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15 cases
1965
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…
DocumentedA body
1964
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.…
DocumentedA suit
1961
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.
DocumentedA suit
1964
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…
DocumentedA body
1967
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
1964
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.
DocumentedA silhouette
1968
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1967
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.
DocumentedNothing on record
1965
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…
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