Murchison: space rocks and organic chemistry
A witnessed fall supplied samples for research into chemistry preceding life.
An explanation existsMurchison, Victoria
Atlas of mysteries
Items: 143All material
Apollo 11: the first human landing on the Moon
The documented Eagle landing, surface activities and coordinates refined from orbital imagery.
An explanation existsMare Tranquillitatis, Tranquility Base
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 Minnesota Iceman
A hairy figure in ice attracted investigators and the Smithsonian; evidence of a model explains the sensational exhibit.
Manipulation detectedWinona County, Minnesota
The Condon study: a university, disputed cases and the end of Blue Book
An Air Force-sponsored investigation collected new cases and revisited older ones; its overall recommendation and individual case analyses operate at different levels.
Under reviewUniversity of Colorado, Boulder
The Patterson–Gimlin film
A short film of a biped became central to the Bigfoot dispute; digital processing improved copies without supplying a new specimen.
UnverifiedBluff Creek, California
Cussac: a childhood account reconstructed eleven years later
Two children reported a bright object and four small figures. GEPAN's later reconstruction preserved their memories but did not measure the original event in real time.
Under reviewCussac, Cantal
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
Mothman: Point Pleasant
Two couples’ account of a winged figure near the TNT area grew into a legend later linked to the Silver Bridge collapse.
UnverifiedPoint Pleasant, West Virginia
Surveyor 1: footpads on the ground, a camera begins to look
On June 2, 1966 Universal Time, Surveyor 1 made the first American soft landing on the Moon and returned images of its immediate surroundings.
An explanation existsOceanus Procellarum, Flamsteed P region