Current Field Program
A Mount Shasta expedition begins a week of instrumented skywatching
Organizers advertise thermal cameras, synchronized multi-camera recording, workshops, and nightly observation; no findings from the new expedition have yet been published.
Briefed August 10, 2026 · Aliens in the Clouds
Confirmed
The ‘Encounters: Chasing the Unknown’ expedition began near Mount Shasta on August 9 and is scheduled to continue through August 15. Its public program describes a small-group field effort led by investigators and a documentary producer, with thermal imaging, multi-camera recording, night-sky photography, workshops, and review of captured material.
Those are useful ingredients for observation, but an event description is not a research result. The page reviewed this morning provides no new capture, calibration record, synchronized data set, or independent analysis from the current expedition. Any later claim should be judged by the original files, exact time and location, sensor settings, astronomical and aviation comparisons, weather, and a documented path from collection to publication.
Why it matters
A current field program offers a concrete chance to see whether civilian investigators publish enough metadata and comparison data for outsiders to test what they record.
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