Paranormal Daily, edition of Saturday, October 17, 2026

COLORADO, U.S.A. — A glowing light filmed over Colorado in October 2023 has drawn fresh scrutiny after a UFO blogger claimed to find a hidden craft within it, according to a post published October 17 on UFO Sightings Daily.

The footage, writes Scott C. Waring, appears in the sixth batch of material posted to the Department of War's UFO website, where it is listed as an unresolved UAP report. The post says it was recorded on a police officer's cell phone for a little over 15 minutes, the device apparently propped on a car to keep it steady, much as a tripod would.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — A Harvard astrophysicist has called on a former Pentagon UFO investigator to produce scientific evidence for his claim that the United States holds spacecraft of nonhuman origin, according to a report published by Unknown Country.

The dispute follows an Oct. 12 interview given by Jay Stratton, former director of the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, to Fox News anchor Bret Baier, and the Oct. 13 release of his memoir, Out of the Shadows. Stratton asserted that government agencies and defense contractors possess recovered nonhuman craft, and said he had personally witnessed nonhuman beings and spacecraft, the report states.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has declined to rule out a public announcement on unidentified aerial phenomena, according to Liberation Times. Asked on 15 October by Newsmax host Rob Finnerty whether he would reveal the truth about alleged alien visits and the reverse-engineering of non-human technology, the President replied, "I'm looking."

Mr. Trump told the interviewer he had spoken with five or six Air Force pilots about encounters they could not explain, and that he regarded them as credible. He said he had not been much of a believer, though he has friends who talk of little else. According to the report, he described one pilot's account of a round object that traveled four times faster than an F-22. He said the pilot dismissed his own suggestion that it might have been a comet.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness has described a brief and unsettling experiment with meditation, undertaken between the ages of 19 and 21 while in college, that ended in what the author calls a strange sight.

According to the post, the practice lasted only about a month. The author writes that it repeatedly left them frightened and unusually sensitive to sound and surroundings, easily startled by noises. At times, the poster says, there was a feeling of something present in the room, watching or merely sharing the space, though the author was entirely alone.

SHUNAN, JAPAN — A wild Japanese macaque stands accused of attempting to drown a stray cat and then attacking the man on whose property the deed was done, according to a report in the Daily Star citing Sora News 24. The incident is said to have occurred in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, at about 3.40pm on Tuesday, October 13.

The homeowner, aged 49, told local reports that he keeps no pets but that a stray cat regularly visits his garden, which contains a pond. He says he heard a loud splash and went to investigate, whereupon he allegedly saw a monkey, estimated at about 50cm tall, throw the cat into the water.

THE INTERNET — The Black Vault, a repository of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, has posted a 1983 assessment of the so-called Gateway Process, released as part of its "Stargate Collection." The 29-page paper was prepared for the U.S. Army by Lieutenant Colonel Wayne McDonnell, according to the site.

The post describes the subject matter as hypnosis, holograms and out-of-body experiences, among other things. In his introductory memo, the officer writes that he was tasked with judging the process's mechanics and ultimate practicality, and that the job proved "an extremely involved and difficult business."

THE INTERNET — A contributor to Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country site has submitted the results of an unusual literary inquest: the text of Strieber's book The Key, fed through a succession of artificial intelligence programs and then cross-examined for good measure. According to the post, the text went through a program called Epoch Studio, then through Codex and Claude Code, after which the author ran adversarial checks on an analysis attributed to a collaborator named Luis.

The conclusion, as the author reports it, is cautious. Nobody can know who the Master was, the post says. The encounter was real to Strieber in the strongest experiential sense, but the Master is not a source of literal secret physics. The author calls him a voice-shaped threshold, through which Strieber's reading, grief, practice and intuition could speak back with greater force than ordinary thought allows.

THE INTERNET — A question of some antiquity, though newly posed, appeared this week on the r/occult forum, where a Reddit user asked whether any link exists between Mesopotamian cuneiform and the sigils of the Goetic tradition.

According to the post, the inquiry began over breakfast, when the author found the name "Lamashtu" drifting unbidden into mind. The author offers several possible explanations: a recent run of Esoterica videos, a subconscious memory of the connection between Lamashtu and Pazuzu, and the arrival of what the writer calls spooky season.

SIERRA NORTE, PUEBLA, MEXICO — Archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have confirmed, according to a report from Ancient Pages, that a large architectural complex in the Sierra Norte of Puebla functioned as a solar observatory more than 2,500 years ago. The settlement, known anciently as Tetelihtic, is said to have been laid out according to the movements of the heavens.

At the heart of the find is an arrangement called Group E, east of the Great Plaza. It comprises a quadrangular courtyard flanked by two stone bases. The eastern base measures 90 meters from south to north and 40 meters from east to west; the western measures 46 by 27 meters. The report says the plan matches the Maya Group E at Uaxactún, Guatemala, though it is twice the size. Dated to the Middle Preclassic (1000–600 BC), it is described as Mexico's oldest recorded solar observatory.

WARWICK, ENGLAND — A white dwarf that would look green to a human observer has been identified for the first time, according to a paper in RAS Techniques and Instruments dated October 14, 2026. The report, as relayed by The Debrief, also describes stars in a wider palette of unexpected colors.

White dwarfs are the dense remnants of once Sun-like stars that burned out long ago. Many still glow white to blue because they remain very hot. The new work says they may also appear green, pink, cyan, yellow or purple.

MADRID, SPAIN — A digest entry circulated by The Anomalist, drawing on a report in The Debrief, brings together two lines of research on how the mind meets the world. Neither is presented as settled, and the second is considerably bolder than the first.

The first concerns researchers at the Universidad Nebrija in Madrid, who studied magic tricks. According to the report, they found that the brain builds a plausible account of events that departs from physical reality. The effect is said to persist even when a trick has been learned, or when the performer works with empty hands. The report summarizes the finding in a line that might comfort any audience member: looking directly at something does not necessarily mean we consciously see it.

INDIANA — A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal reports an unexplained encounter on a rural Indiana road, in which she and her father were nearly crossed by a fast grey animal she cannot identify.

According to the post, the author, an 18-year-old college student home on fall break, accompanied her father on a night fishing trip. His chosen lake lay some 40 to 50 minutes from their home, reached by a gravel backroad. They arrived near 2 a.m., caught nothing, and, she writes, enjoyed themselves nonetheless.

THE BUSH, AUSTRALIA (PRESUMED) — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has shared two accounts linking unidentified aerial phenomena with psilocybin mushrooms, and invited readers to offer their own thoughts and experiences. The author says there have been many other sightings in a lifetime, and even some footage, but that the second tale is a personal favourite.

The first episode, according to the post, began at a garlic patch just after daybreak, as the author met a co-worker. The author writes of seeing a white, egg-like craft sitting silently in the sky. Fearing a poor first impression, the author said nothing, and by the time of a second glance it had vanished. By coincidence, the same co-worker gave the author some mushrooms that evening. The ensuing weekend trip was, the author says, cheerful, and ended in vivid closed-eye visuals, including an "incomprehensibly vast octopus-god."

THE INTERNET — A presentation titled "The Soul is Light. What, Then, is Light?" has been recirculated on the r/UFOs forum, where a Reddit user describes its author, Jim Ryder, as a former director of Lockheed's Advanced Technology Center and of its classified military satellite program.

According to the post, Ryder is the man whom the journalist George Knapp says attempted to arrange the transfer of a recovered UFO to Bigelow Aerospace, a transfer said to have been blocked by an intelligence agency. The post presents this as Knapp's account and offers no documentation of its own.

4CHAN /X/ — An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ board has opened a new "Nobody General," a standing discussion thread devoted to a figure the author calls the Nobody. According to the post, he is a living man of no wealth or worldly acclaim through whom God has seemingly chosen to manifest strength and wisdom.

The post credits him with extraordinary spiritual powers, among them the ability to control reality with both conscious and unconscious mind. He is said to carry the Logos, which makes him, the author writes, a fearless truth-teller and a menace to the powers that be. The post is careful to add that he is not a messiah, but simply a man who found the kingdom of God within himself through dedication, as readers may do likewise.

MCGREGOR, TEXAS — A new Tesla Roadster was unveiled at SpaceX's Rocket Test and Development Center in McGregor, Texas, according to a report by T.K. Randall for Unexplained Mysteries, which in turn credits the Independent. The vehicle, the report says, was shown driving up a curved ramp until it was upside-down, then dropping, flipping in mid-air and coming gently to rest while hovering.

The machine is described as a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX. By the account given, it relies on compressed air forced through 10 thruster nozzles to achieve its flying abilities, along with a fan system said to help it grip the road even when inverted.

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — When the local population of rufous-collared sparrows in Buenos Aires began to dwindle, scientists turned to an unusual remedy: voice lessons, according to a post on Futility Closet.

The researchers, the post states, consulted hand-drawn annotations of sparrow songs made in the 1960s. They then used a computer to broadcast simulated versions of those songs in local habitats, in the hope that younger birds would learn the mating calls.