UFOs tracked on radar over the nation's capital on two consecutive weekends, triggering jet scrambles and the largest Pentagon press conference since WWII.
A Soviet pilot was scrambled to intercept a silver object over the USSR's most secret missile base; the object reportedly disabled his aircraft with a beam.
Declassified file documenting 209 green-orb and disk sightings around the Sandia Base atomic-weapons complex, 1948-1950; released May 22, 2026 via PURSUE Release 02.
Private pilot Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine unusual objects near Mount Rainier launched the modern UFO era and coined the term 'flying saucers.'
Mysterious luminous spheres paced Allied bomber crews over Europe and the Pacific during WWII, feared as Axis weapons but never explained.
The US military fired over 1,400 anti-aircraft rounds at unidentified objects over LA weeks after Pearl Harbor, with a famous searchlight photo capturing the event.