- Ball Lightning - A little understood and very rare form of lightning. Some scientists doubt its existence because all of the evidence is anecdotal. The descriptions most often given are that it is spherical, short-lived, usually only a few centimeters in diameter, and is seen accompanying ordinary lightning. It has been used by some to explain UFO sightings, although it fits very few sighting descriptions.
- Bass Strait - Strait between Southern Australia and Tasmania where Frederich Valentich's aircraft vanished in 1978,
- Belgian UFO Sightings - Eupen & Wavre, Belgium were the site of a series of mysterious UFO sightings in 1989 - 1990.
- Bennewitz, Paul - An Albuquerque, New Mexico physicist and electronics firm owner. He was also a member of the APRO UFO group, and in 1979 he began monitoring strange lights over the Manzano Test Range Facility. Originator of the Dulce base story. Click on the link for an interesting story.
- Bentwaters-Woodbridge - Forest near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. It was the site of a well-known UFO event on 27 December 1980. Also known as the Rendlesham Forest UFO event.
- Bermuda Triangle - A triangle-shaped area of ocean formed roughly by the island of Bermuda, the island of Puerto Rico, and the eastern coast of Florida. UFOs are often seen in the area. There is a popular myth that ships and planes vanish mysteriously in the area. However, statistics do not bear this out, and an analysis of the claimed incidents shows that many of them did not even occur within the triangle. In addition, close examination of the records show that most of the other incidents have non-mysterious explanations.
- Black Aircraft - Experimental top secret aircraft whose development is paid for out of the black budget. The U-2 spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, and the Stealth Fighter all began as "Black Aircraft." Many of these aircraft are tested at Area 51.
- Black Budget - A "slush fund" of federal budget money that can be spent without specific justification to Congress. This is possible because it is deemed necessary for defense research in order to maintain National Security.
- Blue Book, Project - The third, and longest lasting, Air Force UFO investigation. It's main objective was to explain [away] UFO reports.
- Boianai, Papua, New Guinea - Anglican missionary Father William Booth Gill reported UFOs over Boianai, Papua, New Guinea in 1959.
- Brazel, William "Mac" - Sheep rancher who first discovered the Roswell debris on the Foster Ranch in 1947.
- Buff Ledge, Vermont - Site of an alleged abduction by a UFO in 1969.
- Cartaret, New Jersey - Site of a wave of UFO sightings in 2001.
- Cash - Landrum Incident - In 1980, near Huffman, Texas, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Betty's grandson Colby had a close encounter with a UFO that was apparently being escorted by military helicopters. The three, particularly Betty Cash, then had a series of health problems that they felt were related to their encounter.
- Cattle Mutilations - Ranchers find cattle dead, with soft body parts such as eyes, lips, udders, and sex organs surgically removed. Whodunnit? Sometimes UFOs are seen concurrently with the mutilations, and sometimes black helicopters are seen in the area.
- Chiles, Clarence - Eastern Airlines pilot who sighted a UFO near Montgomery, Alabama, on July 24, 1948.
- China - A wave of UFO sightings occurred in China at the end of 1999.
- Cigar - Some UFOs have been reported to be cigar-shaped.
- Close Encounters: See Hynek UFO Classification System.
- Condon Report - In 1966, the US Air Force commissioned the University of Colorado to make a scientific study of UFOs. Headed by Dr. Edward Condon, in 1969 the group published The Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects which debunked the UFO phenomena. The Condon Report was used as an excuse to close down Project Blue Book, which many say was its only purpose anyhow.
- Contactee - A person who claims that aliens have visited him personally.
- Cooper, Milton William "Bill" - Radio personality and writer of Behold a Pale Horse. Noted for various conspiracy theories.
- Corning, California - Site of a wave of UFO sightings by police in 1960.
- Corso, Colonel Philip J. - Retired U.S. Army, author of The Day After Roswell. Claimed in the book to have been given technology from the crashed Roswell UFO for the purpose of leaking the technology surreptitiously to American industry and the military.
- Cowichan District Hospital - Hospital at Duncan, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island. Location of a UFO encounter on January 1, 1970.
- Coyne, Captain Lawrence J. - Coyne & others aboard a National Guard helicopter had a close brush with a UFO in 1973 near Mansfield, Ohio.
- Crop Circles - In the 1970s, large, circles of flattened grain began to appear in British fields. The circles gradually became more complex, forming something like pictograms. Many researchers tried to explain them by theories including magnetic fields, plasma vortices, twisters, alien visitors leaving messages, and love crazed hedgehogs. In 1991, two guys named Doug Bower and Dave Chorley of Southampton in Britain announced that they had been making crop circles for 15 years. They had hatched the idea over a pint or two in their local pub. No matter. The circles continue to appear, and have spread all over the world.
- CUFOS - Center for UFO Studies - Group founded by Astronomer J. Allen Hynek in 1973.
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