During summer 1951 faculty members watched groups of lights and a student photographed a similar formation. Their accounts have similarities but also consequential differences.
A short color film from 1950 survived repeated investigations, a date dispute and differences between visual testimony and what the images could establish.
An early Air Force program collected sightings amid fears of unknown aviation technology; its records preserve uncertainties as well as organizational decisions.
On January 7, 1948 Captain Thomas Mantell died after climbing to identify an aerial object. The investigation was more complicated than its early Venus explanation.
Changing announcements in July 1947 and a later records search produced two connected histories: a debris recovery and the growth of a legend.
A private pilot's June 1947 report became a landmark in press history, although what he saw was never securely identified.
A fish with fleshy fins proved to be a living representative of a lineage known from fossils.
An archival release in 2020 moved the latest known film of a living thylacine from 1933 to 1935.
Stories of a nun and moving objects made the rectory famous; scrutiny later questioned witnesses and investigator alike.
Groups of lights moved more slowly than familiar meteors and maintained a strikingly coordinated appearance.
