A 1983 night-fishing trip on the Basingstoke Canal produced one of Britain's oddest UFO reports, and a writer who walked the towpath says the numbers do not add up.
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ALDERSHOT, ENGLAND — If Britain's most baffling UFO cases were ranked on a chart, the night-fishing excursion of Alfred Burtoo in the early hours of 12 August 1983 would be contending for first place, according to an account published by Spooky Isles. The case, its author writes, has survived for decades on the strength of its sheer strangeness.
A digest of recent UFO commentary points to a Popular Mechanics profile of Jay Stratton, a memoir, and a lively dispute among the field's whistleblowers and skeptics.
THE INTERNET — A digest published by The Anomalist, citing a Popular Mechanics overview by Elizabeth Rayne, turns attention to Jay Stratton, who took part in government research into unidentified aerial phenomena. The headline of the piece says he used a nuclear submarine to lure an alien spacecraft and found something that defied physics.
A ship's officer describes a glowing light and several companions performing swift maneuvers in a clear Atlantic night, while a UFO website calls the matter proof of alien craft.
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NORTH ATLANTIC, OFF NOVA SCOTIA — A report filed with the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC 201555) describes a curious display witnessed from the navigation bridge of a ship crossing the North Atlantic on October 11, 2026. The account was later republished by the website UFO Sightings Daily.
Jay Stratton's memoir and Fox News interview draw a public invitation from Avi Loeb, which, as of October 21st, has gone unanswered.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jay Stratton, who according to his bio and publisher ran the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, told Fox News host Bret Baier on October 12th that the government and its contractors possess craft of non-human origin. Asked whether he had seen one himself, he replied, "I have seen non-human beings and non-human craft in my own eyes." His memoir, "Out of the Shadows," was published the next day by William Morrow.
A digest of recent sighting reports names a Tennessee radio host, a five-hour visitor over Saltillo and a triangle of lights in England.
THE INTERNET — A digest posted by The Anomalist, drawing on reports from Coast to Coast AM, gathers a run of recent aerial sightings from several countries. The first, in Tennessee, was described by writer Tim Binnall as "particularly fortuitous", since the witness and videographer is himself the host of a local paranormal radio program.
Unknown Country says the annual shower offers a free lesson in telling the natural from the unexplained, though moonlight may spoil the view.
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THE NIGHT SKY — Earth will pass through a stream of ancient comet debris overnight on Oct. 21-22, according to a report from Unknown Country, as the Orionid meteor shower reaches its yearly peak. The material, the article says, was shed by Halley's Comet, which last visited the inner solar system in 1986.
A UFO blogger says a TikTok video shows an alien vessel betraying itself through condensation, though the clip comes from a weather account.
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SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — A cloaked unidentified craft was observed over São Paulo, Brazil, on October 17, according to Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily, who published his analysis on October 20.
A 37-year-old self-described average man says a first date and a blanket in a pasture produced a corroborated double flyby, after weeks of orbs that followed a CE5 attempt.
THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has described what he calls a "double ufo flyby" witnessed with a woman he had only just met, an account he offers as corroboration of his earlier experiences.
A 154-page release under access-to-information law describes an aviation regulator that receives sightings from pilots, police and the public, then files them and moves on.
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OTTAWA, ONT. — Transport Canada's Aviation Operations Centre collected more than 40 reports of unidentified flying objects between September 2008 and February 2024, according to The Canada Report, a news website that obtained the records under request A-2023-00619. The 154 pages released, the outlet writes, contain no investigation of a single one.
In an Oct. 15 interview, Mr. Trump relayed secondhand tales of pilots and a round object said to outpace an F-22, while promising no new timetable for disclosure.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump told a television interviewer on Oct. 15, 2026, that his administration is continuing to release government records on unidentified flying objects, but conceded that the matter is not among his foremost concerns, according to a report published by Unknown Country.
A 1970s account republished by Inexplicata describes footprints, a blinking device, a failed roll of film and a string of strange household disturbances afterward.
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EL YUNQUE, PUERTO RICO — A party of nine set out for the summit trail of El Yunque, the roughly 1,065-metre peak in Puerto Rico's Caribbean National Rainforest, intending to watch for unidentified flying objects. What they report having met instead, according to a case file republished by the blog Inexplicata, were four unidentified figures on a darkened path.
Jay Stratton's memoir draws sharp skepticism from Harvard's Avi Loeb, who says the claims lack publicly verifiable data.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jay Stratton, who directed the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force until his retirement from the post in 2022, has set out a series of startling assertions in a new book, according to a report by T.K. Randall of Unexplained Mysteries, which cites Hoodline.com.
A Reddit user says six people watched a silent, shape-changing vehicle enter the water and re-emerge close enough to push them backward.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers claims that a group of six, swimming in a Northern California lake at about nine o'clock on the evening of October 18th, witnessed an unidentified craft descend into the water and return from it. The author, who describes the experience as real, says the party was skywatching as they swam, the lake being one where lights in the sky are commonly seen.
A UFO blogger says a rover mosaic reveals a giant crab on a distant ridge, living or fossilized, and wonders why NASA has released nothing.
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MARS — A giant crab, said to be as large as a full-grown elephant, can be seen gripping the edge of a distant hillside on Mars, according to Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily. He reports finding the creature in a rover photograph last night and dates the discovery to October 19, 2026.
A UFO blogger reports a sphere, a glowing ring and a sudden cube in public SOHO images, and ventures that the sun may house a hidden fleet.
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THE SUN — Scott C. Waring, author of the blog UFO Sightings Daily, reports that he found a remarkable object departing the sun while searching images from the SOHO spacecraft, a NASA-linked archive of solar pictures. The sighting is dated October 17, 2026.
A UFO blogger says webcam footage from Sicily shows a motionless craft passing behind clouds near the volcano's crater, and suspects an outside threat.
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MOUNT ETNA, SICILY, ITALY — A webcam recording of Mount Etna, on the east coast of Sicily, has been presented by a UFO blogger as evidence of a large unidentified craft hovering near the volcano's summit. The footage, according to the post, was captured on October 16, 2026.
A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs shares previously unseen excerpts in which Gallaudet endorses claims of visitation and crash retrieval programs.
THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has shared what is described as new, previously unseen clips from a conversation with Tim Gallaudet, in which he is said to express firm belief in the claims of David Grusch, the former intelligence official who has alleged the existence of hidden UFO programs.
A photograph posted to X and a commentary on UFO Sightings Daily suggest the formation may be an alien vessel disguised as weather.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A photograph of a strikingly round, disk-shaped cloud over Washington, D.C., has drawn the attention of a UFO news site, which reported on October 19 that the sighting dates to October 17.
A Reddit post in r/UFOs announces a vast document release said to discuss an interstellar visitor, mysterious orbs and unexplained lights.
THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has drawn the attention of that community with a headline announcing that the Pentagon has released 155,000 pages of documents concerning unidentified aerial phenomena. According to the title of the post, the papers discuss Oumuamua, mysterious orbs, and lights.
A 34-year-old former Cuban physician now living in the United States says he and friends saw a 'Grey' near a Soviet-built apartment complex in two encounters two years apart.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, CUBA — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has described two childhood encounters with a creature he identifies as a Grey, both said to have taken place near his home in a semi-rural part of Santiago de Cuba. The author, who says he is now 34 and lives in the United States, writes that he still becomes emotional when he recounts the events.
Jay Stratton, who once led the government's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, is said to have sat for an interview about what he knows of UAPs.
THE INTERNET — A video posted October 16 to the YouTube channel of CBS News, and shared the following day by a Reddit user posting to r/UFOs, has drawn the attention of that forum's readers. According to the video's description, Jay Stratton, former director of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, joined the network to discuss what he knows about UAPs.
Astronomers report the first direct confirmation of changing water-cloud patterns on a world beyond the solar system, some 7.5 light-years away.
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TUCSON, ARIZ. — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have watched water clouds grow thicker and thinner on a distant brown dwarf, an observation that, according to the report, resembles the changing weather of Earth.
A Reddit user, silent for years, asks fellow believers whether they too have seen something in the sky they could not explain.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — A Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness has broken a years-long silence, recounting a daylight encounter with what the author describes as a floating "structure" over the Virginia Beach shoreline.
The closing episode of Darren Marlar's audio book on Betty and Barney Hill revisits the 1961 encounter, the folklorist who called it the template, and the divide between what was seen and what was recalled.
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KINGSTON, N.H. — The last episode of a full-length audio reading on the Betty and Barney Hill abduction has been released by Weird Darkness, closing a book that its author, Darren Marlar, titles "Two Lost Hours on Route 3: The Betty And Barney Hill UFO Abduction, 65 Years Later." The final installment is headed with the claim that this was the abduction against which every later story was measured.
Scott C. Waring says enlarged screenshots of a Colorado police officer's 15-minute phone video reveal a craft six times larger than the light itself.
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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.
Avi Loeb says testimony, however credible, is no substitute for physical material or data, after Jay Stratton's claims of recovered nonhuman craft.
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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.
In a White House interview, Mr. Trump recounted talks with Air Force pilots but gave no timetable and no direct answer on visitors from elsewhere.
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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."
Nick Betts says a man in a Polish hotel, after sealing the phones in a microwave, described a team's fatal encounter with three reptilian beings; none of it has been verified.
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WARSAW, POLAND — A former U.S. Army sniper has told a podcast audience that a drunken hotel-room confession in Poland left him with a secondhand account of a deadly underground encounter with reptilian beings near Area 51, and, he says, with a lost job. The claims are unverified and rest on the word of one man repeating what another man allegedly told him.
Jay Stratton's memoir relays an unnamed informant's account of survivors at the 1947 crash site, while official reports maintain the wreckage was a balloon.
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ROSWELL, N.M. — A former Pentagon UFO investigator has revived one of America's most durable mysteries, claiming in a memoir that beings recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash were briefly alive in military hands before dying, according to the Daily Star.
A casebook by ufologist Noel E. Rigau, published on Inexplicata, catalogs a month of reported sightings from San Juan to Mayagüez.
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SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — A month of reported aerial visitors over Puerto Rico in November 1973 has been revisited by the blog Inexplicata, which this week published an excerpt from the casebook of ufologist Noel E. Rigau. The editor's introduction notes that activity began in October, with a humanoid incident at El Yunque and a photograph taken in Mayagüez, and that such events in the region ran into 1974 and 1975.
Days after a Saturday-night alert near the Lebanese border, the Israeli military is said to be still searching for answers about what it saw.
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WESTERN GALILEE, ISRAEL — An unidentified aerial object detected near Israel's border with Lebanon has prompted fighter jets, checkpoints and ground searches, and its identity remained unsettled several days later, according to a report in The Debrief.
An eyewitness account relayed on a popular podcast describes a blue-white, earless figure who sought help finding certain materials, according to a UFO news site.
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QUARTZ MOUNTAIN, NEV. — An eyewitness has told podcaster Joe Rogan of an encounter with an alien person in uniform near Quartz Mountain, Nevada, according to a post published October 14 on the website UFO Sightings Daily. The site's author, Scott C. Waring, says Mr. Rogan was shocked by the account.
A digest entry reports a more specific identification of the December 2023 drone incursions over a Virginia air base, alongside a week of argument over government UFO claims.
LANGLEY, VA. — A new identification has been offered for the drones that appeared over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia in December 2023, according to a digest entry on The Anomalist, which was originally published by Above the Norm News. The entry says the incursions occurred over a period of two weeks, a span the headline of the linked item puts at 17 nights.
A new book installment recounts the taped regression sessions of Betty and Barney Hill and one schoolteacher's five-year effort to match a drawing to the heavens.
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BOSTON, MASS. — According to an installment of the Weird Darkness series #TwoLostHours, a Boston hypnosis specialist named Benjamin Simon regressed Barney Hill to the night of a fateful drive on February 22nd, 1964. Betty Hill, the account notes, waited outside in the waiting room while her husband was taken back.
A Reddit post points readers to a television segment in which Jay Stratton is said to speak with Jake Tapper about an alleged alien encounter.
THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has shared a link titled, in the poster's words, "Jay Stratton on CNN w/ Jake Tapper, discussing alien encounter in his home." The post, dated October 15, 2026, carries no text body, only the link and its headline.
A luminous, tentacled cloud startled early risers on Tuesday, though the source, a Florida launch, was promptly identified.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. — A vast, glowing formation resembling a translucent jellyfish spread across the predawn sky on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, according to Unknown Country, drawing the attention of observers across parts of the southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States.
A user on r/HighStrangeness points to a published study of 1950s photographs and asks whether something was watching the nuclear age begin.
THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness has drawn the attention of fellow forum members to a paper in the journal Scientific Reports, which examines curious points of light found on astronomical photographs from the 1950s.
A short film on the Hickson-Parker incident, flagged by The Anomalist, arrives with a digest of related sightings from Monterrey to Trevelin.
PASCAGOULA, MISS. — A short video retelling the 1973 Hickson-Parker abduction has been recommended to readers by The Anomalist, whose digest describes it as dramatic and a spur to look further into the incident. The video was published through the channel Saucer.
A Chihuahua newspaper in 1973 weighed a motorist's telephoned account of a luminous object, 50 meters across, that lingered for 45 minutes.
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CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO — A flying saucer visited the state of Chihuahua on the night of August 14, 1973, or so a family man told the Heraldo de la Tarde. The paper's account, dated August 15, is reproduced in the book UFOs Over Mexico by Santiago García and republished by the blog Inexplicata with a new translation.
A UFO blogger scanning live camera feeds says he found a metallic, arm-like shape in the sky over a Greek airport and had an AI tool sharpen the image.
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RHODES, GREECE — A still image from a public webcam trained on Rhodes International Airport has drawn the attention of Scott C. Waring, author of the blog UFO Sightings Daily, who reports that it shows a segmented, metallic object hanging in the sky above the Greek airfield. The sighting is dated October 12, 2026.
A digest from The Anomalist surveys a memo, a briefing, a possible congressional hearing and a rediscovered cache of Las Vegas files.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Reconnaissance Office, an agency whose work is seldom discussed in public, has appointed a director for its PURSUE effort and addressed the extraterrestrial hypothesis, according to a digest published by The Anomalist and drawn from Sentinel News. The digest credits writer Baptiste Friscourt with covering a memo said to demonstrate the executive branch's genuine interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.
A poster of five decades' experience reports dim, fast-moving orbs near the Pleiades and a curious sensation of being watched in return.
THE NIGHT SKY — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has issued a call to fellow members of that community to take up a patient new pastime: lying on the ground beneath the stars, pillow and blanket at hand, and watching for movement overhead.
A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs recounts an alert, a night of searching and a military statement that left the question of the object's identity open.
ARAB AL-ARAMSHE, ISRAEL — An alert sounded at 19:57 on Saturday, Oct. 10, in Arab al-Aramshe, a community in the Western Galilee near the Lebanese border, according to a Reddit user posting to r/UFOs. Forces were called out and began a search, the post says, after which there was no word for several hours.
A UFO blogger says a 2.5-mile craft, towing three smaller orbs, crossed the view of a solar imaging service, and that NASA will say nothing.
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EARTH'S SUN — A craft some two and a half miles long was caught on camera near the Sun on the night of October 3, according to Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily, who published his account on October 12.
A UFO blogger says a new online map reveals an ancient entrance to an underground city, long abandoned.
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MARS — A structure described as a doorway measuring three miles by one mile has been reported at the bottom of a crater on Mars, according to a post published October 12 by UFO Sightings Daily.
A witness reported to NUFORC an object with lit triangular faces that flew a steady line overhead until it shrank to a speck; a UFO website's editor calls the shape very rare.
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WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — A man sitting in a recreational vehicle parking lot in West Springfield, Massachusetts, looked skyward on October 2 and, by his own account, beheld an object that he could not name. His report was filed with the National UFO Reporting Center, known as NUFORC, and was republished this week by the website UFO Sightings Daily under the heading of a triangle craft over an RV lot.
A lawyer, an anthropologist and a self-described pioneer of the field are gathering witness accounts in Buenos Aires Province, armed with binoculars and infrared viewers.
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SIERRA DE LA VENTANA, ARGENTINA — A multidisciplinary team investigating UFOs and luminous anomalies has begun a new phase of fieldwork around Sierra de la Ventana, in Tornquist, Buenos Aires Province, according to a report by Arnaldo Botto of Radio Reflejos, dated October 9 and relayed by the blog Inexplicata.
A Reddit post shares video from 2019 that its author says shows an unidentified aerial phenomenon of the 'irregular-organic' type.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — A video said to show a helicopter circling a motionless unidentified object above a residential district has been posted to the r/HighStrangeness forum on Reddit, where it is offered to readers as a puzzle in want of a solution.
A post on UFO Sightings Daily describes a two-humped form inside a cloud, along with what the author calls a telepathic feeling.
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN — A cloud observed over the river area of Taipei on the morning of October 9 has been described as the hiding place of an unidentified flying object, according to a post published that day on the website UFO Sightings Daily.
Newly published NSA records show Joint Staff officials asking whether official accounts of reconnaissance losses matched what actually happened, though the key passage remains classified.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Records released by the National Security Agency to The Black Vault in September 2025, and now published online by that site, offer a glimpse of a 1992 Pentagon effort to examine Cold War reconnaissance losses and to consider whether missing Americans may have fallen into Soviet, Chinese or North Korean hands.
A poster on r/UFOs says an offhand line in one episode and a mention in another point to a forthcoming conversation.
THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has put forward what he or she describes as a connection between two podcast remarks, and believes it signals a coming interview with David Grusch, the former intelligence officer whose name is well known in the UFO community.
A new episode of the MUFON Briefing Room examines FOIA disclosures from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about unidentified craft over reactors.
THE INTERNET — The Mutual UFO Network has published a video episode of its Briefing Room series in which host Richard Beckwith asks a question of some gravity: when an unidentified craft hovers over a commercial nuclear reactor, who takes responsibility? According to the program's description, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's answer for decades was, in effect, nobody.
A Reddit user says binoculars revealed color-shifting lights, one resembling a Florida theme-park landmark, over the Arizona red rocks.
SEDONA, ARIZ. — A night of stargazing in Sedona took an unexpected turn on Thursday, according to a Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness, who reports having come across "some interesting things in the sky" while sweeping the heavens with binoculars.
A 1978 front page in Diario Esquel, newly revisited, recorded a farmer's account of a 20-to-25-metre craft, with a police corporal named as a witness.
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TREVELIN, ARGENTINA — A front-page story from October 1978, recently revisited by Diario Esquel and translated by the blog Inexplicata, has returned to the attention of readers in Patagonia. It concerns a Trevelin resident, Eilir Hughes, who claimed to have seen a luminous disc on the road to the Futaleufú Dam.
A brief NUFORC account of a rising, pulsing light is declared 'alien technology' by a UFO news site, though the witness offers no such conclusion.
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SNOHOMISH, WASH. — A glowing orb was seen rising over the mountains near Snohomish, Washington, on October 2, according to a report filed with the National UFO Reporting Center and republished this week by the website UFO Sightings Daily.
A UFO news site reports that a Joe Rogan interview with the former government whistleblower produced startling claims, and predicts a living alien on live television is coming.
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THE INTERNET — A post published this week on the website UFO Sightings Daily asserts that David Grusch, described by the post as a government UFO whistleblower, made remarkable disclosures during a recent interview with broadcaster Joe Rogan. The post is dated October 2026 and appears under the byline of Scott C. Waring, the site's author.
A Freedom of Information Act release from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is drawing attention from UAP researchers, as Washington's UFO business continues apace.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A digest entry on The Anomalist, itself summarizing a report by Liberation Times, draws attention to what it describes as 67 drone-related reports obtained from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission through the Freedom of Information Act. The report is credited to Kyle Warfel and Christopher Sharp. Its headline refers to repeated drone flights over American nuclear sites, including reactors near Langley Air Force Base.
A digest entry from The Anomalist points readers to a CBC look back at October 1967, plus two further UFO reports from 1976 and a police sighting.
SHAG HARBOUR, N.S. — The 1967 Shag Harbour "crash/splash" has long been counted among the major cases in Canadian ufology, but it may also have cast a shadow over other events that night, according to a digest entry in The Anomalist. The entry, credited to the initials WM, relays a point made by Richard Woodbury in a piece republished by CBC, remembering the night of Oct. 4, 1967, over Nova Scotia.
A newly translated 1979 interview describes how investigators arranged a casual meeting with the witness to the Villares del Saz case, in Cuenca province, Spain.
VILLARES DEL SAZ, SPAIN — A previously handwritten account of a 1979 interview with Máximo Muñoz, the witness to a reported landing at Villares del Saz on July 1, 1953, has been translated and published by Inexplicata, with thanks to researcher Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos.
