Against an admittedly-ghastly larger background, Pavel Ibarra worries about an apparent UFO-transparency-related exchange Congressman Tim Burchett had with the POTUS. CNN's Danya Galnor wonders since Trump Vowed To Release Government Files on Aliens and UFOs. Why Haven’t They Been Publicized Yet, And What Could Be In Them? Citing "layers of bureaucracy" involved, plus previous imperfect "high-profile disclosures" during the current Administration, Galnor gets high-profile answers regarding issues involved in this "disclosure." Government insider Christopher Mellon says "I would try to temper expectations a bit. I think it’s going to be a fairly long, and probably a bit of a slow process.” Historian Greg Eghigian opines “It’s hard for me to think that we’re going to see something new,” noting the "walls" that national security interests will likely erect over the process. Harvard/Galileo Project star Avi Loeb wishes for hi-resolution images and details on crash-retrieved materials. And Mexico's President Dismisses Question on UFO Disclosure, reports Tim Binnall; Claudia Sheinbaum repeats the tone she'd used towards a similar question last June. Whitley Strieber has other visions. Back on February 21st he offered Why Disclosure Is Now Possible and May Happen, citing his belief that NHI "controls the whole process," and an implant he received in 1989 has kept him "in contact with whatever is involved in the overarching experience." And on March 1st, Whitley announced that After 80 Long Years, the Coverup Is Collapsing at Last. Following "proof" that "the Majestic 12 documents are real," Whitley here pivots, citing hindrance within Congress and the DoD/DoW for considering the government might not "open the door." (WM)

In 1876, Bath County, Kentucky, was witness to a rain of meat from its skies. Authorities blamed the fleshy shower on vultures passing by that regurgitated their most recent carrion feast. 150 years later, Bath County commemorates the events with the Kentucky Meat Shower Festival, although instead of carrion falling from the skies, organizers arranged for small meatsticks. It's a less celebratory tone where Mysterious Stone Showers Trouble Indian Village. Residents of Hathinapur have been suffering a rain of rocks upon their homes, causing some villagers to stand guard outside at night to ward off any perpetrators. Many are concluding the cause is supernatural, and the authorities are without any other viable explanation. (CM)

Tim Newcomb's second heading "Does this evidence actually point to a long-lost 'medieval New York'?" shouldn't mislead that we're actually talking about a proto-"The Big Apple." But it's modeled on an excited comment by the Wolin Island's history museum evaluating the possible location of "Jomsborg on a Polish island in the Baltic Sea." And Wolin's mayor notes tourism as well as archaeological/historical potential here, as "Vikings are sexy and attract a lot of interest!" Not so sure about that in the next case, but some Mysterious Stone Structures In Northern Quebec’s Wilderness Spark Debate Over Canada’s Ancient Past. That's per Canadian Chrissy Newton, whose outstanding exposition of the claims by a rather interesting landowner himself and other possibilities truly invites additional study of these strange formations. On a much smaller matter yet still intriguing in its own right is Jason Colavito's discourse On Ibn Wahshiyya and the Dating of the Legend of King Surid. It illustrates the difficulty of dealing with historical texts and the reshaping of religiously-inspired textual themes. Ruth Schuster has a bit of the New reshaping a tangible remainder of the Dim Past as Redated Skulls in China Suggest Homo Erectus Spread Faster or Earlier Than Thought. Thinking about hominin evolution may have gotten even "messier." And something that's puzzled us may now have an answer, as Benjamin Taub observes Humans Have Been Fascinated With Crystals For 800,000 Years – We May Now Know Why. (WM)

Does the title to this new Cristina Gomez episode rather exceed the evidence, or not? Representative Eric Burlison himself allows that of the places he's requesting to see that supposedly have "UFO Tech," "biologics," and such "They're going to probably move everything else in every location that I go to." The second part of that quote introduces a location where supposedly Something Strange cannot be moved—in a "friendly allied nation, one that is not easy to reach." And apparently Burlison hasn't received a "yes" or "no" to visit that spot. On another tack Technology.org headlines Sorry, UFO Fans — The U.S. Commander Tracking Every Object in Space Says It’s All Ours. "Gen. Stephen Whiting, head of US Space Command, says he has never seen anything extraterrestrial in 36 years of tracking space objects." Adding more complexity and questions to matters, John Greenewald advises that AATIP Resurfaces in 2022 TS-SCI Briefing, According to Navy FOIA Release, "...years after AATIP’s reported closure..." This FOIA request outcome "raises questions not only about the scope of the Navy’s search, but also about the content and context of the [March 2022] briefing itself." John teases out morsels of interest from the brief trove, which shows even departments familiar with AOIMSG apparently had trouble getting the abbreviation spelled correctly! And Liberation Times Founder/Editor-in-Chief Christopher Sharp has pointed observations about Obama, Trump and the New Push for UFO Disclosure. Sharp includes a Piers Morgan dialogue with Jeremy Corbell, Michael Shermer, and Jesse Michels as well as concerns about psychological impacts of Disclosure. (WM)

People are reporting UFO-related phenomena worldwide, in space, and elsewhere. Webb Wright covers the mind-bending process of encountering "DMT entities" and the controversy whether such reports result from factors intrinsic to the human consciousness or that exist independently in their own "space"—however one describes it. There's now a resort where such ventures are possible using what's touted as a medically-safer alternative to dimethyltryptamine ingestion or ayahuasca. And what we might consider "standard (!) aliens" constitute only one of about four dozen different classifications of DMT entities, which include malevolent as well as benign or "mixed-bag" characters. A perhaps more comfortable concept appears in Ross Coulthart Says He Visited a Secret Interdimensional Portal. Ross' brief "portal" comments start just after 7:00 into the embedded 28-minute video. Commendably, Jason Colavito includes this "Reality Check Q&A" episode so viewers can judge for themselves whether Jason's vitriol level matches or exceeds the moment. Tim Binnall considers something perhaps farther in distance but nearer to "mainstream" ufology in Mars Curiosity Rover Photographs Flying Saucer? In the strictest sense of the word, no "mundane" explanations are possible here! Really down-to-earth—maybe—Newsweek offers an AI-assisted article headlined Map Shows States With the Most UFO Sightings. The Enigma Labs data rather emulates that from other sources, and thankfully the article differentiates between "UFO sightings" and researched yet still-unexplained activity. (WM)

"He's kidding, mostly," according to an interview with the author, Luigi Serafini, originally published in Wired. The book is Codex Seraphinianus, "an encyclopedia of a world that doesn't exist—plants that morph into animals, machines with no clear purpose, architecture that defies physics—all annotated in a language he invented from scratch." Serafini, whose book was published in 1981, claims that "a stray white cat wandered into his studio and telepathically guided the whole thing." (We imagine he would gladly sell you the Brooklyn Bridge, if you are interested.) Apparently an online community of obsessives has formed around the book, which has drawn comparisons to the Voynich Manuscript, a 15th century text written in code, which has its own community of obsessives, and which Serafinit thinks is a fake. Takes one to know one, we suppose. (PH)

Interesting current facets to the ongoing UFO "Disclosure Drama" include this Cristina Gomez update on Anna Paulina Luna's ongoing efforts, including with the ODNI and other government agencies, and journalist Jon Stewart's remarks, which Cristina apparently thinks support the case for opening up files to outside scientists, or for former intelligence officers to unburden what they've been keeping to themselves for decades. Over at Newsweek, Jack Beresford and AI assistant Martyn ask Who Is William Neil McCasland? Ex-US General Linked to UFO Research Missing. The text might be taken to indicate that the former key Air Force figure has medical issues, but emphasizes his purported past role in the UFO arena and "WikiLeaks Connection." That last brings up a Marcus Walsh article in Cybernews about “Non-Terrestrial Officers:” The UFO Files Gary McKinnon Says He Found, Hacking NASA. Walsh not only links to the Jesse Michels interview The Lone Hacker That Found NASA’s Secret Space Fleet with the story, but includes "The Dangerous Evolution of AI Hacking," which is outright frightening. And Air Force Analyst Lenval Logan Exposes What AARO Won't Show You About UFOs sounds rather like those "former intelligence officers" noted in our lead article, while alleging that "the best UAP evidence has never been shown to the public." Logan's résumé is stellar, and his contentions rather breathtaking. (WM)

Karl Shuker shares his research after receiving an email describing a scorpion species that reaching almost a foot in length. Shuker's detective work leads him to draw upon the expertise of cryptozoologist Chad Arment, a specialist in invertebrates. While the findings are inconclusive, the story is the stuff of nightmares (in our opinion). Next Sharon Hill looks at Semantic “Cryptids”, a somewhat cerebral but exhilarating experiment using AI and seemingly nonsense words created from phonological structure. "These pieces resulted in “convergent semantic associations,” essentially creating new cryptids. This experiment was based on the theory that "certain sounds lend us to perceive certain imagery." New Age Cryptids anyone? (CM)

UFO-related entertainment enterprises include Pavel Ibarra's new business model and the latest "scoops" on the upcoming "Spielbergian blockbuster." Independent sportswriter "Dusty" Garza has extensive background and contacts within the movie industry, and his conversation with Pavel is both animated and fascinating. It only increases our interest in the Disclosure Day movie and frustration that the June 12th nationwide opening is still three months away! Charles Lear takes us back in time even further than Spielberg's Close Encounters to Chariots of the Gods: Its Beginning and Aftermath. Erich von Däniken basically turned his life around with his imaginative writing. Also under the Podcast UFO brand, Martin Willis hosts Bryce Zabel & Brent Friedman to discuss the two's new collaboration podcast Sound, Light & Frequency. Intriguingly enough, Bryce and Brent touch upon several of the same considerations that Dusty Garza had noted in his conversation with Pavel Ibarra in our first article. And it sounds like Sound, Light & Frequency is a very worthwhile effort, too. Well, skeptical Luis Cayetano in his Sludge Report #6 has Things To Say about Trump, Strieber, Spielberg, and Area 51 Patches. The "Ufology Is Corrupt" webmaster Cayetano calls out recent UFO-related events and focuses on Whitley Strieber's experience in what probably most will find often-challenging speculations. (WM)

We liked the title to this Dr. Dwayne A. Day essay, and it's full of interesting information accrued through a long career of space policy and security study. Unfortunately, Day is perhaps a little bit too dismissive of some of "the tinfoil hat-wearing crowd" of "Project Mogul" explanation doubters. Enter Kevin Randle with "A Different Perspective" on that event. Kevin offers Why Jesse A. Marcel Dropped out of the Investigation after he returned from the Debris Field with weird detritus, which is indeed a "Good question and interesting point." Next, Kevin asks Did the Balloon Debris Ever Reach Wright-Patterson AFB? As Kevin says, "Every once in a while, something new about the Roswell case pops up." Here, David Rudiak shows there's at least still "smoke" if not visible "fire" to the whole matter. More on a lesser but possibly important 1966 case in A Forgotten UAP Event and Its Ramifications for the Science of the Phenomenon, with Jacques Vallée. This October 2025 Sol Foundation symposium talk not only brings to greater light the "Haynesville, Louisiana" case itself, but provides many personal sidelights from Dr. Vallée. Very notably, Vallée defends the argument for looking at such UFO reports from before the 1970s. (WM)

Lisa Lock reports on new work identifying astronomical anomalies in Hubble data using machine learning. Astronomers have trained machine learning algorithms on human‑labelled examples of odd-looking systems. Dubbed AnomalyMatch, it has been set to work on tens of millions of images, returning roughly 1,300 candidates that fit an astronomer's sense of “this looks strange.” It is not discovering novelty from nowhere, rather it is systematizing and exhausting a human‑defined catalogue of peculiarities, which include merging and warped galaxies, rings, “jellyfish” tails, and other low‑frequency structures. The gain is coverage and consistency, fewer missed cases due to human foible, but perhaps at the price of locking in yesterday’s idea of what counts as an anomaly. Down on Earth, Micah Hanks reports that another set of physicists is engaged in a complementary kind of housekeeping on our picture of the cosmos for The Debrief: Physicists Are Seeking a Mysterious Unseen Force That Science Can’t Explain—And These Detectors Could Finally Reveal It. Having built a theory that describes visible matter with remarkable precision, yet fails to account for most of the "mass–energy budget," they are watching quiet, cryogenic detectors in the hope that dark‑matter particles may leave the whisper of a trace. Here too the work is less about spectacle than discipline: long stretches of near‑silence, incremental improvements in shielding and sensitivity, and a willingness to let null results constrain increasingly elaborate models—but not to falsify them (although the contention that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" could be one of the weakest defenses of physical theory going). Taken together, AI enabled industrialized pattern‑spotting and the painstaking search for unseen particles mark a physics that knows its successes sit alongside structured ignorance. And that it is slowly, methodically, trying to map the contours of that ignorance rather than pretend it is not there. (JS)

A family of three were driving recently in Silo, Oklahoma, when they came upon something they hadn't seen before. A large, hairy biped walking along a power line easement stopped what it was doing when it seemingly realized it was being observed, and headed for the nearby woods. Next, if you're ever in Kentucky, you should know that Bigfoot Lore Runs Deep in Anderson County. It's a hotspot for Sasquatch sightings that go back centuries, no doubt because Kentucky has hot, humid weather and is covered with thick forests—a perfect environment for a creature to thrive and stay hidden. The "Bigfoot Spirit" is celebrated through local events like the Wild Man Triathlon, the Wildfolk Music Fest, and Bigfoot Fest. (CM)

While most public interest in Things Aerial naturally has been focused upon the Middle East, a few UFO-"Disclosure" items deserve note. DefenseScoop's Brandi Vincent subtitles her article "Pentagon officials said they welcome the Trump administration’s plan to supercharge UAP transparency," notes AARO's tardiness to get its mandated reports out, and reports that the Disclosure Foundation is "cautiously optimistic" but still "concerned" about "classification nuances that may result in misleadingly partial or incomplete disclosures." Cristina Gomez remarks on Representative Anna Paulina Luna's pressuring for transparency in Congress Orders UFO Files Evidence To Be Released To The Public. An excellent short sketch of varying wishes from different corners of the UFO Debate, with even Neil deGrasse Tyson (!) contributing something worth considering. (H/T Rich Reynolds.) Pavel Ibarra seized upon Luna's initiative with Rep. Luna to Meet with the White House & The Pentagon to Declassify UFO Videos which is interesting for Luna and Tim Burchett's remarks and for more on just what might be acceptable "Disclosure." The desire for visual evidence is a subtext in these articles, and John Greenewald presents the stark current reality in Despite Trump’s Call to Release UAP Files, Navy Denies Appeal for 78 Classified UAP Photographs. John describes the circumstances behind the denial, and expresses the irony of how an Executive Order in this case can “cut two ways.” (WM)

Though "Blood Falls" sounds like a cheap TV drama series, it's "a jet of crimson liquid" that periodically gushes from the Taylor Glacier, and for more than a century since it was discovered, no-one has known why. Happily, the mystery is now laid to rest thanks to observations made in 2018. It's all due to ancient bacteria and the long-ago receding of the Antarctic Ocean. And if that's not enough, Geologists May Have Solved Mystery of Green River's 'Uphill' Route.. "Uphill" is perhaps an exaggeration, but technically it has some accuracy. This tributary of the Colorado River flows through Utah's Uinta Mountain range instead of around, and how it has done this has long been "particularly confounding." Combined UK/US research has found that over millions of years, "lithospheric drip," i.e. "dense material ... forms at the base of the crust," breaks off, and in effect drags down the land, and thereby the river manages to cut through the mountain. The researchers hope that their work will support a "growing body of evidence that lithospheric drips may be the hidden answer to more tectonic mysteries." (LP)

The British Royal Mint has joined the bandwagon of cryptid celebrations around the world with the first in a series of collectibles titled "Legendary Creatures." This issue of gold and silver bullion coins feature the Loch Ness Monster and are only available in limited numbers: 5000 gold coins (individual cost: $5600) and 50,000 silver coins ($115 a piece). Meanwhile just this past week Pennsylvania Community Celebrates Thunderbird. Derry Borough's mayor has declared February 25th to be "Thunderbird Day" in the community. This is its second cryptid event, having made Bigfoot the town's official cryptid in 2024 and starting plans for a park dedicated to the hairy guy. If you're looking for cryptid themed events this year, you'll be pleased to know Kentucky now has 7 of them, its most recent being the Blue Bridge Squatch fest in Owensboro for 2026: Kentucky Adds Another Cryptid Festival. These events are themed after the wildly popular Mothman Festival. (CM)

One of the strangest aspects to reports of UFO lights is treated in this 1969 event. "Bent light" has excited a number of ufologists, and this Manitoba variant case is not only multiple-witnessed but reported directly by the constable who was involved first-hand. UFO Talker host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott tease out the most salient points of this 20-minute encounter, including its automotive and physiological effects. In Interview: The Clarenville Incident Michael interviews another first-hand constable witness, James Blackwood, about a 1978 multiple-witnessed event in Newfoundland that was about-two-hour-long and that led to a USAF visit a year later. The encounter featured an apparent identically colored response from the UFO to the Constable's own police car lights. After the Blackwood interview Michael and Christine highlight several "takeaways." The Beyond Creepy podcast has a story worthy of the website's title in Intercepting the Package: The Dobbs Encounter. This 1976 meetup involved an entity who was more interested in a package the witness was carrying; the apparent effects on the package's intriguing contents is nicely referenced at the close of the podcast. And John Keel website manager Doug Skinner has two more entries about the Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Silver Bridge disaster, starting with The Athens Messenger, Dec. 20, 1967, and concluding with The Athens Messenger, December 21, 1967. The processes of recovering and grieving for those temporarily interred in the Ohio River, and of discerning the exact causes for the bridge collapse and how to deter future bridge disasters, are starkly portrayed. (WM)

An old courthouse in Ohio was recently the location of some spooky goings on. The thermal camera/metal detector facing the front door recorded a thermal image, even though there was no one (living) at the door. Courthouses typically host more unhappy events than happy ones, so maybe there's a little residual energy spooking up the place.  Meanwhile, Ghost Panic Grips Indian Village Following Series of Mysterious Deaths. Strange lights and sounds have been reported, and while some villagers have taken it upon themselves to become ghost hunters, others are attempting to raise enough money for the village to hire a mystic to smooth things over with the spirits. In other ghostly news, was a Ghost Photographed Watching Over Scene of Deadly Car Accident in Honduras? While we'd be more concerned that onlookers were stopping to snap photos, the image in question is indeed disturbing. But we're inclined to think it's further evidence of morbid curiosity by onlookers. (What is wrong with people?) (CM)

Here are some reminders that UFOs are, and for a long have been, worldwide phenomena. Bill Chalker reviews his work on two major Australian cases seeing 60th-anniversary celebrations this year—the Westall school mass sighting and the Tully "saucer nest." Recorded before the January 20th James Fox National Press Club Varginha update event, the Martin Willis Erling Strand ~ Hessdalen Lights of Norway podcast takes us through the ongoing sightings of strange phenomena and Erling's association with the study since the early 1980s. Erling describes why the so-different four types of reported phenomena make the search for causes so difficult, what instrumentation has been used and is sought, and what's behind his and others' fascination with the Mystery. A good friend highly recommends we spend time with The Man Sitting on More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive. Jesse Michels sits down with Swedish researcher Clas Svahn to consider that icon's half-century labor to fashion the Archives for the Unexplained, and pursue his personal quest towards unravelling the UFO puzzle. The forays into AFU's vast collection of historically-significant anomalous material and sit-down conversations between Clas and Jesse produce insights simply too numerous to list. And Nick Pope’s Special Message to the Galactic Family Podcast: Why This Moment Matters about today being "a remarkable moment in human history" is a memorable assessment of What Has Changed since 2017. (WM)