The Danish Policeman Case – New Investigation and Findings

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Drawing on original photographs, contemporary interviews, private archives, military records and previously unpublished material, the authors reconstruct the events, and re-examine several explanations proposed over the following decades.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.

What Happened to the Children at Prémanon?

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.


French ufologist at the Japanese Parliament UAP Working Team

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.

Michael Vaillant at SCU Conference

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).

A New Question to the European Commission


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.

[credit: Vladimiro Bibolotti]

UAP Research Explained to the German Minister of Scientific Research

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).

Four Days in Paris: an Overview

On July 16th, during our monthly Zoom Meeting, Edoardo Russo offered EuroUfo.net members a personal  overview of those “Four Days in Paris”, detailing the parallel meetings that were organized from Saturday, June 27th, to Tuesday, June 30th, before and after the UAP Colloquium hosted at the French Parliament, meetings which involved more than 30 fellows coming from all over France as well as from other European countries, with the usual set of discussions, exchanges, personal introductions.

New Issue of Limina Now Available

On July 13th, the third volume of Limina was released. An article by our German fellow Danny Ammon is published in this peer-reviewed journal of  SUAPS (Society for UAP Studies), about “The Demarcation Problem of UAP Studies”.
Ammon argues that UAP Studies requires boundary-work, conceptual demarcation, and differentiated subdisciplines before it can become a rigorous academic field rather than an unduly, mythically unified domain.

Guy Tarade (1930-2026)

French writer Guy Tarade died in Nice on July 21st, at the age of 96 years.

His first book about flying saucers was “Soucoupes volantes et civilisations d’outre-espace” (Flying Saucers and Outer Space Civilisations, 1969), but he was interested in (and wrote books about) all kinds of mysteries, creating his own organization called CEREIC.

He should be credited the worldwide diffusion of the “Palenque Astronaut“: the Mayan prince’s tomb bas-relief which has often been interpreted as an ancient alien. His article about it on the cover page of the Italian UFO journal “Clypeus” (October 1966 issue) was later relaunched by Charroux (1967), Kolosimo (1968), von Daeniken (1969), Vallée (1969), etc.

In 1980 he was one of the founders of IMSA (Institut Mondial des Sciences Avancées)

Even at a late age, he had long been active on Facebook and on his own blog (Les archives du savoir perdu), until 2019..

UFO Target: Italy

Franco Marcucci launched a project to revamp the historic collection of six books about “UFOs in Italy” which were produced by SUF (Sezione Ufologica Fiorentina) since 1975, covering the whole XXth century.

The first volume of this new series titled “UFO Target: Italy” (497 pages) has just been published, covering the years from 1900 to 1954, thus joining and updating the first two ones of the old series.