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UFO crashes and debris

Crashed-UFO stories are among the most enduring in ufology: an object falls, the military arrives, the area is cordoned off, and the official version speaks of a balloon, a meteorite or a satellite. The best known is the Roswell crash, but similar stories come from Pennsylvania, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In many cases documents declassified years later did reveal secret projects – which some take as an explanation and others as yet another cover.

cases
6
years
1897–1986

Unexplained: 2 Disputed: 3 Hoax: 1

  1. 19th century

    1. 1897 UFO crashes and debris · Hoax Aurora, Texas, Airship Crash Aurora, Wise County, Texas, United States According to an 1897 newspaper, an airship struck a windmill in Aurora, and its pilot – “not of this world” – was buried in the local cemetery.

  2. 1940–1949

    1. 1947 UFO crashes and debris · Disputed Roswell Incident Foster Ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, United States The military announced it had recovered a “flying disc,” and a day later was talking about a balloon – thus was born the most famous crashed-UFO story.

  3. 1950–1959

    1. 1959 UFO crashes and debris · Disputed Gdynia UFO Incident Port of Gdynia, Pomeranian Province, Poland In January 1959, a glowing object reportedly fell into a harbor basin in Gdynia; a legend later grew up about a being taken to a hospital.

  4. 1960–1969

    1. 1965 UFO crashes and debris · Disputed Kecksburg UFO Incident Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, United States After a fireball crossed six states, Kecksburg residents saw an acorn-shaped object in the woods that the military hauled away.
    2. 1967 UFO crashes and debris · Unexplained Shag Harbour UFO Incident Bay at Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada Residents of a fishing village saw a luminous object plunge into the sea – Canadian authorities admitted they did not know what it was.

  5. 1980–1989

    1. 1986 UFO crashes and debris · Unexplained Height 611 UFO Incident at Dalnegorsk Izvestkovaya Hill (Height 611), Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia In January 1986, a red sphere flew over Dalnegorsk in the Russian Far East and crashed into a hill, where strange droplets of metal were found.