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

THE INTERNET — 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.

The archaeological and anomalous shelf is well stocked. According to the listing, searchers for Noah's ark have released video from inside what they call the hull, while a separate item considers how the Sphinx is helping resolve a riddle about extinct crocodiles. Readers are also directed to an inquiry into whether a UFO landed in Wiltshire in 1963, producing the so-called Charlton crater, and to photographs of a reported 1991 UFO landing at Tver, Russia, taken by A. Pavlov and A. Vasiliev on November 4 of that year.

Elsewhere, the column notes that Billy Cox has pondered the contents of a book by UFO whistleblower Jay Stratton, and that the author took part in a Binnall of America roundtable on the new Capturing Bigfoot documentary. Consciousness studies feature in a Thinking Allowed video with the late Stephen Levine and in Stanley Krippner's remembrance of Salvador Roquet, described as a Mexican pioneer of psychedelic therapy.

The digest closes with a Red Pill of the Day, in which Bob Dylan is said to have prepared to meet the Pope as though facing a final boss in a video game, and a quote from Alan Moore's V for Vendetta: governments, it holds, should fear their people.