In a pivot foreshadowed by the departure of three key players, the To the Stars … Academy of Arts & Sciences “has decided to restructure its operations to scale back its initiatives in science and tech commercialization and to place a greater emphasis on the operations of its entertainment business.” Thus quoted in Keith Basterfield’s […]

The promoter of ‘Oumuamua-as-artificial-space-voyager has cogent things to say about the need to study UFOs, and who should be studying them. Miguel (Red Pill Junkie) Romero introduces a Joe Rogan/Avi Loeb interview snippet, after giving a not-fully-complete characterization of Giordano Bruno’s “problem” with “heretical ideas” (see Becky Ferreira’s What ‘Cosmos’ Got Wrong About Giordano Bruno, […]

As Britain is plunged into its third national lockdown, many are wondering whether the Covid nightmare will ever end.

Keith Basterfield navigates the commentary on Tim McMillan’s The Debrief article on a “new” leaked Navy UFO photo. At issue is whether the picture is an “original” or a “copy.” Popular Mechanics’ Andrew Daniels ponders the core identification question in Leaked Government Photo Shows ‘Motionless, Cube-Shaped’ UFO. Daniels also sketches the larger background behind the […]

As UFO researchers age and/or choose to focus upon other enthusiasms, their collections often are dispersed and lost to the general field. Keith Basterfield catalogues what was sold on the internet by one prominent person. Folks who actually lived some of these Closest of Encounters include the two involved in An Alien Abduction and Auto […]

Australian researcher Keith Basterfield improves our knowledge of USOs and various means that could possibly detect them. To the many accounts of things going into, coming out of, or traveling under water one might add the Shag Harbour UFO incident, which incited a major search effort and Canadian government documentation. Likely some such cases were […]

Doing some sleuthing from a discovery in documents “originating with the late U.S. researcher, Elaine Douglass,” Keith Basterfield has uncovered information on the headlined organization. It only leads to more questions, including the similarity in titles to an apparently earlier University of Nevada-Las Vegas entity. “What was he thinking?” might also be the comment to […]

Early Maps of Geologic Strata, an Oliver Sacks Documentary and a New Science Podcast  Scientific American