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.
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135 cases
2022
Two meteor observation stations, 2022
A national academy of sciences observatory ran a dedicated daytime UAP camera programme during wartime and reported two object classes - luminous cosmics and dark phantoms - at up to 10-12…
Scientific context
2014
Coastal airspace between Vina del Mar and San Antonio, 2014
Nine minutes and twelve seconds of military infrared footage that a civil aviation authority's expert committee formally classified as an unidentified aerial phenomenon, with DGAC radar…
Reported
1993
RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, 1993
The MoD's UFO desk escalated this one upward: an internal assessment went to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff stating that an object of unknown origin had apparently been able to…
Reported
1990
Across most of metropolitan France, 1990
For about ten minutes one November evening, gendarmerie switchboards across France filled with the same report: a silent structured triangle crossing the whole country.
Reported
1984
Hessdalen valley, 1984
36 radar recordings, four usable optical spectra and correlated magnetometer deflections make this the only sustained instrumented dataset on an anomalous aerial phenomenon in the region,…
Scientific context
1982
Suburban garden, 1982
A biologist watched an oval object 1.5m across hang a metre above his lawn for twenty minutes at midday;…
Scientific context
1979
Uruguayan airspace, 1979
A military transport reportedly escorted for much of its route by a steady non-blinking light that was photographed and simultaneously painted by civil radar in two countries, and CRIDOVNI…
Reported
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
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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
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
1995
Border posts near Kazmalyar and Novy Filya, 1995
Uniformed Interior Ministry border guards logged a three-light object crossing at roughly 10 metres altitude toward the Caspian at 01:45, and the Russian Air Force publicly rebutted the…
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