Black Disk Seen Near Mercury mission while in orbit, 1961, UFO UAP Sighting News.

Date of discovery: June 28, 2026

Date of event: Sept 13, 1961

Location of discovery: Earths atmosphere 

Source: 

• https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/Mercury/4/9

 

This is a UFO disk caught in a single frame of film from the 1961 Mercury mission. This mission was a crucial uncrewed test flight of NASA's Project Mercury program. It successfully completed one orbit around the Earth, evaluating spacecraft performance and testing the global tracking network, which paved the way for crewed orbital flights. 

 

On the far left of the photo there is a grey dark metal disk. I estimate its size to be about 12 meters across. It makes sense that aliens would want to observe NASA missions. Aliens don't like gold or diamonds, their wealth is knowledge. So...thats why they observe to see, research and record something new in human history that others of their species will find fascinating. You see, most alien species are so old, they have lost their own history millions of years ago. So they experiment with us, since some of them are our creators. 

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US military stumped by UFO sightings over bases: Ex-defense official

by Michael Ramsey and Ashley N. Soriano 

(NewsNation) — Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) disclosure advocate Christopher Mellon says a large part of the discussion about UFOs hinges on incursions over American military bases and the possibility that adversaries are using drones or another tech to surveil the U.S.

“I’m sorry to say these kind of incursions have been happening at bases all over the United States and overseas. It isn’t as widely known as it ought to be,” Mellon, a former senior official in the Defense Department, told “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” on Thursday.

He estimates hundreds of incidents occur annually that baffle military leaders. In one series of events, Mellon said, UAP violated airspace over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia for 17 days straight, prompting officials to move a squadron of jets.

“If the air combat command at Langley can’t control its own airspace, then you wonder how effectively they could protect Washington,” he noted.

Fight for UFO disclosure

Mellon was the keynote speaker Thursday at a UFO public disclosure forum, in which he said, “Some objects were deliberately trying to provoke us. It’s happened with our navy ships at sea.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (D-Fla.) says credible people want the public to know about recovered, non-human spacecraft and biologics, but they are worried about retribution, so she’s working to get them immunity.

“We know there have been credible whistleblowers … but they are worried about losing their clearances,” she said.

She will provide a list to Congress of people who should be granted immunity.

Mellon says it’s only a matter of time until the public gets the full disclosure.

In some cases, the unidentified objects could be drones, and in some cases, they could be more advanced technology, Mellon says. It’s been going on for decades, dating back to World War II. “It was not as much in our face as we’ve been experiencing lately,” he says.

The Pentagon, which has released some files tied to UAPs at the direction of President Trump, is seemingly mystified.

The U.S. Air Force once paid CU Boulder to study UFOs. Here’s what it found.

Richard Sigismond, shown here in 1983, was a Boulder resident who believed that UFOs are piloted by extraterrestrials.

Carnegie Library for Local History/Daily Camera Collection

In 1966, the U.S. Air Force funded a study at the University of Colorado Boulder to determine whether unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were extraterrestrial. CU astrophysicist Dr. Edward U. Condon studied reports of flying saucers and other mysterious airborne objects and declared them largely unfounded. A few years later, Boulder resident and social psychologist Richard Sigismond refuted Condon’s conclusions. 

UFOs now are called unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). They face new scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as the general public. Now is a good time to look up — and look back — to see how Boulder fits into this “twilight zone” mystery. 

For centuries, people have questioned unidentified objects seen in the sky. Nearly a century ago, in 1938, announcer Orson Welles caused a nationwide panic when he breathlessly interrupted his own radio show with descriptions of creatures emerging from an alien spacecraft on a farm in New Jersey. Although he prefaced his show with a statement that the following program was science fiction, his “War of the Worlds” episode caused panic among many listeners who believed that alien invaders had even taken over the streets of New York City.

It wasn’t until July 8, 1947, however, that the Daily Camera published multiple reports of “mysterious flying discs” in Boulder County. The objects were said to have been very bright and to move erratically. Some had pulsating red lights.

Prompting the reports was a questionable (and later refuted) report that personnel from the Roswell Army Airfield, in Roswell, New Mexico, had captured a “flying saucer” on a local ranch. Like Welles’ radio show, the “news” was splashed all over the country.

The day of the “capture” in Roswell, a Boulder newspaper writer stated, “The first report of a ‘flying disc’ over Boulder was made today. Mrs. Ernestine Pettengill, of 1354 Arapahoe, and a friend, Mrs. Ruth Bradley of Los Angeles, were walking near 15th and Grove streets at 10:30 Monday night when they saw one of the mysterious objects which have aroused nationwide curiosity.”

According to Mrs. Pettengill’s description, the object was “blue in the center and white around the edge. It was round, flat, and quite bright.” She then added, “I had been very skeptical of the talk about flying discs until I saw one myself.” 

The local press, for years, continued to publish similar accounts. In 1960, Boulder County resident Ray Hawks was driving a tractor in Left Hand Canyon and watched a “flying saucer” hover for about 15 minutes. Hawks claimed that his tractor suddenly didn’t work, and the “saucer” made an “off-beat humming noise and exuded a kind of bluish smoke.”

He then told a newspaper writer, “I thought the reports of these strange aircraft were a lot of hogwash. I know better now. I was really shaken by this experience.”

In 1966, the U.S. Air Force commissioned a formal investigation headed by astrophysicist Dr. Edward U. Condon at the University of Colorado, in Boulder. The study’s purpose was to produce an unbiased scientific investigation into the possibility that unidentified flying objects may be of extraterrestrial origin.  

Look magazine came out with two articles critical of Condon’s research. The first writer, in 1967, stated, “The UFO conflict long since has escalated into a religious war, with ‘believers’ on one side and ‘nonbelievers’ on the other, and Heaven help the agnostics like Dr. Condon, who say they don’t know what to believe and try to find out through logic and inquiry.”

Condon’s $500,000 “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects” was released in 1968. “Our general conclusion,” he stated, “is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to science knowledge.” Another Look magazine article in 1968 called the study a “fiasco” and claimed that it was not objective.

Watching Condon’s study unfold was Boulder resident Richard Sigismond, who stated in a 1985 interview with the Daily Camera that he was a social scientist, a ufologist, and a senior investigator with CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies). He explained that his job was to “seek intelligent life — elsewhere.” He traveled (at his own expense) to sighting locations and often hypnotized individuals who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. 

Sigismond said he had examined cattle mutilations, listened to traumatized witnesses and personally experienced two “close encounters,” but he had never met an extraterrestrial. Of that possibility, he told his interviewer, “I cannot help but feel that I would be in awe of them, respectful of their advances in physics that we haven’t quite yet dreamed of.” He died in 2018 at the age of 89.

Today, the controversy continues, with new sightings still being reported, and “little green men” perpetuated in pop culture. Perhaps a new generation of “believers” and “nonbelievers” will come up with some answers. Some would say that the answer is still up in the air. 

Graffiti Wall at Mauerpark in Berlin, Germany, plays on the image of “little green men.” 2020.

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Garnets are found in a Martian meteorite

On Earth, garnet is best known as the bright red birthstone for January—widely used in jewelry since the Bronze Age and highly valued by the ancient Egyptians. A team of scientists has now identified a new type of rock containing garnet within a fragment of a meteorite originating from Mars. 

Garnet crystal. Source: Wikipedia

Minerals preserve history

Although garnet is relatively common on Earth, its existence on Mars had previously only been hypothesized, with rare microscopic inclusions found in Martian meteorites formed during their ejection from the planet. This is the first time the mineral has been identified in a rock that may have formed directly within the Martian crust. 

Mars has been the target of numerous exploration missions since the 1960s, using orbiters, landers, and rovers. While the search for signs of past life has driven much of this effort, it is the planet’s inorganic components—its rocks and minerals—that preserve a record of its 4.5-billion-year history.

Minerals and rocks form through complex interactions between the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and even biological activity. Detailed analysis of newly discovered rocks and minerals can help scientists understand how the planet’s geological processes, climate, and potential habitability have evolved over time.

Andradite garnet formed in metamorphic environments

Garnets are a group of minerals that share the same crystal structure but have a wide range of chemical compositions. Some of the most common varieties in this group include almandine and pyrope (deep red January birthstones), as well as andradite and grossular.

The rock identified by researchers contains the garnet variety andradite. It can occur in different colors, but is most commonly yellow or green. It has also been used as a gemstone, sometimes referred to as “demantoid.” On Earth, andradite garnets are typically found in metamorphic rocks known as skarns, which form through intense heating and fluid–rock interaction.

Metamorphic environments on Earth are widespread and diverse due to active plate tectonics, which subjects rocks to extreme pressure and temperature during mountain-building and subduction processes. Mars, by contrast, lacks plate tectonics, and therefore the extent and nature of Martian metamorphism remain largely speculative and limited.

The garnet-bearing fragment of rock that was discovered may indicate a previously unknown metamorphic process on Mars, challenging our current understanding of the range of geological conditions on the Red Planet. It could also have formed in a new type of igneous rock, crystallizing from lava or magma that has never been observed on Mars before. However, despite these exciting possibilities, many uncertainties regarding the origin and formation of the garnet still remain.

Ancient meteorite impact

The meteorite containing andradite garnet, known as NWA 8171, was found in the Sahara Desert in northwestern Africa (NWA) in 2013.

Several pieces of this meteorite are now housed in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, including the fragment analyzed by scientists. NWA 8171 is one of 18 Martian meteorites that all originate from the same impact event. The most famous of these is NWA 7034, informally known as “Black Beauty.”

All 18 paired fragments have been confirmed as Martian based on matching trapped noble gases with the Martian atmosphere, as well as their mineral chemistry and overall oxygen isotopic compositions. Oxygen isotopic signatures act like unique planetary fingerprints and are widely used to determine the origin of planetary materials.

NWA 8171 also belongs to a class of meteorites known as Martian polymict regolith breccias. In essence, these meteorites are composed of a mixture of different rock fragments that were broken apart and reassembled on or near the surface of Mars as a result of ancient impact events.

Evidence for Martian origin

Although it has been confirmed that NWA 8171 originates from Mars, determining whether the garnet-bearing fragment also formed on Mars is more challenging. However, the evidence for a Martian origin is fairly strong and includes:

1. The chemical composition of pyroxene grains associated with the garnet closely matches typical Martian values. While not as definitive as oxygen isotopes, pyroxene chemistry is often used as a planetary provenance indicator.
2. The textures and mineralogy of the garnet-bearing fragment are consistent with other materials observed in NWA 8171.
3. The fragment is embedded within a Martian meteorite. While this may seem obvious, it is nevertheless a significant point that should not be underestimated.

Possible exotic meteorites

However, as mentioned above, NWA 8171 is composed of a mixture of rock components, likely assembled on or near the surface of ancient Mars as a result of meteorite impacts. Some of these components could technically include preserved fragments of exotic “non-Martian” meteorites originating elsewhere. 

Because of these complexities and the novelty of this garnet-rich rock type, it will likely be necessary to measure oxygen isotopes directly within the fragment to confirm its origin. This type of analysis is destructive, so it has been avoided while other investigations are ongoing.

Regardless of its origin, the discovery of garnet in this meteorite sample will provide new insights into geological processes on Mars and/or into meteorite impacts and material transport within the inner Solar System.

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Mars Structure Found By NASA Rover! June 27, 2026, UFO UAP Paranormal Sighting News.

Date of discovery: June 27, 2026

Location of discovery: Mars 

Source:

•  https://gigapan.com/gigapans/239211

 

Hey I have a question. How the hell does NASA rover not see these ancient signs of intelligent life? Does NASA have any intelligent life in their own headquarters? I mean the rover was just meters away from this structure with a doorway, its just plain as day. Maybe we can't blame them, maybe they were busy on their phones at the time and missed all the rover saw that day. 

 

This structure is like an early human house, but made from a clay stucco type of material which is easily found on the red planet because the clay is red too, Mars has abundance of this stuff. What looks like cut boulders is actually clay type walls and entrance way made by intelligent beings who needed protection from the elements. We had them on Earth long ago, and they had them on Mars long ago. Chances of intelligent beings creating this structure...100%. 

Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily

 

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n the screenshot above, did you notice that a brick has been placed into a hole area that might have been used for air or ventilation? Brick is standing up pushed into a hole in the wall on the far left of upper screenshot. 

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Green Disk Over Danvers, Massachusetts, USA June 12, 2026, UFO UAP Paranormal Sighting News.

Date of sighting: June 12, 2026

Location of sighting: Danvers, Massachusetts, USA

Source: NUFORC

 

This is one of several UFO disk the eyewitness saw flying down to the ground and disappearing in the tree line before ever touching the ground. Whats happening here is that the alien craft are actually flying down to a location where an underground base will lock on to them and open a shaft in the ground...which a tractor beam catches and slowly lowers the UFO, but understand, by this time the UFO was already cloaked and invisible, thus not seen flying lower behind tree line. This is absolute proof that an alien base sits 5 miles underground below Danvers, Massachusetts. 

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UFO Over Redondo Beach, California June 11, 2026, UAP Paranormal Sighting Breaking News.

Date of sighting: June 11, 2026

Location of sighting: Redondo Beach, California, USA

Source: NUFORC website

 

Wow! That UFO flashes super bright like it was yelling with its inner light source at the world. This is a UFO that wants to be seen. Aliens know that US President Trump is releasing files and they want to push the agenda faster. Here we have such an example. UFOs love LAX and I myself have recorded them on the live cam years ago. Aliens love the high tech that flies and they also know that they will show up on radar to give little surprises and evidence to air traffic controllers in order to get proof of alien life to the public. This is 100% proof that aliens buzz over California frequently and over huge populated areas!

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Ancient Sumerian Scorpion Tomb Found! Over 5,000 Years Old, UFO UAP Archeology Sighting News.

          

 

Date of discovery: June 26, 2026

Location of discovery: Iraq

Coordinates: 34°32'24.29"N 43°05'24.44"E

 

While using Google Earth map I found something in Iraq which goes back to the times of ancient Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations. There is a scorpion shaped tomb that has gone undiscovered for thousands of years and there it is, plain as day on the Google map. So take a look at the video and search some information about it. 

 

The scorpion tomb measures 200 yards by 100 yards across. Thats big for 5,000 years ago! 

In Sumerian and Babylonian tradition, a married pair of giant Scorpion-Men stand guard at Mount Mashu. They guard the gates of the sun god, Shamash, which leads into the underworld. Sounds like aliens, who have a base underground. 

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The Scorpion Men Mystery — Ancient Sumer’s Forbidden Guardians Were Terrifyingly Real

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A horseback rider has discovered hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of solar-powered devices arranged in a deliberate pattern across the slopes of California's Mount Shasta. 

As the rider moves through the area, many of the devices can be heard emitting a constant white noise-like sound. Some also appear to broadcast what resembles a human voice. The units are spread over a large section of the mountain and become audible only when you are within a certain distance of them. 

The objects appear to be spaced at fairly regular intervals, which is exactly what you would expect if they were intended to provide uniform sound coverage, consistent electromagnetic coverage, or systematic environmental monitoring. 

Mount Shasta has long been associated with legends of Lemurians, UFOs, mysterious energy vortices, and spiritual retreats. Because of its reputation, the discovery has naturally sparked speculation. Some believe the devices may have been installed by a spiritual group to play chants or meditation recordings. Others have proposed more extraordinary possibilities, suggesting they were intended to attract UFOs, communicate with non-human intelligences, conceal secret activities, or serve another paranormal purpose. However, there is no evidence to support these claims. 

Another suggestion is that the devices may not be conventional speakers at all, but solar-powered mantra players. This idea also remains unverified. 

Whatever their true purpose, the presence of so many of these devices scattered across Mount Shasta raises intriguing questions and suggests they were placed there for a specific reason. 

The horseback rider humorously dubbed the mysterious installation the "Lemurian Beacon System."

  

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While Perseverance’s latest appearance reveals little more than a greenish spec on the planet’s rust-colored surface, also visible in the new images are the long path its formidable tires have left in the Martian soil as the robotic explorer has trekked west of its initial landing site.

The new images, captured on June 13, 2026, were taken just one day before Perseverance broke the previous distance record held by a robotic explorer on Mars: NASA’s Opportunity rover.

However, Perseverance completed this phase of its journey in record time compared to its predecessor, which took more than 11 years to traverse a similar distance. Perseverance, by contrast, covered the same distance in less than half that time, with just five years and four months of travel now behind it.

In the image above, NASA’s Perseverance Rover appears in the center of the image as a small, greyish-green reflective spot. Also visible are the impressions left by its all-terrain tires, revealing the robotic rover’s long path over the last several years of Martian exploration

(Image Credit: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

The images were made possible by the MROs’ High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, which also captured surface features in the Arbot area that include ridges and windswept areas along Mars’ rugged exterior.

Built and operated by the University of Arizona, HiRISE captures images with resolutions as fine as about 25 centimeters (10 inches) per pixel, allowing researchers to distinguish features roughly the size of a kitchen table from orbit. The camera has returned hundreds of thousands of detailed images since the MRO arrived at Mars two decades ago, contributing to a growing data set that has transformed scientists’ understanding of the Red Planet.

Additional details about Perseverance and its mission can be found at NASA’s official web page, and information about the MRO can be found here.

• Micah Hanks is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of The Debrief. A longtime reporter on science, defense, and technology with a focus on space and astronomy, he can be reached at micah@thedebrief.org. Follow him on X @MicahHanks, and at micahhanks.com.

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NASA Has a Major Problem Threatening Its Entire Moon Plans

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To get SpaceX’s mammoth Starship all the way to the Moon and back with astronauts on board will require an enormous amount of fuel.

Over a period of eight days, Elon Musk’s space company will need to launch at least 15 of them to fully load a fuel depot in low-Earth orbit. That fuel will then have to be transferred into a separately-launched Human Landing System variant of the spacecraft that astronauts will board before descending to the lunar surface.

Needless to say, SpaceX certainly has its work cut out to have its Starship ready for NASA’s Artemis 4 mission in 2028, the first crewed attempt to land on the Moon since 1972 — let alone dramatically increasing its launch cadence, as it has yet to launch and safely land the rocket.

It gets worse. Now, the space agency’s watchdog says there’s an even bigger problem that could threaten NASA’s ambitious plans. According to a new report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), “NASA’s launch infrastructure is dated and lacks the capacity to meet the growing demands of the Agency and government and commercial partners.”

A major surge in commercial launches has put the launch pads at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia under major strain. And simply building more pads is far easier said than done. Growing “demand for super heavy-lift launch vehicles” is “driving the need for additional launch pads that can accommodate these vehicles, but locations for new launch pads are limited and will require extensive time and resources to develop,” the OIG frets.

Meanwhile, electrical power distribution is “being used beyond its design life and needs to be upgraded,” while the infrastructure for fuel components, like nitrogen and helium, could also “lead to delays.” Even the roadways around Kennedy were “not designed to accommodate the volume, frequency, and weight of modern heavy transport operations.” And declining budgets for maintenance and construction have resulted in lagging infrastructure that exacerbate it all.

The news comes after the Federal Aviation Administration approved SpaceX to launch its Starship from launch complex 39A, from which many Apollo and Space Shuttle program missions launched starting in the 1960s. Musk’s company is hoping to greatly expand the complex for its enormous spacecraft, including the addition of the many necessary structures on top of the launch pad, like towers and fuel tanks.

Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, which NASA has also selected to develop a competing Human Landing Systems spacecraft for the Moon landing, will also need plenty of space and capacity for launching its powerful New Glenn rocket, further complicating matters.

In short, as the OIG notes in its report, NASA and its commercial partners need to make some major changes to ensure that the Artemis Moon program remains on track.

And that certainly doesn’t bode well, considering the development of both New Glenn and Starship are already running into numerous delays and failed test launches.

More on Artemis: 

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EXCLUSIVE - I saw unreleased UFO files at a secret meeting in the Tennessee mountains. We prayed after seeing what these 'humanoid beings' did... the world is not prepared

By CHRIS MELORE, US DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR

A pastor who claims he was whisked away to a secret UFO disclosure gathering in the Tennessee mountains has revealed chilling new details about the evidence he was shown. 

Last month, the Daily Mail first reported that private meeting of intelligence insiders, former military and faith leaders was said to have taken place in February ahead of the government's release of its 'UFO files', a collection of declassified records concerning unidentified flying objects.

One of the supposed attendees, Pastor Joseph Zupetz, has disclosed vivid new details about what he saw, warning that the UFO files released by the Trump administration so far are nothing compared to what is still to come.

Far removed from the grainy, blurry UFO footage previously released by the government, Zupetz said he and five other Christian influencers were shown images of non-human beings that were startlingly clear and sent chills down his spine. 

The pastor said the secretive meeting, whose attendees he declined to identify, was organized by 'personnel now working within groups that investigate non-human intelligence issues involving UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) and reverse-engineered craft.' 

'I was shown images that some of the people who were presenting to us had on their devices of real entities that they personally took photos of,' Zupetz told the Daily Mail.

'They took images of entities standing in the woods. They were very tall, they had very long appendages, some of them almost looked, and this is a crude way of saying it, almost like humanoid squid-type things.'

Congress recently requested 46 UFO videos from the Department of War, including one that viewers have claimed shows an angel flapping its wings

He claimed that other images featured 'tall, lanky, light beings,' with some completely see-through. 

Then, after leaving the two-hour meeting and boarding his flight back to Colorado, he noticed several glowing orbs hovering in the sky in the distance.

He recorded the strange encounter and shared the footage with the Daily Mail.

UAP UFO disclosure

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Zupetz said that during the flight, the plane was shaken so violently that he and other passengers began to pray.

When they looked back out the window, the orbs were gone from their view.

'We were flying in an aircraft, and we truly had an encounter with six orbs right outside the plane,' he said.

'We began to pray, and it stopped trembling. I thought that was very interesting. Now, maybe it was just turbulence, and we had a psychosomatic episode.' 

But, according to the pastor, he is convinced it was demonic and fears the encounter was linked to the meeting he had just attended. 

'Here I am, a faith-filled believer, and I'm seeing this, and it's making me question, like, okay, what is this? Is this demons? Is this angels? Is it high-level tech?' the pastor said.

Zupetz was one of several influential faith leaders who claimed to have attended private meetings held in Tennessee in February, where former government officials warned that information expected to be released this year could have profound implications for Christian beliefs.

The Daily Mail could not confirm that the meetings took place. But the evangelist Tony Merkel told us that he helped organize the meeting and was also in attendance.

Pastor Joseph Zuptz says he attended one of three secret meetings between faith leaders and former intelligence officials who believe UFO disclosure will shake the Christian faith

Faith leaders at multiple secret meetings throughout the US were allegedly shown images of real extraterrestrials, including a squid-like being with long limbs (Stock Image)

Merkel said the idea was to bring in key ministers who have a large reach within the Christian community to prepare people of faith for the potential disclosure of aliens.

On June 12, the third tranche of declassified files was released to the public, containing hundreds of pages of documents, images, videos and even audio recordings from NASA space flights.

However, Zupetz has admitted that he and his followers have not been shocked or convinced that extraterrestrial life existed after seeing these initial releases.

To this point, only a handful of videos disclosed by the Pentagon have shown clear footage of alleged UFOs, mostly metallic orbs, flying over the planet in great detail.

However, after attending the meeting in Tennessee, Zupetz and others were convinced the slow drip of UFO content from the government is designed to build a 'normalcy bias,' making strange things seem ordinary, to set up for a potentially Earth-shattering reveal in future. 

'They're going to continue to drip these things, drop them slowly, and it's not going to be shock and awe in the beginning. And this is what we were told,' Zupetz explained.

'Eventually, they will bring out an entity, a non-human biologic that they will either have speaking or communicating with, and when they do this, then it's going to be a little more shaking.'

The Pentagon's main UFO investigative unit has claimed that most reports of mysterious phenomena in the sky have been caused by explainable things, including balloons, drones and even bird sightings. 

A video released in the first wave of UFO files appeared to show a glowing object resembling an 'eight-pointed star' with uneven arms that has been compared to a craft from biblical times

Despite the ongoing file dumps from the Pentagon and multiple members of Congress saying more evidence of real UFOs exists, the US government has maintained that there is no physical proof that aliens exist.

However, Zupetz and other faith leaders have presented an alternative theory, calling the appearance of strange craft, glowing orbs and non-human figures evidence of 'fallen angel technology.'

The theory argues that UFO sightings that cannot be explained as advanced human technology or natural phenomena may actually be interdimensional beings described in the Bible and the controversial Book of Enoch. 

'I believe that they are fallen angel tech, or it is interdimensional abilities afforded to angels, rogue spirits or demonic powers that can manifest and appear,' Zupetz said, referring to the origins of the unexplained phenomena in our skies.

'I believe that is the big false flag thing, and the agenda they'll bring forward is saying, we originally are the ones that [seeded] you here. 

'The Bible you read is close, but it's not perfectly accurate, because now we're here to enlighten humanity, raise your consciousness, and bring you higher.'

Zupetz shared images of six orbs that surrounded his plane while leaving the secret meeting in Tennessee

Zupetz said his plane began shaking as the orbs surrounded the aircraft, and only stopped when the passengers began praying

Zupetz said believers who find themselves faced with similar sightings and questioning their faith should speak the name of Jesus during their encounters.

The pastor claimed that genuine good entities would respond positively, while deceptive ones would be triggered negatively.

The pastor also cited Steven Spielberg's latest film, 'Disclosure Day,' and the famed director's comments regarding believers in Jesus as more evidence of an ominous narrative being formed, which aligns with the Bible's darkest chapters.

During a CBS News interview, Spielberg reflected on how confirmation of intelligent life beyond Earth could affect religious faith, saying, 'The movie also takes the position of the church.

'What does this do to the fundamental beliefs that many of us have? Is God our God only on this planet? Or is God a god for every system where there's civilization and intelligent life, and even developing life?'

Zupetz said: 'When this disclosure happens, it's the narrative attached to it that'll become more and more negative towards Christianity.'

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A Dyson sphere in shape of a cube found near Ursa Minor, historical first! UFO UAP Sighting News.

 

Date of discovery: June 26, 2026

Location of discovery: Constellation Ursa Minor

Source: World wide telescope

• https://worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/#/ra=14.39404&dec=72.50681&fov=0.01665

I was looking through an online astronomy site and found a Dysons sphere that was incomplete. That means a sun with walls built around it and an entrance facing us so we see its hollow. It's constructed so that aliens can harvest the free energy which is needed for most advanced technology. This particular Dyson is a cube shape, not a sphere...unheard of in astronomy and at our technological level...impossible to construct. And yet, I present it to you now, to see how an alien species unite to construct such useful and helpful ways to harvest energy. 

 

Oh and the link works perfectly, but you may have to use it twice, works the second time and give it a few seconds to zoom in and focus. 

Scott C. Waring 

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NASA’s Mars rover just found more evidence the planet may have sustained life

The stones were found in the same location where the rover previously found potential biosignatures

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just found further evidence the Red Planet may have supported life billions of years ago.

A pair of Martian mudstones the rover collected from the planet’s Bright Angel rock formation in the Jezero crater have complex carbon, one of the building blocks of life, scientists say.

“Measurements of two mudstones show hundreds of organic detections, making this the most robust organic detection in Jezero crater thus far, and, to our knowledge, the only detection of macromolecular carbon on a natural rock surface on Mars,” the researchers wrote in a new study sharing the findings.

The stones were collected in the same location where the rover previously found evidence of ancient microbial life.

Earlier this year, NASA’s Curiosity rover also found never-before-seen organic molecules that the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said “renewed confirmation that ancient Mars had the right chemistry to support life.”

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is seen in a selfie in July 2024 with the arrowhead-shaped Mars rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls in the Bright Angel region of the planet’s Jezero Crater. The rover collected two mudstones there that have complex carbon  (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Curiosity previously found carbon signatures in powdered rock samples it collected on Mars, too. But those were some 2,000 miles away in Mars' Gale Crater.

The researchers explain that understanding the origin of organic carbon in the Mars rocks is crucial to determining if there was life on the planet.

"Carbon is the primary building block for life on Earth, and all living things are made up of complex organic macromolecules," co-lead author Ashley Murphy, a researcher at the Planetary Science Institute, told Space.com on Wednesday. "On Earth, [macromolecular carbon] is often found in extremely old rocks and in some cases it is the only organic evidence of past microbial life.”

But they don’t yet know if the carbon in the mudstones was produced by something living or non-living.

The new carbon “could be from meteorites or cosmic dust; abiological processes like hydrothermal reactions; or they could be biological in nature,” planetary scientist Paul Byrne, of Washington University in St. Louis, told Science News.

The researchers used the Perseverance rover’s chemical-analyzing Raman spectrometer instrument to map where carbon was throughout the samples.

“One mudstone’s interior contained organic carbon within a primary silicate-dominated matrix; the other mudstone held organic carbon with secondary carbonate and sulfate minerals. The carbon in both rocks was not too weathered, indicating it may be recently exposed to Mars’ surface – or may be somewhat resistant to radiation and oxidation,” a release from the American Academy of Sciences said.

A photomontage shows sample tubes collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on the surface of Mars between December 2022 to January 2023. To figure out of the carbon is biological in nature, the samples will need to come home  (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

To understand if samples collected by Perseverance are signs of ancient life, they need to be studied back on Earth. The rover can identify the chemical and mineral makeup of areas on Mars, but it doesn’t have the ability to characterize the organic carbon’s make-up.

The stones are a part of dozens of samples Perseverance has collected to be sent home.

When that could happen is anyone’s guess because NASA’s Mars Sample Return program has been overhauled in favor of two cheaper strategies.

A sky crane or a commercial lander could come to collect the samples. Former NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said last year that the return would be set in motion as soon 2035 and as late as 2039.

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Scans reveal mysterious buried structure near Great Pyramid

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• Archaeologists uncovered a mysterious underground structure buried beneath the sand near the Great Pyramid | Daily Galaxy
• Satellites revealed an advanced civilization that greened the Sahara, then vanished | Morning Overview
• Archaeologists found an ‘anomaly’ near the pyramids that may reveal an ancient portal | Popular Mechanics
  The Enigma of Atlantis: The Most Compelling Evidence and Modern Theories | ancientmysteries.org

©NECROPOLIS OF SAQQARA, GIZA, EGYPT -- MARCH 9, 2020: Maxar overview satellite imagery of the Necropolis of Saqqara. Please use: Satellite Image (c) 2022 Maxar Technologies.

References

• Satellites revealed an advanced civilization that greened the Sahara, then vanished | Morning Overview
• Archaeologists found an ‘anomaly’ near the pyramids that may reveal an ancient portal | Popular Mechanics

©Photo by Mohamed El Raai/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. GIZA, EGYPT - AUGUST 31: Egyptian archeologists and Waseda Universtiy's archeologists research the ruins of 2nd full-size vessel, which is predicted to be belonging to Pharaoh Khufu's era, at Pyramids region in Giza, Egypt on August 31, 2016.

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The newly discovered underground structure is situated on the Giza Plateau, an area that has been extensively studied for decades. Its presence in such a well-documented archaeological zone underscores the potential for significant undiscovered features even in heavily researched sites.

References

• Archaeologists uncovered a mysterious underground structure buried beneath the sand near the Great Pyramid | Daily Galaxy
• Archaeologists found an ‘anomaly’ near the pyramids that may reveal an ancient portal | Popular Mechanics

©Photo by Ali Moustafa/Getty Images. GIZA, EGYPT - NOVEMBER 7:A general view of the Pyramid of Menkaure at the Giza Pyramids necropolis in Giza on November 7, 2025 in Giza, Egypt.

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2024 Archaeological Prospection paper documents Giza anomalies

©Photo by mark peterson/Corbis via Getty Images. Cemetery near Pyramids of Giza

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• Archaeologists uncovered a mysterious underground structure buried beneath the sand near the Great Pyramid | Daily Galaxy
• Satellites revealed an advanced civilization that greened the Sahara, then vanished | Morning Overview
• Archaeologists found an ‘anomaly’ near the pyramids that may reveal an ancient portal | Popular Mechanics

©Photo by Ali Moustafa/Getty Images. GIZA, EGYPT - NOVEMBER 7: A general view of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at the Giza Pyramids necropolis in Giza on November 7, 2025 in Giza, Egypt.

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References

• Archaeologists uncovered a mysterious underground structure buried beneath the sand near the Great Pyramid | Daily Galaxy

©Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images. (Original Caption) Great Pyramid.

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• Archaeologists uncovered a mysterious underground structure buried beneath the sand near the Great Pyramid | Daily Galaxy
  
• Archaeologists found an ‘anomaly’ near the pyramids that may reveal an ancient portal | Popular Mechanics
  
• Satellites revealed an advanced civilization that greened the Sahara, then vanished | Morning Overview
  
• The Enigma of Atlantis: The Most Compelling Evidence and Modern Theories | ancientmysteries.org

©Photo by Archive Photos/Archive Photos/Getty Images. A view of the Great Pyramid of Giza Egypt.

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• Archaeologists uncovered a mysterious underground structure buried beneath the sand near the Great Pyramid | Daily Galaxy
• Satellites revealed an advanced civilization that greened the Sahara, then vanished | Morning Overview
• Archaeologists found an ‘anomaly’ near the pyramids that may reveal an ancient portal | Popular Mechanic

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Huge asteroid a MILE wide will zoom past Earth tomorrow – here’s how to spot it

• READ MORE: World's oldest known asteroid impact crater revealed 
  

By WILIAM HUNTER, SENIOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

A huge asteroid measuring a mile across will zoom past Earth in an exceptionally close pass tomorrow.

The space rock, measuring twice the size of the Burj Khalifa, will pass so close to Earth that it will be visible with large binoculars or a small telescope.

At its closest point at 12:14 BST on Saturday, the asteroid will pass within 1,590,000 miles (2,560,000 km) of Earth.

While it is a near miss in astronomical terms, that is over six times the distance between the Earth and the moon.

Astronomers say that the asteroid, named 1997 NC1, poses no threat to Earth and there is no chance of a dangerous collision.

However, it will present a rare treat for stargazers, who should be able to see light bouncing off the rock's surface as it whizzes by at 5.6 miles (9 km) per second. 

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), people in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see 1997 NC1 as it approaches Earth and passes Earth.

Meanwhile, those in the Southern Hemisphere will get a good look at this alien visitor once it has safely passed Earth's orbit.

A mile-long asteroid will zoom past Earth tomorrow night, passing so close that it will be visible to anyone with a decent pair of binoculars. Pictured: The asteroid 1997 NC1 as seen from the Northolt Branch Observatory, on the night of June 25

A mile-long asteroid will zoom past Earth tomorrow night, passing so close that it will be visible to anyone with a decent pair of binoculars. Pictured: The asteroid's location at 4:00 am BST

Based on the light reflected by 1997 NC1, astronomers estimate that it is between 750 and 1,650 metres across.

However, ESA also suggests that it could prove to be more reflective and smaller than currently thought.

Yet this still makes 1997 NC1 roughly 60 times bigger than the Chelyabinsk meteor, which exploded in the atmosphere over Russia and injured 1,491 people in 2013.

If an object this large were to collide with Earth, it would be considered a 'city killer', with the potential to cause catastrophic damage.

Luckily for us, the world's space agencies have been carefully tracking this object since it was discovered in 1997, and any chance of an impact has been ruled out.

Guy Wells, founder of Northolt Branch Observatories, told the Daily Mail: 'Whilst this is a fairly large near-Earth asteroid, there's absolutely no need for concern.'

What that leaves is an amazing opportunity to learn more about asteroids drifting through the solar system and to see a real extraterrestrial object with your own eyes.

Juan Luis Cano, of the ESA's Planetary Defence Office, says: 'A close approach to Earth by an object this size only occurs every few years.'

The asteroid, named 1997 NC1, will pass within 1,590,000 miles (2,560,000 kilometres) of Earth on Saturday 

This will help create a 3D model of the rock, revealing whether it is a loose pile of rubble that would break up in the atmosphere or a more dangerous solid rock.

But the astronomy action isn't limited to the professionals, as anyone with a decent pair of binoculars will be able to see 1997 NC1 as it passes.

Dr Ed Bloomer, Senior Astronomer at Royal Observatory Greenwich, told the Daily Mail: 'Factoring in the local horizon and sunset, between about 10:30 and 11:30 is the best window of opportunity for UK residents.

'Tonight, as the sun sets, it is near the constellation Bootes towards the West and will race eastwards over the next few hours towards Aquarius before dropping below the horizon.'

However, Dr Bloomer cautions that even a one-mile-long asteroid is quite small in astronomical terms, so it will be 'intrinsically very challenging to see properly.'

To give yourself the best chance, you can use a sky map app such as Stellarium to help track down the moving object.

Additionally, it is always advisable to try to avoid light pollution by heading to a dark, quiet area and give your eyes at least 20 minutes to adjust.  

The best way to find the 1997 NC1 will be to use a sky map app such as Stellarium (pictured), which will help to find the moving object 

Unfortunately, the weather forecast for Saturday night predicts fairly heavy cloud cover that will make it difficult to see the asteroid

Unfortunately, this space rock's arrival is poorly timed with the phases of the moon, as the moon will be waxing gibbous and approximately 94 per cent illuminated.

This will add a lot of additional light to the sky that will make the faint glow from 1997 NC1 much harder to spot.

Likewise, the weather looks far from ideal for stargazing, with the Met Office forecasting fairly heavy cloud cover settling in over Scotland and the east of England.

However, the passing asteroid will be visible tonight, although not as brightly, when weather conditions look to be clearer.  

And if you don't have any equipment, there's no need to miss out.

The Virtual Telescope Project will be livestreaming their observations of 1997 NC1's close encounter from their professional telescopes.

You can find those streams and more information about how to watch by following this link.

There will be two streams while the asteroid is at its brightest, both starting at 23:00 BST tonight and tomorrow night.

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China's secretive space plane releases an unidentified object into orbit - and experts say it could be a spy satellite

• READ MORE: NASA's 'Son of Concorde' breaks the sound barrier
  

By WILIAM HUNTER, SENIOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

A secretive Chinese space plane has released an unidentified object into orbit, a US-based surveillance company has revealed.

China's 'Reusable Experimental Spacecraft' is one of the China National Space Administration's (CNSA) most closely guarded secrets.

However, this elusive craft has now been spotted releasing something into orbit above Earth.

Meanwhile, Chinese authorities have remained silent about what this craft's intended purpose might be.

This was spotted by Leo Labs, an American space tracking firm, which detected the appearance of a new object from their radar station in New Zealand.

It posted on X: 'At 02:30 UTC on 22 June 2026, LeoLabs detected an unknown object in the vicinity of the Chinese Shenlong reusable space plane.'

The company added: 'Following additional observations across our global network and analysis via LeoLabs Delta, we have independently catalogued this object and assessed with high confidence that it was released from the Chinese space plane.

'This activity is consistent with sub-satellite deployments conducted by the space plane in previous missions.'

A secretive Chinese space plane has been spotted launching a 'mystery object' into orbit by a US surveillance company 

The Reusable Experimental Spacecraft launched aboard a Long March 2F rocket from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on February 6.

As with its previous launches, the objective of the mission was not made public, but the release of this unknown object offers a tantalising clue.

According to Professor Jonathan McDowell, of the Durham University Space Research Centre, this object has now been logged by the American Space Force.

However, what the object is or why it has been deployed remains something of a mystery.

Professor McDowell told the Daily Mail: 'It's hard to say at the moment, it might just be a cubesat (a small satellite commonly used to conduct research), but it could be a very small spy satellite - nothing fancy.

'Previous things ejected from earlier flights of the space plane have not manoeuvred or done anything particularly interesting.'

This suggests that the space plane is more likely to be for 'doing experiments and testing advanced technology', rather than active missions in space.

What will be more revealing, Professor McDowell suggests, is whether the space plane later attempts to collect the satellite with a robot arm.

US-based space tracking firm Leo Labs spotted 'an unknown object in the vicinity of the Chinese Shenlong reusable space plane' on June 22

Even by the standards of the CNSA, the Reusable Experimental Spacecraft is exceptionally secretive, and almost nothing is known about its design or function.

It is believed to be similar to the USA's own secretive space plane, the X-37, or NASA's space shuttle.

However, besides a few digital renders, there are no official images of what the craft might look like.

The best publicly available images of the space plane were taken by amateur astronomer Felix Schöfbänker using a ground-based telescope.

In 2024, a series of images captured by Mr Schöfbänker showed that the space plane was apparently fitted with a pair of solar panels that had not appeared in any of the renderings.

The Reusable Experimental Spacecraft has already completed three prior missions, spending around 500 days in space, and has a track record of unusual behaviour.

In 2024, observers noted that the space plane may have ejected a small satellite or piece of unwanted equipment as it reached the end of its scheduled mission.

Six months earlier, the craft caused alarm when it appeared to release three sub-satellites at once, but these were later found to be leftover debris from launch.

Almost nothing is known about China's 'Reusable Experimental Spacecraft', but it is believed to be similar in design to NASA's X-37. Pictured: Digital render of the space plane's design 

The best images of the mysterious spacecraft come from amateur astronomer Felix Schöfbänker, who managed to photograph the space plane from a ground-based telescope 

More concerningly, observers have noted the space plane making so-called 'rendezvous and proximity operations', in which a craft practices getting as close as possible to another object.

Rendezvous and proximity operations can be used for entirely peaceful means, such as refuelling and repairing damaged satellites.

But there are concerns that the US, China, and Russia are all preparing spacecraft that have the ability to interfere or tamper with adversary satellites.

This could include knocking spy satellites out of orbit, turning communication satellites to face the wrong way, or simply grabbing a spacecraft with a robotic arm.

The US Space Force is almost certainly developing its own rendezvous and proximity operations capability, and even commissioned an illustration of a space plane intercepting a satellite as its first-ever piece of official artwork.

Likewise, two Russian 'inspector' satellites came within ten feet (three metres) of each other in May as the country ramps up its space warfare research.

Professor McDowell suggests that China's investment in this technology could have been prompted by similar research from its American counterparts.

However, for now, it is impossible to say whether the Reusable Experimental Spacecraft has a benign or military application.

WHAT IS SPACE JUNK? MORE THAN 170 MILLION PIECES OF DEAD SATELLITES, SPENT ROCKETS AND FLAKES OF PAINT POSE 'THREAT' TO SPACE INDUSTRY

There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called 'space junk' - left behind after missions that can be as big as spent rocket stages or as small as paint flakes - in orbit alongside some US$700 billion (£555bn) of space infrastructure.

But only 27,000 are tracked, and with the fragments able to travel at speeds above 16,777 mph (27,000kmh), even tiny pieces could seriously damage or destroy satellites.

However, traditional gripping methods don't work in space, as suction cups do not function in a vacuum and temperatures are too cold for substances like tape and glue.

Grippers based around magnets are useless because most of the debris in orbit around Earth is not magnetic.

Around 500,000 pieces of human-made debris (artist's impression) currently orbit our planet, made up of disused satellites, bits of spacecraft and spent rockets

Most proposed solutions, including debris harpoons, either require or cause forceful interaction with the debris, which could push those objects in unintended, unpredictable directions.

Scientists point to two events that have badly worsened the problem of space junk.

The first was in February 2009, when an Iridium telecoms satellite and Kosmos-2251, a Russian military satellite, accidentally collided.

The second was in January 2007, when China tested an anti-satellite weapon on an old Fengyun weather satellite.

Experts also pointed to two sites that have become worryingly cluttered.

One is low Earth orbit which is used by satnav satellites, the ISS, China's manned missions and the Hubble telescope, among others.

The other is in geostationary orbit, and is used by communications, weather and surveillance satellites that must maintain a fixed position relative to Earth. 

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Lost Christian text hidden for centuries reveals new insight into the Bible's most chilling mystery

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Hidden within the pages of an ancient manuscript in a Polish library were lost sermons of a saint who attempted to tackle one of the Bible's most chilling encounters.

The 12th-century Latin texts were written by St Augustine, the theologian whose ideas helped shape Western Christianity and who is often regarded as the most important Christian thinker after the Apostle Paul.

Researchers found that the newly identified sermons focus on King Saul's visit to the Witch of Endor, one of the Bible's most mysterious episodes, in which the dead prophet Samuel appears and foretells the king's death.

The story, recorded in 1 Samuel 28, has troubled Jewish and Christian scholars for centuries because it appears to suggest that a medium successfully summoned a dead prophet.

St Augustine wrestled with that possibility in the newly discovered sermons, questioning whether the figure Saul encountered was truly Samuel or some form of supernatural illusion.

Ultimately, St Augustine argued that the Witch of Endor held no power over the dead. If Samuel genuinely appeared, he believed it was because God allowed it, not because the medium had summoned him through magic.

Professor Christian Tornau, a Latin scholar at the University of Würzburg, said: 'The first was preached during the Sunday service and ends with the theodicy question and the interpretations. 

'It was not until the second sermon on the following Wednesday that the options were weighed up.' 

Researchers found that the newly identified sermons focus on King Saul's visit to the Witch of Endor, one of the Bible's most mysterious episodes, in which the dead prophet Samuel appears and foretells the king's death

St Augustine lived from 354AD to 430AD. Born in North Africa to a pagan father and a devout Christian mother, Augustine lived a worldly and intellectually restless early life.

He initially rejected Christianity, exploring hedonism and the dualistic religion of Manichaeism before embracing Neoplatonism.

Following a profound spiritual crisis, he converted to Christianity and was baptized in Milan in 387.

The discovery was made in 2024, when Tornau was asked to decipher six sermons written by the saint. He found that two were previously undiscovered.

The newly discovered sermons were focused on the Old Testament story. 

'Saul believes himself to be in a hopeless situation shortly before a battle against the Philistines. God does not listen to his prayers. He turns to a witch,' Tornau said in a statement.

At Saul's request, she conjures up the supposed spirit of the deceased prophet Samuel, who predicts his death in battle. According to the Bible, Samuel anointed the first two kings of Israel, Saul and David, at the order of God.

The story has long baffled theologians, raising questions about how a witch could summon the spirit of a prophet. 

St Augustine wrestled with that possibility in the newly discovered sermons, questioning whether the figure Saul encountered was truly Samuel or some form of supernatural illusion

Latin scholars have also asked 'How can an omnipotent God allow this or is he not really omnipotent?'

For centuries, theologians have debated whether the apparition was a deception created by the witch or a genuine appearance of Samuel permitted by God to warn Saul of his impending death. 

The researchers noted that after St Augustine presented the two sermons, the church audience was to form their own opinion on the biblical passage. 

Tornau suggested that this didactic and rhetorical approach is typical of St Augustine, as the saint was known for presenting options for interpretation, omitting a final judgement and allowing the audience to think for themselves. 

'The style, humor and content also clearly indicate that the sermons in the manuscripts were actually written by Augustine,' he said.

However, there have been cases where others presented writings attributed to the saint, but were later found to be forgeries. 

Tornau and his colleague, Dr Clemens Weidmann of the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL), got to work and invited 20 other Latin scholars to verify the authenticity of the text.

Reconstructing the transmission history of the sermons was not an easy feat.  

'Firstly, the creation of such a manuscript in the 12th century is unusual. A copy at the beginning of the 8th or 9th century would be more typical,' said Tornau. 

Researchers believe the newly discovered sermons survived because a medieval scribe copied them from an older manuscript that has since been lost to history. 

'An old catalogue from the monastery mentions a text with the same headings and the same sequence of contents as our manuscript,' Tornau explained.

'It could have served as a model.' However, the researcher noted that he cannot confirm this assumption 100 percent, as the entire library collection was burnt during the Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648.

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