Explosion of a fireball in the sky caused houses to shake

On May 30, residents of New England were scared by a loud double explosion so powerful that it shook buildings in the U.S. states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. This unexpected event prompted local police and other emergency services to urgently investigate the cause of the incident.

A meteor in the sky. File photo: CNN

The American Meteorological Society quickly reassured the public: the explosions heard around 2:30 p.m. local time were of extraterrestrial origin. They were caused by a meteor about a meter wide that entered the atmosphere at a speed of 120,000 km/h north of Boston, near the border between New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Robert Lunsford, the fire safety program coordinator, reported that the organization had received dozens of reports from a vast area stretching from Delaware to Montreal. Eyewitnesses reported the following:

• They heard a loud double explosion.
• They felt the ground shake noticeably.
• They saw a fireball that looked like a bright shooting star against the daytime sky.

Experts still need more information about its trajectory, but it is noted that most such objects burn up in the atmosphere before reaching the surface. If the space rock survived, it most likely fell into the ocean.

Network response and data from seismologists

Residents across several states shared their experiences en masse on social media, describing how buildings were shaking. Several videos appeared on X clearly capturing the sound of two rapid explosions with no signs of smoke or fire.

The physical impact of the wave prompted many people to report their experiences to the U.S. Geological Survey. Agency spokesperson Steve Sobey confirmed that these reports had been logged at the National Earthquake Information Center and that a special “Did You Feel It?” page had been created on their website. However, he emphasized that seismographs did not detect any seismic activity. This officially confirms that the noticeable tremor was not caused by an earthquake.

We previously explained the difference between a meteor, a meteoroid, a meteorite, and an asteroid.

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Dangerous Speech in Disguise: The White House’s New “Aliens” Website Is Not a Joke

By Susan Benesch and Rebecca Hamilton

The official White House website has launched a new page titled, “Aliens,”  that looks like a video game, with stars twinkling in a dark sky behind spooky neon green text that reads, “THEY WALK AMONG US.” The design of the website is made to draw attention, and it will: nothing generates interest like space invaders, and fear has unique power to drive human behavior. 

“We’re releasing a lot of information having to do with extraterrestrial things,” President Donald Trump said in a Cabinet meeting on May 28, the day the new site went live. “And people are totally fascinated by it … it’s literally trending number one.” Earlier in the month, the Pentagon began releasing files on U.F.O.s at the site, war.gov/UFO. But the aliens on the new official White House website aren’t extraterrestrial, despite the space theme. They are people: foreign nationals or those mistakenly assumed to be. And the timing of the president’s comments and the new site appear to be a bait and switch, luring in the public with the promise of extraterrestrials only to deliver law enforcement propaganda. Regardless of the kitschy premise, the site is neither a game nor a joke.

Echoing white supremacist rhetoric and the great replacement theory, which claims nonwhite foreigners are displacing and destroying white majorities, the site refers to dangerous invaders who arrived in the United States “under the cover of darkness” and infiltrated American society thanks to a conspiracy by “presidents, congressmen, and senior officials.” In 1950s typeface, and under a fake “declassification” label, the site says these “aliens” have “embedded themselves directly into our society.” Only one man, it declares, had the courage to reveal the secret, and now only he has the solution.

“President Trump told the truth. The cover-up is over. Secure the border. Deport them all.”

Contrary to the White House’s claim, it’s no secret that millions of undocumented people—“aliens” in the old English lexicon of U.S. legalese— live in the United States. It’s equally obvious that the White House aims to round up millions and expel them, since Trump and his advisers have long proclaimed that as a top priority. During his 2024 campaign, Trump promised “the largest deportation program in American history.” The people he is targeting, he relentlessly and falsely demonizes, calling them “vicious, violent criminals” and “stone-cold killers” who will “walk into your kitchen and cut your throat” and “not even think about it the next morning.”

Mass expulsion would transform the United States as profoundly as anything else Trump is attempting in his second term, and he can’t do it at the scale he wants without the public backing he famously craves. The new website is brazen propaganda to get Americans to hate their neighbors and to support purging millions of people from the country. Under the cover of amusement, the site systematically works to construct migrants as an existential threat, to dehumanize them, to stifle empathy for them, and finally, it asks people to report “suspicious aliens,” thus becoming complicit in the government’s effort to dispense with them.

Constructing the Threat

Whitehouse.gov/aliens pushes inflammatory buttons familiar to experts on rhetoric that increases the risk of intergroup atrocities by instilling deep fear of members of another group. Such rhetoric, that one of us has named “dangerous speech” for its capacity to inspire violence, can demonize any human group. Dangerous speech is similar across languages, cultures, and history. Since no human has been born hating another group of people, dangerous speech is a vital tool for cultivating the collective fear necessary for people to support attacking or removing another group— in this case with arrests, imprisonment, and expulsion. 

“ALIENS” (capitalized in Trumpian style) pose a “real danger,” the site claims, to “every American family, every community, and the future of our nation.” Against the starry black sky of the new site, foreign nationals are depicted as dangerous not only with words but also with a heat map of immigration arrests that have taken place all over the country, from Blacklick, Ohio to Henderson, Nevada, along with long text blocks of crimes, many of them violent. The impression this creates is false, which is typical when tyrants use dangerous speech to accrue power. In fact, noncitizens commit fewer crimes than U.S. citizens, and most of the people Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested have never been convicted of any U.S. crime, as the Cato Institute reported last year. Since then, the share of noncriminals in ICE detention has only risen, to more than 70 percent as of April, and only a tiny proportion of those detained are the violent criminals ICE claims it is chasing.

Moreover, quite a few of the invading “Aliens” seem to be U.S. citizens, including some people born on U.S. soil, according to the White House site. The United States is even on the site’s list of native countries of people arrested by ICE. And WIRED reported that according to the site’s heat map of arrests, ICE has grabbed at least one U.S.-born person in 715 of the listed American cities and towns. In 83 of the locations identified, every single person ICE arrested was a U.S. citizen. 

Stamping out Empathy 

The Aliens website makes two other moves familiar to scholars of mass atrocities: dehumanizing members of a group (here, conflating them with extraterrestrials and referring to them as “it”) and quashing public compassion for them. 

”If you’ve witnessed an Alien abduction, do not be alarmed,” the site exhorts in glowing green. “The Alien is in good hands. We will take care of it … and return it safely to its place of origin.” 

In reality, ICE officers have broken down doors to drag people into subfreezing streets in their underwear, and deported them to foreign sites of torture. More than 60,000 people who are now in ICE detention on any given day often lack adequate medical care, and many of them do not get returned safely to their countries of origin. Protests against these actions, especially in Minneapolis where ICE officers shot U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Rene Good to death (leading to more protests), have irked the White House.

Compassion has been a nuisance in other State campaigns to purge large groups of people. In 1941, for example, Nazi Governor-General Hans Frank, outlining a program to annihilate Jews, complained of public sympathy for them: 

I know that there is criticism of many of the measures now applied to the Jews in the Reich. There are always deliberate attempts to speak again and again of cruelty, harshness … [A]gree with me on a formula: we will have pity, on principle, only for the German people, and for nobody else in the world.

Eliminating a large group within a society requires the complicity of a critical mass of the public. During Stalin’s Purge beginning in 1937, millions of people were denounced by others as “enemies of the people” and then arrested, often tortured, and killed. In East Germany, the Stasi secret police recruited nearly 200,000 Inoffizielle Mitarbeiteror (“informal collaborators”) or IMs who informed on their friends, neighbors, and families. In Nazi Germany, the Gestapo relied heavily on informers to help root out Jews and people who tried to protect them or merely opposed the Nazi regime. In the 1994 Rwanda genocide, political leaders instigated a mass mobilization of Hutus against their Tutsi neighbors. The same pattern can be found in the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar, and beyond.

A big red button on the White House’s “Aliens” website invites the public to take part in Trump’s mass deportation plan by becoming an informer. Clicking on “REPORT SUSPICIOUS ALIENS” leads to an ICE tip line, providing a pathway to action for potentially millions of people who might not have been looking for a way to engage with ICE.

One Savior

The website also strives to convince viewers that deliverance from the purported existential threat of an “Alien invasion” runs through one, and only one man: “President Trump was the first to call out the real danger Aliens pose.” He is “Bold. Unapologetic. Unafraid.” 

Trump has repeatedly pressed the idea of an alien (migrant) invasion—so much that on the first day of his second term he signed an Executive Order titled, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” and offered himself as the only protection, the only person who could repel it. It is typical of authoritarians to introduce a terrifying threat, and then offer themselves as the only savior. 

Actually delivering on mass deportation, however, is an immense political, financial, and logistical challenge. Legislation that Trump called his “Bill Beautiful Bill” provided $170 billion over a four-year period for immigration enforcement, enabling a mass recruitment campaign of new ICE officers to conduct immigration arrests, alongside a 400 percent increase in the organization’s detention budget. This infrastructure of mass deportation is essential context for understanding why whitehouse.gov/aliens is not “cheeky” or “tongue-in-cheek” as some media outlets have described it. With its conspiratorial flavor and meme-ification style, it is a cleverly crafted piece of propaganda to instill and increase American fear so that the Trump administration can catapult the country back to an imagined, demographically homogenous past. 

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Mystery deepens over King Tutankhamun's 'alien glass' after stunning discovery

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By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Scientists investigating the mysterious 'alien glass' in northern Africa have uncovered new clues about the violent event that created it. 

The strange yellow material, known as Libyan Desert Glass, is scattered across parts of Egypt and Libya and is believed to have formed during an extreme cosmic event around 29 million years ago.

Now, researchers have discovered a rare zircon structure hidden inside the glass that appears to have formed after the mineral completely melted and rapidly crystallized again.

The finding suggests the glass was exposed to temperatures exceeding 4,082°F, hot enough to liquefy one of Earth's most durable minerals.

Researchers believe the crystal preserved a microscopic record of that event, capturing evidence of the extreme heat and rapid cooling that created the glass.

But scientists still cannot agree on exactly what happened. Some believe an asteroid slammed into Earth, while others argue a space rock exploded in the atmosphere with enough force to melt the desert below.

The newly discovered crystal does not settle the debate, but it provides some of the strongest evidence yet that the event involved extraordinary temperatures and formed under highly chaotic conditions.

That finding is shedding new light on the origin of the mysterious glass that ancient Egyptians later prized enough to place in King Tutankhamun's tomb.

Scientists investigating the mysterious 'alien glass' in northern Africa have uncovered new clues about the violent event that created it

That finding is shedding new light on the origin of the mysterious glass that ancient Egyptians later prized enough to place in King Tutankhamun's tomb

Among the many treasures found in King Tut's tomb were elaborate pieces of gold jewelry fashioned with pieces of the yellow glass.

Despite decades of study, researchers have never been able to fully explain how the glass was created. 

However, the leading theories involve a catastrophic cosmic event.

One possibility is that an asteroid or comet struck Earth, generating enormous temperatures and pressures that melted silica-rich rocks into glass. 

Another theory suggests that an incoming space object exploded in the atmosphere before impact, releasing enough energy to superheat the desert below without leaving behind a crater.

The biggest problem for researchers is that no definitive impact crater has ever been linked to the glass field.

Several candidate craters have been proposed over the years, but none have survived scientific scrutiny. That absence has fueled the ongoing debate and turned Libyan Desert Glass into one of planetary science's most enduring mysteries.

In the latest study, researchers from the University of Milano-Bicocca in Milan, Italy examined a tiny zircon inclusion hidden within a sample of the glass. 

The glass has been found in ancient jewellery, including a scarab carved from the material, which features in pectoral jewellery buried beside Tutankhamun

Zircon is an exceptionally durable mineral often used by geologists to reconstruct ancient events because it can survive conditions that destroy many other minerals.

What they found was unlike anything previously reported in Libyan Desert Glass.

The microscopic zircon measured only about 20 micrometers across, smaller than the width of a human hair, but it displayed an unusual branching, tree-like structure known as a dendritic texture. 

Scientists believe the formation grew extremely rapidly from molten material as the glass cooled.

To investigate, the team used advanced imaging techniques capable of examining structures at the nanoscale. 

These included electron microscopy and three-dimensional diffraction methods that allowed them to study the crystal's internal structure in remarkable detail.

Chemical tests revealed that the trapped glass between the zircon branches was slightly different from the surrounding Libyan Desert Glass. 

It contained higher levels of aluminum and zirconium, indicating it likely came from a separate molten droplet that cooled and solidified independently from the rest of the glass.

The researchers also found something unexpected: there was no evidence of minerals that normally appear when zircon melts and cools. Instead, every crystal they examined remained zircon. 

That finding is shedding new light on the origin of the mysterious glass that ancient Egyptians later prized enough to place in King Tutankhamun's tomb

This suggested the original zircon grain was heated so intensely that it melted completely before rapidly crystallizing again, skipping several intermediate stages that scientists would normally expect to see.

Further analysis showed subtle differences in the atomic structure of the trapped glass compared with the surrounding material. 

The bonds between atoms inside the trapped glass were slightly longer, indicating it experienced a different thermal history during cooling. 

According to the researchers, this supported the idea that the zircon formed from a tiny droplet of molten material that became isolated within the larger mass of molten glass.

The findings suggested the zircon crystal is a microscopic record of an extremely violent event. 

Scientists believe it was created when intense heat melted both zircon and the surrounding silica-rich material, forming a droplet of liquid that cooled so quickly it froze evidence of the process in place.

However, the team noted that the finding carries an important implication.

Based on the chemistry of the zircon and surrounding glass, the team calculated that temperatures likely exceeded roughly 4,082 degrees Fahrenheit. 

For comparison, lava from most volcanic eruptions reaches temperatures of about 1,292°F to 2,192°F, meaning the event that created the glass was significantly hotter than many volcanic processes. 

The researchers described the conditions as being far from equilibrium, meaning the material was heated and cooled so rapidly that normal geological processes could not keep up. 

They noted that the crystal's unusual structure suggested it formed during a chaotic sequence of melting and rapid solidification, preserving evidence of the extreme conditions that created the glass. 

The study also uncovered subtle differences between the glass trapped inside the zircon structure and the surrounding Libyan Desert Glass. 

These differences indicate the material may have existed as a separate molten droplet before becoming trapped and preserved during cooling.

Although the discovery provides some of the strongest evidence yet for extreme heating, it does not settle the long-running debate over the glass's origin.

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First missing scientist is found dead a year after vanishing as bizarre circumstances of her death are revealed

• READ MORE: Scientists are vanishing or turning up dead. Now ex-FBI boss reveals chilling plot likely unfolding... and who he fears is behind it

By CHRIS MELORE, US DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR

The body of a missing nuclear lab employee has been discovered, 11 months after she mysteriously walked out of her home and vanished without a trace. 

New Mexico State Police announced that they positively identified the remains of Melissa Casias, 54, who was last seen alive on June 26, 2025.

Her body was found in the McGaffey Ridge area of the Carson National Forest, approximately six miles from the last place Casias was seen walking before being declared missing.

Police said a hiker in the forest made the discovery and that a handgun was found alongside the body. Casias's cause of death and when she died have yet to be determined by the Office of the Medical Investigator in New Mexico.

Casias was an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a facility founded by the famed Manhattan Project during the Second World War. It has been tied to nuclear weapons research ever since.

Her disappearance has been linked to a string of deaths and missing person cases involving US scientists and government employees who worked at highly secretive facilities and allegedly had knowledge of sensitive topics tied to national security.

The circumstances surrounding Casias's case were even more disturbing, as the wife and mother wiped all records from her phones before leaving them and her identification behind and walking out of her home in Ranchos de Taos last June.

It remains unclear how long Casias's body was in the forest before it was discovered, despite the area being part of a large US Forest Service restoration project where crews have been working regularly since December 2025. 

Melissa Casias worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a long-running nuclear research facility, before disappearing on June 26, 2025

New Mexico State Police have stated that the body of Melissa Casias was found alongside a handgun in the McGaffey Ridge area of the Carson National Forest (Pictured)

The New Mexico State Police told the Daily Mail that investigators are still examining the scene where the body was found and are attempting to trace the gun's origins, but it could take days before those answers are revealed.

At this time, it is unclear if Casias owned a handgun or if there is any indication as to who the weapon found near her body belonged to. 

Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker told the Daily Mail in March he was concerned her disappearance was part of a much larger pattern involving individuals who had access to top secret government research.

Swecker explained that Casias's work at LANL may have made her a target for abduction, since an administrative assistant often has access to the same sensitive files their supervisors have.

'In a classified lab, or just a high clearance lab, they would basically be in the know on what's going on,' Swecker said. 'And it wouldn't be the first time their administrative assistant has been targeted.'

However, the woman's family and private investigators have disputed how much access Casias really had, claiming that the LANL employee lost her security clearance due to financial troubles she and her husband were having.

Casias vanished after dropping off her husband, another LANL employee, at the facility that morning, approximately 70 miles from their home.

That was when Casias's behavior allegedly became unusual, as she claimed she would need to return home after forgetting the badge needed to access the nuclear lab. 

Casias was last seen walking alone in New Mexico after dropping off her husband at work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, but not reporting for work herself

According to her husband, Mark, a superintendent at the lab, Casias had the security badge with her when she dropped him off that morning, as she would have needed the badge to get past the security checkpoints.

When Casias arrived in Ranchos de Taos, the couple's daughter, Sierra, reportedly told investigators that her mother visited the teen's place of work to drop off a sandwich and then said she planned to work from home after forgetting the badge.

Despite what Casias reportedly told both her daughter and husband, she returned home to drop off her work and personal phones, which the family would later find inside the house, wiped clean.

Specifically, the device showed that someone performed a factory reset on both devices, clearing all records of whom Casias may have been in contact with before vanishing.

Surveillance cameras last spotted Casias walking alone eastward on State Road 518, roughly three miles from her home, around 2.20pm local time.

The area inside Carson National Forest where her body was discovered is just five to six miles away from that state road.

In 2023, the US Forest Service approved the McGaffey Forest and Rio Grande del Rancho Watershed Restoration Project.

The project covers about 30,000 acres south of Taos, including the McGaffey Ridge area where Casias was found. Its goal is to restore forest health through tree thinning, timber harvesting, and prescribed fire to reduce wildfire risk and improve watersheds.

Workers began entering the area for active work in December 2025, starting with timber harvesting and thinning in partnership with the State of New Mexico.

Pictured: Workers harvesting timber within Carson National Forest. It is unclear how long Casias's body was in the park before being discovered

Casias was one of four missing people with links to US defense and nuclear programs

Three other individuals in New Mexico with a connection to US nuclear facilities disappeared under identical circumstances over the last year.

Fellow LANL employee Anthony Chavez, 79, worked at the lab until his retirement in 2017, although his role there has not been made clear. He vanished without a trace after walking out of his home on May 4, 2025, just seven weeks before Casias.

Meanwhile, Steven Garcia, 48, vanished without a trace on August 28, 2025. He was last seen leaving his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home on foot, carrying only a handgun and no identification.

An anonymous source told the Daily Mail that Garcia was a government contractor working for the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), a major facility in Albuquerque that plays a key behind-the-scenes role in America's national defense.

The mysterious disappearances came to light after retired Air Force General William Neil McCasland vanished from his New Mexico home in February. 

The general had previously been in charge of the Air Force Research Lab, which worked closely together on national security projects, especially research involving America's nuclear capabilities, with these labs.

'That entire mission runs out of Kirtland Air Force Base. A big part of it, including the technology and the production of the technology that they use, is all built in Albuquerque. So McCasland would have absolutely known and been to these facilities,' a source revealed.

McCasland's military career and the bases he oversaw have been tied to Casias, Chavez, Garcia and missing NASA scientist Monica Reza.

The White House has tasked the FBI with looking into all of these disappearances, but the agency has not released a detailed report on their findings to this point. 

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Space boffin breaks silence on 'UFO' spotted soaring out of erupting volcano

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has lifted the lid on the 'glowing orb' seen rising from an erupting volcano in the Philippines after a meteor flash left onlookers stunned

An expert has weighed in after a mysterious glowing orb appeared from an exploding volcano

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BY Liam Randall - News Reporter

A Harvard boffin has weighed in on the moment a mysterious glowing orb appeared to launch itself out of an exploding volcano right after a meteor strike. Mind-boggling footage captured a green fireball tearing through the night sky behind Mount Mayon - one of the planet's most volatile peaks located in the Philippines.

The stunning cosmic event kicked off at around 10.30pm on May 25 and was caught from multiple angles by cameras monitoring the peak.

But the real mystery began just after the space rock flashed by. As glowing orange lava oozed down the mountainside, a small, luminous white speck was spotted lifting off into the heavens in clips shared by afarTV.

Harvard's Avi Loeb has poured cold water on the alien theories

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The spooky clip sent internet sleuths into overdrive, with many convinced they had just witnessed a bona fide UFO departure. However, top theoretical physicist Avi Loeb has poured cold water on the alien theories.

Speaking to NewsNation Prime, the Ivy League professor said: "The light coming up is most likely the glint from a satellite reflecting sunlight. There are more than 10,000 communications satellites moving around the Earth, so it's not very unlikely to see such a thing."

According to the space expert, skywatchers simply caught a spectacular, one-in-a-million coincidental optical illusion.

Mount Mayon in the Philippines is one of the planet's most volatile peaks

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The celestial display left nearby residents absolutely terrified. One panicked local from the town of Los Baños admitted they "thought it was a missile because of how bright it was."

They added: "It burned bright green and white for less than a second before it disappeared into the clouds." At first, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) triggered alarm bells by claiming their tech had caught the meteor "striking the northern slopes of Mayon Volcano".

But after a deeper look at the data, the agency backtracked, confirming the cosmic boulder actually vaporised harmlessly in mid-air.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), PHIVOLCS posted: "Our review of seismic, infrasound and additional camera footages around the volcano indicate that the meteor disintegrated while in the atmosphere and did not strike the slopes of Mayon, contrary to our initial post." Had the fiery rock actually smashed into the volcano, it would have left a massive, undeniable scar.

And while the timing looks like a miracle, the odds of a meteor crossing paths with Mount Mayon are actually higher than you'd think. The notorious Luzon-based peak is the most active volcano in the Philippines and one of the most dangerous on Earth.

By the time the green fireball turned up, the volcano had been continuously oozing lava for 140 straight days, meaning multiple cameras had already been rolling around the clock for months.

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 ‘The truth is still out there’

“LOOK at that thing, dude. My gosh. There’s a whole fleet of them. They’re all going against the wind … look at that thing. It’s rotating.” While this may sound like a scene from a sci-fi film, these were the voices of US Navy aviators reacting to an object detected by military sensors, in footage later known as Gimbal. The Pentagon formally released that video, along with two others, in 2020, confirming that they showed what it described as unidentified aerial phenomena.

In May 2026, the Pentagon began releasing more declassified UAP material in batches throu­­gh the Presidential Unsealing and Report­ing System for UAP Encounters, known as PURSUE — hundreds of files and more than 50 videos, including historical records of “green orbs”, “discs” and “fireballs”, as well as newer military-linked footage. This, in its simplest form, is known as the unidentified anomalous phenomena.

‘UAP’ is the modern bureaucratic term for what the world once called Unidentified Flying Objects, UFOs. The shift in language is deliberate. UFO came carrying decades of cultural baggage: flying saucers, little green men, crashed discs, secret hangars, conspiracy radio and late-night documentaries. The term ‘UAP’ gives the state a way to talk about the mystery without surrendering to the mythology.

But the public does not hear it that way. For UAP enthusiasts, an object trained pilots cannot identify, detected by military systems, moving against the wind or rotating in unusual ways, is not a neutral bureaucratic category. It is the oldest question in a new form: are we alone? And, perhaps, for good reason.

The existence of UAPs does not automatically mean they are alien. It means they are unresolved.

For decades, the question of UFOs, now UAPs, was made ridiculous before it was examined. The official history of UFO inquiry is full of this contradiction. Governments investigated sightings because they could not ignore them, but often spoke about them as if only the foolish would take them seriously. The infamous ‘Project Blue Book’, the US Air Force’s programme to study and debunk UFOs, became the symbol of this uneasy posture: investigate the unknown, but reassure the public that nothing extraordinary is happening, all the while hundreds of those sightings or cases remained ‘unexplained’. This is the strange irony of the alien question.

Hollywood has spent more than half a century making extraterrestrial life profitable. We are culturally fluent in fictional aliens, yet when real pilots, soldiers, radar operators or civilians describe something strange in the sky, the same culture suddenly becomes embarrassed. With all of the newly declassified files, that ridicule is now becoming harder to sustain.

Yet as UAPs have moved from the margins into congressional hearings, official reports and military disclosure, the official position has remained cautious. The Pentagon has released videos and records, while its All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, continues to examine cases. Nasa, too, has entered the conversation, arguing for better data, better sensors and less stigma. Yet both remain careful: they acknowledge that some cases are unresolved, while Nasa’s independent study team has stated that there is no conclusive evidence in peer-reviewed scientific literature suggesting an extraterrestrial origin for UAPs, and that many cases remain difficult to resolve because the data is often incomplete, inconsistent or not collected scientifically.

This is where the debate often polarises. One side treats every unexplained sighting as evidence of alien visitation. The other treats every mention of aliens as foolish claims. But both positions are oversimplified. The more honest position is harder. UAPs exist in the limited but important sense that there are sightings, sensor records, and official cases that remain unidentified. That does not automatically mean they are alien. It means they are unresolved. The difference matters.

There is a ladder of probability. At the bottom are ordinary explanations: aircraft, balloons, birds, drones, satellites, debris, weather effects, optical illusions, camera artefacts and sensor errors. Many UAP cases eventually fall here. A distant object may appear impossibly fast because of camera angle; a sensor may misread distance; a pilot may misjudge size or speed. A classified aircraft may be unknown to the observer but not to the state.

Higher up are more troubling possibilities: advanced surveillance systems, experimental military technology, unknown atmospheric phenomena, or limits in our sensors and perception. Only then does one arrive at the most dramatic explanation: non-human technology. That explanation is not impossible. It is simply not yet proven.

The strongest argument for taking UAPs seriously is not that they prove aliens. It is that serious institutions now admit that some cases cannot be fully explained with the data available. That alone is significant.

This is also why the release of Pentagon files should not be mistaken for an admission of first contact. A government disclosure is not the cinematic moment where the state finally confesses that visitors have arrived. It is more likely controlled transparency: a response to congressional pressure, public mistrust, national security uncertainty, and decades of secrecy.

The alien question survives because both sides have something to explain. The believers must explain why there is still no public, verifiable physical evidence of extraterrestrial technology. The sceptics must explain why trained observers, military systems, and official institutions keep encountering cases that cannot be dismissed as fantasy. Between those two failures is where the real mystery lives.

So, the million-dollar question: are we really alone?

The universe is too vast for certainty to belong only to sceptics. It would be arrogant to assume life emerged only once, on one small planet, around one ordinary star. But it would also be careless to turn every unknown light in the sky into a visitor from another world.

Even as a lifelong ‘believer’ and a UAP enthusiast who has consumed everything from official press conferences to Netflix documentaries on the subject, I suspect first contact may not arrive as a Spielberg-style landing on Earth. It may come more quietly: from one of Nasa’s missions to Europa, hidden in the chemistry of an ocean beneath ice.

• The writer is the founder of Media Matters for Democracy.
• Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2026

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This German Scientist Claims Advanced Civilizations May Survive Only About 5,000 Years Before Dying Out

Sabine is saying that the universe may not be full of long-lived alien empires at all; instead, most advanced species may be short-lived and disappear before they can spread far or talk for very long.

What the Fermi paradox means

The Fermi paradox asks a very direct question: if the universe is so old and so huge, why have we not seen any clear sign of alien civilizations yet? Sabine frames it as a mystery about silence, not just about aliens existing somewhere. The basic logic is simple: if intelligent life were common and long-lasting, some civilization should probably have left signals, probes, or some other trace by now.

The new paper she discusses turns that question around. Instead of asking how many alien civilizations exist, it asks how long a civilization can survive if we still hear nothing from anyone else. That change sounds small, but it leads to a much darker conclusion than many people expect.

The Drake equation angle

Sabine explains that the starting point is the Drake equation, which estimates how many communicating technological civilizations may exist in the Milky Way. The equation combines factors like how many suitable planets there are, how often life begins, how often intelligence appears, how often it becomes technological, and how long that technological phase lasts. The paper uses optimistic values for the first parts of that equation, and then solves for the last part: lifetime.

That is how the authors arrive at the shocking number of roughly 5,000 years. In other words, if life and intelligence are fairly common, then civilizations may not stay technologically active for very long before they vanish or become undetectable. Sabine emphasizes that this is not a prophecy, but a  mathematical upper bound based on the silence we observe.

Why 5,000 years matters

Five thousand years is tiny on cosmic timescales. The Milky Way is billions of years old, and radio signals can cross the galaxy in about 100,000 years, so a civilization that survives and broadcasts for much longer than that should, in principle, have been noticed by now. The absence of any clear detection makes the result feel depressing, because it implies that long-lived alien civilizations may be rare.

The unsettling part is that 5,000 years is also not that far beyond human  history. Our technological civilization is only a few hundred years old, so if the paper is even roughly right, we may still be in a very early and fragile phase. Sabine’s point is not that humanity is doomed tomorrow, but that the window for advanced civilization may be much smaller than people imagine

Three possible explanations

Sabine lays out three broad reasons why civilizations might go dark so quickly. The first is self-destruction: war, pandemics, ecological collapse, or misuse of technology could wipe out a civilization before it spreads widely. This is the most disturbing possibility, because it suggests intelligence may create the tools for its own undoing.

The second possibility is that some unknown external hazard is killing civilizations. That could mean things like more frequent supernovae, hidden cosmic dangers, or other risks we do not yet understand well enough. Sabine says this is possible, but she seems less convinced by it than by the idea that civilizations destroy themselves or fail to stabilize.

The third explanation is stranger: civilizations may survive, but simply stop caring about outward expansion or communication. They might retreat into virtual reality, post-scarcity comfort, or some other state where space exploration becomes irrelevant. In that case, the universe may still be full of advanced beings, but they would not look like the classic radio-broadcasting aliens people expect.

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The great filter idea

This discussion connects to the idea of the Great Filter, which is the notion that somewhere between a habitable planet and a galaxy-spanning civilization, there is one extremely hard step almost nobody gets past. Sabine says the filter may not be the origin of life itself, because life’s chemical beginnings may be more common than once thought. Instead, the hard part may come later, when a species must become intelligent, technologically capable, and coordinated enough to survive its own progress.

That is where her comments get especially blunt. She suggests that human beings may not even be smart enough to clear that bar safely on our own. Her implication is that artificial intelligence may help us, but it could also make the situation more dangerous if not handled well.

Her main disagreement

Sabine does not fully agree with the paper’s most pessimistic interpretation. Her main disagreement is about communication technology. The paper assumes other civilizations would use electromagnetic signals like radio, the same sort of thing we search for with SETI, but Sabine thinks that may be far too human-centered.

She argues that an advanced species might use a completely different method, possibly even faster-than-light communication if such a thing is physically possible. If that is true, then we might be surrounded by alien signals and simply not have the right technology to detect them. Her joke is that Earth could be sitting inside a cosmic broadband stream while humans listen on the wrong channel.

Why this feels shocking

What makes her explanation shocking is not just the number 5,000. It is the wider message behind it: technological civilization may be common, but short-lived; intelligence may not guarantee survival; and silence might reflect fragility rather than loneliness. That is a much harsher lesson than the comforting idea that aliens are out there and just too far away.

At the same time, Sabine does not present the paper as a final answer. She treats it as a useful but limited argument, because it depends on optimistic assumptions about how often life appears and what kind of signals civilizations use. So the real takeaway is not “aliens are impossible,” but “our assumptions about aliens may be much too narrow”.

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The Lummi Island UFO crash is one of the Pacific Northwest's lesser-known but most intriguing UFO stories. It allegedly occurred near Lummi Island on the night of July 27, 1984, in the waters between Lummi Island and Eliza Island in Washington State. 

According to reports, two fishermen aboard a vessel called the 'Steeva Ten' witnessed a bright orange-white object streaking across the sky. The object was described as a fiery ball trailing sparks before plunging into the waters near Lummi Island. Witnesses reported a massive splash and unusual light effects. 

The incident quickly attracted attention because some observers claimed the object did not behave like a normal meteor. Several reports suggested it appeared controlled or changed direction before entering the water. 

Months later, local diver Dominic Papetti organized expeditions to search the seabed where the object allegedly entered the water. Divers claimed they located a strange object resting on the bottom and described it as a large metallic disc-like structure, even one reported feeling a hum through his boots while standing on it. What made the story more mysterious is that later dives reportedly failed to relocate the object. 

Drawing on Coast Guard records, local news reports, and later witness testimony, Dolan explores the possibility that the Lummi Island incident may represent one of the rarest cases in USO history, a genuine underwater retrieval event.

  

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Overview

A viral video captured a bright, green‑hued meteor streaking across the sky and apparently striking near the active Mayon volcano on Luzon, Philippines. The footage, posted by Afar.TV, shows a fireball colliding with the volcano’s plume, followed seconds later by a luminous point that appears to rise from the impact zone. The dramatic sequence quickly sparked online speculation about a possible unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) or even extraterrestrial technology.

This screen grab from AfarTV video shows the moment a meteor strikes in the vicinity of an active volcano in the Philippines.

(Afar.TV)

What the Video Shows

The clip, recorded on May 26 2026, depicts a meteor entering the atmosphere over Mayon, a volcano known for its near‑perfect cone and frequent eruptions. As the meteoroid penetrates the dense volcanic ash, it leaves a vivid green trail before exploding in a flash of light. Within a few moments, a smaller, steadily bright object emerges from the fireball’s aftermath, moving upward against the darkening sky. The video’s high‑definition frame rate and the volcano’s glowing lava flow have contributed to its rapid spread across social media platforms.

Mysterious light after meteor strike: Avi Loeb has explanation | NewsNation Prime

Scientific Explanation

Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb, director of the Galileo Project—a research program that systematically searches for technological signatures of non‑human origin—provided a grounded interpretation on “NewsNation Prime.” Loeb argued that the rising light is most likely a glint from a satellite reflecting sunlight, not a piece of alien hardware.

“There are more than 10,000 communications satellites moving around the Earth, so it’s not very unlikely to see such a thing,” Loeb said.

He noted that the geometry of the scene—sunlight striking a satellite’s solar panels at a shallow angle—can produce a brief, intense flash that mimics a rising object when captured from a ground‑based perspective. This explanation fits within established orbital mechanics and atmospheric optics, requiring no departure from known physics.

Expert Commentary

Supporting Loeb’s assessment, Peter Brown, a planetary‑impact physicist at Western University in Ontario, told The New York Times that the meteor itself likely disintegrated completely in the atmosphere.

“It is possible, but not likely, this produced a meteorite. My bet, particularly given the prominent trail, would be nothing survived.”

Brown’s analysis underscores that meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere at high velocity often vaporize, especially when encountering dense volcanic ash, which can enhance ablation. The combination of rapid deceleration and intense heating makes the survival of solid fragments improbable.

Context and Broader Implications

The incident arrives at a time when public interest in UAPs is heightened, following recent governmental reports and increased media coverage of anomalous aerial observations. The Galileo Project, founded by Loeb in 2021, aims to apply rigorous scientific methodology to such reports, distinguishing between genuine technosignatures and mundane explanations.

In this case, the convergence of three independent factors—a meteor, an active volcanic plume, and a passing satellite—created a perfect visual illusion. The episode illustrates the challenges of interpreting fleeting, low‑resolution footage and reinforces the need for multi‑sensor verification (radar, spectroscopic analysis, and satellite tracking) before assigning extraordinary causes.

Conclusion

While the glowing ascent captured after the Mayon meteor strike offers an eye‑catching visual, the consensus among leading scientists is that it reflects ordinary atmospheric and orbital phenomena. Avi Loeb’s satellite‑glint hypothesis, bolstered by Peter Brown’s impact analysis, demonstrates how conventional physics can account for seemingly mysterious events. As the search for genuine extraterrestrial technosignatures continues, episodes like this serve as a reminder that rigorous, evidence‑based inquiry remains the most reliable path to understanding our sky.

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Ling Xinin Ohio

In the footage labelled “NAG UAP 1 Jun 20”, a humanoid-like shape hovered for a long time before abruptly moving to a distant location outside the frame.

“Assuming this wasn’t a sensor glitch and that we are looking at an actual, instantaneous displacement, AI-assisted analyses suggest the object’s acceleration could have exceeded 600g – or 600 times the force of gravity on Earth’s surface,” Zhang said.

To put that into perspective, human pilots typically black out at around 12g, and the most durable drones max out near 30g, he said.

“A manoeuvre surpassing 600g is far beyond the limits of any known modern aircraft or living organism.”

However, given that the object lacked any visible propulsion system and appeared to change shape as it moved, he said that an object exceeding 600g “cannot be completely ruled out”.

While Zhang said he found the latest batch of UFO files from the US Department of Defence far more intriguing than the older, grainier images the Pentagon previously released, he pointed out a major hurdle for the scientific community: a lack of hard data.

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The Pentagon’s Silver Sphere Mystery Just Got Stranger

An artist’s rendering of a metallic silver sphere based on descriptions from military reports and declassified Pentagon UAP investigations. U.S. officials have not identified the objects and continue to classify several incidents as unresolved.

WASHINGTON DC - For decades, UFO sightings were easy for skeptics to dismiss.

A blurry photo. A shaky video. A witness who swore they saw something extraordinary.

But what happens when the U.S. military sees it too?

Newly released Pentagon files and videos have once again thrust a mysterious object into the spotlight: a smooth metallic silver sphere that appears to move through the sky without wings, rotors, exhaust, or any visible means of propulsion.

Even more intriguing, government investigators still can’t fully explain what it is.

That uncertainty has fueled renewed public fascination.

See The Evidence For Yourself

Readers who want to examine the government’s findings firsthand can review many of the videos, images and reports released by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and NASA.

* Pentagon AARO UAP Archive:
https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/Official-UAP-Imagery/

* Pentagon UAP Records Center:
https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Records/

* NASA UAP Research Program:
https://science.nasa.gov/uap/

* NASA Independent UAP Study Report:
https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf

Readers are encouraged to review the evidence and draw their own conclusions.

Newly released Pentagon files show mysterious metallic spheres that investigators still can’t explain, renewing debate over one of the most persistent UFO mysteries of the modern era.

The Return Of The Silver Spheres

The reports are part of an ongoing effort by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which investigates what are now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs.

While officials stress there is no evidence these objects are extraterrestrial, several cases remain officially unresolved.

Among the most discussed cases are reports of metallic orb-shaped objects captured by military sensors operating in various regions around the world.

Unlike the classic flying saucer image popularized in movies and television, these objects are remarkably simple in appearance.

Witnesses describe smooth metallic spheres that reflect sunlight like polished chrome. Military videos show objects maintaining stable flight while displaying no obvious signs of conventional propulsion.

One declassified case involved a metallic sphere tracked by military sensors over a remote region. Another captured an orb-like object moving across the sky while analysts struggled to determine its origin.

The Pentagon has not identified the objects as foreign technology, experimental U.S. aircraft, weather phenomena, or commercial drones.

Instead, they remain classified as unresolved.

NASA And Pentagon Officials Take The Mystery Seriously

Interest in metallic spheres intensified in 2023 when NASA and Pentagon officials publicly discussed orb-shaped UAPs during hearings and briefings.

At the time, officials noted that metallic spheres represented one of the most frequently reported categories of unexplained aerial phenomena.

Investigators emphasized that most sightings eventually receive conventional explanations. Yet a small percentage continue to resist easy answers due to limited data, unusual flight characteristics, or a lack of corroborating evidence.

That distinction is important.

An unexplained object is not proof of extraterrestrial visitors.

It is simply an observation that investigators have not yet been able to fully explain.

Why The Mystery Persists

The silver spheres have become something of a recurring character in the modern UFO story.

They continue appearing in military reports, pilot observations, radar tracks and sensor recordings.

Skeptics argue many sightings likely involve balloons, camera artifacts, atmospheric effects or misunderstood objects viewed under unusual conditions.

Believers counter that some incidents involve multiple sensors, trained military observers and tracking systems specifically designed to identify airborne threats.

Both sides agree on one point:

More data is needed.

The Pentagon itself has repeatedly stated that the vast majority of cases do not provide enough information to determine exactly what was observed.

That uncertainty leaves room for both scientific investigation and public speculation.

Why Technology Readers Should Care

For technology enthusiasts, the story is less about little green men and more about the limits of modern surveillance technology.

The objects have been observed by some of the most sophisticated sensor systems ever developed, including advanced military radar, infrared imaging systems, aircraft sensors and intelligence-gathering platforms.

If the objects ultimately prove to be advanced drones, foreign technology, atmospheric phenomena or sensor anomalies, the findings could improve future detection systems and aerospace intelligence capabilities.

If they turn out to be something entirely different, the implications could be even more significant.

Either way, investigators are still searching for answers.

The Bigger Question

Whether the silver spheres ultimately prove to be advanced drones, unusual atmospheric phenomena, classified technology, sensor errors or something entirely unexpected, the story highlights a fascinating reality.

Despite satellites, artificial intelligence, advanced radar systems and some of the most sophisticated surveillance networks ever built, there are still objects that occasionally appear in the sky and defy immediate explanation.

That doesn’t mean aliens are visiting Earth.

But it does mean that even in an age of unprecedented technology, mysteries remain.

And for now, the Pentagon’s silver spheres remain one of the most intriguing mysteries still floating above us.

For technology enthusiasts, the story is less about little green men and more about sensor systems, artificial intelligence, advanced drones, aerospace technology and the limits of modern surveillance. The silver spheres may ultimately prove to be something mundane—or something entirely new. Either way, investigators are still searching for answers.

Editor’s Note

The Pentagon, NASA and AARO have repeatedly stated that none of the released videos or images constitute proof of extraterrestrial technology. Many cases remain unexplained because investigators lack sufficient sensor data, image quality or corroborating evidence to determine the objects’ origin. The objects remain officially classified as unidentified, not alien.

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Secrets of the Baltic Sea Anomaly: UFO or Hoax?

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The ocean floor is a realm of eternal darkness, holding secrets that often challenge our understanding of history and science. Among the most hotly debated underwater mysteries of the 21st century is the Baltic Sea Anomaly. First detected by sonar, this bizarre, circular formation resting on the murky seabed sparked massive global interest and immediate speculation. Could it be a sunken extraterrestrial spacecraft, an elaborate natural hoax, or perhaps a relic of a forgotten human civilization?

When the first grainy sonar images emerged, the shape was instantly compared to the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. The internet exploded with theories ranging from crashed UFOs to secret World War II anti-submarine devices. Yet, as modern marine geologists and archaeologists continue to map the depths of the Baltic basin, a far more complex and grounded truth is beginning to surface. The reality of what lies beneath the waves may not involve aliens, but it is no less fascinating.

• Nearly 11,000-Year-Old Megastructure Is Oldest Ever Found in Europe
• The Unsolved Mystery of the Baltic Sea Anomaly

Discovering the Baltic Sea Anomaly

The story began in 2011 when the Swedish treasure-hunting team, Ocean X, was scanning the seabed for old shipwrecks. Instead of a wooden hull, their sonar pinged a massive, strangely geometric object resting at a depth of roughly 295 feet (90 meters). The structure measured an impressive 200 feet (61 meters) in diameter and appeared to be elevated off the seabed on a pillar-like formation. It featured rigid lines, apparent right angles, and what looked like a drag mark or runway trailing behind it.

Overview map of the Western Baltic Sea. Bathymetric data taken from the Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) synthesis.

(Geerson et al./CC BY-SA 2.5)

Diving down to investigate the object proved incredibly difficult due to the freezing, pitch-black conditions of the Baltic waters. When divers finally reached the structure, they reported equipment malfunctions and a total loss of visibility, adding fuel to the supernatural fire. However, they managed to recover stone samples from the site. These samples were dark, burnt-looking rocks that seemed entirely out of place on the sandy bottom of the ocean.

Despite the initial hype, the scientific community remained highly skeptical of the extraterrestrial claims. Experts pointed out that the Baltic Sea is notoriously difficult to scan accurately. The unique salinity gradients and temperature shifts in the water can severely distort sonar readings, often making natural geological formations look artificial. As more data was collected, the mystery began to shift from the realm of science fiction back into the realm of natural science.

Geological Reality or Alien Artifacts?

Recent studies have provided crucial insights into how perfectly circular or highly anomalous structures can form naturally on the ocean floor. A 2023 geological review by Li et al. demonstrated that various biological and geological processes, such as fluid expulsion and gas venting, can create incredibly precise geometric shapes in the seabed. When combined with the unique glacial history of Northern Europe, the "spaceship" theory begins to sink rapidly.

Example of a high-resolution multibeam echosounder bathymetry scan (Western Galapagos Rift) revealing complex seabed morphology. Recent studies utilizing this exact advanced sonar technology in the Baltic Sea have proven that the ocean floor is heavily littered with bizarre, naturally occurring moraines that easily trick standard scanning equipment.

NOAA Photo Library/CC BY 2.0)

During the last Ice Age, massive glaciers carved their way across the region, grinding rocks and trapping volcanic debris within the ice. As the ice melted around 9000 BC, it deposited these massive, out-of-place boulders, known as glacial erratics, into the newly formed Baltic Sea basin. The dark, metallic-looking stones recovered by Ocean X were identified by geologists as basalt and granite, common materials deposited by retreating glaciers.

Furthermore, a 2024 study by Feldens utilizing high-resolution multibeam echosounder bathymetry mapped the complex glacial morphology of the Baltic Sea. The research confirmed that the seabed is littered with bizarre, naturally occurring moraines and deposited rock formations that can easily trick standard sonar equipment. The Baltic Sea Anomaly is widely considered by geologists to be a remarkable, yet entirely natural, glacial deposit rather than a crashed alien vessel.

The Stone Age Megastructures Connection

While the anomaly itself might be a natural rock formation, the idea of finding massive, artificial structures at the bottom of the Baltic Sea is not actually fiction. In early 2024, an astonishing discovery shattered our understanding of ancient European history. Researchers led by Jacob Geersen published findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) detailing a massive, 11,000-year-old artificial stone wall found entirely submerged in the western Baltic Sea.

The coast of the Bay of Mecklenburg in the southwestern Baltic Sea. Just off this shore lies the submerged landscape where archaeologists recently discovered the 11,000-year-old Stone Age megastructure, a remnant of a time when the entire basin was dry land. 

(CC BY-SA 4.0/Jasmin Flad)

This incredible megastructure, stretching nearly 3,200 feet (975 meters) long, was constructed by Stone Age hunter-gatherers long before the region flooded. It was built using thousands of carefully placed stones to create a drive lane for hunting reindeer herds. This revelation proves that the Baltic basin was once a dry, populated landscape where ancient humans actively engaged in monumental construction projects. The discovery of genuine submerged megastructures completely changes the context of the region. It highlights why marine archaeologists are so eager to scan the seabed, even if they occasionally chase shadows like the famous anomaly. While we may not have found an ancient spaceship, we have found definitive proof that the sunken landscapes of the Baltic hide the lost architectural achievements of our earliest ancestors

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Deep

Ultimately, the phenomenon serves as a powerful reminder of how easily our imaginations can be captured by the unknown. The blurry sonar scans allowed people to project their wildest sci-fi fantasies onto a pile of glacial rocks. Yet, the rigorous scientific method, utilizing advanced bathymetry, geological sampling, and peer-reviewed analysis, has slowly chipped away at the myth to reveal a more grounded reality.

A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) equipped with high-powered lights and cameras is descending into the uncharted depths. As this technology continues to map the ocean floor, marine archaeologists are bound to uncover more sunken mysteries, whether they be natural geological wonders or genuine artifacts of lost civilizations. 

(NOAA Ocean Exploration & Research from USA/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Nature is entirely capable of creating shapes that appear designed, and the chaotic forces of the Ice Age left behind a seabed that continues to confuse even modern technology. However, as the genuine discovery of the Stone Age megastructure proves, the truth hidden in the deep ocean is often far more fascinating than any internet hoax. The waters of Northern Europe remain a vital frontier for historical exploration.

Even if the Baltic Sea Anomaly is just a fascinating trick of glacial geology, it succeeded in drawing global attention to the uncharted depths. As remote-operated vehicles and advanced multibeam sonar continue to map the ocean floor, we are bound to uncover more sunken mysteries. Whether those mysteries turn out to be natural wonders or genuine artifacts of lost civilizations, the deep sea will never stop surprising us.

• Top Image: This photorealistic illustration depicts the mysterious circular object on the Baltic Sea floor, heavily encrusted and eroded as if it has rested there for millions of years. The image is an artistic rendering based on descriptions and scans from the Ocean X expedition.

By Marius Albertsen

FAQs

What is the Baltic Sea Anomaly? It is a 200-foot (61-meter) circular rock formation discovered on the floor of the Baltic Sea in 2011 by a treasure-hunting team. Its strange shape, resembling a science-fiction spaceship on sonar, led to widespread speculation that it was a sunken UFO or an ancient artificial structure.

Did scientists prove the anomaly is an alien spaceship? No. Geologists and marine scientists have concluded that the structure is a natural geological formation. It is highly likely a glacial erratic, a massive deposit of rocks, including basalt and granite, left behind by melting glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age.

Are there real ancient structures at the bottom of the Baltic Sea? Yes! In 2024, scientists discovered a massive, 11,000-year-old artificial stone wall stretching nearly 3,200 feet (975 meters) underwater in the western Baltic. It was built by Stone Age hunter-gatherers to corral reindeer before the sea levels rose and flooded the region.

References

• Feldens, P., et al. 2024. High-resolution multibeam echosounder bathymetry reveals complex glacial and post-glacial seabed morphology in the Baltic Sea. Nature Scientific Reports, 14, 75054. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-75054-4
• Geersen, J., et al. 2024. A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 121(8), e2312008121. Available at: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2312008121
• Li, Y., et al. 2023. Formation of circular structures on the seabed: A review of geological and biological processes. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, 1170787. Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2023.1170787/full

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EXCLUSIVE - The shocking evidence about JFK’s death, the CIA and what the president knew about UFOs: It may sound absurd, but I’ve spent five decades researching them, writes top barrister JONATHAN CAPLAN KC. This is what I’ve discovered

• Did you miss Part One of Jonathan Caplan's astonishing revelations? Read more HERE 
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By JONATHAN KAPLAN KC

When former US Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch gave evidence to the US Congress about the existence of UFOs or Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) in July 2023, one question sent a deep chill through the room. The whistleblower and Afghanistan veteran was asked whether he knew of people who had been ‘harmed or injured’ or ‘murdered’ in efforts ‘to cover up secret programmes into extraterrestrial technology’.

‘Yes,’ he said, ‘personally.’

During decades of research into UAPs – and government programmes to recover crashed alien spacecraft while concealing their existence – I have met people who believe that their lives were under threat for speaking out about what they knew. I have also spoken with two ex-special forces personnel in the US who claimed that colleagues were ordered to kill because of a perceived fear that the target was about to reveal highly secret information connected with a UAP programme.

As a barrister and King’s Counsel, I have spent my career evaluating evidence in very complex cases. I have brought the same rigorous standards to these investigations.

They have led me to the astonishing but unavoidable conclusion that, in order to protect the secrets about UAPs and extraterrestrial technology, agents of the US security services or their private defence contractors have been prepared to physically threaten and even to kill. Even the most famous actress in Hollywood – and even her ex-lover, a US president.

Marilyn Monroe died in her Los Angeles apartment on August 4, 1962. She was found naked in bed, holding the telephone, by her housekeeper. Empty medicine bottles were scattered on the floor.

The toxicology report found that she had acute barbiturate poisoning from doses of chloral hydrate and Nembutal (the brand name for pentobarbitone) that were several times above the lethal limit. Yet there was no trace of pills in the stomach or duodenum: the barbiturates were present only in the blood and liver.

This is an indication that the drugs were injected or given as an enema, rather than taken orally. Despite this, the deputy coroner of Los Angeles County classified her death as ‘probable suicide’.

Her friend Dorothy Kilgallen, a showbusiness journalist and TV personality, was immediately sceptical. She wrote in her syndicated gossip column, The Voice Of Broadway: ‘The real story hasn’t been told, not by a long shot.’

Former US Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch told the US Congress that he 'personally' knew of people who had been 'murdered' in efforts 'to cover up secret programmes into extraterrestrial technology'

Marilyn Monroe's death was immediately classified as 'probable suicide', but many have pointed out her comments on UFOs in the years leading up to it

The bed in which Marilyn was found dead in her apartment in Brentwood, Los Angeles

Marilyn's friend Dorothy Kilgallen had an openly declared interest in UFOs

Kilgallen was a friend of President John F. Kennedy, and became part of Marilyn’s inner circle after they met in 1960, during the filming of Let’s Make Love. She had a long-standing interest in UAPs. She revealed this in February 1954, when she told her readers: ‘Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of the world military heads next summer.’

In May the following year, she published a dispatch based on what a ‘British official of Cabinet rank’ had told her. He said that UK scientists and airmen were examining the wreckage of a ‘mysterious flying ship’ and were convinced that flying saucers from another planet were real.

Her source told her that the saucers ‘are staffed by small men probably under four feet tall’ and that the British government was withholding ‘an official report on the “flying saucer” examination at this time possibly because it does not wish to frighten the public’.

The source has never been identified and nor has the site of the crash to which he was referring.

Kilgallen’s openly declared interest in UFOs is relevant to Monroe’s death because of a document containing details of two of her phone conversations that were intercepted by the CIA. This document was leaked by two separate CIA sources – although during a later FBI review of the document the CIA claimed that the control stamps were not typical of the time.

The document is dated August 3, 1962, one day before Marilyn’s death. Just below the date is the reference ‘Moon Dust’. Moon Dust was a covert project fronted by the US Air Force to recover foreign space vehicles or debris. Any crashed UFO would have been within its remit.

The report covered two conversations, connected by their subject matter. The first was between Kilgallen and her friend Howard Rothberg, the agent for actor Mel Brooks and others.

Rothberg said that Monroe, angry at her treatment by both John Kennedy and his brother Robert, ‘had secrets to tell’ – one of which was ‘the visit by the president at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space’. Kilgallen replied that she knew what that might be. In the mid-1950s, she had learned of a secret effort by the US and UK governments to identify the origins of crashed spacecraft and dead alien bodies.

The second part of the report referred to repeated calls by Monroe to Robert Kennedy, complaining about the way both Kennedy brothers were ignoring her. She ‘threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all’.

She referred to the president’s plan to kill Cuba’s long-time dictator Fidel Castro and to her ‘diary of secrets’ and what the press would do with such disclosures.

An ultra-secret US government department known as Majestic 12 was said to have been set up by president Harry Truman after a crashed craft recovered at Roswell, New Mexico

US National Archives images of the supposed crash site at Roswell

Officer Irving Newton holds up debris from a suspected UFO, which US Air Force officials said was in fact the remains of a weather balloon

There was a block of text which was redacted in both leaked documents and then the signature of James Jesus Angleton, head of counterintelligence at the CIA.

Any connection between the UFO cover-up and the assassination of JFK will seem far-fetched. But I believe it is worthy of serious investigation, because of another leaked document, one that I have personally inspected and which is known as the ‘burned memo’.

It is part of a cache of papers documenting the existence of an ultra-secret US government department known as Majestic 12.

This group was set up in 1947 by President Harry Truman, after a crashed craft constructed by a non human intelligence (NHI) was recovered at Roswell, New Mexico.

Majestic 12, or MJ12, was ordered to take control of the retrieval, storage and research of any NHI craft. This was a secret classified higher than even the atom bomb and, if necessary, people were to be killed to preserve it.

The nine-page ‘burned memo’ is so-named because it was rescued from a fire when MJ12 papers were being destroyed. It is undated but appears to have been written in 1961 by the director of the CIA, Allen Dulles, who refers to himself as MJ1. In it, he invites the views of other Majestic 12 members, including Angleton (MJ2), on the need to assassinate President Kennedy to protect the agency’s alien secrets.

The memo says: ‘As you must know LANCER [Kennedy’s secret service codename] has made some inquiries regarding our activities which we cannot allow.

‘Please submit your views no later than October. Your action to this matter is critical to the continuance of the group.’

The memo went on cryptically to say: ‘When conditions become non-conducive for growth in our environment and Washington cannot be influenced any further, the weather is lacking any precipitation... it should be wet.’ This appears to be intelligence jargon suggesting that assassination should be considered.

Kennedy took office in 1961 and quickly showed a close interest in the activities of Majestic 12, ordering Dulles to provide a brief summary of MJ12’s ‘intelligence operations as they relate to Cold War psychological warfare plans’.

The president was concerned after the Cuban missile crisis that the Soviets might mistake a UFO for an incoming nuclear missile and wanted closer co-operation between the two countries on this topic. This interest continued, right up to his murder in November 1963. It was not, though, until 1971 that an agreement was actually signed to this effect.

JFK is said to have been become concerned after the Cuban missile crisis that the Soviets might mistake a UFO for an incoming nuclear missile

Further evidence pointing to state involvement in Kennedy’s assassination emerged in an extraordinary conversation that took place on a Washington street in early 1975. In the aftermath of the Watergate burglary at Democrat offices, a scandal which brought down President Richard Nixon, CIA operative E. Howard Hunt went to dinner with his friend and lawyer, Douglas Caddy.

Hunt was a colourful and unorthodox CIA agent. As part of the White House Special Investigations Unit, he had helped to mastermind the Watergate break-in and, on the night he dined with Caddy, he was about to begin a jail sentence at the federal prison camp at Eglin Air Force Base.

Over dinner, Caddy pressed Hunt as to the reason for the Watergate break in. ‘We believed,’ Hunt said, ‘that there were important Cuban documents inside dealing with Kennedy’s assassination.’

Later, on the sidewalk as they were leaving, Caddy pressed again as to what could have been in those files. Hunt replied with quiet emphasis: ‘Kennedy was assassinated because he was about to give our most vital secret to the Soviets.’

‘What was that?’ Caddy asked.

Hunt looked at him intently and replied: ‘The alien presence.’

He then shook Caddy’s hand and walked away to prepare for prison. That was the last time they met.

Caddy told me that he was puzzled by that information. What evidence was there that Kennedy was about to discuss aliens with the Soviets? Was Hunt implying that the CIA had killed him?

Though few knew about it at the time, Kennedy had long held an interest in UAPs. He was on the Board of Overseers at Harvard University and had chosen astronomy as his subject of special interest. He became friendly with fellow overseer Dr Donald Menzel, a professor of astronomy.

Menzel led a secret life. He was a covert member of MJ12, he had had a long association with the National Security Agency (NSA), and with his Top-Secret Ultra Clearance he had worked for the CIA. Dr Vannevar Bush, who had advised President Truman to set up MJ12, was also a close associate.

Correspondence between Kennedy and Menzel in 1960 has been discovered in which Menzel, while talking about the NSA, wrote: ‘Properly cleared to one another I should be able to help in this sensitive area.’

It seems evident that Kennedy was eager to learn more.

In 1977 a former mistress of Fidel Castro, Marita Lorenz, told a US Congressional Committee that she had driven with Lee Harvey Oswald and CIA contractor Frank Sturgis to Dallas before JFK's assassination and saw Sturgis handed an envelope filled with cash

Ms Lorenz, seen here at a press conference in 1977, is said to have received death threats

Frank Sturgis would late become infamous as one of the five men who broke into the Democratic National HQ in 1972... leading to the Watergate scandal

Ten days before he was killed, the president wrote a top-secret memo to Angleton, the director of counterintelligence at the CIA, calling for a review of all UFO intelligence files that affected national security and asking to start sharing the ‘unknowns’ with Nasa to help its mission directors in their defensive responsibilities.

More provocative still, on the same day that November, he called Russia’s president Nikita Kruschev, seeking his co-operation on the detection of UAPs.

None of this would have been welcome news to the CIA. Since its inception in 1947, it had pursued a ruthless policy of denying the existence of UAPs while establishing secret reverse engineering programmes to unlock their technology. Kennedy’s initiatives risked it all.

Numerous Senate commissions on CIA activities have since suspected the agency of having been involved in Kennedy’s assassination for other reasons yet have lacked the proof. But in October 1977 a former mistress of Fidel Castro, Marita Lorenz, provided an extraordinary statement to a US Congressional Committee.

She said that she had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Miami (who was arrested for Kennedy’s murder) and that she had driven with him and Frank Sturgis, a CIA contractor, to Dallas once Kennedy’s motorcade had been moved there from Miami. She said that agent Hunt had come to their motel room in Dallas and handed Sturgis an envelope filled with cash.

When Sturgis learned of her proposed evidence, he threatened to kill her. Two detectives from New York’s 18th Precinct were called to protect her. One of them was Jim Rothstein, a tough cop who always carried a shotgun in his coat. Sturgis arrived later in the evening and Rothstein arrested him.

The two men sat and talked for an hour before he was taken to the police station. During that time Sturgis learned that Rothstein had served on the USS Essex in the Bay of Pigs and they shook hands in recognition of the fact that they were both professionals.

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They discussed the day of Kennedy’s assassination and Sturgis frankly admitted that he had been one of the gunmen in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963. While Oswald fired three times from a book depository, there have long been claims that a fatal head shot came from a second shooter on the plaza’s grassy knoll.

Back at the precinct, Sturgis was collected by the CIA and no charges were ever brought.

I spoke to Rothstein to confirm that Sturgis had, effectively, confessed to shooting the president. He confirmed he had and that he did not know why the matter had not been taken further.

In July 2025, Caddy contacted me raising further suspicions that the CIA was involved in Kennedy’s death.

Caddy had been looking for a photo he recalled seeing of Hunt which was taken in Dallas on the day of the assassination. He had found it online among many others in the immediate aftermath.

It shows a crowd in Dealey Plaza about five minutes after the shooting. On the far left is a figure in a three-quarter length coat and a trilby hat. ‘I was Hunt’s attorney,’ Caddy told me, ‘and I am certain that is him in the photo.’

Dorothy Kilgallen continued to investigate her friend Marilyn Monroe’s death, as well as the assassinations of Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, who was shot dead by Jack Ruby two days after the president was killed.

Kilgallen had a contract with Random House to publish her findings and was eagerly working to complete the manuscript, telling close friends that she had made significant progress.

Her last appearance on the hit US television game show What’s My Line?, on which she was a regular panellist, was the evening before her own suspicious death and the host John Daly said that she ‘was in great spirits’. She was at the height of her career.

Just after 9am on November 8, 1965, her hairdresser, Marc Sinclaire, entered her townhouse on East 68th Street in New York and went upstairs to her dressing room on the third floor. She was not there waiting for him.

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Her bedroom was her private office on the fifth floor. Sinclaire looked in and to his surprise saw Kilgallen sitting up on the bed in a blue robe. She was fully made up and her hair was perfectly in place. She always removed her make-up and hairpiece at night, he said. He knew that she was dead and he called the butler to come up.

The toxicology report showed that she had consumed alcohol and barbiturates. She was not a heavy drinker and was prescribed only Seconal in a moderate dose for insomnia. But two other barbiturates were also detected, Tuinal and (like Monroe) Nembutal, for which she had no prescription. Traces of Nembutal were found on the rim of a glass in the bedroom, which suggested the capsules had been emptied into it before being ingested.

The cause of death was given by Dr James Luke, Manhattan’s chief medical examiner, as acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication. The conclusion was ‘circumstances undetermined’, meaning this could have been an accidental death.

Other scientists and intelligence officers connected with UAP programmes have spoken of death threats and they continue to this day. The US Congressional Oversight Committee has recently asked the FBI to investigate.

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EXCLUSIVE - I’ve spent five decades researching UFOs and speaking to highly confidential sources. This is what I’ve discovered about the CIA, China and aliens, writes top barrister JONATHAN CAPLAN KC. You may scoff, but the evidence is undeniable

By JONATHAN CAPLAN KC

To most people, the idea that the US, China and other countries are in possession of crashed alien spacecraft is preposterous. Any suggestion that these craft have been recovered with non-human intelligences inside, dead or alive, stretches credulity to breaking point. But the evidence is overwhelming.

I have been pursuing the truth about this phenomenon since I was a teenager, when I first saw a television report about a ‘flying saucer following a passenger plane’.

For five decades, I have conducted intensive research, combing through a vast body of material and interviewing many of the key people in this twilight area, some highly confidential sources.

I have applied the same rigorous analysis that I would as a lawyer to the evidence. I use in my new book Not For Disclosure only material that I have determined to be both honest and reliable, and which I can credibly and confidently present. I have discarded a great deal. I have also received very sensitive information from many whom I trust and who have placed their trust in me.

My concern about these extraordinary objects – once termed UFOs but now known as UAPs or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena – has been shared by many influential figures.

When I was on the editorial board of the leading international journal, Flying Saucer Review, Buckingham Palace requested that a copy of every edition was delivered to the Duke of Edinburgh’s equerry. Prince Philip, of course, was a highly experienced pilot who quietly followed this subject, even having some witnesses interviewed at the Palace.

My professional life has been spent as a barrister, a King’s Counsel, evaluating evidence in very complex cases. I have done my best to bring that experience into this more anomalous arena, and my legal reputation has sometimes meant that I have been able to open doors that were closed to other researchers.

The shocking evidence that I have amassed proves beyond any doubt that not only are UAPs real, but they are undeniably evidence of alien technology. The sources of these non-human intelligences is still not known even by the intelligence services of the world.

My concern about these extraordinary objects – once termed UFOs but now known as UAPs or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena – has been shared by many influential figures

The shocking evidence that I have amassed proves beyond any doubt that not only are UAPs real, but they are undeniably evidence of alien technology, writes Jonathan Caplan

More than that, the United States, China and Russia have been competing to reverse engineer and replicate these technologies, including anti-gravity, free energy and the real relationship between space and time.

I am fully aware how extraordinary this sounds. The principal motive for writing my book was to enable a wider and informed debate to take place without stigma or embarrassment. This subject is not on any educational syllabus and it is difficult to know where to access reliable material.

The ridicule surrounding the subject has not arisen by accident. A deliberate policy of denial and fabrication has been implemented by the US government and others, which has ended the reputations and even the lives of many people who have tried to lift the veil.

That is changing. In July 2023, a former Air Force intelligence officer named David Grusch went public under oath on live television before the US Congress, declaring that the United States was in possession of crashed NHI (non-human intelligence) craft.

Senator Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state and a probable contender to be the next president, told political website The Hill in July 2024: ‘Either what they are saying is partially true, or entirely true – or we have some really smart educated people with very high clearances and very important positions in our government who are crazy and are leading us on a wild goose chase. 

‘What incentive would so many serious people have to make something up?’

Grusch did not say how many crashed NHI craft had been recovered, only that it was ‘in double digits’. One was seen by Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt. He was a US Marine posted to Peru in 1997, when he was sent with his unit one night to secure the site of a crashed aircraft, close to a radar tracking station.

‘We found the area real easy,’ he said, ‘because there was a huge gash in the land. It was like something had almost cut warm butter with a knife. It was a huge ship, buried in the side of a cliff. And when I first saw it I was scared.

David Grusch did not say how many crashed non-human intelligence craft had been recovered, only that it was ‘in double digits’

One was seen by Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt. He was a US Marine posted to Peru in 1997 when he was sent with his unit one night to secure the site of a crashed aircraft close to a radar tracking station

‘It was dripping a syrup-like liquid – about 10 metres in width, 20 metres in length, like something between an egg and a teardrop.’

Whatever it was, this craft was not manmade. As far as Weygandt could work out, it had not crashed but was shot down, apparently by a Hawk surface-to-air missile. And something was still inside it, something alive.

‘I think,’ he said, ‘the creatures inside were trying to communicate with me telepathically.’

A US military unit in plain black fatigues arrived with a Nuclear Energy Support Team from the Department of Energy to recover the entities and the craft. Weygandt was arrested and taken by helicopter to a US Navy Medical Research Unit nearby.

Here, anonymous officers told him he was witness to something that he was not supposed to have seen. ‘I thought they were going to kill me. They threatened to take me up in a helicopter and kick me out into the jungle.’

His story might seem a hallucination, if it did not tally so closely with what we know about other crash retrieval operations. Unidentified craft are tracked in the United States through various agencies, including North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

If a UAP is detected to have crashed, then special paramilitary units are sent to the scene together with the Office of Nuclear Energy in order to secure the area – just as Weygandt describes.

The CIA is also closely involved, and has recovered craft within US borders and from foreign territory both on land and under the sea. They have also engaged in operations to bring down craft.

When craft have been too large to recover, they have allegedly been left in place, buried under a building or structure while a facility is constructed underground to study it: This is said to have happened in the 1970s in the mountains outside Seoul, South Korea.

In January 1996, NORAD warned Brazilian authorities that a UAP was in their airspace. A cigar-shaped craft was seen by residents to be flying erratically and low before it crashed.

Multiple reports were made of strange beings with dark oily skin, large red eyes and three bony protuberances on their heads in the vicinity of the town of Varginha. Witnesses included three young women as well as military personnel and firefighters. A US plane arrived at the army base in Campinas to collect the wreckage and entities. Two of these creatures were captured. A military officer, Marco Chereze, who came into physical contact with one died soon after.

We do not know what happened to one of the beings but the other was taken to the regional hospital. The head of neurosurgery, Dr Italo Venturelli, attested last year that he went to consult with one of the beings for several minutes.

He said: ‘He was magnificent and very tranquil. I wondered if he was suffering but he was not. It was like he understood everything I was thinking entirely.’

Many suppose the history of crashed spacecraft begins with the 1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico, when a ranch foreman named Mac Brazel discovered wreckage scattered across a wide area. This included metal beams covered in hieroglyphic symbols.

A police officer in Roswell holds debris of an alleged flying saucer found by ranch foreman Mac Brazel

At a second crash site, the main part of the craft was found with five small, non-human bodies inside. The official explanation was that the debris came from a ‘weather balloon’.

But a crash in Magenta in northern Italy pre-dates that by more than a decade. In 1933, a bell-shaped object was recovered from a site near Milan, though no bodies were found inside. A secret group known as Cabinet RS/33 was established to safeguard the craft and it reported directly to dictator Benito Mussolini.

Telegrams and notes from June 1933 have been discovered, ordering a Press blackout and establishing a detailed protocol for dealing with the object’s recovery. 

At the end of the Second World War, the Office for Strategic Services (the OSS, which was the first US intelligence agency), with the assistance of the Vatican, arranged for the US government to take possession of the craft and to transport it back to an American facility.

Beyond any dispute, the international operations carried out across almost a century to keep this technology away from public sight amount to the world’s greatest ever cover-up. But the technology is only part of it. Even more disturbing is the non-human intelligence behind it.

Five alien species are commonly described in the literature but there are many more that have been reported. Paul Hellyer, the former defence minister of Canada, told me that he had been officially notified that more than 40 different species have been recorded visiting Earth. 

The five main observed types include ‘greys’ which are most commonly depicted in popular culture, described as about 4 ft tall with large, teardrop-shaped heads, wraparound black eyes, no nose or ear protuberances and a straight line for the mouth.

The four other most commonly observed body types include small humanoids; larger, well-built reptilian-like beings; tall, fair Nordic types; and those with a mantid or insectoid appearance.

Dr Eric Davis, an astrophysicist who has worked for the US Department of Defense, confirmed his knowledge of these species at a Congressional event held by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on May 1, 2025.

Many researchers suspect the ‘greys’ are actually androids, arguing they are synthetic beings built to carry out tasks for the real NHIs.

There is a strong argument that today’s UAP encounters echo the content of our fairy tales and folklore, and even of some religious visions. Instead of coming across goblins and fairies, today it is aliens and spaceships.

Witnesses are often deeply affected by what they have seen, but prefer to say little, either for fear of being mocked or in many cases because they have been directly threatened. Sometimes though such events cannot be contained and become breaking news. 

On July 1, 1965, a French lavender farmer named Maurice Masse, in Valensole in the French Basses Alpes, was smoking a cigarette just before starting his tractor for the day’s work when he heard a whistling noise. On the other side of his field, he saw an egg-shaped object resting on four legs.

On July 1, 1965, a French lavender farmer named Maurice Masse, in Valensole in the French Basses Alpes, was smoking a cigarette just before starting his tractor for the day’s work when he heard a whistling noise

Two small boys were squatting nearby in grey-green overalls, looking at the ground. They stood up when he approached. They were about 4 ft tall with bald heads and large slanted eyes. Their mouths had no lips and resembled a small hole.

He claims there was a telepathic exchange, then they pointed a ‘pencil’ at him causing temporary paralysis.

The craft took off at speed and, once he was free to move, he inspected the place where it had stood. The legs of the craft had left indentations in the ground. The local gendarmerie from Digne came to investigate and alerted government agents who concluded that Masse was not lying.

From then on the landing site, damaged and charred, would only grow weeds. Madame Masse told investigators that her husband thought about these beings every day and that it was a profound experience, something that should not be discussed with anyone. He shied away from media attention but his story quickly spread and was reported in the Washington Post four days later.

A UAP investigator named Jacques Vallee who interviewed Masse wrote: ‘The Valensole case is the best authenticated close encounter incident in continental Europe. It involved hard traces, botanical data, physiological data, and detailed descriptions of beings associated with the object.’

There are also claims of official contact, the most common being that arrangements were made for US president Dwight D Eisenhower to meet a group of extraterrestrials in 1954 at Edwards/Muroc Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert in California.

On another occasion president George HW Bush was informed, when he became director of the CIA, that a craft had landed at Holloman Air Force Base and a tall humanoid of Nordic appearance emerged and met with several uniformed and CIA officers. The Holloman contact was filmed but Bush was not allowed to view it.

The astronaut Gordon Cooper (who flew on the 1963 Mercury-Atlas 9 mission and 1965’s Gemini 5) was present on another occasion when a saucer allegedly landed at Edwards base in May 1957.

He and a crew had set up a Cinetheodolite precision-landing system on a dry lakebed – a system that could take pictures at the rate of 30 frames per second – for an exercise that had nothing to do with UAPs.

Later in the morning they saw a saucer hovering above them. It landed 160 ft away using three extended landing gears. As they approached to get a better view, the landing gears were retracted and the craft took off. Cooper, who was very familiar with experimental aircraft, had never seen technology like this.

When Cooper held the negative print up to the light, he observed that the quality of the photography was excellent. The film was speedily collected by an agent who arrived by special plane. Cooper never heard any more about the matter.

As Marco Rubio has said, why should a highly trained man like that, or his colleagues, lie about such an incident?

But perhaps the accounts that are hardest to dismiss are the mass sightings. On September 16, 1994, more than 60 children at a private elementary school in Ruwa, 12 miles outside Harare in Zimbabwe, were taking a mid-morning break while their teachers were in a staff meeting.

Suddenly, several silver spheres came out of the sky and seemed to vanish and reappear. The largest object came down, hovered and landed on a hill by some gum trees just outside their schoolyard.

The children, aged six to 12, saw one or two small men, about 3 ft tall, dark grey with long black hair, large black almond eyes and tight black suits, atop the craft.

Next day, the headmaster Colin Mackie asked them to draw what they had seen. He received 35 drawings, all very similar.

The BBC’s Zimbabwe correspondent, Tim Leach, was the first to arrive to film interviews. Leach later said: ‘I could handle war zones, but I could not handle this.’

He edited his report and sent the tape to London for BBC News but the tape went missing and he had to prepare a further one – but not before, he said, he had received veiled threats to ‘be very careful’ from a source whom he suspected was working with the CIA.

Several children said they had received telepathic information from the visitors. Lisel, 11, said: ‘I received through the being’s eyes the message that we are not taking care of the planet.’

That message could not be more benign. But the implications for humankind may not be. These craft are present in our skies and oceans in increasing numbers and no government today has any real idea of their agenda.

A race is underway between the superpowers to unlock their scientific secrets which may alter our worldview and our concepts of consciousness and reality.

China is known to have advanced UAP programmes with fewer restrictions on funding and better co-operation between scientists dealing with different projects.

In December 2012, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev was recorded off-air telling a journalist that Vladimir Putin receives a regular report prepared by the special service ‘devoted to the strangers who visit our planet’.

This secret government agency concerns ‘the control of aliens in our country’. He said he could not talk about how many were among us because ‘panic will begin’.

He did not appear to be joking.

• Adapted from Not For Disclosure by Jonathan Caplan (Century, £22), to be published June 11. © Jonathan Caplan 2026. To order a copy for £19.80 (offer valid to 13/06/26; UK P&P free on orders over £25) go to www.mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.

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UFO hype explodes after White House tease

Marcus Walsh - Journalist

Angels and aliens.

Image by Cybernews.

This week, The Cosmic report rounds up a cryptic White House UFO post, as well as disclosure statements from a former director of aviation security and a NASA administrator.

UFO communities have been left feeling intrigued and bewildered, after the White House posted a video on their official X account, showing an otherworldly terrain, coupled with the question, “Are you listening?”

In what feels like a Hollywood movie trailer, the enigmatic offering heightened a sense of uneasiness on social media, whilst failing to clear anything further up in the UAP disclosure movement.

“What’s with the cryptic message? Just be direct with the people,” said one poster.

What's with the cryptic messages? Just be direct with the people.

undefined Inspector Investor (@InspectInvest) May 28, 2026

And, as the White House has a previous form for posting AI generated videos – which this one could well be too – the sense of ridicule was highest on the X platform.

In response to another White House video of a progress bar loading, a flurry of alien memes followed.

Here…I’ll start it RIGHT NOW!!! pic.twitter.com/Kt0KyzS9TZ

undefined Max Kole (@MaxKole1) May 28, 2026

Only time will tell if these teasers were actually worth it in case of meaningful disclosure.

UFOs not made by humans

While much of the disclosure movement whispers about the possibility of reverse engineering programs – private contractors decoding the physics of crashed UFO craft – it’s rare for a spokesperson to openly dispel such a myth.

Former Director of Aviation Security Brett Feddersen has stated the seemingly obvious by claiming that humans are not responsible for the design of UFOs.

This type of technology is not man-made. It’s nothing that we can build, or have built, or are using out there.

In an attempt to comb over his intentions, one Redditor explained that because Feddersen currently works for D-Fend Solutions, a company that sells anti-drone and airspace security technology, the corporation directly benefits.

With major upcoming events like the soccer World Cup (held in the US, Canada, and Mexico), the military and aviation companies may “buy more counter-aerial technology, and as a high-level executive at one of the leading firms in this space, corporate growth directly benefits his position,” explained one Redditor.

In other words, by raising fear among the public, the drone industry can greatly benefit. Makes sense.

Praise for Trump

Meanwhile, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has praised President Donald Trump for committing to UFO disclosure, claiming that previous administrations didn’t do enough.

“Government agencies really didn't take this quite as seriously in the past until President Trump put out the tweet,” Isaacman told Fox News.

And as per usual, there were insights shared among the Reddit community, with one user asking, “maybe they have given it so little attention because the phenomenon is so elusive it's more or less impossible to study.”

So Little attention. Screenshot from Reddit.

And another UFOer pointed out “the anti-intellectual train is unstoppable at this point.”

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Although the team behind the model reported no scenarios that resulted in a complete Lord of the Flies-level breakdown of crew cooperation, they said that their simulations explored the internal human and external environmental factors “that are more likely to lead to sustainable versus catastrophic scenarios on the Moon in the next couple of decades,” including planned NASA missions to the Moon and Mars as well as the burgeoning commercial space market.

Virtual Astronauts Evaluated on Task Performance

In a published paper detailing the study’s results, the George Mason University team behind the Lunar Base simulations noted that recent technological advancements and the emergence of the burgeoning commercial space industry “have led to substantial leaps in planning for future space missions.”

“The largest planned upcoming mission is the Artemis program, supported by NASA and the international Artemis Accords, which aims to create the first permanent human presence on the Moon and in deep space (the Moon to Mars architecture),” the study authors explain.

While engineers will test and plan for potential equipment failures, the authors also note that the success of any future base on the Moon, Mars, in orbit, or elsewhere in deep space will depend on how well the astronauts interact with each other in an extremely challenging environment. This gap led researcher Raymond Vera and colleagues at George Mason University in Virginia, USA, to develop their agent-based module (ABM) simulation tool for the Lunar Base.

According to the study authors, the model’s main objective is to “simulate a theoretical lunar mission environment” including the primary surface habitat (Moon Base) and the orbiting Gateway station, “for astronauts to perform relevant space mission tasks.”

“The successful completion of the mission is measured by task performance, which is significantly influenced by cognitive skills, psychological state, and interpersonal relationships, in addition to the exogenous factors of the extreme environment,” they explain.

Different Personality Types and Skillsets Improve Simulation Accuracy

To make their simulated astronauts as realistic as possible, the George Mason team said they randomly assigned each one with “DISC personality types” such as dominant, influential, steady, or conscientious. The virtual astronauts were also given different professional skills, physical health parameters, and what the researchers termed “other characteristics.”

With their virtual astronauts programmed and ready, Vera’s team had to create the perfect simulated Moon base, complete with task assignments, base operations requirements, and environmental factors gleaned from previous isolated, extreme environment missions and simulations.

“Drawing from the literature on proxy environments (extreme environments on Earth (i.e., Antarctica), space analogs, and past space missions), and on theories of small group complex systems and team science, we created a highly probable representation or simulation of expected social interactions between astronauts, and astronauts with the lunar environment for the Artemis program (i.e., Artemis IV (Lunar Gateway) and Artemis V (Lunar South Pole Base)),” the study authors explained.

Like real humans, the virtual astronauts learned to adapt over time in response to interpersonal dynamics and environmental conditions, becoming more efficient at performing routine tasks. These improvements resulted in the virtual astronauts advancing in skill level over time.

When the virtual astronauts experienced more extreme events, such as simulated radiation or moonquakes, they showed increased signs of stress, including reduced coping capacity and higher tension levels. The researchers said this convergence of stresses and reduced coping capacity can add up over time, resulting in an “emotional penalty that is applied multiplicatively to the task execution likelihood.”

“Scenario analysis shows that increasing crew size results in optimizing skill specialization and increasing the chance of teamwork personality compatibility,” the team explained in their findings. “In contrast, prolonged mission durations, higher learning rates, and the absence of astronaut replacements introduces additional psychological stress resulting in a decrease of task performance.”

Human Factors Increasingly Important in the Commercial 21st Century Space Age

The researchers suggested that future efforts could include examining the physiological effects of extended space missions and communication delays with Earth, which can reach several minutes depending on the base’s distance.

When discussing the implications of their work, the team said that using simulations like theirs “demonstrates how agent-based modeling can help mission planners evaluate operational resilience, team structures, and workload dynamics in support of future lunar exploration.”

“As humanity prepares to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, understanding human behavior becomes just as important as understanding engineering systems,” the study authors conclude. “Although human psychology and team science have been crucial for the success of past space missions, from the Apollo program and Skylab to the Space Shuttle (STS) and the International Space Station (ISS), human factors and social behavior will become even more ubiquitous and essential for space missions in the new era of commercial space.”

• The study “Lunar base agent-based modeling – A benchmark for simulating crewed space missions” was published in PLOS One.
•  Christopher Plain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy novelist and Head Science Writer at The Debrief. Follow and connect with him on X, learn about his books at plainfiction.com, or email him directly at christopher@thedebrief.org.

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NASA readies the X-59 for its first supersonic flight, SpaceX's Starship grounded and more science stories

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This week, NASA shared more information about its planned moon base missions, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on the launchpad and the James Webb Space Telescope spotted a supermassive black hole that researchers say "may have formed within the first second after the big bang." But first, we have updates on NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research plane and SpaceX's Starship following last week's test flight. Catch up here on this week's science news.

Key test flights approach for NASA's quiet supersonic plane

Over the last decade, NASA has been developing an aircraft that could one day reach supersonic speeds — or travel faster than the speed of sound — without producing the thunderous sonic booms typically associated with this feat. The plane, called the X-59, took its first ever flight back in October and has conducted several more in the months since. Now, NASA says it's ready to go supersonic. The X-59 is scheduled to take its first supersonic flight, hitting over 630 mph at an altitude of about 43,000 feet, in early June, according to the space agency./

55,000 feet. After that, it'll go for its max speed: Mach 1.6, or 1,218 mph, at an altitude of 60,000 feet. NASA isn't ready to show off the X-59's quiet supersonic capabilities yet, though. For this phase of testing, NASA noted in a blog post, "The X-59 will be accompanied by a traditional supersonic chase plane, so any quiet thump it produces in the current phase of testing will be obscured by louder, traditional sonic booms from the chase."

FAA grounds Starship after 'mishap'

SpaceX's Starship V3 launched for the first time last week in a test flight that achieved much of what the company set out to do. But, it wasn't entirely without hiccups, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has since ordered a pause on Starship flights while it investigates what went wrong and prevented the Super Heavy booster from making a soft splashdown as intended.

The issue arose after Starship separated from Super Heavy. "Following stage separation, the Super Heavy booster performed a directional flip maneuver and attempted its boostback burn," SpaceX explained in a blog post following the launch. "It was unable to light all planned engines and performed a partial boostback burn that ended early. Super Heavy attempted to reignite its engines for the landing burn before experiencing a hard splashdown in the Gulf of America." Starship went on to complete its journey and splashed down at the planned site in the Indian Ocean.

"After a thorough assessment of the operation, the FAA has determined the May 22 SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch resulted in a mishap," the agency said in a statement released this week. "The mishap involved the Super Heavy booster as it flew back to the Gulf of America after stage separation. There are no reports of public injury or damage to public property." It added, "The FAA is requiring SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation. The FAA will oversee the SpaceX-led investigation, be involved in every step of the process, and approve SpaceX's final report, including any corrective actions."

It's not an uncommon move on the FAA's part, and SpaceX has faced several such groundings over the years, many of which have been wrapped up fairly quickly. It likely won't be very long before we see Starship back in action. "A return to flight of the Starship-Super Heavy vehicle is based on the FAA determining that any system, process, or procedure related to the mishap does not affect public safety," the FAA noted in its statement.

The FAA grounded SpaceX competitor Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket last month following its third mission, and it was just cleared earlier this week to resume flights. But, during a hotfire test on Friday, New Glenn exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. You can read more about that below.

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Secretly filmed UFO doc reveals insider video as officials release new alien records: 'Something is imminent'

Jeremy Corbell attends the 'The UFO Reality: What Do We Know? What Might We Find Out?' panel at AlienCon 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, Calif., on March 4, 2023.

The documentary — which was filmed in secret over the span of several years — also reveals previously unreleased footage from Corbell’s investigations and includes interviews from several prominent names in the movement, including astronaut Edgar Mitchell, David Grusch and George Knapp. 

"[Corbell] revealed a bunch of videos that he had access to that ended up being a part of the Department of War's UAP file drop — which was fascinating. So he's in the know," Josh Golembeske, senior director of production at Gaia and guest host of the series "Cosmic Disclosure," told Fox News Digital. 

Corbell has spent 14 years compiling UAP-related secrets at a time when information surrounding the phenomenon has been met with public skepticism and government pushback.

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The result of his efforts has been far-reaching, with experts pointing to a newfound sense of legitimacy toward UAP footage and documentation. 

"The evidence is overwhelming that we’re being visited," Golembeske said. "There’s been a lid put on it."

The film comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s push for federal transparency pertaining to UAPs, with a second batch of declassified documents released by the Department of War last week.

"There's been a long push from the public and behind the scenes to get to this moment," Golembeske said. "That push also leaked into the [Trump] administration. So now this administration is more open to it." 

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While Golembeske has long advocated for full federal transparency, he believes that the current method of controlled information releases by officials is the best way to acclimate the public to news of UAP discoveries and sightings.

"I think this is a slow drip disclosure, and you could argue it's compassionate disclosure," Golembeske told Fox News Digital. "This is actually how I would do it, because I know that people are going to be shocked and I wouldn't just drop everything on them."

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However, Golembeske cautions against officials using the releases to negatively portray the possibility of alien life, potentially skewing the public perception of otherworldly beings and technology.

"I like what I'm seeing now, but I worry about a fear-based disclosure versus a hope-based disclosure," Golembeske said. "Part of my mission here and part of my mission at Gaia is to empower the evolution of consciousness – and all the evidence suggests there is nothing to fear." 

In light of the renewed interest in UAP disclosure and discovery – along with high-profile documentary releases, such as "Sleeping Dog" – Golembeske remains optimistic that the narrative surrounding UFOs will continue to gain traction nationwide.

"I wouldn't have said this five years ago, but it feels like something is imminent," Golembeske told Fox News Digital. "It does feel like we're building towards a moment and the genie can't be put back in the bottle – I think it's gone too far." 

Fox News Digital reached out to Corbell and the film's distributor, Falcon Scout Media, for comment.

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