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Pilots & radar
Sightings by military and airline crews, many backed by radar.
Case files (63)
- 2025Two round, white-hot UAPs heading south at about 240 knots (war.gov "Djibouti, 2025")
- 2024A diamond-shaped UAP with a "probe", seen only in short-wave infrared, at about 434 knots (25 January 2024)
- 2023"Several bright objects" above FL600 seen by a 77 EFS flight (31 March 2023)
- 2023A "bouncy ball"-shaped UAP keeps pace at about 424 knots for seven minutes (9 November 2023)
- 2023A fifth-generation fighter films two infrared contrasts (20 January 2023)
- 2023F-15E pair sees three possible UAP and a possible balloon near Shaddadi, Syria (21 February 2023)
- 2023Ninety-degree turns over the Aegean
- 2023Three lights from Cyprus to the Balkans
- 2022A "possible small UAP" off the Syrian coast on a night of Russian air activity (30 May 2022)
- 2022A 29-second F/A-18 FLIR clip with a brief reticle lock (2022)
- 2022Gulfstream G650 "Racetrack" Lights
- 2022Several UAP encountered near Columbus, Ohio (November 2022)
- 2021American Airlines 2292 "Cylindrical Object"
- 2021The Galileo Project (Harvard, Avi Loeb)
- 2020"Looks like a balloon": a weapons-quality track on a UAP at 31,000 ft (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
- 2020A 40-knot UAP and a pair at 278 knots in one mission report (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
- 2020A Navy helicopter crew sees three unknown small air contacts with no radar, IFF or ES returns (24 August 2020)
- 2020A possible UAP speeds up and turns east at 321 knots (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
- 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: auto-tracked contrast grows in angular size (Eastern U.S., 2020)
- 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: auto-tracked contrast leaves frame left (Western U.S., 2020)
- 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: contrast repeatedly leaving and re-entering frame (Eastern U.S., 2020)
- 2020Range Fouler: maroon "deformed balloon" off the Atlantic coast (2020)
- 2020Range Fouler: small reflective object, sensor-tracked (Eastern U.S., 2020)
- 2020The two admirals and the blocked debrief
- 2020Tracking UAP over Iran
- 2020Two range foulers circle each other, vanish "in 1/30th of a second", with strobes and noise jamming (27 October 2020)
- 2019Range Fouler: small high-speed object, "rectangular" on review (Eastern U.S., 2019)
- 2015GIMBAL and GOFAST
- 2015UAPTF-transferred infrared clip, digitally altered before reporting (Eastern U.S., 2015)
- 2014Chilean Navy helicopter FLIR: the object with the hot plume
- 2013Aguadilla Thermal Video
- 2010The rounded rectangle over Spain
- 2008Stephenville–Dublin Lights
- 2006O'Hare Airport, Gate C17 Disc
- 2004Campeche: the Mexican Air Force FLIR lights
- 2004The Nimitz 'Tic Tac'
- 2003Brian Binnie's Backyard Orbs
- 2002Bagram Airborne Triangle (FBI PURSUE file)
- 1996UAPTF-transferred infrared clip, three-second crossing (Western U.S., 1996)
- 1995Bariloche: flight AR 674 and the light over Lake Nahuel Huapi
- 1994Corkscrews at 41,000 feet
- 1986Brazil's "Night of the UFOs"
- 1986Japan Air Lines Flight 1628
- 1986Uruguay's CRIDOVNI and the Palmar dam chase
- 1981The Hessdalen lights and Project Hessdalen
- 1980Peru's OIFAA and the La Joya interception
- 1979Manises: TAE flight JK-297 diverted and the Mirage chase
- 1978Kaikoura: the filmed lights off New Zealand's east coast
- 1978Valentich: the Cessna that vanished over Bass Strait
- 1976Jets lose weapons over Tehran
- 1973Italy's Air Force OVNI archive and the Caselle airport sphere
- 1973The Coyne helicopter encounter near Mansfield, Ohio
- 1957West Freugh: five radar echoes over Luce Bay
- 1956Lakenheath-Bentwaters: radar targets and the Venom intercept
- 1955KC-97 crew and GCI radar: unidentified object near Newfoundland (6 July 1955)
- 1955RB-47 crews: unidentified aircraft over the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1-8 June 1955)
- 1954Ground and airborne radar track an unknown off Neah Bay, and an F-86D radar shows it splitting in two (22 June 1954)
- 1952Nash-Fortenberry: eight red discs under a Pan Am DC-4
- 1951Gordon Cooper and Deke Slayton: two future astronauts' 1951 sightings
- 1948B-29 crews of the 307th Bomb Group report a fast-climbing unidentified jet off Holland (5 September 1948)
- 1948Chiles-Whitted: the Eastern Air Lines "rocket ship"
- 1948The Gorman "dogfight" over Fargo
- 1947Kenneth Arnold sees nine 'saucers'
People, organizations and fields (3)
Articles (2)
Other governments kept files too
The US is not the only state that chased these objects with jets. Belgium scrambled F-16s during the triangle wave and got radar locks on targets that out-accelerated them. Spain sent a Mirage after the lights that diverted flight JK-297 into Manises. In England the RAF vectored Venom night…
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What the PURSUE files add
war.gov/ufo turned rumors into file numbers. The military clips are the bulk: infrared tracks from CENTCOM, INDOPACOM and NORTHCOM, several with nothing to name the object. The written reports are sharper. An AFSOC crew logged six small spheres "able to change directions quickly and…
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