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Selina Lovell's Moha-moha at Sandy Cape

June 8, 1890 · Sandy Cape, Great Sandy Island (K'gari / Fraser Island), Queensland

Australia

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources

18Thinly documented

The Moha-moha of Sandy Cape

June 8, 1890 · Sandy Cape, Great Sandy Island (K'gari), Queensland

Australia

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

23Thinly documented

The SS Nestor sea serpent

September 11, 1876 · Strait of Malacca, fifteen miles north-west of North Sand Lighthouse, off Selangor

Malaysia

Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources

19Thinly documented

Names22 · see all

Kent Island Place · 3 stories
An island on the Chesapeake Bay, and one of the places where Chessie kept returning.
Donald Menzel Person · 21 stories
Harvard astronomer Donald H.
Naish Person · 18 stories
Darren Naish appears across the archive as the zoologist who looks hard at the pictures.
National Research Council Organisation · 13 stories
Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.
Steuart Campbell Person · 13 stories
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
UFO Hunters Programme · 12 stories
A History series that went looking for answers.
Birmingham Place · 10 stories
Frederick William Birmingham was born in 1821 in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
Destination Truth Programme · 9 stories
A television series that sent Josh Gates and his team after the archive's strangest creatures.
Shag Harbour Place · 9 stories
About 11:20 pm, on Highway 3 in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Rendlesham Forest Place · 8 stories
A stretch of Suffolk woodland between two twin bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
Josh Gates Person · 7 stories
Television took Josh Gates into the field.
Tully Place · 7 stories
Tully lies in far north Queensland.

Documents198 · see all

Strip Mining Pollutes Dalnegorsk, Maritime Kray FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1991-10-28· 2 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …THE LOCAL UFOLOGISTS HAVE EVEN ESTABLISHED CONTACT WITH OUTER SPACE, AND ONE DAY EXPECTED THE LANDING OF A UFO IN…
Government to Patent New 'Flying Saucer' Airliner FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1993-03-09· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …An air cushion allows it to take off and land on any ground and even in water. (endall) 091200 09…
New 'Saucer-Like' Aircraft Developed in Saratov FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1993-01-26· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …It can land on both snowy tundra or on water, and can lift cargoes up to half its own weight…
Puerto Rico Case Resolution Analysis

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office· 7 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 3 …space, the atmosphere, or water, in ways not attributable to known technologies. The objects remained over land throughout the video.
- p. 6 …and reappear.3 Several factors affected the objects’ IR signature, contributing to the perception that they entered the water or…
Puerto Rico UAP Case Resolution Document

All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office· 2025-03-20· 7 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 3 …space, the atmosphere, or water, in ways not attributable to known technologies. The objects remained over land throughout the video.
- p. 6 …and reappear.3 Several factors affected the objects’ IR signature, contributing to the perception that they entered the water or…
Mission Report, United Arab Emirates, October 2023 Report

U.S. Department of War· 2024-06-07· 8 pages

…AT 0713Z,(b)(1)1.4a CONDUCTED SLR AND LANDED AT OMAM. 10:13 MISSION HOURS. (SECRET//NOFORN…