Editing List Of Report UFO Sightings (section)

==19th century==
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|1803-02-22 or 03-24
|[[Utsuro-bune|Utsuro-bune at Haratono-hama]]
|Eastern shore
|[[Tokugawa shogunate|Japan]]
|On February 22 (or March 24) in 1803, local fishermen reportedly saw a vessel drifting in close by waters. They say when they investigated it, "a beautiful young woman" they described as having red and white hair and dressed in strange clothes appeared. The fishermen claim that she held a square box "that no one was allowed to touch" and she spoke to them in a language they never heard before. Some UFO believers think that this story was a credible document of a close encounter of the third kind in Japan. Historians and ethnologists consider it folklore.
|<ref>Kazuo Tanaka: ''Did a close encounter of the Third Kind occur on a Japanese beach in 1803?'' In: ''Skeptical Inquirer''. Vol. 24, No. 4, Juli/August 2000, {{ISSN|0194-6730}}, p. 37–44</ref><ref>Masaru Mori: ''The female alien in a hollow vessel''. In: ''Fortean Times.'' Vol. 48, Dennis Publishing Ltd., London 1987, {{ISSN|0308-5899}}, p. 48–50.</ref>
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|{{nowrap|1883-08-12}}
|[[José Bonilla Observation]]
|Zacatecas Observatory, [[Zacatecas]]
|[[Mexico]]
|On August 12, 1883, the astronomer José Bonilla reported that he saw more than 300 dark, unidentified objects crossing the sun disk while observing sunspot activity at [[Zacatecas, Zacatecas|Zacatecas]] Observatory in Mexico. He was able to take several photographs, exposing wet plates at 1/100 second. It was subsequently determined that the objects were high-flying geese.
|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/16805639/A-List-of-UFO-Sightings-by-Astronomers |title=A List of UFO Sightings by Astronomers |publisher=Scribd.com |access-date=2010-08-13}}</ref>
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|1896–1897
|[[Mystery airship]]s
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|[[United States]]
|Numerous reports of UFO sightings and attempted abductions that took place around the United States in a 2-year period.
|<ref>{{Citation | last = Dash | first = Mike | title = Borderlands: The Ultimate Exploration of the Unknown | place = Woodstock | publisher = Overlook Press | year = 2000 | isbn =0879517247| url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/borderlands00dash }}</ref>
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|1897-04-17
|[[Aurora, Texas, UFO incident]]
|[[Aurora, Texas]]
|United States
|A tale of a UFO crash and a burial of its alien pilot in the local cemetery was sent to newspapers in Dallas and Fort Worth in April 1897 by local correspondent S.E. Hayden.
|<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071102185940/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948461,00.html Close Encounters of a Kind] ''Time magazine''</ref><ref>[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4587362.html Aurora&nbsp;- Can a space alien rest in peace?] ''Houston Chronicle''</ref>
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