The world's most documented alleged encounters with alien beings.
Not craft, not lights — the beings themselves: abductions, contact claims, and humanoid sightings, each drawn from the historical record and cited to a real source. Spin the globe below or search the database beneath it. These are claims, not confirmed events — see the note at the bottom of this page.
A case is listed when it meets all three tests: historical notability (it is discussed in the established literature, not only in a single post); a citable source that can be checked; and relevance to entity contact — either the claim itself, or a documented case that provides a comparison point for one.
Evidence is recorded in two separate fields. Claimed means a witness reported physical evidence. Documented means independent investigators actually recovered, photographed or tested something — regardless of what that testing later concluded. A documented trace is not a confirmed encounter; it is a real object with an unsettled cause.
Cases that investigations resolved prosaically — admitted hoaxes, misidentified balloons, rocket launches, sequenced remains — are kept, not deleted, and flagged Resolved. They are the reference points that make the unresolved cases legible, and they are filterable on their own.
Each case carries a 1–5 rating built from witness count, contemporaneous records and depth of investigation. It measures how well the claim is recorded — never how likely the event is to have happened. A well-documented hoax scores 5.
Being types are descriptive labels for what witnesses reported, drawn from the accounts themselves. Tagging a case Grey-type says the description matches a recurring pattern in the literature — nothing more.
Distribution views over the whole archive. These show when claims cluster, which descriptions recur and how much of the record rests on documented material — they are descriptive counts, not evidence of a cause. Every chart is also a filter.
Counted by the year the event is claimed to have occurred, not the year it was published. Pre-1890 analogues are grouped at the left edge.
Descriptive tags from the accounts. A case can carry more than one.
Narrative elements that appear across unconnected cases and continents.
Source types behind the cases. Most carry more than one.
Reporting volume follows press freedom, research communities and language as much as anything else.
Schematic outlines drawn to a common scale from the descriptions in the cases below — not depictions of anything observed, and not artists' impressions of a real being. They exist to make the typology filter legible: these are the shapes witnesses have reported, and how often.
The dashed line on each figure marks 1.7 m for scale. Where an account gives no usable description, the case is tagged Unclear rather than assigned a type. Cases with no entity reported — craft-only sightings, trace cases and controls — are tagged None reported and are kept in the archive because they are what the entity claims have to be read against.
Every case on the globe above, in full. No previews, no line-clamped summaries — each entry below carries its complete, unabridged description and a link to a real source. Open a case for its investigation timeline, official-record cross-links, related cases and a formatted citation.
Ways into a hundred cases. Each path is a short sequence chosen to make a particular argument legible — the founding accounts, the international spread, the physical-evidence cases, and the ones that were solved.
These terms appear throughout the case descriptions. They are defined here as the literature uses them — describing what is claimed or reported, which is not the same as endorsing that the described thing occurs.
Submissions are reviewed before anything is added, against the three tests above. A source URL is mandatory: without one there is nothing to check, and the case cannot be listed. Sending puts your suggestion in the moderation queue — nothing is published automatically.
Pick two alien-encounter cases to read them side by side — full summaries, no truncation.
This describes what witnesses claimed, not a confirmed event. Status labels reflect how a case is regarded in the literature, not a scientific determination. No government investigation to date has concluded that extraterrestrial beings visited Earth. Printed from xeno.news/aliens.
How often two reported elements appear in the same case. Rows are being types, columns are recurring motifs; each cell counts the cases carrying both. This is co-occurrence in the reports — it says what gets described together, not what causes what. Small counts mean very little.
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