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Zimbabwe Air Force UFO Pursuit

Event date: 1985 Jul 22
Location: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Country: Zimbabwe

Record summary

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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