UFO SIGHTINGS // PILOT

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Documented sightings involving pilot witnesses.

2025United States6/10

Fresno Multi-Day UAP Sightings

Multiple UFOs observed and filmed over Fresno across several days, with two pilots reporting objects to air traffic control and police helicopter dispatched to investigate.

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2023United States9/10

Ryan Graves Congressional Testimony

Navy pilot Ryan Graves testified to Congress about daily UAP encounters off the East Coast, including a cube-in-sphere object, and founded Americans for Safe Aerospace.

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1995Argentina8/10

Bariloche Airport Incident

A commercial airliner was paced by a luminous UFO for 15 minutes while the entire city of Bariloche suffered a simultaneous blackout and airport instruments failed, with the Argentine government fully declassifying the investigation.

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1986United States8/10

Japan Airlines Flight 1628

A JAL 747 captain encountered a walnut-shaped object 'twice the size of an aircraft carrier' over Alaska, tracked on radar; FAA evidence was confiscated by CIA.

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1978Australia7/10

Valentich Disappearance

Pilot Frederick Valentich vanished over Bass Strait after radioing about an unknown craft hovering above him; no trace was ever found.

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1947United States7/10

United Airlines Flight 105 Sighting

Just ten days after Kenneth Arnold's sighting, airline pilots on United Flight 105 observed multiple disc-shaped objects over Idaho, marking the first professional pilot UFO report of the modern era.

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1947United States7/10

Kenneth Arnold Sighting

Private pilot Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine unusual objects near Mount Rainier launched the modern UFO era and coined the term 'flying saucers.'

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