Latest observations, tips, and discoveries from the cosmos
The DIA's UFO injury paper rests on three antenna engineers hurt in a radio accident. Here's how it turns them into evidence for Cash-Landrum.
Ian Clayton
13 October 2026
CIA-UAP-014 is a 1952 CIA memo on Britain's UFO work: R.V. Jones, a 'perfect flying saucer' seen in Yorkshire, and a request for the Tremonton film.
Ian Clayton
7 October 2026
A giant planet may have formed from a dead star's ashes. Hubble data from 1999 and a rare metal, niobium, point to a planet born after its star died.
Ian Clayton
7 October 2026
The AAWSAP contract file shows exactly what the DIA paid Bigelow's BAASS: $21,948,810, a 21-day award, a second year cut by half, and no mention of UFOs.
Ian Clayton
6 October 2026
Astronomers have picked up the first radio signal from an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b. It's aurora, not aliens, and it shows a huge magnetic field.
Ian Clayton
5 October 2026
Project Sign's first report, DOW-UAP-D097, is now public: 100 UFO sightings from 1947, the Rhodes photos, and a Nobel scientist who wasn't convinced.
Ian Clayton
30 September 2026
Starship Flight 14 reached orbit on 28 September 2026 and released 26 Starlink satellites, despite losing an engine on the way up. Here's what happened.
Ian Clayton
29 September 2026
Delbert Newhouse filmed the 1952 Tremonton UFOs. His newly released Navy file shows a 19-year photographer the Air Force called 'extremely honest and reliable'.
Ian Clayton
29 September 2026
The Navy has released 1,019 pages of Scott Bray's UAP emails from 2020 to 2022. We read them: the UFO video release, a 'UFO debris' query and 60 Minutes.
Ian Clayton
26 September 2026
Why did Project Blue Book end? The Pentagon's file DOW-UAP-D092 shows the 1966 review, with Carl Sagan on the panel, that led to the Condon Report.
Ian Clayton
23 September 2026
The Tremonton UFO film's Blue Book file shows the Air Force privately calling it unresolved in 1953, then planning to say 'balloons or gulls' anyway.
Ian Clayton
22 September 2026
UFO whistleblowers Grusch, Borland and Brown have asked Trump for immunity to speak publicly. The Pentagon's NDA waiver only lets them talk to PURSUE.
Ian Clayton
21 September 2026
The Pentagon's sixth UFO file release, 18 September 2026: 72 files. The AAWSAP warp-drive papers are old news; an injury study and a 1952 tape are not.
Ian Clayton
19 September 2026
A new crater on the Moon, 222 metres wide, formed in spring 2024 and went unnoticed for 17 months. What NASA found, why nobody saw it, and whether you can.
Ian Clayton
18 September 2026
The Los Alamos UFO letter in the Pentagon's files (DOE-UAP-D003) is described as a report of strange lights. It's a one-page astronomy club meeting notice.
Ian Clayton
16 September 2026
Asteroid 2026 RW1 hit Earth on 6 September 2026, seven hours after a telescope in Arizona found it. It is only the 13th asteroid ever caught before impact. Here is the full list.
Ian Clayton
15 September 2026
Alien technology on the Moon: SETI and UCL scientists say a cubic metre of lunar soil could hold microscopic debris from long-dead civilisations. Here's the plan.
Ian Clayton
14 September 2026
A supernova in NGC 7331, SN 2026aaiv, has faded to about magnitude 13.4 in Pegasus. Here's where it is, what telescope you need, and the best UK nights to catch it.
Ian Clayton
12 September 2026
The NSA UFO files include a Top Secret UMBRA cable about a 20-metre spiral of light with a black centre. Here's what page 322 actually says, line by line.
Ian Clayton
9 September 2026
Saturn's decagon is a new 10-sided wave around the south pole, found by Hubble and amateur astronomers. What it is, how it compares to the hexagon, and how to see Saturn now.
Ian Clayton
7 September 2026
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit from Norway on 5 September 2026, the first orbital launch from Western European soil. What it means for the UK.
Ian Clayton
6 September 2026
Neptune is at opposition on 26 September 2026, but don't look that night. The full Moon lands on the same day, 9° away. Here's when to look instead, and how to find Neptune using Saturn as your signpost.
Ian Clayton
5 September 2026
Aurora forecast UK, ISS passes tonight, Moon phase tonight and a postcode dark sky finder: five new free tools on WatchTheStars, all built for UK skies.
Ian Clayton
4 September 2026
AARO is arranging a five-year subscription to NUFOHRC, North America's largest private UFO archive, with Hynek's Blue Book files. Why it needs them.
Ian Clayton
4 September 2026