This site is built around one rule: every claim gets a credibility score, argued case by case, never templated. That's the part worth understanding before you dive in — so here's how it works, and a few places worth starting.
How the Scoring Works
Every case file on this site carries a numeric score out of 100 and one of six credibility stamps. The stamp isn't assigned by a formula — each case has its own "Why this stamp" section explaining the reasoning, weighing witness count, physical evidence, official corroboration, and how well mundane explanations hold up.
Officially confirmed by a government body, sensor data, or multiple independent institutional sources.
Strong witness testimony and/or physical evidence, without full official confirmation.
Genuinely contested — real evidence exists on more than one side of the explanation.
Unresolved. Not enough evidence yet to lean toward any explanation.
A conventional explanation accounts for the case well enough to close it.
First-person accounts, including the founder's own sighting — evaluated with the same honesty about limitations.
Most cases are also run through the Five Observables framework — the same set of anomalous performance characteristics popularized by AATIP's Luis Elizondo: anti-gravity lift, instant acceleration, hypersonic velocity without a heat/sonic signature, low observability, and trans-medium travel. A case doesn't need to show all five to be credible; most show one or two, if any.
The Whole Site At A Glance
Every section of OverClassified, with what's actually in it. Click any card to jump straight there.
9 Verified · 63 Credible · 217 Disputed · 41 Open · 28 Debunked · 4 Personal
175,818147,585 NUFORC + 17,409 Hatch UFO*DB + 3,368 GEIPAN (France) + 7,456 Project Blue Book (NARA) raw reports
24Documented morphologies, from classic discs to black triangles
1992Witnesses, researchers, whistleblowers, officials, and skeptics
660Every place referenced across the case-file archive, mapped
62From interdimensional and ultraterrestrial hypotheses to zero-point energy
33Historical accounts, from Roman prodigia to Ezekiel's Wheel
445Full book-length breakdowns of the field’s core literature
967Case-linked imagery and footage, organized by incident
124Photographed and filmed craft, cross-referenced to their cases
7,831Across 362 cases and 1,781 distinct domains
491Declassified documents, 30 agencies, 25 countries, 1904–2026, 185K+ pages
3,514Nodes in the live relationship graph, joined by 12,507 connections
5Curated cases layered over four independent raw datasets
38910,000 BCE–2025, 360 case files and 29 ancient records across 45 decades
Start With a Case File
The five cases with the highest scores on the site — a mix of official confirmation, radar/gun-camera data, and multi-witness corroboration.
USS Nimitz / Tic Tac Encounter
Multi-sensor Navy encounter, 2004. Radar, FLIR, and multiple trained pilot witnesses.
96 / 100 VERIFIEDUAP Task Force Formation
The Pentagon's own official acknowledgment that the phenomenon warrants formal investigation.
96 / 100 VERIFIEDBelgian UFO Wave
Thousands of witnesses, 1989–1990, including F-16 intercepts confirmed by the Belgian Air Force.
91 / 100 VERIFIEDTehran UFO Incident
An Iranian Air Force jet lost instrumentation while intercepting an object over Tehran — declassified in a DIA report.
88 / 100 VERIFIEDThe Phoenix Lights
A mass sighting over Arizona in 1997, witnessed by thousands including the sitting governor.
72 / 100Go Deeper Into the Raw Data
Beyond the 362 curated case files, the raw civilian and government reporting databases sit underneath — searchable, unfiltered, and much larger.
Sightings DB
175,818 raw reports across four independent sources — NUFORC's civilian archive, Larry Hatch's UFO*DB, GEIPAN, the French government's own UAP investigation body, and the U.S. National Archives' Project Blue Book case files — searchable by shape, location, and decade.
Search the databases →Craft Types
24 documented morphologies, from the classic disc and cigar shapes to the black triangle — each with its own reported flight characteristics and representative cases.
Browse craft morphologies →Meet a Key Figure
Four researchers whose work threads through much of the rest of the site.
J. Allen Hynek
Project Blue Book consultant, 1952–1969
Went from official skeptic to the field's most credible advocate. Created the Close Encounter classification system still used today.
Jacques Vallée
Astronomer, computer scientist, UAP theorist
Co-developed the interdimensional hypothesis. Widely regarded as one of the most intellectually rigorous researchers in the field.
Luis Elizondo
Former AATIP Director
Led the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program from 2007 until resigning in 2017. Popularized the Five Observables.
Bob Lazar
Whistleblower; S-4 claimed researcher
Broke the S-4/Area 51 story in 1989. Highly controversial, but the reason Area 51 entered global pop culture.
Browse by Place, Theory, or Era
Three more ways to slice the archive — by where something happened, by what might explain it, or by how far back the pattern actually goes.
Locations
660 places referenced across every case file on the site, from military bases to reservoirs, each linking back to every case tied to it.
Browse by location →Theories
62 explanatory frameworks argued on their merits — interdimensional and ultraterrestrial hypotheses, secret space programs, zero-point energy, and more.
Read the theories →Ancient
33 historical accounts predating modern UFO terminology — from Roman prodigia and Ezekiel's Wheel to the Nuremberg 1561 celestial battle.
Read the ancient record →Read a Book Breakdown
Four Essential Reading articles that pair directly with the figures above — full breakdowns of each book's core arguments, reception, and legacy.
Go Straight to the Primary Sources
Every case file on this site cites its evidence — these two pages are where that evidence itself lives, independent of any one case's narrative.
Sources & Citations
7,831 citations behind every case file, across 362 cases and 1,781 distinct domains — 6,250 link straight out to the original document, paper, or article.
Browse the citation library →The Vault
491 declassified government documents from 30 agencies and 25 countries, spanning 1904–2026 — 185K+ pages, no alterations, no speculation.
Open the archive →Photos & Video
The visual record, organized by case rather than scattered across the web.
Photos & Video
967 pieces of case-linked imagery and footage — official gun-camera and FLIR video alongside civilian photographs, each tied back to its own case file.
Browse the gallery →Craft Photos
124 photographed and filmed craft specifically, cross-referenced to the case each one comes from.
Browse craft photos →Explore the Data
Three ways to move through the whole site at once, instead of one page at a time — a relationship graph, a live map, and a 460-year timeline, all showcased together on one hub.
The Constellation
Every case, figure, location, and book — 3,514 nodes and 12,507 connections — as one explorable relationship graph.
Open the graph →The Interactive Map
358 curated cases layered over 168K+ raw civilian and government sighting reports.
Open the map →The Timeline
295 dated cases from 1566 to 2025, grouped by decade, filterable by credibility stamp.
Open the timeline →Want to know why this site exists in the first place? Read the founder's story.