Cases, page 2 · The ALIENZ archive

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

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

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. ReportedNot a body

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

— 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 chainA 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… DocumentedNot 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

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

The cases,as they were filed.

The cases,
as they were filed.