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- 01PDFTransport Canada / Department of Transport
Project Magnet was established in December 1950 within the Department of Transport's Radio Regulations Engineering Division — a government...
Canada's Department of Transport interim report on Project Magnet, a government-sanctioned UAP study established December 1950 and led by senior radio engineer Wilbert B. Smith, concluding in June 1952 that flying-disc reports could not be dismissed and warranted continued scientific investigation.
→ Smith's Flying Disc Assessment, Transport Canada 1952
- 02PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Incident date and time: 27 September 1954 at 20:30 local time, Premanon, Jura département (39), France.
A GEIPAN Class C case documenting a 1954 close-range sighting of a structured, aluminum-colored rectangular craft by three children in Premanon, France, with associated ground traces and a red glow — filed as insufficient information for conclusive analysis.
→ GEIPAN Case 1954-09-09112 — PREMANON (39) 27.09.1954
- 03PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.4
Incident time: approximately 4:00–4:30 AM, 4 September 1989, Bertre, Tarn, France (~50 km from Toulouse).
GEIPAN case D1: a French retiree witnesses a silent, faceted object stationary above his roof for roughly 30 seconds at 4 AM on 4 September 1989, leaving discolored and displaced roof tiles, blackened moss, and measurable structural subsidence that SEPRA's Jean-Jacques Velasco characterized as the case's distinguishing feature.
→ GEIPAN Case 1989-09-01666 — « LES TUILES » BERTRE (81) 04.09.1989
- 04PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional
File is the fifth of multiple envelopes in a single FAB investigation, indicating the Duas Pontes case generated enough documentation to require...
Fifth envelope of a multi-part Força Aérea Brasileira investigation file on a 1962 UAP sighting in Duas Pontes, Minas Gerais, preserved in the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço declassification series.
→ Caso Duas Pontes 1962 — Envelope 05
- 05PDFUK Ministry of Defence / Defence Scientific Advisory Council
This file holds internal MoD correspondence between the Defence Scientific Advisory Council and other MoD branches on how the United Kingdom should...
DEFE 44/119 is a UK Ministry of Defence file containing Defence Scientific Advisory Council correspondence on the scientific posture the MoD should adopt toward UAP and on UFO reporting policy.
→ DEFE 44/119 — Defence Scientific Advisory Council UFO Policy
- 06PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Three civilian witnesses: a father and his sons aged 18 and 13, observed the phenomenon together on a rural path.
A GEIPAN D1-classified case from 11 November 1963 in which a father and his two sons near Premesques, France, observed a stationary orange luminous ball beneath dark clouds that subsequently moved rapidly upward, leaving no sound or trail.
→ GEIPAN Case 1963-11-01791 — PREMESQUES (59) 11.11.1963
- 07PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Three gendarmes on an active night patrol independently observed the same object, establishing multi-witness corroboration under professional duty...
A French gendarmerie patrol report, assigned GEIPAN Category D (unexplained), documenting a stationary triangular object observed by three officers near Ussy-sur-Marne at 0240 on 24 June 1994.
→ GEIPAN Case 1994-06-01360 — USSY-SUR-MARNE (77) 24.06.1994
- 08PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Incident occurred at approximately 01:45 local time on 30 October 1994 in Sélestat, département 67 (Bas-Rhin), Alsace, France.
GEIPAN gendarmerie case file documenting a couple's close-range sighting of a low-altitude rotating luminous disc stationary above their vehicle in Sélestat, Alsace, on 30 October 1994, rated Class D (unexplained) by CNES's UAP investigation unit.
→ GEIPAN Case 1994-10-01377 — SELESTAT (67) 30.10.1994
- 09PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional
File is the second envelope in a multi-envelope FAB investigation of the 1954 Varig crew UAP encounter, indicating the inquiry generated enough...
Brazilian Air Force second-envelope investigative file on a 1954 Varig commercial airline crew UFO encounter, part of the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço (AN-BSB-ARX) FAB declassification series.
→ Caso Varig 1954 — Envelope 02
- 10PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Three witnesses at a French Air Force warehouse in Limoges observed the phenomenon on 11 April 1953 at 21:10 local time.
French Air Force case file: three military witnesses at Limoges observe a large silent red-orange light execute a 180-degree reversal across 45 degrees of sky in six minutes — GEIPAN's own verdict is Class D, unexplained.
→ GEIPAN Case 1953-04-00005 — LIMOGES (87) 11.04.1953
- 11PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Incident occurred at approximately 04:30 local time on 4 September 1989, reported by a male civilian unable to sleep.
GEIPAN case 1989-09-01666 is a French civilian UAP report documenting a stationary, spinning-top-shaped luminous object observed at approximately 04:30 on 4 September 1989 above a farmhouse rooftop in Bertre, Tarn (81), France, rated GEIPAN classification D1 — unexplained.
→ GEIPAN Case 1989-09-01666 — « LES TUILES » BERTRE (81) 04.09.1989
- 12PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Sighting occurred at approximately 01:45 on October 30, 1994, in or near Selestat, Bas-Rhin (67), Alsace, France.
French gendarmerie and GEIPAN case file documenting a 1994 nighttime close-approach sighting near Selestat in which a couple in a moving car observed a low-altitude rotating luminous disc that appeared to follow their vehicle — assigned GEIPAN classification D.
→ GEIPAN Case 1994-10-01377 — SELESTAT (67) 30.10.1994
- 13PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Incident occurred 26 July 2009 at roughly 22:20, Rixheim, Haut-Rhin (68), Alsace, France.
A GEIPAN investigation record of a single-witness visual observation in Rixheim, France on 26 July 2009, in which a white luminous point executing apparent direction change and acceleration was classified D1 — unexplained due to insufficient data.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 14PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Incident occurred on 26 July 2009 at approximately 22:20 in Rixheim, département 68 (Haut-Rhin), Alsace, France.
A French gendarmerie procès-verbal and GEIPAN case record documenting a single civilian's 7–8 second observation of a white luminous point over Rixheim, Alsace that changed direction and accelerated, formally classified D1 (unexplained, low anomaly) by the CNES UAP unit.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 15PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Case filed under GEIPAN number 2011-02-02732, assigned classification D1 — unexplained with insufficient data to resolve.
GEIPAN case 2011-02-02732 is a French gendarmerie-backed investigation of a solo motorist's sighting of a static, flat, triangular greenish object above the A62 motorway between Agen and Bordeaux on 15 February 2011, classified D1 (unexplained, insufficient information).
→ GEIPAN Case 2011-02-02732 — [A62] de AGEN (47) vers BORDEAUX (33) 15.02.2011
- 16PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional
The file is part of the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço FAB declassification series, a structured Brazilian government release program initiated in 2009.
A Brazilian Air Force investigation file on a UAP case in Parintins, Amazonas, released as part of the 2009 Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço FAB declassification series; the full PDF is scanned-image only and contains no machine-readable text.
→ Caso Parintins — FAB Investigation File
- 17PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Incident time was 2:40 AM local — a low-traffic hour reducing the likelihood of misidentification with conventional aircraft or vessel lighting.
A 1952 GEIPAN case file documenting a luminous aerial phenomenon over Port-Gentil, Gabon, that stopped, turned, and resumed course — classified D (unidentified) by the French space agency's UAP unit.
→ GEIPAN Case 1952-06-00004 — PORT-GENTIL (GA.8) 01.06.1952
- 18PDFGEIPAN / CNES
The case carries a D1 classification — GEIPAN's designation for observations that are high-quality and remain without conventional explanation.
GEIPAN case 2012-04-08222 is the official French CNES investigation into a D1-classified (unexplained) dual-luminous-point UAP observation over Saint-Lô, Normandy on the evening of April 4, 2012.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-04-08222 — SAINT-LO (50) 04.04.2012
- 19PDFRoyal Australian Air Force / National Archives of Australiap.2
Four named ANARE observers documented the event at approximately 1300 hours GMT+7 on 17 July 1958, from sea level adjacent to the east side of Taylor...
A 1958 ANARE field report in which four researchers at Taylor Glacier, Mawson Station, Antarctica, describe two distinct and regular forms of aerial light phenomena observed over twenty minutes on 17 July 1958.
→ P1556 PHENOMENA-MAWSON 1958 — Antarctic Phenomena Reports
- 20PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional
Third envelope in a multi-part FAB investigation file on the 1955 Araras, São Paulo UAP incident, indicating a substantial original case volume.
Third envelope of the Força Aérea Brasileira's formal investigation file on the 1955 Araras (São Paulo) UAP sighting, held in the Arquivo Nacional Aero-Espaço declassification series.
→ Caso Araras 1955 — Envelope 03
- 21PDFForça Aérea Brasileira / Arquivo Nacional
Witness João de Freitas Guimarães held dual credentials as a practicing attorney and USP law professor — an unusually high-status civilian source in...
Brazilian Air Force investigative envelope documenting attorney and University of São Paulo law professor João de Freitas Guimarães's 1956 close-encounter report of a landed craft and humanoid occupants near São Sebastião, São Paulo.
→ Caso João de Freitas Guimarães 1956 — Envelope 04
- 22PDFGEIPAN / CNES
Observation date confirmed by GEIPAN as 29 May 2013 — the witness's own questionnaire incorrectly stated 30 May.
A 2013 GEIPAN case from Normandy in which a motorist observed a dark, pebble-shaped object with red lights and a high-pitched buzz at low altitude before it moved northwest and vanished behind a hedge — classified D1 (unexplained).
→ GEIPAN Case 2013-05-08459 — MENIL-HUBERT-SUR-ORNE (61) 29.05.2013
- 23PDFGEIPAN / CNES
GEIPAN assigned classification D, meaning the phenomenon could not be explained after investigation — the highest strangeness tier in the agency's...
A GEIPAN classification-D case documenting a nocturnal colored luminous phenomenon observed by multiple military personnel at a radar station in Doullens, France, on 19 October 1954.
→ GEIPAN Case 1954-10-09217 — DOULLENS (80) 19.10.1954
- 24PDFGEIPAN / CNES
GEIPAN classification D assigned — the highest mystery tier in the French government UAP taxonomy, indicating the phenomenon could not be explained...
GEIPAN case 2020-06-51034 is a French government UAP investigation record documenting a silent, rectilinear nocturnal passage of two bluish lights observed by three witnesses in rural Normandy on 3 June 2020, classified D (non-identified) after investigation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2020-06-51034 — AUNAY-LES-BOIS (61) 03.06.2020