First UFO sighting by a pilot
- Who
- Unknown
- What
- First
- Where
- United Kingdom (Rochford,)
- When
- 31 January 1916
The world’s earliest sighting of a UFO by a pilot occurred on 31 January 1916, when a British pilot near Rochford, Essex, reported seeing a row of lights, resembling the lighted windows on a train carriage, that rose up into the sky and disappeared.