I study UFOs – and I don’t believe the alien hype. Here’s why  The Guardian

Pentagon confirms leaked photos and video of UFOs are legitimate  The Guardian

Everyone’s talking about SETI, but what about SETI from the other side? Everything we can do, they can also do (and probably better) and Ian Sample draws upon a new study illustrating nearby stars with the best seats for detecting our puny ball of mud. Funny how only 29 planets out of 1,700 have this […]

In late 2019 and early 2020 Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska night skies were patrolled by a series of drone flights, sometimes in tandem executing patterns above the prairies and scaring the local residents. Then suddenly the drones disappeared, not long after a task force was formed to figure them out. Soon authorities scaled their activities […]

Oftentimes, clusters of anomalous illnesses are chalked up as a case of mere hysteria, but Suzanne O’Sullivan notes such dismissals often miss the cause behind these mysterious maladies. Often these curious symptoms are a symptom of a deeper sort of distress in the patient, and Suzanne proffers another method of treatment for these poor souls. […]

While Ogopogo may haunt palefaces, the beast is very much real and alive to Canada’s indigenous communities. What really raises the ire of Syilx Okanagan Nation taking umbrage with the copyright on their water monster being traded like so much GameStop stock, and what it means for the wendigo, sasquatch, and other cultural symbols of […]

Until SETI bears fruit for humankind, let us not forget our peers who ply the seas. Back in the 19th century the cachelot became the cache-little, and evidence for the decline was hidden away in captain’s logs ’til now. More astonishingly is how these grand beasts, like the Knights of the Round Table, knew to […]

A fellow in the UK was the recent lucky witness to a tanker floating high above the surface of the water near the coast in Cornwall.  Known as a superior mirage, this weather phenomenon related to temperature inversion messes with our visual perception. In this case it causes our brains to think an object is […]

What follows in Nicola Davis’s article at The Guardian is a bit sketchy based on inconsistent evidence, but Chris Turney and his pals at the University of New South Wales may be onto something. Name-checking neanderthals isn’t key to their thesis, but rather the catastrophic effects of a “pole flip” on the planet where the […]

Paco Calvo at the University of Murcia’s minimal intelligence lab in Spain and Vicente Raja at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in London, Canada, conducted an experiment to test whether french bean plants could show goal-directed behaviors consistent with anticipation and fine-scaled tweaking of their movements. They did. Admittedly the result doesn’t prove intent but […]