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LocationCountryTurkey is the setting of the 2007–2009 Kumburgaz UFO videos, reviewed by the state science agency TÜBİTAK in 2008, and home to Istanbul's Sirius UFO research center and museum.
Turkey is the setting of the 2007–2009 Kumburgaz UFO videos, reviewed by the state science agency TÜBİTAK in 2008, and home to Istanbul's Sirius UFO research center and museum.
Turkey's UFO record has been driven mainly by civilian researchers. The most prominent is ufologist Haktan Akdoğan's Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center in Istanbul, which opened the International UFO Museum there on 18 January 2001 and added branches in Cappadocia and Denizli in 2005. The state's main brush with the subject came in early 2008. After Sirius presented night footage filmed at Kumburgaz, on the Sea of Marmara, at a press conference on 17 January, the state science agency TÜBİTAK reviewed it in a report prepared by Zeki Eker, director of its National Observatory. The report found no sign of computer animation, special effects or studio staging, but said the footage could not establish the objects' location, distance, size or identity. Yeni Şafak's headline read, in translation, "It may be a UFO, but not an alien."
The Kumburgaz videos, shot between 2007 and 2009 by night watchman Yalçın Yalman, remain the country's most debated case. Promoters say the clearest frames show figures inside a structured craft. Contributors to the skeptical forum Metabunk have proposed window reflections, distant ships and deliberately masked shore lights, and noted that the observatory report, dated 31 January 2008, could not have covered footage recorded later. No multi-sensor or official military record of the objects has been published.
Older and newer Turkish reports tend to surface online rather than through official channels. In May 2026 a man described as a former Turkish Air Force member shared thermal footage he said he recorded on night duty near Karacadağ, Diyarbakır, in 2018, saying the object was invisible to the naked eye before it rose and vanished. Turkey also drew ancient-mystery coverage: in October NewsNation's "Unreported" followed drilling at the Durupınar formation near Mount Ararat with Andrew Jones of Noah's Ark Scans. A 1960 Turkish expedition there found only soil and rock, and geologists have long described the formation as natural.
Turkey's place in UAP history rests on one widely shared video series and on the unusual step of a state scientific body examining it. That review found no sign that the footage was faked but left the objects themselves unidentified, which is why the Kumburgaz case is still argued over nearly two decades later.
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In 2008 a man recorded this video in Kumburgaz Turkey over Marmara Sea He captured this object multiple times on camera also at this time a lot of people were seeing ufos in the sky and to this day people can’t explain this footage some people say it’s best ufo footage we have.
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There is a lot of speculation and discussion surrounding disclosure possibly happening on July 8, 2026. As there is no evidence or confirmation of this, I think it is exactly that: speculation and discussion around an idea. Turkey is hosting a NATO summit on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 7–8, 2026. The event will bring together the leaders of all 32 member states, as well as partner nations, including the European Union, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwai...
Time: July 1, 1978 at 3:00 PM Location: Elbistan, Turkey This is not an adult reflecting on UFO culture. This is the memory of a six year old boy in a small town in eastern Turkey in the 1970s, who had no word for what he saw. He was alone in a large mud-brick walled garden on an ordinary afternoon. Then something moved above him. Maybe two meters above his head, moving slowly and silently sideways. No sound. Nothing. The object was elongated, roughly cylindrical, long and slender, dark almos...
Night security guard Yalçın Yalman captured what appear to be two large-headed humanoid figures inside a transparent, structured object hovering over the Sea of Marmara. Official analysis (January/February 2008): Turkey’s top scientific body (TÜBİTAK) examined the original MiniDV tapes and concluded: • No digital manipulation or CGI • Footage is authentic and recorded outdoors in real time • The object has physical structure They didn’t officially say “aliens,” but confirmed it couldn’t be ea...
This is a Turkish UAP case from 2018 involving thermal camera footage reportedly recorded by a former Turkish Air Force member during night duty near Karacadag, Diyarbakir, in southeastern Turkey. According to the witness, the object was not visible to the naked eye and could only be seen through the thermal camera. He says he recorded about four minutes of footage, then continued watching it for another thirty to forty minutes before it suddenly rose upward and disappeared. That final moveme...
