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• Charles Lear Person · 12 stories

  A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.

• Jacques Vallée Person · 98 stories

  A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.

• Venus Term · 59 stories

  The planet Venus was the explanation sceptics offered again and again.

• Robert Sheaffer Person · 19 stories

  A sceptic of the UFO field, and a Skeptical Inquirer columnist.

• National Research Council Organisation · 12 stories

  Canada's National Research Council served as the country's clearing house for sightings.

• Constance Whyte Person · 8 stories

  Constance Whyte wrote More Than a Legend, published in 1957, and spent years following up on the Loch Ness Monster.

• Robert Hastings Person · 7 stories

  A researcher and author, Robert Hastings wrote UFOs and Nukes.

• Allan Hendry Person · 6 stories

  Allan Hendry was chief investigator for the Center for UFO Studies, and he wrote The UFO Handbook.

• Area 51 Place · 6 stories

  Area 51 sits in the Nevada desert on Groom Lake.

• Chesapeake Bay Place · 6 stories

  A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.

• Lakenheath Place · 6 stories

  Lakenheath was an RAF base in Suffolk used by the United States Air Force in the summer of 1956.

• Ryan Graves Person · 6 stories

  A Navy F/A-18F pilot with VFA-11, the Red Rippers, flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana.

Documents34 · see all

• George Knapp written testimony Document
  House Committee on Oversight· 2025-09· 7 pages· 2 pages mention it
  • p. 1 …of a guy named John Lear, son of Bill Lear, developer of the Lear Jet, who had helped our TV…
  • p. 2 Later, Lear returned to KLAS and brought a stack of paper, and in that stack were dozens of pages of…
• Air Force Request to Declassify CIA Material on Unidentified Flying Obje Cts (U FOIA release
  Central Intelligence Agency· 1966-08-04· 3 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 3 …John Lear, a newsman, had published an article on UFO's in the Saturday Review. (See attachment E, paragraph 3…
• Flying Saucers FOIA release
  Central Intelligence Agency· 1952-09-01· 5 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 1 …FACTS LEARING ON THE PROBLEM a. OSI has invented the work currently being performed on flying aircraft and has found…
• CIA-UAP-019, Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem Official release
  Central Intelligence Agency· 1971· 19 pages· 2 pages mention it
  • p. 5 …The motives for this ;ue not t:lear: po:s:o.ih!y Air Pore,~ embarnLssmE!.n t at being…
  • p. 11 …Jordan from Ha.n:iiurg University), Convair of San Die6 o, Bell Aircraft of Buffalo, Sikorsky Divi5ion, Lear Inc. o…
• Mellon Publication Approval Process Docs 5-31-2022-1-17-2024 (FOIA 25-F-1324) FOIA release
  Office of the Secretary of Defense· 2025· 34 pages· 1 page mentions it
  • p. 1 Recommended Action Final Action B leared Cleared with Recommendations Cleared as Amended Not Cleared See Memo Attached Cleared Cleared with…
• [12/11/1996–09/23/1997]: 42-t-26444785-20060476F-001-002-2013 Official release
  · 50 pages· 3 pages mention it
  • p. 15 …John Lear's been talking about it for three years, and everybody laughed at him. Now there's so many…
  • p. 19 …Attach copies of the Bill English file and John Lears file. Send anything else you may have which .tends to…

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Videos82 · see all

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Lifelong Learning Lecture Series: Cotton Mather: A Man of Two Worlds

From The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End

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Video1948

Florida's Giant Penguin Hoax: 'The Clearwater Monster'

From The Clearwater Monster: Florida's Giant Penguin (Old Three-Toes)

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Video1950

Unidentified, Season 2 Episode 3, Nuclear UFOs Revealed

From The Oak Ridge Atomic Plant Radar-Visual Flap

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Declassified UFO Photos over East Tennessee NUCLEAR WEAPON Facility

From The Oak Ridge Atomic Plant Radar-Visual Flap

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UFOs: Investigating the Unknown, UFO Sightings at Nuclear Bases

From The Oak Ridge Atomic Plant Radar-Visual Flap

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Video1954

Eisenhower's Secret Meeting with Aliens and the Deal to Halt Nuclear Weapons

From Eisenhower's Missing Night: The Alleged Alien Meeting at Muroc (Edwards AFB)

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Video1958

Captured in Clear Detail: The Trindade UFO Mystery

From The Trindade Island Photographs

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Video1962

Pensacola Sea Monster Attack - Interview with Sean the Son of Brian McCleary - Florida Travel

From Edward Brian McCleary's Pensacola sea serpent and the USS Massachusetts wreck tragedy

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