October 17, 2026Factual error
Colares: the remaining radar claims and inflated figures
Page: Colares UFO Flap / Operation Prato
What the page said: in passages the October 14 fixes had missed, that the team included radar technicians and compiled radar logs, that the operation recorded 16 hours of Super-8 film and produced over 2,000 pages of files, that it ran for five months, and that Captain Hollanda gave his interview in July 1997 and died three months later. What is correct: Hollanda said the team carried no radar equipment; Bob Pratt describes several hours of film and an operation of about four months; Hollanda put his final report at more than 200 pages; and one of the two interviewers dates the interview to early August 1997, about two months before Hollanda’s death on October 2. Source: the Revista UFO interview, Pratt’s report, and Marco Antonio Petit’s account (Revista UFO).
October 14, 2026Overstated evidence
Colares: radar tracking with no source behind it
Page: Colares UFO Flap / Operation Prato
What the page said: that Belém airport radar and military mobile radar logged the objects, that radar tracked them accelerating past Mach 5, and, in its evidence summary, “Radar Telemetry: Yes.” What is correct: Captain Hollanda, who commanded the operation, told Revista UFO in 1997 that his team carried no radar equipment, and no radar data from the operation has been released; the radar field now reads “Unconfirmed”. Source: Hollanda interview, Revista UFO.
October 14, 2026Overstated evidence
Colares: medical findings with no source behind them
Page: Colares UFO Flap / Operation Prato
What the page said: that military physicians corroborated the local doctor's findings, that military medical reports confirmed radiation exposure, that death certificates were consistent with radiation, and that the lesions measured 5–15 cm. What is correct: none of these claims has a source. Bob Pratt, who reviewed the leaked Air Force files, found that only a few mention burns or injuries and that there is “no mention of anyone dying”; the page now attributes the doctor's account to her and states that no military medical report on the injuries has been published. Source: Bob Pratt's MUFON report (PDF, The Black Vault).
October 14, 2026Factual error
Colares: wrong dates for Operation Prato and the release of its files
Page: Colares UFO Flap / Operation Prato
What the page said: that the operation ran from September through December 1977, that its files reached Brazil's National Archives in 2004–2005, and that the 1957 RB-47 and 1981 Trans-en-Provence cases were contemporary with it. What is correct: the operation ran officially from mid-October 1977 into early 1978, transfers of the Air Force's UFO files to the Arquivo Nacional began in 2008, and the two unrelated cases were removed. Source: Arquivo Nacional, “Os OVNIs no Arquivo Nacional” and Pratt's report.
October 14, 2026Misattributed source
Colares: the key interview credited to the wrong researcher and the wrong issue
Page: Colares UFO Flap / Operation Prato
What the page said: in three places, that Captain Hollanda's 1997 interview was given to researcher Daniel Rebisso Giese, and its citation gave a “Special Issue No. 24, July 1997”. What is correct: the interview was conducted by A.J. Gevaerd and Marco Antonio Petit of Revista UFO and published in issue No. 54, October 1997, continued in the next issue (corrected October 13 and 14). Source: Revista UFO, “Coronel rompe silêncio sobre UFOs”.
October 14, 2026Book and citation error
Colares: a recommended “book” that could not be found
Page: Colares UFO Flap / Operation Prato
What the page said: its Further Reading recommended “Revista UFO: Operação Prato” by A.J. Gevaerd (2009), with a store link. What is correct: the link was dead and no such 2009 book or special issue could be found, so the card was removed and replaced with Jacques Vallée's Confrontations, which the page already cites. Source: a live check of the listing and catalogue searches for the title.
October 14, 2026Misattributed source
Rommel report: a concession it never made
Pages: Cattle Mutilation theory, Judy Doraty, Montana 1975 wave, Mute Evidence, Kenneth Rommel
What the pages said: that former FBI agent Kenneth Rommel's 1980 report acknowledged a residual minority of cases he could not explain. What is correct: the report says none of the 117 New Mexico cases it reviewed could be confirmed as a “classic mutilation”; 21 older reports were set aside as too thinly documented to judge, not described as unexplained. The key-figures card was corrected on October 13 and the other four pages on October 14. Source: full transcription of Operation Animal Mutilation (rr0.org).
October 14, 2026Fabricated quote
Rommel report: a quotation that is not in it
Page: Mute Evidence (book breakdown)
What the page said: it quoted Rommel's report as concluding that mutilations were “predominantly the result of natural predation”. What is correct: that wording does not appear in the report, and the quotation was removed; the page now gives what the report does say about the 117 cases. Source: report transcription (rr0.org).
October 14, 2026Factual error
Rommel investigation: experiment length, his FBI letter and the report date
Pages: Cattle Mutilation theory, Judy Doraty
What the pages said: that the 1979 Arkansas sheriff's field test watched the carcass for 48 hours, that Rommel's March 1980 letter to the FBI dismissed cult theories, and (on the Doraty file) that his report was dated April 1980. What is correct: the animal was watched for more than 30 hours; the letter names UFOs and a governmental conspiracy, not cults; and the report is dated June 1980, April 15 being the press conference (Doraty corrected October 13). Source: FBI Vault, Animal Mutilation and the report transcription.
October 14, 2026Book and citation error
An Alien Harvest: what the book and the test actually show
Page: An Alien Harvest (book breakdown)
What the page said: that the Arkansas field test showed an “unscavenged” carcass could produce the classic wounds, that Linda Moulton Howe's 1980 documentary was made against an already-published Rommel report, and that her book devotes considerable space to disputing it. What is correct: scavengers removed the test calf's tongue, an eye and other tissue while officers watched for more than 30 hours; Howe's documentary was filmed while Rommel's inquiry was still under way; and in the book's 2014 edition her direct comment on his report is a brief photo caption. Source: the book itself (2014 second edition) and the report transcription.
October 14, 2026Overstated evidence
DMT theory: Strassman's results and his own position overstated and misstated
Pages: DMT Psychedelic Contact theory, Rick Strassman
What the pages said: that “a majority of high-dose subjects” met autonomous beings, and that Strassman noted only a resemblance to abduction accounts, without proposing a shared cause. What is correct: by Strassman's own count it was at least half of the volunteers, and his book does propose, as untested speculation, that spontaneous contact experiences may be mediated by the body's own DMT (the second point corrected October 13). Source: Strassman, DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2001); see our breakdown.
October 14, 2026Factual error
ODNI assessment: an unsourced date for Jay Stratton's departure
Page: ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP
What the page said: that the UAP Task Force's first director, Jay Stratton, was reassigned out of the role in January 2021, with no source given. What is correct: he led the task force from August 2020 and left the role during 2021 (accounts differ on exactly when), retiring from government in 2022. Source: People, October 13, 2026.
October 14, 2026Book and citation error
Live check of 839 book codes: nine wrong or dead
Pages include: Extraterrestrial Hypothesis, Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis, Library
What the pages said: three book cards carried valid-looking codes that opened the wrong book: Stanton Friedman's Flying Saucers and Science led to a Knights Templar encyclopedia, Richard Dolan's UFOs and the National Security State to an unrelated title, and D.W. Pasulka's American Cosmic to David Kilcullen's Blood Year; the other bad codes were dead or had no usable listing, and American Cosmic's subtitle was transposed on four pages. What is correct: each card now links to the right title and author or to this site's own breakdown, and the subtitle reads “UFOs, Religion, Technology”. Source: every code was loaded on its live listing and matched by title and author.
October 14, 2026Book and citation error
Cash-Landrum: a book chapter that does not exist
Page: Cash-Landrum Incident
What the page said: that Don Berliner's UFO Briefing Document contains a highly detailed chapter on the Cash-Landrum medical records. What is correct: Cash-Landrum is not among the case histories named in the book's table of contents; the card now describes the book accurately as general context. Source: the book's table of contents; see our breakdown.
October 14, 2026Book and citation error
Store-only book codes: four bad links among 77
Pages: Albert Bender, Stanford, Kentucky, Gando Air Base, Colares
What the pages said: the Bender card for Gray Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers linked to a different Barker book, M.I.B., and three other cards linked to dead listings (one of them the Colares card above). What is correct: the Bender card now points to the 1997 IllumiNet edition the card describes, the Stanford and Gando cards to the right live editions, and the Colares card was removed. Source: all 77 store-only codes on the site were loaded and matched by title and author.
October 14, 2026Book and citation error
UFO Scotland: one book presented as two
Pages: UFO Scotland (book breakdown), Bonnybridge UFO Wave, Ron Halliday
What the pages said: that Ron Halliday published two separate 1998 books, UFO Scotland and Beyond the Falkirk Triangle, each with its own article, and the cited ISBN belonged to a later Kindle edition. What is correct: they are one 1998 B&W paperback (ISBN 1873631839) catalogued under both titles; the two articles were merged, the old address redirects to the merged one, and a claim that the book covers West Freugh was dropped. Source: Internet Archive scan of the book and Books from Scotland listing.
October 13, 2026Misattributed claim
Gordon Cooper and Edwards AFB: a sighting he never claimed, and witnesses we said could not be found
Pages: Gordon Cooper, Edwards AFB Canberra Photograph
What the pages said: Cooper's card said he personally saw a craft land at Edwards AFB in 1957, and the case file said no cameraman's account of that event could be located. What is correct: Cooper said a camera crew under his direction filmed the object and did not claim to have seen it himself; the two cameramen were interviewed by physicist James McDonald, whose account describes an object moving away from them, with no landing. Source: McDonald's statement to the 1968 House UFO symposium, Case 41.
October 13, 2026Misattributed claim
Zeitoun: a scholar's book credited with a thesis it reports as other people's view
Page: Zeitoun Marian Apparitions
What the page said: one sentence placed La Salette and Lourdes “after 1917”, credited Sandra Zimdars-Swartz's Encountering Mary with a thesis that apparitions cluster around national crises, and put the apparitions “eight months” after the June 1967 war. What is correct: La Salette was in 1846 and Lourdes in 1858; the book reports the crisis explanation as a view held by skeptics and mentions Zeitoun only in passing; and the April 1968 apparitions came less than a year after the war. Source: Zimdars-Swartz, Encountering Mary (1991); see our breakdown.
October 13, 2026Fabricated source
Breakaway Civilization: a Richard Dolan book that does not exist
Pages: Breakaway Civilization theory, Essential Reading queue
What the pages said: the theory page cited “Corporate America & UFOs: The Corporate Takeover” (Dolan, 2020), first as a book card and then, under a second title, in its Sources, and the reading queue listed it as coming soon. What is correct: no such book exists: its code fails the ISBN check digit and has no listing, and neither Open Library nor Dolan's own book list has the title. The card was removed on September 3 and the remaining citation and queue card on October 13, replaced with Dolan's real 2016 book The Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilization. Source: see our breakdown of the real book.
October 13, 2026Fabricated source
Lake Huron: an invented book about the 2023 balloon shootdowns
Pages: Lake Huron UAP Shootdown, Essential Reading queue
What the pages said: they cited “Skyward: Inside the Take Down of the Chinese Spy Balloon” by NBC reporters Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee (2025). What is correct: no such book exists: its code fails the ISBN check digit and returns no listing, and neither Amazon nor the publisher has the title; the reporters' real work on the subject is their NBC News coverage. It was removed from the case file on August 24 and from the reading queue on October 13. Source: ISBN check-digit test, live listing check and publisher search.
October 13, 2026Book and citation error
Gulf Breeze: wrong years and publishers for two books
Pages: Gulf Breeze UFO Sightings, The Gulf Breeze Sightings (book breakdown)
What the pages said: that Gary Covella's Captured in Gulf Breeze was published in 2024 as a sympathetic restatement of the case for the photos, and that Craig Myers's War of the Words was published by AuthorHouse. What is correct: Covella's book was independently published in 2026 and nothing supports that description; Myers's book is an Xlibris title. Source: the books' own publication records (ISBN 9798197710611 for Covella).
September 12, 2026Overstated evidence
STAR GATE: an official verdict presented without the reviewers' own split
Page: Gifted Children Experiencer theory
What the page said: flatly, that the 1995 outside review of the STAR GATE remote-viewing program found no operationally useful capability. What is correct: that was the CIA's summary, but the review's two outside assessors disagreed: statistician Jessica Utts concluded the effect was statistically real, while psychologist Ray Hyman did not accept that conclusion. The page now presents both. Source: the 1995 American Institutes for Research evaluation and its separate Utts and Hyman assessments.
September 3, 2026Book and citation error
Library-wide book-code audit: 34 wrong or mistyped codes
Pages: 35 case-file, theory and ancient-record pages; see the Library
What the pages said: 34 book cards carried wrong or mistyped store codes, including one dead code cited as two different books on two different pages, and one correct code shown under the wrong authors. What is correct: every one of the 867 codes in the library was run through the ISBN check-digit test, and each failure was checked against its live listing and corrected. Source: live listings, matched by title and author.
September 2, 2026Factual error
Kecksburg: who actually examined the site in 2003
Page: Kecksburg Incident
What the page said: that the 2003 Sci Fi Channel site work was run by “geologist John Ventre” and supervised by the Unsolved Mysteries production company, and that it found no meteoritic material and no sign of an impact. What is correct: Ventre was MUFON's Pennsylvania State Director, not a geologist; the work was done by West Virginia University professors J. Stephen Kite (geology) and Ray Hicks (forestry) using soil and tree-core sampling, and Hicks reported signs of a “traumatic event” around 1965. The unsourced findings were removed, and a citation that named a non-existent imprint was corrected. Source: The New Roswell: Kecksburg Exposed (Sci Fi Channel, October 2003).
August 23–24, 2026Site-wide audit
Case-file fact-check: 334 errors corrected across 201 case files
Pages: 201 files in the Case Files
Over two days, a fact-check pass worked through the case files in sixteen batches and corrected 334 confirmed problems: invented quotations, wrong dates and names, sources credited with things they do not say, and pages that contradicted themselves. Each fix was re-checked against a primary source before the page was edited. Five of the most significant are listed below.
August 24, 2026Fabricated source
Roswell: radar logs that do not exist
Page: Roswell Incident
What the page said: in three places, that declassified radar logs from White Sands and Alamogordo showed an anomalous target over the Capitan Mountains on July 1–3, 1947, vanishing during a storm; it also said Kenneth Arnold reported nine crescent-shaped objects. What is correct: no source for such logs could be found, and the radar at White Sands had a range of about 40 miles; the claim was removed and the page says so. Arnold described nine objects, only one of them crescent-shaped. Source: C.B. Moore's technical assessment of 1947 radar capability, cited on the page.
August 24, 2026Fabricated source
Kenneth Arnold: an FBI agent who was never there
Page: Kenneth Arnold Sighting
What the page said: that “FBI Special Agent Ted Morello” interviewed Arnold and filed a report later released under FOIA. What is correct: no such agent or report could be found, and the claim was removed; the officers who interviewed Arnold were Army Air Forces intelligence officers, Captain William Davidson and Lieutenant Frank Brown, and the page now says so. A wrong book subtitle on the page was also fixed. Source: the Army Air Forces' own record of the Arnold interview, as documented in the case's published histories.
August 24, 2026Factual error
Socorro: a highway that does not reach New Mexico
Page: Socorro / Lonnie Zamora
What the page said: that Officer Zamora was chasing a speeder on Interstate 85, and that the landing site lay just off Interstate 85. What is correct: Interstate 85 runs through the southeastern United States and never reaches New Mexico; the road through Socorro is U.S. Highway 85. Source: U.S. highway records: Interstate 85 runs from Alabama to Virginia, while U.S. 85 passes through Socorro.
August 23, 2026Factual error
Bob Lazar: the FBI raid moved two years
Page: Bob Lazar / Area 51 / S-4
What the page said: in three places, that the FBI raided Lazar's company, United Nuclear, in 2019, and that Jeremy Corbell's documentary was released in 2017. What is correct: the raid took place in 2017, and the documentary was released in December 2018 before reaching Netflix in 2019. Source: Vice, on the 2017 raid.
August 23, 2026Factual error
Betty Andreasson: a researcher's death that was never recorded
Page: Betty Andreasson Luca Abduction
What the page said: that investigator Raymond Fowler died in Kennebunk, Maine, on September 18, 2018, at age 84. What is correct: no source for that death could be found, and his published biography records none, so it was removed from the timeline, the text and the source note. Source: Fowler's published biographical record.
August 22, 2026Fabricated source
Pascagoula: instrument readings, a quotation and a landmark that were invented
Page: Pascagoula Abduction
What the page said: that Keesler AFB radar logged the object, the men's watches stopped and the local power grid dipped; it also carried a J. Allen Hynek quotation, a polygraph examiner's name and a MUFON soil study that have no source, put the encounter at 7:00 PM near a “Frito-Lay grain elevator”, and said witness Maria Blair signed a statement describing a craft. What is correct: none of the instrument claims, the quotation or the soil study traces to any source and all were removed; the encounter was about 9:00 PM at the old Shaupeter Shipyard; and Blair's own account describes a blue light, a splash and “a person in the water”, with no signed statement. Source: James Harder's examination notes and Maria Blair's March 2019 interview with WLOX News.
August 22, 2026Book and citation error
Stephenville: a novel described as an investigator's account
Pages: Stephenville Lights 2008, Ken Cherry
What the pages said: that Marc Slade Investigates: The Stephenville UFO was a firsthand nonfiction account by MUFON's Texas State Director, Ken Cherry. What is correct: it is a thriller novel built around a fictional investigator; the card and biography now say so and present it as a related work, not a source for the case. Source: the book's classification as fiction by its retailers and catalogue listings.
August 17, 2026Fabricated source
AARO Reaper video: a book by a real reporter that does not exist
Page: AARO Reaper Drone Metallic Sphere Video
What the page said: it cited a book titled “We Are Not Alone” by defense journalist Bryan Bender. What is correct: Bender has written no such book; the ISBN fails its check digit and has no record in Open Library, Goodreads, AbeBooks or ISBN databases, and his only book is unrelated to UFOs. The citation was removed and not replaced. Source: ISBN check-digit test and catalogue searches.
August 13, 2026Overstated evidence
Eric Davis: a disputed memo presented as settled fact
Page: Eric W. Davis
What the page said: a duplicate profile card treated the so-called Wilson-Davis memo, describing an alleged crash-retrieval program, as established. What is correct: the memo surfaced publicly only in 2019, has never been authenticated, and Admiral Thomas Wilson has denied the meeting it describes; the two cards were merged and the remaining card says so. Source: Wilson’s denial to journalist Billy Cox in 2020 (“It’s all fiction”), as documented by The Black Vault.
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