International findings
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275 findings
- 01PDFRoyal Australian Air Force / National Archives of Australiap.6
Between 23 January 1960 and 30 December 1971 the RAAF received 595 UFO reports; Department of Air assessed 93 percent explainable by present...
RAAF North-Eastern Area (Queensland) regional UFO file covering formal sighting logs from January 1960 through 1972 and an August 1972 policy circular streamlining investigation, with the January 1966 Tully Horseshoe Lagoon 'UFO nest' inquiry as the file's signature case (in the truncated pages).
→ PP959/1 5/3/AIR — RAAF North-Eastern Area (Queensland) UFO File
- 02PDFBelgian Air Force / Force Aérienne Belge (operations under Col. Wilfried De Brouwer)p.3
Two F-16s scrambled from Beauvechain after Glons and Semmerzake ground radars independently confirmed an unidentified echo at approximately 3,000 m...
UCL physics professor Auguste Meessen's in-depth analysis of the F-16 onboard radar recordings from the Belgian wave interception of March 30–31, 1990, tracing his evolving interpretation from a near-certain non-terrestrial hypothesis to a Doppler measurement artifact explanation involving soft atmospheric targets.
→ Belgian F-16 Radar Trace Charts — March 30–31, 1990 Eupen/Wavre Interception
- 03PDFDepartment of National Defence / RCMP / National Research Councilp.3
The Richmond, BC sighting (79-11-29) described an inverted saucer with a flat dull-gold bottom, a black protruding center, four evenly spaced lights,...
Pages 4201–4500 of Canada's 29-part UFO FOIA release, presenting November–December 1979 RCMP detachment and Canadian Forces telexes routed to the National Research Council's Planetary Sciences Section and Meteor Centre.
→ Canada UFO FOIA Release — Part 15 (Pages 4201–4500)
- 04PDFRoyal Australian Air Force / National Archives of Australiap.3
All folios across all parts of Department of Air file series 580/1/1 were reclassified UNCLASSIFIED effective 7 May 1982 by Group Captain A. Perske,...
RAAF Department of Air HQ file Part 3 of 32, compiling civilian and military UFO sighting reports from Australia and Antarctica during 1962-1963, together with investigation correspondence and standardised ministerial responses.
→ A703 580/1/1 Part 3 — RAAF Department of Air HQ UFO Reports
- 05PDFRoyal Australian Air Force / National Archives of Australiap.2
All folios in the 580/1/1 file series were reclassified UNCLASSIFIED effective 7 May 1982, signed by CAPT AFIS A. Perske.
A mid-1960s RAAF administrative compilation of UFO sighting reports, inter-agency correspondence, and the Department of Air's formal policy address asserting that over 90 percent of sightings are identifiable and no evidence of extraterrestrial visitation has been found.
→ A703 580/1/1 Part 5 — RAAF Department of Air HQ UFO Reports
- 06PDFUK Ministry of Defence / RAF / Defence Intelligence (DI55)p.7
Lt. Col. Halt's 13 January 1981 memorandum describes a triangular, metallic object approximately two to three meters across, emitting pulsed red and...
The UK Ministry of Defence's primary file on the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest / Bentwaters-Woodbridge incident, anchored by Lt. Col. Charles Halt's 13 January 1981 memorandum describing a triangular, metallic, radiation-leaving UAP, together with internal parliamentary briefings in which MoD concluded there was 'nothing of defence interest.'
→ Rendlesham Forest Incident — DEFE 24/1948 (Halt Memo, Suffolk Constabulary correspondence, parliamentary briefings)
- 07PDFUK Ministry of Defencep.28
Six photographic negatives of the Calvine UFO were provided to MoD by the Scottish Daily Record and received on 10 September 1990, roughly five weeks...
UK Ministry of Defence correspondence file documenting the August 1990 Calvine diamond-shaped UFO incident, in which six photographic negatives of a large unidentified object accompanying a Harrier jet were examined by MoD staff who reached no definitive conclusion.
→ Calvine Photograph Analysis Material — DEFE 24/2048 (later MoD correspondence, August 2011 release)
- 08PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
T1 observed a white luminous point below the cloud ceiling near Saulx-de-Vesoul that rose vertically into the clouds and reappeared above the village...
A GEIPAN/CNES investigation report (January 2025) documenting a 26 November 2019 sighting by two motorists of a silent, dark triangular UAP over Villers-les-Luxeuil, France, classified D1 after conventional aircraft and drone hypotheses could not fully account for the observation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2019-11-50872 — VILLERS-LES-LUXEUIL (70) 26.11.2019
- 09PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
The sole witness observed a stationary, silver-white luminous object above a wheat field approximately 17 minutes after sunrise on June 29, 2012,...
GEIPAN investigation report (April 2014) for case 2012-06-08256 — a single civilian witness observed a large, stationary, silver-white luminous object above a wheat field near Maffliers (Val-d'Oise) for under twenty seconds before it departed at extreme speed; classified D1 (unidentified) after two field reconstructions and systematic elimination of...
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-06-08256 — MAFFLIERS (95) 29.06.2012
- 10PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.13
Observation time anchored to 22:26 by EXIF timestamp on Nokia Lumia 920 photo 1 (WP_20140424_22_26_18_Pro.jpg); corrected for a measured 25-second...
GEIPAN investigative report (finalized 19 September 2019) on a D1-classified UAP observed by a retired couple in Bornel, Oise, France on the night of 24 April 2014: a silent orange incandescent fireball later revealed as a light source mounted on the leading edge of a 4-meter triangular gray craft that executed an abrupt halt, vertical descent, off-axis...
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-04-50829 — BORNEL (60) 24.04.2014
- 11PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
Single female civilian witness observed the UAP from her garden in Douai (59) on 27 March 2022 at 21h30 during a routine dog walk; she submitted a...
GEIPAN case D1: a single civilian witness in Douai, France reported a silent, triangular UAP with yellow and orange-pink lights on 27 March 2022; the phenomenon remained unidentified after full field investigation and radar cross-reference.
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-03-51336 — DOUAI (59) 27.03.2022
- 12PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.7
Single witness: civilian stock trader, observed from his apartment balcony at 03:10 on 14 May 2022 in Montluel (Ain, 01); wife and children were...
GEIPAN Classification D investigation report for a single-witness sighting of a silent, dark rectangular UAP over Montluel, Ain, France at 03:10 on 14 May 2022, notable for a reported cloud-deformation effect at the object's edges; unidentified after full investigation.
→ GEIPAN Case 2022-05-51350 — MONTLUEL (01) 14.05.2022
- 13PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The case file constituent parts listed in the header include: PV d'enquête préliminaire, croquis d'état des lieux, planche photographique, PV...
A French gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting the November 15, 1993 observation of a silent, multi-colored circle of lights over Ecquevilly (Seine-et-Marne), formally classified GEIPAN category D — unexplained.
→ GEIPAN Case 1993-11-01335 — ECQUEVILLY (78) 15.11.1993
- 14PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Observation took place 4 April 2012 at 20:15 during twilight (sunset 20:34), from a residential garden in southern Saint-Lô, Manche, Basse-Normandie.
GEIPAN's investigation of a 15-second Saint-Lô sighting on 4 April 2012 — two luminous points, one orbiting the other in ellipses and sharp-angle deflections — closes as D1 (unexplained) after all standard hypotheses are eliminated.
→ GEIPAN Case 2012-04-08222 — SAINT-LO (50) 04.04.2012
- 15PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.7
Single witness observed the phenomenon from the Fumel aerodrome plateau, duration 17:31 to 17:58 — approximately 27 minutes of continuous observation.
GEIPAN investigation report classifying a 2015 daytime sighting of a stationary black opaque object near the Fumel aerodrome in Montayral (Lot-et-Garonne, France) as D1 — unexplained phenomenon of average strangeness.
→ GEIPAN Case 2015-10-09361 — MONTAYRAL (47) 23.10.2015
- 16PDFUK National Archives / UK Ministry of Defencep.3
The 10th and final tranche comprises 25 files and 4,400 pages, covering late 2007 to November 2009; ten files originate with DAS and fifteen with RAF...
The UK National Archives' official highlights guide for the tenth and final tranche of MoD UFO files, summarising the November 2009 decision to permanently close the UFO desk and the contents of 25 DEFE 24 volumes covering 2007-2009.
→ MoD UFO Files Highlights Guide — Final Tranche, June 2013
- 17PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
Two witnesses in a service vehicle observed the phenomenon at 23h07 on June 1, 2014, in the ZI du Piquet industrial zone on the northern outskirts of...
GEIPAN formal inquiry report on a June 2014 sighting of a silent, fast-departing dark rectangular mass bearing two greenish-white lights over an industrial zone in Brittany, France, classified D1 (unexplained, high consistency).
→ GEIPAN Case 2014-06-50078 — ETRELLES (35) 01.06.2014
- 18PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.1
The witness observed a silent white luminous point moving S-N for 7-8 seconds, then apparently turning westward and accelerating during a second...
GEIPAN investigation report (case D1, report dated 2011-09-02) of a 10-12 second naked-eye observation over Rixheim, Haut-Rhin, France on July 26, 2009, in which a silent white luminous point executed an apparent directional change and acceleration that no conventional hypothesis fully explains.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 19PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Single civilian witness settled on terrace at approximately 22h20; the UAP sighting itself ended at 23h48 by an immediately-checked radio-controlled...
GEIPAN investigation report (classification D1) for a 10-to-12-second naked-eye sighting in Rixheim, France on 26 July 2009, in which a silent white luminous point changed direction and accelerated before vanishing in open sky — remaining unexplained after radar cross-checks, satellite-pass analysis, and systematic hypothesis elimination.
→ GEIPAN Case 2009-07-02361 — RIXHEIM (68) 26.07.2009
- 20PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.2
Sighting occurred at 04:12 local time, 13 September 1991, at EVA-4 (Escuadrón de Vigilancia Aérea N.º 4), Rosas, Gerona — an active air-surveillance...
Spanish Air Force expediente documenting a silent, spherical luminous object performing precise circles over the EVA-4 radar installation at Rosas, Gerona at 04:12 on 13 September 1991, witnessed by three military personnel with no corresponding radar return.
→ Expediente — Avistamiento en EVA-4 Rosas, Gerona (13 September 1991)
- 21PDFEjército del Aire / Ministerio de Defensap.8
On 24 April 1986 at 00:22Z, EVA-5 activated manual tracking for unknown objects between 100 and 120 degrees bearing at altitudes beginning at 8,000...
Spanish Air Force intelligence expediente on radar-tracked UAP contacts at Escuadrón de Vigilancia Aérea No. 5 (Aitana, Alicante) on 24 and 26 April 1986, assembled in 1994 and declassified in 1998.
→ Expediente — Avistamiento en EVA-5 Aitana, Alicante (24 April 1986)
- 22PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Sightings occurred on at least four separate nights — September 8, 9, 11, and mid-October 1990 — each beginning around 21:30 and lasting several...
French National Police procès-verbal documenting multi-night observations of an unidentified ovoid object with red and green lights near Longuenesse (Pas-de-Calais), corroborated by two independent patrol units and forwarded to GEPAN — unresolved, GEIPAN Category D.
→ GEIPAN Case 1990-09-01214 — LONGUENESSE (62) 08.09.1990
- 23PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.3
Observation occurred at 21h25 legal time (19h25 UTC) on Tuesday 8 July 2008 from the summit of Montagne de Bergiès, commune of Barret-de-Lioure...
GEIPAN amateur-astronomer questionnaire documenting a D1-classified UAP sighting on 8 July 2008 from the summit of Montagne de Bergiès (Drôme, France): an ovoid, metallic-gray object of approximately -4 magnitude observed through a 9x50 finder scope by two witnesses.
→ GEIPAN Case 2008-07-02443 — BARRET-DE-LIOURE (26) 08.07.2008
- 24PDFGEIPAN / CNESp.2
The object was described as a single, roughly round, luminous yellow sphere with visible light flashes at different points on its surface and no...
French gendarmerie procès-verbal documenting a civilian's one-hour observation of a stationary yellow luminous sphere over the Ardèche on 26 November 1993, forwarded to CNES/SEPRA and classified GEIPAN Category D — unexplained.
→ GEIPAN Case 1993-11-01338 — SAINT-SAUVEUR-DE-MONTAGUT (07) 26.11.1993