Discovery theme
Events reported by groups or communities, where shared observation and social context both matter.
UFOs & Aerial Phenomena
Westall securely records a large school disturbance and sincere aerial observations. The number, path and landing claims vary across sources, while no photograph or official recovery establishes an extraordinary craft.
UFOs & Aerial Phenomena
The Belgian wave combined sincere observations, institutional openness and an ambiguous radar episode. It did not produce a verified craft, and its reports likely include multiple stimuli.
UFOs & Aerial Phenomena
The Washington sightings combined radar returns, visual reports and official alarm. Temperature inversions offer a plausible mechanism for some returns, but the heterogeneous evidence does not support one neat solution.
UFOs & Aerial Phenomena
The 1896–97 mystery-airship wave mixed ambiguous lights, invention fever, jokes and newspaper storytelling. No verified machine accounts for the national narrative.
Occult & Psychical Research
The Fátima crowd event is historically documented, while its cause and religious meaning remain disputed. Testimony, expectation, optics and weather must be kept distinct.
UFOs & Aerial Phenomena
Children at Ariel School in Ruwa reported a strange object and figures on 16 September 1994. Drawings and interviews preserve their accounts, while chronology and interview method limit firm conclusions.
UFOs & Aerial Phenomena
On 13 March 1997, reports of a moving light formation crossed Arizona before a separate row of lights appeared near Phoenix. One event has a strong military-flare explanation; the other remains disputed.
UFOs & Aerial Phenomena
In February 1942, Los Angeles saw searchlights, anti-aircraft fire and rumours of enemy aircraft in a case where fear, weather and uncertainty lit up the sky.