UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA

EIGHTY YEARS OF PILOT SIGHTINGS

Catalog of

Military, Airliner, Private Pilots sightings

from 1916 to 2000

February 2001 edition

1300+ cases

Dominique F. Weinstein

NARCAP International Technical Advisor

France

NARCAP

P.O. Box 140, Boulder Creek, California 95006-0880, USA

www.narcap.org

Acknowledgements :

I would like to thank Dr Richard F. Haines (NARCAP Chief Scientist), for his advises and his close-cooperation, Dr Peter Sturrock and Dr Jacques Vallée for their help and encouragements, Jean-Jacques Velasco (GEPAN-SEPRA), Gustavo Rodriguez (CEFAA-Chile) and Patrick Leprevost, Air France pilot, for his cooperation and expertise.

And :

Jan L. Aldrich (Project 1947 / Sign Historical Group), Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (Fundacion Anomalia - Spain), Don Berliner (FUFOR - USA), Barry Greenwood (UFO Historical Revue - USA), Loren Gross (for the gift of the complete collection of his very interesting series : UFOs a history), Larry Hatch (*U* UFO Database - USA ),(Richard Hall (FUFOR - USA), Don Ledger (Canada), Marco Orlandi (CISU – Italy), Joel Mesnard (LDLN -France), Edoardo Russo (CISU) and Ed Stewart.

© Copyright 2001 Dominique Weinstein,

Abbreviations and Codes Table

AB Air Base (US air force base outside U.S. territory)

AF Air FORCE

AFB Air Force Base (US Air Force Base in U.S. territory)

ANG Air National Guard

ARTCC Air Route Traffic Control Center

ATIC Air Technical Intelligence Center

CAA Civil Aviation Authority

FAA Federal Aviation Authority

GCI Ground Control Intercept

GOC Ground Observators corps

NAS Naval Air Station

NFS Night Fighter squadron

NORAD North American Air Defense Command

RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force

RAF Royal Air Force

RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force

SAC Strategic Air Command

USAAF United States Army Air Force (before september 1947)

USAF United States Air Force (after september 1947))

USMC US Marine corps

USN US Navy

ft feet

kph Kilometer per hour

kts knots (nautical miles)

mph miles per hour (1 mile = 1,604 kilometer)

Aircraft: M : military aircraft, A : airliner, P : private aircraft

Radar: AR : Airborne radar, GR : Ground radar, RO : Radar only

Codes: G : ground witnesses, X : more than one plane involved, E : effects on plane (electromagnetic effects, engine failed, ...etc)

Time: LT : Local Time, ZT : Zulu Time (Greenwich Meridian Time)

Sources: See list of sources with code number at the end of the report

Dedicated to the late

Captain Edward J. Ruppelt,

"...Of these (UFO) reports, the radar-visual sightings are the most convincing. When a ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the light and gets a radar lock only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer..."

Edward J. Ruppelt, USAF Capt.,1956

Introduction

For over fifty years, both civilian and military pilots have seen Unidentified Aerial Phenomena[1] (UAP), also commonly called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). This catalogue is a compilation of more than 1300+ such sightings, by military pilots, private pilots and airliners crews.

These cases are special for several reasons. Training and experience make pilots and crews much more reliable witnesses than others. They are used to unusual meteorological phenomenons. They have the added advantage of being able to approach the phenomenon. Sometimes they can even overfly the object, observing it between themselves and the earth below. Military pilots are trained to estimate distances, shapes and speed of flying machines.

Sometimes, pilots’sightings are confirmed by radar detection, observers on the ground (control tower personnel, Ground Observer Corps, civilians, ..) or other pilots in flight. In some cases electro-magnetic effects were noted (radios, radar, compasses, engines, ...). In a few rare cases the pilot or crew felt physical effects like heat, or blinding light.

This catalog contains 1305 cases : 606 Military aircraft cases, 444 Airliners cases, 193 private light planes (19 multiple aircraft, 43 cases with no mentionof type of aircraft). Among the 1305 cases, 702 are North American.

A detailed study and a database of the 200 radar-cases in this catalog (about 15%) is currently under developement at the French Space Agency (CNES) in France, as a SEPRA project led by Jean-Jacques Velasco. An initial evaluation of the most detailed radar-visual cases shows that the technical data indicated by radar (sizes, speeds, distances, maneuvers, locations . .) are quite close to those estimated by pilots.

Another study of the 57 cases involving electro-magnetic effects on the aircraft (about 4%) of this catalog is under development with Dr Richard F. Haines for the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP)[2]

Dominique Weinstein

Paris, February 3, 2001

updated : 04/09/2000 AIRCRAFT / UAP ENCOUNTERS CATALOG
DATE	TIME	COUNTRY	LOCATION		TYPE OF PLANE AND WITNESSES	UFO DESCRIPTION	Radar	CODES G X E			SOURCES
16.01.31	20:45 LT	UK	near Rochford	M	pilot	one row of lights like lighted windows on a railway carriage. It rose and disappeared					03
26.01.00	13:00 LT	USA	Between Wichita, Kansas and Colorado Springs, Colorado	?	pilot	six "flying manhole covers"					03
26.09.late	23:00	USA	Nevada	A	DH-4 an airmail pilot	one cylindrical huge object, wingless. the pilot was forced to land,				E	03
31.06.10	15:00 LT	Tasman Sea	between Australia and New Zealand	?	pilot	a "dull grey-white airship" seen in distance					03
32.00.00	daytime	Greenland	East coast	M	RDAF Three Heinkel He.8 seaplanes pilots	one hexagonal, flat, aluminium looking object followed the plane course.				E	03
33.07.05	night	UK	over Sussex	M	4 Hawker Fury fighters pilots	a huge circular light dropped in the center of the aircraft formation. One a/c forced to land			X	E	03
36.10.10	04:15 LT	Italy	Cape Talamonore	M	four italian Idro S.62 bis pilots	one blinding light appeared to shoot short flames from its center and flew north.					03/37
37.01.01	12:00 LT	USA	Virginia / North Carolina border	P	A Curtis Wright Sedan military pilot	a gondola-shaped object of gun metal color crossed the aircraft's path.					03
42.03.25	midnight	Holland	Zuider See	M	An RAF bomber crew	one luminous orange disc					357
42.06.00		Holland		M	An RAF bomber (301st Squadron) crew	a bright object moved around the plane			X		M290
42 summer	17:50	Australia	Tasman Peninsula	M	An RAF aircraft pilot	an object looking like a singular airfoil of glistening bronze color with a dome on top					413 419
42.11		France	west coast of France, Bay of Biscay	M	a military plane (anti-sub. squad.) pilot	a huge object followed and passed the plane					366 03
42.12.09	evening	France	Somme estuary	M	An RAF Hurricane fighter pilot	2 bright lights came from the ground, chased the plane, then moved away					357 03
43.00.00	night	Atlantic Ocean	Between USA and England	M	A USN PB-2Y5 pilot + 8 crew members	one single lit orange object flew in formation with the aircraft.					03/37
43.04.05	09:50	USA	Air Corps Ferrying Command Base, Long Beach, California	P	one BT-13A trainer aircraft pilot	one orange, round object flew alongside in formation with the aircraft, then shot away					03
43.05.00		Europe	Above the English Channel	M	An RAF Lancaster night bomber pilot + all crew	a huge orange ball, near the sea, stationary					03
43.05 or 07	night	Tunisia		M	RAF Hurricane (73rd Squadron) pilot	one light					03/37
43.10.14		Germany	Schweinfurt	M	several USAAF B-17 bombers crews (384th Bomber Group)	near-collision with a group of luminous disc-shaped objects (could be "windows")			X		324/357 L338/03
43.12.14	night	Italy	Naples	M	RAF Beaufighter (255th Squadron) pilot	dogfight with a bright light which out climbed the aircraft.					03/37
43 Late	daytime	Germany	Central Germany	M	one USAAF B-17 tail gunner (390th bomb. group.)	one gold sphere, size of a basketball, flew around the bomber.					03
44.00.00	night	Atlantic Ocean	South Atlantic	M	A military transport 4 pilots	two bright lights came toward the aircraft, separated, went around, and turned.					03/37
44.02.00	02:30	Australia	Bass Strait	M	a Bristol Beaufort bomber crew	a dark shape with pulsating lights on its rear part				E	321/324 413/419
44.03.00		USA	Yakima, Washington	?	pilot	Seven pebble-shaped bright objects in V formation					339
44.03.00		USA	Carlsbad, New Mexico	M	a USAAF B-29 bomber pilot	a spherical object moved with sharp turns at great speed					303
44.04.30	21:00	Italy	near Anzio	M	RAF Beaufighter (600th Squadron) pilot + radar officer	one red-orange glow followed the aircraft, doing evasive maneuvers.	NR				03/37
44.06.00	00:00	Italy	Southwest of Florence	M	One RAF Beaufighter pilot	one bright red light followed the aircraft, evasive actions did not work.					03/37
44.06.00	11:00	Adriatic Sea	Northeast of Bari, Italy	M	3 USAAF P-38 (1st Fighter group) 3 pilots	one round silver disc flying at 50,000 ft, stayed 3 mn with the formation of planes			X		03/37
44.08.10		Sumatra / Ceylan	between Palembang (Sumatra) and Ceylan	M	a USAAF B-29 bomber crew	a bright red-orange sphere maneuvering					303/357
44.10.30	01:45	Germany	Munich	M	A USAAF B-17 (419th Bomb Squad.) pilot	one light blue ball of fire paced aircraft for a time.					03/37
44.10.30	21:25	Germany	Near Cologne	M	One Halifax III (640th Squadron) flight engineer and gunner	one ball of fire followed the aircraft which took evasive action.					03/37
44.11.00		USA	Santa Rosa, California	M	pilot	a huge red light which disappeared					366 / 405 03
44.11.22	19:00	Germany	Coblenz	M	A USAAF aircraft (422nd NFS) pilot	four or six objects seen, three in line abreast.					03/37
44.11.22	22:00	Norway	West-southwest of Trondheim	M	One RAF aircraft (IX Squadron) Flight officer, engineer + gunner	one spherical object followed the plane, made violent acceleration and decceleration.					03/37
44.11.23	22:00	France	30 km northeast of Strasbourg	M	a USAAF P-70 fighter (415th NFS) crew	several luminous spheres with pulsating lights					303/352/357 405/03
44.11.27	night	Germany	Speyer	M	a USAAF P-70 fighter (415th NFS) crew	a huge orange sphere					352
44.12.00		Austria		M	a USAAF B-17 bomber crew	an amber disc followed the plane					303
44.12.22	17:05	France	Haguenau area	M	a USAAF night fighter (415th NFS) pilot	two huge orange luminous shapes followed the plane at 10.000ft high					352/388 405/03
44.12.24	night	Germany	near Karlsruhe	M	a Beaufighter (415th NFS) pilot + passenger	a red ball like object climbed to fighter's altitude, paced the plane, then climbed away					03
44.12 or 45.01	day	Germany	Rhine Valley	M	a P-51 Mustang (109th Tact. Rec. Squad.) pilot	4 or 5 silvery football-shaped objects					03
45.00.00		Germany	Munster	M	a Canadian Halifax bomber crew	a small ball of flame					03
45.00.00		Formosa		M	One USAAF B-24 radio operator	one vertical chain of luminous globes in a spiral climbed towards the aircraft.					03/37
45.01.00	night	Germany		M	a USAAF night fighter (415th NFS) pilot	three luminous red and white objects followed the plane					303
45.01.12		France	Dijon, Côte d'Or	M	several bomber groups pilots	several foofighters					400
45.02.13	19:10	Germany	between Rastatt and Bishwiller	M	several USAAF fighters (415th NFS) pilots	2 groups of light at 2.300 ft high			X		388
45.02.mid	10:00	USA	Texas	M	USAAF C-47 (2nd AF headquarter) pilot + two passengers	a cylindrical shaped object, dull flat grey, traveled in straight line, 30 ft long					03
45.03.00		Europe	Brenner Pass	M	a military plane pilot	a white-yellow light, smaller than a basketball, approached at great speed					366
45.03.00	midnight	Italy	West of Trieste	M	One RAF Boston bomber pilot + two crew members	six spheres looking like red-hot metal followed the aircraft.					03/37
45.03.20	0:45	Germany	Speyer	M	several USAAF fighters pilots (415th NFS)	two spheres, one orange and one green			X		388
45.03.26	11:00	Germany	Ruhr Valley	M	One RAF Spitfire XI (541th Squad.) pilot	one pink sphere (diameter: 3 ft) passed the fighter at about 340 mph.					03/37
45.03.26	night	Japan	Iwo Jima	M	A military night fighter (549th NFS) crew (3 members)	several lights followed the plane, made a few turns, slight radar returns	AR				03/28
45.03.27	night	Japan	Iwo Jima	M	A night fighter (549th NFS) crew (3 members)	several lights followed the plane, then were chased by the pilot					03/28
45.04.03