{"built": "2026-09-06T06:30:32Z", "site": "https://uap.ab7.ai", "tiles": {"url": "https://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png", "subdomains": "abc", "max_zoom": 19, "dark": false, "attribution": "&copy; <a href=\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright\">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors"}, "layers": ["encounter", "sighting", "retrieval", "base", "storage", "footage", "anomaly", "hearing-release"], "layer_labels": {"encounter": "Encounter", "sighting": "Sighting", "retrieval": "Retrieval", "base": "Base", "storage": "Storage", "footage": "Footage", "anomaly": "Anomaly", "hearing-release": "Hearing / release", "other": "Other"}, "sides": ["military", "intelligence", "government", "scientist", "contractor", "civilian", "journalist", "researcher"], "side_labels": {"military": "Military", "intelligence": "Intelligence", "government": "Government", "scientist": "Scientist / academic", "contractor": "Contractor", "civilian": "Civilian witness", "journalist": "Journalist / press", "researcher": "Researcher"}, "bands": ["documented", "well-supported", "contested", "thin", "unsupported"], "years": [1838, 2026], "counts": {"places": 67, "events": 79, "footage": 18}, "points": [{"id": "site:area-51-groom-lake", "t": "site", "slug": "area-51-groom-lake", "name": "Area 51 / Groom Lake", "lat": 37.235, "lon": -115.8111, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Groom Lake runway complex, Nevada Test and Training Range (imagery-confirmed).", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1955, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Lincoln County, Nevada", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A US Air Force test range at Groom Lake, Nevada, acknowledged in 2013 declassified CIA histories. Guests on the show place claimed craft programmes nearby: Lazar says he worked at a satellite site, S-4; Charles Hall describes tall white beings at Indian Springs; Greer describes tunnels linking it to Nellis and Edwards.", "sides": ["civilian", "contractor", "military", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "UAPGerb says the Nevada Test and Training Range houses Area 51, allegedly S-4, and the Tonopah Test Range.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Greer says underground connectors run from Nellis and Area 51 to Edwards and that these tunnels have all been built.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "steven-greer", "speaker_name": "Steven Greer", "side": "civilian", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Hall says he was a duty weather observer at Indian Springs from 1965 to 1967 while stationed at Nellis, which controls the gunnery ranges.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "charles-hall", "speaker_name": "Charles Hall", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Area 51 (Groom Lake) is a real USAF test facility whose existence the CIA publicly acknowledged in a 2013 U-2 history release.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "bob-lazar", "speaker_name": "Bob Lazar", "side": "contractor", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Area 51/Groom Lake is a verified flight-test facility onto which guests project craft narratives.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "randy-anderson", "speaker_name": "Randy Anderson", "side": "military", "year": 2025}], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc", "lazar-sport-model"], "beings": ["tall-white"], "people": ["bob-lazar", "charles-hall", "george-knapp", "steven-greer", "uapgerb", "randy-anderson"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1989-lazar-s4"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/area-51-groom-lake/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-52f7f65beb9ebe.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 7, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Doc Searls · 2010", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groom_Lake_and_Papoose_Lake.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "site:s4-papoose-lake", "t": "site", "slug": "s4-papoose-lake", "name": "S-4 / Papoose Lake", "lat": 37.01, "lon": -115.86, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Papoose Lake dry lakebed from public gazetteer; the hangars Lazar describes are testimony-only and not visible in imagery.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "storage"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "storage"], "band": "contested", "y0": 1989, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Nevada Test and Training Range", "status": "contested", "summary": "Lazar says a facility built into the Papoose Range, south of Groom Lake, held nine recovered discs in hangars and that he worked on the propulsion of one in 1988–89. No public record of an S-4 site exists; the dry lake is real and lies inside the Nevada Test and Training Range.", "sides": ["contractor", "journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Michels narrates Lazar's 1989 account: that he worked at a secret facility called S-4, just south of Area 51 in the Nevada desert, where his job was to reverse engineer craft.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Lazar says two jobs were on offer and he was placed in the second, at S-4 in the Papoose Lake area.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "bob-lazar", "speaker_name": "Bob Lazar", "side": "contractor", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Lazar says S-4 had nine hangars, large enough to explain the long corridors he walked.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "bob-lazar", "speaker_name": "Bob Lazar", "side": "contractor", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Lazar says the briefings at S-4 covered Project Galileo, the one he was assigned to, and also Looking Glass and Sidekick.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "bob-lazar", "speaker_name": "Bob Lazar", "side": "contractor", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Lazar says he saw an American flag on the \"sport model\" craft on his first day at S-4 and that, as he understands it, the Navy got that craft.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "contested", "speaker": "bob-lazar", "speaker_name": "Bob Lazar", "side": "contractor", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Michels narrates that S-4's existence is still officially denied, and that a researcher used Google Earth's historical imagery to find a 2022 view of the area before it was blurred.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Michels narrates that the USGS map of Papoose Lake was altered eight days after Lazar went public in his first anonymous interview, which he presents as circumstantial support for S-4.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "EG&G was a real Nevada Test Site / Area 51 support contractor; Lazar's claimed EG&G path into S-4 remains unverified.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc", "lazar-sport-model"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["bob-lazar", "george-knapp", "jeremy-corbell", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1989-lazar-s4"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/s4-papoose-lake/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-52f7f65beb9ebe.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 10, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Doc Searls · 2010", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groom_Lake_and_Papoose_Lake.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:wright-patterson-afb", "t": "site", "slug": "wright-patterson-afb", "name": "Wright-Patterson Air Force Base", "lat": 39.8261, "lon": -84.0483, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "storage"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "storage"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1947, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Dayton, Ohio", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The Ohio base that housed the Foreign Technology Division and Project Blue Book. Speakers say recovered Roswell material was taken there for reverse engineering; a 1994 Larry King clip of Senator Goldwater is shown saying he was refused entry. UAPGerb links special-projects engineer Eric Henry Wang to the base.", "sides": ["government", "journalist", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Michels relays a witness account that recovered materials were taken to Wright-Patterson to be reverse engineered.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2023}, {"text": "Michels shows a 1994 Larry King clip in which Senator Barry Goldwater discusses his inquiries into secret technology held at Wright-Patterson.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Goldwater (archival, 1994) says he thinks the government does know about UFOs and that he could not back that up.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "contested", "speaker": "barry-goldwater", "speaker_name": "", "side": "government", "year": 2024}, {"text": "UAPGerb, citing William Steinman, says Eric Henry Wang ran special projects at Wright Field and was taken to Kirtland to work on exotic flight.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Michels narrates a claim that Operation Paperclip scientists went to Wright-Patterson to work on the 1933 Magenta craft.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Alberino says the Kandahar pilot heard second-hand that the body he transported ended up at Wright-Patterson, and that the pilot himself did not know if it was true.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "tim-alberino", "speaker_name": "Timothy Alberino", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Wright-Patterson AFB is a real USAF base; claims that it housed Roswell debris or a Special Studies flying-saucer department under Kissinger's oversight remain unverified lore layered on a real place.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Philip J. Corso claimed in The Day After Roswell that as chief of the Army's Foreign Technology Desk he seeded Roswell debris into US industry; his Army career is real, the seeding claim is memoir testimony without primary documents.", "class": "FACT", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": [], "people": ["david-grusch", "harald-malmgren", "philip-corso", "jesse-michels", "barry-goldwater", "uapgerb", "tim-alberino"], "documents": ["blue-book-special-report-14", "project-blue-book", "roswell-report-1994"], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/wright-patterson-afb/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-3ef4fa93730f42.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 10, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Nyttend", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base_from_70º.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "site:dugway-proving-ground", "t": "site", "slug": "dugway-proving-ground", "name": "Dugway Proving Ground", "lat": 40.19, "lon": -112.93, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele County, Utah; installation boundary from imagery.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "facility"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1942, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Tooele County, Utah", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A US Army chemical and biological test site in Utah's West Desert. UAPGerb calls it \"the new Area 51\" and places the Utah Test and Training Range and West Desert Test Center on it; he also notes Greer's naming of Dugway traces to earlier researcher Bill Hamilton. Greer describes tunnels reaching it.", "sides": ["journalist", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "UAPGerb says the Utah Test and Training Range and the West Desert Test Center are both situated on Dugway Proving Ground.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "UAPGerb says the sites Greer names — Edwards, China Lake, Dugway — trace to earlier claims by researcher Bill Hamilton.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "The episode's title claim — that a 'new Area 51' is in Utah — is advanced in conversation around restricted Utah military/test ranges including Dugway-adjacent geography.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["steven-greer", "uapgerb", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/dugway-proving-ground/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-fd0c667fff5d4d.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "David Jolley / Staplegunther", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dugway_Proving_Ground.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:kirtland-afb-manzano", "t": "site", "slug": "kirtland-afb-manzano", "name": "Kirtland AFB / Manzano / Sandia", "lat": 35.04, "lon": -106.609, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Kirtland AFB main base; Manzano storage complex and Sandia labs lie on the same reservation.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "storage"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "storage", "facility"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1980, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Albuquerque, New Mexico", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The Albuquerque base with the Manzano weapons storage complex and Sandia National Laboratories. Speakers connect it to the Paul Bennewitz affair, to Eric Henry Wang's transfer, and to claims of recovered craft and material handled at Sandia. UAPGerb lists Sandia among the FFRDCs he believes house programme work.", "sides": ["researcher", "scientist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "UAPGerb names Sandia, Livermore, Oak Ridge and Battelle-run institutions among the FFRDCs where he believes programme work is housed.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "UAPGerb says Eric Henry Wang was taken from Wright Field to Kirtland Air Force Base, probably to work on exotic flight.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Brandenburg holds a PhD in theoretical plasma physics and worked at Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National Laboratories and Mission Research Corporation.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "john-brandenburg", "speaker_name": "John Brandenburg", "side": "scientist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Brandenburg attributes his lifelong Mars focus to the hope, formed at Sandia during the 1983 nuclear scare, that a dead civilisation on Mars would end the Cold War.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "john-brandenburg", "speaker_name": "John Brandenburg", "side": "scientist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Sandia National Laboratories is a real DOE/NNSA lab; UAPGerb's claim that Sandia-managed Tonopah/TTR sites house legacy UFO materials is testimony/inference.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Bishop locates the Bennewitz monitoring story around Kirtland AFB and notes Bennewitz's prior Skunk Works employment interest — details that are checkable against Project Beta sourcing.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "greg-bishop", "speaker_name": "Greg Bishop", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "UAPGerb infers that FFRDCs and DOE national labs (Sandia, Livermore, Oak Ridge, Battelle-run sites) sit above defense primes in an alleged UFO materials-custody hierarchy.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["harald-malmgren", "john-brandenburg", "richard-doty", "uapgerb", "greg-bishop"], "documents": ["majestic-12-documents"], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/kirtland-afb-manzano/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-a21cdd2bc9ee63.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 9, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Joe Mabel", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirtland_Air_Force_Base_03.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "site:nellis-range", "t": "site", "slug": "nellis-range", "name": "Nellis Range / Indian Springs", "lat": 36.9, "lon": -115.9, "prec": "region", "src": "Range centroid from public boundary data; the range covers roughly 12,000 km², so the pin marks a region, not a point.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1965, "y1": 2025, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Southern Nevada", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The Nevada Test and Training Range north of Las Vegas, run from Nellis AFB, with the Indian Springs (Creech) gunnery ranges at its southern edge. Charles Hall says he lived alongside tall white beings there as a weather observer in 1965–67; Greer describes tunnels linking Nellis to Area 51 and Edwards.", "sides": ["civilian", "journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Hall says the tall whites lived in underground facilities at the north end of Indian Springs Valley, complete with hangars for their craft (Michels' introduction of Hall).", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Hall says his job included long isolated tours at the Indian Springs Gunnery Ranges while stationed at Nellis from 1965 to 1967 (Michels' introduction).", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Greer says underground connectors run from Nellis and Area 51 to Edwards.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "steven-greer", "speaker_name": "Steven Greer", "side": "civilian", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": ["tall-white"], "people": ["charles-hall", "steven-greer", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/nellis-range/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/creech-air-force-base-main-gate.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "United States Air Force photo", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creech_Air_Force_Base_main_gate.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "site:los-alamos", "t": "site", "slug": "los-alamos", "name": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "lat": 35.88, "lon": -106.3031, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Los Alamos National Laboratory main technical area, New Mexico.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "facility", "kinds": ["facility"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1943, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Los Alamos County, New Mexico", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The New Mexico weapons laboratory. Lazar says he worked there before S-4 and that the local paper covered his jet-powered Honda; Hastings lists it among nuclear sites where UFOs have consistently been reported; Kecksburg-linked scientists discussed on the show also pass through it.", "sides": ["contractor", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Lazar says he sent a résumé to Los Alamos from Fairchild Electronics, leaning on his side projects rather than his work history.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "bob-lazar", "speaker_name": "Bob Lazar", "side": "contractor", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Lazar says he drove a jet-engined Honda to work at Los Alamos and that the local paper put it on the front page.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "bob-lazar", "speaker_name": "Bob Lazar", "side": "contractor", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Hastings says UFOs consistently appear at nuclear weapons facilities from Los Alamos to Hanford, Oak Ridge, Malmstrom, Minot and F.E. Warren.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "robert-hastings", "speaker_name": "Robert Hastings", "side": "researcher", "year": 2024}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["bob-lazar", "robert-hastings"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1989-lazar-s4"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/los-alamos/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-2abe0c61f63771.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "US Department of Energy", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HD.6B.741_(10350756116).jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:dulce", "t": "site", "slug": "dulce", "name": "Dulce / Archuleta Mesa", "lat": 36.94, "lon": -106.99, "prec": "region", "src": "Archuleta Mesa from public gazetteer; the claimed base is testimony-only, so the pin marks the mesa region.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base"], "band": "unsupported", "y0": 1979, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Rio Arriba County, New Mexico", "status": "unverified", "summary": "A small town on the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico. Speakers describe a claimed underground base under Archuleta Mesa and a reported clash there; the story grew from the Bennewitz affair. No public record of any installation exists, and the interviews offer only second-hand references.", "sides": ["military", "scientist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Brandenburg refers to a reported military clash at Dulce, and frames it as a breakdown of a supposed accommodation with grey beings.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "unsupported", "speaker": "john-brandenburg", "speaker_name": "John Brandenburg", "side": "scientist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Buchanan, describing land where nothing visibly happens but men in nondescript outfits keep people out, agrees when Michels names Dulce and says such places exist all over the world.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "unsupported", "speaker": "lyn-buchanan", "speaker_name": "Lyn Buchanan", "side": "military", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["john-brandenburg", "lyn-buchanan", "richard-doty"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/dulce/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/dulce-welcome-9358459820.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "U.S. Department of Agriculture Bob Nichols/Photographer/Unit · 2013", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dulce_Welcome_(9358459820).jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:pine-gap", "t": "site", "slug": "pine-gap", "name": "Pine Gap", "lat": -23.799, "lon": 133.737, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, Northern Territory.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "facility"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1970, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Australia", "region": "Alice Springs, Northern Territory", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The joint US–Australian satellite ground station near Alice Springs. UAPGerb says the ground element of NRO Program B was established there under Bobby Ray Inman and thinks legacy UFO programmes sit inside the NRO directorates that grew from it. Speakers call it \"Australia's Area 51\".", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "UAPGerb says NRO Program B consolidated NRO and CIA reconnaissance and that its ground element was established at Pine Gap.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "UAPGerb thinks many UFO legacy programmes are housed inside the NRO directorates that replaced Programs A–D.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["uapgerb"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/pine-gap/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-8b2781e83b2a1e.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Skyring; colour balance by The RedBurn", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Gap_by_Skyring.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:lockheed-skunk-works-helendale", "t": "site", "slug": "lockheed-skunk-works-helendale", "name": "Lockheed Skunk Works (Palmdale / Helendale)", "lat": 34.629, "lon": -118.084, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California (Skunk Works headquarters). Helendale range lies ~70 km east.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["storage"], "kind": "contractor", "kinds": ["contractor", "storage"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1943, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Palmdale, California", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs at Plant 42, Palmdale, with the Helendale radar-cross-section range to the east. Nick Cook says he interviewed Skunk Works head Jack Gordon inside the secret part of the site; other guests tie the company to alleged reverse-engineering work. 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Speakers connect it to claimed analysis of Roswell material and to nickel-titanium \"memory metal\" work; UAPGerb lists institutions run by Battelle among FFRDCs he believes house programme work.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "UAPGerb names numerous institutions run by Battelle Memorial Institute among the FFRDCs he believes house programme work.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "UAPGerb infers that FFRDCs and DOE national labs (Sandia, Livermore, Oak Ridge, Battelle-run sites) sit above defense primes in an alleged UFO materials-custody hierarchy.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Battelle is a verified org; Gerb's reverse-engineering babysitter implication is unverified hearsay.", "class": "FACT", "band": "unsupported", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["uapgerb"], "documents": ["blue-book-special-report-14", "project-blue-book"], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/battelle-columbus/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-0fd4a3ee6e6b3d.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Wiki Historian N OH", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battelle_Memorial_Institute_Columbus.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:roswell", "t": "site", "slug": "roswell", "name": "Roswell / Foster Ranch debris field", "lat": 33.95, "lon": -105.31, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Debris-field location north of Corona, New Mexico, from published witness maps; exact spot is disputed.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": ["retrieval"], "band": "contested", "y0": 1947, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Lincoln / Chaves County, New Mexico", "status": "contested", "summary": "The 1947 debris recovery on the Foster ranch north-west of Roswell, New Mexico. The Air Force's 1994 report attributes it to Project Mogul; a Pentagon scientist quoted on the show says he was told it was a craft of non-human construction. Speakers describe memory metal, bodies and shipment to Wright Field.", "sides": ["journalist", "researcher", "scientist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "The Pentagon scientist interviewed with Weinstein says he got confirmation at a programmatic level that the Roswell object was a real craft of unknown origin, adjudicated as not of human construction.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "contested", "speaker": "eric-davis", "speaker_name": "Eric Davis", "side": "scientist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Michels narrates that EG&G manager Alfred O'Donnell told a colleague a flying saucer and a live being with humanlike features had been recovered in New Mexico.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Dolan says the MJ-12 documents that surfaced in the 1980s purport to be memos to Truman describing an organisation formed to manage the UFO secret, referring to crash retrievals and Roswell.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "richard-dolan", "speaker_name": "Richard Dolan", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Asked by Michels to call each crash case real or hoax, Dolan calls Roswell real, and Kingman real.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "richard-dolan", "speaker_name": "Richard Dolan", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["david-grusch", "eric-davis", "philip-corso", "richard-dolan", "jesse-michels"], "documents": ["gao-roswell-1995", "roswell-report-1994", "twining-memo-1947"], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/roswell/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-3eb14cde2a0160.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Official document · context", "photo_credit": "US Air Force · 1997", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RoswellIncidentCrashSite.jpg", "media_count": 5}, {"id": "site:kecksburg", "t": "site", "slug": "kecksburg", "name": "Kecksburg", "lat": 40.183, "lon": -79.463, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Village of Kecksburg from public gazetteer; the wooded ravine where the object was reported is within ~2 km.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": ["retrieval"], "band": "thin", "y0": 1965, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania", "status": "contested", "summary": "A village in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where witnesses describe an acorn-shaped object recovered by the military on 9 December 1965. A NASA-linked speaker says his relative Donald Hornig, President Johnson's science adviser, appears in a government summary as present at the crash, and names Penn State's Eric Walker as another attendee.", "sides": ["researcher", "scientist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "The NASA whistleblower says his father's cousin Donald Hornig, Johnson's chief science adviser, was listed as present in an official government summary of the Kecksburg crash.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "kevin-knuth", "speaker_name": "Kevin Knuth", "side": "scientist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "He adds that Eric Walker, then president of Penn State and a materials scientist, was supposedly also present at Kecksburg.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "kevin-knuth", "speaker_name": "Kevin Knuth", "side": "scientist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Asked by Michels to call each crash case real or hoax, Dolan says Kecksburg is real but doubts the object was the so-called Nazi Bell.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "richard-dolan", "speaker_name": "Richard Dolan", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}], "crafts": ["bell-shaped"], "beings": [], "people": ["richard-dolan", "kevin-knuth"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1965-kecksburg"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/kecksburg/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-459469c47f1cc5.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Replica model · context", "photo_credit": "Ryright", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kecksburg_UFO.JPG", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:rendlesham-forest", "t": "site", "slug": "rendlesham-forest", "name": "Rendlesham Forest / RAF Bentwaters–Woodbridge", "lat": 52.08889, "lon": 1.44917, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Rendlesham Forest east gate area between RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1980, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United Kingdom", "region": "Suffolk, England", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "Forest between the twin US-run bases in Suffolk where airmen reported lights and a landed object in December 1980; Lt Col Charles Halt's memo to the UK Ministry of Defence is public. Michels stresses the nuclear weapons stored at Bentwaters; Lyn Buchanan says he later remote-viewed the incident.", "sides": ["journalist", "military"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Michels narrates that Lt Col Charles Halt detailed the incident in a memo to the UK Ministry of Defence, describing a security patrol seeing lights descend into the forest.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Michels says Bentwaters held the largest group of tactical nuclear weapons stored in Western Europe at the time of the 1980 case.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Buchanan says he remote-viewed the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "lyn-buchanan", "speaker_name": "Lyn Buchanan", "side": "military", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Buchanan believes Colonel John Alexander knew about Rendlesham before almost anyone else in the United States.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "lyn-buchanan", "speaker_name": "Lyn Buchanan", "side": "military", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["lyn-buchanan", "robert-hastings", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1980-rendlesham-forest"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/rendlesham-forest/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-bce1176cf50aea.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Taras Young · 2014", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_Woodbridge_East_Gate.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:varginha", "t": "site", "slug": "varginha", "name": "Varginha", "lat": -21.551, "lon": -45.43, "prec": "approximate", "src": "City of Varginha from public gazetteer; the reported sighting sites are inside the urban area.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval", "encounter"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": ["retrieval", "encounter"], "band": "contested", "y0": 1996, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Brazil", "region": "Minas Gerais", "status": "contested", "summary": "A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where witnesses in January 1996 described a creature captured by the military. The interviews reach it only second-hand: Michels says a Varginha witness told him he handled material that returned to its shape, and a guest cites the case as one with US Air Force and CIA involvement.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Michels says a Varginha witness he interviewed described holding material that went back into its original form.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Michels introduces Varginha as a 1996 case in a Brazilian town with a UFO, beings and many witnesses, and says Fox's film documents the object's flight path.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Fox says a Varginha witness picked up a piece of the debris and described it as like aluminium and very light, much as Roswell witnesses did.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "james-fox", "speaker_name": "James Fox", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Michels, discussing Fox's film, says the Varginha hospital witness is a well-respected neurosurgeon who is shown in the hospital pointing to the bed he says the being lay on.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": ["varginha-being"], "people": ["james-fox", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1996-varginha"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/varginha/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-663ef6e7ae7438.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "ubirajararodrigues51 · 2008", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nave_Espacial_de_Varginha.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "site:skinwalker-ranch", "t": "site", "slug": "skinwalker-ranch", "name": "Skinwalker Ranch", "lat": 40.2586, "lon": -109.8894, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Contextual ranch-property anchor retained from the site register; not the coordinates, depth or outline of an underground object.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1994, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Uintah Basin, Utah", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A repeatedly investigated ranch in Utah’s Uintah Basin. Fugal and participating operators describe lights, instrument anomalies and subsurface findings; the interview considers a buried-craft interpretation. The reviewed record does not establish a complete craft’s geometry or origin.", "sides": ["civilian", "journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Jesse Michels stated on camera that the Baltic Sea Anomaly and the object claimed to be under the mesa at Skinwalker Ranch exhibit the same pattern.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Jesse Michels asserts a general class of geomagnetically anomalous sites where UFO reports cluster, naming Skinwalker Ranch, a mountain in Japan near Fukushima prefecture, and Hessdalen.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Fugal reports a drilling approval beside the ranch despite his objection. 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Guests on the show discuss claimed subsurface structures under the Khafre pyramid, the Osiris Shaft, and alternative dating of the monuments. The plateau is a documented archaeological site; the claimed deep structures rest on disputed radar work and are treated here as contested.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Filippo Biondi stated on camera that his team measured eight hollow cylindrical structures in a 4+4 arrangement descending over one kilometre beneath the Khafre pyramid, with chambers roughly 80 m wide at the bottom.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "filippo-biondi", "speaker_name": "Filippo Biondi", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Biondi accepted on camera that his Osiris-shaft reconstruction carried roughly 4 m of measurement error against the known structure.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "filippo-biondi", "speaker_name": "Filippo Biondi", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["filippo-biondi"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/giza-plateau/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-4f11b18b00f906.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "NASA · 2012; rectified crop by Cmglee", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS-32_Pyramids_at_Giza,_Egypt_rectified_crop.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:hessdalen", "t": "site", "slug": "hessdalen", "name": "Hessdalen Valley", "lat": 62.7833, "lon": 11.2, "prec": "exact", "src": "Hessdalen valley, Holtålen municipality, from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1981, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Norway", "region": "Trøndelag", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A valley in central Norway where unexplained lights have been recorded since 1981 and monitored by the Project Hessdalen automatic station since 1998. Speakers on the show cite it as the best-instrumented recurring light phenomenon; explanations offered range from plasma to piezoelectric effects, none accepted as settled.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Jesse Michels asserts a general class of geomagnetically anomalous sites where UFO reports cluster, naming Skinwalker Ranch, a mountain in Japan near Fukushima prefecture, and Hessdalen.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}], "crafts": ["plasma-light"], "beings": [], "people": ["jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/hessdalen/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-9a63f38cf85e58.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Unknown photographer / Riksarkivet · 1953", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hessdalen_-_Fo30141603210085.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:malmstrom-afb", "t": "site", "slug": "malmstrom-afb", "name": "Malmstrom AFB / Oscar Flight", "lat": 47.505, "lon": -111.187, "prec": "exact", "src": "Malmstrom AFB main base from public gazetteer; the Oscar Flight launch control facility lies ~50 km to the south-east.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter", "base"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter", "base"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1967, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Great Falls, Montana", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A Minuteman missile base near Great Falls, Montana. Robert Salas says that on 24 March 1967 his guards reported a glowing oval object over the Oscar Flight gate and that the missiles then went down one at a time. Robert Hastings, whose father served there, built his UFOs-and-nukes research from this case.", "sides": ["journalist", "military", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Salas says that after the first missile went to no-go, all of them went down one at a time.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "robert-salas", "speaker_name": "Robert Salas", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Salas says the guard described a solid, oval-shaped object inside the bright light over the gate.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "robert-salas", "speaker_name": "Robert Salas", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Hastings says his father was stationed at Malmstrom in 1967 and got him a job in the base air traffic control tower.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "robert-hastings", "speaker_name": "Robert Hastings", "side": "researcher", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Hastings traces his research origin to 1967 Malmstrom AFB (father stationed; teenage tower job) and a later Hynek article on Minot nuclear-missile UFO activity that matched what he thought he saw.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "robert-hastings", "speaker_name": "Robert Hastings", "side": "researcher", "year": 2024}, {"text": "The episode presents the March 1967 Malmstrom Oscar-flight missile shutdown narrative as a core nuclear-UFO case involving missiles going 'no-go' during a UFO event.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-hastings", "robert-salas", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1967-malmstrom-shutdown"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/malmstrom-afb/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-e5c24ac3fa4c42.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 7, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "USGS · 1995", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malmstrom_Air_Force_Base_-_MT_-_8_Jul_1995.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:nimitz-carrier-group-2004", "t": "site", "slug": "nimitz-carrier-group-2004", "name": "Nimitz Carrier Group 2004 (sea area)", "lat": 31.5, "lon": -117.6, "prec": "region", "src": "Open-ocean operating area off Baja California from the released Navy reports; no fixed point exists.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter"], "band": "documented", "y0": 2004, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "International waters (Pacific)", "region": "off Baja California", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The Pacific training area south-west of San Diego where, in November 2004, USS Princeton radar tracked objects and Cmdr David Fravor's flight visually engaged a white \"Tic Tac\" object. The FLIR1 video from a second flight is public. Speakers on the show treat it as the anchor military case.", "sides": ["journalist", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Jesse Michels framed the episode as covering landmark Navy cases — Nimitz FLIR, Gimbal, and GoFast from the USS Roosevelt — between West and Marik.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "In the 2004 Nimitz account as narrated on-channel, Aegis radar (Kevin Day), ATFLIR (Chad Underwood), and pilot visual (Fravor) form a multi-sensor chain around a tic-tac object.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Mick West's base determination for the three Navy videos (FLIR1, Gimbal, GoFast) is that they do not demonstrate amazingly anomalous physics.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "contested", "speaker": "mick-west", "speaker_name": "Mick West", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Mick West analyzed FLIR1's end-of-video departure as a loss-of-lock plus zoom change: after undoing the 2x→1x zoom, the object drifts with the camera rather than accelerating.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "contested", "speaker": "mick-west", "speaker_name": "Mick West", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Mick West stated that Fravor's visual tic-tac encounter and Underwood's FLIR1 recording are two separate events hours apart and may not be the same object.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "contested", "speaker": "mick-west", "speaker_name": "Mick West", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Marik von Rennenkampff argued FLIR1 cannot be a conventional plane because the silhouette lacks a tail and shows an attitude no airliner/F-18 would hold at the implied speed.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "contested", "speaker": "marik-von-rennenkampff", "speaker_name": "Marik von Rennenkampff", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Mick West stated that after undoing FLIR1's zoom change, the object's drift matched the camera's drift, implying the 'zip off' is not object acceleration.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "contested", "speaker": "mick-west", "speaker_name": "Mick West", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Young Jamie describes a personal UAP interest path via Gimbal/GoFast/Nimitz media and Bob Lazar on Rogan's show — distribution-path FACT about how UAP narratives spread.", "class": "FACT", "band": "thin", "speaker": "young-jamie", "speaker_name": "", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}], "crafts": ["tic-tac"], "beings": [], "people": ["christopher-mellon", "david-fravor", "luis-elizondo", "jesse-michels", "mick-west", "marik-von-rennenkampff", "young-jamie"], "documents": [], "footage": ["flir1"], "events": ["2004-nimitz-tic-tac", "2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/nimitz-carrier-group-2004/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-73dedbbb5dbc7e.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 10, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/955825/flir-uap", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "site:phoenix", "t": "site", "slug": "phoenix", "name": "Phoenix", "lat": 33.4484, "lon": -112.074, "prec": "approximate", "src": "City of Phoenix from public gazetteer; sightings ran along a corridor from the Nevada line to Tucson.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1997, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Arizona", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The Arizona city over which thousands of people reported a silent V-shaped formation of lights on 13 March 1997. Documentary maker James Fox describes breaking the story, a bank of six lights over Sky Harbor airport, and an object said to span more than a mile; officials later attributed lights to military flares.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Fox recounts that on 13 March 1997 thousands of people in Phoenix witnessed a massive V-shaped formation of lights moving silently, and that officials claimed military flares.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "james-fox", "speaker_name": "James Fox", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Fox says witnesses described the object as over a mile from wing tip to wing tip.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "contested", "speaker": "james-fox", "speaker_name": "James Fox", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Fox describes a bank of six lights in a triangle over Sky Harbor airport and says he broke the story.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "james-fox", "speaker_name": "James Fox", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}], "crafts": ["black-triangle", "boomerang-chevron"], "beings": [], "people": ["james-fox"], "documents": [], "footage": ["phoenix-lights-1997"], "events": ["1997-phoenix-lights"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/phoenix/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/downtown-phoenix-skyline-lights.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Alan Stark · 2012", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Phoenix_Skyline_Lights.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:kandahar-cave", "t": "site", "slug": "kandahar-cave", "name": "Kandahar cave (Afghanistan)", "lat": 31.61, "lon": 65.71, "prec": "region", "src": "Province-level pin only; the story gives no coordinates and no witness has named the valley.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly", "encounter"], "kind": "control", "kinds": ["control", "encounter"], "band": "thin", "y0": 2005, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Afghanistan", "region": "Kandahar Province", "status": "unverified", "summary": "Mountains of Kandahar province where, in a story Tim Alberino says an anonymous pilot told him on camera in silhouette, US soldiers killed a \"giant\" in about 2005 and its body was flown out via Bagram to a base in Qatar. No unit, location or document has been produced; the account is second-hand.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Alberino says a pilot, filmed in silhouette, told him the story that became known as the Kandahar Giant, and that he flew classified missions into Bagram Airfield.", "class": "FACT", "band": "thin", "speaker": "tim-alberino", "speaker_name": "Timothy Alberino", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Alberino says the pilot told him the giant was airlifted from the Kandahar region to Bagram, loaded onto his aircraft and flown to a base in Qatar.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "tim-alberino", "speaker_name": "Timothy Alberino", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Alberino says the pilot was sure the being was dead and that it had been shot.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "tim-alberino", "speaker_name": "Timothy Alberino", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Alberino says the pilot heard second-hand that the giant ended up at Wright-Patterson, adding that he did not know if it was true.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "tim-alberino", "speaker_name": "Timothy Alberino", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": ["nephilim-watcher"], "people": ["tim-alberino"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/kandahar-cave/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/arghandab-river-valley-between-kandahar-and-lashkar-gah.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Mark Ray · 2012", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arghandab_River_Valley_between_Kandahar_and_Lashkar_Gah.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:swedish-ghost-rocket-lakes", "t": "site", "slug": "swedish-ghost-rocket-lakes", "name": "Swedish ghost-rocket lakes, 1946 (Lake Kölmjärv)", "lat": 66.4167, "lon": 22.5, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Approximate inherited Kölmjärv regional locator; the original gazetteer citation and exact search fix were not obtained in this review.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval", "anomaly"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": ["retrieval", "anomaly"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1946, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Sweden", "region": "Norrbotten", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "Lake Kölmjärv in Norrbotten, where witnesses on 19 July 1946 described a grey rocket-like object falling into the water, stands for the scatter of Swedish lakes searched during the \"ghost rocket\" wave. Clas Svahn says a three-week military search recovered nothing. Speakers treat the wave as the first modern retrieval hunt.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Svahn says Swedish military teams searched several lakes during the 1946 wave, found bottom indentations and recovered no debris.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "clas-svahn", "speaker_name": "Clas Svahn", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": ["cigar-cylinder"], "beings": [], "people": ["clas-svahn"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1946-ghost-rockets"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/swedish-ghost-rocket-lakes/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ghost-rocket-search-july-1946.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Archival photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Swedish military photo · 1946", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghost_rocket_search_July_1946.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:bradshaw-ranch-sedona", "t": "site", "slug": "bradshaw-ranch-sedona", "name": "Bradshaw Ranch / Secret Mountain, Sedona", "lat": 34.91207, "lon": -111.92961, "prec": "approximate", "src": "NAU SEGA dataset DOI 10.5063/f1mp51f2: research-plot anchor only. 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His separate too-large-to-move UFO story has no disclosed location.", "sides": ["journalist", "military"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Coulthart says he is in no doubt that a deep underground military bunker was built under Secret Mountain near Sedona.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "ross-coulthart", "speaker_name": "Ross Coulthart", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "An opening montage juxtaposes Secret Mountain and the remote-viewing base narrative. This excerpt does not establish Secret Mountain as one of Price’s original four targets; those are Hayes, Zeil, Perdido and Nyangani.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "lyn-buchanan", "speaker_name": "Lyn Buchanan", "side": "military", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Coulthart describes a 50-foot-wide reinforced structure near the surface. This is his interpretation; the original published follow-up describes a roughly three-foot scan footprint and uncertain features, not a demonstrated 50-foot tunnel.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "contested", "speaker": "ross-coulthart", "speaker_name": "Ross Coulthart", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["lyn-buchanan", "ross-coulthart"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/bradshaw-ranch-sedona/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/on-the-road-sedona-27592780098.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Bernard Spragg. 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Fugal describes computer servers, destroyed by heat, found buried on the property during his team's investigation. The ranch is a real property; the buried finds rest on Fugal's account.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Computer servers that had been completely destroyed by heat were found buried under the Mount Wilson Ranch property in Nevada, along with an unearthed rail system.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "brandon-fugal", "speaker_name": "Brandon Fugal", "side": "civilian", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["brandon-fugal", "robert-bigelow"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/mount-wilson-ranch-nevada/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:lake-baikal", "t": "site", "slug": "lake-baikal", "name": "Lake Baikal", "lat": 53.5, "lon": 108.0, "prec": "region", "src": "Broad lake-context marker retained from the registry; no verified encounter coordinate was acquired.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter", "anomaly"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter", "anomaly"], "band": "unsupported", "y0": 1982, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Russia", "region": "Siberia", "status": "unverified", "summary": "A reported 1982 encounter with tall underwater figures, transmitted through named intermediaries and later retellings. The acquired 1993 article does not include original diver testimony, casualty records or a reproduced military order. It establishes no fixed base or precise dive site.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Michels recounts the lore that Soviet divers in 1982 went down in Lake Baikal to look for something and met tall humanoid figures.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "unsupported", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/lake-baikal/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-63d706bb55492a.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "© Vyacheslav Argenberg", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olkhon_Island,_Capes,_cliffs_at_sunset,_Lake_Baikal,_Russia.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:yakama-reservation", "t": "site", "slug": "yakama-reservation", "name": "Yakama Indian Reservation", "lat": 46.35, "lon": -120.55, "prec": "region", "src": "Reservation centroid from public boundary data; light reports clustered around Toppenish Ridge.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 1972, "y1": 1980, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Yakima County, Washington", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "Reservation land in south-central Washington where fire lookouts and tribal members reported recurring nocturnal lights through the 1970s, documented by ufologist Greg Long and studied by J. Allen Hynek's associates. The interviews do not mention it; this record comes from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/yakama-reservation/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-aee87b39e792a9.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Tony Webster", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yakama_Nation_Reservation_(22070975256).jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:mels-hole", "t": "site", "slug": "mels-hole", "name": "Mel's Hole", "lat": 46.99, "lon": -120.73, "prec": "region", "src": "Manastash Ridge area named by the caller; no verified location exists.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 1997, "y1": 1997, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Kittitas County, Washington", "status": "unverified", "summary": "A supposedly bottomless hole near Ellensburg, Washington, described by a caller to Coast to Coast AM in 1997. No hole matching the account has been located and the caller's identity was never verified; the record exists as a folklore control and is not discussed in the interviews.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/mels-hole/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "media_count": 0}, {"id": "site:dyatlov-pass", "t": "site", "slug": "dyatlov-pass", "name": "Dyatlov Pass", "lat": 61.75444, "lon": 59.445, "prec": "exact", "src": "Pass and memorial location from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 1959, "y1": 2020, "date": null, "country": "Russia", "region": "Sverdlovsk Oblast", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A pass in the northern Urals where nine hikers died in February 1959. A 2019–20 Russian inquiry attributed the deaths to a slab avalanche; UFO explanations circulated because of reported \"fire orbs\" in the area. The interviews do not mention it; this record comes from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/dyatlov-pass/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/dyatlov-pass-incident-02.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Archival photograph · investigation record", "photo_credit": "AnonymousUnknown author / Soviet investigators · 1959", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dyatlov_Pass_incident_02.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:zone-of-silence", "t": "site", "slug": "zone-of-silence", "name": "Zona del Silencio", "lat": 26.683, "lon": -103.75, "prec": "region", "src": "Mapimí Biosphere Reserve area from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 1970, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Mexico", "region": "Durango", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A patch of the Chihuahuan Desert in Durango, Mexico, said to block radio signals and attract meteorites; the claims grew after a 1970 US Athena rocket fell there. Scientific surveys found nothing unusual. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/zone-of-silence/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/puerta-de-la-zona-del-silencio.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Isaac Ramos Chavira · 2025", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puerta_de_la_Zona_Del_Silencio.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:brown-mountain", "t": "site", "slug": "brown-mountain", "name": "Brown Mountain", "lat": 35.92, "lon": -81.75, "prec": "exact", "src": "Brown Mountain summit from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 1913, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Burke County, North Carolina", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A ridge in the Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina, where lights have been reported since at least 1913. US Geological Survey studies attributed most to trains, cars and brush fires. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/brown-mountain/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-d13c45d2aca52d.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Thomson200", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_Mountain,_North_Carolina_viewed_from_Beacon_Heights,_October_2016.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:marfa", "t": "site", "slug": "marfa", "name": "Marfa", "lat": 30.275, "lon": -103.883, "prec": "exact", "src": "Official viewing area on US 90 east of Marfa, from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 1883, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Presidio County, Texas", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A West Texas town whose \"Marfa lights\" have been reported since the 1880s. A 2004 university study matched observed lights to vehicle headlights on US 67. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/marfa/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-d54f51cf0ffbe0.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Allison Meier", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marfa_Lights_Viewing_Area_(52010763011).jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:min-min", "t": "site", "slug": "min-min", "name": "Min Min (Boulia)", "lat": -22.91, "lon": 139.91, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Boulia district from public gazetteer; sightings spread over hundreds of km.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 1838, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Australia", "region": "Queensland", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "Outback Queensland, where travellers have reported a following light since the 19th century. A 2003 study reproduced the effect as a Fata Morgana mirage of distant lights. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/min-min/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/min-min-encounter-herbert-st-boulia-queensland-p1060663.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "John Robert McPherson · 2019", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Min_Min_Encounter_Herbert_St_Boulia_Queensland_P1060663.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:shag-harbour", "t": "site", "slug": "shag-harbour", "name": "Shag Harbour", "lat": 43.50833, "lon": -65.75, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Reported last-sighting position in RCC 076, 5 October 1967; not a surveyed wreck or entrance.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval", "encounter"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": ["retrieval", "encounter"], "band": null, "y0": 1967, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Canada", "region": "Nova Scotia", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A fishing village in Nova Scotia where witnesses saw an object with lights enter the water on 4 October 1967. The Royal Canadian Navy searched the seabed and Canadian government files on the case are public. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1967-shag-harbour"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/shag-harbour/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-a696535f8d8416.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "J5255 · 2017", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shag_Harbour.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:yonaguni-monument", "t": "site", "slug": "yonaguni-monument", "name": "Yonaguni Monument", "lat": 24.43583, "lon": 123.01139, "prec": "exact", "src": "Dive site south of Yonaguni from published dive coordinates.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 1986, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Japan", "region": "Okinawa Prefecture", "status": "contested", "summary": "A submerged rock formation off Yonaguni, Japan, with terrace-like faces. One geologist argues it was worked by humans; most attribute it to natural fracturing of sandstone. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/yonaguni-monument/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-9b65951eda8beb.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Vincent Lou", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yonaguni_Monument_DSC02850_(12737588674).jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:bimini-road", "t": "site", "slug": "bimini-road", "name": "Bimini Road", "lat": 25.76697, "lon": -79.27883, "prec": "exact", "src": "Published dive-site coordinates off North Bimini.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 1968, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Bahamas", "region": "Bimini", "status": "contested", "summary": "A line of limestone blocks in shallow water off North Bimini, Bahamas, found in 1968 and promoted as a remnant of Atlantis. Geologists identify it as naturally fractured beachrock. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/bimini-road/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-f413c064ac5134.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "NASA JSC · STS091-731-28", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bimini_island.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:bosnian-pyramid-visocica", "t": "site", "slug": "bosnian-pyramid-visocica", "name": "Visočica hill (\"Bosnian pyramid\")", "lat": 43.97694, "lon": 18.17611, "prec": "exact", "src": "Visočica hill from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": null, "y0": 2005, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "region": "Visoko", "status": "contested", "summary": "A hill above Visoko, Bosnia, promoted since 2005 by Semir Osmanagić as a man-made pyramid. Geologists and archaeologists identify it as a natural flatiron formation. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources only.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/bosnian-pyramid-visocica/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/viso-ica-hill-from-the-road-closeup.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Mhare · 2012", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viso%C4%8Dica_hill_from_the_road_closeup.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:ongs-hat", "t": "site", "slug": "ongs-hat", "name": "Ong's Hat", "lat": 39.91083, "lon": -74.62083, "prec": "exact", "src": "Ghost-town location from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly", "control"], "band": null, "y0": 1988, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Burlington County, New Jersey", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A ghost town in the New Jersey Pine Barrens attached to an internet-era legend about a dimensional-travel cult. Its author, Joseph Matheny, has described the story as an early transmedia fiction. Included as a folklore control; not discussed in the interviews.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/ongs-hat/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "media_count": 0}, {"id": "site:camp-hero-montauk", "t": "site", "slug": "camp-hero-montauk", "name": "Camp Hero / Montauk Air Force Station", "lat": 41.06222, "lon": -71.87389, "prec": "exact", "src": "Radar-station site at Montauk Point from public gazetteer; the SAGE radar tower is visible on imagery.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "anomaly"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "anomaly", "control"], "band": null, "y0": 1942, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Suffolk County, New York", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A decommissioned Air Force radar station at Montauk Point, New York, now a state park. It anchors the \"Montauk Project\" legend of secret experiments, which began with a 1992 book and has no documentary support. Included from the atlas as a folklore control; the station is real, the experiments are not documented. Not discussed in the interviews.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/camp-hero-montauk/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/camp-hero-radar-anfps-35.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Nojo13 at English Wikipedia · 2006", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_hero_radar_ANFPS-35.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:piedmont-missouri", "t": "site", "slug": "piedmont-missouri", "name": "Piedmont, Missouri (Project Identification)", "lat": 37.15389, "lon": -90.69583, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Town of Piedmont, Wayne County, from public gazetteer; observation posts were spread over the surrounding hills.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly", "encounter"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly", "encounter"], "band": null, "y0": 1973, "y1": 1981, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Wayne County, Missouri", "status": "contested", "summary": "A wave of night-light reports around Piedmont in 1973 led physicist Harley Rutledge to run Project Identification, a field study with cameras and instruments over several years. Rutledge published unexplained residual cases; sceptics point to aircraft, stars and expectation. Included from the earlier atlas; not discussed in the interviews.", "sides": [], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["harley-rutledge"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/sites/piedmont-missouri/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/piedmont-missouri.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Drowzy at English Wikipedia · 2007", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piedmont_Missouri.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:tonopah-test-range", "t": "site", "slug": "tonopah-test-range", "name": "Tonopah Test Range (Area 52)", "lat": 37.795, "lon": -116.78, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Tonopah Test Range airfield, Nye County, Nevada.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1957, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Nye County, Nevada", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A Sandia-operated test range in the northern Nevada Test and Training Range where the F-117 was based in secret in the 1980s. UAPGerb lists it, with Area 51 and \"allegedly S4\", among the sites the range houses. Public and documented.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "UAPGerb says the Nevada Test and Training Range houses the Tonopah Test Range alongside Area 51 and allegedly S-4, plus Sandia-run numbered areas.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["uapgerb"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/tonopah-test-range/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/4450th-tactical-group-f-117-and-t-38-over-tonopah-test-range-air.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "photo_credit": "United States Air Force · 1989", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4450th_Tactical_Group_F-117_and_T-38_over_Tonopah_Test_Range_Airport.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:holloman-white-sands", "t": "site", "slug": "holloman-white-sands", "name": "Holloman AFB / White Sands", "lat": 32.8525, "lon": -106.1065, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Holloman AFB, Alamogordo; White Sands range begins immediately west.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "encounter"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "encounter"], "band": "thin", "y0": 1942, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Otero County, New Mexico", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "Holloman Air Force Base and the adjoining White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. Speakers on the show recount the long-running story of a 1955 or 1964 landing at Holloman filmed by the Air Force; James Fox and Hal Puthoff both discuss it. The bases are documented; the landing story is not.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Fox says he interviewed a Pentagon public-relations officer (Colonel Coleman) from the 1970s in connection with Holloman/related film circulation stories.", "class": "FACT", "band": "thin", "speaker": "james-fox", "speaker_name": "James Fox", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Fox explicitly says he did not believe one Holloman-style landing case as described (pods, ramp, three aliens), illustrating his selective skepticism inside pro-UFO filmmaking.", "class": "FACT", "band": "thin", "speaker": "james-fox", "speaker_name": "James Fox", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["hal-puthoff", "jake-barber", "james-fox"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/holloman-white-sands/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/an-f-16-viper-assigned-to-the-49th-wing-takes-off-at-holloman-ai.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Tech. Sgt. Victor J. Caputo · 2023", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_F-16_Viper_assigned_to_the_49th_Wing_takes_off_at_Holloman_Air_Force_Base,_New_Mexico,_March_3,_2023.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:edwards-afb", "t": "site", "slug": "edwards-afb", "name": "Edwards Air Force Base", "lat": 34.9054, "lon": -117.8839, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Edwards AFB main base, Kern County, California.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base"], "band": "thin", "y0": 1954, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Kern County, California", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The flight-test centre on Rogers Dry Lake, California. Charles Hall recounts the story that President Eisenhower was shown five spacecraft there in 1954; UAPGerb notes Edwards is among the sites Greer names and that the naming traces to Bill Hamilton; Greer describes tunnels reaching it from Nellis.", "sides": ["civilian", "military", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Hall recounts the story that when Eisenhower was president there was a day, said by British sources to be at Edwards, when spacecraft were shown to him.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "charles-hall", "speaker_name": "Charles Hall", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "UAPGerb lists the Edwards 412th Test Wing among the sites where he believes programme work is distributed.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Greer says underground connectors run from Nellis and Area 51 to Edwards.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "steven-greer", "speaker_name": "Steven Greer", "side": "civilian", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["charles-hall", "steven-greer", "uapgerb"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/edwards-afb/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-95ae8424acff82.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "USAF / Library of Congress HAER", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwards_AFB_North_Base_aerial_view_c1952.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "site:china-lake", "t": "site", "slug": "china-lake", "name": "Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake", "lat": 35.6855, "lon": -117.692, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: NAWS China Lake, Kern County, California.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "facility"], "band": "thin", "y0": 1943, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Kern County, California", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The Navy's weapons test station in the Mojave Desert. UAPGerb lists it with Edwards and Dugway among sites where he believes programme work is distributed, and says Greer's naming of China Lake traces to earlier researcher Bill Hamilton. Documented base; the programme claim is inference.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "UAPGerb lists China Lake with Edwards and Patuxent River among sites tied to what Grusch has described.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "UAPGerb says Greer's naming of Edwards, China Lake and Dugway comes from earlier claims by Bill Hamilton.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["steven-greer", "uapgerb"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/china-lake/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-039c37bb58618e.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "US Navy / All Hands", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Naval_Ordnance_Test_Station_China_Lake_aerial_view_c1960.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:cheyenne-mountain", "t": "site", "slug": "cheyenne-mountain", "name": "Cheyenne Mountain Complex", "lat": 38.7442, "lon": -104.8464, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station portal, Colorado Springs.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "anomaly"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "control"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1966, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "El Paso County, Colorado", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The NORAD bunker inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado — the publicly acknowledged deep underground military installation. Michels and UAPGerb point to it as the acknowledged example that such bases exist; UAPGerb says deep underground bases sit under national labs across the US. Included as a control for claimed bases.", "sides": ["journalist", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Michels points to the Cheyenne Mountain complex as the obvious public example of a deep underground military installation.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "UAPGerb says underground installations under national labs and sensitive sites across the US are not a conspiracy theory.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["jesse-michels", "uapgerb"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/cheyenne-mountain/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/cheyenne-mountain-complex-entrance.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Unknown", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex_entrance.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:pentagon", "t": "site", "slug": "pentagon", "name": "The Pentagon", "lat": 38.871, "lon": -77.056, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: The Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "anomaly"], "kind": "facility", "kinds": ["facility", "control"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1947, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Arlington, Virginia", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "US Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. In the interviews it is the institution rather than a site of sightings: Grusch describes offices objecting to the phrase \"crash retrievals\" in his clearance review; Michels narrates how Elizondo and Mellon got three UAP videos cleared for release in 2017.", "sides": ["intelligence", "journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Grusch describes how an office reviewing his disclosures would have had to object explicitly to his saying \"crash retrievals\", citing a security classification guide.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "david-grusch", "speaker_name": "David Grusch", "side": "intelligence", "year": 2023}, {"text": "Michels narrates that Elizondo and Christopher Mellon got three UFO videos cleared for release by the Pentagon and took them to the New York Times in 2017.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["christopher-mellon", "david-grusch", "luis-elizondo", "jesse-michels"], "documents": ["aaro-historical-record-report-2024", "aatip-dia-papers", "grusch-testimony-2023"], "footage": ["flir1", "gimbal", "gofast"], "events": ["2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure", "2023-grusch-hearing"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/pentagon/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-016e18f75817e0.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "USAF Staff Sgt. 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The place is documented.", "sides": ["military", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "McMoneagle says a remote-viewing report filed with the National Security Council came back through the head analyst of the Russia floor at Langley, Robert Gates.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "joe-mcmoneagle", "speaker_name": "", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "UAPGerb refers to Dylan Borland's account of a triangle he saw over Langley while discussing electro-optic cloaking.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": ["black-triangle"], "beings": [], "people": ["joe-mcmoneagle", "uapgerb"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/langley-cia/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-77ce340e9fbd22.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Pi.1415926535", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_CIA_headquarters,_September_2018.JPG", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:livermore-llnl", "t": "site", "slug": "livermore-llnl", "name": "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory", "lat": 37.687, "lon": -121.706, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: LLNL main site, Livermore, California.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "facility", "kinds": ["facility"], "band": "thin", "y0": 1952, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Alameda County, California", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A Department of Energy weapons laboratory east of San Francisco Bay. UAPGerb lists Livermore, with Sandia, Oak Ridge and Battelle-run institutions, among the FFRDCs where he believes programme work is housed; Hastings names it among sites with UFO reports. Documented laboratory; the programme claim is inference.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "UAPGerb names Lawrence Livermore among the FFRDC laboratories he believes house programme work.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Hastings names Lawrence Livermore, Edwards and Camp Pendleton among sites where he says the objects seen were UFOs.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "robert-hastings", "speaker_name": "Robert Hastings", "side": "researcher", "year": 2024}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["uapgerb", "robert-hastings"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/livermore-llnl/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-73d1da521e0bb4.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Alfred Twu", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMAG3050-livermore-lab.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:oak-ridge", "t": "site", "slug": "oak-ridge", "name": "Oak Ridge National Laboratory", "lat": 35.931, "lon": -84.31, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: ORNL main campus, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "facility", "kinds": ["facility"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1943, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Anderson / Roane County, Tennessee", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The Tennessee laboratory born of the Manhattan Project. Hastings lists Oak Ridge among nuclear sites where UFOs have consistently been reported since the 1940s; UAPGerb lists it among FFRDC labs where he believes programme work sits. Documented site; the claims are inference from historical reports.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Hastings says UFOs consistently appear at nuclear weapons facilities, listing Los Alamos, Hanford, Oak Ridge, Malmstrom and Minot.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "robert-hastings", "speaker_name": "Robert Hastings", "side": "researcher", "year": 2024}, {"text": "UAPGerb names Oak Ridge among the FFRDC laboratories he believes house programme work.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "thin", "speaker": "uapgerb", "speaker_name": "UAPGerb", "side": "researcher", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-hastings", "uapgerb"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/oak-ridge/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-2c17227314b6c8.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak_Ridge_National_Laboratory_Aerial_View_2.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:hanford-site", "t": "site", "slug": "hanford-site", "name": "Hanford Site", "lat": 46.55, "lon": -119.49, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Site centroid from public boundary data; the complex covers ~1,500 km².", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "encounter"], "kind": "facility", "kinds": ["facility", "encounter"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1945, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Benton County, Washington", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The plutonium production complex in Washington State. Robert Hastings says pilots scrambled in the late 1940s were told a bogey sat right over the Hanford Ordnance Works and lists Hanford among nuclear sites with recurring UFO reports. Documented site; the reports rest on veterans' testimony.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Hastings recounts veterans telling him that a bogey was right over the Hanford Ordnance Works when they were scrambled.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "robert-hastings", "speaker_name": "Robert Hastings", "side": "researcher", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Hastings lists Hanford among nuclear facilities where UFOs consistently appear.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "robert-hastings", "speaker_name": "Robert Hastings", "side": "researcher", "year": 2024}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-hastings"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/hanford-site/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-6ca657c3ce0685.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "US federal government / Hanford archive", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hanford_-_B_Area_in_WWII.crop.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:vandenberg-big-sur", "t": "site", "slug": "vandenberg-big-sur", "name": "Vandenberg / Big Sur (1964 Atlas test)", "lat": 34.742, "lon": -120.5724, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Vandenberg Space Force Base; the Big Sur camera site lies ~200 km north.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter", "base"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter", "base"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1964, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Santa Barbara County, California", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The California launch site whose September 1964 Atlas test, filmed from Big Sur, is the subject of Lt Robert Jacobs' account of an object circling a dummy warhead. Jacobs and Michels describe the film and its classification on the show. The base and test are documented; the film is not public.", "sides": ["civilian", "journalist", "military"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Richard Barr testified that he served as a USAF air policeman in the 4392nd Combat Defense Squadron at Vandenberg AFB in 1963-65, that his DD-214 and service records exist, and that Robert Hastings vetted him, including calling three friends to confirm the account predated any public telling.", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "richard-barr", "speaker_name": "Richard Barr", "side": "civilian", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Barr testified that on a foggy night in September 1964, at Minuteman site D5, a trench-coated figure emerged from the fog, his right arm went paralyzed when he tried to draw his .38, he passed out, and he came to in a circular room where he was told telepathically not to look at the beings.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "richard-barr", "speaker_name": "Richard Barr", "side": "civilian", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Barr testified that years later he blew a chrome-plated BB-like ball out of his nose, and that during 2001 nasal surgery the surgeon reported something in his right nostril 'so hard I almost couldn't break through it', which was suctioned out and discarded without analysis.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "richard-barr", "speaker_name": "Richard Barr", "side": "civilian", "year": 2026}, {"text": "The host inferred that the recurrence of UAP reports at nuclear sites — Vandenberg, Malmstrom, Loring, Ellsworth — is non-random and indicates focused interest in nuclear weapons.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Robert Jacobs recounts being tasked at Vandenberg in 1964 to film an Atlas missile launch with a large tracking telescope and later describing an anomalous object interacting with the warhead/reentry vehicle imagery.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "robert-jacobs", "speaker_name": "Robert Jacobs", "side": "military", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Barr was taken aboard a craft hovering over Vandenberg and given an anti-nuclear message by non-human beings.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "richard-barr", "speaker_name": "Richard Barr", "side": "civilian", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-hastings", "robert-jacobs", "richard-barr", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/vandenberg-big-sur/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/vandenberg-team-launches-minuteman-iii-2000539861.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 8, "photo_kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "photo_credit": "This image was released by the United States Air Force with  · 2006", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandenberg_team_launches_Minuteman_III_(2000539861).jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:ellsworth-afb", "t": "site", "slug": "ellsworth-afb", "name": "Ellsworth AFB", "lat": 44.145, "lon": -103.104, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: Ellsworth AFB, Meade County, South Dakota.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter", "base"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter", "base"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1977, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Rapid City, South Dakota", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A Minuteman base near Rapid City, South Dakota. Veterans interviewed on the show describe objects over launch facilities, including the 1977 Mario Woods case, and Hastings recounts his collection of security-police reports. The base is documented; the incidents rest on witness testimony and partial records.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Woods testified that around 9:15-9:40 p.m. he exchanged light signals with a stationary object east of the November control facility — four rounds of facility-light flashes answered by off-on patterns — with partner Michael Johnson present and flight security controller Bill Hollman inside on the…", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "mario-woods", "speaker_name": "Mario Woods", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Woods testified that at the site they found a sphere 'the size of a Walmart building' ten feet over the blast door, that a light release nearly blinded him and stopped his breathing, that a black vented ball bounced around the truck, that an ammonia stench filled the cab, and that he saw four…", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "mario-woods", "speaker_name": "Mario Woods", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Woods testified that Johnson sat catatonic with eyes open gripping the steering wheel through the event and for hours after, that Woods checked his pulse and put a finger in his ear without response, and that Johnson told him weeks later he had seen and heard everything — the craft, the black…", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "mario-woods", "speaker_name": "Mario Woods", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Mario Woods testified that in November 1977 he was a 23-year-old PRP-cleared security policeman at Ellsworth AFB working Minuteman sites, with no mental-health history, subject to the Personnel Reliability Program's screening, random blood tests and urinalysis.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "mario-woods", "speaker_name": "Mario Woods", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Woods testified that at about 12:15 a.m. a two-pronged alarm (above-ground and below-ground sensors) at launch facility November 5 dispatched him and Johnson to the site.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "mario-woods", "speaker_name": "Mario Woods", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Woods testified that three alert teams searched for them, that wing security control requested outside assistance bringing two Sturgis sheriff's deputies and a state trooper, and that the base triangulated their position through 20-25 radio location checks.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "mario-woods", "speaker_name": "Mario Woods", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Woods testified that his debrief in Colonel Spraker's office included the deputy base commander, an unnamed man in a gray tweed suit, OSI Captain Jack Reed, and new OSI man Rick Doty; that the incident was declared classified; that he signed a non-disclosure agreement; and that he was refused a…", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "mario-woods", "speaker_name": "Mario Woods", "side": "military", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Woods testified that two flight surgeons examined him with OSI behind a divider, checked his gums first at length, noted burns above his right eye and on the back of his right hand, and clipped skin samples from both into corked stainless cylinders.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "mario-woods", "speaker_name": "Mario Woods", "side": "military", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["mario-woods", "robert-hastings"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/ellsworth-afb/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/a-b-1b-lancer-lands-at-ellsworth-air-force-base-s-d-oct-30-2018.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 10, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Thomas Karol · 2018", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_B-1B_Lancer_lands_at_Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base,_S.D.,_Oct._30,_2018.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:loring-afb", "t": "site", "slug": "loring-afb", "name": "Loring AFB", "lat": 46.95, "lon": -67.886, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: former Loring AFB, Limestone, Maine.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter", "base"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter", "base"], "band": "documented", "y0": 1975, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Aroostook County, Maine", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A former Strategic Air Command bomber base in northern Maine. In the Allagash interview, one witness says the base had a 1975 or 1976 episode with craft overhead and beams that seemed to map the nuclear area; Michels notes it lies 90 miles from their site. Base documented; the reports rest on testimony and released Air Force messages.", "sides": ["civilian", "journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "One of the Allagash witnesses, unnamed in the transcript, says Loring AFB had an episode in 1975 or 1976 in which craft came over the base and beams appeared to map the nuclear area.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "allagash-witness", "speaker_name": "", "side": "civilian", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Michels, interviewing the Allagash witnesses, says the Air Force base 90 miles from their site reported UFOs within a year or two of their experience.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["allagash-witness", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1976-allagash"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/loring-afb/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/loring-afb-wsa-20.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Jeff Bates · 1998", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LORING_AFB_WSA_20.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:daniels-park-colorado", "t": "site", "slug": "daniels-park-colorado", "name": "Daniels Park, Colorado", "lat": 39.48, "lon": -104.92, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Daniels Park from public gazetteer; the account does not fix a spot within the park.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1995, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Douglas County, Colorado", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A Denver Mountain Park south of the city. John Blitch, a retired Army officer, describes a 1995 mountain-bike ride near the park, weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, that ended in missing time, and notes the park adjoins a Native American burial ground. Park documented; the episode is his testimony.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Blitch testified that in 1995, weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, a mountain-bike ride near Daniel's Park, Colorado produced at least five hours of missing time, that his wife searched the ridgeline and filed a missing-person report, and that a police officer located him at a 7-Eleven and…", "class": "FACT", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "john-blitch", "speaker_name": "John Blitch", "side": "military", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["john-blitch"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/daniels-park-colorado/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/bison-in-daniels-park.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Pbritti · 2022", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_in_Daniels_Park.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:norton-afb", "t": "site", "slug": "norton-afb", "name": "Norton AFB", "lat": 34.0954, "lon": -117.235, "prec": "exact", "src": "Public gazetteer: former Norton AFB (now San Bernardino International Airport).", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base"], "band": "thin", "y0": 2024, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "San Bernardino, California", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A closed Air Force logistics base in San Bernardino, California. James Fox recounts that a film of an object at Holloman was shown there to two producers, and that men in suits arrived the next day, took the footage and told them never to speak of it. Base documented, closed 1994; the film story is second-hand.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Fox recounts that film shown at Norton AFB was confiscated by men in suits the same day or next morning after being shown to witnesses — encoded as Fox's recounted investigation, not as proven confiscation.", "class": "FACT", "band": "thin", "speaker": "james-fox", "speaker_name": "James Fox", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["james-fox"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/norton-afb/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/norton-air-force-base-mac-cargo-ramp.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "United States Air Force · 1972", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norton_Air_Force_Base_-_MAC_Cargo_Ramp.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:san-vito-italy", "t": "site", "slug": "san-vito-italy", "name": "San Vito dei Normanni Air Station", "lat": 40.65, "lon": 17.7, "prec": "approximate", "src": "San Vito dei Normanni air station from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base"], "kind": "facility", "kinds": ["facility", "base"], "band": "contested", "y0": 1992, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Italy", "region": "Puglia", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "A former US Air Force signals station in Puglia, Italy, with a large circular \"elephant cage\" antenna. Michels says his researchers identified it as the first overseas base of Dan Sherman's Project Preserve Destiny, and Sherman confirmed on camera it was one of the bases where he was stationed. Station documented; the programme rests on his testimony.", "sides": ["journalist", "military"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Michels says that after reading Sherman's book his researchers found the decaying elephant-cage antenna on Google Earth and identified the first Project Preserve Destiny base as San Vito dei Normanni.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Asked by Michels whether the first Project Preserve Destiny base he was at was San Vito dei Normanni in southern Italy, Sherman said it was one of the bases he was stationed at.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "dan-sherman", "speaker_name": "Dan Sherman", "side": "military", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["dan-sherman", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/san-vito-italy/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/san-vito-dei-normanni-le-vie-del-centro.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Zappuddu", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Vito_dei_Normanni_-_Le_vie_del_centro.JPG", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:colares-brazil", "t": "site", "slug": "colares-brazil", "name": "Colares (Operação Prato)", "lat": -0.936, "lon": -48.283, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Colares town from public gazetteer; reports spread along the Pará coast.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter"], "band": "contested", "y0": 1977, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Brazil", "region": "Pará", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "An island town at the mouth of the Amazon where residents in 1977 reported lights and burns; the Brazilian Air Force ran Operação Prato and released files in 2005. Guests on the show recount the case. Town and operation documented; the phenomena unexplained.", "sides": ["government", "journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Aldo Rebelo, former Brazilian Minister of Defense, appears on American Alchemy and, in Jesse's framing and Rebelo's own on-camera remarks, affirms major Brazilian UFO cases as real and says he would continue that stance if elected president.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "aldo-rebelo", "speaker_name": "Aldo Rebelo", "side": "government", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Jesse summarizes Operação Prato / Colares as a multi-month Brazilian Air Force investigation of incidents affecting on the order of 200 people with reported burns and puncture wounds.", "class": "FACT", "band": "contested", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["aldo-rebelo", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/colares-brazil/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "media_count": 1}, {"id": "site:kingman-arizona", "t": "site", "slug": "kingman-arizona", "name": "Kingman, Arizona", "lat": 35.19, "lon": -114.05, "prec": "region", "src": "Kingman area only; the story places the site vaguely in the surrounding desert.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": ["retrieval"], "band": "thin", "y0": 1953, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Mohave County, Arizona", "status": "unverified", "summary": "Desert near Kingman where, according to a story told by researcher William Steinman and repeated by Greg Bishop, a craft came down in May 1953 and a witness saw a four-foot body; Bishop links the witness record to Wright Field engineer Eric Henry Wang. 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Greg Rogers, who says he was chief of aerospace medicine for the 45th Space Wing in 1992, describes being shown a seamless, egg-like saucer about 20 feet across inside a hangar there. 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Michels narrates the story, including Malmgren's recollection that Richard Bissell mentioned 1933. 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Michels notes the school lay near a uranium mining site and calls one child's later testimony among the most powerful he has heard.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Michels recounts that Ariel School pupils said a silver craft descended and landed near their school, and notes the school was near a uranium mining site.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2023}], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["john-mack", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1994-ariel-school"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/ariel-school-ruwa/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:aguadilla-puerto-rico", "t": "site", "slug": "aguadilla-puerto-rico", "name": "Aguadilla, Puerto Rico", "lat": 18.4949, "lon": -67.1294, "prec": "exact", "src": "Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, from public gazetteer.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": ["encounter"], "band": "documented", "y0": 2013, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States (Puerto Rico)", "region": "Aguadilla", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The north-west coast of Puerto Rico where a Customs and Border Protection aircraft filmed an object over Rafael Hernández Airport in April 2013. A guest on the show describes the footage frame by frame and calls the coast an area with many sightings. Location documented; the object unexplained.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "The speaker places the 2013 footage on the coast of Puerto Rico over the Aguadilla airport, an area he says has many sightings.", "class": "FACT", "band": "documented", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": ["aguadilla-2013"], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/aguadilla-puerto-rico/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-36622e03dfef04.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/944204/puerto-rico-objects", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:mount-hayes-alaska", "t": "site", "slug": "mount-hayes-alaska", "name": "Mount Hayes, Alaska", "lat": 63.62, "lon": -146.72, "prec": "region", "src": "Summit from public gazetteer; the claimed installation has no located entrance.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "anomaly"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "anomaly"], "band": "thin", "y0": 1973, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "United States", "region": "Alaska Range", "status": "unverified", "summary": "A 4,216 m peak in the eastern Alaska Range. Lyn Buchanan says Army remote viewers, starting with Pat Price and Joe McMoneagle, described an underground base inside it with humans and non-humans working side by side, later found automated; Michels narrates Price's coordinates. 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Lyn Buchanan names it among four remote-viewed bases and says it is the one where craft fly in and out; Michels lists it among the three further bases Pat Price named. 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The mountain is documented and has its own local disappearance folklore; the base claim has no physical evidence.", "sides": ["journalist", "military"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Buchanan names Mount Inyangani among the four major bases found by remote viewing.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "lyn-buchanan", "speaker_name": "Lyn Buchanan", "side": "military", "year": 2026}, {"text": "Michels narrates that Price named Mount Inyangani in Zimbabwe among three further bases.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["lyn-buchanan", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/mount-inyangani-zimbabwe/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/nyangani-south-end.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Babakathy at English Wikipedia · 2007", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nyangani_south_end.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "site:mount-perdido-spain", "t": "site", "slug": "mount-perdido-spain", "name": "Monte Perdido, Spain", "lat": 42.675, "lon": 0.033, "prec": "region", "src": "Summit from public gazetteer; the claimed base is unlocated.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["base", "anomaly"], "kind": "base", "kinds": ["base", "anomaly"], "band": "thin", "y0": 1973, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Spain", "region": "Aragon, Pyrenees", "status": "unverified", "summary": "A 3,355 m peak in the Pyrenees. Michels narrates that Pat Price named it among four remote-viewed bases and that Joe McMoneagle, viewing it blind, saw it being built by humans with helicopters and cargo crates rather than by non-human intelligence. No physical evidence exists.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "Michels narrates that when McMoneagle remote-viewed Mount Perdido he saw it built by humans — helicopters, cargo crates, personnel moving materials into the mountain.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jesse-michels", "speaker_name": "Jesse Michels", "side": "journalist", "year": 2026}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["joe-mcmoneagle", "lyn-buchanan", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/mount-perdido-spain/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/monte-perdido-from-the-trail-senda-de-los-cazadores.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Martin Stiburek · 2020", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monte_Perdido_from_the_trail_Senda_de_los_Cazadores.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "site:antarctica", "t": "site", "slug": "antarctica", "name": "Antarctica", "lat": -80.0, "lon": 0.0, "prec": "region", "src": "Continental pin only; claims name no coordinates.", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["anomaly"], "kind": "anomaly", "kinds": ["anomaly"], "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1946, "y1": 2026, "date": null, "country": "Antarctica", "region": "Antarctic continent", "status": "verified_entity", "summary": "The continent recurs in the interviews through Operation Highjump lore, claims of structures under the ice, and Michels' narration of Admiral Byrd and Forrestal. Speakers in the ancient-history episodes make the specific statements. The continent is documented; every claimed structure is unsupported.", "sides": ["contractor", "journalist", "researcher"], "reported": [], "claims": [{"text": "The Antarctic ice-core climate archive is continuous for hundreds of thousands of years (EPICA Dome C reaches ~800,000 years), which rules out a recently ice-free Antarctic continent in the window the Atlantis-in-Antarctica reading requires.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "well-supported", "speaker": "matt-ford", "speaker_name": "", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Antarctic mountains look like pyramids because the ice cap preserves them from wind and rain erosion - the A_LsUSxTm7A guest's mundane explanation of the 'Antarctic pyramid' class of observations.", "class": "INFERENCE", "band": "contested", "speaker": "matt-ford", "speaker_name": "", "side": "journalist", "year": 2024}, {"text": "Rudolf Hess was one of the main figures Germany sent to Antarctica - Jason Jorjani's claim.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "thin", "speaker": "jason-reza-jorjani", "speaker_name": "", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Atlantis was located in Antarctica when the continent sat at a temperate latitude before a crustal displacement moved it south (Jorjani's Hapgood reading).", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "unsupported", "speaker": "jason-reza-jorjani", "speaker_name": "", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Antarctica has been a no-fly zone since 1957, and skiers exploring it have had black helicopters descend on them and been told they are in an area affecting US national security.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "unsupported", "speaker": "jason-reza-jorjani", "speaker_name": "", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "A Navy SEAL source told Linda Moulton Howe he was tasked with a mission in Antarctica that found a black pyramid embedded in ice.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "unsupported", "speaker": "jason-reza-jorjani", "speaker_name": "", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "Admiral Byrd talked about a pyramid in Antarctica, and a friend of Jorjani's saw and photographed a black pyramid there that was later deleted from Google Maps.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "unsupported", "speaker": "jason-reza-jorjani", "speaker_name": "", "side": "researcher", "year": 2025}, {"text": "An Antarctic contractor mechanic noticed large amounts of energy being transferred to parts of his facility where it 'wasn't supposed to be going' while de-energizing cables.", "class": "SPECULATION", "band": "unsupported", "speaker": "eric-hecker", "speaker_name": "Eric Hecker", "side": "contractor", "year": 2025}], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["matt-ford", "jason-reza-jorjani", "eric-hecker"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/sites/antarctica/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-ba22afdc4cf258.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 10, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Dave Pape · NASA MODIS / NOAA AVHRR data", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1933-magenta", "t": "event", "slug": "1933-magenta", "name": "Magenta crash claim (Italy, 1933)", "lat": 45.4636, "lon": 8.8836, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Magenta, Lombardy (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1933, "y1": 1933, "date": "13 June 1933", "country": "Italy", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Italian researchers say a craft came down near Magenta, Lombardy in June 1933 and that Mussolini formed a secret study group, the \"Gabinetto RS/33\". In the corpus, Harald Malmgren is said to have been told by CIA officer Richard Bissell that the crash was real; the documentary basis is a set of letters of disputed provenance.", "sides": ["researcher"], "reported": [{"person": "roberto-pinotti", "name": "roberto-pinotti", "side": "researcher", "role": "Italian ufologist who published the RS/33 letters"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["bell-shaped"], "beings": [], "people": ["harald-malmgren", "david-grusch", "robert-salas", "roberto-pinotti"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1933-magenta/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/magenta-piazza-liberazione.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Davide Papalini · 2010", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magenta-piazza_Liberazione.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1942-battle-of-los-angeles", "t": "event", "slug": "1942-battle-of-los-angeles", "name": "Battle of Los Angeles", "lat": 33.94, "lon": -118.24, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Los Angeles (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 1942, "y1": 1942, "date": "25 February 1942", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In the early hours of 25 February 1942, coastal batteries fired more than 1,400 anti-aircraft shells at objects reported over Los Angeles; no aircraft were downed and no bombs fell. The Navy Secretary called it a false alarm; the Army said unidentified aircraft may have been present. The corpus recounts it as a UFO flying down the coast.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "us-army-coast-artillery", "name": "us-army-coast-artillery", "side": "military", "role": "37th Coast Artillery Brigade gun crews"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["harald-malmgren", "richard-dolan", "us-army-coast-artillery", "office-of-air-force-history"], "documents": [], "footage": ["battle-of-los-angeles-1942-photo"], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1942-battle-of-los-angeles/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/battle-of-los-angeles-latimes.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "photo_credit": "LA Times. · 1942", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Los_Angeles_LATimes.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1944-1945-foo-fighters", "t": "event", "slug": "1944-1945-foo-fighters", "name": "Foo fighter reports (WWII aircrews)", "lat": 48.5, "lon": 7.7, "prec": "region", "src": "Rhine valley / Strasbourg sector (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "wave", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1944, "y1": 1945, "date": "November 1944", "country": "Germany / France", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "From late 1944, aircrews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the Rhine valley and crews in the Pacific reported balls of light that paced their aircraft. In the corpus, Luis Elizondo says Senator Ted Stevens, a World War II pilot who later backed his program, admitted his own encounters; the host marks the eightieth anniversary of the first reports.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "415th-night-fighter-squadron", "name": "415th-night-fighter-squadron", "side": "military", "role": "USAAF night fighter crews"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["plasma-light", "orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["luis-elizondo", "jesse-michels", "415th-night-fighter-squadron", "us-eighth-air-force"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1944-1945-foo-fighters/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1945-trinity-san-antonio-crash", "t": "event", "slug": "1945-trinity-san-antonio-crash", "name": "San Antonio, New Mexico crash claim (August 1945)", "lat": 33.92, "lon": -106.87, "prec": "approximate", "src": "San Antonio, Socorro County, NM (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1945, "y1": 1945, "date": "16 August 1945", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Two men, Jose Padilla and Reme Baca, said that as boys in August 1945 they saw an avocado-shaped craft crash on the Padilla ranch near San Antonio, New Mexico, weeks after the Trinity test, and watched the Army remove it. Jacques Vallée co-wrote a book on the case; in the corpus the host notes the crash is \"unclear\" and disputed.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "jose-padilla", "name": "jose-padilla", "side": "witness", "role": "ranch boy, later Highway Patrol officer"}, {"person": "reme-baca", "name": "reme-baca", "side": "witness", "role": "ranch boy"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["egg-shaped"], "beings": [], "people": ["jacques-vallee", "jesse-michels", "jose-padilla", "reme-baca", "paola-harris"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell", "1964-socorro"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1945-trinity-san-antonio-crash/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/trinity-site-obelisk-national-historic-landmark.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Samat Jain · 2010", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Site_Obelisk_National_Historic_Landmark.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1946-ghost-rockets", "t": "event", "slug": "1946-ghost-rockets", "name": "Swedish ghost rockets", "lat": 61.0, "lon": 15.0, "prec": "region", "src": "Sweden (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "wave", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 1946, "y1": 1946, "date": "May 1946", "country": "Sweden", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Through 1946 Swedish authorities logged about 2,000 reports of rocket- or cigar-shaped objects, some said to fall into lakes. The Swedish military dragged several lakes and found no debris. Corpus guests recall the episode as a reason US commanders took post-war reports seriously and describe the objects as modified V-2s.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "swedish-public", "name": "swedish-public", "side": "witness", "role": "civilian reports collected by the Swedish Defence Staff"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["cigar-cylinder"], "beings": [], "people": ["nick-cook", "kirk-mcconnell", "swedish-public", "swedish-defence-staff", "us-army-air-forces"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1946-ghost-rockets/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ghostrocket-7-09-1946.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "photo_credit": "Erik Reuterswärd · 1946", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghostrocket_7-09-1946.jpg", "media_count": 5}, {"id": "event:1947-maury-island", "t": "event", "slug": "1947-maury-island", "name": "Maury Island incident", "lat": 47.36, "lon": -122.42, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Maury Island, Puget Sound (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1947, "y1": 1947, "date": "21 June 1947", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Harold Dahl said that on 21 June 1947 six doughnut-shaped objects hovered over his boat near Maury Island, Washington, one dropping slag that killed his dog. Two Army intelligence officers who collected samples died when their B-25 crashed. Dahl later called it a hoax. In the corpus the case is tied to Fred Crisman and JFK lore.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "harold-dahl", "name": "harold-dahl", "side": "witness", "role": "harbor patrolman"}, {"person": "fred-crisman", "name": "fred-crisman", "side": "witness", "role": "Dahl's associate"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": [], "people": ["kenneth-arnold", "peter-levenda", "harold-dahl", "fred-crisman", "army-air-forces-intelligence", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-kenneth-arnold"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1947-maury-island/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/2022-maury-island.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Mark Yasuda · 2022", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022_Maury_Island.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1947-kenneth-arnold", "t": "event", "slug": "1947-kenneth-arnold", "name": "Kenneth Arnold sighting", "lat": 46.8523, "lon": -121.7603, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Mount Rainier (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 1947, "y1": 1947, "date": "24 June 1947", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 24 June 1947 private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine bright crescent-shaped objects flying in echelon past Mount Rainier at a speed he estimated above 1,200 mph. Press coverage of his account produced the term \"flying saucer\". In the corpus the host places it two months before Roswell and notes earlier 1947 weather-bureau reports.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "kenneth-arnold", "name": "Kenneth Arnold", "side": "witness", "role": "private pilot and businessman"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc", "boomerang-chevron"], "beings": [], "people": ["kenneth-arnold", "jesse-michels", "army-air-forces-intelligence", "project-sign", "david-grusch"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell", "1947-maury-island"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1947-kenneth-arnold/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/arnold-aaf-document.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Witness drawing · archive", "photo_credit": "Kenneth Arnold (1915 – January 16, 1984) · 1947", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_AAF_document.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1947-roswell", "t": "event", "slug": "1947-roswell", "name": "Roswell incident", "lat": 33.95, "lon": -105.31, "prec": "approximate", "src": "placed at the linked site Roswell / Foster Ranch debris field", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1947, "y1": 1947, "date": "8 July 1947", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In early July 1947 rancher W. W. \"Mac\" Brazel reported debris on the Foster ranch; on 8 July the Roswell Army Air Field said it had recovered a \"flying disc\", then the Army said it was a weather balloon. Witnesses later described bodies and a second site. The Air Force in 1994 attributed the debris to Project Mogul.", "sides": ["civilian", "military"], "reported": [{"person": "mac-brazel", "name": "Mac Brazel", "side": "witness", "role": "ranch foreman who found the debris"}, {"person": "jesse-marcel", "name": "Jesse Marcel", "side": "military", "role": "RAAF intelligence officer who collected debris"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["harald-malmgren", "david-grusch", "robert-salas", "beatriz-villarroel", "mac-brazel", "jesse-marcel", "us-air-force", "general-accounting-office"], "documents": ["roswell-report-1994", "gao-roswell-1995", "twining-memo-1947", "majestic-12-documents"], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-kenneth-arnold", "1948-aztec", "1965-kecksburg"], "sites": ["roswell", "wright-patterson-afb"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1947-roswell/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ramey-dubose-debris.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 10, "photo_kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "photo_credit": "Fort Worth Star-Telegram · 1947", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramey-dubose-debris.jpg", "media_count": 5}, {"id": "event:1948-aztec", "t": "event", "slug": "1948-aztec", "name": "Aztec, New Mexico crash claim", "lat": 36.82, "lon": -107.99, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Aztec, New Mexico (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1948, "y1": 1948, "date": "25 March 1948", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Writer Frank Scully reported in 1949–1950 that a 99-foot disc had landed intact near Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948 and that sixteen small bodies were recovered. His sources were later exposed as confidence men. In the corpus a guest names researchers who still investigate the case, and the host calls it an interesting alternative to Roswell.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [{"person": "frank-scully", "name": "frank-scully", "side": "journalist", "role": "Variety columnist; book \"Behind the Flying Saucers\""}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["frank-scully", "scott-ramsey", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1948-aztec/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/hart-canyon-flickr-aspidoscelis-1.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · 2014", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hart_Canyon_-_Flickr_-_aspidoscelis_(1).jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1950-mcminnville", "t": "event", "slug": "1950-mcminnville", "name": "McMinnville (Trent) photographs", "lat": 45.2101, "lon": -123.1987, "prec": "approximate", "src": "McMinnville, Oregon (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1950, "y1": 1950, "date": "11 May 1950", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 11 May 1950 Evelyn Trent called her husband Paul to photograph a metallic disc over their farm near McMinnville, Oregon; he took two frames. Published locally and in LIFE, the photographs were listed as unexplained by the 1968 Condon Report. Corpus speakers call the case hard to debunk while the skeptic suggests a thrown hubcap.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "paul-trent", "name": "paul-trent", "side": "witness", "role": "farmer, photographer"}, {"person": "evelyn-trent", "name": "evelyn-trent", "side": "witness", "role": "farmer, first saw the object"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": [], "people": ["paul-trent", "evelyn-trent", "condon-committee", "bruce-maccabee", "jesse-michels"], "documents": ["condon-report"], "footage": ["mcminnville-1950"], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1950-mcminnville/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-04b49db4d2461d.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "photo_credit": "Paul Trent · 11 May 1950", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UFO_picture_taken_by_Paul_Trent_in_McMinnville,_Oregon.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1952-washington-flap", "t": "event", "slug": "1952-washington-flap", "name": "Washington, D.C. flap (July 1952)", "lat": 38.8512, "lon": -77.0402, "prec": "exact", "src": "Washington National Airport (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "wave", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 1952, "y1": 1952, "date": "19 July 1952", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On the nights of 19–20 and 26–27 July 1952 radar operators at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB tracked unidentified targets while jets were scrambled; some pilots reported lights. The Air Force held its largest press conference since the war and attributed the tracks to temperature inversions. One corpus guest, a boy in DC that summer, recalls the sightings.", "sides": ["civilian", "military"], "reported": [{"person": "washington-national-radar-controllers", "name": "washington-national-radar-controllers", "side": "aviation", "role": "CAA radar controllers"}, {"person": "usaf-interceptor-pilots", "name": "usaf-interceptor-pilots", "side": "military", "role": "F-94 crews"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["luis-elizondo", "beatriz-villarroel", "washington-national-radar-controllers", "usaf-interceptor-pilots", "project-blue-book", "cia-robertson-panel"], "documents": ["project-blue-book", "robertson-panel"], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1952-washington-flap/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/photograph-of-president-truman-s-airplane-the-independence-prepa.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Abbie Rowe · 1952", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_President_Truman%27s_airplane,_%22The_Independence,%22_preparing_to_leave_Washington_to_carry_the_President..._-_NARA_-_200342.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1953-robertson-panel", "t": "event", "slug": "1953-robertson-panel", "name": "CIA Robertson Panel", "lat": 38.8719, "lon": -77.0563, "prec": "exact", "src": "The Pentagon (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "release", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 1953, "y1": 1953, "date": "17 January 1953", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "From 14 to 17 January 1953 a CIA-convened panel of scientists chaired by Caltech physicist H. P. Robertson reviewed Air Force UFO cases after the 1952 Washington sightings and concluded the reports posed no direct threat but that public interest should be reduced through debunking. Corpus guests call the panel report the constitution of Blue Book.", "sides": ["government", "scientist"], "reported": [{"person": "h-p-robertson", "name": "h-p-robertson", "side": "scientist", "role": "panel chair"}, {"person": "central-intelligence-agency", "name": "central-intelligence-agency", "side": "government", "role": "convening body"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["hal-puthoff", "h-p-robertson", "central-intelligence-agency", "greg-bishop", "jesse-michels"], "documents": ["robertson-panel", "project-blue-book"], "footage": [], "events": ["1952-washington-flap", "1969-condon-report-blue-book-closed"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1953-robertson-panel/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/robertson-panel-report-p1.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Official document · primary record", "photo_credit": "US Government · 1953", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robertson_panel_report.pdf", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1953-kingman", "t": "event", "slug": "1953-kingman", "name": "Kingman, Arizona crash claim (1953)", "lat": 35.19, "lon": -114.05, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Kingman, Arizona (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1953, "y1": 1953, "date": "21 May 1953", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "An engineer using the pseudonym \"Fritz Werner\" (Arthur Stancil) said in 1973 that in May 1953 he was bused with blacked-out windows to a site near Kingman, Arizona to assess a crashed metallic disc and saw a small body. The corpus retells the account and a guest calls the case real when asked to rate crash claims.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "arthur-stancil", "name": "arthur-stancil", "side": "witness", "role": "Wright-Patterson contract engineer (as \"Fritz Werner\")"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["richard-dolan", "arthur-stancil", "raymond-fowler", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1953-kingman/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/kingman-arizona-rockpile-hill.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Renjishino · 2007", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kingman_Arizona_rockpile_hill.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1957-levelland", "t": "event", "slug": "1957-levelland", "name": "Levelland sightings", "lat": 33.5873, "lon": -102.378, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Levelland, Texas (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1957, "y1": 1957, "date": "2 November 1957", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On the night of 2–3 November 1957 at least fifteen people around Levelland, Texas reported a glowing egg- or cigar-shaped object near the road that made their car engines and lights fail until it left. Sheriff Weir Clem saw a red light. Project Blue Book attributed the reports to ball lightning. The corpus does not discuss the case.", "sides": ["civilian", "government"], "reported": [{"person": "pedro-saucedo", "name": "pedro-saucedo", "side": "witness", "role": "farm worker, first caller"}, {"person": "weir-clem", "name": "weir-clem", "side": "law-enforcement", "role": "Hockley County sheriff"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["egg-shaped", "cigar-cylinder"], "beings": [], "people": ["pedro-saucedo", "weir-clem", "project-blue-book"], "documents": ["project-blue-book"], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": false}, "url": "/events/1957-levelland/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/project-blue-book-report-1957-11-6781581-levelland-texas-p3.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Official document · primary record", "photo_credit": "Project Blue Book · 1957", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1957-11-6781581-Levelland-Texas.pdf", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "event:1961-betty-barney-hill", "t": "event", "slug": "1961-betty-barney-hill", "name": "Betty and Barney Hill abduction report", "lat": 44.2, "lon": -71.6, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Franconia Notch area, New Hampshire (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "abduction-report", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1961, "y1": 1961, "date": "19 September 1961", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Driving home through New Hampshire on 19–20 September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill reported a lighted craft, a period of missing time and later, under hypnosis, an examination aboard it by small beings. It became the template for later abduction accounts. Corpus guests cite Barney Hill's reluctant account of a sperm sample as an early example of a recurring theme.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "betty-barney-hill", "name": "Betty and Barney Hill", "side": "witness", "role": "couple from Portsmouth, NH"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["betty-barney-hill", "hal-puthoff", "project-blue-book", "benjamin-simon", "john-blitch"], "documents": ["project-blue-book"], "footage": [], "events": ["1975-travis-walton", "1976-allagash"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1961-betty-barney-hill/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1962-bluegill-johnston-atoll", "t": "event", "slug": "1962-bluegill-johnston-atoll", "name": "Bluegill / Johnston Atoll test-series sightings (1962)", "lat": 16.7295, "lon": -169.5336, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Johnston Atoll (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1962, "y1": 1962, "date": "26 October 1962", "country": "United States (Johnston Atoll)", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "During the Operation Fishbowl high-altitude nuclear tests over Johnston Atoll in 1962, including the Bluegill shots, films of the detonation plumes are said by researchers to show objects near the burst. In the corpus the host mentions a video of \"Bluegill Triple Prime\" with apparent objects, and Harald Malmgren is described as assessing the Bluegill tests.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "test-instrumentation-films", "name": "test-instrumentation-films", "side": "military", "role": "declassified film analysed by researchers"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["harald-malmgren", "jesse-michels", "test-instrumentation-films"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1967-malmstrom-shutdown"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1962-bluegill-johnston-atoll/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/johnston-atoll-df-st-92-02431.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "SSgt. Val Gempis, USAF · 1990", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnston-Atoll-DF-ST-92-02431.JPEG", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1964-socorro", "t": "event", "slug": "1964-socorro", "name": "Socorro (Lonnie Zamora) landing", "lat": 34.0584, "lon": -106.8914, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Socorro, New Mexico (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1964, "y1": 1964, "date": "24 April 1964", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 24 April 1964 Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora reported an egg-shaped craft on legs in an arroyo with two small figures beside it, which then rose with a roar and departed. Burned brush and four landing impressions were recorded. Project Blue Book left it unexplained. Corpus guests describe knowing his family and compare the shape to the Nimitz object.", "sides": ["government"], "reported": [{"person": "lonnie-zamora", "name": "Lonnie Zamora", "side": "law-enforcement", "role": "Socorro police sergeant"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["egg-shaped"], "beings": [], "people": ["lonnie-zamora", "james-fox", "jesse-michels", "project-blue-book", "j-allen-hynek", "fbi-albuquerque"], "documents": ["project-blue-book"], "footage": [], "events": ["1945-trinity-san-antonio-crash", "2004-nimitz-tic-tac"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1964-socorro/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/project-blue-book-report-1964-04-6977589-socorro-newmexico-8766-p2.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Archival photograph · investigation record", "photo_credit": "Project Blue Book · 1964", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1964-04-6977589-Socorro-NewMexico-8766-.pdf", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1964-vandenberg-barr", "t": "event", "slug": "1964-vandenberg-barr", "name": "Richard Barr Vandenberg missile-site encounter (September 1964)", "lat": 34.742, "lon": -120.5724, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Vandenberg AFB (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1964, "y1": 1964, "date": "September 1964", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Richard Barr, then an Air Force guard at a Vandenberg Minuteman site, says that in September 1964 he experienced an encounter and missing time at the well-lit site whose alarms did nothing. He recounts the core details in the corpus and connects them to Robert Salas's later Malmstrom experience, which he wrote to Salas about.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "richard-barr", "name": "Richard Barr", "side": "military", "role": "USAF missile-site security guard"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-salas", "richard-barr"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1967-malmstrom-shutdown", "1964-big-sur-vandenberg-jacobs"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1964-vandenberg-barr/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/an-atlas-missile-is-launched-from-complex-3e-dpla-7d33d89f858984.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service.  · 1980", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Atlas_missile_is_launched_from_Complex_3E_-_DPLA_-_7d33d89f858984b07b3a2eb076c2811e.jpeg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1964-big-sur-vandenberg-jacobs", "t": "event", "slug": "1964-big-sur-vandenberg-jacobs", "name": "Big Sur / Vandenberg missile-film claim (September 1964)", "lat": 34.742, "lon": -120.5724, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Vandenberg AFB (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1964, "y1": 1964, "date": "15 September 1964", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Lt Robert Jacobs, a photo-instrumentation officer, said a telescope film of an Atlas launch from Vandenberg in September 1964 showed a disc circling the dummy warhead and firing beams before it tumbled, and that his commander ordered him never to speak of it. In the corpus Robert Salas and other guests cite Jacobs and the reprisals he described.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "bob-jacobs", "name": "bob-jacobs", "side": "military", "role": "USAF lieutenant, 1369th Photographic Squadron"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": [], "people": ["bob-jacobs", "robert-salas", "robert-hastings"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1967-malmstrom-shutdown", "1964-vandenberg-barr", "2003-vandenberg-red-square"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1964-big-sur-vandenberg-jacobs/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/atlas-icbm-erection-large.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "photo_credit": "U.S. Air Force · 1960", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas-icbm-erection-large.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1965-kecksburg", "t": "event", "slug": "1965-kecksburg", "name": "Kecksburg incident", "lat": 40.183, "lon": -79.463, "prec": "approximate", "src": "placed at the linked site Kecksburg", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1965, "y1": 1965, "date": "9 December 1965", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 9 December 1965 a fireball crossed several states and residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania reported an acorn-shaped object in the woods, which they said the Army removed on a flatbed truck. The Air Force said nothing was found. A NASA archivist later said records were lost. A corpus guest recalls a relative connected to the case.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "kecksburg-residents", "name": "kecksburg-residents", "side": "witness", "role": "residents and volunteer fire department"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["bell-shaped"], "beings": [], "people": ["kecksburg-residents", "project-blue-book", "nasa", "leslie-kean", "kevin-knuth", "richard-dolan"], "documents": ["project-blue-book"], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell"], "sites": ["kecksburg", "wright-patterson-afb"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1965-kecksburg/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/spacea.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Replica model · context", "photo_credit": "Navy2004 · 2013", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SpaceA.JPG", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1966-westall", "t": "event", "slug": "1966-westall", "name": "Westall school sighting (Melbourne)", "lat": -37.93, "lon": 145.13, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Clayton South, Victoria (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1966, "y1": 1966, "date": "6 April 1966", "country": "Australia", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 6 April 1966 more than 200 students and staff at Westall High School in Clayton South, Melbourne reported a silver disc that descended behind trees, sat briefly and departed, followed by light aircraft. In the corpus the host lists it among mass sightings and James Fox offers it as a landing case he would present to a jury.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "westall-students", "name": "westall-students", "side": "witness", "role": "students and a science teacher"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": [], "people": ["james-fox", "jesse-michels", "westall-students", "shane-ryan"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1994-ariel-school", "1977-broad-haven"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1966-westall/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/westall-railway-station-melbourne.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Effluvium1 · 2021", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westall_railway_station_-_Melbourne.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1966-portage-county", "t": "event", "slug": "1966-portage-county", "name": "Portage County police chase", "lat": 41.15, "lon": -81.36, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1966, "y1": 1966, "date": "17 April 1966", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Before dawn on 17 April 1966 Portage County, Ohio deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff reported chasing a bright disc-shaped object across the state line into Pennsylvania at high speed, joined by other officers. Project Blue Book attributed it to a satellite and Venus. In the corpus the host summarizes it as a 90-minute, 86-mile chase.", "sides": ["government"], "reported": [{"person": "dale-spaur", "name": "dale-spaur", "side": "law-enforcement", "role": "Portage County deputy sheriff"}, {"person": "wilbur-neff", "name": "wilbur-neff", "side": "law-enforcement", "role": "deputy"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": [], "people": ["jesse-michels", "dale-spaur", "wilbur-neff", "project-blue-book", "william-weitzel"], "documents": ["project-blue-book"], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1966-portage-county/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/portage-county-courthouse.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "JonRidinger · 2009", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portage_County_courthouse.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1967-malmstrom-shutdown", "t": "event", "slug": "1967-malmstrom-shutdown", "name": "Malmstrom AFB missile shutdown (March 1967)", "lat": 47.505, "lon": -111.187, "prec": "exact", "src": "placed at the linked site Malmstrom AFB / Oscar Flight", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "shutdown", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1967, "y1": 1967, "date": "24 March 1967", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Lt Robert Salas says that on 24 March 1967, while on duty at Malmstrom's Oscar Flight, security guards reported a glowing red object over the gate and ten Minuteman missiles dropped off alert within seconds. A similar event was logged at Echo Flight on 16 March. The Air Force found no cause; a 2025 press account cited an EMP test.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "robert-salas", "name": "Robert Salas", "side": "military", "role": "deputy missile combat crew commander, Oscar Flight"}, {"person": "fred-meiwald", "name": "fred-meiwald", "side": "military", "role": "crew commander, Oscar Flight"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-salas", "robert-hastings", "jesse-michels", "kevin-knuth", "fred-meiwald", "boeing-and-usaf-engineering"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["2010-fe-warren-outage", "1975-loring-afb", "2025-wsj-pentagon-ufo-article", "1964-vandenberg-barr"], "sites": ["malmstrom-afb"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1967-malmstrom-shutdown/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/launch-control-facility-after-construction-at-malmstrom-afb-mont.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 10, "photo_kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "photo_credit": "U.S. Air Force photo · 1961", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Launch_Control_Facility_after_construction_at_Malmstrom_AFB,_Montana.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1967-shag-harbour", "t": "event", "slug": "1967-shag-harbour", "name": "Shag Harbour incident", "lat": 43.5, "lon": -65.71, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1967, "y1": 1967, "date": "4 October 1967", "country": "Canada", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On the night of 4 October 1967 residents of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia reported a lighted object descend into the water; RCMP officers saw a light on the surface and a Canadian navy dive search over several days found nothing. Canadian records call it an unidentified flying object. The corpus does not discuss the case.", "sides": ["civilian", "government"], "reported": [{"person": "shag-harbour-residents", "name": "shag-harbour-residents", "side": "witness", "role": "residents and fishermen"}, {"person": "rcmp-barrington-passage", "name": "rcmp-barrington-passage", "side": "law-enforcement", "role": "RCMP officers"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["shag-harbour-residents", "rcmp-barrington-passage", "royal-canadian-navy", "canadian-department-of-national-defence"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/events/1967-shag-harbour/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/shag-harbour-incident-park.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "SnowyBadger · 2017", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shag_Harbour_Incident_Park.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "event:1969-condon-report-blue-book-closed", "t": "event", "slug": "1969-condon-report-blue-book-closed", "name": "Condon Report and the closing of Project Blue Book", "lat": 40.015, "lon": -105.2705, "prec": "approximate", "src": "University of Colorado Boulder (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "release", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 1969, "y1": 1969, "date": "17 December 1969", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "The University of Colorado study led by physicist Edward Condon, funded by the Air Force, published its report in January 1969 concluding that further UFO study was unlikely to advance science; the Air Force closed Project Blue Book in December 1969. Corpus guests say Condon wrote the conclusion early and that several scientists on the study publicly dissented.", "sides": ["military", "scientist"], "reported": [{"person": "edward-condon", "name": "Edward Condon", "side": "scientist", "role": "study director"}, {"person": "us-air-force", "name": "us-air-force", "side": "military", "role": "sponsor"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["jesse-michels", "jacques-vallee", "edward-condon", "us-air-force", "university-of-colorado", "national-academy-of-sciences", "karl-nell", "hal-puthoff"], "documents": ["condon-report", "project-blue-book", "blue-book-special-report-14"], "footage": [], "events": ["1953-robertson-panel", "1966-portage-county", "1964-socorro"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1969-condon-report-blue-book-closed/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/project-blue-book-summary-p1.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Official document · primary record", "photo_credit": "US Governement · 1966", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_summary.pdf", "media_count": 5}, {"id": "event:1970-uss-holland", "t": "event", "slug": "1970-uss-holland", "name": "USS Holland deck sighting (May 1970)", "lat": 36.85, "lon": -76.3, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Norfolk, Virginia naval area (approximate; ship location unconfirmed)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1970, "y1": 1970, "date": "May 1970", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "A former sailor recounts that in May 1970 about two dozen crew of USS Holland, a submarine tender, went topside before evening meal and, with a chief petty officer present, watched an object he describes in the corpus. He recalls the setting in detail; no ship record has been produced.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "uss-holland-crewman", "name": "uss-holland-crewman", "side": "military", "role": "enlisted sailor, USS Holland (AS-32)"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["uss-holland-crewman"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1975-loring-afb"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1970-uss-holland/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/uss-holland-as-32-underway-c1963.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "photo_credit": "U.S. Department of Defense · 1963", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Holland_(AS-32)_underway_c1963.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:undated-holloman-landing-film", "t": "event", "slug": "undated-holloman-landing-film", "name": "Holloman AFB landing-film claim", "lat": 32.85, "lon": -106.1, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Holloman AFB, New Mexico (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1971, "y1": 1971, "date": "1971", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Producer Robert Emenegger said that in 1973 Air Force officials showed him film of a craft landing at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, with three beings emerging to meet base commanders, then withdrew permission to use it. The landing year is given as 1964 or 1971. In the corpus James Fox says he did not believe the case at first.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [{"person": "robert-emenegger", "name": "robert-emenegger", "side": "journalist", "role": "documentary producer"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": ["nordic"], "people": ["james-fox", "robert-emenegger"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1964-socorro"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/undated-holloman-landing-film/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/an-f-16-viper-assigned-to-the-49th-wing-takes-off-at-holloman-ai.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Tech. Sgt. Victor J. Caputo · 2023", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_F-16_Viper_assigned_to_the_49th_Wing_takes_off_at_Holloman_Air_Force_Base,_New_Mexico,_March_3,_2023.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1973-pascagoula", "t": "event", "slug": "1973-pascagoula", "name": "Pascagoula abduction report", "lat": 30.3657, "lon": -88.5561, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Pascagoula, Mississippi (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "abduction-report", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1973, "y1": 1973, "date": "11 October 1973", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 11 October 1973 Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker said that while fishing on the Pascagoula River, Mississippi, they were taken aboard an oval craft by three robot-like beings and examined. Sheriff's deputies secretly recorded them afterwards. Corpus guests note the town built nuclear submarines and Richard Dolan calls it a strong case.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "charles-hickson", "name": "Charles Hickson", "side": "witness", "role": "shipyard foreman"}, {"person": "calvin-parker", "name": "Calvin Parker", "side": "witness", "role": "shipyard worker"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["egg-shaped"], "beings": [], "people": ["richard-dolan", "bob-lazar", "robert-salas", "charles-hickson", "calvin-parker", "jackson-county-sheriff", "j-allen-hynek", "james-harder", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1975-travis-walton", "1961-betty-barney-hill"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1973-pascagoula/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/calvin-parker.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "photo_credit": "SMG2019 · 2019", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvin-Parker.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1975-loring-afb", "t": "event", "slug": "1975-loring-afb", "name": "Loring AFB overflights (October 1975)", "lat": 46.95, "lon": -67.88, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Loring AFB, Limestone, Maine (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1975, "y1": 1975, "date": "27 October 1975", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Over several nights from 27 October 1975 security personnel at Loring AFB, Maine reported an unidentified helicopter-like object hovering near the nuclear weapons storage area; similar reports followed at Wurtsmith, Malmstrom and Minot. Air Force messages and NORAD logs record the incidents. A corpus guest who served at Loring places it in the northern-Maine nuclear context.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "loring-afb-security-police", "name": "loring-afb-security-police", "side": "military", "role": "42nd Security Police Squadron"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-hastings", "loring-afb-security-police", "strategic-air-command", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1967-malmstrom-shutdown", "1976-allagash"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1975-loring-afb/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/loring-air-force-base.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Unknown authorUnknown author · 1970", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loring_Air_Force_Base.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1975-travis-walton", "t": "event", "slug": "1975-travis-walton", "name": "Travis Walton disappearance (Snowflake, Arizona)", "lat": 34.2, "lon": -110.75, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "abduction-report", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1975, "y1": 1975, "date": "5 November 1975", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 5 November 1975 six logging-crew members near Snowflake, Arizona said Travis Walton was struck by a beam from a hovering disc and vanished; he reappeared five days later with an account of beings aboard a craft. The crew passed polygraphs the sheriff arranged. Corpus guests cite the case as the classic missing-time story; the skeptic disputes a later polygraph.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "travis-walton", "name": "Travis Walton", "side": "witness", "role": "logger"}, {"person": "mike-rogers", "name": "mike-rogers", "side": "witness", "role": "logging crew foreman"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": ["grey", "nordic"], "people": ["travis-walton", "jason-jorjani", "mike-rogers", "navajo-county-sheriff", "aerial-phenomena-research-organization", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1973-pascagoula", "1961-betty-barney-hill", "1977-ellsworth-november-5"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1975-travis-walton/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/travis-walton-2019-cropped.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "photo_credit": "SMG2019 · 2019", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Travis_Walton_2019_(cropped).jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1976-allagash", "t": "event", "slug": "1976-allagash", "name": "Allagash abduction report (August 1976)", "lat": 46.5, "lon": -69.4, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Eagle Lake, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Maine (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "abduction-report", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1976, "y1": 1976, "date": "20 August 1976", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Four art students on a canoe trip in the Allagash wilderness, Maine, in August 1976 reported a bright object over the lake and a period of missing time; under hypnosis years later they described an examination aboard a craft. Two of the four, twins, give their account in the corpus and recall Ray Fowler identifying the missing time.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "jack-weiner", "name": "jack-weiner", "side": "witness", "role": "art student (twin)"}, {"person": "jim-weiner", "name": "Jim Weiner", "side": "witness", "role": "art student (twin)"}, {"person": "charlie-foltz", "name": "Charlie Foltz", "side": "witness", "role": "art student"}, {"person": "chuck-rak", "name": "chuck-rak", "side": "witness", "role": "art student (later recanted)"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["jack-weiner", "jim-weiner", "charlie-foltz", "chuck-rak", "raymond-fowler", "jack-and-jim-weiner"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1961-betty-barney-hill", "1975-loring-afb"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1976-allagash/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/allagash-lake-from-allagash-mountain.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Nannochloropsis · 2018", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allagash_Lake_from_Allagash_Mountain.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1976-tehran", "t": "event", "slug": "1976-tehran", "name": "Tehran F-4 incident", "lat": 35.6892, "lon": 51.389, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Tehran (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1976, "y1": 1976, "date": "19 September 1976", "country": "Iran", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Early on 19 September 1976 Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4s were scrambled toward a bright object over Tehran; pilots reported instrument and weapons failures when approaching it and a smaller object detaching toward them. A US Defense Intelligence Agency report rated the case outstanding. In the corpus James Fox says he met the pilot, and Ryan Graves recalls the account.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "parviz-jafari", "name": "parviz-jafari", "side": "military", "role": "IIAF F-4 pilot, later general"}, {"person": "yaddi-nazeri", "name": "yaddi-nazeri", "side": "military", "role": "IIAF F-4 pilot"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["james-fox", "ryan-graves", "parviz-jafari", "yaddi-nazeri", "us-defense-intelligence-agency", "us-air-attache-tehran"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1980-rendlesham-forest"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1976-tehran/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/iranian-f-4e-phantom-ii-armed-with-agm-65-maverick.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Aircraft type photograph · context", "photo_credit": "IIAF", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iranian_F-4E_Phantom_II_armed_with_AGM-65_Maverick.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1977-broad-haven", "t": "event", "slug": "1977-broad-haven", "name": "Broad Haven school sighting (Wales)", "lat": 51.78, "lon": -5.1, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Broad Haven, Pembrokeshire (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1977, "y1": 1977, "date": "4 February 1977", "country": "United Kingdom", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 4 February 1977 fourteen pupils at Broad Haven Primary School, Pembrokeshire reported a silver cigar-shaped object with a dome landing near the school field; asked to draw it separately, they produced similar pictures. Further reports that year gave the area the name \"Dyfed Triangle\". In the corpus the host cites it among school sightings alongside Ariel.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "broad-haven-pupils", "name": "broad-haven-pupils", "side": "witness", "role": "fourteen primary-school pupils"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["cigar-cylinder", "flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": [], "people": ["jesse-michels", "broad-haven-pupils", "uk-ministry-of-defence"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1994-ariel-school", "1966-westall"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1977-broad-haven/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/broad-haven-sunset.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Jzwift · 2017", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad_Haven_Sunset.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1977-colares-operacao-prato", "t": "event", "slug": "1977-colares-operacao-prato", "name": "Colares wave and Operação Prato", "lat": -0.94, "lon": -48.28, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Colares, Pará (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "wave", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1977, "y1": 1978, "date": "October 1977", "country": "Brazil", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "From mid-1977 residents of Colares and nearby Amazon river communities in Pará reported lights that fired beams causing burns, puncture marks and weakness, with about 200 people affected. The Brazilian Air Force ran Operação Prato, photographing and filming the objects. A former Brazilian defence minister discusses it in the corpus and the host details the injuries.", "sides": ["civilian", "scientist"], "reported": [{"person": "colares-residents", "name": "colares-residents", "side": "witness", "role": "river-community residents"}, {"person": "wellaide-cecim", "name": "wellaide-cecim", "side": "medical", "role": "physician who treated victims"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["plasma-light", "orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["aldo-rebelo", "colares-residents", "wellaide-cecim", "brazilian-air-force-operacao-prato", "uyrange-hollanda", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1986-brazil-night-of-ufos", "1996-varginha"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1977-colares-operacao-prato/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "media_count": 1}, {"id": "event:1977-ellsworth-november-5", "t": "event", "slug": "1977-ellsworth-november-5", "name": "Ellsworth AFB \"November 5\" encounter (Mario Woods, November 1977)", "lat": 44.14, "lon": -103.1, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1977, "y1": 1977, "date": "18 November 1977", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Former Air Force security policeman Mario Woods says that on 18 November 1977 at Ellsworth AFB's November-5 missile site he and a partner saw a large light descend, experienced missing time and awoke miles away with marks on his body and his dog in shock. He gives a full corpus interview; the skeptic disputes the distance and polygraph claims.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "mario-woods", "name": "Mario Woods", "side": "military", "role": "USAF security policeman, 44th Missile Security Squadron"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["plasma-light"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["mick-west", "mario-woods", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1975-loring-afb", "1975-travis-walton"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1977-ellsworth-november-5/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ellsworth-air-force-base-3apr1997.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "United States Geological Survey (USGS) · 1997", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base_-_3Apr1997.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1980-kirtland-bennewitz-manzano", "t": "event", "slug": "1980-kirtland-bennewitz-manzano", "name": "Kirtland AFB / Manzano sightings and the Bennewitz affair", "lat": 35.04, "lon": -106.609, "prec": "exact", "src": "placed at the linked site Kirtland AFB / Manzano / Sandia", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1980, "y1": 1980, "date": "9 August 1980", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In August 1980 security police at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, reported a bright light descending into the Coyote Canyon area of the Manzano weapons storage complex, and businessman Paul Bennewitz filmed lights over the base from his home. AFOSI agent Richard Doty then fed Bennewitz disinformation for years. Corpus episodes recount how the operation drove Bennewitz to breakdown.", "sides": ["civilian", "military"], "reported": [{"person": "paul-bennewitz", "name": "Paul Bennewitz", "side": "witness", "role": "Albuquerque physicist and businessman"}, {"person": "kirtland-security-police", "name": "kirtland-security-police", "side": "military", "role": "security guards who filed the August 1980 report"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["richard-doty", "greg-bishop", "paul-bennewitz", "kirtland-security-police", "afosi", "jesse-michels", "anonymous-guest"], "documents": ["majestic-12-documents"], "footage": [], "events": ["1984-majestic-12-documents-surface", "1980-rendlesham-forest"], "sites": ["kirtland-afb-manzano", "dulce"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1980-kirtland-bennewitz-manzano/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/kirtland-air-force-base-01.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 8, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Joe Mabel · 2015", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirtland_Air_Force_Base_01.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1980-rendlesham-forest", "t": "event", "slug": "1980-rendlesham-forest", "name": "Rendlesham Forest incident", "lat": 52.08889, "lon": 1.44917, "prec": "approximate", "src": "placed at the linked site Rendlesham Forest / RAF Bentwaters–Woodbridge", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1980, "y1": 1980, "date": "26 December 1980", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On the nights of 26–28 December 1980 US Air Force personnel from RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters reported lights and a metallic triangular object in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk; Deputy Base Commander Lt Col Charles Halt filed a memorandum and recorded audio. The UK MoD judged it of no defence significance. Corpus speakers cite the multiple witnesses and a remote-viewing session.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "jim-penniston", "name": "Jim Penniston", "side": "military", "role": "USAF staff sergeant, security police"}, {"person": "john-burroughs", "name": "John Burroughs", "side": "military", "role": "USAF airman, security police"}, {"person": "charles-halt", "name": "Charles Halt", "side": "military", "role": "Lt Col, deputy base commander"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["black-triangle", "plasma-light"], "beings": [], "people": ["jesse-michels", "lyn-buchanan", "jim-penniston", "john-burroughs", "charles-halt", "uk-ministry-of-defence", "nick-pope"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1976-tehran", "1975-loring-afb"], "sites": ["rendlesham-forest"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1980-rendlesham-forest/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-bce1176cf50aea.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Taras Young · 2014", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_Woodbridge_East_Gate.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1980-cash-landrum", "t": "event", "slug": "1980-cash-landrum", "name": "Cash–Landrum incident", "lat": 30.06, "lon": -95.1, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Huffman, Texas (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1980, "y1": 1980, "date": "29 December 1980", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 29 December 1980 Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Colby Landrum reported a diamond-shaped object venting flame over a road near Huffman, Texas, escorted by many helicopters; all three fell ill with burns and hair loss. Their lawsuit against the US government was dismissed because they could not show the object was federal. The corpus does not discuss the case.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "betty-cash", "name": "betty-cash", "side": "witness", "role": "restaurant owner"}, {"person": "vickie-landrum", "name": "vickie-landrum", "side": "witness", "role": "waitress"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["diamond"], "beings": [], "people": ["betty-cash", "vickie-landrum", "bill-bergstrom-mufon", "us-army-inspector-general"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1980-rendlesham-forest"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/events/1980-cash-landrum/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/huffman-texas-flickr-pinemikey.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Michael Martin from Cypress, Texas · 2008", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huffman,_Texas_-_Flickr_-_pinemikey.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "event:1981-1984-hessdalen-wave", "t": "event", "slug": "1981-1984-hessdalen-wave", "name": "Hessdalen lights wave (Norway)", "lat": 62.7833, "lon": 11.2, "prec": "exact", "src": "placed at the linked site Hessdalen Valley", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "wave", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1981, "y1": 1984, "date": "December 1981", "country": "Norway", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "From late 1981 to 1984 residents of the Hessdalen valley in central Norway reported unexplained lights several times a week, some stationary for an hour, prompting the volunteer Project Hessdalen field study in 1984 and an automated camera station from 1998. In the corpus the valley is cited for its magnetic anomalies.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "hessdalen-residents", "name": "hessdalen-residents", "side": "witness", "role": "valley residents"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["plasma-light"], "beings": [], "people": ["dennis-asberg", "hessdalen-residents", "project-hessdalen", "erling-strand"], "documents": [], "footage": ["hessdalen-ams-camera"], "events": [], "sites": ["hessdalen"], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1981-1984-hessdalen-wave/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/hessdalen-fo30141603210078.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Unknown authorUnknown author · 1953", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hessdalen_-_Fo30141603210078.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1984-majestic-12-documents-surface", "t": "event", "slug": "1984-majestic-12-documents-surface", "name": "Majestic 12 documents surface", "lat": 35.0844, "lon": -106.6504, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Albuquerque, New Mexico (postmark; Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "release", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1984, "y1": 1984, "date": "11 December 1984", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In December 1984 filmmaker Jaime Shandera received an anonymous roll of film postmarked Albuquerque showing a 1952 \"Majestic 12\" briefing for President-elect Eisenhower and a 1947 Truman memo, describing a group managing recovered craft. The FBI later labelled the documents bogus. Corpus guest Richard Dolan says strong researchers, including Robert Hastings, consider them a hoax.", "sides": ["journalist", "researcher"], "reported": [{"person": "jaime-shandera", "name": "jaime-shandera", "side": "journalist", "role": "recipient of the film"}, {"person": "william-moore", "name": "William Moore", "side": "researcher", "role": "co-investigator; later admitted working with AFOSI"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["richard-doty", "robert-hastings", "richard-dolan", "jaime-shandera", "william-moore", "fbi", "afosi", "stanton-friedman"], "documents": ["majestic-12-documents"], "footage": [], "events": ["1947-roswell", "1980-kirtland-bennewitz-manzano"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1984-majestic-12-documents-surface/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/majestic-12-part-1-of-1-page-4-crop.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Official document · primary record", "photo_credit": "Federal Bureau of Investigation · 1988", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Majestic_12_Part_1_of_1_(page_4_crop).jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1985-strieber-abduction", "t": "event", "slug": "1985-strieber-abduction", "name": "Whitley Strieber cabin experience (26 December 1985)", "lat": 41.7, "lon": -74.4, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Ulster County, New York (approximate; cabin location not disclosed)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "abduction-report", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1985, "y1": 1985, "date": "26 December 1985", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Author Whitley Strieber reported that on the night of 26 December 1985 at his cabin in upstate New York he was taken from his bedroom by small beings and subjected to procedures, recovered under hypnosis and told in his 1987 book \"Communion\". In the corpus he recounts contact experiences and a 1989 implant event.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "whitley-strieber", "name": "Whitley Strieber", "side": "witness", "role": "novelist"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": ["grey", "hybrid"], "people": ["whitley-strieber", "donald-klein"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1961-betty-barney-hill"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1985-strieber-abduction/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 3, "media_count": 1}, {"id": "event:1986-brazil-night-of-ufos", "t": "event", "slug": "1986-brazil-night-of-ufos", "name": "Brazilian \"night of the UFOs\" (19 May 1986)", "lat": -23.43, "lon": -46.47, "prec": "approximate", "src": "São Paulo–Guarulhos airport area (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "wave", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 1986, "y1": 1986, "date": "19 May 1986", "country": "Brazil", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On the night of 19 May 1986 Brazilian air traffic control and Air Force radar tracked about twenty unidentified objects over São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Goiás; Mirage and F-5 fighters were scrambled and pilots reported lights they could not close on. The Air Minister confirmed the events publicly. A former defence minister recounts them in the corpus.", "sides": ["civilian", "military"], "reported": [{"person": "brazilian-air-force-pilots", "name": "brazilian-air-force-pilots", "side": "military", "role": "Mirage III and F-5 pilots"}, {"person": "sao-paulo-cindacta-controllers", "name": "sao-paulo-cindacta-controllers", "side": "aviation", "role": "CINDACTA I radar controllers"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["plasma-light", "orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["aldo-rebelo", "brazilian-air-force-pilots", "sao-paulo-cindacta-controllers", "brazilian-air-force"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1977-colares-operacao-prato", "1996-varginha"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1986-brazil-night-of-ufos/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/mirage-iii-4870089628.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Aircraft type photograph · context", "photo_credit": "André Gustavo Stumpf from Brasília, Brasil · 2010", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirage_III_(4870089628).jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1986-jal-1628", "t": "event", "slug": "1986-jal-1628", "name": "Japan Airlines flight 1628 (Alaska)", "lat": 64.84, "lon": -147.72, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Fairbanks, Alaska (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1986, "y1": 1986, "date": "17 November 1986", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 17 November 1986 Captain Kenju Terauchi of JAL cargo flight 1628 reported two lighted objects and then a very large object pacing his 747 over Alaska for about 50 minutes; Anchorage controllers and military radar briefly saw returns. The FAA released its file in 1987 without explanation. Corpus guests show Terauchi's sketch and cite the radar.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "kenju-terauchi", "name": "Kenju Terauchi", "side": "aviation", "role": "JAL 747 captain"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["mothership", "orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["kenju-terauchi", "kevin-knuth", "jesse-michels", "federal-aviation-administration", "john-callahan"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1986-jal-1628/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/boeing-747-200f-jal-cargo-03.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Aircraft type photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Communi core by S.Fujioka · 1990", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_747-200F_(JAL_Cargo)_03.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1989-lazar-s4", "t": "event", "slug": "1989-lazar-s4", "name": "Bob Lazar S-4 claims (1989)", "lat": 37.01, "lon": -115.86, "prec": "approximate", "src": "placed at the linked site S-4 / Papoose Lake", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "testimony", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1989, "y1": 1989, "date": "10 November 1989", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In May and November 1989 Robert Lazar told KLAS-TV reporter George Knapp that he had worked at a site called S-4 near Papoose Lake, Nevada on the propulsion of nine recovered craft powered by \"element 115\". His employment record is disputed. The corpus includes a weekend with Lazar, Knapp's role in breaking the story and a skeptic's doubts.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "bob-lazar", "name": "Bob Lazar", "side": "witness", "role": "self-described S-4 physicist"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["lazar-sport-model", "flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": [], "people": ["bob-lazar", "george-knapp", "jeremy-corbell", "hal-puthoff", "stanton-friedman"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure"], "sites": ["s4-papoose-lake", "area-51-groom-lake", "los-alamos"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1989-lazar-s4/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/2014-07-18-12-22-25-first-extraterrestrial-highway-sign-along-no.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 8, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Famartin · 2014", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014-07-18_12_22_25_First_Extraterrestrial_Highway_sign_along_northbound_Nevada_State_Route_375_in_Crystal_Springs,_Nevada.JPG", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1989-belgian-wave", "t": "event", "slug": "1989-belgian-wave", "name": "Belgian UFO wave", "lat": 50.63, "lon": 6.02, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Eupen, Liège Province (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "wave", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1989, "y1": 1990, "date": "29 November 1989", "country": "Belgium", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "From 29 November 1989 to spring 1990 thousands of people in Belgium reported large silent triangles with lights at the corners; on 30–31 March 1990 Belgian Air Force F-16s were scrambled and recorded radar lock-ons that the Air Force later attributed partly to atmospheric effects. In the corpus a guest recalls the Belgian air commander who came forward.", "sides": ["civilian", "government"], "reported": [{"person": "eupen-gendarmes", "name": "eupen-gendarmes", "side": "law-enforcement", "role": "two gendarmes, 29 November 1989"}, {"person": "belgian-public", "name": "belgian-public", "side": "witness", "role": "thousands of reports collected by SOBEPS"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["black-triangle"], "beings": [], "people": ["eupen-gendarmes", "belgian-public", "belgian-air-force", "wilfried-de-brouwer", "sobeps", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1997-phoenix-lights", "1980-rendlesham-forest"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1989-belgian-wave/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1994-ariel-school", "t": "event", "slug": "1994-ariel-school", "name": "Ariel School sighting (Ruwa, Zimbabwe)", "lat": -17.89, "lon": 31.24, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Ruwa, Zimbabwe (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1994, "y1": 1994, "date": "16 September 1994", "country": "Zimbabwe", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 16 September 1994 some sixty pupils at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported a silver craft landing beyond the playground and one or two small beings with large eyes near it. Harvard psychiatrist John Mack interviewed the children weeks later. Corpus speakers cite Mack's interviews and note a uranium mine nearby.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "ariel-school-pupils", "name": "ariel-school-pupils", "side": "witness", "role": "about sixty pupils aged six to twelve"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": ["grey"], "people": ["john-mack", "david-grusch", "robert-salas", "whitley-strieber", "luis-elizondo", "ariel-school-pupils", "cynthia-hind"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1966-westall", "1977-broad-haven"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1994-ariel-school/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 8, "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:1995-blitch-daniels-park", "t": "event", "slug": "1995-blitch-daniels-park", "name": "John Blitch Daniels Park experience (1995)", "lat": 39.48, "lon": -104.93, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Daniels Park, Douglas County, Colorado (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1995, "y1": 1995, "date": "1995", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Former Army officer and DARPA program manager John Blitch says that in 1995, weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, he rode his mountain bike into Daniels Park south of Denver at sunset and had an encounter that ended his skepticism. He tells the story in the corpus and says it changed how he read the UFO literature.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "john-blitch", "name": "John Blitch", "side": "military", "role": "US Army officer; later DARPA program manager"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["john-blitch"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1997-phoenix-lights"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1995-blitch-daniels-park/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/bison-in-daniels-park.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Pbritti · 2022", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_in_Daniels_Park.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:1996-skinwalker-ranch-nids", "t": "event", "slug": "1996-skinwalker-ranch-nids", "name": "Bigelow buys Skinwalker Ranch; NIDS investigation begins", "lat": 40.2586, "lon": -109.8894, "prec": "approximate", "src": "placed at the linked site Skinwalker Ranch", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1996, "y1": 1996, "date": "1996", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In 1996, after the Sherman family reported cattle mutilations, lights and large animals on their Uintah Basin ranch, Robert Bigelow bought the property and installed a National Institute for Discovery Science team that reported anomalies over several years. Corpus guests include NIDS staff hired that summer and the current owner, who describes continuing effects on his team.", "sides": ["civilian", "journalist"], "reported": [{"person": "terry-sherman", "name": "terry-sherman", "side": "witness", "role": "ranch owner 1994–1996"}, {"person": "george-knapp", "name": "George Knapp", "side": "journalist", "role": "first reported the ranch in 1996"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-bigelow", "eric-davis", "brandon-fugal", "travis-taylor", "george-knapp", "hal-puthoff", "terry-sherman", "nids", "aawsap", "anonymous-guest"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure"], "sites": ["skinwalker-ranch"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1996-skinwalker-ranch-nids/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/skinwalker-ranch-10393732103.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 8, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Paul from USA · 2013", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skinwalker_Ranch_(10393732103).jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1996-varginha", "t": "event", "slug": "1996-varginha", "name": "Varginha incident", "lat": -21.551, "lon": -45.43, "prec": "approximate", "src": "placed at the linked site Varginha", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1996, "y1": 1996, "date": "20 January 1996", "country": "Brazil", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In January 1996 residents of Varginha, Minas Gerais reported strange creatures, and three young women described a brown-skinned being with red eyes on 20 January; military police and Army units were said to have captured creatures and taken them away. The Army said the women saw a homeless man. A former defence minister discusses it in the corpus.", "sides": ["civilian", "military"], "reported": [{"person": "liliane-silva", "name": "liliane-silva", "side": "witness", "role": "one of three young women"}, {"person": "marco-cherese", "name": "marco-cherese", "side": "military", "role": "military policeman who reportedly handled a creature and died weeks later"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": ["varginha-being"], "people": ["aldo-rebelo", "jesse-michels", "liliane-silva", "marco-cherese", "brazilian-army-escola-de-sargentos", "ubirajara-rodrigues"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1977-colares-operacao-prato", "1986-brazil-night-of-ufos", "1947-roswell"], "sites": ["varginha"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1996-varginha/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/memorial-do-et-de-varginha-19-de-fev-de-2025.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Monument · context, interpretation not evidence", "photo_credit": "Então Vamo! · 2025", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memorial_do_ET_de_Varginha_19_de_fev._de_2025.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1997-phoenix-lights", "t": "event", "slug": "1997-phoenix-lights", "name": "Phoenix Lights", "lat": 33.4484, "lon": -112.074, "prec": "approximate", "src": "placed at the linked site Phoenix", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1997, "y1": 1997, "date": "13 March 1997", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On the evening of 13 March 1997 thousands of people across Arizona reported a silent V-shaped formation of lights, described by many as a single mile-wide craft, and later a row of lights over Phoenix that was filmed. The Air Force said the filmed lights were A-10 flares. Corpus guests cite witnesses who reject the flare account.", "sides": ["civilian", "government"], "reported": [{"person": "arizona-public", "name": "arizona-public", "side": "witness", "role": "thousands of witnesses from Paulden to Tucson"}, {"person": "fife-symington", "name": "fife-symington", "side": "government", "role": "Arizona governor, witness who later spoke publicly"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["black-triangle", "boomerang-chevron"], "beings": [], "people": ["james-fox", "jesse-michels", "arizona-public", "fife-symington", "arizona-air-national-guard"], "documents": [], "footage": ["phoenix-lights-1997"], "events": ["1989-belgian-wave"], "sites": ["phoenix"], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1997-phoenix-lights/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/downtown-phoenix-skyline-lights.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Alan Stark · 2012", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Phoenix_Skyline_Lights.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:1997-ilyumzhinov-moscow", "t": "event", "slug": "1997-ilyumzhinov-moscow", "name": "Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Moscow contact claim (17 September 1997)", "lat": 55.7558, "lon": 37.6173, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Moscow (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "abduction-report", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 1997, "y1": 1997, "date": "17 September 1997", "country": "Russia", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, then president of Kalmykia and of FIDE, has said that on 17 September 1997 he was taken from his Moscow apartment aboard a craft by beings in yellow suits and shown their ship before being returned. He repeated the account on Russian television in 2010. The corpus recounts the story.", "sides": ["government"], "reported": [{"person": "kirsan-ilyumzhinov", "name": "Kirsan Ilyumzhinov", "side": "government", "role": "President of Kalmykia; FIDE president"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": ["nordic"], "people": ["kirsan-ilyumzhinov", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/1997-ilyumzhinov-moscow/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/kirsan-ilyumzhinov-2010-moscow.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "photo_credit": "A.Savin · 2010", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov_2010_Moscow.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:2002-kandahar-giant", "t": "event", "slug": "2002-kandahar-giant", "name": "Kandahar giant story (Afghanistan, 2002)", "lat": 31.61, "lon": 65.71, "prec": "region", "src": "placed at the linked site Kandahar cave (Afghanistan)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "unsupported", "y0": 2002, "y1": 2002, "date": "2002", "country": "Afghanistan", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "A story circulated among US service members holds that in 2002 a special-forces patrol searching for a missing squad near Kandahar was attacked by a giant humanoid in a cave, killed it, and flew the body out on a cargo aircraft. The corpus retells it through a cargo pilot's account; no record or witness has been named publicly.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "anonymous-cargo-pilot", "name": "anonymous-cargo-pilot", "side": "military", "role": "unnamed US cargo pilot relaying the story"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": ["nephilim-watcher"], "people": ["anonymous-cargo-pilot", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": ["kandahar-cave"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2002-kandahar-giant/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/arghandab-river-valley-between-kandahar-and-lashkar-gah.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Mark Ray · 2012", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arghandab_River_Valley_between_Kandahar_and_Lashkar_Gah.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:2002-wilson-davis-meeting", "t": "event", "slug": "2002-wilson-davis-meeting", "name": "Wilson–Davis meeting (Las Vegas, 16 October 2002)", "lat": 36.1147, "lon": -115.1728, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Las Vegas, Nevada (Wikipedia coordinates; EG&G building)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "testimony", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 2002, "y1": 2002, "date": "16 October 2002", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Fifteen pages of handwritten notes attributed to physicist Eric Davis record a 16 October 2002 meeting in Las Vegas with Vice Adm Thomas Wilson, former Director of the DIA, in which Wilson described being denied access in 1997 to a special-access program holding recovered craft. Wilson denies the meeting. Corpus speakers treat the notes as a key document.", "sides": ["military", "scientist"], "reported": [{"person": "eric-davis", "name": "Eric Davis", "side": "scientist", "role": "physicist who wrote the notes"}, {"person": "thomas-wilson", "name": "Thomas Wilson", "side": "military", "role": "Vice Admiral, former DIA director (denies the meeting)"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["eric-davis", "hal-puthoff", "jesse-michels", "thomas-wilson", "michael-shellenberger", "richard-dolan"], "documents": ["wilson-davis-notes"], "footage": [], "events": ["1989-lazar-s4", "2023-grusch-hearing"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2002-wilson-davis-meeting/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/vadm-thomas-r-wilson.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "photo_credit": "U.S. Navy", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vadm_thomas_r_wilson.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:2003-vandenberg-red-square", "t": "event", "slug": "2003-vandenberg-red-square", "name": "Vandenberg \"red square\" (October 2003)", "lat": 34.742, "lon": -120.5724, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Vandenberg AFB (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 2003, "y1": 2003, "date": "14 October 2003", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Former Air Force security personnel and contractors say that on 14 October 2003 a glowing red square about a hundred yards on a side approached Vandenberg AFB from the sea and hovered silently over a missile-defense launch facility for under a minute. A corpus witness says Rep. Luna cited the case and AARO holds the records.", "sides": ["contractor", "military"], "reported": [{"person": "jeff-nuccetelli", "name": "Jeff Nuccetelli", "side": "military", "role": "USAF security forces (retired)"}, {"person": "vandenberg-contractors", "name": "vandenberg-contractors", "side": "contractor", "role": "Boeing contractors at the launch facility"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["cube-in-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["jeff-nuccetelli", "vandenberg-contractors", "aaro"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1964-big-sur-vandenberg-jacobs", "2023-grusch-hearing"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2003-vandenberg-red-square/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/vandenberg-team-launches-minuteman-iii-2000539861.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "photo_credit": "This image was released by the United States Air Force with  · 2006", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandenberg_team_launches_Minuteman_III_(2000539861).jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:2004-nimitz-tic-tac", "t": "event", "slug": "2004-nimitz-tic-tac", "name": "Nimitz \"Tic Tac\" encounter", "lat": 31.5, "lon": -117.6, "prec": "region", "src": "placed at the linked site Nimitz Carrier Group 2004 (sea area)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2004, "y1": 2004, "date": "14 November 2004", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "From 10 November 2004, USS Princeton radar tracked objects off Baja California descending from high altitude to the surface in seconds. On 14 November Cdr David Fravor and three other aviators were vectored to one and reported a white oblong object that moved off at great speed; a second flight recorded the FLIR1 video. The Navy calls it unidentified.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "david-fravor", "name": "David Fravor", "side": "military", "role": "Commander, VFA-41 commanding officer"}, {"person": "alex-dietrich", "name": "Alex Dietrich", "side": "military", "role": "Lieutenant, VFA-41 wingman"}, {"person": "kevin-day", "name": "Kevin Day", "side": "military", "role": "Senior Chief, USS Princeton radar operator"}, {"person": "chad-underwood", "name": "Chad Underwood", "side": "military", "role": "Lt Cdr, recorded FLIR1"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["tic-tac"], "beings": [], "people": ["david-fravor", "kevin-day", "chad-underwood", "ryan-graves", "mick-west", "luis-elizondo", "alex-dietrich", "aatip", "uap-task-force", "jesse-michels"], "documents": ["aatip-dia-papers"], "footage": ["flir1", "nimitz-2004-princeton-radar"], "events": ["2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure", "2020-pentagon-video-release", "2023-grusch-hearing", "2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast"], "sites": ["nimitz-carrier-group-2004"], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2004-nimitz-tic-tac/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-73dedbbb5dbc7e.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 10, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/955825/flir-uap", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:2007-bledsoe-cape-fear", "t": "event", "slug": "2007-bledsoe-cape-fear", "name": "Chris Bledsoe Cape Fear River experience (January 2007)", "lat": 35.0527, "lon": -78.8784, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Fayetteville, North Carolina (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 2007, "y1": 2007, "date": "8 January 2007", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "Chris Bledsoe, a Fayetteville, North Carolina contractor, says that on 8 January 2007 while fishing on the Cape Fear River with his son and employees he saw orbs and beings and lost several hours, and has reported continuing contact since. In the corpus, guests describe visiting him and his later contacts with a CIA officer and a NASA official.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [{"person": "chris-bledsoe", "name": "Chris Bledsoe", "side": "witness", "role": "building contractor"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": ["nordic"], "people": ["jim-semivan", "chris-bledsoe", "diana-pasulka", "mufon", "anonymous-guest", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2007-bledsoe-cape-fear/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/cape-fear-river.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 5, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Maggiehc23 · 2022", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Fear_River.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:2008-stephenville", "t": "event", "slug": "2008-stephenville", "name": "Stephenville lights (Texas)", "lat": 32.2207, "lon": -98.2023, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Stephenville, Texas (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 2008, "y1": 2008, "date": "8 January 2008", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On the evening of 8 January 2008 dozens of residents of Stephenville and Dublin, Texas, including a pilot and a police officer, reported bright lights moving silently at low altitude, some saying a large object was pursued by jets. FAA radar data obtained by MUFON showed an unidentified track toward the Crawford ranch. The corpus does not discuss the case.", "sides": ["civilian", "government"], "reported": [{"person": "steve-allen", "name": "steve-allen", "side": "witness", "role": "pilot and freight-company owner"}, {"person": "lee-roy-gaitan", "name": "lee-roy-gaitan", "side": "law-enforcement", "role": "Erath County constable"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["plasma-light"], "beings": [], "people": ["steve-allen", "lee-roy-gaitan", "mufon", "federal-aviation-administration"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1997-phoenix-lights"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/events/2008-stephenville/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/downtown-stephenville-2024.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Renegomezphotography · 2024", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Stephenville_2024.jpg", "media_count": 1}, {"id": "event:2010-fe-warren-outage", "t": "event", "slug": "2010-fe-warren-outage", "name": "F.E. 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Corpus guests cite the case as a late instance of the nuclear pattern.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "fe-warren-missile-personnel", "name": "fe-warren-missile-personnel", "side": "military", "role": "anonymous missile maintenance and security personnel (via Hastings)"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["tic-tac", "cigar-cylinder"], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-hastings", "robert-salas", "hal-puthoff", "fe-warren-missile-personnel", "us-air-force-global-strike-command", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1967-malmstrom-shutdown", "1975-loring-afb"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2010-fe-warren-outage/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/missile-display-at-f-e-warren-afb-120407-f-jw079-036.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 8, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Richard Oriez · 2012", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Missile_display_at_F.E._Warren_AFB_120407-F-JW079-036.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:2013-aguadilla", "t": "event", "slug": "2013-aguadilla", "name": "Aguadilla infrared object (Puerto Rico)", "lat": 18.4949, "lon": -67.1294, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["sighting"], "kind": "sighting", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 2013, "y1": 2013, "date": "25 April 2013", "country": "Puerto Rico (US)", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 25 April 2013 a US Customs and Border Protection aircraft at Aguadilla airport, Puerto Rico, recorded on thermal camera an object that crossed the runway approach, flew low over the sea, appeared to enter the water and later to split in two. Researchers published an analysis in 2015; Mick West argues it was two balloons. The corpus cites it.", "sides": ["government"], "reported": [{"person": "cbp-aircrew", "name": "cbp-aircrew", "side": "government", "role": "US Customs and Border Protection aircrew"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["mick-west", "cbp-aircrew", "scientific-coalition-for-uap-studies", "jesse-michels"], "documents": [], "footage": ["aguadilla-2013"], "events": ["2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2013-aguadilla/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-36622e03dfef04.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/944204/puerto-rico-objects", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "event:2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast", "t": "event", "slug": "2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast", "name": "Roosevelt carrier group encounters (2014–2015)", "lat": 36.5, "lon": -75.0, "prec": "region", "src": "W-72 warning area off Virginia Beach (approximate sea area)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["encounter"], "kind": "encounter", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2014, "y1": 2015, "date": "2014", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "From 2014, pilots of the USS Theodore Roosevelt air wing off Virginia Beach reported radar tracks and visual sightings of objects in their training airspace almost daily, including a near-collision in 2014; two ATFLIR clips, GIMBAL and GOFAST, were recorded in January 2015 off Jacksonville. Lt Ryan Graves has led the pilots' public account and testifies in the corpus.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [{"person": "ryan-graves", "name": "Ryan Graves", "side": "military", "role": "Lieutenant, VFA-11 F/A-18F pilot"}, {"person": "vfa-11-pilots", "name": "vfa-11-pilots", "side": "military", "role": "squadron pilots filing safety reports"}], "claims": [], "crafts": ["cube-in-sphere", "orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["ryan-graves", "mick-west", "vfa-11-pilots", "uap-task-force"], "documents": [], "footage": ["gimbal", "gofast"], "events": ["2004-nimitz-tic-tac", "2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure", "2020-pentagon-video-release", "2023-grusch-hearing"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-70a3fbd3dfed38.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 7, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956955/gimbal-uap", "media_count": 6}, {"id": "event:2015-nazca-tridactyl-bodies", "t": "event", "slug": "2015-nazca-tridactyl-bodies", "name": "Nazca \"tridactyl\" bodies (Peru)", "lat": -14.83, "lon": -74.93, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Nazca, Peru (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["retrieval"], "kind": "retrieval", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 2015, "y1": 2015, "date": "2015", "country": "Peru", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In 2015 a grave robber known as Leandro is said to have found small desiccated three-fingered bodies in a cave near Nazca, Peru; promoters presented them from 2017 as non-human and they were shown to the Mexican Congress in 2023. Peru's culture ministry calls them manipulated pre-Columbian remains. A corpus episode examines the bodies and their carbon dates.", "sides": ["civilian", "journalist"], "reported": [{"person": "leandro-rivera", "name": "leandro-rivera", "side": "witness", "role": "grave robber (\"huaquero\") who found the cave"}, {"person": "jaime-maussan", "name": "Jaime Maussan", "side": "journalist", "role": "Mexican television presenter who promoted the bodies"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": ["tridactyl"], "people": ["jesse-michels", "leandro-rivera", "jaime-maussan", "universidad-nacional-san-luis-gonzaga-ica", "peru-ministry-of-culture"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2015-nazca-tridactyl-bodies/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/nazca-mummy-in-the-museo-historical-regional-cusco.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Museum exhibit · context, not the disputed specimens", "photo_credit": "Brian Snelson · 2006", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nazca_Mummy_in_the_Museo_Historical_Regional,_Cusco.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure", "t": "event", "slug": "2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure", "name": "New York Times reveals AATIP and releases Navy videos", "lat": 38.8719, "lon": -77.0563, "prec": "exact", "src": "The Pentagon (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "release", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2017, "y1": 2017, "date": "16 December 2017", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 16 December 2017 the New York Times published a report by Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal and Helene Cooper revealing the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, its $22 million funding via Bigelow Aerospace, Luis Elizondo's resignation and two Navy videos. Corpus guests repeatedly name it as the moment that changed their attention.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [{"person": "leslie-kean", "name": "Leslie Kean", "side": "journalist", "role": "co-author"}, {"person": "ralph-blumenthal", "name": "Ralph Blumenthal", "side": "journalist", "role": "co-author"}, {"person": "helene-cooper", "name": "helene-cooper", "side": "journalist", "role": "co-author"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["luis-elizondo", "leslie-kean", "christopher-mellon", "harry-reid", "robert-bigelow", "kirk-mcconnell", "avi-loeb", "ralph-blumenthal", "helene-cooper", "jesse-michels"], "documents": ["aatip-dia-papers"], "footage": ["flir1", "gimbal"], "events": ["2004-nimitz-tic-tac", "2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast", "2020-pentagon-video-release", "2023-grusch-hearing"], "sites": ["skinwalker-ranch"], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-70a3fbd3dfed38.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 10, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956955/gimbal-uap", "media_count": 5}, {"id": "event:2019-navy-confirms-uap-videos", "t": "event", "slug": "2019-navy-confirms-uap-videos", "name": "US Navy confirms the three videos show UAP", "lat": 38.8719, "lon": -77.0563, "prec": "exact", "src": "The Pentagon (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "release", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2019, "y1": 2019, "date": "18 September 2019", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In September 2019 Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault and other outlets that the three videos published in 2017 and 2018 depict \"unidentified aerial phenomena\" and that the Navy had not released them. Earlier that year the Navy had drafted new guidelines for pilots to report unidentified aircraft. 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Corpus guest Robert Salas argues Congress created the office and that it is not performing.", "sides": ["government"], "reported": [{"person": "department-of-defense", "name": "department-of-defense", "side": "government", "role": "memorandum establishing the office"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["sean-kirkpatrick", "robert-salas", "department-of-defense", "jesse-michels"], "documents": ["ndaa-uap-provisions"], "footage": [], "events": ["2021-odni-preliminary-assessment", "2024-aaro-report", "2025-wsj-pentagon-ufo-article"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2022-aaro-established/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office-aaro-logo.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Agency emblem · context", "photo_credit": "U. S. 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The December 2023 conference removed the board and eminent-domain provisions. Corpus speakers read the wording as Senate seriousness.", "sides": ["government"], "reported": [{"person": "chuck-schumer", "name": "Chuck Schumer", "side": "government", "role": "Senate Majority Leader, sponsor"}, {"person": "mike-rounds", "name": "Mike Rounds", "side": "government", "role": "Senator, co-sponsor"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["chuck-schumer", "mike-rounds", "marco-rubio", "kirsten-gillibrand", "mike-turner", "mike-rogers", "jesse-michels", "anonymous-guest"], "documents": ["schumer-rounds-amendment-2023", "ndaa-uap-provisions"], "footage": [], "events": ["2023-grusch-hearing", "2023-grusch-newsnation", "2024-aaro-report"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2023-schumer-rounds-amendment/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/chuck-schumer-official-photo-cropped.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "photo_kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "photo_credit": "U.S. Senate Photographic Studio/Jeff McEvoy · 2017", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chuck_Schumer_official_photo_(cropped).jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "event:2023-grusch-hearing", "t": "event", "slug": "2023-grusch-hearing", "name": "House Oversight UAP hearing (26 July 2023)", "lat": 38.8899, "lon": -77.0091, "prec": "exact", "src": "US Capitol (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "hearing", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2023, "y1": 2023, "date": "26 July 2023", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 26 July 2023 the House Oversight subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs heard sworn testimony from David Grusch, Cdr David Fravor and Lt Ryan Graves. Grusch said he had been informed of a multi-decade crash-retrieval program and of non-human biologics; Fravor and Graves recounted their encounters. 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In the corpus the host says Clapper is on record in the film about UFOs over Area 51, and a guest discusses its release.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [{"person": "dan-farah", "name": "Dan Farah", "side": "journalist", "role": "director and producer"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["james-clapper", "marco-rubio", "luis-elizondo", "jay-stratton", "david-grusch", "dan-farah", "jesse-michels", "anonymous-guest"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["2024-uap-hearing", "2023-grusch-hearing"], "sites": ["area-51-groom-lake"], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2025-age-of-disclosure-release/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-52f7f65beb9ebe.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Doc Searls · 2010", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groom_Lake_and_Papoose_Lake.jpg", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "event:2025-wsj-pentagon-ufo-article", "t": "event", "slug": "2025-wsj-pentagon-ufo-article", "name": "Wall Street Journal: \"The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology\"", "lat": 40.7561, "lon": -73.9866, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Wall Street Journal, New York (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "release", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2025, "y1": 2025, "date": "6 June 2025", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "In June 2025 the Wall Street Journal published an investigation by Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha reporting that AARO had found the 1967 Malmstrom shutdown was caused by an unannounced EMP test and that Air Force officers had seeded UFO stories to protect classified programs. Robert Salas rejects the account in the corpus and links the reporters to Sean Kirkpatrick.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [{"person": "joel-schectman", "name": "joel-schectman", "side": "journalist", "role": "co-author"}, {"person": "aruna-viswanatha", "name": "aruna-viswanatha", "side": "journalist", "role": "co-author"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["robert-salas", "sean-kirkpatrick", "joel-schectman", "aruna-viswanatha"], "documents": ["aaro-historical-record-report-2024"], "footage": [], "events": ["1967-malmstrom-shutdown", "2024-aaro-report"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2025-wsj-pentagon-ufo-article/", "photo": null, "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 6, "media_count": 1}, {"id": "event:2025-luna-task-force-hearing", "t": "event", "slug": "2025-luna-task-force-hearing", "name": "House Task Force on Declassification UAP hearing (9 September 2025)", "lat": 38.8899, "lon": -77.0091, "prec": "exact", "src": "US Capitol (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["hearing-release"], "kind": "hearing", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2025, "y1": 2025, "date": "9 September 2025", "country": "United States", "region": null, "status": null, "summary": "On 9 September 2025 the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Rep. 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In the corpus Nuccetelli says AARO and the FBI hold the records.", "sides": ["journalist", "military"], "reported": [{"person": "jeff-nuccetelli", "name": "Jeff Nuccetelli", "side": "military", "role": "witness; USAF security forces (retired)"}, {"person": "george-knapp", "name": "George Knapp", "side": "journalist", "role": "witness"}, {"person": "dylan-borland", "name": "Dylan Borland", "side": "military", "role": "witness; former USAF"}, {"person": "alexandro-wiggins", "name": "alexandro-wiggins", "side": "military", "role": "witness; retired Navy chief"}], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["anna-paulina-luna", "jeff-nuccetelli", "george-knapp", "tim-burchett", "dylan-borland", "alexandro-wiggins", "house-committee-on-oversight-and-accountability"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["2003-vandenberg-red-square", "2024-uap-hearing", "2023-grusch-hearing"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": false, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/events/2025-luna-task-force-hearing/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/anna-paulina-luna.webp", "shot_by": null, "official": null, "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "photo_credit": "US House of Representatives · 2022", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Paulina_Luna.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "footage:battle-of-los-angeles-1942-photo", "t": "footage", "slug": "battle-of-los-angeles-1942-photo", "name": "Battle of Los Angeles searchlight photograph", "lat": 33.94, "lon": -118.24, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Los Angeles (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "photograph", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1942, "y1": 1942, "date": "25 February 1942", "country": null, "region": "Los Angeles, California (skies over the harbor district)", "status": null, "summary": "The retouched Los Angeles Times photograph of 25 February 1942 showing anti-aircraft searchlights converging on a point over the city during a night barrage of more than 1,400 shells at unidentified objects. In the corpus the episode with Harald Malmgren describes a UFO flying down the coast and General Marshall being briefed.", "sides": ["journalist"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["harald-malmgren", "richard-dolan"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1942-battle-of-los-angeles"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/battle-of-los-angeles-1942-photo/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-5aee1256cab287.webp", "shot_by": "Los Angeles Times staff photographer", "official": "Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the alarm a false alarm the next day; the Army said unidentified aircraft may have been present, and a 1983 Office of Air Force History study attributed the shooting to a weather balloon and war nerves.", "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "photo_credit": "Unknown photographer / Associated Press · 1942", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Los_Angeles,_1942.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "footage:mcminnville-1950", "t": "footage", "slug": "mcminnville-1950", "name": "McMinnville (Trent) photographs", "lat": 45.2101, "lon": -123.1987, "prec": "approximate", "src": "McMinnville, Oregon (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "photograph", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1950, "y1": 1950, "date": "11 May 1950", "country": null, "region": "Trent farm near McMinnville, Oregon", "status": null, "summary": "Two photographs taken by Paul Trent at his farm near McMinnville, Oregon on 11 May 1950, showing a disc-shaped object above the yard. Printed in the local paper and LIFE. In the corpus the skeptic describes the object as resembling a tossed hubcap while conceding the case is hard to debunk.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": ["flying-saucer-disc"], "beings": [], "people": ["paul-trent"], "documents": ["condon-report"], "footage": [], "events": ["1950-mcminnville"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/mcminnville-1950/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-04b49db4d2461d.webp", "shot_by": "Paul Trent, farmer, with a Roamer camera", "official": "The 1968 Condon Report listed the photographs among cases it could not explain, while later analysts argued the object was a small model suspended from overhead wires.", "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "photo_credit": "Paul Trent · 11 May 1950", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UFO_picture_taken_by_Paul_Trent_in_McMinnville,_Oregon.jpg", "media_count": 5}, {"id": "footage:great-falls-1950", "t": "footage", "slug": "great-falls-1950", "name": "Great Falls (Mariana) film", "lat": 47.5053, "lon": -111.3008, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Great Falls, Montana (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "film", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1950, "y1": 1950, "date": "15 August 1950", "country": null, "region": "Legion Ballpark, Great Falls, Montana", "status": null, "summary": "A 16 mm film taken by Nick Mariana in Great Falls, Montana on 15 August 1950, showing two bright points crossing the sky. The Air Force examined it twice and attributed the objects to jets; Mariana said frames had gone missing. 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The Navy photographic laboratory spent weeks on frame analysis; the Robertson Panel decided the objects were birds. The corpus does not discuss this film.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": ["robertson-panel", "project-blue-book"], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": true, "interviews": false}, "url": "/footage/tremonton-1952/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/robertson-panel-report-p1.webp", "shot_by": "Delbert C. 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The Daily Record received the photographs but did not print them; the MoD kept the file closed. One print was made public in 2022. The corpus does not discuss it.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": ["diamond"], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/footage/calvine-1990/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/calvine-1999-geograph-org-uk-4210583.webp", "shot_by": "Two hikers (one identified in 2022 as Kevin Russell)", "official": "The UK Ministry of Defence said in 1990s files that the object was 'probably a hoax' or unexplained, withheld the original negatives, and extended the file's closure to 2072 before the copy print surfaced in 2022.", "cites": 0, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Helmut Zozmann · 1999", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvine_-_1999_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4210583.jpg", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "footage:phoenix-lights-1997", "t": "footage", "slug": "phoenix-lights-1997", "name": "Phoenix Lights home videos", "lat": 33.4484, "lon": -112.074, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Phoenix, Arizona (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "video", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 1997, "y1": 1997, "date": "13 March 1997", "country": null, "region": "Phoenix, Arizona", "status": null, "summary": "Camcorder recordings made in Phoenix on the evening of 13 March 1997 showing a row of lights above the southern horizon that faded out one by one. Thousands of people also reported a large silent V-shaped formation earlier that evening. The Air Force attributed the filmed lights to flares; witnesses in the corpus reject the flare account.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": ["black-triangle", "boomerang-chevron"], "beings": [], "people": ["james-fox"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1997-phoenix-lights"], "sites": ["phoenix"], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/phoenix-lights-1997/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/downtown-phoenix-skyline-lights.webp", "shot_by": "Several Phoenix residents (Mike Krzyston, Tom King and others) with camcorders", "official": "The Arizona Air National Guard and the US Air Force said the 10 pm lights were LUU-2 flares dropped by A-10 aircraft from the Maryland Air National Guard over the Barry Goldwater Range.", "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Alan Stark · 2012", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Phoenix_Skyline_Lights.jpg", "media_count": 5}, {"id": "footage:hessdalen-ams-camera", "t": "footage", "slug": "hessdalen-ams-camera", "name": "Hessdalen automatic measurement station recordings", "lat": 62.79, "lon": 11.19, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Hessdalen (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "video", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 1998, "y1": 1998, "date": "1998", "country": null, "region": "Hessdalen valley, Holtålen, Trøndelag, Norway", "status": null, "summary": "Automated cameras in the Hessdalen valley, Norway have recorded unexplained lights since 1998, following a wave of reports in 1981–1984. Researchers publish images and spectra and propose plasma and geochemical models. The corpus mentions Hessdalen as a place with magnetic anomalies, in a conversation about geomagnetic themes in UFO reports.", "sides": ["scientist"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": ["plasma-light"], "beings": [], "people": ["dennis-asberg"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1981-1984-hessdalen-wave"], "sites": ["hessdalen"], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/hessdalen-ams-camera/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/hessdalen-fo30141603210078.webp", "shot_by": "Project Hessdalen automatic camera station (Østfold University College, Erling Strand) and visiting researchers", "official": "No government body has issued a finding; Norwegian and Italian academic teams describe the recurring lights as a genuine but unexplained atmospheric luminous phenomenon.", "cites": 1, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Unknown authorUnknown author · 1953", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hessdalen_-_Fo30141603210078.jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "footage:nimitz-2004-princeton-radar", "t": "footage", "slug": "nimitz-2004-princeton-radar", "name": "USS Princeton SPY-1 radar tracks (Nimitz 2004)", "lat": 31.0, "lon": -117.5, "prec": "region", "src": "Nimitz Carrier Strike Group training area (approximate sea area)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "radar-data", "kinds": null, "band": "well-supported", "y0": 2004, "y1": 2004, "date": "10 November 2004", "country": null, "region": "Pacific Ocean off Baja California, W of San Diego", "status": null, "summary": "Radar operators aboard USS Princeton reported tracking groups of objects for about a week in November 2004 that descended from high altitude to the sea surface in seconds. The data were never released; witnesses say the tapes were removed. The corpus treats the radar track as part of a multi-sensor chain of custody.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": ["tic-tac"], "beings": [], "people": ["kevin-day", "david-fravor"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["2004-nimitz-tic-tac"], "sites": ["nimitz-carrier-group-2004"], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/nimitz-2004-princeton-radar/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/uss-princeton-cg-59-2003.webp", "shot_by": "Aegis SPY-1 radar of USS Princeton, operated by Senior Chief Kevin Day", "official": "The Navy has confirmed that the November 2004 encounters involved unidentified aerial phenomena but has released no radar data, and witnesses say the recordings were collected by unidentified personnel after the events.", "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "photo_credit": "U.S. Navy photo by Airman Angel G Hilbrands. 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The material was publicized by a private Turkish research center. Skeptical analysts match the shape to passing cruise ships. The corpus does not discuss this footage.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": [], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": false}, "url": "/footage/turkey-kumburgaz-2008/", "photo": null, "shot_by": "Yalçın Yalman, a night guard at a seaside compound, with a handheld camcorder", "official": "No Turkish or other government body has issued a finding; the promoting organization cited an analysis by a Turkish scientific council that it said found the footage genuine, and skeptics identify the object as the lit deck of a cruise ship.", "cites": 0, "media_count": 1}, {"id": "footage:aguadilla-2013", "t": "footage", "slug": "aguadilla-2013", "name": "Aguadilla CBP infrared video", "lat": 18.495, "lon": -67.1294, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Rafael Hernández Airport (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "infrared-video", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 2013, "y1": 2013, "date": "25 April 2013", "country": null, "region": "Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico", "status": null, "summary": "A thermal video recorded by a Customs and Border Protection aircraft near Aguadilla airport on the night of 25 April 2013, showing a small object moving over land and into the sea. Published in 2015 by a civilian research group after a leak. The corpus mentions it in the Mick West debate as the next case on the list.", "sides": ["government"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["mick-west"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/aguadilla-2013/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-36622e03dfef04.webp", "shot_by": "Thermal sensor of a US Customs and Border Protection DHC-8 aircraft", "official": "No US agency has issued a finding; the Department of Homeland Security has not formally released or commented on the recording, and the SCU report calls the object unidentified.", "cites": 1, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/944204/puerto-rico-objects", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "footage:chilean-navy-2014", "t": "footage", "slug": "chilean-navy-2014", "name": "Chilean Navy helicopter infrared video", "lat": -33.3, "lon": -71.9, "prec": "region", "src": "Flight track reported by CEFAA (approximate)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "infrared-video", "kinds": null, "band": "contested", "y0": 2014, "y1": 2014, "date": "11 November 2014", "country": null, "region": "Pacific coast of Chile between Valparaíso and San Antonio", "status": null, "summary": "A nine-minute infrared recording made from a Chilean Navy helicopter on 11 November 2014, released by the Chilean government agency CEFAA in 2017 as unexplained after a two-year review. Mick West and other analysts say it was a distant airliner departing Santiago, and in the corpus he describes it as the case that started his UFO video work.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["mick-west", "leslie-kean"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/chilean-navy-2014/", "photo": null, "shot_by": "FLIR operator aboard a Chilean Navy Airbus AS532 Cougar helicopter", "official": "Chile's CEFAA released the nine-minute video in January 2017 saying its analysts could not identify the object; independent analysts later matched it to Iberia flight IB6830 climbing out of Santiago.", "cites": 2, "media_count": 3}, {"id": "footage:gimbal", "t": "footage", "slug": "gimbal", "name": "GIMBAL (Roosevelt ATFLIR video)", "lat": 30.3, "lon": -77.0, "prec": "region", "src": "USS Theodore Roosevelt work-up area off Jacksonville (approximate sea area)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "infrared-video", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2015, "y1": 2015, "date": "21 January 2015", "country": null, "region": "Atlantic Ocean off the Florida/Georgia coast (Jacksonville operating area)", "status": null, "summary": "An ATFLIR clip from an F/A-18F off the US east coast in January 2015 showing an object that appears to rotate as the camera tracks it, with crew audio. Released with the 2017 New York Times report and formally by the Pentagon in 2020. Skeptics attribute the rotation to a glare artifact of the sensor gimbal.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": ["tic-tac"], "beings": [], "people": ["ryan-graves", "mick-west"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast", "2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure", "2020-pentagon-video-release"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/gimbal/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-70a3fbd3dfed38.webp", "shot_by": "ATFLIR pod of an F/A-18F from USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier air wing", "official": "The Department of Defense authorized release of the video on 27 April 2020 and said the aerial phenomena observed in it remain characterized as 'unidentified'.", "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956955/gimbal-uap", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "footage:gofast", "t": "footage", "slug": "gofast", "name": "GOFAST (Roosevelt ATFLIR video)", "lat": 30.3, "lon": -77.0, "prec": "region", "src": "USS Theodore Roosevelt work-up area off Jacksonville (approximate sea area)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "infrared-video", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2015, "y1": 2015, "date": "21 January 2015", "country": null, "region": "Atlantic Ocean off the Florida/Georgia coast (Jacksonville operating area)", "status": null, "summary": "An ATFLIR clip released in March 2018 showing a small object apparently skimming low over the sea, with the aircrew heard reacting when the sensor locks on. The Pentagon released it formally in 2020. Analysts using the on-screen range and angle data argue the object was slow-moving and high, with the speed an illusion of parallax.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere"], "beings": [], "people": ["ryan-graves", "mick-west"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast", "2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure", "2020-pentagon-video-release"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/gofast/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-5da65740c1bf40.webp", "shot_by": "ATFLIR pod of an F/A-18F from USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier air wing", "official": "The Department of Defense authorized release of the video on 27 April 2020 and said the aerial phenomena observed in it remain characterized as 'unidentified'.", "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956683/gofast-uap", "media_count": 2}, {"id": "footage:jellyfish-uap-2017", "t": "footage", "slug": "jellyfish-uap-2017", "name": "\"Jellyfish\" UAP thermal video (Iraq)", "lat": 33.3, "lon": 44.3, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Approximate; the releasing journalist withheld the base location", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "infrared-video", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 2017, "y1": 2017, "date": "2017", "country": null, "region": "US joint operations base, Iraq (location withheld)", "status": null, "summary": "A thermal video published by journalist Jeremy Corbell in January 2024, said to be recorded at a US base in Iraq in 2017 or 2018, showing a dark object with hanging appendages drifting over the base and later over water. The corpus records a guest saying it was debunked and a skeptic proposing coordinated drones.", "sides": ["military"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["jeremy-corbell"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": [], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/jellyfish-uap-2017/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-fbe64aa44eccf0.webp", "shot_by": "Military thermal camera at a US base in Iraq (operator unnamed)", "official": "The Department of Defense has not commented on the recording; the House Oversight members who saw it did not identify it, and analysts have proposed a smeared thermal image of a balloon cluster or drones.", "cites": 2, "photo_kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "photo_credit": "US military / DVIDS", "photo_source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/960331/al-taqaddum-object", "media_count": 3}, {"id": "footage:skinwalker-ranch-footage", "t": "footage", "slug": "skinwalker-ranch-footage", "name": "Skinwalker Ranch surveillance and television footage", "lat": 40.2586, "lon": -109.8868, "prec": "approximate", "src": "Skinwalker Ranch (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "video", "kinds": null, "band": "thin", "y0": 2020, "y1": 2020, "date": "2020", "country": null, "region": "Skinwalker Ranch, Uintah Basin, Utah", "status": null, "summary": "Camera recordings of lights, radar tracks and instrument anomalies at Skinwalker Ranch, broadcast in a television series since 2020. In the corpus the owner Brandon Fugal calls himself an experiencer rather than a believer, and the host recounts how a $22 million Defense Intelligence Agency contract to Bigelow Aerospace funded earlier study of the ranch.", "sides": ["civilian"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": ["orb-sphere", "plasma-light"], "beings": [], "people": ["brandon-fugal", "travis-taylor", "robert-bigelow"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["1996-skinwalker-ranch-nids", "2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure"], "sites": ["skinwalker-ranch"], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/skinwalker-ranch-footage/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/incoming/skinwalker-ranch-10393732103.webp", "shot_by": "Ranch security cameras and the production crew of \"The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch\" (Prometheus Entertainment), with owner Brandon Fugal", "official": "No government body has commented on the ranch footage; the earlier Defense Intelligence Agency-funded AAWSAP contract with Bigelow Aerospace studied the property from 2008, and its recordings have not been made public.", "cites": 3, "photo_kind": "Place photograph · context", "photo_credit": "Paul from USA · 2013", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skinwalker_Ranch_(10393732103).jpg", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "footage:house-uap-hearing-2023-07-26", "t": "footage", "slug": "house-uap-hearing-2023-07-26", "name": "House Oversight UAP hearing recording, 26 July 2023", "lat": 38.8899, "lon": -77.0091, "prec": "exact", "src": "US Capitol (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "hearing-recording", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2023, "y1": 2023, "date": "26 July 2023", "country": null, "region": "Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC", "status": null, "summary": "The recorded open session of 26 July 2023 in which former intelligence officer David Grusch, Cdr David Fravor and Lt Ryan Graves testified under oath. Grusch said he had been told of a multi-decade crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program; Fravor and Graves described their encounters. The corpus returns to this recording repeatedly.", "sides": ["government"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["david-grusch", "david-fravor", "ryan-graves"], "documents": ["grusch-testimony-2023"], "footage": [], "events": ["2023-grusch-hearing", "2004-nimitz-tic-tac", "2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": true, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/house-uap-hearing-2023-07-26/", "photo": "/assets/editorial/source-e64c936cc338f2.webp", "shot_by": "House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs", "official": "The House Oversight subcommittee held the hearing in open session with sworn witnesses David Grusch, David Fravor and Ryan Graves; the Pentagon said afterwards AARO had found no verifiable information on any program to possess or reverse-engineer extraterrestrial materials.", "cites": 4, "photo_kind": "Official recording · hearing frame", "photo_credit": "US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability · frame from the official hearing broadcast, via Wikimedia Commons", "photo_source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_congressional_hearing_on_UAPs_on_26_July_2023_with_Grusch_Graves_and_Fravor.png", "media_count": 4}, {"id": "footage:house-uap-hearing-2024-11-13", "t": "footage", "slug": "house-uap-hearing-2024-11-13", "name": "House joint subcommittee UAP hearing recording, 13 November 2024", "lat": 38.8899, "lon": -77.0091, "prec": "exact", "src": "US Capitol (Wikipedia coordinates)", "radius_km": null, "layers": ["footage"], "kind": "hearing-recording", "kinds": null, "band": "documented", "y0": 2024, "y1": 2024, "date": "13 November 2024", "country": null, "region": "Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC", "status": null, "summary": "The recorded hearing of 13 November 2024 at which Luis Elizondo, Rear Adm (ret.) Tim Gallaudet, Michael Gold and journalist Michael Shellenberger testified. Shellenberger entered a whistleblower account of a program called Immaculate Constellation; Elizondo, asked whether he had been read into it, answered that he could neither confirm nor deny. The corpus covers it the next day.", "sides": ["government"], "reported": [], "claims": [], "crafts": [], "beings": [], "people": ["luis-elizondo", "tim-gallaudet", "michael-shellenberger"], "documents": [], "footage": [], "events": ["2024-uap-hearing", "2024-immaculate-constellation-report"], "sites": [], "has": {"footage": true, "documents": false, "interviews": true}, "url": "/footage/house-uap-hearing-2024-11-13/", "photo": null, "shot_by": "House Oversight subcommittees on Cybersecurity, IT and Government Innovation and on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs", "official": "The joint subcommittee hearing \"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth\" took sworn testimony from Luis Elizondo, Tim Gallaudet, Michael Gold and Michael Shellenberger; the Department of Defense did not send a witness.", "cites": 3, "media_count": 2}], "entities": {"craft": {"flying-saucer-disc": {"name": "Flying saucer / disc", "url": "/crafts/flying-saucer-disc/", "summary": "The oldest reported shape: a flat, round, metallic-looking object, often with a dome on top, said to hover and move without wings or exhaust. 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Nick Cook says he chased the story at Jane’s and found…", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["Lockheed Aurora", "SR-91 Aurora", "Mach 5 black aircraft"], "glyph": "/assets/crafts/aurora.svg", "years": "1985–2009"}, "avrocar": {"name": "Avrocar (Avro Canada VZ-9)", "url": "/crafts/avrocar/", "summary": "A real 1950s disc-shaped vehicle built by Avro Canada for the US military, with a central fan and a saucer planform. Nick Cook calls it “a bit of a dog of a machine”; Peter Levenda remembers a plastic model of it…", "band": "documented", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["Avro car", "VZ-9 Avrocar", "Project Y", "Project Silver Bug"], "glyph": "/assets/crafts/avrocar.svg", "years": "1952–1961"}, "anderson-sphere": {"name": "Anderson sphere (NSWC Crane display)", "url": "/crafts/anderson-sphere/", "summary": "A basketball-sized metallic sphere that Randy Anderson, a former Air Force security policeman, says he saw levitating above a podium in an underground room at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane in March 2014…", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["levitating metallic sphere", "Crane sphere", "off-world technology sphere"], "glyph": "/assets/crafts/anderson-sphere.svg", "years": "2014"}, "roswell-object": {"name": "Roswell object (1947)", "url": "/crafts/roswell-object/", "summary": "Whatever fell near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947. The Army first announced a “flying disc”, then a balloon; later witnesses described foil that returned to shape. The corpus records Jesse Marcel’s memory metal, a…", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["Roswell disc", "Roswell debris", "Foster ranch wreckage", "memory metal"], "glyph": "/assets/crafts/roswell-object.svg", "years": "1947"}, "varginha-craft": {"name": "Varginha craft (1996)", "url": "/crafts/varginha-craft/", "summary": "The object said to have come down near Varginha, Brazil in January 1996. Carlos de Souza, an ultralight pilot, says it was “the size of a school bus”, cigar-shaped “like a submarine”, punctured, with foil-like material…", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["Varginha object", "Brazilian cigar craft", "submarine-shaped object"], "glyph": "/assets/crafts/varginha-craft.svg", "years": "1996"}, "c-shaped": {"name": "C-shaped / open-sided", "url": "/crafts/c-shaped/", "summary": "Open-sided and notched forms reported in the Busan video, Baltic survey imagery and released Yukon image. 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Four profiles follow those encounters and the details he supplied for one male portrait.", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["tall whites", "the Tall Whites", "Range Four Harry", "the teacher"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/tall-white.svg", "years": "1965–2026"}, "reptilian": {"name": "Reptilian", "url": "/beings/reptilian/", "summary": "Barbara Lamb’s reported living-room contact and a facility story relayed through acquaintances offer two very different source trails. Examine the descriptions, who observed what, and the gaps between them.", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["reptilians", "reptoids", "lizard people", "serpent race"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/reptilian.svg", "years": "2023–2026"}, "mantis-insectoid": {"name": "Mantis / insectoid", "url": "/beings/mantis-insectoid/", "summary": "A tall bedside presence, a possible seated operator and an orchid-like form in a DMT experience. Follow Blitch, Buchanan and a separate first-person report without losing their very different settings.", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["mantids", "mantis beings", "insectoids", "praying mantis beings"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/mantis-insectoid.svg", "years": "1945–2026"}, "hybrid": {"name": "Human–alien hybrid", "url": "/beings/hybrid/", "summary": "Jacobs’s unfamiliar-chair anecdote, Kauble’s autobiography and Strieber’s interpretations show how the hybrid idea develops in different narratives. Compare what is described with the biological meaning attributed to it.", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["hybrids", "human-alien hybrids", "hubrids", "personal project hybrids"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/hybrid.svg", "years": "1952–2026"}, "ultraterrestrial": {"name": "Ultraterrestrial / cryptoterrestrial", "url": "/beings/ultraterrestrial/", "summary": "Could an intelligence have a hidden terrestrial history? Compare Puthoff’s proposals, four cryptoterrestrial models and the Silurian thought experiment about traces an ancient industrial society might leave.", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["ultraterrestrials", "cryptoterrestrials", "interdimensionals", "antediluvian survivors"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/ultraterrestrial.svg", "years": "1970–2026"}, "future-human": {"name": "Future human", "url": "/beings/future-human/", "summary": "Michael Masters asks whether reported humanoids could be human descendants. Explore the model’s evolutionary comparisons, its expanded argument and the physical questions surrounding backward time travel.", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["future humans", "time travellers", "extratempestrials (Masters)", "humans from the future"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/future-human.svg", "years": "2019–2026"}, "plasma-light-being": {"name": "Plasma / light being", "url": "/beings/plasma-light-being/", "summary": "A recorded spectrum in Qinghai, light reports from Hessdalen and Rossi’s experienced blue presence. Compare what was measured, what was observed and where an interpretation of agency enters the story.", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["light beings", "beings of light", "energy beings", "sentient plasma"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/plasma-light-being.svg", "years": "1800–2026"}, "blue-being": {"name": "Blue being", "url": "/beings/blue-being/", "summary": "Barnes described short bluish-gray visitors; Strieber a Manhattan encounter; Rossi a tall, featureless blue-energy form. Explore the scenes, appearance and source history behind the shared colour word.", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["blue beings", "blue guys", "blue dwarfs", "blue orbs"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/blue-being.svg", "years": "1954–2026"}, "nephilim-watcher": {"name": "Nephilim / Watchers", "url": "/beings/nephilim-watcher/", "summary": "How do the Nephilim of Genesis relate to Enoch’s Watchers—and to a modern giant-body story? Follow the passages, distinguish parents from offspring, and inspect the source chain behind the Kandahar claim.", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["Nephilim", "the Watchers", "sons of God", "fallen angels"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/nephilim-watcher.svg", "years": "1848–2026"}, "men-in-black": {"name": "Men in black", "url": "/beings/men-in-black/", "summary": "From Bender’s three hovering visitors to Levenda’s ordinary-looking callers and Buchanan’s claimed questioning: trace how the men-in-black label covers markedly different encounters and source chains.", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["MIB", "the three men", "men in dark suits", "cloakers (Hollywood substitute)"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/men-in-black.svg", "years": "1947–2026"}, "varginha-being": {"name": "Varginha being", "url": "/beings/varginha-being/", "summary": "Three witnesses on a street, a claimed hospital observation and a separate craft report. Follow the 1996 Varginha story through what each observer describes and the records connecting—or separating—their accounts.", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["the Varginha creature", "ET de Varginha", "Brazil's captured alien", "the being"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/varginha-being.svg", "years": "1996–2026"}, "tridactyl": {"name": "Tridactyl", "url": "/beings/tridactyl/", "summary": "Maria, Josefina and Montserrat are named Peruvian specimens with different reported anatomy and records. Inspect their imaging claims, dating, provenance and the unresolved questions specimen by specimen.", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["three-fingered beings", "tridactyls", "Nazca mummies", "J-types"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/tridactyl.svg", "years": "1945–2025"}, "little-people-fae": {"name": "Little people / fae", "url": "/beings/little-people-fae/", "summary": "Mountain homes and extraordinarily long hair in collected Cherokee narratives; different appearances and customs in accounts of the Sligo gentry. Explore these traditions in their own cultural and textual settings.", "band": "contested", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["fairies", "the good folk", "the gentry", "little men"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/little-people-fae.svg", "years": "1891–2025"}, "jinn": {"name": "Jinn", "url": "/beings/jinn/", "summary": "Listeners, moral choices, Solomon’s court and the limits of knowledge: explore the scriptural passages about jinn alongside a modern UAP analogy, with each interpretation identified by its source.", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["djinn", "the jinn", "genies"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/jinn.svg", "years": "2021–2026"}, "roswell-interviewed-alien": {"name": "The interviewed being (Roswell-survivor lineage)", "url": "/beings/roswell-interviewed-alien/", "summary": "Who says an interview happened, who claims to have seen it, and where is the recording? Trace the Malmgren-family claim, Albert Stein story and Spencer book as three distinct source histories.", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["the surviving being", "the interviewed alien", "Roswell survivor", "the being in the blue jumpsuit"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/roswell-interviewed-alien.svg", "years": "1947–2026"}, "elongated-skull-being": {"name": "Elongated-skull being", "url": "/beings/elongated-skull-being/", "summary": "Paracas cranial modification, Malta’s Hypogeum skull collection and an Amarna princess sculpture: compare the actual objects, their historical context and what each source can tell us about an elongated head.", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["elongated skulls", "Paracas skulls", "coneheads", "Akhenaten-type skulls"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/elongated-skull-being.svg", "years": "1902–2025"}, "cryptid": {"name": "Cryptid (Skinwalker-type entities)", "url": "/beings/cryptid/", "summary": "An unusually large wolf at a calf pen, later household experiences and a disputed remains claim. Follow three Skinwalker-associated source histories, including the evidence needed to test their proposed connections.", "band": "thin", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["Bigfoot", "Sasquatch", "Dogman", "skinwalker entities"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/cryptid.svg", "years": "1994–2026"}, "pascagoula-being": {"name": "Pascagoula being", "url": "/beings/pascagoula-being/", "summary": "Two men on a Mississippi riverbank in 1973 described floating, wrinkled figures with unusual facial projections. Compare the early reporting with later additions to this extensively discussed encounter.", "band": "well-supported", "kind": null, "side": null, "aka": ["the Pascagoula creatures", "robot-like beings", "carrot-eared beings"], "glyph": "/assets/beings/pascagoula-being.svg", "years": "1973–2026"}}, "site": {"area-51-groom-lake": {"name": "Area 51 / Groom Lake", "url": "/sites/area-51-groom-lake/", "summary": "A US Air Force test range at Groom Lake, Nevada, acknowledged in 2013 declassified CIA histories. Guests on the show place claimed craft programmes nearby: Lazar says he worked at a satellite site, S-4; Charles Hall…", "band": "documented", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Groom Lake", "Dreamland", "Homey Airport"], "glyph": null, "years": "1955–2026"}, "s4-papoose-lake": {"name": "S-4 / Papoose Lake", "url": "/sites/s4-papoose-lake/", "summary": "Lazar says a facility built into the Papoose Range, south of Groom Lake, held nine recovered discs in hangars and that he worked on the propulsion of one in 1988–89. No public record of an S-4 site exists; the dry lake…", "band": "contested", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["S4", "Papoose Lake facility"], "glyph": null, "years": "1989–2026"}, "wright-patterson-afb": {"name": "Wright-Patterson Air Force Base", "url": "/sites/wright-patterson-afb/", "summary": "The Ohio base that housed the Foreign Technology Division and Project Blue Book. Speakers say recovered Roswell material was taken there for reverse engineering; a 1994 Larry King clip of Senator Goldwater is shown…", "band": "documented", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Wright Field", "Hangar 18 (folklore)"], "glyph": null, "years": "1947–2026"}, "dugway-proving-ground": {"name": "Dugway Proving Ground", "url": "/sites/dugway-proving-ground/", "summary": "A US Army chemical and biological test site in Utah's West Desert. UAPGerb calls it \"the new Area 51\" and places the Utah Test and Training Range and West Desert Test Center on it; he also notes Greer's naming of…", "band": "documented", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Dougway (caption spelling)", "Area 52 (folklore)"], "glyph": null, "years": "1942–2026"}, "kirtland-afb-manzano": {"name": "Kirtland AFB / Manzano / Sandia", "url": "/sites/kirtland-afb-manzano/", "summary": "The Albuquerque base with the Manzano weapons storage complex and Sandia National Laboratories. Speakers connect it to the Paul Bennewitz affair, to Eric Henry Wang's transfer, and to claims of recovered craft and…", "band": "documented", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Kirtland Air Force Base", "Manzano Base", "Sandia National Laboratories"], "glyph": null, "years": "1980–2026"}, "nellis-range": {"name": "Nellis Range / Indian Springs", "url": "/sites/nellis-range/", "summary": "The Nevada Test and Training Range north of Las Vegas, run from Nellis AFB, with the Indian Springs (Creech) gunnery ranges at its southern edge. Charles Hall says he lived alongside tall white beings there as a…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Nevada Test and Training Range", "NTTR", "Indian Springs", "Creech AFB"], "glyph": null, "years": "1965–2025"}, "los-alamos": {"name": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "url": "/sites/los-alamos/", "summary": "The New Mexico weapons laboratory. Lazar says he worked there before S-4 and that the local paper covered his jet-powered Honda; Hastings lists it among nuclear sites where UFOs have consistently been reported…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "facility", "side": null, "aka": ["LANL", "Los Alamos"], "glyph": null, "years": "1943–2026"}, "dulce": {"name": "Dulce / Archuleta Mesa", "url": "/sites/dulce/", "summary": "A small town on the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northern New Mexico. Speakers describe a claimed underground base under Archuleta Mesa and a reported clash there; the story grew from the Bennewitz affair. No public…", "band": "unsupported", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Dulce Base", "Archuleta Mesa"], "glyph": null, "years": "1979–2026"}, "pine-gap": {"name": "Pine Gap", "url": "/sites/pine-gap/", "summary": "The joint US–Australian satellite ground station near Alice Springs. UAPGerb says the ground element of NRO Program B was established there under Bobby Ray Inman and thinks legacy UFO programmes sit inside the NRO…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap"], "glyph": null, "years": "1970–2026"}, "lockheed-skunk-works-helendale": {"name": "Lockheed Skunk Works (Palmdale / Helendale)", "url": "/sites/lockheed-skunk-works-helendale/", "summary": "Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs at Plant 42, Palmdale, with the Helendale radar-cross-section range to the east. Nick Cook says he interviewed Skunk Works head Jack Gordon inside the secret part of the…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "contractor", "side": null, "aka": ["Skunk Works", "Plant 42", "Helendale RCS range"], "glyph": null, "years": "1943–2026"}, "battelle-columbus": {"name": "Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus", "url": "/sites/battelle-columbus/", "summary": "A private research institute in Columbus, Ohio, that produced Project Blue Book Special Report 14 under Air Force contract. Speakers connect it to claimed analysis of Roswell material and to nickel-titanium \"memory…", "band": "thin", "kind": "contractor", "side": null, "aka": ["Battelle"], "glyph": null, "years": "1947–2026"}, "roswell": {"name": "Roswell / Foster Ranch debris field", "url": "/sites/roswell/", "summary": "The 1947 debris recovery on the Foster ranch north-west of Roswell, New Mexico. The Air Force's 1994 report attributes it to Project Mogul; a Pentagon scientist quoted on the show says he was told it was a craft of…", "band": "contested", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Foster Ranch", "Corona debris field"], "glyph": null, "years": "1947–2026"}, "kecksburg": {"name": "Kecksburg", "url": "/sites/kecksburg/", "summary": "A village in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where witnesses describe an acorn-shaped object recovered by the military on 9 December 1965. A NASA-linked speaker says his relative Donald Hornig, President Johnson's…", "band": "thin", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Kecksburg incident"], "glyph": null, "years": "1965–2026"}, "rendlesham-forest": {"name": "Rendlesham Forest / RAF Bentwaters–Woodbridge", "url": "/sites/rendlesham-forest/", "summary": "Forest between the twin US-run bases in Suffolk where airmen reported lights and a landed object in December 1980; Lt Col Charles Halt's memo to the UK Ministry of Defence is public. Michels stresses the nuclear…", "band": "documented", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Bentwaters", "RAF Woodbridge", "Rendlesham incident"], "glyph": null, "years": "1980–2026"}, "varginha": {"name": "Varginha", "url": "/sites/varginha/", "summary": "A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where witnesses in January 1996 described a creature captured by the military. The interviews reach it only second-hand: Michels says a Varginha witness told him he handled material that…", "band": "contested", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Varginha incident"], "glyph": null, "years": "1996–2026"}, "skinwalker-ranch": {"name": "Skinwalker Ranch", "url": "/sites/skinwalker-ranch/", "summary": "A repeatedly investigated ranch in Utah’s Uintah Basin. Fugal and participating operators describe lights, instrument anomalies and subsurface findings; the interview considers a buried-craft interpretation. The…", "band": "documented", "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Sherman Ranch", "UFO Ranch"], "glyph": null, "years": "1994–2026"}, "giza-plateau": {"name": "Giza Plateau", "url": "/sites/giza-plateau/", "summary": "The pyramid field west of Cairo. Guests on the show discuss claimed subsurface structures under the Khafre pyramid, the Osiris Shaft, and alternative dating of the monuments. The plateau is a documented archaeological…", "band": "contested", "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Khafre pyramid", "Osiris Shaft", "Great Pyramid"], "glyph": null, "years": "2025–2026"}, "hessdalen": {"name": "Hessdalen Valley", "url": "/sites/hessdalen/", "summary": "A valley in central Norway where unexplained lights have been recorded since 1981 and monitored by the Project Hessdalen automatic station since 1998. Speakers on the show cite it as the best-instrumented recurring…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Hessdalen lights"], "glyph": null, "years": "1981–2026"}, "baltic-sea-anomaly": {"name": "Baltic Sea Anomaly", "url": "/sites/baltic-sea-anomaly/", "summary": "A roughly 60-metre sonar feature reported by Ocean X in 2011. Åsberg describes unusual geometry and equipment problems. Its identity and relationship to underlying strata remain disputed; original survey files and…", "band": "documented", "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Ocean X anomaly"], "glyph": null, "years": "2011–2026"}, "malmstrom-afb": {"name": "Malmstrom AFB / Oscar Flight", "url": "/sites/malmstrom-afb/", "summary": "A Minuteman missile base near Great Falls, Montana. Robert Salas says that on 24 March 1967 his guards reported a glowing oval object over the Oscar Flight gate and that the missiles then went down one at a time.…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Oscar Flight", "Echo Flight"], "glyph": null, "years": "1967–2026"}, "nimitz-carrier-group-2004": {"name": "Nimitz Carrier Group 2004 (sea area)", "url": "/sites/nimitz-carrier-group-2004/", "summary": "The Pacific training area south-west of San Diego where, in November 2004, USS Princeton radar tracked objects and Cmdr David Fravor's flight visually engaged a white \"Tic Tac\" object. The FLIR1 video from a second…", "band": "documented", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Tic Tac encounter", "USS Nimitz incident"], "glyph": null, "years": "2004–2026"}, "phoenix": {"name": "Phoenix", "url": "/sites/phoenix/", "summary": "The Arizona city over which thousands of people reported a silent V-shaped formation of lights on 13 March 1997. Documentary maker James Fox describes breaking the story, a bank of six lights over Sky Harbor airport…", "band": "documented", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Phoenix Lights"], "glyph": null, "years": "1997–2026"}, "kandahar-cave": {"name": "Kandahar cave (Afghanistan)", "url": "/sites/kandahar-cave/", "summary": "Mountains of Kandahar province where, in a story Tim Alberino says an anonymous pilot told him on camera in silhouette, US soldiers killed a \"giant\" in about 2005 and its body was flown out via Bagram to a base in…", "band": "thin", "kind": "control", "side": null, "aka": ["Kandahar giant"], "glyph": null, "years": "2005–2026"}, "swedish-ghost-rocket-lakes": {"name": "Swedish ghost-rocket lakes, 1946 (Lake Kölmjärv)", "url": "/sites/swedish-ghost-rocket-lakes/", "summary": "Lake Kölmjärv in Norrbotten, where witnesses on 19 July 1946 described a grey rocket-like object falling into the water, stands for the scatter of Swedish lakes searched during the \"ghost rocket\" wave. Clas Svahn says…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Lake Kölmjärv", "Kölmjärv", "Ghost rockets"], "glyph": null, "years": "1946–2026"}, "northern-sweden-lake-1980": {"name": "Nammajaure — 1980 landing report", "url": "/sites/northern-sweden-lake-1980/", "summary": "Bo Berg and Liz Hellström reported a rocket-like object turning and sinking in Nammajaure, Muddus national park, in 1980. Svahn documents searches in 2012 and 2014: natural sonar targets, followed by unresolved buried…", "band": "contested", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Nammajaure", "Damaya (legacy automatic-caption rendering)"], "glyph": null, "years": "1980–2026"}, "bradshaw-ranch-sedona": {"name": "Bradshaw Ranch / Secret Mountain, Sedona", "url": "/sites/bradshaw-ranch-sedona/", "summary": "A former ranch and documented NAU ecological research site near Sedona. Coulthart proposes an underground connection, but the original follow-up instrument account is narrower than his later 50-foot-wide tunnel…", "band": "contested", "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Bradshaw Ranch", "Secret Mountain", "Sedona"], "glyph": null, "years": "1990–2026"}, "mount-wilson-ranch-nevada": {"name": "Mount Wilson Ranch, Nevada", "url": "/sites/mount-wilson-ranch-nevada/", "summary": "A working ranch in Lincoln County, Nevada, which Brandon Fugal says Robert Bigelow bought at about the same time as Skinwalker Ranch. Fugal describes computer servers, destroyed by heat, found buried on the property…", "band": "thin", "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Mount Wilson"], "glyph": null, "years": "2026"}, "lake-baikal": {"name": "Lake Baikal", "url": "/sites/lake-baikal/", "summary": "A reported 1982 encounter with tall underwater figures, transmitted through named intermediaries and later retellings. The acquired 1993 article does not include original diver testimony, casualty records or a…", "band": "unsupported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Baikal divers story"], "glyph": null, "years": "1982–2026"}, "yakama-reservation": {"name": "Yakama Indian Reservation", "url": "/sites/yakama-reservation/", "summary": "Reservation land in south-central Washington where fire lookouts and tribal members reported recurring nocturnal lights through the 1970s, documented by ufologist Greg Long and studied by J. Allen Hynek's associates.…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Toppenish Ridge lights"], "glyph": null, "years": "1972–1980"}, "mels-hole": {"name": "Mel's Hole", "url": "/sites/mels-hole/", "summary": "A supposedly bottomless hole near Ellensburg, Washington, described by a caller to Coast to Coast AM in 1997. No hole matching the account has been located and the caller's identity was never verified; the record…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Mel's Hole, Ellensburg area, Kittitas County, Washington"], "glyph": null, "years": "1997"}, "dyatlov-pass": {"name": "Dyatlov Pass", "url": "/sites/dyatlov-pass/", "summary": "A pass in the northern Urals where nine hikers died in February 1959. A 2019–20 Russian inquiry attributed the deaths to a slab avalanche; UFO explanations circulated because of reported \"fire orbs\" in the area. The…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Dyatlov Pass, northern Ural Mountains"], "glyph": null, "years": "1959–2020"}, "zone-of-silence": {"name": "Zona del Silencio", "url": "/sites/zone-of-silence/", "summary": "A patch of the Chihuahuan Desert in Durango, Mexico, said to block radio signals and attract meteorites; the claims grew after a 1970 US Athena rocket fell there. Scientific surveys found nothing unusual. Not discussed…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Zone of Silence", "Mapimí"], "glyph": null, "years": "1970–2026"}, "brown-mountain": {"name": "Brown Mountain", "url": "/sites/brown-mountain/", "summary": "A ridge in the Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina, where lights have been reported since at least 1913. US Geological Survey studies attributed most to trains, cars and brush fires. Not discussed in the interviews…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Brown Mountain lights"], "glyph": null, "years": "1913–2026"}, "marfa": {"name": "Marfa", "url": "/sites/marfa/", "summary": "A West Texas town whose \"Marfa lights\" have been reported since the 1880s. A 2004 university study matched observed lights to vehicle headlights on US 67. Not discussed in the interviews; included from public sources…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Marfa lights"], "glyph": null, "years": "1883–2026"}, "min-min": {"name": "Min Min (Boulia)", "url": "/sites/min-min/", "summary": "Outback Queensland, where travellers have reported a following light since the 19th century. A 2003 study reproduced the effect as a Fata Morgana mirage of distant lights. Not discussed in the interviews; included from…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Min Min light"], "glyph": null, "years": "1838–2026"}, "shag-harbour": {"name": "Shag Harbour", "url": "/sites/shag-harbour/", "summary": "A fishing village in Nova Scotia where witnesses saw an object with lights enter the water on 4 October 1967. The Royal Canadian Navy searched the seabed and Canadian government files on the case are public. Not…", "band": null, "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia (1967 incident)"], "glyph": null, "years": "1967–2026"}, "yonaguni-monument": {"name": "Yonaguni Monument", "url": "/sites/yonaguni-monument/", "summary": "A submerged rock formation off Yonaguni, Japan, with terrace-like faces. One geologist argues it was worked by humans; most attribute it to natural fracturing of sandstone. Not discussed in the interviews; included…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Yonaguni Monument, Japan"], "glyph": null, "years": "1986–2026"}, "bimini-road": {"name": "Bimini Road", "url": "/sites/bimini-road/", "summary": "A line of limestone blocks in shallow water off North Bimini, Bahamas, found in 1968 and promoted as a remnant of Atlantis. Geologists identify it as naturally fractured beachrock. Not discussed in the interviews…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Bimini Road, Bahamas"], "glyph": null, "years": "1968–2026"}, "bosnian-pyramid-visocica": {"name": "Visočica hill (\"Bosnian pyramid\")", "url": "/sites/bosnian-pyramid-visocica/", "summary": "A hill above Visoko, Bosnia, promoted since 2005 by Semir Osmanagić as a man-made pyramid. Geologists and archaeologists identify it as a natural flatiron formation. Not discussed in the interviews; included from…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Bosnian pyramid", "Pyramid of the Sun"], "glyph": null, "years": "2005–2026"}, "ongs-hat": {"name": "Ong's Hat", "url": "/sites/ongs-hat/", "summary": "A ghost town in the New Jersey Pine Barrens attached to an internet-era legend about a dimensional-travel cult. Its author, Joseph Matheny, has described the story as an early transmedia fiction. Included as a folklore…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Ong's Hat, Burlington County, New Jersey"], "glyph": null, "years": "1988–2026"}, "camp-hero-montauk": {"name": "Camp Hero / Montauk Air Force Station", "url": "/sites/camp-hero-montauk/", "summary": "A decommissioned Air Force radar station at Montauk Point, New York, now a state park. It anchors the \"Montauk Project\" legend of secret experiments, which began with a 1992 book and has no documentary support.…", "band": null, "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Montauk Air Force Station", "Montauk Project"], "glyph": null, "years": "1942–2026"}, "piedmont-missouri": {"name": "Piedmont, Missouri (Project Identification)", "url": "/sites/piedmont-missouri/", "summary": "A wave of night-light reports around Piedmont in 1973 led physicist Harley Rutledge to run Project Identification, a field study with cameras and instruments over several years. Rutledge published unexplained residual…", "band": null, "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Project Identification"], "glyph": null, "years": "1973–1981"}, "tonopah-test-range": {"name": "Tonopah Test Range (Area 52)", "url": "/sites/tonopah-test-range/", "summary": "A Sandia-operated test range in the northern Nevada Test and Training Range where the F-117 was based in secret in the 1980s. UAPGerb lists it, with Area 51 and \"allegedly S4\", among the sites the range houses. Public…", "band": "documented", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Area 52", "TTR"], "glyph": null, "years": "1957–2026"}, "holloman-white-sands": {"name": "Holloman AFB / White Sands", "url": "/sites/holloman-white-sands/", "summary": "Holloman Air Force Base and the adjoining White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. Speakers on the show recount the long-running story of a 1955 or 1964 landing at Holloman filmed by the Air Force; James Fox…", "band": "thin", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Holloman Air Force Base", "White Sands Missile Range"], "glyph": null, "years": "1942–2026"}, "edwards-afb": {"name": "Edwards Air Force Base", "url": "/sites/edwards-afb/", "summary": "The flight-test centre on Rogers Dry Lake, California. Charles Hall recounts the story that President Eisenhower was shown five spacecraft there in 1954; UAPGerb notes Edwards is among the sites Greer names and that…", "band": "thin", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Muroc", "Edwards AFB"], "glyph": null, "years": "1954–2026"}, "china-lake": {"name": "Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake", "url": "/sites/china-lake/", "summary": "The Navy's weapons test station in the Mojave Desert. UAPGerb lists it with Edwards and Dugway among sites where he believes programme work is distributed, and says Greer's naming of China Lake traces to earlier…", "band": "thin", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["China Lake NAWS"], "glyph": null, "years": "1943–2026"}, "cheyenne-mountain": {"name": "Cheyenne Mountain Complex", "url": "/sites/cheyenne-mountain/", "summary": "The NORAD bunker inside Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado — the publicly acknowledged deep underground military installation. Michels and UAPGerb point to it as the acknowledged example that such bases exist; UAPGerb says…", "band": "documented", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["NORAD bunker"], "glyph": null, "years": "1966–2026"}, "pentagon": {"name": "The Pentagon", "url": "/sites/pentagon/", "summary": "US Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. 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UAPGerb lists Livermore, with Sandia, Oak Ridge and Battelle-run institutions, among the FFRDCs where he believes programme work is housed; Hastings…", "band": "thin", "kind": "facility", "side": null, "aka": ["LLNL", "Lawrence Livermore"], "glyph": null, "years": "1952–2026"}, "oak-ridge": {"name": "Oak Ridge National Laboratory", "url": "/sites/oak-ridge/", "summary": "The Tennessee laboratory born of the Manhattan Project. Hastings lists Oak Ridge among nuclear sites where UFOs have consistently been reported since the 1940s; UAPGerb lists it among FFRDC labs where he believes…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "facility", "side": null, "aka": ["ORNL", "Oak Ridge"], "glyph": null, "years": "1943–2026"}, "hanford-site": {"name": "Hanford Site", "url": "/sites/hanford-site/", "summary": "The plutonium production complex in Washington State. Robert Hastings says pilots scrambled in the late 1940s were told a bogey sat right over the Hanford Ordnance Works and lists Hanford among nuclear sites with…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "facility", "side": null, "aka": ["Hanford Ordnance Works", "Hanford Nuclear Reservation"], "glyph": null, "years": "1945–2026"}, "vandenberg-big-sur": {"name": "Vandenberg / Big Sur (1964 Atlas test)", "url": "/sites/vandenberg-big-sur/", "summary": "The California launch site whose September 1964 Atlas test, filmed from Big Sur, is the subject of Lt Robert Jacobs' account of an object circling a dummy warhead. Jacobs and Michels describe the film and its…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Vandenberg AFB", "Big Sur film"], "glyph": null, "years": "1964–2026"}, "ellsworth-afb": {"name": "Ellsworth AFB", "url": "/sites/ellsworth-afb/", "summary": "A Minuteman base near Rapid City, South Dakota. Veterans interviewed on the show describe objects over launch facilities, including the 1977 Mario Woods case, and Hastings recounts his collection of security-police…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1977–2026"}, "loring-afb": {"name": "Loring AFB", "url": "/sites/loring-afb/", "summary": "A former Strategic Air Command bomber base in northern Maine. In the Allagash interview, one witness says the base had a 1975 or 1976 episode with craft overhead and beams that seemed to map the nuclear area; Michels…", "band": "documented", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1975–2026"}, "daniels-park-colorado": {"name": "Daniels Park, Colorado", "url": "/sites/daniels-park-colorado/", "summary": "A Denver Mountain Park south of the city. John Blitch, a retired Army officer, describes a 1995 mountain-bike ride near the park, weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, that ended in missing time, and notes the park…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1995–2026"}, "norton-afb": {"name": "Norton AFB", "url": "/sites/norton-afb/", "summary": "A closed Air Force logistics base in San Bernardino, California. James Fox recounts that a film of an object at Holloman was shown there to two producers, and that men in suits arrived the next day, took the footage…", "band": "thin", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Norton Air Force Base"], "glyph": null, "years": "2024–2026"}, "san-vito-italy": {"name": "San Vito dei Normanni Air Station", "url": "/sites/san-vito-italy/", "summary": "A former US Air Force signals station in Puglia, Italy, with a large circular \"elephant cage\" antenna. Michels says his researchers identified it as the first overseas base of Dan Sherman's Project Preserve Destiny…", "band": "contested", "kind": "facility", "side": null, "aka": ["San Vito Air Station"], "glyph": null, "years": "1992–2026"}, "colares-brazil": {"name": "Colares (Operação Prato)", "url": "/sites/colares-brazil/", "summary": "An island town at the mouth of the Amazon where residents in 1977 reported lights and burns; the Brazilian Air Force ran Operação Prato and released files in 2005. Guests on the show recount the case. Town and…", "band": "contested", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Operation Saucer"], "glyph": null, "years": "1977–2026"}, "kingman-arizona": {"name": "Kingman, Arizona", "url": "/sites/kingman-arizona/", "summary": "Desert near Kingman where, according to a story told by researcher William Steinman and repeated by Greg Bishop, a craft came down in May 1953 and a witness saw a four-foot body; Bishop links the witness record to…", "band": "thin", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Kingman crash"], "glyph": null, "years": "1953–2026"}, "cape-canaveral": {"name": "Cape Canaveral / Patrick AFB", "url": "/sites/cape-canaveral/", "summary": "The Florida launch complex. Greg Rogers, who says he was chief of aerospace medicine for the 45th Space Wing in 1992, describes being shown a seamless, egg-like saucer about 20 feet across inside a hangar there. The…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "storage", "side": null, "aka": ["Patrick Air Force Base", "45th Space Wing"], "glyph": null, "years": "1992–2025"}, "magenta-lombardy": {"name": "Magenta, Lombardy (1933)", "url": "/sites/magenta-lombardy/", "summary": "A town west of Milan where, according to documents promoted by Italian researchers and cited by Grusch, a disc came down in June 1933 and was studied under Mussolini's regime. Michels narrates the story, including…", "band": "contested", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Magenta crash", "1933 Italy"], "glyph": null, "years": "1933–2026"}, "ariel-school-ruwa": {"name": "Ariel School, Ruwa", "url": "/sites/ariel-school-ruwa/", "summary": "A primary school near Ruwa, Zimbabwe, where in September 1994 some sixty children described a silver craft and beings on the edge of the schoolyard. Michels notes the school lay near a uranium mining site and calls one…", "band": "documented", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Ariel School incident"], "glyph": null, "years": "1994–2026"}, "aguadilla-puerto-rico": {"name": "Aguadilla, Puerto Rico", "url": "/sites/aguadilla-puerto-rico/", "summary": "The north-west coast of Puerto Rico where a Customs and Border Protection aircraft filmed an object over Rafael Hernández Airport in April 2013. A guest on the show describes the footage frame by frame and calls the…", "band": "documented", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Aguadilla 2013"], "glyph": null, "years": "2013–2026"}, "mount-hayes-alaska": {"name": "Mount Hayes, Alaska", "url": "/sites/mount-hayes-alaska/", "summary": "A 4,216 m peak in the eastern Alaska Range. Lyn Buchanan says Army remote viewers, starting with Pat Price and Joe McMoneagle, described an underground base inside it with humans and non-humans working side by side…", "band": "thin", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1973–2026"}, "mount-ziel-australia": {"name": "Mount Zeil, Northern Territory", "url": "/sites/mount-ziel-australia/", "summary": "The highest peak in the Northern Territory, west of Alice Springs. Lyn Buchanan names it among four remote-viewed bases and says it is the one where craft fly in and out; Michels lists it among the three further bases…", "band": "thin", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Mount Ziel", "Mount Zeal"], "glyph": null, "years": "1973–2026"}, "mount-inyangani-zimbabwe": {"name": "Mount Nyangani, Zimbabwe", "url": "/sites/mount-inyangani-zimbabwe/", "summary": "Zimbabwe's highest mountain, in the Eastern Highlands. Both Lyn Buchanan and Michels' account of Pat Price name it among four remote-viewed underground bases. The mountain is documented and has its own local…", "band": "thin", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Mount Inyangani"], "glyph": null, "years": "1973–2026"}, "mount-perdido-spain": {"name": "Monte Perdido, Spain", "url": "/sites/mount-perdido-spain/", "summary": "A 3,355 m peak in the Pyrenees. Michels narrates that Pat Price named it among four remote-viewed bases and that Joe McMoneagle, viewing it blind, saw it being built by humans with helicopters and cargo crates rather…", "band": "thin", "kind": "base", "side": null, "aka": ["Mount Perdido"], "glyph": null, "years": "1973–2026"}, "antarctica": {"name": "Antarctica", "url": "/sites/antarctica/", "summary": "The continent recurs in the interviews through Operation Highjump lore, claims of structures under the ice, and Michels' narration of Admiral Byrd and Forrestal. Speakers in the ancient-history episodes make the…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1946–2026"}, "the-moon": {"name": "The Moon", "url": "/sites/the-moon/", "summary": "Guests discuss claimed lunar structures and anomalies at sites such as Compton–Belkovich and Aristarchus, and Apollo-era remarks by astronauts. The Moon is not pinned on the Earth map; the claimed structures have no…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Compton–Belkovich", "Aristarchus crater"], "glyph": null, "years": "1969–2026"}, "mars-cydonia": {"name": "Mars / Cydonia", "url": "/sites/mars-cydonia/", "summary": "The Cydonia region of Mars, with the \"Face\" imaged by Viking in 1976, and John Brandenburg's hypothesis of an ancient nuclear event inferred from xenon-129 and argon-40 levels. Brandenburg and others make the…", "band": "documented", "kind": "anomaly", "side": null, "aka": ["Cydonia", "Face on Mars"], "glyph": null, "years": "1976–2026"}}, "event": {"1933-magenta": {"name": "Magenta crash claim (Italy, 1933)", "url": "/events/1933-magenta/", "summary": "Italian researchers say a craft came down near Magenta, Lombardy in June 1933 and that Mussolini formed a secret study group, the \"Gabinetto RS/33\". In the corpus, Harald Malmgren is said to have been told by CIA…", "band": "thin", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Gabinetto RS/33"], "glyph": null, "years": "1933"}, "1942-battle-of-los-angeles": {"name": "Battle of Los Angeles", "url": "/events/1942-battle-of-los-angeles/", "summary": "In the early hours of 25 February 1942, coastal batteries fired more than 1,400 anti-aircraft shells at objects reported over Los Angeles; no aircraft were downed and no bombs fell. The Navy Secretary called it a false…", "band": "documented", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": ["Great Los Angeles Air Raid"], "glyph": null, "years": "1942"}, "1944-1945-foo-fighters": {"name": "Foo fighter reports (WWII aircrews)", "url": "/events/1944-1945-foo-fighters/", "summary": "From late 1944, aircrews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the Rhine valley and crews in the Pacific reported balls of light that paced their aircraft. In the corpus, Luis Elizondo says Senator Ted Stevens, a…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "wave", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1944–1945"}, "1945-trinity-san-antonio-crash": {"name": "San Antonio, New Mexico crash claim (August 1945)", "url": "/events/1945-trinity-san-antonio-crash/", "summary": "Two men, Jose Padilla and Reme Baca, said that as boys in August 1945 they saw an avocado-shaped craft crash on the Padilla ranch near San Antonio, New Mexico, weeks after the Trinity test, and watched the Army remove…", "band": "thin", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Trinity UFO crash", "Padilla ranch crash"], "glyph": null, "years": "1945"}, "1946-ghost-rockets": {"name": "Swedish ghost rockets", "url": "/events/1946-ghost-rockets/", "summary": "Through 1946 Swedish authorities logged about 2,000 reports of rocket- or cigar-shaped objects, some said to fall into lakes. The Swedish military dragged several lakes and found no debris. Corpus guests recall the…", "band": "documented", "kind": "wave", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1946"}, "1947-maury-island": {"name": "Maury Island incident", "url": "/events/1947-maury-island/", "summary": "Harold Dahl said that on 21 June 1947 six doughnut-shaped objects hovered over his boat near Maury Island, Washington, one dropping slag that killed his dog. Two Army intelligence officers who collected samples died…", "band": "thin", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1947"}, "1947-kenneth-arnold": {"name": "Kenneth Arnold sighting", "url": "/events/1947-kenneth-arnold/", "summary": "On 24 June 1947 private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine bright crescent-shaped objects flying in echelon past Mount Rainier at a speed he estimated above 1,200 mph. Press coverage of his account produced the term…", "band": "documented", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1947"}, "1947-roswell": {"name": "Roswell incident", "url": "/events/1947-roswell/", "summary": "In early July 1947 rancher W. W. \"Mac\" Brazel reported debris on the Foster ranch; on 8 July the Roswell Army Air Field said it had recovered a \"flying disc\", then the Army said it was a weather balloon. Witnesses…", "band": "contested", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": ["Roswell crash"], "glyph": null, "years": "1947"}, "1948-aztec": {"name": "Aztec, New Mexico crash claim", "url": "/events/1948-aztec/", "summary": "Writer Frank Scully reported in 1949–1950 that a 99-foot disc had landed intact near Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948 and that sixteen small bodies were recovered. His sources were later exposed as confidence men. In…", "band": "thin", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1948"}, "1950-mcminnville": {"name": "McMinnville (Trent) photographs", "url": "/events/1950-mcminnville/", "summary": "On 11 May 1950 Evelyn Trent called her husband Paul to photograph a metallic disc over their farm near McMinnville, Oregon; he took two frames. Published locally and in LIFE, the photographs were listed as unexplained…", "band": "contested", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1950"}, "1952-washington-flap": {"name": "Washington, D.C. flap (July 1952)", "url": "/events/1952-washington-flap/", "summary": "On the nights of 19–20 and 26–27 July 1952 radar operators at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB tracked unidentified targets while jets were scrambled; some pilots reported lights. The Air Force held its…", "band": "documented", "kind": "wave", "side": null, "aka": ["1952 Washington National Airport UFO incident"], "glyph": null, "years": "1952"}, "1953-robertson-panel": {"name": "CIA Robertson Panel", "url": "/events/1953-robertson-panel/", "summary": "From 14 to 17 January 1953 a CIA-convened panel of scientists chaired by Caltech physicist H. P. Robertson reviewed Air Force UFO cases after the 1952 Washington sightings and concluded the reports posed no direct…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1953"}, "1953-kingman": {"name": "Kingman, Arizona crash claim (1953)", "url": "/events/1953-kingman/", "summary": "An engineer using the pseudonym \"Fritz Werner\" (Arthur Stancil) said in 1973 that in May 1953 he was bused with blacked-out windows to a site near Kingman, Arizona to assess a crashed metallic disc and saw a small…", "band": "thin", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1953"}, "1957-levelland": {"name": "Levelland sightings", "url": "/events/1957-levelland/", "summary": "On the night of 2–3 November 1957 at least fifteen people around Levelland, Texas reported a glowing egg- or cigar-shaped object near the road that made their car engines and lights fail until it left. Sheriff Weir…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1957"}, "1961-betty-barney-hill": {"name": "Betty and Barney Hill abduction report", "url": "/events/1961-betty-barney-hill/", "summary": "Driving home through New Hampshire on 19–20 September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill reported a lighted craft, a period of missing time and later, under hypnosis, an examination aboard it by small beings. It became the…", "band": "contested", "kind": "abduction-report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1961"}, "1962-bluegill-johnston-atoll": {"name": "Bluegill / Johnston Atoll test-series sightings (1962)", "url": "/events/1962-bluegill-johnston-atoll/", "summary": "During the Operation Fishbowl high-altitude nuclear tests over Johnston Atoll in 1962, including the Bluegill shots, films of the detonation plumes are said by researchers to show objects near the burst. In the corpus…", "band": "thin", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1962"}, "1964-socorro": {"name": "Socorro (Lonnie Zamora) landing", "url": "/events/1964-socorro/", "summary": "On 24 April 1964 Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora reported an egg-shaped craft on legs in an arroyo with two small figures beside it, which then rose with a roar and departed. Burned brush and four landing…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1964"}, "1964-vandenberg-barr": {"name": "Richard Barr Vandenberg missile-site encounter (September 1964)", "url": "/events/1964-vandenberg-barr/", "summary": "Richard Barr, then an Air Force guard at a Vandenberg Minuteman site, says that in September 1964 he experienced an encounter and missing time at the well-lit site whose alarms did nothing. He recounts the core details…", "band": "thin", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1964"}, "1964-big-sur-vandenberg-jacobs": {"name": "Big Sur / Vandenberg missile-film claim (September 1964)", "url": "/events/1964-big-sur-vandenberg-jacobs/", "summary": "Lt Robert Jacobs, a photo-instrumentation officer, said a telescope film of an Atlas launch from Vandenberg in September 1964 showed a disc circling the dummy warhead and firing beams before it tumbled, and that his…", "band": "thin", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1964"}, "1965-kecksburg": {"name": "Kecksburg incident", "url": "/events/1965-kecksburg/", "summary": "On 9 December 1965 a fireball crossed several states and residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania reported an acorn-shaped object in the woods, which they said the Army removed on a flatbed truck. The Air Force said…", "band": "contested", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1965"}, "1966-westall": {"name": "Westall school sighting (Melbourne)", "url": "/events/1966-westall/", "summary": "On 6 April 1966 more than 200 students and staff at Westall High School in Clayton South, Melbourne reported a silver disc that descended behind trees, sat briefly and departed, followed by light aircraft. In the…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1966"}, "1966-portage-county": {"name": "Portage County police chase", "url": "/events/1966-portage-county/", "summary": "Before dawn on 17 April 1966 Portage County, Ohio deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff reported chasing a bright disc-shaped object across the state line into Pennsylvania at high speed, joined by other officers.…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1966"}, "1967-malmstrom-shutdown": {"name": "Malmstrom AFB missile shutdown (March 1967)", "url": "/events/1967-malmstrom-shutdown/", "summary": "Lt Robert Salas says that on 24 March 1967, while on duty at Malmstrom's Oscar Flight, security guards reported a glowing red object over the gate and ten Minuteman missiles dropped off alert within seconds. A similar…", "band": "contested", "kind": "shutdown", "side": null, "aka": ["Oscar Flight incident", "Echo Flight incident"], "glyph": null, "years": "1967"}, "1967-shag-harbour": {"name": "Shag Harbour incident", "url": "/events/1967-shag-harbour/", "summary": "On the night of 4 October 1967 residents of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia reported a lighted object descend into the water; RCMP officers saw a light on the surface and a Canadian navy dive search over several days found…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1967"}, "1969-condon-report-blue-book-closed": {"name": "Condon Report and the closing of Project Blue Book", "url": "/events/1969-condon-report-blue-book-closed/", "summary": "The University of Colorado study led by physicist Edward Condon, funded by the Air Force, published its report in January 1969 concluding that further UFO study was unlikely to advance science; the Air Force closed…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": ["Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects"], "glyph": null, "years": "1969"}, "1970-uss-holland": {"name": "USS Holland deck sighting (May 1970)", "url": "/events/1970-uss-holland/", "summary": "A former sailor recounts that in May 1970 about two dozen crew of USS Holland, a submarine tender, went topside before evening meal and, with a chief petty officer present, watched an object he describes in the corpus.…", "band": "thin", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1970"}, "undated-holloman-landing-film": {"name": "Holloman AFB landing-film claim", "url": "/events/undated-holloman-landing-film/", "summary": "Producer Robert Emenegger said that in 1973 Air Force officials showed him film of a craft landing at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, with three beings emerging to meet base commanders, then withdrew permission to use it.…", "band": "thin", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Holloman landing"], "glyph": null, "years": "1971"}, "1973-pascagoula": {"name": "Pascagoula abduction report", "url": "/events/1973-pascagoula/", "summary": "On 11 October 1973 Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker said that while fishing on the Pascagoula River, Mississippi, they were taken aboard an oval craft by three robot-like beings and examined. Sheriff's deputies…", "band": "contested", "kind": "abduction-report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1973"}, "1975-loring-afb": {"name": "Loring AFB overflights (October 1975)", "url": "/events/1975-loring-afb/", "summary": "Over several nights from 27 October 1975 security personnel at Loring AFB, Maine reported an unidentified helicopter-like object hovering near the nuclear weapons storage area; similar reports followed at Wurtsmith…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1975"}, "1975-travis-walton": {"name": "Travis Walton disappearance (Snowflake, Arizona)", "url": "/events/1975-travis-walton/", "summary": "On 5 November 1975 six logging-crew members near Snowflake, Arizona said Travis Walton was struck by a beam from a hovering disc and vanished; he reappeared five days later with an account of beings aboard a craft. The…", "band": "contested", "kind": "abduction-report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1975"}, "1976-allagash": {"name": "Allagash abduction report (August 1976)", "url": "/events/1976-allagash/", "summary": "Four art students on a canoe trip in the Allagash wilderness, Maine, in August 1976 reported a bright object over the lake and a period of missing time; under hypnosis years later they described an examination aboard a…", "band": "thin", "kind": "abduction-report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1976"}, "1976-tehran": {"name": "Tehran F-4 incident", "url": "/events/1976-tehran/", "summary": "Early on 19 September 1976 Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4s were scrambled toward a bright object over Tehran; pilots reported instrument and weapons failures when approaching it and a smaller object detaching toward…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1976"}, "1977-broad-haven": {"name": "Broad Haven school sighting (Wales)", "url": "/events/1977-broad-haven/", "summary": "On 4 February 1977 fourteen pupils at Broad Haven Primary School, Pembrokeshire reported a silver cigar-shaped object with a dome landing near the school field; asked to draw it separately, they produced similar…", "band": "contested", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1977"}, "1977-colares-operacao-prato": {"name": "Colares wave and Operação Prato", "url": "/events/1977-colares-operacao-prato/", "summary": "From mid-1977 residents of Colares and nearby Amazon river communities in Pará reported lights that fired beams causing burns, puncture marks and weakness, with about 200 people affected. The Brazilian Air Force ran…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "wave", "side": null, "aka": ["Chupa-chupa"], "glyph": null, "years": "1977–1978"}, "1977-ellsworth-november-5": {"name": "Ellsworth AFB \"November 5\" encounter (Mario Woods, November 1977)", "url": "/events/1977-ellsworth-november-5/", "summary": "Former Air Force security policeman Mario Woods says that on 18 November 1977 at Ellsworth AFB's November-5 missile site he and a partner saw a large light descend, experienced missing time and awoke miles away with…", "band": "thin", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1977"}, "1980-kirtland-bennewitz-manzano": {"name": "Kirtland AFB / Manzano sightings and the Bennewitz affair", "url": "/events/1980-kirtland-bennewitz-manzano/", "summary": "In August 1980 security police at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, reported a bright light descending into the Coyote Canyon area of the Manzano weapons storage complex, and businessman Paul Bennewitz filmed lights over the…", "band": "contested", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": ["Bennewitz affair", "Project Beta"], "glyph": null, "years": "1980"}, "1980-rendlesham-forest": {"name": "Rendlesham Forest incident", "url": "/events/1980-rendlesham-forest/", "summary": "On the nights of 26–28 December 1980 US Air Force personnel from RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters reported lights and a metallic triangular object in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk; Deputy Base Commander Lt Col Charles Halt…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Bentwaters incident", "Britain's Roswell"], "glyph": null, "years": "1980"}, "1980-cash-landrum": {"name": "Cash–Landrum incident", "url": "/events/1980-cash-landrum/", "summary": "On 29 December 1980 Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Colby Landrum reported a diamond-shaped object venting flame over a road near Huffman, Texas, escorted by many helicopters; all three fell ill with burns and hair…", "band": "contested", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1980"}, "1981-1984-hessdalen-wave": {"name": "Hessdalen lights wave (Norway)", "url": "/events/1981-1984-hessdalen-wave/", "summary": "From late 1981 to 1984 residents of the Hessdalen valley in central Norway reported unexplained lights several times a week, some stationary for an hour, prompting the volunteer Project Hessdalen field study in 1984…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "wave", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1981–1984"}, "1984-majestic-12-documents-surface": {"name": "Majestic 12 documents surface", "url": "/events/1984-majestic-12-documents-surface/", "summary": "In December 1984 filmmaker Jaime Shandera received an anonymous roll of film postmarked Albuquerque showing a 1952 \"Majestic 12\" briefing for President-elect Eisenhower and a 1947 Truman memo, describing a group…", "band": "contested", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": ["MJ-12"], "glyph": null, "years": "1984"}, "1985-strieber-abduction": {"name": "Whitley Strieber cabin experience (26 December 1985)", "url": "/events/1985-strieber-abduction/", "summary": "Author Whitley Strieber reported that on the night of 26 December 1985 at his cabin in upstate New York he was taken from his bedroom by small beings and subjected to procedures, recovered under hypnosis and told in…", "band": "thin", "kind": "abduction-report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1985"}, "1986-brazil-night-of-ufos": {"name": "Brazilian \"night of the UFOs\" (19 May 1986)", "url": "/events/1986-brazil-night-of-ufos/", "summary": "On the night of 19 May 1986 Brazilian air traffic control and Air Force radar tracked about twenty unidentified objects over São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Goiás; Mirage and F-5 fighters were scrambled and pilots…", "band": "documented", "kind": "wave", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1986"}, "1986-jal-1628": {"name": "Japan Airlines flight 1628 (Alaska)", "url": "/events/1986-jal-1628/", "summary": "On 17 November 1986 Captain Kenju Terauchi of JAL cargo flight 1628 reported two lighted objects and then a very large object pacing his 747 over Alaska for about 50 minutes; Anchorage controllers and military radar…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1986"}, "1989-lazar-s4": {"name": "Bob Lazar S-4 claims (1989)", "url": "/events/1989-lazar-s4/", "summary": "In May and November 1989 Robert Lazar told KLAS-TV reporter George Knapp that he had worked at a site called S-4 near Papoose Lake, Nevada on the propulsion of nine recovered craft powered by \"element 115\". His…", "band": "contested", "kind": "testimony", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1989"}, "1989-belgian-wave": {"name": "Belgian UFO wave", "url": "/events/1989-belgian-wave/", "summary": "From 29 November 1989 to spring 1990 thousands of people in Belgium reported large silent triangles with lights at the corners; on 30–31 March 1990 Belgian Air Force F-16s were scrambled and recorded radar lock-ons…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "wave", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1989–1990"}, "1994-ariel-school": {"name": "Ariel School sighting (Ruwa, Zimbabwe)", "url": "/events/1994-ariel-school/", "summary": "On 16 September 1994 some sixty pupils at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported a silver craft landing beyond the playground and one or two small beings with large eyes near it. Harvard psychiatrist John Mack…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1994"}, "1995-blitch-daniels-park": {"name": "John Blitch Daniels Park experience (1995)", "url": "/events/1995-blitch-daniels-park/", "summary": "Former Army officer and DARPA program manager John Blitch says that in 1995, weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, he rode his mountain bike into Daniels Park south of Denver at sunset and had an encounter that ended…", "band": "thin", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1995"}, "1996-skinwalker-ranch-nids": {"name": "Bigelow buys Skinwalker Ranch; NIDS investigation begins", "url": "/events/1996-skinwalker-ranch-nids/", "summary": "In 1996, after the Sherman family reported cattle mutilations, lights and large animals on their Uintah Basin ranch, Robert Bigelow bought the property and installed a National Institute for Discovery Science team that…", "band": "contested", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": ["Sherman ranch"], "glyph": null, "years": "1996"}, "1996-varginha": {"name": "Varginha incident", "url": "/events/1996-varginha/", "summary": "In January 1996 residents of Varginha, Minas Gerais reported strange creatures, and three young women described a brown-skinned being with red eyes on 20 January; military police and Army units were said to have…", "band": "contested", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1996"}, "1997-phoenix-lights": {"name": "Phoenix Lights", "url": "/events/1997-phoenix-lights/", "summary": "On the evening of 13 March 1997 thousands of people across Arizona reported a silent V-shaped formation of lights, described by many as a single mile-wide craft, and later a row of lights over Phoenix that was filmed.…", "band": "contested", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1997"}, "1997-ilyumzhinov-moscow": {"name": "Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Moscow contact claim (17 September 1997)", "url": "/events/1997-ilyumzhinov-moscow/", "summary": "Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, then president of Kalmykia and of FIDE, has said that on 17 September 1997 he was taken from his Moscow apartment aboard a craft by beings in yellow suits and shown their ship before being returned.…", "band": "thin", "kind": "abduction-report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1997"}, "2002-kandahar-giant": {"name": "Kandahar giant story (Afghanistan, 2002)", "url": "/events/2002-kandahar-giant/", "summary": "A story circulated among US service members holds that in 2002 a special-forces patrol searching for a missing squad near Kandahar was attacked by a giant humanoid in a cave, killed it, and flew the body out on a cargo…", "band": "unsupported", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2002"}, "2002-wilson-davis-meeting": {"name": "Wilson–Davis meeting (Las Vegas, 16 October 2002)", "url": "/events/2002-wilson-davis-meeting/", "summary": "Fifteen pages of handwritten notes attributed to physicist Eric Davis record a 16 October 2002 meeting in Las Vegas with Vice Adm Thomas Wilson, former Director of the DIA, in which Wilson described being denied access…", "band": "contested", "kind": "testimony", "side": null, "aka": ["Wilson memo", "Core Secrets notes"], "glyph": null, "years": "2002"}, "2003-vandenberg-red-square": {"name": "Vandenberg \"red square\" (October 2003)", "url": "/events/2003-vandenberg-red-square/", "summary": "Former Air Force security personnel and contractors say that on 14 October 2003 a glowing red square about a hundred yards on a side approached Vandenberg AFB from the sea and hovered silently over a missile-defense…", "band": "thin", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2003"}, "2004-nimitz-tic-tac": {"name": "Nimitz \"Tic Tac\" encounter", "url": "/events/2004-nimitz-tic-tac/", "summary": "From 10 November 2004, USS Princeton radar tracked objects off Baja California descending from high altitude to the surface in seconds. 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Geologists attribute it to glacial…", "band": "thin", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": ["Ocean X anomaly"], "glyph": null, "years": "2011"}, "2013-aguadilla": {"name": "Aguadilla infrared object (Puerto Rico)", "url": "/events/2013-aguadilla/", "summary": "On 25 April 2013 a US Customs and Border Protection aircraft at Aguadilla airport, Puerto Rico, recorded on thermal camera an object that crossed the runway approach, flew low over the sea, appeared to enter the water…", "band": "contested", "kind": "sighting", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2013"}, "2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast": {"name": "Roosevelt carrier group encounters (2014–2015)", "url": "/events/2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast/", "summary": "From 2014, pilots of the USS Theodore Roosevelt air wing off Virginia Beach reported radar tracks and visual sightings of objects in their training airspace almost daily, including a near-collision in 2014; two ATFLIR…", "band": "documented", "kind": "encounter", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2014–2015"}, "2015-nazca-tridactyl-bodies": {"name": "Nazca \"tridactyl\" bodies (Peru)", "url": "/events/2015-nazca-tridactyl-bodies/", "summary": "In 2015 a grave robber known as Leandro is said to have found small desiccated three-fingered bodies in a cave near Nazca, Peru; promoters presented them from 2017 as non-human and they were shown to the Mexican…", "band": "contested", "kind": "retrieval", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2015"}, "2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure": {"name": "New York Times reveals AATIP and releases Navy videos", "url": "/events/2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure/", "summary": "On 16 December 2017 the New York Times published a report by Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal and Helene Cooper revealing the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, its $22 million funding via…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": ["AATIP disclosure"], "glyph": null, "years": "2017"}, "2019-navy-confirms-uap-videos": {"name": "US Navy confirms the three videos show UAP", "url": "/events/2019-navy-confirms-uap-videos/", "summary": "In September 2019 Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault and other outlets that the three videos published in 2017 and 2018 depict \"unidentified aerial phenomena\" and that the Navy had not released them.…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2019"}, "2020-pentagon-video-release": {"name": "Pentagon formally releases FLIR1, GIMBAL and GOFAST", "url": "/events/2020-pentagon-video-release/", "summary": "On 27 April 2020 the Department of Defense authorized the release of three Navy videos, FLIR1, GIMBAL and GOFAST, saying they had circulated since 2017 and 2018 and that the phenomena in them remain characterized as…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2020"}, "2021-odni-preliminary-assessment": {"name": "ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP", "url": "/events/2021-odni-preliminary-assessment/", "summary": "On 25 June 2021 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a nine-page preliminary assessment of 144 UAP reports from 2004 to 2021; it identified one as a deflating balloon, said 18 showed unusual…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2021"}, "2022-house-uap-hearing": {"name": "House Intelligence subcommittee UAP hearing (17 May 2022)", "url": "/events/2022-house-uap-hearing/", "summary": "On 17 May 2022 a House Intelligence subcommittee held the first open congressional hearing on UAP in more than fifty years, with testimony from Under Secretary Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence…", "band": "documented", "kind": "hearing", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2022"}, "2022-aaro-established": {"name": "AARO established", "url": "/events/2022-aaro-established/", "summary": "On 20 July 2022 the Deputy Secretary of Defense established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, succeeding the UAP Task Force and AOIMSG, with physicist Sean Kirkpatrick as its first director, to detect, identify…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2022"}, "2023-grusch-newsnation": {"name": "David Grusch goes public (NewsNation, 5 June 2023)", "url": "/events/2023-grusch-newsnation/", "summary": "On 5 June 2023 The Debrief published a report by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal and NewsNation aired an interview by Ross Coulthart in which former intelligence officer David Grusch said the US government holds…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "testimony", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2023"}, "2023-schumer-rounds-amendment": {"name": "Schumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act and its December 2023 cut", "url": "/events/2023-schumer-rounds-amendment/", "summary": "On 13 July 2023 Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds introduced the UAP Disclosure Act as an NDAA amendment, modelled on the JFK Records Act, with a presidential review board and eminent domain over recovered…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": ["UAP Disclosure Act of 2023"], "glyph": null, "years": "2023"}, "2023-grusch-hearing": {"name": "House Oversight UAP hearing (26 July 2023)", "url": "/events/2023-grusch-hearing/", "summary": "On 26 July 2023 the House Oversight subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs heard sworn testimony from David Grusch, Cdr David Fravor and Lt Ryan Graves. Grusch said he had been informed of a…", "band": "documented", "kind": "hearing", "side": null, "aka": ["Grusch hearing"], "glyph": null, "years": "2023"}, "2024-aaro-report": {"name": "AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I", "url": "/events/2024-aaro-report/", "summary": "On 8 March 2024 the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office published Volume I of its report on the historical record of US government involvement with UAP, concluding it found no evidence that any investigation or…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2024"}, "2024-karl-nell-salt-statement": {"name": "Karl Nell: \"non-human intelligence exists\" (SALT conference, May 2024)", "url": "/events/2024-karl-nell-salt-statement/", "summary": "On 21 May 2024, at the SALT iConnections conference in New York, retired Army Colonel Karl Nell, a former UAP Task Force liaison, said there was \"zero doubt\" that non-human intelligence exists and is interacting with…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "testimony", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2024"}, "2024-uap-hearing": {"name": "House joint subcommittee UAP hearing (13 November 2024)", "url": "/events/2024-uap-hearing/", "summary": "On 13 November 2024 two House Oversight subcommittees held the hearing \"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth\" with Luis Elizondo, Rear Adm (ret.) 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Federal agencies said the sightings…", "band": "documented", "kind": "wave", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2024"}, "2025-jake-barber-newsnation": {"name": "Jake Barber crash-retrieval account (NewsNation, January 2025)", "url": "/events/2025-jake-barber-newsnation/", "summary": "In January 2025 former Air Force helicopter crewman Jake Barber told Ross Coulthart on NewsNation that he had been part of a team that recovered an egg-shaped object by helicopter and that \"psionic\" individuals had…", "band": "thin", "kind": "testimony", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2025"}, "2025-age-of-disclosure-release": {"name": "\"The Age of Disclosure\" documentary premiere", "url": "/events/2025-age-of-disclosure-release/", "summary": "Dan Farah's documentary \"The Age of Disclosure\" premiered at SXSW in Austin on 9 March 2025, with 34 current and former officials on camera including Senator Rubio, James Clapper, Luis Elizondo, Jay Stratton and David…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2025"}, "2025-wsj-pentagon-ufo-article": {"name": "Wall Street Journal: \"The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology\"", "url": "/events/2025-wsj-pentagon-ufo-article/", "summary": "In June 2025 the Wall Street Journal published an investigation by Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha reporting that AARO had found the 1967 Malmstrom shutdown was caused by an unannounced EMP test and that Air Force…", "band": "documented", "kind": "release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2025"}, "2025-luna-task-force-hearing": {"name": "House Task Force on Declassification UAP hearing (9 September 2025)", "url": "/events/2025-luna-task-force-hearing/", "summary": "On 9 September 2025 the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Rep. 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The underlying data had not been released when it was announced; radar specialists said the…", "band": "contested", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2025"}, "ufos-and-nukes-hastings-2008": {"name": "UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites", "url": "/documents/ufos-and-nukes-hastings-2008/", "summary": "Hastings' compilation of interviews with more than 150 former military personnel who describe objects over missile fields and weapons storage areas, including the 1967 Malmstrom shutdown. Speakers cite it as the…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2008"}, "allagash-abductions-fowler-1993": {"name": "The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention", "url": "/documents/allagash-abductions-fowler-1993/", "summary": "Fowler's account of four art students who reported a light over their canoe in Maine in 1976 and, under hypnosis a decade later, described being taken aboard. One of the four later said the abduction memories were not…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1993"}, "aquarius-document": {"name": "\"Project Aquarius\" document", "url": "/documents/aquarius-document/", "summary": "A purported Air Force teletype that Richard Doty showed the journalist Linda Moulton Howe at Kirtland in 1983, describing a project called Aquarius and referring to MJ-12. 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Shellenberger read it into the…", "band": "contested", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2024"}, "cia-mars-remote-viewing-1984": {"name": "Mars Exploration, May 22, 1984 (CIA remote-viewing transcript)", "url": "/documents/cia-mars-remote-viewing-1984/", "summary": "A declassified transcript of a remote-viewing session in which the viewer, given sealed coordinates on Mars a million years in the past, describes pyramids, storms and very tall thin people. Speakers on the channel…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1984"}, "cydonia-mars-imagery": {"name": "Cydonia 'Face on Mars' imagery (Viking 1976 to HiRISE 2007)", "url": "/documents/cydonia-mars-imagery/", "summary": "The sequence of images of the Cydonia mesa: the 1976 Viking frame that looked like a face, and the 1998, 2001, 2006 and 2007 re-imaging at higher resolution that shows an eroded landform. 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It reaches no conclusion…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2001"}, "biondi-malanga-2022-paper": {"name": "Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography Reveals Details of Undiscovered High-Resolution Internal Structure of the Great Pyramid of Giza", "url": "/documents/biondi-malanga-2022-paper/", "summary": "The peer-reviewed paper behind the later Khafre claims: radar tomography of the Great Pyramid from satellite micro-vibration data. Some of its detections matched known chambers and a corridor later confirmed by…", "band": "contested", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2022"}, "element-115": {"name": "Element 115 (moscovium) — synthesis and properties", "url": "/documents/element-115/", "summary": "Element 115 was first synthesised in 2004, fifteen years after Bob Lazar named it as the fuel of the craft he says he studied. Every isotope produced so far decays in under a second. 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It introduced several claims Coulthart later expanded on…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2021"}, "passport-to-magonia-1969": {"name": "Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers", "url": "/documents/passport-to-magonia-1969/", "summary": "Vallée's argument that modern UFO encounters and older accounts of fairies, angels and airships share a structure, with a catalogue of 923 landing reports. It moved him away from the extraterrestrial hypothesis toward…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1969"}, "mack-hms-press-release-1995": {"name": "Harvard Medical School statement on Professor John Mack", "url": "/documents/mack-hms-press-release-1995/", "summary": "The statement closing a fourteen-month review of John Mack's abduction research. It reaffirmed his academic freedom to study what he chose and asked him to keep his methods within the school's standards. Speakers cite…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1995"}, "abduction-mack-1994": {"name": "Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens", "url": "/documents/abduction-mack-1994/", "summary": "The book that made a Harvard psychiatrist the most credentialed voice on abduction reports: thirteen case histories from his clinical work, presented without a settled explanation. It triggered the Harvard review.…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1994"}, "mack-harvard-obituary-2004": {"name": "John E. Mack — Faculty of Medicine memorial minute", "url": "/documents/mack-harvard-obituary-2004/", "summary": "Harvard's formal memorial for Mack after he was killed by a drunk driver in London in 2004. It records his Pulitzer Prize, his founding of the psychiatry department at Cambridge Hospital and, without endorsement, his…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2005"}, "harvard-crimson-mack-1995": {"name": "Mack's Research Is Under Scrutiny", "url": "/documents/harvard-crimson-mack-1995/", "summary": "Student-newspaper coverage of the confidential review of Mack's work, which reported that a committee was examining whether his research met clinical standards. A follow-up in August reported that the school took no…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1995"}, "nature-mack-inquiry-1995": {"name": "Harvard 'starts inquiry' into UFO researcher", "url": "/documents/nature-mack-inquiry-1995/", "summary": "Nature's news item on the Harvard review, notable as the moment a leading science journal covered a tenured professor's abduction research as an academic-freedom question rather than a curiosity.", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1995"}, "time-mack-sting-1994": {"name": "The Man From Outer Space", "url": "/documents/time-mack-sting-1994/", "summary": "The Time profile that reported a writer, Donna Bassett, had posed as an experiencer and been accepted into Mack's study, which she took as showing his methods could not tell fabrication from memory. Mack disputed her…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1994"}, "mcnally-clancy-2005-paper": {"name": "Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction", "url": "/documents/mcnally-clancy-2005-paper/", "summary": "Harvard psychologists' study of people who report abduction, finding that sleep paralysis with hallucinations, a prior belief in the phenomenon and recovered-memory techniques account for the reports without any…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2005"}, "prince-of-our-disorder-1976": {"name": "A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence", "url": "/documents/prince-of-our-disorder-1976/", "summary": "Mack's psychoanalytic biography of T. E. Lawrence, which won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize. It is cited on the channel to establish what kind of scholar he was before he turned to abduction reports.", "band": "documented", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1976"}, "fire-in-the-sky-walton-1978": {"name": "The Walton Experience (later Fire in the Sky)", "url": "/documents/fire-in-the-sky-walton-1978/", "summary": "Walton's own account of the five days in November 1975 he says he was missing after approaching a light in an Arizona forest, with six co-workers as witnesses to his disappearance. The 1993 film took the title.…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1978"}, "communion-strieber-1987": {"name": "Communion: A True Story", "url": "/documents/communion-strieber-1987/", "summary": "The best-selling account of a novelist's encounters at his cabin in upstate New York, whose cover painting fixed the image of the grey. Strieber has always declined to say the beings were extraterrestrial. The letters…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1987"}, "strieber-letters-archive": {"name": "Whitley Strieber experiencer-letter archive", "url": "/documents/strieber-letters-archive/", "summary": "The hundreds of thousands of letters readers sent Strieber after Communion, now held at Rice University's Archives of the Impossible alongside the papers of Vallée and Mack. Speakers cite it as the largest body of…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2015"}, "avirgan-v-hull-1988": {"name": "Avirgan v. Hull, 705 F. Supp. 1544 (S.D. Fla. 1989)", "url": "/documents/avirgan-v-hull-1988/", "summary": "The dismissal of the Christic Institute's civil suit alleging a private network behind the La Penca bombing, with sanctions of more than a million dollars against Daniel Sheehan's organisation. Speakers raise it when…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1989"}, "odni-preliminary-assessment-2021": {"name": "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena", "url": "/documents/odni-preliminary-assessment-2021/", "summary": "The nine-page report Congress ordered in 2020. Of 144 military reports since 2004 it explained one, said a handful showed unusual flight characteristics, and named five possible categories from airborne clutter to…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2021"}, "penetration-swann-1998": {"name": "Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy", "url": "/documents/penetration-swann-1998/", "summary": "The remote viewer Ingo Swann's memoir of being hired by an unnamed agency to view the far side of the Moon, where he says he saw structures and beings, and of a later encounter he took to be non-human. It is a single…", "band": "thin", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1998"}, "bem-feeling-the-future-2011": {"name": "Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect", "url": "/documents/bem-feeling-the-future-2011/", "summary": "Nine experiments reporting that people responded to stimuli before they were shown, published in a leading psychology journal. Replications failed, and the paper became a case study in the replication crisis. Speakers…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2011"}, "brandenburg-2014-thermonuclear-mars": {"name": "Evidence of a Massive Thermonuclear Explosion on Mars in the Past", "url": "/documents/brandenburg-2014-thermonuclear-mars/", "summary": "Brandenburg's argument from xenon-129 and thorium abundances that Mars experienced nuclear explosions in the past. Published in a journal outside the planetary-science mainstream. Planetary scientists attribute the…", "band": "contested", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2014"}, "brandenburg-2015-mars-nuclear": {"name": "Evidence for Large Anomalous Nuclear Explosions in Mars' Past", "url": "/documents/brandenburg-2015-mars-nuclear/", "summary": "A conference abstract restating the thermonuclear hypothesis for a planetary-science audience at LPSC 2015. Conference abstracts are not peer-reviewed in the way journal papers are; speakers who cite it as a published…", "band": "contested", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2015"}, "brandenburg-2006-mars-reactor": {"name": "Evidence for a Large Natural Nuclear Reactor in Mars' Past", "url": "/documents/brandenburg-2006-mars-reactor/", "summary": "Brandenburg's earlier proposal that a natural fission reactor, like the one at Oklo on Earth, operated on Mars. It preceded and is distinct from his later explosion hypothesis; the channel sometimes runs the two…", "band": "contested", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2006"}, "death-on-mars-brandenburg-2015": {"name": "Death on Mars: The Discovery of a Planetary Nuclear Massacre", "url": "/documents/death-on-mars-brandenburg-2015/", "summary": "The popular book in which Brandenburg extends his isotope argument to the claim that a Martian civilisation was destroyed by attack. The scientific papers do not make that claim; the book does. Speakers on the channel…", "band": "contested", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2015"}, "dark-mission-hoagland-2007": {"name": "Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA", "url": "/documents/dark-mission-hoagland-2007/", "summary": "Hoagland and Bara's claim that NASA has concealed ruins on the Moon and Mars, built from enhanced Apollo frames and the Cydonia imagery. The enhancements are disputed frame by frame; speakers on the channel present it…", "band": "contested", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2007"}, "brookings-report-1960": {"name": "Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs (Brookings report)", "url": "/documents/brookings-report-1960/", "summary": "A NASA-commissioned study of the social effects of space activity, one page of which considers how the public might react to discovering artefacts of another intelligence and notes that the finding might be withheld.…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1960"}, "mcdaniel-report-1993": {"name": "The McDaniel Report", "url": "/documents/mcdaniel-report-1993/", "summary": "A philosophy professor's review of NASA's handling of the Cydonia question, arguing the agency dismissed the artificiality hypothesis without adequate analysis and should re-image the site. Later Mars Global Surveyor…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1993"}, "viking-labeled-release-1976": {"name": "Viking Labeled Release biology experiment results", "url": "/documents/viking-labeled-release-1976/", "summary": "The 1976 Viking landers' experiment that fed nutrient to Martian soil and recorded gas release consistent with metabolism, then failed to find organics. Levin argued for life until his death; most colleagues attribute…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1976"}, "parsons-fbi-file": {"name": "FBI file on John Whiteside Parsons (HQ 65-59589)", "url": "/documents/parsons-fbi-file/", "summary": "The Bureau's espionage investigation of the rocket engineer, opened when he took classified documents to a private employer in 1950. It records the loss and restoration of his clearance and the closing recommendation.…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1950"}, "parsons-rocket-patents": {"name": "Jack Parsons' rocket propellant patents", "url": "/documents/parsons-rocket-patents/", "summary": "The patents for castable solid rocket propellant and its manufacture, filed during the war and granted in the 1950s, which underlie Aerojet's early products. Speakers cite them to establish that Parsons' engineering…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1943"}, "parsons-v-hubbard-1946": {"name": "Parsons v. Hubbard — temporary injunction (1946)", "url": "/documents/parsons-v-hubbard-1946/", "summary": "The Florida court order Parsons obtained against L. Ron Hubbard and Sara Northrup after the two left with money from their joint venture and a yacht. Speakers tell the story from Parsons' side; the filing is the one…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1946"}, "parsons-yorke-collection": {"name": "Jack Parsons typescripts, Yorke Collection (Warburg Institute)", "url": "/documents/parsons-yorke-collection/", "summary": "The typescripts of Parsons' magical writings held in Gerald Yorke's collection at the Warburg Institute, including material from the 1946 working. They are the primary source for the occult side of his biography, and…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1946"}, "book-of-babalon-parsons-1946": {"name": "The Book of Babalon (Liber 49)", "url": "/documents/book-of-babalon-parsons-1946/", "summary": "Parsons' record of the ritual working he performed in early 1946 with Hubbard as scribe, presented as a received text. It is the document behind the claim, repeated on the channel, that the working opened something…", "band": "documented", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1946"}, "parsons-death-la-times-1952": {"name": "Los Angeles Times reports on the death of Jack Parsons (June 1952)", "url": "/documents/parsons-death-la-times-1952/", "summary": "Three days of coverage of the explosion in Parsons' home laboratory in Pasadena: the death, the police explanation of fulminate of mercury dropped in a can, and the mystery woman reported to have visited. Speakers who…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1952"}, "townsend-brown-patents": {"name": "Thomas Townsend Brown electrokinetic patents", "url": "/documents/townsend-brown-patents/", "summary": "Brown's patents for devices that move when high voltage is applied across asymmetric capacitors, which he attributed to a coupling of electricity and gravity. Tests in vacuum attribute the thrust to ion wind. Speakers…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1934"}, "pais-navy-patents": {"name": "Salvatore Pais Navy patents (inertial mass reduction and related)", "url": "/documents/pais-navy-patents/", "summary": "A set of Navy-assigned patents for a craft using an inertial mass reduction device, a high-frequency gravitational wave generator and related devices. The Navy told the patent office the work was operable; later Navy…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2018"}, "buhler-propulsion-patent": {"name": "Asymmetrical electrostatic pressure propulsion (Buhler / Exodus Propulsion)", "url": "/documents/buhler-propulsion-patent/", "summary": "A patent application by a former NASA electrostatics engineer for a drive that claims thrust from asymmetric electric fields, citing earlier Air Force and NASA capacitor tests. Buhler says his company has measured…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2020"}, "alcubierre-warp-drive-1994": {"name": "The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity", "url": "/documents/alcubierre-warp-drive-1994/", "summary": "The paper showing that general relativity permits a spacetime that carries a region faster than light relative to distant observers, at the cost of negative energy density. Alcubierre himself calls it a mathematical…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1994"}, "estimate-of-the-situation": {"name": "Estimate of the Situation (Project Sign, 1948)", "url": "/documents/estimate-of-the-situation/", "summary": "A top-secret 1948 assessment by Project Sign staff that, according to Edward Ruppelt's 1956 book, concluded the objects were interplanetary and was rejected and ordered destroyed by General Vandenberg. No copy has…", "band": "contested", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1948"}, "ruppelt-report-on-ufos-1956": {"name": "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects", "url": "/documents/ruppelt-report-on-ufos-1956/", "summary": "The memoir of the officer who ran Project Blue Book in 1951–53 and coined the term UFO. It describes the Estimate of the Situation, the 1952 wave and the Robertson Panel from inside. A 1960 edition added chapters…", "band": "documented", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1956"}, "sign-grudge-file-release": {"name": "Project Sign and Project Grudge records", "url": "/documents/sign-grudge-file-release/", "summary": "The files of the Air Force's first two UFO studies, Sign in 1948 and Grudge in 1949, released with the Blue Book microfilm. Grudge's final report explained nearly everything and recommended the project be reduced.…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1948"}, "eisenhower-briefing-document": {"name": "Eisenhower Briefing Document (MJ-12)", "url": "/documents/eisenhower-briefing-document/", "summary": "The centrepiece of the MJ-12 papers: a purported briefing for the president-elect describing the Roswell recovery and the committee formed to manage it. Its date format, signature and typography have been argued over…", "band": "contested", "kind": "memo", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1952"}, "moore-ufos-and-us-government-1989": {"name": "UFOs and the U.S. Government (MUFON UFO Journal, Parts I–II)", "url": "/documents/moore-ufos-and-us-government-1989/", "summary": "The published version of Moore's 1989 MUFON speech in which he admitted passing disinformation to Paul Bennewitz on behalf of Air Force counter-intelligence, in exchange for what he hoped was inside information. It is…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1989"}, "day-after-roswell-corso-1997": {"name": "The Day After Roswell", "url": "/documents/day-after-roswell-corso-1997/", "summary": "A retired Army colonel's claim that he managed the seeding of Roswell materials into industry from a Pentagon desk in the 1960s, producing lasers, fibre optics and integrated circuits. The inventions have documented…", "band": "thin", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1997"}, "cutler-twining-memo-1954": {"name": "Cutler–Twining memo", "url": "/documents/cutler-twining-memo-1954/", "summary": "A one-page carbon, purportedly from the president's national security adviser to General Twining, rescheduling an MJ-12 briefing, found in an Archives box by the researchers who had received the MJ-12 films. The…", "band": "contested", "kind": "memo", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1954"}, "smith-memo-1950": {"name": "Wilbert Smith memorandum on 'Geo-Magnetics'", "url": "/documents/smith-memo-1950/", "summary": "A Canadian radio engineer's memo reporting what he had learned in Washington: that the subject was classified higher than the hydrogen bomb, that a small group under Vannevar Bush was studying it, and that the discs…", "band": "documented", "kind": "memo", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1950"}, "ufo-of-god-bledsoe-2023": {"name": "UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe", "url": "/documents/ufo-of-god-bledsoe-2023/", "summary": "Bledsoe's account of encounters beginning on the Cape Fear River in 2007, the healing he attributes to them, and the attention of government and academic visitors. It is a first-person testimony; the visitors' interest…", "band": "thin", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2023"}, "above-black-sherman-1998": {"name": "Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny", "url": "/documents/above-black-sherman-1998/", "summary": "A former Air Force intelligence specialist's claim that he was trained as an intuitive communicator in a programme called Preserve Destiny. A 2023 FOIA exchange found no record of the programme. Speakers cite the book…", "band": "thin", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1997"}, "giza-power-plant-dunn-1998": {"name": "The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt", "url": "/documents/giza-power-plant-dunn-1998/", "summary": "A machinist's argument that the Great Pyramid was a machine for generating energy, built from its internal geometry and traces of chemicals in the Queen's Chamber. Egyptologists reject the premise. Speakers cite it…", "band": "contested", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1998"}, "alvarez-1970-pyramid-paper": {"name": "Search for Hidden Chambers in the Pyramids", "url": "/documents/alvarez-1970-pyramid-paper/", "summary": "The Nobel laureate's cosmic-ray muon survey of the Second Pyramid at Giza, which found no hidden chambers in the volume it could probe. Speakers cite the null result as the baseline the 2025 Khafre radar claims must…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1970"}, "hamlets-mill-1969": {"name": "Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time", "url": "/documents/hamlets-mill-1969/", "summary": "An MIT historian of science and a Frankfurt scholar's argument that world mythology encodes astronomical knowledge, especially the precession of the equinoxes. Academic reception was cold. Speakers cite it for the idea…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1969"}, "villarroel-vasco-papers": {"name": "VASCO project papers on vanishing and transient sources", "url": "/documents/villarroel-vasco-papers/", "summary": "Peer-reviewed papers from the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project, reporting point-like transients on 1950s photographic plates, some aligned in rows and some coinciding with…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2021"}, "kona-blue-aaro-2024": {"name": "KONA BLUE: A Proposed UAP Recovery and Reverse-Engineering Program (AARO Historical Record Report, Vol. I)", "url": "/documents/kona-blue-aaro-2024/", "summary": "AARO's account of a Prospective Special Access Program proposed to the Department of Homeland Security by supporters of the crash-retrieval thesis after the DIA cancelled AAWSAP. The report says DHS never approved it…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2024"}, "hottel-memo-1950": {"name": "Guy Hottel memorandum to the Director, FBI (\"Flying Saucers\")", "url": "/documents/hottel-memo-1950/", "summary": "A one-page 1950 FBI memorandum relaying a third-hand account from an Air Force investigator that three 'flying saucers' with small human-shaped occupants had been recovered in New Mexico. Released in the FBI Vault in…", "band": "documented", "kind": "memo", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1950"}, "newton-gebauer-fraud-case-1953": {"name": "Colorado v. Newton and GeBauer (fraud conviction)", "url": "/documents/newton-gebauer-fraud-case-1953/", "summary": "The 1953 Denver fraud conviction of Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer, who had sold oil-detection devices said to be built from crashed-saucer technology and who supplied the story behind Frank Scully's Behind the Flying…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1953"}, "afr-200-2-1953": {"name": "Air Force Regulation 200-2, Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting", "url": "/documents/afr-200-2-1953/", "summary": "The 1953 Air Force regulation that set how UFO reports were to be filed, routed to the Air Technical Intelligence Center, and released to the public, restricting disclosure to cases that had been identified. Speakers…", "band": "documented", "kind": "legislation", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1953"}, "upshot-knothole-1953": {"name": "Operation Upshot–Knothole test series reports and films", "url": "/documents/upshot-knothole-1953/", "summary": "Operation Upshot–Knothole was a 1953 series of eleven nuclear tests at the Nevada Proving Ground; its declassified films and reports are public. The corpus reaches for it when a speaker links 1950s atomic testing to…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1953"}, "australian-dio-ufo-memo": {"name": "Australian defence-intelligence UFO memorandum (as spoken)", "url": "/documents/australian-dio-ufo-memo/", "summary": "A speaker describes a recently declassified Australian intelligence memorandum touching on UFOs around the SALT II period. No file number is given and no matching release was located, so the catalogue records the…", "band": "unsupported", "kind": "memo", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": ""}, "cia-psychological-strategy-board-document": {"name": "Declassified CIA Psychological Strategy Board document (as spoken)", "url": "/documents/cia-psychological-strategy-board-document/", "summary": "Speakers cite a declassified CIA document on the Psychological Strategy Board unifying psychological-warfare planning. The Board was a real body of the early 1950s, but the transcript gives no CREST identifier, so the…", "band": "thin", "kind": "memo", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": ""}, "maralinga-servicemen-case-1988": {"name": "Maralinga nuclear-test veterans litigation (United Kingdom)", "url": "/documents/maralinga-servicemen-case-1988/", "summary": "1980s litigation by British servicemen over exposure at the Maralinga nuclear tests in South Australia. Real proceedings; the transcript does not give a docket, and the case is cited in passing when speakers discuss…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1988"}, "doull-diary-as-spoken": {"name": "'Doull's diary' (as spoken alongside MJ-12)", "url": "/documents/doull-diary-as-spoken/", "summary": "A caption-level reference to a diary said to corroborate the day of an Eisenhower MJ-12 briefing. The name does not resolve to any known archive and may be a mangled transcription; catalogued so the reference can be…", "band": "unsupported", "kind": "notes", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": ""}, "scott-jones-cia-document-1992": {"name": "Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up?", "url": "/documents/scott-jones-cia-document-1992/", "summary": "A 1992 paper by Robert Durant about C. B. Scott Jones, the naval-intelligence officer turned aide to Senator Claiborne Pell, held in the CIA's STAR GATE release. Speakers use it when tracing the Washington network…", "band": "documented", "kind": "memo", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1992"}, "caltech-galcit-archives": {"name": "Caltech Archives: GALCIT rocket group records and oral histories", "url": "/documents/caltech-galcit-archives/", "summary": "Archival records of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory rocket group: the 1936 test-team photograph and the oral histories of Frank Malina (1978) and Apollo M. O. Smith (1995). They anchor the documented side of…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1978"}, "washington-post-mack-cleared-1995": {"name": "Harvard Clears Best-Selling UFO Author", "url": "/documents/washington-post-mack-cleared-1995/", "summary": "Contemporaneous national reporting that Harvard Medical School's inquiry into John Mack had ended without sanction, reaffirming his academic freedom to study abduction accounts. Cited alongside the Crimson and Nature…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1995"}, "som1-01-manual": {"name": "SOM1-01, \"Extraterrestrial Entities and Technology, Recovery and Disposal\" (purported manual)", "url": "/documents/som1-01-manual/", "summary": "A purported 1954 military field manual on recovering crashed craft and their occupants, received on film in 1994 and championed by Robert and Ryan Wood. It exists as a circulated artefact; no agency has ever…", "band": "contested", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": ""}, "mars-methane-literature": {"name": "Mars methane detection and non-detection papers (2009–2024)", "url": "/documents/mars-methane-literature/", "summary": "The peer-reviewed record on Martian methane: Mumma's 2009 plumes, Curiosity's seasonal background (Webster 2015, 2018), the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter's non-detection (Korablev 2019) and the reconciliation attempts that…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2019"}, "mars-noble-gas-isotope-papers": {"name": "Martian atmospheric xenon and krypton isotope papers", "url": "/documents/mars-noble-gas-isotope-papers/", "summary": "The isotope studies of Martian xenon and krypton, from shergottite meteorites to Curiosity's in-situ measurements, that attribute the atmosphere's isotopic pattern to solar-wind and fission components and to escape…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1997"}, "phoenix-perchlorate-2009": {"name": "Detection of perchlorate and the soluble chemistry of Martian soil at the Phoenix Lander site", "url": "/documents/phoenix-perchlorate-2009/", "summary": "The 2009 Phoenix lander result showing perchlorate salts in Martian soil, with the follow-on argument (Navarro-González and others) that perchlorate could have destroyed organics during Viking's heated analyses.…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2009"}, "qaidam-basin-mars-analogue-2017": {"name": "The western Qaidam Basin as a potential Martian environmental analogue", "url": "/documents/qaidam-basin-mars-analogue-2017/", "summary": "Geological studies of the Qaidam Basin in north-west China as a Mars analogue, including its wind-carved pyramidal yardangs. Cited when speakers weigh whether the Cydonia landforms need any explanation beyond erosion.", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2017"}, "morishima-2017-scanpyramids-void": {"name": "Discovery of a big void in Khufu's Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons", "url": "/documents/morishima-2017-scanpyramids-void/", "summary": "The ScanPyramids paper reporting a large void above the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid, detected by three independent muon-imaging techniques. Speakers treat it as proof that the pyramids still hide structure; the…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2017"}, "antarctic-treaty-1959": {"name": "The Antarctic Treaty", "url": "/documents/antarctic-treaty-1959/", "summary": "The treaty reserving Antarctica for peaceful and scientific use, banning military measures and nuclear tests and freezing territorial claims. Speakers on the channel read its restrictions as cover for hidden activity…", "band": "documented", "kind": "legislation", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1959"}, "space-act-1958": {"name": "National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958", "url": "/documents/space-act-1958/", "summary": "NASA's founding statute. One guest reads it as making NASA an arm of the Department of Defense in law; the text assigns civilian control of space activities while reserving military applications to the Department of…", "band": "documented", "kind": "legislation", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1958"}, "moon-pigeons-nasa-report": {"name": "'Moon Pigeons' NASA compilation (as described)", "url": "/documents/moon-pigeons-nasa-report/", "summary": "A guest describes an early-1970s internal NASA compilation that used the phrase 'moon pigeons' for unexplained objects seen by astronauts. No such document has been located in NASA's public archives; the catalogue…", "band": "unsupported", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": ""}, "diary-of-merer": {"name": "Diary of Merer (Wadi el-Jarf papyri)", "url": "/documents/diary-of-merer/", "summary": "The oldest inscribed papyri known, the logbook of the inspector Merer's crew hauling Tura limestone by boat to Giza in the reign of Khufu. Egyptologists on the channel cite it as direct evidence of who built the Great…", "band": "documented", "kind": "notes", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": ""}, "white-sands-footprints-2021": {"name": "Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum", "url": "/documents/white-sands-footprints-2021/", "summary": "The White Sands footprints paper dating human trackways to roughly 21,000–23,000 years ago by radiocarbon on embedded seeds, with a 2023 follow-up using independent methods. Guests cite it as an example of mainstream…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2021"}, "western-cemetery-giza-2024": {"name": "Ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity survey of the Western Cemetery, Giza (2024)", "url": "/documents/western-cemetery-giza-2024/", "summary": "A 2024 geophysical survey mapping an L-shaped shallow feature and a deeper anomaly beneath an unbuilt area of the Western Cemetery beside the Great Pyramid. Speakers fold it into claims about hidden structures under…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2024"}, "apollo-surface-frames": {"name": "Apollo 14 and Apollo 17 surface photographs (AS14-66-9301, AS17-147-22470)", "url": "/documents/apollo-surface-frames/", "summary": "Hasselblad frames from the lunar surface in which a guest sees lights in the black sky. The frames are public and the anomalies are visible; the established readings are lens flare and film artefacts, and the guest's…", "band": "documented", "kind": "file-release", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1972"}, "sturrock-brazil-magnesium-analysis": {"name": "Composition Analysis of the Brazil Magnesium", "url": "/documents/sturrock-brazil-magnesium-analysis/", "summary": "Sturrock's analysis of the magnesium fragments said to have fallen at Ubatuba, Brazil, in 1957, finding purity and isotope ratios within terrestrial norms once measurement error is included. Cited on both sides: as the…", "band": "documented", "kind": "paper", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2001"}, "g-engines-are-coming-1956": {"name": "'The G-Engines Are Coming' (Young Men magazine, 1956)", "url": "/documents/g-engines-are-coming-1956/", "summary": "A 1956 aviation-trade article quoting executives at Lear, Convair, Bell and Martin about imminent anti-gravity aircraft. Nick Cook opens his book with it; the corpus uses it to argue that gravity-control research was…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1956"}, "cydonia-secret-chronicles-flynn-2002": {"name": "Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars", "url": "/documents/cydonia-secret-chronicles-flynn-2002/", "summary": "David Flynn's book joining the Cydonia imagery to a biblical account of a destroyed world and a fallen-angel priesthood. Tim Alberino calls it the most consequential book he has read; it is cited on the channel as…", "band": "thin", "kind": "book", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2002"}, "flexner-report-1910": {"name": "Medical Education in the United States and Canada (the Flexner Report)", "url": "/documents/flexner-report-1910/", "summary": "The 1910 Carnegie-funded survey that reshaped American medical education around laboratory science and closed many proprietary schools. Guests cite it as an instance of Rockefeller-aligned consolidation; the report is…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1910"}, "roswell-report-case-closed-1997": {"name": "The Roswell Report: Case Closed", "url": "/documents/roswell-report-case-closed-1997/", "summary": "The Air Force's 1997 companion volume attributing reports of small bodies at Roswell to anthropomorphic test dummies dropped in high-altitude parachute research in the 1950s and to a 1956 KC-97 crash. Witnesses'…", "band": "documented", "kind": "report", "side": null, "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1997"}}, "footage": {"battle-of-los-angeles-1942-photo": {"name": "Battle of Los Angeles searchlight photograph", "url": "/footage/battle-of-los-angeles-1942-photo/", "summary": "The retouched Los Angeles Times photograph of 25 February 1942 showing anti-aircraft searchlights converging on a point over the city during a night barrage of more than 1,400 shells at unidentified objects. In the…", "band": "contested", "kind": "photograph", "side": "press", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1942"}, "mcminnville-1950": {"name": "McMinnville (Trent) photographs", "url": "/footage/mcminnville-1950/", "summary": "Two photographs taken by Paul Trent at his farm near McMinnville, Oregon on 11 May 1950, showing a disc-shaped object above the yard. Printed in the local paper and LIFE. In the corpus the skeptic describes the object…", "band": "contested", "kind": "photograph", "side": "civilian", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1950"}, "great-falls-1950": {"name": "Great Falls (Mariana) film", "url": "/footage/great-falls-1950/", "summary": "A 16 mm film taken by Nick Mariana in Great Falls, Montana on 15 August 1950, showing two bright points crossing the sky. The Air Force examined it twice and attributed the objects to jets; Mariana said frames had gone…", "band": "contested", "kind": "film", "side": "civilian", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1950"}, "tremonton-1952": {"name": "Tremonton (Newhouse) film", "url": "/footage/tremonton-1952/", "summary": "A 16 mm colour film shot by Navy warrant officer Delbert Newhouse near Tremonton, Utah on 2 July 1952, showing a dozen bright objects milling against a clear sky. The Navy photographic laboratory spent weeks on frame…", "band": "contested", "kind": "film", "side": "US Navy (off duty)", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1952"}, "calvine-1990": {"name": "Calvine photograph", "url": "/footage/calvine-1990/", "summary": "A daylight photograph taken near Calvine, Scotland on 4 August 1990, reported to show a large diamond-shaped object with a military jet in frame. The Daily Record received the photographs but did not print them; the…", "band": "contested", "kind": "photograph", "side": "civilian", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1990"}, "phoenix-lights-1997": {"name": "Phoenix Lights home videos", "url": "/footage/phoenix-lights-1997/", "summary": "Camcorder recordings made in Phoenix on the evening of 13 March 1997 showing a row of lights above the southern horizon that faded out one by one. Thousands of people also reported a large silent V-shaped formation…", "band": "contested", "kind": "video", "side": "civilian", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1997"}, "hessdalen-ams-camera": {"name": "Hessdalen automatic measurement station recordings", "url": "/footage/hessdalen-ams-camera/", "summary": "Automated cameras in the Hessdalen valley, Norway have recorded unexplained lights since 1998, following a wave of reports in 1981–1984. Researchers publish images and spectra and propose plasma and geochemical models.…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "video", "side": "academic", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "1998"}, "nimitz-2004-princeton-radar": {"name": "USS Princeton SPY-1 radar tracks (Nimitz 2004)", "url": "/footage/nimitz-2004-princeton-radar/", "summary": "Radar operators aboard USS Princeton reported tracking groups of objects for about a week in November 2004 that descended from high altitude to the sea surface in seconds. The data were never released; witnesses say…", "band": "well-supported", "kind": "radar-data", "side": "US Navy", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2004"}, "flir1": {"name": "FLIR1 (Nimitz ATFLIR video)", "url": "/footage/flir1/", "summary": "A 76-second ATFLIR clip recorded on 14 November 2004 by an F/A-18F from USS Nimitz, said to show the object that Cdr David Fravor had visually engaged earlier that day. It was published with the 2017 New York Times…", "band": "documented", "kind": "infrared-video", "side": "US Navy", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2004"}, "turkey-kumburgaz-2008": {"name": "Kumburgaz videos (Yalçın Yalman)", "url": "/footage/turkey-kumburgaz-2008/", "summary": "Night-time camcorder recordings made over the Sea of Marmara from Kumburgaz between 2007 and 2009, said by their promoters to show a structured object and, in zoomed frames, occupants. The material was publicized by a…", "band": "thin", "kind": "video", "side": "civilian", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2008"}, "aguadilla-2013": {"name": "Aguadilla CBP infrared video", "url": "/footage/aguadilla-2013/", "summary": "A thermal video recorded by a Customs and Border Protection aircraft near Aguadilla airport on the night of 25 April 2013, showing a small object moving over land and into the sea. Published in 2015 by a civilian…", "band": "contested", "kind": "infrared-video", "side": "US Customs and Border Protection", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2013"}, "chilean-navy-2014": {"name": "Chilean Navy helicopter infrared video", "url": "/footage/chilean-navy-2014/", "summary": "A nine-minute infrared recording made from a Chilean Navy helicopter on 11 November 2014, released by the Chilean government agency CEFAA in 2017 as unexplained after a two-year review. Mick West and other analysts say…", "band": "contested", "kind": "infrared-video", "side": "Chilean Navy", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2014"}, "gimbal": {"name": "GIMBAL (Roosevelt ATFLIR video)", "url": "/footage/gimbal/", "summary": "An ATFLIR clip from an F/A-18F off the US east coast in January 2015 showing an object that appears to rotate as the camera tracks it, with crew audio. Released with the 2017 New York Times report and formally by the…", "band": "documented", "kind": "infrared-video", "side": "US Navy", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2015"}, "gofast": {"name": "GOFAST (Roosevelt ATFLIR video)", "url": "/footage/gofast/", "summary": "An ATFLIR clip released in March 2018 showing a small object apparently skimming low over the sea, with the aircrew heard reacting when the sensor locks on. The Pentagon released it formally in 2020. Analysts using the…", "band": "documented", "kind": "infrared-video", "side": "US Navy", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2015"}, "jellyfish-uap-2017": {"name": "\"Jellyfish\" UAP thermal video (Iraq)", "url": "/footage/jellyfish-uap-2017/", "summary": "A thermal video published by journalist Jeremy Corbell in January 2024, said to be recorded at a US base in Iraq in 2017 or 2018, showing a dark object with hanging appendages drifting over the base and later over…", "band": "thin", "kind": "infrared-video", "side": "US military (leaked)", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2017"}, "skinwalker-ranch-footage": {"name": "Skinwalker Ranch surveillance and television footage", "url": "/footage/skinwalker-ranch-footage/", "summary": "Camera recordings of lights, radar tracks and instrument anomalies at Skinwalker Ranch, broadcast in a television series since 2020. In the corpus the owner Brandon Fugal calls himself an experiencer rather than a…", "band": "thin", "kind": "video", "side": "civilian / commercial television", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2020"}, "house-uap-hearing-2023-07-26": {"name": "House Oversight UAP hearing recording, 26 July 2023", "url": "/footage/house-uap-hearing-2023-07-26/", "summary": "The recorded open session of 26 July 2023 in which former intelligence officer David Grusch, Cdr David Fravor and Lt Ryan Graves testified under oath. Grusch said he had been told of a multi-decade crash-retrieval and…", "band": "documented", "kind": "hearing-recording", "side": "US Congress", "aka": [], "glyph": null, "years": "2023"}, "house-uap-hearing-2024-11-13": {"name": "House joint subcommittee UAP hearing recording, 13 November 2024", "url": "/footage/house-uap-hearing-2024-11-13/", "summary": "The recorded hearing of 13 November 2024 at which Luis Elizondo, Rear Adm (ret.) 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