A disc-shaped craft landed briefly on a French farm, leaving physical traces that were scientifically analyzed by the French government's official UFO research unit.
Stefan Michalak was burned by a landed disc at Falcon Lake, leaving a distinctive grid-pattern burn; later honored by a Canadian commemorative coin.
A disc-shaped object repeatedly appeared over a searchlight in Norwood, Ohio, tracked by Army instruments and witnessed by hundreds over several months.
The US military initially announced recovery of a 'flying disc' near Roswell, NM before retracting the statement, creating the most famous UFO controversy in history.
Private pilot Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine unusual objects near Mount Rainier launched the modern UFO era and coined the term 'flying saucers.'
Over 2,000 reports of rocket-shaped objects over Scandinavia prompted a Swedish military investigation that concluded 80% were unexplained.