Vol. I · No. 17 Price: One Tinfoil Hat

“All the News That’s Unfit to Believe”

DOCUMENTS RELEASED

Pentagon Opens Seventh Drawer of UFO Files; Black Triangles Lead the Inventory

Twenty-eight documents cleared for release by the Department of War are said to include reports of triangular craft over sensitive military sites, along with Skinwalker Ranch, Catalina Island and a NASA guide to space fragments.

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The Department of War on October 23 released a seventh batch of files on unidentified aerial phenomena, twenty-eight documents in all, according to a digest entry published by The Anomalist. The entry, signed with the initials WM, describes the release as consisting entirely of PDF files.

By the digest's count, twenty-five of the documents originate with the Department of War itself. One comes from the FBI, one is attributed simply to the "U.S. Government," and one is from the Executive Office of the President. The digest does not describe the contents of the files directly, and relies on press accounts of them.

Chief among those accounts is a report by NewsNation's Joe Khalil. According to the digest, he highlights three separate reports describing what the FBI and the Pentagon call a black, triangle-shaped craft flying over sensitive military sites. The digest adds a note of caution that a video by Mills Hayes accompanying the article is, at this moment, misleading.

The New York Post, in a piece by Emily Goodin, takes up the triangle theme and extends the inventory. As summarized by the digest, the newspaper reports that the release also touches on Skinwalker Ranch and Catalina Island. It also mentions a NASA document from the 1960s offering guidance on what to do if one comes into contact with space fragments.

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Source: Department of War · found via The Anomalist · Oct 23, 2026
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SKIES & SAUCERS

Cloaked Sphere Said to Be Tugging at Distant Sun's Material; Planet X Suspected

A UFO blogger reports finding a vast hidden object using an online telescope, and wonders whether it is Nibiru.

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Image: UFO Sightings Daily

A blogger at UFO Sightings Daily has announced the discovery of what he describes as a huge cloaked sphere, found with the aid of a free online telescope. The post, written by Scott C. Waring and dated October 23, 2026, gives the coordinates of the find as 15:12:47 -20:10:06.

According to the author, the object is so large that its gravity is pulling solar material away from a neighboring sun and drawing it along the edges of the sphere. The author describes the finding as "mind boggling" and says this behavior gave the hidden body away.

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SIGHTINGS

Silent Round Craft Startles Mayagüez Photographer on University Campus

William Rosario says he photographed a swift, soundless object on a clear morning in 1973, and witnesses in Cabo Rojo reported lights of their own.

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Image: Inexplicata

A professional photographer in Mayaguez said he captured a strange flying object on film, according to a 1973 article in San Juan's El Nuevo Día, republished this month by the blog Inexplicata in a new English translation. The paper's headline announced that the saucers had arrived.

According to the article by Carlos M. Morales, photographer William Rosario was on the campus of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez around nine o'clock on a very clear Wednesday morning. He was preparing to photograph a college building when a craft appeared suddenly, moving swiftly from north to south. He had barely time to focus, the paper reports, and managed two shots before it vanished toward the horizon.

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Source: Inexplicata · Oct 23, 2026
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CURIOUS PARCELS

Dybbuk Box Said to Be Found Beneath Oak Tree, Accompanied by Letter From the 1900s

A paranormal website's page, headed with a title about buying a 'real cursed' box on eBay, offers little beyond a headline and a list of related stories.

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Image: Higgypop

A page published by the paranormal website Higgypop carries two headlines in tension with one another: one reading "I Bought A Real Cursed Dybbuk Box On eBay," the other describing a dybbuk box found under an oak tree together with a letter said to date from the 1900s.

The scraped text of the page does not, however, include the account itself. What survives is the byline of the site's founder, Steve Higgins, described as a creator who has spent over two decades building digital projects and writing on ghosts, retro games and urban exploration, as well as a former radio enthusiast and keen day tripper.

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Source: Higgypop · Oct 23, 2026
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FROM THE CRYPT

Father Drives Into Seaside Town With Homemade Stake to Hunt Daughter's Vampire

A Weird Darkness audio drama follows Terry McKinnon, who has already emptied a gun into his quarry to no visible effect.

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Image: Weird Darkness

A father's pursuit of the vampire who took his daughter is the subject of "House Calls," an episode of the Weird Darkness program Midnight In The Macabre, which the program lists as first aired on October 24, 2026.

According to the episode description, the father, Terry McKinnon, tracked a woman named Harriet Hartman to a motel room little more than a week earlier. He is said to have fired bullets into her chest. She, the description states, barely flinched, seized him by the throat, tossed him aside and told him to go home.

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Source: Weird Darkness · Oct 24, 2026
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HALLOWEEN WATCH

Grove City Teens Seek Blood Bats in Gantz Park; Two Boys' Car Left in Lot

A podcast episode from the MicroTerrors series follows two children, a father and a thirty-minute limit into a park said to harbor creatures that appear one night a year.

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Image: Weird Darkness

On Halloween night in Grove City, Ohio, a father drives his daughter and her friend to Gantz Park, according to the description of a new podcast episode. The children, named as Lucy Buxton and Shawn Dyer, carry two flashlights and have been granted a thirty-minute limit.

Their purpose, the account states, is to look for the Blood Bats. Legend holds that the creatures emerge on this one night of the year and trace their origin to Archibald Rhysand, a Union soldier rumored to have eaten bats on the battlefield.

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Source: Weird Darkness · Oct 24, 2026
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BORDER BEASTS

Humanoid Predator Reported Along US-Mexico Border, Fowl and Rabbits Said to Suffer

UFO investigator Jaime Maussan says witness accounts describe an agile, intelligent creature in the Juarez Valley; a circulating photograph shows what appears to be an ordinary lizard.

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Image: Unexplained Mysteries

A creature described as a "humanoid predator" has been reported along the border between the United States and Mexico, where it is said to have killed chickens, rabbits and other animals, according to a report by Unexplained Mysteries, which drew on Mail Online.

The claims come from researchers working with Jaime Maussan, a UFO investigator whose past assertions about aliens and unidentified craft have been described as controversial and unverified. Mr. Maussan maintains that he has gathered several witness testimonies suggesting the animal may be agile, intelligent and humanoid in shape.

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CRYPTIDS ABROAD

Himalayan Kingdom Sets Aside Forest for Creature That Walks Backward, Poster Reports

A Reddit post says Bhutan's Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is the only reserve established expressly to protect the habitat of the Migoi, the country's Yeti.

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A Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness claims that the kingdom of Bhutan has created a nature reserve with a distinction found nowhere else on Earth: a mandate to preserve the home of an unproven creature. According to the post, the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary spans 740 square kilometers of high-altitude forest in the eastern Himalayas.

The sanctuary, the author writes, shelters genuine endangered species, among them snow leopards and red pandas. But its stated special purpose is the Migoi, the Bhutanese cousin of the Yeti.

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CRYPTIDS

Poster Argues Sasquatch Case Rests on Oral Tradition, Not 1967 Film

An anonymous /x/ thread contends that the lack of bodies proves little, while replies wander from folklore to the nature of culture itself.

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An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ board has put forward the argument that belief in Sasquatch has never depended on the Patterson-Gimlin film of 1967, and that the famous footage is merely one modern entry in a far older record.

According to the post, Native tribes across the Pacific Northwest and beyond kept detailed oral traditions of such beings long before any camera was pointed at them. The author claims that in many of these accounts the creatures are regarded not as animals but as a separate people: forest dwellers who keep to themselves, follow their own rules, and are met with caution and respect. On that reading, the writer says, the absence of bodies does not settle the matter as it would for an ordinary species. The poster also cites North Sentinel Island as a loosely comparable case of a people who remain apart.

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OCCULT DESK

Guest Returns to Podcast to Discuss Plasma Portals, Lost Technology and Ancient Holy City

Ra Castaldo, a repeat guest on the show My Family Thinks I'm Crazy, is billed as addressing the Indian city of Kashi, stone-cutting plasma and a well said to conceal a portal.

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Image: MFTIC Research (My Family Thinks I'm Crazy)

A podcast episode published on the Substack of MFTIC Research, the outfit behind the program My Family Thinks I'm Crazy, promises listeners a wide-ranging conversation with a returning guest, Ra Castaldo, on subjects ancient, luminous and contested.

According to the episode description, the discussion concerns the ancient Indian city of Kashi, which the title styles "The Holy City of Light." The listing also names lost plasma technology, templar treasures, and sun-dances performed in stone circles, the last of these appearing in the title as a "Predawn Sundance."

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TRANSMISSION

Sedona Gathering Told Ship Hovers 1,936 Miles Overhead, Future Specialist to Speak

A channeled message attributed to Bashar, relayed by Darryl Anka, introduces a being named Willa, said to hail from Earth 700 years hence.

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Image: Era of Light

A transcript published October 24 by EraofLight.com records an address delivered through the channel Darryl Anka, in which the entity known as Bashar welcomes a Sedona gathering and announces the arrival of a visitor said to come from Earth's far future.

According to the transcript, the entity's ship is stationed approximately 1,936 miles above the audience. From that post, the message states, it is regulating the energies of the Sedona Vortex, described as the major vortex in the region and one linked to many others, in order to help balance the frequencies of those surrounding sites.

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Source: Era of Light · Oct 24, 2026
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ANCIENT ENIGMAS

Sphinx Rock Yields Long-Snouted Crocodile Missing Its Nose, Like the Sphinx Itself

Researchers name a 45-million-year-old gavial Herugavialis cairensis after reexamining skull fossils unearthed in the 1920s and long mistaken for a living species.

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Image: MessageToEagle

A new species of prehistoric sea crocodile has been identified from fossils found in the same rock formation from which the Great Sphinx of Giza was carved, according to a report by MessageToEagle. The animal has been named Herugavialis cairensis.

The report notes a curious coincidence: the skull is missing the tip of its snout, just as the Sphinx is missing the tip of its nose. Co-author Professor Philip Mannion of UCL Earth Sciences said the team named the creature after the god Heru, who was possibly the inspiration for the monument.

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Source: MessageToEagle · Oct 23, 2026
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STARRY SKIES

Astronomers Say Van Gogh's Starry Night Was Painted on 22 July 1889

South Korean team reports that the painting's central stars match the real pre-dawn sky over Saint-Rémy, challenging the customary June dating.

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Image: The Debrief

A team of South Korean astronomers has concluded that the stars in Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night match the real pre-dawn sky over Saint-Rémy, and that the canvas was most likely painted on 22 July 1889, according to a report in The Debrief.

Art historians, the report says, have usually dated the work by a letter Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo around 18 June 1889. Astronomers have long objected that the waning gibbous moon of that period does not agree with the slender crescent in the painting. Studies in 1984 and 1986 proposed differing dates, and the researchers said neither displaced the prevailing religious and symbolic readings of the work.

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Source: The Debrief · Oct 23, 2026
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FAR OUT

Astronomers Eye Faint Smudge Beyond Neptune in Hunt for Planet Nine

A group at Tsing Hua University reports a possible candidate, while a companion piece recalls the rise and fall of the dim 'second sun' once thought to menace the dinosaurs.

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The long search for the putative Planet Nine, a world said to lurk far past Neptune, has produced what one digest describes as a tantalizing if controversial new lead. According to a summary of reporting by David Freeman, astronomers at Tsing Hua University have identified a possible candidate consistent with a planet of 7 to 17 times the mass of Earth.

The object is said to orbit between 500 and 700 astronomical units from the sun, roughly 16 to 23 times the distance of Neptune. Such a body, the summary notes, would be responsible for the odd clustering seen among the orbits of distant Kuiper-belt objects.

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Source: Above the Norm · found via The Anomalist · Oct 23, 2026
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NIGHT SOUNDS

Voice on Neighbouring Terrace Calls "Hey You" at 3 A.M., Then Echoes Reply

A Reddit user describes an overnight visit in which an unseen woman's voice summoned them across the dark and could answer only in repetition.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal reports an unsettling encounter at about 3 o'clock one morning while staying overnight at a sister's home. According to the post, the author was on a terrace speaking by telephone with a friend when a woman's voice drifted over from a neighbouring terrace.

The voice, the author writes, called out repeatedly: "Hey you," "You there," and "Hello, you." The author at first supposed a neighbour was annoyed by a late-night phone call and paid it no mind. Eventually the author looked toward the sound, found it too dark to see anyone, and walked closer. Still nobody was visible.

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Source: r/Paranormal · Oct 24, 2026
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FROM THE BOARDS

Newcomer Spots Mystery Sphere Vanishing Into Mountain Shadow in Government Video

A first-time Reddit poster asks whether a spherical object in a released file shows an unidentified craft entering a mountain.

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A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has put a question to the community: did a spherical object in a government-hosted video fly into a mountain? The post, by the author's own account a first on the site, concerns a file titled DOW-UAP-PR061, labelled "Spherical UAP" and dated 2021/04/12.

According to the post, the author was browsing videos on the website war.gov when this one caught their attention. At the 3:59 mark, the author writes, the object appears to descend toward the ground and then disappear into a shadow or mountainside.

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Source: r/UFOs · Oct 23, 2026
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FROM THE BOARDS

Gray Presence Said to Linger at Catholic Funeral, Then Follow Deceased's Best Friend

A Reddit user reports seeing a shadowy orb at a funeral service and a luncheon, and later learning that the man it favored was the dead man's closest friend.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has described what the author calls an experience "I genuinely still can't explain," which occurred at a family friend's funeral a few months ago. The author, who describes themselves as a skeptical person, says they have seen auras since childhood and have had premonition-like dreams.

According to the post, the service was held in a large Catholic church. As the deceased man's relative, a neighbor of the author, delivered the eulogy, the author writes that they felt someone standing near him and saw a large, vaguely defined gray orb or shadow. It was not threatening, the author says, yet they were certain it was the departed. They then began to sob silently, to the alarm of their mother, who had never seen them cry so in company.

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Source: r/Paranormal · Oct 24, 2026
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CURIOSITIES

Elephant Takes Own Portrait on Thai Island; Copyright Left Unclaimed

A student's banana offering in 2015 yielded what he called the first-ever 'Elfie,' and a ruling that no human owns it.

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Image: Futility Closet

A 22-year-old student named Christian LeBlanc, feeding a basket of bananas to a group of elephants on the Thai island of Koh Phangan in 2015, came away with a photograph he did not strictly take, according to an account published by Futility Closet.

One of the animals, the report says, seized his GoPro camera by its mount. When the device's self-timer fired the shutter, the result was what Mr. LeBlanc described as "the worlds first ever Elfie."

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