The cases,
as they were filed.

135 catalogued reports, each one carrying what makes it interesting and what is wrong with it. Filter it down; every combination has its own address.

135 cases

2023 United States · Entities reported Unspecified, 2023 In July 2023 a former intelligence officer sat in front of a congressional committee, under oath, and said that the United States is in possession of non-human craft and of what he called… Reported Not a body

2023 Peru/Mexico · Entities reported Peru/Mexico, 2023 Two small three-fingered bodies were carried into the Mexican congress in September 2023 and presented, under oath, as non-human.… Official chain Not a body

2011 United States · Entities reported United States, 2011 A proposal was written inside the Department of Homeland Security for a special access programme to hold and study recovered non-human craft and biological material.… Reported Not a body

1996 Brazil · Entities reported Varginha, 1996 In January 1996 three young women in Varginha said they had come upon a crouched brown figure with a ridged head and red eyes at the edge of a vacant lot, and within days the town was full… Reported A body

1990 United Kingdom · Entities reported United Kingdom, 1990 Somewhere in the UK National Archives' released Ministry of Defence files is a letter from a member of the public describing an encounter, with two figures drawn in their own hand.… Reported A body

1989 USSR/Russia · Entities reported Voronezh, 1989 In the autumn of 1989 the Soviet state news agency put out a dispatch reporting that a large object had landed in a park in Voronezh and that residents, many of them children, had seen an… Reported A body

1984 United States · Entities reported Remote-viewing target: Mars, 1984 On 22 May 1984 a subject in a government-sponsored remote-viewing programme was handed a sealed envelope and asked to describe what was inside.… Scientific context A body

1976 Spain · Entities reported Talavera la Real Air Base, 1976 In November 1976 the Spanish air force opened a file on a night at Talavera la Real, and the file was eventually released to the public along with the rest of the Ejército del Aire's UFO… Official chain A silhouette

1967 France · Entities reported Cussac, 1967 Two children were minding cattle at the edge of a field in the Cantal when they saw four small dark figures beside a sphere.… Reported A body

1965 France · Entities reported Valensole, 1965 A lavender grower walked into his own field at dawn expecting to find a helicopter parked in it. What he described instead was an ovoid machine on legs and two small figures beside it, and… Documented A body

1964 United States · Entities reported Socorro, 1964 A patrolman broke off a speeding chase because he heard a roar and saw a flame drop behind the mesa, and he expected to find a dynamite shack going up.… Documented A suit

1955 United States · Entities reported Kelly-Hopkinsville, 1955 Two families arrived at the Hopkinsville police station near midnight, badly frightened, saying that small silver figures with oversized ears and glowing eyes had been circling their… Reported A body

1952 United States · Entities reported Flatwoods, 1952 A group of boys saw something come down on a hillside above Flatwoods and went up to look, with a mother and a National Guardsman along.… Reported A silhouette

1950 United States · Entities reported New Mexico (unspecified), 1950 An FBI field office memorandum from March 1950 records, in flat bureaucratic prose, that an investigator had reported three flying saucers recovered in New Mexico, each carrying three… Reported A suit

1947 United States · Entities reported Roswell/Corona, 1947 The best-known claim in the subject has the thinnest first-hand record in this archive. What happened in July 1947 near Corona is documented: something came down, the base issued a press… Official chain Nothing on record

1961 United States · Entities reported Eagle River, 1961 The US Air Force had a federal food laboratory analyse four pancakes, and the FDA reported back that they were an ordinary pancake made predominantly of buckwheat, of terrestrial origin. Documented A suit

1964 United States · Entities reported Cisco Grove / Loch Leven Lakes, 1964 The only Blue Book file in which USAF investigators tape-recorded a first-hand humanoid encounter and wrote the morphology into their own report, with the witness firing arrows and burning… Documented A body

1953 United States · Entities reported Brush Creek, 1953 Two gold miners told the Air Force that a metal disc like two large soup plates fastened together settled on their creek sandbar on a pipe-like leg, and that a four-foot, very pale man in a… Documented A body

1959 New Zealand · Entities reported Farm paddock at Fernleigh, 1959 The wife of an air force serviceman told RNZAF investigators she was pinned in a green beam by a craft whose helmeted occupant climbed out, shouted at her, and had no left hand below the… Documented A suit

1979 France · Entities reported Porcieu-Amblagnieu, 1979 A 13-year-old alone with a baby told French state scientists a luminous man in a silver suit stood in the meadow beside a machine on the ground;… Documented A suit

1978 Argentina · Entities reported Dique La Florida, 1978 A dictatorship-era Argentine police and intelligence expediente recording six fishermen's sworn description of a two-metre blond figure in a transparent helmet, with a note that the… Reported A body

1982 Denmark · Entities reported Field north of Odense, 1982 A national air force's own operations-centre file, released whole by the Danish state, contains a first-person description of five 60-centimetre beings taking samples from a Funen field at… Documented A body

1967 Canada Falcon Lake, 1967 He walked up to a landed craft, touched its hot skin, and was struck by a jet of gas that set his shirt alight; the medical records document a checkerboard pattern of burns on his abdomen. Documented

1956 Brazil · Entities reported Praia de Sao Sebastiao, 1956 A named law professor's account of boarding a craft and being flown for 30-40 minutes sits, in full, inside the Brazilian Air Force's own UFO fund. Official chain A body

1964 France · Entities reported Le Bourget-du-Lac, 1964 In the official French national UFO database, one line from a February night in Savoie reports five figures walking around a machine on the ground before it lifted off. Documented A silhouette

1954 France · Entities reported Figeac, 1954 On a September afternoon in 1954 children in the Lot reported a small figure and a flying box, and seventy years later the French state still lists it, unexplained for lack of information. Documented A silhouette

1954 Venezuela · Entities reported Carretera Petare-Caracas, 1954 The two men walked into a police office at half past two in the morning, and hours later a state emergency station documented bruising down one man's left side and X-rayed him for broken… Reported A body

1977 United Kingdom · Entities reported Broad Haven / Little Haven / Ripperston Farm, 1977 The rare UK entity case that is NOT mere storage of a member of the public's letter: the MoD's UFO desk formally tasked the RAF Police with a covert field enquiry and an RAF officer… Reported A suit

1972 Australia · Entities reported Mooraduc / Frankston, 1972 The Air Force wrote cannot be determined on her sighting and a policeman recorded her as a rational woman not given to great flights of fancy - and only afterwards did she start describing… Documented Nothing on record

1962 Brazil · Entities reported Duas Pontes, 1962 The rare Latin American UFO case with a corpse: a police-investigated disappearance in front of child witnesses, whose skeletal remains turned up near the house six months later. Reported Not a body

1954 France · Entities reported Quarouble, 1954 A railwayman flagged down the night watch to report that two things under a metre tall had walked past him on the ballast, and the Air Ministry sent officers to measure the dents in the… Reported A suit

1974 Spain · Entities reported Valdehijaderos, 1974 The only description of humanoid beings anywhere inside the Spanish Air Force's declassified UFO holdings, and it is a newspaper cutting stapled into somebody else's file. Official chain A silhouette

1968 France · Entities reported Plaine des Cafres, 1968 Two ninety-centimetre figures in Michelin-man suits in a Reunion clearing, and the departmental fire chief's radiation meter then found eight hot spots in a five-metre circle. Reported A suit

— Russia (USSR) · Entities reported Unspecified location in Siberia A US intelligence archive preserves a claim, printed in the newspaper of Ukraine's parliament, that a saucer downed by a surface-to-air missile released five black-eyed humanoids whose… Official chain A body

1979 France · Entities reported Cergy-Pontoise, 1979 A French state science body published a technical note titled Concerning a disappearance about a nineteen-year-old who vanished from a car park for eight days and came back saying he had… Documented Not a body

1991 Spain Escuadron de Vigilancia Aerea n.4, 1991 Three men guarding a radar station watch a five-metre luminous sphere circle 150 metres over their own antennas for six minutes while the radar under their feet shows nothing at all. Documented

1990 United Kingdom Moors above Calvine, 1990 MoD paperwork records that the negatives reached the Ministry on 10 September 1990 and were handed back four days later, and forensic analysis of the one surviving print concludes it is a… Documented

1986 Brazil Sao Jose dos Campos, 1986 An air-defence command's own occurrence report concludes the returns were solid and behaved with intelligence, maintaining distance from the fighters sent to intercept, and Brazil's Air… Documented

1986 Japan / United States Over eastern Alaska (Fort Yukon area) - Japanese crew, 1986 The FAA told a requester in 2001 that every page would be destroyed within 30 days; seventeen years later 1,500 of them turned up intact in the National Archives. Documented

1984 Spain 10 NM SE of Villanubla air base, 1984 A short, clean military file: tower sees a static object, an interceptor is sent up, radar shows nothing, and the service writes it off as a balloon. Documented

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

1983 Ukraine (USSR) Strategic Rocket Forces division near Khmelnytskyi, 1983 Roughly fifty personnel of a nuclear missile division watched a dirigible-shaped luminous object with dark porthole-like spots for hours, and a fault signal appeared on a rocket… Documented

1979 Spain Airspace off Ibiza/Valencia; diversion to Manises; related Motril and Madrid events, 1979 A passenger jet with 109 people aboard puts down at Valencia because of lights that pace it, a Mirage F-1 is scrambled after them, and the Air Force file concludes there was uncontrolled… Documented

1978 Australia Bass Strait, 1978 A real accident-investigation file on a pilot who reported an object orbiting on top of me and then went off the air, and the department's own paperwork ends with no cause determined. Documented

1978 New Zealand East coast of the South Island - Kaikoura, 1978 Wellington ATC called targets to an aircraft whose crew could see them, whose own weather radar painted one three to five times larger than a blip from a large fishing boat, while a TV… Documented

1977 Russia (USSR) Petrozavodsk, 1977 The event that caused a superpower to start a state UFO programme: within weeks the Academy president asked the Military-Industrial Commission to act, and SETKA was written into the 1978… Documented

1976 Morocco Agadir, 1976 King Hassan II personally asked Henry Kissinger what had flown down his country's coastline, and the exchange survives as declassified State Department traffic. Documented

1973 United States Near Mansfield / Charles Mill Lake, 1973 A signed four-man US Army document recording that the aircraft was pushed from 1,700 ft to 3,500 ft at 1,000 fpm with the collective full down while the object hesitated above it. Documented

1973 United States · Entities reported Shaupeter Shipyard pier, 1973 The single most probative artifact in American entity-encounter history is a police tape made without the witnesses' knowledge: the deputies left the room expecting a hoax to unravel and… Reported A silhouette

1968 United States Minot AFB and its Minuteman missile field, 1968 The B-52 radar recorded a target that travelled approximately 25 miles in 3 seconds, the aircraft radar and radio both failed while it sat off the left wing, and fourteen airmen guarding… Documented

1967 United States Echo Flight, 1967 The declassified wing history states flatly that all sites in Echo Flight shut down with No-Go indications: ten nuclear launch facilities lost strategic alert near-simultaneously and the… Documented

1967 Canada Barrington Passage / Shag Harbour, 1967 Canada opened a non-meteoric sighting file on Barrington Passage dated the day after the object went into the water, and the report was still being written up six weeks later. Documented

1966 Australia Tullamarine, 1966 Three days before Westall, a civil aviation radar operator tracked an unidentified plot at 60 knots across Melbourne, and the file blamed a Laverton balloon - the same answer authorities… Documented

1966 United States Ravenna / Mantua, 1966 An 86-mile, 90-minute cross-state police pursuit at speeds up to 103 mph of an object one deputy described in the file as resembling the head of a flashlight, about 40 feet wide, humming… Documented

1966 United States Dexter and Hillsdale, 1966 About eighty college students and their civil-defence director watched lights over a swamp on two nights, the Air Force announced the cause was swamp gas, and its own consultant conceded in… Documented

1965 United States Exeter, 1965 Two on-duty police officers watched a dark object roughly 80-90 ft long carrying five red lights pulsing in sequence hover at about 100 ft over a field, and Blue Book carried it as… Documented

1959 United States Redmond, 1959 Six F-102s, an F-89, a helicopter and a civilian light aircraft carrying a Geiger counter were all put up over one light at Redmond, and the file records that not one of them got a visual… Documented

1957 United States Airborne over Mississippi, 1957 Simultaneous ELINT, ground radar and visual acquisition from a strategic reconnaissance aircraft across four states: the strongest multi-sensor Blue Book case of the 1950s. Documented

1956 United Kingdom RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, 1956 An RAF interceptor obtained radar gun-lock on the target, after which the target moved behind the fighter and stayed on its tail through every evasive manoeuvre. Documented

1954 Australia Near Goulburn, 1954 A naval fighter pilot's report and a ground radar operator's report were written independently two days later and filed together by naval intelligence, which recorded him as an entirely… Documented

1952 Australia Woomera Rocket Range and Woomera West, 1952 The observers were the staff of Australia's most secret weapons range, and their own security classification was SECRET. Documented

1972 Australia · Entities reported Clare / Burra district, 1972 This is what an entity report looks like when it reaches an Australian government file: a magazine clipping, no witness name, and a covering memo that says forwarded without comment. Official chain A silhouette

1967 France · Entities reported Sauvigny-le-Bois, 1967 Eleven years after the night it happened, France's space agency sent investigators to a Burgundy farm to write down a one-metre dwarf in a shiny grey suit standing to attention beside a… Reported A suit

1980 United States FM 1485 near Huffman / Dayton, 1980 The only US UFO case ever litigated against the federal government on a personal-injury theory, with documented burns, hair loss and radiation-type illness, and roughly two dozen Chinooks… Documented

1979 United Kingdom Dechmont Woods, 1979 The only UFO event in the UK ever entered on a police book as a criminal assault on a named victim, with officers taking the torn trousers for forensic examination and casting the ground… Documented

1974 Spain Aznalcollar, 1974 An Air Force investigation file describes a 150-200m disc hanging four metres off the ground while three eight-metre mushroom-shaped craft fly in through an open hatch in its rear. Documented

1970 Malaysia · Entities reported Stowell English Primary School, 1970 Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department were sent to a primary school to take statements about three-inch-tall beings with miniature weapons - an actual police response to a… Reported Nothing on record

1967 United States · Entities reported Ashland, 1967 A serving police officer's UFO report that the Air Force's own contracted scientific study took seriously enough to run psychological assessment on him, and then wrote off. Documented Nothing on record

1965 United States Cherry Creek, 1965 A bull bent a steel restraining bar trying to get away from it, the milk yield dropped from two and a half cans to one, and the Air Force wrote that the sighting was not consistent with… Documented

1957 United States Levelland, 1957 The classic vehicle-interference case: the file itself documents engines dying and headlights extinguishing as the object closed, then normal function restored after it left. Documented

1996 Russia · Entities reported Village of Kaolinovy, 1996 The region's only case where an alleged non-human body was physically in the custody of a named police investigator of a named city police department, examined by state medical personnel,… Reported Not a body

1978 Italy · Entities reported Marzano, 1978 A police document whose own title, written by the station commander, contains the word humanoids, and the Italian state's formal response was to archive it because no crime had been… Reported Nothing on record

2022 Ukraine Two meteor observation stations, 2022 A national academy of sciences observatory ran a dedicated daytime UAP camera programme during wartime and reported two object classes - luminous cosmics and dark phantoms - at up to 10-12… Scientific context

2014 Chile Coastal airspace between Vina del Mar and San Antonio, 2014 Nine minutes and twelve seconds of military infrared footage that a civil aviation authority's expert committee formally classified as an unidentified aerial phenomenon, with DGAC radar… Reported

1993 United Kingdom RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, 1993 The MoD's UFO desk escalated this one upward: an internal assessment went to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff stating that an object of unknown origin had apparently been able to… Reported

1990 France Across most of metropolitan France, 1990 For about ten minutes one November evening, gendarmerie switchboards across France filled with the same report: a silent structured triangle crossing the whole country. Reported

1984 Norway Hessdalen valley, 1984 36 radar recordings, four usable optical spectra and correlated magnetometer deflections make this the only sustained instrumented dataset on an anomalous aerial phenomenon in the region,… Scientific context

1982 France Suburban garden, 1982 A biologist watched an oval object 1.5m across hang a metre above his lawn for twenty minutes at midday;… Scientific context

1979 Uruguay Uruguayan airspace, 1979 A military transport reportedly escorted for much of its route by a steady non-blinking light that was photographed and simultaneously painted by civil radar in two countries, and CRIDOVNI… Reported

1977 New Zealand Wellington, 1977 New Zealand's weather service, not its air force, kept the file where trained state observers - controllers and a traffic officer - had their sightings formally recorded and interviewed. Reported

1975 United States Loring AFB, 1975 SAC issued a real-world defensive directive across its northern-tier nuclear bases because something was hovering over a live weapons storage area, while later Air Force statements walk… Reported

1974 United Kingdom · Entities reported Cader Bronwen, 1974 Three independent arms of the British state - police, MoD and the national geological survey - generated records for the same minute of the same night, and the seismograph trace is a hard… Reported Nothing on record

1967 United Kingdom Near Hatherleigh and Okehampton, 1967 Uniformed officers chasing an object across Dartmoor in a patrol car forced the MoD to run actual field investigations rather than filing the reports. Reported

1961 United States · Entities reported US Route 3 near Lincoln / Indian Head, 1961 The founding abduction case has a real contemporaneous federal paper trail from Pease AFB dated within days of the event, and almost nobody has actually read the page. Reported Nothing on record

1957 United Kingdom RAF West Freugh / Luce Bay, 1957 The Air Ministry's own technical intelligence branch concluded in writing that five reflecting objects of unidentified type and origin were present, and that they were unlikely to be… Reported

1954 Italy · Entities reported Cennina, 1954 Italy's foundational occupant case: a farmer walking to All Saints' Mass loses a stocking and a bunch of carnations to two one-metre figures, and the Carabinieri come out and find a hole in… Reported A suit

1953 Spain · Entities reported Villares del Saz, 1953 The oldest entity report the Spanish Guardia Civil ever put on its own official list: a cowherd, a landed plate, and 60-centimetre yellow beings, written down by the national police command… Reported A silhouette

1948 Japan Over the Fukuoka / Kyushu area, 1948 Six radar interception attempts in ten minutes; each time the crew closed to about 400 yards the target accelerated from roughly 200 to an estimated 1,200 mph, and once silhouetted itself… Reported

1946 Sweden Lake Kolmjarv, 1946 The Swedish military built a rope-lashed raft with no metal fasteners so it would not confuse their metal detectors, took over 3,500 lake-bottom samples and swept the site with a Geiger… Reported

— Brazil Ilha da Trindade A 1976 file in which the Brazilian state, asked to declassify Trindade, restates that the photographs are genuine and that the object was not a weather balloon nor an American guided… Documented

2018 Ireland Airspace off the south-west coast of Ireland, 2018 Ireland's civil aviation regulator formally opened an occurrence investigation on the word of three separate airline captains, and the whole exchange with Shannon control is preserved on… Reported

2012 India Thakung, 2012 A border police force filed over a hundred reports of yellow spheres rising from the Chinese side and drifting for three to four hours, and India answered by hauling radar and spectrum… Reported

2004 Mexico Airspace over Campeche / Ciudad del Carmen, 2004 Mexico's defence ministry, asked under its own transparency law what happened to its UFO footage, answered on the record that it kept no written trace of handing the only copy to a… Reported

1996 South Africa Adriaan Vlok police station, 1996 A serving sergeant filmed roughly two minutes of an object hovering over his own police station, and the police air wing put a helicopter up after it. Reported

1995 Argentina Approach to Bariloche airport, 1995 An airliner on final approach broke off while the whole city was blacked out, and the encounter is preserved in tower audio the Argentine state itself later declassified. Reported

1995 Russia Border posts near Kazmalyar and Novy Filya, 1995 Uniformed Interior Ministry border guards logged a three-light object crossing at roughly 10 metres altitude toward the Caspian at 01:45, and the Russian Air Force publicly rebutted the… Official chain

1994 France Near Coulommiers, 1994 An Air France crew at cruising altitude reported a large lens-shaped object holding station beside them, then vanishing in a second, and the state investigation reported a radar track along… Reported

1994 Italy Road between Oria and Cellino San Marco, 1994 A Carabinieri radio patrol spends half an hour on a Puglian back road watching a hemispherical, jellyfish-like object whose lights blink in time with their own police beacons. Reported

1990 Belgium Central Belgium; radar Glons and Semmerzake; intercept from Beauvechain, 1990 A NATO air force scrambled two F-16s at a target its own radars said accelerated from 240 to over 1,700 km/h and dropped 900 metres in under two seconds, then published the tapes and said… Reported

1989 Belgium Eupen, 1989 Two Belgian gendarmes on a night patrol stopped their car and watched a triangle the size of a building hang over the road throwing three beams straight down, for the better part of an hour. Reported

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

1984 Belarus (USSR) Airspace over Minsk; object tracked past Riga, 1984 A named Soviet Academy of Sciences commission officer publicly commented on a UFO chased across four Soviet republics by two airliners and four control towers. Official chain

1982 Portugal Near BA2 Ota, 1982 Three serving air force pilots file separate reports the same day about a metallic disc that climbed from near ground level to 5,000 ft in under ten seconds and then orbited their light… Reported

1980 United Kingdom Coal yard, 1980 A coroner formally recorded that a dead man's burns had been dressed with a substance that could not be identified, and the body appeared to have been placed on top of a ten-foot coal heap. Reported

1980 United Kingdom Burnley Road, 1980 A serving police officer filed an on-duty report of a 20-foot object blocking a public road, with a 25-minute unaccounted time gap, a split boot and a dry patch of road in the rain. Reported

1979 Italy Between Rovigo and the Colli Euganei, 1979 A military pilot deliberately flies a camera-equipped G-91R at a stationary object for five minutes and comes home with more than eighty exposures: an air force photographing its own… Reported

1977 Chile Pampa Lluscuma, 1977 Eight soldiers on a night detail, one of whom is said to have vanished for fifteen minutes and returned with several days' beard growth and a digital calendar reading five days ahead. Reported

1974 Spain San Clemente, 1974 A uniformed Guardia Civil sees a tripod-legged craft with rows of yellow-khaki windows sit down in a legume field, and his own lieutenant goes out and photographs the scorched vegetation. Reported

1971 Switzerland Airspace over Interlaken and Winterthur, 1971 Swiss Air Force intelligence ran a standing order, in three languages, for pilots to report flying saucers, and in February 1971 three Mirage III crews used it, one filing a hand-drawn… Reported

1965 Argentina Destacamento Naval Decepcion, 1965 The first time a South American government formally admitted its own personnel had seen something it could not identify, and it said the Orcadas magnetometer recorded a field disturbance… Reported

1965 South Africa Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit highway, 1965 Two serving police officers' headlights lit a 30-foot copper-coloured domed disc sitting on the tar;… Reported

1957 Portugal Airspace over the Portugal-Spain border, 1957 Four Portuguese Air Force jets on a night navigation exercise are joined by a luminous sphere that cycles green-orange-red and passes below and behind the formation;… Reported

1952 Belgian Congo Uranium-mining district of Elisabethville, 1952 A CIA file states that the commander of Elisabethville airfield chased two spinning discs over the uranium mines, closed to within 120 metres, measured one at 12 to 15 metres across, and… Documented

— Brazil Forte de Itaipu The famous two-sentries-burned-by-a-UFO story exists inside the Brazilian Air Force archive only as a foreign researcher asking Brazil to confirm it, and the file contains no answer. Official chain

1980 Papua New Guinea · Entities reported Hill at Kanudi, 1980 The only post-Boianai Papua New Guinean occupant report traceable at all is a seven-year-old's account of two figures, one silvery and one brown, coming down off a hill outside Port Moresby. Reported A silhouette

1966 Australia Horseshoe Lagoon, 1966 A police sergeant filed a formal Report on Aerial Object Observed, the RAAF asked for the reeds, and the Department of Air answered in writing that there is no explanation for the visible… Reported

1994 Zimbabwe · Entities reported Ariel School, 1994 The single most-cited mass child entity encounter on Earth rests entirely on private interviews, with no government record found at any level. Reported Nothing on record

1993 Israel · Entities reported Kadima / Shikmim Field, 1993 An 18-metre landing circle at Kadima yielded a recovered material assayed as near-pure silicon, and the one test that mattered was never run. Reported Nothing on record

1990 Belgium Petit-Rechain, 1990 A Belgian military academy put the most famous UFO photograph in Europe through computer analysis and concluded the object was material, twenty-one years before the man who took it produced… Scientific context

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

1979 South Africa · Entities reported Mindalore, 1979 The most detailed occupant description ever recorded in southern Africa - beards, coveralls, a spoken language - and not one page of it is in a government file. Reported Nothing on record

1978 Kuwait Umm Aish and the northern oil fields, 1978 A national science institute convened a formal committee, then told the press it was groping in the dark, while a US embassy cable recorded that automated oil pumping equipment shut itself… Scientific context

1978 Poland · Entities reported Emilcin, 1978 Poland's most famous close-encounter case, with an unusually specific morphology from a 71-year-old farmer with no prior interest in the subject, and a militia patrol that came out to the… Reported Nothing on record

1975 Japan · Entities reported Vineyard near the Hinode complex, 1975 Japan's most-repeated entity case, the fanged Kofu being, and every word of its morphology comes from private ufologists interviewing two seven-year-olds. Reported Nothing on record

1972 South Africa Braeside farm, 1972 South African police fired service weapons at a landed drum-shaped object with three legs and reported landing-gear impressions in the soil. Reported

2010 China Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, 2010 An international airport was closed and eighteen flights grounded or diverted - an official operational act with real cost, taken in response to an unidentified object, and never officially… Reported

1990 Greece Megaplatanos, 1990 Villagers watch a formation of lights, one comes down in flames leaving a burned oval and metal fragments, and the Air Force seals the hillside and blames a Soviet satellite the same day. Reported

1980 Peru Base Aerea La Joya, 1980 A fighter pilot emptied roughly 64 rounds of 30mm into a hovering sphere over his own air base, reported no visible damage, and the only paper that survives is an American intelligence… Reported

1979 Papua New Guinea Gusap area (Madang), 1979 A national parliament put airline radar tracks on the record and its defence minister promised a report, and nobody has since produced either the radar tapes or the report. Reported

1969 Finland Pori airfield, 1969 If the claim holds, this is the single case in Finnish history the Finnish Air Force is said to have conceded as unexplained, with roughly twenty aviators and a radar return. Reported

1988 Australia Eyre Highway near Mundrabilla, 1988 Four people ran into a police station on the Nullarbor at dawn saying something had picked their car up off the road, and a forensic officer swabbed the roof the same day. Reported

1966 Australia Westall High School and Westall State School, 1966 Australia's largest mass-witness sighting is the one case in this region for which the government files are empty - the Disclosure Australia sweep of all Commonwealth UFO records found no… Reported

— South Africa · Entities reported Claimed Kalahari Desert / Valhalla AFB Included solely as a firewall: the Kalahari crash-retrieval package is a documented hoax and must be kept out of the film's evidentiary spine. Reported Nothing on record

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