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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
01-10-2025
Is pas ontdekte komeet mogelijk echt een ufo afkomstig van aliens? NASA geeft uitsluitsel
Is pas ontdekte komeet mogelijk echt een ufo afkomstig van aliens? NASA geeft uitsluitsel
Is pas ontdekte komeet mogelijk echt een ufo afkomstig van aliens?
NASA geeft uitsluitsel
Een nieuw ontdekte komeet met de naam 3I/Atlas schiet met enorme snelheid door ons zonnestelsel en passeert volgende maand de planeet Mars. Harvard-hoogleraar Avi Loeb schreef in een wetenschappelijk artikel dat het misschien geen gewone komeet is, maar een technologisch artefact met zelfs actieve intelligentie. NASA haalt de angel uit deze boude uitspraken
Loeb, ook hoofd van het zogeheten Galileo Project, dat zoekt naar tekenen van buitenaards leven, wees er in het artikel op dat de komeet zich anders gedraagt dan de meeste kometen uit ons eigen zonnestelsel. Zo is er tot nu toe geen duidelijke staart van gas en stof waargenomen en volgt het object een opvallend ongewone baan. In zijn blog schreef Loeb: “Als toekomstige data het ontbreken van een komeetstaart laten zien, worden we geconfronteerd met de mogelijkheid dat dit object niet toevallig in ons zonnestelsel terechtkwam, maar hierheen gestuurd is.”
Loeb ging zelfs een stap verder en opperde dat de komeet tijdens haar passage achter de zon in oktober een geheime koerswijziging kan maken, met “kwaadaardige bedoelingen” richting de aarde. “De gevolgen, mocht deze hypothese juist blijken, zouden potentieel rampzalig voor de mensheid zijn”, schreef hij.
NASA blijft nuchter
Bij de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA klinkt er echter weinig paniek. Wetenschappers van de organisatie volgen 3I/Atlas sinds de ontdekking op 1 juli en zien vooral veel kenmerken die juist heel normaal zijn.
“Het ziet eruit als een komeet. Het doet wat kometen doen. Het lijkt in vrijwel alle opzichten op de kometen die we kennen”, zegt Tom Statler, NASA’s hoofdwetenschapper voor kleine hemellichamen. “Het bewijs wijst overweldigend op een natuurlijk object. Het is een komeet.”
Volgens metingen van de Hubble-telescoop is 3I/Atlas tot wel 5,6 kilometer breed en reist het met een snelheid van ruim 209.000 kilometer per uur, sneller dan ooit is waargenomen.
Statler benadrukt dat kometen sowieso grillig zijn: ze bestaan uit mengsels van ijs en stof die op onvoorspelbare manieren reageren op zonnewarmte. Soms lichten ze plotseling op doordat een 'ijszak' smelt en veel stof loslaat. Zulke verrassingen horen erbij, zegt hij, en zijn juist een kans om meer te leren.
Geen gevaar voor de aarde
Belangrijk voor wie zich zorgen maakt: 3I/Atlas komt de komende maanden niet dichterbij dan 270 miljoen kilometer van de aarde. Het object maakt wel nauwere passages langs Mars, Jupiter en Venus, maar vormt geen enkel risico voor ons.
Voor wetenschappers is de komeet vooral interessant omdat het pas de derde bekende interstellaire bezoeker is die ons zonnestelsel aandoet. Statler: “Dit geeft ons een unieke blik op de samenstelling van andere zonnestelsels.”
En Loeb? Die erkent inmiddels dat de eenvoudigste verklaring waarschijnlijk de juiste is: “De simpelste hypothese is dat 3I/Atlas een komeet is.” Toch houdt hij vast aan zijn motto dat we nieuwsgierig moeten blijven en alternatieve ideeën moeten onderzoeken, al is het maar “voor de lol”.
Op 21 juli 1955, zag de toen 18-jarige paracommando Marin Vandercruyssen 5 grote zilveren schijven geruisloos boven de toenmalige E5 (nu E40) zweven, in de buurt van Lotenhulle, Aalter. De schijven vormden een formatie van 3 vooraan en 2 achteraan, vergelijkbaar met het Olympische logo. Een 20-tal autobestuurders stopten in het midden van de weg en stapten uit om toe te kijken.
Schepen Dirk De Smul aan het opgeknapte ufomonument op de baan tussen Aalter en Deinze.
Pas in 2004 kwam Marin met zijn verhaal naar buiten bij het gemeentebestuur. Dat was eerst wantrouwig, maar ging na andere getuigenverklaringen mee in het verhaal. Er kwam een monument langs de Steenweg op Deinze. De tekst op de gedenksteen vermeldde de datum, het aantal getuigen en de naam van Marin Vandercruyssen, met 5 ovale symbolen, en een foto van de jonge paracommando.
Dit jaar nog gerestaureerd
In juli dit jaar werd het monument nog opgeknapt, maar nu is het toch verwijderd. De familie van Vandercruyssen, die in 2020 overleed, wilde niet meer in verband gebracht worden met de gebeurtenis. Via een advocatenkantoor stuurden ze een brief naar de gemeente Aalter met de dringende vraag om het monument weg te halen. Anders zou een schadeclaim volgen.
De gemeente wil geen verdere details geven, maar bevestigt wel dat er op de vraag is ingegaan. Het monument werd vorige week door gemeentediensten weggehaald. Daarmee verliest België haar enige UFO-monument.
Ik heb Marin jarenlang gekend als een optimistische UFO-onderzoeker en joviale collega. Een aantal jaren geleden is hij spijtig genoeg overleden... Ik vind het spijtig dat zijn erfgenamen en familieleden uit onbegrip, onwetendheid, onterechte schaamte of de publieke domheid dit eerbetoon aan Marin lieten weghalen. Het was een uniek eerbetoon in BELGIë EN EUROPA aan een integere ufoloog, die voor zijn mening en waarneming dierf uit te komen . Rust in vrede, dierbare vriend, ondanks het wegnemen van jouw eerbetoon...
AN American congressman has claimed aliens could be hiding out in "five or six" underwater bases off the US coast.
Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett said alien "entities" were reportedly already living in deep-water areas on Earth.
UFO researcher Dr Michael Salla said the bases are believed to be in a region near the Bahamas
Republican Representative Tim Burchett made explosive claims in a video posted to social media
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Burchett said whistleblowers had seen underwater crafts travelling 'hundreds of miles an hour'
Credit: Reuters
The claims from the member of the House Oversight Committee that oversees UFO reports caused a massive stir on social media.
In a now viral video posted to social media platform X on September 17, Burchett suggested that advanced alien beings or civilisations may have been hiding under the sea for "millennia".
In a sidewalk interview with UFO researcher and documentary maker Red Panda Koala (a pseudonym), Burchett added that there had been frequent sightings of unidentified crafts in around five or six specific deep sea areas.
"We have naval personnel telling me that we have sightings ... of these underwater crafts that they're chasing," he said.
"[The underwater crafts] they're chasing are doing hundreds of miles an hour, and the best we've got is something that does maybe just a little bit under 40 miles an hour".
"I've got a lot of questions about that stuff," he added.
In the short clip, he also noted more is known about the moon's surface than what is under the ocean.
Despite these claims, no verifiable evidence including artefacts or clear footage of these crafts, has been made available to the public.
Critics have argued that the reliance on anecdotal reports from naval personnel and the lack of peer-reviewed scientific data casts doubt on the claims.
Following Burchett's revelations, Dr Michael Salla revealed that a region of the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas was one of the alleged UFO bases.
Haunting moment mystery V-shaped UFO hovers over Los Angeles in eerie video
The researcher and author whose work focuses on extraterrestrial phenomena said he'd also spoken to credible whistleblowers, including senior military and executive branch officials who confirmed the existence of these underwater bases.
Dr Salla said the US Navy operated a top-secret underwater facility called AUTEC that he compared to Area 51.
AUTEC - an acronym for Atlantic Undersea Testing and Evaluation Centre - was in that specific region of the Atlantic Ocean.
"Just to the right of it is the Tongue of the Ocean, which is a very deep part of the ocean there in the Bahamas," he said on the Redacted podcast on September 19.
"It drops off immediately around 3000 ft.
"So that's ideal for a submarine, but it's also a place where people have seen many UFOs, many underwater crafts coming into and leaving the water."
Dr Salla said he had interviewed two eyewitnesses who said they'd visited these secret bases, including a US Army whistleblower using the pseudonym JP.
JP claimed he was on a mission where he was taken by a Black Hawk helicopter to an ocean platform, then boarded a high-tech submarine.
The submarine was reportedly crewed by tall, Nordic-looking extraterrestrials.
He claimed the submarine - which was also capable of space travel - took him to an underwater city under a dome, resembling Dubai, with a large white pyramid.
The mission involved retrieving an artefact, but no physical evidence of this mission has ever been produced.
Despite the lack of tangible evidence for any of these claims, there has been increasing interest and testimony from credible sources, including military personnel at these congressional hearings.
The statements suggest that UFOs and extraterrestrial entities have visited Earth.
On September 9, a congressional hearing featured a new round of whistleblowers.
The group shared their experiences with UFOs, including a video showing an orb-like object surviving a missile strike, before splitting into four parts with each continuing to fly.
One whistleblower said he had been in an underwater craft that could also space travel
What Do Scientists And NASA Actually Think Of Aliens And UFOs?
What Do Scientists And NASA Actually Think Of Aliens And UFOs?
The truth is out there.
James Felton
Seeing this would certainly clear things up.
Image credit: Marko Aliaksandr/Shutterstock.com
If you believe certain, odder, corners of the Internet, scientists are either too arrogant to investigate the possibility of alien life visiting Earth, or actively involved in a cover-up.
But what do scientists really think about UFOs, and aliens more generally? Are they interested in the phenomenon, and do they think it worthy of further investigation? And do they think alien life will exist at all?
Fortunately, not only are scientists interested in studying the topic, they are even interested in studying whether they are interested in the topic. There are several surveys asking these kinds of questions, with some surprising answers, even if some of the results should be taken with a generous pinch of salt.
Let's start with the more general questions. In a study published in January 2025, researchers from Durham University surveyed 521 astrobiologists and 534 non-astrobiologist scientists on whether they believe life and intelligent life exists out there in the universe.
"The results reveal that 86.6% of the surveyed astrobiologists responded either 'agree' or 'strongly agree' that it’s likely that extraterrestrial life (of at least a basic kind) exists somewhere in the universe," Professor in Philosophy of Science, Peter Vickers, explained in a Durham University blog post.
"Less than 2% disagreed, with 12% staying neutral. So, based on this, we might say that there’s a solid consensus that extraterrestrial life, of some form, exists somewhere out there."
The team found that scientists were optimistic about intelligent life too. 67.4 percent of astrobiologists and 58.2 percent of non-astrobiologists agreed that complex and intelligent life exists out there in the cosmos, though as Vickers points out, given the sheer number of stars out there you could call these numbers quite pessimistic indeed.
How about UFOs and UAPs? These topics have been a little more taboo in scientific circles over the last century. Though scientists are slowly taking it more seriously, with projects like the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and its evil twin METI, for the large part scientists do not want to discuss the possibility that UFOs and UAPs could be alien visitors. Of course, this could largely be because there is little convincing evidence to suggest that they are, even if some video footage is intriguing and worthy of investigation.
But there have been anonymous surveys which have attempted to gauge scientists' beliefs on the topic. In 2023, a team from the University of Virginia did just this, asking scientists with tenure or on the tenure track at top research universities whether they or anyone close to them had witnessed "anything of unknown origin to you that might fit the U.S. government’s definition of a UAP".
The survey found that 18.9 percent of respondents said that they had, while a further 8.7 percent responded "maybe". The survey did not ask for further details of these incidents, but asked if there was anything else they would like the researchers to know.
“My entire family and I witnessed a UFO around 1976. It was over our house in the rural northeast (state redacted). Two of my siblings saw it, while the rest of us in the house felt it shake and heard a loud noise. We were eating dinner and the shaking was so intense that we all ran outside," one anonymous academic responded.
“I saw an unidentified flying object as a child in (state redacted) (with my sibling) – which my parents didn’t believe. The news reported that others saw it, too," another added, while a third said they had witnessed two UAPs.
“I used to tell people, but they thought I was crazy or lying – so now I’m silent," they added.
Though interesting that some academics do believe they have seen a UAP, it should be noted that the survey respondents were self-selecting and chose to fill in a survey about UFOs, and so perhaps are not reflective of the scientific community as a whole. In fact, the team reported that they received hostile responses to the survey email, with one even writing "tenure might be tricky for you – good luck.”
Despite the stigma, studies into the topics of UAPs are slowly making their way into the mainstream, particularly with the recent US government hearings on it. NASA, too has released its own reports on UAPs. While they did not find any evidence that UAPs are of extraterrestrial origin, they cannot say for certain what each UAP is, but they will continue to investigate.
"The mission of NASA is to find out the unknown," former astronaut Bill Nelson said as the report was released. "I've said several times in my comments today that we deal openly, and we will be transparent on this."
In short, scientists are interested in the topic too, and want to investigate further, even if the answer doesn't turn out to be "it's aliens".
2nd UFO I summoned a glowing disk 400 meters across over Salt Lake City Airport, Sept 29, 2025 UAP sighting news
2nd UFO I summoned a glowing disk 400 meters across over Salt Lake City Airport, Sept 29, 2025 UAP sighting news
Date of sighting: Sept 29, 2025 7:09pm
Location of sighting: Over Salt Lake City Airport, Utah, USA
Source: Myself SCW
I recorded this today. I was mentally calling a UFO to appear. Five minutes later the triangle ufo (earlier video) appeared then this glowing disk appeared over the Salt Lake City Airport, Utah. It lasted about 7 minutes. Sept 29, 2025 at 7:09 pm. When calling the aliens mentally, I promised to record it and share it with my followers, so here it goes.
1st UFO over Salt Lake, Utah Sept 29, 2025, UFO UAP sighting news. 👽 alien craft close to airport!
1st UFO over Salt Lake, Utah Sept 29, 2025, UFO UAP sighting news. 👽 alien craft close to airport!
Date of sighting: Sept 29, 2025
Location of sighting:viewed from Bountiful, Utah, USA
Source: I recorded it, SCW
Yeah I did it. I admit it. I have practices summoning for several years now and I seem to be getting more powerful lately. This time I managed to get the first of two UFOs in five minutes time after summoning them using just pure focused thought out over the airport. And then this appeared. So you be the judge, but only those who have tried summoning should judge me.
New footage of a mysterious object flying over Texas in broad daylight has been revealed by UFO hunters.
The sighting took place on September 8 in Trenton just after 8pm ET, when a pair of witnesses spotted the pyramid-shaped object moving eastward for at least two minutes.
The Texas resident, who was on their property at the time of the sighting, was able to zoom in and take clear video of the alleged craft as it emerged from a nearby tree line about 100 feet in the air.
The witness, who sent their footage to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), added that the dark-colored triangle seemed to be bronze and was either illuminated or had a pulsating light around its edge.
Although the person recording the UFO noted that the object changed shape, it was seen holding a straight edge and triangular or pyramid design throughout the more than 60 seconds the eyewitness was able to follow it with their camera.
NUFORC, a volunteer-operated nonprofit group that's been collecting UFO reports since 1974, noted that it's possible the object with simply a balloon, and US military officials have maintained that there is no definitive proof of extraterrestrial contact.
This incident was one of 10 in Texas alone that were reported to NUFORC in the last three weeks.
Moreover, it's the latest encounter with an alleged craft that was described as being a 'black triangle' seen flying over the US this year.
A resident in Trenton, Texas recorded a strange object which made no sound as it flew overhead on September 8
This particular triangle was reported flying around 20 to 30 mph as it moved higher into the sky and far off into the distance that night.
The witness added that the unidentified object did not make any sound at all as it flew through the air.
The object was estimated to be between six and seven feet long, making it relatively large if it was an ordinary balloon.
Meanwhile, silent black triangles have been reported flying over the US 20 times this year alone.
These sightings have ranged from triangles flying slowly over nearby witnesses to larger craft taking off at high speed at great altitudes.
In May, another Texas resident claimed they saw a large black triangle which was 'the size of a football field with pale green lights.'
Just a day before the incident in Trenton, someone spotted a similar UFO in Hudson Falls, New York around 30,000 feet overhead.
'There was no sound. It was a large black craft with white lights around the edges,' the witness reported to NUFORC.
The strange triangle-shaped object was suspected of being a balloon, but no official explanation has been found
Triangle or pyramid-shaped UFOs have become one of the most common sightings by self-proclaimed UFO witnesses.
Matthew Brown, a former US national security official who became a government whistleblower, revealed in April that he had seen classified reports that allegedly documented military contact with this type of craft.
Brown claimed that a covert naval operation in the Pacific witnessed a large black triangle-shaped UFO 'decloak' out of thin air over several Russian vessels.
Texas has been one of the biggest hotspots when it comes to UFO sightings, now referred to as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
Among the thousands of sightings reported to NUFORC over the years, over 6,500 have taken place in Texas.
That's just behind Florida and Washington state in terms of the sheer number of sightings that have come from residents in these areas.
However, no state has logged as many UAP sightings as California, which has sent nearly 17,000 alleged sightings to NUFORC.
An invasion of small metallic orbs has been spotted hovering over the US in recent years, leaving the Pentagon scrambling to identify these mysterious UFOs.
A new report from the crowdsourced platform Enigma, which allows people to report sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), reveals more than 8,000 sightings across the US between December 2022 and June 2025.
Among these, 422 reports specifically describe metallic orbs, with the majority observed between 1am and 4am near military installations in New York, California, and Arizona.
Eyewitnesses, including civilians, pilots, and military personnel, reported seeing the spheres hover silently before moving at extreme speeds, leaving no trace of their departure.
Some of the sightings have been captured on video or radar, though many remain unexplained.
'I was walking into work when I looked up and saw two metallic liquid-like objects hovering for about two minutes,' said one witness over Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton in June 2024.
Another in California described seeing a metallic orb above Los Angeles shortly after a squadron of planes flew by.
Military drone footage from the Middle east in 2022 revealed a metal sphere flying through the sky in broad daylight (circled in purple)
The crowdsourced platform Enigma reported that over 8,000 orbs have been seen over the US since December 2022
However, some cases have remained unsolved, reportedly due to a lack of data. Of the 757 UFO cases between May 2023 and June 2024 released in AARO's annual report, 21 cases were classified as unresolved sightings.
Although the Pentagon and civilian groups like the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) have also been cataloging these incidents, many have continued to baffle military officials, who have no way of explaining what was seen.
While the new report focused on the thousands of sightings in the US over the last three years, strange orbs have been documented all over the world, from Puerto Rico to the Middle East.
Moreover, these tiny craft have apparently been visiting our skies for decades, with pilots during World War II reporting similar orbs over the skies of Europe.
Enigma revealed that more than 360 'metallic orb' reports took place within a few miles of military bases here on US soil.
In three of those cases, witnesses revealed that the orbs got within five miles of Fort Hamilton in New York, Papago Military Reserve in Arizona, and Los Angeles Air Force Base on multiple occasions.
These mystery orb sightings include one shocking encounter revealed by Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of AARO, which was captured on a MQ-9 Reaper drone's camera in the Middle East in 2022.
Enigma revealed that witnesses spotted strange orbs flying above Fort Hamilton military base in New York multiple times
Even more close calls were documented around Los Angeles Air Force Base in California between 2022 and 2025
Kirkpatrick warned that if these videos didn't prove that aliens exist, then they're evidence that a rival foreign power could be 'doing stuff in our backyard.'
Some theories have suggested these orbs could be surveillance devices from foreign powers like China or Russia.
Government officials believed they might be advanced drones, due to their tremendous agility and ability to avoid radar, according to a 2022 report in the New York Times.
As for Enigma's report, many of the orb sightings have been concentrated in Texas and Florida.
In fact, visitors at Disney World's Epcot in Florida got an unexpected sight this month, when a glowing orb appeared over the amusement park.
After searching online and finding no information about drones or satellites in the area, Morgan Huelsman, digital director of The Bobby Bones Show, described the object as a 'UFO,' adding, 'definitely a UFO with aliens.'
The Enigma platform has also received sightings from all over the US, over critical infrastructure such as power plants, and over naval vessels at sea.
The Buga Sphere recovered in Colombia (pictured) remains one of the only pieces of physical evidence tied to metallic orb sightings worldwide
The 'Buga Sphere' has become a major topic of discussion among UFO researchers, with scientists claiming the object contains a maze of fiber-optic wires that suggest it can send and receive signals.
After striking a power line and crashing to the ground, the object also appeared to have somehow dehydrated the field it landed in, killing all the grass and soil where it touched down.
Scientists suggested this was proof that the object produced some kind of energy field, but researchers had not attempted to forcibly cut the object open so far. The sphere has since been taken to Mexico for further analysis.
However, UFO researcher Dr Julia Mossbridge from the University of San Diego is among the many who doubt the authenticity of the Buga Sphere, calling it a 'man-made art project.'
Several remarkable new photos reveal a flurry of so-called 'unidentified flying objects' in Headingley in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Local resident and photographer Jesse Gallagher snapped the strange collection of unearthly bodies over several months using his iPhone.
The snaps, shared exclusively with the Daily Mail, were all taken after dark around midnight, making their ghostly light easier for the camera to detect.
And they certainly form an eerie motely crew of strange shapes and sizes, several deviating a lot from traditional depictions of a UFO.
'When zooming in, the orbs are either white or multi-coloured and can be seen pulsating,' Mr Gallagher told the Daily Mail.
'One recording has the moon as a backdrop which provides some interesting perspective.
'I have seen other videos of similar objects around the world.'
They make up an eerie motely crew of strange shapes and sizes, deviating a lot from traditional depictions of a UFO. Pictured, the spoon-shaped entity
Another entity in a deeper shade of blue seems to form a very rough sphere or orb and be emitting a faint ring of light
Mr Gallagher said his footage was captured around midnight in Headingley between August 2021 and November 2023.
Bizarrely, one of the UFOs with a ghostly slivery-blue tint resembles a spoon or a spade – with a narrow stream of light connecting a fainter circle.
Another entity in an even deeper shade of blue seems to form a very rough sphere or orb and be emitting a faint beams of light.
Meanwhile, the third snap shows a bright white ball of brilliant light, almost perfectly circular, with the moon as a tiny blob in the background.
But perhaps most intriguing photo shows a textured grey object with an unusual level of detail – a possible cone or horn, with what seems to be a hole in the middle.
Clues from its appearance suggest it could be a discarded piece of machinery or a fragment of disused spacecraft.
But, in such an instance, rules of physics surely dictate that it would hit the ground.
Philip Mantle, a British UFO researcher, said the images show some kind of 'distant light source that is out of focus'.
The third snap shows a bright white ball of brilliant light, almost perfectly circular, with the moon a tiny blob in the background
A piece of spacecraft? Perhaps most intriguing of the four pictures is this one, showing a textured grey object with an unusual level of detail
'The out of focus image makes the light look very different from what the naked eye would see,' he told the Daily Mail.
'They could well be simple lens flares as seen in the photo of the moon.'
But Mr Mantle stopped short of calling them 'UFOs' – a term that may or may not describe an object thought to have an extraterrestrial origin.
John Tunnah took about 10 or 12 photographs from his vantage point near the hills, but the object only appeared in one of them.
The object is remarkably similar to the classic UFO saucer shape depicted in popular culture, with a distinctive round and elongated shape.
Nick Pope, a UFO expert formerly with the UK's Ministry of Defence, offered a number of explanations for Mr Tunnah's photo.
'When photos show an anomaly that wasn't seen at the time, I suspect either a glitch with the camera, or a fast-moving object like a bird or an insect, close to the lens,' Mr Pope told the Daily Mail.
This bizarre saucer-shaped object was snapped with a Pentax Optio SVi camera by Yorkshire photographer John Tunnah
The man's attention was drawn by a perfectly formed arch of cloud over the trees (centre) - and only later did he notice the saucer-shaped object on the left
UFOs became a major subject of interest after World War II and were thought by some researchers to be intelligent extraterrestrial life visiting Earth.
In the US, the government's Department of Defense, commonly known as the Pentagon, now refrains from using the term UFO at all.
This is largely because it is commonly associated with wind up conspiracy theories and paranoia.
Instead, the Pentagon uses UAP – 'unidentified aerial phenomenon' – although in most places this has low usage and is yet to enter common parlance.
V-shaped UFO filmed hovering over Los Angeles as expert reveals incredible details of sighting
Clear and startling images of what appears to be a UFO were captured over Los Angeles, sparking fresh debate about what's flying over America's biggest cities.
The sighting went on for roughly 25 minutes, with the UFO flying south until the witnesses eventually lost sight of it around 11:38pm local time (2:38am ET).
The pair was able to capture both pictures and clear videos with a cellphone camera, zooming in to see nine white lights along the UFO's hull.
UFO researcher and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee told the Daily Mail he believes the craft was not an alien spaceship, instead offering some alternate theories.
When I was growing up, I watched a lot of sci-fi movies about aliens that come to Earth. The extraterrestrials in popular culture, however, always looked so familiar that I found them far-fetched. What are the chances that E.T., the Predator, or ALF would develop arms and legs, a humanlike face, and opposable thumbs? Perhaps as a result, I associated alien life more with fantasy than with science, and I never gave much thought to what a visit would really look like. But my attitude started to change in 2020, when I read Liu Cixin’s “The Three-Body Problem” and its two sequels. In Liu’s books, creatures called Trisolarans send a scouting mission of supercomputers to spy on and subtly disrupt human affairs. Although Trisolarans could do seemingly impossible things, such as program protons, Liu’s rigor got me thinking about aliens from a scientific perspective. Suddenly, I could imagine a sophisticated civilization coming into contact with humanity, perhaps in ways that we don’t immediately understand.
Then, in 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report on unidentified anomalous phenomena (U.A.P.)—essentially a rebranding of U.F.O.s. Several Navy videos had been made public a few years prior. In the so-called GOFAST video, recorded off the coast of Florida in 2015, a Navy pilot with an infrared camera follows an object zooming above the water and asks, over the radio, “What the fuck is that?” Another clip, deemed GIMBAL—“Look at that thing, dude”—showed a similar shape above some clouds. A third video, known as FLIR, was taken in 2004 from an aircraft in California. Navy pilots in two planes saw what looked like a large Tic Tac hovering over the water; it seemed to zip away at thousands of miles per hour. Military whistle-blowers subsequently claimed that the government knew more than it was admitting, leading to congressional hearings in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Last month, House Representative Eric Burlison, a Republican, introduced the U.A.P. Disclosure Act of 2025, aimed at preserving and eventually releasing U.F.O. reports.
None of the government’s disclosures demonstrated that Earth had welcomed interstellar house guests. And yet, after the releases and hearings, it seemed more acceptable to explore the possibility. In 2022, roughly fifteen hundred university faculty members replied to a survey about U.F.O.s; a majority said that recent governmental and journalistic reports had increased the topic’s credibility, and three-quarters said that it was of average importance, very important, or essential for academics to conduct more research about it. Tyler Cowen wrote about U.F.O.s forBloombergand Ross Douthat wrote about them for theNew YorkTimes; they compared notes on Cowen’s podcast. On the prediction platform Polymarket,the oddsthat the U.S. will “confirm that aliens exist in 2025” have ranged between four and fourteen per cent. (The detection of aliens on a faraway planet would count.)
I started to ask myself, How likely is it that we’ve ever been visited by aliens or their technology? It seemed improbable yet plausible. I wondered how scientists, engineers, and other thinkers would approach the question. What would count as evidence, and what kinds of educated guesses could we make? I decided to call Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester and the author of “The Little Book of Aliens,” which looks to differentiate between science and fiction.
Frank doesn’t put much stock in U.F.O. videos, and he told a story to explain why. In February, 2023, photographs of a Chinese spy balloon over Billings, Montana, prompted speculation about aliens. The Air Force eventually shot it down, but first the pilot of an American U-2 spy plane flew past and took a selfie that showed the balloon out the window. “You can see it in exquisite detail,” Frank told me. “Where are all those pictures? Every U.F.O. picture is a fuzzy blob. Everybody carries a high-resolution camera in their pocket now, and it’s always fuzzy blobs.”
There are potential answers to Frank’s question, but most of them raise questions of their own. Maybe there’s a coverup. But, if so, wouldn’t whistle-blowers have turned up something by now? “Color me extremely skeptical that any government could keep a secret like this effectively for a week, let alone decades,” Austin Carson, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who has written extensively about government secrecy, told me. Steven Aftergood, who directed the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, pointed me to a 1970 report produced by a government task force on secrecy: “It is unlikely that classified information will remain secure for periods as long as five years, and it is more reasonable to assume that it will become known to others in periods as short as one year.”
Maybe the aliens are coy and want to stay hidden. If that’s the case, though, why are we seeing them at all? Mark Rodeghier, the scientific director of the Center for U.F.O. Studies, which is headquartered in his basement, told me, “They’re actually trying to slowly acclimatize us to the idea that aliens, in fact, exist.” Robert Hampson, a neuroscientist at Wake Forest University who has written over a dozen science-fiction novels, speculated that, perhaps, “what we’re detecting are the alien equivalent of graduate students who have been given an assignment to go and watch the humans and report back.” Plenty of human graduate students have been tasked with researching other worlds—and they don’t always get the best equipment.
The elaborateness of these explanations, in Frank’s view, is a reason to be skeptical of them. “If you’ve got to go through all those contortions to make your story work, you’re not doing science anymore,” he said. He noted that, when humans send spacecraft into the solar system, they tend to land safely. Alien craft, in contrast, “would have managed to cross interstellar distances, and these things seem to crash every fifteen minutes. It’s like everybody’s sending us their 1987 Dodge Omnis.” The 2021 national-intelligence report on U.A.P.s said that it could not explain a hundred and forty-three U.F.O. reports, but that many were probably “airborne clutter,” weather, or terrestrial technology. “Sometimes they’re hard to explain because we just don’t have the data,” Frank said. In his opinion, high-quality data (high-resolution photography, for example) has never “showed us that anything required an extraterrestrial hypothesis.”
Our galaxy contains at least a hundred billion planets, and biology finds a way in extreme environments on Earth, so it’s not unreasonable to suppose that life thrives elsewhere in the Milky Way. But if aliens wanted to visit us they would have a long way to go. The closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is roughly 4.2 light-years away. NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe would take more than seventy-five thousand years to get there, if it were headed in the right direction. The closest inhabited solar system could be much, much farther away. Could aliens, or at least their tech, survive that journey?
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, thinks they may have already. In 2014, military satellites observed a half-metre-long meteor in the sky near Papua New Guinea. Several years later, Loeb and a student, Amir Siraj, concluded that the meteor had been travelling too fast to be orbiting the sun, and that, therefore, it was interstellar. Loeb went on to argue, over the objections of many experts, that it may have been alien technology, and that debris he recovered on a Pacific expedition was from the meteor. “Think of it as Amazon delivery service, but from interstellar space,” he told me during the expedition, from a ship that was incidentally called the Silver Star. He and numerous collaborators wrote up their findings in Chemical Geology last year. (Cosmochemists questioned the claim that the debris was interstellar; one told Science, “I’m surprised anyone would take it seriously.”) Loeb currently leads the Galileo Project, which is erecting ground-based sensors to look for anomalous phenomena.
U.F.O.s could contain biological aliens or machines powered by artificial intelligence. Either way, they might travel much faster than Voyager 1—but that would require a lot of energy. Les Johnson, a retired chief technology officer at NASA who has written fiction and nonfiction books about interstellar travel, gave me an example. To accelerate a pineapple to just a tenth the speed of light, he said, would require the energy of seven Hiroshima explosions. You would need the same quantity of energy to decelerate at your destination. “Suddenly, you’ve got the energy of fourteen Hiroshima bombs on a pineapple,” he said. “So I look at that, and I think it just doesn’t pass the giggle test.” At that speed, a speck of space dust would also have the impact of T.N.T. “I’d love to think we’re in a ‘Star Trek’ universe,” Johnson said. “But I don’t know if we are.”
Logically speaking, the chance that aliens are here right now must be slimmer than the chance that they have been here at some point in the past. Garry Nolan, a biotech founder and an immunologist at Stanford, has a hunch that we’ve been visited by aliens—he had an eerie experience as a child—and speculates that they or their technology may have been on Earth for millions of years. “So the open question might be, Is this even our planet?” he asked me. As outlandish as his theory is, it’s tricky to firmly disprove. If they came long ago, and left or died, would we even know? In 2018, Frank and a co-author published a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology titled “The Silurian Hypothesis.” (In “Doctor Who,” Silurians are advanced reptilian humanoids who predated us on Earth.)
“Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?” Frank and his colleagues ask. Organisms can turn into fossils that last tens of millions of years, but most organisms don’t become fossils; metals and plastics might not stick around at all. And the planet’s surface constantly erodes and churns. “Our claim was that, after about a couple million years, anything on the surface is gone,” Frank said. “Even if some aliens came and built a pretty intense civilization, you wouldn’t have any evidence of it.” The best evidence one might hope for, he argued, was indirect: for example, an unusual proportion of certain isotopes at particular depths of rock. (In a 2019 paper, a physicist suggested that we should look for old probes, or “Lurkers,” on space rocks near Earth.) So far, humans haven’t found anything like that.
Science fiction often explains interstellar travel by imagining some kind of warp drive. Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but, in 1994, the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre found an exception: Einstein’s theory of general relativity actually allows for a craft to outpace light by squeezing space-time at its bow and stretching it at the stern. Nolan, who is a fan of this idea, likened the Alcubierre drive to “creating your own sub-universe, a warp bubble around yourself.” Of course, it is not at all clear that such a thing could be constructed. Alcubierre invoked what physicists call negative energy; later theorists thought that lots and lots of regular energy could be used instead. Nolan speculated that, maybe, sufficient energy could be harvested from space-time itself, using the zero-point field and quantum tunnelling. But he quickly admitted that “those are just fancy words that we throw at the unknown.” (On the plus side, a warp drive might quote-unquote explain the Navy’s U.F.O. videos; one paper estimated that the objects in the videos appeared to be pulling up to five thousand Gs, using no visible propulsion and leaving no wake. Stunt pilots max out at around ten Gs.) Other U.F.O. enthusiasts argue that aliens could reside in dimensions beyond the four that we know and love. Or maybe they’re time travellers.
I ran these notions by Arlan Andrews, a retired mechanical engineer and author who is the founder and director of SIGMA, a think tank of sci-fi writers that advises the government and N.G.O.s. He responded by throwing up his hands in exasperation. “If you start to do the woo-woo stuff with interdimensional and time travel, I can’t say they’re wrong, but there’s no place to start,” he told me. “As an engineer, I like to have a starting place.”
Acivilization that’s millions or billions of years ahead of us would probably know physics that we don’t yet comprehend. Its technology might seem like magic to us. In that case, practically anything is possible. A NASA report on U.F.O.s, released in 2023, acknowledges that “it is difficult to put physical constraints on them at present.” How would you turn something without constraints from woo-woo into science?
The Society for U.A.P. Studies (SUAPS) is a think tank attempting to define U.A.P. studies as a field. “Not only is there not a science but there’s no academic field,” Michael Cifone, a philosopher of science at St. John’s University and one of the group’s founders, said. “How do we study this phenomenon? Who’s involved? What are the methodological principles that should guide us?” He cares less about people’s out-there theories than about what steps should be taken to resolve U.F.O. cases. He wants to avoid “endless, unconstrained, undisciplined speculation.” In his view, we’re at “a crucial transition point between the older ‘ufology,’ ” akin to forensic investigation, and modern scientific methods.
The first step to making something a science usually involves data. NASA’s report focusses on the agency’s potential role in collecting data, and in using A.I. to analyze it. According to the report, the agency’s sensors could be supplemented with crowdsourced data from apps; one example is Enigma, which uses algorithms to rate the credibility of people’s sightings and triangulate objects using video recordings. UAPx, a Florida nonprofit, has developed a suite of sensors specifically for analyzing odd aerial phenomena. And then there’s the data contained in past reported sightings, which could be regularized and collated somehow. Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who testified about U.F.O.s in Congress, founded Americans for Safe Aerospace, which encourages pilots to report U.F.O.s. The group vets the cases and has brought them to Congress; the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which is part of the Department of Defense; and, lately, to an F.B.I. working group. But, as some argue, the plural of anecdote is not data. “I don’t trust pilots’ sightings,” Matt Mountain, the president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, told me. “They’re on a mission, not doing scientific exploration.” We should keep in mind, Mountain told me, that most criminal convictions that are overturned by DNA evidence were based in part on eyewitness testimony.
Graves said that he was agnostic about aliens. “I’m not jumping to conclusions,” he told me. “But I want to figure it out, damn it.” Still, he seemed skeptical of expert analysis. In November, 2024, AARO announced that it considered the GOFAST video mystery resolved; the object’s altitude, it said, gave it an exaggerated appearance of speed. “Through a very careful geospatial intelligence analysis and using trigonometry, we assess with high confidence that the object is not actually close to the water, but is rather closer to 13,000 feet,” the agency’s director told CBS. Graves wasn’t satisfied with that explanation. “Some of these cases aren’t quote-unquote debunked or no longer of interest,” he has said.
When I spoke to people who supported an alien hypothesis, I was often struck that relatively patchy evidence—what Frank had described as fuzzy blobs—had inspired such in-depth theories. I’m as puzzled by the U.F.O. videos as the next guy, but, as far as I can tell, nothing in them requires us to accept the existence of warp drives or time travel. Until someone produces high-definition videos of flying saucers and little green men, the evidence might not be extraordinary enough to demand such extraordinary explanations. And to the extent that U.F.O.s do need explanations it’s worth asking whether aliens are the best one. People have seen weird stuff in the sky for thousands of years, and only in the last eighty have flying saucers been a popular interpretation. Before that, we tended to credit the supernatural.
After all my conversations, I thought the odds that aliens or their tech had visited Earth were probably south of five per cent. Most U.F.O.s. are likely balloons, airplanes, weather events, visual illusions, or technical glitches. Even so, there are enough unknowns, and unknown unknowns, that the margin of error seemed enormous. A person who thinks the odds are much higher, I’d argue, shouldn’t be met with ridicule.
One more question: Why would aliens even visit us? Coming up with an answer forces us to speculate about alien motives. “I’ve always said that aliens are going to alien,” Andrews, the sci-fi writer who founded SIGMA, told me. “We have no idea what an alien person or being or intelligence or machine would be motivated by. . . . We don’t know what motivates the Kremlin, for God’s sake.” Extraterrestrials, he suggested, could be as different from us as we are from centipedes. (That could be an understatement.) Robert Powell, a chemist who serves on the board of the Scientific Coalition for U.A.P. Studies, has argued that some U.F.O.s are intelligently controlled and do not come from Earth. But, in his view, we shouldn’t try to study extraterrestrials as if they’re lab rats. “We’re the rat, and we’re trying to figure out what the doctor is doing,” he said.
It’s reasonable to think that there would be commonalities among intelligent species. One is the drive for self-preservation, which motivates the Trisolarans in “The Three-Body Problem.” Hampson, the neuroscientist and sci-fi writer, didn’t think that was a very good reason to come to Earth. “If they’re after resources, there are easier ways to get them,” he said. “Why would you go to an already inhabited world?” Meanwhile, a warlike species would probably just wipe us out. “If the idea is conquest, then I think we would already know,” he said. But he could imagine another reason: curiosity.
Nick Pope, who ran the U.F.O. program at the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense from 1991 to 1994, told me that the ministry had considered three main motives for alien visits: military reconnaissance, scientific study, and tourism. It’s not a given that aliens would enjoy travel. Maybe we’ve never met them because they’re homebodies. Still, what kind of intelligent life form wouldn’t want to see a sunrise on another world? “This might be the only place in the universe to see an elephant,” Pope said. “How many planets have a Stonehenge or a Machu Picchu or a Great Pyramids?” Aliens might want to survey the galaxy for all life forms—including us. They might even be having the same debate we are. Are we alone in the universe? The truth—whatever it may be—is still out there.
"VS verbergt informatie over buitenaards leven": ex-officieren getuigen voor Amerikaans Congres in "UFO-hoorzitting"
archieffoto van Amerikaans ministerie van Defensie van een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend voorwerp
"VS verbergt informatie over buitenaards leven": ex-officieren getuigen voor Amerikaans Congres in "UFO-hoorzitting"
In de VS heeft een luchtmachtveteraan tijdens een hoorzitting in het parlement herhaald dat de Amerikaanse overheid al decennialang een onderzoeksprogramma naar UFO's verbergt voor de bevolking. Volgens de voormalige majoor David Grusch is het Pentagon in het bezit van bewijsmateriaal van buitenaards leven. Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie heeft die beweringen met klem ontkend.
In 2022 bevestigde het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie dat er een onderzoek loopt naar een 400-tal geheimzinnige waarnemingen in het luchtruim van de voorbije twee decennia. Dat onderzoek wordt gevoerd door de speciale afdeling die onderzoek doet naar UAP's (ongeïdentificeerde verschijnselen in de lucht of unidentified aerial phenomena).
Vanmiddag hebben drie klokkenluiders die voor de Amerikaanse Defensie hebben gewerkt, getuigd in een hoorzitting in het Amerikaanse parlement over "ongeïdentificeerde abnormale verschijnselen in de lucht".
Hun getuigenissen roepen meer vragen dan antwoorden op. Ze beweerden over veel meer informatie te beschikken, maar wilden of konden die niet delen op de hoorzitting.
De voormalige inlichtingenofficier David Grusch verklaarde dat Defensie in het bezit is van bewijsmateriaal van buitenaards leven en UFO's, maar concrete informatie gaf hij niet. Grusch had het over "niet-menselijk biologisch materiaal". De overheid zou die informatie volgens Grusch bewust verbergen voor de bevolking.
Grusch kon niet antwoorden op vragen in de hoorzitting omdat hij gehouden is aan een geheimhoudingsplicht (non-disclosure agreement of NDA). Hij gaf mee dat hij wel meer antwoorden kan geven in een gesloten commissie.
De drie getuigen, Ryan Graves, David Grusch en David Fravor leggen de eed af voor de hoorzitting
Onderzoek naar onverklaarbare waarnemingen
Het Pentagon heeft altijd ontkend dat er geheime onderzoeksprogramma's lopen naar UFO's en buitenaards leven. Er wordt wel onderzoek verricht naar onverklaarbare waarnemingen.
Volgens Defensie is het in het belang van de strijdkrachten om de oorsprong van de fenomenen te achterhalen, omdat ze mogelijk gevaar kunnen opleveren voor piloten. Het valt evenmin uit te sluiten dat het om tot dusver onbekende systemen of tuigen gaat van vijandelijke mogendheden.
Adjunct-directeur Inlichtingen van de Marine Scott Bray meldde eerder dat zijn diensten "niet over materiaal beschikten of stralingen hadden opgepikt die zouden suggereren dat het om iets van buitenaardse oorsprong zou gaan". Geen bewijs van buitenaards leven dus, maar Defensie
Het Rosswell incident
Radars van het Amerikaanse leger kunnen niet altijd bepalen wat er in de lucht wordt waargenomen. Dat bleek begin dit jaar nog toen ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten werden neergeschoten door het leger, na het incident met de Chinese spionageballon.
Amerika is ook altijd in de ban geweest van het Roswellincident, de vermeende crash van een UFO in het plaatsje Roswell in New Mexico. Het was in de zomer van 1947 groot nieuws in de VS en is nog altijd het bekendste UFO-incident. Sindsdien doen er om de zoveel tijd allerhande beweringen over bewijs van buitenaardse wezens de ronde, maar nooit is dat bewezen.
The U.S. Government’s Top UFO Scientist Has an Open Mind about Alien Visitation
The U.S. Government’s Top UFO Scientist Has an Open Mind about Alien Visitation
Have you seen something inexplicable in the sky? Jon Kosloski, director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, wants to hear from you
Video footage of an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) event, captured by an infrared sensor onboard a U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft over the Rafael Hernandez Airport near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico on April 26, 2013. In the full footage, the UAP seems to move at high speed, split into two objects, and fly into and out of the ocean. A subsequent assessment by the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) found that the event can be explained as a trick of perspective, in which two slow-moving objects traveling linearly near to each other only appear to be a single object splitting in two, and do not enter the sea at any point. The appearance of U.S. DOD visual information does not imply or constitute DOD endorsement.
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Whether captured in declassified military footage or insmartphone videos uploaded to social media, UFOs are swarming Earth’s skies and demonstrating capabilities so astonishing that they must represent technologies that are advanced beyond any available on Earth. Clearly, these sightings point to the involvement of space aliens—or perhaps just a global cabal of nefarious humans with ultraspiffy, above-top-secret flying machines that routinely break the known laws of physics.
At least, that’s what modern-day folklore would have you believe, no matter how many times skeptics convincingly debunk sensational UFO sightings as mere misidentifications of conventional aircraft, sensor artifacts or natural phenomena.
Regardless of what one personally believes about all this, what’s certain is that claims of mysterious trespassers in American airspace are taken very seriously by the U.S. government for reasons of national security. That’s why, at Congress’s behest, the U.S. Department of Defense established its All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in July 2022. This office investigates reports of UFOs under the more generic rebranding of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
AARO’s work, however, isn’t really about chasing down extraterrestrial invaders so much as it involves standardizing reporting methods, curating and analyzing datasets and assessing possible threats posed by UAPs. Think less Men in Black and more “Pentagon desk jockeys with advanced degrees and highly classified résumés.”
The office’s current director Jon Kosloski, who took over in August 2024, after the departure of his predecessorSean Kirkpatrickin December 2023, is a good example of the archetype. His professional past is punctuated by National Security Agency research in networking and computing, optical light communications and cryptography, as well as his invention of an advanced language-agnostic search engine for the DOD.
Dr. Jon Kosloski serves as the director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
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Kosloski spoke with Scientific American about his vision and agenda for AARO—and, of course, his thoughts on the “extraterrestrial hypothesis” for unexplained UAPs.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
What milestones and directions do you and AARO foresee as you assess the UAP situation?
We have quite a lot going on in the office. We’re working diligently to make our AARO website available to the public so they can report an incident. We want to have a semiautomated processing chain to quickly bring those cases in and then look for correlations with other cases from government sources.
We’re also working on machine-learning and artificial intelligence tools so that we can look for correlations at a larger scale. AARO is also looking at better utilization of the whole fabric of U.S. government sensors that are available. That will help our case resolutions, but it also poses the potential challenge of looking at an awful lot of data.
A last big push is for increased transparency—to find more efficient ways to share information with the public and the scientific community to help us in some of our investigations. Standardizing the UAP data is an initiative—to make it better suited for data science. As we do that, we’d like having both the raw data as well as postprocessing data available to as wide of an audience as possible. But we need to respect the sensitivities of the sources and methods used to gather those data.
Last November you testified before the Senate Committee on Armed Services’ Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. One point you raised was the importance of removing the stigma of reporting a UAP event. How much of a problem is that?
It seems to have diminished quite a bit, thankfully, through a variety of public endeavors. I think it does persist, for example, with local law enforcement and some military members, however. They have experienced some pushback themselves from discussing events that they’ve been a part of but have come forward and shared that information with AARO. So maybe the stigma is reduced but not completely gone. Good progress is being made, but probably there’s a little ways to go.
AARO has reportedly deployed the Gremlin System—a multisensor networked system for detecting, tracking and characterizing UAPs—in an undisclosed location. What is the status of this project?
Gremlin is envisioned to be a test bed for sensor evaluations and sensor fusion. We expect it to be a “living” system, always evolving. We will be swapping in and out new sensors and algorithms for various approaches. We want to document what we learn and share that with the public and other organizations inside the government. The hope is they can take what we have learned and replicate that.
Gremlin itself is going quite well and is very robust. It has been running out in the wild for several months now, gathering data using radar, electro-optical and infrared cameras and some electromagnetic sensors. Gremlin is pulling all that in and detecting events in real time. We haven’t found anything particularly interesting yet.... But there are a few interesting sightings that are worth investigation.
What does “a few interesting sightings” mean, exactly?
Interesting from our perspective. It is not obvious what the object is. It is unidentified. It has some anomalous characteristics. And in these cases, the object appears to be [moving] rather quickly. But it doesn’t appear to [be using] standard aircraft beacons. There could be multiple explanations for that, so we’re not jumping to any conclusions. But they are worthy of further investigation.
UFO groups continually demand “full disclosure,” by which they mean more than transparent data sharing—namely, the full disclosure of putative secret evidence that Earth has been visited by some form of alien intelligence. For AARO, if you come up with a head-scratcher of an unknown phenomenon, how would you disclose that fact?
There are two things we have to consider. One is the owner of the data. We would need to work with the data owner to make sure that we are not revealing sensitive information about sources and methods.
But putting that aside, there is nothing inherently classified about an anomalous event or phenomenon. So we would work with our leadership to document that well, study it and then produce a product that can be shared widely with the community. There is no inherent reason why we would sit on these anomalies, if we did come across something truly perplexing.
Given that many full-disclosure advocates would insist that the absence of evidence for alien visitation just further confirmed a government cover-up, it seems like any push you could make for transparency as leader of AARO would, in some respects, be doomed to failure. So why take on the assignment in the first place?
I love difficult scientific challenges. In general, I enjoy the chase of trying to understand the mystery and solving puzzles. UAPs, by their very nature, are rare events. [That means] data acquisition is difficult, and there’s a sensor design challenge. I think getting the data we need has been somewhat neglected.
There are groups, such as Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project, that are working on better data acquisition—which is fantastic. But we in the U.S. government could do better. As a mathematician and data scientist, I enjoy poring through the data, looking for the subtle correlations and teasing out the threads to identify hypotheses and get the scientific method started.
Doing that with a well-qualified group—with experts from inside AARO, as well as from across the U.S. government, and hopefully partnering with academia, too—was just too good of an opportunity to pass up.
How does AARO engage academia?
Right now we are primarily focused on a few key partnerships with University Affiliated Research Centers [UARCs]. [Editor’s Note: UARCs are DOD-supported research organizations that are affiliated with a university and offer specialized expertise.] For example, AARO worked with the Georgia Tech Research Institute [a nonprofit applied research organization at the Georgia Institute of Technology] to develop the Gremlin System. As a UARC, the Georgia Tech Research Institute partnered with AARO. Because of the nature of the contractual relationships, we can share the data that we have. In broader engagements with academia, there is the key step of downgrading classification to ensure we can release the information. We are working on that. Also, an important partnership is with the National Laboratories—Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for instance, has assisted AARO with some of its material analysis. But right now the focus has been on those few key UARCs.
Is it really accurate to say you’re being “transparent” while also dealing with sensitive, classified data?
It’s a challenge. AARO should be as transparent as possible, and we are working in that direction. At the same time, we need to respect the sensitivities of the sources and methods used to gather the information that is relevant to UAPs. Ultimately, we are also working with our partners to release as much information as possible about the full context in which that data was gathered.
It is a time-consuming process. But there are reasons why the U.S. government needs to protect those sources and methods so that we don’t put them at risk.
Recent reports of mysterious drones over New Jersey and elsewhere sparked a lot of public interest and discussion—and I’m sure you and your AARO colleagues were paying close attention, too. What’s your take on that situation?
Misidentification does account for a number of UAP sightings. AARO has been working on educational materials about common misunderstandings, such as Starlink flaring, as we call it, or [confusing visual] phenomena such as parallax. We’re sharing that with the public so that they understand what they are looking at.
Specifically, with the New Jersey incidents, none of those were reported to AARO as being anomalous. Certainly, many of them were unidentified, whether they were drones or airplanes or other objects. They weren’t behaving in a way that was identified by the people at the time as being anomalous, so we didn’t take the lead on any of those investigations. But we were in contact with a number of federal organizations, offering our support.
Do you have any advice for true believers who are convinced that aliens are visiting Earth’s skies?
I don’t have advice per se. I don’t want to be the thought police. I think everyone is welcome to approach this topic however they like. As I came into this subject, however, I tried to approach it without bias in either direction. I’m open to any possibility. Sometimes an unusual event is just a sensor artifact, sometimes just a balloon.
We do have some events in our holdings that are really peculiar, and I don’t know yet what’s behind those. But because we don’t know what’s behind them, we also can’t attribute them to anything in particular. And that includes extraterrestrial sources.
Any closing thoughts on your primary objectives for AARO? And how do you feel about the big, daunting question “Are we alone?”
I’m impatient and, being a data scientist, I am also a data hog. I want more data, and I want it quicker so that we can get to the heart of these problems. It boils down to asking ourselves, “What type of data is it going to take to prove to the scientific community, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that this anomalous phenomenon was not a sensor artifact and is, indeed, something truly peculiar?”
And I feel that’s going to require multiple sensors gathering the same event from different perspectives at the same time.
My goal is for AARO to be able to enhance our national security by increasing domain awareness, ensuring that we understand everything that is operating in space, in the air and maritime environments, as well as those trans-medium objects [UAPs that seemingly slip between, say, the sky and the sea].
I think it’s plausible that there’s life out there. I haven’t yet seen the substantial evidence I need to convince me that extraterrestrial life has found its way to Earth as yet, but I am open to anything.
Viktor Hovland´s great pursuits: A perfect golf swing and the truth about UFOs
Viktor Hovland´s great pursuits: A perfect golf swing and the truth about UFOs
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Viktor Hovland´s golf swing clicked at the right time. His search for the truth about UFOs? That's still a work in progress.
Practicing on the driving range two days before the Ryder Cup begins Friday, the 28-year-old Norwegian said he suddenly felt freed up. When he reviewed his swing on video, "it looked definitely better than other swings that I´ve made lately."
"Obviously this is a golf course that you have to drive it really well, and I've been kind of struggling with the driver," Hovland said Thursday at Bethpage Black. "It´s been a long time since I´ve been able to stand on the range and just kind of beat balls fluidly, effortlessly without trying to feel like I´m steering it."
That bodes well for Europe, which enters tournament play on Friday as underdogs on the U.S. team´s turf in front of what´s sure to be a raucous New York crowd. President Donald Trump will be there for part of it, adding to the frenzy.
About the UFOs: it's a subject Hovland says he´s gotten deeper into in the last couple of years, piquing the curiosity of teammates and fans alike. The seven-time PGA Tour winner said it´s one way he takes his mind off golf.
And, he insists, the truth is out there.
Europe's Viktor Hovland watches his tee shot on the 12th hole during a practice round for the Ryder Cup golf tournament, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, on the Bethpage Black golf course, in Farmingdale, N.Y.
(AP Photo/Robert Bukaty)
"The more you go into it, you just get more questions," Hovland said. "It´s one of those things that you don´t really find any more answers, but it´s very interesting to go in there and kind of challenge some of your beliefs that you currently hold."
"You kind of have to expand your mind a little bit," he said.
Hovland, one of golf's most popular and affable stars, was eager to get back to practicing after rain soaked the course on Thursday morning. He said he wanted to make sure his newfound swing feel didn't disappear overnight.
"I think we´ve all been there," Hovland said. "We find a feel and think we´re back, and the next day it all falls apart."
Acknowledging "some major struggles" with his game in recent seasons, Hovland desperately wants to return to the form he had in 2023, when he won three times on the PGA Tour and claimed the season-ending FedEx Cup.
He dropped from No. 4 in the world rankings the week of the last Ryder Cup, a win for Europe in Rome in 2023, to No. 12 currently. But, he said, "I feel like despite that, I can still overcome that and play some really good golf."
Hovland is frequently blunt and introspective, and his session with reporters Thursday volleyed from questions about his swing to his fascination with the prospect of otherworldly beings, spurred by a comment his friend and teammate Ludvig Åberg made to reporters on Wednesday.
"Ludvig said that you like to talk about UFOs. What´s up with that?" a reporter asked.
"What´s up with that?" Hovland responded, smiling and prompting laughs. "Yeah, that´s the question, isn´t it? What is up with that?"
Åberg, for his part, said that while he indulges Hovland's UFO talk, "I´m not quite down that road just yet. If I hang out with him long enough, I might be."
"He´s a funny guy to have funny conversations with," Åberg said. "They can go in any direction that you don´t really expect."
In some ways, pursuing a perfect golf swing and eternal questions about flying saucers and extraterrestrial life are a lot alike, both requiring curiosity and patience.
In golf, he said, "you just look at your golf swing and you´re trying to practice hard and you don´t really get the results that you want, it can be quite frustrating."
As a Ryder Cup rookie in 2021, Hovland went 0-3-2 en route to a 19-9 European loss at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. In 2023, he went 3-1-1 as Europe prevailed 16.5 to 11.5.
"I felt like I was maybe more timid as a rookie playing on foreign soil," Hovland said of his first Ryder Cup. "I think I played just a bit more insecure maybe but after 2023, my best season of my career, I felt just more excitement."
This time there's the added factor of a New York crowd - famously loud and ruthless toward opposing players, whether from the Boston Red Sox or Team Europe. Hovland, quirky as ever, said he has an antidote for that.
"If you play well, you know, there´s going to be some comments here and there," he said. "They won´t really come close to the thoughts that I have in my own head. So I think I´ll just laugh it off for the most part."
Black Pyramid UFO Over Trenton, Texas Sept 9, 2025 Video, UAP Paranormal Sighting News.
Black Pyramid UFO Over Trenton, Texas Sept 9, 2025 Video, UAP Paranormal Sighting News.
Date of sighting: September 9, 2025
Location of sighting: Trenton, Texas, USA
This report just in at NUFORC. A black pyramid shaped UFO was seen moving across the sky in Texas this week. The UFO was silent and flying low at 30 meters from the ground. The object really appears to be rotation very slowly scaling the area around it...turning to get a better view of its surrounds. Texes is a UFO hotspot in the US and this sighting is defiantly a top ten in videos from the states. I wonder if it was heading to the Bush Ranch which is George W. Bush's House in Texas. In 2008, the "Stephenville UFO incident" involved dozens of people seeing a large, fast-moving object, which radar data suggested was heading south-southeast, or toward President George W. Bush's Crawford ranch. Was Bush an alien himself...getting visits from family and friends from distant worlds?
Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily
Source: NUFORC
Eyewitness states:
Lights on object It came over trees at approximately 100 feet. It looked like the entire edge of it was illuminated or like a pulsating light. It was still daylight so it was hard to tell. It was moving relatively slow at approximately 20-30 miles per hour. There was absolutely no sound coming from the object. It looked like it changed shapes.
For all Viktor Hovland's recent difficulties in predicting the outcomes to his shots, his partner on the course, Ludvig Aberg, has faced an identical battle in trying to second-guess the direction of their conversations. From aliens to philosophy, that can be a diverse road.
It remains to be seen if Luke Donald will follow conventional wisdom by pairing them here at Bethpage Black, reprising the relationship that pulled off a 9&7 foursomes mauling of Scottie Scheffler and Brooks Koepka in Rome two years ago.
To that end, there has been a mild surprise in the fact they have not yet been grouped together in two practise sessions across Tuesday and Wednesday. Keeping them apart so far might be interpreted as an early sleight of hand by Donald, or even a breather for Aberg, who has supplied an insight into those wild chats with his Norwegian friend, one of the most eccentric characters in golf.
'We get along,' said Aberg on Wednesday. 'He's a funny guy to have funny conversations with. They can go in any direction that you don't really expect.
'He's always into sort of the UFO deals and all those things, so it's quite interesting. I'm not quite down that road just yet. If I hang out with him long enough, I might be. Again, you never really know where it's going to go, which is quite interesting.'
Hovland, whose most recent readings have included the works of Plato, spoke earlier this month about the challenges in his game. A fifth-placed finish at Wentworth on his last outing suggests the world No 12 is in good shape, but he admitted there that his 'soul' was aching over the frequency with which he was struggling to control his shots.
Luke Donald is mulling over whether to use Viktor Hovland and Ludvig Aberg (pictured) as a pairing in the Ryder Cup
Aberg revealed his 2023 partner (pictured) has a love for UFOs and carries out some interesting conversations
Aberg added: 'We had a good time in Rome, and we've played multiple practice rounds since, and our caddies get along great, too. He's a good friend to have on Tour and in the team room here.'
The Swede was a breakthrough star in Rome, scoring two points from four just months after turning professional.
He said: 'I think the biggest thing that I take away from those couple days, and maybe especially that morning (against Scheffler and Koepka), was just the validation for myself, that I'm able to do that. Because obviously before I played in Rome, I hadn't even met those guys. I had never shaken their hands. I had never had a conversation with them.
'For me to get there and to bring out a result like that was a big deal for me personally, to know that I'm able to beat those guys at times. I had a really good partner that day, which always helps. But it was a cool experience and probably something that I won't forget.'
Purple UFO over Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧 Sept 10, 2025 UAP Alien Sighting News 👽 What’s your thoughts?
Purple UFO over Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧 Sept 10, 2025 UAP Alien Sighting News 👽 What’s your thoughts
Date of sighting: Sept 10, 2025
Location of sighting: Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon...Nord Lebanon, Bchaaleh Village
Source: NUFORC website
Hey this is fantastic! What looks like a sphere is actually light around a square craft. What a catch! I only see UFO reports from Lebanon once every few years and this one is so close, but he said he saw others too. This purplish pink sphere was seen just last week but we just got the report today. UFOs love something most the public don't know...a focused human mind...a disciplined mind that can focus and send thoughts outward...like a laser beam to find its destination. We all can do it, but few in this lifetime will ever learn due to fear of ridicule. I do it and it works, this person believes it was his prayers calling to them...and I believe him. Prayers, meditation and summoning are so similar that they all can summon UFOs. I have practiced summoning for years and yes it works and sometimes it doesn't due to my mind thinking about other problems in back of my mind...daily life stuff. The UFO wants to be seen, to be understood and to say "we too have peace and love in our hearts and minds."
Scott C. Waring
Caracteristiques
Shape: Orb
Color: Blue/white/orange
Estimated Size: Varied star like dot to bright aspirin sized orbs Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: 300 NW to 330 NW of my location (is the most intense corridor)
Angle of Elevation: 60
Closest Distance: Impossible to estimate varied from overhead to far Estimated Speed: Varied slow drift to rapid zigzags leaf like dorps Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby Clusters of luminous orbs observed nightly in NW sky over Lebanon showing intelligent flight formation changes & sudden disappearances
Title: Continuous Orb Phenomena in Lebanon (July 2024 – September 2025)
Nightly observations from July 2024 to present (ongoing). The intensity has increased significantly. Groups of 5–7 orbs appear together, moving in different directions, brightening, fading, and reappearing. On some nights, the sky feels like a crescendo of light phenomena, with activity happening every few seconds. Since the beginning of my observations, I have gathered at least ten different witnesses who have seen these orbs with me on multiple occasions. Most of them are religious and skeptics, yet they are now openly questioning what is happening after seeing the phenomena firsthand.
Two UFOs Seen Turning, Then Entering Ocean Off Rhode Island, New York Sept 22, 2025, Photos, UFO UAP Sighting News.
Two UFOs Seen Turning, Then Entering Ocean Off Rhode Island, New York Sept 22, 2025, Photos, UFO UAP Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 22, 2025
Location of sighting: Rhode Island, New York, USA
Source: Facebook user Fancy_Assignment1626
Hey check this out. A persons grandmother was watching outside her home in Rhode Island an took this close up photo of not one, but two UFOs heading into the ocean to enter an underwater alien base off New York. Look at the tail of the UFOs...it goes back, but then turns...a 45 degree turn! Meteors, Venus and other excuses can make such maneuvers. But UFOs can. Also each is flying side by side...that means this is two alien military craft or one ET military and one craft escorting some alien of high importance to Earth. Like a fighter jet escorting Air Force One to its location. This is big! Just look at the ships, they are using a shield to protect themselves...causing a fake meteor burning around the outer parts, but we can see its clearly two long oval craft in its centers. This is 100% proof that aliens live off Rhode Island below the ocean floor.
Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily
Eyewitness states:
Grandmother snapped this photo nearby a Navy vase in Rhode Island. She said they were two balls of light that fell into the ocean.
Very strange looking craft found on Google Earth Map, UAP UFO sighting news 📰 What are we looking at?
Very strange looking craft found on Google Earth Map, UAP UFO sighting news 📰 What are we looking at?
Date of discovery: Sept 2025
Location of discovery: Russia (republic of Dagestan)
Coordinates: 41°56'25"N 48°22'45"E
Now this is just mind blowing stuff. This strange aircraft or spaceship is parked along the Caspian Sea and it's like nothing I have ever seen. It's some kind of strange, futuristic spaceship from another planet. It's just crazy! I have to admit, this is a great place for a Russian secret military base to test alien technology, but then I wonder...could this actually belong to aliens who were given an area to live underground in a base and this craft...is their ship? It really makes me wonder.
UFO making cloud to hide in Bountiful, Utah Sept 19, 2025 UAP sighting news 👽 aliens are watching.
UFO making cloud to hide in Bountiful, Utah Sept 19, 2025 UAP sighting news 👽 aliens are watching.
Date of sighting: Sept 2025
Location of sighting: Bountiful, Utah, USA
Hey all, I recorded this myself over my city from my back yard. I meditate and they come daily. So I post them on my account and share they with others. Why would aliens make clouds around their UFOs? They just don't want to terrify the humans below. Sure you are fine with seeing a real UFO, but you don't speak for everyone on Earth. Most people would be blown away and frightened to a level of that of seeing a ghost. Sure people play it cool and say nah...it wouldn't frighten me...but then the day comes and it does. So they hide. Maybe not from me, but from the people in the area where I live.
Underwater alien civilization found in Massachusetts, USA UFO UAP sighting news
Underwater alien civilization found in Massachusetts, USA UFO UAP sighting news
Date of discovery: Sept 2025
Location of discovery: Ocean floor
Coordinates: 42°36'21.2"N, 70°36'25.1"W
Hey I found this underwater city, made with domes one after the other. They are perfectly lined up, impossible for nature to imitate such things. This is absolute proof that aliens not only live on our planet, but...they have cities under the ocean right off the coastlines.
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