On December 11, 1972 the Apollo 17 crew described 'jagged angular fragments' tumbling past the spacecraft windows - 'the Fourth of July out of Ron's window.' The Pentagon re-classified the photographs from 'insulation' to 'potentially physical object' on May 8, 2026.
Apollo 14 lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell - the sixth man on the Moon - became the most prominent US astronaut to publicly assert that the Roswell incident was real and that ETs visit Earth.
Apollo 11 crew observed a luminous object pacing their spacecraft during translunar coast; the apocryphal 'they're warning us off' Armstrong transmission is the most-repeated UFO claim of the lunar era.
A B-52 crew and ground personnel at Minot AFB simultaneously tracked a large luminous object on radar that disrupted UHF communications near nuclear missile sites.
A glowing UFO hovered over Malmstrom AFB while 10 Minuteman nuclear missiles simultaneously went offline with no technical explanation found.
A controlled fireball landed near Kecksburg, PA; witnesses described an acorn-shaped craft with hieroglyphics before the Army removed it under secrecy.