Crafts
Craft types as reported
The shapes witnesses describe, grouped by type. Every characteristic is a report, not a specification, and each type lists the explanations that have been offered for it.
AI illustrationAnderson sphere (NSWC Crane display)
A basketball-sized metallic sphere that Randy Anderson, a former Air Force security policeman, says he saw levitating above a podium in an…
1 craft · 1 site · 2 people · 1 event · 4 sources
AI illustrationAurora (rumoured hypersonic aircraft)
A rumoured Mach-5 Lockheed reconnaissance aircraft, named from a 1985 budget line and blamed for unexplained sonic booms and triangular sightings in…
2 crafts · 2 sites · 5 people · 1 event · 7 sources
Hardware photograph · contextAvrocar (Avro Canada VZ-9)
A real 1950s disc-shaped vehicle built by Avro Canada for the US military, with a central fan and a saucer planform.
1 craft · 2 sites · 4 people · 1 event · 7 sources
Replica model · contextBell / acorn shape
A rounded body wider at the base than the top — acorn, bell or “jello mold” — known from the 1965 Kecksburg recovery story and the wartime Die…
2 crafts · 2 sites · 7 people · 1 event · 8 sources
AI illustrationBlack triangle
A large, dark, silent triangle with a light at each corner, reported hovering low over bases and towns.
3 crafts · 4 sites · 8 people · 1 footage · 4 events · 11 sources
Witness drawing · archiveBoomerang / chevron
A wide V or boomerang, usually seen at night as a row of lights along each arm, gliding slowly and silently.
1 craft · 1 site · 4 people · 2 footage · 3 events · 7 sources
Source imageC-shaped / open-sided
Compare the Busan, Baltic and Yukon images, their source histories and the features visible in each.
3 core image cases · linked witness reports
AI illustrationCigar / cylinder
A long, wingless cylinder — “cigar-shaped” in older reports — described hovering horizontally or zooming past.
3 crafts · 3 sites · 6 people · 3 events · 8 sources
AI illustrationCube in a sphere
A dark grey or black cube suspended inside a translucent sphere, reported by Navy F/A-18 crews off the US east coast from 2014.
2 crafts · 1 site · 4 people · 2 footage · 1 event · 7 sources
AI illustrationDiamond / rhombus
A faceted, diamond-like object with smooth rather than sharp angles.
1 craft · 2 sites · 3 people · 1 footage · 2 events · 5 sources
Archival photograph · investigation recordEgg-shaped object
A smooth ovoid, white or metallic, seen in flight or reported recovered.
4 crafts · 2 sites · 7 people · 1 footage · 2 events · 9 sources
Archival photograph · reported objectFlying saucer / disc
The oldest reported shape: a flat, round, metallic-looking object, often with a dome on top, said to hover and move without wings or exhaust.
4 crafts · 2 sites · 9 people · 1 document · 1 footage · 3 events · 10 sources
AI illustrationLazar “Sport Model” saucer
The disc Bob Lazar says he worked on at S-4 near Papoose Lake in 1988–89: about 50 feet across, seamless, three seats too small for adults, a…
1 craft · 2 sites · 5 people · 1 document · 1 event · 9 sources
AI illustrationMothership
A very large object from which smaller lights or craft are seen to emerge or return.
3 crafts · 2 sites · 4 people · 2 events · 7 sources
Sensor recording · official releaseOrb / sphere
The most frequent shape in the corpus: a metallic or glowing ball, seen singly or in formation, hovering or pacing aircraft.
3 crafts · 3 sites · 8 people · 2 documents · 3 events · 9 sources
AI illustrationPlasma / ball of light
A self-luminous light with no visible hull — described as a ball of plasma, a pulsing golden orb or a fractal “crystal sphere” — that changes…
2 crafts · 1 being · 4 sites · 7 people · 2 events · 9 sources
Archival photograph · reported objectRoswell object (1947)
Whatever fell near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947.
3 crafts · 2 sites · 3 people · 4 documents · 1 event · 8 sources
Sensor recording · official releaseTic Tac
A smooth white capsule with no wings, exhaust or seams, named by Cmdr.
4 crafts · 3 sites · 7 people · 2 documents · 3 footage · 3 events · 9 sources
Place photograph · contextVarginha craft (1996)
The object said to have come down near Varginha, Brazil in January 1996.
3 crafts · 1 being · 1 site · 3 people · 1 event · 7 sources