Author: UAP Staff

Several recent TikTok videos showing compilations of children reported missing in Virginia have garnered millions of views. One video shows screenshots of missing children that appear to be from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s website, and had over 1.8 million views and nearly 350,000 likes as of Wednesday afternoon. Khang-Sofer says while the recent mass abduction theories are false, it doesn’t mean children who run away aren’t in danger. It also doesn’t mean they don’t deserve the attention of law enforcement to help find them.

In 2015, a US Navy F/A-18 pilot flying off the East Coast with the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt encountered something inexplicable: an unidentified flying object shaped like a spindle, hovering above the clouds with no visible means of propulsion.Encoded as “Gimbal”, the footage – officially declassified in 2021 – ignited global speculation about unidentified aerial phenomena and prompted serious questions about advanced aerospace technology beyond known military capabilities.Now, nearly a decade later, scientists in China have unveiled and successfully tested a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone whose form bears a striking resemblance to that enigmatic object. While still…

Until last week, I thought I knew the full history of research on inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness is the failure to notice a fully-visible but unexpected object or event when you are focusing attention on something else. I’ve been conducting research on the topic since the late 1990s, and I thought I was familiar with all of the work that came before mine. I knew all about Ulric Neisser’s work in the 1970s on selective looking, including many of his unpublished studies from that era. I knew about the dichotic listening studies that partially motivated his research. I knew about…

Alien: Earth Episode 6, “The Fly,” provided the series’s worst and scariest moment, where horror was created not by brutality but by an accident! The show took its audience by surprise with Tootles (Isaac), a hybrid kid, and left the creator of the series, Noah Hawley, to justify why the scene was “not by design an evil creature.” Instead, the eerie scene was to emphasize the randomness of peril and vulnerability of so-called immortal hybrids. According to Decider, Hawley explains that, “I sat down and I wrote what is probably the most disturbing scene that people will see on on…

The United States House Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to Penn President Liz Magill, requesting information about the University’s endowment. Credit: Chase Sutton A United States House of Representatives committee asked Penn for information about its endowment, citing alleged investments in “adversarial” entities. On March 15, the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means sent a letter to Penn President Liz Magill requesting information on three entities that Penn invests in which the committee has identified as “adversarial.” The letter asks Penn to identify the three entities and answer whether there has been an increase in these investments…

Editor’s Note: Mary-Christine (M.C.) Sungaila is a partner in the Newport Beach office of Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP and a professor in Space Law and Policy at LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She’s a two-time recipient of the California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY) Award; OC Women Lawyers Association Attorney of the Year, inaugural recipient of OC Hispanic Bar’s Judge Frances Munoz award and one of the Daily Journal’s Top 100 women lawyers in California for 16 years running. She’s a repeat nominee for the OCBJ’s Women in Business and Innovator of the Year Awards. The Business Journal’s…

Forget UFOs and alien abductions, here’s how scientists are really looking for life on other worlds.It is easy to wax lyrical about aliens. The prospect of life on other planets has shaped much of our culture and continues to inspire books, TV shows, movies – and the odd conspiracy theory of course. But amongst all the fantastical visions of little green men there is a real, actual hunt for alien life taking place right now, and it is not some fringe science or controversial idea. It is a systematic process that scientists are undertaking, with results expected in as little…

For researchers seeking answers to the question of whether we are alone in the universe, one event nearly half a century ago lingers even today — the so-called “Wow! Signal” detected back in 1977.That strong, baffling radio episode was captured by Ohio State University’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, also known as the “Big Ear.” It has been viewed by some as one of the oddest radio transmissions from afar ever detected, also cited as compelling evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence.The outburst was a strong narrowband radio signal received on Aug. 15, 1977 by Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio…

As magician and biohacker Anastasia Synn approaches her home, she tries to open the front door and finds it locked. She gently grazes her hand onto the lock, and suddenly she’s inside.This is no magic trick. Synn has a microchip implanted into the web of her hand acting as a digital key to her home, and she gave ABC News a demonstration. It’s just the first of 52 implants she’s had surgically placed, making her a Guinness World Record holder for most technological implants in the body.ABC News met Synn and other biohackers at the May 2024 Grindfest, an annual…

Recent research reveals that a blank mind may be closer to your brain’s default setting, while thinking and imagining are add-ons.Studies show that “mind blanking” is not daydreaming but rather an actual or apparent absence of thought. It may double as brain protection, to prevent you from burning out if you need rest, are anxious, or just need a break.However, you should be aware that certain medical conditions can also cause your mind to “go blank,” one neuroscientist says.In the stories we tell ourselves everyday, the pinnacle of existence is busyness and creativity. Just look at our beloved philosophers’ advice:…