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There are many UFO sightings that involve large groups of witnesses. Interestingly, however, even where there is a consensus on a few core claims, witnesses don't always agree on some of the most important details of the story. The 60-some children that witnessed a UFO event in 1994 all saw things a little differently, in a way that highlights just how bizarre the phenomenon can be.

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Sources:

EARTH MYSTERY NEWS - EMN. “Zimbabwe UFO Child Conactee Speaks Publicly For The 1st Time.” YouTube video, 6:19. Posted [June 16, 2016]. https://youtu.be/jaLvp-BkqAo.

Hind, Cynthia. "1994 Close Encounter at Ruwa, Zimbabwe," UFO Afrinews 1994.

​Hind, Cynthia. ​UFO Afrinews, no. 11 (February 1995).

​Hind, Cynthia. ​UFO Afrinews, no. 12 (July 1995).

Hind, Cynthia. UFOs Over Africa. Madison: Horus House, 1996.

Hofer, Gunter. “Ariel School UFO landing 1994.” YouTube video, 21:52. Posted [November 3, 2012]. https://youtu.be/eBqKJHSrYZg.

Mack, John. Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters, Commemorative ed. White Crow Books, 2011.

Matchan, Linda. “An Out-of-this-World Assignment.” Boston Globe, June 7, 2009.

McMenaminsVIDEOS. "Randall Nickerson presenting the Ariel Phenomenon with two of the original eye witnesses." YouTube video, 2:11:57. Posted [May 7, 2019]. https://youtu.be/UCqVpwg0oPc.

Paranormalcentral. “62 School children see UFO land and alien beings come out.” YouTube video, 3:35. https://youtu.be/aabVQPlNR4E.

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For two years, Jackie Hernandez was tormented by a variety of anomalous activity that persisted after two moves, and attached itself to those she knew. Also known as the San Pedro Haunting, her case is remarkable for the sheer number of anomalous events, but it's also an interesting case study in the blurred lines between hauntings and poltergeists.

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Sources:

Abrams, Garry. “Tangled Tales From the Crypt? : For 3 Years, Jackie Hernandez Says She Was Followed by a Pair of Puzzling--and Persistent--Ghosts.” Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles). March 23 1993.

American Journal. “Real X Files on San Pedro Haunting (1994).” YouTube. Video File. March 11, 2013.

Conrad, Barry. “An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting.” Vimeo. Video File. Directed by Barry Conrad. 1997. BarCon Video Productions.

Conrad, Barry. An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting. Dorrance Publishing, 2009.

Conrad, Barry. “Tina Lawler: Witness to the San Pedro Haunting (1995).” YouTube. Video File. March 10, 2013.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/fvvDrihWsHA.

Part 2: https://youtu.be/J7bnn6PZxG8.

Conrad’s radio interview on California’s Creepiest Ghost Story. March 9, 2016.

Lecouteux, Claude. The Secret History of Poltergeists and Haunted Houses: From Pagan Folklore to Modern Manifestations. Translated by Jon E. Graham. Toronto: Inner Traditions International, 2012.

Paranormal Witness. Season 2, episode 1, “Man in the Attic.” Directed by Stephen Kemp. August 8, 2012. Syfy.

Taff, Barry E. Aliens Above, Ghosts Below: Explorations of the Unknown. Cosmic Pantheon Press. 2011.

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While many UFO sightings may appear to be random, isolated events, others are actually quite patterned - almost predictable. The Hudson Valley sightings came in waves, frequently recurring in the same few areas north of New York City. After years of sightings, it became clear that these sightings followed a few strange, but discernible patterns that seem to suggest that there is some logic to the UFO phenomenon.

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Sources:

Dunning, Brian. “The Hudson Valley UFO Mystery.” Skeptoid. Nov 21, 2017.

Garelik, Glen. “Special Report: The Great Hudson Valley UFO Mystery.” Discover. November 1984, 17 - 20.

Hynek, J. Allen, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt. Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.

Randle, Kevin. “The Crash of Philip J. Imbrogno. July 17, 2011.

Schmalz, Jeffrey. “Strange Sights Brighten the Night Skies Upstate.” New York Times. Saturday, August 25, 1984.

For Further resources, including newspaper clippings and witness’s drawings of the UFOs they saw, see the material compiled in the following documents:

Discover article, witness drawings:

http://ufohistoryfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/338C.pdf

Newspaper clippings:

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201984%2011%20-%20no%20184.pdf

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Harriet Tubman is well known for her daring rescues of black slaves in the Eastern United States, but less well known are the remarkable abilities that she possessed that made these rescues possible. A review of the many anomalous events in Tubman's life suggests that she may have mastered the same psi abilities as psychics and remote viewers today, even without training.

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Sources:

​Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research. "The Concept of Transliminality."

Bradford, Sarah Hopkins. Harriet, the Moses of Her People. New York: George R Lockwood & Son, 1886.

Bradford, Sarah Hopkins. Harriet, the Moses of Her People. New York: J. J. Little & Co., 1901.

Bradford, Sarah Hopkins. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Auburn, NY: WJ Moses, 1869.

Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale. “Moses,” Freedmen’s Record, March 1865: 34 - 38.

Cirino, Erica. “Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.” Healthline, 2017.

Drake, Frank C. "The Moses of Her People. Amazing Life Work of Harriet Tubman." New York Herald, September 22, 1907.

Greyson, Bruce; Fountain, Nathan B.; Derr, Lori L.; Broshek, Donna K. "Out-of-body experiences associated with seizures." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8, 65 (Feb 2014).

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.

Larson, Kate Clifford. “Harriet Ross Tubman.” Essential Civil War Curriculum, April 2015.

Lichfield, Gideon. "The Science of Near-Death Experiences: Empirically investigating brushes with the afterlife." The Atlantic, April 2015.

McGowan, James A. “The psychic life of Harriet Tubman.” Visions Magazine, March, 1995: 1 - 3.

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There is a pervasive stereotype that only hillbillies from the southern United States see UFOs and aliens - or "Little Green Men." While this stereotype is patently false, it was not created out of thin air. Rather, the association between uneducated southerners and UFO landings, as well as the popularity of the term "Little Green Men," both come from a highly influential case from rural Kentucky in 1955.

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Sources:

Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher. "Close Encounter at Kelly and others of 1955." Evanston, IL: Center for UFO Studies, 1978. Available online: http://www.cufos.org/books/Close_Encounter_at_Kelly.pdf.

Jacqueline Sanders, "Panic in Kentucky " The Saucerian Review, January 1956 (Grey Barkerm Clarksbug, W. Va.) pp . 19-23.

J. Allen Hynek. The UFO Experience: a Scientific Inquiry. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972.

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Ever wonder where the banner image on our website and social media pages comes from? It's a composite image based mostly from a 16th-century woodcut depicting a UFO sighting over Nuremberg, in modern-day Germany. As well as producing a captivating illustration, the sighting is a good example of an early-modern "wonder-sign," long before the term UFO ever entered the lexicon, and before anyone suspected extraterrestrial culprits.

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Main sources:

Billig, Otto. Flying Saucers – Magic in the Skies. Schenkman, 1982.

Glaser, Hanns. “Himmelserscheinung über Nürnberg vom 14. April 1561”. April 14, 1561. Zurich Zentralbibliothek [ZB PAS II 12:60].

Glaser, Hanns. “Glaser, Hans.” Zeno.org. http://www.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/A/Glaser,%20Hans.

Johnson, Frank. “Nuremburg (sic) UFO ‘Battle’ Debunked.” AncientAliensDebunked.com. December 12, 2012.

Jung, Carl. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. USA: Princeton University Press, 1959 (1978). https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersmod00jung.

Kurihara, Ken. Celestial Wonders in Reformation Germany. Pickering & Chatto, Routledge. 2014, 2016.

Magin, Ulrich. “A UFO in the Year 1561?” In Investigating the Impossible: Sea Serpents in the Air, Volcanoes that Aren't and Other Out of Place Mysteries, 7 - 13. Anomalist Books, 2011.

Vallée, Jacques and Chris Aubeck. Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Anomalies from Antiquity to Modern Times. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Penguin, 2009.

Von Kevicsky, Colman S. "The UFO Sighting Over Nuremberg in 1561." Official UFO. January 1976, Volume 1 Number 5. Translation by Ilse Von Jacobi.

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You’ve heard of the Yeti before, but did you know that there are dozens of distinct traditions of cryptid hominoids in Asia? From Almas to Yeren, these creatures show up in some of the world’s oldest art and literature, and are still seen today.

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Sources:

Bayanov, Dmitri. “Historical Evidence for the Existence of Relict Hominoids.” The Relict Hominoid Inquiry, 1 (2012): 23-50.

Bourtsev/Burtsev, Igor. “A Skeleton Still Buried and a Skull Unearthed: The Story of Zana.” In In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman, Dmitri Bayanov (Crypto-Logos Publishers/CFZ, 1996/2015)

Channel 4. “Was Russian 'Bigfoot' actually an African slave?” November 1, 2013.

Czubala, Dionizjusz. “Mongolian Contemporary Legends: Field Research Report, Part Three, Legends about Almas, the Abominable Snowman.” Foaftale News, 31 (1993): 1-4.

Debenat, Jean-Paul. The Asian Wild Man: Yeti, Yeren & Almasty Cultural Aspects and Evidence of Reality, ebook edition. Hancock House Publishers, 2014.

Gerlach, David. “Why Jane Goodall Believes in Bigfoot (Video).” March 28, 2015.

Greshko, Michael, and Maya Wei-haas. “New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines.” NationalGeographic.com, April 10, 2019.

Koffmann, Marie-Jeanne. “L’Almasty, Yé du Caucase / The Almasty, Yeti of the Caucasus.” Archéologia / Archaeologia, no. 269 (June 1991): 24-43. Translation by Malcolm Smith.

Koffmann, Marie-Jeanne. “L’Almasty du Caucase - Mode de vie d’un humanoide.” Archéologia, no. 276 (February 1992): 52-65. English reprint: “The Almasty of the Caucasus – Life Style of a Hominoid,” The Relict Hominoid Inquiry 4 (2015): 106-123, translation by Edward Winn.

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An ancient site in Turkey dated to nearly 10,000 BCE is overturning a lot of old assumptions in history and archaeology. The excavation of Göbekli Tepe has already rewritten the story on the origins of civilization, and it's only just beginning.

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Sources:

Benedict, Peter. “Survey work in Southeastern Anatolia,” appears in Halet Cambel and Robert J. Braidwood, Prehistoric Research in Southeastern Anatolia. Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakultesi Basimevi, 1980.

Cauvin, Jacques. The Birth of Gods and The Origins of Agriculture. Translated by Trevor Watkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1994) 2000.

Collins, Andrew. “Penguin Or Great Auk? A Newly Unveiled Carving Of A Seabird Found At Göbekli Tepe Opens The Debate Over The Geographical Origins Of Its Power Elite.” 1-9.

Collins, Andrew and Rodney Hale. “Göbekli Tepe and the Rising of Sirius.” AndrewCollins.com.

Curry, Andrew. ”Göbekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?” Smithsonian Magazine. November, 2008.

Debertolis, Paolo, Heikki Savolainen, Slobodan Mizdrak. "The Research for An Archaeoacoustic Standard." SB Research Group. December 2-6, 2013.

Dietrich, Laura, Julia Meister, Oliver Dietrich, Jens Notroff, Janika Kiep, Julia Heeb, André Beuger, and Brigitta Schütt. “Cereal Processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey.” PLoS ONE 14, no. 5 (May 1, 2019): e0215214.

Dietrich, Oliver. “Göbekli Tepe: The first 20 Years of Research.” The Tepe Telegrams. June 2, 2016.

Dietrich, Oliver, Manfred Heun, Jens Notroff, Klaus Schmidt, and Martin Zarnkow. "The Role of Cult and Feasting In The Emergence of Neolithic Communities: New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey." Antiquity 86, no. 333 (September 2012): 674-695.

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