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Zimbabwe Air Force UFO Pursuit

DATE22 Jul 1985
LOCAL TIME—
LOCATIONBulawayo, Zimbabwe
COORDINATES17.56°S, 30.88°E

Ground witnesses, Bulawayo Airport controllers, and pilots of two scrambled Hawker Hunter jets tracked a highly reflective object traveling at twice the speed of sound. The Air Commodore classified the object as a UFO after 18 months of investigation.

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