That confusing and therefore concerning relationship between drones and UFOs has had another florescence, closing Denmark and Norway's main airports temporarily on September 22nd amid scenes of chaos and bewilderment. Christopher Sharp quotes Denmark's Prime Minister on other European incursions, and a thinly-veiled suggestion Russia may be behind them all. The Wall Street Journal's "take" as Drone Incursions Force Airport Closures in Copenhagen, Oslo has ancillary details about the same story, and a Thursday article, also by WSJ reporter Sune Engel Rasmussen, is subtitled "Drones were spotted over at least four [Danish] airports, including a military airbase housing most of Denmark's F-16 and F-35 jet fighters." (H/T Rob Swiatek for references.) On a similar tack, an Object Seen over Europe in 2022 Could be UFO, Ex-investigator Says. Nick Pope attacks one case of another AARO publication of cases it's examined. Though Nick thinks a "balloon" possibility won't fly, he's not overwhelmed by the "blobby" video or its review. And John Greenewald has "another chapter in a growing saga of secrecy surrounding AARO, FOIA, and UAP records" in DoD Redacts Nearly All Records Explaining AARO’s Use of Law Enforcement Exemption for UAP Files. John's arguments are starkly supported by what his FOIA request received--and what cooperation he didn't get. (WM)

In France, neuroscientists have been much excited by the claims of a teenage girl who says she not only has total recall of every event in her life, but can observe herself during that event through the eyes of others present at the time. Her condition is referred to as "autobiographical hypermnesia." Moreover, she can give "detailed accounts of ... future events when they were personally significant." How this has been validated isn't clear from the article and the boffins admit more detailed testing is needed. For the present, they seem happy to believe that the word of "the teenager from Paris" is "grounded in fact." (LP)

Doug Skinner writes about John Keel's investigation of some intriguing 1965 and 1966 sightings in southeastern Oklahoma, with a reply from "the principal witness mentioned in the NICAP report" on the events that piqued his original curiosity. Altaclair Morgan's responses to some of Keel's questions sound very familiar today, and one gets a real sense of how such flaps can perturb personal emotions and plans. In Hartshorne, Oklahoma (4) Keel widens the perspective on such serial sightings with cases from Warminster, England, and his own more familiar East Hampton, Long Island. We also get his disdainful remarks about the now-historically-infamous CBS television production "UFO: Friend, Foe, or Fantasy." For more perspective, Bill Chalker takes us to The Early Days of the Public UFO Drama in Australia - Even an Atomic Connection of a Sort. With the collaboration of fellow researcher Keith Basterfield, Bill sketches several particularly dramatic cases and the early involvements of some pioneering Australians in the field. One also gets some of the same feelings as the '60s Oklahoma articles about the reception given UFO witnesses from these earlier Aussie stories. And in Lori Rehfeldt—Precursor to the Rendlesham Forest Incident we have a military veteran's account of anomalous life experiences—not only at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge—and how she came to integrate them into her life. (WM)

Our review of scholarly commentaries on Things UFO begins with Canadian professor and poet Bryan Sentes who effectively dismantles a current Walker Jaroch article on "leftist instincts driving UAP disclosure." Bryan asserts that "the peddlers of Disclosure" are actually driving the masses in the opposite direction, "not to the benefit of society at large but to that of the diminishing 1%." The Society for UAP Studies (SUAPS) gives us Board of Advisors Member Dr. Kimberly Engels' From Epistemologies of Crisis to Coordination: The UAP "Threat". Framing her argument from the interesting concept of "crisis epistemologies" and an overriding western colonialist mindset, Engels notes many other cultures do not share its "unprecedented and urgent" attitude towards possible "Others." The article possibly downplays how "alien abduction" contacts are so often inherently shocking, even horrifying, experiences—no matter how well victims subsequently come to terms with the events. And SUAPS Executive Director Mike Cifone gives Hearings & Tellings - My Reaction to the Latest Congressional Hearing. Prefaced by a hard-hitting assessment of the current Washington D.C. context, Mike's points get to the institutionalized difficulties of post-WWII US history for the best prosecution of UFO/UAP studies, and his personal views on what needs to be done, given the current situation, to make real progress in finding out what UFOs are. (WM)

In this post, Tanner F. Boyle examines "the befuddling history of remote viewing, its ties to Scientology and MKUltra, and how its true intel value may remain occulted or obscured." He believes that remote viewing really doesn't work but that the intelligence community has used the practice as a cover for espionage, combat, or psychological warfare. "Remote viewing, in addition to UFOs," he writes, "successfully averts attention away from other questionable military and intelligence activity worthy of scrutiny..." In short, "intelligence laundering." But Boyle's evidence for this speculation rests on thin ice. He believes that "substantial portion of UFO lore comes from remote viewing sessions.” Some, yes, but a "substantial portion," no. Boyle also points to remote viewing's links to Scientology, MKUltra, among others, essentially guilt by association. But the major flaw in his argument is that remote viewing doesn't work. I happen to know from personal experience that it does; not all the time, but it certainly does sometimes. And on that point alone, his argument basically fails apart, and I say that as one who usually finds Boyle's work quite worthy of consideration. (PH)

A Texas Scooby Gang is in the news, having won a drawn out civil litigation case. Seems a "trigger happy" individual  began shooting at them back in 2020 while they were en route to a purportedly haunted location. No one was hurt but the car they were in was damaged, costs which were not addressed in the original court case. Meanwhile, in what sounds like another case for Scooby, Paranormal YouTuber in India Arrested for Video Claiming New Airport is Haunted. Most likely they were just trying to boost views on their YouTube channel, but Indian authorities were quick to point out the law forbidding "malicious and superstitious allegations capable of creating public fear." We just think people like that make those working in paranormal fields look bad. (CM)

With X-Files tones playing in the background, Tim Binnall's short video is definitely interesting, and the NUFORC UFO Sighting 191817 indicates it was a two-person, extended sighting, with some little perceived movement before flying off. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten covers what can happen even from a scheduled missile shot as UFO Mania Grips Small Town after Mysterious Glowing Object Sighting Goes Viral. The snapshot of the event is truly spectacular, but no chances here for an annual commemorative UFO festival. And Americans aren't alone in UFO fascination, per Russia Today's Nearly 80% of Russians Believe in Aliens - Poll. Interesting results here, and for those relative few Russian citizens who "fear the worst" from ETs, this article directs viewers to the highly interesting Scientist Pitches 'Morbid' Theory on Why Aliens Haven't Made Contact. (WM)

A visitor to British Columbia, Canada, was recently walking on the Okanagan Rail Trail in Coldstream when she noticed something in adjacent Kalamalka Lake (and began recording on her cell phone), according to Chelsey Mutter. She described it as three bumps and a head moving through the water diagonally. Whatever it was, it's drawing comparisons to Ogopogo, who is believed to live in Lake Okanogan, also in BC. And since we're talking water monsters, take a look at Michael Havis'The Lost Ness Monster! Experts Baffled as Mystery Creature Filmed lurking in the Thames. A family out walking noticed the anomaly in the river and had the presence of mind to record it. Not to spoil a good monster encounter, but it looks to our skeptical eyes like a beaver—which can be quite aggressive if cornered but really isn't monstrous. (CM)

A chat with formidable and occasionally blunt-spoken "UK UFOlogist" Nigel Watson about his updated book Paranormal Perspectives: Portraits of Alien Encounters Revisited: High Strangeness British UFO Cases. It's a very useful and often humorous interview and Watson's approach to the "anomaly witness" seems fair, while he's straight-skeptical about the phenomena. On the same island but with a rather different viewpoint from Watson's, we find a Top Scots UFO Podcaster to Release Atlas Tracking Unexplained Sightings Across the World. Andy Mcgrillen's Atlas of Unidentified Flying Objects: and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena also sounds like a useful perspective and read. One of Nigel Watson's favorite current writers and least favorite television programs has a Review of Ancient Aliens S21E12 "The Abduction Files". Jason Colavito also finds "Ancient Aliens" generally soporific, though this abduction-related episode has something of a "twist." Lastly, if you have lots of time available, Ryan Spragues' ANOMACON 2025 LIVE: The Ultimate Virtual Conference on the Anomalous is a nearly 12-hour cavalcade of topics and speakers! "Full Event Timestamps" will help direct one to subjects if this offering needs to be taken in smaller doses. (WM)

Another archaeological find "upending previous research" makes us "have to re-solve questions we thought were already answered." Thus Tim Newcomb about Stonehenge's Altar Stone. The chemical "fingerprint" of the Stone matched Scottish rather than Welsh provenance, making scholars rethink trade routes. (See the referenced academic paper in Nature: A Scottish Provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge.) It seems that the 40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language. Genevieve von Petzinger's TED Talk is fascinating and included in this updated version of a 2019 Josh Jones article. Von Petzinger still doesn't think these symbols are a "written language" but rather a transitional step in the long development of such. Something a bit more recent in history both past and current is Leman Altuntaş' Mendik Tepe: A Neolithic Discovery That Could Rewrite History Before Göbekli Tepe. Not only a possible earlier monumental archaeology site, and "not merely a ritual center like Göbekli Tepe, but also a multi-purpose settlement," seems to be rising from the soil in southeastern Türkiye. But a Göbekli Tepe pillar Scorpion literally figures in Terry Madenholm's remarkable article Enlisting the Sick and Dead: Biological Warfare in Antiquity. Though thousands of years later as "Scorpion Bombs"! (WM)

Tim Binnall tells how "a deeply researched 1996 event involving a downed UFO, possible alien visitors, and an alleged government cover-up" has been embraced by the local community as Brazil's "ET capital." Moving to Europe, A 1970 UFO and Occupant Report From Finland describes a frightening encounter by two cross-country skiers with a smoking, humming, grey metal craft whose diminutive inhabitant left both men quite ill. Over to Australia and researcher Grant Lavac, who is still Seeking the Westall UFO 'Truth' almost 60 years after the 1966 mass sighting by primary and secondary school children. Lavac has a petition going for a federal inquiry into that suburban Melbourne case that still has some of the over 200 witnesses gathering annually "to keep alive their memories and recollections." And Interesting Engineering's Atharva Gosavi has nearly a dozen Alien Secrets: 11 Mysterious UFO Encounters That Refuse to Fade From History. Westall and a similar 1994 Zimbabwe school sighting from which, still, "some witnesses remain visibly shaken" made Gosavi's list among "the gold standard for UFO phenomena." "They raise unanswerable questions today," for the very good reasons Gosavi lists. (WM)

A soon-to-be-released documentary follows one woman's search for magic as she learns about the fae of Ireland, Britain, and Scotland. She tells her audience that to walk in those isles is to know magic exists, and perhaps that's what the world needs right now. It's described as a "cultural odyssey, exploring how these mystical beings continue to captivate, influence, and connect modern culture and the world beyond." While we are on the subject, do you know what to do if you find a fairy ring in your yard and you're not concerned about upsetting the wee folk? What To Know If You Spot A Fairy Ring In Your Yard is essentially a basic lawn-care guide that emphasizes aerating the lawn and watering properly. That should stop those pesky circular overgrowths of grass making patterns in your lawn. And a good raking and lawn clean up will get rid of any offensive mushroom ring. We guess this guide is for those people who don't need a little magic in their lives. (CM)

Howard Altman has an excellent piece on a 24-hour-or-less planned military response system to drone incursions over our sensitive installations. It's an impressive effort, but Altman and commenters emphasize it's insufficiently quick in and of itself to protect against potential attacks, and that the "drone dilemma" will be with us for quite some time. Something that's been with us for a very long time is the subject of ‘UFO Debris & Alien Bodies’ Seen in Haunting 22-Minute ‘Roswell Incident’ Video Quietly Uploaded to The National Archive. Frankly, we found the nearly 23 minutes of what appears to be a documentary preparation featuring the 1994 USAF's The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert excruciatingly boring, with the only thing gleaned from it is that someone didn't much like premier Roswell researcher Kevin Randle—to which we say "Deal with it." Arshi Qureshi adds context to the vid. Kevin himself has comments on some True Photos of the Roswell Crash Site (Taken Much Later than 1947), and disposes of the pictures that have excited some people on the internet. (WM)

Glasgow Boy reports on his latest trip to Loch Ness, where he was joined by several companions. No sightings occurred, but he gives a good explanation about how boat-wakes linger after the vessels have moved out of sight, which may well account for some Nessie reports. His companions, however, did hear something odd in the wee small hours, which eludes explanation. But if we saw Nessie, maybe we wouldn't recognize her because The Loch Ness Monster Literally Can’t Look Like You Think, Scientists Say. Forget undulating humps and long necks, writes Elizabeth Rayne, who points out that overall there are "few reports of a thing with arches." That's not going to stop reports of those Puzzling Humps, however: Is This Nessie? Fresh Sighting of the Elusive Water Horse Made on Popular Visit Inverness Loch Ness Webcam. (LP)

A piece of security camera footage from a Lego factory in Mexico is getting some attention online. The clip seems to show a young girl with glowing eyes descending a stairwell in the otherwise empty plant. She then turns, retraces her steps, and disappears into a wall. Real or hoaxed? The question lingers for this next story: Ghost Photographed at Fire in Argentina? Opinions on what the white garbed figure might be range from ghost to Blessed Virgin Mother to pareidolia. (CM)