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Unexplained Events
Single documented events — a blast, a signal, a sudden physical change — whose cause is recorded as unresolved.
ALSO KNOWN AS: Anomalous Events · Unexplained Phenomena
Some entries in this archive are not disappearances, artefacts or sightings. They are events: something measurable happened, at a known place and on a known date, and the cause has never been agreed. The Tunguska event of 1908 is the clearest example — instruments across Europe recorded it, two thousand square kilometres of Siberian forest recorded it, and no fragment of the object that caused it has ever been produced.
What distinguishes this subcategory from speculation is that the event itself is not in doubt. The seismographs, the barographs, the surveyed ground: these are the record. The open question is narrower and harder — what did it, how large was it, and where did it go. Cases filed here tend to carry a long scientific argument rather than a long folklore, and the honest account of them is usually a description of which researchers found what, and where they still disagree.
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MY-26006 // Podkamennaya Tunguska river basin, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire)
The Tunguska Event, 30 June 1908
Something released an enormous quantity of energy in the atmosphere over central Siberia on the morning of 30 June 1908, flattening roughly two thousand square kilometres of forest. Instruments across Europe recorded the event. No crater was ever found, no fragment of the object has ever been recovered, and the first investigator did not reach the forest until 1927.
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UF-26002 // Arizona, United States — reports from Kingman and Prescott in the north to Phoenix and Tucson in the south // tagged
The Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997
On the evening of 13 March 1997 hundreds of people across Arizona reported lights in the sky. There were at least two separate events that night, about two hours apart, and they behaved differently. The military denied having anything in the air, then four months later said the later event was illumination flares dropped on a gunnery range. The wire report that carried that explanation noted, on the day it appeared, that it did not cover the earlier sightings.
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