Unfortunate news for the many who have long believed the 59-second Patterson-Gimlin film was the be-all-end-all evidence of Bigfoot's existence. Documentary filmmaker Marq Evans has released Capturing Bigfoot, and it pointedly brings out evidence via found-footage of what looks like a trial-run of that famous 1967 clip, indicating that it was not only faked, but a source of shame for a number of people involved. Even the Wall Street Journal picked up the story, concluding that A New Bigfoot Documentary Helps Explain Our Conspiracy-Minded Era. (H/t Rob Swaitek.) It speaks to the fact "that once the Pandora’s box of conspiracy has been opened, it has the power to destroy lives" and "erodes" the idea of truth. But, if The Old Bigfoot Is Dead, Long Live The Idea of Bigfoot, says Sharon Hill. The Patterson-Gimlin film has long been considered The Ultimate Evidence of Sasquatch, so it's a blow to the cryptid loving community to have it refuted (though we have to wait until we've all had a chance to see the "found footage"). Still, the idea of Bigfoot is not going to go away. If we can't have definitive proof, then we can still enjoy the idea of the Hairy Man. "Cryptid Bigfoot is a bust. Pop Cryptid Bigfoot is a superstar," concludes Hill. (CM)

Retired Major General William Neil McCasland disappeared from the environs of his Albuquerque, N.M. home on February 27th, and as of March 15th nothing really is publicly known of his current whereabouts. Ross Coulthart articulated McCasland's background and voiced the concern that McCasland's disappearance may be connected with his weapons-research connections, and in particular with UFO-related matters. In News Nation's UFO Experts Share Theories on Gen. Neil McCasland’s Disappearance Avi Loeb and former FBI agent Ben Hansen, as well as former Navy SEAL and FBI special agent Jonathan Gilliam, present their opinions, while Miguel "Red Pill Junkie" Romero offers additional details about McCasland's background with Alleged 'UFO Insider' Goes Missing. RPJ references material in Jacques Vallée's Forbidden Science 6: Scattered Castles, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2010-2019, published by Anomalist Books. People magazine's Karla Marie Sanford rebuts much of the speculation as the Wife of Missing Retired Air Force General Pushes Back on 'Misinformation,' Including His Ties to the 'UFO Community'. And most recently, Whitley Strieber examines The Disappearance of Gen. William McCasland with Micah Hanks. The discussants delve rather deeper into the John Podesta and WikiLeaks situation and other details of the case. (WM)

We journey back into the UFO Past with Alejandro Rojas' look at a classic multi-day flap across a seven-county space in southeastern North Carolina. Rojas remarks on the consistency of reported characteristics among independent police and citizen accounts. The late Jennie Zeidman's full 60-page study is at The Lumberton Report on the CUFOS website gratis, along with reports on the 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville humanoid "siege," the 1973 Coyne helicopter encounter, Mark Rodeghier's vehicle interference book, and nine other classic publications. Popular Mechanic's Caroline Delbert offers A Family Found a Strange Metal Sphere in the Woods. It Started Moving on Its Own—Then the Navy Got Involved. Delbert recounts the weird story and thinks that case is resolved. Kevin Randle has "A Different Perspective" on a report just two years before the Lumberton excitement in Was He Really Joe King? 1973 was a Big Year for genuine UFO reports, but Kevin suspects one he found in The A.P.R.O. Bulletin wasn't "legit." The Point Pleasant Silver Bridge collapse that killed 46 people gets another entry in The Athens Messenger, Dec. 22, 1967. Mary Hyre's column is particularly poignant. Late in the first month of that year, John Keel sent A Letter to Colonel Freeman, whom Keel site manager Doug Skinner explains was a Project Blue Book spokesman. Have things really changed much since then? (WM)

David Marks begins a series of "opinion pieces" of historical and timely import, with a sobering reminder of how, on July 16, 1945, the world changed forever. Marks discerns an accompanying pattern of apparent surveillance by...whom? In Opinion: Are UAPs Nuclear Sentinels? Part 2: Roswell Revisited Marks discusses the role of eventual four-star general William Blanchard in the Roswell recovery; plus a surprising conversation Blanchard apparently had in 1953 which "has been glossed over—perhaps because of its implications." More to come. And another surprising claim is surfacing as More Pieces of the Disclosure Puzzle Come Together: MJ-12 Documents Validated by Operation Paperclip Files. That from the Unknown Country website of Whitley Strieber, who is championing the recent work of the author of the MJ12 Logic substack. There's quibbling about when the documents were actually released, but we'll be looking for comments from Roswell historians on this matter. In the meantime, Miguel (Red Pill Junkie) Romero draws his opinions in Doodle: How Things Have Changed in the World of UFOs…. RPJ is as talented a cartoonist as he is a perceptive and sharp commentator! (WM)

It’s encouraging to see that more experiments into the intelligence and emotions of non-homo sapiens are being undertaken. The Cleaner Wrasse, so often seen on wildlife documentaries, is understood a little better thanks to Japanese research, which has shown that these fish have self-awareness sufficient to detect a mark placed upon them before viewing their own image in a mirror. And it’s probably no surprise to learn that Horses Can Detect Human Fear From Scent Alone. In a carefully controlled experiment in which human perspiration obtained under frightened, happy or neutral states of mind, triggered a corresponding behavior in horses. When exposed to the smell of fear they reacted with “stronger startle responses,” increased heart rate, and avoidance of their handler. The experiment shows clearly that their “consistently altered behaviour and physiology was [due to] exposure to human fear odour.” (LP)

This "Closest of Close Encounters" story has none other than Danny Sheehan behind it, and the tale includes a hospice "confession," S4, ultra-fundamentalist Christianity, and a cooperative telepathic "guest" whose job was monitoring life in the Galaxy for a Very Different "God." A longer "Jesse Michels Clip" on the "Them/Us" subject is "The NSA Trained Me to Communicate With Aliens!". This is the older "Project Preserve Destiny" story of alien genetic management and NSA-administered schooling that enabled Dan Sherman to "intuitively communicate" with ETs preparatory to a major future event. At the end, Sherman mentions a "Project Disclosure" with apparent Congressional connection he's been asked to help. In the same vein (and forum) we have DARPA Scientist: "A Mantis Being Spoke to Me Telepathically!". This Jesse Michels discussion with Lt. Colonel Dr. Blitch describing a life-altering experience is only a small fraction of a wide-ranging three-hour March 7, 2025 conversation. Similarly, Jeffrey Mishlove has answers to the question What Have We Learned about Mantis-like Aliens? This subject is informed by the mature-viewers art of David Huggins, covered by Farah Yurdozu in Love In An Alien Purgatory: The Life and Fantastic Art of David Huggins, published by Anomalist Books. Dr. Mishlove also has Mantid information experienced by the controversial "PK Man," Ted Owens, in his 26-minute New Thinking Allowed podcast. (WM)

60 Minutes reports that the crippling brain injuries suffered by U.S. diplomats, spies, and military officers since 2016 may have been caused by a miniaturized pulsed microwave weapon, an example of which was recently purchased by the Department of Homeland Security from a Russian criminal network and secretly tested on animals on a U.S. military base. The CIA has long denied the possibility of such a weapon, claiming that the reported injuries are due to known medical or environmental conditions. Scott Pelley interviews sources who claim this was a CIA coverup. But stories have circulated for years that the Russians, the CIA, the DIA, and others have been working on such weapons, since it's known that small amounts of electrical energy of the right frequency can affect biological processes. Everyone seems to have forgotten the Moscow Embassy attacks in the 1970s: Long Before Havana Syndrome, the U.S. Reported Microwaves Beamed at an Embassy. But some like Robert Bartholomew, co-author of Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior (Anomalist Books), continue to insist that it's all a social panic. Henry Bauer weighs in with Havana Syndrome: Plenty of Uncertain Explanations pointing out that "it remains hard to imagine what actors would have what motives to target the range of people reported as sufferers: not very high-level government employees and their families." Bauer suggests that there are other plausible explanations, noting the view that "all the described reports stem from the same phenomenon is only an assumption...Nor are the several offered explanations mutually exclusive." One thing is certain: we have not heard the end of this story. (PH)

This episode of the Jack Roycroft-Sherry podcast features an interview with cognitive scientist Ben Alderson-Day, where they discuss his book Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other. The conversation centers around those times when the human mind perceives a person who is not there, typically in situations of duress when the brain constructs a sense of another being. It's a fascinating 45 minutes that include a discussion of spirits and how AI might play a role in the feeling that someone is there who is not "real." (CM)

Recent UFO reports making news include this fun one in which actor Gideon Allen claims his move to Liverpool and magical practices have inspired flying saucer visits. In the original Echo report, Allen also wonders whether the saucer-jockeys may have discovered that Liverpool is where The Beatles are from. Then how about the Odd UFO Spotted in British Family's Vacation Photo? One thing we can certainly agree upon: the thing does look weird! UFO researcher Luis Burgos offers Argentina: A "Camouflaged" Boomerang? This oddity Burgos saw himself as the event happened. Back to Binnall as a Webcam Films Weird Illumination Zipping Over Mexican Lagoon. No certain identification here, but generic "bug" might be the leading speculation. (WM)

Dr. Garry Nolan goes into exquisite detail regarding his recent re-study of the 1957 Ubatuba, Brazil "UFO explosion" materials indicating "Isotopes Beyond Human Tech" at the time of their purported collection. Nolan and Sol Foundation co-founder Peter Skafish also voice reserved hopes about the latest UFO News from Washington, D.C. How about a purported UFO picture? Here's A MUFON Photo Analysis: Is This Green Orb Communicating? Noting supposedly "more than 20 GB of high-definition video data exists" but "only compressed social media versions of the footage were publicly available for analysis," Seth H. Feinstein's carefully recounted hard work on what was publicly available doesn't support the claim. More on instrumentation in the field comes from Dr. Robert McGwier, aka “Science Bob". Sketching his unusual background, Bob covers his project to create low-cost, underwater-placed accurate USO detectors, while not trespassing into US military frequencies or conflicting with other interests. Bob generously gives several means to derive more on this and much of the rest of his work gratis. At podcast beginning host Martin Willis mentions Reed Summers and the Tedesco brothers. John and Gerry Tedesco are also doing detection work, though at higher altitudes, and these two gentlemen join Reed's Emergent podcast The UAP Busters: Breakthrough Field Observations of Anomalous Intelligence. This is an in-depth but very understandable expose of the instrumentation, methods, findings, and interpretations to-date of these brother-pioneers. The Tedescos also present a new project called the Sentinel Experiment, taking detection underwater, with enormous potential. (WM)

The Loch Ness webcam has captured what appears to be its first Nessie sighting of the year. And who was the intrepid webcam watcher who realized what was happening? None other than Eoin O’Faodhagain, who has no doubt had more sightings than anyone else in the history of the loch. But not everyone is born a believer, as this next story illustrates: 'I thought Nessie was a tourist trap, until I SAW her’: Man behind Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register on 30 years looking for an answer. Alberto Lejarraga reports that Gary Campbell was a Chartered Accountant who was certain Nessie was a hoax. But when he saw her for himself, that disbelief changed into a passion. He and his wife started the Loch Ness Monster Fan Club which gradually evolved over the next 15 years with the internet into the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register. “In essence, I had no real interest until I saw something, and now my quest in life is to work out what I saw." (CM)

The first editor of Official UFO Magazine (see his excellent The Official History of Official UFO Magazine: The Best Articles from the First Six Issues) takes Michael Ryan into the High Strangeness worlds of the Paraphysical, Interdimensional, and Ultraterrestrial. It's a primer of the definitions, their proponents, and proof that mere "nuts and bolts" ufology won't explain everything that's being reported. We then plunge Into the Maze: Meredith Spearman and the Transformative Power of High Strangeness. Spearman presents ways to deal with the ontological shock of an eventual UFO disclosure, or satisfy a desire to open oneself to a kind of "communion" beyond our consensus-threshold with the wider world or worlds of Consciousness around/beyond us and our consensus reality. Michael Grosso of Consciousness Unbound discusses The Question of UFOs. Michael urges us to support the New Paradigm Institute's efforts to fight "for disclosure of information about UAP held in secret from the public and even from Congress for 80 years by the Military Industrial Complex. And our foray into high strangeness concludes with Let the Initiation Begin: Navy Cryptologist and Experiencer Matthew Roberts on Aliens, God, and Disclosure. Guest host James Faulk queries Roberts on his own personal experiences along these lines. Consciousness, spirituality, and disclosure come up again in this dialogue. (WM)

Becky Ferreira leads the current news with another "don't expect aliens" article, while listing what might be revealed by a probable government "data dump." Former NASA UAP Independent Study Team member Anamaria Berea notes "others out there" is a "fundamental existential question," but that "It would be really, really hard to believe that there is such a global conspiracy" among nations to hide such a truth. Ferreira points out many current scientific projects to locate life, and here a leading organization confesses Why SETI Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals. The SETI Institute's press release explains how "Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems, making them difficult to detect." Well, Cristina Gomez reports upon a terra firma investigation in This Is What Congressman Witnessed at UFO Site. Eric Burlison of course saw nothing definitively UFO-related; just intriguing. BUT ... the Congressman has imparted some further information that does seem positive, and, contrary to what we've heard recently, might support a better feeling about Tim Burchett's recent remarks to Matt Laslo we noted in yesterday's Psicoactivo podcast. And here's Marik von Rennenkampff with Obama and Trump Speak Out on UAP as New Military Footage Emerges. To this March Sol Briefing recap of recent news, Marik adds Hillary Clinton remarks this month, debunks Mick West's debunking of the latest Jeremy Corbell/George Knapp footage, and highlights intriguing "whale betting" mysteries. (WM)

There have always been charlatans, individuals ready to take advantage of any vulnerability they can detect in another, and the field of clairvoyance has more than its fair share of these fraudsters. A truly sad demonstration of this occurred recently in the Ukraine, where three imposters offered their mediumship services to those seeking to know the fates of their missing loved ones in the war. They managed to bilk their victims out of thousands and thousands of hryvnia, and now face possible jail time for their fraudulent activities. Another scammer was recently brought to justice: ‘Psychic’ TikTok Figure Will Pay $10M Over Fake, Defamatory U of Idaho Murder Claims. Claiming to have insight the police did not have into the crime, they proceeded to implicate and defame a U of Idaho professor, ignoring orders to cease and desist. A jury had the final say however, and $10M in damages seems to have finally silenced the fake seer. (CM)

A look back at some controversial past cases begins with Charles Lear taking us back as far as the classic 19th-century CEI(?)/Cattle mutilation(?) involving one Alexander Hamilton(?). Turns out only that last question seems true, as Charles relates the makings of the tale and its unravelling. A more recent and frightening encounter has not been so easy to dismiss, as discussed in The Tape Library's The Disturbing Cisco Grove Incident: California’s Strangest Real Life Encounter. The narrator thinks "ETs" may not be a weird enough explanation for this experience. Mac Mave Studios offers their rendition of The Pentyrch UFO Incident - Full 3D CGI Animation. Troubling². Credit Mac Mave Studios for providing references to military documents and a YouTube channel dedicated to the case! We come last to Jason Colavito's Lue Elizondo Claims Vatican Showed Him an Ancient UFO Account (But It Didn't). It points out the difficulties inherent in sussing out "consensus reality" from old (here, really old) accounts—see our first example. Elizondo's arguments about business fallout from Pentagon parceling of purported alien tech seem to be a problem to some, and for the remarks about what amounts to a "Collins Elite" in the government see Nick Redfern's much-referenced Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife, from Anomalist Books. (WM)

Against an admittedly-ghastly larger background, Pavel Ibarra worries about an apparent UFO-transparency-related exchange Congressman Tim Burchett had with the POTUS. CNN's Danya Galnor wonders since Trump Vowed To Release Government Files on Aliens and UFOs. Why Haven’t They Been Publicized Yet, And What Could Be In Them? Citing "layers of bureaucracy" involved, plus previous imperfect "high-profile disclosures" during the current Administration, Galnor gets high-profile answers regarding issues involved in this "disclosure." Government insider Christopher Mellon says "I would try to temper expectations a bit. I think it’s going to be a fairly long, and probably a bit of a slow process.” Historian Greg Eghigian opines “It’s hard for me to think that we’re going to see something new,” noting the "walls" that national security interests will likely erect over the process. Harvard/Galileo Project star Avi Loeb wishes for hi-resolution images and details on crash-retrieved materials. And Mexico's President Dismisses Question on UFO Disclosure, reports Tim Binnall; Claudia Sheinbaum repeats the tone she'd used towards a similar question last June. Whitley Strieber has other visions. Back on February 21st he offered Why Disclosure Is Now Possible and May Happen, citing his belief that NHI "controls the whole process," and an implant he received in 1989 has kept him "in contact with whatever is involved in the overarching experience." And on March 1st, Whitley announced that After 80 Long Years, the Coverup Is Collapsing at Last. Following "proof" that "the Majestic 12 documents are real," Whitley here pivots, citing hindrance within Congress and the DoD/DoW for considering the government might not "open the door." (WM)

In 1876, Bath County, Kentucky, was witness to a rain of meat from its skies. Authorities blamed the fleshy shower on vultures passing by that regurgitated their most recent carrion feast. 150 years later, Bath County commemorates the events with the Kentucky Meat Shower Festival, although instead of carrion falling from the skies, organizers arranged for small meatsticks. It's a less celebratory tone where Mysterious Stone Showers Trouble Indian Village. Residents of Hathinapur have been suffering a rain of rocks upon their homes, causing some villagers to stand guard outside at night to ward off any perpetrators. Many are concluding the cause is supernatural, and the authorities are without any other viable explanation. (CM)

Tim Newcomb's second heading "Does this evidence actually point to a long-lost 'medieval New York'?" shouldn't mislead that we're actually talking about a proto-"The Big Apple." But it's modeled on an excited comment by the Wolin Island's history museum evaluating the possible location of "Jomsborg on a Polish island in the Baltic Sea." And Wolin's mayor notes tourism as well as archaeological/historical potential here, as "Vikings are sexy and attract a lot of interest!" Not so sure about that in the next case, but some Mysterious Stone Structures In Northern Quebec’s Wilderness Spark Debate Over Canada’s Ancient Past. That's per Canadian Chrissy Newton, whose outstanding exposition of the claims by a rather interesting landowner himself and other possibilities truly invites additional study of these strange formations. On a much smaller matter yet still intriguing in its own right is Jason Colavito's discourse On Ibn Wahshiyya and the Dating of the Legend of King Surid. It illustrates the difficulty of dealing with historical texts and the reshaping of religiously-inspired textual themes. Ruth Schuster has a bit of the New reshaping a tangible remainder of the Dim Past as Redated Skulls in China Suggest Homo Erectus Spread Faster or Earlier Than Thought. Thinking about hominin evolution may have gotten even "messier." And something that's puzzled us may now have an answer, as Benjamin Taub observes Humans Have Been Fascinated With Crystals For 800,000 Years – We May Now Know Why. (WM)