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In January and February 2015, Navy F/A-18 pilots attached to the USS Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group operating off the U.S. East Coast recorded two FLIR videos, Gimbal and GoFast, showing objects exhibiting no visible propulsion or control surfaces; one object rotated against the wind while the other tracked at low altitude over ocean at speeds the pilots could not explain.

On April 25, 2013, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft departing Aguadilla Airport in Puerto Rico captured infrared video of a small object flying at low altitude, passing through restricted airspace, appearing to enter the ocean, and then re-emerging, behavior analyzed in a 165-page report by the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies that concluded the object's performance exceeded known aerial systems.

On January 8, 2008, hundreds of witnesses near Stephenville, Texas, observed a large silent object traveling at high speed toward the Crawford Ranch; MUFON obtained FAA radar data via FOIA showing an unidentified target moving at up to 532 mph with no transponder signal, performing maneuvers inconsistent with any known conventional aircraft.

On November 7, 2006, at least twelve United Airlines employees, including pilots, mechanics, and supervisors, observed a silent, dark metallic disc hovering above Gate C-17 at O'Hare International Airport for approximately five minutes before it shot upward through solid cloud cover, leaving a circular hole that closed behind it.

On November 14, 2004, Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group visually observed a 40-foot white object shaped like a Tic Tac candy hovering above a churning patch of ocean southwest of San Diego; the USS Princeton's Aegis radar had been tracking objects descending 80,000 feet in under a second for days prior.

On March 13, 1997, thousands of Arizona and Nevada residents observed two separate events over Phoenix: a silent V-shaped formation of lights traversing the state at low altitude, and a stationary arc of brilliantly lit objects visible for 106 minutes; then-Governor Fife Symington mocked witnesses publicly but stated in 2007 that he personally witnessed 'something otherworldly.'

On the night of March 8, 1994, more than 300 callers across 42 Michigan counties reported multicolored cylindrical objects performing erratic maneuvers over Lake Michigan; a National Weather Service radar operator at Muskegon County Airport tracked fast-moving returns that could not be attributed to any weather phenomenon.

On November 17, 1986, Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 crew reported that two small craft and then a massive walnut-shaped object shadowed their Boeing 747 for approximately 50 minutes over Alaska; FAA Division Chief John Callahan later testified that CIA officers attended the classified debrief and instructed participants the meeting had never occurred.

Between 1982 and 1986, more than 5,000 residents of New York's Hudson Valley and Fairfield County, Connecticut, reported observing a massive, silent, boomerang-shaped craft carrying bright multicolored lights; J. Allen Hynek co-authored an investigation published as 'Night Siege' (1987), and law enforcement officers submitted independent reports.

On December 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and her seven-year-old grandson Colby encountered a diamond-shaped craft expelling flames above a road near Dayton, Texas; all three suffered symptoms consistent with radiation exposure, and Cash was hospitalized with blistering and hair loss within days.

On November 5, 1975, six members of a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests near Snowflake, Arizona, reported watching Travis Walton approach a hovering object and be knocked down by a beam of light; five of the six crew members passed law-enforcement polygraph examinations about what they witnessed, and Walton reappeared five days later.

On October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported that three creatures emerged from an oval craft on the Pascagoula River, Mississippi, and subjected them to a physical examination; officers who secretly recorded the men after their report found their story remained consistent when they believed they were unobserved.

At approximately 2:00 a.m. on September 3, 1965, 18-year-old Norman Muscarello and two Exeter, New Hampshire police officers independently observed a large, silent disc with five sequentially flashing red lights hovering 100 feet above a field before departing at high speed; the Air Force later wrote that it could not identify the object.

On the night of November 2–3, 1957, at least seven separate motorists on two different roads near Levelland, Texas, reported that their engines and headlights failed simultaneously as an egg-shaped luminous object passed overhead, then restarted when it departed, with over 15 calls made to the local police station within two hours.

On August 21–22, 1955, eleven members of two families at a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky, reported a sustained multi-hour encounter with small, luminous, humanoid figures; police, state troopers, and military police from Fort Campbell responded to the scene, and witnesses maintained their account consistently despite intensive questioning.

On the nights of July 19–20 and July 26–27, 1952, radar operators at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base simultaneously tracked unidentified objects over the restricted airspace above the U.S. capital; intercepting F-94 jets found the objects only to watch them vanish from radar, then reappear when the fighters departed.

Between August and September 1951, three Texas Tech professors observed formations of 20–30 lights passing silently over Lubbock, Texas, in under 30 seconds; freshman Carl Hart Jr. photographed five separate passes on August 30, producing images published in Life magazine that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base analysts could neither authenticate nor disprove.

On July 24, 1948, Eastern Airlines captains Clarence Chiles and John Whitted reported that a wingless, cigar-shaped craft roughly 100 feet long passed within 700 feet of their DC-3 near Montgomery, Alabama, at 5,000 feet altitude, with an exhaust flame visible from the rear, a sighting that convinced Project Sign analysts UFOs were interplanetary.

On January 7, 1948, Kentucky Air National Guard Captain Thomas Mantell died when his P-51 Mustang crashed near Franklin, Kentucky, after he climbed in pursuit of a large, luminous object tracked by multiple control towers and reported by civilian witnesses; he was the first U.S. military pilot to die during a UFO pursuit.

On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine crescent-shaped objects flying at roughly 1,200 mph near Mount Rainier, Washington, a credible sighting that introduced the term 'flying saucer' into public discourse and triggered the first formal USAF investigation program.

In July 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field public affairs office issued a press release announcing recovery of a 'flying disc' from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico; the statement was retracted within hours in favor of a weather balloon explanation, and a 1995 GAO audit found that outgoing Roswell base message traffic from the period had been destroyed.

On February 24–25, 1942, the U.S. Army fired more than 1,400 anti-aircraft shells over Los Angeles after radar operators and ground observers reported unidentified objects; five civilians died in the chaos, and no enemy aircraft or debris was ever recovered.