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Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie! Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek! België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch. Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen! Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie. Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen. Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek! Blijf Op De Hoogte! Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren! Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.

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“Destroy the UFOs” – RFK Jr.’s crash retrieval claims spark Reddit frenzy

“Destroy the UFOs” – RFK Jr.’s crash retrieval claims spark Reddit frenzy

Wild UFO claims crash land.

Confidential documents commanding the searching and destroying of UFOs.

Confidential documents commanding the searching and destroying of UFOs.

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A UFO shining above a roulette wheel. Image by Cybernews.

Wild theories entering the spotlight

People will say a lot, but can you prove it? What does the actual data prove, or can you actually bring forward tangible evidence?
Republican Anna Paulina Luna asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Skepticism meets intrigue on Reddit

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Reddit reaction to Kennedy Jr. UFI claims.
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Reddit reaction to Kennedy Jr. UFI claims.

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The Phoenix Lights: A baffling mass UFO sighting

Mock up of classified documents about the 1997 Phoenix Lights

The Phoenix Lights: A baffling mass UFO sighting

On 13th March 1997, thousands witnessed the Phoenix Lights in Arizona. Bradley Walsh now investigates this UFO sighting in Sky HISTORY’s Out of This World.

Article written by: Craig Lenaghan

On the evening of 13th March 1997, a man in Nevada was minding his own business when he suddenly noticed something peculiar in the sky. He would later describe it as a flying V-shaped formation. He wouldn’t be the only one to see it.

Over the next few hours, reports came flooding in from thousands more onlookers as the airborne ‘V’ made its way southeast across Nevada and Arizona. There was a consistent theme to the sightings. This UFO’s enclosure was said to be lined with five to seven lights reminiscent of orbs.

This spectacle came to be known as the ‘Phoenix Lights’ in Arizona, where video footage of the amazing sight was captured. But was it really an extraterrestrial spacecraft, or something much more down-to-earth (literally)? Sky HISTORY regular Bradley Walsh investigates in his new series, Out of This World starting Tuesday, 3rd November, but what do we actually know about the lights that stopped a city?

What did witnesses report seeing?

Back in the ‘90s, we didn’t have smartphones with built-in cameras. However, when people did see the Phoenix Lights in Arizona, they were still mindful to film them on their ‘90s camcorders. Footage from the VHS tapes has even been uploaded to YouTube, where you can check it out today.

When you do watch the YouTube clips, you’ll notice that many of them show a steady string of lights apparently suspended in the night sky. The lights appear to move forward together in unison, with some occasionally flickering out of sight. Stranger still are witnesses’ accompanying descriptions of what their humble cameras of the time weren’t quite able to capture.

‘We could see the outline of a mass behind the lights, but you couldn’t actually see the mass,’ Dana Valentine claimed. ‘It was more like a gray distortion of the night sky, wavy.’ Another witness, Tim Ley, concurred: ‘All you could see was the outline, as though something was blotting out the stars.’

The shadowy shape was commonly estimated to be about a mile wide.

What were the Phoenix Lights in Arizona?

The US Air Force had an answer. According to military officials, a group of A-10 Thunderbolt jets from the Maryland Air National Guard happened to be flying above Arizona that night. The pilots were on a training mission, with their jets collectively forming a V-shaped pattern. The good people of Phoenix, Arizona could see the aircraft lights, but the jets’ bodies were mainly shrouded in darkness.

This all happened between 7:55pm to 8:40pm, corresponding with the initial sightings of the Phoenix Lights. So, why had seemingly the same lights re-emerged later that evening, after 9pm? They weren’t the same, if officials are to be believed. These later lights were explained away as parachute-equipped flares released by A-10 pilots training near the Barry M Goldwater Air Force Range.

Amateur astronomer Mitch Stanley did recall seeing planes when peering through his telescope into the Arizona night sky that evening. Had this particular UFO sighting been something of a damp squib? The then-Governor of Arizona, Fife Symington III, certainly seemed to treat it as one. At a press conference in June 1997, he jokingly brought out 'the guilty party' responsible for the lights: an aide in an alien costume.

The Maryland Air National Guard would not acknowledge its flare drops until the following month. Even then, some remained convinced that Symington had simply found the wrong alien…

Could it have been aliens after all?

Witnesses to the Phoenix Lights have dismissed the idea that they were simply planes. Several claimed that the lights moved too slowly to be manmade aircraft, and were completely inaudible. There are even reports of the UFO abruptly vanishing, as if escaping into space or another dimension.

So, what about the flares theory? Does that stand up? Not according to a pilot who spoke on the programme Unsolved Mysteries in 1999. The anonymous interviewee insisted that they knew from experience what flares genuinely looked like from the ground and air. They also pointed out that flares are ‘dangerous, so they would never, ever be dropped over a population centre.’ The population of Phoenix numbered in the millions.

Even Symington eventually retracted his previous public sentiments about the Phoenix Lights in Arizona. He confessed to seeing the UFO himself, adding: ‘I’m a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I’ve ever seen. It remains a great mystery.’

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UFO spotted over Monaco!

UFO spotted over Monaco!

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UFO Over Mountains At Snohomish, WA, USA Oct 2, 2026, UAP Sighting News.

UFO Over Mountains At Snohomish, WA, USA Oct 2, 2026, UAP Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Oct 2, 2026
Location of sighting: Snohomish, Washington, USA
Source: NUFORC
 
This orb was spotted coming over the Washington state mountains last week. The glowing intensity was fluctuating and moving upward higher and higher. They eyewitness stated that the object stayed in view for about 3 minutes before it had risen up out of the atmosphere. The moon certainly could not do that! This is absolutley not a helicopter or plane or drone because there is no sound, no wings, no blades or other aircraft lights required by law...this is 100% alien tech. The bright glow and aura all around it and its speed to leave all indicate alien technology. 
Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily  
 
Eyewitness states: 
Odd round orb moving up into to the atmosphere.  It was a bright orb that came up over the hillside that kept moving. It was extremely odd.

UFO Over Mountains At Snohomish, WA, USA Oct 2, 2026, UAP Alien Paranormal Sighting News.

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Caught this on my morning jog, UFO hiding in cloud, Taipei, Taiwan 🇹🇼 UAP sighting news. 📰👽

Caught this on my morning jog, UFO hiding in cloud, Taipei, Taiwan 🇹🇼 UAP sighting news. 📰👽

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Date of sighting: Oct 9, 2026
Location of sighting: Taipei, Taiwan
 
I was out for a morning jog when I noticed this strange cloud over the river area. The shape was like a long cigar shaped UFO hiding inside of a cloud. Two humps on its top instead of one. But clearly, it was created by a UFO hiding within it. The shape, size are consistent with being a UFO but also something else...a telepathic feeling. 
Scott C. Waring 
 

Caught this on my morning jog, UFO hiding in cloud, Taipei, Taiwan 🇹🇼 UAP sighting news. 📰👽

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UFO Seen Over Taipei, Taiwan On Oct 7, 2026, Breathtaking Photos, UAP Sighting News.

UFO Seen Over Taipei, Taiwan On Oct 7, 2026, Breathtaking Photos, UAP Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: Oct 7, 2026
Location of sighting: Taipei, Taiwan
Source: 
This unusual anomaly was seen just a few miles from where I live in Taipei. It was seen over the Taipei 101 building last night and I have to say, its irritating me because being a UFO researcher...these kinds of lights are similar in many ways to energy entities, but energy entities often move together in a flowing pattern like trout in a stream. This however is not a huge UFO, but the buildings new light system to advertise the building called Taipei 101 for its 101 floors tall stature. 
 
Its easy to make the mistake of it being a UFO and I commend the person on their sharp eyesight and excellent photos, sharing them was the right thing to do. Just this time...it was explainable. Taipei does have a lot of UFO sightings recorded in the past, me personally recording a few. So...hopefully, Taipei people who are often called Sky Dragon People, will keep an eye out for the next sighting...which just might be the big one that opens peoples hearts, minds instilling the world with enlightenment...then again, if you keep an eye out...it could be you, where ever you are right now. 
Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily
 
Eyewitness states (translated): 
UFO? This is the first time I've ever seen a flying saucer 🛸. I saw that others have also seen it, it's unbelievable...
 
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The AI ‘mathpocalypse’: Artificial intelligence systems crack hundreds of unsolved problems, sparking fears that mathematicians could become obsolete

The AI ‘mathpocalypse’: Artificial intelligence systems crack hundreds of unsolved problems, sparking fears that mathematicians could become obsolete

OpenAI has sparked a crisis in the mathematics world after announcing an unreleased artificial intelligence tool has cracked hundreds of unsolved problems.

On Tuesday, the tech giant behind ChatGPT published a trove of 722 papers containing full or partial solutions to 372 of the hardest problems in maths.

These included two of the seven famously intractable Millennium Prize Problems, each of which carries a $1 million (£755,000) bounty if solved.

The release, which has already been dubbed the 'mathpocalypse', now has mathematicians wondering if their discipline could become obsolete.

It comes just a month after OpenAI released a proposed proof of the Navier-Stokes equation, another Millennium Prize Problem. 

Experts have been stunned by AI's rapid advancement, developing from systems that struggled with GCSE papers to PhD-level experts in just two years.

However, many are furious with OpenAI's approach, with one warning it will 'destroy the mathematical community.'

OpenAI announced that an unreleased artificial intelligence (AI) has cracked hundreds of unsolved problems, sparking a crisis in the mathematics world

OpenAI announced that an unreleased artificial intelligence (AI) has cracked hundreds of unsolved problems, sparking a crisis in the mathematics world

As the mathematicians sort through the enormous tranche of data, the academic community has become bitterly divided over whether OpenAI has acted responsibly.

On one hand, some mathematicians have hailed the release as one of the most significant contributions to the discipline in recent years.

Dr Levent Alpöge, a mathematician working for AI firm Anthropic, wrote on X: 'It’s obviously the most significant moment in mathematical history.'

However, many experts in the field have been outraged by what they call OpenAI's 'unsustainable' approach.

Foregoing the traditional peer-review and journal publication process, OpenAI elected to 'dump' the solutions directly onto GitHub, a code repository website.

These supposed proofs will take months for mathematicians to sort through and verify, and serious errors are already being discovered.

Just days after publishing, the company was forced to retract three of the papers due to elementary errors and amend many others that contained issues which invalidated their results.

Writing on The Conversation, Dr Melissa Lee, of Monash University, says: 'This suggests, at the least, a lack of sufficient vetting before publication.'

Likewise, many mathematicians who have tried to assess the papers claim that they are poorly written and, in some cases, contain nothing besides incomprehensible 'unreadable slop'.

Dr Lee says: 'A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, "it would have gone straight into the bin".'

On Tuesday, the tech giant behind ChatGPT published a trove of 722 papers containing full or partial solutions to 372 of the hardest problems in maths

On Tuesday, the tech giant behind ChatGPT published a trove of 722 papers containing full or partial solutions to 372 of the hardest problems in maths

In a blog post announcing the solutions, OpenAI wrote: 'We want this progress to push the frontier of human knowledge and enable further progress in mathematics.'

However, many mathematicians have accused the company of failing to help maths advance in any meaningful way.

Terence Tao, a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians, wrote on Mastodon: 'Problems are being solved autonomously by AI prompters who have no interest in the broader field itself once their initial target is "solved", and do not understand the AI output well enough to answer questions on the result, give talks, or otherwise interact with the rest of the field.'

He continued: 'Solutions to open problems are now being harvested at large scale in an unsustainable fashion, leaving entire fields of mathematics much less fertile than when such problems were solved in the traditional "Math 1.0" fashion.'

Meanwhile, the Association for Human Mathematics, a group of over 800 leading mathematicians, released a damning statement urging researchers to break their associations with OpenAI.

The group said: 'We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject.'

Adding: 'Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power.'

OpnAI claims that its methods for releasing solutions were developed by consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study⁠.

However, this group says that they specifically advised OpenAI against using their models to crack unproven solutions and share the results without explanation.

OpenAI claims that the proofs were released to 'push the frontier of human knowledge', but mathematicians claim their behaviour has been unhelpful and 'unsustainable'. Pictured: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

OpenAI claims that the proofs were released to 'push the frontier of human knowledge', but mathematicians claim their behaviour has been unhelpful and 'unsustainable'.

Pictured: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman 

The group claims: 'We want to state clearly from the start: we do not endorse this practice, and we ask them to stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models.'

Similarly, many mathematicians have shared their accounts of seeing work that occupied their entire careers completed overnight.

Professor Hugo Duminil-Copin, a leading mathematician from Université de Genève who was awarded a Fields Medal - the discipline's highest honour - in 2022, was one of dozens who shared their stories on the Proofs and Prompts forum.

He wrote: 'I expected that one day we would be surpassed, and that it would happen systematically. But yesterday’s announcement hit with a force I had not anticipated.

'Dozens of papers deal with topics I was working on. Between results that beat you to the finish line and thousand-page proofs, I don’t even know where to look anymore.'

Likewise, Professor Henry Wilton, of the University of Cambridge, simply wrote: 'If OpenAI wanted to destroy the mathematical community, this would be a great way to go about it.'

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Mystery man-made mounds in the Deep South are older than the Great Pyramid... and leave experts baffled over their creation

Mystery man-made mounds in the Deep South are older than the Great Pyramid... and leave experts baffled over their creation

Ancient mounds in Louisiana that predate Egypt’s Great Pyramid are still puzzling scientists roughly 5,500 years after construction began.

Native American hunter-gatherers built the eleven earthworks at Watson Brake, near Monroe, around 3500 BC, nearly 1,000 years before the pyramid.

‘It is unclear why Watson Brake and other Middle Archaic mounds were built,’ archaeologist Rebecca Saunders wrote for the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

The complex was mapped in the 1980s, but scientific dating in the 1990s revealed its remarkable age. Construction continued in stages for 600 to 700 years, with the builders connecting the mounds with ridges to create an oval enclosure roughly 1,000 feet across.

Using baskets, deer antlers and their bare hands, they raised eleven mounds without draft animals, a feat that likely required large groups working across generations. 

The tallest mound rises 25 feet above the surrounding ground.

The discovery helped overturn the belief that only farming societies could build large monuments, revealing that hunter-gatherers could organize and sustain major construction projects. 

Archaeologist Vincas Steponaitis, an expert in Native American mounds, said: 'It's rare that archaeologists ever find something that so totally changes our picture of what happened in the past, as is true for this case.'

Native American hunter-gatherers built the eleven earthworks at Watson Brake, near Monroe, around 3500 BC, nearly 1,000 years before the pyramid

Native American hunter-gatherers built the eleven earthworks at Watson Brake, near Monroe, around 3500 BC, nearly 1,000 years before the pyramid

Although identified decades ago, Watson Brake was featured in a video published by YouTube channel The Silent Ruins on September 10.

The mounds have long been hidden in a dense forest, but local amateur archaeologist Reca Jones recognized the earthworks after timber clearing exposed parts of the site in the early 1980s. 

She worked with Harvard graduate student John Belmont to produce the first map of the complex.

Researchers initially associated the mounds with the much younger Poverty Point culture, best known for another Louisiana earthwork complex built around 1700 to 1100 BC.

Investigations in the early 1990s by archaeologist Joe Saunders, soil scientist E Thurman Allen and colleagues revealed evidence that Watson Brake was considerably older.

Strongly developed soils suggested the earthworks had been weathering for thousands of years. 

The team used radiocarbon analysis and an independent technique called luminescence dating to investigate their age.

Radiocarbon analysis dates carbon-bearing remains such as charcoal, while luminescence estimates when mineral grains in sediment were last exposed to daylight.

The findings, published in Science on September 19, 1997, placed Watson Brake roughly 1,900 years before other then-known North American mound complexes with earthen enclosures.

The mounds have long been hidden in a dense forest near, but local amateur archaeologist Reca Jones recognized the earthworks after timber clearing exposed parts of the site in the early 1980

The mounds have long been hidden in a dense forest near, but local amateur archaeologist Reca Jones recognized the earthworks after timber clearing exposed parts of the site in the early 1980

A detailed study published in American Antiquity in 2005 reinforced the chronology using 25 radiocarbon dates and six luminescence dates.

Food remains show that the builders relied on fish, shellfish, deer, nuts and other wild plants, rather than cultivated crops.

Stone tools, beads and fired-earth objects offer clues about their daily lives, but the reason they devoted so much labor to the mounds remains uncertain.

One possibility is that construction helped bring scattered communities together.

'It could have been a way to reinforce relationships and cooperation,' Diana Greenlee, station archaeologist at Poverty Point and an adjunct professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, told Heart of Louisiana in an article published in 2022.

She also suggested that the earthworks could demonstrate a community's resources and ability to undertake major construction.

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient arrow heads or spear points found at Watson Brake

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient arrow heads or spear points found at Watson Brake

Small bricks made of dirt have also been found at the mound site

Small bricks made of dirt have also been found at the mound site

The 2005 study proposed that mound building may have been a communal response to droughts and flooding that made food supplies less predictable. That remains a hypothesis.

The mystery has parallels at Poverty Point, a separate Louisiana site whose main complex was built around 1700 to 1100 BC, centuries after Egypt's Great Pyramid.

Its largest mound stands 72 feet high and contains enough earth to fill roughly 31,000 modern dump trucks. A 2013 study suggested it was built in fewer than 90 days, possibly as little as 30.

In research published in 2025, Tristram 'T R' Kidder and colleagues proposed that Poverty Point was a temporary gathering place for trade, socializing and worship. 

They suggested mound building and offerings may have been a shared religious response to severe weather and flooding.

Those interpretations remain proposals, while Watson Brake's original purpose is still unresolved.

Watson Brake is not open to the public. Some of its mounds stand on privately owned land, although Louisiana has acquired part of the site for preservation.

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statistics October #19 MUFON eNewsletter

Statistics October #19 MUFON eNewsletter

Worldwide Number of Reports by Country

UNITED STATES 300

CANADA 21

UNITED KINGDOM 18

AUSTRALIA 6

FRANCE 6

BRAZIL 5

NEW ZEALAND 4

IRAN 2

ITALY 2

GREECE 2

CHINA 2

SPAIN 2

KOREA, (South) 2

PARAGUAY 1

CZECH REPUBLIC 1

PUERTO RICO 1

MEXICO 1

TURKEY 1

IRELAND 1

PERU 1

KAZAKHSTAN 1

HONG KONG 1

COLOMBIA 1

ISRAEL1

PORTUGAL1

GEORGIA 1

SWITZERLAND 1  

TOTAL:386

Shape of Object

Number of Reports

Circle 70

Sphere 55

Other 38

Unknown 37

Star-like 23

Disc 21

Triangle 19

Oval 11

Cylinder 11

Cigar11N/A 10

Square/Rectangular 10

Tic Tac 7

Diamond 7

Bullet/Missile 5

Blimp 5

Cross 2

Fireball 2

Egg 2

Flash 2

Boomerang 2

Teardrop 1

Chevron 1

Saturn-like 1

Cone 1

Drumbell 1

State Number of Reports

California 34

Texas2 3

Florida 20

Washington 18

New York 16

Colorado 13

Michigan 13

North Carolina 12

Missouri 11

Illinois 11

Arizona 10

Tennessee 8

Ohio 7

Oregon 7

New Jersey 7

Arkansas 6

Pennsylvania 6

Georgia 5

Nevada 5

Kentucky 4

Montana 4

Utah 4

Oklahoma 4

Virginia 4

Massachusetts 4

Indiana 4

Iowa 4

Minnesota 4

New Mexico 4

Delaware 3

Kansas 3

Alabama 3

Wisconsin 3

Louisiana 2

Maine 2

Connecticut 2

Mississippi 1

District of Columbia 1

North Dakota 1

Hawaii 1

Nebraska 1

Vermont 1

Idaho 1

Maryland 1

New Hampshire 1

West Virginia 1

South Carolina 1

Distance from Witness

Number of Reports

< 100 ft - 55

101-500 ft - 40

501 ft - 1 Mile - 46

Over 1 Mile - 84

Unknown - 67

NO VALUE - 32

Most impressively there were 19 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 23 Entities observed. 

ERT

Number of abduction (ERT) cases submitted with Experiencer Questionnaires were 58.



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Sceptic Michael Shermer Reportedly Bets That 'Extraterrestrials Will Not Be Confirmed by 2030'

Sceptic Michael Shermer Reportedly Bets That 'Extraterrestrials Will Not Be Confirmed by 2030'

The Skeptic publisher's wager with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb sets a high bar for official confirmation from three scientific organisations

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Michael Shermer has wagered $1,000 that extraterrestrials will not be confirmed by 2030, despite a Trump-backed review of UAP records 

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Michael Shermer has wagered $1,000 that extraterrestrial visitation, technology or biological life will not be confirmed by 31 December 2030, even as the Trump administration reviews a vast archive of unidentified anomalous phenomena records in the United States.

The bet pits Shermer, the founder and publisher of Skeptic magazine, against Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who chairs a new UAP Science Advisory Council formed in response to the Trump administration's directive on UAP records.

Under the published terms, at least two of three organisations , NASA, the National Science Foundation and the American Astronomical Society must affirm by 31 December 2030 that extraterrestrial intelligence has been discovered, including through an extraterrestrial technological object or alien biological life found on Earth.

The wager is recorded through the Long Now Foundation's Long Bets programme. The $1,000 stake will go to the Galileo Project Foundation regardless of which man wins.

Why the Shermer Extraterrestrials Bet Matters

The news came after President Donald Trump ordered US agencies to identify and release government files concerning UFOs, UAPs and extraterrestrial life. Six tranches of records have been released under the programme, with the latest published on 18 September.

The released material includes military and intelligence documents, infrared data, video and audio clips, FBI and NASA records, correspondence and artists' renderings. According to reports, its database of about 155,000 unique UAP-record pages from seven countries contained no definitive evidence that any object was of extraterrestrial origin.

The archive is large and contains numerous unresolved reports, but the released material has not established an extraterrestrial origin for any of the cases discussed.

The UAP Science Advisory Council was announced in June 2026 to provide scientific advice to the US government on UAP investigations. It advises a wider interagency UAP governance structure involving the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and the Department of War.

The council's published roster includes retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, Stanford professor Garry Nolan, anthropologist Peter Skafish and Shermer, whose sceptical position is hardly a secret.

Shermer's published wager is more precise than the headline version suggests. It does not claim that life cannot exist elsewhere. It predicts that, by the end of 2030, at least two of three named scientific organisations will not affirm that extraterrestrial intelligence has been discovered in the forms specified by the wager.

Winning the bet would not prove humanity is alone. It would mean only that the standard required for institutional confirmation has not been met.

What the UAP Files Actually Show

The released records include several incidents that sound extraordinary when stripped of their limitations.

In October 2023, federal law-enforcement personnel investigating drone activity near sensitive sites in the western US reported seeing fast-moving lights converge into a bright orb. A Pentagon memorandum described agents observing 'orbs launching other orbs,' according to reports.

The account is notable because it was documented in a government record, but the record does not establish what the objects were. There is no publicly available evidence in the report that settles what the agents saw.

The files also include records from a 1949 Los Alamos conference examining unexplained green fireballs near nuclear research facilities. Physicist Edward Teller attended, but the conference did not establish a definitive explanation for the phenomena..

AARO's historical review of US government involvement in UAP investigations, covering material dating back to 1945, reached a more restrained conclusion. The office found no evidence that a government investigation, academic study or official review had confirmed a UAP as extraterrestrial technology.

It said most sightings involved ordinary objects, natural phenomena or misidentification, while some may have involved experimental human technology.

'AARO has found no verifiable evidence that any UAP sighting has represented extraterrestrial activity,' Tim Phillips, then AARO's acting director, said in a March 2024 Defence Department briefing.

Loeb has not argued that every unexplained sighting is alien. His position is that even a very small chance deserves serious investigation. Loeb has argued that even a very small possibility of extraterrestrial technology would justify serious investigation, because such a discovery would be extraordinary.

A Bet With a Very High Bar

Former AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick has criticised the council's creation and Loeb's appointment, arguing that the panel's composition suggests the administration is more interested in fringe theories than hard science. Kirkpatrick has also described the council as serving no useful purpose and criticised it as a potential waste of taxpayers' money.

Loeb and supporters of the new panel argue that inadequate sensors, missing data and decades of secrecy have made unusual cases harder to assess.

Both arguments reflect concerns about the limitations of the publicly available evidence. Some released videos lack the raw data needed to determine an object's distance, speed or movement reliably. Without that data, dramatic footage can become a Rorschach test for whoever is watching.

The council has said its work will focus on scientific analysis and higher-quality data; reproducible methods and independently scrutinised evidence would provide a basis for assessing its findings. The Shermer extraterrestrials bet, meanwhile, gives the disagreement a fixed deadline and a clearly defined test.

Until then, the public is left with a remarkable archive, a government determined to appear open and a collection of reports that remain unexplained. The files raise important questions, but the released material has not established that any of the cases has an extraterrestrial origin.

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