Community archive. The National UFO Reporting Center, collecting public sighting reports in North America since 1974. It contributes sky phenomena: lights, orbs, shapes, and what they did. Terms: public reports, reproduced with thanks, removed on request. The source itself.
Where the record comes from
Every account on this site names its source, and every source sits on one of three rungs: what people told each other, what governments investigated, and what witnesses swore to under oath. Nothing here was generated, scraped against anybody's wishes, or reproduced without a way to have it removed.
Community archive. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, investigating and publishing witness reports since 1995. It contributes encounters in the woods, sounds, tracks, and sightings. Terms: public reports, reproduced with thanks, removed on request. The source itself.
Official case files. The French space agency's unidentified aerospace phenomena office, investigating cases since 1977 with a public transparency mandate. It contributes officially investigated cases, each carrying GEIPAN's own classification, including the cases France closed as unexplained. Machine translated from French; the original text travels with every account. Terms: official public data releases, credited on every account. The source itself.
Research corpus. Ten years of public dream journals, anonymised and released for research by their curators. It contributes dreams, nightmares, and lucid dreams in the dreamer's own words. The record's first archive of what happens on the other side of sleep. Terms: CC BY-NC 4.0, credited on every account, never sold. The source itself.
Sworn testimony. Witnesses testifying under oath at public hearings of the House of Representatives, published by the Government Publishing Office. It contributes verbatim sworn statements from Navy pilots, intelligence officers, and officials, each linked to its full official transcript. Terms: public domain as United States government works. The source itself.
The record grows one source at a time, and the standards travel with it: published or licensed material only, credit on every account, same-day removal on request, and machine translation always labelled. What the engine does with all of this is on the method page. The people it comes from are the point.