Editing List Of Report UFO Sightings (section)

=== 1909–1948 ===
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!Date !!Name !!City, State !!Country !!Description !!Sources
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|1909
|[[Mystery airship]]s
|[[Otago]]
|[[New Zealand]]
|Strange moving lights and some solid bodies in the sky were seen around Otago and elsewhere in New Zealand, and were reported to newspapers.
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19210804.2.74 |title=Papers Past — Evening Post — 4 August 1921 — A MYSTERY OF 1909 |publisher=Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz |date=1921-08-04 |access-date=2012-09-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WH19090727.2.46 |title=Papers Past — Wanganui Herald — 27 July 1909 — AN OTAGO AIRSHIP MYSTERY |publisher=Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz |date=1909-07-27 |access-date=2012-09-22}}</ref>
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|1917-08-13,<br />09-13,<br />10-13
|[[Miracle of the Sun]]
|[[Fátima, Portugal|Fátima]], [[Santarém District]]
|[[First Portuguese Republic|Portugal]]
|Thousands of people observed the sun gyrate and descend. This was later reinterpreted by [[Jacques Vallée]], Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada as a possible UFO sighting, but not recognized as such due to cultural differences.
|<ref>Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada, ''Heavenly Lights'' 2005</ref><ref>Joaquim Fernandes and Fina d'Armada, ''Celestial Secrets'' 2007</ref><ref>Joaquim Fernandes, Fernando Fernandes and Raul Berenguel, ''Fatima Revisited'' 2008</ref>
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|1940s
|[[Foo fighter]]s
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|Over [[World War II]] theaters
|Small metallic spheres and colorful balls of light repeatedly spotted and occasionally photographed worldwide by bomber crews during World War II.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775433,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417042038/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,775433,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 17, 2008 |title=Foo-Fighter |access-date=2008-07-03 |magazine=Time |date=1945-01-15 }}</ref>
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|1941
|Cape Girardeau UFO crash
|[[Cape Girardeau]], [[Missouri]]
|[[United States]]
|First responders and a Baptist minister allegedly view crashed spacecraft and bodies. Published in 1991 based on the minister's surviving grandchild.
|<ref>https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/docs/SUN/SUN69.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.ozarkssentinel.com/missouris-ufo-crash-preceded-roswell-by-six-years-2/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523015449/http://www.ozarkssentinel.com/missouris-ufo-crash-preceded-roswell-by-six-years.html/| archive-date=2012-05-23| title=Missouri's UFO crash preceded Roswell by six years| publisher=The Ozarks Sentinel| access-date=2015-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.kfvs12.com/story/19192517/close-encounters-of-the-heartland-kind| first=Holly| last=Brantley| title=Close encounters of the Heartland kind| publisher=KFVS12| date=August 3, 2012}}</ref>
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|1942-02-24
|[[Battle of Los Angeles]]
|[[Los Angeles, California]]
|United States

|Unidentified aerial objects trigger the firing of thousands of anti-aircraft rounds and raise the wartime alert status.
|<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/2000/dec/17/local/me-1259 L.A. 'Battle' Launched a Golden Age of UFOs] ''Los Angeles Times'':</ref>
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|1946
|[[Ghost rockets|The Ghost Rockets]]
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|Mostly in [[Scandinavia]], but also other European countries
|Numerous UFO sightings were reported over Scandinavia, causing the Swedish Defense Staff to express concern.
|<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mpiZRAiE0JwC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=swedish+ghost+rockets&source=web&ots=qbhoX9Z7y6&sig=m5LfBWHie-gKaxdKFOIPliUrcV8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result ''Science in the Early Twentieth Century''] - Jacob Darwin Hamblin - 2005</ref>
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|1946-05-18
|[[UFO-Memorial Ängelholm]]
|[[Ängelholm]], [[Skåne County|Kristianstads County]]
|[[Sweden]]
|Gösta Karlsson reports seeing a flying saucer and its alien passengers. A model of it is now erected at the site.  The case was publicly reported in 1995.<ref>"The Meeting in the Clearing" NTB Parthenon 1995.</ref>
|<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CDyVKgVIW24C&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=%C3%84ngelholm+ufo&source=web&ots=rjOt5aGIAF&sig=jBZ9QyS2ppbviANeL4cakLXcwl8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result ''The Rough Guide to Sweden:''] James Proctor & Neil Roland</ref>
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|1947-06-21
|[[Maury Island incident]]
|[[Puget Sound]] near [[Maury Island]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
|United States
|Harold A. Dahl reported that his dog was killed and his son was injured by debris in an encounter with four to six flying doughnut-shaped objects. He also claimed that a witness was subsequently threatened by the [[Men in black|Men in Black]].  The case was first reported to Kenneth Arnold in mid-July, about three weeks after it allegedly took place.
|<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sheaffer|first1=Robert|title=The First "Flying Saucer" Sighting - Kenneth Arnold Mt. Rainier, Washington - June 24, 1947|url=http://www.debunker.com/arnold.html|website=The Debunker's Domain|access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref>
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|1947-06-24
|[[Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting]]
|North of [[Mount Rainier]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
|United States
|The UFO sighting that sparked the name ''flying saucers''. This sighting is considered as the start of the "Modern UFO era".
|<ref name="Saucers in the sky">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6268708.stm Saucers in the sky] ''BBC News Magazine:''</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Swords, Powell |title=UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry|url=https://archive.org/details/UFOsAndGovernment |url-access=registration |year=2012|publisher=Anomalist Books|isbn=978-1938398155|pages=[https://archive.org/details/UFOsAndGovernment/page/n43 32]–33, 35, 38–39}}</ref>
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|1947-06/07
|[[Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting#Corroboration|1947 UFO sightings]]
|mostly [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
|United States
|Several UFO sightings reported after the sighting of [[Kenneth Arnold]].
|<ref name="Saucers in the sky"/>
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|1947-07-04
|[[Flight 105 UFO sighting]]
|Between Boise and Seattle
|United States
|United Airline crew witnesses nine unidentified objects.
|<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjI4X7ZOvOIC|title=Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth|first=Curtis|last=Peebles|year= 1995|publisher=Berkley Books|isbn=978-0425151174 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
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|1947-07-08
|[[Roswell incident|The Roswell Incident]]
|about 30&nbsp;mi north of [[Roswell, New Mexico]]
|United States
|[[United States Army Air Forces]] announced the "capture" of a "[[flying saucer]]".  Hours later, the Army announced that the find was a crashed weather balloon.  In 1978, the case regained attention after Army Officer [[Jesse Marcel]] told UFO researchers that the weather balloon explanation was a cover story.
|<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/18/ufo.report/ Report on Roswell 'UFO crash' due soon] CNN</ref>
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|1948
|[[Green fireballs|The Green Fireballs]]
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|United States
|Objects were reported over several United States military bases; an official investigation followed.
|<ref>[http://www.csicop.org/klassfiles/SUN-39.html Mysterious Green Fireballs, UFOs, And The "Roswell Incident"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822204320/http://www.csicop.org/klassfiles/SUN-39.html |date=2009-08-22 }} Committee for Skeptical Inquiry</ref><ref>[[Clyde Tombaugh#Interest in UFOs]]</ref>
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|1948-01-07
|[[Mantell UFO incident|Thomas Mantell]]
|[[Kentucky]]
|United States
|US Air Force sent a fighter pilot to investigate a UFO sighting over [[Fort Knox, Kentucky]]; his aircraft crashed and the pilot was killed while pursuing the UFO.
|<ref>[http://kynghistory.ky.gov/history/4qtr/addinfo/mantellthomas.htm Captain Thomas Francis Mantell Jr.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721043256/http://kynghistory.ky.gov/history/4qtr/addinfo/mantellthomas.htm |date=July 21, 2011 }} National Guard History eMuseum</ref>
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|1948-03-25
|[[Aztec, New Mexico, UFO incident]]
|[[New Mexico]]
|United States
|An alleged retrieval of a grounded UFO and its occupants from a plateau in New Mexico.
|<ref>{{cite news |last=Irvin |first=Leigh |title=Aztec UFO landing subject of new book |url=http://www.daily-times.com/ci_20271257/azrec-ufo-landing-subject-new-book |newspaper=[[Farmington Daily Times]] |location=New Mexico |date=March 28, 2012 |access-date=April 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923212404/http://www.daily-times.com/ci_20271257/azrec-ufo-landing-subject-new-book |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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|1948-07-24
|[[Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter]]
|[[Alabama]]
|United States
|Chiles and Whitted, American commercial pilots, reported that their airplane had nearly collided with a UFO.
|<ref>{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Jerome |author-link=Jerome Clark |date=1998 |title=The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial|isbn=978-1578590292 |url=https://archive.org/details/ufobookencyclope0000clar |url-access=registration }}</ref>
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|1948-10-01
|[[Gorman dogfight]]
|[[North Dakota]]
|United States
|A US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes over [[Fargo, North Dakota]].
|<ref>{{cite book |author=Clark, Jerome |title=Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs |year=2003 |publisher=Citadel Press |isbn=0806522992 |page=66}}</ref><ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17346/17346.txt The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects] Edward J. Ruppelt</ref>
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