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
1974
San Clemente, 1974
A uniformed Guardia Civil sees a tripod-legged craft with rows of yellow-khaki windows sit down in a legume field, and his own lieutenant goes out and photographs the scorched vegetation.
Reported
1971
Airspace over Interlaken and Winterthur, 1971
Swiss Air Force intelligence ran a standing order, in three languages, for pilots to report flying saucers, and in February 1971 three Mirage III crews used it, one filing a hand-drawn…
Reported
1965
Destacamento Naval Decepcion, 1965
The first time a South American government formally admitted its own personnel had seen something it could not identify, and it said the Orcadas magnetometer recorded a field disturbance…
Reported
1965
Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit highway, 1965
Two serving police officers' headlights lit a 30-foot copper-coloured domed disc sitting on the tar;…
Reported
1957
Airspace over the Portugal-Spain border, 1957
Four Portuguese Air Force jets on a night navigation exercise are joined by a luminous sphere that cycles green-orange-red and passes below and behind the formation;…
Reported
1980
Hill at Kanudi, 1980
The only post-Boianai Papua New Guinean occupant report traceable at all is a seven-year-old's account of two figures, one silvery and one brown, coming down off a hill outside Port Moresby.
ReportedA silhouette
1966
Horseshoe Lagoon, 1966
A police sergeant filed a formal Report on Aerial Object Observed, the RAAF asked for the reeds, and the Department of Air answered in writing that there is no explanation for the visible…
Reported
1994
Ariel School, 1994
The single most-cited mass child entity encounter on Earth rests entirely on private interviews, with no government record found at any level.
ReportedNothing on record
1993
Kadima / Shikmim Field, 1993
An 18-metre landing circle at Kadima yielded a recovered material assayed as near-pure silicon, and the one test that mattered was never run.
ReportedNothing on record
1989
Military unit near the Kapustin Yar missile test range, 1989
The most-cited single document in Soviet UFO literature: a serving soldier's contemporaneous duty log describing a disc with a half-sphere on top moving in irregular sideways and vertical…
Reported
1987
Mineralnye Vody airport, 1987
The one Blue Folder item that secondary sources quote at length rather than summarise: several flight crews independently reported an aircraft-like object with headlights leaving a fiery…
Reported
1987
Tiksi Peninsula, 1987
A ground radar held a target that changed speed from a standstill to 400 km/h, an Mi-8 was scrambled against it, and the helicopter crew reported an emerald cloud at 3,600 m before the…
Reported
1979
Mindalore, 1979
The most detailed occupant description ever recorded in southern Africa - beards, coveralls, a spoken language - and not one page of it is in a government file.
ReportedNothing on record
1978
Emilcin, 1978
Poland's most famous close-encounter case, with an unusually specific morphology from a 71-year-old farmer with no prior interest in the subject, and a militia patrol that came out to the…
ReportedNothing on record
1975
Vineyard near the Hinode complex, 1975
Japan's most-repeated entity case, the fanged Kofu being, and every word of its morphology comes from private ufologists interviewing two seven-year-olds.
ReportedNothing on record
1972
Braeside farm, 1972
South African police fired service weapons at a landed drum-shaped object with three legs and reported landing-gear impressions in the soil.
Reported
2010
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, 2010
An international airport was closed and eighteen flights grounded or diverted - an official operational act with real cost, taken in response to an unidentified object, and never officially…
Reported
1990
Megaplatanos, 1990
Villagers watch a formation of lights, one comes down in flames leaving a burned oval and metal fragments, and the Air Force seals the hillside and blames a Soviet satellite the same day.
Reported
1980
Base Aerea La Joya, 1980
A fighter pilot emptied roughly 64 rounds of 30mm into a hovering sphere over his own air base, reported no visible damage, and the only paper that survives is an American intelligence…
Reported
1979
Gusap area (Madang), 1979
A national parliament put airline radar tracks on the record and its defence minister promised a report, and nobody has since produced either the radar tapes or the report.
Reported
1969
Pori airfield, 1969
If the claim holds, this is the single case in Finnish history the Finnish Air Force is said to have conceded as unexplained, with roughly twenty aviators and a radar return.
Reported
1988
Eyre Highway near Mundrabilla, 1988
Four people ran into a police station on the Nullarbor at dawn saying something had picked their car up off the road, and a forensic officer swabbed the roof the same day.
Reported
1966
Westall High School and Westall State School, 1966
Australia's largest mass-witness sighting is the one case in this region for which the government files are empty - the Disclosure Australia sweep of all Commonwealth UFO records found no…
Reported
—
Claimed Kalahari Desert / Valhalla AFB
Included solely as a firewall: the Kalahari crash-retrieval package is a documented hoax and must be kept out of the film's evidentiary spine.
ReportedNothing on record