The Yeti: Climbing Expeditions, Footprints, and Himalayan Folklore
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. In the autumn of 1951, mountaineer Eric Shipton crouched at roughly 19,000 feet on the Menlung Glacier, on the Nepal-Tibet...
The Patterson-Gimlin Film: Frame 352 and the 1967 Bigfoot Footage Debate
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. At roughly 3:30 in the afternoon on October 20, 1967, a 16mm Kodak K-100 camera captured 59.5 seconds of shaky, sun-dappled...
The Maury Island Incident: The Strange Case That Started Modern UFOlogy
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. It was the morning of June 21, 1947 — three full days before Kenneth Arnold's celebrated Mt. Rainier sighting would launch the...
The Foo Fighters of WWII: The Unidentified Aerial Lights of 1944-1945
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. The night was clear and cold over the Rhine Valley on November 23, 1944. Two pilots from the U.S. Army Air Forces' 415th Night...
The Trent UFO Photographs: The McMinnville Saucer Mystery of 1950
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On the evening of May 11, 1950, a farmer's wife stepped outside her home near McMinnville, Oregon, and saw something moving...
The Stephenville UFO Sightings of 2008
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On the evening of January 8, 2008, in and around Stephenville, Texas — a small city of roughly 17,000 people in Erath County,...
The Hudson Valley UFO Wave: Boomerang Craft Over New York and Connecticut
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On a clear night in March 1983, a retired New York City police officer named Kevin Soravino was driving along Route 84 in Putnam...
The Cash-Landrum Incident: A UFO Encounter That Caused Real Injuries
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On the night of December 29, 1980, three people drove home through the Piney Woods of Southeast Texas and encountered something...
The 2026 PURSUE Disclosure: Inside Trump’s UAP File Release
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On May 8, 2026, the federal government published 162 previously restricted files about unidentified aerial phenomena to a public...
Missing 411: David Paulides and the Strange Disappearances in National Parks
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. The trail was well-marked. The child was last seen less than a hundred yards from his family. Within minutes, he was gone — and...
The Mary Celeste: The 1872 Ghost Ship Mystery That Still Has No Answer
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On the morning of December 5, 1872, the British brigantine Dei Gratia was making steady progress through the North Atlantic,...
The Amityville Horror: Inside the Most Famous Haunting in American Pop Culture
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On a cold December morning in 1975, George and Kathy Lutz loaded their children into a car and drove away from 112 Ocean Avenue...