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173 paintings made for the site: the mastheads, the story and decade posters, the threads and the cases. Click one to see it large.

Site mastheads6

Front door: the dishes

Front door: the farm

Front door: the summit

Stories13

The legacy program

The nuclear connection

The price of contact

Ordered to fire

Split by service

The cover layer

The undersea program

The recovery teams

One corner of New Mexico

The closed airport

The helicopters

Decades9

Case illustrations108

Sweden's Supreme Commander and the projectile in the bay1948

El Indio-Guerrero crash (6 December 1950)1950

MV Marcala, North Atlantic (4 August 1950)1950

The Farmington 'saucer armada'1950

Ellsworth radar-visual chase1953

Kingman, Arizona, 1953 crash retrieval1953

Florence 1954: the match stopped and the falling fibres1954

Col. Willingham's Del Rio crash (1955)1955

KC-97 crew and GCI radar: unidentified object near Newfoundland (6 July 1955)1955

RB-47 crews: unidentified aircraft over the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1-8 June 1955)1955

F-86D ordered to fire on a giant radar target near Manston1957

Ota: four F-84Gs and the yellow sphere1957

The RB-47 radar-visual case (1957)1957

Loch Raven Reservoir car-stall case (26 October 1958)1958

Nike Ajax site W-93, Maryland: a disc crash and a landing (1958)1958

Ascension Island missile-cassette recovery light (25 June 1960)1960

Big Sur: a beam at an Atlas warhead1964

Indonesia: Salatun's 1964 radar week and an F-16 pilot's contact1964

The Holloman landing, as told to George H. W. Bush1964

USS Hassayampa: four radar targets circle the ship1965

Project Northern Tier: incursions at northern nuclear bases, 1966-19771966

Bandırma 1967: F-5s with orders to fire1967

A crashed metal disc in Nepal (1968)1968

Minot AFB B-52 radar-visual case (24 October 1968)1968

Chu Lai: an egg-shaped light lands at the ammunition dump1969

Pori: seven yellow 'balloons' outrun a jet1969

Plaški: a MiG-21 can't catch a luminous object at 22,000 m1970

Swiss Mirage III pilots and the 'snake' light over Interlaken1971

Coyame, Chihuahua, 1974: the Deneb report crash1974

Carlos de los Santos: the mayday over Ajusco1975

Prevlaka: Yugoslav MiGs chase a radar object while Tito watched1975

Seoul fires on the lights over the Blue House1976

A Mirage IV paced near Chaumont1977

Elmas: an orange sphere among the night exercise1977

Pan Adria: an airliner paced by a red light1977

Two airmen and a craft at an Ellsworth missile site1977

The Bolivian cylinder crash (6 May 1978)1978

Muddus: a 'rocket' lands in a forest lake1980

Two ROK Air Force F-4s circle a glowing object near Daegu1980

The '7·24' spiral over western China1981

Korea's dawn wave: a glowing 'pillow' across the country1982

The Soviet ICBM launch-panel incident1982

Karakuş's F-4 formation and the light beam1983

A giant craft over the Indian Point nuclear plant (24 July 1984)1984

Kaiyo Maru: a wandering light off the Falklands1984

The Borisoglebsk air crashes1984

Halle: the object the Stasi reported to Mielke1985

Kaiyo Maru: six hours of radar contacts north of Wake1986

Puttgarden: the BND's 'UFO' file1986

Czech army scrambles at a silver 'cigar', 1987 and 19921987

Ankara 1988: F-16s and F-4s against a radar giant1988

A Soviet Tic Tac with four bodies1989

Montréal: the object over Place Bonaventure1990

The Pereslavl-Zalessky interceptor event1990

Cosford and Shawbury: the night of 30-31 March 19931993

The Boscombe Down crash (1994)1994

The crashed egg in Peru (Weygandt, 1997)1997

The triangle at Twentynine Palms (Hunter Warrior, 1997)1997

Cangzhou: radar alarm and a JJ-6 chase1998

Çandarlı: a T-37 in a 'dogfight'2001

An elk hunter watches a silent black triangle weave between peaks and climb straight up (Wind River Range, Wyoming, 2003)2003

Iran's Air Force and the luminous objects over its nuclear sites2004

Samudra Tapu: an ISRO glacier team watches a 'walking' object2004

The 2004 'blue on blue': JSOC against a Lockheed recovery team2004

Roswell briefings in the basement of DOE2005

Blue orb passes through a driver near Davis2007

The triangle over the missile silos (DIA video)2007

200-ft rotating cigar stops a car at Port Jervis2009

B-1-size triangle near Arkansas Nuclear One power lines2009

Boomerangs, missing time and a military search near NAS Fallon2009

Landing, entity and jet search grids at Versailles, Missouri2009

Sumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft2009

The Lockheed craft offered to AAWSAP2009

Three small orbs strike a driver near Bend, Oregon2009

Hangzhou Xiaoshan airport closed by a light2010

The rounded rectangle over Spain2010

Hurt by UAP: the medical files2012

Ladakh: hundreds of luminous objects on the China border2012

The 'Off-World Technologies Division' under NSWC Crane (2012-15)2013

A triangle hovers over Russian naval vessels off Kamchatka (Immaculate Constellation brief)2017

Lima airport: two objects on the tower's radar2019

"Looks like a balloon": a weapons-quality track on a UAP at 31,000 ft (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")2020

A 40-knot UAP and a pair at 278 knots in one mission report (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")2020

A possible UAP speeds up and turns east at 321 knots (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")2020

A round, cold object tracked in infrared making abrupt turns over the Gulf of Aden (4 September 2020)2020

One "probable UAP", no mission impact (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")2020

The nuclear-submarine bait mission2020

The two admirals and the blocked debrief2020

PIA PK-304: the shiny object over Rahim Yar Khan2021

A civilian reports a large blue triangle hovering near a national security facility (March 2023)2023

A committee of 27 and a threat to kill2023

Imphal airport closed; the IAF sends Rafales2023

Romania and Moldova: MiG-21s scramble at a balloon-like object2023

Three lights from Cyprus to the Balkans2023

A U.S. aircraft keeps "eyes on" an oval or orb-shaped possible UAP for over two hours (31 October 2024)2024

Orbs around a helicopter2025

The White Sands lure and the shoot-down question2025

Two brief "possible UAP" sightings by a U.S. aircraft in INDOPACOM (10-11 April 2025)2025

Two round, white-hot UAPs heading south at about 240 knots (war.gov "Djibouti, 2025")2025

Drones over Australia's F-35 base2026

Gimhae airport closed for lights over the base2026

Lublin's flying object: heard by residents, caught on military radar, never found (Poland, 2026)2026

Taiwan's CCK air base closed by an unidentified drone2026

Three pilots report an unknown object at Nuremberg airport at night (Germany, 2026)2026

Unknown objects pass within feet of a BA airliner and RAF jets (UK Airprox Board, 2026)2026

A glowing giant and a black diamond over Minuteman silos

A triangular, metallic UAP over the Aegean during return to base (date withheld)

NORAD's east-coast chase