- Ghost Rockets - Many unidentified aerial objects were reported over Scandinavia in 1946 - 1947. They looked like missiles with a flame exhaust at one end flying at various speeds. They were thought to be Russian missile tests, but this was never verified.
- Gill, Father William Booth - Anglican missionary who reported UFOs over Boianai, Papua, New Guinea in 1959.
- Ghost Lights - See Spooklights.
- Goffstown, New Hampshire - Site of a UFO encounter on November 2, 1973.
- Green Fireballs - Objects seen in the skies of New Mexico, mainly in 1948 -1949. They had the appearance of brilliant green balls of light. Project Twinkle was set up to study them. They were never explained, but the best theory seems to be that they were some type of meteorite.
- Groom Lake - Another name for Area 51.It's the dry lake bed where the base was constructed.
- Grudge, Project - In 1949, Project Sign was replaced by Project Grudge, the second Air Force UFO investigation. Its name reflected its attitude. It mainly sought to debunk UFO sightings.
- Hill, Betty and Barney - Married couple who were purportedly abducted from their car by aliens in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in 1961. He was a postal worker and she was a social worker. Called the first "modern" abductees.
- Holland, Michigan - Site of multiple sightings by police in 1994.
- Hopkins, Budd - Abduction researcher and author. His books include Missing Time, Intruders, and Witnessed!.
- Hudson Valley - Area of New York State and Connecticut that was the site of a series of UFO sightings beginning in 1983.
- Huffman, Texas - Site of 1980 Cash-Landrum UFO incident.
- Hynek UFO sightings Classification System:
- Distant Sightings:
- Nocturnal Light - a light seen in the sky at night.
- Daylight Disk - Not necessarily disk-shaped. An object seen in the
daytime.
- Radar-Visual - An object seen on radar that is verified by a
visual observation.
- Close Encounters:
- Close Encounter of the First Kind - A UFO is seen at close range,
but there is no interaction with the environment.
- Close Encounter of the Second Kind - A UFO is seen at close range,
and physical traces or interaction with animals or objects is
noted.
- Close Encounter of the Third Kind - A UFO is seen at close range,
and occupants are noted.
- Hynek, J. Allen - Astronomer, Professor of Astronomy at Ohio State University (1935 - 1953); Advisor to Project Grudge(1948) - 1952; Advisor to Project Bluebook (1952 - 1969); Associate Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory at Harvard (1956 - 1960);Professor of Astronomy at Northwestern University (1960 - 1978) In 1973, he founded CUFOS, the Center for UFO studies.
- Illinois, Lebanon and Millstadt - A large UFO was seen by several police officers in this area on the night of January 5, 2000.
- Iran, 1976 - An Irani jet has a face-off with a mysterious object over Tehran.
- Irwin, Private Gerry - Nike missile technician from Fort Bliss, who had an odd experience after seeing an object land in a field in 1959. He later deserted and vanished.
- Jacobs, David M. - Abduction researcher and author. His books include The Threat and Secret Life.
- JAL1628 - Japan Airlines 747 that was followed by a UFO over Alaska in 1986.
- Jessup, Morris K. - Astronomer and author of UFO books, notably The Case for The UFO. Committed suicide in 1959.
Also see The Philadelphia Experiment
- Kecksburg, Pennsylvania - Site of a mysterious crash of an object in 1966.
- Kelly - Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Site where the Sutton family was beseiged by "goblins" in 1955.
- Keyhoe, Major Donald E. - U.S. Marine Corps. An aide to Charles Lindbergh. Began writing about UFOs for True magazine in 1949. Author: The Flying Saucers are Real, published in 1950. Later director of NICAP from 1957 to 1969.
- Kingman, Arizona - Site of an alleged UFO crash in May, 1953.
- kugelblitz - Supposedly a flying craft developed by the Nazis during World War Two.
- Lago de Cote - a lake in Costa Rica over which a government mapping camera on board an aircraft took an unexplained photo of an apparent UFO in 1971.
- Lagrange Points - Points in the orbit of a body around another body where their gravities are in equilibrium.
- Lazar, Robert "Bob" - UFO personality. Claimed to be a physicist who was hired by Edward Teller to reverse-engineer a UFO at Papoose Lake, near Area 51.
- Lear, John - Ex-CIA pilot. Son of Edward Lear, of Lear Jet fame. UFO personality & conspiracy theorist.
- LIUFON - The Long Island UFO Network.
- Loedding, Alfred - member of Project Sign.Also a designer of unusual aircraft.
- Long-Delay Echoes - A radio phenomenon in which transmissions are reflected back to Earth by some unknown mechanism.
- Loring AFB, Maine - U.S. Air Force Base. Site of some unusual UFO events on 27 October 1975.
- Lost Patrol - Flight 19 vanished in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945.
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