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Captain Thomas Mantell radioed that a 'metallic object of tremendous size' hung above his fighter, then blacked out from lack of oxygen and crashed. The Air Force first blamed the planet Venus, then a classified Navy balloon he had no way of knowing existed.
Sergeant Lonnie Zamora reported an egg-shaped object, two figures and a roaring flame near Socorro. Then investigators photographed four fresh landing marks and scorched brush - and the Air Force's own study left the case among its rare 'unknowns.'
Two days after Christmas, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and her 7-year-old grandson watched a flame-spewing object hover over a road near Houston as military helicopters swarmed it. Within hours they were vomiting and blistering. They sued the U.S. government - and lost.
In October 2023, six federal agents near a sensitive U.S. site watched silent orange orbs release red ones over two nights. Newly released Pentagon files show AARO ran every check available - and still can't account for 40% of what the agents reported.
In January 2026, the Varginha incident - Brazil's most-documented alleged UFO encounter - arrived at a Capitol Hill closed-door session. For the first time, a neurosurgeon who says he treated a captured being agreed to go on the record.
In December 1980, US Air Force personnel at twin NATO bases in Suffolk reported three nights of anomalous lights, physical ground traces, and radiation readings in the forest - producing the most detailed official record of any UAP event in British history.
