Anomaly1997-07-04
21 people, within hours
They described blue light and green light.
The map
Every account somebody wrote down, placed where they said it happened, blurred to roughly ten kilometres or, for the official European case files, to the whole department or province. The larger marks are times when a lot of people in different towns described the same thing.
North America: 2,874 places shown · 60 marked clusters
Europe: 495 places shown
631 places fall outside these two views, from La Réunion to Polynesia. They are in the record even when they are off the map.
The clusters on this map
2004-10-31
25 people, within hours
They described red lights and a triangle shape.
2005-09-30
13 people, within hours
They described red lights and hovering.
2004-08-21
16 people, within hours
They described red lights and a triangle shape.
1997-03-13
22 people, within hours
They described a triangle shape and moving in formation.
2005-10-01
11 people, within hours
They described red lights and a triangle shape.
2010-07-04
8 people, within hours
They described an orange orb and red lights.
1997-07-04
9 people, within hours
They described blue light and seen again.
1999-11-16
10 people, within hours
They described an orange orb and white light.
1999-11-16
7 people, within hours
They described an orange orb and moving in formation.
1998-09-23
5 people, within hours
They described an orange orb.
2011-01-06
9 people, within hours
They described hovering and a triangle shape.
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The record now spans two continents, but it is still heaviest where the archives were kept, which says more about record-keeping than about where strange things happen. Yours would help fix that.
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