Um, sadly I have to admit this is kinda my area. There are quite a few UFO sightings by air force pilots around the world. It’s not as rare as you may think, the same with UFO sightings. Of course pretty much all are false alarms. I think the first sightings are the “foo fighters” of WW2 fame.Both Axis and Allied sides though they were a weapon of the other side but it was discovered neither had anything to do with them. Next would be the Mantell incident in 1948 when Captain Mantell of the Kentucky Air National Guard was killed after his P51 Mustang was destroyed, cause unknown, after he and 3 other Mustang chased a UFO over the city of Mansville.Then you have the so-called “Washington Invasion” in 1952 when the USAF spent a couple of nights chasing visual and radar sightings of craft over Washington DC that had performance they, nor we could match.Later that year there were the sightings at RAF Topcliffe that caused the RAF to officially recognise the existance of UFOs. Four F84 Thunderjets belong to the Portugese AF from Ota AFB observed a UFO which was independantly verifiedby the Coimbra Meteorological Observatory in 1957.
In more modern times there are the Shanghai sighting in 1964 when the Chinese launched fighters to intercept a cigar shaped object over the city and then claimed in was an American missle!, the Gulf Breeze sightings in which USAF and US Navy craft were spotted chasing UFOs, the Rendelsham Forest incident, Aviano AFB Italy was (alledgely) blacked out in 1977 by a UFO. In 1979 Italian Air force senior warrant officer Giancarlo Ceccono of the 14th Jet Fighter GroupWing No.2 took pictures of a UFo from his Fiat G-91R in the Apennine Mountains.
The Spanish AF takes UFOs extremiously seriously and investigates many cases. In 1979 a Mirage F1CE from Los Lanos AFB flown by Captain Pilot Fernando Camara was involved in one of the best documented UFO sighting after being sent to intercept UFOs sighted at Manises Airport. The details of the intercept are quite in depth so im not typing them up but they are well recorded and have independant verification between ground and airborne observers, visually and with radar. There are hundred of good sightings by air force personel, it just takes a bit of research to uncover them.The early incidents are more common because there wasn’t embarassment of reporting UFOs at the time, but there is now. Ask a few pilots, you may be able to get something out of them.Also nations such as Spain and France are far more open about sighting than America and some of it makes great reading
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