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Three panel intelligence dossier collage for the Iowa UFO UAP alien sightings archive showing left two Iowa farm children frozen near a creek bank watching a shorter brown-green-clad occupant collect water while a taller stern occupant stands at the door of a landed oval craft in a Webster City Hamilton County creek bottom in July 1919 with ground impressions already forming beneath the craft, center Pat Barr and her cousin Kathy Mahr at an upstairs farmhouse window watching a double-saucer disc with two rows of midline lights rotating above a Garrison Benton County bean field as the ground beneath the hover point glows dull red in July 1969, and right a male Osceola Clarke County Iowa witness frozen on his front lawn at midnight facing a group of small boy-scout-like entities gesturing toward a dark open field in the 1954 pre-Hill abduction account

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United States Sightings

Sighting by Location: Iowa UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: May 28, 2026 | Updated: May 28, 2026

Iowa UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive Iowa’s anomalous record runs deeper than its case count suggests. The state sits at the center of the...

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Illustration of the silent, unlit, disc-shaped UFO reported crossing Naha Air Base, Okinawa, Japan at night in June 1963

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Japan Sightings

1963: Naha Air Base, Okinawa, Japan Sighting

Published: September 27, 2016 | Updated: July 24, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP ENCOUNTER REPORT 1963: Naha Air Base, Okinawa UFO Sighting | Two-Witness Case Archive Just before midnight on June 26, 1963, two Air...

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Five-panel 1941 WWII wartime press photography dossier: Reverend Huffman kneeling at a Missouri crash site praying over a dying alien as military personnel move through the broken disc wreckage, NKVD troops recovering radioactive disc fragments on Zelyenyi Island in the River Don, Soviet soldier Terekhov and his German executioners rising off the ground toward a hovering circumferentially-lit disc at Orsha Belarus, General Ryan watching three Naval vessels depart San Francisco Bay to hunt the base of 15 unidentified aircraft at the Golden Gate, and a blacked-out Los Angeles with Army searchlight beams sweeping empty sky as civilians listen in darkness.

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1940 - 1944 Sightings

1941: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: June 3, 2026

1941: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive The 1941 archive is the first full wartime year in the record and the most operationally dense of...

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Five-panel 1942 WWII wartime press photography dossier: Army searchlight beams converging on a pale orange unidentified object over blacked-out Los Angeles with anti-aircraft shell bursts around it in the Battle of Los Angeles February 25 1942, a silvery disc with dome and portholes banking above US Navy warships at Guadalcanal as anti-aircraft fire fails to affect it, a Soviet teenage girl crouching at an aerodrome fence looking at disc-shaped craft in a bluish glow as a short grey wrinkled alien faces her at Novosibirsk, a Finnish 9-year-old girl with a frightened reluctant boy being led by two tall men toward an aluminum-colored craft on three legs at Niinisalo, and 5-year-old Eduard Albert Meier standing at the entrance of a pear-shaped craft in a Swiss meadow as a very old man beckons him inside.

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1940 - 1944 Sightings

1942: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: June 5, 2026

1942: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive In 1942 the phenomenon was everywhere the war was — and it was somewhere else too. On February...

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Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1923 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left Soviet river workers and a named witness on a Vyatka River steamship watching a crescent-shaped object the size of the full moon in clear morning sky near Sosnovka Russia sourced to Felix Zigel's unpublished Moscow Aviation Institute manuscript, upper center-left an Italian farmer observing a fish-shaped craft with clear dome two portholes and rotating propeller above a Pieve di Teco Liguria hillside, center a colonial Quetta Pakistan street with a mid-air explosion raining flaming debris on buildings with melted slag and thin wire residue on the ground and an unsourced case status of insufficient data, upper center-right the Barcelona Spain CE-III witness Bley frozen at his doorway facing an indistinct craft with visible occupants on a wet gas-lit cobblestone street, and right two DePauw University college professors on a Greencastle Indiana lawn tracking a revolving red object transiting overhead from northeast to southwest

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1923: UFO & Alien Sightings

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: May 27, 2026

1923: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive The year 1923 spans ten entries across seven countries and produces the decade’s best-documented Soviet-era craft observation: July...

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Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1924 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left schoolgirl Evelyn Wendt watching flower-shaped beings with petal-gold coloring carry a device from an egg-shaped craft at Dade City Florida Holy Name Convent School, upper center-left two Oklahoma horseback riders watching a large oval craft with white side lights and a blue rear flame beam its light onto winter snow in the Osage Hills, center a group of seven or more Australian farm workers watching six silver metallic discs with visible occupants and physical ground traces in a rural Victorian paddock near Melbourne, upper center-right a lone Saskatchewan prairie farmer at dawn on August 23 1924 facing a grounded craft with indistinct humanoid occupants in the pale amber horizon light on the Mars opposition date, and right two County Wexford Ireland boys watching a self-propelled solid cylinder of cold white light travel at walking pace through their field and climb a hedge before following a railway track

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1924: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: May 29, 2026

1924: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive The year 1924 opens with an unusual concentration of anomalous aerial observations in a single calendar month —...

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1919: WEBSTER CITY, IOWA CE-III

Sighting by Location: Iowa UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

1963: Naha Air Base, Okinawa, Japan Sighting

1941: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

1942: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

1923: UFO & Alien Sightings

1924: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

From the Archive

1953 North Bankstown, NSW UFO Photograph: An Early Australian Case

1953 Berri, South Australia: The Ghastly Scaly Creature Encounter

1975: Lake Sorell, Tasmania Entity Encounter: The Woman Through the Roof Hatch

1975 Melbourne, Australia UFO Encounter: The Hexagonal Craft With Jetpack Figures