Press and researchers

What Encounter Atlas is

A free, independent site that puts strange sightings and the official paper trail in one place: a world map of reports, the governments' own UFO files, the hearings, and the folklore behind 245 creatures. It's built and run by Mike Johnston in Alberta, Canada. We don't claim sightings are real and we don't claim they aren't. We show the record and where it came from.

Pages people cite

• Every official UFO release, on one timeline: 51 government releases, each linked to the original with an archived copy.
• Government UFO programmes worldwide: who investigated, when, and what they concluded.
• UFO hearings since 1966: quotes checked word for word against the official transcripts.
• Project Blue Book files, mapped: 10,622 Air Force case files from the National Archives.
• UFO files by country: how each government has handled reports.

How we source things

• Official records come from the government that published them (National Archives in the US, UK and Canada, GovInfo, the air forces and agencies themselves). Summaries are our own words.
• Quotes from hearings are copied word for word from the published transcripts and written statements.
• Reader reports are what witnesses tell us. They're moderated for spam and privacy, not verified, and exact locations are blurred.
• Full source list: About and sources. Each list page has an "About this list" box with the date its links were last checked.

Citing us

Please link the specific page you used. A citation that works anywhere:

Johnston, Mike. "Page title." Encounter Atlas. Accessed (date). https://encounteratlas.com/page/

For anything from a government file, cite the original record too. Our pages link it.

Charts you can use

Our own charts, free to reuse under CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit "Encounter Atlas".

Get in touch

Interviews, data questions, corrections or a source we missed: use the form or email hello@encounteratlas.com.