1970 · Over Plaški, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
Plaški: a MiG-21 can't catch a luminous object at 22,000 m
Part ofOrdered to fire
From the accounts: a Yugoslav MiG-21 could not close on a large glowing object at about 22,000 m over Plaški, 20 August 1970. · Illustration for uaptrail.com
When20 August 1970
WhereOver Plaški, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
On 20 August 1970 a Yugoslav two-seat MiG-21 was vectored by radar to a large glowing object at about 22,000 m over Plaški. It could not close even at supersonic speed, and the object pulled away and vanished from radar at the same time. The pilot, later a colonel and military attaché, says the Air Force set up an office for pilots' UFO reports in the 1980s.
How plausible · High
A named reconnaissance pilot, later a military attaché, was vectored by radar and couldn't close; the object left radar as it pulled away.
- ●●Access He flew the intercept.
- ●●Character record Colonel and military attaché.
- ●●Physical traces or official reaction Radar vectoring and the radar loss.
- ●○Cost of speaking Named.
- ●○No gain sought Told in his memoir of flying stories.
- ●○Independent convergence His second pilot Dušan Stipić was aboard.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
Claims
Vectored by the Radar Centre to a large self-luminous object at about 22,000 m; a supersonic climb could not close; it accelerated away and left radar at the same moment. Months later a similar object hovered over Bihać airfield in front of pilots; in 1974 a glowing object followed a radar warning on the Karlovac–Duga Resa route.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedCol. (ret.) Suad Hamzić, recon pilot, with pilot Dušan Stipić, to Kurir
A body was set up at Air Force Command in Belgrade in the mid-1980s to take pilots' UFO encounters.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedHamzić, 'Letačke priče'
Where
Over Plaški, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
45.1°N 15.4°E