This Week in the Unexplained: PURSUE Files, a Connecticut Sasquatch, and Mothman Comes Home The strange stuff never takes a week off — and this one delivered on every front we cover on U.S. Phenomenon. Here's what's trending in UAPs, cryptids, and the unexplained heading into this week's show. The Pentagon's Fifth UAP Release Keeps the Files Coming Earlier this month, the Department of War dropped its fifth batch of documents through PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Re

It's not just Washington state and Skamania County dealing with strange lights lately. Halfway around the world, a small Tasmanian community has been staring at the sky every night for over a month, and even the mayor wants answers. It Started Over a Mountain Called Mother Cummings Peak According to local reporting, residents of the Meander Valley region first spotted glowing orbs hovering near Mother Cummings Peak at the start of July. That alone might have been dismissed as

A routine delivery run turned into a paranormal encounter for one man in Ecuador last week, and the photo he snapped has been making the rounds ever since. A Figure in White on a Lonely Road According to local media, the unnamed witness was driving to a banana plantation near the city of Vinces when he spotted what looked like a woman standing in the road ahead, dressed in white with long black hair hanging over her face. He got his phone up in time to capture the image befor

Every UAP witness has said some version of the same thing: whatever they saw did not behave like anything explainable, and half the frustration is that our own eyes are simply not built to catch everything that is really out there. A new pair of glasses out of China might change that. Humans Are Infrared Blind Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology, publishing in Science Advances, point out that human eyes only pick up a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, rou

Author Derrick Warfel sits down with U.S. Phenomenon to talk about his book UFOs and GOD, and why the line between the two questions may not be as clear as we think.

This week we've covered a billionaire's private pitch to the President, an orb-plagued town on the other side of the planet, and a Pentagon document dump breaking records for volume. All of it points to the same question: if disclosure really is coming, what does it mean? Coming up on U.S. Phenomenon, we're bringing on someone with a very different answer than most of Washington is offering. Meet Derrick Warfel Derrick Warfel isn't your typical UFO author. He is a Princeton g

If you had one hour alone with the President, what would you say? Las Vegas aerospace billionaire Robert Bigelow already knows, because he did it, and this week he told 8 News Now investigative reporter George Knapp exactly what happened. Seven Reports on the Resolute Desk Bigelow, a longtime Trump supporter who has spent more than four decades and tens of millions of dollars chasing the UAP question, says he met privately in the Oval Office earlier this year. A staffer clear

Bigfoot season never really ends around here, but this stretch has been busier than most. From a DNA claim making the national rounds to a fresh sighting right in our own backyard, here is the roundup. The Snake Stuart DNA Claim Charles Stuart, better known as Snake the Bigfoot Hunter, says he found decomposing remains in New York's Adirondack Park back in 2024, an eight-foot, 300-pound specimen he nicknamed Dack. He put the body on display at last year's Great New York State

It has been a loud few weeks in the disclosure world, and this week alone gave us a fresh document dump straight off the presses. Here is everything on the U.S. Phenomenon radar right now. The Mother Orb Report Back in June, AARO director Jon Kosloski signed off on a report describing a strange two-day event from October 2023: law enforcement officials watched an orange orb release a series of smaller red orbs, silent and moving in ways that do not match flares, drones, or kn

This weeks podcast. Seattle has a long and uncomfortable relationship with true crime history, and that backdrop is exactly why Mind of a Serial Killer feels so resonant at Pacific Place. Rather than recycling the same sensational headlines, the experience leans into serial killer psychology, criminology, and the science of investigation. The conversation in this episode follows that same path: why people are drawn to true crime podcasts and documentaries, what we can actuall