Mivtahim 1997: the dairy-farm investigation preserved on television
An archival 1997 television segment records UFO researchers examining an alleged landing at a dairy farm in Moshav Mivtahim. The segment documents that an investigation took place, but no public physical findings, complete report or evidence identifying the event's origin has been released.
The Mivtahim investigation in 1997
An archival excerpt from Mabat, presented by Haim Yavin on 19 May 1997, covering two holes found in the dairy farm and the investigators who visited. Source: Kan Archive.
A 1997 archival television segment preserves an on-site investigation of the claim at Mivtahim.
No complete witness list, scene map, timeline, laboratory result or chain-of-custody record is publicly available.
What the video preserves
The supplied archival segment records that investigators visited Mivtahim in 1997 to examine an alleged landing at a dairy farm. It is evidence of the claim and of the inquiry around it, not evidence that an aircraft of non-human origin landed there.
Why a dairy farm is difficult to investigate
A working farm contains human and animal tracks, dust, equipment, routine movement, lighting and many biological materials. Ground marks or a claimed unusual substance require immediate measurements, scaled photographs, retained samples and independent analysis.
Mivtahim appeared during a period of unusually intense public attention to UFO reports in Israel. That helps explain why a local claim reached television. It does not establish its origin.
This is a valuable archival case because the investigation can be viewed rather than reconstructed only from later retellings. The surviving material does not establish that a craft landed at Mivtahim.