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On 24 November 1971, a man boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle, carrying what he later told flight attendants was a suitcase bomb. Once airborne, he threatened to detonate it if they did not follow his instructions. He allowe

A family from Magwegwe North in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, has been under relentless assault from an energetic poltergeist since last November. The family, who have understandably preferred to remain anonymous, have three children aged 13, 12 and eight, and

The perfect starting point for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the ever-changing landscape of UFO research, this special edition from Fortean Times presents classic cases covering nearly 80 years of ufology – from the first modern UFO sighting i

A 35-year-old woman driving at night along State Road 50 in Brooksville, Florida, stopped to see if she could help when she spotted a car that had crashed into the central reservation. As she investigated the wrecked GMC Sierra, its driver jumped int

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Last year, Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb led a controversial expedition to the waters off Papua New Guinea in search of what he believes to be a meteorite from outside the Solar System that could be the remains of technology from an alien civilisation.

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To some he was a miraculous healer, to others a quack and a charlatan. He was an accidental pioneer in the early days of American radio broadcasting, but to most he’s remembered as the notorious ‘goat glands’ doctor. Dr John Romulus Brinkley was all

Following the mysterious appearance of a 10ft (3m) tall shining steel obelisk in a remote location in a Utah canyon in 2020, found by ranchers carrying out an aerial count of the region’s bighorn sheep, the world seemed briefly seized by monolithoman

Dir Mitch Jenkins, UK 2023 On digital platforms A Million Days is a British sci-fi drama that belies its limitations to produce an engrossing and complex chamber piece. The Earth is experiencing a catastrophic environmental disaster and a ‘Space Seed

On the evening of 10 October 2023, my son and daughter and I were eating dinner in a local Mexican restaurant in Tucson, Arizona. We were eating soft food with the usual restaurant utensils. I told my son the anecdote about how Uri Geller got a woman

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