History Channel series.
Bill Moore (ufologist)
William Leonard Moore is an author and former UFO researcher, prominent from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. He co-authored two books with Charles Berlitz, including The Roswell Incident.
Space animal hypothesis
The space animal hypothesis proposes that reports of flying saucers or UFOs might be caused not by technological alien spacecraft or mass hysteria, but rather by animal lifeforms that are indigenous to Earth's atmosphere or interplanetary space.
Jimmy Carter UFO incident
Jimmy Carter, United States president from 1977 until 1981, reported seeing an unidentified flying object while at Leary, Georgia, in 1969. While serving as governor of Georgia, Carter was asked by the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City to file a report of the sighting, a…
Avi Loeb
Abraham "Avi" Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He chaired the Department of Astronomy from 2011 to 2020, and founded the Black Hole Initiative in …
Fourth International–Posadist
The Fourth International–Posadist is a Trotskyist international organisation whose followers are known as Posadists. It was founded in 1962 by J. Posadas, who had been the leader of the Latin America Bureau of the Fourth International in the 1950s, and of the Fourth Internationa…
Morris K. Jessup
Morris Ketchum Jessup was an American ufologist. He had a Master of Science Degree in astronomy and, though employed for most of his life as an automobile-parts salesman and a photographer, is probably best remembered for his writings on UFOs.
Greta Woodrew
Greta Andron Woodrew Smolowe was an author, psychic and healer, and purported contactee of extraterrestrial beings. Her books, On a Slide of Light and Memories of Tomorrow, and newsletter, The Woodrew Update, addressed her purported alien encounters, while her foundation, the Sp…
Brad Steiger
Brad Steiger was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction works on the paranormal, spirituality, UFOs, true crime and biographies. His books sold well to the public but were widely criticized by academics and skeptics for making far-fetched claims without scientific evidenc…
John B. Alexander
John B. Alexander is a retired United States Army colonel. An infantry officer for much of his career, he is best known as a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons and of military applications of the paranormal. He has written and lectured on UFOs. He charact…
Fabio Zerpa
Fabio Zerpa was a Uruguayan actor, parapsychologist and UFO researcher. He resided in Argentina from 1951 on.
Sixto Paz Wells
Sixto Paz Wells is a Peruvian author and lecturer focused on the UFO phenomena, particularly alien contact, from a spiritual viewpoint. Known as the visible head of the Rahma Mission in Spain and a number of Latin American countries, stands out among the ufologists for having su…
Cryptoterrestrial hypothesis
The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis proposes that reports of flying saucers or UFOs are evidence of a hidden, Earth-based, technologically advanced civilization.
Patrick Wall
Sir Patrick Henry Bligh Wall, was a British commando in the Royal Marines during the Second World War and later a Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Haltemprice in the East Riding of Yorkshire and subsequently for Beverley, over a period span…
Travis Walton incident
The Travis Walton incident was an alleged alien abduction of American forestry worker Travis Walton on November 5, 1975, in the Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests near Heber, Arizona. Walton reportedly had said that he was taken aboard a flying saucer.
Tractor beam
A tractor beam is a device that can attract one object to another from a distance. The concept originates in fiction: The term was coined by E. E. Smith in his novel Spacehounds of IPC (1931). Since the 1990s, technology and research have labored to make it a reality, and have h…
Public opinion on extraterrestrial life
Public opinion on extraterrestrial life refers to the collective beliefs, attitudes, and statistical data regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life and extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). While scientific consensus has historically been cautious, public opinion surveys f…
Jan Udo Holey
Jan Udo Holey, often known by his pen name Jan van Helsing, is a controversial German author who embraces conspiracy theories involving subjects such as world domination plots by freemasons, Hitler's continuing survival in Antarctica following World War II, the structure of the …
Luc Bürgin
Luc Bürgin was a Swiss writer, publicist, and journalist. From 1996 to 2002, Bürgin studied German literature, folklore, musicology, media studies and sociology at the University of Basel. He has served as a journalist for Basler Zeitung Medien and as editor in chief of Baslerst…
Barney and Betty Hill incident
Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple and civil rights activists who claimed they were abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire from September 19 to 20, 1961. The incident came to be called the "Hill Abduction" and the "Zeta Reticuli…
Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was an unclassified but unpublicized investigatory effort funded by the United States Government to study unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP). The program was first made public on D…
Roswell incident
Debris found by a rancher in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico, has become the basis for UFO conspiracy theories alleging that the United States military recovered a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. After metallic and rubber debris was recovered by Roswell Army Air Field personn…
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd is a Canadian and American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
George Adamski
George Adamski was a Polish-American author who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he displayed numerous photographs in the 1940s and 1950s that he said were of alien spacecraft, claimed to have met with friendly Nordic alien or …
Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis
The extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis or extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), synonymous with interplanetary aircraft and alien UFO technologies, proposes that some unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are best explained as being physical spacecraft occupied by intelligent extraterres…
Ufology
Ufology, sometimes written UFOlogy, is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins. While there are instances of government, private, and fringe science investigations of UFOs, ufology is generally regar…
Lionel Fanthorpe
Robert Lionel Fanthorpe is a retired British priest and entertainer. Fanthorpe also worked as a dental technician, journalist, teacher, television presenter, author and lecturer. Born in Dereham in Norfolk, he lives in Cardiff in South Wales, where he served as Director of Media…
Leonard H. Stringfield
Leonard Stringfield (1920–1994) was an American ufologist who took particular interest in crashed flying saucer stories.
Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First Palomar Sky Survey
"Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First Palomar Sky Survey" and "Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena" are the names of two companion papers published in October …
UFO conspiracy theories
Some conspiracy theories argue that various governments and politicians globally, in particular the United States government, are suppressing evidence that unidentified flying objects (UFO) are controlled by an extraterrestrial or "non-human" intelligence, or built using alien t…
International UFO Museum and Research Center
The International UFO Museum and Research Center is located in Roswell, New Mexico, United States, in the downtown district, and is focused largely on the 1947 Roswell incident and later supposed UFO incidents in the United States and elsewhere. It was founded in 1991 as a 501c3…
Stanton T. Friedman
Stanton Terry Friedman was an American–Canadian nuclear physicist and professional ufologist who was based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Psychosocial UFO hypothesis
In ufology, the psychosocial hypothesis (PSH), argues that at least some UFO reports are best explained by psychological or social means. It is often contrasted with the better-known extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), and is particularly popular among UFO researchers in the Unit…
Passaic UFO photographs
The Passaic UFO photographs are a set of photographs purportedly taken in Passaic, New Jersey, by George Stock on July 31, 1952. Allegedly depicting a domed flying saucer, the images were widely published in contemporary media. Ufologist Kevin D. Randle called the Passaic photos…
Stan Romanek
Stanley Tiger Romanek is an American author, documented con-artist and convicted sex offender.
Elizabeth Klarer
Elizabeth Klarer was a South African woman who, starting in 1956, publicly claimed to have been contacted by aliens multiple times between 1954 and 1963. Her first visitation allegedly occurred when she was seven, and she was one of the first women to claim a sexual relationship…
McMinnville UFO photographs
The McMinnville UFO photographs were taken on a farm near McMinnville, Oregon, United States, in 1950. The photos were reprinted in Life magazine and in newspapers across the United States, and are often considered to be among the most famous ever taken of an alleged UFO. Expert…
Tom DeLonge
Thomas Matthew DeLonge is an American musician best known as the co-founder, co-lead vocalist, and guitarist of the rock band Blink-182 across three stints. He is also the lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Angels & Airwaves, which he formed in 2005 after his first dep…
One World Family Commune
The One World Family Commune (OWFC), is a new age movement commune. It was formed in 1967 in San Francisco by 51 year old artist, café owner and UFO enthusiast Allen Noonan, aka Allen Michael, who opened the first vegetarian restaurant in the city, completely operated by the com…
Jetpack man
Jetpack man is an unknown person or object observed flying what appeared to be an unauthorized jetpack around the Los Angeles area at least five times from 2020 to 2022. Multiple airplane pilots reported seeing the jetpack man at altitudes around 5,000 feet (1,500 m).
Iker Jiménez
Iker Jiménez Elizari is a Spanish journalist and television host. He is a graduate in sciences of information from the Complutense University of Madrid and the European University of Madrid, and gained prominence directing and presenting, along with his wife and collaborator Car…
Jüri Lina
Jüri Lina is an Estonian journalist, writer, music producer, radio host, film director, ufologist and conspiracy theorist.
Emil Străinu
Emil Străinu is a Romanian army general in reserve, writer, journalist, ufologist, and politician. He was the leader of the Greater Romania Party (PRM) between 2015 and 2016. He is a founding member of ASFAN.
Rhodes UFO photographs
The Rhodes UFO photographs, sometimes called the shoe-heel UFO photographs, purport to show a disc-like object flying above Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The two photographs were reportedly taken on July 7, 1947, by amateur astronomer and inventor William Albert Rhodes. They …
Battle of Los Angeles
The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to a rumored attack on the continental United States by Imperial Japan and the subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late February 24, to…
1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident
From July 12 to 29, 1952, a series of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings were reported in Washington, D.C., and later became known as the Washington flap, the Washington National Airport Sightings, or the Invasion of Washington. The most publicized sightings took place o…
Paul Hellyer
Paul Theodore Hellyer was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the longest serving member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his death.
Paul Schulz (ufologist)
Paul Schulz was a German Posadist political theorist and ufologist who is credited with strong infusion of esotericism into Posadist thought. Besides publishing his own works on esoteric Posadism, including his own political newspaper Gesellschaftsreform jetzt!, he also translat…
Kevin Knuth
Kevin Hunter Knuth is a Professor of Physics at the University at Albany (SUNY). Knuth conducts research in information physics, foundations of quantum mechanics, and Bayesian analysis with applications towards various problems in physics. He also conducts research into UFOs.
Gulf Breeze UFO incident
The Gulf Breeze UFO incident was a series of claimed UFO sightings in Gulf Breeze, Florida, United States, during late 1987 and early 1988 that began with a claim by local contractor Ed Walters of having taken photos of a UFO that were then published in the now-defunct community…
Raymond E. Fowler
Raymond Eveleth Fowler is an American author and ufologist. His 1979 book The Andreasson Affair is regarded as breaking new ground by introducing the topic of Alien implants to ufology. In 1974, J. Allen Hynek called him "an outstanding UFO investigator and fact-finder." In 2015…
Cash–Landrum incident
The Cash–Landrum Incident was an unidentified flying object sighting in the United States in 1980, which witnesses claimed was responsible for causing health and property damage. Uncharacteristically for such UFO reports, this resulted in civil court proceedings, though the case…
Big Sur UFO
The Big Sur UFO is a reported UFO incident that took place during a 1964 Air Force deployment to a mountaintop near Big Sur, California. The deployment was a mission was to film Atlas missile tests from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Jaime Maussan
José Jaime Maussan Flota is a Mexican journalist, television personality, and ufologist. He has promoted claims of supposed alien remains that have turned out to be hoaxes.
List of reported UFO sightings in the United States
This is a list of alleged UFO sightings in the United States.
Identification studies of UFOs
Identifying unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is a difficult task due to the normally poor quality of the evidence provided by those who report sighting the unknown object. Observations and subsequent reporting are often made by those untrained in astronomy, atmospheric phenome…
Felix Ziegel
Felix Yurievich Ziegel was a Soviet researcher, Doctor of Science and docent of Cosmology at the Moscow Aviation Institute, author of more than forty popular books on astronomy and space exploration, generally regarded as a founder of Russian ufology. Ziegel, the co-founder of t…
Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles
Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles is a 1997 non-fiction book about Area 51 in Nevada by David Darlington.
Roger Leir
Roger Krevin Leir was an American podiatric surgeon and ufologist best known as an investigator of alleged alien implants. Leir wrote books such as The Aliens and the Scalpel, and appeared on various radio and television shows, including Coast to Coast AM, claiming he had discov…
Stonehenge (building)
The Stonehenge is a residential apartment building on Boulevard East in the Woodcliff section of North Bergen, New Jersey in the United States. Situated adjacent to North Hudson Park, the building was constructed in 1967 during a high-rise building spree and at 369 feet (112 m) …
Billy Meier
Eduard Albert Meier, commonly nicknamed "Billy", is the founder of a UFO religion called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" and alleged contactee whose UFO photographs are claimed to show alien spacecraft. Meier claims to …
Zoe Wassilko-Serecki
Zoe Wassilko-Serecki was an Austrian occultist and astrologer.
Demonic UFO hypothesis
The demonic UFO hypothesis is the proposal that unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are the result of a satanic influence, or are themselves demons.
Yves Sillard
Yves Sillard was a French aerospace engineer and high-ranking public servant who played a major role in the development of the French space program (Ariane). He headed the CNES, IFREMER, and the Délégation générale pour l'armement.
September 1, 1969, Berkshire UFO incident
The Labor Day 1969 UFO Incident allegedly occurred on the night of September 1, 1969, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts when over 250 people allegedly reported witnessing a UFO, according to UFO Park enthusiasts. The incident has been deemed a "significantly historic and true e…
Wilbert Brockhouse Smith
William Brockhouse Smith was a Canadian engineer, government scientist, ufologist, and author of various patents and technical papers.
Peter Gersten
Peter Gersten is an American attorney known for his representation of UFO claimants including Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum; J. Allen Hynek; and others. In retirement, Gersten has been an unofficial hiking docent in Sedona, Arizona, where he volunteers to lead frequent excursion…
Interdimensional UFO hypothesis
The interdimensional UFO hypothesis (IUH) is the proposal that unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are the result of experiencing other "dimensions" or "portals" that coexist separately alongside our own.
George Van Tassel
George Wellington Van Tassel was an American author and inventor.
John Greenewald Jr.
John Greenewald Jr. is an American researcher and ufologist, best known as the founder of The Black Vault, a digital archive containing millions of pages of United States government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. His work has been described by The Was…
Salvador Freixedo
Salvador Freixedo was a Spanish Catholic priest and a member of the Jesuit order. A ufologist and researcher of paranormal subjects, he wrote a number of books on the relationship between religion and extraterrestrial beings, and was a speaker in several international UFO congre…
1994 Michigan UFO event
On March 8, 1994, multiple individuals reported a sighting of multiple UFOs in West Michigan, United States. The UFOs were described as resembling flickering Christmas lights, consisting of five or six objects, cylindrically shaped or circles with blue, red, white and green ligh…
Sioux City mystery plane incident
On the night of January 20, 1951, multiple individuals reported an unidentified cigar-shaped straight-winged aircraft over Sioux City, Iowa. By January 22, papers nationwide publicized had their reports. The incident continues to be discussed in the 21st-century.
Alexander Kazantsev
Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev was a popular Soviet and Russian science fiction writer, ufologist and chess composer.
Sean David Morton
Sean David Morton was a self-described psychic, ufologist and alleged remote viewer who referred to himself as "America's Prophet." Until legal troubles led to his incarceration in federal prison, he also hosted radio shows, authored books, and made documentary films about the p…
James Fox (filmmaker)
James C. Fox is an English-born American documentary filmmaker, best known for executive producing documentaries about UFOs, such as Out of the Blue (2003), Pretty Slick (2016) about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, The Phenomenon (2020), and Moment of Contact about the Varginha…
Linda Moulton Howe
Linda Moulton Howe is an American investigative journalist and Regional Emmy award-winning documentary film maker best known for her work as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories, including her investigation of cattle mutilations and conclusion that they a…
Bruce Cathie
Bruce Leonard Cathie was a New Zealand airline captain, author, and self-styled ufologist best known for developing a theory that sought to explain the flight paths of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Trained as an engineer and later serving with the Royal New Zealand Air For…
Danielle Egnew
Danielle Egnew is an American psychic medium, musician, media personality, and activist. Egnew currently resides in Billings with her wife Rebecca Douglas, who she married on November 20, 2014.
Morristown UFO hoax
The 2009 Morristown UFO hoax was a series of aerial events involving mysterious floating red lights in the sky, that first occurred near Morristown, New Jersey, on Monday, January 5, 2009, between 8:15 pm and 9:00 pm. The red lights were later observed on four other nights: Janu…
Kecksburg UFO incident
The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on December 9, 1965, at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, United States, when a fireball was reported by citizens of six U.S. states and Canada over Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. Astronomers said it was likely to have been a meteor bolide bu…
Aurora, Texas, UFO incident
The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897, when, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. The incident is claimed to have resulted in a fatality of the pilot. The pilot was "not of this world" and was said to be an alien. The p…
2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
The Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting occurred on November 7, 2006, around 4:15 p.m. when 12 United Airlines employees and a few witnesses outside O'Hare International Airport reported a sudden UFO sighting. The Federal Aviation Administration refused to investigate the matter because…
James W. Moseley
James Willett Moseley was an American observer, author, and commentator on the subject of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Over his nearly sixty-year career, he exposed UFO hoaxes and engineered hoaxes of his own. He was best known as the publisher of the UFO newsletters Sauc…
Lubbock Lights
The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas in August and September 1951. The Lubbock Lights incident received national publicity in the United States as a UFO sighting, and was investigated by the U.S. Air Force. According to Capt…
Franklin E. Roach
Franklin Evans Roach was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, geophysicist, professor, and scientist analyzing UFO phenomenon who made significant contributions to the field of aeronomy in upper atmosphere research as one of its fathers. Roach was involved in high explosives …
Ademar José Gevaerd
Ademar José Gevaerd, also known simply as A. J. Gevaerd was a Brazilian ufologist. He was editor of Revista UFO, founder and director of the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research (CBPDV) and Brazilian Director for Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He represented Brazil at the Ce…
UFO reports and disinformation
Censorship, counter-intelligence, cover-ups and disinformation have long been used to protect national security secrets. In the era of flight, governments began using these techniques to protect secret aerial objects, sometimes even suggesting UFO reports were caused by alien sp…
Marina Popovich
Marina Lavrentyevna Zhikhoreva was a Soviet Air Forces colonel, engineer, and decorated Soviet test pilot. In 1964, she became the third woman and the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier. Known as "Madame MiG", for her work in the Soviet fighter, she set more than one …
Bill Chalker
Bill Chalker is an Australian author and UFO researcher. He is a contributing editor for the International UFO Reporter and has been the Australian representative for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation and a New South Wales state representative for the Mutual UFO Network.
Peter A. Sturrock
Peter Andrew Sturrock was a British-American physicist. A professor of applied physics at Stanford University, much of Sturrock's career was devoted to astrophysics, plasma physics, and solar physics, but Sturrock was interested in other fields, including ufology, scientific inf…
The Galileo Project
The Galileo Project is an international scientific research project to search for extraterrestrial intelligence or extraterrestrial technology on and near Earth and to identify the nature of anomalous Unidentified Flying Objects/Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFOs/UAP).
UFO (2018 film)
UFO is a 2018 American science fiction film written and directed by Ryan Eslinger, and starring Gillian Anderson and Alex Sharp. The story focuses on college student Derek Echevaro's attempts to prove the existence of extraterrestrials with assistance from his mathematics profes…
Jerome Clark
Jerome Clark is an American writer, specializing in unidentified flying objects and other paranormal subjects. He has appeared on ABC News Special Report, Unsolved Mysteries, Sightings and the A&E Network discussing UFOs and other oddities. Clark is also a country and folk music…
UFO Cover Up? Live
UFO Coverup? Live was a US television broadcast which aired in syndication on October 14, 1988. The program introduced Americans to the Majestic 12 hoax. It featured the first public mention of Nevada's Area 51 as a site associated with aliens.
Richard H. Hall
Richard H. Hall was a ufologist and proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis to explain UFO sightings. A member of the Authors Guild, he also wrote numerous books and magazine articles dealing with the role of women in the American Civil War.
Bertrand Méheust
Bertrand Méheust is a French writer, specializing in parapsychology. He is a retired professor of philosophy and has a doctorate in sociology. He is a member of the steering committee of Institut Métapsychique International.
UFO (1956 film)
UFO is a 1956 American semi-documentary about the development of the UFO phenomenon in the United States. Clips from the documentary have often been used in other UFO documentaries and television episodes related to UFOs.
Paul Misraki
Paul Misraki was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri-Georges Clouzot,…
Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting
The Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting was an unidentified flying object sighting that occurred on July 14, 1952, when two commercial pilots claimed to have seen eight UFOs flying in a tight echelon formation over Chesapeake Bay in the state of Virginia.
Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter
The Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter occurred at approximately 2:45 AM on July 24, 1948, in the skies near Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, claimed to have observed a "glowing object" pass by their plane before it app…
Bruce Maccabee
Bruce S. Maccabee was an American optical physicist employed by the United States Navy, and a ufologist.
Gordon Novel
Gordon Michael Duane Novel was a private investigator and electronics expert, who was known for several controversial investigations. He was most notable for his conflict with District Attorney Jim Garrison and his work as investigator for automobile industry executive John DeLo…
Maury Island incident
The Maury Island incident refers to claims made by Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl of falling debris and threats by men in black following sightings of unidentified flying objects in the sky over Maury Island, Washington, United States. The pair claimed that the events had occurred…
Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter
The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter is a claimed close encounter with extraterrestrial beings that occurred near the communities of Kelly and Hopkinsville in Christian County, Kentucky, United States during the night and early morning of August 21–22, 1955. UFOlogists regard it as …
2019–20 Colorado drone sightings
The 2019–20 Colorado drone sightings were a series of widely sighted unidentified drones observed in the skies of northeastern Colorado and western Nebraska between December 2019 and January 2020. According to witness reports, the drones flew in grid formations in groups of up t…
J. Allen Hynek
Josef Allen Hynek was an American astronomer, professor, and ufologist. He is perhaps best remembered for his UFO research. Hynek acted as scientific advisor to UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force under three projects: Project Sign (1947–1949), Project Grudge (1949–1951…
Xenoarchaeology
Xenoarchaeology, a branch of xenology dealing with extraterrestrial cultures, is a hypothetical form of archaeology that exists mainly in works of science fiction. The field is concerned with the study of the material remains to reconstruct and interpret past life-ways of alien …
Michael Persinger
Michael A. Persinger was an American-Canadian professor of psychology at Laurentian University, a position he had held from 1971 until his death in 2018. His best-known hypotheses include the temporal lobes of the human brain as the central correlate for mystical experiences, su…
Trinity UFO Case
The Trinity UFO case is a crashed UFO story set in August 1945 near the Trinity test site where the first atomic bomb had been detonated five weeks prior. According to the legend, an "avocado-shaped object" struck a communications tower near the site, two boys found what they de…
Paul R. Hill
Paul Richard Hill (1909–1990) was a mid–twentieth-century American aerodynamicist. He was a leading research and development engineer and manager for NASA and its predecessor, NACA between 1939 and 1970, retiring as Associate Chief, Applied Materials and Physics Division at the …
Robert Dean (ufologist)
Robert Orel Dean was an American ufologist from Tucson, Arizona.
James Harder
James Albert Harder, Ph.D., was a professor of civil and hydraulic engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a professor emeritus there. Harder also had interest in ufology.
Allan Hendry
Allan Hendry is an American astronomer and ufologist. UFO historian Jerome Clark calls him "one of the most skilled investigators in the history of UFO research." He was the main investigator for the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in the 1970s.
UFO Report (U.S. Intelligence)
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, also known as the UAP Report and colloquially named the Pentagon UFO Report, is a United States federally mandated assessment, prepared and published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on June 25, 2021, s…
Frances Swan
The Frances Swan story is a 20th-century legend of a Maine housewife who, in 1954, claims to receive messages from extra-terrestrials via automatic writing. Allegedly instructed by the messages to contact the Navy, the housewife reaches out to her next door neighbor, a retired a…
Steven M. Greer
Steven Macon Greer is an American ufologist and a retired physician. He founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and the Disclosure Project, which claims to seek the disclosure of alleged classified UFO information.
Chan Thomas
Chan Thomas (1920–1998) was an American engineer, ufologist, writer on ancient cataclysms, and self-proclaimed polymath whose ideas have influenced conspiracy theorists in the 21st century.
Bridgewater Triangle
The Bridgewater Triangle is an area of about 200 square miles (520 km2) within southeastern Massachusetts in the United States, claimed to be a site of alleged paranormal phenomena, ranging from UFOs to poltergeists, and other spectral phenomena, various bigfoot-like sightings, …
Close encounter
In ufology, a close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object (UFO) at relatively close range, where the possibility of mis-identification is presumably greatly reduced. This terminology and the system of classification behind it were first …
Budd Hopkins
Elliot Budd Hopkins was an American artist, author, and ufologist. He was a prominent figure in alien abduction phenomena and related UFO research.
Lonnie Zamora incident
The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO sighting that occurred on April 24, 1964 near Socorro, New Mexico when Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora claimed he saw two people beside a shiny object that later rose into the air accompanied by a roaring blue and orange flame. …
Jacques Vallée
Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a French Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.
Bernard Haisch
Bernard Michael Haisch is a German-born American astrophysicist who has researched solar-stellar astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics (QED), observational X-ray and ultraviolet astronomy, and stochastic electrodynamics. Haisch, with Alfonso Rueda, developed a quantum vacuum ine…
Robert Hastings (ufologist)
Robert Lambert Hastings, or Robert L. Hastings, is an American ufologist, author, and filmmaker known for claims regarding UFOs and Malmstrom Air Force Base. Hastings believes the earth is "being visited by beings from another world, who for whatever reason have taken an interes…
Harley Rutledge
Harley D. Rutledge was an American physicist and ufologist. He earned a doctorate in solid-state physics from the University of Missouri and spent nearly two decades as chair of the physics department at Southeast Missouri State University. In the 1970s Rutledge directed Project…
Yankee Blue
Yankee Blue was the codename for a fake United States Air Force UFO program. It was purported to involve the reverse-engineering of alien spacecraft, but was in fact an elaborate hazing and misinformation campaign, possibly part of a broader Pentagon disinformation program inten…
Cultural tracking
In ufology, cultural tracking is the tendency of UFO reports through time to change their content in line with cultural changes.
Psychological perspectives on UFO claims
Claims of sighting, visitation, and contact with extraterrestrial or paranormal-connected unidentified flying objects (UFOs) has been the subject of extensive medical and psychological research. While most sightings are explainable as misidentification, some research indicates p…
Aimé Michel
Aimé Michel was a French UFO specialist, science and spirituality writer and author.
Archives for the Unexplained
Archives for the Unexplained (AFU), formerly known as Archives for UFO research is a depository dedicated to collecting materials about UFOs, ufology, Forteana, cryptozoology, paranormal phenomena and folklore. AFU is a nonprofit foundation situated in Norrköping, Sweden. The co…
Betz mystery sphere
The Betz mystery sphere is a metal sphere with an approximate diameter of 8 inches (20 cm) weighing nearly 22 pounds (10 kg) uncovered in 1974 by a family in Florida.
John Keel
John Alva Keel, born Alva John Kiehle, was an American journalist and influential ufologist who is known best as author of The Mothman Prophecies.
Baltic Sea anomaly
The Baltic Sea anomaly is a feature visible on an indistinct sonar image taken by Peter Lindberg, Dennis Åsberg and their Swedish OceanX diving team while treasure hunting on the floor of the northern Baltic Sea at the center of the Gulf of Bothnia in June 2011. The team suggest…
List of high-altitude object events in 2023
Several high-altitude airspace security events were reported in February 2023, initially over North America, then over Latin America, China, and Eastern Europe.
COMETA report
The COMETA report is an unofficial 1999 report published by the French association COMETA on unidentified aerospace phenomena (UAP), commonly known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The report was titled UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For? and an archive was made …
Paul Bennewitz
Paul Frederic Bennewitz Jr. was an American businessman and UFO investigator. Bennewitz believed he had intercepted communications from alien spacecraft and discovered a secret underground facility called Dulce Base managed by aliens in cooperation with the US government. His cl…
Jenny Randles
Jenny Randles is a British author and former director of investigations with the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), serving in that role from 1982 through to 1994. She has authored numerous books about UFOs and other paranormal phenomena and is one of the founders of the…
UFO flap
A UFO flap is a rash of reports of unidentified airborne objects. Flap, originally a military term to describe a "period of panic or chaos", is used by ufologists to describe surges of sightings in one geographical area. Longer surges spanning multiple countries may be called wa…
Mariana UFO film
The Mariana UFO incident occurred in August, 1950 in Great Falls, Montana. The sighting, filmed by local baseball coach Nick Mariana, is believed to be among the first ever motion picture footage of what came to be called an unidentified flying object (UFO). The U.S. Air Force, …
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny was an English military historian and writer, specializing in airfields and aircraft, as well as ghost stories and mysteries. He was also a broadcaster and games inventor.
Death of Max Spiers
On 16 July 2016, the death of UFO investigator Max Spiers (1976–2016) caused controversy among some conspiracists, which led to reports from BBC News and other news outlets.
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is a 1956 book by then-retired Air Force UFO investigator Edward J. Ruppelt, detailing his experience running Project Blue Book. The book was noted for its suggestion that a few UFO sightings might be linked to spikes of atomic radiation…
Exeter incident
The Exeter incident or Incident at Exeter was a highly publicized UFO sighting that occurred on September 3, 1965, approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring town of Kensington. Although several separate sightings had been reported in the Exe…
Meade Layne
Meade Layne was an American academic and early researcher of ufology and parapsychology, best known for proposing an early version of the interdimensional hypothesis to explain flying saucer sightings.
UFO reports and atomic sites
Since 1947, United States media coverage has speculated that UFO reports might be linked to atomic sites.
Levelland UFO case
The Levelland UFO case occurred on November 2–3, 1957, on the highways around the small town of Levelland, Texas. Levelland, which in 1957 had a population of about 10,000, is located west of Lubbock on the flat prairie of the Texas South Plains. The case is considered by ufolog…
Garry Nolan
Garry P. Nolan is a British-American immunologist, academic, inventor, and business executive. He holds the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor Endowed Chair in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Nolan has founded biotechnology companies.…
Val Johnson incident
The Val Johnson Incident is an alleged UFO encounter by Marshall County, Minnesota Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson in 1979.
Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting
On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold saw what he described as a string of nine shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that he estimated to be at least 1,200 miles per hour (1,900 km/h).
William J. Birnes
William J. "Bill" Birnes is an American author, ghostwriter, chairman of the board at Sunrise Community Counseling Center, and ufologist. He was the publisher of and wrote for UFO Magazine, and was the lead investigator on the TV show UFO Hunters. He has authored or coauthored b…
Tulli Papyrus
The Tulli Papyrus is supposedly an Egyptian papyrus dating from the reign of Thutmose III. The claim originated in a letter published by Tiffany Thayer in Doubt, the Fortean Society magazine.
Gardner Soule
Gardner Soule was an American writer known for his books on cryptozoology and marine life.
Manfred Cassirer
Manfred Cassirer was a British Egyptologist and parapsychologist.
John G. Fuller
John Grant Fuller, Jr. was a New England–based American author of several nonfiction books and newspaper articles, mainly focusing on the theme of extraterrestrials and the supernatural. For many years he wrote a regular column for the Saturday Review magazine, called "Trade Win…
Igor Volke
Igor Volke was an Estonian ufologist and researcher of environmental anomalies.
Franklin Ruehl
Franklin Ruehl was an American actor, ufologist and cryptozoologist. He has appeared on such shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Roseanne Show and Tom Green Live among others. Ruehl's show, Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion, started on a public-access television cable TV cha…
Daniel Fry
Daniel William Fry was an American contactee of the 1950s who claimed he had multiple contacts with an alien and took a ride in a remotely piloted alien spacecraft. Fry was born in Verdon Township, Minnesota. He was also the founder of the UFO religion Understanding, Inc., thoug…
Brinsley Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty
William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 7th Marquess of Heusden, was a prominent ufologist. He was an Irish peer, as well as a nobleman in the Dutch nobility.
Gorman dogfight
The Gorman dogfight was a widely publicized UFO incident which took place on 1 October 1948, in the skies over Fargo, North Dakota, United States. United States Air Force (USAF) Captain Edward J. Ruppelt wrote in his bestselling and influential The Report on Unidentified Flying …
2023 Lake Huron high-altitude object
On February 11, 2023, an octagonal unidentified flying object was detected over northern Montana. It disappeared until it was spotted the next day in Wisconsin, flying at 20,000 feet over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The object was tracked by NORAD.
Dan Apostol
Dan Apostol was a Romanian writer and researcher, specialized in several aspects of aviation, history, archeology, ancient civilisations, art, biology, anthropology, paleontology, and cryptozoology.
Paul Kimball
Paul Andrew Kimball is a Canadian film and television producer, writer and director, and politician, who resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Kimball's projects include several documentary films about UFOs.
1984 Hudson Valley UFO sightings
The 1984 Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, also called "The Westchester Boomerang", were UFO sightings that stretched throughout 1983–1984 in New York and Western Connecticut. Pilots flew Cessna 152s in tight formation with bright lights that could change colors. State police reporte…
Lincoln LaPaz
Lincoln LaPaz was an American astronomer from the University of New Mexico and a pioneer in the study of meteors.
David Clarke (journalist)
David William Clarke is an investigative journalist, reader and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, England. He has a lifelong interest in folklore, Fortean phenomena and extraordinary personal experiences. He is frequently consulted by the national and international media …
World Contact Day
World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), as a day on which all IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space.
Ted Bloecher
Theodore Bloecher was an American ufologist, singer, actor, and author who performed on Broadway and toured with productions of Oliver!, Hello Dolly and My Fair Lady. Bloecher was a pioneering member of New York City gay culture, singing with the New York City Gay Men's Chorus f…
Table of reports during the 1947 flying disc craze
Over 800 reports were made publicly during the 1947 flying disc craze. Such reports quickly spread throughout the United States, and some sources estimate the reports may have numbered in the thousands.
Dundy County UFO hoax
The Dundy County UFO hoax was perpetrated by the Nebraska State Journal in 1884. According to the Journal, a group of cowboys found a long, cylindrical object in Dundy County, Nebraska, near the settlement of Max, after the crash of a meteor. The story was revealed to be a hoax …
W. Raymond Drake
Walter Raymond Drake (1913–1989) was a British disciple of Charles Fort and writer. He published nine books on the ancient astronaut theme, the first four years earlier than Erich von Däniken's bestseller Chariots of the Gods.
Timothy Good
Timothy Good is a British author on UFOs. His books include Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-up (1987), Alien Liaison (1991) and Beyond Top Secret (1996), all published by Sidgwick & Jackson. Good has made many television and documentary appearances. Critics challeng…
Frank Edwards (writer and broadcaster)
Frank Allyn Edwards was an American writer and broadcaster, and one of the pioneers in radio. He hosted a radio show broadcast across the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. Late in his life, he became additionally well known for a series of popular books about UFOs and other …
Flight 105 UFO sighting
The Flight 105 UFO sighting occurred on July 4, 1947, when three crew members aboard a United Airlines flight reported seeing multiple unidentified flying objects in the skies over the Pacific Northwest. The incident was among at least 800 similar sightings in the United States …
Susan Clancy
Susan A. Clancy is a cognitive psychologist and associate professor in Consumer behaviour at INCAE as well as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. She is best known for her controversial work on repressed and recovered memories in her books Abducted and The Trauma Myth.
Gilliland's Ranch
Gilliland's Ranch, also known as Gilliland Ranch, Gilliland's ECETI Ranch, and Sattva Sanctuary, is an area of land in Trout Lake, at the base of Mount Adams, in Southwest Washington. The property belongs to James Gilliland, who claims to have established Enlightened Contact wit…
Gildas Bourdais
Gildas Bourdais was a publishing executive, painter, and French ufologist writer, supporter of the "extraterrestrial hypothesis" (HET).
2023 Alaska high-altitude object
On February 10, 2023, the United States Air Force shot down a high-altitude object that had entered U.S. airspace over Alaska a day before. The object was shot down onto the Beaufort Sea. The Department of Defense said it was the size of a small car and flying northeast at appro…
Lenticular Reentry Vehicle
The Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (LRV), according to a November 2000 Popular Mechanics cover story, was an experimental nuclear warhead delivery system under development during the Cold War by defense contractor North American Aviation, managed out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Ba…
Stuart Appelle
Stuart Appelle was a psychologist and writer, with an interest in topics dealing with anomalous perception, including hypnotic experience, and reports of unidentified flying objects and alien abduction.
Kirtland AFB UFO sighting
The Kirtland AFB UFO sighting could suggest either of two incidents, separated by a number of years, but initially refers to an observation of an unidentified flying object at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, late in 1957. The Air Force concluded the witnesses m…
Jacob Salatun
Raden Jacob Salatun was an Indonesia Air Force 3-star officer. He is known as a founder of Indonesia's National Institute of Aeronautics and Space in 1963. Between 28 March 1966 and 25 July 1966 he was Minister of Industry in Indonesia.