DAILY BRIEFING
Saturday 14 November 2026. The day’s UFO and UAP news in brief, each item with its source.
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13 NOV 15:05
EXPLAINER
AARO's balloon ruling on Iraq 'jellyfish' case contrasts with still-unresolved Alaska sighting
The Pentagon's AARO office previously concluded, with high confidence, that a 2017 infrared 'jellyfish' recorded over Al Taqaddum Air Base in Iraq was a cluster of balloons drifting in the wind, HackerNoon reports, citing AARO's published case file. The office has not examined a similar-looking object filmed in June near Anchorage's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, and investigators note the available footage lacks a second camera angle, original uncompressed files, or a verified radar track. Separately, the analysis group UAP Globe told Tech Times UK that the Alaska object's shifting outline is consistent with a kite, balloon or drone trailing loose material, but said it could not confirm the object's identity, size or exact location from the low-resolution clip.
Source: HackerNoon. Also: Tech Times UK
3 reports from Alaska in our files -
13 NOV 07:03
REPORTED CLAIM
Shape-shifting object outside window leaves Oregon mother and daughter feeling sick
A mother and daughter in Wilsonville, Oregon, have told the National UFO Reporting Center they saw a transparent, silvery object outside their window on 25 August that changed from a rectangle to a large sphere to a small sphere, roughly as wide as three aircraft, WION reports. Both said they felt nauseous, lost their balance and had intermittent headaches through the night afterwards. NUFORC investigator Keith Bickford checked with local drone operators, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office and Wilsonville Police, found no corroborating reports or radar data, and classified the case as an anomalous sighting without identifying the object.
Source: WION
15 reports from Oregon in our files
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