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The Zanthus Pilot Sighting: a Dark Formation over the Nullarbor

August 22, 1968 · Near Zanthus, Nullarbor, on the Adelaide to Perth air route, Western Australia

Australia

UAP · Formation · 11 sources

23Thinly documented

The Tully Saucer Nest: George Pedley at Horseshoe Lagoon

January 19, 1966 · Horseshoe Lagoon, Albert Pennisi's cane farm, Euramo, near Tully, Queensland

Australia

UAP · Disc / saucer · 29 sources · 5 photos

43Partially documented

The Drury Film: A Silver Dart over Port Moresby

August 23, 1953 · Port Moresby, Territory of Papua and New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

UAP · Cylinder · 17 sources · 1 photos

34Partially documented

Names6

Department of Civil Aviation Organisation · 9 stories
Australia's civil aviation authority turns up again and again in the archive's sightings, usually as the office that checked the skies and found nothing there.
David Grusch Person · 5 stories
A former intelligence officer turned whistleblower.
National Institute for Discovery Science Organisation · 5 stories
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.
NIDS Organisation · 4 stories
Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, known as NIDS, investigated some of the strangest cases in the archive.
Dar es Salaam Place · 3 stories
The capital of Tanganyika, on the Indian Ocean coast.
Foreign Technology Division Organisation · 3 stories
An Air Force unit based at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Foreign Technology Division surfaces across three very different cases.

Documents713 · see all

FBI file 62-HQ-83894, serial 164 Document

Department of War· 137 pages· 34 pages mention it
- p. 42 RESTRICTED DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 15 February…
- p. 106 RESTRICTED DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 15 February…
65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Serial 164 Official release

Federal Bureau of Investigation· 137 pages· 34 pages mention it
- p. 42 RESTRICTED DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 15 February…
- p. 106 RESTRICTED DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 15 February…
Full ATC communications transcript Hearing transcript

FAA via National Archives / The Black Vault· 25 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 2 …MemorandumU.S.Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration INFORMATION: Transcription concerning the incident involving Japan Airlines Flight 1628 on November…
GAO NSIAD-95-187 (PDF) Document

GAO· 1995-07-28· 26 pages· 6 pages mention it
- p. 9 …Mex., 1947-54 Department of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. Current and past records management regulations Report of Air…
- p. 13 …DOD Department of Defense FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Freedom of Information Act RAAF Roswell Army Air Field GAO…
GAO NSIAD-95-187 mirror Document

The Black Vault· 27 pages· 6 pages mention it
- p. 10 …Mex., 1947-54 Department of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. Current and past records management regulations Report of Air…
- p. 14 …DOD Department of Defense FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Freedom of Information Act RAAF Roswell Army Air Field GAO…
General 1948 Vol 1 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 1948-06-15· 28 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 9 …Department or tho Air Force ., Hq. USJ\F, a~initon 25, D. C. TO: Co.m.anding Genoral, ili l…
- p. 19 Ill"'" DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE &CT -. ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET .......TALLY "- ~NO. FILE NO. SUBJECT : Director of Intelligence DATE…