Roswell: from a disc announcement to balloon records
Changing announcements in July 1947 and a later records search produced two connected histories: a debris recovery and the growth of a…
Under review#0131
OPEN ARCHIVE
Observations
Documented events, historical claims and public reports. Event dates and review status are listed separately; unidentified does not mean extraterrestrial.
Event year, not the article publication date.
Kenneth Arnold: nine objects and the word 'saucer'
A private pilot's June 1947 report became a landmark in press history, although what he saw was never securely identified.
Insufficient evidence#0129
Rendlesham Forest, 1980: lights, a memorandum and later accounts
Servicemen reported lights in the forest; surviving records distinguish the early account from later additions.
Insufficient evidence#0093
Socorro, 1964: police officer Lonnie Zamora’s report
Early reports and a site examination preserved an alleged landing account without identifying the object.
Insufficient evidence#0091
Washington, 1952: radar returns over the capital region
July radar and visual reports prompted interceptor flights and an official investigation.
Insufficient evidence#0089
Kaikōura: film, lights and radar returns
A sequence of observations became famous through footage filmed aboard a freight aircraft.
Insufficient evidence#0076
Trans-en-Provence: a landing account and a ground trace
A single-witness 1981 account investigated by the gendarmerie, GEPAN and laboratories.
Insufficient evidence#0070
AARO: a historical review of UAP investigations
An open report on investigated programmes and claims, whose findings must be read within their stated scope.
An explanation exists#0043
NASA publishes its independent UAP report
A document about data quality and research methods, not confirmation of alien craft.
An explanation exists#0041