{ "built": "2026-09-05", "scope": "Media-sourcing pass (P0-6): real photographs, document scans, official recordings and location context added to records that had only an AI illustration or an archive link. Same item schema as media.json; merge into media.json records.", "licensing": "Each item retains the rights stated on it. Files under /assets/editorial/incoming/ are US government works or Wikimedia Commons CC/PD files; see incoming/INCOMING.json for source, licence and retrieval time of every file.", "records": { "crafts/flying-saucer-disc": [ { "title": "Passaic, New Jersey, 31 July 1952", "class": "real record", "kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/supposed-ufo-passaic-new-jersey.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Supposed_UFO,_Passaic,_New_Jersey.jpg", "credit": "George Stock · 1952", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Supposed_UFO,_Passaic,_New_Jersey.jpg", "caption": "George Stock's photograph of a domed disc over Passaic, New Jersey — one of the early 'flying saucer' photographs reproduced in the 1950s press. Never authenticated; shown as a period record of what was reported, not as proof of an object." } ], "crafts/boomerang-chevron": [ { "title": "Kenneth Arnold's sketch for Army Air Forces, July 1947", "class": "real record", "kind": "Witness drawing · archive", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/arnold-aaf-document.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_AAF_document.jpg", "credit": "Kenneth Arnold (1915 – January 16, 1984) · 1947", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_AAF_document.jpg", "caption": "Witness drawing. Arnold's July 1947 letter to the Commanding General at Wright Field, with his sketch of one of the nine objects — a crescent with a convex rear — from the Project Sign / Blue Book file. The word 'saucer' came from a reporter; this is the shape he drew." } ], "crafts/black-triangle": [ { "title": "The Petit-Rechain photograph, April 1990", "class": "archive · link only", "kind": "Photograph · admitted hoax (2011) · link only", "image": null, "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TriangleBelgium1990.jpg", "credit": "J.S. Henrardi via Wikimedia Commons", "rights": "Link only — rights with the publisher", "caption": "For two decades the emblem of the Belgian wave: a black triangle with three white lights and a red centre. In 2011 the photographer said he had faked it with a painted polystyrene model. Kept as a link because of its place in the record; it is not evidence of a craft." } ], "crafts/roswell-object": [ { "title": "General Ramey with the Fort Worth debris, 8 July 1947", "class": "real record", "kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ramey-dubose-debris.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramey-dubose-debris.jpg", "credit": "Fort Worth Star-Telegram · 1947", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramey-dubose-debris.jpg", "caption": "Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey and Col. Thomas DuBose pose with the material flown from Roswell to Fort Worth, photographed by J. Bond Johnson for the Star-Telegram. The Air Force later identified it as a Project Mogul balloon train; the debate is over whether this was the material found on the ranch." }, { "title": "Project Mogul balloon train (USAF report, 1995)", "class": "context", "kind": "Official document · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/mogul-balloon-train-usaf-1995.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mogul_balloon_train_USAF_1995.png", "credit": "United States Air Force · 1995", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mogul_balloon_train_USAF_1995.png", "caption": "Diagram from the 1995 US Air Force report 'The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction' showing a Mogul balloon train — the official explanation for the 1947 debris. Context for the claim, not a photograph of what was found." } ], "crafts/egg-shaped": [ { "title": "Landing-site photograph, Socorro case file (1964)", "class": "real record", "kind": "Archival photograph · investigation record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/project-blue-book-report-1964-04-6977589-socorro-newmexico-8766-p2.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1964-04-6977589-Socorro-NewMexico-8766-.pdf", "credit": "Project Blue Book · 1964", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1964-04-6977589-Socorro-NewMexico-8766-.pdf", "caption": "The ground outside Socorro, New Mexico, where police officer Lonnie Zamora reported an egg-shaped object on legs on 24 April 1964 — photographed for the Air Force Project Blue Book case file, which left the case 'unidentified'. Investigation photograph of the site; the object is not in it." } ], "beings/grey": [ { "title": "Grey figure, International UFO Museum, Roswell", "class": "context", "kind": "Museum exhibit · context, interpretation not evidence", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/gray-alien-body-at-ufo-museum-in-roswell.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray_alien_body_at_UFO_museum_in_Roswell.jpg", "credit": "Frank Pierson · 2010", "rights": "CC BY 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0", "caption": "A museum figure built to a popular description — small body, large head and black eyes. This exhibit documents a cultural representation, not a reported encounter or the appearance in every Grey account." } ], "beings/tall-white": [ { "title": "Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs, Nevada", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/creech-air-force-base-main-gate.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creech_Air_Force_Base_main_gate.jpg", "credit": "United States Air Force photo", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creech_Air_Force_Base_main_gate.jpg", "caption": "A later photograph of the Creech AFB main gate at Indian Springs, the area where Charles Hall says he worked as a weather observer in the 1960s. Place context only; it does not document his reported encounters." } ], "beings/men-in-black": [ { "title": "Gray Barker, 1956", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/gray-barker.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray_Barker.jpg", "credit": "Gray Barker · 1956", "rights": "CC BY-SA 1.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0", "caption": "Gray Barker posing in 1956 with promotional material for 'They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers', a book that helped popularize Albert Bender's account and later men-in-black lore. Portrait of a writer; not a photograph of the reported visitors." } ], "beings/tridactyl": [ { "title": "A Nazca-culture mummy, Museo Histórico Regional, Cusco", "class": "context", "kind": "Museum exhibit · context, not the disputed specimens", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/nazca-mummy-in-the-museo-historical-regional-cusco.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nazca_Mummy_in_the_Museo_Historical_Regional,_Cusco.jpg", "credit": "Brian Snelson · 2006", "rights": "CC BY 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0", "caption": "A conventional pre-Columbian mummy from the Nazca region in a Peruvian museum. Context only: the tridactyl 'bodies' promoted since 2017 are not in this picture. Peru's Ministry of Culture has described specimens it examined as assembled from human and animal remains." } ], "beings/cryptid": [ { "title": "Dire wolf skeleton (museum mount)", "class": "context", "kind": "Museum exhibit · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/dire-wolf-skeleton.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dire_Wolf_Skeleton.jpg", "credit": "Eden, Janine and Jim · 2013", "rights": "CC BY 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0", "caption": "Skeleton of Aenocyon dirus, the extinct dire wolf, in a natural-history museum. Context for the ranch stories that compare the 1994 Skinwalker wolf and a later carcass to a dire wolf — a real animal that vanished about 10,000 years ago. Not a photograph of anything seen at the ranch." } ], "beings/pascagoula-being": [ { "title": "Calvin Parker beside a promotional mannequin, 2019", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/calvin-parker.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvin-Parker.jpg", "credit": "SMG2019 · 2019", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Calvin Parker at the 2019 International UFO Congress, beside a promotional alien mannequin. Witness portrait and convention display; the mannequin is not a reconstruction of the reported Pascagoula occupants." } ], "beings/varginha-being": [ { "title": "Memorial do ET, Varginha (2025)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · cultural context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/memorial-do-et-de-varginha-19-de-fev-de-2025.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memorial_do_ET_de_Varginha_19_de_fev._de_2025.jpg", "credit": "Então Vamo! · 2025", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "The Memorial do ET building in Varginha, photographed in 2025. A visitor attraction associated with the 1996 case; place context, not a depiction or photograph of the reported being." } ], "footage/great-falls-1950": [ { "title": "Project Blue Book file on the Great Falls film (1950)", "class": "real record", "kind": "Official document · primary record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/project-blue-book-report-1950-08-9615640-greatfalls-mont-p2.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1950-08-9615640-GreatFalls-Mont.pdf", "credit": "Project Blue Book · 1950", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1950-08-9615640-GreatFalls-Mont.pdf", "caption": "A letter from the Air Force Project Blue Book case file on the Mariana film, August 1950 — the official record of how the film was received and assessed. Declassified document scan." }, { "title": "Documentary excerpt containing the Mariana film", "class": "archive · link only", "kind": "Film excerpt · link only · provenance of upload unverified", "image": null, "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nick_Mariana_UFO_Footage_1950_Great_Falls_Montana.webm", "credit": "Nick Mariana · 1950; upload via Wikimedia Commons", "rights": "Link only — public-domain claim by the uploader, not independently verified", "caption": "A five-minute clip on Wikimedia Commons that includes Nick Mariana's 16 mm footage of two bright objects over Great Falls, cut into a 1950s documentary with staged interview scenes. Linked rather than copied: the uploader's public-domain claim covers the documentary, and the clip is not the raw film." } ], "footage/tremonton-1952": [ { "title": "Robertson Panel report, January 1953", "class": "context", "kind": "Official document · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/robertson-panel-report-p1.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robertson_panel_report.pdf", "credit": "US Government · 1953", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robertson_panel_report.pdf", "caption": "First page of the CIA-convened Robertson Panel report. The panel screened the Tremonton film and judged the objects to be birds; the Navy photo lab had reached no such conclusion. Document scan · context." } ], "footage/calvine-1990": [ { "title": "Calvine, Perthshire (1999)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/calvine-1999-geograph-org-uk-4210583.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvine_-_1999_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4210583.jpg", "credit": "Helmut Zozmann · 1999", "rights": "CC BY-SA 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0", "caption": "The hamlet of Calvine on the A9 in Perthshire, where two hikers said they photographed a large diamond-shaped object and a jet in August 1990. Location photograph · context — the photograph itself is held elsewhere and is linked, not copied." } ], "footage/phoenix-lights-1997": [ { "title": "Phoenix skyline at night", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/downtown-phoenix-skyline-lights.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Phoenix_Skyline_Lights.jpg", "credit": "Alan Stark · 2012", "rights": "CC BY-SA 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0", "caption": "Downtown Phoenix after dark. Location photograph · context — the March 1997 lights were filmed by residents to the south-west of the city and are not in this picture; the recordings remain with their owners and broadcasters." }, { "title": "ABC15 Arizona: the Phoenix Lights, 28 years on", "class": "real record", "kind": "Broadcast report containing witness video · YouTube embed", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KKDy1QfBlxs/hqdefault.jpg", "video": "KKDy1QfBlxs", "embed": "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KKDy1QfBlxs", "source": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKDy1QfBlxs", "credit": "ABC15 Arizona (KNXV)", "rights": "YouTube-hosted preview and player from the broadcaster's own channel; not relicensed", "license_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKDy1QfBlxs", "caption": "ABC15 Arizona's 2025 retrospective, which replays residents' 13 March 1997 camcorder recordings of the row of lights and interviews witnesses. Broadcaster's own upload; the original home videos remain with their owners. Timecode not marked — the footage runs through the piece." } ], "footage/chilean-navy-2014": [ { "title": "Fox News report with the CEFAA-released video (2017)", "class": "real record", "kind": "Broadcast report containing the official recording · YouTube embed", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iEK3YC_BKTI/hqdefault.jpg", "video": "iEK3YC_BKTI", "embed": "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/iEK3YC_BKTI", "source": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK3YC_BKTI", "credit": "Fox News; footage CEFAA / Chilean Navy", "rights": "YouTube-hosted preview and player from the broadcaster's own channel; not relicensed", "license_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK3YC_BKTI", "caption": "Fox News's January 2017 report replaying the nine-minute infrared recording the Chilean agency CEFAA released as unexplained after a two-year review. Broadcaster's own upload of Chilean government footage; later analyses attribute the object to an airliner's contrail. Timecode not marked." } ], "footage/hessdalen-ams-camera": [ { "title": "Hessdalen valley in winter (archival)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/hessdalen-fo30141603210078.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hessdalen_-_Fo30141603210078.jpg", "credit": "Unknown authorUnknown author · 1953", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Hessdalen in 1953: a farmer hauling moss by horse through the snow, from the Norwegian National Archives' Billedbladet NÅ collection — the remote mountain hamlet whose sky the automatic measurement station now watches. Archival location photograph · context; the station's own frames are linked from hessdalen.org." } ], "footage/nimitz-2004-princeton-radar": [ { "title": "USS Princeton (CG-59), 2003", "class": "context", "kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/uss-princeton-cg-59-2003.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Princeton_(CG-59)_2003.jpg", "credit": "U.S. Navy photo by Airman Angel G Hilbrands. (RELEASED) · 2003", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Princeton_(CG-59)_2003.jpg", "caption": "The cruiser USS Princeton a year before the November 2004 encounters. Its SPY-1 radar operators, including Kevin Day, reported the tracks that led to the F/A-18 intercepts. Ship photograph · context; the radar recordings were never released." } ], "footage/skinwalker-ranch-footage": [ { "title": "Skinwalker Ranch entrance (2013)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/skinwalker-ranch-10393732103.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skinwalker_Ranch_(10393732103).jpg", "credit": "Paul from USA · 2013", "rights": "CC BY-SA 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0", "caption": "The gated entrance to the ranch in the Uinta Basin, Utah. Location photograph · context — the footage described by owners and television crews remains with them; nothing anomalous is in this picture." } ], "sites/nellis-range": [ { "title": "Creech Air Force Base main gate", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/creech-air-force-base-main-gate.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creech_Air_Force_Base_main_gate.jpg", "credit": "United States Air Force photo", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creech_Air_Force_Base_main_gate.jpg", "caption": "Creech AFB at Indian Springs, the southern gateway to the Nevada Test and Training Range. Location photograph · context." }, { "title": "Indian Springs and Creech AFB from the air (2025)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/creech-afc-and-indian-springs-nv-aerial.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creech_AFC_and_Indian_Springs_NV_aerial.jpg", "credit": "Dicklyon · 2025", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Aerial view of Indian Springs, Nevada, with the Creech runways beside the town and the range beyond. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/dulce": [ { "title": "Welcome sign, Dulce, New Mexico", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/dulce-welcome-9358459820.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dulce_Welcome_(9358459820).jpg", "credit": "U.S. Department of Agriculture Bob Nichols/Photographer/Unit · 2013", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dulce_Welcome_(9358459820).jpg", "caption": "Dulce, the Jicarilla Apache Nation's capital in northern New Mexico, named in the underground-base stories that grew from Paul Bennewitz's claims. Location photograph · context — no base has ever been shown to exist." } ], "sites/lockheed-skunk-works-helendale": [ { "title": "Helendale, California from the air", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/helendale-california-aerial.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helendale,_California_aerial.jpg", "credit": "Doc Searls · 2012", "rights": "CC BY 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0", "caption": "The Mojave Desert around Helendale, seen from an airliner. Lockheed's radar cross-section range sits in this desert; the pole-mounted test articles that gave rise to 'saucer over the desert' photographs are not in this picture. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/phoenix": [ { "title": "Phoenix skyline at night", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/downtown-phoenix-skyline-lights.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Phoenix_Skyline_Lights.jpg", "credit": "Alan Stark · 2012", "rights": "CC BY-SA 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0", "caption": "Downtown Phoenix after dark, from the south. Location photograph · context — the lights of 13 March 1997 were seen across the valley and are not in this frame." } ], "sites/kandahar-cave": [ { "title": "Arghandab valley, Kandahar province (2011)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/arghandab-river-valley-between-kandahar-and-lashkar-gah.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arghandab_River_Valley_between_Kandahar_and_Lashkar_Gah.jpg", "credit": "Mark Ray · 2012", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arghandab_River_Valley_between_Kandahar_and_Lashkar_Gah.jpg", "caption": "The Arghandab river valley between Kandahar and Lashkar Gah, from a US Army helicopter. The 'Kandahar giant' story names no verifiable location; this is the province's terrain. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/swedish-ghost-rocket-lakes": [ { "title": "Military search of Lake Kölmjärv, July 1946", "class": "context", "kind": "Archival photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ghost-rocket-search-july-1946.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghost_rocket_search_July_1946.jpg", "credit": "Swedish military photo · 1946", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghost_rocket_search_July_1946.jpg", "caption": "Swedish military personnel dragging Lake Kölmjärv in Norrbotten in July 1946 after witnesses reported a rocket-like object falling into the water. Nothing was recovered. Archival photograph of the search · context." } ], "sites/bradshaw-ranch-sedona": [ { "title": "Red rock country outside Sedona", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/on-the-road-sedona-27592780098.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_road_Sedona._(27592780098).jpg", "credit": "Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand · 2016", "rights": "CC0", "license_url": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en", "caption": "The red-rock landscape west of Sedona, Arizona, the country in which the Bradshaw Ranch stories are set. Location photograph · context — nothing anomalous is shown." } ], "sites/dyatlov-pass": [ { "title": "The hikers' tent as found, 26 February 1959", "class": "real record", "kind": "Archival photograph · investigation record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/dyatlov-pass-incident-02.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dyatlov_Pass_incident_02.jpg", "credit": "AnonymousUnknown author / Soviet investigators · 1959", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dyatlov_Pass_incident_02.jpg", "caption": "The Soviet search party's photograph of the Dyatlov group's tent, cut open from the inside, on the slope of Kholat Syakhl. A genuine investigation photograph; it shows the scene, not a cause." } ], "sites/zone-of-silence": [ { "title": "Gateway to the Zona del Silencio, Durango (2025)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/puerta-de-la-zona-del-silencio.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puerta_de_la_Zona_Del_Silencio.jpg", "credit": "Isaac Ramos Chavira · 2025", "rights": "CC0", "license_url": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en", "caption": "The marked entrance to Mexico's 'Zone of Silence' in the Mapimí desert, where a 1970 Athena rocket fell and legends of dead radios grew. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/min-min": [ { "title": "Min Min Encounter centre, Boulia, Queensland", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/min-min-encounter-herbert-st-boulia-queensland-p1060663.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Min_Min_Encounter_Herbert_St_Boulia_Queensland_P1060663.jpg", "credit": "John Robert McPherson · 2019", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "The Min Min Encounter visitor centre in Boulia, the outback town that has adopted the Min Min light. Location photograph · context — the light itself has never been photographed to general agreement." } ], "sites/bosnian-pyramid-visocica": [ { "title": "Visočica hill above Visoko", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/viso-ica-hill-from-the-road-closeup.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viso%C4%8Dica_hill_from_the_road_closeup.jpg", "credit": "Mhare · 2012", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Visočica hill from the road, its regular slopes the basis of the 'Bosnian pyramid' claim. Geologists describe a natural flatiron; the medieval royal town of Visoki stood on its summit. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/camp-hero-montauk": [ { "title": "AN/FPS-35 radar, Camp Hero State Park", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/camp-hero-radar-anfps-35.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_hero_radar_ANFPS-35.jpg", "credit": "Nojo13 at English Wikipedia · 2006", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_hero_radar_ANFPS-35.jpg", "caption": "The disused AN/FPS-35 radar dish at Camp Hero, Montauk — the landmark around which the 'Montauk Project' stories were written. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/piedmont-missouri": [ { "title": "Piedmont, Missouri", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/piedmont-missouri.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piedmont_Missouri.jpg", "credit": "Drowzy at English Wikipedia · 2007", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piedmont_Missouri.jpg", "caption": "The town of Piedmont in Wayne County, Missouri, scene of the 1973 wave of light sightings that drew a Southeast Missouri State University investigation. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/tonopah-test-range": [ { "title": "F-117 and T-38 over Tonopah Test Range (1989)", "class": "context", "kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/4450th-tactical-group-f-117-and-t-38-over-tonopah-test-range-air.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4450th_Tactical_Group_F-117_and_T-38_over_Tonopah_Test_Range_Airport.jpg", "credit": "United States Air Force · 1989", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4450th_Tactical_Group_F-117_and_T-38_over_Tonopah_Test_Range_Airport.jpg", "caption": "An F-117 of the then-secret 4450th Tactical Group with a T-38 over Tonopah Test Range Airport, 1989 — the programme flown at night from Tonopah while it remained classified. Official Air Force photograph · context." } ], "sites/holloman-white-sands": [ { "title": "Holloman Air Force Base flightline (2023)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/an-f-16-viper-assigned-to-the-49th-wing-takes-off-at-holloman-ai.webp", "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", "credit": "Tech. Sgt. Victor J. Caputo · 2023", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "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", "caption": "An F-16 departing Holloman AFB beside White Sands, New Mexico, in 2023. The base is the setting of the 'Holloman landing film' story; no such film has surfaced. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/cheyenne-mountain": [ { "title": "Cheyenne Mountain Complex entrance", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/cheyenne-mountain-complex-entrance.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex_entrance.jpg", "credit": "Unknown", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex_entrance.jpg", "caption": "The tunnel entrance to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex outside Colorado Springs, home of NORAD's hardened command centre. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/vandenberg-big-sur": [ { "title": "Minuteman III launch from Vandenberg (2006)", "class": "context", "kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/vandenberg-team-launches-minuteman-iii-2000539861.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandenberg_team_launches_Minuteman_III_(2000539861).jpg", "credit": "This image was released by the United States Air Force with · 2006", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandenberg_team_launches_Minuteman_III_(2000539861).jpg", "caption": "The streak of an unarmed Minuteman III test launch across the morning sky over Vandenberg, 7 April 2006. Vandenberg's missile tests are the backdrop to the 1964 Big Sur film claim and the 2003 'red square' report. Official Air Force photograph · context." } ], "sites/ellsworth-afb": [ { "title": "B-1B landing at Ellsworth AFB (2018)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/a-b-1b-lancer-lands-at-ellsworth-air-force-base-s-d-oct-30-2018.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_B-1B_Lancer_lands_at_Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base,_S.D.,_Oct._30,_2018.jpg", "credit": "U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Thomas Karol · 2018", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_B-1B_Lancer_lands_at_Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base,_S.D.,_Oct._30,_2018.jpg", "caption": "A B-1B Lancer of the 28th Bomb Wing lands at Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota. In 1977 the base's Minuteman field was the scene of a disputed security-police report. Official Air Force photograph · context." } ], "sites/loring-afb": [ { "title": "Weapons Storage Area, Loring AFB (1998)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/loring-afb-wsa-20.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LORING_AFB_WSA_20.jpg", "credit": "Jeff Bates · 1998", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LORING_AFB_WSA_20.jpg", "caption": "A structure in the former Weapons Storage Area at Loring AFB, Maine, recorded for the Historic American Engineering Record in 1998. The October 1975 sightings were reported over this area. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/daniels-park-colorado": [ { "title": "Bison at Daniels Park, Colorado", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/bison-in-daniels-park.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_in_Daniels_Park.jpg", "credit": "Pbritti · 2022", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Daniels Park, the Denver mountain park south of the city where its bison herd grazes — the setting of the 1995 Blitch account. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/norton-afb": [ { "title": "Norton AFB cargo ramp (1972)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/norton-air-force-base-mac-cargo-ramp.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norton_Air_Force_Base_-_MAC_Cargo_Ramp.jpg", "credit": "United States Air Force · 1972", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norton_Air_Force_Base_-_MAC_Cargo_Ramp.jpg", "caption": "Military Airlift Command transports on the ramp at Norton AFB, San Bernardino, California, in 1972. The base closed in 1994; stories of a hangar housing a recovered craft attach to it. Official Air Force photograph · context." } ], "sites/san-vito-italy": [ { "title": "San Vito dei Normanni, Apulia", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/san-vito-dei-normanni-le-vie-del-centro.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Vito_dei_Normanni_-_Le_vie_del_centro.JPG", "credit": "Zappuddu", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Vito_dei_Normanni_-_Le_vie_del_centro.JPG", "caption": "Streets of San Vito dei Normanni in Apulia, the town beside the former US Air Station named in a Cold War sighting account. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/kingman-arizona": [ { "title": "Desert hills near Kingman, Arizona", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/kingman-arizona-rockpile-hill.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kingman_Arizona_rockpile_hill.jpg", "credit": "Renjishino · 2007", "rights": "CC BY 3.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0", "caption": "Rock hills outside Kingman in Mohave County, the area named in the 1953 crash-retrieval story told decades later by 'Fritz Werner'. Location photograph · context — no site has ever been identified." } ], "sites/cape-canaveral": [ { "title": "Cape Canaveral's 'Missile Row' (1964)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/cape-canaveral-fla-ksc-64pc-0082.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CAPE_CANAVERAL,_Fla_(KSC-64PC-0082).jpg", "credit": "NASA Kennedy Space Center · 1964", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CAPE_CANAVERAL,_Fla_(KSC-64PC-0082).jpg", "caption": "Aerial view of the launch complexes along Cape Canaveral in 1964. NASA photograph · context." } ], "sites/mount-hayes-alaska": [ { "title": "Mount Hayes, Alaska Range", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/mount-hayes-north.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Hayes_north.jpg", "credit": "U.S. Army Alaska (USARAK) · 2011", "rights": "CC BY 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0", "caption": "The north face of Mount Hayes in the Alaska Range, a peak named in remote-viewing accounts of a hidden installation. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/mount-ziel-australia": [ { "title": "Mount Zeil, Northern Territory", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/mt-zeil.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt_Zeil.jpg", "credit": "PeterWH at English Wikipedia. Author: Peter Haines · 2007", "rights": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "license_url": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/", "caption": "Mount Zeil in the West MacDonnell Ranges, the highest point in the Northern Territory and one of four mountains named in the same remote-viewing accounts. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/mount-inyangani-zimbabwe": [ { "title": "Mount Nyangani, Zimbabwe", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/nyangani-south-end.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nyangani_south_end.jpg", "credit": "Babakathy at English Wikipedia · 2007", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nyangani_south_end.jpg", "caption": "The southern end of Mount Nyangani (Inyangani), Zimbabwe's highest mountain, long associated with disappearances in local lore. Location photograph · context." } ], "sites/mount-perdido-spain": [ { "title": "Monte Perdido, Pyrenees", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/monte-perdido-from-the-trail-senda-de-los-cazadores.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monte_Perdido_from_the_trail_Senda_de_los_Cazadores.jpg", "credit": "Martin Stiburek · 2020", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Monte Perdido in the Spanish Pyrenees, seen from the Senda de los Cazadores trail. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1933-magenta": [ { "title": "Piazza Liberazione, Magenta", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/magenta-piazza-liberazione.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magenta-piazza_Liberazione.jpg", "credit": "Davide Papalini · 2010", "rights": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0", "caption": "The centre of Magenta, Lombardy, the town named in the disputed 1933 crash-retrieval papers. Location photograph · context — the documents' authenticity has never been established." } ], "events/1942-battle-of-los-angeles": [ { "title": "Los Angeles Times photograph, 25 February 1942", "class": "real record", "kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/battle-of-los-angeles-latimes.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Los_Angeles_LATimes.jpg", "credit": "LA Times. · 1942", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Los_Angeles_LATimes.jpg", "caption": "The Los Angeles Times page of 26 February 1942 with its photograph of searchlights converging over the city during the anti-aircraft barrage. The print was heavily retouched before publication; the beams and shell bursts are real, the 'object' at their meeting point is not established." }, { "title": "Marshall memorandum to Roosevelt, 26 February 1942", "class": "context", "kind": "Official document · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/marshall-roosevelt-la.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marshall_Roosevelt_LA.gif", "credit": "Unknown authorUnknown author · 2012", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marshall_Roosevelt_LA.gif", "caption": "Gen. George Marshall's memo to President Roosevelt the day after the barrage, reporting 'unidentified airplanes' and 1,430 rounds fired. Official document · context." } ], "events/1945-trinity-san-antonio-crash": [ { "title": "Trinity Site obelisk", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/trinity-site-obelisk-national-historic-landmark.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Site_Obelisk_National_Historic_Landmark.jpg", "credit": "Samat Jain · 2010", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Site_Obelisk_National_Historic_Landmark.jpg", "caption": "The obelisk at Trinity Site on White Sands Missile Range, marking the July 1945 test. The San Antonio crash claim places its object some 30 km away in the same month; that site is unmarked and unverified. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1946-ghost-rockets": [ { "title": "Erik Reuterswärd's photograph, 9 July 1946", "class": "real record", "kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ghostrocket-7-09-1946.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghostrocket_7-09-1946.jpg", "credit": "Erik Reuterswärd · 1946", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghostrocket_7-09-1946.jpg", "caption": "The only photograph from the 1946 wave: a streak over Sweden taken by Erik Reuterswärd on 9 July 1946, printed in the press as a 'ghost rocket'. Most researchers read it as a daylight meteor. Small original; shown at its own size." }, { "title": "Searching Lake Kölmjärv, July 1946", "class": "context", "kind": "Archival photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ghost-rocket-search-july-1946.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghost_rocket_search_July_1946.jpg", "credit": "Swedish military photo · 1946", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghost_rocket_search_July_1946.jpg", "caption": "Swedish military personnel search Lake Kölmjärv after a reported fall. The three-week search recovered nothing. Archival photograph · context." } ], "events/1947-maury-island": [ { "title": "Maury Island, Puget Sound", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/2022-maury-island.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022_Maury_Island.jpg", "credit": "Mark Yasuda · 2022", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Maury Island in Puget Sound, where Harold Dahl said slag fell on his boat in June 1947 — a story Dahl later called a hoax. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1947-kenneth-arnold": [ { "title": "Kenneth Arnold's letter and sketch, July 1947", "class": "real record", "kind": "Witness drawing · archive", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/arnold-aaf-document.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_AAF_document.jpg", "credit": "Kenneth Arnold (1915 – January 16, 1984) · 1947", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_AAF_document.jpg", "caption": "Arnold's letter to the Commanding General at Wright Field with his own sketch of the objects he saw near Mount Rainier on 24 June 1947, preserved in the Project Sign / Blue Book files. Witness drawing · the origin of the modern sighting record." } ], "events/1947-roswell": [ { "title": "General Ramey with the debris, Fort Worth, 8 July 1947", "class": "real record", "kind": "Archival photograph · reported object", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ramey-dubose-debris.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramey-dubose-debris.jpg", "credit": "Fort Worth Star-Telegram · 1947", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramey-dubose-debris.jpg", "caption": "Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey and Col. Thomas DuBose with the material flown from Roswell, photographed for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Whether this is what Mac Brazel found, or a substitution, is the heart of the dispute." }, { "title": "Roswell Daily Record, 8 July 1947", "class": "context", "kind": "Published text · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/roswell-daily-record-july-8-1947-raaf-captures-flying-saucer-on-.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roswell_Daily_Record._July_8,_1947._RAAF_Captures_Flying_Saucer_On_Ranch_in_Roswell_Region._Top_of_front_page.jpg", "credit": "Roswell Daily Record. · 1947", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roswell_Daily_Record._July_8,_1947._RAAF_Captures_Flying_Saucer_On_Ranch_in_Roswell_Region._Top_of_front_page.jpg", "caption": "The front page that made the story: 'RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region'. The next day's paper carried the weather-balloon correction. Published text · context." } ], "events/1948-aztec": [ { "title": "Hart Canyon, near Aztec, New Mexico", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/hart-canyon-flickr-aspidoscelis-1.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hart_Canyon_-_Flickr_-_aspidoscelis_(1).jpg", "credit": "Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · 2014", "rights": "CC0", "license_url": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en", "caption": "Hart Canyon north-east of Aztec, the mesa country named as the 1948 crash site in Frank Scully's book — a story traced to two con men. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1952-washington-flap": [ { "title": "Washington National Airport, March 1952", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/photograph-of-president-truman-s-airplane-the-independence-prepa.webp", "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", "credit": "Abbie Rowe · 1952", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "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", "caption": "The presidential aircraft at Washington National Airport four months before the July 1952 radar tracks and jet scrambles over the capital. Location photograph · context — the radar scopes were never photographed for release." } ], "events/1953-robertson-panel": [ { "title": "Robertson Panel report, January 1953", "class": "real record", "kind": "Official document · primary record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/robertson-panel-report-p1.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robertson_panel_report.pdf", "credit": "US Government · 1953", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robertson_panel_report.pdf", "caption": "First page of the report of the CIA-convened scientific panel chaired by H. P. Robertson, which recommended debunking and public education. Declassified document scan." } ], "events/1953-kingman": [ { "title": "Hills near Kingman, Arizona", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/kingman-arizona-rockpile-hill.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kingman_Arizona_rockpile_hill.jpg", "credit": "Renjishino · 2007", "rights": "CC BY 3.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0", "caption": "Desert hills outside Kingman. The 1953 retrieval story rests on a single pseudonymous witness interviewed in 1973 and names no exact site. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1957-levelland": [ { "title": "Project Blue Book file, Levelland, November 1957", "class": "real record", "kind": "Official document · primary record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/project-blue-book-report-1957-11-6781581-levelland-texas-p3.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1957-11-6781581-Levelland-Texas.pdf", "credit": "Project Blue Book · 1957", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1957-11-6781581-Levelland-Texas.pdf", "caption": "Teletype report from the Air Force case file on the Levelland sightings of 2–3 November 1957, which Blue Book attributed to ball lightning. Declassified document scan." } ], "events/1961-betty-barney-hill": [ { "title": "Betty Hill's star map and the Hill papers (UNH)", "class": "archive · link only", "kind": "Witness drawing · archive · link only", "image": null, "source": "https://sites.usnh.edu/archivalanalysis/hill-collection-overview/", "credit": "University of New Hampshire Library", "rights": "Link only — rights with the publisher", "caption": "The University of New Hampshire holds Betty and Barney Hill's papers, including the star map Betty drew under hypnosis in 1964 and her dress from the night of the encounter. Witness drawing · linked, not copied." } ], "events/1962-bluegill-johnston-atoll": [ { "title": "Johnston Atoll from the air (1990)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/johnston-atoll-df-st-92-02431.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnston-Atoll-DF-ST-92-02431.JPEG", "credit": "SSgt. Val Gempis, USAF · 1990", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnston-Atoll-DF-ST-92-02431.JPEG", "caption": "Johnston Atoll in the central Pacific, launch site of the 1962 Operation Dominic high-altitude tests. Official photograph · context." }, { "title": "Bluegill Prime pad failure, 25 July 1962", "class": "context", "kind": "Archival photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/bluegill-prime-thor-missile-explodes.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bluegill_Prime_Thor_Missile_Explodes.JPG", "credit": "Department of Defense · 2014", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bluegill_Prime_Thor_Missile_Explodes.JPG", "caption": "The Thor missile of the Bluegill Prime shot destroyed on its pad at Johnston Island. The claim of an object near the later Bluegill Triple Prime shot is separate; this shows the programme's real record of failures. Official photograph · context." } ], "events/1964-socorro": [ { "title": "Landing-site photograph, Socorro case file (1964)", "class": "real record", "kind": "Archival photograph · investigation record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/project-blue-book-report-1964-04-6977589-socorro-newmexico-8766-p2.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1964-04-6977589-Socorro-NewMexico-8766-.pdf", "credit": "Project Blue Book · 1964", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_report_-_1964-04-6977589-Socorro-NewMexico-8766-.pdf", "caption": "A photograph of the ground outside Socorro where Lonnie Zamora reported an egg-shaped object on 24 April 1964, as filed in the Air Force Project Blue Book case — one Blue Book left 'unidentified'. Investigation photograph of the site; the object is not in it." } ], "events/1964-vandenberg-barr": [ { "title": "Atlas launch from Vandenberg, Complex 3E", "class": "context", "kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/an-atlas-missile-is-launched-from-complex-3e-dpla-7d33d89f858984.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Atlas_missile_is_launched_from_Complex_3E_-_DPLA_-_7d33d89f858984b07b3a2eb076c2811e.jpeg", "credit": "Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. · 1980", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Atlas_missile_is_launched_from_Complex_3E_-_DPLA_-_7d33d89f858984b07b3a2eb076c2811e.jpeg", "caption": "An Atlas missile lifts off from Vandenberg's Complex 3E. The 1964 launches from Vandenberg are the setting of the Barr and Jacobs accounts. Official photograph · context, not the launch described." } ], "events/1964-big-sur-vandenberg-jacobs": [ { "title": "Atlas ICBM raised for launch (1960s)", "class": "context", "kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/atlas-icbm-erection-large.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas-icbm-erection-large.jpg", "credit": "U.S. Air Force · 1960", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas-icbm-erection-large.jpg", "caption": "An Atlas ICBM being raised on its launcher in the early 1960s — the missile type whose dummy warhead Robert Jacobs says his Big Sur telescope filmed being struck by an object in September 1964. Official photograph · context; the film itself was never released." } ], "events/1965-kecksburg": [ { "title": "The 'Space Acorn' replica, Kecksburg", "class": "context", "kind": "Replica model · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/spacea.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SpaceA.JPG", "credit": "Navy2004 · 2013", "rights": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0", "caption": "The acorn-shaped prop built for a 1990 television re-creation, now displayed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Replica · interpretation of the witnesses' description, not the object." } ], "events/1966-westall": [ { "title": "Westall railway station, Clayton South", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/westall-railway-station-melbourne.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westall_railway_station_-_Melbourne.jpg", "credit": "Effluvium1 · 2021", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Westall station in Melbourne's south-east, a short walk from the schools whose pupils reported a silver object landing in the Grange paddock on 6 April 1966. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1966-portage-county": [ { "title": "Portage County Courthouse, Ravenna, Ohio", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/portage-county-courthouse.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portage_County_courthouse.jpg", "credit": "JonRidinger · 2009", "rights": "CC BY 3.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0", "caption": "Ravenna, Ohio, the county seat from which deputies Spaur and Neff began their 17 April 1966 pursuit of a bright object into Pennsylvania. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1967-malmstrom-shutdown": [ { "title": "Minuteman Launch Control Facility, Malmstrom AFB", "class": "context", "kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/launch-control-facility-after-construction-at-malmstrom-afb-mont.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Launch_Control_Facility_after_construction_at_Malmstrom_AFB,_Montana.jpg", "credit": "U.S. Air Force photo · 1961", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Launch_Control_Facility_after_construction_at_Malmstrom_AFB,_Montana.jpg", "caption": "A Minuteman Launch Control Facility at Malmstrom AFB after construction — the type of site where Robert Salas says ten missiles dropped off alert on 24 March 1967. Official Air Force photograph · context." } ], "events/1967-shag-harbour": [ { "title": "Shag Harbour incident memorial park", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/shag-harbour-incident-park.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shag_Harbour_Incident_Park.jpg", "credit": "SnowyBadger · 2017", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "The small park at Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, commemorating the object seen entering the water on 4 October 1967 and the naval search that followed. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1969-condon-report-blue-book-closed": [ { "title": "Air Force fact sheet on Project Blue Book", "class": "real record", "kind": "Official document · primary record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/project-blue-book-summary-p1.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_summary.pdf", "credit": "US Governement · 1966", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Blue_Book_summary.pdf", "caption": "First page of the Air Force fact sheet summarising Project Blue Book's 12,618 sightings and its closure in December 1969 after the Condon Report. Official document scan." }, { "title": "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (the Condon Report), 1968", "class": "archive · link only", "kind": "Published text · link only", "image": null, "source": "https://files.ncas.org/condon/", "credit": "University of Colorado / NCAS", "rights": "Link only — text hosted by NCAS", "caption": "Full text of the University of Colorado study led by Edward Condon, whose conclusion that further study was unjustified ended Blue Book. Hosted by the National Capital Area Skeptics; linked, not copied." } ], "events/1970-uss-holland": [ { "title": "USS Holland (AS-32), c. 1963", "class": "context", "kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/uss-holland-as-32-underway-c1963.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Holland_(AS-32)_underway_c1963.jpg", "credit": "U.S. Department of Defense · 1963", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Holland_(AS-32)_underway_c1963.jpg", "caption": "The submarine tender USS Holland under way in the early 1960s. Ship photograph · context for the 1970 account; nothing from the reported sighting was recorded." } ], "events/undated-holloman-landing-film": [ { "title": "Holloman Air Force Base (2023)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/an-f-16-viper-assigned-to-the-49th-wing-takes-off-at-holloman-ai.webp", "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", "credit": "Tech. Sgt. Victor J. Caputo · 2023", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "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", "caption": "Holloman AFB beside White Sands, New Mexico. The story of a filmed landing here has circulated since the 1970s; no film has ever been produced. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1973-pascagoula": [ { "title": "Calvin Parker, 2019", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/calvin-parker.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvin-Parker.jpg", "credit": "SMG2019 · 2019", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Calvin Parker, who with Charles Hickson reported the 11 October 1973 abduction from the bank of the Pascagoula River, at the 2019 International UFO Congress in Phoenix. Witness portrait · context." } ], "events/1975-loring-afb": [ { "title": "Loring Air Force Base, Maine", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/loring-air-force-base.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loring_Air_Force_Base.jpg", "credit": "Unknown authorUnknown author · 1970", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loring_Air_Force_Base.jpg", "caption": "Aerial photograph of Loring AFB in northern Maine, c. 1970 — the Strategic Air Command base where security police tracked an unidentified helicopter-like object over the weapons storage area in October 1975. Archival location photograph · context." } ], "events/1975-travis-walton": [ { "title": "Travis Walton, 2019", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/travis-walton-2019-cropped.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Travis_Walton_2019_(cropped).jpg", "credit": "SMG2019 · 2019", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Travis Walton, who said he was taken from a logging site in the Apache-Sitgreaves forest on 5 November 1975 and returned five days later, photographed in 2019. Witness portrait · context." } ], "events/1976-allagash": [ { "title": "Allagash Lake, Maine", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/allagash-lake-from-allagash-mountain.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allagash_Lake_from_Allagash_Mountain.jpg", "credit": "Nannochloropsis · 2018", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Allagash Lake in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, the canoe country where four art students reported a light and lost time in August 1976. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1976-tehran": [ { "title": "Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4E Phantom II", "class": "context", "kind": "Aircraft type photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/iranian-f-4e-phantom-ii-armed-with-agm-65-maverick.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iranian_F-4E_Phantom_II_armed_with_AGM-65_Maverick.jpg", "credit": "IIAF", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iranian_F-4E_Phantom_II_armed_with_AGM-65_Maverick.jpg", "caption": "An Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4E of the type scrambled from Shahrokhi on the night of 18–19 September 1976, when crews reported instrument failures approaching a bright object. Aircraft type photograph · context, not from the incident." } ], "events/1977-broad-haven": [ { "title": "Broad Haven beach, St Brides Bay", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/broad-haven-sunset.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad_Haven_Sunset.jpg", "credit": "Jzwift · 2017", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Broad Haven on St Brides Bay, Pembrokeshire, where fourteen primary-school pupils drew a silver object they said landed by the school field on 4 February 1977. Location photograph · context — the children's drawings are held by their school and the press." } ], "events/1977-ellsworth-november-5": [ { "title": "Ellsworth AFB from above (1997)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/ellsworth-air-force-base-3apr1997.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base_-_3Apr1997.jpg", "credit": "United States Geological Survey (USGS) · 1997", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base_-_3Apr1997.jpg", "caption": "USGS aerial image of Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota. The 16 November 1977 report attributed to a base security team has been called a hoax by Air Force sources. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1980-kirtland-bennewitz-manzano": [ { "title": "Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/kirtland-air-force-base-01.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirtland_Air_Force_Base_01.jpg", "credit": "Joe Mabel · 2015", "rights": "CC BY 3.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0", "caption": "Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, in 2015. Its Manzano weapons storage area is what Paul Bennewitz filmed from his house in 1980, drawing the attention of AFOSI. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1980-cash-landrum": [ { "title": "Huffman, Texas", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/huffman-texas-flickr-pinemikey.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huffman,_Texas_-_Flickr_-_pinemikey.jpg", "credit": "Michael Martin from Cypress, Texas · 2008", "rights": "CC BY-SA 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0", "caption": "Huffman, north-east of Houston, near the road where Betty Cash and Vickie and Colby Landrum reported a flaming diamond and helicopters on 29 December 1980. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1981-1984-hessdalen-wave": [ { "title": "Hessdalen valley in winter (archival)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/hessdalen-fo30141603210078.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hessdalen_-_Fo30141603210078.jpg", "credit": "Unknown authorUnknown author · 1953", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Hessdalen in 1953, from the Norwegian National Archives: a farmer and horse hauling moss between the valley's abandoned farms. Three decades later its residents were reporting lights several times a week. Archival location photograph · context." } ], "events/1984-majestic-12-documents-surface": [ { "title": "FBI file on the MJ-12 papers", "class": "real record", "kind": "Official document · primary record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/majestic-12-part-1-of-1-page-4-crop.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Majestic_12_Part_1_of_1_(page_4_crop).jpg", "credit": "Federal Bureau of Investigation · 1988", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Majestic_12_Part_1_of_1_(page_4_crop).jpg", "caption": "A page from the FBI's released file on the 'Majestic 12' documents, stamped BOGUS by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Official document · the Bureau's own record of the papers." } ], "events/1986-brazil-night-of-ufos": [ { "title": "Brazilian Air Force Mirage III", "class": "context", "kind": "Aircraft type photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/mirage-iii-4870089628.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mirage_III_(4870089628).jpg", "credit": "André Gustavo Stumpf from Brasília, Brasil · 2010", "rights": "CC BY 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0", "caption": "A Mirage III of the Brazilian Air Force, the type scrambled from Anápolis alongside F-5s on 19 May 1986 to intercept objects tracked on radar over São Paulo state. Aircraft type photograph · context, not from the night itself." } ], "events/1986-jal-1628": [ { "title": "Japan Air Lines Boeing 747-200F", "class": "context", "kind": "Aircraft type photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/boeing-747-200f-jal-cargo-03.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_747-200F_(JAL_Cargo)_03.jpg", "credit": "Communi core by S.Fujioka · 1990", "rights": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "license_url": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/", "caption": "A JAL Cargo 747-200F, the type Captain Kenju Terauchi was flying over Alaska on 17 November 1986 when he reported two lights and a huge 'walnut' shape. Aircraft type photograph · context." } ], "events/1989-lazar-s4": [ { "title": "Extraterrestrial Highway sign, Nevada 375", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/2014-07-18-12-22-25-first-extraterrestrial-highway-sign-along-no.webp", "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", "credit": "Famartin · 2014", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Nevada State Route 375, renamed the Extraterrestrial Highway in 1996 after the attention Bob Lazar's claims brought to the Groom Lake area. Cultural landmark · context." } ], "events/1989-belgian-wave": [ { "title": "The Petit-Rechain photograph, April 1990", "class": "archive · link only", "kind": "Photograph · admitted hoax (2011) · link only", "image": null, "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TriangleBelgium1990.jpg", "credit": "J.S. Henrardi via Wikimedia Commons", "rights": "Link only — rights with the publisher", "caption": "The best-known image of the wave, a black triangle with three lights. Its photographer said in 2011 that he had faked it with a polystyrene model. Linked for its place in the record; the F-16 radar lock-ons of 30–31 March 1990 are a separate question." } ], "events/1995-blitch-daniels-park": [ { "title": "Daniels Park, Colorado", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/bison-in-daniels-park.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_in_Daniels_Park.jpg", "credit": "Pbritti · 2022", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Daniels Park south of Denver, the setting of Bill Blitch's 1995 account. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/1996-skinwalker-ranch-nids": [ { "title": "Skinwalker Ranch entrance (2013)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/skinwalker-ranch-10393732103.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skinwalker_Ranch_(10393732103).jpg", "credit": "Paul from USA · 2013", "rights": "CC BY-SA 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0", "caption": "The ranch gate in the Uinta Basin, Utah, bought by Robert Bigelow's NIDS in 1996 for round-the-clock observation. Location photograph · context — none of the reported phenomena is shown." } ], "events/1996-varginha": [ { "title": "Memorial do ET, Varginha (2025)", "class": "context", "kind": "Monument · context, interpretation not evidence", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/memorial-do-et-de-varginha-19-de-fev-de-2025.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memorial_do_ET_de_Varginha_19_de_fev._de_2025.jpg", "credit": "Então Vamo! · 2025", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Varginha's memorial to the January 1996 story, photographed in 2025. A civic monument built on the witnesses' description; the Brazilian Army's 2010 statement attributed the creature to a mentally disabled local man." } ], "events/1997-phoenix-lights": [ { "title": "Phoenix skyline at night", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/downtown-phoenix-skyline-lights.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Phoenix_Skyline_Lights.jpg", "credit": "Alan Stark · 2012", "rights": "CC BY-SA 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0", "caption": "Downtown Phoenix after dark. Location photograph · context — the V of lights seen on 13 March 1997 and the later flares filmed over the Estrella range are not in this picture." } ], "events/1997-ilyumzhinov-moscow": [ { "title": "Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Moscow, 2010", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/kirsan-ilyumzhinov-2010-moscow.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov_2010_Moscow.jpg", "credit": "A.Savin · 2010", "rights": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0", "caption": "Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of Kalmykia and of FIDE, who said in 2010 that he had been taken aboard a craft from his Moscow flat in 1997. Portrait of the claimant · context." } ], "events/2002-kandahar-giant": [ { "title": "Arghandab valley, Kandahar province", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/arghandab-river-valley-between-kandahar-and-lashkar-gah.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arghandab_River_Valley_between_Kandahar_and_Lashkar_Gah.jpg", "credit": "Mark Ray · 2012", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arghandab_River_Valley_between_Kandahar_and_Lashkar_Gah.jpg", "caption": "The Arghandab river valley in Kandahar province from a US Army helicopter. The 'giant' story, told by anonymous sources years later, names no unit, date or site. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/2002-wilson-davis-meeting": [ { "title": "Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/vadm-thomas-r-wilson.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vadm_thomas_r_wilson.jpg", "credit": "U.S. Navy", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vadm_thomas_r_wilson.jpg", "caption": "Official portrait of Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency 1999–2002. The 'Wilson–Davis notes' describe a 2002 conversation with him; Wilson has denied the meeting took place. Portrait · context." } ], "events/2003-vandenberg-red-square": [ { "title": "Minuteman III test launch, Vandenberg (2006)", "class": "context", "kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/vandenberg-team-launches-minuteman-iii-2000539861.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandenberg_team_launches_Minuteman_III_(2000539861).jpg", "credit": "This image was released by the United States Air Force with · 2006", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandenberg_team_launches_Minuteman_III_(2000539861).jpg", "caption": "The streak of a Minuteman III test launch over Vandenberg in the early morning of 7 April 2006. The 2003 'red square' report comes from a security officer on this base. Official Air Force photograph · context, not from the night in question." } ], "events/2007-bledsoe-cape-fear": [ { "title": "Cape Fear River, North Carolina", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/cape-fear-river.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Fear_River.jpg", "credit": "Maggiehc23 · 2022", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "The Cape Fear River seen from Raven Rock State Park. Chris Bledsoe and his son reported lights and lost time on the river's banks near Fayetteville, downstream, on 8 January 2007. Location photograph · context — not the exact spot." } ], "events/2008-stephenville": [ { "title": "Downtown Stephenville, Texas", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/downtown-stephenville-2024.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Stephenville_2024.jpg", "credit": "Renegomezphotography · 2024", "rights": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0", "caption": "Stephenville in Erath County, Texas, where dozens of residents reported a large silent object on 8 January 2008 and the Air Force later confirmed F-16s in the area. Location photograph · context." } ], "events/2010-fe-warren-outage": [ { "title": "Missile display at the F. E. Warren AFB gate (2012)", "class": "context", "kind": "Place photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/missile-display-at-f-e-warren-afb-120407-f-jw079-036.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Missile_display_at_F.E._Warren_AFB_120407-F-JW079-036.jpg", "credit": "Richard Oriez · 2012", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Missile_display_at_F.E._Warren_AFB_120407-F-JW079-036.jpg", "caption": "The static display of intercontinental ballistic missiles at the front gate of F. E. Warren AFB, Wyoming, whose 90th Missile Wing lost communication with 50 Minuteman III missiles for about an hour on 23 October 2010 — an outage the Air Force attributed to a hardware fault. Official Air Force photograph · context." } ], "events/2013-aguadilla": [ { "title": "Aguadilla / Puerto Rico objects", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2411/944204/DOD_110692805.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2411/DOD_110692805/DOD_110692805-1920x1080-9000k.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/944204/puerto-rico-objects", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "The 25 April 2013 infrared recording from a Customs and Border Protection aircraft over Aguadilla, released by the Department of Defense in 2024. Official sensor recording; provenance established, identity of the object debated." }, { "title": "AARO digital reconstruction of the Aguadilla object (2025)", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2503/955936/DOD_110874616.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2503/DOD_110874616/DOD_110874616.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/955936/2013-puerto-rico-object-reconstruction", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office's 3D reconstruction of the object's path, released on DVIDS. An analytical animation, not a recording — AARO's own model of the case." } ], "events/2014-2015-roosevelt-gimbal-gofast": [ { "title": "GIMBAL", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2503/956955/DOD_110891172.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2503/DOD_110891172/DOD_110891172.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956955/gimbal-uap", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "GIMBAL, recorded from a Navy F/A-18 off the US East Coast in January 2015 and released by the Department of Defense in 2020. Official sensor recording; the rotation of the object is disputed as a camera artefact." }, { "title": "GOFAST", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2503/956683/DOD_110886776.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2503/DOD_110886776/DOD_110886776.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956683/gofast-uap", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "GOFAST, recorded from a Navy F/A-18 off the East Coast in January 2015. Official sensor recording; analysts differ on the object's true speed once parallax is taken into account." }, { "title": "Crew on the flight deck of USS Theodore Roosevelt, May 2015", "class": "context", "kind": "Hardware photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/uss-theodore-roosevelt-cvn-71-2015-deployment-150524-n-gn619-515.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Theodore_Roosevelt_(CVN_71)_2015_deployment_150524-N-GN619-515.jpg", "credit": "May 24, 2015 · 2015", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Theodore_Roosevelt_(CVN_71)_2015_deployment_150524-N-GN619-515.jpg", "caption": "The commanding officer addresses the crew on the flight deck of USS Theodore Roosevelt during the 2015 deployment — the carrier whose air wing, including Ryan Graves's squadron, reported the 2014–2015 encounters. Official Navy photograph · context." }, { "title": "AARO unresolved report, eastern United States, 2015", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2607/1014108/DOD_111830065.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2607/DOD_111830065/DOD_111830065.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1014108/dow-uap-pr109-unresolved-uap-report-eastern-united-states-2015", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "Twenty-one seconds of infrared footage from a US military platform over the eastern United States in 2015, released by AARO in 2026 as an unresolved case. AARO does not link it to the Roosevelt encounters; shown as the only other official 2015 East Coast recording." } ], "events/2015-nazca-tridactyl-bodies": [ { "title": "A Nazca-culture mummy, Cusco museum", "class": "context", "kind": "Museum exhibit · context, not the disputed specimens", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/nazca-mummy-in-the-museo-historical-regional-cusco.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nazca_Mummy_in_the_Museo_Historical_Regional,_Cusco.jpg", "credit": "Brian Snelson · 2006", "rights": "CC BY 2.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0", "caption": "A conventional Nazca-region mummy in the Museo Histórico Regional, Cusco. Context for what authentic mummies from the area look like; the tridactyl specimens promoted since 2017 are not shown and remain disputed." } ], "events/2017-nyt-aatip-disclosure": [ { "title": "GIMBAL", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2503/956955/DOD_110891172.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2503/DOD_110891172/DOD_110891172.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956955/gimbal-uap", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "GIMBAL, one of the two videos published alongside the New York Times story of 16 December 2017 that disclosed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Official sensor recording, later released formally by the Pentagon in 2020." }, { "title": "Luis Elizondo (2021)", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/luis-elizondo.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luis_Elizondo.jpg", "credit": "Max Moszkowicz · 2021", "rights": "CC BY 3.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0", "caption": "Luis Elizondo, the former Pentagon official who said he had run AATIP and resigned in October 2017, weeks before the Times story. Portrait · context." } ], "events/2019-navy-confirms-uap-videos": [ { "title": "GOFAST", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2503/956683/DOD_110886776.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2503/DOD_110886776/DOD_110886776.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956683/gofast-uap", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "GOFAST — one of the three videos a Navy spokesman confirmed in September 2019 as genuine recordings of 'unidentified aerial phenomena', the first official use of the term for these clips." } ], "events/2020-pentagon-video-release": [ { "title": "FLIR1 (2004), released 27 April 2020", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2503/955825/DOD_110872545.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2503/DOD_110872545/DOD_110872545-1920x1080-9000k.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/955825/flir-uap", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "FLIR1, from the 2004 Nimitz encounter — one of the three videos the Department of Defense formally released on 27 April 2020 'to clear up any misconceptions' about their authenticity." }, { "title": "GIMBAL (2015), released 27 April 2020", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2503/956955/DOD_110891172.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2503/DOD_110891172/DOD_110891172.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956955/gimbal-uap", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "GIMBAL, recorded off the East Coast in 2015 and formally released with FLIR1 and GOFAST on 27 April 2020." }, { "title": "GOFAST (2015), released 27 April 2020", "class": "real record", "kind": "Sensor recording · official release", "image": "https://d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net/thumbs/frames/video/2503/956683/DOD_110886776.0000001/800x450_q95.jpg", "mp4": "https://d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/2503/DOD_110886776/DOD_110886776.mp4", "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/956683/gofast-uap", "credit": "US military / DVIDS", "rights": "Public domain — US government work; DVIDS usage terms apply", "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright", "caption": "GOFAST, the third of the videos released on 27 April 2020. The Pentagon stated that the phenomena remained 'unidentified'." } ], "events/2021-odni-preliminary-assessment": [ { "title": "ODNI Preliminary Assessment, June 2021", "class": "real record", "kind": "Official document · primary record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/preliminary-assessment-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-cover.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preliminary-Assessment-Unidentified-Aerial-Phenomena-cover.jpg", "credit": "The Office of the Director of National Intelligence · 2021", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preliminary-Assessment-Unidentified-Aerial-Phenomena-cover.jpg", "caption": "Cover of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's nine-page 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena', 25 June 2021, which reviewed 144 reports and explained one. Official document." } ], "events/2022-house-uap-hearing": [ { "title": "Bray and Moultrie testify, 17 May 2022", "class": "real record", "kind": "Official recording · hearing frame", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/scott-bray-and-ronald-moultrie-testify-to-house-permanent-select.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Bray_and_Ronald_Moultrie_testify_to_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence_17_May_2022.png", "credit": "U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence · 2022", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Bray_and_Ronald_Moultrie_testify_to_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence_17_May_2022.png", "caption": "Scott Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, and Ronald Moultrie, under-secretary for intelligence and security, before the House Intelligence subcommittee — the first open congressional hearing on the subject since 1970. Frame from the committee's recording." } ], "events/2022-aaro-established": [ { "title": "AARO emblem", "class": "context", "kind": "Agency emblem · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office-aaro-logo.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All-domain_Anomaly_Resolution_Office_AARO_Logo.png", "credit": "U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution O · 2026", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All-domain_Anomaly_Resolution_Office_AARO_Logo.png", "caption": "The seal of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, established in the Department of Defense in July 2022 to succeed the UAP Task Force. Official emblem · context." } ], "events/2023-grusch-newsnation": [ { "title": "David Grusch under oath, 26 July 2023", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/david-grusch-giving-testimony-on-26-july-2023-before-the-us-hous.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Grusch_giving_testimony_on_26_July_2023_before_the_US_House_Subcommittee_on_National_Security_the_Border_and_Foreign_Affairs.png", "credit": "U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, an · 2023", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Grusch_giving_testimony_on_26_July_2023_before_the_US_House_Subcommittee_on_National_Security_the_Border_and_Foreign_Affairs.png", "caption": "David Grusch, the former intelligence officer whose June 2023 NewsNation interview alleged a hidden retrieval programme, shown testifying to Congress the following month. Frame from the House recording · context for the interview, which remains with NewsNation." } ], "events/2023-schumer-rounds-amendment": [ { "title": "Senator Chuck Schumer", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/chuck-schumer-official-photo-cropped.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chuck_Schumer_official_photo_(cropped).jpg", "credit": "U.S. Senate Photographic Studio/Jeff McEvoy · 2017", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chuck_Schumer_official_photo_(cropped).jpg", "caption": "Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, co-sponsor of the July 2023 UAP Disclosure Act amendment that proposed a review board and eminent domain over recovered materials. Official portrait · context." }, { "title": "Senator Mike Rounds", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/mike-rounds-official-senate-portrait-cropped.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_Rounds_official_Senate_portrait_(cropped).jpg", "credit": "United States Congress · 2015", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_Rounds_official_Senate_portrait_(cropped).jpg", "caption": "Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Schumer's Republican co-sponsor on the amendment, most of which was removed in conference in December 2023. Official portrait · context." } ], "events/2023-grusch-hearing": [ { "title": "David Grusch testifies, 26 July 2023", "class": "real record", "kind": "Official recording · hearing frame", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/david-grusch-giving-testimony-on-26-july-2023-before-the-us-hous.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Grusch_giving_testimony_on_26_July_2023_before_the_US_House_Subcommittee_on_National_Security_the_Border_and_Foreign_Affairs.png", "credit": "U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, an · 2023", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Grusch_giving_testimony_on_26_July_2023_before_the_US_House_Subcommittee_on_National_Security_the_Border_and_Foreign_Affairs.png", "caption": "David Grusch giving sworn testimony to the House Oversight subcommittee on 26 July 2023, alongside David Fravor and Ryan Graves. Frame from the committee's own recording." }, { "title": "The complete House hearing", "class": "real record", "kind": "Interview or testimony · not footage", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KQ7Dw-739VY/hqdefault.jpg", "video": "KQ7Dw-739VY", "embed": "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KQ7Dw-739VY", "source": "https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-implications-on-national-security-public-safety-and-government-transparency/", "credit": "US House Committee on Oversight", "rights": "Public domain — US government work (House hearing recording); YouTube preview frame and player, not relicensed", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-USGov", "caption": "The official hearing and witness statements. Testimony is not incident footage." } ], "events/2024-aaro-report": [ { "title": "AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I (March 2024)", "class": "real record", "kind": "Official document · primary record", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/aaro-historical-record-report-volume-1-2024-p1.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Volume_1_2024.pdf", "credit": "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 2024", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Volume_1_2024.pdf", "caption": "First page of AARO's 'Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena', which found no evidence of recovered craft or reverse-engineering programmes. Official document scan." } ], "events/2024-uap-hearing": [ { "title": "The complete House hearing", "class": "real record", "kind": "Interview or testimony · not footage", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kT2iWKZr0qA/hqdefault.jpg", "video": "kT2iWKZr0qA", "embed": "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kT2iWKZr0qA", "source": "https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-exposing-the-truth/", "credit": "US House Committee on Oversight", "rights": "Public domain — US government work (House hearing recording); YouTube preview frame and player, not relicensed", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-USGov", "caption": "The official hearing and witness statements. Testimony is not incident footage." } ], "events/2024-new-jersey-drone-flap": [ { "title": "States reporting drone sightings, late 2024", "class": "context", "kind": "Map · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/2024-united-states-drone-sightings-map-states.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024_United_States_drone_sightings_map_(states).png", "credit": "Chetsford · 2024", "rights": "Public domain", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024_United_States_drone_sightings_map_(states).png", "caption": "Map of US states with reported drone sightings during the November–December 2024 wave that began over New Jersey. Compiled from press reports by a Wikimedia contributor; the federal review attributed most reports to lawful aircraft and drones. Map · context." } ], "events/2025-luna-task-force-hearing": [ { "title": "Representative Anna Paulina Luna", "class": "context", "kind": "Portrait photograph · context", "image": "/assets/editorial/incoming/anna-paulina-luna.webp", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Paulina_Luna.jpg", "credit": "US House of Representatives · 2022", "rights": "Public domain — US government work", "license_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Paulina_Luna.jpg", "caption": "Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, chair of the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, which held its UAP hearing in 2025. Official portrait · context." } ] } }