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RAAF stops investigating UFO reports

Name: RAAF stops investigating UFO reports
Start: 1994
Location: Canberra, Australia

When: 1994
Where: Canberra, Australia
Sources: 1 public source

Russell Offices in Canberra, headquarters of Australia's defence organisation Nick Dowling at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Royal Australian Air Force stopped investigating UFO sightings in 1994. According to the National Archives of Australia, it reasoned that only about 3 percent of reports could not be explained by natural phenomena and that these posed little or no security threat.

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OfficialFlying saucers - fact or fiction? (opens in a new tab)National Archives of Australia / 2018-02-28

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