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Japan Is the World’s No. 1 Hotspot for UFO Sightings. Officials Are Trying to Figure Out Why.
Are the reports really about aliens or could a national security threat be at play? Japan is no stranger to reports of unidentified flying objects. Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the country’s most famous UFO sighting out of Kofu, the capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture, in which two boys claimed to have met a grounded alien following reports of…
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UFO Sightings Are Spiking. This Man Has Unraveled the Truth Behind Hundreds of Them
The longtime UFO investigator explains his methods, his obsession with solving every case, and the reasons why we should be skeptical of alien sightings. ON A CLEAR, SUNNY DAY IN JULY, Mick West, a former video game programmer, was flying from his home in Sacramento, California, down to Pasadena. From the aircraft, he spied a small, white, elongated object that seemed…
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UFO Sightings Are Putting Airline Pilots in Danger—But Scientists Have Designed a Groundbreaking Solution
Pilots don’t have real-time data about the thousands of low-orbit, sun-reflecting objects zooming around Earth. There’s a fix for that. On the night of August 10, 2022, five pilots on two separate commercial airline flights were wholly convinced they’d documented proof of an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) over the Pacific Ocean. Pilots from both flights reported seeing odd lights zipping…
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Was Shakespeare a Medium?
Much has been written about the possibility that William Shakespeare didn’t author the works credited to him, that he was, in effect, an impostor, or a “front” for accomplished writers of the era. Those making the case against Shakespeare argue that Shakespeare lacked education and was likely illiterate, noting that even his children and grandchildren were illiterate. When he died, there was…
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Black Elk: The Afterlife of an American Indian
What does the afterlife of an American Indian look like? Is it different from what you and I can expect? Black Elk (1863-1950) was a shaman and visionary who twice visited the land of his ancestors. His second trip was induced by an exhausting, ecstatic “ghost dance” ritual in the Lakota homelands of what is today South Dakota. He was 24…
