Unresolved
does not mean
extraterrestrial.
The UAP problem is not a shortage of cases. It is a shortage of data. This database separates what a document recorded from what was added later — case by case, claim by claim.
cases
in the corpus
on the ledger
programmes
Established
- — UAP are a real category of reported observation, continuous since 1946.
- — A dozen-plus states ran or still run their own investigative programmes.
- — The Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of three US Navy recordings.
- — Some cases remain unresolved despite rigorous investigation.
- — The phenomenon is global, not American.
Not established
- — That any case involves an extraterrestrial craft.
- — That any non-terrestrial craft or material was ever recovered.
- — That a confirmed reverse-engineering programme exists.
- — That any artefact has been scientifically shown to be non-terrestrial.
- — That the extreme performance in the accounts was ever measured.
Both columns are true at the same time. The entire difficulty of this field sits between them — and most public argument consists of pretending only one of them exists.
Evidential core
Cases that survived verification
Tehran
After a series of civilian reports, the Iranian air force scrambled two F-4s. According to a Defense Intelligence Agency report, the first aircraft lost instruments and communications on a…
Hessdalen
Since 1981 the Hessdalen valley has produced recurring luminous phenomena — at peak, more than a dozen times a week. In 1984 an expedition deployed radar, a spectrograph, a magnetometer, a…
RB-47H over the Gulf of Mexico
The crew of an RB-47H electronic reconnaissance aircraft reported a simultaneous correlation: a signal on the passive ELINT receivers, a visual sighting of a bright light, and a reported g…
USS Nimitz / Tic Tac
During carrier strike group exercises, SPY-1 radar operators aboard USS Princeton tracked unusual contacts over several days. On 14 November two F/A-18Fs were vectored to one of them. Four…
The Washington Wave
On two consecutive July weekends, civilian and military radars around Washington tracked unidentified targets over restricted airspace, correlated with visual sightings by pilots. Intercep…
Minot AFB
Over several hours, missile security teams reported a luminous object near launch facilities, ground radar tracked a target, and a returning B-52 both saw the object and recorded it on its…
The Belgian Wave
Over five months thousands of people in Belgium, including gendarmerie officers, reported large, silent triangular objects. On the night of 30/31 March 1990, with correlating ground radar,…
Trans-en-Provence
A witness watched from about thirty metres as an object descended onto the terrace of his property, rested for several seconds and departed vertically. The gendarmerie secured the site the…
Roosevelt / East Coast
Following an upgrade to AESA radars, US Navy pilots began routinely recording objects in Atlantic training areas — in some accounts almost daily. The series led to changed reporting proced…
Claim ledger
Myth versus document
Not cases — individual sentences. Each with its origin, its status, and what exactly would settle it.
Contradicted by the witness himself.
The RB-47H’s onboard equipment was an ELINT / direction-finding suite — a passive receiver of other emitters, not a radar returning echoes off objects.
The recordings are authentic, but an F-16 radar does not display the target’s raw position — it displays the output of a tracking filter that smooths and predicts a trajectory.
The data needed to work it out is on the video itself: viewing angle and range to target are displayed on the HUD.
The number 701 is correct: of 12,618 reports investigated, that many remained in the ‘unidentified’ category.
The UK Ministry of Defence file is unambiguous on this point: no radar confirmation of an unidentified object in that area and timeframe was found.
Source tiers
Every sentence has a level
Primary document
Operational report, case file, gendarmerie protocol, lab result — produced close to the event.
Official statement
Institutional confirmation: ministry statement, authenticity release, agency determination.
Sworn testimony
Witness account given under legal weight — congressional testimony, sworn statement.
Later account / reconstruction
Interview, memoir or reconstruction produced years after the event. The layer most prone to growth.
Media claim
A claim circulating without documentary backing. Recorded because it shapes how a case is read.
Roswell and Rendlesham are built mostly from T4 and T5. Tehran 1976 and Trans-en-Provence stand on T1. That difference matters more than the shape of the object.
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