Keith Basterfield is one of the most assiduous and successful UFO researchers, and we get the benefit of his labors here. His historical sketch of actual hearings and near-hearings is enriched by links to copies of the 1966 and 1968 “real deals.” Garry P. Nolan – Three Interviews offers some fascinating insights, including a timely […]

Keith Basterfield lists significant elements in the June 25th UAPTF “Preliminary Assessment” and comments about it. Keith welcomes the future this Report projects. Micah Hanks is somewhat less sure, saying The Most Recent Government Report on UFOs Leaves Us Guessing… Again. Instancing Project Blue Book’s findings, Hanks fears it’s “deja vu all over again.” Specifically […]

Ufologists consistently maintain the government should consult their data. Here Stan Gordon offers a Close Encounter case with electronic interference, the huge rectangular object that hovered low over a Pennsylvania Highway on June 1, 2013, an occurrence he personally investigated. A Police UFO Chase and Strange Things in the Sky at Red Bluff, California is […]

More reaction to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force report. Gideon Lewis-Kraus follows up his lengthy The New Yorker UFO article with remarks on report’s reception and a list of the “stranger” aspects of the report itself. His focus on the report’s “Other” of the five likely explanatory categories for UFOs/UAPs will disquiet “disbelievers.” Rich […]

With the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force report supposedly imminent, sharp-eyed Keith Basterfield’s noticed who’s actually running the task force today. He’s a Navy Intelligence analyst and his name is Brennan McKernan. Now going beyond the headlines, David Halperin offers The Return of the Teen UFOlogist? or, Eat Your Heart Out, Edward Condon. David has […]

Miguel (“Red Pill Junkie”) Romero gives a favorable review to the 2021 conference of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), which was held virtually, though he found a perceived lack of attention to the “profound effects on human witnesses.” The SCU’s overall approach to the UFO conundrum is presented in The Paracast’s Johnathan Lace […]

Some alternative possibilities for UFO origins, including recent excitements. Jazz Shaw explores “ball lightning,” which as he makes clear is still mysterious itself, and seems incapable of accounting for much of the reported antics of “orb” UFOs. Well, what about “amorphous masses of high-velocity plasma,” a question posed by Peter Mungo Jupp: UFO or Plasmoid? […]

In a truly remarkable on-air segment, CBS’s highly respected news magazine covers the current Big News in ufology. This Bill Whitaker piece features Luis Elizondo, former F/A-18 pilots Ryan Graves, David Fravor, and the visual and named appearance of Fravor’s wing in 2004, Lt. Alex Dietrich; as well as Christopher Mellon and Senator Marco Rubio. […]

UFOs Regularly Spotted In Restricted U.S. Airspace, Report On The Phenomena Due Next Month  WTRF

Defense Department confirms leaked video of unidentified aerial phenomena is real  CNN