Cornell University has found itself in a dispute with Charles Stuart, aka Snake the Bigfoot Hunter. "Snake" asserts the university performed tests on "Dack," his 300-pound Bigfoot corpse, and determined its DNA makeup was 60% Neanderthal. Cornell states it did not, and said no such thing, leaving "Snake" to declare it a coverup. But Bigfoot sightings continue...Colorado Motorist Reports Sasquatch Sighting on July 28 while driving on Highway 149 near Lake City. Driving carefully and scanning the forested sides of the road to avoid any wildlife that might dash out in front of her vehicle, she noticed a Bigfoot emerge from the trees. It proceeded to "glide" up the hill on the side of the road, leaving the driver in shock and at a loss for words. She was, however, absolutely certain about what she saw. (CM)

Still-noteworthy older UFO reports include Robert Reed Ellison's legendary sighting of strange lights in western Texas. We're unconvinced that particular puzzler has been explained, but Darren Orf possibly has the modern answer for the famous "Marfa Lights." Orf notes they're still "one of the weirdest tourist attractions in Texas," and recently a geothermal energy source, probably unrelated, "could bring real change" to the tiny town—also known as an "arts hub." David Freeman analyzes "one of the most striking early military assessments of unidentified objects ever put on paper" in 1953 Military UFO Analysis Found Speeds Above 2,400 MPH. Freeman covers two well-known films—the August 15, 1950, by Nick Mariana and the July 2, 1952, by Delbert Newhouse—that were scrutinized by both 1953 Robertson and late 1960s Condon groups. Mariana's minor league baseball team was renamed the Great Falls Voyagers in 2008 to honor his incident. The Man Who Phoned in Canada's Most Famous UFO Sighting Became the Face of the Mystery is a human-interest story regarding the October 4, 1967, event at Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. Richard Woodbury remembers the recently-deceased Laurie Wickens' key sighting, and Wickens' involvement in perpetuating its memory. Charles Lear wants corroboration on A 1979 Italian UFO Case in an Irish Newspaper. We worry when a good Irish tale isn't validated, so see if you can help out Charles. And back to Canada for Susan Demeter's Black Diamond UFO Haunts Lake Ontario. A very personal story of the impact a UFO experience can have. (WM)

Kristen French asks the first of several UFO-related questions, and it's a big one. French uses Spielberg's Disclosure Day, the June 25th Disclosure Forum, and academic papers and polling from 1957 to the present to ponder this matter. Popular Mechanics editors banded together to ask Does Avi Loeb Know Something the Rest of Us Don't? It turns out that this August 6th trio discussion references a June 30th David Howard article Does Avi Loeb—Head of the White House's New UFO Council—Know Something the Rest of Us Don't? So the conversation is heavily on Loeb's 'Oumuamua-ET NHI-engineered possibility—but Howard's piece on Loeb's background is worth the diversion given his new UAP Science Advisory Council charge. Michael Ryan and Christine Scott make it even more personal with What Makes A Good UFO Witness? The UFO Talker team tackles the subject well. Grant Cameron gets a nod here, and so we'll turn to Grant and Are Extraterrestrials Leaving Marks on Us—and the Earth? CE-2s of all sorts, the veteran Canadian researcher believes and may publish upon, are ET NHIs' ways of proving they're actually here. (WM)

Ross Coulthart claims the Skywatcher "UFO/UAP luring program" that ended in July of last year was so successful that the White House, War Department, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence basically took it over and have been arguing for firing upon, and downing NHI-operated craft. There're many more details here, including how some mysterious governmental "close downs" of airspace and in particular an "official government lie" this past February behind the abrupt closure of El Paso, Texas airport's operations. Ross is adamant about his information's accuracy, and suggests the POTUS is possibly being misled by his advisors that it's not Chinese drones that are being targeted. Pavel Ibarra Meda quickly responded to this news with Ross Coulthart Reports Skywatcher's Fate & Trump's UFO Crash Retrieval Team. Here Pavel notes he and Liberation Times' Christopher Sharp have been for some months reporting covert operations, and that the genuinely "new" news here is that the President, rather than the "Legacy Program," has given the general orders. Both Pavel and Ross question the ethical propriety of such actions—besides the military wisdom! Jason Colavito isn't giving much credence to the entire narrative with Ross Coulthart Claims Trump Authorized Military to Shoot Down UFOs. Stay tuned. (WM)

Social psychologists at the D'Or Institute for Research and Education in Brazil are researching how we humans process strange events. Feeling a presence or hearing a voice, for example, may be perceived as comforting. Or terrifying. Or simply cause to see the doctor. More than half the general population in the US has had these experiences, and the context and aftermath are of particular interest to investigators. At the same time, it's intriguing to contemplate, Anomalous Experiences and the Heart: Can Human Hearts Communicate Electromagnetically? Studies suggest they can, going so far as to affect one another physically. Researchers know the heart produces electromagnetic pulses. Now they're studying how we pick up those pulses and the affect of personal context on their reception. "The question is no longer whether the heart leaves a trace outside the body. It does. Nor is it whether other people can change its rhythm. They can. The mystery begins in the space between those facts." (CM)

In a major article for a major news magazine, Jeffrey Kluger contextualizes the current UFO sensation. Linking to the original report from a 1948 CE-2, Kluger expounds upon the importance of the June 25th, 2026 Disclosure Foundation Kennedy Caucus Room forum. Kluger also discusses previous years' Congressional testimony, other recent UFO events, and implications from whatever the UFO Reality is. This particularly extends to the possibility that some of these "unknowns" may have an ET origination point. David Metcalfe is animated by that Time piece in UFO? Seriously? Seriously!. David's expostulation resonates with historically ufologically-interested folks; so does his overall observation that "the conversation we are now having is less about UFOs than it is about our culture's continual renegotiation of legitimacy and how institutions periodically redraw the boundary between the fringe and the mainstream while quietly erasing the fact that they've crossed it before." Ian Porritt notes how "present-day [UFO] incidents must be placed within a longer historical pattern." The UAP Constraint Hypothesis, based upon several Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies papers, reminds us that historical "patterns" of UFO reporting "challenge assumptions that advanced technology implies unlimited capability or benign intent." Worth pondering. Former NASA administrator and current Disclosure Foundation Advisory Board Member Mike Gold discusses a "startling new claim" in Giant UFOs Near Moon? What Scientists Claim They Saw | Hot Take with Jesse Weber. Asked "If we found an alien base on the moon, should we investigate it or leave it alone?" Gold replies: "What makes America great and humanity great is our desire to explore, our desire to learn, to not only answer the questions that are in front of us, but to seek out new questions to ask. So I absolutely advocate for exploring whatever anomalies we may find and then we'll have to deal with the consequences one way or the other. But that's how progress is made." (WM)

Calling it the "best of the five so far," Richard Dolan says of the fifth PURSUE data dump "I find it historically fascinating and in places genuinely powerful." Richard breaks the whole August 7th tranche down into four different "acts," making a very good case for his summary statements, as he focuses upon his "highlights." Marik von Rennenkampff also notes what's "new" about this bundle in UFO Files: 'Black Triangles' a Highlight of Latest Release. Von Rennenkampff also points to David Marler's Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation as the book on that subject. And Avi Loeb for once is jazzed by "the verbal testimony" found in three of the files, in particular—though of course instrumented data is needed—and Ben Hansen notes several points. Loeb expands upon his cases in Remarkable Anomalies in the Fifth Tranche of UAP Data from the U.S. Government. Scientific American's Adam Kovac expounds upon the other "stars" in the videos with Latest Pentagon UFO Files Release Includes Video of Mysterious 'Cold Orbs'. And Stacy Liberatore's UFO Files Released gives us some of the documents and "stills" from the tranche. (WM)

Investigative journalist RM McClaren has written a remarkable biographical article about the life, career, and thinking of one of the most famous ufologists of all time. Launching from a review of Jacques Vallée's just published Forbidden Science 7: Final Report: The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2020-2025, McClaren chronicles the development in Vallée's thinking on UFOs along with his own life-journey, and offers a balanced and insightful look into Vallée's formative experiences, both human as well as scientific. McClaren hails Vallée's "first great contribution" which recognized that while an anomalous event's "interpretation changes with the culture," "[t]he underlying experience might not." In The Invisible College Vallée "proposed that the UFO phenomenon might operate as a kind of control system," and McClaren explains this "often misunderstood" phrase. McClaren describes "Vallée's "mature framework" as explicated in Dimensions, Confrontations, and Revelations. Returning to Forbidden Science 7, McClaren says it "does not present the polished history of disclosure. It captures the confusion behind it"—a succinct description of the Times in Which We Live. McLaren lists five things the book reveals; examines the Trinity collaboration; and what Vallée got right, what remains unproven, and what Vallée ultimately believes. Rather than finding the UFO answer, Vallée "found a better way to inhabit the question," writes RM McClaren. (All books mentioned here are published by Anomalist Books.) (WM)

A new and sizable, volunteer-led search for the Loch Ness Monster is being organized for September, with hundreds expected to participate. Equipment used will include drones and hydrophones, as well as first person and virtual observations. Speaking of virtual observations, Pair of Nessie Reports Added to 2026 Sightings Tally. Eoin O’Faodhagain once again noticed something strange in the loch while monitoring the livestream from the Loch Ness Centre's webcam. Shortly thereafter, a nine-year-old girl on a cruise ship with her family spotted what she thought looked like Nessie's head among the waves and spray and snapped a photo. While the image was somewhat hard to discern, the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register added it to their listing. Along with O’Faodhagain's, it puts the total official sightings of Nessie at 8 for the year. (CM)

The Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) released 41 more files today, of which 3 were images (of triangles), 16 were videos (from 2019 to 2026), and 22 were pdf documents. In this last group, triangles and red lights dominated the analyses, while "ghost rockets" and the 1947-1948 "Project Sign" materials were especially noteworthy. Agencies represented: 19 DoW (mostly unresolved recent reports but also including those earliest cases), 17 FBI case files, and 2 were from the CIA. There was a 1963 "Executive Office of the President" concerning a November 13th Bahia, Brazil incident, and there were two 1963 Department of State cables from the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Samuel Chamberlain of the New York Post notes one outstanding case in Ex-Pentagon Employee Described Seeing 'Translucent Triangle' Fly Overhead in 2023 UFO Sighting, an October CEI sighting by a married couple of a "dark translucent triangle" near Colorado Springs. (WM)

Kevin J. Guhl reports on phantom aviators who were said to be common in the incredibly risky world of early aviation. According to reports from Spiritualists and séances, the unlucky few, it seems, were still able to communicate advice about rubbish weather, dodgy plane engines, and doomed airships after they had shuffled off this mortal coil. Maritime mishaps were also the object of frequent communication from the deceased. It seemed that the dead, at least those who died in visible, new‑fangled transportation disasters, remained keen to issue warnings, explanations, and advice post‑mortem. If that is one way of keeping the dead gainfully employed, the review of the life and work of the French writer Maurice Blanchot in Daniel Pinchbeck’s Liminal News The Man Who Survived His Own Death frames death and disaster as things that refuse meaning, allegory, or metaphor, even as the modern system insists on turning every catastrophe into a lesson. Prepare for some serious hardcore post-war French thinking, where nothing is quite as it seems, everything is barely intelligible, and any lessons you come away with are much harder come-by than a biddable planchette. (JS)

Supplemented by gorgeous photography, Annette Uy's "pre-historiography/history" of Ohio's Great Serpent Mound is detailed and quite interesting. "The complexity of these potential alignments suggests something far more sophisticated than simple sun-watching," notes Uy, but what prompted its construction? Similarly, Dino World's Sameen David offers Archaeological Finds Challenge Long-Held Beliefs About Pre-Columbian Cultures in the Americas. In this instance, modern technology reminds us that pre-Columbian societies were quite different "from the one most of us grew up learning." A rather humbling experience. The New York Times offers Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon. Alan Yuhas' account emphasizes how lidar usage now elevates the value of indigenous "oral accounts from the Apuriña nation, "brings an ancient society they [researchers] called the Aquiry" into the discussion, and persuade "that the 16th-century accounts of dense populations were not as far-fetched as many generations believed." And in Science's Odd Shapes Hidden in Dense Amazon Rainforest Reveal Sprawling Ancient Civilization, Julia Vaz invokes geographer Alceu Ranzi's personal, non-lidar aerial discovery over twenty years ago that helped usher in the lidar search behind the Yuhas article. (WM)

George Knapp and Sean O'Donnell have a good summary of George's recent conversation with the POTUS. The proposed brief Trump statement—one moderately short sentence considering its impact—would be D/disclosure on a level that wouldn't compromise national security, but the words certainly have impact. The first in a new Bigelow podcast series, Robert Bigelow and George Knapp Discuss UFO Disclosure covers one of seven reports on major subjects Bigelow's studied, presented to Trump during an hour-plus meeting, and is a strong advertisement for subsequent episodes, which George seems to be tabbed to facilitate. While likely most ufologists will nod their heads in agreement with the ufological topics Bigelow sketches from his UAP meeting, the events at or after people visited Skinwalker Ranch will surprise and perhaps rivet some of us. Naturally, Jason Colavito begs to demur. In Robert Bigelow Urged Trump to Declare UFOs Piloted by Non-Human Intelligence Jason is interesting in limiting his comments on the "backing" to the quote basically to "Bigelow urged Trump to state otherworldly beings are real without presenting any evidence for it (as we all know there is nothing conclusive to share)"—which seems tamer than Jason's been wont to opine. Is Jason finding the greater academic, scientific, and especially business/industry interest more daunting? (WM)

Near Death Experiences (NDEs) are increasingly talked of and researched, but SDEs—Shared Death Experiences—are less known. In this state, a person feels they are “in a different dimension” where they interact with deceased loved ones, not at the moment of their own death, but at that of a beloved person. Psychotherapist William Peters experienced an SDE at the bedside of his father, who died moments later. He’s now spearheading research into this phenomenon, which sometimes gives the experiencer “feelings of peace” as the dying person moves “across the veil.” And on a connected theme, Marina Weiler, PhD, writes “Am I Crazy?” Understanding Out-of-Body Feelings. Weiler questions whether feelings of disembodiment should be “folded into psychiatric frameworks” alongside other conditions, including schizophrenia and depersonalization. She feels there’s an “overlap” in diagnostic criteria which doesn’t address the specific symptoms of the condition and the needs of those who have these experiences. She points out, however, that “none of this means that disembodiment feelings can never co-occur with mental illness.” (LP)

An interesting perspective on cryptid sightings in Pennsylvania, specifically Big Cat encounters. Stan Gordon points out the parallels between sightings of black panthers and Bigfoot, noting that run-ins with the large felines often happen in tandem with Sasquatch sightings and UFO/orb reports. He also draws our attention to the interdimensional aspects of both types of experiences, stating "What we are dealing with seems to be beyond our present scientific understanding." Meanwhile, a Possible Big Cat Sighting Bewilders British Couple, as a strange cryptid resembling a large, black cat crossed the field in front of their home in Hereford, England. Thinking on their feet, they thought to record the experience, but the creature's identity remained inconclusive. (CM)

Here is the directive on Preliminary Guidance for Implementation of NDA Waiver by Aaron Lukas, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Avi Loeb's "takes" upon his mission with respect to it. Those familiar to this general discussion will bring their own opinions to its interpretation. Loeb goes further on the matter in pondering Why Are There NDAs Prohibiting UAP Disclosure To President Trump? in the first place, reprising the memo's first page and linking to his own prior full representation. Loeb's further explication is useful in understanding the overall issues. A recent addition to Loeb's UAP Science Advisory Council tells why she joined in: Are Space Aliens Real, and Have They Visited Us?. Let's grant professor, statistician, and culinary genius Dr. Liberty Vittert Capito her requested five minutes! Over at Bored Panda, Seema Sinha touches upon the "gatekeeper" problem/controversy with “Let The Evidence Speak For Itself”: NASA Whistleblowers Reveal How Photos Were Edited To Hide Alien Presence. Physicist Dr. Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani is highly-accomplished, part of the Disclosure Foundation's review of NASA archival material for UAP information, and has suffered retribution for his views, which facts perhaps add more "punch" to one of the oldest "conspiracy theories" about information withholding. And with Mike Gold: NASA's UAP Files, Moon Anomalies & the Search for Answers we get Gold's views on this charge and other UFO-related fascinations he's worked upon. (WM)

Early in July, a witness encountered what they believed was a Bigfoot, just a couple hundred feet off a well travelled road. To their credit, they are holding fast to the story despite the skepticism of the community. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization is calling the sighting highly credible due to its level of detail. Next, was s a Bigfoot Seen Crossing Pasture on Texas Farm? The sighting was brief, as the dark, hairy figure ducked down in all fours below tall grass. But the family dogs were frightened enough to run back to the house, which is typical of Bigfoot encounters. Fortunately a family member had the presence of mind to pull out their phone and start recording the quick experience. (CM)

Lisette Voytko presents her Ghost Notes Field Guide, which is meant to act as a master taxonomy of ghosts. She largely bases her taxonomy on British parapsychologist Peter Underwood's classification system of ghosts, with the exception of "condensing two kinds of hauntings into subtypes of the traditional ghost: residual hauntings, and intelligent hauntings." So her ghost types are: Traditional Ghosts, Crisis Apparitions, Ghosts of the Living, Poltergeists, Haunted Objects, and Cultural Ghost Traditions. It's interesting to compare this classification to the one that Hilary Evans and I proposed in our book,The Field Guide to Ghosts and Other Apparitions, which is now out-of-print but available through various online used book sellers. Our typology consisted of three main classes of ghosts. The first, Ghosts of the Past, consists of Revenant, Haunter, and Time Slip. The second, Ghosts of the Present, consists of Crisis Apparitions, Noncrisis Apparitions, Doppelgänger, and Living Other. Our third class is Ghosts of the Future, which consist of Harbingers and Future Time Slips. But we agree with Lisette's concluding remark that "that determining which category a [ghost] falls under can be difficult, as some show characteristics of multiple types of ghost." (PH)

"Citizens of other countries are also affected by the UFO phenomenon and want to understand what we are seeing in our skies." Thus Swedish astronomer Beatriz Villarroel begins our global look at UFOs and ufology. It's a hopeful exchange with the AARO Chief of Intelligence Collection, as well. So let's go with Nela Heidner and see in the Pentagon UFO Files: What Role Germany Plays. Heidner takes us back to the "foo fighters" era to illustrate how "This new transparency in the handling of Pentagon files is being closely watched in Europe as well." That Unknowns are a concern for today's air safety is made clear by a 'UFO' Scare: 'Flying Saucer' Shock at Gatwick as Mystery Disc Whizzes Past Passenger Jet During Landing. Stephen Moyes offers two recent "drone incidents" as proof. Martin Willis hosts Brazilian researcher Rony Vernet for a well-tooled investigation there. Vernet is a serious researcher as well as electronic engineer and physics researcher, and publishes academic results of his careful work. It's a fascinating conversation, and Vernet's 2-hour "Phenomena in the Amazon: Indigenous Encounters" documentary (English subtitles) is also available on this site. Let's end with Susan Demeter's Quinn's Encounters. This is a journey not only to Canada but into the abduction phenomenon, and a stark but in some ways beautiful reminder that, as Susan well-remarks, "there is a human face behind the often unthinking way in which this topic is portrayed in popular media and by the minds of those who have not taken the time to adequately research this subject." It is an honor to bring this article to your attention. (WM)

The  lakes have long been the site of paranormal activity. Susan Demeter's report describes small beings in the  Oakville area by Lake Ontario that First Nations oral tradition refer to as the Memegwesiwag. Described as "a small humanoid who is elusive and deeply connected to the natural world," they are neither benevolent nor malevolent, and are understood to be "NHI (non-human intelligences) who inhabit the landscape alongside humanity and deserving of respect." Next we look at Small People of the South Pacific. It seems each island in this area has stories and artifacts that point to tribes of smallish humans who arrived before the Polynesians. However, in spite of a number of small hominid fossils being found in the area, there has not been enough information uncovered to conclusively identity these populations. (CM)

We begin with Lue Elizondo's riposte to the recent Coulthart/UFO Gerb dialogue. Ross also has interesting thoughts on a recent Matthew Brown interview, as well as crop circles. We turn to Miguel (Red Pill Junkie) Romero, who seizes upon Ross' first target with Sunday Funnies: His Hands Were Tied. RPJ repeats in its entirety the Lue Elizondo podcast from which Ross extracted snippets, and uses his own artistic wit to chide the "ur-whistleblower" for his informational parsimony. Now back to Ross, as NewsNation asks about Antarctica: Far-flung, Icy Continent or Hotbed of UFOs? The answer might be "both," for Ross Coulthart is interested in the matter, believes political leaders who travel there come back "changed," and "there's something going on in Antarctica"—but it's a secret! Ross also has Things To Say about the Moon and Mars, but the tag-team moves back again to RPJ for Sunday Funnies: UFO Trumpsparency. An interesting point and referenced article. So, too, for New Policy Brief Urges U.S. to Prepare for the Human Impact of UAP Disclosure. This topic is finally getting the mainstream "look" it deserves. (WM)

"Mind-bending" headlines, led by University at Albany (State University of New York) physics prof Kevin Knuth explaining how he moved from skeptic to "UAP researcher." Fortunately for us all, Kevin says "UAP research is taken much more seriously than it was when I was in graduate school." Skinwalker Ranch just may be gaining more respectability, per Mind-Bending Discovery Deep Inside Notorious UFO Hotspot Leaves Experts Stunned. Tom McGhie cites a three-hour-plus Brandon Fugal American Alchemy appearance with Jesse Michels discussing the numerous weird events associated with that Utah location. McGhie does, however, acknowledge that "the material has not been definitively linked to extraterrestrial technology or scrutinised in a published, a peer-reviewed study...." Anthony Bragalia may have an answer for some UFO reports in the 2010s with Google Experimental Balloons Linked to Mass UFO Sightings. Anthony makes a good case in his contribution. And "Fat Earther" assays an explanation for two of the most famous UFO sensations in The Nimitz and Roosevelt Incidents: Electronic Warfare Speculation. Though this interesting though speculative effort generates immediate reactions, we'll leave it to experts to evaluate. (WM)

The "Pauli Effect" is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to break down in the presence of certain individuals. Physicist Wolfgang Pauli had the unfortunate reputation for making lab equipment fail just by walking into a room. Pauli for his part believed this was more than coincidence and contacted Carl Jung to discuss synchronicity. Paranormal research continues as UWG Names Block as 2026 Ingo Swann Research Fellow . The Ingram Library has named Courtney Block as the Ingo Swann Research Fellow for 2026. The fellowship was established to "advance scholarship in the field of parapsychology and to encourage use of the human consciousness collections in Ingram Library’s Special Collections in unique and creative ways." Block is a writer and researcher who has written about the paranormal from a variety of perspectives, including the experience of women working within the field. Her latest book Is Inside the World’s Haunted Libraries. Congratulations, Courtney. (CM)

Several unsettling developments in the UFOs and Government story begin with an updated revival of filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee's claims that the POTUS is going to make an imminent "UFOs as Aliens" reveal. Seriously? Maybe not, as Immediately beneath this article is Zachary Leeman's Trump Kisses Jesus and Arrests Aliens in Loony Truth Social Posting Spree. Of perhaps more moment is a Ross Coulthart interview with "UAPGerb," and the claim of this UAP Researcher: Lue Elizondo's New Role is a 'Controlled Narrative'. Basically "Gerb" alleges Lue was part of a "Disclosure Lite" scenario that got busted by David Grusch's "reverse engineering" and "biologics" testimony, and that Lue's been tabbed to manage a much less-precipitate (less-complete) "disclosure" narrative that will allow private companies and government siloing to do their own work without public knowledge. NewsNation has Lue's riposte to "UAPGerb" in Elizondo Responds To Researcher's 'Controlled Narrative' Role Rumors. Richard Dolan also voices serious issues with "Gerb's" claim: Luis Elizondo, James Clapper, and the Controlled Disclosure Theory. Possibly somehow linked to the preceding is a worrisome Psicoactivo musing that ODNI's New Memo Seems to Force UFO Whistleblowers to Report to AARO & PURSUE, thus keeping "new" information possibly hidden from the general public. (WM)