About

UFO Map is a world map with a timeline that brings together the best-known sightings of UFOs, cryptids – from the yeti to the Loch Ness Monster – mystery lights and other phenomena that have defied explanation for years.

phenomena

220

countries

47

kinds

26

How to use the map

• The timeline below the map selects a period: drag the handles or the whole window, click anywhere on the axis or pick an era from the buttons. The bars show how many phenomena were recorded at each time.
• ▶ Travel through time moves the window from the oldest accounts to the present – new phenomena flash on the map. The Trail button keeps phenomena from earlier years on the map, dimmed.
• The categories above the map switch groups of phenomena on and off; the search box in the panel looks through names, places and countries.
• The page address remembers the view – you can copy it and share it.

Categories

• UFOs – Unidentified flying objects
• Cryptids – Creatures unknown to science
• Mystery lights – Mysterious lights and sky phenomena
• Other anomalies – Disappearances, crop circles, explosions and signals

Case verdicts

We do not settle whether aliens exist. For every case we describe what witnesses reported and what was established later, and the verdict sums up the state of knowledge today:

• Unexplained – there is no convincing explanation.
• Disputed – a likely or official explanation exists, but some of the facts are still disputed.
• Explained – the phenomenon has a widely accepted, down-to-earth explanation.
• Hoax – a proven or admitted hoax.

Privacy

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Sources

• Country borders: Natural Earth (public domain).
• Descriptions: written by our editors from publicly available sources – eyewitness accounts, military and government reports, the press and the literature on the subject. Each case links to Wikipedia.
• The dates and places of some old accounts are approximate – they are marked “c.”.