The cases,
as they were filed.

17 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.

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
Report
An entity was described
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17 cases

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 chainA silhouette 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;… DocumentedA 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… ReportedA body 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… DocumentedNothing on record 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 chainA silhouette 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… DocumentedNot a body 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 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 chainA silhouette 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… ReportedNothing on record 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