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Witnesses: Air traffic control

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Brazil's Official Night of the UFOs (Noite Oficial dos OVNIs)
May 19, 1986 · São José dos Campos and airspace over São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Goiás
Brazil
UAP · Orb / light · 57 sources
60Well documented
Pro early
The Fiery Cigar over Naxos, Lemnos and Corfu
December 14, 1985 · Naxos, Lemnos and Corfu, Greece
Greece
UAP · Cigar · 11 sources
18Thinly documented
Pro early
The OVNI del 17: Buenos Aires Watches a Glowing Object for Ten Hours, Later Identified as a French MIR Stratospheric Balloon (1985)
September 17, 1985 · Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires, with sightings across Buenos Aires province, Córdoba, Santa Fe, La Pampa and Uruguay
Argentina
UAP · Other · 32 sources · 3 photos
74Well documented
Bulawayo Airport Radar-Visual Sighting and Hawk Jet Intercept
July 22, 1985 · Bulawayo Airport (now Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport), Bulawayo, with the intercept flown from Thornhill Air Force Base, Gweru
Zimbabwe
UAP · Other · 23 sources
48Partially documented
The Minsk UFO: Two Aeroflot Tu-134 Crews Over Byelorussia, 1984
September 7, 1984 · Airspace near Minsk, Byelorussian SSR
Belarus
UAP · Other · 18 sources
33Partially documented
Air traffic controllers' touch-and-go UFO at an eastern England airport (UK MoD files), 1984
April 19, 1984 · Unnamed small airport near the eastern coast of England
United Kingdom
UAP · Sphere · 15 sources
26Thinly documented
Operation Close Encounter: the RAAF Williamtown radar alert
June 30, 1983 · RAAF Base Williamtown, near Newcastle, New South Wales (contacts 70 to 150 nautical miles north of Sydney)
Australia
UAP · Unknown · 11 sources
38Partially documented
VASP Flight 169: Captain Britto's Light over Brazil
February 8, 1982 · Airspace between Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro (Galeão), Brazil
Brazil
UAP · Disc / saucer · 19 sources
67Well documented
Kosmos 1188: the "Dolphin" and "Jellyfish" UFO over Russia and South America
June 14, 1980 · Moscow and European Russia; Buenos Aires and South America
Russia
UAP · Other · 15 sources
43Partially documented
The Manises UFO Incident
November 11, 1979 · Manises Airport, Valencia, and the Mediterranean between Ibiza and Valencia
Spain
UAP · Other · 47 sources
58Partially documented
Kaikōura Lights
December 1978 · Kaikōura coast and Cook Strait, between Blenheim, Wellington and Christchurch, South Island
New Zealand
UAP · Orb / light · 53 sources · 3 photos
84Well documented
Petrozavodsk Phenomenon (the Petrozavodsk Jellyfish)
September 20, 1977 · Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR, on the western shore of Lake Onega
Russia
UAP · Other · 57 sources · 1 photos
0Thinly documented
The Voreppe Luminous Disc (GEPAN case 76305443)
November 5, 1976 · Near Voreppe, Isère, on the road to Grenoble (reports along a line to Clermont-Ferrand)
France
UAP · Disc / saucer · 15 sources
34Partially documented
The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident (Dogfight over Tehran)
September 19, 1976 · Tehran (Shemiran, Mehrabad Airport and airspace north and south of the city)
Iran
UAP · Other · 46 sources
59Partially documented
Pro early
Akita Airport control-tower disc sighting
October 17, 1975 · Old Akita Airport, Araya, Akita City, Akita Prefecture
Japan
UAP · Disc / saucer · 12 sources
27Thinly documented
Carlos Antonio de los Santos Montiel radar-visual encounter
May 3, 1975 · Near Lake Tequesquitengo, Morelos, on the airway from Zihuatanejo to Mexico City
Mexico
UAP · Disc / saucer · 40 sources
47Partially documented
Turin-Caselle Airport Radar-Visual Sighting
November 30, 1973 · Turin-Caselle Airport, Caselle Torinese, Piedmont
Italy
UAP · Sphere · 16 sources
49Partially documented
Pro early
Homestead AFB F-106 scramble after a large radar target over South Florida
September 14, 1972 · West Palm Beach and Miami airspace, south-east Florida
United States
UAP · Cigar · 9 sources
30Partially documented
Pro early
RAF Sopley Radar "Blip Train"
c. 1971 · RAF Sopley, near Sopley, Hampshire, England
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 16 sources
39Partially documented
Pro early
The Reus Air Base control-tower sighting
May 13, 1969 · Control tower, Reus military aerodrome (now Reus Airport), near Reus and Constantí, Tarragona, Catalonia
Spain
UAP · Sphere · 11 sources
35Partially documented