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as they were filed.

46 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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United States26France12United Kingdom11Australia9Spain8Russia (USSR)7Brazil6South Africa5Italy4Argentina3Belgium3New Zealand3Canada2Chile2Japan2Papua New Guinea2Portugal2Russia2Belarus (USSR)1Belgian Congo1China1Denmark1Finland1Greece1
The record shows
A body14A suit10A silhouette9Nothing on record13Not a body6
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46 cases

1965 France · Entities reported 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 United States · Entities reported 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 United States · Entities reported 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 United States · Entities reported 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 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 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 1982 Denmark · Entities reported Field north of Odense, 1982 A national air force's own operations-centre file, released whole by the Danish state, contains a first-person description of five 60-centimetre beings taking samples from a Funen field at… DocumentedA body 1967 Canada 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 France · Entities reported 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 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 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