Every Case File: UFO, Bigfoot and Lake Monster Cases

The sky files

Kenneth Arnold, Mount Rainier Nine Crescents Over Rainier · 24 June 1947
Lakenheath–Bentwaters The Target That Looped · 13–14 August 1956
The Route 35 encounter The Crossing on Route 35 · 12 May 1962
The Zamora encounter Ground That Remembered, Twice · 24 April 1964
The Valensole encounter The Lavender Field · 1 July 1965
The Buenos Aires lights Two Lights at Dusk · 16 July 1965
The Tehran intercept Cat and Mouse over Mehrabad · 19 September 1976
The Broad Haven school sighting Fourteen Children in a Field · 4 February 1977
The Petrozavodsk phenomenon The Shower of Rays · 20 September 1977
Operation Prato The Operation Without a Verdict · Oct – Dec 1977
The Kaikōura lights Film at 132 Knots · 21 & 30–31 December 1978
The Manises incident The Flight That Diverted · 11 November 1979
Rendlesham Forest Two Nights, One Base · 26–28 December 1980
Trans-en-Provence Ground That Remembered · 8 January 1981
Brazil’s UFO night Night of the UFOs · 19 May 1986
Japan Air Lines 1628 The Mothership That Wasn't · 17 November 1986
The Belgian wave Locks Without a Visual · 30–31 March 1990
The Calvine photograph The Negative That Vanished · 4 August 1990
Ariel School Sixty-two Children · 16 September 1994
The Campeche lights Eleven Lights over Campeche · 5 March 2004
The USS Nimitz encounter The Tic Tac · 14 November 2004
Caso Collahuasi Not Any Known Object · April 2013
The Chilean infrared case Nine Minutes in Infrared · 11 November 2014
The Gimbal and GoFast clips The Parallax Clip · January 2015
The Khartoum object A Rocket Stage, Probably · January 2018
The San Diego swarm The Swarm That Wasn't · July 2019
The Imphal airport sighting Three Hours on the Runway · 19 November 2023

The land files

The Beast of Gévaudan The Carcasses Nobody Kept · 1764 → 1767
The kawekaweau The Largest Gecko, From The Wrong Ocean · c. 1870s → 2023
The Yeti A Permit Regime For An Animal Nobody Has · 1899 → 2017
The Nandi bear Every Scientist Named A Known Animal · 1905 → 1950s
Sasquatch The Word A Schoolteacher Chose · 1 April 1929
The thylacine The One That Was Definitely Real · 1936 → present
Bigfoot The Word Made On A Front Page · 27 August 1958 → 6 October 1958
The Minnesota Iceman Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars · 1967 → 2013
Falcon Lake, Manitoba The Grid on His Chest · 20 May 1967
The Sasquatch Ordinance An Endangered Species, By Ordinance · 1 April 1969 → June 1992
The Bossburg Tracks Cripplefoot · 24 November 1969 → October 1970
The Beast of Exmoor The Cat With No Scale · 1970s → 1983
Momo Twenty Men, One Hill, Nothing · July 1972
Bigfoot / Sasquatch The Hair That Reached the FBI · 1976–77 · FBI hair examination
The mande barung The Hairs Belonged To A Goral · 1990s → 2008
The chupacabra Goatsucker, Tested · 1995 →
The Skookum Cast The Body In The Wallow · 22 September 2000 → 3 March 2001
The Myakka Photographs The Letter To The Sheriff · December 2000
The Candidate Fossil Two Hundred And Fifteen Thousand Years · 10 January 2024
The Officer Reports Credible Because Of The Witness · 2 November 2024 → 5 July 2026
The Patterson–Gimlin Film The Reel In The Safe · 12 March 2026

The water files

Loch Ness Two Hundred And Fifty Samples, No Reptile · 564 CE → 2019
Storsjöodjuret The Monster That Was An Endangered Species · 1635 → 2005
The Gloucester sea serpent Sworn Before A Justice Of The Peace · 6–14 August 1817
HMS Daedalus Sixty Feet, Reported By A Captain · 6 August 1848
Mokele-mbembe The Dinosaur That Drew Ministers · 1913 → 1981
Chessie The Manatee With The Monster's Name · 1936 → 2014
Shag Harbour Something Went In · 4 October 1967
The Atlantic globsters Nothing But Whales · 1988 → 2004
The Bloop The Sound Was Ice · Summer 1997
The colossal squid The One That Stopped Fishing · February 2007
The oarfish The Omen, Tested · Strandings 2009–2010; claim tested 2019

Every case file

The sky files

The land files

The water files