UFO News: Odds and Ends From Around the Internet
Los Angeles, CA, Dec. 8, 2025 – Editor’s Note: The following three short stories were culled from around the internet during November 2025:
DEL TORO GET CHASED BY A UFO
In a recent conversation with James Cameron, Academy Award winning Director Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water,”) described an incredibly scary UFO encounter he had years ago.
The story includes the fact that the craft chased him. "I cannot describe the fear I felt... like I was a dog in front of a tank,” del Toro said.
The video can be seen here: https://x.com/camille_harman/status/1986903035587780739
EXTENSIVE UFO COLLECTION IN VANCOUVER TO BE AUCTIONED OFF
The story below appeared online in the Vancouver Sun Newspaper on Nov. 16 and was written by John Mackie. The article can be seen here: https://vancouversun.com/news/ufo-collection-vancouver-auction?ref=ufouapwtf.com
If the truth is out there about UFOs, it’s probably at Jeff Schwarz’s Direct Liquidation warehouse in East Vancouver. Schwarz is auctioning off the extensive collection of Chris Wyatt, a Californian who produced documentaries such as “UFOs: Above and Beyond” in 1997 and “Close Encounters: Proof of Alien Contact” in 2000.
There are filmed interviews for documentaries, a binder full of UFO photos from around the world, and all sorts of photocopies of documents from U.S. government bodies such as the FBI and the National Security Agency about unidentified flying objects. The highlight of the collection is a 1947 yearbook for Roswell Air Force Base in New Mexico, where the remains of a UFO and its alien crew were allegedly taken after it
“It’s extremely historically important,” said Wyatt over the phone from southern California. Why? Because the yearbook shows everyone who was at the base at the time of the UFO incident — and Wyatt said the air force rounded up copies and destroyed them.
Wyatt said he went to Roswell in 1997 as a guest of former U.S. government physicist Bob Lazar and film director Roland Emmerich, who had made the blockbuster UFO film “Independence Day.” Wyatt had a late-night rendezvous with several military officers who were in Roswell at the time of the alleged UFO incident.
“One of the gentlemen was on his deathbed,” he recounts. “He pulled me aside and said, ‘Listen, when the crash happened, one of the first things they did at Roswell Air Force Base was to confiscate all the yearbooks. They were afraid that if the press got ahold of them, they would find out (the truth). The military officers would be hounded by the press. They didn’t want the media to know who was there, and they wanted to cover it up.”
But the man kept a duplicate copy he had received. “The gentleman kept it for a number of years and gave it to me. He said, ‘Listen, you’re the guy to take this public. It’s not like a regular high school yearbook — near the front is a full-page photo of a nuclear detonation and the resulting mushroom crowd. Underneath are the words “A Bombs Away.”
There appears to be another copy of the yearbook at the Walker Aviation Museum in Roswell. But to people who believe in the Roswell UFO story, Wyatt’s copy is gold. So is a binder full of photos collected by Lt.-Col. Wendelle Stevens, an air force officer who dedicated his life to studying UFOs after he retired.
YALE UFO SOCIETY HOSTS PANEL CALLING FOR GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY
The story below first appeared online in the Yale Daily News on Nov. 21, and was written by Youssef Mazouz. The article can be seen here: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11/21/yale-ufo-society-hosts-panel-calling-for-government-transparency/?ref=ufouapwtf.com
The Yale Student UFO Society, an organization with the goal of “creating an inclusive space for people to discuss the mysteries of unidentified flying objects” per its mission statement, recently hosted a panel to discuss the state of public policy surrounding UFOs.
The panel featured three speakers who shared insights on UFOs: former National Science Foundation scientist Anna Brady-Estevez GRD ’09, former staffer on the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees Kirk McConnell and Dillon Guthrie, the co-founder of the Disclosure Foundation, a group that advocates for improved understanding of UFOs. About two dozen people attended the panel.
Sri Tata GRD ’27, the vice president of the group, wrote in a statement to the News that the goal of the event was “to foster critical dialogue on this topic that’s been often overlooked and is the subject of Congressional inquiry and transparency legislation up for consideration this winter.”
The transparency legislation refers to proposed congressional bill H.R. 1187, which, according to Congress’ website, serves to “require the release to the public of all documents, reports, and other records relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena, and for other purposes.”
Initially introduced in 2023 by South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds and then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the bill was initially intended to amend the National Defense Authorization Act and was closely modeled on the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection Act of 1992, which served to make public the assassination records of Kennedy after a number of years, according to a press release by senate Democrats in 2023.
The bill has since failed to pass despite garnering bipartisan support and being sponsored by Schumer on numerous occasions. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had previously supported the 2023 version of the bill proposed by Schumer and Rounds, when he was a Florida senator.
At the event, McConnell was critical of individual senators whom he would not name, claiming they conducted themselves in an unfavorable manner by refusing to assess the legislation based on its own merits. Remaining optimistic, however, McConnell added that the bill still had “a lot of interest and energy,” praising efforts by UFO enthusiasts to take investigative matters into their own hands.
He added that “it pains me to say this, but Congress should be out there fighting to protect these whistleblowers.”
“We meet with Congress, we want to be here in academic institutions to talk about this and take this seriously. We also want to talk with Silicon Valley, there’s economic possibilities and economic risks associated with this subject, and Wall Street as well,” Jordan Flowers, the Disclosure Foundation executive director who moderated the discussion, said. “We’ve been fortunate to find partners that are open minded, this topic clearly has a history of having a stigma associated with it.”
Claiming that many politicians were in fact aware of classified information, Guthrie cited a quote from President Donald Trump among other prominent government officials, in which he states, “we have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is.”
“There was a lot of hope, anticipation, that Trump would end up being the Disclosure president,” McConnell said in conversation with Flowers, expressing a general dissatisfaction with politicians not following through on claims to uncover classified intelligence after assuming office. “Maybe he doesn’t want to admit that there’s a force in the galaxy that’s more potent than he is,” McConnell added.
Brady-Estevez concluded the panel highlighting the importance of supporting research about off-planet exploration and other technologies.
For UFO Society students, the discussion of UFOs is a defining factor of the organization. “It’s a really strange topic but highly rewarding,” the group’s founder Sydney Morrison ’25 wrote to the News.
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