The U.S. is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects, a former Air Force intelligence officer testified Wednesday to Congress. The Pentagon has denied his claims. Retired Maj. David Grusch’s highly anticipated testimony before a House Oversight subcommittee was Congress’ latest foray into the world of UAPs — or “unidentified aerial phenomena,” which is the official term the U.S. government uses instead of UFOs. While the study of mysterious aircraft or objects often evokes talk of aliens and “little green men,” Democrats and Republicans in recent years have pushed for more research as a national security matter due to concerns that sightings observed by pilots may be tied to U.S. adversaries.

Alberta, in particular, has consistently ranked third or fourth in the list of provinces to report UFO sightings, often behind Ontario and Quebec

A former intelligence official claimed the U.S. government has been covering up a longstanding defense program that collects and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and has found "nonhuman biologics" at alleged UFO crash sites.

Subcommittee chairman cites incident as an example of a lack of governmental transparency or preparedness concerning unidentified aerial phenomena. Several witnesses testify about experiences with possible UFO encounters and one, a former intelligence officer, says the US ‘absolutely’ possesses crashed spacecraft

A favorite theme of science fiction is "the portal"--an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unknown. If only they actually existed.... It turns out that they do, sort of, and a NASA-funded researcher at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find them.

Five memorable moments from the UFO hearings: 1. Government is ‘absolutely’ in possession of UAPs, 2. ‘Nonhuman biologics’ found at a crash site, 3. Officials must establish a reporting process, 4. Stigma 'silences' possible witnesses, and 5. UFO accelerating to 'supersonic speeds'

House Oversight Committee examines firsthand accounts of unidentified anomalous phenomena and government's response

Full video stream of the UAP hearings on YouTube.

In a rare bipartisan effort, Republicans and Democrats initiated the UAP hearing at the US House of Representatives on July 26, 2023. The three eyewitnesses spoke under oath, making them legally liable for anything they say and making it easier for lawmakers to pursue additional information. The three included David Grusch, the former National Reconnaissance Officer Representative at the UAP Task Force in Department of Defense, and two military pilots, Ryan Graves and David Fravor.

The Senate in the coming days is expected to consider a bipartisan measure that would compel the U.S. government to publicly release records relating to possible UFO sightings after decades of stonewalling.

The Disclosure Act of 2023

On Run 6 of the magnetic sled through the likely crash site of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1, the expedition research team recovered shards of corroded iron. At first, we thought it may be common industrial iron associated with human-made ocean trash. But when Ryan Weed ran the sample of shards through the X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzer, the most likely alloy it flagged is X5 steel with titanium, which is also known as shock-resisting steel.

Avi Loeb and his Galileo Project found an anomalous wire from the 2014 interstellar meteor (IM1) crash. They're investigating now to determine if it was made by another civilization outside the solar system.

Lawyer Daniel Sheehan tells DailyMail.com that a whistleblower told him of a crashed UFO recovered by the US military that 'distorted space-time' . 'They had a guy go into it and it was the size of a football stadium, while the outside was only about 30 feet in diameter.' Sheehan said . Sheehan has been helping bring whistleblowers like former senior Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch to Congress

This week was marked by the news about a shocking report under oath by the whistleblower David Grusch who served as a representative to the UAP Task Force and co-lead for UAP analysis within the DoD. Grusch says recoveries of extraterrestrial objects of non-human origin have been ongoing for decades by the US Government, allies, and defense contractors. In response, AARO released the following public statement: “To date, AARO’s review of testimony from over two dozen individuals has not led to any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”

Ufologist John Mooner snapped what he believes are images of a UFO proving the existence of 'non-human intelligence' amongst a Red Arrows formation at Torbay Airshow in Devon. Intriguing photos snapped of the Red Arrows have left people baffled as they appear to show a UFO join the display. John Mooner was at the Torbay Airshow near Paignton, Devon, last weekend when he spotted the object whizzing past at "at least 1,000mph" among the planes making up the country's most iconic air display.

According to explosive reporting, the powerful internal investigative body that oversees the nation’s intelligence agencies found a whistleblower’s claims of an illegal government UFO crash retrieval and exploitation effort to be “credible and urgent.” To eliminate potential ambiguity regarding such an extraordinary development, a knowledgeable source confirmed to me that the intelligence community inspector general found “allegations that there is a [UFO crash retrieval] program [to be] urgent and credible.”

The hunt for extraterrestrial spacecraft has generally been scattered and disorganised, but now NASA is collecting all the data in one place to try to find out if any UFOs really are alien ships.

More and better data are required to solve the mystery of strange apparitions in the air, the sea and space, according to NASA’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study team.

The U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing, titled "Understanding the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena", to investigate UFO sightings and their implications. The committee heard from various witnesses, including military pilots, and pledged to take the UFO phenomenon seriously. One notable testimony was from a former Marine, Michael Herrera, who recounted a 2009 incident in Indonesia where his unit witnessed a UFO. The event was corroborated by military sources but lacked photographic evidence. Amid increasing public interest, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was scrutinizing the national media's coverage of the UFO phenomenon. These developments suggest a growing momentum in the government's approach to understanding and addressing the UFO phenomenon​1. However, due to limited tool interaction time, not all details of the article could be extracted. I recommend reading the full article for a comprehensive understanding.

In 2009, former Marine Michael Herrera and his unit reportedly saw an octagonal UFO while serving in Indonesia. They claim the UFO, the size of a football field, was being loaded with weapons by unmarked US forces. The craft emitted an audible hum and changed colors. The incident was kept silent for 14 years until Herrera came forward in 2023.

8 News NOW Las Vegas — A Las Vegas family claims something crashed in their backyard, prompting them to call 911 about “non-human” beings – the thing is, this time, several people saw it.

On April 30, a Las Vegas family reported seeing something fall from the sky and claimed to witness non-human beings in their backyard, with one of them described as an 8-10 foot tall creature with big eyes and mouth. The sighting was reported to the police, and officers arrived at the scene approximately half an hour later. The officers' body camera footage showed an investigation into the backyard, which was later blacked out citing privacy laws. Another witness reported seeing an SUV circling the area at the same time. The police investigation did not yield concrete answers, and the case was eventually closed. Representatives from nearby air force bases denied involvement, and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to questions regarding the incident.

A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com the forensic neuroimaging expert, who has worked with the CIA since the 1960s, said he dealt with 'hundreds of patients' including special forces officers and other military personnel hurt after interacting with unidentified craft, some of whom later died. Some of the injuries resembled the mysterious 'Havana Syndrome', which intelligence agencies believe could be a series of clandestine attacks on US diplomats by a foreign power using targeted microwaves.

The past few years have witnessed an explosion of series devoted to visitors from other worlds. Those behind some of the best explain why – and what it feels like to journey into the sixth dimension

An enormous, circular halo of eerie red light, which looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, recently flashed in the night sky above Italy. The bizarre disk appeared and disappeared within milliseconds, meaning most people likely missed the strange spectacle.

Alien life could thrive in terminator zones, the edges between the light and dark sides of planets that are tidally locked with their host stars.

Planetary defense entered a new era last year when NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission demonstrated for the first time the ability to alter an asteroid’s orbit. The successful mission was achieved with the support of a worldwide observation campaign, and growing global interest in hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs) – asteroids and comets that could come into Earth’s neighborhood. Despite these breakthroughs and growing awareness, less than half of NEOs capable of serious damage on Earth have been catalogued.

This paper provides a view of the pattern of reported Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP) in the United States associated with the military atomic weapons complex between 1945 and 1975. UAP activity leads behind clues showing pattern of behaviour – understanding these patterns will lead to insights into intentions

Nasa may have collected the first evidence of life on Mars… but it will take us ten years to find out. Last week, Nasa’s Perseverance rover drilled down into a rocky outcrop - dubbed Berea - which likely formed from deposits carried downstream by an ancient river that flowed well beyond the Jezero crater that the rover has been exploring. The rock is sedimentary and composed of carbonate minerals, which on Earth, often contain fossils. Nasa is planning to bring the samples to Earth, alongside dozens of others that it is collecting from the Jezero crater - the site of an ancient Martian lake. But the samples are not due to arrive here until 2033, meaning scientists face an agonising wait to find out whether the precious cores really do contain proof that life once existed on the Red Planet.

A “coherent” radio signal has been detected from an alien planet, suggesting it could be more likely to be habitable. The signal suggests that the planet has its own magnetic field, which is thought to be central to sustaining life on a particular world.

Lawmakers have called to increase funding for the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial phenomena research office following the release of the Biden administration’s budget request.

NASA is actively monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.

Have you ever found yourself in a self-imposed jam and thought, “Well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions”? It’s a common refrain that exposes a deeper truth about the way we humans understand time and causality. Our actions in the past are correlated to our experience of the future, whether that’s a good outcome, like acing a test because you prepared, or a bad one, like waking up with a killer hangover.

Nearly a year after U.S. Space Command somewhat randomly confirmed that scientists had correctly identified the first known interstellar object to land on our planet, mysterious difficulties are still preventing the release of information about the government hoarding and suppressing data related to the extrasolar visitation.

A classified government document opens with “an odd sequence of events relating to parapsychology has occurred within the last month” and concluded with an alarming question about psychics nuking cities so that they became lost in time and space. If this sounds like a plot out of science fiction, it is - but it’s also a NSA memo from 1977. The first “event” raised by the NSA note is a CIA report which mentioned KGB research into parapsychology. According to this, the KGB used hobbyists and non-governmental researchers to talk to western scientists. This allowed the KGB to collect useful information without putting themselves into a position to accidentally leak confidential information to westerners. According to the NSA note, this tactic yielded “high grade western scientific data.”

A Yemeni photographer has captured what he believes to be an unidentified flying object (UFO) over a mountainous area in northern Yemen. Aseel Badiyan’s picture shows a white triangular, object soaring through the clouds, reported UAE based Emirates 24/7 on Thursday.

A 15-minute introduction to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)

When ranchers began reporting incidents of mutilated cattle, the ensuring panic fed both conspiracy theories and a growing cynicism about the government.

. Truckers at the center of a chilly sighting along State Route 87 speak out: It all began with a truck driver sharing footage of a chilly sighting along an Arizona highway, and in the days since the video was taken, many people have seen and commented on it. The truck driver whose camera captured the spooky moment is now speaking out.

For decades, people have reported seeing UFOs of all shapes and sizes in the skies over Southwestern Ontario. Since 1991, Winnipeg-based Ufology Research has recorded 153 UFO sightings in Windsor and Essex County, including five in 2022. There have been 328 sightings since 1989 in the London region, including six last year.

On the boundary of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean is the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest in the Atlantic Ocean. Kilometers above it, the ocean's surface is dipped slightly, pulled by an anomaly of Earth's gravity.

A woman from Hartland says she may have snapped a possible UFO flying over the North Devon coast. Nicola Hedges says she took the photos on her mobile phone on Thursday, February 23 and has wondered what they could be. She explained: “I took them in quick succession and, in one, there is a blue unidentified thing, which when enlarged, looks to me a bit like a spacecraft, in alignment with the stars and the moon. In the second, the blue thing has moved out of alignment and then, in the third, it is gone completely.”

University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank is not impressed by recent reports of UFOs. In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Frank argues that concluding extraterrestrial life is behind these recent reports would be foolish. The piece is yet another instance of experts coming forward to refute the idea that aliens could be behind recent sightings of unexplained objects soaring through the skies. "There are excellent reasons to search for extraterrestrial life," he argues, "but there are equally excellent reasons not to conclude that we have found evidence of it with UFO sightings."

A lot was happening in 2020 so there’s a chance you may have missed something—like the fact the New York Times published a story basically saying aliens are real. The claim was based on a document stating that the government has found unexplained objects that were “not made on this earth.” You read that right.

A rare cloud formation creates an optical illusion tricking viewers into thinking it looks like a UFO.

The research around Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), which are really just UFOs by another name, is often wrapped up in the feasibility of intelligent life visiting Earth. But in a new draft paper (that has yet to peer reviewed), Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and Harvard University’s Avi Loeb, stripped away the more philosophical questions about life on other planets and instead focused on the physics of “highly maneuverable” UAPs specifically.

Declassified footage from the US military shows the moment a Russian jet crashed into a US drone on Tuesday. The American military says the collision meant it later had to bring down the drone into the Black Sea. The US has released a small excerpt and the BBC has not seen the events before or afterwards.

With the release of mounds of unclassified Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) documents, scientists are grappling with how to understand these the objects previously known as UFOs. A new paper from the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and Harvard University confirms that these UAPs seem to defy physics as they lack certain tell-tale signs, such as an ionized tail or optical fireball produced by friction. However, the paper posits that this is likely more a problem with the sensors recording this data than science’s current understanding of physics.

After a slew of high-altitude balloons drifted over from China, America has been bombarding top military officials with calls about unexplainable sightings in the sky. But nothing comes close to the Phoenix Lights. The event started in Nevada when a Henderson resident reportedly saw a V-shaped object with six lights on its leading edge pass overhead, flying southeast toward Arizona.

Richard Dolan on UAP secrecy & disclosure: "Some day, and it won't be too long in the future, something is going to force someone's hand. It could be a major sighting. It could be a major leak. Something that can no longer be denied."

According to one conspiracy-minded Congressional Republican, there's a chance that his employer is, at this very moment, "reverse-engineering" alien technology salvaged from UFOs. In an eyebrow-raising interview with Newsweek — a magazine, which has been printing misinformation for years now — Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett said that he thinks the US government has "recovered a craft at some point, and possible beings," alluding to a number of high-altitude balloons that were shut down last month.

There is a possibility that extraterrestrial motherships and smaller probes may be visiting planets in our solar system, the head of the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial phenomena research office noted in a report draft shared Tuesday.

SHOCKING footage of a cigar-shaped UFO that emerged in a smoke-filled sky after a California wildfire has turned out to not be what it seemed. In November 2018, a massive wildfire, known as the Woolsey Fire that burned through the Los Angeles and Ventura Counties in California, prompted a helicopter to capture the forest smoke, but the video proved to stir more debate than originally intended.

According to the organization UFO Identified, which gathered data from local and national media, as well as FOI (Freedom of Information) requests, a total of 497 UFO sightings have been reported across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in 2022. In comparison, there were 465 sightings in 2020 and 413 in 2021, which means that people saw more unexplained phenomena last year than they previously had.

Recovered UFO technology may be "being reverse-engineered right now," but we "don't understand" how it functions, according to a U.S. Representative. Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett told Newsweek that he believed "we have recovered a craft at some point, and possible beings." "I think that a lot of that's being reverse-engineered right now, but we just don't understand it," he continued.

Spy plane images obtained by DailyMail.com show a UFO flying near Baghdad last year. The six images appear to show a skinny cylindrical-shaped object over North Eastern Iraq, close to Baghdad, moving across the screen from left to right. The images were taken from a video filmed by a thermal camera in a United States Air Force (USAF) Reaper drone in May 2022 – and have been dubbed the 'Baghdad Phantom'.

In an intriguing (and little-known) 2021 incident, a U.S. spy satellite captured multiple images of a mysterious “Tic Tac”-shaped craft flying over water. Within hours, intelligence analysts compared the object to an extraordinary 2004 incident involving another “Tic Tac”-shaped craft. In that encounter, four naval aviators were left stunned as a strange elongated object with no wings or engines conducted jaw-dropping maneuvers. Eyewitnesses ultimately briefed members of Congress on the incident, which included several perplexing detections by radar and infrared (heat) sensors. Meanwhile, other aircrews told Congress of their daily, years-long encounters with unknown objects exhibiting highly advanced – and distinctly un-balloon-like – flight characteristics.

He’s one of the city’s Bravest … and Strangest. Firefighter Andrew Radziewicz says he’s a “psychic medium” who regularly encounters extraterrestrials, UFOs, dead people, angels and other strange phenomena — even in his Brooklyn fire station. “I’ve seen angels at work,” the Radziewicz, 38, said in a March 11 interview on the “Sacred Matrix” online radio show, where he went by his pseudonym, Andrew Raz.

Investigators believe a Scot could hold an important clue to one of the world’s biggest UFO mysteries. The “Calvine photo” taken in Perthshire in 1990 is regarded as one of the clearest UFO pictures ever taken but is at the centre of a mystery after images sent to the Ministry of Defence disappeared. But one certified copy emerged last year, showing a diamond-shaped object in the sky above Perthshire – believed by some to be the world’s “best ever UFO photo”.

One of the world's leading experts on UFOs has claimed whistleblowers involved in top-secret US government programs have already begun giving testimony as part of a long-awaited review, The U.S. Sun can reveal. After decades of it being a taboo topic, Congress is finally waking up to UFOs, and the Department of Defense is reviewing historical documents related to "unidentified aerial phenomena" dating back to 1945.

A police helicopter has filmed an unidentified flying object, only visible using an infrared camera. The footage was tweeted by the National Police Air Service St Athan account. According to the tweet, nothing was seen in the area by local air traffic control. In the video, the images switches between daylight and infrared imaging. Only when on infrared is the object visible. Responding to questions on twitter, the object was described as 'hot' and travelling into the wind. Because of this, it's thought not to have been a lantern. The object was spotted over the Bristol channel, flying at around 1,000ft.

A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center has revealed that a surprising 65% of Americans believe that intelligent life exists on other planets. This figure is based on a survey of 10,417 US adults conducted between June 14-24, just before the government released its assessment on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

A former Pentagon official who led a recently revealed government program to research potential UFOs said Monday evening that he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth. “My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” Luis Elizondo said in an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”

"We show that the friction of UAP with the surrounding air or water is expected to generate a bright optical fireball, ionization shell and tail - implying radio signatures." - A paper from Avi Loeb of the Galileo Project with co-author Sean Kirkpatrick of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is out now.

Steven Spielberg shared his thoughts on life in the universe, UAP, recent news, and his belief that there’s some going on that’s not being disclosed.

Every day the news is about another balloon or object flying around the sky and some being shot down. I am concerned but a bit comforted by the fact that there have been objects in the skies for many years, and I don't mean the sun, moon and stars. UFOs have been a news topic for a long time.

Was there an out-of-this-world cause of a 1967 power failure that knocked out electricity in Woonsocket, Cumberland and North Smithfield? Harold A. Trudel of Woonsocket thought so. A day later he told The Providence Journal and its sister paper, The Evening Bulletin, that he saw a UFO hovering over power lines in the city just before the blackout. And Trudel went one step further: He produced several photos of the whirling, saucer-like craft, some of the most famous UFO photos ever published.

As a UFO expert, Nick Pope has heard his fair share of unexplained and conspiracy theories. These days, he’s found, stories are popping up more frequently. “Everyone is talking about these UFO stories, in particular,” Pope said. “There’s a lot of interest. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a time when people were so excited about UFOs and uncovering ancient mysteries.”

Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who testified that he witnessed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) with his own eyes, called on President Joe Biden to investigate the mysterious objects spotted in American airspace. Graves, a former fighter pilot, explained that after 2014, when "upgrades were made to our radar system, our squadron made a startling discovery: There were unknown objects in our airspace." And these were not "mere balloons," like the Chinese spy balloon that dominated the country’s attention in February.

The Canadian government's top scientist has launched a study into unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP: a term that is replacing "UFO" and "unidentified flying object" in official circles. Known as the "Sky Canada Project," the study, being conducted by the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, is the first known official Canadian UFO research effort in nearly 30 years. According to a February 2023 PowerPoint presentation obtained by CTVNews.ca, the study seeks to understand how UAP reports are handled in Canada, and to offer recommendations for improvements if needed.

America’s fixation on the recent objects floating over the country overlooks a much more serious problem with advanced technology aircraft that we can’t explain.

Russian fighter jets were sent to intercept the "intruding" unidentified flying object as it soared over St Petersburg, Russia - with the nearby Pulkovo Airport suspending all departures and arrivals and redirecting civilian craft

Asteroid Ryugu has a rich complement of organic molecules, according to a NASA and international team’s initial analysis of a sample from the asteroid’s surface delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft. The discovery adds support to the idea that organic material from space contributed to the inventory of chemical components necessary for life.

In recent years, the Pentagon and NASA have acknowledged that UFOs (or UAPs, unidentified aerial phenomena, as they are currently called) — are real rather than being simply figments of science fiction enthusiasts’ imaginations. Luis Elizondo, who headed the Pentagon’s investigation into unexplained aerial phenomena, highlighted the unusual features of UFOs that he had gleaned from many years of probes into accounts of strange airborne objects seen by pilots and naval officers. We describe some of these below.

Washington and the media are abuzz with chatter of flying saucers and little green men, but a man who studies UFO sightings for a living says you shouldn't believe the hype. Any day now, the Pentagon in the U.S. is expected to deliver a report to Congress about its task force investigation into "unexplained aerial phenomena" — or as most people know them, unidentified flying objects (UFOs). But California's Mick West says people shouldn't expect any exciting news from the report. He analyzes UFO videos and says there's almost always a rational, mundane explanation for them. Here is part of his conversation with As It Happens host Carol Off.

Following recent headline news of unidentified flying objects shot down by fighter jets in February, UFO mania is gaining steam. The US government's silence on the matter is only fueling the curiosity of conspiracy theorists and enthusiasts. And now, humans and space-age friends are descending upon a massive convention in Pasadena, California, for AlienCon.

Aliens are all the rage nowadays, with the news reporting UFOs after UFOs seemingly on the daily, and starting to feel like the 1950s again, when every weather anomaly is proof of the existence of aliens. Of course, where there is smoke, there is fire, and more questions are asked that don’t have answers good enough to explain certain things, spurring on the conspiracy theories that unidentified flying objects are from another world. Now, Intellectual Dark Web member Eric Weinstein is claiming that he has been invited to see aliens by the government, only to get pushed off for three years.

The Pentagon office in charge of investigating unidentified objects – like those shot down over Alaska, Michigan and the Yukon this month – only had three staffers until recent weeks, sources told DailyMail.com.

This new Navy tech aims to use lasers to fool air defense systems and missiles into thinking they see multiple aircraft or even a UAP for that matter–but the plan wasn’t to trick the world into thinking they were being visited by aliens. America uses stealth technology not just to avoid detection, but to avoid being shot down after they’ve been detected. A recent patent filed by the U.S. Navy meant to increase the survivability of stealth aircraft might do just that, but if the system works the way it’s supposed to, it could just as easily be used to project images into the sky that would look and act a whole lot like the strange crafts depicted in UAP footage released by the U.S. military in recent years.

If they ever land, let’s hope they really do come in peace. Because there’s a city in central Pennsylvania that has the highest chance of seeing a UFO in the state.

For their latest magic trick, physicists have done the quantum equivalent of conjuring energy out of thin air. It’s a feat that seems to fly in the face of physical law and common sense. “You can’t extract energy directly from the vacuum because there’s nothing there to give,” said William Unruh, a theoretical physicist at the University of British Columbia, describing the standard way of thinking. But 15 years ago, Masahiro Hotta, a theoretical physicist at Tohoku University in Japan, proposed that perhaps the vacuum could, in fact, be coaxed into giving something up.

A legacy of hype, hysteria and fraud is undermining legitimate inquiry into those strange objects in the sky, whether you call them spy balloons, flying saucers or unidentified aerial phenomena.

Images of aerial activity in the night sky in the Midlands around Ballymahon in Longford have posed the question “Is something out there?” On Monday, The Longford Leader was contacted by a reader regarding what they describe as “an observation of an unidentified flying object”.

Scientists working for the Louisiana Geological Survey believe they may have discovered a large crater caused by the impact of a meteor more than 10,000 years ago. The crater, more than a mile across, was discovered in a rural area of St. Helena Parish in southeastern Louisiana.

At some point in our culture, unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, became synonymous with extraterrestrials. Dozens of films depict disc-shaped alien spaceships visiting Earth to wreak havoc on our peaceful suburban neighborhoods. So when I hear UFO, I have a tendency to assume it is a craft filled with alien beings arriving from a foreign galaxy

A member of Ronald Reagan’s administration was allegedly so shook by the truth about UFOs that he cried himself to sleep. Never before in modern history have UFOs been a bigger topic, and interest in the subject only grows with every passing day. The shoot down of three unknown UFOs has only sent interest skyrocketing. Now, TV producer and “Dark Skies” creator Bryce Zabel has shared a story that’s pretty rattling.

10 Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) were spotted above Glasgow in 2022, with sightings including 'disc-shaped' and 'missile-shaped' objects amongst many more.

A legacy of hype, hysteria and fraud is undermining legitimate inquiry into those strange objects in the sky, whether you call them spy balloons, flying saucers or unidentified aerial phenomena.

NORAD conducted multiple air defense exercises after three UFOs were shot down. However, NORAD does routinely conduct exercises, so it’s unclear if this was unusual or not. Here’s a look at the timing of NORAD’s exercises compared to when the UFOs were shot down.

In 2014 and 2015, for example, at least 50 to 60 naval aviators training in tightly controlled airspace off the U.S. East Coast observed unknown objects exhibiting extraordinary flight characteristics. Critically, aircrews observed the mysterious craft visually or via sensors on a daily basis. Pentagon officials ruled out secret U.S. technology, leading some analysts to surmise that the mysterious objects were foreign surveillance platforms. But recent reporting appears to undercut this theory.

Canada’s top ufologist has seen a spike in reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in recent days after U.S. fighter jets shot down three separate objects last weekend.

"There's undoubtedly something going on that is either otherworldly or unexplained by our current rationale. And I think that the government also thinks that or they wouldn't have a UFO Task Force, and have been studying these things for 50-plus years if it was all just for fun? Something has happened where it made it real," Lindsey said.

Reports recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration's Joint Air Traffic Operations Command highlight flight safety issues that some UAP encounters pose to commercial and military aviators.

Quotes from NORAD have been cited throughout the last week but the full transcript of NORAD Briefing from Feb 12 includes many details that contradict the narrative coming from the White House. One such detail that hasn't received much attention is that an object "most likely landed in Canadian waters in Lake Huron".

Really? That’s it? The United States military is capable of many things, but finding the remnants of an unidentified flying object scattered across a blinding expanse of Arctic ice in minus-30-degree weather using six available hours of daylight is not one of them.

REPORTS are flooding in that a large white balloon has been seen by pilots over Honolulu in Hawaii. It comes just days after US officials claimed that a previously downed Chinese "spy" balloon that was targeting the state of Hawaii was blown off course.

As strange objects take to the skies above the United States, New Mexico’s senior senator is calling for more transparency and funding to try to better understand the phenomena. U.S. senators on Thursday received a classified briefing on the unidentified flying objects shot down recently in American and Canadian airspace. Afterward, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., joined a bipartisan group of senators in calling for the office tasked with investigating UFOs to be fully funded.

The residents of Tampico or Madero in Mexico don’t just believe aliens exist; they’re adamant that aliens are already here — living in the ocean and protecting their towns from natural disasters like hurricanes. And they aren’t the only society to have claimed alien assistance.

"It's a shame," said one UFO researcher of the recent shoot downs of UFOs over North America that turned out to not be extraterrestrial craft. After decades on the mockable fringes, unidentified aerial phenomena are finally major mainstream news. But the downing of a Chinese spy balloon and three other likely benign objects is an anti-climax for many interested in UFOs, who had hoped for something a little less terrestrial.

Calls for transparency and increased governmental efforts to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) have continued to grow, with a recent bipartisan push by senators to provide adequate funding and resources to the UAP office. Current legislation has instructed the government to look into UAP events dating back to 1945 in a search for answers to the phenomenon. This also includes looking back into the events of July 1947 in Roswell.

Last summer, a British astronaut made the news when he referred to someone’s theory that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in our skies may be future humans looking back at us. Tim Peake is a decorated test pilot and was the first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut from the United Kingdom, with over half a year spent in space including on the International Space Station (ISS); he was answering the question with good humor and skepticism.

Six radar observations made of an asteroid swinging by our planet have revealed an unusually oblong space rock. The object is three times as long as it is wide—an irregular shape, as far as asteroids are concerned.

Thanks to a new artificial intelligence-trained system, eight unexplained radio signals have already been found, which experts think may speed up the hunt for extraterrestrial life. After using the program to examine 820 stars in a region of space that was previously believed to be devoid of any possible alien activity, experts led by University of Toronto student Peter Ma uncovered the surprising finding.

Scientists say telescopes secluded from Earth's radio chatter could also help search for origins of universe.

NASA isn't announcing the existence of extraterrestrial life. But if the last two weeks show anything, it's if the agency ever breaks such news, the world may have trouble understanding.

A new paper has proposed an absolutely wild idea. What if aliens are creating black holes to use as quantum storage? It sounds crazy, but some scientists say it could give us a solution to the Fermi Paradox, which essentially states that if life is common in our universe, why have we not found evidence of it beyond Earth?

In the wake of four mysterious objects being shot down over North America, a member of NASA's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) panel—set up to study unexplained sightings in the sky—has weighed in on what these latest objects could be.

The mysterious object is believed to be the first military-recorded UAP in a conflict zone that was released to the public

In a tweet today, Congressman Congressman Darrell Issa puts forward the notion that President Biden’s official statement regarding the UAP phenomenon is “all lies”.

Skepticism builds around the narrative that recent UAP shot down were science balloons: The National Weather Service confirmed that none of the objects shot down in recent days belonged to the agency. And science balloons are usually well-tracked, an industry leader said.

Air traffic controllers and an approaching flight couldn't identify "two white lights … moving in a circular pattern" that were reported over Yellowknife late at night on Jan. 29. "Good evening, just wondering, do you got two planes that are just to the east of your field doing circuits or manoeuvres?" a crew member aboard a Canadian North flight from Fort McMurray, Alta., to Yellowknife, N.W.T., asked as it approached the city in northern Canada around 11:15 p.m. local time.

Senators Gillibrand, Rubio and 16 others bi-partisan senators push for full funding of a new UAP office to address airborne national security risks.

US Senator Richard Blumenthal speaking to press today on UAP: “The American people should be given more information. They're ready for it. They can handle it. And they need and deserve to know it.”

Extended audio between a pilot and air traffic control from a January 30th, 2023 Canadian North flight that reported "2 white lights... moving in a circular pattern" as it approached Yellowknife in northern Canada.

In a Press Conference following the NATO Defense Ministerial in Brussels, Belgium, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says NASA is involved in the identification of the objects that were shot down and “there's a lot to be learned going forward.”

TWITTER THREAD: Statements made by Senators, before and after the Classified UFO briefing regarding the 3 objects shot down over the weekend.

According to an official statement, the Romanian army's radars identified the target at an altitude of about 11,000 meters in the South-East of Romania. The Republic of Moldova closed its airspace at the same time , but the Romanian Army does not specify if this was the cause. Also, an American surveillance plane, under the command of NATO, was redirected from Poland, above the border between Romania and the Republic of Moldova.

The US and Canada may not be able to recover the debris of the three objects recently shot down by the military at President Joe Biden’s direction, a senior administration official said Tuesday morning, a day after the White House tried to tamp down on burgeoning conspiracies.

The Viper pilots involved in the incident provide some insightful observations on the mysterious craft that was shot down. “I wouldn’t really call it a balloon…I don’t know what…I can see it outside with my eyes” and “I can’t tell if it’s metallic or what, but I can see like lines coming down below it, but I can’t see anything below it”

Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizon today announced the passage of his amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) concerning unidentified aerial phenomena. The approved amendment requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) Establish an office to carry out the mission currently performed by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (in coordination with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence); (2) Submit an annual report on unidentified aerial phenomena; and (3) Terminate the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.

The Biden administration is forming an interagency group with the goal of addressing the recent spate of objects in the skies above North America, the White House announced Monday.

Asked directly, a senior military official did not rule out the possibility that their provenance could be extraterrestrial. “I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out,” General Glen VanHerck, commander of U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) told reporters late Sunday. “I haven’t ruled out anything,” VanHerck said when asked if aliens could be involved. “At this point, we continue to assess every threat or potential threat unknown that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.”

NEW: DOD General briefing on shot down objects says “not able to characterize how they stay aloft.” Could be a balloon or could have a propulsion system, he says. DOD says too soon to say what the airborne objects may specifically but they have not acted with hostile intent.

Taiwan has observed dozens of Chinese military balloon flights in its airspace in recent years, far more than previously known. “They come very frequently, the last one just a few weeks ago,” said a senior Taiwanese official.

The U.S. military shot down a flying object over Lake Huron near the U.S.-Canada border, U.S. officials said on Sunday, in the fourth such interception by American fighters this month. Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the military had shot down the object. Separately, U.S. Representative Jack Bergman said an object had been "decommissioned."

Jack Bergman, Chairman of the House Armed Services Intelligence and Special Operations Subcommittee, and US Representative from Michigan writes on twitter early this afternoon that the US Military has "decommissioned" another UAP over Lake Huron.

DEVELOPING: All indications suggest NORAD is still hunting something near the U.S./Canadian border in the Lake Michigan–Huron area. A new NOTAM was just issued by TCCA over Lake Huron, and U.S. military aircraft continue to canvas the area.

China issued a report today that Chinese military researchers have turned to artificial intelligence to track and analyze the increasing number of unknown objects in China’s airspace. This report comes as the Pentagon prepares its report into UFOs, due later this month.

Translated: In view of the complaints received about the sighting of flashing lights in the sky at Termas de Almirón, department of Paysandú, the intervention of the CRIDOVNI (Commission for the Reception and Investigation of Complaints of Unidentified Flying Objects) has been ordered.

BREAKING: NOTAM issued for parts of Lake Michigan. Area classified as "national defence airspace. No further information on whether this NOTAM is related to recent incidents.

The United States believes the unidentified objects shot down by American fighter jets over Canada and Alaska were balloons, though smaller than the China balloon downed over the Atlantic Ocean last weekend, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday.

Presentation slides from Seán Kirkpatrick director of AARO (All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office) that explain the organization & goals to identify, detect, & research UAP’s. Source: The US Department of Defense & Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Chinese authorities are reportedly preparing to shoot down an "unidentified flying object" spotted in the skies near the eastern Shandong Province.

China is getting ready to take down an unidentified object spotted flying over waters near the port city of Qingdao, The Paper reported.

An official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that sensory equipment absorbs a lot of raw data, and filters are used so humans and machines can make sense of what is collected. But that process always runs the risk of leaving out something important, the official said. “We basically opened the filters,” the official added, much like a car buyer unchecking boxes on a website to broaden the parameters of what can be searched.

Canadian Minister of Defense Anita Anand said a “high-altitude" cylindrical-shaped object "unlawfully entered Canadian air space." Anand said the object was taken down over central Yukon through the operation of NORAD.

Anand noted the object is “potentially similar to the one that was shot down to the one shot down off the coast of North Carolina though smaller in size and cylindrical in nature.”

BREAKING: A new NOTAM has been issued by the FAA for an area over Havre, Montana. Area classified as "international defence airspace"

BREAKING: FAA closes airspace around Havre, Montana, near the Canadian border, for defense-related reasons. Cause unknown

BREAKING: New “National Defense Airspace” NOTAM up over Northern Montana. Another shootdown is most likely imminent.

Another unidentified object has been shot down over North American airspace, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed.

Despite major progress in the investigation of UAP by DOD, NASA and scientific organizations, there is no corresponding scientific effort to investigate similar anomalies that have been detected in the world’s oceans. Three immediate actions are suggested to remedy scientific neglect of similar anomalies in the vast and vital maritime domain.

President Joe Biden ordered the military to down what the White House described as a “high-altitude object” hovering over Alaska on Friday. It was shot down near the Canadian border on water that is frozen in the Arctic Ocean, the White House said.

For the first time, a former Navy Gunner’s Mate shares his encounter with an Unidentified Submerged Object in the waters near a Navy supercarrier in 2010.

Tennessee Republican congressman Tim Burchett has publicly accused the U.S. government of a "huge cover-up" following a significant rise in reported sightings of "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAPs) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's (DNI) recently released unclassified report. Burchett has called for the government to release all of the information they have on the sightings, while the Pentagon has acknowledged the safety risk that these sightings may pose, but states that they have not seen anything to suggest that the UAPs are of "alien origin."

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 required the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to submit an annual report to Congress on unidentified aerial phenomena. ODNI submitted the classified annual report to Congress and published the unclassified annual report.

UFOs are real, and the government is aware. But that doesn't mean we know what they are and that they are signs of alien technology.

On the night of May 19, 1986 in Brazil, air traffic controller Sérgio Mota da Silva witnessed fighter jets intercepting UFOs traveling at speeds of up to 10,000 mph in the sky. He even managed to communicate with them using runway lights, and reported that they had "intelligent behavior". Hundreds of witnesses, including military personnel, saw the strange objects and several planes reported them, with one pilot noting that the object reached a speed of 11,500 mph.

So far, data has not shown unidentified anomalous phenomena to be from an alien source, according to defense officials.

The suspicious deaths of men and women who may have known too much about UFOs raises deep questions. Has murder actually been committed in order to keep a lid on the reality of the phenomenon?

A mystery object described by one local news outlet as a "UFO" has been shot down in the southern Russian region of Rostov.

A response to recent Op-Eds published by Holman Jenkins in the Wall Street Journal that have perpetuated conspiracy theories about UAP and attempted to undermine the eyewitness testimony of highly trained aviators. It discusses the fear of stigma that has long surrounded UAP, and the growing momentum for scientific research into the phenomena. The article also highlights public statements from numerous leaders and elected officials who agree that UAP incidents cannot be explained and require further research, as well as recent Congressional hearings and the passing of the 2023 NDAA with far-reaching UAP provisions. It emphasizes that encounters with UAP are an issue not exclusive to Americans, and calls for more attention to be paid to the issue as a matter of safety and national security, as well as an investment in science to answer critical questions.

The US Military's Secret Flying Saucer Project | Alien Reproduction Vehicles (ARVs). In 1988, aerospace designer Brad Sorenson went to Norton Air Force base for the annual air show. The show was the chance for aerospace companies and military contractors to show off new technology to top military and government officials. Brad wanted to network and maybe grab a new client or two. At some point, Brad got turned around and separated from his group. He hopped into another group and ended up in a large hangar watching a presentation given by a three-star general. At first it was the typical rundown for various top secret aircraft. Brad figured he was in the right place. He wasn't. The general signalled to someone and a huge curtain was pulled, revealing three aircraft that nobody was expecting.

The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has received "several hundred" reports of unidentified flying objects since 2021. There is no evidence yet of alien life, but the office is working to identify unknown objects and their potential security risks. It has established mechanisms to rule out US aircraft or drones, and is coordinating with the Pentagon and US intelligence community to get the signatures of US technology. Congress has held its first hearing in more than half a century on the topic.

A black hole sun could be friendlier than you might expect. Planets orbiting a black hole – as they do in the film Interstellar – could sustain life, thanks to a bizarre reversal of the thermodynamics experienced by our sun and Earth.

The Department of Defense has analyzed 'several hundred' UFO reports from its service members since last year and established an All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to investigate anomalous, unidentified objects. The Under Secretary of Defense Ronald Moultrie revealed they had received reports from intelligence and military officers of unidentified objects in the air, underwater, and in space, and are cooperating with NASA to identify them. However, they have not seen any evidence to date of alien visitation or crash.

It appears that the NSA’s big ear is listening in on space aliens (or whatever those mysterious objects in the sky are), and the public deserves to know more about it. The Department of Defense has revealed that the U.S. government has set up a Joint Interagency Task Force to investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). This task force is so secretive that documents released regarding the investigation are all heavily redacted and have a highly classified status. The National Security Agency has also been involved in the investigation, leading to speculation that they may have intercepted communications from foreign militaries testing advanced drones or, possibly, alien spacecraft. It is important that Congress ask the NSA what they know about the UAP phenomenon, so that the public can learn more about the possible extraterrestrial or earthy origins of the mysterious objects in the sky.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the NDAA-IAA on December 8, 2022, by a vote of 350-80. It contains two main UAP related provisions in three numbered sections, which are similar to those in earlier versions and have been refined by congressional negotiators. This bill will provide a secure method for authorized reporting and robust anti-reprisal protections for those bringing UAP-related information to the Pentagon UAP office and Congress. There are also revisions to existing "whistleblower" laws covering the Intelligence Community, and a historical study of involvement of the Intelligence Community in UAP matters, which will be conducted by the Pentagon UAP office. Final congressional approval and enactment are likely before the end of the year.

The incredibly encounter – which took place in the late 1990s – has come to light after a scientist on board decided to speak to a YouTube channel and reveal his terrifying experience

In September of 2022, multiple pilots in Kansas reported seeing unidentified flying objects to the FAA. One pilot describes the incident to air traffic control as a “whole sea“ of flashing lights.

A UFO has been discovered at the bottom of the Baltic Sea which has cut off electrical equipment for divers 200m away. The object is made of an unknown material and is estimated to be about 60m in diameter. Researchers believe that the object is a UFO that crash-landed into the sea.

Ryan Graves speaks at a conference in Huntsville, Alabama on UAP and the government.

A Harvard professor believes an alien spacecraft may have crashed near Australia – and he’s going to search the ocean floor for the wreckage.

Quest TV tracked down the mysterious crew member, identified as Kevin Thomas who lives in Bonham, Texas. Kevin Thomas was the production petty officer in the photo lab aboard the USS Nimitz. He ran the photo lab downstairs for the enlisted personnel. He described his encounter with a huge “triangular and black” UFO that emerged from the sea before taking off and disappearing into the air.

A new study has found that there could be as many as a quintillion alien spacecraft lurking in our solar system. The study, conducted by a team of astronomers from Penn State University, looked at the Drake Equation, which is used to estimate the number of intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. The researchers found that there could be up to a quintillion intelligent civilizations in our galaxy alone, and each of them could have up to a trillion spacecraft. This means that there could be as many as a sextillion (10^21) alien spacecraft flying around the universe.

In response to the increasing likelihood of detecting extraterrestrial life, a group of scientists have created a "post-detection hub" in order to better prepare for contact. The hub, which is funded by the UK government, will be used to coordinate research and communicate findings to the public.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, our view of the universe includes evidence of amazing phenomena, including water on an exoplanet.

A map showing reports of UFO sightings in the United States for the year 2012.

A commercial airline pilot reported a UFO sighting to air traffic control while flying over Nova Scotia. The audio of the conversation was released by LiveATC.net. The pilot described the object as a large, dark, triangular craft. There have been no other reports of the sighting.

A video has surfaced on social media of what looks to be an unidentified flying object in the sky above Wentzville, Missouri. The video, which was taken on October 25, shows a bright object hovering in the sky before it suddenly disappears. People who have seen the video are divided on what they think it is, with some convinced that it is a UFO and others convinced that it is just a camera glitch.

A new NASA-funded project is seeking citizen scientists to help study mysterious "transient luminous events" in the upper atmosphere. The project, called the Citizen CATE Experiment (Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse Experiment), will use data from a network of small telescopes to study the phenomenon.

In 1976, the US Air Force encountered a UAP over Tehran, Iran. The incident was documented by the Iranian military and is one of the most well-known and well-documented cases of a UAP encounter.

For decades, the U.S. government has been divided on the issue of UFOs, with some officials believing that the phenomena are a national security threat and others dismissing them as a hoax. In the 1950s, the CIA even created a secret unit, known as the "UFO Desk," to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects. The latest controversy was sparked by the Pentagon's release of three videos showing "unexplained aerial phenomena."

A recent study in Ukraine has revealed observations of unidentified aerial phenomena. The study, conducted by an independent group of researchers, looked at data from over 100 cases of sightings. The researchers found that the majority of the sightings could be explained by natural phenomena such as meteors or aircraft, but a small number of cases remained unexplained. These unexplained cases were characterized by strange movements and maneuvers that could not be accounted for by known objects. The study provides further evidence that there is still much to learn about the nature of these unidentified aerial phenomena.

In November of 2020, commercial airline pilots in Brazil and Colorado reported seeing unidentified flying objects. A politician in Brazil has expressed concern that a UFO could collide with a commercial airplane. UFO sightings by airline pilots are increasing, with pilots in the United States reporting the most sightings.

In 1987 a phone call was made to NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) by a man who saw something unexplainable in the skies above Climax, Missouri. The caller reported strange cigar-shaped aircraft hovering a few hundred feet above his property on Coffman bend 11, Climax, Missouri. The man reported seeing occupants inside the UFOs.

THE issue of UFOs could continue to soar up the political agenda beyond the 2022 midterm elections, a defense expert says.

UAP report delivered to the DOD late on Oct 31 but it was classified and thus, no press announcement. Report finds that half of recorded UFO sightings remain unexplained, amid fears of alien craft.

A newly uncovered incident involving multiple commercial airlines and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) over the skies of Oklahoma on 2 October 2022, caused the crew on board one flight to feel “scared speechless” and “shocked”.