U.S. Power Grid Faces New Stress as October Heat Triggers Emergency Measures
Credit: Karthik Swarnkar | Unsplash An October electricity emergency highlights the increasingly difficult task of maintaining reliable power as extreme weather and expanding energy demands collide with essential infrastructure maintenance. An unusually warm October has prompted federal officials to authorize emergency measures to protect one of America’s largest electricity networks, raising fresh concerns about the nation’s ability to maintain reliable
Know Your Sky: A Glowing “Space Jellyfish” Appears Over the Eastern U.S.
A luminous, tentacle-like cloud spread across the predawn sky Tuesday, creating an otherworldly spectacle with a surprisingly straightforward explanation. An enormous, glowing formation resembling a translucent jellyfish appeared in the early morning sky Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, captivating observers across portions of the southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States. Its luminous body and spreading, tentacle-like trails looked almost otherworldly, but the
Siberian Lab Death Raises Plague Questions — But What Is the Real Pandemic Risk?
Zakiya Lathan, News Editor, Digital and Audio A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute died from severe pneumonia of unknown origin. Pneumonic plague has not been confirmed, but the case highlights how quickly the disease can become fatal — and why international agencies monitor unusual outbreaks and laboratory incidents. A mysterious death at a Russian laboratory that studies plague
A Mysterious Death at a Russian Plague Laboratory Raises Public Health Questions
Zakiya Lathan, News Editor, Digital and Audio A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute died after a reported laboratory accident, prompting quarantines and medical monitoring. Russian authorities, however, have not confirmed that plague killed her. A laboratory worker has died in Russia’s Siberian Irkutsk region amid conflicting reports that she may have contracted pneumonic plague after an accident at
Starships, UAP, Close Encounters, the X-Prize and an Incredible Human Future
Whitley Strieber I spent yesterday afternoon and evening at the home of author Peter Diamandis at a meeting to discuss a new X-Prize. Avi Loeb, Ryan Graves spoke, as did Peter Skafish and Garry Nolan of the Sol Foundation. I was given a few moments to introduce myself from the audience and say a bit about the close encounter
Bodies, Reptilians and Disclosure: Analyzing David Grusch’s Extraordinary New Claims
David Grusch testified under oath before the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security on July 26, 2023. Zakiya Lathan, News Editor, Digital and Audio The former intelligence officer says he saw video of alleged nonhuman bodies and describes Grays, reptilian beings, telepathy and conflict among NHI. But much of the story has striking precedents in decades of UFO literature. Former