Lights in the Sky
Mass sightings, famous photographs and the nights whole towns looked up. 24 entries, oldest first.
The Great Airship Wave
Fifty years before 'flying saucers,' Americans saw mysterious airships.
The Battle of Los Angeles
Three months after Pearl Harbor, anti-aircraft guns fired into an empty sky for an hour.
Foo Fighters
Allied night-fighter crews reported glowing balls of light pacing their planes.
Ghost Rockets of Scandinavia
Thousands of reports of rocket-like objects streaking over Sweden.
Kenneth Arnold's Nine Objects
The sighting that gave the world the phrase 'flying saucer'.
The Chiles–Whitted Encounter
Two airline pilots describe a glowing, windowed cigar rushing past their DC-3.
The Green Fireballs
Bright green lights over America's most secret nuclear sites. They came back in the 2026 files.
The McMinnville Photos
Two farm photos of a disc that have been argued over for 75 years.
The Lubbock Lights
Texas Tech professors watched V-shaped groups of soft lights glide over town.
The Washington, D.C. Flap
Radar blips over the Capitol, jets scrambled and the biggest Pentagon press briefing since WWII.
The Tremonton Film
A Navy photographer's 16mm film of shining dots, reviewed by the CIA. It reappeared in 2026.
The Levelland Sightings
Driver after driver reported a glowing egg that stalled their engines.
The Incident at Exeter
A teenager and two police officers watch pulsing red lights over a field.
Swamp Gas in Michigan
Two words from an astronomer led Congress to its first UFO hearing.
The Westall School Sighting
Hundreds of students and teachers watch an object descend near their school.
The Petrozavodsk 'Jellyfish'
A glowing jellyfish hangs over a Soviet city before dawn and sets off a state UFO program.
The Kaikōura Lights
Cargo pilots see lights off the coast, radar tracks targets, and a TV crew films them.
The Hessdalen Lights
A Norwegian valley where strange lights are studied with permanent instruments.
The Hudson Valley Boomerang
Thousands saw a huge, silent boomerang of lights. A group of pilots had a secret.
Gulf Breeze
Dramatic Polaroids of a glowing craft, and a model found in the attic.
The Phoenix Lights
Two separate events the same night, often merged into one mystery.
The O'Hare Airport Sighting
Airline workers watch a dark disc hover over a gate, then shoot up through the clouds.
The Stephenville Lights
A small Texas town sees a huge set of lights, and the Air Force changes its story.
The New Jersey Drone Flap
Weeks of nightly drone sightings, flight bans and national panic.