Beverly, Massachusetts, August 1965: The Night Police, Radar Operators, and Radar Screens Couldn't Explain the Lights Overhead
On August fifteenth, nineteen sixty five, the skies over the northeastern United States became the stage for one of the most puzzling chapters in that year's extraordinary summer of unidentified flyin...
15 Aug 4min
Perseids Fade But a Centuries-Old Cosmic Mystery Still Burns Bright
On August fourteenth, as the Perseid meteor shower winds down from its peak, skywatchers across the globe still gather in dark fields and hilltops, hoping to catch the last bright streaks of cosmic de...
14 Aug 44s
The Kentucky Meat Shower: When Flesh Fell From a Cloudless Sky in 1876 and Science Still Can't Explain Why
On August thirteenth, back in eighteen seventy six, something fell from the sky over Bath County, Kentucky that still puzzles people to this day. It's become known as the Kentucky Meat Shower, and yes...
13 Aug 4min
The Perseids' Impossible Sound: Why Some Skywatchers Claim Meteors Hiss and Crackle in Total Silence
Tonight, as the calendar lands on August twelfth, the skies over the Northern Hemisphere are staging one of nature's most reliable light shows, the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Bits of ancient c...
12 Aug 4min
Shadow Bands of 1999: The Eerie Eclipse Ripples Science Still Can't Fully Explain
On this exact date back in 1999, something delightfully strange rippled across the skies of Europe during one of the most spectacular total solar eclipses of the twentieth century. As the moon slid fu...
11 Aug 4min
The Great Daylight Fireball of 1972: When a Skimming Asteroid Grazed Earth and Bounced Back Into Space
On this very date back in 1972, the skies over North America put on one of the most astonishing displays ever caught on film, a spectacle that came to be known as the Great Daylight Fireball. It happe...
10 Aug 4min
Mystery Booms: The Unexplained Sound of the Seneca Guns
On this eighth day of August, let's talk about one of the strangest ongoing mysteries in the natural world, something people call skyquakes, and folks along the eastern seaboard of the United States h...
8 Aug 3min
Marfa Mystery Lights: 140 Years of Ghostly Glow Still Defies Explanation in West Texas Desert
Let’s point our flashlights toward West Texas tonight, because somewhere out on the vast, dark scrubland east of Marfa, the lights are almost certainly dancing again, just as they have for well over a...
6 Aug 4min
