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Civilian, police and airline reports, from single witnesses to mass sightings seen by thousands. 305 events, newest first.
Sightings28 May 1993
Seismographs recorded a large unexplained disturbance in the Western Australian outback, and truckers and locals reported bright flashes and booms. Nearby Banjawarn Station was owned by the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which a 1995 U.S. Senate staff report said tested sarin there; no blast was established.
Sightings10 Dec 1992
A 6.4 kg stone struck a two-story house in Mihonoseki, Shimane Prefecture, at about 9 p.m. Scientists from Tokyo's National Science Museum and Okayama University classified it as an L6 ordinary chondrite. The meteorite is displayed at the Meteor Plaza in Mihonoseki.
Sightings9 Oct 1992
A bright, fragmenting fireball crossed several eastern U.S. states and was caught on at least 16 independent videos before a meteorite struck a parked car in Peekskill, New York. Scientists used the videos to reconstruct its orbit, a well-documented natural object in the sky.
Photo: Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings14 Aug 1992
A stony meteoroid broke up over Mbale, scattering fragments across a field about 3 by 7 km; about 150 kg was recovered. A small stone reportedly struck a boy on the head after being slowed by leaves, without serious injury.
Photo: Lothar Monshausen, CC BY-SA 2.0
Sightings1992
After a first reported sighting on the Falkirk Road in 1992, the Scottish village of Bonnybridge became known for frequent UFO reports, often relayed through local councillor Billy Buchanan, who repeatedly asked UK ministers and prime ministers to investigate.
Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0
Sightings11 Jul 1991
During the total solar eclipse over Mexico City, a number of residents reported seeing a strange hovering craft, in what has been called one of the largest mass UFO sightings; reports also came from other Mexican cities. A skeptic suggested viewers without eye protection were seeing spots.
Photo: Claudio Lelli 2, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings20 May 1991
Soviet TV's Vremya newscast on 21 May 1991 showed a glowing object filmed near the Mir station the previous evening. Cosmonaut Musa Manarov, who was filming a docking, said he saw it come off the spacecraft; the report said its nature was unclear.
Photo: UR3IRS at Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings7 May 1991
Cameras of the European Fireball Network photographed a very bright bolide over what is now the Czech Republic. Early searches found nothing; after a 2011 reanalysis moved the predicted impact area, researchers recovered small meteorites there, about 20 years after the fall.
Sightings21 Apr 1991
Alitalia Capt. Achille Zaghetti reported a brown, missile-like object passing close to his Milan-London MD-80 near Lydd, Kent, and controllers saw an unknown radar target. MoD files released in 2008 show investigators ruled out missiles, balloons and rockets and left it unexplained.
Photo: G B_NZ, CC BY-SA 2.0
Sightings12 Apr 1991
A powerful midnight blast near Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, broke windows across the town and left a crater about 28 m wide. Pravda reported theories from buried munitions to a meteorite or UFO; military visitors suggested stored ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded.
Photo: Max071086 at Russian Wikipedia, Public domain
Sightings7 Feb 1991
The derelict Soviet space station Salyut 7 reentered uncontrolled over Argentina in the early hours of February 7, 1991. Witnesses described a long fiery trail across the sky, and fragments fell in several provinces, the largest in a yard in Capitan Bermudez. No injuries were reported.
Photo: Carloszelayeta, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings7 Nov 1990
Guests, staff, police officers and La Presse reporters watched a cluster of lights above the Hotel Bonaventure for nearly three hours. A 1992 study by Bernard Guenette and Richard Haines argued for a large object; the case has no official explanation.
Photo: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings5 Nov 1990
Around 7 p.m. a bright luminous formation crossed much of France, and CNES's SEPRA received more than 1,100 witness reports and police statements. A NASA telex let SEPRA identify it as the reentering third stage of the Soviet rocket that launched the Gorizont 21 satellite.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Sightings4 Aug 1990
Two men photographed a large diamond-shaped object with a jet nearby near Calvine in the Scottish Highlands. The Daily Record passed the pictures to the Ministry of Defence, which kept them. A surviving print held by a retired RAF press officer was made public by researcher David Clarke in 2022.
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0
Sightings1990
A photo said to show a lighted triangle over Petit-Rechain became the best-known image of the Belgian wave and was analyzed by the Royal Military Academy and others. Its author later admitted it was a hoax.
Photo: J.S. Henrardi, Public domain
Sightings1990
New residents of the house where Ed Walters lived when he took his famous Gulf Breeze UFO photos found a model of foam plates resembling the object. A Pensacola News Journal reporter used it to closely recreate the photos; Walters said the model was planted.
Photo: Tbrighamphd, CC0
Sightings29 Nov 1989
Gendarme patrols near Eupen reported large, silent triangular objects with bright lights, starting months of similar reports across Belgium. On the night of 30-31 March 1990 the Belgian Air Force scrambled two F-16s after a radar contact; the pilots saw nothing and the object was never identified.
Photo: Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0
Sightings27 Sep 1989
On October 9, 1989, the Soviet news agency TASS reported that a craft had landed in a Voronezh park on September 27 and that tall three-eyed beings had emerged. TASS stood by the story when questioned; it drew worldwide attention and wide skepticism in the glasnost era.
Sightings1989
The civilian group Ufology Research began its annual Canadian UFO Survey with a tally of UFO reports from 1989. The series has continued every year since, giving Canada a running national count of reports.
Sightings20 Jan 1988
Driving the Eyre Highway before dawn, the Knowles family said a bright light followed them, lifted their car and left a dark ash on it. Investigators found the residue was ordinary clay and salt and the tyre damage fit fast driving; a meteorologist suggested distorted distant truck lights.
Photo: Nachoman-au, CC BY-SA 3.0
