The Singular Fortean Society recently received the following report from a man who said he and a crowd of fellow drive-in moviegoers witnessed several ovaloid UFOs flying in formation between California’s Morongo and Yucca Valleys in the summer of 1953. According to the man, who asked to be anonymous, he was around six years old at the time of his sighting. As far as I can tell this was about 1953. In later years, I…
Lon Strickler of Phantoms & Monsters recently received the following report from a man who claims to have encountered a “humanoid spider or other insect …with white flesh” whose “eyes were human-like and had a reddish glow” near a self-storage facility in Evanston, Illinois, in the spring of 2020. I live in Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago. I was asked by my mother’s friend to move some stuff to a storage unit nearby. I…
Top Pentagon officials told a House panel on Tuesday that there are now close to 400 reports from military personnel of possible encounters with UFOs — a significant increase from the 144 tracked in a major report released last year by the U.S. intelligence community. A Navy official also said at Tuesday’s hearing that investigators are “reasonably confident” the floating pyramid-shaped objects captured on one leaked, widely seen military video were likely drones. That footage, which the…
From the “Kids, don’t try this at home” vault comes word that researchers studying ceramic pottery from an ancient Egyptian embalming workshop near one of the oldest pyramids ever made have discovered the magic formula for preserving human bodies used by Egyptian funeral directors. The ingredients list contains some surprises and shows the impressive amount of work they devoted to this mysterious process. Now that we think about it, this formula probably belongs in the…
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A bright flash of gamma rays from the constellation Boötes that lasted nearly one minute came from a kilonova, as we described in a new paper. This finding challenges what astronomers know about some of the most powerful events in the universe. The unusual cosmic explosion was detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory on Dec. 11, 2021, as the satellite orbited Earth. When astronomers pointed…
