Encounter Atlas
Why it matters
The most detailed set of modern pilot sightings ever released, with exact positions for most of them. We've mapped every one.
What is in it
575 pilot and controller reports. We have mapped 572 of them and sorted them by state.
Official releases / USUnited States
FAA pilot UAP reports (RG 615)
Hundreds of short incident reports from the FAA's Washington Operations Center and its Skywatch system: an airliner or business jet crew radios air traffic control about lights, orbs or objects, and the FAA logs the callsign, aircraft type, altitude, position and what was seen. Many note whether radar saw anything and a few say the lights matched Starlink satellites.