CASE
MAP

The notable unexplained cases, pinned where they happened.
Click a pin for the summary and the file.

The map

Pins mark town centers, never exact locations — the cases happened in or near these towns, and the pins say no more than that. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles © CARTO (dark matter). Built with Leaflet, loaded from this site — no map data leaves your browser to a third party except the tile images themselves.

The cases on the map

Great Falls, Montana — Aug 15, 1950, the Mariana film. NARA file ↗
Lubbock, Texas — Aug–Sep 1951, the Lubbock Lights. NARA file ↗
Tremonton, Utah — Jul 2, 1952, the Newhouse film. war.gov/ufo ↗ (PURSUE Rel. 06)
Washington, D.C. — Jul 19–20 & 26–27, 1952, radar over the capital. NARA image ↗
Lakenheath–Bentwaters, England — Aug 13–14, 1956, radar-visual at two RAF bases. Pinned at Lakenheath; the sightings spanned both bases. NARA file ↗
Levelland, Texas — Nov 2–3, 1957, stalled cars and a glowing egg. NARA file ↗
Socorro, New Mexico — Apr 24, 1964, the landing that left traces. NARA file ↗
Minot AFB, North Dakota — Oct 24, 1968, a B-52, radar, and a bright light. NARA file ↗

One case has no pin: the RB-47 encounter of July 17, 1957 happened over the Gulf of Mexico, tracked for 700+ miles by an Air Force reconnaissance crew — there is no town to pin, so it is not on the map. Its file is at the National Archives, NAID 28970538 ↗.

The full table, with what the record says about each case: The 701 — the unexplained cases • Back to the homepage