A series of anomalous events has taken place in Puelches, Argentina. About 560 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, the entire small central town is said to be "on edge" over reports of lights in the sky, animal mutilations, and the crash of a flying object. A northern neighbor has an historic mystery in Bolivia 1973: Farmer Blames UFOs for Disappearance of His Oxen, a couple of rather disturbing accounts. A recent sensation explained comes from the Dominican Republic: Unknown Object Identified as Research Balloon. A popular radio and TV weatherman has the interesting data and diagnosis. In 2000, a possible UFO landing led to the article Panama: A UFO Impact in Villa Lourdes? Regardless of whether the physical evidence ties in with the apparently consistent independent reports, it's an interesting story. Moving over to Spain and back to 1986 we have Angel Carretero: A Teleportation Near Seville...Or Something Else? A spooky story that indeed should have been checked, if for nothing else than to support poor Pedro Oliva Ramírez as neither crazy nor fibbing. And we have from Spain: Sightings in the Sierra Norte of Seville (2000). José Manuel García Bautista enumerates things that can affect the "witness factor," then gives two stellar examples of UFO cases, and lastly has much to say about the discipline of ufology itself. (WM)

Williston Lake in British Columbia was the site of some strangeness earlier this summer, when the reservoir became home to an "island" that was about 105,000 square feet in area. It was first spotted by satellite on July 21, but by August 5 it was nowhere to be seen. BC Hydro suspects the "phantom island" was the result of high water levels and debris and driftwood being tangled together, and then later floating away to a shoreline. On the other side of Canada, among the Great Lakes, there is The Guardian of Lake Ontario, a possible sea serpent that was first mentioned in newspapers on August 22, 1882. Descriptions of the eel-like creature are reminiscent of Nessie reports, which has been described at times as having supernatural origins, much like this so-called spirit guardian of Lake Ontario. (CM)

Representative Eric Burlison is joined by Japanese House of Representatives Member Yasukazu Hamada and former Member Yoshiharu Asakawa in this opinion piece. They outline the general problems—security and political, local and international—exemplified by two significant PURSUE reports. Further, they "have engaged the Emerging Technologies Interparliamentary Caucus (ETIC) as a platform for international dialogue regarding emerging technologies and the security threats presented by UAP." On the same general topic we have UFOs in Spain: Defense May Have Run Out of Time to Deliver Its Files. It appears that Spanish files covering 1962 to 1995 were released beginning in 1991, but nothing from after that period to the present has appeared, and the Ministry of Defense has been tardy in answering a citizen request in March and a recent "Transparency and Good Governance Council" order to respond. Back to the U.S. and the question about UAP Whistleblowers: What is the Pentagon Actually Promising? Richard Dolan says it might not be much that's promised, because there are ways of keeping "the public in the dark." Like other commentators, Richard feels there's still a lack of clarity, and many opportunities for misbehavior. A good, short discussion and sensible conclusion. And a useful example of Dolan's fear may lie in Popular Mechanics' The Government Knew the Weird Truth About the Roswell UFO—But Kept it Secret for 47 Years. Kevin Randle would have a field day with this article, particularly with the "rancher named W.W. Bazel"! (WM)

This formal release puts into effect the POTUS' waiver to current and former "DOW service members, civilian personnel, and contractors holding or previously granted access to UAP-related National Defense Information (NDI)." The DoW communication doesn't mention the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and a check of the AARO website did not reveal any "new" communications of this nature. John Greenewald has noted a status quo in that the Department of War Issues New UAP Disclosure Waiver; But Similar Protections Already Existed. John does make the point that "the Department expressly references Special Access Program Indoctrination Agreements alongside conventional nondisclosure agreements." He also shows how the PURSUE document does for that effort what purview AARO already had, but argues he needs "The underlying directive, legal guidance and instructions being provided to potential PURSUE sources" to see really what's new in cases such as the David Grusch case he discusses here. Marik von Rennenkampff rounds out the discussion in Pentagon UAP Waiver Opens Door for UFO Transparency: Ex-analyst. While noting some of John Greenwald's points, von Rennenkampff adds that the Intelligence Community so far seems exempt from this Presidential directive. (WM)

Michelle Starr reports on “a carefully blinded experiment” led by neuroscientist Marina Weiler at the University of Virginia that tested whether or not 21 “experienced out-of-body practitioners” could observe a hidden image in a distant room in the same building. Even though none of them succeeded, two "saw" human activity in a different room, which “should have been impossible." Further testing “under rigorous conditions” may reveal more about this unexpected result. And across The Pond, Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, asks Does Your Pet Wake Up When You Stare At It? This phenomena is known to many pet owners or animal-farmers and has “been tested far too many times for it to be mere coincidence.” Sheldrake has “compiled more than 240 cases” from several countries and has published his findings in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. It seems to work with humans, too, and he speculates that it “has something to do with the weak electromagnetic field” we all possess. He wonders if the phenomenon is “an evolutionary superpower.” (LP)

With a nod to "Eric Ouellet's groundbreaking 2015 book" Illuminations: The UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event (published by Anomalist Books), Susan Demeter relates a World War I Canadian mystery. The "explanation" for the "Phantom Air Raid of 1915" does not seem to encompass all of the events of that February 14th evening, but it provoked "many of the features that later became characteristic of more modern UFO waves." Moving forward through time, David Freeman notes that Military Personnel Reported Discs and a Metallic Object Over Muroc in 1947. Now known as Edwards AFB in southern California, in 1947 Muroc was the site of the U.S.' most advanced air development projects, and the series of events Freeman describes comes from the DOW-UAP-D097, Project SIGN Progress Report 1948, from PURSUE Release 04, July 10, 2026. Writing for Minot Daily News, Eloise Ogden tells the story of UFO sightings by military witnesses in that North Dakota area, particularly from the standpoints of Don Flickinger and Dave Schindele in August and September 1966. See Former Law Officer Recalls '66 UFO Sighting. Both men think the PURSUE releases are long overdue. The post entitled Tom Monteleone concerns a 1967 case of another feature of ufology—the "made up story." John Keel website-minder Doug Skinner tells the story about the tale and included Keel's notes from his meeting with the prankster. And The Amoeba That Refused to Split is another interesting piece of "Keeliana," from Keel's efforts at short films in the 1960s. (WM)

"Warping space and time" seems getting increased traction in the headlines. Kevin Knuth applies the posited technology to one (and more, likely) of the famed "UFO Shutdowns" of US ICBM sites over 50 years ago. If nuclear Armageddon isn't personal and weird enough, how about Liam Randall's Chilling 'Demonic' UFOs Can Read Your Thoughts And Float Objects, Warns Expert Diana Pasulka. Additional to this religion and technology scholar's thoughts, Randall offers four historical "takes" from others on such "dark spiritual forces." Things don't get much better—if anything they become more confusing—with David Freeman's Alien Minds Could Exist in Forms Unlike Anything Humanity Has Ever Known. An academic paper argues that Earth's Sample of One for "Consciousness" is too narrow a starting place, something that Canadian scholar Bryan Sentes has stressed for some time. Its application to Artificial Intelligence also seems appropriate at the moment. We branch out from UFOs/UAP into other considerations with Podcast/planet Tyrus on Fox News and Admiral Tim Gallaudet Confirms UFOs Coming From The Ocean. UFOs fit in with many other concerns in Gallaudet's life, mostly on sea creatures and life lessons, as chronicled in his new memoir Holding Fast in Heavy Seas: Leadership for Turbulent Times. And to close on a prophetic note, Jason Colavito informs that Ufologists Predict "Holy Cow" Moment When an Alien "Armada" Arrives in 2027. Jason has fun with this one. (WM)

Loch Ness has had its 14th reported Nessie sighting for the year. The current report comes from a German tourist, adding to the international flavor of sightings by visitors coming from 8 different countries (in addition to Scotland). Of course, not all photos are created equal. Those Classic Nessie Photos and Other Objections takes an analytical look at a Facebook post purporting to summarize the arguments for and against Nessie's existence. The resulting analysis is an excellent reminder that just as we cannot take a photo at face value at first glance, we cannot simply swallow the information fed to us via social media—regardless of our position on Nessie's existence. (CM)

Peeks behind the current news as a new TV streaming platform "dedicated to UFO disclosure, paranormal investigation, and consciousness research" opens. Roger Satterfield concisely describes Jack Osbourne's ventures and their context within the larger streaming service and recent ufological backdrop. Luis Cayetano has Things To Say about Eric Davis's Fantasies, John Mack The Fellow Traveler, And Speculative Tidbits About the Hopeless Diamond. Aside from some interesting "wide speculation," Luis seemingly penetrates Dr. Eric Davis' references to "where the alien bodies reside." In Ross Coulthart Q&A: Did Nonhuman Intelligence Really Warn Astronauts Off the Moon? Ross attacks several questions lurking beneath today's headlines. We weren't conscious of "the Kordylewski dust clouds and whether they could be conscious," but we now know. There are other intriguing facts, observations, and opinions as Ross bravely takes on these "newsy" questions. Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos announces his UFO FOTOCAT Blog is out for September. Included is a new Ballester Olmos magnum opus that has collected international raves; studies on PURSUE tranches 2 and 5; a debunking of the famed August 3, 1965, Rex Heflin photographs (save for the fourth); an Edoardo Russo report on the June 29, 2026, French UAP Symposium "Research on Unidentified Airspace Phenomena Beyond Fantasies"; and more. And HuffPost's Jazmin Tolliver reports that Sandra Bullock Says She Saw UFOs — And She Finally Feels 'Vindicated'. The plus? Another public entertainment figure feels "safe enough" to express themself. The minus? The background music to the clip is from the "Not Gonna Lie" podcast. (WM)

The controversial documentary Capturing Bigfoot finally has been scheduled for release next month, on October 20, in select cities for theatrical release and on Amazon Prime video. The film is purported to include irrefutable evidence that the much analyzed, loved yet maligned, Patterson Gimlin film was a "concocted hoax." While the impact of these findings is yet to play out, we can't help but think "So?" Even if the PG film inspired cryptozoologists and Bigfoot lovers under false pretenses, by no means does that change the fact that very real experiences and encounters have been and continue to take place. Keep in mind, not all hoaxes are nefarious: Faux Bigfoot Prompts Police Response in Maine where a fellow in a Sasquatch suit (no doubt rented from a Big and Tall business), made the decision to roam about town for a spell. No motivation was uncovered for the prank, nor was any harm done. (CM)

The non-UFO media seems interested in UFOs again. And perhaps listening to this Wired AI-generated narration is a reminder that even more consequential events are impending. Nathaniel Janowitz brings us up-to=date. USA Herald's Samuel Lopez writes that Missing Scientists and Defense Personnel Continue to Leave Unanswered Questions for Lawful UFO Disclosure. Lopez' conclusions are sound, and we do need to keep these and all lost persons in mind. A BBC Science Focus article by Ian Taylor taps Avi Loeb and others for 'We're Not Prepared!': How a Harvard Professor Thinks Humanity's Chaotic First Contact Would Actually Unfold. It's a conversation that should be held more widely. Scientific groups worldwide are working on the problem. For example, writing for UAP Check, the European Space Agency's Philippe Ailleris offers Updating the European UAP Barometer: Reporting Trends and New Data Sources, 2020-2025. The necessary clarifications illustrating changes in data reporting measures and variations between in-country data sources are useful in interpreting data variations and illustrating the need for more integration among the sources. And there are more things crowding the sky for we humans to see, per Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country reporting that a Daylight "Saucer" Reported Over California Was Likely a Stratospheric Airship. Dunno what we would have thought that object was! (WM)

Daniel Moran illustrates how a paucity of specimens can result in perturbations in large-scale constructions of human evolution. Closer to the Present, Sameen David describes 13 Ancient Maps That Show Places Nobody Should Have Known About. David's conclusion about "how much of human history gets quietly deleted by fires, jealous kings, and archives nobody bothered to protect" is rather complementary to Moran's point about human prehistory. Jennifer Ouellette has a personal warning about some of the historical stuff in Buyer Beware: Those Mummified Remains Might Carry Toxic Spores. The Past can come back to haunt, it seems. Hopefully, "bioarchaeological study of the skeletal remains" in a Croatian necropolis profiled in Archaeologists Find Roman Grave With Body Buried Face Down — and a Glass Date will keep investigators safe, even if it doesn't reveal why the deceased in Grave 162 was buried that way. Oguz Buyukyildirim has an interesting piece here on puzzles raised by this particular excavation against what is known about ancient burial and trade practices. (WM)

Biologist Michael Levin of Tufts University has concluded that intelligence at the cellular level (i.e. not “human-like consciousness”) is capable of “pursuing tiny little agendas” and that “groups of cells can exhibit a 'collective intelligence.'" Through this action, which is not governed by DNA code, cells can adapt to changes, thereby demonstrating “problem-solving that we still don’t understand.” And on the theme of consciousness, author Mark Booth asks Is the Dark Side Trying to Stop Us Becoming a Cosmic Species? In his new book, The Secret History of the Universe, he wonders if “consciousness may be more fundamental than matter.” In a discussion with Whitley Streiber, which moves “into some extraordinary territory,” including the occult and AI, the two wonder if “modern science has unknowingly crossed boundaries once approached through magic and mysticism.” (LP)

Closing out the week with Things You've maybe not seen. Ryann Sprague's promoting a FREE virtual conference to be held on September 12th, with a bevy of Anomalous speakers and subjects. Also upcoming but a bit further off in time is the Pocono Paracon at the Sherman Theater. This Stroudsburg, PA Sunday, October 4th paranormal event also features cryptids and general paranormal topics. We've been looking at these next two Jason Colavito "out there" efforts for some time before reading them, and now's the time to bring them up. They're both concerned with one Professor Timothy Burbery of Marshall University, and the first topic is Professor Claims Dante's "Inferno" Offers "Accurate" Depiction of Asteroid Impact. Actually, Dr. Burbery seems like an interesting teacher, especially for his Honors Seminars "Mything Persons" and "Hobbits in Appalachia." And the geo-mythology interaction resulting from this article was, according to Google's AI Overview, "widely profiled in popular science publications." Fortified by this, we then journey with the Professor Who Claimed Satan Was an Asteroid Says Dante Predicted Plate Tectonics. More fun here; including Jason almost apologizing for his "quite frankly, insane" prior article comment when taken out of context. (WM)

Folk traditions, as they apply to the paranormal, urge humans to steer clear of any encounters, lest bad luck or worse befall us. When that is applied to Bigfoot encounters, notes David Metcalfe, we see warnings of bad luck, illness and death, madness and PTSD. However, it's important to keep a level head about these warnings, use logic, and not create a mythology around something that is simply the natural order. And speaking of which, a 9-Foot Bigfoot Spotted in Colorado around Hinsdale County. The encounter was swift, with the Bigfoot emerging from the woods and "gliding" up a hill. To the best of our knowledge, no bad luck or madness has befallen the witness. (CM)

Ross Coulthart's periodic Question-and-Answer offering features an initiative by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to gain access to one of the world's leading repositories of quality UFO-related information, the National UFO Historical Records Center (NUFOHRC). Ross not only lauds this move, but suggests he may one day donate his own considerable data holdings to David Marler's non-profit New Mexican archive. This in response to a Brandi Vincent DefenseScoop article Pentagon Seeks Access to Vast Private UFO Records Collection, referencing a "Notice of Intent to Sole Source: Historical UAP Data and Analysis Subscription" marking "AARO's latest publicized step to fulfill its congressional mandates to review the complete historical record of the federal government's UAP involvement dating back to 1945." Vincent provides more information on the value of this remarkable resource. Pavel Ibarra Meda adds "a massive scoop of something that I've been sort of sitting on for a few months" in AARO Is Reportedly Hunting for Dr. J. Allen Hynek's Never-Before-Seen UFO Data. NUFOHRC's holdings consist of far more than Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) files, including two other major early US UFO organizations: NICAP (the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena), and APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization), led by Coral and Jim Lorenzen, as well as numerous other world-renowned organizations and individuals. Having known David Marler for some two decades, since before David's joining the CUFOS Board as its archivist, I consider him the model for serious research, dedication to extending sound UFO data to the whole discipline and educating the public, and excellent, principled judgement in dealing with legal/governmental matters. (WM)

A landmark study out of New York University—the  Aware II Study—has determined that the moment all brain and heart activity stops does not mean a clean break with consciousness. Utilizing data from 550 NDE study participants, they found that approximately one fourth experienced something extraordinary while gone. These experiences were consistent across medical histories, cultures, and belief systems—and so could not be dismissed. Ready For the Great Experiment? Philosopher Michael Grosso's experiment proposes that we find a way through the "death barrier" to "see how close we are to a paradise of love." In other words, can we possibly find a way to cross over without actually dying? We are so close to being able to project our consciousness from our bodies to find out what lies beyond in a nearby world. The next question of course, is how many will want to have the experience. (CM)

Different perspectives on Knowing the Big Question (Is Anyone "Out There"?), beginning with one who certainly can speak from experience. Martin Willis' remarkable conversation with Alex Dietrich, the retired Naval officer and strike fighter pilot who saw a UFO, presents the human half of a UFO/human interaction, and how she has integrated it into her life. In Held for Questioning, "Chris" reviews part of recent "Dr. Phil" conversation with David Grusch as a springboard to Jacques Vallée's accounts of one "Gilbert's" contacts with "a live alien entity" evidently under military control. These come from passages in Vallée's new Forbidden Science 7: Final Report: The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2020-2025, from Anomalist Books. A very different perspective! Above the Norm tackles the matter in a different way, as A Strange New Method Could Reveal Alien Signals Hidden Among The Stars. The key behind this initiative was, of all things, fireflies. Finally, Shayne Dahl may not be trying to "determine whether extraterrestrial visitors are actually present" per se, but he's very interested in the "Techno-Shamanism" human movement behind what we'd call "CE-V communication strategies." Read Eric Hattum's Southwest Based UCalgary Researcher Examines UFO Contact Through Anthropological Lens in the Saskatchewan news site DiscoverMooseJaw. (WM)

The foundations of probably one of the most exotic "new discoveries" about the Giza Pyramids may be crumbling. Newsweek's Jordan King notes a 2022 Italian research paper alleging "synthetic aperture radar Doppler tomography" had "indicated vast shafts, chambers and tunnels" beneath the pyramid of Khafre/Chephren. And this led to further speculations about underground cities and such. (This technology, Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography, is being brought to Skinwalker Ranch to try to map something inside the mesa, thought to be something large and metal, according to other measurements.) But there's more exciting news from southeastern Türkiye, per Christopher Plain's 11,000-Year-Old Stone Sculpture Unearthed at Göbekli Tepe's Mysterious Sister Site Was Carved Millennia Before the First Human Societies. It's a 70-centimeter-tall "unique stone sculpture depicting a human figure riding a leopard," found at Karahan Tepe. Plain clarifies what's being surmised about this artifact's significance in the continually developing archaeological understanding of that region -- and the larger story of human societal development. Of course, when discussing major past monuments another looms large, so the BBC's Fiona Macdonald offers 'Locked to the Sun and Moon': The Startling 1960s Theory That Stonehenge Was a Prehistoric Computer. Macdonald chronicles Gerald Hawkins' work with another (at that time) modern technology, which theory ruled "for several decades," yet's recently called "a trendy metaphor for the time...but now wildly inappropriate for understanding Stonehenge." So we conclude by going with Ruth Schuster to another Brouhaha in Academia: Did We Really Hunt Mammoths?. Schuster has fun with this scholarly melee concerning perhaps an even earlier and more basic question than the others! (WM)

August 5th and 6th marked annual Nessie sightings 12 and 13 according to the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, and with four months left in the year it seems likely there will be more. Both sightings were indicative of something eel-like under the dark waters, and as usual the photos taken did not do the sighting justice. Back on this side of the pond, Odd 'Ogopogo Tooth' Found at Canadian Lake. Discovered by a child looking for treasures along the shore, the fossilized piece resembles an arrowhead or a sturgeon tooth.The beauty of the find is in the mystery because just maybe the tooth came from the mouth of Lake Okanagan's resident monster. (CM)

Someone Who Should Know has confirmed there's a plan for a form of "transparency" in the event of solid proof that non-human-intelligence(s) exist. Zakiya Lathan reports that Dr. Jennice Vilhauer, who has the position, expertise, and above all gravitas to make that claim has so done. Lathan and Vilhauer both emphasize that a "plan" doesn't indicate, much less "prove," an NHI reality, but it seems prudent to have a such a plan in place regardless. On the other hand, New York Post's Richard Pollina headlines that Dr. Phil Accuses US Government of Lying 'Straight to Our Face' for Ignoring Legitimate UFO Reports. McGraw, regarded by some as President Trump's chosen vessel to prepare the Body Politic, minces absolutely no words in this article. So NewsNation's Jesse Weber ponders a huge question about UFOs: Is Earth Being Ghosted by the Rest of the Universe? Weber enlists none other than Dr. Vilhauer's boss at the UAP Science Advisory Council, Dr. Avi Loeb, who even intimates that the "orbs" so fashionable in the PURSUE files could just theoretically be from really far-off "factories." Weber considers other ET communication possibilities with Raoul Peter Mongilardi, author of the 4-book series Next to the Gods. During that conversation our lunar neighbor comes in for discussion, and Alec Fernandes reports that Scientists Think Alien Debris Might Be Buried in Moon Dust. And the ET creators might not have themselves landed on Selene/Chang'e/Tsukuyomi/Luna! (WM)