The Jersey Devil: 300 Years of Sightings in the Pine Barrens
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On a January night in 1909, a postmaster in Bristol, Pennsylvania, stepped outside and heard something he could not explain — a...
The Chupacabra: How a 1995 Puerto Rico Mystery Became a Continental Legend
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. In early March 1995, a farmer in the municipality of Moca, on Puerto Rico's northwestern coast, found eight sheep dead in their...
The Loch Ness Monster: Inside the Scottish Highlands’ Greatest Mystery
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. The surface of Loch Ness broke on a May morning in 1933 and, depending on whom you ask, something large moved beneath it. That...
Skinwalker Ranch: A Brief History of Utah’s Strangest Property
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. In the spring of 1994, Terry and Gwen Sherman moved their family onto a 512-acre cattle ranch outside Ballard, Utah, in Uintah...
Mothman: The Point Pleasant Sightings and the Silver Bridge Tragedy
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On the night of November 15, 1966, two young couples drove through the back roads near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and...
Bigfoot: A Field Guide to North America’s Most Famous Cryptid
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. In August 1958, a construction worker named Gerald Crew arrived at a road-grading site near Bluff Creek in the Six Rivers...
The Travis Walton Abduction: The Most Investigated Alien Abduction Case
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. At approximately 6:10 p.m. on November 5, 1975, a seven-man logging crew was finishing a long shift in the Apache-Sitgreaves...
The Belgian UFO Wave of 1989-1990: Triangular Craft Over a NATO Country
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On the night of November 29, 1989, two Belgian gendarmerie officers parked near Eupen watched a large, flat triangular object...
The 1986 JAL 1628 Incident: A Cargo Pilot’s UFO Encounter Over Alaska
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. At 5:11 p.m. local time on November 17, 1986, Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 was cruising at 35,000 feet over northeastern Alaska,...
The Tic Tac UFO: Inside the 2004 Nimitz Encounter and the Pentagon’s Response
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On the morning of November 14, 2004, two United States Navy F/A-18F Super Hornets climbed toward a radar contact that should not...
The Phoenix Lights: What Thousands Saw Over Arizona in March 1997
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. At approximately 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 13, 1997, something large and silent crossed into Nevada airspace near Henderson....
The Roswell Incident: A Complete Timeline of America’s Most Famous UFO Case
This article documents widely-reported accounts and historical records of unexplained phenomena. It does not assert supernatural causation. On a dry Tuesday morning in early July 1947, a rancher named William "Mac" Brazel rode out across the Foster Ranch southeast of...