AUTHENTICATED SOURCENOV 2004
FLIR1 / Tic Tac
Infrared footage recorded by a Navy F/A-18 aircrew during the well-known 2004 encounter.
U.S. Navy · Public domainDVIDS 955825
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AUTHENTICATED SOURCEJAN 2015
GIMBAL
Official cockpit-sensor footage showing an object that appears to rotate within the frame.
U.S. Navy · Public domainDVIDS 956955
AUTHENTICATED SOURCE2015
GOFAST
A Navy aircraft sensor tracks an object over the ocean in this officially released recording.
U.S. Navy · Public domainDVIDS 956683
AUTHENTICATED SOURCE2022
F/A-18 FLIR UAP
F/A-18 infrared footage published without an analytical judgment or factual determination.
AARO / DoD · Public domainDVIDS 1007781
AUTHENTICATED SOURCE2022
Middle East Orb
An MQ-9 sensor records a metallic-looking orb crossing the field of view in the Middle East.
AARO / DoD · Public domainDVIDS 880273
AUTHENTICATED SOURCE2021
Western U.S. Objects
Infrared footage of three objects recorded at a military range in the western United States.
AARO / DoD · Public domainDVIDS 885193
AUTHENTICATED SOURCE2013
Eight-Pointed Object
An infrared sensor tracks an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with a visible trail.
CENTCOM / AARO · Public domainDVIDS 1006088
AUTHENTICATED SOURCEOCT 2023
Greece Coastal UAP
Official infrared footage connected to a report describing movement near the ocean surface.
CENTCOM / AARO · Public domainDVIDS 1006080
AUTHENTICATED SOURCEJUN 2024
UAE Vertical Object
A sensor captures an object described as having a vertical bar; reflection remained a possibility.
CENTCOM / AARO · Public domainDVIDS 1006074
AUTHENTICATED SOURCE2019
Pacific Low-Light Event
A service member records a low-light event with a handheld device during a Pacific operation.
UAPTF / AARO · Public domainDVIDS 1017791
AUTHENTICATED SOURCE2015
Eastern U.S. Infrared Event
Twenty-one seconds of footage likely captured by an infrared sensor aboard a military platform.
UAPTF / AARO · Public domainDVIDS 1014108
AUTHENTICATED SOURCE2024
Europe UAP Report 017
A 31-second official recording retained in AARO's unresolved UAP report archive.
AARO / DoD · Public domainDVIDS 988675
16 CIVILIAN WITNESS RECORDINGS
Captured outside the system.
REFRESHED DAILY 6:00 AM PT
DAILY ROTATION
This civilian archive is reviewed and refreshed every morning at 6:00 AM Pacific. One newly sourced recording enters the rotation each day. Every clip documents a claim—not necessarily a paranormal explanation.
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTUREMAR 1997
Phoenix Lights home video
A home-video recording made during the Phoenix Lights event. The recording is genuine; the lights' cause remains debated.
Mike Kryszton · Civilian camcorderORIGINAL WITNESS VIDEO
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTUREAPR 2024
Vermont telescope capture
A 1080p60 telescope recording of a luminous object captured from Londonderry, Vermont.
Facemelttr · Civilian observerCC BY-SA 4.0
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTURE2007–2009
Kumburgaz watchman footage
Long-range night footage recorded from the Turkish coast. The recording exists as claimed; interpretations remain disputed.
Yalçın Yalman · Security guardWITNESS ARCHIVE
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTUREDEC 2024
New Jersey night objects
CCTV footage from the New Jersey drone-reporting wave. The lights cannot be identified from this clip alone.
Civilian CCTVPUBLIC DOMAIN
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTUREOCT 2016
Beaver drone flyby
A fast object crossed a film crew's drone frame in Utah. Bird and insect explanations remain part of the debate.
Sam Chortek & Jimmy Chappie · Drone crew4K WITNESS RECORD
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTURENOV 2007
Tarbaca phone recording
A Costa Rican carpenter recorded a tilted disc-like form with a Motorola RAZR. The low-resolution subject remains disputed.
Marvin Badilla · CarpenterPHONE-CAMERA ORIGINAL
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTUREJUL 1991
Mexico eclipse recordings
Home-video angles recorded during the 1991 total eclipse in Mexico. The footage is historic; its object remains contested.
Multiple civilian camcordersMULTI-WITNESS ARCHIVE
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTUREJAN 2022
Antioquia pilot encounter
A pilot filmed a dark object passing his aircraft over Colombia. A balloon remains a plausible explanation.
Jorge Arteaga · Civilian pilotCOCKPIT PHONE VIDEO
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTUREMAR 2010
Lake Erie illumination
A short, lightly viewed witness upload of a light appearing and fading over Lake Erie. Aircraft and astronomy remain possible.
Eugene Erlikh · Waterfront observerLESSER-SEEN UPLOAD
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTURENOV 2024
California sky formation
A little-circulated recording of multiple lights over California. The clip alone does not establish distance or identity.
Civilian camera · CaliforniaLESSER-SEEN UPLOAD
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTUREJUL 2020
Castell campsite light
Campers recorded a flashing light during a night trip in central Texas. No extraordinary explanation is assumed.
Campers · Castell, TexasWITNESS PHONE VIDEO
UFO / UAP · CIVILIAN CAPTUREMAR 2024
LaGuardia passenger object
A passenger captured a cylinder-like form outside an aircraft near New York. The brief view remains inconclusive.
Michelle Reyes · Airline passengerPASSENGER CAPTURE
CRYPTID · CIVILIAN CAPTUREJUN 2001
Marble Mountain figure
A camping group filmed a distant upright figure on a Northern California ridge. A human hiker remains a plausible explanation.
Jim Mills · Youth camping groupFULL AMATEUR FOOTAGE
CRYPTID · CIVILIAN CAPTUREOCT 2012
Provo Canyon figure
Campers recorded a dark figure that appeared to stand upright. Bear, person, and hoax interpretations remain disputed.
Utah campersORIGINAL HIKER VIDEO
APPARITION · CIVILIAN CAPTURE2001
Gettysburg tree-line forms
A family camcorder recorded pale forms near Triangular Field. Reflections, compression, and paranormal claims all remain debated.
Tom Underwood · Family camcorderWITNESS CAMCORDER
CRYPTID · CIVILIAN CAPTURE2007
Fresno nightcrawler tape
A homeowner's copied CCTV recording launched the Nightcrawler legend. The original master is lost, so verification is limited.
Home security camera · FresnoCCTV COPY
60 REAL CASE PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs from the record.
REFRESHED DAILY 6:00 AM PT
DAILY PHOTO ROTATION
One newly sourced, traceable photograph enters this collection every morning at 6:00 AM Pacific. Images are real photographs, period scans, or documented physical-evidence records—not AI artwork.
APPARITION · DISPUTED GHOST PHOTO
The Brown Lady staircase
The published Raynham Hall staircase photograph. Double exposure and superimposition have been proposed.
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SPIRIT · HISTORIC SPIRIT PHOTO
Mary Lincoln spirit portrait
A genuine period print said to show Abraham Lincoln behind Mary Todd Lincoln; photographic trickery is widely suspected.
WILLIAM H. MUMLER · C.1872 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SPIRIT · HISTORIC COMPOSITE
The young female spirit
A surviving William Hope spirit photograph from the National Media Museum collection.
WILLIAM HOPE · C.1920 · COMMONS
POLTERGEIST · CONFIRMED PHOTO HOAX
Fluidic effect
Buguet staged this apparent telekinesis image and was later convicted for fraudulent spirit photography.
ÉDOUARD BUGUET · 1875 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
POLTERGEIST · CASE DOCUMENTATION
Rosenheim case subject
A period photograph of Annemarie Schaberl, associated with reported electrical and object disturbances in Rosenheim.
ANONYMOUS · 1967 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
POLTERGEIST · DISPUTED CASE PHOTO
Seaford bookcase incident
A LIFE magazine record of the Hermann house case. Skeptics suspected a family member caused the disturbances.
ROBERT WALLACE · 1958 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
HAUNTED PLACE · HISTORIC SITE PHOTO
Borley Rectory
A real nineteenth-century photograph of the English rectory later promoted as the country's most haunted house.
ANONYMOUS · 1892 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
POLTERGEIST · PHYSICAL-TRACE PHOTO
The Bélmez floor face
A photograph of one face-like marking reported to appear in the concrete floor of a house in Bélmez, Spain.
BÉLMEZ CASE ARCHIVE · COMMONS
BIGFOOT · PHYSICAL EVIDENCE RECORD
Krantz footprint casts
Anthropologist Grover Krantz photographed with plaster casts attributed to alleged Bigfoot tracks.
GROVER KRANTZ · 1974 · COMMONS
BIGFOOT · ALLEGED TRACK PHOTO
Hoopa footprint
A civilian photograph of an unusually large print. A photograph alone cannot establish what made it.
WITNESS RECORD · COMMONS
YETI · EXPEDITION PHOTOGRAPH
Shipton's snow print
The famous Menlung Glacier footprint photographed beside an ice axe; a distorted animal track remains a leading explanation.
ERIC SHIPTON · 1951 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
YETI · PHYSICAL RELIC PHOTO
Khumjung scalp relic
A real photograph of the monastery relic once promoted as a Yeti scalp; later examinations did not support that claim.
JAAN KÜNNAP · 1998 · CC BY-SA 4.0
STRANGE BEAST · MISIDENTIFIED OR STAGED
De Loys' ape
The expedition photograph used to claim a new primate species, now regarded as a spider monkey or staged specimen.
FRANÇOIS DE LOYS · C.1920 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
LAKE MONSTER · CONFIRMED HOAX
The surgeon's photograph
The real 1934 photograph that defined the Nessie legend, later revealed as a model mounted on a toy submarine.
LOCH NESS · 1934 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
EXTINCT BEAST · AUTHENTIC ANIMAL PHOTO
Benjamin, the last thylacine
An authentic photograph of the last known captive thylacine—a reminder that supposedly impossible animals sometimes existed.
HOBART ZOO · 1933 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
STRANGE BEAST · LIKELY CANID
Florida 'chupacabra' roadkill
A real roadkill photograph labeled as a possible chupacabra; mange or decomposition in a known canid is more likely.
DICK LANGER · 2020 · COMMONS
UNEXPLAINED DEATHS · OFFICIAL INQUEST PHOTO
The Dyatlov tent
The rescue photograph of the hikers' tent, found cut from inside during the Dyatlov Pass investigation.
SOVIET INQUEST · 1959 · COMMONS
STRANGE EVENT · EXPEDITION EVIDENCE
Tunguska blast forest
A scientific expedition photograph of trees flattened by the 1908 Tunguska airburst.
LEONID KULIK EXPEDITION · 1929 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
ANOMALOUS LIGHT · INSTRUMENT CAMERA PHOTO
Hessdalen light record
A high-resolution camera record from Norway's Hessdalen observation archive; several natural mechanisms remain under study.
PROJECT HESSDALEN · COMMONS
STRANGE PHENOMENON · MYSTERY EXPLAINED
Racetrack sailing stones
The stones' real tracks baffled observers for decades before thin ice and wind were recorded moving the rocks.
DEATH VALLEY · PUBLIC DOMAIN
APPARITION · HISTORIC GHOST PHOTO
The Combermere Abbey figure
A faint seated figure appears in Sybell Corbet's long exposure of the abbey library. A servant moving through the room remains a plausible explanation.
SYBELL CORBET · 1891 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SPIRIT · DEMONSTRATED PHOTO TRICK
Houdini with Lincoln's ghost
Harry Houdini deliberately created this spirit portrait to demonstrate how double exposure could manufacture convincing supernatural evidence.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS · C.1920 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SPIRIT · CONFIRMED DOUBLE EXPOSURE
The levitating séance table
A real period print from William Hope's spirit album. The spectral arm and apparent table movement were produced through superimposition.
WILLIAM HOPE · C.1920 · COMMONS
SPIRIT · EXPOSED MEDIUMSHIP PROP
Goligher Circle ectoplasm
A séance photograph showing the material called ectoplasm around Kathleen Goligher. Investigators later identified the structures as fraudulent props.
W. J. CRAWFORD · 1921 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SPIRIT · EXPOSED MEDIUMSHIP PROP
Helen Duncan's ectoplasm
One of the surviving photographs of material produced during Helen Duncan's séances; critics identified cloth, paper, and printed faces in the displays.
SÉANCE RECORD · C.1930 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SPIRIT · EXPOSED SÉANCE DEVICE
Mina Crandon's spirit hand
A period photograph of the small hand presented as a spirit manifestation during Mina Crandon's séances. The device was later treated as fraudulent.
AMERICAN SÉANCE · C.1920 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SPIRIT · DISPUTED MEDIUMSHIP PHOTO
Mina Crandon face manifestation
Crandon photographed with an alleged ectoplasmic face. The image documents the séance claim, while investigators disputed the material's origin.
STANLEY DE BRATH · 1930 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SPIRIT · DISPUTED MEDIUMSHIP PHOTO
Eva C's ectoplasm portrait
A laboratory-era séance photograph of Eva Carrière and a face-like form; later comparisons linked some manifestations to printed magazine images.
SCHRENCK-NOTZING ARCHIVE · C.1912 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SPIRIT · DISPUTED SÉANCE PHOTO
Palladino's materialized hands
A real published photograph of Eusapia Palladino with alleged materialized hands. Her demonstrations produced both unexplained reports and documented trickery.
CHARLES RICHET · 1923 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SPIRIT · HISTORIC COMPOSITE
Napoleon III spirit portrait
An early spirit-photography composition pairing a sitter with a translucent Napoleon III, preserved as part of the history of photographic illusion.
19TH-CENTURY PRINT · PUBLIC DOMAIN
HAUNTED PLACE · DOCUMENTED CASE LOCATION
The Amityville house
The actual Long Island home behind the Amityville claims. The building is real; the later supernatural narrative remains heavily disputed.
SEULATR · 2005 · COMMONS
HAUNTED OBJECT · DOCUMENTED CASE OBJECT
The Myrtles mirror
A photograph of the plantation mirror said to contain handprints or trapped spirits. The marks have ordinary material explanations, but the legend persists.
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HAUNTED PLACE · DOCUMENTED CASE LOCATION
Winchester Mystery House
The real San Jose mansion associated with stories that Sarah Winchester built continuously to confuse spirits. Historians dispute that popular motive.
SPIEL · 2010 · COMMONS
HAUNTED PLACE · DOCUMENTED CASE LOCATION
Eastern State cell block
A real interior view of the abandoned Philadelphia prison, now one of America's most frequently investigated alleged haunting locations.
RICHARDMARCJ · 2006 · COMMONS
HAUNTED PLACE · DOCUMENTED CASE LOCATION
Stanley Hotel staircase
The staircase inside the hotel linked to decades of apparition and sound reports. Its atmosphere also helped inspire the setting of The Shining.
ESTES PARK · COMMONS
UFO / UAP · DISPUTED WITNESS PHOTO
McMinnville photograph I
The first Trent farm photograph of a disc-like object over Oregon. Analysts have argued both for an unusual distant object and a suspended model.
PAUL TRENT · 1950 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
UFO / UAP · DISPUTED WITNESS PHOTO
McMinnville photograph II
The second exposure from the Trent camera roll provides another angle on the same object, but still does not resolve distance or scale.
PAUL TRENT · 1950 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
UFO / UAP · DISPUTED WITNESS PHOTOS
Passaic flying saucer angles
Two newspaper-published views attributed to John H. Riley. The images are authentic period records; the airborne subject remains disputed.
JOHN H. RILEY · 1952 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
UFO / UAP · WARTIME PRESS PHOTO
The Battle of Los Angeles
Searchlights and anti-aircraft fire over Los Angeles during a wartime false alarm. Retouching increased the famous newspaper image's dramatic contrast.
LOS ANGELES TIMES · 1942 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
UFO / UAP · GOVERNMENT ARCHIVE PHOTO
National Archives flying saucer
A flying-saucer photograph preserved by the U.S. National Archives. Archival custody verifies the record, not the identity of the pictured object.
U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES · PUBLIC DOMAIN
BIGFOOT · NEWSPAPER EVIDENCE PHOTO
The 1962 touring footprint
A period newspaper photograph of a large footprint attributed to Bigfoot. Its publication is verified, but the track maker was never established.
EUREKA HUMBOLDT TIMES · 1962 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
BIGFOOT · PHYSICAL EVIDENCE RECORD
Krantz with an alleged print
Anthropologist Grover Krantz poses beside an enlarged footprint cast he believed supported the existence of an unknown North American primate.
DAVID LEDFORD · 1982 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
STRANGE BEAST · MUSEUM SPECIMEN REPLICA
The Feejee Mermaid relative
A high-resolution photograph of a constructed mermaid from the Kimball collection associated with the famous Feejee Mermaid exhibition.
PEABODY MUSEUM · COMMONS
STRANGE BEAST · ALTERED ANIMAL SPECIMEN
Jenny Haniver specimen
A real dried ray carved into a dragonlike form. Sailors and showmen sold such specimens for centuries as monsters, demons, and merfolk.
M. VIOLANTE · 2007 · CC BY
STRANGE BEAST · MODERN WITNESS PHOTO
Huntingdon Valley 'chupacabra'
A modern photograph uploaded under the chupacabra label. Its silhouette is consistent with a canid, but the image alone cannot establish species or condition.
DANCMASTER · 2024 · CC BY-SA 4.0
SEA MONSTER · MISIDENTIFIED REAL ANIMAL
The Mekong dragon photograph
Often circulated as a captured Mekong dragon, this authentic Navy photograph actually shows a 23-foot giant oarfish found near San Diego.
U.S. NAVY · 1996 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
SEA MONSTER · AUTHENTIC ANIMAL PHOTO
The kraken made real
A genuine giant-squid specimen photographed in New Zealand. The animal behind centuries of sea-monster stories proved to be real.
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ANOMALOUS LIGHT · LONG-EXPOSURE FIELD PHOTO
Marfa mystery light
A five-second exposure made from the official Marfa viewing area. Vehicle lights explain many observations, though not every historical report.
JON HANSON · 2009 · COMMONS
ANOMALOUS LIGHT · INSTRUMENT CAMERA PHOTO
Hessdalen observation 0089
A second high-resolution instrument-camera frame from Norway's Hessdalen monitoring project, recorded as part of a systematic observation series.
PROJECT HESSDALEN · 2016 · CC BY-SA
CROP FORMATION · AUTHENTIC AERIAL PHOTO
Swiss field formation
An aerial photograph of a real crop formation near Lausanne. The physical pattern is documented; no extraordinary maker is implied.
JABBEROCKY · 2007 · COMMONS
STRANGE PHENOMENON · UNCONFIRMED WITNESS PHOTO
Possible Maastricht ball lightning
A witness photograph described as possible ball lightning. Without additional measurements, ordinary electrical or photographic effects cannot be excluded.
JOE THOMISSEN · 2011 · COMMONS
RELIGIOUS MYSTERY · HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD
The Shroud in negative
Photographic negatives reveal the Shroud's body image with striking positive-like detail. Radiocarbon tests dated the cloth to the medieval period.
SECONDO PIA / ENRIE · PUBLIC DOMAIN
ANCIENT MYSTERY · AUTHENTIC AERIAL PHOTO
Nazca's Astronaut
A high-resolution aerial view of the genuine human-shaped Nazca geoglyph nicknamed the Astronaut. Its creators were ancient Nazca-region people, not extraterrestrials.
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UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE · HISTORIC LOCATION PHOTO
Flannan Isles lighthouse
A historic view of the remote lighthouse where three keepers vanished in 1900. Severe weather is the leading explanation, but no bodies were recovered.
EILEAN MÒR · C.1912 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
CRYPTID LORE · OFFICIAL DISASTER PHOTO
Silver Bridge aftermath
The actual bridge collapse later woven into Mothman legend. Investigators found a structural failure; no evidence connects the disaster to a creature.
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION · 1967 · PUBLIC DOMAIN.jpg?width=1600)
CRYPTID LORE · CASE MEMORIAL PHOTO
Point Pleasant's Mothman
The town's memorial to the red-eyed winged figure reported in 1966–67. It records the legend's cultural impact rather than physical evidence.
CSASSEN13 · 2020 · CC0
HAUNTED PLACE · DOCUMENTED CASE LOCATION
The Myrtles Plantation
The real Louisiana plantation at the center of numerous ghost stories. Several popular tales conflict with the site's documented history.
BNET504 · 2005 · COMMONS
HAUNTED PLACE · ARCHITECTURAL RECORD
A doorway to nowhere
One of the mansion's famously impractical architectural features. The odd construction is real, while its supposed spirit-confusing purpose is debated.
WINCHESTER HOUSE · COMMONS
HAUNTED PLACE · DOCUMENTED CASE LOCATION
The ruined prison corridor
A high-resolution view through Eastern State Penitentiary's decaying cell block, where visitors and investigators report footsteps, voices, and shadow figures.
ADITHYAVR · 2015 · COMMONS
HAUNTED PLACE · DOCUMENTED CASE LOCATION
The Stanley in winter
A winter photograph of the actual hotel tied to long-running guest reports of piano music, children in empty halls, and unexplained movement.
ESTES PARK · 2011 · COMMONSCOMMUNITY PHOTO + VIDEO ARCHIVE
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