Reconstructions
Step inside documented encounters. Follow each account as it was reported, then explore the scene in 3D.
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Pacific Ocean · November 2004
The Nimitz encounter
Enter experienceFollow the visual account. Inspect the reported form. Explore the encounter over the Pacific.
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South Dakota, United States · November 1977
The Ellsworth encounter
Enter experienceA cold prairie night. An enormous light. Explore the November-5 account with both witnesses.
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Erath County, Texas · January 8, 2008
The Stephenville lights
Enter experienceFollow the Stephenville accounts from a rural highway into a layered reconstruction of witness directions, known traffic and primary radar returns.
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Interior Alaska · November 17, 1986
Flight 1628
Enter experienceThe 1986 JAL cargo flight from the flight deck: three crew accounts, the radio record, and the sky the FAA never analyzed.
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Suffolk, England · December 1980
Rendlesham Forest
Enter experienceThe 1980 Rendlesham Forest accounts, with every word of the Halt memorandum read over the scenes it describes, and the calculated night sky.
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Arizona · March 1997
The Phoenix lights
Enter experienceThe Phoenix Lights of March 13, 1997, told from the first hotline calls and one driver’s account, with the calculated night sky.
Each experience is an illustrative interpretation of the published accounts. Reported estimates are identified; authored dimensions, motion and timing are not measured historical geometry. Sources and uncertainty stay with every case.