All cases

135 published case files, grouped by region and listed in order of when the event happened. See also the timeline and the archive.

Arizona (19) · US West (11) · US East & Midwest (21) · Canada (12) · Latin America & Caribbean (8) · UK & Europe (13) · Africa (7) · Middle East (10) · Asia (9) · Oceania (15) · Antarctica (1) · Records, sky & method (9)

Arizona 19

How Halloween Came to Territorial Arizona, 1885–1917 — 1885–1917 · Folklore
Tombstone's Winged Monster and the Thunderbird Photo That Never Was — 26 April 1890 · Hoax
The Salton Lake Sea Serpent, 1891 — Dispatch dated Salton, 6 July 1891; printed 7 July 1891 · Hoax
The Seven-Headed Serpent of the Santa Cruz, Tucson 1891 — Printed in the Arizona Weekly Citizen, 22 August 1891 (an earlier daily printing is likely) · Hoax
The Red Ghost: Arizona's Camel With a Dead Man on Its Back — c. 1883–1893 (killing reported 25 Feb 1893) · Folklore
Haunted Canyon: How a Spooky Name Became a Sales Pitch, 1893–1896 — Name in print 1 April 1893; resort pitch 5 August 1896 · Folklore
The Meteor Every Town Claimed, October 1894 — Sunday 7 October 1894, about 9:30–10 p.m. · Cited
Tucson's Main Street Spook, 1894: A Ghost for Commercial Purposes — Sightings from about 19 September 1894; “laid” 22 October 1894; sentence March 1895 · Hoax
Phoenix, 1898: The Stones That Followed a Family — Late August–September 1898 (crowd peak Thu 22 Sep); follow-up June 1899 · Open
The Fort Lowell Ghost: A 'Soldier' in the Ruins, Tucson, 1900–1901 — December 1900 – April 1901 · Folklore
The Grand Canyon Wild Man of 1903 — 23 May 1903 · Folklore
The Phoenix Fireball, October 1906 — 6 October 1906, about 6 p.m. · Cited
The Tucson Lead Crosses and the Kingdom of Calalus — September 1924 (finds continue to 1930) · Hoax
Adolph Ruth and the Superstitions, 1931 — June 1931 · Disputed
The Mogollon Monster in Print: A Short Explainer — Name first in print by 1967 (paper not yet identified) · Folklore
The Slow Fireball of December 22, 2015: A Russian Rocket Stage Comes Home Over Arizona — 22 December 2015 · Cited
The 2 June 2016 Arizona Fireball: Not a Rocket, and the Stones to Prove It — 2 June 2016, 3:56 a.m. MST · Cited
SAOCOM 1A: The 'Ghostlike' Streak Over Phoenix Was a Rocket (and Its Booster Coming Home) — 7 October 2018 · Cited
Starlink 11-20: The "Comet" Over Phoenix Was a Rocket — 28 September 2025 · Cited

US West 11

Sacramento, November 1896: The Airship That Sang — 17 November 1896 · Disputed
Aurora, Texas, 1897: The Martian Who Hit a Windmill — 19 April 1897 · Hoax
Great Falls / Mariana Montana 1950 Film — 1950 · Open
Tremonton Utah 1952 Film Digitized — DOW-UAP-PR159 — 2 July 1952 · Open
Navy 1953 Analysis of Utah and Montana Films — DOW-UAP-D098 — 1953 · Cited
Levelland, Texas, 2–3 November 1957: The Egg That Stalled Cars — Night of 2–3 November 1957 · Disputed
Socorro, 24 April 1964: Lonnie Zamora and the Landing — 24 April 1964, about 5:45 p.m. · Open
The Novato Fireball, 17 October 2012: Cameras Called the Fall, a Roof Confirmed It — 17 October 2012, about 7:45 p.m. Pacific time · Cited
Iridium-4: The Night Los Angeles Pulled Over to Watch a Rocket — 22 December 2017 · Cited
The LA Freeway Orb: A Dawn Chopper Clip, Re-dated — 15 September 2026 · Open
Orbs over Spirit Mountain: Cody's Ridge Lights Return — About 23–25 September 2026 · Open

US East & Midwest 21

The Bell Witch: Tennessee's Haunted Family, 1817–1821 — 1817–1821 · Folklore
Seneca Guns: The Booms Over the Finger Lakes, and the 'Legend' Cooper Made Up — 1850 (Cooper's “The Lake Gun”) · Open
The Wild Man of the Woods: Arkansas, 1851, and How the Story Reached New Zealand — March 1851 (reported 9 May 1851) · Folklore
Cardiff Giant — Carved Gypsum Hoax — 1869 · Hoax
The Fox Sisters' Confession, 1888: Raps From a Big Toe — 21 October 1888 · Hoax
Kansas City's April Fool's Airship, 1897 — and Flagstaff's Recipe — Night of 1 April 1897 · Open
Vernon, Kansas, 1897: The Airship That Rustled a Heifer — April 1897 (exact night varies by source) · Hoax
The Jersey Devil of the Pine Barrens — January 1909 press panic (legend set in colonial era) · Folklore
The White River Monster: Newport, Arkansas, 1937 — July 1937 · Folklore
Appalachian Winged Folklore Corridor — Flatwoods to Point Pleasant — September 1952 (Flatwoods) · 1966 (Point Pleasant) · Folklore
Kelly–Hopkinsville, 21 August 1955: The Night of the "Little Men" — Night of 21–22 August 1955 · Disputed
Kecksburg, 9 December 1965: The Acorn in the Woods — 9 December 1965, about 4:45 p.m. · Disputed
Pascagoula, 11 October 1973: Two Fishermen and the Tape Left Running — 11 October 1973, shortly after dark · Disputed
Champ: The Monster of Lake Champlain — Reports from 1819; Mansi photo 5 July 1977 · Folklore
The Peekskill Fireball, 9 October 1992: The Meteor That Hit a Car — 9 October 1992, evening (US Eastern time) · Cited
Squatch Fest — Lee County / Beattyville, KY (2026) — 5–7 June 2026 · Folklore
Eglin AFB UAP FOIA — Exists but Withheld — Jun 9, 2026 · Open
AARO Eglin Case Resolution PDF — Jun 10, 2026 · Cited
Hodag Country Festival — Rhinelander, WI (2026) — 9–12 July 2026 · Folklore
Flatwoods Monster Convention 2026 — Canceled — 11–12 September 2026 (canceled) · Folklore
Mothman Festival Returns to Point Pleasant — 19–20 September 2026 · Folklore

Canada 12

Oak Island and the Money Pit — Treasure hunting since the 1790s; printed accounts from 1857 · Folklore
The Baldoon Mystery, 1829–1831: A Haunting and a Silver Bullet — 1829–1831 · Folklore
Nahanni: The "Valley of Headless Men" — McLeod brothers found 1908 · Folklore
Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake — Name popularized in 1926; older traditions · Folklore
Sasquatch: How a British Columbia Word Became Bigfoot — Term popularized from 1929 · Folklore
Cadborosaurus: The Sea Serpent of Victoria — Named 1933; Naden Harbour carcass 1937 · Folklore
Project Magnet, 1950–1954: Canada's Government UFO Study — Approved 2 December 1950; ended mid-1954 · Cited
Manipogo of Lake Manitoba — Named 1960; photo 1962 · Folklore
Falcon Lake, 20 May 1967: A Prospector, a Craft and a Burned Chest — 20 May 1967 · Disputed
Shag Harbour, 4 October 1967: Something Went Into the Sea — 4 October 1967, about 11:20 p.m. · Open
Tagish Lake, 18 January 2000: The Meteorite That Fell on Ice — 18 January 2000, 16:43 UTC · Cited
The Dungarvon Whooper: A Lumber Camp Ghost of New Brunswick — Undated · Folklore

Latin America & Caribbean 8

Roswell Debris, Summer 1947 — Early July 1947 · Open
Operação Prato, 1977–1978: The Air Force Mission to Colares — September 1977 – 1978 · Open
Brazil's "Official UFO Night," 19 May 1986 — Night of 19 May 1986 · Open
The Chupacabra: Puerto Rico, 1995 — March–August 1995 · Folklore
Varginha, January 1996: The "ET" That the Army Says Was a Local Man — 20 January 1996 · Disputed
Carancas, 15 September 2007: A Crater, a Smell and a Sick Village — 15 September 2007, about 11:45 local · Cited
The "Nazca Mummies," 2017–2024: Dolls of Bone and Glue — Shown to Mexican Congress 12 September 2023 · Hoax
Mapinguari: The Amazon Giant and the Ground-Sloth Idea — Undated · Folklore

UK & Europe 13

The Antikythera Mechanism — 1st century BCE shipwreck (recovered 1901) · Cited
Voynich Manuscript — Beinecke MS 408 — Late 15th or 16th century (Beinecke dating) · Open
Strasbourg, 1518: The Summer People Danced Until They Dropped — July–September 1518 · Disputed
Widecombe, 1638: The "Great Fiery Ball" in the Church — 21 October 1638 · Disputed
The Beast of Gévaudan, 1764–1767 — 30 June 1764 – 19 June 1767 · Disputed
Mary Celeste, December 1872: The Ship Found Sailing With No One Aboard — Found 4 December 1872 · Open
Flannan Isles, December 1900: Three Lighthouse Keepers Gone — About 15 December 1900 (discovered 26 December) · Cited
October 9, 1933: The Night the Dragon Woke Up Over Europe — 9 October 1933 · Cited
Rendlesham Forest, December 1980: Lights Outside an Air Base — 26–28 December 1980 · Disputed
The Hessdalen Lights: A Norwegian Valley With Its Own Light Show — Reported since the 1930s; peak 1981–1984 · Open
The Belgian Triangles, 1989–1990, and the F-16 Night — 29 November 1989 – April 1990 · Disputed
Ice From a Clear Sky: Airliner 'Blue Ice' and Spain's Ice-Block Scare of January 2000 — January 2000 (Spain); 1998 FAA notice · Open
Loch Ness from Orbit: Three Elongated Shapes — Mid-September 2026 · Open

Africa 7

Mokele-mbembe: The Swamp "Dinosaur" of the Congo Basin — Reported in print from 1909 · Folklore
Kashasha, 1962: The Laughter That Closed Schools — 30 January 1962 – mid-1963 · Cited
Lake Nyos, 21 August 1986: The Night a Lake Exhaled — 21 August 1986, about 9:30 p.m. · Cited
Ariel School, Ruwa, 16 September 1994: Sixty Children and a Landing — 16 September 1994, about 10:15 a.m. · Disputed
2008 TC3: The First Asteroid Caught Before It Hit — 7 October 2008, 02:46 UTC · Cited
2018 LA: The Asteroid Spotted Hours Before It Hit Botswana — 2 June 2018, 16:44 UTC · Cited
The Klerksdorp Spheres: Grooved Balls From Ancient Rock — Undated · Hoax

Middle East 10

The Ararat Anomaly: Noah's Ark in a Spy Photo? — First imaged 1949; released 1995 · Disputed
The Copper Scroll: A Treasure List From Qumran — Found 14 March 1952 (Cave 3, Qumran) · Open
Tehran, 19 September 1976: Two Iranian F-4s and a Light — Night of 18–19 September 1976 · Open
Gulf of Oman “Cold Orbs” — DOW-UAP-PR117 — 2021 · Open
Tall el-Hammam: The "Sodom" Airburst Paper That Was Retracted — Paper published 20 Sep 2021; retracted 24 Apr 2025 · Disputed
Middle East IR Transit — DOW-UAP-PR149 — 2023 · Open
CENTCOM Spheres on IR: Six Objects, ~480 mph — 2025 · Open
Baghdad Battery — Museum Debate — Aug 4, 2026 · Disputed
Baalbek: The Biggest Stones Ever Quarried — Undated · Cited
Göbekli Tepe and the "Lost Civilization" Claims — Undated · Disputed

Asia 9

Utsuro-bune, 1803: The Hollow Ship on the Hitachi Coast — Kyōwa 3 (1803) · Folklore
Tunguska, 30 June 1908: The Siberian Blast Without a Crater — 30 June 1908, about 7:17 a.m. local · Cited
Dyatlov Pass, February 1959: Nine Hikers and a Slashed Tent — Night of 1–2 February 1959 · Disputed
Kerala Red Rain, 2001: Blood-Coloured Rain and Alien Cells — 25 July – 23 September 2001 · Cited
Qinghai, 2012: The Ball Lightning That Got Caught on a Spectrograph — July 2012 (published January 2014) · Open
Chelyabinsk, 15 February 2013: The Fireball Everyone Filmed — 15 February 2013, 09:20 local · Cited
Yellow Sea IR Contrast — DOW-UAP-PR150 — 2023 · Open
South China Sea “Line of Contrasts” — DOW-UAP-PR101 — 2024 · Open
The Pangboche Hand: A "Yeti" Relic Tested — Undated · Cited

Oceania 15

Fisher's Ghost: the Campbelltown Murder (1826) and the Ghost That Arrived in 1832 — 17 June 1826 (disappearance); ghost first in print September 1832 · Folklore
The Bunyip Skull: Sydney, 1847, and the Freak Foal That Fooled a Colony — Found 1846; identified 5 July 1847 · Cited
The Live Moa Reports: a Waiau Shepherd (1873) and the Browning Pass 'Capture' (1874) — 27 March 1873 and 2 October 1874 · Hoax
The Tantanoola Tiger, 1895: Shot, Stuffed and Still Argued Over — August 1895 (Mount Gambier dispatch dated 21 Aug) · Disputed
Phosphorus Jack, New Zealand, 1905: A Rumor With a Glowing Coat — July–October 1905 · Folklore
The Kelso Airship: New Zealand's Zeppelin Scare, July 1909 — 23 July 1909 · Disputed
The Invercargill School 'Airship': 23 Children, Two Drawings, 29 July 1909 — 29 July 1909 · Disputed
After 1936: The Thylacine's Paper Trail — Last known thylacine dies, 7 September 1936; records followed to 2019 · Open
The Somerton Man, 1948: "Tamam Shud" and a Name at Last — Found 1 December 1948 · Disputed
Westall, 6 April 1966: A Melbourne School and a Saucer — 6 April 1966, about 11 a.m. · Disputed
Frederick Valentich, 21 October 1978: "It's Not an Aircraft" — 21 October 1978, 7:06–7:12 p.m. · Open
The Kaikōura Lights, 1978: What New Zealand's Government Actually Said — 31 December 1978 (NZ time) · Disputed
Skylab Falls on Esperance, 11 July 1979 — 11 July 1979, 16:37 UTC · Cited
The Kaimanawa Wall: A "Pyramid" That Is Rock — Publicized from 1996 · Hoax
The Yowie: Australia's Hairy Man — Undated · Folklore

Antarctica 1

Deception Island “Kraken” → Sail Rock — June 2016 viral press cycle · Hoax

Records, sky & method 9

Blue Book Motion-Picture Films Series (NARA RG 341) — 1950–1966 film series · Cited
Ruppelt 1952 Talk — Audio in PURSUE Batch 6 — 1952 · Cited
NARA Blue Book: 701 Residual “Unidentified” — 17 December 1969 (end of the 1947–1969 project) · Cited
NARA UAP Bulk-Download Portal — Jul 1, 2026 · Cited
PURSUE Portal on war.gov — Rolling Unsealing — Release 05 (7 Aug 2026) and 06 (18 Sep 2026) · Cited
AAWSAP DIRD Tranche — Speculative Aerospace Papers — Republished 18 Sep 2026 (AAWSAP-era papers) · Cited
How This Ledger Reads Satellite Cryptid Reports — Sep 21, 2026 · Cited
Meteor, Rocket or Satellite? A Field Guide for the Draconids and Orionids, October 2026 — Oct 8, 2026 · Cited
From the Archive, October 2026: Fireballs, Toe Joints and a Cow in the Moonlight — Undated · Cited