UFO Sightings Map: 22 Maps of Abductions and Crop Circles

People who map UFOs either collect or retrace. The collectors pile up reports: 4,086 alleged abductions sorted by decade, 2,740 British sightings typed from a reporting form, 2,433 Australasian cases drawn from old newspapers and RAAF files. The retracers take a single night and walk it again, the three landing sites in Rendlesham Forest or the Phoenix Lights town by town. In between sit the official catalogues, and they explain most of what people saw: in Canada a balloon, in Belgium a train of Starlink satellites.

Alien Abduction Map: 4,086 Reports Since 1593

A man in Quilmes, Argentina, claimed in 1953 that aliens had taken him to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. A London case of 1947 records a mark left on a leg that read “H6AQ”, and in Brovst, Denmark, two humanoids tried to take a girl in 1953 with hands “rugged and cold like a fish”. This catalogue gathers 4,086 abduction reports from NUFORC, MUFON, UFO DNA and the U* database in layers by decade, from “Before 1950”, which opens with a bare entry for Manila in 1593, to “From 2010 on”. Travis Walton’s five days missing in the Arizona forest in 1975 are here, and so are the plain verdicts of the older catalogues, “Explanation: Hoax” or “Fantasy”, and Jacques Vallée’s three-digit reliability ratings. Most entries, though, are first-person: someone who woke to find four or five greys around the bed and would “like to get some answers before I die”.

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Australian UFO Sightings Map: 2,433 Cases Since the 1800s

Early in the 1800s a ball of fire came at a ship with a thunderous noise and splintered its topmasts, leaving “a strong odour of sulphur”. John Hosking’s catalogue of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and the South Pacific runs from there through 2,433 entries, many tagged with codes such as (NL), (DO) or (CE1). In Bentleigh in December 1950 a dozen mothers seeing their children off on the school bus saw an oval object with a slight buzz. The 1954 Turner report explains a light over Adelaide as Jupiter, filaments of “angel hair” found in Caulfield in 1953 were analysed as a nylon-like mass, and Westall High School’s saucer of 6 April 1966 comes down in a paddock behind the school. Frederick Valentich’s last flight over Bass Strait in 1978 is drawn as a line, with the green light reported near Apollo Bay the same night.

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2,4332,428 points, 5 lines

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AustraliaNew ZealandPapua New Guineaand 1 more

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Crop Circles Map: 1,718 Lines to the Cerne Abbas Giant

Every crop circle on this map gets a straight line to the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, and the author lists what that line passes on its way: hill forts, long barrows, churches, and more than once a former RAF airfield. Each entry also names the constellation at the zenith that day, Hercules, Lyra or Cygnus, and the saint whose feast it was. The formations run from Barbury Castle in July 1991 to Avebury and Castley Hill in 2025, with 1,718 objects in all. The author is not credulous about everything: Froxfield in July 2022 is marked “Flawed geometry - could be man-made”. At Bowerchalke in 2015 a note adds that William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, lived in the village.

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1,7181,334 points, 384 lines

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United KingdomUnited StatesNetherlandsand 4 more

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Famous UFO Cases Map: From Nuremberg 1561 to Kera

A Japanese UFO blog has pinned the classic cases to the ground in 230 points and routes, each linked to its long write-up, and it worries over the exact spot of each. The Roswell marker sits where the Wilmots saw a saucer fly over on 2 July 1947, because the crash site itself lies nearer Corona. Captain Mantell’s chase of 1948 and Kenneth Arnold’s flight of 1947 are drawn as routes, Stephen Michalak at Falcon Lake in 1967 is left with burns on his chest “like Go stones”, and the Kera incident of 1972 places the middle-school boys who caught a small UFO again and again in Kōchi, only for it to vanish from their bag. Further layers follow the Cash-Landrum drive and a “UFO line” of scenic roads, mark “terrain and buildings mistaken for UFOs” and link live cameras on Popocatépetl and at Fukushima Daiichi for anyone who wants to watch.

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NUFORC UFO Map: 1,317 US Reports with Shape and Time

“Up to 3 lights in the sky, every morning at 4am, 3 locations, 200 miles apart”, reads a report from Lincoln, Nebraska. This map plots 1,317 reports from the National UFO Reporting Center, each with date, time, town, shape (Diamond, Sphere, Cross, Formation) and duration, a one-line summary and a link to the report. The summaries are the charm: a cube-like craft “underneath military Chinook helicopter” in New Britain, Connecticut, a “stationary structure on mountainside of national forest land with no tracks” near Somers, Montana. Sometimes the center adds its own verdict, and when two bright lights hung in the western sky at the start of March 2023, report after report from Georgia to California got the same note: “Jupiter and Venus”.

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Canada UFO Map: 435 Reports and What They Turned Out to Be

Declassified Canadian aviation reports, sorted by what the object turned out to be: balloons, drones, fireballs and meteors, fireworks and flares, kites, lights, model rockets, RC planes, rockets, and 87 cases left in the layer “Unidentified”. Most come from pilots, with the NAV CANADA occurrence number attached: a Boeing 777 at 38,000 feet passing four to six balloons of six to eight feet, a Jazz crew passing a party balloon at 3,500 feet. Two car dealerships near Pitt Meadows airport raised balloons into the approach path and ignored requests to lower them. The unidentified are stranger: a large tubular object on NORAD radar between 37,000 and 47,000 feet over Chicago in 2002, and on New Year’s Eve 2010 a caller in Burnaby who counted more than 15 UFOs the size of football fields, shooting green laser beams.

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San Luis Valley UFO Map: Snippy and the Real ET Highway

Highway 17 through Colorado’s San Luis Valley is labelled “The REAL ET Highway!”, with dozens of craft and light reports since the mid-1960s. This is a field guide by an investigator who also tells you where to stay: Great Sand Dunes is “ground zero”, the Snippy the Horse case of September 1967 has its pin, and at the Joyful Journey Hot Springs, where a large craft landed in July 1992, the author warns that the water holds lithium, so bring a designated driver. Around them lie cattle mutilations, a flying humanoid “between a gargoyle and ‘dracula’” seen near Del Norte by a deputy sheriff and a postal carrier, the Westcliffe spook lights, and blank areas marked “INVESTIGATE AT YOUR OWN RISK”.

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UK UFO Sightings Map: 2,740 Reports of Lights and Craft

In Liverpool at half past one on 5 April 1998, someone watched a grey object the size of a helicopter turning clockwise “plate spinning”, with windows and a glow coming through them. This map holds 2,740 British reports, in layers for each year from 1998 to 2004 and two more from the UAPsee contact form, which asks for the number of witnesses, a What3Words code and the witness’s occupation. In Bwlchgwyn a black oblong object 30 to 40 feet long hung 15 to 25 feet off the ground, near Aviemore an object with twelve to fifteen lights around its rim moved in slow motion, and Bonnybridge turns up more than once. A few reporters second-guess themselves, like the one in Notting Hill who saw flames falling from the sky and added “could have been a satellite re-entering”.

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United KingdomIsle of ManGuernseyand 6 more

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GEIPAN Map: France's Unexplained Category D Cases

GEIPAN, the UFO office of France’s space agency, files the cases it cannot explain under category D, and this map places 236 of them with their full witness statements. In Buxy on 8 May 1980 a frightened dog and every dog in the street barking led its owner outside to see an object like two hollow plates turned one on the other. At Toulon a night watchman saw three balls 10 metres across over the sea in an isosceles triangle; in Royan three witnesses saw a cylinder hanging 8 metres up with a light whistle. Two police officers in Vaucresson watched a yellow-orange light on the evening of 1 January 1981, and the cases reach Réunion, where two drivers saw three human shapes standing on a mound above the sea at 1:30 in the morning.

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Phoenix Lights Map: 13 March 1997, Town by Town

At 6:55 p.m. Pacific time a man in Henderson, Nevada, saw an object the size of a 747 pass overhead with the sound of rushing wind. This map follows the Phoenix Lights south from there in three lines, Henderson, then down to Phoenix, then on towards Tucson: a cluster of red lights with a white light at the nose over Prescott Valley, a former police officer near Paulden, a diamond of golden lights north of Tucson at 8:45. Earlier layers hold the orange orbs seen from 7 and 10 March, and one point marks the approach to Sky Harbor, where the actor Kurt Russell, flying a small plane, reported the lights to air traffic control, which had nothing on radar.

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School UFO Map: Children Who Met the Greys

At Ariel Primary School in Zimbabwe the greys left a telepathic message: “Technology is harming the world”. This map collects UFO encounters at schools around the world in layers for humanoid encounters, landings and plain sightings. At Lewisburg High School two beings with short blonde hair introduced themselves as “Elton” and “Tombo”; at Westmoreland High a possible hybrid with a strange accent asked “what is volleyball? basketball?”; outside Memorial Elementary School a figure five inches tall in a yellow jogging suit marched “like Goosestepping”. The author adds a layer of civilian nuclear plants, from Dounreay to Caorso, to compare.

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Lorraine UFO Map: 1,282 Sightings Back to 1871

On 23 August 1871, in the middle of the day, a dark grey serpent at least 200 metres long was seen in the sky over Lorraine; the pin is placed at random, the author admits. This volunteer catalogue of 1,282 sightings covers Moselle, Lorraine and their neighbours in Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany, in French and usually in full. In October 1954 a man on a country lane met a craft in the road shaped like a chick brooder, two metres across. In 1976 some thirty witnesses watched a white disc with a red and a green dome hover over the television relay in the Meuse valley for twenty minutes, and in 1979 the mayor of Fays and his brother saw a green ovoid four times in one week.

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Rendlesham Forest Map: Three Nights in December 1980

Eleven points and lines are enough to retrace Britain’s most famous UFO case. On the first night John Burroughs and Bud Steffens saw lights from RAF Woodbridge’s East Gate, and Cabansag, Penniston and Burroughs drove into the forest “until the terrain was too rough”; the landing site is placed from the map in Jim Penniston’s signed statement. On the second night Lieutenant Colonel Halt’s party found a “scruffed up area”, passed a farmhouse and crashed into a creek; a forester of the time confirmed the spot. On the third night Larry Warren, Adrian Bustinza and others turned “left at East Gate” onto a logging road and walked to a field. The glowing farmhouse gets a dry note of its own: an exotic lighting display.

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UFO and Nuclear Map: 169 Sightings and Broken Arrows

This map lays UFO reports over the nuclear age and lets the reader draw the lines. It opens with the “battle in the sky” over Nuremberg in 1561, then follows Bockscar’s course to Nagasaki and the bomb accidents: a B-50 carrying a nuclear weapon flying into the ground in Ohio in 1950, a B-36 dropping one 4.5 miles from the Kirtland control tower in 1957, the Florence, South Carolina, bomb of 1958. Between test sites from Bikini to Maralinga sit the sightings, Socorro in 1964 and a 1952 story of a flying saucer captured on Heligoland after hydrogen bomb tests, which the author marks “Legend?”. One entry asks whether HMAS Hobart, hit by friendly fire off Vietnam in 1968, was caught up in a UFO encounter.

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Crop Circle Map 2014–2021: Formations Season by Season

Each summer is a layer on this map of crop formations, 308 points in all, each formation with its date, the nearest village and a link to its report on the Crop Circle Connector. Wiltshire and Hampshire hold most of them, around Devizes, Warminster and Bishops Sutton, near Stonehenge at Coneybury Hill and inside Danebury hillfort, but the seasons also reach Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Kiskanizsa in Hungary, and in 2020 a city alley in Voronezh, Russia. Two extra layers, “Tracés 2019” and “Tracés 2020”, redraw some designs as shapes, labelled in French: “Triangle isocèle”.

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Spain UFO Map: 84 Landings, Contactees and a Flying Bullring

On 27 March 1970 Santos Nicolás was driving his Seat 850 home at night when a huge ball of light appeared on his right; the note calls it “a flying bullring”. Spain’s 84 cases start in Palma de Mallorca on 30 March 1950 with a round object “the size of 6 or 7 moons”, noted as the first documented sighting of the modern era in Spain. In Gáldar on Gran Canaria in 1975 a doctor and two others saw a transparent sphere five metres across with three consoles and two crew inside. Then come the contactee places: Montserrat, Spain’s best-known “contactee sanctuary”, and the Teide national park, where a radio programme gathered some forty thousand people in June 1989 in the hope of contact.

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Belgium UFO Map: 435 Reports of 2020, Each With a Verdict

Every report sent to the Belgian UFO reporting centre in 2020 is on this map, 435 of them, each with a one-line description in Dutch and the centre’s verdict. “40 points of light in a line one behind the other” over Sinaai: Starlink satellites. A bright white ball on video in Alken: Venus. Six round glowing objects in Aalst: spotlights. Coloured dots over Kuurne: toy balloons. Starlink takes a large share of the verdicts, and some reports end with the honest “gegevens onvoldoende”, not enough data.

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Cennina UFO Map: Tuscany's 1954 Encounter, Point by Point

On All Saints’ Day 1954 Rosa Lotti was walking to the church in Cennina when, she said, she met a spindle-shaped object and two small humanoids, who took her carnations and her stockings. A Japanese researcher rebuilt the day in 20 points: her farmhouse, her probable path, two candidate spots for the encounter, one kept “just in case” because the map in the foreign book it relies on is rough. At 6:10 a.m. a stonemason saw an “intensely bright rocket” rise from the Ambra woods; at 6:30 a father and son in a truck saw a reddish cone trailing red smoke; between 7:30 and 8 p.m. the priest and others at the church saw a spindle fly over. The notes are in Japanese.

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Indonesia UFO Map: The Strangers of Alor Island

In July 1959, the story goes, tall strangers with reddish skin and white wavy hair, in dark blue clothes and black military boots, appeared on Alor Island. Villagers shot arrows at them that did not wound, police fired at them from 13 metres and found no blood, and a villager and a six-year-old child were taken and later released. This map of 116 Indonesian reports, many from BETA-UFO Indonesia, follows the incident encounter by encounter and then roams the archipelago: a giant octagonal silhouette over Jakarta around 1995, a blue-green light seen just after a village blackout, a crop circle at Piyungan in 2011 and a question mark over Lake Poso: “Underwater UFO Base?”.

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Close Encounters Map: 71 Classic Cases Since 1817

In 1817 a peasant named Thomas Martin saw a craft come down from the sky near Gaillardon, and a man dressed in the clothes of the day stepped out and said he was the archangel Raphael; inside, the craft was lit by candles of every colour in glasses. This French map of 71 “major cases” sorts them by shape, disc, sphere, triangle, ovoid, with layers for pilots in flight, for the great French wave of 1954 and for close encounters with occupants. Sixty-two children aged eight to twelve watch two small beings at Ariel School in Zimbabwe; thousands of witnesses in Norwood, Ohio, in 1949 see triangles leave a disc about three kilometres wide; thirty-five people at Taizé in 1972 watch an object “longer than a coach” light up.

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7171 points

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Phantom Airplane Map: Australia's Mystery Aircraft of 1918

Before there were flying saucers, there were phantom airplanes. In 1918 Australians reported 209 mystery aircraft over their towns, and this map pins each report with its date. They begin at Underbool in the Mallee in January, return to Terrigal on the New South Wales coast again and again through March and April, and reach as far as Bunbury in Western Australia and King Island in Bass Strait.

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Orfeo Angelucci Map: A Contactee's Los Angeles

“I wanted to get back to the world of sane reality,” wrote Orfeo Angelucci, and this map follows his book Secret of the Saucers through Los Angeles. A disc leads his car over the bridge across the Los Angeles River and onto Forest Lawn Drive, “a lonely, deserted stretch of road”, where the contact happens; the last point is home. A second layer follows three others, Scott, Forrest and Richard, on their own trip over the same bridge, with a stop at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank.

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