Sighting Collection

Coyne Helicopter / Ufo
Captain Lawrence J. Coyne, piloting a UH-1H helicopter observes a UFO at close quarters, the craft beaming a green light on the chopper near Mansfield, Ohio, USA

Ufos / Trindade Island
Flying saucer photographed over Trindade Island (Brazil) from naval training vessel Almirante Saldanha; the sighting lasted 30 seconds and was witnessed by many aboard

The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, book cover
THE FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY, a book by Donald E Keyhoe. The cover shows two airline pilots sighting a flying saucer through their cockpit window

Possible UFO sighting in Ireland
Was it an Irish flying saucer or merely an airborne leprechaun? A double-page spread relating to an incident that occurred in County Waterford, Ireland on the 26th December 1965

Catalina Flying Boat Catalina Flying Boat
Catalina Flying Boat - American consolidated flying boat. Two 1, 200 H.P. Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp Engines. Range 4, 000 miles. Depicted sighting the Bismarck. Date: circa 1940s

Argentina Creature
Argentina countryfolk report sighting of a plesiosaur-like creature : an expedition is planned in Buenos Aires.. but the creature is not found

Ufos / Ciampino / Italy
The sighting of this striking UFO by military personnel at Ciampino, one of Romes airports, is confirmed by radar

Alexandria Observatory
Alexandria observatory : an astronomer using a pre- telescopic sighting instrument

AURORA (1718)
An early sighting of the aurora

Sighting a Naval Field Gun - Boer War Military print, photo by Gregory and Co

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Vigilant and ready to fight to defend our Country'. Date: circa mid-1970s

SIGHTING A DRAGON
Four people sight a dragon in flight, each from his own perspective Date: 1702

Naval guns at Schwartzkop, South Africa
Sighting one of the 4.7 naval guns on the Boer position at Schwartzkop, South Africa, during the Second Boer War. Date: 1900

UFO sighting at Hessdalen, Norway
In Norways long-drawn-out winter twilight, it is possible to photograph a UFO even in near-darkness, thus enabling its position to be estimated, and so its size and velocity

Diogo Gomes and Antonio Nola discover Santiago
Portuguese Colonial History Series - Diogo Gomes and Antonio de Noli (Nola) discover the Island of Santiago (the largest island of the Cape Verde Islands) in 1460

Socorro Sighting 1964
Patrolman Lonnie Zamora sees a landed spacecraft, with two aliens standing nearby; they rapidly leave, leaving four scorch-marks where the legs had rested on the ground

Ufo over Brussels
Triangle-shaped UFO sighted over the outskirts of Brussels and seen on radar by two F16 jets of the Belgian airforce

UFO over the valley at Hessdalen, Norway
A characteristic sighting of a Hessdalen light as it moves down the valley, sometimes hovering. Some lights have been observed covering distances of 20 km, for a half hour or more

UFO sighting at Trans-en-Provence, France
A sketch of Renato Niccolais garden at Trans-en-Provence, France, where he claims a UFO came down from the sky, hovered or landed for a few seconds, then shot away again, leaving traces on the ground

Norman Muscarello
18-year old Muscarello reported a UFO to the police at EXETER, New Hampshire, and they confirmed his sighting; there were other alleged witnesses too

Austrian howitzer at Siemakowce, Galicia, WW1
An Austrian 305mm howitzer at Siemakowce, Galicia (now in Ukraine), on the Eastern Front during the First World War. The gunners are sighting the gun ready for firing. Date: 1915

Sighting a British 8 inch Howitzer, France, WW1
Gunners sighting a British 8 inch Howitzer in northern France during the First World War. Date: 1915-1918

Light in night sky at Hessdalen, Norway
One of the mysterious lights is photographed over the fjell, whose ridge is just visible in the late hours of twilight. Mysterious lights appear regularly over Hessdalen, Norway

Ufos / Muscarello / Exeter
At Exeter, New Hampshire, Norman Muscarello reports sighting of UFO to police, who also observe it

Kenneth Arnold stands beside his private aircraft, which he was flying when he had his landmark sighting on 24 June 1947 over the Cascade Mountains

Phantom Ship
Das Geisterschiff - sighting a ghostly sailing vessel Date: 1909

Pauline Serpent
Travellers on the Pauline, en route to Zanzibar, see a whale encircled by this serpent-like creature : the ships chaplain sketches it and Captain Drevar confirms the sighting Date: July 1875

Scouting leader sighting land, British Honduras
Scouting leader sighting land on a voyage to camp, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1951

Sperry automatic computing gun sight by G. H. Davis
A mechanical brain: the Sperry automatic computing gun sight, in use during the Second World War. An invention which enabled US bombers to target a large number of enemy fighters. Date: 1944

Escort carrier Archer by G. H. Davis
How the escort carrier Archer made her kill in the gap during the Second World War. The aircraft of the Archer, escorting an Atlantic convoy, sight and sink a German U-boat. Date: 1943

Allied gunners at work, Western Front, France, WW1
Allied gunners at work, sighting a 6-inch howitzer on a hot day on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Tactics in a torpedo action by G. H. Davis
What happens inside a British submarine when she sights enermy vessels and attacks with torpedoes. 1943

Training Camp for Royal Engineers at Aldershot Date: 1912

Artillery observers 1917
Artillery observers sighting on the Hindenburg Line for Australian battery in Bullecourt at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Patent Office Curiosities and Ingenuities
Some Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office! These include a popelling device, a helmet-mounted gun, a submersible lifesaving apparatus, a cool pipe

Emigrants sighting Australia, 1887
Engraving showing a group of emigrants on the deck, sighting Australia in the distance, 1887. The men are shown dressed in suits and bowler hats, whilst the women wear skirts, jackets, hats and shawls

Emigrants sighting land, 1871
Engraving showing a scene on the deck of an emigrant ship, as the passengers sight land, 1871. In the foreground a lady is sewing and a family with very young children look anxiously towards land

Advert / Sarsaparilla 1892
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Italian navigator catches sight of the land where Ayers Sarsparilla is made!

Ww1 Bvm Sighting
The Virgin Mary appears to some Russian soldiers in a cloud which conceals them from the Germans : they believe she was protecting them, and so must be on their side

French Artillery - 2
A soldier of the horse artillery of the French Garde Royale sighting a cannon; behind him another gun is being loaded

Meteor seen above fields from Fulham Road, London
A meteor seen above the fields from the Fulham Road, West London

London Aerial Vision
Aerial vision seen over London by two night watchmen - the 18th century equivalent of a UFO sighting by a police patrol

Flying Dutchman
A sighting of the Flying Dutchman

Comet seen from Nuremberg, Germany
Depiction of a comet seen from Nuremberg, Germany, every night from 14 to 24 December 1664

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