Other / Unknown · Mid-Ulster District, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann · 2017
UNI-2017ID case-1ede84797fFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- 2017to the year
- Where
- Mid-Ulster District, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireannto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a small greenish-gold light appeared above their tent at night, visible only in photos taken with a headlamp, and later caused physical damage to their phone.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Mid-Ulster District, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann, United Kingdom
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 2017
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-1ede84797f
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- In Ireland there are still Kings, Lords, and fookin [fairies]!
Reddit · 2017-09-25
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - In Ireland there are still Kings, Lords, and Fookin [Fairies]!
Reddit · 2025-11-14
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.