Records & Resources

Record sets, archive portals, events and short notes that are useful but aren't full case files. Each links straight to its source.

Festivals & events

• Mothman Festival Returns to Point Pleasant. Third weekend of September again: free Main Street crowds, TNT tours, museum lines, and a legend kept alive by gathering — not by a new specimen. Source: mothmanfestival.com (2026 dates & FAQ); WV News; WV MetroNews (18 Sep 2026) mothmanfestival.com
• Squatch Fest — Lee County / Beattyville, KY (2026). Free-admission Bigfoot-themed civic weekend in early June — culture measurable, biology not. Org presence often Facebook-heavy (THIN). Source: Firefly Hills Kentucky events page; Northwest Bigfoot Squatch Fest listing; AllEvents Beattyville listing fireflyhillskentucky.com · lex18.com

Government records

• AARO Eglin Case Resolution PDF. AARO’s public case-resolution report on Eglin states equipment/operability findings that conflict with “secret video” folklore — two paperwork lanes, one nickname. Source: AARO Case Resolution of Eglin UAP PDF (aaro.mil); aaro.mil root aaro.mil
• AAWSAP DIRD Tranche — Speculative Aerospace Papers. Batch 6 republishes AAWSAP-era Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on warp, wormhole, and antigravity concepts — fringe physics reports ≠ confirmed craft. Source: EarthSky and CBS News on PURSUE batch 6 DIRDs; war.gov/UFO
• Blue Book Motion-Picture Films Series (NARA RG 341). NARA catalogs Project Blue Book Motion Picture Films, 1950–1966 — film-as-record, with modern digital derivatives. Source: NARA UAP bulk-download portal; catalog.archives.gov (Project Blue Book Motion Picture Films); DVIDS DOW-UAP-PR159 catalog.archives.gov · archives.gov
• CENTCOM Spheres on IR: Six Objects, ~480 mph. A one-minute infrared clip from a 2025 Middle East platform enters the Pentagon’s sixth UAP release — unresolved, agile, no ET conclusion. Source: DVIDS DOW-UAP-PR135 / mission report DOW-UAP-D108; EarthSky (20 Sep 2026); Washington Times (18 Sep 2026); DoD PURSUE / war.gov UAP rollout
• Eglin AFB UAP FOIA — Exists but Withheld. Public FOIA packages show Air Force/AARO acknowledging Eglin-related records while citing exemptions to withhold — acknowledgment ≠ release. Source: The Black Vault Eglin UAP FOIA PDFs; AARO case-resolution PDF (companion file); aaro.mil aaro.mil · theblackvault.com
• Great Falls / Mariana Montana 1950 Film. The Mariana Montana film travels with Utah footage inside the 1953 Navy analysis (D098) — better photogrammetry ≠ final taxonomy. Source: war.gov/UFO; DOW-UAP-D098 indexes; archives.gov Blue Book overview catalog.archives.gov
• NARA Blue Book: 701 Residual “Unidentified”. Air Force Fact Sheet via NARA: 12,618 sightings (1947–1969); 701 remain Unidentified; project ended 17 Dec 1969. Source: archives.gov Blue Book overview; NARA UAP textual/microfilm topic pages; catalog.archives.gov series 597821 (sanitized Blue Book case files) catalog.archives.gov · archives.gov
• NARA UAP Bulk-Download Portal. archives.gov offers catalog bulk downloads for UAP-related series — researcher on-ramp without conspiracy framing. Source: archives.gov UAP bulk-download page; archives.gov UAP textual and microfilm topic pages archives.gov
• Navy 1953 Analysis of Utah and Montana Films — DOW-UAP-D098. A declassified Naval Photographic Interpretation Center progress report charts the 1952 Utah and 1950 Montana movies without settling a modern ET claim. Source: war.gov/UFO (PURSUE Release 05 document drop); DOW-UAP-D098 indexes; archives.gov Blue Book overview dvidshub.net
• PURSUE Portal on war.gov — Rolling Unsealing. war.gov/UFO hosts rolling unresolved UAP records under PURSUE with explicit “unable to make a definitive determination” framing. Source: war.gov/UFO; EarthSky and CBS News on Releases 05–06 (Aug–Sep 2026) war.gov · uapglobe.com · darkfires.org
• Ruppelt 1952 Talk — Audio in PURSUE Batch 6. ~1 hour of then-Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt describing AF UFO investigation workload — historical voice, not 2026 adjudication. Source: EarthSky and CBS News summaries of PURSUE batch 6; war.gov/UFO; archives.gov Blue Book overview en.wikipedia.org · archives.gov
• Tremonton Utah 1952 Film Digitized — DOW-UAP-PR159. Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse’s 16mm Kodachrome reappears as a DoD digitization — old primary media as new access. Source: DVIDS DOW-UAP-PR159; NARA Project Blue Book Motion Picture Films (RG 341); EarthSky batch-6 summary; archives.gov Blue Book overview dvidshub.net
• Yellow Sea IR Contrast — DOW-UAP-PR150. INDOPACOM forwards ~57 seconds of 2023 IR showing a tracked contrast patch and focus box — informational only, unresolved. Source: DVIDS DOW-UAP-PR150 (Yellow Sea 2023); war.gov/UFO; EarthSky on PURSUE batch 6 (20 Sep 2026)

Short notes

• Baghdad Battery — Museum Debate. Parthian/Sasanian jars with copper and iron: König’s battery hypothesis remains popular; many archaeologists favor scroll containers. Source: History.com Baghdad Battery overview (cite, not image); Penn Museum / academic commentary linked therein; National Museum of Iraq context
• Cardiff Giant — Carved Gypsum Hoax. 1869 “petrified man” exhibited as wonder, quickly exposed as carved gypsum — museum-education staple about evidence standards. Source: Farmers’ Museum / Cooperstown historical holdings summaries; Wikimedia Commons Cardiff Giant category (PD-US period photos) en.wikipedia.org · farmersmuseum.org
• Deception Island “Kraken” → Sail Rock. A Google Earth “sea monster” off Deception Island matches Sail Rock on nautical charts — explained geospatial candidate. Source: Long Island Press (20 Jun 2016); contemporary chart references (NOAA/UKHO where public); Wikimedia Sail Rock geography en.wikipedia.org