How we label cases
Every case keeps three things apart: what the witnesses reported, what investigators concluded, and the strongest case for something stranger.
Two verdicts on every page
The official verdict is the investigating body’s own conclusion, in its own terms: Project Blue Book’s “Unidentified”, a GEIPAN class, an AARO resolution, or “no official investigation” when there wasn’t one.
Our status is a plain label for where the case stands today, after later evidence and testimony.
What each status means
- Unresolved
- Investigated, and the official explanation is absent or contested.
- Disputed
- An explanation was offered, but credible witnesses or experts reject it.
- Investigated
- Formally examined; the outcome was inconclusive or never made public.
- Documented
- Recorded in contemporary documents but never formally investigated.
- Reported
- A single report with little supporting documentation.
- Identified
- The investigating body named a cause. The anomalous case is still set out on the page.
- Fabricated (admitted)
- The maker confessed, or fabrication has been proven.
The anomalous case
Every case includes the best argument that the object was genuinely unknown, non-human, or a classified technology. We make that case as strongly as the record allows, and we attribute each claim to the person who made it.
Sources
Every case is backed by at least two sources we opened and read, listed at the bottom of its page. Summaries are written fresh. Ancient texts are quoted from public-domain translations such as the King James Version, and we keep the text separate from later readings of it.
What we link to but don’t copy
NUFORC, MUFON and Reddit hold huge numbers of witness reports, but their terms don’t allow republishing. Case pages link out to them instead.