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The Ota Air Base Encounter: Júlio Miguel Guerra's Chipmunk Circled by a UFO

November 2, 1982 · Near Vila Verde dos Francos, west of the Serra de Montejunto, toward Torres Vedras (flight from Base Aérea N.º 2, Ota)

Portugal

UAP · Sphere · 19 sources

26Thinly documented

Caso Lemos Ferreira: Portuguese Air Force F-84G formation encounter

September 4, 1957 · Night route between Ota and Spain, reported over Cáceres, Córdoba, Portalegre and Coruche

Portugal

UAP · Sphere · 17 sources

24Thinly documented

Names84 · see all

Metabunk Organisation · 67 stories
A skeptic forum.
Bernard Heuvelmans Person · 58 stories
A Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Place · 40 stories
An Air Force base in Ohio, called Wright Field in the earliest records.
Mick West Person · 32 stories
A sceptic, and the founder of the Metabunk forum.
Ivan T. Sanderson Person · 29 stories
A naturalist and writer, Ivan T.
Heuvelmans Person · 21 stories
Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.
Naish Person · 18 stories
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
Fran Ridge Person · 13 stories
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
NASA Organisation · 13 stories
America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.
Coral and Jim Lorenzen Person · 12 stories
A husband and wife who ran APRO, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization.
George Knapp Person · 12 stories
A journalist who keeps turning up where the evidence surfaces.
Jaime Maussan Person · 12 stories
A Mexican journalist, TV presenter and ufologist, Jaime Maussan stood behind many of the region's best known cases.

Documents24 · see all

/specialCollection/nwcda7/179/TRIFA, VIOREL DONISE/TRIFA, VIOREL DONISE_0034.pdf FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 5 pages· 1 page mentions it
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usaf f1 FOIA release

Office of the Secretary of Defense· 4 pages· 1 page mentions it
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Air Force Request to Declassify CIA Material on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-04-30· 53 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 50 …GILBERT Assistant Director, O/ST, OTA Scientific and technical intelligence O. GILBERT Darrell Assistant Director, O/ST, OTA Scientific and…
General 1946-7 Vol 2 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 1947-12-30· 28 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 13 …Several reportb of well :ep ormot • m obj~ota. al y no aooo tatcd suun(l, o~~c 8 roQ…
/specialCollection/nwcda7/167/SANITZER, JOHANN VOL. 1/SANITZER, JOHANN VOL. 1_0014.pdf FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 47 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 2 …n'With SW.OtAs, ..Tscaht!') ' 9. Education: , •Attonded 5 classes at the primary schoolat Brettessie bat EarChogg, Niederdepau. Attdmiod•. the…
FAB CENDOC Envelope 09 (1978) Document

FAB CENDOC via The Black Vault· 86 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 18 …MERIO PUEBLA SANTANA - 19 Ten Espa OTA CORPO TERMINAL NMS/JBJA .. Copia: TkR ... 01 Total .. 01