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UFO sleuths want fewer secrets in Trump-era investigations

After generations of stigma and secrecy around sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), or what the public calls UFOs, investigators probing hundreds of unsolved cases say the second Trump administration could be a turning point for transparency.

“We’re trying to get as much of the raw evidence out as we can without putting our partners’ equities at risk,” said Jon Kosloski, director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the government-wide task force leading research into mysterious sightings.

“The office has hired additional personnel and we’re investing in automated security review software that can redact the sensitive information from videos,” he said of an effort to release more currently classified material related to the probes.

Congress established the Resolution Office in 2022 to “detect, identify and attribute” mysterious objects of interest in the air, outer space, and underwater, with special focus on mitigating potential threats to military operations and national security.

More than 1800 cases have been reviewed by the Pentagon so far, with the vast majority ultimately resolved as likely balloons, drones, debris or animals based on a comprehensive review of available data.

Kosloski says “several dozen” cases remain anomalous even after rigorous analysis of evidence. They continue to receive new reports of anomalies by military service members and the general public every month.

“It’s a potential problem, a national security problem, safety of flight issue,” Kosloski told ABC News. “We seem to have the full support of the administration” in pursuing answers.

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Another Layer of Nuance to the UFO Mystery: Baffling Otherworldly Encounters with Military Naval Vessels

Whereas many people might imagine a scene over a quiet country road, or possibly from the balcony of a high-rise apartment building in a metropolis-like city, or even from a moving aircraft, the fact is there are many sightings on record that occur over the seas, oceans, and other vast water networks of our planet. Although actual statistics differ, it is widely agreed that more than half of all UFO sightings occur over or near water. With this in mind, we might imagine that many of the ships and submarines, particularly military ones, would have encountered these otherworldly vehicles – and we would be right.

As usual, we will not have the time to explore every case; in fact, we only have time and space to scratch the surface of such encounters here, which could fill up entire volumes in their own right, and those are just the sightings from the modern UFO age. We will, though, explore some of the most interesting and detailed UFO encounters that have involved naval vessels in various stretches of water around the planet.

Without a doubt, one of the strangest and thought-provoking of these marine encounters was relayed in the book Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials: The Real War of the Worlds by Frank Joseph, and occurred in the late 1980s when the Cold War, albeit reduced in tensions, was still very much unfolding. According to the report, which came through an anonymous crew member of the US Navy submarine, the USS Memphis, the incident occurred ahead of a NASA space shuttle launch, with the submarine patrolling the waters around the launch site ahead of the mission.

On this particular night – October 24th going into October 25th, 1989 – the USS Memphis was around 150 miles off the coast of Florida, cruising at a depth of around 500 feet. While the mission had been completely textbook so far, on this particular evening, they were experiencing all manner of problems with their electronics. As the witness recalled, the crew quickly realized the “ship was malfunctioning…the tanks were blowing” and the “navigations ability and communication (were) totally lost!” Eventually, an order was given to bring the submarine to a stop so the crew could assess what was happening. However, moments later, the controls in the reactor began to malfunction, and orders were issued to shut it down, switch to diesel engines, and surface immediately.

As soon as the vessel broke the surface of the water, the witness made his way to his watch station. He looked out and could see that the night sky was now glowing “red like a neon sign” as heavy rain came down from above. Then, only moments after first looking out, he noticed a “large, inverted V-shaped” object moving on the port (left-hand) side of the submarine. The witness turned to the executive officer who was with him, who told him to remain at his post while he informed the captain. Several moments later, the captain arrived at the watch station.

By this point, using a laser range finder, they had determined that their vessel was around 600 feet from the nearest point of the strange craft, which was approximately 650 feet from their location. Moreover, they estimated that the furthest point of the object was around 3500 feet from them, suggesting that it was, in total, around half a mile wide.

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UFO striking fighter jet is among swarm of mystery objects spotted near US military sites in Arizona: reports

A UFO that struck and damaged a US fighter jet is just one of a swarm of mystery objects buzzing around Air Force training ranges in Arizona, according to multiple reports.

One of the unidentified flying objects hit the clear bubble “canopy” over the head of a pilot in a $63 million F-16 Viper jet in January 2023, damaging it and temporarily grounding the plane, according to Federal Aviation Administration documents first reported by the War Zone.

The military jet was struck midair by “an orange-white UAS,” or “uncrewed aerial system,” the FAA documents said. The term refers to drones.

Three more UAS encounters were flagged a day later, the outlet reported.

“What I can tell you is that there has been a lot of activity, a lot of people reporting a lot of things out of Arizona, particularly on the border” with Mexico, former Pentagon investigator Luis Elizondo told News Nation this month.

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Border Patrol Agent Reports Witnessing UFOs in Arizona

Government officials have reported seeing a wide range of UAP along Arizona’s border with Mexico. In an interview that aired on May 10, News Nation’s Ross Coulthart sat down with whistleblower Bob Thompson to discuss these sightings and their implications for national security.

“I’ve seen orbs, I’ve seen strange lights that were bright and hovering… A lot of stuff at night,” Thompson stated. As a US Border Patrol agent, he has access to highly sensitive equipment including infrared sensors and night-vision goggles. “[These UAP] were not showing visible forms of propulsion, even with goggles,” he said.

Thompson shared that once, while sitting in a vehicle with his supervisor, he saw two strange objects suddenly appear in the night sky. His sightings mirror other ones reported by both military and commercial pilots, many of whom have raised concerns about potential collisions.

“Could it be something the military is testing? It’s a distinct possibility,” Thompson admitted, acknowledging that his area of patrol is close to top-secret government sites, such as the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. There have also been instances of Mexican cartels using drones to transport drugs into the US. However, Thompson claimed the objects he’s seen do not resemble drones. According to him, the crafts “were cigar-shaped and triangles.”

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Former Defense Officials Raise Concerns About Unexplained Drone And UAP Threats To U.S. Airspace

Former senior defense officials issued stark warnings to lawmakers Thursday about intensifying threats posed by unattributed drone incursions and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) reported around the U.S. — particularly over military bases, assets, and nuclear facilities.

“I don’t think the public is aware of the extent of our airspace vulnerabilities and failures, and the degree to which they’ve already been exploited and are being exploited today, and the challenge that we face in trying to sort this out,” Christopher Mellon, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, said during an event hosted on Capitol Hill by the UAP Disclosure Fund and the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

Across multiple sessions at the hourslong summit, Mellon and other national security and research experts — including Dr. Avi Loeb, a Harvard professor, and retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, former oceanographer of the Navy — spotlighted recent incidents involving UAP and drones impacting military and civilian infrastructure. 

They also called on Congress to introduce new investments and proposals to help confront challenges associated with the Pentagon’s detection capabilities and what they view as the over-classification of certain UAP records and data.

The U.S. government has a long, complicated history dealing with technologies observed to perform in ways that seem to transcend what’s possible with contemporary capabilities. But with mounting pressure from the public and high-profile proponents over the past decade, Congress has made a series of recent moves to destigmatize the UAP topic, and more strategically investigate perplexing encounters with unidentifiable craft — including by requiring the Pentagon to launch the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) via the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.

At the event Thursday, Mellon and other expert panelists praised that recent progress, but argued that further coordination and accountability measures are needed.

“One of my career frustrations in the intelligence community has been that we have incredible sensors that are far more than $1 billion dollars, and we have a great many of them, and they are collecting information today which is directly pertinent to this topic,” Mellon said. “But that information is not reaching Congress. It’s not reaching the scientific community. In many cases, I don’t think it’s reaching AARO, which is the office that Congress established to study and evaluate this phenomenon.” 

He recommended that the lawmakers in attendance consider mandating a U.S. government- and military-wide assessment of sensor systems collecting data that could support ongoing UAP examinations — as well as an evaluation of classification issues that are preventing the release of unclassified data.

Mellon noted that shortly after he provided three unclassified videos of reported UAP incursions captured by military personnel to the New York Times in 2017, “somebody created the classification guide” inside the government and “we suddenly said, ‘in contradiction to the executive order on classification signed by the president, that essentially, anything having to do with UAP is now suddenly mystically classified because it might damage national security.’”

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New footage shows the mystery Tic Tac UFOs that rise from the Pacific Ocean and photographed by the Navy

When a UFO expert released a new video showing the infamous Tic Tac aircraft, it revealed bombshell theories about the phenomena.

Jeremy Corbell, an investigative journalist and filmmaker, has once again ignited public debate over UFOs since footage captured aboard the USS Jackson in 2023.

The video released on April 8, after a multi-year verification process, shows what Corbell and military witnesses describe as a ‘self-luminous, wingless, tailless’ craft rising from the Pacific Ocean.

But Corbell insists the new footage is far from an isolated event and says it fits a broader and increasingly alarming pattern: repeated sightings of intelligently controlled craft that defy known aerodynamics, appear regularly in the same offshore military training zone, and may originate from below the ocean’s surface.

According to the expert , the 2023 incident echoes two other major military encounters: the 2004 Nimitz sighting and a lesser-known but well-documented 2019 event in which a swarm of UAPs surrounded ten Navy warships over multiple nights.

The new footage, Corbell argues, is not a standalone revelation but part of a growing body of evidence pointing to intelligently controlled craft – capable of transmedian travel (moving seamlessly through space, air, and water) – that have repeatedly appeared over decades in the same region, warning Area 291, off the coast of Southern California. 

The 2023 release was supported by a new military witness: an active-duty U.S. Navy combat information center operator who claims to have seen the object rise from the ocean with his own eyes. 

Corbell and paranormal journalist George Knapp, known for handling sensitive testimonies, vetted the witness and aligned his account with radar data and forward-looking infrared (FLIR) imagery.

The Navy vet tracked the object using the ship’s high-powered Sapphire FLIR thermal-targeting system. Radar detected four unknown targets in the area, though two were captured on video. 

According to the witness, all four UAPs performed an instantaneous, synchronized maneuver – shooting off simultaneously without visible propulsion, suggesting intelligent coordination.

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Navy crew reports dramatic encounter eerily similar to iconic ‘Tic Tac’ incident

Sailors aboard a U.S. Navy warship off the coast of Southern California reported having a dramatic encounter with four unknown objects that seemingly flew away in a synchronized formation.

That formation seemed eerily similar to the now-famous “Tic Tac” object seen in those same waters in 2004 and investigated by a secret government program based in Las Vegas.

It appears the “Tic Tac” is back, or maybe never left, as the crew members aboard the USS Jackson said that they saw four of the oddly shaped craft, one of which emerged from the ocean.

The sailors were able to record video of two of the “Tic Tacs” as they appeared on a thermal sensor in the ship’s command center. That video was made public Tuesday in a podcast that 8 News Now Investigator George Knapp co-hosts and is likely to rekindle questions about who is piloting these objects.

When Navy aviators first encountered a “Tic Tac” shaped object off the coast of Southern California in 2004, it was largely ignored until 2008 when a new UFO program based in Las Vegas learned about the incident.

The program, dubbed AAWSAP, was launched by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), with support from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Bigelow Aerospace as the contractor.

As it turns out, the 2004 “Tic Tac” is pretty much identical to the 2023 model. In February 2023, crew members aboard the Navy’s USS Jackson saw an illuminated object emerge from the ocean off the coast of Southern California — in the same general area where the original “Tic Tac” was seen.

Inside the ship’s command center, the sailors saw a familiar shape on the thermal sensor. The thermal system, known as Safire, is a heat sensor, not a camera. A closer look showed that there were two of the objects, not just one. The witness said they saw four “Tic Tacs” in formation.

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Chilling declassified CIA file reveals aliens committed ‘revenge massacre’ after UFO was shot down

According to the report, Soviet troops shot down a flying saucer hovering over the Soviet military unit in Siberia roughly 35 years ago, and what happened next was truly terrifying.

In the document, summarizing a 250-page top secret file acquired by US intelligence agents, eyewitnesses said five aliens climbed out of their wrecked craft, combined themselves into one creature, exploded in a burst of intense energy, and turned 23 soldiers into solid rock.

One CIA official referred to the shocking battle as ‘a horrific picture of revenge on the part of extraterrestrial creatures, a picture that makes one’s blood freeze.’ 

The agency added that the ‘extremely menacing case’ proved the aliens who visited Earth possessed weapons and technology far beyond the US government’s ‘assumptions’ – suggesting they were already aware of the aliens’ existence.

The unearthed document, declassified in 2000, was recently the topic of the AI or Evil podcast, where host Josh Hooper revealed that two of the soldiers at the UFO crash site actually survived the encounter.

However, the 23 ‘petrified soldiers’ could not be saved. Their remains and the debris from the spacecraft were reportedly moved to a secret research base near Moscow.

An even more concerning detail of the CIA file is the description of the aliens reportedly involved in this massacre, who have been mentioned in UFO reports and sightings for nearly 80 years.

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JFK advisor reveals US Navy secretly shot and retrieved ‘orb’ UFO during 1962 missile test

An ‘orb’ UFO was shot out the sky and retrieved by the US Navy during a 1962 missile test, a former top aide to four US presidents revealed. 

Harald Malmgren was a senior advisor to John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford.

The retired government official said he was briefed by top CIA and Atomic Energy Commission officials on a videotaped missile test that took place during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, during which the shocking UFO incident occurred.

Malmgren’s daughter, economist Dr. Pippa Malmgren, herself a former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, revealed the details of her father’s story on her blog last week, after the veteran presidential aide passed away on February 13 aged 89.

She said before his death, her father had recently decided to tell his full story ‘for the sake of history’.

Harald described a video of a missile test launch from October 25, 1962, in which a mysterious ‘white orb’ can be seen flying in circles around the rocket as it speeds through the air.

The missile was equipped with what Pippa described as ‘an X-ray machine in the nosecone’, designed to use radiation to disable an incoming enemy nuclear missile.

But the test missile’s intense X-ray burst appeared to disable the UFO too.

‘The X-rays knocked it out of the sky. The US Navy retrieved the orb out of the ocean,’ Pippa wrote in her March 18 blog post, recounting her father’s story.

And it wasn’t the first time an orb had been spotted chasing a US missile, according to Harald.

‘We called them ‘tagalongs,’ Harald said, according to the blog post. ‘We knocked a “tagalong” out of the sky.’

Pippa said her father was briefed on the incident because he was in charge of the budget for the missile testing program, as a top White House and Pentagon official.

‘Before my father recently passed away, he went on record explaining what he knew about all this because he felt it was important for the sake of history,’ she said.

Harald, who was active on social media site X even in his final months, alluded to the incident in a tweet last August.

’60+ years ago I was provided highest level classifications to lead DOD [Department of Defense] work on nuclear weapons and antimissile defense,’ he wrote.

‘Informally briefed on “otherworld technologies” by CIA’s Richard Bissell (who had been in charge of Skunkworks, Area 51, Los Alamos, etc.) but sworn to secrecy.

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Was that a UFO above this Florida town Saturday? Shape-shifting object has some wondering

A shape-shifting, slowly turning object hovered high above Green Cove Springs on Saturday afternoon, leaving many to speculate about it.

The morphing, black object was high above just west of U.S. 17 and south of County Road 315, slowly heading south. It made no noise and was at least a few hundred feet off the ground.

At times the shape was like a spacecraft while it also looked like a turtle shell, a ball inside with white outline that almost looked like a mouth and teeth.

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