Pilots and crews from more than 15 commercial aircraft say they have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in American airspace in recent weeks, according to eyewitness testimony and videos that detail the unusual events. According to witnesses, the rash of incidents occurred over a seven-week period and involved sightings of bright luminous aerial objects in

The real-life mermaids turning fantasy into reality on Britain’s shores For centuries, tales of mermaids have bewitched both sailors and girls. Now fish-tailed women are making those stories come true A tail arcs up, spraying droplets of seawater over the people standing on the pontoon dock. The children rush forwards, enchanted. A mermaid, who has

Are you afraid of ghosts? If so, then you believe in them—which, in many ways, could be good for you. From disembodied screams to Shakespearean specter-kings to white comic-book blobs, the undead have scared the living for millennia. A Babylonian clay tablet whose incised figures are visible only at certain angles is said to be

A 5-year-old boy claims that he was an African American woman killed in a fire and reincarnated. Little Luke Ruehlman spooked his parents as he began incessantly insisting that he used to be a woman named Pam when he was just 2 years old. The young boy’s mother, Erika, told Ohio’s Fox 2 that her

What if we—meaning all of humankind and the entire universe we inhabit—are part of a simulation that some future civilization’s powerful computers built for us? This “simulation theory” is one of the most cutting-edge and provocative ideas on the philosophical side of science today. The concept is simple enough, but it has far-reaching implications. In

If an alien were to look at Earth, many human technologies – from cell towers to fluorescent light bulbs – could be a beacon signifying the presence of life. We are two astronomers who work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – or SETI. In our research, we try to characterize and detect signs of

If alien astronomers observed our solar system from a distance 4.5 billion years ago, they would have seen a star surrounded by primordial gas and dust. That material, arranged in a narrow but dense disk, whirled round and round the young star. Over time, its particles collided and formed clumps. Gravity smoothed the jagged edges

Could this town be Brazil’s Roswell? In the words of Fox Mulder, the truth is out there, especially for those UFO diehards determined to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. Following his 2020 documentary The Phenomenon, director James Fox is back to show us we should believe with his new film, Moment of Contact. Read

This creepy video clip shows the ‘paranormal’ goings on inside a former funeral parlour which has been dubbed ‘Britain’s most haunted shop’. Chilling footage captured on CCTV shows items mysteriously falling from shelves of the building – now an antiques shop – without any apparent reason whatsoever. In one particularly startling clip a bizarre ‘mist’