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The Lake Utopia Monster at the Ludgates' Sawmill
July 24, 1867 · Lake Utopia, St. George Parish, Charlotte County, New Brunswick
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
24Thinly documented
James Lumley's Cadotte Pass "meteor with hieroglyphics"
c. 1865 · Near Cadotte Pass, upstream of the Great Falls of the Upper Missouri, Montana Territory
United States
UAP · Other · 20 sources
16Thinly documented
The Whitechapel Church Ghost Crowd
c. 1864 · A church in Whitechapel, London (unnamed; possibly St Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel Road)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 13 sources
12Thinly documented
The Tower of London sentry who bayoneted a white figure
1864 · Tower Green, Inner Ward, Tower of London, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 31 sources
23Thinly documented
The Alecton Giant Squid Encounter off Tenerife (the "Bouyer Kraken")
November 30, 1861 · Atlantic Ocean, about forty leagues from Tenerife, between Madeira and Tenerife (Canary Islands)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
41Partially documented
Waitoreke tracks and sighting, upper Ashburton River and Lake Heron, Canterbury (1861)
1861 · Lake Heron and the upper Ashburton River (Hakatere), Canterbury, South Island
New Zealand
Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources
37Partially documented
Our Lady of Good Help: the apparitions to Adele Brise at Champion, Wisconsin (1859)
October 1859 · Robinsonville (now Champion), Town of Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 33 sources
21Thinly documented
The Castilian Sea Serpent off St Helena
December 12, 1857 · About ten miles off the northeast end of St Helena, South Atlantic
Saint Helena
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources
24Thinly documented
The Loch Arkaig Lake-Horse: John Stuart's sightings recorded by Lord Malmesbury
c. 1857 · Loch Arkaig, near Achnacarry, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources
11Thinly documented
Edwin Stocqueler's bunyip sightings on the Murray and Goulburn rivers (1856 to 1857)
c. 1856 · McGuire's punt on the Goulburn River (now Shepparton), Victoria, and the Murray and Goulburn rivers
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
15Thinly documented
The Silver Lake Serpent
July 13, 1855 · Silver Lake, near Perry, Wyoming County, New York
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
17Thinly documented
The Chelsea Ghost of 6 Pond Terrace, 1853
September 8, 1853 · 6 Pond Terrace, College Street (now Elystan Street), Chelsea, London
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 13 sources
20Thinly documented
The Monongahela Sea Serpent
January 13, 1852 · East-central Pacific Ocean, just south of the equator (reported position 3°10′S, 131°50′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
14Thinly documented
The Greene County Wild Man, Arkansas (1851)
March 1851 · Greene County, Arkansas
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources
19Thinly documented
The Madonna della Misericordia of Rimini Moves Her Eyes
May 11, 1850 · Church of Santa Chiara (now Santuario della Madonna della Misericordia in Santa Chiara), Via Santa Chiara 28, Rimini
Italy
Paranormal · Other · 29 sources
30Partially documented
The Haunting of HMS Asp
1850 · Royal Dockyard and Paterchurch ruins, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
29Thinly documented
The HMS Plumper Sea Serpent
December 31, 1848 · Open Atlantic, nearly due west of Oporto (41°13′N, 12°31′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
11Thinly documented
The Brig Daphne Sea Serpent Hoax
September 20, 1848 · Gulf of Guinea, off Gabon and the Republic of Congo (lat. 4° 11′ S., long. 10° 15′ E.)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
2Thinly documented
HMS Daedalus sea serpent: Captain M'Quhae's report and the Richard Owen dispute, 1848
August 6, 1848 · South Atlantic, between the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena, about 300 miles off present-day Namibia (24°44′S, 9°22′E)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
28Thinly documented
The Yarra Bunyip opposite the Custom House, Melbourne
1847 · Yarra River, opposite the Custom House (now the Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders Street), Melbourne, Port Phillip District
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources
20Thinly documented

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Documents945 · see all

  • Project Blue Book Special Report (second copy) Report
    Internet Archive· 309 pages· 96 pages mention it
    • p. 105 …Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1948 132 Table A35. Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups…
    • p. 107 …Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting, 1948 154 Table A84. Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting…
  • Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects Analysis
    United States Air Force, Air Technical Intelligence Center· 1955-05-05· 309 pages· 96 pages mention it
    • p. 105 …Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1948 132 Table A35. Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups…
    • p. 107 …Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting, 1948 154 Table A84. Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting…
  • (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects) FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 2005-07-12· 312 pages· 140 pages mention it
    • p. 107 …Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1948. 132 Table A35. Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups…
    • p. 108 …Evaluation of All Sightings for 1952 by Sighting Reliability Groups, Civilian Observers 139 Table A60. Reported Colors of Objects Sighted…
  • CIA-UAP-015, Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects) Case file
    Central Intelligence Agency· 312 pages· 95 pages mention it
    • p. 107 …Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1948 . Table A35. Evaluation of Unit Sightings by Sighting Reliability Groups, 1949…
    • p. 109 …Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting, 1948 Table A84. Evaluation of All Sightings by Duration of Sighting, 1949…
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense: 25_Sky_View_Final_Draft Official release
    Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.· 2023· 16 pages· 14 pages mention it
    • p. 5 …A timeline of reported sightings for the study period is provided in Figure 1, with a marked peak in sightings…
    • p. 10 …increasing sightings); values below 1 indicate a negative relationship (decreasing sightings). For example, the coefficient for Mean Light Pollution is…
  • Fact Sheet Air Force UFO Report FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-04-30· 5 pages· 5 pages mention it
    • p. 1 # NEWS RELEASE PLEASE NOTE DATE IMMEDIATE RELEASE ## FACT SHEET AIR FORCE UFO REPORT A total of 173 sightings of unidentified…
    • p. 4 …first, there is no evidence that unidentified sightings were inimical or hostile; second, there is no evidence that unidentified sightings…

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Videos351 · see all

Released footageFBI-UAP-PR0042025
“Northeastern Orb Sighting,” 2025
PURSUE release
Released recordingNASA-UAP-D003A1965-12-05
Gemini 7 Audio Excerpt, 1965
PURSUE release
Released footageDOW-UAP-PR0752021
"09JUN2021 [Platform] observed UAP in the ECS"
PURSUE release
Released recordingDOW-UAP-PR1601952-03-26
Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952
PURSUE release
Video1566
1561 Sky Battle: The Best of History's UFO Sightings, Ep 121
From The 1566 Celestial Phenomenon over Basel (the Basel Broadsheet)
Video1869
Bigfoot Sightings in Western New York: Steuben County
From The Wild Man of Woodhull: 200 Men Hunt a Shrieking Figure Through the Steuben County Woods
Video1871
The North Queensland Striped Tiger Cat or Marsupial Tiger sightings in the early 1900s
From The Sheridan Boy and the Striped Queensland Tiger, Cardwell (1871)
Video1896
'Mystery Airship' Sightings, 1896-1897
From Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897

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