Begin with
the record.
Governments kept files on this. Most of them are public, most of them are dull, and almost nobody reads them. This is those files, told properly, with what is wrong with each one written next to what is remarkable about it.
- Cases catalogued
- 135
- Countries
- 44
- Documents reachable
- 79
- Forms in the roster
- 42
Start here
The cases the rest of the archive was built from.
The studies
Original interpretations of reported morphology. Never incident photography.
How to read this archive
Every entry says how strong its evidence is before it says anything else. That is the whole method, and it is on the page rather than in a footnote.
Morphology traceable to an official document, investigation or proceeding. The underlying claim may still be unresolved or rejected.
An authentic official archive or state-reporting chain exists, but what it carries is press, correspondence or hearsay.
Popular account. No official chain established, or the audit is still pending.
Official scientific, experimental or speculative context rather than a witnessed entity.
A preserved official file establishes that a report was made and examined. It does not establish what was seen. Nothing in this archive concludes; it cites.
Every case that reports an entity also says how much of one its record actually resolves. Of 52 such cases, 14 carry a body: a face, a head, eyes, hands. The rest carry a suit with nothing described inside it, a silhouette, or no description at all while a vivid one circulates elsewhere. See where those 14 are.