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      <title>The Architecture of Secrecy: MJ-12, recovered craft and the origins of a UFO Legacy Program</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/507567-The-Architecture-of-Secrecy-MJ-12-recovered-craft-and-the-origins-of-a-UFO-Legacy-Program</link>
      <description>If you believe the documents, the architecture of the greatest secret alive today can be seen being built. It begins in the late 1940s, in the shadow of World War Two. Cities had been destroyed. The atomic bomb had changed warfare forever. The United States was constructing the CIA, the National Security Council and the permanent machinery of the modern security state. Then, according to the disputed Majestic documents, something arrived that made even the weapons of that age look primitive. The papers claim that President Harry Truman established Majestic 12, or MJ-12, following the alleged recovery of a non-human craft in 1947. Its task was supposedly to secure the wreckage, study the technology and prevent the truth from escaping a tightly controlled circle of military, intelligence and scientific officials. The implications were terrifying. The alleged visitors could evade radar, outrun the fastest aircraft and enter American airspace at will. Their intentions were unknown....</description>
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      <title>Long-hidden UFO information at center of Trump push to free former officials</title>
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      <description>President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to waive prior nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) for former government employees and contractors cooperating with unidentified anomalous phenomena investigations, Fox News Digital has learned. "President Trump recently directed the Department of War and the intelligence community to allow former government employees or contractors, that have relevant information about the disclosure of UAP, to come forward to meet with designated government representatives — AARO or the President's UAP taskforce, 'PURSUE' — and have their prior NDAs abrogated," a senior administration official said, with AARO referring to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon office established to investigate UFOs and other unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). Another senior administration official emphasized the move was not a "declassification directive" and only allowed employees to come forward through government channels.</description>
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      <title>Unsettling new clues challenge suicide claim in Los Alamos lab worker's death</title>
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      <description>Fresh evidence recovered from the remote New Mexico forest where Los Alamos National Laboratory administrative assistant Melissa Casias was found has blown major holes in the suicide narrative. An independent team hired by her own family discovered bones, torn and bloody clothing, orange peels, strands of what appears to be horse hair, shredded paper that may contain her handwriting, and a tobacco pouch — none of which New Mexico State Police recovered after clearing the scene. Casias, 53, vanished from her Ranchos de Taos home on June 26, 2025. She left without her purse, keys or wallet. Surveillance captured her walking alone eastward on State Road 518 around 2:20 p.m. Both her work and personal phones were found at the house, factory-reset and wiped of all data. A blood drop was also discovered inside the residence. Nearly eleven months later, on May 28, 2026, a hiker located her skeletal remains in the McGaffey Ridge area of Carson National Forest next to a handgun her family...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>On the brink? UFO disclosure speech believed to have been prepared for Trump amid expanding White House push</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/507551-On-the-brink-UFO-disclosure-speech-believed-to-have-been-prepared-for-Trump-amid-expanding-White-House-push</link>
      <description>On the brink - or facing another false dawn. It's difficult to tell. Liberation Times understands from multiple sources that a presidential speech confirming that some UFOs are of non-human origin has been prepared. Whether President Donald Trump ever delivers it is anyone's guess. Presidential teams have long prepared contingency speeches and statements for events that may never occur. The existence of a draft therefore does not, by itself, mean that a final decision has been taken to deliver it. Trump is understood to have little personal interest in the subject. But this is a president deeply preoccupied with greatness and his place in history - whether through having a road named in his honour or seeking to bring Greenland under US control. Faced with an opportunity to define his presidency and secure an unparalleled legacy, ego may ultimately outweigh indifference. Liberation Times understands that several UAP disclosure advocates, some operating independently of one another,...</description>
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      <title>U.S. conducted successful UFO "Luring Operation," advocate claims, as government files detail orb encounters</title>
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      <description>A UFO advocacy figure has claimed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence conducted a successful operation designed to attract unidentified objects over a sensitive U.S. government testing facility. Jordan Flowers, executive director of the Disclosure Foundation, made the claim during an appearance on CBS News. The Disclosure Foundation is an advocacy group focused on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP. Flowers said the incident could be understood by bringing together recently released government documents and statements made publicly by members of Congress.</description>
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      <title>Key revelations from 4th batch of Pentagon UFO files</title>
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      <description>The Pentagon released its fourth new batch of UFO files on July 10, including a transcript from a conference that included scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. This release of information on UFOs, which the government refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), has a total of 40 files, including 19 videos, 14 documents, four audio clips, and three images. The mix of partially unredacted files and historical documents is sourced from multiple agencies, including the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, NASA, and the Department of Energy. The Pentagon said it is not the last release of UFO files in relation to President Donald Trump's executive order, according to a statement from chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell.</description>
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      <title>NASA reveals it has captured UFO imagery as space agency chief admits 'there's life everywhere'</title>
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      <description>NASA's chief administrator confirmed that the space agency has taken images of objects which can only be described as UFOs. Jared Isaacman, who took the helm in December, said real imagery captured from space could not be explained away as a comet or other natural phenomenon. While he stopped short of calling it proof of alien life, he was confident that the ultimate conclusion would be that the universe is full of extraterrestrial life, which humans have not yet discovered. The NASA administrator told podcast host Jack Gordon: "We have captured imagery, and this is what President Trump is very forward-leaning about, that based on the data that we have within that imagery, we don't know what it is.' 'I think there's a very real possibility we're going to arrive at a conclusion in our lifetime that perhaps there's life everywhere out there and that it isn't as infrequent as we might think it to possibly be, While Isaacman admitted the space agency was in possession of photos that...</description>
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      <title>Releasing the UFO files is not enough, the UFO Trojan Horse Part 1: Whistleblowers</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/507336-Releasing-the-UFO-files-is-not-enough-the-UFO-Trojan-Horse-Part-1-Whistleblowers</link>
      <description>I came to the UFO topic a skeptic, and I was wrong. Whatever the ultimate origin, it's a Trojan Horse for very real terrestrial issues. Part 1 starts with whistleblowers, and the retaliation they faced for coming forward. I came to the UFO topic a skeptic. Like most people, I assumed it was mostly prosaic explanations with a bit of disinformation mixed in, and I didn't expect to find anything real underneath. I was wrong. Whatever the ultimate origin turns out to be, I've found the UFO topic is a Trojan Horse for very real terrestrial issues. Releasing the UFO files is not enough. The flaws that allowed this to happen have to be fixed. This is Part 1 of a multipart series on those flaws, starting with whistleblowers and the retaliation they faced for coming forward. Part 1: Whistleblowers Part 2: Overclassification Part 3: Oversight The UFO Conspiracy Isn't a Theory The UFO topic is often dismissed as a conspiracy theory. I used to call it one myself. But a conspiracy and a...</description>
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      <title>SOTT FOCUS: The Alien-Demon Deception: How Humanity Gets Herded - Laura Knight-Jadczyk Interview</title>
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      <description>Join Jay Campbell, Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Harrison Koehli as they continue their discussions on the hyperdimensional nature of reality. In this video, Laura delves deeply into the idea that, though demons do exist, interfere, and in some cases possess human beings, much of the harm inflicted on human beings from other levels is NOT, in fact, due to them. Laura makes the case, based on her extensive research, experience and study - that those most responsible for the vast majority of negative paranormal events are hyperdimensional aliens; the cosmic apex predator. And why so many are now attributing things to the demonic, when they should be learning about the hyperdimensional framework of malevolent alien existence.</description>
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      <title>Melissa Casias took two key items: New details raise doubts over Los Alamos lab assistant's death</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/507064-Melissa-Casias-took-two-key-items-New-details-raise-doubts-over-Los-Alamos-lab-assistants-death</link>
      <description>Would someone intending to commit suicide really take these things with them? Fresh reporting reveals that Melissa Casias, administrative assistant at the Los Alamos nuclear lab, left home with everyday possessions that suggest she intended to survive — not end her life — raising new questions in the widening pattern of mysterious deaths among nuclear and UFO-linked personnel. Some have suggested that Casias committed suicide, yet new details about her final moments show that before walking out the door of her Ranchos de Taos home on June 26, 2025, Casias took her toothbrush and thyroid medication with her. Los Angeles Magazine contributor Lauren Conlin, who has followed the case closely, told NewsNation that these are "things that might indicate you're planning to stay alive."</description>
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      <title>US government establishes new interagency UAP Governance Board to coordinate investigations and declassification</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/507037-US-government-establishes-new-interagency-UAP-Governance-Board-to-coordinate-investigations-and-declassification</link>
      <description>The U.S. government has established a new interagency body to coordinate UAP investigations, improve the collection and analysis of relevant data, and assist with the declassification of UAP-related information, according to an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The official from the ODNI told Liberation Times: 'To support the President's directive on UAP transparency, ODNI — alongside FBI and DOW [Department of War] — established a UAP Governance Board to provide guidance, recommendations and coordination at the interagency level, bringing together military, law enforcement, the Intelligence Community, and other civilian agencies.' The official told Liberation Times that the UAP Governance Board met for the first time yesterday.</description>
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      <title>UAP forum will let public hear from lawmakers, whistleblowers on disclosure</title>
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      <description>This Thursday, nearly two dozen lawmakers, former intelligence officials, researchers, and whistleblowers will come together for a first-of-its-kind forum on UAP disclosure and its implications. The event, called Disclosure Forum 2026, is taking place in Washington, D.C. The theme, "Humanity at the Edge of Discovery," will guide panels, presentations, and roundtables with congressional lawmakers, as well as discussions on security, defense, and policy. Featured speakers include U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., and U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. Disclosure Foundation board members Professor Avi Loeb and Mike Gold will also speak. Both joined NewsNation to discuss this week's event.</description>
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      <title>Newly released UFO files allege China, Russia retrieved downed UAPs — and attempted to reverse-engineer them: expert</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506946-Newly-released-UFO-files-allege-China-Russia-retrieved-downed-UAPs-and-attempted-to-reverse-engineer-them-expert</link>
      <description>China and Russia have retrieved downed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) and tried to reverse-engineer them, an expert claimed, citing newly released documents. Jordan Flowers, executive director of the UAP Disclosure Foundation, said one of the most significant takeaways from the third tranche of UFO files made public on June 12 was that the US's foreign adversaries also appear to be engaged in research that could threaten national security. "We also have reason to believe that the Chinese and the Russians may have retrieved their own objects related to this and may have tried to reverse engineer them," Flowers told "NewsNation Prime."</description>
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      <title>Area 51 Secrets: US government acknowledgment fuels conspiracy theories and UFO speculations</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506891-Area-51-Secrets-US-government-acknowledgment-fuels-conspiracy-theories-and-UFO-speculations</link>
      <description>The US government's recent acknowledgment of Area 51, a secretive military base, has only fueled the fire of conspiracy theories and speculation that have long surrounded it. Once a testing facility during the Cold War, this base has been the subject of rumors about crashed alien ships and their alleged reverse engineering. The National Security Archive of George Washington University has published a report called 'The Secret History of the U-2', which contains several references to Area 51. The report includes declassified documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. However, the declassified documents do not mention any remotely alien activity in the installation. While it is no surprise that the US government has not disclosed any information regarding the alleged reverse engineering of alien ships, some believe that the government is covering up the truth about extraterrestrial activity. According to nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, there are several...</description>
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      <title>Discs, orbs, 'heavenly' phenomena, more revealed in 3rd batch of declassified UFO files</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506879-Discs-orbs-heavenly-phenomena-more-revealed-in-3rd-batch-of-declassified-UFO-files</link>
      <description>Americans living in the northeastern United States witnessed "brilliant and beautiful" glowing red and white orbs in their backyard, which they caught on video, the Pentagon's third release of declassified UFO files on June 12 showed. The new documents contained encounters from around the world, such as reports of a "disc-like" object in Zimbabwe, a "potato shaped" craft in Colorado, and "heavenly" phenomena moving at speeds of 12,000 kilometers per hour in Hungary. The third batch adds to the previous two document dumps of UFO and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files released by the Pentagon on May 8 and May 22. Those batches also detailed stunning encounters, including Apollo 11 astronauts seeing a "sizable" object near the moon and a UAP being shot down over the Great Lakes. Here are some key highlights from a partial review of the newly released files:</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump releases THIRD tranche of UFO files revealing shape-shifting orbs over the US and CIA reports hidden for decades</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506862-Trump-releases-THIRD-tranche-of-UFO-files-revealing-shape-shifting-orbs-over-the-US-and-CIA-reports-hidden-for-decades</link>
      <description>The Trump administration has released a third tranche of previously classified UAP files, adding dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings. The materials were uploaded to the Department of War's website on Friday morning and include a series of cases that investigators were unable to explain, leaving the nature of the phenomena unresolved definitively. Among the newly released records is a 2025 FBI report describing a video captured by a citizen in the northeastern US. According to the witness, a bright object hovered over their backyard as a 'brilliant red sphere' roughly the size of a basketball.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>UFO over Zimbabwe in summer 2008 had CIA on 'high alert,' new files reveal</title>
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      <description>The Central Intelligence Agency placed its assets in the African nation of Zimbabwe on high alert in the summer of 2008 after a UFO was spotted hovering directly over the country's main airport. The incident, which took place July 2, 2008, is detailed in a cable that was released Friday as part of a third tranche of UFO files made public pursuant to President Trump's February declassification order. The cable, which was circulated throughout the US government and military hierarchy in the final months of the George W. Bush administration, described a craft that "hovered at an undetermined altitude directly over the Harare airport."</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>An invisible Atlantic boundary where UFO reporting changes</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506833-An-invisible-Atlantic-boundary-where-UFO-reporting-changes</link>
      <description>A passenger jet crossing the North Atlantic can move from one system for handling reports of unidentified objects to another without anything on board changing at all. The aircraft does not change. The crew does not change. The passengers do not change. But once a flight crosses the oceanic handover point near 30 degrees west longitude, the way Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and possible near misses are recorded and escalated can become far less clear. UAP are not just a subject of public fascination. In some cases, pilots report objects they cannot identify in circumstances that raise genuine flight-safety concerns, including the risk of a near miss. Around 2,000 aircraft cross the North Atlantic each day, making it one of the busiest aviation corridors in the world. Roughly 75 to 80 per cent of those flights operate within the Shanwick Oceanic Control Area managed by the Irish Aviation Authority and the UK's air traffic control service. In practical terms, that means...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Lawmakers urge Trump to grant immunity to UFO crash retrieval operatives as whistleblower repeats non-human body claims</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506813-Lawmakers-urge-Trump-to-grant-immunity-to-UFO-crash-retrieval-operatives-as-whistleblower-repeats-non-human-body-claims</link>
      <description>During a press conference outside the US Capitol, lawmakers and whistleblowers attempted to revive the issue of disclosure, despite the lack of material evidence to support their claims. On the morning of 9 June 2026, under a hot sun, a new event followed the release of UFO-related material by President Trump's initiative, "PURSUE", outside of the official Pentagon group tasked with handling such materials: the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). During the event, whistleblower David Grusch repeated his claims that bodies of non-human origin had been recovered by US forces. In my official duties, I was exposed to human and signals intelligence information concerning foreign adversary UAP crash retrieval, exploitation and study efforts, adversary views on US legacy program reverse engineering efforts and US- held audiovisual information related to crash retrieval matters such as the recovered vehicles and the associated biological material. This is not the first time that...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>UFO whistleblowers storm Capitol Hill with explosive claims about alien life</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506810-UFO-whistleblowers-storm-Capitol-Hill-with-explosive-claims-about-alien-life</link>
      <description>A UFO whistleblower stood at the steps of Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver shocking secrets he claimed have not been released by the US government despite promises to disclose all information on alien life. Air Force veteran David Grusch stood with members of the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets to publicly call on the White House to release the 'smoking gun' proof that UFOs are real. Grusch and lawmakers claimed that files from the Russian and Brazilian governments, in which military officers encountered UFOs and extraterrestrials, have been independently confirmed to be true. When asked specifically about how many alien species have been identified by the US government, Grusch revealed: 'It's a continuum from corporeal bipedal type life to what I would consider sentient plasmoid life, but there are several that the US government is aware of.'</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Lue Elizondo: "There's No Going Back" on UFO Disclosure</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506697-Lue-Elizondo-Theres-No-Going-Back-on-UFO-Disclosure</link>
      <description>It has been almost a decade since Lue Elizondo first emerged as one of the most prominent public faces of the modern UFO / UAP issue, following the New York Times' 2017 reporting on AATIP, the Pentagon's secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. In an exclusive interview, Elizondo shares perspectives and personal observations in a way he has not yet done with anyone else. He gets candid and personal, sharing a side of himself I suspect he has kept closely guarded for years. At the beginning of our interview, Elizondo tells me without prompting that there's no going back from the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) disclosure process, which appears to have accelerated under the Trump administration. It's a process which he arguably kick-started in public. He adds: "I knew that there would come a point where there's no going back. Make no mistake about it. I realize I started this conversation for better or for worse. I started this train rolling down the tracks...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Remains found in New Mexico national forest ID'd as those of Melissa Casias, Los Alamos employee, who vanished last year</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506660-Remains-found-in-New-Mexico-national-forest-ID-d-as-those-of-Melissa-Casias-Los-Alamos-employee-who-vanished-last-year</link>
      <description>Casias, 53, had been missing for nearly a year after she didn't show up for work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A gun was found near the remains, authorities said. Human remains found by a hiker last week in a New Mexico national forest are those of a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee who had been missing for nearly a year, authorities said. The discovery in the McGaffey Ridge area of Carson National Forest was reported Thursday, and the New Mexico Medical Investigator's Office identified the remains as those of Melissa Casias, authorities said. "Investigators also learned that a handgun was located alongside the remains," New Mexico State Police said in a statement Saturday. The Medical Investigator's Office is likely to determine the cause and manner of death, police said.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump, the Vatican and the market shock: Inside the growing disclosure debate</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506651-Trump-the-Vatican-and-the-market-shock-Inside-the-growing-disclosure-debate</link>
      <description>Following recent reporting that White House and defense officials have sought advice on how to prepare the public for a possible announcement regarding UFOs and non-human intelligence, Liberation Times has spoken to additional sources who believe the consequences of such a moment would extend far beyond Washington. Those sources say any disclosure process would have to consider not only public reaction, but also religious institutions, financial markets, allied governments and America's strategic position in the world. The latest release of UFO files may therefore be significant not simply because of what the videos show, but because of what they may signal: a possible effort to prepare the public for a far larger announcement. In a recent Daily Mail article, investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell said officials from the White House and Department of Defense had sought his advice on communications strategy and terminology ahead of a possible announcement concerning UAP reality and...</description>
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      <description>Released files include infrared footage, Apollo-era astronaut accounts and military pilot testimony from combat zones NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the Trump administration's newly declassified UAP files are exposing years of strange aerial sightings that government agencies failed to seriously dig into — even if the records do not point to recovered alien remains or ships. "What's being surfaced isn't crashed ships or alien bodies, but real unexplained phenomena," Isaacman told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday. The disclosures come after the Trump administration released two waves of declassified UAP files as part of a broader transparency effort directing agencies to search internal databases for decades-old reports involving unexplained aerial activity after years of public skepticism surrounding government secrecy and UFO investigations. Officials say additional file releases from agencies including the CIA could soon follow.</description>
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      <title>Push for UAP (UFO) transparency intensifies as members of Congress and whistleblowers call for release of groundbreaking, conclusive files</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506593-Push-for-UAP-UFO-transparency-intensifies-as-members-of-Congress-and-whistleblowers-call-for-release-of-groundbreaking-conclusive-files</link>
      <description>Amid surging global interest, an unprecedented gathering of senior government officials and civilians will make a direct plea to the President to declassify specific files and for Congress to pass disclosure-related legislation As a defining moment in the escalating effort for full disclosure on UAPs, a bipartisan group of high level officials and civilians will convene on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, June 9 @ 1:00 pm to issue a call to action on behalf of the American people. UAP whistleblower David Grusch, a highly credentialed former intelligence officer who has testified under oath before Congress, will discuss specific UAP and non-human intelligence-related evidence he encountered in deeply classified channels. Grusch will explain why these records should now be reviewed and publicly released consistent with legitimate national security protections. "President Trump now has an historic opportunity; this press conference is about moving from testimony to action....</description>
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      <title>MITRE moves to comply with lawmaker's request for UAP records and assets dating back to 1930</title>
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      <description>DefenseScoop obtained Rep. Eric Burlison's 10-page legislative correspondence, which includes dozens of production requests. The MITRE Corporation confirmed that insiders are reviewing its archives to comply with a recent production request from Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., who pressed the not-for-profit organization for dozens of assets that would reveal whether it currently has or previously possessed information on unidentified anomalous phenomena and associated unexplained technologies. Dated May 22 and obtained by DefenseScoop Wednesday, the 10-page correspondence reflects concerns raised by whistleblowers alleging that the Pentagon and defense contractors are deliberately concealing sensitive UAP materials in private networks to bypass congressional and public oversight. "If any relevant material is found, we will coordinate with the federal agencies responsible for the work to determine how to best provide any assets," a MITRE spokesperson told DefenseScoop. Federal agencies,...</description>
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      <title>UFO-linked Air Force general met shadowy Pentagon unit hours before vanishing</title>
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      <description>New bodycam footage shows retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland had a dinner meeting with US Space Force members the night before his unexplained disappearance, deepening concerns over experts tied to sensitive programs. McCasland, central to advanced aerospace and nuclear research, walked out of his Albuquerque home on February 27, 2026, leaving behind his phone, prescription glasses, and wearable tracking devices. He took his wallet, a .38-caliber revolver with holster, and a red backpack. Despite extensive searches in the rugged Sandia Mountains foothills with FBI assistance, no trace has been found, and a Silver Alert remains active. The newly surfaced video obtained by the Law&amp;amp;Crime Network captures officers interviewing a witness who dined with McCasland the night prior. The woman, connected through the Kirtland Partnership nonprofit, described a dinner meeting involving McCasland and US Space Force members around 6pm in Albuquerque.</description>
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      <title>Latest UFO video drop solicits baffled explanations ranging from angels and demons to jetpacks and balloons</title>
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      <description>Bizarre videos from President Trump's latest batch of UFO disclosure files led to a host of speculation about the phenomenon's origins — with some insisting they're proof of biblical legends, while others dismissed them as little more than balloons or lens flares. Comments flooded social media comparing the wacky videos to angels and demons after they were released Friday, and some online posters claimed they were winged creatures and fiery wheels that appeared in the likes of the Book of Ezekiel. Among the most intriguing videos was one filmed over a body of water in June 2020, which captured a shapeshifting blob apparently hovering near a US military installation.</description>
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      <title>CIA accused of searching Ancestry and 23andMe data bases to 'hunt down' alien bloodlines in millions of DNA tests</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506548-CIA-accused-of-searching-Ancestry-and-23andMe-data-bases-to-hunt-down-alien-bloodlines-in-millions-of-DNA-tests</link>
      <description>The CIA has been accused of gaining secret access to the DNA information of millions of people as the intelligence agency allegedly searches for alien life on Earth. Jason Reza Jorjani, a philosophy PhD and science fiction writer, recently claimed that he spoke with a retired US Army sergeant who served as a 'psychic spy' and knew of the government's secret program to hunt down individuals with extraterrestrial DNA. Jorjani said on the American Alchemy podcast that the CIA, the nation's premier foreign intelligence agency, has a backdoor program that allows it to search through genetic testing companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com. According to the author, the purpose is to look for individuals who have DNA ancestry tied to a race of aliens known as the Nordics, who allegedly look like extremely tall humans from Scandinavia, with blond hair, blue eyes and fair skin.</description>
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      <title>Joe Rogan Discusses Aliens Abducting Americans in National Parks</title>
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      <description>Joe Rogan has revisited theories about mysterious disappearances in U.S. national parks — including the possibility of alien abductions — during a wide-ranging conversation about unsolved missing persons cases and UFO encounters. During an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, author and investigator David Paulides claimed the National Park Service had blocked some of his efforts to obtain records tied to disappearances in remote wilderness areas. Paulides also discussed several cases he believes remain unexplained — including the disappearance of 14-year-old Stacy Arras in Yosemite National Park more than four decades ago.</description>
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      <title>Highlights From 2nd Batch Of Declassified UFO Files Include A UAP Shootdown</title>
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      <description>The Pentagon's second batch of declassified UFO files released on May 22 includes videos such as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) being shot down over the Great Lakes and audio of astronauts witnessing a series of unexplained phenomena. ​Dozens of documents were cleared for release on Friday, adding to the previous document dump on May 8, which revealed that Apollo 11 astronauts reported seeing a "sizable" object near the moon. ​The Epoch Times' Jacki Thrapp offers the following highlights from a partial review of the newly released files.</description>
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      <title>World-shaking UFO files release imminent as insider Jeremy Corbell hints at 'much bigger' secrets in next disclosure drop</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506441-World-shaking-UFO-files-release-imminent-as-insider-Jeremy-Corbell-hints-at-much-bigger-secrets-in-next-disclosure-drop</link>
      <description>Americans are waiting with bated breath for the next wave of UFO files after officials promised the release will be 'very soon.' Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced Monday on X that the materials are currently 'actively being processed' for publication. While details about the imminent disclosure dump remain secret, investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell told the Daily Mail it could include 46 classified UFO videos requested by lawmakers earlier this year. 'There is something much bigger coming,' he said. Corbell claimed he personally provided officials with access to the videos via what he described as classified 'intel links' linked to hidden government servers, after unknown sources leaked the clips to him. 'Not just file names. If you put the underscores in, they're linked,' Corbell said, claiming the material led directly to classified systems that 'you and I can't access.'</description>
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      <title>Eight never-before-seen UFO videos at center of explosive disclosure battle detailed by insider</title>
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      <description>A battle over UFO transparency has erupted in Washington as 'certain intelligence agencies' have been accused of withholding evidence from the American public. Investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell told the Daily Mail there is a 'bottleneck' inside US Central Command where footage of unidentified flying objects is being blocked from reaching officials seeking access to it. Corbell said some members of Congress are now 'dead set' on forcing the release of the material 'come hell or high water,' with some lawmakers prepared to escalate the fight if agencies continue withholding records. The growing disclosure battle has now centered on 46 classified military UFO videos that lawmakers recently demanded from the Department of War last month, which have yet to be released. Eight of those highly anticipated clips appear in Corbell's documentary Sleeping Dog, where viewers are shown brief glimpses of what he described as unresolved UFO encounters collected by the US military.</description>
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      <title>Ex-government researcher claims 4 alien species have been pulled from crashed UFOs</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506378-Ex-government-researcher-claims-4-alien-species-have-been-pulled-from-crashed-UFOs</link>
      <description>The US has recovered four distinct species of extraterrestrial life from crashed UFOs, a former CIA-funded government researcher sensationally claimed this week. Dr. Hal Puthoff, former Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program advisor and CIA-funded researcher, made the claim alongside Age of Disclosure director Dan Farrah on Steve Bartlett's The Diary of a CEO podcast on Thursday. "People who have been involved in recoveries have said there are at least four types. Four separate types," the 89-year-old said. "Now I have not had direct access to that but I believe the people who I talked to — four separate types of life." The Stanford-trained quantum physicist did not detail the supposed alien species — but his longtime collaborator and former AAWSAP colleague Dr. Eric Davis claimed last year that Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, and Reptilians are the names of the biological lifeforms pulled from the wreckage of downed or crashed UFOs.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 21:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Retired Navy admiral makes bombshell claim about UFOs and 'non-human intelligence' controlling them</title>
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      <description>Are UFOs controlled by non-human entities? There are few topics in America that generate more attention and interest than UFOs/UAPs. One of the big reasons why is that there's no clear answer for what is going on up in the sky or down in the ocean. There are countless videos and stories about unexplainable sightings, but very few concrete answers. Well, prepare for things to get amped up. Retired Navy admiral alleges UFOs might have 'non-human' control. Retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet is a leading voice in America when it comes to the UAP phenomenon, and he thinks whatever is going on...might not have a human explanation!</description>
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      <title>Missing scientist's shattered car discovered in remote New Mexico mountains</title>
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      <description>The mysterious disappearance of a scientist has been thrust back into the spotlight as cases involving missing and dead researchers tied to America's nuclear, aerospace and defense sectors continue to mount. Ingrid Coleen Lane, 37, vanished in October 2023 after leaving a meditation retreat in the remote mountains of New Mexico, where investigators later discovered her smashed Subaru abandoned near a volcanic hiking trail with no trace of where she went. Inside the vehicle, authorities reportedly found three laptops, an unactivated burner phone and Lane's keys still sitting in the ignition, while a massive boulder had mysteriously shattered the rear hatch window. Search dogs reportedly failed to locate any scent trail leading away from the scene despite forensic evidence indicating Lane had been near or outside the vehicle.</description>
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      <description>As lawmakers continue to pursue transparency regarding alleged secret UFO programs operated by the Pentagon, one member of Congress is now pursuing private contractors. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., announced on social media he has sent a letter to MIT Lincoln Labs regarding a "flying saucer talk" from 1952. "I sent a letter to MIT Lincoln Labs asking for a classified 1952 briefing video referenced as a 'flying saucer talk.' Their attorneys wrote back fast. They'll comply within 30 days. Congressional letters carry weight. We're going to keep sending them," he said. Whistleblower David Grusch, whose testimony regarding alleged secret UFO-retrieval programs kicked off a series of congressional hearings, has stated private contractors are being used to make it more difficult for lawmakers to obtain information on certain programs.</description>
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      <title>Alternate versions of you from parallel universes may be controlling your life, new theory claims</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506330-Alternate-versions-of-you-from-parallel-universes-may-be-controlling-your-life-new-theory-claims</link>
      <description>A bizarre new theory suggests there may be countless alternate versions of your life playing out at the same time across parallel universes. According to Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral, every tiny event in the universe could create a different version of reality, sending another 'you' down a completely separate life path. In one reality, you took a different job. In another, you married someone else. Somewhere else, you moved across the country or made one small choice that changed your entire future. The unsettling idea comes from a real branch of quantum physics known as the Many-Worlds interpretation, which suggests reality may constantly split into parallel worlds instead of following one fixed timeline. Vedral recently argued in Popular Mechanics that humans do not magically create reality simply by observing it, a belief that has spread online through manifestation culture and misunderstood interpretations of quantum physics. Instead, reality changes naturally through...</description>
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      <title>Thousands of mysterious underwater UFOs spotted off US shores: report</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506329-Thousands-of-mysterious-underwater-UFOs-spotted-off-US-shores-report</link>
      <description>A popular UFO-reporting app has been making waves after reportedly recording tens of thousands of mysterious underwater objects up and down the United States' coastlines, raising eyebrows and leaving experts with more questions than answers regarding their origin. Enigma, a non-partisan organization that boasts its "largest queryable historical sighting database for global UFO sightings," has recorded roughly 30,000 UFO sightings since its launch in 2022, according to the company's website. However, users have turned their attention away from the skies in the hunt for proof that life may exist elsewhere. Since August, Enigma has documented more than 9,000 sightings of mysterious objects within 10 miles of United States shorelines or other major bodies of water, Marine Technology News reported.</description>
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      <title>Trump admin releases highly anticipated files documenting UFOs, 'extraterrestrial life'</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506316-Trump-admin-releases-highly-anticipated-files-documenting-UFOs-extraterrestrial-life</link>
      <description>The Trump administration on Friday released a batch of "never-before-seen" files and videos on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) as part of an effort to increase transparency on government knowledge of extraterrestrial phenomena. "The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place - no clearance required. While past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Trump is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files," the White House said in a statement to Fox News. The release is a function of President Donald Trump's Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) program. Photos from the initial disclosure, which a White House official told Fox News is the first of a series of releases, show strangely shaped objects captured on film during...</description>
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      <title>SOTT FOCUS: Fun With AI #6: Grok Reads High Strangeness and Delivers a Surprisingly Sharp Review</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506313-Fun-With-AI-6-Grok-Reads-High-Strangeness-and-Delivers-a-Surprisingly-Sharp-Review</link>
      <description>Why the Cassiopaean synthesis rattles materialists, religionists, and New Agers alike — and why it looks more rational than the "UFOs are demons, return to church" narrative In my last article, I announced that it was the finale in my "Fun With AI" series. I think I spoke too soon. There's probably no end to the fun a person can have with AI even if the topics discussed in that little series were rather serious and possibly depression inducing. Today, I'm going to make it worse. If you think those subjects were depressing, hold my beer! There's a little backstory to the fun we are going to have with AI today. A month or more ago I noticed that there was a significant uptick in the number of people searching my name and work on google. I know this because I have an academia.edu account and they notify me when someone is searching my name on google and lands on their site. The uptick wasn't like overwhelming, just significant enough to get my attention. Instead of a few searches...</description>
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      <title>The End of UFOs?</title>
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      <description>Not with a bang but a whimper. Friday was a big day for aliens. The night before, the US Department of War (I think I liked it as Defense better) released a highly anticipated trove of documents related to UFOs and extraterrestrials. The "disclosure" came in the wake of President Trump reacting to former President Obama making waves with a misinterpreted comment about "aliens being real" So the documents get released and I get up early and starting pouring through them. I click. I read. I watch videos. I click again. And then I realize... There's nothing here. This highly touted disclosure amounts to just an endless parade of fuzzy images (or videos) and unverifiable personal testimony. Some of the documents go back 70 years but it's all basically the same. Taken as a whole, it's the kind of thing we've seen for decades: fuzzy images; unverifiable personal testimony; no hard evidence. There's even a laughable image of flashing "orb' in a wheat field made by photoshopping a bad...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 18:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>What NASA's Apollo astronauts actually photographed — and why it still matters</title>
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      <description>A look at newly surfaced lunar surface images and the declassified transcripts that go with them. The word "UFO" tends to trigger one of two responses: credulous excitement or immediate eye-rolling. But when the source material is NASA mission photography and declassified crew debriefing documents — some originally stamped Confidential — it becomes harder to dismiss out of hand. A set of recently surfaced images from the Apollo 12 (1969) and Apollo 17 (1972) lunar surface missions has been circulating alongside newly released government UAP files. The photographs show the grey lunar terrain, astronaut shadows stretching across the regolith, and — annotated with yellow zoom boxes — small, anomalous luminous objects in the black sky above the lunar horizon. The objects vary across the frames: a vertical blue streak in one, a tight cluster of white-blue points in another, a solitary bright orb in a third, and in one striking image, what appears to be a larger rectangular luminous...</description>
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      <title>These UFO files were just the start. Government insiders reveal 'holy crap' moment coming next... and their bombshell extraterrestrial 'conclusive proof'</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506216-These-UFO-files-were-just-the-start-Government-insiders-reveal-holy-crap-moment-coming-next-and-their-bombshell-extraterrestrial-conclusive-proof</link>
      <description>The truth has always been out there. Americans are now closer than ever before to grasping it. On Friday, the Department of War, acting under President Donald Trump's direction, released more than 150 government files - many previously classified and some dating back 80 years - revealing information about unidentified flying objects and other unexplained phenomena. One NASA image from the Apollo 17 moon mission in 1972 appears to show three lights arranged in a triangular formation above the lunar terrain. A transcript of the astronauts' communications reveals one crew member describing the light as 'very bright particles or fragments,' another compared the scene to 'the Fourth of July'. It's only the beginning.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 17:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>FBI files reveal reports of 'four-foot tall' beings emerging from UFOs</title>
      <link>https://www.sott.net/article/506203-FBI-files-reveal-reports-of-four-foot-tall-beings-emerging-from-UFOs</link>
      <description>Newly released FBI files have revealed shocking details of mysterious four-foot-tall crewmen exiting a UFO in the 1960s. The documents, released Friday as part of the Trump administration's UFO disclosure, detailed how investigators reviewed reports that 1965 marked 'the year of the greatest number of UFO sightings' observed by multiple witnesses across the world. The FBI summarized reports of metallic craft capable of hovering silently, reaching 'fantastic speeds' and interfering with electromagnetic equipment. The files also referenced that wreckage from crashed saucers had been recovered on multiple occasions, including materials described as unknown metals containing microscopic spheres. But one of the most startling sections involved testimonies of encounters with apparent occupants of the craft. 'A few witnesses have reported seeing crewmen who had landed from the objects,' the document stated, describing the beings as 'three and a half to four feet tall, wearing what appear...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 18:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>New UFO declassification website launched following presidential announcement</title>
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      <description>The new webpage, which is hosted under the name "war.gov/UFO", represents a notable return to a term that had been considered for replacement by UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) in recent years. It will serve as a portal to access newly released documents and videos, and bears the official title of "Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE)". As stated on the main page: the Department of War (DOW), with support from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), is overseeing government wide efforts to expeditiously find, review, identify, declassify and publicly release unresolved UAP-related records and historical documents in the federal government's possession. It is interesting to consider how this differs from the current initiative by the National Archives. They have already established a specific page under law to address the disclosure of documents related to UFOs. This is an unprecedented, historic undertaking that requires...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 17:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>One of the 11 disappeared scientists claimed she was hit with Pentagon's top-secret weapon after revealing UFO theory</title>
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      <description>The Pentagon has announced that they employ specialized energy weapons for defense, seemingly vindicating researchers who'd long warned about the tech. The Department of War's Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael announced this development in an X post fittingly — or perhaps eerily — posted on May the 4th, more popularly known as National Star Wars Day. "Directed energy weapons are a fine addition to our arsenal..." read the post, which included a pic of said weaponry firing a laser beam and a soldier holding his head in pain. Dubbed directed energy weapons or DEWs, these advanced instruments of war use focused rays to disable electronic weapons such as drones and incapacitate — or even kill — enemy soldiers. According to the X post, these beams are comprised of "concentrated electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles."</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Fears of mysterious beast spread in Ohio after locals record eerie howls, enormous footprints: 'I know what I saw'</title>
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      <description>Bigfoot, go home! Ohioans are battening down the hatches as locals fear a not-so-friendly neighborhood Sasquatch is making a comeback after a half-century of silence — with a new brood in tow. Northeast Ohio, the gloomiest corner of the Buckeye State, has been ripe with Bigfoot sightings since March. Some residents suspect a whole family of Sasquatches is moving into the region after a particularly brutal winter, Fox 8 reported. Many anonymous witnesses shared pictures of hulking footprints scattered primarily between Akron and Youngstown (about 50 miles apart) in Portage County. Most of the prints are an estimated 17 inches long — which can only match a creature that is 7 feet tall or more.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>BEST OF THE WEB: The UFO Question: Demons and High Strangeness</title>
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      <description>Demons Out! When I was a young boy, my family often enjoyed watching and laughing at televangelists — especially Ernest Angley, who would regularly cast out demons for us on TV. Suffice to say, demons were considered a humorous component to my slight evangelical upbringing, not something to be considered seriously. Chevy Chase captured the zaniness perfectly in Fletch Lives-The Preacher J.D. Vance-Aliens are Demons Tucker, too Turns out, lots of quite well-known people, and several commenters on The Unz Review believe these UFOs are demons. I would like to take a stab at seriously looking at this possibility. There is a version of the UAP problem that is safe to discuss in polite company. It involves military pilots seeing objects that outperform known aerospace technology, radar systems confirming what the pilots saw, and a government that has spent decades lying about its level of interest in the subject. This version has congressional hearings, credentialed witnesses, and the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump says 'very interesting' UFO files to be released soon</title>
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      <description>US President Donald Trump has said his administration will declassify and release government files on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the near future, describing some of the material as "very interesting." The Pentagon has recently said it is reviewing and consolidating related records before any public release, citing security concerns. Trump signed an executive order in February instructing the Department of War to disclose "any and all information" related to UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). "I think we're going to be releasing as much as we can in the near future... some of it is going to be very interesting to people," Trump told reporters during a White House briefing late Wednesday, adding that public interest in the topic had built up "for a long time." "I interviewed some pilots - very solid people. And they said they saw things that you wouldn't believe," he said.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 15:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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