Daylight Disc

Dossier-style reconstruction of the mid-1960s Spring Creek Ridge Idaho mining UFOs sighting showing four silvery disc-shaped objects with hose-like appendages extending into mine slag piles in a Selway Wilderness valley while a cigar-shaped mothership hovers at 1000 feet overhead as two hunters observe through rifle scopes from a bluff across the valley at dawn

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Idaho Sightings

1965: Idaho ‘Mining UFOs’

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 15, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1965: Idaho ‘Mining UFOs’ In the remote Selway Wilderness of central Idaho, hunter Buzz Montague reported observing four silvery...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the May 1950 McMinnville Trent UFO photographs, showing a faithful black-and-white silver-gelatin re-creation of the iconic Trent viewpoint — a rural Oregon farmyard at dusk with a garage eave and overhead power lines crossing the frame, distant hills, and a silvery tilted metallic disc with a small off-center mast hanging in the evening sky — rendered in coarse grainy 1950 photographic texture with no people; clipped analysis insets show a photogrammetry panel noting that the disc's shadowed underside is brighter than the nearby water tank, implying a distant object within about thirty percent accuracy, and a second panel neutrally diagramming the competing hoax hypothesis of a small model suspended from the overhead wire, with restrained cool-cyan tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification DD daylight disc, two witnesses the Trents, sourced to the Condon Committee and Hartmann, Maccabee, and Life 1950, status Unexplained and contested.

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Oregon Sightings

1950: McMinnville, Oregon UFO Photographs

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: The McMinnville (Trent) Photographs — Oregon Just before sunset on May 11, 1950, Evelyn Trent was...

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Dossier-style illustration of a massive purplish-gray dome-shaped craft hovering at treetop level over a rural home in Easley, South Carolina, September 1980, with a witness standing in the yard looking up.

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South Carolina Sightings

1980: Easley South Carolina UFO

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 20, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1980: Easley South Carolina UFO At 8:03 on the morning of September 9, 1980, Larry Joe Garrett walked into...

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Dossier-style illustration of the 1978 Santa Monica, California pilot sighting showing a domed, windowed disc passing below a small aircraft in daylight

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California Sightings

1978: Veteran Pilot Encounters UFO With Portholes

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: August 6, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTINGS REPORT 1978: Veteran Pilot Encounters UFO With Portholes, Santa Monica Shortly after 12:45 p.m. on New Year’s Day, 1978, veteran...

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Reconstruction of the May 2004 Provo Canyon UFO photograph showing a small purple-glowing disc above the tree line in a daytime canyon landscape with an enlarged inset detail.

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Utah Sightings

2004: Photo Librarian Captures UFO on Film

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 19, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 2004: Photo Librarian Captures UFO on Film On May 18, 2004, a 22-year-old photo librarian for the Utah Film...

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Dossier-style illustration of the 1965 Rex Heflin sighting showing a highway worker photographing a silver dome-topped disc passing low over a rural road near Santa Ana, California

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California Sightings

1965: Rex Heflin UFO Photographs

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: August 6, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTINGS REPORT 1965: The Rex Heflin UFO Photographs Rex Heflin wasn’t looking for anything unusual on the afternoon of August 3,...

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Daylight Disc

1965: Idaho ‘Mining UFOs’

1950: McMinnville, Oregon UFO Photographs

1980: Easley South Carolina UFO

1978: Veteran Pilot Encounters UFO With Portholes

2004: Photo Librarian Captures UFO on Film

1965: Rex Heflin UFO Photographs

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