UAP events · The 1990s

UAP events in 1996

4 events in the archive

Every documented UAP event from 1996 in the Disclosure Archives record — hearings, document releases, official reports, named witness testimony, and major civilian sightings. Sorted newest to oldest within the year; each entry links to a primary source.

Every event from 1996

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November–December 1996

Three frames from Columbia: NASA's 1996 photographs of an object in low-Earth orbit

Three photographs taken from Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-80 mission (November 19 – December 7, 1996) show an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit near the Earth's limb. Across the sequence the object appears to rotate or tumble, then continues along a trajectory that carries it against the face of the Earth. The Department's release includes no NASA disposition for the object, unlike two earlier Shuttle-era anomalies — STS-48 (1991) and STS-75 (1996) — already on the public record.

Low Earth orbit — NASA Space Shuttle, LEO — Earth orbit#Department of War #NASA #PURSUE Release 04

Report

1996-09-10

DOW-UAP-D48, Department of the Air Force Report, 1996

This report describes the Modeling of Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations, documenting historical launch failure modes and recommending corrective actions to address them using novel modelling techniques.

#PURSUE Release 01 #Department of War #1990s

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June 30, 1996

The Sherman ranch story goes public — and Bigelow's NIDS buys the property

The Deseret News publishes Terry and Gwen Sherman's account of eighteen months of unexplained phenomena on their Uintah Basin ranch — lights, orbs, and cattle deaths. Within months, Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science purchases the property and stations scientists on it, beginning the longest-running instrumented field study of a single site in UAP history.

Skinwalker Ranch, Utah — United States#Multiple Witnesses #Skinwalker Ranch

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January 20, 1996

The Varginha incident: creature reports, an alleged military response, and Brazil's most famous case

Three young women in Varginha, Brazil report encountering a small creature with brown skin and large red eyes in a vacant lot. Claims of a military capture operation follow, the Brazilian Army attributes the reports to a misidentified local man, and the case becomes the most prominent — and most contested — UAP event in Brazilian history.

Varginha, Minas Gerais — Brazil#Multiple Witnesses #International #Law Enforcement

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