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Indian Army "Yeti" footprints near Makalu Base Camp (2019)

April 9, 2019 · Langmale Kharka, near Makalu Base Camp, upper Barun valley, Makalu-Barun National Park, Sankhuwasabha, eastern Nepal

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources · 3 photos

52Partially documented

Craig Calonica's Yeti sightings on the north side of Everest

c. 1998 · North Col route, Mount Everest (Rongbuk to North Col), Tibet

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

12Thinly documented

Reinhold Messner's Night Encounter with a Yeti in Eastern Tibet

July 19, 1986 · Valley near the upper Mekong, eastern Tibet (Kham)

Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources

14Thinly documented

The 1981 Sky Spiral over Western China

July 24, 1981 · Southwest and northwest China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai, Gansu, Guizhou and other provinces)

UAP · Other · 22 sources

38Partially documented

George Adamski's Desert Center Contact

November 20, 1952 · Colorado Desert, about 10 miles from Desert Center on the road toward Parker, Arizona, Riverside County, California

UAP · Being / humanoid · 46 sources

39Partially documented

Shipton and Ward Yeti Footprints, Menlung Glacier, 1951

November 8, 1951 · Menlung Glacier, below the Menlung La, Gauri Sankar group, Nepal-Tibet border

Cryptid · Creature · 49 sources · 5 photos

49Partially documented

Frank Smythe's "Pulsating Teapots" on Everest

June 1, 1933 · North face of Mount Everest, about 200 ft above Camp VI, looking toward the north ridge, Tibet

UAP · Other · 25 sources

23Thinly documented

The Metoh-Kangmi Tracks at the Lhakpa La: Howard-Bury and the Birth of the Abominable Snowman

September 22, 1921 · Lhakpa La (Lhagba La), near Mount Everest, Tibet

Cryptid · Creature · 45 sources · 1 photos

35Partially documented

Laurence Waddell's 'hairy wild men' footprints in northeast Sikkim

1889 · Northeast Sikkim, India

Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources

32Partially documented

Names6

abominable snowman Term · 8 stories
A name born on the slopes of Everest.
Adamski Person · 5 stories
George Adamski ran the Palomar Gardens café below Palomar Mountain in California.
Xinhua Organisation · 5 stories
China's state news agency appears again and again in the archive's Chinese cases.
Howard-Bury Person · 3 stories
1921.
Mount Everest Place · 3 stories
The world's highest mountain stands at the centre of the Yeti story.
Reinhold Messner Person · 3 stories
A South Tyrolean mountaineer, and the sole witness to one of the archive's best known Yeti encounters.

Documents26 · see all

Cy 2010 FOIA Case Log FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2020-10-08· 76 pages· 15 pages mention it
- p. 51 …03-Sep-10 F-2010-01768 REPORTS, ANALYSES OR ASSEMENTS ON TIBET OR CHINESE POLICIES & ACTIONS REGARDING TIBET 03-Sep…
- p. 52 …08-Sep-10 F-2010-01785 TIBET OR CHINESE POLICIES & ACTIONS REGARDING TIBET FOUND IN SELECT CIA DOCUMENTS 08-Sep…
The President's Intelligence Checklist 11 September 1961 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1961-09-11· 6 pages

<div align="center"> # THE WHITE HOUSE OUTGOING MESSAGE </div> PRECEDENCE CLASSIFICATION 50X1 INFO: CITE:___ PRESIDENTS INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST ## 1…
(Sanitized) SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS IN LADAKH, NEPAL, SIKKIM AND BHUTAN FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 6 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 5 …to South-west, that is, from the direction of Tibet. 4 March 1968 1300 Ladakh Ane La area Object was…
CIA-UAP-016, Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan Official release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1968· 6 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 5 …to South-west, that is, from the direction of Tibet. A bluish colored object moving at high speed without any…
Central Intelligence Bulletin- 1960/02/01 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1960-02-01· 16 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 10 …a precedent for defining the border between Assam and Tibet, with minor adjustments, on the basis of the McMahon line…
CIA-UAP-003, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974 Official release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1954· 406 pages· 7 pages mention it
- p. 229 …U-2 Support for DDP Operations in Tibet The consolidation of all Agency air activities under the DDP in l…
- p. 231 …it carried no film Lhasa, Tibet, November 1959 and did not have a full load of fuel, which made it…

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Videos13 · see all

Lt Col Laurence Waddell: The first European to record a Yeti and inspired a Nazi expedition to Tibet

From Laurence Waddell's 'hairy wild men' footprints in northeast Sikkim

Shambhala. Nicholas Roerich and the Tibetan Buddhism

From The Nicholas Roerich Expedition Sighting, Kukunor District, 1927

George Adamski and the Royal Order of Tibet

From George Adamski's Desert Center Contact

Ed Viesturs on Messner and the Yeti

From Reinhold Messner's Night Encounter with a Yeti in Eastern Tibet

Reinhold Messner: Alpintourismus, Mauersturz und Yeti

From Reinhold Messner's Night Encounter with a Yeti in Eastern Tibet

Reinhold Messner Sees Yeti! #bigfoot

From Reinhold Messner's Night Encounter with a Yeti in Eastern Tibet

Reinhold Messner und der Mythos des Yeti: Eine Spurensuche im Schnee

From Reinhold Messner's Night Encounter with a Yeti in Eastern Tibet

Messner e lo Yeti

From Reinhold Messner's Night Encounter with a Yeti in Eastern Tibet

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