# Where the sky went strange.

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Every case file, pinned where it happened: a forest in Suffolk, a football stadium in Florence, a drowned volcano in the Antarctic.  
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## Case files by region

### North America

- [The Swarm across the Sun](<https://uap.fun/encounters/zacatecas-1883/>) · 1883 · Zacatecas, Mexico · 22.77° N, 102.57° W
- [The Airship over Sacramento](<https://uap.fun/encounters/mystery-airship-1896/>) · 1896 · California, United States · 38.58° N, 121.49° W
- [The Night Los Angeles Shot at the Sky](<https://uap.fun/encounters/battle-of-los-angeles-1942/>) · 1942 · California, United States · 34.02° N, 118.40° W
- [The Roswell Incident](<https://uap.fun/encounters/roswell-incident/>) · 1947 · New Mexico, USA · 33.39° N, 104.52° W
- [Nine Objects over Mount Rainier](<https://uap.fun/encounters/mount-rainier-1947/>) · 1947 · Washington, USA · 46.85° N, 121.76° W
- [The Death of Captain Mantell](<https://uap.fun/encounters/mantell-1948/>) · 1948 · Kentucky, United States · 36.67° N, 86.64° W
- [Sixteen Little Men at Aztec](<https://uap.fun/encounters/aztec-1948/>) · 1948 · New Mexico, United States · 36.87° N, 107.93° W
- [The Lubbock Lights](<https://uap.fun/encounters/lubbock-lights-1951/>) · 1951 · Texas, United States · 33.58° N, 101.88° W
- [The Washington Flap](<https://uap.fun/encounters/washington-dc-1952/>) · 1952 · Washington, D.C., USA · 38.85° N, 77.04° W
- [The Phantom on the Flatwoods Hill](<https://uap.fun/encounters/flatwoods-monster-1952/>) · 1952 · West Virginia, USA · 38.72° N, 80.65° W
- [The Little Men of Kelly](<https://uap.fun/encounters/kelly-hopkinsville-1955/>) · 1955 · Kentucky, USA · 36.97° N, 87.48° W
- [The Levelland Night](<https://uap.fun/encounters/levelland-1957/>) · 1957 · Texas, USA · 33.59° N, 102.38° W
- [Two Lost Hours on Route 3](<https://uap.fun/encounters/hill-abduction-1961/>) · 1961 · New Hampshire, USA · 44.05° N, 71.68° W
- [The Socorro Arroyo](<https://uap.fun/encounters/socorro-1964/>) · 1964 · New Mexico, USA · 34.04° N, 106.90° W
- [The Acorn in the Woods](<https://uap.fun/encounters/kecksburg-1965/>) · 1965 · Pennsylvania, USA · 40.18° N, 79.46° W
- [The Five Red Lights over Exeter](<https://uap.fun/encounters/exeter-1965/>) · 1965 · New Hampshire, USA · 42.93° N, 70.95° W
- [The Shag Harbour Lights](<https://uap.fun/encounters/shag-harbour-1967/>) · 1967 · Nova Scotia, Canada · 43.49° N, 65.72° W
- [The Burning Grid at Falcon Lake](<https://uap.fun/encounters/falcon-lake-1967/>) · 1967 · Manitoba, Canada · 49.71° N, 95.33° W
- [The Minot B-52 Encounter](<https://uap.fun/encounters/minot-1968/>) · 1968 · North Dakota, United States · 48.42° N, 101.36° W
- [The Disc on Frame 300](<https://uap.fun/encounters/lake-cote-1971/>) · 1971 · Alajuela, Costa Rica · 10.58° N, 84.92° W
- [The Tape Behind the Door](<https://uap.fun/encounters/pascagoula-1973/>) · 1973 · Mississippi, USA · 30.36° N, 88.56° W
- [The Green Light over Mansfield](<https://uap.fun/encounters/coyne-helicopter-1973/>) · 1973 · Ohio, USA · 40.76° N, 82.37° W
- [Five Days in the Pines](<https://uap.fun/encounters/travis-walton-1975/>) · 1975 · Arizona, USA · 34.29° N, 110.74° W
- [The Fire on FM 1485](<https://uap.fun/encounters/cash-landrum-1980/>) · 1980 · Texas, USA · 30.09° N, 95.14° W
- [The Lights Beside Flight 1628](<https://uap.fun/encounters/jal-flight-1628/>) · 1986 · Alaska, USA · 66.20° N, 146.30° W
- [The Phoenix Lights](<https://uap.fun/encounters/phoenix-lights/>) · 1997 · Arizona, USA · 33.45° N, 112.07° W
- [The Nimitz Encounter](<https://uap.fun/encounters/nimitz-encounter/>) · 2004 · Pacific Ocean, USA · 31.33° N, 117.17° W
- [Eleven Lights behind the Left Wing](<https://uap.fun/encounters/campeche-2004/>) · 2004 · Campeche, Mexico · 18.47° N, 90.57° W
- [The Disc over O’Hare](<https://uap.fun/encounters/ohare-airport-2006/>) · 2006 · Illinois, USA · 41.98° N, 87.90° W
- [The Lights over Stephenville](<https://uap.fun/encounters/stephenville-2008/>) · 2008 · Texas, USA · 32.22° N, 98.20° W
- [The Heat Signature over Aguadilla](<https://uap.fun/encounters/aguadilla-2013/>) · 2013 · Puerto Rico, USA · 18.49° N, 67.13° W
- [The Fleet Behind the Gimbal](<https://uap.fun/encounters/theodore-roosevelt-gimbal/>) · 2014–2015 · U.S. East Coast · 30.30° N, 76.50° W
- [The Sphere at the Waterline](<https://uap.fun/encounters/uss-omaha-2019/>) · 2019 · Pacific Ocean, USA · 32.48° N, 119.35° W

### South America

- [The Hairy Dwarfs of Venezuela](<https://uap.fun/encounters/venezuela-dwarfs-1954/>) · 1954 · Venezuela · 10.48° N, 66.81° W
- [A Fragment from a Flying Disc](<https://uap.fun/encounters/ubatuba-1957/>) · 1957 · São Paulo, Brazil · 23.43° S, 45.08° W
- [The Saturn over Trindade](<https://uap.fun/encounters/trindade-island-1958/>) · 1958 · Espírito Santo, Brazil · 20.50° S, 29.33° W
- [The Lights that Hunted Colares](<https://uap.fun/encounters/colares-operation-prato/>) · 1977 · Pará, Brazil · 0.94° S, 48.28° W
- [Fifteen Minutes at Pampa Lluscuma](<https://uap.fun/encounters/pampa-lluscuma-1977/>) · 1977 · Arica y Parinacota, Chile · 18.20° S, 69.56° W
- [Sixty-Four Rounds over La Joya](<https://uap.fun/encounters/la-joya-1980/>) · 1980 · Arequipa, Peru · 16.79° S, 71.89° W
- [The Official UFO Night](<https://uap.fun/encounters/brazil-ufo-night-1986/>) · 1986 · Brazil · 23.19° S, 45.88° W
- [The Light beside Flight 674](<https://uap.fun/encounters/bariloche-1995/>) · 1995 · Río Negro, Argentina · 41.15° S, 71.16° W
- [The Varginha Encounter](<https://uap.fun/encounters/varginha-1996/>) · 1996 · Minas Gerais, Brazil · 21.55° S, 45.43° W

### Europe

- [The Ship in the Air over Clonmacnoise](<https://uap.fun/encounters/clonmacnoise-749/>) · 749 · County Offaly, Ireland · 53.33° N, 7.99° W
- [The Sky Battle over Nuremberg](<https://uap.fun/encounters/nuremberg-1561/>) · 1561 · Bavaria, Germany · 49.45° N, 11.08° E
- [The Sun That Danced at Fátima](<https://uap.fun/encounters/fatima-1917/>) · 1917 · Portugal · 39.63° N, 8.67° W
- [The Ghost Fliers of Norrland](<https://uap.fun/encounters/ghost-fliers-1934/>) · 1933–1934 · Sweden · 65.83° N, 21.69° E
- [The Foo Fighters of the Rhine](<https://uap.fun/encounters/foo-fighters-1944/>) · 1944 · France and Germany · 48.80° N, 7.85° E
- [The Rocket in Lake Kölmjärv](<https://uap.fun/encounters/ghost-rockets-1946/>) · 1946 · Sweden · 66.35° N, 22.35° E
- [The Saucer That Joined Mainbrace](<https://uap.fun/encounters/operation-mainbrace-1952/>) · 1952 · North Yorkshire, England; Bornholm, Denmark; Norwegian Sea · 54.20° N, 1.38° W
- [The Silver Threads over Florence](<https://uap.fun/encounters/florence-stadium-1954/>) · 1954 · Tuscany, Italy · 43.78° N, 11.28° E
- [The Lakenheath Radar Night](<https://uap.fun/encounters/lakenheath-bentwaters-1956/>) · 1956 · Suffolk, England · 52.41° N, 0.56° E
- [The Lavender Field at Valensole](<https://uap.fun/encounters/valensole-1965/>) · 1965 · Basses-Alpes, France · 43.84° N, 5.97° E
- [The Saucer over the Baciu Forest](<https://uap.fun/encounters/cluj-napoca-1968/>) · 1968 · Cluj, Romania · 46.78° N, 23.53° E
- [The Jellyfish over Petrozavodsk](<https://uap.fun/encounters/petrozavodsk-1977/>) · 1977 · Karelia, USSR (now Russia) · 61.79° N, 34.37° E
- [The Crows Inside the Bus](<https://uap.fun/encounters/emilcin-1978/>) · 1978 · Lublin, Poland · 51.12° N, 22.04° E
- [The Spheres in Dechmont Woods](<https://uap.fun/encounters/dechmont-woods-1979/>) · 1979 · West Lothian, Scotland · 55.91° N, 3.55° W
- [Red Lights at Ten O’Clock](<https://uap.fun/encounters/manises-1979/>) · 1979 · Spain · 39.49° N, 0.48° W
- [Rendlesham Forest](<https://uap.fun/encounters/rendlesham-forest/>) · 1980 · Suffolk, England · 52.09° N, 1.45° E
- [PC Alan Godfrey and the Todmorden Encounter](<https://uap.fun/encounters/todmorden-1980/>) · 1980 · West Yorkshire, England · 53.72° N, 2.11° W
- [The Landing at Trans-en-Provence](<https://uap.fun/encounters/trans-en-provence-1981/>) · 1981 · Var, France · 43.50° N, 6.49° E
- [The Lights of Hessdalen](<https://uap.fun/encounters/hessdalen-1981/>) · 1981–1985 · Trøndelag, Norway · 62.80° N, 11.20° E
- [The Belgian UFO Wave](<https://uap.fun/encounters/belgian-ufo-wave/>) · 1989–1990 · Belgium · 50.63° N, 6.03° E
- [The Three-Eyed Giants of Voronezh](<https://uap.fun/encounters/voronezh-1989/>) · 1989 · Voronezh, USSR (now Russia) · 51.62° N, 39.26° E
- [The Alderney Lights](<https://uap.fun/encounters/alderney-2007/>) · 2007 · Alderney, Channel Islands · 49.68° N, 2.38° W

### Middle East

- [The Lady of Light over Zeitoun](<https://uap.fun/encounters/zeitoun-1968/>) · 1968–1971 · Cairo, Egypt · 30.10° N, 31.32° E
- [The Tehran Intercept](<https://uap.fun/encounters/tehran-1976/>) · 1976 · Tehran, Iran · 35.69° N, 51.39° E
- [The Night the Pumps Stopped](<https://uap.fun/encounters/kuwait-1978/>) · 1978 · Kuwait · 29.80° N, 47.80° E

### Asia

- [The Light in Jeon Mun-wi’s Courtyard](<https://uap.fun/encounters/gangwon-1609/>) · 1609 · Gangwon, South Korea · 38.07° N, 128.62° E
- [Utsuro-bune: The Woman in the Hollow Boat](<https://uap.fun/encounters/utsuro-bune-1803/>) · 1803 · Ibaraki, Japan · 35.76° N, 140.81° E
- [The Fire over the Stony Tunguska](<https://uap.fun/encounters/tunguska-1908/>) · 1908 · Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia) · 60.89° N, 101.89° E
- [The Sign of Shambhala](<https://uap.fun/encounters/roerich-1927/>) · 1927 · Gansu, China · 38.90° N, 95.80° E
- [A Tap on the Shoulder in Kōfu](<https://uap.fun/encounters/kofu-1975/>) · 1975 · Yamanashi, Japan · 35.63° N, 138.57° E
- [The Spiral over China](<https://uap.fun/encounters/china-spiral-1981/>) · 1981 · China · 38.25° N, 101.95° E
- [The Fall on Height 611](<https://uap.fun/encounters/dalnegorsk-1986/>) · 1986 · Primorsky Krai, USSR (now Russia) · 44.55° N, 135.57° E
- [The Yellow Spheres of Ladakh](<https://uap.fun/encounters/ladakh-2012/>) · 2012–2013 · Ladakh, India (then part of Jammu and Kashmir) · 33.71° N, 78.66° E

### Oceania

- [The Kelso Airship](<https://uap.fun/encounters/kelso-airship-1909/>) · 1909 · New Zealand · 45.90° S, 169.23° E
- [The Night the Sky Waved Back](<https://uap.fun/encounters/father-gill-1959/>) · 1959 · Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea · 10.02° S, 149.88° E
- [The Westall School Mystery](<https://uap.fun/encounters/westall-1966/>) · 1966 · Victoria, Australia · 37.94° S, 145.13° E
- [The Tully Saucer Nests](<https://uap.fun/encounters/tully-1966/>) · 1966 · Queensland, Australia · 18.00° S, 145.94° E
- [The Lights beside the Newspaper Plane](<https://uap.fun/encounters/kaikoura-lights-1978/>) · 1978 · South Island, New Zealand · 42.35° S, 174.00° E
- [The Last Call over Bass Strait](<https://uap.fun/encounters/valentich-disappearance-1978/>) · 1978 · Victoria, Australia · 39.30° S, 143.70° E
- [The Night Drive across the Nullarbor](<https://uap.fun/encounters/mundrabilla-1988/>) · 1988 · Western Australia, Australia · 31.85° S, 127.81° E

### Africa

- [The Green Lens over Tananarive](<https://uap.fun/encounters/tananarive-1954/>) · 1954 · Madagascar · 18.91° S, 47.52° E
- [The Shooting at Braeside Farm](<https://uap.fun/encounters/fort-beaufort-1972/>) · 1972 · Eastern Cape, South Africa · 32.70° S, 26.52° E
- [The Giants of Gáldar](<https://uap.fun/encounters/canary-islands-1976/>) · 1976 · Canary Islands, Spain · 28.14° N, 15.65° W
- [The Ariel School Encounter](<https://uap.fun/encounters/ariel-school-1994/>) · 1994 · Ruwa, Zimbabwe · 17.89° S, 31.24° E

### Antarctica

- [The Light over Deception Island](<https://uap.fun/encounters/deception-island-1965/>) · 1965 · South Shetland Islands, Antarctica · 62.96° S, 60.64° W

Markers show where each case took place: usually a town, a site, or a stretch of sea or sky rather than a surveyed point.