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Close encounters with UAP have physically injured people

Also known as UAP injuries claim, effects on humans claim

Open. The accounts come from witnesses and from scientists who studied patients' records; no official body has confirmed a UAP cause, and some of the cases Garry Nolan studied were later classed as “Havana syndrome”. (Stanford professor who studied impact of UFO encounters on brain unpacks new batch of Pentagon files)

Witnesses at Rendlesham, in the Amazon and elsewhere describe burns, radiation-like symptoms and lasting illness after close encounters, and AAWSAP studied the effects of UAP on humans as one of its two tracks. The Stanford immunologist Garry Nolan says he was drawn into the subject by medical cases referred by the government.

Who has said it, in order

  1. 14 October 1988 — says so, first-hand: Betty Cash, of the 1980 Cash–Landrum case in Texas, says she has cancer after her encounter with a fiery object escorted by helicopters. Source: UFO Cover-Up?: Live! (1988 television special) at 34:50
  2. 29 April 2013 Jim Penniston — says so, first-hand: Penniston says he had trouble walking within three weeks, but answered “no” when the base hospital asked about radiation exposure because he was under orders to keep the incident top secret. Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: Rendlesham Forest Encounter, Part 1 at 39:10
  3. 29 April 2013 John Burroughs — says so, first-hand: Burroughs: shortly after the incident his gums turned white, and months later a doctor found a heart murmur, though his Air Force entry physical had been clean. Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: Rendlesham Forest Encounter, Part 1 at 43:00
  4. 29 April 2013 John Burroughs — says so, first-hand: Burroughs says that besides his physical problems, “i have a pacemaker defibrillator in me now at 52”, they still do not know what they were exposed to. Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: Rendlesham Forest Encounter, Part 2 at 44:06
  5. 29 April 2013 A. J. Gevaerd — says so, relayed: A. J. Gevaerd says Operação Prato began because people around Colares could not leave and “over a thousand people were attacked” by lights during that period, so community leaders asked the state of Pará for help. Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: South American Encounters, Part 2 at 8:41
  6. 29 April 2013 A. J. Gevaerd — says so, relayed: Gevaerd describes the beams of light that attacked people and animals around Colares, and craft “like a can” with “two human-like creatures inside of it”. Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: South American Encounters, Part 2 at 44:37
  7. 8 June 2018 Hal Puthoff — says so, relayed: Puthoff cites the Brazilian Air Force's 1977–78 investigation, with about 1,000 pages, 500 photographs and 15 hours of film, and a list of medical injuries. Source: Hal Puthoff Presentation 06/08/2018 at 25:01
  8. October 2023 — disputes it, documented: “To date, no encounters with UAP have been confirmed to have directly contributed to adverse health-related effects to the observer(s).” The report adds that health effects may appear later and will be tracked if they emerge. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2023.pdf
  9. 17 October 2023 Colm Kelleher — says so, relayed: Co-author Colm Kelleher says AAWSAP ran two parallel tracks, UFO performance and the effects of UFOs on humans, and that this book reported mostly the second: medical, pathological, physiological, psychological and paranormal effects. Source: Inside the DIA's Secretive UFO Investigation: Lacatski and Kelleher on WEAPONIZED #38 (October 2023) at 25:03
  10. 13 November 2024 Luis Elizondo — says so, first-hand: Asked under oath by Rep. Mace whether government employees injured by UAP receive compensation, he answered “That is correct”, and said “I have seen the documentation by the U.S. Government for several of these individuals who have sustained injuries as a result of a UAP incident.” Source: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth at 1:08:09
  11. 1 May 2025 Hal Puthoff — says so, relayed: Colares, Brazil: weeks of activity investigated by the Brazilian Air Force, with beams that harmed people. It is the one clearly hostile case he knows. (He dates it to the 1980s; Operação Prato was 1977.) Source: Joe Rogan Experience #2314: Hal Puthoff at 1:44:02
  12. 20 January 2026 João Baptista Macuco Janini — says so, opinion: Pathologist João Baptista Janini, in a statement read for him: the bacterium went beyond a conventional infection, which “raises the hypothesis of its alien origin”; an exhumation for molecular studies is awaited. Source: Varginha press conference at the National Press Club: James Fox and the Brazilian witnesses (NewsNation live, 20 January 2026) at 1:22:19
  13. 22 May 2026 Garry Nolan — context, first-hand: Nolan: he was drawn in when the government asked for help with about a hundred harmed diplomats and military personnel, many later identified as early Havana syndrome cases. Source: Stanford professor who studied impact of UFO encounters on brain unpacks new batch of Pentagon files at 1:22
  14. 22 May 2026 Garry Nolan — says so, first-hand: Nolan: brain scans of some of these individuals showed white-matter damage, which he likens to walking into a jet's exhaust plume. Source: Stanford professor who studied impact of UFO encounters on brain unpacks new batch of Pentagon files at 4:12
  15. 20 July 2026 — disputes it, documented: “To date, AARO has not received a UAP report in which a reporter described sustaining adverse health effects associated with their experience.” Two reports described electronic or avionic interference attributed to UAP near an aircraft; AARO had not determined whether the effects were caused by UAP. Source: doc-aaro-annual-report-fy2025.pdf
  16. — says so, relayed: The operation followed a wave of reports in Maranhão and Pará of small, fast lights that residents called “chupa-chupa” (“suck-suck”), which they said fired beams that left burns, weakness and puncture-like marks. Local authorities asked for military help. Source: querepublicaeessa.an.gov.br (archived)

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