Tagged: observation

The 1975 North Dakota UFO Sighting

Sandy Larson, her 15-year-old daughter, Jackie, and Jackie’s boyfriend, Terry O’Leary, awoke early that morning, August 26, 1975. Mrs. Larson, who lived in Fargo, North Dakota, was planning to take a real estate test in Bismarck, 200 miles away. At 4 A.M., 45 miles west...

The 1973 Missouri UFO Sighting

An odd “thrashing sound” brought James Richard, 41, and his 16-year-old daughter, Vanea, to the north window of their Columbia, Missouri, mobile home at 12:30 A.M. on June 28, 1973. Some 50 feet away and five feet apart, two brilliant silvery white beams of nocturnal...

The 1979 Minnesota UFO Sighting

Studying the brilliant light in the stand of trees two and a half miles south of him, Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson wondered if drug smugglers had flown over the Canadian border into the flat, isolated terrain of far northwestern Minnesota. The light was...

2015 was a big year for Canadian UFO sightings, report says

Canada experienced a very high number of reported UFO sightings in 2015, according to an annual survey released by Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Ufology Research. Chris Rutkowski, one of the researchers that compiled the survey, told CBC that reported sightings in Canada last year were the second...

UFO sightings by commercial pilots probed by Irish authorities

A British Airways pilot on Friday reported the sighting of an unidentified flying object off the southwest coast of Ireland, that was described as a “bright light” that came alongside his aircraft and “rapidly veered to the north,” the BBC reported. The pilot contacted Shannon...

British ‘X-Files’ of UFO sightings is going public

From the early 1950s until 2009, a department in the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) documented and investigated reports of UFOs. Now, more than a decade after the program ended, many of those formerly classified files about UFO sightings will be made available to...