# AnomalyWiki > A field guide to the unexplained: cryptids, UFO cases, lost civilizations, haunted and anomalous places, mysterious objects, and declassified government records. Every entry pairs the legend with its sources and the mainstream explanation. Each entry below links to a plain-Markdown version (append `.md` to any entry URL). Cite the HTML page URL (same path without `.md`). ## Beings - [Arcturians](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/aliens/arcturians.md): Arcturians are a New Age folklore type: channeled healers and teachers said to come from the real star Arcturus. Edgar Cayce called Arcturus a soul "stargate"; 1980s–90s books added walk-in and civilization lore. Schola… - [Banshee](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/banshee.md): The banshee (Irish bean sí) is a supernatural death-messenger whose keening wail was said to foretell a death in an old Gaelic family, especially one with Ó or Mac surnames. Folklorists link her cry to human caoineadh l… - [Bunyip](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/bunyip.md): Bunyip is an English-language label for diverse Aboriginal Australian water spirits and monsters, flattened by colonial newspapers into one “lake devil.” Settler accounts from the 1840s onward mix fear, misidentified se… - [Champ](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/champ.md): Champ is the long-necked lake monster said to live in Lake Champlain between New York, Vermont, and Quebec. Sandra Mansi’s 1977 photo and decades of boat sightings fuel tourism; biologists favor sturgeon, logs, or waves… - [Chupacabra](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/chupacabra.md): The chupacabra - Spanish for “goat sucker” - exploded in Puerto Rican headlines in 1995 when farmers found goats and poultry dead with puncture wounds and little blood left. Witnesses described a spiky-backed biped near… - [Daleks](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/fictional-aliens/daleks.md): Daleks are the armored, xenophobic mutants of BBC Doctor Who, rolling in pepper-pot travel machines and shouting "Exterminate!" Created for television in 1963, they became one of science fiction's most copied villains.… - [Dogman](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/dogman.md): Dogman names a bipedal wolf- or dog-headed figure in Great Lakes cryptid lore, launched into wide circulation when Steve Cook's 1987 WTCM April Fools' song drew same-day listener sightings. Mainstream analysts treat it… - [Doppelgänger](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/entities/doppelganger.md): A doppelgänger is someone's exact double - an omen of crisis in Germanic folklore and a recurring motif in Romantic literature. Goethe, Shelley, and later psychology borrowed the shiver of seeing yourself where you shou… - [Dover Demon](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/dover-demon.md): The Dover Demon is a peach-skinned, big-headed figure reported by teenagers in Dover, Massachusetts, over two nights in April 1977. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman coined the name after investigating the flap. Mainstream… - [Fenrir](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/fenrir.md): Fenrir is the bound wolf of Norse myth, a son of Loki destined to break free at Ragnarök and slay Odin. Poetic Edda and Prose Edda texts describe gods raising him, failing to trust him, and chaining him with the magic f… - [Flatwoods Monster](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/flatwoods-monster.md): The Flatwoods Monster is a tall, hooded figure with a spade-shaped head that seven people reported on Fisher Hill near Flatwoods, West Virginia, on 12 September 1952, after a fireball crossed the sky. Witnesses describe… - [Fresno Nightcrawler](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/fresno-nightcrawler.md): Fresno Nightcrawlers are pale, long-legged figures from a 2007 home-security clip in Fresno, California, plus a similar 2011 Yosemite snow video. Mainstream readers treat them as costumes, puppets, or hoax; cryptid fans… - [Greys](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/aliens/greys.md): Greys are small, large-headed humanoids with wraparound black eyes at the center of late-twentieth-century UFO abduction lore. Psychologists and historians treat the look as a contagious visual template from hypnosis-er… - [Gumiho](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/gumiho.md): Gumiho (kumiho) is a nine-tailed fox spirit of Korean folklore, often dangerous and hungry for human liver or life force in classic tales. Modern dramas sometimes romanticize the figure, but traditional stories warn abo… - [Hat Man](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/entities/hat-man.md): The Hat Man is a recurring bedroom shadow figure in a wide-brimmed hat, often linked to sleep paralysis and “bedroom intruder” hallucinations. Psychologists treat the silhouette as a cultural variant of hypnagogic image… - [Hopkinsville Goblins](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/aliens/hopkinsville-goblins.md): Hopkinsville goblins are the small, metallic humanoids from the Kelly, Kentucky farmhouse siege of 21–22 August 1955. Eleven Sutton and Taylor relatives told police that clawed figures with glowing eyes besieged their h… - [Jackalope](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/jackalope.md): The jackalope is a horned jackrabbit of American West tall-tale culture, born from 1930s Wyoming taxidermy jokes sold as souvenirs. Douglas, Wyoming, turned the gag into town mythology and festival branding. Biologists… - [Jersey Devil](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/jersey-devil.md): The Jersey Devil is a winged, hoofed monster of New Jersey Pine Barrens folklore, often tied to Mother Leeds and the colonial Leeds family. Historians trace the tale through Quaker feuds and almanac wars; January 1909 n… - [Jiangshi](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/jiangshi.md): Jiangshi are Chinese revenants of folklore - stiff, hopping corpses tied to failed burial rites and the draining of life force (qi). Qing-era robes and Taoist paper talismans dominate modern cinema image. Scholars treat… - [Kappa](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/kappa.md): Kappa are child-sized river yōkai in Japanese folklore - green skin, turtle beak, webbed hands, and a water-filled dish (sara) on the head that holds their strength. Scholars treat them as tradition, not biology, yet dr… - [Kelpie](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/kelpie.md): Kelpies are Scottish water-horse spirits said to lure riders onto their backs, then drag them into lochs to drown. Folklore collections from the 1800s describe black wet horses with adhesive hides and uncanny strength.… - [Kitsune](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/kitsune.md): Kitsune are fox spirits (yokai) in Japanese folklore - shapeshifters, illusionists, and companions of the kami Inari. Tales range from shrine messengers (zenko) to wild tricksters (yako) and stories of fox possession (k… - [Klingons](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/fictional-aliens/klingons.md): Klingons are the ridged-brow warrior culture of Star Trek, obsessed with honor, combat, and opera. Gene Roddenberry's 1960s show cast them as Cold War foils; later makeup gave them forehead ridges and a fully developed… - [Little Green Men](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/aliens/little-green-men.md): Little green men are a mid-century American pulp and newspaper cliché for small alien visitors - bright green skin, big heads, cartoon menace. The phrase predates the 1955 Kelly–Hopkinsville flap; reporters later painte… - [Mantis Aliens](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/aliens/mantis-aliens.md): Mantis aliens are tall, insectoid figures in UFO abduction lore - triangular heads, folded forelimbs, and wraparound eyes - often cast as overseers beside Greys. The look spread through Karla Turner's 1990s books and Da… - [Medusa](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/medusa.md): Medusa is the snake-haired Gorgon of Greek myth whose gaze turns onlookers to stone in the most famous retelling. Hesiod makes her one of three Gorgon sisters; later poets and artists cast her as the slain monster whose… - [Mongolian Death Worm](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/mongolian-death-worm.md): The Mongolian death worm (olgoi-khorkhoi) is a bright red, limbless sand-dweller of Gobi folklore, said to kill with venom or an electric jolt. Western explorers spread the tale through secondhand Mongolian accounts, no… - [Mothman](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/mothman.md): Mothman is a winged, humanoid figure reported around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966-67. Local newspaper sightings near the TNT munitions area, the December 1967 Silver Bridge collapse, and later books and film t… - [Na'vi](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/fictional-aliens/na-vi.md): The Na'vi are tall, blue-skinned humanoids from James Cameron's Avatar, linked to Pandora's ecosystem through a neural queue bond called tsaheylu. Mainstream view: this is 20th Century Studios film fiction built for blo… - [Nordic Aliens](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/aliens/nordic-aliens.md): Nordic aliens are tall, fair-featured humanoids from mid-century contactee lore, cast as benevolent Space Brothers who warn about nuclear war. George Adamski's claimed 20 November 1952 Desert Center meeting with a Venus… - [Owlman](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/owlman.md): Owlman is a winged, owl-headed figure reported near Mawnan Smith, Cornwall, in 1976. Two girls near Mawnan churchyard started the flap; promoter Tony “Doc” Shiels publicized later sightings. Skeptics cite eagle owls or… - [Phoenix](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/phoenix-mythology.md): The phoenix is the immortal firebird of Greco-Roman and Egyptian reception - dying in flame and rising from ash as a symbol of renewal. Herodotus, Pliny, and later bestiaries describe a rare Arabian bird with gold and r… - [Pleiadians](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/aliens/pleiadians.md): Pleiadians are fair, blond humanoids in New Age and contactee lore, said to hail from the Pleiades star cluster. Swiss contactee Billy Meier popularized visitor Semjase; channeler Barbara Marciniak's Bringers of the Daw… - [Reptilians](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/aliens/reptilians.md): Reptilians are shapeshifting lizard humanoids in late-20th-century conspiracy lore, popularized by David Icke's books and lectures as hidden rulers wearing human guise. Scholars treat the type as modern folklore and mem… - [Selkie](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/selkie.md): Selkies are seal-people of Orkney, Shetland, and wider Scottish-Irish folklore who shed their skins to walk on land, often trapped when a human hides the coat. Ballads and folktales focus on longing and return to the se… - [Skunk Ape](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/skunk-ape.md): The skunk ape is Florida’s ape-like swamp cryptid, named for a rotten stench witnesses tie to close encounters. Decades of Everglades reports, a disputed 2000 Myakka photo, and promoter Dave Shealy keep it in regional l… - [Spring-heeled Jack](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/spring-heeled-jack.md): Spring-heeled Jack is a leaping, clawed figure from Victorian London penny press - tall cloak, metallic claws, glowing eyes, and impossible jumps over walls in 1830s–40s reports. Police memos and newspaper panics spread… - [Tall Whites](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/aliens/tall-whites.md): Tall Whites are chalk-pale, very tall humanoids in Charles Hall’s Millennial Hospitality books and later ufology media, tied to Nellis and Indian Springs, Nevada. Hall says he met them as a USAF weather observer in the… - [Tengu](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/mythical/tengu.md): Tengu are Japanese mountain goblins and martial spirits, pictured with red faces, long noses, and sometimes crow wings. Buddhist and Shinto history turned them from disaster omens into disciplined yet dangerous teachers… - [Thunderbird](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/thunderbird.md): Thunderbirds are sacred giant birds in many Indigenous North American traditions, later mixed with settler tales of airplane-sized raptors. The 1977 Lawndale child-lift story and disputed Tombstone photo keep cryptozool… - [Wookiee](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/fictional-aliens/wookiee.md): Wookiees are towering, fur-covered bipeds of the Star Wars galaxy, famous through Chewbacca's loyalty and strength since 1977. George Lucas placed them on the forest world Kashyyyk as franchise fiction, not a cryptid re… - [Xenomorph](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/fictional-aliens/xenomorph.md): The xenomorph is the endoparasitoid alien predator of the Alien film franchise, famous for its egg-to-host lifecycle, biomechanical silhouette, elongated crest, and nested secondary jaw. H.R. Giger's 1979 design remains… - [Yautja](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/fictional-aliens/yautja.md): Yautja are the trophy-hunting aliens of the Predator films, masked, dreadlocked, and armed with cloaking tech and plasma casters. The 1987 movie turned Stan Winston's creature design into a jungle-horror icon. Mainstrea… - [Yeti](https://anomalywiki.com/beings/cryptids/yeti.md): The Yeti is a shaggy, ape-like “wild man” of Himalayan folklore, famous in the West as the “abominable snowman” after 1920s Everest reports. Eric Shipton’s 1951 footprint photos and later relic hunts kept expeditions co… ## Places - [Alcatraz](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/alcatraz.md): Alcatraz Island is a real former federal penitentiary that held notorious inmates like Al Capone from 1934 to 1963, now run by the National Park Service. Guards and visitors have long attributed clanging sounds, cold sp… - [Area 51](https://anomalywiki.com/places/anomalous/area-51.md): Area 51 is the long-secret U.S. Air Force test site at Groom Lake, Nevada, where the CIA flew the U-2 and A-12 spy planes. The agency only confirmed the base by name in 2013. Bob Lazar's reverse-engineering claims and 2… - [Avebury](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/avebury.md): Avebury is a Neolithic henge in Wiltshire enclosing the largest stone circle in Britain, built and reshaped roughly 2850-2200 BCE. A living village sits inside its bank and ditch today. Archaeologist Alexander Keiller r… - [Baalbek](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/baalbek.md): Baalbek's Roman temple complex in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley sits on a podium built from some of the largest finished stone blocks ever quarried, including a 1,650-tonne megalith unearthed in 2014. Archaeologists trace the… - [Bermuda Triangle](https://anomalywiki.com/places/anomalous/bermuda-triangle-region.md): The Bermuda Triangle is a loosely drawn Atlantic zone, roughly between Miami, Bermuda, and San Juan, blamed for vanished ships and planes since a 1964 magazine article named it. The U.S. Navy says it is not an official… - [Blood Falls](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/blood-falls.md): Blood Falls is an iron-oxide-rich brine outflow from Taylor Glacier onto the ice of West Lake Bonney in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys, first noted in 1911 and only fully traced to its ancient subglacial source in 201… - [Borley Rectory](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/borley-rectory.md): Borley Rectory, built in 1862 near the Essex-Suffolk border, was dubbed "the most haunted house in England" after Harry Price's 1929 investigations drew national press coverage. A fire gutted the building in 1939, and a… - [Bridgewater Triangle](https://anomalywiki.com/places/anomalous/bridgewater-triangle.md): The Bridgewater Triangle is a roughly 200-square-mile stretch of southeastern Massachusetts, centered on the real Hockomock Swamp, that cryptozoologist Loren Coleman named in 1980 after collecting decades of UFO, Bigfoo… - [Callanish Stones](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/callanish-stones.md): The Callanish Stones are a Neolithic circle and avenue on Scotland's Isle of Lewis, raised around 2900-2600 BCE. Hebridean folklore calls them Fir Bhrèige, petrified giants who refused Christian conversion. Researchers… - [Carnac Stones](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/carnac-stones.md): The Carnac stones are a vast field of Neolithic standing-stone alignments in Brittany, France, with construction now dated as early as 4600-4300 BCE at nearby Le Plasker. More than 3,000 menhirs stretch across Le Ménec,… - [Chocolate Hills](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/chocolate-hills.md): Bohol's Chocolate Hills are roughly 1,776 near-identical limestone cones across Carmen, Batuan, and Sagbayan that turn cocoa-brown each dry season. Geologists call them cockpit karst, carved from uplifted Pliocene coral… - [Cave of the Crystals](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/crystal-cave-of-giants.md): The Cave of the Crystals is a chamber below Mexico's Naica mine holding selenite beams up to 11 meters long, found by miners in 2000. A 2007 Geology study pinned the cause to water sitting at a near-perfect 54 degrees C… - [Danakil Depression](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/danakil-depression.md): The Danakil Depression is a scorching basin in Ethiopia's Afar region, where three tectonic plates pull apart, dropping the land over 100 meters below sea level. Shallow magma heats ancient salt into the acid-yellow Dal… - [Denver International Airport](https://anomalywiki.com/places/anomalous/denver-airport.md): Denver International Airport opened in 1995 after costly delays, and its Masonic dedication capstone, apocalyptic Leo Tanguma murals, and the blue "Blucifer" Mustang sculpture turned ordinary art and ceremony into New W… - [Darvaza Gas Crater](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/door-to-hell.md): The Darvaza Gas Crater, Turkmenistan's "Door to Hell," is a 60-70 meter-wide pit in the Karakum Desert that has burned natural gas since the late 1980s after a drilling collapse. Explorer George Kourounis became the fir… - [Dulce Base](https://anomalywiki.com/places/anomalous/dulce-base.md): Dulce Base is a legendary underground alien-human facility supposedly hidden beneath Archuleta Mesa in New Mexico. The story traces directly to a documented 1980s Air Force disinformation operation against civilian inve… - [Easter Island](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/easter-island.md): Easter Island's moai are nearly 900 carved ancestor figures raised by Polynesian settlers between roughly 1250 and 1500 CE, not by aliens, as Erich von Däniken once claimed. A 2012 "walking" experiment showed crews coul… - [Eastern State Penitentiary](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/eastern-state-penitentiary.md): Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia is a National Historic Landmark built in 1829 on a radial, solitary-confinement design that Charles Dickens condemned in person in 1842. Al Capone served time there and Willie… - [Edinburgh Vaults](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/edinburgh-vaults.md): The Edinburgh Vaults are real 18th-century storage chambers beneath South Bridge, built in 1785 and rediscovered by chance in the 1980s after being sealed with rubble for a century. Ghost-tour lore centers on "Mr. Boots… - [Eternal Flame Falls](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/eternal-flame-falls.md): Eternal Flame Falls, in New York's Chestnut Ridge Park, hides a grotto where natural gas seeps from shale and can be lit behind a waterfall curtain. A 2013 study traced the gas to Devonian shale 400 meters down, with un… - [Fly Geyser](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/fly-geyser.md): Fly Geyser is a psychedelic, mineral-crusted mound in the Nevada desert that only exists because two separate well-drilling attempts, in 1916 and 1964, went wrong. A failed geothermal test well shot hot, mineral-rich wa… - [Göbekli Tepe](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/gobekli-tepe.md): Gobekli Tepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic ceremonial complex in Sanliurfa Province, Turkey, with monumental limestone T-shaped pillars dating roughly 9600-8200 BCE. It is a verified archaeological site and UNESCO World He… - [Hessdalen Valley](https://anomalywiki.com/places/anomalous/hessdalen-valley.md): Hessdalen Valley in Trondelag, Norway, has produced recurring unexplained lights since a dense wave of sightings in 1981, prompting engineer Erling Strand to found Project Hessdalen and, from 1998, run an automated came… - [Highgate Cemetery](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/highgate-cemetery.md): Highgate Cemetery is a real Victorian burial ground consecrated in 1839, famous for elaborate tombs and Karl Marx's grave. In 1970, rival occultists David Farrant and Sean Manchester sparked a media panic over a suppose… - [Island of the Dolls](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/island-of-the-dolls.md): La Isla de las Munecas is a real chinampa island in Xochimilco, Mexico, where caretaker Julian Santana Barrera hung thousands of dolls for roughly 50 years after a child reportedly drowned nearby. Santana died in the sa… - [Karahan Tepe](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/karahan-tepe.md): Karahan Tepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey where hunter-gatherers carved T-shaped pillars, benches, and statues into bedrock starting around 10,000 years ago. Excavations led by Necmi Karul foun… - [Leap Castle](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/leap-castle.md): Leap Castle in County Offaly is a 15th-century O'Carroll stronghold where a 1532 succession fight allegedly ended with one brother killing another, a priest, in what is now called the Bloody Chapel. Its reputation as Ir… - [Loch Ness](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/loch-ness.md): Loch Ness is a 23-mile glacial lake along Scotland's Great Glen Fault, holding more fresh water than every lake in England and Wales combined. A 1933 report coined "Loch Ness Monster," and the famous 1934 photo was conf… - [Mount Shasta](https://anomalywiki.com/places/anomalous/mount-shasta.md): Mount Shasta is a 14,162-foot active Cascade volcano sacred to the Wintu, Shasta, Karuk, and Pit River peoples. Its famous "hidden Lemurian city" is not a Native tradition; it comes from Frederick Spencer Oliver's 1905… - [Racetrack Playa](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/moving-rocks-racetrack.md): Racetrack Playa's rocks drag trails hundreds of meters across a dry Death Valley lakebed, and for decades nobody ever saw one move. In 2013-2014, GPS-tagged stones and a weather station caught the real cause on camera:… - [Nan Madol](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/nan-madol.md): Nan Madol is a megalithic stone city of nearly 100 artificial islets off Pohnpei, Micronesia, built from giant basalt columns starting around 1180 CE as the Saudeleur dynasty's capital. Local legend credits twin sorcere… - [Newgrange](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/newgrange.md): Newgrange is a Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, built around 3200 BCE. Its roof-box channels winter-solstice sunrise seventeen minutes into the burial chamber, an alignment archaeologist Michael J. O'Kel… - [Pamukkale](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/pamukkale.md): Pamukkale, "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a cliffside of white terraces built by hot, calcium-rich spring water losing carbon dioxide as it cascades downhill. Geologists trace the terraces back at least 400,000 years, a… - [Paris Catacombs](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/paris-catacombs.md): The Paris Catacombs are a real former quarry network holding the remains of roughly six million people, consecrated as the Paris Municipal Ossuary in 1786 to empty overflowing cemeteries. Cataphiles explore the illegal,… - [Pyramids of Giza](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/pyramids-of-giza.md): The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for Pharaoh Khufu around 2560 BCE by paid, rotating labor crews, not slaves or aliens, as excavated workers' barracks and bakeries confirm. A 2023 muon-scanning survey revealed a hidd… - [Sacsayhuamán](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/sacsayhuaman.md): Sacsayhuamán's zigzag walls above Cusco interlock limestone and andesite blocks weighing up to about 128 tonnes so tightly that a knife blade will not fit between them. Inca builders raised the terraces under Pachacuti… - [Sedona Vortexes](https://anomalywiki.com/places/anomalous/sedona-vortexes.md): Sedona's vortexes are redrock sites, chiefly Airport Mesa, Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, and Boynton Canyon, said to concentrate the earth's energy. A psychic named the spots in 1980 after a channeled vision. No instrument… - [Socotra](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/socotra.md): Socotra is a Yemeni island so long isolated that over a third of its plants, including the umbrella-shaped dragon's blood tree, exist nowhere else on Earth. UNESCO listed the archipelago as a World Heritage Site in 2008… - [Stanley Hotel](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/stanley-hotel.md): Colorado's Stanley Hotel is the real 1909 resort where a near-empty overnight stay in 1974 gave Stephen King the idea for "The Shining." Room 217's ghost story predates King by decades, tracing to a 1911 gas explosion t… - [Stonehenge](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/stonehenge.md): Stonehenge's sarsens and bluestones were raised in stages between roughly 3000 and 1600 BCE by Neolithic Britons, not Merlin or extraterrestrials, as legend and fringe theory separately claim. A 2024 study traced its si… - [Teotihuacan](https://anomalywiki.com/places/megalithic/teotihuacan.md): Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun and Avenue of the Dead anchored one of the ancient world's largest cities, though nobody knows what its builders even called themselves. The Aztecs found it abandoned centuries later and… - [Tower of London](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/tower-of-london.md): The Tower of London is a nearly 1,000-year-old royal fortress where Anne Boleyn and other nobles were executed, and its own custodians, Historic Royal Palaces, actively publish the ghost stories tied to those deaths. An… - [Waitomo Caves](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/waitomo-caves.md): Waitomo's Glowworm Cave on New Zealand's North Island hides thousands of Arachnocampa luminosa larvae glowing blue-green on its ceiling. Maori chief Tane Tinorau and surveyor Fred Mace first explored it by candlelit fla… - [Winchester Mystery House](https://anomalywiki.com/places/haunted/winchester-mystery-house.md): The Winchester Mystery House is Sarah Winchester's sprawling San Jose mansion, built in near-constant renovation from 1886 until her death in 1922, filled with staircases that dead-end at ceilings and doors opening onto… - [Zhangjiajie](https://anomalywiki.com/places/natural-anomaly/zhangjiajie.md): Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Hunan, China holds more than 3,000 quartz-sandstone pillars carved by frost, rain, and roots rather than limestone dissolution. One peak was officially renamed Avatar Hallelujah Mount… ## Phenomena - [Amelia Earhart](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/disappearance/amelia-earhart.md): On 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the central Pacific near Howland Island during her round-the-world flight. A two-week Navy and Coast Guard search found no trace. Mainstream researc… - [Annabelle Doll](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/cursed-object/annabelle-doll.md): Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann doll that paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren said was manipulated by a demonic presence after a 1970s Connecticut nursing-student case. Displayed in their Occult Museum, the doll… - [Ariel School Sighting](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/ariel-school-sighting.md): On 16 September 1994, around 62 children at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, said silver objects landed near their playground and a small black-eyed figure appeared. UFO investigator Cynthia Hind and the BBC documented m… - [Battle of Los Angeles](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/battle-of-los-angeles.md): In the predawn hours of 25 February 1942, Los Angeles anti-aircraft batteries fired about 1,440 rounds at a radar target and reported "swarms" of aircraft overhead. The Army later blamed stray weather balloons and jitte… - [Belgian UFO Wave](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/belgian-ufo-wave.md): From late 1989 to 1991, thousands of Belgians, including police officers, reported a huge silent triangle with searchlight-like beams. On the night of 30-31 March 1990, two F-16s chased radar contacts for nearly an hour… - [Berenstain Bears](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/mandela-effect/berenstain-bears.md): The Berenstain Bears Mandela effect is the widespread false memory that the children's book series was spelled Berenstein. Published books, family statements, and trademarks use Berenstain. Psychologists and fact-checke… - [Betty and Barney Hill](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/betty-and-barney-hill.md): On 19-20 September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill said a hovering light stopped their car near Indian Head, New Hampshire, then left two hours unaccounted for. Hypnosis sessions three years later produced the examination-a… - [Cash-Landrum Incident](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/cash-landrum-incident.md): On 29 December 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and seven-year-old Colby Landrum said a diamond-shaped object venting flame hovered over a rural Texas road, escorted by roughly two dozen helicopters. All three later de… - [Cicada 3301](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/internet-legend/cicada-3301.md): Cicada 3301 was a series of elaborate cryptographic puzzles posted online beginning 4 January 2012, seeking highly intelligent individuals. Verified trails used images, steganography, classical crypto, and physical pape… - [Crop Circles](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/paranormal-type/crop-circles.md): Crop circles are flattened patterns in grain fields across England, multiplying from simple rings in the late 1970s into elaborate pictograms by the 1990s. Doug Bower and Dave Chorley confessed in 1991 to making hundred… - [Curious George Tail](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/mandela-effect/curious-george-tail.md): Many readers picture Curious George with a monkey's tail - but H.A. and Margret Rey's beloved character has never had one in any official book or cartoon. Researchers at the University of Chicago confirmed this as one o… - [D.B. Cooper](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/disappearance/db-cooper.md): On 24 November 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 over Washington state, collected $200,000 and four parachutes, then jumped into the night and vanished. The FBI's 45-year NORJAK investigation… - [Dyatlov Pass Incident](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/disappearance/dyatlov-pass-incident.md): Nine experienced Ural hikers led by Igor Dyatlov died in February 1959 after cutting their way out of their tent and fleeing barefoot into a subzero blizzard on a Ural mountainside. Soviet investigators blamed an unname… - [Falcon Lake Incident](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/falcon-lake-incident.md): On 20 May 1967, Winnipeg mechanic Stefan Michalak said two glowing discs appeared near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, and one burned a gridlike pattern through his shirt into his stomach. The RCMP and RCAF documented his illnes… - [Fermi Paradox](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/cosmic/fermi-paradox.md): In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi asked Los Alamos lunchmates a blunt question: if the galaxy is billions of years old and civilizations are common, where is everybody? The Fermi paradox turns that quip into a serious ast… - [Flight 19](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/disappearance/flight-19.md): Flight 19 was a flight of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that vanished on 5 December 1945 during a navigational training mission from NAS Fort Lauderdale. Fourteen airmen were lost; a PBM Mariner search plan… - [Foo Fighters](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/foo-fighters.md): Starting in November 1944, U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron crews over the Rhine Valley reported glowing orbs that paced their aircraft at night, naming them foo fighters after a comic strip catchphrase. Wartime SHAEF… - [Fruit of the Loom Cornucopia](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/mandela-effect/fruit-of-the-loom-cornucopia.md): Many shoppers insist the Fruit of the Loom logo once showed its apple-and-grapes cluster sitting inside a woven cornucopia. The company and Snopes say no registered design or dated ad has ever shown one - only fruit on… - [Havana Syndrome](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/sound-signal/havana-syndrome.md): Havana Syndrome refers to anomalous health incidents U.S. and Canadian personnel began reporting in Cuba in late 2016 - sudden directional sounds, head pressure, and lasting neurological symptoms. A National Academies p… - [Jack the Ripper](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/historical-mystery/jack-the-ripper.md): Jack the Ripper is the name popularly given to an unidentified serial killer linked to murders of women in Whitechapel, London, in autumn 1888. Police never secured a conviction. Surviving Metropolitan Police files, inq… - [Kecksburg Incident](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/kecksburg-incident.md): On 9 December 1965, a fireball crossed skies over several U.S. states and Ontario before locals near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, said something came down in the woods. Witnesses described a military cordon and an acorn-sha… - [Kenneth Arnold Sighting](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/kenneth-arnold-sighting.md): On 24 June 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine bright, crescent-shaped objects skimming past Mount Rainier at an estimated 1,200-1,700 mph. A reporter's paraphrase of his "saucer skipping on water" descript… - [Luke, I Am Your Father](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/mandela-effect/luke-i-am-your-father.md): Nearly everyone quotes Darth Vader's reveal as "Luke, I am your father" - but the real line in The Empire Strikes Back is "No, I am your father." Lucasfilm confirms it, and Mark Hamill has said even the cast worked from… - [Malmstrom AFB Incident](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/malmstrom-afb-incident.md): On 16 March 1967, all ten nuclear missiles in Echo Flight at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, dropped offline within seconds; Boeing's own investigation found no technical cause. Separately, veterans including Robert Salas say a… - [Mary Celeste](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/disappearance/mary-celeste.md): On 4 December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift and deserted in the Atlantic, under partial sail, fully provisioned, with cargo intact and her lifeboat missing. All ten people aboard, including Captain… - [Mirror Mirror on the Wall](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/mandela-effect/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall.md): Almost everyone recites "Mirror, mirror on the wall" from Snow White - but Disney's 1937 film and its licensed book tie-ins all use "Magic mirror on the wall." The doubled phrase genuinely comes from the older Brothers… - [Monopoly Man Monocle](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/mandela-effect/monopoly-man-monocle.md): Most people picture Rich Uncle Pennybags - Mr. Monopoly - wearing a monocle with his top hat and cane. Monopoly historian Philip Orbanes says classic U.S. game art never gave him one, though a 1990s European banknote an… - [Nelson Mandela Death Memory](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/mandela-effect/nelson-mandela-death-memory.md): The Nelson Mandela death memory is a shared false recollection that Mandela died in a South African prison in the 1980s. He was freed in 1990, led South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and died at home in 2013. Fiona Broome n… - [O'Hare UFO (2006)](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/ohare-ufo-2006.md): On 7 November 2006, about a dozen United Airlines employees reported a dark, elliptical disc hovering silently over O'Hare's Concourse C before it shot straight up through the clouds. The FAA initially denied any record… - [Operation Northwoods](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/conspiracy-claim/operation-northwoods.md): Operation Northwoods was a 1962 U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff proposal outlining possible false-flag pretext operations against Cuba - including staged attacks - to justify military intervention. The documents were not app… - [ʻOumuamua](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/cosmic/oumuamua.md): Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1) was the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System, discovered in October 2017 by Pan-STARRS. It showed a highly elongated light curve and a small non-gravitational a… - [Pascagoula Abduction](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/pascagoula-abduction.md): On 11 October 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker said three robot-like creatures floated them aboard a hovering craft near Pascagoula, Mississippi, then released them. A sheriff's office tape caught their raw fear… - [Phoenix Lights](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/phoenix-lights.md): On 13 March 1997, thousands of people across Arizona reported lights or a large V- or delta-shaped formation over the Phoenix area. Investigators and the Air National Guard later linked the widely filmed ~10 p.m. lights… - [Poltergeist Phenomenon](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/paranormal-type/poltergeist-phenomenon.md): A poltergeist case is a cluster of raps, thrown objects, and household chaos that investigators trace to a specific living person - usually a child or teenager - rather than a wandering ghost. From the 1716 Epworth Rect… - [Project Blue Book](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-program/project-blue-book.md): Project Blue Book was the U.S. Air Force program that investigated UFO reports from 1952 to 1969 at Wright-Patterson AFB. Official tallies list 12,618 sightings with 701 left unidentified. The program ended after the Co… - [Rendlesham Forest Incident](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/rendlesham-forest-incident.md): Over Christmas 1980, US airmen from RAF Woodbridge chased strange lights into Rendlesham Forest, finding ground depressions and radiation readings. Colonel Charles Halt's memo and his recorded night patrol made this "Br… - [Roanoke Colony](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/disappearance/roanoke-colony.md): In August 1590, English rescuers found Roanoke Island's 1587 colony deserted, with no struggle and only the word CROATOAN carved into a post. A record drought and a scattered relocation to Native communities are the lea… - [Shag Harbour Incident](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/shag-harbour-incident.md): On the night of 4 October 1967, at least a dozen witnesses in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, watched a row of lights descend into the water with a loud whistle and a flash. The RCMP logged it the same night, and the Royal C… - [Sleep Paralysis](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/paranormal-type/sleep-paralysis.md): Sleep paralysis is a well-documented REM-sleep state in which a person is temporarily unable to move or speak while falling asleep or waking, sometimes with vivid hallucinations of a presence, pressure on the chest, or… - [Socorro Incident](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/socorro-incident.md): On 24 April 1964, Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora radioed in an egg-shaped craft and two small figures south of town, then showed investigators burned brush and four ground impressions. The FBI and Project Blue Boo… - [Stephenville Lights](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/stephenville-lights.md): On the evening of 8 January 2008, dozens of witnesses near Stephenville, Texas, watched a huge object with flashing lights cross the sky, reportedly pursued by jets. The Air Force first denied flying that night, then ad… - [Tabby's Star](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/cosmic/tabbys-star.md): KIC 8462852, nicknamed Tabby's Star after astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, dimmed erratically by up to 22 percent in NASA's Kepler data, briefly fueling talk of an alien megastructure. Spitzer found no matching infrared glo… - [1976 Tehran UFO](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/tehran-ufo-1976.md): On 19 September 1976, Iranian air traffic controllers and two F-4 Phantom crews tracked a brilliant, maneuvering object over Tehran. Pilot Parviz Jafari lost instruments and weapons control as he closed in. A declassifi… - [The Bloop](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/sound-signal/the-bloop.md): The Bloop was an ultra-low-frequency sound NOAA hydrophones recorded across the Pacific in 1997, loud enough to raise talk of an undiscovered giant sea creature. NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory later matc… - [The Hum](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/sound-signal/the-hum.md): The Hum is a persistent low drone that a small share of people hear in a given area while instruments and neighbors register nothing. Formal studies in Taos and Kokomo found no matching airborne sound; a few local hums… - [Travis Walton](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/ufo-case/travis-walton.md): Logger Travis Walton vanished for five days after a 1975 Arizona forest encounter with a hovering light, reappearing with an abduction story. Five crewmates passed a polygraph on the sighting itself, but Walton failed a… - [Tunguska Event](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/cosmic/tunguska-event.md): On 30 June 1908, an airburst over Siberia flattened roughly 2,000 square kilometers of forest in a butterfly-shaped pattern without leaving an impact crater. Leonid Kulik's 1927 expedition mapped the damage decades late… - [UVB-76 (The Buzzer)](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/sound-signal/uvb-76.md): UVB-76, nicknamed "the Buzzer," is a Russian military shortwave station on 4625 kHz that has broadcast a repeating buzz tone around the clock since at least the early 1980s. Monitors widely believe it is a military comm… - [Wow! Signal](https://anomalywiki.com/phenomena/sound-signal/wow-signal.md): The Wow! Signal was a strong narrowband radio burst recorded on 15 August 1977 by Ohio State University's Big Ear telescope during a SETI survey. Volunteer Jerry Ehman circled the printout anomaly and wrote Wow! It has… ## Objects & artifacts - [Antikythera Mechanism](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/antikythera-mechanism.md): The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek bronze geared device recovered from a shipwreck off Antikythera in 1900-1901 and now held in Athens. Specialists reconstruct it as a Hellenistic astronomical calculator; fri… - [Baghdad Battery](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/baghdad-battery.md): The Baghdad Battery is a Sasanian-style clay jar with a copper cylinder and iron rod, reported near Khujut Rabu outside Baghdad and publicized by Wilhelm Konig in 1938 as a galvanic cell. Replicas can make tiny currents… - [Basano Vase](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/basano-vase.md): Basano vase lore names a silver floral urn whose owners die in succession, yet no major museum publishes a matching accession file. Folklorists and skeptical writers treat the tale as modern listicle fiction riding on a… - [Bimini Road](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/bimini-road.md): Bimini Road is a submerged limestone pavement off North Bimini that divers mapped in 1968 and Atlantis fans cast as a lost-city harbor wall. Geologists including McKusick and Shinn identify naturally jointed beachrock -… - [Black Knight Satellite](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/black-knight-satellite.md): Black Knight Satellite is the black-knight-satellite dossier readers reopen. Early stamps sit near 1899. Grade E. Later waves after 1998-12 add volume more than new lab sheets. Prefer primary notes over forums for black… - [Black Triangle UFO](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/black-triangle-ufo.md): Black Triangle UFO is the black-triangle-ufo dossier readers reopen. Early stamps sit near 1989-11. Grade C. Later waves after 1990-03-30 add volume more than new lab sheets. Prefer primary notes over forums for black-t… - [Busby's Stoop Chair](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/busbys-stoop-chair.md): Busby's Stoop Chair is an oak seat tied to murderer Thomas Busby, hanged in 1702 near Thirsk, and later hung from a beam so nobody can sit in it. Thirsk Museum holds the donated pub chair; historians treat the sudden-de… - [Cigar-Shaped UFO](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/cigar-shaped-ufo.md): Cigar-Shaped UFO is the cigar-shaped-ufo dossier readers reopen. Early stamps sit near 1896-1897. Grade C. Later waves after 1950s add volume more than new lab sheets. Prefer primary notes over forums for cigar-shaped-u… - [Copper Scroll](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/copper-scroll.md): The Copper Scroll is a unique Dead Sea Scroll etched on copper, listing dozens of treasure caches with weights of gold and silver. Found in Cave 3 at Qumran in 1952 and cut open in Manchester, it is real archaeology. Tr… - [Crying Boy Painting](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/crying-boy-painting.md): The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a tearful toddler, often signed Bragolin or related names, sold widely in postwar Britain. In 1985 The Sun turned firefighter anecdotes about prints surviving house fires into… - [Cuban Underwater City Claims](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/crystal-palace-underwater.md): Cuban Underwater City Claims describe geometric stone-like formations that a Canadian survey team photographed on sonar off western Cuba in 2001, roughly 650-750 meters deep. Press coverage linked the shapes to Atlantis… - [Crystal Skulls](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/crystal-skulls.md): Crystal skulls are life-size carved quartz heads sold from the 1860s onward as pre-Columbian relics, including famous pieces at the British Museum and Smithsonian. A 2008 electron-microscope study found rotary lapidary-… - [Die Glocke (Nazi Bell)](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/anomalous-device/die-glocke.md): Die Glocke, or "the Bell," is an alleged Nazi wonder-weapon that Polish journalist Igor Witkowski described in 2000 from a reportedly unverifiable interrogation transcript, later popularized worldwide by Nick Cook's boo… - [Dropa Stones](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/dropa-stones.md): Dropa Stones describes supposed engraved stone discs from Tibet said to record a crashed extraterrestrial craft, a story popularized by Hartwig Hausdorf's 1998 book The Chinese Roswell. The core narrative traces to Sung… - [Dybbuk Box](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/dybbuk-box.md): The Dybbuk Box is a small wooden minibar cabinet that eBay seller Kevin Mannis marketed in 2003 as a haunted Jewish wine cabinet housing a malevolent spirit. Mannis confessed in 2015 that he invented the backstory for a… - [Emerald Tablet](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/emerald-tablet.md): The Emerald Tablet, or Tabula Smaragdina, is a short Hermetic text - not a surviving physical slab - that circulated in Arabic manuscripts by the eighth century and reached medieval Europe in Latin translation, inspirin… - [Flying Saucer](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/flying-saucer.md): "Flying saucer" is the press nickname born from pilot Kenneth Arnold's June 24, 1947 sighting of nine fast-moving objects near Mount Rainier, which he compared to saucers skipping across water - not to the objects' shap… - [Gimbal UAP](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/gimbal-uap.md): The Gimbal video is Navy F/A-18 infrared footage from 2015 showing an oval object that appears to rotate in place as a targeting pod tracks it, officially released by the Department of Defense in April 2020. Pilots saw… - [Go Fast UAP](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/gofast-uap.md): The Go Fast video is 2015 Navy infrared footage of a small object skimming low over the ocean, officially released by the Department of Defense in April 2020 with the Gimbal and Tic Tac clips. Analyst Mick West argues p… - [Hands Resist Him](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/hands-resist-him.md): Hands Resist Him is a 1972 painting by artist Bill Stoneham depicting a boy and a doll flanked by disembodied hands pressed against glass panels. The image became an internet "cursed painting" legend after a 2000 eBay l… - [Haunebu](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/haunebu.md): Haunebu is a supposed secret Nazi flying-disc program described only in postwar German fringe literature, popularized by Vril Society writer Jan van Helsing starting in the 1990s. No wartime document or Allied exploitat… - [Holy Grail Relic Claims](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/holy-grail-relic-claims.md): Holy Grail relic claims name cups and chalices venerated across Europe as the Last Supper vessel, from Valencia's Santo Caliz to Arthurian romance props. Real treasuries hold dated metalwork and liturgy; a single archae… - [Hope Diamond](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/hope-diamond.md): The Hope Diamond is a 45.52-carat fancy dark grayish-blue gem in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, famous for boron-blue color and strong red phosphorescence. Its "curse" is twentieth-century tabloid… - [Ivo Tech Sphere / Viral Metal Spheres](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/ivo-tech-sphere.md): Viral metal tech spheres online often echo the 1974 Betz sphere from Fort George Island, Florida - an eight-inch stainless ball the Betz family said hummed and rolled oddly. Navy and press work read it as an industrial… - [Jellyfish UAP](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/jellyfish-uap.md): The Jellyfish UAP nickname comes from infrared footage shot over Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq, on 23 October 2017 - a bulbous shape with dangling strands that looked alive on FLIR. AARO later assessed the clip with high c… - [Koh-i-Noor](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/koh-i-noor.md): The Koh-i-Noor is a 105.6-carat colorless diamond in the British Crown Jewels, set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and kept at the Tower of London. Colonial seizure, repatriation debates, and a "male ow… - [Metal Library (Tayos)](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/metal-library-tayos.md): The Tayos metal library claim puts inscribed metal books inside Ecuador's real Cueva de los Tayos. The 1976 British-Ecuadorian expedition, with Neil Armstrong as honorary figurehead, mapped a natural cave and found no g… - [Moai](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/moai.md): Moai are the monumental ancestor statues of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - elongated heads, heavy brows, and truncated torsos carved mainly from Rano Raraku volcanic tuff. Archaeology documents carving, ahu display, and rop… - [Nazca Lines](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/nazca-lines-geoglyphs.md): The Nazca Lines are vast desert geoglyphs in Peru's Ica Region - hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, trapezoids, and kilometer-scale straight lines made by clearing dark pavement stones to expose lighter soil. Created by Na… - [Okiku Doll](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/okiku-doll.md): Okiku is a Japanese ichimatsu-style doll enshrined at Mannenji Temple in Hokkaido, famous for lore that its human-hair wig lengthened after young owner Kikuko died in 1920. The doll and temple rites are documented; meas… - [Orb UAP](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/orb-uap.md): Orb UAP is a catch-all shape class for spherical lights and balls reported in skies and sensors - from wartime foo-fighter lore to modern cockpit and phone clips. Some cases resolve as balloons, birds, or optical artifa… - [Philadelphia Experiment Device Claims](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/anomalous-device/philadelphia-experiment-device.md): The Philadelphia Experiment is a postwar legend that a 1943 Navy destroyer - usually named USS Eldridge - was made invisible or teleported using unified-field gear. Naval History and Heritage Command finds no supporting… - [Piri Reis Map](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/piri-reis-map.md): The Piri Reis map of 1513 is an Ottoman portolan chart fragment on gazelle-skin parchment, kept at Topkapi Palace and registered in UNESCO's Memory of the World. It compiles Atlantic coasts from multiple sources includi… - [Quimbaya Artifacts](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/quimbaya-artifacts.md): Quimbaya-style gold and tumbaga zoomorph pendants from pre-Hispanic Colombia - birds, fish, insects, and stylized animals with wing-like flanges - sit in Museo del Oro collections in Bogota. Fringe writers nickname some… - [Stargate Remote Viewing](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/anomalous-device/remote-viewing-protocols.md): Stargate remote-viewing protocols are Cold War U.S. intelligence session methods and training papers for claimed psychic reconnaissance. Declassified CIA and DIA files show a real program that ended after a 1995 America… - [Robert the Doll](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/robert-the-doll.md): Robert the Doll is a roughly 40-inch Steiff-style sailor doll tied to Key West artist Robert Eugene Otto, who blamed the toy for childhood mischief. On permanent display at Fort East Martello Museum since 1994, Robert i… - [Rongorongo Tablets](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/rongorongo-tablets.md): Rongorongo tablets are wooden objects from Rapa Nui carved with an undeciphered glyph system collected in the nineteenth century and now held in museums worldwide. Specialists treat the corpus as genuine cultural artifa… - [Saqqara Bird](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/saqqara-bird.md): The Saqqara Bird is a small sycamore-wood falcon figurine from Egypt, found near Saqqara in 1898 and dated around 200 BCE, now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Aviation fans sometimes call it a glider model; aerodynamic… - [Shugborough Inscription](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/shugborough-inscription.md): The Shugborough inscription is the eight-letter sequence O U O S V A V V carved beneath a relief on the Shepherd’s Monument at Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England. National Trust guides treat it as an unsolved Ge… - [Spear of Destiny](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/spear-of-destiny.md): The Spear of Destiny label names several medieval Holy Lance relics said to pierce Christ's side, especially Vienna's Hofburg lance. Kunsthistorisches Museum scholarship treats the Vienna object as a composite medieval… - [Stone Spheres of Costa Rica](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/stone-spheres-costa-rica.md): Costa Rica’s stone spheres are nearly round pre-Columbian sculptures made by Diquís culture communities in the southern Pacific region, with examples now also in museums and parks. UNESCO recognizes Diquís stone spheres… - [Tic Tac UFO](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/tic-tac-ufo.md): The Tic Tac is a white, capsule-shaped UAP type described by U.S. Navy aircrew in the 2004 USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encounters and later named from infrared footage. Pilots reported a smooth oblong without wings;… - [TR-3B](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/ufo-craft/tr-3b.md): TR-3B is a rumored U.S. black-triangle anti-gravity craft popularized by Edgar Fouché and later internet lore, not by acknowledged aircraft designations. Aviation historians find no verified airframe, flight manual, or… - [Tutankhamun Curse Objects](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/cursed-relic/tutankhamun-curse-objects.md): Tutankhamun curse lore wraps tomb goods and the 1922–1923 Carter excavation in stories of deathly revenge. Lord Carnarvon’s 1923 death after a mosquito bite fueled headlines; medical and historical reviews treat the “mu… - [Beale Ciphers](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/virginia-decrypt-machine.md): The Beale ciphers are three encoded texts from an 1885 Lynchburg pamphlet that supposedly map a Virginia treasure buried by Thomas J. Beale. Only the second cipher was “solved” via a Declaration of Independence key; mai… - [Yonaguni Monument Claims](https://anomalywiki.com/objects-artifacts/mystery-object/yonaguni-monument-claims.md): The Yonaguni Monument is a submerged rock formation off Yonaguni Island, Japan, that some divers call a man-made lost-city staircase. Geologist Robert Schoch and many marine geologists argue the terraces are primarily n… ## Lost civilizations - [Acámbaro Figures](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/acambaro-figures.md): Acámbaro figures are roughly 32,000 ceramic objects, including dinosaur-shaped pieces, that hotelier Waldemar Julsrud amassed near Acámbaro, Mexico, after 1944. Archaeologist Charles Di Peso found modern debris mixed th… - [Agartha](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/agartha.md): Agartha is an occult hollow-Earth kingdom said to lie inside the planet, reached by polar openings or subterranean passages in esoteric travel tales. Geology rejects a habitable inner world; Agartha survives as occult f… - [Kingdom of Aksum](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/aksum.md): Aksum was a Horn of Africa trading kingdom famed for towering granite stelae, Red Sea commerce, and early Christian kingship under rulers like Ezana. Archaeology documents a real African empire at the highland capital -… - [Ancestral Puebloans](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/anasazi-ancestral-puebloans.md): Ancestral Puebloans built multi-story great houses at Chaco Canyon and cliff-hugging villages like Mesa Verde's Cliff Palace across the Four Corners region from roughly 850-1300 CE. Drought, resource strain, and social… - [Atlantis Theories](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/atlantis-theories.md): Atlantis begins in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias as a cautionary island empire that sinks after hubris. Later readers treat it as archaeology, allegory, or lost high technology - while classicists keep the dialogues prima… - [Cahokia](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/cahokia.md): Cahokia was a Mississippian megacity of earthen mounds near modern St. Louis, peaking around 1050–1200 CE with Monks Mound at its ceremonial core. Archaeology documents Native urban planning - not a lost white race or a… - [Camelot](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/camelot.md): Camelot is King Arthur's legendary court, first named by French poet Chretien de Troyes around 1170 - not by any earlier Welsh or British source. Historians read it as literary invention layered onto older Arthur legend… - [Çatalhöyük](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/catalhoyuk.md): Çatalhöyük was a densely packed Neolithic town in central Anatolia where thousands entered mudbrick homes through roof hatches around 7,100 BCE. Excavations uncovered wall paintings, plastered bull skulls, and floor bur… - [Clovis Culture](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/clovis-culture.md): Clovis culture names Ice Age North American hunter-gatherers identified by their distinctive fluted stone spear points, dated to roughly 13,050-12,750 years ago at sites like Blackwater Draw, New Mexico. Once treated as… - [Dendera Light](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/dendera-light.md): The Dendera "light bulb" reliefs on Hathor Temple's crypt walls show a lotus flower, serpent, and djed pillar - standard Egyptian creation and rebirth symbols, not ancient electricity. Egyptologists have read this scene… - [Rapa Nui Society](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/easter-island-society.md): Rapa Nui society carved nearly 1,000 moai after Polynesian settlers arrived roughly 800 years ago, managing a small island for centuries before European contact in 1722. Disease and slave raids drove the real crash; the… - [El Dorado](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/eldorado.md): El Dorado began as a real Muisca ritual near Bogota, where a new ruler was gilded in gold dust and rowed onto Lake Guatavita to offer treasure to the water. Spanish conquistadors twisted "the gilded one" into a rumored… - [Great Zimbabwe](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/great-zimbabwe.md): Great Zimbabwe is a medieval stone city in southeastern Zimbabwe, capital of a Shona-linked trading polity that flourished roughly the 11th–15th centuries CE. Archaeology credits African builders; colonial-era myths of… - [Greenland Norse Settlements](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/greenland-norse.md): Norse farmers settled Greenland's fjords around 985 CE under Erik the Red and held on for roughly 450 years before the Eastern and Western Settlements fell silent. Climate cooling, a collapsed ivory market, and strained… - [Helicopter Hieroglyphs](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/helicopter-hieroglyphs.md): The "helicopter hieroglyphs" are a palimpsest on the Temple of Seti I at Abydos: workers plastered over Seti's titles and recarved Ramesses II's name on top, and the two overlapping outlines coincidentally resemble a he… - [Hyperborea](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/hyperborea.md): Hyperborea is the far-north paradise of Greek myth - a land beyond the North Wind where Apollo was said to be especially honored. Later occult writers reused the name for Arctic homelands; mainstream classics treat it a… - [Iron Pillar of Delhi](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/icosium-iron-pillar.md): Delhi's Iron Pillar is a genuine 5th-century Gupta-era forged-iron column that has resisted serious rusting for over 1,600 years in the open air. Metallurgists credit a phosphorus-rich iron recipe that forms a protectiv… - [Ica Stones](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/iga-stone.md): Ica stones are engraved andesite rocks sold around Ica, Peru, depicting dinosaurs, continents, and surgery. In 1973 farmer Basilio Uschuya admitted to carving them for tourists and demonstrated the technique to investig… - [Indus Script](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/script-text/indus-script.md): The Indus script is the still-undeciphered sign system of the Harappan civilization, known mainly from tiny seal texts and pottery marks. Short inscriptions and the missing bilingual key keep every viral breakthrough cl… - [Indus Valley Civilization](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/indus-valley-civilization.md): The Indus Valley Civilization (Harappan civilization) was a Bronze Age urban culture across parts of modern Pakistan and northwest India. Archaeology documents planned cities, craft networks, and an undeciphered script… - [Kensington Runestone](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/kensington-runestone.md): The Kensington Runestone is a Minnesota slab farmer Olof Öhman reported unearthed from a tree root in 1898, inscribed with runes claiming a 1362 Norse expedition. Runologists find its language and letter forms anachroni… - [Khmer Empire and Angkor](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/khmer-empire-angkor.md): Angkor was the hydraulic megacity capital of the Khmer Empire, built around temple-mountains like Angkor Wat from the 9th to 15th centuries CE. Lidar surveys since 2012 revealed a low-density urban sprawl far larger tha… - [Kumari Kandam](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/kumari-kandam.md): Kumari Kandam is a Tamil tradition of a vast southern homeland swallowed by the sea, rooted in medieval commentary on lost Sangam-era poetry academies. In the 1920s-30s, Tamil revivalists fused it with the unrelated Wes… - [Lemuria](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/lemuria.md): Lemuria began as an 1864 biogeographic land-bridge idea to explain lemur distributions, then flowered into a Theosophical lost continent of a mythical root race. Plate tectonics removed the scientific need for a sunken… - [Linear A](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/script-text/linear-a.md): Linear A is the undeciphered script of Minoan Crete, ancestral in form to the later deciphered Linear B used for Mycenaean Greek. Clay tablets survive in useful numbers - yet without a bilingual, the underlying Minoan l… - [London Hammer](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/london-hammer.md): The London Hammer is a 19th-century iron hammer head encased in a lump of rock found near London, Texas, in 1936. Geologists explain the concretion as mineral-rich creek water precipitating around the tool over decades,… - [Lyonesse](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/lyonesse.md): Lyonesse is a legendary land said to have stretched from Cornwall to the Scilly Isles before drowning in a single catastrophic flood. First mapped in a 15th-century travel itinerary, it later anchored Arthurian romance… - [Maine Penny](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/maine-penny.md): The Maine penny is an 11th-century Norwegian coin that amateur archaeologist Guy Mellgren reported finding at the Goddard site in 1957, among Native American trade goods. Numismatists confirm the coin itself is genuine,… - [Maya Classic Collapse](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/maya-classic-collapse.md): The Classic Maya collapse describes the 8th-9th century CE political fragmentation of southern lowland cities like Tikal and Calakmul - not a disappearance of the Maya people, who still number in the millions today. Doc… - [Mu](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/mu.md): Mu is a Pacific lost-continent idea popularized by James Churchward in the early twentieth century, often blended with Lemuria in later New Age books. Mainstream geology finds no drowned Mu empire - plate tectonics and… - [Nabta Playa](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/nabta-playa.md): Nabta Playa is a Neolithic ceremonial site in Egypt's Western Desert where Saharan herders raised stone megaliths and buried sacrificed cattle roughly 6,000-4,800 years before the Sahara dried into desert. Excavators le… - [Olmec](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/olmec.md): The Olmec were an early Mesoamerican civilization of the Gulf Coast lowlands, famous for colossal basalt heads and centers such as San Lorenzo and La Venta in the Formative period. Archaeology treats them as a foundatio… - [Pacal's Sarcophagus Lid](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/pacal-sarcophagus.md): The carved lid sealing K'inich Janaab' Pakal's tomb beneath Palenque's Temple of the Inscriptions shows the Maya king falling into the jaws of the underworld at the base of the World Tree, a well-documented piece of Cla… - [Phaistos Disc](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/script-text/phaistos-disc.md): The Phaistos Disc is a fired clay disc from Minoan Crete stamped with spiraling undeciphered signs on both faces. It is a real museum object - not a modern prop - but no reading has won lasting specialist consensus, and… - [Richat Structure (Eye of the Sahara)](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/richat-structure-atlantis.md): The Richat Structure is a real eroded geologic dome in Mauritania often mislabeled online as Plato’s Atlantis rings. Geology explains the concentric bands; Greek dialogues still live in prose, not as a Saharan city blue… - [Rosetta Stone and the Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/script-text/rosetta-stone-context.md): The Rosetta Stone is a 196 BCE Ptolemaic decree in hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek, rediscovered by French soldiers in 1799. Champollion used the known Greek to crack hieroglyphs by 1822, unlocking millennia of Egyptia… - [Shambhala](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/shambhala.md): Shambhala is a hidden kingdom in Buddhist literature - a pure land-like realm associated with Kalachakra teachings - later remixed by Theosophy and New Age seekers into a Himalayan utopia. Scholars treat scriptural Sham… - [Tartaria](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/tartaria.md): Tartaria is an internet-era empire myth built from old map labels for Inner Asia and conspiracy readings of world fairs and mud floods. Historians treat Tartary as a geographic exonym, not a suppressed global super-civi… - [Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca Head](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/oopart/tecaxic-calixtlahuaca-head.md): This small terracotta head, excavated in central Mexico in 1933, was identified by archaeologist José García Payón as stylistically Roman and found beneath an undisturbed pre-contact floor - seeming evidence of Roman co… - [Thule](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/thule.md): Thule was the northernmost land Greek explorer Pytheas claimed to reach around 325 BCE, later debated by Strabo and Pliny as Iceland, Norway, or Shetland. Centuries afterward, a 1918 Munich occult society borrowed the n… - [Vinland](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/vanished-culture/vinland.md): Vinland is the Norse name for lands the Greenland colony reached around 1000 CE, confirmed by the excavated encampment at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Tree-ring analysis tied to a 993 CE solar storm dated Norse woo… - [Voynich Manuscript](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/script-text/voynich-manuscript.md): The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex in an undeciphered script, held at Yale's Beinecke Library. Radiocarbon dating of the vellum points to the early 15th century. The physical book is real; what the script me… - [Ys](https://anomalywiki.com/lost-civilizations/legendary-land/ys.md): Ys is a Breton legend of a city built below sea level and protected by a king’s locked floodgate, until his reckless daughter Dahut opened it and drowned everyone. Collected from oral tradition in 1839, the tale blends… ## Official records - [AARO Historical Record Report Volume I](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/aaro-historical-record-report-vol-1.md): AARO's Historical Record Report Volume 1 surveys U.S. government UFO/UAP programs and claims across decades. It finds no verified evidence of off-world technology in the reviewed material, while still documenting how ag… - [CIA-UAP-015: Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/cia-uap-015-blue-book-special-report-14.md): CIA-UAP-015 is a PURSUE packet of USAF Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 with a CIA Official Record Copy cover. The mid-1950s statistical study judged it highly improbable that the examined UFO reports represented… - [David Fravor Nimitz Testimony](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/verified-account/david-fravor-nimitz-testimony.md): Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. David Fravor’s sworn House Oversight testimony on 26 July 2023 recounts the November 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac encounter - a white oblong object, unusual flight behavior, and related whitewater. Th… - [DOW-UAP-D098: Film Analysis of Unidentified Objects (1953)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/dow-uap-d098-film-analysis-1953.md): DOW-UAP-D098 is a PURSUE-released U.S. Naval Photographic Interpretation Center memorandum assessing UFO films from Utah on 2 July 1952 and Montana in 1950. It documents methods, charts, tentative judgments, and confide… - [DOW-UAP-D101: Gulf of Oman Unresolved UAP IIR (2021)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/dow-uap-d101-gulf-of-oman-report.md): DOW-UAP-D101 is a PURSUE-released Intelligence Information Report on an 8 September 2021 USSOF AC-130 Gunship observation of multiple cold-orb UAP during nighttime live-fire training over the Gulf of Oman. It is unevalu… - [DOW-UAP-D102: Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film (1952)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/dow-uap-d102-tremonton-blue-book-file.md): DOW-UAP-D102 is the PURSUE-released Project Blue Book case file on Navy photographer Delbert C. Newhouse’s 2 July 1952 Tremonton, Utah color film of reflective objects. Assessments evolve from early inconclusive notes t… - [DOW-UAP-D110: AAWSAP Statement of Objectives (2008)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/dow-uap-d110-aawsap-statement-of-objectives.md): DOW-UAP-D110 is the 18 July 2008 Statement of Objectives for DIA’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). It defines twelve technical study areas out to the year 2050 - contract scope language f… - [DOW-UAP-D111: AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order (2008)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/dow-uap-d111-aawsap-solicitation.md): DOW-UAP-D111 is the September 2008 solicitation and contract awarding AAWSAP work to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). It is administrative contracting paperwork that prices deliverables from the Stateme… - [DOW-UAP-D154: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt Presentation Transcript (1952)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/dow-uap-d154-ruppelt-presentation-1952.md): DOW-UAP-D154 is a PURSUE-released transcript of Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt’s March 1952 presentation on the Air Force’s reorganized UFO investigation. It is a primary window into Blue Book-era methods and public framing fr… - [FBI-UAP-D024: FD-302 - Airborne Lights and Triangle Interview](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/fbi-uap-d024-airborne-triangle-fd302.md): FBI-UAP-D024 is a PURSUE-released FBI FD-302 recording a March 2024 interview with a former U.S. military pilot. He describes airborne lights in 2023-2024 and recalls a June 2002 equilateral-triangle overflight near Bag… - [FBI-UAP-D025: Digital Rendering - Airborne Triangle (2002)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/fbi-uap-d025-airborne-triangle-rendering.md): FBI-UAP-D025 is an FBI digital rendering prepared for PURSUE as an artistic interpretation of a reported airborne-triangle incident near Bagram in June 2002. It is based on the first-hand description in FBI-UAP-D024 - a… - [FBI-UAP-D031: Digital Rendering - Large Triangle with Red Lights (2023)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/fbi-uap-d031-large-triangle-rendering.md): FBI-UAP-D031 is an FBI digital rendering prepared for PURSUE as an artistic interpretation of a reported large triangle with red lights near Colorado Springs in 2023. It is based on a description in related FBI file FBI… - [NASA-UAP-D031: STS-80 Unidentified Object Image 2 (1996)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/nasa-uap-d031-sts-80-unidentified-object.md): NASA-UAP-D031 is a PURSUE-released NASA still from STS-80 (Space Shuttle Columbia, November–December 1996) showing an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit - the second of three images. The official note describes a fr… - [UFO's and Defense: What Should We Prepare For (COMETA file)](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/government-file/nasa-ufo-defense-what-should-we-prepare-for.md): This PURSUE Release 01 PDF under NASA holdings packages the independent French COMETA association report UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For? (late 1990s) plus related correspondence including a Carol Rosin let… - [PURSUE Release Announcements](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/release-batch/pursue-release-announcements.md): The Department of War announces numbered PURSUE UAP file releases that land on war.gov/UFO. This chronology covers Releases 01 through 06 from May through September 2026 with primary announcement URLs, while curated rea… - [PURSUE / War.gov UFO Collection](https://anomalywiki.com/official-records/archive-collection/pursue-war-gov-ufo.md): PURSUE is the Department of War’s rolling public release of declassified and historical UAP records at war.gov/UFO. This guide walks the dump’s major clusters - Blue Book film files, AAWSAP contracts, FBI interview rend… ## Optional - [Sitemap](https://anomalywiki.com/sitemap-index.xml) - [Search](https://anomalywiki.com/search/)