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• Disclosure Project Organisation · 4 stories

  Dr.

• National Institute for Discovery Science Organisation · 4 stories

  Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science ran a hotline and looked into strange reports.

• Discovery UK Organisation · 3 stories

  A British publisher of web features, Discovery UK turns up in this archive as a late voice on old cases.

• Roswell Place · 37 stories

  A town in New Mexico whose name became shorthand for the whole field.

• ball lightning Term · 29 stories

  A rare glowing atmospheric discharge.

• FBI Organisation · 21 stories

  The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.

• Heuvelmans Person · 20 stories

  Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French zoologist, often called the founder of cryptozoology.

• Charles Bowen Person · 15 stories

  Charles Bowen wrote for Flying Saucer Review and edited it, and he carried accounts from across the world.

• Ted Bloecher Person · 14 stories

  Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.

• NASA Organisation · 13 stories

  America's space agency appears across the archive in two roles.

• Blake Smith Person · 12 stories

  A sceptic and co-host of the MonsterTalk podcast, Blake Smith has spent years taking apart famous photographs and monster reports.

• FAA Organisation · 12 stories

  The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.

Documents214 · see all

• FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 01 FOIA release
  Federal Bureau of Investigation· 69 pages· 24 pages mention it
  • p. 47 ## O ## O (B) FLYING DISCS -- The Bureau, at the request of the Army Air Forces Intelligence, has agreed to cooperate…
  • p. 60 …RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC", NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, JULY 9, 1947 On the evening of July 9, 1947, a report was…
• FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 05 FOIA release
  Federal Bureau of Investigation· 74 pages· 32 pages mention it
  • p. 16 …FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY 67c TACOLA, WASHINGTON SL - X The following, in general, are the facts regarding the flying disc…
  • p. 37 …FLYING DISCS In connection with your request to be advised as to the facts concerning newspaper reports of flying discs…
• FBI file: silas-newton, Silas M Newton Part 06 FOIA release
  Federal Bureau of Investigation· 2 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 2 …FLYING DISCS DATE: March 31, 1950 Special Agent of the New Orleans Division, has a brother. of the advertising agency…
• FBI file: Kenneth Arnold Document
  Internet Archive (FBI)· 24 pages· 16 pages mention it
  • p. 1 …FLYTING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED CRISMAN and HAROLD A. DAHL; TACOMA, WASHINGTON SM - X Dear Sir: The following, in general…
  • p. 7 …Both denied making any statement to anyone that these rock formations were portions of a disc fragment. It was apparent…
• FBI file 62-HQ-83894 Flying Discs, section 3 Document
  Department of War· 2026-05-08· 190 pages· 53 pages mention it
  • p. 37 …DAHL and CRI~AN deny, however, that they actually started the flying disc story and their actual part in the…
  • p. 95 …Flying Discs - Tacoma, \,:!" . get to the bottom of the flying discs story as they sincerely believe there is someone who…
• 65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 003 Official release
  Federal Bureau of Investigation· 190 pages· 53 pages mention it
  • p. 37 …DAHL and CRI~AN deny, however, that they actually started the flying disc story and their actual part in the…
  • p. 95 …Flying Discs - Tacoma, \,:!" . get to the bottom of the flying discs story as they sincerely believe there is someone who…

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Videos318 · see all

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Proctor's Ledge: The Real Salem Witch Trials Hanging Site Discovered

From The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692)

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Passport to Magonia discussion

From The Alençon "fiery globe" landing and Inspector Liabeuf's report

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Video1909

TERRIFYING DEVIL Discovered in New Jersey (S3, E4)

From Phenomenal Week: the 1909 Jersey Devil sighting wave

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Video1909

MonsterQuest: TERRIFYING DEVIL Discovered in New Jersey (S3, E4) | Full Episode | History

From The Jersey Devil's Phenomenal Week

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Video1914

You Won't Believe What's Been Discovered in the Amazon Jungle

From Percy Fawcett and the Maricoxi hairy men

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Video1917

Sumatran Legends: Discovering the Orang Pendek

From Oostingh's orang pendek encounter at Bukit Kaba, Sumatra, 1917

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Sumatran Legends: Discovering the Orang Pendek

From Van Herwaarden's Sedapa in the Tree, Poeloe Rimau, Sumatra (1923)

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Video1924

Trunko Discovered or Beached Carcass?

From Trunko, the white-furred sea monster of Margate

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