Anomaly Archives 2023 Year-in-Review
In the first two weeks of January 2024, Anomaly Archives founder SMiles Lewis gave a month by month review of his choice of the most interesting stories from the year 2023. Below are links to the audio and video versions of that two-part Year-In-Review Special Edition of Anomaly-NOW!
We hope you enjoy this walk down memory lane for the year 2023…
- Anomaly-NOW! 1/3/2024 – 2023 Year In Review Part One (YouTube Vodcast / YouTube Audio-Only) (Spreaker MP3)
- Anomaly-NOW! 1/10/2024 – 2023 Year In Review Part Two (YouTube Vodcast / YouTube Audio-Only) (Spreaker MP3)
Some other Year-in-Review shows…
- Binnall of America: The Revival – E11 | Greg Bishop 2023 YIR – BOA
- The Paranormal Year in Review 2023 – Jan 13, 2024 – Where Did The Road Go
Nearly 250 Top Year-In-Review News Links… from our Anomaly Archives Flipboard Zine
January 2023
- Astronauts, Historians, Scientists, and Officials Convene to Discuss Stigmas Surrounding UAP – International Symposium on UAP Research (France Oct/Dec 2022)
- The “Psychonauts” Training to Explore Another Dimension
- Made in the 956: Local librarian writes book about UFO’s
- 12/30/22 John Kiriakou on the CIA, FBI, JFK and 9/11
- Cedar Park Lights in the Sky with Strange Reflection [Police Drone]
- Did Aliens Land on Earth in 1945? A Defense Bill Seeks Answers.
- New UFO report shows hundreds more incidents than previously thought
- OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (PDF)
- 259 issues of the “North Texas Skeptic” newsletter – as searchable PDFs
- UFO Intelligence Report Raises New Concerns About Government Transparency
- The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Using Multimodal Ground-based Observatories | Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation
- An explication of The Distortion Theory: IN SEARCH OF THE “ENGINE” OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH UFOS by José Antonio Caravaca
- Mysterious Antennas Are Appearing in Utah’s Hills and Officials Are Stumped
- Building blocks of life found in meteorite that crash landed in Gloucestershire
- “Very Bright… Rotating White Light” UFO over Texas Described by Pilot in FAA ATC Recordings – 2148 EST 11/10/2022 | 0248 UTC 11/11/2022 – The Black Vault
- We’ve Lost the Plot
- Scientists Worried Humankind Will Descend Into Chaos After Discovering Alien Signal
- Before book-banning wave, the FBI spied on people’s library activity
- Neil Turok on the case for a parallel universe going backwards in time
- Anomaly-NOW! 1/25/2023 – Show Relaunch, UAP Report, Trinity 1945 UFO Crash and Jacques Vallee
- The Five Stages of Lucid Dreaming – IONS
- ‘Were the Gnomes of Wollaton Park Intelligent Light Forms?’ by Mave Calvert
February
- Video: Mysterious Artwork Visible From Space Discovered Near Las Vegas
- ‘It’s now come to our doorstep’: Librarians find themselves at the center of increasingly bitter culture wars
- Anomaly-NOW! 2/8/2023 – “It’s Just a Weather Balloon…” UFOs, UAPs, Roswell and Hot Air
- Anomaly-NOW! 2/15/2023 – TrUFOs vs UFauxs
- A Tiny Apelike Humanoid May Still Be Living in Plain Sight, Scientist Says
- Robbie Graham. May 9, 1981~Feb 17, 2023
- Balloons, UAPs and Chinese Spying – Kevin Randle
- Most UFOs – like the Chinese spy balloon – can be explained away. But what about the other 2%? – The Guardian
- Discovery of massive early galaxies defies prior understanding of the universe
- The day(s) the Earth (sort of) stood still – Billy Cox
- The Week That Might Change UFO History – NYMag
- Our Best Look Yet At The Chinese Spy Balloon’s Massive Payload
- Statement For the Press and Public Regarding Recent UAP Shoot-downs – Christopher Mellon
- A New Age of UFO Mania – The Atlantic
- Meteorite spotted by 2 aircraft in South Texas, ‘loud boom’ heard in the area
- After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make
- Climate change activist goes rogue releasing ‘mini volcanoes’ to cool atmosphere
- Lawmakers Want Briefings on This Weekend’s UFOs
- How embracing the paranormal could produce a deeper meaning of life – WDET 101.9 FM
- Dissecting The Grasshopper Abduction of 1974 February 2023
- Chip Gaines Bought Larry McMurtry’s Historic Texas Bookstore. Bring on the Shiplap?
- Coast-to-Coast AM – The Lubbock Lights
- All Living Cells Could Have The Molecular Machinery For a ‘Sixth Sense’
- Exhibit shines light on visit by ‘UFO’-like ship in the Edo Period | The Asahi Shimbun
- EXCLUSIVE: TWO Air Force vets have testified to witnessing mysterious objects TURN OFF ten nuclear warheads and shoot test missiles out of the sky at US bases in interviews with Pentagon’s UFO office
- AARO Interviews ‘UFOs and Nukes’ Witnesses
March
- Anomaly-NOW! 3/1/2023 – UFO/UAP News, Parapsychology, Memorials and More
- AI re-creates what people see by reading their brain scans
- PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA by Abraham (Avi) Loeb1 and Sean M. Kirkpatrick2 (PDF) – “leaked draft”
- Satanic Panic is Alive and Well in Southern Maryland
- Avi Loeb and the DoD’s Chief UAP Investigator Sean Kirkpatrick Say Solving Aerial Mysteries Requires Known Physics
- Anomaly-NOW! 3/8/2023 – Biological Anomalies and UFO/UAP News
- Seventh-century lodges, monetising the monster and selling to Disney: Meet the people whose businesses are thriving off the legend of Loch Ness
- SXSW 2023 has a meditation lounge with ambient music made by plants
- Anomaly-NOW! 3/15/2023 – Cargo Culture and Vallee’s Latest UFO Journal Revelations
- Americans for Safe Aerospace
- The U.S. is spending millions on ‘Havana Syndrome’ research – but it’s not clear if it exists – Geopolitical Economy Report
- Anomaly-NOW! 3/22/2023 – Guest Bryan Sentes on Inaugural Limina UAP Symposium
- Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests
- New Orleans East teens make ‘impossible’ mathematical discovery unproven for 2,000 years
- NORAD Intercepts Balloon Over Texas
- 2 megamouth sharks caught on video for the 1st time ever
- Anomaly-NOW! 3/29/2023 – Tx UAP Balloon, UFO cOld Cases, Cryptids and MORE!
April
- Strange animal caught on camera in south Texas park sparks debate
- ‘Bees are sentient’: inside the stunning brains of nature’s hardest workers
- SCU Publishes UAP Pattern Recognition Study of the US Military Atomic Warfare Complex
- Anomaly-NOW! 4/12/2023 – Sentient Bees and Gaian UFOs, Poisonous Birds and Atomic UAP
- Guidelines for Future UFO Researchers with Ray Stanford
- Anomaly-NOW! 4/19/2023 – Senate UFO/UAP Briefing Reviewed, SpaceX Spirals, ATX Rain Dome, and Mysterious Creatures Galore!
- Scientists Recording Ocean Sounds Picked Up a Mysterious ‘Buzz’
- Anomaly-NOW! 4/26/2023 – Anomalous Animal Deaths in Texas
May
- Scientists Detect Brain Activity in Dying People Linked to Dreams, Hallucinations
- Reality Check: There’s Almost Certainly No Serial Killer in Austin
- ‘Physicists identify new quantum state called “magic”
- UT creates device that reads minds, turns thoughts into text.
- Monster’ caught in Brazos River near Baylor University
- ‘Monster’ 31-pound striped bass caught at Lady Bird Lake in Austin
- Crash Story: The Trinity UFO Crash Hoax by Douglas Dean Johnson
- Anomaly-NOW! 5/3/2023 – Tx Cattle Deaths, Trinity UFO Crash Hoax, and More!
- UFO Hunters Built an Open-Source AI System To Scan The Skies
- “Sleep language” could enable communication during lucid dreams
- Anomaly-NOW! 5/10/2023 – FBI on Tx Cattle Mystery? Ray Stanford, UFOs and Lucid Dreaming
- Archives of the Impossible II: Transnationalism, Transdisciplinarity, Transcendence
- Targeted dream incubation at sleep onset increases post-sleep creative performance – nature.com
- ‘Dream glove’ boosts creativity during sleep – science.org – Sofia Moutinho
- Anomaly-NOW! 5/17/2023 – Unavailable
- “100%” Aliens Have Already Arrived -Dr. Garry Nolan & Alex Klokus | SALT iConnections New York
- ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Faces Senate Panel – The Wall Street Journal. – Ryan Tracy
- Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning – dnyuz.com – New York Times
- Some History of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Austin
- ‘Murderers’ and ‘criminals’: Meteorologists face unprecedented harassment from conspiracy theorists
- NASA Provides Coverage of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Meeting – nasa.gov (dashboard)
- NASA UFO panel in first public meeting says better data needed
- Nasa UFO team holds public meeting ahead of report – BBC News
- Public Meeting on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (Official NASA Broadcast)
- Historic press event on UAP/UFO disclosure in Washington, DC
June
- Unexplained Orb UFOs Are Flying “All Over The World”, Says NASA UAP Panel
- UFO Reverse-Engineering Project Should Be Made Public: Ex-Intel Official
- Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
- Whistleblower David Grusch – Need to Know (06-05-23)
- Military whistleblower claims US has UFO retrieval program
- Mysterious species buried their dead and carved symbols 100,000 years before humans
- NEISD signs historic agreement with NASA to open space academy in San Antonio
- Anomaly-NOW! 6/7/2023 – Can a Whistleblower Dog Whistle? UAP/UFO Crash Retrievals
- UFO/UAP Disclosure Press Conference
- Anomaly-NOW! 6/14/2023 – UFO Whistleblowers Week, Synthetic Aliens and Shamanic Initiations
- Astronomers, Scientists, and Experts Convene in Paris, France, to Study Aerial Mysteries
- Anomaly-NOW! 6/21/2023 – Canadian UFO Retrievals, Alien Octopus Overlords and Mini-Docs Galore
- Rubio: Recent UFO whistleblower isn’t the only one
- Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0
- Congress doubles down on explosive claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs
- Anomaly-NOW! 6/28/2023 – Historic Crash Retrievals, Contact Impact and Ridicule, +Streamathon 2020 Flashbacks
- UT Austin scientists discover first-known Jurassic vertebrate fossils in Texas
- Duo may have just broken record in Catfish Capital of Texas
- Texas largemouth bass confirmed as world record catch
July
- Anomaly-NOW! 7/5/2023 – 1st Saucers, 70th Anniversary, UFO Daze, Gravity Humz, Alien Octopi, Tx Plesiosaurs, Psych-Cults and More
- Learn about the chupacabra panic and other myths at HistoryMiami
- First Contact – STANFORD Magazine interviews Dr. Garry Nolan
- Bipartisan group of Senators push for release of UFO files
- The ‘UAP Disclosure Act of 2023’: What We Know About Chuck Schumer and the Senate’s New Push for UAP Transparency
- Senator Schumer pushes to declassify UFO documents
- Sen Chuck Schumer Leads Bill To EXPOSE UFO Gov’t Secrets: Rising
- ‘Non-human intelligence’: Schumer proposes stunning new UFO legislation
- A Brief History of Anti-Gravity, with Curt Jaimungal on Theories of Everything – The Daily Grail
- House Oversight hearing on UAPs to be held July 26: Rep. Luna
- Anomaly-NOW! 7/19/2023 – Bipartisan UFO/UAP Disclosure Imminent? Streaming Hearings? Hot Air?
- Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency – United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
- Anomaly-NOW! 7/26/2023 – UFO/UAP National Security Subcommittee Hearing Review and other news
- Pentagon UFO Boss Fires Back At Whistleblower Allegations (Updated)
- Texas oak tree thought to be extinct discovered in Big Bend National Park
- One of the rarest whales on the planet spotted south of Galveston, fisherman says
- Alleged ‘big cat’ spotted along East Texas road
- Scientists Control Human DNA with Electricity in ‘Leap Forward’, Study Reports
August
- Anomaly-NOW! 8/2/2023 – Guest Co-Hosts Chris Rutkowski & Curt Collins
- Why this Houston angler caught a huge alligator gar—and let it go
- How QAnon and Jan. 6 Ripped the Conspiracy Theory World Apart (retitled as: Even Conspiracy Theorists Are Alarmed by What They’ve Seen) by Annie Kelly, NYTimes OpEd, August 4th, 2023
- Alien Attack Unites Humanity
- Anomaly-NOW! 8/9/2023 – Conspiracy, Science and the Freedom to Interrogate Authority and Reality
- Terrified Peruvian villagers claim they are under attack from 7ft-tall ‘aliens’
- Flying 7ft-tall ‘alien’ attackers in Peru were actually illegal gold mining gang on JETPACKS
- Understanding UAPs with Robert Powell – Zipcode Zero
- Anomaly-NOW! 8/16/2023 – UAPology, Self-Transforming AI Machine Elves and Peruvian Hoverboards
- Alien Docuseries ‘Encounters’ Lands At Netflix From Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV, Boardwalk Pictures & Vice Studios
- Strange sighting: Hill Country Village baffled by mysterious creature
- We might have accidentally killed the only life we ever found on Mars nearly 50 years ago
- Mutology Researcher David Perkins Dies
- Vale to Pioneers Lee Spiegel and David Perkins – The Daily Grail
- Wonderful Friend and UFO Icon, Lee Speigel, August 15, 2023 – Podcast UFO
- Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners
- Loch Ness monster enthusiasts gear up for biggest search in 50 years
- UFO Whistleblower’s Think Tank Announces Major UAP Event
- Anomaly-NOW! 8/23/2023 – Farewells to Flying-Saucerers Spiegel and Perkins, plus other news
- Leading expert on UFOs celebrated at Fredericton museum | Watch News Videos Online
- Anomaly-NOW! 8/30/2023 – Loch Ness Lake Monster, Out-of-Place Animals, and Stan Friedman Day
- The Bizarre, True Story of Gef the Talking Mongoose
September
- Anomaly-NOW! 9/6/2023 – Izzy Zane’s Mind Kontrol Shrub Story and More
- Something Weird Is Going on With the Asteroid NASA Smashed
- NASA to Release, Discuss Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Report
- UFO Whistleblower Dave Grusch Tells Me Everything
- From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America
- EFR Announces Online UFO Archive
- Is the truth about aliens in this SLC archive? A Utah group is putting UFO docs online, Robert Gehrke writes.
- Anomaly-NOW! 9/13/2023 – Somber September Secrets
- Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report – NASA
- Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report – NASA
- NASA UFO Report: What the UAP Study Does and Doesn’t Say
- UFOs: What NASA’s New UAP Report Reveals | WSJ
- UPDATE: NASA Shares UAP Independent Study Report; Names Director
- Anomaly-NOW! 9/20/2023 – Ryan’s Grave Alien Mummy Misstep, NASA UAPology, and Haunted Hangouts
- Author and Conspiracy Theorist Kenn Thomas Passes Away
- Video: My Anomacon 2023 Presentation / Hermeneutics, Synchronicities and the UFOlogy Tarot Project
- Satellites Show Mysterious Fairy Circles in More Parts of the World
- Anomaly-NOW! 9/27/2023 – Farewells to Kenn Thomas and Carol Rainey
- 15 Years Ago, UFO Sightings Rocked a Small Texas Town. The Mystery Remains.
October
- Forbidden Science Dispatches #1
- ‘A hauntingly real tragedy’: Why Austin Ghost tours says national franchises are putting business at risk
- Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs
- New study finds mammals, including cats, can glow in the dark
- Anomaly-NOW! 10/4/2023 – 5G Zombie Apocalypse Starts Today?
- Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in Americas
- Texas red-crowned parrots: Something unusual was just discovered about them
- The 1st Americans were not who we thought they were
- Daughter of UFO Researcher James McDonald Wrote UFO Psychology Thesis
- The legend of the Hairy Man of Round Rock
- Utah AG Reyes Selective on Consumer Protection
- A U.K. University Will Confer a New Title: A Master’s Degree in the Occult
- Mysterious light spotted all over Texas Friday
- Dallyn Vico at Ariel: “The truth matters to me”
- Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Spared Being Declared Extinct for Now
- 2023 CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA (PDF)
- Eerie Texas ghost towns worth exploring this fall
- HILL COUNTRY HAUNTING: Eerie history at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer dates back to 1890s
- The Big Idea: Why We Should Take UFOs Seriously – Macleans.ca
- Experiencers: What Science Can Tell Us, with Dr. Tyler Kokjohn
- AARO Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick Holds an Off-Camera Media Roundtable – October 31, 2023 – The Black Vault
- UFO Nonprofit Brings Together Hollywood Storytellers With Phenomena’s Researchers
- Ed and Lorraine Warren: The shady truth behind pop-culture’s demon-fighting heroes
November
- Legend of the Flatwoods Monster
- UFO mystery over the Arctic Circle; Is the Pentagon hiding something? | Vargas Reports
- A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence From the Pentagon
- FOX 13 Investigates: Utah soldier charged with domestic assault has spent years in the courts (Video)
- Anomaly-NOW! 11/8/2023 – Animal Rebellion, ParaEntertainment Complex, & UFO News
- Are Aliens Real? We Asked the Pentagon’s Outgoing UFO Chief.
- Anomaly-NOW! 11/15/2023 – Sky Flashes, Laser Highway, Luminous Contrail ‘Fireballs’, Lucid Dreams and Nazi Doctors
- A Ghostly Nighttime Hum Is Invading Random Towns. Scientists Don’t Know What It Means.
- “UAP: THE SEARCH FOR CLARITY” (Video featuring Sean Kirkpatrick) HAYDEN CENTER TO EXPLORE UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA – Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security
- Mysterious Marfa Lights Capture Attention on Social Media
- Woolly Mammoth de-extinction project underway in Dallas
- The Sol Foundation: How a New Think Tank of Academics is Applying ‘Cutting-Edge Research’ to the UAP Mystery
- 11.20.23. The Sol Foundation: Academia’s Cutting-Edge UAP Think Tank – The Micah Hanks Program & @The Spotify | MHP 11.20.23. & @TheDebrief
- Anomaly-NOW! 11/22/2023 – Sol Foundation Initiative for UAP Research and Policy
- ‘A little bit of mystery’: Lake Worth Monster, other cryptids to be explored on nature show
- Anomaly-NOW! 11/29/2023 – SOL, JFK, and Crossing Blue Borders for NHI NonHUMINT
- (PDF) The ultraterrestrial hypothesis: A case for scientific openness to an “interdimensional” explanation for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena [The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2023, 55(1), 43–98]
- These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q* Project
December
- Anomaly-NOW! 12/6/2023 – CenTex Mayhem, Visions, Mind, Mandela Effects and MORE
- Ong’s Hat creator Joseph Matheny on the blurred lines between fiction and reality
- The National UFO Historical Records Center acquires archives of Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
- Anomaly-NOW! 12/20/2023 – An Aviary of UFOs, UAP, and TexMex Eagles
- The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last
- US Congress passes stripped-down measure to release UFO records
- Texas man’s photo of ‘black panther’ creates buzz. Wildlife experts say it’s not possible
- Chinese spy balloon used US internet provider to communicate its location
- AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans
- Huge audio collection now added to my (free) online UFO archive – Wendy Connors’ “Faded Discs” (MP3 files now with transcripts)
- Mystery note found in sealed cereal box
Anomaly-NOW! Podcast Playlist at our YouTube Channel
- Anomaly-NOW! 1/3/2024 – 2023 Year In Review Part One (YouTube Vodcast / YouTube Audio-Only) (Spreaker MP3)
- Anomaly-NOW! 1/10/2024 – 2023 Year In Review Part Two (YouTube Vodcast / YouTube Audio-Only) (Spreaker MP3)