This is a list of UFO sighting flaps and well-known individual sightings. Included are also cases of alleged alien sightings and abductions.

Some cases are popularly known, and have become folklore. Others are more obscure, and known mainly to Ufologists and enthusiasts.

Dated events

• 1800: March 29th, Prediger Fritsch saw in Quedlinburg a tiny spot crossing the sun in 6 hours [1] (http://www.astronomie.de/bibliothek/artikel/geschichte/vulkan/).
• 1802: February 27th, Prediger Fritsch saw in Quedlinburg a tiny spot crossing the sun in nortwestern-direction and accelerated thereby[2] (http://www.astronomie.de/bibliothek/artikel/geschichte/vulkan/).
• 1839: October 2nd, Cupper saw transit of unidentified object in front of the sun.
• 1849: March 12th, Sidebotham saw transit of tiny spot on the sun.
• 1859: March 26th, Lescarbault saw transit of unknown body in front of the sun. Liais in Brasilia did not see such thing.
• 1862: March 20th, Lummis, ingenieur of Manchester, saw transit of unknown object in front of the sun.
• 1944: Foo fighters, colourful spheres recurringly spotted by military air crews around the world.
• 1946: Ghost rockets, objects with characteristics of cruise missiles sighted repeatedly all over Scandinavia—Swedish Defense Staff expressed concern.
• 1947: Kenneth Arnold's sighting, the incident that sparked the name flying saucers.
• 1947: Maury Island incident, a highly controversial story, where a dog was killed and a boy injured by UFOs and the witness threatened by Men in Black.
• 1947: Roswell incident, US Air Force collected scrap from desert—some say it was the remains of an extra-terrestrial flying saucer and its pilots.
• 1948: Mantell Incident, US Air Force sent a fighter pilot to check a UFO sighting—the pilot crashed.
• 1949: Astromer Clyde Tombaugh reported a strange sighting.
• 1952: Carson Sink Case over western Nevada, USA.
• 1952: Washington flap, a stirring series of sightings with radar contacts in Washington, DC, USA.
• 1954: French flap, tens of individual sightings.
• 1955: Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter, a group of strange playful creatures bullied a family.
• 1961: Hill Abduction, the first widely publicized alien abduction experience.
• 1965: Kecksburg incident, mass sighting of a falling UFO followed by an alleged isolation of the crash site.
• 1967: Falcon Lake Incident, according to the story UFO's exhausts burnt man.
• 1969: Jimmy Carter's sighting, a UFO officially reported by a President.
• 1971: Delphos ground trace, UFO left an obscure impression.
• 1973: Pascagoula Abduction, a well-publicized alien abduction experience.
• 1975: Travis Walton abduction, a man went missing for days—came back with a story of an abduction, wrote a book which was adapted into a film.
• 1977: Colares flap, a bewildering account of a Brazilian island swamped by harmful UFOs—35 injured, island evacuated. [3] (http://www.bobpratt.org/colares.html)
• 1978: Valentich Disappearance, an Australian pilot reported a UFO to air traffic control before vanishing without a trace.
• 1979: Marshall County incident, a sheriff spotted a weird bright light which seems to have collided with his vehicle.
• 1980: Cash-Landrum incident, a peculiar sighting accompanied by injuries to three witnesses.
• 1980: Rendelsham incident, a sighting in United Kingdom taken at first as a downed aircraft.
• 1986: January 29th, Height 611 UFO Incident, a UFO crash claim in Dalnegorsk, USSR followed by a UFO landing claim in 1989.
• 1990: Belgian flap, several mass sightings of triangular UFOs—Belgian Air Force intercepted a radar-visual contact and released footage see Black triangles.
• 1996: Varginha incident, multiple sightings of strange creatures in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Brazil.
• 1997: Mexico City footage, see External links.
• 2004: Mexican air patrol sighting, a drug-smuggling air patrol recorded UFOs on infrared camera, footage released by Mexican Air Force.

External links

UFO Waves by Richard Hall (Includes notable UFO sightings sorted by decade) (http://www.cufos.org/iur_article4.html)

UFO Sightings Maps and Statistics. 18,370 filtered sightings worldwide) (http://www.larryhatch.net/)

• Landman, Jack, "Mexico City, August 6th, 1997 (http://www.jman5.com/mexufo.htm)".
• Lindemann, Michael, "Mexico City, August 6, 1997: An Analysis (http://www.purgatory.com/xcommunication/viewtext.cfm?tfile=mexico-video-dialog.txt&page=vis)". CNI News.
• Holman, J. L., et. al., "Mexico City, August 6, 1997 (http://www.holman.net/ufo/archives/pics/mexico/ufomex6aug(1).mov)". UFON. (MOV file format)

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