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The Ilkley Moor close encounter is one of the most famous and controversial British UFO photo cases, combining a retired police witness, a blurry humanoid image, missing-time claims, and long-running arguments over whether the figure was alien, human, or a hoax.
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The Trans-en-Provence close encounter is one of the most famous French trace-evidence UFO cases, combining a rural witness, a brief reported landing, official site analysis, plant and soil anomalies, and long-running disagreement over what the traces really showed.
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The Voronezh close encounter is one of the most unusual and controversial UFO cases ever publicized by Soviet media, combining child witnesses, a park encounter, giant humanoid claims, a robot figure, and intense skepticism from scientists and investigators.
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The Wytheville close encounter wave is one of the most famous Appalachian UFO flaps of the late twentieth century, combining police witness reports, mass local call-ins, low-level silent-craft claims, photographs, and an unresolved dispute between military-refueling explanations and extraordinary witness testimony.
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