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625 people in 95 mysteries

Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.

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All mysteries1908 Tunguska event1979 Vela incident1I/'Oumuamua2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videosAmber RoomAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026Antikythera MechanismArchimedes PalimpsestBall lightningBeale ciphersBermuda TriangleBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsCarnac alignmentsCascajal block and Isthmian writingCicada 3301Copiale cipherCretan HieroglyphicCypro-MinoanDead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenanceDhofari scriptDisappearance of Amelia EarhartDorabella cipherDyatlov Pass incidentEarth flyby anomalyEaster Island moaiEtruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translatedEye of the Sahara and AtlantisFast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off burstsFlor de la MarFranklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)Gallo-Roman dodecahedraGreat Sphinx of GizaGreat houses of Chaco CanyonGunung PadangGöbekli TepeHD 139139, the "Random Transiter"Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archivesHerculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius ChallengeHessdalen lightsHijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claimsHow the Great Pyramid was builtHurrian songs of UgaritIberian language and Palaeohispanic scriptsIndus scriptInka khipus: the knotted-cord recordsKensington RunestoneKryptosLate Bronze Age collapseLinear ALoch NessLost Colony of RoanokeLost Dutchman's gold mineMalaysia Airlines Flight MH370Marfa lightsMars methane puzzleMary CelesteMeroiticMonte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"Nazca LinesNebra Sky DiscOak Island money pitPatterson-Gimlin filmPhaistos DiscPhoenix Lights, 13 March 1997Phosphine in the clouds of VenusPictish symbol stonesProto-Elamite and Linear ElamiteProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetProto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of UrukPuma Punku and TiwanakuRendlesham Forest, December 1980Ricky McCormick's notesRohonc CodexRongorongoRoswell, 1947San José galleonSanxingdui and its sacrificial pitsShroud of TurinShugborough inscriptionSkinwalker RanchSomerton Man (Tamam Shud)StonehengeStradivari "secret"Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)US government UAP disclosuresUVB-76, "the Buzzer"Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianWhite Shaman MuralWho were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" craniumWow! signalYounger Dryas impact hypothesisZodiac ciphers
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AA
Anthony AveniAstronomer and anthropologist, Colgate University; led the 1980s survey · born 1938
Nazca Lines

B 1

BE
Bradley E. SchaeferAstronomer, Louisiana State University; measured the century-long fade
Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)

C 1

CR
Clive RugglesArchaeoastronomer, University of Leicester
Stonehenge

D 2

David KippingColumbia University astronomer; repeating-beacon analysis
Wow! signal
Duncan R. LorimerAstronomer, West Virginia University; reported the first burst · born 1969
Fast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off bursts

E 1

EB
Edwin BarkerAstronomer, McDonald Observatory; led the scientists who watched for the lights for Unsolved Mysteries in 1989
Marfa lights

G 1

Gerald HawkinsAstronomer; author of the observatory reading · 1928–2003
Stonehenge

I 2

Ian RidpathAstronomer; proposed the fireball and lighthouse explanation in 1983 · born 1947
Rendlesham Forest, December 1980
IA
Ignas A. G. SnellenLeiden astronomer; led the first ALMA re-analysis
Phosphine in the clouds of Venus

J 4

JM
J. McKim MalvilleAstronomer; critic of the standstill alignments of the great houses
Great houses of Chaco Canyon
JS
Jane S. GreavesAstronomer, Cardiff University; led the detection
Phosphine in the clouds of Venus
JT
Jason T. WrightPenn State astronomer; set out the family of explanations, including megastructures
Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)
JR
Jerry R. EhmanVolunteer astronomer at Big Ear who found and named the signal · 1649–1692
Wow! signal

K 1

KJ
Karen J. MeechUniversity of Hawaii astronomer; led the discovery and characterisation papers · born 1959
1I/'Oumuamua

M 3

MM
Marco MicheliESA astronomer; led the measurement of the non-gravitational acceleration · born 1983
1I/'Oumuamua
MZ
Michael ZeilikAstronomer; critic of the calendrical and lunar readings
Great houses of Chaco Canyon
MS
Mitch StanleyAmateur astronomer who saw the formation through a telescope
Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997

R 2

Robert H. GrayIndependent astronomer; led most follow-up searches · born 1948
Wow! signal
RW
Robert WerykUniversity of Hawaii astronomer who first identified the object in Pan-STARRS1 data · born 1981
1I/'Oumuamua

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TS
Tabetha S. BoyajianAstronomer, Louisiana State University; led the discovery paper and the 2017 campaign
Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)