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SHORT REPORT ANCIENT MYSTERIES A complete, concise Archive account of a case whose surviving record does not support a full investigation. North-western Roman Empire · Approximately second to fourth centuries CE One metre beneath a Lincolnshire field, in what had once been a Roman quarry pit, a shape emerged from the soil. It was small…
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SHORT REPORT PARANORMAL ENCOUNTERS A complete, concise Archive account of a case whose surviving record does not support a full investigation. Near Wallaceburg, Upper Canada · Traditionally dated to November 1829 Three women were working in a barn on John T. McDonald’s farm when a heavy pole dropped from the rafters and struck the floor…
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SHORT REPORT AERIAL PHENOMENA A complete, concise Archive account of a case whose surviving record does not support a full investigation. Gloucestershire, England · 21 October 1952 A Gloster Meteor climbed through cloud above the Cotswolds. In its cockpit were two military airmen engaged in a routine training exercise: Flight Lieutenant Michael Swiney of the…
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KEY FACTS The Object Above the Pacific On 14 November 2004, two US Navy fighter aircraft were diverted from a training exercise over the Pacific. Their instructions were simple: investigate an unknown contact detected near the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. Commander David Fravor and Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich found no conventional aircraft. Looking down…
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KEY FACTS On an August evening in 1990, two young men were reportedly walking near Calvine when something stopped them in their tracks. Above the Perthshire landscape hung a dark shape unlike anything they expected to see. An aircraft appeared in the same stretch of sky. One of the men had a camera. Their account…
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In an ordinary Canadian government office, an engineer wrote a memorandum about an idea that should never have travelled far beyond his desk. Within weeks, he had permission to investigate it. KEY FACTS Location: Ottawa, Canada Period: 1950–1954 Setting: a small investigation within the Department of Transport Evidence: memoranda, correspondence, reports, committee minutes and instrument-station…
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KEY FACTS Location: off Temwen Island, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia Setting: a monumental complex constructed across a shallow tidal reef Main monumental period: approximately AD 1200–1500 Scale: more than ninety artificial islets, tidal channels and massive basalt enclosures Associated culture: Pohnpeian; closely connected with the Saudeleur dynasty World Heritage: UNESCO World Heritage Site since…
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KEY FACTS Vessel: USS Cyclops (AC-4), a U.S. Navy collier Last confirmed departure: Barbados, 4 March 1918 Intended destination: Baltimore, Maryland Cargo: manganese ore Outcome: the ship did not arrive; its final position remains unknown A Ship That Failed to Arrive On 4 March 1918, USS Cyclops steamed out of Barbados and turned north towards…
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KEY FACTS Two Men on a Hillside Three days after two men travelled into Niterói, their bodies were sighted high on Morro do Vintém. They lay in a place difficult to reach, with no obvious signs of a struggle and no witness able to explain their final hours. What investigators recovered around them suggested preparation…
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KEY FACTS Date: December 1900. Location: Eilean Mòr, Flannan Isles, Outer Hebrides. Missing: Three lighthouse keepers. Last recorded activity: 15 December. Discovered: 26 December. Category: Unexplained Events. The Light That Went Unanswered On 26 December 1900, the lighthouse tender Hesperus approached one of Britain’s loneliest outposts. No flag rose above Eilean Mòr. No provision boxes…