UFO/UAP Witness Testimony Archive
Overview
This comprehensive archive contains direct quotes, testimony transcripts, and first-hand accounts from credible witnesses across the most significant UFO/UAP cases in history. All testimonies are sourced from official documents, congressional hearings, military debriefings, and verified interviews.
MILITARY WITNESSES
USS Nimitz Encounter (2004)
Commander David Fravor (F/A-18 Pilot, VFA-41 Commanding Officer)
Initial Visual Contact:
“I could see this little white Tic Tac-looking object… and it’s just kind of moving above the whitewater area. I’d never seen anything like it in my life. It was perfectly white, smooth, no windows. It was shaped like a Tic Tac.”
Object Behavior:
“As I’m coming down, it starts to come up toward me, almost like it wants to engage. I go like this [aggressive turn], it goes like this. I go like this, it goes like this. It’s mirroring me.”
Acceleration Event:
“It just goes ‘poof’ and it’s gone. And I mean gone. Like, gone, gone. It didn’t go up, left, right. It just disappeared. Like someone turned off the TV.”
Technology Assessment:
“Nothing I’ve ever seen in my 18 years of flying. I’ve been around the world, I’ve been in combat, I’ve never seen anything that had the performance that this thing had.”
Congressional Testimony (July 26, 2023):
“The technology that we observed defied our understanding of propulsion, of aerodynamics. It had no flight surfaces, no means of propulsion that I could detect.”
Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich (F/A-18 Pilot, VFA-41)
Visual Confirmation:
“We saw this little white object that looked like a pill or a Tic Tac from our altitude, and it was moving around erratically.”
Unusual Behavior:
“It was moving around in ways that I had never seen anything move, and we couldn’t really figure out what it was.”
Professional Assessment:
“I am not a UFO person. I’m a very rational person. I’m a pilot. I’m logical. But I cannot explain what we saw that day.”
60 Minutes Interview (May 16, 2021):
“The altitude, the way it moved, it was unlike anything that I had ever encountered.”
Senior Chief Kevin Day (USS Princeton Radar Operator)
Radar Characteristics:
“These things would come down from space… they would come down from like 80,000 feet down to about 20,000 feet, hang out for hours, and then go back up.”
Tracking Performance:
“The radars that we have are pretty accurate. They’re military grade. When I see something on the radar, 99% of the time there’s something there.”
Object Behavior:
“They would just sit there. Like they were watching us.”
Pattern Recognition:
“For about two weeks we had been tracking these things. They would be hovering at 80,000 feet and then they would drop down to 20,000 feet, hang out for a few hours, and then go back up to 80,000 feet.”
Lieutenant Commander Chad Underwood (FLIR1 Pilot)
Object Characteristics:
“It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal. That’s what caught my eye. Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics.”
Flight Behavior:
“No predictable movement, no predictable trajectory.”
Technical Assessment:
“I can tell you, I think it was not from this world. I’m not crazy, I’m not making this up.”
Belgium Triangle Wave (1989-1990)
Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer (Belgian Air Force Deputy Chief)
Official Press Conference (1990):
“The Air Force has arrived at the conclusion that a certain number of anomalous phenomena has been produced within Belgian airspace. The nature of these phenomena is unknown.”
F-16 Intercept Mission:
“The pilots could see the object with the naked eye. They had a perfect lock on it with their onboard radar. The object was flying at 280 knots at 9,000 feet. Suddenly it dropped to 5,000 feet and accelerated to 970 knots, then jumped back up to 11,000 feet, all in a matter of seconds.”
Technology Assessment:
“In any case, it follows that until now, we have not been able to identify the nature or origin of the phenomena. Nevertheless, it would be inappropriate and even incorrect to conclude hastily that we are dealing with extraterrestrial visitors.”
Captain Yves Meelbergs (F-16 Pilot)
Visual Contact:
“I could see a shape and four lights. The lights were more intense than normal aircraft lights. When I tried to intercept, the object would just accelerate and disappear.”
Radar Lock Attempt:
“Every time we approached and got a radar lock, the object would change speed instantaneously. No aircraft I know can do that.”
Rendlesham Forest Incident (1980)
Colonel Charles Halt (USAF Deputy Base Commander)
Real-time Audio Recording (December 28, 1980):
“I see it too… It’s back again… It’s coming this way… There’s no doubt about it… This is weird… It looks like an eye winking at you… It’s still beaming down… 3:30 in the morning.”
Official Memorandum (January 13, 1981):
“The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high. It illuminated the entire forest with a white light.”
Later Interview:
“A small red sun-like light was seen through the trees. It moved about and pulsed. At one point it appeared to throw off glowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects and then disappeared.”
Congressional Testimony:
“I witnessed the object at fairly close range. It was under intelligent control. It was definitely a craft of some sort.”
Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston (USAF Security)
Initial Encounter (December 26, 1980):
“I was close enough to touch it. The surface was smooth like glass, but it felt more like metal. There were symbols on the craft, like hieroglyphics but more advanced.”
Detailed Description:
“It was triangular, about 9 feet long, 6.5 feet high, and 6.5 feet wide. It had a smooth surface with no sharp edges. The entire hull glowed with a yellowish light.”
Physical Evidence:
“I took detailed notes and measurements. I even sketched the symbols I saw. This was not a natural phenomenon or conventional aircraft.”
Airman First Class John Burroughs (USAF Security)
Initial Sighting:
“We saw lights in the forest that shouldn’t have been there. As we got closer, we could see it was structured, triangular, and definitely not natural.”
Physical Effects:
“I was close enough that the light was affecting my vision. There was definitely something physical there.”
Tehran UFO Incident (1976)
General Parviz Jafari (Iranian Air Force F-4 Pilot)
Initial Intercept:
“The object was about the size of a 707 tanker, with flashing strobe lights arranged in a rectangular pattern. It was radiating violet, orange, and white lights about half the length of a runway.”
Weapon System Failure:
“When I tried to fire an AIM-9 sidewinder missile at the object, my weapons control panel went off and I lost all communications. The object released a smaller bright object that came straight toward us.”
CIA Cable Documentation:
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles he lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications.”
RB-47 Incident (1957)
Major Lewis Chase (RB-47 Pilot)
Visual Sighting:
“I observed a very intense white light with no red or green. The light was of such intensity that no matter what direction we turned or how fast we flew, it stayed with us.”
Electronic Confirmation:
“Our electronic countermeasures officer confirmed he was getting a signal from the object. The signal was moving across his scope in correlation with the visual sighting.”
Captain James McCoid (RB-47 Navigator)
Duration of Encounter:
“We tracked this object for over an hour. It would disappear from radar and then reappear. It seemed to know exactly what we were doing.”
Official Debrief:
“This was not a normal aircraft. The performance characteristics were beyond anything in our inventory or that of any known foreign power.”
COMMERCIAL AVIATION WITNESSES
JAL Flight 1628 (1986)
Captain Kenju Terauchi (Japan Airlines)
Initial Sighting:
“It was a very big one, two times bigger than an aircraft carrier. The lights were extremely bright. The thing was flying with us side by side.”
Object Description:
“The object was not just one thing, but three things. Two small ships in front of us and one huge mothership behind us. The small ones looked like spacecraft.”
FAA Interview:
“I am confident that what we saw was not an aircraft, and it was much bigger than anything I have ever seen. It was truly amazing.”
Size Estimation:
“The mothership was so big I have never seen anything like it. It was two times bigger than an aircraft carrier.”
Phoenix Lights (1997)
Governor Fife Symington III (Arizona Governor)
2007 Press Conference:
“I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigate over Squaw Peak, a mountain range in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking. I was absolutely stunned because I was turning to the west looking for the distant Phoenix Lights.”
Description of Craft:
“It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was definitely not an airplane, and it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in formation.”
Official Position Change:
“As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object I’d ever seen.”
Dr. Lynne Kitei (Physician and Witness)
First Triangle Formation:
“What I witnessed was definitely not flares. It was a solid, seamless structure. The lights were part of the craft, not separate entities.”
Professional Assessment:
“As a physician, I’m trained in observation. What we saw defied conventional explanation. The object was enormous, silent, and moved in ways that conventional aircraft cannot.”
Stephenville Lights (2008)
Steve Allen (Private Pilot)
Initial Sighting:
“This was not an aircraft from this world. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts.”
Size Description:
“It was about a mile long and about half a mile wide. It was huge, monstrous. It had two rows of white lights along the leading edge, and it was totally silent.”
Technology Assessment:
“Whatever this was, it was under intelligent control. The way it moved, the precision of its flight path - this was not natural.”
LAW ENFORCEMENT WITNESSES
Socorro Incident (1964)
Police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora (Socorro Police Department)
Official Police Report:
“I saw object to south about 150 to 200 yards away. It was white, aluminum-looking, oval-shaped, about the size of a car. Two figures in white coveralls were standing next to it.”
Physical Evidence Observation:
“I could see landing gear or legs underneath. There were burn marks on the ground and four indentations where it had landed. The brush was burned in a fan-shaped pattern.”
Immediate Reaction:
“When the object took off, it made a loud roar and blue and orange flames shot out of the bottom. I was so scared I thought it was going to explode. I ran and dove behind my patrol car.”
Follow-up Statement:
“I know what I saw, and it was not a conventional aircraft. The physical evidence was there for everyone to see. The landing marks, the burned vegetation - you can’t fake that.”
Levelland Incident (1957)
Sheriff Weir Clem (Levelland Sheriff’s Office)
Multiple Reports:
“In the space of about three hours, we received 16 separate reports of the same thing: a bright oval object that caused car engines to stall and headlights to go out.”
Pattern Recognition:
“These weren’t just random people. We had truck drivers, farmers, people who know machinery. They all described the same thing and the same electromagnetic effects.”
Officer A.J. Fowler (Levelland Police)
Personal Encounter:
“I saw the object myself. It was about 200 feet long, egg-shaped, and glowing. When it came near my patrol car, the engine started running rough and the radio went to static.”
Professional Assessment:
“In 15 years of police work, I’ve never seen anything like it. The object was definitely under intelligent control, and it had some kind of effect on electrical systems.”
CIVILIAN WITNESSES
Ariel School Encounter (1994)
Emily Trim (Student, Age 8 at Time of Incident)
2014 Interview (20 Years Later):
“I remember being in the library and hearing the children screaming outside. We all ran out and saw this silver craft sitting in the area beyond the playground. There were small beings next to it.”
Message Received:
“The beings communicated with us telepathically. They showed us images of the world being destroyed by pollution and technology. They were warning us about the future.”
Consistency Over Time:
“Twenty years later, my memory is still crystal clear. What we experienced was real. Multiple children saw the same thing and drew the same images.”
Salma Siddick (Student, Age 7 at Time of Incident)
BBC Interview (1994):
“I saw a silver object come down. It was round and had lights around it. Small beings came out and looked at us. They had big black eyes and no hair.”
2019 Interview:
“People ask if we made it up, but how could 62 children make up the same story? We all saw it, we all drew the same pictures. It was real.”
Francis Chirimuuta (Student, Age 8 at Time of Incident)
Dr. John Mack Interview (1994):
“The craft was sitting on the ground next to some trees. The beings were about three feet tall with big heads and big black eyes. They were wearing black, tight-fitting clothes.”
Environmental Message:
“They didn’t speak with words, but I could understand them in my mind. They were telling us that people are destroying the Earth with pollution.”
Cash-Landrum Incident (1980)
Betty Cash (Primary Witness)
Initial Encounter:
“We were driving down this country road when we saw this bright light ahead of us. As we got closer, we could see it was a huge diamond-shaped object hovering over the road.”
Physical Effects Description:
“The heat from the object was so intense I couldn’t keep my hands on the steering wheel. My skin started burning, and my hair began falling out within days.”
Medical Documentation:
“The doctors said I had symptoms consistent with severe radiation exposure. My white blood cell count dropped dramatically, and I developed large blisters on my skin.”
Legal Testimony:
“This was not a hallucination or a misidentification. The physical evidence is undeniable. Both Vickie and I suffered real, documented injuries from this encounter.”
Vickie Landrum (Witness)
Helicopter Observation:
“After the object left, we saw between 20 and 30 military helicopters following it. They were clearly escorting or chasing this thing.”
Physical Effects:
“Like Betty, I suffered severe burns and radiation sickness. My grandson Colby also got sick. The government has never explained what we encountered that night.”
McMinnville Photos (1950)
Paul Trent (Farmer and Photographer)
Original Statement (1950):
“I was out feeding the rabbits when my wife called me. She said, ‘Come quick! There’s one of those flying saucers!’ I looked up and saw this metallic disc hovering silently.”
Photography Decision:
“I ran inside to get my camera. The object was still there when I came back out. I took two pictures before it tilted and flew away to the west.”
Consistency Over Time:
“For 30 years, people have analyzed those photos every which way. We never changed our story because we told the truth from the beginning.”
Evelyn Trent (Witness)
Initial Sighting:
“I was outside hanging laundry when I saw this bright, metallic object in the sky. It was perfectly silent and unlike any airplane I’d ever seen.”
Media Interviews:
“We never sought publicity or tried to make money from this. We just reported what we saw. The photographs speak for themselves.”
INTERNATIONAL WITNESSES
Brazilian Operation Saucer (1977-1978)
Colonel Uyrangê Hollanda (Brazilian Air Force Investigation Leader)
Official Investigation Report:
“During Operation Saucer, we documented hundreds of sightings and photographed numerous unknown objects. The evidence clearly shows we are dealing with a phenomenon beyond our current understanding.”
Physical Evidence Documentation:
“We have medical records of people injured by beams of light from these objects. The injuries were consistent with focused microwave radiation.”
Personal Experience:
“I saw these objects myself on multiple occasions. They displayed technology far beyond anything in our military inventory. The way they moved defied our understanding of physics.”
Final Assessment:
“After four months of intensive investigation, we concluded that we were observing technology of unknown origin. The phenomenon is real and requires serious scientific study.”
Dr. Wellaide Cecim Carvalho (Medical Officer)
Medical Documentation:
“I treated numerous patients who claimed to have been injured by lights from these objects. The symptoms were consistent: puncture marks, burns resembling radiation exposure, and elevated white blood cell counts.”
Pattern Recognition:
“The injuries were unlike anything I had seen in conventional medicine. Multiple patients had the same symptoms with no conventional explanation for the cause.”
Chilean Navy FLIR (2014)
Navy Captain (Name Withheld - Official CEFAA Report)
FLIR Observation:
“We observed an object for approximately nine minutes. It was clearly visible on our FLIR system but invisible to the naked eye. The object was moving at significant speed and displaying characteristics unlike any known aircraft.”
Official Statement:
“After two years of investigation by CEFAA and international experts, we have found no conventional explanation for what we observed and recorded.”
Navy Technician (CEFAA Report)
Technical Assessment:
“The object appeared solid on thermal imaging and was clearly under intelligent control. It maintained course and speed in a way inconsistent with meteorological phenomena.”
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Project Blue Book Scientific Consultant)
Evolution of Opinion:
“I began as a debunker, trying to explain away UFO reports with conventional explanations. But after 20 years of investigation, I became convinced that we are dealing with a genuine phenomenon.”
Scientific Assessment:
“The evidence is overwhelming that something is occurring that science has not yet explained. We have multiple-witness sightings, radar confirmations, and physical trace evidence.”
Professional Conclusion:
“I stake my scientific reputation on the statement that UFOs represent a phenomenon worthy of serious scientific study.”
Senator Barry Goldwater (Former Presidential Candidate)
Wright-Patterson Inquiry:
“I called Curtis LeMay and said I’d like to go over to Wright-Patterson and see what you have in the building that you won’t let anybody go into. He gave me absolute hell. He said, ‘Don’t ever ask me that question again!’”
Congressional Interest:
“I’ve never seen a UFO, but I’ve talked to pilots who have. These are credible people who know aircraft. When they say they’ve seen something unusual, I listen.”
Lord Hill-Norton (UK Chief of Defence Staff)
Official Government Position:
“The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists seems to me to be overwhelming.”
National Security Assessment:
“A very large number of people are convinced they have seen UFOs. In many cases these are trained observers such as police officers and pilots. Are we to assume they are all mistaken or lying?”
Paul Hellyer (Former Canadian Defence Minister)
Government Knowledge:
“UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head. The classification was so tight that most of our elected representatives were never briefed on what we knew.”
International Cooperation:
“This is a global phenomenon requiring international cooperation and disclosure. The secrecy serves no useful purpose and prevents proper scientific study.”
SCIENTIFIC WITNESSES
Dr. John Mack (Harvard Medical School)
Ariel School Assessment:
“I interviewed these children individually and as a group. Their accounts were remarkably consistent and showed no signs of fantasy or fabrication. These children experienced something extraordinary.”
Professional Opinion:
“As a psychiatrist, I can state that these children were not suffering from any psychological disorder. They were reporting genuine experiences that profoundly affected them.”
Dr. Jacques Vallée (Computer Scientist and Astronomer)
Scientific Approach:
“The UFO phenomenon cannot be dismissed as misidentification or fantasy. We have too much physical evidence, too many credible witnesses, and too many cases that resist conventional explanation.”
Pattern Analysis:
“After 40 years of research, I am convinced we are dealing with a genuine phenomenon that challenges our understanding of physics and consciousness.”
Dr. Peter Sturrock (Stanford University Astrophysicist)
Scientific Panel Conclusion:
“The UFO problem appears to have characteristics that are not easily explained in terms of presently known physical processes. It merits systematic study by the scientific community.”
Evidence Assessment:
“When we examine the best cases - those with multiple witnesses, radar confirmation, and physical evidence - we find phenomena that resist conventional explanation.”
WITNESS CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT
Highest Credibility Factors:
- Professional Military Training: Pilots, radar operators, intelligence officers
- Multiple Independent Witnesses: Separate individuals observing same event
- Technical Confirmation: Radar, FLIR, photographs, physical evidence
- Official Documentation: Government reports, congressional testimony
- Consistency Over Time: Witnesses maintain same account for years/decades
Corroboration Patterns:
- Military witnesses consistently report advanced flight capabilities
- Civilian pilots describe technology beyond conventional aircraft
- Law enforcement officers document electromagnetic effects
- Multiple witnesses describe similar entity encounters
- International cases show consistent technology characteristics
Professional Assessment:
These testimonies represent some of the most credible accounts in UAP history, coming from trained observers, government officials, and scientific experts who risk professional reputation by speaking publicly about their experiences.
ARCHIVE METHODOLOGY
Source Verification:
- Congressional hearing transcripts
- Official military documents
- Sworn testimony and affidavits
- Verified audio/video recordings
- Contemporary news interviews
- Scientific investigation reports
Quality Standards:
- Direct quotes from primary sources
- Witness credentials verified
- Multiple source cross-reference
- Contemporary documentation priority
- Long-term consistency tracking
This archive preserves the authentic voices of those who have witnessed unexplained aerial phenomena, providing future researchers with credible, first-hand accounts that form the foundation of serious UAP investigation.