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Stories70 · page 1

Las Vegas Backyard Alien 911 Call and Bodycam Fireball

April 30, 2023 · Northwest valley, Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada

UAP · Being / humanoid · 44 sources

33Partially documented

Kyiv Main Astronomical Observatory UAP Study: "Cosmics" and "Phantoms"

August 23, 2022 · Kyiv and Vinarivka meteor stations, Kyiv region

UAP · Other · 39 sources · 12 photos

43Partially documented

Colorado-Nebraska Mystery Drone Swarms

December 2019 · Phillips and Yuma counties (Haxtun and Paoli), northeastern Colorado, with reports across western Nebraska and Kansas

UAP · Formation · 28 sources

35Partially documented

The Arizona Learjet and American Airlines Flight 1095 Sighting

February 24, 2018 · Over the Sonoran Desert between Picacho and Mammoth, south-central Arizona (Albuquerque Center airspace)

UAP · Unknown · 36 sources

20Thinly documented

The Roswell Slides and the BeWitness Event

May 5, 2015 · Auditorio Nacional, Paseo de la Reforma 50, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City

UAP · Being / humanoid · 29 sources · 1 photos

32Partially documented

The Española Police Station Ghost: A White Figure on the Sally Port Camera (2014)

September 20, 2014 · Española Police Department station, sally port, Española, New Mexico

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources · 5 photos

38Partially documented

The Ammons Haunting: The Demon House of Gary, Indiana

November 2011 · 3860 Carolina Street, Gary, Lake County, Indiana

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 21 sources

41Partially documented

2010 Chinese Airport Closures: Hangzhou Xiaoshan and Baotou

July 7, 2010 · Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, Zhejiang (second incident at Baotou airport, Inner Mongolia)

UAP · Other · 50 sources

43Partially documented

Stephenville Lights

January 8, 2008 · Stephenville, Selden and Dublin, Erath County, Texas

UAP · Other · 87 sources

45Partially documented

The Skookum Cast

September 22, 2000 · Skookum Meadow, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Skamania County, Washington

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources · 1 photos

36Partially documented

The Malpaisillo Chupacabras, Nicaragua (2000)

August 2000 · San Lorenzo farm, Malpaisillo, Larreynaga municipality, León department

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources

26Thinly documented

The Yukon Mothership: Fox Lake, 1996

December 11, 1996 · Fox Lake, Carmacks and Pelly Crossing, Klondike Highway, Yukon

UAP · Other · 33 sources

23Thinly documented

The Hale-Bopp "Companion" and the Heaven's Gate Deaths

November 14, 1996 · Houston, Texas (image) and Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, California (deaths)

UAP · Other · 67 sources · 5 photos

50Partially documented

The Freeman, Sumerlin and Laughery Bigfoot Sighting, Mill Creek Watershed, 1995

August 5, 1995 · Mill Creek watershed, Blue Mountains, about 25 miles east of Walla Walla, Washington

Cryptid · Creature · 31 sources

25Thinly documented

Madelyne Tolentino's Chupacabra Sighting, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico

August 1995 · Barrio Campo Rico, near Calle 1 and Calle 2, Canóvanas, Puerto Rico

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

17Thinly documented

The Popobawa Panic, Zanzibar and the Tanzanian Coast

February 1995 · Pemba and Unguja (Zanzibar archipelago) and the Tanzanian coast

Cryptid · Creature · 16 sources

25Thinly documented

Voronezh UFO Incident

September 27, 1989 · Yuzhny Park (Kozly park), Mashmet area, left bank, Voronezh

UAP · Sphere · 60 sources

43Partially documented

The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp: Christopher Davis's encounter

June 29, 1988 · Browntown Road, Scape Ore Swamp, near Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina

Cryptid · Creature · 34 sources

31Partially documented

Whitley Strieber's Communion Encounter

December 26, 1985 · Secluded log cabin near Accord, Town of Rochester, Ulster County, New York

UAP · Being / humanoid · 42 sources

20Thinly documented

The Minsk UFO: Two Aeroflot Tu-134 Crews Over Byelorussia, 1984

September 7, 1984 · Airspace near Minsk, Byelorussian SSR

UAP · Other · 18 sources

33Partially documented

Names10

Skeptical Inquirer Organisation · 57 stories
Skeptical Inquirer is where the doubters made their case.
Joe Nickell Person · 77 stories
A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
Benjamin Radford Person · 46 stories
A sceptical voice, writing again and again in the Skeptical Inquirer.
Robert Sheaffer Person · 19 stories
A sceptic of the UFO field, and a Skeptical Inquirer columnist.
Radford Person · 13 stories
Benjamin Radford, a sceptic, investigated several of the archive's best-known cryptid cases.
James McGaha Person · 6 stories
A US astronomer and retired USAF major, James McGaha brought the sceptic's case to several famous sightings.
The X-Files Term · 6 stories
A television series.
Kenny Biddle Person · 5 stories
A sceptical investigator, writing for Skeptical Inquirer, who goes back to the records and the photographs.
Paul Kurtz Person · 3 stories
The chair of CSICOP, Paul Kurtz was the archive's recurring sceptic.
Sharon Hill Person · 3 stories
A sceptical voice in the archive.

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(EST Pub Date) CIA Public Affairs and the Drug Conspiracy Story FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2006-10-23· 6 pages

…By one count, press stories skeptical of the charges against CIA actually begin to outnumber those giving the…
Klass and Haines inquiries and FAA responses Document

FAA via National Archives / The Black Vault· 41 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 2 …now farrous JAL UFO incident for your files Although "Skeptical Inquirer" is a copyrighted publication, you have my pennission to…
- p. 33 …will be published in the Summer issue of The Skeptical Inquirer. Highlights of that analysis include: 1. The JAL pilot…
Simulated radar data, colour photos Document

FAA via National Archives / The Black Vault· 19 pages

…MARGUERITE DEL GIUDICE i3 an Inquirer rtaff r.mter. JAPAN AIR LINES FLIGHT NO. 1628. a Boeing 747…
Miscellaneous Document

FAA via National Archives / The Black Vault· 18 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 18 …Cartier, who saw the glowing cloud that night, had written t:o "Skeptical Inquirer," a Buffalo, N.Y., quarterly that…
Defense Intelligence Reference Document Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor Report

Defense Intelligence Agency· 19 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 18 …Examining the Amazing Free-Energy Claims of Dennis Lee," Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp 34 - 36, July…
AAWSAP DIRD, Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor: Where Will the Next Major Innovations Arise, March 2010 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 2010-03-30· 19 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 18 …Examining the Amazing Free-Energy Claims of Dennis Lee," Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp 34 - 36, July…

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