United States · 29 December 1980

FM 1485 near Huffman / Dayton, 1980

Documented

The only US UFO case ever litigated against the federal government on a personal-injury theory, with documented burns, hair loss and radiation-type illness, and roughly two dozen Chinooks reported escorting the object.

Where
FM 1485 near Huffman / Dayton, Texas
When
29 December 1980
Who reported it
3 civilians incl. a 7-year-old; an off-duty police officer corroborated helicopter traffic
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / REJECTED
Evidence class
GOV-2

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

The DAIG finding is the case-killer: the witnesses were credible, but Sarran found no evidence of any US military involvement - no unit, no aircraft, no operation. The suit was dismissed in 1986 without trial. The Texas Department of Health did not establish an ionising-radiation cause.

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