Real sightings
Documented cases, each replayed in the sky of its own reported date, time and place. 9 reconstructions, none of them a video: each is computed while you watch it.
Real sightings#
Nine documented cases, each replayed in the sky of its own reported date, time and place.
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Chiles & Whitted, 1948
Night over Alabama, 02:45. Two airline pilots described the same phenomenon differently — open it full size to switch observer.
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Valensole, 1965
Early morning on the plateau, 05:45, the Sun forty minutes up and 7° high in the north-east — and the real relief of that field under the observer's feet. Two statements of the same witness, the gendarmerie's report of 2 July and his deposition of 18 August — open it full size to switch.
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Cussac, 1967
Mid-morning on a Cantal plateau, 10:30. A sphere 82 m off behind a hedge, four small black beings diving into it, a widening helix — every angle from the GEPAN's 1978 theodolite survey.
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Socorro, 1964
Low sun, 17:50, New Mexico. The case people argue about the phenomenon's size in — and where the reconstruction refuses to state one.
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Maffliers, 2012
Dawn under a low grey sky, 06:06, Val-d'Oise. A silvery shape 8.5° wide before a wood's edge, then a shower, a tilt and a departure, each angle from the GEIPAN's calibrated photographs — and the rising Sun, hidden, 60° to the right.
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Silly-le-Long, 2015
A gendarmerie van on the RN2 at 00:50, a Moon almost full behind it, and a light aircraft on final that stays pinned to one spot as both close in. Switch to the GEIPAN's reading to see it — and how far it stays from what the driver described.
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Braine-le-Comte, 2015
A July night in Hainaut, 00:45, no Moon. Three observers on a lawn, each watching a different part of the sky, see a dark boomerang cross it in ten seconds — with orange lights for one, red lights for another, and none for the third. Open it full size to switch observer.
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Wilcox, 1964
Broad daylight, 10:00, New York State, with a cloud deck lifting from 800 m to 913 m across the two hours the record covers.
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Mission Viejo, 2026
Dusk in Orange County, 19:45. A yellow orb with an orange rim crosses the southern sky in two seconds and drops behind a tree line. Built from a single post on X and the witness's own sketch, with every guess marked as one.