Roerich Expedition's Shining Oval, Kukunor, 1927
The Russian painter and mystic Nicholas Roerich spent 1925-1928 leading his family's Central Asian expedition from India across Xinjiang, Siberia and Mongolia toward…
Trindade Island Photographs, Brazil
In January 1958 the Brazilian Navy training ship Almirante Saldanha was at remote Trindade Island, some 1,100 km off Brazil, supporting International Geophysical Year…
Socorro, New Mexico (Lonnie Zamora)
Late on a Friday afternoon, Socorro police sergeant Lonnie Zamora broke off chasing a speeding car when he heard a roar and saw a funnel of blue-orange flame descend…
Valensole (Maurice Masse)
At dawn on 1 July 1965, lavender farmer Maurice Masse was starting work on the Valensole plateau in Provence when a sharp whistling drew his attention to what he first…
Deception Island, Antarctica
In the dark of the Antarctic winter of 1965, men at the military research stations crowded onto Deception Island reported a lens-shaped light that refused to behave like…
Michigan "Swamp Gas" Sightings (Dexter and Hillsdale)
In mid-March 1966 southern Michigan was alive with reports of lights in the sky, some seen by sheriff's deputies. On the night of 20 March, farmer Frank Mannor near…
Malmstrom AFB / Echo Flight Missile Shutdown
At 8:45 on the morning of 16 March 1967, all ten Minuteman I nuclear missiles of Echo Flight, controlled from a capsule beneath the Montana prairie near Malmstrom Air…
Pascagoula River Abduction Claim
Late on 11 October 1973, two men from Pascagoula walked into the Jackson County sheriff's office with a story they had nearly decided to keep to themselves. Charles…
The Amaranth Case, Nancy
Just after midday on 21 October 1982, a young biologist came home early to his house in a suburb of Nancy and lingered in his tiny walled garden, which he tended…
Pentagon formally releases FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast
On 27 April 2020 the Department of Defense officially published the three Navy infrared videos that had leaked years earlier. The clips, filed as FLIR, GIMBAL and GOFAST…