The cases,
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.
Country
The record shows
Report
Record
46 cases
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
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
1959
Redmond, 1959
Six F-102s, an F-89, a helicopter and a civilian light aircraft carrying a Geiger counter were all put up over one light at Redmond, and the file records that not one of them got a visual…
Documented
1957
Airborne over Mississippi, 1957
Simultaneous ELINT, ground radar and visual acquisition from a strategic reconnaissance aircraft across four states: the strongest multi-sensor Blue Book case of the 1950s.
Documented
1956
RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, 1956
An RAF interceptor obtained radar gun-lock on the target, after which the target moved behind the fighter and stayed on its tail through every evasive manoeuvre.
Documented
1954
Near Goulburn, 1954
A naval fighter pilot's report and a ground radar operator's report were written independently two days later and filed together by naval intelligence, which recorded him as an entirely…
Documented
1952
Woomera Rocket Range and Woomera West, 1952
The observers were the staff of Australia's most secret weapons range, and their own security classification was SECRET.
Documented
1980
FM 1485 near Huffman / Dayton, 1980
The only US UFO case ever litigated against the federal government on a personal-injury theory, with documented burns, hair loss and radiation-type illness, and roughly two dozen Chinooks…
Documented
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
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…
Documented
1957
Levelland, 1957
The classic vehicle-interference case: the file itself documents engines dying and headlights extinguishing as the object closed, then normal function restored after it left.
Documented
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Ilha da Trindade
A 1976 file in which the Brazilian state, asked to declassify Trindade, restates that the photographs are genuine and that the object was not a weather balloon nor an American guided…
Documented
1952
Uranium-mining district of Elisabethville, 1952
A CIA file states that the commander of Elisabethville airfield chased two spinning discs over the uranium mines, closed to within 120 metres, measured one at 12 to 15 metres across, and…
Documented