The cases,
as they were filed.

20 of 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.

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The record shows
A body14A suit10A silhouette9Nothing on record13Not a body6
Report
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20 cases

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… ReportedA 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.… ReportedA 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… ReportedA suit 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… DocumentedA 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… DocumentedA suit 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 chainA body 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. DocumentedA 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… ReportedA 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… ReportedA suit 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 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 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… ReportedA 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… ReportedA silhouette 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