Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 5 min readIn late 1977, residents of Colares, a Brazilian island in the Amazon estuary, reported lights that fired beams at people, leaving burns and puncture wounds. The Brazilian Air Force sent a team that stayed four months — and never explained what it found.
About 4 min readIn April 1977, three teenagers in Dover, Massachusetts, reported the same impossible creature — a small, hairless being with a huge head and glowing eyes. Then it vanished, and was never seen again.
About 4 min readFor centuries, Native peoples told of a giant bird that made thunder with its wings. Then, in 1890, a newspaper reported one shot dead in Arizona — and in 1977, a boy in Illinois said one tried to carry him away.
About 4 min readLake Champlain is 125 miles long, and for 150 years people have reported something large moving in it. The most famous evidence is a photograph from 1977 — whose negative was thrown away.
About 5 min readOn 15 August 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio recorded a strong, narrowband signal that matched what astronomers expected from a distant transmitter — and then never heard it again. Nearly fifty years later, no explanation has been confirmed.