Aviation.
Aviation cases — crashes, incidents, and aircraft mysteries examined against the flight record. 27 case files in the archive.
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The Nimitz Tic-Tac (2004)
Two F/A-18F Super Hornets from the USS Nimitz strike group intercepted a smooth white object off Southern California. Radar, visual, and FLIR sensor data combined.
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D.B. Cooper (1971)
A man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 on Thanksgiving eve 1971, parachuted with $200,000, and was never identified.
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The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart (1937)
Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished near Howland Island during their 1937 round-the-world attempt. Crashed-and-sank, Nikumaroro castaway, and Japanese-capture theories.
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Area 51 / Groom Lake
The classified USAF detachment officially acknowledged in declassified CIA history June 2013. U-2, A-12 OXCART, F-117 development.
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The Kenneth Arnold Sighting (June 24, 1947)
The Mount Rainier sighting whose East Oregonian wire coverage coined 'flying saucer.' The event that opened the modern UFO era.
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The GIMBAL and GOFAST Videos (2015)
The FLIR videos from the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group's 2014-2015 East Coast deployment. Pentagon's 2020 official release.
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The Bermuda Triangle: Flight 19 (December 1945)
Five US Navy TBM Avengers under Lt. Charles Taylor lost on a routine training mission off Fort Lauderdale; the PBM Mariner search aircraft lost on the same evening.
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The Tehran UFO Incident (September 1976)
Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom intercepts of an unknown object over Tehran. Multiple instrumentation and weapons-systems failures during approach.
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The Aurora Aircraft (hypothetical)
The allegations of a classified hypersonic reconnaissance program (USAF/DARPA/Lockheed Skunk Works, late 1980s-1990s).
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The Mantell Incident (January 1948)
Kentucky Air National Guard P-51 Mustang pilot Captain Thomas Mantell killed pursuing an unidentified object visible from Godman AAF.
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The Hudson Valley UFO Wave (1982-1989)
~7,000 reports across Hudson Valley NY and adjoining Connecticut of a large boomerang/triangle object.
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The Foo Fighters (WWII)
Allied military pilot reports of unidentified glowing aerial objects, late 1944-May 1945, across European and Pacific theaters.
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The Ghost Rockets (1946)
Approximately 2,000 reports of unidentified cigar-shaped objects across Scandinavia between May and December 1946.
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The Lockerbie Bombing / Pan Am 103 (December 1988)
270 killed when a Semtex bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Camp Zeist trial; Megrahi's 2001 conviction and 2009 release. Libya's 2003 acknowledgment.
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The Stephenville UFO Incident (January 2008)
Dozens of independent witnesses across Erath, Comanche, and Hood Counties, Texas reported a large object with bright lights. The USAF's January 14 denial reversed January 23: F-16s had been on training flights in the area. FAA radar correlation near Crawford ranch's P-49 restricted airspace.
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The O'Hare Airport UFO (November 2006)
Multi-witness sighting at Gate C-17, O'Hare International. Twelve United Airlines ground-staff witnesses plus the UAL 446 cockpit crew. The FAA's weather phenomenon classification; the witnesses' continuing dissent.
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Project SIGN (1947-1949)
The US Air Force's first UFO investigation, at Wright-Patterson. The post-Arnold 1947 wave, the Mantell and Chiles-Whitted cases, the disputed 'Estimate of the Situation' favoring an interplanetary origin, and General Vandenberg's rejection of it.
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Project GRUDGE (1949-1952)
Project SIGN's debunking-oriented successor. The 1949 Grudge Report concluding UFOs posed no threat, the period of institutional neglect, and Edward Ruppelt's revitalization that produced Project Blue Book.
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TWA Flight 800 (1996)
The July 1996 explosion of a 747 off Long Island that killed 230. The NTSB's center-fuel-tank conclusion, the eyewitness 'streak of light' reports and the missile and friendly-fire theories, the CIA animation, and the 2013 petition to reopen.
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The Black Triangle Aircraft
The large, silent, triangular craft reported since the 1980s. The overlap with UFO waves, the classified-aircraft and misperception explanations, and the unsupported TR-3B antigravity internet legend.
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The Disappearance of Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1944)
The French aviator-author who vanished on a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean in 1944. The discovery of his plane's wreckage off Marseille in 2000-2004, the German pilot's 2008 claim, and the unresolved cause.
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The Disappearance of Glenn Miller (1944)
The bandleader whose small aircraft vanished over the English Channel en route to Paris in 1944. The icing/mechanical-failure explanation, the jettisoned-bombs theory, and why the plane was never found.
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The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich (1978)
The Australian pilot who radioed that a large unidentified aircraft was pacing his Cessna over Bass Strait moments before he vanished. The transcript, the UFO interpretation, and the spatial-disorientation explanation.
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The Chiles-Whitted Encounter (1948)
The July 1948 sighting in which two Eastern Air Lines pilots reported a torpedo-shaped craft with windows passing their DC-3 over Alabama. The sighting that shaped Project Sign Estimate of the Situation, and the bolide-meteor explanation.
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The Bermuda Triangle
The western Atlantic region blamed for vanished ships and planes. Where the legend came from, what Larry Kusche's 1975 investigation found, and why insurers and the Coast Guard treat it as ordinary ocean.
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The Nazi Bell (Die Glocke)
The alleged Nazi anti-gravity bell-device of Lower Silesia. The single 2000 source behind the story, the real people and places it borrows, the Wenceslas Mine Henge, and why historians treat it as post-war myth.
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MH370: The Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Missing since 8 March 2014 with 239 people aboard. The turnback, the Inmarsat 7th arc, the recovered debris, every search through the 2026 seabed survey, and what the evidence supports.