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DoD-B16-016 · 2008-05-13

Turkey Kumburgaz Video Encounter 2008-2009

DoD◎ Kumburgaz, Marmara Sea, Turkey◌ Middle East#2008◈ Disc / Saucer↑ 200 feet⏱ Multiple nights
EVIDENCE GALLERY

Visual reconstruction and recovered media extracted from the incident dossier. Includes motion playback from the released archive.

Representative official gallery image traced to an official public-source archive

MEDIA STATUS
Official gallery media is shown as representative archive context for this case.
SOURCE TYPE
Sensor capture, analyst notes, and released archive media.
VIEW MODE
Still view highlights silhouette, environment, and encounter geometry.
AT A GLANCE

Night watchman Yalcin Yalman captured multiple videos of disc-shaped craft over the Marmara Sea from the Kumburgaz holiday village on multiple occasions in 2008 and 2009. The footage was submitted to the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (TUBITAK) for analysis. TUBITAK concluded the footage could not be explained by conventional phenomena. Turkey's National Council of Physical Sciences issued a statement about the footage.

PRIMARY WITNESSES
Night watchman Yalcin Yalman, multiple Kumburgaz residents
EVIDENCE PROFILE
STILL EVIDENCEVIDEO PLAYBACKDISC / SAUCER
FILE ID
DoD-B16-016
DATE
2008-05-13
AGENCY
DoD
REGION
Middle East
SHAPE
Disc / Saucer
ALTITUDE
200 feet
OBSERVED BEHAVIORS
Stationary HoverAnti-Gravity Hover
DECLASSIFIED DETAILS

Between May 2008 and September 2009, Yalcin Yalman, a night watchman at the Yeni Kent Compound holiday village in Kumburgaz on the Marmara Sea coast, captured multiple video recordings of disc-shaped objects over the water using a Sony camcorder with telescopic lens. The footage appears to show a structured craft with openings, internal features, and in some sequences what appear to be humanoid figures. The videos were submitted to the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for analysis. TUBITAK's analysis concluded the footage appeared genuine and the objects could not be identified as known natural phenomena, conventional aircraft, or models. Turkey's National Council of Physical Sciences issued a statement regarding the case. The footage received international academic attention and was presented at multiple scientific conferences. The TUBITAK official government analysis makes the Kumburgaz case one of the few in which a government scientific body has formally evaluated video footage and concluded it depicts a genuine unidentified phenomenon.

KEY CHARACTERISTICS
  • ›TUBITAK — Turkish government science council — formally analyzed footage
  • ›TUBITAK: footage genuine, objects unidentified
  • ›Turkey's National Council of Physical Sciences issued statement
  • ›Multiple separate recordings over 2-year period
  • ›Telescopic lens footage shows apparent internal structure
  • ›Presented at international scientific conferences — academic evaluation
ORIGINAL SOURCE

This incident is indexed as file DoD-B16-016inside Now Declassified's research layer. The nearest official source trail for this agency points to NARA RG 615 / OSD, where archive records, imagery, or supporting context are published for public review.

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EVIDENCE STRENGTH
STRONG
Video Record
25
Still Imagery
15
Witness Credibility
14
Sensor Corroboration
0
Physical Evidence
20
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