THE PUBLIC RESEARCH LIBRARYExplore the records. Follow the sources.
Browse UFO case files, paranormal reports, historical texts and research dossiers. These are accounts and leads for investigation—not proof of an extraordinary explanation.
To combine details, compare matches and investigate connections across the collection, create an account and search Anomaly Graph.
Not sure where to begin? Our research guides explain how to follow sources, compare accounts and turn matches into a useful investigation.
Sourced using AIMedieval Islamic cosmographical tradition; major witnesses from the 9th–14th centuries · Islamic Middle East
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Manaus, Amazonas
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · La Porte, Texas, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Hartford and central Connecticut
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Walvis Bay, Erongo Region
Read record →Sourced using AI334 BCE tradition; surviving accounts later · Siege of Tyre or other Alexander campaign setting, attribution varies
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Kerala
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Hilo, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Baguio, Benguet
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Minnesota, especially the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region
Read record →Sourced using AILate twentieth-century reports; dates vary by account · Kent, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Montreal, Quebec
Read record →Sourced using AI1860s–1886; published 1890s · Dakshineswar and Calcutta, Bengal, India
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration tradition; nineteenth- and twentieth-century documentation · Andean regions of Argentina and Bolivia
Read record →Sourced using AI1934 · Portland, Oregon
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Bari, Apulia, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 Samoan religion and anthropology · Samoa and wider western Polynesia
Read record →Sourced using AI1959–1969 · Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 2008 · Stephenville–Dublin area, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1941 · Cape of Good Hope and adjacent sea lanes
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 oral-tradition collection · Pacific lowlands, especially Chocó and Nariño
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Adelaide Airport, South Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Gloucester, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Lake Tana, Amhara Region
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Paris, France
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Cape Town, Western Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Liège
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 (exact date requires verification) · Norfolk, Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AILikely early centuries CE; date and authorship debated · South Asia
Read record →Sourced using AI1967–1970 · Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province
Read record →Sourced using AIoccupation claims extending to about 65,000 years ago · Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2008 · Anandwan, Maharashtra
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly–August 1943 · Kiska Island, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional narratives; recorded in nineteenth- and twentieth-century sources · Polynesia, with variants in Hawaiʻi, Aotearoa New Zealand, Tahiti and other islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Ketchikan, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AIPlay first performed c. 1600–1601 · Elsinore in the drama
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 · Dominican Republic airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIModern Mexican cultural and paranormal coverage; historic building predates 2010 · San Luis Potosí
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century Dominican legend and later heritage accounts · Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional
Read record →Sourced using AI1555 publication; alleged 1531 encounter · Near the coast of Norway, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 discussion of earlier material · Naden Harbour, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AIMarch 1967 · Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana
Read record →Sourced using AI1943 · Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 · Grand Hyatt Taipei, Xinyi District, Taipei
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Vigra, Møre og Romsdal
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Skopje, North Macedonia
Read record →Sourced using AI2024 · Buga, Valle del Cauca
Read record →