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Stories815 · page 5

The Calama chupacabras wave, Chile 2000

April 2000 · Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources

35Partially documented

Debonair BAe 146 sighting over the North Sea

February 3, 1999 · North Sea, about 58 miles off the coast of Denmark, on the Linköping to Humberside route

International waters

UAP · Cylinder · 10 sources

21Thinly documented

Belgrave Hall CCTV Ghosts, Leicester

December 23, 1998 · Belgrave Hall Museum, Church Road, Belgrave, Leicester

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 16 sources

15Thinly documented

Conyers Apparitions: Nancy Fowler's Final Public Message (1998)

October 13, 1998 · Nancy Fowler's farm, Conyers, Rockdale County, Georgia

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 27 sources

26Thinly documented

Police and gendarmes see a luminous disc over the Seine estuary between Le Havre and Honfleur

September 18, 1998 · Seine estuary, between Le Havre and Honfleur, Normandy

UAP · Disc / saucer · 9 sources

22Thinly documented

The Henfield Police Sighting

September 1998 · A281 Brighton Road between Henfield and Woodmancote (Blackstone), West Sussex, England

UAP · Formation · 16 sources

28Thinly documented

Craig Calonica's Yeti sightings on the north side of Everest

c. 1998 · North Col route, Mount Everest (Rongbuk to North Col), Tibet

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

12Thinly documented

The Humpty Doo Poltergeist, 90 McMinns Drive

January 1998 · 90 McMinns Drive, Humpty Doo, Northern Territory

Paranormal · Other · 19 sources · 9 photos

42Partially documented

The Mackenzie Poltergeist at the Black Mausoleum, Greyfriars Kirkyard

1998 · Black Mausoleum and Covenanters' Prison, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Old Town, Edinburgh, Scotland

Paranormal · Other · 27 sources

25Thinly documented

The Las Lomas Daylight Disc Video, Mexico City (1997)

August 6, 1997 · Bosques de las Lomas, Mexico City

UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources · 1 photos

27Thinly documented

The Shentena al-Hagar Marian apparition, Menoufiya, Egypt (1997)

August 1997 · Church of the Virgin Mary, Shentena al-Hagar, Birket el-Sab district, Menoufiya governorate

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 8 sources

27Thinly documented

The Virgen del Metro, Hidalgo station, Mexico City (1997)

c. 1997 · Hidalgo station, Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources

34Partially documented

Ünal Kozak's Lake Van Monster video

June 1997 · Lake Van, Van Province

Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources

20Thinly documented

The Penyffordd Farm haunting ("Brother Doli"), Treuddyn

February 1997 · Penyffordd Farm, Treuddyn, near Mold, Flintshire, Wales

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 22 sources

30Partially documented

The Mamlambo "Brain Sucker" panic on the Mzintlava River

January 1997 · Mzintlava River, near Mount Ayliff (eMaxesibeni), Eastern Cape

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

18Thinly documented

Hiroshi Yagi's "Chichibu yaken" photographs

October 14, 1996 · Forest road near Lake Naguri, Chichibu mountains, Hannō, Saitama Prefecture

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources · 1 photos

31Partially documented

Haroldo Westendorff and the Pyramid Over Lagoa dos Patos

October 5, 1996 · Lagoa dos Patos, near Pelotas and São José do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul

UAP · Other · 9 sources

24Thinly documented

The Falkland Hill UFO Incident, Fife (1996)

September 23, 1996 · Newton of Falkland, below Falkland Hill (East Lomond), between Falkland and Freuchie, North East Fife, Scotland

UAP · Being / humanoid · 20 sources

24Thinly documented

The Pretoria Police Helicopter UFO Chase

August 28, 1996 · Erasmuskloof, Pretoria, to Cullinan, Gauteng

UAP · Disc / saucer · 15 sources

37Partially documented

Widnes Cemetery Light Beams Incident

July 15, 1996 · Widnes Cemetery, Birchfield Road, Widnes, Cheshire, England

UAP · Sphere · 18 sources

25Thinly documented

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Museum of Hoaxes Organisation · 6 stories
A sceptical voice turns up again and again in the archive's monster stories.
Center for UFO Studies Organisation · 65 stories
J.
Brian Dunning Person · 57 stories
Brian Dunning, host of Skeptoid, turns up again and again in these archives, usually once the witnesses have spoken.
Karl Shuker Person · 57 stories
A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
Skeptoid Programme · 50 stories
Brian Dunning's Skeptoid often gives the sceptical reading in this archive.
Fortean Times Organisation · 43 stories
Fortean Times is a magazine.
Kevin Randle Person · 40 stories
A researcher, and a former Army helicopter pilot.
Philip J. Klass Person · 32 stories
A sceptic.
Richard Hall Person · 28 stories
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
FBI Organisation · 21 stories
The FBI turns up again and again in the archive's case files.
Naish Person · 19 stories
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
Jenny Randles Person · 18 stories
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.

Documents176 · see all

Blue Book cases, June to December 1947 Document

NICAP· 3 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 1 …PLANE UNIDENTIFIED Insufficient Data Insufficient Date Balloon Cluster Other (UNRELIABLE Balloon Astro (SUN DOG) Astro (METEOR) Other (HOAX) (INFO ONLY)
- p. 2 …Other (Fireworks) )Insufficient Data )Other (Hoax) Insufficient Data Other (Psychological Balloon Balloon Other (Hoax) Insufficient Data Astro (Meteor) B) Other…
California Committee for Saucer Investigation FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1953-01-01· 3 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …Riedel indicated that they are going to execute a planned "hoax" over the Los Angeles area, in order to test…
- p. 2 …Riedel indicated that they are going to execute a planned "hoax" over the Los Angeles area, in order to test…
UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions FOIA release

National Security Agency· 7 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …ALL UFO's ARE HOAXES: From the time when hoaxes were first noted in history, they were characterized by infrequency…
- p. 2 # SECRET indications and expectations, are indeed hoaxes - hoaxes of a world wide dimension - hoaxes of increasing frequency, then a human…
Govt.'s Super-Secret Security Agency Warns: Take UFOs Seriously or Be Prepared for Sneak Invasion by Space Aliens FOIA release

National Security Agency· 2 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …now indicates rather strongly that UFOs are not all hoaxes." declares the dramatic report. "And if anything, rather than diminishing…
Untitled (Contact with Leon Davidson Was Person-To-Person, He Is Doing an Article for a Space Magazine and Wants Translation of the Message and the Emitting Station Proving the Space Message to Be a Hoax) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1957-12-20· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …HE WANTS THE TRANSLATION OF THE MESSAGE AND THE EMITTING STATION PROVING THE SPACE MESSAGE TO BE A HOAX, OR…
MAXW-PBB2-244 Document

Project Blue Book (hosted by NICAP)· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …Other (Hoax) Mil and Civ Insufficient Data Griffin (MODEL) Other (Psychological) Wise Balloon Saito Balloon Rhodes (PHOTO) Other (Hoax) Civilian…

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Videos90 · see all

The Tedworth Drummer: Haunting or Hoax?

From The Drummer of Tedworth: the Mompesson House Poltergeist (1662)

18th century London's most famous hoax: The Cock Lane Poltergeist

From The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee

The Cock Lane Ghost: A Haunting Hoax in 18th Century London

From The Cock Lane Ghost ("Scratching Fanny") and the Johnson Committee

De Loys' Ape: A Eugenics Inspired Hoax?

From De Loys's Ape (Ameranthropoides loysi), Tarra River, Venezuela

Today in History, Sept. 16: 'Monster of Walgren Lake' hoax hits Nebraska newspaper

From The Walgren Lake Monster: Alkali Lake, Hay Springs, Nebraska

Is This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?

From Cadborosaurus: The Langley and Kemp Sightings off Victoria, 1932 and 1933

Monstrum: Is This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?

From Jorda: the 25-foot 'infant' Cadborosaurus of Jordan River

Loch Ness Monster Hoax of 1934

From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

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