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Investigation underway after UFO vanishes from radar in Kastamonu, Türkiye

Turkish authorities are searching for an unidentified flying object (UFO) that entered radar detection Tuesday evening in Kastamonu before disappearing over a forested area in the Kirisoglu village vicinity.

The incident, which prompted an extensive response from local and national authorities, involved the Turkish Air Force, Kastamonu Provincial Gendarmerie Command, the Provincial Disaster and Emergency Directorate (AFAD), Gendarmerie Search and Rescue (JAK) and commando units.

The object was first detected by radar at around 12:27 a.m. local time (9:27 p.m. GMT). Shortly after, it vanished from radar in the forested Kirisoglu region of the Kastamonu’s central district.

Authorities quickly mobilized to investigate, with thermal drones deployed to aid the search.

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UFO sightings spark intrigue over Fresno skies

Unusual aerial phenomena have been reported over Fresno in recent days, with one incident involving a confirmed unidentified flying object (UFO) captured on camera.

The Mutual UFO Network described the footage as an “interesting find.”

The sighting occurred early Friday morning when a light was recorded in the sky by a FOX 26 tower camera just after 4 a.m.

The light appeared to hover over downtown Fresno.

Earl Grey Anderson from the Mutual UFO Network reviewed the footage and said, “Where you see that object move at the clip it moves and it’s hovering again. That one I would probably actually give an unknown classification to which is a UFO.”

Anderson noted that there were no space launches on Friday and no unusual stars or planets visible.

“What I thought was very interesting about the second video is the clip. It suddenly moves. I’m not sure what distance we’re looking at there. It wasn’t light speed or anything like that but that was awfully fast,” he said.

“You’ve got an interesting capture there somebody saw what I would technically call a UFO.”

Four days later, another strange sighting was reported. A private pilot had an exchange with the Fresno tower on Tuesday afternoon, inquiring about drone activity.

The tower responded, “We don’t pick up drone activity on the radar. We filter out the small stuff.”

Shortly after, the tower contacted a Fresno police helicopter flying over the city to investigate a reported drone sighting near Highway 41 and Herndon, flying at approximately 3,000 feet.

A second pilot reported an object following him at 3,500 feet.

The initial pilot who alerted the tower called in again with another unusual sighting, miles away.

“I think I saw something over downtown about 3,500,” the pilot said. The tower confirmed, “You saw something over downtown at 3,500?” to which the pilot replied, “Correct. It looked like a white object.”

Efforts to reach the Federal Aviation Administration in Fresno for more information on Tuesday’s sightings have not yet been successful.

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“Surprising Link” Between UAP Sightings and Economic Conditions Revealed in Controversial New Research

New research reveals a surprising connection between Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings and financial conditions across the United States, according to a study by a team with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dr. Ohad Raveh of Hebrew University and Dr. Nathan Goldstein of Bar-Ilan University have introduced innovative methods of measuring public interest by analyzing UAP reports, which they say has revealed “a surprising link between UAP sightings and macroeconomic conditions at the U.S.-county, state, and national levels.”

Their findings challenge conventional metrics for assessing economic behavior, revealing how UAP sightings align with financial trends, inform policymaking, and provide insights into public adaptation to economic shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and shifts in monetary policy.

In an email to The Debrief, Dr. Raveh explained what motivated he and Goldstein to explore the potential connection between UAP sightings and economic conditions.

“As a social scientist fascinated by the UAP phenomenon, I was disappointed by the grave scarcity of studies that examine the social aspects of it,” Dr. Raveh explained, “especially as official reports (by NASA and others) confirm that about 95-98 percent of UAP sightings have conventional explanations, thus suggesting that patterns of UAP sightings are rooted in human and social behavior.

“This inspired undertaking a deeper examination, pursuing an unconventional hypothesis which ties sky viewing to economic attention,” Raveh said.

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The Hidden Truth Behind a 1960s Nuclear Test: A Non-Human Craft Fell Down To Earth

On October 26, 1962, the United States conducted the Bluegill Triple Prime nuclear test as part of Operation Fishbowl, a subset of Operation Dominic.

The Bluegill Triple Prime test detonated a nuclear warhead 48 kilometers above Earth to study how high-altitude explosions affect ballistic missile systems.

Decades later, newly declassified evidence suggests something far more extraordinary—a possible collision with an unidentified object, which I believe was a craft advanced non-human origin.

Footage, scientific reports, and naval recovery logs hint at a dramatic event where nuclear weapons technology intersected with the unknown.

This test was a key Cold War experiment.

The XW-50-X1 warhead was built to emit high-energy X-rays, designed to disable missile re-entry vehicles by causing intense heat and internal damage, a process called thermo-mechanical spall.

While the test aimed to push missile defense technology, the evidence shows it may have done much more.

A mysterious object following the Avco Mark 4 re-entry vehicle appears to have been destroyed, raising questions about what really happened that day—and what was in the sky with us.

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Pilots report UFO ‘moving at extreme speeds’ while flying over Oregon

At least four pilots witnessed UFOs, some ‘moving at extreme speeds’ over Oregon this past weekend.

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson told DailyMail.com that at least one of the aviators ‘reported seeing unidentified lights while flying in Seattle Air Route Traffic Control (ATC) airspace’ during an alarming December 7th episode. 

While the administration would not confirm the presence of any FAA radar data that could corroborate the sighting, FAA ATC audio reveals the pilots in a state of shock.

An ambulance pilot stated he saw a bright light, ‘red in color,’ barreling towards his plane at ‘extreme’ speeds, before suddenly reversing course back toward the Pacific.

‘I don’t even know how to describe how fast it was moving,’ the air ambulance pilot, with Life Flight’s Air Medical Transport service, can be heard saying on the tape.

Later on Sunday night, December 8th, a United Airlines pilot reported an unexpected squadron of strange lights above the Eugene, Oregon-area, according to local news, which has long been a UFO hot spot along with the surrounding Pacific Northwest.

‘We’re seeing three or four targets. They’re all altitudes. Up and down,’ the United pilot told Seattle ARTCC (ZSE). ‘It’s pretty crazy.’

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Odd UFO Filmed and Photographed at British Airport

A purported airline pilot in England caused a stir online by sharing photos and a video of what they claim was an orb-shaped UFO spotted on the tarmac at a major British airport before taking off into the sky. The eyebrow-raising revelation reportedly occurred last week when an anonymous individual using the pseudonym ‘CaptainBiggalow’ posted the intriguing material on Twitter. According to the alleged airline pilot, the three photos and singular video (seen isolated below) were from an incident this past June wherein the weird object, which was described as being the size of a small car, was seen at the Manchester Airport.

Claiming to have received the material from a colleague, ‘CaptainBiggalow’ indicated that the orb was initially seen floating a few feet above the tarmac, which understandably prompted airport security to be dispatched to investigate the worrisome intrusion. However, he said, seemingly upon realizing it had been spotted, the object departed the scene with a sudden vertical ascent. Adding another layer of mystery to the curious case, the CaptainBiggalow account shut down shortly after the post caught the attention of UFO enthusiasts online and spawned a dizzying amount of discussion on Reddit.

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Congressional UAP Inquiries and Malone’s Push for UFO/JFK Disclosure

This week, the US congress unveiled its second official ‘inquiry into ET collusion with government elites with the a House Oversight Committee event called ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenoa: Exposing the Truth’.

The two congressmen tasked to lead this pioneering foray into truth are Nancy Mace and Glenn Grothmann who delivered a courageous official statement reading:

Americans deserve to understand what the government has learned about UAP sightings and the nature of any potential threats these phenomena pose.

As we saw during last year’s Congressional inquiry and the associated Mexican Congressional inquiry held on Sept. 13, 2023, a slew of deep state intelligence spooks are scheduled to speak and I’m sure more fuzzy videos, anecdotal stories of crashed UFOs and photographs that couldn’t possibly have anything to do with Photoshop or CGI will be presented.

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Mystery high-speed object captured by fighter pilot ‘threatened multiple collisions’

A retired US Navy admiral has given ‘powerful testimony’ about an object filmed moving faster than any known human technology.  

Dr Tim Gallaudet told a Congressional committee that he was on a Navy exercise off the country’s East Coast when he received an email on a secure internal network headed ‘URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE’.

He described how the ‘brief but alarming’ message referred to ‘multiple near mid-air collisions’ with the mystery object and contained an attachment of what is now known as the ‘go fast’ video captured on the forward-looking infrared sensor of an F/A-18 jet.

The former rear admiral, appearing before the GOP Oversight Committee on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), said he and other commanders were told that if the anomaly was not identified then the pre-deployment exercise, which included the Theodore Rosevelt Carrier Strike Group, would have to be shut down.

He told the hearing: ‘The now declassified video showed an unidentified object exhibiting flight and structural characteristics unlike anything in our arsenal. The implication of the email was clear.

‘The author was asking whether any of the recipients were aware of classified technology demonstrations that could explain these objects.

‘Because the DoD policy is to rigorously deconflict such demonstrations with live exercises I was confident this was not the case.’ 

Dr Galluadet, who is now CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, said that ‘the very next day’ in 2015 the email inexplicably disappeared from his account and those of the other recipients. 

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Startling claims made at UFO hearing in Congress, but lack direct evidence

US government employees have been injured by UFOs and the US government has conducted a secret UFO retrieval program, a former department of defense official told a congressional committee on Wednesday, though the hearing lacked any direct evidence to back up the startling claims.

The hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), which has become the more accepted term for UFO, also heard that the government has a “huge amount” of secret information on UAPs, including “photos, video, photos, other information”. But it also learned, following a query from Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, that there is no evidence of aliens having a secret underwater “base” on this planet.

The hearing came more than a year after the Pentagon was accused of running a secret UFO retrieval program by whistleblower David Grusch, though no physical evidence has also ever emerged to back up these claims.

The lack of concrete proof has been a consistent thorn in the side of those who believe the government is harboring UAPs, with Wednesday’s hearing again focussing on testimony from people who said they were aware of secret government programs, rather than witnesses presenting actual hard evidence.

It followed a blockbuster congressional hearing last year in which Grusch, a former American intelligence official, claimed that the US government conducted a “multi-decade” program which collected and attempted to reverse-engineer, crashed UAPs, as members of Congress investigate allegations the government is hiding knowledge of alien craft and beings from lawmakers.

The two hearings reveal the remarkable extent to which discussions around UAPs – previously mostly the domain of conspiracy theorists and believers in aliens – have now penetrated the US military and the corridors of Congress.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Department of Defense agency which investigates UAPs, did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the Pentagon has previously denied the existence of any secret government programs to retrieve alien spacecraft and no evidence of these programs has ever emerged.

A standout moment on Wednesday came when Nancy Mace, the chair of the hearing, questioned Luiz Elizondo, a former department of defense official who this year claimed in a memoir that the US is “in possession of advanced technology made off-world by non-human intelligence”.

“Has the government conducted secret UAP crash retrieval programs? Yes or no?” Mace asked. Elizondo, who was speaking under oath, said yes.

“Were they designed to identify and reverse engineer alien craft? Yes or no?” Mace said. Elizondo said yes.

Mace continued: “In your book, you mentioned government employees who’ve been injured by UAPs placed on leave and receiving government compensation for their injuries. Is that correct?” Elizondo said it was correct.

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“Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth” Hearing – November 13, 2024

The Black Vault has launched a dedicated page to document all materials related to the upcoming congressional hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs). Scheduled for November 13, 2024, the joint hearing, titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” will be led by Chairwomen Nancy Mace and Glenn Grothman from the Subcommittees on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Government Innovation, and National Security, respectively.

This session marks the second UAP-focused hearing by Congress, aiming to bring greater transparency to government research on UAPs and address the Department of Defense’s (DoD) reluctance to declassify information. The hearing will include testimony from witnesses Navy Rear Admiral Dr. Tim Gallaudet, former DoD official Luis Elizondo, former NASA Associate Administrator Michael Gold, and journalist Michael Shellenberger.

This page will archive these proceedings, related documents, and transcripts, providing a comprehensive resource on government transparency efforts around UAPs.

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