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UFO alert in Türkiye’s Gaziantep: Flights halted

Flights were suspended at Gaziantep Airport on Monday night after pilots reported a luminous, unidentified flying object (UFO).

At around 10:00 p.m. local time (GMT+3), pilots of an aircraft reported spotting a bright, unidentified object at an altitude of approximately 8,000 to 10,000 feet.

UFO alert in Türkiye’s 6th biggest city led to a brief chaos at the airport. Gaziantep is located in southeastern Türkiye, near the Syrian border.

The object, which did not appear on radar, was reported to air traffic control, prompting authorities to halt flights as a precaution.

One Turkish expert claimed that the light might be coming from a Starlink satellite.

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Bizarre ‘Plasma Jellybean’ UFO Spotted Over Oklahoma City

An Oklahoma City man captured mystifying footage and photos of a bizarre UFO that he likened to a jellybean filled with plasma. According to a local media report, the odd sighting occurred on January 25th as Chris Frederick and his wife were about to head out for dinner. Their Saturday evening excursion came to a sudden stop when they reached their driveway and received a call from a concerned neighbor who had spotted something unusual in the sky. A buzz soon swept through the neighborhood, recounted Frederick, “before long, we were all standing out in the street and had our phones out.”

What captivated the witnesses was a peculiar glowing object behaving strangely in the sky. In footage captured by Frederick, he can be heard describing the UFO as the sighting unfolded. “I don’t hear anything, and something is moving in erratic ways,” he marveled, “it’s in the shape of a jellybean, but the interior was like plasma.” The couple’s dinner plans were now decidedly delayed as a curious Frederick decided to deploy his drone to get a better look at the aerial anomaly. However, adding another layer of mystery to the case, his UAV immediately experienced a series of weird issues.

“My controller talks to me,” he recalled, “and it said, ‘unable to take off, electromagnetic interference.'” After several subsequent attempts to launch the drone, he finally managed to get the craft airborne to about 1,000 feet beneath the UFO. From there, the UAV snapped three tantalizing photos, because the device’s video capability was inexplicably disabled, before almost immediately running out of power. “It had a fresh battery in it, it has a 35-minute flight life,” Frederick said, “and as soon as I took those three pictures, my controller said, ‘low battery, return to home.'”

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UFO is “moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater,” Republican congressman says

Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said in an interview Wednesday that an admiral — whom he did not identify — had told him of an unidentified craft moving at incredible speeds in the sea.

“They tell me something’s moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater… as large as a football field, underwater,” the Tennessee congressman told former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz, who now hosts a show on right-wing news outlet One America News.

“This was a documented case and I have an admiral telling me this stuff.”

Burchett, known for claims that the U.S. government is hiding existence of UFOs and other alien activity, said anything is possible given “the vastness of God’s great universe.”

However, he told Americans not to worry about the suspected extraterrestrials’ extraordinary advances.

“I’m not worried about them harming me,” he said. “I mean, with that capabilities, they would have barbecued us a long time ago.” No evidence has been produced of intelligent life beyond Earth.

However, Congress has taken an increasingly serious look at reports of mystery flying objects, treating the once widely mocked topic of UFOs — now often dubbed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) — into a serious issue.

In March 2024, the Pentagon released a report that it had no proof of UFOs, saying that many suspicious sightings turned out to be merely weather balloons, spy planes, satellites and other normal activity.

The Pentagon rejected claims made at a congressional hearing in 2023 by a former Air Force intelligence officer that the U.S. government had recovered a series of crashed unidentified aircraft and even non-human “biologics” over the decades.

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UFOs and drones: How to prepare for the ultimate unknown

Even if you don’t “want to believe,” it is time to prepare for it. 

Throughout most of human history, those believing in UFOs were considered crackpots and never quite taken seriously. In recent years, though, attitudes have started to change — likely due to mounting evidence of unresolved mysteries and credible voices stepping forward to share their experiences and demand answers.

With UFO hearings on Capitol Hill and the recent alarm over unexplained drone sightings in the Northeast, something has shifted in American society.

At the heart of the mainstreaming of UFOs is journalist Ralph Blumenthal, who retired from his 45-year career with the New York Times back in 2009. When journalist Leslie Kean approached him with a lead, he jumped back into the fray to collaborate on a story that would shift the nature of UFO discourse. 

A Pentagon official named Luis Elizondo was threatening to resign in frustration and go public with information regarding a secretive working group within the Pentagon that had been set up to investigate UFOs. 

“At the time, the Pentagon was not officially in the UFO business,” recounts Blumenthal. “No one knew that they were studying UFOs, so it was quite a revelation.” 

Blumenthal reached out to New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet about the subject and, to his surprise, got the green light to run with the story. The result was a blockbuster, front-page story published in December 2017, specifically delving into the Pentagon’s “mysterious UFO program.”

“It was the first time a mainstream publication was really interested in UFOs, and it played a huge role in making it respectable,” says Blumenthal. “Until then, the subject was considered fringy. We did follow-up stories on pilots who had experience with UFOs, stories on near misses and even touched on the recovery of crashed UFOs and the materials that have been recovered.”

Eventually, UFOs were renamed UAPs — unidentified anomalous phenomena — since the sightings weren’t just airborne but coming from the ocean as well.

A blizzard of government working groups boasting an alphabet soup of acronyms like AARO (All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office) has come to light since then and it is now apparent that, despite decades of denials, the U.S. government has been studying the phenomena for years. Blumenthal points out that “all the important information is classified, so there was only so far we could go with our reporting.”

Despite the seismic shift in attitude, so much remains beyond our understanding. With the government acknowledging that there are crafts in the skies and emerging from the seas that they don’t understand — and can’t credibly attribute to human technology — it’s time for both the public and private sectors to take steps in preparing for scenarios that could potentially disrupt daily life.

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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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