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53 FILES · THE FILES · THE MYSTERIES
CASE FILE #001
Maj. Jesse Marcel with debris, Fort Worth, 8 July 1947 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Explained

Roswell

United States · 1947 Evidence

Flying disc announced, retracted a day later. The key records were destroyed.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #002
FLIR1, 14 November 2004: still at 0:30 (US Navy, released by the DoD in 2020)
Unexplained

USS Nimitz “Tic Tac”

United States · 2004 Evidence

Navy pilots filmed it. The Pentagon released it. Nobody has said what it was.

Updated 2026-10-30
CASE FILE #003
Pre-wave, NOT from the wave: 1987 NATO formation, Belgian F-16A with CF-18, Dutch F-16, Mirage F1 (USAF, SSgt David Nolan, PD-USGov)
Unexplained

Belgian UFO wave

Belgium · 1989–1990 Evidence

Two F-16s chased radar contacts for an hour. The famous photo was a fake.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #004
Apollo 11: bootprint on the lunar surface, photo AS11-40-5878, July 1969 (NASA; colour original shown in b/w)
NASA · shown in b/w
Confirmed

Moon landing: staged?

The Mysteries · 1969–1972 Evidence

The claims, the rocks and the mirrors still on the Moon.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #005
Ronald Reagan addressing the UN General Assembly, 21 September 1987 (Reagan Library, CC BY 3.0)
Courtesy Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (CC BY 3.0)
Confirmed

The Presidents’ File

The Mysteries Evidence

What they said, with the source. What actually happened.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #006
“A USAF colonel wrote it down. The MoD filed it. Sceptics blame a lighthouse.”
Unexplained

Rendlesham Forest

United Kingdom · 1980–1980 Evidence

A USAF colonel wrote it down. The MoD filed it. Sceptics blame a lighthouse.

Updated 2026-10-30
CASE FILE #007
“Two events, one name. Planes at 8:30, flares at 10. A governor who joked, then said he saw it.”
Explained

The Phoenix Lights

United States · 1997 Evidence

Two events, one name. Planes at 8:30, flares at 10. A governor who joked, then said he saw it.

Updated 2026-10-30
CASE FILE #008
Wide hearing-room shot: Graves, Grusch and Fravor at the witness table, 26 July 2023 (US House webcast, public domain)
Confirmed

2023 House UAP hearing

United States · 2023 Evidence

Three men under oath. One said ‘nonhuman’. The transcript is real. The details were saved for a SCIF.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #009
Campo do Luzio, Colares: a site listed as observation point no. 28 in the I COMAR UFO logs (photographed 2014)
Hélio Aniceto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Unexplained

Operação Prato

Brazil · 1977–1978 Evidence

An air force team watched the sky over Pará for months. The files describe lights, not answers.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #010
A Chilean Navy AS 532 Cougar-family helicopter, the type of aircraft that filmed the 2014 object (not the incident airframe)
Jan Hoffmann, CC BY-SA 3.0
Explained Draft

Chilean Navy video

Chile · 2014 Evidence

Two years of official study said ‘unidentified’. Five days of flight data said ‘Iberia 6830’.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #011
“One witness, a ring of marked soil, and a space agency that still files it under D.”
Unexplained

Trans-en-Provence

France · 1981 Evidence

One witness, a ring of marked soil, and a space agency that still files it under D.

Updated 2026-10-30
CASE FILE #012
Project Blue Book case file, National City, California, May 1952: first page (US Air Force / NARA)
Confirmed

Project Blue Book

United States · 1952–1969 Evidence

12,618 sightings. 701 left unidentified. Closed in 1969.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #013
Edward U. Condon in 1947, then director of the National Bureau of Standards
Confirmed Draft

The Condon Report

United States · 1968–1969 Evidence

The study that closed Blue Book. Its own staff did not all agree.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #014
AARO: the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office: archival photograph
Confirmed

AARO

United States · 2022 Evidence

The Pentagon's UFO office. Over 1,600 cases. No aliens found. Plenty of critics.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #015
Gimbal and GoFast (2015): archival photograph
Unexplained

Gimbal and GoFast

United States · 2015 Evidence

One looked fast and wasn't. The other one rotates. Neither has a name.

Updated 2026-10-30
CASE FILE #016
The Pentagon's 2020 release and the UAP Task Force: archival photograph
Confirmed

Pentagon release 2020

United States · 2020–2021 Evidence

Three leaked videos made official. Then a task force, and 144 cases.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #017
The Pyramids of El-Geezeh, from the South-West, Francis Frith, c. 1857 (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Confirmed

Giza Pyramids

Egypt · Reign of Khufu, 4th Dynasty Evidence

A boatman's logbook says who built it. Muons say something inside is still unexplored.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #018
Baalbek, the grand quarry with the great block, c. 1900 (Matson Collection, Library of Congress; stereograph)
Explained

Baalbek

Lebanon · 1st century BC – 1st century AD Evidence

A 1,650-tonne block still lies in the quarry. The argument is about dates, not about aliens.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #019
Cut trachyte stone, Puma Punku group, 1903 (Créqui-Montfort mission, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Explained

Puma Punku

Bolivia · Built mostly in the AD 600s Evidence

Precisely cut andesite, then ransacked for 500 years. Who built it is not the mystery.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #020
Göbekli Tepe, the main excavation area from above, c. 2019 (German Archaeological Institute, photo E. Kücük, CC BY 4.0)
German Archaeological Institute, photo E. Kücük (Dietrich et al. 2019, PLoS ONE, CC BY 4.0)
Confirmed

Göbekli Tepe

Türkiye · c. 9500 BC Evidence

Carved pillars from 9500 BC. The date holds; what the carvings mean is still argued.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #021
Dead Sea Scrolls, photograph by Willem van de Poll (Nationaal Archief, CC0; the archive dates it 1948, to be verified)
Confirmed

Dead Sea Scrolls

The Mysteries · 3rd century BCE – 1st century CE Evidence

Decades of slow publication fed a cover-up story. The real scandal was forged fragments.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #022
Emerald Tablet plate in Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, Hanau 1609 (plate dated 1606), Houghton Library
Confirmed

Emerald Tablet

The Mysteries · First documented c. AD 800–850 Evidence

Said to be found in a crypt under Hermes' statue. The paper trail starts in 9th-century Arabic.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #023
Cuneiform tablet with a Sumerian inscription from Ekur, temple of the god Enlil at Nippur (The Met)
Speculation Draft

Anunnaki

The Mysteries · Late 3rd – early 2nd millennium BC Evidence

The myths are real and online. The planet Nibiru is not in them.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #024
AI reconstruction of the Ehman Wow! printout (labelled AI-reconstructie; not the original scan)
Unexplained

The Wow! signal

The Mysteries · 1977 Evidence

72 seconds of radio signal, one word in the margin, and nothing since.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #025
Enrico Fermi, c.1943-49, US Department of Energy photo
Unexplained Draft

The Fermi paradox

The Mysteries · 1950 to now Evidence

A lunch question at Los Alamos, 1950. The galaxy has not answered.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #026
Artist's impression (illustration, not a photo) of interstellar object 'Oumuamua (ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0)
ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser / https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1820a/ — CC BY 4.0
Explained

‘Oumuamua

The Mysteries · 2017 Evidence

The first interstellar visitor sped up on the way out. Here is why.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #027
Ezekiel’s vision, woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lyon, 1538
Speculation

Ezekiel's wheel

The Mysteries · c. 593 BC Evidence

Wheels within wheels by a Babylonian canal. God's throne, or a landing craft?

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #028
The crowd at Fátima looking at the sky, 13 October 1917 (Ilustração Portugueza, 29 October 1917)
Confirmed

Fátima 1917

The Mysteries · 1917 Evidence

A crowd, a reporter and a sun that ‘danced’. What the record shows, and what it can't.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #029
The Vatican Observatory: the Pope's telescopes and the question of aliens: archival photograph
Confirmed

The Vatican Observatory

The Mysteries · 1891 Evidence

The Pope has a telescope in Arizona. What it is for, in the Vatican's own words.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #030
“Everyone has it. Nobody can say what it is. Now the question extends to animals and AI.”
Unexplained

Consciousness

The Mysteries Evidence

Everyone has it. Nobody can say what it is. Now the question extends to animals and AI.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #031
“Nudge a few numbers and there are no stars. Design, multiverse, or luck?”
Unexplained

Fine-tuned universe

The Mysteries Evidence

Nudge a few numbers and there are no stars. Design, multiverse, or luck?

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #032
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, portrait by Christoph Bernhard Francke, c.1695
Unexplained

Something, not nothing

The Mysteries Evidence

Leibniz asked it in 1714. Physics, philosophy and theology still give different answers.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #033
Groom Lake (Area 51) area seen by Landsat, c.2000; S-4 itself appears in no official record
Speculation Draft

Bob Lazar

The Mysteries Evidence

He said he worked on alien craft near Area 51. Here is what the records show.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #034
“A death ray, seized papers, a man from Venus. What the FBI's own Tesla file says.”
Explained

Nikola Tesla

The Mysteries Evidence

A death ray, seized papers, a man from Venus. What the FBI's own Tesla file says.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #035
Five presidents in the Oval Office, 7 January 2009, the season of handover notes and briefings
Explained Draft

The Book of Secrets

The Mysteries Evidence

A film invented the book. The desk drawer and the daily brief are real.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #036
Al Jean, long-time Simpsons showrunner, who has said that with enough predictions some will come true
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Explained Draft

The Simpsons predicted it?

The Mysteries Evidence

One real joke from 2000. A pile of doctored screenshots.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #037
Cover of the first edition of Morgan Robertson's Futility (1898)
Explained

Futility and the Titanic

The Mysteries · 1898–1912 Evidence

A novel ship called Titan hit an iceberg in 1898. Then the real one did.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #038
MKULTRA: the CIA's behaviour-modification programme: archival photograph
Confirmed

MKULTRA

The Mysteries · 1953–1964 Evidence

A real CIA programme. Most files destroyed in 1973. Seven boxes survived.

Updated 2026-10-31
CASE FILE #039
Fragment A of the Antikythera Mechanism, front, National Archaeological Museum, Athens (photo Logg Tandy, CC BY 4.0)
Logg Tandy / Wikimedia Commons - CC BY 4.0
Confirmed

Antikythera Mechanism

Greece · c. 150–100 BC Evidence

Bronze gears from a shipwreck that predicted eclipses. Greek, not alien; the date is the argument.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #040
The Enoch Scroll, 4Q201 (Aramaic, Qumran Cave 4), as shown by the Library of Congress in 1993. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Confirmed

Book of Enoch

Ethiopia · c. 3rd century BCE – 1773 Evidence

Fallen angels on parchment, copied before Christ. The manuscripts are real; the Watchers are a story.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #041
The Flood Tablet, K.3375, Gilgamesh Tablet XI, in the British Museum. Photo: BabelStone, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Confirmed

Gilgamesh Flood Tablet

Iraq · c. 1750 BC – 7th century BC Evidence

A Babylonian Noah on a clay tablet, read aloud in 1872. Real, famous, and not the oldest version.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #042
Trees flattened and scorched by the 1908 Tunguska blast, photographed by Leonid Kulik's expedition in 1929. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Explained

Tunguska 1908

Russia · 1908 - present Evidence

A flash brighter than the Sun, a forest laid flat, and no hole in the ground.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #043
The Dyatlov group's tent as found by searchers on 26 February 1959, cut open and half buried in snow. Soviet investigation photo; public domain.
Explained

Dyatlov Pass

Russia · 1959 - 2022 Evidence

A tent slit from the inside, bodies in the snow, and a 1959 verdict of 'a compelling natural force'.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #044
Hans Glaser broadsheet on the sky phenomenon over Nuremberg, 14 April 1561 (Wickiana, ZB Zurich)
Unexplained

Nuremberg 1561

The Mysteries · 1561 Evidence

One woodcut, one dawn, 1561. The only witness is a printer.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #045
Page 1 of the USDAO Tehran message to DIA, sent 23 September 1976: subject line "Reported UFO sighting", copied to CIA, NSA and the White House.
Unexplained

Tehran 1976

Iran · 1976 Evidence

Two F-4s, one bright light, and a US report that called it a classic.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #046
AI reconstruction (AI-reconstructie), not a real photo: an empty rural Zimbabwe schoolyard and dry veld, evoking Ariel School, Ruwa.
Unexplained

Ariel School 1994

Zimbabwe · 1994 Evidence

Sixty children, one playground, and a BBC crew three days later.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #047
Fold-out herbal pages of Beinecke MS 408: unidentified plants beneath lines of the unread Voynich script.
Unexplained

Voynich manuscript

The Mysteries · 15th century to now Evidence

Every page is written. Not one has been read.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #048
Aerial view of the Nazca hummingbird geoglyph, one of the animal figures scraped into the desert floor of southern Peru.
Diego Delso, delso.photo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Explained

Nazca lines

The Mysteries · c. 500 BC to AD 500 Evidence

Lines in the desert, best seen from above. Why draw them?

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #049
Drawing of the Baghdad battery: a small clay jar with a copper cylinder and iron rod, based on photos of the lost museum object.
Ironie, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
Explained

Baghdad battery

The Mysteries · Parthian or Sasanian period; claim from 1938 Evidence

A clay jar, a copper tube, an iron rod. Battery, or storage?

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #050
Title slide of a declassified Defense Intelligence Agency "Project Star Gate" briefing, marked SECRET NOFORN, released in 2000.
Confirmed

Project Stargate

The Mysteries · 1970s to 1995 Evidence

Two decades of paid psychics. The files are public now.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #051
Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (NASA/ESA, 2012): thousands of distant galaxies, showing the scale of the cosmos the hypothesis is about.
Speculation

Simulation hypothesis

The Mysteries · 2003 to now Evidence

One of three must be true. One of them is: this is a simulation.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #052
Page 1 of NSAM 271, signed 12 November 1963: Kennedy asks NASA to plan space cooperation with the USSR. It says nothing about UFOs.
Confirmed

JFK's NSAM 271

The Mysteries · 1963 Evidence

Ten days before Dallas, a memo to NASA about the Soviets.

Updated 2026-11-03
CASE FILE #053
The Hessdalen valley in winter, 1953: snowed-in farms decades before the lights. This is the valley, not a photo of the lights.
National Archives of Norway (Arkivverket), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Unexplained

Hessdalen lights

The Mysteries · 1981 to now Evidence

A Norwegian valley where the lights are measured, not explained.

Updated 2026-11-03