UFO case file · UFO-4569
Hanbury — Milakovic family sighting, November 20, 1968
Hanbury, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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On November 20, 1968, members of the Milakovic family reported an unusual encounter at Hanbury in Staffordshire, England. The Atlas preserves a fuller family-sighting entry and a shorter variant emphasizing the reaction of animals; the matching date and locality indicate that they describe the same event.
The family became aware of an anomalous luminous object in the rural surroundings. The companion catalogue variant records unusual animal behavior during the sighting, an important detail because it belongs to the observation sequence rather than to later interpretation. A being or humanoid presence is also associated with the fuller entry, though the accessible summary does not preserve enough consistent anatomy or clothing detail for a close portrait.
The event ended without a documented abduction or exchange. No authenticated photograph, measured landing trace or instrument reading is attached to the current dossier. Repetition in multiple catalogue rows is retained for cross-reference but is not presented as separate corroboration.
CE3 is retained because the report includes an entity component. The portrait shows the family and an alert dog looking beyond a hedgerow toward the light, with only a distant ambiguous figure. It does not convert incomplete source language into a detailed alien. The image is an illustrative reconstruction, not evidence.
Recorded details
- Named witnesses
- Milin Milakovic; Doris Milakovic; Slavic Milakovic, aged 11
- Local time
- ~17:30–17:45
- Witnesses
- 3
- Craft description
- Entities within domed craft.
- Entity description
- Several figures reported within an illuminated dome
- Coordinate precision
- LOCALITY_APPROXIMATE
- Date precision
- EXACT_DAY
Case videos and witness interviews
Sources and further reading
- NICAP database JSON — full sequential public corpus
- NICAP database listing by date — source index PDF
- Linked case source — en-681120dir.htm
- Patrick Gross comparison citing Daniels and Turner, FSR 15(1), 1969
- Earlier Hanbury summary, compared for departure-sequence differences
- Hanbury Milakovic family source search