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Madagascan black-and-white ruffed lemur (© Dr Karl Shuker) Down through the years, I’ve investigated a number of mystifying animal artworks, depicting species before they were officially discovered by science, or in locations far removed from where they are officially known to exist. Examples from the former category include various anachronistic representations of kangaroos (one of

Welcome to this special holiday edition of The Intelligence Brief… this week, as stockings are being hung by the chimney, and inclement weather has been slowing the travel of many Americans (including this humble reporter), this week’s special double-sized Christmas Edition of the newsletter will be offering a comprehensive breakdown of a recent DOD media roundtable that

Congratulations to Stephen E. Braude, who has been selected to receive the PA’s Outstanding Career Award this year. The award recognizes sustained (20 years or more) research or service contributions that have advanced the discipline of parapsychology. Stephen E. Braude received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1971. He is Past President of the Parapsychological Association,

Lots of animals dream, but nobody is quite sure why. Researchers are divided over if dreaming is a mere side effect of other brain functions or if it serves its own purpose. A number of theories attempting to explain dreaming exist. These include the ideas that dreams are needed to regulate our emotional health (the

On Friday, Department of Defense (DoD) officials spoke about the U.S. government’s ongoing investigation into UFOs, including remarks about what constitutes a “space alien.” Pentagon officials spoke about the status of the work into UAP (the current government term for UFOs). It’s an acronym that referred until recently to “unidentified aerial phenomena,” observations from military

With the release of the Graham Hancock-helmed Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix, ‘fringe archaeology’ has certainly hit the mainstream in a big way.* A hit across the world, the eight-part documentary series takes viewers on a globe-trotting adventure, visiting spectacular ancient monuments and slowly unveiling its core message: that a ‘lost’ advanced ancient civilization may have

Now available on my youtube channel- search “Vincent Treewell” with the quotation marks [email protected] Now available on Podbean, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, and Stitcher Research, Discussion, and Speculation on the Fortean, Paranormal, and Generally Unknown, Featuring Weird Crime and Odd Beliefs Episode 30: James J. Strang: The Other Mormon Prophet and the Unknown History of Mormons

The following press release was sent out on Saturday, December 17, 2022, and is archived here for reference and research purposes. It was written by C. Todd Lopez on behalf of DOD News. In July, the DOD set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to, among other things, identify ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’ which might pose

‘Several hundred’ UFO reports received by Pentagon’s new tracking office All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office was set up to track unidentified objects in the sky, underwater or in space A new Pentagon office set up to track reports of unidentified flying objects has received “several hundred” new reports, but no evidence so far of alien life,

Christopher I Davis Dec 4 · 12 min read by Christopher Davis and photography by DeAnna Gontz Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we spent the weekend in a hotel room considered by many to be the most haunted hotel room in the country. The room is in the Marshall House in Savannah, Georgia — ranked as

Breakthrough Listen, a privately funded project seeking evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, has started operations on the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa. Over the next two years, the team will search over a million nearby stars, expanding the number of targets observed by a factor of 1000. “I am very excited to be able

English language editing: Martin Shough FOTOCAT DATABASE STATUS Our catalog of photographic UFO & IFO events (generally up to December 31, 2005) holds 12,848 entries, now approaching the 13,000 mark! NEW PUBLICATIONS BY THE AUTHOR (1) GEIPAN held last October in Toulouse (see an article below by Clas Svahn) an expert conference on the UAP

Subscribe to The Black Vault’s YouTube channel for a video breakdown of the below dropping soon. In the military world of researching Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAP, the list of research efforts, acronyms and “task forces” keeps getting bigger. Despite some controversy and fine-print details on the exact scope of some earlier programs, the efforts

After a loved one dies, many report feeling their presence—whether by voice, vision, or another sensory perception. What are these experiences of a continued presence like for the bereaved? This question was the focus of a study led by psychologist Pablo Sabucedo of the University of Roehampton in England. To pursue this investigation, he and

Black Tic Tac baits the Coast Guard, raises accountability questions Caught in the act: This UFO near Sarasota hung around just long enough to be photographed, once, in close range of a Coast Guard plane before vanishing over the Gulf of Mexico last month [Credit Chuck Marose] At a quarter past 11 on Saturday morning,

Welcome to this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief… recently, a compromise was reached between the House and Senate Armed Services Committees regarding the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2023. With the bill’s language appearing online just hours ago, this week we’ll be analyzing 1) the announcement of the compromise NDAA, 2) a look

When it comes to the exciting matter of mysterious water-based monsters, just about everyone has heard of the Loch Ness Monster(s). Nessie also has its very own cousin: Morag, which has been seen on many times in Scotland’s Loch Morar. It, too, is a long necked beast, strongly suggesting that it is the very same

A U.S. woman died and four other passengers were injured when a massive wave smashed into an Antarctic cruise ship during a storm as it sailed off the southernmost tip of South America, officials said Friday. The 62-year-old woman was hit by broken glass when the wave broke cabin windows late Tuesday, Argentine authorities said.

The Fairy Witch of Carrick-on-Suir: A Nineteenth-Century Fairy Resurrectionist December 1, 2022 Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern , trackback James Hayes in court 2 Sept 1864 : ‘It is not so extraordinary… for persons to be raised from the dead’. Introduction Mary Doheny (1820s-1870s?), the subject of our latest podcast, was a nineteenth-century

By Douglas Dean Johnson (@ddeanjohnson) Posted December 6, 2022, 11:30 PM EST. Latest update: December 8, 2022, 1:45 PM EST. The PDF document embedded below contains all of the UAP-related provisions found in the version of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that was filed by congressional negotiators late on Tuesday, December

It goes by many names: the Hollis Light, the Joplin Spook Light, the Ozark Spooklight, the Tri-State Spooklight, the Hornet Spooklight, or often just the Spooklight. It has as many spooky explanations as it has names: that it’s the lantern of a miner of old searching for his lost family; that it’s the spirits of

Honest UFO status reports are career killers Merry Christmas — now where’s that fucking UAP report? In the spirit of seasonal harmony and goodwill, I’ve decided to give my futile rants about the ODNI’s tardy UFO report to Congress a rest. Instead, I’ve decided to hoist a spiked eggnog to those luckless military/IC careerists who’ve

The U.S. Air Force has a new stealth bomber: Meet the B-21 Raider.  Officials with the U.S. Air Force and aerospace company Northrop Grumman unveiled the newest aircraft in the U.S. fleet late Friday (Dec. 2) in a ceremony webcast live online from the Edwards Air Force Base in California. The new bomber, built by

In February 1973, Dr. Bernard Beitman found himself hunched over a kitchen sink in an old Victorian house in San Francisco, choking uncontrollably. He wasn’t eating or drinking so there was nothing to cough up, and yet for several minutes he couldn’t catch his breath or swallow. The next day his brother called to tell

Interview Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: ‘There are quite a few areas where physics blurs into religion’ Killian Fox To answer life’s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist who writes books and runs a YouTube channel (with

They supposedly lurk in remote lakes, hide in dense forests, and roam snowy mountains. Yet despite being refuted by science, cryptids—fantastical beasts that probably don’t exist—have awed and terrified humans for centuries.  West Africa has the swamp-dwelling creature Ninki Nanka, Japan the monstrous Akkorokamui octopus, and Ireland the carnivorous Dobhar-chú dog-otter hybrid. But the mythical

Ghost hunters caught a ‘child’s face’ on camera during a paranormal investigation in a haunted fort. The image emerged after they spent the night in Fort Horsted, which is known for its apparitions. A team of spirit seekers from Hunter Tours, a paranormal investigation group took a group of ghost enthusiasts into tunnels underground. They

Scientists have uncovered a ‘zombie virus’ released from beneath the melting permafrost in Siberia that is nearly 50,000 years old, which seems like a totally great idea that is in no way reminiscent of the start of a particularly terrifying apocalypse thriller. This is just what we need in the run-up to Christmas, isn’t it?

Many African societies practice divination to enhance decision-making, foster healthier relationships and manage stress. Divination is a process through which one is purported to gain health, honor, prosperity, or other benefits via supernatural or unseen abilities. It may employ occult techniques, a methodical procedure, or a ritual to attempt to gain insight into a situation

ATC: “Sorry, say again?” Pilot: “I didn’t know if you had any idea what all these white flashing lights are out here. There is a whole sea of them.” The following incident was reported to the FAA and captured on Air Traffic Control (ATC) recordings over the course of a half hour. Although the original