Files range from unsupported topic leads to multi-record evidence dossiers. Each folder shows its verified evidence tier.
FILE: RENDLESHAM-F
Suffolk Constabulary records document two reports from RAF Bentwaters on 26 December 1980, a negative police search, and three shallow marks that an attending officer thought co...
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PHENOMENA: UFO/UAP
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1980-12-26
LOCATION: Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, UK
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: USS-NIMITZ-T
A Navy-released briefing slide describes a Tic Tac case dated November 14, 2004, and the Department of Defense authenticated one released Navy video as taken in November 2004. T...
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PHENOMENA: UFO/UAP
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 2004-11-14
LOCATION: Off San Diego Coast, CA
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: CIA-STARGATE
A multi-decade United States government initiative investigating the potential of psychoenergetic phenomena, specifically remote viewing, for military and intelligence applicati...
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PHENOMENA: Psychic/Remote Viewing, Government Paranormal Program
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: 1972
LOCATION: Fort Meade, MD
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: CIA-1984-MAR
An intake summary of a specific STARGATE experiment where a viewer was given coordinates for Mars. This pilot synopsis is an intake summary requiring source-by-source verification.
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PHENOMENA: Psychic/Remote Viewing, Government Paranormal Program
RECORD TYPE: Witness Account
DATE FILED: 1984-05-22
LOCATION: Maryland, USA (state-level session location)
EVIDENCE: 1 evidence item
FILE: FBI-BIGFOOT-
A document-level reconstruction of how a Bigfoot researcher asked the FBI to resolve a rumor, later submitted about 15 hairs attached to skin, and received a deer-family identif...
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PHENOMENA: Cryptid
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: 1976
LOCATION: The Dalles, OR
EVIDENCE: 10 evidence items
FILE: PATTERSON-GI
On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin said they encountered and filmed a large, hair-covered biped at Bluff Creek in Northern California. The surviving public refe...
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PHENOMENA: Cryptid
RECORD TYPE: Witness Account
DATE FILED: 1967-10-20
LOCATION: Bluff Creek, CA
EVIDENCE: 8 evidence items
FILE: MYSTERY-AIRS
An evidence dossier examining the widespread newspaper reports of unidentified airships in the skies of North America between November 1896 and May 1897. The sightings began in ...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery, Atmospheric/Astronomical
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1896
LOCATION: Sacramento, CA
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: BOOK-OF-THE-
An intake summary of Charles Fort collection of strange phenomena, focusing on falls of fish, frogs, stones, and red rain. This pilot synopsis is an intake summary requiring sou...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1919
LOCATION: Dubuque, Iowa (documented frog-fall example)
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: ENFIELD-POLT
A detailed parapsychological and skeptical investigation of the alleged poltergeist disturbances at 284 Green Street, Enfield, London, between 1977 and 1979. The case involved r...
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PHENOMENA: Haunting/Poltergeist, Hoax/Forgery
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1977
LOCATION: Enfield, London, UK
EVIDENCE: 8 evidence items
FILE: MAJESTIC-12
An evidence dossier on the purported Majestic 12 papers, which surfaced in the 1980s and alleged a secret presidential committee managing recovered extraterrestrial material. It...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1984-12-11
LOCATION: Washington, D.C., USA
EVIDENCE: 5 evidence items
FILE: DYATLOV-PASS
An evidence dossier on the 1959 deaths of nine Soviet hikers near Kholat Syakhl. It attaches translated central criminal-case records covering the opening decision, tent examina...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance, Unexplained Death
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1959-02-01
LOCATION: Kholat Syakhl, Russia
EVIDENCE: 7 evidence items
FILE: GOFAST-2015
A source-level review of the Navy GoFast video and AARO’s later computational analysis. The object is real as a recorded sensor target, but the available records do not establis...
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PHENOMENA: UFO/UAP
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: January 2015
LOCATION: Off Jacksonville Coast, FL
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: OAK-RIDGE-ME
AARO sponsored measurements on a layered material specimen primarily composed of magnesium and zinc, claimed to be recovered from a 1947 UAP crash and capable of inertial mass r...
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PHENOMENA: Anomalous Material
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1947
LOCATION: Oak Ridge, TN
EVIDENCE: 2 evidence items
FILE: BLUEBOOK-WAS
This evidence dossier separates official declassified records from later interpretations regarding the July 1952 Washington D.C. radar-visual sightings. It documents the contemp...
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PHENOMENA: UFO/UAP
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1952-07-19
LOCATION: Washington National Airport, DC
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: DEVILS-FOOTP
The Illustrated London News published a detailed correspondent account on February 24, 1855, describing a single-file trail of small hoof-like marks across multiple Devon commun...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1855-02-08
LOCATION: Devon, England
EVIDENCE: 2 evidence items
FILE: KENTUCKY-MEA
On March 3, 1876, witnesses near the Crouch home reported meat-like pieces falling from a clear sky. Scientific American repeated the near-contemporary local account, while the ...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Atmospheric/Astronomical
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1876-03-03
LOCATION: Olympia Springs, KY
EVIDENCE: 2 evidence items
FILE: GREEN-CHILDR
William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall both recorded stories of green-colored children found near Woolpit. The acquired later printed Latin editions preserve each chronicle...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: c. 1150
LOCATION: Woolpit, Suffolk, England
EVIDENCE: 2 evidence items
FILE: NUREMBERG-CE
Hans Glaser’s 1561 broadside combines a colored woodcut with a printed German description of unusual forms above Nuremberg. The staged 800 by 900 public-domain JPEG is an overvi...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Atmospheric/Astronomical
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1561-04-14
LOCATION: Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
EVIDENCE: 1 evidence item
FILE: CARDIFF-GIAN
A carved gypsum figure was buried on William Newell's farm and unearthed during well digging in October 1869. A near-contemporary scientific report reproduced O. C. Marsh's conc...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery, Anomalous Material
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1869-10-16
LOCATION: Cardiff hamlet, representative discovery area
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: GREAT-MOON-H
The New York Sun published a serial claiming that John Herschel's Cape telescope revealed lunar landscapes and winged humanoids. The original daily issues are not available in t...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery, Atmospheric/Astronomical
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1835-08-25
LOCATION: New York City, publication location
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: DONATION-OF-
The Donation of Constantine claimed that Emperor Constantine transferred extensive authority and territory to Pope Sylvester I. The text is now recognized as an early medieval c...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 8th century
LOCATION: Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, representative Roman anchor
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: FLANNAN-ISLE
Three lighthouse keepers disappeared from Eilean Mor in December 1900. The relief party found the station empty. Contemporary records reproduced by the Northern Lighthouse Board...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1900-12-15
LOCATION: Eilean Mor Lighthouse, representative location
EVIDENCE: 6 evidence items
FILE: DB-COOPER-DI
On 24 November 1971, a man using the name Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 after boarding in Portland. He demanded $200,000 and four parachutes, released the pass...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1971-11-24
LOCATION: Portland International Airport, representative departure location
EVIDENCE: 6 evidence items
FILE: TUNGUSKA-190
The staged record strongly supports a natural cosmic airburst as the cause of the 30 June 1908 forest devastation. Contemporary European sky-glow reports exist, but one sequence...
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PHENOMENA: Atmospheric/Astronomical, Anomalous Material
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1908-06-30
LOCATION: Modeled center of radial tree fall near the Tunguska event area
EVIDENCE: 11 evidence items
FILE: HESSDALEN-LI
Project Hessdalen and collaborating investigators have published reports describing eyewitness activity and multiple field campaigns using cameras, radar, radio-spectrum instrum...
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PHENOMENA: Atmospheric/Astronomical, Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1981-present
LOCATION: Project Hessdalen Automatic Measurement Station at Varhus
EVIDENCE: 10 evidence items
FILE: PILTDOWN-MAN
Dawson and Woodward presented a human cranium and ape-like jaw as one ancient individual from Piltdown gravels. Gerrit Miller's 1915 anatomical critique separated the human skul...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery, Anomalous Material
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1912-12-18
LOCATION: Piltdown village, representative find area
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: COTTINGLEY-F
Five photographs made by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths between 1917 and 1920 were promoted as evidence of fairies. The staged record preserves Conan Doyle's book, his Stran...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1917-07
LOCATION: Cottingley village, representative location
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: HALLEYS-COME
Spectroscopic detection of cyanogen in cometary material was reported in sensational press accounts before Earth passed through the comet's tail. Edwin Emerson Jr.'s popular 191...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1910-04-20
LOCATION: Royal Observatory Greenwich, representative astronomy reference point
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: PEASENHALL-M
In 1902, 22 year old domestic servant Rose Harsent was found brutally murdered in Providence House, Peasenhall. Suspicion fell on William Gardiner, a local Methodist elder, who ...
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PHENOMENA: Unexplained Death
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1902-05-31
LOCATION: Peasenhall, Suffolk, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: GREEN-BICYCL
On July 5, 1919, 21-year-old Bella Wright was found dead on a country lane with a single gunshot wound to her face. Witnesses had seen her earlier with a man on a distinctive gr...
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PHENOMENA: Unexplained Death
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1919-07-05
LOCATION: Little Stretton, Leicestershire, England
EVIDENCE: 1 evidence item
FILE: FLIGHT-19-DI
Five Navy TBM Avenger aircraft disappeared during Navigation Problem No. 1 on December 5, 1945. An official Naval History and Heritage Command account describes confused radio c...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1945-12-05
LOCATION: Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale departure area and outbound training route
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: LITUYA-BAY-G
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake triggered a huge rockslide into Lituya Bay in 1958. Eyewitness accounts, mapped trimlines, a complete USGS monograph, and a later regional hazard revi...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1958-07-09
LOCATION: Lituya Bay, Alaska, United States
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: RACETRACK-PL
Long trails behind rocks on Racetrack Playa were a famous physical puzzle. Instrumented observations in 2013 documented rocks moving when light wind drove thin floating ice, and...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 2013-12-20
LOCATION: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, United States
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: BLOOD-FALLS-
Blood Falls' red discharge was investigated through radar, geophysics, sampling, spectroscopy, and mineral analysis. Open scientific records and an official NSF project record s...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Anomalous Material
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 2017-04-28
LOCATION: Blood Falls, Taylor Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: JERSEY-DEVIL
Three Library of Congress newspaper pages document the 1909 scare, including alleged tracks, inconsistent descriptions, an admitted church-window prank, and satire. The record s...
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PHENOMENA: Cryptid
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1909-01-23
LOCATION: New Jersey and Delaware report region
EVIDENCE: 2 evidence items
FILE: BROWN-MOUNTA
Early newspaper reports described recurring lights near Brown Mountain. A later U.S. Geological Survey investigation examined viewing geometry and ordinary light sources and con...
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PHENOMENA: Atmospheric/Astronomical, Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: 1913-01-28
LOCATION: Brown Mountain summit, North Carolina, United States
EVIDENCE: 1 evidence item
FILE: DRAKES-PLATE
In 1936, a brass plate was discovered in Marin County, California, purporting to be the tablet left by Sir Francis Drake in 1579 to claim the region for Queen Elizabeth I. Herbe...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery, Anomalous Material
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1933
LOCATION: San Quentin Ridge, representative find area
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: VALENTICH-DI
On October 21, 1978, private pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared while flying Cessna 182L VH-DSJ from Moorabbin toward King Island. In recorded communications after reporting ...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance, UFO/UAP
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: 1978-10-21
LOCATION: Cape Otway, last reported named land position
EVIDENCE: 2 evidence items
FILE: MAX-HEADROOM
On November 22, 1987, the television broadcasts of two Chicago stations, WGN-TV and WTTW, were hijacked by an unknown individual wearing a Max Headroom mask. The first intrusion...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1987-11-22
LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois, representative broadcast market point
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: OPERATION-SE
In September 1950, the U.S. Navy conducted a classified biological warfare experiment, Operation Sea-Spray, by releasing Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii over the San F...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Unexplained Death
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1950-09-20
LOCATION: San Francisco, California, regional release area
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: MKULTRA-DECL
Declassified CIA authorization memoranda and a 1977 Senate hearing document Project MKULTRA as a compartmented behavioral-modification research program. The surviving record est...
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PHENOMENA: Government Paranormal Program
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1953-04-13
LOCATION: Washington, District of Columbia, representative federal-record point
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: ADELAIDE-BAR
Thomas Edwin Bartlett died after chloroform entered his stomach. His wife Adelaide was tried and acquitted. The contemporary proceedings preserve the jury’s conclusion that grav...
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PHENOMENA: Unexplained Death
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1885-12-31
LOCATION: Pimlico, London, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: BENJAMIN-BAT
British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst disappeared while traveling through Perleberg in November 1809. A March 1810 newspaper report reproduced a French claim that he died by suicid...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1809-11-25
LOCATION: Perleberg, Germany
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: CARROLL-DEER
The five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering was observed near Cape Lookout on January 29, 1921 and found aground and abandoned on Outer Diamond Shoals on January 31. The crew, b...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1921-01-29
LOCATION: Diamond Shoals, representative NOAA buoy location
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: FRANKLIN-EXP
The 1845 Franklin expedition entered the Canadian Arctic with HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and 129 officers and men. Richardson's 1851 account reproduces the Admiralty route instru...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance, Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1845-05-19
LOCATION: Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: MARY-CELESTE
Mary Celeste left New York for Genoa in November 1872 and was found derelict in the eastern Atlantic in December. A December 20 shipping notice reported that the vessel had been...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1872-11-07
LOCATION: Atlantic Ocean west of Gibraltar
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: THAMES-TORSO
Between 1887 and 1889, the dismembered remains of several women were discovered in and around the River Thames in London. Only one victim was ever identified. The case remained ...
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PHENOMENA: Unexplained Death
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1887-05
LOCATION: River Thames, London, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: ARNOLD-PAOLE
The Arnold Paole case is one of the most famous and extensively documented reports of suspected vampirism in history. In late 1731, a sudden wave of deaths occurred in the villa...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Unexplained Death
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: 1727
LOCATION: Medvedja, Serbia
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: COCK-LANE-GH
Three 1762 publications preserve the contemporary claim, its investigation, and immediate skeptical cultural response. The case is unusually auditable for an early haunting beca...
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PHENOMENA: Haunting/Poltergeist
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1762
LOCATION: Cock Lane, City of London, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: EPWORTH-RECT
Three public-domain family and denominational histories preserve accounts of noises and movement reported at Epworth Rectory. The sources are historically useful but are retrosp...
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PHENOMENA: Haunting/Poltergeist
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1716-12 to 1717-01
LOCATION: Epworth, Lincolnshire, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: GREAT-AMHERS
This dossier compares Walter Hubbell's participant-investigator narrative with two contemporaneous newspaper reports. The sources establish rapid public circulation and repeated...
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PHENOMENA: Haunting/Poltergeist
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1878-1879
LOCATION: Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: HAMMERSMITH-
In late 1803 and early 1804, the village of Hammersmith was gripped by panic over a supposed ghost dressed in white. On January 3, 1804, Francis Smith, an excise customs officer...
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PHENOMENA: Haunting/Poltergeist, Hoax/Forgery, Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1803-12
LOCATION: Black Lion Lane, Hammersmith, London, approximate site of the shooting
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: HYDESVILLE-R
A Fox-family retrospective, a confession-centered corrective volume, and a later movement history document sharply conflicting accounts of the Hydesville rappings. The packet es...
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PHENOMENA: Haunting/Poltergeist
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1848
LOCATION: Hydesville area, Arcadia, New York
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: TEDWORTH-DRU
An early investigator narrative, a 1716 compilation, and Andrew Lang's later critical comparison preserve the Drummer of Tedworth controversy. The records are public-domain and ...
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PHENOMENA: Haunting/Poltergeist
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1662-1663
LOCATION: Tidworth, Wiltshire, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: MARY-BATEMAN
In the early nineteenth century, Mary Bateman of Leeds, England, established a reputation as the Yorkshire Witch. She defrauded numerous clients by claiming to act as a medium f...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery, Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1806
LOCATION: Leeds municipal centroid, representative location of Mary Bateman claims
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: MARY-TOFT-RA
In late 1726, Mary Toft of Godalming, England, convinced several medical professionals, including the local surgeon John Howard and royal anatomist Nathanael St. Andre, that she...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery, Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1726
LOCATION: Godalming parish, representative location of Mary Toft claims
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: LONDON-MONST
Between 1788 and 1790, London was gripped by a mass panic surrounding the London Monster, an alleged serial attacker who stabbed women in the public streets and slashed their ga...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Hoax/Forgery
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1790
LOCATION: St James's Street, representative location of the Miss Porter assault
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: FEEJEE-MERMA
P. T. Barnum exhibited a dried composite object as the Feejee Mermaid at his American Museum in 1842. In his 1869 autobiography, Barnum described hiring the specimen from Moses ...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery, Anomalous Material
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1822
LOCATION: Broadway and Ann Street, representative American Museum site
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: FORTSAS-CATA
In July 1840, Belgian bibliophile Renier Chalon circulated an auction catalogue for the supposedly unique library of the late Count Jean-Nepomucene-Auguste Pichauld de Fortsas. ...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1840
LOCATION: Binche, representative announced auction location
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: GREAT-BALLOO
On April 13, 1844, the New York Sun published an extra edition announcing that a steering balloon named Victoria had crossed the Atlantic in seventy-five hours with eight passen...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1844
LOCATION: New York Sun Offices, representative publication site
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: KENSINGTON-R
Olof Ohman discovered a stone with runic characters on his farm near Kensington, Minnesota, in 1898. The inscription purported to record a Norse exploration journey in 1362. Hja...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery, Anomalous Material
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1898-11-08
LOCATION: Kensington village, representative find area
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: FALCON-LAKE-
RCMP records preserve Stefan Michalak’s detailed account, contemporaneous observations of his condition and burns, searches that initially failed to relocate the alleged site, a...
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PHENOMENA: UFO/UAP
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1967-05-20
LOCATION: Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada
EVIDENCE: 5 evidence items
FILE: FBI-ANIMAL-M
The five-part FBI file preserves the federal investigation of alleged animal mutilations on Indian lands in New Mexico, related jurisdictional and laboratory records, and the st...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Government Paranormal Program
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1973
LOCATION: Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States
EVIDENCE: 5 evidence items
FILE: GLOUCESTER-S
In August 1817, witnesses near Gloucester, Massachusetts reported a large serpent-like marine animal. The Linnaean Society of New England published a contemporary committee repo...
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PHENOMENA: Cryptid
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1817-08-01
LOCATION: Gloucester, Massachusetts
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: LAKE-CHAMPLA
Three public-domain newspaper pages document the 1887 report wave, a specific picnic-party observation, later claims by five Charlotte residents, and Barnum's publicity offer. T...
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PHENOMENA: Cryptid
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1887-07-10
LOCATION: Lake Champlain, Vermont/New York, United States
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: PHAISTOS-DIS
Luigi Pernier published the disc and its find context in the 1908 volume of Ausonia. The dossier preserves that complete volume, repository OCR, a licensed modern specimen photo...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1908-07-03
LOCATION: Phaistos, Crete, Greece
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: ROANOKE-COLO
Hakluyt’s public-domain text preserves John White’s account of the CROATOAN inscription and the agreed relocation signal. National Park Service reports document archaeological w...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1587-01-01
LOCATION: Fort Raleigh, Roanoke Island, North Carolina
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: ROMAN-DODECA
Official Portable Antiquities Scheme records document both a complete dodecahedron recovered in a controlled archaeological investigation and an additional fragmentary specimen....
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 0043-01-01
LOCATION: Former Roman Gaul
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: RONGORONGO-S
The dossier preserves the complete 1889 Smithsonian annual-report parent containing William J. Thomson’s corpus discussion, plus the Smithsonian record and open-access image for...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1864-01-01
LOCATION: Rapa Nui, Chile
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: VOYNICH-MANU
Beinecke MS 408 is a completely digitized parchment codex in an unidentified cipher. Open computational studies report language-like distributional structure, while no generally...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1401-01-01
LOCATION: Beinecke Library, New Haven, Connecticut
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: GREAT-FEAR-F
The Great Fear combined real rural revolt with rapidly moving rumors about brigands and retaliation. Arthur Young's near-contemporary travel account distinguishes documented pea...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1789-07-20
LOCATION: France
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: MILLERITE-GR
William Miller's published chronology helped create a broad Second Advent movement. Contemporary critics disputed the calculations before the expected event. A later movement hi...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1843-01-01
LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: POPISH-PLOT-
The Popish Plot was not one cleanly documented conspiracy. It was a sequence of allegations, investigations, prosecutions, political conflict, and public fear. This dossier pair...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1678-08-01
LOCATION: Westminster, London, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: SOUTH-SEA-BU
The South Sea episode is included as collective behavior with careful framing. Contemporary pamphlets debated how to unwind the scheme and defended or criticized directors' loan...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1720-01-01
LOCATION: City of London, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: HAVANA-ANOMA
U.S. personnel reported sudden sensory experiences and health symptoms first associated publicly with Havana. The staged record documents government treatment and oversight resp...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Government Paranormal Program
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: 2016
LOCATION: U.S. Embassy Havana, Havana, Cuba
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: MOUNTAIN-ASH
Contemporary letters and scientific discussion described small fish falling during rain at a Mountain Ash timber yard. The staged corpus preserves the Zoologist exchange, a Brit...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Anomalous Material
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1859-02-09
LOCATION: Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, United Kingdom
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: WINDSOR-HUM-
Residents of Windsor and LaSalle reported an intermittent low-frequency hum and vibration. Canadian government-funded seismic and acoustic studies recorded low-frequency signals...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Atmospheric/Astronomical
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 2011
LOCATION: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: TAOS-HUM-OFF
In 1993, at the request of the New Mexico congressional delegation, a team of scientists from the University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Lab...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly, Atmospheric/Astronomical
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1993
LOCATION: Taos, New Mexico
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: WOW-SIGNAL-1
On August 15, 1977, the Ohio State University Big Ear radio telescope detected a strong, narrowband radio signal near the 1420 MHz hydrogen line. Volunteer Jerry Ehman discovere...
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PHENOMENA: Atmospheric/Astronomical, Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1977-08-15
LOCATION: Ohio State University Radio Observatory (Big Ear), Delaware, Ohio
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: BEALE-CIPHER
The Beale ciphers are a set of three encrypted texts published in an 1885 pamphlet in Lynchburg, Virginia, by J. B. Ward. The text describes a vault of gold, silver, and jewels ...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1885-01-01
LOCATION: Bedford County, Virginia
EVIDENCE: 8 evidence items
FILE: KRYPTOS-K4
Dedicated in 1990, the copper sculpture Kryptos by Jim Sanborn contains four encrypted sections. While the first three have been decrypted, the final 97-character section (K4) r...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1990-11-03
LOCATION: CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: SENECA-GUNS-
The term Seneca Guns refers to unexplained cannon-like booming sounds reported along the coastal regions of the Carolinas and near Seneca Lake, New York. This dossier includes o...
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PHENOMENA: Atmospheric/Astronomical, Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1850
LOCATION: Southport Coastal Region, Brunswick County, North Carolina
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: DORABELLA-CI
On July 14, 1897, composer Edward Elgar sent an encrypted note consisting of 87 curly characters in three lines to Dora Penny, the daughter of a friend. Dora was never able to r...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1897-07-14
LOCATION: Wolverhampton, England
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: MV-JOYITA-AB
On October 3, 1955, the merchant vessel MV Joyita departed Apia, Western Samoa, bound for the Tokelau Islands with 25 passengers and crew. When it failed to arrive, a search was...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1955-10-03
LOCATION: Approximate drift position where Joyita was discovered by the Tuvalu
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: AMELIA-EARHA
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in the central Pacific Ocean during an attempted round-the-world flight. Coast Guard and Navy records docum...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: 1937-07-02
LOCATION: Howland Island, Pacific Ocean, destination checkpoint
EVIDENCE: 6 evidence items
FILE: BEAST-OF-GEV
Between 1764 and 1767, a series of fatal attacks on humans occurred in the Gevaudan region of France, attributed to a formidable beast. Royal hunters and military units were dis...
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PHENOMENA: Cryptid
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1764-06-01
LOCATION: Gévaudan region, France
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: THYLACINE-SU
Following the death of the last known captive thylacine in Hobart Zoo in September 1936, unconfirmed sighting reports persisted across Tasmania and mainland Australia. Official ...
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PHENOMENA: Cryptid
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1936-09-07
LOCATION: Tasmania, Australia
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: BELL-WITCH-H
Reports of an invisible, speaking entity plaguing the family of John Bell Sr. in Robertson County, Tennessee, emerged between 1817 and 1821. The entity allegedly produced physic...
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PHENOMENA: Haunting/Poltergeist
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1817-08-01
LOCATION: Adams representative area, Robertson County, Tennessee
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: SPRING-HEELE
Sightings of an agile, clawed figure jumping great heights were first reported in late 1837 and early 1838 in London. Sworn reports before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House de...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1837-10-01
LOCATION: London representative area, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: SALEM-WITCH-
The documentary record of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 includes court transcriptions, testimonies, warrant files, and contemporary treatises. This record establishes the legal...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1692-03-01
LOCATION: Salem Village representative area, Massachusetts
EVIDENCE: 4 evidence items
FILE: DANCING-PLAG
In July 1518 in Strasbourg, Frau Troffea began dancing uncontrollably in the street. Over the following weeks, dozens to hundreds of citizens joined in frenzied, involuntary dan...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1518-07
LOCATION: Strasbourg city center, representative outbreak location
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: GREENBRIER-G
In January 1897, Elva Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The local physician, Dr. George W. Knapp, initially ruled the death natural. However,...
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PHENOMENA: Haunting/Poltergeist
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1897-01-23
LOCATION: Greenbrier County Courthouse, Lewisburg, West Virginia
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: VERSAILLES-T
In August 1901, academics Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain visited the Petit Trianon at Versailles and claimed to have walked through a temporal anomaly, encountering...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Witness Account
DATE FILED: 1901-08-10
LOCATION: Gardens of the Petit Trianon, Versailles, France
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: ANGEL-OF-MON
During the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from the Battle of Mons in August 1914, rumors spread that spectral warriors, described as angels or phantom bowmen, had in...
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PHENOMENA: Fortean/Historical Anomaly
RECORD TYPE: Incident
DATE FILED: 1914-08-23
LOCATION: Mons, Belgium, site of the August 1914 battle
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: DARK-DAY-NEW
On May 19, 1780, an extraordinary and unexplained darkness fell over New England, causing schools and legislatures to adjourn, and prompting widespread fear that the Day of Judg...
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PHENOMENA: Atmospheric/Astronomical
RECORD TYPE: Scientific Analysis
DATE FILED: 1780-05-19
LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts, representative observation site for the New England region
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: PRINCES-IN-T
In the summer of 1483, the young King Edward V (age 12) and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York (age 9), were lodged in the Tower of London by their uncle, Richard, Duke o...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1483
LOCATION: Tower of London, England
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: WAR-OF-THE-W
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds formatted as breaking news bulletins. A sm...
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PHENOMENA: Hoax/Forgery
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: 1938-10-30
LOCATION: Grover's Mill, New Jersey
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: VILLISCA-AXE
Between the late hours of June 9 and the early hours of June 10, 1912, an unknown intruder murdered eight people in their sleep at the Moore family home in Villisca, Iowa. The v...
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PHENOMENA: Unexplained Death
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1912-06-09
LOCATION: Villisca, Iowa
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: MH370-OFFICI
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Official investigations by the Malaysian Ministry of Transport and sea...
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PHENOMENA: Disappearance
RECORD TYPE: Government Report
DATE FILED: 2017-10-03
LOCATION: Southern Indian Ocean, representative underwater search zone
EVIDENCE: 3 evidence items
FILE: MARY-ROGERS-
In July 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers, a prominent young clerk at a New York City tobacco shop, vanished. Her body was found floating in the Hudson River near Hoboken, New Jersey, s...
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PHENOMENA: Unexplained Death
RECORD TYPE: Historical Newspaper Investigation
DATE FILED: 1841-07-25
LOCATION: Sybil's Cave, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
EVIDENCE: 5 evidence items
FILE: ROSWELL-INCI
The surviving record establishes that Roswell Army Air Field announced possession of a flying disc on July 8, 1947, while a same-day FBI teletype and the unit history described ...
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PHENOMENA: UFO/UAP
RECORD TYPE: Source Collection
DATE FILED: 1947-06-04
LOCATION: Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, NM
EVIDENCE: 13 evidence items