1800 – 1899 Sightings

A vintage-style illustration of the February 13, 1866, Bracken County "monster" sighting, showing a gigantic horned humanoid with glowing eyes breathing blue fire over terrified witnesses.

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1866 – 1869: UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

Published: May 9, 2019 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1866 – 1869: UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE The years following the American Civil War (1866–1869) marked a peculiar era in aerial history, long...

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Three-panel intelligence archive illustration showing Captain Banner's 1870 Lady of the Lake mid-Atlantic structured disc observation, the 1879 Persian Gulf spinning luminous wheels observed from the ship Vultur, and the January 1879 Woodseaves Shropshire black humanoid encounter on a bridge at night

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1870 – 1879: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: January 24, 2016 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1870 – 1879: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The 1870s represent one of the most operationally diverse decades in the nineteenth-century anomalous record —...

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Five-panel Victorian-era intelligence dossier collage showing the 1882 Great Saucer observed by Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers, the 1880 Persian Gulf spinning luminous wheels seen from the steamship Patna, the 1880 Madisonville Kentucky blue fire entity encounter, the 1884 Nebraska prairie crash retrieval with glowing machinery, and the 1887 Cape Race Atlantic fire sphere rising from the ocean against the Siberian

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1880 – 1889:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

Published: December 27, 2015 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1880 – 1889:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE The 1880s are the decade the modern world began to wire itself together — telegraph lines crossing...

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Five-panel Gilded Age intelligence dossier collage showing the 1891 Crawfordsville Indiana headless aerial creature observed by hundreds of witnesses, the 1890 Nankin China court painting of the Shu Que bridge fireball, the 1893 Central Park New South Wales Australia disc landing with witness paralyzed by a directed beam, the 1893 Leslie Kentucky sky filled with thousands of shape-shifting colored discs, and the 1893 HMS Carolina North China Sea massed aerial light formation

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1890 – 1895:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

Published: January 20, 2016 | Updated: May 18, 2026

1890 – 1895:UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE The years 1890 through 1895 sit at one of the most dramatic technological thresholds in human history....

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