Short Note / Jun 03, 2026
Anthony Shaffer's "curl your toes" UFO files line still needs a file name
Anthony Shaffer said secret UAP records contain material that would "curl your toes." The phrase travels well. The file name has not traveled with it.
On June 1, retired U.S. military intelligence officer Anthony Shaffer said in a Down To Earth With Kristian Harloff segment that secret UAP records contain material that would "curl your toes."
Harloff played a short clip on his June 1 show that he attributed to A Current Affair. The clip runs through three recent items: a 2021 video from Syria labeled "instantaneous acceleration," an Iranian formation, and general transparency comments. Shaffer also recounts a separate incident from the Philippines in which he says he saw a large silent object he did not consider man-made.
The "curl your toes" line comes early in the clip.
None of that is tied to a file.
Shaffer does not name a case number, agency, document title, date, or sensor record. He does not claim in the clip to have seen the records himself. He says he has heard about them from others.
Asked about the gap, Harloff noted that UAP audiences have heard versions of this promise before: better files, clearer videos, stranger material, firsthand witnesses, records that change the conversation. He asked whether any of it would actually enter the public release stream.
The Department of War's second PURSUE release, published May 22, added documents, NASA audio, historical records, and a larger video batch to the public record. Some of it is interesting. Some of it is weak without metadata. Some of it may be ordinary.
None of the released material has been publicly linked to Shaffer's "curl your toes" claim.
If the line points to a real file, the next step is simple: title, date, case ID, agency, original media, and enough context to know what Shaffer's sources were describing.
The line stays a quote without a paper.
Sources
- Down To Earth With Kristian Harloff: Anthony Shaffer says there is stuff in the UFO files that would CURL YOUR TOES, published June 1, 2026.
- Department of War: Department of War publishes second release of unidentified anomalous phenomena records, published May 22, 2026.
- UAP Logbook: PURSUE Release 02 adds a 2025 orb narrative and old Sandia green-fireball files.
- UAP Logbook: The Syrian "instant acceleration" UAP video is messier than the label.