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Trump on 60 Minutes: pilots told him a round object outran their F-22 – On Sunday, November 8, President Donald Trump told CBS’s 60 Minutes that Air Force pilots had described a round object passing their F-22 fighter jet at three times its speed. He has told the same story before with a figure of four times the speed, and he again did not name the pilots or say when or where it happened.
Rising lights over Popocatépetl: what did the volcano webcam record on the Day of the Dead? – On the night of November 2, a camera monitoring Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano recorded several points of light that appeared to climb through the sky. The lights start from the volcano’s summit, and the brightest of them trails a cloud-like plume. There is no official explanation.
Where and when to listen? SETI turns to game theory to choose where to search for alien radio signals – Researchers at the SETI Institute used an idea from game theory to decide where to point their radio telescopes: toward the direction from which a distant civilization would see Earth pass in front of the Sun. A pilot survey recorded 1.9 million radio signals, all of them human-made. A four-year observing campaign is already underway.
British airline pilot says he has seen mysterious lights over Europe six or seven times – Steve Frazer has been flying for 27 years, 20 of them as a captain. Since 2022, he has seen flashing points of light around Belgium six or seven times, most recently in October. He says they weren’t refueling aircraft, and he still hasn’t found an explanation.
Three rotating lights over Gillette leave a UFO investigator stumped – A Wyoming woman has repeatedly filmed three lights rotating in a triangular formation over her small town since her family moved there this summer. Her videos have drawn hundreds of thousands of views. The Wyoming director of the civilian UFO group MUFON reviewed them and says he has no explanation for now.
Power shift in Washington: what now for the UFO files? – Democrats won majorities in both the House and the Senate in the November 3 midterm elections. But the new Congress won’t be seated until January 3, 2027. Until then, Republicans run the legislative agenda, and decisions on releasing government UAP records still rest with the Trump administration.
Did a UFO nearly hit the ISS? What the video actually shows – A UFO researcher claims NASA footage shows a 7-meter glowing object passing 25 meters from the International Space Station as a Dragon cargo ship arrived. The figures are only his estimates, the footage’s origin is unclear, and NASA has reported no dangerous approach.
Democrats plan a UFO committee if they win the House – According to the New York Post, Democrats would set up a dedicated UFO committee if they retake the House in the November 3 midterm elections. The effort is led by Rep. André Carson, who says the Pentagon’s UFO office has held back a key report for almost two years. A Republican congressman, however, warns that a Democratic win would bring the disclosure effort to a halt.
Nazi flying saucers and an Antarctic base: a Dresden museum traces the legend – A special exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, “Wunderwaffen,” also shows how postwar stories about Nazi “Reich flying discs” came about. German public broadcaster MDR Sachsen covered the topic in a podcast episode recorded at the museum with a historian.
Former AARO chief says Pentagon stripped case findings from UFO files – Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of the Pentagon’s UFO office, says department leadership ordered the office to remove investigative findings from the released files and publish the cases as unresolved. Meanwhile, the FBI won’t say why federal agents with thermal cameras were watching a sensitive national security site where a silent black triangle was reported in June 2026.
Silver cylinder 13 kilometers up: two pilots' strange encounter over Ohio – In August, two pilots on a charter flight saw a metallic, shiny, vertical cylinder-shaped object pass their aircraft at an altitude of 12.5 kilometers. Nothing showed up on air traffic control radar. The case was investigated by the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which made it public at the end of October.
What will happen to the UFO files after the election? – The November midterm election may also decide the future of UFO transparency in the United States. According to Republican Representative Eric Burlison, the work would stop under a Democratic majority, but there are also supporters of the subject among Democrats: André Carson objects precisely that the Trump administration is moving too slowly.
Cargo ship sailors saw glowing orbs over the Atlantic Ocean; the radar showed nothing – Two sailors on a cargo ship watched glowing orbs through binoculars for about 40 minutes south of Nova Scotia in the early hours of October 11. According to the report sent to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), the ship's radar did not show a single target. So far, nothing else corroborates the report.
Who should collect space debris? A secret Cold War dispute in Washington – The Pentagon's seventh UFO file release includes a memo from the 1960s and a collection of documents. They show how the Kennedy and Johnson administrations tried to decide who should collect and examine rocket and satellite fragments falling to Earth. According to a NASA official, the military wanted to use the civilian space agency only as a cover.
Five cases from the UFO files – and five different answers – In May 2026, the U.S. government released another batch of UFO files: military footage, audio recordings, classic cases letters and reports from the 1940s almost to the present day. The batch explains nothing; it only publishes. We picked five cases from it and looked into each one. The result: among them is a case solved long ago, one that was probably natural, one cleared up after the fact, and two that are genuinely open.
Dog creatures running on two legs and a research team seeking contact through puzzles: the Skinwalker Ranch files have been released – The Pentagon's latest UFO file release includes materials from a 2010 investigation in Utah. Witnesses spoke of strange creatures and orbs of light, but the hair samples collected came from a dog and a raccoon.
Silent black triangle over a secret U.S. site: the Pentagon's seventh batch of UFO files is out – In 2026, three federal agents saw a matte black, silent triangle near a national security site. The object rose vertically, hovered, then disappeared into a canyon within seconds. The case is among the UAP files the Pentagon released on October 23.
Feud between the Pentagon's UFO chiefs turns bitter: Stratton has now seen a being in his window – Jay Stratton, the first head of the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, described in a recent interview a non-human figure he saw in his own window. Meanwhile, his dispute with Sean Kirkpatrick, the founding director of AARO, is growing sharper. Neither of them has presented any evidence.
Was the Pentagon's UFO research disguised as a weapons program? The dispute over AAWSAP – The name of the US Defense Intelligence Agency's $22 million AAWSAP program points to the study of foreign weapons. According to investigative journalist George Knapp, this was deliberate, and the program was in fact UFO research from the start. The program's former head also backs his claim, but the two of them co-wrote a book about it, and there is no independent official confirmation.
New rules in case a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence is found – In June 2026, the International Academy of Astronautics adopted an updated version of the so-called post-detection protocol for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The revision, led by Michael Garrett, requires rigorous verification before any announcement, protects researchers from harassment, and continues to prohibit any unilateral response to a possible signal.
Scott Bray's UAP Emails Released After Four Years, but 302 Pages Withheld – In response to a 2022 FOIA request by The Black Vault, the Navy released more than a thousand pages of heavily redacted correspondence concerning the UAP-related work of former Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray. The records offer a glimpse into how officials handled congressional briefings, the press and the public release of UAP videos around the time the UAP Task Force was formed.
Birds may appear in some of the Pentagon's declassified UFO videos – The White House UAP science advisory panel examined the military sensor videos released by the Pentagon. According to the panel, more than 8 percent of the footage likely shows birds. The method is simple: wingbeats cause a rhythmic flicker in the infrared image, and this can be measured regardless of distance.
Glowing object over Tehran, exactly on the anniversary of the 1976 UFO case – On the night of September 19 to 20, millions of people saw a video showing a crescent-shaped object flashing with colored lights as it floats across the sky over Tehran. According to fact-checkers at the Belgian broadcaster RTBF, the footage is not the product of artificial intelligence, but no one has identified the object. The timing cannot be a coincidence: exactly fifty years earlier, one of the most famous UFO cases of the Cold War took place over Tehran.
Nick Betts's story about reptilian-like beings: no independent corroboration – According to a former American sniper, an unnamed man in a hotel room in Poland told him that American soldiers had killed three non-human beings at an underground facility near Area 51. Liberation Times has now revisited the ten-month-old podcast story following similar claims by David Grusch. Neither comes with any evidence.
Former Pentagon UFO hunter says he has seen non-human beings and craft – On October 13, a memoir by Jay Stratton, the first director of the Pentagon's UAP task force, was published. In the book and in related interviews, he makes serious claims about secret crash retrieval programs, an observation carried out with a submarine, and Roswell. He has not yet presented any evidence, and the Pentagon has previously denied a cover-up.
A swarm of orbs over the St. Anthony Sand Dunes: what does the Idaho NUFORC report contain? – On the evening of October 3, an Idaho witness watched white orbs that occasionally turned red near the St. Anthony Sand Dunes for two hours. NUFORC published the report on October 12. There is no photo, video or other eyewitness.
A “mothership” in a SOHO image of the Sun? What the image actually shows – According to a UFO blogger, an early-October image from NASA and ESA's SOHO solar observation probe shows an alien mothership several kilometers long. The SOHO team, however, has been explaining for years that spots and streaks regularly appear in the instrument's images that are not objects but traces of particles hitting the detector.
What became of NASA's UFO unit? Three years from promises to declassified files – In September 2023, NASA very publicly appointed its first director of UAP research and promised to put the study of UFO phenomena on a scientific footing. A long silence followed. In 2026, the new NASA chief is now saying that the agency has unexplained footage, but according to critics, disclosure is still incomplete.
Former Pentagon UFO hunter says he has seen non-human beings and craft – On October 13, a memoir by Jay Stratton, the first director of the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, was published. In the book and in related interviews, he makes serious claims about secret crash-retrieval programs, an observation carried out with a submarine, and Roswell. He has not yet presented any evidence, and the Pentagon has previously denied a cover-up.
Silent triangle near O’Hare: a single report, many open questions – According to an Illinois resident, a quiet, triangle-shaped craft passed over their house near O’Hare Airport on the evening of October 1. A radio station website published an excerpt from the report on October 13.
Pentagon files: unexplained lights, but no evidence of alien technology – The Pentagon released the sixth batch of its UFO files on September 18. The records contain detailed accounts by federal agents of orbs of light seen in the American West. For part of one case, investigators found no explanation, but there is no evidence in the material pointing to an extraterrestrial origin.
NASA says all UAP material has been released; Coulthart disputes it – NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says the agency has made all of its UAP material public under PURSUE. According to investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, key Apollo-era material is still missing.
“Jellyfish UFO” or a stray bag? Sirens sounded in northern Israel over an unknown aerial object – On the evening of October 10, an unknown aerial object came from the direction of Lebanon into Israel's northern border region and set off an air-raid alert in a border village. The Israeli military searched for it all night with helicopters, but even after twelve hours it had not found it and could not identify it. Since then, an image has been circulating on social media as a “jellyfish-shaped UFO,” while the authorities are considering a drone, a paraglider and even a windblown bag.
Ring of lights over Albano Laziale: two witnesses, no footage – In the early hours of September 26, two witnesses standing in different spots saw a circular formation of white and red lights in the sky over Albano Laziale, near Rome. There is no footage, the account comes from a local UFO researcher, and no independent verification has taken place.
Unexplained mysteries of 2025: UFOs, drones and a strange comet – Listverse published a top-ten list of unexplained cases from 2025, including UFO sightings in Ireland, drones over a Belgian military base and the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The list is an edited compilation, not an investigation, so the cases in it are assessed differently.
UFO arms race? A congressman says the price of secrecy is credibility – Republican Rep. Eric Burlison told the New York Post that if the Trump administration does not keep its transparency promises regarding UFOs, the United States could hand a propaganda victory to rival powers such as China and Russia. For now, the statements rest more on a political warning than on evidence.
2025 orb incident: witnesses could even go before Congress – During a West Coast military mission in late 2025, several intelligence officials saw a series of orange orbs from a helicopter. Republican Rep. Eric Burlison told the New York Post that he would look into whether Congress could hear them publicly, but in his view this could be risky.
Five UFO stories from the Urals: a legend, a factory newspaper, a video and a prosecutor's investigation – Unidentified objects have been reported several times in Sverdlovsk Oblast over the past decades: in the taiga, above an airport and near a TV tower. An October 10, 2026 roundup by URA.RU brings together five earlier cases, but their reliability varies greatly: they range from a legend without official confirmation to a prosecutor's investigation.
Spinning triangle over a Massachusetts RV parking lot – On October 2, a witness saw a triangle-shaped, spinning object pass over an RV parking lot in West Springfield City. The report appeared on the UFO Sightings Daily site on October 10, citing NUFORC as its source, and the account comes with a video.
RFK Jr. said a group had figured out how to call the ships: UFO retrieval came up in a health podcast – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health, told Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna on his own podcast that a group, including a senior NASA scientist and former special forces soldiers, had claimed to him that they know how to call UFOs, and that they had orders to destroy them and then collect the remains. Kennedy did not present any evidence.
Avi Loeb: I didn't say aliens are coming within 16 days – but one of the Pentagon's UFO videos shows birds – Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, denied in a blog post that he had predicted that extraterrestrials could reveal themselves within 16 days. In the same post, he disclosed that, at the request of U.S. intelligence, he leads a 20-member scientific UAP council, and that according to the council, the six dots seen in one of the Pentagon's released UFO videos are actually a flock of birds.
67 reports, 28 nuclear facilities: records released on drone sightings over U.S. nuclear power plants – 67 reports from the U.S. nuclear regulator have been made public about drones that were sighted over nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities between 2024 and 2026, in 17 states. One of the cases occurred near Langley Air Force Base, where a drone flew over both reactor buildings. According to the records, none of the cases was resolved.
Unknown light over Santiago: video from Puente Alto, Chile, is spreading – A Chilean TikTok user filmed an unknown light in the sky over Puente Alto, near Santiago, on the night of October 7. The minute-and-a-half recording quickly began to spread, and the local press also reported on it. The video's creator does not claim to have seen a UFO: they asked viewers to help figure out what it could have been.
Seven unexplained phenomena in Washington state: what is known and what isn't – An October 9 roundup by The Daily World lists seven Washington mysteries, from the 1994 Oakville gel blobs to Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting. It is not a new discovery but a compilation, and it shows clearly which mysteries have a theory pointing to an everyday explanation and which do not.
Two mysterious shapes in a half-century-old Apollo photo, a UFO blog claims – According to an American UFO blog, two unidentified objects are visible in Apollo 10's 1969 lunar orbit images, which the author only noticed in September 2026. For now, the claim comes from a single, unconfirmed source.
Five UFO sightings in North Dakota: only memories, no evidence – In an October 8 article, the website of an American radio station compiled five UFO sightings reported in North Dakota between 2023 and 2024. The accounts are based solely on what anonymous witnesses said, and none of them includes a photograph or recording.
A mystery for forty-eight years: what is known about the 1978 Trevelin UFO case? – In late September 1978, an Argentine farmer claimed to have seen a glowing disc on the road to the Futaleufú Dam, near Trevelin, and a few days later Diario Esquel ran the story on its front page. The case has now, in October 2026, been revived from the paper's archive. There is still no proven explanation for it, but the night sky that evening may offer a possible clue.
Mysterious object reported over a Missouri Taco Bell – On the evening of October 2, a witness noticed an unidentified flying object leaving the airspace above a fast-food restaurant in Springfield, Missouri, and then disappearing behind a tree. The report submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) is detailed, but so far nothing else supports it.
Faces, bones and a black knight: what do NASA's old photos hide? – A Mexican news site, Diario Amanecer, has compiled the NASA images that UFO researchers and enthusiasts have for decades regarded as evidence of extraterrestrial life or artificial structures. Most of the cases have a scientific explanation, but for a few, the image's resolution or size makes it impossible to determine with certainty what it shows.
UFO researcher finds alleged ancient gateway in a Mars photo – According to an amateur UFO researcher, one of the images taken by the Perseverance rover shows the gateway of an ancient civilization and a tiny doorway. NASA has not yet responded to the claim, but it previously explained a similar case as a natural rock fracture.
The Disappearance of William McCasland: Grusch's Claim and Podesta's Dispute – The former research chief of the US Air Force disappeared from his Albuquerque home on February 27, days after Donald Trump ordered the release of all UFO files. More than seven months later, David Grusch claimed on a podcast that McCasland took part in a project preparing for disclosure, but John Podesta disputes this interpretation.
1973: Bright objects seen in the Monterrey sky during the UFO wave – The UFO wave that swept the United States in 1973 was also felt in Mexico: on the evening of September 5, several Monterrey residents reported bright objects moving at extraordinary speed. The Inexplicata blog revisited the contemporary El Norte article on October 7.
Scientists analyzed 112 Pentagon UAP videos – a new problem has emerged – The Debrief reported on August 20, 2026, that researchers examined more than a hundred UAP videos released under the Pentagon's PURSUE program. According to the analysis, the scientists ran into a new difficulty in determining whether the videos actually show extraordinary flight capabilities.
1933 Italian UFO crash: a researcher's decades-old claims – At the Italian National UFO Center's October 6 press conference in Rome, its president revisited the story of an alleged 1933 UFO crash in Lombardy. The story has been circulating for decades, but no publicly verifiable document for it has surfaced to this day.
Michio Kaku: We could make contact with extraterrestrials this century – American physicist Michio Kaku, speaking to TMZ, claimed that humanity could make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization within this century. He bases his claim on an alleged Pentagon confirmation and on UFO footage circulated by documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell; the statement was published by La Nación on October 6.
1999 Seville UFO sightings: five mysteries, little confirmation – In September 1999, a Spanish UFO researcher compiled five unexplained sightings in the sky around Seville; in August 2026 the Inexplicata blog republished the report in English translation, but the key official confirmation is still missing.
Estate of inventor who cited beings from Venus goes to the Huntington Library – A pool renovation contractor kept the estate of George Van Tassel for decades. Van Tassel said he received guidance from beings from Venus for the Integratron, which he built in California's Mojave Desert. The collection has now gone to the Huntington Library, where it will be shown to the general public for the first time on October 30 and 31.
UFO sightings over Basingstoke: what is known, and what remains unsolved – The Basingstoke Gazette went through its own archive and compiled seven occasions between 1975 and 2008 when residents of the southern English town saw mysterious lights or objects in the sky. Of these reports, two – the 1975 hot-air balloon case and the 2008 lantern case – were clearly explained; the rest received an official answer only in part or not at all.
Harvard astrophysicist says the Pentagon is failing on UFO cases – Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, criticized the Pentagon (Department of Defense) in an interview with Popular Mechanics magazine for not being able to explain every unidentified aerial phenomenon. In an earlier statement to the NewsNation channel, the scientist also floated a much bolder theory about the orbs of light seen in the sky.
The Ariel School mystery: what do we know about the 1994 Zimbabwe case? – In September 1994, more than sixty pupils at Ariel Primary School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, claimed they had seen extraterrestrial beings land in the bush next to the school. At the time, the case was also investigated by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist, and more than three decades later sott.net also spoke with a former eyewitness.
Grusch Says He Heard About Reptilians Being Shot – but Never Saw Them – Former US intelligence officer David Grusch claimed on September 30, on Joe Rogan's podcast, that US personnel shot alleged reptilian beings after a UFO crash. Grusch himself, however, stressed that he never saw the beings personally and that he heard the entire story from others.
Lightning flash or UFO: the sprite theory and AARO's new report – For years, a Tel Aviv physicist has explained some UFO sightings as flashes of a rare atmospheric phenomenon, the sprite. According to a report released this summer by AARO, the Pentagon's UAP office, every one of the 370 cases closed in fiscal year 2025 received a mundane explanation, while the investigation of nine cases is still ongoing.
Mysterious color-changing object over a Joshua Tree pool – On September 14, 2026, two women spotted a black, balloon-shaped object above the pool of a rental property in Joshua Tree, California. The incident was reported to NUFORC, and the blog UFO Sightings Daily wrote about it.
UFOs in Renaissance paintings? A disputed reading by several researchers – According to an Italian UFO researcher, two Renaissance paintings and the mysterious “snow” of a 1954 soccer match in Florence point to a common clue: flying saucers. The theory, published on October 5, is backed only by the image interpretations of a few authors, however, not by scientific or art-historical consensus.
Tennessee radio host films unknown lights – the mystery remains unsolved for now – Mickey Utley, host of the show The Suppressed Signal, recorded footage of strangely flickering lights over Haywood County, Tennessee, on Monday evening. The footage does not establish what the object was, and no independent investigation has taken place.
1967: The Shag Harbour Incident and Nova Scotia's “Night of the UFOs” – On the evening of October 4, 1967, lights and objects were reported at several locations in the skies over Nova Scotia, primarily around Halifax and Dartmouth and along the southwestern coast, and the most famous case was an object that crashed into the sea off Shag Harbour. Nearly sixty years later, CBC recalled what the authorities recorded at the time and what has remained unresolved ever since.
Varginha 1996: Former Brazilian minister urges the US to release its files – A former Brazilian minister is asking Washington to make public what it knows about the 1996 Varginha UFO case. Most claims about the case, which happened three decades ago and is often called Brazil's Roswell, still rest on statements by witnesses and a documentary film; no official document confirms them.
Grusch saw beings resembling “Greek gods” on footage – David Grusch, a former US Air Force intelligence official, claimed on a podcast on September 30 that he had seen pale, human-like beings on undisclosed footage. The footage is not public, and no official source has confirmed his claim.
Mysterious Glowing Object over Tehran, in the Shadow of the 1976 UFO Case – According to a Turkish newspaper, a strange object emitting colorful lights was recorded over Tehran on the night of September 20 to 21, 2026, with no official explanation. The report has once again brought up the Tehran case of September 19, 1976, which UFO literature regards as one of the most thoroughly documented yet unsolved cases.
Russell Crowe's 2013 UFO photo: what is known, and what isn't? – In March 2013, Australian actor Russell Crowe accidentally captured a glowing, red-and-yellow object in the sky above a Sydney neighborhood with a bat-watching camera. According to a Vice article from October 5, 2026, the footage has still not received a satisfactory explanation.
Red orbs of light over Louisiana: what is known about the September video? – A Louisiana resident filmed round, reddish-orange orbs of light above their house on September 16 and also submitted the footage to NUFORC's civilian database. According to the author of the UFO Sightings Daily blog, one of the orbs suddenly changed direction, but so far neither an official nor a scientific explanation has emerged for the phenomenon.
Shermer bets $1,000 that aliens won't be confirmed by 2030 – Michael Shermer, founder of the skeptical Skeptic magazine, has bet $1,000 with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb that by the end of 2030 not a single American scientific organization will officially confirm the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. The bet is also timely because the US government is currently releasing UAP files by the tens of thousands.
Traces of a Disputed UFO Luring Operation at a Secret U.S. Base – According to the head of a UFO advocacy organization, U.S. intelligence carried out a successful luring operation in late 2025 to attract UFOs over a secret military facility. Recently released government documents confirm the encounters and the photographs, but not the luring itself.
Harvard physicist: A warp bubble would glow as a blinding fireball in the atmosphere – and might also offer an explanation for UAP orbs – In a new study that has not yet been peer reviewed, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and Shaun Fell, a physicist with the Applied Physics research group, calculated how a theoretical warp-drive spacecraft would affect Earth's atmosphere. According to the authors, their results could provide a scientific framework for examining the glowing spheres, so-called "orbs," that appear in materials recently released by the Pentagon, but they stress that the work proves neither the existence of extraterrestrials nor that of warp drive.
Pentagon releases more UAP videos, still no breakthrough – The U.S. Department of War released the fourth batch of UAP material from the PURSUE program on July 10. According to an analysis by The Debrief, most of the new military footage is blurry, and several of the objects are very likely ordinary balloons.
Three Missing Hours and a Ghost Gas Station: A Spanish UFO Story from 1977 – According to radio personality Pedro Mateo and his wife, on June 26, 1977, after a silent, disk-shaped object appeared, three hours vanished without a trace from their trip between Zaragoza and Barcelona. The story rests solely on the couple's account given some two decades later, and several of its details remain unverifiable to this day.
Battling Suns and Glowing Spacecraft: UFO Traces in Ancient Chinese Chronicles – In late August, the UFO blog Inexplicata published in English a chapter from a 1984 Spanish book that collects strange sky phenomena from centuries-old Chinese chronicles: suns struggling with one another, glowing, allegedly metallic bodies and unusual star formations. The texts are genuinely ancient in origin, but their credibility and exact meaning cannot be verified.
Grusch claims an underwater base may be hiding UFOs – David Grusch, a former Air Force officer and former intelligence professional, claimed on Joe Rogan's podcast that a huge underwater facility may serve as an entry and exit point for craft of non-human origin. According to the report published on October 3, 2026, the claim is not yet supported by any public, independent evidence.
Grusch says a UFO base is hidden deep in the ocean – but there is no evidence – David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer, claimed on Joe Rogan's podcast that the government knows about an underwater facility spanning several city blocks that is used by extraterrestrials. The claim was made on September 30, and so far no public evidence supports it.
Blue orbs over Chazy Lake: a dozen similar stories follow a single report – In a September 16 report to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), a witness who identified himself as military described strange blue orbs over Chazy Lake in New York State. After a local radio station's website published the story, hundreds of comments came in, including many Upstate New York readers sharing similar experiences of their own. None of the claims has been confirmed by an independent source.
Mysterious light phenomenon in SpaceX Starship livestream – During the livestream of SpaceX's September 28 Starship test flight, a strange, bright shape appeared above the Earth, which many on social media called a UFO or a mothership. Neither SpaceX nor NASA has said what can be seen in the footage.
La Plata's Zone 72: Seven Decades of UFO Stories on One Avenue – In the Argentine city of La Plata, a stretch of 72nd Avenue, the so-called Zone 72, has been collecting UFO reports for decades. According to the latest article by Punto Capital Noticias, the story goes back to 1954 and keeps gaining new elements to this day.
Trump's UFO panel has found little so far, a 2023 case shows – According to an October report by The New York Times, the Trump administration's UAP advisory panel, including Avi Loeb, Tim Gallaudet and Garry Nolan, is working from documents released this year, but so far it has no substantive breakthrough to report. The paper presented a 2023 case in the western United States as an example of what the panel is dealing with.
UFO Abduction or Demonic Beings? A Researcher's Disputed Theory – Joe Jordan has been investigating alleged extraterrestrial abductions for three decades, yet he now claims that some cases may be explained not by alien beings but by a spiritual, even demonic, origin. The theory rests solely on eyewitness accounts; for now, there is no independent evidence behind it.
The Ratanabá mystery: what the LiDAR shows, and what it doesn't prove yet – A Brazilian research group, Dakila Pesquisas, claims that it has found traces of an unknown, ancient Amazonian civilization in the state of Mato Grosso based on LiDAR imagery. By the organization's own account, scientific consensus and independent confirmation are still lacking.
Greer says the UNOD letter deadline has passed and the "Deep State" is staying silent – In a recent podcast episode, American UFO researcher Steven Greer claims that he had awaited an official response to the UNOD letter he sent by August 29, but none came, which he says should be interpreted as the silence of the "Deep State" that covers up secret programs.
1978 police report surfaces in Argentine UFO case – Forty-eight years after an alleged UFO sighting, the police report filed in Argentina by two Chilean race car drivers has been made public. The document was presented on September 26 in Pedro Luro, supplemented with new timeline data and witness testimony.
British MP: I Was Misled About Five Eyes UFO Consultations – British Member of Parliament Clive Lewis says the Ministry of Defence misled him when it claimed that the United Kingdom does not cooperate with its Five Eyes allies on UAP phenomena. Behind the dispute, reported on August 29, 2026, lies a trail of documents gathered over several years, some of them contradictory.
Classified UAP briefings: an alleged confession from Washington – In an August podcast appearance, investigative journalist Tom O'Neill claimed that a congressional staffer in Washington confidentially told him about recovered craft and beings in connection with classified UAP briefings. The claim rests on a single, unnamed source that nothing independently corroborates.
The 1969 Chilean UFO wave: from lights to a mysterious encounter – Between January and April 1969, UFO sightings came in from several provinces of Chile, ranging from a glowing object falling into the sea to an alleged close encounter in Tierra del Fuego. The cases of the time were compiled in the May 1969 issue of the UFO-Chile newsletter, which the Inexplicata blog recently republished.
Researcher says a UFO wave swept through Hidalgo between 1991 and 1993 – According to CEFP, a Mexican UFO research group, a genuine UFO wave took place in the state of Hidalgo in the early 1990s, and the group dates the start of the phenomenon to April 1991. However, the account was written decades after the alleged events and so far contains few verifiable details.
Pentagon issues new authorization for reporting UAP data – On Monday, September 14, 2026, the Pentagon announced that current and former military personnel, government employees and contractors may now hand over protected UAP information directly to officially authorized representatives. The move could open a new channel for insiders interested in the subject, but the details remain unclear for now.
Two childhood UFO memories from Manaus, based on a Brazilian interview – On a Brazilian UFO researcher's show, Roberto Ariel talked about what he saw in the sky over Manaus in 1974 at the age of six, and his wife talked about an alleged landing in the 1980s. Both stories are childhood memories told decades later, without independent confirmation.
Reflection or nearby model? The Calvine UFO photo has been debated for four years – In 1990, two men took six photographs of a diamond-shaped object near Calvine, Scotland, but for decades none of them was made public. Since one of them surfaced in 2022, analysts on the Metabunk forum have been debating whether it shows a small nearby object, a rock reflected in water or a genuinely large, distant object.
Thirty extraterrestrial “species”: a Guatemalan ufologist’s 1994 catalog – In 1994, a Guatemalan UFO researcher classified some thirty alleged extraterrestrial “species” on the model of biological taxonomy, based solely on eyewitness accounts. The Spanish news agency’s report from the time has now been republished by the Inexplicata blog.
The 2012 Welsh "spinning UFO" may have been a sparking power line – An expert declared a 2012 nighttime video a genuine, spinning UFO. According to analysts on the Metabunk forum, however, it showed a sparking overhead power line damaged in a storm, which a 2025 letter from a power company also supported, but a podcaster still disputes the explanation.
Bush and 1964: A Single Testimony, Not Documents, Is Circulating – According to a Brazilian UFO news site, documents prove that George H. W. Bush knew about a 1964 extraterrestrial contact. The article, however, actually cites a single testimony given in a documentary, without any specific document.
Satellite or UFO? What researchers of the Barranqueras lights examined – Two Argentine researchers, Ítalo Suligoy and Claudio Dadero, analyzed the lights sighted in Barranqueras at the request of a local news channel, N9, and explained the criteria by which a satellite can be distinguished from an unidentified flying object. N9's report does not address what they concluded in the specific case.
US government employees reporting UAP data receive legal protection – The Department of War has introduced a new exemption that opens a legally protected path for US government employees to disclose UAP-related information with national defense implications, The Debrief reported. The move could offer protection to those who have so far stayed silent because of the consequences.
Alleged Mosul military UAP footage: nothing so far confirms its authenticity – According to a Brazilian UFO news site, new infrared footage has surfaced that allegedly leaked from a U.S. military surveillance system and is connected to the case of the Mosul "orb." However, nothing so far supports the claim that the video actually comes from a military source, or that any expert has examined it.
Mysterious light object over Tehran: kite or surveillance device? – On September 21, Al Jazeera published footage of a strange, flickering light object that hovered over Tehran and that Iranian authorities have not identified. On social media, theories range from a children's toy to a military surveillance device, while an amateur investigative group suspects an LED kite.
Argentine pilot says dancing lights accompanied his plane for 35 minutes – Pilot Gaspar Gouane told the Argentine newspaper El Tribuno that lights accompanied his plane during a night flight between Salta and Buenos Aires, and that in his view their behavior did not resemble anything known. At present, however, the story rests on a single source, without many details.