Case file · Sighting
Kandivali sightings, Mumbai
In November 1996 a group of aeronautical engineers said they watched unidentified objects for several nights over the north-west Mumbai suburb of Kandivali.
1996 CE · 19.20, 72.85 · status: claim
The account
The episode is often called India's best-known UFO case, but it is known mostly from later retellings, including a 2021 announcement of a Mumbai UFO study centre.
The sceptical view
No named witnesses, photographs or contemporary reports have been published; the case rests on secondary mentions.