UFO Sverige chairman Clas Svahn was the international guest and speaker at MUFON Symposium 2026 in Covington (Greater Cincinnati, USA), on August 30th.
He reported about “High Strangeness cases from Archives for the Unexplained”, basing upon the huge collection of UFO and anomalies documentation at AFU, in Sweden.
British Member of Parliament and former BBC journalist Clive Lewis was interviewed by Peter Skafish (Sol Foundation) to discuss his four parliamentary questions on UAP, Ministry of Defence’s answers, and more general issues about the limits of transparency within Britain’s political and intelligence system, and the contradictions between official UK statements and information arriving from the USA..
According to a lot of reports, UAP may cause physical effects on the environment (soil, plants, animals, people, vehicles, radio/TV sets, power outages…).
A new website to collect reports, analyses and bibliography on the topic was created by Stefano Innocenti: ufoeffects.com
The unexpected encounter of an Italian settler with a “flying cigar” that landed in front of him, with “pilots” onboard and traces on the ground, causing a week of turmoil in the community and on the local newspapers.
A detailed re-examination of an early African close encounter during the peak of the 1954 wave of flying saucers over Europe, based upon hitherto unknown sources, recovered from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome.
SUFOI is publishing a new book titled “Danish X-Files – The Police Officer’s Experience in the Dark” (in Danish) by Asger Poulsen and Ole Henningsen.
It is the result of six years of renewed investigation into what became Denmark‘s best-known UFO case: on August 12, 1970, a police officer was driving his patrol car when the car’s engine and lights suddenly failed as the vehicle was illuminated by an intense beam of light from above. The interior of the car becoming warm and, as the light appeared to withdraw, he saw a large, flat, greyish object above the car before it disappeared rapidly and silently. He was able to take six photographs.
Drawing on original photographs, contemporary interviews, private archives, military records and previously unpublished material, the authors reconstruct the events, and re-examine several explanations proposed over the following decades.
Surprisingly, they show that the incident was considerably more complex than the story usually told over the past half-century – with some long-standing explanations becoming less plausible while newly uncovered information opens other avenues for understanding what Evald Hansen Maarup experienced that night.
A longer presentation by Benny Christen Grandahl may be read on UAP Check news page.
A new examination of a classic close encounter with humanoid, which was part of the famous flying saucer wave in France, was recently published in a local history journa, Les Amis du Vieux Saint-Claude (No. 49, 2026, pp. 2–19).
On September 27, 1954, four children from the small village of Prémanon reportedly encountered a “flying saucer” and a strange-looking being in a field, and the story soon went from local newspapers to magazines and books throughout the word.
The event was already re-investigated in the 1980s, but the new article by Yves Bosson and Jean-Pierre Rospars (“L’affaire du « Martien » de Prémanon: construction et déconstruction d’un fait divers”) goes beyond the simple dychotomy between a real saucer landing and a children prank: this story reveals a wealth of creative mechanisms that produced a surprising collective narrative.
The original article in French as well as an English translation are available.
On July 14th, during the fifth general meeting of the Japanese Parliament UAP working group, French journalist and UFO writer Charles-Maxence Layet was asked to take the floor and to brief the Japanese lawmakers about the recent UAP debate at the French Parliament.
Author of the book “The UFOs Springtime” (2025), Layet has been coming and going in the Rising Sun country for the last year, meeting researchers, witnesses, scientists and politicians for his forthcoming book about UFOs and ufology in Japan. He had already spoken to that UAP working group in March, reporting about the European scene.
French data scientist, GEIPAN longtime collaborator and UAP Check founder, Michael Vaillant was a guest speaker at SCU Conference 2026 in Toronto (Canada) on July 26th.
Vaillant’s paper was titled “Lessons from the GEIPAN Experience: Science, UAP Investigation, and the Case for an International Standards Coalition”. An abstract is available here.
Other European fellow among speakers were Christian Peters (University of Bremen, Germany) with a paper titled “Between Epistemic Ideals and Political Realities: Rethinking the Role of Science in Governmental UAP Research“, and Rainer Haseitl with an “Invitation to Hessdalen: An Active Hotspot for Instrumental UAP Research” (in Norway).
On July 15th, a new question to the European Commission about UAPs was submitted by a German Member of the European Parliament, Moritz Körner.
After referring to the recent developments about the topic in the USA, and to the ongoing releases of documents by the US Government, he asked three questions to the EUC:
1. Has the Commission verified the documents and the statements of its US counterparts on this issue?
2. Does the Commission consider the publications of the US administration to be at all serious?
3. Does the Commission rule out the existence of UAP/UFOs?
Moritz Heimo Körner is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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On July 16th, Germany federal Minister of Education and Scientific Research Dorothee Bär visited the Institute for Extraterrestrial Research at Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg. Among other things, IFEX director Hakan Kayal explained their instrumented and scientific research of unidentified flying objects and anomalous aerial phenomena (UAP).