2025, the Year in Review
It was a year of unprecedented UAP events. Here is a chronicle of what happened.
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Category: Features
Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part Six
Just about dusk on September 12, 1952, in Flatwoods, West Virginia, a bunch of kids playing ball, the one adult (Kathleen May, the mother of two of them), and 17-year-old Eugene Lemon, all witnessed some very strange things.
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Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part Five
The oft-discussed Tremonton, Utah, UFO film shot by Naval photographer Delbert Newhouse on July 2, 1952, rattled the Air Force Pentagon community, all the way to the point of thinking about changing USAF public policy. The available files indicate both complexity and gaps in our knowledge. The true story is tough to crack.
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Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part Four
We’ve been trying in this series to indicate how astonishingly open to UFO reality and speculation the US Air Force’s Pentagon office was when Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt was the head of Project Blue Book in 1951–1953.
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Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part Three
The photo is Brig. Gen. William Garland, who was Maj. Gen. John Samford's assistant in the Directorate of Intelligence at US Air Force Headquarters in the Pentagon. Because he is known to have been not only open-minded on UFOs, but also believed that he had himself seen one, historians of ufology have made the reasonable assumption that his presence at this level of command explains why the Pentagon took such a positive turn in its attitude in 1952.
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Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part Two
But once the young, overly confident Korean War veteran Lieut. Edward J. Ruppelt, from Grundy Center, Iowa, came to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1951 and was handed responsibility for Grudge (later renamed Project Blue Book), that changed dramatically.
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Peeking into the Corners of 1952, Part One
Any well-informed person should be aware of our past journey getting to this moment in UFO history.
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March 20, 2025: European UAP Day
European strategic autonomy has become a leitmotif in Brussels and in capitals across the continent. Nevertheless, an emerging field continues to be largely overlooked in this quest for autonomy—that of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
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Caught in a Bubble
Bubbles. What could they have to do with our favorite mystery? I must admit that the answer to that might be “nothing,” but let’s look at this a bit anyway.
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The 2024 AARO Report
Barry Greenwood offers a critique of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office's 2024 historical report in this exclusive CUFOS feature.
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What is the Truth?
History was made one summer day two years after the end of World War II. Nine silvery objects gleaming in the afternoon sun astonished a private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, as they flew at extraordinary speed past Mount Rainier, Washington, “like saucers skipping over water.” Newspapers dubbed these objects “flying saucers” and tallied several thousand sightings over the next two weeks in June–July 1947.
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Experience Anomalies
Human beings in all times and places have reported extraordinary phenomena, typically labeled (either descriptively or dismissively) as “supernatural.” Though reports of UFO-like experiences go back at least several centuries, claimed encounters with supernatural entities seem intrinsic to human life and history.
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