The cases,
as they were filed.
135 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
135 cases
1964
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
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
1954
Carretera Petare-Caracas, 1954
The two men walked into a police office at half past two in the morning, and hours later a state emergency station documented bruising down one man's left side and X-rayed him for broken…
ReportedA body
1977
Broad Haven / Little Haven / Ripperston Farm, 1977
The rare UK entity case that is NOT mere storage of a member of the public's letter: the MoD's UFO desk formally tasked the RAF Police with a covert field enquiry and an RAF officer…
ReportedA suit
1972
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
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
1954
Quarouble, 1954
A railwayman flagged down the night watch to report that two things under a metre tall had walked past him on the ballast, and the Air Ministry sent officers to measure the dents in the…
ReportedA suit
1974
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
1968
Plaine des Cafres, 1968
Two ninety-centimetre figures in Michelin-man suits in a Reunion clearing, and the departmental fire chief's radiation meter then found eight hot spots in a five-metre circle.
ReportedA suit
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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