The cases,
as they were filed.
33 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.
Country
The record shows
Report
Record
33 cases
1976
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 chainA silhouette
1979
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;…
DocumentedA suit
1978
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…
ReportedA body
1977
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…
ReportedA suit
1972
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…
DocumentedNothing on record
1974
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 chainA silhouette
1979
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…
DocumentedNot a body
1979
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
ReportedA silhouette
1972
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 chainA silhouette
1979
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
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
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…
ReportedNothing on record
1978
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…
ReportedNothing on record
1979
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
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
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
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…
ReportedNothing on record
1979
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