Where's Amelia?

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/amelia-earhart-plane-update.html.
Another expedition has landed on Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island. The atoll in Kiribati has long been a focus of investigation into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan, see background link above. A previous landing found some modern items like a woman's shoe, a zip and a sextant. Some bones were found that were never identified and could have come from anybody, seeing at the island used to have a transient population. This new team landed on the now uninhabited island last week to focus on the "Taraia object". This was something spotted on Google Earth in 2020 that pundits thought might be the wreckage of Amelia's Lockheed Electra aeroplane. It was lying on the seabed inside the lagoon in quite shallow water near the beach. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmq5n8x106jdo. The investigators from Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute proceeded with caution, not wanting to get their hopes up. As you can see in the background link, in May last year there was a false lead and disappointment. Regrettably the Taraia object has turned out to be a collection of fallen trees. I actually think it's unlikely Amelia landed on the island. We know that even in the initial search, the US Coast Guard considered this a possibility and overflew Nikumaroro carefully. They saw no aircraft debris or any people there. I'm sure Amelia or Fred would have come out into the open and made themselves known had they seen the plane flying overhead. That being said however, the absence of physical evidence or bodies does not rule out the theory completely. Had Amelia and Fred died on the island their corpses would not have lasted long. The resident coconut crabs are known to be very aggressive. They're sometimes called "robber crabs" because they will literally snatch food out of a person's hand. They are large land crabs which regularly hunt small rodents and birds, but will feed off larger prey if they are dead. So will we ever find Amelia Earhart? Possibly, but it's a long shot. Her plane, most likely with her and Fred inside it, is likely to be on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Finding anything down there is very difficult indeed. Like with MH370, a similar more recent loss, somebody will give it a try, I have no doubt. I wish them luck. I cover this subject in more details in the latest episode of Third Rail Radio, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/10/third-rail-radio-programme-257.html.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on The Secret Vault 2

 

I have been featured again on The Secret Vault, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bULU_fGZ8gk.
I appear only in the first thirty-six minutes. The host in Matthew Williams, a good friend I know through the conference circuit. We dicuss Matthew's recent admission to hospital.
See here for my previous appearance on The Secret Vault: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/09/ben-emlyn-jones-on-secret-vault.html.

Russell Brand Trial

 

Many people have asked me for my opinion on this subject. Russell Brand has been in court this week facing very serious criminal charges. He's being prosecuted on seven counts of sexual impropriety including rape, sexual assault and indecent assault. He has six accusers, all female, who claim he committed these offences against them between 1999 and 2009. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck8dz6m1d2n6o. There has already been a lot of reaction from the commentariat. The feminists have expressed the predictable mindless outburst of rage; their tirades could almost write themselves: "LOCK HIM UP! THROW AWAY THE KEY!... He 'Raped!' a "Woman!'. We know he's guilty because 'Women!' have said so. We do not need a trial!" If it turns out Brand really did it then, in my view, he is not the only one who needs to be jailed. He was a part of a media and entertainment industry that probably harboured him and gave him a sense of entitlement and immunity. We've seen this process with so many other celebrities. I really don't know if Russell Brand is guilty or innocent. We've not seen enough of the evidence yet. However, I will say this much; I am suspicious about how this trouble only came into his life when he started talking openly about conspiracy theories, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/03/icke-vs-brand.html. That's another familiar pattern that we've seen before with people like Julian Assange and Roman Polanski, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2010/04/ghost-writer.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/06/assange-is-home.html. The trial continues.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on the Paranormal Peep Show 36

 

I have been on the Paranormal Peep Show again. This programme features an interview with Roger Anderton. Roger has researched UFO's and space exploration, asking whether our understanding of physics might be incomplete or even wrong.
See here for the audio version: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/paranormal-peep-show-roger-anderton-einstein-physics--75807730.
And here for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKC5KCJYVWo.
See here for my previous appearance on the Paranormal Peep Show: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/07/ben-emlyn-jones-on-paranormal-peep-show.html.

Record Saved

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/08/rdr-to-close.html.

I have a very happy update on the background article above. The owners of the Roswell Daily Record have negotiated a rescue package. The New Mexico News Group is a media network that publishes a number of journals including the Santa Fe Reporter. It has agreed to purchase the RDR. This means not only that the famous newspaper will continue to be published, but that it will remain with a local publisher unique to the state of New Mexico and not some multinational conglomerate. The deal was brokered by Pat Davis of the Albuquerque City Council. He is also the founder of Ctrl+P Publishing, a partner of the NMNG. There will be inevitable changes to the business model though. The Record will be primarily a digital platform, free with ads and without a paywall. For old times' sake there will still be a paper weekly featuring unique local content... which will no doubt include any UFO crashes, should any more occur. There is also a crowdfunding campaign supporting this project by the "Citizen Media Group" which is trying to reverse the worrying trend in the United States towards the abolition of local journalism. Source: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/santa-fe-reporter-owner-steps-in-to-keep-roswell-newspaper-publishing/article_997e6cea-ca47-43ac-821d-20d7dafad998.html. To say that I am pleased by this outcome would be an understatement. This wonderful circulation of UFO history will continue.

See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

Praise the Paperback!

 

In 1962 a book was published by a small independent house in Ohio, USA. It was written by David Bunger, a pilot who had taken part in Operation Highjump back in 1946 and decided to write a "tell all" revelation of everything he knew and had kept secret for seventeen years. Shortly after the book was published it was withdrawn from print and the house sent recall orders to all the bookshops that were stocking it. They also requested that all people who had bought copies redeem them for generous refunds way above the cover price. Bunger died six years later in 1968. According to his family, they had been told by "somebody" never to mention the manuscript again. It was thought that the book had been successfully suppressed with every copy ever printed now in the hands of the government who, I'm guessing, made a big bonfire of them. However, in 2004 a single copy turned up at a car boot sale in Oregon. It had been hidden in a hollowed out space inside a bible. Somebody obviously had deliberately concealed it for forty-two years. The book was said to be the true story of Operation Highjump, something I myself have covered in a number of publications, for example: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/07/jack-of-antarctic.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2016/09/jack-of-antarctic-rip.html. David Bunger's book supports a lot of the alterative theories about this mysterious operation. What's more, I actually believe we should question the official story of Highjump and the people who took part in it; but there is a problem with this specific element. There is no evidence the book ever existed. We are never told any details about it; it's title, ISBN, publisher's name etc. The people who supposedly unearthed the one known surviving copy in Oregon have never been identified. This tale, in all likelihood, seems to be a piece of social media fiction. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7uhZPbKcBo.

That is not the point though. Whether the lost book by David Bunger is real or not, or even whether you believe that Operation Highjump was just a scientific expedition that just happened to need a massive naval taskforce and six hundred marines; it doesn't matter. The issue here is that if this story had been true and an insider, a whistleblower in other words, had decided to release a book that blew the lid off the secret, would it have worked in theory? My answer is, quite possibly. A book is a great way of revealing secrets. David supposedly released his book in 1962, but what if he had been writing today? Many authors don't bother publishing a real book at all; it is more expensive and time-consuming, for example the works by Si Rosser which I have reviewed, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-galileo-project-by-si-rosser.html. Most of these are only available on Amazon Kindle. Therein lies the problem, and regular readers will know where I am going here. To suppress a whistleblower's manuscript, or even just to edit it, in a world where there are only e-books, the powers-that-shouldn't-be would only need to press a button. This is why it is vital that we always, always get the paperback editions of our books, especially titles we know are about a highly sensitive matter and therefore run the risk of being quashed. A real paper book, once it has sold enough copies over a wide enough area, become virtually indestructible. The book-burners can never guarantee that they have destroyed every single copy. They never know if somebody has one hidden away in their attic somewhere; and indeed this happened historically when oppressive regimes fell. For this reason I have only released my own books as print-on-demand paperbacks, see the links below.
Roswell Rising is here!: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html.
Roswell Revealed is here!: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2017/10/roswell-revealed-is-here.html.
Roswell Redeemed is here!: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2018/12/roswell-redeemed-is-here.html.
It is far quicker, cheaper and easier to publish a paper book these days than it has ever been before. I understand the people who prefer an e-book if they are going on holiday and don't want to carry loads of books in their luggage etc; a little electronic reader device is so much smaller and lighter. I don't have an issue with people doing that for convenience. The issue I have is when people depend on it completely. I know people whose homes are bare of everything but electronic screens. They watch their TV and movies from on-demand sites, their books and newspapers on computer readers etc. Sure, they have far more space than I do. Their rooms are not cluttered by shelves of volumes and DVD cases, but what about when those sources fail? This is why I insisted on waiting for the DVD edition of Disclosure Day, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/09/disclosure-day-dvd.html. I do find it ironic and darkly apt that Amazon have named their e-book service "Kindle". It's a word that also means firewood. They're literally telling us what their plans are. Don't fall for it!
For background about the issue of book censorship, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/03/roald-dahl-memory-holed.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/12/1984-removed-from-kindle.html.

What Soul Sister?

 

I would like to put out an appeal to readers about a possible new Mandela effect. I have done this before and it turns out these ones were explained in mundane terms, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/03/mandela-effect-experiment-update.html and: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/08/bryan-adams-mandela-update.html. This time it is another musical one, a song from 1969 called Bold Soul Sister by Ike and Tina Turner, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN5OfsSqMiA. It's a bit before my time, but I got to know the song well because it was regularly played on a radio show I used to listen to in the early 2000's called News for the Soul. Amazingly the station still going: https://www.newsforthesoul.com. I recently came across the song again for the first time since those days and was surprised by its title. You see... I distinctly recall it being Born Soul Sister. I used to sing along with Tina every time it played (while constantly lamenting that the two of us were not chanting away together in the same place!). I'm curious if anybody else also remembers the song title being Born Soul Sister. If they don't then it really probably is just errors in my memory, like the Human League and Rod Stewart examples. It was announced recently that the Large Hadron Collider was being shut down, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/07/lhc-shutdown.html. Some people are calling this a kind of experimental control. In theory, no new Mandela effects should appear during these inactive years if CERN is responsible for the phenomenon. The problem is, Mandelas are difficult to time, meaning how do we know when they first appear? I might have next listened to the Turners' song next year, or 2028 or 2029. That doesn't mean that this would be the first occasion it flipped timelines to this one where it has a new title. It might have happened last year, or 2024 or 2023. I just didn't notice because I didn't listen to the song. So, please, dear readers, get back to me on this with your own recollections.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2025/09/cern-portal.html.