Case Credibility Rating System
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Primarily anecdotal, anonymous or unverifiable witnesses, story surfaced long afterward, little/no contemporary documentation, serious inconsistencies, or evidence of fabrication.
Identifiable witness or source, but evidence is weak. Limited corroboration, secondhand reporting, questionable documentation, or plausible conventional explanations significantly weaken the case.
Credible identifiable witnesses and reasonable documentation. Some independent corroboration may exist, but important uncertainties remain or conventional explanations cannot be confidently excluded.
Multiple credible or independent witnesses, strong contemporary documentation, and/or supporting photographic, radar, physical, military, police, or scientific evidence. Conventional explanations have been investigated but remain inadequate or disputed.
Exceptionally well-documented case involving multiple independent sources and several mutually supporting forms of evidence. Records have strong provenance, major details are independently corroborated, and extensive investigation has failed to produce a convincing conventional explanation.
A case revealed to be either a deliberate hoax or easily and undeniably explained through conventional explanations.
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1900s
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1900s
The Woodford–Wilmington UFO sightings - October 1, 1900 - Vermont, USA ★★★★★★★★★★
1904 USS Supply Sighting - February 28, 1904 - Pacific Ocean ★★★★★★★★★★
The SS Mohican Incident- August 1, 1904 - Antlantic Ocean
The 1906 Airship Wave - August-October 1906 - South Dakota, Indiana, Oklahoma, USA
The Tennessee Airship Encounters - April 20 - 28, 1907 - Tennessee, USA
The Burlington, Vermont UFO Encounter - July 2, 1907 - Burlington, Vermont, USA
The Mihal Grameno Sighting - 1907-1910s - The Ottoman Empire and Albania
Phantom Airship Waves - 1909 - New England, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand
The Halloween Airship Sighting - October 31, 1908 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA
Salon Sea Airship - June 1 - June 2, 1909 - Imperial Valley and Brawley California, USA
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1910s
1910 Chattanooga, Tennessee Sighting - January 13, 1910 - Chattanooga, Tennessee
1910 Maryland Humanoid Encounter - Spring 1910 - Violetville, Maryland, USA
The Idella Ford Abduction - May 1911 - Piquia, Ohio, USA
Texas Shadows - April 8, 1913 - Fort Worth, Texas
Silbie Latham Tiny Humanoid Encounter - 1913 - Farmersville, Texas, USA
1913 Phantom Airship Waves - January-April 1913 - United Kingdom and other parts of Europe
Michigan Mass Sighting - June 29 1913 - Lansing, Michigan, USA
1914 "Mystery Monoplane" Panic - August 11- September 9, 1914 - South Africa
1916 Pilot Sighting in Essex - January 31, 1916 - Essex, England
Bigfork, Montana Airship Sighting - February 9, 1916 - Bigfork, Montana, USA
Lake Superior Airship - February 29, 1916 - Superior, Wisconsin, USA
The Miracle of the Sun - May - October 1917 - Fátima, Portugal
Colorado Mysterious Crafts - September 1917 - Salida - Colorado, USA
John Boback's Sighting - October 1917 - Youngstown, Pennsylvania, USA
The Rich Field Airfeild Sighting - August 21, 1918 - Waco, Texas, USA
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1920s
Mini-UFO Sighting - June 3, 1920 - Mount Pleasant, Iowa, USA
Texas Gulf Coast Disc Sighting - October 1920 - Near Freeport, Texas, USA
Norman Wilson Massie Humanoid Encounter - June 1923 - Mount Erie, Illinois, USA
Crandall/Greenleaf Sighting - 1923 - Greencastle, Indiana, USA
Fowler Sr. and the Humanoids - Autumn 1923 - Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA
Evelyn Wendt and the Robot People - 1924 - Dade City, Florida, USA
Men In Black - May 1924 - Gem, West Virginia, USA
Massive Cylinder - June 1925 - Near Chicago, Illinois, USA
Living Crafts - 1925 - Battle Mountain, Nevada, USA
Brown Mountain Lights - November 7, 1925 - Brown Mountain, North Carolina, USA
Bertrand Acosta Sighting - January 1926 - Near Wichita, Kansas, USA
UFO Fleet - August 1926 - Westmont, Illinois, USA
Pilot Sighting - September 1926 - Near Salt Lake City, Utah,USA
Cave Junction Photograph - 1927 - Cave Junction, Oregon, USA
Ella Young's UFO Sighting - February 1027 - Sausalito, California, USA
Massive Craft Over Miami - June 13, 1928 - Miami, Florida, USA
UFO Stops a Car - August 1928 - Near Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Frightened Cattle and a UFO - November, 1929 - Milton, North Dakota, USA
Saucer Caught on Camera - April 1929 - Ward Colorado, USA
Burns, Oregon Landing - July 5, 1929 - Burns, Oregon, USA
Airship and Humanoid Sighting - Summer 1929 - Spring Valley, New York, USA
William Walton's Encounter - September 1929 - Oak Park, Illinois, USA
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1930s
Cordell Hull Sees Alien Beings - 1939 - Washington DC, USA
Tuscany UFO Crash - June 13, 1933 - Tuscany Italy
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1940s
Missouri Crash Retrieval - Late April, 1941 - Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
The Battle of Los Angeles - February 25, 1942 - Los Angeles, California, USA
The Foo Fighters of World War II - November 27, 1944 to August 15, 1945 - Worldwide
Spitzbergen UFO Crash - May ??, 1946 - Spitzbergen (Svalbard), Norway
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting - June 24, 1947 - Mount Rainier, Washington, USA
The Roswell Incident - July 2, 1947 - Roswell, New Mexico
The Portland UFO Wave - July 4, 1947 - Portland, Oregon, USA
The Maury Island Incident - July 21, 1947 - Puget Sound, Washington, USA
Malta USO - 1947
Mr. John H. Janssen Sighting - 1947
Death of Thomas Mantell - 1948
The Chiles-Whitted Encounter - July 24,1948 - Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Lieutenant Gorman's Dogfight - 1948
Fort Hood, Texas UFO Wave - 1948
Ohio Searchlight UFO Incident - 1949
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1950s
Douglas Plane Disappears - 1950
Alleged UFO Crash in Mexico City - 1950
Alien Encounter at Varese - 1950
Dr. Botta Enters Flying Saucer - 1950
The Trent UFO Photographs - 1950
The Great Falls, Montana Film - 1950
The Lubbock, Texas Lights -1951
The Fort Monmouth UFO Incident - 1951
Air Force Bomber & UFO - 1952 - 1952
Nash-Fortenberry UFO Sighting - 1952 - 1952
The Tremonton, Utah Color Film - 1952 - 1952
Customs Inspector Films Large UFO - 1952
Washington, D. C. Sightings - 1952
Maryland - UFO Seen with Occupant - 1952
Kansas - UFO with Occupants - 1952
Coast Guard UFO Photograph - 1952
Australian Seafury Incident - 1952
The Florida Scoutmaster Encounter - 1952
Navy Aviators Encounter UFO - 1952
Gulf of Mexico UFO Encounter - 1952
Pilot Encounters Triangle - 1953
The Arizona UFO Crash - 1953
The Ellworth Air Force Base Incident - 1953
Pilot Lost in UFO Chase (Felix Moncla) - 1953
Santa Barbara Channel UFO - 1953
Did Eisenhower Meet with Aliens? - 1954
UFO Encounter - Staffordshire - 1954
UFO Encounter at Bexleyheath - 1955
Kelly-Hopkinsville Alien Encounter - 1955
US Senators See Flying Discs in Russia - 1955
Navy Flight Encounters Giant UFO - 1956
Photograph of UFO - South Africa - 1956
Bentwaters AFB UFO Encounter - 1956
Large UFO over South Dakota - 1956
Lake Isabella Photograph - 1957
The Ring-Cloud UFO Photos - 1957
The Levelland, Texas Landings - 1957
Madison, Ohio, Kuhn-Dog Case - 1957
UFO Photographed - S.S. Ramsay - 1957
Old-Saybrook, CT - UFO & Occupants - 1957
Film of UFO Landing at Edwards AFB - 1957
The Trinidade Island Photographs - 1958
Monon Railroad UFO Incident - 1958
Loch Raven Dam Incident - 1958
Disappearance of Private Gerry Irwin - 1959
The Papua, New Guinea Sightings - 1959
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1960s
1960 Yacanto Photographic Case
1961 Joe Simonton Encounters Aliens
1961 Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
1963 Wayne City UFO - Car Chase
1964 Socorro, New Mexico (Lonnie Zamora)
1964 Lynn, Massachusetts - Saucer Hovers
1964 Vehicle Encounters UFO - Lavonia, Georgia
1964 UFO Filmed at Vandenburg AFB
1964 Alien Encounter at Cisco County
1964 Double Landing at Berlin, New York
1964 Staunton, Virginia - Cone-Shaped Object
1964 The Warminster Thing (UFO)
1965 Florida Everglades Encounter (Flynn)
1965 Valensole, France Landing (Masse)
1965 UFO Lands Cherry Creek, NY
1965 Tulsa, Oklahoma UFO Photographs
1965 Exeter, New Hampshire Sightings
1965 UFO Illuminates Police Car
1965 The Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Crash
1966 Wanaque Reservoir Incident
1966 Vicksburg, Michigan - Disc-Shaped Object
1966 Yorktown, Iowa - Cigar-Shaped Object
1966 UFO Landing-Granger Reserve
1966 Close Encounter in Beverly, Mass.
1967 Triangle over Ft. Smith, AK
1967 UFO with Occupants - Ohio
1967 Falcon Lake (Michalak) Encounter
1967 Meridian, Mississippi - Saucer Stops Car
1967 British Officer Encounters UFO
1967 Policemen Chase Flying Cross (Devon)
1967 Idaho - UFO with Occupants
1968 Salisbury, Mass - Trees Damaged
1968 Brigham City, Utah - UFO Landing
1968 The Buff Ledge Camp Abductions
1968 Minot AFB - B-52 Encounters UFO
1968 Lakeland, Florida - Alien Encounter
1968 Hanbury, UK - Entities in UFO Dome
1969 The Russian Crash - Sverdlovsky
1969 Brazil-Abduction of José Antonio da Silva
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1970s
1970 Cowichan District Hospital Sighting
1970 Arizona - Metallic Saucers Morph
1970 The Tagish Lake Photographs
1971 UFO over Bermuda Triangle
1971 UFOs Photographed in Austria
1971 Holloman AFB UFO Landing Film
1971 Abductee UFO Crash - Edwards AFB
1971 NASA Employee Sees Apollo 15 UFOs
1971 UFO Encounter - Texas Mine
1971 Costa Rican UFO Photograph
1971 The Delphos, Kansas Glowing Ring
1972 Helicopter Crew Encounters UFO
1973 The Judy Doraty Abduction
1973 UFO Physical Trace - Missouri
1973 Princeton, Indiana UFO Sighting
1973 The Alabama Tin Foil Alien
1973 Dayton, Ohio - 15 UFO Sightings
1973 Coyne Helicopter-UFO Encounter
1973 Pascagoula, Mississippi Abduction
1973 Lyndia Morel UFO Encounter
1973 Hochries Mountain Encounter
1973 UFO – The Schenectady Flying Saucer
1974 UFO Crash at Llandrillo, Wales
1974 Disk Crash in Chihuahua, Mexico
1974 Hunter Abducted in Wyoming
1975 The Billy Meier Photos-Videos
1975 Sergeant Charles L. Moody Abduction
1975 UFOs over SAC Bases (Malmstrom)
1975 The Travis Walton Abduction
1976 The Stanford, Kentucky Abductions
1976 Cannon Airforce Base UFO Incident
1976 The Canary Island Alien Sphere
1976 Tehran, Iran UFO Incident
1976 The Allagash Waterway Abductions
1977 UFOs Invade Colares Island
1977 UFO Incident at Alsworth AFB
1978 Veteran Pilot Sees Domed UFO
1978 Alien Shot Dead - Ft. Dix-McGuire AFB
1978 Ocala, Florida - Radar-Visual Case
1978 Motorist Sees Humanoid-UFO
1978 Australian Pilot (Valentich) Disappears
1979 Air Force Captain Spots UFO
1979 Alien Body Recovered in Puerto Rico
1979 Russian Cosmonaut Sees UFO
1979 Close Encounter - Santa Clarita Valley
1979 Sheriff Blinded by UFO Light
1979 Dechmont Forest Abduction
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1980s
1980 Russian Ufologist Sees Saucer Land
1980 The Kirtland AFB Encounter
1980 Bentwaters-Woodbridge (Rendlesham)
1980 The Cash-Landrum Encounter
1981 Trans En Province Encounter
1981 The Carlos Diaz UFO Footage
1981 The Hannah Roberts Photograph
1981 The Hudson Valley Sightings
1982 Portugal Air Captain Spots UFO
1983 The Copely Woods Encounter
1983 Abduction of Alfred Burtoo
1984 Indian Point UFO Encounter
1984 The Isidoro Ferri Encounter
1985 Abduction of Whitley Strieber
1986 Japanese Airline Encounters UFO (Jal 1628)
1987 Wytheville, Virginia Sightings
1987 The Gulf Breeze Sightings (Walters)
1987 The Ilkley Moor Alien Hoax
1988 Fuller Sighting in Florida
1988 The Eyre Highway Incident-Australia
1988 Coast Guard UFO Encounter
1988 DNA Sample - Khoury Abduction
1988 The Russian Phobos II Incident
1989 UFO Encounter with US Navy Sub
1989 Brecon Beacons UFO Sighting
1989 Tennessee Couple Sees UFO
1989 Russian Crash & Retrieval
1989 The Nashville UFO Photographs
1989 Pilot Hastings Photograph
1989 The Voronezh, Russia Aliens
1989 Linda Cortile-Napolitano Abduction
1989 Truck Drivers See Landed Craft
1989 Carp, Canada-(Guardian) Landing
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1990s
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