Category: Notable Cases

On January 8, 2008, a major UFO sighting occurred in Stephenville, Texas. MUFON published a 77-page report comparing radar records with witness testimony and found that radar had tracked an object moving at nearly 2,000 miles per hour. The report also said one object flew toward President Bush’s ranch, without explaining why.

On November 7, 2006, several staff at Chicago O’Hare International Airport watched a disc-shaped UFO hover above gate C-17. Witnesses included pilots and ground crew. The object then shot through the clouds at high speed and left a clean hole. The FAA at first denied the report, but the Chicago Tribune used the Freedom of Information Act to force an acknowledgment. Officials ultimately refused to investigate, calling it a weather phenomenon.

On May 25, 1995, America West Flight 564 encountered a UFO over Texas. First officer John Waller saw a row of white lights flashing from left to right on a cigar-shaped object about 300 to 400 feet long. Investigator Walter Webb obtained the FAA tapes and interviewed the crew but found no conventional explanation. NORAD tracked an anomalous target.

On November 17, 1986, Japan Airlines Flight 1628, flying from Paris to Tokyo, encountered a UFO over Alaska. The crew reported two small luminous objects that approached and flew alongside, then a larger disc-shaped object that followed the airliner for about 50 minutes. The case drew wide attention because it involved a commercial flight and several witnesses.

In 1980 the Cash-Landrum UFO sighting occurred in Texas. Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and her grandson Colby said they encountered a huge diamond-shaped UFO and suffered radiation injuries. It is one of the few UFO cases heard in civil court, and the suit was ultimately dismissed.

On October 21, 1978, 20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared over Australia’s Bass Strait in a Cessna 182. He reported a UFO following him and an engine problem, and his last words were that a strange craft was hovering above him. Some wreckage was found five years later, but the official investigation could not determine why he vanished.

In the early hours of September 19, 1976, a radar and visual UFO incident occurred over Tehran. Two F-4 fighters lost instruments and communications as they closed on the object, then recovered after breaking off. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency recorded the case and sent it to the White House and other agencies, making it one of the most detailed military encounters with an anomalous object on record. Several senior Iranian officers have said publicly that the object was not of earthly origin.

From February 1973, police in Piedmont, Missouri, took more than 500 UFO reports. On the night of February 21, basketball coach Reggie Bone saw a mysterious column of light, setting off the Brush Creek UFO scare. Witnesses described red, green, amber, and white lights that rose vertically in silence and vanished. For the next two months the area kept reporting UFO activity, including suspected landings.

In 1973, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, shipyard workers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker said they were abducted by aliens while fishing. They described an egg-shaped craft, three eyeless humanoids, and being taken aboard for a physical examination. The case stands with the Hill abduction among the best-known alien-abduction incidents.

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