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Sighting record / 1984

The Boherlahan "Fried Egg" UFO, County Tipperary (1984)

1984 · Boherlahan, near Cashel, Co Tipperary, Ireland
19Thinly documented UAP Other 11 sources 1 videos

Boherlahan, County Tipperary. 1984. A local teenager named Conor Dwyer described an object. It was "the same shape as a fried egg," he said. It had "some kind of an aerial on top and it was brown in colour." A 10-year-old boy reported something else. A buzzing noise, like a chainsaw. Bright lights that dazzled him. Dwyer told The Irish Times at the time. Then the story went quiet. It surfaced again in 2007, inside the Irish Defence Forces' own UFO file, recorded in the final year that file was kept.

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Context

For 37 years, the Irish Defence Forces kept a file on UFOs. It ran from 1947 to 1984. Inside were press cuttings about reported sightings, along with classified memos and other correspondence. After 1984, the file was no longer maintained.

Sources (11, most influential first)

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  2. Boherlahan · Wikipedia · Wiki, blog, podcast · wiki
  3. Ireland's X Files: records reveal public concern about UFOs and government confusion on issue · The Irish Times· 2023-07-16 · Academic / paper of record · news
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