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In Bonnybridge, a picturesque Scottish village at the apex of an area dubbed the Falkirk Triangle, extraterrestrial encounters and UFO sightings are almost commonplace

Bonnybridge, a quaint Scottish village, has become the world's UFO capital with about 300 sightings each year, surpassing even Area 51 and Roswell in notoriety. Nestled within the so-called Falkirk Triangle, Bonnybridge is a hub for extraterrestrial experiences, from alien abductions to sightings of cigar-shaped spaceships.

Dubbed the 'Roswell of Scotland' and likened to the Bermuda Triangle for its mysterious allure as a potential portal to another dimension, this hotspot has drawn government scrutiny and prompted appeals to four Prime Ministers for assistance.

One chilling episode from 1992 involved friends Garry Wood and Colin Wright, who reported being captured by aliens in a flying saucer near Tarbrax, South Lanarkshire, while delivering a satellite TV system. At around 10pm, they encountered a "black" object in the sky, devoid of lights, round at the bottom, segmented into three parts, and measuring 30ft wide.

The friends were left stunned after blacking out for what they estimate was 10-15 seconds. When they regained consciousness, their car had completely spun round in the opposite direction. Checking the time, they had lost a whole hour.

Secret government “X-files” contain a two-page report on what became known as the “A70 incident” - sent to the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk in 1996, four years after the encounter.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

The model, which upends the decades-old "hard steps" theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event, suggests that maybe it wasn't all that hard or improbable.

In the new study, the researchers proposed that the timing of human origins can be explained by the sequential opening of "windows of habitability" over Earth's history, driven by changes in nutrient availability, sea surface temperature, ocean salinity levels and the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.

Given all the interplaying factors, they said, the Earth has only recently become hospitable to humanity—it's simply the natural result of those conditions at work.

The encounter occurred around 7 p.m. Wednesday in Bela Rosa, a community along the Purus River in the southwestern Amazon. Barefoot and wearing a small loincloth, the young man appeared calm and in good health as he waved two wooden sticks.

The villager said locals believed the man was asking for fire. Smartphone video of the encounter showed one resident trying unsuccessfully to show the man how to use a lighter. Funai officials arrived soon after, and after the man was served fish, he was taken to a nearby facility operated by the group.

A member of the nearby Juma tribe — whose original population has dwindled to just three women — was expected to arrive at the base on Friday to try to communicate with him.

Source:

Funai monitora interação de indígena isolado de Mamoriá Grande

https://www.gov.br/funai/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2025/funai-monitora-tentativa-de-contato-de-indigena-isolado-de-mamoria-grande

The Documented buildings and the rest of the archaeological city, spanning approximately 12 square kilometers including the oasis, require intensive efforts. A specialized team should be deployed to accurately document the current state, assess the extent of damage, evaluate the incurred losses, and re-document and register the remaining preserved architectural elements.

The Palmyrene Voices team, in collaboration with the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums, is capable of completing this task if adequate support is provided.

In recent years, archaeological research has demonstrated the presence of abstract non-utilitarian behaviour amongst palaeolithic hominins, fuelling discussions concerning the origin and implications of such complex behaviours. A key component in these discussions is the aesthetic and symbolic character of intentionally incised artefacts.

In this study, we emphasize the geometry of the incisions as clues to intentionality. 

While the Qafzeh, Quneitra and Manot items are isolated initiatives in their chronological and geographic contexts, the shared traits of the intentional engravings underscore their predetermined nature.

White dwarf stars are formed when a sun-like star dies, puffing out its outer layers and leaving behind its exposed stellar core. This process is violent and should be the end of habitability in a system, but new simulations show that might not be true. Researchers compared the climates of hypothetical exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs. They found that rocky planets in orbit could be more habitable than previously thought.

A recent study published in the journal Atiqot described a tomb found at the Motza archaeological site in the hills of Jerusalem, dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, according to Jerusalem post. The excavations at Motza, conducted between 2018 and 2020, uncovered one of the largest concentrations of settlements from this period in the area. The research was carried out before the construction of Highway 16, the third access road to Jerusalem from the west.

The tomb contained the remains of a woman who may have played a spiritual role or acted as a shaman in her community. Anatomical analysis indicates that the woman was over 15 years old at the time of her death. Notably, she had six fingers on her left hand, a characteristic that in ancient cultures was often interpreted as a sign of distinction and spiritual authority.

Evidence is building for oceans of liquid water beneath the surface of many worlds across the Solar System—oceans that could contain life. The challenge, of course, is that these environments are hidden below tens of kilometers of ice. Even if we could sample the water from those oceans, another process could further hide evidence of life. Waters rich in organic molecules could separate into layers and resist vertical mixing, so it can't reach the surface.

The FOIA Electronic Reading Room is provided as a public service by the Directorate of Digital Innovation's Information Management Services. It has recently been enhanced and updated, and while many of the updates happened behind the scenes, we'd like to highlight several of the changes.

Here you can view documents released through the FOIA and other CIA release programs.

If you would like to view our previously released documents and collections, visit the Historical Collections page to Browse the Collections, which includes links to all collections previously found on the CREST: 25-Year Program Archive and Freqeuently Requested Records pages, as well as individual collections of documents on historically significant topics compiled by our office.

Please note that not all documents reside in collections, so you may wish to perform an overall document search as well as browse the collections you are interested in. You can search all the documents by using the search bar on the Advanced Search page.

Because of CIA's need to comply with U.S. national security laws, some documents - or parts of documents - cannot be released to the public. Specifically, the CIA has the responsibility to protect intelligence sources and methods from disclosure.

Under code names that included MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE, the CIA conducted terrifying experiments using drugs, hypnosis, isolation, sensory deprivation, and other extreme techniques on human subjects, often U.S. citizens, who frequently had no idea what was being done to them or that they were part of a CIA test.

Highlights of the new MKULTRA collection include:

• A DCI-approved plan in 1950 for the establishment of “interrogation teams” that would “utilize the polygraph, drugs, and hypnotism to attain the greatest results in interrogation techniques.” (Document 2)

• A 1951 memo that captures a meeting between CIA and foreign intelligence officials about mind control research and their shared interest in the concept of individual mind control. (Document 3)

• A 1952 entry from the daily calendar of George White, a federal narcotics agent who ran a safehouse where the CIA tested drugs like LSD and performed other experiments on unwitting Americans. (Document 5)

• A 1952 report on the “successful” use of ARTICHOKE interrogation methods that combined the use of “narcosis” and “hypnosis” to induce regression and later amnesia on “Russian agents suspected of being doubled.” (Document 6)

• A 1956 memo in which MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb signs off a project that would “evaluate the effects of large doses of LSD-25 in normal human volunteers” on federal prisoners in Atlanta. (Document 13)

• The 1963 report from the CIA’s inspector general, which led CIA leadership to reexamine the use of unwitting Americans in their covert drug testing program. (Document 16)

• The 1983 deposition of MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb in a civil case brought by Velma “Val” Orlikow, a victim of CIA-sponsored projects conducted by Dr. Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. (Document 20)

A woman in Cattaraugus, NY filed a report with the Unidentified Flying Object Reporting Center on January 29, claiming a possible abduction experience. The resident claims they've had experiences like this one many times before. The latest alleged encounter happened early in the morning January 23, according to the filed report.

The person says their encounter "began in a dream" where they said they first saw a relative who had passed away. But then, this so-called "dream" suddenly takes a very nightmarish turn, as the Upstate New York resident claims they witnessed what they described as "gray aliens".

The resident's report goes on to state that "one was very close" to them during their encounter. But could this entire so-called close encounter have been imagined in this person's head?

The unidentified woman says that she finally woke up, but couldn't fall back sleep after the very weird encounter. But her claims get even wilder and darker from here.

The woman said in her report that later that morning she "bled heavily", and thought that they "got (their) period early but it later stopped". The woman says that this has happened before, and they even said that they "fear I've[sic] carrying an embryo which they remove, causing me to bleed."

Scientist details strange sights at 'Australia's Skinwalker Ranch' .. Reality Check

Neuroscientists call it cross-modal association and, for a long time, assumed that humans were the only creatures able to make such associations. In this new effort, the researchers found that macaques make such associations, suggesting there may be many other animals with the ability.

The work involved playing spoken human words or vocalizations by monkeys to several individual macaques. After each sound was played, the macaque was shown a picture of the item mentioned by the human voice, an apple, for example.

After repeating the exercise several times with several macaques, allowing them to make an association between the sound spoken and the image that was displayed, the researchers played the same words or vocalizations by a different person or monkey to see if the macaques responded to them in the same ways.

The researchers found that the macaques did respond in much the same ways, suggesting they had made associations between the picture of the object and the actual meaning behind the word, and not the way it sounded.

Identifying conspiracy theories

Researchers found that existing methods to reduce belief in conspiracy theories often encourage people to simply dismiss all conspiracies rather than discerning which information is likely to be true from the majority that is not.

Researchers identified a new approach that improves people's critical thinking and allows participants to distinguish between plausible and implausible conspiracy theories more effectively.

Critical thinking skills and an analytical mindset are the most effective means of challenging conspiracy beliefs.

Summary

Conspiracy theories are a persistent feature of human society. They are built on a recognizable structure, arise from understandable psychological and social needs, and spread rapidly in the digital age. While completely eradicating them is unlikely, a combination of education, platform responsibility, and thoughtful communication can help to mitigate their harmful effects and promote a more informed and rational public discourse. It is key to help build trust with society and their institutions.

A fossil from China that’s 150 million years old may be the world’s earliest known bird. The discovery shows that the short tails characteristic of modern birds evolved much earlier than previously thought.

Birds evolved from theropods, a group of dinosaurs that included tyrannosaurs and velociraptors, during the Jurassic period. Archaeopteryx, discovered in 1961, has long been considered one of the earliest birds in the fossil record. But its position on the evolutionary tree is debated because, despite having feathered wings, Archaeopteryx is more similar to non-avian theropods in having a long, reptilian tail.

The new fossil was found in Zhenghe County in Fujian province in November 2023 and has been given the species name Baminornis zhenghensis. Only the trunk, forelimb, pelvis and part of the hindlimb are preserved.

Baminornis lived at the same time as Archaeopteryx but it has a short tail like those of modern birds, pushing back the date of this evolutionary innovation by 20 million years.

In a groundbreaking use of teleportation, critical units of a quantum processor have been successfully spread across multiple computers, proving the potential of distributing quantum modules without compromising on their performance.

While the transfer only took place over a space of two meters (about six feet) in an Oxford University laboratory, the leap was more than enough to emphasize the feasibility of scaling quantum technology by teleporting quantum states across an 'internet' of connected systems.

Teleportation is a quirk of physics that only makes sense through a quantum lens, where objects exist in a blur of possible characteristics until processes of measurement force them to adopt each state.

By mingling the undecided states of different objects in an act known as entanglement, and then carefully choosing the right kinds of measurements to make on one, it's possible to use the answers to force an entangled object some distance away to adopt (and destroy) the original object's quantum identity.

It might not be the kind of teleportation that would beam passengers through the vacuum of space in a blink, but it's perfect for sharing the blur of information necessary for logical operations in a quantum processor.

Source:

Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08404-x

While most animals reproduce sexually, some species rely solely on females for parthenogenetic reproduction. Even in these species, rare males occasionally appear. Whether these males retain reproductive functions is a key question in understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies.

Males engage in mating but do not contribute genetically

The rare males actively mated with females, just like typical males. However, genetic analysis confirmed that no male-derived genes were passed on to their offspring. The study further revealed that these males do not produce functional sperm, rendering them incapable of restoring sexual reproduction in the species.

With the discovery of two interstellar objects, astronomers have learned that material is freely drifting around the Milky Way. So what about the closest star system, Alpha Centauri? According to a new paper, asteroids and comets are constantly escaping the grasp of the stars in the system and making the journey to the Solar System. The journey takes about 10 million years, and they estimate there could be about 1 million large particles from Alpha Centauri already here.

Astronomers have used JWST to scan the Main Asteroid Belt located between Mars and Jupiter, finding the smallest ever seen in that region. During their short time with JWST, they turned up 139 new asteroids, which range in size from 10 to 500 meters across. The size of asteroids showed an interesting pattern, with a break in size at around the 100-meter mark. This suggests that small asteroids are constantly smashing, creating smaller rubble.

In August 1990, two hikers sent photos of a strange diamond-shaped aircraft to the press – but the story never appeared. Was it a prank, a hoax, an optical illusion or something else entirely?

Craig Lindsay was a press officer at the RAF base in Pitreavie Castle in Dunfermline, 50 miles away, when the Daily Record got in touch a few days later. The hikers, who worked as chefs at Fisher’s Hotel in Pitlochry, had sent six photos of the diamond to the newspaper and told their story. The Record’s picture editor, Andy Allen, sent Lindsay the best of the bunch.

Lindsay had never seen such a clear photograph of a supposed UFO, so he forwarded the picture to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), which told him to ask the Record to send the other five photographs and their negatives. The MoD also instructed him to phone the hikers, which he did. One of them told Lindsay the whole story: the diamond, the jet, how it levitated eerily with no sound and accelerated with no obvious propellant.

The MoD told Lindsay to leave the case with them. He pushed the diamond to the back of his mind.

We don’t know if the Record was handed a D notice, but Pope has confirmed that the MoD prevented the release of the photographs. He told a 2024 UFO documentary, The Program, that if the Record had run the story “it would have blown our standard line out of the water. Therefore, we wanted to bury this – and we did. All the photographs and all the negatives were acquired by the Ministry of Defence and they were never seen again.”

Everyone knows that a big rock wiped out the dinosaurs. But the danger from an asteroid hitting Earth is not limited to ancient history. To deal with this threat, scientists recently ran an experiment to deflect a potential “city killer.” We’ll hear the results of that experiment, and about a visit to another asteroid. In the dusty material NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists found the chemical building blocks of life, including many of the amino acids that are found in our cells. Could an asteroid have brought the ingredients for life to ancient Earth? In this episode, we look at our paradoxical relationship with the space rocks that taketh way – and may help giveth - life.

We recently reported that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1% chance of striking Earth in 2032. Now astronomers have revised their estimate to 2.3% for a direct strike on Earth. This might sound a little scary, but don't worry, this is normal when there are initial asteroid discoveries and the orbital uncertainty is still wide. Over time, better measurements will be taken, and the chances of a dangerous impact will almost certainly go down.

Dr. Jeffrey Kripal & Karin Austin "Introducing the Archives of the Impossible"

The Sol Foundation

When the team found the larvae in Morocco, they were occupying the termite mound's food chambers. Once in the laboratory, they observed that the fly larvae tended to settle in the most populated areas of the nest, where they received constant attention from the termites, which preened them using their mouthparts.

Although the team was unable to reveal their diet, they were able to observe trophallaxis-like behavior: the termites appeared to transmit food to the larvae using their mouths. "The larvae are not only tolerated, but they constantly communicate with the termites through contact with their antenna-like tentacles. The termites even seem to feed them, although this has not yet been unequivocally demonstrated," explains Vila.

The team stresses the difficulty of keeping these insects in the laboratory, as it involves maintaining colonies of desert termites, which live in very special conditions. "The larvae we studied eventually died without metamorphosing, so there may be elements of the nest and the symbiotic relationship between the termites and the flies that we were unable to transfer to the laboratory. Their diet is currently unknown, and their adult form remains a mystery," adds Vila.