Close Encounters
Landings, beings and abduction accounts: the most personal testimony. 13 entries, oldest first.
The Contactees
Friendly 'Space Brothers' from Venus, desert conventions and a new kind of UFO believer.
The Flatwoods Monster
A group of kids and adults meet a hissing, glowing figure on a dark hillside.
The Kelly–Hopkinsville Goblins
A farm family's night-long standoff with small, glowing creatures.
The Levelland Sightings
Driver after driver reported a glowing egg that stalled their engines.
Betty & Barney Hill
The first widely publicized alien abduction story, recovered under hypnosis.
Lonnie Zamora at Socorro
A respected police officer sees a landed egg-shaped craft and two small figures.
The Pascagoula Abduction
Two shipyard workers say they were floated into a craft while fishing.
Travis Walton
A logger vanishes for five days after his crew sees him struck by a beam.
Operação Prato
Brazil's Air Force sends a team to a river island where residents say lights are attacking them.
The Cash–Landrum Incident
Three people say a fiery diamond, escorted by helicopters, made them sick.
Trans-en-Provence
The French government's scientists analyze a landing trace in a garden.
The Ariel School Encounter
Dozens of schoolchildren describe a landed craft and strange beings during recess.
The Varginha Creature
Three young women report a strange creature crouched by a wall. Rumors of captures follow.