Paranormal Daily, edition of Thursday, November 5, 2026

TVER, RUSSIA — A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has revived the account of two schoolboys, identified as A. Pavlov and A. Vasiliev, who reportedly photographed an unidentified object landing near Tver, Russia, on November 4, 1991.

According to the post, which cites the Russian newspaper Nevedomoye, the object changed shape during flight. It first resembled two saucers placed together, the post says, then crossed the Volga River and passed above a distant five-story building before turning back toward the witnesses.

MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA — A glowing blue object seen between the clouds over Medellín, in Colombia's Antioquia department, has been added to the ledger of unexplained aerial phenomena, according to a report published on UFO Sightings Daily. The sighting is dated October 31, 2026, though the original headline carries the apparently mistaken date of September 31.

The eyewitness, whose account was filed with the National UFO Reporting Center, states that he or she was sitting on the sidewalk when a green-blue light appeared among the clouds overhead. The witness took a couple of photographs with a phone and describes an aura or haze around the object. The report adds that it emitted other objects.

WINCHESTER, ENGLAND — A Winchester councillor, Adrian Hicks, claimed that a strange encounter on the city's High Street in 2004 convinced him he had seen an alien in broad daylight, according to an article published by Spooky Isles and written by Neil Nixon.

The source material available to this newspaper consists only of a brief summary of the piece. It describes the episode as bizarre, places it on the High Street, and dates it to 2004. It does not, in the portion reviewed here, set out what the figure looked like, how long the meeting lasted, or whether anyone else was present.

GENTRYVILLE (FICTIONAL) — A mountain village of six hundred souls has disappeared in the course of a single night, according to a program description published by the podcast Weird Darkness. Full-grown elm trees, it states, now occupy the ground where the general store stood only the day before.

The account is not a news report but a radio play. It is "The Fall of Gentryville," an episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater that the listing dates to March 5, 1979. Readers hoping for an official inquiry will be disappointed; the investigator is a fictional reporter.

AN OLD BUNGALOW, INDIA — A Reddit user posting to r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix has described what the author calls a most terrifying experience, which occurred during a power cut at a cousin's house some time ago. The post does not give a date or exact location, though it describes the dwelling as an extremely old bungalow.

According to the post, the author and four cousins left a sweltering living room around 2 AM to sit on a second-floor staircase. All five then heard a loud bang from below, which the author says sounded like a hand slapped against the wooden railing. The sound repeated twice more, each time apparently closer and louder, the last seeming to come from the staircase adjacent to theirs.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has described an early-morning encounter with a woman who, by every account available, was not supposed to be in the room. The author says the episode took place during a weekend stay at a friend's home.

According to the post, the author and a sister were sleeping on the living-room floor of the friend's parents' small two-bedroom apartment. The author woke before dawn, could not return to sleep, and read for about an hour. The room, the author writes, was light enough that everything was visible as if by day.

L'AQUILA, ITALY — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has gathered several earlier posts into a single account of a sighting said to have occurred at 5:43 PM on Monday, October 26, in a residential district of L'Aquila, Italy. The author writes that, while photographing birds near home, they noticed a figure distinctly larger than the rest.

According to the post, the shape was entirely dark against the twilight, with two small whitish spots in the head region, colder in tone than a cat's eyeshine. The author describes a head tucked between the shoulders, a body vaguely like an adult human's, and very large wings. It was said to glide, lose altitude, regain it with slow wingbeats, and turn in apparent full circles. Nearby birds, the author notes, showed no evident reaction.

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A message attributed to an entity calling itself Kara of the Pleiades was published on November 5 by the website Era of Light. According to the site, the message was channeled by James McConnell, and it opens with a greeting to listeners "at this time in these moments of great change."

The speaker states that its people have watched over humanity for a very long time, though it adds that time does not truly exist and that past, present and future occur at once. The message describes a chain of selves, running from the individual through higher selves to an over-soul and a monad, said to be the original spark of life.

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has described what the author calls an intense visual and physical episode, which occurred during a lunchtime meditation session the previous day.

According to the post, the author was engaged in a daily practice abbreviated as "AP". The author writes that recent sessions have been aimed at exploring channeling and making contact with what the writer perceives as a more collective form of consciousness.

MEXICO — A digest entry on The Anomalist, itself pointing to a piece by Above the Norm News, directs readers to the reported identification of a solar observatory and ceremonial complex in Mexico. The article's headline puts its age at 2,500 years and says it reveals mysterious ancient knowledge of the heavens.

According to the digest, writer David Freeman tells the story of the find, in which the architectural layout of the complex is said to be aligned to the observatory's function. The digest's author remarks that more questions than answers are perhaps being raised. The entry does not itself supply the location, the dimensions or the dating method.

ANKARA, TÜRKIYE — A carnelian gemstone measuring 13 by 11 millimeters, set in a badly corroded iron ring, is drawing scholarly attention for the theatrical scene engraved upon it, according to a report by Ancient Pages. The piece belongs to the Gaye Çarmikli Collection and is registered as movable cultural property affiliated with the Ankara Ethnography Museum.

Researchers Melih Arslan and Ahmet Emirhan Bulut, writing in the journal Cedrus, date the intaglio to the first half of the 1st century BC. Under the microscope, they identified round-tipped drills used for body outlines, rotary abrasives for the folds of garments, and tiny pinpoint perforations for noses and faces.

HAIFA, ISRAEL — Researchers at the University of Haifa have taken an unusual approach to the near-death experience: they asked those who report one to draw it. According to a report by ScienceAlert, the study was led by neurophenomenology researcher France Lerner and published in Frontiers in Psychology.

Fifty people who described near-death experiences took part in guided online sessions. Using a catalog of geometric pictograms, they were asked to divide their memories into stages, show the shape of each space, mark where they stood within it, describe how they moved, and name the colors they recalled.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — Physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN report evidence of an extraordinarily rare particle decay, one they say could eventually help reveal unknown particles and forces of nature, according to a report in The Debrief.

The process, known as Bd to mu mu, involves a particle containing a "beauty quark" decaying into a pair of muons, the heavier cousins of the electron. Scientists predict it occurs only about once in every 10 billion beauty particles. The search, the report says, has run for more than four decades and was aided by a recently upgraded LHCb experiment.

ALBA MONS, MARS — An international team of researchers reports that gas detected by a European Space Agency orbiter suggests the planet Mars retains enough internal heat to be volcanically active, and that its depths may not be lifeless. The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, were described by the Daily Star as a "smoking gun".

According to the account, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter first reported hydrogen chloride in the Martian atmosphere in 2021. The gas is commonly found escaping from magmatic vents on Earth. It normally varies with the seasons, peaking in northern winter and mostly vanishing in summer, a pattern linked chiefly to Mars's dust and water cycles.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Efforts to persuade President Donald Trump to deliver a speech on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena before the midterm elections have failed, according to Liberation Times, which reports that Democrats have since won both the House and the Senate. Republicans keep their majorities until 3 January 2027.

The outlet's author, Christopher Sharp, writes that the key legislative vehicle is Representative Eric Burlison's UAP Disclosure Act amendment, adopted by the House on 22 July 2026 as part of the fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill. Its provisions must survive negotiations with the Senate. As described, it would send UAP records to the National Archives, create a nine-member review board with subpoena powers, and require release within 25 years unless the President certifies otherwise. It would also direct the government to acquire privately held recovered technologies and biological evidence of non-human intelligence by eminent domain, "should such material exist."

THE AIRWAVES — A small-town teacher went to his doctor for a lifeguard physical and left with a puzzle, according to the program description published by Weird Darkness. The X-rays, it states, showed his heart beating on the right side of his chest and his liver turned around.

The account is a work of fiction. It is the plot of "Watchers Of The Light," an episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater first aired on March 7, 1979, and now offered again in a #RetroRadio compilation titled "Blown Out of This World: The Teacher Who Came Back Reversed."

HOMER, GA. — A Georgia man who told a 911 operator that aliens had abducted his mother was sentenced on Friday, October 30th, to ten years in confinement, the most the law allows for his offense, according to a roundup published by Weird Darkness.

According to the report, Jason Campbell placed the call on January 7th, 2025. His mother, Marie Campbell, had been reported missing the day before. Her car sat outside the shared home on Bennett Road, and her purse, identification and phone remained inside. Her daughter said publicly that her mother never went anywhere without her ID and purse.