Peekskill: the meteorite that struck a car
Amateur cameras captured the fireball, while a surviving stone pierced a parked car's trunk and became a museum specimen.
An explanation existsPeekskill, New York
Atlas of mysteries
Items: 143Space and signals
Meteorites, mysterious signals and unusual sounds.
Hessdalen: lights under instrumental observation
A winter campaign attempted to turn reports of lights into testable measurements.
Insufficient evidenceHessdalen valley, Trøndelag
The Wow! signal: one record and an open question
On 15 August 1977 a radio telescope recorded an unusual narrowband signal whose source remains unidentified.
Insufficient evidenceFormer Big Ear radio telescope area, Ohio
The 1972 fireball: into the atmosphere and out again
A brilliant daytime object crossed the upper atmosphere on a grazing trajectory.
An explanation existsWestern North America
Allende: a fireball and ancient grains
A shower of stones brought scientists and local residents to a large strewn field and supplied material for studying the early Solar System.
An explanation existsPueblito de Allende area, Chihuahua
The first pulsar: Jocelyn Bell's persistence and a pattern in strange pulses
In 1967 Jocelyn Bell noticed an unusual trace in radio records. Follow-up checks revealed repeating celestial pulses and opened the study of a new class of stellar objects.
An explanation existsCelestial source CP 1919; Cambridge radio observations
The meteor procession of 1913
Groups of lights moved more slowly than familiar meteors and maintained a strikingly coordinated appearance.
Under reviewA long corridor of observations