i'm not like you guys

I'M NOT LIKE YOU GUYS

Reading, writing, and trying to think clearly about a very strange documented record. The materials are here.

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Photographs of the real sites named in the documented record. Vostok is in East Antarctica. Kola is a welded hatch on the tundra outside Zapolyarny. The Tibesti is in Chad. The strangeness is what gets added; the geography is shared.

Vostok Station & Lake Vostok
Vostok Station & Lake Vostok
78°27′S, 106°50′E
East Antarctic Plateau — Russian research station; subglacial lake beneath ~4 km of ice
Mariana Trench & Challenger Deep
Mariana Trench & Challenger Deep
11°22′N, 142°35′E
Western Pacific — deepest known oceanic trench; Challenger Deep at ~10,935 m
Kola Superdeep Borehole
Kola Superdeep Borehole
69°23′N, 30°36′E
Kola Peninsula, near Zapolyarny, Murmansk Oblast, Russia — deepest artificial hole on Earth
Putorana Plateau
Putorana Plateau
69°N, 95°E
Central Siberia, north of the Arctic Circle — basalt trap 800 × 500 km, near the geographic center of Russia
Tibesti Mountains
Tibesti Mountains
21°N, 17°E
Central Sahara, northern Chad — shield-volcano range with hot springs
Atlantic Abyssal Plain
Atlantic Abyssal Plain
30°N, 40°W (approx.)
Floor of the North Atlantic — vast, largely unmapped abyssal terrain
Clarion-Clipperton Zone
Clarion-Clipperton Zone
0°–20°N, 110°–160°W
Central Pacific — abyssal seabed-mining region between Hawaiʻi and Mexico
Wright-Patterson AFB
Wright-Patterson AFB
39°49′N, 84°02′W
Greene/Montgomery County, Ohio — United States Air Force base, headquarters of Air Force Materiel Command
False Cape State Park, Virginia
False Cape State Park, Virginia
36°36′N, 75°53′W
Atlantic coast of Virginia, south of Virginia Beach — undeveloped barrier-island state park
Castel Gandolfo & the Vatican Observatory
Castel Gandolfo & the Vatican Observatory
41°44′N, 12°39′E
Alban Hills, Lazio, Italy — papal summer residence; Specola Vaticana headquarters
Tonopah & the Mizpah Hotel
Tonopah & the Mizpah Hotel
38°04′N, 117°14′W
Central Nevada, high desert on US 95 — silver-mining town; Mizpah Hotel built 1907
Tonopah Test Range
Tonopah Test Range
37°47′N, 116°47′W
Southern Nye County, Nevada — restricted USAF/DOE test range, ~625 sq mi
Mosquito Range, Colorado
Mosquito Range, Colorado
39°15′N, 106°10′W
Central Colorado — north-south range between the Arkansas and South Platte drainages
Marfa, Texas
Marfa, Texas
30°18′N, 104°01′W
Presidio County, Far West Texas — high desert plateau, elevation 1,475 m
Hessdalen Valley
Hessdalen Valley
62°47′N, 11°11′E
Holtålen, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway — narrow north–south valley at ~750 m elevation
Uintah Basin, Utah
Uintah Basin, Utah
40°05′N, 109°30′W
Northeastern Utah — structural basin between the Uinta Mountains and the Tavaputs Plateau
Manzano Mountains, New Mexico
Manzano Mountains, New Mexico
34°36′N, 106°22′W
Central New Mexico — small range south of Albuquerque, immediately east of Kirtland AFB
Mount Shasta, California
Mount Shasta, California
41°24′N, 122°12′W
Siskiyou County, far Northern California — stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 4,322 m
Asheville, North Carolina
Asheville, North Carolina
35°36′N, 82°33′W
Buncombe County, western North Carolina — Blue Ridge Mountains, elevation ~650 m
Holloman Air Force Base / Alamogordo
Holloman Air Force Base / Alamogordo
32°51′N, 106°06′W
Otero County, New Mexico — Tularosa Basin, adjacent to White Sands
Fátima, Portugal
Fátima, Portugal
39°37′N, 8°40′W
Cova da Iria, Ourém municipality, central Portugal — Marian apparition site, 1917
Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell, New Mexico
33°23′N, 104°31′W
Chaves County, southeastern New Mexico — high plains town on US 285; site of the 1947 incident
Area 51 / Groom Lake
Area 51 / Groom Lake
37°14′N, 115°48′W
Lincoln County, southern Nevada — detachment of Edwards AFB on the Nevada Test and Training Range
Rendlesham Forest
Rendlesham Forest
52°05′N, 1°27′E
Suffolk, England — pine plantation adjacent to the former RAF Bentwaters / RAF Woodbridge twin-base complex
Mount Rainier, Washington
Mount Rainier, Washington
46°51′N, 121°45′W
Pierce County, Washington — active stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 4,392 m
Aurora, Texas
Aurora, Texas
33°03′N, 97°31′W
Wise County, North Texas — small town northwest of Fort Worth on State Highway 114
Maury Island, Washington
Maury Island, Washington
47°22′N, 122°26′W
Puget Sound, King County, Washington — small island connected to Vashon Island by an isthmus
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
33°27′N, 112°04′W
Maricopa County, Arizona — capital of Arizona, Salt River Valley
Stephenville, Texas
Stephenville, Texas
32°13′N, 98°12′W
Erath County, North Central Texas — small city southwest of Fort Worth
Belgian UFO Wave (Eupen / Wallonia)
Belgian UFO Wave (Eupen / Wallonia)
50°38′N, 6°02′E
Eupen and Wallonia, eastern Belgium — initial sightings in the German-speaking community near the Dutch and German borders
Dulce, New Mexico
Dulce, New Mexico
36°56′N, 106°59′W
Rio Arriba County, northwestern New Mexico — seat of the Jicarilla Apache Nation
Yamashita Treasure Tunnels, Philippines
Yamashita Treasure Tunnels, Philippines
14°35′N, 121°00′E
Multiple sites across Luzon, Philippines — alleged WWII Imperial Japanese gold-cache tunnel complexes
Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle
25°N, 71°W (approx. center)
Western North Atlantic — region bounded approximately by Miami, San Juan, and Bermuda
Devils Tower, Wyoming
Devils Tower, Wyoming
44°35′N, 104°43′W
Crook County, northeastern Wyoming — Bear Lodge Ranger District, Black Hills National Forest
Trindade Island, Brazil
Trindade Island, Brazil
20°31′S, 29°19′W
South Atlantic — Brazilian island ~1,200 km east of Vitória; Brazilian Navy station
Hudson Valley, New York
Hudson Valley, New York
41°25′N, 73°55′W
Lower Hudson Valley — Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, and Orange Counties, New York / Fairfield County, Connecticut
Brown Mountain, North Carolina
Brown Mountain, North Carolina
35°56′N, 81°56′W
Burke County, western North Carolina — Pisgah National Forest ridge between Linville Gorge and Lake James
Bonnybridge, Scotland
Bonnybridge, Scotland
56°00′N, 3°53′W
Falkirk Council Area, Central Lowlands of Scotland — small town in the so-called 'Falkirk Triangle'
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania
40°10′N, 79°28′W
Westmoreland County, southwestern Pennsylvania — unincorporated community near Mount Pleasant
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Pascagoula, Mississippi
30°22′N, 88°33′W
Jackson County, Mississippi Gulf Coast — small city on the Pascagoula River
Allagash Waterway, Maine
Allagash Waterway, Maine
46°35′N, 69°15′W
Aroostook County, northern Maine — Allagash Wilderness Waterway
Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona
Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona
34°27′N, 110°27′W
Navajo County, eastern Arizona — Mogollon Rim country between Snowflake and Heber-Overgaard
Westall, Melbourne, Australia
Westall, Melbourne, Australia
37°57′S, 145°09′E
South-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria — Clayton South / Westall area
Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe
Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe
17°53′S, 31°15′E
Mashonaland East Province, ~20 km east of Harare — primary school in farming community
Catalina Channel / USS Nimitz strike group
Catalina Channel / USS Nimitz strike group
31°25′N, 117°15′W
Pacific Ocean, off Baja California — operating area of Carrier Strike Group 11 during November 2004 workups
O'Hare International Airport, Chicago
O'Hare International Airport, Chicago
41°58′N, 87°54′W
Cook County, Illinois — primary international airport serving Chicago
Dyatlov Pass
Dyatlov Pass
61°45′44″N, 59°27′32″E
Northern Urals, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia — eastern slope of Kholat Syakhl ('Dead Mountain')
Kyshtym Region / Mayak Production Association
Kyshtym Region / Mayak Production Association
55°43′N, 60°33′E
Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia — Ural Mountains nuclear-industrial region; closed cities of Ozyorsk and Kyshtym
Sterlitamak Crash Site, Bashkortostan
Sterlitamak Crash Site, Bashkortostan
53°37′N, 55°57′E
Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia — region southwest of Sterlitamak in the Southern Urals foothills

What's already in the open record. Incidents with named witnesses, radar traces, FOIA returns and court filings. Investigators and officials who left documents. Ongoing phenomena reported by thousands across decades. → The creepiest of the creepy is a hand-curated rank-order of the items that hit hardest.

Incidents · 16

documented single events

Sighting waves · 4

regional flap periods

Ongoing phenomena · 10

recurring patterns

Figures · 41

investigators · witnesses · officials

Investigations · 7

official inquiries and programs

Disclosure events · 2

public-record revelations

Revealed hoaxes · 1

examined and disproven

Historical cases · 11

specific documented files