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Worth watchingThe Nimitz "Tic Tac"November 2004 · Off San Diego, USANavy pilots and radar tracked a white craft that outflew their fighter jets.
Worth watchingThe Yemen "orb" and the Hellfire missileFilmed Oct 2024, shown Sept 2025 · Off YemenA US drone's missile hit a glowing orb and appeared to bounce off.
Worth watchingThe silent black triangleJune 2026 · Western USAFederal agents saw a matte black triangle hover and fly off silently.
Worth watchingK2-18b and dimethyl sulfideApril 2025 · 124 light years awayThe James Webb telescope found a gas that on Earth only life makes.
Worth watchingMars: the "leopard spots" of Cheyava FallsJuly 2024; paper September 2025 · Jezero Crater, MarsNASA's rover found the clearest sign of ancient life on Mars.
Worth watchingEnceladus's ocean plumes2005 to 2023 · Saturn's moonSaturn's icy moon has everything life needs.
UnprovenProject Blue Book1952 to 1969 · US Air ForceThe Air Force studied thousands of UFOs and couldn't explain hundreds of them.
UnprovenThe "Gimbal" video2015 · US Navy, AtlanticAn object rotates against the wind in a way no aircraft can.
UnprovenCrash retrieval and "non-human biologics"July 2023 · US CongressA former intelligence officer testified under oath that the US holds crashed craft and non-human bodies.
UnprovenThe Pentagon's UAP filesMay to October 2026 · war.gov/UFOThe government finally released its UFO files, so the truth must be in there.
UnprovenThe Wow! signalAugust 1977 · Big Ear telescope, OhioA 72-second radio burst was the best alien signal ever received.
UnprovenPhosphine on VenusSeptember 2020 · VenusA gas made by microbes on Earth was found in Venus's clouds.
ExplainedThe Great Pyramid of Gizac. 2560 BC · EgyptHumans couldn't have cut, moved and stacked 2.3 million blocks with Bronze Age tools.
ExplainedThe Nazca Lines500 BC to AD 500 · PeruGiant drawings only visible from the air must have been runways or signals for ancient astronauts.
ExplainedPuma Punku's precise stonesc. AD 500 to 600 · Tiwanaku, BoliviaThe H-shaped blocks are cut so precisely they must have been machined.
ExplainedThe "Baghdad Battery"c. 2,000 years old · IraqA clay jar with a copper tube and iron rod was an ancient battery, maybe from visitors.
ExplainedThe Antikythera mechanismc. 150 to 60 BC · GreeceA bronze gear computer from ancient Greece is too advanced to be human.
ExplainedThe Piri Reis map1513 · Ottoman EmpireThe map shows Antarctica without ice, so its maker had aerial maps from aliens.
ExplainedThe moai of Easter Islandc. 1250 to 1500 · Rapa Nui, ChileNobody could move giant statues across the island without help.
ExplainedGöbekli Tepec. 9500 BC · TürkiyeGiant carved pillars older than farming must come from a lost or alien civilisation.
ExplainedStonehengec. 3000 to 1500 BC · EnglandThe stones were placed by beings with anti-gravity technology.
ExplainedThe elongated skulls of Paracasc. 800 BC to AD 100 · PeruCone-shaped skulls are alien or alien-human hybrids.
ExplainedRoswellJuly 1947 · New Mexico, USAA flying saucer crashed and the military hid the bodies.
ExplainedRendlesham ForestDecember 1980 · Suffolk, EnglandUS airmen saw a landed craft near RAF Woodbridge, "Britain's Roswell".
ExplainedThe Phoenix LightsMarch 1997 · Arizona, USAA mile-wide V-shaped craft flew silently over Phoenix in front of thousands.
ExplainedThe "GoFast" video2015 · US Navy, AtlanticA small object skims the ocean at incredible speed.
ExplainedThe 2023 balloon shootdownsFebruary 2023 · USA and CanadaFighter jets shot down four unknown objects in a week.
ExplainedThe New Jersey dronesNovember to December 2024 · New Jersey, USAMystery drones swarmed New Jersey night after night.
Explained'OumuamuaOctober 2017 · Interstellar visitorThe first interstellar object was cigar-shaped and sped up, like an alien light sail.
Explained3I/ATLASJuly 2025 to 2026 · Interstellar visitorThe third interstellar object is alien technology heading for Jupiter.
Explained"Little Green Men 1"1967 · Cambridge, EnglandA radio pulse ticking every 1.3 seconds was an alien beacon.
ExplainedBLC1 from Proxima Centauri2019, analysed 2021 · Parkes telescope, AustraliaA narrow radio signal seemed to come from our nearest star.
ExplainedTabby's Star2015 to 2018 · KIC 8462852A star dimming by up to 22% could be surrounded by an alien megastructure.
ExplainedThe Mars meteorite ALH840011996 · Found in AntarcticaTiny worm-like shapes in a Martian meteorite are fossil bacteria.
ExplainedThe Viking life experiment1976 · MarsNASA's Viking landers detected life on Mars and NASA ignored it.
ExplainedFast radio bursts2007 to now · Distant galaxiesMillisecond radio flashes from deep space could be alien transmitters.
DebunkedThe Palenque "astronaut"AD 683 · MexicoKing Pakal's tomb lid shows an astronaut at the controls of a rocket.
DebunkedThe Anunnaki and planet NibiruSumer, c. 3000 BC · IraqSumerian tablets record aliens from a hidden planet, Nibiru, who created humans.
DebunkedThe Dogon and Sirius BReported 1930s to 1950s · MaliThe Dogon knew about the invisible star Sirius B because aliens told them.
DebunkedVimanas, the flying machines of IndiaAncient epics; text 1918 to 1923 · IndiaAncient Sanskrit texts describe working aircraft.
DebunkedThe Abydos "helicopter"c. 1290 BC · EgyptA temple carving shows a helicopter, a submarine and a jet.
DebunkedThe Belgian UFO triangle photo1990 · BelgiumThe famous photo of a black triangle with three lights proves the Belgian UFO wave.
DebunkedThe "alien autopsy" film1995 · UKA film shows military doctors dissecting a Roswell alien.
DebunkedThe "alien mummies" shown to Mexico's CongressSeptember 2023 · MexicoTwo 1,000-year-old non-human bodies were presented to lawmakers.Advertisement
What the verdicts mean
Debunked Shown to be false, a hoax or a misreading.Explained A solid ordinary explanation fits the evidence.Unproven Not explained, but no evidence it is alien either. Usually too little data.Worth watching Credible data, genuinely open. The cases that could move the meter.