Documented records and archives: the paper trail itself is the subject. 23 files.
A fireball over the San Francisco Bay Area on 17 October 2012 was caught by NASA-supported sky cameras, the fall zone was predicted over Novato, and three days later a resident found a black stone after remembering a bang on her roof.
On a Friday evening in October 1992 a fireball crossed several eastern states while football crowds filmed it, then a 12 kg stone punched through the trunk of a parked Chevrolet in Peekskill, New York. It became the best-filmed meteorite fall of its time.
On the evening of October 9, 1933, observers across Europe counted hundreds of meteors a minute, and in rural Portugal the sight caused real alarm. American observatories heard about it by telegraph while it was happening, watched their own skies that night, and saw nothing.
At about ten on a Sunday night in October 1894, one brilliant fireball crossed Arizona Territory. Flagstaff saw it burst over the Elden mountains, Mesa “just this side of Superstition,” and Globe felt a detonation that “shook the earth.” Mohave County had it hit Wallapai mountain, and Tucson called it “the first dispatch from Mars.”
At 3:56 a.m. on June 2, 2016, a fireball lit up the Southwest, and sonic booms were heard across the Phoenix area. More than 400 people reported it. It wasn't a launch or a re-entry. Radar tracked falling stones, and fifteen meteorites were recovered. They were named Dishchii'bikoh.
At 7:21 p.m. on October 7, 2018, people across metro Phoenix photographed a strange glowing streak in the western sky. It was a Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg in California, lit by a sun that had set over Arizona more than an hour earlier, and its first stage flew back to land at the base for the first time.
Two October meteor showers peak this month: the Draconids on the evening of October 8 and the Orionids before dawn around October 21–22. Here's when to look from Arizona, and how to tell a meteor or fireball from a rocket plume or a satellite.
Our first monthly archive pack: eight period newspaper reports from 1888 to 1938, each paired with what came later. That might be a confession, a debunk, or the reason it's still open. It runs from a Phoenix fireball to a New Zealand ghost scare.
At dusk on December 22, 2017, a glowing, branching cloud crossed the Southern California sky and stopped traffic on the freeways. The Los Angeles Fire Department had to explain it: a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg. AP reported it was seen as far away as Phoenix.
A skull found on the Lower Murrumbidgee in 1846 was hailed in the Sydney Morning Herald as proof of an unknown animal. Five months later, in the same paper, a naturalist identified it from its milk teeth as a malformed foal. Then the skull disappeared.
A golden-trailed fireball crossed the Salt River Valley at dinnertime on 6 October 1906 and broke up with a boom. Callers feared an explosion, the Weather Bureau observer timed it with his watch, and Tucson and Phoenix each said it passed right over them.
On the Tuesday before Christmas 2015, a bright, slow, fragmenting light crossed the evening sky from California to Arizona. It wasn't a meteor. It was the spent third stage of the Soyuz rocket that had launched a cargo ship to the space station the day before.
Just after 7 p.m. on September 28, 2025, a long, glowing streak drifted across Arizona from Flagstaff to Tucson, and some people asked if it was a comet. It was a Falcon 9 that had launched from Vandenberg a few minutes earlier, lit by a sun that had already set.
AARO’s public case-resolution report on Eglin states equipment/operability findings that conflict with “secret video” folklore — two paperwork lanes, one nickname.
Batch 6 republishes AAWSAP-era Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on warp, wormhole, and antigravity concepts — fringe physics reports ≠ confirmed craft.
A shipwrecked bronze calculator from the ancient Mediterranean — out of place only until the gear trains are counted.
NARA catalogs Project Blue Book Motion Picture Films, 1950–1966 — film-as-record, with modern digital derivatives.
House method: named press + register/agency path, status honesty, no specimen leap — with the live Loch Ness file as exemplar.
Air Force Fact Sheet via NARA: 12,618 sightings (1947–1969); 701 remain Unidentified; project ended 17 Dec 1969.
archives.gov offers catalog bulk downloads for UAP-related series — researcher on-ramp without conspiracy framing.
A declassified Naval Photographic Interpretation Center progress report charts the 1952 Utah and 1950 Montana movies without settling a modern ET claim.
war.gov/UFO hosts rolling unresolved UAP records under PURSUE with explicit “unable to make a definitive determination” framing.
~1 hour of then-Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt describing AF UFO investigation workload — historical voice, not 2026 adjudication.
