Corrections

Withdrawn

When a case or a claim turns out to rest on nothing that can be opened today, it leaves the database. It does not disappear without trace: this page says what it was, when it went and why.

Cases

chile-navy-2014 · 5 October 2026

The Chilean Navy Footage (11 November 2014)

No source we could open supports any part of the case. The CEFAA announcement it rested on is gone: the page returns 404 and the old cefaa.gob.cl domain no longer resolves. The current publications of SEFAA, CEFAA’s successor, do not include the case, and the US releases do not mention it. Not even the existence of the recording can be checked today, so its scores had nothing to stand on.

Claims

chile-navy-video · 5 October 2026

“The Chilean Navy video shows an object venting material.”

Withdrawn with the case it belonged to: neither the claim, nor its origin, nor our verdict rested on anything that can be opened today.

belgian-f16-acceleration · 5 October 2026

“F-16 radar recorded accelerations impossible for known technology.”

Our verdict described the F-16 radar recordings and how their tracking filter behaved, but no recording, analysis or official account of them is in the US releases or on any official site we could find. The only sources that can be opened are two later accounts: The National Archives’ summary, which says radar “reportedly” tracked an object, and one sentence in a newspaper article of 2000. The Belgian case remains, rebuilt on those two accounts.

belgian-triangle-photo · 5 October 2026

“The Petit-Rechain photograph shows a triangular craft from the Belgian wave.”

Our verdict rested on an admission in 2011 and a report in 2022, and we could open no source for either. Without them the entry would have been a claim and a verdict with nothing behind the verdict.

How cases are assessed: methodology.