YEAR DOSSIER

1981 UAP Cases

Every indexed UAP case documented in 1981, drawn from publicly available official government records — NARA RG 615, AARO, NASA, FBI, and DoD PURSUE program releases.

5 INCIDENTS · YEAR-BASED ARCHIVE HUB
ALL INCIDENTSPURSUE ARCHIVEFULL TIMELINEMATCH MY SIGHTING
State Dept◎ Disc / Saucer
CONFIDENTIAL
STATE-005 · 1981-01-08

Trans-en-Provence — Physical Trace Landing, France

◎Trans-en-Provence, Var, France

A retired engineer observed a disc-shaped object land in his terraced garden in southern France. Physical trace evidence collected by French national police (Gendarmerie) was subsequently analyzed by GEPAN — the French government's official UAP investigation body — and found to include ground compression, scorched vegetation, and unusual biochemical changes in plant matter at the landing site. GEPAN's 1983 report remains one of the most rigorous official government UAP physical evidence analyses ever published.

HOVERINGANTI GRAVITYDISAPPEARED INSTANTLY
PARTIAL
◈ MEDIA
OPEN DOSSIER →
State Dept◎ Disc / Saucer
UNCLASSIFIED
STATE-027 · 1981-01-08

L'Amarante UAP — French Gendarmerie Physical Evidence Case

◎L'Amarante, near Cergy-Pontoise, France

French engineer Renato Niccolai observed a disc-shaped craft land on his property. The French government's GEPAN office (official UAP investigation body within CNES) formally investigated the landing site. GEPAN's analysis found physical changes in the soil and vegetation at the landing site that could not be explained by natural causes — the most technically rigorous physical evidence analysis in the official French UAP record.

HOVERINGANTI GRAVITYSENSOR INTERFERENCE
MODERATE
◈ MEDIA
OPEN DOSSIER →
DoD◎ Disc / Saucer
UNCLASSIFIED
DoD-B12-022 · 1981-01-08

Trans-en-Provence GEPAN Full Analysis 1981

◎Trans-en-Provence, Var, France

The Trans-en-Provence case produced the most scientifically rigorous official investigation of physical trace evidence in French UAP history. GEPAN's analysis of the landing marks found biochemical changes in soil and plants that could not be replicated by any known mechanism. It became the gold standard of scientific UAP trace analysis.

HOVERINGRAPID ACCELERATION
PARTIAL
◈ MEDIA
OPEN DOSSIER →
DoD◉ Orb / Sphere
SECRET
DoD-B15-016 · 1981-07-24

China PLAAF Baotou UAP Intercept 1981

◎Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

People's Liberation Army Air Force radar tracked an unidentified contact at 50,000 feet over the strategic Baotou steelworks and rare-earth industrial complex. PLAAF Air Defense District scrambled interceptors that could not reach the object's altitude. Chinese air defense command issued a classified report. Details emerged from PLAAF veterans in the 1990s and corroborated by US intelligence intercepts of Chinese military communications.

HOVERINGRAPID ACCELERATIONSENSOR INTERFERENCE
MODERATE
◈ MEDIA
OPEN DOSSIER →
DoD◉ Orb / Sphere
SECRET
DoD-B18-025 · 1981-03-17

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Orb 1981

◎Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California

An orb hovered over the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nuclear weapons design facility for 15 minutes. Department of Energy security and DOE Sandia National Laboratories security staff filed classified reports. The orb's presence over the nation's primary nuclear weapons design laboratory — responsible for the design of most US nuclear warheads — triggered the highest-priority security response. The incident was handled jointly by DOE security and AFOSI.

HOVERINGANTI GRAVITYSENSOR INTERFERENCE
MODERATE
◈ MEDIA
OPEN DOSSIER →
FILE DROP ALERTS

Don't miss the next release.

We'll notify you when new declassified archive material or official UAP source updates land on the site.