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If you like this sort of thing, the Unresolved Mysteries subreddit [0] is a great resource. Some plausible theories include avalanches and military experiments

by seibelj 10y ago

If you like this sort of thing, the Unresolved Mysteries subreddit [0] is a great resource. Some plausible theories include avalanches and military experiments [1] [2]. You could waste many days reading through Wikipedia's Unusual Articles [3]. If you like aliens, here are two worthwhile reads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_UFO_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_UFO_incident Good luck sleeping with the lights off tonight :) [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/ [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1u031h/by_far_my_favorite_unresolved_mystery_the_dyatlov/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1u031h... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/2q5bih/dyatlov_pass_a_slightly_different_theory/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/2q5bih... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

krige 10y ago
I freaking love sites/articles like that. Even if in the end it turns out to be completely mundane, a good writeup can do wonders.
- atdt 10y ago
  Because misery loves company, I'll share with you my worst hobby: sleep loss over Charley Project (http://www.charleyproject.org/ http://www.charleyproject.org/) cases. This should get you started: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/j/jost_marie.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/j/jost_marie.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/degree_asha.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/degree_asha.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mcguinn_melissa.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mcguinn_melissa.html
m-i-l 10y ago
As a child I very much enjoyed watching Project Blue Book (called Project UFO in the US) [0]. As I remember the episodes, the investigators would often come up with a rational explanation for the events by the end of the episode, but then just before the credits the viewer would see some piece of evidence the investigators had missed which would throw into doubt the rational explanation, making you wonder if just maybe... Also enjoyed Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_Mysterious_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_Mysteriou...
- TwoBit 10y ago
  No, it was called Project Blue Book here too.
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    Oddly, I, too, remember watching it in the US as Project Blue Book, contrary to Wikipedia's description.
yitchelle 10y ago
Came across a podcast dealing with this type of stories and events. I wish it was more frequent. It is only a fortnightly podcast. http://www.lorepodcast.com/ http://www.lorepodcast.com/
sandworm101 10y ago
Those are the iconic UFO stories. But one shouldn't discuss UFO-related phenomena without at least referencing Gulf Breeze. The story starts with pictures, but ends with an object found in an attic. http://www.ufocasebook.com/gulfbreeze.html http://www.ufocasebook.com/gulfbreeze.html
- givan 10y ago
  I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave are very important because of the large number of witnesses (thousands) including government officials. You can also watch many military and government witnesses in the Out of the Blue documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPCKIL7oVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPCKIL7oVw
  - StavrosK 10y ago
    I saw a pretty convincing video that showed that Phoenix lights were just falling flares.
  - Spooky23 10y ago
    Government officials are people too :) A lot of these things are military aircraft. In my region, there were a lot of UFO sightings that were Tomahawk missile terrain navigation system testing.
- jmaygarden 10y ago
  My 4th grade teacher knew Walters and brought him in to speak to our class. At 11 years old, I didn't believe a word he said. Later, it turned out that the dead grass circles matched the diameter of his patio table and the UFO model had been superimposed in those photographs. I found the naïveté of adults really disturbing.
  - cel1ne 10y ago
    I sympathize.
retrogradeorbit 10y ago
If you like them you might like the 1976 Tehran UFO incidence. The wikipedia article is missing lots of detail, but here's a link for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident
madaxe_again 10y ago
There's also this, from two years back, which defies explanation - mysterious lights on/in the Pacific ocean. http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_eruption http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_eruption I've seen my share of "weird shit in the sky". I've seen a bolide in broad daylight, which was literally a "holy shit drop to your knees in awe" moment, but I've also on a few occasions seen patterns of lights moving in impossible fashions - high speed motion, instantaneous vector changes, followed by insane acceleration and disappearance. They're usually orange. An explanation I've heard for this sort of thing is car headlamps reflecting in a temperature inversion - but the last I saw these was while camping in the taklamakan, a long way from anything or anyone else. I'm a physics graduate, an amateur astrophotgrapher, a pilot with an expired license, and I can identify aircraft, satellites, and so-forth - but some stuff I can't explain. I also saw bona fide ball lightning and St elmo's fire a few years back driving across the Russian steppe, between astrakhan and volgograd - huge electrical storm, but as we were heading towards it, we kept seeing little sparks of bright white light zooming up from the road into the clouds, and as we were coming into the storm, we noticed the barbed wire fences along the road glowing with purplish plasma. Cows in the field were sporting furry plasma pompons on the tips of their horns. Absolutely nuts. Anyway. I reserve all judgment on the question of LGM, but it'd be foolhardy to say all unexplained phenomena simply don't exist.
- sandworm101 10y ago
  Night + sea + strange green lights... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash
  - madaxe_again 10y ago
    The green flash is just the sun retracting over the horizon - you can see it off the west coast of most places. Also, the Taklamakan is a desert, not a sea...
    - sandworm101 10y ago
      It can appear anywhere you have a clean horizon, such as while flying. It can be so dramatic that any time I hear of green light moving in such a situation I point to green flash phenomena.
goda90 10y ago
So far the most interesting articles I've found in the Unusual Articles list you shared is the Dancing Plaque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania

by seibelj 10y ago

krige 10y ago

I freaking love sites/articles like that. Even if in the end it turns out to be completely mundane, a good writeup can do wonders.

atdt 10y ago
Because misery loves company, I'll share with you my worst hobby: sleep loss over Charley Project (http://www.charleyproject.org/ http://www.charleyproject.org/) cases. This should get you started: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/j/jost_marie.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/j/jost_marie.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/degree_asha.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/degree_asha.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mcguinn_melissa.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mcguinn_melissa.html

m-i-l 10y ago

As a child I very much enjoyed watching Project Blue Book (called Project UFO in the US) [0]. As I remember the episodes, the investigators would often come up with a rational explanation for the events by the end of the episode, but then just before the credits the viewer would see some piece of evidence the investigators had missed which would throw into doubt the rational explanation, making you wonder if just maybe... Also enjoyed Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_Mysterious_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_Mysteriou...

TwoBit 10y ago
No, it was called Project Blue Book here too.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  Oddly, I, too, remember watching it in the US as Project Blue Book, contrary to Wikipedia's description.

yitchelle 10y ago

Came across a podcast dealing with this type of stories and events. I wish it was more frequent. It is only a fortnightly podcast. http://www.lorepodcast.com/ http://www.lorepodcast.com/

sandworm101 10y ago

Those are the iconic UFO stories. But one shouldn't discuss UFO-related phenomena without at least referencing Gulf Breeze. The story starts with pictures, but ends with an object found in an attic. http://www.ufocasebook.com/gulfbreeze.html http://www.ufocasebook.com/gulfbreeze.html

givan 10y ago
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave are very important because of the large number of witnesses (thousands) including government officials. You can also watch many military and government witnesses in the Out of the Blue documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPCKIL7oVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPCKIL7oVw
- StavrosK 10y ago
  I saw a pretty convincing video that showed that Phoenix lights were just falling flares.
- Spooky23 10y ago
  Government officials are people too :) A lot of these things are military aircraft. In my region, there were a lot of UFO sightings that were Tomahawk missile terrain navigation system testing.
jmaygarden 10y ago
My 4th grade teacher knew Walters and brought him in to speak to our class. At 11 years old, I didn't believe a word he said. Later, it turned out that the dead grass circles matched the diameter of his patio table and the UFO model had been superimposed in those photographs. I found the naïveté of adults really disturbing.
- cel1ne 10y ago
  I sympathize.

retrogradeorbit 10y ago

If you like them you might like the 1976 Tehran UFO incidence. The wikipedia article is missing lots of detail, but here's a link for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident

madaxe_again 10y ago

There's also this, from two years back, which defies explanation - mysterious lights on/in the Pacific ocean. http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_eruption http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_eruption I've seen my share of "weird shit in the sky". I've seen a bolide in broad daylight, which was literally a "holy shit drop to your knees in awe" moment, but I've also on a few occasions seen patterns of lights moving in impossible fashions - high speed motion, instantaneous vector changes, followed by insane acceleration and disappearance. They're usually orange. An explanation I've heard for this sort of thing is car headlamps reflecting in a temperature inversion - but the last I saw these was while camping in the taklamakan, a long way from anything or anyone else. I'm a physics graduate, an amateur astrophotgrapher, a pilot with an expired license, and I can identify aircraft, satellites, and so-forth - but some stuff I can't explain. I also saw bona fide ball lightning and St elmo's fire a few years back driving across the Russian steppe, between astrakhan and volgograd - huge electrical storm, but as we were heading towards it, we kept seeing little sparks of bright white light zooming up from the road into the clouds, and as we were coming into the storm, we noticed the barbed wire fences along the road glowing with purplish plasma. Cows in the field were sporting furry plasma pompons on the tips of their horns. Absolutely nuts. Anyway. I reserve all judgment on the question of LGM, but it'd be foolhardy to say all unexplained phenomena simply don't exist.

sandworm101 10y ago
Night + sea + strange green lights... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash
- madaxe_again 10y ago
  The green flash is just the sun retracting over the horizon - you can see it off the west coast of most places. Also, the Taklamakan is a desert, not a sea...
  - sandworm101 10y ago
    It can appear anywhere you have a clean horizon, such as while flying. It can be so dramatic that any time I hear of green light moving in such a situation I point to green flash phenomena.

goda90 10y ago

So far the most interesting articles I've found in the Unusual Articles list you shared is the Dancing Plaque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania