Modern Encounters
Contemporary UFO and UAP sightings, close calls, and unexplained incidents.
Modern EncountersThe Voronezh Landing: When Soviet State Media Said It Was Real
In 1989, the official news agency of the Soviet Union told the world that a UFO had landed in a city park — and that children had watched a towering, three-eyed being step out of it. Closed states do not file reports like that for fun.
Modern EncountersRendlesham Forest: The Encounter the Military Wrote Down
Over three nights in December 1980, U.S. airmen guarding a nuclear-capable base in England walked into the trees after a light — and one of them says he touched the craft. Their deputy commander put it in an official memo.
Modern EncountersRoswell, 1947: The Press Release the Military Took Back
The U.S. military announced it had recovered a 'flying disc' near Roswell — and then unannounced it within hours. Every cover story since has been an attempt to explain away that first, honest sentence.
Modern EncountersThe Phoenix Lights: The Night a Whole City Looked Up
On March 13, 1997, thousands of Arizonans watched a silent, mountain-sized V of lights glide over their homes. You cannot mass-hallucinate something that blots out the stars.
Modern EncountersThe Tic Tac Incident: Inside the 2004 Nimitz Encounter
For two weeks off the coast of California, a U.S. carrier group tracked something that should not be able to exist. Then they sent two fighter jets to look it in the eye.