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Evidence
Documented46Official chain11Reported72Scientific context6
Decade
1940s31950s201960s261970s331980s231990s172000s12010s52020s3
Country
United States26France12United Kingdom11Australia9Spain8Russia (USSR)7Brazil6South Africa5Italy4Argentina3Belgium3New Zealand3Canada2Chile2Japan2Papua New Guinea2Portugal2Russia2Belarus (USSR)1Belgian Congo1China1Denmark1Finland1Greece1
The record shows
A body14A suit10A silhouette9Nothing on record13Not a body6
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5 cases

1984 Russia (USSR) Airfields in the Borisoglebsk area, 1984 One of the very few episodes the Soviet state programme itself left on the books as unexplained: simultaneous radar returns and visual observation by pilots at military airfields, tied to… Documented 1986 Russia (USSR) Height 611, 1986 Physical debris from a hillside impact - mesh, glass beads, lead, and 17-micron threads of braided finer strands with gold wire intertwined - was analysed in Soviet state laboratories, with… Official chain 1989 Russia (USSR) Military unit near the Kapustin Yar missile test range, 1989 The most-cited single document in Soviet UFO literature: a serving soldier's contemporaneous duty log describing a disc with a half-sphere on top moving in irregular sideways and vertical… Reported 1987 Russia (USSR) Mineralnye Vody airport, 1987 The one Blue Folder item that secondary sources quote at length rather than summarise: several flight crews independently reported an aircraft-like object with headlights leaving a fiery… Reported 1987 Russia (USSR) Tiksi Peninsula, 1987 A ground radar held a target that changed speed from a standstill to 400 km/h, an Mi-8 was scrambled against it, and the helicopter crew reported an emerald cloud at 3,600 m before the… Reported