Date of sighting: Oct 2, 2026Location of sighting: Snohomish, Washington, USASource: NUFORCThis orb was spotted coming over the Washington state mountains last week. The glowing…
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Records released by the National Security Agency to The Black Vault in September 2025, and now being published online by The Black Vault, provide additional…
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DEBELT, BULGARIA—According to a Live Science report, remains of a man, two iron knives, and a belt have been discovered in a huge dolium, or storage jar, in a gate tower at the site of the Roman colony of Deultum in southeastern Bulgaria. Roman soldiers at Deultum battled East Germanic tribes and Huns during the…
LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a Phys.org report, Alex Tutwiler and Rachel Schats of Leiden University examined the spines of more than 140 children and young people who lived in the Netherlands between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. These children worked hauling milk and cheese at rural dairy farms, and in urban factories where they spent…
A painting of a red Rainbow Serpent with three dog-like creatures painted over part of its tail (top) and a version of the image enhanced with DStretch (above) QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA—Phys.org reports that a new study of Aboriginal artworks in northern Australia’s Arnhem Land suggests that massive paintings dating to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries may…
LEDMSI is shown photographing the soil profile at Sorte Muld on Bornholm using different wavelengths of light. AARHUS, DENMARK—According to a statement released by Aarhus University, a team of researchers has developed an LED multispectral imaging system (LEDMSI) that can be used in the field to examine a site before excavating it. The system uses…
A meter-long scorpion with massive pincers stalked ancient Britain 415 million years ago, long before forests and the better-known age of giant insects. Its surprising size and possible semi-aquatic lifestyle could reshape ideas about how early arthropods became giants.
WINDMILL WAY, AUSTRALIA—A dozen wallaby teeth, each bearing a ball of glue-like resin, were discovered in a rock shelter in northeastern Australia, according to a Phys.org report. Ornaments made with teeth are usually found in burials in southeastern Australia, however. Using clues provided by Elders and Rangers from the local Laura community, researchers including Lynley…
Engraved sculpture fragments MIT RAHINA, EGYPT—According to a report in La Brújula Verde, a team of researchers from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Shanghai Museum have uncovered domestic structures and workshops near the Temple of Sekhmet in Memphis, an ancient capital city in Lower Egypt. The buildings were made of adobe, reused stone…
3D reconstruction of the Sabazios vase piece COLLET, SPAIN—Phys.org reports that a ceramic vessel unearthed at a rural Roman villa on the coast of northeastern Spain suggests that a minor Eastern cult had spread to the western edge of the Roman Empire. Researchers led by Marc Bouzas Sabater of the University of Girona determined that…
İZMIR, TURKEY—Türkiye Today reports that three possible public spaces and several wall paintings have been discovered in Smyrna, an ancient Greek city on Anatolia’s Aegean coastline, by a team of researchers led by Akin Ersoy of İzmir Katip Celebi University. The newly uncovered spaces date to the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. and were found…
KOLOMNA, RUSSIA—A hoard containing some 2,600 silver coins has been unearthed in western Russia, Live Science reports. A.V. Engovatova of the Russian Academy of Sciences said that the fifteenth-century coins had been placed in a ceramic jug and buried in what is now the historic center of the city of Kolomna. Most of the coins…
