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After first director Sean Kirkpatrick departed in\nlate 2023 amid a transparency controversy, it published a landmark\nHistorical Record Report (March 2024) concluding there is no empirical\nevidence the U.S. government or its contractors recovered or\nreverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology — a finding that\ncontradicts whistleblower David Grusch and remains contested.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/aaro"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-77.05,38.87]},"properties":{"slug":"aaro-historical-2024","name":"The AARO Historical Record Report, Vol. 1","date":"2024-03-08","location":"Washington, D.C., USA (the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office)","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"incident","one_liner":"The AARO Historical Record Report, Volume 1 (released 8 March 2024) is the\nPentagon's congressionally-mandated review of US government UAP involvement from\n1945 to 2023 — finding no evidence that any US entity or private company ever\npossessed, recovered, or reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology, and no\nverified case of a UAP sighting being an alien craft, attributing many famous\nclaims to misidentified ordinary or classified objects and 'circular reporting.'","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/aaro-historical-2024"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-115.14,36.17]},"properties":{"slug":"aawsap-aatip","name":"AAWSAP / AATIP","date":"2008-01-01","location":"Defense Intelligence Agency program; fieldwork via Bigelow Aerospace (BAASS), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"program","one_liner":"AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program) was a ~$22\nmillion Defense Intelligence Agency program, contracted to Robert\nBigelow's BAASS from roughly 2008-2012 and championed by Senator Harry\nReid, that studied advanced aerospace technologies and, in practice,\nconducted UFO/UAP and paranormal investigation. It became publicly known\non 16 December 2017 via a New York Times story that called the effort\n\"AATIP\" and featured Luis Elizondo, who said he ran it — both points the\nPentagon has disputed, producing a lasting AAWSAP-vs-AATIP controversy.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/aawsap-aatip"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-115.4,33.71]},"properties":{"slug":"adamski","name":"George Adamski & the Contactee Movement","date":"1952-11-20","location":"the California desert near Desert Center, USA (and Adamski's base near Palomar Mountain)","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"George Adamski claimed face-to-face contact with a benevolent blond Venusian\nnamed Orthon in the California desert on 20 November 1952, co-authored the\nbestseller 'Flying Saucers Have Landed' (1953), and published 'scout-ship'\nphotographs now near-universally judged faked models — the founder of the\n'contactee' movement and the religious lineage of UFO belief, distinct from\nthe sighting and abduction record.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/adamski"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-0.18,51.48]},"properties":{"slug":"aetherius-society","name":"The Aetherius Society & George King","date":"1955-01-01","location":"London, England (founding); now headquartered in London and Los Angeles, with a global membership","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Aetherius Society is a UFO religion founded in London by Dr. George\nKing (1919-1997), a taxi driver and intensive yoga practitioner who in May\n1954 said he received a command — \"Prepare yourself! You are to become the\nvoice of Interplanetary Parliament\" — and thereafter channeled \"Cosmic\nMasters,\" including Aetherius (said to be from Venus) and the Master Jesus;\nKing fused Theosophy, yoga, and Christianity with the 1950s saucer mythos\ninto one of the earliest and most enduring organized UFO religions, with\nrituals like Operation Starlight (charging mountains) and Operation Prayer\nPower (storing prayer energy in batteries) that continue today.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/aetherius-society"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-67.13,18.49]},"properties":{"slug":"aguadilla","name":"Aguadilla Incident","date":"2013-04-25","location":"near Rafael Hernandez Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 25/26 April 2013 a US Customs and Border Protection aircraft's thermal\ncamera recorded ~3 minutes of an object near Aguadilla that appeared to fly\nlow, skim into the ocean (transmedium), and split in two. The Scientific\nCoalition for UAP Studies argued the kinematics were anomalous; Metabunk and\nultimately AARO concluded (March 2025, moderate confidence) the footage shows\na pair of wind-drifting sky lanterns, the anomalies produced by parallax and\ninfrared imaging.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/aguadilla"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-121.49,38.58]},"properties":{"slug":"airship-wave","name":"The Great Airship Wave of 1896-1897","date":"1896-11-17","location":"the United States — California (Nov 1896) spreading east through the Midwest and Texas (spring 1897)","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"wave","one_liner":"Between November 1896 and May 1897, thousands of Americans — starting in\nCalifornia and spreading east through the Midwest and Texas — reported\nseeing large cigar- or dirigible-shaped \"airships\" with bright searchlights\nand propellers, at a time when no practical powered aircraft existed (the\nWright brothers were still seven years away). It was the earliest mass UFO\nwave, and the scholarly consensus is that it was a media-driven phenomenon:\nsensationalist newspaper hoaxes and \"silly-season\" journalism layered on\nmisidentified planets and stars, with its two most famous episodes — the\nAurora, Texas \"Martian crash\" and the Kansas \"calf-napping\" — now\nestablished as outright hoaxes.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/airship-wave"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-2.4,49.72]},"properties":{"slug":"alderney","name":"The Alderney / Channel Islands Sighting","date":"2007-04-23","location":"over the English Channel near Alderney, Channel Islands, UK","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 23 April 2007, veteran Aurigny Air Services captain Ray Bowyer reported two\nenormous, brilliant yellow elongated objects stationary in clear air over the\nEnglish Channel near Alderney, watched for ~9-15 minutes by himself and\npassengers, with a second pilot reporting a similar object near-simultaneously —\none of the most credible modern multiple-pilot daytime sightings, though a\nstrong atmospheric-optics explanation remains contested.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/alderney"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-69.38,46.33]},"properties":{"slug":"allagash","name":"The Allagash Abduction","date":"1976-08-26","location":"Eagle Lake, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Maine, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Four art-school friends on a 1976 Maine canoe trip reported a bright color-\nshifting sphere over Eagle Lake and a missing-time return; thirteen years\nlater, under hypnosis after one suffered a head injury and seizures, all\nrecovered matching memories of being floated aboard a craft and examined. It\nbecame a leading 'multiple-witness' abduction case until 2016, when one of the\nfour called the abduction 'brilliant storytelling' they invented to make money.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/allagash"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-71.91,42.64]},"properties":{"slug":"andreasson","name":"The Betty Andreasson Abduction","date":"1967-01-25","location":"South Ashburnham, Massachusetts, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Betty Andreasson, a devout housewife, claimed that on 25 January 1967 small\ngrey beings entered her Massachusetts home, placed her family in suspended\nanimation, and took her aboard a craft for an exam during which she received an\nintense religious vision of a great bird/Phoenix that burns and is reborn — an\naccount recovered almost entirely under hypnosis from 1977 and documented by\nRaymond Fowler, the canonical religious-visionary abduction.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/andreasson"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[31.25,-17.92]},"properties":{"slug":"ariel-school","name":"Ariel School, Zimbabwe (16 September 1994)","date":"1994-09-16","location":"Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe (≈35 km east of Harare)","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"During morning recess on 16 September 1994, as many as 62 children aged\n6 to 12 at a primary school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported a silver craft\nsettling in the rough ground beyond the playing field and one or more\nsmall figures with large dark eyes nearby. The children produced\nindependent drawings within hours; Harvard psychiatrist John Mack\ninterviewed twelve of them on camera three months later.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/ariel-school"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-69.65,-20.07]},"properties":{"slug":"atacama-ata","name":"The Atacama Humanoid \"Ata\"","date":"2003-10-19","location":"near La Noria, Atacama Desert, Chile","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"'Ata' is a 6-inch mummified skeleton with an elongated skull and only 10 ribs,\nfound ~2003 in Chile's Atacama Desert and promoted as possible alien remains in\nSteven Greer's 2013 film 'Sirius' — conclusively shown by DNA analysis\n(Stanford, Garry Nolan et al., 2013 and 2018) to be a human female with multiple\nrare bone-development mutations, most likely a preterm fetus or stillbirth only\ndecades old, not ancient and not alien.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/atacama-ata"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-97.51,33.06]},"properties":{"slug":"aurora-texas","name":"The Aurora, Texas Airship Crash","date":"1897-04-17","location":"Aurora, Wise County, north Texas, USA","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 17 April 1897, during the great American 'mystery airship' wave, a Dallas\nMorning News dispatch claimed an airship crashed into a windmill on Judge\nProctor's farm in Aurora, Texas, killing a pilot 'not of this world' who was\ngiven a Christian burial in the town cemetery — a story existing almost entirely\nin one reporter's account and widely judged a town-boosting newspaper hoax, the\nairship-era ancestor of the modern crash-retrieval legend.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/aurora-texas"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-107.97,36.92]},"properties":{"slug":"aztec","name":"The Aztec, New Mexico Crash Hoax","date":"1948-03-01","location":"Hart Canyon, near Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Aztec crash is the alleged March 1948 recovery of a ~99-ft saucer carrying\n16 dead small humanoids near Aztec, New Mexico, publicized in Frank Scully's\n1950 bestseller 'Behind the Flying Saucers' — and traced by journalist J.P.\nCahn to two con men, Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer, who used the saucer story\nto sell a fraudulent oil-detection device and were convicted of fraud in 1953.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/aztec"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[19.8,60.5]},"properties":{"slug":"baltic-sea-anomaly-2011","name":"The Baltic Sea Anomaly","date":"2011-06-19","location":"Gulf of Bothnia, northern Baltic Sea (between Sweden and Finland), ~85-90 m deep","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"In June 2011 Swedish treasure hunters (the \"Ocean X Team\") recorded a ~60-metre\ncircular feature on the floor of the northern Baltic Sea via side-scan sonar;\nmedia called it a \"crashed UFO,\" but geologists who sampled it concluded it is a\nnatural glacial formation — a real feature resolved to a mundane cause, its \"disc\"\nshape partly a sonar-imaging artifact.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/baltic-sea-anomaly-2011"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[7.59,47.56]},"properties":{"slug":"basel","name":"The Basel Celestial Phenomenon","date":"1566-08-07","location":"Basel, Swiss Confederation (modern Switzerland)","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"In late July and early August 1566 a Basel broadsheet by Samuel Coccius\nreported black spheres seen before the sun, some turning fiery red and seeming\nto 'fight' — the close companion to the Nuremberg 1561 print, and like it best\nunderstood as an atmospheric-optics display read and embellished through the\napocalyptic wonder-sign idiom of the Reformation, not evidence of craft.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/basel"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-118.4,34.02]},"properties":{"slug":"battle-of-la","name":"Battle of Los Angeles","date":"1942-02-25","location":"Los Angeles, California, USA","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 24-25 February 1942 — eleven weeks after Pearl Harbor\nand a day after a Japanese submarine shelled the California coast — U.S.\nanti-aircraft batteries fired more than 1,400 shells over Los Angeles at\ntargets never confirmed to exist. No enemy aircraft were downed, no\nbombs fell, and five civilians died from blackout car crashes and\nstress. The official explanation is \"war nerves\" / false alarm, most\nlikely set off by a stray weather balloon; the event's later fame rests\non a retouched Los Angeles Times photograph absorbed into UFO lore\ndecades afterward.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/battle-of-la"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[6.04,50.63]},"properties":{"slug":"belgian-wave","name":"Belgian Triangle Wave (29 November 1989 – April 1990)","date":"1989-11-29","location":"eastern and central Belgium — Eupen, Liège, and the Beauvechain air-defense sector","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"wave","one_liner":"A five-month wave of low, slow, silent triangular-craft sightings over\nBelgium drew more than 2,000 written gendarmerie reports and, on the\nnight of 30–31 March 1990, an F-16 intercept of targets confirmed by\nNATO ground radar. The Belgian Air Force broke with every other Western\nmilitary of the century by holding a press conference, cooperating with\ncivilian investigators, and releasing its radar tracks publicly.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/belgian-wave"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-106.55,35.05]},"properties":{"slug":"bennewitz","name":"The Paul Bennewitz Affair & the AFOSI Disinformation Campaign","date":"1980-01-01","location":"Albuquerque, New Mexico — overlooking Kirtland AFB and the Manzano nuclear-weapons storage area","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"incident","one_liner":"Paul Bennewitz, an Albuquerque businessman who photographed lights and recorded\n'signals' near Kirtland AFB and the Manzano nuclear-weapons storage area, was\ndeliberately fed fabricated alien-UFO disinformation by Air Force Office of\nSpecial Investigations agents — notably Richard Doty — and by ufologist William\nMoore, an operation that amplified his beliefs into the 'Dulce base' mythology\nand contributed to his 1988 breakdown — one of the very few UFO cases where\ngovernment disinformation is genuinely documented rather than merely alleged.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/bennewitz"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-3.42,52.93]},"properties":{"slug":"berwyn-mountain","name":"The Berwyn Mountain Incident","date":"1974-01-23","location":"the Berwyn range near Llandrillo, Denbighshire, North Wales","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 23 January 1974, residents around Llandrillo in the Berwyn\nMountains felt a tremor and saw lights on the hillside; over decades the event\nwas reframed as a crashed UFO and a covert military body-recovery — the 'Welsh\nRoswell' — even though the contemporaneous evidence points to a real\ninstrumented earthquake plus a coincident widely-seen bright meteor and lights\non the mountain.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/berwyn-mountain"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-71.21,46.81]},"properties":{"slug":"blue-beam","name":"Project Blue Beam","date":"1994-01-01","location":"originated in Quebec, Canada (Serge Monast); a global conspiracy-theory phenomenon","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"Project Blue Beam is a conspiracy theory advanced by Canadian journalist Serge\nMonast in 1994, alleging that NASA and the UN/New World Order plan to use\nsatellites, holograms, and electronic 'voice-of-God' broadcasts to stage a fake\nglobal event — a simulated alien invasion and/or fake Second Coming — to\nfrighten humanity into accepting a one-world government and religion; there is no\nevidence such a project exists, and it is documented as a written claim and a\ndurable piece of modern folklore, not as an event.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/blue-beam"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-84.05,39.81]},"properties":{"slug":"blue-book","name":"Project Blue Book","date":"1952-03-01","location":"Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, USA","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"program","one_liner":"Project Blue Book was the longest-running official U.S. Air Force study\nof UFOs, headquartered at Wright-Patterson AFB. Over seventeen years it\nevaluated 12,618 sighting reports, of which 701 remained \"unidentified,\"\nbefore being terminated in December 1969 on the recommendation of the\nCondon Report. Its first director, Edward Ruppelt, coined the term \"UFO.\"","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/blue-book"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-3.89,56.0]},"properties":{"slug":"bonnybridge","name":"The Bonnybridge / Falkirk Triangle UFO Window","date":"1992-01-01","location":"Bonnybridge and the 'Falkirk Triangle' (Falkirk–Bonnybridge–Stirling), central Scotland","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"From 1992 the small central-Scotland town of Bonnybridge and the surrounding\n'Falkirk Triangle' became one of the world's most-reported UFO hotspots — on\nthe order of 300 reports a year at peak — but the record is overwhelmingly\nlow-grade lights-in-the-sky reports promoted by a local councillor and\ncatalogued by amateurs, with abundant reports and no verified anomalous craft\nor physical evidence.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/bonnybridge"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-45.9,-23.2]},"properties":{"slug":"brazil-1986","name":"The Brazilian Official UFO Night","date":"1986-05-19","location":"southeastern Brazil — Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Goias","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 19-20 May 1986, ground and airborne radar plus airline and\nmilitary pilots tracked roughly 20 unidentified objects over southeastern\nBrazil, prompting the Brazilian Air Force to scramble F-5E and Mirage III\ninterceptors; days later Air Minister Brigadier Octavio Moreira Lima held a\npress conference openly confirming the radar/visual events and saying the FAB\nhad no technical explanation — one of the most candidly acknowledged official\nmilitary UFO cases on record.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/brazil-1986"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-5.1,51.78]},"properties":{"slug":"broad-haven","name":"The Broad Haven / Dyfed Incident","date":"1977-02-04","location":"Broad Haven Primary School and the wider Pembrokeshire (Dyfed) coast, Wales","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"In February 1977 a group of pupils at Broad Haven Primary School in\nPembrokeshire reported a landed silver UFO and a silver-suited figure — the\nopening episode of the 'Dyfed Enigma' / 'Welsh Triangle' wave of 1977 — now\nbest read as a genuine but mundane mass sighting amplified by contagion, with\ncontested hoax, sewage-tanker, and military explanations and a quietly serious\nMoD/RAF Police inquiry revealed in later-released files.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/broad-haven"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-81.79,35.93]},"properties":{"slug":"brown-mountain-lights","name":"The Brown Mountain Lights","date":"1922-01-01","location":"Brown Mountain, Blue Ridge, near Morganton/Linville, North Carolina, USA","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Brown Mountain Lights are recurring glowing orbs reported over Brown\nMountain in the Blue Ridge of western North Carolina, viewable from overlooks\nlike Wiseman's View — investigated twice by the US Geological Survey (1913,\n1922), which attributed them overwhelmingly to distant man-made lights (car and\ntrain headlights, brush fires, stationary lamps) seen across the valley and\nenhanced by atmospheric refraction, leaving only a small contested residue.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/brown-mountain-lights"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-3.93,56.79]},"properties":{"slug":"calvine","name":"The Calvine Photograph","date":"1990-08-04","location":"near Calvine, Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross, Scottish Highlands, UK","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Calvine photograph is a set of six color photos, reportedly taken by two\nyoung Scottish hotel workers in August 1990, showing a large diamond/lozenge\nobject hanging silently near Calvine with an RAF Harrier apparently nearby —\nsubmitted to a newspaper and handed to the Ministry of Defence, which kept\nthem, lost the originals, and never let them surface for ~30 years until\nhistorian David Clarke recovered a surviving print in 2022.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/calvine"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-16.6,28.3]},"properties":{"slug":"canary-islands","name":"The Canary Islands Sightings","date":"1976-06-22","location":"the Canary Islands, Spain (Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera, Gran Canaria) and the Atlantic offshore","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 22 June 1976 several hundred witnesses across the Canary\nIslands — and a Spanish Navy ship at sea — reported a huge growing luminous\nsphere with a bright nucleus; the Spanish Air Force investigated and the case\nbecame part of Spain's declassified military UFO files, with the mass sphere\nnow widely attributed to a US Navy submarine-launched Poseidon missile test,\nwhile a stranger single-witness close encounter by a physician remains a\nseparate residual element.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/canary-islands"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-64.53,-30.86]},"properties":{"slug":"capilla-del-monte","name":"Cerro Uritorco / Huella del Pajarillo (Capilla del Monte)","date":"1986-01-09","location":"Capilla del Monte, Córdoba province, Argentina (the slope of Cerro El Pajarillo, below Cerro Uritorco)","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"Argentina's most famous UFO case — a luminous-object sighting and a large oval\nburned mark ('Huella del Pajarillo,' widely cited ~120 m × 64 m) on a slope below\nCerro Uritorco — whose physical mark is genuinely documented but whose\nextraterrestrial interpretation was endorsed by the municipality for tourism within\nweeks, amplified by a TV reporter whose cameraman later confessed the coverage was\nstaged.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/capilla-del-monte"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-76.04,45.35]},"properties":{"slug":"carp-guardian","name":"The Carp / Guardian Affair","date":"1989-11-04","location":"Corkery Road near Carp, west of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"Beginning in 1989, an anonymous figure signing as 'Guardian' mailed UFO\nresearchers documents — and, in 1991, a video — claiming a crashed alien craft\nhad been recovered from a swamp off Corkery Road near Carp, Ontario. Thoroughly\ninvestigated and now widely regarded as a deliberate hoax, it is a clean\nexemplar of how forged documents, a sincere witness, a video, and a\ncredentialed promoter combine into a self-reinforcing UFO narrative.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/carp-guardian"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-84.51,31.49]},"properties":{"slug":"carter","name":"The Jimmy Carter UFO Sighting","date":"1969-01-06","location":"Leary, Georgia, USA (a Lions Club meeting)","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the evening of 6 January 1969, future US president Jimmy Carter and a group\nof fellow Lions Club members in Leary, Georgia watched a bright, self-luminous\nobject that appeared to approach, change color, and recede; Carter filed a\nreport in 1973 and promised UFO transparency in 1976 — the most celebrated\n'credible witness' sighting in UFO history, yet best explained as a\nmisperception of the planet Venus, which Carter himself never claimed was\nextraterrestrial.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/carter"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-95.11,30.06]},"properties":{"slug":"cash-landrum","name":"Cash-Landrum Incident","date":"1980-12-29","location":"FM 1485, Piney Woods near Huffman, Texas, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and seven-year-old Colby Landrum\nencountered a diamond-shaped object venting flame over a two-lane\nTexas road on the evening of 29 December 1980, counted 23\ntwin-rotor helicopters around it as it departed, and developed\nacute injuries — blistering, hair loss, and a two-week hospital\nadmission for Cash — that later medical examiners characterized\nas consistent with ionizing radiation exposure.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/cash-landrum"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-105.5,38.5]},"properties":{"slug":"cattle-mutilation","name":"The Cattle Mutilation Wave & the Rommel Report","date":"1975-01-01","location":"the US West and Midwest — especially Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"The 1970s cattle mutilation wave was a panic over livestock found dead with\napparently 'surgical' removal of soft tissue, little visible blood, and no\npredator tracks, woven into UFO and 'black helicopter' lore — and credibly\nresolved by retired FBI agent Kenneth Rommel's 1979-1980 federally funded study\nto ordinary death plus predation, scavenging, insect activity, and\ndecomposition.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/cattle-mutilation"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[11.61,43.48]},"properties":{"slug":"cennina","name":"The Rosa Lotti / Cennina Encounter","date":"1954-11-01","location":"Cennina, Bucine (Arezzo), Tuscany, Italy","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On All Saints' Day 1954, at the peak of the great autumn-1954 European UFO wave,\nTuscan peasant woman Rosa Lotti Dainelli reported a daylight close encounter — a\nsmall spindle/barrel-shaped craft and two ~1-metre 'men' who took her carnations\nand a stocking — making it Italy's first and most famous CE3, but a single-witness\naccount with no physical evidence and an 18-year gap before any serious\ninvestigation.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/cennina"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-71.8,-33.45]},"properties":{"slug":"chilean-navy","name":"The Chilean Navy / CEFAA IR Case","date":"2014-11-11","location":"off the central Chilean coast, west of Santiago, Chile","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 11 November 2014 a Chilean Navy helicopter crew recorded ~9 minutes of\ninfrared (FLIR) video of an unidentified object off the central coast that\ntwice appeared to eject a hot plume and did not show on radar; Chile's official\nUFO agency CEFAA investigated for ~2 years and released it in 2017 as\nunexplained — but analysts then argued it was a distant airliner whose contrail\nand engine glow mimicked the anomalous features.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/chilean-navy"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-86.5,32.3]},"properties":{"slug":"chiles-whitted","name":"The Chiles-Whitted Encounter","date":"1948-07-24","location":"near Montgomery, Alabama, USA (aboard an Eastern Air Lines DC-3)","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"incident","one_liner":"At ~2:45 am on 24 July 1948, two veteran Eastern Air Lines pilots flying a\nDC-3 near Montgomery, Alabama saw a wingless, torpedo-shaped object with two\nrows of glowing 'windows' and a fiery exhaust streak past their aircraft — a\nreport so striking it helped trigger Project Sign's classified 'Estimate of the\nSituation' concluding the objects were interplanetary, later rejected and\nincinerated; a leading candidate explanation is a bright bolide/meteor with\nthe 'windows' read as a perceptual artifact, though the account resists it in\nplaces.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/chiles-whitted"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-65.9,18.38]},"properties":{"slug":"chupacabra","name":"The Chupacabra","date":"1995-08-01","location":"Canóvanas, Puerto Rico (the 1995 panic); later the US Southwest / Texas","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"creature","one_liner":"The chupacabra ('goat-sucker') is a creature panic that erupted in Puerto Rico in\n1995 after livestock were reportedly found dead and 'drained of blood' — a scare\ninvestigator Benjamin Radford traced to a witness whose description matched the\nalien creature from the film 'Species' (released weeks earlier), while the later\n'Texas chupacabra' carcasses were DNA-confirmed as coyotes and dogs with severe\nmange.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/chupacabra"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-120.55,39.3]},"properties":{"slug":"cisco-grove","name":"The Cisco Grove Incident","date":"1964-09-04","location":"near Cisco Grove, Sierra Nevada, California, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Bow-hunter Donald Shrum, lost overnight near Cisco Grove in the Sierra Nevada,\nreported being besieged in a tree until dawn by two silver-suited humanoids and\na clanking, segmented 'robot' that emitted a knockout vapor — fending them off\nby lighting and hurling his burning clothing and gear — one of the era's most\nvivid single-witness close encounters of the third kind.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/cisco-grove"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-48.28,-0.93]},"properties":{"slug":"colares","name":"Colares / Operação Prato (1977–1978)","date":"1977-09-01","location":"Colares, an island town in Marajó Bay near the mouth of the Amazon, with activity in Vigia, Mosqueiro and across northern Pará, Brazil","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"wave","one_liner":"Through 1977–1978 residents of Colares and the lower Amazon reported\nbeing struck at night by beams of light from low, often box- or\ncylinder-shaped craft — locals called the phenomenon \"chupa-chupa,\"\nthe sucker — leaving burns, two-puncture-mark \"bites,\" weakness and\nanemia-like symptoms in scores of people. The Brazilian Air Force ran\na four-month field investigation, Operação Prato (Operation Saucer),\nunder Capt. Uyrangê Hollanda, collecting hundreds of photographs and\nfilm. The FAB's final position was that nothing anomalous was proven;\nHollanda, in 1997, said on the record that he believed it was real,\nand died by hanging three months later.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/colares"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[2.35,48.85]},"properties":{"slug":"cometa","name":"The COMETA Report","date":"1999-07-16","location":"France (private committee linked to the IHEDN defense-studies institute)","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"program","one_liner":"The COMETA report (\"Les OVNI et la Defense: a quoi devons-nous nous\npreparer?\" / \"UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?\") was a 1999\nstudy by COMETA, a PRIVATE, unofficial association of high-ranking retired\nFrench generals, admirals, engineers and officials, most linked to the\ndefense-studies institute IHEDN. It concluded that ~5% of cases are\ngenuinely unexplained and that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is the best\navailable explanation — its most famous and most contested feature.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/cometa"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-105.27,40.01]},"properties":{"slug":"condon-committee","name":"The Condon Committee","date":"1966-10-06","location":"University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA (USAF-funded)","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"program","one_liner":"The Condon Committee was a USAF-funded UFO study at the University of\nColorado (1966-68) under physicist Edward U. Condon, whose report\n\"Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects\" (1968) concluded that\nfurther scientific study could not be justified — directly leading the Air\nForce to close Project Blue Book in December 1969. It became permanently\ncontroversial because a leaked 1966 memo described framing the project as\na \"trick,\" and because critics showed that roughly a quarter to a third of\nthe cases it actually studied were left unexplained, at odds with the\ndismissive summary.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/condon-committee"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-2.31,52.64]},"properties":{"slug":"cosford","name":"The Cosford Incident","date":"1993-03-31","location":"western Britain, centered on RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire, England","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"Over two nights a large triangular craft and bright lights were reported by\nmany witnesses across western Britain, including RAF Cosford military police\nand an RAF Shawbury meteorological officer who described a low, slow craft\nwith a sweeping beam and a low hum — prompting an MoD officer (Nick Pope) to\nwrite that an undetected object in UK airspace would be 'of considerable\ndefence significance.'","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/cosford"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-95.84,41.27]},"properties":{"slug":"council-bluffs","name":"The Council Bluffs Molten-Metal Case","date":"1977-12-17","location":"Big Lake Park, Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"At about 7:45 PM on 17 December 1977, several witnesses in Council Bluffs, Iowa\nsaw a glowing object descend near Big Lake Park, and responders found ~35-55 lb\nof still-molten metal burning the grass; laboratory analysis (Ames Lab / Iowa\nState, the local Griffin Pipe foundry, and a 2022 isotopic re-study) resolved\nthe material to ordinary terrestrial high-carbon iron / smelter slag — a\ndocumented physical-trace event whose hard evidence proved mundane.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/council-bluffs"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-82.52,40.76]},"properties":{"slug":"coyne-mansfield","name":"Coyne / Mansfield Army Helicopter Incident (18 October 1973)","date":"1973-10-18","location":"airspace ~11 nm south of Mansfield, Ohio, USA","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"incident","one_liner":"An Army Reserve UH-1H 'Huey' crewed by Capt. 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By the crew's account the object bathed the cockpit in a\ngreen beam, killed the radios, and — though the collective was set to\ndescend — the helicopter climbed more than a thousand feet with no input.\nCivilians on the ground saw it too.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/coyne-mansfield"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-1.85,51.25]},"properties":{"slug":"crop-circles","name":"Crop Circles & the Bower-Chorley Hoax","date":"1991-01-01","location":"the cereal fields of Wiltshire and Hampshire, southern England","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"The modern crop-circle phenomenon — geometric patterns flattened into English\ncereal fields — was launched in 1978 as a deliberate hoax by Doug Bower and\nDave Chorley, who confessed publicly in 1991, demonstrated their plank-and-rope\ntechnique, and fooled a leading 'cereologist' into authenticating a fresh fake\n— the canonical documented-hoax origin of a worldwide phenomenon and the direct\ndescendant of the 1966 Tully 'saucer nest.'","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/crop-circles"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[3.05,45.05]},"properties":{"slug":"cussac","name":"The Cussac Encounter","date":"1967-08-29","location":"Cussac, Cantal, Auvergne, France","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the morning of 29 August 1967, two young siblings herding cattle near Cussac\nin the Cantal, France, reported four small black humanoid beings around a\nbrilliant sphere that rose into the sky with a whistling sound and a sulfur\nsmell — a case later investigated by France's official state UFO body,\nGEPAN/GEIPAN (CNES), which classified it among its unexplained cases and judged\nthe children's account internally consistent.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/cussac"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[135.57,44.55]},"properties":{"slug":"dalnegorsk","name":"The Dalnegorsk Incident / Height 611","date":"1986-01-29","location":"Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Soviet Far East (Height 611 / Mount Izvestkovaya)","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the evening of 29 January 1986, dozens of residents of the mining town of\nDalnegorsk in the Soviet Far East watched a silent reddish sphere fly\nhorizontally and strike a rocky hill known as 'Height 611,' producing a\nfire-glow; Soviet researchers recovered unusual residues — tiny 'mesh'/lattice\nballs, glassy droplets, and fine metallic threads — analyzed in Academy of\nSciences laboratories and reported as compositionally anomalous, but hard to\nverify from outside the late-Soviet system.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/dalnegorsk"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-60.57,-62.98]},"properties":{"slug":"deception-island","name":"The Deception Island / Antarctic Sighting","date":"1965-07-03","location":"Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica (Argentine, Chilean, and British bases)","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 3 July 1965, personnel at the Argentine naval base on Deception Island —\njoined by Chilean visitors and with corroborating reports from other bases —\nwatched a colored, maneuvering lenticular object for roughly an hour, after\nwhich the Argentine Navy issued a formal public statement confirming the\nsighting, making it one of the rare officially-acknowledged UFO events and one\nof the only well-documented Antarctic sightings on record.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/deception-island"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-3.55,55.9]},"properties":{"slug":"dechmont-law","name":"The Robert Taylor / Dechmont Law Incident","date":"1979-11-09","location":"Dechmont Law, near Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 9 November 1979 a sober, well-regarded Scottish forestry worker reported being\nattacked near Livingston by spiked spheres deployed from a large domed craft;\ngenuine physical traces (ground marks, torn trousers) led police to log it as a\ncriminal assault — making it the UK's only UFO case formally investigated by\npolice, though it remains a single-witness event with no corroboration of the\ncraft and a leading prosaic explanation (an epileptic episode) that is plausible\nbut unproven.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/dechmont-law"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-100.9,29.36]},"properties":{"slug":"del-rio-1955","name":"The Del Rio / \"Col. 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Willingham, saw a\nUFO crash near the Texas-Mexico border and recovered a fragment of lightweight\nmetal — but investigators established that Willingham fabricated his entire officer\nand pilot career, his crash date shifted across 1948/1950/1955, and the metal was\nnever produced, making it a documented hoax retained as a cautionary case.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/del-rio-1955"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-97.77,39.27]},"properties":{"slug":"delphos","name":"The Delphos Ring","date":"1971-11-02","location":"the Johnson family farm near Delphos, Ottawa County, Kansas, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"After 16-year-old Ron Johnson reported a mushroom-shaped luminous object\nhovering near the family farm on 2 November 1971, a ring of soil was found\nthat glowed, repelled water to about a foot deep, and was chemically distinct\nfrom surrounding soil. 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Project Blue Book first logged it 'unidentified,' then attributed it\nto a SAC exercise (B-47s) — an explanation the witnesses reject, and which the\nAir Force itself partly retracted.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/exeter"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-95.3,49.7]},"properties":{"slug":"falcon-lake","name":"Falcon Lake Incident (20 May 1967)","date":"1967-05-20","location":"Whiteshell Provincial Park, near Falcon Lake, eastern Manitoba, Canada","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Amateur prospector Stefan Michalak reported approaching a landed,\nchrome-surfaced craft near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, and being burned by a\nblast of hot gas from a vented panel. He walked out ill, was hospitalized,\nand bore a grid-patterned chest burn for years; the landing site showed\nradioactivity more than ten times background. 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It became one\nof the most iconic entity cases of the great 1952 UFO flap; the dominant\nconventional explanation — a bright meteor that night, plus a frightened\nbarn owl misperceived in the dark, plus fear — is well supported for the\nsky-light and proposed for the entity, though the witnesses were evidently\nsincere.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/flatwoods"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[7.75,48.58]},"properties":{"slug":"foo-fighters","name":"The Foo Fighters","date":"1944-11-27","location":"European Theater (Rhine valley, Germany) and the Pacific (B-29 routes over Japan)","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"incident","one_liner":"\"Foo fighters\" was the name Allied aircrews — chiefly the U.S. 415th\nNight Fighter Squadron — gave to glowing balls of orange, red, or white\nlight that paced, formated with, and then vanished from their aircraft\nover Europe in late 1944, with parallel \"balls of fire\" reported by\nB-29 crews over the Pacific. They never attacked, never registered on\nradar, and were never definitively explained — making them the most-\ncited wartime precursor to the modern UFO era.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/foo-fighters"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-71.13,42.38]},"properties":{"slug":"galileo-project","name":"The Galileo Project","date":"2021-07-26","location":"Harvard University and field sites (first observatory at the Harvard College Observatory)","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Galileo Project is a scientific research program founded in July 2021 by\nHarvard astronomer Avi Loeb to systematically search for extraterrestrial\ntechnological artifacts (technosignatures) using dedicated instrumented\nobservatories and the study of interstellar objects — the most prominent\nacademic, peer-review-oriented effort to bring rigorous instrumentation to the\nUAP/technosignature question, though its most dramatic claim (that recovered\n'IM1' ocean spherules may be extrasolar or artificial) is heavily contested.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/galileo-project"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[1.48,43.56]},"properties":{"slug":"geipan","name":"GEIPAN","date":"1977-01-01","location":"CNES (the French national space agency), Toulouse, France","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"program","one_liner":"GEIPAN (Groupe d'Etudes et d'Informations sur les Phenomenes\nAerospatiaux Non identifies) is a permanent unit inside CNES, the French\nnational space agency, and is the only continuously operating official\ngovernment UFO/UAP study body in the world (founded 1977, public-facing\nsince 2007). It collects reports, mostly funneled via the Gendarmerie,\ninvestigates them scientifically, and classifies each as PAN A/B/C/D; the\nlarge majority are explained, with only ~2-3% remaining genuinely\nunexplained (\"D\").","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/geipan"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[21.0,66.0]},"properties":{"slug":"ghost-rockets","name":"Ghost Rockets","date":"1946-08-09","location":"Scandinavia — chiefly Sweden, with Finland; the best-known crash at Lake Kolmjarv, Norrbotten, far northern Sweden","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"The \"ghost rockets\" were a wave of roughly 2,000 reports of rocket- or\nmissile-shaped objects over Scandinavia between February and December\n1946, peaking in August. The Swedish military mounted what was\neffectively the first major modern government investigation of an\naerial-anomaly wave; the U.S. sent observers (including Gen. James\nDoolittle and David Sarnoff). Meteors explained most reports, but a\nresidue of radar-tracked, maneuvering, lake-crashing cases was never\nresolved and no wreckage was ever recovered.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/ghost-rockets"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-74.5,36.85]},"properties":{"slug":"gimbal","name":"Gimbal Video","date":"2015-01-21","location":"Atlantic warning areas off the U.S. East Coast (near Virginia Beach), USA","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"Gimbal is a ~34-second ATFLIR infrared clip recorded by a USS Theodore\nRoosevelt F/A-18 crew off the U.S. East Coast in January 2015, showing a\nsaucer/lozenge-shaped object that appears to halt and dramatically rotate\nin mid-air while pilots remark on a \"whole fleet\" of contacts. Surfaced\nby the NYT / To The Stars Academy in December 2017 and officially released\nby the Pentagon in April 2020, it remains officially unidentified —\nthough skeptic Mick West argues the rotation is an infrared glare artifact\nof the camera's gimbal mechanism, a heavily contested claim.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/gimbal"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[38.9226,37.2233]},"properties":{"slug":"gobekli-tepe","name":"Göbekli Tepe","date":"c. 9500–8000 BCE (construction)","location":"Şanlıurfa Province, southeastern Turkey","corpus_status":"conventional-explanation-suffices","category":"site","one_liner":"The world's oldest known monumental architecture — raised by hunter-gatherers ~11,500 years ago — and the cleanest example of a genuine human achievement being conscripted into ancient-astronaut and lost-civilization narratives.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/gobekli-tepe"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-74.4,36.8]},"properties":{"slug":"gofast","name":"GoFast Video","date":"2015-01-21","location":"Atlantic off the U.S. East Coast, USS Theodore Roosevelt operating area, USA","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"GoFast is an ATFLIR infrared clip recorded by a USS Theodore Roosevelt\nF/A-18 in January 2015 off the U.S. East Coast, showing an object that\nappears to race low and fast just above the ocean. Surfaced by To The\nStars Academy in March 2018 and officially released by the Pentagon in\nApril 2020, its on-screen geometry actually implies the object is at\naltitude (~13,000 ft) and moving slowly — the apparent speed is a\nparallax illusion produced by the fast-moving jet, a conclusion reached\nindependently by skeptic Mick West and, in February 2025, by the\nPentagon's AARO.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/gofast"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-96.79,46.88]},"properties":{"slug":"gorman","name":"The Gorman Dogfight","date":"1948-10-01","location":"over Fargo, North Dakota, USA","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 1 October 1948, North Dakota Air National Guard Lt. George\nGorman engaged in a ~27-minute aerial 'dogfight' with a small, fast, blinking\nball of light over Fargo while flying an F-51 Mustang — one of the founding\nProject Sign 'classics' of 1948, officially explained as a lighted weather\nballoon whose apparent intelligent maneuvers were an illusion produced by\nGorman's own aircraft motion.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/gorman"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-106.54,35.05]},"properties":{"slug":"green-fireballs","name":"The Green Fireballs of New Mexico","date":"1948-12-05","location":"New Mexico, USA — concentrated near Los Alamos, Sandia, and Kirtland AFB","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"wave","one_liner":"A wave of vivid green, near-horizontal, silent fireballs over New Mexico's\nnuclear and military sites beginning December 1948 led meteoriticist Dr. Lincoln\nLaPaz to argue they were not ordinary meteors, prompting Project Twinkle\n(1950-51) — the first official US instrumented optical study of an aerial\nanomaly — which collected too little data to resolve the case.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/green-fireballs"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[13.68,54.15]},"properties":{"slug":"greifswald","name":"The Greifswald Lights","date":"1990-08-24","location":"Greifswald Bay (Greifswalder Bodden), near Lubmin, Mecklenburg, former East Germany","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the evening of 24 August 1990, dozens of witnesses around Greifswald Bay in\nthe still-Soviet-occupied former East Germany — within sight of the Lubmin\nnuclear power station — saw a formation of about seven glowing yellow-orange\nlights hanging and slowly fading over the Baltic, captured on several amateur\nvideos and, after a four-year investigation, attributed to parachute\nillumination flares from the last major Warsaw Pact military exercise before\nGerman reunification.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/greifswald"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-87.16,30.36]},"properties":{"slug":"gulf-breeze","name":"Gulf Breeze UFO Incident","date":"1987-11-11","location":"Gulf Breeze, Florida, USA","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Gulf Breeze UFO incident was a 1987-1988 series of UFO photographs\nby building contractor Ed Walters, who claimed dozens of close-range\nsightings of a domed disc and being struck by a blue beam. Initially\nendorsed by MUFON's director as \"the best case we've ever had,\" it\ncollapsed into one of ufology's most bitter disputes after a styrofoam\nUFO model matching the photographs was found in Walters's former home in\n1990. The weight of evidence points to a hoax, though a minority of\nbelievers continue to defend the photos.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/gulf-breeze"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[120.43,30.23]},"properties":{"slug":"hangzhou","name":"The Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport Incident","date":"2010-07-07","location":"Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, Zhejiang, China","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 7 July 2010, Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in China\nwas closed for about an hour and ~18 flights diverted or delayed after a flight\ncrew reported an unidentified luminous object near the airfield — a firmly\ndocumented aviation disruption whose cause was never officially disclosed, with\na single state-media source vaguely citing a 'military connection.'","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/hangzhou"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-117.2,33.02]},"properties":{"slug":"heavens-gate","name":"Heaven's Gate","date":"1997-03-26","location":"Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, California, USA","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religion led by Marshall Applewhite and\nBonnie Nettles in which 39 members died by coordinated suicide in Rancho Santa\nFe, California in March 1997, believing they would shed their human 'vehicles'\nto board a spacecraft they thought trailed Comet Hale-Bopp — the dark endpoint\nof the benevolent 'Space Brothers' contactee lineage, with the trailing\nspacecraft a debunked misidentified star.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/heavens-gate"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-117.83,33.73]},"properties":{"slug":"heflin","name":"The Rex Heflin Photographs","date":"1965-08-03","location":"near the Santa Ana Freeway by MCAS Tustin, Santa Ana, California, USA","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 3 August 1965, Orange County highway engineer Rex Heflin used a dashboard\nPolaroid to shoot three photos of a hat/Saturn-shaped disc near Santa Ana,\nCalifornia, plus a fourth of a 'smoke ring' after it left — one of the most\nanalyzed UFO photo sets of the era, distinguished by a missing-originals subplot\n(prints reportedly taken by a purported NORAD man, resurfacing in 1993) and a\ngenuinely split analytical record (model-on-a-string vs no-thread-found).","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/heflin"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[11.2,62.78]},"properties":{"slug":"hessdalen","name":"The Hessdalen Lights","date":"1981-12-01","location":"the Hessdalen valley, Holtalen municipality, central Norway","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"incident","one_liner":"Recurring anomalous lights in a remote Norwegian valley — white, yellow, or\nred glowing balls from half a metre to tens of metres across, lasting seconds\nto over an hour — that became one of the very few light phenomena subjected to\nsustained, multi-decade scientific measurement. They are now largely\nattributed to natural electro-chemical and plasma processes, with an\nunexplained residue.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/hessdalen"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-71.68,44.05]},"properties":{"slug":"hill-abduction","name":"The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction","date":"1961-09-19","location":"U.S. Route 3 near Indian Head, White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 19-20 September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill — an\ninterracial New Hampshire couple driving home from a Canadian vacation —\nreported being followed by a bright light near Indian Head and later\nrealized they could not account for roughly two hours of the drive. Under\nhypnosis in 1964 with Boston psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin Simon, both\nseparately produced a detailed narrative of being taken aboard a craft\nand medically examined by humanoid beings. Popularized by John Fuller's\n1966 bestseller, it became the first widely-publicized abduction account\nand the template for the entire phenomenon — though Dr. Simon himself\nconcluded it was not a literal event.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/hill-abduction"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-73.92,41.29]},"properties":{"slug":"hudson-valley","name":"Hudson Valley Wave","date":"1983-03-24","location":"lower Hudson Valley, New York, and adjacent western Connecticut, USA","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"incident","one_liner":"Between roughly 1982 and 1986, several thousand people across the lower\nHudson Valley reported a very large, slow, nearly silent boomerang- or\nV-shaped array of multicolored lights — sometimes described as a single\ncraft \"the size of a football field.\" It was investigated and\npublicized by Project Blue Book veteran J. Allen Hynek, and is most\ncommonly explained by skeptics as formations of small aircraft flown\nout of Stormville — an explanation that fits many but arguably not all\nreports.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/hudson-valley"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[26.1,61.3]},"properties":{"slug":"imjarvi","name":"The Imjärvi Encounter","date":"1970-01-07","location":"Imjärvi, near Heinola, southern Finland","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Two Finnish skiers, woodcutter Aarno Heinonen and farmer Esko Viljo, reported being\nenveloped in a beam of light from a small disc-shaped craft from which a ~90 cm\nhook-nosed humanoid holding a glowing black box emerged before vanishing; both\nsubsequently suffered prolonged radiation-like medical symptoms — Scandinavia's most\nfamous humanoid close encounter, but resting entirely on two witnesses with no\nphysical evidence.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/imjarvi"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[8.88,45.46]},"properties":{"slug":"italy-1933","name":"The Alleged 1933 Italian Crash / Cabinet RS/33","date":"1933-06-13","location":"near Magenta / Vergiate, Lombardy, Italy (claimed)","corpus_status":"disputed-provenance","category":"incident","one_liner":"A cache of anonymously-mailed documents, surfacing from 1996 and publicized by\nItalian ufologists Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni from 2000, alleges that\nMussolini's government recovered a crashed disc near Magenta/Vergiate around 13\nJune 1933 and convened a secret study cabinet, 'Gabinetto RS/33,' under Guglielmo\nMarconi — the 'Italian Roswell,' widely judged not authentic as presented,\nresting entirely on unverifiable anonymous photocopies of unresolved origin.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/italy-1933"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-143.0,66.5]},"properties":{"slug":"jal-1628","name":"Japan Airlines Flight 1628 (17 November 1986)","date":"1986-11-17","location":"FL350 over eastern Alaska, USA, ~150 nm east of Fort Yukon, en route Anchorage","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"A Boeing 747 cargo freighter on the Paris–Anchorage–Tokyo run reported\nbeing paced for nearly 50 minutes over eastern Alaska by luminous\nobjects — two small ones and a third the captain described as the size\nof 'two aircraft carriers.' The crew's onboard radar painted the large\nobject; Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control simultaneously tracked an\nunidentified primary return near the 747. An FAA official preserved the\ndata and briefed the FAA Administrator, CIA, and FBI.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/jal-1628"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[44.4,33.3]},"properties":{"slug":"jellyfish","name":"The \"Jellyfish\" UAP","date":"2018-01-01","location":"a U.S. joint operations base in Iraq (exact site not in the public record)","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"A low-resolution thermal/infrared video, reportedly shot around 2017-2018\nover a U.S. joint operations base in Iraq, shows a soft, tendrilled\n\"jellyfish\"-shaped object that allegedly submerged into water for ~17\nminutes before shooting off. It was publicized by journalists Jeremy\nCorbell and George Knapp in January 2024. The Pentagon declined to\nconfirm or deny its authenticity, and there is no public AARO resolution\n— so the dramatic claims rest almost entirely on Corbell and Knapp's\nframing, not on any official adjudication.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/jellyfish"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[173.68,-42.4]},"properties":{"slug":"kaikoura","name":"The Kaikoura Lights","date":"1978-12-31","location":"off Kaikoura, on Argosy cargo flights between Blenheim and Christchurch, New Zealand","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"A series of radar-visual events off Kaikoura, New Zealand in late December\n1978 culminated in 16mm film shot from a Safe Air cargo plane on 31 December —\nlights reportedly filmed, tracked on ground and airborne radar, and seen by\nexperienced pilots simultaneously. It became the most-cited Southern\nHemisphere multi-modal case, and was later largely (but contestedly)\nexplained as squid-boat lights, planets, and atmospheric and radar anomalies.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/kaikoura"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[45.8,48.57]},"properties":{"slug":"kapustin-yar","name":"The Kapustin Yar UFO Legend (\"Russian Roswell\")","date":"1948-06-19","location":"near the Kapustin Yar missile test range, Astrakhan Oblast, USSR","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"A Cold-War crash-retrieval legend holding that in June 1948 Soviet air defenses near\nthe (genuinely real and secret) Kapustin Yar missile range tracked, dogfought, and\ndowned a cigar-shaped UFO whose wreckage was recovered — a claim with zero primary\ndocumentation that surfaced only in the post-Soviet/UFO-boom era and was popularized\nby a 2005 cable documentary; the missile range is documented, the incident is not.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/kapustin-yar"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-79.46,40.18]},"properties":{"slug":"kecksburg","name":"Kecksburg Incident","date":"1965-12-09","location":"the woods near Kecksburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA (fireball seen over ~6 states and Ontario)","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 9 December 1965 a brilliant fireball crossed the skies of at least\nsix US states and Ontario; near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania residents\nreported that an acorn- or bell-shaped object with hieroglyphic-like\nmarkings came down smoldering in the woods, and that the US Army sealed\nthe area and hauled something away on a flatbed truck. Astronomers\nidentify the event as a bright bolide meteor (the \"Great Lakes\nFireball\"); a recovery/cover-up narrative — fueled by a popular but\ntiming-contradicted Soviet-satellite (Kosmos 96) theory — has kept it\nalive as \"the Pennsylvania Roswell.\"","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/kecksburg"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-87.46,36.93]},"properties":{"slug":"kelly-hopkinsville","name":"Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter","date":"1955-08-21","location":"the Sutton farmhouse near Kelly, Christian County, Kentucky, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 21-22 August 1955, eleven people at a rural farmhouse\nnear Kelly, Kentucky reported an hours-long siege by small, silvery,\nglowing-eyed creatures that they shot at repeatedly without effect,\nthen fled to the Hopkinsville police. Police, state troopers, and\nmilitary police found bullet holes and badly frightened witnesses but\nno bodies, blood, or tracks. It became a foundational entity case and a\npopular origin of the \"little green men\" trope — though the creatures\nwere described as silver, not green.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/kelly-hopkinsville"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-121.76,46.85]},"properties":{"slug":"kenneth-arnold","name":"Kenneth Arnold Sighting","date":"1947-06-24","location":"between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams, Cascade Range, Washington, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the afternoon of 24 June 1947 the civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold,\nflying near Mount Rainier, reported nine bright, flat, fast objects\nmoving in formation, which he timed and computed at on the order of\n1,200–1,700 mph. His description of their motion — \"like a saucer if\nyou skipped it across water\" — was compressed by the press into the\nnoun \"flying saucer,\" and the report is conventionally treated as the\nopening event of the modern UFO era.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/kenneth-arnold"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-114.05,35.19]},"properties":{"slug":"kingman-1953","name":"The Kingman, Arizona Crash Claim","date":"1953-05-21","location":"desert site associated with Kingman, Arizona, USA (near the Nevada Test Site region)","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Kingman crash claim holds that in May 1953 an engineer was flown to an\nArizona desert site to measure the impact of a crashed ~30-ft metallic disc, with\na single small dead occupant in a tent nearby — an account that rests almost\nentirely on one man testifying two decades later under a pseudonym, with no\nphysical evidence and anonymous, mutually contradictory corroboration.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/kingman-1953"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[28.5,41.02]},"properties":{"slug":"kumburgaz","name":"The Kumburgaz / Turkey Videos","date":"2008-06-01","location":"Kumburgaz, near Istanbul, over the Sea of Marmara, Turkey","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"Between 2007 and 2009, night watchman Yalcin Yalman shot roughly 2.5 hours of\nextreme-telephoto dawn footage of a bright, shimmering oval object low over the\nSea of Marmara near Kumburgaz, Istanbul; the Turkish Sirius UFO center promoted\nzoomed frames as showing 'living beings' inside a craft, but skeptics judge it a\ndistant mundane object (most likely a ship/yacht) rendered strange by ~200x zoom\nand heat-haze over water.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/kumburgaz"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[78.9,33.72]},"properties":{"slug":"ladakh","name":"The Ladakh / Indo-China Border Lights","date":"2012-08-01","location":"Pangong Tso / Thakung, near the Line of Actual Control, Ladakh, India","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"Between August 2012 and February 2013, Indian ITBP and Army units near the Line\nof Actual Control at Pangong Tso in Ladakh logged hundreds of sightings (329\nwidely cited) of yellowish luminous objects rising from the Chinese-side horizon\nand drifting for hours — initially feared to be Chinese surveillance drones,\nthen resolved by Indian Institute of Astrophysics astronomers to the planets\nJupiter and Venus, abnormally bright in the thin high-altitude air.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/ladakh"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.56,52.36]},"properties":{"slug":"lakenheath-bentwaters","name":"Lakenheath–Bentwaters Incident (13–14 August 1956)","date":"1956-08-13","location":"RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, eastern England (USAF-operated)","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Over roughly five hours on the night of 13–14 August 1956, multiple\nindependent ground radars at the USAF-operated RAF bases Bentwaters and\nLakenheath, an RAF interceptor's airborne radar, and trained visual\nobservers tracked unidentified objects performing high-speed runs,\ninstantaneous stops, and — most strikingly — a position-swap in which an\nobject that an RAF Venom had locked onto moved behind the fighter and\nheld station on its tail. Blue Book filed it 'unknown.'","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/lakenheath-bentwaters"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-76.36,37.08]},"properties":{"slug":"langley-drones","name":"The Langley AFB Drone Incursions (December 2023)","date":"2023-12-06","location":"Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hampton, Virginia, USA","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"incident","one_liner":"Beginning the evening of 6 December 2023, swarms of unidentified drones flew\nnightly over Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia — home to F-22 squadrons — for\nroughly 17 days, prompting the Air Force to relocate some F-22s and escalating\nto NORTHCOM/NORAD, the FBI, AARO, and the White House; nearly two years later\nthe operators remain officially unattributed, making it a documented\nairspace-domain-awareness failure rather than an exotic-craft case.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/langley-drones"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-115.81,37.13]},"properties":{"slug":"lazar","name":"Bob Lazar & the S-4 / Area 51 Claims","date":"1989-11-01","location":"S-4 / Papoose Lake, near Area 51 (Groom Lake), Nevada, USA (claimed)","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Bob Lazar is the Las Vegas man who in 1989 told reporter George Knapp he had\nworked as a physicist at 'S-4,' a secret site near Area 51's Papoose Lake,\nreverse-engineering one of nine recovered alien craft powered by 'Element 115'\nand a gravity-amplifying propulsion system — the foundational, deeply contested\nmodern reverse-engineering legend, fully documented as interviews but\nuncorroborated as work, with claimed MIT/Caltech credentials that cannot be\nverified.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/lazar"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-102.38,33.59]},"properties":{"slug":"levelland","name":"Levelland, Texas EM Effects Wave (2–3 November 1957)","date":"1957-11-02","location":"Levelland and surrounding Hockley County, West Texas, USA","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"wave","one_liner":"Over roughly 2.5 hours on the night of 2–3 November 1957, about seven\nmotorists around Levelland, Texas — strangers to one another — independently\nreported a glowing egg-shaped object near the road whose presence stalled\ntheir vehicle engines AND extinguished their headlights, with normal function\nreturning once it departed (of ~15 total reports that night; the county\nsheriff and a fire marshal saw the light but had no vehicle failure). Blue\nBook filed it as 'ball lightning.'","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/levelland"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-3.53,55.89]},"properties":{"slug":"livingston","name":"Robert Taylor / Livingston Incident","date":"1979-11-09","location":"Dechmont Law, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 9 November 1979 the forester Robert Taylor reported a grey domed sphere\nin woods near Livingston and two spiked 'sea-mine' spheres that seized his\ntrousers before he blacked out amid an acrid smell. He was found dishevelled\nwith grazed legs and torn trousers; Lothian and Borders Police opened an\nassault inquiry and recorded ground marks — the basis for the frequent claim\nthat it is the only UFO case to become a criminal investigation.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/livingston"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-101.86,33.58]},"properties":{"slug":"lubbock-lights","name":"Lubbock Lights","date":"1951-08-25","location":"Lubbock, Texas, USA","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Lubbock Lights were formations of 15-30 bluish-green lights seen\nover Lubbock, Texas across roughly a dozen nights from 25 August 1951,\nfirst reported by a group of Texas Tech college professors and then\nphotographed by freshman Carl Hart Jr. The case is unusual for\ncombining credentialed witnesses with never-debunked photographs, and\nfor being personally investigated by Capt. Edward Ruppelt — who claimed\nthe lights were \"positively identified\" as a natural phenomenon he\nnever publicly named.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/lubbock-lights"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-111.2,47.5]},"properties":{"slug":"malmstrom","name":"Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight missile shutdown (16 March 1967)","date":"1967-03-16","location":"Malmstrom Air Force Base missile field, near Great Falls, Montana, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 16 March 1967, all ten Minuteman I ICBMs of Echo Flight at Malmstrom\nAFB dropped off strategic alert within seconds of each other. The\nsimultaneous shutdown is in the unit record; the Air Force's engineering\ninvestigation attributed it to a noise pulse in the guidance-and-control\nsystem, while former missile officers and security personnel have\ntestified that UAP were seen over the flight at the time — a connection\nthe corpus treats as documented at the hardware layer and contested at\nthe causal layer.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/malmstrom"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-0.47,39.49]},"properties":{"slug":"manises","name":"The Manises Incident","date":"1979-11-11","location":"over the Mediterranean near Ibiza/Valencia; emergency landing at Manises Airport, Valencia, Spain","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"Late on 11 November 1979 a Spanish TAE Supercaravelle (Flight JK-297),\ncommanded by Capt. Lerdo de Tejada, diverted to an emergency landing at\nManises (Valencia) after being shadowed by red lights; the Spanish Air Force\nscrambled a Mirage F1 to intercept. A landmark case from Spain's later-\ndeclassified military UFO files, it was officially attributed to industrial\nflares and stars — an explanation the participants reject.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/manises"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-86.58,36.72]},"properties":{"slug":"mantell","name":"Mantell Incident","date":"1948-01-07","location":"Godman Field (Fort Knox) airspace; crash near Franklin, Kentucky, USA","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 7 January 1948 Capt. Thomas F. Mantell, a 25-year-old Kentucky Air\nNational Guard pilot, died when his F-51 Mustang crashed after he\nclimbed without oxygen equipment in pursuit of a large, bright object\nseen from Godman Field at Fort Knox. He is generally cited as the\nfirst person killed in connection with a UFO sighting; the object is\nnow most widely attributed to a then-secret Navy Skyhook high-altitude\nballoon, though no specific balloon was ever positively traced to it.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mantell"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-103.92,30.27]},"properties":{"slug":"marfa-lights","name":"The Marfa Lights","date":"2004-05-01","location":"Mitchell Flat, southeast of Marfa, Presidio County, West Texas, USA","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Marfa Lights are recurring nighttime orbs that hover, split, and dart over\nMitchell Flat southeast of Marfa, Texas, viewed from an official highway\nplatform — mostly attributed by a 2004 real-time field study to distant car\nheadlights on US-67 distorted across the flat, with a small contested residue\n(and folkloric pre-automobile anecdotes) keeping a faint genuine-earthlight\nquestion open.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/marfa-lights"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-111.3,47.5]},"properties":{"slug":"mariana","name":"Mariana Film (15 August 1950)","date":"1950-08-15","location":"Legion Park baseball stadium, Great Falls, Montana, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Nicholas Mariana, manager of a Great Falls, Montana minor-league baseball\nteam, shot about 16 seconds of 16mm color film of two silvery discs\ncrossing the sky over his empty stadium on 15 August 1950 — one of the\nearliest UFO films. The Air Force attributed the objects to two F-94 jets;\nMariana disputed it and claimed the film's clearest opening frames were\nremoved before it was returned to him.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mariana"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-122.43,47.36]},"properties":{"slug":"maury-island","name":"The Maury Island Incident","date":"1947-06-21","location":"Maury Island, Puget Sound, near Tacoma, Washington, USA","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"hoax-revealed","one_liner":"In late June 1947, harbor workers Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman claimed a\ndoughnut-shaped craft over Maury Island rained slag-like debris that killed\nDahl's dog and injured his son. Pulp publisher Ray Palmer paid Kenneth Arnold\nto investigate; two Army Air Force officers died in a B-25 crash carrying\ndebris samples. The FBI identified the 'debris' as ordinary industrial slag,\nDahl reportedly recanted, and Project Blue Book's Ruppelt called it 'the\ndirtiest hoax in UFO history.'","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/maury-island"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-123.2,45.21]},"properties":{"slug":"mcminnville","name":"McMinnville (Trent) Photographs (11 May 1950)","date":"1950-05-11","location":"the Trent farm outside McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon, USA","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"Farmers Paul and Evelyn Trent photographed a metallic disc passing over\ntheir Oregon farm on the evening of 11 May 1950. The two frames ran in the\nlocal paper, then nationally in Life; the Condon Committee's photo analyst\njudged them to have 'all the appearances' of an authentic extraordinary\nobject — and analysts have argued ever since over whether the shadows and\na pair of overhead wires reveal a hoax.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mcminnville"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[8.93,47.42]},"properties":{"slug":"meier","name":"Billy Meier & the Plejaren Contacts","date":"1975-01-28","location":"Hinterschmidrüti, Canton Zürich, Switzerland (and surrounding countryside)","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"Billy Meier is a one-armed Swiss farmer who from 1975 claimed ongoing\ntelepathic and physical contact with humans from the Pleiades ('Plejaren'),\nchiefly 'Semjase,' producing the largest body of 'physical evidence' in\ncontactee history — hundreds of sharp daylight 'beamship' photos, films, and\nmetal samples — which is widely documented as fabricated (models, props, and\nre-photographed TV footage).","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/meier"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-73.19,41.18]},"properties":{"slug":"men-in-black","name":"The Men in Black Origin / Albert Bender","date":"1953-09-01","location":"Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA (the International Flying Saucer Bureau)","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"In 1953 Connecticut UFO researcher Albert K. Bender abruptly shut down his\npioneering International Flying Saucer Bureau, telling members he had been\nsilenced by three men in dark suits who confirmed the 'truth' about flying\nsaucers; Gray Barker spun the episode into 'They Knew Too Much About Flying\nSaucers' (1956), founding the entire Men-in-Black mythos — best explained as\nhoax, embellishment, and possible psychological episode.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/men-in-black"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[127.15,44.92]},"properties":{"slug":"meng-zhaoguo","name":"The Meng Zhaoguo Incident","date":"1994-06-07","location":"Red Flag (Hongqi) Forest Farm, Wuchang, near Harbin, Heilongjiang, China","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"In June 1994 Meng Zhaoguo, a logger at the Red Flag forest farm near Harbin,\nChina, claimed he was struck unconscious by a beam while investigating a glowing\nobject on a nearby mountain, and days later claimed a sexual encounter with a\n~3-meter, six-fingered female being — the canonical Chinese abduction case,\nresting almost entirely on his single, unverifiable testimony amplified by\nChinese media.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/meng-zhaoguo"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-90.75,18.43]},"properties":{"slug":"mexican-af-2004","name":"Mexican Air Force FLIR Video","date":"2004-03-05","location":"airspace over Campeche, near Ciudad del Carmen and the Bay of Campeche, Mexico","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 5 March 2004 the crew of a Mexican Air Force surveillance aircraft on\nan anti-drug patrol over Campeche recorded, via an infrared (FLIR) pod, a\ncluster of bright heat-emitting objects they could not see with the naked\neye and that partly correlated with radar. Mexico's Defense Secretariat\n(SEDENA) made the footage public in May 2004 — one of the first UFO\nvideos released through an official military channel — but skeptics have\nsince attributed the lights to burn-off flares from the offshore\nCantarell oil field.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mexican-af-2004"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-99.13,19.43]},"properties":{"slug":"mexico-eclipse","name":"Mexico City Eclipse UFO","date":"1991-07-11","location":"Mexico City, Mexico (during the total solar eclipse)","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"During the total solar eclipse over Mexico City on 11 July 1991,\nnumerous people videotaped a bright object hanging in the darkened\ndaytime sky. Promoted heavily by TV journalist Jaime Maussan, it\nlaunched a multi-year Mexican \"UFO wave\" and became one of the first\nmass-camcorder UFO events. The leading and well-supported explanation is\nthat the object was the planet Venus — naked-eye visible near the Sun\nonce an eclipse darkens the sky — and Maussan is a discredited promoter\nlater tied to the 2023 \"Nazca alien mummies\" hoax.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mexico-eclipse"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-99.13,19.43]},"properties":{"slug":"mexico-mummies","name":"Nazca / Peru \"Alien Mummies\"","date":"2023-09-12","location":"presented to the Chamber of Deputies, Mexico City, Mexico; specimens originate from Nazca/Palpa, Peru","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 12 September 2023 the Mexican ufologist Jaime Maussan presented two\nsmall, three-fingered, elongated-skull \"non-human\" bodies to a hearing of\nMexico's Chamber of Deputies, testifying under oath that they were\n~1,000-year-old beings \"not part of our terrestrial evolution.\" Scientists\nrejected the claims immediately, and on 12 January 2024 forensic\narchaeologist Flavio Estrada of Peru's Institute of Legal Medicine\ndeclared the specimens dolls assembled from terrestrial animal and human\nbones with modern synthetic glue — a fraud, not a discovery.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mexico-mummies"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-86.11,42.79]},"properties":{"slug":"michigan-1994","name":"The 8 March 1994 West Michigan UFO Event","date":"1994-03-08","location":"Holland / Grand Haven / Muskegon corridor, west Michigan, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 8 March 1994, 300+ witnesses across west Michigan — including\npolice — reported strings of erratically-moving colored lights, while NWS\nmeteorologist Jack Bushong tracked anomalous returns on Muskegon's weather radar;\nthe visual reports fit misidentification and the radar fits anomalous-propagation\nartifacts, leaving the case well-attested but under-corroborated as evidence of\nanything anomalous.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/michigan-1994"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[139.91,-22.91]},"properties":{"slug":"min-min-light","name":"The Min Min Light","date":"2003-01-01","location":"the Channel Country near Boulia, outback Queensland, Australia","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Min Min light is a recurring outback Queensland 'ghost light' — a fuzzy\nhovering glow that seems to follow or recede from night travelers — and the\ncorpus's SOLVED recurring-light case: neuroscientist Jack Pettigrew (2003)\nshowed it is an inverted mirage (Fata Morgana) of distant light sources\nrefracted over a ground-level cold-air inversion, and reproduced the effect in\nthe field.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/min-min-light"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-101.36,48.42]},"properties":{"slug":"minot-b52-1968","name":"The Minot AFB B-52 Incident","date":"1968-10-24","location":"Minot AFB and its dispersed Minuteman ICBM facilities, North Dakota, USA","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 24 October 1968 over ~3 hours, maintenance and security airmen at Minot AFB's\ndispersed Minuteman ICBM facilities reported luminous, color-shifting objects; a\nreturning B-52H (JAG-31) was vectored to investigate, its navigator acquired a\ncompact radar return that paced the aircraft at ~1 nautical mile (captured on 14\nradarscope photos), the UHF radios reportedly failed during the close approach, and\npilots visually saw a large illuminated object near the ground — a real multi-sensor\nmilitary event Project Blue Book labeled 'Identified (Other).'","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/minot-b52-1968"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-101.33,48.42]},"properties":{"slug":"minot-icbm","name":"Minot AFB Minuteman ICBM Incident (August 1966)","date":"1966-08-24","location":"Minot Air Force Base Minuteman ICBM complex (455th Strategic Missile Wing), North Dakota, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"In late August 1966, base security at the Minot AFB Minuteman ICBM\ncomplex reported a luminous, structured object hovering over a launch\nfacility while the guidance lock on multiple missiles in the affected\nflight was lost. The case is the earlier sibling of the 1967 Malmstrom\nshutdown and a cornerstone of the UFOs-and-nukes thesis — but its record\nis veteran testimony gathered decades later, not a contemporaneous file.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/minot-icbm"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-106.65,35.08]},"properties":{"slug":"mj12","name":"The Majestic 12 (MJ-12) Documents","date":"1984-12-01","location":"surfaced via an anonymous Albuquerque, New Mexico mailing; promoted in the USA","corpus_status":"disputed-provenance","category":"incident","one_liner":"The MJ-12 documents are a set of papers surfacing 1984-1987 that purport to\nprove a secret 12-member committee ('Majestic 12'), created by President Truman\nin 1947, was managing recovered crashed extraterrestrial craft tied to Roswell\n— the centerpiece of the government-control-group mythos. The papers are not\nauthentic 1947-1954 records (a signature is photocopied, a cited official was\nabroad on a memo's date), but *why* they exist is unresolved: an amateur hoax,\nor a real counterintelligence disinformation product from the AFOSI/Doty milieu.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mj12"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[43.13,36.34]},"properties":{"slug":"mosul-orb","name":"The \"Mosul Orb\"","date":"2016-04-16","location":"over Mosul, Iraq (US military reconnaissance footage)","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"Genuine US military reconnaissance (ISR) footage from over Mosul, Iraq on 16 April\n2016 showing a small, metallic-looking spherical object passing over urban terrain\n— publicly released by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell in January 2023 and treated by AARO\nas a representative, unresolved-but-mundane 'round/orb' UAP; skeptics (Mick West)\nattribute the apparent motion to parallax and the object most likely to a\nmylar/helium balloon.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mosul-orb"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-82.13,38.84]},"properties":{"slug":"mothman","name":"The Mothman of Point Pleasant","date":"1966-11-15","location":"the 'TNT area' near Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Mothman is a winged, red-eyed humanoid reportedly seen around the 'TNT\narea' outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, from 15 November 1966 — a real\ncluster of frightening sightings later woven by author John Keel into a\nsprawling paranormal narrative (UFOs, Men in Black, premonitions) and\nculturally tied to the December 1967 Silver Bridge collapse, a tragedy with a\nfully documented engineering cause unrelated to any creature.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mothman"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[127.85,-31.83]},"properties":{"slug":"mundrabilla","name":"The Knowles Family / Mundrabilla Incident","date":"1988-01-20","location":"the Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor Plain near Mundrabilla, Western Australia","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"In the pre-dawn hours of 20 January 1988, the Knowles family reported that a\nbright egg-shaped object descended onto their car as they crossed the Nullarbor\nPlain near Mundrabilla, Western Australia, allegedly lifting the vehicle,\ndistorting their voices, depositing a black ash, and denting the roof — one of\nAustralia's most famous UFO car encounters, though the physical traces were\nlater strongly contested and a temperature-inversion mirage advanced as the\ntrigger.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/mundrabilla"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-73.99,40.71]},"properties":{"slug":"napolitano","name":"The Linda Napolitano / Brooklyn Bridge Abduction","date":"1989-11-30","location":"Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, USA (over the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge)","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 30 November 1989, Manhattan resident Linda Napolitano (pseudonym 'Linda\nCortile') claimed she was floated out of her apartment window on a beam of\nlight into a hovering UFO near the Brooklyn Bridge; investigator Budd Hopkins\nchampioned it in 'Witnessed' (1996) as the first abduction with multiple\nindependent witnesses — but no witness, document, or implied VIP was ever\nindependently authenticated.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/napolitano"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-77.02,38.88]},"properties":{"slug":"nasa-uap-report","name":"NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report","date":"2023-09-14","location":"NASA, United States","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"program","one_liner":"NASA's first official, scientific look at UAP: an independent 16-member\npanel chaired by astrophysicist David Spergel, commissioned in mid-2022\nand delivering its public report on 14 September 2023. It found no\nevidence that UAP are extraterrestrial, concluded the existing data is too\npoor to draw firm conclusions, and called on NASA to apply its\nscientific and sensor expertise and to destigmatize the field. NASA\nsimultaneously named a Director of UAP Research.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/nasa-uap-report"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-76.4,36.95]},"properties":{"slug":"nash-fortenberry","name":"The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting","date":"1952-07-14","location":"near Newport News / Norfolk, over Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the evening of 14 July 1952, two Pan American Airways pilots flying a DC-4\nnear Norfolk, Virginia reported a tight formation of six (then eight) glowing\nred disc-shaped objects passing below their aircraft at extreme speed, executing\na sharp 'flip' edge-up maneuver and reversing course — one of the most-cited\ncredible pilot sightings of the foundational 1952 wave, which Project Blue Book\nleft classified 'Unknown.'","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/nash-fortenberry"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-117.5,32.7]},"properties":{"slug":"navy-pyramid","name":"The 2019 Navy \"Pyramid\" & Sphere Videos (USS Russell / USS Omaha)","date":"2019-07-15","location":"off the coast of San Diego, California, USA (USS Russell and USS Omaha)","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"In July 2019 Navy personnel off San Diego filmed green night-vision footage of\nblinking 'pyramid'-shaped objects over USS Russell and FLIR footage from USS\nOmaha of a spherical object that appeared to drop into the sea; the Pentagon\nconfirmed both authentic, and analysts (later AARO) identified the 'pyramid' as\ntriangular bokeh — out-of-focus point lights through a triangular lens aperture\n— while the Omaha sphere remains less resolved.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/navy-pyramid"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-75.13,-14.739]},"properties":{"slug":"nazca-lines","name":"The Nazca Lines","date":"c. 500 BCE – 500 CE (creation)","location":"Nazca Desert, southern Peru","corpus_status":"conventional-explanation-suffices","category":"site","one_liner":"Hundreds of desert geoglyphs by the Nazca culture, made famous to the ancient-astronaut audience by von Däniken's 'alien runway' reading — and reproduced at full scale by a skeptic with stakes and cord in days.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/nazca-lines"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-119.0,32.0]},"properties":{"slug":"nimitz","name":"USS Nimitz Tic-Tac Incident","date":"2004-11-14","location":"off the coast of San Diego, California, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Multi-day, multi-platform, multi-sensor encounter between F/A-18F\nSuper Hornets from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and an\nunidentified object behaving in ways inconsistent with conventional\naerospace performance, recorded on radar, FLIR, and direct visual\nobservation by named professional military witnesses.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/nimitz"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-74.55,40.86]},"properties":{"slug":"nj-drones","name":"New Jersey / Northeast Drone Sightings","date":"2024-11-13","location":"New Jersey and the northeastern United States (NY, CT, MA, MD, VA)","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"incident","one_liner":"Beginning in mid-November 2024, a wave of nighttime drone/light sightings\nover New Jersey and the northeastern U.S. generated thousands of public\nreports, intense political pressure, and viral misinformation. Federal\nagencies concluded the activity was a mix of lawful drones, manned\naircraft, helicopters, and misidentified stars and planets, with no\nnational-security threat or foreign nexus — while a residue of\nunexplained incursions over sensitive sites kept genuine questions open.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/nj-drones"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-135.0,60.0]},"properties":{"slug":"norad-shootdowns","name":"The February 2023 NORAD Object Shootdowns","date":"2023-02-04","location":"off South Carolina; over Alaska, the Yukon (Canada), and Lake Huron, USA/Canada","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"After downing a large Chinese surveillance balloon off South Carolina on 4\nFebruary 2023, US and Canadian (NORAD) fighters shot down three smaller\nunidentified objects in three days — over Alaska (10 Feb), the Yukon (11 Feb),\nand Lake Huron (12 Feb) — briefly fueling UAP/alien speculation before the Biden\nadministration assessed the small objects as 'most likely' benign balloons tied\nto private companies, recreation, or research, most never definitively recovered.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/norad-shootdowns"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[11.08,49.45]},"properties":{"slug":"nuremberg","name":"The Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon","date":"1561-04-14","location":"Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (modern Bavaria, Germany)","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"At dawn on 14 April 1561, residents of Nuremberg reportedly saw a 'battle' of\nblood-red spheres, cylindrical rods, crosses, and crescents near the rising\nsun, recorded in a Hans Glaser broadsheet — frequently cited by UFO writers\nas a pre-modern sighting, but best understood as an ice-crystal/sun-dog\natmospheric display read and embellished through the apocalyptic religious\nidiom of the Reformation era.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/nuremberg"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-73.99,40.76]},"properties":{"slug":"nyt-2017","name":"The 2017 New York Times AATIP Article","date":"2017-12-16","location":"published by The New York Times, United States","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"program","one_liner":"On 16 December 2017 The New York Times published \"Glowing Auras and\n'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program,\" by Helene\nCooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, disclosing a Pentagon UFO study\neffort it called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program\n(AATIP), featuring former official Luis Elizondo, and releasing two of the\nNavy ATFLIR videos. It broke the post-Blue-Book taboo on official UFO\nstudy and is conventionally treated as the start of the modern UAP era —\nthough several of its framings are contested.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/nyt-2017"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-77.15,38.95]},"properties":{"slug":"odni-2021","name":"The ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP","date":"2021-06-25","location":"Washington, D.C., USA (Office of the Director of National Intelligence)","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 25 June 2021 the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence released\na nine-page 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,' the first\nofficial US public UAP assessment — examining 144 incidents (mostly US Navy,\n2004-2021), explaining only one (a deflating balloon), and concluding the data\nwere too limited to characterize the rest, while pointedly declining to\nattribute them to extraterrestrials and flagging flight-safety and\nnational-security concerns.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/odni-2021"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-87.9,41.98]},"properties":{"slug":"ohare","name":"O'Hare Airport UFO","date":"2006-11-07","location":"Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Concourse C (Gate C17), Illinois, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"On 7 November 2006, around 4:15 pm, about a dozen United Airlines employees —\nramp staff, gate agents, and pilots — reported a dark metallic disc hovering\nsilently below the overcast over Gate C17, which then shot up through the\nclouds, reportedly leaving a clean circular hole. The story surfaced via a\nChicago Tribune FOIA request; the FAA, finding nothing on radar, called it a\nweather phenomenon and did not investigate.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/ohare"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[6.0,56.5]},"properties":{"slug":"operation-mainbrace","name":"Operation Mainbrace UAP Sightings","date":"1952-09-19","location":"NATO exercise waters off Denmark and Norway, plus RAF Topcliffe, England","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"During Operation Mainbrace — a twelve-day NATO naval and air exercise in\nSeptember 1952 involving some 80,000 personnel, 200 ships, and 1,000\naircraft from nine nations off Denmark and Norway — military observers\nreported a cluster of UFO sightings: a metallic disk seen by Danish Air\nForce officers, a silvery sphere photographed from the USS Franklin D.\nRoosevelt, and a silver object performing sharp maneuvers over RAF\nTopcliffe. It is one of the better-witnessed military sighting clusters of\nthe 1952 wave, though its physical record is thin.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/operation-mainbrace"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-156.26,20.71]},"properties":{"slug":"oumuamua","name":"'Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1)","date":"2017-10-19","location":"the inner Solar System (discovered from Haleakala, Hawaii)","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"'Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object detected passing through\nthe Solar System (discovered October 2017 by Pan-STARRS), genuinely anomalous —\nextremely elongated, reddish, tumbling, and showing a small non-gravitational\nacceleration despite no visible comet tail — which mainstream science attributes\nto faint outgassing, but which Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb controversially\nargued could be an artificial alien light-sail.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/oumuamua"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-88.56,30.37]},"properties":{"slug":"pascagoula","name":"Pascagoula Abduction (11 October 1973)","date":"1973-10-11","location":"west bank of the Pascagoula River, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Shipyard workers Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, reported\nbeing floated aboard an egg-shaped craft by three claw-handed figures\nwhile night-fishing on the Pascagoula River. The Jackson County sheriff,\nunsure whether they were truthful or skilled liars, left them alone in an\ninterrogation room with a hidden recorder running — capturing their\nprivate terror and producing the case's singular piece of evidence.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/pascagoula"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-83.0,39.96]},"properties":{"slug":"pentacle-memo","name":"The Pentacle Memorandum","date":"1953-01-09","location":"Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio → Wright-Patterson AFB (ATIC), USA","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"investigation","one_liner":"A genuine, declassified 1953 Battelle Memorial Institute letter — signed by chemist\nH.C. Cross and written days before the CIA's Robertson Panel — that proposed a\nlarge-scale covert 'controlled experiment' seeding aerial stimuli to study how UFO\nreports are generated, and urged coordinating what the Panel would and would not be\ntold; authentic as a document, but its alleged sinister significance is hotly\ncontested.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/pentacle-memo"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[34.35,61.79]},"properties":{"slug":"petrozavodsk","name":"The Petrozavodsk Phenomenon","date":"1977-09-20","location":"Petrozavodsk, Karelia, USSR — and across northwestern Russia, Finland, and the Baltic","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"Before dawn on 20 September 1977, a huge glowing star-like object that spread\nfine rays 'like a jellyfish' was seen over Petrozavodsk in Soviet Karelia and\nacross a vast swath of northwestern Russia, Finland, and the Baltic, causing\npublic alarm and even a TASS report — now credibly explained as the sunlit\nupper-atmosphere exhaust plume of the Kosmos 955 satellite launched from the\nsecret Plesetsk Cosmodrome.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/petrozavodsk"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-1.5,52.0]},"properties":{"slug":"phantom-airships","name":"The Pre-WWI Phantom Airship Scares","date":"1909-05-18","location":"Great Britain and New Zealand","corpus_status":"historically-pivotal-explained","category":"incident","one_liner":"Between 1909 and 1913, tens of thousands of people across Britain and New\nZealand reported mysterious cigar-shaped airships, often sweeping searchlights,\nflying at night before any aircraft could plausibly have made such flights — the\nmajor pre-WWI mass-sighting waves, collective anxiety about an imminent German\nair threat projected onto an absent technology and amplified (and sometimes\nmanufactured) by a partisan press.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/phantom-airships"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-75.18,39.89]},"properties":{"slug":"philadelphia-experiment","name":"The Philadelphia Experiment & the Allende Letters","date":"1943-10-28","location":"Philadelphia Naval Yard, Pennsylvania, USA (the alleged setting); the letters originated 1955-56","corpus_status":"documented-hoax","category":"incident","one_liner":"The Philadelphia Experiment is the legend that in 1943 the US Navy made the\ndestroyer escort USS Eldridge invisible (and teleported it from Philadelphia to\nNorfolk) in a Unified-Field/degaussing experiment — a story that exists only\nbecause of cryptic 1955-56 letters from 'Carlos Miguel Allende' (Carl Allen) to\nauthor Morris K. Jessup, contradicted by the Eldridge's deck logs and best\nclassified as a documented hoax.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/philadelphia-experiment"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-112.07,33.45]},"properties":{"slug":"phoenix-lights","name":"Phoenix Lights (13 March 1997)","date":"1997-03-13","location":"Arizona, USA — an arc from the Nevada border through Phoenix to the Mexican state of Sonora","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the evening of 13 March 1997 two separate aerial events crossed\nArizona's sky: an early V-shaped formation of lights reported by\nthousands of witnesses along a 300-mile arc, and, two hours later, a\nstring of stationary lights over the mountains south of Phoenix that\nthe Maryland Air National Guard confirmed were illumination flares.\nPopular memory fused them. Gov. 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Hoyt Vandenberg, after which\nSign was reorganized into the more skeptical Project Grudge.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/project-sign"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-122.17,37.46]},"properties":{"slug":"project-stargate","name":"Project Stargate","date":"1972-01-01","location":"SRI International (Menlo Park, CA), later SAIC; Army INSCOM unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, USA","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"program","one_liner":"Project Stargate was the umbrella name (from 1991) for about two decades\nof U.S. government-funded research into and operational use of \"remote\nviewing\" — the claimed psychic ability to describe distant or hidden\ntargets from coordinates alone — conducted primarily at SRI International,\nsponsored at various times by the CIA, DIA, and Army INSCOM. After running\nunder earlier code names (SCANATE, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK),\nit was consolidated under CIA control in 1995, evaluated by the American\nInstitutes for Research, and terminated and declassified that year. Total\ncost was about $20 million over more than twenty years.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/project-stargate"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-68.68,-16.5616]},"properties":{"slug":"puma-punku","name":"Puma Punku","date":"c. 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The case lay dormant for ~30 years, then a 1978\ninterview revived it into the most famous UFO story in the world; the\nmainstream scholarly and official explanation is that the 1947 debris\ncame from a classified Project Mogul balloon train.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/roswell"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-96.37,41.04]},"properties":{"slug":"schirmer","name":"The Herbert Schirmer Abduction","date":"1967-12-03","location":"near Ashland, Nebraska, USA (US-6 at NE-63)","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"A 22-year-old Ashland, Nebraska patrolman reported a hovering disc and ~20 minutes\nof 'missing time'; months later, under hypnosis by psychologist R. Leo Sprinkle, he\nrecounted a detailed onboard-abduction narrative — a case made notable chiefly\nbecause the official Condon Committee examined it (as 'Case 42') and concluded it\nwas not physically real.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/schirmer"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-77.01,38.89]},"properties":{"slug":"schumer-rounds","name":"The Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act","date":"2023-07-13","location":"United States Senate (amendment to the FY2024 NDAA)","corpus_status":"apparatus-event","category":"program","one_liner":"A bipartisan amendment to the FY2024 NDAA, introduced in July 2023 by\nSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds and modeled on\nthe JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. 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afterward the site bore symmetrical ground marks and a\npatch of lavender that reportedly would not grow for years — one of the\nstrongest single-witness physical-trace close encounters on record.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/valensole"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[143.51,-38.86]},"properties":{"slug":"valentich","name":"Valentich Disappearance (21 October 1978)","date":"1978-10-21","location":"Bass Strait, en route Moorabbin (Melbourne) → King Island, off Cape Otway, Victoria, Australia","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Frederick Valentich, 20, a low-time private pilot flying a rented\nCessna 182L (VH-DSJ) at night across Bass Strait to King Island,\nradioed Melbourne Flight Service that a large, fast, shiny-metallic\nobject with a green light was orbiting and hovering over his aircraft,\nthat his engine was running rough, and finally that \"it is hovering and\nit's not an aircraft\" — followed by seventeen seconds of unexplained\nmetallic noise and silence. Neither he nor the aircraft was ever found.\nThe Department of Transport could not determine the cause; the leading\nprosaic explanation is spatial disorientation in a graveyard spiral.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/valentich"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-45.43,-21.55]},"properties":{"slug":"varginha","name":"Varginha 'ET' Incident (20 January 1996)","date":"1996-01-20","location":"Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Three young women in Varginha, Brazil reported a small brown-skinned,\nred-eyed humanoid crouched by a wall on the morning of 20 January 1996.\nAround the same day a fire-brigade unit was logged capturing an unknown\ncreature, hospital and military-ambulance movements were alleged, and a\nMilitary Police corporal who reportedly handled a creature died weeks\nlater — a documentary trail that is part-anchored, part-contested.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/varginha"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-49.77,-19.87]},"properties":{"slug":"villas-boas","name":"The Antonio Villas Boas Case","date":"1957-10-16","location":"a farm near Sao Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Antonio Villas Boas was a 23-year-old Brazilian farmer who claimed that on the\nnight of 16 October 1957, while plowing, he was dragged aboard an egg-shaped\ncraft by small suited beings, made ill by a gas, and had intercourse with a\nnon-human female who afterward pointed to her belly and upward — documented in\n1958 by physician Dr. Olavo Fontes, who recorded radiation-like after-effects —\nthe foundational modern abduction-with-reproduction narrative, predating the\nBetty and Barney Hill case by about four years.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/villas-boas"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[39.2,51.66]},"properties":{"slug":"voronezh","name":"The Voronezh UFO Incident","date":"1989-09-27","location":"a park in Voronezh, Russian SFSR, USSR","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"In autumn 1989 the official Soviet news agency TASS reported as fact that a\nshining ball had landed in a Voronezh park on 27 September and that children\nwatched three-to-four-metre, three-eyed beings and a robot emerge, with a boy\nbriefly paralyzed. The report circled the globe because it carried glasnost-\nera Soviet official imprimatur, then collapsed when the cited scientist\ndisowned it and site tests found nothing.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/voronezh"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-110.6,34.42]},"properties":{"slug":"walton","name":"Travis Walton Incident (5–10 November 1975)","date":"1975-11-05","location":"Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake/Heber, Navajo County, Arizona, USA","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"Logger Travis Walton, 22, vanished from a seven-man Forest Service\ncontract crew on 5 November 1975 after — by the account of all six\nco-workers — a beam of light from a hovering disc struck him as he\napproached it. He was missing for five days through a multi-agency\nsearch, then reappeared near Heber. Five of the six co-witnesses passed\npolygraphs within days; the crew faced a contract penalty that is the\ncase's central skeptical motive.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/walton"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-77.04,38.85]},"properties":{"slug":"washington-1952","name":"Washington National Flap","date":"1952-07-19","location":"Washington National Airport, Andrews AFB, and Bolling AFB airspace, Washington, D.C., USA","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"On two consecutive July weekends in 1952, multiple radar sets at\nWashington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base painted\nunidentified high-speed targets over the U.S. capital, corroborated by\nairline and military pilots and unsuccessful F-94 jet intercepts. The\nepisode triggered the largest Pentagon press conference since WWII, at\nwhich the Air Force attributed the events to temperature inversions —\nan explanation the radar controllers themselves rejected, and which\nremains contested.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/washington-1952"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[145.13,-37.93]},"properties":{"slug":"westall","name":"Westall Incident (6 April 1966)","date":"1966-04-06","location":"Westall High and State schools, Clayton South, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"incident","one_liner":"During mid-morning recess on 6 April 1966, more than 200 students and\nstaff at two adjoining schools in suburban Melbourne watched a silver\ndisc-shaped object descend over the grounds, briefly settle in a nearby\nreserve, and depart to the northwest, leaving a ring of flattened grass.\nThe RAAF came to the school the same day; its file has never surfaced.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/westall"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-115.14,36.17]},"properties":{"slug":"wilson-davis-memo","name":"The Wilson-Davis Memo","date":"2002-10-16","location":"alleged meeting in Las Vegas / EG&G offices; document surfaced via the U.S. UFO research community","corpus_status":"under-corroborated","category":"program","one_liner":"The Wilson-Davis Memo is a set of leaked handwritten notes in which\nphysicist Eric Davis records an alleged October 2002 conversation with\nretired Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, a former Deputy Director of the Defense\nIntelligence Agency, who supposedly described finding — in 1997 — a deeply\nhidden UFO crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program run by an\naerospace contractor, to which even he, with top clearances, was denied\naccess. The notes surfaced around 2019; Davis affirms they are genuine,\nWilson disputes the account, and the program they describe remains\nentirely uncorroborated.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/wilson-davis-memo"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-83.07,40.07]},"properties":{"slug":"wow-signal","name":"The Wow! 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It surfaced via a whistleblower and was shown publicly by Rep.\nEric Burlison at a 10 September 2025 House hearing. Provenance is weak\n(filmed off a screen, telemetry cropped, no released original), and\nskeptics led by Mick West argue it is most consistent with a balloon-\nborne object plus parallax — so the anomalous-orb reading is unconfirmed.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/yemen-mq9-orb"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-136.4,62.2]},"properties":{"slug":"yukon","name":"The Yukon UFO Sighting","date":"1996-12-11","location":"Yukon Territory, Canada — Fox Lake, Carmacks, Pelly Crossing, Mayo, along the Klondike Highway","corpus_status":"disputed-optical-artifact","category":"incident","one_liner":"On the night of 11 December 1996, roughly 30+ people across several Yukon\ncommunities along the Klondike Highway independently reported an enormous,\nsilent, slow-moving craft covered in lights, with some estimating it up to a\nmile across. Documented by engineer Martin Jasek, it was later correlated by\nsatellite analysts to the re-entry of the Russian Cosmos 2335 rocket booster\n~145 miles away.","url":"https://imnotlikeyouguys.com/deep-dives/yukon"}},{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-106.9,34.04]},"properties":{"slug":"zamora-socorro","name":"Lonnie Zamora / Socorro Incident (24 April 1964)","date":"1964-04-24","location":"a desert arroyo south of Socorro, New Mexico, USA","corpus_status":"phenomenologically-open","category":"incident","one_liner":"On-duty Socorro police sergeant Lonnie Zamora broke off a speeding-car\npursuit to investigate a roar and a descending flame, and at close range\nsaw a shiny egg-shaped craft on legs in an arroyo with two small figures\nin white coveralls beside it. The craft departed with a roar and a flame,\nthen in silence. Responders within the hour found burned brush and four\nsymmetric ground impressions. 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