Billy Cox ruminates upon The Current State of Things UFO and Military. He contrasts the apparent effectiveness of U.S. technology against the Iranian drone and missile bombardment at Israel with the apparent utter impotence of the forces back home towards "drone parties" over Langley Air Force Base and other military installations. Billy moves on to consider AARO's "explaining away" of the Eglin AFB incident that enflamed three lawmakers, and the response of one—Matt Gaetz—to that verdict; AARO's sophomoric (at best) recent "Report of the Historical Record...(UAP) Vol.1"; and "The Grusch conundrum." Incisive commentary. About UAP: Is Anybody in Charge? Cécile Gouret Legros summarizes a nearly three-hour interview Curt Jaimungal did with Dolan, and the "takeaways" are...interesting. The full interview is also included. It is good to see Jaimungal again, as he's one of the more astute young minds that's frequented the field. And Bapstiste Friscourt takes the podium of his own Sentinel News to note that Discussions between US Officials Point to the Existence of a UFO Recovery Programme. Baptiste is an excellent researcher, but many American ufologists have reasons to doubt the Kingman event ever happened, which would, of course, call documents claiming so into question. (WM)

Dr. Karl Shuker has uncovered a book that describes two Brazilian mystery cats he is unfamiliar with, as impossible as that sounds. One is a Rock Jaguar, which he believes was a brown felid (a mammal of the cat family) with a mane. The other is a red jaguar, unfortunately mentioned only once in the book. For more information, the book is Yanoáma: The Narrative of a White Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians, and is a true life account of her experience. (CM)

In another offering from her new Phenomenology of Ufology series, Dr. Kimberly Engels dialogues with the person who's reanimated the John E. Mack Institute. First, Dr. Engels reminds us about the phenomenological approach that attempts to address the whole of a person's anomalous experience. This includes not only the scientifically-measurable data, but rather weds to it the human reactions—emotions, attempts to interpret what's going on, efforts to impose some meaning to the experience—the whole perceptual complement. Guest Karin Austin explains her decision to revive the organization and gives an effective background biography and defense of the late Dr. Mack's approach to the abduction phenomenon and those enmeshed by it. Austin frankly presents her own personal journey through her earlier experiences. Another "home run" for Dr. Engels and her work. Hannah Lane takes on another controversy-fraught subject in UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud? In reading this article it's helpful to take in the whole context of the work, including the explanatory writing, the religious and symbolic context, plus the history of such artistic renditions. It's also important to note that not all ufologists believe what Lane ascribes to them. (WM)

It's finally happened: the first Nessie sighting of 2024 according to the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register. A couple, originally from Canada, and their family, packed a little treat for the big gal and went out to the lookout at Urquhart Castle. They were not disappointed. There's also been a sighting online via webcam, although it hasn't been accepted as an "official sighting": Fresh 'Loch Ness Monster Sighting' As Man Claims To Have Seen Creature Emerge From Water. Monster hunter Eoin O'Faodhagain says the surrounding water was perfectly calm while the area where something the size of three men emerged was stirred up in an unusual fashion. No doubt O'Faodhagain will have more sightings for us as the year goes on. (CM)

The update we reported on the 26th to the weird year-old, 10-foot-tall alien backyard encounter has another update. Here the two researchers NewsNation talked to individually now come together to discuss the video analysis. It's rather a "stand-off," but crime scene recreation expert Scott Roder now maintains the footage he analyzed has "actually two beings in the video at the same time." Former FBI agent Ben Hansen agrees with Roder the video has not been edited, but sides with another analyst that the "shadow" is caused by a flashlight. This viewer thought the video "cut off" early, but reporter Rich Johnson summarizes the gist of the exchange. No doubt there's something solid in UF-WHOAH: Bizarre Photos Show Massive Saucer-shaped 'UFO' Being Hauled Down Desert Road by a Tractor Trailer Baffling Onlookers. This one should be more easily diagnosable. Tim Binnall has an Odd 'Tic Tac' UFO Filmed in England whose lead snapshot looked like a more svelte version of that tied-down Argentine object. But the "still's" sharply-defined craft above fully-foliaged trees doesn't comport with the video, whose bird sounds we like better. A follow-up on another story is Tim's Witness Recalls Filming Remarkably Clear Video of UFO Over NYC's LaGuardia Airport. Tim's summary sets up another, linked NewsNation Video: Possible UFO Reported over NYC's LaGuardia Airport. Ben Hansen shows up once again, pronouncing Michelle Reyes' footage genuine. But the only other certainty seems that the FAA let down Michelle--and potentially air safety. (WM)

Helped by Philip Mantle, Laura Rowton uncovers more unsettling details about what might have transpired on a Mississippi river in October 1973. Another insightful Paranormal Scholar offering. Earlier in that same year, but about 600 miles due north of Pascagoula, an event occurred that's commemorated in Documentary Filmmaker Joe Tury Talks about His Film Grand Tower UFOs and Other High Strangeness with UFO Talker Michael Ryan. This is an ill-known multiple and lengthy sighting deserving more attention. Bill Chalker's still interested in The Tully Thing that "played out at Horseshoe Lagoon in northern Queensland Australia" in January 1966. Bill remarks inaccuracies about that "UFO nest" incident related to the vegetation destruction; this reminds of a Philip Mantle Pascagoula "trace evidence" datum. Bill also notes how the Australian area fostered long-time native legends; Joe Tury mentioned such background present in the Grand Towers Illinois case. And Bill also observes a 1965/6 "proliferation of sightings" "Down Under" also happened in the U.S., and recounts several remarkable Aussie ones. We go back a decade earlier with Aaron Gulyas to The Wolverton Trail Event of 1955. Aaron's comments on how this California experience was written should "tickle" former teachers; and the tale itself is, well...a bit different from what one might expect—yet still quite interesting. (WM)

Those who know, know about Dreamland Resort serving the weird community for a quarter century. If they've been around so long, why is it Joerg Arnu's home was raided by feds back in '22? We're not talking staged horseshit, but the real deal. They had a warrant, but it was almost completely redacted when Arnu got a look at it. Fortunately George Knapp is there to investigate the matter. On the other side of the equator, an Argentine UFO Museum Raided By Authorities In Search Of Peruvian Mummy's Foot. We've heard of fetishes, but this is ridiculous! There are shades of Jaime Maussan afoot (I'm so sorry...) here and Tim Binnall has all the details of how Earthly artifacts have been appropriated and presented as extraterrestrial. (CS)

Inflammation has a bad rep, even when it comes to Parkinsons and Alzheimers, yet new research reveals this biological response is essential for memory. Join David Neld as he goes down the rabbit hole of neuroscience and how Jelena Radulovic from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York came to such a conclusion. If you happen to be running errands today, or heading off on a long drive, you'll want to queue up Matt Galloway as he considers What Dying People See In Their Dreams. Joining him is Dr. Christopher Kerr, you may remember him from an article from The New York Times last St. Paddy's Day concerning deathbed visions, relating what he's learned from interviewing patients preparing to draw back the veil and their loved ones. Next on your weekend playlist, we can't recommend Dr. Bernard Beitman or his podcast enough. This time he invites Maureen St. Germain, no relation, we hope, to talk about the fluffy bunny crystals behind hearing voices and Discerning If Voices Are Helpful Or Hurtful. Or you can just read some Julian Jaynes instead. (CS)

Dolphins do it. Birds do it. Hyraxes do it, of all critters, so why does Arik Kershenbaum in Why Animals Talk insist these critters, and others, lack language? That question left Barbara J. King scratching her head and digging up plenty of evidence countering Kershenbaum's assertion. While we're at it, take a deep dive with Roy Christopher as he appreciates The Whale-Wide Web Of Undersea Song. He just read Rebecca Gigg's new book Fathoms talking about every conceivable topic related to cetacean biology and culture. Of especial interest is the analogy drawn between the network of whale songs spanning the oceans with the internet. Makes one wonder which species are the trolls. (CS)

More like circumstantial evidence, am I right Bob Yirka? How is it circumstantial? "The team acknowledges that other forces could be at play that might explain the behavior that they simulated but suggest they are less likely." In short there's barely enough smoke for an ember, let alone fire. In the interest of being fair, hear out Konstantin Batygin as he continues to beat the drum for "Planet 9." Also from the annals of questionable science, check out Victor Tangermann's coverage how an Orbiter Spots "Spiders" On Surface Of Mars. These 'spiders' are hypothesized as being the product of carbon dioxide geyers. They've been replicated on Earth under laboratory settings but, and that's a big bigger than your mom's, there's nothing showing them in action making their mark on the red planet. The pictures are nifty, gotta say. In other news Millie Turner recapitulates panspermia beneath the lede Aliens May Travel Across Space On Meteors. Two astronomers, Harrison B. Smith and Lana Sinapayen, have a new paper guessing at how wayward alien life might survive on the unforgiving surface of meteors, asteroids, and comets. (Turn on your browser's reader mode as the Ms. Turner's article is nigh-ureadable with the numerous photos interspersed between sentences.) Now just for laughs, Ben Rice suggests 10 Songs We Would Play For Aliens Visiting Earth That Represent The Best Of Humanity and one is a rickroll. (CS)

Y'don't say, Evan Bush? There must've been a big funeral in academia for scientific conventional wisdom to consider, let alone embrace, such a maverick proposition. Dig the evidence in support, along with the legal fall out when this becomes established and irrefutable. As if things aren't complicated enough Everything In Our Univers—Even The Chair You're Sitting On—May Be Conscious. From panspermia in the previous section, now panpsychism has a booster in the name of Stav Dimitropoulos who forments a formidable argument that when you knock on a door, that rapping sound is actually the door saying "Ouch! Quit it!" Closer to this editor's heart, and Michael Grosso, is the Intentionality of a Cat. Ailurophiles know cats are willful, far from automatons or philosophical zombies, and Mike received a lesson from Clio that will go down in history. The icing on this tabby cake? The psychic talents illustrated by his feline friend. (CS)

The January 26, 2023, incident that provided much impetus for a trio of Congresspersons to call for the pivotal July 26th House hearing with David Grusch and two UFO witnesses may have just been a balloon. That explanation was floated in John Greenewald's April 24th summary and copy of the AARO Case Resolution report. Whether AARO hits or misses its mark, the Case Resolution shows considerable effort and apparent work on the parts of the AARO folks and its Intelligence and Science & Technology partners. Also notable are the terms "resolved" at a "moderate" confidence level, backed by those two review groups' independent "high confidence" assessments that it was an ordinary object. It will—or may—be interesting to hear from Congressman Matt Gaetz (if not the pilot involved) on this finding. Meanwhile, in France, Baptiste Friscourt reports that The New Director of GEIPAN, France's Official UAP Investigative Office, Discusses Science and the Study of Aerial Mysteries. Frédéric Courtade is the new head of the "Group for the Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena." He describes the history of French governmental interest in UFOs, its current classification system, its composition, and developmental plans. Courtade emphasizes openness and citizen involvement, but notes that GEIPAN holds no "positions" on UFOs or their wider implications. (WM)

Almost a year to the day after a fantastic story came from Las Vegas, Nevada, we're learning more unsettling details of the purported events. NewsNation's Liz Jassin and Alex Caprariello bring us the text, and Alex's three videos with Ashleigh Banfield provide details of the sequelae to the family experience. Particularly startling is the third video with what an apparently-renowned "evidence expert" has to say about the "entity" said to have been involved. The conversion by the primary witness of his "alien" experience to one with a "demonic" flavor is also notable. Believe what you want about this incident, but such stories reinforce the life-altering—and nowhere necessarily positive—effects of reported brushes with the bizarre. While Angel Kenmore and his family may not be seeking fame, someone who profits from it gets Jason Colavito's barbs in Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on "Supernatural" UFOS in Joe Rogan Appearance. Colavito includes the whole of the Rogan/Carlson interview. With all its political and religious overtones, this conversation starkly emphasizes the extent of the "intrusion" UFOs can have or can be made to have upon wider public life. (WM)

Strange goings-on were reported at a secondary school in Malaysia recently. It seems a doppelgänger was seen among a group of students and is being blamed for a spontaneous fit of screaming and crying by students on the schoolyard. Officials sent the students home for a week to recover. Nothing suspicious about that... Next, a Security Guard Photographs Ghost at Historic Museum in Mexico?  Evidently while making the rounds outside the building, the guard noticed an "eerie" woman at one of the museum windows looking out. Of course the natural conclusion was "Ghost!" and not "Hey, what a terrible security guard." (CM)

Since the 1970s Russia has been linked to the subject of weaponized mind control. Whether it was ever a real threat, or the end result of disinformation by the KGB, it's not altogether surprising that worries over Havana Syndrome and "pulsed microwave energy" take up so much space in our imaginations. Also on the topic of the mind's power, Legendary Parapsychologist Russell Targ Celebrates 90 Years of Work in Remote Viewing, ESP, and Consciousness Research, in a new book written by Jeffrey Mishlove. Targ is a significant contributor to research on ESP and consciousness, and was a cofounder of the Remote Viewing program at Stanford Research Institute. Russell Targ: Ninety Years of Remote Viewing, ESP, and Timeless Awareness is a compilation of 15 conversations between Mishlove and Targ on topics such as military remote viewing, precognitive dreaming, and after death communication. (CM)

Rob McConnell interviews the long-time investigator about his general approach to UFOs and opinions regarding specific basic questions on the subject and particularly current issues. Topics include: how Kevin Randle got involved in the subject and in the '90s his UFO fascination and writing talents really "took off" together; why Roswell’s not been resolved; and the contrast between Kevin’s and other qualified ufologists with David Grusch's information sourcing. With Rob McConnell Interviews - Lt. Col. Kevin Randle, Ph.D. (Ret.) - The Latest AARO Report Kevin and Rob discuss why that long-named "Report” is just "deja vu all over again." It echoes the 1953 Robertson Panel and 1969 "Condon Report" and, indeed, the public military posture about UFO significance since Roswell. Kevin notes how "The Deep State" of unelected, lifetime bureaucrats; the traditional stigma against reporting; and government failures over the years to investigate fully the really solid reports have brought us no further towards understanding what's going on. While there's hope in Citizen Science efforts, Kevin doesn't think we're any nearer to "Disclosure" in any really final sense of the term. For more see Kevin Randle's memoir: Reflections of a UFO Investigator, published by Anomalist Books. (WM)

Two proponents of wildly-opposed archaeological thinking get Jason Colavito's attention here. Jason has not watched the whole over 4-hour exchange, but he thinks he's pulled out enough to get the tenor of the proceedings and declare a winner of sorts. Jason does include the whole conversation for those having the time and energy to check his points, which seem in line with the usual anti-Hancock arguments. The exponent of the Traditional Archaeological Stance himself explains Why I Talked to Pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan. Flint Dibble does make a good case for rigorous and practicing archaeologists to "stop just talking among ourselves or to audiences of like-minded people"—something also needed in the field of ufology. Dibble details his debating strategy and figures, win or lose in one skirmish, he just may contribute to a wider and better understanding of the human past. (WM)

John Greenewald explains his search to learn the precise involvement of AATIP's most prominent participant. John says: "the Department of Defense (DoD), throughout 2018 and 2019, changed their story multiple times on whether or not AATIP had studied UFOs, and whether Luis Elizondo, the man who claimed to have run it, actually did." But the availability and very authenticity of some important records bearing upon this matter are even murkier. Jason Colavito reports Chris Mellon Releases Texts from Government Official Claiming a Crashed UFO. This matter indeed is being discussed in UFO circles, sentiment favoring the Kingman (not "Klingman"), Arizona crashed saucer as a hoax—and not a very good one. But what if something seemingly significant was just a "slip of the tongue"? Tom Norton's What Is Project Aqua? UFO 'Leak' Touted on Joe Rogan Podcast covers the excitement created by a likely Tucker Carlson blunder. But Carlson seems correct about watery dangers, as A 'World-Changing' Underwater UFO-Caught on Video Is a Legit Threat, Says Ex-Navy Officer. "This is no joke." subtitles Kyle Mizokami, about retired Rear Admiral and Chief Naval Oceanographer Timothy Gallaudet's concerns about USOs as well as UFOs. Gallaudet touts the USS Omaha "transmedium splash down" video of July 19, 2019. Didn't former AARO head Sean Kirkpatrick intimate at the May 2023 NASA Study Team's televised first deliberations that it was "actually a sensor anomaly," as would soon be explained? (WM)

It starts this Friday! The International Cryptozoology Conference of 2024 takes place April 26th and 27th at the Clarion Airport Hotel in Portland, Maine, and features speakers such as David Goudsward, author of Sun, Sand, and Sea Serpents and Loren Coleman on the cryptids of Skinwalker Ranch. The event is a fundraiser for the "non-profit scientific and educational mission of the International Cryptozoology Museum (ICM)." Meanwhile, in Keystone, South Dakota, you'll find the World's Largest Bigfoot, a wooden chainsaw carving 23 feet tall, holding a 54 foot long flagpole. This Bigfoot statue is deceptively chill as he lounges on the street and lures tourists to the town, but don't be fooled. If it was erected to standing, it would also be 54 feet high. (CM)

Well, seems that UFOs have finally "made it,, as they've now appeared on comedian/commentator John Oliver's HBO TV show. More pointedly, it's the US Government's handling of the UFO problem that gets most of Oliver's sharp and sometimes "salty" tongue-lashing. Sean L. McCarthy reports. One person not laughing is Jason Colavito, who maintains that John Oliver Abandons Evidence to Promote the UFO "Mystery". His hyperbolic skepticism makes it seem the twenty-minute segment that took over a year to produce rivals in ineptitude the sophomoric effort behind the recent AARO "Report Volume I" (though Jason likely wouldn't put it that way!). Miguel "Red Pill Junkie" Romero has another point of view in John Oliver Talks About UFOs on HBO's Last Week Tonight. "RPJ" sees much more value in the Oliver performance, which you can see for yourself at US CityNews. (WM)