Research
Where the corpus's additions came from. We mined ten community sites (Black Vault, The Debrief, NICAP, CUFOS, AARO, NUFORC, Liberation Times, Sol Foundation, r/UFOs, Metabunk) for validation, gap-check, and differentiation. The full reports are below; the panels above show exactly which entries on this site arrived through that work.
PROVENANCE · GAP-FILL · 2026-06
17 historical cases + 2 glossary entries added from community gap analysis
Source: cross-referenced against 10 community sites. The entries below appeared on multiple sites as canonical and were missing from our corpus. Now backfilled.
New glossary entries
- concept-hynek-classification — Hynek's 1972 CE1-CE5 / NL / DD / RV vocabulary
- figure-west-mick — Mick West (Metabunk founder, the field's primary skeptical analyst)
New historical cases
- battle-of-la-1942
- mariana-1950
- mcminnville-1950
- lubbock-lights-1951
- kelly-hopkinsville-1955
- lakenheath-bentwaters-1956
- minuteman-nd-1966
- malmstrom-1967
- falcon-lake-1967
- shag-harbour-1967
- gimbal-2015
- gofast-2015
- jellyfish-uap-2018
- yemen-mq9-orb-2024
- project-sign-1947-1949
- project-grudge-1949-1951
- aoimsg-2021-2022
Schema upgrades
- Added
classificationfield (Hynek codes CE1-CE5 / NL / DD / RV / EM + program/wave/disclosure) to historical_cases.yaml — 65/65 entries tagged. - Added
skeptical_analysisfield — 12 high-profile cases (Roswell, Tic Tac, Gimbal, GoFast, Phoenix Lights, Rendlesham, McMinnville, Mariana, Lubbock, Mantell, Jellyfish, Cash-Landrum) now carry Mick West / Metabunk / academic counter-claims alongside the documentary record.
PROVENANCE · IMAGE SOURCING · 2026-06
12 post-2015 entries gained hero imagery
Source: federal-PD imagery (NASA, DoD, USAF, CIA, FBI, US Navy, CBP) plus Wikimedia Commons CC-licensed material. /creepy-recent went from 7/20 with hero to 19/20.