Strange things happen. Here are the facts.
UAP and UFO cases, aviation mysteries and unexplained phenomena — each one broken down into what happened, the evidence, the official explanation, the alternatives, and what is genuinely left unexplained.
How every case is written
- 1What happened
- 2The evidence
- 3The official explanation
- 4Alternative explanations
- 5What remains unexplained
UFO & UAP
Sightings, official reports, pilots, declassified files
The Shag Harbour Incident: Lights That Went Into the Sea
In October 1967 witnesses in a Nova Scotia fishing village saw lights descend into the ocean. RCMP, Coast Guard and navy divers searched. Nothing was found.
Frederick Valentich: The Pilot Who Reported Something Above Him
In 1978 a young pilot over Bass Strait told Melbourne controllers an object was orbiting his Cessna. The transmission ended in a metallic noise. He was never found.
The Nimitz “Tic Tac” Encounter
In November 2004, Navy pilots off California chased a white, wingless object that radar had tracked for days. The Nimitz Tic Tac case, the FLIR1 video and what is known.
The Malmstrom Missile Shutdown Incident
In March 1967 ten nuclear missiles at a Montana flight went offline. Were UFOs to blame? What the Echo Flight records show, and what rests on later testimony.
The Interdimensional Hypothesis: Vallée, Keel and UFOs Beyond Space
Are UFOs from another dimension rather than another planet? How Jacques Vallée and John Keel challenged the alien-visitor idea, and what physics really means by dimensions.
Canada’s UFO Archives: What the Government Files Contain
Library and Archives Canada holds decades of UFO reports from the military, the RCMP and the NRC. What is in the files and how to search them yourself.
Aviation Mysteries
Disappearances, unexplained incidents, lost aircraft
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
In July 1937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan vanished looking for tiny Howland Island. Crash at sea, castaways on Nikumaroro or capture: weighing the evidence.
Can Every Aircraft Really Be Tracked by Satellite?
Almost. Global coverage exists and works. The gap is not the satellites — it is aircraft that stop transmitting.
How Investigators Find a Plane on the Ocean Floor
It is a four-stage process, and each stage narrows the area by an order of magnitude. AF447 shows how it works when it works.
Flight 19
Five US Navy Avengers vanished off Florida in December 1945, and a flying boat sent to find them was lost too. How the Bermuda Triangle legend grew from it.
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739
In March 1962 a chartered Super Constellation carrying 93 US soldiers vanished over the western Pacific. A tanker crew saw a flash; nothing was ever found.
The Disappearance of Glenn Miller
Bandleader Glenn Miller vanished over the English Channel in December 1944 in a small Norseman. Bad weather, jettisoned bombs, or something else?
Paranormal
Strange places, documented phenomena, investigations
Memphré, the Lake Memphremagog Monster
For over a century people have reported a large unknown animal in Lake Memphremagog, on the Quebec–Vermont border. The Memphré legend, the sightings and the likely explanations.
Skinwalker Ranch
A Utah ranch linked to strange lights, animal deaths and a Pentagon-funded study. How Skinwalker Ranch became famous, from the Sherman family to Bigelow and TV.
Unsolved
Mysterious disappearances and cases never closed