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“Smithsonian”

Stories22 · page 2

The Galisteo Junction "Aerial Monster" and the Collector of Curiosities, 1880

March 26, 1880 · Galisteo Junction (now Lamy), Santa Fe County, New Mexico Territory

United States

UAP · Cigar · 22 sources

30Partially documented

MacFarlane's Bear: the ancient unexpected bear of Rendezvous Lake (1864)

June 24, 1864 · Rendezvous Lake, northeast of Fort Anderson, Barren Grounds, Northwest Territories

Canada

Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources

39Partially documented

Names6

Smithsonian Organisation · 6 stories
Three cases in the archive pass through the Smithsonian.
Smithsonian Institution Organisation · 3 stories
In the archive's cryptid cases, the Smithsonian Institution turns up as the scientific authority that monsters are sent to, or that they cannot survive.
John Napier Person · 8 stories
A primatologist, and a sceptical voice that kept returning to the archive's cryptid cases.
Webb Person · 4 stories
Two men named Webb appear in the archive.
Jonathan McDowell Person · 3 stories
An astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian, Jonathan McDowell keeps a record of rocket launches that sighting investigators have turned to again and again.
Kent Island Place · 3 stories
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.

Documents45 · see all

nas re1 FOIA release

Office of the Secretary of Defense· 8 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 8 …am cal. +4611• SMITHSONIAN INSTTTUTfON CENm F0A SHORT liVED PMBDMOA 185 AleWife BroOk ~y. Phone: (617) 868-47'93 Cambndge…
Aerial Surveys in Soviet Central Asia FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2012-06-01· 6 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …239, 1946; and "Contributions to the Anthropology of the Soviet Union," Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 110, No. 13, pp. 183…
Final Product (FOIA 23-F-0010) FOIA release

Office of the Secretary of Defense· 2023· 28 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 5 …ofthe Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair ofthe astronomy department…
- p. 15 …ofthe Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy…
Project Blue Book file, part 2 Document

USAF via NICAP· 22 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 5 …Whipple, Harvard University, and director of Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory, in view of the fact that sightings occurred at the time…
proj b1 FOIA release

Office of the Secretary of Defense· 12 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 3 …the South/North equator crossings are prepared by the Smithsonian Institution at Cambridge, Massachusetts. From the data produced by these…
STS-75 press kit Document

NASA· 40 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 17 …Robert Estes of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, and the Observations at the Earth's Surface of Electromagnetic Emissions…