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The Papua New Guinea Wave: 79 Sightings, One Oxford Priest, and the Case That Almost Changed Everything
Between 1953 and 1959, missionaries, patrol officers, and Papuan teachers across the Territory of Papua and New Guinea reported dozens of unidentified aerial objects. Rev. N.E.G....
To The Stars: The 2017 Catalyst
The organisation that facilitated the December 2017 New York Times story revealing the Pentagon's secret UAP programme, releasing the first official US government UAP footage and...
Space Review, Vol. I, No. 1: The Bridgeport Bureau and Its Twelve Pages
In October 1952, a factory timekeeper in Bridgeport, Connecticut published the inaugural issue of Space Review, the quarterly journal of the International Flying Saucer Bureau....
Space Review, Vol. II, No. 1: Bridgeport to Bristol
The January 1953 issue of Space Review carried the IFSB across the Atlantic for the first time: a Dunkirk veteran in Bristol, a polite decline from Albert Einstein, a...
Space Review, Vol. II, No. 2: The First Anniversary Issue
By April 1953, the International Flying Saucer Bureau had a Department of Investigation, a seventeen-member International Council, representatives on four continents, and a Vatican...
Space Review, Vol. II, No. 3: The Widest Range
The July 1953 issue of Space Review carried the IFSB's widest intellectual range: an astronomer correlating Mars explosions with saucer arrivals, a British engineer analysing disc...
Space Review, Vol. II, No. 4: The Statement of Importance
The October 1953 issue of Space Review ran eight pages instead of twelve. It carried Bender's farewell, a formal dissolution notice, a refund form, and a boxed statement that would...
Space Review, Vol. III, No. 1: A Science News-Letter
Four months after the IFSB dissolved with its cryptic warning, Space Review reappeared as a four-page typewritten newsletter about Mars. No saucer sightings. No member theories. No...
Space Review, Vol. III, No. 3: True or False
The last issue of Space Review in the archive's collection dropped its astronomical mask. After three issues of Mars primers and book reviews, the August 1954 newsletter presented...
Space Review, Vol. III, No. 2: Living on Borrowed Time
The April 1954 issue of the post-shutdown Space Review opened with a catalogue of ways the Earth might end: hydrogen bombs, cobalt bombs, the sun exploding, the sun dying, the...
The Newsletter Record: Eighteen Years of Investigating the Valentich Disappearance
What the Australian UFO Bulletin's investigators found that the official record left out, from the six-week buildup to the rabbit hunters at Cape Otway.
Flying Saucers Have Landed: The Australasian Post Serialisation, 1953
In December 1953, the Australasian Post brought George Adamski's contactee account to Australian newsstands. The magazine packaged his claimed encounter with a Venusian in sworn...
Five Witnesses in Fifty-One Weeks: APRO's Government-Witness Network, 1953 to 1957
The Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation is usually remembered as one of the two large American civilian UFO groups of the post-war period, a small Wisconsin outfit that grew...
Alamogordo to Rio: APRO's International Network, 1957 to 1958
By the summer of 1958, the Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation had Carl Jung as its Psychology Consultant, Dr. Olavo Fontes as its Special Representative in Brazil, and Murray...
Sixteen Years Early: The J. Allen Hynek That APRO Recorded, 1953 to 1955
J. Allen Hynek's public break with the Air Force position is usually dated to 1966, the year he proposed the swamp-gas explanation for the Dexter and Hillsdale Michigan sightings...
The Investigator Who Was Everywhere: Lincoln La Paz Across the 1948 to 1954 Documentary Record
The 22 May 2026 PURSUE release surfaced a 116-page Sandia Base correspondence file that puts Dr. Lincoln La Paz at the centre of the 1948 to 1950 Green Fireballs investigation....
The Official Record: Project Sign to Special Report 14
Between 1947 and 1955 the United States Air Force ran three successive studies of the flying-disc reports, called in a secret scientific panel, then handed the whole problem to a...
The First Alert
In December 1948, the US Navy issued a directive to all Naval Districts: the Air Force had identified a cyclical pattern in flying disc activity, and a new wave was imminent. All...
The Silence of the Engineers
MIT's Technology Review published 362 articles on radar, rockets, and nuclear energy between 1947 and 1955. It never once addressed the flying saucer reports those technologies...
F-22 Shoots Down Unidentified Object Over Alaska
A military F-22 Raptor engaged an unidentified object near the Arctic Circle on February 10, 2023, marking the second such incident in as many weeks.
The Ariel School Encounter: 62 Children Report Contact in Zimbabwe
On September 16, 1994, sixty-two students at Ariel School near Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported that one or more unidentified craft landed near their schoolyard during morning break and...
The Belgian UFO Wave: Military Jet Pursuit and Government Transparency
Between November 1989 and April 1990, thousands of witnesses across Belgium reported sightings of large, silent, triangular craft, prompting Belgian Air Force F-16 scrambles, radar...
Etheria Calling: The BSRA Ether-Ship Doctrinal Lineage, 1945 to 1956
The cosmology that flying saucers are vehicles from an adjacent vibrational plane, projected into our density by intelligences who choose to be visible, was articulated in print in...
CUFOS: The Scientific Legacy of J. Allen Hynek
In 1948, the United States Air Force needed an astronomer and called the nearest one. Over twenty years, J. Allen Hynek went from sceptic to the most important scientific voice in...
Declassified UAP History: From Project Blue Book to AATIP
A public-record history of U.S. government UFO/UAP investigation programmes from the 1940s through the modern AATIP revelation, tracing eight decades of official involvement.
Japan Air Lines Flight 1628: Pilot Encounter Over Alaska Investigated by the FAA
On November 17, 1986, the crew of Japan Air Lines cargo flight 1628 reported a prolonged encounter with unidentified objects over Alaska, an incident tracked on FAA radar and...
The Kecksburg Incident: Unidentified Object Recovery in Pennsylvania
On December 9, 1965, residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania witnessed a fireball streak across the sky and reported that an object came down in nearby woods, followed by a rapid U.S....
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting: The Report That Launched the Modern UFO Era
On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine unusual objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier, Washington, a report that introduced the term 'flying...
Lake Huron Shoot-Down: February 2023: What the Public Record Contains
A comprehensive accounting of the publicly available information regarding the February 12, 2023 shoot-down of an unidentified object over Lake Huron by an F-16C, including the...
MUFON: The Civilian Investigation Network and Its Complicated Record
The oldest and largest civilian UFO investigation network, founded in 1969, with over 140,000 cases in its database and 600 investigators across 50 states. Also the organisation...
The Phoenix Lights: Mass Sighting Over Arizona
On the evening of March 13, 1997, thousands of witnesses across a 300-mile corridor from Nevada to Tucson, Arizona reported seeing a large V-shaped formation of lights, an event...
The Rendlesham Forest Incident: Britain's Most Documented Military UFO Case
Over two nights in December 1980, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England reported encounters with unidentified objects in the adjacent Rendlesham...
The Roswell Incident: What the Public Record Shows
In July 1947, debris recovered from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico became the subject of the most consequential UFO controversy in history, one that remains central to...
The Socorro Incident: Police Officer Lonnie Zamora's Close Encounter
On April 24, 1964, Socorro, New Mexico police officer Lonnie Zamora reported observing a landed egg-shaped craft and two small figures near it, an encounter investigated by the...
The Tehran UFO Incident: Iranian Air Force Jet Intercept Documented by U.S. Intelligence
On September 19, 1976, Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom jets were scrambled to intercept an unidentified object over Tehran after multiple civilian reports, an encounter that caused...
The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' Encounter: The Case That Reopened Government UAP Investigation
In November 2004, the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encountered an unidentified object off the coast of Southern California that was tracked on multiple sensor systems, an...
The 1952 Washington D.C. UFO Incidents: Radar-Confirmed Objects Over the Capitol
Over two consecutive weekends in July 1952, unidentified objects were tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base while visual sightings were...
The Westall Encounter: Mass School Sighting in Melbourne, Australia
On April 6, 1966, over 200 students and teachers at Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia witnessed an unidentified object descend behind the school before rising and...
The Yukon Shoot-Down
U.S. F-22 Raptor downs unidentified object over Canada in third early-February 2023 incident
Biographies (9)
Aleister Crowley | Biography
Aleister Crowley, the Leamington Spa-born English occultist who joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1898, received the Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) at the...
Annie Besant | Biography
Annie Besant, the London-born freethought lecturer, Knowlton Trial defendant of 1877, Fabian Society founding member, Theosophical Society President from 1907 to 1933, and founder...
Daniel Dunglas Home | Biography
Daniel Dunglas Home, the Scottish-born Connecticut-raised medium of the Victorian period who produced phenomena across the drawing-rooms of London, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Rome...
F. W. H. Myers | Biography
Frederic William Henry Myers, classical scholar, Cambridge Apostle, Inspector of Schools, and co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882. Coined the term telepathy in...
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | Biography
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the Russian-born co-founder of the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 with Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge. Author of Isis Unveiled...
Henry Steel Olcott | Biography
Henry Steel Olcott, the American Civil War officer, agricultural-investigation journalist, and lawyer who became the first President of the Theosophical Society at its founding in...
Richard Hodgson | Biography
Richard Hodgson, the Australian-born Trinity College Cambridge classical scholar who became the most consequential Society for Psychical Research investigator of his generation....
Sigmund Freud | Biography
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis whose private interest in telepathy and thought-transference ran from the 1890s through to his death in London...
Sir William Crookes | Biography
Sir William Crookes, the chemist who discovered thallium in 1861, invented the Radiometer in 1872, gave his name to the vacuum tube Wilhelm Roentgen used to discover X-rays in...
