Crashes
Date Location Notes/Case file
10,000 BC Sino-Tibetan Border The stunning story of the Dropas.
2,000 BC Grand Canyon, AZ A file from UFO BBS. Tabloid story.
840 Lyons, France Not a crash, a hoax. 4 human falsely claimed to come from the clouds.
1561 Nuremberg, Germany An illustrated case.
18th Century Germany Montanus tells of flying magicians shot down.
1864 September Cadotte Pass, Missouri Original newspaper article of 1864.
1884 June 6 Holdredge, Nebraska Inconclusive but quite interesting.
1884 December 13 Sorisole, near Bergamo, Italy -
1897 April 17 Aurora, Texas Hoax almost certain.
1897 April 19 Leroy, Kansas, USA Hoax almost certain.
1907 Burlington, Vermont, USA -
1908 June 30 Tunguska River, USSR -
1909 December 22 Chicago, Illinois, USA Airship crash report, debris never found.
1910/1915 Puglia Italy -
1923 Quetta, Pakistan -
1925 Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA -
1925 Sept/Oct Polson, Montana -
1930 Mandurah, West Australia -
1933 Italy -
1936 Black Forest, Germany -
1938 summer Czernica, Poland -
1941 West of San Diego, CA -
1941 Spring Cape Girardeau, Missouri -
1941 July 4 Tinian Island, Oceania -
1945 approx. UK -
1945 Mataquescuintla, Guatemala -
1946 Date and location unknown -
1946 Magdalena, NM -
1946 July 9 Lake Barken, Sweden -
1946 July 10 Bjorkon, Sweden -
1946 July 18 Lake Mjosa Sweden -
1946 July 19 Noon Lake Kolmjarv, Sweden -
1946 August 12 SW Sweden -
1946 August 16 Malmo Sweden -
1946 mid-October Southern Sweden -
1947 January Papagos Indian Reserv. AZ NEW -
1947 May Spitzbergen, Norway Newspaper articles, cover up, 17 bodies.
1947 May 31 Socorro, New Mexico -
1947 July Near St. Joseph, MO -
1947 July 4 Roswell, New Mexico, USA The well known Roswell affair. 4-5 bodies, one alive ET?
1947 July 5 Plains of San Augustin, New Mexico, USA -
1947 July 31 Maury Island, Tacoma, USA Complicated almost certain hoax.
1947 August 13 Hopi Reservation, Arizona -
1947 October 2 Cave Creek, Arizona, USA Very little information.
1947 October Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA -
1947 October 20 San Diego -
1948 Kingman, Arizona, USA -
1948 February 13 Aztec, New Mexico, USA Controversial, 2-12 alleged bodies.
1948 April 12 Outside Aztec, New Mexico, USA Same as underneath?
1948 March 25 Aztec, New Mexico, USA Controversial. 12 alleged bodies.
1948 March 25 White Sands, New Mexico, USA Same as above?
1948 7/8 July Near Laredo, 38 miles inside Mexico Bodies recovered.
1948 August Laredo, Texas, USA 1 body recovered
1949 Roswell, NM, USA Not the famous case of 1947.
1949 August 19 Death Valley, California, USA Story by 2 prospectors, 2 beings escape alive.
1950 (before) Near Mexico City, Mexico Second hand witness.
1950 January Mojave Desert, California, USA -
1950 February 10 Copenhagen, Denmark Farmer witness UFO explode.
1950 March? New Mexico, USA FBI memo mentions recovery of 3 crashed saucers.
1950 April Argentina Bodies not there anymore on next day
1950s (mid) Birmingham, Alabama Single witness case.
1950 May 10 Bahia Blanca Province, Argentina -
1950 September 10 Albuquerque, Texas, USA 3 bodies.
1950 December 6 El Indio/Guerrero area, Tex-Mex border, Texas, USA -
1951 Summer Sierra Madre, Mexico Anonymous story, bodies and UFO recovery.
1952 July Washington DC, USA -
1952 July 23 Pueblo, Colorado, USA Admitted hoax.
1952 August Ohio, USA -
1952 August 14 Ely, Nevada, USA 16 bodies recovered.
1952 September 9 Spitzbergen, Norway Probable mystification.
1953 Brady, Montana, USA Recovery of bodies by military, tabloid invention.
1953 April 18 South-West Arizona, USA -
1953 May 20 Western Utah, USA -
1953 May 20/21 Kingman, Arizona, USA Reliable witness, 2 bodies.
1953 June 19 Laredo, Texas, USA 4 bodies.
1953 Summer Fort Polk, LA, USA -
1953 July 10 Johannesburg, South Africa 5 bodies.
1953 October 13 Dutton, Montana, USA 4 bodies.
1954 (Spring) Matydale, New York, USA Police denies incident.
1955 July Vestra Norrland, Sweden -
1955 May 5 Brighton, UK 5 bodies.
1957 July 18 Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA 4 bodies.
1957 September 14 Ubatuba, Brazil Physical evidences, fragments analyzed.
1957 November 21 Reasty Hill, Scarborough, Yorks -
1958/1959 Woomera, Australia -
1958 Utah desert -
1959 January or February 21 Gdynia, Poland Probable rumours without base.
1959 Frdynia, Poland Body and parts. Same case as above.
1959 September 17 Wormer near Amsterdam -
1959 Undated Italy, North of Rome -
1960s offshore Spain -
1960s Great Sand Dunes, Co -
1960 March New Paltz, New York, USA Alien dies 28 days later.
1961 Timmensdorfer, Germany Claimed by former NATO man
1961 April 28 2am. Lake Onega, Karelskaya, USSR. -
1962 June 12 Holoman AFB, New Mexico, USA 2 bodies.
1962 Otero County, NM -
1962 April 18 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Impressive events.
1963/1972 Australia, 12 recoveries
1963 July 16 Charlton, UK -
1963 December 10 Cosford RAF, UK Alleged crash cover-up on RAF base.
1964 November 10 Fort Riley, Kansas, USA 9 bodies
1965 San Miguel, Argentina -
1965 December 9 Kecksburg, Michigan, USA Very famous controversial case.
1966 October 26 Arizona, USA 1 body
1966 November Otocoek, Slovenia 1 body. Probable hoax, surfaced in 2005, no witnesses available for investigation.
1967 January South-West Missouri, USA 40 inches disc
1968 February 12 Orocue, Columbia US say 'satellite debris'.
1972 July 18 Saharian desert, Morocco 3 bodies.
1973 July 10 Northwest Arizona, USA 5 bodies.
1974 Llandrillo, Clwyd, Wales, UK -
1974 November 9 Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA Hoax or cover story?
1974 May 17 Chili, New Mexico, USA UFO moved to Kirtland AFB.
1974 August 25 Chihuahua, Mexico Disc crash
1976 May 12 Desert, Australia 4 bodies.
1977 April 5 South-West Ohio, USA 11 bodies.
1977 June 22 Northwest Arizona, USA 5 bodies.
1977 August 17 Tobasco, Mexico 2 bodies.
1978 May 6 Padcaya, Bolivia Search team finds nothing.
1978 Ocean off Finland, USSR USSR army rcovers bodies.
1978 November 10 Lebannon -
1988 Russia Hill 611: debris recovered, analysis, conclusion: ET craft.
1988 November Afghanistan 7 bodies.
1989 Cap Ontario, Canada -
1989 May 7 Kalahari desert, Botswana, South Africa (Hoax or controversial)
1989 Siberia 9 alive
1989 September 28 Smith's Point Beach, Long Island, New York, USA -
1990 September 2 Megas Platanos, Greece -
1992 April Niagara Falls, USA Recovery by Army in front of witnesses
1992 November Long Island, New York, USA UFO Network is investigating.
1994 Birmingham, UK -
1996 January 20 Varginha, Brazil Alleged capture of aliens by the military.
2000 August 27 Balochistan, Pakistan Newspaper report ufos and ufo crash.
2006 November Bahia, Brazil A flying saucer seen on a truck, probably just an ordinary transport of an ordinary industrial part.
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