YEAR DOSSIER

1978 UAP Cases

Browse every indexed UAP case from 1978. These year landing pages create long-tail search entry points for archive queries tied to specific years and incidents.

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State Dept? Unknown
UNCLASSIFIED
STATE-007 · 1978-10-21

Valentich Disappearance — Pilot Vanishes Mid-Report

◎Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia

Australian pilot Frederick Valentich radioed Melbourne Air Traffic Control to report a metallic craft with a green light orbiting his Cessna over Bass Strait. His last transmission described the object hovering above him and his engine beginning to malfunction. A final metallic scraping sound was recorded on the ATC tape — then silence. Neither Valentich nor his aircraft was ever found. The Australian Department of Transport investigation found no explanation.

RAPID ACCELERATIONSENSOR INTERFERENCEDISAPPEARED INSTANTLY
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State Dept◉ Orb / Sphere
UNCLASSIFIED
STATE-008 · 1978-12-31

Kaikoura New Zealand — TV News Crew Films UAP

◎Kaikoura, New Zealand

An Australian television news crew aboard an Argosy cargo aircraft filmed approximately 30 minutes of footage of luminous objects over the Kaikoura coast of New Zealand. The footage was analyzed by the Royal Australian Air Force and Eastman Kodak, who confirmed the objects were real and not lens flares. New Zealand's Civil Aviation Division investigated and could not identify the objects.

HOVERINGRAPID ACCELERATION
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