A US Army helicopter was pulled upward 2,100 feet by an unknown force while a cigar-shaped object bathed it in a green beam, confirmed by ground witnesses.
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.
Over 2,000 reports of rocket-shaped objects over Scandinavia prompted a Swedish military investigation that concluded 80% were unexplained.
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.
During the 1897 airship wave, a craft allegedly crashed into a windmill in Aurora, TX, with reports of a non-human pilot buried in the local cemetery.
Residents of Nuremberg witnessed an apparent aerial battle of spheres, cylinders, and crosses, documented in a famous 1561 woodcut broadsheet.