Scientists have managed to hatch live chicks from a fully artificial egg – marking a de-extinction breakthrough that paves the way for resurrecting long-dead species.

Experts at Colossal Biosciences, the company planning to bring back the woolly mammoth, have created the first ever shell-less incubation system that mirrors a natural egg 'as much as possible'.

The team were able to take early bird embryos, place them into an artificial shell and incubate them for 18 days while they developed.

Once the chicks were ready, they hatched from their cosy home and are now living happy, healthy lives.

The company said the development marks a critical milestone for their plans to de-extinct the South Island giant moa – an enormous bird that stood at 11.8ft (3.6 metres) tall and weighed 507lbs (230kg).

It also provides a 'stepping stone' for the eventual development of an artificial womb.

Colossal Biosciences said: 'This device changes everything. We're showing the world that we can grow this whole bird in an incubator outside of an eggshell.

'It's a complete game-changer. Life finds a way.'

Experts have created the first ever shell-less incubation system that mirrors a natural egg 'as much as possible'

The artificial egg features a 'window' on the top, allowing for real-time visibility into every stage of embryonic development

The artificial egg device consists of a 3D-printed strong outer shell structured like a lattice to provide protection and rigidity.

Within this layer is a silicone-based membrane that allows oxygen to diffuse into the system.

Over the last 40 years there have been several attempts to create artificial eggs, but they required supplementation with large volumes of pure oxygen which caused DNA damage and impacted long-term animal health.

The permeable membrane of this new design allows oxygen to naturally transfer from the atmosphere into the egg.

This mirrors the real-life process of oxygen entering eggshells through microscopic pores.

'How do we replicate nature but also improve upon it?' Colossal said. 'This is the first time the core engineering problem of artificial eggs has been solved.'

The artificial egg also features a 'window' on the top, allowing for real-time visibility into every stage of embryonic development.

Colossal said its device is compatible with standard commercial incubators, is manufacturable at scale and is adaptable to eggs at any size.

One of the chicks emerging from its artificial egg. Colossal said it marks a de-extinction breakthrough that paves the way for resurrecting long-dead species

Once the chicks were ready, they hatched from their cosy home and are now living happy, healthy lives

The artificial egg 

• Strong outer shell provides protection and rigidity
• Inside this is a permeable membrane which allows oxygen to diffuse into the system
• 'Window' on the top allows real–time visibility into every stage of embryonic development
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To begin the process, experts collected real chicken eggs right after they had been laid.

An embryology team thoroughly examined each egg and selected the embryos that looked most likely to hatch.

They then cracked the egg open very gently and transferred the contents into the artificial egg, which was then placed in an incubator.

Scientists 'sprinkled' in a nutrient that helped the embryo continue to develop. Roughly 18 days later the chick started tapping against the egg to indicate it was ready to hatch.

After hatching, all chicks were put in groups and eventually moved to a 'graduation pen' outside before being relocated to a large farm.

Colossal said its design could also benefit endangered animals at a time when more than half of bird species are in decline.

'Imagine a future where we have hundreds or thousands of eggs in laboratories growing critically endangered species,' it said.

'These are the stepping stones that an artificial womb will be built on.'

The device consists of a 3D-printed strong outer shell structured like a lattice to provide protection and rigidity

Colossal said its device is compatible with standard commercial incubators, is manufacturable at scale and is adaptable to eggs at any size

How the artificial egg was used to hatch a live chick

1. Collect real chicken eggs right after they have been laid
2. Embryology team thoroughly examine each egg and select those that look most likely to hatch
3. Crack the egg open very gently and transfer the contents into the artificial egg
4. Artificial egg is placed in incubator. Scientists 'sprinkle' in a nutrient that helps the embryos continue to develop
5. 18 days later the chick starts tapping against the egg to indicate it is ready to hatch
6. Chicks put in groups and eventually move to a 'graduation pen' outside before being relocated to a large farm

The company said its plan to bring back the South Island giant moa has presented an incubation challenge unlike any other species in their portfolio.

Moa eggs are estimated to have been approximately 80 times the volume of a chicken egg and roughly eight times the volume of an emu egg, placing them entirely beyond the capacity of any available avian surrogate.

No living bird is large enough to serve as a host. A size-scaled artificial egg, therefore, is critical for the de-extinction of this species.

Colossal Biosciences will use genes extracted from moa bones to engineer modern birds until they very closely resemble the extinct species, which disappeared from New Zealand roughly 500 to 600 years ago.

This is the same technique that was used to transform grey wolves into animals closely resembling dire wolves.

The edited embryos will then be placed into an artificial egg to develop and eventually hatch.

'We've created a novel shell-less culture system that is fully scalable and biologically accurate,' said Professor Andrew Pask, chief biology officer at Colossal. 'It's a new system designed for long-term, healthy avian embryo development.

'The genome is the blueprint, but without a place to build, it's meaningless. The artificial egg gives us that platform: controlled, scalable, and completely independent of a surrogate.'

The company said the development marks a critical milestone for their plans to de-extinct New Zealand's South Island giant moa – an enormous bird that stood at 3.6 metres (11.8ft) tall and weighed 230kg (507lbs)

The moa went extinct in the 15th century due to hunting and forest clearing by the first Māori settlers. Colossal Biosciences said restoring this megafauna species will help restore New Zealand's ecosystem 

Some outside experts have cautioned that there is no published scientific paper along the announcement, which limits scientific scrutiny. However, others hailed the advance as an 'impressive act of bioengineering'.

Carles Lalueza-Fox, director of the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona and a specialist in DNA recovery techniques, said: 'Colossal has succeeded in developing an artificial egg, something for which there are no comparable precedents.

'The most significant breakthrough lies in the permeability of the membrane, which allows gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide) to pass through.'

Alongside the moa, he said the device could be used to de-extinct other birds such as the Carolina parakeet.

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Dusko Ilic, Professor of Stem Cell Sciences at King's College London, said: 'Recreating an extinct species such as the moa would require far more than an incubation platform, including accurate genome reconstruction, appropriate development, physiology, behaviour, welfare and ecological context.

'Even then, the result would likely be an engineered proxy rather than a true restoration of the extinct species.

'The most credible translational value may therefore lie in applications such as embryo rescue, endangered bird conservation and controlled generation of genome-edited avian lines, particularly if it proves reproducible, scalable and compatible with normal long-term health, rather than in de-extinction itself.'

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It's one of the most famous extinct animals of all time, ruthlessly hunted to extinction by humans in just a few decades. 

Now, scientists are edging closer to bringing the famous dodo back to its original home of Mauritius, the island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. 

US startup Colossal Biosciences, based in Dallas, Texas, is using stem cell technology and genome editing to create a modern approximation of the species. 

At a cost of over $225 million (£180 million), it is 'de-extincting' the dodo more than 350 years after it was wiped out from Mauritius by European explorers. 

Scientists have already achieved the monumental feat of sequencing the full genome of the extinct species, from bone specimens and other fragments.

The next step is to gene-edit the skin cell of a close living relative, which in the dodo's case is the Nicobar pigeon, so that its genome matches that of the extinct bird.

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Pentagon releases more UFO files: "Speechless after these observations"

By  Stefan Becket

Washington — The Pentagon on Friday released a new batch of 64 files related to UFOs, or UAPs, unveiling a second tranche of records that includes a 2025 first-hand account from an intelligence officer about an experience that left him "virtually speechless."

The files, which President Trump ordered to be made public in an executive order earlier this year, can be viewed on the Pentagon's UFO website. Friday's tranche includes six PDF files, seven audio files and 51 video files. The videos show footage of UAPs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena, from military aircraft, with each clip accompanied by a detailed description.

The release comes two weeks after the Pentagon uploaded the first group of documents, photos and videos to the new site. Those files included declassified pages from the FBI's UFO case files, reports of strange encounters by military pilots, diplomatic cables about incidents around the world and photos from NASA missions. 

What's in the new files?

The 51 videos included in the second release include the type of grainy infrared footage captured by military cameras and sensors that has become familiar over the past several years. 

In the description accompanying the videos, the Pentagon noted that the footage was requested by House lawmakers in March. The videos were found by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, the military office responsible for investigating UAP encounters. The Pentagon noted that "[m]any of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody," and the descriptions note when and where they were likely taken. 

One notable video appears to show the moment a fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Lake Huron in 2023, a high-profile incident that came after a Chinese spy balloon traversed the U.S., leading to heightened fears of UAPs. Later reports indicated that the object might have been a balloon operated by a hobbyist group.

A declassified video showing the moment a fighter jet took out a UAP over Lake Huron in 2023.Pentagon

Many of the videos capture encounters that happened in U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility between 2018 and 2023, including over the Persian Gulf. 

A video from 2022, which does not have a location listed, shows multiple spherical objects going in and out of the water near a submarine.

The documents include historical accounts of UFO sightings, a report on Soviet intelligence activities and Department of Energy files about UFO reports, including one from PANTEX, a key nuclear weapons facility. 

The most striking document is an account by a currently serving "senior intelligence officer" who detailed his experience investigating UFO sightings in late 2025 onboard a military helicopter. The officer wrote that he and the crew had "a series of close UAP encounters lasting over an hour" as they investigated previous sightings.

"In the distance, we saw countless orange orbs swarming in all directions against the backdrop of the mountain. The display lasted several minutes before fading," the officer wrote. "[T]he pilots and I (using the naked eye) observed two large orbs flare up side by side, close to the helicopter — stationary and just above the rotor disk to our right. They were oval-shaped, orange with a white or yellow center, and emitted light in all directions."

The officer said that he and the crew "were virtually speechless after these observations."

The audio files include recordings from NASA astronauts during the Apollo and Mercury missions about observations they made while in space, including objects described as "fireflies" and "snowflakes." The Pentagon notes that NASA "later determined that the 'fireflies' are attributable to frozen condensation separating from the spacecraft body. The white, green-hued appearance of this phenomenon results from sunlight reflecting off frozen condensation."

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US government declassifies dozens of additional UFO files, including strange military videos

The Department of Defense has declassified another batch of images and recordings related to UFO/UAP sightings, bringing the total to roughly 220 newly released files.

 By Brandon Specktor

Four unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) were spotted over the water in Iran in 2022, this newly declassified military video claims.

(Image credit: Department of Defence)

• Editor's note: On Friday (May 22) the Department of Defense released a second tranche of UFO files, adding another 60 documents to its ongoing database. These include new videos from the military, and documents dating back to the 1970s. This article, originally published May 8, has been updated as Live Science reviews the files for possible items of interest.

Available to read today (May 8) on the Department of Defense website, the 162 newly declassified documents, photos, and videos cover reports of UFOs and UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena, the government's preferred name for such sightings today) dating back as far as 1947.

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The reports come from agencies across the government, including the Department of Defense (DOD), the FBI and NASA. The NASA offerings include images, audio files and transcripts of Apollo-era astronauts reporting anomalous sightings in space. However, most of these materials have been available for decades and never resulted in any compelling answers.

"The materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena," DOD representatives wrote on the agency's website. "This can occur for a variety of reasons, including a lack of sufficient data."

Are there any aliens?

Due to the poor data quality, the reports do not contain any compelling evidence of alien intelligence.

While NASA has not weighed in directly on the newly declassified files — save for a statement of support from Administrator Jared Isaacman — the space agency's official position remains that UAP are real but they have nothing to do with aliens.

"Are there any data supporting the idea that UAP are evidence of alien technologies?

"No," NASA's official UAP webpage states. "Most UAP sightings result in very limited data, making it difficult to draw scientific conclusions."

Indeed, NASA conducted its own independent investigation into UAP sightings in 2022 and 2023 and found no evidence of alien activity, again pointing to low-quality data among the alleged sightings.

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What did the NASA astronauts see?

Some of the most interesting documents, from a historical perspective, are files related to UFO sightings reported by NASA astronauts in the 1960s. They include a transcript and audio recording of two NASA astronauts reporting an unidentified object in Earth orbit during the 1965 Gemini VII mission.

Just four hours into the flight on Dec. 5, 1965, astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell reported seeing a "bogey" (military slang for an unidentified aircraft) out their spacecraft window, which Borman describes as "hundreds of little particles going by."

When NASA ground control pressed Borman on whether it could be a piece of the recently detached rocket booster, the astronauts said no, maintaining that they could see the booster in a separate part of orbit. The Gemini spacecraft soon drifted away from the object, never to see it again.

The files also include photos and transcripts from the Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 missions, in which astronauts describe seeing various unidentified "flashes" and "particles of light" on the moon. These cases, like the others, remain unresolved due to a lack of sufficient data.

The underlying files have been available in public archives for decades. However, some newly released images from the Apollo 12 mission show zoomed-in boxes to highlight anomalous phenomena on the moon.

What are UAP?

So, if they're not aliens, what are UAP? According to a 2022 DOD investigation, most UAP sightings can be explained by birds, optical illusions, poor-quality photographs and foreign surveillance technology.

Many UAP files remain classified not due to the object sightings themselves, but because of the sensitive military technology used to record them, according to NASA.

The DOD plans to release additional declassified UAP documents every few weeks for the near future.

• Editor's note: This article was updated at 12:30 p.m. ET on May 22 to link to the second tranche of declassified files.

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“We are moving beyond artificial intelligence that thinks,” Scopelliti writes. “We are entering an era of intelligence that perceives.”

Synthetic Senses

These technologies were first applied in the medical field to help people with disabilities. For example, some AI systems can convert sound into touch, light, or movement, allowing deaf people to understand audio information in new ways. Researchers are developing retinal and neural implants to help restore sight to people who are blind. Another concept known as haptic technology allows people to feel touch from afar by recreating the sensation in real time.

Researchers are developing technologies that Scopelliti calls e-noses and e-tongues to mimic the sensations of smell and taste using digital systems. These tools turn signals from smells and tastes into data that can be studied, saved, and recreated. These sensations, which have been historically difficult to replicate, are now becoming programmable.

“For the first time in history, our senses are no longer confined to biology,” Scopelliti writes. “They can be synthetic, digitized, transmitted, and re-engineered.”

Scopelliti points out that these changes demonstrate that machines are moving from simply recording data to actually sensing the world around them. These technologies are beginning to blur the boundary between biological perception and machine interpretation.

The Impending Surveillance Problem

Today’s AI can predict how someone feels by analyzing their voice, facial expressions, or body language. New wearables and surrounding systems might soon be able to sense changes in mood, focus, or intention from very subtle signals. These tools could help doctors detect mental health risks early, help teachers notice when students lose focus, and enable workplaces to adjust to reduce cognitive overload.

The book also examines the risks associated with these new technologies. Scopelliti says that companies and AI systems are increasingly tracking and recording sensory and emotional data, raising new privacy and ethical concerns. Collecting emotional data raises ethical questions about who owns the information, how people can use it, and how others might misuse or manipulate it.

“As these signals are captured and analysed, new questions emerge,” Scopelliti writes. “Who owns your emotional state? Can your reactions be predicted, and influenced, without your knowledge? What happens when environments adapt to shape your behaviour in real time?”

These concerns are more than theoretical. AI can already track small changes in a person’s voice, skin conductance, or movement and use this data to personalize content and influence their decisions. Scopelliti gives examples of systems that have evolved from simple observation to actively shape people’s choices through this type of emotional data.

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US government releases UFO sighting reports - 'Orbs swarming in all directions'

Rebecka Pieder

The Pentagon has released scores of UFO files, with descriptions of reported sightings of orbs, discs and fireballs spanning 80 years.

Witnesses described seeing "green orbs, discs and fireballs" dating as far back as 1948, the files show. More recently, a senior US intelligence officer said he saw "countless orange orbs swarming in all directions" last year, rendering him "speechless".

The fresh batch of materials includes a half dozen documents, a handful of audio recordings and 51 videos, including one of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) being shot to bits. The circumstances are unexplained.

The files are the second set released after an order this year from US President Donald Trump.

The Pentagon uploaded the first set of 161 files on 8 May, promising there would be more to come. The second was released on Friday.

One of the documents is a 116-page Armed Forces Special Weapons Program report from 1948-1950 that said witnesses had recounted 209 sightings of unidentified objects - orbs and other objects the US government now calls "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP).

The report includes accounts of a series of sightings and investigations in Sandia, New Mexico, where witnesses described how UFOs manoeuvred, flew away and disappeared but then exploded.

In another document, the unnamed "senior US intelligence officer" provided his first-hand account of seeing phenomena from a military helicopter in 2025 at a location listed as the "western United States".

He described spotting mysterious "orange orbs flaring up and down" when investigating "loud thuds heard in the mountains" on a test range where others had spotted UFOs in the preceding days.

The "series of close UAP encounters" lasted for more than an hour, he said. The UAP were "super-hot", low to the ground and moving at high speed.

"They were oval-shaped, orange with a white or yellow centre, and emitted light in all directions," the officer reported. He said the swarm appeared to coalesce as they flared up and down for several minutes, "forming a distinct triangle before vanishing".

He said he did not take any photos because he was too focused on "assessing what it was and whether it posed a threat".

The files do not draw any definitive conclusions about the existence of extraterrestrial life or provide any evidence of alien technology. US officials have said that people could decide for themselves what they show.

Following the first release of files, Trump wrote that "with these new Documents and Videos, the people can decide for themselves, 'WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?' Have Fun and Enjoy!"

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A view from the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission in 1969, where unidentified phenomena are highlighted and enlarged

Most of the videos disclosed on Friday feature grainy footage captured by US military infrared cameras between 2018 and 2023.

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 Inside the CIA's 'Wild West' era of mind control, bioweapons and secret human experiments

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The CIA's Wild West era of mind control, bioweapons and secret human testing is back in the spotlight as lawmakers prepare to revisit the notorious MKUltra program decades after the agency destroyed most of the files. 

AJ Gentile, host of The Why Files, who has built a massive audience dissecting UFO lore, government secrecy and hidden history, said Americans have forgotten just how disturbing the CIA's MKUltra experiments really were. 

'People versus power, that's what it is,' he told the Daily Mail. 'I don't like authority, I don't like corruption, and I don't like our rights being violated.' 

Among the programs Gentile highlighted was Operation Sea-Spray, a covert 1950 experiment in which the CIA released bacteria over San Francisco to study how vulnerable US cities would be to biological attacks.

'They sprayed… they covered San Francisco with bacteria,' Gentile said. 'They did it in New York, too.'

The conversation also turned to the death of CIA scientist Frank Olson, who plunged from a New York hotel window in 1953 after being secretly dosed with LSD by colleagues connected to MKUltra.

Olson's death has long fueled speculation that the government covered up what really happened during the agency's early mind control experiments.

'If nothing happened, why did President Ford give them money and make them sign an NDA?' Gentile said of the government's later settlement with Olson's family.

AJ Gentile, host of The Why Files, who has built a massive audience dissecting UFO lore, government secrecy and hidden history, said Americans have forgotten just how disturbing the CIA's MKUltra experiments really were

A hearing on MKUltra was previously set for May 13, but had been rescheduled days before.

However, former CIA officer James Erdman testified in front of the Senate last week, claiming US intelligence officials seized '40 boxes of JFK and MKUltra files' that were being processed for declassification.

House Oversight Committee members Anna Paulina Luna of Florida and Eric Burlison of Missouri are standing by the whistleblower's claims that the CIA took secret files and marched into CIA headquarters in Virginia to demand the return of the files.

The meeting took place after lawmakers gave the agency just 24 hours to both preserve and relinquish the troves of data.

Burlinson said on X: 'We went to deliver a message, and that message is that this is a new era. This president is demanding disclosure, and we wanted assurances that they are understanding of that and on the same page.'

'That message was received, and we expect to be able to see all of the files for JFK and [MKUltra], etc, and we await these actions.'

The CIA's formative years in the 1950s through the 1970s often drew on a similar 'Wild West' ethos. 

Faced with an entirely new global frontier of espionage, operatives frequently relied on rugged individualism, covert sabotage, and swashbuckling field tactics reminiscent of Western folklore.

Pictured is Dr Frank Olson with his wife Alice and their children (L-R) Eric, Lisa and Nils

Gentile highlighted a Church Committee investigation from the 1970s, which exposed decades of intelligence abuses involving surveillance, chemical testing and covert experimentation within the CIA. 'It will make you angry,' he said of the report.

He said the hearing immediately raised red flags for him because the majority of MKUltra documents were deliberately destroyed decades ago.

'It's gone, they were destroyed,' he said. 'So that's why the hearing, to me, is… you've heard the expression, limited hangout? It sounds like a limited hangout to me.'

The term 'limited hangout' refers to the release of partial truths meant to distract from deeper secrets, a concept long associated with intelligence agencies and political scandals.

The CIA officially launched MKUltra in 1953 under director Allen Dulles, with the stated goal of developing techniques for mind control and interrogation during the Cold War.

Thousands of pages later revealed that the agency experimented with LSD, hypnosis, sensory deprivation and psychological abuse, often on unsuspecting Americans.

The program, conducted from 1953 to 1964, aimed to develop procedures and drugs for interrogations, weakening individuals and forcing confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.

Gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, a former organized crime boss, was used as a test subject in 1957 while an inmate at the Atlanta penitentiary. He explained he was one of eight convicts in a panic and paranoid state while in MKUltra

Pictured are scientists administering mind-altering drugs in the CIA experiments 

A total of 144 projects were carried out under MKUltra during that period, highlighting the vast scale of the CIA's secret experimentation program. 

Gentile said one of the most disturbing cases tied to the program remains the death of CIA scientist Frank Olson, who plunged from a New York hotel window in 1953 after being secretly dosed with LSD by colleagues connected to MKUltra.

Olson was one of at least eight men given LSD on November 19, 1953, as part of an MKUltra experiment, Paul Vidich, Olson's nephew, previously told the Daily Mail.

In statements made during a 1977 hearing about the activities of the CIA, according to Gottlieb, a 'very small dose' of LSD was added to the bottle of Cointreau, which was served after dinner.

In the days that followed, Olson became paranoid, barely ate and even threw away his wallet, identification badge and money after believing his boss, Vincent Ruwet, had instructed him to do so.

Olson was scheduled to travel to a mental health facility on November 27. At approximately 2.45am on November 28, 1953, Ruwet received a call from Dr Sidney Gottlieb reporting that Olson had died.

Olson's body was later found outside the Statler Hotel, where he had been staying on the 13th floor.

Operation Sea-Spray was a covert 1950 CIA experiment in which bacteria were released over San Francisco to study how vulnerable American cities would be to biological attacks

Pointing to the government's handling of the case after Olson's death, Gentile said: 'If nothing happened, why did President Ford give them money and make them sign an NDA?'

President Gerald Ford formally apologized to the Olson family in 1975 and invited them to the White House after revelations emerged about the CIA's role in Olson's drugging.

Gentile said the Church Committee findings became even darker when investigators uncovered evidence of continued biological warfare development despite public promises from the government that such programs had ended.

He referenced Operation Sea-Spray, a covert 1950 CIA experiment in which bacteria were released over San Francisco to study how vulnerable American cities would be to biological attacks.

For one week in September of 1950, the US Navy sprayed massive amounts of bacteria into the air two miles off the coast of San Francisco, California.

This secret biological warfare experiment aimed to learn how vulnerable large US cities like San Francisco would be to a biowarfare attack by terrorists.

The bacteria used were Serratia marcescens, which can cause respiratory issues and meningitis, and Bacillus atrophaeus, which can be lethal to immunocompromised individuals. At the time, the Navy believed these bacteria were harmless to humans.

But after inhaling thousands of bacterial spores, 11 people checked into Stanford Hospital near San Francisco with very rare, serious urinary tract infections that doctors ultimately determined were caused by the experiment. 

'They covered San Francisco with bacteria,' Gentile said. 'They did it in New York, too.'

Reports have suggested that the CIA may have been involved in 'open air' biological warfare tests in streets and tunnels in the New York City area in 1955 and 1956, according to an analysis of CIA records released in 1979 by the Church of Scientology.

Gentile also pointed to Plum Island, the controversial government research facility off the coast of New York, while discussing theories surrounding Lyme disease and Cold War bioweapons research

A four-month investigation found the CIA allegedly acquired equipment for covert experiments involving the release of unidentified substances through aerosol devices hidden inside suitcases and the exhaust system of a modified 1953 Mercury sedan, according to the Church Committee report. 

Gentile also pointed to Plum Island, the controversial government research facility off the coast of New York, while discussing theories surrounding Lyme disease and Cold War bioweapons research.

'Eric Traub was brought in to create that facility,' he said, referring to the German scientist accused of overseeing Nazi biological warfare research during World War II.

Traub later worked with the US government after the war as part of America's recruitment of former German scientists during the early Cold War.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has also suggested Lyme disease may have originated from a failed US bioweapons program in the 1970s tied to research at Plum Island.

Plum Island is an 840-acre island off the northeastern coast of Long Island, New York, and home to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a government lab used since the 1950s to study infectious animal diseases.

However, the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly said Lyme disease was never studied at the facility.

Gentile said public distrust toward intelligence agencies is rooted in decades of secrecy that many Americans either never learned about or dismissed as conspiracy theories.

'Most Americans don't know what MKUltra is,' he said. 'We think everybody does, because we like this stuff. But my neighbors, if I say that to my neighbors, they won't know what that is.'

He also claimed programs tied to psychological manipulation never truly disappear once they begin.

'Once a program starts, it never really stops,' Gentile said. 'Psychic spies or MKUltra, it just never stops.'

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Wheel UFO seen in Mersin, Turkey, Making Laser Sounds When Moving, May 15, 2026, UFO UAP Sighting News.

 

Date of sighting: May 15, 2026

Location of sighting: Mersin, Turkey

Source: NUFORC

 

In Turkey last week an eyewitness noticed a wheel craft in the sky. Basically the wheel is a UFO disk on its side. Sightings of these wheel UFOs goes back to biblical times. In 593 BC Ezekiel was among the Jewish captives living in Babylon near he Kebar River when he saw the vision of a UFO wheel in the sky. So...wheel UFOs or disks on their sides...nothing new at all. History says so. And the sound this eyewitness describes of it moving fast, sounding like a laser in a movie...thats 100% proof this is a real alien craft.

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Eyewitness states: 

Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Made a sound, Animals reacted Yo-yo shaped object with ring-like structure; rapid, zig-zag movement and circular flight pattern. At 9:00 PM, I went out to my balcony for some fresh air and noticed an object in the sky. I initially mistook it for a star, but just as I was about to turn away, it suddenly changed position with incredible speed, making a sound similar to a laser.​I continued to watch it; it moved in a circular pattern before coming to a stop in one spot. The object resembled a "yo-yo" with a ring-like outer structure. I could not tell if the material was metallic or not, but the structure was distinct.

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Man Summons UFO Over New Jersey, May 14, 2026, Possible alien NJ drone, UAP Paranormal sighting Breaking News.

Date of sighting: May 14, 2026

Location of sighting: Deptford, New Jersey, USA

Source: NUFORC website

 

Watch this strange shaped UAP moving about in an almost windless day. The eyewitness was meditating and thinking of UFOs and summoned an alien craft from the sky, it dropped down turning...searching for the person summoning it, then it sees the person, hovers a bit than flies away. It behaves in a way most UFOs summons behave. This was a real UFO, and the fact he summoned it through telepathic mediation makes it even more exciting since hundreds of documented cases have experienced UFOs when using telepathic focus...including me.

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Parma, Ohio UAP sighting May 13, 2026, UFO Paranormal Alien Sighting Breaking News. 👽 Raw footage.

 

Date of sighting: May 13, 2026

Location of sighting: Parma, Ohio, USA

Source: NUFORC

 

Guys check this out. An eyewitness caught a glowing orb flying over the neighborhood in Ohio last week. The orb glow has a bright cross emanating from its center and it turns on a dime. The lights were not blue and green as drones have, but instead pure white, which is listed on many UFO reports coming from Project Blue Book files. This my friends, is 100% real and I kid you not...made by aliens. 

Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily

 

Eyewitness states: 

A bright light circled around my neighborhood, with varied speeds. I was looking out the bathroom window as I saw a bright light accelerating to the left in the sky, as it slowed down and turned toward me and towards the trees.

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Steven Spielberg’s DISCLOSURE Script Went Through 42 Drafts as He Pushes to Make it One of His Best Films

For almost 50 years, Steven Spielberg has been fascinated by stories involving extraterrestrial life, and with Disclosure Day, it sounds like he’s trying to raise the bar for himself all over again.

The filmmaker’s latest sci-fi thriller reunited him with longtime collaborator David Koepp, and according to the screenwriter, Spielberg pushed this project harder than anything they’ve worked on together before. In fact, the screenplay went through 42 drafts during development.

That marks a personal record for Koepp, whose résumé already includes massive films like Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and multiple Indiana Jones movies.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Koepp explained: “[Spielberg] was more exacting than I’ve ever seen him because he knows he’s worked in this area before. He wants this one to be the best one.”

Koepp said Spielberg first brought him a 38-page treatment for the film, which he described as a “further exploration” of the themes Spielberg tackled in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He also compared the movie’s tone to a paranoid thriller from the 1970s, which feels perfectly in Spielberg’s wheelhouse.

That marks a personal record for Koepp, whose résumé already includes massive films like Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and multiple Indiana Jones movies.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Koepp explained: “[Spielberg] was more exacting than I’ve ever seen him because he knows he’s worked in this area before. He wants this one to be the best one.”

Koepp said Spielberg first brought him a 38-page treatment for the film, which he described as a “further exploration” of the themes Spielberg tackled in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He also compared the movie’s tone to a paranoid thriller from the 1970s, which feels perfectly in Spielberg’s wheelhouse.

Spielberg also opened up about working with Koepp again, praising the writer’s flexibility throughout production. “[Koepp]’s a good collaborator because he listens as much to me as I do to him,” Spielberg added, noting that the writer is willing to rework a script “including and often through principal photography.”

That creative process clearly became intense if they were still reshaping the story while filming. But honestly, hearing Spielberg obsess over an alien movie this much only makes the project sound more exciting.

Universal has kept most of the story under wraps, but the official synopsis offers a cryptic tease: “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to Disclosure Day.”

The film stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, and Wyatt Russell. Spielberg is producing through Amblin Entertainment alongside Kristie Macosko Krieger, with Adam Somner and Chris Brigham executive producing.

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UFO files reveal hundreds of sightings over America's nuclear weapons headquarters... from glowing green orbs to flying discs

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By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The Trump administration's second wave of UFO disclosures has revealed a chilling series of mysterious sightings near America's principal nuclear weapons installation during the earliest years of the Cold War.

Newly released documents tied to Sandia Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, headquarters of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, the military successor to the Manhattan Project, detail at least 209 reports of unexplained aerial phenomena between December 1948 and May 1950.

The files describe bizarre 'green fireballs,' glowing discs and unidentified objects streaking across the skies near sensitive atomic facilities as intelligence officers scrambled to determine whether the incidents posed a national security threat.

One report warned that the frequency of the sightings had become so alarming that military and government intelligence agencies agreed an 'organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken.'

Scientists and military investigators were so disturbed by the incidents that they launched airborne particle-collection missions in hopes of discovering physical evidence connected to the mysterious objects.

The documents reveal that investigators detected unusual copper-bearing particles in airborne dust samples after one fiery object exploded over New Mexico in July 1949.

Researchers even debated whether the strange material drifting through the atmosphere could have originated from the unidentified 'fireballs' seen over the desert skies.

In one extraordinary passage, investigators admitted that if the copper particles truly came from the glowing objects, 'then the fireballs are not conventional meteorites.'

The files describe bizarre 'green fireballs,' glowing discs and unidentified objects streaking across the skies near sensitive atomic facilities (stock)

The bombshell records were part of the latest UFO document release published by the Department of War as part of President Donald Trump's disclosure initiative involving unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UAPs.

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Among the most striking files was a May 25, 1950 intelligence summary from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations describing repeated sightings across New Mexico during a period when Sandia Base served as one of the nation's most sensitive nuclear weapons hubs.

The report explained that military and intelligence officials became increasingly alarmed after waves of unexplained aerial sightings began appearing near atomic research and weapons facilities.

'The frequency of unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that an organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken,' the report stated.

Sandia Base handled military aspects of America's nuclear weapons program following World War II. The newly released files repeatedly reference Sandia Base's connection to 'Special Weapons' operations and inspections tied to Strategic Air Command nuclear facilities.

Several reports focused on mysterious 'green fireballs' repeatedly observed over New Mexico during 1949.

One detailed scientific investigation, dated August 10, 1949, outlined attempts by researchers at the New Mexico School of Mines to collect airborne particles associated with a fireball seen over Socorro, New Mexico, on July 24, 1949.

Investigators used special equipment capable of collecting microscopic airborne material in the hope that debris from the unexplained object might still be floating in the atmosphere.

Newly released documents tied to Sandia Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, detailing at least 209 reports of unexplained aerial phenomena between December 1948 and May 1950

According to the report, researchers found 'a large number of copper-bearing particles' in one collection sample taken along Highway 84 north of Route 66.

Scientists described the material as unfamiliar granular particles, some measuring up to 30 microns across, while others appeared as opaque solid fragments.

Another report noted that investigators found 'remarkable' spherical particles showing strong cobalt indications, with some particles described as 'perfect spheres' roughly 12 microns in diameter.

The documents repeatedly stressed the uncertainty surrounding the strange material.

'It seems very hazardous to draw any definite conclusion associating the copper-bearing particles collected with the fireball,' one report cautioned.

Still, the reports acknowledged that the possibility could not be dismissed.

One intelligence memo stated that if future studies proved the particles were truly falling from the 'green fireballs,' then the objects could not be explained as ordinary meteorites because copper was 'one of the rarest of the elements found in meteorites.'

The files also reveal that investigators considered deploying high-altitude aircraft above 40,000 feet to intercept material falling from the mysterious objects shortly after sightings occurred.

Researchers believed rapid-response airborne missions could potentially capture particles directly from the objects' atmospheric trails before contamination from terrestrial dust occurred.

One memo described plans for aircraft to fly through the exact atmospheric region beneath the objects' flight paths 'as soon as possible after the occurrence' of future incidents.

The newly released files stop short of concluding the objects were extraterrestrial, but they make clear that Cold War military and scientific officials viewed the incidents seriously enough to involve intelligence agencies, meteor specialists and classified weapons personnel.

The disclosures are likely to intensify long-running speculation surrounding Sandia Base and New Mexico's so-called 'Nuclear Triangle,' where UFO sightings have repeatedly been linked to America's nuclear weapons infrastructure for decades.

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Although the existence of the videos has been discussed publicly on several occasions by lawmakers in recent weeks, a complete listing of the collection of AARO UAP videos, along with preliminary titles and descriptions of some of the footage, was initially disclosed earlier this year in a letter from Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) to U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

“The continued lack of transparency surrounding these anomalies and the potential national security threat they pose is troubling,” Luna’s letter, dated March 31, 2026, reads.

According to Luna, the existence of “additional video records of potential UAP sightings” came to the attention of Luna’s Task Force as a result of whistleblowers who participated in a September 29, 2025, hearing related to UAP transparency. “To continue its investigation, the Task Force requests certain video files related to UAP sightings,” Luna explained to Hegseth in the letter.

Indications of a Forthcoming Release?

The imminent arrival of the videos, originally requested for release by Luna “as soon as possible but no later than April 14, 2026,” is now anticipated by as early as Friday.

On Thursday, the official page on the Department of War’s website for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) featured no additional videos or documents beyond those included with the original release, which appeared on May 8, 2026, when the page went live.

However, the heading originally titled “Release 01” that appears in the page’s navigation bar is now missing the “01,” seemingly indicating that preparations for a new batch, tentatively titled “Release 02,” are likely underway.

Update: Thursday, May 21, 2026: Some visitors to the Department of War website also reported throughout the day that, for a short period, the site’s file listing showed up to 140 blank pages. As of 7:23 p.m. Eastern, only the original number of files associated with “Release 01” is available on the site.

What To Expect in the PURSUE “Release 02”

Based on the original list of videos detailed in Luna’s letter from March, along with some descriptions and imagery associated with the videos that have been disseminated prior to their complete authorized release, a few details about what the videos are expected to reveal can be discerned.

One video that Luna and her Task Force have requested reportedly depicts a formation of four unidentified objects flying over an unspecified region in Iran, observed on August 26, 2022.

Another video, reportedly captured in 2021 over Syria, appears to show an object that seemingly displays “instant acceleration,” a capability that would require overcoming several fundamental laws of physics.

While unusual—or even seemingly impossible—physical maneuvers can often be attributed to camera motion and other artifacts arising from the conditions under which such videos are obtained, there are indications that there could be other intriguing footage in the forthcoming batch, a few of which may display a key capability that has increasingly been attributed to some UAP during military observations.

Unidentified Submerged Objects and “Transmedium” UAP

According to AARO, UAP sometimes represent more than just aerial phenomena, with its official definition including “sources of anomalous detections in one or more domains (i.e., airborne, seaborne, spaceborne, and/or transmedium) that are not yet attributable to known actors and that demonstrate behaviors that are not readily understood by sensors or observers.”

Intriguingly, at least some of the files expected in the forthcoming release include videos that purportedly show objects exhibiting what the military characterizes as “transmedium” capabilities, with the objects, described as “USOs” (unidentified submerged objects), reportedly observed both in and out of water.

In at least one of the two USO videos, several spherical objects observed in near proximity to a U.S. submarine on March 25, 2022, are reportedly observed both “in and out of water” in the AARO footage.

Another video, dubbed “UAP USO formation Wiley 2X Zinc,” reportedly shows a different formation of unidentified objects that may be displaying transmedium capabilities.

Spheres Take Center Stage

Several of the videos requested by Luna and other lawmakers reportedly feature what appear to be spherical objects, a common shape class that has been frequently reported by military personnel in recent years, as well as historical reports involving aerial phenomena.

Spherical object captured by electro-optical sensors aboard an MQ-9 Reaper UAS over the Middle East in 2022

(DOD/AARO).

One video, obtained on November 23, 2020, appears to show a spherical object operating in airspace over Afghanistan as it moves “in and out of clouds.” Another spherical object, filmed in 2022, reportedly displays “erratic movement” frequently attributed to such objects, while in a separate video, a spherical UAP is said to have been observed “pulsing” as it passed over a body of water.

Finally, in an incident that occurred on April 12, 2021, a series of three videos was obtained by U.S. personnel depicting a spherical object of unknown origin.

AARO officials have previously expressed interest in this class of objects. In one incident in 2022, an MQ-9 Reaper UAS operating in the Middle East recorded video of a spherical object using its onboard electro-optical sensor. “The object’s characteristics and behavior are consistent with other ‘metallic orb’ observations in the region,” according to a short summary of the footage included in a 2025 AARO mission brief available at its website.

Tic Tacs, Flying Cigars, “Fast Movers”

Spherical objects aren’t the only objects that make appearances in the videos AARO has obtained. Several other varieties of UAP that are commonly recognized from historical accounts are reportedly featured in the videos, which include elongated “cigar” shapes such as the “Tic Tac,” a designation first attributed to an unusual object captured by an FA/18 Super Hornet Pilot during training exercises off the Baja California Coast in November 2004.

A still frame from the 2004 footage obtained by U.S. Navy pilot Chad Underwood, depicting a purported UAP encountered by personnel with the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 11 (CSG-11)

(Image Credit: U.S. Department of Defense).

One of the new videos describes a “cigar-shaped or fat spherical UAP” observed on October 15, 2022, while another appears to describe a case in which a United States Coast Guard EADS HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft observed a Tic Tac-shaped object with its high-definition forward-looking infrared (FLIR) sensor system.

Another video that could be in the forthcoming release involves a trio of “fast moving UAPs” that were observed by U.S. personnel on October 29, 2020. The term “fast mover” is recognized as slang for “fighter jet,” while similar terminology, such as the variant “Fastwalker,” is also occasionally used in relation to UAP sightings.

New Details on the Eglin Air Force Base UAP?

Some of the videos expected in the forthcoming release may offer additional details about UAP incidents that are already well known and for which case resolutions have been produced during AARO’s investigations.

One video in the forthcoming tranche, designated “IIR 1 665 SO301 23/Eglin AFB,” appears to refer to a January 26, 2023, incident involving a U.S. military pilot who observed four objects flying in a diamond formation over the Gulf of Mexico. At the time of the sighting, the pilot claimed that several of his aircraft’s onboard capabilities malfunctioned, requiring them to manually capture imagery of the object.

In a case resolution report on the incident following AARO’s assessment, investigators concluded that the UAP “very likely was an ordinary object and was not exhibiting anomalous or exceptional characteristics or flight behaviors,” concluding that the object the pilot filmed may have been a lighting balloon.

However, AARO’s resolution report added that it had only “moderate confidence in this assessment due to the limited data provided,” a conclusion that drew criticism from even some of the more skeptical UAP investigators.

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“The lighting balloon hypothesis always felt like something someone at AARO liked, but wasn’t really supported by much evidence,” skeptic Mick West told The Debrief following the publication of AARO’s report on the incident.

Another of the videos in the forthcoming release was captured by a U.S. Air Force F-16C pilot (callsign AESIR11) during a widely publicized incident that occurred on February 12, 2023, where an object was shot down over Lake Huron with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile.

According to former AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick, this incident had been one of several involving objects that were later determined to have been hobbyist balloons that were shot down in early 2023, as Kirkpatrick revealed during a recent presentation he gave at the Center for Naval Analyses on April 27, 2026.

Looking Ahead: Cooperation with AARO Continues

Luna has also conveyed to her followers on social media in recent days that the review process required for the release of the new videos was underway, with cooperation from AARO officials.

In a posting on her official X account on May 15, 2026, Luna appeared in a photograph alongside current AARO director Jon Kosloski and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), writing that they had just completed the review of “40+ videos set for declassification” by the Department of War, which could be expected “in the coming weeks” as of the time of posting.

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Chilling mystery surrounds America's 'Quiet Zone' plagued by UFO sightings and 'lost time'

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By CHRIS MELORE, DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A West Virginia man's stunning claims to police have deepened the mystery surrounding a haunting town where the government conducts secret surveillance work and UFO sightings are common.

Clinton Wayne Nelan, 33, was arrested at his home near Kerens on May 17 after officers said he allegedly misused the emergency telephone system and also harassed neighbors by falsely claiming he was a police officer from Louisiana.

The Randolph County Sheriff's Office noted that Nelan had made multiple phone calls to 911 dispatchers, claiming that he had seen 'zombies, ghosts and a UFO at his residence.'

The officers sent to check out Nelan's story ultimately concluded that none of what he claimed was true and took him into custody for allegedly making false reports to 911 and impersonating a law enforcement officer - both misdemeanors.

Several people commented on the arrest report, which was posted by police on social media, claiming that Nelan has been suffering from mental health issues.

Despite there not being any proof of zombies, ghosts and UFOs near Nelan's home, this is not the first time these types of claims have been made within this region of West Virginia.

Nelan's home sits within an area called the National Radio Quiet Zone, a region used by the US military and intelligence community for top-secret monitoring of foreign communications and by astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life.

Over the years, there have been numerous unverified reports of UFO sightings, people experiencing 'lost time' and others suffering strange sensations described as paranormal.

Clinton Wayne Nelan (Pictured) was arrested in West Virginia for allegedly making false claims to 911 and impersonating a police officer

Pictured: The Green Bank Telescope. The incident involving Nelan took place within an area known as the National Radio Quiet Zone, where UFOs have previously been spotted

The National Radio Quiet Zone is a 13,000-square-mile area stretching into both Virginia and West Virginia, where cellphones and Wi-Fi are banned.

The massive blackout zone was created to protect the Green Bank Observatory, a key US facility for major radio telescopes.

The area, established by the US government in 1958, enforces tight restrictions on radio transmissions to guard against the sensitive scientific and military receivers encountering radio frequency interference (RFI).

However, this work has given Green Bank, West Virginia, the heart of the National Radio Quiet Zone, the nickname the 'quietest town in America.'

Due to this 'haunting' quiet, one theory has tied Nelan's alleged paranormal encounters with zombies and ghosts to a strange condition caused by the lack of regular electronic signals.

Since these invisible waves are so heavily restricted in the area, it has become a haven for those with a condition the Green Bank Observatory has recognized called electromagnetic hypersensitivity.

These individuals are reportedly so sensitive to the appearance, or 'hauntings,' of stray electromagnetic waves that it causes them to have physical symptoms of a serious illness.

In a statement, officials at the observatory described electromagnetic hypersensitivity as 'a condition purported to be a debilitating sensitivity to the electromagnetic waves emitted by Wi-Fi routers and cellphone towers.'

The National Radio Quiet Zone is a 13,000 square mile region which restricts cellphone and Wi-Fi usage due to work by the military and astronomers

Pictured: A UFO sighting by a US Air Force Reaper drone between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Similar UFO sightings have taken place over West Virginia

'Its sufferers report experiencing headaches, nausea, nosebleeds, sleep problems and other symptoms they believe are connected to exposure to such waves,' Green Bank Observatory added.

The town closest to Nelan's home, Kerens, has seen multiple reports of UFO sightings in recent years, centered in the nearby city of Elkins.

According to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), multiple residents in Elkins spotted unknown flying objects described as star- and orb-shaped.

One witness in 2004 told NUFORC: 'It looked like two very large stars shaped like rectangles and lightly covered by a cloud. It was a completely clear night with no other clouds at all.'

'The "stars" seemed to be pulsing slightly, and the "nebula" surrounding them began to grow larger and disperse over the next 15 minutes.'

In 2010, another UFO witness reported seeing three small, white orbs in a triangular formation. They appeared as very bright stars and were flying independently below the clouds.

'These were much too small and fast to be even military aircraft. There is no military air base near here, though the lights were in the airspace above our small local airport,' the witness said.

'The maneuvers were like that of an aerial dogfight, but all movements were rather fluid, albeit extremely fast and precise.'

Meanwhile, there have also been anecdotal accounts of people seeing UFOs within the zone experiencing 'missing' or 'lost' time, where they have no memory of what happened to them for several hours.

The phenomenon has been a common claim among those who alleged that they were abducted by aliens, often saying they have no memory from the time when they encountered a UFO or extraterrestrial to a moment several hours later when they are suddenly sitting in a car or their home as though nothing had happened.

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Mysterious fossils found across the US could prove famous Bible story true

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Fossilized trees standing upright through massive layers of rock across the US are reigniting debate over whether the biblical Great Flood really happened.

Known as 'polystrate fossils,' the formations consist of ancient tree trunks that extend vertically through multiple layers of sedimentary rock, some layers believed to have formed millions of years apart.

Prominent examples have been discovered in Yellowstone National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, the eastern coal fields spanning Tennessee, Kentucky and Pennsylvania and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.

Researchers with Noah's Ark Scans, a group searching for evidence of the biblical ark, wrote on X Wednesday: 'A dead tree doesn't stand upright for millions of years waiting for sediment to slowly build around it. It rots. It collapses.

'These trees appear to have been rapidly buried by massive sediment flows before they could decay.'

Supporters of the biblical flood theory believe the widespread discovery of these upright fossilized trees could point to a sudden catastrophic event capable of rapidly burying entire forests beneath enormous sediment flows, similar to the flood described in the Book of Genesis.

According to the Bible, God instructed Noah to build an ark before unleashing a flood that covered the Earth, wiping out nearly all life except Noah, his family and the animals sheltered aboard the massive vessel.

The biblical account states rain fell for 40 days and 40 nights while underground 'fountains of the deep' burst open, eventually covering even the highest mountains before the waters later receded. 

However, mainstream geologists and paleontologists do not consider polystrate fossils evidence of a global flood or proof of the biblical account in Genesis.

Fossilized trees standing upright through massive layers of rock across the US are reigniting debate over whether the biblical Great Flood really happened

Pictured is a fossilized tree broken in half

Scientists argue the fossils can form through rapid local burial events that occur repeatedly over long geological timescales, including volcanic eruptions, river flooding, mudslides and shifting sediment in swamp environments.

Many researchers point to the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens as a modern example of how trees can be rapidly buried upright in sediment during catastrophic natural events without requiring a worldwide flood.

Regardless, the Noah's Ark Scans researchers said: 'The fossil record looks a lot more like the catastrophic world described in Genesis than the slow evolutionary timeline we’ve been sold.'

The post has sparked a debate on X, with one user saying: 'The world is not as old as "scientists” want us to believe. And the Genesis Flood was an actual event. The fossil record proves once again the accuracy of Scripture.'

While others dismissed the biblical theory, saying the fossils are not evidence of a biblical flood, but rather the result of repeated natural disasters.

However, even some mainstream geologists have acknowledged that polystrate fossils point to periods of extremely rapid sedimentation.

Derek Ager, an emeritus professor of geology at the University College of Swansea in the mid-to-late 20th century, argued that the upright fossilized trees could not have remained standing for the vast spans of time traditionally associated with slow sediment buildup.

In his writings, Ager noted that if sediment accumulated at a constant, gradual rate, it would have taken roughly 328,000 years to bury a 33-foot-tall tree, an idea he described as 'ridiculous' because the tree would have decayed long before burial was complete.

Known as 'polystrate fossils,' the formations consist of ancient tree trunks that extend through multiple layers of sedimentary rock, some layers believed to have formed millions of years apart

Instead, Ager concluded the evidence suggested sedimentation was 'at times very rapid indeed,' even if the surrounding rock layers appear visually uniform and continuous.

While Ager did not support biblical creationism, advocates of the Great Flood theory frequently cite his comments as evidence that at least some geological formations may have formed far more quickly than traditionally believed.

Creationists have long argued that polystrate fossils are difficult to reconcile with slow geological processes because many of the trunks extend through multiple rock layers while remaining largely intact. 

Critics of the theory, however, argue that sediment layers can accumulate rapidly during localized events while still occurring within an ancient Earth timeline.

Creation scientist and trained robotics engineer Ian Juby recently discussed the fossils on his website, explaining: 'The rock layers are called ‘strata’ and the fossil cuts through more than one, hence the name ‘poly’ for many and ‘strate’ for the strata the fossil cuts through.

However, mainstream geologists and paleontologists do not consider polystrate fossils evidence of a global flood or proof of the biblical account in Genesis

'Polystrate fossils are found literally all over the world.'

He has also argued that polystrate fossils challenge the idea that sedimentary rock layers formed slowly over millions of years.

Pointing to fossil sites such as Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Juby claimed many upright fossilized trees show signs of rapid burial, including broken roots, upside-down trunks and compressed plant material embedded throughout multiple sediment layers.

He argued the fossils appear more consistent with a sudden catastrophic event involving enormous volumes of water and sediment than with gradual geological processes occurring over vast periods of time.

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