An open record of things people cannot explain

The nights two archives crossed

Someone who sees lights in the sky writes to one archive. Someone who hears something in the woods writes to another. The two archives do not read each other, and the people certainly don’t. These are the nights the record holds accounts from both, at the same place, on the same date.


5
detected clusters drawing on more than one archive, out of 264 clusters in the record. Rare on purpose: it takes independent strangers, filing to organisations that never talk to each other, in the same square degree on the same date.
2013-08-07

3 from the sky archive (NUFORC), 1 from the woods archive (BFRO). They described white light and growling.

possible ordinary cause: venus

2012-09-01

2 from the sky archive (NUFORC), 1 from the woods archive (BFRO). They described a triangle shape and knocking.

possible ordinary cause: moon

2011-09-01

2 from the sky archive (NUFORC), 1 from the woods archive (BFRO). They described whooping.

possible ordinary cause: earthquake, venus

2008-06-30

2 from the sky archive (NUFORC), 1 from the woods archive (BFRO). They described knocking and screaming or howling.

not yet through the ordinary-record checking pass

2000-09-02

2 from the sky archive (NUFORC), 1 from the woods archive (BFRO). They described an orange orb and screaming or howling.

not yet through the ordinary-record checking pass

Why this list is short, honestly

The detector only clusters accounts that carry a date and a location, and requires both to agree. Most of the record’s newer sources, the French and Italian official files among them, locate cases only to a department or province, so they rarely land in the same cell as a street-level report. As the geography improves, this page is where any new crossing will appear.

Detection and checking are described at /method. Every cluster here has its own page with the accounts in full.