Famous American Writer Believed Gray Aliens Were Secretly Harvesting Human Biological Material, Yet He Tried to Lure Them to His Home

By Vicky Verma

American writer William S. Burroughs believed that the mysterious Gray aliens might be members of a dying civilization that had lost its ability to create and were secretly collecting blood and reproductive material from human beings. He called them “Control Aliens” and suspected they wanted to make humanity less intelligent.

Yet he personally wanted to encounter these same beings. He even visited a famous alleged alien abduction site and reportedly arranged an unusual display outside his Kansas home, hoping it might attract their attention.

Burroughs he became one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, particularly through his controversial 1959 novel Naked Lunch. His writing frequently explored the possibility that human beings were being manipulated by forces they did not fully understand, whether through language, social institutions, addiction, or something beyond ordinary reality.

For much of his life, Burroughs had been interested in magic, dreams, altered consciousness, and the hidden mechanisms of human perception. He experimented with unconventional literary techniques and entertained ideas that many people would have considered science fiction.

William S. Burroughs, 1983. Photo: Chuck Patch / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). His fascination with extraterrestrial intelligence was therefore not something that suddenly appeared during his final years. An archived lecture from August 11, 1980, recorded at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg, lists aliens, dreams, reincarnation, space travel, and nuclear weapons among its subjects.

That recording is significant because it places his interest in such questions years before the alien abduction phenomenon became widely associated with writer Whitley Strieber. Burroughs was already examining whether consciousness might extend beyond the physical world and whether human understanding of reality was fundamentally incomplete..

Burroughs became particularly fascinated with the alien abduction phenomenon after reading Communion, the 1987 book in which Whitley Strieber described his alleged encounters with mysterious non-human beings. Strieber was already a successful horror novelist known for books such as The Wolfen and The Hunger, but Communion was presented as an account of experiences he believed had actually happened. The story centered on disturbing events at his family’s secluded cabin in upstate New York, including an alleged encounter on December 26, 1985, that left him struggling to understand what had taken place.

Strieber described small, unusual beings and experiences that seemed to involve a loss of control over his body and surroundings. Although his story became famous as an alien abduction account, he was cautious about declaring that the entities were necessarily extraterrestrials arriving from another planet. He preferred calling them the visitors because he believed their identity and origin remained unknown. The possibility that these encounters might involve consciousness, an unfamiliar dimension, or something connected to the human mind made his account particularly interesting to Burroughs.

After reading Communion and its 1988 sequel Transformation, Burroughs became determined to investigate the experiences personally. According to an account by Matthew Levi Stevens, published in New Dawn magazine, Burroughs wrote to Strieber in 1989, explaining that he wanted to make contact with the mysterious beings. Strieber and his wife, Anne, had received numerous unusual letters following the publication of Communion, and Anne initially wanted to confirm that the person writing to them was genuinely the famous author.

Burroughs eventually assured them, “I am indeed really me,” and the couple invited him to their cabin. What followed was an unusual meeting between two established American writers who were interested in the same mystery for very different reasons. Strieber claimed he had already experienced frightening encounters with unknown entities, while Burroughs wanted to know whether he could experience something similar. He traveled to the place where Strieber said the encounters had occurred, hoping that being there might somehow increase his chances of meeting the visitors.

During his stay, Burroughs questioned Strieber about the experiences and listened closely to his descriptions. Strieber later remembered him as exceptionally polite and deeply interested in the details. Burroughs came away believing that Strieber was sincere and that his experiences had felt completely real to him.

However, despite visiting the cabin and spending time with Strieber, Burroughs did not report encountering the visitors himself. He could not explain why the alleged beings had appeared to Strieber but failed to make contact with him. Rather than abandoning the possibility of an encounter, he began considering different explanations, including whether the entities might choose whom they contacted and whether their reasons for approaching particular individuals were less friendly than people assumed.

Burroughs wondered whether the visitors might regard him as a potential enemy. He suspected that if they were intelligent beings with their own objectives, they might recognize people capable of interfering with those objectives. This was an important development in his thinking because he increasingly approached the phenomenon as a possible struggle over consciousness and control, rather than simply a question of whether unidentified spacecraft were visiting Earth.

His interest in the cabin visits was later revisited in a September 2019 Radio Misterioso interview, hosted by Greg Bishop and published the following month. The interview’s description specifically mentions the occasions when Burroughs visited Strieber’s famous cabin hoping to contact the visitors.

In that conversation, Strieber described his belief that the phenomenon might involve another level of human beings exercising some form of control over souls. This interpretation differed from the ordinary image of extraterrestrial explorers traveling between planets. It also showed how far Strieber’s thinking had moved beyond the idea of biological creatures conducting experiments on human subjects.

Burroughs continued discussing extraterrestrials in public during the early 1990s. In an interview conducted at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, on June 10, 1991, Nicholas Zurbrugge asked about his interests, and Burroughs spoke about both Native American shamanism and reports of flying saucers. He explained that he wanted to see the alleged beings personally and mentioned reports of UFO sightings in Kansas, including around the lake where he owned a house. Despite his interest and his attempts to make contact, he said he had not been fortunate enough to experience a sighting himself.

His curiosity also extended to the famous Roswell UFO story. During an interview with his friend David Ohle, Burroughs discussed Strieber’s 1989 novel Majestic, which imagined a government cover-up involving an alleged extraterrestrial spacecraft crash in New Mexico. He described fictional details about recovered alien bodies, including creatures without stomachs that might survive through an unusual form of photosynthesis. He also repeated the novel’s imagery of aliens gathering together in spacecraft resembling hives, suggesting a society organized very differently from humanity.

He was equally interested in the possibility that extraterrestrial beings might experience time differently. In the same interview, Burroughs referred to the famous alleged abduction of Betty and Barney Hill and discussed an anecdote in which the visitors supposedly struggled to understand human aging. For him, this raised the possibility that time might not be experienced in the same way by every form of intelligence. His speculation reflected a recurring theme in his work: that ordinary human concepts might be inadequate for understanding realities outside familiar experience.

Burroughs also believed that dreams and altered states could offer access to something beyond the limits of ordinary perception. In his 1986 essay collection The Adding Machine, he described artistic creativity as a means of exploring new worlds and forms of consciousness. He questioned whether physical space travel was the only way humans could reach unfamiliar realities, suggesting that writers, artists, and people experimenting with consciousness might explore territories that conventional technology could not easily reach.

His interest in such ideas continued through the 1990s. Burroughs explored shamanism, ritual magic, dream control, and practices associated with attempting to change or extend conscious awareness. He had long been concerned with the relationship between language and mental freedom, famously expressing the idea that language itself could operate like an external influence on human thought. His involvement with experimental writing and the cut-up technique also reflected an attempt to break familiar patterns of association and discover unexpected connections between words and ideas.

In his 1995 book My Education: A Book of Dreams, Burroughs discussed his conviction that something genuine might exist behind at least some of the reports, although he did not know what the entities actually were. He considered the possibility that the sexual elements of the encounters were not incidental but central to the phenomenon itself. His attention was especially drawn to Strieber’s descriptions of intimate interactions with the visitors, which Burroughs interpreted as possible evidence that the beings were seeking some form of biological or sexual exchange.

According to Matthew Levi Stevens, Burroughs decided to create a conspicuous symbol outside his home in Lawrence, Kansas, apparently hoping that it would attract the attention of the alleged visitors. He reportedly allowed the grass on his lawn to grow long before arranging for somebody to cut a large patch into the phallic symbol, resembling the way a crop circle might be formed in a field.

The reported idea was connected to his suspicion that the visitors were especially interested in human sexuality. If the beings were approaching humans for reproductive or sexual reasons, Burroughs apparently thought that a large sexual symbol might encourage them to investigate his property. The episode is described in Stevens’ account of Burroughs’ interests and occult practices, although independent documentation of the lawn display has not been established. It nevertheless illustrates how seriously, and sometimes unusually, Burroughs pursued the possibility of making contact

Burroughs did not appear to regard the visitors as necessarily benevolent. His writings suggest that he was fascinated by them but also suspicious of their possible intentions. He wanted firsthand knowledge of a phenomenon he thought might exist, even while entertaining the possibility that the beings behind it were manipulating human beings for purposes that had nothing to do with friendship or scientific exploration.

His most disturbing interpretation appeared in a diary entry dated February 3, 1997, only months before his death. The entry was later published in Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs. By this time, Burroughs had developed a particularly hostile picture of the Gray aliens, whom he described as “Control Aliens.” He speculated that they belonged to a dying race that had somehow lost its creative abilities and depended on human blood and semen for survival.

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According to this theory, the Grays were not advanced visitors generously sharing knowledge with a less developed civilization. They were beings suffering from a fundamental deficiency and attempting to compensate for it by exploiting another species. Burroughs also suspected that they wanted to make people less intelligent, possibly because independent human thought posed a danger to their objectives. He believed that individuals with developed perception or spiritual awareness might recognize what these entities were doing and become difficult to manipulate.

The most revealing part of his final journal entry was his frustration over the apparent absence of contact. After considering why the Grays seemed to approach certain people but avoided others, he asked, “Why don’t they come and see ME?” He answered his own question by suggesting that the visitors might be afraid of people with advanced spiritual awareness. This was his personal explanation, rather than evidence of how any unknown intelligence selected people for contact.

His interest in extraterrestrials also entered his artistic projects. During the early 1990s, following his work on The Black Rider with theater director Robert Wilson and musician Tom Waits, Burroughs developed ideas for another theatrical project inspired partly by Paradise Lost. The proposed work mixed religious imagery, atomic destruction, UFOs, alien abductions, and the Roswell story. Although the original project was not completed during his lifetime, elements of the material later contributed to musician Grant Hart’s 2013 album The Argument.

In his later speculation, the Grays became another possible representation of such forces, beings that supposedly understood how to manipulate human consciousness while depending on humanity for something they could no longer produce themselves.

Burroughs died on August 2, 1997, at the age of 83, without reporting the kind of direct encounter he had hoped to experience. His fascination with Strieber’s visitors remained unresolved.

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Kogi Tribe Raises Selected Children in Darkness for Nine Years to Connect With an Invisible Cosmic Consciousness

They are raised in dark ceremonial houses or caves, where elder Mamas teach them about the physical world through stories, songs, sounds, and spiritual instruction. The children learn about sunlight, animals, rivers, and mountains without being allowed to experience these things in daylight.

This practice was documented by anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, who studied the Kogi and published a detailed account of their spiritual education in 1976. His research describes a demanding training process that could last 18 years, beginning with nine years in which the  child lives a nocturnal existence, deliberately separated from the ordinary visual experiences of childhood.

The Kogi live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a mountainous region near Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Their ancestors belonged to the ancient Tairona civilization, which existed long before the arrival of Spanish conquerors. During the colonial period, Indigenous communities retreated into the mountains, preserving many of their traditions, religious beliefs, and ways of life.

According to the Tairona Heritage Trust, an organization dedicated to supporting the Kogi and preserving their culture, the traditional ideal was to select a child at birth and begin preparing him for the role of Mama. The child would be cared for by his mother and elder spiritual teachers, but his early environment would be deliberately restricted to darkness.

Reichel-Dolmatoff’s anthropological account describes children more commonly beginning formal priestly training around the age of two or three. They were taken to isolated ceremonial centers in the mountains, where they lived with an experienced Mama and his family. During the first nine years of their instruction, they were not permitted to see daylight or even the light of a full moon.

The restrictions were not simply intended to keep the children physically isolated. The Kogi believed that their future spiritual leaders needed to develop a different understanding of reality, one that did not depend primarily on what the eyes could see.

Their daily routine was also unusual. The children were trained to sleep during the day and remain awake at night, when they received instruction in sacred songs, dances, religious language, and the stories explaining how the universe was created. Their teachers wanted them to become familiar with the spiritual structure of the world before becoming accustomed to ordinary physical appearances.

The children were sometimes taken outside at night, with their exposure to moonlight restricted. Historical descriptions also refer to the use of torches and low-burning fires during instruction, meaning the tradition should not be understood as nine uninterrupted years without any source of light whatsoever. It was primarily a strict separation from daylight and the normal visual environment.

One account preserved by the Tairona Heritage Trust describes how a mother could visit the doorway of the ceremonial house where her child was being raised. She would sing to him while he danced, after which he would return to his secluded environment. As the child grew older,  spiritual instructors gradually assumed greater responsibility for his education.

The same account describes  children receiving specially prepared foods and blessed water. They were also taught to pay attention to small details such as bubbles appearing in water, which carried spiritual significance within Kogi teachings. Their education involved learning to observe, remember, listen, and interpret the natural world according to the community’s traditional beliefs.

Reichel-Dolmatoff’s research explained that the early years were intended to alter the child’s ordinary perception of time and space. By changing sleeping patterns, limiting exposure to daylight, and emphasizing spiritual instruction, the Kogi sought to prepare future Mamas for the religious responsibilities they would eventually assume.

The training could continue long after the initial nine years. According to the 1976 anthropological study archived by Yale University’s Human Relations Area Files, a young trainee could briefly return to his family around puberty before undertaking another nine years of instruction. The later period focused more heavily on moral teachings, mythology, and the responsibilities of spiritual leadership.

The entire process was meant to produce someone who understood the world differently from other members of the community. A Mama was expected to interpret spiritual signs, conduct ceremonies, guide important decisions, and help maintain the relationship between human society and the forces believed to govern nature.

At the center of this system is Aluna, perhaps the most extraordinary aspect of Kogi cosmology.

The Kogi believe that before the physical universe existed, there was a state of consciousness without material form. This consciousness is associated with the Great Mother, who conceived the world  spiritually before it appeared as physical reality. Mountains, oceans, animals, plants, and human beings were first imagined within Aluna.

The 2012 documentary Aluna: An Ecological Warning from the Kogi People, directed by British filmmaker Alan Ereira, presents the Great Mother as pure thought without physical form, and the world comes into existence through her act of thinking.

According to this understanding, thought is not merely something produced by human brains. It is part of the underlying reality from which physical existence emerges. The visible universe is the expression of an invisible spiritual order that the Kogi believe continues to influence everything taking place in the world.

This is why the practice of raising selected children in darkness carries such importance within their culture. The Mamas are trained to concentrate on the invisible spiritual relationships behind nature rather than becoming entirely occupied with its physical appearances.

For the Kogi, Aluna is not simply another dimension somewhere beyond Earth. It is the spiritual foundation of the world itself, present in the processes that allow rivers to flow, plants to grow, animals to reproduce, and human communities to survive.

Their belief is that every living thing has a spiritual origin and that human actions can disturb the balance between the physical world and its invisible foundation. The Mamas believe they have a responsibility to understand these relationships and perform ceremonies intended to preserve them.

This spiritual responsibility extends to agriculture, marriage, and the use of natural resources. The Tairona Heritage Trust explains that the Kogi traditionally bless seeds in Aluna before planting them, conduct ceremonies associated with fertility, and make offerings to spiritual guardians connected with different aspects of the environment.

The Mamas also visit sacred locations known as Ezuamas, which the Kogi regard as important points of connection with the spiritual powers associated with nature. These places may be connected with particular mountains, rivers, forests, or other geographical features, and the ceremonies performed there are intended to protect the balance of the surrounding environment.

The Kogi describe the Earth as a living body whose different parts depend upon one another. In their understanding, damaging a sacred site is not merely destroying a piece of land. It is interfering with a relationship that helps sustain the wider natural world.

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Ereira first worked with the Kogi during the production of the 1990 BBC documentary From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers’ Warning. In that film, the Kogi warned that humanity was damaging the Earth through deforestation, mining, pollution, and the destruction of important natural environments.

The Kogi call themselves the Elder Brothers and describe modern industrialized humanity as the Younger Brothers. Their explanation is that the Elder Brothers were entrusted with understanding and protecting the world, while the Younger Brothers became increasingly concerned with changing and exploiting it.

They believe that the Younger Brothers have forgotten the  spiritual relationships that make life possible. According to the Mamas, this separation from nature has led humanity to damage the environment without understanding the wider consequences.

After their first warning received international attention, the Kogi waited to see whether people would change their behavior. When the environmental destruction they were witnessing continued, they invited Ereira back to make another documentary.

This second film, Aluna, was intended to do more than repeat their warning. The Mamas wanted to demonstrate what they meant when they said that places separated by great distances could nevertheless be connected.

One of the documentary’s most unusual sequences involves a plan to use approximately 400 kilometers of golden thread to represent an invisible network connecting sacred locations along Colombia’s Caribbean coast and the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The Kogi believe that these sites are linked through Aluna, even when the connections cannot be observed directly. A particular location near the mouth of a river might have a spiritual relationship with another location high in the mountains, and damage to one could affect the other.

Gold carries special meaning within their beliefs because of its enduring nature and its association with the creative forces of the Earth. By using golden thread, the Mamas wanted to make their invisible understanding of the landscape visible to people who were unfamiliar with it.

The documentary also follows one of their senior spiritual leaders, Mama Shibulata, during a visit to England. There, he meets an astronomer and encounters  scientific ideas about the universe that are very different from those traditionally taught among the Kogi.

ironmental balance of the surrounding region.

Scientists appearing in the documentary explain that coastal and inland ecosystems are indeed connected through physical processes, including water movement, evaporation, salinity, and the movement of nutrients. Altering wetlands can have consequences beyond the immediate location where the disturbance occurs.

Marine biologist Alex Rogers, associated with the University of Oxford, discusses how environmental damage along Colombia’s coast reflects problems affecting other regions of the Caribbean and the wider planet. He agrees that human activities can produce effects across interconnected ecosystems, lending scientific support to the general environmental concern expressed by the Kogi.

Another scientific discussion focuses on the importance of particular habitats that serve as refuges for species over long periods. Destroying such areas might not cause an immediate visible catastrophe, but the long-term consequences can be serious because animals and plants may lose locations essential for their survival.

The Kogi have long regarded particular places as especially important, although their explanations involve spiritual relationships rather than the ecological mechanisms described by scientists. The documentary suggests that Indigenous environmental knowledge can sometimes identify relationships and vulnerabilities that deserve scientific investigation.

The distinction is important because evidence that ecosystems are interconnected does not establish the existence of Aluna as a cosmic consciousness. The Kogi’s spiritual explanation and the scientific explanation are different, even when both emphasize the importance of protecting the natural environment.

Their traditional training nevertheless raises other questions, particularly about what prolonged separation from sunlight might mean for a developing  child.

Modern medical research shows that insufficient sunlight can increase the risk of vitamin D deficiency, which can lead to rickets and problems with bone development. Vitamin D can also be obtained through certain foods, so the absence of sunlight does not automatically mean a child will develop the condition.

However, reliable medical evidence explaining how Kogi  children undergoing this training maintained adequate vitamin D levels is limited. It is therefore difficult to determine whether the traditional practice caused particular health problems or whether dietary and environmental factors provided some protection.

Prolonged visual deprivation can also interfere with normal visual development, particularly during early childhood. This makes the distinction between near-total darkness and absolute darkness significant when describing the training. Historical accounts establish severe restrictions on daylight, but they do not justify assuming that every child experienced an uninterrupted absence of all light.

There is also no scientific evidence that raising children in darkness gives them the ability to communicate with a cosmic intelligence. The purpose and spiritual significance of the training are documented features of Kogi culture, but the abilities attributed to the Mamas belong to their religious understanding of the world.

The Kogi’s message is not limited to what happens during those childhood years. Their larger concern is that humanity has become so focused on material progress that it no longer recognizes how deeply its survival depends on the natural world.

Their warning about damaged forests, disappearing wildlife, altered rivers, and disturbed ecosystems is connected to a belief that human beings have responsibilities toward the Earth rather than unlimited authority over it.

Near the end of Aluna, the Mamas continue their journey despite the destruction they have witnessed. Their purpose is not simply to predict disaster but to persuade the outside world that protecting rivers, forests, and sacred landscapes is necessary if future generations are to survive.

For the Kogi, the unusual childhood training of the Mamas and their warning to modern civilization are parts of the same worldview. Both begin with the belief that the physical world cannot be understood by examining isolated objects alone, because every living thing belongs to a larger network of relationships.

Their  spiritual explanation remains a matter of belief, but their concern about the destruction of interconnected ecosystems raises a question that modern environmental science also takes seriously: how much of the natural world are human beings changing before they fully understand the consequences?

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Planet Size UFO Exits Sun On NASA Sun Images! Oct 17 2026, UAP Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 17, 2026

Location of sighting: Earths Sun

Source:

• https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/

I was searching the SOHO/NASA images of the sun and came across this interesting object exiting. Its only in five frames of images but its remarkable, huge and something I have never before seen. There is a huge sphere and it has a glowing contained ring around it...and just as it moves out of the sun...a cube appears in front of it. 

 

I feel its a massive planet size UFO that was at the center of our sun...with others...in an area that is hollowed out where there could be a whole mini solar system of moon and planet size ships inside. Why would they do this? Energy! The need it and the sun has unlimited supplies of it. Also the sun offers them protection from other alien races attacking them. Not to mention aliens might be using it to monitor our whole solar system to keep intruders from disturbing an area that they see as owned by certain alien species that were here millions or billions of years ago and are still here in our solar system today. 

 

This could be Nibiru...also known as Planet X. Its a massive planet size UFO that has an orbit so huge it takes thousands of years to pass by Earth. Even NASA has said a mysterious trail was found in our solar system that leads them to think a unknown planet could exist out there somewhere.

Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily 

 

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Disk Cloaked As Cloud Seen Over Washington DC Oct 17, 2026, UFO UAP Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 17, 2026

Location of sighting: Washington DC, USA

Source: 

• https://x.com/janawinter/status/2111219608527003771

A person on the platform X (formally Twitter) posted a photo of a perfect disk shaped cloud over DC a few days ago. Not because they were making a joke, but because they were subconsciously really concerned about its existence. Such things often go unnoticed by most people, however the public is widely changing its opinion about these disk shape objects and leaning further towards the idea that they are cloaked alien craft attempting to get closer to the human population by appearing as a simple cloud. 

Where else would aliens want to listen telepathically to the minds of humans than the area the most US gov intelligence workers live? Washington DC is an intelligence playground for them. 

 

Have you ever looked up at a cloud and thought wow, that strange, then it suddenly disappears in a few seconds right before your eyes? Its the standard built in reaction of the ships ai causing it to scan if its been seen and instantly cloak if it has. In this way...you have telepathically controlled the ship itself, forcing it to hide even more. Yes you heard me right, you have controlled an alien ship!

Scott C. Waring

 

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Artemis II astronaut reveals the terrifying moment he feared his crew would be lost in space 'after straying too far from Earth'

By TOM MIDLANE

The Commander of the Artemis II mission has revealed he feared he and his crew would be lost in space after their shuttle strayed too far from Earth.

Reid Wiseman, 50, and his three fellow astronauts reached their maximum distance from Earth of 219,669 nautical miles – 252,756 standard miles – and were set to begin their return, only for the odemeter to continue ticking upwards. 

The crew had been charged with performing a lunar flyby before being slingshotted back to our planet – setting a new record for the furthest distance ever travelled by humans, smashing the one previously set by Apollo 13 in 1970, while flying over the dark side of the Moon.

Speaking at the Starmus Festival in Tenerife on Saturday, Wiseman said: 'Mission control in Houston had told us our maximum distance, the furthest we were supposed to be from Earth, was 219,667 [nautical miles].

'I was watching this number, and I saw it hit 219,667, and I thought, "Great, this is the farthest we will be from Earth, and the next number I will see will be 219,666, we'll be going home", but about three minutes later, I saw 219,668. It went up. I was like, "Huh, that's weird".

'And then about three minutes later, it goes to 219,669, and that was the moment that I felt real fear because I thought we had just gone too far. We're never going to come home, and so I was very scared.'

After a tense three-minute wait, with the astronauts' eyes glued to the odometer, the number finally started to go down - meaning they were on their way back to Earth.

Artemis II astronauts (l-r) mission specialist Christina Koch, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, pilot Victor Glover and commander Reid Wiseman

The Artemis II crewed lunar mission lifts off from Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 1, 2026

The crew cheered. Mr Wiseman said: 'I knew there was a good chance we might make it.'

But the possibility of not making it home was a scenario the Artemis II crew had given their full attention to.  

Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen admitted the astronauts had talked two days before takeoff about what they would do in the event of a catastrophic error - and said the group was 'at peace' with the risk involved in their journey. 

'Like, if Reid's number had just kept growing and we knew we weren't coming home, but we were going to be alive for a while, how do you sit comfortably, not knowing what the future is going to be?' he said.

'And by launch the crew was at peace, not because we're brave, it's not bravado, it's because we had an acceptance of whatever came, we would do the best, or our time would end.'

Commander Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 1, 2026. 

In all, the astronauts travelled 700,237 miles before splashing down in the Pacific off San Diego exactly as scheduled at 5.07pm local time on April 10. 

All four were presented with Stephen Hawking medals for science communication at the Starmus Festival, founded by Queen guitarist Sir Brian May - who has a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London. 

In the crew's first press conference after splashing down, Wiseman spoke about the spiritual impact of his time spent in space following a question from Kristin Fisher, host of the space-related YouTube channel The Endless Void. 

'I'm not really a religious person but there was really no other avenue for me to explain anything or experience anything, so I asked for the [ship's] chaplain to just come visit us for a minute,' he said. 

'I'd never met him before in my life, but I saw the cross on his collar and I just broke down in tears.

'It's very hard to fully grasp what we just went through….when the sun eclipsed behind the moon, I think all four of us…I turned to Victor [Glover, the Artemis pilot] and I said, "I don't think humanity has evolved to the point of being able to comprehend what we are looking at right now," because it was otherworldly and it was amazing.'

The Artemis II crew module separates from its service module on April 10 as it prepares for re-entry to Earth following a flyby of the Moon

Victor Glover (left) and Christina Koch (right) - the first black person and the first woman to travel to the Moon - are photographed on the flight deck of USS John P. Murtha after splashdown

Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman (left) and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen - the first non‑American to travel beyond low Earth orbit - are also pictured on the flight deck 

Wiseman told The Telegraph that he experienced 'Earthsickness' during the voyage, which was the first manned mission to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.  

'You're looking at an Earth that is so tiny it can fit underneath your thumb, and around it is total blackness, it's just complete, infinite black space, and that little tiny dot down there is our home.

'And the feeling I mostly had was, I want to see my kids again, I want to be reunited with my friends, I want to sit on green grass and eat fresh salad, and just experience life on that planet again. It was overwhelming. Instead of homesickness, it was Earthsickness.'

The Artemis II astronauts experienced deceleration forces four times stronger than gravity as they re-entered Earth's atmosphere during their final 13-minute descent into the Pacific.

The Orion crew capsule containing the astronauts separated from Artemis II's cylindrical service module 34 minutes before splashdown. 

At 22,000ft, Orion's small parachutes known as drogues deployed before the main parachutes opened a minute later allowing it to touchdown in the Pacific at 20 miles per hour.

After more than an hour's delay because of strong ocean currents, the four astronauts clambered into a dinghy and were hoisted into helicopters which flew them to the USS John P. Murtha.

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Search for Jesus' tomb leads to discovery of ancient structure marking his burial site

• READ MORE: Bible proven to be 'true' as ancient discoveries shed new light on Jesus' life

By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

At the heart of an ancient church in Jerusalem lies a rock-cut burial chamber that millions believe once held the body of Jesus Christ.

The tomb sits inside a small shrine within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which Christians have revered as the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection for nearly 1,700 years.

Now, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 20-foot-wide circular marble monument built around the burial chamber, offering new physical evidence of how this particular tomb was singled out and honored in antiquity.

Researchers found that the surrounding rock had been deliberately cut away, leaving behind what archaeologist Francesca Romana Stasolla described as 'the chamber in which tradition recalled the deposition of Christ.'

The discovery raises the possibility that the monument was built around this particular tomb because early Christians knew it was Jesus' burial place, a belief that may have been passed down through generations.

Fragments of the ancient structure were discovered beneath the present-day shrine, with researchers suggesting its circular design may reflect that of the original monument commissioned by Roman emperor Constantine nearly 1,700 years ago.

Stasolla explained that 'the monumentalization was kept to a minimum, in an effort to preserve as far as possible the original appearance of the venerated Tomb.'

Although the surviving marble may belong to a later phase of construction, researchers described the discovery as 'the earliest archaeologically documented monument built around the venerated tomb.'

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 20-foot-wide circular marble monument built around the burial chamber, offering new physical evidence of how this particular tomb was singled out and honored in antiquity.

Stasolla also suggested that the tomb's identification with Jesus may have survived through an ancient chain of memory.

'It is nonetheless possible that the memory of this tomb had crystallized within the early community and had been transmitted across generations,' she wrote in the excavation report.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre attracts an estimated four million visitors each year.

The original church was dedicated in AD 335 after Roman buildings at the site, traditionally described as a temple to the goddess Venus, were demolished.

During the work, builders uncovered a rock-cut chamber that was identified as the burial place of Jesus, who had died nearly 300 years earlier.

Emperor Constantine's workers focused on one particular tomb that was already being venerated as Christ's burial place, excavating around it to separate it from the surrounding graves. 

The second church at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which stands today, was built and restored starting around 614 to 626 AD, following the destruction and fire caused by the Persian Sassanid invasion.

Many scholars support the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as the site, citing the presence of rock-cut tombs from the first century. 

Archaeologists have found evidence beneath  the Church of the Holy Sepulchre that aligns with what the Bible says about where Jesus was buried

Others argue that the Garden Tomb, another ancient burial site in Jerusalem, better matches biblical descriptions.

The latest findings are detailed in a new 605-page report resulting from excavations conducted from May 2022 to October 2025.

The surviving structure was constructed from recycled marble slabs, carefully shaped and joined with mortar to form a circular platform centered on the burial chamber.

Archaeologists also identified a narrow channel carved into the marble, apparently designed to carry water around the monument and into a nearby collection system.

But the marble itself holds another clue to the shrine's turbulent past.

Archeologists were excavating the floor of the church (pictured) when they uncovered signs of an ancient garden that is mentioned in the Bible as where Jesus was laid to rest

In first-century Jerusalem (during the Second Temple period), more than 98% of Jewish burial caves were sealed using heavy, square, or plug-type blocking stones rather than round disks

Two of the surviving slabs bear faint traces of ancient decorative patterns that appear to date from after Constantine's reign, suggesting the structure may have been rebuilt or repaired centuries after its original construction.

Stasolla raised the possibility that the surviving marble belonged to restoration work carried out following the Persian attack on Jerusalem in 614 AD.

Researchers are now examining the mortar used to join the slabs in an effort to establish when different parts of the structure were assembled.

Despite those uncertainties, the monument's circular shape closely matches early depictions of the shrine, leading archaeologists to believe that the original fourth-century structure may have followed the same design.

That early monument may also have featured a ring of small columns, an arrangement depicted in ancient representations of the tomb and echoed in descriptions left by later pilgrims.

However, only a portion of the marble base has survived, preventing researchers from determining exactly how the original structure appeared.

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient road under the church, which could have been taken by Jesus to the cross nearly 2,000 years ago

The report also included the discovery of an ancient road leading out of where the church stands, which archaeologists speculated could have been a path of execution.

The surviving section measures roughly 10 by 12 feet and lies beneath a Crusader-era walkway inside the church. Its original edges no longer survive, but its curve and pronounced slope suggest it climbed toward the southwest.

Professor Francesca Romana Stasolla, who leads the excavation, wrote: 'One possibility – at present no more than a hypothesis – is that this was a suburban road ascending toward the area of the Calvary, assuming that the site functioned as a place of public executions.' The Bible says Jesus was crucified on Calvary.

Stasolla considered whether it served Roman construction crews, but the step would have hindered carts hauling heavy building materials. Its construction and dimensions also made it unlikely to have been merely a small path leading to nearby tombs.

Roman executions were public spectacles, and an approach road needed to accommodate spectators whose presence added to the humiliation of the condemned.

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Video prompts discussion over whether UAP appears orb-shaped or tic-tac-shaped

ILLUSTRATIVE RECONSTRUCTION // NOT EVIDENCE

Overview

A video linked to the U.S. government’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) has prompted online discussion about the apparent shape of an unidentified aerial phenomenon. The post, associated with the site’s sixth release, asks viewers to decide whether the object looks more like a spherical “orb” or a capsule-shaped “tic-tac” craft.

The available material does not provide enough information to independently determine the object’s identity, dimensions, distance, speed or operating environment. It also does not include a substantiated technical assessment explaining whether the shape seen in the footage corresponds to a physical object, a sensor artifact, image-processing effects or an optical distortion.

What the Government Page Shows

The source is hosted at war.gov, presented as an official U.S. government website, and appears under a release page labeled “Release 06.” The page’s URL identifies the referenced item as “DOW-UAP-PR133-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Middle-East-2025.” The page includes standard government-site security and authentication notices, along with navigation for news, multimedia and other Department of War content.

However, the supplied source text consists primarily of the page’s navigation and metadata. It does not reproduce a detailed case narrative, an investigator’s report, sensor information, a chain of custody for the video or a formal conclusion about the object. As a result, the page reference establishes the video’s placement within the PURSUE release structure, but does not by itself validate extraordinary interpretations of what the footage depicts.

Orb or “Tic-Tac”?

The distinction raised by the post reflects two familiar descriptions used in UAP discussions. An “orb” generally refers to an object that appears round or spherical, while “tic-tac” is commonly used for a smooth, elongated, capsule-like shape. At a distance—or when a recording has limited resolution—those descriptions can shift depending on viewing angle, focus, motion blur, glare and digital compression.

A single image or short video may not reliably reveal an object’s three-dimensional form. Apparent changes in shape can result from camera movement, autofocus, atmospheric conditions or the way bright points of light spread across a sensor. Without calibrated imagery, multiple viewing angles or corroborating radar and tracking data, classifying the object’s silhouette remains a visual judgment rather than a verified finding.

Need for Additional Context

The available description does not identify the recording platform, the location beyond the page’s reference to the Middle East, the date and time of the event, or the conditions under which the video was captured. It also does not state whether the footage was recorded by a military aircraft, a ground-based observer, a remotely operated system or another source.

Those details would be important for evaluating the report. Analysts would typically examine the original file, metadata, sensor specifications, apparent range, viewing geometry and any accompanying reports from witnesses or other systems. None of that supporting analysis is provided in the material available here.

What Can Be Concluded

The video has generated a legitimate question about how the object appears on screen, but the current record supports only a cautious conclusion: viewers disagree over whether its apparent outline is orb-like or tic-tac-shaped. The source does not establish that it is an advanced craft, an extraterrestrial vehicle or even a solid object.

Further government documentation, including an official case summary or technical assessment, would be needed to move the discussion beyond visual interpretation. Until such information is released, the footage is best treated as an unresolved UAP report, consistent with the label attached to the PURSUE page.

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Did a UFO crash on this Welsh mountain? I bivvied at the site of the bizarre 1973 ‘Roswelsh’ incident

James Forrest

“Even sceptics can’t fully explain what the nurse saw…” Earthquake, meteor shower or an extra-terrestrial spaceship crash? We investigate the Berwyn Mountains UFO incident.

So the story goes, on the evening of January 23, 1974, residents across North Wales reported loud noises and brilliant lights in the sky over the mountain of Cadair Berwyn in North Wales – an occurrence later dubbed the infamous “Roswelsh” incident. Confusion reigned supreme. Had an aeroplane crashed into the mountain or a wartime German bomb exploded? Or was it something more out-of-this-world?

An RAF search and rescue team was scrambled to the mountainside, but – according to official MoD reports – they found nothing. Police descended on the area and investigations were launched. But, again, they came to nought.

Cadair Berwyn Ridge. Credit: James Forrest

Instead, in the coming days and weeks, it was scientists who explained the phenomenon witnessed by hundreds of local people. The bright lights were a meteor descending through the atmosphere and burning up before it reached the ground; the loud noises were caused by an earthquake that simultaneously struck in the Berwyn Mountains with a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter Scale.

But, evidently, not everyone was convinced by the official explanation – and an alternative narrative, an extraterrestrial conspiracy theory, emerged.

Newspaper articles included eyewitness accounts alleging “flying saucers emerging from the Irish Sea”, a “big glowing object sitting on the mountainside with a load of lights circling around underneath it” and even the military loading a crashed flying saucer onto a flatbed truck and taking it away.

Dusk views from Cadair Berwyn. Credit: James Forrest Official police logs included numerous 999 calls from villagers reporting an “orange and red glow”, “large perfect circle” or similar on the mountainside. Key witness Pat Evans, a retired nurse, drove up to the mountain on the night, stating she saw a “huge ball glowing and pulsating” that “had to be a UFO of some sort”.

Self-proclaimed UFO investigators took it even further, claiming eyewitnesses saw “alien beings emerging dazed from a crashed spaceship” and mysterious “men in black” initiating a government cover-up in the rural area.

To understand how such an outlandish tale could take root, you first have to understand the sheer isolation of the Berwyns. Located in North Wales, to the east of Bala and lying just outside the boundary of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park, this mountain range is a forgotten land of windswept moorland. For the most part it’s pathless, austere and covered in energy-sapping heather, and only the most dedicated of hillwalkers venture for the summits of Cadair Bronwen and Cadair Berwyn.

Bivvying and watching the sunset from Cadair Berwyn. Credit: James Forrest

I visited back in 2018, sleeping atop the summits – alone – on a kind of one man mission to uncover something cosmic and otherworldly. I came away empty handed, of course. I’m no UFO fanatic. I don’t believe in any of that codswallop.

But, despite my own personal reservations, and in the interests of balance and thoroughness, let’s delve into the story a little deeper. Do the official explanations ring true? Or could the conspiracy theorists be onto something?

Let’s start with those wedded to the official narrative. Seismologist Dr Roger Musson, writing for the Royal Astronomical Society in 2006, provides easily the most comprehensive defence of the scientific status quo. He describes the incident as a “small but interesting earthquake that raised speculation about meteorites, UFOs and air crashes – none of which turned out to be valid”.

The shelter atop Cadair Berwyn. Credit: James Forrest

He argues “there can be no doubt that a meteor shower took place as well as an earthquake that night”, admitting the duality “may seem curious” – but confidently discrediting theories other than coincidence. Was there, in fact, no earthquake and instead were the seismic effects caused by a meteor crash? Musson states the absence of an impact crater makes this an impossibility. Alternatively, could the aerial lights have been caused by an earthquake? Musson notes that, while “earthquake lights” are a known phenomenon, this is unlikely due to the small size of the Bala earthquake.

Instead his conclusion is that the earthquake-meteor combo is nothing more than coincidence, quoting two previous incidents – the 1896 Hereford earthquake and the 1892 Pembroke earthquake – where the same thing happened. As Dr Musson argues: “Meteors are sufficiently common that some coincidences between meteor observations and earthquakes over a long period of time are inevitable, no matter how striking they may seem at the time.”

As for the various other outlandish stories of spaceships, aliens and cover-ups? Dr Musson doesn’t speculate much, but does reference anecdotal evidence that the presence of four surveyors from the Institute of Geological Sciences sparked theories of a scandal – “possibly the only instance of seismologists being mistaken for men in black”.

Llyn Lluncaw. Credit: James Forrest Dr Musson’s conclusions match very closely the official position of 1974, as outlined in a letter from Brynmor John, junior RAF minister, to Dafydd Elis Thomas, the local MP, at the time. Mr John wrote: “It seems the phenomena could well have been caused by a meteor descending through the atmosphere burning up and finally disintegrating before it reached the ground. Such a hypothesis would also explain the absence of any signs of impact. It has also been suggested that at 8.32pm that evening there was an earth tremor in the Berwyn Mountains.”

But what of the alien apologists and conspiracy theorists? For those who reject the double-coincidence of a simultaneous meteor and earthquake, the Roswelsh incident remains open-and-closed proof of extraterrestrial visitation and high-level official concealment.

Local resident Huw Lloyd, who was just 14 when his family’s hillside home in Llandrillo was rocked by a “violent thud”, insists the official narrative simply doesn’t hold up. After driving four police officers up the track towards Cadair Berwyn in his father’s Land Rover to look for a reported plane crash, he experienced a blinding spectacle. “Suddenly the whole sky was lit up by the most incredible white light, brighter it seemed than even the sun,” Lloyd recalled, as quoted in The Sun newspaper. “For close on 30 seconds the skies were filled with this light for as far as you could see.”

Lonesome dusk views from Cadair Berwyn. Credit: James Forrest

Prominent UFO investigator Russ Kellett goes much further, claiming the incident was the culmination of a military engagement over the Irish Sea. As quoted in Wales Online, he said: “There’s no doubt whatsoever that it was more than just an earthquake,” claiming that he has spoken to a fisherman who said he saw flying saucers emerge from the Irish Sea before the incident on the Berwyn Mountains. Mr Kellett added: “I’ve got an affidavit from a group of men who were coming home from Bala when they found this flying saucer at the side of the road and the military came and took it away on a flat-back vehicle.”

Other eyewitnesses refuse to discount what they saw with their own eyes. Geraint Edwards, from nearby Llandderfel, recounted on a Channel 5 documentary how he stood in awe on his way to a darts match as a strange craft hovered silently over the peaks. “It was definitely a flying saucer,” Edwards insisted. “It looked like a rugger ball, but the ends were more pointy. When it took off, it just went like lightning.”

Even academic and journalistic sceptics like Dr David Clarke concede that certain details defy easy explanation. Reflecting on the account of district nurse Pat Evans, who drove up the mountain and described a glowing, pulsating object with circling lights, Dr Clarke noted: “There’s been various attempts to explain what she saw, but even sceptics can’t fully explain what the nurse saw.” According to reports, Pat Evans has remained silent on this incident since 1974, despite initially speaking out.

Cadair Berwyn Trig. Credit: James Forrest

Whether one sides with the Royal Astronomical Society or the alien apologists, the mystery of Cadair Berwyn remains permanently etched into mountain folklore: a reminder, perhaps, that under the dark skies of Wales’ mountains, the line between Earth and the cosmos can feel delightfully blurred.

‘The Welsh Roswell’ - the Berwyn mountain UFO crash, Llandrillo, Wales, January 23, 1974

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Nato fighter pilots summoned to ‘red warning’ over unrecognised flying object at airport

Residents were told to shelter this morning after a red alert following a suspected drone incursion closed Lithuania’s second busiest airport

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Nato fighters were scrambled in Lithuania this morning after an unrecognised flying object was sighted.

Residents living near an airport serving Kaunas, the country’s second-largest city, were told to shelter and the hub was closed on Sunday after a red air warning was activated and air police fighters were summoned.

It is believed the object entered from Poland, where armed forces said they are verifying a possible violation of airspace.

Lithuanian authorities said possible drone debris was being examined near the northern village of Juodzionys found after the mysterious object vanished off radar.

Residents in northern and central parts of the country were told to remain in shelters for at least an hour this morning.

Armed forces confirmed the unmanned object may not have been shot down and possibly detonated on its own.

‘Lithuanian police officers are currently working at the scene, conducting initial investigation and evidence collection activities’, a statement said.

‘The circumstances of the incident, including the possible origin of the unmanned aerial vehicle and the possible cause of the explosion, are still under investigation.’

A yellow air warning was also temporarily issued after a ‘possible threat’ was detected in some neighbouring regions in Latvia.

The developments have dialled up concerns that the war is spilling out into neighbouring countries.

It comes as RAF drones encountered near misses with suspected drones flying 40 times the legal height limit above the North Sea.

Multiple different investigations have been launched into the incidents, reported just days apart, amid concerns the equipment is being used for spying purposes.

One person was killed and several were injured following a Ukrainian drone strike on an oil terminal in St Petersburg this morning, the city’s mayor said.

E-commerce firm Ozon said its logistics hub and data centre in the region had been attacked, although its services remained unaffected.

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Army sniper claims US troops killed 'reptilian beings' in battle near Area 51

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By CHRIS MELORE, US DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR

A former US Army sniper has claimed that a secret military operation took place near Area 51 and at least one American soldier was killed in a battle with reptilian aliens. 

Nick Betts, a co-host of the Liberty Risk podcast, said an unnamed member of the military's elite special missions unit revealed to him that he and other soldiers were given energy weapons to hunt down three creatures which had invaded a top-secret US facility.

During the mission into a deep underground tunnel near the Nevada base, one soldier was allegedly shot in the chest and killed instantly by the same type of directed-energy weapon.

'They said that they f****** shot this creature that was bipedal, mildly reptilian-looking but had fingers and was using this weapon system,' Betts said.

Betts said the member of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) revealed what had happened during a night of drinking as they participated in a documentary about the ongoing Ukraine war.

The veteran sniper who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan told his Navy SEAL co-hosts, Kevin Kent and Ryan Williams, that he believed the story was true after the shocking reaction of another soldier who was allegedly on the mission to Area 51.

According to Betts, both his source and the other JSOC member threatened him not to talk about what he'd been told, adding that their role in the documentary was mysteriously cancelled immediately after Betts asked about the incident the following morning.

'I would have chalked it up to the wine if it wasn't for being choke slammed up against a f****** wall in the morning at 6am,' Betts revealed.

Area 51, an area of more than 2.9 million acres, is located at the Nevada Test and Training Range

The US military and the White House have maintained that there has never been any physical evidence that UFOs or extraterrestrials exist.

Betts also noted that the story from the unnamed JSOC soldier was told while he was drunk, but added that his source was still lucid and not 'sloppy' at the time.

Also, the fellow special forces soldier on the alleged Area 51 mission was not in the same hotel room in Poland when Betts heard the story – convincing him that the soldier's violent reaction was genuine.

'I'm like, "Hey, so and so told me you know a thing or two about aliens." Dude, he f****** stops, turns me, grabs me by the f****** neck, and f****** slams me up against the wall,' Betts recalled during a podcast episode in December 2025.

'And he's like, "Nick, I f****** swear to God. Never f****** talk about this again."'

According to the soldier who leaked the story to Betts, military officials at North Carolina's Fort Bragg summoned the JSOC unit for an emergency mission to an underground base a few miles from Area 51.

The Nevada complex has been tied to claims of secret UFO research and the development of experimental aircraft since the 1940s.

After traveling from Fort Bragg, the team was allegedly briefed at Area 51 itself, given high-tech weapons that used energy blasts instead of bullets and then flown by Black Hawk helicopter to an entry point for a long tunnel leading into the complex.

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Betts claimed the emergency began after the underground site stopped sending regular radio checks, and a quick-reaction force failed to return after being sent in.

The sniper did not reveal if his source knew whether these soldiers were dead or still missing.

Once inside the facility, the source claimed a team of about six soldiers began sweeping through the tunnels and encountered the first reptilian invader using the same type of weapons they had been given.

'As they're coming around on this outside, the outside left guy gets f****** hosed with one of the guns that they're using like straight to the chest and f****** dies,' Betts recounted.

The group allegedly returned fire and killed the creature. Betts' JSOC source added that the mission ended with all three reptilian aliens being found and killed.

However, the remains of the dead US soldier were allegedly cremated on site, which the rest of the team protested because of the serviceman's Catholic beliefs.

The source also claimed that a cover story was created, saying the soldier died in a training accident that incinerated his body.

According to Betts, the mysterious base the reptilians had invaded was more advanced than even the most secure levels of the Pentagon.

Area 51 sits on a highly restricted part of the Nevada desert which has been tied to UFO theories since the 1940s 

'It was, you know, almost looked like "Independence Day," where they have the glass windows and things like that and access points with full handprints and biometrics and then also an iris reader,' he described.

The survivors of the alleged battle in Nevada were taken to sign documents, possibly a non-disclosure agreement, and underwent biometric scanning of their hands and eyes.

Betts noted that after he was ordered to leave the documentary set in Poland, which took place at an unrevealed point after 2022, the two soldiers never spoke with him again.

Betts's claims are not the first mention of a race of beings which allegedly appear to be reptilian.

Multiple government whistleblowers, including astrophysicist Dr Eric Davis and retired Air Force Major David Grusch, have alleged that at least four alien species exist, including a race known as the Reptilians.

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Alien Base Feels Threatened...Puts 100 Meter UFO Over Mount Etna, east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy Oct 17, 2026, UAP News.

Date of sighting: Oct 16, 2026

Location of sighting: Mount Etna Volcano, Sicily, Italy

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Guys I just caught this yesterday and have been trying to make the video close ups so that you could see it better. I added a slight close up several times focusing on the mouth of the volcano as well as close ups of the UFO itself passing behind the clouds. I did this so you the reader will not miss any details that are incredibly significant to determining that it is a real UFO. Its about 100 meters across and its just hovering in place. I recorded 30 min of raw footage, making it faster to not waste your time so its now 7 minutes 30 seconds of footage. Its just amazing to see these things. I haven't seen UFOs like this over volcanos in about ten years so why are they doing it suddenly? Well I feel that must feel the alien base might be in danger by an outside threat. This could be the USA wanting to take over an actual alien base on Earth but most likely its an alien threat not of this planet. 

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He's never been one to shy away from pushing the limit – but Elon Musk might find he has gone too far after unveiling the world's first flying car today.

In a stunning clip, the Tesla Roadster goes up an upside down ramp before doing a flip and falling toward the ground – before the rocket thrusters activate and allow it to hover to safety, as the crowd roars. 

Musk declared the new vehicle is 'going to crush every track record that has ever existed', and claimed it would be available by 2028.

It can basically fly like a rocket. It could do rolls. It could do crazy gymnastics. Whatever you want, really,' he added. 

Speaking at the reveal event in Texas, Musk explained that the car's impressive flipping abilities were due to the addition of 'altitude controls, thrusters and main thrusters in the rear'.

He did caution, however, that 'this is not necessarily a safety-optimized car, but it takes the fun meter to 11 out of ten'. 

Last year, Musk promised the redesigned Roadster – Tesla's original car that hasn't been in production since 2012 – would fly, in part because he said fellow billionaire Peter Thiel wants a flying vehicle. 

And he appeared to make those dreams come true last night, live from SpaceX's testing facility in McGregor.

Elon Musk brought his long-promised flying Tesla Roadster to the public eye for the first time, with a declaration that 'flying cars are real' and a promise to make them available by 2028

Musk appeared to make his dreams come true Thursday night at a reveal event live from SpaceX's testing facility in McGregor, Texas

More clips of the new Roadster shared by Musk on X showcase even more dramatic flying abilities.

In one demonstration, the car drives directly towards a row of parked vehicles before flinging itself into the air, flipping over and landing safely on the other side.

In another, the Roadster jumps directly into the air from a stationary position, hovering as it rolls over and gently lowers itself back to the ground in a cloud of smoke. 

The car's rapid-firing thrusters with their plumes of white smoke are reminiscent of the Reaction Control System used to control spacecraft and lunar landers, such as SpaceX's Starship Human Landing System.

This might not be much of a surprise, given that Musk says the new Tesla Roadster has been designed in collaboration with SpaceX.

Besides its stunning rocket abilities, Tesla says the Roadster can accelerate from 0-60 miles per hour in approximately 0.81 seconds and hit a top speed of 230mph. 

The company's engineers claim the Roadster uses a suction fan system under the car that generates up to 2G of downforce that lets it stick to the road, Car Sales reported.

The vehicle goes all the way up an upside-down ramp before doing a flip in the air and falling toward the ground, but not before the attitude-control thrusters and rear rocket thrusters activate and allow it to hover to safety

The car's rapid-firing thrusters with their plumes of white smoke are reminiscent of the Reaction Control System used to control spacecraft and lunar landers

According to the tech billionaire, this is what allowed the car to stick to a steel ramp even when upside-down.

Musk says he is currently targeting 2028 to begin production of the new sports car.

On Tesla's 'Reserve Your Roadster' webpage, customers can pay a refundable $50,000 (£37,525) deposit on a 'performance' model Tesla Roadster featuring 'active aero and a multi-mode suction system'.

Customers can also reserve a model with a 'thrust' augment, featuring 'acceleration thrusters' for $250,000 (£187,656).

Meanwhile, a 'rocket' augment is available on an invite-only basis, and claims to be: 'Air ready with seating for one. Includes Performance and Thrust, plus a full flight system.' 

However, the full price of the vehicle is yet to be confirmed, and the road legality of some features remains unclear.  

'I'm not sure it's necessarily legal in all jurisdictions, but there will be such a car that someone can own,' said Musk.

Musk's obsession with flying cars dates back to 2018, when he teased a 'SpaceX package' for the Roadster that would use cold-air thrusters – actual rocket tech – to boost performance, improve han dling, and maybe even 'hover' for short bursts. 

Musk declared the new vehicle is 'going to crush every track record that has ever existed

However, in 2017, Musk claimed flying cars would never take off. 

'Obviously, I like flying things,' Musk told Bloomberg. 

'But it's difficult to imagine the flying car becoming a scalable solution.'

He also said there's a risk of falling debris if flying cars were to get in a mid-air crash.

'If somebody doesn't maintain their flying car, it could drop a hubcap and guillotine you,' Musk said. 

'Your anxiety level will not decrease as a result of things that weigh a lot buzzing around your head.'

But if this latest demonstration is to be believed, Tesla appears to have overcome some of those technical limitations to bring flying cars from science fiction to reality.

In an interview with Joe Rogan last year, Musk insisted the car's next unveiling is 'getting close', and said a press event with the flying car will land before the end of the year.  

During the three-hour podcast, he spent a few minutes trying to sell Rogan on the Cybertruck before Rogan cut in to ask: 'What about the Roadster?'

'Oh, that's coming,' Musk replied before coyly adding a few vague details. 

'We're going to do something really special with that. It's going to be the most memorable product unveil ever.'

Rogan asked him for more information after they turned off the recording equipment.  

Musk did caution, however, that 'this is not necessarily a safety-optimized car, but it takes the fun meter to 11 out of ten'

Tesla has been promising the Roadster since 2017 – and taking deposits on the high–powered vehicle

Earlier this year, Toyota announced it was doubling down on its vision of flying taxis after announcing a major new manufacturing partnership with California-based Joby Aviation. 

Their goal is to mass produce electric aircraft capable of whisking passengers over congested cities at speeds of almost 200mph.

The Japanese auto giant is taking a controlling 51 per cent stake in the new venture, called Joby Toyota Aero Manufacturing Preparation Company, while Joby will own the remaining 49 per cent.

The announcement sent Joby's shares soaring as investors cheered what could become one of the biggest milestones yet in the race to bring commercial air taxis to everyday commuters.

Rather than looking like a conventional aeroplane, Joby's futuristic craft is a cross between a helicopter and a sleek private jet.

The all-electric vehicle uses six tilting propellers to take off and land vertically before transitioning into forward flight like an aeroplane. 

It can carry a pilot and four passengers, and it's designed to reach speeds of nearly 200mph while producing far less noise than a traditional helicopter.

Toyota said the partnership will focus on improving manufacturing quality, reducing production costs and eventually mass-producing the aircraft.

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This Man With Reportedly 210 IQ Claims Death Is Not the End and All Your Lifetimes Could Exist Simultaneously

ByVicky Verma

Langan discussed these ideas during a lengthy July 2021 appearance on the Theories of Everything podcast with Curt Jaimungal, where he explained his unusual understanding of consciousness, the universe, God, and what happens when someone dies. He describes a reality in which consciousness and physical existence are interconnected parts of a much larger system that continuously processes information and determines how reality develops.

Langan became widely known for his exceptionally high intelligence, with reported IQ estimates ranging from 195 to 210. His life attracted considerable attention because, despite his intellectual abilities, he spent years working in physically demanding jobs, including as a nightclub bouncer. Journalist Malcolm Gladwell later discussed Langan in his 2008 book Outliers, examining how intelligence alone does not guarantee conventional success.

Langan developed much of his intellectual work independently, studying mathematics, physics, philosophy, and other subjects outside the traditional academic system.  During the 1980s, he began developing what he calls the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe, or CTMU, an ambitious philosophical and mathematical framework intended to explain the relationship between consciousness and reality.

He argues that a genuine theory of everything cannot simply describe particles, forces, and the physical laws governing the universe. It must also explain why consciousness exists, how intelligence is possible, and how the universe can contain beings capable of understanding their own existence.

In the interview, Langan explained that conventional theories of everything generally attempt to unify the fundamental forces of nature into a single physical framework. However, he believes such theories address only part of the problem because they do not fully explain cognition or the relationship between an observer and the reality being observed. His CTMU attempts to approach the entire question from a metaphysical perspective, treating consciousness and physical existence as interconnected rather than completely separate phenomena.

One of his most unusual statements concerns the possibility that reality itself operates like a language. Langan describes the CTMU as the “language that reality speaks to itself about itself.” In his view, the universe is not merely a collection of physical objects interacting according to mathematical equations. Reality also has an underlying logical structure through which information is organized, interpreted, and processed. He believes this structure allows reality to recognize itself and participate in its own evolution.

Langan argues that language should not be understood merely as something humans use to communicate. In mathematics and logic, a language can consist of symbols, rules, relationships, and operations that determine how information is structured. He applies this idea to existence itself, proposing that reality possesses something resembling an internal grammar. Within this framework, physical events are not separate from information but are expressions of the underlying structure that makes those events possible.

During the interview, he explained the difference between syntax and semantics, two concepts that play an important role in his theory. Syntax concerns the rules and structures through which symbols are organized, while semantics concerns their meaning and interpretation. He used the example of looking at a book written in an unfamiliar language such as Sanskrit. Someone who cannot understand the language might see only unfamiliar shapes on a page, even though those symbols contain information that becomes meaningful once the reader understands the underlying system.

Langan believes something similar occurs when human beings observe the universe. People perceive objects, movement, matter, and physical events, but understanding what they observe requires a system capable of interpreting information. His theory attempts to connect this act of interpretation with the structure of reality itself. He argues that intelligence and intelligibility are mutually connected, meaning reality must possess a structure that can be understood while also containing the capacity for understanding.

This leads to another extraordinary part of his theory. Langan proposes that reality is fundamentally a self-simulating system, meaning it does not necessarily require an external computer, programmer, or intelligence existing outside everything else. Instead, reality is capable of organizing and processing itself through its own underlying structure. He explored this argument in his 2020 paper, The Reality Self-Simulation Principle: Reality is a Self-Simulation, published in the journal Cosmos and History.

The distinction is important because Langan is not simply claiming that human beings are characters inside a computer simulation created by an advanced civilization. His argument concerns the ultimate nature of existence itself. If reality includes everything that exists, he reasons that its fundamental structure cannot depend on something completely outside reality. According to the CTMU, the universe must therefore be capable of containing the principles that explain its own existence and development.

Langan also believes that this relationship between information, intelligence, and reality provides a way to understand consciousness. Within his framework, consciousness is not treated merely as an accidental feature produced by biological activity. Instead, cognition is part of the larger structure through which reality recognizes and processes itself. This does not establish that consciousness can survive without the brain, but it explains why Langan considers the possibility of survival after physical death a natural consequence of his model.

His explanation becomes particularly unusual when Jaimungal asks him what happens after death. Rather than immediately describing an afterlife, Langan first explains what he believes death actually means. According to him, dying terminates the relationship between consciousness and the particular physical body a person currently possesses. In other words, the body stops functioning, but that does not necessarily mean the conscious aspect of existence is permanently destroyed.

Langan describes physical existence as a form of instantiation, meaning that something becomes expressed in a particular form within the world we experience. In his terminology, our ordinary physical reality belongs to what he calls the terminal domain. The human body is one way in which consciousness can participate in this domain, but his theory allows for the possibility that consciousness has a deeper existence not restricted to that particular physical form.

He claims that when someone dies, consciousness is withdrawn from its present physical existence and moves back toward what he calls the origin of reality. This should not be confused with a literal journey through space, because he is describing a change in the underlying state of existence rather than movement from one physical location to another. The body remains part of the physical world, while the conscious identity is understood within his model as having a relationship with a deeper structure.

A December 2024 article published by Anomalien describes this possibility as the soul moving into another dimension or plane of existence within the computational structure of reality. This is a way of interpreting Langan’s ideas, although his own explanation is more technical. He does not provide a description of an identifiable supernatural location where souls gather after death. Instead, he d iscusses a level of reality that is not subject to the same physical and temporal conditions experienced by human beings.

Another remarkable aspect of his explanation is the possibility of receiving a new physical body. Langan suggests that after consciousness is withdrawn from its current form, it could be provided with a substitute body, another kind of terminal existence through which it can continue experiencing reality. In this interpretation, death would represent the end of one physical relationship rather than the permanent disappearance of the individual from existence.

However, this raises another question that Jaimungal brings up during the interview. If consciousness continues after the body dies and later becomes associated with another form, what happens to the memories of the previous life? Would a person remember their family, relationships, experiences, and identity, or would everything associated with that existence be erased?

Langan’s response introduces one of the strangest concepts in his theory. He argues that information does not simply disappear from what he calls the conspansive manifold, a mathematical structure associated with the CTMU. According to his explanation, memories belonging to a previous existence could remain recoverable within this larger structure of reality. The fact that a person no longer has access to those memories would not necessarily mean the information itself has been destroyed.

He also suggests that remembering previous lives may not always be necessary. Once consciousness is no longer associated with a particular physical existence, memories connected with that former life might have little relevance to its new circumstances. From this perspective, a person could continue existing in another form without consciously remembering who they were before, even though information associated with their former existence remains part of reality’s underlying structure.

This is different from the familiar idea that reincarnation requires a person to carry recognizable memories from one body into another. Langan’s explanation allows for a distinction between the continued existence of information and the ability of an individual to consciously retrieve it. He also refers to psychological changes associated with the moment of death, suggesting that the transition itself could alter the way consciousness relates to memories and personal identity.

But his theory becomes even more unusual when he discusses time. Langan argues that asking what happens after death may be misleading because the word “after” assumes that consciousness continues to experience time in the same way it does while attached to a physical body. In his framework, leaving the terminal domain also means leaving the ordinary temporal conditions associated with physical existence.

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He uses the term metatemporal to describe this different relationship with time. In the familiar physical world, people experience events as a sequence in which the past has already happened, the present is occurring now, and the future has yet to arrive. Langan proposes that this arrangement may not apply in the same way beyond the terminal domain, where different physical histories could have a relationship that cannot be understood through ordinary chronological order.

The idea leads to his extraordinary suggestion about reincarnation. Langan argues that if a person experiences multiple lifetimes, those reincarnations could be meta-simultaneous. Rather than unfolding as completely separate events within a single universal timeline, different lifetimes could coexist at a deeper level of reality. He describes a non-terminal domain in which there is a sense that those reincarnations all occur at once.

His claim concerns a deeper relationship between different lifetimes outside the conventional experience of time. Someone living in one particular body would still experience their own existence as a normal sequence of events, even if the wider structure containing that lifetime was not organized according to the same chronological limitations.

One particularly strange implication of this explanation is that a person’s relationship with past and future lives might be completely different from how reincarnation is commonly imagined. Instead of consciousness finishing one life, waiting for another birth, and then beginning a new existence, Langan’s theory allows the possibility that these lives belong to a larger structure in which their apparent separation depends on the perspective from which they are experienced.

His statement that consciousness already exists in this metatemporal relationship while a person is alive makes the idea even more unusual. Within the CTMU, ordinary physical existence would represent only one aspect of a much broader reality. A person experiences the present moment through their current body, while the deeper structure of reality may not be confined to that individual’s experience of time.

Langan also connects his theory with religious questions, including the existence of God, the soul, free will, and the afterlife. He has argued that the CTMU can provide a logical and mathematical foundation for these concepts. However, this is not the same as an independently accepted scientific demonstration that God or an afterlife exists. The mathematical and philosophical arguments belong to Langan’s own framework, and experimental evidence has not established their conclusions.

His views on death therefore differ from traditional descriptions of heaven and hell. Rather than presenting death as a simple departure from Earth to a fixed spiritual destination, he describes a fundamental change in the relationship between consciousness, physical existence, and time. The possibility of another body, the recoverability of memories, and the coexistence of different lifetimes are all connected to his broader argument that reality possesses a self-processing informational structure.

Interestingly, Langan’s views share similarities with those of physicist Thomas Campbell, who also believes that consciousness is fundamental to reality. As discussed in our previous article, Campbell suggests that the physical universe is like a virtual reality, where human bodies serve as temporary avatars for consciousness. Both believe that consciousness exists beyond the physical body and that death may not be the end of our existence.

Similarly, neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander, who reported a remarkable near-death experience, argues that the brain does not create consciousness but acts more like a filter through which we experience physical reality. Although their explanations differ, Alexander and Langan both suggest that consciousness may continue after death. What makes Langan’s theory particularly unusual is his claim that reality has a computational structure and that all our different lifetimes could exist simultaneously beyond ordinary time. However, these ideas remain speculative and have not been scientifically proven.

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Tic-tac UFO Revealed In Dept of War 6th drop, Close up here, UAP Alien Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Oct 2023

Location of sighting: USA (no other info given)

Source: Dept of War

Link:

• https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+06&release=06#LLE-UAP-PR002-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Colorado-October-2023

I was looking at the Dept of War website at the 6th drop videos and found one that was interesting. Its a glowing light recorded by a police officer for a little over 15 minutes and the sighting is recorded on his cell phone which seems to be propped up on his car to keep it steady...like using a tripod to prevent shaking. The object does change color from red, green, white and at first I assumed the light was the whole craft. I was wrong! I took three screenshots, enlarged them and one of them revealed a craft around the light itself. The craft is actually 6X bigger than the light, in a tic-tac shape and having a greenish tint to it. 

 

The big question is...is it alien? Right here...I have difficulty saying that due to the fact the US gov has had UFOs in their possession since the late 1940s and has been flying alien tech thats been back engineered since the 1990s...and yes it could be an alien tech craft that the US gov is teaching its pilots to use. The fact its sitting in the same position for 15 minutes is odd, as if its trying look like a star in the sky...a method of camouflage...not invisibility...is very US military like. So...its hard to call this one. However the shape is similar to Tall White alien ships leaving behind Nellis AFB. Very confusing this one. 

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Generally, cooler stars appear reddish or orange, transitioning toward white and eventually blue as their temperatures increase. However, the new research reveals a much broader range of colors that can occur among these small, dense stellar remnants.

White Dwarfs

These dense objects are the remnants of once Sun-like stars that burned out long ago. Despite being relatively small and technically “dead,” they can remain extremely hot. As a result, many glow in the white-to-blue portion of the visible spectrum, hence their name.

The new research, however, reveals that their colors can also include green, pink, cyan, yellow, and purple, offering a surprising variety of hues that would become apparent if we could observe these distant objects more closely.

“Most stars, including most white dwarfs, behave like ‘perfect radiators,’ so their colour is set almost entirely by temperature. But nobody had really looked into what else might be possible for white dwarfs,” said Dr Mark Hollands, Warwick Prize Fellow in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, University of Warwick, who led the work. “It turns out these incredibly dense stars can produce colours nobody expected, and some of them genuinely surprised me.”

What Colors a White Dwarf?

The unusually dense atmospheres of white dwarfs play an important role in determining their colors. Under these extreme conditions, elements such as carbon, calcium, and sodium can interact with helium-rich plasma, absorbing specific wavelengths of light in ways that would not occur in the less dense atmospheres of Sun-like stars. As certain wavelengths are absorbed, the star’s apparent color shifts, much as though a filter had been placed over its light.

Pink or purple hues can result from carbon-rich atmospheres, while yellow colors may arise from elements deposited by asteroids and comets. In relatively cool white dwarfs, interactions involving hydrogen and helium can also produce a cyan appearance.

The first identified green white dwarf, WD J1330+6435, has an atmospheric temperature of approximately 4,000°C. Its unusual coloration results from a combination of calcium, lithium, and sodium, likely originating from rocky material drawn in from its planetary system.

“The traces of sodium in the atmosphere of this white dwarf absorb the orange part of the spectrum, leaving behind a ghostly green glow,” Dr. Hollands said. “Imagine standing on a planet and looking up at a green star. It feels like something out of science fiction.”

Modeling Star Color

This remarkable assortment of colors isn’t commonly visible in our night sky, since most white dwarfs are too distant and faint for their colors to be readily distinguished by the human eye.

Instead, astronomers use spectroscopy to separate starlight into its component wavelengths, revealing information about a star’s temperature, composition, and other physical properties. For the new research, the team processed these measurements using a model that simulates human color vision, allowing them to determine how the stars would actually appear to an observer.

Despite the intriguing findings, the familiar white coloration remains far more common. Of the 151 white dwarfs examined within approximately 65 light-years of Earth, only five displayed unusual colors.

“One in thirty might not sound like a huge fraction, but across the entire population of white dwarfs in the Universe, that is still a lot of oddly coloured stars out there,” Professor Boris Gänsicke, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, concluded. “Yet if we take the median across a representative population of white dwarfs, we found that the average white dwarf really is white.”

The paper, “Any Colour You Like: The Diverse Chromaticities of White Dwarfs,” appeared in RAS Techniques and Instruments on October 14, 2026.

• Ryan Whalen covers science and technology for The Debrief. He holds an MA in History and a Master of Library and Information Science with a certificate in Data Science. He can be contacted at ryan@thedebrief.org, and follow him on Twitter @mdntwvlf.

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Path Jesus may have walked to his crucifixion unearthed after 2,000 years

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A church in Jerusalem stands over the sites where Christians believe Jesus was crucified and buried - and a discovery beneath it may shed new light on his final journey to the cross. 

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre dates back to the fourth century, when Roman Emperor Constantine ordered a church built around the burial place believed to be Jesus' tomb.

Archaeologists have uncovered plant remains suggesting parts of the site were once cultivated, echoing the Gospel of John's description of a garden containing a new tomb near the place of crucifixion.

A newly published archaeological report details another intriguing discovery: a stone-paved road with a broad, shallow step edged with larger stones.

The surviving section measures roughly 10 by 12 feet and lies beneath a Crusader-era walkway inside the church. Its original edges no longer survive, but its curve and pronounced slope suggest it climbed toward the southwest.

Professor Francesca Romana Stasolla, who leads the excavation, wrote: 'One possibility – at present no more than a hypothesis – is that this was a suburban road ascending toward the area of the Calvary, assuming that the site functioned as a place of public executions.' The Bible says Jesus was crucified on Calvary.

Stasolla considered whether it served Roman construction crews, but the step would have hindered carts hauling heavy building materials. Its construction and dimensions also made it unlikely to have been merely a small path leading to nearby tombs.

Roman executions were public spectacles, and an approach road needed to accommodate spectators whose presence added to the humiliation of the condemned.

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient road under the church, which could have been taken by Jesus to the cross nearly 2,000 years ago

'What is certain is that the place of execution must have been public and accessible,' Stasolla of Sapienza University of Rome in Italy wrote.

Although ancient accounts describe mass crucifixions around Jerusalem, archaeologists have yet to securely identify a designated execution ground.

The road was found in an early Roman phase predating Emperor Hadrian's second-century redevelopment of Jerusalem, leaving open the possibility that it was in use during Jesus' lifetime. 

Researchers also considered whether the road served construction crews during Emperor Hadrian's redevelopment, when the area was incorporated into the city. 

Such service routes, known as 'strade di lizza,' were used to transport building materials.

However, the road's step makes that explanation unlikely, as it would have obstructed carts and made hauling large architectural pieces either uphill or downhill difficult.

The stretch of road was abandoned during the construction of Constantine's church complex in the fourth century. 

Christians were already visiting places associated with Jesus' suffering and death, but those pilgrimages did not yet follow a defined route.

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It was during the Middle Ages, particularly the Crusader period, that the Via Dolorosa became established as a sequence of streets commemorating Jesus' journey from the Roman governor's headquarters to Calvary.

Stasolla led the excavation from May 2022 to October 2025, but the broader project began in 2019, and her team continues studying the finds and documentation after the digging ended. 

In April 2025, she and her team announced they had uncovered remnants of an ancient garden beneath the foundation of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

The analysis dated the remains to the pre-Christian era, around the time of Jesus' crucifixion and burial. Historians generally date his death to around 33 AD.

The discovery adds new detail to the longstanding debate over the location of Jesus’ burial.

Archeologists were excavating the floor of the church (pictured) when the uncovered signs of an ancient garden that is mentioned in the Bible as where Jesus was laid to rest

There is a long-held debate over where Jesus was laid to rest. Some say the church while others believe he was put inside an ancient rock-cut tomb, known as the Garden Tomb (pictured), which aligns with Biblical text

Many scholars favor the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, citing evidence that the surrounding area contained rock-cut tombs during the period in which Jesus lived. The Garden Tomb, another ancient burial site in Jerusalem, remains an alternative location favored by some Christians.

The original Holy Sepulchre church was commissioned by Roman Emperor Constantine I and inaugurated in AD 335, roughly 300 years after Jesus’ death.

Ancient accounts describe Roman religious structures associated with the worship of Venus being cleared from the site, exposing a tomb identified by Christians as Jesus’ burial place.

Stasolla suggested that knowledge of the tomb’s location may have passed down through generations of the early Christian community. Constantine’s builders cut away the surrounding rock, preserving the burial chamber and making it a focal point of the new sanctuary.

The team also uncovered part of a circular base made from reused marble beneath the shrine enclosing the revered tomb. Measuring approximately 20 feet in diameter, the base may belong partly or entirely to a later rebuilding rather than Constantine’s original construction.

Analyses of the mortar joining its slabs are underway to help establish the sequence in which the structure was built and altered.

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Elon Musk has shocked the world by unveiling a spectacular demonstration of a new Tesla flying car.

At a launch event for the new Tesla Roadster, crowds watched in disbelief as the car drove upside–down on a ramp, flipped into the air, and lowered itself safely in a cloud of smoke.

Speaking at the event, a triumphant Musk declared: 'Flying cars are real… It's got altitude controls, thrusters and main thrusters in the rear. So it can basically fly like a rocket, it can do rolls, crazy gymnastics.'

However, on social media, tech fans have been left baffled by the outlandish stunt, with tech blogger Marques Brownlee asking: 'This is a prank, right?'

Mr Brownlee wrote in a sceptical post on X: 'They really just got on stage and said this newly designed 4000+ pound car can do flips and go half the speed of sound (380+mph) and will ship in 2028.' 

Meanwhile, some Tesla fans didn't question whether the flying Roadster really existed but weren't certain it would ever be safe to drive.

As one commenter bluntly joked: 'Car insurance companies are going to s*** themselves.'

Elon Musk has shocked the world by unveiling a spectacular demonstration of a new Tesla flying car

On social media, tech fans have been left baffled by the outlandish stunt, with tech blogger Marques Brownlee asking: 'This is a prank, right?'

Last year, Musk promised the retooled Roadster – Tesla's original car that hasn't been in production since 2012 – would fly, in part because he said fellow billionaire Peter Thiel wants a flying vehicle. 

And the billionaire appears to have made his dreams come true at a live event on Thursday night from SpaceX's testing facility in McGregor, Texas.

In one demonstration, the Roadster drove directly towards a row of parked vehicles before flinging itself into the air, flipping over, and landing safely on the other side.

In another, the Roadster jumped directly into the air from a stationary position, hovering as it rolled over and gently lowered itself back to the ground in a cloud of smoke. 

Besides its stunning rocket abilities, Tesla says the Roadster can accelerate from 0–60 miles per hour in approximately 0.81 seconds and hit a top speed of 230mph.

The car is even supposedly fitted with a suction fan system under the car that generates up to 2G of downforce that lets it stick to the road, enabling it to drive upside down on a steel ramp.

However, tech fans on social media have been quick to question whether such a groundbreaking innovation could be real.

One commenter wrote on X: 'Bro this does not look real no f*****g way.'

In a stunning clip, the new Tesla Roadster drives upside–down on a ramp before launching itself into a flip and landing safely  

Tech fans have taken to social media to poke fun at the impractical nature of Tesla's supposed flying car 

Real life if you ignore gravity, insurance, and the price of tires,' another added.

Even Musk himself appeared to question whether the flying version of the Tesla Roadster would ever be available. 

He said: 'I'm not sure it's necessarily legal in all jurisdictions, but there will be such a car that someone can own.' 

Meanwhile, even tech fans who thought the demonstration was real were baffled as to why anyone would want this feature in their own car.

'Imagine being inside a car that does this and getting instant brain damage,' wrote one.

'Imagine pushing the wrong button and your car does this,' joked another.

While one commenter chimed in: 'So what will happen to my coffee and bags in that moment.'

But despite some critical responses, the overwhelming sentiment online has been one of amazement.

Tesla fans joked that they could use the jumping abilities of the new Roadster to skip traffic 

One bemused Tesla fan wrote: 'We're living in a simulation. Exhibit A.'

'It's like watching Blade Runner 2049 happening in 2026.'

Another added: 'Absolutely speechless. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I'd live to see the day where we had a flying car.'

Even Silicon Valley's tech elites flocked to offer their congratulations to Musk on his impressive innovation.

Demis Hassabis, co–founder and chair of Google DeepMind, responded to Musk's post saying: 'Huge congrats @elonmusk! Incredible work, Blade Runner cars here we come...'

Likewise, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote: 'The FSD [Full Self–Driving] version of this will be something:) congrats!'

Meanwhile, excited tech fans have already started to dream about what this next generation of flying cars might be used for.

One commenter wrote: 'I could have used this in traffic today.'

Elon Musk brought his long–promised flying Tesla Roadster to the public eye for the first time, with a declaration that 'flying cars are real' and a promise to make them available by 2028

Musk says he is currently targeting 2028 to begin production of the new sports car, but warned that some of the features may not be legal in all countries 

Another added: 'The next James Bond film has to feature this car.'

While one Tesla enthusiast jokingly suggested: 'Perfect escape car for a heist'.

Musk says he is currently targeting 2028 to begin production of the new sports car.

On Tesla's 'Reserve Your Roadster' webpage, customers can pay a refundable $50,000 (£37,525) deposit on a 'performance' model Tesla Roadster featuring 'active aero and a multi–mode suction system'.

Customers can also reserve a model with a 'thrust' augment, featuring 'acceleration thrusters' for $250,000 (£187,656).

Meanwhile, a 'rocket' augment is available on an invite–only basis, and claims to be: 'Air ready with seating for one. Includes Performance and Thrust, plus a full flight system.' 

Musk's obsession with flying cars dates back to 2018, when he teased a 'SpaceX package' for the Roadster that would use cold–air thrusters – actual rocket tech – to boost performance, improve handling, and maybe even 'hover' for short bursts. 

However, in 2017, Musk claimed flying cars would never take off. 

'Obviously, I like flying things,' Musk told Bloomberg. 

'But it's difficult to imagine the flying car becoming a scalable solution.'

He also said there's a risk of falling debris if flying cars were to get in a mid–air crash.

'If somebody doesn't maintain their flying car, it could drop a hubcap and guillotine you,' Musk said. 

'Your anxiety level will not decrease as a result of things that weigh a lot buzzing around your head.'

But if this latest demonstration is to be believed, Tesla appears to have overcome some of those technical limitations to bring flying cars from science fiction to reality.

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