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World should draft UFO policy, says professor eyeing strange comet

The Havard University professor who has raised questions about an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS — namely, that it may be some sort of alien tech — has some advice for the international community: Figure out a plan on dealing with UFOs.

“I believe that we need an international organization that will make policy decisions about such an object,” theoretical physicist Avi Loeb told “Banfield” on Friday. “We are worried about existential threats from artificial intelligence, from global climate change, from an asteroid impact, but we never discuss alien technology.”

In scientific circles, 3I/ATLAS is thought to be a comet. But Loeb said the object from outside our solar system seems to be unusually large, doesn’t appear to have a typical comet’s tail and has a puzzling trajectory.

“The response has to depend on its properties and its intent — what is it doing as it comes closer to us?” Loeb said. “And it’s just like having a visitor in your back yard. You can’t decide on the policy for all visitors. It really depends on the intent of the visitor, and it’s just next door.”

NASA says 3I/ATLAS is not on a collision course with Earth.

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Mysterious ‘orbs’ demand scientific study

President Trump interviewed Air Force pilots who were utterly baffled by the objects. They seem to chase Navy fighter jets and have been captured on radar and video. The Pentagon’s UFO analysis office is perplexed by them.

What is behind the enigmatic “orbs” reported by countless credible observers since at least World War II?

The scientific community must abandon the nearly century-long anti-scientific stigma surrounding UFOs — which the Pentagon likes to call “unidentified anomalous phenomena” — and investigate this enduring mystery. This is especially so since the Pentagon now admits openly that it is baffled by “several dozen” “true anomalies” and “really peculiar” UFO incidents, including some involving unknown “orbs.”

On July 24, the Senate confirmed former Air Force fighter pilot Matthew Lohmeier as the under secretary of the Air Force, the department’s second-highest civilian position. While in high school, Lohmeier had a remarkable UFO encounter.

According to Lohmeier, a “ball of light” descended upon him and a friend as they were in the wilderness outside of Tucson, Ariz. The object came so close that Lohmeier recalls that “it seemed to be buzzing with life, but it wasn’t man-made.”

“It was very well-organized, very spherical,” Lohmeier said, “and it seemed to be very conscious of the two of us that were sitting there in the Arizona mountains, like it was observing us … there was a level of interest from the orb to us.” Frightened, the two ran to their car. The object “zipped up and disappeared in the sky.”

Lohmeier is not the only Air Force fighter pilot left baffled by such an object. In a September appearance on Fox News, Trump stated that he interviewed several Air Force pilots who encountered spherical objects performing extraordinary maneuvers. According to Trump, the pilots told him, “All I know, sir, there was a round object that was going four times faster than my F-22.”

“Four or five guys [that] I’ve interviewed, solid people, great pilots for the U.S. Air Force,” Trump continued, have “seen things that they cannot explain, so there’s something.” Trump also told podcaster Joe Rogan that the pilots observed objects “like a round ball, but it wasn’t a comet or a meteor.”

Timothy Phillips, the former deputy director of the Department of Defense’s UFO analysis office, stated in June that the Pentagon is perplexed by “fiery orbs.”

Such phenomena have been reported since at least World War II. “Balls of Fire Stalk U.S. Fighters” read the headline of a frontpage Jan. 2, 1945, New York Times article describing the mysterious “foo fighters” that toyed with American pilots in the European and Pacific theaters.

The late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), as a wartime transport pilot in Asia, encountered such an object, which conducted extraordinary maneuvers around his plane. The experience led him to enthusiastically support then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) establishment of a secret Pentagon UFO program in 2008. A 2017 New York Times story revealing that program spurred a sweeping congressional investigation into the UFO phenomenon. This led to the introduction of extraordinary legislation and the establishment of the Pentagon’s analysis office.

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US vice president ‘obsessed’ with UFOs

US Vice President J.D. Vance has revealed he has been “obsessed” with UFOs and hopes to thoroughly investigate the phenomenon in the nearest future.

Vance made the admission during an episode of the Ruthless Podcast which aired on Friday, where he proclaimed his fascination with the mysterious flying objects.

“Like, I’m obsessed with the whole UFO thing. ‘What’s actually going on?’ ‘What were those videos all about?’ ‘What’s actually happening?’” he said. “I haven’t gotten to the bottom of it yet, but we’re only six months in; we’ve been very busy.”

The US VP pledged to spend the Congressional recess in August “in part” to try and study the matter and “dive to the bottom of the whole UFO thing from last year.” While Vance did not elaborate, he apparently referred to identified drone sightings in New Jersey late last year. Some of the flying objects were reportedly as large as a sedan.

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The Vault Files: The 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania Crash

The Kecksburg UFO incident of December 9, 1965 remains one of the most intriguing unresolved cases of a mysterious object falling from the sky. Often dubbed “Pennsylvania’s Roswell,” it involved reports of a fiery fireball streaking over several U.S. states and Canada, a crash in the woods near the village of Kecksburg, and an alleged military recovery of an unknown object[1]. Over the decades, the incident has been the subject of intense speculation – from meteor to secret Cold War satellite to extraterrestrial craft – and persistent efforts by investigators to unearth official records. This deep dive examines all angles of the Kecksburg case, drawing on eyewitness accounts, media reports, and released government documents (many obtained via The Black Vault’s FOIA requests) to present a balanced, evidence-backed picture of what we know.

On the early evening of December 9, 1965, just as dusk fell, a brilliant fireball was observed by citizens across at least six U.S. states and Ontario, Canada[2]. Witnesses from Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario saw a flaming object streak through the sky, dropping hot metal debris over parts of Ohio and Michigan and even igniting some grass fires[2]. Sonic booms rattled the Pittsburgh area as the object passed overhead[2]. In the rural community of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania (about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh), residents reported hearing a “thump” or impact and seeing blue wisps of smoke rising from the woods[3]. Something appeared to have crashed into a wooded ravine nearby[3].

Authorities responded swiftly. Pennsylvania State Police and local volunteer firefighters were among the first on scene, but they were soon joined by U.S. military personnel. The area was quickly sealed off, with state troopers establishing a perimeter and ordering civilians back. According to later accounts, approximately 25 U.S. Army soldiers (reportedly from a nearby base) and a few U.S. Air Force members arrived to scour a 75-acre patch of woods for the object[4]. Roadblocks were set up, and some curious onlookers who tried to sneak in were turned away at gunpoint by armed military guards[4] – an unusually strong response for what many assumed was a simple meteorite fall.

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‘Possibly hostile’ alien threat detected in unknown interstellar object, a shocking new study claims

A mysterious intergalactic object could potentially be a “hostile” alien spacecraft that’s slated to attack our planet in November, according to a controversial new study by a small group of scientists.

“The consequences, should the hypothesis turn out to be correct, could potentially be dire for humanity,” the researchers wrote in the inflammatory paper, which was published July 16 to the preprint server arXiv, South West News Service reported.

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar entity was discovered on July 1, rocketing toward the sun at more than 130,000 mph, Live Science reported. Less than 24 hours later, it was confirmed to be an interstellar object with initial observations suggesting that it could be a comet that measures up to 15 miles in diameter — larger than Manhattan.

However, in the new paper, the trio of researchers suggested that it might be a piece of extraterrestrial spy technology in disguise.

One of the researchers, Avi Loeb — a prominent Harvard astrophysicist known for linking extraterrestrial objects to alien life — previously made waves after floating the theory that 2017 interstellar object ʻOumuamua could be an artificial recon probe sent by an alien civilization, based on its odd shape and acceleration.

In this study, which he collaborated on with Adam Hibberd and Adam Crowl of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies in London, Loeb postulated that 3I/ATLAS’s trajectory suggests a similarly alien origin.

The trio felt the object’s speed — which was significantly faster than ʻOumuamua and other objects — and the fact that it entered our solar system from a different angle than its predecessors offer “various benefits to an extraterrestrial intelligence,” Loeb wrote in a blog post.

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Canadian Government Releases Report on UFOs

A new report issued by the Canadian government details the results of its three-year-long investigation into the UFO phenomenon. According to a local media report, the paper was produced by the Sky Canada Project, which was launched in 2022 under the auspices of the country’s Office of the Chief Science Advisor to examine “current practices surrounding public reporting of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in Canada.” Following a preliminary report released earlier this year, a more robust version of the group’s findings was issued to the public earlier this week and contained some interesting insights and recommendations.

Not unlike similar government projects conducted in the United States, the exhaustive study of how and where UFO reports are collected in Canada identified “several gaps and areas for potential improvements” in the process. Specifically, the report noted that all manner of agencies and offices receive sighting accounts because there is no centralized body responsible for the sizeable task. The paper also observed that these cases are rarely investigated “unless they are deemed to pose safety or security risks,” and scientists are generally not enlisted to help. Additionally, the report lamented that there is no public-facing government platform dedicated to the oft-ridiculed subject.

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UFO Whistleblowers Aim Spotlight at White House Secrecy Machine

In a new interview with podcaster Stephen Diener on 8 July 2025, Representative Burlison said that many Special Access Programs (SAPs) relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) “operate directly under the supervision of the White House.”

Sources tell Liberation Times that the drive for secrecy starts inside the White House itself, pushed by career officials who span administrations and work in two offices so sensitive their names cannot be disclosed publicly.

According to those sources, UAP missions are acknowledged at the highest levels of the White House but remain hidden from most Cabinet agencies behind elaborate cover programs. 

If true, the claim suggests UAP missions are far more centralised – and politically sensitive – than previously reported.

One defense source pointed to Dan Sherman’s book ‘Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny’ as a useful primer on how such compartmentalisation works. 

His description of layered secrecy mirrors today’s system, according to the source.

The six layers of secrecy are said to be as follows:

  1. Public layer (Unclassified) – Information released to the public, which may or may not reveal an organisation’s true purpose
  2. Controlled layer (For Official Use Only) – Unclassified data restricted to prevent outsiders from piecing together a sensitive picture
  3. Secret – Material whose unauthorised disclosure could seriously harm national security
  4. Top Secret + code-word compartments – Highly sensitive operations organised under code names
  5. Black missions – Conventional clandestine projects and missions, such as CIA–JSOC efforts to recover foreign hardware. Knowledge is limited to the President and a handful of lawmakers (the “Gang of Eight”)
  6. Programs-within-programs – Genuine UAP activities concealed inside black missions and projects. Even presidents can be kept at arm’s length; probing questions are often deflected with a limited briefing on the outer mission or project.

What has been alleged by whistleblowers, such as former senior intelligence official David Grusch, resembles Sherman’s description. 

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Surge in UFO Sightings: Over 2,000 Reports in First Half of 2025

More than 2,000 unidentified flying objects have been spotted across the United States in just the first six months of 2025, according to data from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).

This marks a significant uptick from the 1,492 sightings logged in the same period last year.

The NUFORC, a nonprofit dedicated to collecting and investigating these mysterious reports, tallied exactly 2,174 sightings from January through June 2025. That’s slightly higher than the 2,077 reported in early 2023, signaling a potential escalation in unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs), the government’s preferred term for what many believe could be extraterrestrial visitors or advanced secret tech.

Witnesses have described a wide array of shapes and behaviors that defy conventional explanation, such as glowing orbs zig-zagging at impossible speeds, massive triangle-shaped crafts hovering silently over homes “the size of a tennis court or a football field,” metallic discs, cigar-like objects, and even shape-shifting lights that accelerate sharply or make right-angle turns.

The Hill reports:

Whistleblower David Grusch came forward in 2023, alleging a secret UFO-retrieval program was being operated by the Pentagon. His testimony sparked congressional hearings and increased public attention to the issue of unexplained sightings.

Since then, others connected with the government have come forward to support Grusch’s claims, saying the Defense Department has not been honest with the public or Congress about the subject.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has remained firm in saying that there is no evidence unexplained sightings are extraterrestrial in nature and disavowing the existence of UFO-retrieval programs.

NUFORC’s chief technology officer, Christian Stepien, estimates that only about 5 percent of actual sightings ever get reported, due to lingering stigma and fear of ridicule.

“There are so many things being seen by so many people. And if it’s a secret block project, you’re not flying it over highly populated neighborhoods where everybody can see it, and even these days, have pictures of it,” Stepien said, according to The Hill’s report.

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FOIA Crack Opens: ‘Mosul Orb’ UFO Video Finally Goes Public

A four-second clip of the ‘Mosul Orb’ Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) has finally surfaced after investigative journalist Dustin Slaughter won a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and its National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC).

In 2023, journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp released a still image from the four-second video, showing the UAP above the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in 2016, reportedly from a CIA spy plane.

The video was filmed at 9:47 am Coordinated Universal Time on 16 April 2016, according to its timestamp.

During an appearance on Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp’s WEAPONIZED podcast, Slaughter said his 2023 FOIA filing hadn’t singled out the Mosul Orb; instead, he’d submitted a broad request for any UAP-related videos.

After what he described as stonewalling by the USAF and NASIC, Slaughter and his legal team filed suit in 2024.

The footage captures a mysterious sphere gliding right-to-left above Mosul’s rooftops. 

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Massachusetts Woman Records Unidentified Object Falling From the Sky

This week, many strange things have been reported in the skies throughout the United States, and the trend continues.

A woman in Massachusetts recorded an unidentified object falling from the sky near her home.

Pembroke, Massachusetts, resident Colleen McCormack told Boston 25 News that on Wednesday night, as she was sitting in her hot tub, she noticed an object falling from the sky.

McCormack quickly took out her phone and was able to record the object.

She stated, “It looked like it was on fire or something and it was just coming down really fast.”

Per Boston 25 News:

A woman captured a video of an unidentified object falling from the sky in Pembroke Wednesday night.

Colleen McCormack said she was sitting by her hot tub around 9 p.m. when she saw a strangely shaped object in the air.

“I pull out my phone and I zoomed in and it was right about there,” McCormack explained.

She recorded the object headed straight down in an eight-second video.

The FAA said they did not get any reports of debris in the area and was not able to comment on the video, saying they don’t comment on any third-party videos.

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