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275 findings
- 01PDFCentro de Investigación Aeroespacial (CIAE, ex–Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.2
All 28 qualifying citizen cases received in 2025 were resolved as originating from known, conventional causes — a 100% resolution rate.
Argentina's Air Force UAP investigation center CIAE resolved all 28 citizen-reported 2025 cases as conventional phenomena, from Starlink reflections to drone misidentifications and insect-in-frame photography artifacts.
→ CIAE Informe de Casos 2025
- 02PDFCentro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.2
CIAE accepted 68 citizen reports for analysis in 2022, all resolved as having conventional origins; 39 additional reports were rejected for lacking...
Argentina's Air Force CIAE resolved all 68 citizen UAP reports analyzed in 2022 as conventional objects or natural phenomena, using a GEIPAN-adapted two-tier classification system.
→ CIAE Informe de Casos 2022
- 03PDFRoyal New Zealand Air Force / Ministry of Defencep.19
Wellington ATC tracked multiple anomalous radar targets within approximately 20 miles of the Argosy throughout the flight south from Cape Campbell...
The RNZAF's declassified investigation file covering the December 1978 Kaikoura multi-witness radar-visual UAP events, including Dr. Bruce Maccabee's film analysis and DSIR technical reports.
→ Kaikoura Lights: RNZAF's Unreplicated Footage Case
- 04PDFCentro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.2
CIAE was created 4 April 2019 to organize, coordinate, and execute analysis of aerospace events of interest and report findings to relevant agencies.
Argentina's Air Force UAP identification center resolved all 36 citizen-reported cases from 2024 as known-origin phenomena, attributing them to insects, windshield reflections, commercial drones, Starlink satellites, fireworks, and lens flares.
→ CIAE Informe de Casos 2024
- 05PDFComisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (CEFAe) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.2
All 40 cases (100%) were resolved as conventionally explained OVIs; none remained unexplained.
Annual case report from Argentina's Air Force CEFAe commission cataloguing all 40 civilian UAP submissions received in 2016, every one resolved as a conventionally identified object (OVI).
→ CEFAE Informe de Casos 2016
- 06PDFComisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (CEFAe) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.2
All 21 cases analyzed in 2018 were resolved as conventional objects (OVIs); zero cases remained classified as unexplained.
The Argentine Air Force's CEFAe commission publishes its 2018 case log: 21 civilian UAP reports that met the evidence threshold, all resolved as conventional objects (OVIs), plus two historical 'enigmatic' cases revisited with new evidence and closed.
→ CEFAE Informe de Casos 2018
- 07PDFComisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (CEFAe) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.2
Sixteen cases met the dual requirement of testimony plus evidence and were analyzed; seven further cases were excluded for lacking a testimony form...
CEFAe's 2017 annual report classifying 16 Argentine citizen UAP reports—all resolved as identified objects—plus three retroactively examined 'enigmatic' legacy cases, marking the commission's first deployment of IPACO photographic analysis software.
→ CEFAE Informe de Casos 2017
- 08PDFCentro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.2
CIAE was formally created on April 4, 2019, tasked with organizing, coordinating, and executing the investigation and analysis of aerospace events;...
First annual case-resolution report from Argentina's Centro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE), covering 23 citizen UAP reports received in 2019, every one of which was resolved as a conventional stimulus.
→ CIAE Informe de Resolución de Casos 2019
- 09PDFDepartment of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Councilp.1
RCMP detachments were required by Operational Manual CO-Air 1195 to file UFO sighting reports by telex to the NRC Meteor Centre and Canadian Forces...
The 29th and final installment of Library and Archives Canada's 8,759-page UFO FOIA release, presenting spring-1972 RCMP detachment reports, NRC Meteor Centre correspondence, and inter-agency telexes from sites across Canada.
→ Canada UFO FOIA Release — Part 29 (Pages 8401–8759)
- 10PDFUK Ministry of Defence / Sec(AS)p.7
Wilnecote, 9 Nov 2009: observer with binoculars reported a strange orange light with translucent halo, no navigation lights, moving at constant speed...
The final tranche of UK MoD UFO Desk records, comprising dozens of standardized civilian hotline reports from October–November 2009, filed during and immediately after the desk's formal closure.
→ UFO Desk Final Records — DEFE 24/2465 (final tranche, June 2013)
- 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Three adult witnesses simultaneously observed the UAP from a rural garden in Aunay-les-Bois (Orne) between 00h30 and 01h00 on June 3, 2020; all three...
GEIPAN Classification D investigation report on a June 2020 nocturnal sighting of two silent blue-white lights by three adult witnesses in rural Normandy, France, which remained unidentified after a multi-year inquiry including radar checks, cognitive interviews, and IPACO photogrammetric analysis.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020
- 12PDFComisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (CEFAe) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.1
Nine of 10 analyzed cases for Nov 2014 – Nov 2015 were formally resolved as OVIs (Objetos Identificables); one case remained unresolved solely...
Annual case-resolution report from Argentina's official Air Force UAP commission (CEFAe) covering 10 citizen-submitted sighting reports from November 2014 through November 2015, nine of which were formally identified and one left unresolved due to lack of photographic evidence.
→ CEFAE Informe de Resoluciones de Casos 2015
- 13PDFCentro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.2
CIAE was formally created on April 4, 2019, with a mandate to organize, coordinate, and execute investigation and analysis of aerospace events of...
Argentina's Air Force aerospace identification center (CIAE) annual report resolving all 76 civilian UAP-sighting complaints received in 2020 as misidentified ordinary objects.
→ CIAE Informe de Casos 2020
- 14PDFBelgian Air Force (Force Aérienne Belge)p.1
The title page identifies the document as Lt. Col. Salmon's report on radar echoes recorded during Belgian F-16 flights on the night of 30–31 March...
Official Belgian Air Force report by Lt. Col. Salmon on F-16 radar contacts during the 30–31 March 1990 intercept night, prefaced by a February 2026 note by researcher Marc Hallet stating the report led Professor Meessen to retract his earlier published claim that the echoes proved extraterrestrial origin.
→ Lt. Col. Salmon F-16 Radar Trace Report — Night of 30–31 March 1990
- 15PDFUK Ministry of Defence / Secretariat Air Staffp.22
Two civilian witnesses in August 1990 near Calvine, Perthshire photographed a large stationary diamond-shaped craft in proximity to an RAF Harrier...
DEFE 24/1940 is the UK Ministry of Defence Secretariat Air Staff file on the August 1990 Calvine/Pitlochry incident, in which two witnesses photographed a large stationary diamond-shaped craft alongside an RAF Harrier jet over Perthshire, Scotland.
→ Calvine UFO Incident — DEFE 24/1940 (Sec(AS) briefing on August 1990 Perthshire diamond photograph)
- 16PDFSOBEPS (Société Belge d'Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux)p.2
The cover photograph is a computer-processed image created by Professor M. Acheroy of the Royal Military Academy from the original photograph taken...
SOBEPS Volume 2 (1994) is the Belgian civilian UFO investigation society's concluding monograph on the 1989–1993 wave, presenting the joint SOBEPS–Belgian Air Force analysis of the 30–31 March 1990 F-16 radar engagement alongside gendarmerie case files and a philosophical preface by Université Libre de Bruxelles philosopher Isabelle Stengers.
→ SOBEPS Vague d'OVNI sur la Belgique — Volume 2 (1991–1994)
- 17VIDCEFAA / Chilean Air Force (FACH)
Seven independent video angles were assembled by CEFAA from cameras operated by civilian and aviation-industry witnesses at the air show.
A Chilean Air Force (FACH) / CEFAA-released video compilation documenting a disc-shaped UAP captured by seven independent cameras during the November 5, 2010 El Bosque Air Base change-of-command air show.
→ CEFAA Caso El Bosque — November 5, 2010 Air Show Multi-Angle Capture
- 18VIDCEFAA / DGAC (Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil) / Chilean Navy
The recording lasted approximately nine minutes and was made with a Wescam MX-15 high-definition FLIR camera — a military-grade sensor platform, not...
A nine-minute Wescam MX-15 FLIR recording captured by Chilean Navy officers in November 2014 showing an unidentified aerial object with dual thermal discharges and chemical plume ejections, publicly released by CEFAA in January 2017 after a two-year multi-disciplinary investigation.
→ Chilean Navy Helicopter Wescam MX-15 FLIR Footage — November 11, 2014
- 19VIDRoyal Australian Air Force / Department of Transport (Australia)
Valentich was 20 years old, flying solo in a Cessna 182L (VH-DSJ) on a route from Moorabbin to King Island when contact was lost over Bass Strait.
Primary-source audio and video record of the 21 October 1978 Bass Strait disappearance of pilot Frederick Valentich, who described an unidentified craft orbiting his Cessna in his final radio transmissions before all contact was permanently lost.
→ Frederick Valentich Disappearance — Bass Strait, 21 October 1978
- 20PDFUK Ministry of Defence / Secretariat Air Staffp.10
The News of the World reported that a UFO landed at 3 a.m. on December 27, 1980, in Tangham Wood half a mile from RAF Woodbridge, claiming the fact...
DEFE 24/1925 is a UK MoD UFO-desk compilation of press clippings, public correspondence, and sighting reports nominally anchored in the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident but spanning 1955 to 1986, with anomalous inclusions of apparent USAF documents describing an entity recovery at McGuire AFB in January 1978.
→ DEFE 24/1925 — MoD UFO Reports 1980 (Rendlesham era public correspondence)
- 21PDFDepartment of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Councilp.7
RCMP Dorval relayed a report for 15 May 1976, 20:15 EDT: Miss Rachel Pilon observed an inverted-pail-shaped object, red and green, flying in circular...
Pages 2701–3000 of Canada's 29-part, 8,759-page UFO FOIA series, drawn from NRC Record Group 77 Vol. 308, containing 1976 military radio-relay sighting reports from RCMP, Canadian Forces Bases, and civilian observers across five provinces.
→ Canada UFO FOIA Release — Part 10 (Pages 2701–3000)
- 22PDFCentro de Identificación Aeroespacial (CIAE) / Fuerza Aérea Argentinap.2
CIAE was established April 4, 2019 with the mandate to organize, coordinate, and execute investigation and analysis of aerospace events of interest...
The Argentine Air Force's CIAE 2021 annual report catalogs 45 citizen-submitted aerospace sighting cases, every one resolved as a conventional identified phenomenon using Occam's Razor and a GEIPAN-derived Type A/B classification scheme.
→ CIAE Informe de Casos 2021
- 23PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.2
Commercial flights IB 841 (Barcelona-Madrid) and IB 867 (Barcelona-Murcia) independently queried Barcelona ACC at 18:15Z and 18:20Z respectively...
A 71-page Spanish Air Force expediente documenting a February 23, 1971 multi-province sighting wave across Barcelona, Huesca, Lerida, and the Cantabrian Sea, ultimately identified as the atmospheric re-entry of a French ONERA 'Tibere' rocket launched under Operation Electre.
→ Expediente — Avistamiento múltiple Barcelona–Huesca–Lérida–Mar Cantábrico (23 February 1971)
- 24PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacionalp.1
The inventory was formally certified on 13 May 2010 and covers 'Ocorrências de Tráfego Hotel' — the FAB procedural codename for UFO/OVNI incidents —...
A Brazilian Air Force administrative inventory cataloguing hundreds of civilian OVNI questionnaires, official correspondence, and inter-agency communications from the 1990s, transferred to the Arquivo Nacional under a 2010 declassification ordinance.
→ Listagem 4º Recolhimento ARX — FAB UFO Transfer Index