Vol. I · No. 30 Price: One Tinfoil Hat

“All the News That’s Unfit to Believe”

SKIES & SAUCERS

FAA Records Show Military Readied to Engage Drone as San Diego Airport Halted

Documents obtained by a FOIA requester reportedly reference a possible shootdown, while cause of the September disruption remains unsettled.

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Federal records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act suggest that the military prepared to engage an unidentified drone during a disruption at San Diego International Airport on September 4th, 2026, according to a digest entry published by The Anomalist, which draws on work by researcher John Greenewald of The Black Vault.

The headline on Mr. Greenewald's posting states that air traffic control audio references a possible shootdown. The Anomalist's summary does not reproduce the audio or the documents, and this newspaper has not reviewed them. The digest says only that Mr. Greenewald gives a good description of the incidents, of what is known about their causes, and, perhaps more importantly, of what apparently remains uncertain or unknown.

The digest's author, identified by the initials WM, notes that the serious work of aircrews and controllers is highlighted in the records. The writer describes such incursions over and near busy airports as an uncomfortably regular occurrence. Whether the object in San Diego was a drone, as the headline suggests, or something else is left open; the digest refers to drone "or other" incursions.

The same entry gathers several other recent reports from the skies. Stacy Liberatore, writing for the Daily Mail, reports on lights seen on October 7th over Salford, England, where astronomers described a triangle of lights that vanished abruptly. The digest says Ms. Liberatore carefully unwraps what was reported and what it can and cannot be taken to show, and calls the pair of sightings interesting.

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Source: The Black Vault · found via The Anomalist · Nov 5, 2026
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EXPERIENCERS

Las Vegas Man or Woman Reports Translucent Visitors Who Pass Through Windows

A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers asks readers to withhold sleep-paralysis explanations and describes repeated encounters with short grey beings.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has appealed to fellow readers to spare them the usual suggestions of sleep paralysis or a mind masking a traumatic event, before setting out an account of repeated contact with what the author calls short greys.

The author, who says they are from Las Vegas, writes that the beings could turn translucent, appearing almost see-through, and could phase through windows. According to the post, the visitors gave advance notice of their arrival by making the author instantly aware, within the mind, that they were on the way.

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SPECTERS

Phantom Coach Said to Climb Staircase at Hatfield House

Among several reported ghosts at the Hertfordshire mansion, one spectral carriage is held to be the strangest of all.

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Hatfield House, in Hertfordshire, is reported to harbour several ghosts, according to a recent article published by the website Spooky Isles. Of these, the author singles out one apparition as stranger than the rest: a phantom coach.

According to the piece, the spectral vehicle is said to enter the house, drive up the staircase and then disappear. The source material supplies no further detail in the passage provided, and it does not say who has witnessed the coach, nor on what occasions.

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Source: Spooky Isles · Nov 5, 2026
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DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES

Legless Dark Figure Twice Darts Through Household, Mother and Child Report

A Reddit user says both they and their mother watched a limbless-below-the-waist shadow race from the living room to the kitchen, though neither is ready to call it a ghost.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal says that a household was visited on the day of posting by a fast-moving, entirely black shape in the form of a person, which passed through the home with no legs to speak of.

According to the post, the author was about to go downstairs when the figure zoomed past the living room and into the kitchen. The writer describes a recognizable head, torso and arms, but "absolutely no lower half."

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Source: r/Paranormal · Nov 6, 2026
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SPIRITS & SPECTERS

Child Who Waved From Poolside Was No Neighbour, Reddit Poster Says

A r/Paranormal user recalls a childhood habit of waving back at a toddler who, years later, was reportedly found to have drowned on the property.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has described a childhood acquaintance of an unusual sort: a very small girl who, according to the post, stood beside the swimming pool at the family home and waved.

The author writes that the child could not have been more than a toddler. She was seen on multiple occasions, and each time the author, then a child too, waved back. The post notes, with some curiosity, that the author never thought to mention the girl to their parents, as the sight seemed entirely ordinary.

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Source: r/Paranormal · Nov 5, 2026
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SPECTERS

Real-Life Arkham Asylum Now Houses Tenants in Apartments Built Into Its Remains

A Weird Darkness podcast episode revisits Danvers State Hospital, built for 450 patients and said to have held more than 2,000.

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The Massachusetts hospital said to have inspired the fictional Arkham Asylum was built for 450 patients and eventually crowded with more than 2,000, according to the show notes of a recent episode of the Weird Darkness podcast. The notes add that people now live in apartments built into what remains of the building.

The episode, titled "The Real Arkham Asylum: Danvers State Hospital," opens with a segment called "Arkhams' Dark Past," credited to the program's host, Darren Marlar. A later segment, "The Infamy of Danvers State Hospital," is credited to William DeLong of All That's Interesting. The notes state that after the hospital closed, the site became a popular destination for thrill-seeking kids in search of what the notes call the scare of a lifetime, and they ask why the institution ranks among the most infamous asylums in history.

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CRYPTIDS & CREATURES

Giant Rat of Krabi Unearthed: Two Teeth Reveal Rodent the Size of a Capybara

A pair of fossil teeth, found in a Thai coal mine more than twenty years ago, has been identified as a previously unknown species of colossal prehistoric rodent.

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Scientists have announced the identification of a previously unknown giant that once roamed southern Thailand, according to a report by The Debrief. The creature, it turns out, was a rodent, and a remarkably large one, said to have weighed close to 30 kilograms.

The evidence consists of two fossil teeth, a molar and an incisor, taken from a coal mine in Krabi province more than two decades ago. Pannipa Tian, a geologist with Thailand's Department of Mineral Resources and one of the discoverers, told AFP that she first mistook the incisor for a bone. Her supervisor, she said, identified it as a giant rat's tooth. The molar was recovered later the same day, the report states.

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Source: The Debrief · Nov 5, 2026
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TRANSMISSION

Hybrid Being 'Ashanti' Pledges Extra-Terrestrial Help, Without Imposing Will

A channeled message published by Era of Light says contact is coming and that humanity can co-create a peaceful new Earth.

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A message attributed to an extra-terrestrial and human hybrid known as Ashanti was published on November 5 by the website Era of Light. The text is credited to the channel Daniel Scranton, and it describes the present as an age of Enlightenment on Earth.

According to the message, humanity is anchoring more light and holding more compassion, and these gains are leading toward extra-terrestrial contact. The speaker concedes that not everyone is joining in the shift of consciousness and that much work remains. The visitors' primary agenda, it states, is to assist the expansion of consciousness.

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Source: Era of Light · Nov 5, 2026
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OCCULT DESK

Writer Holds That Reality Broke in 1983, Convenes Readers to Rule on Films of That Autumn

Christopher Knowles of The Secret Sun surveys the movies of November 1983 and asks readers which merit a place in his "Secret Cinematic Canon."

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Image: The Secret Sun (Christopher Knowles)

Reality was "forever broken" in 1983, according to Christopher Knowles, author of the newsletter The Secret Sun, who argues that patterns from that year are now replaying in strange and inexplicable ways.

Knowles points to two nuclear near-misses in late 1983, particularly one on November 7th, and wonders aloud whether a simulation of sorts "kicked in" then. He recalls that his late friend Tracy Twyman believed humanity died in 2012 and was sent to a simulated Hell, a notion he says he tries not to credit. He also remarks that the debut of the first season of Stranger Things opened the night before the November 7th episode, in his telling.

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BOOKSHELF

Author Urges Catholics to Embrace the 'Strange' in Their Faith

W. Tyler Allen's new book, A Catechism of the Strange, argues that relics and stigmata deserve celebration rather than apology.

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A new book by W. Tyler Allen is urging Catholics to take a second look at the stranger furniture of their own tradition, according to a digest entry on The Anomalist that draws on a review originally published by NCR.

The volume, A Catechism of the Strange: Stigmata, Relics, and the Miracles That Shape the Soul, is described as an effort to reach Catholics and strengthen their bond with the esoteric side of the faith. Among the subjects it takes up, the digest says, are religious relics and stigmata, which are presented as qualities that deepen communion with God through the body.

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Source: NCR · found via The Anomalist · Nov 5, 2026
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TRANSMISSION

Channeled Jesus Assures Anxious Questioner That World Conflict Will Stop Short of Ruin

A published dialogue on Era of Light states that present upheavals are an 'unmasking' and that a happy ending is certain.

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A channeled dialogue posted on November 5 to the website Era of Light, under the title "Jeshua: Commanded by God," offers reassurance to a questioner troubled by world events. The questioner, identified only by the initials JJK, says he is alarmed by the geopolitical situation, including what he calls an attack on Iran, and refuses to pretend that all is well.

The reply, attributed to Jesus Christ, holds that the world is fundamentally changing and that all former evil is now fully revealed. According to the text, the worst will not come: the whole world will not be engulfed in war, and what is occurring is the unmasking of those who have kept an unfree humanity in their grip.

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Source: Era of Light · Nov 5, 2026
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ANCIENT ENIGMAS

'Ghost Circle' Said to Hint at Megalithic Network Older Than Stonehenge

A website's paywalled preview asks whether the famous monument was an isolated wonder or merely the best-known part of something far larger.

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Image: Ancient Pages

For years, the public heard a simple account of Stonehenge: the work of a single ancient culture in southern England. According to Ancient Pages, that account is now under strain.

In an article by Ellen Lloyd, the site says new geological evidence has changed the view. It describes "groundbreaking research" that has exposed something "far larger and far more unsettling" beneath the soil, and says scientists have been forced to raise a large question about British prehistory.

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Source: Ancient Pages · Nov 5, 2026
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BRIEFS

Sleeping Mars, Ancient Blood Cells and a Wiltshire Crater Top Fringe Digest

The Daily Grail's morning roundup spans polar vortex warnings, Noah's ark footage, UFO landings and a Bob Dylan papal audience.

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The Daily Grail, a publication devoted to the margins of science and belief, issued its News Briefs column for November 5, 2026, a list of headlines from the far reaches of inquiry.

On the earth-science front, the digest points readers to a report that a disruption of the polar vortex could set a record for the earliest ever. It also links to a story claiming that red blood cells have been preserved in a 115-million-year-old dinosaur bone, and another stating that recent volcanic activity shows Mars is not dead but merely sleeping. NASA, the column notes, has announced an experimental aircraft designated the X-70 to advance flight research.

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CELESTIAL INQUIRIES

Oxygen Vanishes From Three Dozen Dwarf Galaxies; Astronomers Open Cosmic Cold Case

Hubble-led study finds nearby small galaxies hold only a fraction of the oxygen their stars should have made, and suspects stellar winds of the theft.

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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope report that something appears to be missing from more than three dozen nearby dwarf galaxies: oxygen, and a great deal of it. According to The Debrief, the findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal.

The inquiry was carried out under the Galaxies Losing Oxygen via Winds project, known as GLOW. Investigators combined Hubble observations with archived data from the retired Spitzer Space Telescope and recent readings from ground-based radio telescopes. With these, they reconstructed the star-formation history of each galaxy, estimated how much oxygen its stars ought to have produced, and compared the sum with the amount now detectable.

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Source: The Debrief · Nov 5, 2026
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FROM THE HANGAR

NASA Unveils 'Mysterious' X-70 Fractal, a Crewed Research Aircraft Due to Fly Within Two Years

The space agency's newest experimental plane is billed as a modular, highly maneuverable test platform and a 'new beginning for aeronautics.'

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Image: The Debrief

NASA on Wednesday unveiled its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, at the UP. Summit held at Kennedy Space Center, according to a report by The Debrief. The agency described the machine as a high-performance, highly adaptable research platform meant to speed the testing of advanced aviation technologies.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told the audience that the aircraft gives the agency a crewed platform for testing flight-control, maneuverability and other technologies in real flight. The Debrief reports that the plane is expected to use rapidly reconfigurable flight controls, which officials say will allow it to be handled in ways never before demonstrated in crewed flight.

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Source: The Debrief · Nov 5, 2026
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BALLOT BOX

UFO Enthusiasts Mark Ohio Race Call as Blow to Alleged 'Gatekeeper'

A Reddit post claims the Associated Press has declared Rep. Mike Turner defeated in Ohio's 10th district, a result the poster links to years of disputed UFO legislation.

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A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs announced this week that the Associated Press had called Ohio's 10th district congressional race against Rep. Mike Turner. The post, dated November 5, 2026, consists of a title and a link, with no accompanying text.

According to the title, Mr. Turner is an "alleged UFO gatekeeper" who has been accused over the years of stifling legislation on the subject. The post does not name the bills in question, cite the accusations, or say who made them. Nor does it give the vote totals or the name of the winner.

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Source: r/UFOs · Nov 5, 2026
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FROM THE FUTURE

Masked Man Claims CIA Sent Him to 2118, Returns With Tidings of War and Better Manners

A self-described time traveller calling himself Alexander Smith tells a YouTube channel that a third world war lies ahead, followed by an improved world.

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Image: Daily Star: Weird News

A man in a humanoid latex mask, who gives his name as Alexander Smith, has appeared again on the YouTube channel ApexTV, according to the Daily Star. He claims he took part in secret Central Intelligence Agency experiments in 1981 that sent him forward to the year 2118.

Mr. Smith says that after an earlier video and a second interview, in which he showed what he described as a photograph taken in 2118, he has decided to share every detail of his experience. He says the public ought to know about coming changes and about secret technologies he alleges are being withheld.

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CURIOUS HAPPENINGS

Balcony Smoker Reports Second Cigarette Appeared, Lit, Beside Her Lighter

A Reddit user says a half-smoked cigarette materialized on a table just as the one in hand went out, and that a door later opened behind her on camera.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix has described what the author calls a "haunted cigarette," an episode said to have occurred about three years ago and one the author has recounted many times since.

Before telling the tale, the author sets out her habits. She says she smokes only one cigarette at a time, always finishes it, never leaves half-smoked ones in her ashtray, and does not set a cigarette down while smoking. She adds that she smokes every two to four hours, so nothing from an earlier cigarette could have been still burning.

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