Tim McMillan begins our look at the search for life Elsewhere with its limitation of A Sample of One (i.e. Earth) from which to explore. Tim explains a University of Glasgow effort to establish "'agnostic' life detection strategies." It's only in the "proof of concept stage," and Tim explains both the promise and the needed work to help make it a reality. We also learn that SETI Researchers Are Expanding the Search Beyond the 'Water Hole'. That's from The Debrief's Austin Burgess, who describes another effort to expand the life-search beyond "Earth-based" models, this with frequencies outside a "specific, narrow band of the radio spectrum." Once again, "proof of concept" is used to characterize the status of this initiative. But PhD student Louisa Mason has already made a startling discovery in the area of "stellar bycatch." "PopMech Editors" team up to report There's a Chilling Reason Why We Haven't Made Contact With Aliens Yet, Scientists Say. "Fermi's Paradox" comes in for examination here, with three different proposed answers, one based upon a "galactic simulation model" strategy somewhat similar to Louisa Mason's procedure, to guess at "what—or who—might be lying around the extraterrestrial corner." But what if the "ET corner" isn't the answer? Well, Charles Lear observes how Jacques Vallée and John Keel Challenge the ETH. Coincidentally, Keel's Operation Trojan Horse, published by Anomalist Books, comes in for recommendation here, as it's influential that "UFOs and their associated occupants might be from a realm other than outer space." Dr. Danny Ammon's Limina article The Demarcation Problem of UAP Studies thus enters the discussion. Ammon suggests that the development of UFO/UAP studies' as an academic discipline is frustrated by "grounding the discipline in a variety of unknown phenomena—ranging from aerial phenomena to reports involving encounters and abductions—under the presumption of a common, extraterrestrial cause." Ammon explains why he suggests initially limiting the field to three subdisciplines—"object research, observation research, and encounter research"—as a "preliminary step." (WM)

"Shamanism with a technological twist." Thus Shayne A. P. Dahl characterizes the CE-5 alien contact movement. The University of Calgary Assistant Anthropology Professor provides the additional hallmarks of "a new religious movement emerging from the intersection of science, technology and modern anxieties." Noting the US Government's acknowledged "reality" of UAP/UFOs, Dahl urges humanities and social science scholars to take UAP seriously. David Metcalfe offers another serious and well-thought-out essay in The Operative Image: Flatwoods, Lam, and the Evangelists of the Ultraterrestrial Church. Launching from a linked study by CUFOS' Dr. Michael Swords, David progresses from the 1952 Flatwoods experience to contemporary instances to show how "Images look back at us, transform us, and rewrite the world." Mariya Manzhos uses "The image from video provided by the Department of Defense labeled Gimbal" to help inform us about What UFOs and Religion Have in Common. Manzhos well-describes Catholic Prof. Diana Walsh Pasulka's main positions in her recent conversation with Joe Rogan. And Martin Willis presents Rabbi Michael “Moshe” Rothschild UFOs and Religion. While some of the energetic and pleasant Rabbi Rothschild's noteworthy ufological personages may surprise, his remarks about Judaism and numerous UFO subjects and approaches are very informative and nicely stated. (WM)

The late Robert Monroe, founder of The Monroe Institute, is best known for his first book, Journeys Out of the Body, which popularized the term "out-of-body experience" (OBE) and for introducing the ability to self-induce OBEs to a large audience. This book set Bob Peterson, the author of this article, on his spiritual path. But Peterson found Monroe's sequel Far Journeys, published 14 years later, totally foreign, like "Monroe took a dive off the deep end of the pool, and never quite resurfaced." He was bothered by the vocabulary that Monroe invented to more accurately reflect what he experienced in "non-physical reality." In Review: Far Journeys - Part 2 Peterson says that one of the most bizarre concepts in the book is what Monroe called "Loosh," non-physical emotional energy harvested to nourish non-humans. Peterson found the concept unsettling and depressing: "It makes all of human existence sound trite and meaningless; an addictive game, or a delivery system for 'loosh' that's fed to non-humans." The idea, it should be noted, had first appeared in the UFO literature in the 1970s as "soul-sucking aliens," extraterrestrial or interdimensional beings that treat Earth like a farm to harvest human emotional energy, consciousness, or the life force. (PH)

Richard Dolan summarizes a new scientific study of all PURSUE UAP videos to-date (August 19). Jacob Haqq-Misra and Ravi Kopparapu are among the brightest stars in the recent crop of academics turning to UFOs, as their Limits on Velocity Recovery from the PURSUE Sensor Videos demonstrates. The scholars' presentation looks sound as far as this reader can still remember 1960s-70s-vintage training, and Richard's explanation is more than useful. The upshot: while many are interesting, none of the videos possess enough data to make realistic assertions about their anomalousness. Baptiste Friscourt voices similar dissatisfaction about another US Government "transparency" effort as the Pentagon UAP Office Reports 202 New Unresolved Sightings. "The devil is truly in the details" here in the belated AARO Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Annual Report. Euronews journalist Marta Pacheco reports Brussels Keen to Monitor UFOs Under the Radar. The article extensively documents the European nations' UAP-related efforts and especially the needs for stigma reduction, efforts improvement, and cooperation to counter the air safety challenges that "unknowns" present. (WM)

As of July, official Loch Ness Monster sightings this year are greater in number than for all of 2025. However, more sightings do not mean more Nessie activity. Increased sightings can be explained by increased events aimed at Nessie detection, increased tourism, more favorable weather patterns, or better photographic technology. Australian Tourist Spots Loch Ness Monster? Possibly, because the photo taken of a green head followed by what could be humps is awfully intriguing. So intriguing that the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings register has added this sighting to their database, making the tally nine so far for 2026—and there are still 4 months to go. (CM)

Lysette Voytko, “an American journalist and writer living in the UK,” writes this interesting comparison between the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), headed by Patrice Keane, and the UK’s Society for Psychical Research. The former, she has learned, is in reality defunct, answering queries through a 1998 “generic inbox,” causing “alarm bells” to ring in the “parapsychology research community.” No online and no meaningful physical records are available, and the Society is said to have been “gutted by its board members and staff.” The UK Society, however, is fully up-to-date, accessible to members, and very active. Lysette follows-up with a second piece, Inside the Fight For America’s Paranormal History, which expands on the ASPR’s strange goings-on and the opaqueness of its operations since Patrice Keane took the helm in 1987. In a nutshell, the outfit is a shady shambles and the whereabouts of many of its important documents, for which “private collectors will pay hundreds, if not thousands,” is unknown. (LP)

Mainstream media are still catching on to the PURSUE file drops. New York Post reporter Shane Galvin calls out the Air Force for being tight-fisted with its imagery and quotes several whistleblowers stating that nothing's really changed after the latest POTUS "NDA-release" supposedly encouraging new witnesses. Galvin follows this article with the Department of War Investigating Mysterious Triangle UFO Videos After Post Report. The acting Pentagon Press Secretary even says it is "actively investigating." But wait, there's more from Galvin, as the Late VP Dick Cheney Oversaw 'Detainment Situation' of Aliens From Crashed UFOs: Whistleblower. Turns out David Grusch, who praised the "NDA-lifting" noted in Galvin's first article, made much more provocative comments to newly-arrived UFO podcaster "Dr. Phil" McGraw—whose own ascent into the UFO blogosphere seems almost unprecedented. Coincidentally, long-time commentator on Things UFO as well as more "mundane" subjects, Leonard David writes 'This Is Unprecedented': Why The Pentagon's Recent UFO File Releases Are So Important. David's focus here is Mike Gold, former NASA and Bigelow administrator and current key member of The Disclosure Foundation. Gold has a different and perhaps more practical viewpoint on the "disclosure process" than what most UFO-interested desire, but it's worth pondering and Gold makes concrete suggestions as to how progress could be achieved. (WM)

Police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, have turned to psychics in an effort to gain tips regarding the 2017 disappearance of 15-year-old Sophie Reeder. The family is disappointed that the investigation has taken this turn, believing an increased reward for finding Sophie would be a more responsible and effective use of police funds. However, nearly 10 years after the teen disappeared, Fort Lauderdale authorities are "willing to try new and unique approaches for any chance at uncovering new information regarding her disappearance.” Meanwhile, this is How Some Use ‘Psychic’ Powers At Work—And How You Can, Too. Keeping in mind that fear, stress, and anxiety—often our baseline states while at work—all block any kind of intuitive impulse, it is actually possible to train yourself to be more "psychic" at work. Science has determined that the key is something called "interoception: the body’s ability to perceive internal signals, such as hunger, thirst, the need to use the bathroom, and being in tune with them." Members of Gen Z are apparently the best at this, hence their increased reliance on intuitive impulses at work and in their lives generally. (CM)

Mitch Horowitz offers a cogent and scholarly argument on the origins of modern occultism. He takes us on an illustrative genealogy of the ancient roots of modern occult, ranging across our fragmentary knowledge of the once-rich religious traditions of ancient Egypt, Greece, Persia, and Rome, now largely erased by time, and Christianity. Horowitz picks up their traces and shows how, though battered, bruised, and pale shadows of their former selves, they were preserved in Hermetic, Gnostic, alchemical, and astrological traditions. It is a lot to take in. There is, at times, a tendency to let etymology stand in for argument, inviting us to see an unbroken thread between contemporary ideas and a hidden, ancient essence. Horowitz’s defense of “New Age” is also less straightforward than he allows. Much of what is now understood as New Age practice from meditation to mantras has been adapted from non-Western traditions. The Western occult inheritance is more often a language of symbols, correspondences, invisible forces, and hidden continuities than a comparable body of lived practice. David Metcalfe's Liminal Analytics offers a similarly wide-ranging, if rather differently diagnosed, survey of the modern occult in Chains and Lures – Occulture, Exorcism, and the Binding of the Modern Mind . Where Horowitz presents the occult as a damaged inheritance awaiting recovery, Metcalfe presents it as a field of dissembling and seductive narratives, running from occult consumerism and deliverance ministry to internet folklore and UFO belief. Metcalfe nevertheless leaves open the possibility that some occult agencies may be real. The reader is therefore left to distinguish the genuine daemon from a heavy meal, projection, or paranoia, an exercise for which “discernment” seems a rather paltry offering. (JS)

When Youtube came online in 2005, no one could have predicted the impact it would eventually have over paranormal investigations. While those first recordings of ghost hunts were primarily a collection of grainy images, they caught the imaginations of the viewers looking for a thrill. Over time, the image quality improved, and perhaps more importantly, the characters within those videos began influencing viewers. The reactions of the paranormal investigators (however loosely we choose to define that term) became as important as the content itself. Ghost hunting technology became central to the plot and monetization of the videos, providing incentive for more videos. Combined, those two factors increased the likelihood of hoaxes. In spite of that, the paranormal investigation genre continues to grow on Youtube. We can only hope that the content creators realize a simple, well-explained spook far outweighs the spectacle of a truckload of equipment and bad acting. (CM)

Meredith Spearman has written another one of those truly transcendent articles we've been privileged to encounter. Spearman shows how Jacques Vallée's life, work, and passage from the ufology fray demonstrates that the UFO/Human connection demands attention, to both sides of that relationship. This piece—and Vallée himself—stand as stark reminders that current dispositions to focus upon mere instrumented data, to the exclusion or denigration of the witness experience, are incomplete, suboptimizing, and flat out wrong. "The person becomes interference. That departure from the field's beginnings may be among the most consequential" is one of Spearman's initial apt summations. Spearman emphasizes Vallée never lost the understanding that physical numbers, measurable quantities, were insufficient to capture the full events themselves. "This is why describing Vallée as either a nuts-and-bolts researcher or a mystic misses the architecture of his thought." Limiting one's scope to the event itself without understanding the witness/experiencer's previous context, their subsequent life, and how the event and its aftermath have changed the person not only may deny that individual support they may desperately need, it also fails to grant the event its real "due" and therefore our understanding. Vallée's workshop address "Now It Can Be Told!" at the Contact in the Desert event and his books, ten of which, including Forbidden Science 7: Final Report: The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2020-2025, are published by Anomalist Books, should be consulted. And this essay, along with RM McClaren's previously-reviewed Jacques Vallée Spent 70 Years Investigating UFOs. His Final Journal Says the Mystery Is Bigger Than Aliens., should be remembered. (WM)

Micah Hanks leads off a cavalcade of four archaeological articles with the latest from a Chinese-USA-South African team's more than a decade of excavations. It opens up a new perspective on human creativity, and the "unlikely source" for its surprisingly earlier dating is itself rather a small technological happenstance. The Debrief colleague Christopher Plain takes over with Centuries Before The Aztec and Inca Empires Existed, Locals Built Something Incredible in the Colombian Jungle. Plain clarifies that a site's "complex structures and earthworks were likely constructed by a local, cooperative, relatively leaderless group in a short period of time and without a central organizing authority"—upending "previously held beliefs." Plain also narrates a one-woman discovery in Archaeologist Finally Decodes 2,200-Year-Old Mysterious Stonemason Inscriptions That Have Stumped Researchers for Centuries. Anna Urszula Kordas' achievement is novel, as are the markings on the Tauchira Gate at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica. And back to Hanks as Archaeologists Have Unearthed a Rare and Mysterious Runestone at an Ancient Site in the Faroe Islands. This recent find has yet to be understood, and the Faroes themselves are an intriguing archipelago and polity. An intriguing finish is a 6-kilometer, 25-minute Walk Through Petra: A Cinematic Journey Through Jordan's Rose-Red Wonder. Thanks to the "in-shape" camera-person for a ramble through this storied site! (WM)

Featuring a previous Chris Cuomo conversation with the Director and Producer of the estimable documentary The Age of Disclosure, Michael Ramsey covers the relevant portion of a recent interview of Rubio and his wife with The Katie Miller Podcast. Rubio tries to tamp down the pressure for a Presidential announcement while acknowledging there's still an unknown there. Ramsey and Hena Doba combine on the UFO Files: Watch Appears To Jump 25 Minutes Ahead After Encounter. Avi Loeb grants three possibilities behind this strange situation, with possible huge import. Coast to Coast underscores the military consequences with a Mysterious Orb Revealed in New Pentagon Release. Also referenced and linked: the PURSUE tranche #5 report. So PrimeTimer goes to another concerned governmental body for the low-down in NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman Addresses UFO Allegations, Says He Has “No Information Or Knowledge” of Secret Alien Spacecraft. Here Charu Sharma shows how Isaacman definitely disavows any ET-alien/UFO connection knowledge and misdoubts those who even under oath say they do, he's allowing both "There is absolutely some unexplained anomalous phenomenon," and that "Can't explain right now doesn't mean it's unexplainable." (WM)

In a recent study by the Institute of Noetic Science, researchers explore "whether genetic variation might be associated with differences in self-reported psychic experiences." In other words, do PSI abilities run in families? Correlations were found, but no specific inheritable psychic experience was identified, nor was a particular psychic gene discovered. For now the hypothesis requires more research. Next, on A Wonder Junkie, Edward Kelly - Consciousness Unbound & the Irreducible Mind. This interview with the American neuroscientist and parapsychologist explores the challenges posed by Reductionist Physicalism, i.e. the philosophy that everything can be boiled down to its physical/material basis. Kelly discusses the challenges to this theory as presented by NDEs and spiritual experiences, and other anomalous phenomena. (CM)

This Dr. Diana Pasulka Joe Rogan appearance was quite enlightening in explaining her interesting background and entry into the UFO conversation. Some of Pasulka's UFO-related beliefs are contested within the field, and at times the argumentation here seemed a bit weak. Of course, Jason Colavito jumped on this in Diana Pasulka Can't Answer Simple Joe Rogan Query: "How Do You Know It's True?" We move over to Richard Dolan, who asks of himself After a Lifetime of Mystery, What Remains? Dolan's observations probably won't satisfy some of the more zealous and recent entrants into the UFO field, but they continually resonated with us, at least. And then there's the marvelous conversation Ross Coulthart has with Mart Sander in Estonian Filmmaker: Mysterious 'Object M' May Be Monitoring Humanity. Take the literally-underlying premise as probable, possible, or fantastical, this mixture of a hidden whats-it has Cold War intrigue, dangerous medical events, pre-ice-age speculation, strange human personalities, and great storytelling. It's an excellent "promo" for Estonian polymath Dr. Sander's new book Object M: Estonia's Buried Mystery, and perhaps a movie to follow! (WM)

Sociologist Robin Wooffit has since 1991 published academic articles on how anomalous experiences are communicated, among other communication-related topics. On LinkedIn, Wooffit explains the rationale behind the paper this way: "...disclosure focuses on what might happen at a national or even global level," but neglects "individual disclosure: how people who have had encounters with UAP report them to family, friends or institutional agencies." The air safety application to pilot reporting, which is the focus of his paper, is obvious, but also on the larger scale, to "how we know what we know about our encounters with anomalous phenomena." Applying "how we know what we know" to another topic, at New Scientist Paul Marks offers Did NASA's Viking Landers Find Life On Mars After All, Asks New Book. That's Steven A. Benner's upcoming Meet the Neighbors: Life on Mars and How to Find It. Marks lauds Benner's book for challenging what Benner considers a misinterpretation of the data from Mars planetary landers in 1976 and 2012. Benner argues that quite positive results from three experiments were wrongly discarded because "the gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) on the [two 1970s Viking] landers found no evidence of any organic content in the Martian soil." This because that "GC-MS was nowhere near sensitive enough to pick up organics" in those cases—and "NASA's Curiosity rover [landed in 2012] discovered the Martian surface is full of organics." The implications could be mind-blowing, and years of Martian exploration may have wrongfully aimed away from the Big Question of life elsewhere than Earth. (WM)

“Kurt B” describes an enormous black vulture-like bird he sighted in 2023 on his property near Lexington. Though he had no camera on hand, he presents an AI image of the creature and reckons its wingspan was “about 16-17 feet.” He recalls also that on takeoff, the bird’s wings sounded like the “whomp” of helicopter blades. And on a similar subject, The Ropen and Flying Cryptids are discussed in Tim Binnall’s interview with researcher and field investigator Jacob S. Guerra, about modern sightings of The Ropen and other unusual aerial cryptids said to be remnant creatures from the distant past. The Ropen is a legendary cryptid from Papua New Guinea, a glowing, nocturnal, pterosaur-like creature with a toothy beak, leathery wings, and a long tail. (LP)

George Noory interviews the bestselling author and near-death experiencer Dannion Brinkley in this excerpt from George's new TV show, Strange Universe, which airs on a new media platform called Spark TV. In the same vein, there is a forthcoming Documentary About Life and Work of Kenneth Ring, Ph.D., a psychologist who has investigated near-death experiences and how they change people's lives. Ring is the co-founder and past president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and is the founding editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. The documentary is entitled Kenneth Ring: How a Foremost Near-Death Experience Research Pioneer Expanded Our Lives. The documentary premiers August 26th at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue, Washington, during annual IANDS conference. (PH)

Current world sightings, headed by a February North Sea report from the pilots of two planes during a refueling mission. Ben Fieldhouse's details are sparse, but a 100-150-foot distance estimate is certainly eye-popping. Yet we hear that UK Defence Chiefs Reject Calls for Scots UFO Sightings Probe as 'No Military Threat'. The Daily Record's Deputy Chief Reporter Sally Hinds says Scottish researcher Malcolm Robinson disagrees and hopes to take his case to the latest Prime Minister. Or maybe it's just an "air safety" incident? A British former colony is also in the news as a Series of UFO Sightings Has Tasmanian Mayor Seeking Answers. The Australian "orbs" puzzle doesn't seem to be drones, and it's causing consternation at least among the locals. That's from Tim Binnall, who also offers a "New World" example with Vanishing UFO Astonishes Witnesses in Colombia. This one seems less disturbing and most likely less serious. But the La Opinion Austral (Rio Gallegos, Argentina) newsroom gives us Argentina: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Reported in Río Gallegos (July 2026). This Inexplicata article is more puzzling. (WM)

Kristen French asks the first of several UFO-related questions, and it's a good one. French uses Spielberg's Disclosure Day, the June 25th Disclosure Forum, and academic papers and polling from 1957 to the present to ponder this matter. Popular Mechanics editors banded together to ask Does Avi Loeb Know Something the Rest of Us Don't? It turns out that this August 6th trio discussion references a June 30th David Howard article Does Avi Loeb—Head of the White House's New UFO Council—Know Something the Rest of Us Don't? So the conversation is heavily on Loeb's 'Oumuamua-ET NHI-engineered possibility—but Howard's piece on Loeb's background is worth the diversion given his new UAP Science Advisory Council charge. Michael Ryan and Christine Scott make it even more personal with What Makes A Good UFO Witness? The UFO Talker team tackles the subject well. Grant Cameron gets a nod here, and so we'll turn to Grant and Are Extraterrestrials Leaving Marks on Us—and the Earth? CE-2s of all sorts, the veteran Canadian researcher believes and may publish upon, are ET NHIs' ways of proving they're actually here. (WM)

Humans have a habit of thinking they're the smartest ones in the room. Billy Cox suggests we should get our hubris under control and polish up our own smarts before we attempt contact with any non-human entity. In spite of the world being three quarters ocean, we still only know the most rudimentary ways to communicate with its residents. For example, we know cetaceans are very smart, but we still can't decipher their language. What we think is an invitation to play could be a practical joke. And let's not forget that interactions with humans on a regular basis seldom ends well for non-humans. It may be that human intelligence is the easiest to document on the planet, but being the most obvious is not the same as being the greatest. (CM)

Cornell University has found itself in a dispute with Charles Stuart, aka Snake the Bigfoot Hunter. "Snake" asserts the university performed tests on "Dack," his 300-pound Bigfoot corpse, and determined its DNA makeup was 60% Neanderthal. Cornell states it did not, and said no such thing, leaving "Snake" to declare it a coverup. But Bigfoot sightings continue...Colorado Motorist Reports Sasquatch Sighting on July 28 while driving on Highway 149 near Lake City. Driving carefully and scanning the forested sides of the road to avoid any wildlife that might dash out in front of her vehicle, she noticed a Bigfoot emerge from the trees. It proceeded to "glide" up the hill on the side of the road, leaving the driver in shock and at a loss for words. She was, however, absolutely certain about what she saw. (CM)

Still-noteworthy older UFO reports include Robert Reed Ellison's legendary sighting of strange lights in western Texas. We're unconvinced that particular puzzler has been explained, but Darren Orf possibly has the modern answer for the famous "Marfa Lights." Orf notes they're still "one of the weirdest tourist attractions in Texas," and recently a geothermal energy source, probably unrelated, "could bring real change" to the tiny town—also known as an "arts hub." David Freeman analyzes "one of the most striking early military assessments of unidentified objects ever put on paper" in 1953 Military UFO Analysis Found Speeds Above 2,400 MPH. Freeman covers two well-known films—the August 15, 1950, by Nick Mariana and the July 2, 1952, by Delbert Newhouse—that were scrutinized by both 1953 Robertson and late 1960s Condon groups. Mariana's minor league baseball team was renamed the Great Falls Voyagers in 2008 to honor his incident. The Man Who Phoned in Canada's Most Famous UFO Sighting Became the Face of the Mystery is a human-interest story regarding the October 4, 1967, event at Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. Richard Woodbury remembers the recently-deceased Laurie Wickens' key sighting, and Wickens' involvement in perpetuating its memory. Charles Lear wants corroboration on A 1979 Italian UFO Case in an Irish Newspaper. We worry when a good Irish tale isn't validated, so see if you can help out Charles. And back to Canada for Susan Demeter's Black Diamond UFO Haunts Lake Ontario. A very personal story of the impact a UFO experience can have. (WM)

Kristen French asks the first of several UFO-related questions, and it's a big one. French uses Spielberg's Disclosure Day, the June 25th Disclosure Forum, and academic papers and polling from 1957 to the present to ponder this matter. Popular Mechanics editors banded together to ask Does Avi Loeb Know Something the Rest of Us Don't? It turns out that this August 6th trio discussion references a June 30th David Howard article Does Avi Loeb—Head of the White House's New UFO Council—Know Something the Rest of Us Don't? So the conversation is heavily on Loeb's 'Oumuamua-ET NHI-engineered possibility—but Howard's piece on Loeb's background is worth the diversion given his new UAP Science Advisory Council charge. Michael Ryan and Christine Scott make it even more personal with What Makes A Good UFO Witness? The UFO Talker team tackles the subject well. Grant Cameron gets a nod here, and so we'll turn to Grant and Are Extraterrestrials Leaving Marks on Us—and the Earth? CE-2s of all sorts, the veteran Canadian researcher believes and may publish upon, are ET NHIs' ways of proving they're actually here. (WM)