While there are many reliable and genuine UFO reports, there are also hoaxes, misinterpretations and psychologically generated cases which are often referenced as reliable. In some instances, this is because the cases were discredited long ago, or in obscure journals.

In the interest of aiding researchers and others in this regard, I have started this page as a collection of such reports.

To be eligible for this page, a case must have gained some currency in the UFO community, and its disconfirmation must have been supported by a credible UFO researcher.[footnote 1]

• The Alexander Hamilton 1897 cattle abduction case.
• The 1967 Mount Clemens photographs
• The Gideon saucer, from October 1959, Mariannelund, Sweden
• Magonia 41 - Aug 21, 1915, During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated in an affidavit. (discredited in Brookesmith, "UFOs The Complete Sightings")
• Magonia 56 - Jun. 21, 1947, Harold A. Dahl and others allegedly saw six tire-shaped objects, 30 m in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over Puget Sound. One of the objects exploded, showering the witnesses with metal. Officially regarded as hoax.
• The 1965 Beaver PA photographs have recently been admitted by the claimants to be a hoax.
• The 1957 Silpho Saucer case is thought to be an elaborate and expensive hoax (external reference)
• The 1999 Knutsford landing case is thought to be a hoax (external reference).

Footnotes

1. Many "skeptics" claim to have discredited various famous UFO reports (Exeter caused by a kite, the Gill sighting by a mirage, the Soccorro landing by a hot air balloon, etc.). Those explanations, however, all rely on omission or distortion of case data, interpretations of physical / psychological phenomena contrary to that accepted by experts in those fields, or unprovable assumptions (the presence of uncaught, unrumored hoaxers, for instance). Such "explanations" are not eligible for this collection.