Orbman

Single-panel intelligence archive illustration showing Mexican astronomer José Bonilla at his brass solar telescope at the Zacatecas Observatory on August 12 1883 with a large inset reproduction of his wet collodion glass plate photographs showing multiple dark silhouetted objects of varied morphology crossing the solar disc, with tactical HUD annotations noting the geese hypothesis problems and the 2011 Manterola comet fragment hypothesis

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Mexico Sightings

1883: Zacatecas Observatory, Mexico Sighting

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: May 23, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1883: Zacatecas Observatory, Mexico Sighting On August 12, 1883, astronomer José Bonilla at the Zacatecas Observatory in Mexico was...

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Split-panel intelligence archive illustration showing left half a closed wooden hut near Maracaibo Venezuela on October 24 1886 being illuminated through its sealed walls by a brilliant exterior light during a tropical thunderstorm while nine family members are struck simultaneously by vomiting and swelling, and right half US Consul Warner Cowgill standing in a colonial hospital ward nine days later documenting the survivors whose skin has ulcerated while the surrounding trees have simultaneously withered outside the window

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Venezuela Sightings

1886: Maracaibo, Venezuela Incident

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: May 21, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1886: Maracaibo, Venezuela Incident On the night of October 24, 1886, during a rainy and tempestuous night near Maracaibo,...

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Single-panel intelligence archive illustration showing a group of Welsh miners in working clothes frozen in a moonless dark field at Padeswood near Mold Flintshire as a large purplish-red luminous ball hovers overhead while one man peers over a hedgerow watching it transform into a swirling smoke ball with flame at the base on the ground of the adjacent field, with an inset showing the wide black scorched grass circle found at the landing site several days later

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England Sightings

1880?: English Poachers sent packing by flying ball!

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: May 24, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1880?: English Poachers sent packing by flying ball! Sometime in the 1880s, a gang of striking miners from the...

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Single-panel intelligence archive illustration showing Texas farmer John Martin standing alone in flat winter farmland near Denison Texas on January 2 1878 looking directly overhead at a dark circular object at great altitude, with a Denison Daily News newspaper masthead inset reading A Strange Phenomenon and tactical HUD annotation identifying this as the first documented use of the word saucer to describe an anomalous aerial object 69 years before Kenneth Arnold

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Texas Sightings

1878: Denison, Texas Daylight UFO

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: May 25, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1878: Denison, Texas Daylight UFO On the morning of January 2, 1878, farmer John Martin left his homestead six...

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Norway Sightings

1946 & 1952: The Legends of UFO Crashes at Spitzbergen, Norway

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: September 11, 2025

THINK ABOUTIT CRASH REPORT Date: 1946 & 1952 Sighting Time: Day/Night: Location: Spitsbergen, Norway Urban or Rural: Rural Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) Point...

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