Some perhaps controversial news as the head of the US Government's UAP Science Advisory Council summarizes, links to, and expands upon its first paper, Six Objects Reported at 480 mph in a Declassified Military Infrared Video Show Brightness Flicker at Bird Wingbeat Rates. Readers may remember Loeb's post The Six Infrared Dots in a Declassified UAP Video is a Flock of Birds, which gave an "executive summary" of the paper. One might have thought "wings flapping" would have been considered by those receiving the reports. Also, Avi Loeb Challenges Former Pentagon UFO Chief: If We Have Alien Spacecraft, Where Is the Evidence? That's from Zakiya Lathan, who links to another Loeb entry: Digital Data or Material Evidence Please; The Time is Ripe to Go Beyond Verbal Testimonies on UAP! Here Loeb gives his side to the "row" with Jay Stratton. On the Stratton book, Loeb, and other US government UFO matters see Ross Coulthart's White House vs. the Legacy Program: Did a Nuclear Blast Bring Down a UFO? And MUFON's Richard Beckwith, J.D. delves into UFO Secrets Shield Billion Dollar Crimes. The UFO/Human dilemma is, indeed, largely about the "Human" half. (WM)

The topic of season 3 of the Telepathy Tapes podcast is The Reincarnation Records. This first episode features author and past life researcher Carol Bowman, who was launched into the world of reincarnation when her 5-year-old son developed a sudden fear of loud booming sounds. Then he began describing another life, as well as his own past death. In so doing, the fear of booming sounds left him, and Carol began pondering if simply talking about past life experiences could help children heal. There are other times When Reincarnation Leaves a Paper Trail. Episode 2 again features Carol Bowman, where she describes what happens when a child's past life memories can be validated with actual documentation. Bowman asks: "If a paper trail exists describing an alleged past life, and witness accounts validate what's in that paper trail, does that mean reincarnation is real?" (CM)

Christopher Plain reports on a discovery whose University of Kansas-led archaeological team describes as "transformational." Plain clarifies this statement and its implications for the peopling of the Americas, though with a nod to the competing Pacific Ocean route theory. Mark Milligan discusses another European surprise regarding the 10,500-year-old Wooden Structures Discovered Beneath German Lake. Just what the structures are "could have important implications for archaeologists' understanding of Mesolithic communities," per the manager of the project, which has been enabled by Lake Arendsee's specific geology and has previously revealed evidence from more recent periods of human activity. A New Contender for the World's Oldest Shipwreck Has Been Discovered Off the Coast of Turkey. Its Ancient Cargo Is a 'Time Capsule' From 4,700 Years Ago. That's from Smithsonian Magazine's Sonja Anderson, who describes the find and its significance, aside from the noteworthy-but-worrisome "assistance" provided investigators by a lionfish! With the University of Oxford's archaeologist Mark Merrony, a 2024 bike ride in north Pembrokeshire speaks to Legend Has It That This Roman Emperor Established a Camp in Wales. A Newly Discovered Fort May Offer Proof That It Really Existed. Anderson's Smithsonian colleague Meilan Solly relates this rather romantic discovery, which Merrony notes "represents an extraordinary fusion between myth and reality and demonstrates that folklore is often underpinned by fact.” And Jason Colavito notes the passing of a controversial "alternative archeology" star in "Forbidden Archaeology" Coauthor Michael Cremo Dead at 78. (WM)

Former Pentagon UFO investigator Jay Stratton's Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life is gaining traction online, with People senior writer Johnny Dodd's story of the person behind the book, his oft-frustrated efforts to unlock UFO truth, and the costs he and his family (and others) have endured. Early reactions from the UFO community include Pavel Ibarra Meda's Jay Stratton's GLARING 'Out of the Shadows' Admission & Ignoring Dr Avi Loeb. Pavel has interesting observations about the book while generally praising it, and Micah Hanks' included frank discussion of Stratton's first meeting with Dr. Loeb is notable, too. Scotsman Andy McGrillen also ponders about Jay Stratton's UFO Book: What Does It Really Reveal? It forms a good complement to Pavel's insights. Should readers want another, more recent podcast, check out this one:Jay Stratton's Book Creates Pure Chaos & More Tribalism in the UFO Community. Not sure whether Jason Colavito would consider himself part of "the UFO Community" or not, but Jason has Things to Say in his Review of "Out of the Shadows" by Jay Stratton. Jason's quote of Stratton's dour characterization of some "bloggers"—of whom Jason suspects he is one—gives a useful summation of Jason's review's general tone. (WM)

Perception of reality is one of the hot-button topics of our time, but at least in terms of Magic Tricks, there is empirical evidence that “looking directly at something does not necessarily mean we consciously see it.” Boffins at the Universidad Nebrija in Madrid have discovered that our brains create “a plausible account of events” that “departs from physical reality.” Even when a trick has been learned, or the illusionist performs it with empty hands, observers’ expectations create a false reality in their minds. Which leads to the question Does the Mind Shape Reality? A New Experiment Puts Quantum Consciousness to the Test. A research team from the Institute of Noetic Sciences has obtained “Mind-Bending Results” which show that “the subjective, conscious experience of human intention [altered] the distribution of light that hit a sensor in the past.” Data from stable laser light sensors was recorded and “securely stored on a hard drive for months,” but had not been viewed by a human. Later, a “glowing candle flame” image was created from this data, unknown to 1000 human observers, who focussed on the image with the mental intention that the flame should dim. AI observation was used as the control and the results showed that only human intention caused a change in the flame. In a nutshell, this implies that “conscious awareness might be an active, integral component of the cosmos.” (LP)

The featured guest in this episode of Mayim Bialik's podcast is Dr. Dean Radin, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science. He discusses the possibility that consciousness may affect quantum reality, and how the mind-matter relationship might explain how prayer works. Also discussed: How strong premonitions might be manifestations of our own fear, how psychic intuition might be blocked by the outside noise of the world at large, and the ways in which AI is biased against evidence of anything paranormal. And much more. Next, Future and Cosmos: Intriguing Claims of Alexis Didier, Master Clairvoyant of the nineteenth century. By trade, Didier was an engraver, an artist and writer. He produced a work in French describing his experiences with clairvoyance, with many references to a spiritual fluid—"a subtle, luminous, imponderable fluid, which mysteriously animates all the parts of creation"—only available to us when we are in a lucid state. Didier's work was fascinating and his results remain controversial to this day. (CM)

While complaints continue in the UFO community over the mostly-sanitized PURSUE data, Beatriz Villarroel, Stephen Bruehl, and colleagues continue to produce their own eye-popping academic papers, and Baptiste Friscourt reviews some of their latest findings. Baptiste also includes the notable interview Ross Coulthart recently conducted with the principals. Both scientists feel that a correlation between nuclear testing and the appearance of transient markings on pre-Sputnik astronomical plates is not mere chance, but indicative of an intelligence surveilling our planet in its early-nuclear days. George Knapp and John Forest go further into the nastier reactions to her work than mentioned in the video as the Swedish Astronomer Alleges Targeted Attacks Over UFO Research. George and Beatriz pick up where some of the Coulthart interview left off, as she goes back to 2021 with the first paper she co-authored. She also makes the case for using data already available from observatories instead of spending huge resources to try to track current UFOs/UAP, merely duplicating what the military already knows. And writing for Medium, Beatriz offers Beyond Institute's Inaugural Panel (2026) in Images. The October 1st event in Stockholm and its speakers roster and panel sessions on "state-of-the-art UAP science," military whistleblowers, civilian crash retrieval, and post-Disclosure deserves notice, and we'll look forward to more about this new venture. (WM)

Villagers in Andra Padesh, India, have been gripped by fear as their homes have been targeted nightly by something throwing stones on a fairly nonstop basis. Authorities have no idea who the culprits are, and youth who have banded together to find the stone throwers have come up empty-handed. Meanwhile, what's being thrown is large and heavy enough to damage roofs. Some locations exhibit momentary strangeness while others have a long history of unexplained events: UFOs, Demons Or Something Else?: Mystery Grows Around Sacred African Mountain in Nyanga, Zimbabwe. For decades, people have gone missing, and strange phenomena and even UFOs have been reported on Nyangani Mountain. A popular tourist destination, visitors must observe strict traditional rules, lest they find themselves lost, never to be found. Stranger still, the mountain has been identified, via remote viewing, as an intelligence site where extraterrestrial craft can come for repair and maintenance. In lieu of the high strangeness, local leaders encourage tourists to respect the mountain's taboos while also observing the protection of their own prayers and religious beliefs. (CM

Because "Columbus had better PR," reporter Matthew Brown quotes archaeologist John Steinberg. Brown then courses through history—known, inferred, and argued—from the Viking days until the present. (For a seminal discussion of the "discoverer of America" question see Patrick Huyghe's Columbus Was Last: From 200,000 BC to 1492, A Heretical History of Who Was First, from Anomalist Books.) In a related vein, Kristina Killgrove writes of an Inuit Figurine: A 700-Year-Old Indigenous Carving of a European Made a Century Before Columbus. Killgrove figures the figure's model was Norse, and explains how this unique artifact fits into such an origin story. Over at The Debrief, Tim McMillan thinks a Mysterious Ring Discovered Beneath the Sea May Reveal Who Controlled One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Owner and date of manufacture unknown, the bronze relic just might help shed light on who managed the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Staying in the Land of the Nile but going much farther back into its history, Ryan Whalen reports that the Century-old Suspicion of Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt Surfaces in a Startling Discovery. First Dynasty tombs at Abydos yielded human remains whose skulls now seem, through modern advances in trauma analysis, to indicate many individuals suffered cranial injuries producing death. And whether this last is more palaeontological than archaeological, Smithsonian Magazine daily correspondent Margherita Bassi informs us that A Century Ago, an Extinct Crocodilian's Skull Was Found in the Rocks That Built the Sphinx. Turns Out, It Belonged to a New Species. Another 1920s find was misinterpreted, it seems, and not only a new species, but genus, of gavials is now described. (WM)

We now have a more specific identification for the December 2023 drone incursions over Virginia's Langley AFB that occurred over a period of two weeks, reports David Freeman. His sources include two interviews of key Democratic and Republican senators by Capitol Hill journalist Matt Laslo. While this may only help explain some of those invasions and have no direct connection to the "drone dilemma" in late 2024 over New Jersey and the rest of the northeastern U.S., they continue to illustrate the prescience of The War Zone's reporting, which for years has warned that drone military uses pose major problems to defense, and has been continuously verified by events in the Russian/Ukrainian war. Sentinel News' Baptiste Friscourt writes of Jay Stratton: “Both the Defense Contractor Community and the Government Have Craft of Non-Human Origin.” Baptiste includes the Bret Baier interview on the matter, which is stark indeed and a good advertisement for Stratton's memoir Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life. Some will remark the absence of Skinwalker Ranch or anomalous family experiences in this particular appearance, but Stratton's key topic and strong assertions may make this a memorable moment. Of course, caustic feedback will occur on this matter, as it does with other government-related UFO/UAP topics. Jason Colavito's Avi Loeb Says He's Helping the Government Find Recovered Dead Aliens is a case in point. To that initiative one member of Loeb's Science Advisory team opines: I'm the Devil's Advocate on Trump's UFO Council. Michael Shermer makes reasonable points in this opinion piece. (WM)

There are times when the resident spook of a purportedly haunted location appears with different faces or demeanors to different witnesses, notes MJ Wayland. This is possible because of psychological archetypes. "The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung described the concept of psychological archetypes as a framework where archetypes are innate prototypes which are used to interpret experiences." In other words, we tend to experience or see what we expect based upon our own life experiences, knowledge of ourselves, and patterns in the collective consciousness. Heady stuff. Moving right along, Here’s Why We Always Picture Ghosts in White—And What Paranormal Experts Think They Actually Look Like. We certainly didn't always picture ghosts in white—think skeletons, decaying corpses, and rotting bandages. However, artists often portrayed spooks with very pale faces. Burial shrouds added to idea that the visiting dead would be bathed in white. By the 18th century, ghosts were depicted in live theatre under billowing white sheets—a much more palatable presentation to audiences. It seems we like to serve up our bumps in the night as easily identified and freshly laundered. (CM)

One of Europe's best UFO-interested minds overviews the UFO situation in the US Congress. Shenanigans within the political sphere and perhaps a general bi-partisan ignorance of and/or aversion to taking up the UFO/UAP subject may be hindering scheduling efforts, especially military testimony. Baptiste Friscourt's concluding question: "When will the heart of the matter finally be addressed directly and publicly?" In Secret Directive Baptiste tackles the opportunity by the Executive branch of government to attract witnesses, besides issues like whistleblower Dylan Borland's recent remarks that the "the current level of whistleblower protection was '0.0%'." Baptiste lauds the Sol Foundation's pledge to help guide prospective testifiers. Whitley Strieber reports on a recent meeting featuring Avi Loeb, Ryan Graves, and the Sol Foundation's Peter Skafish and Garry Nolan. Whitley's Starships, UAP, Close Encounters, the X-Prize and an Incredible Human Future proposes a new X-Prize target of redefining "Physics of the Impossible" itself, which could help both Executive and Legislative branches of the US government and indeed World Science. Intriguingly, Dr. Massimo Teodorani's The Physics of the Impossible Possible "develops six rigorous physical frameworks for interpreting the anomalous residue of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)—the instrumentally documented subset of events incompatible with all known models of propulsion, aerodynamics, and inertial mechanics." And Chigozie Nzenwa's Why Do UFO Reports Keep Coming Back? Some Sightings Are Proving Harder To Dismiss is a basic but quite thorough neutral consideration of the complexities of the subject, where, presently, "Better sensors can actually create more mysteries." (WM)

News behind the headlines. Congressman Eric Burlison says there could be huge propaganda stakes in demonstrating UFO Transparency to its people and the World in general. Burlison thinks that's part of the United States' "pristine legacy on transparency," Shane Galvin reports, and that other nations might follow the U.S. lead. Canadian researcher Chris Rutkowski complains about Three Important UAP Stories You Won't Hear About on Podcasts. He makes some good points here about the quality of US government scrutiny of one of their PURSUE videos; see also Loeb's own article: The Six Infrared Dots in a Declassified UAP Video is a Flock of Birds. Chris then goes for another Loeb-related effort; this about the Las Vegas-area Galileo Project sensors, which we reviewed previously with First Triangulation Results in Search for UAP by the Galileo Project Observatories, as well as Massimo Teodorani's work on Debunking the 'Natural Battery' Hypothesis for the Hessdalen Lights. Chris' third case regards the Society for UAP Studies' recent Hessdalen attendance in Norway, and for more on that see Francisco Mourão Corrêa's SUAPS at Hessdalen: Connecting UAP Research, Science and Field Investigation. (WM)

Dr. Orson Wedgwood is a credentialed molecular chemist with some big ideas, notes Annemarije de Boer. Wedgwood believes the first hurdle undirected chemistry cannot clear is that serendipity is not enough to explain the complexity and function of DNA; we need something else. Given the complexity of proteins, their spontaneous emergence in some primordial soup is so incredibly unlikely that it is essentially impossible. The second hurdle, given that DNA depends upon proteins and these proteins typically rely on DNA, is that we have no demonstrated route from the prehistoric organic chemical goo to either. And third—illustrating why scientists should not improvise philosophy—is that because DNA is a "code" and intelligences generate codes, then DNA is generated by an intelligence. The logical flaws in this last step are many to behold. The two other steps are maybe more convincing. Wedgwood is pointing to a God of the gaps (well known, by the way, to philosophers). But it turns out the gaps might be smaller than he supposes (experiments have demonstrated parts of plausible incremental pathways, including RNA systems capable of copying functional strands and generating variation), as a result God might be being whittled away. And so demoting the "Ancient of Days" from atop our ontological hierarchy to a mere explanatory shortcut. (JS)

This stunning short retelling of the Hickson-Parker abduction and its immediate aftermath, when joined by the explanation below the video, is wholly dramatic and a spur to look further into the incident, as Philip Mantle, who CGI-mode also figures late in the video, and Irena Scott have recently studied the case. Note: the Hickson-Parker secret recording shown beginning around 2:07 occurred while they were alone together. The 1973: "Something Strange is Happening in the Monterrey Sky" refers to Monterrey, Mexico, just a month earlier than Hickson and Parker's October 11th ordeal. Multiple independent sightings make this article particularly interesting. Not many years later, we have in Argentina: Extraterrestrials in Trevelin? Resident Claims Having Seen UFO in 1978. Mariano Romero Cuestas relates this story and the interesting comments of the journalist who covered it at that time. A very unfortunate part of UFO history is covered in Tanner F. Boyle's Saucer Rot: The Sordid Crimes of Wendelle Stevens. "This is not an enjoyable story to tell, but like others that this publication attempts to unpack, is important to not leave unaddressed," Tanner comments, and his FOIA-assisted findings are trenchant and, sadly, need to be known. Lastly, Vice writer Tony Alpsen wonders Did Russell Crowe Really Accidentally Photograph a UFO in 2013? No one really knows, but Crowe apparently maintains an interest, as the "Russell Crowe Answers Your Questions" clip explains further. WARNING: the rest of the clip is very likely to maintain your interest in Crowe, as well! (WM)

Baptiste Friscourt covers a memo from the super secret National Reconnaissance Office "demonstrating the genuine interest of the U.S. executive branch in the issue of UAPs." It certainly reinforces the Executive branch’s interest in controlling the information on UFOs/UAP. We do find that a member of that branch is animated by UFO data, as RFK Jr. Says He Has Been Briefed on UAP: 'Really Crazy', Baptiste reports. Besides alleging "orders to destroy them [UFOs] and recover them," it seems uncertain whether one of Kennedy's relevant briefings prior to his joining the current administration was sanctioned or not—which only adds to the questions of propriety. But the legislative branch represented by Representative Anna Paulina Luna remains active, as New York Post's Shane Galvin reports the US Intel Community Witnesses to 2025 UFO Orb Incident Could Testify Before Congress. That's from Rep. Eric Burlison and, commenting upon the matter, UAP Scientific Advisory Council leader Dr. Avi Loeb wants to know more about the encounter in question and even visit the site. And in UFO Info From Secret Las Vegas Program Expected to Be Compiled for Release we get the hopeful news that the Defense Intelligence Agency has somehow just discovered a bundle of its information from the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Application Program (AAWSAP), which was the $22-million-dollar effort conducted with Robert Bigelow's Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies organization (BAAS) from 2007-2012. Better still, this KLAS News piece aims to clarify that whole situation! (WM)

The story of the peopling of the Americas has just taken another new wrinkle. Putting the various pre-Clovis schemas aside for the moment, Tim Newcomb reports that Clovis people lived 9000-feet up in the Montana mountains earlier than could be believed, "in a place that shouldn't exist in an ecosystem that shouldn't exist," according to archaeologist Scott Dersam. Tim provides a good introduction to this discovery; for a personal look and much more background on this, see Mountain Journal contributor Nick Mott's 'It Should not Exist': Ancient Archaeological Mystery Revealed High in Beartooth Mountains. The Debrief's Tim McMillan offers something Hidden in a Mexican Cave for Centuries, This Trio of Mysterious Glyphs Offers New Evidence of an Enigmatic Ancient Writing System. Here mountains play a role, too, possibly supporting the idea that the population of Teotihuacan had a true writing system. Deciphering written symbols figures in a political question in another pyramid-land, per Susan Kelly's Was There Really a Female King in Ancient Egypt 5,000 Years Ago? Thanks to a new digital technique, Kelly and Macquarie University colleague Crystal Miller scrutinized a lost archaeological remnant to construct a new, more complicated, yet apparently likely, hypothesis for a royal career in the Third Egyptian Dynasty. And Leman Altuntaş' Gold, Glass, and Weapons: Mycenaeans May Have Turned Their Dead Into Works of Art suggests Greeks of 1400 BCE may have not merely buried costly grave goods to denote the deceased's status and power, but in arrangements that helped preserve the shape of the dead "even as the human body itself changed beneath the earth." (WM)

Authorities in the British community of Binley Woods have recently been called in following a spate of big cat sightings. "Catfoot," as the creature is now known, seems to make most of its appearances in the late evening, and the community has been advised not to approach. Meanwhile, a Suspected Puma Sighting Prompts Sizeable Police Search in Germany at the Notzinger Moos Nature Reserve near the Munich Airport. Based on video captured by the witness, authorities believe they are looking for a puma, but to date the search has been unsuccessful, despite numerous tips from the public. (CM)