Fabrice

A searchable, cross-referenced wiki of UFO close encounter cases and anomalies drawn from the works of Jacques Vallée, starting with Passport to Magonia and Wonders in the Sky, but intended to grow into a generalized dataset of his extensive research.

Browse Cases

  • 🌍 Interactive globe — 1,451 geocoded cases plotted on a 3D globe, filterable by year, source, shape, and humanoid presence
  • 📊 Stats & patterns — timeseries, shapes, entities, interactions, time-of-day, and more
  • cases — Full case index
  • By tag — Filter by geographic location, classification (CE1, CE2, CE3), phenomena (humanoid, trace-evidence), and more

About

This project was built to digitize and structure the vast catalogs of unexplained aerial phenomena and close encounters collected by Jacques Vallée and his collaborators. Currently, the database contains over 1,450 cases spanning from Antiquity to the modern era.

Each case includes the date, location, a detailed description, and the original source citation. By standardizing this data, the wiki makes historical and modern reports fully searchable and cross-referenced. Cases sharing locations, dates, or specific phenomena are linked automatically via Quartz backlinks and tags.

Tag Guide

TagMeaning
CE1Close Encounter of the 1st Kind — observed at close range
CE2Close Encounter of the 2nd Kind — physical effects (burns, interference)
CE3Close Encounter of the 3rd Kind — occupants or entities observed
landingObject reported to land or touch down
humanoidNon-human entity or occupant reported
trace-evidencePhysical traces found at site
vehicle-interferenceCar engine, lights, or radio affected

Primary Sources

  • Vallée, Jacques. Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers. Henry Regnery Company, 1969.
  • Vallée, Jacques, and Chris Aubeck. Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times. TarcherPerigee, 2010.