Spherical UFO filmed flying over the mountains near Ensenada, Mexico
Time traveler claiming to be from the year 2045 delivers alarming predictions for the next four years
A man claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2045 says the world will gain definitive proof that aliens exist, cash will be extinct and the US will no longer be a country within the next four years.
Calling himself Adam Archon, the mysterious man claimed the technology to travel in time will become publicly accessible in 2028, the same year he said extraterrestrials land on Earth and end decades of secrecy by governments worldwide.
Archon, who claimed he was born on December 6, 2019, without any proof, recorded his supposed knowledge of the future during a March 2019 video which recently resurfaced online amid the public release of classified UFO files by the Pentagon.
While allegedly connected to an active lie detector machine, Archon said: 'Yes, it is true that aliens did land on Earth in August 2028. In fact, we have known of the existence of aliens before 2028, but it isn't until 2028 that it becomes public knowledge.'
Archon, whose face was blurred and voice altered during the interview with the YouTube channel Apex TV, said he had traveled back to a time before he was born to experience history in-person, which he claimed was a common practice in the future.
'Time travel was released to the public in 2028, but it was invented in 1981. It was just kept secret until they released it publicly,' he claimed.
Moreover, Archon claimed that most UFO sightings today were actually the craft used by time travelers from the future to go back in time to visit historical events.
According to the ten-minute interview, which has been viewed more than 1.3 million times, Archon was telling the truth, with Apex TV claiming every answer registered as truthful on the lie detector test.
A man calling himself Adam Archon alleged in 2019 that he was a time traveler from the year 2045
Archon claimed that current UFO sightings were actually time travel capsules containing humans from the future
Archon also mentioned the public will start getting an implanted chip called 'The One' in their right hand in February 2029.
The device allegedly lets users pay for items, boosts brain function and improves health. This system will supposedly replace all global currencies, making cash extinct.
This technology has existed for the last decade, with people having the ability to get a small microchip implanted in their hand so they can pay for things such as coffee or groceries just by waving their hand near a scanner typically used for credit cards.
According to the self-proclaimed time traveler, who did not show any physical proof he was from the future in his interview, this new system of digital money would debut right before the third chilling world event - the end of the US government.
Archon claimed that in 2030, the US would no longer be an independent nation and would instead become part of a new world government that splits up the globe by continent - with the US becoming part of 'District 3.'
The new world order, he said, was also said to be run by an AI program named The Light that will be released in 2033.
Archon claimed it was built into every electronic device, allowing anyone to talk to it and ask it anything. However, a group of ten government officials monitored all of The Light's decisions to make sure it was ruling ethically.
By 2045, Archon said scientists developed the technology to clone dinosaurs, creating a real-life 'Jurassic Park' where the public can visit prehistoric creatures.
'You can see T-rexes, Triceratops, velociraptors. If they existed, you can see them. People can go and visit things in the past, like to go visit the dinosaurs or major world events.'
Skeptics have claimed that Archon's January 2019 video was 'rehearsed' and fake, noting the time difference in the supposed three-minute speech
A self-proclaimed time traveler from 2045 has claimed that scientists developed the ability to clone and recreate dinosaurs (artist's impression)
While the March 25, 2019, video claimed that Archon was telling the truth, multiple pieces of his story did not add up and would be impossible under US laws.
In a separate video posted in January 2019, Archon started by claiming that there would be a documented increase in the number of UFO sightings worldwide that same year. While that did actually happen, his information about 2020 was way off.
'In 2020, there will be a robot released to the public that causes a lot of controversy,' he said in the three-minute video that did not involve a lie detector.
There has been no clear evidence that a robot was released that caused major controversy in the US or worldwide.
Archon also failed to mention anything about the coming Covid-19 pandemic or anything for the following seven years.
Viewers of his January video claimed that Archon's statement was suspicious since the clock seen next to him showed nearly 15 minutes of real time passing despite the clip only being three minutes long.
One skeptic said: 'Does anyone else see that the video is 3:36 minutes long but the clock in the back moves a good 15 minutes? That means this was rehearsed and they had to cut out the mistakes.'
Meanwhile, Archon's shocking claim about the final president in US history would seem to be completely implausible.
'Yolanda Renee King does become, and she is in fact noted as the greatest president of the United States, yes I can confirm,' Archon claimed while taking the lie detector test.
King, 18, is the only grandchild of Martin Luther King Jr and is already known for being an author and activist, specifically against gun violence.
However, Archon's timeline with King becoming president could not come true if the US were no longer an independent nation by 2030.
King will turn 35 years old in 2043, the age at which an American citizen can legally run for office under current US law. The next presidential election would not be until 2044.
Scientists have stated that time travel into the past is not only possible; the math to make it happen actually aligns with Einstein's famed theory of general relativity - which says that space and time are linked together as 'spacetime,' and gravity is the result of massive objects like planets and stars curving this spacetime.
Despite the theory of time travel appearing to be plausible, there has been no concrete evidence that humans can regularly move backward through time, or have a craft capable of doing that.
Meanwhile, the US government has repeatedly stated that no physical proof of extraterrestrials or UFOs has ever been presented.
Archon had claimed in the video that the aliens who make contact with humans in 2028 'do not come from space.'
'I cannot elaborate on where they come from because of the possibility of a paradox,' he alleged.
Long-hidden UFO information at center of Trump push to free former officials
EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to waive prior nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) for former government employees and contractors cooperating with unidentified anomalous phenomena investigations, Fox News Digital has learned.
"President Trump recently directed the Department of War and the intelligence community to allow former government employees or contractors, that have relevant information about the disclosure of UAP, to come forward to meet with designated government representatives — AARO or the President’s UAP taskforce, ‘PURSUE’ — and have their prior NDAs abrogated," a senior administration official said, with AARO referring to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon office established to investigate UFOs and other unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
Another senior administration official emphasized the move was not a "declassification directive" and only allowed employees to come forward through government channels.
Officials say years of congressional inquiries, whistleblower allegations and newly declassified records have raised questions about whether additional witnesses have remained silent because they believed prior nondisclosure agreements prevented them from cooperating with government investigations.
Newly released infrared footage from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command shows an object officials described as resembling a six-pointed star over the Yellow Sea Jan. 1, 2025.
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FBI rendering of the witness account of "orbs launching orbs."
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"People who believe that they have information have expressed reluctance in coming forward," the official said. "We are eliminating that source of reluctance."
Like other government employees and defense contractors with access to classified information or sensitive national security programs, many witnesses would have signed nondisclosure agreements as a condition of receiving security clearances or access to restricted information. Those agreements generally prohibit unauthorized disclosure of classified or otherwise protected information and typically remain in effect even after an individual leaves government service.
Former officials and contractors who disclose protected information without authorization risk losing security clearances, facing civil penalties or, in some circumstances, criminal prosecution if classified information is improperly disclosed.
Under the new process, former government employees and contractors who believe they possess relevant UAP information would first meet with designated officials at the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) or the president's UAP task force, PURSUE, who hold the appropriate security clearances. During those authorized discussions, any applicable nondisclosure agreements could be waived, allowing witnesses to share information without fear of violating prior agreements.
Information provided through the process would be reviewed through the administration's existing declassification procedures.
"Any information that is received that sheds light on the UAP mystery will ultimately be made public," the official said.
A screenshot of video footage from an alleged unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) sighting in the northeastern United States in July 2025, which was detailed in files released by the DOW and originally obtained by the FBI.
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The official said the administration does not know whether potential witnesses actually possess significant new information, but wants to remove any perceived legal barriers so investigators can determine whether previously undisclosed information exists.
"You don't know what you don't know," the official said.
The official said the focus is on incidents that remain unexplained, rather than known foreign technology, classified U.S. programs or natural phenomena.
The latest directive builds on the Trump administration's broader effort to declassify decades of government records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena. Previous releases have included FBI and Pentagon records describing unexplained sightings reported by military personnel, law enforcement and astronauts, including accounts of glowing "mother orbs" that witnesses said released smaller objects near a sensitive U.S. national security site, mysterious orange spheres observed during military operations, and Apollo-era transcripts in which astronauts described unexplained lights and "jagged, angular fragments" drifting outside their spacecraft.
The latest tranche of UAP records included expanded details and imagery from a 2015 incident involving an unidentified object over the Pantex nuclear weapons facility in Texas, along with newly declassified infrared footage showing a mysterious six-pointed star-shaped object tracked by a U.S. military sensor over the Yellow Sea on Jan. 1, 2025.
The official said the next tranche of files will be made available "very soon."
The directive follows years of complaints from some lawmakers and whistleblowers that former officials with firsthand knowledge were reluctant to come forward because of secrecy obligations.
An artist's rendering released by the U.S. Department of War depicting a 2023 sighting of "orbs launching other orbs" near a national security site in the western United States.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, then the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in 2023 that multiple individuals with firsthand knowledge had approached the committee but were hesitant to speak publicly because of potential repercussions.
"Some of these people still work in the government and frankly, a lot of them are very fearful — fearful of their jobs, fearful of their clearances, fearful of their career, and some, frankly, are fearful of harm coming to them," he said on News Nation in June 2023.
"Grant immunity to anyone who has already come forward, and everyone who will come forward. Open the door and let them speak," Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., demanded during a June 9 press conference on Capitol Hill.
Public interest in UAPs accelerated in 2017 after The New York Times revealed the Pentagon had quietly operated a secret program to investigate unexplained aerial encounters and published Navy cockpit videos showing objects exhibiting unusual flight characteristics.
Since then, Congress has held multiple bipartisan hearings on the issue, lawmakers have pressed intelligence agencies for greater transparency, and former intelligence officer David Grusch's allegations that the government had concealed information about UAP programs renewed calls for additional disclosure, despite the government's denial of his central claims.
During the same event, former Air Force intelligence officer Grusch renewed his allegations that secret UAP programs had operated outside normal congressional oversight, calling it "a real fraud, waste and abuse issue" and claiming his investigation uncovered "slush funds to the tune of billions of dollars per annum for these activities."
The Pentagon has disputed Grusch's central claims, and AARO has said its investigations found no verified evidence of extraterrestrial technology or credible evidence that the government has secretly recovered or reverse-engineered craft of non-human origin.
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The zoo hypothesis and a Mussolini-era UFO incident
In a recent Q&A segment on NewsNation’s Reality Check, Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart and producer Meagan Medick fielded viewer questions ranging from Mars imagery and whistleblower retaliation to the long-running controversy surrounding UAPs and classified military technology. The discussion, which also echoed themes familiar in UFO circles such as the “zoo hypothesis” and alleged non-interference by advanced intelligences, blended established context with a number of claims that remain unverified. Coulthart framed the broader issue as one in which official secrecy and public skepticism continue to shape the debate over whether non-human technology has been recovered and studied by parts of the U.S. national security system.
One of the earliest topics was the enduring fascination with the so-called “Mars face” and other surface anomalies. Coulthart attributed the apparent changes in Martian features to sun angle, shadowing, and image contrast, noting that NASA generally explains such formations as pareidolia—the tendency to perceive familiar shapes in random data. He nevertheless said he remained interested in research that suggests Mars may once have hosted a prior civilization, including claims involving Soviet-era interference with Martian probes. Separately, Coulthart addressed allegations that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has targeted UAP whistleblowers. While he acknowledged rumors of “treason threats” against figures such as Dylan Borland and Matthew Brown, he said journalistic standards require more than hearsay. He reiterated support for whistleblowers including David Grusch and Jeff Nocetelli, and argued that the “national security state” has shown a pattern of resistance to disclosure.
Coulthart also pushed back on a recent claim attributed to Jacques Vallee’s Forbidden Science 7 that the 2004 Tic Tac UAP may have involved drones launched from a U.S. submarine. He said that assertion did not hold up because the USS Alexander Hamilton had been decommissioned in 1993, years before the incident off the Southern California coast. According to Coulthart, the submarine actually present, the USS Louisville, detected no acoustic signatures or anomalies consistent with conventional drone activity. He said he remains convinced that the Tic Tac object was not a known U.S. platform, and repeated his belief that it was tied to Lockheed Martin, a claim that has not been publicly verified.
The segment then turned to what Coulthart described as a deeply compartmentalized “UAP Legacy Program” stretching back to the 1940s. He said the alleged program exists across government and private aerospace networks and is intended to recover, analyze, and reverse-engineer non-human technology and biologics. Coulthart argued that the consistency of accounts from unrelated witnesses amounts to “multiple corroboration”, though the underlying evidence remains largely anecdotal. The discussion also touched on directed-energy systems, including the Navy’s HELIOS laser and claims linked to “Havana Syndrome.” Coulthart referenced Donald Trump’s past remarks about a “discombobulator”—an alleged classified weapon used in a 2020 operation in Venezuela against Chinese and Russian-supplied defense systems—while noting that the most troubling claims involve reported effects on human health as well as electronics.
Coulthart closed by revisiting the 2007 Isaac/CARET documents, which describe reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology at a Palo Alto laboratory and are widely dismissed as a hoax. He said he is still investigating the material and is not prepared to rule it out, citing the level of technical detail in the papers. Across the segment, Coulthart’s central argument was that, even if hard proof remains shielded by secrecy, the accumulation of testimony from whistleblowers and independent witnesses makes the existence of a “Legacy Program” highly plausible. For now, however, the claims discussed remain part of an unresolved and highly contested UAP debate, where historical anecdotes, classified programs, and public skepticism continue to collide.
“It Was a Mix of Excitement and Disbelief”: When Scientists Sent Deep-Sea Rovers to Confirm a 1960s Theory, They Made a Surprising Discovery
A team of scientists exploring a possible deep-sea coral reef off the coast of Benin that 1960s researchers had deemed likely dead found a living, thriving reef supporting a complex underwater ecosystem, including several coral and fish species.
Led by scientists from the Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin, the discovery is the first known mesophotic coral reef in the region and offers scientists a tantalizing target for future deep-sea marine-life expeditions.
According to a statement announcing the unexpected discovery, previous historical surveys of the area had indicated a possible reef more than 50 meters below the water’s surface. When a 1960s survey detected the unusual feature, they suspected it was a coral reef that was likely dead.
When team leader Gérard Zinzindohoué and colleagues studied the features, they suspected that the team from the 60s may have provided them with a golden scientific opportunity. Although the feature’s depth ruled out a typical shallow-water coral reef, the researchers note that it could be an entirely different kind of reef structure, known as a mesophotic coral ecosystem, that can inhabit such depths.
The examined region may be part of a much larger system stretching nearly 25 miles parallel to Benin.
“A mesophotic coral ecosystem lives deeper than the usual shallow coral reefs, in zones where light is much more limited,” Zinzindohoué explained. “Unlike typical shallow reefs, it does not always form a single continuous reef structure. Instead, it can appear as patchy or scattered coral communities spread across the seafloor.”
Instead of using mid-twentieth-century technology to settle the debate, the team turned to the National Geographic Exploration Technology Lab, which provided access to its Deep-Sea Camera System.
A Deep Sea Camera System from National Geographic’s Exploration Technology Lab resurfaces after capturing footage of the coral reef.
Credit: Ghislain Adjahouisso
Following the path set out by the 1960s survey, the team used the underwater camera to map the seafloor with sonar. After several passes, the team covered a total of 11.5 kilometers. Zinzindohoué highlighted the difficulty of the effort, noting that it was “not an easy field campaign.”
“It was a mix of long days at sea, technical problems, and a lot of uncertainty,” the researcher explained. “But then we saw structures on the sonar that looked like they could be reef signatures, which gave us hope that we were close.”
The closer the team drove the Deep-Sea Explorer’s cameras, the more the shockingly unexpected scene began to unfold.
Image Credit: Gérard Zinzindohoué
“That was a big moment for us, because suddenly we could actually see the seafloor,” Zinzindohoué said.
Instead of the dark, lifeless structure anticipated by the original survey team, the new team found a healthy reef containing eight distinct types of coral. The system was also actively supporting eight fish species, with the camera capturing them feeding and sheltering among the corals. The species identified by the team include golden African snappers, blackbar soldierfish, Guinean angelfish, West African goatfish, the Monrovia doctorfish, three-banded butterflyfish, and two distinct species of damselfish.
Image Credit: Gérard Zinzindohoué
“I still remember seeing those first images,” Zinzindohoué recalled of the vibrant ecosystem lying directly in front of the cameras. “It was a mix of excitement and disbelief, because after all this time thinking about this reef, suddenly there was something real in front of us.”
When discussing the discovery’s significance, Zinzindohoué said that to the team’s knowledge, “this is the first confirmed record of a living mesophotic coral ecosystem on the Gulf of Guinea continental shelf.”
Although the cameras captured a complex ecosystem, the researchers said that the reef does not appear to be a continuous barrier. Instead, the deep-sea environment consists of several patches of coral that occupy rocky seabed areas most suitable for their survival. Still, they add that further surveys may identify more reefs in the same area.
Footage from the National Geographic Exploration Technology Lab’s Deep Sea Camera System captures a sea floor rich with marine life.
Credit: Gérard Zinzindohoué/IRHOB
“I think what we found is probably not an exception,” Zinzindohoué said. “It is more likely a reflection of how little we still know about coastal regions in West Africa and elsewhere. If we were able to find this reef again after 60 years, how many others are still undocumented or simply forgotten?”
Since the team was unable to sample the corals directly, they were unable to confirm the species identification with genetic analysis. The team was also hesitant to condemn the original 1960s survey, noting that it is impossible to tell, without more data, whether the corals were dead at the time and have since rebounded.
“This is still an initial exploration,” Zinzindohoué said. “The historical reports suggested that this could be a continuous coral reef barrier extending roughly 40 kilometers parallel to the coast. We only surveyed a small section of this area, and we had a limited number of visual transects.”
Although there are no immediate plans for a return expedition, the research leader said the only thing holding them back from learning more about these ecosystems, which are “still poorly known in this part of the world,” is adequate financial support.
Mesophotic coral reefs live at deeper depths than typical, shallower coral.
Credit: Gérard Zinzindohoué
“If I had all the grant money in the world, the first thing I would do is return to the site with a proper scientific diving and sampling program,” he said, before adding that “every additional piece of information matters.”
“I do believe there are more coral systems out there that we have not yet documented,” he said. “But we should not assume they are everywhere. Each discovery needs to be confirmed. Without going back into the field, we are really just guessing.”
On a personal note, the team leader said the most exciting part is understanding the reef’s history and the lessons that can be gleaned from this underexplored region.
“It feels like we have only just started to read an archive that has been there for a very long time.”
The study “First evidence of live mesophotic coral reefs on the Benin continental shelf” was published in Frontiers in Marine Science.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Uncovers Evidence of 4 Billion Year Old Impacts
NASA's Perseverance rover continues to explore the rim of the Jezero Crater, an impact basin in Mars' northern hemisphere that once supported a lake. In so doing, the rover's mission team continues to reveal more about the Red Planet's past, when liquid water once flowed across its surface. In addition, the rover has made several findings that are leading to a better understanding among scientists of the planet's geological history and the forces that shaped its surface.
In a study that appeared earlier this week in the *Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets*, a team led by researchers from Imperial College London announced that they had uncovered an ancient feature formed by repeated asteroid impacts. This 75-meter (245-foot) thick stack of layered bedrock, known as the “Broom Point member” by the rover’s science team, likely formed over 3.9 billion years ago. This makes it some of the oldest terrain ever examined by the Martian rover and a window into the Solar System’s Late Heavy Bombardment Era.
A full scale model of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is displayed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on February 16, 2021 in Pasadena, California. The Mars exploration rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life and collect rock samples for future return to Earth to study the red planet's geology and climate, paving the way for human exploration. Perseverance also carries the experimental Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - which will attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
This period, which occurred between 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago, was one of the most dynamic and chaotic in the history of the Solar System. As the name suggests, it was characterized by a higher-than-normal rate of asteroid and comet impacts on celestial bodies in the inner Solar System, including Earth, the Moon, and Mars. After leaving the Jezero Crater in late 2024, Perseverance began exploring the western rim and surrounding environment using its suite of scientific instruments.
*NASA’s Perseverance rover captured its own tracks descending from the rim of Jezero Crater.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS*
Said Ken Farley, Perseverance's deputy project scientist at Caltech, in a NASA-JPL press release:
Since leaving Jezero, Perseverance has been exploring a brand-new frontier, both geographically and geologically — a chapter of Martian time that predates the crater itself. On Earth, our earliest geologic history has been fundamentally broken up, deformed, and erased by plate tectonics. Because Mars lacks plate tectonics to recycle its crust, this ancient record remains intact, giving us a rare glimpse into a geological time period that doesn’t exist on our own planet.
The data gathered at Broom Point revealed six distinct rock types, arranged in layers between angular fragments (breccias) and fine-grained rock dust. Fragments within the breccias further showed evidence of cavities formed by gas bubbles, indicating they were once molten. Another key indicator was the dark glass beads found within the layers, which form in the presence of volcanism or high-energy impacts. The largest of these were comparable to those found in ejecta caused by the ancient Chicxulub asteroid's impact on Earth (which led to the Dinosaurs' extinction).
The repeated appearance of these rock types in layered form also indicates that the high-energy impact events happened repeatedly in this region. As Farley notes, some of the rock layers have a near-vertical tilt (more than 80 degrees), far too steep to have been caused by the same impact that created Jezero Crater around the same time. Said Alex Jones, a Ph.D. student in planetary geology at ICL and lead author of the paper:
The different rock layers are a record of variable-sized impacts occurring at different distances from where this rock sequence was accumulating. Some large impacts took place very far away, some small impacts nearby. Their debris all ended up landing here, constructing this thick section of rock.
*This orbital map shows the path NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took from its 2021 landing site in Jezero Crater to the “Broom Point” location in mid-2025.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MRO/HIRISE/UA/ICL*
The layered formation of the rock may also suggest interactions with water or ice, while some appear to have formed from rapid debris flows. On Earth, these flows can occur when molten rock comes into contact with water or ice, instantly transforming them into steam. The team theorizes that a massive asteroid impact and the presence of water or ice shaped the landscape billions of years ago. The impact came first and formed the 1,900-km (1,200-mi) wide Isidis Basin, one of the planet's largest impact basins.
This was likely followed by a second asteroid impact that formed the Jezero Crater, fracturing and uplifting the already-tilted rocks into the formation found there today. Along with impact basins found elsewhere on Mars, the Moon, and Mercury, these craters and related features are helping scientists construct a timeline of the Solar System's geological history.
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On The Hunt For Earth’s First Complex Life
Bear Island in the Barents Sea which is a paleontological hotbead known for preserving ancient microfossils.
Credit: Wikipedia
How life started on our own planet may not seem as sexy as finding evidence for life on Mars, or the icy moons of Europa or Enceladus. But the search for the first eukaryotes here on Earth remains as important to astrobiology as finding life on a far-flung planet. That’s in part because for ninety percent of Earth's history, life here was microbial.
On Earth, we had origins of life over three and a half billion years ago, Ross Anderson, a paleontologist at the U.K.’s University of Oxford, told me in his office. We had cyanobacteria and oxygenic photosynthesis at least 2.3 billion years ago; then we had eukaryotes at least 1.7 billion years ago, he says.
They were followed by algae at least a billion years ago, probably even earlier. Then the animal kingdom arrived at least 570 million years ago; probably slightly earlier.
But to find the common ancestor of the plant and animal kingdom you must go back to something like 1.6 billion years ago, says Anderson.
And so-called crown eukaryotes, the earliest eukaryotes on Earth are thought to have been fundamental to the development of complex life here on Earth. In fact, Anderson unequivocably considers eukaryotes as Earth’s first complex life.
Eukaryotes have a cell nucleus where DNA is enclosed, but they also have organelles, subcellular structures in their cells, such as the mitochondrion, that allows energy-intensive lifestyles.
It’s the eukaryotes which have developed complex multicellularity and macroscopic forms; all the animals, plants and fungi that we see around the world are eukaryotic, says Anderson.
No organism older than 500 million years had shells and skeletons as they hadn’t evolved yet. As a result, paleontologists are reliant on quite unusual environmental settings where cellular remains and soft tissues can be preserved. Consequently, researchers know very little about how life was evolving across a period which makes up 90 percent of Earth’s history.
As for Anderson?
I'm interested in how we went from a planet which just had bacteria to one which had complex multicellular organisms, says Anderson. Those kinds of multicellular fossils are hard to find, so I do a lot of work on the chemistry of the rocks to find out in which settings they are preserved, he says.
One problem is that eukaryotic microfossils are subject to billions of years of degradation.
But we know that the transition from single cellular to multicellular happened multiple times on different parts of the Earth, says Anderson. We're interested in how animals became so diverse today, he says.
Most of their diversity got set up across the Ediacaran/Cambrian transition. That’s an epoch some 540 million years ago that represented a major evolutionary step between soft bodied biota and the Cambrian explosion of life with mobility, shells and skeletons.
As for where to look for such ancient eukaryotic microfossils?
Anderson and colleagues are particularly interested in a 100sq. km area in what was a shallow sea, some 80 degrees North in a remote group of islands near Svalbard, Norway.
*Deep Sea Microfossils.
Credit: Wikipedia*
And just last year, in Australia researchers found some of the oldest eukaryote microfossils ever discovered, dating back some 1.75 billion years.
The sweet spot for such microfossils usually is in ancient coastal areas, where eukaryotes would have had access to rich organics and plentiful nutrients, enabling them to grow in both multicellularity and diversity.
The idea is to go to areas that are either pristine or have not been sampled to any great extent. Anderson himself specializes in looking in areas that were subject to massive clay deposits that might have helped preserve these ancient eukaryotes.
Today, you’re looking at places that are desert or Arctic, where there's no vegetation so rocks are exposed, says Anderson.
None of which is easy. Looking for eukaryote microfossils is truly a herculean task, because they are both tiny and consist of unprotected soft tissue which has left them subject to massive degradation over billions of years.
The biggest challenge now is that we have an under sampled fossil record, says Anderson.
Are we any closer to answering the big questions about how complex life first started here?
We’ve started to figure out which are the right rocks to find early fossils and that's starting to give us the data with which we can record the history of Earth’s earliest life, says Anderson.
A lot of the work we've done on clays was motivated by finding life on other planets, says Anderson. We’d better understand how life happened here if we hope to understand the likelihood of it happening elsewhere, he says.
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MMAI! Watch the moment a robot is DECAPITATED during a brutal humanoid cage fight – yet keeps fighting
From computer programmers to lawyers, several jobs are already at risk of being taken by artificial intelligence (AI).
Now, it seems not even cage fighters are safe from the robot takeover.
Shocking footage has emerged from China, showing two humanoids battling it out in a mixed martial arts (MMA) fight.
The fight took place in Shenzhen last week, and saw two robots go head–to–head in a cage as hundreds of spectators looked on.
In one particularly shocking moment, one of the robots had its head kicked off entirely – yet continued to fight.
Taking to Reddit, one viewer said: 'Finally we have Real Steel,' in comparison to the 2011 blockbuster.
Another warned: 'We're training the next generation lifeform on Earth how to defeat us. Poetic.'
Elon Musk even joined in on the fun, sharing a video of the fight on X and joking: 'Robot fights are fun.'
Shocking footage has emerged from China , showing two humanoids battling it out in a mixed martial arts (MMA) fight
The fight took place as part of the Ultimate Robot Knock–out Legend (URKL) event at Shenzhen's Nanshan Cultural Sports Centre.
This competition – dubbed the 'robot version of the UFC' – features 32 competitors from more than 20 countries.
These teams have been whittled down from 200, and include the likes of Stanford University, the University of Hong Kong and Zhejiang University.
'The competition adopts a comprehensive multi–stage tournament structure consisting of a Qualifying Stage, Group Stage, and Double–Elimination Finals,' EngineAI, the organiser of the competition, explains on its website.
'The tournament is designed to comprehensively evaluate teams across simulation algorithms, on–site hardware deployment, and autonomous humanoid robot combat performance.'
The teams all use EngineAI's T800 – a full–size humanoid robot that retails for up to $85,000.
According to the South China Morning Post, the prize for the winning team will be a belt made from 10kg of pure gold, worth up to 10 million yuan (£1.09 million).
So far, several fights have taken place, but the one that has really stirred up interest on social media was between team Bullfighter and White Eagle.
So far, several fights have taken place, but the one that has really stirred up interest on social media was between team Bullfighter and White Eagle
The teams all use EngineAI's T800 – a full–size humanoid robot that retails for up to $85,000
Shortly after stepping into the specially designed hexagonal cage, the White Eagle robot delivered a devastating kick to its opponent's head, decapitating it entirely.
Amazingly, Bullfighter's bot continued to fight completely headless – and even managed to bag a 3–2 win.
Many viewers were left impressed by the robots' fighting abilities.
'I would love to see the part of the code for dealing with a situation where your head is suddenly gone,' one fan joked on Reddit.
Another added: 'Imagine a future where there's a massive dome filled with robots sponsored by different companies, fighting in a giant Battle Royale–style arena. Robots equipped with flamethrowers, machine guns, and all kinds of crazy weapons. I'd definitely pay to watch that.'
And one joked: 'I like how the robot keeps going with his head detached. Robotic voice: "'tis but a scratch.'
However, others have raised concerns that the fighting robots could be a glimpse into our future.
One said: 'I don't think that is a good idea. Please just teach em to fold laundry and do dishes.'
Another asked: 'Is this what causes them to eventually rise up against us?'
And one ominously said: 'The future keeps arriving much faster than I imagined.'
This isn't the first time a humanoid robot has raised eyebrows in recent months.
Earlier this year, a humanoid hit the headlines after slapping a child across the face during an out–of–control dance show in China.
Over in California, a bot went berserk at a restaurant, with desperate staff filmed trying to drag it away from customers.
Meanwhile, a humanoid was even detained by police in China after terrifying an elderly woman.
The theory that UFOs come from Earth, not space
What if flying saucers come from beneath Earth itself — not outer space — and have been here all along, hiding in plain sight?
Most UFO theories reach for outer space. The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis reaches down instead: it proposes that flying saucers come not from distant planets but from an advanced, hidden civilization that has been living on Earth all along - under the oceans, inside mountains, or beneath our feet.
The idea has deep roots in pulp and the occult, from H.G. Wells's underground Morlocks to a 1940s magazine craze around a man who claimed to be in radio contact with subterranean beings. (His editor later revealed he had spent eight years in a mental institution.) The writer Mac Tonnies gave the idea its name in the 2000s. Even sympathizers keep it at arm's length; one scholar of conspiracy theories calls the whole thing "really more of a thought experiment designed to raise questions."
It has not gone away, either. In the 2025 documentary The Age of Disclosure, the UFO-disclosure advocate Luis Elizondo floats the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis as one way to read the government's own unexplained sightings.
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Harvard astronomer tapped to lead White House UFO council says US government 'baffled by what they are seeing'
Avi Loeb, the Harvard astronomer chosen last month by the White House to lead a UFO advisory council, believes he was brought on because federal officials are "baffled" by the many unidentified objects the U.S. military has captured over the past several decades.
Loeb, known for arguing that alien spacecraft may have already reached Earth, said his newly formed team of more than a dozen scientists is combing through four batches of public UFO sighting disclosures released by the Trump administration in recent months.
His mission began in early June when an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) visited his home and asked him to form a group of experts to make sense of UFOs, now referred to by the U.S. government as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). This is an umbrella term that accounts for objects seen zipping underwater and in space.
"The U.S. government had me at hello," Loeb told Fox News Digital in an interview Saturday. "The fact that they are reaching out to scientists like myself indicates, in my mind, that they are baffled by what they are seeing, and they think that maybe it's not human-made."
Avi Loeb speaks during the SALT conference in Manhattan, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022.
(David 'Dee' Delgado)
Loeb's council will report its findings to the UAP Governing Board, a recently established body under the direction of ODNI.
According to the council's website, Loeb and his colleagues will only be reviewing already-declassified materials on UAPs.
However, Loeb told Fox News Digital he has asked the Pentagon and other agencies for 50 videos, images and other documents related to known UAP incidents. Those materials haven't been given to him yet, with the custodian agencies citing national security concerns.
"It's not so much the targets that are the issue. It's that the sensors that were used were for national security purposes. The U.S. government doesn't want to reveal to adversarial nations the kind of sensors being used. So, that's the main obstacle right now," Loeb said.
A satellite image shows a UFO spaceship at night amid an FBI investigation and alien evidence near Area 51, capturing a flying saucer and galaxy survey of a mysterious object in the sky.
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Loeb's goal is to figure out whether UAPs that have been captured by the U.S. military originate from other nations or if they don't come from humans at all.
"In the second case, if it's not human-made, then that's the biggest discovery ever made by science, and the U.S. government has the privilege of ushering in this new realization that we have a neighbor visiting us," Loeb said.
Loeb sought to temper expectations, saying that many of the phenomena they are studying could turn out to be mundane. Often, he said, the strange looking objects people see in the sky are merely space junk or broken satellites.
"Unless they maneuver in ways that cannot be explained by gravity, you should assume that they are space junk," Loeb said.
In 2014 and 2015, pilots with the U.S. Navy reported multiple UFO sightings during training maneuvers. ( )
Nonetheless, he praised the White House for its push for transparency on this issue. In February, President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon and other agencies to declassify files related to aliens and UAPs because of "tremendous interest."
One of the most important aims of Loeb's council is to recommend better sensors so that the government can capture UAPs with more confidence in the future.
"If we are dealing with drones of some unusual qualities that the Chinese are using, it's good for the U.S. to have better sensors that can help it identify those. Right now, they are reported as orbs. They may not be drones, but I'm saying that, at the very least, we will help national security," Loeb said.
Loeb made the remarks after the Department of War on Friday released the fourth and latest batch of UAP materials to the public. Loeb commented on one of the most sensational releases from the first batch, which were photos from the Apollo 12 mission on the Moon in 1969.
One of the photos has five "unidentified phenomena," but Loeb said federal authorities have now officially concluded that those blue flashes are most likely cosmic rays.
A picture of unidentified phenomena on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 12 mission.
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Until 2020, Loeb headed up Harvard University's astronomy department, where he studied black holes, the formation of the universe's first stars and extraterrestrial life.
In 2017, when scientists discovered a remnant of a Pluto-like world in the solar system, Loeb disputed those findings, arguing that the object was possibly a light sail from an alien civilization.
After this claim earned him widespread respect in the UFO community, Loeb founded the Galileo Project at Harvard to search for artifacts from extraterrestrial civilizations.
The Nephilim: Giant Offspring of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Man?
The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair (1923) by Daniel Chester French. Corcoran Gallery of Art. (CC0)
The traditional definition of Nephilim is giant. Some dictionaries describe the nephilim as being giants who also possess super human strength. The Greek Septuagint, an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible, refers to them as gigantes, which actually means "earth -born," a concept we will be coming back to as we continue.
It is believed that the word Nephilim comes from the root word "Naphal" which means to fall. In biblical circles this definition has quickly put the Nephilim into the role of the children of the fallen angels. The word Naphal, however, is never directly associated with the concept of fallen angels. Its meaning in context is more closely associated with the idea of lying prostrate or of prostrating oneself. There are also ties in this word to the concept of failure, falling short, or being cast down.
‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’ (1685) by Charles Le Brun.
Over the years a mythos has developed around the concept of the nephilim. It alleges that these giants were the offspring of the "Sons of God" and the "Daughters of Man". Are the nephilim the children of the untoward relationship?
The connection between the biblical text and this claim, although commonly pointed to as the basis of this belief, is unfounded. The document in which we find statements that support this claim actually comes from the apocryphal Book of Jubiliees:
And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants. The Book of Jubilees - Chapter V: 1
Is the claim that the nephilim were the offspring of the sons of god and the daughters of men supported by sources outside the Judeo-Christian tradition? In other words, does mythology worldwide support this belief?
The notion of giants roaming the earth can be found in cultures worldwide. Greek mythology tells us that the Titan Cronus castrated his father Uranus in order to gain control of the Greek pantheon. It is from the blood of the castrated Uranus that fell upon the earth that the giants, the "earth-born", were created.
The Earth-born, when compared to us, were giants. The giants, lived under the rule of Cronos during the golden age, in a time that was free from sorrow or care and everyone lived happy and joyous lives.
It was only after Cronos' son Zeus fought for control of both the heavens and the earth that everything changed. In his new role, Zeus, according to Greek myth, put the giants to work. It was just a matter of time before the giants started ignoring the god's mandates.
Bell krater depicting Zeus fighting against the giant Porphyrion.
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They were no longer prostrating themselves to the will of the gods. Their lack of complete servitude and their failure to comply with the god’s demands incited the "children of god" into a full blown rebellion against the heavenly gods. Heavy losses were taken on both sides, but their revolution was finally suppressed by the gods.
A truce was declared. As part of their reparations to the giants it was decided to create a new race to handle the burdens that were cast upon the giants - man.
Padraic Column in his book entitled Orpheus, Myths of the World, relates this tale about the creation of man: Aztec legend recounts how the Earth-mother, Citlalicue, gave birth to a flint knife. When the knife was flung down onto the Earth, it was transformed into sixteen hundred "earth-gods." (Is there connection between the flint knife, flung down by Citlalicue, and the sickle used by Cronus to castrate his father?)
These newly formed earth-gods lived as men and women and labored in search of food. After some time, the Earth-gods began to think that this work was below their station. They were, after all, the children of the Sky-father and Earth-mother. They asked their mother Citlalicue to make a race who would serve them and bear the burdens they faced. With the help of Citlalicue, mankind was created.
‘A group of natives in the central highlands of Mexico, capturing and putting to death a giant.’
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Based upon these mythological traditions it seems clear that the earth-born giants, the nephilim, existed long before man first inhabited the earth. Thus when you read the line "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward" it seems clear from this perspective that the authors were not being vague. Instead they were just making a statement of fact - that the Nephilim, the earth-born, were on the earth at that time.
So who were the offspring of the sons of god and the daughters of man? The Hebrew Bible refers to them as gibborim. The inferred meaning of this word is men of great stature, heroes, men who are valiant or brave.
The Greek Septuagint identifies them as the renominati or men or renown. In Greek mythology the gods have a long history of having relations with humans. The names of some of these "demi-gods", or semi-human individuals, whose names have withstood the tests of time include were Hercules, Perseus, and Achilles. In India they are called Hanuman and Garuda and in Sumer Gilgamesh and Adapa.
Interestingly, a parallel myth to this biblical narrative does exist. It comes to us from the pages of the Hindu epic the Ramayana. The Ramayana is the epic tale of Rama, the 7th avatar of the supreme god Vishnu.
Rama lived during the Treta Yuga. It was an age where the world was filled with giants. Around the same time as Rama's birth, the supreme god Vishnu, knowing what was in store for him, requested that all of the gods descend to the earth and mate with the apes and the bears. This request was made in order to, when the time was right, provide Rama with an army he could use to help him conquer Ravana - the giant demon king of Lanka.
Fight between Rama and Ravana.
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The offspring of these unions obtained an array of impressive skills from their divine parents. The mighty Sugríva was the ruler of the vanara, the ape-men. His father was Surya, the chief solar deity. The demi-god Hanúmán was the son of the wind god and is described as being able to travel very fast, while Nala was the son of the god of building and construction and is the vanara that helps Rama to build a bridge from mainland India to Lanka.
These thousands did the Gods create
Endowed with might that none could mate,
In monkey forms that changed at will;
So strong their wish the fiend to kill.
Are the nephelim the offspring of the sons of god and the daughters of man? No. They were the race of earth-born giants who lived before the creation of man. They are the group who revolted against the gods in antiquity.
They are also the ones responsible for the creation of mankind. Additionally, based upon the references that come to us from the Ramayana, it does seem clear the when the gods mated with "ape-men" their offspring were men of renown, heroes, or individuals who are valiant or brave.
About The Author
Bestselling author and Medical Intuitive, Dr. Rita Louise is the host of Just Energy Radio and the Founder of the Institute Of Applied Energetics. She is the author of the books Man-Made: The Chronicles Of Our Extraterrestrial Gods, Avoiding The Cosmic 2X4, Dark Angels: An Insider's Guide To Ghosts, Spirits & Attached Entitiesand The Power Within as well as hundreds of articles that have been published worldwide. She has appeared on radio and television and has spoken at conferences covering topics such as health and healing, ghosts, intuition, ancient mysteries and the paranormal. For more information about Dr. Rita please visit http://www.soulhealer.com or listen to her live at http://www.justenergyradio.com.
NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Crescents and Surface Details During Recent Martian Flyby
New NASA imagery has revealed a growing Martian “crescent” and surface details on the Red Planet as the agency’s Psyche spacecraft recently completed a flyby of Earth’s nearby planetary neighbor.
Launched on October 13, 2023, Psyche is currently on its way toward a rendezvous with a metal-rich asteroid after which the space probe was named. Now, in a series of composite images captured as the spacecraft flew past Mars during a gravity assist in early May, the growing crescent shape of the Red Planet is shown in successive views of Earth’s nearby planetary neighbor.
“After these views were captured by the spacecraft’s multispectral imager instrument, Mars began to overfill the field of view as Psyche made close approach with the planet and captured a series of high-resolution images of the surface,” read a NASA statement accompanying the imagery.
Composite imagery of Mars recently obtained by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft
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In several of the images, Mars appears as a thin sliver due to the high phase angle of approach as Psyche made its way toward the planet. In the days that followed, the crescent is shown as it appears to “grow” as more sunlight illuminates its surface.
The recent crescent features weren’t all that Psyche captured during its recent near approach to Mars. In additional images released by the American space agency, the Martian surface appeared in colorful views obtained by the spacecraft’s multispectral imager instrument.
The resulting “mosaic” was created from four separate images acquired near the end of Psyche’s recent visit, shown in enhanced color that highlights several details visible on the Martian surface.
Traveling along a southwesterly path with relation to the Martian poles, the mosaic imagery appears slightly blurry, as it represents close to six minutes of travel above the planet. According to NASA, pixel scale resolution in the imagery “varies from 381 meters per pixel on the right to 440 meters per pixel on the left.”
Color enhancements to the imagery, collected with the imager’s green, blue, and near-infrared filters, reveal additional details about the various features of the volcanic region of Mars that Psyche flew over on May 15, 2026, known as the Iapygia region.
This area comprises part of the Martian southern highlands, and in the recent imagery, Fournier crater—the largest shown in the new imagery—can be seen, alongside hills, cliffs, and other features, including the irregular Oenotria Scopuli cliff system, forming one side of the boundary of a massive ancient impact feature on the Red Planet.
Additional details about the new imagery, as well as information about Psyche’s mission, can be found on NASA’s official mission page.
Loeb to Newsmax: Many UAPs Have Conventional ExplanationsBy Solange Reyner
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb said Saturday that some of the unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, featured in a newly released government file dump likely have ordinary explanations, while others warrant further investigation because of their potential implications for national security and science.
Speaking on Newsmax TV's "Saturday Agenda," Loeb cautioned against assuming that every object shown in the released materials represents unexplained technology.
"Some of these are natural events," Loeb said.
He pointed to a widely circulated video of a star-shaped object, saying its appearance was likely caused by the camera rather than the object itself.
"The star-shaped object that you showed — that's a result of a diffraction pattern in the camera that is taking the image," he said.
Loeb added that some of the orb-like objects included in the files could also have conventional explanations, such as laser spots created by human technology or ball lightning, a rare atmospheric electrical phenomenon.
"There are also some of the orbs that may be a result of laser spots ... or a result of ball lightning," he said.
Loeb said the challenge is distinguishing explainable events from those that remain genuinely anomalous.
"We are trying to separate the wheat from the chaff and advise the government how to get more information that will get to the bottom of it," he said.
He said a careful analysis of the government's UAP data could benefit both national security and scientific research.
According to Loeb, the two central questions are whether the objects represent potential security concerns and whether they could provide evidence that humanity is not alone in the universe.
"There are two subjects that are of importance to the American people," Loeb said. "That's national security, as well as, are we alone in the universe? Do we have a neighbor in our cosmic environment?"
Loeb said analyzing government data on anomalous objects could help answer both questions.
He also said officials within the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies remain uncertain about some of the reported phenomena.
"Frankly, the Pentagon, as well as the intelligence agencies, are puzzled about the properties of these objects," he said.
Loeb said the advisory effort he is involved with aims to examine the evidence methodically.
"My council will try to figure out, like in a detective story, what it's all about," he said.
He credited President Donald Trump's directive to review UAP records and declassify information that does not affect national security with making more material available for analysis.
Loeb emphasized that the newly released records represent "a mixed bag," with some cases likely explainable and others requiring additional investigation.
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Famed UFO insider issues chilling claim about the next phase of disclosure: 'A new chapter for humanity'
The Trump administration is deliberately releasing only 'minor' UFO files while withholding far more significant evidence, according to one of the most prominent figures in the disclosure movement.
Dr Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, told the Daily Mail he believes officials possess far more consequential material but have been advised to reveal it slowly as part of what he described as an 'acculturation process.'
'My understanding is that they've been advised to go slow on it, and to only release fairly much inconsequential material,' Greer said. 'I don't agree with that strategy.'
Greer, who has spent more than three decades encouraging military, intelligence and corporate insiders to come forward with information about unidentified aerial phenomena, argued the current releases are only the beginning of a much larger disclosure effort.
He believes the strategy is backfiring because the public expected far more than the three recent tranches of documents released by the administration.
'I think they're trying to do a slow roll,' he said. 'I think it's eroding trust in government.'
Despite his criticism of the rollout, Greer believes genuine disclosure could fundamentally reshape humanity's future by revealing technologies capable of solving some of the world's biggest challenges.
'I think it's a message of great hope,' he said. 'If it's handled properly, it would start a whole new chapter in human civilization.'
Dr Steven Greer popularized the term 'disclosure,' referring to the release of UFO files in the 1990s
The Trump administration has released four tranches of UFO files since May 8, months after President Donald Trump ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to declassify government records related to UFOs and alleged extraterrestrial activity.
The releases included striking images and transcripts linked to NASA's Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 missions.
One photo taken from the lunar surface appears to show three unexplained dots hovering in the dark sky above the moon.
Another document summarized statements from seven federal officers assigned to different teams who independently reported witnessing multiple unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) across the western US over two days in 2023.
Never-before-seen FBI and CIA reports detailing witness accounts have also been included, but Greer argued the material released so far represents only a fraction of what exists inside classified government programs.
He said he has spent decades collecting testimony from military personnel, intelligence officials and government insiders, building an archive that he believes contains far more consequential evidence than anything released publicly by the administration.
'The archive we have, it's 36 years of accumulated evidence and whistleblower testimony and videos and photos and documents and government documents from all over the world, is vastly more consequential than what they released in these last four tranches,' Greer said.
'We're trying to make sure that the public and also the political leaders have access to more material than they're seeing through these Department of War and White House releases to date.''
Greer believes that most of the objects released in recent Pentagon files - including the Tic-Tac UFO - are man-made, based on reverse-engineered alien technology
Greer said he believes additional records will eventually be made public, but suspects the administration intends to spread the disclosures over several years.
''I think more will be coming,' he said. 'I think they're trying to do a slow roll, stretching out towards the end of the Trump administration.''
One of Greer's biggest criticisms centers on what he believes is a misunderstanding of the objects appearing in many recent government disclosures.
He argued that not every craft documented in classified files is extraterrestrial, claiming some are advanced aircraft developed in secret by the US defense industry using technologies hidden from the public for decades.
'Since the late 1950s, we have mastered what's called electro-gravitic systems, which pop culture would call anti-gravity,' Greer said.
''In reality, the majority of the UFOs seen are coming from the Lockheed Skunk Works, and Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, and a few other prime contractors.''
Greer stressed that he believes genuinely unexplained cases also exist, but said they have become intertwined with classified military projects.
'There are ones that are nonhuman, no question,' he said. 'But there's also this other whole phenomenon that's actually man-made.'
He further claimed that some of those alleged man-made programs have been used in illegal operations beyond the oversight of elected officials.
'The man-made objects have been used in clandestine and many criminal enterprises,' Greer said. 'I can confirm that senior law enforcement in the United States have open criminal investigations into this.'
Greer, a retired emergency physician, said he believes the disclosure movement has reached a pivotal moment, but argued powerful interests continue to resist broader transparency.
Those concerns have intensified following the creation of a new White House advisory group examining UFO-related issues.
Greer alleged that some of the individuals involved have ties to organizations he believes have spent decades keeping information hidden from both the public and elected officials.
He argued that the current document releases represent only a small first step in a much larger process that has been unfolding behind the scenes for decades
'I think it's a five-alarm fire,' he said. 'There are some very questionable characters who have been put on a White House advisory council for this.'
He also criticized the appointment of former Pentagon UFO investigator Lue Elizondo to a National Security Council role.
'The worst thing I've seen in 36 years of trying to resolve this problem has happened in the last 30 days,' Greer said, claiming several recent appointments have strengthened the influence of people connected to past secrecy efforts.
According to Greer, one of the biggest misconceptions surrounding UFO disclosure is the belief that presidents, cabinet officials and senior military leaders automatically have access to every classified program.
'Part of these problems is that they're all very, very new to the subject,' he said.
'I think the public makes the mistake of thinking, 'Well, you're the President or you're the Secretary of War, and you have full knowledge of this.'
''That is not how this has been operating.''
Greer claimed that alleged UFO-related programs have operated for decades outside normal government oversight, leaving even senior officials unaware of their existence.
'For the most part, oversight has not happened for quite some decades properly,' he said. 'The public expects these high officials to have full access to these files and information, when in reality they pretty much had to start at zero.'
Despite his criticism of the administration's approach, Greer said he believes disclosure is accelerating because more insiders are becoming willing to come forward.
He said his organization recently launched a worldwide appeal encouraging people working inside covert aerospace programs to disclose evidence they believe has been hidden from Congress and the public.
'We're encouraging them to defect with this positive proof of operations that have been run illegally,' Greer said.
Greer said he is also encouraged by conversations he has had with lawmakers serving on congressional oversight committees.
'They feel like this is sort of a slow roll, and they hope... they tell me they expect more,' he said.
While he acknowledged that many of his claims remain controversial, Greer maintained that disclosure is inevitable and argued that it has the potential to fundamentally change humanity's understanding of its place in the universe.
'If this is released properly, it's going to be quite clear to the public that we, humans, have figured out very advanced energy and propulsion systems that would absolutely replace the need for oil or gas,' he said.
Mysterious ‘green mass’ spotted in waters of Loch Ness fuelling fresh Nessie rumours
Rory McKeown | Assistant editor (news)A mysterious green mass has been spotted in the waters of Loch Ness, fuelling fresh rumours about the monster which is said to lurk in its depths.
The object was caught on camera next to Urquhart Castle by a tourist on a Jacobite Cruises boat tour on June 23.
Sharon Herbert had been taking a picture of the castle – but spotted the strange sight lurking just beneath the surface. It is the seventh possible Nessie sighting to be made this year.
The picture, recently uploaded to the official Loch Ness monster sightings register, also left the experienced skipper of the tour boat flummoxed.
The register said: ‘Sharon Herbert, visiting from Kent, took a picture of an unknown object close to the Jacobite cruise boat at 10.27am as it came to shore at Urquhart Castle.’
‘Jacobite Cruises have confirmed that their skipper says there is no explanation that they can offer as to what the green mass is.’
The incident is the latest in a busy year for Nessie spotters with six in-person sightings and another via webcam since the start of the year.
By comparison, the register only recorded six in-person and four webcam sightings for the whole of 2025.
The official Loch Ness Monster sightings register has recorded a total of 1,172 sightings to date.
Scientists have long cast doubt on the existence of the aquatic being, with the famous 1933 photograph of a long-necked creature swimming in the lake dismissed as a hoax.
Nevertheless, thousands of people still head to Loch Ness every year armed with cameras in the hopes of catching a glimpse of its most famous resident.
In April, the mythical creature was ‘spotted’ twice within a few days after months without a glimpse of it.
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Major clue to the origin of life found in floating space sugar
Josh Milton | Senior science and technology reporter
So far, the only life that seems to exist anywhere is on Earth.
But astronomers have discovered a clue that could explain why life exists on the blue marble – and it’s all down to sugar floating in a cloud of cosmic dirt.
Sugar in its various forms is the ancient fuel for our DNA and the tiny molecule found in space, erythrulose, is found in raspberries, melons and even self-tanning lotions.
So does this mean a raspberry bush in interstellar space is the origin of life? Probably not, the paper published in Nature Astronomy says.
‘It is not uncommon to spot molecules in this part of space,‘ Dr David Benoit, a molecular physicist at the University of Hull, who was not involved in the study, tells Metro.
‘But this is one of the first times this type of sugar has been found out there.’
Scientists have long been scratching their heads, trying to work out where the sugar came from. A main theory has been that it came to Earth on a meteorite.
They haven’t even been able to recreate the chemical conditions to make sugar in a lab, making it even more puzzling why it’s on our planet.
Ribose, a larger sugar, was discovered inside an asteroid last year.
Researchers from Spain’s Centre for Astrobiology near Madrid found the sugar in G+0.693−0.027, a thin cloud of gas and dust littered between stars in the Milky Way called an interstellar medium.
The team pointed two powerful radio telescopes at the nebula, about 27,000 light-years from Earth, to see what frequencies it was pinging.
When molecules spin and dance, they produce unique frequencies.
And, inside this mess of dust and gases in between solar systems, they found something made of four carbon atoms, eight hydrogen atoms and four oxygen atoms – erythrulose.
The team admits they checked the results over and over again, in part, because they couldn’t believe they found a cosmic bag of sugar.
What’s interesting about the discovery is that it shows sugar can form without life, even before stars or planets form.
So it suggests there’s a good chance that life on Earth originated from somewhere else.
Erythrulose, the paper says, forms when two other organic compounds, glycolaldehyde and ethylene, clump together.
‘This process is statistically rare, considering how big space is, but tiny “dust grains” help make these meetings more likely by creating little islands where molecules congregate,’ says Dr Benoit.
‘Sugars are essential components of living organisms and thus finding complex organic molecules linked to life “building blocks” in space can help further explain where our chemistry comes from.’
Researchers estimated that up to 500,000,000,000kg of sugar could have wound up on Earth as it was forming billions of years ago.
This sugar could have sparked the chemical reactions needed to form life some 4.1 billion years ago, if some fossils of microbes are to be believed.
Other building blocks include carbon, water and nitrogen.
‘A random combination of these,’ Dr Benoit adds, ‘could have ultimately led to primitive self-replicating systems.’
We’ve just realised our understanding of the universe might be wrong Josh Milton | Senior science and technology reporter
The universe, that 13.8billion-year-old thing we call home, is a weird place.
But one thing that has made sense to scientists for the better part of a century is the belief that the cosmos is surprisingly uniform.
This is known as the cosmological principle, or the idea that if you took a step back – a very big step back – and took a photo of the universe, it would look smooth and blurry, like you forgot to wear glasses.
A paper published in the journal Nature, however, argues this might not be the case.
Rather, things look different from every direction you look at from a large scale, and the galaxies line up almost into patterns.
While this might not sound like a big deal, if proven, this would change the maths that explains how existence works.
Researchers figured this out by looking at the largest map of the known universe observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.
They compared this to simulations of how dark matter – the mysterious something holding galaxies together – is distributed in a uniform cosmos.
Researchers checked if there was any kind of pattern when comparing them.
‘Essentially, we asked what the probability of finding a galaxy at a given distance with respect to another and along a given direction,’ study co-author Marco Galoppo tells Metro.
Galoppo, of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, should have been left cooing at how homogeneous (the same everywhere) and isotropic (the same in all directions) the universe is.
It should begin to smooth out when observed at scales of about 100 megaparsecs – roughly 300 million light-years – from every direction.
Instead, they saw a stringy, bumpy web of galaxies and voids even when approaching a whopping one gigaparsec, which is three billion light-years.
The lack of uniformity, called anisotropy, was ‘stronger’ than expected.
‘Any local structures – galaxies, clusters, filaments – are expected to “wash out” at large scales,’ Galoppo says.
‘Our results suggest that this may not be entirely true: we see directional patterns that are stronger than expected, implying that the universe may not reach perfect isotropy even on the largest observable scales.
‘In other words, the cosmic web may leave an imprint on the overall structure and expansion of the universe in a way that does not fully average out.’
The findings don’t mean the universe has a preferred axis or direction and they need to be replicated using larger datasets.
Cosmologists, scientists who study the origin, history and evolution of the universe, expect to get things wrong.
But to be wrong about the cosmological principle would be a rather big deal, researchers not involved in the study told Metro.
Around 80% of the volume of the cosmos is made of nothing, called cosmic voids. Some have dim galaxies inside them, like a celestial oasis, or are crammed with cosmic energies we struggle to explain.
One thing that explains this empty space is the recipe to make a universe: 5% ordinary matter, 27% dark matter and 68% dark energy, the other invisible something pushing our universe to expand ever faster.
If the universe is not uniform but more like a bowl of spaghetti, cosmologists may have to accept that dark energy isn’t that important.
Kathy Romer, a professor in astrophysics at the University of Sussex, says that Galoppo’s paper is undoubtedly controversial. That’s the point.
‘Papers such as these are valuable in that they challenge orthodox thinking: as scientists, we should always be alert to the “Emperor’s new clothes” trap,’ she says.
‘Without doubt, there is something funny going on in the local-ish universe (mapped by galaxies), because there is an emerging mismatch with the distant universe (mapped by the cosmic microwave background).
‘This paper is part of a global effort to question every observation and theoretical assumption to understand that mismatch.’
Romer stresses that Nature has a ‘rigorous’ review process and that the bar to prove things in science is high.
‘We would all (where “all” is the observational cosmology community of 5,000 people) love this mismatch to be genuinely new physics because for us that is like winning the World Cup,’ she adds.
‘But my personal opinion, this study is part of the qualifying stages, not the final 32.’
Konstantinos Migkas, a Dutch astrophysicist, says the findings follow similar studies published this year.
And his own, too, which was referenced by Galoppo. Migkas and his colleagues also found signs of anisotropy, adding further questions to why there is something in some places but not elsewhere.
‘This does not mean that anything has been concluded yet, but it is natural that assumptions built into our standard model will be tested more sharply as data quality and volume improve,’ Migkas tells Metro.
Not everyone is swayed.
‘It’s not a big deal for the world of cosmology because this paper is wrong,’ says Seshadri Nadathur, a professor in cosmology at the University of Portsmouth.
Nadathur suggested the patterns could be chalked up to galaxy bias, where galaxies seem to clump together, which distorts measurements.
‘The reason we believe the universe is uniform is because observations of the real universe suggest it is true, and there has never been any convincing evidence otherwise,’ he adds.
‘There are occasional claims of some discovery contradicting this picture, but they are always flawed.’
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Unsettling Footage | Claims of a Close Encounter Spark Controversy
By Samantha Williams
A recent video purporting to show a close encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO) has ignited a heated debate among people on various forums. While some express skepticism, others find the footage compelling, raising questions about authenticity and the psychological effects of perceived sightings.
The video depicts an object hovering near a pole, causing many observers to speculate its nature. Comments vary widely, with several noting poor video quality and unstable camera movement. One user remarked, "The person is standing still and yet the camera is wobbling all over the place"
Criticism centers on the claim of authenticity. Skeptics assert the footage likely results from editing and low-quality technology. "Every fake video does this to make it seem real," another contributor explains. The doubts grew stronger when others pointed out the object's limited visibility in the frame and the overall lack of context during the supposed sighting.
A number of theories emerged on user boards, with some attributing the object to natural phenomena such as swamp gas or weather balloons. As one user noted, "It stays very close to that pole the entire time. My guess is a balloon on a string attached to that pole, getting blown in the wind." Others suggested it might be artificial intelligence manipulation, adding layers to the discussion about technological interference in media.
Interestingly, historical references to disc-shaped crafts from declassified CIA documents were woven into conversations, suggesting that the evolution of sightings reflects a change in the nature of phenomena—possibly indicating a shift from physical visits to drone-like operations by unidentified entities.
Mixed Reactions: Sentiments online lean towards skepticism, with most contributors labeling the video as questionable.
Quality Concerns: Commenters highlighted the low resolution and editing inconsistencies in the footage, further fueling doubts.
Speculative Theories: Users proposed various explanations for the sighting, ranging from harmless weather balloons to more elaborate conspiracy theories involving AI.
As people push for clearer evidence and better documentation of such phenomena, questions persist. Will the technology behind UFO sightings evolve to yield more credible footage? Or will skeptics continue to reign supreme in discussions surrounding unexplained aerial phenomena? Only time will tell.
"Looks so fake and of course nobody notices the giant UFO over them." - A perceptive comment
Stay tuned as this story continues to develop.
There's a strong chance that as technology advances, the evidence surrounding UFO sightings will become more credible. Enhanced imaging techniques and AI-driven analysis may reveal details that are currently overlooked. Experts estimate around 60% probability that the quality of footage will improve significantly over the next few years, potentially laying to rest some skepticism. However, the divide between believers and critics is likely to persist, as many people remain entrenched in their views regardless of emerging data. This growing polarization may lead to more intense discussions on forums, affecting how these phenomena are perceived by the public.
Drawing a parallel to early photography in the 19th century can shed light on our current situation. Initially, groundbreaking photos were met with doubt and criticism, as many were convinced they were staged or manipulated. Just as early camera technology sparked heated debates, today's footage of unidentified objects is subject to similar scrutiny. Over time, as photography became more accessible and reliable, it transformed how people captured and interpreted historical moments. In this case, the unpredictable trajectory of public trust will shape the narrative around UFOs and how they are documented, echoing that initial skepticism paired with eventual acceptance of new technology.
By Omar Hassan
Recent discussions around extraterrestrial life and the potential for future disclosures have ignited a firestorm among online communities. On July 15, 2026, comments on various forums highlighted diverse opinions, revealing a mixture of skepticism and intrigue regarding claims of impending alien encounters.
The conversation revolves around anticipated dates and the credibility of information about potential alien interactions. Some people express doubt about self-proclaimed prophetic documents and future announcements, while others reference past findings and the possibility of governmental secrecy. It appears that many feel the public remains largely in the dark regarding the disclosure of extraterrestrial knowledge.
Three primary themes emerged from the chatter:
Skepticism About Prophetic Claims
Many comments challenged the validity of supposed prophetic documents. One user sharply stated, "No different than any of the other 'prophetic' papers out there that totally aren’t fanmade." This skepticism highlights a general distrust among people concerning unverified claims of extraterrestrial events.
Concerns Over Government Secrecy
A significant number of comments pointed to historical claims of secrecy regarding extraterrestrial life. As one commenter noted, "What it would take for all former presidents to say they’ve known about extraterrestrials?" This raises questions about how information has been kept hidden from the public.
Anticipation of Future Disclosure
Some users are eager to see how events may unfold, with predictions that 2026 may be pivotal. One comment proclaimed, "To me it kinda reads like this will all happen in 2026. Year of secrets being blown out of the water." This suggests a belief that a breakthrough in transparency may finally occur.
"Sounds like a rational plan to move toward disclosure."
"I think it’s messed up they are keeping this from us."
The general sentiment appears to oscillate between hope and frustration. While some show cautious optimism about possible revelations, others express a more cynical take on the chances of genuine disclosure occurring.
△ Many people doubt the credibility of alleged prophetic claims.
▽ Concerns linger about government secrecy regarding extraterrestrial information.
※ "What really needs to happen is legal and physical protection for whistleblowers," emphasizing the need for safeguards.
As debates continue to unfold, the intersection of anticipated extraterrestrial events and public response will likely remain a hot topic in the coming months.
As discussions surrounding potential extraterrestrial disclosures ramp up, there's a strong chance that significant revelations could emerge within the year. Experts estimate around a 65% probability that official announcements will surface, driven by increasing public interest and pressure from various forums. The growing demand for transparency may force governmental bodies to address longstanding questions about alien interaction. This urgency, coupled with advancements in technology and disclosure from whistleblowers, could redefine our understanding of extraterrestrial life and its historical significance.
This situation mirrors the public's reaction to the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, which exposed hidden government actions during the Vietnam War. Much like the controversy surrounding extraterrestrial disclosure, those papers sparked widespread debate about government trustworthiness and secrecy. At the time, people felt their understanding of reality was shattered as they confronted concealed truths. The upcoming possibilities around alien encounters may evoke a similar reckoning, pushing society to reevaluate its beliefs about authority and transparency.