Know Your Sky: The Moon Visits the Seven Sisters — One of Humanity’s Most Mythologized Star Clusters
Credit: Ganapathy Kumar | Unsplash On Oct. 27-28, the Moon will appear near the Pleiades, a star cluster that has inspired ancient legends, seasonal traditions and modern extraterrestrial contact narratives. As Halloween approaches, the night sky offers an encounter between two familiar celestial sights — the Moon and the Pleiades, a star cluster whose mythology […]
Trump Says He’s Still Looking Into UFO Disclosure — but It’s Not a High Priority
President Trump says military pilots have described extraordinary aerial encounters to him, but his latest remarks leave unanswered questions about the administration’s commitment to UFO transparency. President Donald Trump says his administration continues to release government records concerning unidentified flying objects, but he acknowledged during an Oct. 15, 2026, interview that UFO disclosure is not […]
Whitley Strieber and John Mack’s Archives Enter the Spotlight in AMC’s New Archive X
AMC’s six-part Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena draws on more than 1 million records at Rice University, including material from Whitley Strieber and Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack. A question that has occupied Whitley Strieber and Unknown Country for decades moves into mainstream television tonight: Are experiences labeled UFO encounters, telepathy, contact with the dead and […]
Mothman Turns 60 as Point Pleasant’s Mystery Moves Into Academia
Sixty years after the sightings that launched the Mothman legend, Point Pleasant is celebrating while folklorists are taking a closer look at how one of America’s strangest anomalous episodes became part of the country’s cultural memory. Sixty years after four people reported encountering a strange winged figure outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Mothman has accomplished […]