An open record of things people cannot explain

The map

Every account somebody wrote down, placed where they said it happened, blurred to roughly ten kilometres. The larger marks are times when a lot of people in different towns described the same thing.

3,036 places shown · 60 marked clusters · 873 accounts fall outside this view

The clusters on this map

1997-07-04
21 people, within hours

They described blue light and green light.

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 repeated event.

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 archives we started from are heavily American, which says more about where these records were kept than about where strange things happen. Yours would help fix that.

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