Editing List Of Report UFO Sightings (section)

==21st century==

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||{{nowrap|2004-03-05}}
|[[UFO sightings in Mexico#2004|2004 Mexican UFO incident]]
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|[[Mexico]]
|A drug-smuggling air-patrol recorded on infrared camera what some claimed to be UFOs. The footage was released by [[Jaime Maussan]]. The observations were however convincingly correlated with the burn-off flares of oil platforms.
|<ref>{{cite web |last= Smith|first=James C.|url=http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-07-24.html#mexiUFO |title=The Mexican Air Force UFO Affair: Aliens, Ball Lightning, or Flares? |date=July 24, 2004|access-date=2007-05-13 |work=Skeptic }}</ref>
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|2004-11-14
| [[USS Nimitz UFO incident]]
|Off the coast of [[San Diego, California]]
|United States
|Several pilots from [[VFA-41]] squadron flying [[Super Hornet]]s from the [[USS Nimitz]], were directed by the [[USS Princeton (CG-59)|USS Princeton]] to intercept one of several unidentified flying objects detected by radar. The pilots reported a visual encounter and recorded an [[infrared]] video. The Navy has verified that the video was taken by Navy personnel and has stated that it has not yet identified the nature of the sightings which they classify as [[unexplained aerial phenomena]].
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/unidentified-flying-object-navy.html|title=2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing I've Ever Seen'|first1=Helene|last1=Cooper|first2=Leslie|last2=Kean|first3=Ralph|last3=Blumenthal|newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 December 2017|access-date=19 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/navy-pilot-recalls-encounter-ufo-unlike/story?id=51856514|title=Navy pilot recalls encounter with UFO: 'I think it was not from this world'|date=18 December 2017|website=ABC News|access-date=19 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/12/18/former-navy-pilot-describes-encounter-with-ufo-studied-by-secret-pentagon-program/|title=Former Navy pilot describes UFO encounter studied by secret Pentagon program|first=Eli|last=Rosenberg|date=18 December 2017|access-date=19 December 2017|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref>
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|2006-11-07
|[[2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting]]
|[[Chicago, Illinois]]
|United States
|United Airlines employees and pilots claimed sightings of a saucer-shaped, unlit craft hovering over a Chicago O'Hare Airport terminal, before appearing to leave with a rapid vertical rise.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/01/02/1167500092464.html |title='UFO' spooks pilots over Chicago |access-date=2007-02-13 |work= The Age| location=Melbourne | date=2007-01-02}}</ref>
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|2007-04-23
|[[2007 Alderney UFO sighting]]
|[[Alderney]]
|[[Bailiwick of Guernsey]]
|Two airline pilots on separate flights spot UFOs off the coast of Alderney.
|<ref>{{cite web| last =de Woolfson| first =Joel| title =Pilot's UFO shock| publisher =This is Guernsey| date =April 26, 2007| url =http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/shownewsarticle.pl?ArticleID=002080| access-date =2007-04-26| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20180722172014/http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/shownewsarticle.pl?ArticleID=002080| archive-date =2018-07-22| url-status =dead}}</ref>
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|2007-11-28 to 2011-12-13
|[[Dudley Dorito]]
|[[West Midlands conurbation]]
|[[United Kingdom]]
|The Dudley Dorito were multiple sightings of a [[Black Triangle (UFO)|black triangle]] over the [[West Midlands conurbation]] of the United Kingdom which began in November 2007. The phrase was coined by the local press after hearing witness descriptions of the object.
|<ref>[https://www.expressandstar.com/2008/01/11/shape-of-things-to-come/ "Shape of things to come?"] ''Express & Star'', (Wolverhampton) dated 11 January 2008. Recovered on 13 April 2008.</ref><ref>[https://www.expressandstar.com/2008/01/16/is-there-plane-truth-behind-the-ufos/ "Is there plane truth behind the UFOs?"] ''Express & Star'', (Wolverhampton) dated 16 January 2008. Recovered on 13 April 2008.</ref>
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|2008-06-20
|[[Wales UFO sightings]]
|different cities, [[Wales]]
|United Kingdom
|According to media reports, a police helicopter was almost hit by a UFO, before it tried to pursue it. Hundreds of people reported to have witnessed a UFO on the same or preceding days, from different areas of Wales.
|<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7465041.stm UFO spotted by police helicopter] BBC</ref>
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|2009-01-05
|[[Morristown UFO hoax]]
|[[Morristown, New Jersey]]
|United States
|In the evening, citizens in Morristown and other town in [[Morris County, New Jersey]] saw five red lights in the sky. After three months, two men from the Morristown area announced that they had organized an UFO hoax, meant as a "social experiment".
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-04-01|title=09-04-01|date=1 April 2009|website=skeptic.com|access-date=19 December 2017}}</ref>
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|2010-01-25
|[[Harbour Mille incident]]
|[[Harbour Mille]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador]]
|[[Canada]]
|At least three UFOs that looked like missiles but emitted no noise were spotted over Harbour Mille.
|<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2010/01/27/nl-ufo-military-012710.html | work=CBC News | title=DND, RCMP mum on UFO mystery | date=2010-01-27}}</ref>
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|2014-06-02 to 2015-03-10
|[[USS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents]]
|[[East Coast of the United States]]
|[[United States]]
||Multiple [[UFO]] [[Close encounter#Radar-Visual|radar-visual encounters]] by [[United States Navy]] pilots over a period of nine months. Videos of two of the encounters were released. The Navy has verified that the videos were taken by Navy personnel and has stated that it has not yet identified the nature of the sightings which they classify as [[unexplained aerial phenomena]].
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/navy-confirms-ufo-videos-real|title=Navy Confirms UFO Videos Are Real and Show Unidentified Aerial Phenomena|last=Little|first=Becky|website=HISTORY|language=en|access-date=2020-02-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Cooper|first1=Helene|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html|title='Wow, What Is That?' Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects|date=2019-05-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-15|last2=Blumenthal|first2=Ralph|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|last3=Kean|first3=Leslie}}</ref>
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|2021-02-21
|Pilot's UFO sighting over New Mexico
|[[Clayton, New Mexico|Clayton]], [[New Mexico]]
|United States
|The pilot, at an altitude of 37,000 feet reported seeing a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a "cruise missile type of thing" moving really fast right over the top of them according to published audio. [[American Airlines]] confirmed that the radio transmission came from flight 2292. [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] a few days later stated: "A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. FAA air traffic controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes."
|<ref>{{cite web|title=FAA Can't Explain Pilot's UFO Sighting Last Weekend Over New Mexico|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/02/25/faa-cant-explain-pilots-ufo-sighting-last-weekend-over-new-mexico/?sh=7077d0f49e13|website=[[Forbes]]|date=25 February 2021|access-date=2021-03-26}}</ref>
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