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3D model Narrated

“Thor”

Stories3

The Kalahari UFO Crash Hoax

May 7, 1989 · Kalahari Desert, about 80 km north of the South Africa-Botswana border

Botswana

UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources

6Thinly documented

Howard Menger's High Bridge contacts (1932 and 1956 to 1959)

August 2, 1956 · High Bridge, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

United States

UAP · Being / humanoid · 23 sources · 11 photos

26Thinly documented

The SS Britannia Raft Giant Squid Attack

March 1941 · Mid-Atlantic, about 750 miles west of Freetown, Sierra Leone

International waters

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources

19Thinly documented

Names97 · see all

Civil Aviation Authority Organisation · 11 stories
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority turns up in the archive whenever a pilot reports something that should not have been there.
Jacques Vallée Person · 106 stories
A researcher and author whose name runs through cases on three continents.
Jerome Clark Person · 56 stories
Jerome Clark was a researcher and the author of The UFO Encyclopedia.
Donald Keyhoe Person · 43 stories
An author, and a believer in UFOs.
Timothy Good Person · 18 stories
Timothy Good is a British author.
Jenny Randles Person · 17 stories
A British ufologist, Jenny Randles turns up across the archive's home-grown cases as an author, an investigator and a sceptical voice.
Martin Shough Person · 17 stories
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
Nick Redfern Person · 17 stories
An author who returns again and again to British cases, often working from official files.
Robert E. Bartholomew Person · 14 stories
Robert E.
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos Person · 13 stories
A Spanish researcher, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos turns up again and again in the archive's files.
Charles Lear Person · 12 stories
A researcher and podcast UFO host whose name turns up behind several of the archive's cases.
FAA Organisation · 12 stories
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.

Documents28 · see all

Launch Summary, Vandenberg AFB, 2000 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 2000-02-03· 113 pages· 71 pages mention it
- p. 16 …3 Aug 59 BEAN BALL 1011 75-1-1 THOR IWST 4 RAF 3 21. 13 Aug 59 FLY HIGH…
- p. 106 …Last launch-14 Dec 71 SLC-10E(soft) 1651 29 Oct 58 16 Jun 59 Inactive THOR IRBM (THOR)(Training…
Department of the Air Force Report, 1996 Report

U.S. Department of War· 1996-09-10· 181 pages· 17 pages mention it
- p. 6 …164 D.5.1 Thor and Thor-Boosted Launch History .................................................... 164 D.5.2 Thor and Thor-Boosted Failure Narratives…
- p. 173 D.5 Thor Launch and Performance History (Not Including Delta) The entire Thor history is depicted rather compactly in bar…
ADA133326 (PDF) Document

The Black Vault· 7 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 7 …It seems that this incident must be thor- oughly clarified and still waits for those who know the inside story…
First UFO Incident for Our Country (FTD-ID(RS)T-1019-83) Document

U.S. Department of Defense FOIA Reading Room· 1983-09· 6 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 6 …It seems that this incident must be thor- oughly clarified and still waits for those who know the inside story…
General 1946-7 Vol 2 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 1947-12-30· 28 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 13 …rc,coipt or the dtlta nnd a dotailod report; thor utter evory ,0 &3,·e ao tho tnveati- ~ -..0 0…
CIA-UAP-019, Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem Official release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1971· 19 pages

…Air Pnr,:<:- ilrgulatiun (A.FH 200-2) J'Pr.:on.'ll in\--2,,;t.Lgation a.u thor…