The cases,
as they were filed.
72 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
72 cases
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
1967
Near Hatherleigh and Okehampton, 1967
Uniformed officers chasing an object across Dartmoor in a patrol car forced the MoD to run actual field investigations rather than filing the reports.
Reported
1961
US Route 3 near Lincoln / Indian Head, 1961
The founding abduction case has a real contemporaneous federal paper trail from Pease AFB dated within days of the event, and almost nobody has actually read the page.
ReportedNothing on record
1957
RAF West Freugh / Luce Bay, 1957
The Air Ministry's own technical intelligence branch concluded in writing that five reflecting objects of unidentified type and origin were present, and that they were unlikely to be…
Reported
1954
Cennina, 1954
Italy's foundational occupant case: a farmer walking to All Saints' Mass loses a stocking and a bunch of carnations to two one-metre figures, and the Carabinieri come out and find a hole in…
ReportedA suit
1953
Villares del Saz, 1953
The oldest entity report the Spanish Guardia Civil ever put on its own official list: a cowherd, a landed plate, and 60-centimetre yellow beings, written down by the national police command…
ReportedA silhouette
1948
Over the Fukuoka / Kyushu area, 1948
Six radar interception attempts in ten minutes; each time the crew closed to about 400 yards the target accelerated from roughly 200 to an estimated 1,200 mph, and once silhouetted itself…
Reported
1946
Lake Kolmjarv, 1946
The Swedish military built a rope-lashed raft with no metal fasteners so it would not confuse their metal detectors, took over 3,500 lake-bottom samples and swept the site with a Geiger…
Reported
2018
Airspace off the south-west coast of Ireland, 2018
Ireland's civil aviation regulator formally opened an occurrence investigation on the word of three separate airline captains, and the whole exchange with Shannon control is preserved on…
Reported
2012
Thakung, 2012
A border police force filed over a hundred reports of yellow spheres rising from the Chinese side and drifting for three to four hours, and India answered by hauling radar and spectrum…
Reported
2004
Airspace over Campeche / Ciudad del Carmen, 2004
Mexico's defence ministry, asked under its own transparency law what happened to its UFO footage, answered on the record that it kept no written trace of handing the only copy to a…
Reported
1996
Adriaan Vlok police station, 1996
A serving sergeant filmed roughly two minutes of an object hovering over his own police station, and the police air wing put a helicopter up after it.
Reported
1995
Approach to Bariloche airport, 1995
An airliner on final approach broke off while the whole city was blacked out, and the encounter is preserved in tower audio the Argentine state itself later declassified.
Reported
1994
Near Coulommiers, 1994
An Air France crew at cruising altitude reported a large lens-shaped object holding station beside them, then vanishing in a second, and the state investigation reported a radar track along…
Reported
1994
Road between Oria and Cellino San Marco, 1994
A Carabinieri radio patrol spends half an hour on a Puglian back road watching a hemispherical, jellyfish-like object whose lights blink in time with their own police beacons.
Reported
1990
Central Belgium; radar Glons and Semmerzake; intercept from Beauvechain, 1990
A NATO air force scrambled two F-16s at a target its own radars said accelerated from 240 to over 1,700 km/h and dropped 900 metres in under two seconds, then published the tapes and said…
Reported
1989
Eupen, 1989
Two Belgian gendarmes on a night patrol stopped their car and watched a triangle the size of a building hang over the road throwing three beams straight down, for the better part of an hour.
Reported
1982
Near BA2 Ota, 1982
Three serving air force pilots file separate reports the same day about a metallic disc that climbed from near ground level to 5,000 ft in under ten seconds and then orbited their light…
Reported
1980
Coal yard, 1980
A coroner formally recorded that a dead man's burns had been dressed with a substance that could not be identified, and the body appeared to have been placed on top of a ten-foot coal heap.
Reported
1980
Burnley Road, 1980
A serving police officer filed an on-duty report of a 20-foot object blocking a public road, with a 25-minute unaccounted time gap, a split boot and a dry patch of road in the rain.
Reported
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
1977
Pampa Lluscuma, 1977
Eight soldiers on a night detail, one of whom is said to have vanished for fifteen minutes and returned with several days' beard growth and a digital calendar reading five days ahead.
Reported