By Margie Kay Was it a plane? A drone? A UFO? A local Los Angeles news station captured footage of a UFO while filming the out of control wildfires. A FOX affiliate's helicopter was hovering above the disaster when it captured an elongated-shaped craft moving quickly across the smoke from the fires. In the video broadcast, a small white dot moved across the lower part of the shot first, then at 9:03:45 you will see an elongated dark gray object move through the video. There have been several videos posted on YouTube, Facebook, and X that show UFOs flying around the wildfires. A UFO watcher on Reddit noticed the footage of the UFO in the newscast and posted it, causing many people to comment with different theories. What do you think it is?

By Margie Kay A woman from Kansas reported a Pterodactyl sighting to me yesterday. She said she was driving near the Flint Hills on December 21, 2024 before dusk when her husband, who was the passenger in their SUV said, "What is THAT?" He asked his wife to pull over to the side of the road, and she did. They both got out of the car and watched what they described as brown in color, huge, and Pterodactyl-like with a crest on the head and webbed wings. The two witnesses watched as the creature glided on air currents for approximately five minutes at 2,000 to 3,000 feet, then headed northwest from their position and out of sight behind hills. It only flapped its wings twice. The witnesses, who wish to remain anonymous, stated that they had lived in the area for most of their lives and had never seen anything like it. "It couldn't have been a plane or a drone," said the primary witness. "I've seen drones and this was just too big for that and even though it was the size of a small plane, it certainly didn't look like one." No photos were taken. A similar story about a Kansas Case is in my book, Winged Aliens, but it was in a different location many years ago.

By Margie Kay

By Violet Wisdom   Brain Rot, a term first coined by Henry David Thoreau was announced as the Oxford Dictionary word of 2024. It won the ranking after having been used 250% more on Tik Tok from 2023 to 2024. Maybe the word of the year for 2025 should be irony?   Brain rot: (n.) Supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration. Oxford Dictionary Grathwohl, Casper “Oxford Word of the Year.”  Corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year , Accessed 01-01-2025   Full disclaimer, having no time machine or the ability to channel, my understanding of who  Henry David Thoreau was is based on my own interpretations of his writings and those of scholars who have written about him.   Henry David Thoreau Image: Wikimedia I do believe most would conclude that Thoreau saw his existence as a necessary journey to find out how to live with meaning despite a social construct that tempted the opposite. This aligns with the mid-19th century philosophical movement of transcendentalism (by no means the same thing as modern transcendental meditation groups commonly referred to as cults). What made Thoreau stand out amongst his deep-thinking cohorts was his choice to fully walk away from societal expectations. He truly did walk into the wilderness, built a small cabin and lived there for two years. He even went to jail for refusing to pay his taxes because he was ideologically opposed to some of the ways they were being used. Without getting into the weeds of how he would make a little money selling pencils or as a surveyor, visit friends and often rely on Ralph Waldo Emerson for financial support, he practiced what he preached. He also never received much income from his writing during his life. According to the Walden Woods Project, only over 700 copies of the self-published 2,000 copies of Walden were sold. Other references to the early copies of the book state even less were sold.   Printed in hundreds of languages, according to Cape Cod Times , [1] there are thirteen translations just in Japan. While there are over 75 editions of Walden, the Princeton University Press edition sells an average of 6,000 copies yearly. Thoreau’s first edition came out in 1854. In 2017, The Guardian listed it as #64 out of the top 100 best nonfiction books ever printed. Why establish the eventual success of the book so profoundly? For 170 years, millions of us have gone to Thoreau for his wise philosophy as guidance. We continue to find relatability to the society he felt was such an antithesis to human existence many years ago. Oh, and his fears of potential brain rot are becoming a reality.   Our brains are atrophying. Have you ever seen someone’s arm or leg after it’s been in a cast for a month? The extremity becomes small because it has lost so much muscle from not being used, the brain is like a muscle. Use it or lose it  applies. According to The National Library of Medicine [2] , the  World Health Organization  found that students with high media use (screen time) were experiencing anxiety, depression, lower attention spans, memory loss and regressed comprehension. Several years ago, it was discovered that the hippocampi, the part of our brain that navigates is shrinking. Whatever part of our brain learns to drive while listening to directions coming from our smart phones is doing just fine.   Our brain is an efficient little melon. When we’re having a conversation about our favorite movies growing up and no one can remember the name of that one movie, you know, the one about the dog and the baseball game? (Absolutely made that up, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it existed). Our brains no longer have to send a thought messenger to the dusty file room of useless memory. Instead, the messenger whispers, “google it.”   Here's an interesting concept; we can tell our brain no . At that point, the messenger will shake its head and slowly descend to the cerebellum basement. It might not get back to us until 3 a.m., but if the information exists, it will find it.   I’m by no means saying we should all walk into the woods dropping our laptops, tablets and smart phones as we go. Technology isn’t as much the problem as how we use it, or how we allow it to use us. What I am saying is that instead of buying into the usual January motivation of trying to look like a super model, focus instead on keeping the body AND the brain healthy.  Exercise the mind spending time in nature, create phone-free zones, engage in a distraction free conversation. Read something printed on paper and process every word. Pay attention to the sunset, it is always to the west.   If you were really enjoying the whole Thoreau thing (which I do so much I went to Concord, Massachusetts on a personal pilgrimage), here are a few of his quotes:   “I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man” ~Civil Disobedience   “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” ~Walden   “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run” ~Thoreau to H.G.O. Blake 3-24-1848   And finally….   “While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?” ~Walden     [1] “Walden at 150”, Steve Gran, The Hartford Courant, Aug. 9, 2004, updated Jan. 6, 2011 [2] The impact of the digital revolution on human brain and behavior: where do we stand? Korte, Martin, Prof Dr, TU Braunschweig, Zoological Institute, Dept. Cellular Neurobiology, 2020,  Creative Commons Attribution License

By Faun Grey

Two Portland men died while searching for Sasquatch in Skamenia County Washington in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The two men, aged 37 and 59, were found dead of exposure after a search party which used dogs, drones, and US Coast Guard air asset with a FLIR camera found the bodies of the men. The men were reported overdue on Christmas Eve by family members. A 60-person volunteer search party participated in the effort, fighting harsh weather conditions over the holidays.

Chevy Tahoe Photo: cargurus.com A vehicle in Sugar Creek, Missouri has a mind of its own or is haunted by a spirit. The 2015 Chevy Tahoe, owned by Tarrence T. recently started acting strangely - but only when he talks about selling or trading in the vehicle. The first incident occurred in 2019 while Tarrence was driving down the street with his wife in the passenger seat. He brought up the subject of trading the vehicle for a larger pickup truck when suddenly the music he was playing stopped and the word "Message" scrolled across the screen of the radio. A few minutes later, the radio came back on and the message disappeared from the screen. The couple said that nothing like that happened before. See the video of the ghost car moving on its own On January 24, 2019 the vehicle again reacted to Tarrence and his wife, yet they didn't know about it until an hour later. The couple has a security camera system installed on their house with a monitor in their living room. Tarrence's wife decided to scroll back and look at the past couple of hours when she noticed the Tahoe suddenly move backward on the driveway. They looked at the time stamp and realized that the vehicle moved at that exact time they had been discussing selling the vehicle again. The couple has ruled out any possibility of the vehicle having an issue that would cause it to move independently. It was in park and had been parked for hours on the driveway that has a very small slope before it moved. They checked for any recalls, and there were none. But that was not the end of the story - the exact same thing happened a week later when the subject of selling came up again! After the three strange events occurred only while the couple discussed getting rid of the vehicle, they are of the opinion that it is just too coincidental and that the Tahoe just does not want to be sold. Can vehicles have intelligence or is this one haunted by a spirit?  Who knows, but one thing is certain - this is a highly unusual set of circumstances. If you know of a haunted vehicle we'd like to hear about it - contact us at kunxradio@gmail.com .

By Violet Wisdom When you grow up with tradition as a child you have a tendency to think that your tradition is everyone’s tradition. Everyone makes goals for New Year’s and counts down to midnight right? Okay, I admit, I rarely make it past ten p.m. anymore, but when I was younger… Anyway, everyone eats pickled herring on New Year’s Eve, of course.  Imagine my shock when I became a Missouri resident and couldn’t find pickled herring anywhere except the local Scandinavian shop in our uptown. Come to find out, Missourians eat black eyed peas on the last day of the year. Very few of them even knew who Bob and Doug McKenzie were, let alone made watching the movie Strange Brew while wearing thermal underwear and a touque a part of their yearly routine.  Whether you eat pickled fish or spotted beans to ring in the new year, there are even more interesting traditions throughout the world and there are some pretty solid reasons behind them, most of which are based on ushering in a new year filled with prosperity. As part of researching this blog I threw out a social media post asking everyone to share their own traditions, several will be included in the following list of the Whats and Whys of NYE! A woman eating pickled herring for good luck in the coming year Photo: Unsplash We’ll start with the herring.. I knew this was a Scandinavian thing to some degree, but was unsure if it had been more widely adopted in northern states regardless of personal genealogy. The latter still remains a mystery. My Aunt clarified that at least in our family, the tradition traces back at least five generations to my Great-Grandmother when she lived in Ohio. This side of the family is part German/Slavic as are the origins to the tradition. Herring has silver scales and was a great source of income for fishermen in Northern/North Eastern Europe. Eating it on NYE came with a wish of a prosperous coming year.  Black Eyed Peas- Most of the responses I got to my query involved these popular legumes. Some also included pork and collard greens. The tradition of the peas is primarily believed to come from the Civil War. It is said that the Union Army took much of the food when they came through the south, except the peas. Having the peas left in their possession gave southerners sustenance and hope. Some also say the peas represent coins as in the southern saying, “ Peas for pennies, greens for dollars and cornbread for gold” Collard Greens are green like money. They are eaten specifically with prosperity in mind. Pork is considered a Germanic tradition being a staple meat in the region. It can be cured and kept safely throughout winter and counted on a source of protein.  All three can be cooked together for a fantastic meal.  Other prosperous foods around the world include rice in India, round (ring shaped) fritters in the Netherlands, and 12 grapes (One for each month of the year) in Spain. A Clean Start To the New Year- In Brazil, people wash all their clothes and wear white except for their underclothes. The white is to keep darkness away, the colorful undies are for luck. In South Africa homes are tidied up and anything unnecessary is gotten rid of, often by throwing the old out the window. Interestingly, some traditions are quite opposing, believing that cleaning on New Year’s would lead to the need for constant cleaning for the coming year.  Extend kindness- In Belgium everyone must receive a New Year blessing, including the livestock. I’ll be trying this with my chickens, who knows, maybe we’ll get more eggs this year.  Start the Year Positive- People in Ecuador send any negativity from the previous year away by burning scarecrows. Appalachians would walk their property line with a willow branch smacking the ground to remove any bad luck, also using a hawthorn branch would prevent lightning strikes and thievery.  With each generation our traditions change and evolve with the times. I think I’ve only watched Strange Brew  once since having a family of my own. We wear regular clothes, eat snacks and often play a game. Many others responded in kind, having a family dinner, watching the year end Big Fat Quiz Show  or Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve  (Now hosted by Ryan Seacrest). Even with these modern means of celebration, nearly everyone had one that has generational origins. However it is that you plan to usher in 2025, we wish each and everyone of you the happiest New Year! Have a tradition to share? Comment here on the blog or on our social media .

By Margie Kay Large drone in flight Image: AdobeStock When I first heard about the drone sightings in New Jersey in mid-November, my first thought was that they must be our own military or an adversary. Now, I'm not so sure. After conducting over 1800 UFO investigations on my own during the past 40 years and as an investigator for a well-known UFO organization, I found some similarities to UFO sightings. Each of these things are typical of UAP reports: Car clocks and microwave and stove clocks change time when one of these objects flies over a car or house. What kind of energy field, or anti-gravity field is being created by these drones? Not a standard one, I am sure. Personal drone and camera batteries drain instantly after being 100% charged. People reported trying to get a better look at the big drones by using their personal drone, but the batteries died almost instantly. The drones are the size of an SUV in some cases - far larger than any hobby drone or commercial drone, and very expensive. This size drone is usually used by the military. Yes, some officials insist that the drones are hobby or commercial drones. The drones have been seen in restricted airspace around airports, military facilities, and government facilities, including the Capital Building, yet they are not shot down. The question is, why? A few pilots report trying to lock on yet it won't work. And they don't show up on radar. I have been working on a number of cases in rural areas in Missouri for the past 15 months. Some of the activity in the skies matches that of the drones being seen worldwide, including the loud sound normally produced by a helicopter or plane. This brings a new question to light - just how long have these things been surveilling us - if that is the purpose? Loud booms are being reported around the U.S., including in my hometown of Kansas City, yet no explanation is given. Drones are seen shortly after the sound is heard. Is it possible that a portal opening is occurring to make that sound? If so, we are definitely dealing with high technology coming from an outside source, Unless our own military has that capability. Some of the so-called drones seemingly split into two. Some of these objects have been observed dissolving and disappearing into thin air. This is not typical of standard aircraft. Personal drone: Image credit: engadget.com I did some checking for large commercial drones the size of a car just to get an idea of the price and found one by Echang. The company announced the "184" Personal Flying Vehicle (PFV). It's about the size of a (very) small car, and can hold one human (up to 260 pounds) plus a backpack anywhere within a 10 mile/23-minute flight time reach. The vehicle can move at 62 MPH and fly up to 11,000 feet. The cost is between $200,000 and $300,000. So this leaves out the average prankster wanting to get attention by flying hundreds of large drones. I may be going out on a limb here, but in the absence of any reasonable explanation for the above phenomena, we may be left with the one thing no one wants to consider - potential alien surveillance or recon mission. For what purpose, one can only ponder. Perhaps the Web Bot was right about an imminent alien invasion.

By Margie Kay

By Faun Grey