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![]() July 18 Dan Rivera, the spook hunter best known as the owner of the haunted Annabelle doll, has passed away while on his Devils On The Run tour. He was 54. Paramedics arriving at his hotel were unable to revive the unconscious Rivera, and his cause of death remains undetermined. Now it falls to us to remain vigilant, says Hayley Stevens, of Turning Tragedy Into Lore: The Annabelle Effect, wherein we get so caught up pointing fingers at paranormal conspiracies that we lose sight of the actual life that was lost. It would be very easy to become enmeshed in ideas that the haunted doll was responsible for Rivera's death, to the point where the actual man is forgotten. Let us keep in mind that cause of death is not only inconclusive, it is also secondary. This is not a paranormal mystery to be exploited. This is a life that has ended. Rest in peace, Dan. (CM) Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part Two Center for UFO Studies
CUFOS Board Member Dr. Michael Swords has three more articles on one of the most hectic years in UFO history. But as with Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part One, Mike here shines light on lesser-known yet fascinating aspects of that year. Edward J. Ruppelt constitutes a binding thread in these later vignettes. In "Mr. Ruppelt Goes to Washington" we get amazing facts about Donald Menzel and the knowledge "many high-level people" took UFOs seriously in early 1952. With Peeking into Corners...Part Three Mike describes the "Intense Interest at the Heart of the Pentagon," mining Edward Ruppelt's writings and delving into Ruppelt's inner battle between his deep-seated openness towards an interplanetary explanation for UFOs and an equally innate "very conservative view of proof." Insights appear about a very strong CEII physical trace case with a very questionable main witness. And in Peeking into Corners...Part Four Dewey "Fournet Tries to Expand the Minds of the Intelligence Community." Mike calls Fournet "maybe the best and most honest military analyst that we had (not only then, but possibly ever)," and covers "the Fournet motions study," a brilliant categorization of UFO flight patterns suggesting "the hard geometry of flights piloted by intelligent agents." Mike links to an edition of The International UFO Reporter on the CUFOS website with more information on this matter, and offers a dramatic graphic "From a controller's original sketch" of some July 20, 1952, UFO movements during the Washington, D.C. UFO overflights. (WM) The Savage Murder of Montana Rancher Charles Tacke American Strangeness
Kevin J. Guhl recounts the brutal 1880 murder of Montana rancher Charles Tacke in the Prickly Pear Valley, Montana. Tacke was found killed by an axe blow to the head. In an apparent attempt to conceal the crime, his body was placed in a manger and covered with lime to accelerate decomposition. But, Tacke’s death was only the beginning of a series of strange events. Shortly after Tacke’s untimely demise, neighboring farmers began to report mysterious floating lights moving about his former property: The Ghost Light of Prickly Pear. This sparked considerable local interest, fueled by press coverage and speculation. Many visitors to the ranch and surrounding area witnessed the lights, but no obvious explanation emerged. Some believed the lights were the spirit of Tacke, lingering after death. The local press, always wary of hyperbole, asked if the lights could be harbingers of the end of the world, or escaped electricity from Edison’s laboratory. Skeptics, however, suggested more mundane causes, such as light from stoves interacting with the region’s rarefied mountain air. Guhl notes that such “ghost lights” have been widely reported across America, and it seems disingenuous to dismiss them all as hoaxes or tall tales—they are real phenomena witnessed by numerous independent observers. While some cases have been explained by ordinary sources, others remain mysterious. Investigator Joe Nickell concluded in his analysis of the Marfa and Saratoga Lights, “too many skeptics think the door is shut when it should always be slightly ajar.” (JS) July 17 Tim McMillan covers a challenging new paper on how the change in the depictions of elk from late Paleolithic to early Iron Age Mongolian art echoes "profound shifts in environment, society, and psychological worldviews across generations of steppe cultures." Its daring scope alone urges one to access the Cambridge Archaeological Journal article Tim links to. In "There Is Something Very Different Going On Here": Archaeologists Keep Finding Gigantic Shoes At This 2000-Year-Old Roman Site Micah Hanks treads ground a BBC article trod and we covered a couple weeks ago. Perhaps appropriately, the locale is called "Magna Roman Fort." We'll bet the Magna Fort must have had a great basketball team! And perhaps after their victories the troops would head for a bar, as an international archaeological team has asked: Did Alcohol Facilitate the Evolution of Complex Societies? It worked for some of our roundball teams (in post-college days). The study's results indicate a mildly positive role, particularly for agricultural societies, and the really strong distilled stuff wasn't included, as well as other intoxicants. And Jason Colavito has some acid comments as Graham Hancock Asks If "Gilgamesh" Dates Back to the Neolithic. Bottom line: Hancock's "novel realization" is merely his stumbling "upon an academic proposal that dates back decades." Jason unearths other weaknesses in Hancock's scholarship. (WM) A Canadian family on vacation in Cornwall found an intriguing artifact while visiting St Nectan’s Glen, a waterfall with a reputation for the magical. Something was protruding from a mossy bank and when that something was pulled out it was revealed to be an animal skull with a horn. On the way to the airport, the family stopped at the Stonehenge Inn, where the owner offered them cash for their fascinating "unicorn skull." And there it remains, but Mystery Of ‘Unicorn’ Skull Unearthed at King Arthur’s Castle Deepens as New Detail Emerges. Apparently the "unicorn skull" bears the signature of someone named Harald, and has therefore been labelled a well-executed hoax. However, some believe the skull is too well put together, too natural looking and too heavy to be merely a deer head with a grafted horn. To date no labs have stepped up offering to test its DNA, so for now the mystery continues. (CM) There Was a BAASS AAWSAP Administrator Before Robert Bigelow Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena - Scientific Research
Three more posts from Australian researcher Keith Basterfield on the recently-surfacing Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (whew!) documents, and in this case the "BAASS Ten Month Report" of July 30, 2009. With the help of Jacques Vallée's Forbidden Science 5: Pacific Heights, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2000-2009, published by Anomalist Books, Keith is able to identify the mysterious early "Admin" as Al Holt, who Keith then learns has an impressive resume—but the reason for Holt's early resignation is still unknown. Keith next turns to The BAASS "Project Campus". Keith sketches this nearly-unknown (and I would think wise) initiative and its somewhat checkered response by the date of the "Ten Month Report," and again employs another Jacques Vallée volumes Forbidden Science 4: The Spring Hill Chronicles, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1990-1999 to note Robert Bigelow's long-prior interest in an initiative like "Project Campus." With BAASS' Project Colares/Brazil Investigations Keith recalls his and Marc Cecotti's 2020 findings, significant items in the "Ten Month Report," and the most recent Vallée tome from Anomalist Books, Forbidden Science 6: Scattered Castles, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2010-2019, for some very interesting Vallée concerns. (WM) July 16 Concerning UFO news. John Greenewald's conclusion about his FOIA success: "The release adds to the growing body of documentation showing that the handling of the UAP videos was shaped not just by classification or policy, but also by strategic control of information flow." In Canada's Top Scientist Releases New UFO Report, Here's What You Need to Know Daniel Otis' "five takeaways" from the report and Canada's Chief Science Advisor's remarks about its "public anticipation" are positive. But Otis questions whether any of its recommendations will be implemented. On a most current sensation, Richard Dolan asks Are We REALLY Making Tic Tac UFOs? In a very impressive—and rather concise—video Richard poses The Right Questions about Ross Coulthart's "categorical" claim that Lockheed Martin is behind the 2004 craft, and shows that the general shape of that vehicle does have a considerable history in UFO reporting. Ryan Sprague's The Tic Tac Controversy: Was it Human-Made Tech by Lockheed Martin? is harder on Coulthart than is Dolan, whom Ryan includes in a lineup of comments from people who'd been involved in the 2004 Tic Tac events. Not sure Ryan's observation that a fresh Coulthart interview had Ross "walking back" some on his basic contentions when Coulthart used the "compartmentalization" card to explain David Fravor's adamance Lockheed Martin wasn't involved with the Tic Tac, and Ryan's basic soliloquy "dragged" a bit in spots and at the end. But he still effectively challenged the Australian journalist's "trust me" posture. (WM) Introducing DMT Entities: Are We Alone in Consciousness? Connecting with Coincidence
Bernard Beitman discusses DMT and the possibly deeper ontological implications of the DMT experience with fellow psychonauts David J. Brown and Sarah Finn Huntley. Together, they are convinced that DMT is not merely a hallucinogen but a doorway into a fantastic but objectively real world. This may sound as outlandish as some of the beings commonly reported in DMT experiences: "machine elves," reptilians, octopoids and mythological archetypes. Might the uniformity of DMT experiences across different cultures and times, and the apparent agency of these beings, raise the question: Is there a more veridical reality behind these visions? Might Beitman, Brown, and Huntly really be onto something the rest of us are insufficiently out of our heads to notice? From a more circumspect perspective, a recent paper notes substantial changes in the theological positions of people who take Ayahuasca: Ayahuasca Entity Encounters Linked To Lasting Religious Belief Changes, Especially In Men. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew used for generations in the rituals of peoples in the Amazonian basin, enabling a relatively long-lasting DMT experience. This recent study found that these psychedelic experiences often seemed to have a profound effect on religious belief, with substantial numbers of atheist and agnostics moved towards theism, particularly men. There seems little doubt that DMT can challenge metaphysical beliefs, but how about metaphysics? (JS) 'Alien Spider' Crop Formation Found in England Coast to Coast AM
A fellow in Britain flying a drone over the fields in Dorset County recently happened upon a large crop formation in the shape of a spider. The media and crop circle enthusiasts were quite excited about the discovery, but the farmer whose field had been flattened had no kind words for the perpetrators—alien or human. These incidents are not a modern phenomenon, and so we go back to The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle in a pamphlet from Hartfordshire. The story goes that a wealthy landowner declared the devil could harvest his crops before he'd pay the asking price of the laborers, then by next morning it seems that's what happened. "...He cut them in round Circles, and plac’t every straw with that exactness” — "more perfect than any man could have achieved," leaving the farmer afraid to remove the cuttings. It's left to the reader to determine if the tale is of a genuine crop circle formation or a morality tale—but clearly crop formations are not a new idea. (CM) July 15 The Observer Anti-Roswell Article: A Brief Response A Different Perspective
Here's another controversy about the Biggest UFO Story of all time. First, the background: On July 2nd Bernie O'Connor's article Roswell UFO Crash: A Hoax? appeared in The Observer. This piece revived a riff on the 1947 Roswell UFO Crash story based on the testimony of one Walter Klinikowski. Bernie's 2008 interview of the then-87-year-old certainly ignited a response predicted by Bernie's lead-off comment "Stand by for tar and feathers." Top Roswell experts lined up. Kevin Randle's "Brief Response" gives his vigorous detailed rejoinder. The Observer's Roswell Rebuttals notes Kevin's riposte, thanks him, and links to his just-mentioned A Different Perspective article, and publishes the retorts of Tom Carey and Anthony Bragalia. Kevin later adds Another Mogul Rant (But Deserved!). Roswell isn't the only contentious crash Kevin's been researching and commenting on, per his June 29th Chasing Footnotes (Sort of): Kingman Edition (Update 1). Kevin reports on further research he's done (and fellow iconic researcher David Rudiak adds more context in the Comments) into the alleged and largely discredited 1953 Arizona crash, which itself was rekindled by Christopher Mellon, as Kevin describes. Kevin still doubts the tale, but remains open to new evidence, and sagely remarks "history is filled with what we thought we knew only to be surprised by later events." (WM) 'Ball Lightning' Caught on Film After Storm in Canada Science Alert
Rare, but spectacular footage of the elusive "ball lightning" was captured by Canadian couple Ed and Melinda Pardy. The existence of this phenomenon has long been debated and has often been said to explain some UFO sightings. Judging by this video, it's easy to see why. Meanwhile, an ocean away, a Japan Storm Fires Record Number of Gigantic Jets Into Space . Footage of these extremely rare jets shooting from Earth almost into space has been captured. Boffins are now trying to understand how "one of the most powerful natural electrical events ever seen" could occur. (LP) The latest UFO sightings information...Steph Whiteside has the numbers from the National UFO Reporting Center, and it's a good look into NUFORC's informed process. In a featured video, Ross Coulthart chats with Skinwalker Ranch owner Brandon Fugal about the recent dismissive Wall Street Journal articles, Sean Kirkpatrick, and Skinwalker Ranch. Too many points to cover in this extremely strong Q&A, but Mr. Fugal's information on the perhaps-expected and important questions is fascinating, and especially when asked about his possible religious motives, impressed us as most forceful and genuine. Back to current aerial phenomena, with Zoe Hussain reporting for the New York Post about Over 60 UFOs Reported Zipping Over New York Skies in the First Half of 2025. Hussain also mined NUFORC's data for her state-centered piece. CNN highlights Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp's latest pictorial sensation in Disc-Shaped UFO Captured on Video, having Jeremy emphasize the footage's government's admission that it's of a "UAP Disc." Now to Tim Binnall and an Odd UFO Vexes Police in Argentina. An interesting case, and the referenced media report has an even more intriguing August 2023 USO-UFO case, as well. (WM) July 14 Air Force Confirms Drone Swarms Over Wright-Patterson AFB Led to Airspace Shutdown; Videos and Reports Released The Black Vault
Well, drones have reared their ugly...rotors...again, belying the consistent government mantra that "There's nothing to see here, folks." And while John Greenewald's FOIA successes of course deal with The Ghosts of Drones Past, Drones Present and Future remain serious security and safety dangers. Here John recounts, and presents, a "two nights of high-alert activity" over Wright-Patterson AFB in mid-December, 2024. In U.S. Government Confirms Multiple Drone Incursions Over Pantex Nuclear Facility; Newly Released Documents Reveal Previously Unreported Security Events John presents an "enhanced" DOE response to a 2015 event journalist Dustin Slaughter unearthed; the new information raises serious identification issues. John's FOIA also brought to light lesser 2022 and 2023 incidents over the Amarillo, Texas, asset. And Baptiste Friscourt offers Under Drone Siege: America's Struggle to Lead in Drone Warfare Amid Airbase Disruptions and Health Anomalies. Friscourt's "AHI" section brings the personal human cost of "Havana Syndrome" forcefully to light, and it's to the government's credit that they're taking actions to assist those affected—though the agency/ies behind the devastations still are murky. And, despite some usual, but somewhat subdued party bickering, it does appear that the "drone dilemma" is better acknowledged, and that strong actions are at least contemplated. Baptiste also uses the Wright-Patterson example to underscore the challenge. (WM) Rochester Mountain Lion Sharon A. Hill: Strange Claims Adjuster
A big cat has been glimpsed, possibly more than a few times, in the city of Rochester, New York. The unidentified feline has been recorded by doorbell cam and similar, and appears to be the approximate size of a mountain lion, although it's debatable whether it's an escaped exotic pet or a genuine wild creature that has wandered into civilization. In any case, the community seems to be enthralled with the notion of big cat hiding out in the vicinity. Next, we have More News on Thundercrows, nearly flightless birds that stand about 5 feet tall, with red plumage around their eyes. There are references to sightings in Canada over the past two decades, with further explanation provided by Dr. Karl Shuker. There are much earlier references by anthropologist James Teit from his research into the First Nations Peoples of British Columbia in 1905. Perhaps what's most intriguing is the possibility that these gigantic birds might not live exclusively in the Pacific Northwest, but may in fact be spread throughout North America. (CM) Evolving Paradigms in the Search for Advanced Extraterrestrial Intelligence Taylor & Francis Online
Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) Co-founder and Executive Board Member Robert Powell has written a concise, comprehensive, and above all clear exposition arguing the need for viewing the universe from a much-larger perspective than the traditional anthropocentric platform—a "Sample of One." He demonstrates how rapidly-increasing and diverse exoplanet discoveries are reshaping our views on requirements for life and intelligence, and the early "narrowness" of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has somewhat improved: "The frequencies examined have also expanded from optical wavelengths to microwaves to more wavelengths." And one might go even further than Earth being a "Sample of One." Robert has noted that cats and birds have also demonstrated curiosity and intelligence; Canadian poet-scholar Bryan Sentes argues Earth is full of intelligences besides the human; and the SETI Institute itself is studying intelligent humpback whale behaviors including "conversing" with humans in "whale talk" and blowing bubble "smoke" rings. As opposed to SETI, Robert's primary focus is near-Earth space search—and his deductive/inductive process for "The Case for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis" is very effective. He makes excellent points about the need for agreement on solid "technosignatures" within Earth's atmosphere, and required new tools and their needed precision to generate probative, hard data. Robert also argues wisely for moving "from a military-based study of the phenomenon to a science-based study," for how Congress could make this happen, and the utter necessity of establishing communication protocols "through an international body" before an attempt to converse with "ET" in near-Earth space. An extensive set of references supports Robert's paper. Note: This appreciation was facilitated by a Zenodo pre-paper at Evolving Paradigms Regarding ET. (WM) July 11 A report from the American Psychological Association catalogues instances of wild Orcas presenting fish or other prey to surprised humans. The report gathered 34 reports over 20 years where the creatures approached people and presented them with food. The whales in some cases waited for a response or tried again if their initial attempt was not met with a response. Researchers note that domesticated cats and dogs sometimes display this type of behavior, but it was thought not wild animals. It seems strange that these giant aquatic mammals should target gangly, bipedal primate landlubbers as an apposite recipient of their tributes. What is going on? In other remarkable animal behavior, Science Adviser’s Jack Tamisiea reports on a group of Cockatoos in a Sydney suburb that have worked out how to operate a drinking fountain: Cockatoos Have Learned To Operate Drinking Fountains in Australia. While dumpster-diving for food is apparently common amongst urban Cockatoos in Sydney, only one group has been observed as able to operate drinking fountains. Behavioral ecologists suggest it likely represents a "local cultural tradition’" of learned behavior. Turning to our primate cousins, a recent study in Nature led by Ramiro Joly-Mascheroni and Beatriz Calvo-Marino looked at the response of Chimpanzees in the presence of a yawning ‘non-biological humanoid agent’ (read mechanical head). Chimpanzees Yawn When Observing an Android Yawn.
The study found that even robotic yawns seemed to be contagious, eliciting a higher frequency of yawning and behavior associated with sleep in the observing chimps. (JS) UFO UAP, Low Level Orbs, Bigfoot, and Cryptid Activity Very Active In Pennsylvania During 2025 Stan Gordon's UFO Anomalies Zone
Venerable ufologist (most of the rest of us of that vintage are just "old) Stan Gordon reports upon a bevy of anomalous reports this year. With appropriate credit to researchers Jim Brown and Kevin Paul for contributions, Stan recaps a wide variety of truly puzzling and interesting reports that resist explanation. In Unidentified Falling Object Mystifies Massachusetts Woman Tim Binnall has video footage, a named/filmed witness who presents as very sincere and balanced—and as Tim concludes—and a believable explanation. But it's an excellent illustration how such dramatic events can easily be misinterpreted. Tim has a The Hidden Underbelly piece that's really hard to explain in Alien Filmed by California Doorbell Camera? The Sneezing Monkey considers "ghost reflection" possibilities at around 8:33 into a more-ballyhooed recent matter with The Buga Sphere Debunked? 'Columbian Silver Sphere UFO's Explained (Deep Dive). Serious alternative explanations for the most recent Jaime Maussan sensation of a fallen "alien" creation are presented; the video gets more lightly scornful as it progresses; and some of the Comments are really hilarious. (WM) Hiker Reports Encounter with Argentina's Bigfoot Coast to Coast AM
Argentina has been the scene of Bigfoot activity recently. A pair of hikers heard some disturbance in the woods as they descended a local mountain. Encountering a large, hunched over hairy biped, they snapped a photo and then proceeded to run away. Next, was this Argentina's Bigfoot Filmed Running Across Field? The video taken from about 300 feet away shows a black dot moving very quickly across a field. The speed certainly feels odd, but the details are almost nonexistent, so it seems premature to call it an encounter with an Ucumar, as they are known locally. (CM) July 10 A Physicist Embarked on a Lifelong Quest to Build a Time Machine—And Shake Up Science Forever Popular Mechanics
"Unorthodox" theoretical scientist Ronald Mallett has spent seven decades cogitating on time travel. Initially motivated by H G Wells' The Time Machine and later spurred on by Einstein's "time dilation" theory, he hypothesizes that "loops in time" can enable us to travel into the past...someday. Which takes us to the question Is Our Brain a Time Machine? Study Reveals We Might Be Seeing the Past, Not the Present. In a nutshell, according to a report from UNILAD Tech, our brains are on a 15-second delay while the "chaos of a constantly moving and noisy world" is reprocessed so that we then "see a smooth and stable view of the world." If that's the case, then things are even worse than they appear to be. Oh, dear. (LP) The Spooky Science of Jeremy Renner’s Brush With Death Hayley Is A Ghost
Hayley Stevens reviews Jeremy Renner's memoir and detailed near death experience from when he was crushed by a snowplow in 2023. In My Next Breath: A Memoir, Renner assigns a cosmic or spiritual meaning to his experience, which Stevens finds somewhat tidy but understandable. In less magical terms, the human brain knows how to handle traumatic or life-altering events, smoothing them over and even assigning cosmic relevance to them. Perhaps this is what causes NDEs to seem so peaceful, with sensations of love and homecoming. Maybe our brains are simply trying to placate us at a time of maximum duress. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. (CM) These UFOs and science articles stress the importance of measurability. Here Théodore says Harvard's skywatching project "illustrates the alliance between instrumental innovation, rigorous scientific method, and interpretative caution." There's a concern about this in The 5.04 Hz Pattern: Early Evidence Of An Intentional Signal System in UAP Activity. This press release is accompanied by links to a "Full Case Analysis" and the "International UFO Bureau Website." How's that for a WowSignal! But skeptical Brian Dunning has a rigorous rejoinder at International UFO Bureau Does Its Own Research. Dunning details why he calls this new analysis "Perhaps the worst research paper of all time." Keith Basterfield continues his examination of a leaked document in The Process of Analysis of Materials, by BAASS. Keith reveals more on Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies' collaborating companies and work with AAWSAP, even down to fingernail clippings analysis. And Hans-Werner Peiniger reports a World's First: Passive Radar Signal Confirms Visual UFO-Sighting. This concerns a German case from September 2024. (WM) July 9 Did the 'Deep State' Invent the U.F.O. Craze? The New York Times
Ross Douthat's NYT opinion piece concerns the brushfire set by a pair of Wall Street Journal reporters. While unsympathetic to "UFO Believers" and remarking the article's being "more capacious than some prior debunking explanations," Douthat doubts that it "resolves the U.F.O. question." He even thinks witnesses to the 1960s UFO nuclear base incidents shouldn't take the WSJ's "new explanation as gospel." The implied WSJ lesson that "there's nothing to UFOs/UAP" should be set against the history of the government's involvement, as comprehensively covered in UFOs And Government: A Historical Inquiry, edited by Dr. Michael Swords and Robert Powell and published by Anomalist Books. It could also be set against Ross Coulthart's own integration of the WSJ piece into a history of advanced "electro-gravitics" "reverse engineering," per Ross Coulthart: "I Now Know Categorically That The Tic-Tac Is Lockheed Martin Technology." Question Ross' scenarios, but the journalist seems correct that mainstream American media is in thrall with the US government. John Greenewald caustically says one such organization, the CIA Mishandles UFO Files Again: Intelligence on Soviet UFO Reports Lost Forever. John gives several instances where CIA mismanagement reveals "the systematic erosion of the public's ability to fully understand how the intelligence community has handled the UFO question over the decades." And Richard Geldreich, Jr. tells how Anomalist Editor Patrick Huyghe's "extremely well-written New York Times Magazine Oct. 14 1979 article" was mishandled by that same agency. See New York Times Magazine's 1979 Article "UFO Files: The Untold Story" Was Ironically Clipped by the CIA—and then Declassified in 2004. It's worth reading Patrick's "longer article version" to compare both with the WSJ and Coulthart contentions. (WM) Can We Still Trust Paranormal Evidence in the Age of AI? Haley Is A Ghost
This new age of artificial intelligence makes it challenging on any given day to discern fact from fiction—to the detriment of paranormal investigation. In times past it was simple enough to prove an encounter with high strangeness took place by providing a reasonably good photograph of a creature, its footprint or claw marks, its ghostly trail or anomalous wake in the water. However, AI has made it all too easy for hoaxers to fake what used to be considered evidence. Hayley provides several guidelines to help us sort the genuine from the AI-generated and we would all do well to remember them. Next, let's look at another problem: Rumour and Disinformation in Africa, where we're taught that "fake news derives its consistency from pre-existing socio-cultural representations that it simply takes up and rearranges." That makes fake news an opportunistic beast, making the most of what already exists in the minds of the public—taking advantage of ignorance, if you will. Between AI and rampant disinformation, this being just one example, it seems like we can’t trust anything anymore! (CM) The Enrico Bossa Encounter and UFOs of Argentina Somewhere in the Skies
Ryan Sprague and voiceovers dramatize the polished research of Marcus Lowth about a series of dramatic, utterly anomalous Argentinian experiences. In more of the Somewhere in the Skies family of episodes, Graeme Rendall discusses The Korean War UFO. Captain Bobby Foster's USMC flight of five Corsairs had a remarkable confrontation with a UFO, and Rendall details crew reports, questioning the propriety of conclusions of "higher-ups." Graeme notes that the Project Blue Book conclusion was "unidentified"—plus the tragic loss of Bobby Foster the very next day after his UFO encounter. Graeme has another "Bite-Sized UFOs" installment in Buzzing the Buff B-52. This horrific 1960 radar-only encounter generated an urgent request for more information by Blue Book consultant J. Allen Hynek. The conclusion seemed rather "up in the air" to me, but apparently satisfied the "higher-ups" here, too. Now on to Zelia Edgar and the case of The Goffstown Goofball. Edgar tells the frightening story, noting several intriguing points about its date, time, locations, and light-related aspects. Things get very personal for Zelia in The Ghosthouse UFO, for this story concerns her own mother, and such "adventures" seem rather a family affair. As in her previous "Just Another Tin Foil Hat" episode, this involves a glowing ball of light and memory recall issues—here perhaps altered by lapse of decades, rather than minutes. (WM) Copyright
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