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Illustration of a light beneath a dark sea, a distant vessel, and the words What Went Under?

USOs, Shag Harbour, and the evidence beneath the story | Field Notes 003

Hey everyone, One light was still on the water. By the time the boat could reach it, it was gone. That detail in the early Shag Harbour paperwork stayed with me. A disappearing light in the sky leaves you looking up. A disappearing light in the ocean leaves you standing over the place where it might still be. Something Under the Water, Episode 003 of Unknown Origin, is now ready to explore. Watch the full episode: Watch Something Under the Water Listen or read the transcript: Listen and read...

13 days ago • 1 min read

Dramatized Pascagoula scene from Unknown Origin Episode 005; illustrative synthetic cast, not a historical photograph.

After the encounter, how do you go home? | Unknown Origin 005

The encounter ends. The rest of a life begins. That is the question at the heart of Episode 005: After the Encounter. When the questions stop and the cameras leave, there is still a working day, a family, and a life to return to. This episode follows Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker after their reported Pascagoula encounter, then turns to Betty and Barney Hill. It asks what public attention, memory, and the passage of time can do to a story—and to the people carrying it. Watch the full film...

9 days ago • 1 min read

ONLY ONCE? Conceptual space and signal artwork for Unknown Origin Episode 004; not original Wow! signal data.

The Wow! Signal: What If We Only Hear Them Once? | Field Notes

Hello, Six characters on a computer printout: 6EQUJ5. They look like something waiting to be decoded. But they record the measured strength of a signal—not an extraterrestrial sentence. That difference is where the new Unknown Origin episode begins. Episode 004, What If We Only Hear Them Once?, is now available in 4K. We follow the Wow! signal from the work of listening into a stranger problem: what happens after receiving something we cannot explain? Watch the full episode on YouTube → Watch...

14 days ago • 1 min read

Illustrated UFO and three figures beside a truck at night; What Do They Want? Unknown Origin Episode 2.

UFO Encounters, Strieber & “Soul Containers” | Field Notes 002

A man leaves the path and pushes into thorny palms. Whatever is behind him, the shelter he chooses tells you something about how badly he wants to disappear. That is where Episode 2 begins. With a person trying to hide. What Do They Want From Us? follows reported encounters in Argentina and Brazil, then enters Whitley Strieber’s accounts and a much darker question: when people call humans “soul containers,” what are they actually claiming—and where did that claim come from? I wanted this...

20 days ago • 2 min read

Four strange UFO encounters—and the questions they leave behind

What if the most important part of an encounter was the part we did not know how to describe? Welcome to Unknown Origin Field Notes. I’m Bill Van Nort. This is a place for the details that stay with us after an episode ends: the source trail, the uncertainty, and the questions that get bigger the longer we sit with them. Our first episode follows four reported experiences in Italy, New Zealand, Australia, and Finland. None establishes extraterrestrial contact. Each challenges the assumption...

21 days ago • 2 min read