Humanity receives mysterious 'mega-laser' signal from unknown source in deep space

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By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Humanity has received a mysterious signal, described as a 'mega-laser' beam, from a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-years away.

The signal, deemed the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, was intercepted by the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, which features 64 antennas.

A hydroxyl megamaser is a giant natural laser in space. When galaxies full of gas collide, molecules called hydroxyl smash together and release very strong radio waves. 

These waves behave like a laser, but instead of visible light, they produce radio signals that astronomers can detect with telescopes.

Because these signals are extremely bright, they can be seen from very far across the universe. 

In this case, the object is so powerful that scientists said it may actually be a 'gigamaser,' which is even stronger than a megamaser. 

The system, called HATLAS J142935.3–002836, is so far away that we are seeing it as it looked more than 8 billion years ago, when the universe was less than half its current age. 

Dr Thato Manamela, SARAO-funded postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pretoria and lead author of the new study, said: 'This system is truly extraordinary. We are seeing the radio equivalent of a laser halfway across the universe.' 

Humanity has received a mysterious signal, described as a 'mega-laser' beam, from a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-years away 

Manamela added that as the radio waves traveled toward Earth, they were also strengthened by a separate galaxy positioned directly along the line of sight. 

'This galaxy acts as a lens, the way a water droplet on a window pane would, because its mass curves the local space-time,' he said.

'So we have a radio laser passing through a cosmic telescope before being detected by the powerful MeerKAT radio telescope – all together enabling a wonderfully serendipitous discovery.' 

The radio signal contained four separate components, meaning it is coming from multiple regions within the galaxy system. 

At least two of these areas appear to be strongly magnified by gravitational lensing, which makes the signal more than ten times brighter than it would normally appear. 

In this case, a massive foreground galaxy sits between Earth and the distant system. 

Its gravity bends space-time and acts like a cosmic magnifying glass, boosting the brightness of the radio emission. 

This amplification allowed the signal to be detected by the MeerKAT radio telescope even though the source is over 8 billion light-years away. 

Pictured is the galaxy system where astronomers said is the source of the signal

The signal, deemed the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, was intercepted using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa (PICTURED), which consists of 64 antennas

Normally, signals from objects this far away are too weak for telescopes to detect. 

But the powerful radio signal coming from HATLAS J142935.3–002836 was boosted by a rare effect called gravitational lensing, a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein.

Gravitational lensing happens when a massive object, such as a galaxy, sits between Earth and a distant source. 

Its strong gravity bends space-time, which changes the path of the light or radio waves traveling through it. 

This makes the distant signal appear brighter and magnified, allowing telescopes like the MeerKAT radio telescope to detect it even from billions of light-years away.

From Earth, this effect can sometimes create a ring-shaped halo of light around the foreground object, called an Einstein ring, named after the famed physicist. 

The same effect also magnifies the distant source, in this case a radio or microwave signal, making it much easier for astronomers to study objects that would normally be too faint to detect. 

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Scientists detect mysterious radio signal in search of alien life

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By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Scientists searching for alien life have picked up a mysterious radio signal.

A Chinese-led team detected it while testing new software on existing data from China’s FAST telescope, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.

The signal surfaced in observations of K2-155, a star system about 238 light-years from Earth that hosts three ‘super-Earths,’ including one near its star’s habitable zone

Named NBS 260108, it appeared as a steady radio tone concentrated around a single frequency.

Such narrowly focused signals are a key target in the search for alien technology, because natural cosmic processes rarely produce them while artificial transmitters often do.

The signal stood out because it appeared only in the telescope beam aimed at K2-155, with no corresponding detection in the other 18 beams.

Its frequency also shifted steadily over time, a pattern scientists examine when searching for transmissions from distant technology.

The researchers described the search as addressing ‘one of humanity’s oldest scientific questions - whether intelligent life exists beyond Earth.’

The signal (pictured) surfaced in observations of K2-155, a star system about 238 light-years from Earth that hosts three ‘super-Earths,’ including one near its star’s habitable zone

But spotting an unusual signal and establishing its source are separate challenges.

‘Candidate generation and candidate interpretation should remain separate,’ they wrote.

In other words, software can identify something worth investigating without establishing what produced it.

The team says future improvements could involve comparing the original recordings from all 19 telescope beams to help determine a signal’s position and motion.

Those additional checks could give researchers stronger evidence for distinguishing transmissions arriving from space from interference generated by human technology or equipment.

FAST’s enormous collecting surface makes it especially sensitive to faint radio signals. 

Built into a natural basin in southwestern China, its dish measures roughly 1,640 feet across and covers an area equivalent to about 30 soccer fields. 

That vast surface gathers weak radio waves from space, allowing researchers to detect signals that smaller telescopes might miss. 

A Chinese-led team detected it while testing new software on existing data from China’s FAST telescope, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope

The new study, published in The Astronomical Journal, tested the software on FAST observations of 33 planetary systems collected in 2021.

Super-Earths are planets larger than Earth but smaller than ice giants such as Neptune and Uranus.

K2-155 was an intriguing target because its outer planet, K2-155d, lies near the star’s habitable zone, where conditions could allow liquid water to exist on a planet’s surface.

The planet is approximately 1.6 times Earth’s radius and completes an orbit around its star roughly every 40.7 days.

‘This system’s habitable-zone super-Earth made it an intriguing SETI [the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] target,’ the team wrote, referring to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

One light-year is approximately 5.88 trillion miles - the distance light travels in one year.

Rather than searching for biological clues, the researchers focused on radio transmissions that could indicate technology developed by an advanced civilization.

A distant transmitter’s motion relative to Earth can cause its signal’s frequency to shift over time, creating a drifting track in telescope data.

The signal gradually shifted to a lower radio frequency, like a station slowly moving down the dial. 

Its appearance in only one of FAST’s 19 receiver beams initially made it worth examining. That beam was aimed at K2-155, while the other 18 showed no corresponding detection.

On the researchers’ charts, it formed a thin, slightly slanted streak against the surrounding background. That streak traced how the signal’s frequency changed over time.

FAST recorded it through the receiver beam pointed at K2-155. The telescope’s other 18 beams, which monitored neighboring patches of sky simultaneously, showed no corresponding detection.

The signal also had a distinctive response in the telescope’s two polarization channels, which measure different orientations of radio waves.

It appeared strongly in the channel called YY but was absent from the other, XX. In YY, its signal-to-noise ratio was approximately 23, a measurement of how clearly it stood above the background noise. When the two channels were combined, that measurement was approximately 15.

The observation was part of a September 10, 2021, sequence that also included the stars K2-18, GJ-9066 and Ross 128.

Researchers found other narrow radio features at nearby frequencies during those observations, although their characteristics differed.

 The K2-18 feature was very weak, the GJ-9066 feature barely shifted in frequency, and the Ross 128 feature appeared at a slightly different frequency.

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North Atlantic's 'cold blob' may contain climate nuance

by Adam Smeltz, Pennsylvania State University  - edited by Robert Egan

The 965,000-square-mile area in the North Atlantic Ocean south and southeast of Greenland, the so-called cold blob, cooled by as much as 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century as other ocean waters warmed.  

Credit: NASA.

Climate observers have long tied the strength of a major ocean current to water temperatures in the so-called "cold blob" in the North Atlantic Ocean. The 965,000-square-mile (2.5 million square kilometers) area south and southeast of Greenland cooled by as much as 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century as other ocean waters warmed.

Some indicators signal that a sustained decline in water volumes in the current, known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), is a persistent cause of the blob's lower temperatures. The current's degradation began decades ago, a shift likely influenced by climate change that could reduce oceans' absorption of carbon dioxide and heat, according to a team led by researchers in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

But they cautioned that the link between AMOC and surface temperatures in the blob, also called the North Atlantic warming hole, is more irregular and complex than previously thought.

As published in the journal Nature Communications, the team found that the diminishing ocean current may impact the North Atlantic climate differently over time, with disparate phases in the relationship between AMOC strength and blob temperatures, said corresponding author Laifang Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science. The work builds on their finding in 2025 that radiation from the atmosphere helps depress water temperatures.

"With more field data and study, researchers can reduce uncertainty in models that anticipate temperatures and climate patterns in the North Atlantic," Li said, explaining that sustained ocean temperature readings via satellite and related monitoring would benefit this work. "If we can forecast better when these ocean temperatures will reach key thresholds, that will create a clearer picture of the time frame available to develop technology and mitigation policies addressing climate change."

Testing the cold blob connection

Climate researchers regard AMOC as a core piece of ocean circulation and heat transfer—a conveyor belt that moves warm surface water to the north and cold, more dense water to the south in the deep ocean. When the current slows down, the North Atlantic just south of Greenland and Iceland can cool as regions elsewhere warm up.

Common thinking—that a weaker AMOC drives the cold blob—implies the connection between ocean current and North Atlantic surface temperatures is constant over time, according to the researchers. But the assumption is shaky in part because AMOC observations stretch back only about two decades, limiting historical analyses, Li said.

To explore how other factors interact with water temperatures and ocean currents, the researchers made simulations that incorporated a variety of influences, such as greenhouse gases at different concentrations, and climate conditions representing past and present environments. The team analyzed simulations representing a large number of scenarios spanning decades to account for several phenomena: heat transfer within the ocean; heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere; and heat radiated from the air, including the effects of low clouds.

AMOC–North Atlantic SST relationship in model simulations.

Credit: Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-76149-4

Three phases of ocean cooling

The evaluation found that AMOC's cooling effect on ocean surface water splits into three phases. In simulations where the ocean current weakened from its greatest strength, surface temperatures slipped modestly. When the current weakened from a midrange strength, the surface temperature drop roughly tripled, with the cold blob growing to cover the subpolar basin.

But when the ocean current loses steam beginning from an already diminished state, the cooling effect fades and the cold blob shifts northeast toward Iceland and the Norwegian Sea, the analysis showed. The researchers pointed to variable impacts of heat radiation to and from the atmosphere, as well as reflections from low clouds, as contributing factors.

Once the ocean current weakens enough, the ocean will absorb more heat from the atmosphere and likely approach its capacity to buffer climate change, said Yifei Fan, lead author on the paper and doctoral candidate in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science.

"Climate models predict the ocean current will trend toward a weaker state in the future," Fan said. "This is concerning: If we cross the threshold into a new phase of ocean current behavior, how the North Atlantic uptakes heat will diverge from the AMOC patterns we know now. It would mean more uncertainty in the ocean surface temperatures, ocean currents and effects on climate and weather."

An uncertain timeline for the cold blob

In particular, modeling suggested AMOC will decline from its higher-strength phase today to its lowest-strength phase by the year 2100. Timing of the cold blob's most significant temperature shift could be as late as 2067, or it could have been as early as 2021, the researchers said.

Simulations also suggested earlier peaks in ocean temperature change would correspond to an earlier disappearance of the cool patch. The researchers emphasized that ocean temperatures alone don't prove ocean current activity, and that variation in those temperatures doesn't necessarily signal a collapse of AMOC. Some predictions suggest the current's prolonged demise could lead to chillier winters in North America and Europe.

"We're not saying that AMOC will vanish. We're setting a foundation to understand nuanced interactions among ocean surface temperatures, ocean currents and other environmental forces," Li said. "More study and sustained Earth system monitoring will inform more revealing assessments of changes in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system, such as the points when the ocean absorbs heat from the atmosphere and then releases that heat."

Future research should narrow predictions for the cold blob and help scientists forecast ice conditions in Greenland, which influence oceanic and atmospheric activity, according to Fan.

"By reducing the range of scenarios, we can establish higher confidence and less ambiguity in predicting North Atlantic climate change," Fan said.

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Cosmic rays could scar the heart, raising risks for Mars-bound astronauts, rat study hints

Rats that were exposed to radiation similar to what Mars-bound astronauts might face showed higher levels of scar tissue in their hearts, indicating they were more vulnerable to heart failure.

By Helena Kudiabor Edited byLaura Mondragón, Brandon Specktor

Exposure to space radiation may increase astronauts' risk of a dangerous heart condition, a new study in rats hints.

The research, published Sept. 30 in the journal PLOS One, found that rats exposed to levels of radiation similar to what an astronaut might experience on a long-term trip to Mars developed more scar tissue around the small blood vessels of their hearts than rats that were not exposed to this radiation. This scar tissue is indicative of a condition known as cardiac fibrosis, which is known to increase the risk of heart failure.

This scar tissue was observed nearly a year after the rats were first exposed to the radiation.

But since this study was in rats, it cannot definitively say whether this effect will play out in humans. For example, given that humans have a longer life expectancy than rats (80 years versus 2 to 4 years), the effects seen in rats may take around 30 years to show up in humans. However, the study authors say the research highlights the importance of following astronauts' health long after they return to Earth.

"The message that we try to convey … is that the follow-up time is really important," study co-author John Baker, a professor of surgery in the Radiation Bioscience Laboratory at the Medical College of Wisconsin, told Live Science. "When astronauts come back to the Earth, they expect ‪—‬ and we expect ‪—‬ that they're going to live for a long time. I think we have to be wary that they could well develop at least some type of cardiac disease."

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How space radiation affects the heart

The link between exposure to radiation and cardiac issues has been well documented. However, "no astronaut has ever been exposed to galactic cosmic radiation for long periods of time," Baker said, which makes it difficult to determine exactly how space radiation affects the heart.

Although Baker and his team previously pinpointed cardiac issues among rats exposed to radiation, this new study utilized NASA's Simulated Galactic Cosmic Ray Simulation (SimGCRSim). This new simulator provides a more precise comparison of the levels of space radiation an astronaut might experience while exploring deep space for more than a year.

During the study, the researchers exposed rats to several minutes of radiation proportionate to their size, similar to what they might experience on a trip to Mars and back (a roughly 18-month round trip, with current technology). Some of the rats' hind legs were suspended, to "simulate conditions of weightlessness," Baker said.

After 360 days, the rats that were exposed to cosmic radiation developed twice as much scar tissue around the heart's small blood vessels than unexposed rats. This buildup of scar tissue means "the heart can't relax to the point when it needs to," thereby increasing the risk of heart failure, Baker said.

This effect was not seen in the rats who were exposed only to simulated weightlessness, confirming "it was only the radiation that produced the damaging effect on the heart," Baker said. However, long-term testing revealed that this group of rats had lower levels of key immune cells, suggesting that microgravity also may affect aspects of long-term health. (Numerous studies have shown various short-term health impacts related to microgravity.)

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This study "is a very valuable contribution to space biology," Rupak Pathak, an associate professor of pharmaceutical science at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences who was not involved in the study but holds a doctorate in radiation biology, told Live Science. While rats and humans have clear differences, "they share more than 90% of genetic information," he said, as well as very similar cardiac systems.

Given that the study authors were able to expose the rats to radiation only once, Pathak would like to see further experiments exploring whether chronic radiation exposure affects the function of the heart and other vital organs.

Baker and his colleagues hope that future experiments can be used to help NASA implement safeguards for astronauts on long-term missions, such as providing astronauts heart medications or improving shielding for the spacecraft.

"The more we know before we start, then the better NASA is going to be at working out what types of countermeasures can be developed," said Baker.

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Will disclosure come from the sea? Newly released Catalina Island files raise UAP questions about alien life

UFO researcher and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee believes newly released UAP files documenting unexplained sightings over California's Catalina Island could support the theory that answers about alien activity may lie beneath the ocean rather than in the skies.

UFO investigator Mark Christopher Lee

UFO researcher and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee believes alien disclosure could come from what has been lurking under the sea.

Lee has highlighted recently released Department of War files from PURSUE Release 07 that document a cluster of UAP reports over Catalina Island, California, between 1949 and 1955.

Lee, who has made a series of documentary films about alien life, including The Rendlesham UFO: The British Roswell and The King of UFOs, argues these historical cases, combined with long-standing USO activity off the California coast, strengthen the case that meaningful disclosure may ultimately emerge from the ocean rather than the sky alone.

The Release 07 documents include Air Intelligence Information Reports and unresolved case files detailing silver "flying saucers" observed by Boy Scouts near Camp Fox in 1952, described as moving faster than a conventional jet before climbing and apparently disintegrating; a 1953 sighting of a round purplish-white object that remained stationary before heading northwest towards Los Angeles; and an earlier report of multiple objects seen singly over the island in 1949. The reports remain unexplained, although the 1953 file lists Jupiter as a possible explanation and the 1949 report states there was insufficient data for evaluation.

He said: "These Catalina files aren’t isolated curiosities. They sit in one of the most active stretches of water for USO reports on the planet. While the public focuses on the recent silent black triangle sightings, the older Catalina material points to something that has been operating in and around the ocean for decades. We’ve spent seventy years looking up. The real answers may be under the waves.”

Lee drew a direct connection to the ongoing work of retired US Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, former acting NOAA Administrator and Oceanographer of the Navy.

Gallaudet has publicly argued that some UAP activity involves transmedium craft operating in both air and water and has testified about the seriousness of the phenomenon. He has also described proprietary high-resolution bathymetric surveys in the Atlantic that a research team believes contain features corresponding to Plato's account of Atlantis. However, the location and underlying data have not been made public, and there has been no independent confirmation that the features are linked to Atlantis.

Lee continued: "Gallaudet brings institutional credibility to what many of us have argued for years: the ocean is not a side note in the UAP question - it may be central. If his team is mapping sites that align with ancient descriptions while the government is releasing decades-old Catalina reports that never got properly investigated, the two threads are pointing in the same direction. Disclosure might not arrive as a press conference about the sky. It might arrive when we finally start looking seriously at what’s under the water.”

Lee noted that previous AARO historical reviews found no confirmed evidence of extraterrestrial technology, and that the Catalina cases, like other unresolved UAP reports, remain subjects of uncertainty. AARO's 2024 historical report found no evidence that any US government investigation or official review had confirmed a UAP sighting represented extraterrestrial technology, while noting that many reports remained unresolved.

He has called for independent oceanographic and archival follow-up on the Catalina cluster, greater attention to USO data, and transparency around any government or private surveys of anomalous underwater features.

• The full PURSUE Release 07 files are available at war.gov/UFO.

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A visual representation of an unidentified flying object released by the FBI on Oct. 23, 2026, with a red circle annotation by Gizmodo

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Earlier this year, federal agents somewhere in the western U.S. observed a mysterious triangular aircraft hovering over an unnamed site that’s sensitive to national security, according to new documents released by the Pentagon. The matte black craft was completely silent and zipped around as fast as a fighter jet, according to a witness, who described it as “resembling a delta wing drone.”

The craft was estimated to be somewhere between 13 and 15 feet in wingspan with a 6-9 foot fuselage length, according to the Department of Defense document made public Friday. The vertical thickness of the craft was estimated to be, at most, just one or two feet, according to the Department of Defense.

“The unidentified craft maintained a completely fixed horizontal alignment [which] did not tilt, sway, or wobble during the controlled vertical ascent of approximately ten seconds,” the DOD report explains. “It climbed to an altitude of an estimated 200 to 300 feet above the local ridge line. Upon reaching this altitude, the craft instantaneously arrested all vertical motion and entered a stable hover for an estimated twenty seconds.”

The craft then “transitioned from a zero-velocity state directly into high-speed horizontal flight,” and managed to execute “a fluid banking maneuver and terrain-hugging descent into a canyon drainage in approximately two to three seconds.” The report notes that once the craft was banking, its “silhouette appeared to flatten and present as a more triangle.”

The FBI report on the incident includes nine images, which feature landscape photos and a black triangle that moves when they’re viewed together as though part of a flipbook. The report doesn’t indicate whether the images are authentic photos or artistic renditions.

Gizmodo ran the images through SynthID.com, which is used to detect invisible watermarks when an image is made with AI image tools from OpenAI and Google. The images did not contain the SynthID watermark, though they could have been made with a different company’s tools or made with basic Photoshop-style editing software.

“The two primary witnesses reported no physiological effects,” the report explains. “There were no reports of (but not limited to) disorientation, nausea, headache, dermal sensation, visual disturbance, memory gap, or other anomalous sensory phenomena. No anomalous odors were noted. No electromagnetic interference, signal degradation, or anomalous sensor readings were recorded on personal or agency equipment.”

The newly released reports are part of periodic Pentagon releases related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), more commonly known historically as UFOs. The first releases were broadly hyped, but they’ve rendered very few answers about the central question: Are these aircraft otherworldly or simply high-tech advancements from near-peer geopolitical adversaries like China?

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Steven Spielberg Thinks UFOs Might Just Be Humans Travelling Back From 500,000 Years In The Future

In his 2023 interview with Stephen Colbert, the filmmaker considered future humans returning to study their own history

Steven Spielberg discussed UFOs, extraterrestrial life and the possibility of future human visitors during the 2023 TV interview with Stephen Colbert

PHOTO Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons

Steven Spielberg speculated in a 2023 interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show that UFOs could be humans travelling back from 500,000 years in the future to study their own history.

The conversation addressed reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, in North American skies. The filmmaker expressed fascination with the sightings and concern about what he regarded as a lack of transparency surrounding them, calling for closer examination of what was happening.

At the time of the interview, Spielberg told Colbert he had never seen a UFO himself. His future humans theory was an imaginative possibility, rather than a claim that he had identified the objects or established evidence of time travel.

Steven Spielberg Imagines Visitors Studying Their Own Past

The filmmaker's suggestion recast the visitors as anthropologists. Instead of arriving from a distant civilisation elsewhere in the universe, they might be human descendants returning to examine the lives of earlier generations.

He imagined people from '500,000 years in the future' documenting the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century. In that scenario, objects recorded by military cameras would be connected to an investigation of humanity's own past.

'And they know something we don't quite know, yet, that has occurred, and they're trying to track the last hundred years of our history?' he told Colbert.

The proposed reason for returning was historical research. Spielberg's speculation also raised the possibility that those visitors would have knowledge unavailable to the people whose lives they were documenting.

Colbert drew attention to the optimistic implication of that explanation. Under Spielberg's theory, he observed, 'we survive'.

Spielberg qualified that optimism with the suggestion that 'a certain percentage of us survive that allows these other generations to flourish'.

Steven Spielberg Considers Life Beyond Earth

The director of E.T. and Close Encounters also expressed a broader conviction that intelligent life exists beyond Earth. He presented that belief alongside a difficulty he saw in explaining how visitors could cross the distances involved.

'I don't believe we're alone in the universe. I think it's mathematically impossible that we are the only intelligent species in the cosmos. I think that's totally impossible'.

He described a visit from 400 million light-years away as seemingly impossible outside films, unless travellers could find a way to reach Earth through wormholes. Both the distance and the proposed means of crossing it formed part of his speculation.

Spielberg qualified his authority on the subject, telling Colbert, 'I'm not an astrophysicist'.

He approached the discussion as a filmmaker employing his imagination and as someone curious about UFOs. His interest extended beyond the objects themselves to questions about what information had been disclosed.

'I think what has been coming up recently is fascinating, just absolutely fascinating', Spielberg told Colbert.

He called for extraordinary due diligence over the sightings and criticised what he regarded as secrecy surrounding them. Those comments expressed his concerns about disclosure, rather than establishing an explanation for the phenomena.

Steven Spielberg Favours Curiosity Over an Alien Attack

Colbert also framed the discussion through two of Spielberg's films, questioning whether an encounter with extraterrestrial visitors would more closely resemble E.T. or War of the Worlds.

Spielberg favoured the less hostile possibility. His reasoning concerned the motives he imagined for a civilisation capable of reaching Earth, rather than any established account of alien visitors.

'I believe that if any extraterrestrial civilisation has journeyed all the way here its because of curiosity and science and its not about aggression'.

He extended that reasoning to the restraint he imagined such visitors would have exercised.

'And the fact they've been this patient with us and haven't turned the Earth into a burnt-out cinder is extraordinary – you have to applaud them'.

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Democrats Reportedly Prepare UFO Disclosure Committee Because Whistleblowers Do Not 'Trust Another President'

Indiana Congressman Andre Carson says a key historical UAP report has been delayed for almost two years, though the proposed panel remains conditional and its scope is unclear

Indiana congressman Andre Carson has questioned delayed UAP records, as Democrats reportedly consider a select committee if they win the US House 

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Democrats are weighing the creation of a UFO disclosure committee in the US House of Representatives if they regain control in the midterm elections, amid claims a key Pentagon report on historical sightings has been held back for almost two years.

Indiana congressman Andre Carson is leading the reported push, arguing that federal records on unidentified anomalous phenomena are overdue for release.

Carson chaired a congressional hearing on unidentified flying objects in 2022. He now argues that efforts to obtain information about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, have fallen short of requirements already established by Congress. The proposal remains conditional rather than a formally announced committee.

UFO Disclosure Push Focuses on a Delayed Pentagon Report

Carson has singled out a historical records report from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which handles UAP reporting and investigations. He claims the document has been delayed for almost two years, despite legislative requirements intended to improve scrutiny of the subject.

'Unfortunately, the current administration has not been fully transparent on UAP and has slow walked several of the statutory requirements Congress established for UAP disclosure. For example, the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office was established to receive, analyze, and resolve UAP reporting — but it has delayed the release of a key historical UAP record report for almost two years.'

The Indiana Democrat told the Post that the material should address historical sightings, the way incidents were examined and the possible involvement of classified programmes. One question is whether relevant activities were properly communicated to lawmakers, rather than remaining outside congressional oversight.

He described its intended scope as including 'how incidents were investigated, the role of classified programs, and whether relevant activities were appropriately disclosed to Congress.'

Carson did not identify the report by title or specify the deadlines he believes officials missed. Those omissions leave the precise document and the timing of its expected release unclear.

UFO Disclosure Plans Could Sharpen Party Rivalry

Although the proposed panel would depend on Democrats taking control of the House, interest in UAP records is not confined to one party. President Donald Trump has also directed federal agencies, including NASA, to identify and release government files relating to UFOs.

The Post cited unnamed Republican insiders who fear a Democratic select committee could take political credit for disclosures that might otherwise be associated with the Trump administration. Their concern relates to which political figures would oversee and announce any release, not proof that the records contain evidence of extraterrestrial activity.

A caucus and a select committee would also be different initiatives. The reported proposal includes both, but the available account does not establish their membership, formal powers or a schedule for setting them up.

UFO Disclosure Concerns Extend to the Next President

David Grusch, who has appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast, has raised a different concern about the timing. He fears a future president may be less willing to allow the release of information, expressing the view, 'I don't trust another president'.

That is distinct from Carson's stated objection to delays under the current administration. Neither concern establishes what any unreleased document contains, or whether a change in congressional control would compel its publication.

Rogan also questioned the timing of UFO disclosures in May, suggesting that renewed attention to the subject could distract from criticism surrounding the Iran War. His suspicion was not presented with evidence linking any disclosure decision to military events.

For now, Carson's proposed congressional effort depends on an electoral outcome, while the historical report at the centre of his complaint has not been identified by name or accompanied by a confirmed publication date.

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Democrats plan UFO disclosure committee as Trump trust wanes

Locked in a big game of disclosure chess.

Blue and red chess pieces locked in UAP disclosure checkmate.

Image by Cybernews.

Marcus Walsh  - Journalist

Key takeaways

1. Democrats have drafted a plan for a House UAP committee if they regain Congress.
2. Andre Carson says the current administration has delayed legal requirements for UAP disclosure.
3. David Grusch argues UFO disclosure should not depend on one president.
4. Reddit users questioned whether either party would deliver faster UFO transparency.

A UFO flying through the cosmos.

Image by Cybernews.

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