A shiny, glowing unidentified orb was captured on video over Fresno, California and it is an interesting case, as the object is obviously not an airplane or helicopter. To play devil's advocate here, the glowing could be simple reflection and this very well could be a very ordinary balloon twisting and floating in the the wind currents. Nick Fern remind us that the infamous UFOs: MJ12 Reaches 25 and is surprised there is little fanfare. He suggests that we will probably be questioning the same facts and rehashing the official story another 25 years from now, no closer to a definitive explanation. Central and South America has a distinctly different sort of experiences with UFO. In that part of the world, UFOs tend to land and make contact in various ways. A lot of the reports are full of high-strangeness and this tale of UFOs, USOs, and Alien Death Rays! is no exception. The Brazilian UFO account contains many witnesses, physical evidence such as burns and even a death that may or may not be related.

What is this creature lurking in the forest in the background of a photograph taken in 1995? The photographer says he did not notice the weird form until he looked through the pictures later. The mystery animal appears to have a dog-like snout or a baboon-shaped head and is carrying something under its arm in a 'football hold', which has been observed more than once during Bigfoot encounters. The prevailing theory is that it's holding a white dog. The creature does not have the typical appearance of Sasquatch and it brings up the question, is there more than one species of Bigfoot out there? Nick Redfern takes us on a field trip On the Monstrous Road to Lake Ray Roberts, Texas, an area that has had many Bigfoot sightings and a location that has at least one theory claiming that there is an inter-dimensional portal that Bigfoot uses. Meanwhile, scientists tell us that an Ancient 'Loch Ness monster' suffered from arthritis in jaw and eHow gives us a list of the UK's Top Unsolved Mysteries.

This pizza shop owner believes he has captured an "angel" on his security camera. He believes it's a message from his deceased father. There are few things stronger than the power of suggestion and if he believes he sees his father then that's what he sees. We, however, clearly see a bird fluttering past the lens. The Professor of The Big Study relates a ghostly tale of a personal nature with Going Bump in the Day: another "Happy Poltergeist" incident. This haunting is within his own family and has a curious bit of evidence to back the story up. The kids in the family call the ghostly presence "Kenny" which was later revealed to be nickname of someone in the family almost 100 years ago. The ghost was named Kenny years before the nickname of the ancestor was uncovered. Skeptic Steven Novella approaches the subject of ghostly communication and takes a scientific look at the popular Ghost Box and other research techniques that he finds silly and unsupported by science or, it seems, common sense. He points out that the random words are pulled from radio signals and are just that, random. Once again the power of suggestion plays a big role in interpreting the results. However, we have heard voices from ghost boxes that answered specific questions with appropriate and clear answers. For example, a specific number when asked how many spirits are present or a name spoken clearly in response to "Who am I talking to?" We are just as skeptical as Novella at times, but we also know there are aspects of the paranormal that are not easily dismissed. It's a tiny percentage but that's the part we think deserves closer scrutiny and further study.

In 1952, two Navy aircraft were approached and then circled by two UFOs over the Pacific. The encounter, witnessed by several Navy personnel, sparked an investigation that remains classified and secret today. Above Top Secret member Karl 12 presents a roundup of all the information on the sighting and the resulting investigation and also some frustrating statistics on just how much information is being kept from us. The 1952 incident is a remarkable event in UFO lore as it has dependable and trustworthy witnesses that were, at the time, above scrutiny. As another ATS member points out, in the 1950s technology limited UFO sightings to one of three categories: a hoax, foreign technology or actual extraterrestrials. Meanwhile, Billy Cox says Daddy needs his medicine and is yearning for the simpler times times too, back when we could actually blame aliens for unexplained events like Roswell and leave it at that. It is not surprising that government agencies in other countries respond much like the US when it comes to explaining UFO sightings, such as the UFO Crash/Retrievals in Chile, in which a UFO crashed into the side of a mountain in full view of a town below and was explained away as yes, a "weather balloon". To explain the otherworldy glowing emanating from the "weather balloon", officials said that was due the glare from drink bottles lying around. The officials then proceeded to haul off the offending weather balloon and apparently the extra shiny bottles in huge trucks covered with tarps. Chris Holly wonders what the pilots of these craft may be and urges us to think beyond the typical greys and consider that Reptiles Can Build Spaceships too.

Be sure to catch this Bigfoot documentary free online--it's packed full of experts like Jeff Meldrum, video and photographs and eyewitness stories of Bigfoot encounters. Ghost Theory has a short documentary of another sort, as Enfield Poltergeist: Believers & Skeptic Talk and debate the Enfield Poltergeist case, which has baffled researchers for years. After the young girls involved admitted to fakery at times, the case was mostly dismissed by some. However, some researchers believe that the girls were pressured into performing on camera and faked some evidence to ease the stress. There is no new information but it's an endless discussion that still proves fascinating however.

A 1995 excursion into the Utah mountains gave a couple way more than just fall leaves to gawk at. The couple reportedly encountered a Bigfoot and give an incredibly detailed description of the creature. It appeared more human than anything else and hunched over and ran away from them in a crouched position, apparently more scared of them than they were of it. It is the day for Bigfoot questions as Bigfoot Evidence asks Are tracking dogs the key to locating a Sasquatch? and Loren Coleman asks: Is It Time To Revisit Hypnotizing Bigfoot Witnesses? Coleman also wonders, Are Bigfoot Witnesses Really Seeing Reptoids? It's a question that is not as odd as it sounds.

Are UFOs buzzing the moon? Two Arizona State astronomers say yes and provide video to prove it. There is not much information to go along with this intriguing footage of five objects hovering above the surface of the moon and we hope to hear more about it. UFO Iconoclasts offer another theory to explain Roswell’s “Flying Disk”. Was the UFO actually a crashed flying drone that the military would have protected diligently to avoid revealing secrets to Russia? Over in Argentina, Inexplicata revisits a truly bizarre UFO case from 1977 and asks What Happened at La Aurora? The Tonna UFO case involved a glowing UFO draining a generator on a farm and killing livestock on a remote farm. The farm-owner received burns on his arm that continued to reoccur for several years afterward. With the presence of such a large amount of physical evidence, the Tonna site became a popular spot for UFO researchers. Neil Armstrong reportedly paid a visit as well. Mark Russell Bell brings us an the even stranger tale of Orfeo Angelucci's Strange Predicament, concerning a man who claimed to have been whisked away to another planet in 1952 after conversing with a "space being" he called Neptune. And finally, an amateur photographer offers a cautionary tale and a fantastic photograph concerning UFO suspicions mistaken identity. A combination of "flickering" light and large size makes Venus a candidate for frequent UFO sightings.

Recently declassified documents reveal dazzling photographs of UFOs buzzing American nuclear installations. One man who's an expert in this field is Robert Hastings. With FOIA requests, affidavits, footage, photos, and more files than you can shake a probe at, Robert presents a compelling case for cover-ups at the highest echelons, showing the cracks through which the truth will be revealed. Elsewhere in Arizona, where the borders are tight and police are unnecessarily vigilant, the airways are alive with activity. One of the latest reports found by Roger Marsh covers a 'Super Moon' UFO: Arizona Witnesses Describe Black Triangle with morphing capabilities. Lon Strickler's latest contribution may be old, but he's uncovered a doozy from 1959 related to Lights Over Pennsylvania: The Killian UFO Case. From a gentler time where people could keep their shoes before boarding, and commercial pilots wouldn't be run out on a rail for openness about saucer sightings, Lon gives the particulars which make this a notable scenario. If the Air Force's denials were based on hard evidence, what's the explanation for a mid-flight refuelling not showing up on radar?

Time to add another member to the 'Axis of Evil', those wiley Greys. Hot on the heels of Timothy Beckley's latest book, Evil Empire of the ETs and the Ultra-Terrestrials, he sat down with Jeffery Pritchett to discuss the latest threat from the heavens lurking under our feet. Tim goes into great detail of their modus operandi, sinister goals, and interstellar interspecies intercourse. Next up Jeffery makes time to discuss another fellow traveller, whose latest The Warning touches upon 'Reptilian breeding zoo' UFO Interview With Art Greenfield On The Reptoid Agenda. From precocious komodo dragons, to McEarth where the Reptoids hope to have over 7 billion sold, Art's interview is enlightening, entertaining, and disturbing with the worldwide influence of these squamous sentients. Despite all this doom and gloom, the abduction phenomenon has proven to be a positive boon for creative types. In fact Alien Abduction Stories Inspire Photographer Steven Hirsch according to Lee Speigel. Steven's first inspiration comes from the famous testimony from Betty and Barney Hill. Now he has interviewed others, recorded words and pictures for posterity in his Little Sticky Legs project.

It's the con that almost wasn't. Even though Don Keating bowed out as host, a passel of Ohio Bigfooters stepped up and pulled off an admirable conference. Drawing from all walks of life, from Finding Bigfoot enthusiasts to serious researchers, they came together for several eye-opening talks. Kwin the Eskimo gives his experiences, the schooling of so-called 'squatchers', and much more. Now the chairs are folded, presentations put away, leaving the Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center the way it was, but over in England last year's Weird Weekend conference wasn't so meticulous. There's been A Monster-Sized Mistake and Nick Redfern is on the case of a rare British bigfoot sighting which reinforces it's about the journey, not the destination. Another case of mistaken identity is presented by Tyler Stone, effortlessly sussing out the mystery behind the difference in orang pendek sightings that the Orang Pendek Not One Animal, But Two! Rather than leaving his readers hanging, Tyler presents his educated guesses on their nature. Over at Cryptomundo, Nick Redfern raises his shaven head to join the chorus of the same topic. Today he's Reviewing Orang-Pendek Sumatra's Forgotten Ape by Richard Freeman. Indeed, Freeman's latest opus is important as it emphasizes field work in cryptozoology over research online and in books. Nick's floored by Freeman's four expeditions, revealing new data on "Littlefoot". Even if you're not in the sultry jungles of Sumatra, rest assured there's Something In The Woods by your own backyard. This time Nick takes on ABC's following a story from Jonathan Downes which is a head scratcher. How come DNA of a sub-Saharan leopard has been found in Britain, yet the numerous wildlife cameras have yet to catch one on film? Perhaps it's a case of mistaken identity that Nick hopes, yet again, to clear up.

When it comes to seminal media related to all things bigfoot, one envisions the notorious footage of a female sasquatch striding along the Klamath River. One of the better kept secrets in crypto-circles is the White film. Jonathan Poulsen caught wind of this rarity, shown only once, and pieces together details of this film which may be of better quality than the P-G film. Up in the Great White North, Maskull Lasserre has a sense of humor that works against our fortean field. He's gone ahead and made Animal Footprint Shoes, Including Bigfoot, Leave 'Mystery' Tracks In Snow. For now, these shoes are only on display according to Mark Molloy. Sometime in the near future, Maskull plans on selling them to the public. As always, Loren Coleman is hot on the trail for the latest stories in zoology with the newest members of our anomalous menagerie. Popping up in his feed is a scoop on a New Lizard Species Discovered In A Congolese Minefield. Turns out these lizards are more than lucky, sporting thick scales certain to thwart the unwanted attention of predators.

Anomalists are a colorful bunch, and sure enough John B. Alexander covers a broad spectrum with his life experiences. A Vietnam veteran who participated in the Stargate Project, just for starters, he's seen and done enough for several lifetimes. Which brings us to the lead question, "What are UFOs?" George Kenney sits down with John to talk shop. While they agree to disagree, John makes a case for taking UFOs seriously. Less appealing is Anderson Cooper's recent "Do You Believe In Space Aliens?" Billy Cox's curiousity got the better of him, and he laments "Sorry I Looked..." Sparing you the trouble of watching this horror show, Billy does provide a link to the unedited version, and he gives a blow-by-blow rundown on mainstream media marginalizing MUFON and its fellow travellers again. As if television isn't enough of a wasteland, Brian Switek takes it upon himself to excoriate one of the most embarassing paranormal shows to stain our broadcast spectrum. Ancient Aliens recently took on everyone's favorite topic, dinosaurs, contributing another egregious trainwreck. We recommend you take the time to get some satisfaction, as Brian's screed tears into The Idiocy, Fabrications And Lies of Ancient Aliens. Mainstream media isn't the only group with an axe to grind when it comes to embracing every crazy theory. Rich Reynolds is in top form as he presents A.D. After Disclosure -- An Unkind Review. Next up Rich shows us how it's really done asking his own question about UFOs: Is The Medium The Message Or Is The Message The Message? As you will find, the message is paramount regardless of the source. Such a philosophy verges on being a koan, something to be pondered until the truth dawns upon you and decrypts the message. Speaking of which, May is Buddha's Birthday Celebration. Jack Brewer ponders the otherworldly influences on eastern philosophy and its fantastical elements.

Illegal aliens are common in southern Arizona but this is ridiculous! The Professor relates an encounter around a ghost town near the border as shared by Ron Quinn, who wholeheartedly believes it was an extraterrestrial. There is an alternate hypothesis that The Professor is keeping open to, that this being is a genius loci of an abandoned mine. Fellow academic Dr. Beachcombing chimes in, giving support for the hypothesis, since he recalls a Geologist Galivants with Spirits and Fairies. John Beaumont testifies that he was hounded by spirits for months. What Beach suggests is these may have been akin to tulpas, manifestations of Beaumont's psyche stemming from 'an immense mental weight'.

Scientific studies have shown redheads are more susceptible to experiencing pain. Micah Hanks takes this one step further, wondering if these freckled friends are just as attuned to the spirit world as they are to the physical. His thesis based upon superstitions having a basis in reality, not to mention anecdotes from gingers who claim to be more intuitive to a preternatural degree. One place where one'll be hard-put to find a ginger is the People's Republic of China. Their boffins have done something extraordinary and KFC lifts his glass as Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation! We're not talking Brundlefly or Star Trek just yet, these things progress in baby steps, but Beijing's brightest have teleported a clutch of photons a hair over over 60 miles. KFC breaks down the abstract into something human-readable without diminishing the excitement of this achievement. How did these scientists know the photons made it anyway? Perhaps they enlisted Russell Targ, noted remote viewer, to observe the experiment. He's no stranger to science, and Peter Rogerson has reviewed Russell's latest The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities. As you'll find, Peter is left wondering "ESP, Really?" Targ's research is a bit sketchy knowing his background and beliefs which may have colored his conclusions.

Be happy it's Saturday, Christopher Knowles's latest treatise could be considered NSFW. Chris is a class act, the images are artistic, and the writing remains thought provoking as one expects from The Secret Sun. What he finds are fortuitous portents linking the upcoming Venus transit, the symbolism of ancients with our modern space program, and cicadas. Of course you can't have a space program without government, nor can you have government without conspiracy to keep said space programs from unveiling extraterrestrials who have been cast, by some, as long-lost deities held sacred by cults and the Illuminati. Paul Dale Roberts, of HPI fame, reviews Conspiracies and Secret Societies – The Complete Dossier Second Edition, which brings the outlandish into the sharp focus of possibility covering favorite topics such as Nikola Tesla, Obama on Mars, to Fidel Castro's campaign of biological warfare on US soil. If that review isn't enough, HorrorNews has a review of Conspiracies and Secret Societies emphasizing this volume is worth more than the price of admission.

We can all relax now because the world is definitely not going to end in 2012. A recent discovery of wall paintings in a tiny overlooked dwelling in Guatemala has turned up another calendar, this one a long-form accounting of days and it seems that the Maya calculated a bit further out than 2012, trillions of days further in fact. The calendar that has had everyone so nervous was more like one page of an even bigger more complex calendar. You will have to wait a few more centuries to plan that end of the world party. An even more mysterious (and harder to spell) mystery is one step closer to being solved as science is Probing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism with x-rays. The incredible x-ray images reveal intricate densely packed gears and actually raise more questions than answer them. What was the Antikythera Mechanism really used for?

The bizarre deep sea creature we featured here yesterday may have been identified. It is most likely an aptly named "Deepstaria enigmatica". We find it no less fascinating or mysterious now that it has a name though and still looks like something straight out of the special effects department from The Abyss. The deep sea is earth's last unexplored frontier and it is thrilling to discover oddities like this. Another oddity that is much less camera friendly is our old pal Nessie and Binnall of America has a lengthy, indepth audio interview with Roland Watson, author of The Water Horses of Loch Ness. Watson discusses the various theories as to Nessie's identity, the photographic evidence, and the problems with modern-day evidence that can be easily faked.

With Grant leaving the show next week, even the ghosts seem to be voicing their opinion on the matter, as the Ghost Hunters team captures a "scream" during an investigation. While we aren't entirely convinced, at least it was a fairly entertaining episode, and the only thing that could have made it better would have been watching Steve walking into a big spiderweb. Ghosts have been known to stick to their familiar haunts, so to speak, including people as this Boston dance instructor explains. Paranormal spirits put twist on Boston pole dancer’s classes, and she says it's her the ghosts are haunting because they followed her from her old dance studio to her new one. She claims to have video and photographic evidence of them and will be featured on and upcoming episode of Biography's "My Ghost Story". As a new Edgar Allan Poe movie haunts theaters, the Ghost Detectives pay a visit to Poe's former home in Baltimore to answer the question: Is the Edgar Allan Poe House Haunted? The Poe house has long been rumored to be haunted and Vincent Price even once said "This place gives me the creeps" after touring the place.

Steve Pierce gives Open Minds what he says will be his final interview about his experience that night back in 1975 and the fallout afterward, which seems to be almost as distressing as the UFO encounter itself. Pierce has faced skepticism and outright hostility in the decades following, including the public harassment by Philip Klass who offered him $10,000 to admit it was a hoax. Pierce refused. Steve Pierce seems to be a haunted man and his story is disturbing on many levels. On a lighter otherworldly note, these guys want to send Tweets in Space to say "Hello" to our possible new neighbors on a recently discovered exoplanet. Judging from what we've read on Twitter, if aliens catch these Tweets Earth is going to be blacklisted in the neighborhood. We'll be the crazy neighbors on the corner who have trashed their house and stand around yelling how much we love "Justin Bieber" and endlessly discussing some less intelligent life form called Kardashians.

Is lightning targeting religious leaders? The most recent case involves a pastor in the Chicago area who was struck by lightning last Sunday afternoon. And just last year a Pastor and son struck by lightning, survive in North Carolina. While the odds of being struck by lightning are astronomical, the odds of being both struck by lightning and mauled by a bear are off the charts but this other North Carolina pastor managed to do so: Struck by Lightning AND Mauled by a Bear? What Are the Odds?! Minister Rick Oliver literally tripped and fell over a bear in his backyard and suffered a severe bite to his arm last summer. Four years before, he was struck by lightning.

Although The Sun is not the usual go-to source for reliable news, this incredible story is backed up with ironclad fact in the form of a very real scientific paper recently published. While The Sun sensationalizes the story by claiming the Tissint meteorite contains microscopic "eggs", in actuality tiny globules of carbon-rich material were found that appear to be of biological origin. Back on earth, another mystery has been solved as geologists discover that Mysterious Moving Boulders Are Lifted By Storms on the Aran Islands in Ireland. The gigantic rocks along the coastlines move sometimes 10 feet inland each year, apparently pushed by large waves crashing against the coast during severe storms. And Mysterious Universe brings us the bizarre tale of one man's search for answers to the The Riddle of the Missouri Mystery Mound. His story sounds like something straight out of a thriller paperback novel but the photographs he presents as evidence are very intriguing.

Gerald Joyce, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, tells us that it is likely that alien lifeforms on another planet may be DNA-based like life on earth and that with new planets being discovered so rapidly, it's just a "matter of time" before one is discovered that may be hospitable to life. Even though alien life may be based on the same building blocks of DNA as we are, it doesn't guarantee that it would resemble anything easily recognizable. Alien life could look like this odd 'creature' floating near an underwater oil drill: Is this a creature? Or a thing? No one can quite figure out what this thing is and guesses range from fish air bladder to shark guts to type of jellyfish.

Loren Coleman jars our collective memory as he revisits the "Momo" cases in Michigan in the 1960s. One case involved Christine Van Acker who received a black eye when a Sasquatch supposedly reached in through her car window. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department labels Bigfoot as an "exotic animal" IF he exists and basically states that Killing Bigfoot OK in Texas – if he's Texan. However, their spokesperson also says that they do not want to be "drawn into a debate about it". The whole response seems to have been blown out of proportion because the fact is that Bigfoot is missing from the lists of protected animals because of lack of evidence to prove its existence. Ironically, the most likely piece of accepted evidence would be a Bigfoot corpse. Another elusive beast is Nessie, of course and Loch Ness Mystery is pondering the idea of baby Nessies with a look at an interview with Frank Searle: Frank Searle and Baby Nessies

Truth is stranger than fiction as io9 discovers while investigating the near mythical story of Otto Fischer who supposedly flew into space in a rocket in 1933 in Germany. The truth is it never happened. What did happen was an even stranger and much less likely event in which the town of Madgeburg sponsored a scientist who wanted to prove that the earth was surrounded by an invisible dome. He built a rocket and not surprisingly failed to prove his theory, much less get the rocket very far off the ground.

The "Illie is a sleeper shark" theory is gaining steam this week as the Alaskan lake monster emerges from obscurity to face a lot of publicity thanks to the recent work by biologist Bruce Wright. Loren Coleman is not surprised at this idea and notes that he'd asked Is Illie A Sleeper Shark? a decade ago in his book The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep. Coleman also comments on Illie's big sister, Nessie and other deep-water dwelling creatures as a Cryptozoologist explains his studies of mysterious creatures like the Loch Ness Monster.

Jeffery Pritchett presents an intriguing interview with Justin Smeja, the man who claims he shot two unknown creatures that he says were Bigfoot. The Smeja story has swirled with controversy since it first began and this interview adds fuel to the fire with Smeja's own contradictory statements. The most glaring contradiction is denying he cut 'slabs of meat' from the bodies. He says it was a small piece of hide yet a couple of questions later mentions he has a lot of "flesh" left over to send to labs. There is no question he sent samples of something. Over on Bigfoot Evidence, discussion is heating up on the topic with Justin Smeja Interviewed: "I did NOT carve any piece of meat or any part off of any animal ever" [Sierra Kills] and in the comments cryptozoologist Dale Drinnon weighs in and contradicts Smeja's statement about the samples, saying that Dr. Melba Ketchum described the sample she received was a steak-like slab. The intial results were that the sample was human in origin so if it didn't come from a dead Bigfoot then where did it come from? If he did shoot a Bigfoot, should it be considered murder? We find Justin Smeja's account deeply disturbing from every angle.

The Ghost Box has been around for several years but is only now gaining popularity and recognition with use by groups like Ghost Adventures and other widely known paranormal investigators. Technorati writer and paranormal investigator Phillip Brunelle tries the device out for himself and finds himself very impressed. Video of his experiments are not to be missed, though you might find yourself missing the words coming out of the static. Ghostly voices have been reported for centuries as our friend Beachcomber discovers in in this old tale of an Aggressive Ghost in Fourteenth-Century Germany that not only talked but took human form and terrorized an entire village.

Robert McLuhan argues against Physicist Lawrence Krauss' theory that the universe sprang from nothing. McLuhan points out that if nothing produced the universe then nothing is indeed something because it has properties enabling it to produce something, aka the universe. Don't try to think too hard about that before your morning dose of caffeine...Speaking something from nothing, we can't think of any way to describe this peculiar video of a Mystery: 'Pulsating winged being' on camera from Jakarta. The "being" appears out of nowhere and disappears as quickly as it came. Our first guess was CGI but it's very well done if is because there's realistic looking light reflection off the ground around it. Perhaps it's a moth landing on the camera lens, causing a sort of light flare? Or maybe it actually is an angelic being making a 2 second pitstop in a deserted parking lot conveniently located within view of a security camera.

James Carrion has a theory about the origin of flying saucers that is just as plausible as UFOs being of extraterrestrial origin. Carrion believes that flying saucers, including the Roswell experience, were very earthly in origin and in fact were the work of the United States government in an elaborate ploy to fool and intimidate the Soviets. While this theory could very well explain away a few sightings in the earlier years, it doesn't explain the thousands of sightings and experiences reported in the decades since then from all corners of the world. The government is shady and secretive but it lacks the simple manpower to continue a long-running hoax on such a massive scale. In one example of such a sighting, a Private Pilot reports multiple objects south of Phoenix and has the photos to back up his claim. In other Space Oddity news, Dennis Toth is starting to doubt NASA's official explanation of "camera glitch" as reason for the strange UFO images on the SOHO live feed. The same "glitch" has happened 3 times since since October 2011 and Toth thinks NASA should either build better equipment or come up with a better excuse.