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It was a nice night tour when all off a sudden a big bang was heard and a tiny gray star looking thing came blasting low over the water
The shape looked similar to a normal car shape that we would think of. Main body was black and was lighting bright with yellow glare.
Objects appeared in 2 separate photographs of a total of 7 shot
Large white glowing triangle shape floating low in the sky
Immediately after starlink train passed I saw a square shaped light moving erratically
Silver circular/spherical object flying east to west in sky IVO Reno airport. Object then began rising until it disappeared from sight.
Saucer shaped, silver. Aware of being perceived, carpenter bee like moving when perceived
Small object flies past artemis while returning to earth
We were driving eastbound. When we looked north, we saw flashing lights so we stopped and then we caught it on video
Formation and flashing orb, traveling
White sphere of light, silent size of small bowling ball, just moving across my back wall very slow
Saw a silver orb while driving that was moving unnaturally, I immediately pulled out my phone a took a photo of it.
Over two weeks in November 2004, U.S. Navy radar tracked an unidentified object off the California coast that maneuvered in ways no known aircraft could match. The pilot who saw it up close has been on the record ever since.
On the evening of March 13, 1997, thousands of witnesses across Arizona — including Senator John McCain and Governor Fife Symington — reported a massive silent V-shaped craft passing slowly over Phoenix, followed several hours later by a row of stationary lights over the same metro area. The Air Force attributed the row of lights to A-10 flares; the triangular craft was never officially explained.
Between November 1989 and April 1990, more than 13,500 people in Belgium reported the same thing — a large, silent, triangular craft moving slowly at low altitude with bright lights at each corner. The Belgian Air Force scrambled F-16s on March 30/31, 1990; one pilot got a brief radar lock. The Belgian Defence Ministry took the reports seriously on the record, and SOBEPS compiled a casebook that remains one of the best-documented mass-sighting archives in the world.
Light was coming toward us, then stopped, then zigzaged extremely fast side to side then shot straight up into the sky till it disappea
Beginning December 1981, residents of a remote valley in central Norway started seeing bright luminous objects hovering and darting through the sky — sometimes 15 to 20 times per week. Forty years later, Project Hessdalen runs an instrumented observatory there. Spectrometers, magnetometers, and radar all detect the lights. Plasma, piezoelectricity, and scandium-ion mechanisms have been proposed. None fully account for what the instruments record.
Across three nights in late December 1980, U.S. Air Force personnel at the twin RAF bases at Bentwaters and Woodbridge in Suffolk, England reported encounters with unidentified lights — and, on the first night, what some witnesses described as a small craft on the forest floor. Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt's contemporaneous memo to the UK MoD and his audio recording from the second night remain the most-cited documentary evidence in the UAP archive.
Hovering a UFO big as a football field, Silver, No wings, No sound, No windows
Beginning August 30, 1977, the Hodgson family at 284 Green Street in Enfield, North London reported moving furniture, knocking noises, and disembodied voices that lasted roughly fourteen months. Two investigators from the Society for Psychical Research were present for most of it, recording about 1,500 incidents. A police constable signed a statement saying she saw a chair move on its own. Some events were later admitted to have been faked. Others were not.
Between November 1966 and December 1967, residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia reported repeated encounters with a roughly seven-foot-tall winged humanoid with glowing red eyes — most often near an abandoned WWII munitions complex. The sightings stopped, by most accounts, on December 15, 1967 — the day the Silver Bridge across the Ohio River collapsed during rush hour, killing 46 people.
Half the size of full moon, sparkled looked like boiling water, then silver size of a star, then shot off east to west then disappeared
On the night of February 1, 1959, nine Soviet hikers led by Igor Dyatlov cut their tent open from the inside and fled into a -25°C blizzard on the eastern slope of Kholat Syakhl in the northern Urals. All nine died. Bodies were recovered over four months. Two had skull fractures; one had crushing chest injuries; clothing on three carried traces of radioactivity. The case stayed officially unsolved for sixty years.
Modern Loch Ness sightings begin in 1933 with a road-construction crew's report and a newspaper article that gave the creature its nickname. Hundreds of eyewitness accounts, photographs, and sonar contacts have followed across ninety-plus years. Three exhaustive scientific surveys — Edward Mountain 1934, Operation Deepscan 1987, Neil Gemmell's eDNA study 2018–19 — found no evidence of a large unknown vertebrate, but none could fully account for every sighting or sonar return.
On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion equivalent to roughly 10–15 megatons of TNT flattened approximately 2,150 km² of Siberian taiga near the Stony Tunguska River. No crater was found. The first scientific expedition reached the site nineteen years later. The leading explanation today — a stony asteroid airburst at ~5–10 km altitude — fits most of the physical evidence, though competing hypotheses about composition (cometary, stony, carbonaceous) are still debated.
The four sides of the Great Pyramid of Giza are aligned to the cardinal directions with an average error of about 4 arcminutes — better than 1/15th of a degree. Built around 2580–2560 BCE without iron tools, magnetic compasses, or modern surveying equipment. How its 4th-Dynasty builders achieved that precision is a real open archaeological question; the leading hypothesis (Glen Dash, 2017) is an Indian Circle method on the autumnal equinox, but it isn't the only candidate.
In 1901, sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera pulled a corroded lump of bronze from a Roman-era shipwreck. Over the next century it turned out to be a hand-cranked analog computer from roughly 100 BCE — predicting planetary positions, lunar phases, and eclipses with a gear train more sophisticated than anything else known until medieval Europe, fifteen hundred years later.