Stan Gordon has been collecting anomalous reports from the Keystone State since 1959, when he was just 10-years-old. And 2011 proved to be a very active year for strange events, strange creatures and anomalous lights in the sky. Here Gordon runs through some of the years most puzzling reports gleaned from 48 of the state's counties, including "a large winged humanoid creature," giant birds, mountain lions, Bigfoot and UFOs. Elsewhere, the effort is made to make sense of the wide range of Bigfoot sightings, offering "both a rational explanation and an esoteric one" to come up with Bigfoot Sightings Explained. And we have both small elephant news and big cat news for you, today, starting with Matt Salusbury's note to Jon Downes at the Centre for Fortean Zoology that shows Salusbury's efforts on his new book have progressed to a stage where he needs to address some diminutive pachyderms, as seen in Pygmy Elephant Update, a posting that continues with Update on the Alleged Pygmy Elephant Specimens from Copenhagen University and More Pygmy Elephant Stuff. While the pachyderms may be puny, the cats occasionally appearing to Britishers before chowing down on some unfortunate sheep or wallaby - yes, wallaby - are not pint-sized versions of the ones seen on the Dark Continent or in India, as noted in Big Cat News: Another Gloucestershire Cutting and Palace Puma Spotted for First Time This Year. Meanwhile, creatures of a far different sort occupy much of the discussion as Benjamin Grundy broadcasts digitally with Episode 704 – Mysterious Universe, offering winged weirdies, giants, hairy humanoids, midgets and more.

In a bit of maverick science news: Hank Mills leads us to ask what is meant by "aether" before he leads us to question why the equations of James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electromagnetism, have been reduced in number and complexity to fit the needs of today's electrical engineers. Then Mills explains one of the works of Nikola Tesla to close the loop and leave us with the understanding that we're describing the motion of electricity all wrong. There's more maverick electrical news today, too, and it comes from Electric Universe theorist Mel Acheson, who definitively points out, once again, how astronomy has shut out the discoveries of Halton Arp that, if embraced, could serve to straighten out many of the wrinkles in their science and explain why Arp titled his book Seeing Red. Since Acheson's dissertation took us into the heavens, we'll remain there for the moment to check on the report NASA Probe Discovers 'Alien' Matter from Beyond Our Solar System, a report that could spark a future rebuff from Electric Universe theorists. And a man who has been as close to the stars as any Earthling takes center stage with Larry Lowe's report on the post astronaut endeavors of this hero of the American space program, seen in Apollo 14 Plus 41: The Unexpected Benefit of Edgar Mitchell. Will Edgar Mitchell be able to tie consciousness in with "electromagnetism, the strong interaction, the weak interaction and gravitation" to perfect the "unified field theory," what scientists call the "holy grail of physics"?

Even as some news outlets are saying what treasure salvors spotted on the floor of the Baltic Sea may be matched by a Second Unidentified Flying Object Found on Baltic Sea Floor (Video), some experts say the sort of sonar used to find the objects does not present accurate images. Guess we'll have to wait until the discovery crew can dive on the site to determine what the shape, or shapes, may represent. Meanwhile, sightings of anomalous craft in the skies continue to be reported from around the world, and the latest sighting from the Mutual UFO Network, better known by the acronym MUFON, shows a mother and daughter called on a law enforcement officer to contact the group's witness reporting database about what the two observed on a lonely stretch of highway in the early evening of January 21st, detailed in Arizona Mother-Daughter Encounter Odd Lights Along Remote Highway. And residents of the United Kingdom haven't been immune from such sightings, either, as noted in Strange Lights Have People in Hinckley Wondering If They Are Really Alone. Meanwhile, Dirk Vander Ploeg of UFO Digest shares correspondence that's beyond the usual parameters of the UFO subject, originating from self-confessed contactee Geoffrey Faulkner in UFO Sighting in Northern California, including a link to a recorded Faulkner interview and a video Faulkner says shows an alien ship above Chile during the February 2010 earthquake, there to "lessen the aftershocks." Elsewhere, Kevin Randle didn't hold himself to just the UFO-related reality television shows when he sought the favorites in a survey of his readers, and the big winner among all the shows considered isn't...er, among the shows considered, as you'll find in The Reality Show Poll.

A myriad of mysteries make up this manuscript, beginning with the Lincoln Cathedral ascribed with secrets by Dan Brown, and now a Dan of a different color believes he sees another, more subtle game in the cathedral's design. Dan Green puts the pieces in place and finds patterns in the light and the darkness. An even taller tale is in our mixed bag where a 'Jewish Indiana Jones' Admits Torah Fraud when it was revealed he didn't travel as much as claimed to recover these pieces of the Hebrew holy book. Should you find yourself rubbing your temples to avoid headaches while keeping your lies straight, Gisela Telis tells us that Massage's Mystery Mechanism's Unmasked, revealing the scientific basis behind therapeutic touch which has remained a mainstay in the mainstream and among mavericks to the consternation of medical skeptics by doing more than removing lactic acid.

While reports from the United States have been slow to reach the news media during the political season of the past month, Roger Marsh's update for the nationwide ratings that are based on the number of sightings shows plenty of activity has been taking place. While the Golden State leads the way in total number of sightings, other states join in the UFO Alert 3 category based on reports to the Mutual UFO Network witness reporting database. February appears to be continuing the 2012 spike in UFO sightings worldwide, but we'll begin our reports of activity with an account from November of last year, just reported to MUFON, that claims two men in a state of abject fear fired at what they felt was a threatening object, as described in Minnesota: Witnesses Claim Shots Fired at UFO with 'No Effect'. Other more recent reports include undated footage found in UFO Chased Over Skies of Los Angeles (Video); the January 26th Indian encounter described in UFO Mystery in Kolkata Air; the January 28th event revealed in UFO Lights or Lanterns Float over Russia [Video] and a January 31st observation captured by camera in UFO Filmed Over Naha, Japan: What Is It? (Video). Meanwhile, a naturally occurring aerial object made a big splash over Oklahoma and Texas February 1st, leading to the reports Oklahoma UFO? Bright Fireball Turns out to be Meteor and 'People Thought It was a Plane on Fire': Police Officer Captures UFO Blazing Across Texas Sky... But FAA Says It was 'Most Likely a Meteor'.

It's not common to find a tale of an unknown reptile in the autobiography of a badman. But that's what Dr. Karl Shuker discovered in Mr Nice: An Autobiography, the story of a man who was once Britain's most wanted criminal. Howard Marks is one of those guys everyone seems to like, hence the title of his life's story. But within the pages of that book Dr. Shuker ran across an account of a lizard from the lawless regions of Pakistan that could be slapped against a wall and climbed like a ladder, making it a useful tool of the second storey man's profession. No kidding! But how is it that Dr. Shuker hasn't been able to deduce just what large lizard this could be? Elsewhere, Bigfoot is in the news from a variety of sources, beginning with Mike Day's reminiscences about Bigfoot in the Tri-States, progressing to Jeffery Pritchett's The Boss of the Mountain. The Many Wild Theories of What Bigfoot Really Is and culminating, for the moment at least, with Loren Coleman's presentation of a new "species" of garden gnome that also happens to be one of the latest targets of acquisition for the International Cryptozoology Museum (ICM) - you can help - as noted in Coming Soon: Giant Garden Bigfoot. The Director of the ICM is himself featured in the news, as well, and can be seen in Loren Coleman - Founder of the International Cryptozoology Museum. Meanwhile, hopes of settling the out-of-place (OOP) big cat conundrum in the United Kingdom have been dashed for the moment by canid spit, as you'll see in DNA Tests to Solve Big Cat Mystery Find a Fox, but the evidence of such creatures continues with the account of Big Cat Reports from the Lake District.

A photograph appearing to clearly show the face of some less-than-pleased entity peeking from behind a sofa cushion has gone viral on a few of the online social networks. Is it just a case of pareidolia? Or is it a face more familiar to readers of The Arabian Nights, like the faces of the creatures believed to be behind the reports Search for Young Man Abducted by Djinns and Djinns Blamed for 'Fires' Erupting at Saudi House. Then, again, the couch cushion face could be similar to what a British radio announcer experienced, detailed in Abbots Langley Resident Claims to See Ghost in Royal Oak Car Park.

Some upstate New York high school girls were first to exhibit tics, twitches and symptoms similar to Tourette's Syndrome, as described in this news video, but others are now being added to the list of victims. And a team of environmental researchers are saying the illness may be the result, forty years later, of a train derailment that spilled deadly cyanide in the region. There's more on the mystery illness that some have noted resembles the events described in the book Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior by the late Hilary Evans and co-author Robert Bartholomew, and the additional information is contained in Mass Hysteria Rare, but Usually Seen in Girls. And, in other bizarre news, an incident we reported on a few days ago is back in the news, although unfortunately titled, we think, as you may recognize in Blue Balls Mystery Close to Being Solved.

Nick Redfern amassed a large amount of information from government sources during the writing of his well received book Final Events, the book that introduced the clandestine group within the American intelligence community known as the "Collins Elite" that came to believe the UFO and alien phenomenon was a manifestation of demonic activity. And where did they get such an idea? Redfern explains part of the origins in this report on the connections between 1950s era contactee George Adamski, Adamski's co-author and those who dabbled in the Black Arts. While no evidence of any occult connection appears anywhere in Jose Caravaca's latest posting, the highly unusual way in which a large number of lights maneuvered in the vicinity of the Straits of Gibraltar in February of 1997 seems to eerily presage what would occur about one month later above Phoenix, AZ, as seen in Spain’s "Phoenix Lights". When incidents like Adamski's desert meeting with Orthon and the prolonged sighting of many lights above Gibraltar occur, far too often a group of individuals appear and "visit" the witnesses for purposes still only guessed at. And those mysterious visitors, the Men in Black (MIB), are the subject of Timothy Green Beckley's book Curse of the Men in Black - Return of the UFO Terrorists, Beckley's often firsthand account of such visits. You'll find a good cross section of MIB activities in the excerpt from Beckley's book entitled They've Come To Take You Away. More UFO high strangeness and other such exotic reports are collected in the latest edition of Filer's Files #5-2012.

The team poised to dive on what some believe is evidence of an otherworldly craft on the floor of the Baltic Sea have reportedly found a second such object near the first that was detected by sonar in July of last year. Is the mystery growing? Meanwhile, there are numerous reports of strange craft above the brine, as uncovered by Tracy Parece in Unmanned UFO Scanner Reported in Samnanger, Norway [Video]; as well as UFO Seen Shooting Across the Skies over São Paulo [Video] and Possible UFO Activity Captured on Camera by NYC Webcam [Video]. Those reports are just the sort of thing that leaves Bruce Duensing asking Is NORAD Capable of Managing Unknown Targets? There's a difference between Top Secret and "need to know" in the intelligence business, as Billy Cox points out in announcing two veterans of military intelligence who've both run the hurdles of UFO research squared off last night when host Don Ecker of Dark Matters Radio questioned retired Green Beret Colonel John Alexander about remarks in Alexander's 2011 book UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities that claimed no "government coverup of UFO data" exists, as explained in Top Secret To Grill Top Secret. Cox gives you a link to tune in the archived broadcast. And other programming notes reveal Paul Kimball's pre-Christmas visit, via Skype, to count down the top ten UFO sightings and his disdain for the whole Roswell saga, archived for listening in Talking UFOs on Night Fright with Brent Holland; while Philip Coppens, a heavyweight from the UFO and ancient history fields who authored the new book The Ancient Alien Question, chats with Micah Hanks about UFOs and much more in The Gralien Report Podcast for January 31, 2012.

Conner is putting the word out about the reprehensible treatment of abductees, victims who've been abused by unknown entities as well as by researchers who don't take the seriousness of the abductees' experiences and resultant sensibilities into account, a subject echoing Chris Holly's recent Real Time Abduction Cases Come to a Close. Conner asks, "Where is the face of humanity in research projects that involve abductees?" Diane Tessman claims a kinder, gentler alien experience and wonders if the number of abductions has diminished due to the information age in Is the Internet Exposing Our Collective Consciousness? One of the most famous of the reported abduction cases will take center stage in San Antonio, TX, March 3rd, and details are available in Fire In The Sky: A New Gig Featuring Travis Walton! On the other hand, Rich Reynolds is no fan of abduction reports and several other "types" of UFO divulgence, despite his devotion to the psychological implications of the entire enigma, so he's polling his readers to see what division of the UFO phenomenon is their favorite with What UFO Species Should We be Studying?

There's something to be said for a man who can encounter unruly spirits and shocking manifestations before his eyes, not lose his head, and continue to turn out prose with a hefty edge of humor. And you'll probably be saying all of those things following Da-da's latest interestingly imaged report. To make it easy, Da-da even lists the links to the first two instalments of his adventures. While Da-da takes the edge off his life's paranormal punctuations, you may want to turn on all the lights before reading Elk Grove Paranormal Investigates ‘Haunted’ Home in Sacramento, tales of a house literally at the crossroads of death and home to a handful of spirits. Despite the evidence acquired by the team, skeptics still insist it's anecdotal. Fortunately, Robert McLuhan takes umbrage with such pronouncements and has taken it upon himself to place Psychic Research on Kindle and give the perspective of eyewitnesses to the broadest of audiences to engage the conversation. While we're in the realm of the spectral, we should inject Greg Taylor's latest rebuff for one of the world's foremost skeptics, found in The Carlos Hoax...Hoax? Meanwhile, the intrepid crew from Haunted and Paranormal Investigations continue to plow through the murk of California's most noted spectral sites, as recounted in Ione Hotel Paranormal Investigation and the reports Followed Home by Ghost of Preston Castle Part 2 & 3.

The latest offering of the popular video compilation of a month's worth of cryptozoological, natural history and related topics is ready for your viewing. Enjoy! Meanwhile, there are two images from the water monster section of cryptozoology to scrutinise, and you'll find them in Roland Watson's An Interesting Photograph and Jon Downes's On the Bonny Bonny Banks of... What may be of more interest than what could glide through the world's lakes, rivers and streams, however, is what amazing flotsam and jetsam washes up on the world's beaches. Such is the subject of Sharon Hill's report Washed Up Beast in San Diego. Or, What the…? (UPDATE: Solved) that is followed by much more information and a wealth of images in Loren Coleman's thoughtful San Diego Diablo?

From the maverick science files: The devil is in the details, as you will discover with Jonah Lehrer, when it comes to evidence. Too much of something is a bad thing and his thesis shows how science, in all its aspects, may be searching for solutions in the wrong places, with the wrong methodology, or both, and how preconceptions get in the way of empiricism. As we leave our skeptical partners clutching their heads in frustration, one can appreciate another aspect of maverick science that breaks all the rules, if only we understood what they were in the first place, since a Biochemist Published A Paper Solving The Mystery Of Life, But No One Understands It. Still science continues to strive to understand the world at large with its brand of reductionism. One of the paradigms not yet successfully bridged by science has to do with whether or not there is much more to mankind's history than meets the eye. Dale Drinnon has been addressing such seemingly missing pieces of the prehistoric puzzle lately, and he has more evidence and information compiled in Arkaim From Polish Website; as well as Arkaim: Russia’s Ancient City & the Arctic Origin of Civilisation and Rondel Settlements and Europe's Oldest Civilisations.

The Beehive State is abuzz with UFOs, taking the recent sighting at American Fork into account. Now Linda Moulton Howe has a case which may be related to those strange blue lights that some argue were an advertising stunt. Once you've listened to this account of several people in various vehicles all being affected by a UFO approach, check the report of a resident of the Show Me State who calls himself Johnny Boy and offers a disjointed, but serious account of his own recent experience with Abduction and UFO's in Missouri. Elsewhere, another look into the December 1977 edition of MUFON UFO Journal can be found as Who Forted? continues with What Can We Learn From the Hypnosis of Imaginary Abductees Pt.2 which explores the therapist's unintentional influence upon the hypnotized. Less impressionable is Nick Redfern who continues his biography of the wickedest man at JPL in Jack Parsons, UFOs and the FBI, chock full of sex, espionage and secrets. Redfern follows up with Melvin Brown and the Bodies..., underscoring the Japanese connection to bodies reportedly found at Roswell, NM, during that famous event in 1947. In the same vein, it appears that Nigel Watson may have stumbled upon A 17th-century UFO Report, but the author and his distance from the event suggest a little stretching of the truth. Even so, any truth is welcome rather than rehashing old facts, as Billy Cox uses the famous motion picture Groundhog Day to make the point he writes about in I’ve Got You Again, Babe, where The New York Times tells the same old story, and the only journalism is that SETI needs more money.

If there's any doubt about the levels of secrecy employed by the powers that be, Robert Goerman's exposing of a photo linked to an emergency landing of a bomber implies something much bigger is happening right beneath our noses. More than a half century later the evidence, or lack thereof, remains confounding to all. Now we take that oft-forgotten left turn at Albuquerque, where Christopher Knowles, author of Our Gods Wear Spandex, provides us with Mindbomb Addenda: False Flags and Blue Beams, proving that if the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, they are codified in comic books full of demons, UFOs and the Collins Elite. By now, if you don't believe that science can be wrong, Alex Tsakiris's interview with a UFOlogist/physicist heard in Stanton Friedman on Extended Human Consciousness and Mind Control is sure to make the case for people looking in the wrong places for the right reasons. Listen to the podcast or read the handy transcript.

Correspondent Johnathan Fennell writes eloquently to Lon Strickler of an event and a creature he experienced with other guests at a small get together in a rural setting of Chicora, PA. Did the guests observe a bona fide fairy? Strickler follows up to share other incidents of high strangeness around this Pennsylvania setting. Meanwhile, Dale Drinnon has new evidence in the case of an alleged cryptid in a 2009 video included with the report "Baby Bigfoot" Reprise, and Loren Coleman revisits reports of a hairy creature in the wilderness of the Sunshine State, including photos and video captures with Forgotten Florida Cryptid? And a sad note creeps into the cryptid discussion as Coleman announces the passing of a well known Bigfoot researcher in Sierra Sounds’ Al Berry Has Died.

Strange mummified remains discovered in the Wyoming mountains in 1932 have puzzled the few scientists privileged enough to have been allowed the chance to examine the relic. The diminutive size and misshapen features were only part of the puzzle found in examinations around 1950 and 1980, before the mummified remains mysteriously disappeared. Anthropologist Dale Drinnon has now looked over the x-rays, however, and has his own conclusions to reveal about "Pedro." In other news of the bizarre, Blane Bachelor follows a new trend that echoes the concern for apocalyptic messages attached to 2012, as seen in Cashing in on the 'End of the World' Tourism; Loren Coleman alerts us to a new viral advertising effort in There Goes The Neighborhood: NYC’s Flying People and Patrick Lee reports on efforts to lay to rest concerns about anomalous noises heard January 11th and 12th in Malaysia, and perhaps elsewhere, as the deputy minister of Science, Technology and Innovation says the Mystery of Strange Sound Solved. If only our experts didn't have to rely upon the historicity and could see things first hand, much like the way Jamie Condliffe explains the events that led to Mel Smith's claims about mysterious blue balls that fell from the sky in England, we might observe a different division of what's reported in How a British Florist Solved the Mystery of the Coming Apocalypse. Elsewhere, Ben Shattuck's tale of The Devil’s Trumpet is cautionary, presenting two writers and the gulf between theorists and academics.

Sharon Hill goes to great lengths to defend those skeptics who take the time and energy to prove to believers that the phenomenon they think they observed, felt, heard, or otherwise experienced was a fraud. Of course the work of tramping out a crop circle in the middle of the night - and the center of a valuable crop - or reproducing mysterious sky noises like those recently reported from around the globe was all for a good cause, helping the ignorant and benighted to see the error of their unreasonable acceptance of the unknown. It could never be for the simple joy of showing others how the deliberate skeptical hoaxer is so much more superior intellectually than the believer. Could it? That being said, of course, you're free to reject such evidence as presented by Jason Offutt in the story of Tamin and Tony, a small, dour town in rural Missouri that does not celebrate Halloween, a house with no feeling of welcome, strange noises, offensive smells, physical effects experienced by the family while attempting to reside in the house - all reminiscent of the famous Richard Matheson novel The Haunting of Hell House and detailed in A Haunting in a Small Town. Or you can accept or reject the evidence offered by the residents and the exorcist recounted in Scots Family's Haunted House Gets Worse After Exorcism from Minister and the photographic and narrative evidence presented in Demolition Workers Photograph 'Ghost of Former Guesthouse Worker'. One form of evidence often collected by ghost hunters and spiritualists comes under Micah Hanks's scrutiny, and can likewise be accepted or rejected, after you read Voices From the Shadows: The Voice Phenomenon of Parapsychology.

Folks like to see what they want to see when given the opportunity. Even in the face of undeniable evidence that something was not otherworldly, there are those who continue to question such events. Instead of derision, they should be credited for keeping their minds open to all possibilities, despite contrary evidence. Sightings in the Hispanic nations, collected and translated by Scott Corrales of the Institute of Hispanic UFOlogy, continue to evidence anomalous craft of mysterious origin, such as those divulged in the reports Argentina: UFO Wave Ongoing in the Western Corridor, where a spate of sightings, abductions and animal disappearances have become eerily commonplace to scores of witnesses. And Corrales points readers to a follow-up report by Profesora Ana Luisa Cid concerning a recent widely reported incident in a Baja California city that involved multiple law enforcement personnel, seen in Mexico: More on the Mexicali UFO Chase, an event that could have fit right into Corrales' report Neglected Lights: Mexico's 1970s Saucer Wave, when the skies were alive with unexplained lights and anomalous craft. Meanwhile, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database has revealed a January 29th incident described in Witness Reports Hovering Lights Shoot into Sky Near Peru, Indiana and the January 30th sighting detailed in Hundred Foot Oval Object Reported over Long View, North Carolina. Elsewhere, Rick Phillips takes you back to a time when a National Football League game had as much action in the skies, caught on camera, as the action on the field, seen in 1979 LIVE TV - Pittsburgh Steelers UFOs. Bruce Duensing, meanwhile, injects a natural but eerie phenomenon into the UFO enigma that could explain many UFO sightings and other paranormal activity, since it involves electrical stimulation of the brain, noted in Final Cut: Transient Effects of Atmospheric Alchemy.

The celebrated silverback gorilla Ambam who struts his stuff through the greensward at the Aspinall Foundation's Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in England serves to make a point about the controversial Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film recorded in the late 1960s. Dale Drinnon takes exception to skeptical remarks made about the Patterson-Gimlin film's Patty, using Ambam in his explanation. Drinnon also presents Mexican legends of a giant hairy biped, presented by Carlos Augusto Evia Cervantes at a Congress of Speleologists in 2007 that suffers in the translation but still gives evidence in native belief in the creatures, seen in More on Mexican Wildmen, while archived news sources reveal a similar creature, as well as another cryptid from the Emerald Isle, seen in Muirhead's Mysteries: An Irish Wildman and an Odd Rhinoceros-like Creature. Drinnon also visits evidence of apes in the New World today, too, with More Mayan Monkeys (Apes). There's enlightening news from the Natural History pages today, as well, revealed in Afghan Mystery Cat Redux; Snowy Owls Soar South from Arctic in Rare Mass Migration; the slideshow Top 10 Not-So-Extinct Animals and Pythons Eating Through Everglades Mammals at "Astonishing" Rate?

From the maverick science offerings: Natalie Wolchover hypothesizes the possibilities if another creature, or another type of human - think Neanderthals - had developed along the same lines as modern humans. Would we be friends, or would we be locked in mortal combat for the world's resources? Elsewhere, the Electric Universe theorists continue to hammer away at the hoary paradigm they say has held back scientific advancement on many fronts, as exemplified by misconceptions Stephen Smith dismantles in Pulsar Wind Nebulae; and Smith joins physicist Wal Thornhill to belabor standard predictions about our nearest star's activity and Earth's weather in A Solar Siesta. And in reports we missed several days ago, the nature of Earth's topography and fauna during the Ice Age get a different reading than most are familiar with in Lamb on Ice, while curious shifts in bodies of water on the southernmost continent bamboozle researchers in the Mystery of the Moving Antarctic Lakes. Meanwhile, Dale Drinnon has more on the evidence of ancient seafaring in the dispersion of mankind, showing what went to sea often found use on land, leading to Early Scotland Settlement Boat-Houses.

There is cause for celebration with the sixth installment of Greg Taylor's acclaimed DarkLore series. John Ritter reviews Taylor's latest editorial effort, giving it high marks for the quality and diversity of the subjects covered and the authors who do the revealing of "a huge range of the paranormal, the anomalous, and just simply the weird". Elsewhere, Mark Russell Bell continues to look into the accounts of the Spiritual Movement documented by Henry S. Olcott, including the original sketches of an accompanying artist, assembled as People From The Other World. Work such as that performed by Olcott served to lay the groundwork that produced some of the current research into parapsychology, the subject of a conference described in Clinical Approaches to Exceptional Experiences, and the work of Dr. Dean Radin and his colleagues that stretches the tenuous subject into the realm of quantum physics, as Radin describes in Consciousness and the Double-slit Interference Pattern: Six Experiments. While these pursuits are all serious efforts at finding answers to some of reality's many puzzling manifestations, we can't help but feel the seriousness of the matter has slipped out of the grasp of a New England college faculty unfettered for Hunting Ghosts in Groveland - Latest College Course Offering. That sort of effort is sure to provide ammunition for those who rail against the "pseudosciences," but Roy Stemman takes their measure and sparks a spirited debate with Sceptics Dream of World Without Woo-woo.

They've spoken out against many technological things they see as having an unhealthy impact on civilization, and they've offered themselves up for scientific examination, as long as their privacy was protected. They all have a rare blood type, possible signs of DNA tampering, IQs that have been seemingly enhanced, unexplained illnesses or disorders and an overwhelming need to know what was done to them when they were snatched from everday life by parties unknown. In exasperation, the Real Time Abductees are giving up their attempt to inform the public of dangers they see ahead and the hope for scientific examination of their unknown entity inflicted ailments. Chris Holly writes the final chapter in the saga of 6 individuals who came face-to-face with the unknown, lived to tell about it and faced an uninterested scientific community, and, worse still, an unconcerned populace. While the nature of the entities said to have snatched the Real Time Abductees from safe haven to abject terror have never been identified definitively as extraterrestrial beings, there is an inherent feeling among the many who follow the abduction reports that this is the case. If so, is any program underway to locate the origins of such beings? Of course the answer is in the affirmative, and Philip Coppens, author of The Ancient Alien Question, addresses the successes and failures - and even the seeming efforts at cover-up - of the best known organization tasked with finding such extraterrestrials in ET Phoned Us? The efforts of the organization with the mission of finding any signs of extraterrestrial civilization is still underway, but finding the going difficult due to financial constraints, as seen in the report Search for Aliens is On Again, but Next Quest is Finding Money. Meanwhile, the tales of encounters with apparently alien entities continue to proliferate, seemingly ignored by any scientific research organization, but not escaping the diligent pursuit of such researchers as Nick Redfern, who offers multiple incidents of one type of visitation in Close Encounters of the Giant Kind. If the entities responsible for spiriting terrified humans away for unspeakable atrocities are truly non-terrestrials, how many different kinds of them are there? And how many far flung planets in equally far flung galaxies do these creatures call home?

It's tough enough getting on planes nowadays, and forget the nonsense of waiting on the tarmac for the all-clear for takeoff. Over Canada, recently, an otherworldly bogey startled pilot and crew of an Airbus A340-600, despite the fact it was 40 miles from their position. No radar contact with the object was reported by air traffic control. Not too far from Canadian airspace, Matthew Bultman reports sightings in Upstate New York that have folks asking UFOs in Massena? And Some People Seem To Think So, since there have been six sightings since early January and no end in sight. Eyewitness reports and obligatory damage control from the Air National Guard (ANG) show this community near Canada's border is ahead of the curve with sightings. In England, not far from Upstate New York as the UFO flies, a citizen of Scarborough gets his first glimpse of the unexplained, as revealed in Man Shaken by ‘Close Encounter’ as He Sees a UFO; and in Portugal, two motorists leaped from their vehicle to record a rather spectacular and puzzling object in the sky described in UFO News: OVNI Emerges from Cloud and Explodes! (Video). Such reports lead us to believe UFOnauts have an airtight alibi when Russian Locals Blame UFO or Alien Activity for Unusual Chunks of Ice in the Ural River. Well, maybe not so airtight an alibi, considering all the other seemingly impossible stunts the objects perform. Which brings us to Rich Reynolds's continuing examination of the psychological evidence that may, or may not support the tantalizing aspects of Jose Caravaca's distortion theory, as seen in UFOs: Distortion and/or Insanity? Reynolds admits his conception of UFO sightings as mental illness doesn't jive with artwork he displays that was produced by the mentally ill, in contrast to artwork from those who experience a close encounter.

California's Mount Shasta held many people in a mystical spell even before the settlers moved west and joined the Native Americans there in observing the dormant volcano's weirdness. Now one man has decided to take on the task of documenting the many tales of the mountain's mysteries. As Lee Romney reports, Brian Wallenstein, a writer of children's books, among other things, is searching for information about Sasquatch and UFO encounters in the vicinity of the imposing peak. Romney explains "His goal: to rattle the presumptions of those who resist the unknown." And Romney throws in some of the history of high weirdness that surrounds this surreal geographical landmark. As a budding Fortean, Wallenstein has some big shoes to fill, including those of the Canadian researcher taken from us last September and respectfully memorialized by fellow researcher Theo Paijmans in Fortean W. Ritchie Benedict Obituary. Since Brian Wallenstein knows of the strange hums heard around Mount Shasta, and the late W. Ritchie Benedict would certainly have noted the current enthrallment worldwide caused by atmospheric discord, here is what may be the last word on the phenomenon, reported by Dan Koelsch in Strange Noises Heard Around The World Could Have Scientific Explanation.

Benjamin Franklin may have 'discovered' lightning is a form of electricity, but its power to reanimate the spark of life was lost on William Thornton. Instead, he had another procedure in mind to bring the Father of the United States of America back from the great beyond, and Lauren Davis documents the madness. In other bizarre news, photos and a video have surfaced showing beams of light-like appearance above one controversial hill some say is an ancient construction of man and other megalithic sites that definitely are the constructions of man, as seen in Mysterious Energy Beam Above the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun. If these images and the video are real, what's generating the beams from inside these structures? And Rick Phillips, one of the first to begin documenting anomalous sounds from the sky online, says the naysayers appear to be grasping at straws to explain away the reports of such sounds emanating from around the world, noted in Are Skeptics Getting Desparate About The Sky Noise Phenomena?

These days you're more likely to see Bigfoot on television than in your own backyard. Not so for Tim Stover, though, who caught the Bigfoot bug 20 years ago after a chance encounter. In anticipation of his appearance on Bigfoot Hunters tonight, WKYC takes the time to profile this local hero, as does Ohio.com with Kent Resident's Quest to Find Bigfoot to Air Sunday which gives a little more depth to Stover's story. In other news of the huge, hairy hominid, the reports claiming the shooting of more than one Bigfoot in the California mountains continues to evoke a back and forth from those investigating the claims, as revealed in Jeff Meldrum Addresses Sierra Kills Rumors and Bart Cutino Addresses Sierra Kills Body Recovery Effort. The Australian version of the manlike biped gets mention today, too, in the video questioning Yowie Footprints in the Bush? And Dale Drinnon has information about the origins of reports describing another cryptid in Honduras Chupacabras-Folklore Page. Meanwhile, there's cryptozoological programming online tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET as the author of Orang-Pendek: Sumatra's Forgotten Ape visits with Eric Altman and Lon Strickler, as announced in This Week on 'Beyond the Edge' Radio: Cryptozoologist/Author Richard Freeman, and cryptozoology is a large part of the podcast mounted by Benjamin Grundy and found in Episode 703 – Mysterious Universe.

From the maverick science files: Dale Drinnon has been busy noting the evidence of ancient contact between Southeast Asian and Indian civilizations with the civilizations of South and Central America. This time a Mayan representation of the Universe and the representation of the Universe configured by the Hindus and Buddhists of Asia show remarkable similarity. And the similarities of skulls and skull carvings could demonstrate more evidence of such an ancient connection, shown by Drinnon in the lavishly illustrated More Skulls: Trepanned, Indus, Mayan, Deformed, Crystal, Giant and Otherwise. Drinnon, one of the busiest bloggers around, also turns his attention to the ancient peoples of the northern climes in North America and Europe today, too, showing similarities that span the sea distances in More on Uralics Part 3, stretching the conversation into the same regions belief in gnome-like creatures evidenced in More on Uralics Part 4, Little People Included. Elsewhere, electrical power from unusual sources makes the news with Sterling D. Allan's collection of the E-Cat Weekly -- January 26, 2012 and Hank Mills's visit with a French expert detailed in Centrifugal Force, Free Energy, and More with Engineer Claude Thiebaut. And the energy generated throughout the Universe is visited by Mel Acheson in The Fall of El Gordo, and by Stephen Smith in Rainy Days on Saturn. Meanwhile, proponents of the conventional gravity-driven Universe paradigm offer Cold Plasma Layer Detected High Above Earth and the questioningly titled What Drove the Lunar Dynamo? Moon's Molten Core Was Likely Sustained by Alternative Power Source.

When you're not an authority on anything, it can be an asset. Though Nick Redfern disagrees with the late John Keel's theory of balloon warfare, Redfern is intrigued by documents which have come up in Keel's research insinuating these last-ditch weapons were manned. 'Tis a shame one can't submit a FOIA request to the late Japanese Empire. But if one could, then Larry Bryant would be leading the vanguard. Today he laments how Two Agencies (the CIA and NARA's Office of Government Information Services) Choose to Thumb their Noses at FOIA (Item 2.147) and adds them to his growing collection of uppity divisions in The Powers That Be.