Enigmatic News Digest: 10-09
Top stories this week: the NYTimes' look at Trump's UFO panel findings, AARO withholding classified UAP records from Congress, Comer's planned post-election UAP hearing, and a new alien-world signal discovery.
The $40 Toy and a Mind Matter Mystery
Can your mind move plasma? A 2023 study says the streams inside an ordinary plasma ball shift when someone aims intention at it, from inside a sealed chamber, at 1-in-17-million odds. I'm replicating it in my basement. Here's why it's worth a serious look.
Do we really need a Valdivia Sphere Too?
The Buga sphere was the premiere. The Valdivia sphere is the sequel nobody asked for. A breakdown of the 5-step credibility laundering pipeline damaging the UFO field.
Replicating the Princeton PEAR Lab Plant RNG Experiment
Can plants affect the ordering of random numbers? Can they bend probability to give them an edge in their growth?
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Enigmatic News Digest: 10-09
Top stories this week: the NYTimes' look at Trump's UFO panel findings, AARO withholding classified UAP records from Congress, Comer's planned post-election UAP hearing, and a new alien-world signal discovery.
Enigmatic News Digest: 10-02
This week: Navy's massive Scott Bray UAP email dump, Grusch's "beautiful dead aliens" claim, mystery over a destroyed US spy satellite, new Noah's Ark site drilling results, and a North Sea dive that may debunk a medieval legend.
Enigmatic News Digest: 09-25
Top stories: Pentagon's new UFO document release, a massive cache of Scott Bray UAP emails, and questions swirl around a "never-before-seen" DoD video that actually aired in 1956. Plus Galileo Project triangulation results, Tutankhamun hidden-chamber evidence, and Mothman's 60th anniversary.
Enigmatic News Digest: 09-18
Top stories this week: the Pentagon's new UAP waiver and what it may unlock, Ross Coulthart on nonhuman intelligence claims, a peer-reviewed out-of-body-experience study, and a deep dive into a Cold War nuclear security mystery.
Enigmatic News Digest: 09-11
Top stories: a staffer's claim of "recovered crafts and beings," the retraction of the bombshell Great Pyramid study, Burchett on UAP disclosure at the White House's "highest levels," and a new Space Force classified launch.
Enigmatic News Digest: 09-04
This week: an MP says he was misled on UK Five Eyes UFO cooperation, White House reportedly authorized a secret 1954 UFO retrieval program, AARO seeks private UFO records, and a dark matter detector finds something unexplained.
Enigmatic News Digest: 08-28
Top story: Coulthart says metals recovered by Russia from an alleged UFO appear non-terrestrial. Also: Grusch's message to Trump on UAP disclosure, mysterious 'little red dots' in deep space, and an unexplained ancient stone structure found in Scotland.
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Analyzing UFO Sightings Databases with Generated Code
Using generative AI and natural language processing on multiple UFO sighting databases, we finally have the tools to answer questions like Hynek first posed in 1972
Revisiting the Tinley Park Lights
175 strangers filed independent reports about the same thing. 96% agreed on the color. 100% agreed on the sound. I ran the data on the Tinley Park Lights.
Lessons Learned Building a UFO Classifier
My first approach to analyzing 152,000 UFO sightings had a 34% accuracy rate. I almost published it anyway. Here's what went wrong with semantic embeddings, why I pivoted to LLM extraction, and the methodology that actually worked.
Classifying the Unknown: A Taxonomy of UFO Sightings
I claimed triangles are nocturnal. That disks are 5x more likely to involve entities. That shadow beings terrify while light beings inspire awe. Here's the sighting ID index so you can verify it yourself.