LITTLE GREEN MAN

Field Guide

Case Files

Specific incidents — what happened, who saw it, what the record shows.

  • The Lake Huron Shootdown

    An F-16 shot down an unidentified octagonal object over Lake Huron in February 2023 — and never recovered it. Years later, gun-camera footage of that engagement became the viral centerpiece of the Pentagon's file release.

  • Gimbal & GoFast

    Two short Navy infrared clips from off the Eastern Seaboard — one of an object that appears to rotate, one of something skimming low over the water. Released by the Pentagon, argued over ever since.

  • The Aguadilla Thermal Video

    A federal aircraft's thermal camera filmed a small object skim over a Puerto Rico airport, cross the coastline, and dive into the ocean — apparently splitting in two. A volunteer science group spent years analyzing it.

  • The Stephenville Sightings

    Dozens of people around a small Texas town reported a huge, silent, fast object — among them a pilot and a county constable. Independent analysts later said the radar tracked something heading toward the president's ranch.

  • The USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" Encounter

    In November 2004, the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group tracked a wingless, fast-moving object off Southern California. The gun-camera video the Pentagon eventually confirmed is still the case everything else gets measured against.

  • The Phoenix Lights

    On one March night in 1997, thousands of Arizonans watched lights move across the sky. The Air Force says flares and A-10s. A sitting governor joked about it on camera — then said, years later, he'd seen something he couldn't explain.

  • The Ariel School Encounter

    Sixty-two children at a Zimbabwe school said a craft landed at the edge of the playground and a being looked back at them. A Harvard psychiatrist flew in to interview them one by one.

  • The Belgian Wave

    For roughly a year and a half, thousands of people across Belgium reported silent black triangles in the night sky. The air force scrambled F-16s, the radar lit up, and a senior general went on the record.

  • JAL Flight 1628 over Alaska

    A Japanese cargo 747 over Alaska reported a vast object pacing it for nearly an hour. The FAA logged radar returns and investigated. The captain who reported it was grounded for years.

  • The Rendlesham Forest Incident

    Over two nights in December 1980, U.S. airmen stationed in England reported lights — and, by one account, a landed craft — in a forest beside a nuclear-capable air base. A deputy base commander wrote it up in a memo the government later released.

  • The Tehran Incident

    Two Iranian Air Force jets scrambled on a brilliant object over Tehran. Both pilots reported instruments and weapons failing as they closed in. A U.S. intelligence memo documented the whole night.

  • The Travis Walton Abduction

    An Arizona logging crew said a craft lit up the forest and knocked their coworker to the ground. He vanished for five days. What happened next has been argued over — and polygraphed — ever since.

  • The Westall Encounter

    On an autumn morning in 1966, students and teachers at two schools outside Melbourne watched a silver object descend over a field, hover, and climb away. More than two hundred people say they saw it.

  • The Roswell Incident

    An Army air base announced it had recovered a 'flying disc,' then said it was a weather balloon — all within a day. Decades later the Air Force said it was a classified spy program. The founding myth of American UFO culture.