I’m honestly exhausted. Every time something genuinely extraordinary gets posted here, whether it’s a photograph, a video, or something that makes you stop and question what you’re looking at, I scroll down to the top comments and find the same recycled jokes, memes, and people competing to be the funniest person in the room. I get it. Humor has its place, and skepticism is healthy. But when did we collectively decide that absolutely everything needs a punchline? Sometimes something can just...

In September 1973, Orval Wyman and his wife took a photograph beside the Clearwater River in Idaho. The Wymans later said they remembered nothing unusual when the snapshot was taken. The photograph was brought to Canadian UFO Report by Betty Jones, and was published on the cover of Vol. 3, No. 2, Whole No. 18 with the caption “What Is Happening Here? See p. 14.” Canadian UFO Report described the photo as showing a “bluish bell-jar shaped object” beside the river and a “cluster of gargoyle for...

On July 21, 1967, 14-year-old Ronnie Hill reported seeing a bright white object in Oriental, North Carolina, along with an alien he described as about 3 to 3½ feet tall, with a dark-brown face and a shiny silver suit. Hill said the encounter lasted around 30 minutes and that he took a single color photograph of the scene. He later mailed the photograph to Flying Saucers-UFO Reports with a typed account and diagrams documenting what he said he had seen. Dear Dell, I inclose a photograph I have...

On January 13, 1976, Claudio Ambrosiani photographed a reported humanoid during an encounter witnessed by Ermanno Asso, Stelio Asso, Maria Grazia Asso, and Ambrosiani on Monte Verrugoli, near La Spezia, Italy. The witnesses reported several appearances of a humanoid figure, including a final appearance in which it was said to disappear from the lower body upward. The photograph was later documented by G.O.R.U. and published in Italian UFO literature during 1976.

In 2007, a college biology professor photographed an unidentified humanoid figure during a nighttime research trip near Lake Travis, Texas. The professor was accompanied by one of his students and was reportedly testing the flash on his camera when the photograph was taken. The student appears in the foreground, while a second, unidentified human-shaped figure can be seen farther behind him in the darkness. The photograph later became known as the Lake Travis Humanoid image.

In November 1957, amateur astronomer Ralph E. Nicholson photographed three unidentified flying objects from the roof of his home in Paterson, New Jersey, while attempting to photograph one of the Sputnik satellites. The photographs were circulated by UFO researcher and photographer August C. Roberts and appeared in several UFO publications. Roberts later referred to the three images collectively as “The Nicholson Photos.”

In November 1957, amateur astronomer Ralph E. Nicholson photographed three unidentified flying objects from the roof of his home in Paterson, New Jersey, while attempting to photograph one of the Sputnik satellites. The photographs were circulated by UFO researcher and photographer August C. Roberts and appeared in several UFO publications. Roberts later referred to the three images collectively as “The Nicholson Photos.”

On August 2, 1955, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph published a photograph under the headline “THING FROM OUTER SPACE.” The image had been brought to Melbourne by three men who said it showed the pilot of a crashed flying saucer near Eucla, close to the South Australian border. They said they were driving through scrub and tall trees about 14 miles from Eucla when they heard what they believed was a tire blowout and stopped to inspect the vehicle. While they were stopped, Johnson noticed a shiny obje...

During Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition, a photograph was taken at Little America showing the base beneath the night sky. Byrd later reproduced the image in his 1930 book, Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole. In 1999, Joe Fex acquired a copy of the photograph that appeared to show details absent from the version produced in Byrd’s book. These details included visible stars and four UFOs at varying distances above Little America...

During Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition, a photograph was taken at Little America showing the base beneath the night sky. Byrd later reproduced the image in his 1930 book, Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole. In 1999, Joe Fex acquired a copy of the photograph that appeared to show details absent from the version produced in Byrd’s book. These details included visible stars and four UFOs at varying distances above Little America...