A cluster of lights hovered slowly over an active war zone in Tehran this week, almost exactly 50 years after Iranian Air Force jets lost all instrumentation chasing an unidentified object in that same airspace. Tonight, filling in on the panel, Sound Man Skeeter joins Jeremy to break down why the new footage is being compared to one of the most credible military UFO encounters ever recorded: the 1976 Tehran Incident.

Then in the briefing: a rigorous, peer-reviewed test of out-of-body experiences was designed to finally settle the question. While it failed on its own terms, it produced a result the lead researcher says she can't explain.

And in quick hits: Stanford says the human brain isn't one organ, it's two ancient nervous systems fused together over 550 million years; Loch Ness just had its busiest year on record; the Mothman Festival keeps exploding in size; a new test pushes on the edges of quantum mechanics; and a very expensive statue gets sunk in the Mediterranean on purpose.

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Three hundred episodes. Six years. And tonight, a voice this show hasn't heard from in almost a year sits back down at the table, just for one night.

This is a bonus episode, dropping outside our normal schedule, and there's no news tonight. Instead, we hand Jeff the entire year he missed, catch him up on everything Infinite Rabbit Hole has become since he's been gone, and close things out with the three of us talking about where the show goes next.

Turns out the mystery behind his disappearance wasn't much of one: an RV, some creative Starlink borrowing, and a year of chosen quiet. If you've been with us since the early days, this one's for you.

• Jeremy's Book: https://www.amazon.com/U-F-Elmwood-Cosmic-Puzzle/dp/B0GX1GBMZN
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InfiniteRabbitHolePodcast
• Website: https://InfiniteRabbitHole.com

The same week the government strengthened legal protection for UAP whistleblowers, it also released newly digitized footage through its disclosure portal, marketed as new evidence. It's actually the Tremonton, Utah film from 1952, one of the most heavily studied UFO cases in history, already picked apart by Project Blue Book, the CIA's Roberts Panel, and the Condon Committee decades ago. Multiple outlets called the release underwhelming; one called it a distraction outright. Real legal progress and a recycled old file, landing in the very same week.

Should we be worried? Anthropic's own CEO just gave the public a six-month-to-one-year timeline before a swarm of AI agents could take over the internet if safeguards don't catch up, a new poll shows most Americans now share that concern, and a leading AI researcher is publicly backing the alarm.

Also this week: science named its first new living cat species in more than a century, the Tilkeo cat, hiding in plain sight for years in a pattern that mirrors some of cryptozoology's most famous wins. Plus a Singapore data center running partly on living human neurons, hard mountain dew hitting shelves, a very specific million-dollar Bigfoot bounty, a UFO-only art exhibition, and a voice-controlled cryptid-hunting video game launching next month.

• Jeremy's Book: https://www.amazon.com/U-F-Elmwood-Cosmic-Puzzle/dp/B0GX1GBMZN
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InfiniteRabbitHolePodcast
• Website: https://InfiniteRabbitHole.com