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This is a list of alleged sightings of UFOs in India

== Pre-historic era ==
* Pre-historic rock cave paintings found at Charama, [[Kanker district|Kanker]] [[Chhattisgarh]] state depict human figures wearing suits similar to modern day space suits and drawings similar to flying saucers, each with a fan-like antenna and three legs.<ref name=rashmi>{{cite news|last1=Drolia|first1=Rashmi|title=10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs found in Chhattisgarh|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/10000-year-old-rock-paintings-depicting-aliens-and-UFOs-found-in-Chhattisgarh/articleshow/38435091.cms|access-date=7 December 2014|publisher=Times of India|date=15 July 2014}}</ref>

== 1951 ==
* On 15 March, 10:20 a.m. in [[New Delhi]], 25 members of a flying club saw a cigar-shaped object in the sky which was about one hundred feet long. The UFO hovered for some time and then vanished from the sight.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nicap.org/510315newdelhi_dir.htm | title=Top Shelf Witnesses, Kolkata , India}}</ref>

== 2004 ==

* On September 24, a team of scientists in [[Chandra Taal|Samudra Tapu]] spotted a white object resembling a "snow man" on top of an adjacent mountain ridge at around 6:45 a.m. ''[[India Today]]'' speculated the UFO could be "a spy drone from across the border" or "a weather balloon".|<ref>{{Cite web|last1=DelhiNovember 2|first1=RAMESH VINAYAK New|last2=April 18|first2=2012UPDATED|last3=Ist|first3=2013 14:42|title=Was it a spy drone from across the border? Was it a weather balloon? Was it a UFO?|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/north/story/unidentified-flying-objects-ufo-sighting-in-himachal-pradesh-in-2005-120392-2012-11-02|access-date=2021-08-09|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref>

== 2007 ==
* On October 29, a fast moving object was spotted at 30° in the eastern horizon at Eastern [[Kolkata]] between 3:30 and 6:30 am and was filmed using a video camera. Its shape shifted from a sphere to a triangle and then to a straight line. The object emitted a bright light forming a halo and radiated a range of colours. It was spotted by many people and hundreds gathered along the [[E.M. Bypass]] to catch a glimpse of the UFO, triggering a frenzy. The video footage was released on a TV News channel and later shown to Dr. D P Duari, the director of MP [[Birla Planetarium, Kolkata]], who found it to be "extremely interesting and strange". Duari later identified the object as be the planet Venus.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131022131133/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-10-30/kolkata/27991931_1_object-ufo-meteor "UFO puzzle has city in a tizzy"]</ref><ref>[http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1130823/report-did-a-ufo-come-over-kolkata "Did a UFO come over Kolkata?"]</ref><ref>[http://www.merinews.com/article/kolkata-in-a-tizzy-over-ufo-sighting/127379.shtml "Kolkata in a tizzy over UFO sighting"]</ref>

== 2013 ==
* Residents of Mogappiar, [[Chennai]] observed five specks of bright orange light moving from south to north around 8.55 pm on 20 June and was later reported on the local newspaper on 23 June.<ref>{{cite news|title='UFO' sighted in Chennai?|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/ufo-sighted-in-chennai/article4842512.ece|access-date=7 December 2014|work=The Hindu|date=23 June 2013}}</ref>
* On 4 August, soldiers of Indian Army observed unidentified flying objects over Lagan Kher Area, Demchock, [[Ladakh]]. It was also reported that army troops had observed more than a hundred different incidents of UFO movements in the border areas of [[Arunachal Pradesh]] in the preceding seven months.<ref>{{cite news|title=Army troops sight UFO in Ladakh again|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/army-troops-sight-ufo-in-ladakh-again/article5035906.ece|access-date=7 December 2014|work=The Hindu|date=19 August 2014}}</ref>

==2014==
* A series of pictures of the sunset over the Rajajipuram area of [[Lucknow]] on 23 July claimed to show an UFO.<ref>{{cite news|title=Is that a UFO flying over Lucknow? |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ufo-aliens-spotted-flying-over-lucknow/1/373893.html|access-date=7 December 2014|publisher=India Today|date=24 July 2014}}</ref>
* A commercial pilot reportedly informed Mumbai Air Traffic Control room that she spotted a black and blueish UFO near [[Pune]] during the first week of October at a height of about 26,300 feet.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Avasthi |first1=Yogesh |title=It's a UFO! |url=http://www.punemirror.in/pune/others/Its-a-UFO/articleshow/44227269.cms|access-date=7 December 2014|publisher=Pune Mirror |date=4 October 2014}}</ref>
* A photograph published by the news media claimed to show a "nail shaped" UFO over [[Kochi]] in the southern Indian state of [[Kerala]] on 29 October.<ref>{{cite news|title=Is this an UFO in the sky above Kochi? |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/is-this-an-ufo-in-the-sky-above-kochi/1/398137.html|access-date=7 December 2014|publisher=India Today|date=30 October 2014}}</ref>

==2015==

*In Gorakhpur, [[Uttar Pradesh]], a local resident claimed to have taken a photo of a large UFO.<ref>http://daily.bhaskar.com/news-hf/TOP-pictures-of-ufo-in-gorakhpur-went-viral-5181358-PHO.html</ref> However, a rash of similar photos from other parts of the world depicting the appearance of a UFO similar to the one in the movie [[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]] were most likely "created using digital editing software or even a mobile phone app, as some on the market allow UFOs to be blended into pictures".<ref name=Express>{{cite web|last1=Austin|first1=Don|title=Biggest, best ever UFO photograph? Witnesses snap 'Independence Day-like mothership'|url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/612097/Biggest-best-ever-UFO-photograph-Witnesses-snap-Independence-Day-like-mothership|website=The Express|publisher=[[Daily Express]]|access-date=30 November 2015|quote=A news agency also released pictures this week of the same UFO allegedly spotted over the Heilongtan Reservoir in south-western China's Sichuan Province. There is also a CGI version of the "mothership" online, suggested the Indian images were created using digital editing software or even a mobile phone app, as some on the market allow UFOs to be blended into pictures.}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://mufoncms.com/last_20_report.html MUFON - Last 20 UFO Sightings and Pictures]

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