Case file · Official inquiry
CENAP, the German UFO reporting centre
From the mid-1970s, the Mannheim-based CENAP (Centrales Erforschungsnetz außergewöhnlicher Himmelsphänomene) collected UFO reports from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
1976 CE · 49.49, 8.47 · status: account
The account
Led by Hansjürgen Köhler, CENAP has processed well over 13,000 reports. It explains most of them as balloons, sky lanterns, satellites, planets and aircraft, and reports only a small remainder as unresolved.
The sceptical view
Believers criticise CENAP as too sceptical; it is a private group, not a government office.